Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR, locally grown radio. It is 804 on the clock.
Got your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. And Kevin. Not me. Kevin
sleeping now. Oh, is he sleeping? Okay. Well, we should keep it down. He got all his energy
out during the show over on WIHR. Okay, the sunrise show. All right. That's cool. That's
cool. As long as Kevin's, you know, rested and he'll be ready for baby midday magazine
a little bit later today. We'll see. We'll see. We got plenty to get to this morning, Melissa
and I. It's giving Tuesday. We're going to kick off our show talking about that a little
bit. We've got something called the calendar method to get into that might help people
with Christmas cleaning. Got that one coming up. Let's see here. Got a little bit of entertainment
news for you. We also missed these menu birthday anniversary club. In this nine o'clock,
I'm sorry, in the nine o'clock hour, we're going to kick things off. We are going to be
joined by Milton and Christine Ellison. They are new hard Wisconsin chamber members. We're
going to talk about the world escape travel. They're great business that they have. Catch
up with them. Talk with them a little bit. That will get in. Yeah, it's going to be fun.
Then we'll get into a little bit of entertainment news. And after that and we will get into what's
better for the environment, a real Christmas tree or a fake one. That's all coming up
for you plenty more as well. Right now, we are joined by our good friends in the weather
I weather center. Good morning, Paul. Yeah, good morning guys. How are you doing over
there? Doing well. Doing pretty good here. A little sun is shining bright. Yeah, I can't
complain cold cold, but you know, that's that's kind of a given at this time of year.
It seems a little pointless to complain about the cold. Please tell us it's going to warm
up today. Yeah. Yeah, not too much today, but looks, yeah, warming up, coming up tomorrow
and Thursday and looks like I will stay more mid-upper 30s for highs in the weekend. So,
yeah, they're looking at their improvements there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he's having
a full full amount of sunshine to start off your day and late November, it's not a bad
thing for us and plenty of sunshine to take in here. Looks like a few clouds will start
to spread in as we get to kind of more afternoon time frame. So, a little more of that clouding
is at that point. But otherwise, about 23 today, southwest of west wind 5 to 15. Upper
teens tonight, partly to mostly cloudy and then upper 30s Wednesday, mix of clouds and
sun, west winds 10 to 15. 23 Wednesday night, upper 30s, partly sunny skies on the way for
Thursday. And that upper teens Thursday night, mid 30s on Friday, some sunshine still,
breaks the sun, some clouds Saturday, 37 and still some chances for some scattered snow showers.
We'll mix pre-sip towards Sunday and Monday with those highs still in that upper 30s pocket.
So, pretty comfortable looking at it next week as well here for us. Not bad, not bad.
Well, we'll take it. We'll take it, Paul. We'll take it. We appreciate you, sir. We will talk
some more tomorrow. All right, the meantime stay warm. You as well. Do the best we can.
Have a good day, Paul. Thank you. Appreciate your best in the business right there.
Good friends at the weather. I weather center Paul Tromboli in the gang. Sure appreciate them.
Not bad, not bad, not bad, that bad temperature at all. We'll get through it.
Let's go ahead and check out this article here. Oh, I do extra. I'm sorry.
That's where I wanted to go. I got thrown off a little bit because the computers are acting up
a little bit over here. Sorry about that. We're all good now. I want to make sure that lights
are love. We're going to talk about that. The wonderful event going on to the Spirors Hospital
that we are going to be broadcasting live from our own Melissa K going to be down there live
and direct today. That's going to be fun. Yeah, so you know it's going to sound good between
those two that we got a great combination going on there. We will get into depth on lights of
love a little bit later, but you can find out more right now by going to
Inspirors.org and finding out more about the great event that they've got going on tonight.
And be listening a little bit later. We'll get into it during our good stories of the day.
Giving Tuesday I bring up lights of love because of giving Tuesday in a great way to give back
to your community certainly through lights of love. One of the ways that we have around here
we're very fortunate in this area. We've got quite a few different ways of giving back and how
important that is. I know a number of people, I don't know many, but I do know a couple of
people that wait for this day. They will hold back on spending certain things on Black Friday
or Cyber Monday so that they have something left over for our nonprofits on a day like today.
Yeah, and that's great because as you like to say a rising tide raises all boats.
It's really on all of us to help this happen. So there are a lot of ways to help others
throughout the whole year and one way is donating stuff you don't need to places like Goodwill.
