Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. We're hope it's treating
you good. It's 804 on the clock. Got your host, James J behind the mic. I am joined by
our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for
joining us, everybody. We appreciate the company. Good stuff coming up for you this
hour. We'd like to kick things off with our new friend, Brittany Marlow, giving us our
weather. Brittany, good morning. Good morning. How are you doing today? We're doing good.
How are you doing, Brittany? Pretty good. You guys ready to get smacked with a cold
friend? Oh, yes, please. Let's wake up. It'll wake us up. That's all right. That's
all right. We got a lot to do today. That's all right. Exactly right. Holiday week, which
if it's smacked with this, we'll all be bright, bright out and bushy day old, but like
goodness. Well, let's come in. It's going to be pushing southward through the state
throughout the day. So right now, it's sitting up into northwest Wisconsin, kind of bringing
some light drizzled up towards the Chippewa Valley. As that moves south throughout the afternoon,
I could bring us some flurries by this afternoon. Very light, no accumulations, just a trace.
But as that goes through, it's going to pull our temperatures down. So right now, we're
sitting at our highs. I mean, we're at 30 degrees. As we go through the afternoon, it's
going to keep getting colder with this cold front. And to the point where we're going
to crash to 12 degrees by tomorrow morning.
Yeah, that's just I was just grabbing my coat. I was just I just just just grabbing it
really quick, even mentally adjust to the number. Yeah, yeah. Brittany, I don't want to keep
you too long, but I do have a tendency to drag our weather people into our top opening
topics. So I just I just want to bring, you know, just break you in to the show, break
you into the audience and all that. So please forgive me if I'm putting you in on the
spot here. I don't like to do that. But I am going to bring this up with Melissa. And
I'm not asking if you're celebrating this. I'm just curious if you've heard of it.
Have you heard of Janu Harry? No, Melissa, have you? No. This is something we're going to
Melissa and I are going to dive into it our opening topic. Janu Harry is Janu Harry is
the name came up with to encourage women to stop shaving, waxing and plucking for the
first month of the year to help normalize body hair on women. Okay. So again, not asking
any specific specific, specific, specific, I'll be, I'll tell you specific. Okay, I just
don't want to pride. That's all. I just was curious if you all had heard of this. In January.
I feel like winter months for females, we lack on shaving our legs as it is because
you have to wear the pants. We don't really have to. But I don't know. I don't know if I
would stop like talking about eyebrows or the facial stuff. It's interesting. That might
be a little tough. It's interesting to talk about, I think. I think it's just an interesting
conversation. And we appreciate you playing along with us, Brittany. Thank you so much.
And thank you for the great forecast. We'll, we'll hang out again tomorrow. So good.
Have a great day. Thanks, Brittany. You too, mate. She's awesome. She's going to, she's
going to play red. I cannot throw curveballs at our civic media people. They, they are too
good. They are too good. We appreciate that. And Melissa and I are going to get into that
in a little bit. We've got that one coming up for you. I also want to talk about these
twins that weren't born at the same day. Oh, I saw that headline. Curious to find out
the details. It should be interesting. You're afternoon slump. We're going to talk about
that. Words they're going to fix it for us. You say that's it. That's exactly it. We're
going to, we're going to fix it. Or we're going to figure out a way to come up with excuses
for it. We're not. Words that need to be banished this year. We're going to get into that
as well. I have a few speaking of words. It is a Wednesday. And that means we're going
to be joined with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday for our friends of quality plus
printing. Phil Hartley is going to call us in and give us that wicked awesome word.
And thanks to our friend Brittany right there. We know our phones are working. So, and
and Brittany can hear you. Melissa. So that was great. That's wonderful. We got all those
things worked out. Big thank you to Salaris to our engineers to all the great people working
on that stuff so that we can do our job. We can do our thing here. All that coming up
in the eight o'clock hour and along with Misty's menu birthday and anniversary club. We will
also get into some fun in the nine o'clock hour. Just a little bit of entertainment news.
I want to touch on. And then I want to get into a couple of interesting ones, including
one that Melissa sent over 10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2023.
Oh, yeah, that was an interesting article. I thought it was very interesting. And I'm looking
forward to diving into that with you, Melissa, along with plenty more. You know, the way this goes,
the usual unusual suspects. We will have our, that a right stories, good stories of the day
and playing more lined up for you. Touch on some local news as well as we go throughout these
next two hours. How's your morning starting, Melissa? How you feeling? Oh, yeah, you know, it's,
it's going pretty good so far. A little bit of a rough start this morning, I would say. Just
because of a late night last night, I got to go to auditions at the WRCT Glassman
Agri. That was a lot of fun. There was a good turnout. So I'm excited for Seth and the,
the selection process. There's auditions still yet tonight at 6.30 at the theater. So come on down,
especially if you're a guy, because you know, that's, that's the typical, the typical community
theater need. You need more guys. Don't be shy. Yeah, usually is the case. That, that tends to be
the way it works and everything. So we can get some more guys down there that be great. But ladies,
of course, you're encouraged to come on down as well. Absolutely. Certainly. And, and we just,
we, we know that there's going to be, there's going to be less of a certain people coming down.
