Hour 1: Snow Day!

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day and we hope it's treating you good.

It is 8.04 on the clock.

Got your host, James J.

I am joined by our head of news, Melissa Kaye.

Good morning.

And all of you, the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Good stuff on the way in these next two hours.

We're going to kick it off the way we like to,

talking a little weather with our friend, Brittany.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you?

We're doing good.

How are you doing?

Are you going to work all right today?

Oh, yeah, perfect.

If I work from home right now.

It's a pretty easy commute.

You know, I'm lucky.

I know a lot of people struggling today.

Yeah, yeah.

There's two things.

I have two big questions I got for you real quick, Brittany.

One, can you hear Melissa?

OK.

I can hear Melissa.

Oh, good.

Good.

Why don't you guys be able to interact?

That's good.

Good to hear.

It also, are you a snow person?

Do you get into the snow?

Do you like this kind of weather?

I am obsessed with it.

I'm actually in snow dress right now.

Oh, this is very own Elsa.

Yeah, yeah.

You're going to fit in great, Brett.

You're going to, that's awesome.

That's fantastic.

We have a good friend, our co-host around here.

Another co-host of ours, Terry John.

She's a big, big fan of winter.

Big, big fan of what.

You're making her real happy today.

What else is Mother Nature got in store for us?

Well, you know, she's just going to dump snow

throughout the entire day.

The storm is just a long one.

That's the difference between them.

Usually we get hit pretty quick.

This one's just going to take forever.

So a lot of us waking up this morning

like, why are we off of school today?

Because there's not much we've seen worse.

But this afternoon, it's really the fact

that the snow is going to ramp up in the afternoon

in an evening, so the rates are going to be higher.

It's going to be harder to see, visibility drops,

and then the winds start to gust up to 35, 40 miles per hour.

So it's going to be blowing the snow that's falling.

It could recover the roads a little bit.

But thankfully, our temperatures are

sitting right at that freezing mark.

So it's more of a heavier, sticky, or wet snow.

Perfect for snowmen.

I want a community of snowmen being built today.

Snowball fights.

Yes, yes.

What's the last time you guys built a snowman?

Oh, oh.

Last winter.

Oh, what's the last one for you?

Nice.

Yeah, I built one in my front yard.

Been at least a couple of years for me.

I got to get back out there.

I got to get out there and do it.

I love that.

Love like you, Brittany.

Do you do anything in the snow?

Do I?

My dad and I, whenever we're shoveling together,

it's always a matter of time of which one of us

throws a snowball at the other one first.

We still do that.

And Marla said a good question.

Brittany, when's the last time you did that,

made a snowman or anything?

Oh, goodness.

Definitely last winter.

Nice, nice, nice.

I'm a huge snow angel person.

First thing I'm going to do when I'm done working today

is run outside and make a snow angel.

And probably eat a handful of snow, too.

My, yeah, just take a look at the color.

That's all.

My favorite gift is, one of my favorite gifts is Homer Simpson

going into the snow to make a snow angel,

but it turns into a snow devil.

And he's like, why does it always happen?

Why does it?

Oh, I've never seen that before.

I'm sending that one to you.

I've never missed it.

I'm sending that to you.

Brittany, thank you so much for the forecast

in keeping our audience safe.

We appreciate you.

You have a good, safe day out there.

You too, enjoy the snow, everybody.

Thanks, Brittany.

Thanks, Brittany.

Appreciate her.

Brittany joining us every morning, right in this time slot,

we appreciate her being able to do that.

A lot of fun working with her.

Now listen, I have a lot of fun with you today, everybody.

We got good stuff on the way.

We're going to get into a couple of things.

I want to touch on this one right here

that I thought was fascinating.

The weirdest gadgets unveiled at the CES,

Consumer Electronic Show.

Oh, cool.

We got some good ones, including one

that might help you in Kevin.

I don't know, but it might.

We'll see, we'll see.

We'll keep it low-key between you and I, Melissa.

Okay.

I don't want Kevin to overhear me.

He's still sleeping over here.

Yeah, okay, good, good.

Let's not wake him up.

We are going to get into how many employees

have seen a Gen Zier being a parent

and bringing a parent to a job interview?

