Meet Elsa! (Hour 2)

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

Welcome back to the morning show. We hope you're having a great one out there. Got your host James.

Join by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and his county's Terry John. Good morning. Got the band together.

Terry and I are going to have some fun this morning. Got a couple of different items we're going to get into.

Some entertainment news coming up for you. All of that and then some. But we kick off to 10 o'clock hour.

The way we like to around here with our pet of the week from the South of County Main Society.

One of our favorite jingles to play in our favorite segments of the week. Denise joining us from the Southwood County Main Society. Denise, how you doing?

I'm great. Thanks. Good morning to everybody. Good morning to you. Denise, I did have a good story of the day for us. We'll get to in a second.

But you came in with a good story of the day. Do you want to tell us what you were telling me in our break?

Yeah, um, Kimmy, who's kind of become a shelter favorite got adopted last week.

Um, like right after the show when I went back, somebody had an application and came and picked her up.

Um, her sister or I shouldn't say they aren't they aren't litter mates, but they were that came in together and Elsa still remains with us.

Um, she is calm. She isn't a real dog, but she's very, um, I'm gonna say calm not calm, but very low, low pace low color chill.

Yeah, she's very chill. Yeah, she did not want to get in my truck this morning.

I was, I would have brought in here with me. She laid down and I thought, okay, I'm not gonna force poor Elsa,

but Elsa is in need of a loving home. Um, she has, she's up to date on all our vaccinations, microchipped.

So if you need like a low, a low energy dog and, you know, don't want to take her for fast walk, she doesn't pull.

She's amazing. Oh, sounds like a really good fit for certain families up there.

Like, yeah, a couple maybe. Let's get her to a good home, everybody. And great to hear about Kimmy. That's, that's awesome.

Kimmy was a favorite. Like we were talking about in their break. We love these segments.

We have a lot of fun with them and everything, but our, you know, our job is trying to get these animals in a good homes.

And that's great to hear. Really good to hear. Thank you.

Uh, and, and, and animal that may not, uh, you know, necessarily take too long to get adopted.

I think over across the pond, uh, they had a lion loose.

I heard about that. Yeah, they had a lion loose, uh, in Ireland. Um, well, actually it was just a, a big dog.

It was just a big dog. Uh, they did, you see this? Well, really people cut their dogs like that.

I got it up here too, if you guys want to see it. So, um, yeah, police in Ireland investigated a viral video of a lion,

quote, lion on the loose in the woods of Eastern County Claire, discovering the animal was, in fact, a newfoundland dog with a, quote, fresh haircut.

I mean, okay, let's say it's dusk and you do see that kind of weaving. You know what I mean?

Like on the edge of your yard or something fair. It's fair. Newfoundies. Yeah, those dogs get big.

Um, and, and honestly, just for, like, they, it gets me because they did the tail right too.

They got the tent. Like, it's a great car.

Whoever did that cut did a great job. But that's also, I could see, like what you're talking about Terry at dusk.

That thing's coming at you. Yeah, I would be terrified.

Um, hope thankful for the people of Ireland that they do not have loose lions that they have to worry.

I mean, unless you get it head first, then you see all the slaughter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, wait a minute. Lions don't slaughter.

But, um, Denise, how are things going over its shop?

Excellent. They're doing very, very well with getting dogs and cats out the door.

We keep getting kittens in.

Kitten season has not slowed yet. We're hoping with the cold weather.

That'll slow down, but we got a fresh supply of kittens in if you're looking for a cat.

And we have a couple of dogs left, especially Elsa.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Keep that in mind.

Yeah.

When it comes to items we can bring, we can drop off, donate.

Are there certain things you need more than others?

Cat litter always.

And then towels. And anybody has used towels if they're thinking about throwing out or giving it good.

Well, we use towels more than anything else because we use them to clean.

We use them to, you know, for warmth and security for the animals so they can decompress.

So towels and cat litter pretty much right now.

Even animal lovers are going to, you know, be inclined or think of things.

Oh, what could my pet use or something along those lines?

The rags, the towels thing is such a great note.

It's one of those things that was soon as you hear it and you think,

Oh, yeah, definitely. I could see I could use those.

