Hour 2: So when is the name Tycho going to become popular?

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. Got your host, James J behind the mic. I am

joined by Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habhacker. Good morning. And all of you. Thanks for joining

us, everybody. We got fun stuff lined up for you this hour. We're going to get into the most

popular baby names of 2023 by state. Very cool. Got that coming up in a little bit. Want to get

into that. Want to look ahead to the new year here in some of the big topics that you're going

to be coming up. We're talking weight loss, drug prices, prescription prescribed psychedelics,

some reckoning for 2024 that are coming. And some important information, I think, for some that

may not know about some of the pharmaceutical prices and that that is going to be changing in 2024.

Want to get into that with you guys a little bit. And we'll have with any right story,

some local good stories of the day. We'll let you know how our schedule for today is wrapping

up and looking as well. But we have to start here, even if we don't want to. Aaron Rodgers,

Jimmy Kimmel, this, this, this back and forth that's going on. We're not going to spend a lot of

time on this. Yeah. Okay. There's already been enough spent on it. Right. Jimmy Kimmel came out

recently and did a eight minute monologue piece, hit piece on Aaron Rodgers. And I didn't think

that anybody could make Aaron Rodgers has not become sympathetic after it. But Jimmy Kimmel lost

some goodwill from it. Now, there's two big things here that I've heard people talk about with

this. Jimmy Kimmel came out in for eight minutes, you know, tore down Aaron Rodgers. And with a lot

of the things that I think most people have already heard about Aaron Rodgers, you know, one of these

people who thinks that he's a lot smarter than he is and the ego and narcissism and a lot of those

things. Um, he can't take a joke. He, uh, he, he doesn't do follow-up questions. Aaron Rodgers will

only talk to one person. Uh, and this is not because he believes that everybody's out to get him

and he's being canceled. It's because he can't handle follow-up questions. He's proven this. Watch

his interviews, uh, his press conferences or not. Uh, he's shown this to us his whole career. We

just didn't know this was, uh, in, in between years then. But then Jimmy Kimmel comes out and

immediately tears down his education and says that this is a guy that, uh, barely graduated,

um, high school, barely graduated community college, got to football, uh, at Cal on a, uh,

football scholarship and, and that. And this is where, uh, he lost some people because a lot of

his audience is in a similar position. And what I want to talk about from this is the, uh, divisiveness

and the separating of us. At Jimmy Kimmel, come out and said I'm talking right to Aaron Rodgers.

And I want to put this directly to him and then it's been extremely specific about said things

like his joke. The only A's Aaron Rodgers ever got were the two on his name, like that kind of

stuff. Uh, that, that's interesting to me, but it's also interesting, uh, to, to see this back

and forth because it is under the same umbrella. Um, Jimmy Kimmel works at ABC, ABC is owned by

Disney, Disney is owned by AB ESPN, where the Pat McAfee show was on. ESPN, uh, killed off almost

everybody you like on that network. Almost everybody you like because they had to clean house

because they got to redo things and we, everybody's going online, everything's streaming. We can't

create streaming. We tried this, this, and this didn't work. So we're going to buy it. That's

what Disney does. They're going to, if they can't make it happen, they're going to buy it. So they

bought the Pat McAfee show. And this is what you get with the Pat McAfee show. Uh, I, I want to be

really, really clear about this. I don't know Pat McAfee. I got nothing against Pat McAfee.

I don't watch this show, but I'm also doing a show. I, I couldn't, you know, I don't really

listen to a lot of stuff that's on the same time we are or anything like that. That's not about him.

That's, I don't have a lot of time on my hands. Right. Um, but what I do know of that show and when

I have watched his show, uh, I don't know why you wouldn't want to be on, interview it on that show.

For one, he's paying Aaron Rogers a million dollars to do that. Yeah. Which means Disney is paying

him a million dollars because Pat McAfee has that money because he got the contract from Disney.

Um, but also, um, there are no hardball questions. There are no difficulties. He doesn't ask

follow-up stuff. You can just go on there and spit and whether it's, uh, this or that. Yeah.

So, yeah. Um, one thing about this that bothers me also is, is the, Aaron Rogers is trying to,

he's not backpedaling, he's doubling down, of course, because that's what people do in these

situations nowadays, apparently. Nobody can admit they're wrong or that they may have said something,

we misunderstood something. According to Aaron Rogers and Pat McAfee, he was just trash talking.

You can't trash talk about a child abuse. You can't trash talk about pedophilia. Like what are we

doing here? And under that umbrella, he's able to do that with that, like, um, that palpit. Like

Pat McAfee's never had a bigger audience than with ESPN. He has all the credibility in the world.

He took less money to have that credibility. And now we're in a situation where he has

on a guy every week who's spouting conspiracy theories and tinfoil hat stuff and Disney and Bob

Eiger got to deal with it. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. The only, the only thing I'm going to

say about this is does, does Aaron Rogers not understand how people are laughing at him?

How ridiculous he looks with all this stuff. He doesn't seem to understand that at all. No.

No. Uh, so what a touch. Wow. He is, uh, created a life for himself where he lives in a bubble.

And he surrounded himself around. Yes, man. Because that's what a lot of these people do. They,

they can't handle any kind of criticism. It's not with reality. Yeah. Completely. It's, um, uh,

my, my biggest point about this. There is no joking about pedophilia. No. And anybody that does,

uh, refuse to take seriously. I, including if it was my own father, uh, you lose all credibility.

