Donuts and Flipflops, together at last… (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin!

Morning, world!

It's a new day!

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Take it, Marvin!

Got your host, James behind the mic?

Turning the mic, son.

Terry, with the CEO of United Way of Southwood and Ab's County.

It's Friday.

It's Friday.

We got the band together out of Friday.

That's nice.

No mics, though.

No mics, no mics.

We're going to try something new in radio.

No mics.

Nobody's doing that.

We have got these crispy cream crocs to talk about a little bit later, Terry.

We've got a couple of other interesting articles that we have time for.

Certainly want to make time for local events in our area.

Touching on some good stories of the day wrapping up with the United Way update.

And we got these Civil War days going on over at the historic point last week.

And we've got four tickets to give away thanks to Mike Hintner.

We'll get those in your hands before the hour is done.

We have to start off with entertainment news.

And we begin with another loss where it feels like we've started a lot of our week in this segment.

You know, losing a number of people.

Malcolm's more Warner, Ozzy Osborne, Chuck Mann, Johnny Gide, a Pasta Way, and Hulk Hogan has passed away.

Dude, we should have dressed up as Hulk Hogan today.

That had been good.

That had been good.

71 years old medical personnel were sent to his home in Clearwater, Florida of the Treaty cardiac arrest.

And ended up at a nearby hospital where his pronounce passed away.

I just, the night before, I have been so busy in my life.

And it's one thing or another.

And I have not, you know, I already have a trouble with sleep.

Sleep and I have never gotten along.

The Sandman has something against me.

I don't know what it is.

But lately it's been even worse.

So I've been up at night and I've been having these white noise shows on the background.

And I had on a documentary about one of the very first superstars in wrestling.

The superstar Billy Graham.

I was an early-day wrestler.

And he was right before Hulk Hogan.

And he was Hulk Hogan before Hulk Hogan.

Billy Graham, like the televangelist.

Not the televangelist.

Took the name.

Took the name.

That's an interesting double.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Heck of a second act.

Yeah.

We haven't seen that one.

Which is the second.

We haven't seen that one.

The wrestling or the-

I think the reverse has happened plenty where wrestlers have gone into preaching.

A preacher going into wrestling.

I digress.

Which Billy, the real person that he was, he actually started out when he was a kid as a preacher

and then got into wrestling, a bodybuilding and then wrestling.

And he became one of the biggest names in wrestling.

And his act is exactly what Hulk Hogan would end up doing.

I'm not saying that Hogan stole the act from him.

But you go back and watch the footage.

It's the ear thing.

It's the tearing of the shirt.

It's the pythons.

The size of them.

Everything.

And Hulk Hogan, especially in recent years, had some issues.

Had some things that got him in trouble with society and people.

And really hurt his legacy a bit.

But that legacy is so strong and so big that even with those things, and those things need to be said,

when we're saying goodbye to somebody, my grandfather taught me this.

One of the biggest disrespects I think you could do to somebody.

Is if I go on the air right now and all I do is romanticize Hulk Hogan.

That's not what his family, his friends, the people that love him deserve.

What we deserve and what I want for myself is people being honest.

And he was a difficult man.

There were some things about him that rubbed people the wrong way.

All of that said at his peak, one of the top five most famous people in the world,

and it's certainly in America.

Man couldn't walk down the street even in disguise and not be recognized.

That's how big he got, that's how big he got wrestling.

As a little kid who moved to this state didn't know what wrestling was but came from a sports family.

And enjoyed what I was seeing on the TV.

I wanted to be an actor.

So I was seeing sports and acting happening in front of me.

And I was blown away and I was taken within the first power bomb.

I was brought into it and all the pomp and circumstance.

And the leader of all this was Hulk Hogan.

Wrestling does not get to where it is without somebody being the leader, somebody being the face of all this.

And at that time, you needed an all-American guy.

You needed a guy who was willing to embody all those things.

The superstar are barely Graham.

The guy that I was mentioning before that a Hulk Hogan bodied a lot of his work from.

He was not that guy. He couldn't do that.

Whereas Hulk Hogan, each of your vitamins kids, go to school kids.

Like he was that guy. He was the perfect star for the 80s.

He was the perfect star for the moment in time.

And he took the ball and he ran with it.

He was able to do that.

Wrestling doesn't get to where it is without Hulk Hogan.

And 80s, you cannot talk about pop culture.

Not just in the 80s, pop culture history without mentioning Hulk Hogan.

Totally.

And not only that appeared in a bunch of different movies.

Certainly, his feuds with Andre the Giant are maybe the most legendary.

And maybe in the history of wrestling to this day.

Especially, I personally loved it with him, Rowdy Piper.