And even working in shelters myself, I know we went through just tons and tons of rags and all that.

Because it's more environmentally friendly too.

You can sanitize washing, reuse instead of just throwing paper towel and paper products into the garbage.

I don't, I genuinely believe literally everybody out there listening has like a bucket or somewhere rags that are just sitting there.

Are they in your whole closet or your bathroom closet?

It's time to, you know, do something with them.

I'm in the kitchen sink. There's a, you know, wherever they are, you have them.

I'm sure.

Yeah. Yes. Exactly. Old tee shirts because I'm sure others think about this.

But just as a reminder, not only are you doing some good by giving these items away,

you're freeing up space. You are freeing up space in your home declutter.

Your children will love you someday.

Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand times.

Does somebody is going through this with my mother and father right now?

Yes. Do you guys need just random pieces of wood?

Because my father has it and like an addict.

Say no. Say no. Just say no.

Just say no.

How about we not?

Good call. Good call. Good call.

Denise, who is our pet of the week?

We're going to stick with Elsa. Miss Elsa came to us.

Her and Kimmy's owner had was hospitalized.

So she came. They both came to us and they've been with us for a little bit.

Elsa just had a grooming session yesterday.

Thanks to the folks at Collar Club for providing that for us.

Elsa is loving affectionate. She's a lap dog.

She's a bigger dog. Maybe medium to large size.

But she will sleep with you. She'll sit on your lap and she likes to go for walks.

But she's not high energy, which is wonderful. But she is eight.

So keep that in mind.

I have to say we used to joke about this at the shelter.

I was at in Santa Barbara.

Whenever we had a shepherd there, that was the good kid in the class.

Yep. Always.

They were always just so well in tune.

And so they listened so well.

And you know, in a shelter environment, the greatest dog of all time is going to have a difficult time focusing or listening

or even hearing you above other dogs or some. And German shepherds just seem to be just built differently.

And just are really good at that.

Yeah.

If that is a, I don't know what to say, a concern.

But if that is something that matters to you, I think German shepherds are such a great breed for that.

They are. They're so smart.

And again, we always say the shelter is no place for any animal.

It's not a great environment because of the stress that they are put under every single day with the noises and other people going back and forth.

But our staff does a really good job of getting them out for walks and enrichment and throwing the ball and playing with them.

And we have volunteers, thank God, that come every day to walk dogs and socialize cats for us too.

You're 100% on that.

No, no breed, no animal really works well in a shelter or deserves to be in a shelter.

Right.

German shepherds in particular, this is a working dog.

This is a dog that wants to do stuff.

Yep, they need a job.

Yeah, and again, I think that that makes Elsa a perfect fit for certain families out there that are listening.

Absolutely.

Her age is great too.

It's a great age for that dog.

Yeah, it's not too old, but not a puppy either.

She's well beyond her puppy years.

I can't get over the pictures.

Well, I mean, all of this, all that said, the pictures alone are going to, should sell Elsa.

Like, she's like a very photogenic, very, very interesting.

And she looks as pretty in person as she does in that.

She's just, she's a beautiful colored dog and she has really soft fur.

She's got a great coat and a great face.

I want, I just, I can't look at these pictures too much.

Oh, did you just click adopt?

Basically, I might as well, in my heart, I did.

Okay, fair that.

I will say that she, there is a great home for Elsa out there.

I believe that, never.

Yes.

And encourage you to find out more about Elsa and some of these other great animals over there.

Like, dinner roll.

Dinner roll looks like a very cute cat.

Like, actually looks kind of like, you think that cat did a roll.

I'm in on that.

I like that.

Dinner roll will be available soon.

Where's my, oh, El Cazam.

El Cazam.

I wanted to say, not just because I wanted to say El Cazam, but also El Cazam looks like a wonderful cat.

There are some great animals over there.

Your new best friend is waiting for you over at the South of County Maine Society.

As far as Elsa goes, she has all the extras.

Yep, yep.

Her microchip.

Yep, microchip too.

She's ready to go.

And keep in mind, too.

One other thing I wanted to mention real quick, Denise.

