Transcript — Distracting Yaks (Hour 2)

Welcome back everybody, good morning to you, it's a new day.

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong, my own beliefs are in my song.

Let's get it going, final hour for the week of the morning show, got your host James, joined

by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Ames County's Terry Johns.

Good morning.

Got the band together on a Friday, we're here to have some fun, we're going to get into

a bunch of great things.

Got entertainment news coming up for you in just a moment.

We'll get into that.

Afterwards, we've got a couple of good stories for you lined up that don't want to dive into.

We got this one to come on.

The top office distractions by generation.

That one could be quite interesting.

We'll also get into our schedule, some good stories of the day and plenty more lined up

for you.

We kick things off with some entertainment news and people magazine is about to crown

its 2025 sexiest man alive.

In the meantime, fans get to cast their votes for a reader's choice poll that is going

on.

You can vote in 14 different categories that cover everything from sexiest 40-year-old,

sexiest cat dad, sexiest central Wisconsin DJ, and sexiest country music star.

I bring in a two-go-tos for country music with my youngest Izzy and you, Terry, that I

go to.

I wanted to ask you about this, you know, what you think of these finalists for the sexiest

country music star.

I have nothing to say on this category.

I have no wheelhouse on this one.

You have Cody Johnson, Riley Green, Shabboosie, and Warren Zeders.

So they went a little younger with it.

The lineup offers a little something for everybody, but now the only question is what about

the older guys, because I feel like they should have been in this running too.

But yeah, obviously you would take younger stars.

I mean, mine would be narrowed to Cody Johnson and Riley Green.

Yeah, yeah.

I'd easily eliminate the other two.

Is there any other names that you would throw into that list, or even it doesn't even have

to be a younger person?

I don't know, I was going to say maybe you'd almost have to look at it by generation.

Yeah, you really do.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Or even like what, 60 and up, or like, you know, like 20 to 40, 40 to 60, 60 and up.

If you haven't seen George straight recently, that man could still break him.

I mean, he's still handsome.

Yeah.

He can still, you know, yeah.

Tim McGraw.

McGraw, yeah.

Tim.

Tim went bald.

He went, he shaved it all off.

Looks great.

But he also wears that cowboy hat low, like, you know, there's just that, yeah, I don't

know.

I think there's quite a few.

But if I had to pick between those four, Cody Johnson and Riley Green.

As a side note, not everybody can pull off a cowboy hat.

Not everybody can.

There's some people to try.

They're not.

There's a lot of people to try.

And as a side note, they brought up in this at White Open Country.

You can check them out or Whiskey Reff.

You can find the article at both of those both great country music websites.

They bring up.

This would also make a really good concert.

Yeah.

That'd be a good concert.

That'd be kind of fine.

Yeah.

That'd be a good one.

And you can go ahead and go over to people.com.

If you'd like to vote on that one, everybody.

Speaking of Mr. McGraw, Tim McGraw concerts are always memorable.

I believe you've seen Tim McGraw concert, yeah.

Tim made his last one extremely cool for one couple in Ohio.

Tim was performing a set in Youngstown when he brought up two fans, Selena and Trent.

Selena just thought they were going to have a special moment with Tim.

But instead, Trent dropped to one knee and proposed mid-show.

And the crowd erupted when Selena said yes.

Tim congratulated them with hugs and a selfie that they'll never forget.

So that's super cool.

And I love that he did that, but can you imagine how these artists just get hammered with

this stuff?

Can't.

I cannot even begin.

You know what I mean?

I bet it happens literally every single concert.

And I got to admit, I'm feeling a little hypocritical with this one.

I read this this morning, you find this also at people magazine.com, people.com.

I'm not a fan of the, I'm at a sporting event and I'm going to propose.

I'm at this big world event and I'm going to propose.

I've never really been a fan of that.

It doesn't seem very romantic to me.

It doesn't feel like it really fits the team.

Now there have been stories where, oh, we met at a brewer game and we, I proposed to

her in the seats we met at or whatever.

That's romantic is all get out.

So yeah, I'm all for that.

This is a little different to me.

Like proposing at a Tim McGraw concert, okay, cool.

Proposing at a Tim McGraw concert with Tim McGraw right there on stage in front of all

those people, that does seem kind of romantic to me, actually.

That does seem a little, you know?

It doesn't seem so bad.

But also, you know, sometimes when it's a huge like public spectacle, like are you worried

the person's going to say no?

Because they're not going to in front of a hundred thousand people.

I don't know the confidence.

