Hour 1: The Burger-cudda!

Good morning, Wizcats. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off

with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. 804 on the clock, got your host James J.

I am joined by your head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. Head of production, Seth

Habhagger. Good morning. And the head of everything else, all of you out there, the best

listeners in radio. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. We hope you had a great weekend.

We're going to kick off our show where we like to with our friend Brittany, talking

a little mother nature, Britt, how was your weekend?

Well, it's fantastic. How was yours?

It's good. It was good. It's over. That part, that probably, you know, seems a little

trouble. Yeah, right. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, I was trying to be nice, but Melissa's

absolutely right. Yeah, I didn't know I, I just realized it was Monday, a couple

hours ago. I just, oh my gosh, everything bled together.

Uh, Brittany, we've got some, uh, record, what we, it looked like we had a possibility

of record temperatures yesterday. Did we ended up, uh, hitting a record?

You did not hit it yet.

Ah, I did hear and was saw. We hit 54 degrees.

Wow. Are you guys not so much, fortunately, but you could hit today.

You could. 52 set back in 2005, then I am forecasting about 50 degrees for you.

So if I'm off by a few degrees, which I'm fine with that.

Let's do it. Yeah, everybody, uh, think warm thoughts.

Think there you go. Just for the record.

Yes. What's in this weekend? Fantastic.

Oh, wow. Yeah. The walk. It felt very bright.

Bring the fresh air. Oh, goodness.

The nice weekend. All right.

Mm-hmm. And did you know today's a special day for meteorologists?

Mm-hmm. Oh, it is.

Yeah. So after Groundhog's day, I think they're like, oh, now we have to recognize

the meteorological discussion. Yes, yes.

Um, it's actually National Weather Person's Day and it's a nod to John Jeffries.

So John Jeffries was America's first weather observer.

He started recording each day's weather back in 1774.

Yeah. Wow. That's so easy.

It took 76 years later the National Weather Service started recording weather.

Yeah. So he is the OG four-canter.

He really is. He really is. Yeah.

It's an awesome story and where he got the idea how he spread this around the country.

It's really fascinating to look into.

Yes, it is.

So in honor for him, we're just going to enjoy the beautiful weather today as we maybe break

records and Wisconsin rap is. So there's sunny skies and we'll hit repeat tomorrow back

into the 50s sunny skies and we'll keep enjoying that until later on this week.

We have a chance of some rain rolling in by Thursday.

Not bad, not bad. Brittany, as you get to know us, we get to know you and our listeners and

everything. There's some things you should know. Not only do we have the best listeners in radio,

we've got a very interactive audience and audience likes to, you know, work with us,

recall up, write us things, make us cookies. A lot of these things.

Oh, yeah.

We're very fortunate. This is hometown radio at its finest here at WFHR.

We got a letter from a listener of ours over in Milwaukee, who sends us these awesome

postcard kind of things. This one's on an IPA kind of beer can thing.

Yeah, but I have to read this and I really, boy, I want to thank this listener so much

for giving me something to say here. I have to read this because it's too Brittany.

Oh, it's too Brittany. So hello, James and company. Here is a weather question for Brittany,

M. Oh, boy.

Whilst we whittle weave and awaken this world of wonder,

oh, why is weather woman when whirling winds whisper wet, whip wildly,

wishing utterly rudderless flying cows, monkeys or malice and a wasaw winding wicked,

which from the west of of Allison, what word will work? We are enjoying the forecast,

Femmar Viggy and Molle.

Wow. That is awesome. They flake with those words perfectly.

Oh, my goodness. What a challenge.

I sprained my tongue. Yeah, I sprained my tongue.

Oh, it's out of game. Yeah, no kidding.

For 10 a.m.

It's tough.

You said this is an IPA?

It was under the postcard.

Yeah, our listener says it's postcards and they make their own postcards out of like a 12-pack

box. Yeah, on cardboard. Yeah, they do their own stuff.

So it was said to us on that.

That's awesome.

IPA inspiration.

Yes, yes, yes.

Will you hang that on the wall for me, please?

Absolutely.

Oh, yeah, I'll be taking a picture. I'll send it over.

