Hour 1: Twinning

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.

Get your own James J behind the mic. I am joined by your head of production, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We're going to have some fun today.

We're going to kick things off with our good friend, Brittany Merlot. I can a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett.

Good morning. How are you guys doing? Good. How's it going over there for you?

Pretty good. I mean, it's still mild outside. It's not raining yet. I can't complain, right? Right here. Same here.

Bit of a cloudy sky out there, but we're seeing some sun peaking through, so.

Yeah, yeah. I'm actually kind of excited. I want to hear a rumble of thunder this afternoon. I just miss it.

I hear you. Only a meteorologist. I get it, though. I get it. I'm with you on that one, Brittany.

What is the perfect? I was going to say it's kind of like the perfect napping weather, too. I'm not the only.

True. No, no, you're not going to agree with that. I have no chance at napping, but if I'm going to, it's going to be in weather like this.

Yes, exactly. So it'll start around two o'clock. I think those storms might start to fire up. So pretty dry beforehand. Maybe a spotty sprinkler shower, too.

But I really think the main event's going to be after two mainly till about eight o'clock, and then we'll see some scattered showers tapering off through the overnight hours.

But how is today? No pretty decent climbing to the low 60s. Like you mentioned, if you pocket the sun early, but we will stay mostly cloudy for a good chunk of the day.

And then tomorrow we'll start off with some clouds, but the sun peeks back out and it stays abundant the entire weekend. Yeah, we take a hit temperatures to the mid 50s tomorrow.

But I mean, we're going to be pushing 70s to near 80 degrees by Sunday and to Monday. Yeah.

Just feels like it came out in the where although it didn't really know, but it feels like it does feel like it a little bit. It does. I agree.

We have such revisionist history with weather like we have nothing like the whole winter was just kind of weird. And then we have a couple of cold days.

And now 70s are around the corner. We're like, Oh, I don't know if I'm ready for that.

It's just so weird. We're so.

There's nothing normal for the past six months. I feel like so. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's that's kind of the norm. The weather's just, you know, reacting to human beaks.

It's not like any buzzer or pretty. Do you do? Are you a pet person? Do you have a pet?

I do. I have two cats. Oh, cool. Very cool. We sink a boardy to them. Big cat and dog friends around here and everything.

It is national pet day. So make sure to pet your pets, pets like pets.

Okay. Thank you, Brittany. We appreciate you. You have a great morning.

You two things. We've got good stuff coming up for you, everybody.

But a big negative pretty more low joining us every morning. We really do appreciate that. It's a lot of fun working with her.

We are going to get a national pet day in a little bit along with the LKFA birthday and anniversary club looking forward to diving into all of those things.

We're going to talk about exercising at night and how much that can help you. It's a good one.

Okay. A study found a pet on the back actually can be helpful.

Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Getting to that a little bit later as well.

Got plenty of entertainment news. Want to dive into with Seth as well, beginning into that in the top of the 9 o'clock hour.

Well, right after our pet of the week, we have our pet of the week today,

from our Southwark County Main Society, and in response to my Johnson Chrysler Dodge and Jeep dealership.

Yes.

Big fans of our friends over at Johnson & Sons. I've actually worked there.

I should mention that. Journalistically, I should mention that.

Oh, okay. I used to work there and everything.

I did a little bit of that. I mean, very little like Bondo, like a little bit like moving juice around.

They didn't let you touch much. You know, they really didn't know.

They care about their employees a lot. They really do.

And they had a lot of fun. Good people over there.

Say a good shout out to them and thank you for joining the team.

And look at forward to our pet of the week a little bit later as well.

That is going to be a lot of fun.

If you've been listening to our news breaks from Melissa,

you know that the Wisconsin Emergency Management and National Weather Service are conducting a statewide tornado drill today at 145 and 645.

For local cities, not sure how this might affect you completely,

but I know here in Wisconsin Rapids, we've got quite a few sirens.

We'll be hearing. So they'll be testing those out.

Timing. It's like Brittany said that the weather is going to start about two.

So that like 145. So it's just a test people.

Yeah. Yeah.

