Meet Pearl! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day.

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

Time for victory, drama, and then, make strong difference what you brought in.

Ah, ah, now everything people, yeah.

Welcome back to the morning show. Our two of the program. Thank you so much for joining us.

Everybody here at 97.5 FM, 13.20 AM, locally grown radio. Got your host, James, joined by Laura.

Hi.

Best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here. We're going to have some fun in the next hour.

Got some entertainment news coming up for you in a little bit. We're talking about coffee tables.

Are they necessary? Are they not? We'll get in all of that.

But it's a Thursday in the 10 o'clock hour. We all know what that means.

Oh, whoa.

Time for a pet of the week with the Southwakani Amin Society. Our great friend Denise in studio with us. Denise, how you doing?

I'm great. Thanks. Good morning, everybody. Good to have you with us as always. Always great to hang out with you.

And we were talking a little bit in our pre-game about the cold.

Yes. It is a little bit chilly right now, yeah.

It is a reminder, too, that it's not just cold for us, but our furry friends out there.

Everybody keep that in mind. You know, dogs, the bottom of their paws are so sensitive.

They are, yeah. When it comes to the cold out there, keep that in mind.

And certainly when we've mentioned a number of times about outdoor cats and the way they can go under cars or go by anything warm.

Yep. We had an instance this week. I was telling Pam before the show.

We had three kittens found in an engine.

And when the person went in to grab them, we got one, the other two ran.

So they're trying to capture them, but we did get one in house. So check your cars this time of year.

You can save an animal's life.

You always talk about it. It's so true, so important.

Keep an eye out for that, everybody. And as well as storeways, because I got an interesting year, one for you.

Francine went missing. She's a cat. Francine went missing from a store in mid-September, and workers soon determined that she had stowed away aboard a truck that had departed the store and headed to a Lowes Distribution Center in Graceburg, North Carolina about 85 miles away.

This beloved cat had lived at a Lowes store in Virginia safely for quite some time.

And they took care of it. It's lived there. It's a Distribution Center in North Carolina.

Employees became very fond of this cat. And it's a former stray that they found for eight years.

It's been living at this Lowes.

It's kind of an okay deal, you know.

It's kind of the unfit from mascot. There are sometimes people take it home and bring it back and stuff, and it's done very well.

And then it got stuck in one of these little trucks and got sent to workers.

And workers and thermal drone teams searched around the Distribution Center, but there was no sign of Francine.

Until her face was spotted on a security camera October 4th, and they just freaked out, realized, oh, there she is.

She sent a whole other one.

Different Distribution Center. 85 miles away.

So even though this cat has lived the last eight years at one specific Lowes location, it got around.

It got about. It got out. It got to do things.

So did Francine go back to the old Lowes or stay at the new Lowes?

Yes. She's at the new low or at the old Lowes. She went back.

So Francine went back.

I can't describe the feeling when we realized it was her. We just lit up.

The store said they missed her quite a bit. She has gotten quite a royal treatment too.

That's awesome. They're taking care of that cat.

One of the ways that they were benefited by this, and they knew where to look, was the microchip.

Oh, see? You're part of microchipping. Absolutely. Every day.

We have a reason.

And keep that in mind when it comes to our animals out there, everybody.

And how important that is.

Absolutely.

Most shelters nowadays do do this ours in particular.

We do. Absolutely. Just give us a call. We'll give you all the details.

We will, we are planning to have microchipping clinics again in the near future.

We're talking about it. We just haven't, don't have a staffing yet to get it done.

But we do give us a call any day of the week.

Cool.

When it comes to how things are going over there, how, how's the shop?

Really, really, really good. We are doing very well. We're kind of revamped and how we do things.

I apologize to all the listeners out there that our on-call phone was down over the weekend.

We're back up and running as of yesterday.

Awesome.

And so I apologize if everybody tried to call and didn't get us.

We're back up and running.

Thank you.

I was trying endless now.

Were you?

No.

But I appreciate that and good to hear.

Good to hear things are going to go all over there.

And never a bad idea to kind of take a look at how the logistics of things and how they're going.

Exactly. Yeah.

We want to make sure we have the right staff, the right place, and that we're all moving forward together.

Especially with the work that's been done over the last year over there.

And everything I imagine that might change things up a little bit with some of the construction.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Very cool.

As far as things we can do to help out needs over there.

Is there anything in particular or anything certain that we could do?

It's still the clumping litter.

Pellets.

We're a little low on pellets, which are little kittens that come in.

We still have about 10 in-house.

Need the pellet litter.

Otherwise clumping litter is always still a need.

It continues to be a need.

Sorry about that.

One other thing that I wanted to bring up real quick to Nissan.

I like to keep it too long.

I know busy you are and everything.

But I noticed this with my brother Sam and my parent's dog, Sam.

Sam's got an older.

He's a little up there.

