Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning world, it's a new day.
It's time for the morning show. Got your host James Biden, the Mike joined by our CEO of your night away of Southwood and Am's counties. Terry John.
Good morning. Got the band together. We do.
On a Thursday. It's fun. We're close. We're close. Friday Eve.
We're going to have some fun this morning, kick things off the way we like to with our good friend Brittany Merlot, our other band member.
We've got it. We've got to get together and rehearse one of these days by the way or two.
It's a little weird that we say we are a band. We haven't rehearsed.
I claim percussion like the thunder. Yes, you've got it. Yes, that's all you. That's all you. Are you?
I'm like, if you say a tambourine, you're out.
Yes, she's got mine. She's the tambourine. You've got that.
I will I will play the spoons and we are going to sound great. We're going to sound really good.
We'll do a live show and see who shows up.
Does it have any vocals?
Oh, no, but we'll figure that part out. We'll work that out.
Absolutely. In the shower or in my car, I give I give I am one of the greatest rock stars of all time in there.
Yeah, we all are. Yes, that's one of the fun parts of it.
Brittany, this morning we got a bit of a London fog going on outside.
I saw that. I can't believe you guys are still sitting in the cloud. I see nothing but sunshine.
So I'm going to again, send that your way. I'll kick it out of here in the next hour.
These foggy mornings are just on repeat.
But this should be the last one. I do think the winds are going to kick up a little bit more overnight tonight.
Fingers crossed. No promises. It might sneak back in. Let's be real.
Let's be honest with it.
Yeah. But if that's the worst we have to deal with for an entire week basically, it's not too bad.
Yeah, I think we can handle that.
Right. Yeah. I mean, unseasonable high temperatures. We should be in the upper 60s right now this time of year.
But instead, we're going to hit the mid 70s today.
We're going to do that again tomorrow. We're going to foot with 80 degrees on Saturday and Sunday and even into early next week,
feeling like summer, even though it's fall and we have no rain in the forecast until next weekend.
Long, long dry stretch to get everything done outside and enjoy it and keep those fall colors and pretend it's summer.
Yes. That sounds great. Okay. We get to pretend for a little bit there and those that don't want to pretend you just lean into fall, just lean into autumn.
Yeah, exactly. Just use these weeks to go hiking in the woods. Grab those pictures, lean into fall like that.
And before you know it, it's going to be cooler.
Yeah. Yeah. We're looking forward to all of it, Bernie.
And we're looking forward to hanging out with you again tomorrow. We'll get people ready for the weekend. Thanks so much for joining us.
Thank you. Have a beautiful day.
You too. Best in the business right there. Branding below joining us every morning, right in this time slot.
Go for a hike. He's sweating. I think that sounds nice to me.
It does, but you're right here.
I hear you. I hear you.
We've got some fun stuff to get into. We have the El Caffe birthday anniversary club right around the corner.
Then we're going to talk stretchy yogurt.
There's a new thing that's big that we're going to talk about there.
So scary. I don't know what that is. Yes, I have no idea. I've not pre-looked at what it is either.
So we're going to find out together. We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour.
The way we like to on a Thursday with Denise and our pet of the week from the South of County of Maine Society.
Looking forward to that. That'll be a lot of fun.
A little bit of entertainment news.
Terry's got to jet out a little bit early because the day job is calling.
We'll make room for that.
Getting some good stories today and plenty more.
We got going on for you today, everybody.
But I want to kick things off in two spots.
Terry won.
We have this awesome thing going on around here right now.
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Big shout out to our local sponsors Rapids Transmission.
What we're doing with this is a daily giving people a chance to either win some gold jewelry or $200 cash.
And if you win one of those, you get in the running for the Green Bay vs Minnesota tickets in November.
Awesome.
Huge game. Awesome thing that we are doing here.
One of my favorite things in radio is giving things away.
And we get to do that.
We're doing this at the top every day for the next tomorrow and the next week.
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Well, this and the Simpsons.
I have no integrity on either of those things.
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Terry, if you want something good to happen,
and you don't necessarily want to sit and see if it can happen through this,
we've got a couple of great opportunities for people to really put back into the community.
Feel some good.
And get some good food while they're out of that as well.
I wanted to mention what you have going on with the United Way and Noodles & Company.
Yes.
So next week, Wednesday, October 1st, from 4 to 8 p.m.
There is a fundraiser to help with our campaign.
And this is happening at Noodles & Company here in Wisconsin Rapids.
From 4 to 8, 25% of the sales will go to our United Way.
You do have to have a code.
So if you order online, the code is giving 25.
If you just ordered during that time, it won't count.
You do have to put the code in.
If you stop in at the restaurant for a carryout or to eat in person,
there you can just mention United Way and they'll make the appropriate allocation of the funds.
But this is a great opportunity.
I'm going to eat anyway.
Right.