So we want to get a little variety of that. And with a show like this, it's, this is one of
those shows that you're going to want to look back on and say I was a part of that. Not only because
it's an amazing, it's amazingly, it's amazingly well written play. And Tennessee Williams is,
is not worth noted already in this country, let alone in, in theater. But what Seth is looking to
do with this show is very different than I think most people have seen or experienced. And
it's going to include some multimedia in it. So some parts will be filmed. So it'll be almost
an immersive experience. Absolutely. That's a perfect word for it because that's what I was thinking
of it. All your senses, it's going to be immersing all of them into this world. And that you're
going to be taking it as a dream play. Yeah. So he's, he's, the, the elements that he wants to
include in it are really going to help transport you to an alternate reality.
Every once in a while, I'm watching a movie or a TV show and I get so caught up in a scene
that I'm, I'm locked in and I'm in that world. But it doesn't happen very often. And usually
comes from acting. It doesn't come from a lot of other stuff. I don't know any time of her
watch the movie and not known. I was going into watching a movie or a TV show. With theater,
I feel you have an opportunity when it's done right to, to, to, to, you know, to, for one,
to really be immersed into it and to forget the world around you and just be sucked into this
world that you're watching because theater is so in, not only personal, but you, you are right
there with, you're breathing the same air as the actors. Right. All of the energy from the actors
and all of the energy from the audiences contained in that space. And it, it's a different experience
than watching a movie, even watching a movie in a movie theater because the actors aren't there.
They're not live. Yeah. As we mentioned and they'll segment on WIR.
It's a really fun show. We're going to talk more about the entertainment section. But again,
auditions going on again tonight for WRCT's next production, the Glass-Managerie,
get on down there. Auditions will be at 630 tonight over at the WRCT Auditorium.
I want to touch on a couple of things with you, Melissa. Let's go ahead and start with these
twins. Let's start with these twins. A New Jersey couple welcomed a set of twins who were born
not only on different days, but in different years. That's cool. Ezra Humphrey was born at 1148
on December 31st at Virtua Voorhees Hospital in Voorhees, giving him the same birthday as his
father, Billy Humphrey's 36. For eternal twin, Ezekiel was born at 1228 AM on January 1st.
Oh, cute. What are their names again? Ezekiel and Ezra and Ezekiel. Ezra and Ezekiel.
Great names. They were brothers in the Bible too, I believe. Oh, where are they? Okay.
Okay. I think so. I could be wrong. 424-2600, feel free to call up and join the conversation.
Yeah, let us know. Let us know. 715-424-2600. I have seen a lot of births. My mother, I saw
give birth to my sister. I've seen all my kids, all my youngest daughter. I showed up a minute late.
Is he was screaming when I walked in the door? I've seen a lot of this. I cannot explain to
somebody who hasn't the strength and power that it takes to be able to do this. This woman doing
this, not only doing it once, but then a half an hour or so later. Then the next one. Oh, man,
that's going to take a moment on that. Let alone the interesting part of the story. I was very
excited about the potential of having my boys on my birthday. Billy Humphreys told Good Morning
America. He went, we went in that day and I wasn't quite sure if they were going to come out or
not, but having one of them at least on my birthday was a huge blessing and a gift. Their mother,
Eve Humphrey 34, said she had gone to the hospital in December 30th, but was sent home due to a
false alarm the next day she returned. Quote, my water broke and I'm like, happy birthday, I think I
have to get to the hospital. Billy Humphrey wrote on Instagram that his newborn sons are so special,
they couldn't even share a being born on the same year. That is going to be very unique for a pair
of twins to have not only different birthdays, but different birth years. I think of, like a lot of us,
I think of the end of the year as the last leg of the marathon of holidays and the gamut and we
kind of get done with Christmas and there's this little bit of a breath we can take. New years
is a holiday, but it's not the pressures and all that of Christmas, not this family,
not this family. This family, they got a whole, the marathon continues for them.
These two birthdays, along with the husband's birthday, it's a thing to be a party weekend.
It really is. I mean, I'm not jealous, but I'm a little like kind of, that seems like a really
fun way to kick off the new year. Every year you're kicking off with a birthday.
Well, and Ezra's going to hold that over Ezekiel though. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He's very obviously the
older of the twins this birthday's first. It just saw my oldest friend Chris of last week
and I'm a couple months older than him. And immediately, like, birthdays came up and that
immediately came up. You know, I got a couple months on him, man, I got it. It's for me to let him know.
Until you're in your 80s, you're not going to be holding that over as many more times.
No, probably not. Probably not. You know, I get there though. I'll be okay with it. I'll be
all right with that. As long as I get to 80, I'll be all right with that. Okay. And a quick
Google search, Ezra and Ezekiel, I don't think were brothers. They were both prophets though,
and they both have books in the Bible. Okay. Okay. Very cool. Thank you for looking that up.
