Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. And thanks for kicking
it off with us right here at WF HR, locally grown radio. Got your host James J behind
the mic. I think I'm joined by Melissa K. Yeah, Melissa. It's going to have to take
a minute. She just lost power right as we went on. But I am joined by Brittany Barlow.
We're going to go ahead and talk a little weather with Brittany. Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning. How are you doing today? I'm doing all right. I'll be doing better once
we have Melissa with us. I know I'm not sure how to do this show without her, Brittany.
I mean, she everything I had lined up was all with her. It's not joking. We'll be fine.
She'll be with us in a moment. How are you doing this morning? That's Melissa free
of all. I love her too. Yeah. Yeah. We need her. Yes. Yes. But we're loving the sun.
No, do you have any sunshine yet? I'm in loss. I can see some. I know you've got some
patchy fog, though. Yeah, we we've still got the fog. It looks like London out there.
It really does. And one thing that I'd like to tell people that I don't know if we're covering
enough and not you in particular just mean in general us as a society. When it's foggy
out like this, those roads can be a little more icy than usual. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
Especially the bridges and the rails. You know, they freeze first, too. And you've got
temperatures hovering around that freezing mark. The freezing fog is the thing. It really
is. So I'm glad you pointed that out and keep in mind, too. If you haven't already left
for the day, you're going to have to do a little scraping on your car as well because of
that fog. Tell me about it. Free start the car if you can. Even though it's a mild day
today. Goodness, but yeah, we might hit some records. I mean, we're looking at temperatures
rising today all the way into those mid 40s. Today for Wisconsin rapids looks like 44 degrees
and you're actually going to see the sunshine later. I swear the fog is going to clear.
Here's why good to know little, little week cold front that's going to push in and it's
going to bring drier air with it today. So as it pushes through, it's going to push
fast fog out of here. Push some of the clouds away and you are going to see some sunshine
early, but we might see some more clouds pushing in later on this evening. Go figure,
right? But this weekend is jam packed with plenty sunshine. Nice warm temperatures.
Not bad. Well, we'll look forward to that. I know. We'll all be looking forward to that
including Melissa, right now. Yes, I am. Hi, Brittany. This is trying to find a way
to bring in the conversation. I was. Yeah, I have a beef to pick with you, Brittany.
You're my main line to the main line to the sun. Shined right in my eyes last night when
I was trying to rapids. So thank you for that. I mean, I'm grateful to see it, but also
man, it was bright. You know, though, honestly, bring up a good point. Don't forget the
sunglasses, right? Oh, I have my eyes are light sensitive. So it drives me crazy. It
could be like January, this time of year, and I still have to wear sunglasses. Like I,
it's one of those things I never without sunglasses. That's a good note by you, though, Brittany.
We appreciate that. I always appreciate hanging out with you. Thanks so much for kicking
out for morning. We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow. Oh, good. Have a good
day. You too. Thanks, Brittany. Appreciate your British. The best. We appreciate
you, Brittany. Always fun checking out. Hanging out with Brittany. We appreciate her
joining us. Mel, it's good to have you with us. Yeah, I'm glad to be here. Like literally
I'm listening to my own newscast on clean feed. I'm here. My power flickers and like
on the internet. It's gone. That is live radio. And then this definition of live radio.
And it did it twice. And I'm like, Oh, no, this is bad. Have you had anything like that
happen yet? Well, not for a little while. Okay. I don't know why it happened. I mean,
you know, it's nice outside. The sun is shining as we just established. Figuring out the
why you'll get to. Or right now, we're about the funny. We're the funniness of life.
And of doing things like we do for a living, a life and everything. This kind of stuff
happens during remotes all the time where you plan everything out and then you know, craziness
something happens or that you didn't see. Yeah, exactly. You really, I've done so many
remotes. I go into every one of them, not expecting something bad to happen, but just
ready for anything. Even a show like this. I plan out as much as I possibly can, but
I leave plenty of buffer room because I know that anything could happen. But we are going
to have some fun today. We got good things lined up for you. We got the L cafe birthday
anniversary club coming right around the corner, looking forward to diving into that. We're
going to make some time today to talk about a couple of things, even though we don't have
a ton of free time today. I want to get into a study that found the return to office mandates
are kind of a power grab. I want to get into that.
Surprise to no one. Yeah, right. Get into that one with you a little bit. And some other
fun things. We will have fun with that in the eight o'clock hour. In the nine o'clock
hour, we are jam packed. We're going to kick things off like we always do on Thursdays
with our friend Madison Rafter from the South of County Main Society in our pet of the
week. That's always something to look forward to. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be fun. We're
going to see who our new furry friend, the week is looking forward to that. And after
that, Melissa and I touch on a little bit of entertainment news. And then in nine thirty
speaking of entertainment for the next for a good 20 minutes of today's show, we are going
to spend talking with our friend Sally Kister from executive director of the arts council
and Joel Walker manager of the director of the band Uptown. Yeah. That's exciting. Yeah.