So it's a great opportunity to support us and support a new local business too.
You know, they haven't been around all that long.
You wish, I guess, maybe a little longer.
So, you know, we're happy they're here.
We appreciate the fact that they're going to help support our campaign.
And this is, you know, that's really what we're busy doing this time of year is campaigning.
So this is kind of an easy, fun way that you can get involved.
Especially you bring up a good point with noodles and company if you haven't tried them yet.
Here's a perfect opportunity to do it.
And also supporting local because they are a local business and they do a great job over there.
I appreciate them doing this, being a part of this.
Certainly what the United Way is doing.
I was a little distracted, Terry, because I'll be honest with you.
I was checking out your newsletter.
I got the addition of your guys as the United Way's newsletter recently
and talked about looking for reading mentors in there.
Yes, and we are all, yes, we are.
We're currently looking for volunteers in two different ways.
So we are looking for volunteers to be reading mentors.
This is for kindergarten through third grade classrooms here in the Southwood County area.
We will be, or currently, our policing mentors at Ed Hoyer Elementary in Port Edwards,
Humpke in Nikusa, and then in Wisconsin Rapids at our Lady Queen of Heaven,
which is part of the Assumption Catholic Schools.
And then for WRPS, Grant, Howe, Mead, and Washington.
So we are looking for people to give 30 minutes once a week for every week from mid-October through mid-May
that you would work with kids on their reading.
There is no education level needed.
There is no special training needed.
It is you coming in, being a listening ear, helping guide kids, maybe where they are struggling.
But it's literally just giving them support, building their confidence, helping them be better readers
so that they continue to grow.
There is classroom instruction that goes on around language arts and around reading.
Kids who need intervention, get intervention.
But all kids, regardless of reading level, should be reading at least 20 minutes every single day at home.
Reading at school doesn't count.
This is extra reading.
So in some cases, this time with a reading mentor is doing just that.
It's that extra 20 minutes.
In some cases, it's working on a specific, you know, maybe area that they're struggling on.
So again, it takes no training.
It takes no extra effort on your part other than giving up the time.
And I can guarantee you the feeling of reward is remarkable.
So we are recruiting mentors now through, you know, this week and next week.
So I encourage you to visit our website, www.swac.org.
When the page comes up, a banner, I guess that's what we call them, an image comes up that says,
reading mentor opportunity.
You click on that, you pick which school and you can peruse the times that are available.
But we're, you know, I would really love to see at least one mentor in every classroom that the teacher has said,
you know, yeah, I'd like to have a mentor, right?
Of course, they're not forced to participate, but we certainly would like any teacher who has expressed interest.
We would like to get them a mentor and we need help.
We are light on mentors right now.
So I really encourage people to give that some consideration.
The only requirement is packaging a background check that is appropriate to that school district.
So hop on, check that out.
I appreciate you guys, you know, helping us spread the word so we can get these spots filled.
And then the other volunteer opportunity that we're really seeking volunteers on right now is our annual day of caring.
That will be happening a month from now on October 25th.
And this is our raking event where, you know, we go out and help elderly and disabled in the community.
Get their yards ready for fall.
Join us for a free breakfast, free t-shirt if you register early enough.
Yeah.
And just again, that warm, fuzzy feeling that you get when you know that you're helping someone.
It goes a lot farther than we can really put in the words with a lot of these things.
With the reading mentorship, it's just a quick, like awesome way to impact the future without, you know, really, I mean,
I think doing a whole lot of heavy lift if you're being honest.
You're sitting there and you're helping kids read or you're helping learn to read and being a good, you know, partner about that encouragement support cost nothing can mean everything.
When it comes to that, I think a lot of us also know what it's like and can relate to that, you know, maybe struggling to read or having difficulty with it.
And I checked with my mom and this does count as being able to tell people you read a book.
So, I mean, there's that bonus too that you can say I read a book recently and everything.
It doesn't matter if it's one fish to fish.
You still read a book. That's counts.
Absolutely.
But really, in all seriousness, when we talk about ways, okay, what is something I can do for a young person that I know no matter what they do in life, they're going to need this.
This is going to help.
They're going to need more reps at this.
Reading.
Reading is one of the top things.
It's not the top thing that we can think of that we can talk about when it comes to impacting these kids, impacting the future.
Here's an opportunity for you to do that.
And I would say especially to, you know, one thing I've been hearing a lot from my students and everything is how much they need more opportunities to, you know, when it comes to a college resume, putting good volunteer things on there and stuff.
And in some areas, they don't have as many of those opportunities.
Boy, do we got them around here?
We got plenty of opportunities for you if you were a young person in your college or putting out college applications or something like that.
Does this look great on there?
Whatever you're reasoning, we just want you to be a part of this and help out with it.
And it's the same thing with day of caring where you're able to, it's strangers helping strangers that become friends.