You're out the window and it's not as if he hadn't already. So, uh, I, I think the biggest point

I take from all of this, why, why are we talking about it? Why are we paying attention to these people?

And I know I just spent two minutes doing it. Right. But it's so I could build to this. And I

could never talk about him again. Yeah. Period. Uh, unless it really, unless it really becomes

something intense and something serious and something we truly need to address, I personally,

and going to do my best to not talk about him ever again. Right. Um, period. It would. He,

he, he, he, I'm fortunate enough. Yes. I'm fortunate enough to be doing this show 20 years from now.

And he gets his name, uh, his number retired in Lambo and everything. Maybe then I'll bring it up.

But other than that, I am, I, does anybody have a problem with that? Seven one five four two four

twenty six hundred. Anybody got a problem with that. Uh, I, I feel like we've all spent

enough time on this, on this segment, right? This guy in this conversation. Just to put a, uh,

point on it, um, the only sad thing that I see coming from this Aaron Rodgers in 2028. Yeah. Yeah.

No, seriously. Yeah. No, politician, politician. Yeah. I can totally see. I know. I know. I know.

But I see this. I see the path as like crystal clear for this. Yeah. So yeah. Whoa.

Why would you even say that? Because I think I'm sorry. It's so obvious. I think it's so obvious.

It's so obvious. Yeah. This is, this is where he's gearing up. This is where he wants to go with

it. Um, they, this would like to have intelligent people. Oh, yeah. We're running our country.

We're with you, but it's 100%. Yeah. Um, I, uh, I, uh, when, when they were rumors that

Herschel Walker was going to run, he was going to run. Yeah. That would, that would,

they were just feet. They were just trying to see those things out. Like, yeah, he's definitely

going to, I'd be more surprised if he didn't run for some office. Right. And it's, it's not because

he wants the country to be better. It's because he'll still be in the news. Because my name will

still be out there. Yep. And, and believes he's right. Mm-hmm. Always believes he's right.

No matter what scientist, no matter what teachers, no matter what doctors, no matter what anybody

says, he believes he is right. So of course, a person like that thinks he can fix everything.

Well, until that happens, now we can stop. Sounds really familiar to another guy.

Kelsey Grammer isn't really learning, uh, leaning on either, uh, cheers or the original

Frazier for the new revival, but he does want to bring back a major character, Diane.

Oh. On the Kelly Clarkson show, he said he'd like to bring Shelley Longback to quote,

put something to bed, end up with a nice thing between them. Uh, Shelley appeared as Diane on

three episodes of the original Frazier, although two of them were in dream sequences.

The, the revival just finished its first season. The two former cast members making

guest appearances, BB Newworth as Lilith and, uh, Perry Gilpin as Al-Raz.

Um, two of their better characters. Yeah. Really? Um, that'd be kind of cool. That'd be

interesting to see. Uh, I don't know what's going to happen with that. Um, I know that there is

some, uh, friction between him and Ted Danson and some other cast members from Cheers. So I don't

know if we're going to see, you know, uh, norm or any of that. Right. Um, but I really loved

that BB Newworth did that. I didn't see this new revival of Frazier. I watched the original,

of course, um, but I didn't see this new one. But, uh, BB Newworth is one of my favorite

character actors in TV history. I love her. I love her. She's awesome. Just amazing. And those

that don't know if you only know her as Lilith, I implore you to look her up a little bit. Um,

I was fortunate enough to see a, uh, uh, the Adam's family, uh, rent, um, the Broadway version of

the Adam's family when they were touring and they toured in Chicago to get, they do this to test

the show out to work out the, you know, shop it. Yeah. Nathan Lane is Gomez and BB Newworth is

Morticia. Oh, God. And that woman, I'd never seen her before other than in Frazier as that.

And she comes out as Morticia. And I mean, her legs alone. And, and I'm not saying that like,

I heard the look of her legs. I mean, the strength. She's a dancer. I know this song and dance.

Yeah. And I mean, an amazing dancer. She's great. What a beautiful voice. Like, I'm getting

goosebumps just thinking about it. I went into it like, oh my God, Nathan Lane, I get to see

Nathan Lane live. That's all I'm thinking about, all I care about. Uh, oh, BB Newworth, that's

cool. Let's see what she does. She stole the show. Nice. She was amazing. That's awesome. Uh,

very good. Right? You know, we're from Madam Secretary. She was really good in that show.

Oh, that's, that's right. I totally forgot about that. Okay. So as you should be, as a surprise to

no one who knows me any well, very well. Uh, one of my nicknames in high school was Frazier.

And, uh, and I guess, I guess I leaned into it a little bit because I, I, for a while there,

I had a big crush on BB because I just say, Hey, why not? You know, she's, I think she's,

she's attractive. And, and, and, and Lilith, I, you know, there's something about that kind of

woman. I mean, it's just, it's like, I find it attractive. I don't know, but that's me.

Yes. You're not alone. You're not alone. I hear you. I hear you.

This next entertainment spot is just, uh, we're going to have some fun with and everything.

We're going to take a, uh, we'll just go to, we'll go to break with this popular TV show tropes

that have aged badly. Ooh. Do you ever cringe watching reruns of your favorite shows? Uh,

and not even so much old shows, but we're talking like friends or how much your mother or some of

these that have been around the last 15, 20 years. You know what? Some of the shows like from the

60s have aged better. Yeah. Like the 80s and the 90s shows. Absolutely. Yeah. Uh, it's really weird.