We're looking forward to meeting Joel talking with Sally. Uptown going to be coming to town
here. We are very excited about that. Uptown coming to town. Yeah. They're they're a wonderful
Motown soul classic band. We're going to talk a little bit about music. A lot of great
energy. Yeah. You want to get a sample. Go to saveofthearts.com. Click on uptowns page
and you'll be you won't not be disappointed. Looking forward to that. That's going to
be fun. And we'll wrap up the show with some local good stories of the day and some fun
stuff like that, including I want to get to something Melissa sent over about fast food
chains. Oh, yes. We got to touch on that one too, Melissa. We got a big time for that
today. We have the worst rated fast food restaurants in each state. That's a fun one.
We're getting into that. We'll see if there's any debates too. We'll let the audience
call it. See if you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I want to start right here where police
in Britain stopped a runner. They spotted with a refrigerator strapped to his back. Oh
my they discovered he wasn't fleeing from a crime. He was training for a marathon. What
do they think you like stole it? I was going to break into this place. Deal this fridge
and run away. I love that you I love that you caught on my favorite part of this. Yes.
I want the I want to the phone that the call on on the mic. Yeah. We got a well actually
I don't know what number this. What is the number for when somebody's trying to steal
a refrigerator? Is that a 82 or is that a 95? I'm not sure what I love the idea of not
only that, but did they think of it as okay, they see this person. He's got the refrigerator
strapped to his back and he's running with it. It's understandable to have questions. Right.
But I guess to go to immediately to he stole it. I don't know if that's where I would
go. Look, being a criminal, it doesn't involve a ton of brain power. We celebrate that
every day on this show. Right. So to say that it'd be silly for somebody to steal a refrigerator,
I think that you know, it's an oxymoron kind of set. Right. But even with that being said,
it's a huge refrigerator. This guy is running away like full sized and look, he's still
got to be like if if it was the case that he was stealing it, he does deserve to be arrested.
Get me wrong. But while he's being arrested, it would be kind of like, wow, you made it a lot
farther than I would have thought, sir. That is not easy. You know, we got to give you some kudos
for, you know, the feet of stealing a fridge. It ain't going to help you in jail sentence.
No, but I mean, it's still credit to you. Maybe you can break about in prison. I don't know.
Was this strapped to his chest? Strapped to his back. Daniel Fairbrother said he was practicing
running with a fridge strapped to his back in Hart, Harris Ford, where he was stopped by
officers. Quote, they put their blue lights on held up the traffic and stopped me to find out
what on earth was going on. Understandably, they had not seen anything like it before. One
police officer wound wound down his window, rolled down his window and said, you understand,
we've got to stop you. It is a fridge on your back. Just in case you miss that. Fairbrother,
explain the fridge, which he dubbed Tahula, and tribute to a scene from the film Cool Runnings
was helping was helping him train for the London marathon where he will attempt to break the
Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon carrying a household appliance. White goods.
This category is separated by the color. Like, this is for just white goods. There's brown,
there's black. Wow, is that deep? I wouldn't have good. That's a deep wreck. Maybe that's the record.
I got to look into running around with a toaster. The current record set by fellow Britain,
Sam Hammond in February of 23, stands at two hours and four minutes with 13 seconds.
Ferrovero said getting stopped by the police was embarrassing, but he understood why he seemed
suspicious. Yeah, this kind of not normal. The Hartford constable spokesman confirmed the encounter.
We would like to wish Daniel all the best with training for the marathon.
I had to look it up because a fridge, they're big, but they don't actually necessarily weigh that much.
They weigh between 180 to 360 pounds. I mean, 360 is a lot. But depending on how big the
fridge was, it could maybe not be as heavy as I imagined. Yeah, it's not as heavy as I would have
thought either. It's like carrying another person. You're looking at the fridge. We're talking
a mini fridge, a bigger mini fridge, but still a mini fridge. So he definitely doesn't have one of
the kind of full size in the UK though. That's true. That's true, especially with the apartments
the way they most live that way. Yeah, you're right. You're right. That's a good point. Yeah,
interesting. You can find the full story out of these dot com out of these dot com. A big
shout out to them always question. Question is, did he, did he open up the fridge and say,
hey, guys, here's a beer on me. Yeah, yeah. Literally. Nice. This is exactly what he's got to do. He
has to have that fridge filled with gatorades and all kinds of stuff. He's doing a marathon. Help
out your fellow marathon runners. Maybe you can't break a Guinness World record, but you could help
out your fellow marathon runners. You can be kind. Cost nothing, but a fridge on your back.
