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Thanks for being here. Everybody's Seth and I going to get in some entertainment news.
A little bit later, get good stories of the day. Touch on our schedule as well.
But we are joined right now by our fantastic friends at the Wisconsin Rapids,
Elk Slodge, number 693. Got a friend Tom Deere joining us right now.
Tom, it's been a while. How you been? It's been good, James.
Good to hear. Good to hear. We got a lot of stuff we were talking about in our pregame a little bit.
We're going to be joined by the Elk Slodge a lot over the next couple of months
and everything talking about some of the cool things you guys got going on.
For now, let's dive right into what special bingo is.
Special bingo event going on tonight at the Elk Slodge or coming up at the Elk Slodge.
Saturday. Yeah, I get confused because I'm used to bingo on Wednesdays or all that.
But there's a difference of that bingo and super bingo, Tom. What is that difference?
Yes, the difference is that is our major fundraiser for the Elks now.
It used to be the fish fry, but obviously like a lot of volunteer organizations,
we don't have the volunteers we used to. So we figured in two of these things.
We could do what we raised in the seven weeks of length.
So that's a much more appealing thing.
And honestly, we've actually only been able to get really one that gets off the ground.
And that's this one, which is the fall one, whether it's dates or whatever.
But what this is is a typical bingo.
They play for a certain amount for the games, whatever it is.
These are pretty much like that.
A couple weird different patterns that we play that are fun.
And then the cash prizes in those first 20 games are $5,000.
That's divvied up between those games. So significant money.
We also have a lot of raffle baskets and stuff that we're doing.
It's 20 bucks to get 25 tickets.
And you can drop them in whatever basket you want.
A lot of different things going on.
The blackout for that day, the game 21, the last one that we play,
will be played for $500 as the blackouts.
And yeah, you can purchase tickets at the Lodge.
We're open for lunch today.
So you can stop down and get those tickets then or Thursday.
Also open for lunch or Friday.
Do you need to reserve a spot for this?
You absolutely do need to reserve a spot.
It's $5 to reserve your ticket.
And that can get used as a food voucher.
When you come in, you do need to have that ticket with you in order to gain admittance.
And then you can buy your packs.
And the game packs are running about $50 for 120 on.
Or, yeah, I think it's, yeah.
That's what I'm seeing, yeah.
Yeah. So it's a good thing.
And you can spend as much as you want.
Or is, well, at least 50 bucks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a sweet deal.
It's a really nice deal.
And especially, we know how popular Bingo is and how much people love it.
And the strategy people could take into this.
This is giving people a little bit more options there with that.
And a lot of more chances to win, I like it.
Yes, this is a big, big thing for them.
And it's a fun day for us.
We actually extend food service.
Usually I cut it off at the beginning of games.
We actually will do food service at halftime as well.
Nice.
So there's opportunity to use up those vouchers and whatnot.
You know, cool.
And I don't want to skip past that $5 ticket can be used towards the purchase of food that day.
That's something that you wouldn't, you don't have to do.
And I think it's so cool.
That the Oaks Lodge does things like this all the time.
And it may not seem like a lap of that.
$5 can matter.
And then adding that to the food, it's being spent still.
It's such a cool thing to be add down to this in-house.
Yeah.
It doesn't include soda or candy bars or chips.
That's not part of what that includes.
But if you're buying an order of fries or curds or something like that,
it'll save you some money or take care of it all completely.
Got a fantastic menu over there, everybody.
So there's something for everybody over there and something to enjoy.
Are you going to be doing anything unique for food-wise for them?
I kind of themed it as an October Fest sort of theme.
Oh, nice.
I knew you were going to do so, but I knew it.
So we got pretzels.
We got Sauerbrot, which is a German pulled beef sandwich that I got.
Pork Schnitzel, a few other fun things.
If people want to get these tickets register, go to the Oaks Lodge and do that.
Yes.
Go into the Oaks Lodge.
Come in.
Get your ticket.
Find up.
And then, yeah, then you're set.
Make sure you bring that ticket with you or you did not gain admittance.
Yeah.
You're going to have that with you, everybody.
Good to know.
And, well, we'll be sure to be talking this up and mention it in our show and everything
and make it sure you get a good turnout for it.
Tom, also wanted to mention something else fun coming up in fall.
There's a fun fall vendor event that is on the run.
Yes.
The lady Elks or the Elk Ladies are having their major fundraiser the following weekend on Saturday
from 10 until 2.
There's a variety of craft vendors that will be there amongst most egg rolls, a bunch of different things
like a sent to see and pampered shaft, tupperware, all those sort of things will be there.
Cool.
It's typical shop and sip event.
So, come down.
We'll have some sandwiches that are available as well that the lady Elks will be serving
and some desserts and things for an affordable price.
Very cool.
Excellent.
We'll be talking that one up, too, and great to hear about that.
If people want to find out more about that, certainly check out your social media page,
a Facebook page and that'll be on it.
Yes, absolutely.
Check out our Facebook page.
