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Join by CEO of your United Way of South Woodenham's counties, Terry Johns.
Good morning. Got the band together on a Friday. We're gonna have some fun this
hour. Take you right up to the top of the hour with nothing but good comments
and topics and everything. We want to hear from you out there. Call us up with
any of these topics we're getting into. Let us know what's the most
enlist organized room in your home? We'll get into that one. We've got the state
that produces the best country music. Got that to come on up and get into that.
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entertainment news for now. A little bit later we're getting to our schedule with
some good events going on in our area. Big weekend in the area around here.
But I asked the audience, I asked all of you, you know, what is the band that
kind of threw their hat in the ring to be the wedding band for Taylor Swift and
Travis Kelsey? And I got some nice names there. We're all wrong because even I
got it wrong. What genre? Well, I would say rock, rock and roll. So, you know,
and think older rock and roll. Older bands. Not too old but older bands. Like
care bands. A little before that. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I was mine. I was blown away
by this. I said, yeah. Four ozments. Yeah. No. That's a great one. Yes. Oh, I
wish the ozments. Oh, yes. That'd have been great. Forer. Forer has thrown
that. Forer is campaigning for the next get their next gig to be the they want
to play Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's winning. They posted an open letter
sorts on Instagram and Taylor's the life of a showgirl color scheme saying
quote, dear Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, we know what love is. We spent 40 years
figuring it out. And now you guys have to please, please accept this as our
formal offer to be your wedding band best wishes forer. Flavor Flav of
public enemy fame commented on foreigners post with a series of laughing
emojis and loved it. He lay his enjoying it. In other news, Taylor's future mother
and lord Donna reposted a clip of stand-up comedian, Lini Morgan joking
that Taylor's, yeah, it's some jokes about some things with them. There's no
word on, you know, some of these all this hoopla that is going on with this
story. Seriously, if you would notice your engagement, would you want all these
services like lobbying for, you know what I mean? I can't imagine. Yeah. For
overwhelming. For one, I know I can't imagine anybody would want it. And I also
can't imagine that any of it would work. You know, I have a feeling that if
you're foreigner or anybody else coming out and trying to, you know, latch on
to this, it's about you and not them. And they got, I'm sure that they see that.
And by the way, do you think she hasn't thought of this already? I mean, I can't
imagine how planned, like take your average wedding and the planning that goes
into it. Now think about this. Imagine the planning, like they've already got
this check. But at the same time, regardless of who you are, what the scale is,
you still have in mind. What you know, you know what I mean? Like it's kind of
strange that, but it's also kind of funny. I want so badly for the breaking news to
happen that Travis and Taylor got married in a courthouse. I want that story so
bad. Or they had some stripped down wedding that was just, you know, hey, just
a couple of friends and family and nothing big. Like how cool would that be? We're
all expecting this to be bigger than than a royal wedding. I think it depends what
they want. Well, that's more than a matter of what you know, to be like first and
foremost, 100% agree. I think it's funny, but I do think it'd be kind of cool to see
them go a different route. And I, I don't, I don't discredit anybody doing this. I
just don't, I don't, I think it's tacky for one. But it's also hilarious. It's
also hilarious. And I'll say this to be the first band to do it. That's funny.
That's, that's kind of funny. Yeah, especially forward or vault. You know,
like nobody saw that one. And I like just sitting around on the couch. You know,
what I'm like, oh, I'm jumping on this. You know what? I'm going to send out a
gram. I'm going to get on the gram and do this. That is pretty funny. It's well played
by them. And it turns out everybody foreigner still touring. Still, still at it. Still
at it. I blooded apparently. And it helps be hot blooded. It helps to be hot blooded
at that barely. And thank you. Anybody that got that joke, please. Thank you. Back
in 2013, Randy Travis suffered a massive stroke and spent two days in a coma. It was so
bad that doctors told his wife, Mary, he had less than a 1% chance of living. This is news.
Now we know about this story. We know a lot of the things that Randy has been through.
It is in a recent interview that his wife kind of came out and talked about this particular
moment of this. After months in the hospital battling other complications, the medical
team even suggested that they pull the plug that Mary refused. She was not going to let
this happen. Here's what she said. He squeezed my hand and a tear went down his face. I said,
he is still fighting. Now more than a decade later, Randy is still with us. He uses a wheelchair
much of the time and suffers from asthma, but which limits his ability to speak and sing.
But it is a miracle that he is still here. And I don't use that word lightly. I come from
a family that you don't bring up the word miracle unless you can actually back it up. We
can't even use it in sports like in my family. Like the miracle on ice, that's it. Literally
the only time we could say miracle. That's what that word means in my family. And I don't
say that word lightly. I'm not just reading the article. I think it's a miracle. I think
it's pretty amazing. It's also really amazing. What we can see in each other in those moments,
I think. I don't know that we make enough out of that. Yes, I understand that sometimes it's
the person wanting the person to stay around and wanting this person to fight and all those things.