Uh, but you're, uh, 100% right about this. So like the airport professions of love, you can no

longer run through an airport to catch the love of your life before they board a plane.

PSA could take a long time to get to their priors. It can. Yeah. That was totally unbelievable now.

Can't do that anymore. Yeah. Do you get pulled out aligned? Yeah. Excuse me, sir.

What do you? Uh, slapping people sober. When a character is drunk or having a panic attack,

slapping them across the face is not a cure. It's even more problematic when it's a man slapping a woman.

Oh, yes. 100%. Yeah. Let's, let's not do that anymore. Yeah. You can't slap anyone's sober.

It's never worked. Better to dunk their head in the rain barrel.

Yeah. Which doesn't work either, but at least it's funnier. Oh, good, good reference though.

Good reference. Uh, we all pictured that in our heads. Yeah. As you said, yeah.

Amnesia storylines. Amnesia isn't as common as 90s writers would like you to think.

It's a brain injury. So someone who has it won't walk around like everything is just perfectly fine.

No, they wouldn't. Our idea of amnesia is completely twisted.

It's a very, very, very bad. Um, innocent peeping tombs. Boys watching women or girls watching men,

you know, in dressing rooms and these kind of things was like in the 80s, a trope.

Wasn't that weird? It was. It never was. It never felt creepy. Yeah.

I really, I'm, I'm confident on this one. They're more young men than not.

They watched like that. Revenge on the nerds, things like that. And came away from it cringing.

I, I, I know most of my friends felt that way. There was no like, oh, wow, that's a great idea.

Like, oh, that ain't right. Oh, I'm nine years old and I know that ain't right.

Like, wait a minute, why are you watching that at nine?

Yeah, there's a whole other couple. Uh, spousal abuse jokes. Yep, sensitive and not funny,

not funny. No. Uh, we, we should have learned this with, uh,

pow bang right in the kisser, uh, uh, to the moon, Alice. We should have learned it back then,

but we didn't took a while. Um, now it, it's also though, I think very important to not get on

your high horse with some of this stuff either. Um, yeah, I like watching the honeymooners.

I love watching all the reruns of the honeymooners. I don't watch it and immediately judge the writers

or judge the times or the people. How dare they do this? I look at it and they say, well, I'm glad

we're not like that anymore. And then I move on. Yeah, we don't want to forget what the,

uh, how things were. Yeah, it's a good reminder. We don't want to, uh, push that into the dustbin

of history. I think the reminders are necessary. Absolutely. Um, and then there are, it brings me back to

this, uh, I can come back to this and I've been thinking and writing about it a lot lately. Uh,

one of the things going forward that so many of us have to do with more and more information,

24 hour news cycles, we're meeting our heroes more and more nowadays and finding out that they're

not perfect and all this other stuff. We all have a code. Every single person under the planet,

under the sun has a code under the planet doesn't work. Under the sun. Fix that post. Uh, it's,

to the center of the earth. I had such a good point. I was going somewhere. I had a good point.

We were with you. I need to be taken off my high horse for a second.

Oh, we have a new promo, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, there you go. You're welcome. Uh,

everybody has a code and you really got to just go by that and not judge others on their code

or try to make people adapt to your code or anything. We all got this, uh, uh, this thing in us

that tells us right from wrong and and going by that is kind of all we can go on going forward

because there's just going to be so much more, uh, that are on us, those of us under the planet.

The town drunk alcoholism is serious. It's a fatal and serious disease. Uh, that is not as funny.

Uh, as, I don't know if it ever was, but not, not, uh, a trope. People really thought it was funny.

I mean, writers did because there was always drunk scenes and stuff like that. So, uh,

well, wasn't that half of the Andy Griffiths show. Oh, uh, oh, I forgot his name,

but yeah, he was always in the in the trail because he was in the drunk tank. Yeah. Yeah.

Makeovers to fix Tomboys and nerds. A leading female character does not become better by dressing

more feminine or looking, quote, prettier. Uh, just because she takes her glasses off and pulls her

hair out. That's exactly what I was very 90s. Um, um, um, that one's, yeah, that one's very,

very old and not not working anymore. Boy, this one, uh, I, I think this one actually aged out,

almost as soon as it came about, uh, roofies and love spells, like love potion number nine,

like that movie, I mean, I'd better remember that Patrick MC movie. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's not good,

not good. I'm, I'm, I'm almost, uh, I'm a little, uh, put out that you know what that is,

no, no, no, no, you know who was in it. I remember that movie. I remember it's all reason. Yeah,

because that's my brain. Uh, uh, wow. Um, I can't remember geometry, but I can remember, uh,

I'm definitely wasn't love potion number nine. Yeah, but the love potion movie, I think,

was more of the thing that I, uh, did, did, did, did, did, did, did. Yeah. Yeah. So very,

so we're going to fall in love with you. Some weird connotations there that we, we don't,

yeah, the, um, and, and similar to that, no, uh, you know, the word no, uh, in movies and TV

shows, uh, it means no, not try harder. Um, yeah, you know, that kind of thing. Um, and,

in the final one on this list, and you can look at a wealth of geeks.com for the, uh, full article,

wealth of geeks.com. Um, yeah, it is. That's a good one. Uh, this is one that I, I don't know.

I, I, like, they put it on the list here, but I'm not sure a fat jokes. Overweight people were

an easy target for a long time, but today's society's becoming more body positive for all sizes.

