Good morning, Wisconsin.
Good morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Got your host, James J. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa Kaye.
Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We got good stuff lined up for you today.
We're going to kick things off, talking a little mother nature with our good friend,
Brittany Marlowe.
Good morning, Britt.
Good morning.
How are you?
We're doing good over here.
Yeah.
We got a couple of interesting stories to kick things off today.
It is National Burrito Day, Brittany.
Are you a burrito person, a morning burrito person, anything like that?
I can eat a burrito any time of the day.
I will.
I love my Mexican food.
Right up, right up.
Save here.
Save here.
Melissa, are you a burrito person?
Oh, yeah.
I love burrito.
Right up.
Thought so.
I thought so.
All right.
I know what I'm having for lunch.
There you go.
Yes.
Melissa, what is our backdrop going to be like while we're enjoying our burritos today?
What is the nature going to bring us?
This is the closest way I can tie it in.
This is the best way I can do it.
This is a goodness.
Yes.
Those winds are still going to be whipping this morning.
We're going to start to calm down a little bit by this afternoon, but still got up to
about 25, 30 miles per hour, and they will ease tonight and through tomorrow.
But what that means is, we're still seeing some snow flying around a little bit this
morning, made for some slippery spots over towards Nikusa, Greenfield, Wildrose area.
And we're still going to see those chances over the next hour or so, but our temperatures
are warming, right?
We're going to climb to the low forties today, and with those chances of precipitation
still, that's going to flip over to some light sprinkles possible this afternoon.
No, nothing major.
It's not going to be a heavy downpour or anything like that, but just some wet roads throughout
the afternoon and a little windy in the late of the forties.
Tomorrow, sunshine.
Hey.
All right.
Things are really going to start melting then, I suppose.
Yes.
Yes.
This is why this should be gone by the weekend, for sure.
And so, next week, if anything, next week, it's looking at we're going to be flirting
with 60s, possibly, 59s, 60s around there.
Yes, we will.
As soon as Tuesday, actually, my Monday, potentially, we could get there, but there is some
rain headed our way as soon as Sunday afternoon.
Hmm.
Very cool.
Well, Brittany, you helped us out.
We want to help you out.
Just a real quick glance at this story, Melissa and I are going to get to Taco Bell, Chipotle,
Cudoba, and Moe's Southwest Grill.
I'll have burrito deals today, so something to keep in mind.
Oh, Cudoba is one of my favorites.
I'm going to go.
There you go.
Enjoy.
And we'll give people ready for the weekend tomorrow.
Have a great day, Brent.
You too.
I appreciate it.
Bye.
That's right there.
Our friend, Brittany Marlowe.
Love working with her.
Got good stuff coming up for you, everybody.
As I mentioned, we're going to be talking about National Burrito Day.
That's coming up.
We, of course, had the El Café birthday and anniversary club right around the corner,
looking forward to diving into that one.
There's a new trend we got to talk about, speech fasting, or the last thing that we could
do with radio, basically.
Great.
Not to talk.
Okay.
Well, we'll get into that one.
We've got 10 things about women men didn't know until moving in with one.
That should be interesting.
Also, of course, tonight, a clock hour right around the corner.
And when we get into that, we're going to kick it off with our friends on the South
O'Countia main society in our pet of the week.
Oh, good.
That'll be fun.
And also in the 9 o'clock hour, the inventor or karaoke passed away a little while ago.
And this brought out a group or a listing, I should say, of the best karaoke songs for
people who can't sing.
We'll get into that.
We'll get into that.
It's good to know.
That went a little bit later too.
I guess I never really thought about the fact that somebody invented it.
That's really interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I hadn't thought much about it either until I see in the article to be honest
with you.
I've never been much of a karaoke person.
A record of diving into that.
Yeah.
That should be fun.
And it's all coming up for you in the 9 o'clock hour.
Plus, Melissa and I wanted to get into a topic here, an important one, about our cows
getting sick in other states and what it means for us in Wisconsin.
Yes.
We'll get into that one probably before the end of the hour, this hour.
Okay.
All that coming up, but we kicked things off as I mentioned to Brittany and Mel and
all of you.
It is National Burrito Day.
Enjoy.
A bunch of national chains have deals going on right now.
Chipotle ran a burrito vault.
It was a contest where people could try and guess an exact order and win a buy one, get
one deal.
They gave out over 100,000 codes and around 50 of those people will also win free burritos
for a year.
Hey.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Pretty good deal.
It's not from Taco Bell.
Is it one of those foods, Melissa, like you could eat every day or every other day or
a couple of times a week and not get tired of?
I feel like I'm like that with Mexican food.
I couldn't get tired of it really.
Yeah.
As long as I can have my non-dairy ingredients in there.
Yeah.
Yes.
Because getting a burrito without any sour cream or cheese is kind of dull.
Yeah.
I bet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Taco.
And non-dairy yogurt in there works as a sour cream for me.
That changes it.
I can see that.
I can see that.
Yeah.
My mother's like that.
If it's Mexican food, she's got to have sour cream.
I don't care what it is.