I know that that can play into it sometimes. But I don't think it's the majority of it. I think
that we really do have a connection. We really do understand that, hey, this person,
you know, my, my, my, my family is going through this a little bit. There are my, my aunt,
who I shared as was, was going through chemotherapy and they told her that her cancer is too rare,
and it will not work. So she, they sent her home. My aunt, Deb, is the definition of a fighter.
And I can't imagine who I would compare her to. She is such a fighter in such a survivor. And she is
by all rights at peace with a lot of this. And I don't know if that surprised me more than this
even happening. You know, I don't know how I would handle these kind of situations. And I'm not
one of these people that pretends to know I would do this or I would do that. You don't know, man.
Until you actually had to do it, you have no idea. I hope to have the grace. I hope to have this
strength that my aunt or Randy Travis or any of these individuals do. And I especially do on the
other side of it of being a survivor and being somebody who is there with these people.
It's, it's, it's a, there's nothing easy about any of this. And I did not have to bring this
topic up. But I thought it was no worthy. And I appreciated this, his wife sharing this.
So going back to Randy Travis, did you see that video like a week ago, two weeks ago, they were
on a commercial airline. And they played like a little medley of his music on there. And it was
so sweet. The video was awesome. It's just the performing he's still doing, even with the
limitations is still noteworthy and still worth it. And I, I've seen comments and video,
videos of people that have gotten to see him recently that never got to see him. And we're so
thankful to see Randy Travis in concert. I know. He was great. Yeah, I know you really
talked highly of him and the work that he did. It's, it's cool to have. And we don't get to do this
very often with artists more times and not we lose them. And, and we're saying this to the wind,
you know, we actually get to say it to him. And again, a credit to his wife, uh, uh,
sharing a lot of this. I, I think that there is a lot of people that are in similar situations
that she has been in and people that will be that can take from this. That can, you know,
being a caregiver is never easy. Yeah, yeah. And that is for sure. Uh, we want to do also take a
look at what's new on your small screen, new on your big screen this weekend. Uh, today on Apple
TV, plus the streaming premier Spike Lee and Dead Zah Washington, or I'm sorry, uh, Denzel's
Washington's new Bert movie, uh, highest to lowest. I got to see that. It looks really good. I've
seen every movie that he's done. I got to see that one. Uh, HBO Max will have the movie, uh,
friendship that took a lot of, um, got a lot of hype over the summer and everything is kind of a
fun movie. Hello, cool, Jay, this Sunday at seven o'clock on CBS MTV and Paramount Plus will host
the 2025 MTV video, video music awards. Hello, cool, Jay. Wow. Yeah. Like foreigners singing
at the wedding. It feels a little like that. The commercial I saw for it. And I think this is
a really good idea. I putting it on ABC is a really smart idea of putting it on basic cable. I
think that that's how you keep these things around. Paramount owns all this stuff anyway. So,
I mean, you might as well, uh, share it on other networks and everything, but the commercial,
the artists that they chose for the commercial were all like, we're big when we were in high school.
Interesting. Well, maybe that's who they're trying to grab. That's what that's all I could think was
that there's not even bothered to try to catch anybody 20 and young. I was going to say because
if they're not connecting with them or it's not resonating with them, you still have a captive
audience in this age group. So maybe they're just, uh, even a white flag. I think I really think
that's a lot of what it is. And actually probably the smartest move they can make, if they want to
keep this thing around. Um, I'm still kind of surprised it is. I don't have a problem with it being
around. I'm just surprised at it. But will you watch it? Uh, no, probably not, probably not,
in be honest. Well, I'm teaching Sunday night. So I can't even if I wanted to. Really? And,
and I'm going to be on replay. And let's be real here, everybody. I know that there are some big
games for your local teams out there this weekend when we're talking high school and college football,
but the NFL is back. That's all that matters. Sunday night football, baby. Bills Ravens,
possible AFC championship game matchup week one Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. Come on, come on.
There's nothing else to watch. What is the other thing is to watch? Nothing, but infomercials out
there. Don't even bother programming. Just watch football. Uh, or just me, just me feeling that way.
Maybe I actually think that it, you look at counter programming. Okay, we're not going to beat
football. What can we do to counter that? Right. In a award show that's live that is also similar to
okay, I have to watch this wall. It's happening. Uh, in order if I'm going to tweet about it,
if I'm going to do any of these things social media wise and it's a live event, you have to watch
it wall. It's happening. I, uh, that's a smart play on their part as far. There's plenty of people
as, as hard as it might be to imagine to sum out there. There's plenty of people that are not
insane about football like I am. They need, they want something to watch MTV, you know, movie or
musical words might be the good alternative. It's, uh, I, I don't know that there's a perfect
time to go up against the NFL. There, there, there's nobody beaten that. So what you're hoping to do
is, you know, scrape some people maybe even at halftime or something like that. Uh, should be good.
