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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 our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Hope you were having a good one out there. Didn't mean to throw anybody if the intro music was a little different.

You caught it real quick. Well, you know, but it should have happened. I keep making it. It's one of those mornings. If I'm being honest, I'm dealing with a kidney stone.

And it was it was it was working its way last night and it's still doing its thing. It's I'm just trying to work around it. Do my darn job.

And in the plenty of people though, I'm talking about out there. So you know, let's have some fun. Let's enjoy ourselves this morning and get into a little entertainment news to kick things off before we do that though.

Or when that that's coming up in a second, but a little bit later, we're going to negotiate with some aliens. See how many of us will be good at it.

Okay. And the top daily decisions we struggle with. Those things coming up for you along with some of that ain't right stories. Good stories of the day.

Plenty more coming up for you. We'll get into our schedule as well. All that coming up right now.

Interested interesting and interested in making the we are the world.

Do you remember that Melissa? The song we are the world. It was a huge organizational thing and stuff.

Everybody came together. Yeah. Yeah. Well, now you can watch a documentary about it. The greatest night in pop on Netflix right now.

And here are 10 facts about the night to act as an appetizer, if you will, for that.

I do think I'm going to watch this. I do think I'm going to I was so young when it happened. I mean, I remember it, but I don't feel like I knew about it. You know what I mean?

Want to watch it for the hair styles only. Yes, absolutely absolutely. Yes. Yes. Oh, that's so good.

Harry Belafonte started it all. At least it was his idea to do something about Hungary in Africa.

But they did base it on the band aid charity signal. Do they know it's Christmas from the UK, which came out first?

Hmm.

But this is something that Harry Belafonte, not only Dale, not only that guy.

But the guy who was one of those one of the bigger people when it came to things to fight for using his his status and to do something about it when things he when he saw injustices or when he saw things like this.

You know, the hunger situation in Africa was huge in the 80s as far as that topic.

Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie avoided any dated expressions when they wrote the song, you know, things like right on or you dig or something like that.

They wanted to make sure the lyrics were timeless.

Okay.

Okay.

I think it's really cool and speaks to the the amazing songwriters those two were and all of these artists were when you can you put you have that perspective.

You think of something like that.

Yeah, that this song can go on forever.

It's pretty cool.

It was recorded after the 1985 American Music Awards.

That's how they got so many huge stars together at once.

Because they're all there already.

Okay. All right.

I never'd see that's the kind of stuff I'd always wondered.

How did you work that out schedule wise with all those people? Well, there you go.

Yeah.

45 vocalists.

Wow.

Wow. I didn't realize it was 45.

Yeah.

Prince was supposed to be there, but he no showed people seem to think it was because of his rivalry with Michael Jackson.

Also, it just didn't fit his brand.

Now, I've never heard Prince say anything about this, but his rivalry with Michael Jackson by this point was almost at its peak.

And I could see that.

I could see why some people think that.

But all you got to do is do a little digging and see that Prince was a big was very into philanthropy.

And helping out hunger, helping out a lot of those kind of situations.

So it's hard for me to imagine that he would let that keep him from helping kids eat.

I don't think I don't see that's not the Prince that I've read.

That's not the one that I've seen in interviews and everything.

That feels more like a projecting thing.

Oh, we don't have the real answer.

So we're just going to chalk it up to, you know, a simple little rivalry or something that will look good on the New York Post or something like that.

But there's no reporting on this.

They're just throwing that out there.

They're just saying that it was this.

And that's not journalism.

That's not actually reporting.

No, it's speculation.

I'd like to know what was...

There's rumors he was at a Mexican restaurant when it all went down.

I'd like to know why.

I'd like to know what he was doing, what that was.

He was hungry.

There you go.

There you go.

Nothing deeper than that.

I was hungry.

I was hungry.

That was it.

That was the only one.

But Madonna, another big name that was there.

Madonna was not invited.

Apparently some of the organizers felt she wasn't a good enough singer.

They went to Cindy Lopper instead.

In source to say it broke her heart.

Wow.

I disagree with that.

I think Madonna is a way better than average singer.

I think you listen to take a bow and you'll hear that.

I think there's a lot of songs of hers that do that.