Brittany, we appreciate you so much.

Thanks for hanging out with us. You have a good morning.

Thank you.

She's the best.

Hi Brittany.

Hi Brittany.

She's the best.

Our listeners are awesome.

Yeah, that was great.

Absolutely.

Very well.

Very well.

Not into that.

Yeah, really.

No kidding.

Keep coming, everybody.

We love here.

Keep coming.

We love it.

Everybody have a good weekend.

I mean, I feel like we answered that already.

We sort of did.

Yeah, we sort of did.

We can probably move on.

But I hope you guys had a good weekend.

We hope all of you.

It was good.

Just busy.

Hope all of you did out there as well.

We got a couple of fun things to get into this morning, of course.

Just a little bit.

We'll get into the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.

I almost said Elcafe mystery birthday.

I don't know what that.

What that would be.

It is a mystery of who's going to win.

There you go.

Every time I've seen that.

Yes, yes, it is.

Well, we have birthdays, but we're not going to tell you who they are.

No, guess on your own.

The worst birthday and anniversary club ever.

We're like, we just give you the dates.

That's it.

Yeah.

10 people were born on this day.

But that's it.

That's all we get.

We're going to have some fun.

We'll have some actual names and some actual celebrated to do.

And just a little bit with that.

Looking forward to it.

I also want to get into

McDonald's offering some free burgers for a year.

It's a contest.

We'll tell you how you can earn that.

All right.

9 o'clock hour.

We're going to kick off the way we like to here on Mondays

with our Kitchens Open segment.

Whoo.

We're so excited about this one.

Melissa's got a really, really fun and important one lined up today.

I'm looking forward to diving into with all of you.

I'm formative.

Yeah.

Yeah, looking forward to it.

We also will get into a little bit of entertainment news.

Grammys were yesterday.

We'll touch on that a little bit.

And plenty more.

We got other good things coming up in the 9 o'clock hour.

I want to get into the best snacks to eat after midnight.

Okay.

All right.

And we'll make some time for a fun,

that ain't right story.

The weirdest things left behind in hotels over the last year.

Oh boy.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's...

Oh boy.

That should be fun.

That should be interesting.

But you may think that people in their 20s don't get a lot of sleep.

They're still trying to keep the party life going.

Well, that may change or maybe changing.

All these things grow and adapt over time.

20-year-olds get older.

To spring on that point, Melissa,

the Wall Street Journal has an article claiming that the hot new bedtime for 20-somethings is

old people bedtime, like 9 to 10.

An analyst found that young adults between 18 to 34 went to bed on average at 1006 PM in January,

compared to 1018 last January.

The idea is that young people are understanding the link between sleep and health

more than previous generations did.

And a prioritizing sleep time over any full mode they may have about, you know, missing

about missing out on activities or something like that. They're not worried about...

They're not as worried about missing out on activities in a fun moment,

as they are worried about missing out on sleep.

Fones, fear of missing sleep.

Yeah, nice.

But that doesn't mean they're not going out.

They talk to several young adults.

You said that they just go out for dancing and drinks at five or six.

So they go out earlier.

Okay, all right.

In addition to wanting more sleep,

they also say that the shift to more remote work is having an impact.

Because if you have a long commute or hit rush hour traffic,

you might not get home until seven,

which leaves limited time to actually do these things like going out or going to the gym

or veging out or anything like that.

It only makes sense.

Having a life.

Right, yeah.

Working from home eliminates the commute and may allow for some of that,

like going to the gym or folding laundry to be done earlier or during breaks

so that you are able to get to sleep earlier.

There you go.

So this, not that I was in the intention,

but kind of ties back to a story.

I believe we were doing last week,

you and I, Mel, about the idea of working from home and this did not ruin anything.

That we found the evidence of this,

the data that has shown us, that people that work from home.

If not, just as productive, oftentimes can be more productive.

And that's, I think we're learning that more and more.

It's funny that we were forced into it in a lot of ways a couple of years ago, of course,

and to seeing the fallout from that, seeing what works and what doesn't,

and how people are reacting to it is really interesting.