But one person's junk is not always another person's treasure. There's a list of the most
bizarre items people have donated to Goodwill which was compiled with help from Goodwill workers
and shoppers. I worked at our local Goodwill here in Wisconsin Rapids for a while and we saw a lot
of weird items but nothing I would say that was memorable memorable. Yeah, it is a reminder
though that people that when you are donating in Goodwill, it's a great thing to do. It's very
appreciative. They're not collecting garbage. No, it's not a place to dump off junk. Nobody
wants your empty DVD box. There's a lot of things that like you know, you know the difference of
hey somebody can use this or I'm just trying to get rid of junk and I don't feel like going and
you don't feel like separating it. Yeah, yeah. These are hardworking people that are trying to do a
lot for a lot of people and it's nice to take those little things out of the way so they can get
out of the job. I don't think if you've never been in the you know backs behind the scenes at a
Goodwill you understand how much stuff there is there. How much there is to sort through and price
in all of this. And then there are a lot. Think about every rummage if you've ever tried to set
up a rummage sale. Think about that times a thousand. Yeah, and then and then you add all of that
and they're on top of having to go through items like underwear for squirrels. What?
I don't know. Is that even a real thing? No, I can't be. It can't be a real thing.
Well, somebody donated it though so it's got to be a real physical thing. How about a coffin?
Oh, you know actually. Yeah, wait a second. Hang up. Hold on. Hold on a second.
That's uh, you know, we're going to put a pit in that one. I don't plan to be buried in a coffin.
However, yeah, the same here. I don't think I might find one that was set up at a resell shop.
It's obviously not been used. I, uh, yeah. It's got dirt on it. It's like, wait a minute.
Hold it out of the ground. Hold up. Why is it? Why is this so heavy? Oh, come on. Now you
need to empty it first, right? No, this is a great Halloween decoration. It comes complete with
corpse. I mean, come on. It's got its own skeleton. It's got it's not like you knew the person.
It's from the 1500s. Come on. I like you as you just touched on there. I, I plan on being
cremated and everything. But if I was going to be buried, I would like to make it as uh,
cheap and easy for my family as possible. I get in the coffin for the second hand coffin. Sure.
Not bad. About a, a dog sculpture made of random metals, including golf clubs in a bathroom faucet.
Um, could that was somebody's work of art? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, have you ever been to Delaney's
scrap over by bearable? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great place. They have some pretty awesome metal sculptures
there. And it's all made with basically junk. I'm a little surprised. They took that because they
don't usually take personalized items like that. And they're like, you know, a name plate that says
James or something. They're not going to usually take this like that. They had like a drop off bin
that wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that's it. But I find that hard to believe. They don't really
do that. They, they used to, they stopped doing that a while ago. Yeah. Yeah. And this is why. Right,
exactly. We have a, that can't have been light or a chair shaped like a Labrador retriever.
There's that. There is a, a glow in the dark Ouija board. Oh, oh, that's interesting.
I've never seen you play in the dark. I mean, it's a new level of entertainment. Yeah. Yeah.
An entire cardboard box of original newspapers from historical events like Nixon's Resonation
and Man in the Moon and things like that. Oh, that would have been better to give to like a
historical society in your town. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That, that had been better. For a library.
A library. I was thinking of library too. Yeah. A tiny tour, a tiny toy car that said pizza with
bean. Have you tried it? Sounds like it was a advertisement for a local piece to pizza place or
something. Yeah. Should have sent that to. Who's the guy that plays Mr. Bean? Oh, yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Roman Eckon's Roman Eckon's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that.
How about a rock, just a normal rock. The goodwill put an $11 tag on it just to see if it sold it.
It's. Oh my goodness. Probably because somebody was like, what is this? Like a geode? What is this?
Hmm. Hmm. You know, Kevin likes his rock. He was playing with it yesterday.
Hmm. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. Kevin the cat. Let me differentiate for our listeners.
Yes, I know we have a Kevin listener that not you, Kevin. Not you, Kevin. How about a maybe the creepiest thing?
A basket of taxidermy kittens. That ain't right. That ain't right. No. That's just freaky. That's just
going to freak somebody out. I don't know about that one. Let's take a call quick. Good morning. You're
on the show. What's on your mind? Hey, I know it might be a little early for birthdays, but I just
found a couple of celebrity birthdays. You might be interested in today is Paul Treaver and Randy
Newman's birthday. Yeah. Hey, that's both great names. Yeah. Both great ones. I'm looking forward
to celebrating them in a little bit here. Right on. You too, man. You too. That's a good one.
That's a good one. It's looking forward to that. Keep those calls coming. Everybody. 715-424-2600.
How about literal bags of garbage being dropped off at a goodwill? No, not right. Don't do that
to your goodwill. It's messed up. Then very next day, somebody dropped off a bag of groceries.
Probably by accident, but they dropped off like a bunch of groceries, just groceries in general.
So. But we save, of course, the best for last on this one, a guillotine.
