Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Really would like a second take with that one. We welcome you to the show. Thanks for being here
out of Thursday. Got your host, James behind the mic. Our head of production, Seth Hefacker.
Good morning. You can make it sound good though. You're good. You'll sound better in
Poland. Sure. Sure. Yeah. We kick off every show of the way we like to with our friend
Brittany. We're low talking a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett.
Good morning. You guys are good news because the second you started talking, the sun came out
in Warsaw. Oh, wow. You know, we had that kind of power. Just like we timed it. You know,
trying to rock that that's why I kind of mucked up the beginning and sounded so rough. I wanted
to time it so well. Sure. Sure. You're going to stretch. You're going to stretch.
Friends of mother nature now. That would be a great. That would be a really good
best friend to have. That would be a good one. What are we looking at for today, Brittany?
Well, those clouds are going to kick on out of here. Give it like an hour at max. It'll be mostly
sunny this afternoon. Highs in the low to mid 70s and winds barely moving out of the northeast.
So a really calm, comfortable day again today. But tonight it gets cold with those clear skies
and winds barely moving. We do drop down to the mid 40s. Thankfully, we're staying away from
a frost advisory up north. If you're headed to the north woods or you're leaving for this long weekend
early and you're going north, oh, it is going to drop down to the low to mid 30s up until like
violence, iron, Ashland County area. That's tonight. Bring your long underwear. Yeah.
I know. I know. Now we are going to stay cooler. Obviously, we have a teeny, teeny, tiny chance
for a little bit of rain tomorrow afternoon. But after that, nothing. High pressure system holds
steady Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We're going to be in the mid to upper 70s. So it's looking warmer
than it was earlier this week. And it's even going to get a little muggy and summary again on
Monday for Labor Day. So you're wanting to do the water fun last little bit of summer. You're still
going to have just much sunshine and comfortable temperatures to do it. So honestly, a good weekend.
I'm so excited for it. Yeah. It sounds really nice. It's a special
leading into a three-day weekend for a lot of us. Very exciting. Very good news. We appreciate
that, Bernie. Thank you so much. We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow. You have a good one.
You too, thanks. Best in the business. Bernie, we're low joining. It's every morning,
right in this time slot. We appreciate her. So I'm going to hang it out with her. We got good
things to hang out with you about. We're going to get into the LKFA birthday and anniversary club
in a little bit. We have an article, what's the most useless job that people are paid for?
And we got some interesting ones in there as you could imagine. This is a comedy show. We will
be leading into that. We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour of the way we like to on a Thursday
with our pet of the week from the South O'Connie main society. Very nice. Big thank you to Denise
joining us. We're looking forward to that. And joining us on our special one for our National
Day of Counter. We'll get into that. That ties into our pet of the week a little bit later.
We got entertainment news. We're Liam and Pamela lying to us, Seth. What? I know. What?
It's, we'll get into that. That's coupled up a little bit later. Also got a couple of other
interesting ones. I want to talk about a little bit what's new on your small screen tonight,
what's new on your TV screen. There's an interesting show that is premiering. I want to mention.
And of course, I wanted to talk a little bit about our newsletter more on that later. All of those
things along with dog themed songs that made the top 40 on billboards hot 100s. Oh yeah.
We're getting into that. That's right into our wheelhouse right now. We'll play a little bit of those
of those songs for you and everything. I've got them keyed up. We'll get into that. And I thought
it was fitting out today on our pet of the week. Yeah, totally. Yeah, got to leave the theme.
Yeah, I am a theme guy. If everybody hasn't been able to tell the last nine years or so,
going on nine years, I believe, next month. Yeah. So all of that said Guinness World Records.
These are one of the things we like to cover around here. Well, Guinness World Records is
celebrating its 70th anniversary by challenging fans to attempt 70 unclaimed titles,
including the fastest 400 meter sack race. Oh wow. What? Really? That one hasn't been done? No.
Wow. And tell me that as soon as I said that, other people were thinking the same thing.
Whoa, I can do a sack race. Yeah, right. Yeah. Not now. Certainly. I'm thinking because I've
been talking about this for a while. I want us to try to break a world record here. It's a morning
show and everything. As a stations, you know, I want us to try to do this. But I will be honest,
I've been trying. I've been struggling with what ones we could do. Right. Right. We could go over
to like Winterfield or something like that and do this. I mean, to have some fun, man. We could
have some fun with this. We could we could get a lot of people involved in this. It'd be good. Yeah.
I think it'd be a treat to do something like that. Keep a keep a near out for that one.
I wonder what the most people, if there's a record for the most people in a sack race is maybe
that's something we could we could shoot for largest sack race ever. Yes. That's one of the
we hold genre of sack race records that we can go for here. Yeah. I'm telling you.
