Scat with Kat (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

And thanks for kicking it off with us right here at 97-5 FM.

13, 20 AM, WFHR, locally grown radio.

Contros James here, Katrina Hintners with us as well.

We're kicking off the 10 o'clock hour, though,

with some new friends of ours.

We have Jesse Johnson with us,

membership engagement coordinator

with the Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes.

And Jesse, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves

to the audience, put a name to the voice.

Hi, everyone, my name is Jesse.

I am the membership engagement coordinator

with Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes.

I help all girls and volunteers

have an amazing Girl Scout experience

here in Central Wisconsin.

Thank you for being here, Jesse.

Appreciate the time.

And we have Amy Schultz with us, Chief Operating Officer

with our Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes.

And Amy, it is good to have you with us.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for having us.

Appreciate you both being here.

If you don't mind, and I feel like when we talk about

organizations, Girl Scouts pretty well known.

Most people understand and have seen Girl Scouts

for many different reasons.

If you're like me and your sister was a part of it,

or of course the cookies and so many other things.

But we don't get a chance very often

to talk about the mission of Girl Scouts.

Can we start there just touching on that real quick, Amy?

Absolutely.

Our mission is to build Girl Scouts

of Courage, Confidence, and Character.

So everything we do and our ultimate goal

for all of our Girl Scouts who go through the program

is that we have girls that have Courage,

Confidence, and Character.

And you know what else?

They make the world a better place.

Mm-hmm.

And we've seen this for decades through the Girl Scouts.

And the work that it does with these kids

and the confidence they're able to build

from so many of the different programs

and different things that Girl Scouts do.

In this day and age, especially,

it's wonderful to have an organization like this.

You can't have enough things like this for kids

and one in particular like this.

Now, with that said, we are also, you know,

always looking for people to be a part of this.

And certainly kids, you know, if you've got kids out there

then you've been on the fence about being

apart of Girl Scouts.

We've got a couple of events that we might want to check out.

But we're also looking for leaders, Jesse.

And I kind of wanted to touch on that a little bit.

We are definitely, the Girl Scouts experience

really starts with our amazing volunteers that we have.

They help provide that mission and kind of direct

those activities.

So we actually have an amazing event coming up.

Next week, on October 2nd, from 430 to 530,

at Grove Elementary School here in Wisconsin Rapids.

And it's really for all girls

and their moms, parents, grandma's, caregivers,

anybody who might be interested in helping provide

that amazing Girl Scouts experience.

So we definitely invite you to stop by

or have some fun activities,

provide some additional information,

and hopefully get some new troops set up

for additional experiences for girls.

And when it comes to people that are thinking about doing

this and everything, I don't want to say

that it'd make light of it or anything,

but it's not a huge time commitment.

It's not something that's going to take away

huge chunks of your day or weeks or anything like that.

So that part, I think, helps people a little bit

with as far as being able to,

oh, can I see myself doing this?

It's actually really, really simple.

The time commitment that you put in

is really the time that you get to spend

with your Girl or your Girl Scout.

So even though it might take you a little time

to plan a meeting, you're getting to spend that time

with your Girl and that even today,

that's so important to be able to spend that time.

And Girl Scouts has made it so easy

for volunteers to get involved.

We have meetings pre-planned,

we have experienced boxes that are mailed out to new leaders.

We have older Girls that love to come in

and help run meetings for our younger troops as well.

So really, we have an amazing support system

behind the scenes to make sure that every troop leader

or volunteer has an amazing experience.

My sister was in Girl Scouts,

and was a Brownian in Girl Scouts and everything.

And she was so excited that when she became a mom,

she was gonna be able to put her kids in Girl Scouts

and she had two boys.

So she is, I think, a good example of somebody

that maybe you were in Scouts and you like to go back.

I know a lot of former Scouts like to come back

and be a mentor or be a leader in some regard.

But it also reminds me of people who,

maybe this was something you wanted to do as a kid

and you maybe weren't able to or something.

We weren't able to do this only being out here

and living in rapids and stuff

as the reason my sister was able to.

When it comes to that,

this is a great opportunity for you as an adult.

You get a chance to kind of be,

experience being a Girl Scout a little bit

and certainly getting a note that world a little.