It makes you wonder if we'd have gotten to this or when we'd have gotten around to this,

if it wasn't for the pandemic.

Yeah, that's interesting.

That's a good question.

Yeah, I don't get it.

It's certainly not making, you know, oh, glad we're not,

nobody say we're glad we had that or anything.

Oh, no, no.

But it is, it's one of those things that does make you kind of, like, wonder,

well, if we would have even gotten around to this, we, you know, without it.

Kind of makes you question how changes in society come about.

It does.

Oh, yes, yes.

And oftentimes change, well, changes is rarely if ever overnight.

Change takes time, takes, takes patience.

Like moms used to always say to us, or maybe just my mother to me,

nothing worth having Jimmy comes easy, nothing worth having comes easy.

Oh, I heard that before.

As I was struggling to do whatever it was, I was doing at that moment.

Thanks, Bob.

I, my knees,

seconds away from cry.

I look up at my mother for some encouragement.

Nothing worth having comes easy, just keeps walking.

Keeps doing her thing.

Thanks, mom.

Appreciate it.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll be back with some more fun right here on the Boarding Show at WFHR.

We are locally grown radio.

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.

Little more.

It'll happen.

It'll come, right?

It's coming.

Yeah, it's coming.

We're just waiting for it, right?

Yeah, let's try it.

Oh, oh, here it is here.

It's time to do some celebrate.

It's the Edelcafe birthday and anniversary club.

Yeah, we celebrate all of you.

Our great listeners out there.

And a big thank you to our friends over at Edelcafe.

Go ahead and visit them this morning.

They're waiting for you and have yourself a great time

over a 221 market avenue.

Import Edwards.

And wish them a good morning from all of us here at WFHR.

We want to celebrate with you.

Everybody, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

So we can do that.

Get them to us at infoatwfhr.com.

James.Mailoff at civicmedia.us.

You can, of course, direct messages on our Facebook pages

just typing your Facebook search bar WFHR or WIRI

and go ahead and send it right to us.

And call up and join the conversation.

We'd love to hear from you.

424-2600-715-424-2600.

Let's go ahead and dive right in.

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

Two.

All right, good.

That's that qualifier.

And we can get right to the celebrate.

And first up, a very happy birthday to Peyton Williams.

Happy birthday, Peyton.

And because of Peyton.

Oh, there's a good name.

It's a good name.

It's a very good name.

It seems like I didn't know of any Peyton's growing up.

Now it's become much more of a popular name.

Exactly.

And we wish a very happy birthday

to our qualifier Marissa Ball.

Oh, happy birthday, Marissa.

Congratulations.

Enjoy your day, Marissa.

We hope it's a great one for you.

And a big thank you to whoever got us those birthdays

and anniversaries.

Keep them coming, everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

We do indeed.

Let's take a look at our celebrity list.

First up on here, Kristen Yaldo Ronaldo.

Oh, Kristen Yaldo Ronaldo.

39, one of the highest paid soccer players in the world.

One of the greatest soccer players ever.

Yeah, yeah.

And interesting the way his career is going.

Like, well, there was a point where him and Messi

were, they were talking about who's the greatest of all time.

Right.

And that debate was like leaning towards Ronaldo quite a bit.

And while how things change.

I think over the last year, Messi not only winning the World Cup

and winning more of the like the Golden Boot award

and a lot of these things.

Him coming to America and bringing his talents here.

Energizing the soccer scene in America in a lot of ways.

A lot of ways.

Like a lot of ways.

And the perfect time too.

I feel like I'm reminding people of this all the time.

We're hosting the World Cup in a couple of years.

I know.

It's crazy.

Us along with Mexico and Canada are hosting the World Cup.

It's amazing.

It's an amazing time.

And the rise of like the, they've been since the days of Paley.

They've been saying that, well, soccer used to either,

there's two sides of this.

Soccer is going to rise up in America

or is never going to rise up here in America.

Right.

I think that if you are paying attention.

And if you live in towns like ours here in Rapids,

where you can't throw a rock and not run into a soccer field.

Right.

Soccer may have not been, um,

may have not hit like a lot of people

thought it would as far as ratings.