The world record for the largest sack race competition was set in was it set in the Netherlands
on October 11th in 2002 with 2000 and 95 competitors. 2000 95. I think we could. Do you think
it's not bad? It's not bad. I think we could top that. We would need a large area like Winterfield,
you know, in order to do it kind of thing. But I don't know, man. I think it's worth it. I think it's
right. We're going to put that one in. There's no bad ideas. We have we have a network of radio stations
throughout the entire state of Wisconsin. Yeah. We could get the word out, man. We could get the
word out. So I'm kind of teasing this one because next week Wednesday when we get back together,
we will go over a little bit of these records and get into some of these. But there's some fun ones
there. And I think it's going to be an interesting conversation now that you brought up those. That's
that. I didn't think of that. Man, now my brain is spinning. I'm trying to show here.
Gears are grinding. Yeah. I can't stop thinking about like record. Now these sack race kind of
things and stuff. We do a show together. We do a couple of shows together. What do I say?
The support guy has to put up with me more than any. No, no person asked to hear my voice more
than Seth. Maybe maybe maybe some of our other producers around here. At some point, you just
it's just, you know, background and kind of like white noise after a certain point. But one of
the shows we do sports playmakers and everything. I just got down to Michael joined me yesterday.
We had a lot of fun with that. Talking a lot of high school sports, especially. Got some high
school sports coming up for you. Yes. As we're wrapping up baseball season. And we were talking
about collecting and card collecting yesterday. I came across this story sports card company
tops. Maybe the oldest famous, most famous card company. They're a card. For sure. Definitely.
Definitely. They're releasing a collectible card featuring an unlikely baseball star.
A squirrel that ran into the field during a New York Metz and Boston Red Sock game.
The squirrel briefly stopped by a play during Friday's game when it ran out onto the field at
Yankee Stadium during the top of the fourth inning. Okay. And approach Yankee pitcher Max Fried.
I quote that's the first time it's happened to me. Fried said my first reaction was don't do
anything that might embarrass you. That's genuine. That is so yeah. Exactly. That's the middle of
Yankee Stadium with thousands of people watching. Yeah. Yeah. Play resumed when the squirrel made
its way to the foul zone. And the animal was last seen darting through the chain link fence.
The animal failed to reach rally squirrel status as the Yankees went on to lose.
But tops revealed a new tops now card on Saturday featuring photos of the squirrel.
Oh my gosh. That is that is amazing. Is the card is listed as $8.99 right now.
Yeah. Right. Right. So this is this is a program. I don't know if a lot of people know this.
The tops does. Yeah. They have a like an almost an instant card thing that they do now.
Where they if some interesting happens or someone breaks a record or has a personal thing.
You can go to their website and you get a limited edition card of that thing. Now they only do it
for a certain amount of time and they only have a limited number of cards that they do for this.
So it's it's kind of interesting. If you want like a very special specific card they can do that for
you which is kind of cool. I think it's cool. I think it's really smart. Yeah. Absolutely.
It's really smart way of doing it. And how do you stay into this day and age? Right.
I do think it's really cool just in general that card collecting is a thing. And I yeah.
I don't do it anymore. And when I was a kid I collected all the sports and everything.
Right. But even the you know the what the Pokemon stuff and everything I don't care.
Yeah. I mean it's cool that kids are still doing that. Yeah. Absolutely. It is fun.
And it's certainly great for the business. Yeah. It is 100%. Yeah.
A postcard lost in the mail for 72 years or arrived at an Illinois post office
where officials were able to track down and contact the now 88 year old center.
They found oh my gosh. Return to center. Yeah.
The postcard which was sent by Alan Ball to his parents Frederick and Elizabeth Ball in 1953
arrived recently at the Ottawa Post Office where postmaster Mark Thompson took an interest in the
mystery. Oh that's kind of cool. I would think that this would be one of the more interesting
parts of working at a post office. Absolutely. You know you get these letters that get you know
you hear about this from time to time. It was stuck somewhere. Yeah. They found it in a
or behind a wall or something. Yeah. That they're renovating. Yeah.
Thompson said that the card which depicts the UN building in New York was likely
mishandled at the post office inside the United Nations and ended up lost in the crevice
or other seen location for decades. Oh wow. The postmaster enlisted the help of local
genealogists to locate Alan Ball who now lives in Sandpoint Idaho. Oh goodness wow.
Interestingly as a side note Alan Ball is also a fantastic TV creator. He created six feet
on dirt and some other great shows. I think I wasn't even right. If it was that Alan Ball
it'd have been really funny. He'd have turned it into a show. Right.