I don't know that I've ever been more confident, confident in anything that I would have to be

in order to do that.

I need to know, like I'm almost like we've already proposed, like we've already done the

proposal.

We're going to stage this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because that's how confident I would be.

If I can get a message off to Tim McGraw's people, will you say yes again?

Please, please.

Guys, I want to make darn sure, and even that I'm not sure, even if she's got the ring

on, I'm not a hundred percent.

Until the vows go down, I'm not sure I'm confident in that one.

I don't know I could do that.

Another fan witnessed the moment and commented on the post quote, I was there last night and

that was awesome.

The video's really fun too.

And that's cool.

Tim McGraw, he genuinely looks like he's really excited for them, like he's even getting

married.

He's just seems like a really like really in the moment.

That's awesome.

That's a very cool moment and good on him.

Tip of the cowboy had to Mr. McGraw and that couple taking a look at what's new in your

small screen, big screen and your local theater stage.

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune going on tonight, Joey McIntyre, Rita, I'll live Oliver Hudson

going to be on.

That'll be at seven o'clock on ABC.

Also at seven on NBC on brand, which is me failing new game show, I guess a lot of people

excited about the Netflix new Netflix movie Monster, the Edgene story.

In part because it's been getting good reviews and Charlie Hunman that the actor playing Edgene,

one of the finer young actors I've ever seen.

He's incredibly good.

He's a good one.

Is that like a tip of your hat as an actor to play somebody like that?

Well, it's a challenge.

It's like doing Shakespeare.

You want to challenge yourself as an actor and actually it's interesting you bring that

up because he, he didn't do this as a promo thing.

He actually went to the gravesite to kind of say goodbye to Edgene because he's like,

I can't get this guy out of my head.

I need to do this.

It happens with actors sometimes where you, the lines get a little blurred and he had to

go through a whole kind of thing with it and everything.

It's not my style of movie.

I don't get into those kind of movies really that much or anything, but I'm a huge fan

of his and his performance looks really good.

So is the idea that it's actually, I mean, I understand it's a film not necessarily just

like a documentary, but is it supposed to be?

Are they embellishing it a lot?

Or is it just supposed to be the real thing?

It's supposed to be as close to the real thing without it being a documentary.

I don't know that you have that.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, with a story like that.

He provided enough content.

Yeah.

Also, you've got a finesse showing up on 51st season premiere of Austin Siny Limits.

You can see that on PBS, great show if you've never, if you haven't checked that one out.

It's a good one.

The 51st season premiere of Saturday Live Happens on NBC this Saturday, 1030, bad bunny

going to be hosting.

Doja Cat will be the guest.

And of course, you've got a bunch of new cast members.

We're all, I know I'm excited to see that should be good.

Sunday night football, Buffalo Bills hosting in New England Patriots could be a good game.

I don't know.

The bills kind of, the bills are a really solid team, but they also kind of play down to

their opponents in New England is not very good.

So I don't know how good that one will be Sunday night at seven on CBS, a Grammy salute

to Cindy Lopper, a two hour special for you featuring Johnny Mitchell, Cher, John Legend,

Sizzah, Mikey Geiten, and Jackie Jake Wellesley Rodgers.

That's cool.

That's a cool tribute to Cindy Lopper.

That's pretty cool.

You've got all those and on Sunday at nine o'clock on CNN, the series premiere of Tony

Shaloub, Breaking Bread, Tony Shaloub, everybody knows as Monk and Wings and so many great

characters.

He is traveling across the globe to share meals, stories, and traditions as he explores

how food connects us all.

Another one of those traveling food shows, but Tony Shaloub being a part of it, that

might make bring a lot of people in.

I know my dad and my oldest Brio will be interested in that one.

They love Tony Shaloub.

They love Monk.

That is a, that should be good stuff on your lineup, everybody.

Taking a look at what's new on the big screen this weekend, not a whole lot of big releases.

You're probably not going to see a lot until we get closer to Halloween.

Certainly a lot of horror movies coming out right now and everything, but the big one

that is getting a lot of attention, especially Oscar Buzz, is the smashing machine.

Dwayne Johnson plays wrestler MMA fighter Mark Kerr in this biography about his career

and struggles.

Emily Blunt is in this as well as Ryan Badger places trainer.

So Dwayne Rock Johnson has been trying to get this movie made for 10 years.

A long time he's been trying to get this movie made.

And this is, this is something we're seeing and we see with a lot of action stars.

The Rock is kind of getting older and he's not able to do the action movies as much as

he used to, so he is branching off and trying to do more drama.