No, um, not a lot of new movies out. Uh, you're not going to be seeing a lot of new movies coming out
probably until closer to, uh, Halloween and you get your horror run movies and everything.
Getting ahead of that, uh, is the conjuring last rights rated are really the only movie in
why release, uh, Patrick Wilson, Vera Fleming are back, uh, based on true stories loosely,
loosely, I mean, you know, but it's this one's based on the, uh, Smirl, uh, haunting in Pennsylvania,
which is one of the more famous ones. You know, the first, well, I don't know, what is this?
Like in the number of countries, well, the first one, that was like the age of, you know, probably
like one of my daughters was probably like that 14 issue. You know, that intrigue age of this.
And it was just like, I'm in the, like, I'm in the kitchen and I can just hear the TV and I'm like,
oh my goodness, what is going on? The first one I didn't mind, it was more suspense than horror.
It looks like they've just kind of gone more into the horror as it's gone on. I'm not watching any of them.
I don't mind a good suspense movie. Horror bores me. Horror, I've yet to see a horror movie that
really got me engaged and I really enjoyed it. I just like the Freddie Krueger movies, but that
went, but I was that age. You know what I mean? Like I don't, but I thought they were funny.
Like I thought Freddie was funny. I didn't, I never got scared of him or anything. I don't mind
being scared. I mean, scare me. I think you grew up. Exactly. Knives on, knives on figures aren't
going to bother you. No, no. It's like you got to try harder, man. You're going to this whole
burnt face thing in the fedora. It's not first off. It doesn't match. I mean, who dressed you Freddie?
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We will take a quick time out. We'll come back and when we get back, we're going to talk about
the, uh, let's get into the best, the states that produce the best country music. We'll keep
the entertainment story. All right. When we come back on the morning show.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great Friday out there. Thanks so much for joining Terry and I.
You know, keep the entertainment topic going a little bit. I had to play some tailor
because we were talking about her and I feel like that's a rule that you have to play at least a
little over. You better start getting them going. We'll keep moving. We'll keep moving. You
don't want me to sing. Last week, Luke Combs made headlines by saying the best country music comes
from the state of Kentucky. He said he wanted to say North Carolina where he's from but the blue
grass state just has too much star power. Uh, and this kind of brought up the debate and not an angry
debate. It's been kind of a fun back and forth with a lot of country artists and country fans.
I haven't seen anything negative about this. It's just been kind of fun. I love these kind of
questions and things that propose because there's no wrong answer really when it comes down to it.
It's, it's all opinion based and there's no, you know, science or anything like that involved.
So let's get into this. What state produces the best country music?
To be fair, Chris Stapleton is from Kentucky. It's hard to argue that name alone, right?
Like if that's the only name we mentioned out of Kentucky, but there's some other good ones here.
Here is a list of the states that produce the best country music according to Whiskey Rift.
And you can go to whiskeyrift.com to see the complete list if you'd like. Of course, Texas.
We have to mention Texas. Not only the king George straight from there, but you got Willie Nelson,
Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert. Come on, come on. So when you first introduced this topic,
I thought you meant like where the music is actually like,
produce, not where the artists are. You know what I mean? Right where they were born.
Yeah, where the artists were born or something. Yeah, it isn't as clear as I'd like it to be.
But I, now there's a fun category, but I feel like Nashville. Like, you know, that's the
other way. Well, that's where Wendy. Why do you even brought out like, why are you even bringing this up?
Yeah, we all know who the number one is. Yeah, that regard. But I think Texas is a strong,
strong contender for this one. But then you got Oklahoma. You got Riva McIntyre,
Kerry Underwood, Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, the late great Toby Keith, like Oklahoma represent.
They might pull ahead of some of the others that you've listed.
Kentucky, the mentioned before, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childress, Keith Whitley,
Sturgel Simpson, honorable, honorable mention. I think a good one, but I don't know that they're
cracking the top 10 here or top five or anything. Well, they literally cracked the top five.
But they're at the bottom of the top five.
Jeez. Alabama. Of course, Alabama is going to represent here.
Jason Isbell, Riley Green, Ella Langley, and of course, Alabama, one of the greatest
harmonies bands you'll ever hear. That's a good list right there. Those are some good ones.
Yeah, Alabama. I think Texas and Oklahoma might be like taking it.
