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. It is 804 on the clock. Got your host, James
Jay behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And the best
listeners in radio, all of you out there. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. We're
to kick off our show the way we like to with our friend, Brittany, talking a little mother
nature. Good morning, Brett. Good morning. How are you doing? Good over here. How are you
doing? Good. Mother nature is just on crazy. I feel like a server hearing Wisconsin when
I look at the temperatures. I know that, you know, a variety is the spice of life that
everything is about options nowadays. Mother nature is just trying to be modern. She's just
trying to be hip. Just give us as many options as we could. Hey, you want a little hail?
You want a little snow? You want maybe want some sunshine? What do you want? I mean,
then we get it all here. I guess so. She is trying to please each and every single one
of us in some sort of way every day. Just at different points in the day. You get a little
bit of everything there. You know, I'm trying to spin this the best I can. I can't imagine
for you and your meteorologist, brethren, and everything. How this is looking. How what?
Brittany, is this something? Is this something we should have seen coming? You know, we saw
some conversations about this with El Nino and et cetera, et cetera. Could anybody have seen
this coming? Or is this something that, you know, you're in your team kind of warned us of?
You know, we saw it coming, but we didn't think it would be to this extent this fast and have
it just be so prolonged. You know, I know we knew that there'd be above average temperatures,
but I didn't think we'd be hitting 70s, you know, in February with no snow whatsoever. I thought
we'd have a little bit more winter action, but unfortunately not so much. Here's what's going on,
though. We've got this big storm ahead of our way. So it's going to bring these breezy winds
continuing to gust up to 25 miles per hour today. Gonna spike our temperatures this afternoon
into the 60s. So our record for today is 49 degrees from 2000. Wow. Definitely gonna.
Well, we're going to shatter that. Yeah, man. No, that is just going to be in the bag.
We'll see a ton of sunshine, breezy winds, warm temperatures. We're going to feel like spring,
but then tonight the system hits. But what's going to happen is we're going to see a chance of
some rain before eight o'clock right around eight or nine o'clock, light little rain. It quickly
slips over to snow through the overnight hours and the winds continue to get stronger. That
could be gusting to 35 to 40 miles per hour. So with snow, even as light as it's going to be,
it's going to be a little hard to see out there. And it's also going to be recovering the roads,
too, because our temperatures are crashing to the single digits.
It seems like if you're going to be out and about later tonight, definitely keeping. I have
those heavy those high beams on and you know, certainly as much as you can. Yeah, absolutely.
So in terms of snowfall, we'll probably be waking up to a trace to half an inch all total.
I'm really thinking about an inch possible, but I mean there is some strong winds with this. It
could kick some of that lake effect, give us some more snow bands. Some of the models want to play
two to five inches, but I really think about one, one to two inches, what we're going to eat around.
I mean, I still could make slippery conditions. Yes. Yes.
Mm-hmm. Thanks for keeping us in our audience more prepared for this Brittany. We appreciate you.
We'll get people ready for hump day tomorrow.
Oh, good. It's going to be a cold one. Yes. Good to guard. We already got a tease for it. All right,
great. Thank you for any way. Appreciate you. Bye. We'll see you the best. We appreciate
Brittany Jordi. I guess every morning right here in this time slot and she wakes up with us,
we appreciate the time. Listen, we got fun stuff lined up. Not only do we have our friends,
L.K.F.A. birthday and anniversary club coming up for everybody. We're going to get into.
But how many of us would leave our job right now for another job that pays the same, but it's
somewhere else? Kind of an interesting question. We'll get a little more into that in a little bit.
I don't know if we need to leave. We're getting all the different weather's here.
I mean, that's, yeah, because I think that that's the big thing that would pull people. Yeah.
One in four people can keep a seeker from their living partner. We're going to get into that.
Do you have an old person name?
Old people names are coming back and I love them. Yeah, we're coming. We're going to get into
that one too. We've got that coming up. I have a really good story of the day. I want to make
sure that we have time for talking about the homeless situation or the unhoused situation,
if you will, in the Portland area. Thought it was a fascinating article that once again,
another one of these big articles, big topics that I don't see being covered by national media,
we're going to cover it here. We will also get into some fun in the 9 o'clock hour.
Touch on a little bit of entertainment news. Got some interesting stuff about Dami Moore,
Ryan Gosling, and the funniest TV shows of all time. Of all time. We'll tear apart that list.
Well, no, we'll see. We'll see how that is. Also in the 9 o'clock hour, 10 minor but frustrating
everyday struggles that should have been solved by now. If we got, I don't know to be honest,
I hope we have time for that and this one. Five things, the middle class won't be able to
afford in five years. Because those aren't two, you know, frustrating and then depressing
topics. Right, right. But the important things for us to know. And leave it to us to be able to
put a funny spin on anything that we're going over. That's our job. Absolutely. That's what we do
around here. Serious comedy. Serious comedy. It's not always easy, but we find a way to make it work.