But Sam is always like to crunch things.

He's always like crunchier things.

Yeah.

And he still does.

But I noticed how much longer it's taking him and how much he's struggling with it.

And I had not really looked, we keep an eye on his teeth.

One of his favorite treats is a brushing treat.

Yeah.

So that works out pretty good.

Do help.

They're expensive, but they do help.

But I had not really looked that much.

And it really seems like Sam has lost some teeth over the years.

And he doesn't really have a lot in the back.

And he's really struggling with the harder treats.

Yeah.

That makes me hard.

I got to give him some softer ones going forward here and everything.

I maybe people pay close attention to this.

I don't know if they do or they don't.

But I just wanted to bring it up.

Because I don't know how.

I know that it's not a topic I've ever really talked about with people or anything really much.

Yeah.

It's true.

Cats and dogs both.

It's very important that you keep up to date with what teeth they have if they're having issues.

Because if they have a painful tooth or a missing tooth or a loose, they won't eat.

And then they're losing weight.

You don't know why.

So pay attention.

I'll pet families.

Pay attention to your animal's teeth.

If you don't want to brush them, you can take them to the vet.

They'll do that for you.

Otherwise, give them those those brushing treats and they do help.

They go a long way.

Yeah.

And they're the excitement they have over them is almost worth it alone.

It is.

They treat.

They like them.

Yep.

High-valued treat.

We call those.

Yes.

Ooh, I like that.

I don't like that.

I'll tell my mom that one.

Denise, who is our pet of the week?

This week we're going with Pearl.

She is a pity.

We took Pearl in as a surrender.

Pearl was heartworm positive.

She went through over six months of treatment and she is heartworm-free and very loving.

She's good with cats.

Oh, and she is.

She is.

She is.

And she has that whole wiggle body thing going on.

Yeah.

She likes cats and she likes most dogs.

I would suggest meet and greets for Pearl, but she is a family dog.

She's four years old, spayed, and microchipped and up to date on all vaccinations.

She's a golden brown mix.

Yep.

And these are still pictures.

I can tell she's a squiggler.

She is.

You can tell.

She's beautiful.

She's got a great face.

Oh, she's got a great face.

I am beautiful.

Yeah.

And she wants to love.

It seems a bit like a morning dog too.

Yeah.

That's always fun for people.

And a great age.

Four years is great.

Like there's almost no family that couldn't be, you know, work with a four-year-old dog.

Yeah.

She's through her puppy years and she's fully trained.

A house trained.

It's a good age.

Yeah.

She's awesome.

Now, to me, it seems like Pearl would fit with just about any family.

Are there certain families or certain people that you should really look at Pearl?

I mean,

a family is with tiny children like toddlers.

And if I would, you know, slow introductions, because I think Pearl could handle it, but Pearl does.

You know, she's so wiggly.

Yeah.

And she's going to bump into a kid that isn't maybe stable on their feet.

Exactly.

She doesn't realize her size and she just wants to.

But she's not a jumper.

She doesn't have a ton of high energy, you know, pity stuff.

But she's just beautiful.

Great dog.

She looks like it.

She looks like it.

There's not just Pearl, but so many of these great animals over there waiting for you, everybody.

Just see Brussels sprout here.

Yeah.

That is a cute kid.

And that's what the cutest kids have ever seen.

I love when cats are one color, but their paws are a different color.

It looks like they have gloves.

You can have a lot of cats in there.

You're like that.

I'm a child.

I also shout out butternut squash.

Yeah.

Yes.

That's another go.

I'm stuck on Kimmy.

I'm sorry.

I keep bringing Kimmy up.

I'll bring Kimmy in.

Kimmy is a...

Please.

She's just a sweet husky.

She doesn't realize her own size.

And she has lost weight.

We have our own weight reduction food.

And she's just...

She's a husky.

She talks.

She's very, very loving.

The dog that has...

Yep.

Has a vocabulary.

I'll bring her next week.

All right.

That is very sweet.

That is very sweet.

Keep in mind, she probably would not be going back with you.

She probably...

Well, Terry will be here.

So you don't have to worry about it too much.

Go ahead and find out more about our great friends over at the South O'Connie Main Society.

Be sure to bookmark their webpage SWCHS.com.

Laura and I have been able to pull up pictures and look at them ourselves.

You can do that also.

And I've got plenty of links in the show notes.

Be sure to check that out.

And go ahead and make sure to visit them when you get a chance.

When you drop off those items that they're need of.

They're at 362164 Street North right here in Rapids.

You can also email them office at SWCHS.com.

Give them a call, 715-420505.

And be sure to follow them on social media.

Share their posts on your page.

You just never know who might see it otherwise.

And be listening every Thursday right in this time slot for another pet of the week.

Denise, thank you so much for the time.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Say hi to the team over there and specifically all the animals.

Make sure that every single animal knows they said hi.