That and guacamole.
Oh, god.
Right on right on.
It's kind of those two things are big.
Right on.
Taco Bell has a buy one, get one for a half off deal.
It has to be equal or lesser value, only one per customer.
You have to use their app, a billion other things probably too.
Taco Bell used to be so good at this.
And I don't mind Taco Bell.
Like I go there from time to time.
I talk to trash about them necessarily.
I am.
Yeah, please do.
Please go right ahead.
But they seem to be getting in their own way with a lot of this stuff.
And not me just saying it.
Like I hear from a lot of my students and a lot of younger people.
And they used to love Taco Bell and now they don't want to go there anymore because
of a lot.
Like you got to jump through hoops to get five cents off a taco.
Yeah.
And they got rid of their best burrito, the seven layer burrito.
They don't have it anymore.
And that was the worst thing they could have possibly done across the board.
My partner in teaching Brian, he was my first teacher at Second City.
He listened to the show for once in a while and I've forgotten right up until now.
Melissa, he is with you on this.
He mentioned.
The last time this came up, he was listening and he sent me a text about it.
I forgot to mention it.
Yes.
Yes.
I'll have to commiserate about this because you know, I haven't met a whole lot of other
people or at least I haven't heard from them about they're also angst in losing the seven
layer burrito.
If I got it right.
It's kind of a tragedy.
I don't go to Taco Bell now.
I think it's him and his wife.
I feel the same way.
Like I think you got three ideas with you.
We're not alone.
I guarantee it.
The numbers are growing.
Yes.
Baja Fresh has a buy one, get one deal for rewards members.
Chudoba is giving rewards members one free burrito within an with an entree and a drink.
Hey, that's not bad.
That's not a bad one.
Del Taco is giving out free burritos.
If you spend at least $10 at participating locations, also not difficult to do.
Yeah.
And most Southwest Grill has a buy one, get one burrito and bowls.
I don't mind the buy one, get one deals that those are, you know, those are actual like
good for your money deals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like something that's, hey, what have you ever thought about your money?
Have you thought about your feet, the money's feelings?
This is good for your money.
Your money likes this.
I like that.
That's a good angle.
That's not a bad angle, Melissa.
Kind of bad.
Marketing has tried everything.
You know, it's not a horrible one.
So I was speaking on my students, I was in class this weekend and we're, we, one of
the sketches was about ramen noodles and, and one of the students, the sketch didn't
go very well.
We were talking to the student about it and the student thought it didn't go well because
we didn't know what ramen noodles were.
And we looked at them and said, we went to college like, I mean, noodles have been around
for a long time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what happened there, but I was very honest with her.
I'm like, look, it's not that we didn't get it.
It wasn't funny.
It's, it's got to be funny, but the reference was made and we got us talking about different
flavors of ramen noodles and that's kind of funny that coming up this morning I came
across this.
Have, uh, Nissan Foods has just announced a new limited edition flavor for cup noodles.
Okay.
Everything bagel with cream cheese.
It combines ramen noodles with that everything combo of, uh, caraway seeds, dried onion, garlic,
poppy seeds, and sesame seeds with a cream cheese flavored sauce.
Uh, and it's, you had me up until the cream cheese flavor, but it would probably be good.
It is legit is not an April Fool's joke.
It's, it's a couple.
We're still questioning that here on April 4th.
Kind of, kind of, a little, a little, you know, a hesitancy with some of these, I think.
Cup noodles has done a lot of crazy limited edition flavors, like pumpkin spice and maple
syrup pancakes and that kind of thing.
Yeah.
I don't want my ramen noodles to be sweet.
No, no, no, and honestly, I don't, I don't really, I just like the regular kind of ramen
flavor.
I don't really have a, I don't know.
What's regular?
Oh, James.
Um, yeah, yeah.
I don't think they have an original flavor.
No, they don't really have an original flavor.
No, no, no.
Chicken or beef.
Yeah, beef.
That's a beef.
That's, to me, that was just a go-to always.
Yeah.
Um, they are available at Walmart and Walmart.com for a buck 20, of course, because it's
ramen noodles.
Uh, ramen noodles, I suppose, the ones in a cup are a little more expensive because
you're getting the container with it.
Um, I like the ones that come in the package.
Yes.
They're like $0.29 each.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, the buy one get 10.
Or that's what I remember them costing.
Yes.
No, it's what they cost now.
Yeah.
The same here.
I was in, I got, I was in college last time I was eating Robin, so I, I imagined it.
I keep a couple in my cupboard for, you know, I don't know, comfort food meals.
Absolutely.
Easy meals.
There's, uh, there's a lot to be said for that, uh, with, you know, when you're just,
you, you want to snack, but you don't just want to snack, you want a little nostalgia
on the side.
You want a little, little, little spice in a style to throw a dice down.
You also need something quick.
Yes.
In that ramen peanut butter jelly, like a lot of those are good for that.
Chicken is my go-to flavor though.
Hmm.
Nice.
Nice.
Well, take a time out, check it with our partners.
