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.
Get your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning.
And all of you, the best listeners in radio. Thanks so much everybody. We got a good friends from the weather I weather center on the phone with us right now. Good morning, Paul.
Good morning over there. Hello. Oh, what's going on here? Paul, you there? Let's see. Can you hear me, Paul? Try this one more time. Can you hear me, sir?
Oh, dang it. Let's see what's going on with their phones here. I'm not sure what's going on with those. We might have to test those phones out.
We might have to have you test these phones out. Give us a call, everybody. 715-424-2600. Let's go ahead and test these phones, see how they're working.
We had some troubles Friday. We were dealing with so we kind of hope that over the break they'd be fixed. We will find out with you.
We're going to find out real time with all of you guys. Melissa's line is working. That works. That's good.
I'm here. Hello. Hello. You guys don't want me talking to myself for two hours. That's something my for brother Sam deals with all the time. It's not easy. It doesn't do. Go well.
Poor Sam. Melissa, shall we put together just a bad forecast? You know what it's like when you don't know you don't get to catch the weather.
So you're going to ask your friend at work or something. Hey, do you hear what the forecast? They give you.
So it's supposed to be just a heck of a day. Just a heck of a day. Okay, wait a minute. What that didn't tell me anything?
What is it? It's going to be a bad one out there today. What is that? What is that? Your bad is not the same as my bad.
It's hurricane. Are we talking? You know what? What?
They got to be a little more specific about that. We will have a forecast for you a little bit and we want to be joined by our friends from the weather
or weather center every chance we get more on that later this week. We will be getting into that. Got a lot of good things going on behind the scenes and of course on the air with all of you.
Melissa and I here after a long break. We hope you guys enjoyed yours. We got good things coming up for you everybody.
I miss these many birthday and anniversary club is around the corner looking forward to that. This hour we're also going to get into Melissa.
The average pet owner. How many pet at panics do they have a month?
Pet panics. Yeah, we're giving them to that. We have Google's year in search 2023. Get into those.
Good. We've got the that all coming up for you along with a couple of fun ones in the 9 o'clock hour when I get into.
One is the history of Italian beef. That'll be interesting. And also the land of lakes has finally settled a great debate about butter.
Oh, no. Yes. Yes. Land of lakes has stepped up and answered our questions. We will get into that. And in the 9 o'clock hour, we're also going to get into this great one.
Melissa sent over kid friendly curse words in Europe. Yes. The ones you can say on air. Yeah. That's going to be a really fun one for out air.
Let's see how close we get. Let's see. I like the idea of the whole segment. The FCC just sitting there on the button. Just come on. Come on.
Give me something. We're going to get you. There's not a ton of this time of year. There is not a whole lot of people that are doing live work.
In part because this tends to be a kind of a gray area dead zone for content this time of year. You're going to see we were talking about this on the sunrise show.
You're going to see a lot of morning shows that are around rehashing old bits or doing a lot of best of lists. Those kind of things.
You're going to see a lot of that, which I'm not making fun of. I mean that's for the year. Yeah. Yeah. It's what you do. And you got to fill the time and take care of your listeners.
And these are the kind of things you do. But what are the things I do find funny about this time of year is the the chances people will take and us included us included by that by the way.
So we're going to have fun with that kids. Friendly curse words in Europe. That one is coming up in the nine o'clock hour looking forward to that.
I got a couple of honorable mentions. I don't know. I got a couple that I already made sure I could say on the air. No.
Good of you to check. Yeah. You know, that's not the way I'm 22 years in radio. And you go out because you said the wrong word on the air.
It seems like a really, really bad way to go. That's kind of that's kind of where I want to start Melissa. Actually, that was kind of a hot take. I just had there kind of a hot take.
When we do and you've been doing this job long enough, I imagine that you're feeling a little bit of this too when you're used to being on the air Monday through Friday.
You are paid to talk for a living. Oftentimes we are paid for our opinions and our thoughts on things. And then you get a good four or five day stretch where that doesn't matter.
The people in our lives, our friends, our family, our loved ones, they care, but they don't care like that much. Not to hear us rambling, maybe as much as we do out of the air and everything.
