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Let's get it going. Time to start the show. Welcome to the morning show here at 975 FM.
1320 AM locally grown radio catcher host James. Join by one of our head producers around these parts.
Our head producer here at WFHR. That's for darn sure. I got the wrong.
I'm used to doing the number two, sorry there. Laura's with us.
Hi. Laura. Yes, I am the head of production at WFHR.
And we welcome the best listeners and radio. Thanks so much for being here everybody.
We're going to have some fun this morning. We got coming up some tipping questions.
We're going to get into how much are we how we feel about tipping that is coming up in a little bit.
Tying into that how many of us have worked in retail. Yeah.
We're going to get those two conversations going together. We've also got coming up a little bit later.
Hershey's winning a lawsuit that is kind of interesting.
We're going to get into that 10 o'clock hour. We're going to kick off with our good friend Denise and the pet of the week with South of kind of your main society.
Yeah. Looking forward to that little bit of entertainment news for you in there.
I'm going to talk some Dolly Parton. I'm going to talk a little bit of a TV news and let you know what is coming up for you.
And your email box a little bit later today WFHR newsletter.
We're going to talk about that. Yeah, we're also going to get into nutritionists telling you what you should order from McDonald's.
Okay, listen, I'm going to McDonald's. Yeah. I mean, anyway, we'll get there.
That should be interesting. But we kick things off Laura with this in this place.
And we're going to get into this this topic a bit as we go along throughout throughout October.
It is spooky season. We get into haunted topics and subjects next week.
You and I got a good one for us about the most haunted states or the states that see the most ghosts.
Oh, I'm looking forward to that. We're going to have some fun with that when you and I next week.
But for now, if you had an old haunted hotel and you needed a brave soul to investigate, who are you going to call?
Ghostbusters. Well, that's what I tried. But it turns out they're not in business anymore.
Oh, you get a just a busy signal. It doesn't work anymore. So I thought I didn't even make the news.
I didn't even. Yeah, I'm surprised by that. The oldest and possibly most haunted hotel in Las Vegas, the L Cortez Hotel in Casino.
Okay. Is offering to pay someone $5,000 to spend a weekend ghost hunting inside.
And it kind of sounds kind of cool to me. It sounds really cool to me.
And I feel like there's definitely a podcaster that's going to take them up on this, right?
A good friend of mine, Vince and his wife Jessica, they go around throughout Illinois doing this.
And I've been tempted to go with them before. I've thought about doing something like this.
Just and I don't consider myself a skeptic. I'm more just very on the fence on these things.
So I think I might be a good person to do something like this. And I don't know. There's something about it.
I kind of want to put myself in situations to run into this because I haven't.
And I feel like, well, I feel like I'm missing something almost.
But would you would you like right up the gate? Would you do so?
You would do something because this is part of the reason I brought it up.
I would definitely do that. But I would definitely like to do it with someone who has experience.
Because I have not actually truly gone ghost hunting proverb.
If that is going to be a career field, I cannot say that I have done it.
EKG machine or whatever you're going to have.
Listen, there's a thousand things they have with bells and whistles and all kinds of sirens and stuff.
Things that flash. I don't know. They have lots of things.
KMF.
No, that was a band.
I don't know.
No, walk around with KMF and it's going to be really loud.
And they play house music.
No, you're thinking KMF DM.
Yes. Yes.
That's another band. That's a whole different band.
Oh my gosh.
KDM was hit in the 90s. They were another band.
Yes, KDM.
KDM. That is another band. The whole lot.
So many letters.
Yes, I would go ghost hunting in Las Vegas if I had a friend who knew how to ghost hunt that wanted to go with me.
Maybe this might help you.
Maybe I'll call Quinn's uncle.
Maybe this might help a little bit. They'll equipped you with ghost hunting gear and oh, EMF meters.
EMPVP recorders and flashlights and thermal sensors.
Then you'll set you free to explore the areas corners, searching for signs of ghostly activity, especially at night.
Well, yeah, of course.
You're supposed to document your experience with photos and short videos, keep a journal of what you encounter,
which can include scary, mysterious, or even funny moments.
Antonio, a podcaster is going to scoop this up.
If you're interested, you can fill out an application at casino.org.
Okay. It is Las Vegas. It's Las Vegas.
Yeah. Oh, absolutely.
But I can't believe that website was open.
Like, how did they get casino.org?
Las Vegas had that bad boy in stock in like 1982 before the internet was bored.
Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy.
That's almost wilder than the story itself.
I love that. That's awesome.
They're accepting volunteers all month.
Now, I did read a little bit just currently what you're talking there.
And I don't know if they'll take podcasters.
I don't know if they'll take people, individuals like that.
They may be looking for more just as they say volunteers.
They're kind of looking for something like that.
There are genuine, they're saying they're not going to pay them to do it.
Like, this is not a thing like that.
But I think that if a podcaster, like a genuine,
because there are a lot of genuine ghost hunters that have podcasts,
that's what I mean by a podcaster.
I don't mean just some influencer.
No, I know what you're meant.