West Virginia's got some definitely worth mentioning. Charles Wesley Godwin,
Sierra Farrell, Brad Paisley is from West Virginia.
Tennessee should be in there too. Tennessee's got some good ones.
There's other states that I think maybe have one or two that probably can get in the running
of this, but you might be surprised. California has got quite a few country stars from it over,
but a lot of them more older country stars from there. You've got, but I don't,
I mean, I don't know that there could be an absolute winner in this.
Where are we in the list?
How is Texas not the number one? I think that that's a pretty fair one right there,
but I think that that's a good question. You know, anybody from a country stars from Wisconsin.
Let's see what we got here. P. We King, classic country singer, Dave Dudley,
and Chris Cruzy, Bradley, Bradley, Brady Lee. Got a handful.
Oh, yeah.
We're starting to represent Wisconsin getting in there. That's a good one.
I think there's some other great ones too out there too that I'm just, I'm even not thinking of
or they're just artists that they don't really know it very often.
Yeah, let's see here the complete list. I wanted to take a look at this one too,
because to see if they have any other states mentioned. And it's kind of funny how this gets going.
It really took a whole other like just Chris, just Luke Holmes just said this casually.
Just mentioned that almost out of the corner of his mouth. And it turned into this whole thing.
Wow. Showed you somebody's listening.
Shout out to North Carolina, Eric Church, Luke Holmes, Randy Travis, Scott McCruery, Chase Rice.
You've also got Town Mountain and the avid brothers. So North Carolina getting in there on that one.
That's a great. They got some more than some others. Tennessee, Dolly Parton, Kenny Chesney,
Ernest, Chris Young, Jelly Roll, Larry Fleet, Gabby Lee, Kelsey Bellonari, Tommy Pine,
Georgia. Shoot. Oh, I got to mention Georgia. Oh, I was forgot to mention Georgia. Shout out to
our friends and our listeners in Georgia, Alan Jackson, Luke Bryant, Trishie Yearwood,
Megamaroni, Kit Moore, Zach Brown Bam, Blackberry Smoke, Jack Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett,
Tennessee's really got to be represented on this one. That's a, no, that was Georgia.
Oh, I'm in Georgia. Yeah, that was Georgia. Yeah, yeah, Georgia got it. That's a big one right now.
And I think Arkansas. That was one of the sneaky ones. Justin Moore, Tracy Lawrence,
Ashtamick Bride, Joe Nichols, Whalen Wyatt. That's a pretty good representation out of Arkansas
that I wouldn't have expected. And there's some fun ones out there. Mississippi, Louisiana,
California, all got honorable mentions. Kind of fun to check it out. I find it fun. I like
learning where people are from. I don't think it really has a whole lot of rhyme or reason to it.
I just think it's kind of a fun thing to get into. And we'd love to hear from you.
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time out. Get to our news, sports and entertainment break. Take care of our partners. And when Terry and I
get back, we have to get into a harsh topic, Terry. It is a difficult one. I'm sorry, but it's been a
while since you've been here and I got to do this. What's the most and least organized room in your
home? And we need to be honest with each other. It's a safe place. We've got to be honest. We'll
get into that when we come back on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at 9755 FM 1320 AM WFHR.
Terry and James hanging out with you. Thanks for hanging out with us. We hope you're having a great
Friday out there. We want to hear from you. This topic needs to be shared with all of us. We
all this a safe place. We all need to be honest with each other. And we're talking organization
and not so organized. Is keeping your home organized, quote organized, the same as keeping it clean?
Or is it more like a place for everything and everything in its place? That kind of thing.
I don't think it's the same. No, no, I don't. A new poll looked at the most organized rooms in
the average room and average home. And that's what we're going to get into. But let's focus on
that part first about the organized or clean part because I do think there is a big difference with
those. But yeah. And I think it can, you can be clean and still maybe have clutter or not be
super organized. You know what I mean? Like, I think, although I will say that my most organized
rooms probably are my cleanest rooms. But I don't really consider any of, I mean, I don't know.
I don't think it's the same. No, I do think it's not a huge difference. But I do think there
is a bit of a difference, especially when you look at like a boy asking any kid to clean the room.
And it may look organized, but I don't know if it's clean. But to that point, though, to me,
I don't in my mind like dirty and messy are not the same thing. Agreed. Like a room can be clean
and it can be messy. You know what I mean? Like, there can be stuff all over, but it's still clean.
If there is, yeah, yeah, if there is one kid in the home, I, you know, I don't, I clean, yes,
messy, understandable, understandable. You know, it'd be almost more shocked if it isn't a little
better. So it's kind of like, if you think about it, clean and organized, dirty and messy,
I don't think that they're interchangeable. Yeah. I agree. I agree. They're different.
