Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM WFHR.
Your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
I hope you're having a great start to your Friday out there.
We're certainly going to help you kick it off well.
Got good things on the way.
We're going to start things the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.
Talk to a little Mother Nature.
Good morning, Brett.
Good morning.
How's it going?
Doing good over here.
How are you doing?
Fantastic.
I mean, it's a Friday day.
It's a long weekend.
Yeah.
I mean, Mother Nature threw a little twist in there last minute, yesterday afternoon.
So, I got rain off to the west, which was not expected.
I came out of nowhere, like I said.
And so, now, we're looking at more clouds today.
Chances for showers pretty much now until about three-ish.
I think that's going to kick on out of our area.
These storms do pop up later tonight, south, so if you are leading count and had some
other areas of the state, there are storm chances there.
Otherwise, overnight tonight, fog built in.
Guys, clear tomorrow.
We're looking at partly sunny day highs in the mid-70s.
And then, we've worn things up Sunday and Monday, hitting about 80 degrees.
It will be sunny both of those days and actually a little bit more muggy on Monday, so really
starting to feel like summer again, which, ironically, Monday is the first day of fall,
meteorologically.
Oh, interesting.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
So, now, these temperatures make sense.
Yes.
Now, okay.
All right.
Now, see, we're all different now.
Okay?
Yes.
Now, this all makes sense.
Yeah.
That's great.
I actually did get excited hearing that.
I really did.
You know, I really enjoyed the cooler breeze coming in my window this morning.
It just feels so fresh and nice.
I agree with you 100%.
Mm-hmm.
It feels nice.
And it's a great talk with you, Brittany.
Thank you so much for all of that.
You have a great Labor Day.
Enjoy yourself.
And we will meet you back here on Tuesday.
Sounds good.
You too.
Thanks, Brittany.
Yes, in the business right there, Brittany, we're joining us every morning right in this
time slot.
Melissa and I got some fun stuff lined up for you, the El Café, birthday and anniversary
club.
Not just for today.
No.
That would be easy.
Any morning show could do that.
No, we're doing this Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and I'm sorry, Monday, also, I already
said that.
What?
How about Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday?
We'll even do it that way.
You know what?
You convince me, Melissa.
We'll do it that way.
We've got all that coming up.
That's good.
We pay people a star of the day, somebody a star of the day with our friends from call
vers.
We got a fun one lined up for you.
I have a song from a famous TV, our famous movie that we're going to play.
You call them, you call it?
What the movie is or what the song is or any of the above and you'll win a kids meal and
an adult meal from our Wisconsin Rapids callvers, a big shout out to them.
Get some callvers in your life before and that we will also get to one of our bunch of
labor day conversation.
I want to get to a bunch of those things.
I don't know if we'll have time for it today, Melissa.
I might have to pull an audible here and save this one because I want us to have time to
get into these toughest names to remain out in each state.
Why would you do this to yourself, James?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I really, really don't know.
We will, audience comes first.
It'll be entertaining.
That's for sure.
Okay.
Yep.
Got that lined up for you.
In the 10 o'clock hour, we will bring Laura and we're going to give Melissa a
chance to take a, get some stuff done because you got a lot on a plate, like going on.
We will, Laura and I will have, I just combined in Mel and Laura.
I just, I did that.
I don't know what I did there.
Get sleep, everybody.
We will get in some entertainment news.
We've also got some other labor day conversation to have as we have labor day, the percentage
of people that are working harder than this year last year.
We've got that.
Some good stories of the day and of course we'll get into our schedule and plenty more
fun.
All lined up throughout all of there.
Melissa, I wanted to, we always should mention as well.
It's a free ticket Friday, we're giving away brewer tickets today.
Be listening for that.
And aren't they doing like really good or something?
Yeah, they are.
Yeah, the best team in baseball.
Okay.
And obviously regular listeners will know I know Zip about sports, like what's going on
in sports.
I know how to play sports, but yeah, you don't follow baseball.
Actually, I think of you as athletic.
I think of you as athletic, but.
At points in my life.
Right.
Right.
Same here.
Are you available now?
I am the person.
You put me on a basketball court or something like that and I can hang hand of my own.
But for some reason, I will trip over my own feet at some point today.
I will, I hear you.
I have to fully admit, okay.
So I'm, you know, my pigeonly Lou is getting used to our new digs while I built them
with a little play pen.
And with that, it's, you know, it's actually like I have to climb in and out of my living
room now.
This is my workout routine now, James, it's keeping me fit and limber because I got to climb
over my cedar chest to get in the play pen to clean up after Lou.
Nobody talks about this with animals.
They keep us not only on our toes, but exercising.
Yes, they keep us fit and flexible.
With my further brother, Sammy, he is losing his sight more and more and like most dogs,
you know, they just keep moving, you know, but he goes by sound.
So he will try to, he hears footsteps coming and he tries to back up, but every single
time Sam backs up right where you're trying to step so you have to dodge him.