Someone who does have experience doing these things
would be interested in doing this, would already be documenting it.
You know?
That's why I think it looks like they're looking for somebody without experience.
No, well, that makes a difference.
They'll announce one winner five days later
and that's when you'll start planning your trip,
which will need to happen within the next month.
The $5,000 prize includes $800 towards airfare and travel
and $500 to cover food, drinks, and ghost hunting equipment.
I'm going to look up how much a ticket costs to Las Vegas.
I mean, this seems really like this.
If you won this, oh, man, the content we could create out of some light.
Listen, I'll thank you, Google Machine, for spying on me.
That was the first thing that popped up all I typed was airfare.
Too Las Vegas.
I really don't like that.
I'm really uncomfortable with that.
I didn't love it.
I don't know about that.
That's about $200 for one person.
And that's without luggage or whatever.
Yeah, that's so bad.
That's reasonable.
Yeah, yeah.
Man, I would do this in a heartbeat, though.
I also think it'd be interesting, too, if they do this,
and there's not really anything that happens.
I think that you could make material on this.
Yeah, that's the thing about ghost hunting.
No matter how haunted the place is, you can't guarantee
you're going to see anything that night.
Everything's at a whim.
If the ghosts are real, they have whims of their own.
That's just what it is.
When you look for the best ghost hunting states
to go ghost hunting in, Texas, California, New Jersey,
and Nevada are the top locations.
So Nevada, you got Las Vegas right there.
Yeah, Nevada's right there.
Well, I guess the West would have a lot going on.
That said, I also really...
I mean, a dark horse, I guess, that's not in there.
It'd be Nashville.
Oh, I didn't see you go.
Okay, I thought you were going to different route.
It's an incredibly spiritually active place
from my understanding.
And I have family there, friends there that I know well
and have had lots of experiences in the area.
And it's just a really beautiful place.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
I'm a big fan.
It's top three places I want to go.
Tennessee.
It's one of those top places.
That's a really good point by there.
I would have thought much more out east
where it's much the old parts of our country and stuff and everything.
Yeah, I mean, that's fair.
But also, all of our country is old.
It's been inhabited for a long time.
Oh, certainly.
There were people here long before there were pilgrims here.
Yeah, and I'm just thinking about the type of traumatic things
that happened out west during westward expansion.
And that's kind of what I was thinking of.
Popular destinations for ghost hunting
and tours include Savannah, Georgia,
St. Augustine, Florida, Louisville, Kentucky,
a Waverly Hill Sanatorium in Philadelphia
and home to Eastern state penitentiary
and Williamsburg, Virginia.
Yeah, just shout out Philly on that one.
Yeah, Philly is got to probably have stuff.
Yeah, I'm curious if anybody out there is listening
is into this, has done this or has ever thought about ghost hunting
or anything like that.
We want to hear your stories.
That'd be cool as heck.
And I specifically, I would love to really hear from ghosts.
I'd like to hear from ghosts how they feel about this.
Oh, right.
I just want to know their side of it.
Our microphones don't work.
It's what we do around here.
We cover both sides.
We are bipartisan.
Sure.
We don't know.
So let's hear from both sides.
Thank you.
Thank you for being a good teammate.
Did just try it.
Anytime.
Thank you for putting up with me.
I don't know where I was going with that.
I don't know what.
When it comes to the most haunted places in America,
those I gave you your list there of those,
I'm curious if in Wisconsin if there's anything
in particular or anybody out there has heard stories.
I know that the Fister.
Lighthouses.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But the Fister in Milwaukee is one of the places
I've heard the most to the point where like,
there's a lot of like, especially in the NBA,
you find this.
You'll hear of an NBA player that demands to stay there
because of this.
Like, hey, you got a game to play.
Oh, I'm ghost hunting.
Right.
But then you have even more, especially like baseball players
and everything that are very superstitious
and they will not stay in that hotel.
Yeah.
No, I've stayed at a haunted lighthouse.
Yeah.
That's the lighthouse I stayed at as a kid.
Because my dad was in the military,
we were able to rent a lighthouse
that had a house attached to it for family vacations
through the US Coast Guard.
And there's a very well-known ghost named Mini.
No, Millie.
That lives out at Sherwood Point Lighthouse in Sturgeon Bay.
Shout out.
I love Millie.
I love the lighthouse.
And I love Sturgeon Bay.
I've never had any experiences with her,
but I've stayed there a lot.
Interesting.
Really interesting.
I wouldn't guess lighthouses.
But I wouldn't think that.
Absolutely lighthouses.
Yeah.
Well, and there's a tragic story with Millie.
That's usually how ghosts happen.
It's interesting.
Interesting topic to me.
I don't know.
I know my nada would be in heaven
hearing about these things and stuff.
She would just be loving those things.
It's just a really fascinating thing to think about.
It's the great beyond, right?
Oh, she would have loved that joke.
Oh, that's it.
Yeah.
She'd be in heaven.
Well, she technically should have.
Wow.
I mean.
Yeah.
Experience the magic of Willie Nelson
with Willie and family live.
