Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. And thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR locally grown radio. Got your host James
J and 804 in the clock behind the mic. I am joined by your head of news. Melissa K good
morning. We hope you're having a good start to the day. We're going to certainly treat
you good. We got good things coming up for you. Be talking to our friends from the weather
center any moment right now looking forward to that. We're also going to have some fun
with some other topics. We got the word of the year, Melissa. The word of the year. We'll
get into that in a little bit. Craft is introduced something that I've been I got to talk to
you about. I think this might be up your alley. I'm not sure. We'll see. We'll see. How
much should you give at work? 100% is apparently not as much as you need to give up. Apparently
we'll talk because we can give more than 100% sure. Or less. We'll get into that. We'll
get into that. But right now we kick off our show the way we like to with our friends
and the weather I weather center Paul. Charlie joining us right now. Good morning, sir.
Yeah. Good morning, guys. How's it going today, Paul? Go well. How are things there?
Not bad. Not bad. You're doing all right. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a calm start to the
morning. Not bad for a Tuesday. What does Mother Nature got in store for us? Yeah. Still
pretty calm day here for us and still cloudy skies taking us through the day. A couple
flurries are passing snow showers still possible. Otherwise the high in the upper 30s as we
stay with wind. Turn into the northwest five to 10. Some clouds tonight down to 20. And
then more clouds on Wednesday. We made some partial sun working its way through as well.
38 tomorrow. Southwest went 10 to 15. 28 partly to mostly cloudy Wednesday nights. Partial
sun. Some clouds Thursday and Friday as the warmly settles in here for the end of
the week 46 Thursday's highs. 35 Thursday night upper 40s 50 for a high Friday mix of
clouds and sun. Southwest winds 10 to 20. 29 Friday night. And then we're going to
wait down with those temps gradually through the weekend as highs on Saturday head back
to about 40 with mostly cloudy sky. And it also starts to see some chances for a some
light snow mixed precipitation by Saturday night Sunday. Time for him to keep an eye
of the system late weekend with some possibility for accumulation here late weekend here in
the Sunday otherwise high still trekking back to about the mid 30s on Sunday. But yeah definitely
a warm week of weather continuing here for us for now. It's starting to it's starting to
wonder and even though we've got plenty of snow on the ground right now and everything
where we're going to have a bit of a white green Christmas a little bit of grass out
there we might see it's starting to look like it's starting to seem like maybe.
Exactly. Whatever there will be taking care by the end of the week and we'll see if we
can get some more some new stuff late weekend. But yeah definitely could be more down to
the wire this year certainly than that year. Yeah. A lot of people we might be listening
to that forgotten classic from Bing Crosby dreaming of a green Christmas it was not one
of these bigger hits not a big release not a big hit not a big hit but you know we might
have a chance to listen to it this year we'll see. Thanks Paul. Appreciate you.
Exactly. Yeah you bet. Have a great one. Best of the business our friends from the
Weather Eye Weather Center there. We appreciate them joining us. Looking forward to
him talk about Paul again tomorrow. Yeah. Got other stuff to wrap up the hour here. We'll
get into looking forward to it. We'll kick off the nine o'clock hour in a real fun way
everybody. We had a great time at the lights of love event with our friends over at
Spirus looking forward to already next year and doing this all over again with them and
this wonderful community tradition we have this year we had a little bit of technical
difficulties that happened. It was a bit cold for the computer. Yeah. Yeah. Which is different
than in years past when the host froze like I did. I was actually toasty warm. I had to
unzip my coat a little bit because I was too warm. I wanted to do this in person and
I probably will a bit more but I wanted to give you a real big shout out about this Melissa.