I agree with all every sense of that, but I still hear people telling fat jokes all the time.

It's, it's the one that in ageism are the two things that, the last bastion, yeah. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. That those are, are still areas where we are, we, we are free to roam the unPC planes,

you know, uh, and I don't, I don't like that. I don't think that that's okay. I, I don't know why

we, we, we let that just kind of slide by. It's lazy comedy. Yeah. Yeah. All ethnic jokes,

all those kinds of things that we've had throughout our history, racial, racial jokes.

It's, it's easy. It's lazy. We can, there's, there's tons of funny things out there.

There's lots of ways you can make people laugh without resorting to that cheap joke. You know,

there's, there's, there's just so many ways you can do it. So I, um, we're low hanging fruit.

Exactly. Like James talks about all the time. Yeah. I, um, I, I, I don't, I, I think that all this

stuff is good to be gone for obvious reasons, hopefully to most of you out there. And I think that

all that's very important. Um, and I, I think that, uh, it's treating people with respect is important.

I, all of that. But all that being said, Seth brought up the point that I wanted to really end

on here and that I think is, is very valuable to everybody out there because whether you think

that the world has gone to PC or not PC enough or wherever you fall on this, you all like to laugh,

you all like comedy, you like to be entertained, quit getting this lazy entertainment. Yeah.

It's just lazy. It's, it is when the eighties in every single comic had black people do this, white

people do this. Like it's the lazyest form of comedy there is. There's this fear, uh, like going

back to Jimmy Kimmel thing where Jimmy Kimmel comes out there gives us eight minutes and a lot of

the problem for a lot of people, the problem they had with it was, it wasn't funny. And it's,

and I've heard people say, well, this is where comedy goes to die. No, comedy is in killable.

You can't kill comedy. Comedy is waiting for its moment. And it is on us to find that moment.

If, if all your old jokes aren't working, guess what a good comedian does get back in the writing

room. It's new jokes, right? It's new stuff. Push yourself creatively. Yeah. Push yourself. I,

I'm talking to everybody, the arts and everybody else, uh, push yourselves. Like that's what this

should be about. Like a big part of what this should be about is not just that we need to treat

each other better that we can't be doing some of these old tropes or anything, but also, hey,

entertainment world, get better. Do better. Be better. Like that's another part of this that we

should be doing. Um, be pushing on. Yeah. Well said. I like that. That's good. We will, uh,

take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR

locally grown radio. Oh, nice. I like it. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR

locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth James here with you. I'm digging this one. Oh, it's got a drop

too. Yeah, you got to love the drop. I could, I could jump in there with WFHR. Yeah, there you

like that. I like just working around the new, uh, the new plumper's here. Yeah. We're enjoying it.

We're making it work, making it work. Uh, having some fun here. Uh, one is sending a big shout out

to, uh, Brittany, uh, covering our weather for us. Um, got another message from one of our listeners

who've really been enjoying her, uh, enjoying that. We'll have to let him know that tomorrow. Uh,

that's been fun. Yeah. Appreciate that. Some of the, the changes and different things that we've

been able to do around here for you out there. Let's get into this one before we get into our news

break. Uh, get some information out there. Some news in this, uh, comes to us from our head of news.

Melissa Cave sent this right. Uh, most popular baby names in every US state. Cool.

I think that's an interesting one. Um, most popular names of 2023. We kind of do those lists

every year. That kind of thing. Yeah. But, uh, being specific about it towards the state,

Melissa, when you came across this one, did you see anything that surprised you on it? Um,

you know, I have to look back because I've sent you many since then. True. Very true. Yeah.

The most recent was dog names. So that's what's in my brain. Yeah. Oh, you want to go there?

Do you want to go there? Okay. Okay. Um, I've got this here. I just for some reason need to push

multiple buttons. Um, Oliver. I like the name Oliver. Yeah. Yeah. And it was popular in a lot of

states. That's so cool. I was very surprised by that and some of these older, if you will, older

names that that were popular or traditional, maybe you could call it. Yeah. But these are only

boys, obviously. Yeah. I was just the boys list. I did look up a, uh, for girls. I did look up,

uh, most popular baby girl names in every state. Uh, so I do have a list of that as well.

Well, look at the boys from now. Let's go ahead and take a look at that list. Uh, okay. And,

yeah, as Melissa said, Oliver is in many, many states. Uh, Idaho. Throughout the Midwest.

Washington. Yeah. The whole Midwest pretty much. Um, Minnesota. That Wisconsin.

Oliver. Yeah. Uh, Illinois had NOAA. Um, that was a boy. I've heard a couple of new NOAAs

just recently and newborns. Yeah. That one sees very popular. Yeah. That's also California. Um,

and New Mexico and and Texas. Well, Texas with that big one. Um, Henry was the number one in, uh,

Wisconsin. All right. And it surprises me. Yeah. It surprised me too. And it's surprising to

the rest of the country. Uh, they're the only state where Henry was the number one name for boys.

James, you, you have an FU named Henry. I do. I have a nephew named Henry as well.

I do. I mean, he's, he's going to be graduating from high school, uh, in, in this year. But,

I mean, he kind of maybe started the trend that kind of thing when Henry's came. Yeah. Uh,

I love the name Henry, by the way. It's good name. I don't know. How many Henry's in my family?

