Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio 804 on the clock. Got your host, James
J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. And all of you. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there. It's a short week, so we're going to
have some fun. Get a bunch of things jam packed in here for you. Tell us, tell you about
our schedule for the week and plenty more. And we're giving away a turkey. What a turkey?
Boom. Just threw that out there. Just throw it out there. The whole thing. We're not even
a minute into the show. We're giving away a whole turkey. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.
We have great friends over at the West Grand IGA. Got too many turkeys. They got too many.
All right. So we're doing a shotgun turkey giveaway, Melissa. We are giving one away today.
Yes. Yes. Quick giveaway. Quick giveaway. Wow. Okay. All right. So we'll be doing that
today. Be listening for that. We've got a 1215 pound bird that we're going to give away
from our friends at the West Grand IGA. Looking forward to it. We're also going to...
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That's pretty cool of them. We got plenty more to talk about
as well. But let's talk with our friends from the Weather Eye Weather Center right now.
Good morning over there. Yeah. Good morning. You got a Paul. How's it going? You on well
over here all there. Doing good. The sun is bright. It's shining. Yeah. Got some pretty
fair blue skies out there. A little bit of clouds, but not too bad. How's it looking for
this holiday week, Paul? Yeah. I guess they're looking pretty quiet going forward now and
after some of that precip we saw at this latest system now. Settled into a dry pattern
through the end of the holiday week. And even the weekend looking pretty dry if we see
anything maybe some snow showers built in our way towards a satellite Saturday night
Sunday. But nothing more than just a little bit of light snow in that extended outlook.
And colder temps start to move in as we get into Thanksgiving itself. Still pretty mild
today, though, with that sunny break since some clouds still hanging out over us here
at times. Highs about 44. Northwind 10 to 15. Tonight, partly to mostly cloudy mid-20s
and then a mix of clouds and sun Wednesday. Still on the mild side here with some highs
in the mid-40s. West winds 10 to 15. 26 Wednesday night. Cold front comes through, dropping
our highs back down through the end of the week. Mid-30s Thanksgiving, partly sunny. Northwest
winds 10 to 15. Upper teens around 20 on Thanksgiving nights and then 31 partly sunny.
And a Friday, some more highs around 32 with some breaks of sun Saturday. Perhaps some
snow showers are flurries hanging around as we get towards Sunday, but all in all still
quiet through the end of the weekend. Not bad, not bad. Looking forward to it, Paul. Thank
you so much for the forecast. It sounds like a pretty decent. We didn't get to catch
up with you. How was your weekend, Paul? It was good. Had to have some time off kind
of around the weekend. So nice. I was able, my wife and I were able to get our Christmas
decorating done. Well, it was warm. Nice. Nice. Very smart. Very smart, Paul. Very cool.
We appreciate you. We'll get people ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow, Paul. All right.
Sounds good. Have a good one. You got to. Best in the business right there, our friend
Paul, traveling from the Weather Eye Weather Center. You know, and he was smart. Obviously,
the weatherman would get the decorating done well. It was good. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good
learning from our weather people. Yes. Yes. Oh, they're example. We're going to talk
turkey and give away a turkey today. We got that coming up for you. And after Melissa's
news, we're going to get into an interesting topic she sent over and looking forward to this.
How would you, how would you preview this, Melissa? Can you visualize things in your mind?
There you go. Yeah. If I say picture a square that's purple, can you do it?
It's going to be interesting. I'm looking forward to this. That's going to be a fun topic.
Nine o'clock hour, we will have some fun. We're going to get a little entertainment news in there
for you. And actually, just a little bit of entertainment news because I want to, we'll talk
a little dolly part and we got that for you. We teased that over on the sunrise show.
But I also found an interesting one, Melissa, a study about how music impacts our holiday shopping.
I thought that'd be fun to get into us. We'll go in that a little bit. Good. Good.
And we got some other fun topics for us. We'll see what we got time for in the nine o'clock hour
because we got a lot to do. Yeah. We want to get into our schedule around here as well.
Lots, lots to do. Let's get it all in. For now, let's kick things off here.
It's Thanksgiving week and the chances are you have already been googling a lot of holiday related
nonsense like how to make things giving food or how to uninvite Uncle Rick. Just kidding about
that. Google Trends has released some data on what people have been googling so far and here
are a few highlights. Let's take a side note here. I love the idea of somebody out there listening
and they don't know what a search engine is or anything. And when we say googling something,
where their mind must go. Great. Big eye. I picture big cartoon eyes. Yeah. A lot of people want
recipes for potato dishes, but some things are more popular in certain states compared to others.
Many states like all grant, all grant. All rotten. I can never think how to say all rotten potatoes,
cheesy potatoes, mashed or smashed potatoes, various potato soups, and baked potatoes.