So my flexibility and my agility has got really good and I noticed even though I'm not
on stage when I'm moving around on stage, it's actually got me like, you're used to
that too.
It's been great too.
We find ways to, you know, work with our animals in the world, but it seems like it's
such a sweetheart.
He's a real good dog.
He's a real good dog.
But before we get to all of that, Melissa, I did want to give the audience a chance to
kind of look behind the curtain a little bit.
As I mentioned before, you're going to be ducking out in the second hour and understandably.
So because you had a very busy day yesterday, you were a part of the events over at the
RIDGES.
Do you mind telling us about that?
Well, I wasn't a part of it, but I did go to cover because I knew that there was a plan
protest representative, Derek Van Orden.
I know for sure that he went because I heard from protesters they saw him drive by because
protesters and it was a private event on the RIDGES.
So it was invite only or like RSVP invite type situation only and people were not allowed
in.
So they gathered at three different locations by the corner of tractor supply and wood
bank there on county Z and highway 13 and then down the road by the NEPCO lake entrance.
There was another group there and then also down on 20th, there was a substantial group
there and they were protesting the basically Van Orden's inability to meet with his
constituents was kind of the over arching bonds that I heard from people.
There was even a group of young men that had driven down from O'Clayer because they
said they can't, they're not able to talk to him.
They just want to talk to him and he won't show up for town halls.
Constituents not being able to reach their representatives is the opposite of the job
and looking at from what his campus said of why he could not be, or why he would not
speak with his people, the people that voted them in and all of these things.
There were safety concerns that he mentioned which sounds completely ridiculous considering
there has been no violent protesting.
There has been nobody attempting anything close to that.
And for a supposed tough guy, he can apparently he can bark at teenagers but he can't handle
people his own age or people who want to confront him with not owning up to what he said
he was going to do when he was running for office.
It sounds like it's very cowardly behavior and it's a shame that we have some representation
this close to town.
We have an opportunity to get some real work done.
Talk to these people, find out more information, different things like that and instead you're
going off of theory or not theory but people saw the top of his head in his car when he
drove in.
There are celebrities that are more approachable.
There are Taylor Swift is more approachable than this coward than this guy and I'm saying
this is my own.
This is James Mailoff saying this, nobody else, I'm not speaking for anybody else, just
talking for myself, I've done, I've reached out to this man in his camp many times over
the years and to no avail and honestly dodging us and dodging not just us but his constituents.
Again, that was the overarching response from people was just saying why are you doing what
you're doing?
You're doing the opposite of what you said you were going to do.
You said you were going to vote against the big beautiful bill and then you voted for
it.
Why?
We wanted to know why.
Well, and if you did it for any, whatever the reasons are, you certainly believed in
them.
Why wouldn't you be able to just talk about them?
Why wouldn't you be able to answer these questions or your constituents?
There should be no question you can't answer if you're in that job.
You're in that job because you should know government, you should know what your people
want and it should be about that, not being a megaphone for the guy in the big chair,
not just doing whatever he tells you to or whatever he says, like quite a few politicians
in this state do.
I don't have to, in some ways, I guess we don't need to talk to him because all we got
to do is look at what the president is saying and that's what he's going to do.
He doesn't think for himself.
So in some ways, I guess there's that, but at the same time, your job is to answer constituents.
If they want to know why the sky is blue, you're there to talk to him about it.
That's the job.
If you don't like it, get out of here.
Nobody's making you do this and a lot of people right now are wondering why you're in
that chair because he doesn't seem smart enough for it.
He certainly doesn't seem tough enough for it and he is not brave enough to face people
about things.
It doesn't, I don't know, it seems like he's in there to get a paycheck.
Seems like he's in there going to be paycheck and be a megaphone.
It was interesting to talk with all of the people who were willing to speak with me last
night.
And I'm looking forward to putting a lot of those comments into the article I'm working
on that will come out in our newsletter later today.
I'm hoping by noon.
Thank you for the time.
Thank you for the time.
Yep, yep, yep.
But it will come out today.
I promise.
Yeah, yeah.
It'll be out there today.
You've got to, you've got all the time you need.
No, but it was very, it was eye opening to talk with people and to hear what they had
to say.
And then also to hear about the response that they received from passerby's, Kate West
was one of the leaders that was there at the Nebco like entrance.
And she, she said the overwhelming response was positive.
So I mean, that's, that's, that says something.
Yeah.
When I'm speaking on these things, I'm, I am speaking thinking of people and, and thinking
of what I have done in this job for going on almost 10 years.
And for me, it's a very simple, you know, conversation about this.
And it's not about Republicans or Democrats, it's about people and, and doing your job
and doing what you said you were going to do and doing the job right.
It's not, it's not actually very, you know, difficult, I think.
I don't know where we go from here with some of these individuals, but I know that chickens
come home to roost and they always do what goes up must come down.
And I don't know how we can see going forward keeping this way, staying this way, staying
packed like this.
You've got to do the job, you know, there's nobody making you do this.
And I don't know, you know, where else we can go with it.