Absolutely.
I almost guarantee that that happens.
These individuals that have these lawns, they are so appreciative and kind and they're a great person to meet.
Especially if you don't know them, make a new friend.
And when you're driving to your location and you see this, just a sea of people wearing green shirts and everything, it is the definition of community.
Yeah, it's fabulous.
It's a fun event we want you to find out more about at uwac.org.
Be sure to follow the United Way on social media as well.
Share their posts on your pages.
You never know who might see it otherwise.
Get on over there and sign on up everybody.
And of course, be sure to text us through the Civic Media app, the word Bay.
Be a part of this awesome contest.
We got going on the go for the green or gold text to win multi-state contest.
Shout out to Rapids Transmission again.
Text us that keyword Bay, everybody.
We'll be back doing some celebrating with the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.
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Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA and the birthday and anniversary club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port edwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us.
Check out some of those great specials and enjoy some of the great food and great times over at LKFA everybody.
Enjoy yourself.
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Tara, I need a one or a two.
Two.
All right.
Give us that one.
Boom, boom, boom.
And looking at our list, we first up one of wish civic media's own Carol Horning, a very happy birthday.
Carol's our traffic director and billing specialist in Madison.
She was a former employee right here for WFHR and Rapids many years ago as well.
Oh, happy birthday.
Carol's awesome.
We wish you a great birthday, Carol.
Enjoy your day.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish you a very happy birthday to Jane Douglas.
Happy birthday, Jane.
Wishing you a great day, Jane.
Enjoy.
And our qualifiers celebrate in their anniversary Rob and Terry Dasso.
Happy anniversary.
Rob and Terry enjoy.
Hope it's a great one for you.
We wish you the best of days.
Enjoy your anniversary and encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers that you are our qualifiers today.
Let them know.
Let's take a look at who you share your birthday with on the celebrity list.
Bella Ramsey is 22.
A great young actor.
She is Ellie on the last of us.
She was on Game of Thrones for a little bit and really just kind of stole the show with a very minor character.
But really took people away.
She's got a very interesting style of acting the way she does things.
And one of these younger actors that I like the work that she's doing right now,
but I can't help myself getting excited about, well, if she just keeps getting better and better,
she's going to be amazing.
And so many of these younger actors nowadays, you can almost bank on that that they're going to do that.
Speaking of former younger actors, and I was talking about like that,
that are currently a little bit older, happy 42nd birthday to Childish Gambino, Donald Glover.
One of my favorite actors in the game today.
And I think that if I was on a lit, who can I work with?
I get to pick who I want to work with or I'm casting somebody on something that I'm going to be in.
He's at the very top of that list.
I really enjoy his work.
I really admire him as a creative.
And I've heard nothing but great things about him and people to work with him.
He's a good one.
Catherine Zita Jones is 56.
And her husband Michael Douglas is 81.
I haven't heard her name in a long time.
Yeah.
I'm, she's done some stuff here and there.
I know she's on the Wednesday show as Morticia.
Oh, she is.
And she does a great job.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that.
She's in amazing Morticia Adams.
She is very very.
Yeah.
My girls watch that show, but I guess I just haven't ever maybe come in the room.
You know what I mean?
I think I feel like I would recognize her.
Yeah.
To what you're saying though, she hasn't really worked much in a while.
Her and like, it almost feels like as soon as they got married, her and Michael Douglas just kind of like,
all right, we're good.
We don't wear, you know, we don't really need to act as much anymore.
We haven't seen Michael Douglas as much either.
But Catherine Zita Jones is a wonderful actor.
I've really, I really enjoyed her work.
She has a delicate but strong tone to her in her way of doing things.
And Michael Douglas, man.
I mean, coming from one of the acting families of the Douglas's and everything,
a chip off the old block as good as his father.
And I really enjoy Michael Douglas's work.
I use you.
I don't know if I've ever seen him do a bad job in a movie.
I don't know that I've ever seen a movie where he's in.
And maybe I didn't like the movie, but I liked his performance.
Just I, I don't want to just like every time we have an older actor, one of the greats.
I don't like to throw that stuff around.
I really is one of the greats.
Michael Douglas definitely one of the greats.
Will Smith is 57.
I don't know how many people have had a more interesting up and down and kind of wild career
than Will Smith where it feels like all you have to do is just keep doing your thing
and you're going to be Mr. Fourth of July.
There was a stretch there for a good four or five years where Will Smith had a movie coming out.
And it was, it was huge.
It did great.
It was Mr. Box Officer a while there.
It was only on that ep, echelon.
And then he started doing more serious dramatic work and it gets Oscar nominations for the,
the pursuit of happiness and some of those things.
And certainly for playing the, the Venus and the Serena Williams father and everything
and he wins the Oscar for.
And with one bad move, it, not to say it was the only thing because him and some other stuff,
you know, where him and Jada has gotten a big thing and all that.