So I got, you know, these, these takes that I've not been able to release to the wild. They're important Melissa. And I've been hanging on to them.
Did you have any thoughts or any random kind of takes over the weekend that occurred to you that hits you or anything like that? You can think about that one if you want while I give mine.
Okay.
Because I believe that I think I cannot prove this. You know, there are things that you can't prove, but you just know the right and your gut.
I can't prove this, but I believe that all animals are sarcastic.
All right. All animals. Do you ever do this when you're doing the voice of your, you have Kevin or another animal or something like that?
You automatically make them like sarcastic.
Like their style of comedy happens to be sarcasm. I believe that every animal I don't care if it's a turtle, it's a pet parrot, it's Kevin the cat.
They lean on their sarcastic all animals sarcastic.
Yeah, I could see that. If that's your style of humor, sure.
You're often voices, Kevin, the cat's thoughts are loud.
Are they usually sarcastic?
Sometimes, yeah.
Sometimes just general disgust with life.
Okay. All right.
If I've had a, I've had probably maybe, maybe 10, maybe times in my life, I've signed an autograph, not very many.
You know, as I would think that most of the audience would understand, some of the audience may even think that number's high.
I know I do.
But if I were ever in the position where I was in this, you know, that status where people were asking me on a consistent basis for my autograph, I would be one of these people, I believe in my heart of hearts.
You never know until you're actually in these situations, but I believe in my heart of hearts that I'd be one of these people that would stay after, that would sign autographs and everything.
But I do have a rule.
I'll sign an autograph, but I want your signature too.
Okay.
I don't care who you are.
Random person, whoever it is, I'll give you an autograph, but I want yours too.
I don't know if you're going to be famous.
I don't know what's going to happen with this person.
No, I do.
Tell me that wouldn't be the funnest thing though, for a famous person.
You walk up to Tom Hakes, you ask him for his autograph, he's like, all right, but I want yours too.
That feels great, right? That'd be a good thing.
I think that'd be a cool thing.
I think you would probably go, why?
Yeah, sure, of course.
Definitely, there's going to be follow questions, but I think that the feeling, or at least it would break the ice,
it would make the moment not as uncomfortable maybe or anything.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I never get famous.
I'm sticking to that.
That's a rule.
I'm sticking to that one.
When I was a kid, I had made a little book with, it had wooden covers.
And it was held together with leather straps.
And it had paper inside.
And it was my autograph book.
And I would go around and get people's autographs.
Oh.
It just, I didn't really matter who they were.
I just wanted people to pick up.
I collected them.
And I won your five.
That's kind of it.
Yes.
We found my book.
People would do it.
You never know.
Maybe one of those might have ended up being a famous signature or something.
I ran across it not that long ago.
Most of them, you can't read.
So I've no idea who signed my book.
Could be a famous one there.
You never know.
You never know.
We're infamous.
I've got one more.
And it's not really a take.
It's a plea.
I love this job.
I love what I get to do for a living.
I could see doing this the rest of my life.
I love acting.
I like teaching even.
I'm very fortunate.
I enjoy the work that I do for a living.
But I would drop it all every single one of those jobs right now, Melissa.
If I could get a job naming candles.
Naming candles.
I mean, this just seems like one of the best gigs there is.
Like, what do you do?
What's the job there?
You sit there, smell the candle.
Come up with a funky name.
Midnight Star Dust.
There you go.
There you go.
Give me another one.
Give me another one.
Oh, coffee elixir.
All right.
There you go.
Give me another.
Give me another.
It just that's all you do all day for over nine to five is just naming candles.
I think you would get like nose fatigue.
I'll take that chance.
I'll take it.
I'll take that chance.
Seems like a good gig, right?
Maybe.
I don't think I'd do it.
You get to be creative.
You get to work with a fun sense and smells.
I'm 99% sure that you're right that this would get old like in the first hour.
By day three, you'd be like, what?
Did I?
Am I doing with my life?
It does.
I mean, on the surface.
It does seem like an orange gig, though, right?
I mean, not a lot of heavy lifting with that one.
Well, you know, maybe this is where AI comes in.
Oh, man.
I don't know if AI would do better than humans on that one.
I'm not sure.
I am.
Well, because the human would still have to input what it smells like, because AI can't
smell.