We will.

Thank you.

Thank you.

They know you love them.

Thank you.

Make sure you tell beef.

We appreciate you.

Thanks Denise.

Thank you guys.

We'll be back with more show coming up.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Laura and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Yeah.

Big shout out to Denise.

Joining us for a pet of the week.

And bigger shout out to Pearl.

We appreciate our good friends over at the South of County Main Society.

Head on over there.

Adopted dog.

Don't be like Tom Brady.

Don't clone your dog.

No, just go adopt a dog.

Of all the out of touch things you could be doing.

There are so many good dogs in shelters in your area.

Just check them out.

Are you willing to travel outside of your county

and the possibilities are endless?

I got more upset by that story than the fleet gate.

Then like some of the other things sports wise is done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Somebody that never seems to upset us.

Dolly Parton.

Oh.

And we being the home of Dolly Parton news.

Certainly.

What a bright shining light.

Cover this story.

Dolly Parton may be 79 years old,

but she's still crushing it on TikTok.

Yeah.

If you don't know,

there's a viral craze on TikTok right now

that is a mashup of What's Up by Furnon Blonds

and Nicki Minaj's Bees in the trap.

Right.

So Dolly took advantage by posting a clip of her 2023 duet

What's Up with Linda Perry.

Right.

That was the version that was on her rock star album.

Oh, yeah.

Crazy to think that album came out two years ago already.

I didn't realize that was two years ago already.

That's wild.

That's wild.

What?

Yeah.

Anyway.

Dolly captioned the post What's going on, Linda Perry.

And Linda, of course, responded in the comments.

Comments What's Up Dolly.

Great.

They've been having some fun with this one back and forth.

It's just fun to see her interacting with her audience this way.

Yeah.

And it's one thing when it's kind of cringey.

Yeah.

Now, when you see somebody doing this in their trust.

When they're not comfortable,

they're doing it because they have to.

She just wants.

Okay.

This is where my fans are.

That's where I'm going.

Yeah.

I want to interact with my fans.

So I'm going to go there.

Of all the people that doesn't have to meet people halfway.

Like Dolly Parton's earned a career where she could just sit back and just.

She could just stop.

But this is what she does.

Yeah.

She continues to reach out to her fan base.

And instead of being like, okay, this is where I am.

Meet me halfway.

She goes above and beyond and goes to where they are.

Yeah.

Like, it's not just cool to see.

It's not just that we love her or anything.

I hope other artists are paying attention in taking notes.

Yes.

This is how you stay relevant for six decades.

Be genuine.

Yes.

That's all we're asking for.

Turns out, Mom was right.

You don't have to reveal every little detail.

We just want you to be genuine.

Just be yourself.

Yeah.

Turns out, Mom was right.

Yeah.

And shut up to this.

I imagine two.

Linda Perry's got a freak out over this stuff.

Like, she's had a great career.

She's, you know, got some stuff to hang her head on.

And certainly for non-blans and some other things that she has done and everything.

But even still, you must become a complete fan.

When Dolly Parton just out of nowhere.

How's you up?

You get an update on your phone.

Oh, Dolly Parton commented on my phone.

No, wait.

I just got an email from Dolly Parton, guys.

Like, I had Vernon Reed, the guitarist for living color, that only four of us know who is.

Comment on one of my comments.

He liked one of your comments.

To this day, I got it saved on my phone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You screen shot at that and texted it to everybody immediately.

I couldn't help it.

No, of course not.

I did the same thing with Molly Conger, like one of my comments on Blue Sky.

I really wanted to...

This is a balance I have to do from time to time, especially with news or anything, anything news.

Because in this day and age, in a 21st-7 news cycle, you touch on a story.

You wait on a story for a weekend in its old news.

So I really wanted to hang on to this one from Monday for Beth.

Because she is our Dancing with the Stars correspondent.

She is the one that knows the show better than any of us.

But I couldn't wait until then because the news is going to break.

So I hope she's listening.

And here it's already heard about this.

Yeah.

Because I even am excited about this.

And I don't even watch that show.

All right.

But five years after he was fired, Tom Bergeron will make his return to Dancing with the Stars next Tuesday to help the show celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Oh, cute.

Tom will be a guest judge alongside Carrie Ann Imba, Bruno and Derek.

He says, quote, I'm anticipating that it's going to be a wonderful emotional nostalgic night.

Yeah.

It's so much fun to watch my friends do the work.

I don't have to throw to commercials.

I don't have to worry about timing.

So it's kind of nice.

He gets to kind of sit back a little bit more on those shows.

Tom, part of what made him so good at his job is he wasn't just standing on X.

And like, all right.

Now, all right.

I'll go.

No, he was controlling it.

He was a ringmaster.

He was a part creative consultant on that show.

And an integral part of it from everything I've heard from people that do watch the show.