And it seems like it's taken a lot of attention from the talent.
And then where he is now where it kind of seems like people are kind of like over it.
And they're like, I, I, that slap, I remember when that happened.
You know, and now he's working again.
And so I don't know.
I don't know how much any of this matters or anything like that.
But I think it's interesting.
And I do think that all this noise takes away from the fact incredible actor.
Incredible actor Will Smith is good.
He is great.
And it's a shame that all this other stuff comes up when really could just talk about the guy's talent
and being an Oscar winner.
Scotty Pippen is 60.
The best Robin and basketball history many will tell you to Michael Jordan's, you know, of course, Batman.
Scotty was good.
Scotty was good.
It's kind of a shame that him and Jordan don't get along anymore and some of those things.
It's also not surprising.
Not surprising one bit.
Not at all.
I hope that though in their older years and they go on and they ended up, you know, kind of patching up things a little bit.
You know, you know, hope you accomplished a lot of good there.
And I would, to me, I would come back on, man, we made a lot of people happy.
We entertained a lot of people.
We made, we made history together and stuff.
You would think you can look bigger than that.
I think oftentimes it's easy for us to see things just from our own vision and not realize it.
Well, wait a minute.
This is bigger than me.
The game's bigger than me.
These championships, we didn't win for ourselves.
We won them for a city.
We won them for, you know, this team.
I try to do a very similar thing with the things I do in life.
And I think that it wouldn't be that hard.
I don't think it is, at least.
Heather Lockley are 64.
Hmm.
I'd say that.
I'm going to remember her name in a lot.
And Mark Hamill is 74.
Obviously Luke Skywalker and a Star Wars legend for that and everything.
But also an incredible voice actor.
When it comes to who's played the Joker the best on screen.
It's a great debate.
And a lot of people, everybody has their choice.
Whether you're talking about the TV show or the movies or anything like that.
But for me, there's only one person that can do the voice of the Joker and animation.
And it's Mark Hamill.
It's incredible.
If you're a kid and you're reading the comics, that's the voice you hear.
And he, the second act he's had as a voice actor.
When, okay, everybody's typecasting me.
I'm Luke Skywalker.
I can't get any work.
I'm a work.
How am I supposed to be a working actor if everybody's typecasting me?
And I can't.
I got blamed for doing my job too good.
I got blamed for my movie being too popular.
So now that's all anybody can see me as.
He flips the script and starts doing voice acting.
And then's up having a really illustrious career as a voice actor.
I admire that.
I admire that.
That's amazing.
There's a lot of actors that that happens to.
And they just kind of quit the game.
Or they kind of blame everybody else.
Or something like that.
Mark Hamill just put his head down.
Went to work.
I don't know if it's going to be tomorrow's show or next week.
But there is actually a line that Mark Hamill would not say in Star Wars.
We're going to go over with Seth.
It's an interesting story.
We'll get into it then.
Anson Williams is 76.
Potsy on Happy Days.
Potsy is 76.
And then some people no longer with us.
The legend of interviewing of being at the front desk, being a lead anchor.
Barbara Walters is a birthday would have been today.
She was more than 1929.
I apologize.
I said Barbara Walters.
And she's one of the people that I went back and when I was first doing rapid support
and trying to learn how to interview.
And I would go back and watch all these interviews with all these people I admire and like and all that.
But I stumbled across Barbara Walters interviews.
I was like, oh, I definitely got to check those out.
And I immediately was blown away by something I had completely missed with her whole career.
Barbara Walters would do this great thing of being able to ask a question.
And it was pretty simple.
Most of us would think of.
But her follow-up question was something that only she would think of.
She was a master at the follow-up question.
And she got that because she listened to her guests.
It isn't that hard.
You can make them, you know, they are the only person in the room kind of thing.
And if you're really listening, those follow-up questions, they're there for you.
They're right there in the answer.
And she was so good at that.
I also really loved the impression Guilda Radder needs to do over her.
And that's what popped in my head.
And that's what I stumbled for.
And I'm sorry.
But it's my mother's fault.
She's my mom's fault.
She loved Guilda.
Barbara Walters legend.
Game changer.
Trailblazer.
First female anchor, a lean anchor in American history.
Like the things that that woman accomplished, incredible.
And I don't know that we have enough time to talk about all of them.
But she was something.
And a great Christopher Reeve born in this day in 1952.
A lot of guys, a lot of actors have played Superman very well.
Christopher Reeve's always going to be my Superman.
Same.
He's always going to be my Superman.
He was great.
He was perfect for the role.
Also, not just Superman.
You know, there is a death trap.
There's a handful of movies he did that he was incredibly good at.
Very strong actor.
And got a chance to do a lot of cool things.
One of my favorite things about Christopher Reeve is when the accident happened to him.
And the way he handled that.