An actual guillotine. An employee says that they think it went for like 30 bucks, but somebody
did buy it. I don't know if you can actually sell something like that. I'm not sure that that's legal.
I don't know why. It's like an actual working one. Yeah, it looks like it wasn't working here,
but even still, I don't know if that's kosher. I don't know if that's all right or not.
I feel like it's an okay Halloween decoration, I guess. You know other things you can't prove,
but you feel like you're 100% backed on or true on, even if you don't know the evidence of.
A lot of our politicians know what that is nowadays. This is one of those things where I can't,
I don't know where it is in the laws, but I feel like there is a law where you can't resell a
guillotine. I just feel like there should be if there isn't already one. There's same thing with
the casket now that we're getting to that. Now, you know, maybe, maybe the coffin thing too. You
can't reuse a coffin. You can't, well resell it, I should say. You can't resell it. That's what you
call it. Do you reuse, I suppose, if you want. Each their own, I'm not going to tell family what
to do with their family. We'll take a break. Come back, do some celebrate. I missed these menu
birthday anniversary club on the morning show here at WFHR. It's time to do some celebrate.
With our good friends over at Misty's menu, we encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to
Misty's. They're open right now till two open six to two seven days a week, six days a week,
and 91 stood at way 13 South and Wisconsin Rapids. Get there, wish them a great day from all of us
at WFHR and let us know if it's your birthday or anniversary. Get those to us, send them to info
at wfhr.com, james.mail.fetsificmedia.us. You can really email all of our staff. All of our emails
are pretty much the same. You can also direct messages on our Facebook pages and telepathy.
I'm trying right now, Melissa. Just untied my shoe. If you want, maybe try calling it. Maybe
that'll be a little bit easier. Go ahead. You know what? It could be even easier if you have
the civic media app. Go ahead and just download that wherever you get your apps and we're just one
touch away from calling it up. It's also a quick way to get a hold of us when we have our contests
and give away things. It's not a bad idea. One button dialing technically too, but, you know,
it's tremendous. Yeah, right, right. Melissa, we have four, oh, I'm sorry, three names on our list
today. Give me a one through three. I'm going to go with two. There we go. It gives us that
qualifier. So we can go ahead and get right to decelerate. First of all, we want to wish a happy
birthday to Jesse Austin. Happy birthday, Jesse. Wishing you a great day, Jesse. Enjoy. We
wish a great day also to Eve Day. Happy birthday, Eve. I hope it's a good day for you, Eve,
and Joy and our qualifier Sherry O'Day. Oh, sorry, Sherry O'Dem. Happy birthday, Sherry. Sherry,
have a great day. Hope it's a good one for you. Congratulations on being our qualifier. Yeah,
and be listening at the beginning of the month not long. It's just a couple of days from now.
And we're going to be announcing our winner for the November and that winner is going to win
two lunches, two pieces of pie from our friends at Misty's menu. Awesome. Looking forward to that.
Let's take a look at our celebrity list, which we got kind of a heads up on from our caller.
Thank you very much for that. Thank you, caller. Got some good ones coming up that we know of.
Let's get to some others like, let's see here. Ellen Richardson is 39. Good, good, good,
good actor. He's on Jack. He's, he is Jack Reacher, an Amazon's Reacher. He was hawk on Titans.
He was in the gloss in the Hunger Games. Been in a handful of things.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is 39. She's Nikki in the third season of Fargo. You may know her
as Bruce Willis' daughter in the fourth diehard, or she was in Ten Cloverfield Lane or Sky High.
She was in Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Good actor. Yeah, I like her. Yeah, she's good.
Very talented actor. I don't know if there's anybody who has changed the news game more since the
really since the big three that were around when we were kids and everything, Melissa. He's also,
I think, one of the greater stand-up comedians. There's ever been one of the smartest and one of
the funniest. John Stewart is 61 today. When John Stewart took over the Daily Show,
he took it over and he kind of revamped a couple of things. He did a couple of tweaks, but he
liked what Craig Killborn had been doing. He didn't, he didn't have anything to say. Just wanted to
try to take it into a couple of different directions and get away from it. How about we kind of make
it his own? Yeah, yeah. And he had an idea. He saw some things that were happening with the
24 hour news cycle and wanted to kind of address that while also, you know, making people and
getting people engaged. And one of the people, one of the ways you get people engaged is to make
them laugh, to make them think, make them care. And also to not be completely real in genuine
with your audience, to be vulnerable with your audience. It's something he's one of the guys that
I learned that from in John Stewart and how to do this job, how to be real with people, how to
be yourself with people when you're not very comfortable doing that always. I've literally been
watching him. I'm pretty much my whole life and I've looked up to him from day one. Just
an incredibly funny smart human being. John, I will meet you. I will see you at the Jewish
meetings coming up at the end of the month. Mr. Stewart. Well, you've got to appreciate how he's
able to, you know, deliver pertinent information of what's going on in the world in all sorts of
different, you know, politics or your daily life or, you know, breaking news. He covers all of that
with a little bit of comedy, but he's still giving you factual information.