So there's so many reasons to be a part of this.

And to also, I'm thinking of this talking

to some of our other friends out there

and a lot of the seniors out there,

a lot of people out there may be looking for volunteer hours

or things to add to your college resume

or something like that.

Girl Scouts is one of those great organizations

that looks darn good on a resume, everybody.

It's a great opportunity in there.

And all of this said,

I haven't even told you the best part.

And it's investing in our kids,

it's investing in our future,

it's putting the time into that.

There are a lot of great people out there

and we have a wonderful community

and puts a lot of time and money into nonprofits

and into organizations like this.

We greatly appreciate that.

But when you have an opportunity

to actually put your time into this,

your physical self into these things,

there are a few things that are more rewarding.

There are a few things that you're gonna enjoy more

and when you look back on them and everything,

there are a great opportunities here to be a part of this.

When it comes to the events themselves,

we wanted to touch on those and some of the fun there.

And you got a big one right around the corner.

We absolutely do.

And it's actually tomorrow night.

So the 24th Wednesday night from five to seven,

we are having a come join Girl Scouts,

come check out all the fun event.

It's going to be at Camp Sacaduillo

right here in Wisconsin Rapids.

And it's for all ages,

K through 12th grade and potential volunteers,

parents, caregivers, grandparents,

the neighbor that wants to help out.

Just come and check.

We have fun activities for the girls to do

and then information also for the adults.

We're gonna make sign up super easy, super simple.

You can do it right on the spot.

We do have a number of troops here in Wisconsin Rapids

that are accepting new girls and looking to grow,

which is ready to go for all the girls.

And we also do want to set up a couple new troops

here in the area as well.

So definitely come check it out.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

Is there an age range we're looking at for this?

Anywhere from kindergarten all the way up through 12th grade.

Okay, very cool, very cool.

And is there anything that people should,

like information people should have on them

or should know before coming to camp

and checking this out or being involved in it?

It's pretty easy to sign up.

So we really make it very easy to enter a couple bits

of information that everybody would have

at their mind-fitting tips.

Sure, sure.

So no, you don't need to bring anything.

We'll help you sign up if you want to join.

Or if you just want to figure out what girls go to do

and see an example of it,

it's open-house style,

anybody can drop in and check it out.

You know, in the time frame five to seven,

perfect time frame as well.

If people, especially that time of day

being able to stop in and out and check things out,

find out more.

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

And I really appreciate you all hosting

and having an event like this for people.

Being honest, a lot of this information

is probably available online

and people can look things up a lot of ways nowadays.

But this is the way that we get people involved.

This is the way we get people engaged

by being engaged at ourselves.

And I think that's really cool.

I really do appreciate the time.

If people have fault questions, they'd like to know more.

Is there a contact number or a best way

to contact either of you?

Yeah, two ways.

We have a website that's gsnwgl.org.

And to call us 888-747-6945

at both of those places,

you can get questions answered,

see pictures of Girl Scouts doing fun things,

check it all out.

I encourage you to check that out, everybody.

I threw it into my search engine

and it popped up right away.

It was first thing on there.

That website again, gnswgl.org.

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Oh, see, I knew I was going to mess it up.

I knew it.

I knew I was going to do that.

Gs, like Girl Scouts, nwgl.org.

Having minor dyslexia in this job

doesn't always work out very well.

Doesn't always work, I appreciate you.

Thank you very much for that.

And again, you can find this information online.

Be sure to do that, reach out,

and be a part of things with our Girl Scouts

of the Northwestern Great Lakes.

And we'll be talking about this event today

and tomorrow, make sure that we get a good turnout down there

at Camp Seconds' Way of Free, guys, okay?

Thank you.

Thank you for the time.

I don't be strangers, doors always open,

anything coming up, come on by again, okay?

Thank you so much.

Thank you both, thank you.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and keep moving with the morning show here

on 97-5 FM 13-20 AM.

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Welcome back to the morning show here on 97-5 FM 13-20 AM,

WFHR.

Katrina and James here with you,

thank so much for joining us.

A big thank you to Jessie and Amy

from the Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes

for joining us.

That was awesome.

They're great and I love it.

So you all didn't see it, but they're enthusiasm

when they were talking.

It was so contagious.

I was like, I love it.

