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Hour 1: Happy National Radio Day!

Mornings with WFHR · Tue Feb 13, 2024

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.

804 in the clock. Got your host, James J. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning.

In studio. Yes. Are you choking over there? It got me all emotional, Melissa. I'm sorry. I'm just, it's just so good to have you.

Let's go to Britney, Britney with her weather, everybody. I'll be all emotional over. Hey, Britney, how you doing?

I'm gonna give it a bit things she's there because choking. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That would be my luck that I would actually, I wouldn't have you in studio.

And I start choking. That would be my luck. Thankfully, I'm okay. And we're okay to take the weather.

I'm pretty a little bit cloudy out there right now. What is it looking like on your end?

Yeah, it's definitely going to be cloudy for most of today. We could see some pockets of sunshine.

But here in Warsaw, we're seeing some flurry flying around and into the north woods over towards the green bay as well.

So it's nice to see a little winter in the sky, but no major accumulations expected with that one.

We're just a little trace. You could see a few flurry flying down there later, but again, not much to expect with it.

We will hit temperatures in the mid-30s today. So a little bit cooler than yesterday. We've got winds pulling out of the north.

But tomorrow, they'll shift out of the south and we'll go back into the mid-40s.

But we're stuck under cloudy skies because of that system that is going to strike tomorrow night and two-thirds day morning.

So if you have late night, valentines day plans to keep in mind, we do have a wintry mix pushing in through the late, late, late hours.

It looks like they're getting hit by a pretty heavy snowstorm over out east. Is that going to hit us at all or affect us at all eventually?

So the one out east?

Yeah, yeah.

That one's good. That's gone.

I was home from like five to eight inches.

Is it bad that I want snow?

I'm sorry, listen. I'm sorry.

I apologize. I'm 100% with you Mel. You ain't a load on that one. No.

Yeah, I agree with you.

You have another chance for some snow as we go into the weekend. A new model run just wanted to push it up here towards us as well.

So maybe we'll get two shots of light snow, which would accumulate to maybe like a decent storm, right?

It would just be nice to have, you know, white cover in the ground.

It's a winner like for reals people.

I'm dreaming of the white valentines.

It's brown, James, it's brown.

I don't think that song works. I don't think that.

If it could just be snow, not rain.

Yes, yeah.

I agree with you.

We appreciate your Brittany. Enjoy the day and enjoy World Radio Day.

It's World Radio Day.

Yes, enjoy.

Happy World Radio Day.

Glad to work with you, Brett.

Yes, very glad to have a great day.

You as well. Thanks guys.

Best there is, Brittany Brett there joining us.

We'll join us every morning with our forecast.

And looking at today, we got some good stuff lined up, Melissa.

We'll get into the LCAP birthday anniversary club in a little bit.

We're also, we're going to have something from Ziploc

about reusing their bags.

Oh, that should be interesting.

Who's a bigger baby being sick?

Men or women?

Man, I mean, that's easy.

I'm sorry to ruin the sun segment, but I mean, it's bad.

That's pretty easy.

But we'll get into it in a little bit later.

You pick this topic.

I know, yeah.

The top seven things we're buying for valentines today.

That's coming up as well.

John Stewart getting back to the daily show.

Dr. Dre and Snoop have something new that you could try.

We have some last, kind of a last few things from the Super Bowl.

A couple of random facts from it.

And the actual data of how much time CBS allocated to showing

Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl.

You're going to go through that.

We're going to go through it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to have some fun with that one.

Gathered by a Reddit user.

It's going to be fun, I think.

But right now, yes, it is as we told Brittany there.

It is World Radio Day.

Let's start right there with the medium that we're working in.

Oh, hey.

Hello, Radio.

Happy, Radio Day.

Everybody out there.

This is a real thing.

The United Nations made an official holiday back in 2012.

This year's theme is celebrating over a century of radio.

Helping to inform, entertain, and educate.

All around a long time.

All things aside, Radio really did change the world.

It is over 80% of Americans every single week.

80%

Name me a medium that does that.

Name me how many that do that.

The first commercial radio broadcast was over 100 years ago.

And November 2nd, 1920.

Now there are over 15,000 radio stations in the US alone.

Just in the US.

A poll a few years ago ranked the radio that radio as the 11th most important

invention of all time.

The top three vote getters were electricity, phones, and vaccines.

Pretty good list to be a part of.

Yeah.

And to your point of list you something that reaches that many people.

Obviously we think the internet.

But not if you look at rural America.

Yeah.

And they haven't replaced that yet.

If you have to get, we don't need to do what ifs.

We just had this a couple of years ago.

If you need to reach people with a trusted news source.

And you need to hit as many people as you can.

What are you going to go to?

The internet or radio?

You're going to go to radio.

That's not me just saying that.

We just had evidence of it during the pandemic.

And it's not one or the other necessarily.