Ball who was shown a digital image of the card said he recognized his own handwriting
but he doesn't remember mailing the card. Oh wow. He does however remember spending a
short time in New York on his way to summer trip in Puerto Rico in 1953. Oh how about that?
I'm sending a postcard which is what people used to do. I'm in New York now and I send it
back home to the people. That's kind of cool. It's not just that I don't remember what I had
for breakfast. I don't remember the last time I had breakfast. I don't want to sound like
messing with the guys. But that'd be weird to me to not remember sending a postcard.
Whatever age you want. I would have to have my memory jogged to be sure. If something like that
happened to me, it sent a card and it never got there and whatever. It comes back to you. It's like
oh I don't know. Maybe I would remember it then but I can't. I've sent postcards many over
the years. I don't remember them all. The postcard 72 year journey pales in comparison to a similar
incident that occurred last year when a postcard arrived at its intended address in Wales 121 years
after the date of its postcard. A royal male spokesman speculated the postcard had somehow re-entered
the system as opposed to being lost in transit which is another wild thing man. So there's the
thing where you find this your post office worker you find this random piece of male that's been
lost for a hundred some years and instead of like the mystery part you become a three-year-old that
just broke the cookie jar and I go get away from me get away get away and you're running away. We
got it we got to get put it in the mail put it in the mail. I love instances in society and in life
where we see adults revert back to four being a four or five year old. One of the best if not the
best example of this is sports in particularly football or basketball I guess to agree when
another guy fouls and everybody points or are especially when somebody jumps on the offensive
line or defensive line ever point at each other he did it he did not mean it was him it was him I
love it when that happens in sports giant man right and then they're also they turn into like
like little kids six foot five four hundred pounds of giants and everything and immediately like I
did do it he did it it was his fault and love with that stuff happens we're going to get to the
L cafe birthday and anniversary club in a moment but it is a Thursday and not only with our pet
of the week is that a tradition but it has become a tradition about our release of our newsletter
is promoting that well we have a little bit of news for you on that one yes I know pun intended news
for the newsletter yeah so there is going to be an invite only and I stress invite only event
over at the ridges with Derek van Orten and Jim Jordan they are only they're not speaking to
people to not speaking to constituents just invites and that yeah but Melissa is going to be covering
that for us so with that we want to make sure to get that article into the newsletter you don't
want to wait a week for something like that that's just not how news works especially in 2025 no
you got to get it out there as soon as you can right but we also want to do it accurately and do
it right uh so and that is that is what Melissa is going to be doing so the newsletter will premiere
tomorrow at noon yes so just a day later than that but uh it's a very important story and uh we
want to make sure she she gets it into the newsletter for you guys so we are stopping the presses
yes stop literally stopping the president we get the big story in there right um it was always
interesting hearing stories about what when that would actually happen when they would stop the presses
and how like they would be set back oh my yes they were an hour because of that kind of
resetting those things was not easy uh we don't have to worry about that no we don't it's all
easy now we just update you guys let you know and sure and be sure to be looking out for tomorrow at
noon and while you're waiting there are a million different articles waiting for you over there
or a bunch of our podcasts that you can check out at wfhr.com right want to send a big shout out to our
news team specifically Melissa hunting these things down and and going the extra mile on these
on these projects on these stories right um in this day and age where we have less and less
journalism literally every day yeah every other day you are hearing about uh this article or this
journalist retiring this company is no longer in business this newspaper is no longer around right
uh it is never been more necessary right to have this kind of reporting being done right and we
got people working really hard at it I appreciate you man the good one yeah absolutely I think I
read that just like she wrote it I think I put a little bit of my own twist and I want to make
it sound like it was my own I don't know she's a nice work Melissa we'll be back with more show
coming up a morning show at wfhr you heard the boys time to do some celebrating with our good
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over there and encourage you to get us more birthdays and anniversaries really appreciate you guys
doing this I was asked the other day by a listener wins the last time you went like a day or two
without birthdays or anniversaries could not it's been a couple of years yeah it's been a long time
I think since we move to this building we've never had a day we haven't had at least one birthday
yeah we've been really lucky you guys keep getting you getting them to us we really appreciate it
we want you more of them though always info at wfhr.com you can email us that way you can of course
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anytime everybody set I need a one or a two two yes that qualifier first up we want to wish happy
birthday to Lauren Wilson happy birthday Lauren Lauren enjoy your day hope it's a good one yeah
and wishing you a wonderful day and our qualifier today Brian Stainbrook happy birthday Brian and
congratulations qualifier yes yes congrats to you Brian as we get into these last days of August