Set the night we're talking about this on the Sunrise show
over on our sister station 1055.
Of course, tonight you've got this great concert going on.
Well, it was actually on this day in history
that Willie Nelson broke a record with always on my mind.
So how fitting to have Michael Moore come to town
with the Willie Nelson tribute experience.
This is a true immersive experience, too.
It delves into the life and stories behind the redhead.
It strains your songs.
I say dress up for this one.
Grab your cowboy boots, put a good hat on,
and get on down there and have some fun
at the Performing Arts Center tonight.
It's going to be a really good show.
Yeah.
I'm really excited about it tonight.
I know Seth is going, right?
Yeah, Seth's going.
Yeah.
You can meet Seth Habegger yourself.
Shake his hand.
Tell me he's a good guy.
He is a good guy.
Yes.
Yes.
Tickets are selling fast to make sure to get them.
You can give them a call at 715-424-2787.
Or you can stop by 1040 A Street South.
Sweet 101 right here in Rapids.
They're open Monday through Thursday.
10 to 230.
And you can get them right online at saverthearts.com.
saverthearts.com.
We know we have a handful of listeners that are going to be going
because we have to give away some tickets for this.
Yeah, we've given away how many fours?
Something like that.
Yeah.
A big thank you to Sally for that.
We wouldn't have been able to.
Absolutely.
Congratulations to the winners.
Enjoy your show.
Yeah.
Shout out to Eric and our friends at the Performing Arts Center
as well.
Absolutely.
And we'll be back with another one.
Go to saverthearts.com.
Buy local support, local support the arts everybody.
And have a good time.
We do ask if you go to the show and you feel like it.
Let us know how it went.
Absolutely.
Love to hear that.
Love to hear how it went.
Otherwise, Laura and I'll be back with more show coming up
with the L.K.F.A. Birthday and anniversary club here at WFHR.
It's time for the L.K.F.A. Birthday and anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends
over at L.K.F.A. Treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue.
Beautiful, poor Edwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us at WFHR.
Mm-hmm.
Good stuff over there today, everybody.
They're wishing everyone a happy Thursday.
I encourage you to go over to their Facebook page.
Keep up to date and things they're doing.
And of course, check out their specials
and all those great pies and everything.
Mm-hmm.
Big thank you to our friends at L.K.F.A.
local support, local everybody.
Get on over there today.
Yeah.
And get us those birthdays and anniversaries
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Info at WFHR.com is where you can email us.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.
And you can call on up.
715-424-1300.
Well, 2600-1300 is Pam.
Either one.
Yeah, that's fine.
That's fine.
I always give Pam's number during my voice tracking
on the other station, so hers is the number
that comes to my head first.
It works.
I'll work it out.
I'm sorry.
We're covering all bases here.
That's all.
Yeah.
I encourage you to use any of those numbers.
Just get on the air with us here and bring us.
We love those live birthdays and anniversaries.
But the easiest way is through the Civic Media app.
It's got to do so.
Get it done.
If you don't have it, have that downloaded everybody.
Laura, I need you to do a little work this morning.
You've already been working all morning.
Let's be honest.
But I did a one or a two.
Two.
Okay.
Gives us that qualifier.
Boom, boom, boom.
Get right into it.
And first up, we want to wish Pam's cousin.
And cousin and wife, Denny and Michelle Escort.
Happy 49th anniversary.
Okay.
Happy anniversary.
They both grew up right here in Rapids.
They reside now in Cape Coral, Florida.
Oh, cool.
So is that Denny and Michelle?
Yeah.
Denny and Michelle, we wish you a happy 49th anniversary.
Yeah.
Happy anniversary, Denny and Michelle.
49.
That's beautiful.
That is beautiful.
I've heard Cape Coral is beautiful.
It's a nice area over there.
Yeah.
First up in our local list here, we want to wish very happy birthday
to Mr. Walt Morris.
Oh, happy birthday, Walt.
Walt.
Walt, we hope you enjoy your day.
Have a great one.
Thanks so much for getting us that birthday.
And our qualifier today, Kathy Kronstadt.
Happy birthday, Kathy.
Congratulations.
Kathy, enjoy your day wishing you a great one.
We always appreciate being able to celebrate all these birthdays.
And Kathy, we're wishing you a very special one.
Enjoy your day.
We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers.
That you're our qualifier today.
Let them all know.
Animals especially.
Woo!
You deserve it, Kathy.
We're real big in the Housecat crowd.
Big time.
Big time.
We look at our celebrity list.
Who do you share your birthdays and anniversaries with?
Country singer Megan Moroni is 28 today.
Oh, cool.
Tennessee Orange, probably her more famous song.
And she shares her birthday along with a couple of other country stars.
Scottie McCreary is 32 today.
Yeah.
Got his star after winning the 10th season of American Idol.
I didn't know that.
That is what he did.
I knew that.
I didn't know.
Yeah, his was one of the seasons.
I actually tuned into the finale for it.
Okay.
Every once in a while.
I did that.