That's it. Does the, does ice come out of that? So I want the ice. Is that still a thing? Like,
I remember whenever I would walk into a house and they had one of those fridges with the ice
thing, like, oh, this is a fancy house. Yeah, but half of the time they don't work. Oh, yeah,
yeah, don't know which button to push. And I end up getting like water. Yes. Or the ice is
chipped. I'm pretty chipped ice or crushed ice. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've done that in every
one of those machines I've ever walked up to. I go for the ice or the water and I get the opposite.
Yeah. Yeah. And it's coming out of a spot you didn't expect to do. So suddenly there's ice or
water on the floor and you're like, what's going on? You move the cup over as fast as you can trying
to catch it. No, no, that's not the technology outsmarts me all the time. Let's see if it does
it right here. As I go to the board and we go to break, we'll be back with our L. Cafe birthday
anniversary club. It's Melissa and James Tiggity through your morning here at WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our friends at L. Cafe with the birthday and anniversary club.
Melissa and I are about to have some fun celebrating all of you and of course our friends over at
L. Cafe. Join our friends over there. They're over it. 221 Market Avenue in Port Edwards.
You can go there right now and enjoy a great meal. Great atmosphere with some wonderful people.
Oh yeah. Got a great special on today. They're build your burger or chicken sandwich. Head on over
there. Check that out. Make it yours as you want. Nice. Enjoy. And head on over and wish them a
good morning from all of us at WFHR at L. Cafe again. 221 Market Avenue in Port Edwards.
Thanks to our friends at L. Cafe. We're able to grab qualifiers every day and then it'll be
getting of every month announced a winner and that winner is going to get themselves
to $20 gift certificates to take on over to L. Cafe. We, Melissa and I are about to announce our
first ever L. Cafe winner for the birthday and anniversary club. Hey, it's the first of the month.
It's the first of the month. Wake up. Wake up. It's February. Yeah. Yeah. Did anybody else was
anybody else surprised by that because I was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely definitely took me
over took me by surprise. Yeah. Took a minute. We were fortunate, Melissa. We had 32 entries for
the month of January. That's impressive. There's only 31 days. We got 32 qualifiers. How did that
happen? We had an extra qualify. We had to throw somebody out. But that's because of our great
listeners. We are able to do this because you guys are the best out there. Thanks so much for
getting us these birthdays and anniversaries. Keep them coming. Get them to us and to infoatwfhr.com.
James.mailup at civicmedia.us. You can email any of our staff like that. You can go ahead
direct messages on our Facebook pages, WFHR or WRI. And you can call. Yeah. Thank you, Melissa.
You can call. Call up and join the 715-424-2600. We encourage you to call up and enjoy the conversation.
We're looking forward to hanging out with you. Talk with you real soon. Yeah. Or use the civic
media app and it's one button, two button dial in. Oh, it's a quick way to get a hold of us.
Go ahead ahead and do so. Melissa, do you think the audience could tell I'm dragging this out?
Do you? Maybe. Maybe. I was just trying to have some fun with it and everything. But let's go ahead
and announce our first winner, our first winner of the Out Cafe Birthday and Anniversary Club.
Melissa, I need a one through 32. Wow. Well, it's tempting to choose the highest number because we
don't you often have that many, but that seems like it would just be too easy. So maybe I should just
pick something else like my favorite number 13. Oh, that's one of my favorite numbers, my second
favorite number. That's awesome. No. I'm so sorry, Melissa. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I mean,
oh, that's a 13. That's my first favorite number. So I get it. You get it. You get it. You get it.
I'll take four. You could take 13. Okay. Together we will share with you. Thank you. Well, one plus
three is four. I mean, Rod and Debbie Bone. We wish happy anniversary to Rod and Debbie. There
are first winners. Yeah. Rod and Debbie were we celebrated them on the 19th of January. They
celebrated their anniversary. So I'd say, I mean, it wasn't that long ago, you two. And now you got
these $20 gift certificates. Is this celebrate again? Yes. Celebrate again and get each other
things. You know, get have fun and joy. Get on over. Yeah. Get on over to L Cafe and enjoy
and a big thank you again to L Cafe, sponsoring the birthday and anniversary club, giving our listeners
so glad to have them on the sensors. Yeah. They're wonderful. They're great. We really enjoy
working with them over there. And you don't have to take our word for it. Head on over there and
enjoy yourself. And Ron and Deb, God, thank you so much for playing along. Thank you to whoever
got us that. They just got themselves to $20 gift certificates. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see if
a who might win next year, next month or next next month. We are in the new year. It's
true. Very good point. Thank you for saving me there. We we've got two possible qualifiers here.
Melissa, I need a one or two. Well, let's go with the biggest number two. All right. We wish
the first first up a happy birthday to Becky Peters. Happy birthday, Becky. Enjoy your day, Becky.