They both go hand in hand.

We need them both.

But we also need radio.

The Model T came out in 1908.

But cars didn't get radios until the 1930s.

The first ones cost around 130 bucks.

Which is like $2,300.

That's an upgrade to your vehicle.

You got to have some bucks for it.

Honey, we're getting a radio.

We're rich.

The call letters that you knew you were rich

if you had a radio apparently.

Yeah.

The call letters for stations in the US

have to start with a K or a W.

It's a military thing from the 1910s.

I didn't know that.

In general, stations west of the Mississippi

start with a K.

Most stations in Canada start with a C.

Well, that makes sense.

C for Canada.

One in five people say listening to the radio

is a top little thing they look forward to.

Hearing your favorite song played

ranked fifth on a list of nice things

that can happen on any given day.

Brighten your day.

Take the win.

A poll found 9% of people wish we'd play more commercials

which is odd.

And maybe a little insulting.

I don't know.

Our commercials in radio promote our local businesses

and our local sponsors.

There are partners in this.

I know.

I'm going to take some shots for this.

Nobody does commercials better than radio.

Nobody does commercials better.

We are forced without the visual medium

to work with our imaginations

and to push the envelope of what we're going to do

and how to get you.

And I guarantee you

that when you were young and listening to radio

there was probably a commercial that made you laugh or you liked.

And as an adult there's probably a commercial

that makes you laugh or you like.

Like that's the creativity of radio.

Or one that sticks in your head

and plays on an endless loop.

Yes.

I'm not going to say it.

Everybody had the same song on top of their head.

Sorry.

You're welcome.

Broadcasting was originally a farming term.

Broadcast seating is when you scatter

seeds in a wider pattern than normal.

Around a third of dog owners

have used the radio to keep their dog company when they're gone.

I've done that with...

You mentioned it several times, dog radio.

We got to get that going.

We got to kick that off the ground.

A recent poll of more than 1,000 radio hosts

found that the top reasons we do this

is it's a whole lot of fun.

Although 50% also agree with the statement.

It's the only thing I know how to do.

Or what it's what I do best.

Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

I also think, though,

that that's the thing about radio

that is one of the biggest game changes in radio

is stations like R's evolving.

For ever, we had the same voices on radio.

It was a voice club for one thing.

And it was...

You had to do a certain radio a certain way.

You had to have a certain voice.

And you had to treat the audience a certain way.

You couldn't be completely honest.

You didn't want to show them behind the curtain.

And you had to talk like this.

Please stop that.

Yeah, I can't do it too long, it hurts.

But it was impressive.

And it was a throwback to the old days of radio.

It's the way it used to be.

And we realized throughout time here,

over the last, I'd say,

10, 15 years.

Thanks to some bigger names out there

and some people popularizing it.

That this is the way you reach people.

Talking yourself.

Talking real.

Normal.

Talk about yourself.

Talk about things that everybody is experiencing.

It doesn't seem like the biggest of a shift.

But it is huge.

And I believe that it is part of the reason

why radio is still trusted.

And why during the pandemic,

so many people relied on stations like R's.

Because we're real with you.

We're not being fake.

We're not giving you something.

We're right here.

Well, I do think that internet

and other things do give you this,

you know, ability.

Radio and like anything else can do local.

What can we do that no other station

in the market can do?

That no other station in our area can do

or anything like that?

We can give you rapids.

We can give you central Wisconsin.

We can give you this to nobody else.

We have the local connections to bring the people in

that you want to hear,

what about our new stations?

They're in, you got two in Warsaw

for, I don't know what reason.

And you've got, you've got another one.

They never even pay attention to rapids.

They don't even pay attention to Nukusa.

Unless there's a fire.

Yeah, let's do something.

If there's a fire or if there's a police incident,

then sure, they were on the news.

Otherwise, it'll report on us.

So that's where WFHR come in eight years.

Good things that happen in the community that

we want to highlight and talk about.

What do you focus on as the negative?

Guess what? You think that everything's negative?

Yeah. But it's not.

And we know that we have so many positive guests

and positive happenings that go on here,

that we just, we don't want to highlight.

I also think as one last thing,

just the technology is,

has been normalized.

And I understand why it's been around a very long time.

But I don't want to ever make it, you know,

so uncommon to people that we don't know what we're actually doing here.

These are, you're hearing us because of radio waves.

Throwing our voices into the air

and it's being captured.

Like, I obviously do not understand the technology behind this.

But it's being captured by the device that you have.

And then, you know, like,

translated into sound.

Yeah. That is so cool.

It's a pretty amazing thing.

Yes.

So those sound waves are,

we can do all this thanks to a transmitter.

And we send it from one transmitter to the next,

these sound waves.

And they collect, they bounce,

and they collect, and then they're pushed through to the radio.

And it's something,

it's a process that we've been doing since the 1890s.