I also watched the one with Adam Lambert in it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Tyler James Williams is 33.
Gregory Eddie on Abedell Mentry.
No one.
The Walking Dead.
He was a star of everybody.
Everybody.
He's Chris.
Yeah.
I'm so happy for him that he got this role in Abedell Mentry.
Me too.
It's great to see him.
Yeah.
And he has turned into such a strong fine actor.
He's good.
Him and Quintina are perfect great chemistry together.
Great chemistry.
Let's see here.
Nick Swarthson is 49.
Oh, good.
A couple of, a lot of Adam Sandler movies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is the blonde.
Yes.
And one of his guys, one of Sandler's guys.
Great standup comedian.
I think many of us might think of him would not.
The not David Spade blonde.
Yes.
And thinking of him with Reno 9-1-1.
Absolutely.
The reoccurring character.
Yeah.
It's very, it's not very often.
That's kind of what Nick does.
He does reoccurring characters in really good sitcoms.
Most of the main cast members on the, on, on Reno 9-1-1 had worked together for decades
as a part of a comedy troupe called The State and had great chemistry.
Improv artists, they film a lot of stuff during that show live and, and one take outdoors.
When Nick swars, then they would have to do multiple takes because they would be laughing
too hard.
And they'd ruin the seed.
Yeah.
This is one of those guys.
He commits.
It's, it's lovely.
Sean Lennon is 50 today.
Okay.
John and Yoko's only child.
And incredible producer.
Mm-hmm.
He's got a great ear for things.
I, I thought Sean Lennon, like, Sean's, Sean's great.
Sure.
He's got, so he's got some really interesting works that he's done and everything.
Did you have high hopes, is that where we're?
No, I, I thought that he was gonna, I didn't know that he'd, I'd be in the public eye at all.
Oh, okay.
Sure.
You thought it was just going to be a private dude.
Yeah, I thought Julian was going to be a pop sensation.
I thought Julian Lennon was going to be a high hopes for.
Yes.
I thought, after I heard much too, as a little kid and I heard much too late for goodbyes,
you could not convince me.
I could, could not wait to tell my dad.
This was the next big pop star in all this and he's a Lennon and he's your guy.
But he's the son of your guy and all that and no, it didn't work out that way.
No, it did not.
With Sean Lennon, I didn't think we'd ever even hear from him.
But he's got a pretty good social media presence.
Cool.
He does a lot of good work out there.
Cool.
I think that he is a part of the reason, not only part.
I want to give her 100% credit for this.
Oh, sure.
But I think he is part of the reason that we have kind of come back, come around on Yoko Ono.
Yeah.
And, and realize.
Absolutely.
Oh, wait a minute.
We were a little too harsh on Yoko.
Way too harsh on this lady and everything.
And I think her, he's done a really nice job without trying to bring in showing.
Oh, by the way, Yoko Ono is a human being.
Yeah, but like who would fault him for doing that for his mom?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
By the way, I hope he is doing it on purpose for his mom.
Good for him.
The combination of.
And happy birthday, Sean.
Of that, along with, um, of the, you know, getting to understand more and more of the history of the Beatles.
You know, guess what?
Without all four of them could have remained single and they still would have broke up.
Yeah.
They were always, they were going to do.
It was always going to happen.
Yep.
Uh, happy 50th and Brandy Clark is 50 as well, country singer herself.
Yep.
Uh, oh, uh, one of our guys, Steve Burns is 52 original host of Blues Clues who left the show, uh, to be, uh, to do some music and some things.
But Steve.
Now, um, he's, he's a big supporter of the remakes and he's been very supportive of all the new, uh, host and stuff.
He's been like featured on like the new movies and shows and stuff every once in a while. Yeah, he shows up.
But his presence in particular during the pandemic, uh, on social media is one of the reasons why I, I can't dog social media completely.
No, because he's doing something really, really cool and he's been doing it since COVID and never really stopped.
So every once in a while, Steve Burns, on his social media, usually on a TikTok page, he will just set a camera up in front of himself, start recording and say, hey.
It's been a while. How you doing and just sit there silently. Yeah. And give you time to share. He's really great to vent to whatever.
And it's really, really cool. Yeah. Yeah. He's some. He really is. Uh, I wish him. He's a great guy.
And he looks that good at 52. He looks fantastic at 52. He's doing some right. PJ Harvey is 56. Uh, good.
This is love down by the water. Big PJ Harvey thing. I love PJ Harvey. Uh, great singer, songwriter, sneaky good guitar player. Yeah.
Big, big, you're, you're a kid in the 90s, man. Yeah. You probably ended up liking her. One of the greatest directors in the game today, one of the top five I would give anything to work with.
Gare del Toro is 61 today. Genius writer, director, producer, shape of water, pants, labyrinth, blade to for God's sake. Um, I'm just a big.
Sure he did do that. Hellboy movies. He did the original Hellboy movies and everything as well. Didn't he just do like a Pinocchio? Did you just?
Yes. He did. Yes. Frankenstein. Uh, he's got a Frankenstein one coming out. That's what it is working on it. Um, but that's, yeah, he's so good.