It's a little like as we laugh during the weather. Like we're all just laughing at this weather right now.
Exactly. Exactly. I mean, I can't find a reason to laugh well. Then that's sad.
I have on my arm the drama masks. And I have those in part because obviously I'm a new crazy
person about acting in theater and everything. But the other thing is the one of the first quotes
that I heard when I was a kid laugh now cry later, which is what these masks are based on and
everything. I think that that's a big step in life. That's a big approach to life, especially
in a year like this where there is a lot of heavy stuff on the table. We got a lot on our plate
this year. I say take the laughs where you can take the smiles where you can. You can be informed
and also find humor and things. We find ways to do both. I think I actually think that it's one
of the most masterful things of the human mind that we can do that and we can do it well.
I agree. We're still working at it. We're not. We'll have some fun. I want to get into this one
right here because of course we cover world records. And this one is an interesting one. A brave
swimmer broke a world record when she went free diving under the ice for a distance of 459 feet.
Oh wow. Yeah. That's a lot. I got cold just reading this article this morning.
Free diving is a breath hold, hold diving or skin diving. It's a mode of underwater diving that
relies on breath holding until resurfacing. Just in case anybody wasn't aware of that. I wasn't
until about six or about five thirty this morning. Just being honest, just being honest.
Valerie Kafola, 27 years old, Don De Bright orange wetsuit and a monofin to go diving
under the ice and a lago de a tanselva, Italy. Yes, she is an Italian. So that is
Kafola previously set the record for under ice free diving without oxygen in 2017,
but a record was beaten by Japanese athlete, Yasuka Ozeki with a 413 foot swim. Kafola,
who holds both Italian and Croatian citizenship, retook the record, just 36 hours after Ozeka's
feet. The world underwater federation announced. That is so cool. Good on them. Not something I
want to do, but good on them. No, you know, and I'm with you. I can't handle the cold, man. I
mean, I would last five seconds doing this. I've done the pull their plunge thing and that's all
right. I get you know, that's a little different though. Something like this because they are
under the ice. They can't surface. Yeah, that's the part that just would freak me out.
I'll be real. Like there are many things in life that freak me out, but that would. I've never
been in that situation. I just have a feeling I know myself well enough to know. That would freak me
out because I feel like 99% of the population we could freaked out in that situation. Panic,
instant panic. Like I need air and I can't get to it. No, no, thank you. That's like nightmare stuff.
So much of this, it's just and I did just a quick dive, everybody. I mean, don't go ahead,
don't believe I just said that. I did a quick dive on this. That was right. I apologize to
the audience and I had to hear that horrible joke. In my, in my defense, I didn't mean to do it.
As usual. With something like this, to me, you can prep, you can put prion all you want
for holding your breath. You can sit in the bathtub and hold your breath all you want,
but you can't prepare for something like that until you're doing it. So the fact that not only
these young ladies did this, but did it again. Yeah, they didn't do this wasn't their first try.
They they rehearsed this and everything. That's just amazing. Yeah, it's pretty impressive. Also,
I feel like I, you know, I, I, okay, I'm getting I'm training. I'm getting ready to do this,
get ready to do this. I get my wet suit on. I'm out in the cold. And like, you know what?
Maybe there's another world record I can bring. Maybe there's a warmer world record. I can
bring something else. I can try. Is there jump jacking? What's the jump jump broke record? What's
that? Let's work on that one. I don't know. I feel like it might be a warmer, if anything,
at the very least. Let's go ahead and warm up a little bit. We'll check it with our partners.
We'll come back with the birthday anniversary club from our great friends at Elcafe.
Melissa and James taking it through your morning right here at WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our friends at Elcafe and the birthday and anniversary club.
What are our favorite parts of the day? We get to celebrate you and our great friends over at
Elcafe. Visit them today. Be sure to like their Facebook page. Just type in your search bar.
Elcafe and should pop right up for you and head on. They're daily specials. Yeah, you can check
it out. They got a great list right there of letting you know what's their specials today,
Wednesday throughout the whole week. Today it's a pancake combo for breakfast.
And for pancakes. Yeah. And for lunch, great ham and cheese and soup. Great meal right there.
Visit them at 221 Market Avenue in Port Wet Edwards. Wish them a good morning from all of us at
WFHR. And get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. We want to celebrate with you.
Info at wfhr.com. James.mailf at civic media.us. Keep in mind you can reach any of our staff that
way like Melissa.k at civic media.us. That's sort of thing. You can go ahead and hit us up on
our Facebook pages. DM us through either the WFHR or WRI Facebook pages. Go right ahead.
And you can. There was a carrier pigeon thing. Carrier pigeons are great idea, Melissa.
I like that idea. Yes. Carrier pigeons. Morse code. Smoke signals. Smoke signals work really good.
I've you know offered that idea to people before. Haven't had anybody take us up on it yet, but
you know eventually one day, especially we got these big windows. Probably the only place you'd
see the smoke signals from. Probably or they could just call I suppose. Oh, there you go.
