Hour 1: Toy Cars and Friendship

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I am joined by your head of news, Melissa K.

Good morning.

And of course, the best listeners in radio.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

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

We got good things lined up for you this hour.

We're going to kick things off with our good friend,

Brittany Merlot, talking a little more on the nature.

Good morning, Brittany.

Good morning, who else is singing the song with me?

Like, rain, rain, go away.

Yeah, yeah.

Have either of you ever experienced this where you wash your car

and then like an hour later it rains?

Like, it feels like that's what we just experience with the snow

and then the rain.

Like, we finally got snow, everybody.

It was outside making snowmen last night and another gone.

They're gone.

They're rainmen now.

They're rainmen.

And that's not as much fun.

At least you got out and played in it.

I also did as well.

It's some snow angels.

I went sledding.

Let me tell you I went sledding in the rain

and I didn't make it very far.

It was very mushy.

It's like mashed potatoes.

But I did it.

You did it.

That's what counts, Brittany.

Exactly.

Yes, you did it.

That's right.

So we are looking to hit weather bingo today.

Are we going to hit everything again?

Are we like the last couple of days, Brittany?

What is the look like?

We are.

These weather brackets are phenomenal.

That's what we are going to do next year.

We are going to do a march madness with weather.

Oh, that would be so much fun.

But yeah, we are going to hit all, I guess, most of the seasons.

Not summer.

Sorry.

Well, what we are going to have today.

Yeah, we have already seen about a half an inch of rain just today

into Wisconsin Rapids area.

A little bit more habits for getting, like, recorders of an inch.

So another quarter of an inch is still possible.

Yeah.

I know.

It's just so dreary.

So it's going to be a sloppy, slushy, muddy mess.

Obviously, they're off the trails.

You're not going to want to be on the many ways.

I hope you found your rain boots and the umbrella.

If you're going to need them, rain will continue till about four.

All right.

And it's going to scatter out a little bit.

We could see some patchy fog building in as well because of all this snow melting, warmer temperatures.

I mean, we're going to climb to the fifties today.

So more snow melting, just a soggy nasty ground.

But what's going to happen after four is we're going to see those winds start to gust out of the northwest.

Now we're going to get blasted with the cold and it's going to crash our temperatures to about 37 degrees for the rest of the night.

So it's going to fall pretty quickly from 50 to the upper 30s.

And then, you know, we're going to go below freezing.

So all this wetness and whatever is still falling from the sky will have the potential to slip to a wintry mix right around that evening commute.

And then over to some light snow overnight.

But we're not looking at heavy accumulations just about a half an inch to a trace.

But it's going to be slippery tomorrow morning.

Good to know.

Good to know. We got a heads up.

Yeah. Do you think we're going to see any flooding from this Brittany?

It is definitely possible, especially because we had that snow on the ground and now another inch to an inch and maybe a half is possible in some areas.

So yes, I think those rivers are going to be rising.

I think we're going to see some of that starting over the next few days is all of those, you know, the ground absorb it.

And then they'll start rising and causing some issues.

But I'm a little bit more low on the basementing as well.

You do?

No, I said I'm a little scared to go in my basement.

I'm scared to go in my garage too.

All right. I'll come by and check it out for you guys.

I'll come out. That's what I do.

It's a side gig of mine. I go check out basements for people.

I just go. It doesn't pay a lot, but you know, it keeps me busy.

You're going to make a lot of money.

Yeah, really.

Brittany, we appreciate you so much. Thanks for getting us informed.

We'll hang out again tomorrow.

I'm good. They drive.

Have a great day.

Best in the business right there.

Our friend Brittany below. We appreciate her.

Good things lined up this morning.

We have the El Café birthday anniversary club right around the corner,

looking forward to that.

We're going to get into the percentage of millennial parents that think they're amazing.

We're going to talk about sunshine guilt.

Sunshine guilt or guilt?

Yeah. Sunshine guilt.

G-U-I-L-T.

