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'll be joined
by Melissa K. Any moment now. Right now, we are looking forward to talking with Brittany,
our good friend about the weather. How's it going this morning? Oh, it's beautiful out
there, isn't it? It is. It is a nice blue, clear sky. I can see it. I got to see our
eagle friends across the street this morning. It was nice. It's a nice start to the day.
We're going to keep this vibe going, Britt. Are we going to have this for the rest of
the day here? We are going to keep the vibe for the morning hours. So, see the sunshine
while it's here. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, those clouds are going to be thickening throughout
the afternoon and, I mean, mostly cloudy by tonight. And temperatures are going to be mild
though. So, we're still going to be hitting those upper forties, flirting with 50 degrees.
So, a beautiful morning. Still a good evening. Just a little bit cloudy out there. And
really nothing to worry about. I mean, tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, breezier. And then
we've got to find the umbrella, just Wednesday night and into Thursday. Really, it's back
with some rain. Okay. All right. Good to know. Good to know. With these temperatures,
it's certainly always something to keep an eye out for, too, when it comes to that kind
of weather. Absolutely. Good thing is, though, this is the same system that's off to the
West Coast. I'm sure you guys have heard about California. They're on slides. Getting
very, very bad news. The same system, but we're not expecting that kind of rast, okay?
So, don't freak out about it. We're only looking at a trace of rain to a quarter of an inch.
So, no big rainfall for us. It could slip to some more reason on Friday, but no major
accumulations with that either. So, a very cold storm for winter. Yeah. For winter.
I mean, this isn't that last part right there. It's so key. It's for winter. It's, it's,
it's, we don't have normal or, or tame winters here in Wisconsin, usually. This has been
sort of won so far. Although I, I feel like I should be knocking on wood right now when
I say that. I really, I'm doing it too. I'm pretty, we appreciate you. Thanks so much
for hanging out with us this morning. You have a great one and we'll talk again tomorrow.
So, I'm glad enjoyed. Fun time. You too. You too. Brittany Rolo joins us every morning
right in this time slot. Kick off our day, giving us a little mother nature news. We appreciate
that. Appreciate the great Melissa K. And the great. Yes. Oh, wow. That's quite a title.
That's what's on the telepropter. I just, I'm just really what you wrote. Good to see
you. They're fired. Good to see you. We have a lot in store today. We're going to get
to a bunch of fun things. Of course, we have the L cafe birthday and anniversary club right
around the corner. Looking forward to that. We will also get into the end of an, a possible
era. Oh dear. We're going to talk landlines. Yeah. We're talking landlines. No, it's never
ending. No, no, I don't think so. I can't. I can't. Especially we've got two of them.
Looking right at right now. We have five healthy habits that can take, that can take five minutes
or less. Okay. We'll see. Yeah. We'll go through that. We'll dissect that one. Burger King
and Applebee's are giving some stuff away and doing some contests. We'll talk about
those nine o'clock hour. We're going to talk about a little entertainment. We'll kick things
off with and we will get into a little after that. The 10 Super Bowl foods that bring
good luck and bad luck. Bring good luck. Yes. Okay. Sports superstition. Here we go.
If you really want your team to win, what will you do? What are you willing to do? Serve
tasty food. Okay. That's the underlying theme of all Super Bowl parties. It needs to
taste good. It turns out that's what's good luck. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. That's it. That
had to discuss it. Don't burn the weenies. That's a big one. That's a big one. That's
always a good one. All of that coming up for you. We'll get into and we'll of course
talk about our schedule today. We've got a really fun and important set of more mid-day
magazines this week. Yes. We kick it off today. Interviewing our Wisconsin Rabbits
mayoral candidates. The spring primary is February 20th. That's right. I had that right
around the corner. So we're going to be joined by a couple of guests throughout the week
this week of our candidates. People running for mayor. Yeah. Yeah. We have our first two
in today. We have Tom Hughes in with us for about 10 minutes or so. We're going to interview
each of these people. So if Tom Hughes first, then Nicholas Palmquist is going to be on
with us right after that. Okay. That'll be from 3 to 3 30 this morning. After that,
we're going to talk with our good friends over at the South of County YMCA looking forward
to it. Excellent. Here about the events coming up at the Y. Yeah. And then we will have
more candidates on the rest of the week. We have heard from three of the four candidates.
We are hoping to have all four on. But we have done our due diligence. And when I say we,
well, I did a little bit, but Pam mostly. Mostly Pam. Mostly Pam. And a big thank you to her
for that. Yes. She does a lot of the work behind the scenes here to make sure that we have guests
that we reach out to all the people that we need to to make sure everybody gets a chance to be on air.
Our wonderful League of Women Voters do amazing work and are going to be along with Wisconsin
and that's where it's community media interviewing and talking with some of our mayors. We'll talk
about that in our good stories of the day. Yeah. That's the mayoral forum that's happening tonight.
That's going to be a little more, I think a little more detailed than what my interviews are going
to be. I want you to know these candidates. I'm not assuming that everybody knows these individuals.