Five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred. Call up. You could call up right now. Yeah.
We'd love to have you. Call up anytime you'd like. Get us that birthday anniversary. We know
sometimes that you forget about these things or get busy or something. Get us up.
Well, we won't. James, they just want to do it live on air. Yeah. That's it. Nobody forgets.
That's what we'll tell everybody. We won't tell anybody that you forgot. We won't. That's our
that's our gift to you. That's what we do around here. We cover your back. We got you.
Melissa, I need a one through three. Let's go with three. All right, gives us that
qualifier. So we go ahead and write into the celebrate. And I got a great list today.
Some great names. First up, I want to wish a very happy birthday to Julie Spice.
Happy birthday, Julie. Wish you a great day, Julie. Enjoy your day. That's a great name.
Great name. Also another good one. Happy birthday to Laura Brackley.
Happy birthday, Laura. Enjoy your day, Laura. We hope it's a great one for you.
And our qualifiers today, Melissa, celebrating their 24th anniversary.
That's pretty cool. Let's see, for the old, the traditional gift was China. And for the
modern gift, it's platinum for their 25th next year. It's silver. Silver is the gift that Josh
and Shawna Kreitsner is going to be getting next year. But for this year, happy 24th, the Josh
and Shawna. Josh and Shawna are happy anniversary, you too.
Wish you guys a great one. And you're our qualifiers for today.
Congratulations. And thank you so much to everybody that got to see his birthdays and
anniversaries. Keep in coming, everybody. We love getting them. Keep them coming.
Let's dive into our celebrity list here. Kate Marra is 41. Zoe Barnes on House of cards.
Might remember her as Sue Storm in the Fantastic Four reboot, one of those. She and her sister,
Rooney, who is also a really good actor, our NFL royalty. Their dad's family is the Mara's
who founded and still own the New York Giants. And their mom's family is the Roonies who founded
and still own the Pittsburgh Steelers. She was in the Martian. Yeah. Yeah. She's a good actor.
But that whole family, both of them, both of them are really good actors. The girl with the
dragon tattoo, really good work in that one too, our sister. You know, I've never, I don't know if
I can watch those movies. I read the books, but you can skim in books, unlike being able to skip
over stuff in movies is not the same. Watch the ones. One of those movies, you know, you can handle
it one time. Yeah, the book is amazing. Yeah. The writing and that is just phenomenal. But yeah.
My sister, my sister, huge fan of the books, very similar story. I said almost the same thing
to me when I was telling her, Hey, Daniel Craig's in this no movie. That's the same type of thing.
The wonderful sounding Josh Groban is 43. Josh Groban.
Great singer and has taken his turn into acting in recent years. And from everything I've heard,
has done a really nice job. He was recently in the live action beauty and the beast, I believe.
I think he played beast. Okay. I was trying to figure out why that name was so familiar, but it's
from his singing in the early 2000s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He raised me up the prayer. He had a lot of
like ones that were very popular there for a while. And I don't mean this in a bad way at all,
but he's got one of those voices that you hear. And you're like, Oh, that man can sing. He's great.
But I don't know that I would be able to pick his voice out of a lineup.
There's nothing to me. There's nothing necessarily like Michael Boublier. I feel like has his own
kind of style, even if it isn't the most unique thing you've ever heard. I feel like you might know
him if you heard him. And I'm thinking of just modern crooners. Josh Groban, amazing, amazing,
amazing, amazing singer. But I don't know that I don't know that it's not a signature voice.
Yeah. I think that's the way to put it. And again, there's nothing wrong with that at all.
No, he's a phenomenal singer. If you ask me, give me a great voice. I think that he'd be one of
the first names I think of. Happy 43rd birthday to him. Happy 44th to Chelsea Clinton.
We've brought this up before with president's children and everything. And I'd like to think,
and we understand politics is very different than this nowadays. But even back in the day,
it wasn't that great. And I'd like to think that it doesn't matter who their parents are.
You could have some empathy for somebody in this situation. It's growing up, going through
your teenage years is rough. Anybody, please, 715-423-24, if you had, if your teenage years were
perfectly fine, you didn't have any pimples. You didn't have to wear braces or glasses or any of
these things. You would never picked on. Yeah. Yeah. Please call them. Like was perfect.
Please, the one person that this has happened to just happens to be listening to us, please call
up 715-424-2600. Otherwise, it's rough. And then you're dealing with your high school,
they could have anywhere up to a couple of hundred people or what have you in it.
This young lady went through this in front of the literally the whole world.
That's not easy. It's a different kind of scrutiny versus what, because this happens
all the time, obviously, in movies and TV shows where young people are stars,
this is very different. And we think, not to say we make light of it or we think nothing of it,
but it is common nowadays for child star, gets to be a teenager or whatever, and they have some
troubles, that they don't handle the fame or what have you that well. Chelsea Clinton, we've
never heard anything negative about. Like this young lady along with a lot of the children of
presidents are off doing great things. Yeah. And she's working hard to bring, you know,
awareness to things going on in our society and our culture to make them better for future
generations. And that's the kind of work that a lot we need a lot more people to be doing.