Right.
Right.
You know, you'd have to say it.
It smells like pine needles and a forest floor.
And AI comes back with a lumberjack flannel.
Hmm.
There.
Yeah.
See, that's a good one.
That's not bad.
A forest fever.
Huh?
Huh?
I'm born to do this, Melissa.
Nobody would buy a candle forest fever.
Nobody would buy that.
I would.
I would either.
And I'd hate it.
What kind of sickness am I going to get from the scandal?
All right.
Well, fine.
All right.
So maybe my hot takes weren't so hot as a little simmering, simmering takes.
Not, not so much hot.
All right.
But this is why you don't let me off of work.
You can keep me working, everybody.
Otherwise, you get the crazy weird amount of mild takes.
Too many days to think about things.
Maybe more mild takes.
Not, not so much hot takes.
We will take a break.
We're going to come back and do some celebrate with our friends at Misty's menu.
We got some important information about Misty's coming up for you.
Right on here, right here at the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday dear.
Ow.
Happy birthday to you.
It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends at Misty's menu.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
He's open their door again in the new year.
And encourage you to get on over there.
Is it Al's birthday today?
No, no, there's no Al.
I just wanted to throw that at the desk.
Just make up a name.
Just made up a name.
It didn't really feel-
Well, it's weird that it's just, you know, blank.
Yeah.
It leaves it open, I think, for you.
It kind of like dips out of the soggy little for you to enter a name.
I just always feel like when it plays, I feel bad when we don't enter a name.
So I just, if there happens to be somebody out there named Al celebrating a birthday,
we wish you a great one out.
Yes indeed.
And it opens a wonderful day.
More on birthdays in a second.
First, we got to dive into Misty's news.
And I'm going to read this right from a December, earlier December post from our friends at Misty's menu.
I encourage you to follow along with Misty's menu here in Wisconsin Rapids.
That's the way to do that on Facebook page.
Type it in your search bar, Misty's menu, and keep up to date and all the great things they're doing.
Quote, we are excited, but also a little bit sad to announce that we will be closed
December 24th through January 1st for our Christmas break.
And when we reopen on January 2nd, yes, once again, open on Wednesdays.
That Mike and Chrissy Fleischman will be the new owners of Misty's menu.
Mike and Chrissy are a good, great couple with many, many years of restaurant experience.
And they have complete confidence that they will carry on and that what they have built for 22 years.
The restaurant name, menu, food, and staff remain the same with some new and exciting things to come.
To say that we will miss our Misty's menu family and our wonderful customers is a huge understatement.
But we will mostly, certainly, be around quite often.
See you never know when we will show up.
We say a big thank you to Misty and Brian and all the great things that they have put into our community.
Since this announcement, a lot of our listeners have been really, really great about letting us know different memories about Misty's different things that Misty or Brian are both of them did.
Times Misty's menu stepped up and sponsored in the vent or sponsored something that maybe not a lot of people in town were.
Before it became a niche thing to say in common by local support local Misty's menu was doing that.
And I think that's noteworthy.
Along with, of course, not only the great food, the great atmosphere that they have there, the environment is like no other.
There's no other place like Misty's menu.
And the only thing that's better than the food, the prices and all that is the people.
And that will continue on going to Mike and Chrissy.
Yeah.
But that does mean the Misty's is closed until the beginning of the new year.
January 2nd, they will reopen their doors.
So keep that in.
You don't have to doubt the wait, but you still could probably get your free pie.
Yeah, yeah.
And be sure to get those birthdays ready for the new year, everybody.
And we take a look at our local list.
But before we do, want to remind everyone and get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
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Appreciate everybody that does so.
We have but one name on the list today, Melissa.
But one.
And we get the, hey, I don't have to work.
Nope, no work for Melissa in this segment.
We put the spotlight on our great friend CEO of your United Way of Southwood and the Anvis counties.
My older big bratty sister, Terry Johns.
Oh, happy birthday, Terry.
Terry, wishing you the best of days.
One of the better people I have ever met.
And I appreciate you, Terry.
We appreciate you.
This community appreciates you.
Absolutely.
The United Way has always, I think that it's pretty fair to say that the United Way in most every community that is touches makes quite an impact.