Wouldn't have thought of it, but I agree. A new poll looked at the most organized rooms in the
your average home, and we're going to look at the most unorganized as well. Well, the number one
on the list for the tidiest spot in your place here at the top five, they say the living room.
45% of Americans claim that their living room is, quote, very organized. And only 4% say it is a
total disaster. That 4% are single men. I know what I'm talking about. I could say that.
When it comes to that, that people that are organized in that, again, that's, that's a
here or there, you know, it kind of is one of those things that what is organized to you.
But I do think that that makes sense. So I mean, I think, yeah, mine definitely is,
but I also don't have that much stuff in there. You know what I mean? Like I feel like it's just
like the couches, the TV, and then like decorations. It's not like I'm trying to store anything
in the living room. Like in a kitchen or a bathroom. Yeah. So yeah, fair. It's also the room that
we're, you know, we, when we do have company over or somebody comes to the door, we know that's
what they're going to see. So even if nothing else is really organized in the house, that living room
is usually organized. The, which is interesting too, because it's such, so frequently used. So
that's interesting. The main bathroom is next on most organized. 44% believe that that is. Yeah.
So when you first said, you know, this topic, that's the first thing I thought of. I'm like, okay,
mine is definitely my bathrooms are the cleanest because and clean and organized. 100% yeah. I
would say that the bathroom may even be more organized than the living room, although it's very
close. It's a close race. The kitchen comes up next at 42% makes sense. And yeah, kitchen, I think
there's aspects of my kitchen that are very organized, but then there's also like where's the
junk drawer in the kitchen. Right. Right. Yes. 100% 100% you know, you've got a pantry or a
cupboard or a shelf somewhere that's just not organized. Well, I do. My mom is, my mom is very
similar. She is a neat freak. And she raised three borderline neat freaks with between my brother
sister and I. And one of the things for her that she needs in that kitchen is a, as a junk drawer,
a drawer that is not organized. And that's the point of it that you can just throw stuff in.
She, when they were redoing their kitchen, it was that lazy Susan she wanted and a junk drawer.
But I'm like, mom, you're good. You can make whatever drawer you want. The junk drawer,
they're like, no, I have to have a junk drawer. It's such a common thing. It's interesting.
The dining room comes in next at 37% as most organized. Probably depends if you use it or not.
Yeah. Yeah. It may be organized because of lack of use. And your bedroom at 33%.
You know, don't you think there's that whole thing like I can just like we are door open people.
Like we're not, you know what I mean? Like we don't keep doors shut per se. But like you can
shut the door, right? If somebody comes, you can shut the bedroom doors. Or I also, I'm just really
bad about I, I just set stuff on my dresser. But then that stuff's still there when I set the
next stuff there. You know, so like I have this, I feel like I have this perpetual pile.
And even if I go through it, the pile might get smaller, but it never actually like goes all the way
away. My bed hates me. My bed hates me. It is a bed. You have stuff on your bed.
It was built to be, it was built to sleep it. That's what it was built for. And I use it more
at like that, which you're talking about. I use my bed for that. I throw stuff on my bed all the time.
And not clothes, but like just, you know, paperwork or things. When I was a kid, I did that. Like,
I think I had, you know, like a full size bed, but I only slept on half of it. Yeah.
For me, it was always clothes like clean laundry. You know, it would just get piled up.
It happens, especially laundry. That's one of those ones. If you don't put away right away,
you're going to get a pile. You know, we were having this debate.
Bait last night. I was with some friends, girlfriends got together and we were talking about
if you make you better or not. And I, but I like, I'm a bed maker. Well, I'm not. Last one out has
to make the bed. I'm usually the first one up. But, but like, you know, it's, but it to me,
it's just always made and stuff. We just don't have, I don't know. We don't stuff stuff on there.
Are you particular about the how the bed is made? Absolutely.
Okay. Yes. And a throw has to go to the foot of the bed because the dog likes to jump up there.
Oh. So, you know, I mean, I'd rather take that off and throw it or, you know, wash it. It's easier
than trying to wash my whole comforter and stuff. So, yes, absolutely.
Now, on the other end of the list, can you guess what the least organized spot in your
average home is? Do you want to take a shot of the basement counter? That's a good, that's a good
guess. Laundry room? Those are good. Those are good. I don't know. Looking at this one, and again,
it is really close by the percentages. The garage comes in at number one, 12% say the garage or shed
is a little mess. I don't think about it. I didn't either. And it's attached, but I just don't think
of it as the house. I feel like they're kind of cheating with that one a little bit. But yeah,
yeah, ours is not organized very well. Even an organized garage has some chaos to it. Yeah.