It was going to bug me if I didn't know. I do want to just knew the names together. And it's
because I've, you know, memorized the books of the Bible as a kid. So you say them in order.
And they were nearby each other. So it's just brothers. Great names. Great names.
We want to send a shout out to another great name, our friend Diane. Diane brought us cookies,
Melissa. Yay. Oh, thank you, Diane. I will make. Yes, there are lemon ones. And I'm going, I
already put some aside for you. I already put some aside for you. So they're making sure.
I had to do that because otherwise I would probably devour them all. So yeah, as you do. Yeah.
Thank you, Diane. Appreciate you, Diane. Thank you, Diane. We appreciate best listeners in
the radio. We will take a break. We'll come back with a bunch of fun and some
celebrating with our friends at Misty's many birthday and anniversary club on the morning show
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Yeah, feel free to call the joint and join the conversation, everybody. We'd love to hear from you
and love to get those birthdays and anniversaries from you. Let's dive right into our list in Melissa.
I need a one through three. Ooh, I'm going to choose one. All right, gives us that qualify.
We can get right into this celebrating first up. Happy birthday to Amber Lewis.
Happy birthday, Amber. Enjoy your day, Amber. Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a very happy birthday to Caitlyn Scott.
Happy birthday, Caitlyn. Caitlyn, enjoy your day. We hope it's a great day for you, Caitlyn.
And our qualifiers today celebrating their anniversary, Dave and Janie Malcolm.
Oh, happy anniversary, Dave and Janie. They used to own David Haralds here in Wisconsin,
Rapids. Oh, nice. That's been establishment quite a few times back in the day when they were
David Haralds and everything. Appreciate the gang over there. And then and Dave and Janie,
Malcolm, happy anniversary. You're our qualifiers. Congratulations. Keep on listening and at the
beginning of February, when we announce our winners for January, you could be our winners when
that free missedies menu food. That's right. You're on the list. We dive into our celebrity birthdays
and boy, we got a great one. Happy 21st birthday to Greta Thunberg.
Oh, Greta. This young lady is incredible. She is a Swedish environmental activist.
She's been challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.
Her climate activism is I don't think I think she has set a new standard for for this.
She's definitely encouraged a lot of young people to pay attention to what's going on in the climate.
It began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced her family's
carbon footprint. That's where this all began. She has just accomplished so much in such a short,
I mean, we've known about her and she's been doing all these things and she just turned 21.
She started when she was eight. Yeah, yeah. This year. And to me, I think that she is,
I don't like using the term poster child. I don't like that that much. But for lack of a better
way to put it, I feel that she is the poster child for this that generation in many, many ways.
We just we did the story during the elections season of the young man who is the mayor in Florida now.
It's like in his early 20s, 23, I think he is. We've got a number of different cases of this.
A number of different times where we've got young people not only getting involved in politics,
but young people getting involved in the world around them and doing something like you always say,
they're not waiting. They're not waiting for the adults in the room to fix the problems. They see
the problems and they are stepping up to fix them. And she learned about climate issues when she
was eight. She didn't actually start doing things until she was 15 just to clear. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Greta Tuenberg is is an inspiration, I would say, for adults and kids alike of the things that we
can do to be vocal about, you know, protecting our planet. We only have one planet here. Yeah,
she was 100 times in times 100 most influential people being the youngest time person at the
year, inclusion in the Forbes list of world's 100 most powerful women and multiple nominations
for the Nobel Peace Prize all before she is 21. It's just incredible human being. And you know,
as somebody who lives on this planet, thank you, Greta. Thank you. We, I don't know if we do that
enough. Thank you. Thank you to her and all these people working so hard to try to keep our planet
rolling. Happy birthday to happy 20th birthday to Florence Poo. Yeah, P-U-G-H. I've heard it
pronounced in a number of different ways. Any way you say it, she's amazing. She is awesome.
A lot of people saw her and little women mid-summer. Some people may have a lot of other people might
remember her from Black Widow where that was really her breakout role to a lot of people.
Don't worry darling. She was in as well. She started that. But I really, she was very,
very good in Oppenheimer. I cannot express how good she was in Oppenheimer. I didn't even know
it was her. I'm a big fan of hers and I watched, I've seen almost everything she's done
and I really enjoyed her work. I didn't even know that was her in right away. It took me a
minute or two to realize. Her eyes are very noticeable to me. And it took me a minute or two to
read. Is that Greta? Is that Florence Poo? I couldn't believe it. It's just a...
Oh, she was in both the Dune movies too. Yeah, she was really good in those two. Yeah. She is
just one of these actors who we learn how to say her name because she is going to be around for a
while. She's only getting better and better. Let's see. Nicole Barry is 39. Christy Hunter on the
morning show and Abby and Sleepy Hollow. Eli Manning is 43. Peyton's younger brother,
retired New York Giants quarterback, Possible Hall of Famer. We'll see. Eli Manning has two
Super Bowl rings and we thank Eli Manning. Those of us that don't leave in the greater New England
area because he beat the New England Patriots twice and a lot of us are very happy about that.
