Hour 1: It was pandemonium!

Well, good morning, everyone.

Seth, make some music.

Do some music.

Oh, thank you, Melissa.

Yeah, yeah.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

We're here.

The first time we've had to do this, yeah.

That was really good.

That was really good.

Thank you, Melissa.

I needed that.

I'm gonna be honest.

I have a little frustrated, a little angry over here.

And I needed that smile.

Thank you, Melissa.

Welcome to the show, everybody.

If you hadn't noticed,

our computer is acting up a little bit.

Our whole program's frozen right now, yeah.

Yeah, it will not let us stop the program.

Yeah, I don't know what's playing right.

Okay, nothing's playing right now.

No, no, no.

I got the board down just to case,

any commercials kicked in here.

Just to the jumps in when we're talking here, yeah.

We don't know how this next two hours is gonna go.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Now, it's in how it always is.

In fairness, yes, at your God, Melissa.

Yeah.

You poor thing is exactly what I was gonna say.

In fairness, we never know how this is gonna go.

That's true.

Very true.

A little more wild today.

Yeah, a little, a little crazy out there.

We, I just,

I have to tell you guys,

I'm on a coffee and I'm grumpy.

Oh, boy.

Oh, this is gonna be great.

Ooh, this is gonna be a really interesting show.

It's a normal Wednesday in other words.

It's what it is, yeah.

We've got good things lined up for you throughout the day

as much as we can be on the air.

We will try.

We're gonna try.

We're gonna figure it out.

We're streaming on the app for sure.

Oh, that's good to hear.

That's good to hear.

Yeah, that's very good to hear.

It's around the area.

And certainly gonna be taking care of our sponsors,

our great friends over at LKFA

with our birthday and anniversary club.

It's a Wednesday.

That means we gotta get our wicked awesome word of Wednesday

with our friends at Quality Plus printing.

We'll be getting that a little bit later in the hour.

All that coming up for you.

In the nine o'clock hour,

we're gonna talk a bit about the Super Bowl.

We've got some interesting notes on that one coming up for you.

Wanna get into some,

commercial prop bets,

prop bets and Taylor Swift prop bets are part of the,

part of the,

of course they are.

And of course they are.

How many people are betting on the Super Bowl

and who they're betting on?

Got some interesting stuff there for you.

Wanna get into the,

a percentage of us that wear sunscreen when we're shoveling.

Oh, oh.

Probably not enough of us.

Probably.

Yeah.

All that coming up for you.

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Okay, I'll keep going.

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We got to start here though, gang.

Okay.

I thought this was interesting.

It's a story.

Every once in a while I see content.

I'm like, it just screams Melissa Seth James.

No, it's easy.

This is what it is.

If you think about it,

is it a little strange that we apply deodorant

but only to a few small areas?

Do you ever feel like you need more coverage?

Maybe a lot more coverage.

Okay.

There are some products out there

that are whole body deodorants

and apparently they're catching on.

Searches for body deodorant

have increased 27% since last year.

And the hashtag full body deodorant on TikTok

has more than 23 million views.

Oh wow.

One expert says we're finding that people are struggling

with body odor in general.

Men, they're focusing around the chest

in private areas but for women it's under bras.

Some people take extra showers if they feel they needed.

Others use fragrances or even quote layer their clothes

to mess the odors.

Or they apply their usual deodorant to other areas

even if they weren't designed for that.

So the idea is that these new products

are safer and more effective to apply

through the rest of the body

unlike some of these other things.

All right.

Okay.

There's also a lot of talk about quote natural solutions

that don't require a special product.

But this is something that for one,

it is kind of funny to think of.

You know, we've got this whole big body

and we just put the odor at these two spots.

But that's it.

But we wear plenty of colognes

and all these things are perfumes and that.

I think we cover up our sense with a lot of stuff.

It's true.

Now, I also think that that's against evolution in some ways

just because our natural form of hormones

are what attracts our partners and everything.

And we're covering them up.

So we're actually doing the opposite

of what we really should be doing.

But regardless, I feel for this one.

I remember as a kid, we had very little

and there were times I went to school

and my clothes were dirty.

And I got made fun of for that

for having dirty clothes or for being smelly.

And I remember my dad, you know,

not complaining about crying to my dad,

but he's not crying crying.

But when I'm right about him,

I'm getting picked out of stuff.