We eventually,

perfected and eventually got it down to around 1910s.

When we first started 1900s,

1910s somewhere around there.

First radio stations created.

That wasn't that long ago in the scheme of things.

No.

And it's still pretty,

it's pretty amazing.

We were able to figure this out.

If I broke the news today,

hey, we figured this out in 2024.

We'd all be amazed by it.

Like, the fact that we did this 100 some years ago,

it cannot be normalized.

That's awesome.

And, and for,

we are very, very appreciative to Chuck DeNarell

for understanding the transmitter

and all of those things,

and keeping us on the air.

Would you want

dog radio for an hour a day?

And if you did, what would you want on it?

Yeah.

715-424-2600.

Call us up and tell us what your dogs want to hear

on dog radio.

One touch away of the Civic Media app.

Melissa and I, we've been working out this everybody,

and it's gonna happen.

We're gonna make it happen one day, really.

It's our next big get.

James is perfecting his dog speech.

But, but you know, we got to protect his voice also.

Yes, yes, yes.

It's an important asset you have in this, this medium

that you work in.

Although, you know, we have talked about, about expanding

into the, the visual era as well.

As we mentioned yesterday.

And, um, I know that that's something that would be fun

for us to do.

And then you'll get to see Britney too.

You actually got to see her on the Pat Crate show this morning.

And, you know, it's fun to, to talk in person

and see each other too.

Because I think you have this perception of what,

what a person looks like based on the voice.

And a lot of times it is,

nothing like what they look like in real life.

I'm so glad you said that.

I hadn't had to happen in years.

And then I was at the River Kings game last Friday.

I'm running into some people I haven't seen in a while.

And then I run into a listener or a new listener who has not heard us before.

And I haven't talked to it before.

It comes up to me, oh, you're James.

Hey, love what you do.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Oh, wow.

Oh, you don't sound like you look.

And I have no idea how to take it.

And it's always said very vanilla.

Like, you can't read like, what do they mean?

Do they mean it? Is it a positive? Is it a negative?

You can't read. It's just, oh, it's, yep.

I think you're right. I think having a visual to the,

to, uh, to the audio is going to be fun.

Yeah, I know. It is fun.

Can we just wait until after my show is done

so that I can dye my hair back?

I'm, I'm looking older.

So I'm, I'm graying my hair.

We, we will do that.

We will fit it, we'll fit it right in on the time slot.

The, in fact, you know what, we'll both do it.

We'll, for both of us. I'm definitely getting a lot of gray.

My father, the other day, I walk past him.

And he's like, whoa, say what?

He's like, you see, he got really white up there.

Yeah, he's, what are you talking about?

Thanks, dad.

Yeah, he just laughs and walks away.

We'll be right back.

We'll, uh, we'll, uh, we'll find out who else is getting older,

coming up on miss, on eel cafe,

birthday anniversary club.

Right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating

with the eel cafe, birthday and anniversary club.

Let's do some celebrating, Mel.

All right.

It's time to have some fun with our birthday and anniversary club.

Thank you to our friends over at eel cafe.

Go visit our wonderful small town diner

at 221 Market Avenue and Port Edwards.

Look at that their Facebook page

that we encourage you to like.

Go ahead and type that in your search bar and like their page.

Yeah, you get to see their specials every day.

Yeah, joint like the one that they have coming up.

Join them for lunch on Wednesday for their Ash Wednesday Valentine's Day special.

They are preparing slow roasted prime rib and shrimp, uh,

or, uh, they are also offering delicious two-pack

and three-pack fish fry dinners.

Treat your significant other and treat yourself.

I can't not over the eel cafe.

You can give them a call if you'd like at 715-887-2233-887-2233.

You know the best thing about their specials that they have every day?

It's 12 bucks.

You get a full meal and it includes your beverage.

Ah, it sounds really good.

No, nowhere.

No, you're right. Yeah, you can't.

You can't, yeah.

Uh, head on over there, enjoy the people, the atmosphere,

um, get us those birthdays and anniversaries everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

Send a to info at wfhr.com,

james.mailofatcivicmedia.us.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

And of course,

um, call.

No, line. Call.

Call. Thank you, thank you, line.

Sorry, I jumped. I did not wait for your asking of line.

No, that's fine. No, that's great. That was great.

715-242600.

If you're listening to us on the civic media app,

you are just a touch away. Call up and join the conversation.

We have three possible qualifiers on our list.

Three.

Oh, okay, nice. Thank you, Melissa.

All right, gives us our qualifier.

But we do have two other names to celebrate.

Oh, right.

Two people that can't win, but we do want to celebrate them.

Like a good friend of mine, Bernie Schuneman.

Yeah, happy birthday, Bernie.

Bernie was one of my, uh, one of my biggest influences in acting.

And I worked with him in, um, uh, uh,

stage co-steeder in Decalpe, uh,

and did to Kilimanckin Bird with him.