And I think that Madonna of the early 80s was a bit controversial.

And you know, little had some of that going on with her career at the time.

They had Dan Acroyd there for God's sake.

And I love Dan Acroyd.

But Dan Acroyd.

Not not for his singing.

No, no.

If this is really about trying to raise money and awareness for kids in Africa at the time and all that.

Why would you not have arguably the biggest pop star in the world?

The only person who can really compete with Michael and Prince.

Madonna.

Why would you not have her there?

I don't care if she voiced, tracked everything.

Just having her presence there, having her name attached to this would have been huge.

How much more, how much bigger could it have been?

Right.

Speaking of Dan Acroyd, a Dan Acroyd took part by accident.

He just happened to be talking to a talent manager that day and the guy invited him to the recording session.

So think of that in comparison.

Yeah, the people who got left out and then the ones who were there kind of by accident.

Yeah, yeah.

Bob Dylan almost had a nervous breakdown.

He got all stressed out trying to figure out how to sing his part when all they wanted was for him to sound like Bob Dylan.

Like that's it.

Which, you know, you don't like yourself.

Yeah.

And you don't really get a ton of lyrics from Bob all the time, you know.

So Eddie Murphy missed his chance to be there.

Eddie was at Stevie Wonder studio recording his single party all the time.

Is one of the funniest pop songs of all time.

That is a hilarious song.

Stevie asked him to come over but he declined when he realized what he had passed up.

He felt like an idiot.

Oh, no.

And he has been very honest about this.

He's talked about it quite a bit.

He didn't quite understand what Stevie Wonder was talking about.

And he was very focused on, you know, this album and this being big.

Eddie knew, like he'd seen Bruce Willis and other artists do things like this and try to come out with songs and fail.

And he did.

It was so important to him.

Not only that it was successful, but the people liked it.

It wasn't about for him selling records.

He just wanted to make a song people dance to and they really liked.

That's why he brought Rick Jameson to help with the production.

He's got Stevie Wonder helping him.

He's in Steve's studio to record this.

And then what you get is party all the time.

Party all the time.

It's just bad.

The video is even more hilarious.

Because it's supposed to be like a happy like fun song or whatever.

They're all serious in the studio.

Like, yeah, I got to get this right.

All right.

Party all the time.

No, another take.

It's not perfect.

It's funny.

This is a funny video.

Not everyone liked the song.

Billy Joel claims they all hated it, but nobody was willing to say so.

Hmm.

He likes.

And most importantly, we are the world.

It was a huge success.

It spent four weeks at number one.

Went quadruple platinum within a month.

Went on to sell seven million copies.

And most importantly helped raise 63 million for this cause.

Yeah.

And like, honestly, like I don't make light of anything.

Especially that's 63 million that they didn't have.

That's 63 million that helped out countless amount of hunger.

Hungry people struggling with hunger in Africa.

All that being said, that seems low to me when you put that many stars in one room.

Yeah.

And if you throw away the egos, especially of the 80s, the 80s egos and everything,

I'd love to see a modern version of this done, quote unquote, right.

I don't want to say what they did was wrong, but there's obviously,

there's a lot of left on the playing field there.

There's a lot of meat on the bone they left there.

Yeah.

Should be interesting.

It should be.

It's a very interesting, the whole story is interesting.

And the fact that some of people never even heard the song until they showed up for the recording.

Yeah.

Murl Haggard was supposed to be in, and he was there.

He was in, he was going to sing along and everything.

And then the Stevie Wonder wanted to include a Swahili song, and he said him out.

He didn't want to, he didn't think that, I think the quote was,

boy, let me make sure I get this right.

I want to make sure that I get this right.

Because it was just in our, our day in country news.

And I was one of those things that we weren't able to get to, just ran out of time.

But I did think it was interesting.

And here it is.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Whale and Jennings.

I apologize.

Whale and Jennings was there.

And apparently the vibe wasn't good until Michael Jackson suggested everyone sing it.

The vibe was good, but then Michael Jackson suggested that everyone sing a gibberish part

that some thought was mocking African dialect.

That caused an argument and a bunch of fighting was going on.