So I want to get to know them a little bit and give them a chance to speak for themselves about
what their hopes are, what they like for this, why they're doing this. Have a nice conversation.
Their favorite band, you know, their, their, their, her, her, come on. You're going to ask them
their favorite sports team. Yeah. Yeah. It's all I'm going to talk about a sports with them. That's it.
That's all boring. Yeah. It would be. Well, we doing that today. We're looking forward to it.
A big thank you to all these candidates that got back to us and they're going to be on the air with us.
Good show lined up for you today. It's going to be fun. And it's, it's already, you know,
you never know what's going to happen with live radio. You never know when you put me in Melissa
together, let alone in the same room. It's going to be a wild show. It's going to be a wild show.
We're going to have some fun today. Kick things off a group of 30 current and former workers
at a Kentucky middle school scored a $1 million powerball, powerball prize with numbers that they
had been playing for years and hid the winning ticket in a math textbook. The group of current
and former employees from a Rector A Jones middle school in Florence had been playing the lottery
together for years and they have been using the same set of numbers since 2019. Wow, that's
dedication. Quote, we all taught at the same school at one point or another, a member of the group
told Kentucky lottery officials. We've got counselors, administrators, a special ed teachers in
the school nurse. Some have moved on or retired, but we still continue to do it. We've remained
buddies for all these years. The group's organizer discovered the ticket for January, the January
27th powerball drawing was one million second prize winner and stashed in a math textbook.
Quote, no one looks in a math book, she said. I knew it would be safe there. Page 200, I have
checked this a thousand times. Members of the group said the numbers were chosen at random.
Quote, our math teacher and assistant principal pulled them out of a hat. One winner explained,
at first we didn't have the right amount of numbers to choose from, so we drew together
than goodness we did. Each member will take home about $24,000 after taxes. Wow.
Winners said that their plans for the prize money include investing, home repairs, and travel
and helping out the school. Okay, but I don't understand the part about hiding the ticket in the
math book. What does that have to do with anything? I don't feel like I feel like we're either missing
something or the article itself is. Or we don't understand how powerball works. That I'm with you
on. So you go somewhere that sells powerball tickets and you tell them the numbers you want. Yeah.
And they plunk it in and then you get your ticket and that's what is drawn. That's you win.
Yeah, that's what I assume it is. That's from what I know. I have literally never played the
lot of like any kind of lottery. I don't know if I've actually bought one, but I've gotten them as
gifts. Like every once in a while, somebody like when we go play bingo at my family Christmas,
you'll get a lottery ticket as a bingo prize. I gamble enough in life. Just with life in general,
like I don't really need to do that whole stuff and I've worked in radio for 20 some years. So I
don't know really. I know a lot of people enjoy it. I know that it's popular. Yeah, I'm not talking
bad about it. We're just missing some. So if there's any powerball players out there that
can explain this to us, why they would hide it in a math book. Yeah, I please call up 424,
2600. I'm just it just seems like they hit it because they weren't able to turn it in right away.
And so that in order not to lose it or or something. I guess. Sure. I don't know.
Congratulations them though. Yes, absolutely. And and all nice things that they're doing with the money.
Yeah, a bunch of teachers just got a bunch of money like that wins. That's a good day. We've
got a good thing going on right here at WFHR. We're celebrating love. We want you to share your
love stories with us. What we're doing now until Valentine's Day is we're collecting all these
great love stories, these origin stories, how you met your significant other, how you fell in love,
all these great things that we want. We want them all from you and you share them with us on our
Facebook page. Just type in your search bar W on Facebook WFHR like our page and go ahead and
send us those things on either direct messages. Yeah, you don't want to publish them publicly for
everyone to see on the page. You can just DM us or email to that works on WIRI 1055 was country.
We're celebrating singles and you know, seeing a you know, what was a bullet you dodge and a red flag
avoided that kind of thing. But we also share your funny stories. Yeah, we're also adapted it a
little bit because I've heard from many listeners that well, I don't have any of those stories,
which which like I'm very powerful. Yeah, I'm very jealous of that. I could give you a different
story every day. Yeah, I got plenty of them. I'd win this contest. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not
playing everybody. When it comes to that, we said, well, well, what about sell what is something
you enjoy about being single? What are some of the positives of being single? So that's as good of
entry as, you know, a red flag you're dodging with a story like this. Maybe you don't have a
significant other. Maybe you are single. You want to celebrate still and everything. So share with
us what you love about love. What you think is like, or maybe a good love story that you know,
your parents or your brother or sister or something like that. The favorite tree you have. Yeah,
you know, we're not picky. No, no, we love is love. Yeah, we want as many entries as possible. So we
can make sure to give these great prizes to some wonderful people. The hotel me is giving away a
two-night stay family natural foods as a part of this. Our friends at OneRose, we've got a lot of
great local businesses. Sounds like an awesome prize. I check out the hotel me whenever you're
looking for stays. And of course, join our friends at family natural foods when they open their doors
at nine. I have to do that today. There's something I ordered that I have to pick up. Sorry, guys.