I, I never really thought about the name much until, uh, having my nephew Henry. Uh,

and now I just, I love it. And he's such a Henry. It fits him so well. Uh, good morning to

King Henry. Let me get to go. Oh, Henry. Yeah. Oh, Henry. I like going King Henry. I like going

there. Oh, that's a good one too. Um, is anyone being called Hank though? That's the one that I

want to know. That's, yeah. Most of the young, I don't think my nephew does not like to be called

Hank. So yeah, Henry's dad, uh, Mac calls him, uh, Hank. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, interesting, uh,

to see some others. William was big, uh, throughout a lot of states, especially the southern states.

South William. That's a classic name. Oh, yeah. Interesting to see Benjamin on the list as well.

Oh, yeah. That was New Hampshire, I believe. Uh, New Hampshire. Uh, yeah. Our Massachusetts,

Massachusetts. Okay. Yeah, Massachusetts. It's hard to tell. Yeah, it's over there. Uh,

it's so fascinating how these all formed and shaped up and everything. Liam. Very big. Liam,

very big in the East Coast. That's more across the whole country, really. That's that's

fascinating. I didn't know. Wow. Well, that's kind of a more, uh, traditional like British name,

uh, Liam. And so which, which is kind of interesting. Yeah. Uh, and Wyatt, I see Wyatt on this list,

Logan, um, couple of Lucas, a couple of others that are a lot of L names. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I have a Wyatt in my family. That's my oldest nephew. Okay. Very cool. I love the name Wyatt.

I don't know why. I've never, I don't think I've ever actually known a Wyatt before. But yeah,

I like fan of wider. Right. Yes. Maybe that's it. I don't know. I actually have a big fan of

wider. But that is probably it. We just, we so again, mystery everybody. That's, uh, that's,

that's a pretty old name too. Also, big fan of the name of Doc. Like, like, I saw. Yeah. I

just say it's a nickname. Yeah. My nickname for him was YY. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's

good. I also would have loved the idea of Melissa saying to wider. Hey, YY, I'd love to see

why there's reaction to that. I'd like to see that because because James even showed up on a

couple of states here who big and Montana. I see. Yeah. Nice. And I believe it must be Rhode Island

because it's pointing to something that you can't see. I'm going to be honest with everybody.

I had to look it up just to double check just to make sure it is Rhode Island. Yeah. Okay. So

big state and the really small state in Alaska. Oh, the biggest state. Oh, Alaska. So the

biggest state in the smallest state. It is Washington DC. I knew I was wrong. Oh, I knew I was wrong.

Yep. Because Rhode Island is Lucas. That's right. Oh, okay. I got those mixed up. Yeah.

I was going to say, well, I mean, uh, Washington DC, not a state yet.

Correct. But if it is, it would be the smallest state. Yeah. And then the biggest state,

the smallest state. How about that? James. That's quite interesting. Yeah. We got a call coming in.

Let's take it. Good morning. What's on your mind?

Hello. Well, I, uh, I don't know. I mean, I think we're one of the best morning shows in the state.

But we wanted to wear that best. But the best. Wow. That's really great. I'm glad we got

that on audio. Glad we recorded that. That was really good. You know, I think we should do

honorable mention for Elijah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because I believe that's Arkansas.

Nice. If I know my state's correct. Yes. That is Arkansas. You are correct. Yeah.

Nicely done. Yeah. That's interesting to me. Elijah. Now, I had, uh, if I remember growing up,

there were, I had a couple of Lijas that I knew. So, uh, maybe that's making a comeback these days.

I love that. That's one of those twins that was born in in one in each year, right?

Oh, with, with the split twins. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I like that name too.

Taking a look at, uh, baby girl names, baby girl names. What are some of the more popular,

the most popular baby girl names in each state? Uh, we, of course, they're not going to go through

all 50 states of the union. But, uh, I will tell you, from Alabama, all the way to Connecticut,

in Delaware, uh, in Connecticut, Olivia is the number one name. The version of Oliver. Yeah.

The female version of Oliver. Oh, I didn't think of that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow.

Makes sense. Makes sense. Uh, Emma Isabel Mia, Sophia, all big on the list as well. Um,

I see Iowa has Charlotte. Oh, that's a good one to get back. Yeah. I will main always Charlotte.

Those are both good ones. Uh, I am all seeing Ava and Mississippi. Very big. I like Ava too.

Mm hmm. I have a second cousin named Ava. Uh, Mia in New Mexico and, um,

her sister's name is Mia. Nice. Nice. I love all of these names, by the way.

Shorter, short names. Yeah. Shorter girl names. That's interesting. Well, except for Charlotte.

But I mean, yeah, a lot of these are just like three letters. There was a trend there for quite a

while that I didn't realize stopped where it was, you know, Betty Sue, Amy Sue. A lot of those.

Like two named, yeah. Two first names. Mm hmm. Uh, Tennessee with Olivia as well.

Our organ. I meant, uh, Oregon has Evelyn Evelyn. Uh, there's a little bit of a different one.

I love Evelyn. Yes. Evelyn is such a great name. Yeah. That is a good one. That is a good one

right there. And I'm trying to see Wisconsin here. Trying to get to the wall. Yeah.

The paywalls these things. Uh, Emma, you know, you're probably right. Uh, it wouldn't be

surprised. Uh, let's see here Wisconsin. Charlotte. Oh, Charlotte, Olivia, Emma, Evelyn and

Emilia. Nice. Those are the most popular girls names in Wisconsin.