And then Stevie Wonder thought he found a good solution by suggesting they all sing a Swahili phrase.

And that was when Whalen said he's out, quote, no good ol' boy sings in Swahili.

And that has not aged well.

No.

And I imagine that there are plenty of, in fact, you know, I don't know if country fans out there are going to like this or not.

Your music comes from that.

Like Swahili and African dialect and African beats and noises and everything.

That's where the majority of music comes from, like period, just like human beings.

Most of us, you know, not most of us.

The origin of humanity is Africa.

Like, what are you doing here?

What are you doing?

Yep.

I think that this documentary is going to be one of the more interesting documentaries that any of us are going to see.

If you experience this, if you live through this.

The greatest night in pop is on Netflix coming up tomorrow, I believe.

And if that doesn't seem interesting to you, maybe some of this will.

New on TV tonight.

Name that tune at Seven on Fox.

Quantum leap returns at nine on NBC.

The first season finale, Percy Jackson in the Olympians on Disney Plus.

That is on Netflix.

Yeah.

My sister really loved those.

And if you're naive, that doesn't interest you.

Okay.

Well, wait a minute.

Well, what about podcasts?

Huh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Check that out.

Podcast lately.

Looking for one.

Well, I just happen to have one right in front of me right now.

Do you?

Raise your back pocket.

Yeah.

Let me see if I get this right.

What the Muppet.

Okay.

What the Muppet.

All right.

Sounds cool.

So it's about these two Muppet heads that dive deep into an imaginative world where they pull out.

A different Muppet randomly every time.

And they put them in funny, different situations.

This sounds really cool.

Wow.

That does sound interesting.

Well, and they, they, I mean, they just look like some very creative, beautiful people.

Write it up.

I will stop.

I am so sorry.

What the Muppet, wherever you get your podcast, check it out.

Bri and I had another episode drop yesterday.

The double dip scandal.

Ooh.

Double dip scandal.

Yeah.

So we do this where we have the five hats in front of us.

And we take turns.

She'll grab one, then I grab one.

And we get talking, you know, and get rambling.

Like you and I do Melissa sometimes.

And I get sidetracked.

And I was thinking that I think, I think the double dip scandal is actually my fault.

I'm pretty sure.

I think I grabbed twice.

I blame you.

Yeah.

It's probably a good call.

That's right.

Wherever you get your podcasts, check out what the Muppet.

And if you're into the video of it, Bri does a great job recording and editing all of this.

Type into your search bar on YouTube.

What the Muppet.

Type into there.

What the Muppet.

And subscribe and follow along.

We've got a great Patreon page up right now.

And while it is, we don't make, we don't make light if anybody's spending money on these things.

It's $5.

And my God, do you get your money's worth?

Ooh.

Bri takes a lot of heart into this and puts a lot of time in doing some extra videos and extra footage for our Patreon fans out there.

So go and be sure to check that out, everybody.

And to shout out to Bri.

Great work, as always.

She's amazing at this stuff.

Nice.

We will take a time out.

We will come back and we're going to talk aliens.

When we're coming back.

Yes.

We're going to go shit.

Alien.

Alien.

We're going to come back on the boarding show here at Duffy.

I like the way you see aliens.

We'll be back on the boarding show at WFHR.

And all the people that come and go.

Stop and say hello.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

A little fab for to play us in.

Mm-hmm.

I think if aliens were to land on the planet and we've got to ask somebody to go talk to them.

I like the idea of sending Ringo.

Ah, sending Ringo.

Yeah, Ringo.

From the Beatles.

Yeah, I think you do a pretty good job.

What could go wrong?

Sure.

What could go wrong?

Well.

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

If aliens showed up tomorrow.

They were not overly friendly.

And they were not overly friendly about it.

Who would you want to be the point person in charge of talking with them and working this out

and creating a peaceful treaty?

Dolly Pardon.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I feel like we've already got this.

We can move on, everybody.

I feel like we've got this.

Nice done, nicely done.

Well, hang on a second.

I mean, we don't have any white anymore.

Right.

That would have been a good option.

That would have been first choice.

But yes, Dolly Pardon.

Let me double check here.

Yep.

That's a winner.

That is a winner right there.

Nicely done, Melissa.

