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We're going to have some fun this hour getting some entertainment news here.
And then a little bit later, we've got an interesting one we're going to dive into about
the most least popular states in America.
And the board, if you're bored of where you are, cities will pay you to move there.
Also got celebrities and their 10 weird pets coming up for you.
But we do begin with some entertainment news.
And I was talking about this with Seth over on the sunrise show a little bit.
And I wanted to get your feelings and the audience over here's feelings about this one.
Have you listened to any y'all alternative?
You might have, and you didn't even know it.
Y'all alternative is like a mashup of classic country storytelling with indie rock mootiness
and a bit of folk thrown in there for good measure.
You've already got the Battle of Traditional versus Contemporary Country.
And then there's all country, Americana, and indie folk.
Why not just throw another one into the mix?
Okay.
Do you need another one?
I don't know.
Because it doesn't, I think we already, I don't know.
That sounds like all alternative indie to me.
And to that point, Melissa, the artist that they, not suggest,
but to give you an idea of the type of sound they're talking about.
Lucinda Williams, Will Coe, trampled by Turtles, Sierra Farrell,
who I just found about this morning, and she's amazing.
No, she's awesome.
I did not hurt her before.
In dreams, you listen to that one if you get a chance, people.
That is a dang good song.
By Turtles is a really fun band too.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's like indie folk.
This has been, yeah, this has been around since we were in high school.
If not long, I'm sure longer.
But I mean, at least I, that's where I first heard music like this.
And I think that that's a lot of, so most of this comes from record executives
and people, it's a lot easier for them to label things.
It's easier for the Billboard charts and things like that to label the best,
the number one song in the hot pop country rock out jazz alternatives column,
you know, in these things and stuff.
And I don't know that, so one of the things that they really messed up with,
they got really fat and lazy when it came to the music industry and being able to label things
and just being able to say, well, you take these songs, you take these songs
and you'll have these artists and you'll have these artists.
And a lot of radio stations, of course, did a very similar thing.
And that's how you got a lot of radio segregation going on.
And I don't say that lightly.
You had a lot of artists that should have been played on stations not being played in
vice versa.
It was a problem.
And then the 90s came around and the pushback to hair metal and a lot of that was grunge.
And you know, our generation loved that music.
What we didn't love was them labeling it grunge and an alternative and some of the labels
that came about.
And so with a lot of that began, people's pushback on labels in general.
And it's been happening ever since.
There are very few people out there saying, you know what, I want my music labeled.
I love, I love this artist.
But man, I don't, I can't get into it because I don't know if it's my style of music.
It's not labeled.
You know when you hear something, if you like it, it doesn't matter what it's labeled.
I can't think of anything, or there's a handful of things I can think of.
But there's not many things musically that I could think of that are more ridiculous
than I'm not going to listen to a song I like because it's not in the genre I like.
And that doesn't make any sense.
Like it, you like it, you like it.
There's like, we're talking maybe one or two, but there's like one or two opera songs
that I love.
Have you ever heard amazing grace from the three tenors?
It's, I've never heard that song better.
It's amazing.
You know, there's, there's stuff out there.
Now, I don't listen to opera, that's not my thing, but I'm not going to not listen to that song.
Yeah, no, I agree with that.
I, I, I, I think like, it's like we're taking the big buckets that, you know,
like the country, jazz, rap, rock.
And then they just keep wanting to, as you said, down,
sift them down, and down, and down, and down, and, and give them all these different labels.
Is it really necessary?
I don't know, maybe, but what's the name of this new?
Y'all alternative, which I actually like the name.
I'm going to admit to everybody I kind of like the name.
I just like say, y'all alternative, y'all with alternatives and it just fits together
really well and that is nice for my brain.
I kind of like it.
So it's, so it's like a country alternative?
Yeah, yeah, that's basically it.
It's, it's, you know, grunge meets 90s country is what it feels like to me.
And I, I, this, again, this has been around a long time.
It didn't need to be, um, I, I, I like, oh, y'all better.
Oh, I like that.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you got something there.
They didn't mess up.
They messed up.
Start all over.
Do it over.
Do it over.
That's the word.
That's the way to do it.
I, I mean, I don't, a big part of why I'm doing this and, and touching on this topic
and doing it back to back morning shows here is for one to really promote these artists
because I think they're great.
And I like this style of music.
But I didn't, the, the first time I've ever had a bad taste in my mouth with any of these
artists or this music is this article because I, I am so, I, I feel like they're fit them
into a label.
Yeah.
I think they're forgetting that.
They're forgetting that so many, that this isn't something people want.
It's like AI, quit shoving AI down our throats.
We'll find it if we want it.
We don't need it on our, our, all of our emails and stuff.