They're passionate about this.

And I mean, you can just hear it in their voices

and see it even more so.

So definitely go to those events, check it out,

see for yourself.

Check out that website for more information

and be sure to follow them online.

That website again, gsnwgl.org.

I do believe Laura usually throws a link

into the podcast.

She's amazing at that stuff.

So go ahead and check out the pod if you need to as well.

Everybody can catch up on things maybe.

Had this story wanted to touch on and get into

as we don't have a whole lot of entertainment news today,

but did see this one again from ranker.com,

giving them big shout out this morning.

Who are the best pop singers of the 90s?

Ooh.

This was an interesting list.

Like I saw the headline and I didn't think much of it.

But then I just completely didn't think about

who they would be including in this list.

And basically, if you had a hit in the 90s,

you were on this list.

So looking at it, we'll kind of go through some

of these quickly, but you got Cheryl Crow, Phil Collins,

Annie Lennox on there as your 20 through 18.

All great voices.

All great voices.

Would not, I did not think about Annie Lennox

or somebody like that because she's more of an 80 star to me.

Would you let me see?

Sometimes I'd blur the 80s and the 80s together.

So I'm like, oh, would Madonna be on that list?

Probably not.

Probably on more of the 80s list, you know?

Right, exactly.

But then they got, so no Madonna on the list,

which is insane.

Only when you consider that Michael Jackson

who wouldn't use in her on the list.

And I think of them as 80s.

And they were 80s too, yes.

I don't get it.

I don't get it.

They're definition of this one, but TLC shows up.

Yeah, definitely.

Don't go chasing those waterfalls.

One of the few bands that are on here.

Yeah.

Oh, interesting.

They're all solos.

A lot of them.

Well, number 11, our number 17 TLC.

And then it's 16, the Backstreet Boys.

So there's two bands back to back.

Janet Jackson at 15.

That was awfully low from Miss Jackson.

Yeah.

I would put her a lot higher than that, I think.

Christine Aguilar at 14.

Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

Britney Spears at 13.

Yeah, I figure she'd be on that list.

I was wondering where she was going to show up.

Yeah, the kind of figure she has to be on the list

there somewhere.

Let's see here.

Kylie Minogue at 12.

OK.

Spice Girls at 11.

Yep.

I did not, I was, you know, I did not realize

how much the spice, how big the Spice Girls were.

Yeah.

I did not know that I did.

I was just, you know, the 90s kid going, you keep my head down

and going through all those.

You're like, I want to keep living through the 80s.

Yeah.

Let's just, yeah.

It wasn't my thing.

It wasn't my thing.

But you're looking back and watching a documentary

on the 90s and seeing them talk about the Spice Girls

and how gigantic they were around the world and everything.

And how they were really the first female band

to really do that.

Right.

Because I mean, you had like beetles back in the day and set,

et cetera.

And then you have like, you know, some more of the 90s bands,

like Backstreet Boys are in sync or something like that.

But yeah, you're right.

They were like the first real female band to do that.

And what was really interesting to me about it

was how much they've, they had to work at it.

Like they, the, the, they spent like a good six months

to a year in a, this crummy apartment training

and working and trying to get their harmonies.

And in the notes in the documentary that none of them

are necessarily the world's greatest singer.

And they all kind of knew that.

None of them are necessarily the greatest dancer.

But when they did it together, when they sang together,

when they do this together, they had a great sound.

They had a great voice.

So I kind of, to the point of the article here a little bit,

I think that when they were harming,

I don't know that any of them necessarily

had an amazing solo career.

And I don't, I don't say that as a, you know, to be mean,

I just, you know, I think that that's part of the reason.

Is, you know, they didn't, that, yeah.

Huh, interesting, interesting, interesting stuff.

So moving on, we see next on the list,

Mariah Carey at number 10.

Sure, that makes sense.

Oh, yeah, yeah, you got that, definitely.

The powerful, powerful voice.

I mean, so she can hit the low notes and the high notes.

I don't know how she does it.

She's one of those singers too, where I think to me,

it's got to be one of the better complements

or one of the better credits you can give a singer.

I don't know her whole musical library,

but if I hear her say, oh, that's Mariah Carey.

Yeah.

I know that, you know her voice, yeah.