It is out there on both the Elks page, my personal page, and a bunch of the ladies shared it out.
Otherwise, we do have flyers up at the lodge as well, so feel free to stop in.
Make plans for that one, everybody, and support that event.
Certainly, support the Super Bingo event coming up.
We want to have the Elks lodge back, because they certainly have ours.
Tom, before we let you go, I did want to touch on part of the reason behind all of this.
Certainly, you mentioned the fundraising and all that.
That fundraising is done to put back into the community.
The Elks Lodge has done that for decades, and it's something that our local one does better than most at.
Yes, we absolutely do a lot of fundraising to put it back into the community.
We just are in the process of distributing on a bunch of youth activity checks for a few different things that are happening.
And we gave away, or we're working on our 50-50 proceeds after we figure out what it is from this month.
We'll be doing a donation to the Family Center.
There are charity this quarter, so we're doing a lot of different things in the community and trying to be active and show that we're there.
Being on the board over at the Family Center, I can tell you that every penny of that means the world to them over there and that team.
And it means so much more than just dollars and cents, but backing and showing support and all of these things that can really grind on a nonprofit out there.
And you guys do this every month and do a great job at that.
And just don't think we can get a chance to know that as much as I'd like to either and appreciate the Elks Lodge for it.
Yes, and there's also, check out a lot of things if you're a senior this year, tons of scholarship opportunity out there.
Check out our website, check out our page, stop in, don't be afraid to ask, ask your guidance counselor.
If they don't know, we have a lot of programs. I think there's four different scholarships we give away.
We're the opportunity to get a shot at those scholarships.
That's big time, and we're not talking small amounts of money.
No, no, no. It's not just a great food and a great time going on at the Elks Lodge, but great things going on and encourage you to be a part of that.
Maybe you don't have dollars and cents to your heard time mentioned before that a lack of volunteers.
We could always use volunteers over there at the Elks Lodge as well for these things.
Exactly.
Reach out to them through Facebook if you want to find out more about that, maybe.
Or just stop on by, stop on by at the Elks Lodge and get those tickets for the Super Bingo event coming up October 4th.
Over there at the Elks Lodge at 430 West Jackson Street right here in Rapids.
Keep in mind Wednesday, Bingo action over there, make plans to head on over and enjoy yourself everybody, especially as we get.
Only that place is always hopping on a Wednesday, but as it gets colder out, it just gets busier and busier over there.
Appreciate you Tom, and we'll be talking again real soon.
I appreciate you guys having me on. Thank you.
If people have follow up questions, one of them more is the best way to get in touch with you through the Facebook page or...
Best way to get a hold of me is call us at the Lodge Line, which is 715-423-1930.
Or I do all the booking so you can call 715-697-9221 and you'll get a hold of me one of those two ways.
Appreciate you Tom, thanks again for the time.
Alright, thank you.
We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back and have some more fun on the Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning Show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us. Big thank you Tom for hanging out with us from our Wisconsin Rapids Lodge.
A lot of fun hanging out with him, of course. We encourage you to go ahead and head on over to the Lodge, especially tonight.
They got Bingo, more on that a little bit later.
Regular Bingo, but the big one's coming up on Saturday.
We haven't had a good supergroup in a while. I don't know what the last supergroup was.
I'm thinking of audio slave, but I'm sure there's other scents.
Chris Cornell and the Rage Against Machine guys getting together.
The last one I think is the postal service.
Oh yeah, that was pretty good.
Again, supergroup, I don't know.
And that term gets kind of thrown around a little bit.
It does.
You've got the traveling wheelbarries where it's like four legends, like literal legends.
That says supergroup is you're going to give.
Yeah, and then you've got maybe this one that might be stretching the bounds of what a supergroup is or maybe not.
Okay.
So thanks. We have a new one called Howl Owl Howl.
That's a great band name. I like that. I like to say.
Hopefully their music won't be as hard to listen to as it is to say that.
That's hard to say.
And it probably, given that you've got mic mills from Aureum, black crow's drummer Steve Gorman,
and Darius Rucker from Hoodie and the Blowfish.
Yeah.
And that is your supergroup. That is just the three of them.
They describe their sound as Roots Rock and an alternative flair.
Their first single, My Cologne, will drop on Halloween, followed by a tour that will kick off in November in App Indianapolis.
Wow, that's cool.
Darius, who has been doing country for years now, says,
quote, it feels great to be singing with a rock band again.
It's like buddy's getting together, but also getting to play with your idols.
Now, I couldn't think of what brings Aureum, black crow's and, you know,
who need the Blowfish together?
South.
It's exactly.
I was right there. They're all from the South.
I think they're actually all from Atlanta.
I think they're all Atlanta people.
I'm not 100% on that, but it definitely all southerners.
Right.
I think you're right, though, that there's two Georgians in there.
That's what I meant to say.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
Athens.
I think the black crow's, and they're from Georgia too.
I can't remember.
Darius Rutgers from South Carolina, which is right there.
That's right next to each other.