You know, I don't need help writing.
If I do, I'll ask you.
Stop suggesting things.
Yes.
Yes.
Quit forcing this stuff on us just because, just because you've made bad business decisions
and invested a bunch of money in Gemini or any of these things, quit putting on on us.
Like that.
It's like the, like they, when they were the rise of VR stuff and as if they were like
making us use VR, like that's what they're doing right now.
We, this tech isn't exactly what we thought it was, but we spent a lot of money on it.
Did your mom or dad ever buy you a shirt or shoes or something like that that you hated
but they spent money on it so you were going to wear them?
I don't mind it.
I don't know.
Most of my stuff was hand me down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is, I can, I can remember this because it happened one time.
But, yeah.
It's, it's a little, it feels like that.
It feels like a lot of those things going on and, and this feels really, really forced.
And you know something that pop culture or just society in general hates forcing them
to do things.
You're never going to look, we're all teenagers.
We may grow out of certain things, but exactly every, the most well-rounded, most Mr. Rogers
person you know in your life has some stuff that they don't like and one of them is being
told to do something.
No, no human being truly likes that.
We take it.
We're all right with it for the most part when it comes to-
Sometimes it's appropriate.
Right.
Exactly.
There's certain places in society.
We're fine with it.
We roll with it.
We don't even think twice about it.
But if you're trying to get a trend to start, if you're trying to get something to get
going, there's no quicker way for it to die than to tell people, hey, here's a new hip
trend.
Yeah.
Dead.
Gone.
Like it didn't work that way.
Yeah.
I guess if you want to throw labels on music, put, put all the labels on it.
Okay, so yeah, this song is y'all alternative, but it's also country.
It's also folk.
It's also, you know, Indy Rock.
It's also-
I think we've been doing this wrong in a lot of ways.
I want to see us go the complete, like in order to really get rid of labels, we have to
go too far with it.
So from now on, I want every single artist to have their own genre, every artist, every
thing.
And not just for future artists, I'm talking past artists, everybody.
They've got to have their own category.
We just go insane with these categories, like we already have.
And then maybe we'll just stop at the whole thing and realize that they're all playing
the same seven notes.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter these labels.
They're not for us, and they're just being pushed on us, and it seems silly.
Now I have no problem with, you know, we don't have slang terms pushed on us.
We choose those.
It's a society.
We are the ones that decided that cool was going to be used for this or something.
So I don't have any problem with that if there was a real rep, but none of these really
start that way.
It's not how these works.
I don't know.
It's so cake.
It is.
It's so cake-blissing.
A real quick look at what's new on your small screen tonight.
Actually, no, you know what?
We got time for this.
We got 10 celebrities with weird pets.
I've been hanging out of this one.
I just been looking for an opportunity to get this one, and I thought it would be fun.
And we've got some good ones here.
So Kristen Stewart, famous from her, the Twilight movies, and she has been an indie darling.
She's done a really good job of, you know, kind of breaking a lot of narrative around
her early in her career.
Yeah.
And getting out from under the Twilight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which, it can't be easy.
You really know her as an actor.
I'm just trying to be respectful and, you know, not take low hanging fruit shots or anything
like that.
My sister is not a fan.
I have to say.
But I think that she's done some good work, and she grew up raising wolf hybrids.
In 2013, she had to go to court with a neighbor who wasn't cool with the two that she had
on her property.
She says, quote, they're loyal.
They're big.
They're completely socialized.
And they're licensed.
They are legal for me to have them.
I love them.
So she has wolf hybrids with her.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Before she passed away, Kristie Alley owned 14 lemurs.
Oh, really?
And she fell in love with them while doing conservation work in Madagascar.
Oh, wow.
Just sort of a really interesting story about Kristie Alley.
She grew up a diehard, humongous Star Trek fan.
And as so much so, her parents used to tease her when she was little, she would do spock
impressions.
And then she auditioned.
I apologize.
Seth and Laura are going to scream at me.
I don't know which movie it was, but she was in one of the movies.
And she basically got the role because they liked her audition.
And then at the end of it, she's kind of like, they're like, do you have anything else
you want to add?
And she did a Leonard Nimoy impression and blew him away.
I had no idea she even did a Star Trek movies or anything like that.
I just remember her from, you know, cheers and stuff.
Oh, yeah.
And there's so many movies that she was in that I really.
She's good.
She was good.
She was great.
I know this.
A lot of people are going to get mad at this.
I have nothing against Shelley Long, but I didn't think cheers really hit its stride until
Kristi Alley joined.
I think she really was the perfect cast member for that cast.
One of my favorite actors of all time, Selma Hayek.
She adopted a rescue aisle back in 2019.
Her name is Karing.
