Come Party with us 12-6 Today!! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.

Take it, Marvin.

Your host, James here.

Join by Laura.

Hello.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Happy Wednesday.

Humpty, everybody.

Woo!

Happy open house day.

Happy party.

Talking about party.

It's up.

Talking about party.

We're looking forward to having you come on down, everybody.

A big shout out to everybody who is already making plans to get on down here.

We got our parking lot party going from noon to six today.

We'll be talking about that.

We've also got some other fun stuff we're going to get into.

I want to talk about this Royal Society for Public Health.

It is in the works over in the UK and this idea of what they have for September.

Sure.

Talk about that a little bit.

I got some good stories of the day and some other fun stuff we're going to do our schedule.

All of those things with you, Laura.

The next laugh for Pitchin right now.

Yeah, no problems.

Got thrown at Laura at the last second, so I'm pretty sure we're doing this.

Let's carry over from the last second for a moment.

I knew you close.

I was going to.

Okay.

So you guys are right in mentioning that I would absolutely have chosen Cohedin Camry and

might I just add.

Not only could I play all of the albums end to end and have a lot of variety, but I wouldn't

replay anything.

I could probably do all of them and make three trips if I wanted.

And I've done it and I would do it again.

We still want your artist, everybody.

If you have an artist that you could listen to, I got a text from somebody Frank Sinatra.

Oh, that's a good answer.

That was a good one.

Brinson Bowie are definitely my two and three easily.

Those are great.

Maybe even you could listen to a music, like instrumental music or something like that,

like Vincigurity or something along those lines.

I know that the peanuts music is always been famously fun and everything.

We'll talk more about that in a moment when we're looking forward to it.

One of the things that we've been fortunate about having this parking lot party this year

that we weren't able to do in years past is we've been able to bring on other members,

people from civic media's broad family, having them on the airwaves with us.

Now this morning I got the chance to meet and then two seconds later be on the air with

Mr. Pat Crilo.

And now I get to bring him on our show.

Yeah, I just waved him on.

I can say again with two seconds warning, I was literally just like, where's the

keg?

I heard there was a party.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, the sweet truck.

One of our food trucks has arrived a little early.

And yeah.

I was bringing the keg.

Fine.

Okay.

That's fine.

No, this is great.

I don't get to talk to a lot of other morning show hosts.

Is there a part of you that like, okay, I get the morning done and I kind of have my afternoon

free or anything like that?

Like they do.

I know it doesn't usually work like that for us.

But in theory, in theory, we're going to have that.

In theory, my first jobs were morning radio in places like Rice Lake and West Bend.

And there would be some time in the afternoon, but I have managed to somehow nature of horse

of vacuum and so do spousal to do lists and other work obligations.

And so the days are very full from 530 to 530.

Of course.

You know, not to mention doing the double duty.

Not just for civic media and for our show, but for up north news, which I do in partnership

with our folks at civic media.

So yeah, the downtime is on the weekends when I can get on the pontoon, right up, right up.

Can you tell us a little bit about the the meaning and the history of up north news?

I've talked, I've listened to some things and I've heard some stuff.

I would like to actually talk to you in part that hear a little bit more about that.

Back news is something that I dreamed of, you know, 20 plus years ago when I was still

working in a channel 13, you know, Claire.

And I thought that there was still room for other media sites that were not engaged

in what I referred to as both sides of them.

And we're actually used a bit more candor with their audience.

Look, if somebody's making up something, don't say that they're struggling with factual

information or whatever to say there are doubt.

Yeah, there are doubts about this or something.

I mean, let me give you a great example quick.

The New York Times this morning was running a story about a white's only compound, some

place in Oklahoma or wherever, nowhere in there, the word racist appear.

And like that's that really shouldn't be a stretch.

Right, my definition though, just say it.

Just say what it is.

And that was really part of the impetus of up north news was to bring Wisconsin news

to people who are not necessarily already looking for political news.

I mean, I've been a six and 10 o'clock anchor.

If people want that, they know where to get it.

But everybody else is on social media.

So let's put social media stories up about Wisconsin.

And in there includes some stories about Wisconsin news and politics that I think the reader

looks at and says, oh, well, there, now they're telling it like it is.

Not just what some corporate version of a media site wants it to be.

Not having to decipher your news is kind of a really cool idea, you know?

Yeah.

I mean, and James really got to it on our show today visiting about just being authentic

and being yourself.

We had Katrina Shanklin on my show today.

And again, part of her, Laura has always been just be yourself as a public servant as

well.

You don't have to be polished.

Yes, we've all been trained on how to be polished and professional.

And there's a place for it.

But in everyday communication, which includes news and media, just, just do you, booboo.

Yeah.

100%.

It turns out mom was right.

Be yourself.

Just be yourself.

And that works.

That works.

When I encourage you real quickly, I do encourage people if you haven't done so already,

sign up for the up north news newsletter.

It's a great resource, especially when it comes to Wisconsin information and news.

And while there's some great political stuff in there, there's such great stories and

history of Wisconsin.

I'm a history guy.

I love reading those things.

You guys do some great reporting over there.