He's like,

Jimmy, you don't want to be the smelly kid.

But there's always one smelly kid.

You don't want to be,

and it's this thing.

He's so supportive, so supportive.

That was it, by the way.

That was all the conversation.

There was nothing else to do.

But it's this thing that every kid gets picked

on about something.

And to be the, whether you're a kid in grade school,

you're a kid in a high school,

you're just an adult.

It's something that I think we all struggle with.

Yeah, right.

So the idea of this doesn't seem that bad of an idea.

I just don't want to see another ax body spray

like crates.

Oh god, no.

I don't want to see another one of those.

Please, no.

No.

High school locker rooms can't handle it.

No, no.

I don't know if my ear might, my nose.

I don't know if our ozone.

I don't know.

No, toxic waste dump, yeah.

I don't know if the single world can handle it.

Just, just as a side note, less is more, less is more.

Can we throw that out there?

Yeah, just because you can hold the can down,

let the button down and spray forever doesn't mean you shut it.

Yeah, yeah, you don't need to do that.

We don't need to smell you from three states away.

It's also bad anyway.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, they really are.

They really are.

Man, do you think that this is something that could catch on?

I mean, it certainly is on TikTok again.

23 million views on this.

Yeah, I, okay.

So I have a lot of feels about this.

Oh, okay, all right.

Because we, like you mentioned, James,

we do already have a lot of solutions for this.

I mean, scented lotion, there's essential oils.

That's what I use in my lotions

because they prefer unscented lotion

that I know what's in it.

And then I can add my own fragrance.

But the, we've had an ongoing deodorant conversation

for quite some time now

because there was worry about aluminum in deodorant

or antiperspirants and antiperspirants are bad.

And, you know, like your body is sweating for a reason,

it needs to sweat.

Right, right.

If you're not sweating, that's a problem.

Yeah, no kidding.

That is an issue, yeah.

Very good point.

So the thought of, like,

and what is this?

Like, is it the, you know, twist up stick deodorant?

I cannot imagine rubbing that all over my body.

I just can't not.

Oh, no, I do, though.

Now I'm imagining somebody just sitting there

looking at their stick at deodorant

and it's one of those, like,

oh, it's just a plain white,

the, you know, kind of over here in the bar.

And they're just staring at it, like,

I don't like you, you don't like me,

but we gotta work to do.

Yeah, Bob, you're awfully pale today.

Are you feeling okay?

No, it's my deodorant.

I smell great, though.

Yeah, yeah.

I smell great.

And so then you mentioned some of the other,

you know, natural things that we can do,

a big part of, I think, why people struggles,

at least some people struggle with,

with older issues is diet.

Mm, yeah, that's true.

That's true.

That's true.

Come out of our body in some form or another.

So, you know, maybe that is the number one spot

and to be honest, to be fair,

we all should look at our diet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's be honest.

We can assume so many processed foods.

And there's so many chemicals in those foods

and everybody is different

and it interacts with these things differently.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, that's why places like Marshville Clinic

are trying so hard to do these all for us studies

to try to advance medicine to be individualized

as opposed to once ice fits all.

Mm-hmm.

You got it.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm kind of curious to see where this goes.

We're, you know, companies are always gonna look

for new products to sell.

And with that, they're gonna, you know,

they're gonna try to find whatever we're gonna buy.

And if this is something that the society calls for,

we're gonna see a lot more of it.

Yeah.

I'm just curious about the delivery service.

Like the way that, like we have,

we talked about the aerosol,

we talked about the old school kind of,

just, you know, push up deodorant.

Right, right.

What version would they have for a full body?

Something you just walk into?

Yeah.

Is it an aerosol like room that you,

like you just, like that, like you see in the sci-fi movies

where the, the machine, they walk into the room

and it sprays them.

Yeah, right, right.

They don't have any disease already.

They're like, I'm really curious where this goes.

And I think that one thing that, you know,

can come from this, that I'm looking to do

with every opportunity I can.

I don't care if it gets old.

The fact that we have this in common,

like everybody, everybody smells sometimes.

Yeah, exactly.

Where's that book?

Everybody smells.

Everybody smells.

It's so do you.

It's the best-selling children's book ever.

Yeah.

I'm curious.

It should be, it should be.

Let's take a call before we go to break.

Good morning, what's on your mind?