No, he wasn't from Georgia.
I knew there was at least one.
I think they both came from the same scene, you know, kind of that same college scene down there,
and that sort of thing.
So that does make sense, actually, that they would get together.
It looks great.
And it sounds great.
I mean, the band, it sounds like they're going to sound pretty good together and everything looks good.
They did a little bit of promotional photos.
And the photos look like basically, they took them in the 90s.
And they're just standing there looking at the camera and everything, nothing special.
We have never figured out what to do with the album cover, like as far as like the promotional
shot of the band.
We've never really known what to do with this.
There's never been a great, great, great one.
Like, there's a couple that are okay.
The Beatles, you know, the hard day is night and the famous one of the four of them, you know,
facing the Beatles or something like that.
The Beatles, that's the one, yes.
And then there's, of course, Abbey Road, which is a pretty famous one right there and stuff.
But for the most part, it's always, okay, if there's three of you look at the camera
and the lead singer look away, like that's it.
Like every, every, it's a party shot.
I've had everything from students to agents get mad at me that my most of my promotional photos,
my photos I put on social media, I had my face turned to the side.
Right.
I grew up in the 90s, man.
That's all we did.
What do you expect, man?
Every album cover in 90, every album cover that came out in the 90s, no matter what the genre,
the artist was never looking at the camera.
No.
That's what I'm going with.
That's my excuse.
Hey, hey, I'm with you, man.
There's nothing to do with the fact that I hate my nose.
There's nothing to do with that.
Nothing to do with it.
I'm curious.
Well, I'll be curious to hear how they sound.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to look forward to that.
I'm very interested.
George Lucas's legacy is set.
There is no really getting around that.
I don't know much that'll change that really, especially when you look at not just his whole
body of work.
I think, you know, Star Wars is certainly a number one, but look at America graffiti and
some of the other works that he's done.
Yeah.
The Indiana Jones movies that he was a part of and some of that.
But all that said, I don't know if I've ever heard anybody say that George Lucas is
known for his dialogue.
No.
There's great writing, necessarily.
Never.
Never.
That may be an understatement.
There is one line he wrote for Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars that Mark Hamill
just didn't want to say.
And he is grateful to this day that it was cut out of the script.
Luke and Han Solo are approaching the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon.
But Han wants to turn around.
And Luke says, quote, but we can't turn back.
Fear is the greatest defense.
I doubt if the actual security there is, I doubt if the actual security there is any
greater than it was on Attacua or a cell set.
And what there is is most likely directed towards a large scale assault.
Now why wouldn't an actor just yearn for those words?
Mark says, quote, as a sentence, it makes sense.
But to make it sound like an original thought that just occurred to me and deliver it in
spontaneous way is really, really hard.
It was hard for me to say that sentence just in front of me.
Honestly, I have to give Mark Hamill as being kind here.
He's the clunkiest sentence I have ever heard in my life.
That is, there's no spot.
It's like you're trying to cram exposition in like one sentence and it's like no, it
didn't work at all.
And George looks to certainly not the worst or the only one guilty of this.
But I will never understand writers.
This happens more so in TV than anything.
But I haven't even noticed it in a lot of theater.
And especially when we look at American classics, you know, nobody's going to deny this is incredible,
this is incredible writing, this is an incredible play.
But how often you see in a play where, oh, these people have 30 years of trauma.
And then within one sentence, everything's okay.
Right.
And you get it in TV every once in a while too.
And that used to work at certain point.
I don't know why, dude.
But at a certain point, we just kind of accepted it.
Modern audiences will not take that.
They do not want that.
There is so much being done with a pause nowadays of just trying to give a little bit of a breather
between those things.
And I don't understand the writers that don't seem to get that.
Right.
They're humans too.
Yeah.
But it does lead me to remind people of the danger of AI and AI writing and AI acting
and some of that because the biggest thing that is missing from that is that human element.
And writers, whether you are a human writer or an AI writer, losing, forgetting the human
element, it's just not going to be good work.
Yeah.
No.
No, it's not.
It's just me.
The producers who are just so, so ready to, you know, use AI, well, it's because they
want to get rid of actors, because they don't have to pay them anymore.
But, yeah.
But it's not, it's not going to work.
It's not going to work.
At least, not what they have right now.
It's certainly not going to work.
No.
When it comes to that, the AI, you know, in that, it has so much to do with control, 100%.
This is something that business has tried to do forever owning their employees, controlling
their employees more and more.
And the entertainment industry just never shied away from it.
They just were up front about it.
You know what, Carrie Grant, we're going to sign you to a five-picture deal or you don't
work anywhere.
Yeah.
You're working with us or nobody?
Yeah, right.
Right.
I didn't even shy about black-balling actors back in the day.
The writers, especially writers, they didn't even work.
Yeah.
Look at what Disney did to animators.
Right.
I mean, seriously.
Right.
This is not an opinion.
This is fact.
Yeah.
And it's no different today.
They've just found different ways around it and ways to do it.