Nice.

On, uh, the read through, you know, this goes, Melissa,

read through big cast.

People you've never worked before.

Chance to gel, get to know each other a little bit.

You sit there and you read the script.

Just, uh, with the script in hand for those that have never done that.

Yeah, you could sit around a table and read the script.

I come in and I, I meet my friend Vince,

who I'm still lifetime friends with and everything.

And then I see this older gentleman come in, uh,

and he's introduced as to who is going to be playing Atticus.

Well, I wanted to play Atticus.

I auditioned for Atticus.

Was I 20 years too young to play the role?

You couldn't tell me that.

I was angry. I wanted that part.

Then I say this guy walked in and they're like, okay.

Well, he seems, he's handsome.

He seems all right.

But what did he, Bernie came in and had the script memorized.

Whoo.

Atticus Finch had memorized.

It comes in, day one.

And couldn't a bit, one of the most kind,

like giving actors have ever worked with.

Uh, Bernie has a long, uh,

illustrious career in Illinois.

And, uh, his name means something.

And when I was auditioning for,

to work at Second City and to work at Steppenwolf,

uh, Bernie was my, uh,

my recommendation, my guy that,

my reference. Yeah.

Uh, just an incredible guy.

And great actor.

His, his good of an actor is he is.

And father.

Well, happy birthday, Bernie.

A happy birthday to our own Todd Michaels.

Oh, happy birthday, Todd.

Enjoy your day, sir.

I like working with Todd.

I love working with Todd that much.

But what I have like working with him.

Uh, good guy.

And we wish you a good day, sir.

Then we move on to our local celebrities.

We wish a happy birthday to Julie Seagler.

Happy birthday, Julie.

Julie's awesome.

Happy birthday to Sam Wilkes.

Happy birthday, Sam.

Enjoy your day, sir.

And our qualifier.

And this is Melissa.

Didn't even get to see the list. She just picked it.

No, I can't read your chicken scratch over there.

I don't know. Even if I tried.

Yeah, even it's very true. It's very true.

We wish a happy birthday to Diana Pagel.

Oh, happy birthday, Diane.

Is she the one that brings us cookies?

Yeah. Yeah.

That's so great.

Our time reading my own writing.

Diane, congratulations. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday. You're a qualifier.

Have a wonderful day. I hope somebody makes you cookies.

Yeah, yes, yes.

Although they're probably not as good as yours.

No, no, that's, that's going to be, you're just going to have to deal with that.

As that part, I'm sure you've had too for a while.

It's a day off of baking, though.

Yeah. You earned it.

Let's take a look at our celebrity list.

Mina Savari is 45.

Heather in American Pie movies.

She was in American Beauty, of course.

I liked her work.

I thought that she'd do a lot more, actually.

They haven't seen her in a while, though.

Well, and I think that

with the type of movies that she was doing,

I think she maybe kind of got type cast.

I was thinking the same thing.

Yeah, I didn't even think about it before.

But yes, as you said, type of movies.

She's been doing that popped in my head, yeah.

But if you look at her now, I think that she could definitely do it.

Like, she'd play a killer lawyer.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I think so. She's a good actor.

Hall of Famer, Randy Moss is 47 today.

He changed the game as a receiver.

All the receivers now look like an act like Randy Moss.

But he was kind of before that.

Jump ball, you just throw the ball up and he caught it.

The thing about Randy Moss,

and I like seeing him now.

I like seeing his work.

And it seems like he's really matured and grown a lot.

But for me,

Randy Moss should have broken every single Jerry Rice record.

Like, he had every little bit of talent you could ask for in that position.

Just, you know, didn't have between the years as much.

He's a Hall of Famer.

He's number two or number three on most lists as wide receiver records and everything.

And his career is in pack.

He's one of the greatest of all time.

But he could have been the greatest of all time.

Like, he easily could have been, I think.

Jerry Rice is my favorite, one of my favorite second favorite player ever saw play.

And I know the receiver position very well.

Jerry Rice was not as talented or built the same way Randy Moss was.

Randy Moss had an opportunity to be the literally the greatest ever at that position.

He, to me, will always be looked at as one of the greats.

But it is always going to be in the back of my mind what he could have been.

And that, that holds me, that, that's on me, not him.

That's, that's on, you know, obviously.

Well, so he played 14 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.

Is that typical?

No, well, he played with a couple of different teams.

No, I mean, like 14 seasons.

Oh, 14, that's a long, yeah, that's a long career.

Okay.

That's a nice career football.

Yeah, especially at that position.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Rob Williams is 50.

British pop singer.

I don't know.

Rob Williams that well.

I know, I know he's a pop singer.

I know who he is.

But don't know him that well.

Kelly, who is 56?

X-Men, Scorpion King.

She was Pearl in the Vampire Diaries.

And she meant a lot of stuff.

Good actor.