And one of the fun interviews, like really, really fun interview person. Like you get a chance to hear him talk about just movies or just anything. I suppose. Yeah.
It's getting anybody to talk about their passion is interesting stuff. Yeah. He really is. Uh, one of my, uh, one of my dad's favorite actors and, uh, interestingly, one of my oldest daughter, Brea's favorite actors. And one of their, from one of their favorite shows, happy birthday to monk himself. Tony Shalube is 72.
Very cool. Many of us remember him as Antonio on wings. Sure. Uh, I remember as a kid watching bits and pieces of wings because my pet love the show. The crazy love the show. Um, and I've seen Tony Shalube and being like, oh, it's so cool that they have an Italian actor on this show and everything. How great that is. And then realizing a little bit later on. Oh, that's not Tony Shalube's real accent. He's just that good.
He's talented. Uh, any is Italian, but he that accent was, you know, just something that he created and everything. He's, he's that good. Um, he's great.
Star Trek. Uh, he was also a star Trek, a goof galaxy quest. He wasn't galaxy quest. He wasn't in black. He's, yes, yes. Great role in that. Great role in that one. Great actor.
Sharon Osborne is 73. Oh, happy birthday to her. Hope she is with her kids and enjoying the day. I'm sure it's got to be a bit melancholy, but for sure. Um, I wish in her good one. Um, and Jackson Brown is 77. Oh, cool.
Runnin' on empty doctor my eyes. Somebody's baby from fast times of Richmond. Hi. I gotta get that in there. Uh, that's doctor my eyes. That's the one for me. It's a good one. That's going. Uh, you know, I, I, that's one of those artists that I played a lot of my classic rock days. And it took a little while, but now when his songs pop up, I'm like, okay, yeah, running on it. He's a good song. That's a good song. Yeah.
And that's going to do it for our birthday anniversary list, but we appreciate everybody getting us these birthdays and anniversary. Sure. Big time. Thank you to our friends at El Café. Visit them today at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. More and I'll be back after our new sports entertainment and partner break. We're going to talk a little bit about the state of tipping and how many of us have worked in retail and some of that coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at 97 5 FM 1320 AM locally grown radio. Lauren James here with you. Thanks for being here with us. Hi. Let's dive into this one. Laura, how much do you think you spend per year on tips that you may not think are warranted or just tips in general? That is a. I don't like the idea of thinking that tips are or are not warranted. Agreed. Agreed. Um, yeah.
According to a report, the average person has paid around $150 in tips. They're that they don't know if they should have tipped or not. Okay. Those are situations where you are don't think a tip should be expected. Like for maybe a dog rumour or an oil change or something like that.
Um, I think famously was a lot of people say this about subway. Exactly. We talk the most about the subway, right? Like where their machine automatically now has a tip question. A lot of places have that now.
When you feel pressured into tipping more than you want, like at a casual counter service restaurant for a ride service or a hair salon or something. Sure. Sure.
Um, or when you end up tipping for bad service because it's customary. You feel bad for the employee or you don't want to look cheap. Uh, $150 across a whole year, um, a may seem low, but it's mostly the extra couple bucks here and there as opposed to huge tips, uh, that they, that they mix entirely. Um, overall 60 for 65% of people said that they are fed up with tipping. That's up from 60% last year and 53% in 2023. Right.
62% of people say that they'd rather they'd rather pay more for food and drinks to provide higher wages for restaurant workers and eliminate tipping altogether. Yep. 62% of people. Yep. As for the crazy. Like it's crazy that we have to be paying these people's wages. Like that's why I have such a hard time with this discussion because you can't talk about whether or not the tip is warranted.
If your tip is directly the wage for the person bringing you your food, for instance, like you can't talk about whether or not it's warranted because it's literally a matter of whether or not they're going to have enough money for groceries or not.
As for the current state of tipping, 45% of people say that they are tipping restaurant servers, 20% or more and 23% tip delivery drivers, 20% or more. Yeah. Um, this conversation I don't think and I you hit on it pretty strongly. I think it's not about so much that we don't want to tip.
No, it's not that we don't see the option of or see the necessity need for it or something. Right. We're we see the unfairness in the way that it's set up and we're angry that it's falling on us. Yeah.
To fix it.
It doesn't make sense, you know, in especially in a world where okay, just look at this as those of us working hourly jobs or things like that in that regard.
Retail what we're doing any other though of those kind of jobs and it's the same people tipping the same people, right?
You know, it's not it's not so there's no trickle down, you know, or anything like that. We're keeping our neighbors afloat.
We're doing it for a lot of times with a tip, whereas the richest of our communities are there still getting the 10% yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, they're they're not I don't say that doesn't add up for me either. Well, it doesn't I'm they have it's we live in two different worlds.
Uh-huh. It's insane. There are are people that are tipping people that can't afford to do it, but they're doing it because they know exactly what that person that that life is.
Right. That's me because I've worked so many jobs in retail, so many jobs that had tip. I was a bartender for a long time.