Even though it may look like it's going to be a big storm.

You know, it's not really that dangerous one.

Yeah.

And then just keep it important to keep that in mind.

Right.

You keep it right here.

We will keep it up to date on everything.

Our weather team is the best in state.

And we do a nice job of keeping up to date on everything as well.

Yes.

So especially as it's happening.

Yeah.

So keep on listening.

Yeah.

Real quick before we start.

What's with our wardrobes today, dude?

What's going on here?

Notice that.

We're both wearing black t-shirts and black sweatshirts.

What?

Why?

Someone died.

Why were we mourning something?

I don't know.

We're mourning our free time.

We're more.

We have not.

No free time.

I don't know why.

We did not coordinate this.

It's just going to happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I.

Now this.

There's one thing about sharing a brain.

Sharing a wardrobe.

Whole other thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's very different.

That's very different.

We usually dress quite differently.

That's the weird thing.

I got a bit actually happening.

Different sizes too.

Yeah.

All the different sizes.

Probably.

Probably.

Although we're both tall.

Yeah.

So I think that part would have that.

Yeah.

We got a lot of good things in 9 o'clock hour as well.

We'll get into our schedule.

Some good stories of the day and plenty more.

As I mentioned, though, it is a national pet day.

And two thirds of us have at least one pet at home.

According to most recent stats.

Wow.

Dogs and cats are most common, followed by fish, birds, rodents, reptiles.

And horses.

Okay.

A little surprising not to see rabbits up there.

I guess they're just not as common.

I guess interesting.

Yeah.

97% of us think that their fur babies are part of the family.

But we definitely get a little more creative naming them

than we do with our actual kids.

True.

And nationwide pet insurance has an annual contest to find

the wackiest pet names in America.

All right.

We are going to get into that on Monday.

Oh, three of us.

All right.

And I, we're going to get into that.

I guess there's a bunch of different categories.

They had a lot of fun with this one.

Last year's winners included a dog named,

Paul, Paul, Paul did he?

Paul did he?

What do you call that dog for short?

Yeah.

Just dog.

I would call it dog.

Yeah.

And a cat named spicy beef per, per reto.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

We love our puns.

Beef.

I'd call that cat beef.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's only funnier if it's a thin cat or a big cat.

Yes.

Yeah.

Right.

Exactly.

I've always been a fan of that of the reverse nickname.

I don't know.

I've never had that one before.

But like somebody calling me big guy.

You know, or something like that.

Huh?

What?

Doesn't really fit.

Unless it's done ironic, you know, like the big dude that's

called tiny or something like that.

Yeah.

Every sports team in this country at one point or another has

had that on their team.

I don't have football, baseball, basketball, every team they've

had at some point.

Somebody that has fit that.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I know that you and I are a bit of a history boss who like history

and enjoying that.

One of the things that I think is kind of cool when it comes to

history is when people uncover, you know, for every archaeologist

find, I love the stories of, oh, I didn't mean to come across this

and look what I found.

We've got a lot of our great discoveries that have happened

that way.

A lot of them hanging up in museums nowadays and that.

So it's kind of interesting.

And then there is this.

Landscapers working in the backyard of a Virginia home made a

surprising discovery.

A suspected cannonball dating from civil, from the Civil War era.

Wow.

Yeah.

Jason Singh, a real estate agent with innovative properties, said

Landscapers were working in the yard of a home on Frederick

Street in Stanton when they uncovered what they initially thought

was a strange rock.

Very, well, it was very spherical rock here.

Yeah.

Well, perfectly.

It drowned it is.

One of them ended up, one of them ended up rinsing it off and

saw that it was a metal ball.

And as soon as they saw that, thought, oh, my God, this is a

cannonball.

Singh said he had recently dealt with a similar discovery at

another home.

So he knew what to do.

I had something similar actually happened up in the front

royal.

And so that is why I was kind of a bit more familiar with it.

Stanton, fire and rescue responded to the home and ended up

calling Virginia State Police to cart the suspected

explosive away.

Just in case.

We assumed it was a civil war air cannonball because it can

be very unstable.

So we treated it as a live ordinance.