And number nine, Madonna, she is on the list, okay.

She was just much, I expected her in the top three.

That's why I was surprised.

Ah, okay.

Wow, Madonna at number nine.

I think you could make an argument that she's the queen of pop.

Like Michael Jackson pretty much has the moniker, King of Pop.

I don't know if that's going anywhere.

But I don't know, you can throw a bunch of names at me

and I'm not going to argue, this isn't a hill,

I'm going to die on or anything.

But to me, it's unquestionable.

Madonna is the queen of pop.

I don't know, I think Beyonce, somebody like that

might be number two.

I think Taylor Swift is obviously making her move.

She's coming for the crown, but you got to do this

for a couple of decades.

Madonna's been relevant for four or five decades.

Yes.

And honestly, did it at a tougher time?

You didn't have the accessibility of music like it was.

The control and the power that artists have over their music

is so much different now too, and so many of those,

in their careers, not that you really were going to tell Madonna

what to do at a certain point.

After that first album came out,

it was pretty much with Donna's games.

She was runnin' it.

Yeah, just a gigantic star.

At number eight, David Bowie.

Oh, sure.

Yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.

One of the most versatile voices we've ever heard.

Yes.

In musicians, really.

David Bowie never was satisfied with an album,

and every time he was coming out with a new one,

he had to do something different.

Very nice.

Just a creature, true chameleon.

Yeah, very so much diversity within.

Like you wouldn't get bored if you were on a road trip,

you could just listen to him constantly.

And a lot of these older artists,

I think one of the things that's so unique and cool

about them is almost everybody has at least one song

they like by them.

You may not like their whole library.

Right.

You may not even like them, but you have at least one song

that you probably like by them.

I think that it still stands true for number seven,

as well, Sir Elton John.

Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Yeah, yeah.

There's at least a couple of songs from him.

Oh, yeah.

He's good.

At number six, Alanis Morissette.

Sure, definitely, definitely early 90s.

You know, you can't tell, especially the story of the 90s.

I'm putting together new episodes of Unlabeled all the time

or 90s mixtape you can hear every Sunday,

eight to nine right here on WFHR.

If you have a 90s song you want to hear,

give me your requests, everybody.

I love playing requests.

If it was released from 1990 to 1999, I will play it.

Give me a look at that list, James,

if you need an inspiration, I sounds like.

I'm sure you've been playing a lot of that.

Well, that's just it.

That's one of those artists too, where I didn't grow up.

I, being honest, I didn't really listen to Alanis

Morissette much or anything.

But as in doing this show and playing her music

and hearing it more and everything, like, okay, yeah,

I see, I get it, I get it.

Quite a powerful singer, quite a powerful voice.

And really a different way of doing it.

A lot of people were selling it more like a look

and she wasn't.

She had her own style and her own rhythm

and her own looks.

Like, she's doing it different.

Agreed.

And a great lyricist as well, a great writer.

At number five, Brian Adams.

Oh yeah.

I forgot about Brian Adams, so yeah.

I went to put him at five.

No way.

No way in the free world.

I'm surprised that like Spice Girls are back shoe boys

or like Jackson wasn't on that list

before Madonna, et cetera.

He would have been a ham there.

Elton John David Boy, Madonna, Mariah Carey,

all by far away, far superior singers to Brian Adams.

I don't know how this list got Brian Adams up there

other than maybe Mr. Adams did it.

I don't know, maybe voted for himself.

I'm not sure.

And that's not saying that Brian Adams isn't a good singer.

Oh he is good.

Just I don't put him on the level of some of these others.

I went to even out of popularity wise.

I went to put him up there at number five.

I think you helped us with by saying like a lot of us

putting the words, I forgot about Brian Adams.

Said I did too.

I did too.

You're not alone.

I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones.

At number four, George Michael.

Yeah.

When you couldn't do wet with the wreath of Franklin.

And you hold your own, like George Michael,

pretty darn powerful singer.

And number three, Celine Dion.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She was big in the 90s, definitely.

And very again, not a, like they're not Mariah Carey,

but they both have a very distinct voice

that you could tell when it was on.

That's that was Celine Dion.

Yeah, yeah.

At number two, Whitney Houston.

Oh yeah.