So this whole conversation has me thinking

of the brand Loomy.

Oh, okay.

That was the first one that we have.

Yep, they have a deodorant in a tube

that is meant to go all over your body.

And it does not have antiperspirants,

but it has deodorants.

Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

Cover the smell.

You're still sweating.

Yeah, of course, yeah.

It doesn't think is that.

What do you think?

So like any deodorants that have those kinds

of ingredients, theoretically,

you could kind of put anywhere.

And conversional note, I do.

Oh, that's awesome.

Thank you for the call.

We appreciate it.

Great stuff.

Thank you so much.

They have a great day.

Best listeners in radio.

Yeah, yeah.

I want to see where our board is.

Do we have anything yet?

Nothing?

Nothing there yet, okay.

I'm still waiting to hear in this one.

I don't know about anybody else,

but now I'm starting to wonder,

are we just expected to talk like the whole time, old boy?

The next two hours, no breaks.

We're just talking, but next to it.

I feel sorry for our audience.

That's all I'm going to say, man.

They need some breaks in there.

So we need our local businesses to call in

and do their own commercial side.

Yeah, hey, we just might.

We just might.

If I don't hear from our soon enough,

we might do a reboot on the air.

Reboot the computer here.

Maybe we should just a little experiment.

I mean, it's, it's, it's, but hey,

if we, if we call IT, what are they going to tell us to do?

Yeah, reboot it.

Did you try it?

Did you try it?

Turning it on and turning it back up.

Plugging it, plug it up.

That's it.

Yeah, that's what today's is.

Yeah, we've come so far as a society.

Yeah.

Think about the things we have done,

not just going to the depths of the ocean,

but to the deepest aspects of space in the same ways.

Yeah.

We have cured diseases.

We have made it through a pandemic.

It is incredible.

And yet we still, at the end of the day,

when it comes to technology,

the greatest idea we have is turning it off.

Turn it back on.

Yeah, that's it, man.

That's all we got.

Oh, I love it.

So let's go ahead.

Let's try to take a break here.

I don't know what's going to, I mean, I want to,

but I don't even think that anything's playing.

No, I wonder if, like if we wait for like a couple,

like a, like till about 19, 19 after something like that,

we're going to switch over.

I think that might happen.

Boy, there's something one more minute.

Yeah.

And here's something that I'm guilty of.

When, when something's not working,

I can leave it alone.

I can be patient, but you give it a couple of minutes

and it's still not working.

I'm the guy that keeps, keeps pressing, keeps trying.

And there's always somebody next to me saying,

go, don't do that.

Quick push it.

You're just going to make it worse.

So we'll see.

We'll see if, what's going to happen with that.

You can you stop pushing my buttons?

Yeah, I'm just going to do my thing.

I'll push my button.

God, it's probably back there a little bit.

Yep, 19 after and nothing.

We got nothing.

Still nothing.

Oh, darn, let's see.

I tried, I tried to put that in.

Yeah, here's, here's some.

We're thinking about it.

Yeah.

All right, let's go ahead.

We're going to, we're going to take a quick break.

It might be silence.

So I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, we'll see.

We've got to try to figure this out.

We can try some hotkeys.

Those, I think those will still work.

Maybe we can just play some bumpies.

Let's see, let's see if the hotkeys work.

My pebby said something.

That was it.

I was drinking if you don't know.

OK, so the hotkeys work.

Great.

Great.

We got something that works, man.

There's a little thing.

Great.

Yes.

Great.

Oh, man.

Let's go ahead and go right into art.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends

at Elle Cafe.

We say in a big shout out to our friends over at Elle Cafe,

our new sponsors of the birthday and anniversary club,

I believe you guys were over there the other day.

Yesterday.

We were there yesterday.

We were there yesterday.

Awesome.

Yeah.

It's one service.

The food was amazing.

Oh, my goodness.

That chicken noodle soup or chicken dumplings.

I want to go back today, but it was that good for our way.

And they close it too.

Yeah.

You might not make it.

Yeah, right.

You say good morning to our friends over there at Elle Cafe.

Encourage you to follow along on their Facebook page

to update it all the time, reading right from there.

Good morning and happy Wednesday.

We are halfway through the week again

and only one week away from Valentine's Day.

Come join us for breakfast or lunch.

We can't wait to see you in your smiling faces.