I said, Perry Weller, deputy chief.

And a big thank you to him.

Yes.

Also, thank you to this situation because if this happens to

you, do know what to do.

Yes.

I would not have.

I see this cannonball.

Oh, cool.

I'm freaking out.

I'm taking pictures of it to send to Seth and Melissa.

You know, that's about, but I wouldn't have known right away

what to do.

Yeah.

That's a Jacksonville floor.

The man was faced with a similar situation recently when his

dog on earth an object that turned out to be a decades old

military bomb in his backyard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How did it get there?

I don't know.

That's an interesting question.

Mystery.

Does that lower or raise the price of the land of the home?

There's a good question.

Yeah.

How did you find any bombs on property?

What?

That's the friends are cool.

Cool.

Yeah.

What they say about this one.

That's an interesting.

Like, you know, that one in Virginia makes sense though,

considering, I mean, that was one of the main battle areas of the

Civil War.

And there was a lot of ordinance that was discharged in that

area.

So it makes sense.

They're still finding stuff.

I totally believe that.

I recently watched one of those aerial America shows about the

Civil War, about the South.

And I also heard a really good podcast about the General Lee.

And the true story of General Lee.

The actual story of him and everything.

That's what he actually accomplished and what he did and what

the kind of person he was and everything.

And you hear more and more of these.

And it's just, in almost sometimes when you're listening to this

and you're hearing it, it feels like it's a different country

sometimes.

Because we're so used to war on this, in this soil, on this land.

Yeah.

We're used to talking about it in other countries.

We're used to sending our people to other countries.

But when I used to it, necessarily happening here.

Exactly.

It is fascinating.

Yeah.

And in part, I think it's also important too, is we try to, I

think, hopefully try to build a better bridge between the South

and the North.

Which is 2024.

And this is still a thing.

Yeah.

It's quite interesting.

And the more we understand, know about these things, the more I think we

can take pride in our own country, take pride in our own neighborhood.

Exactly.

Maybe uncover a bomb and to get it out of the house before the dog buries it up.

Yeah, no kidding.

There is bearing bones.

And then there is, yeah, that's a little much there.

Bearing bombs.

That's a good name for a band.

Actually, yeah.

We called it.

We called it new band name.

Bearing bombs.

New band name.

We'll come back as we work out on the logistics of who's going to do what instrument

and everything.

When we come back.

I can sue.

I get the triangle.

It's hell, cafe birthday anniversary club coming up on the boarding show.

It's time to do some celebrating with the ill cafe birthday anniversary club.

Treat yourself head on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful poor Edwards.

We should make great day from all of us.

They got some great Thursday specials out there for you.

I see a Greek scramble or on pita.

Oh, that sounds different.

Yeah, that's good.

Yeah.

I love pita bread.

That sounds really good.

I'll try just about anything on that.

And lunch special.

They got a fajita combo for you.

Go ahead and check that out.

The soup of the day is chicken dumpling.

Plenty of great food and atmosphere and great people waiting for you over at LKFA.

Visit them right now at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful poor Edwards.

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And thank you for sponsoring the segment everybody.

We really do appreciate work with them.

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Good people.

I have a list of four names here.

Four names.

Four names.

One through four.

Well, let's do four.

I haven't done that in a while.

Yeah, it works out.

Let's go ahead and get into the celebration of first up.

We can wish a happy birthday to Dave Hussion.

Happy birthday, Dave.

Enjoy your day, Dave.

Hope it's a good one.

We wish happy birthday to Rhonda Meyer.

Happy birthday, Rhonda.

Rhonda, enjoy your day.

We wish you the best of days.

Also happy birthday.

I wish an happy birthday to Nikki Rubin.

Happy birthday, Nikki.

Enjoy your day, Nikki.

She's a great singer.

Nikki is a really good singer.

Well, it wasn't her good birthday.

Enjoy your day, Nikki.

And our qualifier today, Ben Holberg.

Happy birthday, Ben.

Ben is somebody that I think many of the audience might know from Wisconsin's Rhapsody Theatre.

I know that's where I met Ben.