I mean, yes, I think she was definitely strong in the 90s.

Before Mariah Carey, she was that voice that I didn't know.

I may not know the song, but oh, that's Whitney.

I know that voice.

One of the more universally loved voices as well.

Powerful voice, too.

I feel like if she had been able to,

if she was still around, maybe she might have been able to be

one of those people that we put into the conversation

of Queen of Pop, too, where she certainly could have had

a much different career in that regard.

And at number one, of course, Michael Jackson.

Number one, King of Pop.

There you go.

That makes sense.

It's hard because of all the off the field stuff

and everything to really talk about him

or to appreciate his work and everything.

But if you're able to separate these things,

and I have an extremely difficult time doing it,

I'll be honest with everybody, extremely difficult.

Maybe there might not be another artist I am a tougher time

doing this with than Michael Jackson

as far as separating these things.

And my given past being honest with everybody.

But I will say that even in that regard,

Billie Jean comes on or rock with you,

comes on the radio.

I'm listening to it.

I usually listen to it.

I usually do.

I'll be honest.

And even with my background and stuff, I can help it.

It's still easy to dance to his stuff, too.

Well, he comes around at a really good time for artists,

for pop stars, especially with MTV blowing up

and all of that.

More and more radio stations playing popular music.

You have a lot of things going in his favor.

And at the same time, next to James Brown,

one of the hardest working people in the industry ever,

ever, this is a guy who was constantly in the studio,

constantly in the lab working.

The hits, it's so hard to come up with a hit song.

This man did it album after album after album after album.

Like, it's hard not to give credit where it's due.

Right.

I can see him being the number one on that list.

Didn't want to touch on just some local entertainment stuff.

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We're having some fun with this one.

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And last night, I was talking with Katrina

about this in our pre-game and everything.

We were having another rehearsal for Angold and Pond.

We are in Go time.

This Thursday will be opening night, seven o'clock

over at the Wisconsin Rapids Auditorium,

the wonderful theater that they have over there.

I encourage you to get your tickets for it at

wrctheater.org.

I did not know, nobody told me about this,

part of directing, where I gotta,

I don't have anything to do.

Like these guys are great.

You're gonna sit back now and just enjoy the show.

They're good, they don't need me anymore.

Like I'm actually trying to make up stuff now,

just so I can see them important.

And I have, no, I'm kidding.

I'm so proud of this team.

The cast that you're gonna see on that stage

is not like any you've seen.

And you've definitely never seen Angold and Pond like this.

I think we do a very, we have an affordability with theater

that we're able to do something truly real and organic.

You are breathing the same air as these actors.

You are hearing them on that stage.

You cannot help but be a part of it.

There is such a meaningful message behind this play.

There's also such a beautiful love story to it.

One of my favorite in, in, in literature.

And, and certainly some wonderful fun in sarcasm

and hilarity.

There are some funny moments in this play.

It's got a little bit of everything.

And it's a great way to not only buy local support local

to get in some arts, get out of the house, have some fun.

These have worked really hard for this too.

This, everybody has been working their tails off

with this one up and, and currently right now

over there doing some stuff and everything even.

So James, it starts on Thursday,

but how many more shows do you have afterwards?

We've got seven shows for you.

So this Thursday and Friday, seven o'clock show,

a, this Saturday, two o'clock matinee.

And the next week we come back and do it all over again.

Thursday, Friday, seven o'clock shows

with a two o'clock matinee to wrap everything up next Saturday.

So seven opportunities to take in this American classic

on Golden Pond.

Be sure to check it out.

You can get your tickets and find out more at

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Get on over there, everybody.

And while you're at it, be sure to check out that variety show.

They got coming up, you can volunteer or be a part of,

get your tickets, find out more,

just head on over there to wrctheater.org.

We will take a quick time out, get to our new sports entertainment

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And we welcome back to the show.

Everybody thinks so much we're joining us here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio, having some fun Katrina

and I hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We got some good stories of the day

and we're gonna be getting into our local schedule

and some other stuff happening in our area.

Real quick, wanna say a shout out to Jesse and Amy again

for joining us from the Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes.

We get busy around here

and when we are not on the air kind of spinning plates,

I did not realize they dropped off cookies.

Oh, yeah.