We'll come back and do some celebrating with the LKFA birthday anniversary clip right here
on the morning show at WFHR.
Tell me I may always dust the anniversary walls with you.
It's time to do some celebrating with our friends at LKFA and the birthday anniversary
club.
Yeah.
It's one of our…
I love that song.
I do love that song.
It's a fun intro.
I forget which one it is.
Otherwise, I'd play it more.
It's a really good one.
We love celebrating birthdays and, of course, as the singer tells you, anniversaries right
there.
We love both.
Get them to us, everybody.
Send them to info at WFHR.com, james.mail.fetcivicmedia.us or molissa.k at civicmedia.us.
You can go ahead and hit us up on our Facebook pages as well, just direct messages from there.
And…
You can call up.
Yes.
During now.
You can call up during the show, 715, 424, 2600, and wish your birthday or anniversary
person a celebration on air.
Yeah.
Encouraging to do that, everybody.
Actually, we really love you doing that live on the air.
It's a lot of fun for us.
So please feel free to call.
Yes.
Then you get to share those fun stories or embarrass them, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We love both.
We're big fans of both around here.
So please feel free to do that and feel free to stop over by LKFA, 221 Market Avenue and
beautiful port Edwards.
They…
Be sure to follow their Facebook page as well.
It's a great way to catch their specials before you head over.
Yeah.
And all of their specials include a drink.
You get a full meal and a drink for usually, like, $12.
Yeah.
They say heck of a deal.
Especially nowadays.
Let's be honest.
You can't beat that now.
It is.
Their breakfast special is an enchilada omelette that comes with toaster pancakes, potato
fruit or beans.
And their lunch special is a Guiro om, a Guiro melt.
Ooh.
Yeah.
I don't know if I've heard of a Guiro melt before.
That sounds interesting.
I'd try that.
You say that way.
Yeah.
It's funny.
Yeah.
Just the way that the Greeks always said it in my neighborhood.
It's funny.
There's nothing wrong with that.
When I was a kid, we said Guiro.
Yes.
Yes, my dad used to say that.
My dad.
Yeah.
It actually…
I've heard that actually by Greek people, too, so nothing I think about it, yeah.
Where else can you get, unless you're in England, beans with your breakfast?
Yes.
Great point.
Great point.
Visit our friends at LKFA.
They're open right now.
Visit them anytime between now and two at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful poor networks.
Melissa, we got a heck of a list today.
I need a one through five.
Whoa.
Well, I have to choose five.
Oh, there you go.
Okay.
That gives us that qualifier.
So we can get right into this celebration.
First up, we want to wish a very happy 43rd anniversary to Greg and Sherry Romansky.
Greg and Sherry.
Wow.
Happy 43rd.
Happy 43rd, you too.
Yeah.
I wish you a great one.
We always look for advice.
Always, always thankful for that.
So, you know, feel free to share that with us.
Yeah.
James and I are still trying to figure things out.
Not together, obviously.
No.
That always needs to be said.
It does.
I forget about that.
Because as soon as it comes out of our mouth, I'm like, what?
No.
But yes, individually, we're looking for it.
Absolutely.
Please feel free to reach out.
Let us know.
Well, we'll take all the advice we can get in a very, very happy 43rd to Greg and Sherry.
Wishing you guys a great one.
If you see them today, wish them a great anniversary, everybody.
Absolutely.
Wishing happy birthday to Kim Nichols.
Happy birthday, Kim.
Enjoy their day, Kim.
Also happy birthday to Jess Doe.
Happy birthday, Jess.
Enjoy your day.
We'll wish a good one too, Mary Carol as well.
Oh, happy birthday, Mary.
It's a nice name.
Mary Carol.
Sounds really nice.
There's rules right off the tone.
It feels like an author's name, too.
It feels like she's a singer or poet.
Yes.
Yes.
I hope you're artistic, Mary.
We hope so.
And our qualifier today just happened this way.
You can think Melissa Natalie Renke.
Happy birthday, Natalie.
Natalie is a long time friend here at WFHR.
If you've noticed, there's a couple of things in our wall of thanks that came from Natalie,
including this pen, this penguin pen that I have.
Nat and her family done a lot in this area.
We appreciate them very much.
And Nat, I don't know if Natalie's qualified before.
So this is pretty cool.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
We thank you to everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries.
Keep in coming, everybody.
Thank you.
Appreciate you.
Mm-hmm.
Best listeners in radio.
And feel free to call up again.
Feel free to call up.
Enjoy this with your...
544-2600.
Yeah.
Taking a look at our celebrity list.
Jamie Lynn Spears is 33, so we won a one in Britney Spears little sister.
Oh, okay.
Oh, she looks a lot like Britney.
I got to be honest.
I had never really seen her or seen her act or anything like that.
It wasn't until I just...
I watched a documentary quite on the set recently in her and the TV shows, all you
want to one is mentioned in it.
And I saw her and I was...
It was uncanny to me how much they look alike, her and her, Jamie and Britney.
They look so much alike.
Wow.
And they are sisters.
Yeah.
You know, it does.
But then, I mean, there's that...