After her company, Selma's husband owns.
She says, quote, she's often on my head or shoulder or my arms, as sometimes she just follows
me around.
She's like a dog.
She's like a dog.
Good.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
In 2010, he attended the North American Reptile Breeder's conference in trade show and
left with a 10-year-old tortoise.
Oh, wow.
That's a young tortoise.
What do you live for?
Yeah.
Long, long, long time.
Great SNL sketch where it was a game show where this guy was giving away this tortoise
that his dad gave him when he was a little kid.
And he's just like this responsibility that you gave a 10-year-old that they have for
the rest of their life.
I hope you have a child to pass that down to.
Right.
I heard about this one a while back.
Icede, he had a shark tank in his home recording studio, but that is gone now.
He still has a regular aquarium.
But for a while, there he had actual sharks in his studio.
Yeah.
I'm a big fan of Icede, but I was not a fan of that.
Animals say I don't know that that live in the ocean, I don't think there should be
in tanks.
Not a single one.
Not a single one.
I love aquariums.
I love aquatic zoos.
I love going to them.
I don't need to see a whale.
I don't need to see a, you know, if I want to see them, I'll go to nature.
They should never be.
There's certain animals.
I don't know of any animal, really.
But I don't think there are certain animals that should have never been put in zoos or
anything like that.
We muck that up.
We got to fix that.
And that is not.
I don't, I don't, I don't think that's a controversial take or anything like that.
What is the defense to it?
What is your defense to having, you know, a way?
Danny of us like living in captivity?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It doesn't make any sense.
And it doesn't take a rocket scientist or, you know, David, David Attenborough to be
able to tell you that this doesn't work with this.
You can't put a animal this size.
It is used to endless sea or endless ocean and put them in a 50 hundred gallon tank
and expect it to be the same.
That doesn't make any sense.
Tracy Morgan, he had to spend over $400,000 on a huge tank that has a giant octopus in
it.
This octopus, interesting, I didn't pre-read this, so I didn't see this beforehand.
But interestingly, Tracy, this octopus was already in captivity, it was born and raised
in captivity.
So that was why Tracy took it in.
It was going to be, they didn't have anywhere to go.
What octopus are so fascinating, there's a book I read, I'll have to look on, see if
I can find the title, but they're so smart.
I agree.
I find them really, really interesting.
The more I learn about them.
They're great escape artists.
In a, which is part of the reason that part of what drew me into them, I have to admit,
this is pretty cool.
And of course, there is Nicholas Cage, everybody's favorite crazy actor.
I am in the top 10 on that list, by the way.
Where to start with Nicholas Cage?
He owned sharks and octopus.
He had a five-foot monitor lizard, two venomous albino-king cobras named Moby and Shiba.
He also, it also has had other animals and other things.
His extrinses, what is extrinses, I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Oh, extrinses.
Oh, I've got it.
I've got it.
Did you see the seas?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It'd been well documented.
He had the elephant man's bones after Michael Jackson did some of those things, and a lot
of that stuff that he had to sell because he got in trouble with the IRS and a lot of
that.
But so I don't know how much of this stuff he still has, but he once said, if they bite
me, I have 15 minutes to live.
So he kept them behind bulletproof glass and stuff, these two, those cobras that I mentioned.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know if I need an animal in the house that, you know, can take me.
I don't know about that.
I feel like that of all the ways to go, that seems like a really, really dumb way to go.
Sorry.
I just found the book Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
Mm-hmm.
It is such a good book.
I'm marking that one down.
Yeah.
Remarkably Bright Creatures.
It sounds really good.
I also suggest that to my mom and earn points.
Yes.
Your mom would love it.
Yeah.
Looking at, real quickly, at your small screen for tonight, the MLB All-Star game is on
at 7 on Fox.
I know that I'll try to catch an eye on that.
That should be good.
America's got talent.
Auditions are on at 7 on NBC.
Bachelor in Paradise.
Well, they are still doing the bachelor's thing.
7 o'clock out of ABC.
I, honestly, I just, I just learned that.
The TV industry is a big, a big part of where I get a lot of auditions.
So I pay, this is, this time of year, they're filming a lot of pilots.
There's a lot of openings.
So I am really locked into the TV schedule than a lot of that.
I, I miss that.
James was today years old when he learned that.
I guess they're still doing bachelor, I guess they're still there.
And, and before we go to break, Melissa, let's remind everybody about their one-stop shop
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We're talking about the least of most popular states in the union coming up on the morning
show.
Uh-huh.
Well, back morning show at wfhr.
We hope you're all having a great one out there.
Melissa and James hanging out with you now, uh, a little bit later, we're going to get
into after our news and sports and entertainment break.
If you're bored of where you are, we got cities it'll pay to move to them.