I didn't get there last week. Meet me, Melissa there. Yep, but we're looking forward to it. It's
going to be a fun contest. And I cannot wait to get to see more and more of these entries.
I am a foolish romantic. I love these stories. Keep them coming, everyone. And if you need to get
a flower order in before Valentine's Day, call up OneRose because they have such an awesome
selection. They're so wonderful to work with. They're very helpful. They can give you recommendations
if you don't know what to get. So Melissa's not kidding about that latter part. They have helped me
out at least three or four times. I can think of off the top of my head, all of them involving my mom,
all of them, all of them. So great over there. Shout out to OneRose, our good friends. So mom,
call them up and tell them what you want. Yes, yeah. We're going to take a quick time out.
We got more in store for you coming up. Elcafe birthday and anniversary club on the way. I'm
morning show here at WFH. It's time to celebrate with our good friends at Elcafe
and the Elcafe birthday anniversary club. I love celebrating with our good friends over at Elcafe.
Visit them right now. They're open. Go ahead and check them out at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful
Port Edwards. Looking at their Facebook page looks like it's going to be a beautiful week out there.
They encourage everybody to head on over. It looks like they've got story time today. Yeah, cool.
Yeah, I want to double check on this. No, nope. That was a couple days ago. I apologize.
They have story times over there sometimes. Yeah, appreciate our friends over at Elcafe.
Encourage you to go check it out. They've got a nice banquet area and community room over there
if you need the space. Some of the best food you are going to find and amazing human beings over there.
We appreciate our friends at Elcafe, our new sponsors of our birthday and anniversary club.
Yes. Not only are they sponsored and they give us an opportunity at the beginning of every month
since I'm here with a $2.20 gift certificates. Yeah. We're able to grab winners by grabbing
qualifiers every day. We're thankfully we're able to do that because of all of you out there.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries everybody. Send them to us an info at wfhr.com.
James dot mail off at civic media dot us. You can call up live on air and wish your special
someone a happy birthday or a happy anniversary. 715 424 2600 or with one button dialing on our
civic media app. Oh, she's good. Technically it's two but it's close enough. It's a lot less than
than dialing the whole number. It is. It is a lot. It is a lot better and we appreciate
everybody downloading that app. Get the civic media app wherever you get your apps. Let's go
ahead and take a look at our list today. We got a good one. We got three possible qualifiers.
One through three Melissa. Three. It gives us that qualifier. All right. We can get right to
celebrate. First up, we shouldn't have a birthday to Gary Merritt. Happy birthday, Gary.
Enjoy your day, sir. Hope it's a good one for you. We wish a happy birthday as well to Jay Matys.
Matys. Happy birthday, Jay. Jay. Enjoy it. Hope it's a great one for you. And our qualifier today.
Happy birthday to Sharon Mahoney. Happy birthday, Sharon. Sharon, we wish you the best of days.
You're a qualifier. Thanks so much to everybody that got to see his birthdays and anniversaries.
Keep coming, everybody. Congratulations.
Taking a look at our celebrity list. Charlie Heaton is 30. He's Jonathan on Stranger Things.
He does a good job on the channel. Yeah. Let's see here. Oh boy. Oh, Rick Astley is 58.
I'm never gonna give you all. I'm gonna let you down.
I turned it. Oh, I turned a dog though. That I turned him into Michael McDowell there.
Oh my god. I don't know what I did there. I turned Rick Astley into Michael McDowell's
about. They don't sound anything alike. His hair is just as fabulous now as it was when he was a
teenager. Yeah. Yeah. That guy's got good hair. Good. Yeah. Does it count as Rick rolling if we're
just talking about him. If we don't play the song, does it still count as Rick playing? And I don't
even get that whole thing. I really don't. That was that was, you know, early days of the internet
when you could use, you could really mess with people and, you know, you send them a work email,
you know, from your work email and, hey, hey, this is an important document. You check this out
right away and they open it up. Never gonna give you up. Oh, you got Rick rolled, you know.
Oh, it was fun. That's it. It's funny for like five minutes. Okay. You can find it, but boy,
that was a funny five minutes, Melissa. It was, it was. And now it's just a meme. Yeah,
pretty much. Yeah. Okay. I love these two names being celebrating a birthday. Rick Astley 58
today and Axel Rose is 62. Couldn't be any different. No, no, quite, quite different
heads of the spectrum there on that one. And another singer, Richie McDonald is 62,
lone star lead singer. All right. Let's see here. Kathy Najmi is 67. Wendy on V. She was also,
you may remember in Hocus Pocus, she was the nun. And in that, or she was the nun on Cysterect.
Fabian Fabio. Fabio is 81. That can't be really. Wow. I still think, and just my opinion,
but I still think one of the best journalists I ever saw and ever will see. Tom Brocaw is 84
today. Tom Brocaw. Yeah. Nightly news. At a time where back in the day, we just, we had some,
some of the greats that we were able to take in every day at our nightly news. And Tom Brocaw
was one of them today's show for many years from like early late 70s, I believe. And just
incredible journalists. Great journalists. I wonder what he thinks about the state of things now.