And with the writer's strike and the actor's strike and the fact that they, quote, lost that,
which I don't think they did, I don't think anybody lost or won, it was the negotiation.
Yeah.
That's, those contracts are coming up.
There's going to be a new one that needs to be signed very soon.
And these producers out there and these people, these people that run these companies,
they're going to, they're a big excuse is going to be AI.
And if you think that, if you don't care about that, okay, fine.
Do you think that's where it's going to stop?
Do you think it's, they're going to find ways and try to find ways to incorporate this
in everything in sports.
We're going to try to get rid of announcers.
Your local favorite announcers, Bob Euker, all these voices, they're going to try to replace
them with an AI.
They will try to do it in politics.
They're going to try to do it.
I mean, do you think that this isn't going to approach politics?
It's already in there.
It's already in there.
It's a half of these campaigns are being run by AI's.
Right.
I mean, I just read an article yesterday about the number of lawyers of attorneys who have
been reprimanded for lazily using AI, which, by the way, is making up like legal briefs
that don't exist.
Yeah.
And then, and so when people look at it and say, wait, this is not a thing.
This is not, and we're finding more and more.
And you're going to be hearing about this so much coming up.
And keep your eye on.
So much.
Keep your eye on the price here, everybody, because AI is not the boogie man.
AI is just a tool.
Yep.
It's the people that are using it for these things.
What are they using it for?
Focus on the real bad guy here.
It's not the AI's fault.
AI is just AI.
It's the thing you have to do any of this.
It's human beings choosing AI over human beings.
That's right.
Our own people choosing computers over us, compute, we don't have to worry about computers
taking over.
We have to worry about the people running the computers taking it.
Boy, you said it perfectly right there.
And it's all to save a dollar.
Yep.
And it's not, I mean, that's all it's for.
That's for it.
I'm glad they saved a dollar on the editing floor with that line.
Exactly.
They didn't film that line.
They just cut it right away.
We're not doing that.
Yeah.
You were smart enough for that, at least George, yes.
Will Affortune had the biggest winner in their 43 season history last night.
Wow.
Contestant Christy DeVarginik from Stanford, a Sanford Connecticut, won a cash prize $135,155
and plus trips to Montana and Tokyo.
Whoa.
She's the fourth contestant in the show's history to earn the million dollar prize.
And the first since Ryan C. Crest took over as the host.
Wow.
Technically, she could be considered the fifth if you count Melissa Joan Hart, who won the
celebrity one.
Okay.
Which is impressive, by the way.
Yeah.
Anyway, I guess it's worth it.
I mean, I know she, you should, she still won a million dollars.
I know she wasn't going to keep it.
But yeah.
And we don't get to mention her very often, Eddie Bork.
You know, seriously, Sabrina.
I have a question.
I'll throw her name.
Always a place in my heart for playing Sabrina.
Yeah.
She's a good actor.
She is.
Uh, Christina's winning, uh, puzzle was pack of coyotes in the living things category.
Wait, is that what we're at with, uh, with, uh, Wheel of Fortune now, living things,
category.
Wow.
Okay.
This is something that I don't know.
And I, I, I granted I haven't done a ton of work on this, but it's something that every
couple of years I feel like has come up with game shows.
Have we dumbed these down?
Are they, are they simpler now or harder now?
Ooh.
That's a great question.
I can't figure it out.
I can't tell if they are harder or, or easier now than they've ever been like, we've
been, okay, we got to dumb these down a little bit.
Like, I don't know if they've done that or if they've gotten hard, I really, I don't
know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That'd be an interesting thing to see.
Honestly, I don't think Jeopardy's gotten any easier.
Right.
That seems to be about as hard as it ever was.
So yeah, it feels like, yeah, it feels like, no, I don't have the, the data to back
it up.
I'm not sure though.
Yeah.
Just about, just a vibe thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
If I got, if I had to put a money on it, I would say that it, they've kind of lowered
the bar a little bit.
It doesn't feel like it's as tough as it used to be.
Right.
I also am a lot smarter than I was when I was younger.
So it may be a little bit of that, maybe, just, you know, it just, it just seems that way.
Yeah.
Just gotten a little brighter over the years, not much, not much, oh, not much.
One of the things that we enjoy doing around here is, of course, our contest, our text
to win contest, like the go for the green or gold text to win multi-state contest, going
on right now.
Here, we've just got a couple more days of that.
Your next keyword will be coming up at the top of the 11 o'clock hour.
Be listening for that.
And of course, giving things away, we give away a lot of merch and we love doing that.
And our great friends over at Save For The Arts right here in Wisconsin Rapids give us
tickets every time they're in with us to give away to our audience.
Yes.
We love to do that too.
And boy, do we got a, a, a good pair today to give away.
Experience the magic of Willie Nelson with Willie and family live Thursday, October 9th,
30th at the Performing Arts Center right here in Rapids, Willie and family live.
Michael Moore's tribute to Willie Nelson, this 90-minute show is a heartfelt homage to
the legendary outlaw of country music.