I can make the argument, nobody's changed news more than John Stewart in the last 20 years.
Where he, he starts the daily show, he starts doing that and people make fun of it and think
that they'll never last. And by two years later, people are looking at spin-off ideas like the
co-bear rapport, which would go and spin off, of course, to Steven doing the late show. John Oliver
show as he spun off from this and there will be more. There will be others. John Stewart showed just
got canceled by Apple because they don't know what they're doing. They don't, they're worried about
the things that he's talking about. That tells you right there. If Apple isn't worried about losing
money in sponsors, if they are talking about China and artificial intelligence. Because speaking
truth, because he cares about people. Doing real journalism. Yeah. So he's getting canceled by
the people who don't want us to know those things. A student of mine who doesn't really pay that much
attention to the news has been trying to get more informed and pay more and more attention. She
asked me, who is your number one news source? And I left and I told her comedians.
comedians are the most honest truth tellers that we have left. Yeah, because they're not afraid to
say it like it is. Yeah. Yeah. You know, when we look at some of these guys. And they're not in anybody's
pocket. Yes, because I think that it comes across that a guy like guys like John Stewart,
John Oliver, that they are like blue, that they are Democrats. No, they are on the side of facts
and truth. They are, they are on the side. And it's not to say that one side is more than the other.
I'm not looking to divide us here. What I'm telling you is that they're not, they are not either.
That is something they are not trying to do either. They are trying to get you informed. They don't
care who you vote for any more than I do. I just want you to be informed and vote where you go
from there is your choice. Yep. And be aware of anybody telling you what to do with your vote.
Yes. Other than maybe think a little bit before you use it. You know, I don't think that's asking
too much. I don't think that's, you know, important to be informed. One of the Brat Pack is 64
today. Judd Nelson is 64. John Bender in the Breakfast Club, of course.
Handful of other big parts in the 80s for him. I never say her name right, but I'm such a big
fan of this actress. S. Epitha Merkison is 71. You remember her? Maybe a Sharon on Chicago Med.
I think most of us knew her as Lieutenant Van Buren on law and order. One of the better
lieutenants on that show. She was so good on that show. Great actor. Great actor.
One of the better actors ever. Ed Harris is 73 today. Westworld Radio Apollo 13, the firm,
the right stuff, the rock, the abyss. I mean, I can keep going. People Ed Harris has just got one
of those careers. Just incredible career. Mm-hmm. The Truman Show. Yeah, yeah.
Yes, it does. He gave a stellar performance on that. He was so good on that. Yeah, he was really.
Not that any of his performances were bad. I was just going to say I've never really thought
much about it, but I've never seen Ed Harris give a bad performance. Never. I've not seen it.
Paul Schaefer is 74. Original. Yes. As our caller called in to let us know. Yeah, former late show
band leader and Dave sidekick on the show. And he chimed in a lot. He did. And Paul Schaefer,
unlike Ed McMahon, he went the other route. Ed McMahon didn't really talk too much. Johnny
would tell a joke and would laugh. That was kind of the bit. And Paul Schaefer wouldn't always laugh
at Dave's jokes. And oftentimes we'd like joke back at him or make fun of him or something.
Well, because he's a comedian himself. Yeah, and that was something that David him really
orchestrated and really felt, okay, this is going to make talk shows a little different. This is
going to approach modern audiences. It worked. It worked. You know, it was very good. A great tag team
for a long time. Also snazzy dancer or snazzy dresser. Sorry. Probably a good dancer too.
That's a dancer. But I'm a musician. Yeah, but the way Paul Schaefer dressed, I always admired.
I always thought it was funny. But it started a trend of that being a thing too. Because Colbert
would go back and forth with his band. I don't know that John Oliver really does it too much.
Does he have a bass? No, but Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter. I think Andy Richter, and I'm
a little biased with this one, but I think Andy Richter is the perfect combination of Schaefer and
Ed McMahon, where he laughs at a lot of the Conan's doing, but he doesn't just roll over or you know,
he's such a yes man and all that. And he collaborates quite a bit with Conan. At least they used to
when they were work together. Nice. And Randy Newman, born in this 80 years old today. I love LA,
short people. Mama told me not to come. He wrote that song for three dog night, that is.
Also the Toy Story song you've got a friend in me. I like that song. And the theme song to
monk. Also like that song. I'm being very nice. It's his birthday. So I'm just going to move on.