Yeah. I've heard some of his comments. I've heard some of them. And I appreciate his honesty.
I appreciate him kind of giving his all when it comes to his opinions. Plus one of the best
like voices and deliveries. Yeah. Like a great voice, great delivery. Let's take a real quick
pause here and let's take a phone call. Good morning. Well, you got a birthday or anniversary
for us. I have a very special birthday and there is a little boy turning 10 in our house.
So I want to wish a happy birthday to Andrews. Happy birthday, Andrews. Happy birthday, Andrews.
And you're so old. Wow. Thank you so much for sharing that with us.
Are you doing anything special for the birthday? I'm taking that to lunch. Nice. Nice.
Perfect. Very cool. Have a great time. Enjoy. Thanks a lot for sharing it with us, Beth.
Thank you. Have a good morning. Happy birthday, Anders.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday, little man. Oh, good kid. 10 is fun. Yes. 10 is a fun age.
Oh, it's a fun one. Yes. Yeah. Happy birthday, Anders. Enjoy.
And we have some people no longer with us. We wish a very. So rip torn, born in this day in 1931,
agent Zed and the man in black movies, patches, the coach and dodgeball, the incredible already
on Larry Sanders show. Rip torn, one of the greater like character actors of all time.
Just incredible. And I almost guarantee that everybody out there listening knows who rip torn is.
And if you don't know his name, you've seen him. You've seen him. Yeah.
I loved him on a men and black. Yeah, he was great. He was a straight guy in that and he
Elmore rule rip torn junior. Oh, what is his name? Oh, that's a name. Man, I didn't know that.
That's a good name. Yeah. I loved his work. Great actor.
Former president Ronald Reagan born in the state in 1911, passed away in 2004 40th US
president on a stay in 1980 and 98 Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan Airport.
Especially when it comes to the remembering a former president or something. I feel like
it is easy to look at the politics of this. And you can tear about this, be proud of this policy
and tear apart this policy and blah, blah, blah and all these things. And their legacy is already in
stone. For the most part, history is already going to talk about these people, judge these people,
that kind of thing. As American citizens, I personally feel outside of maybe one president in
history of all these presidents that they deserve our respect. They did a job that not everybody
can do. They did a job that not everybody wants to do. And as far as certain presidents go, you
know, it was, it's, it's, to me, it's bigger than politics, remembering them. And then it's bigger
than what they did in their presidency is bigger than one person. Whether you voted for the person
or you believed in the person or like the person or anything like that, you voted for people
that you do. And they've won. And you've asked people who didn't vote for them to still respect
that person. Correct. You got to be able to do the same. We, we, we, especially in this year,
in this year and going forward. Let's stop making the rest of the world laugh. And let's start
handling politics like adults. But let's start treating each other like adults. Like it, like it
matters because it does. We have a, like, I know there's a lot, I've been hearing a lot of
naysaying, a lot of doomsday stuff about this year and everything. I, you walk around with your
fists clenched, you're going to get in a fight. Like, you don't have to approach this year that way.
We don't have to be afraid of a political season. No, we should be positive and happy. We,
we can vote. We can, we have the freedoms that this country alfords us. And we can make change.
Yes. We, we, if you don't like something, fix it. Yep. And you fix it with your vote.
Do your homework research these individuals? Don't let them just, you know, whatever they tell you,
just take it as face value. Do your homework, see who's in their pocket and figure and get the right
people in office. And it matters very much locally. You know, join it, join us from a day magazine
today and hear from our mayor candidates. Listen to the forum tonight on Wisconsin community
because these things matter. I'm going to ask them what their favorite color is.
So if we get real down to the deep stuff here, deep stuff. Well, it'll be a good conversation.
Thank you for that. Natalie Cole, born in the stay in 1950 Pesto in 2015, amazing singer.
Her duet, there's a lot of talk about greatest Grammy moments right now because of the duet with
Luke Holmes and Tracy Chapman, which is top 10, top 10, certainly of all time Grammy moments I've
seen. You got to watch the video because I swear it's one of the few times I've ever seen Tracy
Chapman like smiling and happy. It was really cool. It was a, it was a nice moment. The moment
we're Natalie Cole saying with her dad, Nat King Cole, I believe they did unforgettable duet of
that with that to me is up. That's top five. That's top three, maybe Grammy moments. And the great
Bob Marley born in the stay in 1945 passed away way too young in 1981. Super reggae superstar
put reggae on the map in many ways, along with Peter Tosh, certainly an incredible musician,
songwriter, one of our best songwriters. But what Bob Marley meant to his people and what he did for
his people stands up above any other pop star, maybe in history as far as what he was able to do,
representing a whole entire country, speaking for a whole country, not just to the rest of the world
before his own people, to his own people. So interesting documentary, or not documentary, a movie
coming on in his life. I just watched the trailer for Game of Goosebumps. Young man playing him
to look like it does a really good job. I hope it's, I hope it holds up. I hope it's a good movie.
