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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. I am joined by

Melissa Kaye. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We got good stuff in store for you today. We're going to kick things off the way we

like to talk with our good friend, Brittany about some weather and Mother Nature and all

that above. Whoever knows what else we can come up with, it's live radio. Who knows

what can happen. Good morning, Brittany. Good morning. I can hear the birds chirping this

morning. I feel like it's going to be a good day. It does. It's got that feel to it,

right? It's Friday Eve. We've got good feelings and we have a little bit at least sort of

warmer temperatures to look forward to sort of within reason. I'm using that as stretching

that as best as cat. We know, right? We actually get to feel the real temperature today.

We're not talking wind chills or anything until overnight and that's further to the

south. So we're good to go right now. It's a little crisp. Three below. We're proving.

We take worse. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. But we will climb to 12 degrees today. Double

digits. How's that feeling? 12. Sounds good. I'm proud of that. It's sunshine to start and

then it's going to get cloudy this afternoon. But the clouds are a good thing. We'll keep

us warmer. And we have a shot of snow. So further south is going to see more accumulations.

So I don't have to state. They could see one to three inches here for us throughout

this afternoon and evening. Maybe some light flurries. We could see a trace start to accumulate

overnight. But that's about it for us. Maybe some more flurries tomorrow morning and occasion

throughout the afternoon. But no major accumulations. Just a quick shot of snow headed further to

the south. But otherwise after that, winds though, they start to whip behind that system that

will drag in some more wind chills. But again, that's going to stay down to the south.

I've got advisories issued for overnight tonight and tomorrow morning, down towards

Richland Center areas like that. We might see the clouds and stay decent, but the winds

are just going to start gusting up to 25 miles an hour again, which is the problem.

Right. Yeah. Well, is that is that now? So the winds, the temperature, all of this Brittany,

is this a normal or average normal for us this time of year?

Well, we always get our cold snaps. We are still below our average highs and below our average

normal low temperatures slightly. Well, we're getting closer to the average, but we always

get these cold snaps. So we always factor that in as well. This isn't too bad. Now that we're

coming out of the deep freeze or we're trending in the right direction. We've just got some

clouds to deal with today and tomorrow, like snow, south, and then weekend, it's going to

be bright and beautiful into the teens still, though. Still stuck in the teens.

Yeah. Yeah. But it is winter and Wisconsin. So I guess, you know what, I'll take that forecast,

but we can keep that one. We can keep it. Yep. Throw with the receipts. We'll keep that

up. No refunds. Yeah. There we go. And no repeats. We'll have a brand new segment with

Brittany tomorrow. No reruns around here. Every weather is new. Every one. We always get

Brittany because of new one. That's always nice. Not a lot of live new stuff right now.

So I mean, we fact we could offer that. I think it's a feature. I think that's pretty

great. We appreciate you, Brittany. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Thanks. Have a good one. You too. You too. Appreciate her. Brittany, thank you so much for

you so much. We got good stuff lined up for you today. Melissa and I get a lot to do.

We got a lot of good things coming up. We got a very important question to ask that I

want to include the audience in to start off our show. We'll get to that in a second.

Do we have fewer, fewer interruptions when we work from home? We'll get into that one

a little bit. A bar had a clever renaming it did to help out people with their New Year's

resolutions. Okay. That's interesting. And we have an electric kid scooter that parents

are going to love. They're going to love it. Oh, interesting. Okay. Before we wrap up

the hour, not only will we have our WFHR birthday and anniversary club at about 845 is we're

going to have Mike Barnes joining us to talk about the winter farmers market at the

Moravian Church being back and running. Good. Good, good, good. Beth and I were chatting

about that last night. Very cool. We're looking forward to that. Looking forward to Mike

joining us. And that's going to be fun. And we'll go from that to the top of the 9 o'clock

hour with our good friend Madison Rafter joining us as the executive director of the South

County Main Society and our pet of the week. Pet of the week. Oh, what could see what she

has this time? I know. What could it be? What furry friend will we have this time? Looking

forward to it. A little bit of entertainment news for you. And then Melissa and I are going

to dive into an interesting story. We've got some other stuff to get into in that

o'clock hour, sleeping in on the weekends. How that might be good for your health. We'll

touch on that. It's good for mine. Right on. But I came across this article about a

week or so ago. And I just thought it was fascinating. I thought Melissa might find

it interesting. And thankfully she did. So we can make a segment out of it. And I think

it's really interesting. It's about a woman who bought a vintage dress and an antique store

and a secret pocket that she found. And what was in there? Yes. It's very interesting.