We hope it's a great one. Treats you good. We also want to wish a happy anniversary or happy
birthday. I mean to our qualifier, Carol Jacob. Happy birthday, Carol. And congratulations.
Wishing you the best of days. Carol, hope it's a great one for you. And congratulations. You're our
first qualifier for the month of February. Hey, nice. Keep getting us those birthdays and
anniversaries. Everybody loves celebrating with you. Let's take a look at our celebrity list.
And first up, let's see. Harry Styles is 30. Wow. Thirty. Didn't expect that. I thought he
would be mid to late 20s. Thirty's not that big of a difference, but it's still a little older than
I expected. Because he doesn't. He's got such a boyish face. Yeah. He I don't know a ton about
him. I'll be honest, but I he is very talented. I'll say that. Yeah. And he's a handsome man. Yes.
Yeah. Got his own style too. I like that. I like people. I would say it almost borders on
pretty. Yes. He's got one of those faces. Yeah. Let's see here. Oh, Ronda Rousey is 37.
Yeah. Ronda Rousey's former UFC fighter went into the WWE. His acted a bit.
Very whether you like her or not, whether whatever you feel about her, I think you always
got to give credit to people that are able to bounce from industry to industry and stay relevant
and find work in different industries. She's been able to do that on multiple fronts and stay not
only relevant, but doing well at the things that she approaches that she tackles.
Let's see here. Abby Jacobson is 40, a star of broad city. And she's a great voice actor.
Dissinchantment she does and a couple of other characters. Good voice actor and a good actor.
Funny comedian too. Mm-hmm. Canada. Mm-hmm. Big boy is 49. Half of Outcast. Oh no, she's
American. Sorry. Is she? Okay. I wasn't sure. Yeah. Half of Outcast, one of my favorite bands of
all time. Big boy is 49. They're quite the name, right? The name. It's got to be like when you're
young, that's one thing to go by big boy. But when you're a toddler. Yeah, when you're 49,
I don't know how that goes over. I don't know. Not sure. Michael C. Hall is 53. Many people know
him from Dexter. He is Dexter. He played David on 6 feet under. He's got a great body of work.
Michael C. Hall is a fantastic actor. I think one of the better actors, all around actors. I've seen
on TV. I honestly haven't seen much because I didn't want to watch Dexter. Yeah, I don't blame.
I haven't seen the crown. I haven't seen 6 feet. I guess I don't really. I'm not familiar with him.
6 feet under is in a really good show and in a difficult show to watch. Dexter is just dark.
It's just a dark show and he's incredible at it. It is one of those. I watched the show because
I read the books and I really enjoyed the books and I enjoyed what they did with the series. I
didn't watch the most recent season, but I enjoyed what he did with the character and his work
on doing a very, very awkward, difficult character. Pauli Shores 56. Pauli Shores. Wow, wow.
Looking to get back out there, looking to act more, looking to get more out there and do more
things. Pauli Shores. Good luck to him. Yeah, he's funny. I mean, if you like his type of comedy.
Yes, he definitely had a moment there in the 80s where in Sino Man, bio domes, in the army now,
jury duty. I mean, he did, yes, definitely have a really good run of movies there for a while.
Pauli also growing up, his mom ran the comedy store in Los Angeles and the comedy store is like
world famous. If you are a comedian and you perform there, that's how you know you made it.
Like that almost anybody, any standard comedian you can think of that you enjoy has,
if they are lucky, they have performed at the comedy store and Pauli Shores grew up watching
all of that. It's got to be pretty cool. Yeah, it's tough to top that as a kid. I mean,
that's a pretty cool way to grow up, I would think. And finally, a birthday of people who
still with us, thankfully for this one, at least to me, the great, the wonderful Garrett Morris is
87 today, original SNL cast member, Earl on two broke girls, Lloyd on this is us. I love,
love, love Garrett Morris. What am I, Garrett Morris got a bunch of great sketches. There's a
prison sketch where it comes out. They're doing a prison tell-it-show. Garrett Morris comes out
in six-a-sog that's hilarious. If you want to, I can't sing it because I can't do it on the air.
But you can go ahead looking up online. It's funny. And Garrett, one of the most famous sketches
of Garrett Morris is one of my favorites when I was a little kid. I love comedy that can,
that a young person and an old person can laugh at the same way. I can be seven years old watching
this or eight years old watching this. And my dad is, you know, 20s, 30s or whatever. And we're
laughing just as hard both of us. Garrett Morris would do this thing with Chevy Chase, where
and now for the hearing impaired. And Chevy Chase would say something. And then there'd be a little
air bubble of Garrett Morris. And so you know. And he'd just be yelling, like just yelling. It was
a silly sketch, but it may be left every time. Garrett Morris, one of the original SNL members.