I know we talked a little on the air after the event and everything but I can't tell
you how proud and happy I was listening to what you did and how well you sounded and
that your teeth weren't chattering. You did fantastic. You really. Thanks. I was talking
with somebody this weekend that's been in the business about twice as long as you and
I and they've done quite a few remotes quite a few interviews and talking about the differences
of you and I interviewing wise and how how much better it makes our station to be able
to give these kind of he was telling me how the stations that he's worked at everybody
that interviews everybody does they do it all the same everybody does everything the
same way. I think you and I are both very good at what we do we approach differently
and I like that. I think that we cover our bases really good that way and it was such
a nice interview the set of interviews that I got to hear anybody wants to catch that
they can we have all of our stuff podcasted nowadays. So you can go to civicmedia.us and
a big shout out to Seth I had to double check with him this morning and he answered his
my text. You can find this remote and all of our live remotes at WFHR, WYRI, remotes
right there into that tab you'll be able to find it and I encourage you to do that if
you didn't get a chance to. Yeah because you'll be able to listen to most of it until the
computer then honked out because hey I'm cold. Because of that happening Melissa we've
got some fun guests coming in today. We do I'm so excited. We have Paige Jackson
a six grade English teacher from Rams she's going to be bringing in a handful of students
with her we are so excited to have them with us. Paige Jacken she's one of the English
teachers there at Rams like you said yep and she's bringing in the four students that
read their essays on on the broadcast that didn't get broadcasted but they read them
for the hundreds of people that were in attendance because there were hundreds. I never
like to I never like to put anybody on the spot more than that I cannot I cannot in my
body allow myself to put children on the spot. If they brought those with them we'll
let them read them. If they didn't then we'll just talk to them and you know say hi
and let's see what they enjoyed about the event. Either way we are really excited to
have them and you know you can't have kids in the studio and not get a lot of excitement
and energy in the air and it's just going to be great for the rest of the day here around
here at the studio. I know that there they've been getting ready for this Paige and I have
been messaging back just a little bit and they're excited so it should be good. I appreciate
you reaching out to her and setting this up too. You and Pam working behind the scenes
on that and everything. We appreciate a lot of our people so much of this what you hear
on the air is two three people there is a circus a a a entire tribe of people behind us work
mind the scenes and doing really good work and we send a shout out to Ashley and wish
you were well and I want to say a big shout out to her and the work that she was able
to do with her friends of quality foods IGA because we have this fun promotion we're
doing on the shelves with quality foods that's on purpose. Yes. Yes. I don't have a
sheep well I have a quite a few speech impediments but not this one. I can't say the word shelves
I just the fun way to say we throw elves in the shelves because that's what you're doing
you're finding that in the elf the quality foods elf this mischievous merchant Merlin
elf is added again this holiday season at Wisconsin Rapids quality foods. Have you spotted
me yet? Well we're going to help you out doing that sometime in the next couple of hours
we are going to give you a hint a very good hint at where you can find this little guy
we say the hint to guide you to the elf listeners will find the elf all the west side with
Wisconsin Rapids quality foods IGA you take a picture of this elf and then you post it
on our Facebook page that can be W F H R or W I R I just use the hashtag W R quality
foods well we'll collect the names from our Facebook submissions and we'll draw the
name on the 21st of this month and send them to the store and you can pick up your holiday
ham celebration basket it's pretty cool that is awesome we're excited about this be listening
for between now and 10 for that hint and today's the day you'll get that hint and you want
to get on over there get that picture get it on social media get a chance to get in the
running for this awesome prize this pretty cool a big shout out to our friends of quality
foods IGA all your thanks all your all your Christmas needs all your holiday needs if you
will help you with every single one they're so great over there if you do want to start
setting up for next year's Thanksgiving I don't think that they're going to give you a
weird look I don't I think I'll treat you just fine on that one I think so I don't think
you necessarily probably need to do that but that's that's that's up to you and while you're
there today visit their deli because they do have the most awesome deli now I got
your lunch and you'd be good to go now you got it in my head now no I definitely got to get
over there too I want to get to the word of the year the word of the year okay word of the year
it's time to announce it everybody ready everybody ready for water cooler talk something to
mention to people when you're trying to kill the time we got a great drum roll nicely done okay so
the Oxford University press in England has awarded the prestigious word of the year on am I doing
this right I'm sorry the Oxford University press in England it was awarded its prestigious word
of the year oh no yes don't go French the almost did almost did yeah the elbows the word of the
year is Riz that's Riz with two Z's not like Ritz crackers Riz although shout out to Ritz crackers
I love Ritz crackers they are good buttery so good Riz is internet slang defined as style charm
or attractiveness in the ability to track attract a romantic partner it's basically a short