I do know, Melissa, that I'm excited about the newsletter, I'm excited about that.
In part because I know that there's going to be sports in there.
That's a little bit.
If I have a great article by Michael, um, Chuck submitted one from Mayor's Acre update
on the mill with his mayor's minute.
So that's also a really good read and I'm looking forward to getting it out.
And, and, and, and Melissa, you know, and you, I, I hope that you know, after all these
years of working together, how much I love and respect you and, and love working with
you.
But you show us that you know nothing about sports when we're talking about all these
political things, when the Packers and Dallas Cowboys made one of the biggest trades in
NFL history last night.
Uh, and the Green Bay Packers went from being Super Bowl ish contenders to, we expect them
in the big game, uh, the gigantic news, Melissa, how did you not cover the Micah Parsons
trade?
I thought you were going to say they traded like Texas toast for Brock or something.
Come on.
That's a, how is something that we care about, Chase, you know, that's actually an interesting
debate.
Would you make that trade, everybody, stuff one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred?
Uh, you can answer that now or during playmakers on Wednesday or black, uh, it does make the best
French toast.
It does.
It does.
That's a good toy.
Now, I, I'm actually a little bit of a standstill on that one.
I'm not sure.
The Texas toast, French toast with a brought in it.
Oh, actually, I haven't had it like that.
I have had, uh, Texas toast as French toast before.
It's so good, so good to think of the bread, but I think that the bread, it would be
better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
I love chicken and waffles.
That, that could be the new chicken of waffles.
It should be.
And we just made the new, we should have in these two teams should, you know, like take, take
advantage of this.
We can mix these world money, but we have just made the new chicken and waffles.
It is brought.
Wisconsin style.
Yeah.
I like that.
Somebody write that down.
Somebody please write that down.
Laura.
Yeah, please.
Where's that producer?
Yeah, we need that written up.
And we need to get out some borrower tickets because over the next two hours, I'm going
to be giving you a key word that you can get to us and text to us through the civic
media app to win yourself a four pack of borrower's tickets.
Oh, that's so easy.
We've just got a couple of more weeks left of summer to do this.
Everybody a big shout out to Milwaukee borrower's and our sales team and everybody working
so hard on this one.
Let me see, including today, we've got a month left.
So we've got after today three more of these.
So that key word to text to us for our free ticket giveaway of the Milwaukee borrower's
tickets.
So you can get to the game September 3rd, verse Philadelphia, which is a good one.
That's going to be Philly's one of the best teams in baseball.
That's the name of their team.
Philadelphia Philly's.
Oh, well done.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
I'm showing my knowledge of baseball teams.
You can tell how old the baseball team is by their name usually.
It's usually if it's if it's involved socks or animals, like young animals, if they're
not called the dandy lions, they're an old team.
It's not.
It's good if a name is brewers.
I'll tell you that text.
That's the word Friday.
Friday.
F-R-I-D-A-Y texted to us through the civic media app, get yourself a chance to win these
tickets.
See the brewers Wednesday, September 3rd, verse Philadelphia, man, I want to go to that
game.
He's going to Bryce Harper, a bunch of big stars in that one.
That's going to be a good one.
Sorry, James.
Don't text it and you can't win.
I just they just told me that is I just texted F-R-I and I got a message from Chuck.
Like what are you doing?
Black.
What are you doing?
Why would you do that?
Why you're wasting your time.
Friday texted to us.
Everybody get in on the winning.
Good luck to everybody out there and thank you so much to everybody who's been playing
along all season long with us.
We want you to win.
Yeah.
Wisconsin Rapids listeners and surrounding areas.
Incredibly biased about this.
You want somebody from such Wisconsin winning this one?
I don't know.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's about it.
I get Texas that keyword Friday through the civic media app.
Stick around.
We got the LKFA birthday anniversary clever right around the corner.
It's Melissa and James on the morning show at 975 FM WFHR.
It's a celebration.
I did that before you turned my mic on.
Welcome back everybody.
It's time to do some celebrate with our great friends over at LKFA in the birthday
anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to talk about LKFA and of course encourage
you to treat yourself heading over to 221 Market Avenue but also celebrate all of you
with your birthdays and anniversaries.
Thanks so much to LKFA doing this.
I know I say this a lot.
I cannot encourage you enough to get to their Facebook page and through there follow
them on TikTok.
They got a video up right now that has made me laugh all morning.
It is fantastic.
It is fantastic.
It is very well done.
Great production, great work by them.
Follow them on social media, share their stuff on your pages so that other people may
see it that might have not otherwise and of course support what they are doing over there
enough.
If you can't get there this morning, you got the tonight to get on over there and get
that fish fry.
What?
Yes.
Oh, their fish fry is so amazing.
Check it out.
Everybody.
Support our good friends over at LKFA.
We appreciate them.
Wish them a good morning from all of us.
And of course get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you.
We love doing that.
email us info at wfhr.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages and call on up.
That's right.