I, it's so fascinating how names go in these cycles. Yeah. Yeah. It's so interesting. I, I find,

you know, it's what was it like 10 years ago, 15 years ago. It was, you know, uh, for guys,

boys, it was like Colton and Jackson and Jackson and I hate it. Yeah. All those kinds of names.

And now we're back to more traditional names. Yeah. Oh, like 50, 60, 70 years old kind of thing. Yeah.

It's kind of fun to see the ebbs and flows of all this. It is. It's fascinating.

Paisley and Luna were some other names that were pretty popular on the list in a lot of states

as well. Hmm. Okay. It's a fun one. Thanks, Melissa. That was great. That's a good one. Yeah.

That's a fun list. Thanks for that. We appreciate it. Uh, more Melissa on the way as we're going to

get to the news. Uh, we will be back with more fun on the morning show. I want to get into these,

uh, things, uh, experts, uh, expect reckonings in 2024 when we're talking weight loss, drug prices,

prescription drugs. A lot of that we're going to talk about when we come back on the morning show here,

a WFHR locally grown radio. Oh, got to go and wake up every. Yeah. Wake up time on the morning

show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a

great, great Wednesday. Happy Humpty everybody. Mm hmm. Gonna get into. Sounds like sneaking music.

I do feel like I should be probably a little creepy. Creepy. I'm not creepy. Creepy.

To the mic. Yes. And with the hidden hiding. Um, I was, and I had to do the movement, of course.

I couldn't just say it. No, you cannot. Because the audio audience out there really loves what I

love your hand motions, man, pantomime things. Yes. Um, this is going to have no context to it,

but I do have to, I can't help myself. Um, Melissa, you are such an amazing actress. Seth,

and I was just talking, uh, about, uh, you're, you're, you're, you're, uh, you know, your rehearsal

yesterday. It got me thinking about your one woman show you did. And God, that was so good.

Such a great performance. Nice. Well, nice work. Um, when I get into this one right here, this

year has been a major turning point in America, healthcare and patients and anticipating several

major developments in this new year. I'm sorry. So last year, a major turning point going into this

year. Uh, notable developments in 2023 included the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The beginning of the, uh, CRISPR revolution, a new reckoning with drug prices that could change

the landscape of the US healthcare system for decades to come. Healthcare officials expect 2024

to bring a wave of innovation and change in medicine, treatment and public health.

As the presidential election kicks into gear, there are four. There are a number of major

big health stories to watch for 2024. Um, there is a lot of, uh, weighted weight loss, um,

pills that are going to be hitting the market, um, and a lot of, uh, revolutionary ones too.

Um, there, there's been a, uh, a new call on this to, like, spend more time on these things to

get more, um, have them, like, sound it out better. So some of that, some of these things hit the

market probably when they shouldn't have or, oh, yes. Uh, we've seen that before. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Some of that. So you're going to be seeing, uh, a big change in that. Uh, there,

there's also, uh, mental health and psychedelics. In 2023, mental health issues became

among the nation's most deadly, costly and per, uh, pervasive, uh, health crisis.

Mm-hmm. Nearly 50,000 people died of suicide in 2022. And 5.8 million emergency department

visits were linked to mental health, behavioral and neuro, neurodevelopment disorders in 2021.

Wow. And those are the only ones we know about. Yeah. Um, the Biden administration made a mental

health a priority by expanding the national, uh, the national 98, uh, suicide and crisis

lifeline, uh, funding mental health resources and programs at schools and targeting sources,

causing poor mental health, including social media and loneliness. Mm-hmm. Along with that,

I, I will, we'll also add on, uh, locally on many levels, we've seen a rise and care for this.

Yes. Our, uh, our own Sheriff Becker comes on the air with us every month in one of the

cop topics we always end up getting into as mental health. Um, it is even being thought, it

not just even, it has been thought about, uh, in the, in the, in the industry as well as all

these others. Mm-hmm. And that's only going to get, uh, stronger because now that we've gotten

over the, okay, mental health is okay to talk about nobody, we don't talk about it like this.

Yeah. We talk about it like this now. Those things now that we've gotten to that point,

now the real work comes in. Exactly. Now we got to start. It's not just, hey, mental health's

important. Well, how is your mental health? Oh, I don't know. I don't pay attention to that.

Yeah. Oh, wait a minute. No, no, no. Now we're looking inward. We're looking towards our cells

when we're doing this and, um, our medical field has a better understanding of this. Yeah.

We're seeing a lot more of that. We're also going to be seeing a lot more of you go to your doctor,

your doctor gives your diagnosis. And instead of saying, this is what you do now, the doctor's

giving you more of options. Yes. This is something you can do. This is something you can do.

Yeah, taking more control of your own health, you know, and, and finding what works for you,

which I think is very important. Yeah. Well, and finally, getting the go ahead to do some

testing on psychedelics and, and how they can affect mental health and how they can help. I

think this is a great advancement. I agree. The MDMA, a party drug commonly known as ecstasy,

could win approval for legal distributions in 2024 as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

How about that? They have seen in soldiers that this is this in marijuana are two of the only

things that have worked. I repeat, two of the only things that have worked for our soldiers who

are struggling with these things. Yes. Um, they have a place in society. They do. I am not at all

saying that they just should be handing this out and everything or any of that stuff.

Only an idiot would say those kind of things and nobody is looking to do that. We're looking to help.