Let's see. Danica McHeller is 49. Danica McHeller. Maybe most people might know her as
Winnie Cooper on the Wonder Years? Yes. But I really... She was fantastic on that show and as an actor,
I should certainly be highlighting that. I'd much rather highlight Danica going to UCLA,
getting her degree in mathematics and writing several great math books including math doesn't suck,
kiss my math, hot ex algebra exposed, and girls get curves. Geometry takes shape.
Danica, she's a great writer. She's a really, really good writer. She's a fun interview too. You
get a chance to see her interviews and everything. You don't see, we talked about child actors a
little bit in young celebrities and stuff and she is such a young age, kind of realized,
I like acting. I love math. And go with your strengths. Yeah, go with... Well, she's just so
stinking cute. Yes, she is. I'm sure I have no doubt that her agent and many, many others have
bothered her for years to keep working at stuff. Let's see. Thomas Balgather is 48. He is one
half of Daft Punk. Yes. Big fan to Daft Punk. Big fan. I love me some Daft Punk. I can't name
any other songs, but I do like... I know I do like Daft Punk. Around the world, digital love,
they got some good ones over the years. A stronger is a good one. I got a lot of good ones. I like
Daft Punk. Good band. I'm trying to be good about these things going forward. So today is Mel Gibson's
68th birthday. Mel Gibson, one of the more popular bigger names of the less 30, 40 years when it
comes to acting. Certainly famous from the Leith Weapon movies, Braveheart, the Passion of the
Christ. Maverick, yes, those and everything. Also an anti-Semitic jerk who probably doesn't deserve
to be in the public eye anymore, no matter how talented he is. That's just me, that's just my
opinion. Not talking for anybody else. Hollywood has spoken and he's continuing to get work. So
what do I know? But yeah, if it was... I don't believe that you do things like he did where we have
the voice males of him talking to his daughter and his ex-wife and the way he talked to them,
the way he treated them, the very, very, very serious and very anti-Semitic statements he has made
over his lifetime and that he has stood by. I think, you know, our standout a lot more than his
average acting, which it is. It is average acting, average directing, Passion of the Christ is not
a very well-directed movie at all. If it wasn't for the storyline or the topic, it would not have been
as popular as it was. And on that, we directed that. And not one Jewish person in the dang movie,
by the way. Just noteworthy there, considering his past, his background. Also though, I know he's
got fans out there and he's got people out there that like him and everything. So to you, you know,
enjoy and celebrate. I will never watch another Mel Gibson scene, let alone movie again. He's not
worth it to me. There's a billion other actors out there and a lot more talented ones and funny ones.
So he's not worth it. Jim Ross is 72, former commentator for NWA, WCW, WWE. I think Jim Ross is
the greatest commentator I've ever heard in wrestling. And I really admire Jim Ross for a lot of
the schlapper knocker. He's got a lot of great quotes, a lot of great lines. But JR is most of
us know him as wrestling fans. He suffered a stroke at one point, not too long ago. And many people
would kind of pull away from the public eye or stop doing something. And certainly if you are a
announcer, you would think, oh, he's definitely going to stop. Not JR. Still doing it. Still going
strong. And good at it too. Still very good at it as well. Let's see here. Stephen Stills is 79
of Crossbees Stills and Nash. Yeah, Judy Blue Eyes. Good song. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, let's say.
Let's see. Let's see. Dabney Coleman is 92. All right. Now, the here's a guy that should be
as popular as Mel Gibson. But isn't. And by all rights should have been. Dabney Coleman 92,
the evil boss and Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. I use an on golden pond. Yeah. Yeah. Boardwalk empire.
Ray Donovan. Games. Oh, board. Oh, board games. Good one. Good role. The Beverly Hillbillies.
I forgot about him being in the Beverly Hillbillies. That's a good one. War games. Did you say war games?
I did. Yeah. Yeah. I thought so. That's my favorite performance of his. I loved that movie
as a kid. I watched that movie constantly as a kid. And part and part because of him.
Bobby Hall is Bobby is as we look at people who are no longer with us. Bobby Hall kicks off our list.
I am Melissa. I know you're not a sports fan. Just you can take a break right now. It just
give me a second. All right. Because everything I was just saying about Mel Gibson is a little
similar with Bobby Hall. Just hits a little closer to home because Bobby Hall is one of the most
iconic Chicago Black Hawks of all time. The you can't talk about the history of hockey and not
talk about Bobby Hall. The the whole family and everything they did. At the same time, Bobby Hall.
Big jerk. Big jerk. Big time. Like there are some stories of some people that have like,
oh, he signed my autograph. He was nice to me. I have heard growing up in Chicago and growing
up in a hockey family. So many bad stories about him. Let alone the things that are, you know,
the the court records that show and different things that he has done in his life.