That number is 715-424-2600 or if you text in Friday through the Civic Media app, you
can also just call us right through that app.
It's a touch or two away.
It's an easy call.
You don't have to remember a number.
Just press a couple buttons.
Yeah.
Do it, everybody.
We're looking forward to talking with you.
We take a look at our Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, birthdays and Melissa.
I need a one or a two.
One.
All right.
And another one or two.
One.
All right.
And another one or two.
One.
All right.
There we go.
Perfect.
Nicely done.
Nicely done.
Let's go ahead and get into the celebration.
First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Civic Media's own Ashley Buckingham.
Oh, happy birthday, Ashley.
Happy birthday, Ashley.
Yeah.
Wish you a good one.
One of our sales people around here doing some amazing work.
You've heard her commercials.
You've heard some of her writing and some of the, you've been at some of the events that
she's helped produce and create.
Ashley's got a great imagination and has worked really well in the industry with that.
Oh, yeah.
And all of our supporters and our partners here at the radio station know her very well.
I wish you any good birthday, Ashley.
Enjoy your day.
Yeah.
Enjoy it.
A very happy birthday to Myron Lubach.
Happy birthday, Myron.
Another name I love.
I do like the name Myron.
Yeah, it's a good one.
We appreciate Myron and whoever's getting you that gust that birthday because both of
these names we get to celebrate every year.
And I love that name.
Myron Lubach.
Great name, sir.
Enjoy your day.
Our qualifier today.
Lin Montag.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Great name.
Great name.
I'm jealous of it every year.
I say it.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, Lin.
Enjoy your day.
You're our qualifier today.
Enjoy.
Happy birthday.
Taking a look at Saturday, August 30th.
Happy birthday, Smith.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, Wendy.
Enjoy the day.
We hope it's a good one for you.
I really like the name Wendy.
I couldn't tell you exactly why, but I've just always liked that name.
Probably Peter Pan.
That's definitely it.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's probably it, isn't it?
Yeah.
Wishing a happy birthday to our qualifier on Saturday, Judy Haas.
Happy birthday, Judy.
Enjoy the day.
Wishing you a good one.
And taking a look at Sunday, birthdays.
We wish a very happy birthday to Chuck Brody of One Rose Greenhouse.
Hey, we like that name.
Happy birthday, Chuck.
Love One Rose Greenhouse.
We have some great greenhouses and some great places in this area.
I've been going to One Rose as long as I can remember.
They've helped me out many times as I do not have a green thumb.
But I know people that do it.
My mother getting her plants and different things.
And yeah, they've been great over there.
Appreciate it.
Good morning and a happy birthday to Chuck Brody on Sunday.
Yeah.
Happy birthday.
And our qualifier on Sunday, Pam Burnett.
Oh, we love that name too, my goodness.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, Pam.
Big fans of the name, Pam Burnett out here.
You definitely know you.
Happy birthday to you, Pam.
Enjoy your day.
And on Monday, September 1st, and as a programming note again,
we won't be here, but we will have great programming for you more on that later.
We wish a very happy birthday to Kayleigh Jackson.
Happy birthday, Kayleigh.
Wishing you a good day, Kayleigh.
Enjoy the day.
Hope it's a good one for you and you're a qualifier.
We encourage all of our qualifiers to brag to all their friends, family, animals,
strangers, anybody you have to let them know that you qualified.
Yes indeed.
And of course, we encourage you to get us more birthdays and anniversaries everybody
and support our good friends over at El Café.
And especially one of you is going to end up over there at El Café.
Wow, very soon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're looking forward to that.
That's going to be pretty cool.
So be sure to be listening for that next Tuesday when we come back with our show.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Name our winner.
Yeah, we're looking forward to that.
Quick rundown of birthdays for a celebrity birthdays for the weekend
who you share your birthdays with out there, everybody.
Let's see, Elliott Gold is 87 today.
A lot of younger people out there know him as Ross and Monica's friends.
They're the dad of them on friends.
And certainly he was in the Ocean's movies.
You might remember from those.
Trapper in the original movie version of a mash.
One of the better actors I've ever seen, Elliott Gold.
He's great.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, I recognize him now that I see him.
And some people no longer with us, like the wonderful, well-respected Arizona Senator
and former war hero, John McCain born in this day in 1936.
Always appreciated John McCain's not only conversations he would have with
John Stewart on the Daily Show.
They would not always see eye to eye, but they would have open conversations
where they didn't act like children.
And John McCain is one of the more self-deprecating, funny, cute politicians
I ever saw.
A lot of great bits and a lot of great things he did on SNL and many other places.
Certainly, most importantly appreciate his service to our country.
And he will be, he is remembered for that, I think, more than most.
And the King of Pop born on this day, Michael Jackson, 1958.
There are plenty of things that I could say and we could say about Michael Jackson off the field.
And all worth noting, very worth noting.
Just as well we should note, one of the King of Pop.
Like there's, I don't know how there will ever be anybody that tops that.
Taylor Swift and different people and everything are big names in pop music.