You got a breakfast special, a corn beef and hash

over right now over there.

Oh, two eggs, potato or fruit, toaster cakes.

God, that sounds good.

I know, they're lunch specials of the steak.

They're supposed for breakfast.

A steak fajita wrap.

That sounds really good, too.

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

Their wraps are awesome over there.

You've had toast.

I've had frustration for breakfast, Melissa.

I hear you.

I hear you.

They got much better stuff over it.

Does that leave a bitter taste in your mouth?

It does.

It's so bitter.

Yeah, so bitter.

They got much better food over at Elle Cafe.

Go visit them.

They're right there at 221 Market Avenue.

Beautiful port edwards.

Wish them a good morning from all of us at WFHR.

And get us those birthdays.

It's easy to find.

They have signs up everywhere.

They do.

You can't miss it.

Yeah.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries of everybody.

We want to celebrate with you because at the beginning of every month, we're going to

pull winners and that winner or winners from the anniversary or birthday will be able

to go over to Elle Cafe and get $2.20 gift certificates.

All right.

That is a nice gift.

So worth it.

So worth it.

Yeah, it is.

Really appreciate our friends over at Elle Cafe and can encourage you to and appreciate

you to celebrate those birthdays with us.

Get them to us.

Info at WFHR.com, James.mailup at civic media.us.

And of course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.

And listen to us on the civic media app and use that app to get a hold of us right now.

You can call up and wish your happy birthday or anniversary live on air.

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All right.

Let's see here.

Let's hear off tomorrow.

So give me a one or a two, Mel.

How about one?

Perfect.

We got ourselves our qualifier.

We can first up wish Happy Birthday to Tara Cook.

Happy Birthday, Tara.

Happy Birthday, Tara.

Enjoy your day, Tara.

I hope it's a great one for you.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Kathy Wenger.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Wishing you the best of days, Kathy.

Enjoy.

We hope you have a great one.

We hope everybody celebrating a birthday or anniversary out there has a great day.

And they have some amazing looking pies over there at Elle Cafe.

I must say.

They do.

They do.

They had too much food.

I couldn't have any pies.

I know what I wasn't so full for my shit and I got in the soup.

Although the soup was amazing too, though.

You know, such a quandary.

This is why I don't even bother with dinner or lunch and I just go right to the dessert.

I go right to the dessert.

You should do that first.

Yeah, you're right.

You should be regretting.

You should be regretting.

Yeah, right.

You got to think.

I'll think your food.

I'll think your food.

I'll think your food.

With barbecue sauce and avocado.

Yeah.

I'm ridiculous.

Don't pay attention to me.

Please, though.

I don't.

Oh, yeah.

It's a good idea.

It's really good.

I'm taking a look at our celebrity list.

And Wall is 39, Karen Page on Netflix's Daredevil in the Punisher series.

She is being brought back for the Daredevil Reborn series.

Just so awesome.

She's great.

By the way, she's also a gigantic D&D fan and a dungeon master of note.

Oh, cool.

She's done a lot of celebrity D&D games.

Yeah, she's really good.

I saw her in true blood.

I watched her for the first couple of weeks.

Oh, that's right.

That's where she got her break.

Yeah, that's why I forgot she was on there.

Yeah, yeah.

Good actor.

Good.

Ashton Koocher is 46.

Many people.

I mean, has anybody thought about him in ages, really?

He's one of these guys just kind of disappeared.

And for a lot of reasons, I think.

Yeah.

But that's 70's show and some other stuff there.

Yeah, yeah.

One of the greatest point guards of all time.

Steve Nash is 50 today.

NBA Hall of Famer also coached Brooklyn.

And that's for a little bit.

And then decided to wait a minute.

Why am I doing this?

I'm a Hall of Famer.

I don't have to do this anymore.

One of my favorite players I ever saw.

Steve Nash was awesome.

Yeah.

The Phoenix team with him and Shaq.

Shaq was, you know, kind of towards the end of his career.

It was career, yeah.

But it was fun to watch those two play together.

Two of the all-time greats, yeah.

One of my favorite things about the point guard position

is these guys that can see the whole court.

And even when they're not looking at you, know you're there.

Because they know their players so well.

The thing that gets lost in the shuffle with like,

because Nash would do this a little bit too.

Magic Johnson would do his no-look passes.

Like that looked cool.