I'm just going to move on. I'm not going to give anybody a opinion. Nobody cares.
People no longer with us. And Nicole Smith, born in this day in 1967, passed away in 2007.
I don't think that there's a ton that we can necessarily take away from her career outside of,
you know, if you were a fan of her work. But I will say that she is an example of, you know,
the paparazzi and a fame and of what these things can do to a person and how it can affect the
psyche and affect the life of a person. Oh, I got a rewind for a second though. I apologize.
I missed a name. I did not see on our list today. Still with us at 94 years young Motown Founder
Barry Gordon Jr. Oh, yeah. I don't want to miss that one. No, no, no, I do not. I apologize,
Mr. Gordon. So much of the music we love in a door comes from Motown. I wouldn't have it without
the founder, Mr. Barry Gordon Jr. Again, 94, that's awesome. Happy birthdays all around to
Jesse Austin and Eve Day. Yes, happy birthday. And very happy birthday to our qualifier, Sherry Odom.
Happy birthday, Sherry. Congratulations. Enjoy. Make sure to get some pie today. Yeah,
get on over to Misty's. They are going to be close tomorrow. Everybody keep that in mind.
They'll be back open on Thursday, Thursday through Tuesday. We encourage you to head on over to
Misty's. And if you're celebrating a birthday, let them know. Oh, they get something. They
three pie. Three pie. That's right. Three pie. The toughest decision you'll make today is what
flavor of pie to get. That's it. That's the tough one. And I know we're to Misty's. They're open
right now. Six to two, six days a week at nighty 41st day, we thirtieths out the Wisconsin
rapid stick around. We got some steam and local news for you lined up here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR
locally grown radio. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
Melissa James here with you 835 on the clock. Got some good stuff to take you to the top of the
hour with like this right here. We're less than a month from the holidays, which means guests are
coming. People are going to be showing up at your home. That means you making your annual sorry,
it's so messy speech and saying no, it's not, but secretly they may think so may not. Who knows?
Let's break that pattern this year. There's a technique called the calendar method that can
get your house clean by the holidays. Hey, have you ever heard of this, Melissa? I have not.
No, I haven't actually. Okay, print out a calendar of the next 30 days. On the first day,
get rid of one piece of clutter in your house, either throw it away, give it away or sell it,
but it's got to be gone by the end of the day, then cross off that day on your calendar. On day two,
get rid of two pieces of clutter. On day three, three pieces, you'll start to get in the habit soon
and since you have a predetermined number of things to get rid of every day, you'll pace yourself.
By the end of the month, you'll have gotten rid of almost 500 pieces of clutter and that will
make a difference in how clean your home is. This is coming from LifeHacker.com if you're curious
to find out more. Okay, I don't have that much stuff. I'll be honest. I don't have that much stuff.
I would have nothing left by the end of the month. So I definitely would have a clean house. I
also would have nothing for anybody to sit on or drink out of or anything like that. Well,
on the other thing too, it's fine on day one, but what about on day 20? Yeah, yeah, but you have to
get rid of 20 things. I mean, maybe that day you get rid of 20 paper clips, but maybe I don't know
if getting rid of clutter is the total issue in tackling to clean your house. This feels more like
people that are, I don't want to say hoarders, but maybe borderline hoarders hoarding people who
just bring stuff into the home, yeah, and never take stuff out. I mean, there is a, there is,
and there is, all right, to physically and to what we see, there is a gigantic difference of
somebody that just loves knickknacks and somebody who is a hoarder. But mentally, there is not a
gigantic leap there. There is not a huge difference between the two. It often comes down to trauma,
to be honest, what changes in that for a person and everything. I've studied a lot of this, just
out of interest. And one of the things that I have seen, and not just not that I have seen,
the scientists have seen, the doctors have seen about this, is that it isn't so much about the
items as it is about the event that created that. So we're talking about something completely
different, where this article is going, feels like it's going in a different direction than
cleaning your home. This is, you know, if you've got a lot of stuff, how do you get rid of all your
stuff? Yeah, cleaning and clearing things out are two different things to me. Different things,
yes. Okay, I'm not alone, all right. I mean, I feel like I'm used to being alone on some of these
things. So would I say stuff sometimes? I'm like, oh, I don't know if I should have said that out
loud. But yeah, it is. I think it is different than the two. So what they're talking about here,
if you've got a lot of stuff, I don't think it's so much a bad idea. But I also don't think,
even if you do have a lot of stuff, you have to, there are, this is a life hack. There ain't no
rules here. You're not breaking any laws. If you get the day 20 and you don't have 20 things,
that's all right. You know, yeah, maybe you got one thing you want to get rid of every day.