Or it being the number five sport out of the top five

for, you know, sports in America or anything like that.

But it's very popular as far as like kids playing it.

Oh, yes.

And the activity of it and everything.

The game itself is very healthy in America.

Um, and we know that as we're seeing, uh,

not only a rise on the men's side of the ball,

but has anybody ever paid attention to what women do?

Are what the women's American team has done?

Amazing.

Because if you haven't been paying attention,

we dominate.

Yeah.

We are amazing.

Yeah.

Uh, and so it's, it's, it is a really smack in the face

to meet a women's athletics when people say that soccer

is not hit in America.

Oh, it hit a long time ago.

It did.

You're just not paying attention.

Yeah.

Uh, and it's going to be pretty exciting to see it come here.

Mm-hmm.

Well, and as these kids who are so interested in playing it,

get older, the chances of them watching it are,

you know, pretty good.

Yeah.

Has they understand the game?

Yeah.

Well, yeah, I, I think about this from time to time

when you got, like, uh, think of like Detroit lion fans

right now that are growing up that are like 10,

something like that, like they're experiencing something

that we never did at that age, where they're experiencing

their team being good.

Good, yeah.

And all they know is their team being good.

Uh, it's, it's, it's like that right now

with a lot of young people in their love of soccer,

or the same thing on the other side of the ball,

uh, of women athletics in the rise of that.

Yeah.

The ratings for women's athletics

are, are just destroying almost anything else out there.

Um, especially with Caitlin Clark right now

in college about basketball.

Let's see, Tyler Fair is 40, country singer.

Uh, Sarah Evans is 54, country singer.

I like Sarah Evans.

Great voice.

Mm-hmm.

Really good voice.

Uh, the great Michael Sheen is 55.

Uh, as we all on gold, uh, good omens, uh,

Dr. William, on Masters of Sex, uh,

Michael Sheen, great actors.

Very good actor.

Great, great, great, great, great actor.

Um, almost, uh, like, uh, uh, subtle, great, you know, uh,

like his greatness, uh, the TV show Good Omens

with, with him and David Tenet.

Is some of my, oh my god, is it good?

That second season was even,

I really enjoyed the second season.

John Hamm was really good on it,

but it's those two.

Great chemistry.

Yeah.

Um, they got to work together a lot

at the old chronic Vic and a lot of theater

in London, uh, as they were growing up

and growing it and, and kind of mastering the skills

and everything.

Didn't think they'd ever get to work together.

And then this project comes up

and they just both like have,

you could see how much they love working together.

Yeah.

It's so cool to see it.

He's, he's fantastic.

He, um, he was in the Twilight movie too.

I, I keep forgetting about that.

He was.

Yeah, he had a weird cameo.

Yeah, it was like probably the best thing

about all those movies.

Oh, yeah, he was great.

He never plays like a bad guy either.

And he was like, oh yeah, I just love like that.

Bobby Brown is 55.

New addition, uh, alum, uh, along with, uh,

just, uh, RMB.

It don't ask him about his progative though.

No, no, no, no.

It's gonna be a long story, man.

Long story.

One of my favorite, uh, SNL members of all time

and he didn't start up that way.

Chris Parnell is 57 today.

Oh, wow.

SNL alum, Dr. Leo Spachemann, uh,

30 rock, uh, serial figures,

an archer,

Garth in the Anchorman movies.

Why, Rod?

Um,

I, I, I thought Chris Parnell was very good

on SNL live, but he was among a huge cast and,

and greats and legends and everything.

And Chris Parnell always held his own,

was always great.

I never saw him do anything bad on there.

But I was in a huge, huge Chris Parnell guy.

It was after he left that I started

to really appreciate his career.

And especially in voice acting,

Chris Parnell, look at his character in Anchorman.

He plays the same thing in voice acting.

He's always playing that, the, the rut of the joke.

He's always playing the, the, the nerd guy

or the, or the weak guy or something.

And every, and he kills it every single time.

It can't be easy to take on those roles,

role left to role right now.

And he does it with a huge smile on his face.

He does a great.

Everybody loves working with him.