Just in case I wasn't saying it correctly.

Yeah, I had to make sure I was saying it right.

Yes, yes.

Got that coming up a little entertainment news for you in the 9 o'clock hour as well.

And in the 9 o'clock hour, we're going to get into which of these foods is the grossest.

We've got a bunch of categories we'll get to.

We'll see which one that hits the list.

I'm getting you and I are going to differ on this.

Possibly, possibly, which could be fun.

It could be a lot of fun.

But Melissa, I think I came across a fun one here that others may want to jump in on.

A pair of Florida women are attempting to create a new Guinness World Record by driving 500 miles down the state's coast in a pair of toy cars.

Cassie Iran and her friend Lauren who requested her last name be withheld.

Are documenting their adventures on social media after setting off from friendship found in Jacksonville in a pair of ride on toy cars.

The women are aiming to make the 500 mile drive to South Southernmost Point Boyo in Key West in time of about two months.

The duo said Guinness World Records does not concur currently list a record holder for the longest distance traveled by a toy car.

But the record keeping the organization approved their application to integrate the category.

So that's kind of cool.

They made their own category here.

This just kind of came to this wild, we just kind of came to this wild idea because we had these cars as kids.

We used to ride around in toy cars as kids and have always wanted the Guinness World Record to attempt.

So we're like, this would be a fun way to kind of do it to honor their childhood.

The record attempt is raising money for animal charities including the Red Panda Network in Nepal, the Costa Rican Animal Rescue Center, the SAVA Fox Rescue in Minnesota to do amazing work.

And the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri who also do all these organizations do amazing work.

That's good. I'm glad they're doing that.

That makes it more noteworthy.

To be honest, I would be a little jealous of them having the time to do this and everything.

Well, yeah, I have questions.

Yeah, but as it is because of the cause that they're doing it, the cause is that they're doing it for.

I'm with you, Melissa.

Okay, this brings it all full circle.

It'd be pretty hard.

I don't know if they have significant others or not or have jobs or anything like that.

But it'd be pretty hard to be like, yeah, me and my friend just want to basically just be just overdose on nostalgia.

When we get our toy cars, we're going to drive this route that we've been on before and have some fun.

Yeah, well, so I wonder if they're just driving a certain amount of time a day.

These are my questions.

Do they work full-time jobs and then they're like, let's drive to our location.

Get back in our cars and keep going.

That's a good question.

That's a good question.

That's their evening entertainment.

Why else would this take them too much?

God, I am here for any segment that makes you do sound effects.

Any segment.

Yeah, I think that's a very good question too.

I would like to know how they're doing this.

I would like to know the logistics a little bit of it.

Yeah, well, because they got to charge them.

Right, you're right.

They just drive continuously.

Those things don't, they don't aren't refillable.

Yeah, and they are the true toy cars.

They look like little sports cars.

Yeah, they're not souped-up ones.

Yeah, they do look fun.

It does look like it's fun.

And they are documenting the whole thing too, which is kind of interesting too.

Just imagine the slow-mo pictures they can get.

Very slow.

I mean, I took some awesome photos on the drive back from Arizona.

Actually, those are some of the best photos I got on the way back

through the car window driving, you know, 65 miles an hour.

Yeah.

They're going to get some awesome ones going, what, 0.3 miles an hour?

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah.

I also think that this, and they seem like really, really good friends.

But am I just somebody who does not have a lot of friends or something

or am I over thinking it or because it does seem like this would test your friendship

a little bit?

It might.

Just to not not not to where you're not going to be friends anymore.

But I mean, it would definitely push things, I would think.

It would definitely.

Yeah.

Well, the commitment to being able to do that, that's a, that's a big time commitment

to ones.

Yeah.

Of this, you know, like, okay, let's get back on the road.

It's like cars.

They can't be comfortable as a little size adult.

No, no.

They're barely comfortable as kids.

And I tell you, you definitely, you're definitely going to,

you didn't even have to, I have me tell you that they're doing this in Florida.