you got into their cut you made the cut you made the cut congrats to you and keep on listening to
all you qualifiers out there because in just next week Tuesday yeah next Tuesday we'll be announcing
our winner for the L cafe birthday anniversary club right oh my goodness we will get that for you
it might be you Brian to be listening that's right thanks so much getting us that birthday and
anniversary everybody taking a look at who you share your birthday anniversary with one of the
most original powerful just wonderful voices I've heard in the last 20 years okay Florence Welch
is 39 yes leader of Florence and the machine of course dog days are over is one of her bigger ones
she's got one seven sins that is incredible writing and work it's her voice is remarkable
powerful it is memorable it's one of those ones that you will not forget once you hear it no
um but her lyrics are just as good her lyrics are just as good as her voice I think yeah she's a
really good lyricist wonderful artist also really like self deprecating and and all these things has
a great personality to her I think I did not know her the music I heard I don't I didn't
heard dog days are over anything like that they were gonna be on SNL oh I'm sorry no vice-first
on this I'm thinking of somebody else I hear that song dog days are over I love it it's great song
most people like it um but as good as her voice is I've been a little I've been tricked you know
there's great there's great singers and then you hear them on set night live or something and
they're not that great yeah to me SNL is such a great example for one it's live um
the obvious parts about it you know the amount of people watching for those that don't know
they should not have music there it is not built for music no it's a it's a stage for doing
television shows yeah basically the acoustics are horrible sound gets eaten alive there um it's
one of the reasons why they're very uh you're seeing more more recent artists having almost walls
as part of their stage gear and stuff or you'll see the opposite where a band will spread out
right and that you can get to sound this spread out yeah you can talk to this much more
I know little bits of this kind of information as far as sound and way of travels and everything but
I um okay let's see how she does on SNL right she goes on there and she sounds better live yeah
it's incredible she's just an incredible artist yeah happy 39th floor and well nice and look at
the singers we've got celebrating birthdays today okay well we did a little of this on the
sunrise show at 105 WRI Lee and Rhymes is 43 today um the the her version of blue is one of
the greatest songs I'll ever hear yeah it's a wonderful recording she was 13 years old
it's you get it it's interesting you know you hear you meet people that oh they have an old soul
I've never heard a voice that sounds that way yeah that's her voice and uh Chennai Twain is 60
today that's awesome uh incredible singers incredible voice to fan I mean successful I mean Chennai Twain
was probably one of the most if not the most successful artists of the 1990s guys I think she had
the best selling album I believe in the 90s so yeah it's wild to think that Garth Brooks happens
before that and and you know I would think oh that's the biggest country star of the 90s right
there and then she shows up yep it just blows it out of the water I mean yeah it's amazing
really good voice too yes really really strong singer and while not known as a singer
somewhat uh to some people I think you might be jack black is 56 today he's got a great voice he does
and uh you of course uh his group tenacious D's been around for a very long time uh but I think
most people know him now as an actor of course but I mean he is a he's amazing um I see now that in
movies they just find ways for him to sing yes and and actually write his own side they say hey Jack
you want to write a song for this and he will he'll just write a song off the cuff so uh there's
a number of people that didn't know that he could sing and they didn't know amazing really for a
long time uh John Cusack Kevin Smith a couple of these people talk about it like we didn't like
we knew you're hilarious uh we oh Bob Odin Kirk another one he's like you can sing like they didn't
know these things um so they the jack black it's uh I think one of his big roles was in the movie
high fidelity and underrated John Cusack movie I love that movie like all John Cusack a lot of
John Cusack movies it's angsty and all that right um there's a lot of great like social commentary
in there about music snobs and things like that I think that are really good a lot of great 90s
actors and jack black shows up it ends uh with jack black singing uh Marvin Gaye classic let's get it on
and it is one of the better covers you'll hear it's not one of the best covers I mean but for
what it's content it context I'm telling you he does he nails it man and I'm the biggest
Marvin Gaye fan you'll ever hear you'll be able to ever gonna meet right and I I think he nails
and I think it doesn't really respectful cool job with it wait I'm still surprised a lot of people
didn't know that he was in what we called school of rock well I think before all it was probably
before that yeah but yeah you're right you're right Jennifer Coolidge is 64 wonderful again voice
and uh and great actors she's one of those actors who got their break really late from the American
high movies we have stifler's mom yeah and she's turned it into doing commercial work and all this
other great she's had a great career yeah and I love the fact that it was you know the later career
James yeah yes hopes brings eternal you never know you never know what happened hanging on to that
all right uh one of our greater Olympians Scott Hamilton is 67 today whoo uh a limp old school
Olympic gold medal winning figure skater a lot of younger people might know him as well as
an amazing commentator on 10 he became like the standard of yes commentating for for figure skating
he's always been he's always so he's done such a good job of explaining it to people who don't know