I met Ben during almost main all those years ago.

Ben has also done a lot in this community.

He's less than I knew he was an EMT worker.

I know that he also likes to ref for wrestling events.

Oh, that's cool.

There's a lot of those.

And those local wrestling events that they've been doing.

I haven't seen one in a while, but the ones that they would do.

Raise a lot of money for charities around here and everything.

They do a lot of good work with those.

Yeah.

Ben's one of those givers.

He puts a lot in this area.

There you go.

Wish you had a great day.

Enjoy your day, Ben.

Hope it's been one for you.

And we want to remind you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

We want to celebrate with you.

Get them to us at info at wfhr.com, James.mailup at civic media.us.

You can reach any of our staff that way.

And of course, call us up.

715-424-2600.

424-2600.

Call up and join the conversation.

Indeed.

Jostone is 37 today.

A talented British singer, a songwriter.

Yeah, I remember when she came on to the scene, man.

She had a great voice.

She had a, we've had a handful of singers that have had similar voices since that, since she's come out.

But when she first came out, you're right.

It was kind of a throwback to almost a Janus Joplin type voice.

Yeah.

Not the same thing or anything.

No, but very similar.

A lot of soul in their voice too.

I am such a sucker for the raspy, you know, kind of like delivery and voice.

I loved the vacation movies.

You know, like everybody else, enjoyed the vacation movies.

But I secretly really loved them because of Beverly D'Angelo.

Now, that's a great voice, yeah.

That voice.

Oh, that voice.

Betty Davis.

I mean, there's a great raspy voice.

This isn't human history.

Good stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

Lights is 37.

Canadian pop star, who sings, drive my soul and toes.

I should know who that is.

I do know who that is.

I think I played one of her songs on Surface The Music if I remember correctly.

Very cool.

Yeah.

Jennifer Esposito is 51.

Good character actor.

She's great.

She's in city, crash.

Blue blood.

She's on currently.

Good actor.

Very good actor.

Lisa Stan's field is 58.

All around the world and a couple of other hits she has in the 90s.

90s, yeah.

Good one.

Good one.

Peter Rigert is 77.

Boone from Animal House.

Oh, gosh.

I set screens father on dads.

Carol Kane's boyfriend on the breakable, unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Good character actor.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

You'd know him if you saw him.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

And the great Joel Gray born in this day and he is 92 today.

Wow.

He won both A2.

Yeah.

He won both a Tony and an Emmy.

Tony and an Emmy.

And an Oscar.

I'm sorry.

Tony and an Oscar as the MC in Cabaret.

Yes.

He's probably most proud.

He is Jennifer Gray's father.

Yep.

Yep.

I believe he's an Egot.

Yes.

I believe he's also won an Emmy and a Grammy too.

Yeah.

Well, he's one of the sneaky, I think.

Yeah.

You know, as far as Egot winners and everything.

Mm-hmm.

And Joe Gray, the Cabaret great performance and everything.

Legendary performance.

Yep.

But a lot of good other parts too.

Absolutely.

I don't want to say turned into a...

Didn't turn into a character actor necessarily.

But kind of...

I ended up kind of going that route with a lot of the roles that he would play after that.

He was also...

I think you can make the argument...

Typecast it after that.

A little bit.

The Cabaret performance.

Right.

But he did stick to Broadway mostly.

He did do...

I mean, he did...

He did movie, see the TV shows.

But he was mostly on stage guy.

Yeah.

And I always think...

One of the cooler things I think that can happen for an actor or in entertainment, really,

is the idea of an actor playing a character on stage and then getting you to do it in the movie.

And that...

I mean, not only is that extremely rare, the fact that he won awards for doing it on both.

That is almost an heard of.

Yeah.

If nothing else, he's got that.

This resume that he actually pulled it off.

Which, I mean, give them all the credit of the world, man.

Pretty impressive.

Yeah.

We don't get to get into our National Day of Counter that much anymore.

But I did want to, as I mentioned earlier, it's National Pet Day.

And I did want to take a note to mention a couple of things.

Taxes are doing four days.

Oh, God.

Yep.

Yeah.