Tony Gonzalez is 48. He holds every major NFL record for tight ends, retired in 2013, inducted
in the NFL Hall of Fame at the class of 2019. Easily, you can make the argument, maybe the
greatest tight end of all time. They've got a couple of great ones right now. Tony Gonzalez was
around, uh, did broke these records right as the offensive is changing in the NFL. So I have a
hard time believing you'll hang on to these records for very long, because things are just getting
more and more high scoring and more passing yards and all that. Rosanda Chilli Thomas is from TLC
is 53. Chilli from 50 is 53 from TLC. That throws me. Wow. 53. I listened to the I had one of
their CDs when I was in high school. And yeah, I did not know. Yeah, I guess that would make
perfect sense. I guess. I mean, when you think about it, I just hadn't really thought about it.
When you when you hear these things, it just kind of throws you a great, great character actor.
Donna Loja is 58 Harvey Bullock and Jim Jim Gordon's partner on Gotham. He was also the
king of Denmark on Vikings and the star of the Tower of Steve. And Donna Loja, one of those
actors you know him if you saw him kind of guys and just a great career. Let's see here. Uh,
Grant show is 62, Jake Henson on Melrose Place. He was also on dirt. Uh, the great James worthy
is 63 today. His goggles are 40. No. Um, James worthy kind of one of the first athletes to
really be famous, uh, uh, uh, be popular and be wearing goggles in the NBA. Not a lot of guys
were really known for that. James worthy one of those. And then one of the greats, one of the
Laker grates. Uh, Paul Humphries is 64. Oh, MD, uh, or, or orchestral maneuvers in dark, uh,
pretty in pink soundtrack. They were on a couple of things. Let's see here. Uh, Ralph Nader is 90
today. Spent his life. Yeah. Spent his life warning people about the things that are hazardous to
their health at this age. Um, still doing it. As far as we as far as last I've seen heard, uh,
Ralph Nader still doing him. Um, an interesting name to pop up this year, given our political
spectrum right now. Uh, we don't touch on this stuff to watch because honestly, there's
plenty to already covering this. And we try to give you a break from a lot of these things. But I
think we'd be remiss as a new station not touching on this when it comes up in a, a character like
Ralph Nader who many people believe pulled votes from a different another party when we had the
third party there. Um, and going into a year like this where honestly, I think there's question
marks all across the board on both sides of the aisle. Uh, and, uh, when it comes to the democratic
side of things, they have their candidate. That seems set in stone on the Republican side of
things. While it seems set in stone, it's not. Um, and it can't be like what, what, even if you
are, uh, uh, voting that way or anything, you, you, you can't necessarily just say, well, for sure,
in November, I'm going to be able to vote for this person because you don't even know if one of
them is going to be a free man and the, uh, the other one's just hanging on into the race and everything.
So you could have a situation where one of them gets the nod and the other person don't,
doesn't leave, doesn't back down and that's going to pull votes from that. A lot of people
thought that that was going to happen with DeSantis this year. Uh, DeSantis, much like Rudy Giuliani,
had it basically in hand and somehow mucked it up. I, I, like, Gary Hart or some other, uh,
political people that we have seen in our lifetimes, Melissa. It is one of the funnier things to
me. I'm sorry. I, maybe I should laugh at it, but I, I find it hilarious. Um, Rudy Giuliani could
have had the Republican nod all he had to, he didn't have to say anything. All he had to do was just
live. Just be, he, he, he, uh, knocks out, he gets rid of ferrets in New York. Everybody loses their
mind about it. Never even gets close. Never even sniffs as though, you know, gets close to the nod
or anything. It's just weird how politics work. They're very out of touch. Yeah, that, that doesn't
help. Yeah, that does not help. They don't live in our world. Um, I personally don't know anybody
that wants to vote for somebody that can't relate. They can't relate even a, even a glimpse to their
life. Um, that, to me, just, I don't know. Joanne Woodward is 94. Paul Newman's widow. Uh,
she won an Oscar for three faces of Eve. Um, this is an incredible actress. Wonderful.
Joanne Woodward's, uh, I think, um, uh, one of the things that I think her and Paul Newman
that were opposite of each other, but, but made them both great actors. Paul Newman, his ability to
can just continue a monologue to be able to keep your attention, to be able to keep the, the energy
going the way it was without trying, like, like feeling like he was trying. Joanne Woodward,
amazing with empty, empty, like, that, just silence and letting, letting the breath in between
lines or any of this. Her timing was incredible. Great actress. Happy 94th birthday to her. Wow.
94. And a happy birthday. Uh, would have been to two, uh, two people no longer with us. Uh, Howard
Hesman, born of this day in 1940. Johnny Fever on WKRP and Cincinnati. And, uh, of course,
the, uh, the teacher on head of the class, Howard Hesman, uh, one of those, uh, stand-up
comedians that got into acting and kind of got his break and just stuck with acting.