And just as somebody who has seen Tom Bergeron's work on America's funny song videos or any of these things.

I like him.

He's the best we got.

I like him a lot.

Nothing against Ryan C. Crest or any of these people who are very good at what they do.

But Tom Bergeron is the best easily.

There's a reason why he was hosting everything for a while.

Yeah.

He's the only one we got.

Well, and it wasn't just because he was available.

It was because he's the most qualified.

He's very good at his job.

I miss him.

I miss seeing him as much.

It's kind of cool.

I think it's really cool to see people where they go with their careers creatively.

And artistically what Drew Carey has done.

Sure.

And going to doing this game show hosting stuff.

Which is awesome.

Alfonso Ribeiro.

Yes.

He's doing a lot of that now.

In fact, he's taking Tom's jobs.

Yeah.

He's taking a lot of Tom's jobs.

Well, he's doing a great job.

He's doing a great job.

He's great at it.

Not Tom Bergeron.

But it's a different level.

You give him a few more years.

And I think he'll get there.

Yeah.

Bergeron hosted Dancing with the Stars for his first 15 years and 28 seasons.

How do you cram 28 seasons in 15 years?

How does that work?

I don't get TV, man.

I really don't understand anymore.

Talk to me about the last season of Stranger Things again.

Right.

But we'll see how that, you know, I think one positive, another positive about that.

He's not doing that if things ended rocky for that situation.

If they were still rocky, he's probably not coming back.

He might because he's just a good guy.

But he's also no fool.

Yeah.

Like he's, I don't, I think part of what might get mistaken by people like Tom Bergeron

and that, that they're very kind and, you know, likable on screen and everything.

You don't get where you got, if you're him without being, you know.

That person behind the scene too.

You got to be, I'm not saying he's cutthroat or anything.

But he's taking his, he's been very smart with his career.

Very smart with his career.

You could teach a master class on, hey, you're not an actor.

You're not a singer.

You're not a dancer.

But you want to have a career and entertainment.

Let me show you how.

Right.

He's done it.

It's, I don't know.

It's awesome.

That's a good sign if you're a fan of the show, a fan of him.

It's really cool.

It's really cool.

Okay.

It's really cool.

K-Pop Demon Hunters 2 is officially happening at Netflix.

It won't be coming out until 2029.

Wow.

Yeah.

I guess they probably didn't anticipate having to make a second one.

So they kind of had to start once it got popular.

And now they've got to work for a few years to make it the quality that the first one was.

Animation alone takes quite a bit of time.

Let alone I imagine coming up with songs.

It's got to come up with the whole script.

They've got to write songs.

They've got to, yeah.

And all that being said, then you've taken the factor, the bar that they have set.

And you have to match that if not top it now.

Right.

That's a lot.

Since the animated movies take a while to make, it's not that surprising.

And let's be honest, we're already in 2026.

Right.

We're pretty much done with that 2025 months here.

Yeah.

The same two directors will also be returning Maggie Kang and Chris Abelheim.

Good.

There aren't any other details at this time, but I imagine that the musicians that they use.

The musicians and the voice actors are going to come back probably.

I got to think they are.

I mean, this is a phenomenon.

They can't.

I can't imagine anyone saying no.

I will.

I will say that the one caveat to that is to me that, you know, with that, there could

be price changes and budget changes and Netflix traditionally does not like.

No, but they also, but they also know when they've got a golden horse.

You would think, especially right now with their golden goose.

The goose is gone.

Stranger things is done.

Yeah.

They've got to find something else.

They are.

You can tell how much they're hanging on to what hits they have because they won't even

release them like they used to.

No.

That's exactly what I meant when I said, talk to me about that last season, Stranger things

again.

Like, oh, here's three episodes and then we'll wait like this weird amount of time and

here's another three.

There's no HBO learn this the hard way.

It feels like a middle finger.

The biggest show in the universe was the sopranos.

Everybody loved that show.

They took two years off and the drop that they had in ratings.

You got to be smart about these things.

I understand the want to stretch things out.

I get it.

But you also have to hit when things are hot, when things are going.

That said, I also think this will be fine in four years.

Yeah.

Three years.

I just mean in general.

Yeah.

No, it's the thing of it being a cartoon, it being an animation.

It kind of gives it a little more staying power.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the fact that it appeals to pretty much every age.

I wonder if they will age with their audience, like the kids that are really into it.

Like I think they can age the characters.

Oh.

It depends on how far into the future they set the next movie, I guess.

The content, you know, being more of that.

I don't know how the content necessarily, how much it really attached to one age part

of what seems like works for that movie is that it didn't really set.

Oh, we're just going to go to kids, little kids, or we're just going to go to pre-teens.

They seem to hit the whole gang at that.

They kind of did.

Like the humor was present for the adults in the same way that it was there for the kids.

It was great.

I forgot.

My dad liked it.