Okay.

So we can move on.

In a new poll, 43% say that they would be cool with our current world leaders representing Earth.

43% is actually pretty high.

I actually think that that's pretty high.

It's not too big.

Yeah, very much considering.

Yeah.

They didn't especially considering world leaders.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They didn't specify who that would be.

So maybe the options are President Biden or the Zee over in China, Vladimir Putin,

Emmanuel Marcon, King Charles, Taylor Swift.

I don't know.

I don't know what they're considering as world leaders, not sure.

So what would you do?

What would you want?

Who would you want representing?

And how would you handle this if it was you?

In a new poll, 42% of Americans say yes.

They believe they would be able to negotiate peace with aliens.

So just a percentage lower than the amount of us that think that our world leaders could negotiate peace.

So we're actually, according to this study, a little more confident in world leaders being able to do this than ourselves being able to do it.

That's impressive and maybe a little yetistical.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Also, I mean, I'm sorry.

I thought if you would have asked me a new poll, how many percentage of people think that our world leaders could negotiate peace with aliens, I'd go in the 20s.

I would think with the confidence that most, that we seem to have media wise in our politicians.

This just goes to show you why you need to do homework and you need to do digging.

And you can't just take the answers that are given to you, do some hunting, find those answers.

It doesn't take a lot, shouldn't take a lot of digging.

And oftentimes when it does, that, that tells you something right there.

Like the tinfoil hat crowd is waiting for you.

It's right over there with that digging and all that.

Like you got to, you want something, you got to work for it most times.

37% of people say that they believe aliens are already here while 41% do not think that they, there are aliens among us.

And the other 22% just don't know.

Overall, 53% of people think that, that aliens do exist somewhere while 34% of people don't, but don't believe in extraterrestrial life.

Okay.

So what is more egotistical molissa?

The idea that you think that you couldn't negotiate peace with aliens or the idea that we're the only living breathing thing in existence in the entire universe.

Oh, that's a tough one.

Oh, James, that is a tough one.

That's a tough one right there.

I don't even know how to answer that.

Nice to question.

Yeah, I, I, I, I'll tell you this, if, if nobody else is going to do it, I'll do it.

You know, I mean, if, if we're sitting there, the aliens are waiting, they're looking at their watch, like, come on, somebody come over and negotiate it.

How many come to the table for this?

If nobody else is going to do it, I watched the, the, the Earth stood still.

I feel like I can, I can, I can wing this.

I can, I can figure it out.

You know, the thing that, that is interesting to me when we, when we talk about these things is how, for one, the what ifs and the what ifism and all that stuff and everything is just kind of like almost drives you crazy.

But it's the, the realistic approach we take to these things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

While also the other side of things of people not even believing it's real or, or, or think it's, it's far fetch.

What I think is far fetched is to think that we're the only living breathing thing in the universe.

I'm not saying that there are little green aliens.

I'm not saying that there's even, you know, life as in the form of we know it.

Like, yeah.

Yeah, you know, popping around, walking around with limbs and everything.

Life.

Have any economies.

Right.

Yeah.

Look at what they discovered in Mars some years back and everything.

The, the, the trickle of water or what have you.

That the, that the representation of what could be life.

Things like that.

That's what I think of.

Now, if you are talking about the little green men and everything them coming down and stuff.

First off, there is no way in the universe that that's what aliens look like.

And you know why I'm confident in that?

Because we guess that.

We are great.

We came up with it.

It comes from no intelligence.

It comes from like this.

It's an old kind of like image that we've been using since the dawn of putting aliens on screen.

And in TV and movies and all that and everything.

So that's obviously what we would automatically think because that's what we have fed ourselves.

Yeah.

I don't, I don't think that I've never heard anybody like try to give any like realistic look of an alien.

Like what it, what it would look like, you would, there's all these factors that it would take.

In factors that we can't know, look at ourselves.

Human beings are built a certain way because of the planet we live on.

Right.

And that's the thing that our environment has crafted the way that we look.

Yeah.

Who knows what environments are like on other planets.

Right.

Because we haven't visited them.

And if you read sci-fi books, yes, the movies and all of that has a visual as well.