It's fascinating. That and again, live radio. Who knows what can happen? Stick around

and find out. We're going to have some fun today. Have you ever walked into a door and

you thought that you thought was a push, but it was actually a pull. And you look at what

do you do instantly? You don't look it for the sign to say, well, was there a push or

pull sign? You look and see if anybody noticed you. You look and see today by see that.

All right. Cool. Cool. You know, and you keep going. No, actually, I look for the sign.

Do you? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like is this locked? Oh no. I'm just dumb. I can't read today.

I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts every single human being has done this. Everybody

has done this. Of course we have because doors open both ways. And you have an expectation

when you walk up to one of how it's going to open and sometimes you're wrong. I know that

there's been many times where like because I'm notorious for trying to carry too much.

And I'll have my hands full. And then I do the twist and try the open door with my back,

you know, we push it open and I've done that where I'm pushing and I'm pushing. It's

not going. It's not going. It's a pull. It's a pull. Yeah. We've all been there. We've

all happened. That happened. You got any fun stories of that? Please let us know.

715-424-2600-424-2600. I am also I was raised a gentleman and I take that to heart.

And I like to open doors for people. I like to hold doors open for people, especially

strangers. I find that that's one of the way one of the one of our our only ways of of giving

kindness in a quick fast paced day and age, you know. Yeah. It's given smiles. Yes. That's what I

like to do as well. Another good one. Another great one right there and encourage people to do more

of that stuff. We could use more of that especially in this year as we go in through an election

season here and everything. But I did this once was on and of course it had to be no way. It

might have been the second date. I think it was the second date. It wasn't the first day. I think

it was the second date and I go to open the door for her and it won't open. And I try. If I

had done it once it'd be one thing but I would like two or three poles and nothing. And finally I

pushed it and I pushed it into her credit. She didn't you know make fun of me or laugh or

anything like that. But that was almost the noteworthy to me. Like I feel like the kind of we didn't

have a third date, you know, spoiler alert. I feel like the kind of person I almost want to be

made fun of in that situation. Like not, not, not, not roasted. To make light of it. Yeah. Yeah.

You'd be like, oh, that was funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was. It was. And it lightened some,

it actually made me feel a little bit worse in some ways that she was so quiet and serious about it.

Right. Because then you're embarrassed to be like, okay, she's embarrassed that I did this.

So now I'm embarrassed. Yeah. And we can't just laugh at it together. It's not that often that

your second date hasn't even started. And you know, there was not going to be a third.

Well, you know, what better to figure it out sooner than down the road too far?

Agreed. So this might be the most random survey question ever. And actual scientific poll

asked 6,000 Americans what they do if a door didn't say whether to push or pull. What do you do?

What do you, what do you try first? It's a, it's a coin flip. So the overall results are pretty much

of 50, 50. But we do have a winner. Melissa, before we answer, I want to open it up to the audience.

What do you do? Push or pull 715 424 2600 715 424 2600. I'm going to be honest. I pull. I would

probably pull that I say that I agree with that. But also I would say it depends on what the handle

is. Yeah. And now I think it's in my head just to help with the survey. I'm picturing one of

those doors that doesn't have a handle just, you know, you just kind of like a bar. Yeah, or

something like that. But I think that that's a good note. That's a very good note about that.

So 51% said push. We're only kind of the people who chose one of the other around a third of

them said that they weren't sure. Oh God. That was the point of the question people. I admit that I

can be a bit in decisive sometimes every once in a while. But this drives me absolutely boggars.

But the question too, there's I have another follow up question. Are you going into the building

or out of the building? Oh, good question. I imagine this as you were going into the building.

Well, that's what I thought too, which is why I would pull it. Because when you're coming out

of a building, typically like a I'm thinking gas station, that's what I initially was picturing in

my head. You might be coming out with stuff in your arms or hands. So then you want to be able to

open the door with like your back or your hip or your butt. Yeah. Yeah. So that you carry the stuff

that you have in your hands. Right. Well, again, 51% said push. Men are slightly more likely to try

pushing it first. 52% said push. 51% of women said pull. Because men are just like get out of my

way. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. People in the Northeast are most likely to be pushers. 57% and midwesterners

are most likely to be pullers. 51%. You know, I wonder if you did a survey of what ways doors open

across the entire United States, if there would be like a regional thing. Oh, good question.