You saw this with Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood did this famously and really set a blueprint for a lot of action actors.

Hey, what do I do when Hollywood's done with me and they say I'm too old to jump off

of buildings anymore, Clint Eastwood famously got behind the camera and started directing

and everything.

Dwayne's going a more serious route.

This movie's getting a lot of, I wouldn't say mixed reviews, all the reviews are good,

but I think a lot of people are struggling with the performances.

It doesn't look anything like Dwayne Rock Johnson, like he's in that chair for almost

a day getting into this makeup to look like this Mark Kerr.

And his acting is top notch.

It's some of the best if not the best acting you've ever seen Dwayne the Rock Johnson do.

And that's saying something because I think he's a solid actor.

But with all the hype and all the attention that was hyped about this movie before anybody

saw it, once people have seen it, his performance is good, but Emily Blunt's performance is incredible

and she's stealing the show and it's just getting a lot of good positive reviews in her

regard too.

I'm curious.

I'm very curious.

I look forward to seeing it and seeing how good it is and not all that.

I did want to mention something else as we are talking about new on your small screen,

big screen and of course your local theater stage.

Terry, I wanted to thank you and your great bow for coming on down and seeing the show

last night.

A big thank you to everybody.

We had a really nice crowd last night.

I want to thank my mom and dad for coming to on Golden Pond as we kick off the end, beginning

of the end of the run for the last couple of shows of this performance.

I just want to thank Linda Garski for being there, Mike Egren, so many of the people

I look up to in this area coming to that show and the kindness afterwards you showed to

our crew, our cast and me really appreciated.

It's the definition of what we do around here, buying local, supporting local, supporting

our theater, supporting the arts.

It means so much to this community and the economic impact is certainly felt as well.

Do you enjoy yourself?

You have a good time?

Yeah, Randy and I had a great time.

We talked about it the whole way home, wonderful performance, clearly a huge effort on your

parts.

You have this all coordinated and come through like it did, but it also was just a enjoyable

show.

You just sit back.

All of the actors were remarkable and yeah, we just thoroughly enjoyed it and honestly,

when we were leaving the theater before I came over to talk to you, I said, Randy,

I'm like what time is it?

I was like, whatever, it was nineish or a little after nine, and I'm like, no way.

You're just transported.

It was wonderful.

The set was beautiful.

It just, I can't say enough good about it.

If you haven't been, I encourage you to come on out.

You have an opportunity yet.

Today, tomorrow and Sunday, right?

Today and tomorrow.

Oh, today and tomorrow.

Okay, sorry.

Two more.

Only two more.

That's up the urgency here.

Yes.

It's a really great show, great opportunity.

You know, the other really fun thing is you've got what, like a middle school age actor

all the way up, you know, like just the age range of the actors and how they work together

and it was fabulous.

Jamie, playing our Norman is new to our community and you guys are not going to forget

him after this.

He's an impeccable performance that he's only getting stronger and stronger at every

day.

I actually commented that he could be Peter Fonda's brother.

Yeah.

My dad was talking about the same thing.

Like his, the gate of his walk.

Yes.

I mean, he literally, well, I know that's the goal, but I was going to say he literally

became that character.

But I mean, I just, it was remarkable.

Blume me away every day, every rehearsal blew me away.

Along with that, just keeping pace with him and, you know, lapping him sometimes, Susan

Egrin as Ethel and Susan has been in this area for a long time has done many, many shows

for decades in this area.

This for me is her greatest work.

And I really believe that is saying something about Susan.

I mean, that is a huge compliment to her in the work.

She was fabulous.

And there's a lot of kind of solo stuff for her in this.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

She had to, there's a lot she had to do just on her own.

Her own cue is her own.

You know, like, yeah.

That was fabulous.

The pace and the, there's so much put on those two actors in particular, Ethel, where

she is the, not just the engine of the show and the heart of the show and everything,

but she's the really, the one that you see all the emotions of.

You don't get to get that with all the other characters.

There's a lot on her plate and she brings it.

She takes care of it.

Wow.

And I'm not saying he did this because I think he was fabulous, but there's also that,

right?

Like, when you're playing a forgetful character.

Yeah.

If you forget something, you're off the hook.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It works right.

I mean, I did not witness that, but I'm just saying, she was, she was carrying the load

of keeping that show, you know, moving forward.

We've seen Andy playing our Billy Ray many times and multiple shows in recent years and

he's just gets better and better with every show.

He does such a fun job of bringing such a great personality, Bill Ray.