It does quite good work.
We have a very unique and a very special United Way here.
Not only does ours cover here, you know, Wooden Adams County, which is a lot.
But the, the situations that we deal with here in this area, different than others.
As you would assume, I imagine.
But what I don't think you have at every United Way is everything starts from the top.
And, and when you have somebody in charge over there, like you do in Terry, who listens to the community, who is from the community, who is intertwined with the community, where I don't know if there's, if Terry can walk like five blocks without running into somebody she knows.
I don't, I don't, I can't imagine she can't, like, you have, you have somebody that is that in tune with the community.
Therefore, you have somebody who's going to understand a little bit more of what our community needs.
That, along with obviously doing studies and surveys and taking information from the community, listening to the community.
That's something that we don't always get in the, in positions like that either, that is very important.
And somebody who, who gets that they don't always get it, that they may, they, they understand that they don't know all every issue that there might be so that they, you know, we've got to reach out and find out more and find to see what's out there.
And be willing to learn. That's very important.
It was, you know, Terry would sit in with Carl in the gang every once in a while and everything.
And when Bob left and it was Carl and I, it was a lot on Carl's shoulders to be here every day.
So Terry sometimes would come in and sit in with the both of us or sometimes she'd do a show with me.
And she just volunteered to do that. And we kind of knew each other a little bit but didn't really know each other that well.
And then when we lost Carl, it was, it was heartbreaking as you, for all of us, as, as I'd imagined, all of you can, can relate to.
But the, the first calls that Pam and I got were, were from Terry.
And, and what can we, what can I do? How can I help? What, what do you need?
Terry put up with me for like a week's, I think like two weeks straight. She was like co-hosting with me.
And it doesn't make a penny from it. It gets up earlier and there's a woman, there's a mom, a wife, you know, CEO obviously she's got a lot on her plate.
And still did those things because she believes in the station because of all these things.
Could not, I don't have the words to express the gratitude I have for her other than to appreciate her and to hopefully embarrass her as I rambled out about her on her birthday.
So make sure if you see Terry John's today, wish her a very happy birthday.
Yeah. Embarrass her some more.
Yes, please do, please do.
You're a qualifier, Terry. You got it. You're a qualifier.
We take a look at our celebrity list. Who's she celebrating a birthday with? Let's see.
Jared Leto is 51 today.
Really?
Celebrated actor. Very.
It just recently was, I don't know what he was promoting, but he climbed a building recently.
Okay.
Like a 50 foot, like, I mean, like a huge building like in New York, he climbed.
Like, you don't even remember which one it was or anything.
Yeah.
Not a bad actor. Not bad. Not bad.
I just think human being. Yeah. Yeah.
I have a lot more that I don't like about Jared Leto that I do.
And on people's birthdays, I'm trying to be better about this and not like just ramble and trash the guy.
He's an Oscar winner. He has done some really strong performances that a lot of people have enjoyed.
And popular band singer.
Thirty seconds to Mars or something like that. I think the cold. Yeah.
Ming Songwriter.
There you go. Yeah.
Kit Harrington is 36 today.
TV actor, mostly famous from Game of Thrones.
He is John Snow.
I wouldn't know. Didn't watch it.
You see Kit Harrington and he does not look like somebody that would embody the bot.
The everything that is the big character of John Snow.
He's not a very tall guy. Not a big guy.
But I think it's a credit to his acting talent and his strength as a character actor to really bring that role to life.
Because I think even people who may not be a huge fan of the TV show or what have you or anything like that, they look at him.
That's John Snow. That's him.
Really. My sister read the books and felt like he really embodied the role.
Lars O'Reach is 59 today. Metallica's lead drummer.
Oh.
Been around a long time doing that Lars.
I don't like the name Lars.
That's a good name.
I don't like it. I just do.
No, I'm with you. Yeah. I don't know why either.
But I do like the name. Yeah.
I don't know where that comes from though.
And I never even thought about it until you just said that.
But yeah.
Well, it's, you know, a Scandinavian.
So I don't know if there's a.
It's a good name though.
Chris Dority is 43 rock singer.
They say here.
I feel like they're stretching the word rock there a little bit.
But all right. I know.