Yeah, I've got my dad hooked on it.

It's highly suggest.

Right.

Honestly, my dad really likes up north news.

We just, we wanted to be like an unabashed cheerleader for Wisconsin, not just news, but

events, people, places, food, drink, and all of that.

And then people go, well, then why do you have the political news in there?

Well, because we love this place so much that we want to fight for a set of values that

we think most people in Wisconsin have.

Sure.

We've reflected in our stories about what's coming out of Madison or Washington, D.C.

And if you mix that in with the Wisconsin features, you see people who are just passionate

about this state and want everything about it to go well.

100%.

I think along with that, and there are always outliers, of course, but I'm not really

getting to those.

I'm talking about the majority of people in the middle of all this.

I think you have even people that are voting one way or the other.

They still want to hear other sides.

Oh, absolutely.

That this is such a purple state that I don't know that it's too far one way or the other

for most people.

Again, I know there's outliers on both sides, but for the most part, I think that that

is something that brings people to the table always that, hey, you have information.

Hey, you can help me learn something or what is the other side of this?

A lot of that.

That is a lot of what I based up north news on is that in all my years as an anchor and

then a legislator, people think they know you.

I mean, they're you're familiar face.

So they will come up to me at a fish fry or in the grocery store.

And they'll just say, Pat, what's the deal with such and such?

And then I will explain, and here's the thing they know, they know they may not agree with

everything I tell them, but they also know I will not lie to them and that I will be

fair.

I will often say on the other hand, and I will let people know what the case is.

And then I'll say, now for me, I come down on this side, but at least they know I'm presenting

them with the way you would do it in any conversation with all of my, you know, right of center friends

in Chippewa County, some of whom probably voted for me in 2006 and probably didn't vote

for me in 2010.

But when they voted for me, it's, you know, because they were tired of things as usual,

and they appreciated that somebody that they didn't agree with all the time was at least

willing to listen to them and willing to try.

Yeah.

Pat, I don't want to keep you too long.

You already worked really hard today.

I appreciate you coming to town and everything.

Thank you so much for stopping in.

Before I let you go, though, I have to ask this question that I think is one of the major

questions you have to ask everybody in radio.

Have you had this happen before where you meet somebody, a listener, and they say to you,

oh, you don't look like you sound constantly.

It's got to be the most consistent thing that I hear from people in radio, and I never

know how to take that.

I never know how to take it.

There, I've learned at this point you take it as you're just different and that that's

not good or bad.

It's not a judgment good or bad because on TV, everybody thinks that I'm 65, you know,

because I'm clearly not.

But they also thought this was back in the Tom Brokade, as they thought Tom Brokade worked

at the desk next to me, you know, because we're all there together in one TV thing.

But there is nothing quite like going to the drive-through and you come around to get

your cheeseburger and they go, I knew that voice is familiar and that feels good because

again, there's that familiarity that we're all in this together and it's nice to get to

meet each other, whether it's because you recognize them or because you got recognized

and that's that's a nice show of respect for the job that you're doing.

Monday through Friday, 6th and I be sure to be right here and check out Pat Crilo and

the amazing team that he has over there and the great work that they are doing.

We appreciate you Pat.

Great to meet you.

Great to have you in studio and stuff.

This is wonderful, thanks.

Yeah, thank you.

Have the anniversary.

No, thank you, but thank you, but good to see you again.

And we appreciate all of you hanging out with us as well.

This has been a lot of fun.

Now, one of the things that we were going to dive into, Laura, was a little bit of the

new peanuts musical that is happening, that premiered the other day on the 15th and on

Apple Plus.

You can catch it over there.

I thought that there was just a little bit of interesting stuff here that we didn't get

a chance to touch on.

For one, Ben Folds has taken over for Vincent D'Giardi with the classic music of the peanuts.

And I love Ben Folds getting into that because wasn't he, didn't he run the Kennedy Center

and then left?

Oh, he's a good, nice work.

That's right where I was going to go.

He actually left that to do this.

Fantastic.

Just to show you how much it meant to him and everything, because that's quite the

honor to be in charge of the Kennedy Center and all those things and stuff.

He also did it in a bit of a protest as well.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It was out of protest.

But I think that he even says in the article and you can find it at npr.org that this

was already in the works and he might have left it anyway because he really wanted to

do this.

I know how much this job meant to him as far as being able to be basically the music of

the peanuts.

Sure.

And it's interesting to me too, because I wanted to look up his age and we're not too

far apart in age.

He's somewhere around between you and I's age and everything.

The way that this stuff is handed down, you know, whether it's Linus and Lucy, that famous

peanuts theme song that's in all of our heads, or it's just the cartoon itself and

these characters.

What were you and I doing the other day?

Yeah.

Just this weekend.

And we're comparing all the casting peanuts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, just completely organic.

Like, it just can't be helped.

Like, for the curious immersed you, I'm Woodstock and he's Snoopy.

I think that it's really cool that these characters that they have stuck on for so long

and that younger people, like a guy like Ben Folds who has a great music career and could

easily just be out there touring and everything, is they're doing something like that?

Yeah.

It's pretty impressive.