and form of charisma like how a fridge is short for refrigerator hmm okay Riz why does it sound
like something you'd use in the 60s yeah right he kind of does the kind of does this is this
actually beat out some interesting words now I was a little surprised by this Riz beat out three
other finalists including swifty which doesn't need to be defined the others were prompt the
instruction given to an AI program which determines or influences the content it generates
it's basically like Google search or query or for AI not telling me to show up on time
yeah and situation ship a romantic relationship that's not considered to be formal or established
situation ship I have not heard that no no I have it either it just shows how way away from
that world I am you know I honestly out of all of those I think the right one one oddly enough
yeah yeah for other semi-finalists were beige flag a character trait that indicates that a
potential partner is boring or lacks originality yikes because we had to have something other than
yellow yeah yeah we really needed that pair of social a relationship that a person imagines
having with another person yeah okay that's not that's a scene healthy no heat dome a persistent
high-pressure weather system over a particular geographic area which traps a massive hot air
below it that might have been a better wonderland probably considering I would think that a point
of this is to bring attention to certain words so that maybe we use them more in a lexicon and
we understand the meaning of the aware of what's happening in our world look we we've done this
weird thing with words where they don't mean what they used to mean like it's one thing to do
that with the word cool okay cool means you know cold can also mean James Dean it's one thing for
that it's another for things like facts and truth to to have their meaning be modest yeah be or
just utterly lost yes Melissa yeah I got much better so much better way to put it here's a chance
for the Oxford University Press and actually well established and respected industry to actually
take this moment and and take words like that we could really use people like hey it Oxford is
even saying that this is the what the with this word means for the love of God can we just get back
to words meaning what they were supposed to mean instead they use it for a chance to kind of like
get some you know likes and you know retweets and things like that that's a shame that's
more power to you know me more power to them it's what they want to do that's what they want to do
there are a lot smarter than I'll ever be but I feel like this is an incredibly missed opportunity
to really take some chances at making making words mean what they're supposed to mean
yes it's a shame yeah that is not very riz of them I think I just killed that word I think I
just killed it I think I think I think anybody who uses that word is now good to stop like a word
suddenly sounds less cool now I feel like sometimes when I say a word like that or or anybody
over the age of 35 really we say words like that what what younger people are hearing it is us
saying that's neat that's what they hear I think I'm saying man that is really riz over there
that is all right they hear that's neat it's just auto trans yeah yeah just completely we'll
take a commercial break unless you had something no I think we should go again we should definitely
go to break we'll come back with misty's many birthday anniversary club it's Melissa James
taking it through your morning here right at wfhr it's time to do some celebrating with our good
friends over a misty's menu encourage you to treat yourself get on over to misty's they're open
today will be closed tomorrow so get on over there today other if you can't then get on over
their Thursday mm-hmm they'll be open six to two head on over their 9041 stay that way 13
south in Wisconsin rapids wish them a great day from all of us and if you are celebrating a
birthday anniversary get it to us send it to info at wfhr.com you can send it to james.mailoff at
civic media.us you can go ahead and drop it off the DM us on our Facebook pages and give us a call
seven one five four two four twenty six hundred we'll take you live on air yeah we'd love to be
able to do that please feel free to call and join the conversation anytime let us dive into our
list and Melissa I need a one through three one through three oh let's go with one today oh nicely
done there we go we got ourselves our qualifier so we first up want to wish a very happy birthday to
Dana day Dana day happy birthday Dana wishing you the best of days Dana hope it's a good one for you
that's a beautiful name in the way that's a great name it is also happy birthday to ronda jacquim
happy birthday ronda always like the name ronda enjoy your day ronda hope it's a good one
and our qualifier today kim dolan happy birthday kim we wish you a great one kim and joy your day we
hope it's starting off good because you're a qualifier um-hmm congratulations congrats on that
congrats to everybody and again get us these birthdays and anniversaries as we as we know
from last month and the month before and everything uh it'll bird quick this month is going to go
by fast uh they just keep getting faster james i don't know why that how that happens yeah i don't
either and uh wait so you before you know it December's going to be over we'll be drawing a new
winner for misty's menu for December so get us those birthdays and anniversaries we dive into our
celebrity list first up Frankie moonia is his 38 Malcolm is in the middle and he is 38 oh wow
uh surprising yeah yeah it's a little it is it is uh he's had some um some health stuff that
does happen kind of slowed his career down a little bit and everything but uh it's good to see
that you know the things like this that he's still working in that kind of thing yeah oh let's see
here next all is 44 john conner in terminated three uh he was in sin city his ben hawkins on the uh