Okay. And then there's soup. I haven't heard of that one before. Yeah. Well, I mean,
for at Thanksgiving time, no, not really. And then there's the special states. California is
looking for potato tacos. Potato tacos. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued by that. I mean,
taco, anything. I try it. Main is googling potato donuts. Potato donuts. All right. That just
a different version of lefsa. I don't know, but I even intrigued by that as well. I might be
interested in that. Georgia is cooking the Irish dish call a cannon, call cannon, which is usually
potatoes and cabbage. And that those are good together. And Tennessee is planning on whipping
up some potato candy. Potato candy. Yes. And I had to look this one up. Grandma's potato candy.
It is also called peanut butter wheel, pinwheels. It's a class of recipe that only requires a
small amount of ingredients and a cherished treat. Okay. I mean, if you add peanut butter to it,
you're not going to taste potato. Probably not. I guess. So I think it would work. I feel like
grandma doesn't know the definition of candy, though. This is not so like candy. This is a
lot of joke. I've done. Everybody's got a different impression of what candy is. And I mean,
perhaps it replaces the flower or, you know, other binding agent in there and it becomes gluten-free.
Interesting. You can find this recipe for the grandma's potato candy recipe at the country cook.net.
The country cook.net. Okay. Let's see your pies. Look it up later. Pies. Pies are also a common
Google search. Many states are looking for normal varieties like cherry, apple, pumpkin, pecan,
and sweet potato pie. Actually, that's all Seth's browser history. I'm so sorry, everybody.
I apologize. I thought that was us. It's just set. Just set. And then there's the special states.
Oregon is looking for tamale pie. Okay. I wonder if that one's savory.
Pennsylvania has shoe fly pie on the menu. shoe fly pie. Yeah. I haven't heard that forever.
shoe fly pie has a couple of different ways of making it from what I understand.
I have never, like outside of the nursery rhyme, really, heard of it.
So looking at just a quick recipe, shoe fly pie is made of brown sugar and molasses as well as
flour, eggs, butter, and the other basic ingredients you'd find in a crumb cake pie.
So it's kind of similar to like a pecan pie. That's what I thought. Yeah.
Almost. Yeah. With a lot of brown sugar. Okay. The molasses part is interesting. Yeah,
I definitely try that. I definitely try that. If anything, I want to be able to order it.
Yes, I'd like to like some shoe fly pie shoe fly pie. Yeah. I want to order it somewhere.
Just be able to say that. Just the itself. We have to go out east, right? Is that
where you said it was? Yes. That's what I'm seeing at least. Louisiana is making Mississippi
mud pie. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Chocolate, more chocolate. Of course. If you're in Mississippi,
just call it chocolate pie. They don't like it. Mississippi mud pie. They don't, they
apparently are at least just that maybe don't call it. Yeah. I don't know. Nebraska is really mixing
things up with Frito chili pie. Okay. Interesting. And the top questions people are asking Google
include how many pounds of potatoes per person for Thanksgiving? When to thought that
thought of turkey for Thanksgiving? And why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving?
Yes. Another good question. That's a good question. That's a good one. I think that's because it
wasn't on the original Thanksgiving table. Well, they didn't have bacon double cheeseburgers.
They did. That's why they didn't have bacon double cheeseburgers. And lasagna would take too
long. That's why that's why I don't know. It's worth it. It's worth it. It's worth the
way. If I could eat it. There's no really. I'm not a ton of reasons.
Turkeys at the time and still today were raised as meat birds. And they were a product that they
had a lot of. Many opted to put a turkey on the table instead of slaughtering a useful animal
like a hen or a cow that was producing other needed products. Turkeys didn't do too much
else other than turkey. Yeah, they don't. They don't. If only, man, Thanksgiving could have been
completely different if turkeys could just pull a plow like it might be a whole different thing.
My own poor turkeys. We should have found a job for them. They might have had a different outcome.
That's other. I think that's an actually interesting question though. I hadn't really
thought much about that. And it didn't become widely popular until the mid 19th century.
Hmm. Another. That's it. Wow. That part is really fascinating too, Melissa. Interesting.
Another top trending Thanksgiving question over the past week is how do watch the Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving? Oh, yeah. Where you can watch it. Cool. And if you were wondering, we've got that
information for you in our entertainment section. All right. That'll be coming for that. Yeah,
that'll be coming up in a little bit. Another top trending Thanksgiving. I'm sorry. And yet
another popular thing was searching query was what time does Black Friday start? Oh, okay.