And then there was Michael Jackson, which it's a different level.
It's just a different level.
And if you weren't around during it, I get it.
And I get people looking back and, oh, what was he, what was this?
It's hard to imagine what the world was like when he was big.
When he was the biggest name there was.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of probably similar to the Beatles.
Yeah, yeah.
In some ways, I mean, the way I look at it is like there's these different ones of different times.
Yeah, I think that's a great, I think that's a good comp.
I think that's one of the only fair comps really.
And who's going to be the next one?
Is there going to be a next one?
Yeah, Taylor Swift is really, really big.
But is she Michael Jackson like?
Yeah.
You know, I don't know.
Bad Bunny is the biggest artist in the world right now when you incorporate, you know, a Latin America and all those things.
He's not even half as close as where Michael Jackson was in fame.
And you're looking at it at a time when fame wasn't as easy to get.
We didn't have all the social media.
We didn't have 24 hour news cycles.
We didn't have all these things.
Did you think that dilutes it though, James?
That there's so many platforms for people to have exposure on?
Absolutely.
This is nothing against getting a break or getting noticed.
But you can have a two minute song on TikTok and get a record deal nowadays.
And have a career off of that, making just music like that, which is fine.
But then there's Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones sitting in a room, locking themselves in there to record Billy Jean or the thriller album.
Or I mean, bad, etc, etc, etc.
That man had hit after hit after hit after hit.
He knocked Elvis off the chair.
Like he knocked Elvis off the chair as a black man.
Like, I mean, it's just incredible to look at his career.
And again, they're planning to say off the field about him that I would, you know, would welcome the conversation.
But yeah, I don't think you could deny or change history in the way when the impact he had.
Or I don't know if we'll ever be able to have somebody as big as him considering with social media and some of these other things.
The changes of how, yeah, how people take in their, their music now.
The great Richard Attenborough born in this day in 1923.
He directed Gandhi was, of course, the older man in Jurassic Park movies and that.
Yeah, I liked him a lot.
Charlie Parker also born in this day.
Jazz Legend, the Birdman, I loved him.
Saturday, birthdays, a quick look.
Warren Buffett is 94, 95, 95.
One of the few billionaires that actually looks out for people, you know.
And his net worth 148.2 billion.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a lot of money.
Yeah.
Like, it's just crazy.
Lewis Black is also 77 on Saturday.
I wanted to get that one in there.
Big fan of Lewis Black.
And on Sunday, my favorite football player in the last 20 years, Larry Fitzgerald is 42.
Now working as an analyst on ESPN.
Debbie Gibson is 55 on Sunday.
But Debbie Gibson lost in your eyes.
She had some solo hits there.
Let me see.
Richard Gear is 76 on Sunday.
My teenage heart throb.
Really strong actor.
Really strong actor.
And very few people had a run early in the 80s, like he did with an officer in the gentleman,
American Jigalow, pretty woman, of course, a little bit later than that.
And then Chicago, or his under, I think actually an underrated performance in primal fear.
Not many people could play an attorney better than Richard Gear.
But he's really, really good at that role.
Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder how he would do as Atticus.
Oh, I bet he'd kill it.
Huh.
You know, I wouldn't, I would bet on him.
I would bet that he would do a job with it.
He's always had the good silver hair.
It feels like he feels like he's had that for quite some time.
I mean, look at the man at age 75.
He's still incredibly handsome.
Yeah, yeah.
Did you know his middle name is Tiffany?
I did not.
Oh, interesting.
And Richard Tiffany Gear.
And Van Morrison is 81 Sunday, musical genius, wild night, brown eye girl, Gloria,
so many great songs, so many great ones.
That is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary.
Are you a fan of where I'm Morrison?
I didn't mean to cut you off there.
I was just going to say Northern Irish singer songwriter.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that until I was working in Classic Rock.
I had no idea.
You can't tell if he's something.
No.
Oh, such a good singer.
We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back with Culver's star of the day right here at 97-5 FMWFHR.
Lights, camera, action, it is time to make somebody a star of the day with our friends
from the Wisconsin Rapids Culver's.
What we are about to do, Melissa and I, is play a famous song from a movie.
Keep on to say TV from a movie.
Yeah.
Because this is different than what you usually do.
Yeah.
Flip it up a little bit.
Change it up a little bit.
Flip the script a little for everybody and play something that I know you guys will all
know.
Get ready to call up 715-424-2600.
Call or text us through the, or you can't text us.
But call us through the civic media app as well.
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And get yourself a free kid's mail and free adult mail from our friends from the Wisconsin
Rapids Culver's.
Where are we going to Culver's?
Where are we going to Culver's?
You got to Culver's.
It's putting back into their community.
We greatly appreciate them doing that.
Here it is.
Everybody call up.
Let us know what movie this is from.
I right, Bird.
Tell them what it is.
Right.
It's super-califragilistic, expi-alidocious.
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
If you say it loud enough, you're always something cautious.
Super-califragilistic, expi-alidocious.