What?

Yeah, I know.

That was news to me.

That's the first I've ever heard of that.

So we're going to get into that one, of course.

Nine o'clock hour going to have some entertainment news

in there.

I got a little bit of news about purple rain,

Princess Purple Rain, a little bit about the sopranos.

Those are some interesting ones.

What's new on your small screen tonight?

All of that coming up.

And later in the nine o'clock hour,

got a couple of good ones here.

Nine healing plants you can grow inside your home.

Oh, cool.

I think that should be a fascinating one

right there, Melissa.

I don't know anything about that one,

except for one plant.

There's only one plant I know.

Other than that, I don't know.

So that'd be a fun one.

And then every day things people do

that are super disrespectful.

We've got a little bit of a more unique one

for that a right story

where we're going to dive into that today.

We're looking forward to it.

That should be interesting.

All that coming up.

Similar to Brittany, I'm imagining

your travel to work today was easy, Melissa.

Yes, yes.

Good, good.

Very good to hear.

The track from yeah, across the house,

it was a little treacherous

because you know, Kevin was being a brat.

Other than that, made it just fine.

Very good to hear.

Very good to hear.

We hope all of you are traveling safe out there.

As Brittany was warning us, right now,

it doesn't seem so bad,

but it's the continuiveness of this.

It's the just piling on of it.

And I did want to mention a couple of quick notes.

Certainly schools are closed.

Every school is closed.

I would just assume,

like even if you didn't know by now,

92 schools, the last I checked,

we over, Melissa's on the same feed,

I am as far as our chat feeds.

And throughout the night, it was just getting,

this place closed, this place closed, like.

Well, it is the first major storm

that we've experienced this year.

So that's surprising.

That's no days to use up.

I mean, you know, might as well get them all we can

because who knows how much of this

we're gonna get this year.

With all of that in mind,

we encourage you to keep in mind

that we, I've heard yet,

overnight from Aaron Wells,

our good friend over at the Aging and Disability Resource Center.

And they have decided to close

Wisconsin's rapid senior dining

and Wisconsin's rapid meals on wheels.

Mm-hmm.

Do us a favor.

You know your neighbors, you know your neighborhood.

People that might receive these meals,

even if you're not sure, you just think they might.

It's not a bad idea to stop and check in on them.

Yeah, check in on them, make sure they got some food.

I mentioned my father when I'm done helping my dad

with the driveway and throwing snowballs at each other.

I'll be running over to her place,

a couple of blocks down a wonderful lady

that lives near my folks and checking in on her.

I hope that others do similar thing.

If anything, it's not even bad.

I'm not saying the chef to bring a warm meal over anything.

If you can, that's great.

But even just checking in is a wonderful thing

to be able to do.

Yeah, stop in and say hi.

And a big thank you to our friends

at the Aging Disability Resource Center.

Appreciate Aaron and the gang over there.

Yeah, stay safe, everybody.

Hopefully the, the, it's gonna be a lot safer flights

on the Boeing's going forward, Melissa.

And that was as close as I had a segue

to this conference that they're getting into this.

But yeah, for those that didn't hear the Boeing,

there was 100 Boeing 737 Max Plane

that had a whole broken, broke open in mid-air.

This was on last Friday on a flight returning to Portland,

Oregon, they had to shut down early.

The cabins depressurized and oxygen masks came out.

All six members and 171 passengers on board were perfectly fine.

There was a lot of videos going around

and certainly some fear at the time,

but everybody is okay.

Yeah.

The follow up to this story, Melissa,

which I love a good follow up story.

There are updates on the crazy emergency landing

that the Alaska Airlines flight had made last Friday.

The door plug, the refrigerator-sized panel

that ripped off was found.

Oh, it was just, it was discovered

in the backyard of a Portland area teacher named Bob.

He found the piece of the plane and called the authorities.

Bob found the door.

Bob found the door for, for those that don't know,

because I wouldn't, I can't imagine this is common knowledge.

If you do see something like that,

that's, you're, you're legally supposed to do that.

You're supposed to call the authorities.

Yeah, to report it.

Growing up outside Nero Hair,

we hear about that stuff all the time.

At least rumors of it.