And while we know that, you know, on a personal level, he was struggling with some things and stuff.
As, you know, you would think somebody would.
His, um, he could have just gone away.
And we never saw him again.
It just, you know, that's what, that's what happens sometimes with actors.
And in people, especially if they have injuries or if they're not as, quote unquote,
handsome or pretty as they were.
It even happens just with age where you see this with actors.
Sean Connery famously didn't like how he looked anymore.
So he didn't really want to do interviews and things like that.
Christopher Reeve kept putting himself out there, man.
kept putting himself out there, trying to be in a voice for those in, in similar situations to him.
And we would come to find out many, many, many years later after the passing of one of his best friends.
Rob Williams, that him and Robin would talk every day.
And every day, Robin would check up on him or Robin was struggling even when he was in that dang chair.
Christopher Reeve would do the same for him.
It's a really cool relationship that we got to hear about much later afterwards and everything.
And, um, just a really incredible human being and our superman.
Everybody celebrating the birthday anniversary out there.
We wish you a great one and joy and get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you.
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Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio on 97-5 FM, 13-20 AM.
Terry and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody.
Terry got an interesting report here.
According to a new survey from AAA, 96% of American drivers admit to performing at least one aggressive driving behavior in the past year.
96%.
Okay, but one in a year?
Yeah.
I was thought you were going to say in the previous day.
Yeah, yeah, which is probably the more honest answer.
Yes, yes, at least once a month is probably the more honest answer.
That stuff like running red lights, speeding, tailgating, honking and cutting off other vehicles on the road.
The data shows that, quote, cutting off other vehicles and, quote, honking out of anger is up back, back from 2016,
while tailgating and yelling at other drivers is down.
11.
So, so because of the pandemic, we don't even want to be close to each other in our cars.
That we don't want to get a tailgate because we learn that much.
Or they got stuck tailgating because they got, they re-rendered somebody.
They don't want to yell at somebody because they don't want the germs to fly through the car windshields already.
11% of drivers in the study say that they've also engaged in violent actions like intentionally bumping another car or worse.
The study found people under 60 and people with household incomes over 100,000 or more are most likely to drive aggressively.
And this is again, AAA, a very reputable source.
You can find the article at AAA.com.
I don't know what weird is anymore.
Good point.
I really don't.
I would say that that study, that doesn't surprise me that people, I would say, and I'm not even saying 60 and above,
I would say people from our age range and above, it wouldn't surprise me if that's what the number was.
I think that there is a very quick knee jerk, almost reaction to blame certain generations or anything younger than you.
Wherever age you are out there, you know, there's 18 year olds, blaming 16 year olds, I don't know.
When it comes to this stuff, but I feel like while data is important and the people that are, quote unquote, guilty of this,
need to take accountability and responsibility.
It isn't on us to do that.
Let them do that themselves.
Let the justice system do those things.
We got, we got people for that.
We don't need to judge those things.
We don't need to do that.
Take care of your own backyard because this 96%, that's all of us.
We could all be better about this regardless of pointing fingers or blaming generations or it's 60 and above or any of this.
Everybody gets behind the wheel, could be better about it.
I think we also, though, could minimize some of this by people who are driving actually driving and following.
You know what I mean?
It drives me crazy when I get behind somebody who's going for under the speed limit.
Yeah.
It's like just drive.
No, I try not to tailgate them.
I'm not a road rager, but at the same time, I could, you know, some of this, it's like every driver has a responsibility to minimize it.
But if you are one of these crazy reckless, you know what I mean?
Flying around people, beeping at them, just have a little, give a little grace.
Driving is not a birth rate, it's a privilege.
And we should treat it that way.
Yeah.
We've, we've normalized it and that's understandable.
We've had cars for a long time.
But just, you know, I think a lot of this begins with the way that you teach people to drive and the way that kids see you driving.
We learned it from somewhere and we picked it up from somewhere.
And it isn't as if these habits aren't inherited from time to time.
I know, and I'm not just even, again, none of this is me pointing to finger.
I'm just as guilty as anybody else of these things.
I got, in some ways, I got a different bit of a perspective on this one because I wasn't driving at 16.
I had a phobia with driving.
I was in a ton of accidents as a kid.
Really messed me up.
I wasn't driving until I was in my early, early 20s, early 30s.
I would say I finally got my license and I've been driving, you know, since then.
I'm an actor, so I won't say my age.
But over 10 years, I'm 48.
I've been driving for a while.
And in that, having both ends of perspective on this one, I could not be more attentive driver getting my license as an adult.
That's not how our system works and I don't think it, I'm not looking to change anything.
I think kids getting their license at 16 makes sense.
I don't have any problem with that.
How they're learning.
And this isn't on driving instructors.
I'm not talking about them.
I'm talking about guardians, mom and dad, brothers and sisters.