So get rid of one thing every day or switch it up like maybe or so for the first 10 days,
get rid of things for the second 10 days, clean something. There you go. Here we go. That's now
we're talking now. That's a plan. Yeah. And if you paste these things out, it's not so bad. It's
not that big of a deal. I argued this with, I've got, I'm going back to my students again. I've
got three of my students that are living together this year and they are learning to live together
because none of them ever live with another person. And one of the one of the gentlemen in this
group believes that, well, why do just leave the dishes to the end of the week and then you just
do them on Friday. It hurts my brain. Like, I feel like you made my wrinkled my brain. Like,
I mean, maybe that works if you're one person. Yeah. Yeah. One person sure. But I'd have a hard
time believing that would work in a family. Maybe if it was a family of a mom, a dad and a kid.
320 and 21 year olds living in a small apartment together in downtown Chicago. I got
guaranteed you that it going to go well with the dishes that they seem to, they're high school
friends. So they're certainly getting along. That part doesn't seem to be an issue. But the
the whole dishes thing, if you do the dishes right away, dirty a dish, clean it, it's done.
Like, it just seems so simple to me. It just, well, nothing's dried on. Nothing's hardened.
It is easier to clean up if you do it right away. Yes. The time factor, obviously, you know,
I mean, there's that. But it's going to take you an awfully long time on Friday to get those
dishes done. You're just you're helping future you out. You're just, you know, and with something like
this, if you are, you know, first off, if people come to your home and the judge in your home,
that's on them, that let them, let them deal with that. But you also deserve to feel comfortable
in your own home and feel, you know, confident in bringing people in. So if this will help,
I encourage you to do a little bit more of Melissa's idea here about making this your own.
Take the idea, take them blueprint, take the method, but then, you know, make it your own.
What is your home need? Maybe you don't have a lot of clutter, but it's been, you know,
a long time since you dusted or something like that. Sure. And if you, if you don't have the
energy or the, you know, ability to do something on one day, don't beat yourself up over it.
Yeah. Skip that day. Yeah. Yeah. It'll get done. They end up skipping 15 of those days.
You're like me. And don't beat yourself up over it.
That's so true. So true. We, of course, are giving Tuesday today. We're talking
quite a bit about that. But we want to wrap up a little bit with the shopping that we're not
over the last couple of days. Because there was a bit of that. Yeah. Kind of rep a bow on that one.
The biggest shopping day. Millions of that.
The biggest shopping days of the year are behind us in a solid number of us still haven't started
our holiday shopping. Someone pulled 12,000 Americans. So pretty good size list.
And asked when they normally start buying presents close to a quarter said not until December
1st at the very earliest 16% said that said first half of December 7% said the second half.
So that's 23% and another 10% don't usually buy gifts at all.
The same percentage of Americans are super early shoppers 23% start buying in September or
earlier that includes 15% who shop year round. And around one in four women are early shoppers.
But so, but so are one in five men.
Okay. This comes to us from you, Gov. One of our more reputable sites that we like to go to
encourage you to check out a lot of the work that they are doing over there.
Yeah, it's an interesting, interesting article, interesting piece. I don't think, though,
that it really shocks me. Doesn't shock me or many people I imagine.
No, because people shop. I mean, we have live in a consumer society.
So, but let's let's reference back to the previous segment.
Are you buying people something that they need or or just more stuff to
you see the tie and I have here with these two segments. So a story. So let's say, yes,
I think that if you're waiting to the last minute, but you know what you want to get,
that seems like a great plan until you get there and it's not there anymore.
Right. Yeah, that part's a little different. I think it's so much of gift giving comes
down to thinking and caring and thinking of the other person.
Getting something useful or that they that they will enjoy, you know, I mean, there's
lots of reasons to give gifts. Yeah, yeah. And it doesn't always have to be something material.
Sometimes it can be things you made or things that you're, you know, maybe it's a it's a
moment. It's a it's a gift of your time. Yeah, yeah, things like that. There's a lot of
different ways to to give. Certainly when it comes to this season and everything,
there's certainly a lot of other ways to give when it comes to helping out on nonprofits and
encourage you to do that. Yeah, it is giving Tuesday. How are you on this Melissa? Are you an
early shopper? Are you a year-round shopper? Well, I don't know. My gift giving, especially at
Christmas time, has changed a lot. I would say in the last 10 years, just because changes in
family dynamics, changes in having lost people in our family. I mean, now all my grandparents
have passed. My mom died seven years ago. So since then, Christmas and holidays have become
different. We don't do as much, just honestly. We just don't do as much gift giving. Yeah, yeah.
As kind of terrible as that sounds. I think it's very relatable. My family's going through that now.