Like, there's no other, I mean, there's almost no other state that you could get

the way with, maybe California you can get away with this, but Texas.

But in some way, I'm glad they're women.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

So that makes it better somehow.

I'm with you.

And I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it does.

It does.

It does.

I've good on them for raising all the awareness and money for the charities that

they are too though.

Absolutely.

It's a fun story.

If you'd like to see the full article, UPI dot com has it.

A couple of other local Florida newspapers have it too.

A shout out to our Florida listeners who sent that over to me.

Appreciate them.

Thanks all to our friends over in the Miami area.

We appreciate them waking up with us too.

It's a little earlier.

I would imagine there.

But yeah, yeah.

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Happy birthday Lucy.

Yeah.

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Hey congrats Troy and happy birthday.

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Love celebrating with you.

Want more and more of them.

Yes indeed.

We take a look now at our celebrity list.

Cure Nightly is 39 today.

Pirates of the...

Really?

Yeah.

Pirates of the Caribbean bend it like Beckham Pride and Prejudice.

Love actually.

Mm-hmm.

I like Cure Nightly.

Great actor.

Great actor.

I kind of feel like the other reason we don't see her more is because she just doesn't want to work more or something I guess.

I feel like it doesn't need to.

Yeah yeah.

It seems like I don't care what the role is.

I would not want to go up against her for a role.

Like she just seems like one of those actors that can really pull off a lot of different things.

Well I mean she's got a wide range too.

She's a model, a singer.

And then on her off time she's a philanthropist feminist and human rights advocate.

I had no idea about half of those things.

That is really cool.

That is really really cool.

Good honor.

That is very cool.

We continue on with one of the more talented human beings out there.

Jonathan Groff is 39 today.

King George and Hamilton.

Kristoff in the in the Frozen.

He's also Jesse on Glee and Patrick on HBO's Looking.

He was on a great job.

Did a great job on Netflix's Mindhunter TV show.

He is such a versatile great guy.

I didn't see Frozen until like a year ago or whatever.

I never hadn't seen those.

And I hadn't seen Hamilton right away and I didn't know he was in it.

I saw him in a TV show on Netflix Mindhunter and he played.

It's about the early days of the FBI figuring out how to profile serial killers and stuff.

It's a fascinating show.

It was really good.

Of course it's on Netflix so Netflix didn't take advantage of having a great show like that

and continue to put money into it or anything.

They just canceled it.

But he was amazing on it.

I didn't know how versatile he was.

I, you know, Disney releases Hamilton.

You know, a lot of us got to watch it finally.

And he's King George.

And dear God, if you, if it's, there's like two or three songs that I would recommend.

I don't care if you like musicals or not.

To listen to in Hamilton.

One of them is the King George song.

You'll be back.

Watch his performance.

Listen to him sing it.

It's some of the best acting I've ever seen Melissa.

Oh, wow.

It genuinely is.

It blew me away.

I knew he was a good actor.

I didn't know how versatile he was and he could sing all this.

He's got one of those versatile faces too.

Like he kind of looks like everybody.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he does a great job as Christoph in The Frozen series.

Amy Smart is 48.

She's a good actor.

She's been in a handful of things.

Butterfly effect.

A couple of other things like that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, she's good.

She's good.

Leslie Mann is 52.

She's married to Judd Apato.

She's in pretty much all of his movies.

She's a good actress.

She could have gotten in and moved not married to him though.

She's a good actor.

She was a great.

She was the drunk girl in a 40-year-old virgin.

I think that might be a good reference for some.

Catherine Heigel's sister knocked up.

She was in the control.

She was in the other woman.

This is 40.

Yeah, yeah.

She's good.

Oh, she was in Georgia, the jungle in 1997.

Oh, wow.

I forgot about that one.

Oh, man.

Brendan Frazier.

Oh.

We celebrated this over on the Sunrise show.

Kenny Chesney is 56 today.