It already started. It's already going on currently. Yeah. That's not something I really care
about, but you know, for those who do. Oh, I don't care one second about it, Melissa. But it is,
it is like in my face 24 seven, whether it's on my laptop or on the TV or wherever it's like,
we've already unlike other businesses, we've already started our Black Friday deals. No,
everybody is doing the same thing. You that is that is every business now doing that. Everybody
is just start early because why not on a related note searches for is cyber Monday still a thing
are up 350%. That's incredible. That's insane. And yes, it is a still a thing. Do we still have money
in our yeah, yeah, okay. So yes, it's still a thing. Overall, Texas has been the state with the
most Thanksgiving related searches so far, which makes sense. Everything is bigger in Texas. Now
that includes their search histories. Search engine. Of all dishes, people are searching for green
being casserole the most, which suggests that that's the one we never make you unless it's Thanksgiving
possibly like that could mean that could mean that. Or it's just a Midwest thing. If people are trying
to jump on the the bandwagon. Yeah, yeah. That was something my actually my mom made that year
round because we loved it. But she made it meatless. Hers was basically just green beans, homemade
canned green beans, a can of Campbell soup, usually cream a mushroom, sometimes cream a celery,
and then she'd cover the top with tater tots. Very simple. What questions are you searching for out
there? Let us know seven one five four two four twenty six hundred four two four twenty six hundred
call up and join the conversation and let us know or share your favorite Thanksgiving recipes.
Yes, I don't have to search for it. Yes, share it with the class, everybody. Whatever you got
out there, share it with everybody and don't bring enough if you got to let unless you got enough
for everybody. How do you make your green bean casserole? Yeah, we'd love to hear from you.
And keep in mind that phone number is going to come in handy because not only can you use it to
call us up with your birthdays and anniversaries during Misty's menu celebration coming up, but you
can also win a turkey. We got a shotgun turkey. We're giving away here. We're getting gave it away.
Got to give it away right today. Before the end of the show, we have to get this turkey into
people's hands. So be listening for that opportunity coming up. Got a 12 and 15 pound bird.
I've just been calling it that because it's a quick giveaway. Got it. Okay. I was trying to figure
out if somebody married or somebody pregnant. It's the turkey pregnant. Like why I'm very
confused. Traditionally, you know, he's meant, you know, a quick thing like something quick or
something happy. You know, like somebody shot the turkey with a shotgun. I don't want it.
It's becoming misleading. I'm just going to give it. I'm just going to call it a turkey. You get
away. No, I like it. I like it. We got to keep it. This is what happens when you let the
creatives control of these things. Okay. I'm not just going to say turkey give away. No, I've
got to put a little pop and circumstance to it. Right. Right. We got to get. Yeah.
Add to it. Yeah. Big thank you to our friends at the West Grand IGA. Visit them for all your
Thanksgiving needs. There are 10, 21 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Take a break. Come back. We're doing some celebratin's. Melissa and James taking you through your
morning on W F H R. It's time to do some celebratin. Oh yeah. With our good friends over at
Misty's menu, we encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's. They're open
around right now till two open six to two six days a week. Over at 90 41 state I weigh 13 South
of Wisconsin Rapids. Wish them a great day from all of us. Get on over there. Let them know
it's your birthday. Get a free slice of one of Brian's pies. Keep in mind that they are closed on
Wednesdays for the time being, but they will be back up and running. Well, probably not this Thursday,
but maybe Friday. They will be back going on Friday. So be sure to join them then if you can't
get over there today and get us your birthdays and anniversaries sent them to info at wfhr.com,
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up during the show here. Yes, you can. 715-424-2600. Yeah. If you're listening to us on the civic
media app, go ahead and push that one button and boom you can get right to us. Keep that in mind too
because that might come in handy with this turkey giveaway that we're doing in just a little bit
with our friends from Whiskrand Avenue, IGA. Yes indeed. Let us dive into the birthdays, Melissa.
And we have four of them today. Give me a number one through four. Well, I got to pick four.
Nicely done. That gives us our qualifiers. We can get right into the celebrating. And first up,
we want to, these are all birthdays. So we want to wish a happy birthday to Rosemary.
Happy birthday Rosemary. We wish you a great day. Hope it's a good one for you. We should
have a birthday to Thomas Moore. Oh, happy birthday, Thomas. Oh, it's a good day to you, Thomas.
Enjoy. We wish a very happy birthday as well to Julie Rae Zinga.
Happy birthday, Julie. Julie's awesome. Not local, I'm sorry. She's in the Illinois area in
the Chicago area. She's a singer, musician down there and credibly talented. Very, very talented.
Happy, happy birthday. Oh, and I believe her and her husband just had a little baby girl too. So
congratulations to them. Congratulations. It's going to be fun having the birthday close to moms.
That's going to be they're going to like that. They're going to like that. Oh, yeah.
And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Naomi Booth. Happy birthday, Naomi.
Wonderful human being. Wonderful mom and Naomi. Enjoy your day. We hope it's a great one for you.
Yeah, get over and get some free pie from Misty's. Just a reminder on tomorrow, we'll do all the
birthdays for November 22nd through the 26th due to our Thanksgiving holiday.