I never saw anything, never heard of anything like that,

but you heard rumors of,

if you ever see a thing from the plane or so.

The National Transportation Safety Board says

that they're going to collect the door

and analyze it to learn more about what went wrong.

Two cell phones have also been found,

which were apparently sucked out of the plane

after the whole ripped open at around 16,000 feet.

Oh, wow, they found them.

That's crazy.

One was an iPhone that was perfectly intact and working.

Oh, right.

It was even open to a baggage claim receipt,

which since the, this story wasn't a tragedy,

could be used in future marketing campaigns, I would think.

iPhone already has a, they have their titanium phones

or whatever now, and the commercial is the titanium coming

from the universe down to earth.

That's a little, yeah, it hits a little close to home.

No pun intended.

You want a solid phone?

R's survive getting sucked out of an airplane.

Yeah, yeah.

And honestly, it might be the easiest

and cheapest and most realistic ad.

iPhone's, I has ever done.

Any of the I stuff has ever done.

I don't know.

I, there's got to be some marketing people

working on that one right now.

I got a, oh my goodness.

I would be a, I would be a little,

a little hesitant on that one.

I would, that would be one of those things

where I wouldn't be, you know, squash in this story,

but I wouldn't exactly be out there promoting it either.

I don't think bowings would be too happy about that.

Probably not.

But I can imagine they're too happy right now anyway.

Well, no, they, they did quite a bit

to make these things safe.

We've had some problems with these already.

And all that, although, I, I, I like many of you out there

will pick on airlines when I have the opportunity

because they've asked for it.

Most of them, the monopolies and the different things

that are going on.

Also think you got to give credit where it's due

and they work so diligently on these planes

to get them up in the air.

The fact that we, we, we have anything like this happen

is a little bit surprising oftentimes

because it's one of the few industries

where there is some checks and balances.

Unlike the, the railroad industry.

Yeah, yeah.

I wanted to touch on this one too,

because this is a fun one.

A wildlife photographer in Wales

set up a camera in his tool shed

to find out why objects were moving around

and discovered a tidy mouse was cleaning up for him.

Rodney Holbrook, 75 of both a bullet wells

said the mystery began with some bird food he stored

in the shed, ending up in an old pair of shoes.

Holbrook said, set up a camera in his shed

and ended up recording footage of a mouse

making nightly visits to round up small items

that had been left out and placed them

into a small tray on the shelf.

I'm just going to tidy this up for you here.

It happens every night without fail,

Holbrook told the Washington Post.

He said the rodent which he dubbed Welsh tidy mouse

usually works alone, but will occasionally be accompanied

by one or two other mice.

Ooh, sometimes he brings friends.

He said the mouse and his cohorts are apparently

placing his left-out items, including nails,

cabin ties and small tools into the tray to hide nuts.

Quote, I don't bother to tidy up now.

I leave things out of the box and they put it back

in its place by the morning.

Oh my goodness, that's hilarious.

I've never heard of anything like this.

This is a Pixar movie.

Yeah, exactly.

This is the first time like that, it's real.

So, a Gareth Davis founder of Wal-A-Wales

based pest and property solutions said,

mice are miniature hoarders.

Quote, mice are very inquisitive creatures

and they are hoarders.

They love hoarding food and everything else.

And it's in their nature,

they are completely different to rats.

Another mouse went viral in 2019

for similarly tidying up a man's shed in Bristol, England.

These English mice, I really, really love keeping a fit.

Nice hole.

The men's sheds.

I love that it's guy's sheds.

Yeah.

Now we just need, you know, this is an absolutely

should be Pixar's next movie.

Yes.

And these men just need to start singing to the mice

and, you know, it's gonna, it'll be great.

It's a, so like, what is it?

And speaking Welsh, can we have more Welsh in our lives?

Yes, we do.

Yeah, we need that.

I want the mice.

Not that we'll understand it.

No, no, but I do want to hear it.

It's so good to hear.

It's so good to hear.

If we've got to get bad news,

I want it in a Welsh accent.

I want at least to get into a Welsh accent.

It's a little bit better that way.

I have no idea what he said, but, you know,

it sounded serious.

Say, anybody else here, a ticking?

Does anybody?