On Monday.

Yeah.

31 days till Mother's Day.

Oh, God.

Get to go.

All these deadlines.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's also National Parkinson's Day.

And I wanted to...

I didn't know where we could necessarily find the moment forward to talk about this.

But I thought that right here it seems like a good spot.

And we've got a shorter birthday and anniversary club today.

Yep.

So, we...

Parkinson's is one of those things that I believe everybody thinks that they know what it is.

But if you really ask yourself right now, do you know what Parkinson's is?

Do you understand what it is?

And how we are trying to fight it and how we are working so diligently to try to beat this

the horrible, horrible disease.

And how long it's been since we've made really any ground on it.

Yeah.

Now, we're fortunate that we're in a time where there are more and more people being active about this

and bringing attention to it.

You, of course, have Michael J. Fox, who has become the face of this.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

And rightfully so in his own way, because it's what he wanted.

Yep.

Exactly.

No, no.

He wasn't pushed into this role.

He wanted to do it.

As a side note, it's amazing to think for 80s kids like us that Michael J. Fox, that's

what he's known for now.

And part of me, like, it's hurt by that because he is such a great performer, such a great actor,

did so much, gave so much to the entertainment field.

Right.

But I would imagine just hearing him in interviews on the co-bear report and other things over the years.

And that's how long it's been going on.

And he's been doing this since Stephen co-bear was on the co-bear report long before he was

doing late night and everything.

He's been able to do something that I think that is so vital to our society.

It's not just bringing attention to this.

It's putting a face to it and a face you care about.

We've talked about this before.

COVID was, you know, oh, this is tense.

But Tom Hanks gets COVID.

Oh, people start giving a dang.

It's interesting.

Yeah.

And if that's what it takes to get this done, because these diseases just keep running laps around us,

while we, especially years like this, where we have a divisiveness, it's a political year,

and bickering back and forth and everything about political parties and these silly things.

I mean, while diseases just laugh, just laugh at us.

Well, especially the neurological disorders, like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia,

those are all nerve-based that we still know so little about, even though we've been,

I mean, they've been trying.

I mean, there's been a lot of research on it.

It's just the mystery of the human body and all this.

It's just, yeah.

We need to pull our attention, pull our resources as a world and start working together more

and start getting over some of these other things that are holding us back from beating cancer, Parkinson's,

all these diseases that continue to do what they do.

Yeah, that's what they do.

And a big shout out as well to all the virus hunters out there, all the people out there

who are trying to cut these things off at the past.

And learn more about Parkinson's disease, encourage you to do so.

There's a lot of interesting things about it as well as far as things that you can do in your own personal life.

Yep.

One more time, we want to wish you a happy birthday to Dave Hussion.

Happy birthday, Dave.

Happy birthday, Rhonda Meyer, happy birthday, Nikki Rubin.

Happy birthday, you too.

And a very happy birthday to our friend Ben Holberg, qualifier today.

Happy birthday, Ben.

They're all friends, all the graduates.

Yeah.

You're all friends out there, whether you realize it or not.

But you don't have to get this birthday presents.

You know, that's the nice thing about it.

No, not it.

You know, we're friends, but it's like it's not, it's casual.

Yep.

You know, hey, we see each other were passed by.

Okay, cool.

Otherwise, you know, I don't have to worry about it.

That's right.

But you do have to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

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And of course, keep in mind, our show, our phone lines are always open for you.

Yep.

Caller ID?

No.

Do we have a call waiting?

No.

But we do have the phone lines.

That's all we do.

And we do want to hear from you.

Oh, school.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go ahead and call up a joke.

Albuquerque, your online one.

I can do my Larry King in person.

Yeah, yes.

We do.

We'll come back after our local news with more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

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

Good things to get into this hour.

When I get into a little bit later, a couple of fun topics.

I've got McDonald's is up to something interesting.

Yes.

Okay.

A study found pat on the back can really help you.

That's cool.

Let's dive into this one.

All right.

There's no wrong time to exercise.

Any exercise is better than nothing.

Every study in the world suggests that.

Yeah, that's true.