Yeah, that's going to be a great segment. Yeah, yeah. A quick reminder to everybody out there
that we will our offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. We'll tell you about our
content that we'll have in our morning shows. We've got some really good stuff lined up for you,
a great lineup for you. We'll get into that in a little bit. For now, let's take a look at our
celebrity list. And first up, we have Megan and Liz, they're 31. They're a country pop duo whose
career is kind of stalled a little bit when they're label shut down, but they've been releasing
music since 2018. So they're looking to get back out there and stuff. Oh, okay, pop duo.
And Carly Rae Jepson speaking of pop is 38. Wow. It's in call me maybe. I had about 1.5 billion
views. Canadian singer songwriter musician. Yeah, her being 38 through me though, like wow.
A little bit. Yeah. Jenna Malone is 39. Johanna and Hunger Games. She was also
did a great job in Donnie Darko with Jake Gyllenhaal. And she was in the movie The Ruins.
Great actor. Good actor. I really like her. Very, very solid actor. Yeah. No, I like her too.
And I'm trying to remember what I owe pride and prejudice. Nice. Yes. Yeah. Okay. That's where I
recognize her from. I like her work a lot. She's got one of those faces too that she doesn't have
to do a lot to give it her expressions and her feelings across. She's a very good actor with
her facial expression. Yeah. Rain Phoenix is 51. Sister of Joaquin in the late River Phoenix.
Michael Strahan is 52. Michael Strahan has 9,000 jobs. He, this is this is what he did. And this
is what you see a lot of athletes do. He retired from one job and playing football for a living.
And now he is a GMA host. He, he's got a couple of other gigs. He's a journalist,
TV personality. Yeah. He's all over the map. Yeah. He, he's held the NFL record for most sex
in a season since 01. TJ Wata believed tied that though. I'm not sure, but I believe he did.
Boy, I wouldn't know. I toss up my two favorite players growing up, a favorite baseball
players growing up. I would say Ricky Henderson and Ken Griffey Jr. Ken Griffey Jr. The kid is 54
today. Retired Major League baseball slugger. One of the best athletes any of us will ever see.
And easily one of the greatest outfielder's any of us will ever see. You don't have to care
about sports. Melissa, you watch you pull up Ken Griffey Jr. highlights and you're going to see
some of the most amazing things you've ever seen a human body do to catch a baseball.
Well, I do know that he was my, my brother and most of the boys that I went to school with.
It was also their favorite baseball player. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard not to. I recognize the name.
Yeah. It was hard not to. Just one of those greats. And one of the best baseball cards of all time
to his rookie card. My dad and I both have a copy just because we love the card so much.
Troy Ackman is 57, three times Super Bowl champion, current NFL commentator for, I believe,
Monday night football. Yes. Okay. Bjork is 58. Really? Yeah. Bjork in Icelandic means a
birch tree. And I don't know why. But that's so fitting. That's so perfect. Human behavior, big time
sensuality. Bjork, great singer, songwriter. Also one of those artists where her voice also makes
a great instrument. Like if she's just making noises and stuff, the band-to-pech mode used her
voice as a background to one of their songs. And it's so, it's so good, so seamless.
Somewhere she has a swan dress that is sitting in her closet.
It's waiting for another opportunity to wear it. She's got a lot of interesting styles and
things that she's worn. Yeah. There's not a lot of opportunities to wear a swan dress. You know,
you got to really wait for the right opportunity. It's got to be the perfect opportunity. Yes.
The great, the legend, the wonderful Goldie Hahn is 78 years young today. Really? Oh, I like
Goldie Hahn. At top two, three first crushes I had in this world and still to this day. Love
and adore that woman. Yes. I watch overboard as every time that I see it's on. I'm like,
oh, I don't watch in this now. Love during Goldie. Love during Wildcats. As a kid on WGN,
they played a handful of movies all the time, like back to back to back to back. And Wildcats and
Private Benjamin. Private Benjamin is going to say. Yep. And then of course, Bird on a wire is
also a good one. Another great one. The death becomes her though. Is the one that I've never seen
that, but I always see the cover, you know, where the guys hold in the candlestick through the
middle of the woman. Merrill Street, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hahn. That's all I'm going to tell you.
Oh, Isabella Rosalini is also in it. I don't want to see it. Oh, my God. Is it a good movie? Like,
I haven't seen it in ages, but I believe that that one still holds up. That is a darn good movie.
She's got so many good movies. She's an icon. I love her. Let's see. Marlow Thomas is 86.
That girl, of course, famous from that girl. And she was Rachel's mom on friends, apparently.
Oh, I don't know if that I'm Marlow Thomas. Yeah. Okay. Long time actor. Long time actor. She's
got a handful of things to her credit. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And lots of Christmas movies
it looks like. She was in Bonanza. She was, she actually was in the Oceans 8, I believe, too,
I think. She did. She had a couple of movies that she was in modern times wise.