I was a big Rowdy Piper guy.

And I love when those two went back and forth and everything.

His reality show also put him on another level too.

And he gave him a second act and everything.

And I know it's weird to say it's 71, but too young.

Now, too young.

And regardless of his positives or negatives,

I'd like to think we can agree on that.

That's too young.

Absolutely.

I feel for his friends and his family.

And I appreciate his legacy.

I appreciate it as somebody who I still did this day.

I don't watch wrestling anymore, but I respect the wrestlers.

I respect that.

I don't think people take enough time to understand that, yeah,

the matches are, I'm sorry, the matches are freaking out before.

Hey, hey, hey.

Earmuffs to any adults out there.

But the injuries are real.

The hours on the road are real.

The hours away from your friends and family are real.

Those, you know, fakeness there.

There's nothing you can fake about that.

Those guys put their lives out there.

Injuries, all these different things that happen.

The ups and downs and stuff.

And being the face of this stuff, you know, I'm impressed by it.

And I appreciate his legacy.

I appreciate what he did.

And the marquee left.

Taking a look at this real quick here.

I thought I had this pulled up, but I guess I did not.

So we've been talking a lot about Ozzy Osborne.

A lot of people coming out of the woodworks and remembering him.

And a lot of the things in pop culture.

Oh, I remember when he did this.

I forgot that he was on the cone and show once.

And of course, Ozzy's famous duet with Miss Piggy.

That was there was pretty well known and stuff.

There's a lot of those.

Well, of course, with somebody like Hulk Hogan,

there is those stories as well.

There are those.

Well, wait a minute.

That's right.

He did this.

Or there was that time that Hogan did that.

And there was, of course, the time that Hulk Hogan teamed up with Dolly Parton.

And I don't think a lot of people will remember this one.

I don't think that I got to play a little of this.

I got to just get it up here.

I thought I had it up.

I apologize, everybody.

But so the world lost.

And they keep saying in 80s icon.

Just icon.

Just icon.

Hulk Hogan was an icon.

Yes, I know he was of the 80s.

But that guy was big his whole life.

Once he made it, he never went down.

His star might have faded a little bit here and there.

But he was always like, there was never a point in time where Hulk Hogan walked into a room

and people were like, who is that?

No, he was an icon.

But did you know he and Dolly Parton once shared the screen together.

It was on Dolly's short live variety sketch show and Hogan joined as a guest.

Hulk was playing a wrestler named Starlight Star Bright, who shockingly looked and dressed exactly like Hulk Hogan.

And Dolly sang a song to him called, he's got a headlock on my heart.

It is as campy as you could want it to be.

It is everything you could ask for in that regard.

And I encourage people to look up the sketch you can find it online.

It's a really good one.

There's not really many things that are greater than 80s campy TV.

There's not much better than it.

There's great stuff in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

But in the 80s they started really putting money behind this stuff.

But they didn't have the ideas necessarily or the creativity to really what to do with it.

The best definition of this is 80s music videos.

All the sudden you got all this technology.

You're starting to get budgets and money and time and effort put into these things.

And a bunch of creatives in a room and like, okay, now I don't know what to do.

Like, we got this band flock of seagulls and we're just going to put them in a room

and have a camera spit around.

We're going to throw people into desert.

A lot of desert stuff in the 80s.

A lot of music videos in the 80s.

I feel like anybody born though from the mid 90s on can't appreciate this.

You had to have lived it a little bit.

No, you're probably right, probably right.

But I encourage people to check that out.

Terry knows this about me so I own this.

I, to the audience and everybody out there as I have been doing.

I do two morning shows back to back here.

We are on the Sunrise Show 105 from 7 to 9.

Then I step across the hall, come over here and do this from 9 to 11.

Over on the Sunrise Show, I've been learning more and more about country music.

For everything I know from like Johnny Cash or Petsy Klein,

I'm learning more and more about newer artists.

And one of the artists that I have really enjoyed is Miranda Lambert.

So as Terry and the audience has learned by now,

I take any opportunity to talk about her.

But I didn't need it this time.

I didn't have to shoehorn her in this time.

Miranda Lambert is stepping up once again to help her home state of Texas.

She is mobilizing her nonprofit Mutton Nation Foundation,

one of the better names you've ever heard.

After the definitely flash floods that tore through South and Central Texas.

In a video posted online, Miranda says,

quote, I can't even come up with any words for all the loss that everybody is suffering.

She shared that Mutton Nation is teaming up with Caraville Pet alive

to help both people and pets affected by the disaster.

Mutton Nation was founded by Miranda and her mom back in 2009.