We'll get to that one in a moment, but before we do, let's talk about some of those cities.
Millions of people, uh, celebrating America over the past weekend, uh, for, you know,
4th of July and so much of that.
Well, a new poll for Independence Day looked at all 50 states to see which ones are the
most and least popular overall.
And of course, this is all subjective.
It comes from us even you gov.com and, um, they asked 2,000 people if they mostly have
positive or negative feelings about each state and the most popular state is, oh, I, I
mean, yeah, there's not too shocking really.
I don't think, um, in part because I think that, um, uh, one, the, the, the, the image,
the idea of it.
I, I, I gather that almost everybody knows if not everybody knows that image I'm talking
about Hawaii, but not everybody has been there, um, for me, I've had, uh, probably, if
I've had 10 stories about Hawaii going back to when my papa was stationed there, I've
heard nine good ones, you know, I've heard one, maybe two of, of some negative things about
being there, but for the most part, I've heard nothing but glowing things and I've only
really known, well, now up until, uh, you and, uh, Seth, I've only known one person really
that's been to, oh, maybe two, but I haven't known a whole lot of people.
So I wonder if that's part of it.
If this is, if this is the criteria they're going to, yeah, it's just the image of, of that,
you know, island life, perfection, relaxion, relaxation, ocean, um, but I think most people
are looking at it from like the vacation viewpoint.
Living there is, I think, a whole lot different, yeah, yeah, and the, and the history of the
Hawaiian islands and the sovereign people who live there, um, it's, it's a really, there's
a lot of history there that people should know before they consider thinking about moving
there and the price of living.
Yes.
Oh my God.
Yes.
That does.
You better have a lot of money.
Growing up, I, I, we just had a, uh, one-some-one family that was near us, uh, and they didn't
live in the area for very long, but getting to know them a little bit has gotten a lifetime
love of that culture and learning about it and through that, I didn't, I found out some
of the things you're touching on there, Melissa.
I encourage everybody to read about it.
I, it's one of our states.
It's, it's one of those, that's ours.
And, um, and not only, I think when you, when you learn history about things, it is not
just understanding the, you know, the future, the past, the positive, but yes, the positives
and stuff.
Uh, you can take the good and the bad.
That's life.
That's like that.
But it is important to, to honor, you know, all of it, all of history.
We, uh, to me, I don't know that history can exist without the good and the bad.
You have to have both.
You have to have, because it's not really, history isn't good or bad.
History is history.
It's data.
It is what it is.
I think that that's an important part of it in many ways.
I agree.
Um, so here are America's, Americans are four times more likely to have positive feelings
about why the negative ones.
Alaska is next and then Montana.
So I don't know if that's a coincidence that those are three states that aren't overheavily
populated or traveled that's the, well, obviously, why is, and Alaska is a bit of one.
Um, but not, you know, it, it, not everybody can get to one.
Right.
Right.
Alaska is harder to get to.
It's huge.
It's, there's only a few areas that have some population, um, and it's rugged.
Yeah.
For, uh, for, uh, for at least the first, uh, three or four years, uh, of doing this morning
show, we used to have a caller from Alaska that would join us, uh, I hope you're still
out there, man.
I hope you're doing well.
Um, but I always talked well about Alaska and I, I know that my mom and dad have actually
been, uh, for a couple of years and been talking about taking a trip out there to, uh,
you know, see the whales and stuff.
Yeah.
My grandma always wanted to go out and do like a, a cruise in Alaska and she never got
to, but she always dreamed about it.
Um, but our, our very own Sean plant from the VFW post 2534, he was stationed in Alaska
for a while and he shared with me some, some fun stories when we were doing, um, the community
stories show, which those podcasts are still available.
I believe on our website.
Um, but if you want to hear some fun stories about Alaska, you can, you can tune into that
episode.
It's a great one.
Check it out.
Everybody.
That's a really good one.
WFHR.com.
You can find it.
Uh, the rest of the top 10 are North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado,
Arizona, and Maine.
The list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not at all what I would have thought.
Not at all what I would have thought.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Interesting list.
The least popular states, uh, again, according to this list, Mississippi, Alabama,
and, uh, California.
Hmm.
So those are the bottom three, uh, on that list.
Well, I mean, the Southern states, they're, those are very poor states.
And California is the, the, the, the, the cost of living there is ginormous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's very rough.
Uh, looking at this and I'm trying to put this together myself here.
Wisconsin comes in and I believe 11 or 12 or 13 on this list as, uh, it's, uh,
the state's, uh, most favorable to live in.
Most favorite.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Most favorite.
Um, sorry.
We're toward the top of the list.
Yes.
Yes.