The people that they are in the car with, how are you acting when they're in the car?
We have to quit acting like what we do does not affect anything else.
The world is bigger than you, man.
And when you're in a car with your little ones and you're screaming at people and you're giving them all these different things
and you're yelling at them and all that, what do you think your kid's going to grow up acting like?
Like, take some responsibility for this stuff.
Instead of blaming others or blaming the other driver or something like that,
take both hands on the wheel and do the job that is required of you.
For the couple of minutes you've got to do it because here's the other thing Terry about this.
Most of this stuff happens when you're driving to work.
You're five, ten minute drive to work or you're 20 minute maybe or something like that.
Think about that, 20 minutes in a 24-hour day.
You can't keep your stuff together.
What is going on that you can't keep your act together for five, ten minutes while you're in the car?
Well, maybe the first step is they've admitted it.
Yeah, to a blind survey.
I guess that counts.
That's not a step, it's a baby step.
It's a step in the right direction.
But there's so much of society nowadays that just can't wait to point the finger or blame somebody else or something like that.
Yeah, but that really is nothing he was driving.
That's their behavior about everything.
But it ties to this.
It all ties together.
I think those numbers are high for a reason because we've been acting like this for a long time.
It takes a lot to unlearn that kind of behavior.
I don't know about anybody else, but I have found, especially, I picked this up when I was in California,
when I have somebody give me one of these things, yelling at me,
putting their fingers out there at me or something like that.
I love to smile and give them a thumbs up.
I love to do that.
They usually have no idea how to react to it.
Killing with kindness.
Mama, dad, we're right.
Or ignoring them.
Yeah, don't you hate that when someone's tailgating you though?
Yes.
I mean, like, and it is funny, and it's like if I, if you just say, yeah, you ignore it, they can go around.
People not using their turn signal.
It drives you crazy.
I would say that one of the bigger ones for me is on a back road or something like that.
Not, I mean, like, a back, back road, dirt road.
I just mean like a, not a main street road.
And you've got two cars just sitting there talking to each other.
Like in the middle of the day, you find there is email texting.
I don't care when to smoke signals.
Face to face is the best communication.
Not while other people are trying to use the road, the world is bigger than you.
Like get over yourself and go ahead and, if that's, if it's like that, go ahead and park and get out of your car
and do a real face to face instead of just having it and just hanging out your car.
I'm guessing this must have happened to you.
You must have been waiting.
Quite a few times.
It's happened to me.
I like taking back roads.
So it happens.
It's happened quite a bit.
Now, actually, I don't see this happen nearly as much as I used to.
I mean, those of us who live in the country, sometimes we do stop and talk to whoever is having.
Living in the country is no excuse to take blocking the road up for other people.
They move.
We move.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
I think it's selfish.
I think it's selfish behavior.
And I think that's part of the problem with this.
And part of the problem with some of this aggressive driving is this selfish behavior
that exists so much nowadays and is also not, there's nobody shaming it.
There's nobody like, oh, it's fine, you're selfish.
Yeah.
We don't have enough shame about it either anymore.
No, it's okay to do that.
There's certain stuff in life that, yeah, there's a gray area for it.
I get it.
You haven't seen a neighbor in a while and you have it to be driving past each other
and you stop and you want to have a quick hello.
All joking aside, I completely get that.
You're not joking.
No, you're pretty hot about this, actually.
It's part of the bit, though.
It's part of the bit, Terry.
It's a way to make things funny.
Is it more angry I get?
But, you know, seriousness, I don't have any real issue with it
because most of these people are usually taking up 20, 30 seconds.
It's not that big of a deal.
Yeah.
And they move on another car's coming.
But the action and those things, there is a point there.
And I am dead serious about that.
Taking some personal responsibility instead of blaming others,
I like to see a little bit more of, especially with driving.
You know, how many times have you seen in your life somebody that did cut you off
or somebody that did do something and they immediately put their hand out?
My bad.
Sorry.
I didn't see you there.
Something like that.
We've seen that a couple times in our life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
More of that.
Let's see more of that instead of this other stuff.
And again, giving somebody a big thumbs up or ignoring them.
Best way to handle it.
Best way to handle it.
We will come back and we are going to talk about stretchy yogurt.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know what that means.
And I have not looked at it yet.
We are going to find out together, Terry, with our listeners.
On the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Good morning, show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
We got Terry.
You got James.
You got you out there.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
We're going to take it right to the top of the hour.
When we get there, we're going to be joined, not only by our news break, but we'll have a Denise
from the South Wakani Humane Society joining us with our pet of the week looking forward to that.
That's going to be fun, I think.
Stretchy yogurt.
There's a new trend called Stretchy yogurt.
It originally became a hit in China and now has shops in New York City and a few other places.
It's a little like the customized frog and yogurt trend from the early 2000s,
just with elasticity and a gummy texture.