Well, and it's just, you know, another testament to what the power of music and what music can do
and how it can transform lives. Yeah. And we wrap up with the great, the big, the Bambi, you know,
the salt and the SWAT, the Babruth. I was going to throw in a bunch of other nicknames. We'll
just get right to it. He had like 80 nicknames. Yeah, he did. He was the home run king until April
eighth, 1974, when Hank Aaron, they thrown him. He expand his career, span 22 seasons.
Babruth was a, the first, I maybe, I don't know, maybe Jim Thorpe it was, but a Jim Thor
Babruth, probably the first American sports star. Possibly. I had to really do my homework on
that one. But certainly the first of the major four pro sports, as the others weren't really even
around yet. Baseball became America's pastime, in part because of guys like Babruth. Also,
one of the, up until Shohei Otani, one of the few people who pitched and hit and did it well.
He was also proficient as a carpenter. John Goodman did a real, oh yeah, that's right. I heard
about that. Yeah, nice, nice note. John Goodman did a great job playing him in the Bab. That's a good
role. The behemoth of bust. It's so many nicknames he had. And wrapping up on a melancholy
note for those that did not hear. Toby Keith passed away Monday night, soundly in his sleep,
according to a press release from his family. He had been battling stomach cancer. He was 62.
Again, just like I was saying with presidents and everything, when it comes to your feelings about
a person like him, dislike him, anything like that. They've got loved ones out there. He's got
fans out there, people that cared. And it's bigger than you. It's bigger than me. It's bigger than
us. And regardless of any of that, I would hope that everybody can get behind the idea that
cancer still whoop in our butt. Yeah. Like this, this man was incredibly, I thought brave and
vulnerable while he was going through this and letting people see him, how thin he got,
how much it affected his will. A lot of these things. He was just performing shows a couple
months ago. Yeah. And he's gone. And now he's not there with his kid, not there with his loved
ones because cancer continues to win because while we continue to bicker and put little political
signs in our yards and and whine at each other about politics and all these things, these diseases
continue to run game on us. Cancer continues to whoop our behinds. While we bicker and fight,
cancer don't give a dang about any of that. Cancer doesn't know it's a political season.
Cancer doesn't care about your bank, your income. If you're popular, if you're famous, if you're not
any of these things, what it does, what it does is something we have let it do all this time.
While we continue to fight, this continues to win. Let's, let's put our energy and our focus
where it needs to be on things like this. Yeah. And and hopefully we get, we can keep some people
around. That'd be nice. One more time. I want to wish very, very happy birthday to Gary. Merit.
Happy birthday, Gary. Happy birthday, Jay. Matise. Happy birthday, Jay.
A very happy, special birthday from all of us here at WFHR and WRI to Anders.
Yes. Happy birthday, Anders. Happy number 10, Anders. Enjoy it.
And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Sharon Mahoney.
Happy birthday, Sharon. You have the best name. That was my mom's name.
It's a great name. It really is. Happy birthday. Congratulations, Sharon.
Go ahead and celebrate with our good friends over at El Café. They're at 221 Market Avenue
in Port Edwards. Wish them a good morning from all of us here at WFHR.
Welcome back to the show.
Listen, James here with you. Hanging out. We hope you're having a good Tuesday out there, everybody.
Let's talk about this one and this could be a little solemn for some.
Could be. Could you be talking about the end of an era?
If you still think this cell phone thing, quote unquote cell phone thing, is just a passing
fad, you may want to sit down for this one and stop twirling your fingers around that cord
of your rotary phone. Oh, please. Mom, dad, landlines are being phased out, probably for good.
Phone companies. Well, we'll see about that part, that lab part there.
Phone companies want to shift to newer infrastructure within the next few years,
which means old copper wire based lines will be phased out in favor of more advanced technology
like fiber optics that doesn't work with landlines. In fact, AT&T just applied for a waiver that would
allow it to stop serving a servicing traditional landlines in California.
Wow. There was a time when landlines were a lot cheaper and much more reliable compared to cell
phones, but it's about to be the reverse. A spokesperson for AT&T says that they are not
canceling landline service in California or anywhere else yet, but it's about to get even more
expensive and less reliable because they'll need to find complex workarounds as they move away
from old equipment. Of course, many households gave up their landlines a decade ago,
but the breakdown of the landline system will impact some older folks, small businesses,
and people in remote areas. According to one expert, about 100 million landlines between
businesses and residential areas are currently active in the US, but only about 5 percent of them
are expected to remain by 2030. Sorry, did you say million or billion?
Million. Million. Wow. I'm surprised it's actually that low, honestly.
Yeah, I didn't have a number of my head, but I agree with you. Yeah, that does seem low, yeah.
And I don't, whether we like it or not, it doesn't matter. This is happening. What I don't like
about it is the kind of bubble living that goes on with a lot of these people that make these
decisions. Well, me and everybody, I know I have cell phones, so let's do it. And not realizing it,
you know, there's a lot of people out there that might be affected by this.