Happy birthday to him.

Wow.

One of the better actors I've ever seen on TV.

Michael Imporelli is 58 today.

Tony's nephew on the sopranos.

He's gotten behind the camera a lot more now and been a director.

Been doing a lot of good work.

John Stockton is 62.

Retired Utah Jazz Point Guard.

One of the better assist men in the game.

Jennifer Gray is 64.

Baby and dirty dancing.

Oh, wow.

Ferris's sister and Ferris Bueller's day off.

She won season 11 of Dancing with the Stars.

And 54.

I can't believe she's 64.

She looks great.

And I'm extremely happy for her that she won that Dancing

with the Stars.

I don't care about reality TV or anything like that.

But Jennifer Gray got some really bad advice when she was young.

And actors have this happen to them all the time.

We 99% of us go into this industry without having anybody

who looks out for us, any relatives, any connections,

or anything like that.

Most of us aren't related to a copula.

You go in and you have one person that you see all the time.

You talk to all the time and you trust and that's your agent.

And your agent has, you know, you figure,

well, they're making a percentage off of my contract.

So they care, right?

Yeah, of course they do.

And stuff.

No, no, they care about the money.

The majority of them.

I shouldn't say all of them.

I've got a, I've had two really good agents out of the 10.

I've had, I've had two really, really good ones.

One of them I still talk to to this day.

So there can be good ones out there.

But it's very rare.

Jennifer's agent tells her you need, you know,

she's already gotten, she's gotten Ferris Bueller.

She's gotten dirty dancing.

She's baby and dirty dancing.

Her star has never been higher.

And her agent is in her head telling her,

you're never going to get other work.

You're not going to get another leading role with that nose.

Get some nose job.

Nobody sees her again.

You know, and it's not even, it's not even in her hands necessarily.

She's a grown woman.

She made the decision.

I'm not saying she didn't.

But we, if the one person that has all the knowledge of the industry

is telling you this is what's going to help you stay in the industry,

what are you going to do?

Yeah.

And it's just a shame.

She's a good actor.

And she deserved a better than that.

One of the better running backs of all time.

Marcus Allen is 64 today.

Let's see here.

Oh, the great, the legend, the amazing Martin Short is 74.

Wow.

I've seen everything that man has ever done.

I've grown up loving.

I'm totally mental about Martin Short.

I can't believe it.

It's totally crazy.

I used to do Ed Grimley running around the house as a kid.

I just love Martin Short.

Big, big, big fan.

I think Martin Short is incredibly, incredibly talented actor

who has a lot of versatility to him.

I can say that now.

I didn't always know that about him.

I don't think Martin Short got a lot of opportunities

to do a lot of dramatic work or those kind of things.

In this TV show, Only Murders in the Building, he's done it all.

Every single emotion he has done,

and every one of them he has done amazingly.

I think Steve Martin is an incredible actor,

one of the most talented human beings we've ever seen.

I think Selena Gomez is just right there.

When it's all said and done,

she's going to go down as one of the greats probably.

Martin Short blows him away.

I'm almost every time he's on screen,

he almost blows him away.

It's incredible.

I don't think we ever gave Martin Short

the credit as an actor that he deserved,

and he's really showing, I got it.

I got it.

It's so cool to see.

Such a good actor, such a good personality.

I do have to mention a throwback to 1987

in inner space.

Yeah.

Yes.

Oh, I love that movie.

Yes.

I love that movie.

Such a good movie.

I mean, he's the guy that has something in place

with the ship and, you know,

miniaturized and implanted inside of his body.

The beginning of it,

where he first finds out about it and stuff.

And he's in that white shirt and flip.

They throwing himself around the apartment.

I don't know why, but it gets me every time.

Every time.

I just love it.

I love Martin Short.

I love Martin Lawrence too.

Vicki Lawrence.

I was thinking Martin Lawrence

because Vicki Lawrence is right here at 75.

Mama's family, Carol Burnett show.