Just?
Yeah.
You choose a stretchy yogurt.
It has the consistency of melted chocolate.
There are apparently a little guarded about what creates the texture.
That's not a good sign.
The flavors include five vegetable, five grain mango and coconut.
Okay, five vegetable.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
This is way out of my wheelhouse.
Yeah.
You get to choose several different fruits along with one wet topping and a dry topping.
It's usually served in a big cup with a spoon.
There is a video, I guess, of it here that they're making the rounds on the tock tick.
I don't know.
I'm not going to watch this whole darn thing.
I just want to see the dang ice cream.
But I'm trying to get an idea of what this looks like.
It's so in this a little bit like a basket robins kind of thing where you go in and you pick
your toppings and all that.
It looks like the basket robins' healthier-ish kind of a ski.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I am not their look who they're trying to get with this.
I don't think I could do it.
I'm going to watch it come out of the case here and see if they ever take it out of the case.
I don't like that they're guarded about what makes the yogurt.
I don't like that.
Well, okay, but I also, maybe you'd think about it.
I'm not super thrilled about eating something that's gummy.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, okay, maybe I'm thinking about it wrong.
Yeah, I guess maybe.
So you think it's like gummy worms?
Like that kind of thing?
It feels like it almost has to be if it's stretchy and all that.
And I will say I love gummy things.
I love gummy bears, gummy worms, I like them all.
But this, I'd just rather have gummy bears.
It just really...
Yeah, it seems very hot.
I mean, I can see how, you know, kids are going to jump on it.
Oh, gross.
Wow, yeah.
This does not look entertaining.
Not good to me.
This does not look entertaining.
Gross.
It's tasty to me.
But yes, this is right up kids' alley.
This is like kids would love this stuff.
It looked like...
There's a lot of adults though.
I don't see a lot of kids.
Do you think it kind of looks like chicken gravy?
It kind of...
Yes, it's way too gooey for me.
It's way...
It looks like...
Mmm.
Yeah.
How do they call that yogurt?
See, that also...
Thank you.
Because it does feel like they're stretching the definition of what...
You know, isn't yogurt yogurt because of its consistency?
I would think.
I would think.
But apparently they're making the rounds.
And by...
As far...
Like, if this does well in New York, it's going to be all over.
There is no way I would eat that.
Not a chance.
And it could be like strawberry cheesecake flavor.
I'm still not eating it.
Yeah, they...
They can come up with whatever I asked of them.
And I still would.
You can keep your five vegetable.
But I'm not even eating the good stuff.
I don't...
I...
I...
I will say that if...
As far as like, again, younger people, they seem to love these kind of things.
So, it might be popular with that.
It just may be out of our range.
It's like, what in the world?
I don't...
But I hear...
So, you know, you take a bite of pizza and the cheese stretches or something.
I mean, okay, here or there.
I don't really like...
I don't need my food to be stretchy.
I mean, this is not a department for stretchiness.
This is not where I need stretchiness.
No.
And why waste band?
Um...
Yeah, that...
That?
Yes.
That...
That was gross.
Um...
I'm passing on that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
Not for me.
But if you want to try, check it out, everybody.
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I'm gonna...
I'm not gonna cross this.
And you get in the running for those Minnesota green bay tickets coming up in November.
Gonna be a big game.
I believe it's of a prime time game, too.
If it is and it might be flex the one.
No, I think it is.
No, I thought so.
I thought so.
That's gonna be a big one.
That's gonna be a great game.
You want your shot at going to it.
We'll just text us the keyword bay.
Text us B.A.Y.
Who is the nicest place?
The 10 cities in America.
Huh.
This is major cities.
It doesn't go to places like, I don't know, here in Rapid.
Wisconsin Rapids.
Or places like that.
And we'll kind of get into a little bit more of the details.
But this survey asked residents to rate their own cities based on how welcoming they are.
And it produced a list of the top 10.
It's an interesting criteria.
I don't know that we've heard of ones like this before.
Usually it's people who are visitors voting on this kind of stuff.
Who actually experience what is it like to?
So there is likely bias.
But I think the other thing about that, though, this also kind of demonstrates what city takes pride in their community and pride in their city, too.
I was thinking similar thing.
Yeah.
And with that, we'll start at 10 here and move our way up.
At number 10 Denver, Colorado.
At number nine, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota.
At number eight, San Jose, California.
Number seven, Boston, Massachusetts.
At number six, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Okay.
At number five, Houston, Texas.
At number four, Miami, Florida.
Number three, Phoenix, Arizona.
Number two, Raleigh, North Carolina.
I just love saying Raleigh.
And at number one, San Diego, California.
Huh.
I've only been to four of those 10.
Okay.
But I can't say, probably two of them I didn't spend enough time in.
You know what I mean?
They really get a feel for if they're friendly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been to three of four of them, four of them I've been to.