Out in the East that they're the most doors do pull or push. And then here most of them pull.

You know, like I'm wondering about that. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question.

And we have to talk to construction workers. Yeah. I'm going to actually look into that. I actually

had to, I'm sorry, everybody. I had to write down. I had to write that down because I actually,

I think that's fascinating. And I want to look it up too. Just a quick, when you look at it,

like from a business perspective, like I said, when you got stuff in your arms now from like a stage

perspective, we're like, well, what's the best way for blocking? Do you need this door to open

different scenarios? There's, when you, when you throw this question into your search engine,

the first thing that comes up is why do doors open outwards in some countries?

One legend persists that a large group of people once died in a single fire, and thus it was

decreed that doors should open outward to allow for easier escape. Another theory suggests that at

one time lodgings in Scandinavia were very small and thus space on the interior of the property

was at a premium premium, right? You don't want the door to swing in because you don't have room

for it. Wow. And then there's the next question, why do doors open outwards in the USA?

Residential doors, doors and houses and apartments do not open outwards, but business doors open

out for safe exit in case of fire or other emergencies. It's a safety rule from OSHA.

Doors must open in the direction of exit travel, which means out.

Okay, but yeah, if you think about it, every house I've ever lived in, the door opens in.

Yeah, yeah, never really thought much about it before, but it's interesting.

You can't just push or pull it, you have to turn a knob.

And then you can tell which way it opens or, but just by looking at it.

Yeah, kind of gives you a little hint there.

Which places, you know, like gas station stores, those kinds of places you can't necessarily tell

by looking at it. Yeah, we'll take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun.

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Let's dive right into the birthdays and anniversaries.

Melissa, I need a one or two.

Let's go with two.

All right. Nice. Let's do that.

And we got ourselves a qualifier. So first up, we get to wish a very happy birthday.

To Bob Anderson.

Happy birthday, Bob.

Wishing you a good day, sir. Hope it's a great one for you.

And we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier, Carrie Sanders.

Happy birthday, Carrie.

And Julia, your day, Carrie. Hope it's great for you.

And we hope it started off on a good note with you being our qualifier for the anniversary club.

Let us dive into our celebrity list. Jason Siegel is 44, Marshall on How I Met Your Mother.

Great director to a great creator, director.

He's a TV show and TNT that was pretty good that I really, really enjoyed.

It was very different, very different than any TV show I've ever seen probably.

Audrey 3000 was in it. There was a couple of other good actors.

It's a good show, fun show. And he was the creative mind behind the whole thing.

He's gone behind the camera more recently and done some directing.

Done a number of things with the muppets, actually.

Yeah. He voiced Gary.

The muppets from 2011.

I think he's directed one of the muppet movies too.

He's done a lot of stuff like that.

But I have most people know him from either How I Met Your Mother or what's the movie he did?

For getting sure.

Yeah, it's for getting Sarah Marshall.

Yeah, yeah.

I feel like I'm the only person in the world that really just didn't get into that movie.

Like I've never actually seen it.

I like most of the people in it and everything.

And I don't think it's a bad movie by any means.

Everybody I know loves it.

But I just didn't do anything for me.

Just it wasn't because of anything in particular.

I just didn't do it.

Let's see here.

The great Jonathan Davis from Corn is 53 today.

We were talking a little bit about soundtracks of high school.

Corn is one of mine.

And while they got a lot of hits and a lot of good songs,

Jonathan Davis is one of the most real honest songwriters.

I have ever heard, ever will here.

The what he has shared and what he has done,

doing things being vulnerable and doing something in an industry and a style of industry

in a genre that you don't hear that from very often.

And the brutal honesty of his work is so noteworthy to me.

I think his lyrics alone were huge help for me in high school.

Let alone for others that I've heard stories and read many things about.

And one of the most versatile, powerful voices any of us will ever hear.

Period. A couple of years back, they did a movie,

the vampire movie.

Dang it.

Queen of the damned.

Thank you.

Queen of the damned.

Yes.

And the vampire Lestat in it is supposed to have a voice for generations,

a voice like nobody's ever heard before in all this because Lestat turns into a singer

in it and everything.