Vicki Lawrence, I always admired her

because I was thought she was a very beautiful woman

who always seemed to play the old woman,

like in a grandma or something like that,

even though that was like 30,

she was playing a character 30 years older than her,

or whatever.

And she do it just like fearlessly.

Like if it makes you laugh,

I'll do it kind of thing.

I learned so much from Vicki Lawrence

and actors like her that, you know,

the Jody Foster line, being a good actor

is being the most uncool person in the room.

It's not about being cool.

It's about entertaining people.

Great.

She was really good at that.

Stephen Tyler is 76 today,

Aerosmith frontman and songwriter.

A really good showman.

Stephen Tyler can really perform.

Yeah.

One of the greatest ever Diana Ross is 80 today.

Wow.

80.

You can't hurry love.

Baby love.

Stop in the name of love.

Love.

Love.

Love.

Love.

Love.

Her daughter is Tracy Ellis Ross.

She is the wife on blackish,

good actor herself,

and Diana Ross incredible,

what an incredible career.

Yeah.

And a lot of those songs now,

or at least what if I'm for sure,

is on the trolls movies?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I'm coming.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

We got a couple of more names left, everybody.

So go ahead and get comfortable,

because we got to get to these.

We have to mention Bob Woodward,

born in this day.

81 years old today, one of the reporters who,

they say, took down President Nixon.

I don't, it's not about taking down a president.

It's about informing the people.

The public.

Yeah, informing people and everything.

Whatever happens after that is what happens.

But the art of the act of journalism,

the truth of journalism,

is to be that bridge,

is that between us and politicians,

between us and companies.

It is the truth.

It is, that is the essence of it.

It isn't, it isn't about taking down a Republican

or a Democrat,

or anything like that.

It is about getting facts and truth out there.

To the people.

Because there's,

there's some of them don't want us to know these things

for obvious reasons.

And we have to stop acting like report,

like good reporting ends with the reporter.

Okay, Bob Woodward does great report,

puts it out there.

puts out, out there information on then president Nixon

that nobody knew.

What, what did Nixon do?

What did they do?

They didn't double down.

They didn't, I didn't do it.

Well, yeah, they did some stupid things.

Now, but what did the American people do?

They didn't shout fake news.

They didn't, they didn't,

they didn't win it completely.

When facts, when they were presented with facts,

they didn't act like children and babies.

They took in those facts.

And even if it was somebody that they liked,

they acknowledged it.

That's, that's the way this works.

Nowadays, the fact that anything could,

Melissa could say to me, James, your name is James.

I'm fake news, Melissa.

That's not my name.

That's the, I go by GM.

What are you talking about?

Like, it's, yeah, it doesn't,

we need to get back to the Woodwards.

We need to get back to the true journalism.

Mm-hmm.

And, and then also just owning up to what's,

you know, what would be done wrong?

The thing that these politicians forget,

and not just politicians, they'll say celebrities

that get in trouble in all of these things.

Mm-hmm.

Corporations.

What, what happened when we were kids?

If you owned up to it,

you didn't get in as much trouble.

Yeah, you still got in trouble,

but you didn't get in as much.

And you didn't lose all the, all respect.

Yeah.

Like, I respect somebody more for owning their mistake

than for doubling down and saying,

oh, I didn't do it.

Somebody else, this is somebody else's problem.

Somebody else's fault.

Yeah.

100%.

And zero respect for people who do that.

I have zero respect that I refused to,

to put my name with anybody that does anything like that.

Got some people no longer with us.

Like the great Alan Arkin,

would have been 90 today.

Founding second city television member

and Adam Arkin's dad.

From 1970 to 1972, he was Larry on Sesame Street

in 2007 when the best supporting actor

for the grandpa and little Miss Sunshine.

One of my favorite people of all time,

Alan Arkin.

I love, love, love Alan Arkin.

Every time I see him on screen, I smile every time.

Oh, he was in Edward's, his regains.