Uh, we see that a lot nowadays, but in the 80s, he didn't see it as much. So,
guys trying to do up and not many successful at it, Howard Hesman was pretty successful.
Oh, he was in flight of the navigator. Oh, that's right. Yes. Oh, good call. Good call.
Yes. Yes. Great movie. Great movie. And the legend Elizabeth Taylor, born in this day in 1932,
passed away in 2011. Unfortunately, oh, not maybe unfortunately, but, uh, a lot of people in our
age range, Melissa, no Elizabeth Taylor for diamonds and, and divorces and, and these kind of things.
When, uh, people, you, if you care about the game, if you care about acting, you care about entertainment
or anything like that, you cannot, you have to respect Elizabeth Taylor's career. I don't know
how you can't. Kat and the hot tin roof, um, little women, a place in the sun. Cleopatra. Um,
love it. Who's afraid of her? Who's, I'm just going to say who's, we almost did at the same time.
Just a giant. Oh, yeah, giant's good. Oh, I love her and giant. Oh, thank you. I almost
would have forgotten giant. Great actors. So, so many movies. We barely scratched the surface there.
And actors like her are the reason that the game that acting is what it is today, that, that,
that entertainment is what it is today. Without those early actors, without those early big stars,
it doesn't go this far. It doesn't go to the where it is. Um, it's incredible talent.
And we, one more time, I want to wish happy birthday to Julie Spice. Happy birthday, Julie.
Laura Brackley. Happy birthday, Laura. And to our qualifiers. Happy 24th anniversary to Josh and
Shana Kreitzer. Congratulations, Josh and Shana. Enjoy your anniversary.
Have a great one, you too. We hope it's a good day for you. Uh, we're going to,
Melissa, I don't know why I do this, but I've been doing this the last couple of Tuesdays,
where it's just you and I, I turn on, uh, I pull obviously, pod up your mic, but I turn on
mics one and two in the studio here. I don't know why I'm doing that. You know, you want the ambience,
sounds of the room. That's right. That's, that's what we will get to our news. We'll be back
with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. No rain so far. Uh, not until a little later.
A little later though. Might want to watch out for that as, as we get, we get a buffet from
Mother Nature here. A little bit of everything. We got some good stuff to get into. This topic
right here is a good one and I'd love to hit your feedback on it. Everybody, 715-424-2600.
Call up on the Civic Media app if you're listening. We appreciate you downloading that. Let's dive
right in. Are you loyal to the company you work for or can you be bought? A new poll found
a third of us would leave our job if someone else was willing to pay us the same amount. We're
making now no rays required. Hmm, not a very complicated poll, but a, no, kind of, I don't know,
feels like I had a weird question. It seems like usually, you know, this is asking you if you
would leave this to do this and there's an improvement or there's a plus or something,
but they're just saying a straight up. How much do you hate your job? Yeah. This is basically just
about opportunity or options, I suppose. Almost half of us would leave for us little as a 5% bump
in pay and two thirds would bounce for a 10% pay bump. So most of us aren't really that loyal.
It was part of a survey that looked into what makes us feel valued at work. 81% overall said that
they'd be more motivated that they felt appreciated more often. If it found the most meaningful
forms of appreciation are quote personalized forms of gratitude and getting a raise is second.
Other meaningful forms of appreciation at work include promotions, bonuses, extra paid time off,
a one-on-one conversation with your boss and awards like employee of the month. Okay.
So what do we think of this now? What do we think of this? Listeners 424-2600. I think this is
an interesting one. It is interesting. I think the statistics that you shared about the pay
raises, that actually kind of seems low. Yeah. Well, I mean, those were what? It's percentages in
the teens for a five or 10% raise. That's kind of significant. You know, depending on how much you
make. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, I think that there's quite a few people out there that you offer
them a five percent pay bump and that's they take it, you know? Yeah. I mean, any bit would help
nowadays. I think most of us, pretty much all of us are in that situation. I have a hard time
believing that there's a whole lot of listeners out there that aren't in that situation. So that
right there gets things tempting. Right. And so many of us are so close to, you know, one
household catastrophe away from not being able to pay your bills every month. Yeah. You know,
you're you're you're you own your own home and you get a leak in your roof or your water heaters
cunks out or your stove dies. You know, you have to replace your refrigerator. Those are really big
purchases that most of us don't have enough money and savings to cover. Sadly. Yeah, as the
else report and some other data has shown us, I I don't normally like doing this, but it adds
context to it. And at least gives me a little stake in the in the game here because I've been in
this situation a couple of times. The the first real time that it happened, it was a huge difference
in pay. But it was out of state and it was right before the pandemic and I'm really glad I didn't
take that gig. The the other opportunities that have come up, I had the most recent one was at
the end of I'd say in the middle of December. There was a nice opportunity and I really thought a
lot about it. It was probably I don't know percentage wise. Let's say three to five percent more
than what I'm making right now. But at the state that it's in, it would the cost of living,
it probably would have even doubt. So I'd probably make in the same amount of thing and it would be
a different medium, but the same industry. And you would have had to move. Yes. And I had to be
very careful of this. I'm not trying to be cryptic or anything everybody. I just have a lot of
I have I have to be careful of these things contractually. For me, I and maybe this is horrible
negotiating on my part. I love this station. I love this area. I like living here. I like working
with the people I work with, all of those things. When I put the pluses and minuses together,
wasn't even close. So the on paper, the pay was pretty similar. And the opportunity was new and
different and exciting. But the all the other pluses, it wasn't even I, you know, I didn't even
really give it more than a couple hours before I call them back. I look at a survey like this and
I'll be honest with you. It does make me question. Did I do the right thing or not? But I feel
confident in my answer. I feel confident in that situation. But it's not it's not as if it didn't
like I said that hour or two I had to think about it. I'm not not because I I want another
opportunity or I'm looking for another one. But I owe it to myself and my responsibilities,
the people that count on me to think about those things. And I'd say that's true of of any of us.