I have mentioned many times with Alia on air with us and of course, as Chelsea, she is

Chelsea.

She fits that role so well.

She brings so much energy to that role and tenderness to that role while also being

so strong.

She does such a fantastic job.

Daniel Bloodso is our Charlie and Danny came into the show a little bit late and I cannot

think of enough for doing so.

I was really impressed with what he did, but I appreciate you bringing up Maddie.

Billy Ray, our youngest cast member, Madeline Southworth, is just incredible.

She just blew me away in auditions.

She's gotten only stronger and better at the craft.

Last night, she did something that I've worked with Maddie a lot throughout this character

and everything and she's very directable.

I appreciate that so much out of her.

Well, for everything, and this is only her third show as a young actor.

And her first, like, right, those were youth.

I'm not minimizing, but I'm saying those other two were with her peers, with youth.

Not only was she great energy throughout every single rehearsal she was at, which was

really fun for an older cast to have a young actor like that and that natural energy

of hers.

But last night, I'm watching and she's, you know, she's got this one line that she says

and it's an important line.

Well, right before that, she kind of tells a bit of a joke.

So the audience was laughing and young actors, heck, actors that had like 10, 15 shows

I've seen do this, where the audience is laughing and you deliver your line and they

lose the line.

So what you have to do as an actor is you have to be listening and right when the audience,

not when they're done speaking, not when the laughter is completely stopped because then

there's silence.

You got to wait until it's right at like a one syllable, just at the lowest syllable

and jump in.

This kid did it.

Like, she just read the room and it was able to do it.

She was great.

That's such a great performance in this.

Everybody is bringing it.

Everybody is giving it their all and boy, these last two shows you can guarantee you're

going to see good shows because they know they're the last two shows and they're going

to leave it all on that stage.

We thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend two more chances to see on golden pond from

Wisconsin's rabbits community theater tonight at seven tomorrow, two o'clock matinee.

Get there.

Everybody by local support local and thank you so much to everybody who has already come

on down.

Keep in mind, auditions for the next show, Christmas story are coming up, everybody.

That'll be around the corner.

We'll be talking about that next week, but you can make plans October 6th and 7th.

Head on over there for auditions, being directed by Christine, so Christine last night too.

She's a great director.

You're going to enjoy her.

And on October 11th, our golden anniversary variety show with Wisconsin rabbits community

theater.

Get your tickets for that and we will meet you there.

Get those at wrc theater dot org wrc theater dot org.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

Have some more fun on the morning show.

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I had to get this one in 80s kids unite.

We had to get that in there.

Except you.

Yeah.

Terry wanted to touch on this one right here.

This is a fun story if I was interesting.

A herd of five yaks escaped from a ranch in Ohio and made their way to school about

a mile away from the facility.

I don't know.

Do you feel like a yak?

That's a great question.

I mean, I get a yak.

No, he's in my head.

Well, we know.

It's a yak and a yak.

Don't talk back.

Yeah.

But is it?

I think that's what it sounds.

I mean, fair.

Boy.

That was a bad one.

Sorry.

I digress.

Indiana Indian Lake schools said on social media that some six grade teachers spotted a Asian

bovine munching on grass on the south side of the Indiana Lake middle school around lunchtime

Monday.

The sheriff's deputies and personnel from a hidden nook ranch located about a mile from

the school responded to the scene.

They attempted to wrangle the animals into a trailer, quote, but the yaks prefer to stay

in the yard, the post said, quote, facility directors Matt Hurley and Dustin Picard grabbed

some gates and everyone corralled the animals into the trailer, officers wrote.

Some kids were outside for recess, but no students were anywhere close to the rogue yaks.

And rogue yaks is a fantastic set.

Don't they?

They sound kind of dangerous.

They do.

It's a little mysterious right there.

So yaks, like, like, they're spies.

Yaks spies or something.

I don't know.

Next James Bond was there.

Yeah.

That is the fun one.

This is one of those ones where as your kid, we were all we've all been there as a kid in

grade school and you're looking out the window, you know, and just and you're being distracted

by the wind, let alone if a herd of yaks come by, I cannot imagine what those teachers.

If you're that teacher, do you just kind of like that lesson plan you're to up in the

air?

You're just throwing that one up in there, right?

Well, let's talk about yaks instead.

Yeah.

There you go.

It's a teaching lesson.

You just get right into the story of yaks.

And while love officials in Washington shared a video of a black bear turning porch pirate

to steal a package from the front of a resident's door, and I will say really quick, I

have dealt with a little bit of the porch pirates and some of that and everything.