Oh, Freedom Williams is 58.

The, quote unquote, rapper from CNC Music Factory.

I don't feel comfortable calling him a rapper.

But, uh, yeah, I guess I mean, technically,

he did ride a couple words together.

So he did it.

All right.

Henry Rollins is 63.

Um, amazing singer, songwriter, black flag.

I'm sure he's got a podcast now or something.

I'm sure.

I don't know what he's been doing.

But he's a good actor too.

He did a good job acting wise.

I don't know how much of him right now.

Uh, amazing singer, songwriter.

Peter Gabriel is 74 today.

Wow.

74.

Um, they're saying here on this list,

uh, the best singer for Genesis.

Uh, obviously very famously.

Phil Collins also say for Genesis.

I'll let you reach everybody else decide that one.

Um, uh, security, uh, shock the monkeys.

Uh, the album, so is got nothing but hits on it.

My jammer.

In your eyes.

Big time.

They give up his music videos too.

Like his, uh, Peter Gabriel's music videos in the eighties were game changers.

Uh, them and, uh, uh, Genesis.

Yeah.

The, uh, one of the greatest coach, top three, top five greatest coaches in college basketball

history.

Mike Shisewski is 77 today.

Legendary Duke University basketball coach.

Also, as he got older, started to look more and more like the Duke logo.

It was kind of weird.

It was kind of interesting.

It's also like when your pets start to look like you.

I think so.

Yeah.

I really, I think it is something like start to look like your mascot.

Uh, but I mean, unarguably one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Just retired last, uh, like a year or two ago too.

Wow.

Stocker Channing is 80 today.

The wonderful, the great Stocker Channing.

I love her.

The first lady on the West Wing, Rizzo on Greece.

Um, an incredibly wonderful career.

Wow.

80 years old.

I love the great Stocker Channing.

I love her one.

Mm-hmm.

Great actor.

Yeah.

Practical magic.

Oh, good one.

Where the heart is.

So many good movies.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, the great Kim Novak is 91 star of the 1958, uh, Hitchcock classic Vertigo.

Uh, she did an amazing job in Vertigo.

She was really good in that.

It's a good, that's a, um, that man.

I was a little kid, that movie.

Uh, it's the one with Jimmy Stewart, I believe.

Uh, I've never seen it.

It's, uh, I mean, I've heard it's obviously a classic.

I mean, Hitchcock did.

Yeah.

I mean, I want to say everything he did was good, but almost everything he did was pretty

much classic.

Yeah.

And especially when he's working with actors like that.

Hmm.

Some people no longer with us, like Jerry Springer passed away last year.

Would have been 80 today for Jerry Springer.

Wow.

I didn't.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know he died.

Yeah.

That was one of those, uh, yeah.

I think.

I mean, I probably knew it, but I didn't know it.

Well, it's, it this happens.

Uh, you know, no matter how much we care, like, uh, you know, certain celebrities and

certain people and everything when, uh, especially if he passed away at the same time somebody

else did and in somebody else, oftentimes it gets lost in the shuffle.

You know, actually one of the things that I have found is that even people that I know,

if I don't attend their funeral, it's almost like they didn't die.

Hmm.

Yeah.

No, I don't know what that is.

It's a weird phenomenon.

It's a very weird thing and you're not alone on that.

Yeah.

I've heard others.

I know myself.

I felt that not so much with people too close to me, but people that I'm like close to,

that I haven't seen in a while or that you know, yes, I, that's an, that's an, it really

interesting thought.

That's a really, and I don't think we're alone.

We can't be.

We can be only two people in the world.

No, because we both have experienced that.

Yeah, that's interesting.

And granted, sometimes we align as much as I hate to say it, we have the same thought.

I'm sorry.

We are very different people.

Yes, very need to keep pointing this out to you.

And I feel like you're for yourself, but just for your own, my own sanity, your own

sanity.

Uh, George Siegel boarded this day in 1934, pop Solomon and the Goldbergs, uh, Jack

Gallow and just shoot me, amazing character actor.

Very, very good character.

Oh, yeah.

He was such a likable guy.

Oh, that face made me smile.

Whenever I'd see it.

I don't know why, but it's something about his face.

That's such a great smile.

Uh, let's see here, uh, Tennessee Ernie Ford boarded this day in 1919, because in Ernie

I and I love Lucy, uh, in 16 tons, of course, famous for the song 16 tons.

16 tons.

What do you get?

No, the day older and older and older and older and older.

Peter don't you call me cause I can go, oh, my soul to the company, no, sorry.

And Peter Tork from the monkeys would have been celebrating the birthday today in 1942,

passed away in 2019.

That is going to do it for our list, but a big happy birthday and anniversary to everybody

out there celebrating.

Yeah.

Encouraged you to celebrate with our good friends over at L Cafe, they're open right

now.