It's pretty unique to me.

I encourage you to check out that artwork.

Really cool.

And WPR dot org.

I'm so good for him.

A lot of original music that he wrote for this too.

Yeah.

I love that.

And Ben Folds is good.

He's a top quality musician genuinely.

You can catch the peanuts, new musical on Apple Plus and catch it over there.

Real quick, I did want to get to this story as well because I know this is one of your

people.

So Kathy Bates.

I love her.

It came out about two years ago, maybe, maybe a little longer ago, that she was going

to take one more role and kind of retire and that role ended up being matlock.

Yeah.

Well, it has since come out, and I don't know if you've heard this or not, but it's sort

of breaking, breaking issue news that she is not retiring, that this is not her last

dance.

And then actually she never said that.

It was, she was misinterpreted in the article.

What the problem was, and I encourage you to go to LA Times.com, you can find the complete

article and interview with her where she talks about this, how she was kind of misquoted

and misunderstood.

Her issue was, and she says she has gotten to work with some amazing people and it's really

loved it.

But a lot of her career, she's been a bit typed and hasn't gotten a lot of bigger roles.

And she wasn't being challenged.

So for her, it was kind of like, well, I don't need to do this.

I love to do this, but I don't need to.

So maybe I'm just going to do theater and local theater and stuff like that because she

wanted to be challenged as an actor, she wanted to be pushed as an actor.

And when you are jumping into the game, you get your break late in life, you've got less

time to work with.

So I want to work, work, work, push me, push me, push me.

Nobody was doing that.

So it was more so of that that she was just kind of frustrated with the business and

her career.

But then Matlock happens and you know, they hear she is where she's going to be going

into a second season doing that.

It is a hit.

People love the show.

And you know, she's wanting to remind everybody, hey, I'm still working.

But yeah, I'm still, I'm open for business over here.

I love her.

It's kind of cool to hear.

Yeah, it's so cool.

Good for her.

It's also the article also really breaks into her.

Like she loves TV because she just got, she loves the pit.

She's a big fan of the show, the pit really hyped that up and everything.

And she has no ties to it, not a producer on or anything like that.

Just hype it up because she likes it.

I think that's really cool.

It's it's cool to see actors like this still having work, but also still pushing

themselves.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

No, I can't disagree with you.

I just, I love Kathy Bates.

If there was ever a movie about me, I want her cast as my mom.

That's all right.

I love her.

I love her.

Good one actually.

I'd be fitting.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

I encourage you to check out that article.

And one other bit of information or entertainment news I wanted to get to, Tim Allen is bringing

some of his old home improvement co-stars to his new series, Shifting Gears.

Okay.

He has this new show that's been doing pretty well with Cat Dennings.

That's good.

I love Cat Dennings.

Those two have been doing a good job on that show working with the writers to kind of

have two sides of America right now and kind of trying to present both of that.

I really, I really like that both of them are going to the table and hearing each other

out and hearing the other side out and not being judgemental and looking at this as

comedy as the great equalizer.

Sure.

We have forgotten this, but the whole reason that Kings and Queens had court gestures is

because the gestures job, well, how do I, I'm a king.

I got all this gold.

I got all this.

How am I going to relate to the common man?

How am I going to get them the care about me?

The gesture will make fun of me and show that I am just as equal.

Look, I'm a man of the people that I am okay to be made fun of and of course that turned

into a lot of gestures going the, you know, the other way.

They pushed the envelope.

Those gestures made me a little bit too much.

Maybe they didn't know where the bar was, but regardless, here we are in this day and

age.

And we have, for a long time, we would have the White House correspondence meetings, dinner,

dinners.

And those were basically a roast.

Yeah, they were basically a roast of the president, publicly.

You were taking the most famous, funny people in the world and putting them there and having

them rip on the most powerful person in the country.

Yeah.

And again, the great equalizer of comedy, and we've lost that.

And that says more about the people that can't laugh at themselves, that can't take

a joke.

Like, I can't respect somebody like that.

That really speaks to the character of a person, I'm sorry, it just does.

No, it does.

It does.

And you look soft, you look like a punk to me that can't take a joke.

And I don't mean not the good kind of punk.

I'm not talking about like just anybody in particular, I'm talking about anybody.

I don't care what your title is or who you are.

If you can't take a joke, you aren't getting the punch line.

We are all funny.

We're all a little weird.

Yeah.

If you can't laugh at yourself that I don't get it.

Yeah, you're missing out.

I like that that shifting gears is trying to do something in this day and age.

And I think that's pretty cool.

Well, along with that, all you home improvement fans out there are going to get a little mini

reunion.

Yeah.

Patricia Richardson, Richard Kern and Debbie Dunning will guest our on an October 1st

episode.

Although there's no word on the details of what the show, why they're going to be on

there and everything.

Richardson plays Tim's wife on home improvement.

One of the better TV moms of all time.

Top tier.

Patricia Richardson's top 20 TV moms of all time.

She was great.

And Kern played his friend and partner on the fictional TV show Tool Time.

Dunning played Heidi, the show's Tool Time girl for some for seasons.

Okay.