All right.
Let's see if we have ourselves a winner.
Good morning.
What's your answer?
Is that Mary Poppin?
Yes.
Yes it is.
Well done.
Let's make this official.
There we go.
There it is.
Who do we have on the phone with us?
This is Barb.
Barb, thank you.
Hi, Barb.
How are you doing today?
Pretty good.
How are you?
I'm doing good over here.
We are excited to have you on the phone with us.
And you knew that one right away, didn't you, Barb?
Oh, right away.
Yeah, yeah.
It's one of them are fun ones.
And I think it's one of the more fun things as a kid to try to say it.
And then to see how fast you can say it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's a great one.
It's classic.
Classic movie.
Barb, thank you so much for listening and playing along.
We really appreciate that.
You just won yourself some free callvers.
Thank you.
And my agent will be calling you because you are a new star of the day.
Don't take any work from me, Barb.
Please.
I need all the work I can get.
But we appreciate you, Barb.
Thanks a lot for listening.
You have yourself a great day.
Just hang on a line and get a little information from you off the off-air.
But we appreciate you calling up.
Thanks, Barb.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, Barb.
Yeah, I had to do that one, Melissa.
I'll be honest.
I wanted to do one that I thought you'd know.
Yeah.
And when I was talking at the beginning, I wasn't sure.
And as soon as that first syllable of the S, I was like, oh, yeah.
In 1964 Walt Disney's musical film Mary Poppins directed by Robert Stevenson
and starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke was songs by Richard and Robert Sherman.
premiered at the Grumman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on this day in 1964.
Or I'm sorry, on August 27th, so just the other day.
I saw that and I'm like, okay, we got to do supercalifragilistic as Vialadocious.
The movie would go on to win five Academy Awards.
It is such an eye, like if this is a core childhood memory for me, like watching the horses leave the carousel
and go like the poles digging into the dirt as they ride.
I don't know.
That's just so nostalgic.
The delicacy that Julie Andrews treats that role while also being very stern and direct.
The balance of that role and the performance is amazing.
Dick Van Dyke and the dancing on the ceiling.
Dick Van Dyke is so good and so entertaining that even in his words,
one of the worst accents of all time, and that's Dick Van Dyke saying that.
Even through that, his performance is incredible and amazing.
That's how great Dick Van Dyke was.
It is, it's just a classic movie.
We thought we'd have some fun with today.
I have to mention the bird lady and the feed the birds and the pigeons.
I'm becoming that.
I thought I'd always be curious.
But no, I'm the pigeon lady.
Maybe a little column, maybe a little column, maybe on that one.
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
You never know.
But we will be doing this again next Friday.
We'll have another opportunity for you to win some free callvers and our star of the day.
Big shout out to our Wisconsin Rabbits callvers.
We've been doing this with them for years.
Getting close to over a decade here.
I think we are over a decade doing this with them.
We really appreciate our friends and callvers for that one.
And a big thank you to Barb for listening and playing along.
Congratulations to Barb.
Be listening next week for another opportunity.
Everybody, we'll be back with more show coming up right here at the mornings on WFHR.
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Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Enjoy this while we can.
Right?
That's gonna take them away soon.
Yeah, the bumper key.
Big, big, big, big bad meaning.
Yeah, well, uh, we'll be having some fun.
What's lined up for you real soon, everybody.
We're looking forward to that.
But I appreciate the production by him.
Nice job.
Yeah.
We might, I'll reserve judgment.
Yeah, it's fair.
That's fair.
Uh, gotta get into some Labor Day talk, Melissa.
Uh, wait, we've got Labor Day right around the corner.
This is our time sensitive topics.
We have to touch on.
And Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer.
Do a lot of people.
I don't know.
I think that everybody, here's a fun question, I think.
Cause I think it changes for households and different people.
What is the end of summer?
Or I like to look at it at the beginning of fall.
I think that's a more fun way to look at it.
But what is it for you out there?
I know for me.
Um, honestly, as soon as we're getting into regular football,
uh, just being honest, um, that's a big one for me.
The leaves changing, uh, you know, pumpkin spice,
hitting our stores, all these things are, you know,
they're, they're notes.
I, I do note them and I do reference them.
But it's not truly fall until football is really here.
And I, as I'm saying this out loud, I do know how silly it sounds.
Maybe even two sports fans.
That's, no, I doubt it to sports fans.
I think that makes sense.
And I think you're right.
It differs by household because if you have children,
yeah, the end of summer is when you go back to school.
So Labor Day weekend is the last opportunity, you know,
to have a summer weekend.
I, um, and you know, in this, and I don't know how I can really describe this.
Um, because I'm, there's, there's certain things I'm just horrible at describing.
One of them is smells.
But there is a smell that changes.
There, there's this smell.
It's Christmas in the air.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's because it gets cold at night.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the difference.
I think that's the biggest, uh, yeah, honestly,
you know, the football combat is, is, you know, more of a,
a, a national kind of thing and everything.