I've I've been a single mom working three jobs and those tips determined whether or not me myself could enjoy my day off.
Um, I tip more than I can afford to because I know what it's like to be there.
Uh-huh. Yeah, it's so broken.
And to your point about working in retail, you are not alone and I am tying these stories together for a reason.
Yeah, absolutely. If you've ever if you've never had a job in retail, then okay, well, you're one of the few because a pull over a third of Americans have some point worked retail in their life.
More than a thousand people were asked about 30 different jobs and whether they've worked in each field or not.
And here are the top 10 most common jobs on the list, but the overall thing that I wanted to say there was how many of us have worked in retail.
Yeah, what was that number again?
Uh, third of Americans only a third. So there are two thirds of Americans, potentially two thirds of our listeners who have not ever worked in retail.
Please listen to the people who have worked in retail about retail.
Yeah, if it's there's there's a few jobs out there that I don't know if there's any job out there that if you haven't worked it, you don't know it.
No, don't assume you know what it's like because you don't.
Right. Yeah, I'm not going around well, but I'm a rocket scientist. What is that?
What you're just flipping burgers? I mean, none of these jobs are easy. There is no easy jobs.
They're so stressful too. And having to do it on wages that do not pay the bills makes it so much more grueling. Like, come on, guys, have a heart.
When we see these like, but it is helpful, you know, 62% of people want the structure to change.
I never got into that undercover boss show. Yeah, for one, it's, you know, it's reality TV and all that.
But the main thing about the show that never made sense to me is, okay, this person is supposed to be doing the jobs and knowing what it's like to be like his coars.
No, you really want to know what it's like. You got to go home with them and look in their kitchen, look in their refrigerator and see that there's not much in there and all this.
It just felt exploitative to me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. When it's all about millionaires making themselves feel important.
Right. And it made them look good. Yeah. Yeah.
Because for the time that the show was airing, they were good.
Yeah. Yeah. So retail workers, 35% of us have worked in retail before.
At the very least, or again, a third of Americans stay at home parents, 22% of us have done that tougher job than most anybody will ever realize out there.
I've done both of those things. Factory worker, 18% there. I've worked in a couple of factories myself.
Teacher, 13% with that one. I've done that, but I don't really consider myself a teacher.
I haven't been a teacher, but I worked in a school. And there you go. I think that counts. I think that's in there at least under the umbrella of maybe construction worker, 11% of us have done that.
That is the majority of my upbringing. Yeah. I would say around here that number is God be higher than 11%.
Daycare worker, 8% have done that. Member of the military, 7% have done that. Thank you for your service.
Here we go. Chef or cook, 6% have done that one. That's the big one for me. You've done that in a couple places, right?
I have. I've made a good decade out of being a line cook at various places.
Engineer, 6% of us have been an engineer. And a 5% of us have been a computer programmer.
So those are that. Get a little bit more to this, but first let's take a call. Good morning, you're on the show.
Good morning. I often, I always tip and usually 20% or more. Sometimes I go more, yes.
Even the kid that sold me up right at the mall park, I tip those guys too.
Good. Good. I know what part of their income I had.
Exactly. And maybe like you said, well, it's probably all there income.
Yeah. It's a big part of it. I mean, the paycheck is probably paying the bills, but you're paying for all of the things that are not on a bill, you know, with your tip.
It's it's greatly appreciated and appreciate that. Not only your feedback, sir, but you know, calling in and you doing that.
Thank you for that. Thank you. Have a good morning. Yeah, you too. Thank you, but thank you.
Thank you for listening. He's great. He's so great. He's such a great guy. We're the best listeners of radio.
That's and I say that not just because you call again or anything, but that's the kind of heart of this community.
Yes. I think the overall majority of people, that's the realm that they're that's the place where they're at.
I tell people often Wisconsin Rapids is not what you think it is. It's different, guys.
Of the jobs they asked about, coal miner and physicist, physicist professor tied for least common.
Well, yeah, I don't know that I've met either of those other than in a physics class.
I don't think I have either. I've never thought about that. Yeah, but the only physics, you know, professor I've ever met was in my physics class.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it wasn't even a physics class. I was just I'm focused on the coal miner thing.
Oh, I never thought about this. I've never met a coal mine. We're not living in the right place. No, coal miner to be fair.
I've always wanted to visit West Virginia. Here's here's another reason for me.
Oh, you know what? I might have met a coal miner and I didn't realize it.
Or maybe a former one when I was living in DC and I was living on a military installation.
There are a lot of military folks from West Virginia. I wonder if that just didn't come up.
Yeah. The top jobs we'd want for our kids to pursue are...
Oh, sure. Okay.
Dr. Scientist and Engineer, coal miner ranked last.
Oh, yeah.
Understandable given the industry. There are a lot of variables there.
My mother just threw in a right in attorney attorney attorney attorney.
Just over and over. Oh, in pianist.
Just sure that of their time.
Just for good measure.
Did, you know, I don't know. I know when we've talked about parenting you and I on air off or whatever it is.