Go ahead and wish them a great morning at 221 Market Avenue right here in Port Edwards.

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Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.

Melissa James here with you.

See what happens when you let me in the studio James, I break stuff.

Look at this.

I'm going to floppy here.

Sorry, I broke the headphones everybody.

It's just these are the things you'd get to see if you were watching us live on Facebook

or on YouTube where I look like I got a floppy doggy.

And this is where dog radio enters the chat, it's all coming together, it's all coming

full circle.

I need some duct tape.

We need some duct tape over here, dad, uh, and we need to fix James.

Yes, yes.

I'm broken over here.

So it's not fair to jump out radio right now and it's right as I broke right as you're

coming.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

We couldn't have timed that.

No.

I apologize to you listeners.

Anybody got an extra set of headphones out there?

Let's talk about the other things that you could reuse and everything, much like those

headphones that fit reuse to just one side.

They're not that old.

They were breaking.

It's okay.

I'll just hold this.

It's fine.

I got it.

Thank you.

Zip lock, zip top bags are expensive for both your wallet and the environment.

There are hacks about how you should clean and reuse them online, but is that more trouble

than it's worth?

Well, not really, according to even not only experts, but Zip lock themselves.

Even Zip lock says you should reuse Zip lock bags.

Yeah.

Okay.

A rep says that each bag should be reused several times because quote, Zip lock brand

bags are made with high quality recyclable materials that are strong enough to be used

again.

They recommend hand washing them with soap and water and then air drying them.

But there are instances when you should toss them.

Like when they.

The first thing on the list, raw meat, raw meat thing, right points to you, Melissa?

Fish, eggs, allergy, triggering foods or when someone has spoiled something is spoiled

inside it.

Basically, raw meat and mold, that's a no go.

It's a food safety issue.

Use your common sense on that.

It also may be difficult to clean bags that have been held oils or clingy sauces.

But you should make an effort to reuse any bags that help dry foods or other easy to

clean contents.

Yeah.

Like if I put a piece of bread or toast or even a sandwich, if it's not like messy, in a

bag, they're very easy to just shake the crumbs out, use it again, give it a quick rinse.

I like to string, I haven't done this at the place I'm living in now, but I string a string,

I string a string, such great words, Melissa.

I sing a song.

Across above the sink, between the cupboards above the sink, and then you can close pin

bags on it.

If you don't have any of those fancy plastic like stands that have the two prongs that

come up and then you can put the bag over it, it's fancy.

But they work great.

They do.

And Ziploc bags work great.

I mean, so much so that it's one of those things like band-aids where we just say Ziploc

bags, even though that's a name brand, not really.

We know exactly what it is, like clean eggs.

And not for nothing, I think it's noteworthy that any business, let's take Ziploc, for example,

but any business, how do they make their money by selling their products?

Yeah, by buying new versions of their product.

And they're telling you to reuse it.

Yeah, like, good on them.

Kudos, tip of the hat to Ziploc for that, and you don't, I don't know if I've ever heard

of a business doing that before.

And also, like, well, that makes me want to use that product even more.

That makes me want to support that business, not only for the honesty, but for the, hey,

we're going to, we need to make a buck here, but we're not trying to, you know, take every

penny.

You know, I think that that's smart.

And also, making at least a, hey, we're a plastic company, and maybe we care about

the environment.

Yeah.

So we're going to give you this dog bone, as it were, to, maybe you can help.

Their bags are made of high recyclable materials, and so that is, I mean, that is a, that is

a very great area.

I have to be out.

The caveat to that is, where do you recycle them?

Yeah.

You can't just put bags in your regular recycling in most municipalities, and this is something

that you've seen me get on my soapbox about this, awkward to climb on my soapbox when I'm

holding my headphones together.

It makes a little difficult, you know, and, you know, I need a step ladder, can you get

me a step ladder, James?

I'm going to go do that.

You go ahead and get on that soapbox, because you got a good point.

It's a good point.

Well, I do think that it, the recycling should be easy.

Why?

Why does it need to be so difficult?

And who, have we made a difficult, municipalities, or have big corporations made a difficult, with

all these different plastic numbers and symbols, I mean, I used to, I would go when I lived

in Toma, I had to take my garbage to the recycling location, so you put your trash in one thing

and you could put your recycling in another thing and you separated your recycling.

And they had this big, giant, placard that had all your recycling instructions on it.

I literally had to take a picture of it with my phone so I could study it so that I would

separate it correctly at home.

Yeah.

It shouldn't be that hard, James.

No.

I'll take corporations for 500, Alex.

I think that it's a corporation thing more than anything.

But I do think that it's a strong point you're making.

I also think that it's worth, it's obviously worth the work, but sometimes it takes that.

It comes back to voting like that, or it's similar to voting for me, where the act of voting

should not be difficult, finding a polling place, finding out how you vote, getting, getting

your registered to vote, those things should never be difficult in society.