I'm just kidding.
See, I can't help myself. I'm a jerk.
I really am.
Sometimes.
It cannot be helped.
You know, my problem is I tell it like it is.
That's what every.
That's what every jerk says.
I tell it like it is.
That's anybody that you know that that's maybe a little bit too honest.
Maybe a little too real.
That's usually their fall back.
People can't handle me.
I'm too real.
You can't handle the truth.
Nice. Nice.
Nice.
Nice quote right there.
And that is going to do it for our celebrity list.
But one more time, wishing happy birthday to CEO of your net away
of Southwood and the counties.
Terry Johns.
Happy birthday, Terry.
Enjoy your day.
Terry.
Hope it's a good one for you.
Don't go to Misty's today.
They're close.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Please don't.
We go.
Gosh.
I hope she's not on her way there.
Oh, boy.
I'm going to text her.
I'm going to make sure I'm going to find out.
We will come back and we're going to have some fun stuff lined up for you, everybody.
When we get back, we want to see the percentage of people that would bail on the holidays to take
a solo vacation.
Me.
Yeah.
We've got two votes.
Got two so far.
You can go.
And please again, feel free to call up and join the conversation 424-2600-715-424-2600.
Keep in mind also that Misty's menu is closed until January 2nd.
They'll be open in their doors again.
And when they do, let's greet them, everybody.
Let's greet the new owners.
It'll be fun.
Over at 9041-State Highway 13 South of Wisconsin Rapids.
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Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
It's a lovely day.
I was about to play the Christmas bumpers.
That's why I took a second, everybody.
I'm going to be honest with you all.
I'm going to be honest.
I was like a half a beat.
I was like, oh, it just barely missed it.
You almost got a Christmas bumper right there.
We're going to throw back.
Yeah, we're done with them for now.
We're done with them for now.
But we're looking forward to having those back next year already.
Melissa, I'm going to tempt something real quick here.
I'm just going to call an audible.
I'm going to try something different.
I've got something for us all lined up.
We're going to get into the amount of us that percentage of us
that would bail on the holidays to take us all the vacation.
We'll get into that in a second.
But I'm going to try to call us right now, Melissa.
From my cell phone, I am trying to call WFHR.
I'm going to see if the phone is going to work here.
Yeah.
And it's not ringing.
It's not ringing.
It's not ringing.
Oh, it's your down.
Looking like it.
Let's try it again here.
424, 2600.
Even I can dial that.
OK, I got that down.
Let's see here.
I'm going to go ahead and try to answer my call.
Good morning, you're on the show.
Hello.
Hello.
Hey.
Hey.
All right.
Hey.
Not bad.
Who are you?
You don't sound so loud.
No, OK.
Let's stop that.
We got to stop that.
Yeah.
OK.
So phone lines are working.
Worst radio ever.
But the phones are working.
At least we know the phones are working.
Yes.
We know the phones are working.
Apparently you missed dialed the first time.
Yeah, I don't know what that was.
But yeah, you know what would happen.
So I have like 99% of us out there.
I've got WFHR programmed in my phone.
I tried that.
Then I tried just dialing it off memory.
You know, 424, 2600.
And that worked.
I don't know why.
I'm not sure if that's an issue or not.
That doesn't seem like something that's on us though.
No.
We will find out either way.
Feel free to call up and join the conversation.
715-424-2600.
We love to hear from you guys.
I want to hear how your Christmas was.
You have any fun?
Anything weird happened?
We want to hear about it.
You know, we are the home of weird.
Bring it to us.
That's what we do.
Three years ago, in the heart of the pandemic,
everyone pretended to be crazy upset about not being able to get together
and extend with family for holidays,
even though a lot of us were thankful for the break.
But in a new survey, 45% of Americans said that they would pay
on holiday gatherings with family and friends to take a vacation solo.
So almost half of us would do that.
And...
And these are stressful.
Instead, 63% of people say that they'll be traveling with family,
or did travel with family over the holidays.
Most people will have their kids and partner in tow.
Some will have other family members along for the ride as well.
77% of Americans say that by the time the holidays roll around,
they're going to need a vacation.
That's almost 80% of Americans say that.
And 27% say that their idea of a, quote, vacation
is not traveling with family.