When it comes to adopting, I didn't think about this right away, but I used to mention this with others.

And when it comes to you, adopt this animal.

And you bring it in, everything works out.

I think that there is also sometimes a, I don't want to say fear, but a concern of,

oh, no, I'm on my own.

You're always able to reach out to the Maine Society.

Absolutely.

Year, two years later.

Absolutely.

I know this.

My mom and dad were able to do it with Beth in that old position.

And they were very, they, Sam, they couldn't understand why Sam was so neurotic.

He's always, he's always just said nervous, a little dog.

Yeah.

Some of them are.

They reached out to her, I think, two years after having Sam.

And Beth was helpful about it and everything.

The Maine Society is always going to be there for you if you need them.

Absolutely.

I'm going to be there.

How far down the line if you have a question or an issue with an animal that you got from us?

We will reach out.

We will help you.

We can have you come in too.

We have a trainer on speed dial that we can help with.

That has behavioral, behavioral tips and tricks.

That's cool to hear.

That's good enough.

Yeah.

We appreciate our Maine Society doing some really important work in our community.

Let's have their back like they have ours, donate items if you can, and certainly take it one of these great little furry friends.

You're new best friends waiting for you over at the Southern County Maine Society.

Learn about Elsa and so much more by emailing them office at SWCHS.com.

Give them a call 715-423-0505.

You can stop by there at 3621-64 Street North right here in Rapids.

And keep in mind there is their social media.

You want to share their posts on your page so other people can see them.

And check out their web page, bookmark it, and check out these great animals.

Fall in love with all of them like I do at SWCHS.com.

SWCHS.com.

Denise, thanks again for the time.

Thanks for having us.

We will hang out again next Thursday.

Yes, sir.

Terry and I will hang out with you when we come back on the morning show.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

I appreciate Denise hanging out with us.

Our friends from the Southern County Maine Society joining us every Thursday with our pet of the week.

Elsa is just a adorable dog.

She is sweet.

You can't stop looking at her.

It's great dogs.

She's looking at you.

She is.

Through the computer, like from the Humane Society, she is definitely staring into my soul and she owns me now.

Looking at some entertainment news,

Dolly Parton might have just shared her secret to aging.

She says, quote,

people, I wish I could do a great Dolly Parton impression.

They would just kill it at that.

People say, well, you're going to be 80 years old.

Well, so what?

Look at all I've done in 80 years.

I feel like I'm just getting started.

I know that sounds stupid, but unless my health gives way,

she's just going to keep at it.

Quote, which right now I seem to be doing just fine, my health is good.

I think there's a lot to be said about age.

If you allow yourself to get old, you will.

I say, I ain't got time to get old.

I ain't got time to dwell on that.

That's not what I'm thinking about.

Dolly turns 80 on January 19th.

She has a new memoir coming out called Star of the Show,

My Life on Stage.

She has been in the public eye, obviously for decades,

but I would say in recent years,

been much, much more consistently.

You almost don't go a month or so without hearing something

about Dolly a new album, something she's doing.

She has stayed so active and she looks so good.

There's only so much makeup and different things can do.

You hear her talk and you hear her healthy.

She sounds healthy.

Her actions seem healthy.

After losing the love of your life and to bounce back the way she has,

I literally cannot even begin to imagine what that's like

and to keep the positivity that she has and all these things.

That doesn't just come from having good makeup.

That doesn't just come from, she's been, she's kept herself active

and kept herself busy, which has kept her mind young

and I think in a lot of ways her body young.

There's no feeding father time, father time's undefeated,

but there is so much evidence and so much science behind.

If you do a crossword puzzle a couple times a week,

what that can do for your mind,

what that can do for staving off Alzheimer's or dementia,

just a crossword puzzle.

Staying active goes so much farther than I think we can truly realize

because everybody is a case by case.

And there's also just something about aging gracefully, right?

She's clearly like, hey, I'm busy, I'm active and I'm not fighting.

You know what I mean?

Like some people it just seems like you can visibly see that they fight against it

and it almost makes it so much worse.

So much worse.

I was just talking about this with a couple of students and everything

because I was like, look, you guys got to tell me,

I dress like a teenager.