Some people no longer with us, like the great Don Everly born on this day in 1937. Best
passed away a couple of years ago in 21. Part of the Everly brothers, of course. Bye-bye love.
All I have to do is dream, wake up a little Susie. So many good songs.
Lisa Marie Presley was born on this day in 1968, passed away just last year. She was only 56.
That's a shame. So young. Yeah. Yeah. Sherman Helmsley, born on this day in 1938. George Jefferson on
the Jefferson's. A lot of people make a big deal. And I understand why of a lane of Julia
Louis drivers is dancing on Seinfeld. And I love it. I love it. There's gifts of it. There's
all kinds of things. It's the definition of dance like nobody's watching it all that.
But as a kid, I loved Sherman Helmsley's dancing on the Jefferson's. You go in back and look.
And his moves is dancing. I don't know why the two remind me of each other, but there's a
similarity there for me. Very funny actor. Dancing like no one's watching.
Boris Yeltsin, born on this day in 1931, passed away in 2007.
Rick James, born on this day in 1948, passed away in 2004.
The Brandon Lee, born on this day in 1965, passed away in 1993. Bruce Lee's only son,
passed away from a fatal gunshot on set of the Crow. And a great young actor, great, great,
great young actor. The interesting thing to be very similar to James Dean was already good
was beginning to get great. Yeah. And who knows what would have happened with his career?
It would have been interesting to see Bruce Lee is my favorite action star of all time. And I'm
very, very biased about this. Bruce was a good actor. I wouldn't say he was a legendary actor,
a great actor. His martial arts, his skills added to his acting, which made him a legendary actor.
Brandon, I thought, was becoming a great actor who could also do martial arts.
And the Crow is legendary. It is. We know because everybody dresses up at least three or four
people are going to dress up every Halloween is the Crow ever from now until the end of time.
Clark Gable, born on this day in 1901, passed away in 1960. Clark Gable, one of the legends of acting.
Rett Butler and gone with the wind. It happened one night. While gone with the wind gets most of the
the press when it comes to Clark Gable, he has got a nice body of work. There are a lot of great
ones. So many movies, meaning on the bounty. Yeah, nice reference. Yeah. They say under shirt sales
dropped 75% after he went topless in 34s. It happened one night. That was an actual like newspaper
report. People were all of a sudden selling shirts without buttons, like just like,
a great Clark Gable. And that is going to wrap up our birthdays and anniversaries for today.
Again, shout out to Becky Peters. Yeah. Happy birthday, Becky. And congratulations to our
qualifier, Carol Jacob. Happy birthday, Carol. Enjoy your birthday, you too. And everybody
celebrating a birthday or anniversary out there. We encourage you to celebrate with our friends
over at L Cafe, wonderful diner at 221 Market Avenue in Port Edwards. Go ahead and wish them a
good morning from all of us here at WFHR. We'll take a quick time out, get to our state and local
news. We'll come back. And the listener are going to have some fun. We're going to get into a
this study to found the return to office mandates. We're going to talk about that when we come back
on the morning show right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
A little Eddie Van Halen playing us in there. Not bad at all. Like to start the segment that way.
Melissa and James here with you. We got some good stuff lined up throughout the hour. We'll be
getting to get some fun topics. Want to dive into but kind of tackle this one right now, Melissa.
This is a topic you and I have covered. Our society has covered quite a bit. The idea of your boss
did your boss force you to go back into the office after COVID and claim working from home was
killing the company. Well, a new study found that's BS. Yeah. Researchers at the University of
Pittsburgh looked at 137 of America's largest corporations and keep in mind that is largest corporations
and found return to office mandates haven't made a big difference in profits. They haven't
affected each company's stock price either at all. Getting people back to the office has
negatively affected one thing though, morale. Employees opinions of their company's work,
life balance, values and senior management have all plummeted almost to the bottom.
So if bringing everyone back to the office doesn't help, why have so many companies done it?
The study found it might just be a power grab. Yep. The strict back-to-work mandates tend to be
at companies where the CEO makes way more than anyone else, including other high-paid executives
and it's especially true when the CEO is a man. Surprise surprise. Is anybody shocked by anything
I just said? Nope. I know Melissa. I figure you and I are at 715-424-2600. Please tell me if
this any of that is shocking to you. I'm dead serious right now. I want to hear from our audience
and I want to hear more from you guys. 715-424-2600. I can just imagine how that conversation went.
Well sir, our numbers are up. Our productivity is good. Things are really looking good on the front.
Yeah, but people aren't in the office. But sir, our numbers are up. Yeah, but you know,
really like to see people in those seats because that's how I feel like I'm doing, you know,
making my money's coming in. That's how I feel powerful. That's how this comes down to.