They chose Jonathan Davis for that voice.

And he helped write and produce the scoring soundtrack for that album.

Yeah.

And he's done some other work like that since and everything.

I don't know.

Fantastic singer, songwriter, human being.

Very happy.

Yeah.

Jonathan Davis, celebrate number 53 today.

Celebrate number 55, Dave Batista.

Really?

A fantastic actor.

Wonderful actor.

Most of us remember him from as being a WWE superstar.

He started out there.

Wasn't on the mic that much.

I don't think many of us could have.

I think most people, if you paid attention to wrestling,

you could see Hulk Hogan becoming a star and be getting into movies.

You could eventually see because of that the rock,

stone cold.

Some of these guys making that pivot from going from the mat to the stage.

And all these people I've mentioned, Hogan, not the greatest,

you know, he had his lines down.

I'll give him that.

But both the rock and stone cold Steve Austin have shown that they actually

can act and actually do a good job of it and everything.

And they've done some nice work.

Hunter Hiros Hemsley, Triple H, has also done this.

But as good as as big as the stars, the rock is and as good as he is.

And he's great.

I like the rock.

Dave Batista's actually got some Thespian in him.

Like he's he's actually got some really good style to him.

Is some good acting.

He did a movie hotel Artemis with Jody Foster.

And he held his own with her.

And I don't say that lightly.

I'm not sure if I got the chance to work with Jody Foster, I'd hold my own.

I don't know.

I hope so.

I guarantee I'd be trying.

Turn into a fan boy.

I don't know.

I really don't.

But I know that he's just I really impressed me as an actor.

You could tell he's worked at this.

Most know him as drags the destroyer and guardians of the galaxies.

He's in the Dune remakes and a bunch of other stuff.

Well, and when you said that name, I was thinking of the band leader

from the Stephen Colbert show John Dees.

Oh, yeah.

John Dees fantastic is amazing.

Yeah.

Different totally different.

Yes.

So I'm ready.

But I've got I've got a lot of his songs on my playlist.

I like him a lot.

John Dees is good.

Let's see here.

Jesse L. Martin is 55.

Detective Joe West on the Flash.

Detective Ed Green on Law and Order.

Tom and Rent.

Incredibly talented human being.

He was one of my favorite detectives on and Law and Order.

He was really good.

Him and Jerry Orbok worked really good together.

The hilarious David Tell is 59 today,

comedian and he used to have this show on Comedy

Center called Insomniac that I just loved.

David Tell.

If you're looking for dark and funny deliveries,

the David Tells are guy.

If you like dark comedy, David Tells are guy.

I've seen a little bit of his stand up, but not too much.

NHL legend, Hockey legend.

Mark Messier is 63 today.

He was a part of maybe the greatest

Canadian, the greatest hockey team of all time.

The Montreal or the Edmonton Oilers

back in the day with Wayne Gretzky and a couple of others,

won some titles there.

And I think most notably,

won a title towards the tail end of his career

with the New York Rangers.

One of the last titles New York has seen.

Whether we like it or not, it sports fans.

New York winning things matters.

And if you win something in New York,

you will never have to buy another thing in New York,

the rest of your life, like you with you.

A generations later, and Joe Nameth is still

never having to pay for a drink when he goes anywhere in New York.

It's just kind of the way it works.

Let's see here.

And some people no longer with us.

Like Oliver Hardy.

One half of the great comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy.

The Hardy Boys.

1892 to 1957 for Oliver.

In my opinion, it would be hard for me to do this,

to quantify this.

And I do say my opinion because it is just an opinion.

And one of the fun things about

like greatest actors of all time and things like that is

there's no wrong answer.

There's not, you know, I mean, it's, it's whoever you think.

It's your, what you think.

Mm-hmm.

As somebody who has been studying and researching

and working on acting since I was seven years old,

the two that I would say whenever this question comes up

is Sydney Portier.

And the great Carrie Grant born in the state in 1904,

passed away in 1986.

The classic leading man, the suspicion,

notorious to catch a thief,

North by Northwest.

Incredible performances in all of those Carrie Grant

was kind of pigeonholed early on in his career

and would in the first actors to force breaking type.

They were not going to be able to shut him down.

He was going to do this one way or another.

He wanted to go dramatic.

He wanted to work with Alfred Hitchcock.

He was going to do it.