He was beautiful in that.

Yeah.

Alan Arkin never did a bad job in his life.

He's the psychiatrist in Gross Point Blank.

And it's one of my favorite performances ever of anything.

It's just so good.

It's so good.

Sandra Day O'Connor would have been 94 today.

When in 1930, passed away in 2023,

first woman on the Supreme Court bench.

Wow.

James Conn, another great actor born in 1940.

He was Sonny Coralone, Corleone on the Godfather.

He was Ed in Las Vegas.

But a lot of people might remember him

as Scott Conn's dad in real life.

Also, he was Will Ferrell's dad in Elf.

Hmm.

The great, the legend Leonard Nimoy, born in this day in 1931.

Live long and prosper.

Teddy Pentegras, born in this day in 1950,

closed the door, loved TKO, turned off the lights.

Teddy Pentegras could sing.

And one of the greatest playwrights of all time,

Tennessee Williams, born in this day in 1911,

passed away in 1983.

I didn't realize he lived into the 80s there.

Wow.

Of course, the streetcar named Desire,

Katana Hatten-Roof.

And Melissa, have you ever done a herd of any

Tennessee Williams plays?

Maybe the Glassman action.

Oh, yes, that's right.

You were so great about it, so good.

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Tell me what's on your mind.

Well, we're about to.

Melissa and I are about to tell you what's on our mind.

That's what we do for a living.

We talk.

That's kind of what we have to do.

I had to play that, everybody.

Letters Neemoy sample in there.

It's got the Letters Neemoy saying the words.

I had to play.

It's Letters Neemoy's birthday.

So in my head, it made sense.

Yes, thank you, Melissa.

We got some fun stuff to get to this segment here.

I want to touch on it with you, Melissa.

We're going to get into in a moment here,

Sunshine Gilton, what that is.

But first, before we can get into that,

we have to get into another term.

And it seems like Gen Z just came up with the bed rotting term

yesterday.

For those who don't know, that's basically sitting in bed all day

or sitting around and not wanting to do anything.

Well, now they have a new, another term,

Herkold Herkold Herkold Herkold.

And I did check.

I can say that on the air.

That is, that is safe with the FCC.

Let me just double check.

Got an FCC guy in the building here.

Yep, and we're good.

We're good.

So Herkold Herkold, we can say.

It's all over TikTok right now.

It's an old Scottish term for when it's...

I'm going to say it.

It sounds Scottish.

It's an old Scottish term for when it's time to get up,

but you stay in bed anyway.

For example, I was late for work because I Herkold Herkold

for about a solid 20 minutes today.

Mm-hmm.

That's really...

It's Molly Gagging.

Molly Gagging, now Molly Gagging,

I feel like I know what you mean when you say Molly Gagging.

If I've never heard somebody say Herkold Herkold Herkold before,

I'm like, should you be telling me that?

Should you...

I don't know if you can say that out loud.

It might be a priest around here or something.

I don't know.

It's a safe term.

It's completely fine.

But there are words and there are terms in our lexicon

that are completely innocent,

but have a dirty sound to them.

Or have...

Like, if you don't know if you're not familiar with the word,

you're like, I don't know if you can say that.

Or you wouldn't say it in front of your parents.

It's like how...

There are ways.

Like, my mother obviously has said my name my whole life.

But when she...

There are certain ways when she says,

Jimmy, like, it's a swear word.

It's not even my name anymore.

It becomes a swear word.

And it feels that way.

I feel like that with this.

Like, you're taking the word.

It feels like it's completely okay, but I don't know.

Do we really need a term for lazy?

Or just, you know, or...

I mean, I feel like we already have these words.

Well, what we do have some,

but I think that some of them are, you know,

they're localized to your culture or your heritage.

Yeah.

And in Scotland, they have a lot of fun ones.

Oh, yes, they do.

Yes, yes.

God, I love the Scottish language.

Yeah.

I have a good friend from high school

that's still talked to everyone once in a while from Scotland.