But who you vote for, that should take some homework.

You should have to look into that.

You shouldn't just be able to sit and watch TV and a commercial pops out and that's who

I'm voting for, or they play you like these politicians do on both sides of the aisle.

Hey, that other guy doesn't care about you.

That other guy, this, that other guy, that, meanwhile, I've never seen the emails coming

into my inbox.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, never telling you what they do, that's a, there's one of your biggest red flags

as we're getting ready for Valentine's Day and everything.

You want to talk about red flags, how about political red flags?

Big red flag.

You never hear where they're coming from on their issues, never.

What their platform is.

All they want to do is whine about the other person.

Yeah.

Big red flag.

Red flag and dating, red flag and politics, red flag and recycling.

Yeah.

And I, I think that that's, that's a big part of it.

Now, here's another thing that I've been thinking about lately, too, Melissa.

Imagine if we're like, when we were kids and recycling first got started and they start

handing out the green box and all these things and stuff.

Imagine if they, like, it's pretty impressive that we pulled that off.

Yeah.

Everybody recycles now.

We never imagine recycles are recyclable.

Even people that wish cycle.

Imagine if they tried to start that now in 2024.

Do you think it would have the same effect?

Do you think it would go over the same?

Because I feel like in today's day and age, everybody, and everybody, but there is that

group of people out there that are going to whine and look at conspiracies.

This is the government tried to get us to, of course, you're going to have that James.

However, I think I'm going to disagree with you on this, except for that small contingent.

That's always going to do that.

No matter what you do, I actually think that if you proposed, and maybe this is just

because this is kind of a passion project that's in the back of my mind that I would love

to do someday, I think that if you presented people with this is what you do.

This is what you do exactly in your community.

Here are the ways you do it.

Like, here's your bin for paper.

Here's your bin for plastic and here's your bin for waste.

That's all you have to do.

This is the day you put it out and it has picked up and we have something similar to that,

but we have single stream recycling now that confuses the heck out of people.

Because single stream recycling doesn't tell you what isn't what isn't recyclable, unless

you look at the very complicated list located on your municipality's waste paper, you know,

management page on either Facebook or their website if it's updated, it's so confusing.

The two sides need to come together.

They need to, corporations, a society, we need to work together on this and make it simpler

and simplify the process.

We need to meet people halfway.

If we're asking people to do it, we also need to make it understandable.

Look at the response to the free recycling events that we've had in our area.

When Portage County had, they had two of them this last year, the first one, there were

people that couldn't even get to it because the backup on the street was so long and

they closed it down before people could unload their stuff.

We have a recycling problem in this country, James.

Especially when it comes to electronics, laptops, those things, TVs, well, how we know.

Things that you don't want to put in the landfill because they're going to damage our earth,

they're going to damage our water, they're going to damage the future of our ability to

live on this land.

Yeah.

It's a new, it's another task that we've got to tackle as a society and together.

I think we can do it.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

But we just all have to figure out what page we're on.

Yeah.

But we can get there.

We can get on the same page on that one.

I'll get off my soap box.

Yeah.

I'll help you down.

I'll be right there.

I'll help you with the headphones.

Hold on.

I'll be right there.

I gotta go.

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Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We got good things lined up for you to take it right to the top of the hour.

And I got new headphones.

Yeah.

Melissa can heal.

A new old hood.

Sorry.

Yeah, it works.

It works.

Let's get into a couple of things before we wrap up the hour, Melissa.

But we got good stuff coming up at the 9 o'clock hour.

Everybody's some entertainment news.

Then a right story or two and some great local things going on in our area.

We'll go over our schedule.

But the great debate here, who is the bigger baby being sick?

Men or women?

Will you set men?

Yeah, yeah.

I gave my answer right away on this one without a doubt.

Now someone pulled 2,000 people and asked if they'd rather be taken care of or just be left

alone when they're sick.

53% of women would rather be left alone compared to 47% of men.

Guys were also far more likely to want their mommy when they were feeling unwell.

58% wish their mom could still take care of them when they're sick.

43% think she'd take better care of them than their significant other.

Whoa, only this was definitely a blind survey.

This is definitely a blind survey.

Okay, but I got to admit, I think it's kind of sweet.

Only 35% of women said that their husband or boyfriend would take better care of them

than their own mom would.

Guys are also more prone to let people know they're sick.

29% have posted, I'm sick, photo on social media compared to 20% of women.

And a lot of women might not be shocked by any of this, by the way.

80% of women in the poll said that they think they handle being sick better than most

guys do.

80%.

It's a pretty good number.

That's a pretty good number right there.

I say guys right away on this list because, well, for one, I am one.

And I've seen this my whole life.

I've seen this I most of us have.

Yeah.

Now I've been around nothing but your traditional tough guys, my whole life.

I grew up in a sports family, a bunch of Italians, I mean, but give one of them a

toothache.