a lot about figure skating which is what I don't so every time I heard him he made a lot of sense and
he was very good at communicating that my dad always liked hearing him talk by the and he also watched
him yeah and as much as I'm a homer and I love the Olympics all that said his greatest victory is
beating testicular cancer congratulations to him uh and and not only that but sharing that and
all those things guys can get a little sensitive sharing that information we got to get better about
that man where I can't think of a like I that that seems like punkish behavior we as men we can
face this stuff well we're gonna be afraid of talking about it is our are we supposed to be brave
yeah the thing yeah so be brave and talk about the stuff lead into the stereotype guys yeah and pull
out that man car what do you be brave about I think it's what we needed to talk about same thing
with prostate cancer and and not only talking about it but getting that dang test done yeah uh
I say we flip the script on this we need to yeah it's important it we've lost too many people off
the top of my head I've lost three different people the prostate cancer uh let's get out of this
uncomfortable let's let's face this cancer's not afraid of us cancer's not afraid to do these
things cancer's not afraid any of this stuff so we need to face that with the same energy uh and
I admire and I appreciate that he did that some people uh no longer with us like Wayne Osmond
born on this day in 1951 okay uh one bad apple uh and uh one bad yeah he was one of the
osman brothers yeah okay there we go and a roxy rooker born on this day 1929 Helen Willis on the
Jefferson she's responsible for uh also Lenny Kravitz you know uh that's true Lenny Kravitz
is with yeah that's right uh and that is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary list but
we encourage it to get us more for tomorrow of course we get we celebrate all weekend tomorrow so
Friday Saturday Sunday get them to us everybody yep we'll be back after our break here on the
morning show at WFHR welcome back everybody morning show at WFHR
August morning yeah we are still in August though it's still not you can only play for a couple more
days I know uh and to that point we will be uh changing things up next Tuesday when we do our
joining you for the morning show we will have a new intro theme yep that's right and uh we'll
have some new bumpers possibly and everything so we'll see we'll see we're looking forward to
that they'll be around for so much time I have yeah I was trying not to put that on you I was really
trying the theme song will be there the theme song will be there though I appreciate the work
yeah and great stuff for the summer bumpers mm mm remember these because these will be great
next year yeah they're really good ones uh and that's a good job that's a good job that you're
talking about right there that you do it's an important one um it is a big part of what we do here
in radio and something that I think is very relatable no matter what you do out there um you have
your title you have your job that you were hired for and then there are all these kind of if it's a
tree all these branches that come off of it all the other jobs you do right and uh more and more
in society we're some we're finding this right doing more and more jobs we're hiring people for this
and they're doing x amount of things as well right um and and I think this used to exist in a lot of
industries but now it's every industry is like this yeah uh more you know more and more is being
put on people's plates right and then there are the jobs that nobody asked for uh and that's
way I look at this because the way yeah the way they're titling it is the most useless jobs that
people are paid for right most useless job people are free for I think that it's more so are these
jobs that we don't really need a job you know exactly right yeah yeah I don't like the idea
of saying useless I think there is use for almost anything in life it's just who is it usable
too and is it something you should really be paid for right that's that's a great point yeah like
reaction videos or or reaction videos of of of anything really right not all of these are
are people are paid for their content so we're not talking about them right uh if you're doing it
for fun you're doing it for whatever reasons right yeah I've seen ones of music teachers that have
never listened to this artist and they listened to the artist for the first time and you see the
that's kind of fun yeah right but the paid ones there's somebody in their pocket you know and
that this I can't I don't know yeah is that really a career I mean it sounds it's more like just a
fun thing like you said I mean yes those ones are entertaining when you see people you know finding
out about new things right new music and stuff but yeah now let me make sure that I make this very very
clear though I don't necessarily respect some of these things in these quote jobs okay and I don't
think that it's a smart uh you know use of your time maybe necessarily or any of those things
but man if somebody's gonna pay you to do this well so much go for yeah yeah I used to hear people
get bent out of shape all the time about players you know getting mad about a player signing bonus
somebody's gonna give you extra money and what are you gonna turn it down no no I know I don't get
me more money for signing my name would you turn it down seriously like come on why would you
yeah just so I'm gonna pay you to sit there and react to a song like take the money man like
you know take it while you can uh influencing shows up on this list okay uh this isn't uh this
is any content online that people are paid to promote to their followers actual ads hidden in ads
demonstrations and reviews yeah uh and I don't know if there's anybody out there doing this nowadays
that is not sponsored that does not have somebody in their pocket right right I you know it's
it's for me as long as it's clear you know that there's a relationship there that's fine
you know with whatever business it is that's promoting it just be open on up front about it okay