Um, so, uh, for example, Hawaii's at 53% Wisconsin's at 32% just behind Vermont, Nevada, Pennsylvania.
So Maine is the top 10.
So okay.
Wisconsin's in the top 15.
That's where we go.
I, uh, I have dyslexia.
Uh, it is a little difficult to do these things on my own sometimes.
I apologize.
Sometimes you're going to do them on the fly.
That's, I'm, I'm impressed.
James.
But at 14 or at the very worst, 15 on this list, uh, very good.
It's pretty good.
Yeah.
We've got 50 states.
Top 15.
I mean, we do have a pretty, uh, compared to the rest of the country, we have, uh,
a lower cost of living, especially compared to someplace like California, um, or Hawaii.
We have four seasons.
I think that is a huge draw for some people and you know that having moved, you know,
lived in California for a while, you miss the snow.
It's weird because we complained about it a lot.
But when the seasons don't ever change, it's a little weird.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And wait, there's just so much to see and do here in Wisconsin too.
And I love the people are, the people in Wisconsin are awesome.
I've been really spoiled.
I've, I've been to a lot of our, our country and I've enjoyed every state I've been in.
There's maybe been things I didn't like, but for the most part, I've really enjoyed
them.
And I don't know that there's a state in the union that I wouldn't, I would not live
in or I wouldn't want to visit or check out at the very least.
Um, but I do think that Wisconsin is our hidden gem in the, in the union.
I, I think that the more, the, the only reason is it's not more populated is more people
don't realize, you know, everything you were just saying, Melissa.
And I imagine listeners and other people could even, uh, piggyback on some of that stuff
and even add more things.
Um, it may sound like, uh, like I'm, um, I, I don't know, uh, maybe it sounds like I'm
just saying this because I'm in the state.
Let me remind everybody, I'm a Chicagoan saying this, uh, and, and, you know, and a proud one
at that.
Um, I, I feel like it's, you know, it is one of those things that it took me, and here
is a little biased.
It took me a while to get to that.
I had to mature.
I had to get a little old to realize all the beauty of this state, all the things that
are wonderful about this state.
I didn't always realize that.
Um, but even as a kid, I realized how awesome it is to have something like, uh, Madison
and the southern part of the state and some of the beauty you've got up north and that's
all in one state.
And the, the great, the big north woods that we have, the water and the lakes and streams
and riverways.
I mean, they're just at the bluffs.
So, there's so much, the driftless area, I mean, and the Mississippi River, there's
just so much to see and do and appreciate and, and, and again, also the people, I, I
run into people all the time, they're just a joy to talk to.
Yeah.
Uh, there's, there's a lot of different things that I think are going to be, uh, bringing
people to the state and to the Midwest more and more.
We will take a quick time out, get to our news, sports and entertainment and partner break
when we get back.
Melissa and I are going to tell you, Hey, you want to move?
Why, why move just anywhere?
Why don't you let them pay, uh, pay you to move, uh, or, or, or, or, or at least pay you
to live there.
Uh, we're going to talk about, uh, cities that will pay you to move there coming up
on the morning show at WFHR.
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The following cities in states will pay you to move there so as long as you are eligible,
uh, and of course you always want to read what we were talking about earlier, Melissa.
A small print.
A fine print.
Read that small print to qualify for these programs.
All you need to do is work remotely from a state other than the one you choose.
Be a US citizen, be older than 18 and be able to relocate soon after you are selected.
And I think that final word there is important when you are, if you are selected.
So that is a part of this too.
Uh, West Virginia is giving an incentive of, uh, over $12,000, $12,000 plus an outdoor
$12,000.
$12,000.
$12,000 plus an outdoor recreation package in a co-working space.
But you must live in one of the following communities, New River George, uh, Greenbridge
Valley, Morgan Town, etc.
So there's, there's restrictions of where you can live in West Virginia.
Yeah.
But I mean, the incentive $12,000, that's a pretty decent, uh, moving incentive.
Um, when I was a kid, uh, there was a couple of players that played for West Virginia
football that I really liked, uh, that along with that 12g's is making me think about
it.
Like I have Morgan Towns right near a big university, but I'll draw a recreation package
and a co-working space.
So that means like a, uh, space that you can use for work.
That's kind of weird that you have to be able to work remotely in another state.
Yeah.
That part is a little confusing to me to be honest.
Uh, yeah.
Okay.
Well, keep going.
We'll give you a 10, uh, 10,000, uh, after you purchase a qualifying home and a three-year
membership to a co-working space.
Okay.
But you have to purchase a home that qualifies, mm-hmm.
What does that mean?
I don't know, uh, price of living in Oklahoma, but I'm guessing that ain't cheap.
So, hmm.