Willie and family live is more than just tribute.
It's immersive experience that delves into the life and stories behind the songs.
Very cool.
The stage is set up with Willie's stuff and everything.
It's a really cool interactive kind of place going on.
And they want you to dress up, grab your cowboy boots, get all in gear and show up for
your beat of guitar.
No, don't do that.
Yeah.
Tickets are selling fast and maybe purchased, I just thought of something I'm not going
to say.
Tickets are selling fast and maybe purchased by calling 715-424-2787 or stopping by at 1040
A Street South right here in Rapids.
Keep in mind you can get tickets 24-7 at Save For The Arts.com or call up right now 715-424-2600.
Give us your favorite Willie Nelson song.
Yes.
And there's like thousands of them.
So I mean, you can just name a song that you know, seriously.
It also could be a song maybe he didn't, he wrote, he did not sing.
Yes.
You know, that's an option.
There's a lot of those out there as well.
You call up, you give us that answer and you get these two tickets to see the experiences
awesome show.
Willie Nelson, Willie and family live Thursday, October 9th, 730 right here at the Performing
Arts Center here in Wisconsin, Rapids.
Be sure to find out more at Save For The Arts.com and keep in mind they got a whole season's
worth of great shows coming.
Yes, they do.
Lots of good stuff.
Very exciting.
Give it.
We'll take a quick time out.
Get to our news, sports, entertainment and partner break.
We'll come back with nothing but fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Wait a minute.
It's October.
I can't be playing September.
Wait a second.
Oh man.
I had to.
It's a little hangover from September.
You're fine.
I like the idea of like Earth, Wind, and Fire, like their record company is like, okay,
you had a big hit with this one.
You got it to every month now, right?
Do you remember March, and that's a Sam, it just doesn't say that March doesn't hit
the same.
No, it doesn't say.
It really doesn't know.
We set the James here with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody.
Couple of quick hits here and then we'll get to our final segment, but I wanted to get
into a couple of these stories.
The Yogi Barra Museum and Learning Center in New Jersey, which is a thing that I think
a lot of people are just now learning about.
I did not know.
It's a very cool place.
If you get a chance, I encourage you to look up.
They got a great website.
A lot of interesting things.
It's the Yogi Barra Museum in Learning Center.
Think of what I seriously learned.
Yogi Barra in Learning Center.
It's very cool.
It's a very unique, very cool place.
They just got cooler.
This place in New Jersey gathered 2,358 people to play catch and break again as world record.
The Sunday event at the Yogi Barra Stadium in Little Falls officially broke the record
for the largest game of catch with 2,358 people splitting off into pairs to throw baseball's
back and forth.
And I'm just going to try to show a little bit of this, but this is one of those ones
I really would have loved to have been a part of why I didn't know my volume was on
it.
I didn't know that was on it.
There you go.
There you go.
So there at a soccer field or a baseball field, I like the little kid he's throwing under
his leg back this year.
I love it.
There's like all different kinds of people here, all ages.
That is so cool.
And it actually does not look that crazy.
I thought this would be insane to try to navigate or you know, people getting hit with
ball.
Yeah.
Nothing.
No, that's amazing.
What a great, what a cool story.
I don't know if there's ever been a Gettys record that I wanted to be a part of more
than I want.
Seriously, it looked like they were having fun.
They were like, they had music playing and yeah, oh my gosh, there was a lot of Yogi
Barra fans there.
A lot of people were in Yankee Jersey, and of course, of course.
Can only imagine the amount of quotes that were going on of that.
The Guinness World Record, a judicator, Michael Imperic said that there were very few disqualifications
during the attempt.
Okay.
Quote, there were some phone violations, and also there were some rolling of the ball.
When we say catch, we want people to actually play catch, best of their ability.
Yeah, throw it.
But for the most part, and certainly enough, people did it to where they were able to
break this record.
That's so cool.
That's a really cool moment.
And able to do it while bringing a lot of attention to the learning center and helping
out with that.
I mean, all the way around.
It's like, forget about the world record.
That just looked like a really cool event, just to be a part of it.
I can only imagine that he is sitting there playing catcher up in heaven and smiling at
that.
The quote machine, maybe the greatest quote machine of all time.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
It's one of the favorites.
Yeah, it ain't over till it's over, of course.
Of course, yeah.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The future, what it used to be.
Well, and you know, the problem with some of these are that some of the sports writers,
like, wrote them in for him that he didn't actually say, which he had a great answer for
that one, too.
He said, I haven't said half the things I've said.
That's how he responds.
Yes.
And that is a true quote and always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they will
not come to yours.
Yeah.
It's a good line.
It's a good point.
It's a good note by him.
Yeah.
It's so many great lines.
Very smarter than he was given credit for.
One of my favorite things about him is that when he was a young man coming up, he would
read comic books in the clubhouse and the other players would make fun of him for that,
you know, considered a child, you know, pastime, that kind of thing.
And when someone asked him about, he's like, yeah, it's a funny thing.