You got to tell me if I start looking like that guy that's trying to hang on to his youth.

Like don't, don't let me be that guy.

Don't let, but so we're te- you know,

they were teasing me a little bit about this and that,

but what we were talking about it was one of those things of like

if you, the people that hang on to it.

And I'm not talking about, you know,

you're just starting to go gray or any of these things.

I mean, your way past that age, turn the cap forward.

All right, you say to certain age,

turn the baseball cap backwards,

just don't work anymore.

Man, turn it forward.

There are certain things that I think you just grow into.

Not so much, you can dress how you want to dress your whole life.

Don't let anybody tell you different on that.

But I say it jokingly about the baseball cap,

but it's just an example of,

there's certain stuff I think that as you get older

and you realize, wait a minute, I kind of like it forward more.

It's not about what others like.

It's about what you like and what works for you.

And I think along with that,

you're taking care of your body, your mind goes the same way.

When if you look at Dolly Parton,

you never guess she's two months shy of 80.

Never.

But it's a whole, I don't know.

I think you look at the whole person, right?

The lifestyle, the decisions.

I don't know.

She's living right and that helps.

She's doing a lot of the,

but as busy as she is,

as much as she puts a good front to the public eye and everything,

this is somebody who's never put on airs,

has never, never gone out of her way to try to like,

give an impression of herself that she is not.

I think that's almost,

I think you could say that's her brand is that,

is being real.

Pretty authentic.

The same girl that grew up on dirt

is the same girl we see now.

That hasn't changed no matter how much pomp and circumstance

or whatever has happened.

But I think it's also important to keep in mind.

I guarantee you, I cannot prove this,

but I guarantee you Dolly Parton's got a favorite TV show

that she sits back at eight, nine o'clock at night

and just binges.

It's, I don't know.

I'm positive of it.

I am positive of it.

Maybe it's not a TV show.

Maybe it's something else.

Just listen to the music or something like that.

But she's got a laid back part of her day.

She's got a day,

so I'm not saying you don't have that.

But along with that, you know,

relaxing part of your day,

that you do keep busy.

Do a crossword puzzle.

You know, find a Macmillan,

the cultural center.

All these different places have little programs

or different things you can do different stuff.

And you want to learn how to basket weave

or something like that.

Go learn how to basket weave.

It's, it's not only fun and, you know,

exciting for a lot of people

and meeting new people,

getting you out of the house.

But it keeps your brain and your body young.

It really does.

You don't have to run the Mexico

and get the latest surgery

from some cheap Tijuana

surgeon or something like that.

Like you got to do it.

And by the way,

it never works.

It never works.

Nobody has reversed aging

by getting plastic surgery

or filler or any of these things.

It has never worked.

I don't, maybe one of the greatest hustle

of all time is plastic surgery.

It might be the greatest hustle ever

because none of us have ever seen

somebody with plastic surgery

and thought, wow, they look 10 years younger.

No, you just look like somebody

that just had plastic surgery.

I'm sure that there is good surgeons out there.

I'm not making light of any of that

or anything.

And certainly the plastic surgery

then involves helping people with injuries.

So reconstruction and that kind of thing.

Completely different.

I didn't want to get that twisted there.

No, yeah.

Come on.

Like there's nobody who,

you're not fully getting anybody.

Just lean into it.

And chances are,

you're going to look even better

than just going with your age.

It isn't just like, you know,

Paul Newman.

Like plenty of other people,

they pull that off.

Good on, Dolly.

Good on that one.

Terry, as somebody who is

a little bit more in tune

with country music

and some of those things,

have you heard about this soundtrack?

Nobody wants this,

the soundtrack for the Netflix TV show.

The show itself has been a big hit.

Yeah.

So I,

I have not started season two.

I watched season one just

on a recommendation from a friend

and I thought it was hilarious.

So I was waiting for two.

I know it's out,

but I haven't watched it.

So I'm not surprised that they have good music

because I thought they had great music

in the first one.

Apparently,

that is one of the selling points of the show,

one of the things,

and not that people

are watching it just because of that,

but one of the added benefits of the show

is the soundtrack

and country music

really showed up for this one.