He's also done a really good job

of doing like voice acting and kids movies.

His arc of where he's gone after SNL

is one of my favorite ever.

Like he's done such a great job.

And he didn't start, didn't start out that way.

But I got such a respect for the guy.

He's one of the most famous parts of Anchorman too.

It's the wire rod.

What?

Jeff McKagan is 60 today.

Basis for Guns and Roses and Velvet Revolver.

Wow.

Let's see here.

The great, the wonderful.

Oh, I love her.

Laura Lennie is 60 today.

Oh, she's awesome.

Kinsey, you can count on me.

Mystic River.

Love actually.

Laura Lennie's career is wonderful.

She's been in so much stuff.

Yeah.

Don't see her working as much.

She's so versatile.

Yeah, getting.

I want to see her more.

I, whether she wants to work or not,

as I guess up to her.

Of course.

But I would like to see,

we haven't seen her in a while.

I would like to see her work.

Come on.

Right.

And as long as we're at it,

you know what?

I want to see more of Jennifer Jason Lee too.

62 for the Brad Pax.

Jennifer Jason Lee.

Yeah.

Hey, full eight single white female.

Fast times a Ridgeman.

Hi.

Oh my gosh.

I thought she was going to be what Julie Roberts is.

I really did.

When I was a kid,

I thought Jennifer Jason Lee was going to be that kind of big

and that kind of great.

And she is that great.

But I, she didn't the start and go

where I thought it was going to go.

She always picks some interesting projects.

Yeah, she really did.

And I, and she's, I mean,

you're right, though, everything she's in.

I mean, she's great.

The one of the greats,

another great SNL alum,

a Tim Meadows is 63 today.

It's one of the greatest bits ever

where Tim Meadows is singing about

citing a hundred-year contract.

Yeah, Tim Meadows actually,

I think Keenan Thompson may have broken the record now,

but Tim Meadows had the record

for longest run at SNL.

Yeah, he was there for a long time.

And fantastic.

Oh great.

Yeah.

Again, just everything I was saying about Chris Parnel,

the exact same stuff about Tim Meadows

about always doing his the best.

Oh, yeah.

Being a great,

sometimes being on SNL,

the way you made your, your state on the cast

wasn't that you had a returning character,

but that everybody loved to work with you,

that you were that guy that could always kind of be

the glue and sketches that you knew you can count on.

Like, oh, I need five people for this sketch.

Well, I know I'm count on Tim.

I know I'm count on Chris Parnel.

You know, that kind of thing.

When you have less than a week to prepare these things,

you know, we've made,

we've normalized what SNL does

to the point where we,

it's actually now more hip to make fun of SNL

than it is to actually give them any credit

or anything like that.

But find me, you know,

20 other actors that could do what they do.

It's amazing.

Once.

Do it once a year.

Let alone they do it every single week the way they do.

Yeah, it's impressive.

Guys like Tim Meadows, the reason that that keeps going.

The great, the wonderful Christopher Guest

is 76 today.

Count Rogen, the six-finged man,

and the princess bride.

He was, of course, Harlan,

and best-in-show.

He was in spinal tap.

Him and Jamie Lee Curtis are also SNL alums.

Yes.

I mean, he's married to Jan Happily-Married for many years, yes.

And since 1984?

Yes, it's really been that long.

I didn't want to go on a limb and say,

but I thought it was in the 80s they got together.

Yeah.

That's a cool couple.

Like that's a couple you want to have coffee with.

Also a good director.

Oh my god.

Yeah, he's been directing some really great movies.

Fantastic mighty wind.

Yes, mighty wind.

Good reference.

Derral Waltrip 77, NASCAR legend.

Derral Waltrip 77 for him.

A lot of commercials, too.

Well, yeah, he did.

That's right.

Yeah, he did.

Back in the day.

Al Cooper 80, blood, sweat, and tears,

founder, and former keyboardist.

Boy, that voice.

The band.

That band.

Oh, man.

Plead, played with Dylan as a keyboardist, too.

Yep.

Roger Staubeck 82 today for the Dallas Cowboys

legendary quarterback.