They almost look like they could be twins.
That much alike.
Sometimes, yes.
There are some expressions they make.
Natasha Leon is 45.
Nadia on Russian doll.
She's Nikki and Orn just a new black.
One of the best voices you're going to hear, she's got such a great voice.
She is a fearless actor.
I love her.
I love her.
Her attitude and her, just her persona is so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's got all of that down.
And I hope that she feels and is living as good as she seems to be because she deserves
it.
She's had a really nice career.
She's been nice to see her kind of get some shine of recent years.
She really was a character actor for a long time and just kind of like not a featured player.
She's been getting a lot more lead roles and a lot more like featureism as she's got
an older, which is interesting, a beautiful woman.
But when she was younger, just didn't seem that she wasn't a Hollywood pretty.
I think she's beautiful.
This is incredibly pretty.
Well, the thing is, she doesn't have that classic Hollywood beauty, like you said.
She is uniquely beautiful, which makes her even more pretty in my opinion.
Agreed.
Yeah.
Thousand percent agree.
James Rode is 48.
Sean on Psych and Gary on a million little things.
Fantastic actor.
I feel like he's one of those guys that just needs that one, like a million little things
was a huge show.
Psych was a big cult favorite Seth and I and a lot of other people like that one out there.
But I feel like he's still waiting for that big, big move, that big role that he's known
for.
Because he's that kind of actor.
I think he's that good.
He could do something that he's known for.
The great Jill Scott is 52, Grammy winner who played Lady Eve on Black Lightning.
She's also in Tyler Perry's.
What did I get?
I don't know which one does.
She's, she acts a little bit too, but it's her singing.
It's her singing.
My God.
Take a long walk.
All you got to do is listen to Jill Scott.
Take a long walk.
You will know exactly what I'm talking about.
God, I love that song.
One of my favorite people ever, Robert Downey Jr. is 59 today.
Iron Man is 59 and we love you 3000 Robert.
I am a gigantic fan.
I have rambled enough about him in my time on radio.
I just wish him a happy birthday and enjoy that Oscar.
You've heard that.
I can't believe he's 59.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He does not, it just doesn't come across.
No.
Granted, maybe I have seven seen him recently.
I think he, I think he looks better than he ever has.
I think he looks, he has more energy and more, more hunger than ever.
Part of what I love about him and I study him and I've worked with, you know, enjoying
being around him for like a second or anything like that.
Was his energy and his, his hunger?
You would think that he's still fighting for his big break.
You would think he's still working to get, you know, some respect in the industry or
something like that.
He just, he's a guy that got that second chance and it's never like, it hasn't been lost
on him.
He still appreciates it.
You can still, he still has value in it.
And according to him and he has no problem telling anybody this as he did in his Oscar
speech, it all goes down to his wonderful veterinarian wife who helped raise that sick dog
that he is.
Those are his words.
Incredible, incredible actor.
I don't know if we're going to have another story like Robert Downey Jr.'s enacting where
you get, you're done.
You're done, man.
Like there's nobody's giving you a job.
I, not even hallmark movies are letting you are letting you audition or anything like
that.
And then you don't just bounce back.
You're Iron Man.
You're Sherlock Holmes and even more important than that to any real actor out there.
You are a executive producer.
Your production company made Sherlock movies.
So him and his wife, who is his partner in this production movies, started something that
almost every other actor you see picking up on now, executive produced by, executive produced
by when Robert and his wife started doing that.
That's when you saw all the actors really say, wait a minute, I can have a seat at the
table.
I don't have to just stand on X and deliver my lines and I, who God knows what happens
to the film when I'm done with it, when I'm done filming my scenes up.
It's really, really groundbreaking work, a lot of what he has done.
And I think it's changed movies for the better for the viewers as well.
I think so.
I think you want more creatives and you're going to see these movies a lot of the times
because of the actors.
Wouldn't you want their two cents?
Yeah.
Because that's really all that adds up to.
Being an executive producer doesn't mean that you get to do this, this, this, and this.
It just means you have a seat at the table.
And then that's at least something.
And I do, I agree with you, Melissa.
I think movies have been a thousand times better since we've been seeing that.
The great David Cross is 60.
David Cross is older than Robert W. Judy, well, Tobias on Arrested Development, the superstar
from Mr. Show with Bob Odin Kirk, I just, I think, one of the funniest people ever.
But Mr. Show's top three favorite sketch comedy shows of all time for me.
Graham Norton is 61, wonderful British talk show host.
Oh, yes, incredible interviewer gets lost in the shuffle because he does some silly
stuff and funny questions from time to time.
But his demeanor, his, his poise and his questions are always really on point.
And everybody loves being on his show.
There are people that will never do interviews that will show up on Graham Norton show.
It's crazy to me.
It's weird.
Somebody who will net, like if there's a person you've always died to see being interviewed,
they've probably been on Graham Norton show.
It's pretty cool.
For him, that's pretty cool.
I would like that.
I would like that too.
I would like that too.
But then also they're, they're fun interviews to watch.
Yeah, they really are.