Season two just dropped

alongside a full 19 track album

of original songs.

So that's the part that stands out to me.

That's cool.

Like they're not just grabbing hits

from these artists.

They've got this version of us

from Ella Langley,

one of the biggest names out there

right now in music,

let alone in country music.

It's so cool to see

what's happening for her.

Laney Wilson

shouldn't surprise anybody.

Like that girl is a star.

She was born to do this.

Not only to her,

you know,

she may not like this,

but she's beautiful.

I don't know if she likes people

made me mentioning that.

She tends to be a little bit shy.

That's why the cowboy had

as always,

I only see her in things.

But that girl was born to do this.

She's born to be a star.

I don't think it's that surprising.

Not taking anything away

from the hard work

she did to get to where she is.

Ella Langley

has a very unique kind of voice

and style.

And it's,

yeah, having one hit

is one thing.

You could see that happening

for her or something like that.

And then country music

and the way fans are,

maybe even tour or whatever.

She's not a role right now.

Yeah.

Like five different songs

that are in the top 10

and all this.

And she's doing great.

I think she's great.

And having rally green

in your corner doesn't hurt either.

You know what I mean?

Like sometimes it's

who helps you along the way.

So yeah,

I think she's awesome.

That's a big part of this.

Speaking of Laney Wilson,

Hardy was opening for her

the last year.

And it's really helped

promote him and get him out there

because he was really

in a kind of niche.

And then

do opening for hers

really opened him up

oh, he's not just this

and some of those things.

But along with that,

if anybody didn't see

I meant to bookmark this

for you,

their last show together,

Hardy came out

dressed as Laney Wilson.

And my God,

you have to see that.

That big old beard

and everything.

Like he went all the way

and he's got the bell

bottoms on and everything.

She's yelling at him.

She's like,

those better fit afterwards.

Yeah, like they better

not really be mine.

Yeah, it's a great moment.

It's a great moment.

That's awesome.

But a lot of people

saw him as a certain thing

opening up for her

and she kind of really

lightened him up

a little bit and stuff.

Ella Langley's

had a lot of that

to your point.

Chris Stapleton,

heart letting go.

He's got an original song

on there.

I would say one of the

top artists in the world

right now to me

is Chris Stapleton.

Like I don't care about

genres.

I don't

anything like that.

That man just makes

dang good music.

Oh, yeah.

Love him.

I love him.

If the world burns down

by Casey Musgraves

and other big artists,

along with these country

artists,

you got Sabrina Carpenter,

Teddy Swims,

Selena Gomez,

all added tracks to it.

Man.

That's a soundtrack

right there.

It's...

I don't know about you,

but as I'm talking about

it and reading the article,

got almost nostalgic to me.

Because it reminded me

of when we were growing up

and it was just the...

I cannot necessarily

prove this,

but I genuinely believe

a hill I will die on,

the 90s were the

king of the soundtracks.

Like...

There were so many

bad movies that came out

but the soundtrack

was banging.

The soundtrack was awesome.

But the movie,

I didn't see that.

But the soundtrack was amazing.

And we kind of got

away from that a little bit.

And it seems like

it's coming back with TV shows

where they're getting

these soundtracks

and like not just

a couple of artists

or whatever,

but like just bangers.

Yeah, that's cool.

Right, and original songs

and stuff.

That's impressive to me.

It's also really smart

on everybody involved.

It helps the show,

helps the artist.

You know, you're speaking

of artists getting

a little bit more attention

because of who they're,

you know,

opening for something like that.

This is a similar way

of getting up

to a new audience.

If you're a country,

if you're a country artist,

you're kind of stuck

sometimes.

This may turn you

on to a whole new audience.

No different than,

you know,

Teddy Swims may be getting,

you know, a country artist

listening to this

who haven't heard Teddy Swims

and like, oh my God,

this guy's amazing.

And you know,

herding some of that.

It's a really smart move

by all parties.

That is pretty cool.

Other cool things going on

in our area,

one of them mentioned

real quick,

like our great friends

over at Family Natural Food,

Stephen and Katrina,

yesterday putting up

with my silly questions

and everything.