Well, I don't know that the living expenses are super high there, but it's Oklahoma.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which, I, it does have its benefits, I'm sure.
Yeah, I've heard good things about it.
I know that, uh, Michael's got some family from that way, and, uh, we have talked with
him about it.
My buddy, Chris, uh, he had some family from Oklahoma when I was growing up that, uh, came to
the business.
I've actually never been to it.
It's one of the states that I haven't been to, um, I flew over and went to, when I went
to Texas.
Okay.
Topeka, Kansas, offering 10 Gs to be allocated, uh, for a, for rent in the first year of
your move, or up to 15,000, uh, to put towards buying a new home.
Oh.
Okay.
That's a pretty smart incentive.
Yeah.
That's a pretty good one, actually.
And, and I don't, I'm again, we have to, we would have to look into these, uh, in depth
to a point where this, this segment would be meaningless, uh, but, but I, it does seem
like, uh, as far as these go and what I could see doing this, um, the, the least amount
of, uh, catches, you know, what the whole, what's the catch, uh, this has the least amount
of them to so far to me.
Right.
And, uh, just the specification that it has to go toward rent and used in that first
year seems actually really helpful to people right now, um, you know, uh, that's, that's
a big, uh, that's a big reason why you got so many people, um, you know, living in places
they don't want to be living, uh, because, uh, because not being able to forward some
of this.
Right.
You, and, and it costs money to move, you know, people like to throw around all the
time.
Well, you don't like it here.
Move.
You're gonna pay me to do that.
You're gonna pay for that because it costs a lot of money to move.
There's a lot of, uh, a lot of people that would like to stay in certain places and can't
because of that.
So, right.
They can't afford the rent or they, they can't find housing or, yeah, there's lots of,
lots of things.
Uh, Baltimore, Maryland is offering up to 5,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance,
uh, but you have to win a lottery to be able to be a part of that.
Um, I, I would, I would be willing to throw my, I've, I, Baltimore has always been very
interesting to me.
And I, I think that, uh, if you haven't been paying attention out there, um, where, when
we were younger, uh, Baltimore was just looked at as, uh, there was so much violence, so
much violence going on over there to the point where I'm going to build a TV show around
at the wire and everything.
Um, it's, it is, uh, a hundred percent, uh, I, I shouldn't say a hundred percent.
It's so different now, um, they just, I just got done seeing an article about Baltimore,
uh, their, their crime rates are like at a 50 or 60 year low or, or something like that.
They've really good things are a lot different there now than they, they used to be, uh, and
I don't know, it seems like a, uh, on, on this list so far, one of the more intriguing
places, uh, to me, uh, uh, Kichikan, uh, Alaska, I think I'm saying, I think I Kichikan, uh,
it is offering 2,000 and three months of free internet.
Now, for that to be, uh, incentive, it must mean internet's expensive.
Right.
That it's, does anybody else do this, uh, uh, when, when you're seeing an ad for something
and they say up to $500 off, like, okay, I can't afford that.
Yeah.
I don't have to see the price tag.
I don't even have to look at it.
Uh, if you're offering, if that's what you're offering off of this said product, you've
already lost me.
You were, you were not speaking to me.
I definitely, uh, I'll just get out of the way here so you can reach the people you're
trying to, uh, that top one percent because I don't, I don't, you know, no, uh, that,
that seems like it to me at least a little bit.
Um, um, Newton, Iowa is also on the list, uh, they're offering 10,000 cash.
If you purchase a home worth more than 240,000, well, that's not hard to find nowadays.
Most homes aren't in price lower than that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what the housing market is like in Iowa, but man, around here, you did,
the, the, it's kind of crazy.
Uh, there, there is just not enough houses to go around.
Yeah.
Um, one of the ones that are is, uh, on the website and NBC, uh, NBC close, uh, law, uh,
NBC, Los Angeles, dot com, uh, they, they wasn't on our list, Hamilton, Ohio, whew.
They're offering up to 15,000, uh, and that one is, uh, oh, that's because they wrapped
up.
Uh, a certain amount of time you could do this and it ended on July 1st.
But the, just for fun for the article to hear what they were offering and what they
were doing for comparison, the Hamilton, uh, community foundation was taking applications
and it was known as a reverse scholarship.
Recent graduates would receive assistance in student loan debt, but graduates would,
um, interesting.
I mean, you have to graduate in, yeah, to be eligible applicants must have graduated within
the last seven years from a stem, uh, a program.
Hmm.
Okay.
That's an interesting incentive.
I kind of did that.
And I think a lot of these, um, efforts are because they need people with certain skills
or qualifications or, you know, they're, they're trying to attract the talent that they
want to their state or their city.