As agent, a lot of people told him not to.

He was going to do it.

Carrie Grant, before that,

your definition, everything we have

as far as a leading man in rom-coms and things like that

all begins with Carrie Grant.

He's the outline.

He's the blueprint.

He's the skeleton for it.

He's the very handsome face.

And one of my dream roles,

one of my top three dream roles is being buster

in arsenic and old lace.

And one of my favorite all-time movies,

top five favorite movies of all time.

I still watch that movie ever once in a while.

It's been about a year or two since I've seen it, to be honest,

but yeah.

It's one of the first plays I remember seeing my grandma in.

Insanity runs in my family.

It practically gallops.

Such a good line.

Such a good line.

Did you say you've seen your grandma in it?

Yeah, on stage.

Yeah, yeah.

But oh, that's cool.

That's very, very cool.

Interesting.

And also, a Malene,

celebrate the birthday today in born in 1882.

The creator of Winnie the Pooh.

Oh, yeah.

His son was Christopher Robin, just like in the book.

I didn't know that.

Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah.

I feel like I should know that.

I, it's one of those fun little random facts.

I think it's interesting.

And we wrap up with David Ruffin,

born in this day 19, I'm sorry, we have two more.

David Ruffin lead singer of the temptations.

He was born in 1941.

And the great Bob Bell or Bozo the Clown, born in 1922.

Bozo the Clown.

I don't know how much this was played in Wisconsin, to be honest.

I know that as a kid growing up in Illinois,

WGN had Bozo the Clown show on every Monday through Friday.

I think Monday through Saturday, I think it was on.

And it was on right early in the morning.

And I got to watch a little of it before I ran to the bus.

And it was just the coolest show in the world to me.

I thought it was awesome.

It was, you look back and they didn't have any budget for that show.

They had nothing for that show.

But they went on every morning and gave kids a positive start to their day.

It was fun.

Cookie was my favorite.

I like Cookie.

There was a couple of great characters on that show.

It was a fun show.

And kind of a noteworthy, I think, in this day and age.

Because now, good luck starting a kid's show with a clown.

Well, yeah, especially since that iconic Bozo the Clown look

has kind of been turned into scary clowns.

Yeah, I find that lazy and boring clowns me.

Now, I'm not saying those that actually have clowns as a phobia.

That's an actual phobia.

I'm not talking about that.

But using something funny and that's supposed to be for kids as a horror.

It's so low-hanging fruit.

We should have seen this coming when they started doing that.

And then a new horror movie.

Thanksgiving day.

The new horror movie.

Arbert Day.

Flag Day is getting brutal.

Yeah, it's just lazy writing.

It's lame.

I don't know how anybody goes and sees these movies.

I don't know how anybody gets scared by these movies.

How do you walk into a horror movie and get scared anymore?

You know it's a horror movie.

Like, you know what's coming.

You know that there's going to be a jump scare.

There's going to be some blood and all this stuff and everything.

I don't know.

You can scare by that.

No, James, because I don't walk into those movies.

Right on.

Good on you.

I don't know.

I don't like horror.

I don't like being scared by what I watch on TV.

I want to be uplifted.

I don't mind horror being, you know, entertained in some way.

Yeah.

I don't find horror entertaining.

I agree with that.

I hear you.

What I like is horror with a story.

I like suspense more.

I go back to Alfred Hitchcock and the work that Hitchcocked.

Hitchcock did need special effects at green screen.

A bunch of blood and gore.

He could freak you out with the still of a scene,

with the calmness of a scene,

letting the actors do their work.

A lot of that.

And I don't begrudge anybody who does like horror.

I mean, obviously it's a very popular genre,

because there's a lot of horror out there.

So to each their own, I just personally don't like it.

Entertainment is always that to me.

To each their own.

If you like it, you don't let anybody slow you down.

You like what you like.

I just think it right on.

Yes, love again.

I do think that if you're going to like a genre,

you should, we should all have a bar

and expect the writers to creatives

out there in that world to meet that bar.

You can't get any lower than love again.

No, no, we will support that movie forever.

One more time.

Thank you, Laura.

Yes, thank you, Laura.

One more time, happy birthday to Bob Anderson.

Happy birthday, Bob.

And I'm happy birthday to our Qualifier Carey Sanders.

Happy birthday, Carrie.

Congratulations.

Keep getting us those birthdays and adversaries.