Complicated people. You know, we got celebrating here today. Robert Lozia. So it would have been
a little burning birthday today. Born in 1930, passed away in 2015. Great actor. Famous for his
high guy, tough guy roles, parentheses honor, scar face, jagged edge. Great character actor.
I think the most famous scene and I think most people will remember him from the movie Big
when he's playing on the big life-size piano with Tom Hanks. Oh, yeah. They're doing the foot
dancing on the piano. Yeah. Yeah. I love that that's the scene that most people know him for because
he's such a good bad guy and play a bad guy in so many scenes. And that's kind of the thing
that we know him for. Well, but he also plays a good guy too, really well. I think he is just very
versatile. Yeah. Yeah, just a versatile actor. Sir George Martin, born in this day in 1926. The Beatles,
amazing genius producer, often considered the fifth beetle. And as John Paul Ringo and George
would tell you, there are no beetles without George Martin. You know what I mean? The beetles
are still big. The beetles are still the beetles, but you don't have the beetles like you don't have
them where they are without George Martin without that producing. And we don't have half the
entertainment that we love without J.R.R. token. Born in this day in 1892, passed away in 1973.
What a long life. Wow. Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and as Melissa and I were talking about on
the sunrise show, author of many other works and encourage you to check them out.
I didn't know he was born in South Africa. Yeah. Yeah. I talk about this a lot. Him and
C.S. Lewis were roommates in college. I'd give anything to waste a time machine and just sit in that
room. I can't imagine they're sitting there and they're bouncing ideas off each other.
Hey, man, I thought about this. I got what about a closet, but you open up the door and it's a whole
world in there. All right, that's pretty cool. I've got an idea. I got an idea. What about these
little people that got to go find a ring? What about these bouncing ideas off each other? I love it.
It's a great idea. Let's go ahead and wish one more time. Amber and Caitlin, happy birthdays.
Happy birthday. And a very happy anniversary to our qualifiers, Dave and Janie Malcolm.
Congratulations, Dave and Janie. Enjoy your anniversary. Yeah. We'll be back with more fun
on the morning show here. Oh, we're going to talk about January when we come back. Melissa,
we got that coming up coming up on the morning show here at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa and James hanging out
with you. We've got some good stuff to get into this hour. Our wicked awesome word of Wednesday
is coming up from our friends at Quality Plus printing. Looking forward to that. Right now,
let's celebrate January. Yeah, January everybody. So for those that don't know, November is no
shave, November for guys. A lot of men choose, uh,
November, November. Yeah. We, uh, a lot of men choose not to shave that during that month to raise
a attention about men's cancers and donate. Yeah, and to donate to those causes. I tend to,
whoa, bumper music, still kicking in. I tend to, um, if I don't, if I do shave or even buzz my
beard down, I will send 20, 30 bucks to, um, National Cancer Society or different organizations
like that doing work on that topic. So I, I, yeah, I bring that up with this one, this topic
right here. Happy January, everybody. January is this is as we were talking about with our
friend Brittany earlier, is the name someone came up with to encourage women to stop shaving, waxing
and plucking for the first month of the year to up normalize body hair on women. It's fairly new,
but not a brand new thing. It debuted in 2019. So it's the sixth year people have done it. The
official January Instagram account has over 40,000 40,000, 100,000 followers. Uh, it says their goals
include promoting self confidence, challenging societal beauty standards and creating a supportive
community where people can share their journey. One of the founders says dedicating a whole month
to it is liberating because it gets you thinking about the way you treat your body and why.
Um, I am, I am going to shut up and back off of this topic. I would like to hear from the you
in the audience, Melissa. I'd like to hear from the audience 715-424-2600-424-2600.
Well, I do, you know, there's a lot to shave on a woman if you really want to get down to it.
You know, I obviously legs and armpits are the two most common, but there are other areas to shave.
And I even know in some other cultures women shave their, their forearms. I had a Korean friend
who lived in the dorms that I did when I was in a freshman in high school. And she shaved her
forearms and I just, I was 13. I was like, this is strange. Everybody has, every culture has
different customs, but there's also societal pressures in every culture. And a lot of them are
impressed upon women and how we look and how we function in society and how we take care of our
bodies. I really appreciate the fact that they're doing this to promote, um, to promote this and
normalize it because it is a lot of work and it's expensive and it's way more time in the shower.
And I don't, I just, there's, there's got to be either better ways or we need to just get over it
and make it be okay. Guys can walk around with leg hair. Why can't women?
Yeah. I will say that I, I don't know, I've only been in a handful of serious relationships,
but the ones that I've been in this time of year. Yeah. That, that, that, that, that something that
happens, uh, the leg, the leg hair is going to be an effect. Um, and, because you don't, it's not
something you're showing all the time so you don't feel like you have to shave it. Well, why is that,
why, why that difference? I don't, um, and I, and I don't see, uh, for me just, uh, just throwing my,
barely, barely two cents worth here, uh, of anything. I, I don't, I don't see an issue.