Home improvement ran from 91 to 99.

I didn't know it ran that long.

I did.

I didn't watch it.

The whole time.

Wow.

I completely forgot.

I saw it.

I was a kid.

Those were my formative.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wilson.

Wilson, right?

The guy behind that fence.

Great bit.

That's a, that's an all time TV bit right there.

Yeah.

It's a great TV bit.

That's a good one.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at W.F.H.R.

Run us, please.

Oh, yeah, it's some of time still for a little bit longer.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Everybody.

Lauren James hanging out with you in the morning.

So I hope you guys are having a great day out there.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Yes, hello.

Uh, in a little bit, uh, we got to get to a couple of that a right stories.

Laura, that I thought would be a lot of fun.

Sure.

Uh, we'll have those coming up for you.

You got to hear them to listen, to know them, to believe them, everybody.

All right.

Okay.

Uh, that there, those will be coming up for you in a little bit.

We'll talk more about our schedule today.

Got a little bit of a different schedule.

What do we do?

We're excited about.

Oh, yes.

We'll be diving into all of those things, uh, looking forward to it.

And, and you know what?

I want to get to one of these many right stories right away.

Okay, sure.

Let's do it.

Do it.

Both feet.

Imagine you're accused of a crime you didn't commit.

You're in court waiting for the judge to read the verdict and this happens.

A 26 year old man, Alton Oliver, was on trial in Georgia last week, facing heavy charges.

He was accused, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, very, very heavy charges.

The trial lasted three days and wrapped up on Friday after the jury quickly came back

with a verdict.

They handed it to the judge to read and everyone was on the edge of their seat.

If you haven't seen the court footage yet, it's all over social media right now because

the judge flubbed the verdict.

No.

He said guilty, but meant to say not guilty on our counts.

Oh, my.

Oh, someone off camera, apparently a juror corrected him and he finally said not guilty

about 20 seconds later.

Yikes.

The casual apology he gave, er, some people.

He chuckled and said, I apologize for my pronunciation.

Um, now.

I, I, I could see both sides of this.

Yes.

I have been, uh, in, in, you know, in these shoes before of sitting there waiting for a verdict

and freaking out and all that.

I'll be honest with everybody.

I've been in that place.

Right.

And even with that, I also understand human beings and I can understand a judge making

a mistake.

Oh, no.

And I understand, but in the moment, in the, but at the same time, we can also empathize

with this person.

Nice.

We can do both.

We can be like, hey, judge is human.

It happens.

He corrected it.

Uh, maybe he could have done it a little faster because that's the longest 20 seconds

of that human being's life, um, because I mean, I cannot stress how serious these charges

were.

Um, but I think we can also, and I think we need to do this more in life.

We can laugh at this.

Yeah.

I mean, this, everybody's all right.

Everybody's okay.

Justice was served.

Everything's working.

Wow.

Wow.

Like, that feels like a sec and like a centred live bit.

That feels like, like, like, the emotional roller coaster.

Oh, my God.

And that, like, a member of that man's family.

I could.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Oh, my gosh.

And like, uh, I almost like, I know this isn't a thing.

I'm a grown man.

And I know what I'm about to say, but I almost feel like this earns you a literal get out

of jail free card.

Like, cause, cause of the mess up and you get, okay, say you're speeding and you get pulled

over.

You got this car.

It's got to be a minor.

Let's not give them a big freebie.

Yeah.

It's got to be a minor violin.

You ain't break it in the Fort Knox already.

Like, yeah.

It's a minor violation.

Like, you get pulled over, speeding, you know, doing 10 over or something like that and

you hand the officer this, this card and then you have to explain all you're the guy

that the judge messed up.

Okay.

Yeah.

You go.

All right.

My condolences.

This is your one.

This is your one.

But you go.

Like, I don't know.

Oh, my gosh.

It feels like there should be something added on with that.

God, I can't even imagine.

There should be a rule in the bill of rights that if the judge messes up your, your, you

know, you're, you're, you're verdict.

I don't know.

You get like a week off of everything.

I don't know.

Like, it's a week off.

It's just kid a week vacation.

No.

Whatever that is or whatever you're doing in life, you get a break from it.

If you're a parent, if you're a factory worker, whatever it is, I don't know.

There should be something added on that.

Definitely.

Oh, my gosh.

I also wonder how often this happens when cameras aren't rolling.

That how many times this has had to have happened a hundred times at least in the digital

system.

It's the first time it's ever happened ever.

No.

I'm just so glad it never happened to be.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's circle background.

How about free therapy instead of a get out.

Yeah.

Free course.

You're going to need it.

You're going to need it.

I as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wish all parties well.

Of course.

Sure.

And everything.

Yeah.

That's just a weird story.

Yes.

Um, we're going to be, uh, luckily, uh, being joined by a lot of our civic media families.

We mentioned before.

Yes, we will.

Um, uh, people, some voices of the past joining us with, uh, milk showing up and every

day.

But we also know that there's a lot of people that would love to have been with us today

that aren't able to, um, whether it's today or will we celebrate our actual anniversary

in November?

In November.

Yeah.