That was really cool of them.

Yeah, yeah, that's nice.

They're all gone.

They're all gone.

I've already, they don't know it yet

but there might as well be police tape around those cookies

because I'm going to destroy them.

Nobody has a chance that I'm kidding, I'm joking.

I'll share.

I'll share.

I'm too busy, I don't have time to eat them.

But thank you to them, they didn't have to do that.

That was really nice, that was nice to them too.

These scripts spelling B finals are coming up

they're around the corner

and they kind of put out this list every once in a while

of different things and different words

that are difficult to spell.

But I've never seen it like this before.

Google looked at the top words

ordinary Americans struggle with.

They posted a map of the top trending

how to spell searches in all 50 states.

And there are some fun ones on here.

And there are some that just like don't make sense

and then there are some that just are so fitting.

Yes.

So for California, they can't spell the word pretty.

Really?

Yeah, that is their most searched

for how to spell word is pretty.

Pretty.

California, that's fitting, sorry.

It's so fitting, it hits the mark so well

as somebody that lived in California for a while.

Yeah, definitely.

New Mexico can't spell quiet.

Okay.

Now maybe again, this is a minor dyslexia thing I don't know

but you know, the words always can be a little bit

difficult, I think.

And then you throw in there the eye before E stuff.

Yeah, that's that.

The word quiet was only invented to frustrate us.

Yeah, it was.

I'm pretty sure of that.

North Dakota can't spell secret,

which seems difficult.

Right, it doesn't seem fair.

Secret should not be difficult to spell.

It's already, you got to have a secret already, it's that.

Yeah, I have a secret.

That's great.

Kansas struggles with chaos.

Chaos.

Is that because they're trying to spell it with a K?

Was that it?

Right.

Maybe or there's chaos with more like tornadoes around there.

Ooh, yeah, yeah.

Oklahoma doesn't know how to spell animal.

Animal.

Animal.

Well, that's to a person or to an actual animal.

Are we talking about?

That would be.

It just says animal.

Now, I do think it's fair to say, if you're not going to admit this to your loved ones

or say it out loud, at least admit to yourself some of these words that you yourself might

struggle with.

I think that's fair.

Definitely.

We can point left.

We also got to own a little bit of this ourselves.

I haven't struggled with it in a long time, but when I was little, animal was a difficult

one for me.

Yeah, it is kind of tricky.

Yeah.

For me, it was.

I don't know.

We can't spell cousin.

I don't know why, but there is a joke there.

There is a joke there.

I think you're the same.

There is a joke there.

Definitely.

Words with the OU.

It feels like people struggle with those two.

That could be a difficult one.

Ohio can't spell equal.

And that's hilarious.

Yes.

That's pretty funny.

That's pretty funny.

Uh-huh.

And again, cue you.

Those words.

They can be a little bit tougher.

They can be a little bit tougher.

Tennessee can't spell field.

Which is, that's odd to me.

That's odd.

Yeah.

I don't know why, but it's odd to me.

Just I.

Well, again, another, you know, I and E.

Yes.

Before the I and E.

Oh, yeah.

That's all right.

Yep.

Main can't spell herd within A. Like I heard you, a herd of cattle, they have no problem

with.

Sure.

But sure.

But I heard you when they're trying to spell herd with cattle.

Right.

I think it's a cattle herd.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Virginia can't spell sad, said, said, SAID, they cannot spell as said this.

And we'll get to Wisconsin.

We'll wrap up with Wisconsin.

Maybe they're insane things and they, they're sane things, not said things, not past tense.

I know.

No, that, that's a good way to look at it, too, because they're saying top trouble spelling,

but it might as well be that.

Because what do we do?

What is, what is one of the first things we're taught when we're kids?

Spell it out.

Spell it out.

So if you're having trouble spelling it, it might be difficult to sound it out.

Right.

I can say, boy, there's a lot of languages like that for me.

I like to, I want to learn more languages.

Yeah, they're fun.

And for me, that's one of the tougher parts.

It's just kind of not only that, but okay, well, they say their H is this way, we say

in this way and some of that.

Right.

For the R's, the French R's.

Yeah.

A lot of R's.

A few more highlights.

Nevada needs to consult the internet to spell the word internet.

Okay.