then we know where you're coming from right don't don't try to be sneaky or stupid like yeah by
the way have you seen this new item from you know export kind of think no let's don't do that
it like when I try to insert acme products into our show I shouldn't do it yeah right but
it'd be fair it's not very sneaky and and to be honest they don't really pay me that well
they really don't they it's not a very good paycheck I get from acme so yeah it's just be
up front about it just yeah what you're what you're doing that's fine again I mean uh I respect
any hustle and if you're getting paid to do this sure but I also I feel for anybody who is taking
this you know as canon or verbatim you know you gotta understand these things yeah more and more
we need to be upfront about this and it leads me into politicians and they say similarly
televangelis now what whoa hey wait a minute it's a big stretch there that's two different things
two very different things yeah focusing on the politician part of things okay it is low hanging
fruit to make fun of politicians I admit that I do it from time to time myself um but when it
comes down to people doing these jobs right mm-hmm uh that's something that they are they should
be paid for and they should be paid uh decently for right um you know we need representation we
need good people out there doing these jobs yeah unfortunately we have a lot of people who have
somebody in their pocket right what it's become right yeah and I want to see a bill that is a
federal bill mm-hmm that uh and it doesn't have to be on a local level maybe but when we're talking
to most congressmen we're talking about senators we're talking about our vice president our president
I want NASCAR I want NASCAR rules if the NRA is going to give you money fine put it on your lapel
put it right there yeah none of these people are actually wearing um you know American flags 24
seven but as soon as they're going to be on camera they got to put an American flag on right right
uh that's the pandering that we see now and yes so along with that as long as you're putting
stuff on that lapel I want to see an NRA flag I want to see a Nike flag I want to see whatever
is in your pocket yeah what politicians if a politician isn't okay with this if this bill does
not get passed you're telling me you're hiding something and you're not doing the job right it's
about the money and not the people yeah yeah I also don't believe the politicians should be paid
more than minimum wage mm-hmm yeah we have a discussion yesterday yeah there's nothing there's
no way you can convince me that any single politician I mean any from the lowest to the top yeah
should not be paid more than minimum wage right if you want to be paid more than that that's fine
don't get into politics or raise the minimum wage possibly raise the minimum wage to a living wage
how about that wow these are two hills that I will die on and I beg somebody to convince me of otherwise
I would love to be wrong about these things but I don't think unless we see stuff like that of course
you're going to see politicians show up on this list yes because the majority of what we've
experienced with politics but there's also one other side of this and I talk about this from time
to time two the way we talk about politicians the way we refer to them more watching them on the
news or we're doing a show like this now our show I'm gathering that there's probably not a lot of
younger listeners out there we're not really huge in the grade school market really oh well I'm
gonna try to make those guys for years kids are sponges and when you're talking about in every
single politician that's on the TV you call a liar you call a crook or anything like that
as they get older what do you think they're going to think of politics exactly what do you think
they're going to think of politicians we as a society need to be better about this stuff too be smart
about this choose your battles wisely when you see somebody that is maybe corrupt or something like
that maybe keep it to your significant other or or maybe keep it to certain specific politicians
right but to lump everybody into it would you want to be lumped into a category would you want
to be lumped into everything negatively no no we all can be better about politics in this in
this country it's there's a lot of finger point there's a lot of divisiveness there's not a lot of
that right we have this in common everybody we're all been bad at this yeah we've all made mistakes
we could all get better about it yeah we can absolutely yeah and and I kind of want to play a
politician I got I've been thinking about this like my next role and well it's an interesting one
my agent's been on me about auditioning more as soon as the play is done and stuff and so we're
talking about roles and this role came up about it and I'm like huh I've never played a politician
okay kind of like it's just somebody running for office they just spoil the alert they don't win
um but I kind of I was kind of tempted to audition I've kind of tempted by it okay well maybe
you never know as far as jobs that are a little bit are paid for people are paid for that you
know we don't understand what um life coaches along with that motivational speakers
yeah yeah um I yeah every time I see anything you know like a motivational speaker you know like
the I could change your life you know earn money doing this that yeah you're you are on the path
of doing it because you're gonna be successful because you're getting people's money for telling
them this stuff yeah that's the only one who's really making money and being successful is you
if if if people are getting help that's that's what matters and if it's in a healthy way that's great
right but unfortunately almost every single one of these involve money yeah and you paying somebody
to try to motivate you somebody you paying somebody to try to encourage you right and that's
that's a waste of money yeah because that's in really it's in every single one of us and it
says so right about this the only people really making anything from that is is these
motivational speakers yeah right and and I'm like I'm sorry but I think that if you really want