And as a little, uh, preview or a little side note, everybody side T's, we will be celebrating

in November.

We will be doing a big.

We're going to have those cookbooks ready to go by then.

Right.

Uh, but this is kind of our chance to have a party in the summer.

You know, we don't want to have this in November.

We don't want to have this in November.

We don't want to have this in November.

All right, guys.

Maybe some of these voices we will be able to bring on, but I do want to encourage anybody

out there listening that is a voice of the past to call in.

If you'd like.

Yes, please.

And, uh, send a special shout out to, uh, Bob look who reached out and said hi and, uh,

wanted to make sure that we were able to repeat that over the airwaves here.

Yes.

Um, uh, I appreciate Bob.

I've mentioned this many times, uh, Jim Ross, Panama Jack, Bob look, the two people that

gave me my break in radio.

I will be eternally thankful to them and, uh, paying them back in way, whatever ways

I can.

I have not figured out how to pay them back yet.

You're working on it.

I'm working on it.

It's working progress.

Yeah.

Uh, but a big shout out to Bob wishing him well, uh, hoping he is doing well out there.

Uh, we miss you, bud.

We miss you.

Um, and we'll go to great day, Bob.

Yeah.

Enjoy the day, man.

We'll get to break here.

We'll get to Melissa's news, um, um, Mike sports and, uh, Pete's entertainment.

Take care of our partners.

And when we come back, uh, I want to get into something with you, Laura, that's going

on over in Britain.

Right.

That I think could have a chance to get trending here in the States.

Sure.

That's the pond across the pond when we come back.

All right.

I love that phrase across the pond.

It's a good one.

We'll come back with that on the morning show at WFHR.

Mm-hmm.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings here at WFHR.

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

Laura and James hanging out with you over here, uh, getting ready for a parking lot party.

Yes, we know.

Noon to six right here at the studios.

Uh, come on by.

If you have trouble finding the place, uh, just, uh, listen, and you'll hear nothing but

shouting and happiness.

Follow the sound of my voice or, or you can call up and, and we'll help you find the

place.

Or just put 1690 second avenue south in your Google maps or whatever.

There you go.

You ever been to the DMV?

You'll find us, uh, all right across the street.

Yeah.

Shout out to our, of course, our artillery and our, our good, uh, good people over there working

hard for us and all of that.

Um, so I, uh, came across a story this morning and I, I thought it was, uh, interesting,

but then I thought, well, I've got Laura sitting in with me today and what a perfect tie

into this because this is something that I know that you talked about with, uh, us behind

the scenes here a bit and everything and we'll get to that in a second.

All right.

Hit me with it.

Scroll free September is a campaign initiated in the UK in 2018 by the Royal Society of

Public Health.

Okay.

Um, it encourages social media users to take a break from all personal social media accounts

for the month of September.

The campaign helps, uh, aims to help individuals reflect on their social media use and the

impact on their well-being and it suggests different ways of approaching this.

One of the main things they talk about though is not going cold turkey and just trying

to completely shut down, but ease yourself off of this, um, and ways of doing that.

Like one of the examples they give is you can still talk to your family or friends, you

know, or something like that, but maybe you don't go on and looking at all these other

things.

Scroll on the timeline, but check your messages.

I think two parts of this I wanted to touch on one that there is a Royal Society for Public

Health.

I think that's pretty cool and unique and very advanced for a country that hasn't always

gotten that.

No.

Um, so a tip of the bowl are had to, uh, uh, over the pond there to England for that.

I think that's not where they're.

But also the idea of this one that has been around since 2018 and this is literally the

first I've heard of this, um, it shows where we're at as a society, um, I, I think

that there are more and more people on a day to day basis realizing how much time they're

wasting on social media and it's not as beneficial as we wanted it to be.

You're not connecting with people the way that you thought you're isolating yourself.

And it's, people are really starting to feel it.

This is something that you, uh, yourself, uh, you know, what about at least a year ago,

uh, kind of took on and did I, I left, I left Facebook two years ago and I basically

left all of my social media around that time and I just haven't gone back.

I tried to about a week ago for work just to have an account for work, but Facebook denied

my request.

Um, I swear I didn't do anything wrong.

That is just weird.

Yeah.

Um, but I, I'm still not really on social.

I have a blue sky for work and that's all I've got and I really just read the news on

there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And look, um, you know, I, I think that if you are on there scrolling all the time or

you're not on there at all, I'm not judging any of the parts either way.

No, it's not a matter of judgment because the thing of it is it's so individual.

It's, it's about the individual user and their needs and wants, um, it, it, it's all

individual.

So there's no level of judgment here at all.

There's no pointing the finger.

And, um, I, I think that, you know, one of the, so first off, too much of anything can

be bad.

Yeah.

Uh, and I, I mean that to both sides of this isolation, yeah, you know, as somebody who

can get, I can be dangerous with that when they're keeping them myself and some of those

things and everything.

And as much as being on there too much and too much of your life being demanded by likes

or anything, I think they can go too far with either one of these.

I think trying to find that happy medium is a big part of where we're going as a society.