Having a gift for the, I don't see the point in calling up my brother and saying,
dude, what do you want for Christmas? I mean, my brothers buy the stuff that they need
for themselves. And for me, you need socks. Okay, I buy you socks. My brother seems a little
weird. Yeah. My brother and sister and I make a point to talk to each other over Christmas.
Make, you know, have a phone conversation at the very least. It's a gift of your time.
Yeah, that's what we do for each other. We don't get a chance to hang out or talk nearly enough.
And one of the things that we're looking doing is, you know, as a gift to each other to our family
is making plans on holidays to, okay, we're going to get together. We're going to get together
on this day. That's what, that's what not in pop would make us do. That's what they always brought
us together. Let's do that. Let's keep that tradition going. That kind of thing.
Um, when, um, when it comes to like the actual like buying of gifts and stuff, though,
speaking of my Nana, I get that from her where I just a year-round thing, I see things and I'll
just grab something if I can afford it. I'll grab it and then I've got it and I put it away.
My problem is unlike my Nana, who was a man. I have a hard time keeping it put away.
Oh, I just can't do it. I don't want to do it. I just want to give it to the person here. Take
it, take it away from me. Uh, because I just, I, I'm not good at, uh, that's the one thing I'm not
good at holding secrets on is give it. I'm horrible at this. Uh, I, I, to the point where I like,
want to give hints to people and stuff and if they got you something, can you guess what it is?
In my head, if they guess it, well, then I just got to give it to them. I mean, they already know
it is. You know, they're so bad, so bad. But the, the, I don't want to belittle, you know,
or diminish gift giving because it is a wonderful and joyous thing. It's just, it's changed in our
family and my brothers and I like, like you said, also, it's, um, the gift of time of, no,
let's plan a weekend together. The kids still exchange names and give gifts because, you know,
when you're a kid, you loved open presents. Yeah. Not that I don't like, you know, I like opening
them now too, but it, I hope it's something that I actually want instead of having to be like,
oh, yay. Thank you for this. Right. It's, I'm so glad you gave it to me.
Every, all of this, I think, keeps coming back to, um, you know, the intent and heart and
where that goes with that. And, and really, um, if you start there, I think you're going to be okay
whatever you do for Christmas for others. Yes. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back and have
some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back to the morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. The 80s are alive and well around here.
Melissa and James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having
a great one out there. Let's go ahead and get into this, Melissa, the most sinful cities in America.
An annual study is out of the most sinful cities in the US based on stats that correspond to seven
deadly sins. Okay. Yeah, it's not that exciting. Um, it's not really. I mean, especially at this point
in the game, you know, um, with an annual study of the, is out of the most sinful cities in the US
based on stats that correspond to the seven deadly sins. And yes, Las Vegas is still number one.
So they still have earned the moniker of sin city. Good for them. Um, and it, it, overall,
Houston is the runner up to Las Vegas as the most sinful, uh, followed by Philadelphia,
LA, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, and Cleveland.
Okay. Uh, of the 182 cities that they considered, the five least sinful are Pearl City, Hawaii,
Fremont, California, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin,
and Portsate, Portsate, Lucy, Florida, Portsate, Lucy, Florida. You can find the complete article
at wallethub.com. So Madison, uh, one of the less, the least sinful cities in America, apparently.
Um, even though sin is in Wisconsin. Um, no, that's interesting to see, uh, you know,
one of our own up there at everything. Um, is it, is it more interesting or would it be less
interesting if it was one of the most sinful cities? Would that be less surprising or more
surprising to people that for seven, five, four, two, four, twenty six hundred? I'm curious
about that because I, I was not blown away by this. They didn't shock me. But I also spent a
lot of time in Madison, including a lot of New Year's Eve in Madison. You know, it's got,
it's got it's fun. It's got some sin in it. I mean, you know, let's be honest. It's a college
town for God's sake. It's kind of everywhere does. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's why we got
the list here of which ones got the most of which ones have the least. Madison being in the
least department surprises me just a tad, uh, really not too much, but a little bit, uh, just
because I don't, I would expect that if I was guessing, I would have put Madison somewhere in
the towards the end, but more towards the high end of the list. I wouldn't have put it in the
bottom five. That's for sure. And while the ones that you named at the top are all pretty
big prominent cities across our nation. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I think pretty much what we would have
expected from the list. Interesting though. Interesting. Get wallet hub.com where you can go to find
the complete list. If you're curious, uh, lucky numbers is where we go next in a website recently
analyze the results from the last eight years of Powerball drawings. That's 964 drawings
dating back to 2015. Wow. And get this. The number that's least likely to come up of all the numbers
between one and 69 is 13. And there's no explanation, uh, at all. They, they, they, they all have an
equal chance. So it's just kind of like it happens that way. That's how it happened. Just went that
way. Uh, in night in a 964 drawings up through the most recent drawing this past, uh, last week,
13 has only come up 51 times. Hmm. Most recently on October 18th. Okay. The next most unlikely number
is 49, which has only come up 54 times. And if you have a pen and paper handy, the least,
uh, the 10 least likely numbers are, we'll wait a second. Go ahead and grab that.