show carnival uh good actor good young actor uh good young actors he's like two years younger than me
good actor good actor i do that all the time i don't know what um margaret show is 55
fantastic standard comedian uh good good uh writer actor uh does a lot of good work i like
margaret show gary allen is 56 country singer her man man of me man to man gary likes the word man
uh big fan big fan of it Johnny uh Johnny resonant is uh 58 google dials lead singer oh
i i like some google dials music hmm um trying to think it was a long time ago so i know there's at
least one song it in mind by them i know there's at least one and i remember that because they have
one of the most memorable names ever in like music history like whether you like the name or not you
can't not remember the name i liked iris from city of angels soundtrack yeah yeah oh that's
why do you mention that i just brought that movie up yesterday um because i i was talking about
Andre Browar and i watched that movie just because i love Andre Browar so much and i wanted to see
him in it so it wasn't a bad movie wasn't i thought i thought the ending sad it is i thought the ending
was lame i i got admit i thought the ending was really really really lame i i felt like it was um
oh i don't know how to end it let's end it this way so it's not as you know so just to be different
than well how we might have thought it was going um but it was a bad movie and it's been so long
since i've seen it i have to watch it again and it was cageed or a job in it and i think but i
think it was mega ryan that was in it as well and she did really good she was really good uh she
just i had i had the soundtrack for that i had the cd and so i listened to it a lot well that
was a big one a lannis more set at a huge song on there uh that was one of those bigger songs arms
of the angel that was uh sarah McLaughlin right right i got i love sarah McLaughlin uh i love her
voice and another singer uh jack russell is 63 today from great white three singers in a row right
there um Brian backer is 67 he was rat on fast times a ridgeman high um jim missena is 76
from logons and missena your momma don't dance daddy don't rock and roll
i guess they've got songs yeah um let's see uh Jose a kareis a kareis is 77 today the thinnest of the
three tenors that's the explanation yeah yeah but it's one way to to recognize them that's for sure
um what a beautiful voice but a lot of great voices born on this day no kidding a lot of them a lot
and then some people no longer with us like uh again well great voice little Richard born
in this day in 1932 passed away in 2020 flamboyant gentleman who may very well have crafted a
created rock and roll yeah you can call it go ahead and call up and give me a hard time about that
when you can give me all the the you know blah blah blah you want to and everything you cannot
tell the history of music not just rock and roll you can't tell the history of music without little
Richard and what little Richard did with uh what like there's a difference between Elvis shaking
his hips on the Ed Sullivan show uh that doesn't happen without little Richard little uh Elvis uh
it wasn't you can go back and look at interviews and everything he was incredibly influenced by
guys like Chuck Berry little Richard and that and he that's where his moves came from it's where
he learned to shake his hips like he doesn't learn to do that if he doesn't watch little Richard
like you can't like it all ties together i don't think that there's any necessarily king of rock
and roll um i i think that that's a little it's it's kind of ridiculous uh rock and roll is supposed
to be rebellious it can't have a king or queen or anything like that but if you're looking at the
architects the originators of it the little Richard Elvis you know Chuck Berry all these people you
have to mention them all i loved to de fruity when i was a kid yeah i used to sing it i mean i'm
sure i sang all the wrong words but yeah yeah i just i thought it was such a great song
as i was it's a fun one to sing too um one of the more complicated people in human history
especially in entertainment Walt Disney boarded this day in 1901 passed away in 1966
i i have quite a few issues with Walt um i have little to no respect for Walt Disney
i i say that to be honest not to be mean um i for those that don't know Walt Disney
was one of the the biggest culprits of the red scare at the time there was no union there was no
power to illustrators to to you know animators and Walt knew that and he took advantage of it and
if you wanted power not power if you wanted a better contract if you wanted you know a bathroom
break if you wanted little things like this Walt would just say okay uh he wants to be a communist
and and then boom that person's gone and uh shockingly this happened 90 percently to Jews
mostly to Jews as Walt Disney was quite known for being anti-Semitic um these are all issues and
things that need to be addressed and brought up when we talk about the man along with the fact that
we have one of the biggest conglomerates in the world and myself my sister my brother my children
other children out there all grew up on Disney have at least one Disney character if not
movie or TV show along multiple ones that we love and care about and like um yes i uh i look at the
man when i see the word Disney i don't think of Walt i think of everything the whole
whole kitten caboodle yeah and i think it's good for people to to be able to balance these things
it doesn't mean that you can enjoy Walt Disney products Walt's been dead a long time
for one thing but even if he was still alive i would say the people could enjoy these things you
just have to be able to walk the line in the sand that you have there and and i think be able to
share everything these things are important this stuff has gotten washed away by history
and people don't talk about Walt this with Walt Disney all they want to talk about is the things
that make people feel good and nice i'm sorry he wasn't a great guy it it happens
people in life do people in life sometimes do great things in accomplished great things