It also suggests that there are a lot of ways that you are exercising that you may not realize.

Like if you are a parent.

Yeah.

Like end of discussion.

Yeah.

I'm telling you, if you have kids of a certain age that are just starting to walk or anything that you are moving.

Yeah.

You are chasing.

Exercise is a broad term.

It is really.

I agree.

It really is.

You do not have to be in a gym.

You do not have to be pumping weights to be exercising.

But a new study suggests there could be a right time to exercise.

Okay.

This study tracked people over eight years and found that people who exercise in the evening have a 61% lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't exercise.

Okay.

So eight years study.

That's pretty impressive.

That's nice data right there.

And that exercising in the evening is a 61% lower risk of death of any cause compared to people who don't exercise in the evening.

Really?

Everyone who exercised was better off.

But the people who exercised in the morning and afternoon only had a lower risk of 33% and 40% respectively.

So it wasn't as dramatic as the people who worked out at night.

Why is exercising a night better?

The data suggests nobody can see you.

No.

The data suggests it could be because our bodies are primed to handle blood sugar better later in the day.

Keep in mind that the study was focused on people who obese many with type two diabetes.

Oh, okay.

That would have been good to mention earlier.

A little bit in article that should mention that.

And fitting in some exercise in the evening might lower our blood pressure throughout the night and into the next morning as well.

This part is really interesting to me too.

The study also found that frequency of exercise, how often you move, seem to matter more for health than the duration of the activity.

Okay, wow, okay.

Which in layman's terms, reps.

Yeah, basically.

Anybody, especially if you've been working out for a long time like from a young age, you know, when you're little, you can't pump, you know, major iron.

You're not pumping, you know, you're not working out 100 pounds or anything like that.

When I was a kid and my dad being an athlete, I wanted to work out with him.

I wanted to be a gym with him and do what he was doing because I was trying to be a little version of him.

Right.

I could not punch bench 150, 250, things like that and everything.

You're not developed.

You're your tendons and everything aren't developed enough.

Yeah.

But that bothered me.

I didn't like that and everything.

And he taught me how, how little it matters of how much you can bench.

It's how often you can get the reps.

It's all about reps.

Any good workout comes down to the reps.

Right.

A lot of people can bench, you know, 300 pounds once.

But how many times can you do 100? How many times can you need?

And that's where the real muscle gets built in.

And that's what a real exercise for your body.

So much of this study comes from.

And I think one of the things it never, it comes up.

But it doesn't come up nearly enough when it comes to exercising.

Don't beat your body or yourself up.

No.

You know, it's not about putting yourself in the dirt.

It's not about beating your body down so badly that, you know,

you wake up in the next way.

Like there's a good burn and then there's not being able to move.

We really need to get past no pain, no gain.

Yeah.

If there's pain going on, there's something wrong.

Okay, you should not be doing that.

There is little literal scientific proof that there is,

that there's not a good phrase.

No, not a good phrase.

Not a good thing.

And the mental way we beat ourselves up, if you miss a workout

or if something comes up and you forget or anything like that, you know,

I think a lot of people, excuse me, maybe James, you haven't been there,

but a lot of people, you know, they knew yours or something.

Yeah.

But now this year is the year I'm going to get in shape.

I'm going to do lots of exercise.

And then that first day, you do a whole bunch of exercises.

You're like, oh, yeah.

Oh, I can't do this.

And then you stop.

Yeah.

That doesn't help you either.

I mean, it's all about finding out what's good for you,

what's the least strain on your body.

And just, yeah, what you're willing to stick to kind of thing.

So like, for instance, last night I went with my youngest.

He loved to walk.

He just like walking around.

So we're like, okay, let's walk.

And we went all around town.

You know, we went across the Jackson Street Bridge and up to the library and down

and stuff like that.

And just doing that, man, you know, that's a nice exercise there.

That's a nice exercise.

You go because you have some hills.

You got to climb up a little bit and stuff.

So just walking at it like a regular pace.

It's not like your power walking or anything like that.

You're just walking at a normal pace.

But still, you can feel it.

You can feel the exercise you're getting.