She is one of those thick, Scottish accents.

Man.

I used to feel so bad for her though,

because people would always ask her to say words

and everything.

She heard about them.

So now that we got that term out of the way,

we got another trending one.

And a lot of people say that they've dealt with it.

Do you ever battle sunshine guilt?

It's when there's a string of days with bad weather.

Then it's sunny,

but you just don't feel like going out.

Early spring is prime sunshine guilt season.

Hmm.

It's loosely related to other trendy terms,

like FOMO and bedriding.

And we mentioned her, our herical darkling.

That, that's a Scottish term for staying in bed.

Your sunshine guilt might cut even deeper

if you check social media and see your friends

enjoying nice weather and you're not.

A woman on TikTok is blowing up after she said she was having

a perfectly okay day indoors

until her sunshine guilt ruined everything.

I mean.

That has more to do, I think, with us

with our social media issues that we experience

by looking at other people's pictures

and going, oh, look at everybody's on vacation.

I never get to take vacation.

Oh, look at everybody's happy with their family.

I don't have kids.

You know, I think it's a similar thing.

Yes, absolutely.

I think you're 100% right.

I think that well, I think that's a part of it.

Because it even exists when you're not looking

at social media, you look outside and you're like,

oh, I should get out and do something in the yard today.

And like, oh, but I also want to watch this show.

I could see it being a personal thing as much as that.

I think what it comes down to is it can be

a bit of a mental health thing.

And what we're doing a lot of right now is

we've got more time than we've ever had to think.

And we're dissecting that more.

And we're, I think some things, I don't know

that we're overthinking, but we're able to give terms to,

hey, I have this feeling.

Lots of other people I know have this feeling,

but it's never really had a word of its own.

We call it this, we call it that, but that's just

for lack of a better phrase or lack of a better word.

Now we're actually able to give terms and kind of,

you know, skeleton and meat and bones to these terms,

to these words, to these feelings.

Which can only help us, the best way to deal with something

is to acknowledge it.

And what you do, you're able to maybe handle it

a little bit better and work through it or what have you.

That nothing gets done by ignoring it or, you know,

shoving under the bed as my mother has reminded me many,

many times.

No, I usually find that to be true.

If I can identify why I'm feeling away,

it helps me come to terms with it and then be able to,

like, okay, yep, that's why, now I'm going to move on.

I don't know, to me, that's not only do I feel healthier

from something like that, but I feel like the people around me

can feel that in the sense that.

Well, because it's a level of emotional intelligence.

Of being able to say, okay, well,

and I think that we go through this with kids,

especially toddlers and young children.

Like, okay, yes, you are feeling frustrated right now.

Sometimes we have to help them name why they're feeling

the way they are, and there's been studies done on this

and for young children who don't learn those other emotions

besides anger, joy, you know, there's like a six main emotions

that everybody knows.

If you don't help them name the other ones like frustration

or irritation, they don't know them

and then they automatically go to one of the other main

emotional responses.

I don't know this for a fact, but I was told through therapy

and everything that I was kind of one of those kids.

Just didn't experience a lot of other emotions

other than, you know, some very tense ones growing up.

It took me a long time to kind of, even to this day,

to kind of realize how to express other emotions,

how to have other emotions in, you know, in moment.

Heated the moment and things like that.

My body language is one of those things I work on a lot.

It's, you know, some of the dates,

we're all the work in progress.

Oh yeah, yeah.

And the more that we can learn to identify

or help to name what we're feeling,

it can only help, like you said, us and those around us.

Yes, yes.

Because that's what it's about.

It's not, you know, certainly you have to come first.

You have to take care of your own backyard.

But it's important to keep in mind those people around you as well.

I know that when I am able to, like, you know, tell my partner,

I am just irrationally angry today.

And I don't know why.

It helps him know how to interact with me.

Like, okay, it's not you that I'm angry with.

I'm just, for some reason, feeling anger or, you know, frustration

or whatever it is.