In fact, 49% of people anticipate needing a break from their partner.
And that's almost 50%, that's almost half a percentage of people.
And 46% think that they'll need a break from their kids.
Well, yeah.
And if given the choice, more people would prefer to taking a vacation
over receiving physical gifts to unwrap.
Interesting.
I mean, that's appreciating, you know, time spent in the moment
versus physical goods, you know, material goods.
Yeah, yeah.
We joke about...
Absolutely.
We joke about this all the time about you.
You know you're older, you know, you hit a certain age
when you get excited about socks.
You know, you get socks for a gift and you're like, yeah, socks.
You know, yeah, yeah.
A new blender.
I think if it's not then, it's around that time
that we also become like that.
What you're touching on there, Melissa, where, you know,
somebody comes to you and says, hey, I've got set amount of income
and I can get you a gift.
What do you want?
So many of us immediately think of a, you know, a memory.
Something that will create a memory.
Something that will create a lasting memory.
Yeah.
Time spent together is going to create former memories
than new socks.
I do think that...
But socks will take you places.
I do think we're getting more and more where that's happening more...
That's more common and it's more...
more poignant than it's ever been.
That's a gift that people want and look forward to.
It's up there on the list.
And I think that there's a tie in here to what were those stats I just gave you.
And people, okay, if I'm going to spend time with the family,
if I'm going to get a gift or if I'm going to give a gift,
I want it to mean something.
I don't want to just phone in the holidays.
I think that there's a little more of that going on that we realize,
whether it's subconscious or not.
I think a lot more people are kind of like, especially after, you know,
we just touched on after the pandemic and everything.
More and more people, whether you realize it or not,
or whether it's a subconscious thing or not,
okay, if I'm going to do this,
if I'm going to be with the family that I only see once a year and all these things,
I'm dang it.
I'm going to make it count.
It's all right.
Yeah.
And enjoy the time spent as opposed to focusing on what you're getting or what you're, you know.
None of us know how long we got.
And that includes your loved ones.
You know, I think making the most of that time, I think that is important.
And also giving yourself some grace on that too,
because none of us, you know, know that.
So none of us know how, you know, if we're always going to be able to do that,
make the most of every moment.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can only do what you can do.
Sometimes you need to take a break.
Here's the part of this survey though that they don't enter and they don't talk about.
Say you are in this situation.
You know, you and Kevin just got together.
Kevin Melissa's cat for those that don't know out there.
But you and Kevin, you've just spent less four days at your first Christmas together and everything.
We're solid days, Kevin.
Yeah.
We've been together.
Might need a break.
Might need a break.
Might need a break.
How do you present that to your city?
Obviously, Kevin is not your significant other.
But I can't imagine how you get the ball rolling on that conversation.
Hey, honey, great job, Christmas.
You did a really good job this year.
I need a vacation from you.
How do you start that conversation?
How do you get the ball rolling on something like that?
You got to have a great, I don't know if I've ever been in the relationship that good.
I don't know.
Hey, I love you.
I need a break.
It's definitely one of those communication hurdles, I would say.
It's a really great thing to work on your communication with your significant other and, you know, at every opportunity.
Would it be better to just be like you walk in the room like, hey, why are you packing?
Well, I meant to tell you about this.
I'm taking off to Costa Rica for a week.
I need a break.
So you can go do whatever you want.
You go right ahead.
You do whatever you want for a week too.
All right.
So I'll see you.
I don't think that would go over worse.
Oh, I got to imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think so.
If I love the presenting this to the audience too, you know, if you had this, I think that if you could do something like that.
I got to imagine the overwhelming majority of us can't do something like this.
Well, no, we're going to afford it.
But, you know, on our other sister station on the sunrise show, Melissa and I were getting into our national day of calendar.
And today, the day of a couple of things, you know, the day of whining or whatever and all that.
I think today should be a day of not so much rest, but a day like where you get to do your thing.
Health care.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, you know, you want to go take a hike.
Today's to take a hike.
You want to go do this.
Today's the day to do that.
Especially for all the people who, you know, hosted Christmas and had to have a whole bunch of people at their house and cooked food and cleaned.
And, you know, I mean, there's a lot of things that were pressures and stresses.