This power grab. This idea of the only way I can feel powerful is if I'm hoarding over people
and I have them physically in front of me. I can make them do what I want. Yeah. Doesn't matter
what my numbers say. A true boss, a true manager, a true leader works with his colleagues, works
with his people. Does not consider himself above anybody else. We'll do the same things that he
asks of others, though as accountability, listens, listens. I've never met a leader that isn't
also a great listener. There's certain things that are easy to find in a good leader.
And there are certain things that are the companies are going to die because of and I have no
issue with that at all. The pandemic, we talked a lot about buying local supporting local and we
say that every day on the air here because we believe in it, we mean it and we back it. We do it
every day around here. That does not extend to a point of mistreating your employees,
that or not treating your company right, your business right. If you can't run it right,
we get bent out of shape when we make sure that a big companies don't go bankrupt. When we save
the auto industry, we save the bank industry. People lose their minds over that. And the first
thing out of their mouth, well, if they can't do the job, why are we saving them? We save it for
various reasons that Melissa and I aren't going to get into for it because it take about two hours
for really to get into the depths of that. But why with local small businesses, we treat it that
differently when it comes to this. I'm not saying if they're treating their employees right,
they're doing things right. They're all right. They don't need us to worry about them. They're doing
their thing. I know plenty and I know plenty of people out there know plenty of small businesses
that are able to thrive and survive that way. But unfortunately, while this happens with
the largest corporations, just doing a little bit of homework and you can go to gizmodo.com if
you'd like to find these stats, small businesses are suffering from this as well. And this is
something that we're seeing from not only CEOs and GMs and all that, but we're also seeing it from
just regular old managers of stores or some of those kind of things. This idea that because we've
done it forever, this way, we have to continue to do it that way. That's part of where this comes from.
That's important to fall into. Yeah, that's part of where this comes from.
When this phenomena started, James, I was honestly a little bit worried about corporations and
companies taking advantage of people working from home. Because now you're home all day,
you're using your power, your electricity, your paying for part of what the company would normally
pay for. But instead of employers taking advantage of that, they're like, no, so we don't care
that you're more productive at home and it actually costs us less to have you work at home.
We want you to come back in the office because we can make you do that. Yeah, yeah. Just to show
our power. True power doesn't have to be flaunted. It's a little bit like the bragging thing.
If you're good at something, you don't have to brag. Other people do it for you. And real power
doesn't have to be flaunted. We see this all the time in dictators. Vladimir Putin looks like one
of the weakest wheeled human beings in history. Like in history, he comes across as one of the most
weak-minded childish human beings in history to me, to me, just speaking for myself here.
Kim John, another one, like that guy could not seem more like a grown child to me.
We've got a couple of those here in this country too. I'm not just picking on other countries.
We've got some of that in our country too, of course. But they tell you right there,
these want to be alpha males, these people that believe that they have to overcompensate for
other outcomes. Yeah. I don't think they see how obvious it is to the rest of us that they
are overcompensating, that they are trying to make up for something. But yes, men, just telling them,
oh no, that's amazing. You look phenomenal. You are doing such a great job. Oh my goodness,
I don't think anybody can do it better than you. In fact, nobody can do it better than you.
And so they're surrounded by that constantly. They can't see beyond their own shortcomings.
Yeah. As a side note, that would drive me insane, like having a guess battle around me or something.
I've never had anything like that, so I don't know anything about it. But it gets to be too much.
It seems like it would be nice at first, like the first five, ten minutes, and then it would just
like immediately afterwards, the kid like annoying his all get out. Like, can we get somebody in
here to tell me what a bad job I'm doing? I need a balance here. We have that, we're fortunate here.
We have that balance. I think we all compliment each other. We all support each other. And at the
same time, we hold each other accountable. We all be destructive criticism goes a long ways.
Yeah. And being able to take that. Like, all right, well, an accountability for maybe not even
necessarily things done wrong, but things that could be better. Right, right. And that's the only
way we improve. And we our business gets better, gets stronger, and we're able to bring in more
advertisers and all of this. Any business is done better by employees having better morale.
That's as old as business itself. We shouldn't have to be re-teaching this.
And if you don't others with respect, and they will respect you, it's, you know, it goes
way back to that, just the basics. If you don't get that, you don't belong in that position period.
I don't care what you've done. I don't care how far up the ranks you've gone or blah, blah, blah,
any of that. If you get to that position and you're treating people that way, you do not deserve
that position. There are plenty of great CEOs out there. We do a lot of stories when we talk a lot
about in the news about bad ones. There are great CEOs out there. There are great runners of
companies out there. You know how you know? You never hear from them. You never, you don't know.
You never hear about them. Yep, yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, you never hear about you. Nothing, nothing.