He, he hits on, you know, things that you might want to know about, but then just also
has fun and I think that's very different questions that most people wouldn't think of.
And Hugo Weaving is 64.
I love Hugo Weaving.
I don't, I never know if I say his last name right, but he is L. Rod and the L.
Wolf King and Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mr. Anderson.
He is Agent Smith in the Matrix movies, the voice of Megatron and the transformer movies
and the Red Skull and Captain America, but they see, they leave out his greatest role
in V for Vendetta.
He is V.
That's right.
Oh, my God.
He's so good in that movie.
God that movie.
His, his perform, him and Natalie Portman in that movie.
Oh, I love it.
David E. Kelly is 68 today, superstar writer, producer of HBO's Big Little Lies, Alan McBeal,
the practice, boss legal, boss in public, a lot of stuff he's done.
I like Alan McBeal when that was on.
That's a, that's a big show, yeah.
Steve Gatlin is 73.
We say a good morning to one of the Gatlin brothers.
They of course joined us on the airwaves here and came to town when they were performed
at the pack.
Nice.
Great, great show too.
33.
Wow.
Craig D Nelson.
Craig D Nelson is 80.
Coach is 80.
He's Mr. Incredible in the Incredibles.
Of course, NBC's parenthood.
He was a dad on there.
He was on coach.
He was the dad and poltergeist.
Of course.
God, I almost forgot that.
Great.
Great dad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Craig D Nelson.
Great actor.
Great dad.
I love his work.
Good, good one.
80 years old, though.
Man, I wouldn't have expected that.
And then some, some people no longer with us.
Like, my favorite poet of all time.
And I think, I think you can make the argument, America's greatest author, Maya Angelou, born
to stay in 1928, passed away in 2014, author, poet, just one of one of our mothers, one
of America's mothers, just an incredible human being.
Yeah.
You cannot listen to a Maya Angelou interview and not smirk or smile, especially when she
does.
And you read her poetry.
And I dare say that even if you've never cared for a poem in your life, you read
of Maya Angelou poem and you'll get it.
Yeah.
They're touching.
They speak to struggles.
Her story, too, is one of those ones that I think every human, like, they should teach
it in school.
Like, that's how important I think her story is.
Not just her work, but her story, her growing up, what she went through as a child, not
speaking for so long, and then finding her voice and helping others find their voice.
The great Heath Ledger, born in this day in 1979, passed away way too, Dan Young, in
2008, was only getting better, was only getting better.
It's one of the more frustrated, there's no non-frustrating point about a young person
losing their life.
But when it's so, you know, actors do crazy things to get into these roles and to entertain
you.
And one of the things Heath did to become the Joker, messed with him pretty good.
And he had two different doctors, one in Australia, one here.
They did not communicate.
They did not share enough information.
And we lost a great because of it.
It needs to be noted when talking about him, along with him being the possibly, if not,
the greatest Joker we've seen, and 10 things I hate about you, a night's tale.
I mean, some really good flix he was in.
So many good movies.
Good actor.
Yeah, yeah, good actor.
Another good one.
Anthony Perkins, born in this day in 1932, psycho, I mean, Anthony Perkins is also a
while great actor, also, unfortunately, kind of a note to actors of what can happen when
you're almost too good and you get typecast, but a legendary performance in psycho.
That is going to do it for our birthdays and anniversaries, but we wish you all a great
one.
Again, a happy 43rd anniversary to Greg and Jerry Romansky, happy birthday to Kim Nichols,
Jess Doe and Mary Carroll, and a happy birthday to our qualifier Natalie Rankie.
Happy birthday, everyone, and happy anniversary.
Yep, wishing you all a great one.
Enjoy your day, everybody.
We're going to get to our news break.
We'll come back and have some more fun.
We'll get into, when we get back, this new trend about speech fasting.
Or will we?
Will we get into it or not?
We'll just be silent until we come back.
That's not speech.
That's where that counts.
That counts.
We'll be back with more fun in the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a good one out there, everybody.
Coming into a new trend to kick off the segment here.
Do you know anyone who doesn't like to talk until after they've had their sip of coffee,
like actually does do that?
It's not just like a logo or a poster they have on their wall, meme or something.
There's a thing called speech fasting where people try to avoid talking until noon that's
totally silent.
They're not even whispering, and this is a real thing.
Until noon?
Yeah, yeah.
Of course.
Not everyone can get away with this, like, you know, the job like we're doing right
now.
I'm sorry.
I'm speech fasting.
I can't work right now.
But I'm here.
Don't think that's going to go over one.
Just hear me breathe it.
God, yeah, that's great.
Radio.
That's it.
The idea isn't new, but it's going viral now because a European singer has been posting
about it on social media.
She's a singer, so it makes more sense.
She says she's trying to take care of her instrument.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
But there's also some science behind it.
One study in 2005 linked prolonged periods of silence with dramatic lower blood pressure.
It can also help reduce levels of stress hormone cholesterol.
And in mice, it had been shown to promote brain growth.
Hmm.
That last part kind of, it freaks me a little bit.