Then some people no longer with us. Like one of the greatest voices ever. Dr. John,
born on this day in 1941. New Orleans original whose biggest hits, you know, right place,
wrong time. I was in the right place. I'm in a long time. Nice. Dr. John, one of the greater voices
in blues and jazz history. And one of those guys that when it was during Katrina and through
some other tragedies in New Orleans area, along with like Harry Connick Jr. and a lot of artists from
that area, really showing what it means to remember your roots, really doing a lot to help families
and do a lot of good over there. Good. That's good. One of the biggest influences I'll ever have.
Harold Rames born on this day in 1944, passed away in 2014, writer, director of just a couple of
things. Caddy Shack, Groundhog Day, co-writer of Animal House Stripes back to school, meatballs,
co-writer and creator of Ghostbusters, also starred in Ghostbusters. Youngsters. I would recognize him
as Seth Rogan's dad in Knocked Up, or the dad Seth, yeah, Seth Rogan's dad in Knocked Up.
I loved Harold Rames. I looked up to him so very much. And there's a wonderful second city
when he passed away, second city created a scholarship and a school for him. His work and
everything, because he worked very closely with second city, along with Ivan Wrightman and a
couple of other Chicagoans. Big influence though. I loved Harold Rames. He's some of the lines
that Ghostbusters city has are just so simple and they throw away lines, but they're hilarious because
of him. Well, and he had such a dry delivery too. That was so perfect. Very, very, yes.
And stand the man usual, born on this day in 1920, passed away in 2013.
One of baseball's greatest hitters. Oh, okay. I'm like, why do I, I don't know that baseball.
Got it. Also, one of the best nicknames in baseball stands the man usual. I mean, that's a great
nickname. We've got a call coming in. Let's take it. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Well, please feel free to call back. 424, 2600, 424, 2600. Although, thank you. Melissa and I
are really good at what we do. We thank you very much for that. That was very nice to hear.
Nobody else heard that? Nobody else heard? Okay.
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and celebrate with our friends at Misty's and we encourage everybody that's celebrated the birthday
today. Does enjoy. Have a great one. Yes. Happy birthday. Mm-hmm. Congratulations to our
qualifier. We're going to take a break. When we come back, can you see an envision what we're talking
about? Yes. I'll come it up on the morning show after uh, state and local news. WFHR,
locally grown radio. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James with you. Couple of smooth criminals.
That's us. Don't know what crimes we'd be committing, but um, maybe, maybe, maybe a
crime against bad, you know, bad jokes. That's that's probably about it. That's probably what we do.
I'm very guilty of that one. Very guilty. Throw away the key. Oh, yes indeed. What research says about
the way we see in the way that we envision things, Melissa, that's kind of where we're going with
this next topic. Yeah. So how many of you just pictured Michael Jackson in your mind when you're
hear that song? So that's kind of the topic that we're going to delve into now. This is a phenomena
known as a fantasia and it pertains to the people who cannot picture or visualize something in your
mind. So this is actually a fairly newer that it's gotten its name, but it's been a known phenomenon
since the 1800s. So if I asked you, James, to picture a blue circle in your mind or a green square
or the sun or your mother's face, um, you know, those are the kind of the questions that they ask
of people who just to find out if they have what is called a fantasia. And if you cannot, you're
one of about 2% of the population who cannot, but surprisingly that when I read the statistic,
I thought, wow, 2%. That's not very many. But in the US, that's about as many as people who are
named John. Wow. Wow. That's that's a pretty impressive stat. That's a kind of a cool stat, too,
to actually. It's a cool stat because it's like, well, wait, I know a lot of John. Yeah. Yeah.
Very interesting. Huh. So when people are, um, go ahead. No, no, I was just going to say I was
having a hard time doing it. Uh, the examples you gave, I was closing my eyes and trying to do it,
and I was having a little, they were very foggy. They were very, they were not very clear.
Well, and that's, that's the, um, the thing. There are levels of this. So some people can visualize
very vividly. And, um, and some it's a little foggy. There's actually a test that you can take
on a fantasia.com. And they ask you specific questions about how well you can picture different
elements of the same picture, um, like visualize a lake. How well defined are the trees?
How well defined can you see, um, visualize a wind blowing through the trees and reflecting
off the water? So it gets, it gets pretty detailed in trying to, to, you know, understand your
level of visualization in your own brain. Um, there was a very interesting, and I didn't actually
get to and read it, but I read about it. A man named Blake, uh, Blake Ross, who actually developed
the search engine Firefox or Foxfire Firefox, um, because he can't do that. He can't visualize
anything in his mind. And, um, and he wrote up a funny, like editorial about it, thinking that,
you know, some people that mental imagery is just an expression. But for some people, no, there's
nothing. It's just black. Hmm. Hmm. So now there's different reasons why this happens. Um,
it can happen for some after a traumatic brain injury or a stroke or, um, something along those
lines. But for some, it's congenital a phantasia, meaning from birth. Hmm. Um, let me see if I can find
where I had that here. That is pretty fascinating. Uh, whenever you can, whenever, uh, these things
get that can develop, like, we don't even know they happened. You know, um, the, the little bit of
research I was able to do and looking into this, just because I was curious, because I, I, I feel
like I might be one of the people struggling with this. I was looking into it and sure enough,
concussions can be quite a cause of this. And I had quite a few of those growing up.