And it was awesome.

And Magic's big, old, beautiful smile right there was cool.

But he was able to do that because he knew

and all the practices that James Worthy

was going to be right there.

And he knew where his guys were going to be.

Right.

Steve Nash, knowing where your guys are going to be

before they're there, it's something a good quarterback does.

Yeah.

When he throws the ball and he knows the receiver is going to

meet the ball there.

It's the same thing with point guard.

Yeah.

And Nash and some of these guys are incredible at it.

Yes, indeed.

Sully Urna is 56 lead singer and songwriter for God's Mac.

Oh, wow.

Incredibly talented human.

Yes, because they got to see them.

Haven't heard of God's Mac in a while.

I was never been thinking about him.

Yeah.

That brought back some memories for some of us.

Got to see them at the second or third odds fest.

And they were good.

They did a good job.

But Sully was doing like he was kind of like standing out

among the other guys.

Right.

And at one point they go into a solo.

And like every each member, the drummer, the guitarist, the bassist, everybody leaves.

And he goes around from every instrument and does a solo on every instrument.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

And it was awesome.

It was very, and he didn't just like play the drums.

Like Mary had a little glam or something.

Like he was going to town on those things.

Although that had been even better at osmosis.

That would have been hilarious.

Yeah.

You know, Sully doing Mary had a little lab on the drums.

I'd like to hear that.

Also side note, I like the name Sully as a nickname for Salvatore.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Love that name.

Yeah.

Two of the funniest, greatest comedians I have ever seen celebrating birthdays.

Chris Rock is 59 today.

Incredibly intelligent comedian.

Yes.

Bringing, I think keeping George Carlin's spirit of smart comedy alive.

Chris Rock is the guy that has so many great one liners.

But you dig a little deeper.

And you're like, oh, there's some truth there.

Yeah.

Oh, there's some fact there and everything.

And I've always liked that about him.

You know, he's done his share of acting and everything.

And he's done okay.

But man, he's a stand-up guy through and through.

And that is his main gig.

Yep.

And Eddie Isert is 62 today.

Speaking of stand-up comics.

British comedian who played Master Thief Roman in the Ocean's 12

and Ocean's 13 movies.

Eddie is famous for a lot of reasons.

Want a stand-up comedian comedy and doing his accent drag.

But he's also, I don't know.

I think he's maybe the most out of the comedians I've seen live.

I think he might be the best.

Oh, wow.

And I mean on a skill level.

Eddie Isert always wanted to be an actor.

And always wanted to work with another.

And when he started doing stand-up comedy, he wanted to be Laurel and Hardy.

He wanted to have a partner.

Oh, wow.

But he never could find anybody.

Didn't have anybody.

So he started doing it.

He would have the mic on one side start talking.

And then he would go on the left side and start talking.

And then go on the right side.

Now you see a lot of people doing that nowadays.

Eddie Isert perfected that.

Eddie Isert made that popular, famous, and made a lot of other things pretty interesting and popular.

Yeah.

And just everything I was saying about Chris Rock is the same thing about Eddie Isert.

Very smart comedy.

Very smart.

I'm from England where the history comes from.

This is so good.

If you want to smile today, look up Eddie Isert cake or death.

Cake or death.

If you don't laugh at that sketch, then I don't understand you.

You don't know funny.

You don't know funny.

And I got to see him live and just gave one of the greatest live performances I've ever seen of anything.

Eddie Isert was incredible.

I got to see him at the United Center too.

I got to see all the banners up and everything was cool.

And happy 60 second birthday to one of the kings of music, Garth Brooks.

Oh, yes.

I didn't say country music.

I said music in general.

You are so right.

And man has earned that status.

Yes.

Well, the all time greats.

I don't know if you can go anywhere in the world and people don't know who Garth Brooks is or at least have at least heard his name.

Or don't automatically think of a cowboy hat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ah, that's a good point.

And completely changed the game of country.

Not just himself, along with Clint Black, George Strait, a lot of that class of his.

But he was the most visible person of that group and had the most success by far.

He's the best selling solo artist in history, according to his own website.

Well, he's second.

It's Elvis and then Garth Brooks.

Yes.

That's the list.

Because Elvis had a head start.

That's incredible.

I mean, that's just incredible.

Seth and I were talking the other day about sports stats that will chamberlains on all of them.

Elvis.