Sorry.
I'm being quiet because I'm growing my brain.
Yes.
Yeah.
I like that.
That's a good reason.
On the way.
Nature's are going to jump on this.
The audience can tell, I work my voice a little too much, and I try very hard on the weekends
not to work it as much.
That's, you know, a little difficult with auditions and different things.
But, you know, it's something that I'm trying to do.
I really am working at and trying all the time different things to help and improve.
We just need to give you some placards.
Or maybe a voice tracker, like, I don't know, something you can carry around that just gives
those automatic responses you can push the button to give responses, yes, no.
I'm just going to, I understand.
I'll just have on my phone a bunch of responses for me, and I'll just click the bell, just
click the whatever response fits.
Play them, don't.
But knowing me, I probably would do it in weird accents, like everywhere, like, yes, no,
you know, I just, I don't know, I wouldn't be able to do it.
So nobody would know what my original voice is really like, I don't know.
I do like the science behind this.
I do think that part's very interesting.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Well, and obviously for any of us who have had a kind of a vocal injury of some sort,
like you scream too loud at a game or, you know, you sing too much or, or for those of
us on stage, you just talk too much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know that just resting your voice is what you have to do to get it back to where
it needs to be.
Yeah.
Do you have to do the saltwater, gargling with saltwater?
Oh, yeah.
I'm more for a sore throat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like a vocal injury, but I had a director tell me once years ago that whispering when
your voice is heard actually causes more damage that whispering is not a good thing to
do.
Oh, yeah.
You're right.
I have heard that.
I had it took me a second, but yeah, I have heard that.
I thought that was interesting.
So yesterday we teased this one and I wanted to get to it today.
It was just at the end of the show was talking about this study, about study indicates coin
flips are not exactly 50-50, a team of researchers analyzed the results of 35,757 coin tosses
that determine whether the results are truly 50-50 and found fair coins are slightly more
likely to land the same way they started.
Fair coins?
Yeah.
A research.
A research of the University of Amsterdam led a team that analyzed the results of almost
a million flips from 48 people using 46 currencies.
Quote we found overwhelming evidence for a same side bias predicted by diacos and colleagues
in 2007.
If you start heads up, the coin is more likely to land heads up and vice versa.
He said his team found that coin flips into the air are caught in the hand at a 50.8% chance
of landing on the same side they started from.
The study titled Fair coins tends to land on the same side as they started.
If you bet a dollar on the outcome of a coin toss and repeat that bet a thousand times,
knowing the starting position of the coin toss would earn you $19 on average.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I do feel a little like we've just kind of taken this for granted or just taken this, you
know, as fact for our lives and nobody's ever really done the homework on it though.
That's a lot of coin flips that they did too though and that specific number, like they
didn't just do, you know, $400,000.
I've done some tedious work in my life but I haven't done a whole lot of like that kind
of work and I have a friend who tests syringes out and she's got to go through like a thousand
of them in an hour, you know, and just testing them, I'm testing them and testing them.
I admire people that can do that work a lot.
Well, that's just like factory work, you know, repetitive motion that can cause damage
to your body, just doing the same thing over and over and over.
We're almost at anitis.
Yeah.
Take care of yourselves out there, all you factory workers and know you're appreciated.
We're going to take a time out, checking with some partners.
When we come back, we're talking cows and the US Department of Ag had this announcement
that they made and Melissa and I want to get into coming up on the morning show here
at WFHR.
We are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone, morning show at WFHR.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you, please don't take my man.
Little Dolly to play us in, Mel.
Thank you, Seth.
The guitar is underappreciated in that song.
It's understandable given the voice and the lyrics and everything, but the guitar you're
so right about that.
I got to say the Beyonce's version with Dolly is incredible.
Yeah, the remake.
It's really incredible and a real tip of the cowboy hat to her.
Not only is her album doing well and in the album, she made a point to make sure Dolly
got sole credit on the lyrics, even though there were some lyric changes to her version.
With that also, I was talking about it on the Sunrise show today.
With that album's release and Willie Nelson and Dolly partner on there, their Spotify
sales and streams have gone through the roof, like over a thousand percent.
It's almost statistically impossible how much they have, their streaming numbers have
gone up.
And how many young people that have not really listened to these art, they know who Willie
Nelson is.
They know Dolly partner, but they haven't listened to their music.
They've listened to a lot of it, yeah.
Now they're listening to their music.
This album is springboarded, a lot of love of country, of that style of country music.
Which I imagine the haters got to be really enjoying.
They got to be really, that's got to feel real good, I'm sure.
Good on everybody.
Good on everybody and a part of that one.
That's an interesting.
This is an interesting one.
This is an interesting one, Melissa, and you sent this over the other day and I read about
it.
I looked into a couple of places.
What we're talking about is an article that came across from news.wisconsin.edu.
You can find it right there, news.wisconsin.edu.
Cows are getting sick in other states.
What does it mean for Wisconsin, a shout out to Eliza Mahon for the great reporting on
this one.
Melissa, this is a topic that we've had our whole life, the whole time I've lived in
Wisconsin.