The organization has already raised over 11 million to support animal shelters,

promote pet adoption, and provide aid during natural disasters,

which is a big part of what the foundation is about.

Miranda says, she'll keep sharing updates and encourages her fans to send love, prayers, and support.

However, they can.

Fans can donate through Mutton Nation.com, encourage you to do so.

I did when these first happened.

Just because this was something she was on right away.

I hate name dropping.

I don't mean to do it.

But she texts me every once in a while.

Oh, for the.

She does.

I've got it right here, Terry.

No, yes.

She texts all of her fans because yes, it's a fan-based thing.

But it still says Miranda Lambert when it pops up.

It still does.

Is it to a billion other people as well?

Oh, you mean you added Miranda Lambert as a content?

No, no.

She has a winter new album came out.

She had this thing that you could do where you could sign up for news updates.

So I get them in the form of a text.

For like five seconds.

I get the thing.

Get your read of in the bathroom.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

But I encourage people.

I do have a point here.

If you do this, it's a great way to also donate.

It's a real easy, simple way right through your phone, your Venmo, whatever you're doing.

And just like a lot of other things we talk about everybody.

A dollar, five dollars really goes a long way with a foundation like this.

And it is a fabulous foundation.

And I'm really glad that Miranda Lambert sends you personal messages.

This is everything we were talking about before.

This is what we do on a larger scale as a country.

Nobody comes together like we do as Americans.

Nobody looks out for each other like we do.

I know that it gets lost into shuffle sometimes and everything.

And people want to try to divide us.

But when it comes right down to it, heart to heart,

American to American, nobody looks out for each other like we do.

And we prove it every time we step up at situations like this.

The horrifying situation that those families have been going through.

The only thing that I would imagine is, you know, even somewhat of a comfort is knowing that all these strangers helping strangers.

And people reaching out and helping out if you can.

Again, go to muttnation.com if you can everybody.

Amazing.

Taking a look at what's new on your small screen and your big screen.

There's a lot of cool stuff on TV.

I'm sure this weekend.

But to me, there's only one thing on TV.

It's happy Gilmore too is premiering on Netflix.

I don't care if it's good.

Is it tonight?

Yeah, it's tonight.

I think it might already be even on that.

Oh.

Every once in a while, the movie comes out that I just, I don't care if it's good.

I'm going to watch it multiple times.

Oh, yeah.

I'm excited.

Completely.

There's a lot of cameos in this one.

We will watch this too.

First, sir.

That should be really good.

And just nostalgia.

I mean, just you're just sitting there eating the nostalgia through the.

I don't know too well.

I cannot wait.

Also on peacock, the fission scheme, the new movie from Wes Anderson.

Encouraged to take that out.

Great movie.

Looks really good.

There's a death of a unicorn on HBO Max.

It's a dark comedy.

Paul Rudd and Jenny Ortega.

I really wanted to see that one.

I can tell you what my mom is going to be watching.

Billy Joel.

And so it goes.

Part two.

It's a documentary about Billy Joel.

She said it was really good.

The first half was really good.

She's a huge, original fan.

So.

And the series premiere of Hurricane Katrina racing in its time.

A five-part documentary about one of the deadliest natural disasters in the US.

That is going to be on NGC.

You can check that out there.

And Live Aid when Rock and Roll took on the world.

Part three of the four-part documentary.

The 40th anniversary of Live Aid is on CNN on Sunday at nine.

On your big screen.

This is the big one.

This is the last big.

I mean, there's going to be other big summer movies coming out and stuff.

But the biggest one, the one that everybody's been building up for all summer.

Superman was that to a degree.

But it's really the fantastic for from Marvel.

And that's not an insult to Superman or DC.

But over the run of this superhero renaissance that's been going on.

Where we saw the peak of it, where there was a new superhero movie or TV show coming out every second.

And now the market is kind of adjusted a little bit.

And now they're being a little more choosy with this stuff.

It's by my head.

It's set up by second.

By minute.

Yeah, I think by minute.

But it's gotten a little better.

It's all hands-on debt kind of thing.

Where they are putting their time efforts so heavily into these projects.

And no more than the Fantastic Four.

They have tried three different times to make this a brand and make it happen.

And it just has failed every single time.

But they've never done it with the Kevin Feige and the Marvel team behind it.

And this cast.

And I mean, Pedro Pascal alone brings me to it.

I think he's one of the best actors working today.

But they got a great cast.

Joseph Quinn blew people away on Stranger Things.

He really stole a lot of scenes.

And he has a great opportunity here.

I'm happy to see what happens for him.

And even Moss from the bear and some other stuff is a great character actor.

There's a lot of expectations on this one.

All that said.

People are quicker to tear something down than to build it up.