He's on his own list.

He's on his own list.

Yeah.

That's something.

One of the most versatile careers and actors I've seen, James Spader is 64.

Yeah.

You think James Spader, like, okay, James Spader.

He's a good actor.

He's died a good career in everything.

Oh, think about this.

James Spader has been around for four decades doing this.

Three or four decades.

Yeah.

He was considered part, he was like one of the ancillary of the Brad Pack.

He wasn't considered like a main part of it, but he was in that era, that generation of actors.

And he has had quite a career, I gotta say.

He's had a better career than most of the rest of the Brad Pack.

I think you're right.

I think that some of them, like Emilio not working as much anymore.

And that kind of thing is played into it a little bit.

But it's hard to say that anybody's had a better or at least a longer career in a more, you know, than James Spader.

Very career.

He's done so many different things too.

He's been very versatile, but, you know, at the only movie for me is the original Stargate.

Ah, good one.

I knew it was coming up.

He is the original Daniel Jackson.

I don't like his performance as much as, and of course I'm not going to remember his name.

Kurt Russell.

No, no, the one that played Daniel Jackson in the...

Oh, the series?

Oh, yeah, I didn't see the series.

Not me neither.

Oh.

You're on your own on that one, was it?

Well, that doesn't happen very often.

No, it does.

That's something Melissa saw that we didn't see.

Michael Shanks.

Oh, yeah, good actor.

He played Daniel Jackson in the TV series.

That was a good actor.

Robert Smigel is 64.

He is Triumph, the insult comic dog.

He is also one of the legends of 30 Rock.

One of the main writers at 30 Rock for many of the sketches.

All of us grew up loving and enjoying.

Maybe Tutsus.

Yeah.

Tutsus driving cat.

Tutsus, the driving cat is one of my top five favorite sketches of all time.

It's one of the dumbest.

It's one of my top five.

Oh, God, I got to go watch that.

I got to go watch it tonight.

Yeah, Robert Smigel, incredibly funny comedian and writer.

Let's see here.

And some people no longer with us.

Like Miguel Ferreira, born in 1955 assistant director Owen Granger on NCIS Los Angeles.

Just passed away just a little bit ago in 2017.

And Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in 1867, passed away in 1957.

Children's author, Little House on the Prairie.

That's right.

Melissa Gilbert played her on the show.

She did indeed.

And Charles Dickens, born in the state, 1812, passed away in 1870.

Wow, a couple of great authors, couple of great comedians.

It's a big day.

Another of the holiday classics of Christmas Carol, the British rock band, Your Eye Heap,

is named after one of his David Copperfield characters.

That's right.

I don't know why that's noteworthy.

But I just say.

Yeah, why not?

Look, the knowledge I have is all classic rock, everybody.

Okay.

You did it for so long.

That's where all your knowledge base comes from, man.

Some great ones right there.

And some great birthdays right here.

Again, a happy birthday to Tara.

Happy birthday, Tara.

Happy birthday, Tara.

Enjoy your day, Tara Cook.

And a happy birthday to a qualifier.

Kathy Wenger.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Congratulations.

Wishing you a great day, Kathy.

We encourage you and everybody to enjoy yourselves over at Elle Cafe.

They're open right now.

Head on by at 221 Market Avenue in Port Edwards.

Wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.

Okay.

And this is where I would go to the news.

This is where I would go to go news.

Take a break to get news.

My poor voice.

Just a little bit of a break.

Just a little bit of a break.

Just a little bit of a break.

Can we please?

Please.

No.

So I got an idea here.

But we're going to have to switch chairs.

We'll switch chairs.

We'll do that.

Maybe Melissa can talk for a little bit.

Sure.

I can talk.

What shall I talk about?

You go right ahead, Melissa.

If you want otherwise, you feel free to be quiet.

Yeah, that's all right.

We've got silence.

We've got silence.

We're going to do a little experiment here.

Ooh, experimentation over there in the studio happening in Wisconsin Rapids right now.

You can drive by and look in the window and watch them do this experiment.

It's the amazing chair changing happening over at WFHR Studios.

I turn my mic on, so I'm over at the second chair now, Melissa.

And this is really weird.

You sound different.

Yeah, and I'm not sure how I feel about being over here.

I'm not sure if I like this or not.

Have you been demoted or promoted?

That's a good question.