Of course he did.

My dad was looking for something to watch.

Everyone should like this movie.

It's a fun movie.

I'm sorry.

You should like K-pop demon hunter.

Jimmy, what's this K-pop?

What's a K-pop?

God bless you, Jimmy.

God bless you, Jimmy.

God bless you, Jimmy.

What's a K-pop?

I don't know what he's talking about.

That he shows me on the screen.

That's a K-pop.

Oh, K-pop.

God bless you, Jimmy.

He's the best.

He's the best.

He's the best.

He's awesome.

I'm a huge fan.

Love our friends over a million as well.

I wanted to touch on a couple of things they were doing over there.

Like their short story contest that is going on until December 7th.

It is just a word count of 7,500 words.

Not too big.

I bet you everybody out there has a short story in their head now is the time to put

pen to paper.

Yeah.

Has some fun with this one.

Enjoy.

They've got some fun prices with that and you're working with your community here.

And we've got a bunch of great plays coming up.

We've got a bunch of great concerts in our area.

We talked about Duwapify.

Yeah, we did.

That going on a little bit.

It's 9,730.

Get your tickets.

It's over the Arts.

Get them, everybody.

And be sure to make plans.

A week from now, 7 to 930 at the Fine Arts Center at McMillan concert series continues

with Brian Drow.

Brian has some great stuff online.

You can check out.

He does a really, he was a Madison doing a great live performance of Tom Petty's.

I won't back down that I watched.

It was really good.

And in it, he was really getting the audience involved.

So plan on going to this show and plan on singing with Brian and enjoying yourself.

Yeah.

He's a real good showman.

And it's a free concert at your library.

Hey, if you haven't visited McMillan Memorial Library yet, it's great.

You should do that.

Check it out, everybody.

That's a lot of fun.

Our good friends at Wisconsin's Rabbits Jr. Theater joined us to talk about Beetlejuice

a little while ago.

And they got a show coming up tomorrow.

Tomorrow is opening night for Beetlejuice.

Beetlejuice Junior.

No, I can't say it.

Beetlejuice Junior.

Junior Junior.

Well, I also don't want to say it too many times.

Although I'd love to meet Michael Keaton.

You know, I really do.

Do you think?

Do you get Michael Keaton if you say it three times?

I don't know.

I could try that.

Beetlejuice would be taking place at the Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School auditorium.

That's lucky.

Kids.

God, that's a beautiful stage.

It's a great stage.

It's a great auditorium.

Right around the corner from us over here.

Plenty of seats.

Get your tickets.

Get your tickets right now.

Everybody shout out to Suzanne, the director, and the whole cast, a great cast.

Great kids.

Yeah.

You can get your tickets at our .show slash Beetlejuice Junior.

Be sure to get those.

Everybody.

And we'll continue in our good stories of the day.

We got some other good things.

Other good shows coming up in the rhythm.

Lots of events this weekend.

It's another busy weekend around here.

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Oh, that's right.

We are.

We finally set a deadline on this.

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We've been broadcasting 85 years.

This is our love letter to the community and really a love letter to yourselves, everybody.

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It's not the same without you.

We want you to have your recipe included in this cookbook.

If it is, you get a free copy of the book.

It's true.

We've been working really hard on this one behind the scenes, putting this together.

We're very excited about this.

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Get them to us.

Want more and more.

We don't have enough.

We want more.

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Get them to us.

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For you, not only are new sports and entertainment, take care of our partners, but we've got

a hot take.

Coffee tables are a waste of space and money.

Depends on the living room.

We will discuss if they are.

We were not saying they are.

This is just a hot take.

It's making the rounds.

We will discuss when we come back out of the boarding show.

There we go.

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Lauren James hanging out with you.

We appreciate you so darn much.

Thanks a lot for being here, everybody.

I just want this beat to go out of the whole show, just playing in the background.

So someone on social media posted about how coffee tables are a quote a waste of space

and money.

They argued they just collect junk and dust and get in the way of walking and cleaning.

I will say that my shins are just have scars all over them from coffee tables over my

lifetime as being a tall person.

That said, I like a coffee table.

I don't know what to do if I don't have a table in the living room or if you're not

to have things.

If you're not going to have a coffee table, you must have side tables.

Got to have like one of the other, right?

You've got to at least have one or the other and to an extent because I have had small

living rooms because I have been a single person without kids living in an apartment once

upon a time and we did not have a coffee table or if we had one, it was pushed up against

the wall and the TV sat on it.

I definitely want, I'd almost demand audience participation with this one.

I got to hear people's feedback on this.

Right.

But if you've got room for a coffee table, put it in there.

Of course, this started the whole rambling of different people, different reactions, thousands

of reactions.

Here are the pro coffee table points.

Coffee tables are vital for holding drinks, including coffee.

Coffee tables hold remotes, books, decorative candles.