And that's unfortunate.

I think that's low-hanging fruit.

I think it's really lame and tacky.

And kind of lazy.

And lazy.

Yes. But we all know this and everything.

So we'll see what happens with that.

I heard good things about Superman, actually.

I thought it was great.

I thought it was really good.

I didn't see it, but I heard it was good.

I'm not even a Superman guy.

And I was blown away by it.

I really enjoyed it.

I don't do this very often.

But if you're looking for a fun summer movie, I definitely recommend that one.

I think that's a great one to check out.

There's a couple of them.

And that's the big one coming out.

Nobody wants to come out against this one.

So Fantastic Four Superman is already in theaters.

And then with Fantastic Four coming out, there's pretty much no other movies coming out.

I mean, I'm watching Happy Gilmore.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll be doing.

I want to see the Fantastic Four, but I'm watching Happy Gilmore.

That's the big one that you got to watch.

That's going to be a fun one to check out.

We will check out our commercial break.

Take care of our partners.

Come back.

Got a little local entertainment I want to talk about.

Along with some other fun stuff.

Coming up on the Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning Show at WFHR.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us, everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Got a couple of local things I wanted to touch on, Terry.

But first, just one of them mentioned this one.

I did want to get this one in.

I think it's a fun story and it's a chance for us to shout out our firefighters out there.

Big shout out to all you firefighters out there.

We greatly appreciate you.

More on them in a little bit, actually.

Firefighters rescued four cows from QuickSand on a riverbank.

That's a big job.

It's a big job in a sentence that you don't hear every day.

Any one of those words.

First time.

Yeah, definitely, definitely.

Firefighters in Britain responded to a river where four cows had sank into QuickSand that

hardened into a thick mud.

The Carlyle Ice Fire DeStation said on social media that crews responded alongside the

other Fire Departments.

Actually, three different Fire Departments came together for this.

Okay, when you think QuickSand, first of all, do you think Britain?

Right.

Yeah.

No.

I have nothing to base that on other than I just think of like more of like a...

Oh, yeah.

I don't know.

Perceived swampy or tropical.

I don't know, climate.

Juggle.

Yeah.

You know, something like that.

Or I've also heard plenty of like different conversations about QuickSand's not what it

is in the movies and TV shows, of course, and all that.

So, I mean, I don't even know what the real QuickSand is necessarily.

Can you imagine you're that cow and you're just walking along and all of a sudden you're stuck?

You know, this is not fair to the quick...

The QuickSand took an easy target here.

That's low-hanging fruit, man.

That's not cool.

Cheating.

Being a cow, it had that happen.

It has got to be the worst situation.

So, they had to use what?

Cranes.

Yeah.

Firefighters arrived.

Yeah, actually.

The firefighters arrived to find the QuickSand had hardened into extremely firm mud trapping

the four bovines up to their necks.

So they had to dig them out.

The cows which had broken through a gate overnight and made it their way to the river were extracted

by trained animal rescue and swift water rescue specialists using a telehandler borrowed

from a farmer.

The fire station quipped it was an utterly good ending for all.

And that is part of the reason I did the article, yes.

Yes.

Had to do it.

Had to do it.

I mean...

One person left.

At least one person...

I saw at least one of you left out there.

I heard at least one of you left.

It's a cool story.

It's also just wild.

Just now that we know the animals are okay and all that.

Let's just take a beat to kind of think about.

You mentioned it right away, one of the first thoughts I had, where the QuickSand was located.

Also what it takes to make QuickSand, why is this in the...

I don't know.

I feel like there should be something around the garden.

They're near fence.

Well, and not for nothing, cows, but I mean, I like cows, my youngest, my daughter, that's

her favorite animal.

But it does reinforce the...

When you don't follow the rules, sometimes things go bad.

And so the people that show up that are first there on the scene, that's one thing.

But you got to call in, you know, they brought in two other fire departments.

What was that call like?

So hey, Greg, hey man, how you doing?

Yeah, good to talk to you.

Yeah, look, you're not going to believe this.

All right, I know this is going to sound like a joke, but I got four cows stuck in QuickSand.

I'm going to need you guys...

You bring the whole team.

I'm going to need you guys down here.

Greg?

Greg, he hung up.

He hung up.

He didn't believe me.

He didn't believe me.

I got to call him back.

Like, I don't know how long that conversation happened.

That's not easy.

Good on all of those workers.

Way to be.

Nice work by them.

Did want to talk about Civil War days.

This is a big one, Terry.

This is a big, big event that our good friends over at this torque point, boss host.

The Wakeleys Sons were members of the Union Army Wisconsin 12th Company G during the

Civil War.