And I think it's a really cowardly act, especially when you do it to neighbors.

That's really messed up.

Yeah.

I think that's wrong.

Oh, yeah.

But when you do it at all.

I will also say, yeah, absolutely, at all, it's just messed up.

But I will say also, you know, as a side note, I've talked to with a couple of people

of law enforcement about this and a couple of others.

I think you're going to start seeing some laws about this one.

We haven't, this happens all the time that we adapt to modern times and the judicial system

is no different.

I think you're going to start seeing some specific laws on porch pies, like stiffer than

just theft.

Yes.

Like you intentionally plotted out, you scoped out something, right?

It's premeditated then.

I heard, and this is a couple of years ago, but I heard a story of somebody having their

their package stolen and it had medication in there that they needed, like things like

that can happen.

Yeah.

Why are people so dumb?

Yeah.

All that said, I'm going to take us a week to figure out.

The one time that I complained to a neighbor or to a sheriff or anybody liked that about

somebody stealing one of my packages, this is what's going to happen to me.

I'm going to complain that somebody did this or whatever, and then we're going to look

at the camp footage and everything and it's a bear.

Well, but if you had camera footage, you'd look at it before you, before you complained.

You'd hope so.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said on social media that the video recorded

in Ocean Shores area should serve as a reminder not to leave any items sitting on the front

porch for too long.

Okay.

In the bear's defense, maybe it was jam with a month club.

I got to know what was it.

Okay.

Yeah.

There it is.

Perfectly said, guys.

He wanted another pick and a basket.

I mean, come on.

Friendly reminder that if you quote, friendly reminder that if you order door dash, Uber

eats or other food delivery services, people be sure to pick them up right away.

Fish pirates come in all forms, including furry and four legged.

Okay.

This is so moronic to me.

If you order door dash or Uber eats, aren't you ordering it for supper?

Like how does it sit on your porch?

How is it out there for long at all?

Yeah.

Long enough for a bear nonetheless.

Now if it was out there for a couple of seconds and the bear came up before he could get

it, I get that, but it sounds like they're just leaving this stuff out there for a while.

So then the bear just happens to be lurking in the bush, but doesn't reveal itself when

the driver drops the pet like this is.

Well, and another thing that they bring up in this article, if the bear gets even one

meal from there, it might think that it can get more meals from there, so it's coming

back.

Yeah.

You might end up ordering two meals.

I mean, it's the science, right?

You feed the birds.

The birds keep coming.

You feed the squirrel.

I mean.

You, the UPI.com, you can find this complete article and the video of this bear doing this.

And I don't know how well it's in black and white, so I don't know how well you can

really see it.

Okay.

And of course it's not working for me either, but it's kind of funny.

It's kind of a funny video.

But if you order Dordash, I mean, I'd advise you to set it on the step till it comes.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Come on.

Just be smarter people.

Or you know what?

Go get your own food.

But I mean, on the other hand, those bears are pesky.

I definitely don't blame the bear.

I definitely wouldn't do it in person.

I still like jam in the month.

Yeah.

That's a great one.

It's a great one.

Yeah.

Don't order any picnic baskets.

We will come back and we'll get into this story about the top office distractions by generation

that's coming up for you after our news, sports entertainment and partner break on the

morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, 97, 5 FM, 13, 20 AM on your dial.

James and Terry hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

I'm going to get into our schedules, some good stories of the day, some great events going

on in our area, coming up in just a little bit in our next segment.

But one of the touch on this one day, say, seven, there I meant to say segment.

I don't know what I said right there.

You've had a fat tongue all morning.

Really?

Really have.

Really, really have.

To get in the way.

It's been a distracting morning to say the least.

It's definitely been one of those.

So I don't know what you said.

Everyone gets distracted or sidetracked at work at different stuff sometimes.

Working from home can be less distracting or more if you, you know, depending on the

situation.

And if coworkers deal with, deal, derail you the most or it can be the most distracting,

that might be something that comes up in this list.

We got a new survey here, and according to a survey, 55% of people say that they feel

more productive in the office than at home.

Oh, I think that's valid.

Yeah.

Maybe even higher.

I think it's a lot higher, actually.

I think it's a lot higher.

I think that there might be a lot of people that maybe either they forgot what it's like

working or people answering this that have not worked from the home before.

And I think it depends what, I mean, it works in the office, but it depends how the home

is also defined and structured, right?

Yeah.

Like, is there other people there while you're there?