And one of the things

we were talking about

is their panel discussion

and health talk coming up

on the 18th.

Next Tuesday,

515 right at their stomping

grounds at 910 West Grand Avenue

here in Rapids.

This is an awesome opportunity

to come with your questions.

They do a really nice job

with these discussions,

focusing on certain things,

digestive help,

or, you know,

essential oils.

This is just a gumbo.

This is just a smorgasbord.

Tell questions about anything.

And I think,

for a lot of people nowadays,

we're used to being able to,

okay, if I have a question,

I'll call up, you know,

this and this and this.

And now people are tired of that.

They don't call places

as much anymore,

because they're used to getting

an automated service

or something.

We want to do things in person.

We feel more comfortable

asking questions in person.

I think that this discussion

is perfect for that.

Along with, you go there,

and maybe you don't have a set question,

but you might have one come up

when you hear other people's questions.

Or you just, yeah,

just hear their questions

and their responses.

You don't have to ask a question, right?

Like you can, you can be an observer.

And this is,

this is one of those things

that they're doing.

There, there's no profit

in this for them.

There's no overhead for them in this.

This is just something they're doing,

because they love this community

and like helping out.

And that's the,

the bottom line,

the mission for them

over there at family and natural foods.

Make sure to RSVP,

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It's going to be a fun one.

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and we're talking World Kindness Day.

Seven ways to celebrate World Kindness Day

is coming up with Terry and James on The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Got Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We'll get into our schedules.

Some good stories of the day

and some great events going on in their area.

Before we wrap things up,

we will get an update from the United Way as well.

But it is World Kindness Day.

It's been a thing for almost 30 years now.

A bunch of charities get together in 1997

and started the World Kindness Movement

and this kind of was birth from that back in 1998.

It's a day when you're encouraged to do random acts of kindness.

One of my favorite things in society

is when we just agree to do things.

There was no bill that was passed.

There was no guilt that was laid or anything like that.

We just as people decide,

that person trying to get there to the elevator

I'm going to hold it open for.

That person carrying a bunch of bags

and their hands and everything

I'm going to hold the door open for.

Just randomly little things like this.

I wonder why we don't just do that all the time.

Right, right.

And I hope that that stays in people's minds.

That it doesn't have to be World Kindness Day

to be that kind of person.

Hold the door.

You can make the difference.

You can be the difference in the world.

And I will say this.

I don't think I'm going to win a lot of people over with this one.

But when I went from Chicago to the middle of Wisconsin

and dealt with a lot of that culture shock,

one of the things that helped me

were the things that were...

The two groups of people shared in common.

And one of the things that is very consistent to me,

my whole life, whether I'm in Illinois or I'm in Wisconsin,

the holding the door open,

the doing the little things like that.

Now, in Chicago, I'm not going to lie to you.

They may not make eye contact.

But they will hold the door open for you.

Nine out of 10 people will do that.

So, hold the door but don't look at me.

The Midwest mentality maintains no matter where

with the big city or not.

Milwaukee, Madison, I felt a very similar thing

as much as I do in these towns.

I don't think anybody does kindness like rural communities do,

like communities we do.

You and I know this very well, Terry,

both as a nonprofit where you guys are

and sitting here where we do.

And at WFHR for 85 years.

We know this.

We know that our community is capable of it.

Be capable of it every day.

And today is a good one for it though.

Maybe even a good day to start the streak.

Good reminder.

Yeah.

It's a day to do different things like we've got a list here.

Here are a few ideas from the random acts of kindness foundation.

Complement the next three people you talk to.

I think that...

I think this is one of the earliest things I learned.

I watched my Nana.

I think we were standing in line or something like that.

But I watched my Nana.

Just this person was going past and she sees them

and just like immediately stops.

And I don't know if she grabbed their arm or the cart.

But she's like, your hair looks amazing.

I love your hair.

And this lady lit up.

She just lit up like crazy.

And then she just went about the rest of her day.

I never saw her again.

My Nana never talked to this person again as far as I know

or anything like that.