They're a place to set things during the seasons and all that.

Coffee tables can be helpful when guests are over.

It can be hard to entertain without surfaces in a living room for drinks and snacks and

that.

Coffee tables can serve as a dining table.

They can.

I know they have for me a lot.

Sometimes one of my favorite things to do is to sit on the floor and pull the coffee

table up over my lap and lean up against the couch.

Yes.

It's great.

It's cozy stuff.

Some coffee tables are not an ongoing expense.

It's mostly a one-time purchase that won't drain your bank account, not a recurring cost

like a subscription to your for a TV or anything.

And you can find them used.

You can find them at thrift stores.

I bet they've got a couple at the Goodwill.

You don't need to break the bank to buy a coffee table.

If you've got the space for one, they're worth having, especially if you entertain.

I don't know.

I probably have, but I don't know if I've seen any, quote, modern coffee tables, but all

the older ones are built to last.

I don't know what a modern coffee table means.

I don't know what it is.

Is that the glass and metal ones?

Are they modern?

Is that what modern is?

I'm sorry.

I like a wooden coffee table.

Mine looks like a crate.

Yeah.

I want a coffee table that you have to, like if you're moving, you have to think about

do I really want to take that with me or not?

Because it's that kind of heavy and that kind of like a coffee like that.

I'm never getting rid of mine.

Thank you, Melissa.

Coffee tables.

Here is the anti-coffee table crowd.

Coffee tables collect more than just dust.

Coffee tables can be insufficient in a small room.

So you got to get the right size.

Inefficient, yeah.

Coffee tables make it awkward to move around.

And again, if the living room is small, like I said, I've been in living rooms that were

so small, you couldn't have a coffee table, but I did have end tables.

This is interesting.

They have a, on the negative side, that coffee tables are a place to put your feet up,

but you shouldn't.

But I mean, just watch the, dude, wait.

What?

I don't.

It's your living room.

Your rules.

Don't tell me what to do in my living room with my coffee table.

Like if there's food on the table, sure, don't put your feet on it.

But otherwise, I mean, you know, as long as you're wiping it down and all that, I don't

know what to do.

You should be cleaning your, again, this is, it collects more than, yes, because you're

not cleaning up after yourself.

Whose fault is that?

I am, I am a borderline neat freak.

I admit that.

I admit that I could be a little bit, you know, crazy about that stuff at times.

But I also, I want to be comfortable.

Like I want to live in my, where I'm from, my aunt and stuff, but like, I live in your

house.

I, I, I feel for people that like you're, you're, you're, you're over focused on these

things.

Right.

Like who are you worried about offending in your own home, putting your feet on the table?

It's your house.

Yeah, live.

Just live, man.

Just enjoy your home.

Just enjoy your home.

You get yourself one of those nice little lice all wipes and wipe up your table when

you're done putting your feet on it, chill out.

Here's a side note.

And this is, I really do hope my mom is listening.

If you're going to have invite friends over, they're your friends.

They're your friends.

You don't have to over worry about your house being pristine clean.

No, like I kind of have it tidied.

They're coming to see you.

Like the house is a mess.

Big deal.

It's okay.

Guess what?

They're there for you.

They're there for you, a mess too.

Well, any time.

So I grew up in a house where my mom always apologized for how dirty the house was because

I grew up in a house where my mom did daycare for like a decade.

That's different.

And my house is so less clean than the house I grew up in.

My mom did such a better job of keeping the house clean that I am doing.

And she still apologized to people every day when they came over for what a mess the house

was or a weird smell that she was the only one who could sense in the house.

Every single person that she apologized to said, oh no, this is fine.

My house is worse.

Or yeah, mine too.

Don't worry about it.

I'm not here for your house.

Well, and we inherit this.

We inherit it from our parent.

And so now when I do that, to even you or Melissa who come over to my house all the time

and have actively helped me clean it on more than one occasion, you're both like, stop it.

Yeah.

Just, hey, it's fine.

You know, you have half a basketball team in that house.

I can't do it.

I understand.

It's very, and I think I'm doing my best.

I think taking that blueprint, that model to your own home, your own apartment, your

own life and stuff is important because, you know, it holds people back from like actually

inviting people over and doing things sometimes.

Right.

And when you're a young 20-something in a living room that's too small for a coffee table,

your mom's not going to yell at you when you put your feet up on the coffee table.

It's okay.

And finally, coffee tables can stub your toes.

Yeah.

So can everything else.

I mean, there's so a couch.

I've stubbed my toe on a Labrador Retriever.

I don't, I don't think there's anything I haven't stubbed my toe on.

Right.

I'm pretty sure that if it's on the floor, I've stubbed my toe on a whatever.

And no, the lab never moved.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

He just picked his head up and looked at me like, what?

You ever ran a vacuum into your toe like, I've done this.

Yeah.

It's even objects that move I've done it with.