Yeah.

Talk to me about Roger Staubeck.

Yeah, I imagine you would.

Don't talk to me about Roger Staubeck.

Legend, though.

And a couple of other,

well, we got one other legend.

Well, yeah, we got a couple of the legends show up here

in our, no longer with us.

And the, well, for a lot of us,

a lot of people, the home run king,

Hank Aaron, Hammer and Hank born in the state in 1934.

Plus, passed away in 2021,

hit 755 home runs.

Most of them in Milwaukee throughout his career.

Yeah, yeah.

Long time Milwaukee brave.

Long time.

And you, when we were talking,

having the conversation the other week

on playmakers about the Mount Rushmore of sports

for Wisconsin, almost everybody had Hank Aaron on there.

Yeah.

And it's, it's awesome to be considering so many,

almost everybody I asked that question, too,

was not around when Hank Aaron played in Milwaukee.

But they still, that's the kind of reputation

he still has here in this state.

He made Milwaukee a big league town.

Yeah.

He was a big reason for that.

Trayvon Martin wouldn't be 17 today.

Born in 1995, passed away in 2012.

Red buttons born in the state in 1919,

passed away in 2006.

Less, one of the more famous comedians of all time.

Yes, a huge, huge comedian.

Yeah.

And Corey Wells from Three Dog Night

would have been celebrating the birthday today,

saying Leanda and Mama told me,

Elai's coming, try a little tendered list.

Punch Fathers.

Elai's coming.

That's good song.

Yeah.

And that is going to do it for our birthday

and anniversary club.

All right.

Keep them, birthdays and anniversaries coming everybody.

We love celebrating you with you.

Want to send a shout out again to Peyton.

Happy birthday Peyton.

Happy birthday Peyton.

To our qualifier, Marissa Ball.

Happy birthday Marissa.

Marissa.

Enjoy your day, enjoy yourselves.

Head on over to Elle Cafe.

There are 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Head on over there.

Enjoy some of the great food.

They get some great specials out there right now.

Don't forget about their build a burger.

You can create it anyway.

I can.

Delicious.

Head on over there.

Enjoy Elle Cafe and wishing

a good morning from all of us here at WFHR.

I'm going to come back after our local in state news.

And we're going to tell you about how you can maybe win

some free food from Mickey D's.

I'm not giving that right.

They're coming up.

That's right.

On the morning show here at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Marissa, Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're having a great morning out there.

You don't have a wet sock like I do.

Oh my.

Wet sock.

Serious.

Top five pet peeves of all time.

Like, uh, or maybe it's not a pet peeve,

but things you hate, things you like.

And I don't use that word lightly.

Hate.

I hate wet socks.

God, I hate wet socks, you know, I even worse if it's just one.

Yes, yes.

Thank you.

Melissa gets it.

Yes, it's I, uh, I'm having a, I'm running late this morning.

I'm rushing in and I usually have a sip of coffee on my drive in.

I did that and I usually put the top back on.

You know, I keep the hot coffee hot and everything.

Right.

I didn't put the top on.

So as I'm getting out of my Jeep and of course I've got too much

in my hands and I'm trying to, I'm not a smart human being.

I don't just take my time bringing things in.

No, I'm a guy.

I got to see if I can carry everything I want.

One trip.

I tip my coffee as I'm doing that.

And it could pour a billion places, but it chooses my foot.

Right on the foot.

Right on the foot.

So my cough, my foot smells like coffee right now.

Just my left foot.

Just my left foot.

There'd be worse things your foot gets.

There are worse.

Yes, I agree with that.

There could be worse.

Maybe I can get some free coffee.

So a lot of places do a guy to get a ways and different things.

And McDonald's is no different.

If you've completely given up on your New Year's resolutions,

this may sound appealing.

McDonald's has announced a new sweepstakes

where they're offering free burgers for a year.

Oh, specifically that's two eight dollar burgers per week,

which makes it a value of $832 over the whole year.

Not bad.

If you're interested, just hit up spothambergler.com.

That's spothambergler.com and fill out of the entry.

All right.

That's right.

They're bringing them back.