What they don't tell you is that why every time I put one down, someone else picks it
up.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yogi, I've said this before about acting, but some of the better, smarter actors you've
ever seen are the only ones that can really play silly or dumb or what have you in that.
Yogi Barra got into that clubhouse and realized right away what that team was didn't have.
They didn't have the comic relief.
They didn't have somebody who could lead in that way.
Yogi Barra was one of the better leaders in sports history.
Yeah.
And nobody will ever give him enough credit for it.
Look at that, those teams that he was on and the personalities, some of the greatest teams
in baseball history.
Yeah.
How many jokers you see on those teams?
How many people did you even see took life lightly on those teams?
He had really martin on those teams.
It took everything to his life.
Yogi Barra and I get my dad and my papa credit for this.
I didn't see this as a young man and everything, but when they, people would, sports, announcers
would joke about Yogi Barra and kind of dumb him down a little bit.
My papa would always be the quick to say that's one of the smartest catchers in history.
Not one of the best catchers in history, one of the smartest catchers in history.
And also one of the best.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the greatest of all time.
I mean, for the, for not a baseball less 500 years, people will still be saying greatest
catchers of all time and putting Yogi Barra in that list.
And we go to your old stomping grounds for this next story, Seth.
Authorities in northern Minnesota County are warning residents to be on the lookout for
an unusual escape pet, a bobcat.
Oh.
A Roseo County Sheriff's Office said on social media that the State Department of Natural
Resources received a report Thursday that a bobcat had escaped from its owners wear a
war road.
Oh, that's way north.
Oh my God.
That's in the border.
Yeah.
Quote.
If you see the animal, do not approach it and call the Minnesota DNR or are the county
sheriff.
Bobcats are categorized as regulated animals in Minnesota and are not allowed to be kept
except in the cases of accelerated extruded zoos while life, while life sanctuaries and
individuals with state ensured permits.
Okay.
It was unclear whether that was the case.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Well, and we get in northern Minnesota, there are bobcats.
There's links, which is, you know, why we have a basketball team named after them.
I don't care who you are.
One of the most terrifying things I have ever heard in my life is being waking up in
the middle of the night by the cry of a links.
It is freaky.
I got to look at that.
Because it almost sounds human and it's just, oh man.
I got to look at that.
Yeah.
If you can find out the sound here, the sound of the cry of a links, it is terrifying.
Oh my God.
Especially waking up to it.
I can't imagine.
One of the things that I enjoy about winter is, as I've gotten older, there's a different
type of quiet in winter that exists.
My uncle is from that up north in that up in Minnesota north area and has told me many
times that there's no type of silence that there is, like in that up or northern Minnesota
silence.
And I can only imagine that silence accompanied with that sound.
Sound carries.
When it's that quiet, too.
It really carries.
That is wild.
Also, stop keeping these animals as pets.
They're not pets.
Just stop.
Just stop.
Look, get a personality.
Get a personality.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do this and I've been me, I've been holding this back for years.
It goes back to the Tiger King guy.
This goes back to, name me the person that has an exotic pet that has a personality.
None of them do.
None of them do.
They're all doing this because they can't grow a person out, get a hobby.
Find something to like.
Something else.
I mean, seriously, without involving a living thing, it's not the animal's fault that
you can't get a personality, man.
You have no friends.
You have no friends.
Get a friend.
You have something.
Pick up a hobby and leave these animals alone.
They leave them alone.
Come on.
It's sig-free to enroy.
Had their animal turn on this.
What do you think these animals are going to do eventually?
They're still wild animals that never changes.
I don't care how discontent domesticated they are.
It is not the animal's fault.
The animal's going to pay the price, but it's not the animal's fault.
No.
Get a hobby.
Get a personality.
Find a friend.
Leave the animals alone.
Stop having exotic pets.
Get a goldfish that's really colorful.
And on top of that, maybe even more than that, quit allowing this to our lawmakers out
there.
It's again, it's a little bit, I can't get mad at an animal for being an animal.
I almost can't get mad at a human being for being dumb sometimes.
You know, stupid animals.
You can just say, yeah, it's all we are sometimes.
And so, yeah, of course, we're going to do these things.
That's why we have laws to keep us from doing dumb things.
That's it.
Quit it.
That's what.
That's why we do it, people.
That's why, you know why we have those laws?
Because one person did that stupid thing and they're like, well, that was stupid and
dangerous.
We should not do that anymore.
We don't need to, we, this is one of those things.
I feel like we learned a long time ago, hey, there's certain animals, don't mess with
that.
Don't mess with them.
James wants a penguin.
He's not going to have a penguin.
He's not going to do it.
I know how that turns out.
Yeah.
It takes over.
Penguin's going to run the house.
Sharp beak.
Sharp beak.
I know how this works.
I'm not messing with that.
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Yep.
Yep.
That's right, that's right.
And I don't know.
I've had a number of listeners ask me if we have a cutoff date for this yet.
I don't know that we necessarily have a cutoff date, but I would say it's going to be real
soon here.