This has come up, things like this.
And I don't know if I've read an article about how we can affect, cows in other states
can affect us here in Wisconsin.
Well, and the reason that I brought this to your attention is that we obviously talked
a lot last year about the avian flu that decimated bird populations across the country.
And now there is, it has been detected in dairy herds that the flu is going from birds
to cows.
And there is one person who was, you know, it's been reported that he has contracted the
bird flu, although he's fine, according to reports.
But there's concern, you know, obviously, about bird flu being able to be caught by humans.
So, so this article is talking specifically about how we are affected in Wisconsin by these
cows that are coming to us from other states.
The, according to the USDA, it had been detected in dairy herds in Texas and Kansas additional
cases were detected four days later in a herd in Michigan, then they were received from
Texas.
Right.
But no cows, no cases have been detected in Wisconsin.
And there are no restrictions on the movement of animals between the states right now.
I think we should go over the main things from this article that the author, like the
pasteurized milk and cooked meat in all products are safe and there is no reason to believe
there are concerns with dairy products.
Correct.
The disease seems to be spreading from birds to cow, not cow to cow.
The investigators are under way, under investigations are under way to determine how the disease
has sprawled spread to the Michigan dairy.
And at this time, the disease is not considered a high risk for public health.
There has been confirmed report of a dairy farm worker in Texas with congen...
Conjuntivitis.
Conjunctivitis.
Conjunctiveitis.
Whew.
That's a tough one.
And other limited reports of flu-like illness that has not, at this point, been confirmed
as highly phot...
Highly pathogenic influenza.
Pathogenic influenza.
Man, I'm going to go into a speech silence here.
I'm going to do that for this article, I'm going to do that.
But what do we know about this so far?
Well, we're still figuring it out.
We're still finding things out.
But I will say this, the USDA does not get enough credit for this.
They are their own law and order unit.
They are really, really good at hunting these things down and figuring it out.
And part because the USDA has done a very good job for us in safeguarding a lot of these
things.
Great.
And working to protect our food supply.
I think that oftentimes because of our weather here in Wisconsin, farms send their cows
down to warmer states until they're old enough to produce milk and then they're sent back
up here.
So that's part of the reason why they're doing this study because they need to know if
it's going to bring back that influenza from down there to here.
But right now they're saying the risk is pretty low.
Yeah.
One of the things they note in this article that is important for everyone to know that
the food supply is safe because of a lot of our state, a lot of our families out of our
on farms that depends on the industry to make a living.
You know, when it's raining and wet, we see these big temperatures swings and that's
really challenging for raising young stock.
That's not something I would have known, to be honest.
And I think that one thing this article does as well as informing us about this topic
is creating a little bit more empathy with us in our farmers and our agonistry.
Yes.
And what they go through.
It's a really a good article.
It's an important one.
I think people news.wisk.edu is where you can find it and our friends at UW Extensions
does a great job with these.
Yeah.
Is there anything else from the article you feel we should touch on Melissa?
Well, things to watch out for for farmers is, you know, if you know when your cows are
sick, if they're not eating as much or they're not walking around as much, they're not
going to be producing as much milk.
And another thing that is specific with this, you know, HP or the avian flu is that they're
if they're infected with it, their milk becomes thicker and more yellow.
And that's unique part of the illness with cows with this particular infection.
That's something to watch for.
Yeah.
But also, we don't need to, we don't need to freak out.
Yes.
Yes.
That's an important part of this, I think.
You know, there's plenty of things to worry about in life.
But this is one, there's a difference of being informed and worrying, I think.
And fear mongering.
Yes.
Yes.
Which is I think a lot of what we're seeing in these clickbait articles that are, you
know, Texas men infected with bird flu from cow.
Yeah.
And the fact that illegal immigrants are actually less likely to hurt you than your average
or American.
Things like that.
Yes.
There are actual stats out there, people that are have no opinion, have no R or D in front
of their name.
Even if you have an R or D in front of your name, I would hope you question your own party.
I would hope you question, Paul, just in general, what is being said to you in an election
year.
And question things that are just trying to make you, you know, clickbait.
We all know what clickbait is now at this point in time with technology and what we have.
Oftentimes I won't even click on it.
I'll do the research myself to find out the facts without clicking on their article.
Same here.
Because they're only doing it to get you to click.
Yeah.
If I'm, if I'm going to be blunt about this, politicians are not very creative.
They are not at all creative and they don't think you are either.
They do not think you are, that you can handle, you know, too much.
So they go with really quick things that they're going to, they think are going to anger
you and get you excited.
That's somehow going to encourage you to vote for them, not because you want to, not
because they, they are standing on something, a policy, a belief that you believe in.
No, they want you to, they want you to vote for them because the other guy is, is, is
the dangerous, most dangerous human being alive and all of this, like that's not politics.
That's not being a, can we go back to politics being boring, please?
Yes.
Please, please.
I want boring politicians again.
I want somebody who go, where's Bob Dole?
Where are, where, you know, where are these guys?
Where are these people that they went up there?
They told you what they stood for and then they moved on.