Yep. And that, that can cause, um, the, the, the, the lessening of your ability to do that. Um,
so their definition of this, it's a mysterious neurological condition whereby people are
unable to visualize things in their head. Hmm. But the research into this is not, you know,
there's, there's not a lot of, of research into it to explain. They're just kind of why it happens.
Yeah, they're, they're really just starting to get into it. And it's complex and it varies from
people to people. Um, so what about explanation? It has, it can happen during childbirth.
Hmm. What about, uh, I'm sorry, Melissa, I keep cutting it into. That's okay. I got excited
with a question and I just, um, what about with, uh, for dreams, uh, like, uh, because I,
I do think I might be one of the people struggling with this. I don't, um, I don't have this in,
as bad as it might be for some, but when I'm visualizing things, they tend to be kind of, um,
almost like water coloring, like they're, they're, they're kind of blurry outline. Yeah. Yeah.
And a little more spread out and not a lot of definition and everything. My dreams tend to be very
realistic, um, and boring. Um, and, um, and I feel like I use all my imagination and my awake
time. And by the time I'm asleep, there's like nothing left. And it's just so we're going to make
toast today. Um, it's like, oh, great. We're making toast to my dream. That's great. Um,
I, I, does this affect people's dreams at all? Well, according to this research, if you, um,
if you're able to visualize even blurry, um, anything in your, in your brain,
you don't have a phantasia. Hmm. Okay. Because it's, it's people who try to picture something and
see nothing, just see complete blank. Hmm. Um, but people who do have it, some of them can dream.
Hmm. Um, so it doesn't necessarily affect dream. And, and people with a phantasia can also have
visual memory recall, um, where you remember something, but you don't remember it as a picture.
You may be remember it as words. Like, um, I ask you to picture an apple. And instead of
visualizing an apple that has colors, you would think I'm picturing an apple. It is green. It
has a stem. You know, like your picture, you're, you're visualizing the words, um, and, and
speaking them in your brain as opposed to the actual picture. Um, but I personally know someone
who has, you know, undiagnosed, obviously, but who has told me that they cannot picture something
at all when I ask him to picture something they can't. Um, and, but they do dream and they dream,
but it's mostly in black and white. Hmm. They have occasionally seen, like, you know, like,
told me later, I had a dream last night. Yeah, it was boring, but the couch was yellow.
Interesting. Interesting. Right. Um, so a couple of key facts here that I wanted to delve into,
a Fantasiax can describe objects and people they know, but cannot mentally visualize them.
And they can perceive elements of reality and remember what they've seen, suggesting they
might rely on non-visual cognitive strategies. Like I was saying with the, um, you know, talking
out the words and their mind is opposed to picturing a visual object. Yeah. But one of the really
cool things about this and what they are, are able to do with this research, um, is this may be
able to help people who have suffered from traumatic brain injuries or, um, PTSD. And so they're
hoping that by, by doing this research, um, data collection method with an online questionnaire,
um, helps them to understand how visual mental imagery works. So future studies could reveal
the reveal the neural mechanisms underlying these observations and ultimately help them understand
the visualization deficits specific to, for instance, stroke patients who, after they have a stroke,
lose the ability to visualize things in their brains. Wow. So they're hoping to develop
interventional tools for certain psychiatric illnesses such as, uh, post-traumatic stress disorder,
which is characterized by the eruption of images from traumatic memories. And if they could
rid patients of these intrusive mental images, it would greatly promote their recovery. Wow.
So this two percent of the population could help fix some of these problems for, for so, so many
others. Man, just let that sit there for a second. Yeah. That, that's pretty dang cool.
That is cool. That is really, really amazing, especially if you think about when we're first
diving into this topic at, not just us, but researchers and scientists and everything,
they're, they're looking at it as, okay, well, this is, this is something that is, you know,
kind of giving people the shorthand on some things. And maybe there's a way we can help that,
and here we find a way to help something else through it. Right. That's fascinating.
And another thing to note, this doesn't mean that that people who have this, I don't want to call
it a condition, but who have a phantasia, they're not, you know, any less smart or any less,
you know, of an IQ. Created or anything. Yeah. Right. They just have a blind interi.
And it, it, they have to process things differently. They have to find workarounds. But they,
they, you know, most people who have it don't realize it until they're older. Yeah. Yeah.
Because for them, that's just how their brain works.
Statistically, we know that a lot of people that are day-to-day lives probably have this.