that are that are jerks that you know that are bad people that happens all the time and you also
need to you know they take into consideration the movies that that were produced when he was alive
not all of them have aged well or or portray women in a a positive uplifting manner Walt Disney
believed that every villain should be a woman i mean come on that there's some there's some things
there that have not aged very well song it a south for god's sake i mean there's some stuff
there that it ain't right shouldn't need me to be able to tell you that either be but it's not
really covered people don't talk about that stuff but like you also said that there are many many
good things also to take away from it and good directions that the Disney corporation has gone
with movies now quite an imagination quite the idea to create that little mouse in that mini the
two-mouse is because of Donald Duck yep yep well i but the first two Mickey and mini were actually
created at the same time and i i just learned that a little while ago so that's why i like sharing
that just i think it's cool i think it's because Mickey gets the spotlight a lot but there's a lot
of many fans out there and she was created at the very same thing she just didn't have a name
right away but she was created to the other mouse and we wrap up with general George custer born
in the state in 1839 passed away in 1876 you can't tell the history of america without talking
about mr. george our arms strong custard born in harison oh county ohio i love people i don't know
a lot of people knew he was a midwestern at heart and that is going to do it for our birthdays
and adversaries but man we wish you all a great one you've got you got 20 days till christmas
everybody uh twenty six days till new year's eve okay why are you doing this to us james
and uh just a couple till Hanukkah uh i brought all that up just so i could mention the Hanukkah
thing and if anybody wanted to bring up uh you know we had just drop off seven gifts or anything
like that please please god don't do that i'll be i'm already i already can't hit a little things
you guys do do for us and everything it would be red my cheeks would be red permanently i don't
think i can handle that uh but do get over to misty's menu and get your pie because uh celebrate
your birthday today while they're close tomorrow yeah we wish brine uh speedy recovery we'll let
you know as soon as they are back open on wednesday but for now uh we encourage Dana ronda and our
qualifier kim dolan to get on over there because when you let them have a celebrated birthday let
them know you get a free slice of one of brine's pies mm-hmm head on over to misty's they're open
right now won't be open tomorrow they'll be back open on thursday thursday through twos day at
9041 sted iway 13 south in wisconsin rapids when you get there wish them a great day from
lisa and i and stick around for our state and local news here at wf hr
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welcome back everyone little kenny and dolly playing us in there with some spirit uh
in the spirit of the season i like that song it's a good one
Melissa James oh that's a good one yeah it's not one of the more popular ones they got quite a few
good Christmas tracks uh those two quite a few good tracks period yes um lisa i've been hanging
on to this one for you i was curious to hear what your your take is on this if you buy craft mac
and cheese you know what to expect macaroni cheese one of the cheapest easiest uh least nutritious
meals are there is love but i love it i admit i had some this weekend i haven't had
uh mac and cheese in a while and i did this weekend in part because of this article um craft
is nixing the cheese what but it won't just be a box of noodles it's uh they've got this new
thing that they're now they're not getting rid of the craft and mac and cheese that's still going
to be there but they're also introducing a new product it's called craft not mac and cheese
and it's a dairy free alternative to its usual powdered cheese about time they got on that
bandwagon right it will be showing up at grocery stores soon will be in two varieties original
and white cheddar with shells both will be priced about three fifty this is the first time craft
has offered a vegan plant based option hmm the vegan cheese quote sauce is made with uh fava bean
protein and coconut oil powder which craft says has a similar taste look and feel to dairy based mac
and cheese and it's out and by all rights it seems to be sounding really good a lot of people that
die hard mac and cheese people haven't been able to notice a difference hmm that's interesting
uh yeah yeah uh i would try it i would definitely try it um i've been very my my taste buds have been
very shocked by how i've enjoyed certain things that uh i normally wouldn't think i would even try
you know 20 years ago at everything but now i've you know trying different stuff and it's actually
very good and and i'm not i didn't die i didn't die from trying something new i didn't die
it's shocking shocking uh 16 year old me is shocked uh that i you know it's a high bar there James
yeah right um so Melissa what do you think of this i am impressed that they're coming out with a
powder hmm um because it is a powder yes yes okay i'm impressed by that because
every other um like mac and cheese that is non-dairy that i have found on the shelves
it comes with a uh a sauce like a like a velvita almost in a in a pouch so the fast
fact that they've come out with a powder is impressive yeah and that the people who eat regular
mac and cheese can't tell the difference is also another uh obviously um yeah maybe that's why
this has taken them so long to to get it out yeah because um and granted i have not tried this
myself i haven't bought a box yet so i i i i it looks like they're saying in the article it's powder
um i i'm not a hundred percent so i don't want to say for sure i think that would be a reason why
it took so long i also um i i i understand the need to want to like um have your moment in the