And the closet comes in next to 90%. Oh, well. Wouldn't have thought of that either, but yes,
it does count. I get that. And then at number three, the basement at 8%. So, yes, good points to
you, Terry. That was pretty good. I wouldn't have thought of it, though, but yes, the basement makes
sense. And the other bedroom, so if you have an extra bedroom, 8% said that one would be. And
especially if you had kids in it at one point, but they're out of the house now, they're saying that
that room, you don't really know what to do with it yet. So, you're just throwing things in there.
You know, that's funny. I've been saying probably this whole calendar year. You know, like, oh, I
want to get this done at home or organize that or cheat or whatever. And then our youngest daughter
left for college. And so I kept saying all spring, oh, I'll do it after she leaves. Oh, I'll do it
after she leaves. Well, now she's gone. And I'm like, oh, oh, time has come. I got to get going on
some of this stuff. Yeah. And that's even funnier coming from you because you don't not procrastinate
really. It's not your thing. Yeah, I know. But I was just like, oh, no.
Your home office comes in finally on this list is most organized.
A 6% said it's a disaster. Lots of clutter on the desk. That is kind of a home office. That's kind of,
you know, I kind of have a room like that that I just feel like sometimes like stuff that I
whatever. I'm not going to get rid of yet or I'm not sure about. And I feel like it just goes
in there. And ironically, when my kids were little, I feel like I kept up on it better. And now
that was one of those rooms where I'm like, oh, I got to get this room done.
There's enough stuff in there where you're like, okay, I'm only going in there if I have to.
And it's the kind of thing where like you tell people, I'm going in there. If I don't come out
in 15 minutes, you got to go in there and get me. Or if someone else is going in there to get
something, I'll be like, you be careful for my, you know, it's like, well, if it wasn't on
the floor, you probably wouldn't have to be so careful for it. That room turns into like the
ending of poltergeist where you're wrapping a rope around your waist before you go in there.
Like, okay, I don't talk if I'm, if I'm tugging on this, you pull me in.
If it gets that bad, it is not that bad. It's probably not that bad.
If it gets that bad, I have a problem. It might be, might be, I have some props.
The poll also found that, and this is a little shocking, women do most of the organizing
in the average household. Who saw that coming? Who I didn't know that's not shocking at all.
That's not shocking. 74% of women said that they're mostly other ones who handle it.
42% of men. So not that, I mean, a big difference, but not gigantic where it's like 5% of men
or something like that. I think, um, I, but they're self-declaring that.
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very good point. Uh, yes. And they even say in the article
of Pateria, uh, claimed they actually do. That's a good, good point for you.
And, uh, if you're, if you're a guy looking for a fight, be sure to mention the last stats,
because I'm sure that I'll go over well. Now, women were more likely to say that they actually
enjoy doing it. 23% of men, women said that they love organization. Uh, still though,
that's 20% of men. So not that big of a difference when it comes to that. Women were also
twice as likely to say that they hate it though. 4% of women compared to 2% of men. So not big
numbers right there. I don't, I, I enjoy it being organized. I don't know if I enjoy the process
of doing it, especially if you get behind. You know what I mean? Like if you're just doing it,
like regularly, but like if you get a little behind, it's like, it's a great way to put it,
I think, um, I, I, when things are organized, my brain is working, is going to work better. Uh,
when there's chaos going on and in my, how, my room is a mess or something, uh, I can sit there
and try to focus on writing this commercial, but I'm going to be thinking about what my laundry
is piled up over there or something like that. That's why I don't you think about like when we
went through this little and seems like people are coming back now, but this whole like work from
home. Yeah. You know, like you have to wonder about productivity. Yeah. Yeah. You do. Oh,
absolutely. Yeah. Um, well, I think that there are, and we've learned this, you know,
there are plenty of jobs that it works for and everything. Um, it's the person that I don't think
we've thought about enough, the job being able to do it from home or something cool. That's great.
I'm glad we figured that out. Cool. That we have the technology, but I don't, I think we, um,
overestimated or underestimated the individual and what that would do to them. And if they would
be good for them or not. Yeah. Um, I personally would have no interest in working from home.
I want those things separated. I work at home enough. I don't want to, I don't want to never leave
the home and doing my job. That's me personally just speaking on this. But it's like what you said.
You're like, Oh, that pile of laundry is looking at me. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And, and it's much
of a workaholic as I am and all that. My work ethic I would put up against most. I'm going to be
thinking about that laundry when I'm trying to write the commercial and you still get it all done.
Yeah. You know, it just might be in a little bit different way, but it's also just kind of like,
you know, we're, which way do you write? Right. Right. You go. And your brain doesn't need that
kind of added stress. Yeah. Things will get done when they get done. They'll get done.
We will take a quick time out. We look forward to hearing from you on this one, though,
everybody. You share. You got to share. Terry and I shared. You got to share. It's only fair.