It's, it's the same argument we have with marijuana. Like, I'm not, I'm not trying to create a

bunch of cheeks and chongs here. I'm trying to take care of cancer patients. I, uh, I, I knew a

wonderful lady, Georgia, uh, when I was living in California that I met at a clinic where when

this stuff was first beginning and they first had these clinics popping up and everything in my

friend Will and I go there and I'm able to get this medical marijuana because of my migraines and

because of the dislocated degenerative desk in my neck. Right. This lady is, and I've got pains

and I've got, you know, headaches and migraines I'm dealing with. But, you know, I, I still survive.

I still get through my day to day. This lady is in her late 60s and has no appetite because of the

cancer treatments that she is getting. Marijuana literally from her words saved her. She would not

even be needing without it. That's one story. And that was 15 years ago. Yeah. Hey, there's a lot

to a lot of work that we can do on this. A lot of good we can do with these things. And if you don't

care about that, how about economics? How do you like money? Do you like paying less taxes? Well,

this ag, our ag industry is hurting and it needs all the help it can get. Boom. Here's a crop for

you. Yeah. Here's a crop for you, everybody. Here's a crop you can make. You can distribute and

you can own, you can tax blah, blah, blah. Right. That's the way where this stuff needs to go. Yeah.

And not only that, the criminalization of drug users over population in our prisons because of that,

the war on drugs has done bad things in our country. Absolutely. And bad things for the economy.

In a late-stage trial of patients with moderate or severe post-traumatic stress disorder,

close to 90% showed clinically significant improvements four months after three treatments

of MDMA and more than 70% no longer met the criteria for having the disorder. That's amazing.

I mean, where else do you see numbers like that? Yeah. I mean, seriously. I don't care what it

takes. Get it done. Take care of our soldiers. Yep. Enough for a right. In a safe way. Exactly.

Safe way. Yes. Yes. Yes. No, under like we're talking. That's what do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think maybe the biggest part of this story and could end up being one of the biggest stories of

2024 is big pharma being reigned in. Oh, good. Please. Once the calendar flipped to January,

consumers are going to start seeing and learning more about the new pricing of their prescription

drugs. Pharmaceutical companies typically roll out price increases for hundreds of drugs in the first

few weeks of the year, but new constraints on drug prices could limit increases.

Good. Wow. The federal big life-saving drugs and can't afford them because big farmers too

busy lining their pockets. Just I can't tell you anything else that that makes me more crazy

than that. The Federal Climate and Health Bill called the Inflation Reduction Act restricts how

much companies can hike medical, Medicare drug prices for older adults. If drug companies

increase prices above the rate of inflation, they must pay Medicare a rebate. Nice. Those

inflation penalties have already lowered prices on some drug administrators administered at

summit drugs administered at hospitals, clinics and doctor offices, and December Medicare

officials released a preliminary list of 48 drugs, including blood thinners, antibiotics,

and chemotherapy medicines that could be subject to an inflation penalty in January.

If those penalties were levied, Medicare would recoup money from drug companies and enrollees

would likely pay lower costs sharing of these drugs. Awesome. The federal law will also find

new ways to pressure drug companies' prices. For the first time, the federal government has

empowered Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. Finally. That's the big sentence right there.

Everybody. I know it's limited. There's not a lot of drugs that they're

able to do, but it's a start. It's something to start, and let's keep it rolling, though.

I mean, really, we need to keep going on. I mean, we know our whole health care system needs a

complete overhaul, but this is at least we're headed in the right direction.

The Biden. Because there's no reason that insulin should be seven to ten times more expensive

in the US than anywhere else. Absolutely not. Seven to ten times more expensive here.

The Biden administration named the first ten drugs that federal government plans to

negotiate, but the price changes on those diabetes, heart disease, and cancer drugs won't take

effect until 2026. Over the next two years, another 30 drugs will be selective for negotiating

prices in 27 and 28. That is great. That's wonderful. How many people are going to die in between

now and then? That's great point. Because they can't afford medications. And in history,

it's going to judge us on this stuff. Another quick question for everybody. 715-424-2600.

Did I just break news to anybody? Did anybody know any of that?

I don't know. Where is the news? I'm talking about national news, not local news. Where is the

national news covering these stories? Quit telling me about Aaron Rogers and Jimmy Kimmel did this,

or former president did this, or an election that is a months away. I don't care what the

Republican or Democrat who ever is vying for the former presidency. I really don't care what

they're saying right now. It doesn't matter. We've got months and months and months and we all

know that whoever is leading the race right now is probably not going to be leading the race then.

Talk to me when it's down to three. Talk to me when it's got that. I don't care. I'm sorry,

I'm supposed to and all that. That's what we're supposed to say in all this. I've been following

politics 45 years, literally my whole life, and it has never mattered. Never. Does it make good

conversation? Sure. Does it fill the 24-hour news cycle? Yeah. You bet. But half of these people

are not even going to be there by the end. You want to be informed. You want to be up to date. Yes.

But you don't have to... You could be covering these stories. How many people just had news broken

to them from me. It's a great point. This is from the stories from... Was it USA Today? Yep.

Which is, it's a big newspaper, but still. Why isn't this on the nightly news? On TV? On the 24-hour

news channels? Why aren't we hearing about it? Yeah. Because it's good news, guys. Good news doesn't

get clicks. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, 100% right there. We will take our final break. We will come

back with nothing but fun. Morning show on WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio. Host James J here. Got Melissa in set with you as well. We're going to take

you right to the top of the hour. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. I want to encourage you

to stick around and check out McNamara on the air. Yeah. Big shout out to our friend, Jane,

and doing an amazing job with that show. And I have to, I should journalistically mention this.