But there's so many more in sci-fi books as well of interpretations of what aliens could look like.

Yeah.

I think it's an interesting topic.

I think it's kind of fascinating and everything.

But I also, I don't know what to do with it to be honest with you either.

I'm very Switzerland about this.

I'm very on down the middle of, now I do believe that there is life out there.

I do believe, but what it is, how specific it is, I don't know any of that and I don't pretend to.

What I think is really interesting is the idea of this happens.

And well, how are we going to talk to them?

How we, it's pretty unlikely that they speak English or, or, you know, Spanish or...

Or any of the languages of the world.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

I love to, how every time we envision these scenarios, they land in America.

Like, every time, every, like, the odds...

Not actually the biggest land man.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's, it's almost unlikely that they would land here.

Probably in Indonesia.

Yeah, yeah.

Or wherever, you know, they're coming from, like if they're coming from a cold climate,

they're probably going to want to land...

North or South Pole.

Right, yeah.

Someone that's similar to the supporting life that they know.

And, and all of this is just, you know, kind of fun, jargon, like talk.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, the thing that the catch, I think to me, is when people take this a little too seriously

or, or they, they get a little angry about these kind of things.

Like that, that part, and I go, what do you get angry about?

There's no, nobody's using any facts here.

No, nobody's just, it's just a kind of interesting topic.

It's just kind of fun if anything.

I don't believe, however, you answer this.

All the sun tomorrow, aliens land, and President Biden's going to be like,

hey, so I heard you on the radio the other day and you were saying that you're going to...

So James, I'm, I'm going to need you to show up at the White House tomorrow

because the delegation from Planet Zepperson is here.

And you need to speak with them.

I don't know how that meeting's going to go.

But I could tell you how it's going to end.

With me coming to the rest of all of you and saying, look, we had a good run.

And things, I did my best.

You know...

Yeah.

Kiss your loved ones.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's see how this plays out everybody.

But trips to the moon, on me.

Trips to the moon, on me.

My bad.

So sorry.

Let's go to the moon.

We are going to go to break.

We will come back and have some more fun.

The morning show.

I can't believe that.

That's the most time we spent on that.

That was awesome.

More coming up with Melissa James out of the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Hope you having a good Tuesday out there.

Thanks for hanging out with us everybody.

Some decisions are big and require time and consideration.

Homework being done, doing your, you know, crossing your eyes

and dotting your teeth.

I was trying to have some fun with that there.

Research.

Others aren't that big.

But we struggle with them anyway.

A new poll looked at the top everyday decisions we struggle with.

And here are the top 10.

And it does look like these are kind of in order.

So we'll start at one and kind of work our way down here through this.

Sounds good.

Number one, what to eat.

44% of us have trouble deciding on any given day.

Yeah, it's a struggle.

I would like to just add on a one A to one B of that, you know,

remembering to eat.

That is a difficult one for me.

I just don't seem to remember all the time.

Okay.

What to watch on TV?

40% struggle with that one.

Yeah, and then there's some of us who just don't have it.

So you don't have to struggle then.

The decision is taken out of your hands.

You don't even got to worry about it.

That's just a which book do I read?

Oh wait, the one I'm reading.

There you go.

Decisions related to a hobby you have, 39%.

So say maybe you love to read, but you're not sure.

You got so many books you want to read.

You're not sure which one to start with.

Yeah, when you get to the end of one or if you're painting something

and which color scheme to go with.

Or, you know, which knitted project I want to start next.

I mean, there's a lot of decisions when it comes to your hobbies

that you have to make, especially midstream.

Yeah.

Here's a big one, I think, for a lot of people.

What to wear?

37% struggle with that one.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

If you have clothes in your wardrobe.

Mm-hmm.

It's a struggle.

Yeah.

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We want to know if you agree with this list,

if there's some on here that you deal with more than more than

some of the other ones, or if there are things that you struggle with

that you think should be on this list than are not.

As we get to the halfway point from what to wear,

we go to what to buy at the store.

36% struggle with that.

What to buy at the store?

Are we talking like groceries?

Yeah, I don't know.

That's all it says is what to buy at the store.

I don't know.

This money is burning a hole in my pocket.