I like the idea of this, but I really,

you're saying the Pixar thing.

So isn't it snow white that she sings to the animals,

the animals come and help her clean up and all that?

Yeah, and Cinderella.

Okay, Cinderella.

I couldn't remember which one it was.

Yeah, well, either one of them.

I love the idea of that, but with this guy.

Yeah, that's a whole, him singing to them everything.

I want the whole.

Sure bag.

I want to know.

And then they fix whatever, you know,

he was working on the lawn mower and tell her

and he sings the song to tell him how to do it.

Get on that, Disney.

Get on it.

We will, we'll take a commercial break.

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I like it.

It's a little old school.

I'm going to like it.

It's just very, you honky-tonk piano.

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That's why we're grabbing qualifiers.

That's why we're still doing that.

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I like the idea of if you're at a diner

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that anymore, they call them apps.

Yeah, I'd like some mozzarella sticks.

And I like the civic media app.

If you could get that for me.

That's not on the menu.

It says apps.

It says apps.

And let's take it.

Like unlike restaurants, ours is free.

Yeah, there you go.

Nicely done.

We're getting into our birthdays and anniversaries

for today.

We actually have to rewind for a second.

We have an honorable mention from yesterday

that we did not get on the list.

A good friend of our station and a good friend

of Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater and C-Wack.

Amber Fait.

Oh, happy birthday, Amber.

It's interesting today.

We were talking about choreographers.

Amber, a fantastic choreographer.

Only got to work with her a little bit

when we were going to do Cabaret.

But the little bit I got to, I was like,

I got to work with her again.

Amber's awesome.

Done some play readings together.

Just a wonderful creative human being

wishing her a great day.

And do you enjoy your day?

Yes, today and today, Amber.

Sure, why not?

Carry on with the celebration.

I need a one or a two from you, Melissa.

Let's go with one.

Okay, that gives us our qualifier.

So first up, we want to wish you a happy birthday

to Courtney Jones.

Happy birthday, Courtney.

Enjoy your day, Courtney.

We hope it's a great one for you.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier

and our great friend around here, Tom Heiser.

Happy birthday, Tom.

Tom joins us with our veterans updates.

Yeah.

He joins us at the beginning of every month for that.

We always appreciate it.

Tom is also the guy who gets Melissa

and I so much information that you hear us

relay to you over the air.

Yeah, the happenings in the community with the VFW,

you know, any of the blood drives.

Tom is great about getting us information

and we want to wish him an absolutely wonderful,

happy birthday.

Stay safe.

Don't shovel snow.

Yes, yes.

You can avoid it.

You heard it.

You heard it, Tom.

No, no, no.

Appreciate you, Tom.

We really do.

Thanks so much for all you do for us,

our veterans and our community, for our community period.

Taking a look at some celebrity birthdays.

Kate Middleton is 42.

Really?

Prince Williams, wife and the mother of his children

cheese the Princess of Wales.

Yes.

I like that they have to mention both of those things.

Wife and mother of his children.

Yeah, yeah.

I let's see here.

Chad Johnson or, as he's known now,

Chad Ocho Sinko is 46.

He was a big, big time football player.

He's a wide receiver for a long time,

known for a lot of extravagant celebrations.

His name, his given name was Chad Johnson.

His number was 85.

He changed his name to Chad Ocho Sinko.

Mr. Johnson was a fantastic football player.

Didn't take a lot of Spanish apparently though.

He was trying to make his name Chad 85.

And Ocho Sinko, not exactly how you do that.

Not exactly.

Didn't work out that way.

I don't know.

I don't know if somebody told him that when he was at the,

you know, a courthouse getting his name changed

because he'd legally changed his name to that.

Like, I love to see if the...

He did it during NFL Spanish Heritage Month.

Yes, yeah, which was very cool.

That part is very cool of it.

I just, I know a lot of Spanish people

and one of the things that irritates of the most

is misspeaking the language or something.

I can't imagine how that went over.

Sean Paul is 51, singer, songwriter.

She doesn't mind, got to love you.

Rock a by, baby boy, a lot of songs from him.

Okay.

A lot of songs from this.

Yeah, yeah, a lot of songs from this man.