Are there, you know what I mean, like, I, yeah.

Maybe you realized this earlier than I did, Terry, but it took me a little while to pick

up on this.

I would say in the last year that there are groups of people out there, generations

out there that are growing up that maybe haven't even worked in an office, that they're

working a job, but they work it from home, and that's the only type of job they've done,

which I hadn't thought of.

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe if they've entered the workforce in the last five years or so, very possibly.

But I think there's, and I'm just speaking of kind of our area, like Central Wisconsin

issue, I think there's a lot of companies who really embrace the work remote, you know,

probably started on or around COVID time.

And then they kept that.

I think there's a good number of those companies that are pulling people back, you know, just

for a variety of reasons.

You know, productivity obviously is the level of hanging fruit here, right?

But then there's also just the whole, how we interact with each other.

Yes.

You and I, this is just Terry John's opinion, but you and I can be much more productive

sitting face to face, how we are, then we can be if we've never physically been in

the same room.

There's no, while there's plenty of things that we've learned that we can do, it doesn't

mean that they're done better, and it doesn't, and it certainly doesn't mean that you have

that human element of it in the room.

And there's convenience to zoom in teams and web, you know, I mean, like, there's definitely

convenience and sometimes where yes, did we have to drive across town to check in on something

for 30 minutes when we could have just done it not fine, but the whole like removed

from other humans completely indefinitely, and I don't, you know, just, we have a small

office, a small team of people, but I definitely think that, you know, face to face interaction

is pretty important.

I think it's a lot, and I think we're figuring out more and more how important it is.

So they break this up by generation, and the top distractors for Gen Z are social media,

personal notifications, and major news events.

Millennials are pretty much in the same boat as that.

Top distractors for boomers or our college is colleagues chatting, political news, and

major news events.

That's us, right?

Yeah.

Well, boom, yeah.

I mean, we're, we're, we're Gen X, so we wouldn't be considered that, yeah, yeah.

But all of that making sense, and did you see a, a theme there about major news events,

and that does not have to do with just politics, or even just weather, entertainment, all

the above.

Okay, but it still is likely, you know, you mentioned one of those like notifications,

right?

And if you are literally doing your work, you're likely not a news story isn't popping

up unless you have it set as a pop up, right?

Like, so yeah, I don't know, but I think this is hilarious because literally this morning

I was talking with one of my team members about a former employee, and I was saying how

she, because as soon as this employee came in this morning, I went to her and I'm like,

I have a few things I need to address with you because I was coming here and then, you

know, I'm like, I just need to, and I did this.

And then I said, oh, you know what, I'm really sorry, I didn't even give you a minute

to like, you know, get situated, right?

And she just starts, she's like, oh, it's fine, no problem.

And so then that called up for me this story, though, when you said distractions from other

coworkers, because I had someone that used to work with me, and I'm always there, you

know, like seven-ish, right?

And so I typically have half an hour to an hour by myself in the building.

And that's a, I mean, I'm getting set for the day, right?

Like digging in, tying up loose ends from yesterday, like for me, that that important time

is really important.

And so I said, there was this employee that used to get there about the same time as me.

And she would literally just come stand in my doorway and talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

And nothing worked related.

And she was being social and I love her dearly still to this day.

But finally, you know, like a month after she was there, I would finally, when I'd hear

her approaching, I'd kind of like position myself maybe in the doorway so she couldn't

get in.

In my office, she'd get in the building, but you don't want to be like, go to your office

and do your thing.

I was a, I had a similar story, had a guy I was, did construction with for many years.

And he just, I, he was a real talker on a construction site.

And he's, it's like when your dentist is trying to talk to you, it's basically the same.

We're, we got machine work going on.

We got hammers being nailed at everything.

And this guy's just trying to like give his life story almost every time we were together.

Eventually, I started like going up, working on the roof.

Like just like, I go up there, I go up there, I'll work up there.

And it's so funny because I mean, I'm fine with the, you know, hey,

how was your evening?

You know, like, hey, how's it going?

Like some, what would we call it back in the day?

Water cooler talk, bubbler talk, you know, but, but like, I like, oh, this is, this is

my time to get, you know, get set up.

So I try to be very respectful of that, but, but distractions from coworkers, that can

be a thing, right?

Because if I've wrapped up my stuff for the week, but you still have a huge list, you're

trying to pound out.

And now I'm just, you know, constantly engaging you, but I guess you also have to build

enough rapport with people where you're just like, hey, dude, I got to get this stuff

done.