Just let that sit there.

There you go.

How do you even do that?

How do you even, where do you go?

Where do you begin?

Louisiana can't decide how to spell decision.

Ooh, yeah, decision is a hard word.

That is a little bit, yeah.

Kentucky definitely can't spell definitely.

That one is another, again, IE words and stuff.

I think definitely throws people off because of the two eyes in it.

Yes.

Which placement is, yep.

Indiana is jealous about jealous.

They are jealous of you to be that you can spell jealous.

Oh, yes.

You notice you're seeing a theme with this.

You're seeing a theme, exactly.

Mississippi is nervous that they can't spell nervous.

I would have thought it'd be Mississippi, but okay.

That makes sense, makes sense.

New Hampshire tortured.

Tortured.

Ooh, okay.

Okay.

I think this might be the most fun one I think that I saw on the list.

Wyoming needs help spelling corduroy.

Corsura, oh, that is fun.

It's a fun one.

And I would love to know how many times that actually comes up in conversation.

How many times are you actually typing or writing the word corduroy?

I don't remember the last time I wrote,

or even talked about corduroy.

I'm not sure I've ever written it.

I know, I've said the word corduroy plenty of times.

I don't know if I've ever heard that.

You know, but.

That's a great Pearl Jam album, corduroy, that is out.

And three states can't spell the names of their own state.

Or another state.

I'm sorry.

You talk can't spell Mississippi.

Oh, interesting.

I knew there was going to show up in the list somewhere.

I did, you know.

I was thinking the childhood and like saying it like,

am I a society society?

I don't know,

that's how I think of it.

Most of us to play football as a kid

and learn how to spell Mississippi

because that's what you got to count out before you can sack the quarterback.

You got to spell Mississippi and that tells you how much time you got and everything.

So that one, Nebraska can't spell California.

Oh, interesting.

And Maryland can't spell Pennsylvania,

which is odd because they're a neighbor of theirs and all that.

That's weird.

Interesting.

Let's see what you have to say. Good morning.

You're on the show.

Is this over the back fence?

No, over the back fence is not on the air anymore.

It hasn't been for quite some time.

Oh, really?

Yeah, well, thank you very much.

Thank you.

You have a great morning.

Yeah, no, don't be sorry.

We appreciate the call back to here.

Yeah, that was such good times.

I, you know, and if I could be honest with you guys, we love that show.

Where were you when it was on?

We really could have used you.

You know, we love that show.

I miss it.

But thank you for the call and appreciate you.

And feel free to call up anytime.

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I have dragged this out long enough.

Wisconsinites want to know what is the word you are typing in your Google?

What is it?

What word can Wisconsinites that spell?

Ally.

A-L-L-Y.

Allie.

Or no, Allie.

Am I saying Allie?

No, Allie.

Allie.

I'm saying Allie.

Allie.

Because we have a lot of Allie's in Wisconsin.

Right.

That actually makes sense.

It would be not the most easy word to spell around it.

I can't put it in the first one I would have thought of for us.

Now, thank you.

You were so good at this.

Man, it's fun working with you.

I wanted to ask the audience, what's theirs?

Or what do you think is the hardest word to spell in this state?

Sure, like what ours would be?

Or so, I mean, on the list that was talked about,

I find decision is one that I'm like, wait, is it that?

Where's the C?

Or like, I find that one.

I sometimes have to like double check myself.

Thank goodness for auto-crackdownies, which

I also feel like that makes us a little lazier.

It does.

It does.

So on the list, that probably would have been my word that I would have chose.

And we should preface this by saying that last names don't count.

Sure.

So to all of our wonderful Polish and European friends out there,

some of those, like, and I have the last name of mail-off.

Middle Eastern names aren't that much easier to spell.

Yeah.

Not making fun of anything.

Yeah.

Just as guilty of that as anybody, but that would be, I think, at the top of the list,

if names were included.

What do you think it would have been for the Wisconsin?

Like, what would your guess of it?

Boy.

I know that's a big one.

I were like, you know, call up, tell us.

What do you think your, what do you think the word would have been for Wisconsin?

Yeah.

Because I think that they, there is so many difficult ones,

but you get used to seeing them from a young age and spelling them out

or whatever are saying them.