In honoring their service, they are holding their very first Civil War days featuring troops

from the second Wisconsin, the Iron Brigade, 8th Wisconsin Light Artillery, 41st Virginia,

McAllister Battery, Wyatt's Battery, 1st Alabama Calvary, and the 1st Alabama Field

Hospital.

Battle skirmish will be at 1.30 each day, so most Saturday and Sunday this going on.

Demonstrations, the demonstrations, infantry drills, Calvary demonstrations, medical scenarios,

and period dancing on Saturday night with the ticket.

I love that out of the part.

Plus, on top of all this, there will be Civil War artifacts displayed by our great friends

from the South of County Museum.

Food and beverages will be on site, and you are not going to find many more affordable

things going on than this event.

That is really cool.

It's an awesome one, costs just 5 bucks for adults, kids are going to get in for $3,

and if you've gone to this event in recent years, you're like, wait, that price has never

changed.

That is very important to this store point boss.

They could easily charge a lot more for these things, but they want to keep the price set

so that families can go to these events.

They have our back.

They are keeping history alive.

Let's have their back and help them keep history alive by taking in these events.

And how often, how many people have ever seen a Civil War reenactment?

That's pretty cool.

It's right in your neck of the woods, man.

Very cool.

Be sure to check that out, and on top of all this, how'd you like to go for free?

My kitner was in the other day talking about this, encourage you to check out that interview

at www.rapidsreport.gov, you know, at www.sifimedia.us and www.rapidsreport.com.

And certainly, I want to thank Mike for dropping off these tickets.

I got four from right here if you want to go.

Call up 715-424-2600, or go ahead and dial in through the Civic Media app and call

in.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody, and get these tickets and take in Civil War

days going on this weekend over this store point boss at 364 Wakely Road, beautiful

Nekusa.

Saturday will be from 10-4, and then 7-9, they will have dancing, and then on Sunday will

be from 10-3.

So, be sure to make some time for one of those events, got plenty of time to get on over

there and take that in and enjoy.

Terry and I will be back after our new sports and entertainment break.

We got these crocs to talk about, Terry, got to get into that.

That's coming up on The Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

80s edition.

I was wondering why you were holding out at me.

Terry and James, they get out with you.

I got to play it for you, got to.

We hope you're having a great Friday out there.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us, everybody.

I'm going to get into some interesting one right here, Terry.

I don't know.

We've done a couple of these stories where different companies that you would never think

combining, combining, joining forces and creating some of the worst clothing or things

we've ever seen as humanity.

And that's somebody who, you know, that's saying something considering golf and some of

the clothes that they wear on the golf course and everything.

So they, all that said, here's an interesting one.

Krispy Kreme and Crocs are teaming up to create a new limited edition Krispy Kreme class

slash Crocs classic clogs.

They cost 90 bucks and we'll come in a box inspired by a donut box and there will also

be a pack of five Krispy Kreme themed gibbet's charms available for 20 bucks.

So that's an anna.

You don't even get them with it.

Is that a normal price?

You've got to pay more for the blame, man.

I guess.

I think that I don't know.

I think plain one, you know, just like regular Crocs are probably in like the 50, 60, maybe

50-ish range.

The lined ones because you can get ones that are like flannel lined kind of, those are like

80.

That looks disgusting.

Yeah, I don't know.

It was like icing going over the top of the top.

I didn't look like that.

Like actual frosting.

Let's see if I can get a good picture of these here.

And then of course they got all that.

And the gibbet's, that's the little things that you can put on top of them, right?

Yeah, they poke through the hole.

Yep.

Okay.

So I'm trying to get a good look at this thing.

It just looks like a white crock that's, you know, okay, they got donuts on them.

I see.

There we go.

So it's brown.

Like a donut.

Like imagine a round glazed donut or with sprinkles.

Yeah.

I mean, it's, and then it's kind of like that the, the crispy cream box with the green around

the handle.

That's, that's called the adventure strap.

Oh.

It's, you only have to put them on.

Yeah.

Adventure strap.

Oh no.

You only have to wear the adventure strap when you might blow a crock.

Otherwise you can just have, otherwise you can just have it forward.

You can even be bells or something.

Oh, I thought you were going to be like, no, no, I almost did.

But you had, you lost me a blowing a crock out.

That's hilarious.

That's great.

If you think they're going to fall off, you got to put the adventure strap on.

Yeah.

I get it.

Or you could just wear it.

But in general, a lot of people just leave them flipped forward.

I get it.

Do you?

Do you?

No, no, I don't, but I'm trying.

I'm trying to get it.

I get that.

I don't get it.

I'll say that.

The shoes will be released on Tuesday, August 5 in crock stores and throughout their website.