One of my top three favorite voices ever in real. Love it. Love it. James,

voice. I love James. She's amazing. And I'm very happy for her. Congratulations to her and then

show. Stick around and check that out, everybody. If you haven't gotten a chance to listen. Man,

the chemistry with her and Greg is just so good. They're so good together. Yeah. I'm glad you

said that too. I didn't get a chance to mention Greg's amazing. Greg's fantastic. Really, really

enjoying those two. Stick around for that's going to be a real fun show. They'll join us. I really

want to do the old radio thing they used to do back in the day, like on sports radio and stuff,

where they would segue to the next show. Yeah. Like in this segment right here, we talked to Jane

a little bit and everything. Yeah, that'd be cool. And we'll see if we can do that one of these days.

I think it'll be fun. Let's take it. No, no, that ain't right story today, everybody. I want,

I want to get to I think that that ain't right story is me and my soapbox. I think that's probably

that that ain't right story of the day. I think we've had enough of that. I will tell you,

we got some good stories of the day for you lined up and it kicks off with our midday magazine

in part one, two of our favorite people. Steven and Katrina Hittner from Family Natural Foods joining

us. Catch up with the gang there and see what's going on over at the shop. And some musical kick-in,

I'm sorry. Our friends from Encourage will be joining us in part two. You know, Kim Shields,

she joins us all the time. Oh, yeah. We love Kim. We appreciate her being with us. And she's

bringing in Joseph Luther. He'll be, he's part of junior achievement. We get to know Joseph a

little bit in his story. It's going to be really fun. Looking forward to that. Very nice. Good things

there. Good things on our radio dial tonight. Sports wise. We have right here at WFHR at 630.

Wisconsin men's basketball at Ohio State. The ranked Badgers basketball team now. Yeah. Big 10

matchup. It really doesn't matter what sport they're playing. It's Wisconsin. It's Ohio State.

If it's tiddly winks, it's going to be intense. It will be a big 10. It'll be a good game. Yeah.

And Thursday right here at 6 o'clock, our pre-gain kicks off Milwaukee Bucks basketball,

Houston, Boston. I believe the two best teams in the East facing off right there. Let's hope the

Bucks find some defense before they've got to get struggling. They have been struggling a little

bit. They got a rookie coach and the seats getting hot for him. So ready. Yeah. They got to get some

stuff figured out there on their sister station, WIRI. Our pre-game will kick off at 650 on Thursday

for high school boys basketball. Port Edwards at Pittsville. Michael and Seth are going to take care of

that. Yeah. That's right. It's going to be a good one. You know that. It's going to be good.

And it is Wednesday, Seth. And it's not. There has been no school cancellations today,

which means they'll be bingo tonight. Bingo. I have the Wisconsin Rapids. Alex Lodge, number 693,

430 West Jackson Street, doors open at 5. Bingo starts at 630. Go have some fun. Support the

Elks and all the great things that they do for our community and play some bingo. Yeah.

Some fun prizes too. So big. Thank you to our friends over at the Elks Lodge and all the

work that they do in our community. The American Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood

shortage as a nation faces the lowest number of people giving blood in 20 years.

Aye. The Red Cross and the National Football League are partnering this January during

National Blood Donor Month to urge individuals to give blood and help tackle the emergency

blood shortage. Those who come to give blood or plasma in January will automatically be entered

for a chance to win a trip for two to Super Bowl in Las Vegas. What? Super Bowl. Wow.

Just for donating blood. Just for being a superhero, you have a chance to go to the Super Bowl.

I've heard that's kind of a big deal. Yes. Yes. All the kids are talking about it. It's huge.

We've got some local places that you can go to in Warsaw on the 26th. We'll tell when we get

closer to it. We'll give you the specifics on it and everything. And in Steven's point today,

you can go ahead and donate. I'm sorry, tomorrow you can donate 830-330 Steven's Point Blood

Donation Center, 32-01C Main Street. And here in Wisconsin Rapids coming up in just a couple days

from 9-2 at Lincoln High School at 18-116th Street South. Nice. You will be able to donate this Friday

over at Lincoln. Head on over there and donate between 9-2 and not only be a superhero,

but get your chance to possibly win the Super Bowl tickets. Be a super super super super

super all-round. Super super super super super. We are your home of the Wisconsin Rapids

Raptors. We say that proudly from a chest. And we are proud to tell you that the Raptors are

bringing back the hot stove. Yeah. It is taking place at the hotel meet and conference center ballroom

on January 20th 6 to 10. This is going to be a really fun one. It's going to and they're going to

have Dustin Woodcock down there for a year after from 2015 to 2018. He was a team MVP during the

Raptors Tramp at 2016 season. Yeah. It's going to be fun to have Dustin back in town. This is

where they also will break a lot of news for fans. That's going to be great. What's coming up this

year? Yeah. But face style dinner generously provided by Kellner Cleffay, shout out to them,

and a lot of other great things. Find out more and get your tickets at northwoodsleague.com,

or give them a call at 715-424-5400. Stop at the front office and say how do our Raptors

force? All right. You guys, great show today. You two, man. Thanks. Have a great day. And be

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