sun and and and wait for on uncertain things and maybe there was a little bit of that but this has
been around a long time people having these things so i can't imagine it's that either um
this comes back to something that i've been uh barking about for a while
this idea that well the craft mac and cheese are they not the biggest mac and cheese in the game
i mean they got to be if not the top top three sellers in the world if not oh let's just look
in america here in america at least uh one of the top three sellers of mac and cheese i don't know
how many mac and cheese sellers there are um but they're up there quite a lot there um what person
in business if we haven't learned anything from the top one percent in the last 10 15 20 hundred
years uh there's never enough money there's never you can never have enough so why would you cut off
half of your your your potential client base um well you should have done this you should have
done this from the get go should have done it a as soon as we started having this being a part of
our culture more and more um we uh really should have been done even before that but
there there should have always been options like this it it seems ridiculous not to
i've talked to some people off the air about this to come from a little bit more of a factory
industry and i myself come from that and know a little bit about that uh the cost that it would
take to make a product and and package it market it sell it all that not nearly what some people
think it is so taking these chances let's say this bombs this bombs horribly the two boxes sell
they're gonna be okay they're gonna they're gonna be all right uh this is not gonna hurt their regular
their regular mac and cheese brand sells over a million boxes every day
they'll be okay they're all right they've been selling for over 85 years uh yeah you know and i
mean think of like if even half of that they had been selling this how much money craft would have
made like you know and according to this article i just found the it'll roll out nationwide in early
2024 so i i don't think we can even find it yet James uh this um well uh thank you CNN uh
because i got that i got the article from CNN telling me that it should be in the stores really soon
so i don't know maybe that's really soon i guess is uh yeah yeah i mean a month is gonna be over by
the time we blink so again a coming back to words and their importance uh you can't say really soon
and then it's like a month from now like that's not really soon like that you could say a month from
now you could say you know coming up uh but you can't say that it's similar to uh uh speaking of
CNN uh the 24 not just them fox all of them are guilty of this the 24 hour news cycles really started
this whole thing with uh us words not meaning a lot maybe they didn't start up but they sure as heck
promoted it with with it with the idea of what breaking news used to mean like you and i work in
the news industry it's very important for us to be up to date and to be uh aware of things for our
listeners it's if it ain't our main job it's our it's our number two job is that um when i see
breaking news now like it doesn't hit me like it used to like i don't know if it's gonna be
breaking news or is it breaking news to them hey we got you now stay on our website
yeah right no you got a double check like three or four other sources before you're sure yeah
yeah that i i genuinely think the FCC should get involved in that like do something good FCC
instead of just sitting around waiting for people to swear all the time actually do something good
can find them hey uh you know those you know these words that we've all agreed on mean something
you got to kind of mean something they got to kind of mean so you can't use the term breaking news
and let's it's actually breaking news well they did get it correct that there are two two flavors
the original and white cheddar so they got that right and uh it is something worth trying i
think uh you know i hate you will definitely be trying this i imagine um because i've i've tried
the day a brand which is the one i can most commonly find i can even find it here in Abbotsford
but they have the like velvita type uh pouch i guess i would call it of cheese that's already liquid
so you don't add anything to it but this is off letting you then add your own milk maybe
because i can't find the and i'm looking at the article right from the craft hines company
but i don't see that if it's powder or if it's a pouch so i guess i'll find that out in 2024
we'll find out with you would you do try you got to get to let us know what it's like oh yes
you will get a full uh you may even get a full kitchens out open episode about it i like that
trying the different brands be looking forward to another kitchens open it joins us every Monday in
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uh we're going to tell you how much to give at work how much how much uh how much
to give yeah how much effort should you get well come up okay good on the morning show at WFHR
locally grown radio welcome back everyone morning show here at WFHR
Melissa and James here with you taking that midnight train to Georgia
hmm I wouldn't mind taking the train to anywhere I love train rides
train rides are fun I love taking train rides we got some fun stuff lined up for you to wrap up
the hour we'll take it right to the top of it and uh are you giving a hundred percent at work
right now or maybe your boss is asking you to give 110 percent or maybe it's just your coach
who knows or or or it's Tuesday maybe you're on uh um bidding on one of those rees for you know
the united way like Terry recommended that's right during a meeting if you're bored that's right
everybody and that's actually going to be coming up in our good stories of the day but as long as
you touched on a Melissa one encourage everybody to happen uh head on over to uswac.org get on over
to the united ways website from there you can click on their banner and get right to that silent