Right now, uh, both, I guarantee you, if they're, if they're at all listening and if they're
not listening, they don't realize why they're smiling.
Both testing and crew are smiling right now because, uh, I, I've been talking about this
stuff with them for years and it's just now dawning.
I'd be some of these things there are, oh yeah, what we've been doing here as far as bringing
in dentists through rural areas, um, and, and obviously business in the tech world here
and stuff that our own mayor has been really on the forefront, uh, really been bringing
a lot more in, uh, with that.
But, um, just as an example, I think the rural dentists thing is, is a good one where there's
been a lot more done in the last couple of, uh, cycles, uh, to, to incentivize more dentists
to want to move here or do, you know, be here, um, I, I think that a, a big thing, especially
with, and this isn't just Wisconsin, uh, you know, look at Michigan, they're dealing with
this too of keeping your own here, uh, in, in, in college sports, yeah, in college sports,
you have these things, uh, pipelines, you know, I, I recruit from Wisconsin, I, I'm at
the UW, but I've got a pipeline to Florida, I get a lot of Florida kids or I got a pipeline
to New York and I get a lot of New York kids, um, that, that is, uh, the most, the vital
part of that pipeline is keeping your own best talent in state, not letting them get
out of state, um, all Midwest states struggle with that, even Illinois struggles with that,
um, it's, so that's something to, I mean, that we, you know, looking at these incentives,
uh, I think that's kind of a, where states are going to have to go, uh, if they're not
already there, as we're talking about right now, they're going to get there, um, and, and,
and, you know, um, I, I would like to think that, um, this, this will, this can happen in
a good way and a positive way for our country. Uh, I, I don't like the idea of any type of
segregation, no matter how big or how small, no matter what level we're talking about,
not even just talking about race, but classism or, or any of those kind of things. I'm not
comfortable with that. That's not what America is. We're a melting pot. Uh, we're meant
to live together. We're meant to live next door to each other. Uh, that's, that's just, uh,
the way this country was built. And if you don't like that to me, you're going against
what the, the foundation and the blueprint of this country, um, this land is your land,
this land is our land, the, et cetera, et cetera. Um, and it's not just because I forgot
the lyrics. I didn't just say et cetera, et cetera, because I can know the lyrics. I know
them from California to the New York province. We will take a quick time out. We'll come
back, wrap up the show morning show on 975 FM WF HR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning
show on WF HR.
Hope y'all are having a great Tuesday out there. Thank you so much for joining us. I, uh,
I did not forget that I was on air and I needed to go jump in. I, I did not get caught
up in the song. That didn't just happen. Um, in my defense, it may be my favorite song.
It may be, it might be. It's a, if it isn't my favorite, it's a top three. Uh, and, and
I, we just don't, I, I, it's been sitting here in the bumpers and I, because I love the
song so much, I haven't, like, oh, we got to wait for a good segment. Yes. Yes. And
I haven't played it once. I don't think. Uh, so I think it might be a new closer for us.
That's a good one right there. Uh, as we are wrapping up the show here, I, I did reference
that article I saw. I just wanted to follow up on that. The Baltimore homicide rate has
fallen to a near 50 year low. Uh, I found that from the good news network.org, you can find
that article over there. Good news network.org. Um, and of course, good things going on
here at the station. Let's talk schedule. Uh, we got good stuff coming up. A new
rapids report for you today. I have coming in to talk with us from the United
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Uh, we, uh, no, uh, after baseball going on right now because the boys of summer and
their all star break, the rafters will be back on Friday, taking on the Madison Mallards.
Nice. And, uh, did have a couple of other things we wanted to touch on real quick, like,
uh, a blood drive, uh, that is going on today. Actually, it's going on for in the past
hour. I'm sorry. Yeah. It's been going on past hour. Uh, it is happening over at our,
um, our old stop at East junior high school, uh, the cafeteria area over there, three
11 Lincoln Street right here in Wisconsin Rapids. They do a great job of navigating you
over there, uh, to get to the blood donation center. Yeah. That is going on till three
o'clock today. Everybody head on over there. If you can, we appreciate you doing so.