I've got to spend it.

What do I spend it on?

See, this seems like-

That doesn't happen.

Forgive me, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.

Everybody, it's really easy to do it.

Just call up 715-424-2600.

But that feels like a rich person problem.

I don't believe I've ever gone to the store

without an idea of why I'm going to the store

to buy this item I need or whatever.

Unless you're like a kid,

unless you're ten,

and you've got $50 for your birthday,

you can buy something.

Then that struggle is real.

Yes.

Because you can only spend it on probably one thing.

Or you go to the candy store

and you spend it on a lot of different kinds.

That was me.

I want a more bang for my buck.

You could give me the $50 toy

or a $50 toy for a dollar.

Bag of $50 pieces of candy?

Yeah.

I'm walking.

You wouldn't see me with a piece of candy right there.

That's what you said.

I think.

But I guess maybe that could be the number of things.

We'll move on.

Your morning routine.

What order to do stuff in?

32% struggle with that.

Really?

I guess.

I've been doing this for so long.

This routine of mine.

I notice that even whether it's a day off

or it's a day that I'm running late,

I still do the same routine.

I don't even think about it.

I just kind of go right into the motion of things.

And before I know it,

I'm filling my coffee cup.

I'm like, oh jeez,

how did I even get here?

Half the time.

I feel like I'm just literally going.

Running on the autopilot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would say that maybe this happens to me on the weekends.

Oh yes.

Where you have a relaxed morning,

and you don't have anywhere to be,

so you can just leisurely go through your morning routine.

Yeah.

And those days are the best.

They really are.

Do you find yourself ever though?

And I've gotten much better about this.

But it used to be,

I was so rare for me to have a day off

or a morning I could sleep in

that I would get to it.

And then I'd freak out,

like I got to do this, this, and this.

I got to get all these things done.

I got it.

And then the anxiety sets in.

Yeah.

The relaxing morning turns into a silly morning

because of my knucklehead brain and everything.

I think that I've gotten better

about that over the years just because,

for my own mental well-being,

I've had to.

Right.

Because trying to have too many things on my plate at once,

I've realized it's not good for my mental health.

So I try to, I try to create lists,

and I try to just function with,

okay, well, when I have this thing done,

I can move on to the next thing.

And I'm not going to worry about the rest

because I can't do anything about it.

It's a good way to, a good approach.

And I know that a similar approach has worked for me

getting a little better about this stuff.

I got room to grow,

and I got work at it.

You're working on it.

You'll get the James.

Here's a good one, I think.

Whether spending money on something is worth it.

31% of people struggle with that one

on a more of a regular basis.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, especially for those of us who have a very limited budget

of, okay,

is purchasing this thing going to be worth not having the money?

What do you do when you need a new battery for your car

but you also need a new washer?

You know what I mean?

Making these decisions and figuring these things out.

It's something that not only do a lot of people struggle with,

we've got the stats from Alice that the United Way put out.

We've got other stats and bits of information to show.

The majority of us have this in common.

Like, don't forget this.

Especially this year as you are researching and learning about

politicians, as you are doing your homework, hopefully,

before you get into that booth.

Don't forget, you have more in common

with the people standing next to you in that booth

than you do a lot of the people that are

you're voting for.

For our office.

Yeah, yeah.

Keep that in mind.

Yeah, and look at the jobs that they're doing while in office.

What are they accomplishing while they've been there so far

if they're people who are repeat running?

You know, what have they worked towards for you

to make your life better?

And those are the important things to consider.

Another aspect of this in my mind, James,

is maybe it's not a, you know, do-or-not-do-or-die

but like this or this, we need both.

Maybe it's a, okay, I could spend $20 on a pair of shoes.

That they're going to last me, maybe six months.

Or I could spend $100 on a pair of shoes.

They're going to maybe last me two years.

Which is the better investment and can I do without that money right now

versus not having to buy this, make this purchase again?

Right, right.

How to organize your day, 25% struggle with that one?

Yeah, yeah.

I can see, especially if you've got a busy day,

you've got a lot going on, you know, and trying to figure it out.

But I also think that some of this stuff, like,

tells you how to do it.

Time, everything, and most things are time-sensitive.