I think we're on a similar place here where we just want our kids to be happy.
Yeah. I've never really thought about like every once in a while I think about.
I wonder what my kids gonna do or what they're gonna be when they grow up.
But I don't really want them to have a specific job.
I just want them to be happy.
Yeah. Yeah. I like the way you put that too.
Because it really is, like to me, just wanting to be happy part.
But I don't know if this is where you're going with it or not.
But if they did multiple jobs, that may be a healthy thing for them.
Exactly.
It might be a good thing.
I don't know about it like that, but yeah.
Yeah.
I look at my youngest and that's kind of where she is.
Her older brother and sister have such a path and such a destination.
And they got their eyes on the prize and all this stuff.
And is this just kind of like she loves working with animals.
She likes working with people and she finds her niches.
She finds her places.
And she's very happy.
And that's the trick.
She may be the happiest out of all of us.
I mean, it's money is not the key to happiness.
True. Very true.
Very true.
We will take a quick time out.
But you can find this complete article at ugov.org.
And the first article I was talking about with tipping PR newswire.com.
You can go there for those everybody and encourage you to learn more about these topics.
And certainly as we closer and closer to elections,
looking at our local politicians and how they feel above minimum wage,
things like this.
Look at it.
It's important.
It's important.
It is. It's important to everybody.
That's something that beyond, you know, political boundaries,
we can all agree with, right?
Yes.
Yes, please.
We're thinking about our neighbors, right?
Keep in mind, if you are sick and tired of tipping,
think about the individuals that are just...
I'm sick and tired of having to rely on your tips,
because they don't like it either.
We'll be back with more show coming up.
Welcome back, everyone.
I put a spell on you.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Because of mine.
It's the most haunting song of all time.
I don't care how many, like, you know, Ells Cooper and all these other artists.
They're great.
They're fine.
Yep.
Nothing touches screaming Jay Hawking.
Nope.
Nothing.
That's the original is awesome.
Oh, it gets me.
I love this time of year.
And we're talking a little Halloween.
Because Halloween is right around the corner.
And rest assured.
Our month, it's right around the corner.
Yes.
Yeah.
And rest assured that Hershey's won't be banned from selling its Halloween candies.
Rejoice, fellow America.
Were we worried about this?
I didn't know we were.
Oh, I didn't know.
So last year, a woman in Florida named Cynthia Kelly sued her.
She's for five mill.
Okay.
Claiming their pumpkin-shaped Reese's peanut butter cups were falsely advertised.
I mean, they are only roughly pumpkin-shaped, but like not $5 million worth of damages.
She said the packaging shows the pumpkins having cool, carved designs and faces.
Oh, for the love of Pete.
But in reality, there are no faces, and that bothered her.
Girlfriend.
Yeah.
Just, yeah.
No, girl.
Like.
Come on.
As I've mentioned many times.
We all knew what you were doing there.
I've been doing this show for nine years, and we've had this whole time.
We've had listeners in the Florida area, and they laugh along with us on these.
But you did not have to tell me this lady is from Florida.
Girl.
I knew.
We knew.
We knew she was from Florida.
She said.
Like, come on.
And that wasn't the only thing.
She pointed out that several of the Halloween candies are also less spooky than they appear
on the wrapper.
What does that even mean?
What does that mean?
Listen, I bought spooky pasta yesterday at the grocery store, right?
These noodles are shaped roughly like pumpkins and bats.
But I'm not going to sue the company for all the broken pieces that look like nothing.
Was she like, come on.
Did she want to pull it out and be on be scared by it?
I'd be wanting to see what it would like.
What would she want?
What would she want?
What would she want?
What would she want?
What would she want to see?
Well, Cynthia will not be getting five million pay-out.
Girl.
And the candies will not be pulled from stores, from shelves, where they're, they're deceiving Americans.
Oh, good.
A judge just dismissed the lawsuit.
She ruled that the plaintiffs, uh, quote, failed to prove any concrete economic injury.
And the products were not rendered worthless.
In other words, they're still delicious.
Yeah, they still, listen, those pumpkin Reese's are where it's at.
So like, like, it's just a little bit bigger.
It doesn't have the paper.
Like, that's peak Reese's.
Yeah.
Come on, bro.
There's a picture they're showing of one of the one that brought out of the patch here and everything.
Right.
It looks roughly pumpkin shaped at best.
Yeah.
Like, nobody thought that face was carved into it.
Now, why?
Well, so here's, here's, here's one thing about this.
Okay.
Uh, when you're a little kid, I'm so tired.
And he has.
You just spoke for all of America.
Um, well, we're kids and you see the packaging and you get excited and you want to, you want
to try that and you rip it open and it doesn't look like it.
You're a little disappointed.
Right, but you're.
You slowly, as you get to become a teenager and a young adult and so on and so on.
You get used to things become regulated.
You become reasonable.
You just don't rip in the package open.
You just don't rip in the package open.
Devour.
Just give me the sugar.
I just want the sugar.
Right.
And you knew what you were getting into when you bought that pumpkin-ish-shaped Reese's.