It's your Powerball players. Kevin's still sleeping, Melissa. I see some. Yeah. He's still sleeping.
All right. Are you guys ready? Okay. All right. Cool. All right. They got your pen and paper.
All right. Ready? 13, 49, 34, 29, 26, 5, 60, 51, 43, and four.
Um, now I love the idea of somebody they teach you this early on in the early days of radio,
Melissa, that's just supposed to be careful because some people just tune in right in the middle of
a conversation and you have to be able to keep people in, in, in tune with everything. Right.
Knowing what we're talking about. I love the idea of somebody just like switching over to us.
And I'm just reciting numbers. Like, wow, they've really run out of content.
What are these numbers for? Are they should write them down and use them for Powerball?
Are they counting sheep? Are they, what do they do? What do they do it over there?
The, the number that's currently the most due, meaning it's gone the longest without being drawn,
is the number 56, which has been drawn since May 27th. The number that has come up the most
frequently is number 61, which came up again for the 90th time earlier this month. And number 32
is the next most frequent. The 10 most likely numbers over the eight years of drawing numbers are
61, 32, 21, 63, 36, 23, 69, 64, 37 and 39. The data is for the main drawing, the first five numbers
drawn. When it comes to the Powerball itself, the most common number is 18, which has come up 50 times
in the past eight years. The least common number is 15. It's only come up 27. And number 13 is
in the middle somewhere around 38. If you're curious, 15 is the most due Powerball. It is, it has
come up since February 20th. That's funny. So that one should be coming up soon. It seems like
that one. Now, being honest, a lot of this is nonsense to me. I don't play the lottery. I never
have, I don't, I understand what the lottery is. I mean, I've read Shirley Jackson's lottery,
and it's not the same thing, but I've read a lot. I don't understand what it is.
There's shout out to all of our readers out there. To me, if you pay attention to the
stuff, if you care about this stuff, more power to you, you know, I'm not going to tell you what
to do with your money. I think it does speak to our society quite a bit in the situation our
society is in that when we were kids, there are about three or four different kind of things
like this. Now, does anybody know how many? How many types of different lottery, state
lotteries and state powerball type things there are out there? We have lottery tickets.
It speaks to a need in portions of our society. I eat the majority of our society
that are in need of money and looking for a quick way, a release, some relief in this department.
Yeah. And to have a chance at suddenly having a lot of money, so many people are willing to
gamble away the money that they do have for that chance. Yeah, see, that's the thing to me. The
the risk reward of it has never been there to me. I've never seen the reward being enough. No
matter what the power ball, no matter what the lottery, no matter what the scratch off winnings can
be, I've already got money. I've got five dollars right here in my hand. If I give it to you,
there's no guarantee I'm going to get five back. I may get thousands back, sure. But the odds of
that. That's a gamble. Yeah. Now, I understand that for some people, that's a thrill. They get into
that. That's a joy. And for some people, it's entertainment. And that's also fine. And again,
it's your money. Do what you will with it. But I can think of literally a hundred things right
now off the top of my head. I would rather do with any money than spending it on a lottery or
something like that. Basically giving it away is the way it seems to me. I've known people who
played lottery their whole life. I have an aunt and I have an uncle that do this. And they have one
like, I think $10. Like, you know, in playing this their whole lives and everything. I didn't just
teach their own. But to me, I think that there are better, especially on a day like today,
giving Tuesday, man, you want to return on your investment. Go ahead and donate money to a
nonprofit. The feeling you get from that, you can't put a price on that. And that's not me being
corny. I'm being real with you here. I don't have a lot of money when I put $30 into the
Imagination Library, Deli Parton's Imagination Library every year. I have no words for how I
feel from that, even just thinking about it right now. You want to return on your investment.
There you go. That's a return. You're going to help out your community. You're going to put
into your community, which is going to benefit our children, which again, let me double check here.
Yep. Children are the future as it turns out, which makes a better society, which means maybe you
can retire earlier, etc, etc. That sounds like a return on my investment. Yeah. I agree with that.
But what do I know I'm poor? I do. But having a literate society is definitely something that we
all should want. It feels like a positive for all of us. It is. Stick around. But if you like to play
parable, then more power to you. I have never done it myself. Yeah, I teach their own. Yeah.
Mostly because I don't know where to check to see if I won.
Stick around, everybody. Good stuff coming up for you in the next hour on The Morning Show at WFHR.