So listen, if that was an excuse to not have a piece of furniture, no one would have

a bed anymore.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't see a lot of people doing that.

Because I don't know, looking at the pros, the negatives, I'm still on the pro coffee

table from...

I'm pro coffee table, but I understand the restrictions of a small living room.

Yeah.

They're very different when it comes to that.

That part is a lot different.

I can see where they're coming from on that part.

But if you've got the space, it's worth it.

Yeah.

I promise.

Just clean up after yourself.

Yeah.

I was, I was having this discussion with a teacher the other day is one of the signs

of, you've made it or you have a good home, high ceilings.

Ooh.

Well, I happened into a house with high ceilings, so I don't know if that works.

But to this point, to what we're talking about and everything tying this together, I wonder

if having space in your living room, like it gives you a little bit of that.

Having the space.

You know what I mean?

That you're rich.

No.

I mean it when I say I looked into a really nice living room, like I really enjoy my

living room.

It is big.

It has lots of windows, so I have so many house plants.

We also got to touch on this one here, Laura.

I got another one of these oddity stories that I want to get to.

I like an oddity.

A loose, pigged name breakfast caused chaos in Buffalo, New York.

All right.

All right.

A moment of pause for a pig named breakfast.

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

Honestly, I love these kind of stories where I could just give you the headline, everybody,

and you're good.

That's going to carry you all throughout the day.

You're going to be smiling about that big name breakfast.

What did a big name breakfast do?

This escape pig went for a rampage through a New York neighborhood and turned out to be

a pet belonging to a Buffalo Police Department officer.

I love that the cop has a pet pig.

Yes.

I'm sorry.

That's awesome.

I love that to my core.

That guy's awesome.

He's awesome.

I want to, you know, that's awesome.

Yes.

Residents on Victor Place in the Hamilton Park, history of breakfast.

Need to breakfast.

We're taken back by their neighborhood being erupted in the chaos Wednesday afternoon

when the large pig ran through the area and chased the locals.

Oh, good for you, breakfast, cause and mischief.

Videos captured by witnesses shows animal control and police officers pursuing the porcelain

predator.

Oh, man.

At neighbors said the officer eventually captured the pig and took it home.

Buffalo does not have any city laws expressing prohibiting ownership of pigs or other farm

animals.

Obviously, this officer would not have it if they did.

It would have been really risky if he did.

Yeah.

Breakfast was not the only wayward pig captured in recent weeks, oinking acres, farm, rescue

and sanctuary in Indiana recently wrangled a pig that had been on the loose in Indianapolis.

The pig's name was dinner.

No, no, no, no, it's not.

That was not a steak.

That was not a steak.

It was brooch.

It's name was brooch.

I also, like, I just, I love it when animals are named after food items.

It's one of my favorites.

They're doing that a lot at the Southwood County Humane Society.

There's like pork chop and baby back ribs and a little beef.

The sanctuary said the pig will be quarantined, vaccinated and neutered before the next steps

for its animal to be determined, but it is doing well.

Well, that's good.

It's happy in its home.

It's, it's, it's, it's name is breakfast and a cop owns this pig named breakfast.

I don't want anyone to overlook this fact because I paused for a pig named breakfast.

That pig named breakfast is owned by Oink Oink, a police officer.

That's so great.

Good on that officer.

Tip of the cap to him.

Spectacular.

That guy's great.

Spectacular.

That guy's great.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Mornings here at WFHR, Lauren, James, hang it out with you.

We can take it right to the top of the hour.

Another good civic media programming coming up for you throughout the day.

And one of the things we got coming up for you a little bit later today on our website

is our rapid support.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

That's a thing we do.

Got a new addition of that coming up for you.

Everybody be sure to join us.

UW Extension, Wood County's Matt Lippert, going to be joining us our Ag Agent.

Yeah.

Matt's going to be here and we're going to have plenty to talk about.

Love talk with Matt.

Oh, he's learned when I talk with Matt and he puts up with my silly questions about agriculture

or where I don't know anything I'm talking about and he helps me learn and have a lot

of fun.

It's going to be a great interview.

Looking forward to that.

That'll be up in a little bit.

Be sure to look for it this afternoon on the website and as long as you're at the website

WFHR.com, be sure to sign up for our newsletter.

Yeah.

Got a new one coming up.

It's true.

We're looking forward to it.

It's going to be a good one too.

Shout out to our team and the great reporting that is being done on that and especially Melissa.

Yeah.

Biggest shout out to Melissa.

She puts the whole dang thing together.

She works so darn hard on that.

We appreciate you, Mel.

Keep up the great work.

And not to add to your plate, Melissa, but we haven't had a pigeon update here on the

morning show in a while.

And I even made a bumper for that pigeon.

I saw that.

Yeah.

So we made it a bug.

Yeah.

I think we might.