Because I feel like being over here, you get to just have fun.

I don't feel like you have to do as much.

Over there, I'm running the board.

I'm trying to keep things on time to keep things like what's happening right now from happening.

Well, you know, you only have so much control over things in life, James.

Yeah.

Sometimes you have to let go.

One of the toughest things I think to do in life is to do that to let go.

That's true.

To just kind of like, you know what?

Hey, this is what happened.

It is what it is.

I think it's a phrase that a lot of people get tired of, but it's all we got sometimes.

It really is.

Sometimes it really fits.

We're good.

Seth fixed it.

Nicely done, Seth.

Nice job, Seth.

Seth did it with the mastermind move of Reef restarting it.

That worked.

It worked.

That worked everybody.

That's hilarious.

We're going to go to our state local news right now.

We'll come back, have some fun.

And we'll be joined by our friends with quality post printing soon with our Wicked

Us Word of Winds day right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're having a great start to your Wednesday out there.

Happy hump day, everybody.

Yeah.

We're going to be celebrating with our good friends of quality post printing, getting your words

out here in Wisconsin Rapids.

They'll be joining us any moment now looking forward to that.

Let's dive into a quick one here.

When you're heading out to shovel the driveway, now shoveling everybody is this thing we

used to do when we got snow.

Back in our day.

Back in the day.

You need proper footwear, gloves, maybe a hat to cover your head.

Oh, and don't forget to leather up the Hawaiian topic sunscreen.

A recent survey by the American Academy of Dermatology found that only 4% of people wear

sunscreen while shoveling snow.

And if that sounds strange to you, you may be among the 20% of people who don't realize

you can get sunburn during the winter.

In fact, it's fairly common because snow reflects the sun's UV rays just like water

in sand.

The problem is it's just sunburns.

UV rays can permanently age your skin and increase your risk of skin cancer.

And UV rays are out there year round, even on cloudy days.

That's right.

Dermatologist recommend you apply sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher whenever you spend

time outside and cover all skin, not bundled over you by winter coats, mittens, and snow

pants.

And moon boots.

They don't mention moon boots.

They should mention moon boots.

All moon boots.

I am going to back off of this topic because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

I've never used sunscreen.

I've just like in the last, literally last summer was the first time I've ever put sunscreen

on.

Wow.

And I don't know that I have Mediterranean skin.

I don't have, there's not a lot of advantages of being a mixed kid.

But one of them is I've never sunburned until like all of a sudden I've had, I have not

sunburned.

But I've realized, oh, my skin's getting a lot more tender from this.

And it's not just about what we can see, but what these rays are doing that we can't

see.

Right.

Well, it wasn't that long ago when they were recommending what SPF 15.

Now it's 30 and that I'll tell you how much, you know, stronger this is getting.

So I mean, and it's also important to do your research on what sunscreen you're buying.

Yes, 100%.

And there are some brands that are better than others and some that don't do anything.

Don't really, yeah, don't do anything.

And please don't ever do the tanning, what they call, used to call sun tanning, lotion

or oil, which was actually make it worse.

Oh, really?

Yeah, because it was supposed to make you, you know, darker or whatever and that kind

of thing.

So it actually soaked up more rays.

It's like not anymore.

You do not want to do that.

Yeah, not if you don't, you know, it's cancer, yeah.

In a country that we make color of our skin, such a big thing throughout our history.

Can we just laugh at the fact that of white people, why did you get darker?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, can we just, can we just say, like, there's nothing funny about racism, obviously.

No, I hope that goes without saying.

But there is something funny about white people going into tanning booths for brands.

It's like, purposely like that's still happening.

Well, what's funnier to be is what I would have, some of the racist people I've known

to do this.

And like, it's just like, you have no idea what like the hypocrisy that you're created

right here.

Yeah.

And so as they're talking about, you guys just met throughout some numbers here, like

SPF for 30, 15, whatever.

So I'm guessing the higher the, the more the higher it is, the stronger the better.

Yeah.

Is there an average number that when you were, so here's what I want to do, because you

guys have been using, I'm guessing, I'm sorry, I should ask, I haven't been using sun tan

lotion your whole lives.

More or less.

Yeah.

Okay.

So when you first started, when your kids and your mom and dad or somebody's putting it on

you, what were the, what were the levels then?

I have no idea.

Okay.

Yeah.