That's how you know they're doing their job right. Which is sad. We should actually be talking
about them and talking about the good job that they're doing with their company or corporation
or nonprofit. We have lots of those in our area. Yeah. We are going to go ahead and get a time out
in. We'll come back and we're going to talk about some other fun stuff. How many of us think we'll
be in shape eventually? We'll figure that one out. We'll come back. Throw your, think of your numbers
in your head and go ahead and share with us when we come back at 424-2600. We'll be back with more
fun on the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you. Having some fun on a Thursday, happy Friday,
Eve. Happy February everybody. Happy February. Let's get into this one, Melissa, and we're talking
about getting in shape. Do you have high expectations of yourself, but only your future self?
We believe we'll get in shape eventually. A new poll found half of us think we'll finally get
in shape one of these days, someday. Just not today, obviously, not today. No, no, not today.
But someday, someday, we're definitely going to. It gets harder to lose weight and gain muscle
as you age, but 50% of Americans still believe that their best physical days are ahead of them.
The sooner you... Because we're all wishful thinking. It does kind of, like, in a world that seems
pessimistic, that comes across very optimistic to me. That's so bad. Yeah, it's not great though
for actually getting in shape. Oh, no, totally guilty of this. I wish that I was exercising,
but I don't want to do it, so I don't do it. But I also don't know how to fit it in my day,
so it doesn't happen. But I always think it's gonna. I'm hopeful. Keep hoping. Keep hope alive, Melissa.
This sooner you start the better, but when you do finally decide to get in shape,
you'll need to be patient with it. The average person expects it to take about six weeks of a new
fitness routine before they start seeing the fruits of their labor. The survey also looked at the
top things that makes us realize how out of shape we are. That's interesting. Walking up stairs.
Yeah, that includes breathing. They include feeling winded, trying on clothes that don't fit
anymore. Serena Williams just had an incident like this where she shared it with everybody on her
Instagram, I believe. She was putting on, she was trying to put on a pair of jeans that she wore
before her pregnancy and now she, you know, having, she thinks she had a baby a couple months ago
and she was trying to put them on and they couldn't get over her butt. They couldn't get what
it was hilarious. It was great. It was a great, it was a fun video to share. Yeah, this is,
this is one of those things. For one, take this to heart, everybody. Take this in mind. You are not
alone in this. You're not the only one struggling with this. We tend to beat ourselves up in one of
the first things we tell ourselves is, oh, you did this. You did that. You're not alone in this.
Other people struggle like this too. I think that's an important thing to keep in mind that you.
Well, and it happens to all of us at different points in our lives. I mean, for her, obviously,
she had a baby. A woman's body goes through massive, massive amount of change and damage when
you are pregnant. It's, it's hard on your body to be pregnant. So coming back from that and
expecting to just a couple of months later fit into your same clothes, the pretty high expectation
on yourself. But even for the rest of us who haven't, whose bodies haven't gone through that,
there are other things that affect our health, our weight, our eating habits, our eating abilities,
you know, our, the availability of food, the availability of budget to have food,
healthy food that is, you know, there's a lot of factors that play into that.
I, I think it should be noted for those that don't know. Serena Williams is arguably the greatest
tennis player of all time. One of the, if not the greatest, one of the greats. She's in the top five.
She is heading. And that woman's in shape. Yeah. She, she was in quite a bit of shape before
being pregnant. Her body naturally goes, she's been doing this for over 20 years, been doing this
her whole life. So one of the things when you work out, your, your upper arm muscles, you've got
a muscle up there that, that you define pretty quickly once you start like doing, you know,
arm presses and things like that. Say you stop doing that and 20 years goes by and then you
decide to start working out again. Well, that muscle is going to be one of the first to pop out
because it's already defined. That our bodies, once we've conditioned them to a certain way,
even somebody like my father that hadn't really had to do any physical therapy or training for 30
some years, immediately starts getting the muscle back and the tone back. Is that muscle memory?
A bit. So that's somewhat interpretation. Yeah, yeah. So I just bring that up because of
Serena where even she is struggling with this stuff and she's been an athlete for over 20, her
whole life. So how, you know, the rest of us, how we go about this, I, you know, have, give
yourself some grace. You've, you've got to have that balance of being able to give yourself some
grace, but also be able to push, you know, on the gas when you need to. And, and not beat yourself
up when you have to buy new clothes. Yeah. Yeah. As, as I did this last weekend. So, you know,
I mean, it's life. Yeah. Yeah. And, and love yourself for who you are. You got new clothes.
You got new wardrobe. You know, I mean, that's something they're, they're used, but they're
they're new to me. Exactly. And that you got to take the positives. You got to leave it again.
A lot of them were 75% off, man. Oh, that's even better. Right off. That's even better.
You are, you are great at the deals. You really are. You got that. Oh, we got to
consignment shops. It's, and it's a winter sale. It's just perfect timing. All the stars aligned.