Well, and, and part of the, part of the act of finding that medium that balance might

start with turning it off for a little while, um, turn it off for a little while.

See how you're feeling?

And then ease back into it rather than the other way around, um, because maybe what

you need is that severe break for a little bit to really wrap your brain around where

your life is not where your timeline is well said.

And, and you touch on something I think that's important there too and, um, the idea of

kind of knowing your gauge of this and, and, and doing this the way that it works for

you.

And, and the other part that I think is really noteworthy about this that you were talking

about was also do it and then see, see how, hey, is it, does it change anything for you

if not?

Okay.

Take part in a trend, do a little thing and then see how you're feeling at the end of

September.

I like things like this that tend to, I don't, I don't see it downside.

I don't, I mean, are you, you're going to maybe miss some posts, right?

You know, guess what?

It'll still be there.

You can catch up later.

And in similar fashion, I've seen people, um, like before Easter, do their fasting and

their fasting is a social media fast.

I've seen that too.

Um, there's a lot of different ways to handle, you know, giving yourself a social media

break.

But the evidence suggests it's good for your brain to do so no matter what your reasonings

are.

And just immediately, um, when I think of fasting, I immediately think of my Nana who

did that every year for Lent and everything and, uh, I love the idea of her giving

up social media.

And then Nana would never have a social media cop.

She never would have opened one up.

No, no, no.

But I love the idea of it.

That's a great, that's a good one.

Um, and again, you can, uh, find out more about this.

There, you can throw it in your Googler.

Uh, there, I didn't really pull from one set article for this one or anything.

No, this news article can be everywhere.

Yeah.

And look more into it.

And I want to find a link for the show notes.

Thank you.

Uh, the one thing I will say about this that I would like to encourage is seeing this

in the States and seeing us do this.

We, we have, uh, you know, a number of things.

We don't, uh, me and many other men out there have been shaved in November from years, uh,

because of, you know, no shave November and trying to, uh, raise awareness to men's,

uh, specifically prostate cancer, but cancer in general and then, uh, we have other

campaigns in other months like this.

Yeah.

I don't know.

We got enough silly days.

Like, I mean, you know, why not?

Why not?

Let it bring this in.

And again, what's the downside?

What is the negative?

That's the thing.

Like, so you're not going to be able to keep up on your timeline.

You can still call your friends.

They can still message you.

You can still text.

Well, and if enough of us were doing this, you probably wouldn't miss anything because

your friends are doing it too, you know, so I don't, I don't, again, I don't see a downside

to this one.

I think it's a fun idea.

Um, and we'll see how, we'll see what happens.

I'm going to be following along to this and see what, if this goes anywhere, um, speaking

of going places, uh, you know me by now enough audience.

I'm going to have some serious and I'm going to end with some funny.

I don't know if they, the people involved or the things involved found this funny, I

should say.

It takes a lot to surprise the police officers.

Uh, they're used to seeing strange things, difficult things all the time.

It's a big part of their job.

Mm-hmm.

But one motorist managed to raise the eyebrows of law, uh, the law higher than usual when

he was pulled over for a minor law and for a little infringement.

Okay.

For standing in the boot area of the, uh, a little parogue, uh, and watching proceedings

with a keen interest and a fully grown sheep.

This man went through a drive-through with a sheep.

He went through a drive-through with a sheep just in the passenger seat or yeah, yeah.

And when questioned about just why he was carrying such an unusual passenger, the driver

simply said he had taken it to McDonald's for a takeaway, for a, uh, get away.

Just wanted to take the sheep out for a drive, just for a sightseeing.

Just wanted to take it out for a ride.

Why not?

I don't see why it, listen, your, your pet could be anything.

And if they want to go for a joy ride, you bring that sheep with you.

I, uh, and, and the list of, of reasons for this, that's a perfect reason.

It's the best one.

It's the perfect reason.

But if my rabbit wanted to go for a joy ride to McDonald's, I would do it.

Quote.

Some people take their dogs and their cars.

I take my sheep.

There you go.

Why not?

There you go.

Why not?

The woolly equal opportunity pet owner if I might say so.

The woolly encounter took place in North Yorkshire on Wednesday night with the, uh, a parogue,

uh, it was, uh, when parogue was stopped after he visited to the, uh, leaning bar services.

So he was, uh, popped a rise.

He was going to go to the bar with the sheep.

Who's going to the bar with the sheep?

Honestly, that sounds like a great time.

Listen, anyone, if you're going to a bar with a sheep, you let me know I would like to

come.

I want to, I want to show up to the bar.

I would like to see your sheep at the bar.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I, that feels like something that easily could happen in Wisconsin too.

Right.

Right.

That's why I just, I let the, the invitation invite itself.

Yeah.

You, you, you use the civic media app text us, let us know where your sheep is tonight because

I want to come there.

It seems like a lot of fun.

Um, from noon to two today, we will be taking over the airwaves.

We don't get the chance to hang out with you in the afternoon that often.

Uh, we'll be live and direct from noon to encourage you to join us for that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

One of the things that I want to dive into in during that time is WFHR's history.

I want to go into a little bit of that.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And to that, along with having some voices, join us from the past and certainly have some

fun there.