Well, and this is one thing that the pandemic really showed us. We don't have the infrastructure
in place for everyone to have internet access wirelessly, have cell phone access in a vast
majority of the country. You know, our rural areas, we feel it very strongly in Wisconsin,
especially here. You get very far out in the country here and you lose cell signal.
It's not reliable. I have to, you know, even even wireless internet in your home is not that
reliable. I mean, I have, I have a hard line from my router up to my computer and it's still not
reliable. I mean, you, you hear me drop out now and then when we're on air and I'm, I'm not in
that. I mean, yes, I mean, I'm fairly rural Wisconsin up there in Abbott's Ferd, but it's,
we have far more rural areas where there's zero signal. So if they're getting rid of the landlines,
what are they going to replace it with? Yeah. Are they going to put that infrastructure into place
before they get rid of it all? Well, that's, they're going to leave us floating. They need to,
they need to, to let the cart, the horse lead the cart. They need to, they need to, if they're
going to be doing these things, which I think we can all agree maybe, or that eventually a lot of
this stuff is going to go that direction, but they do this a lot of the times where they, we
thought this about streaming. Everything's going to be streaming. We're never going to use cable
again, blah, blah, blah, and everything. And that, where are we now with this? Where streaming
companies are now like teaming up and packaging half of them going bankrupt, half of them are
hemorrhaging money. And meanwhile cable services, while they have not on the rise or anything,
they've stayed quite steady. So what we have done a couple years ago, we're getting rid of cable
completely. Like, nobody uses it until we get rid of it completely. Well, that doesn't, no,
no, that doesn't make sense. It's funny that you bring that up because, you know, what I noticed
at my grocery store just this last week, we still have a red box. I don't know if it's called a
red box, but it's red in it. And you can rent movies there at my grocery store. I'm going to get
four scum. You get the new four scum. Actually, they have Barbie. Oh, they have the Barbie movie right now.
I was thinking about it. I was like, Oh, hey, I could actually watch this. I feel like this,
something like this is triggering. And it can make you angry. And it makes me, and I'm trying not
to get angry with it. But I'm, I am frustrated. I feel like my mother, when I was a kid,
Jimmy, I'm not angry. I'm disappointed. Which, by the way, hurt a lot worse. A lot worse. I wish
she was just mad at me. I'm not angry. I'm not even disappointed. I'm flummoxed.
Because I think that they're not ready for this step. And I think it's funny that you use the
analogy of the cart before the horse because then I had this picture of this self-driving cart.
And we're not there yet. We still need the horse. We need the old technology until you actually,
you know, you can't, it's just like your mother always said, don't quit your job until you have
another one lined up. Yes. Yes. You know, you keep that security in place until you're sure
you can continue forward. Because those bills don't pay themselves, James. Give, uh, we, we've been,
we keep doing this to ourselves with technology. We, um, we, we, the technology is moving faster than
we can work with it. We had to work, uh, we, we've done this with laws where we had to create a lot
of laws that we didn't realize we needed because until the internet, until technology and stuff.
So we've kind of caught up with a lot of that. We're still catching up with some of it,
but we've caught up quite a bit with it. Uh, we need to let the, the world catch up with the
technology here before we let, we, like, just unleash this and just go completely all in. We don't
have a society that is ready for that. Not only by infrastructure and by broadband, which we've
heard about for the last five years about how important broadband is and, uh, trying to get funds
or, uh, different bill past or anything about broadband. So with all this conversation and there's
not just us in Wisconsin, uh, when I was living in California, this was an issue two in, in Southern
California, uh, Northern California. Um, there are states that are even more rural than we are. Yeah.
I mean, look at the decodas. Look at Wyoming. There's not a whole lot of infrastructure in some
of those places. It would be insane right now. If I was doing this article and it was about electric
cars, like people would be flipping out right now, losing their minds. Like, what are you just
getting rid of gasoline? It's done. What are you talking about? I don't know. What are you saying?
You can't do that. It's, it's, it's, it's really not that much different though. No, no. And,
and it's something I think to be aware of and to, you know, keep an eye on. And this is something
too that you need to keep in mind when you, you talk about, well, just let the market regulate
things. Yeah. This is the kind of stuff that happens. Right. And, and so many people get left
in the dark or, or out of touch. They can't even text. We, uh, we, we talk about this with our
politicians and whenever we have our representatives, join us on the era, I always wrap up with how can
people get in touch with you? Uh, it's the same thing with these companies. Get in touch with these
phone companies. Let them know that you need your landline. Uh, be, let them hear you. Uh,
will it make a difference? I have no idea. We're being honest with you. I'm not going to lie to
you and say that it'll make a change. Hopefully it will. I don't know if it will, but I know you're
going to feel you, you yourself deserve to make the attempt. Mm hmm. You yourself when you're
laying there in bed at night, deserve to know. I did, I gave it everything I had. I tried my
hardest. I did my due diligence. Mm hmm. We'll take a time out. We'll, uh, come back with some more
fun stuff for you lined up. We're coming up. Me and Melissa are going to get into five healthy
habits to take less than five minutes or less than five. Maybe you and I will do some of these.