Everybody, we love celebrating you.

We're going to get to some state and local news,

sports and more coming up.

We've got how many fewer interruptions do we have

when we work from home?

We'll talk about that.

Depends on if you have a cat or not.

Melissa, Kevin and James, coming back on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

I'm a quarter reason, first, I'm a quarter reason for all of it.

About a working old summer just to try to earn a dollar.

Yeah, the time I call my baby, try to get a date.

My boss says, oh, Dyson, you got a work lead.

Sometimes I had to get that part of it.

I had to get that one.

I would love to be back in the day and be that guy.

The guy that's your only job.

You just jump in.

Boss says you got him.

I like that.

That seems like my kind of gig.

Welcome back to the show.

Melissa and James here with you.

Hope you're having a great Friday Eve out there.

Everybody, happy Thursday.

Happy Thursday.

It is.

And let's dive into this interesting article.

This study, really, since COVID,

there's been a lot of talk about what's more efficient,

working from home or in the office.

But the results here are pretty clear cut.

Working from home is a better option,

according to this research.

Researchers looked at how many times the average employee

got interrupted while working in person and remotely.

At the office, people were interrupted 17 times per week.

That's 3.4 times a day or 884 times a year.

At home, it was only 14 times per week,

around 2.0 interruptions per day,

723 a year.

That's about 18% fewer interruptions than in the office.

Interesting.

It also looked at how many hours of,

quote, deep focus the average person had

and working from home was better for that too.

18.6 hours a week at the office

and 22.8 at home.

That's an extra four hours of,

in 22% gain in, quote, deep focus

or diving really into your job or

means productivity.

Yeah, yeah.

In other words, sure you might get distracted at home

by your pets or kids or sometimes,

but they're still less or of a disruption

than co-workers can be.

Mm-hmm.

Well, there's less people in your home

than there is at the office typically.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, I don't have a lot of experience of this,

but in the same sense, I do in some ways

because I do a lot of teaching from home

and I would say in my 10 plus years of teaching,

90 some percent of it I've done on Zoom or Skype

and I usually do tend to do that from home.

I don't have a lot of distractions

and oftentimes like my fur brother Sam,

I'll include him in sketches and things.

Sam might as well have a degree from Second City

as much as he's helped me in sketches and everything.

But I don't think it's the same thing.

Like what I'm doing, like improv teaching,

acting, writing, all that stuff.

It's almost...

Yeah, that's different than a job in like finance.

Yeah, yeah.

So I don't want to act like I know what this is like.

I would like to leave it open for you, Melissa.

How have you felt it has gone for you just personally?

Personally, it's fantastic

because if I had to add another two and a half hours

to my day and driving time,

that would decrease my efficiency

by quite a bit.

That just takes away from the amount of time

that I can work.

Yeah.

So I don't mean this is like a bad thing

or anything like that.

I don't want it to come across that way.

But we had a team meeting the other day

and we had everybody in the building

but our engineer and our GM Chuck

who's not feeling well,

we wish you well Chuck.

Hope you're feeling better.

Yeah, it feels better.

But we have a small staff,

but we had everybody here.

We even had Don and Michael and stuff

who help us with sports.

It was great.

It did not take more than a couple minutes

for us to get completely derailed

and just going off on side tangents and everything.

What should have taken probably a half an hour

was over an hour meeting,

but it was good.

It was good.

It was a good meeting.

That's what I wanted to hit on here

is that I think that some of these

quote distractions,

I think they can be team building exercises.

I think they can be motivators

and helpers.

We can promote camaraderie,

which is great,

but I don't know that you can't have that

like we do because there's never a day

that we are all in the building together

on a regular work day,

even if I did work every day in the office.

Our schedules don't align like that

unless we actually plan for it like we did.

What my feeling is on this is

that there's no necessarily wrong answer.

We got to take the silver linings where we can

and one of the things that come out of the pandemic,

I think was realizing that we can do this.

A lot of small businesses have been saved by this.

We would have lost even more businesses,

especially small businesses and local businesses

if it wasn't for this option, this ability.

Think of what it's done for the education world

and being able to do that.

But at the same time,

we also know that interacting with people

and interacting with coworkers like we said

can be a positive.

So I think it depends on the job, the person.

There's too, there's so many factors to this.

There's no cookie-cut answer for it.