When it comes to just like on a local level and certainly on a personal level,
I think it's the smell changes.
Some of that in the temperature certainly.
The temperatures are probably the first thing that I notice.
Yeah, yeah.
Cause I mean, it's the most obvious.
I had to put socks on.
Yeah, right.
Right.
And I am wearing long sleeves, like I put a hoodie on.
I, uh, I run, I run Sam out and everything, usually barefoot.
Uh, when I have to start wearing, uh, you know, something on my feet.
I said, okay, yeah, let's start.
Yeah.
So, but you're probably still wearing shorts.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely as long as I can, as long as I can.
I will be wearing them possibly into December.
Who knows?
Uh, I'm one of those people with the park.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Uh, we want to hear from you.
What is, what is your, uh, beginning of fall?
What is your beginning of, uh, you know, end of summer?
Uh, what are the signs to you, the telltale signs for you?
715-424-2600.
Call their text us through the Civic Media app.
And I'm interested to know if it's changed over your lifetime.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Good follow up.
Good follow up.
Because I think that the, with, with kids in the house, you know,
that makes a difference once the kids are gone or if you've never had kids.
Um, like myself, although I did work at a school.
Yeah.
So when I worked at a school, it was different, but yeah.
So that's an interesting thought.
A new poll just in time for, uh, for this, uh, looked at the most loved condiments in America.
Uh, as, as we're ending, I guess this is another side of it.
Uh, I don't know.
Well, because this is probably, you know, people grilling out this weekend might be the last time before you put your grill away.
Right on, yeah.
Yeah.
So, uh, which, uh, the ones we love the most isn't ketchup or mustard.
Oh.
They asked 7,000 people, pretty good number of people.
Uh, they asked about the four big ones you'd most likely be putting on your hot dog or burger.
Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and relish.
And the one we love the most is mayonnaise.
Oh, God, James is out.
Wow.
It just really threw me there.
Um, I actually, I love mayo on a burger.
I love it.
Not on a hot dog, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I've never put mayo on a hot dog unless it's my mother's big Frank's and she's turning it into a sandwich spread or a veggie pate as it were.
Then you need the mayonnaise and the pickle relish.
That, uh, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So, 30% of Americans love mayo, 29% love ketchup, pretty close race right there.
Uh, 25% love mustard, and just 13% like relish.
Yeah, relish, not as big as it used to be.
Almost more of a, just a throw on kind of thing.
Well, the word relish, what, what does that mean?
Yes.
I think, you know, now I know the answer.
That's a pretty broad spectrum.
For the audiences sake, we should look that up.
James, right?
No, tell me right now what it is.
James, tell me.
I, don't, don't look it up.
Don't do it.
If I'm on jeopardy and I have to say, I'm going to, I'm going to make a fool of myself right now.
I'm going to say it's, it's like chopped up pickles or, or, or like, um, you know, chopped up cucumbers or something like that.
Not cucumbers, but, uh, what am I thinking of?
I don't know.
I've had right.
You're right.
You are right.
You're right.
Yeah.
It is chopped up pickles typically, but there's a variety of relishes.
No, I need a second.
I never get these things right.
Okay.
There we go.
I'll never do this.
Somebody marked this down.
I actually got that right.
I can't believe that.
That's it.
Oh, yeah.
No, you're right.
Um, but there's, there's a variety of relishes.
You can have sweet pickle relish.
You can have pickle relish.
You can have, um, chutney is a relish, but it's very different than pickle relish.
Um, even, even something like sauerkraut could be considered a relish.
Huh.
Well, if you include people who just like them, uh, then ketchup reigns supreme.
85% of us like or love ketchup.
Mayo is at 80% mustard 78 and relish at 58%.
But, um, part of the thing that I think it was a surprise to people is not, is not just mayo and how popular it is.
But the, you know, it hasn't really shown it in the sales of mayo.
Like that, that hasn't really risen or changed or not risen or fallen either.
Uh, it's just kind of stayed steady.
Well, and then there's also the debate of mayo or miracle whip.
No, that is the big.
They are very different and I prefer a miracle whip.
You see, now even, even though this is not my thing and I couldn't tell you the last time I had any kind of mayo or anything like that, um, I know that debate.
I've heard that debate between my brother and my father because my whole family likes mayo.
I'm the only one that does it.
It's not, it's not that they surprise to no one.
We just, yeah, right.
We didn't, we don't, I wouldn't say we eat a lot of it, but if there's a BLT being made in the house, they're probably putting mayo on it.
You know, I would say there's one or two things instead of miracle whip.
Um, well, I don't know.
Uh, it depends if it's my brother or my dad.
Uh, they will, they will change it up.
I think there was a point at, uh, in time and we, we never had things like this, uh, growing up.
We didn't have a whole lot in the, you know, that we had food, but we didn't always have a lot or anything like that.
But at one point before my brother graduated high school, I remember stopping over there, grabbing a soda or something out of the refrigerator.
And there were both in the, in the fridge.
They had both of them in there.