And even just if you had to travel, that's, that takes a lot of time and attention too.
Melissa, I've got it.
And I am the last person in the universe.
Anybody would think to have this idea, but I've got it.
December 26th from now on should be National Nap Day.
Any time today, you want to take a nap as long as you are not driving or doing something important.
You can go ahead and do it.
You can do that right now, James.
Yeah.
It's National Nap Day.
We just started.
You could be the first person to honor National Nap Day, Melissa.
Good, because I need it.
Okay, so the rest of the show we're all going to have to keep our voices down.
But as long as, as long as we can keep it chill for a little bit, Melissa should be able to celebrate National Nap Day.
We're going to go ahead and do that as we go to break.
We'll be back with more right here in the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
Hope you're having a good start to your week.
The chill's got you spilled on my back.
Can you be filled with satisfaction when we're done?
Satisfaction always come.
I couldn't ask for another.
Get that beat moving.
Get you moving hopefully a little bit on this Tuesday morning.
We hope you're having a good one, everybody.
Thanks so much for joining us.
We appreciate the time.
And hopefully you are in your pet and your furry friend or your scaly friend if you're a fish person or anything like that.
You're getting along.
You guys are doing okay and things are calm.
How many times a day do you worry about your pets?
A new poll found the average is three times a day.
The typical pet owner gets into a quote pet panic mode six times a month so once every five days.
Most of the stuff we worry about doesn't end up being that serious.
The top pet panic causes are unexpected, you know, puking or vomiting, seeing them fall off a chair or something high up.
When your dog slips its leash or your cat tries to run off the door, these kind of things.
Yeah, that's good reasons to worry.
Other causes include they don't want to eat.
They don't come when you call their name.
They're not as playful as usual and they do get outside or escape the yard.
When we're not home, our top worries are did they get into the trash or something they're not supposed to be in?
Are they sad or lonely right?
Are they hungry or could they have gotten outside?
These are the questions we ask ourselves.
When you're not home, I'm sorry, a company called a tractive that makes pet GPS trackers did this survey.
And here's a fun last question.
If your cat or dog did escape and have a night out on their own, do you think they'd enjoy themselves?
60% of pet owners said yes.
I guess it depends on if they like being outside.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I mean, certainly if they are not an outdoor cat or dog.
And that's what I'm thinking of here mainly is cats and dogs.
Yeah, yeah.
Now, if this is their jam, if that's what they do, then yeah, they're going to enjoy themselves.
And I don't mind if the animal goes out for the night, they just have to tell me how it went.
I don't have much of a life.
Yeah, I need to live vicariously through these animals sometimes.
Yeah, I would want to know what kind of night they had, how much fun it was.
And from the animal's perspective, you know, they would view the world very differently than humans.
Yeah, we would imagine.
We know this because not only has Disney been doing it since they had the first animal talk in an animated special or anything,
but we do this with our own pets.
We do this in life in general.
We do it even if you don't have pets or you've never had a pet, you do it with wildlife.
We put human feelings and thoughts on animals.
I just did it this morning talking about every animal is sarcastic.
Yeah, I feel like it's a pretty big stretch to imagine that the animal kingdom knows what sarcasm is.
But we do these things.
But it's fun to give your pets, sorry, mine is a cat, so obviously I'm going to say cat.
To give them a voice, Aaron did it this weekend with Kevin because we had to get rid of some of his boxes.
He decided to pull a plant down off of the shelf again.
And so the boxes were filled with dirt, so those got tossed.
So he got some new boxes this weekend.
And as he was exploring them, you know, like sticking his head over the top edge and looking around, Aaron was narrating.
I'm checking out this box. I don't know about this box.
I like my last box.
Hannah, I'm thinking this box is terrible. I hate it.
I hate everything. I don't like this box.
It's great.
It's one of the funnest things to do with your pets, I think.
Well, because they can't voice their own thoughts out loud.
So we have to try to do it for them, whether it's right or wrong.
I wonder how much we project, too.
Like of our own feelings or of our own worries on our animals.
Because I think that where, you know, we talk about this with dogs and stuff.
You get home and the dog is the first thing to greet you and everything.
Oh, you missed me, you missed me.