I really don't. I, I don't see what the big deal is. I don't see a problem. I don't see the hang
up about this at all. Um, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me as far as, uh, from people pushing
back on it, the idea of it, I, I think it's cool. I think it's actually kind of cool and interesting.
I like the idea. If I'm with somebody, I want them to feel confident. I want them to feel powerful.
I want them to feel and, and, and power. Um, I would think that no matter who you're with or what,
you, that's what you want with your significant other or something. I'm talking about your,
you know, uh, standard man and woman relationship here. Um, but to me, that, that, that, if that makes
her feel more confident or stronger or say, or, or for, or for the, maybe even just as important
as all of that, saves her some time. Life is, Melissa, yeah, and money. Melissa was hitting on
this right away. I thought there was really key points to this. Uh, the time, the, the money that
it costs, we only have so much time in the morning to get ready to get our day going. Uh, I know for
me, it's, it, like one thing goes wrong and it throws off my whole morning and I'm running late.
And if you've seen me, I don't do a whole lot of prep. Like with, with my appearance, I try to look
decent for our interviews and all of that, of course. Um, but I, I'm a guy. I don't, I don't put
too much effort into it. So again, I don't feel like I have a leg to stand on in this conversation.
I, I think this is something that women, you know, should be, not that men don't have an opinion,
of course, and can't say something. A lot of opinions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
But I do think that, you know, there's a difference between self grooming and, um, societal pressures
to look a certain way. You know, obviously you should be well groomed as far as clean.
Right. You know, that ends there. You should be clean.
I, I, I think that that, that part is, is a, a key part of this. Whatever appearance or whatever
society says looks good or any of those things, that's, I think, a personal choice.
As long as you are taking care of your hygiene, that's the key to this, I think. Yeah.
It's not going to change though, James, until we see it on the big screen and on the television
screen and on the runways, you know, the changes in how women are expected to look in society
won't change until those things do. Period. Yeah. Um, I, I, I, I, a hundred percent agree with you.
I will say that I have a little bit of hope for that happening with the amount of female directors
we have, the amount of women we have in the writers room. So much of that representation is
happening more and more. We might see some of that. Um, we'll see, we'll see. It's an interesting
topic and I'm sure it's not the only time we're going to be talking about it coming up.
We have our friends from, uh, quality plus printing, joining us every Wednesday, usually at 845,
that's usually around when they join us. So that's when we are, you ready to bring them up,
usually, uh, Phil, heartily joining us right now. Hello, Phil. Hello. I just call, I just call
whenever I feel like James. I'm sorry. I was going today, Phil. No, doing well. How about you,
we're doing fine here. Uh, how is everything over a quality plus? How are you guys handling the
new year? Yeah. So far, so good. You know, it, there's always a mad breath for Christmas and even
for new years for us, you know, we get a lot of timely projects because of the timing of the end
of the year. But so it's good, you know, start off the year a little quieter, but I'm hoping we build
up quick here, but so far, so good. Right on. Everybody's got to take a breath. Yeah. Yeah.
That's it, right? There's a lot of stuff that I'm sure that you and your staff over there are,
are needed for leading into these holiday season and stuff. You get this first week or two of
the new year, probably people figuring some stuff out and what they're going to need next. Yeah,
and that that seems to be the cycle changes usually quiet first week or so of January and then
people are backing their jobs and figuring out what they need to order or, you know, what the next
project is. So you, you guys have certainly earned a little bit of a break here. So that,
that's, that's good to hear. That's good. Phil, uh, we're making you, but we're making you work.
We're making you work because you got to join us on the air here and you got to come up with
a wicked, awesome word of Wednesday. What do we have for today? So I have to tell you, my team here
appreciate the segment so much that they went out and bought me a word of the day calendar.
That's awesome. There's a rip off every day, you know, every day is the news.
Yeah, yeah. But I think I'm stocked. I am stocked. You're good. Yeah. Yeah. We're ready to do this,
people. You just have fans, Phil. You have fans. You do have fans. I've had this, Phil, I don't know
if you've had this. I've had listeners say to me the word of the day before. Uh, and then just
smile at me when they, those are just breaking, you know, throw it into the conversation like,
yeah, that's great. That's great. Oh, I'm glad to hear that. No, I do hear it on the community.
I mean, what a wonderful community we live in, but, but yeah, yeah, I hear it too. And it's fun.
And that's why I want to, you know, when we first started wanting to advertise with you and I
knew I wanted to, when I bought this business, it's like, but I just don't want to do for all
you printing me. So I want to have something we have fun with, you know, and, and, you know,
that we can continue and make it a neat thing. And that's what this says. So I'm very happy to do
this. What is this first word is a short word, but I think it's very apropos to the new year.
So the first word of two out of the precious on 2024 is a dog. Oh, I love that word.