And I know that most, you know,

a lot of people nowadays hate that.

They want a black and white answer.

Well, the world's gray.

We live in a gray world.

They're very seldom in life,

black and white answers for things.

And for something like this,

it's even more, it's got even more layers to it.

Can we change that to like blue?

Yes, yes.

We live in a blue world.

Yeah, we live in a blue world.

Technically we do.

Yeah, yeah.

You look at it.

It's a literary, but saying we live in the gray,

that's like sad color.

Yeah, okay.

It's good with a happy color.

Okay, all right, I'm with that, I'm with that.

But to go back to our topic here,

I do feel that I am actually more productive at home

because when I am at the office and working from the office,

I do end up having more conversations with coworkers,

which can be good,

but there are also disruptions in my productivity.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, comparatively.

So being in the office every day,

there would be more of that.

Whereas at home, I'm not that I begrudge that

because I certainly don't.

I like talking with my coworkers.

No.

But I definitely am more productive at home

just for that simple reason.

And being that we're in, you know,

the giant network that we're in now,

we do have more opportunities to collaborate

over the internet, you know, over Zoom calls

and being able, because we have weekly meetings

with the whole team in civic media,

which is awesome.

We have a call coming in.

Let's take it.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Okay.

Since we're still talking about working at home,

I totally agree that it's not a black and white issue.

And there are so few black and white issues

that we're being honest.

But I think because of that,

what we really just need are more bosses

and management companies who are open

to allowing their employees

to work from home in part or in whole.

I think it just needs to be something

that becomes more available.

Because there are people like, for instance,

stay at home mom, who have to drive around

all afternoon picking their kids up

from all of their different schools

in their one district,

who can't do an office job like that,

who can't work a nine to five

because they're driving from two until four.

Exactly.

Do you think that the corporate world

the business world, however you want to word it,

has gotten better about that adjusting

and understanding more of not just single parents

but parents in general, parents in homes

with two working parents

and different schedules.

That sort of thing.

I really wish I could say yes.

But I can't.

As we see headlines, at least,

exactly.

There's some outliers that absolutely have

and there are some companies who are very good.

I would even like to point out companies

who have specifically incorporated a day

care into their building for their workers.

Like that's really cool stuff.

But that's right there.

And my answer is going to be no.

Because we're seeing more and more headlines

of places going,

no, we need people back in the office.

Yep.

That's what we need.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which limits our workforce or the ability

that people that can apply for those jobs

was the limits, the talent that you're bringing in.

It's not smart business to me.

It doesn't.

Because something that we're very much lacking

in this state in particular is child care.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and it should also be mentioned

that COVID isn't over.

And like we should still be staying home

when we're sick, especially during like this time of year.

When it's looking like it's going up again.

And we can't because they're pushing us

to go back into the office.

They're pushing us to not work from home

when we did for two years.

Now that being said,

the fact that I do work from home for the most part,

I would have had more sick days

if I had to come in the office

because I'm not going to contaminate anybody here.

So I can still work when I'm sick,

which is not actually a good thing in some ways.

Well, there's that.

But there's also, you know,

you call out because you're sick

because you have this contagious thing

that you're told to stay home

because you have and then you're fired

because you can't go to work

because you have this contagious thing

that you're boss is taking seriously enough.

And this is where I need to take some notes

and remember that even if I'm in an iron lung,

that doesn't mean I come into work.

That's a good note for me.

Very correct.

I'm sure you're sickness James.

Yeah, yeah.

Always good to hear from you

and love hearing that voice on this radio.

Great voice, great voice.

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Let's get into this one, Melissa.

This is maybe brilliant marketing.

A lot of people looking at New Year's resolutions

want to get to the gym more.

Want to work out more?

Want to get to the gym more and everything.

Well, the owners of a bar in the UK

Malster's arms just changed its name

to help people keep their New Year's resolutions.

The new name of it is the gym.

I was going to say the library.

Oh, nice.

When you brought up this topic,

because there is one in the cross

called the library.

Really?

If my masks tell where I went to the library

is they're under slogan on their sign.

It's cool.

That's actually pretty good.

That's it.

It would be even better if they like

worked with the local library somehow

or something like that.

Like that'd be great.

Has some library books there.

Like the gym also great advertising.

Yeah.

Marketing campaign.

I think with both these places,

it would be even funnier if like

the library had like four or five books there.