And it's statistically as well, a lot of creatives out there in the world, a popular music,
a movies TV, and all this probably are struggling with this. So we know that it doesn't hold you
back necessarily creatively or any other ways or anything. It's just one of those things.
Well-known Glenn Keane, who you may not know the name, but he was the main animator for
Ariel and the little mermaid and the adult Tarzan. He was reportedly had a phantasia.
Okay. All right. Yeah. Perfect example right there. Yeah. That's really a fascinating article,
Melissa. It's a really interesting. It's a fascinating topic.
And it's something that I, as much as I overthink almost everything, I have not overthought this one.
I did not, I did not know much about this. I really appreciate your bringing it to us.
Well, and if you go and take that quiz, too, it will, it will, you can do the assessment and see,
I actually have hyperphantasia. So I, I can visualize things to the level of, like,
watching a high-definition movie in my brain. Interesting.
Scenes and colors and feelings that are almost so real, which is why sometimes we talk about my dreams
on air because they're absolutely ridiculous. Right, right. That makes a lot of sense.
Everything's adding up now. Everything's coming together. Yep. Yep. Now you understand
my brain is chaos. If you're curious about taking this test or researching the topic more or
anything like that, we encourage you to do so. You can go to mindbodygreen.com, mindbodygreen.com.
You will find the article right there. Yep. Or you can link, that links you to where the test is
at aphantasia.com and that's APH-AN-T-A-S-I-A.com. Fans, really interesting article. I don't think
that's the last time we're going to be talking about that. I think that one's going to come up again,
Melissa. That's a pretty good one. We're going to take a break. When we come back, why you
should never put your suitcase on the bed? On the bed. Never. Never. Never. Don't do it. But we'll
tell you why in a minute. Come on up. The morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
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Not in a desperate way or anything. I mean, we won't bug you all the time. I'm not going to text you
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We got a 12, 15 pound bird that's just waiting to come home with you. We're going to be giving
that away in just a few. Be listening for that. Don't make friends with it though. No, no. I did that
when I was a kid. Not a good idea. Not a good idea. No. If you're traveling for Thanksgiving,
and you know a lot of us are, of course. In fact, I just saw I didn't get to read the article,
just bookmarked it so I could check it out a little bit later. Our friends at WPR,
Wisconsin Public Radio, have a great article about Wisconsin. Could see one of the busiest
Thanksgiving's on record for this holiday travel? Oh, yeah. So we're looking at a lot of that this
week. So there's going to be a lot of people traveling. But we encourage you, please. If you're
about to do it, don't do it. Don't ever put your suitcase on the bed. Don't do it. Stop. Wait.
Now we're going to tell you why. Okay. Because your suitcase is way filthier than you might think.
You wheel it around through airports, including the airport bathroom for a carry on. You wheel it
around outside where it's picked up, picking up dirt and traces of other things that you might not
want me to mention on the air. If you don't believe it, take a Clorex wipe to your suitcase wheels
right now. Yeah. Yeah. You see what I'm talking about, don't you? And then you'll be like,
and you don't want all the bacteria from your bag getting on the bed, even if it's a hotel bed.
Those germs can get mixed up in the sheets. Plus if it's a hotel bed, there's a bed,
a chance bed bugs could latch onto your suitcase as well. So keep your bag on the ground
or on the luggage rack. That's what they're there for. So hotels have them.
Yeah. Yeah. And while we use those to like throw our jacket or like throw, you know,
clothes or whatever, like that's what they're put the suitcase there, everybody.
Su case goes there. Yep. Yep. I've done a lot of traveling in my life. And I give a lot of
credit to my relatives and the people in my life that've always told me to do this. I've just
never really put it on the bed. I'm sure I have at certain points. Yeah. Because you're like,
I don't want to reach down to the floor. But it's closer. Well, it's easy. Even when I'm staying at
something like you're not saying at a hotel, you're staying at a friend or a relative's house
or something like that. You don't think about these things. But even there, I think that it's
important to do that. And I will say as a little bit of a side note, one of the hotels I don't know
if a lot of hotels do this or even the legality of it. But one of the hotels I worked at in
California is a ritzy hotel. So a client, we had a whole floor blocked off because of bedbugs.