Yeah, they're selecting four winners at the end of February.

There's also a side promotion going on,

which you can score if you spot a hamburger,

get away car.

It should be noticeable to its custom 1970 Plymouth barracuda.

Wow.

I want to see a look at this.

Oh, man.

That's a beautiful, I think it is.

That is awesome, Dad.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's the barracuda, all right.

It was different, the lights in the front.

I always thought that was kind of cool

the way that that looked.

It's really neat.

Yeah, that is awesome.

So you spot that when you sell some free burgers.

The so-called burger kuda

will be making its way coast to coast.

Oh, boy.

And if you spot it, you can scan the vehicle's code

on your phone and be rewarded with an arch card

plus hamburger-inspired swag.

There you go.

Again, you don't have to actually see the car

for the burgers for a year thing.

That's separate.

So two separate different cars.

Two things I've got going on.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice and beautiful.

It's good because do you think that that vehicle

will actually make it to every state?

No, probably not.

No, I mean, and I don't know about the likelihood of it,

you know, even getting to, not only every state,

but like every part of the country,

you know, as far as Midwest, West Coast, all that.

So does this mean they're going to be bringing back

the other characters that we grew up with?

Oh, yeah.

You know, Grimis, you know.

Yeah, what was Purple Guy, right?

Yeah, he's the Purple Guy.

What was the name of the bird?

She was a, it was a, she had the,

the flight cap and the goggles

and I can't remember her name.

And then there was Mayor McChese.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was the cop, too, but I can't remember what his name was.

The, uh, yeah, huh.

I'm stumping everybody this morning.

Call off 424, 26 on, 424, 26 on, you know.

What was the name of the, he's, he's, he's characters.

I know it's not like we can't look it up or anything,

because we can't.

Bernie, earlier bird.

Bernie, the early bird, okay.

In Mac tonight.

Captain Crook.

Officer Big Mac.

It's just officer Big Mac.

Yeah, that was a really, that was,

not only, he was creepy to me.

I thought Officer Big Mac was a little creepy.

Mayor McChese had like a regular,

cheeseburger as I had,

but the Big Mac had is a little weird,

because, yeah, because it looked like, like a human condition.

Like, like don't stare at him.

He's drooling out of the corners of his mouth.

He's got it's kind of weird.

He's got burgeritis.

Don't stare.

Don't stare.

He has burgeritis.

I want the big nugget buddies to come back, though.

They're really cute.

Yeah.

Oh gosh.

Oh, man.

Those guys were great.

Oh, man.

Not exactly the most creative names, though.

I've got to say, not, they think he's through.

Let's take a phone call.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

They did have grimace earlier.

I think it was either after the first year or just three

Christmas.

And a grimace happy meal or a shake or whatever they were doing.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I remember that now.

Purple shake.

Yeah.

God about that.

There's been a lot of character,

McDonald's characters over the years, man.

A lot of them.

A lot of them.

Crazy.

And I get to an hamburger first of all yesterday

during the bad days, so.

Yeah, starting to show on, yeah, man.

Very cool.

Hey, good to hear from you, man.

Hopefully we'll hear a little bit later from you on Playmakers, all right?

Hey, all right.

Sounds good.

You too.

You too.

And it was great to see at the River Kings this weekend, man.

Oh, that's good to see at the River Kings.

It was fun to run into running in a lot of our fans this weekend.

It was great.

It was great.

A lot of great interacting with our listeners.

Very cool.

A lot of fun.

I like these contests.

I like the idea of these ones where it's more about, you know,

keeping an eye out and seeing things.

And the idea of, okay, like Melissa said,

the chances of this hitting every state is pretty rare.

So you have a contest that can be applied to L550 states.

You're not limiting that.

Yeah.

So having two going at once is a good idea.

I've, this came up last weekend.

We were talking advertising last week.

And I looked into this a little bit more about why businesses like McDonald's

or Nike or some of these companies spend as much as they do on advertising.

Marketing.

Because it's not just the money that we see on the commercials and all of that.

It's the thousands and thousands, if not millions, that they spend behind the scenes

researching and studying these things, doing focus groups and all of that.