Dave Matthews is 57.

Dave Matthews.

94s under the table in dreaming.

I don't know if there was anybody in the suburbs

that didn't have that album.

I'm pretty sure.

It was our generation's equivalent of Peter Frampton.

Like Frampton comes alive.

My dad used to joke that everybody,

like if you, once you moved to the suburbs,

you got a copy of Frampton comes alive in a card table.

Like, that was what you got.

You got those things.

I think that's how under the table in dreaming went.

Anne's marching.

What would you say, satellite?

That was a good one.

I love crashing to me.

I like that song.

And the crash album is probably the one

I know the most songs from.

Yeah, that's good out, yeah.

Good band.

I haven't gotten his end, their violin player passed away

and he was one of my favorite parts of the band.

So once that happened, I got to be honest.

I haven't listened to him as much.

But I liked, I got into him a bit.

Not huge on him, but I got into him a bit.

Let's see.

Mugsie Boggs is 59, all five foot three of them, baby.

Mugsie Boggs, NBA baller, great baller, great handles.

Imagine how good you got to be to be able

to make it to that level at five three.

No kidding.

Mark Martin is 65 NASCAR driver

and who wrote also wrote NASCAR for dummies.

Really?

Yeah, that's awesome.

I've never read that, but I love that he did that.

That's awesome.

Those for dummies books were huge.

They still are.

Are they?

Oh, that's good to hear.

Yeah, that's good to hear.

I like that.

Those are fun books.

And I only read one of them.

I never remember what it was for,

but I wanted to read at least one of them.

My mom was working at a book world at the time.

And picked one up for me.

Yeah, those are fun books.

Anything that helps people learn, okay?

Yeah.

That's all that it matters to me.

Right.

J.K. Simmons is 69.

One of the greatest character actors of all time.

Howard Silk on a counterpart.

You will know him as J. Jonah Jamison

in the first Spider-Man trilogy, Pope on the Closer.

He was Vernon Oz.

I believe one in Oscar for the drummer movie.

Oh, I can't think of it right now.

Great actor.

Great actor.

Wip lash.

Thank you.

Wip lash.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to ask her for that.

Incredible performance by him.

He is one of those actors.

He just, he brings it.

Whatever.

If he has two lines or if he has a hundred,

he's going to bring the same energy.

Crystal Gail is 73.

Country singer, Loretta Lynn's little sister.

I could listen to Dona McMy Brown eyes blue all every day.

At least once a day I could listen to it.

I love that song.

Like the way she sings it too.

I've heard other versions of it.

I just like the way that she sings it.

The way she does.

Some of the way that her and her sister,

actually, Loretta Lynn,

just the way they sing certain words,

even stood out to me.

Great singers.

Yeah.

Let's see.

David Johnson is 74.

It was known to many of us as Buster Point Dexter.

Football running back.

Buster Point Dexter was a big in the 80s.

Hot, hot, hot.

He had a couple of hit singles.

Yeah.

Pretty big artist.

And I don't know.

I don't think you're going to have many bigger names

when it comes to the electric guitar

than Jimmy Page who turns 80 today.

Wow.

Yard Birds and Led Zeppelin Legend.

Led Zeppelin, 69s Led Zeppelin

with good times, bad times.

Zeppelin too.

Whole lot of love.

Living, loving, made.

Tangerine.

Immigrant song.

Black dog.

Rock and roll.

My God.

I keep going.

And I didn't even mention the hits that he had

with the Yard Birds.

Jimmy Page, just whenever you,

whatever set of him, whatever you can think of him,

there are not many music history.

There are not many people that have a musical history

like Jimmy Page does.

Incredible.

And just, I would like to see him play this double guitar.

Oh.

It's a guitar with two next.

It's like two guitar and one.

And not just that Melissa.

There's video my dad has of him playing that same,

that type of guitar with a violin string.

Oh wow.

And playing it beautifully.

Like playing it amazingly.

You mean like a bow?

I'm sorry, yeah, bow.

Yeah.

Like a bow, yeah.

It's incredible footage.

I'm sure it's online somewhere you can find it.

Yeah, yeah.

Also incredibly influential,

literally every single guitar player you like.