And then we're able to talk through it a lot of times

that helps me get past it.

Yeah.

Or there's what Melissa does with me.

Throw things at me.

She knows.

Yeah, it's really a lot harder now

that I'm not in the same building with you a lot of days.

But poor Kevin,

sure why things are flying across the room.

Yeah, but to Melissa's credit,

I know we're an audio medium,

so you can't see this.

During the commercial break, she hits me all the time

and I have no idea how.

I don't know how you do that.

I'm still looking around at the ceiling.

I've got to learn that trick.

I'm going to try to figure that out as we go to commercial break.

We'll come back after hearing from our partners

and more fun in store right here at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Little Fiona Apple to play us in.

Off of her album from the 90s.

And speaking of 90s,

we encourage you to check out Unlabeled.

It comes on after Seth Faces music.

Sixth eight catch Seth Faces music every Sunday.

After that, eight to nine.

Unlabeled.

Your 90s mixtape.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Your opportunity to hear anything that was released from 1990

to 1999.

We got some fun stuff.

I've just been getting bombarded by requests.

I'm still waiting for one from you from Melissa.

Most of waiting for a request from you.

I'll get you one.

Yeah.

I'd love that.

I'd love that.

We've gotten a couple of them already

and really do appreciate everybody having some fun

with that show.

Be sure to catch it and get us your request everybody.

We're having a lot of fun.

You know it's going to be SWV or Ace of Base, right?

Yes.

I can't wait.

Yes.

That's hilarious.

You and Katrina have both been threatening me with some of those.

That's great.

If it's released in the 90s, I want to play it.

You know.

I think that-

I think that-

Don't like it.

Yeah.

I think that one of the funnest things about the 90s for music

was how where we are now with music, especially younger generations,

they mash everything up.

There is no more genres.

They mix all of it up and it's just kind of where they were going.

Our generation really got that ball rolling.

I mean, not to say we started it.

I don't mean that, but we got it really rolling with that.

We got a lot of the music pairings back in the day in the 90s.

A lot of that.

A lot of the mixing of genres and a lot of how-

I think a lot of this happened with country music becoming much more pop-like

and hip-hop becoming much more pop-like.

And pop music kind of almost like kind of centering itself.

And being like, this is what pop music is.

Yeah, it's just interesting and then where we are now.

An evolution of music is fascinating.

It's some of the best classes I've ever taken are music classes,

even though they really don't apply to anything I do in my life.

I really haven't had any use of that.

I think music affects all of us in different ways

and there's different ways that we can utilize it.

How many of us put on a specific song or album

when we're feeling a certain way?

Very true.

Very true.

It helps us to tie back in with our last segment deal with our emotions.

Nicely done.

You're 1,000% right about that.

I don't know about most people out there,

but especially I don't have a whole lot of times to listen to music.

So now I find myself either I'm in a mood

and I want a soundtrack to it to that mood

or I know I need to be in a certain mood

and I want that soundtrack for that to get me into that mood.

It's always music.

It's always music that I go to for these things.

Anytime I'm building a character,

I've got a new role and I'm building the character right now.

One of the first things I do is find a song

that the character and I both would like

and it's my bridge to that character.

I think you're 100% right.

Just a little bit of breaking news.

We've got to get to really quick.

For a minute, Melissa, you can tie me.

We have a minute episode of Playmakers for you everybody.

A quick minute episode of Playmakers

that you can catch every Monday from 3 to 4.

Melissa's timing me.

NFL owners approve a massive revamp

of the kickoff play Tuesday,

opting for a format that originated in the XFL

and after three days of discussions,

the new alignment rules represent the most significant

on-field rule change for the NFL in years

and is designed to reverse

more than a decade of declining return rates

which also lowered concussion rates.

In essence, the format will move the majority

of kicking and return teams downfield

to minimize high-speed collisions.

It will go into effect for one year only

in anticipation of possible tweaks over time.