Right. Right. We are going to have the stars and the cosmos aligned for us to kick off the
9 o'clock hour. A good friend Madison Rafter is going to join us from our pet of the week with
our pet of the week from the South of County Main Society. Awesome. Looking forward to that.
That's going to be fun. A little after that about 930, we're going to welcome in our friend,
Sally Kisner, executive director of the arts council and Joel Walker, managing director of
Uptown. And we're going to talk about Uptown coming to town. Hey, it's going to sound like a fun
group. Yeah. I'm looking forward to diving into that and talking with them more and
and having some fun. We're going to play a little of their music for you as well. It's going to be
great. If this makes, it makes sense to release this now because what every good super bowl party needs
is a hard hot sauce hard seltzer. Wait a minute. What? No, no, that's not good. Wait.
Hot sauce flavored hard, hard seltzer is coming, everybody. The brand truly is behind it.
Of course. They say it's a limited edition batch. So not something that are planning to do long
term unless it's somehow good. And then people, of course, then don't keep doing it. You can only
get it through their site. Give them beer.com. Give them beer.com. But as soon as they announce it,
they pretty much sold out. They say a second batch is dropping very soon.
Four packs of the stuff will run you $24. So it ain't cheap. They can, each can is 16 ounces.
Yeah, because 12 ounces was just too little.
Supassize. Yeah, yeah. Because you know, after the first three sips, your mouth is on fire and you
just can't taste the rest. So it doesn't matter. And I think that, okay, so I'm ready to do this
if everybody else is. Let's go ahead and put it out there. February 1st, 855, hard seltzers died.
That is the call. That is the end of hard seltzers, everybody. We can stop now. We can stop
with the hard seltzers now. I don't think they're going anywhere. We've done everything with hard
seltzers. Can we please stop with the hard seltzers? I mean, I'm being told I even have a hard
seltzer now. I don't even know how I did this. I came out with a hard wind. Everybody's got a hard
seltzer. The James flavor. It's, it, it, it, it takes, it tastes like moodyness.
And stormy clouds. I don't know about this though. The dash of depression.
Come on, it would sell. Somebody would buy that. Somebody, somebody, some people would buy it out
of, out of empathy. Wow, this guy must really need the money and let's help him out.
I get kind of, I almost get this in a marketing meeting. I don't get the actually making of it,
but I get being in a meeting. All right, everybody loves hard seltzers. A lot of people love hot
sauce. Let's combine them, you know, and on paper, it seemed to be like a fairly good idea for five or
10 seconds at two in the morning. Like to actually go through with it though. The question is,
do they have a sour seltzer yet? Oh, that's a good question. That's a good question. Because
we have, you know, sour beers. Is this a beer you can dip? Is that, is that the new thing we're
going to start doing now? A beer is that, no, we can not only drink, but we can also dip our chips in.
Is that the chips in? Yeah, but I'm not, I don't think that they were trying to do that,
but I think I just created something for them. And we got to copyright that. We got to do that.
We got to do that quick Melissa. We got to make, we can make some money off of that. You and I,
I'm telling you, we get, I, I, on paper, I get it, but I mean, I don't, the other part of this
is that boggles, I don't know if the boggles my mind, but gets me every time I read one of these
things, it always comes back to and they sold out immediately. How many, how many white elephant gifts
are? They do that on purpose, James. They only make like five boxes of it. And so it does sell
automatically. And chances are, even if it didn't, they probably say it. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Because somebody's got some of them on their shelf in their office. Somebody somewhere. Yeah,
yeah, definitely. Let's wrap up talking about an upside down skyscraper.
Oh, Saudi Arabia is planning to build an underground city and building it as an upside down
skyscraper. They're calling it Aquila. They plan to dig into the side of a mountain and fill the
hole with a massive network of homes, stores, luxury hotels, movie theaters and everything else
you'd ever want, except the ability to easily step outside. The spot they picked out is right
by the ocean and you'll enter by taking a boat through an underground tunnel. The only part you'll
see from the outside is the roof where they plan to have lots of trees and space to walk around.
There's also an open area in the middle to let sunlight in. It's about 330 feet deep so not
really a skyscraper height, but that's like 25 stories underground. So somehow this isn't even
the most ambitious project Saudi Arabia has not got going. They're also working on a huge 100-mile
long building called the line that could cost over $1 trillion. As long as we continue to
need oil the way we do, they're just going to keep doing stuff like this. The sentence printing
money has never been more evident than in Saudi Arabia or over in the Middle East with some of
these countries and the oil tapping that they can do. Well, this is not new, James. I mean, people
lived in caves for an awfully long time. Yeah, yeah, they're just doing it fancier now, I guess.
We will come back with our pet of the week from the South O'Connie and Maine Society coming up
on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.