We're looking forward to it.

Also want to remind everybody there will be no playmakers today.

Right.

Uh, we will be busy with the open house and everything, but playmakers will be back on Friday.

Yes.

And, uh, in place of playmakers, we're doing a little rerun of my other show, Red Folk

and Blue.

We air it normally at 7 p.m. on Saturdays.

And the most recent episode is what we'll be playing in the playmaker's spot two day.

So right where I was going with that.

I sure did.

Yeah.

Pull a curveball idea.

I tried to try to put a little curve on that, but you saw it.

You knocked it out.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the morning show for this Wednesday on 103, no, no, no, no,

no.

1320 a.m.

97 5 FM WFHR.

Nicely done.

And degrees.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning's at WFHR.

Summer time, and the living is me.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thank you to Mr. Cook playing us in.

Laura and James here to wrap up this show for today, but we'll be back at noon.

We're going to be having some fun broadcasting live and direct from here from noon.

I'll be here.

And who knows?

I'm going to just have a grab it.

Whoever I can to jump by on the air with me, we're going to have some fun with that.

Yep.

Of course, we will also have a lot of live great stuff going on.

We're going to have a 105 5 WIRI or sister station.

We've got Katie Cruz in town, she's going to broadcast live from the parking lot.

Yeah, she's going to do her show live from the parking lot.

It's going to be so cool.

That's going to be so cool.

We will, of course, also have your show, as you mentioned, Red Folk and Blue is going

to be playing.

Yep.

It's going to play four to five.

And Seth is going to be live and direct from five to six.

Yes, you will.

That's awesome.

So you can be sure to catch that.

Jump between our stations, between 97 5 and 105 5, you can just have some fun and

you can do that really easy.

Give us right from home.

And the easiest way to do that is to civic media app.

That's true.

You can just switch from station to station with a little click and throughout the whole

thing, you can text us and let us know what you're thinking, what you're feeling and tell

us happy anniversary.

And all seriousness, as somebody who has to monitor both these stations, I'm very thankful

for how easy that is to do.

Yep.

It is very easy.

It's very awesome.

We're also going to be, as we are having our parking lot party here today and everything,

we will get into more of the details of that in a moment.

But one of the things that we do around here is cover local.

We have a number of local events.

We want to the touch on and get to Laura and one big one that we have to talk about.

We talk about every Wednesday.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

That's right.

They are having bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids.

Elk Slodge.

They have it every Wednesday at 6.30 p.m.

Door's open at 5.

Bingo starts at 6.30.

Food will be available at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slodge.

By local support, local support those that support this community like our friends at

the Elk Slodge.

Everybody.

Get over there.

Bingo kicks off at 6.

Enjoy and support local and have some fun.

Say hi to our friends over at the Elk Slodge.

Absolutely.

Have another event coming up, Laura, that I wanted to make sure we touched on also.

Yeah.

I got an email from Kathy McGrath, the monarch lady yesterday, and she wanted to let

everybody know that she's having an open house on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

All of them, well, 10 to 5 on Friday and Saturday, 1 to 5 on Sunday.

So you can come.

You can hang out.

You can have breakfast or brunch with them on Friday night at Elk a day.

And then you can check out their monarch project, see caterpillars of all sizes, chrysalises,

more butterflies to release, all that good stuff.

Our Wisconsin Rapids.

Oh, shut up to Kathy.

I appreciate her reaching out.

I love Kathy.

She's great.

I can't wait until she comes back.

Yeah.

Appreciate her reaching out.

Always good to have her on the air with us and talk about her and things she's got going

on.

Along with that, Kathy is over at our zoo from time to time.

She is from time to time.

And we encourage you to head on over to the zoo.

The Wisconsin Rapids and Municipal Zoo is open through Labor Day at 1911 Gainer Avenue,

just a stone's throw away from where we are.

Yeah, don't they have an event happening today, James?

Sure do.

We encourage you to head on over there at 11 and at 3 for David Stokes.

David threw songs, stories, movements, and riddles, has live animals and artifacts, fun

time for the kids and the adults, you know, sneaky little things.

Yeah.

No, that sounds like great time too.

I think Seth nailed this earlier in the week when he said, hey, go check out David at

11 or 3 and then come on over here.

Right.

Or come here and then go there, whichever you want.

That's actually what my mom was talking about doing.

That's interesting.

We encourage you to do that, everybody, and have some fun.

A bi-local support, local support, our Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo.

Enjoy David and thank him for coming to town.

Absolutely.

And then yeah, yeah, you come on over here or vice versa.

However you want to do it.

Yeah, we'll be here either way.

We'd love to see you and thank you in person for listening.

We want to remind everybody as well that one of the things we love around here is live

music and supporting that and live music at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center every

first and third Thursday of the month with Pete Revell and four on the floor.

Two to four from at 2651 East Street South right here in Rapids.

Check out some of the greatest jazz and one of the better MCs in Wisconsin.

Absolutely.

Check out Pete and enjoy and support local.

It's always a good time.

It's a lot of fun.

Be sure to pay a part of that and check that out everybody.