They didn't have to talk trash about their, they're, you know, their opponent.
Um, we're tired of that.
And if you're not tired, things done, while they were, when they're working in, in Congress,
they got things done for the people, which was what, you know, which is what we want
to them to do.
It depends on what you want.
If you want a gas bag, if you want somebody who's just going to sit there and wine and
complain and, and bark about other people, uh, or you want somebody who's going to get
something done.
Uh, I, I, I, I don't think our country can afford to have people who are just going
up there just to stay out of prison or just to be entertainers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Politicians are not entertainers because they, what couldn't make it in reality TV?
They decided to go ahead and get into politics.
Um, or, you know, there's plenty, and there's plenty on both sides here.
It's not one of those one side of things.
I encourage people vote for person over party, um, and what they stand for and what they
want to do for the people in their districts.
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
It doesn't take a lot.
It does not take a lot of thinking, uh, and, and it, it's important people.
It's important.
So I want to end on a funny note, Melissa.
Uh, so we're going to do our, that eight right story right now, because I thought I got
too serious.
Uh, so, uh, you never do that, Jay, no, no, never, never, uh, this is an interesting
one.
People have made, uh, dying wishes for people to attend or be banned from the funeral.
That's pretty common.
But this is an interesting invite, a 68 year old woman in the UK passed away from breast
cancer recently.
And we wish her and her loved ones the most the best and cannot imagine what that's like.
I, I, I can't do some degree with my grandmother, but, you know, it's tough.
And there's no.
It is pretty young.
Yeah.
Way too young.
Yeah.
Um, and, and her funeral was held last month.
And the grim reaper showed up, oh, seriously, the woman's dying wish was to have a friend
show up to the funeral dressed as the reaper and point to the people saying, you're next.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
I love this lady.
Oh, it was pretty funny.
But can you imagine being the attendees at that funeral?
It was meant to be funny, not terrifying.
So the family did pre-warn everyone and a few people decided not to attend because
of it, which is a little tense, if you ask me.
It's not about you.
Okay.
It's not about you.
You're there to honor the person, celebrate the person, but I digress.
The woman's daughter told the BBC quote, if you research the grim reaper, he transports
the soul to where it's going.
So he's not actually a bad person.
She would be absolutely loving the attention her funeral is getting.
It just showcases her personality and sense of humor.
Mm-hmm.
No, that's cute.
I love this story.
It's one of those ones I hear, and I'm like, oh, God, I was sure to thought of that.
Well, and often we get stories like this from across the pond.
You know, I remember the one where there was a recording that of the voice, and they stuck
it in the coffin.
Let me out.
Get me out of here.
Don't bury me, or something like that, and people freaked out.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
The graveside.
I don't, I'm going to, I mean, this is, this is my funeral people.
Like, get ready.
It is going to be weird.
It is going to be wild, and there is not going to be any crying.
There is not going to be any, none of that, none of that.
I'm going to make sure that there is no chance for people to cry, because I-
It's going to try to find his funny bone before the funeral.
Yep.
Before head.
Before head.
Actually, I'm going to do a, my Simpson special that I've been talking about for years.
Oh.
You're creating to debut it until then.
Yep, yep.
I'm going to record it.
If you go to my funeral, you have to watch it.
You have to sit through all two hours of it, because it is, it's two and a half hours,
it's two and a half hours.
It does have an intermission though.
So there's no-
Oh, that's good.
I-
I don't know.
I don't pretend that everybody feels differently about death and about losing someone.
So teach their own, and I don't ever want to come across like disrespectful, especially
from the way I was raised and in my people, like death is, is-
It's our last honor.
It's our- it's our last gift to those we love in many ways, because it is an opera.
This is also a part of life.
Yeah, yeah.
There's no getting around that.
So I think embracing it and doing things like this is a great, like it's not- it's almost
one last lesson to those that are living.
Yeah.
Hey, don't take this game so seriously.
Right.
There's a lot of life to be enjoyed.
There's a lot about life to be enjoyed.
And if you don't, chances are you end up before you know it missing it.
And I'm saying that for myself, I'm not saying that that's not me preaching.
I need to take that news.
I need to take that information.
That's a fun story.
It's an interesting one.
You'll find out more at bbc.com.
There's also some photos to go along with it of the Reaper, because I was very curious.
This is a good Reaper costume.
Like it's a good one.
Yeah, authentic.
Yeah, yeah.
We're going to check it with our partners, get to our state and local news here at the top
of the hour when we come back.
We'll have our pet of the week from the South of County main society looking forward to
that.
We'll get into that one with you.
And we're also going to get into a little bit of entertainment news and we've got this article
we got to get into about the, oh yeah, 10 things about women, men didn't know until
moving in with one and the karaoke one.
We got the karaoke one coming up.
All of that coming up for you.
I'm looking forward to the karaoke one about the the the best karaoke songs for people
who can't sing or at least think they can't sing maybe that's the way to put that.
We'll have that all coming up for you on the morning show.
It's Melissa and James taking you through right here of a locally unlocally grown radio.