And at lunch time, or, you know, something to that regard, well, it's always trying to

push our staff to the limits and make sure that we're giving you the best radio possible

and everything.

I constantly go around trying to distract our crew around here with mimeing or juggling.

I know.

Sometimes I don't have a water gun and I will shoot at them with the water gun.

Pam is the best at this.

Pam just gives me a look and I go away.

Seth is a little bit, yeah, I think I think he just is a little more patient, a little

more patient.

Or Seth has his water gun under the desk and he's going to shoot back at you.

That's what Laura does.

That's what she does.

She says, like, she's got big guns too.

She's got the kids.

She has them come in and they shoot at me and yeah, it just doesn't work.

Jen X are similar, except for all generations there, the least distracted by political

news.

Instead, they're more sidetracked by personal notifications and fatigue, which makes

a little bit of sense since they're likely to be dealing with the more kids scheduled

than boomers or the youngest of the generation.

So that's an important part to keep in mind.

I think generally younger workers admit to having more distractions than older.

Folks, but I, I don't, I think that we get, we do this to often where it's all or nothing.

Like you can, you can say a line like that and it has truth to it, but it isn't as if

boomers are not distracted as well.

We know this for a fact.

Like you can talk a good game about, well, we're not glued to our phones, our computers

or whatever and everything, you're just as in tune with it as a lot of us, maybe just

not as much.

I think from the perspective of the employer, though, because that's often left off on

these kinds of things, is what level of distraction because you're never going to have no distractions.

But like what level of distraction is still productive and also tolerable?

What can you live with?

You know what I mean?

Because honestly, I had an employee a while back several years ago, I guess.

And like this person just thought they could pop their earbuds in and just listen to

the podcast all day.

Now, and I'll argue, I will argue you till the end of the time, but we're not going to

do that.

You're not going to.

You just zip your lip.

But, but I will argue any day of the week, and this person's argument was, well, this

person listens to the radio.

Listening to the radio is different than listening to a podcast that is specific content.

You're not focused on your work.

It's different.

You're focused on what you're listening to.

And I'm like, no, no more podcasts, calling it, I'll just shut off the internet.

I don't know.

I can get so like, where's the limit?

Absolutely.

Because one of the things that's very maddening to me, and this is across generations,

everybody.

This is not just a one generation thing.

This is not a one off.

This is like a lot of things we inherit.

Young people didn't get this for nothing.

Like they saw older people doing this.

They got older people's impacts of this.

So it's every generation of this idea that I met the job.

But you know what?

I want to do this on my side.

I want to do this also.

How about you do the job that you're getting paid for?

Like you are on the clock.

Do the job.

Preach.

This isn't, this is work 101.

This isn't a real difficult thing here.

If you don't like it, I mean, you know, there's other things you could do.

Good luck.

Because money is, if we're going to be like people like myself especially, and I am

one of the biggest people about this, about raising minimum wage, about paying people

what they're worth and all that.

Well, I can't bark about that and then you don't do the job.

Like you're not getting paid for nothing here.

You've got to go out there and earn it and earn the job and do a good job.

I don't mean that you're going to be the greatest ever at this particular job.

I don't mean that, but the greatest asset is availability.

Your greatest asset is being there and being engaged.

Well, and, and yeah, I mean, it's that, right?

Like I think about our team and I don't expect you to be focused on your United Way work

when you're not working, right?

But that's a trade-off.

Then when you're at work, let's be focused, right?

Like, and some people can do that and some people just can't, but, but you have to be trying.

You know, you have to, you have to be like, okay, when I'm working, whatever that work time is,

I don't care what your shift is, but can you be focused and then that frees up all of your

personal time, you know, to, to do the things you want to do?

Well, we talked about this earlier with volunteering.

It's not any different with this.

All those things that you enjoy in your downtime, you're actually enjoy them if you earn it.

When you don't earn it, you'll notice a difference.

You, you won't enjoy that as much.

So it's, it's good for that matter as well.

And I think that there's, I don't know if this is kind of lost in the shuffle nowadays or

something like that, but does anybody else remember how good it feels to put in the day of work?

Like it feels good.

Yes, you're tired.

Yes, your beat.

You're mentally worn out.

You're physically worn out, but it also feels good.

It's like, it's like literally a workout for your body.

Are you tired or your muscles hurt?

Yeah.

You also feel darn good that you accomplish that.

Absolutely.

Like there's, that's something you can't put a price on.

You can't put an hourly wage on or something like that.

And I think that that is something that you carry with you the rest of your life, too.