But that little bit of a thing gave that woman a great feeling,

a great moment that I hope she carried throughout the day

or at the very least got her through the next hour

or whatever it is.

Now imagine doing that for three people.

It's awesome.

It goes so much farther than you realize.

I would be smart about it.

I would not say, dang!

No, no, that doesn't happen.

But it depends who you're saying it to.

It's true.

It's true.

It's very true.

I think, you know, I immediately think of like three people

that I know who are so good at that.

Like every time I'm around them,

it's not even that it's me.

Like they are complimenting people.

Or they come into a room and they just automatically call something out.

That's something I need to be better at.

I mean, I think that that's a really cool thing.

I think we could all be a little bit better about it.

I think more than times than not,

people don't realize how much kind word can help.

How far can go?

I speaking for myself,

I have not had a lot of this in life.

When I do experience it, it is like reverberating through my body.

I feel it almost physically to the point.

It goes a long ways.

And you hear me on these airways for a long time.

I ramble about people or nonprofits or businesses

or how great they are or anything like that

because I am always of the mind.

I'm going to overdo it before I'm going to underdo it.

Not to say they had to be one of the other,

but for me, it's just a way my brain works.

Write a heartfelt note to your kids' teacher.

I think that's a really sweet idea.

I imagine that a lot of our audience

are some of our audience at least.

You know, you don't mind having kids in school anymore.

Maybe that your kids' teacher or your kids' favorite teacher

or something like that is still teaching.

What a cool letter that would be to get from a student

that you had 10 years ago or something like that.

Encouraging that kid to write that letter wouldn't be a bad idea.

And even just current teachers,

writing a letter is really nice and everything,

but how about asking how you can help?

Hey, do you guys need supplies of anything

or do you need a volunteer or something like that?

Like being involved, I think, can go just as far as a heartfelt note.

Say good morning to that random person next to you on the elevator

or the train or the bus or just when you're standing in line

at the grocery store or the gas station or the coffee shop

to get your coffee.

I kind of, that's what I'm like.

I say good morning to everybody and it is funny

because sometimes you do startle people.

Yes.

You know what I mean? Like not intentionally or whatever,

but like I might be walking in somewhere

and you see somebody in the parking lot

and I'm like, oh, good morning.

And sometimes they, you know, it's like,

like you said, like don't make eye contact.

I can speak to this.

Terry is 100% that person on air off air.

That's just who she is.

I know this because the first time,

a couple times we met,

you were really nice to me.

And I thought, oh, she likes me and everything.

And then I see that you're nice to everybody.

I'm like, oh, okay.

Pick up litter.

When you see this, I'm just sad.

Special, not special.

Pick up litter.

There is, especially after Halloween

and it's getting, you know, the colder months and everything.

We know that there's litter around.

Whether it's in your yard or not, pick it up.

Pick it up, throw it away.

You know, this is a perfect time to give a shout out.

I have absolutely no idea what their names are,

but literally every single morning,

there is a couple,

a man and a woman.

I'm assuming there are a couple.

Walking a street,

every single morning, before seven,

I see them,

and they are literally just picking up trash.

That terrible irresponsible people discard.

But literally, like they have a bag

and they are picking up litter

and I've been seeing this for years.

So, whomever you are,

maybe you're back inside taking a break right now,

thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

That is awesome.

I didn't heard about that.

That is really cool.

Appreciate them.

Whoever those people are,

if you know them, please thank them for us.

And as a side note,

it shouldn't just be on them.

You know, it'd be nice to see some other people pick up the mantle

and also do that as well,

especially any younger people out there getting the habit of doing that.

I look at this community,

like I look at my living room or my house.

Like I'm not going to leave it looking bad.

And I'm not going to do that to my community.

I live here.

I walk these streets.

I want them to look all right.

I don't think that is asking a lot.

And I don't think that's a big deal to do.

Say something positive on social media

to compete with all the negativity on there.

I think this is becoming a bigger and bigger one in the world.

I encourage everybody to do this.

Long time ago,

I started doing this

and I got a lot of my teachers at Second City too

and I got my mom and dad too.

My brother and sister say they do.

I don't know if they do or not.