I think my mom, just finding like you two go ahead and figure it out.
Like, I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done dealing with this.
And I don't know if my mom just didn't like mayo, like Helmens, um, but she only used it for very specific things.
For her potato salad, it had to be miracle whip.
And maybe that was just a safety thing.
Yeah.
Because it wouldn't go bad, you know, you took it to a picnic as easily if it had real mayo at it.
Is this one of those hand to down things too?
Like what your parents made your sandwiches with and what you grew up with.
Or what was available to you at the home?
Yeah.
And if, and if you might choose the opposite, if it's something you hated.
Interesting.
Speaking of that, relish is the most hated of the group around one in seven people.
Fourteen percent can't stand it.
Only four percent of us hate ketchup.
Only four percent.
That's, I don't know if that's high or low.
I can't, I can tell of that one.
But American ketchup is very different than like ketchup in European countries.
We have so much sugar in our ketchup that they don't even like, I mean, it's kind of like our bread.
Yeah.
Subway bread.
It's like it's not bread.
It's a dessert.
But their ketchup is not sweet at all.
I am a gigantic fan of sugar.
There is no getting around it.
But I don't like sugar where I don't want it.
I like ketchup.
Marinera?
Yes.
No, no, no.
It doesn't need it.
You're taking away from the Marinera.
You're taking away from the greatest gifts we've been given into the food world.
What, okay, but what do you dip your french fries in, James?
I'm a ketchup, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
You just can't go wrong with that salty and the sweet.
Yeah, yeah, you can't, yeah, you're right.
And by the way, that four percent of people that hate ketchup, I guarantee you two percent of that is out of Chicago.
I guarantee you that two percent of that isn't.
And just because of that.
It's just a hot dog part.
You got to have it on a burger.
The cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
You got to have it on a burger.
But I don't know if you've never got a...
And I'll be...
I've been honest about this my whole life.
I don't know necessarily what ketchup on a hot dog tastes like.
I'm sure I...
I'm sure it wouldn't blow my mouth away and everything.
Oh, my God.
I'm sure it is.
I'm sure it is.
I like all of them.
I will put ketchup mustard relish on a hot dog.
I've never tried mail.
I'd probably do it though, but it just seems like a lot.
Can I confess something just between you and I, Melissa?
Just keep it between us.
Nobody listen.
The only reason I haven't put ketchup on my hot dogs is I want my family to allow me to come back.
I don't really have a...
That might be the thing, the straw that broke the camel's back of...
I might be honest.
I think that might be on thin ice already.
I don't know if this might push me over.
It wouldn't be the one thing, but might be the final straw.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't want to push.
Definitely, definitely, I'm going to take the chance.
But I do want you guys to take the chance out there.
We've got a couple of our great non-profits that are going to be wrapping up for the summer coming up here.
First off, our South Dakota Historical Museum, over at 543rd Street South, right here in Rapids, is in their final week.
They're wrapping things up on August 31st.
Gikes.
It's coming up fast.
I can't believe it.
Yeah.
You still have Sunday, one to four to get on over there and check things out.
Say hi to Phil in the great team that they have over there.
Wish him a great fall in winter from all of us.
I'm sure that Phil will join us sometime in the winter months here to kind of talk a little bit about the next season and what they have going on.
He's always joined us over the years.
We'll be talking with him again soon.
But thank you to them.
Thank you for keeping history alive and well.
And certainly for all the entertainment that they gave to us throughout the whole summer season.
And a lot of great fun.
I still can be had at the Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo at 1911 Gainer Avenue.
Just a stone's throw away from us over here.
That's right.
Wave as you drive around the roundabout.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, any opportunity, one of the things I love about our zoo, it's not gigantic and it's also not small.
I think you can go there and maybe you spend the amount of time that you kind of want to spend out there.
And you can come and go as you like.
They got Helen Zoo House over there.
It's so much fun for the kids.
A lot of great things going on over there and encourage you to check it out.
They will be shutting their doors on September 1st Labor Day.
So get on over there before then.
You have until Sunday, 10 to 7, zoo is open.
You can get on over there, check it out.
And if you get a chance and you see any of the staff members around there, thank them.
They don't get a lot of that.
They don't get enough of that.
We really appreciate having this zoo in our community.
Being animal friendly, having animals in your community.
But it goes so much farther when it comes to not only bringing people to your community, but keeping people in your community.
Yeah.
That zoo is and does a lot more than just to entertain us, everybody.
It's a hidden gem.
It really is.
It really is.
And especially if you haven't been over there in a while, go check it out.
And please do me a favor and say hi to the lemurs.
My daughter would appreciate it.
They know if you don't say hi to them, they know.
They give you a little bit of an attitude.
And they spread it around.
Yep, they will tell the other animals.
Oh my god, animals gossip people.
You definitely want to do that.
They gossip a lot.
Check out our local zoo and a big thank you to them for another great summer.
Melissa, have yourself a good weekend.
Yeah, you too James.
Great work today.
We'll be back with more show.