wreath auction 32 auctions.com is where you'll go and these rees are going today everybody today is
the last day to bid on these it wraps up at seven o'clock couldn't help it since she brought up in
the interview you did with her last week like oh well you're at a meeting you know just uh
it was a perfect segue it was perfect well done very well done uh I see all these rees here and I
see them all needing a good home um they're all beautiful they're all gonna sell uh they're all
gonna do really well then encourage you to go ahead on over to uswac.org and get in on the
silent wreath auction put back into your community help the united way do the great work that
they're doing and get yourself a really sweet wreath they're pretty so go ahead and pump the
breaks at work if you're given over a hundred percent or a hundred ten percent or whatever
there's an idea called the eighty five percent rule which says instead of giving max effort
loosening up a little give eighty five percent instead that keeps you more flexible and more
present helps you be more creative and helps you from burning out and the rule actually comes from
one of my favorite athletes Carl Lewis really the legendary Olympic sprinter uh you know
the pro one of our our proud Olympic moments uh for many of us kids of the eighties and everything
is seeing Carl Lewis just run game on the world uh at the Olympics he generally started his
races slower because he was giving eighty five percent then as he cranked things up he'd pass the
other runners who were too tense and slowing down um this was a famous technique of Carl Lewis's
and uh it's something that i remember yeah and i remember uh about in track and field i remember
learning about this actually from my dad my dad uh big Muhammad Ali fan and Ali is famous for
inventing this technique called rope adope if you ever heard of that Alyssa i've heard the phrase
but what does it mean so um Ali is going into the the biggest fight of his life the rumbled
in the jungle against George Foreman George Foreman is about two times his size he is so much more
powerful uh Ali realizes he cannot out he cannot outfight him he cannot outbeat up uh out out
strength him okay so Ali spends the first two three rounds of the fight basically just taking a
beating just getting popped left and right taking body shots and he's just leaning on the ropes
bouncing off the ropes as a foreman is wearing himself out uh inning after uh inning
round after round after round this goes on yeah yeah what's going on uh uh about
i forget four or five rounds this goes on and and foreman's beat he's tired he's leaning on Ali
so he just warm out so Ali goes from 85% to 100% and goes on to win the fight
and and beat beat George Foreman and shock the world and all this stuff and everything um
that Carl Lewis was a little similar to this uh he would start out his his no no he wouldn't punch
right out the gate he would stand out fast but uh you know take off but he wouldn't he wouldn't
necessarily give everything he's got until the last quarter of the the run whatever that was
then he go flat out yeah and that's really good if you're Carl Lewis um because I never really
thought about that for work yeah yeah I think this is all well and good uh you know in the right
circumstance sure you know if it's the right situation like sports like like like if you're
Carl Lewis that Carl Lewis also had famously a great second step like this this literally worked
for Carl Lewis and not many others would it work for other people have tried you you have to be
you got to be a certain like you know talent level to be able to pull that off now I one thing I
will say I do like the idea of not burning out okay um I don't know if you necessarily need to do
this like if you work in eight hours shift I don't think you have to spend the whole uh you know
eight hours eighty five percent maybe sometimes you're at a hundred maybe sometimes you do kick it down
eighty five but I don't think you go lower than eighty five and I and it doesn't exist to go
higher than a hundred okay it doesn't exist it's not possible it's literally not possible math would
not allow it no faster facts people uh yes so I I don't know um I like the idea of anything like
hey let's let's try to figure out ways to you know keep people from burning out we got a lot of good
workers out there in the burning out faster than ever um so I don't mind the attempt at trying
something like that but I you know I mean at the same time I think that we metaphors are great I
use them every day almost five every five seconds but they only yes go on but they are always
app they they they don't always apply you know I honestly think James that that you you maybe
inadvertently pick this article not realizing that this is actually for you oh you you need to
just relax a little bit stop working so dang hard maybe take you know a day off now and then
moving on uh we're that I am so making sports references I'm so ready to face right now
stop me so good you that was very good I I I'm literally the last person of the world to see
that coming I did not see where you were going with that and I did not see any of this actually
applied to me you got you call the others you did it you got me of course you did it you're right
you're a hundred percent right on this and I do need to do this more you're I might be 101
percent right on this this might time might be it's one time forget about math science uh yes
she's right she is a hundred and one percent right about this yes but it is important to to take time
for you know the to enjoy life and to to relax a little bit and and that can include it work you
know take take five minutes to talk with your coworker as opposed to buckling down and just like
no work work work work work because sometimes those relationships are are I mean no not all the time
those relationships are important at work too um have that water cooler chat and and now I'm not
specifically directing this at you James but I'm just saying in general that that may be a way to