We'll see. Oh, all right. No, no, no. I didn't mean to do that. I know why I said that.
Let's see what they are for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's let's hear from our sponsors.
Sounds like a good idea.
I was up before the dawn. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Melissa and James hanging out with
you. A little super tramp to play us into the segment. We hope you're having a great start to your
Tuesday out there. Thanks for kicking it off with us here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM. Mm hmm. Let's talk
a little bit of health and, uh, five healthy habits that take five minutes or less. We have busy
lives and, um, with the dizziness of the day, most of the time, what takes the back seat? Health. Yep.
Exercise. Yep. And eating great. Yeah. Yeah. Check, check, check. Uh, you just one family feud.
You do. Congratulations. Go for it. What's my prize? You get to say hi to Steve Harvey. Donuts?
Yes, donuts. Yes. And some cookies, Diane made in the bag. There's still a couple. Okay.
An expert on longevity says five minutes a day might be might be all it takes to add years to your
life and here are a few simple things that can improve your health and extend your life. So,
while, um, we do let our health take a back seat, what is the number one culprit to this or the
reason for it time? Yep. Now, or it seems to be oftentimes time is the reason. There's not enough time.
There are not enough hours in the day and we don't get enough sleep. So here's an idea of, uh,
you know, being able to do these things that can help with that that don't take as much time.
Like habit stacking, starting a new habit is hard, but adding a new habit onto an existing
one is easier. You could add a mindfulness to your morning coffee routine or practice gratitude
as you brush your teeth. Yeah. That's a good idea. I tried to do that. I'm not going to lie and say
I do this every day, but I try really hard to the gratitude thing. I like to, I like starting off,
when I'm brushing my teeth or throwing water in my face or something like that, thinking about
what I was grateful for yesterday and what I'm hopeful for about today. Okay. That's positive.
It gets me in a pretty good mindset. Yeah. It's a pretty good way. Starting off your day with
positivity. Mm-hmm. And again, don't do it every day. I'm not going to say I do it every day,
but I've gotten in a routine of it where now I don't wake up and, uh, as I'm brushing my teeth,
oh, I have to think of things I'm grateful for now. It just happens. It's just kind of a... That's how
happens work. Yeah. And it took me a while to do that, but attaching it to other things really
did help. Yeah. I noticed that too when I was, uh, stopping smoking. Mm-hmm. That when I just
tried to stop, uh, I was on my mind and I was thinking about it and those things. When I attached it
with, uh, I, you know, I've been really meaning to, uh, take more walks. I've been meaning to take
my, my, my further Sam out more. Mm-hmm. So I attached it to that because I would often have a
cigarette when I was walking Sam. Okay. And it, and it's just really helped. It, like, it, it, it,
this instead. Yeah, I'd add it to it and everything. Attaching it to the other project. Attaching
it to something else. Yeah. Other people have, like, my dance instructor when I was in dance class
is she'd like, do plie's while you're brushing your teeth, you know, anywhere you can stick these
in any time to help with your posture, to help with, with exercise and with toning your muscles.
I mean, it's, it's, it's tacking habits. It's a good thing. I mean, multitasking can be difficult.
Yes. Yes. You can also, you know, make you less effective at all of the things you're doing.
Mm-hmm. But with the time crunch that we live in now and trying to squeeze everything in,
it's not a bad idea. Yeah. I, I, I, just don't do these things while you're driving.
You got to choose those multitasking battles wisely. Yeah. I, I, I think that, uh, with the restraints
and all that, you do have to try to cram things in. We, all, safety first. Yeah, almost everybody
multitasked, but yes, safety first always. Micro meditations. Checking in with yourself doesn't
need to take long. A simple technique is focusing on your breath as you inhale for account of four.
Hold it for your account of seven and exhale for account of eight. Um, that's, uh, that's not bad.
I don't disagree with that, but I, our good friend Jackie Carantini, uh, taught us this. Uh, if you
were listening to her a number of times, she's talked about taking that moment of breath. Mm-hmm.
And just inhaling for three seconds, exhaling for three seconds. And, and it just, it's a tone
setter. Yeah. It really is. It, it, it forces you to focus on the breathing. Like the breathing
is something that we do without thinking. Yeah. Yeah. All the time. I mean, everybody, you're,
you're constantly breathing. So you don't think about it. But if you take that moment, like you said,
and just focus on it, it gives you a chance to reset. Yeah. Yeah. And it's one of, uh, what I like
about, uh, already this list, there are no downsides. There are no, try this side effects.
May include something. Your legs fall off. What, what, what, what was that last part? Your
p-turns blew. See, right? That is five minute workouts. Research shows even short bursts of
regular exercise can help keep you vote young. Take a break from work and do some squats or
wall sits or take a brisk walk. You can improve your whole day. Does it count if I think about doing
this? Sure. Good intentions. You got to get, you got to, you got to start somewhere, right?
Yeah. You know, I can do a year of that first prepping up for these five minute workouts.