We will come back and have some more fun here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back for one more time for the week. Everybody to the morning show.
Terry and I here to wrap up the show for the week. Thank you so much for joining us all week.
Long. We appreciate you. Appreciate you listeners out there joining us.
Certainly appreciate all of our guests, our co-hosts, our great sponsors. We can't do it without you.
We appreciate y'all being here. We'll be back at this next week. We'll have some fun. Kick off
the week. I believe Melissa, Seth and I will get together and hang out and we got some great fun,
exciting things happening here at the station over the next couple of weeks. We're going to be
diving into. Let you guys know what's going on behind the curtain here and everything. But I encourage
you to stick around, hang out with us and be waiting for some really fun, interesting things that
we're going to be doing here at WFHR as we gear up and get ready for November and celebrating 85
strong years here in Wisconsin Rapids. I'm looking forward to it. We'll get an update from Terry
in the United Way in a moment. But I did want to mention catch, catch, Texas to keyword catch.
You can get yourself a, I love the idea of somebody just immediately grabbing the phone and
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And you'll have a chance to win a four pack of brewers tickets to see the brewers take on the
Cardinals on Saturday, September 13. Texas that word catch, get in on the winning. We're pulling
for you everybody. Got a great wrap and support to wrap up the week in part one. We're going to
speak with representative Scott Krug. Wisconsin State Assembly District 72 representative. Scott
and I are going to have a, we haven't gotten to talk in a month or so. So we got a lot of catching
up to do, looking forward to that interview. That'll be available a little bit later. And then also
and the Rapids report today, we're going to be speaking with Wood County Health and Human Services
departments. We've got Jeff and Sue to join us along with Linda. We're going to get into the baby,
the safe haven baby box topic and talk about that a bit. Certainly one of the bigger topics here in
Rapids. Very interesting. So we'll be getting into both of those. Both those great interviews will
be available for you at wfhr.com this afternoon. Be on the lookout for them. And then of course
playmakers from four to five today. Join set the night on one oh five five WRI as we will be your
pregame for some great high school football. We'll talk about that. Talk about the NFL schedule.
Get into some MLB as well as the brewers and along with the rest of Major League Baseball are
gearing up for the playoffs. Plenty to talk about on playmakers. Big thank you to quality plus
printing sponsoring that hour. We appreciate the team over there. And I mentioned high school football
DC Everest at Lincoln. Terry I say those two teams and I know as a proud Lincoln grad like myself
that rivalry right there. It it to spark something. I immediately I just see the initials DC and
immediately it sparks something. That's going to be a really good game. Michael and I last Wednesday
on playmakers are previewing this a little bit. Both teams oh and two Lincoln a little understandable
new coaching staff new scheme a lot of those things DC is a little surprised to be over two.
I mean I kind of like it. Oh yeah see me. No honesty I put your empathy away man with all that
you're you're almost guaranteed a good game. Like this is going to be a good one. We got to
for you our pregame kicks off at 650. Join Mike Randy Seth. They're going to have a great one for
you over on 105 WRI. Join us all season long as we cover high school sports like nobody else in
the state. Nobody's bringing you the as much high school sports as we are. We have we have the stats
to back that up. But we're proud of that. We also want to remind you that we are here at WFHR the
home of your Wisconsin Badger Badgers. We are looking forward to bringing you more Badger football
this Saturday. One o'clock Badgers taking on mid Tennessee. Obviously should be a win should be
a W. But with this with this new team and and some of the approach they they've dialed back the
air raid offense and they're getting back to a little more of the ground and pound that traditional
Wisconsin offense. They've leaned more into that. They brought in some different linemen. It's
going to take keep in I hope that college football fans can keep in mind. These first two weeks of
the season are preseason games. That's what this is essentially. There's anybody that tells you
that they know who's going to be good and who's going to be bad right now. They got they got
something else to sell you to. I'm sure nobody knows. Nobody has any idea. We'll figure it out though.
We'll be watching. We'll be figuring it out. That's for sure. We'll be talking about it on
playmakers next week. Be sure to join us for that. Looking forward to it. We have a couple of
important events. We want to the note. One of them is happening right now until three o'clock.
Our good friends over to Southwark County YMCA at six one West Grand Avenue have the blood drive
happening today from 10 to three. Head on over there and donate if you can. We greatly appreciate
you doing so everybody. All you heroes out there that can donate. We appreciate it again from 10
to three. Southwark County YMCA is taking blood donations.