Like I, I know for a fact that this is the case in the construction world,

I know a lot of people that appreciate the work that they've done.

I'm pretty sure it's every industry.

You can feel good about the job that you've done if you put in a good day's work.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back, wrap up the show for the week,

the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, 97.5 FM, 13.20 AM, locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Couple, one last segment of the week.

We'll be back on Monday with a new morning show for you,

keeping you up-to-date, keeping you giving you serious comedy this

stature day.

We're going to have some fun next week.

Got a fun October lined up for everybody.

And of course, we are wrapping up today.

They go for the green or gold text-win multi-state contest.

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And they have some fun with it, everybody.

Be listening for that.

More coming up there.

Got a great wrap and support lined up for you today.

Be sure to join us for that.

We will, in one episode, we'll be joining with

Wisconsin State Representative Scott Krueg.

Scott now will be talking.

Looking forward to that.

Always a good conversation with Scott.

When I get into the election package

that he is talking about right now,

the importance of that.

A couple of other things I want to highlight with him as well.

Ruer's baseball.

We're definitely talking Ruer's baseball.

We're definitely doing that.

We may go a little long because we're talking about it.

That's worth it.

And we continue our series with the Wisconsin,

Miss Wisconsin Rapids and Miss Wisconsin Rapids

Teen Pageant Contestants.

Awesome.

Today we're going to join by Surrey and Mia and Alexandria

and Bianca looking forward to that.

These are just awesome talking to these kids.

Those are always fun.

Right.

It's always a fun interview.

Looking forward to that one.

Well, that playmakers for you on the radio dial tonight.

Four to five.

Join us on 105, 5WRI.

Seth and I are going to be hanging out.

We'll be talking about not only the major league baseball

playoff races and the NFL scheduled this weekend,

but certainly also talking about Pitzville at assumption.

We got Mike and Beth on the call for that one.

Looking forward to it.

Have a great game tonight.

Mike, appreciate you.

Good seeing you earlier.

And Beth is doing some great work on the board too.

So we appreciate Beth being doing that.

650, our pregame will kick off.

Pitzville at Assumption.

Be sure to check it out at 105, 5WRI.

For those that have not heard,

Michael's been keeping us up to date on this.

Assumption needs one win and they're in the playoffs.

That's cool.

Always cool.

Always a great story, especially this year.

And this historic season for Assumption football

is this is their last year of doing this style

and going to eight man next year.

So going to be a really fun one.

Be sure to be a part of a possible history happening tonight

listening to that Pitzville in Assumption game.

Going to be a good one.

Check that out.

Of course, this weekend,

your home for the Wisconsin Badgers right here at WFHR.

Badger football at Michigan 9 AM.

That kicks off and Badger hockey tonight.

And tomorrow night 630.

Will I Wisconsin men's hockey at Lyndon Wood tonight.

And tomorrow night, be sure to check those out.

Everybody great stuff on your dial.

Got a special bingo event going on with our Wisconsin

rabbits Elk's Lodge number 693.

This will take place at 430 West Jackson Street.

Tomorrow this Saturday doors open at 1030.

Bingo kicks off at noon.

They got a bunch of great packages available with this one.

Day bingo.

Yeah, and this is serious bingo.

This is going to be a lot of fun.

People are going to be able to win some nice cash prizes off of this one

and also put back into their community like our Elk's Lodge does

because all the proceeds go to do that.

Elk's Lodge does some amazing stuff in our community.

We appreciate the gang over there.

Be sure to check that out.

Again, special bingo night happening tonight.

Wisconsin rabbits Elk's Lodge number 693.

At 430 West Jackson Street.

Bingo kicks off at 1030 tomorrow.

Be sure to join them for that.

Got a great one going on with our friends at Grace.

The greater Rapids area churches for ecumenism.

They have a trivia night trivia event going on Sunday.

That'll be happening Sunday four to six at two doors down

brewing company at 140 East Grand Avenue right here in Rapids.

Join them for a fun afternoon at trivia food.

A silent auction.

Put together a team of six and join them.

It's free to play.

They are accepting free will good offerings.

And all of the proceeds will go to help paying off debt in our community.

A debt for the students in our community.

So I encourage you to check that out everybody.

And one more time when I remind you that we have two more shows for

Angled and Pond.

Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre's fall production.

Head on over to the theater and check these out.

Seven o'clock show tonight.

Two o'clock matinee tomorrow.

Support local.

Support these.

This great crew.

This great cast.

You are not going to be disappointed.

The I guarantee you will never see Angled and Pond the same.