And if you are not able to today, but you still want to this Friday, you'll have an opportunity
at McMillan Library. Oh, good, good. That's probably with the Red Cross. Yes. And that
is going from 10 to three. You can join them over the Red Cross and McMillan and help
out and do one of the greater things you could do in this, uh, in this life of ours, uh,
donate. Yeah. And if you're not able to make an appointment, you can just stop in and
see if there's an opening. Yeah. Please do so, everybody. And thank you so much to
everybody who has and will donate. And, of course, our good friends over at the Wisconsin
Rapids City Band are going 160 years strong, uh, still at it. Uh, they got a concert going
on tonight at 730 over at Robinson Park. Check it out everybody and support the good
work that they're doing over there. Chances are you may even know some of the people in
that band. And it's a beautiful park. Yeah. I love Robinson Park. My, one of my favorite
places in the world. I love it over there. Check it out. Everybody head on over there
today. Uh, speaking of great parks, rendezvous in the park is happening tomorrow. Check
that out with our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. Uh, we send a shout out to our,
our friends, uh, in the coup son. Uh, now I just got done saying that about Robinson
Park. But in the state, it's Robinson Park and it's Riverside Park for me. I love all
of our parks. We got a million of them. There's no bad answers. Firemen over here at the Fireman's
Memorial. There's a spot over there. I really love to. Uh, but I didn't tell any Riverside
Park band. It has got some views over there. If you have a, if you have a furry friend,
it's the perfect place to walk a dog. Yeah, cause there's so much space. And there is
a great event going on tomorrow night over there. Be sure to check this out at five thirty
to seven. They got some great food down there. Our, our good friends at chatterbox will
be down there. And the shanty towners. Great entertainment from the shanty towners. Check
that out. Everybody. I love the name of that band. So good, so good. We got to get
them out of the show. We got to get them. So yesterday, speaking of the rapids or port
yesterday, we had our friends from Safer the Arts. Join us. Sally and Eric always love
talking with them. And we were joined by some of the members from Yacht Rock Gold Experience.
We had a great, fun name. Big shout out to them for joining us. That was awesome. And
Sally always makes these interviews happen. And we really appreciate it. Yacht Rock
Gold Experience is coming to town. Everybody. They're going to be over at the pack. They
will be there on Sunday, August 10th. Make plans. Get your tickets now because not only
do they have an incredible band with them, but they are going to be joined by Yacht Rock
Royalty, Elliott Lurie, lead singer of looking glass. Of course, Brandy and so many other
songs of theirs. Nice. Check that out. Be sure to join them. And check out the interview
if you want to preview everybody. You can catch that at WFHR.com. And you can get your
tickets for this at SaferTheArts.com. Buy local support, local support the arts, everybody.
And make plans to join us for the touch of truck event. This is going to be coming up real
soon. July 26th, 11 to 3. It's the 5th annual. And it'll be taking place over the Grand
Rapids Lions Club. This is a free event brought to us from our good friends over at the
Wisconsin Rapids Family Center. It's a wonderful event. One of their big events of the year.
Yeah. It's one of the few where you can we can raise funds. And I'm sure that everybody
has seen by now how this has been for our domestic violence shelters in recent years. And
the funding that has been cut just completely taken almost to nothing. We know how this
community and communities like ours around the country, I've been stepping up and helping.
And here's a really fun way of doing that. This is again a free event. We got all the
big hitters. We're going to have our police department, a sheriff's department, fire department.
I'm going to have their trucks down there. Come check it out. Bring the kids down. You
just never know what might interest might spark in them when they see these things. But
it's just so cool to see them up close. And a lot of them will let the kids climb up
and sit in them. It's just cool. Yeah. I encourage you to check it out, everybody. It's a wonderful
event and make plans and join us there over at the Grand Rapids Lions Club July 26th 11
to three for the touch truck to fifth annual touch truck event.
Woohoo. Got some world good stories. I wanted to touch on Melissa. Horse racing jockeys
in Peru raised money for charity by racing without their horses. They lined up at the
starting gates and just sprinted down the track. Some of the only one of the other racers
had a gripe, but it was just that he couldn't bet down himself. We need more of this. We
need more of this in jockeys. I'm not talking you saying bolt. I want jockeys doing this.
This is funny. I love this because jockeys are usually small of a frame just because it's
easier for the horse. It's easier for the the Jackie. But I mean, there is no doubt that these
men and women are athletes. Oh, yeah. They're in good shape. And it's a good race. It's not like
you're seeing a bunch of stones trying to race or something like they're all in good shape. And
they're having so much fun with it. I would a little worried about the track. You know, they're
running on dirt and everything. But they were fine. Nobody got hurt or anything like that.
We need more of this. We need more of this. That was fantastic. Well, and for a good cause too.
And horse racing is such it's kind of an elite sport. You know, I mean, for people who can
afford to bet on it. Yeah. Yeah. And those fancy hats. You got to be able to afford those too.
Oh, right. A woman near Calgary went golfing for the first time and got a hole in one.
It happened on her fourth hole and her first ever part three. She was playing from the
forward tease hit a driver nine in their yards and went in. So I guess this is easy for her.
I guess she's a natural. Yeah. There's great video of it too. I bet she was excited.
If you're looking to check that out, everybody, that was a fun one right there. And of course,
we encourage you to be the good story and let us know about your story and then things you
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