motivation you know there's somebody in your life probably right that is your motivational speaker
whether it's a best friend or it's a relative I know for me my god I got a lot of people I can
go to but at the very least if I have ever needing a motivation all I got to do is say two words
to my mother and I will be I will be fine I will be fine for a good couple of years man I we I
worked at a crate unit many years ago and and we would have a like a day for the staff to go you
know retreat thing and they always got these motivational speakers here's the other thing
you don't have to have any qualifications to be a motivational speaker and man did we get
some bad ones yeah they were awful multi-level marketing a lot of people think they're running
their own business but for many MLMs they end up standing for most loose money or most lose money
yeah right no absolutely it's a scam it is a scam I don't care if it's the biggest amway
it's a scam it's all a scam have we learned nothing from Homer Simpson uh there is no get rich
quick no it doesn't exist no it doesn't now oh well I'm sorry there is the lottery there is one
thing so that there is literally a chance it is literally one example of getting rich quick that's
it end of list anything else somebody's trying to sell you something yep they're gonna get rich but
again you we're seeing a pattern here yep yep and finally on the list uh we have uh what where
was it a door people like um people that open doors for others and some of you see this at hotels
a lot and some of that right um I kind of like that I kind of like that job that gig but it does
seem like it's kind of going to the you know to be fair they do a lot more than just open the doors
too they have other duties yeah it's not just that well often I know uh at at one of my
aunts houses that live that she was a fancy place and everything um they were a bit security as well
that too yeah so there's that so yeah it's a little bit tougher but uh oh I wanted to also
mention on this list CEOs um you're not wrong yep you're not wrong what do they do what do they do
what do they do yep ask a CEO what they do sometime like there's now I'm not talking about non-profits
right certain industries obviously I hope obviously right um but yes hey you know I mean just
I'll ask you a yeary to company if your CEO will jump in and help with small technical problems
like ours does yeah I mean that's a difference that's the difference right there yeah we're
pretty fortunate in our regard um we will take a quick time out we'll come back and have some more
fun on the morning show at WFHR welcome back everyone morning show here at WFHR locally grown
radio Seth and James hanging out with you thanks so much for hanging out with us got some fun
stuff to wrap up the hour with uh locally we want to touch on as well of course uh get you ready
for the 10 o'clock hour where we'll kick things off with our pet of the week from the South
of County of Maine Society very nice we'll have that for you has some entertainment news and since
we're talking animals we will also have the dog themed songs that made the top 40 on billboards hot
100 list very cool getting into that a little bit later right now who's scrolling the most oh
who is scrolling the most we have the states that scroll on their phones the most measured in miles
yeah oh yeah oh okay all right I see I see we're going with that and just twist on this yeah I'll
take it a new study looked at how much people scroll on their phones and then converted the
distance that you might move through feeds into miles wow and according to the data the state
that scrolls the farthest is Arizona scrolls the farthest I like that's people there scroll 115
point four miles per year which is roughly the distance between Phoenix and Tucson oh really
it is Tucson right it's right you're gonna yeah okay um there's also the equivalent of almost
nine hours of screen time per day that's that's intense that's a lot this reminds me of um
you ever once in a while you see if you took 20 football fields this is the distance or
some of those things that we do think about measuring everything in football fields I don't know
we have a thing with that we have 100 yards I guess yeah yeah but we just didn't even
in measuring things we have a thing with that we love to measure things with some
fields yes and then we love to compare that measurement to other measurements we really do this a
lot and it's very strange I don't know why and it's like it's not even generational like we've
been doing this like since the early 1900s I've been doing you see articles and stuff about how far
it would be to get to Alaska or something and it's it would be 10 football fields yeah right
right whatever that we what is it with our humanity that we need to measure things we have to
measure stuff everything must be interesting I like I actually don't mind it but it's kind of
funny I never thought about it before there's also the equivalent or a Washington was second with
108.2 miles followed by Kentucky with 105 Missouri at 102 New Mexico at 96 hmm the rest of the top
10 Texas with 95 Maryland 95 Louisiana 93 South Carolina 92 in Georgia 91 okay oddly enough a lot of
those near each other yes they are although some of them were out of Kentucky really that was kind
of weird yeah where were how did could I could get in on this yeah that one coming through me yeah well
unfortunately they didn't list the states that traveled the fewest miles while scrolling but according
to one of their data sources it looks like the bottom five would be Kansas main Nebraska Minnesota
and Massachusetts okay overall the average American spends six hours and 35 minutes per day on
screens which adds up to 2,403 hours annually and people check their devices on average a 58 times a
day yeah I can see that I can see that although to be fair that's not scrolling you're not scrolling the
whole time so I mean that's but I get that for context I guess I'm gonna be honest we're doing I
feel like I'm gonna have a different reaction than some on this I'm a little surprised those numbers