So you know how to spell them a little bit better.

So I think that there's a lot of tough ones in this state.

But because you grew up with them, you don't even realize it that much.

There's a lot of cities that have hard things to spell.

That's what I was almost thinking is like a city name that you're like,

wait, was there a W in that one?

Where's the S.K.I?

Was it a Y?

What was it?

Like city names.

We've got some interesting city names, but Allie is an interesting one.

Yeah.

People are thinking there was not an E or there was, you know, you know, yeah.

They, I could say exactly.

Exactly.

I think that's exactly it.

They've thrown off a little bit by it and stuff.

And it's not a word that you use that often.

Now, I don't know that that's the case with a lot of these other states,

but I could see in this state that being a difficult one because of that,

that you don't use it that often.

I think that would be a shaboykin.

Shaboykin.

You just wanted to say that word.

I just wanted to say shaboykin.

Shout out and good morning to our friends in shaboykin.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the show.

The morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back to the morning show.

Okay.

We obviously have to work on that.

We really need bumpers.

We really do.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us today, everybody.

And a big thank you to you, Kat, for joining us.

I appreciate the time, as always.

No, we take you away from the day job.

And by that, I mean, a lot of things that you have going on in the morning.

My feedback seems that I do right.

And that, of course, most importantly, taking you away from that.

We apologize for doing that to you as much as we apologize to the audience here.

You know what?

I, one time.

I'm going to tell you this quick story, everyone, because it's just what's going to happen.

Really?

My best friend was getting married, and I was standing up, and I was going to do a speech for her.

And I thought it'd be a really great idea if I did, like, I, like, wrap to a speech, and I'm like, who am I?

I am not a rapper.

Why would I think that's funny?

I felt like I thought that would be a good idea.

And I am not.

I'm like, I don't even really listen to rap.

I'm not, I'm not a rapper.

Like, why did I think it was a good idea?

I don't know.

Anyways, finally, I was on a trip, and I was like brainstorming all these ideas.

Finally, at the end of my trip, I was like, oh, no, no, no.

That doesn't make any sense.

I, I know what I'm going to do.

I did my speech in a Uper accent the whole time.

I was like five minutes of a Uper, and it made more sense, because Sarah and I used to jokingly talk in a Uper accent.

Okay, there we go.

And so if anybody wants to talk a Uper, oh, don't you know, I'm there for you any time.

You know, they are sweetie pies.

Oh, you've got it down.

Oh, wow, that was good.

You just flipped right into it too.

Oh, I could do that.

That was so fun.

You're doing a segment with that voice, and maybe the next time you join us, we're doing that.

It's like a short segment, not like an hour long.

No, no, no.

I might laugh the whole time.

We might break you.

We might be stuck talking that way.

Oh, yes.

But we are definitely doing that.

That is awesome.

And that was a much better choice than rapping.

Yes, but especially for me.

I would have killed to hear that though.

That would have been awesome to hear.

There might be a recording somewhere.

Katrina, before we get into our schedule and some good stories of today, as long as we're talking shop here a little bit,

I want to remind everybody about some of the cool things that you guys have coming up.

You've got some really great stuff around here.

Yeah, let's highlight the anniversary because that's coming up.

So mark your calendars down for October 3rd and 4th.

That's our 79th customer appreciation sale.

We're excited to have fun, samples, door price signups, sales, product experts to talk about different things,

guide you if you have questions on such.

Definitely come on October 3rd and 4th for our 79th customer appreciation sale.

Well, it is their anniversary.

They share it and they want it to be a part of everybody's because it's really the communities.

And we all get to celebrate with them.

They have so much going on with this one.

It's not just an anniversary sale.

It's a get together.

It's just a lot of fun.

Encourage it to be a part of and make plans ahead on over the family and outro foods for those.

And also keep in mind this.

I think this is a really good idea, the beautiful hair and well-being one.

We don't get a chance really a lot to focus on those things.

Yeah, that's on October 8th.

It's a Wednesday at 515.

Well-Bell, it's going to be hair skin and nails.

And it's a supplement line that we've recently brought in.

And it's, Lori's going to be doing that.

And she's one of the product owners of that product.

And she's great.

She's a local.

It's really fun to hear her story.

Check that out, everybody.

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