not give 100 percent all the time at work but you're still you're still enriching your work
experience mm-hmm yeah I honestly I think that most days one of my favorite parts of the day
top five favorite parts of the day are when I am heading out of the studio for the day
and I'm saying goodbye to everybody and we're just kind of wrapping up in a halls rest of your day
or what do you got planned or that kind of thing just just small talk but it's it's it's meaningful
goes a long way yeah something cool about it something kind of cool about this Melissa a
vinyl record uh by junior walker and the all stars was returned to a Boston library more than 47
years past its due date oh wow the dragon the day when you could check out records yeah that's
the I mean that was that that's honestly part of the reason why I pulled this article out I just
thought it was in that part was pretty interesting um now junior walker in the all stars they the
their famous hit was uh shotgun shotgun okay classic the Jamaican plain branch of the
Boston public library said staff members emptied out the return bin in front of the library
discovered a vinyl record of anthology by that group which dated back to october 27th 1976
oh oh and it was returned in the book drop yeah the album makes me cringe yeah me too the album
cover contained a punch card from the uh engolston square branch library where the record was
originally part of the collection the library said the record is no longer in their it's system
it's none as none of the Boston public library branches stock vinyl records anymore
library and said that they do not know who originally checked the album out or who returned it
but no fines would have been issued for the late return I would hope not um if you're ever in it
that like I can't imagine you or I the type of people we are that we would ever have been in
this situation but let's say you're cleaning and all the sudden you you you're mortified you
actually come across a library book that's like 20 30 years old like that you just somehow forgot
to return or something like that um I certainly I think the the kind of people we are let's get out
of the way both of us would probably return it but do you do do this or I actually I think that I
don't know I I think that in the weird way I would own it like I'd go in and I'd have to let
them know I'd want there's something to be like some attention to it and everything if anything to
kind of it's another reminder of hey people libraries aren't free they could this cost them money
every time you ruin a book or something they have to pay for it the library does which comes out
of our tax dollars um so you know it's kind of stupid to do that stuff to libraries um don't do
that it's another reminder of those things yeah yeah and to you know own up to say say like you said
I personally have ruined a book before and had to pay for it which I didn't mind like I mean
number one I got to keep the ruin book which I wasn't that ruined in my opinion but I still paid
for the replacement for the library um because that is an important and vital service to communities
communities that have a thriving and rich library are our better communities period
yeah well said uh we have got this darn elf we got to find Melissa yeah this mischievous
Martin Merlin emergent Merlin elf is added again this holiday season at the Wisconsin
rabbits quality foods have you spotted Merlin Merlin I love it pro uh we we uh what we're going to
do is give you guys a hint of where you can find this elf uh from the elf on the shelves uh that
we're going to be looking you're having you looking for at the quality foods IGA on the west side of
Wisconsin Rapids here so what you'll do is you'll get this hint then you rush on over there while
you're doing your shopping maybe some holiday shopping over there take a look for this elf when
you find them take a picture and uh and put it up on our Facebook pages WFHR or WRI or both
might as well cover your bases may as well use the hashtag WR quality foods and we'll collect
the Facebook submissions and then on November on December 21st uh we will set we will uh announce
the winner all right the winner is going to find the elf you can enter this contest and what will
the winner get James holiday ham celebration basket whoo that's a pretty good prize right there
that's pretty good who doesn't like ham I mean there are some people that don't like ham but
but I like him so get ready everybody here is your hint to help you find this elf take that
picture get it on our Facebook pages with the hashtag WR quality foods he dances along the shelves
whispering to the vanilla extract and sharing secrets with the chocolate chips oh no if you can't
find it with that hint yeah yeah I think you're going to be able to find what aisle the elf is
sitting on a one more uh we'll go ahead Melissa I was just going to say it's probably not in the
meat department it's a good idea good good not in the steering wheel he dances along the shelves
whispering to the vanilla extract and sharing secrets with the chocolate chips so go find
that elf take a picture posted on our Facebook pages what's that hashtag James that is WR quality
foods and then you'll get entered into this awesome contest you can win that holiday ham celebration
basket a big shout out to our friends and quality foods i.g. a get on over there for all your
quality shopping needs I'll meet you at the deli Melissa got it in my head now let's just a
fun place to go shopping I love their store yeah yeah I love their place stick around everybody
good stuff coming up we'll of course have some CBS news and state and local news coming up to kick
off the hour and then we are going to be joined by some great people we have page jackin six great
teacher over at Rams joining us with a couple of the handful of students this is going to be so
much fun we're going to have them reading their short essays that they were going to read during
lights of love oh yeah can't wait oh so exciting it's going to be coming up right here on
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