Time management too.

Yeah, time management.

Yeah, that's another one, though, too.

It can be something that you have to learn, though, especially

maybe if you started a new job,

and you are a little more free-form,

like things are not regimented.

You know, you're not working at a fast food restaurant

where you have to do this and this and this.

Maybe it's a, okay, you have to accomplish

these 10 things in the day, but it's up to you to figure out how.

And that can be a little bit of a challenge.

Personal hygiene comes in at number nine.

18% of people struggle with that.

Like, do you have time?

Do you have time to take a shower?

Things like, so it's not so much like,

do you need a shower as much as,

do I have time to?

Fitting in, you're fitting this into your busy morning

or your routine, your busy day.

Make the time.

Make the time.

For the rest of humanity.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Figure it out.

Figure it out.

Shower it in there somewhere or something like that.

I value everybody's time.

I make light of none of this,

but please make the time.

Agreed.

It reminds me of one of my pop

his favorite go-to jokes.

I tell him, pop, I'm jumping in the shower.

Don't jump.

Pop, I'm getting in the shower.

Thank you.

He loves responding with that.

Thank you.

We all, thank you.

We all appreciate it.

Yes.

Number 10.

Social-related decisions.

18% of people struggle with that one.

Do you really want to grab a drink with that friend

or just keep flipping through possible shows to watch?

Figure out whether to go out or not.

A lot of people, especially younger people,

really struggle with this one.

This is a big anxiety thing for a lot.

At least from what the people that I know

and that I've run into and they express.

Well, and I think part of this

is a little bit of the aftermath

of what people are going through from the pandemic.

Yeah.

Because we had such a long period of time

where being out in a crowd

was considered impactful on your health in some way.

Mm-hmm.

You know, whatever your belief was during that time,

it's honestly still just a little bit weird to me

to be in a packed store.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah.

And I live in, you know, living in a small town,

my stores here are not very busy.

But like going to a Claire or going to the cities

and being in a place where there's hundreds of other people

is still just a little bit weird.

Yeah, I've never been a germaphob

or anything like along those lines

and when the pandemic happened,

it kind of, like, I felt a little of that

and I got a little of that.

Yeah, I got super conscious of it.

And it's weird because so much of it has, like,

for me, I don't worry as much about me getting it.

I worry about giving it to other people.

And I worry about hurting somebody else

because of my actions, especially, like, you know,

being blunt about it, my dad,

who barely survived the last runny out of COVID.

Man, yeah.

It's very close to home.

Yeah, yeah.

And I'm also just never been big on crowds.

Yeah.

My entire life.

I'm not a crowd person.

I don't, you know, I don't just earn, you know,

want to go to big concerts because I don't like

being in a press of people.

See, this is, and I completely get that.

I respect it.

It's weird.

Just for me personally, I never been that guy.

I like being in crowds.

I like, I actually feel more comfortable

in bigger settings than I do on a one-on-one situation.

But it feels like in the last four or five years,

whether it's because of the pandemic or it just is the way

I, you know, evolved or whatever,

I've become a little more opposite of that than I used to be.

And I don't know why, necessarily,

other than some of the things we've touched on there.

Yeah, our life experience.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The poll also looked at the top big decisions

we take our time with.

And the top five we're buying a house,

getting married or divorced,

having kids, changing jobs, and moving.

Those are all really good ones to take your time about.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

27% regret a big decision they made when they were young.

27%.

Oh, 100%.

Get out of here with that.

27%.

Miss me with that.

Well, if you're just talking about those five things.

I suppose.

Yeah, yeah.

Then it might be 27.

But if we're just talking,

regretting a bad decision,

yeah, 100%.

I'm really regret dating that guy for three weeks.

I mean, we all.

The worst decision I ever made.

There is nobody who doesn't have a regret for you.

27% also regret a decision about their career.

23% regret something about their significant other.

And 22% regret certain parenting decisions they have made.

Interesting.

Interesting.

But there's a relatability there.

There's, you know, the next time you're thinking of

critiquing somebody else or critiquing another parent

or something like that,

keep these stats in mind.

You know, I know what?

I'm going to keep my mouth shut.

You know, I'm not going to.