Like anybody who came after Jimmy Page looked up to Jimmy Page

and learned from him.

Who he is.

Incredible artist.

Incredible.

John Bias is 83 today.

Wonderful folk singer.

Singer, songwriter.

John Bias.

Some people no longer with us.

Like our former 37th president, Richard Nixon.

A lot of things we could say about him.

Yeah, just moving on just to be respectful.

I'm just going to move on.

Bob Denver born in 1935, passed away in 2005.

Gilligan's Island superstar.

Yeah.

That show doesn't, doesn't land the same without Bob Denver.

No.

He was such a Gilligan was just obviously the best part

of that show in my opinion.

I agree, I agree.

But he did that character so well.

He can't be easy being a grown man,

playing a role like that, but he did a great.

Yeah.

Jimmy Boyd born in this day in 1939.

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus fame.

Incredible sportscaster Dick Enberg born in this day in 1935.

Dick Enberg.

Part of the reason why we have all this old footage of,

you know, the first and second super bowls and things like that

is a dick in his family and the great work that they did.

Seeing early on, hey, this is stuff we should call,

we should, you know, document this.

This is going to be big.

This is going to be huge.

This thing called the Super Bowl.

This is going to be pretty big.

And, you know, it's why we have so much awesome,

amazing old footage now to this day.

Cool.

And we wrap up with Steve Harwell, born in 1967,

passed away just last year.

Way too young.

Former Smash mouse singer.

Oh.

Some of their songs.

Yeah.

And, you know, like them, don't like them.

I think we can all agree.

That's way too young for anybody.

I mean, they deserve that.

That's a shame.

And I always think of this too when it comes to bands like that.

You know, dude, I didn't like any Smash mouth.

I didn't get in any other music.

I'll be completely honest.

I find it disrespectful to say,

to lie about it just because we're talking about him being passed.

But I will say, I don't begrudge anybody what they like.

I think one of the silliest things you can do is to,

oh, you like that music?

How dare you?

Well, you wait listening to it.

Music snobs are one of the most annoying things in the world to be.

The idea that you could be that annoying about something so random,

so, you know, individual as everybody gets into different stuff.

Yep.

Yeah.

And why berate somebody or belittle them because they like something

that you don't like, that's just dumb.

Yeah.

It seems like a real waste of energy.

We ain't wasting any energy.

We are going to save some because we got a good segment coming up.

The weirdest gadgets unveiled at the CES.

We're going to talk about the consumer electronics show.

Got a couple of interesting gadgets from that we want to talk about.

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Thanks for joining us.

Yeah.

The annual consumer electronics show in Vegas starts today and runs through Friday.

But the media got to preview some of the new gadgets earlier this week.

Many of you might have already heard about this new voice-activated

budget that works with Alexa.

That one's kind of interesting.

So we'll get into that a little bit.

So the annual consumer electronics show starts today in Las Vegas.

And the bathroom brand collar is pushing a new budget that connects to Alexa

or Google Home to offer voice-activated washing of your TUSH.

Yes, it's a bad day.

Yeah, yeah.

Which we should all have in every bathroom in America.

I've used them a couple of times.

All I can say though, if you're going to do it, get one that has heated water.

Yeah, that seems like a good idea.

Yeah, yeah.

Because the cold one's not so much fun.

It is.

It's just such a weird conversation, but I know to have.

But it just doesn't...

It's proven scientifically.

It's a thousand times cleaner.

It's a thousand times better for your body to do to wash that way.

Use less paper, obviously.

But try getting a bad day in America.

It is not easy.

It is not easy.

You can.

They're a little expensive, especially for the ones that allow you to have heated water.

But I don't know.

I enjoyed it.

I'll have to say I'm not going to lie.

Yeah, yeah.

I've never used one.

Is it activated one?

Yeah.

It's kind of hilarious.

That is kind of funny.

Like what do you do?

Wash me now.

I choose to be washed now.

Commence washing.

But day?

Water on?

Okay, but day.

Do your thing.

But day powers go.

But day powers activate.

Oh my goodness.

LG has it.

Who got to choose what the, you know, control thing was the statement that you have to say.

That's it.

That's what I want to know.

I want that job.

I want to be in charge of.