are that low yeah I think that's kind of encouraging right we've done stories like this I would say
for the last seven eight years and the they are usually much higher numbers right when it comes to
stuff like this right I I do think that you are seeing while subtle and not a lot not a gigantic one
I do think you were seeing a change in this I do think you were seeing a lot more people pulling
away and not scrolling as much right it is nearly impossible to just quit to just stop right and I
think one of the things and this comes from growing up with an addict to be honest and in him
defeating that addiction is you know trying to do things cold turkey rarely works some it does
my papa woke up one morning they didn't want to smoke anymore I had his reason something happened
he didn't want to do it anymore yeah that man stopped and that was it yeah never touched another
bit in nicotine every once in a while you have people that can do this yes but not everybody is
built that way no and oftentimes when you do that to yourself you're you're not you're not going
to be able to solve it right so you have to know how you work and most people it takes a little
bits and pieces right and I think you're seeing that in society right now right people in general
are taking maybe maybe they're not on they're on a lot but they're 5% less right or 10% less or
something like that and we have to remember too it's it's you know so yeah people spend a lot of
dead time on it too but when we were checking emails you know we're looking up our bank statements
you know all the different things that our phones do now it takes the place of other things so yes
it's on a screen and I understand why people can get a little you know nervous about how much time
we're looking at these things but at the same time we're just filling that time up with stuff we
did other things with basically you know well we we're placing things we're still using the kind of
like trope or that the we're labeling if you're on your phone you're just scrolling and looking
at all the time right yeah where to your point oh now so much I would say out of the 100%
uh 100% list here of me being on my phone the pie chart of me being on my phone right the majority
will over the majority of it is work yeah it's all related stuff and if it ain't work related it has
to do with my career which is my my passion yeah you're still other things too yeah I mean it's
all related to all the different stuff we do I talked to like three people I easily reach more
people doing this job that I talked about your normal life I don't know if I should have said
that but I'm being honest I really don't talk to that many people so I don't use my phone for a
lot of social media but I'm out of the lot yeah you know so I think we keep that in mind yeah
is something to remember too with that yeah I don't know is it it also a little bit like when
you the the the book reading where you'd have the book you're supposed to be reading it inside
was an act like a comic book or something is it like that with the old and now back of the day right
I need to do this I have work related stuff what is the score of the game yeah right we had a
couple of notes I wanted to get to before we wrap up the hour there will be no Kabul Union Jam
in September originally scheduled on September 10th they will return on October 8th at one o'clock
at McMillan Library and that second Wednesday of the month that's very well be sure to check out
them by local support local support the artist in this area like our great friends at the Kabul Union Jam
maybe we can get them on this winner on playhouse we haven't had them on yet I we have not I think we
should I talk to them yeah we will that that'll be that'll be a good one we'll always make him get
up early and come to the sun ratio yes that now I love doing that to musicians see you and I man
and there's that sharing of the brain again because as I said playhouse I was thinking oh they
be perfect for the sunrise yes I also wanted to mention that our great friends over at the south
of county historical museum at 543rd street south here in Wisconsin rabbits at their final week of
the 2025 exhibit season the historical museum will wrap things up this Sunday August 31st explore
a local history keep history alive and get on over there say hi to fill in the team and the great
work that they do they're open Wednesday Thursday and Sunday one to four don't miss it and if
you don't get a chance to get over there please make plans next year when they open up to get on
over there they always bring in such such great traveling exhibits along with the normal stuff
and of course they'll be doing the Christmas trees and in December as well I can always do too so
they'll be doing other things really appreciate the team over there great people keep up the great
work and and keep history alive over there everybody and a quick reminder the wood county swimming
beaches are going to be closed as of they'll be open through labor day weekend and we'll close for
the season on Tuesday September 2nd we hope you enjoyed the beaches this year and we hope to see
you again next year also keep in mind that those camping grounds that a lot of you want out there
are going to be you know wrapping up real quick so get your reservations and now yeah I know
that I was talking with Lance yesterday about this in Sierra Park there's a bunch of great ones
but they're they're gonna you know you used up quick they're gonna get reserved real quick yeah
you can find out more by going to parks reservations.woodcounty.wi.gov or throw it into your
searcher engine there and you'll be able to find it big shout out to our parks and forestry
department keeping us up to date on all these things yeah we really do appreciate the city working
with us have had some listeners complain to me about some of the construction and not knowing
about some of these things ahead of time and everything but even with that there's so much that we
get covered appreciate them yeah we'll be back with more show coming up this is locally grown radio
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