A-G-O-G. Yeah. Anyway, it means a full of intense interest or excitement. So here we are,
a dog for 2024, hopefully. It's such a fun word, Phil. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, that's a good
word. That's a full word. Hopefully at the end of that. That's kind of being dismissive. We are
a dog for 2024. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a good thing to happen.
Was that on your word a day calendar? Yeah. I was. Okay. Yeah. Right off. Right off.
It's the first word of the first, you know, so I'm going back to day here, but a couple days. This
is a January one word. Oh, I like that. Oh, so a dog. It's a good word to start the year with.
Yeah. It's going to be a dog this year. We got some cool things coming up here, James,
that they're in quality plus printing. And I'm going to be excited to advertise your new station
about them in a couple weeks here because we're in line with some new project stuff and some new
things we can do. So we're very excited about that, Phil. We got a dog. We've been having so much
fun. We've been having so much fun working with you and working with the team over there.
This year, and we, I think, you know, you were touching on this before. We've been kind of
figuring out, okay, we want to work together, but what do we want to do? We don't want to just do
the standard 30 seconds, 30, the 60 second commercials and all that. So now that we've kind of
been able to work together a little bit for the last year or so, I think I can only imagine what
we're going to be doing in 2024. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah. A dog to find out.
I wish you guys the best, obviously. Yeah. This year, you know, let's, let's have some fun,
make this community a better place and then work together on that. We can do it. Well said.
Always well-worded. We appreciate you, Phil. Thank you for the wicked awesome word of
Wednesday. We'll talk again next week. Happy New Year to you and yours and to the team over there,
okay? Yeah. You as well. Thanks, guys. I appreciate you guys.
Thank you, Phil. Thanks, Phil. We are just a dog with our friends over Quality Plus.
Great, great word. I need a way to use that word today. Oh, that's fun. It's such a fun word.
A throw it into your conversations all day today, everybody. And get weird looks. Yes.
That's cool. And share that those weird looks with our friends over Quality Plus printing.
Getting your words out here in Rapids. We appreciate the gang over there. You can stop by right now.
They're at 3515 A Street South in Wisconsin Rapids. Open till about four today.
Give me a call. 715-423-744-0. That's 423-744-0. Be sure to like and subscribe to their
Facebook page. It's a great way to keep up on all the good things going on in our community.
Take a break. Come back. We'll get into that afternoon slump. We're going to talk a little bit
about that. Coming up. It's... You need some tips. Yeah. Melissa and James, take it through your
morning here at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Melissa and James,
taking you through the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Let's dive into this topic, Melissa. We'll take us right to the top of the hour.
Do you regularly hit an afternoon slump at work or just in your day-to-day life? You hit that
usually two to three o'clock area and you start to slow down a little bit. I call it my trough.
Your trough, I like that. One in five Americans say in a new poll that yes, that they
hit an afternoon slump and here's when it most likely happens. The average person hits that wall
about three o'clock in the afternoon and their slump lasts a total of 29 minutes. According to
the survey, here are the top five things that can cause it. Caffeine war off, general boredom,
a lack of energy. You need to eat James. You need to eat. You're under slept.
Sitting in one place for too long and not taking breaks also made the top 10. A lot
of people said that they tend to have more of these moments in winter too. Yeah, because you move
around less than winter. The top things we do to break out of a slump include going for a walk,
grabbing something to eat. If you can get away with it, taking a nap. I know a lot of people,
including I think even you've said you do this sometimes Melissa on your lunch break, you will
take a nap. Yeah, you can catch a 15, 20 minute nap for those that that helps, which there's
science that shows a lot of us. Yeah, yeah. It is beneficial. I feel for anybody that has to do
that. You know, your lunch break, you should be able to have your lunch and take a break in
everything, but I understand too how life works. I, you know, we were busy, we got a lot. 20 minute
nap is going to make the rest of your day better. Yeah, yeah. I used to do that when I worked at the
high school too. I'd go out to my car, you know, because I got a 45 minute lunch, I'd sleep for 20
minutes of it. Mm hmm. When I worked night shift, I did this a lot. I didn't, I could never fall
asleep right after work. So I ended up like taking like a nap or two nap sometimes during the day,
like an hour or two here or there, wherever I could fit it in. Yeah. But this slump is something,
it's a real thing. It happens to a lot of people. The top things we do to break out of that slump
include going for this walk and all that. But there's some other things that I think we can do,
and I'm sure that the audience has some input on this one too, 715, 424, 2600. What do you do when
you hit this wall? So I'm thinking, I'm usually working when this happens. I have a lot of meetings
in the afternoon that set up my night schedule or or teaching or any of these. When that happens,
like, I'll, we have a lot of meetings at three o'clock actually. I, I will go and I'll throw
cold water in my face. I'll do that. I'll do that a little bit and it just kind of wakes my
body up a little. That's just a quick one I do that you don't need a whole lot of a towel and
some cold water, you know, that's, that's about it. But I think all these other ones are incredibly