Our good friends at this historic point boss have their harvest fair happening tomorrow from 10
to four. Get on over there. Check out some of the demonstrations of the apple juice pressing the
sourcrout making. Some of those. I love sourcrout. They have the homemade sourcrout is what I
hear is what people really love. Like they like sourcrout but it's homemade. They also have a
foraging class for beginners. You can sign up for and encourage you to do that. That seems like
it'd be a lot of fun too. I'd like to do that one. Enjoy all of these events and if you have
been to this event at any point in the last 10 years, you're going to notice hey those prices
haven't changed. Wait a minute. The prices change on everything. How have they not changed there?
Well it's very purposeful by the people at this historic point boss. They always want this to be a
family friendly event and affordable to families. They have our back. Let's have theirs. Let's show up
at these events and help them keep history alive over at 364 Wiggly Road in beautiful Nikusa. You
can find out more at historicpointboss.com. I hope it's a great event to everybody.
Head Sheriff Becker in this week. We were talking and one of the things that I was asking him about
is when it comes to these bike shares that he does. Does he do any training? Does he do anything
that he gets into for a body? He just loves these things and we got another one coming up.
The River Riders bike share fall community bike ride with Wood County Sheriff Sheriff Becker.
Going to be going on at Lake Wasitia White Sands Beach. Wednesday, September 10th. The ride starts
at 6. Meet at the River Riders bike share station in the parking lot at White Sands Beach.
Riders receive a free bike shirt as long as their supplies last. This come become kind of a
tradition. Sounds fun. It'll be a good time. Be sure to bring the kids come on by and see if you can
outpace Mr. Becker there. Good luck. He's a good chick. Do you think that's part of it? I have no
idea. I'm guessing they have like a paste bike, right? Like Alfred? Right, I would like that. I
think that'd be fun. They have a great time with this event. Be sure to be a part of that if you
can, everybody. And again, bring the kids. It's going to be a good one. And I wanted to remind
everyone as well that the South O'Connie Humane Society have their 5K 9 walk run happening
coming up on the 20th September 20th over at Red Sands Pavilion. Be sure to sign on up for that.
Get on over to their website and sign up, register. Get yourself one of those shirts if you can
and be a part of this one. Well-behaved dogs current on rabies vaccinations are welcome to this
event. So that's nice that that'll be a part of it. And no matter what, you are a part of the
great work that they're doing over there at the Humane Society. When you show up at these events,
spread the word about them. Gonna have raffles, merchandise, bake sale, brought fry, all kinds of
cool things going on with our Humane Society. Be sure to find out more in register at SWCHS.com,
SWCHS.com or follow them. If you make sure to follow them on Facebook and you can reach out that
way as well. And one more quick reminder that we are going to be a part of the 25th annual downtown
Grand Affair going on this Sunday from 10 to 3 right here in the heart of Rapids. Join us for this
creative fun and time with our vendors and our ag industry. It's going to be family friendly,
free. It's free for everybody. Come on down. Check this out. Check out the creepers car crews.
That's going to be fun. Maybe get some items for the holidays coming up and get that checked
off your to-do list, all of that. And of course, we're going to be broadcasting live and direct
from down there. We'll have Melissa down there for a while then Seth from 11 to 1. Join us on 105,
WIRI. We'll be broadcasting about this one. One more quick reminder to the community.
West Grand Avenue, West Jackson Street. First Avenue South from West Grand Avenue bridge to fourth
will be closed to traffic for vendors and pedestrians. Traffic during the event. Keep that in mind
everybody. You know, navigated accordingly. In Terry, I wanted to wrap up just reminding everybody
again, about the billion things that you guys have going on over there. I give you two minutes
to do that. That creates an issue, doesn't it, right? Like a billion things. But there is a lot going on.
Yeah, absolutely. So I think the most notable at this point is that if you are elderly or disabled
and need help getting your yard raked of this year, you can sign up for our annual day of caring.
That will happen on October 25th. We are currently taking registrations for yards. You have to do
that over the phone by calling 715-421-0390. And then of course, we're taking registrations for
rakers, right? For people to come on out and help us get those yards cleaned up. So those are
those are not worthy. And then, you know, the other big thing is just this is campaign season for us.
So, you know, we say it's go time. We've got a lot of companies that are out there fundraising for
us within their workforce. We have, you know, put out some general information through social media.
We've sent out some things by mail. But, you know, we invite the entire community to join us in
this effort and make a donation to the United Way campaign. There's some really important things
about that. One, especially is that all the dollars stay local. So if you make a donation to us,
those dollars stay here in our community and, you know, are doing like really, really hyper local
things, right? So we're helping to fund 29 local programs. And this is an investment. And the
the other part of giving is that no gift is too large. No gift is too small. So even if you know,
you say, well, you know, I can't do much. I could only do this. I could do $5, $10, $20,
whatever that is gets partnered with everyone else's donation. And that's how we make the impact.
It all adds up. Go to USWAC dollar to find out more and have a great weekend, everybody.
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