Man, it's not just the toothache or the cold, like even it's a simple cold and it can

break the strongest of men that I've known.

It's some of the more funny things.

I've seen my dad break his nose about five or six different times, getting horrible

accidents.

All these different things have seen that man go through and the things that I've seen

him take physically in a boxing ring or in a hockey rink or something like that.

It's incredible to put yourself into.

It's so different because I think that's in Melissa.

What you choose and you know what's coming, my dad wants stepped on a toothpick and it

hurts.

You know, you know, we've anybody who stepped on something like that, you know, it feels

like, oh, I heard a noise out of him that I to this day have not heard dying animal

sound.

That along with like, it started awfully feminine.

It started awfully like, I mean, that's what the toughest human beings of her and never

will meet in my life.

Okay, but nobody wants to step on a toothpick.

But you know, the way we handle pain, the way we handle being sick, especially I think

the tougher persona you put out there, the more you handle being sick like this, I need

my mommy.

Okay.

But honestly, you know, in my experience, I have to tell you, I would prefer the, I

need my mommy over anger because guys that get angry when they are heard scare me.

Yeah.

And so I think there's two different layers to that.

And this is just me talking, not not at all somebody who has obviously experienced it

or anything.

I don't know what I'm talking about here.

But I do, from when I, what I've experienced when I've gotten stubbed my foot or something

like that, there's a difference of inserts where we're shout.

Right.

Which is a proven release.

Yes.

And punching wall or something like that, like that, that is a child, that is acting like

a child.

I don't care if you're, you just got shot and I have been, so I know what I'm talking

about.

You know, that nothing gives you the right to go punch and walls or hurting other people

or anything like that.

I would agree with that.

But there is something releasing about that, that your favorite swear word when you

stubbed your toe or something.

Yeah.

Was it that Nicholas Cage did the history of swearing or something like great show?

Great show.

It's really very impressive.

Well done.

Yeah, yeah.

And just the, you know, learning about swear words and how they evolved over time or what

their purpose is in society because they do serve a purpose.

But if you can't like vary it up, then don't bother.

No, no.

They're not impressed.

It is a goal of mine though to be able to swear like a sailor someday.

Preferably like Gaelic swearing.

No.

Yeah.

That's the Gaelic words because I don't think that I possess the capacity to pronounce

that or learn it at this point in my life.

It would love to.

But the being eloquent with your swearing that are not actually like curse words.

It's, oh, yeah, I like that.

I love swearing in Italian because it always sounds so much better.

But yeah, I think that sounds even better, more and it sounds a little more interesting

to me.

Yeah, and creative.

People say it's a thought that it's the thought that counts for birthdays and Christmas.

And that may, they may, may or may not mean that.

But for Valentine's, that sentiment actually does fly for most people.

The National Retail Federation just released a survey showing the top seven things Americans

are buying for Valentine's Day.

And even though Valentine's Day is tomorrow, there are still time to buy most of them on

the list because it's nothing really that crazy.

Yeah.

Number one chocolate.

We'll see.

We'll start.

I think, yeah, this is in chronological.

All right.

So this is in order.

So we'll start at seven.

A gift certificate.

Just pair it with a card with a nice personal note.

Yeah.

A lot of people doing that.

A lot of people doing clothing, but not your traditional clothing of, here's a hundred

dollar shirt.

No, there's socks with some funny Valentine's Day on them.

Yeah.

Or going to the thrift store and getting something nice from there or something like that.

This is another one that's more challenging to pick out at last minute, but it is something

that a lot of people are doing.

Jewelry.

Inmate now, we're not talking again about the Hope Diamond here, where we're talking about

just simple things.

Highest the Hope Diamond James.

Yeah.

I don't think anybody's really doing that.

In evening out, a little thoughtful planning can really go a long way.

That's a good one.

I like that one.

I think that's, especially if you're a couple and you've been together longer than two

weeks, chances are you have a hard time mixing your schedules or finding time for yourselves

or something like that.

Yeah.

I'm actually making a date night.

Yeah.

I'm not talking about just getting together and telling each other how your day was.

That's important, but that doesn't count as a date.

Or even just going to like your regular place.

Yeah.

No.

As we are at number four on the list, let's pause here and take a call.

What's on your mind?

Good morning.

Hello.

Good morning.

Oh.

Well, you feel free to call a pack.

Yes.

I want to hear your thoughts.

What are you buying for Valentine's Day?

Yeah.

Call up and let us know everybody.

715-424-2600-424-2600.

Send a shout out to our fire department.

Hope everybody is all right over there as they go by.

So an evening out is where we left off.

How about flowers?

It may be a little late in the game, but there are some great places around that you can

still get flowers.

Yeah.

Shop local if you can.

Watch out for scams online.

Yes.

I know our friends over at One Rose Greenhouse.

Great place to go for flowers.