We tend to be our own worst enemy.

And one of the things that we can do to prevent that is to be better to each other.

And we're better to ourselves.

Right.

We talk a good game about having grace, giving each other grace.

But we need to do it for ourselves more, too.

There's a lot more that can be done with that.

I usually come back to the, it's kind of a platitude, I guess.

But it's really hard to love other people if you can't love yourself.

Tell me about it.

No, yeah, yeah.

That's just a little like the book.

Yeah.

But it's true.

I mean, yeah, if you can't offer yourself grace, how can you offer to other people?

Yeah.

It's really hard.

We have an interesting one here, Seth.

The top cities for retail therapy.

The top cities for retail therapy.

Those out there looking to do that.

Can I just throw something out there really bad?

Some of the worst therapy you can do.

Yeah.

Retail therapy.

I get it.

I've done it myself.

Yeah.

It doesn't last long.

And then you kind of end up with regrets at times if you do certain things.

Yeah.

I've been made fun of this before.

And I, so I don't know if I should even bring it off.

But I'm really, I've never, ever been a window shopper.

I'm not good at that.

Oh, I see.

I'm not good at the whole, like my mom used to do that when I was a kid.

We'd go down, you know, past Macy's and some of the fancy stores when I was a kid.

And she'd look at things and stuff.

And I just never understood that.

I'm not good at that.

I give credit to people that are, and I don't have any issue with it or anything.

But for me, I've never been good at that.

I'm also not a great shopper.

Like it almost anything, I go into any store like it's, like it's a battle.

Like I've got to survive it or something.

You've got this camel on.

I've got a list and I'm in and I'm out.

It's a list of dickhead.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

I love running into people randomly.

I think I really, really truly do.

It's fun.

It's a lot of situations.

It's one of those things like, oh, I didn't have that on my list running into Joe.

Dang, it's all right.

I'm going to add that to my list.

I'm going to add that to my list.

Then check it out.

So I just so admit, I am not a retail guy or a purchasing guy.

I'm not much of a buyer, really.

I'm doing a lot of that.

And so I'll be that guy.

Well, technically.

Shopping isn't buying.

It's just looking.

And then you buy it.

Buying is buying, shopping is shopping itself.

They've been connected.

But anyway.

If you're expecting a tax refund this year, maybe there's an opportunity for some retail therapy in your future.

Unless you're like a lot of us.

Yeah, exactly.

There's some new data out of the best cities for retail therapy.

And it takes several factors into account.

Like the number of retail establishments and employees, local foot traffic, interest and luxury brands, and popular density.

Population density.

Population density.

Yeah, wow.

They're all metro areas.

You've got Tampa, New York City, Dallas, and LA, and Minneapolis, and the top five.

Bottom five.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Minneapolis in there is interesting to see.

Yeah.

Some of the first malls, if I remember correctly, were in the Twin Cities metro area, if I remember correctly.

Well, with the Mall of America just alone, just that.

That's true.

Very true.

That's got to be a big factor in there, too.

And I've never been to the Mall of America.

I always wanted to check it out.

And I think it was right before the pandemic.

I heard somebody saying something about, will you better go check it out before it's gone?

I'm like, oh, what are you doing?

Okay.

And I look into it.

That mall is fine.

No, they're fine.

That thing is doing well.

Yeah.

And even after a pandemic, some of the numbers have even risen for some of their events and things that they have over there.

I think that's a pretty big credit to how that thing is wrong.

I think it is, too.

My family and I were there two years ago, something like that.

Yeah, two years ago, two summers ago.

We went there because, just because we had some time when I brought my son down there.

But it was packed.

There's people everywhere.

And it was like a normal, it wasn't like a special day or anything.

It was, yeah, no, the mall of America is just fine.

I think I had amusement park in the middle of it.

I mean, come on.

I mean, other malls, I don't know.

Other malls are getting turned into all kinds of other things.

Right.

It really depends.

This is what it did.

It took the, we needed, or it needed in order to be the biggest mall in the world.

It had to take from all the other malls.

That's why we're losing all this.

Is that what it is?

You just second up the energy from all of them.