If you're worried about missing out, you can get access to them one day earlier on

Monday, August 4th by going to a participating Krispy Kreme and scanning a QR code.

Also any customer wearing any pair of crocs inside a Krispy Kreme shop on Saturday, August

9th can score a free, original glazed donut.

Nice.

I love when they do these that Krispy Kreme is really good at the promotion stuff.

I mean, if you buy 110-year-width once you get the jibits in there, I mean, you could

get a free $2 donut.

Boy, that evens it all out.

That seems logical.

I really don't have anything against it.

I don't have anything against anybody's fashion or style or anything.

I look at one picture of me and I have no right to judge anybody on style or clothing

or anything.

I still dress like a teenager.

I know that.

I own it.

I am working on it.

But you're not working on it.

No, I mean, I have to say that otherwise my sister and my mother will just never let it.

You're not working on it.

But when it comes to these, I've never really worn a pair and even when I tried a pair

on because again, my sister was like, oh, she wanted me to try her husband's pair on,

I think.

I put them on and granted I got bigger feet, but I just didn't like the feel of them.

They're so sensitive.

I am.

But I would also, to me, I take any opportunity to be barefoot.

So I can't say that I would necessarily own a pair of crocs except a million years

ago when crocs first came out and I worked at Yonkers, we had them there.

Like we sold them before everyone sold them and we had this promotion by store like

whichever store could sell the most over the course of a weekend or something.

So we told employees if they bought a pair and they did get it and played his count.

But if they bought a pair, then they could wear them at work because that was not normal

dress code.

And so not only did we have employees buying them, counting toward our total, but then they

were wearing them and showing people and so I bought a pair, obviously, to wear for

that promotion and I literally still have the exact same pair.

And so we're talking at least 25 years ago that I've had them.

I just have the plain black ones and I do have one jibbit.

It's a little ladybug, just a little red ladybug and it's only about the size of the

hole.

So it's super cute.

But I literally, it would be very odd.

Maybe someone has seen me off of my property with them on, but it would be very odd for

you to see me anywhere with them on unless maybe I'm on the boat or you know, I mean like

something like that where I'm going to be wet.

But yeah, I just use them for gardening.

You help me remember the one thing that I would say is a huge selling point about that if

you take good care of them.

They last forever.

I mean, they're pretty durable, they're pretty resilient.

So in that regard, if you're spending good money on them and you tell me they're going

to last a long time, that's different.

I learn the hard way not to spend too much, there's a sweet spot for me on shoes where

I'm not going to buy the cheapest pair, but I'm also not going to go out of my way.

And so to me, because I go, I burn through shoes like crazy to the point where at this

age and now with a little money in my pocket, I've got like eight, like more pairs of shoes

than I've ever had in my whole life.

And I fart away and you won't even all grow them.

No, that's nice.

See?

That won't happen, but also I noticed that I can keep all of them lasting longer by cycling

through them.

But you know, one of my daughters had like probably like, I don't even know, five pair,

like every different color because that's all she wore.

When she wasn't in sports shoes, she was in crocs.

But then as she all grew them, I mean, we passed them to like my niece and nephew because

of course, they're all interchangeable, right?

Like there's no boy girl, like it's just everybody wears whatever color.

And I still see them running around it, you know, like they, even for, even kids, like

they, they last.

Yeah.

Um, another one that I wanted to get into and I wanted to talk about this with you or

Seth about this one in particular because you guys still have younger kids.

And I know that your kids are getting, you know, almost out of the house and some of

that, but you, you have been a part of a time with that I haven't as a parent.

My kids are in their 20s.

They've been out a long time.

The age of a, when do you give a kid or when to let a kid start using a cell phone?

That, that there's no, there's no really, there is no set time or date with this one.

This is one that we're trying to figure out in real time.

We're trying to fix the boat while we're on the water kind of thing.

And I think it's an interesting conversation that I, I'm curious to know where people are

falling on.

A new study found 13 is the minimum age kids should get there for smartphone or be allowed

on social media and period.

Many younger risks the future mental health, that is what a lot of studies are saying.

They based it on a survey of almost 2 million people in 164 different countries, so not

just here.

Kids who get access to phones and social media before 13 are more likely to end up

depressed, aggressive or emotionally unstable by their mid 20s.

The study blamed it on three main things.

Poor sleep, they're, they're way more likely to lie in bed scrolling.

The study found it's true even if they don't have social media, just a phone.

And cyber bullying, not just from other kids, but being online exposes them to all kinds

of hate and those things.

And then poor family relationships.

Once they have the internet in their hands, they start drifting away from other family

members.

Again the study found 13 is just the minimum.