But day go.

But day powers unite.

I want it to be like Voltron.

I want to.

And now, LG has a new see through TV.

It's called the O lead T.

The tea stands for Transparent.

Very creative.

When it's off, you can see right through it.

They claim getting rid of that big black rectangle makes the whole room feel bigger.

Well, I guess you could put it in front of a window then.

Yeah.

I didn't have space anywhere else.

So I, I'm taking a no pun intended.

I'm taking a look at this right now.

And it's transparent, but it's not.

I mean, it is.

How could it be completely?

Right, right.

And so I mean, there's that part that I think is no worthy.

But it's also this, this will have, I don't believe that this wouldn't have a moment.

I could see people getting into this for a little bit, just like they did when the,

remember when the roll screen came out, the screen's a kind of bent.

Those were really huge for a while there.

But the thing about this is that I'd be a little surprised by is one of the reasons

a lot of people buy TVs is to be able to show off that big TV.

It kind of defeats the purpose.

Hey, I like my new transparent TV.

I don't know what he's talking about.

What are we looking at?

No, no, wait a minute.

No, I spent all this money to make you think I was amazing and impressive.

Oh, no.

That seems to defeat the purpose.

A brand called Sevy has a new oven that's as fast as a microwave.

Really?

They claim it doesn't give chicken and other meat that rubbery texture like a microwave.

You can also bake in it and supposedly make a cake in under four minutes.

Okay.

Is this, is this cheating?

I thought the part of baking was having patience.

Well, but also, I don't know, there's chemistry involved.

Yeah.

What are we using to, what does it use to bake with then?

I really, really, to the point where, except I'm not in this for years, I'm at the point

now where I'm actually starting to learn and trying to understand baking a little bit more.

I can cook some things, but I can't bake a darn thing.

And I want to be able to make cookies.

I want to be able to bake.

I've been trying to learn different things, and I'm getting more of what you're talking about there, Melissa.

Well, cookies are a great place to start, James.

And, you know, I mean, those only take eight minutes, but think about how big a cookie is versus how big a cake is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And like the middle, and I can't, I have a hard time believing that it would actually be done well.

You could make a cake in a mug.

Yeah, yeah.

In four minutes.

I could see that.

I'm a big fan of pound cake.

I love pound cake.

Does that take a long time to make?

My mom has made it my whole life.

I should know this, but I don't.

I'm going to be honest.

I don't remember how long it takes.

Well, I think it takes about as long as normal other cakes in the oven.

It just seems smaller to me, so I wasn't sure.

Well, I got a lot to learn.

I got a lot to learn.

I got a lot to learn.

I don't know about that.

I'm not sure about this oven.

I'm not sure about that either.

I wouldn't be surprised if, I mean, you know, tinkering with the oven in itself.

I could see that.

I could see a lot of that going on.

Well, we've already done some of that, too.

We have convection ovens.

Now they have air friars and ovens.

It's true.

There's all sorts of things.

And finally, the big one here.

And I think this is going to be a big one to a friend of both of ours, Melissa.

Two brothers or maybe not.

Two brothers from Switzerland came up with a new cat door called Flappy.

Flappy prevents cats from bringing dead mice and other dead animals inside.

It's outfitted with AI that could detect a dead animal in your cat's mouth and not let them in until they drop it.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah.

That's kind of funny.

That is kind of funny.

I also, I don't know if these two brothers sound very intelligent, very, very smart.

And this seems like a really cool device.

It also feels like they've never had a cat.

Yeah.

The cat's not going to drop it.

The cats are one of the most stubborn animals on the planet.

I don't know.

Pretty, yes.

They're pretty stubborn.

I don't know.

I'm sure that it works.

They wouldn't have taken it.

They wouldn't have gotten this far with it if it doesn't work.

But I have a little surprise because cats are pretty, pretty stubborn.

Yeah.

And you, I don't know.

AI is never perfect.

Yeah.

Like, oh, so I'd have, I'd have a lot of concerns about it personally.

So I would much rather them have an invention that can make the, like, figure out,

or does the dog really need to go out?

Or is it just want to go out for a minute to yell at a squirrel and come right back in as soon as I sit down?

I want that device.