Actually, I think there's a mall in Edmonton that's bigger.

Oh, yeah.

There's like one technically that's like the biggest mall in the world.

Interesting that it would be an Edmonton.

I know.

A lot of places, right?

Right across the street, really.

From Minnesota.

Like others.

Boston is at number five.

Denver at number four.

St. Louis, Atlanta, and Miami wrap out the, round out the top five.

Okay.

Miami, not surprising to see up the top there.

Yeah.

Atlanta is a little interesting.

I wouldn't have expected that.

St. Louis at number three.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would never have pegged them for that.

Wow.

I, especially if you're thinking of retail therapy or best place for it,

Los Angeles, New York, those are the first ones to come to mind for a lot of us.

Yeah.

They're not even in the top five.

Yeah.

That's, well, I wonder if it's because of, I mean, New York is a special case.

Yeah.

Because they have a lot of like super high-end stores.

If you like head down to like Mad Matt Hatton, you know.

Yeah.

So that's like what normal people can't, are you kidding me?

Yeah.

You can't afford anything from there.

No.

And they have other, you know, the stores.

But I think actually that actually makes sense to me.

Hmm.

That it wouldn't be best for like normal normal people.

Right.

Right.

That does make sense.

You bring it down like that.

We are going to take a time out.

I'm going to fix my throat.

Yep.

Get that frog out of there.

We will come back and have some more fun of the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Seth and James here with you.

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

I almost said Seth James and Melissa because it feels like Melissa's here a little bit.

Which is okay.

It's okay.

It's spirit.

It's spirit.

Wishing you a good morning, Melissa and all of you out there.

Hope you're having a good one.

We got some good stuff to get into throughout before we wrap up the day here.

I want to get into a little bit later.

A study that found a pad on the back can really be helpful.

That should be good.

And in the 9 o'clock hour, we're going to have our pet of the week

from the South of County Main Society and some entertainment news there.

But I wanted to fit this one in Seth.

Okay.

Many times, if you as we're getting ready for summer and we are in summer,

but we're getting ready for concert season.

Yeah.

A lot of bands are touring right now.

A lot of that going on.

And a list of artists who had farewell tours that didn't stick

is what we have for you.

It'll be a long list.

They're telling you.

How many times have you heard artists say that they're going on a farewell tour

only to come back shortly after probably too many times to count?

Yeah, correct.

So we're going to go through this list here of them.

And it's interesting.

You can find the complete list at Rollingstone.com.

One of the things that I enjoy about this list is Rollingstone, you know,

have a big catalog of history and work that they do on this.

Yes.

And I think this is something too where you're going to hear this list.

And I remember that show.

I remember that run or that.

And I think there's something impressive too.

We tease bands and we tease about this.

And the band that comes back and all that.

But it's like Madonna at I believe she's what 65 or something like that.

Yeah, I can't remember where she's at.

She and the Miami Heat where they play in Miami.

She just sold that out for four nights in a row.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like the Rolling Stones are in their 80s and still selling out like stadiums.

Like not just like a little venue.

Yeah, stadiums.

I think that there's something impressive to me about that.

Yeah.

Especially when it comes to like those two acts I mentioned.

Are they hurting for money?

Does anybody expect Madonna to have a garage sale?

No.

Like, you know, they think they're all right.

Oh, my God.

Would that be the most amazing garage sale?

I'm just saying.

You know, we're just like we're just garage sale.

You've ever been so like I think that you don't normally see bras at garage sales.

Yeah.

Wow.

Very long.

Very, very, very.

I think that like that's the other that's the side thing we have to think of with all these bands.

Right.

Is them having garage sales?

Right.

And what they would have to go through this.

For no reason whatsoever.

We've got to move.

We've got to get rid of some of this stuff.

You know, uh, go into a smaller place.

This is an interesting place where this list starts too.

At number eight, Frank Sinatra.

Uh, Sinatra's final show, 1971.

Years until next tour.

Two.

Wait, he did a farewell tour in 1971.

Yeah.

Dude, he was, he was performing all the way up till when he passed away in the 1970s.

In our lifetime.

Yeah.