I'm afraid to know how old this woman was.
I don't put this in your kelly.
I don't want to know.
I really, I feel like no matter what the age is.
I'm going to be more disappointed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like it anywhere beyond 12.
Yes.
Yes.
Anything, anything above the age of 12.
I'm 100% with you on this.
Yes.
It would be very disappointing.
Like there's no good answer.
Don't do.
Guys.
I, I would be embarrassed if, if my, my, I'm a family member or something.
Me too.
Like this is embarrassing.
You're like doing this.
Like this.
Hey, your stupid lawsuit made it to the morning show circuit.
Yeah.
That's embarrassing.
And I work on the morning show circuit.
It's, it's, um, you, you, you look at all, of course, certainly all the, the, the, the, the, the, the dragging down legal system and the judicial system and all these things and stuff.
And that, that's not, that's a crime right there in itself.
Yeah.
But the, the idea that you, you would even like be, I, I don't, I don't know the right terminology.
And I want you to use here, but to be, I, that bold to, to actually like even get this going.
And then you're at attorney and you see this and you're going to help her with this.
And you're there.
You're like, that's the one.
Well, and, and whatever she, because I, I can't imagine that this attorney, this, uh, Russo, um, who was her attorney, that he did this pro bono.
So, no, she was getting it paid no matter what.
She's out on this one.
She, she, she, like, I can't, man.
So you could have just been, so you could have wasted like what a buck or two.
On the candy.
Instead, you've wasted thousands, I'm guessing, on an attorney to pursue this for at least two years.
And for what?
For, for, for, you knew what you were doing.
We saw what you were doing and so did the judge.
Is this a good story of the day, actually?
Like the judicial system did the right thing here.
It's low key, kind of.
Like it feels like a lot of the times these stories end up with the person actually once.
You know what?
Congratulations to whichever judge courthouse.
You did good.
Good job.
Yeah.
We, the people agree.
Yeah.
That's actually, it might be a good story of the day, actually.
You know what?
That gives me hope.
Thank you for finding the optimistic spin, James.
I'm trying, I'm trying over here.
Um, we love covering world records around here.
And by that, I mean, I like pushing world records on our co-hosts.
Uh-huh.
I think they're interesting.
Andlessly fascinating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
An Australian bodybuilder broke a Guinness world record that had stood for nearly a decade
when she completed 733 pull-ups in an hour.
That is impressive.
Although to be fair, I don't know that I've been able to do a pull-ups since my sophomore year.
So any local Wisconsin rapids listeners out there, if you went to Washington Elementary,
like I did for fifth part of fifth and for sixth grade,
you may have seen on their records over there that for a very long time,
I held the pull-up record.
What's I able to accomplish this simply because I weighed five pounds?
That's not important.
Listen, part of those five pounds were in his arm strength.
Thank you.
Come on.
Thank you.
Come on.
Great teammate again.
I do what I can.
You're working hard over there too.
Jade Henderson 32, averaged more than 12 pull-ups a minute to break the record.
I think my record was 12 pull-ups, I think.
12 pull-ups a minute and a 725 that was set by fellow Australian Eve Clark back in 2016.
So she broke a fellow Australian's record.
Oh, cool.
The quote, I decided to start training for the pull-up world record because I liked the idea of doing something
that nobody else has ever done.
I also wanted to see what my mind and body were physically capable of.
Okay.
The athlete said she initially planned to go for 24-hour version of the record,
but an injury during training led her to change her plans.
Okay.
Henderson settled on the one-hour record to prevent any further injuries,
but I didn't have a set number that I was aiming for, she said.
I knew it was going to be tough to beat the previous record of 725,
so I just aimed to get a couple more reps than that.
All right.
I wonder if the record holders being in Australia,
and I'm not trying to say that every Australian knows each other or something,
but I wonder if they talked at all,
if there was a little bit of a rivalry to this or anything like that.
I'd like to have some follow-ups.
Yeah, for sure.
The record attempt was ultimately successful,
with 733 pull-ups completed in an hour.
Quote, I was really happy with the result.
I gave it everything I had, and in that moment,
I don't think that I could have done any better.
Very cool.
Congratulations on that.
Yeah.
The only other thing I like when they do is tying a non-profit to these record breaking
and stuff.
Otherwise, these are all, and I don't necessarily count the record hunters.
We got a couple of people that show up on here that go like 20 world records.
That's all right.
I'm not really counting those people.
I love these stories like this,
regardless of what you think of the record or anything like that.
There's a relatability here.
These are everyday people that are able to accomplish things.
This is just a person who's really good at a thing,
and they thought, hey, can I break a world record doing this thing?
I'm really good at.
And then they did it.
I think when we look for inspiration,
you don't have to look that far.
And stories like this, while they're interesting and cool,
and I think they're fun topics,
they're also, I think, very inspirational,
and hey, I'd like to be able to get better at doing pull-ups,
and you don't have to break a world record,
you can just go out there and do it.
Yep.
There are so much, I think, to that.
Great first hour, Laura.
We'll be back with a second hour.
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