But we are looking forward to that new newsletter and looking forward to your recipes

everybody.

Get over to WFHR.com and get us those recipes.

We are cutting.

Have a cutoff date November 14th.

Be sure to get him over and get over to WFHR.com and do that.

Yeah.

Appreciate everybody doing that.

We also have the great guard show coming up a little bit later today here at the station

7-0-5.

Join us for the Wisconsin Badgers head basketball coach and Badgers off to a nice start to

the season.

Well, that's good.

Really good recruiting class along with bringing some players back.

We can mess around and do some damage in the big 10 this year.

Be paying attention.

We are your home for Badgers sports, especially in the fall and winter.

We're very proud of that.

Shout out to all of our sponsors out there that add to us being able to do that.

Yes.

Looking forward to it.

And as a side note, keep in mind our sister station 105-5WIRI this weekend, 7 o'clock

puck drop for River King's hockey, taking on the Minnesota mullets.

On Friday and Saturday.

Yeah.

Michael and Seth will have those for you.

Be sure to join them for that.

Everybody's going to be good stuff.

We have a blood drive happening today over at ODC.

Other friends are lost.

They're at 1191, 100 in Avenue.

It'll be going from 10 to 3 today, so kicked off almost an hour ago.

All you heroes out there get over there and donate.

We greatly appreciate you doing so.

Yeah, we do.

And our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids, Moravian Church have a couple of things going on.

This Saturday they have their chilly dinner they're doing.

It'll be from 4-7 over at the Moravian Church at 3-10 for a staff of New South.

For kids 13 years and older, $8, $6, $12, $4, if you're under 5 you're getting in for free.

It's a great event that they're able to do some really good work with this.

Be sure to join them for some wonderful chilly in a good time over at the Wisconsin

Rapids Moravian Church this Saturday, 4-7.

And keep in mind that they also will be hosting the Winters Farmer's Market.

Oh, that's right.

The Farmer's Market has moved to the Moravian Church basement for the winter.

10-1st Avenue South.

It's going until from November to mid-May, it'll be closed for the holidays, keep in

mind.

We are so lucky that we have all this local food, community crafts, all these cool things

going on.

It's so cool to have a good Farmer's Market year round.

So Saturday is 9-1 at the Moravian Church for the winter Farmer's Market.

Be sure to check that out everybody.

We've got some other things in town to check out Laura.

We do.

There is going to be the Mark Croft band at the Jensen Community Performing Arts Center

in Amherst on Saturday, November 8th.

Show begins at 7pm that they're offering a 6pm reception time before the show starts

as well.

It's going to be a good time.

You can get your tickets by visiting jensencenter.org for the Mark Croft band on Saturday.

We've also got some Veterans Day events happening in Wisconsin Rapids.

On Monday, the VFW is having their spaghetti dinner.

It's all you can eat.

Veterans eat free at VFW post 2534 at 2711 Redden Road in Wisconsin Rapids from

4.30pm to 7pm.

And then on Tuesday, there's going to be three different Veterans Day events that the

VFW will be taking part in.

They're going to be having the Veterans Day ceremony at Veterans Park in downtown Wisconsin

Rapids at 11.

The Legacy Stone Dedication at Assumption High School on Chestnut Street in Wisconsin

Rapids at 1pm.

And then the Veterans Day observance with rededication of the Veterans Memorial at Midstate Technical

College in Wisconsin Rapids at 3pm as well.

And there is also going to be Sister Act at Assumption High School.

They are opening the show up on Thursday, November 13th at 5.30pm with the Gallaud

Dinner and the show beginning at 7pm.

Then they're also going to be having the show on Friday, Saturday, and another one

on Saturday that weekend.

You can get your tickets by visiting AssumptionCatholicSchools.org under Theatricals.

Or you can check out their Facebook page for more information as well about Assumption

High School's presentation of Sister Act.

It's going to be a really good show.

We had a lot of fun talking with them.

Yeah, we did.

They're going to be back in again before the show kicks off too.

So we'll get to hear more.

And one more reminder, our good friends over at the Arts Council of Southwood County are

presenting an amazing show tonight that do what project going on tonight, 7.30 at the

Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids at 18 to 116th Street South.

You can get your tickets right now at saverthearts.com, encourage a head on over there.

Do that.

Get those tickets.

Yeah.

However, if you'd like to go for free, that's an idea.

We got two tickets right here for you.

Call up and get us your favorite duop song, your favorite duop band.

Or do you just want to go?

We will go ahead and help you get to this show.

We want to get these tickets in your hands, man.

Be sure to call up right now 715-424-2600, call us through the Civic Media App as well

if you'd like.

Yeah.

And get these tickets from us.

Yeah.

Encourage to do that, everybody.

And take in that show.

Buy local support, local support the arts.

Got a couple of world good stories.

And man, I wanted to get to this one with you, Laura.