You don't want to rush this. You don't want to just go jumping into it. I, um, I'm glad that they
throw in there. The, uh, brisk walk and help, um, pushups are a great one, uh, sit-ups are
great ones. You don't have to go to the gym. You don't have to, most of my workout does not involve
weights. A lot of my workout involves a lot of these other things, uh, working and punching on a
punchy back for 20 minutes. And using your own body as a weight is also, you know, like Pilates
basically, um, is, is helpful as well. Social interaction. Instead of scrolling aimlessly at night,
reach out to a few people you care about. Connecting with friends can raise your levels of the
feel-good hormone oxytoxin, uh, which has anti-inflammatory effects. Nice. That's important,
because I mean, we could all do with some less inflammation,
causes pain. The one thing that I think I have myself and a lot of people like about social media
is the ability to be able to talk to people states away, and interact with them.
But a lot of times we don't use it that way. Right. And, and we don't need it. We can do this on
ourselves. We have texting. We have, you know, uh, face, you know, face time. Some of us still have
landmines. Yes, yes, yes. I like, I like the idea of cutting out the middleman here. I don't need
you, Facebook. I don't need you, Instagram. I don't, I can do this on my own. I can reach out to
my loved ones on my own. I can check in on my friends on my own. Yes. And it's a great, um, a great
idea of, uh, reminding us that we can do that too. I think so. Well, and it's, it's actual checking in
on. It's not going and scrolling their page on Facebook to see what they've, we've posted lately.
I mean, and I'll admit, sometimes I do that too. Okay, where, where are things at? Yeah,
this is a good time to reach out. Um, but other, you know, otherwise it's, it's, I don't know,
it's, I don't want to say cheating. Well, but I like that though. I like, I like the way you play.
I like that though. Actually, yeah. I also not getting a real picture of their lives because
let's be real. None of us post what's actually going on in your life on Facebook. Nor should you,
nobody wants to know what you had to eat for every meal of the day or all the bad things that
happen to you. Our, um, but our social medias have become our, our, um, our photo albums and you
open up a photo album. When's the last time you look through a photo album and saw a bunch of
horrible, oh, this is a horrible moment. This is a picture from a horrible moment. This is,
no, you don't do that. You're right. The social media has become the same thing where we don't
really post up there. A lot of the, the true things that we're going through. Right. It's the pretty
polished version of our lives. So touching base with people is vital. Uh, really important. Uh,
and remember what matters we wrap up with. Having a sense of purpose is linked to a longer life.
So spend a few minutes a day thinking about what you are passionate and what your passions are.
It can not only add more years to your life, but more life to your years. Mm-hmm. Yes. Um,
now, if you are sitting there listening to this in all of a sudden panicking because you don't
have a passion or you don't have something you care that deeply about, that doesn't mean that you
can't still or that there's anything wrong. Right. That's fine. Um, but to, but I would think that
you can find something. And I think if you dig a little bit, you probably do. It's not, it's not
what everybody else is. You know, maybe it isn't theater. Maybe it isn't singing. Um, maybe it's
listening to music. Yeah. Maybe it's enjoying nature. Maybe it's looking at, you know,
watching birds. There's a lot of things that we do that don't, you know, necessarily fall into
the realm of, well, this is a hobby. You, um, you have things that may bring you joy, uh,
lean into those and see maybe one of those can be that passion and, and, and this is so true
about this, though, uh, the people that have passions live longer or have more of a full life,
like, uh, whatever, and Melissa's so right about this, when I say passion, it doesn't mean that
it doesn't have to be some great cause or something. It could be you love stamps. You're huge
about stamps. You love stamps. You want to collect stamps or whatever it is. You like car shopping.
Yeah. You know, you like finding vehicles for other people. That could be something that,
that you could actually turn into a job. But there's so many opportunities in our community
for you to try out some of these things. You know, go to the library when they have these free
art nights, check out the, the music at the performing arts center, support our kids at their
performances at the, at the middle school in the high school. There's so many opportunities and
things that you can learn and discover about yourself while house also helping build up our
community. You, um, we, we, none of us know how long we got and you deserve to live, not only
life too, it's fullest every second, but enjoy your life. And so much of this is, is, is really
geared towards helping you with that. I think if you did one or two of these things, it would
improve and, and, and you may have even a better day. I'll do wall squats during the break.
G's games. All right. And I'm going to touch a pusher. I'm going to remember what matters.
I wish you would just breathe. You know, yeah, that actually, the fact that you haven't in the
last 10 minutes has got me a little worried. It was something that I was, I really should have,
you know, worked on the workshop with you first. Yeah. Yeah. I should have just started in and out.
I have, uh, I have sleep apnea. So at times at night, I, I, I stopped breathing at night. And I,
I've, uh, slept next to a couple of different women that I did not tell this to beforehand. Oh,
God. Oh, that, did you get smacked? I've gotten smacked. I've gotten shaken, woken up. I've
gotten pushed out of a bed before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. We'll take a time up. Uh,
we're going to come back with a bunch of fun. We got entertainment news coming up for you in
the nine o'clock hour. We're also going to get into the 10 super bowl foods. Then bring good luck
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