And I wouldn't argue with this list.
I don't know what ranking I would give them or anything.
But I would say that a little bit of time that I spent with people from San Diego.
I haven't been in the San Diego though.
But they were great people.
San Jose was very cool when I was there.
I really enjoyed San Jose.
I mean, if I had to take a field trip to Honolulu, that'd be a trick.
Yeah.
I would test it out.
You know what?
It's a great point, Terry.
We shouldn't just talk about these things.
We should put our words into action.
We should go check out every one of these cities.
And see.
Yeah.
See who's friendliest.
Well, except for Honolulu, we're not road trip in there.
No, no.
It's going to be a very difficult road trip if I try to do that for us.
I think we've talked about, you know, Minnesotans and stuff plenty of times.
I think that they tend to be quite nice people and everything.
Except for when it comes to football, of course, but that's a whole different story.
And Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas, I had layovers or it was there for a handful of hours.
So I wouldn't want to judge on that.
But that said, and really enjoyed the people, especially in Houston.
I went there with a bunch of people that were from Texas and so was with a bunch of Texans
and just kind of mingled in with them and everything.
And the way people just treated me as soon as they heard my northern accent couldn't have been cooler.
Couldn't have been nicer.
I was in a really bad spot and I'm looking for somewhere to go.
And the only thing opened that time at night were bars.
I walk into a bar and it could not have been a more record stop.
Kind of just everybody staring at you kind of thing.
Obviously me, me like 10, 15 years ago.
So I even worse version of me when it comes to just standing out and everything.
And I walked in and there were some high school scores or something like that on the TV.
And one of the guys was talking to another guy about it.
And I just asked about this team that the mascot that they had.
I was there for like 45 minutes an hour talking high school football with these guys.
And they couldn't have been cooler to me.
And nice, like complete strangers have no idea who they are.
Houston, I thought Houston and Texas people, I got along with them pretty good actually.
I didn't have any problems.
I enjoyed it, especially the Houston area.
I think Texas is pretty hospitable.
It's just very hot.
Just very hot.
Houston is hot.
Like I have it.
California hot is interesting.
It's uncomfortable.
Midwest hot can be very uncomfortable.
I have not been somewhere before where it felt like my feet were ready to just give up.
Like, you know what, we're done, man.
We're out of here.
You don't pay us enough for this gig.
You have shoes on and it is still hot to concrete.
So much of Houston is industrial.
And I think that that's a big part of it too.
And there's just not a lot of, you know, agriculture in Houston or in Texas in general and everything.
And I really enjoyed Denver.
I enjoyed, I had to lay over there.
I was always only there for about an hour and a half, two hours or whatever.
But again, I bopped around this, you know, what I could around the airport and everything.
I enjoyed it.
But we, all this said, what, these are just words, Terry.
We got to put them into action.
Time for a road trip except for Honolulu.
That's what we got to do this.
It's not about wanting to.
Application.
I think that it's, these are kind of fun.
And I like the idea of, again, people voting on this.
I completely agree with you that there's going to be a little bias in there.
But I wonder if we did this survey in the Midwest.
And there's no real way to figure this out.
Many people would be a little biased, but also how many people might be a little bit too
hard on themselves in their city.
We tend to do that here, whereas in other places, on the ends of the coast and everything,
I feel like it's a little bit more of where you would see a little more bias.
With us and with people in the south, I think you would see almost a more skewed voting where
it's like, yeah, I love my city, but.
So I don't know how that would voting go.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
And I'd love to hear from you out there.
What is the nicest city you've been to or one of the friendlier cities you've been to?
You don't have to just give us one.
We would love to hear from you.
Either call up or text us through the Civic Media app.
We'd love to hear you doing that.
And I love my phone going off like crazy with you guys texting us the keyword Bay.
Get that word to us, everybody.
B-A-Y.
Text it to us.
And get in on the go for the green or gold text win multi-state contest.
We got going on with our friends at Rabbids transmission.
Of course, keep on listening at 11.
One o'clock, three o'clock, five and seven for another opportunity to get one of those key words
to us and get in on the winning.
Maybe get yourself some nice gold jewelry or $200 cash.
I have been told that the jewelry is not a four, like one of the old run DMC gold chains.
They're not talking about that.
Well, you did get that cleared up since we talked about it last.
Yeah, yeah.
Turns out it's not it.
I guess I was a little off on that one.
So you're dropping out of the contest.
Yes, I had a bunch of fake accounts and I'm joking.
I'm joking.
They would see right through it anyway.
They'd be the horrible names that would make up.
But we want you in on this one.
So Texas, that keyword bay, get in on it.
Everybody in a good luck to all of our listeners out there.
We appreciate you playing along and downloading the Civic Media app.
Terry, now I'm going to make some room.
We got Denise coming in with our pet of the week at the top of the hour right here on.
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