Where it'll be in October sometime, for sure, because we're going to have to start getting
this stuff ready.
So we really do need you to get, submit those recipes now.
If you're going to do it, everybody, please get on over there and do so and help us celebrate
85 years here in Wisconsin Rapids, 85 years supporting local 85 years of doing real
journalism of real broadcasting.
Yep.
We encourage you to support local, support us while we support you and get you a good
cookbook.
Yes.
At the same time.
It's all good.
And if I could just get in real quick tonight, we are getting together.
The cast and I have on Golden Pond.
We have our read through tonight.
That's where the cast will get together.
And just sit around in the circle kind of going through their lines and make sure everybody's
got that down.
Have to break.
Yep.
Just make sure you're fresh in the memory.
As the director and with, you know, needing some power in my last opportunity to wield that
power, I'm going to, as they're doing their lines, I'm going to throw accents at them
that they have to do the accent, that line in that accent.
It's, it's called the, what we used to call it, the sandwich rehearsal because it's between
the two, you know, performance weekends kind of thing.
And, uh, and, well, we can get silly some time, quite silly.
You can get quite silly.
I'll just put that out.
I will have them to their, their characters as pirates, um, I will, I will, in all seriousness,
we'll get together.
We'll do this.
And then tomorrow it, it begins the final three shows Thursday, Friday.
Saturday.
You will have shows Friday, Thursday, Friday, seven o'clock shows, eight to a clock
mat.
And they will wrap everything up.
Support local theater, support what is going on here.
This is a special play, a special team that has put this together.
Yeah.
This cast, this crew, I am so dang proud of them, uh, support and get this show in and
enjoy yourself.
It is a funny heartfelt, wonderful show that you are going to enjoy and leave, uh, laughing
and possibly, uh, tear or two when you're, uh, moved a little bit as well.
It's a good one.
We're really proud of this one.
Get your tickets at wrc theater dot org, everybody get on over there, wrc theater dot org.
And while you're there, maybe, uh, check out the other shows coming up.
Maybe you want to audition, maybe you want, uh, other tickets, uh, go and get them.
Wrc theater dot org.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR, Seth and James hanging out with you, going
to take you to the top of the hour, you got nothing but great civic media program and
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Along with those key words for the go for the great or goal text to win multistake contas.
Yes.
Yeah.
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Be listening in the one three five and seven as well for that opportunity to win, baby.
Uh, keep on listening for that.
Thank you, everybody who has already played along.
Yes.
100%.
Also got a bunch of other great things lined up for you today.
Well, uh, got another rapid support, uh, all set and ready to go.
We're looking forward to we're going to spend time today with our wood County Sheriff's
Department, Sheriff Sean Becker will be with us.
Always good hanging out with Sean.
Got a couple of topics I want to ask him about.
Yep.
Including a popular TV show that filmed in the area recently.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot.
Got to ask him about that and why he didn't help me get, uh, add to my IMD page and, uh,
let me out the answer for now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great.
Great.
Great.
Great friends over at Crockett Sceptic.
Also a little bit later today on our sister station.
We got playmeckers.
We speak sport.
Thanks to our friends at Quality Plus printing.
We get to open up the phone lines for an hour to your sports takes and feelings.
Join sports director Michael Comer and I today.
We're going to be talking football, high school, college, pros, uh, get into a little bit of
a, other things as well.
Looking forward to that all coming up today.
Four to five.
I want to five five.
W.I.
Right.
And right here at WFHART 705 to Luke Fickle show coach got a lot to answer to.
Uh, yeah.
A lot of you ago.
Invents us how to keep your job.
Yes.
Yeah.
Basically where he's at right now.
It's been the entire hour doing that.
I'm curious to see what he has to say there.
Join us for that at 705 here at WFHART.
Your home for Wisconsin Badger sports all fall and winter long.
And other great things going on tonight, Seth.
Oh, man, we're, we've got of course bingo.
It's Wednesday, everyone.
We talked with the outslodged a little bit earlier today in the show.
Beach out to them.
Yeah.
And they have their regular bingo game tonight from five, starting at five going till 630.
And don't forget they have their big super bingo coming up on Saturday, everyone.
So while you're there tonight, you can also pick up your ticket for that because you
need a ticket to get into the super bingo on Saturday coming up tomorrow.
We have the next of the McMillan concert series at start at seven o'clock.
It's free.
So he says at the fine arts center at the Lincoln, excuse me, the McMillan Memorial Library.
Madusa will be playing tomorrow.
That's the name of the group, which is really cool.
I would check out the web, the library's website for this.
They have more information about that or even check out our community calendar on wfhr.com
because we have more information there.
This group group of four ladies play a lot of different stringed instruments and they
have a really interesting sound.
Check them out, everyone.
It's going to be really cool.
That's at seven o'clock tonight at the McMillan Library in the fine arts center coming
up on Sunday, everyone.
We have trivia for you.
This is put on by Grace, the Greater Rapids Area Churches for Humanism Group.