Right. You know, you you have a lot of pros and cons to consider when changing professions or
changing jobs or or moving, changing locations. There's a lot of factors that you have to consider.
I mean, most of us have a a safety net we've built around us in the place that we live in.
And moving to a new place, you maybe don't have that, you know, depending on where you're going.
So those are all things to consider. They offered me to be the new James Bond.
I there. I said it. I wasn't going to I wasn't going to share. But you pulled it out of me, Melissa.
You know, I really tugged very hard. You did. She did have to be twisted your arm behind your back
and broke your fingernails. I didn't want to share this. But I had to do this from afar.
I'm impressive. Like this is my superpower.
I one thing one other thing is a side story to this that kind of stands out to me. And maybe I
hope I'm wrong about this. But I've been saying for a while that the power has gone to the employees.
And that's a good thing. You're not getting the genie back in the bottle. But I see something like
this and we have our conversation we just did. And then you and I have both talked to listeners
out there and many people in our own day to day lives that are in similar situations we've touched
on. And then I think about the minimum wage situation in this state. And I have to question,
well, maybe some power has gone to employees. And that's never going back. But we certainly are not
in a position where bosses and employees have similar powers. And I mean in the in the actual
workforce, I just mean in general, go starting out. We're both starting out on the same page here
or anything that I have to question now. Well, and I was trying really hard to find
this data for it because I had I'd seen some statistics and a graph showing the distribution
of wealth over the years, you know, the wealth of, I don't know if it because I can't find the
graph now. But it's either the wealth of the United States or the wealth of the world. And who
owns it? Who has who has it all? And it showed the 1% and it showed the rest of the population.
And it went from like, I want to say mid 1800s to present day. And you watch the graph because
it's a line graph. So the 1% is is down at the bottom, you know, way back when. And the rest
of us are up at the top because the majority of people owned the majority of the wealth. And
then you watch those lines converge as time goes on as the years go on. And then they go the other
way. And the 1% has the majority of the wealth and the rest of us have none of it. Yeah, this won't
stop until we make it stop. We have a voice. We can control this. We can make this stop. We can
keep on being, you know, man yelling at cloud in the sky or we can actually do something about it
and make change. We can do that with our vote. We vote for people that are closer to our
relatability and closer to understanding what it's like to be at an average American in this day
and age. And to live one paycheck away from losing your house. Yeah. I prefer a candidate that
is at least some idea of what that is compared to a candidate who has never had anything,
never experienced a day of their life like that. That's important to me. And I'm not talking about,
I'm not talking about, you know, just redistributing the wealth. Well, you know, everybody just
hand it out. They just give it away like welfare. No, how many of us work our butts off every single
day for the measly paycheck that we get. I don't know anybody who doesn't. Yeah, I think. Yes,
there are people out there who take advantage. Of course, that's always going to be the case.
There's always going to be criminals. There's always going to be the the the drags of society.
That's our reality where humans, but it doesn't have to be the way that it is. No, in those outliers
shouldn't be the deciding factor or the reason the reason and the argument for things not to
be better. Because you're right, Melissa. I think that you're most people out there. All they want
is to be paid what they're worth and the work that they're putting in. To be able to live
when they work a 40 hour week and not have to work three jobs. Yeah, because the numbers and
what we're going over and what we've touched on before. We've gotten we've gone from upper class
to middle class to lower class to just upper class to class. That's it. And it seems like we're
a thus outside of the 1% or the only ones with class.
And the number of people that are are having to go to food pantries and the pressure that's
being put on those resources is astronomical. And I'm glad you brought up the point about
working our butts off. Melissa, because I've been doing it since I was seven years old and I don't
have a butt. And I would like one. When I sit down at hurts, when I fall on the ice, it hurts.