Absolutely.

Of course, got our parking lot party going on today.

We do from noon to six.

Yep.

We're about an hour away from opening the doors to everybody and we're looking forward

to that.

We encourage you to head on down.

Bring your appetite.

Yes.

And bring your bring especially bring your appetite for the sweet contest that we have

sweet off.

We are having a sweet off.

Now, Melissa did a great job of kind of teasing a little bit of some of the things that

we're going to be there today.

I wanted to tell everybody one that I was going to make.

And I'm going to say this because it will make me actually make it.

Okay.

Sure.

Okay.

I have never broken a promise to our audience in twenty one years.

So I got to do it.

This will make me do it.

Sure.

I'm going to hold you to this, Mr. Randall.

I want to make the Zapoli's, the Italian donuts.

Oh, sure.

We used to call them Zepis when I was a kid.

And they're fantastic.

They're not that hard to make.

They're very unique and it wasn't a fried dough.

It's fried dough.

It's fried dough.

It's really good.

It's the dessert fried dough that is coated, tossed in sugar and served up.

That's about it.

I mean, it's not a jig gigantic.

I have accidentally made those before in the past.

So simple.

Even I can bake it.

It's true.

But that's what I wanted to make.

We will.

I'll have to make those for the staff sometime in the future, but we've got some really cool

combinations in there.

We want you to come on down and one of the things we want you to do is be a part of

this sweet off that we're having with our team around here.

Please start sweets.

And while you're coming down, also bring your recipes, everybody.

Yes.

Please.

We have recipe forms at the swag table here in the main office entryway.

And of course, you can email those to us if you'd like at infoatwfhr.com.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do so, everybody.

Get them to us.

We're going to have a link for you to be able to use as well, but once we get that

up and running, yeah.

Yeah.

We'll let you know when that happens.

But for now, if you want to bring it on down here, Pam can make a photo copy of it or

something.

If you want to email it, of course, even direct message it on our Facebook pages.

Because the bottom line is, we want to put that bad boy into our cookbook.

We want you to be a part of this.

We encourage you to bring the kids on down because of Melissa's going to be doing a great

job of like giving them a chance to learn more about all the vast jobs that we do around

here.

Yeah, she's got little scripts to work with or they can write their own, the kiddos.

They could be a DJ or a sports person or a newscaster.

It's really cool.

We also encourage, you know, it doesn't have to be the kids.

If any of you adults have questions or wonder about some of the things we do around

here, here is the perfect opportunity to talk to our staff and talk to us about that stuff.

Sure.

Ask us how production works.

Ask us how the mics work.

Why not?

I would love to answer those questions.

I know there are a lot of people out there that are just as curious as I am of, you know,

how things are done, how the sauce is just made sometimes.

This is a cool opportunity to be able to do that.

Genuinely, we are people who love our jobs and we cannot wait to tell people about them.

Give us an excuse.

Please give us an excuse.

We want to talk about our jobs.

Help us not only celebrate 85 years of WFHR and many years of WIRI and this great

listenership that we have and all you great people out there, but also celebrating radio

as today is a natural radio day.

We sure do.

National radio day.

Thank you for listening.

I don't know how many of these you've got to celebrate being in radio, Laura.

This is my second.

This is your second, okay.

But I have to say that I think of people like yourself and some other people that I've

known over the years that went to school for this, that trained for this, that wanted

to be a part of this world and to be able to be a part of it and it's got to be cool.

It is.

It's really cool.

Every national radio day, I get a little faclumped.

Right on.

Right on.

That's cool.

You have some world good stories I wanted to touch on as we're wrapping up.

A woman in El Paso, Texas named Teresa Trolloli is a quadriplegic born alongside her three

brothers.

And their family just got even bigger after she recently gave birth to Quinn Tupplets.

Oh, that's too many.

She says multiples are normal in their family.

She didn't have any fertility treatments or anything like that.

And so she had five just for fun.

There's good genes.

Oh, natural.

Oh, my God.

And they could not be happier about this.

Good for them.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

God, five infants at once sounds like an absolute nightmare.

I don't think I.

Good for them.

I am glad they're happy.

I just got a gray hair just empathizing with it.

I can't imagine.

Yeah.

More power to them.

Yeah.

As someone with four kids who were infants at vastly different times, good for them.

Four National Guardsmen, a guy's life in Poland last week.

They're stationed at a base there and stopped for lunch at a KFC on their way to a training

center.

A guy collapsed and they did CPR for 60, 30 minutes until he was stable.

Oh, that's awesome.

Also a Polish KFC, yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah.John, you know the menu is different all around.

That's what I was going to say.

I wonder what would make a KFC and pull in a little bit different anyway.

Famously like McDonald's, you know, you get different.

It's not ketchup.

It's a popular side thing over there.

Sure.

Do you think they have borscht?

I wonder.

You got to think it's a little bit different.

It's got a different thing.

It's a cool one.

Oh, I wonder.

That's interesting.

Anyway, we got to check that out.

We got to learn more about this.

Please.

We did a story on a school near Pittsburgh where 70% of the students are low income.

But the music program is thriving.