Because somebody could do it right back at you.

Yeah.

And it's never a bad idea when you're, you know,

dithering about these decisions to talk to somebody.

Talk to a friend.

Talk to a parent.

Talk to an aunt or uncle or brother or sister.

Somebody that can understand the circumstances you're in in life

and maybe give you some advice which you may or may not take.

Yeah.

Talk and listen.

Yes.

Listen to each other.

And talk, not be great.

Not talk down to or anything.

Yeah.

It's important.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

Some brilliant light story and some good stuff to go into

for locally.

All coming up for you.

Right here on the Morning Show, at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Got to change it up a little bit.

There we go.

Just don't have them labeled yet so I keep hitting the same ones

Welcome back to the show everybody.

Melissa and James here with you believe it or not.

We're here at the end of the show already.

Our final segment.

I didn't see that.

It went by fast.

That's all.

It just went by fast.

Honestly, just coming out of the break.

I love it when you haven't found it.

Yeah, the last break.

I was like, wow, believe it or not.

I mean, man, we're already done.

That was a reach.

That was a reach.

Let's be honest, that was a reach.

I couldn't help myself though.

I want to get into some good stories of the day.

But before that, we of course have to touch on the that a right.

And I might have a doozy here for you.

Although I don't really have much of a problem with this stuff too.

Within reason.

So I wonder there's a lady in California named Macy Davies Sutherland.

And she just broke the world record for longest arm hair on a woman.

Oh.

Now we're talking not so much Arab Williams type sleeve of hair.

So much it's just one hair on her right arm that refuses to stop growing.

And it clocked in last month at seven seven point twenty four inches long.

Whoa, seven.

Oh, yeah, it's seven and a quarter inches long.

It's kind of crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's not only kind of crazy.

It's got to drive you like her crazy.

Like no matter what she does.

I have a longer, you know, a hair that grows out of the mole.

It's closer to my wrist.

But I always cut it because it drives me nuts.

I had one that was shown up on my shoulder.

Like it hasn't been there in years.

But it was just like I didn't know where I'm getting out of the shower.

I look like there's a hair pop.

Like what do I want?

What do I want?

Get out of there.

Get out of there.

Go away.

You're like, I don't know.

It's weird.

It is weird feeling.

So the dedication to let it grow.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I think she deserves that record.

Yeah.

She discovered it at 12.

She discovered it 12 years ago as a junior in high school.

So she's in her late 20s.

She says the hair has accidentally been plucked a few times.

So she really had to stick with it to break the record.

Yeah.

Her doctor measured it.

Her doctor measured it last year at only five and a half inches.

Which would have been a good enough for the record.

But she decided to wait a few months because she was going all in.

Just let it keep growing.

And she's hoping nobody breaks the record.

She really wants to keep this.

Wow.

And if you're 12 years in.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

The record from men is even longer back in 2017.

A guy named David Reed, also from California.

And an arm hair that was 8.54 inches long.

Whoa.

He said it came forward to quote, impress the ladies.

Look at my long arm hair.

Yes.

Oh, baby.

Yeah.

I want to meet some of that.

We all know, you know, when it comes.

But it comes to what the ladies are really looking for.

It's not security.

It's not honesty or trust or any of these things.

Long arm hair.

Long arm hair.

That's what it all comes down to.

Oh, boy.

Macy plans to keep letting hers grow and hopes to eventually beat David's overall record.

She says she likes to embrace being different.

Okay.

And it's got to be somewhere on her arm.

Does it say where on her arm?

It's located.

No, there is a video.

And I just, I did not have time to really look at it.

Oh, it's, it looks like it's right above her elbow.

Right above her elbow on her.

I think her left arm.

I don't know her right arm.

I want to say.

Okay.

Like on the outside of her arm.

Yeah.

That's a weird place to grow along here, though.

It really is.

And boy, it is a really long hair, too.

She's, so she's blonde and she's pale.

So it's a little harder to even see it.

So there's that part too.

There's that part too.

It might help out and might play into, you know, being able to let it go.

But can you imagine she probably gets it like stuck at doors and stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All that being said, like kudos to this lady.

Kudos to this young woman in this day and age.

They're not on her.