I would like to be able to afford that. James, I hate to break this to you, but at your age,
falling hurts, period. Whether you have a butt or not. The worst is when you're in the air,
and you got a second to think about it before you land. That seems to happen to happen to be the
other day. There's one thing when you stub your toe and it takes a second for the pain to
hit you. That's different. When you're in the air and you have that moment where this is not going
that crap. Where's the ice pack? Where? Oh, yeah. We'll take a quick time out. We'll be back
with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
She goes, well wanted to make sure I know. She hopes we can be friends.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there. Thanks for
joining us for it. We're going to take it right to the top of the hour in the 9 o'clock hour with
us some entertainment news for you. Get in some, uh, then a write stories, um, local good stories
of the day. And I want to make sure we have some time to get into some other stuff to Melissa.
Got a bunch to cover today. We want to get to. Let's go ahead and go here. Uh,
a mom on TikTok named Amber is going viral after her daughter told her that that's an old person
name. The, the mom. Yeah. The mom said it just dawned on her that names like Erica and Amanda
are old people names now. Uh, they don't sound old to us because we met people with those people.
Yeah. Yeah. But the kids in 2024, they're, they're equivalent of gale or blanche or something like
that. There's no, they're, they're saying. Um, yeah. I just thought this was kind of interesting.
I don't really know where to go with it or anything. I, I did find it quite interesting.
Do we have a list of names that are now considered old people? That's, that's what, that's what I'm
trying to find right now. Old, old, old person names because what I see is names that you and I
would consider it like Amos or Cecil or something like that. Um, I, I don't see like a list of modern
old names, you know, whatever that might be. I, I don't like Melissa or James. Yeah. Well, but James
is kind of eternal. I know it's always, it's been popular forever. I really meant that as a question.
I, I really wasn't sure. I, I think that it, because it's been so common in my life with my,
not just me, but my three other in my son, you know, there's five of us. Um, I, I, I think that I
don't really put a whole lot of, oh, it's just so common. But yeah, you're probably right. You're
probably right. Um, I don't know. Uh, uh, uh, the names that I'm seeing here again are old like
Agatha and Agnes and, and some, yeah, those are actual, I don't want to say old people names with
their, their vintage. Yeah. Uh, and they're making a comeback. Yes. That's the, that's the,
the other part of this that I thought was quite interesting. Okay. So business insider has an article
here, uh, dated from the, oh, just here, just this year, just a couple weeks ago. Uh, and it's
based on this article from this Amber lady. Okay. So here we go. Um, this one is saying Ashley or
Amanda names like Amber, uh, all considered to be older names now. Um, they, uh, the, the, um,
the younger generation is kind of looking at those names not only as older names, but they are
looking at those like when they have kids, they want to name people left with these names. Um,
uh, one, one, uh, one kid said that he likes that he, they asked him what his favorite old
person name was and he said, Josh. I have a brother named Josh. Oh, that's rough. That's
it is. And he's younger than me. Uh, um, where, so, uh, the, the teacher started asking, um,
where's Nancy or Frank and the student said, where's Tiffany and Samantha and Kyle? I thought
Kyle would be a young, I've always thought of Kyle as a young person, a younger person name,
like a younger than me and generation than me. Um, I, I don't know. Kyle is kind of was pretty
common when I was a kid. Okay. Like people my age, I've known quite a few kiles when a school
was quite a few kiles. So Ashley, Amanda, Amber and Samantha were all among the top 50 most
popular names for girls in the US between 81 and 96. The timeframe in which millennials were
born according to social security administration. In fact, Ashley was the most popular name on
the list from in 91 and 92. And it was number two from 1985 to 1990 in 93 to 95. But since 2021,
none of those names were even in the top 100 most popular names for babies highlighting how parents
approach to naming as transition transformed in recent years. Wow. Since 2020, Olivia and Emma have
topped the list of girl names and both have been in the top 10 since 2010. Uh, when Jen alpha
babies began being born, Charlotte, Sophia and Amelia trail closely behind today, none of which were
even in the top 100 and from 1981 to 1996. Yeah. But if you go back 20, 30 years behind that. Right.
Right. 40 or 50. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Then all of a sudden, those names show up again. Yeah.
It's cyclical. It really is. Uh, Scarlett ranked 21st on the list in 2020. Uh, when, uh, this Amber
lady's daughter was born, though she told, uh, uh, that, uh, she, she was told that she didn't look
that trending names back then. She just randomly picked Scarlett, she says. Okay. Um, but names
have come in and out of style forever. Uh, this has always been the thing. There's always been the
case. Uh, this article does a really interesting job of breaking down the data of that tell. It may
be unsettling for millennial parents now, but baby boomers born between 40, uh, 46 and 64 and gen X
parents born from 65 to 1980 at a similar experience with their millennial children. For instance,
Linda was the most popular baby named between 47 and 52 and remaining the top 10 for the entire
period baby boomers are born. But by 96, it was 293rd on the list and by 2022, it was all the way down
to 807. Mm hmm. Like, but wait 20 years. That name will come back. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing with
Jennifer. Jennifer is another big name that, uh, they mentioned on this list like that. Um, I,
I don't, I sometimes data is just data. Sometimes it's just interesting and fun to think. There's no,
uh, necessarily like great cause that we have to jump on. Even, even me who, uh, every, every morning
I jump out of soapbox. Uh, there's that. I don't think the, well, we have, we need to make it more,
we need to make more sofias. Uh, I mean, I, I feel like, like, okay, we either we do or don't.