Like just like randomly on a shelf just sitting there.

So when we do got books,

you know, the gym,

it's just got like a pull-up bar.

It's just something simple.

Or some probably not good to have some dumbbells

sitting around in a bar.

Yeah, I thought of that right away.

Yes.

I mean, they do have mechanical bowls and bars.

Why couldn't they have a treadmill?

Right, right.

Oh, that's good.

That's true.

That's a very good point, actually.

It's just just put it on a padded,

surround it with padding so that whatever happens.

Their under slogan is the gym.

So now you can tell people,

yes, I've gone to the gym every day this week.

It's in Swansea,

the second largest city in Wales.

They put up a new sign last week,

bought special glasses that look like dumbbells.

And if you show up in workout gear,

your first drink is free.

Nice.

That's good.

Now that is some clever marketing.

All of the added stuff.

Changing the name is one thing.

The added stuff get me.

That's good.

Yeah, yeah.

Showing up in workout gear.

It's not clear.

I love that.

It's not clear if they're changing the name permanently

or switching it back to the old name at the end of the month.

What was the original name?

The original name was the,

oh, where is it?

Malster's arms.

Okay.

Malster's arms.

And this is somewhere in the UK.

So that makes sense.

It's a last name and arms is often the name on pubs.

So, okay.

But if that was here in the United States,

they definitely should stick with the new name.

Yes, yeah, very much.

Because more people will remember it.

I don't think that's common knowledge.

What you just said, they're Melissa.

I didn't know that.

I'm going to be honest with everybody.

I did not know the arms part of that.

I remember hearing that.

I've read that in a lot of books.

Interesting.

Very interesting.

I didn't know that.

Very cool.

In related news,

Gen Z's new favorite workout is singing karaoke.

Some...

Well, they could have that at the gym.

There you go, right?

Yes, perfect.

Some TikTok even skew younger.

You'll love that.

Yeah.

Some TikToker claimed singing burns

around 500 calories per hour.

And she even broke it down by song.

For example,

you'll burn 13 calories singing

my heart will go on by Celine Dion.

13 calories.

Wow.

And rip out your voice.

Yeah, you're right.

I'm very curious about that part, though.

The singing burning calories.

Depends on how enthusiastic you are about your singing.

Yeah, it does seem to vary.

There are some articles out about Gen Z

turning karaoke into a based weight loss technique.

There's some of that.

But an average, someone standing as they sing

can burn 136 calories per hour

compared to 100 calories sitting down.

If you move around or dance as you sing,

you can increase that burn every even more.

And a guitar or percussion instrument

and you add a guitar or percussion instrument

and you can bring that burn

up to around 200 calories per hour.

But let me tell you something.

Singing solid and dancing for an hour.

That takes a lot, a lot, a lot of effort.

Whether I enjoy their music or not,

I've never seen somebody who sings in place guitar

or sings and dances and not been blown away.

I've never been able to normalize that in my brain.

I find that amazing every single time.

Whether I like their music or not

or think they're talented or not,

what they're doing is incredibly talented.

Yeah, it's impressive.

I have you done any of that.

Or how are two people who take this up

as a weight loss routine?

Great.

More singing in the world.

We need that.

I agree.

Have you done, I know you've done a bit of singing

in about a bit of this.

Have you done anything like that

where you've put your playing an instrument

and singing or dancing and singing, Melissa?

Well, not an instrument the whole time.

I mean, I wasn't a band for a few years.

So I don't know if the tambourine counts.

Oh, we're playing the guitar solo in Billie Jean,

which is like two notes.

Oh, nice.

For one song.

But dancing, obviously, during the whole gig,

which is three hours, typically, or so.

And then being in musicals, that's singing and dancing.

Absolutely.

And running for costume changes to a second floor far away

for where your dressing room's located.

Yeah.

But yeah, that's workout.

I've only been in two musicals.

One of them was Gypsy.

And that's how Gypsy was for us.

It was just as much of a workout to get to your costume

than it was to get out stage.

But I played like five bit parts in that

and did background singing.

So again, I don't know.

We did a little bit of dancing choreography with the singing,

but I don't put it on the same level as this other stuff.

But it's all the more impressive to me

when people can pull that off.

That's pretty cool.

Oh, yeah.

We, I tried to stretch.

I tried to make some time.

We were supposed to be joined by Mike Barnes