This is for free.
Get your party of six up to six people.
Ready for some trivia.
It's going to be food there, of course, as well at two doors down brewing in downtown
Wisconsin Rapids, right off of Grand Avenue there, silent auction as well, and free will
offering will be accepted and all of that money will be going to help pay off debt of
local students, food service debt that they may have accumulated over the years.
Just to help them get that debt settled and they don't have to worry about it anymore,
especially if they're seniors, so they can go ahead and walk in their graduation ceremony.
Yeah.
The community book sale is on the way, everyone, coming up next week, the ninth and the
tenth that's Thursday and Friday, 830 to six, and then the bag sale on Saturday from
830 to $12 for a bag, whatever you put in there, 100% of the profits go to mid-state technical
college scholarships.
There's going to be free big goods and coffee while you browse everything that's there.
First books are only about a dollar or so, and this is all happening at the Wisconsin
Rapids, Moravian Church, 310, 1st Avenue, South, can come check that one out.
Finally, Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater, of course, you're going to go there this weekend
to see on Golden Pond, but coming up on October 11th, that two o'clock, it's the Golden
Anniversary Variety Show, there's going to be so much great community participation in
this, head on over there and enjoy the show, everyone.
It's going to be fantastic.
I think they've got all the people they need.
There's also going to be light or derves in a reception afterwards, and it's a great
way to celebrate 50 years of great community theater.
BioLocal, SportLocal, SportTheArts, everybody, and support all those great causes Seth
was talking about, and another great one going on with our good friends, the United
Way of Southwood and Ames counties, over at Newtles & Company, giving back, never tasted
so good, head on over to Newtles & Company today between 4 and 8, and 25% of the proceeds
of qualifying sales will go directly to the United Way of Southwood and Ames counties,
helping them continue to do the great work that they are doing, especially if you haven't
been to Newtles & Company yet, here's a perfect opportunity, get on over there.
Good stuff there, I like their stuff over there, get on over there and try something bolder
than the, you know, noodles and butter that I have every time I'm there, be bolder than
me.
That's what my 11 year old gets, come on man, come on, I really do, they're chicken
parms pretty good.
I think they're chicken parms.
I've heard, I've heard, I've heard, it's really good, I love chicken parms.
United Way of Southwood and Ames counties, along with our good friends at Newtles & Company,
teaming up here in Wisconsin Rapids, and keep in mind that this is only at the Wisconsin
Rapids, Newtles & Company, again 4 to 8, 25% of the proceeds going right back into this
community.
Yeah.
And Wisconsin Rapids line dance lessons are going on from 7 to 830 today at the hotel
meet.
Yeah.
Check that out, and learn more by we'll go into Wisconsin csd.com, Wisconsin csd.com, check
that out.
I love to learn any type of dance.
I like dancing.
Yeah.
I'd say that.
I would take that.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
Head on over to join our friends over at the hotel meet at 451 East Grand Avenue right
here in Rapids for Wisconsin Rapids line dance lessons 7 to 830 tonight.
Okay.
Check that out.
It should be fun.
It's going to be a lot of stuff going on over there tonight, be listening for that.
We'll hear it all the way over across town.
An American just won one of the biggest cheese competitions in the world for the first
time.
Amelia De Alberto is a cheese expert who studied at the Philly cheese school.
She could think.
Wow.
That's cool.
But we're learning a lot in the season.
We are.
She competed at the cheese monger Olympics in France last month.
It included a written test blind cheese cheese tasting, a cheese sculpting event, and one
where competitors had to cut the cheese, you know, the perfect slice.
Wow.
She is the first American to win.
Wow.
How cool is that?
By the way, that's a lot of different, like really different events in that.
Yeah.
That's, I am, I am, I'm going to look that up.
I got to find out more about this cheese monger thing.
That's really cool.
I would think here in Wisconsin, this would be a very, we would, we should know about
this.
Yeah.
What's wrong here?
We're a little mad at us.
Why are we not involved in more this more?
No.
We got to, we got to send some competitors.
Yeah.
No kidding.
We got to get involved in this, everybody.
Cheese monger Olympics in France.
Oh.
Mark that for next year.
Sounds like fun.
Also, I, I, I just, every once in a while, there's an example of how much of a home
or I am that I have never heard of this competition before.
But as soon as I see that of the American wanted, I cannot wait to talk about it.
That's, that's historical.
That's what the first American to win it.
That's really cool.
USA, USA.
A new mom in Florida is going viral after she won a mortal combat tournament with a newborn
baby on her lap.
She's a 3D artist who goes by the name of Legion and she won while with this child on her
new baby on her lap, man.
And there's moms can do anything.
Moms are amazing.
Moms are awesome.
And this Bob is put good over here like I, she's got so many different lights with this
baby.
There was a baby thing code.
You could actually turn the opponent into a baby.
That's right.
Yeah.
I don't know what if she did that.
That'd be all of that be perfect.
Great show today.
You too.
Be good to each other out there.
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