I mean, you know, there's a, it's a name. It's about the person. Like, do we need to make more people
like the Sophia? You may know or something like that. Sure. Yeah. That, that, you just like the name
so much, well, you know, get a pet. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, there's, um, there's,
there's ways to keep these names around. We've got enough names. I think we're okay. I, I, I, and
we've, we created a lot of new ones in the last 20 years. Yeah.
Or at least spellings of names. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have written, I, I don't know about you, Melissa,
but in the 11 years that I've been teaching, uh, I have come across so many Jackson's, so many
Jackson's, uh, both, both men and women. And, and the only difference seems to be some spell it,
like J-A-C-K-S-O-N and some with an X. Like that's a, and I actually, I like that name. I'm not
making fun of it. I'm just as an example. I, it's, I, I, I went my whole life never meeting anybody
named Jackson, except for people with that last name in the last 11 years. I've met at least 20
Jackson's, at least 20. For me, it's McKenzie. Oh, yeah. I had so many different spellings of McKenzie
of students when I was working at Tomahay School that I, that's how I kept them separate in my
brain by their different spellings. Which, you know, I mean, yes, it's unique. It's, um, it's,
I, in some ways, awesome, but in then in other ways, they're going to be correcting people on how
to spell their name for their entire lives. Which, you know, I mean, I don't know, that's also okay.
Yeah. If they want to deal with it. I, uh, I think that a lot of us, uh, love the
idea of having an original name or, or, or something. I, one thing I, I, I had to come around and
learned way late in life, way later than I probably should have is, uh, what's in a name? It's you
that makes a name. You know, it doesn't matter if you have the most common name and human history.
It's about the person behind the name. We've known plenty of people that have common names that
go on to have amazing lives or careers or what have you and everything. Um, one, one thing I do
think that is really cool about this day and age is names are no longer, they don't, they don't
necessarily belong to anybody. Like you can, if, if there's a name that you like, you can name your
kid, you know, there's not a lot of, um, uh, social structures to kind of keep you from, you know,
naming your kid this or, or going with that. Um, there's a few that you maybe wouldn't want to name
your kid. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely. But I, I think
that with outside of those outliers, you know, for the most part, um, culturally, we, we're kind of
just like, yeah, we'll just roll with it. Like, well, you know, especially, hey, you want to name
your kid placenta? Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead ahead. It's a pretty name.
Want to name your kid? Or Angelo, spelled orange, Jello. Absolutely. Yes. You do you kid.
You want to name your kid after thought? That's fine. You want to, um, I, I think the other
thing too is that, uh, I don't think that they did, obviously didn't do this intentionally.
And I don't know necessarily that we need to thank them for this, but celebrities and their
crazy names for their kids. Like it kind of like a unit. Yeah. Yeah. Apple, uh, I mean, you know,
a fighter pilot. Like we've heard them all, uh, at this point, you can, like if you're, if you're
naming your kid and your relatives, give you a hard time about it, all you got to do is point
to celebrity couple A or B or whatever. I'd be like, yeah, I, yeah, I named my kid this.
They got like a test pilot as their kids day. You try, you try find it a little license plate,
for your bicycle as a kid that says test pilot on something. Good luck. Good luck. I had a hard
time finding James. I can't imagine that. Yeah. Um, that, that was always, that was always a
difficult one. I remember my sister and I, uh, Jello was looking for Gillian and I was looking for
James and not uncommon names, but we couldn't ever find their license plates for those. No,
you probably found Jim. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. No, no, never the one that you're
looking for, not the same, which I actually think that that was, uh, they, they, they tried to do that.
I'm not, I can't prove that, but I feel like that. And now you, most, you could just, I don't know,
3D print it yourself. That's true. That's true. Wow. That's a different thing. That's, wow,
that it really is a different day. Who would that one come to that? I didn't even thought about. That's
interesting. It's going to get more and more interesting in the next hour. We got plenty of good
things coming up for you, everybody. We're going to get into a little bit of entertainment. We've
also got some other fun stuff I want to touch on, including this, uh, wonderful, good news story
of the day. I, I believe coming out of Portland that I'd really, I, I really want to make time for
us to be able to get into Melissa. I think it's really interesting. Uh, we've got that coming up.
We will also, of course, to get into our, uh, local, good stories of the day and we got some
doozies as far as that ain't right stories go. Um, including one with the Guinness World Records
people. Oh, yeah, we, we're usually all on their side and everything, but we got a story that I
don't, I think is at that ain't right story. And we'll find out together coming up. Okay.
Melissa James, take it through your next hour on the morning show at WFHR.