But we all get frustrated.

We all get angry.

And you want to leave a comment.

Fine.

Go right ahead.

Try to be an adult about it.

Believe your negative comment.

But you cannot leave a negative comment

unless you leave a positive one somewhere else.

Because you definitely had a good experience somewhere.

We got to take the time to do this.

I don't want to brag, Terry.

But I got a new mattress the other day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

After needing one for about 15 years.

Well, there you go.

I finally did the adult thing.

You got a good mattress.

But what do you do with the old one?

Right?

You know, you got the old one.

You're just going to throw it in the basement

where I got my parents' other stuff.

No.

So on the site,

they had a thing where somebody could, you know,

we'll pick up the,

we'll pick it up for you.

And I hadn't seen the service before

because I've never bought a mattress for myself.

So I was a little surprised by this.

I thought it was really cool service.

The company that I bought it from,

they put this out to Angie's list.

And then somebody locally comes and picks up the mattress.

This was all very new to me and my parents.

We had somebody come by a day early

and pick up the mattress.

And I wasn't there for it.

But my mom and dad said it went really good.

The guy was great all this.

So I get an email, of course, saying,

hey, how was your experience?

What do you do?

Now, I am not going to lie to everybody.

I like you out there.

I tend to just delete those.

I don't really think much of it.

But then I remembered,

boy, I haven't left a good comment in a long time.

I haven't done anything like that in a long time.

I'll do this.

I'll put 10 minutes aside and do it.

Well, it took me a minute.

I was going to say, no way it took 10.

It took me a minute to basically click twice.

I clicked twice and I was done.

And this person got a good review that they deserved.

Again, I understand in this day and age,

if you want to vent,

you're not happy with your service or something like that.

I'm not telling people not to speak their mind.

Just along with that,

leave a positive comment somewhere

or in your negative comment,

one of the things that they did right.

They got your order wrong,

but it was on time.

It was on time, but whatever.

But rarely does happening on and leaving

a negative comment, public comment,

actually do anything about the negative experience.

So be an adult.

And don't just go on social media and say

something positive.

Do it like you said in the form of a comment.

Because always see as negative comments.

It's so annoying.

It goes a lot farther.

And you know, you'd want somebody to do it for you.

I don't think it's asking a lot.

Leave a generous tip.

When you're if you're able to and you can,

I think that's another great way of showing kindness today.

And text or call a random friend

just to tell them how awesome they are.

Just randomly, just especially,

I would say especially people

that you haven't talked to in a while.

This is a great one.

That's a fantastic one.

It is awesome.

They'll be super suspicious, right?

Like all of a sudden they get a text from you

that just says you're awesome.

I like what you want.

I love my little brother.

My little brother is one of my best friends.

Nicholas texts me something nice right now.

I'm immediately thinking what does he need?

What does he want?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you know what?

It's a great one.

At a minimum, it sparks the conversation.

Yep.

Yep.

And to that point, Terry,

so many of these things can do that.

We know that, especially our senior population,

but really a lot of people out there

are dealing with isolation issues.

And then we're got fall and winter coming,

which is only going to double or triple that.

These kind of things start off conversations,

may even start a friendship.

Or at the very least,

get you out of the house

and get you working with people,

talking to people,

get you a little socialism out there,

so being social a little,

that socialism is not what I meant to say.

Like where is this going?

Well, it took that in a different direction.

Getting you, you know,

getting a little bit of that social

out of your system and everything in your system.

Yeah.

These, there is no negative to these.

There is no.

And I heard one of these medication adds the other day.

I finally heard the one.

It was for some,

I believe it was for a restless leg syndrome.

And the first thing,

side effects may include less restless leg syndrome.

Like it was in the side effects

was the actual thing that you're taking it for.

This, no side effects.

No side effects to this.

Leaving a generous tip,

leaving a heartfelt note to your kids teacher,

picking up litter,

literally no side effects to these.

All good feelings, all good stuff.

You can find out more

by going to randomxofkindness.org,

randomxofkindness.org,

truly embrace world kindness day,

every day everybody.

We will come back

and a wrap of the show,

Morning Show at WFHR.