Some experts say keeping them off phones until, off the gram until they're 16 might not

be a bad idea either.

This is not to make any parent feel guilty that is done this sooner, at least coming from

me.

I'm not going to speak for the, you can go to ZM Science or CNN or some other places to

find the complete article.

I don't want it to sound like my intention for bringing this up is any, I get so sick

and tired of parents making other parents feel guilty.

Guess what?

The parent already feels guilty.

You don't have to help on this.

You don't have to add on to it or anything.

I'm not trying to do that, but what I do think we need to more normalize these conversations

about this because this is something that is for one, a case by case, every family, every

kid is going to be different and that's on the parent and the kid to figure that out.

But it's also a newer, newer conversation, even though it's been probably 15, 20 years

with this has been happening, it's, it's new wish and we don't talk about this stuff

enough.

We don't put it out there in the open enough.

When's the last TV show you saw that address this topic?

You know, when's the, when's the last time you heard this brought up in the news or something?

It comes up here and there, but it doesn't come up a lot and it's a major thing.

It's a pretty big thing.

It shouldn't, for everything that is a parent's job and a parent one, this is you, only you,

this is on your shoulders.

Any time in life as a society, we can help or we can add or just be a positive to it

and another data source I think is important as a society.

It takes a village, right?

Well, we're a village.

That's what we are.

I think adding to this can only help the conversation.

See, I think, I mean, I, I guess I disagree a little bit with, with some of that because

I think it is parent's responsibility and I don't, I don't care if it's a phone, I don't

care if it's a car, I don't care, anytime you hand a kid something, a kid who is not mature.

So under, I don't know, they're what, early 20s, like anytime you just hand them something

and are just like, oh, now because you have it, like there has, there has to be guidelines

and there has to be guidance, there has to be rules.

I mean, like for, in, in our house, it was middle school is when the kids got phones.

So when they went from elementary school to middle school, but there were rules.

It wasn't like, oh, you have this phone now and you can do whatever the heck you want on

it.

There's lots of parent monitoring apps.

We did, our kids were not allowed their phones after a certain time at night and they charged

in my bedroom, in our bedroom, on a charging state, like on a table, you know, with the

charging stand and you could get it in the morning after you were ready for school.

Like, I think there's just so much of that because they have it, doesn't mean that they're

mature enough to handle all of it, you know, so I just think that there's, I don't know,

I think there needs to be some onus on your fun stuff.

Yeah, 100% agree with you there, especially that what you said right before that about

just because you have it, doesn't mean you're mature enough to have it.

We know adults like that, we know plenty of adults that are not mature enough to have

the technology they have and that, again, isn't a judgment, that's just honest, being

honest about them, let alone kids and everything.

You know, you think about driving and think about all the training that goes into that,

think about all the practice, all the, you know, like all the preparation.

Yeah, yeah.

In a lot of cases, a phone is probably more dangerous than a car.

Yeah, 100%, 100%.

It's like, why don't we just hand them to them?

And it's no different than a car or a driver's license.

You don't just hand it to them, you teach them, you help them learn, you help them grow

with it.

Not just to try to use you as an example, but I appreciate you sharing that because that

sounds like a smart way of doing it.

You, I think the worst thing you could do is, hey, you turned 18, here's a phone because

that doesn't sheltering a child, doesn't help them any.

That's not our job as parents.

We got to get them ready for the real world.

We got to get them ready for being out there.

While also trying to balance, I want my kid to stay a kid.

What happened?

My child was just one.

They were just one.

How did that happen?

You know, and trying to keep up with that.

Again, this is what I mean by sharing of information and not judging each other.

Definitely accountability.

Accountability comes first with most things with me at least.

But I do think that we sharing stories like you just did and everything is really key

for parents, especially young parents, getting started in the game.

Like you can't use screens to babysit your kids either.

You know what I mean?

Like little kids, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Like you see that a lot.

Parents will just hand their kid their phone.

Now sometimes, yes, you're in a situation where it's like, okay.

I just, I need to, you know, but, but just in general, like their needs to be human

to human interaction is important and it's about teaching.

You know, I have, there is a rule that there are no phones at the table at my house.

You sit down for dinner.

I better not see a phone.

Still, I don't care if you're 20.

I don't care if you're you.

I don't care if you're my husband.

Do not have your phone at the table and that's just, it's just the deal.

I don't have mine there either.

I mean, let's interact with each other.

Let's talk to each other.

Let's hear about each other's day.

We're not on the phone.

It shouldn't take work.

It shouldn't be that.

It shouldn't be too tough to do.

I always like to, a long time listeners know I try to end every segment, every show on

a positive or a funny note.