The only one I can remember is like, I think I remember like, like 10 and 5.

It was low.

Yeah.

At some time, I think in the 90s is when they started saying, you know, they started doing

the UV ray thing and they're like, no, no, 15, you need at least 15 on there.

So I remember when we heard that, my parents switched over to that.

Sometimes we'd have, you know, depending on if we were like, you know, in the South

with the sun is stronger, you know, you would have a little bit stronger, that kind of

thing.

So, but yeah.

So yeah, we were always, because, you know, about pale minisotans in northern Minnesota,

we got to put something on.

Pretty pale.

Yeah.

I always buy at least SPF 50, honestly, like why, why mess around?

Get the good stuff.

I was going to air.

I was going to, I was going to ask off air, because I felt a little silly, but I'm

like, well, why, if they, if they come in stronger levels, why not just go stronger?

You know, that makes sense.

It does.

That's not a bad question.

I don't feel as silly now.

No, you're right.

You're good.

Interesting.

Interesting.

I don't even know if they make 15 anymore, do they?

I'm not sure they do, but it doesn't really, it doesn't do as much as they thought.

Well, I mean, if you're just going outside for a walk, you know, maybe like as a daily,

I think in like women's moisturizing and men's moisturizing lotion for your face, you can

get stuff with just SPF 15 in it automatically.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, this is something that actually, and I, I've always felt a little silly because my

eyes are light sensitive, and in the, in the winter, it can be almost worse than in the

summer with the, the sun reflecting off of the snow.

So I wear sunglasses year round, and there's plenty of times where I felt kind of silly

wearing sunglasses and winter.

This doesn't make me feel as bad, is this the thing?

No, I think, I think you're, I think you're fine with that too.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think you're fine with the sun's out, man.

Where's sunglasses?

I do.

And so the wind, and I'm trying to look at our forecast here, when we're going to get

snow again, when we're going to get snow again, well, when it does happen, when you go

out there, in your moon boots, in your snow suit, in your, in your sunscreen, with your

scarf, I heard you're supposed to know, in your scarf, I can put some sunscreen on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sunscreen is a year round thing.

We got to take a break.

Back have some more fun.

And the morning show here at WFHR, we are locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you, thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Looking forward to being joined by our friends from Claudia Puss printing, any moment now?

Let's dive into this one that we'll have to dive out of and then dive back into what's

Phil calls Valentine's Day is a week out.

So if you don't know what you're buying your sweetheart, you might want to get on that.

We already know what we're buying ourselves, though.

Really?

Yeah.

Okay.

According to a poll by CandyStore.com, 47% of Americans, 47% of Americans will buy themselves

some chocolate for Valentine's Day.

They also looked at the most popular Valentine's candy in all 50 states.

And as usual, two types dominated.

Going a little bit farther into this, most people that, whether they are single or not,

are going to be buying themselves some Valentine's candy or something like that.

That's cool.

That's an excuse to buy candy.

It's just, yeah.

Yeah.

Chocolate.

And wait until the 15th, man.

Wait until it's bad.

I think you want to go sunset.

Yeah, right.

You're already waiting.

It doesn't matter if it's on the day and stuff.

Yeah.

Right.

So taking a look at this list of the most popular Valentine's candy in all 50 states.

Oh, excuse me.

Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate.

They're number one in 14 states and also in DC.

All right.

Ah, those boxes.

They're not worth it.

There's so much empty space in there.

There's a lot of empty space in there.

That's very true.

Yeah.

The legendary classic conversation hearts, 13 states have those.

Some of those have gotten really fun.

They really have.

Yeah.

Then more clever.

They'll represent 10 of all the candy sold.

10%.

I'm sorry.

They'll represent 10% of all the candy sold.

Wow.

Really?

Those things.

They don't taste that great.

No, no, no.

They'll be candy.

They're just fun.

They are.

They are the top bubble gum of these candies where we look.

They love them and they're nothing but we, what we're tasting is nostalgia.

Right.

That's a lot of bubble rama.

Yeah.

Yes, yes.

They were just being kids.

They're, but did anybody else search and search for a heart to give to somebody because

I did.

Oh, I did.

Got to find the right one.

And she ate it.

And then you touched them all.

Oh.

It's sixth grade.

I think it was Barb.

I think it was.

No, no, it wasn't Barb.

It was somebody else.