And it's interesting when you, when you hear people in the organizations of these companies,

it's not enough to get on top.

It's staying on top.

Yeah.

And how do you stay on top?

Yeah.

And it's actually, you know, kind of interesting to see how you do these things

and how you can actually manage to do that.

Mm-hmm.

Well, and it's not like McDonald's is an unknown quantity.

I mean, it's, you know, one of the biggest.

It's a worldwide change.

Exactly.

But still, like you said, you know, there are constantly, constantly trying to figure out new ways

to get the name out there and the brand, you know, change things up and do different things.

So I think having some of the things on their menu

in here that they have in other countries would be cool.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They started talking about it.

Because their menu is completely different in like India and Asia.

Japan and yeah.

Yeah.

I want to say it was before the pandemic, they did a little of that.

They had a little of where they were, they were offering things like on a limited basis

that they, from other countries here, they did some promotion like that.

It just can't remember exactly what it was.

But that's a, that they should do more of that.

Yeah, it was like the chicken Big Mac.

Instead of like beef patties, you put chicken patties on it.

That kind of thing.

So, which is big.

Definitely tried that.

In the UK, which is big there.

So yeah.

They were offering, you know, mayonnaise on things like they do another country in Europe and stuff.

So there were some of that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's interesting to me about, because I think to a lot of us including myself,

oh, I'm on top.

I'm going to, you know, this seems like a good place to be.

I want to stay here.

But how you stay there is another thing.

And that's, you know, it's, oh, everybody knows McDonald's.

Why would they need to advertise?

Well, you can, you have to stay there.

There are constantly younger people being born and all this.

And this is the perception too.

You know, it's like, hey, we're still here kind of thing.

You know, we're still doing different things and new things.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't stay in people's minds.

You get lost.

Exactly.

We'll stay relevant.

We'll be back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

Welcome back to the morning show at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a great day out there.

Thanks for kicking off your week with us here at WFHR.

Let's get into some fun right here.

When you were taking your family photos over the holidays,

did you notice your kids doing anything strange other than the normal stuff,

like looking like looking like they'd rather be anywhere else, you know?

The Onloy tab lights claim that there's a new trend among Gen Z's called the nose cover,

which is basically just holding your hand in front of your face.

There are some photos of celebrity kids doing it online.

And apparently it's something that a lot of kids are doing.

It doesn't really mean anything.

It's just a way of kids blocking their face in expression

because most parents are on social media these days,

and they love to post family photos without permission.

Since everyone is online somewhere these days,

it's easy for other kids to come across these cheesy family photos

and tease kids about them.

So the quote, nose cover, or as I'm calling it the Sean Penn,

is just a way to partially hide themselves in a quote,

cool way.

In a cool way.

That's cool.

That's cool.

Covering your nose.

Now, all right, yeah, Sean Penn had this down already a long time ago.

We should try to make that a trend now.

That's the Sean Penn.

I'm afraid that one other, but things might turn into the other like the other,

oh, you're right.

With something like this, this is interesting how social media

and all these things are working with high school and junior high life and that kind of thing.

Like the awkwardness of that and the things that we all know and understand as awkward,

but we didn't have to have them out there for everybody to see.

Right.

Yeah.

Now, it was one thing to get made fun of by your friends or the kids in your class.

But oftentimes it wasn't even like the whole school knew what was happening to you or something

like that. It was just the kids in your class.

You're talking like 20 kids tops.

So like dealing with that, like I can just thinking about some of those moments.

Like and I had a pretty, you know, you know, pretty rebellious kind of spirit.

I didn't really care as much about what people thought.

And even I can remember some really, really awkward moments where it was just like

10, 15 people that knew.

And it was still, it felt like the whole world.

Now, it is, it really does feel like the whole world.

The whole world, yeah, no kidding.

Man, well, like you said, you know, so you do your Christmas card picture or whatever like that.

You send it out to, you know, whoever many people are on your Christmas list.

And maybe you keep one, you know, into like a Christmas album or something like that.

And that's it.

But now, no, we got to post everything.

And parents are just as bad as kids are about doing this.

Stuff anymore.