I got cleaned, worked out a month later. We're not a month later, but a couple weeks later,
we opened up the floor. Somebody went into there, used the facility, everything. They brought
bedbugs with them. Oh, no. Again. Yeah. And so I left the hotel before I ever heard what
happened with this, but the hotel was filing charges against them for this. And I don't know what
happened with that. That would have been hard to prove. Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine that ended well
for either party, though. No. No. I mean, even if you don't get charged with it, you're still
going to have to deal with court fees and an attorney and all this. I mean, just keep the suitcase
on the floor. Just keep it on the floor. Keep it on the floor. Keep it on that. And don't
travel to Paris right now because their France is having a bedbug infestation. And I haven't heard
anything about, yeah, I haven't heard anything about it for a while, but a couple weeks back,
they were talking about how bad it was. They got to get that taken care of quick. They got
this little thing called the Olympics coming up here just a couple of months. You're going to
have quite a few people. Bugs are in there really hard to eradicate. You and Ken, like it's,
I had no idea until I was in that industry. How hard that could be, not only get rid of, but
for how much the workers have to get covered up. What you have to go through. Yeah. And if you've
seen, I've heard horror stories of bad infestations when I worked at Fort McCoy in the military,
because they bring them in from the field, you know, with them with everything they have to do
living out during training out in the field. And then they come back. It's not like anybody's fault
necessarily. No, it just it happens. Bedbugs don't care much about things. They just want to latch
onto you. They don't really propagate. That's what they do. So I had an interesting one here that
wanted to make sure that we had time to get to. But of course, it is gone now. Where did they go?
Yeah, darn it. That ain't right. I just had it. It was just there. We can go back to talking about
the agenda of bedbugs because they have one called invade. Yes, yes. They definitely do. They
have their way of doing things. That's for sure. So as long as we're talking about, you know,
travel and everything, what about things to do on a flight? The ways that burn time on a flight.
Okay. A lot of people are going to be. I always bring a book.
Someone pulled 2000 Americans who travel overseas a lot and asked how they'll be traveling. If
they'll be traveling this year and a lot and over almost all of them will be traveling. In
fact, and not just traveling, but going to do six different continents. We have a bunch of
different countries and states and different things. People are traveling a lot and traveling
far distances. Yeah. Travels up this year. So some people say listening to podcasts,
that's a big one. Catching up on podcasts is a big one. Talking to people. That's a sleep.
I don't usually talk to people on flights because I don't necessarily like to carry on a conversation
so I don't do it to other people. I like people. I enjoy people. I enjoy interacting with people
that I may never see again. I find that some of our most interesting conversations can happen there.
I'm on a flight. Headphones are on. I'm not. I'm keeping it to myself. I just keep my head down
and keep it to myself. If I'm traveling any other way, I'm completely different. But on a flight,
I really like to just experience the experience. Just to be anonymous. Yes. Yes. I just want to
pop around. I just want to do my thing. Honestly, the best time to have the conversation for me is when
you're on the tarmac. Yeah. And you're waiting to get off the plane. Then you have that little
interaction, you know, and it has an end time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So doing puzzles, that's been a
big one. A lot of people apparently have been bringing puzzles on planes. How they're doing that
and I have no idea. On smartphones, I would guess. Yeah. I'm guessing they're not bringing a
traditional puzzle. I really do love the idea, though, of them. I've reserved all the seats in my
row so that I can lay out my puzzle. Move your elbow. Avoid the turbulence. Avoid the turbulence,
please. I like that they're going up to the pilot. Could you not shake so much? Could you not?
You messed up all my blue pieces. Listening to music, reading, watching TV and movies. A lot of
the go-tos that you would think of. I'm not seeing a lot of fresh ideas here or anything, though.
No. What else do you do? There's only so much you can bring like craft-wise onto a plane.
You could crochet because a crochet hook is okay. If there's knitters, you're limited to,
I want to say, circular needles. You can't bring your traditional long needles because those can
be considered a weapon. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're long and pointy and usually matter.
Wouldn't have thought of that, but yeah. Yeah. I will. That's crafters, think of those things.
Because that's what we like to do in our free time. I don't see it on this list, but what about
coloring? Like coloring books and stuff. I would be okay, but again, the turbulence or the
bumpiness would make that difficult. I can't color in the lines. Start it. Yeah. Give us your ideas,
everybody. We'd love to hear from you. Yeah. Also books are good like a seducal book or
crossword or, you know, that's cool. That's cool. That's cool. I think it's time, Melissa. I think
it's time to give away a turkey. Are we? Yep. Give it away. All right. 715-424-2600. Call up and
join the conversation and tell us your favorite turkey side dish. Your favorite turkey side dish.
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All right. What's your favorite side dish? Beans. Beans. Oh, beans. Good choice. Good choice.
Turkey. Okay. That's not one I would have picked. I like it. I like any particular way you like
them, sir, anything? Well, what you guys described them was mushrooms and... Oh, green beans.
Green beans. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Green bean hot dish. Perfect. Can I get your first name?
Mike. Mike. Thanks so much, Mike. You got yourself a turkey. Yeah. You just got yourself a
free turkey, Mike. Thank you so much for listening. Hang on a little line and get a little
information from you, Mike. But thank you so much for listening and be one of our best listeners.
We appreciate it. All right. Thanks, Mike. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. We appreciate you. He got
the shotgun turkey. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to take a quick break. You're really a guy.
Isn't that fullest? We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back with more fun
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