And with the topic like this, I wasn't truly sure where to go.

And then my mind just had the thought of me at 13 with a cell phone.

Has anybody thought about that?

No, we don't want to, but now that we are.

One of the most crazy and, you know, dangerous insane things I've ever thought of.

Maybe it's me at 13 with a cell phone.

I don't know how I would have been with something like that.

I was a knucklehead to begin with.

I am not the person that you, I was, I was so different that, and I am now, and I think

about it.

I'm doing this for comedic purposes.

But it's just general maturity.

At the same time.

There's a little truth in that, man.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Nobody is the same at 30 as they were at 13.

I would hope not.

Well, okay.

Okay.

So nobody because some aren't sure.

And we will take the final time out for the week.

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to make this show happen.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't really sound right coming from you.

No, but it's been having more and more in I cannot, I'm not doing it on purpose.

I can't help myself.

It's fine.

I'm like, wait a minute.

What do you just say?

It's, it's, I got to work on that.

I got to work on a lot of things and hurting.

We got to get to our schedule.

We got some good stuff lined up for you, everybody.

We're looking forward to a great rapid support.

I'm going to have a good one lined up for you with that today.

Be sure to join us for that.

We will have the ADRC, Aging and Disability Resource Center joining us for one episode and then

we'll have another episode with our friends in the Wisconsin-Rapis Popus Schools Department.

Ron is not able to join us, but he did set up a nice interview for us.

We're going to be speaking with Melanie, their food service director over there.

Nice.

I don't know if we've had to chance to really talk with her and talk about that part

of the game, so I don't know if you're going to hear it.

I mean, are you going to ask her about the lunch lady?

Definitely.

Yeah, I got it.

I got it, right?

It's got to be my first question.

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Also one of the mention that our team is hard at work right now getting ready for a great

remote that's going to kick off in a couple of minutes over on 105 five WRI.

Our good friends at Tri-City Services are celebrating their 80th anniversary.

Congratulations to them.

Awesome.

And new location.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's really cool.

Go check it out, everybody.

They're at 321, 4th Avenue, North, right here in Rapids.

Check out that new location.

They got a ribbon cutting beginning at 11, 11, 30 to 6.

They're going to be partying.

It's all going to be fun.

Again, they're at 321, 4th Avenue, North.

They're going to celebrate, have some food, fun, raffles.

And we're down there.

Got Melissa and Ashley down there.

Go say hi.

Hi.

And if you bring a non-perishable food item for the focus food pantry, they will donate

a dollar for every item collected today.

Cool.

They just, this is one of the things we love about Tri-City Services.

Not only your go-to place for heating, AC and plumbing, but obviously you've heard them

for many, many years advertising with us over here.

And you know about the good products and the good things that they do in our community.

They're always...

I mean, just so generous.

They're always putting in and doing things.

We appreciate them.

Have some fun today.

Get on over there and enjoy.

And say hi to Melissa and Ashley.

Good luck with their remote.

You too.

Have fun.

You can catch their remote at 1121, I believe, over at 1055WiR.

It's going to be a fun time, everybody.

Check it out.

Oh, y'all.

Oh, y'all.

Our Wisconsin's Rapids Downtown Farmers Market is going on tomorrow.

Check that out.

We're going from 8 to 1.

Some great opportunity to buy a local support local and check out some of the great vendors

we have in this area.

And a really big one going on as well.

I wanted to mention a touch truck event happening tomorrow from 11 to 3 over the Grand Rapids

Lions Club.

This is being a free event hosted by the Grand Rapids Lions Club brought to us by our Wisconsin's

Rapids Family Center.

Journalistically mentioned, I am on the board of the Family Center and this is a cause

that matters a lot to me.

That only is this an opportunity to be there to have fun, kids, games, foods, raffle and

fun.

We're going to have our Sheriff Becker is going to be down there with the Sheriff's Department

and being represented with one of their trucks and we're going to have a police department

down there and fire department down there, all of this, all of that is really great.

This is also an opportunity for you as a business or you as a citizen to show that you're

on the right side of history and you're supporting our Family Center along with all those

people I just mentioned.

And you're going to have a great time.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We're going down the Grand Rapids Lions Club for this free fun event.

The fifth annual touch of truck event happening tomorrow over the Grand Rapids Lions Club

11 to 3.

Very cool.

We will also be out and about at celebrate and plover there are two day event that's

going on starting today and tomorrow.

They're going to have food and beverages.

Their car show is going on today at 5 kids fun run at 5.30 and then tomorrow at 9 a.m.

They got a volleyball tournament pickable after that from 10 to 2 and their outdoor business

expo is going on from 10 to 5.