I don't know that the dog really missed you.
I think that there's certainly something to that.
I think that they certainly do a bit and everything.
But I also...
I don't believe that these animals just sit there by the door all day waiting for us.
I do think that they have a life.
I do think that they find other things to do to preoccupy themselves.
In part because of the way that the brains are structured, the way that they work.
They almost have to.
That's the survival instinct in every animal's brain,
no matter how domesticated they are.
Well, in a lot of the times when you're not home, they're just sleeping.
Yeah. There's nothing...
You're not missing out on anything.
Until the food drops and then they're off like a light.
That'll wake them up.
Kevin has an exciting six times a day when the food drops into his dish.
I don't know your house building or anything like that,
but you could be...
Farthest away from Kevin can possibly be in a soundproof room
and you open up like a bag of chips that boom right there, right there.
Fruit bag, yeah.
Dogs are a little like this.
Nothing is more in tune with you and your snacks than a cat.
They're very smart about this.
They're very good at it.
That's an interesting one.
I don't know what my biggest concern would be when I'm not around when it comes to a pet at home,
but I do know the first dog that I really like what had and was around a lot
was Gonzo, a dog that an ex of mine and I had.
And she worked at a grooming salon and they also had a pet plate, you know,
a daycare, a pet daycare.
So she would bring Gonzo there and stuff to get Gonzo socializing with other dogs in this
and they had a camera so you could watch from home or at work how your animal was doing.
That's cool.
And I remember thinking this was one of the coolest things I'd ever heard of.
You know, this was awesome.
This was like 15 years ago.
I thought it was so cool and everything.
And I could not wait.
I finally had a day where I was home and I was not working and I could actually watch some of this video.
And I pulled it up and I watched it.
And it was the most boring TV show I've ever seen in my life.
They were all sleeping.
I mean, they were playing for a little bit and then immediately it just got to where they were starting.
They all kind of did their own thing.
We're chewing on something and then yes, they took a nap.
That was it.
That was it.
The very first time we left Kevin home alone by himself.
Yes, I know.
I'm hearing the irony.
Yes.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
It was Thanksgiving.
We didn't do it for Christmas, but we did it for Thanksgiving.
And the whole way to Madison, Aaron occasionally would bring up.
You know, I really wish you would have gotten a camera to check on Kevin.
I wonder what Kevin's doing.
Do you think he misses us?
You can't help it.
You can't help having these thoughts.
Yeah, yeah.
I think he has a lot more of these pet panic moments than I do.
Did you guys come home in the house?
Had a bunch of like booby traps that had been set and everything.
And you know, you get a police.
Aaron has the permanent imprint of an iron on his face.
Yeah, that's got to be rough.
That's got to be rough.
There's a lot of awkward holiday pictures.
I imagine.
You know, I don't know the last time I saw home alone.
And I don't remember the movie that well, I apologize.
Did the family come home to that?
Like, they come home and like all the, all the, the, the, the, the, the,
everything.
Sure.
They came home to a perfect house.
Was that how that worked?
I can't remember.
I can't remember.
That may be the most.
They made them so much.
Yeah, in a fun movie, fun movie.
I'm not at all tearing the movie down.
I liked the first one.
Yeah, the first one's the only one I saw.
And I liked the first one too.
It was a fun, sweet movie.
Catherine O'Hara.
You have me a Catherine O'Hara.
Anytime she isn't anything.
Right.
But I do, I do think that is the most unrealistic part of that movie.
Everything else of that movie, it pales in comparison to the idea that a child that
age would clean up after themselves so well that their parents would have no idea
what happened before.
That happened.
I was right.
There are six home alone movies now.
No way.
There are six of them.
There are six of them.
Hang, hang, hang.
Wait a minute.
I believe the first, yeah, McCaukey, McCauley, Culkin, the original, you know,
alone boy is in the sixth one.
That's cool.
That's pretty cool.
I do like the idea of it's the sixth one, but it's still McCauley.
It's still his character getting left home.
But now he's like in his 30s and he's living in his parents' basement.
And they just, they didn't, they didn't so much forget him.
You know, if you don't want to be, wait, wait, wait.
We will get out of here.
We'll come back when nothing but fun.
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