important as well. I most of them are pretty doable low cost. Yeah. Yeah. You know, surprise caffeine
didn't hit the list though. Well, here's the, here's something interesting that I think has happened
that we, you know, we don't get a chance to really talk about. But for a while there, there was a,
there was a moment in time where before we had like every now, now everybody's got a seltzer,
there was a time where everybody had an energy drink. Everybody, you know, these one hour things,
you take a drink of it and boom. Five hour energy. Basically liquid cocaine. That's all it was,
basically, it's all these things are. And to the point that I say that because to a, to a degree,
they, they were so harmful to the body, they killing the inlining of your stomach,
there's plenty of science and documentation on these things. These, you know, monster drinks so
many of them, they could be really bad. Just been happening with Panera and they're jacked up
lemonade. Yeah. That's people have been dying. Yeah. Yeah. You, man, you stop serving it, stop it,
stop it. Panera is better than that. Panera doesn't need that. They should be. They should,
you're right. They should be better than that. The, the, the, the idea of caffeine is in a bet,
caffeine isn't bad. The over abuse of it. Inspiration. Yes. Yes. It's very key to this and very
important. We've seen with that rise of all those energy drinks and everything, the downfall of
them as well. Lots of people have started to find that the science behind it, the fact that,
well, wait a minute, I'm spending like 20 bucks on two cans of these things. And not only are they
not working and not really helping me, they're making me addicted to caffeine for one, which we don't
talk about our addiction to sugar or caffeine nearly enough. Everybody wants to talk about drugs,
this drugs that nobody wants to talk about sugar caffeine. And, and the idea that, and I'm,
I'm pretty bad with caffeine as well, by the way, everybody. I'm not at all pointy fingers here.
And let's not even bring up sugar. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not even going on that route. Yeah.
But I also feel like I'm part of the reason why I need to bark about this stuff too, though,
because I'm, well, most of us are guilty of it, to some extent. But we are learning more and more
of finding natural ways, ginseng, you know, different ways to gain energy to get to, to, to,
to be able to have these, they not hit that wall. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And, and there are other,
like you said, other options. There's also the need for moderation and places can sell the stuff,
but they can't tell you how much of it you should drink. Yeah. I mean, they do put it on the label
to be fair. Yeah. Yeah. They, they do do that. But you got to read the label. Yeah. And I mean,
people, companies can only do so much. I don't, I, uh, people need to take personal responsibility,
need to think about and do the homework of what they're putting into their bodies, certainly.
And companies need to be honest about what those things are doing to our bodies as well.
I mean, they used to literally put cocaine and Coca-Cola. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
The standard that we have here is is very, and I think it's also a really good point to bring
up to Melissa, because it also shows we've, we've been dealing with this for a long time. This
hitting the three o'clock ball or, uh, you know, needing energy or anything like that. We,
we've been needing it for a long time to the Melissa's comment, right? It's, it's a key. But it speaks,
it speaks to a bigger, bigger issue of, of the, the, the expectation in America to work, work,
work, work, work. You know, yeah, basically work until you're dead. Yeah. And, and so it's,
it's a good conversation starter for how we can change things in our daily lives to have a good
work life balance, to, to make sure we're getting enough sleep. Some of those things are very,
very difficult for it, let's say, single parents, um, or, or people who work full-time jobs and
parent or go to school full-time and parent, um, even for a single people who just have Kevin
the cat, take care of, um, trying, trying to balance everything and still get the laundry done.
It's rough, man. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we all have our, our burdens to bear, but trying to get that
nap in at three o'clock is, is one of them that you got to, I don't know, some days you just got to do
it. Well, and uh, to right there, I feel like should be, uh, having some common ground with your,
your fellow human beings, I feel like should all, should give us all some understanding of this and,
and where we can work together on it, um, employers and businesses working with their employees,
finding out, hey, how are you, you know, we, we know you get in at nine, you work till five, uh,
how are you in the middle of the day? How can we help? How can we make that better? Um,
it only benefits your company. Your company is only going to be stronger and profit more profitable
from it. Uh, it is a good thing to do for it is a humane, humane thing to do. Yes. But if I got to
talk to the people that don't care about those things, it'll help your bottom line. It'll, it'll keep
you in the black. A blah, blah, blah. Um, it, there's nap pods, nap nap nap pods. Is that what you
said? Nap pods. These are things that really exist in other countries. They have, it's just like a
little pod, um, I don't want to say it looks coffin like, but it kind of looks like a coffin
and you climb in and you close the thing and you get a 20 minute nap, but then you go on about
your day. I, uh, all right. Well, Melissa and I are going to go hang out in a nap pod, uh, we're not
separate ones, separate ones, uh, very separate, uh, very separate. And, uh, we'll be back
with more fun on the board show here at WFHR. I'm just going to go, this is going to go. WFHR,
Wisconsin Rapids, 1320 AM and W248DE broadcasting at 97.5 FM.
