Hour 1: 18 toes, on average

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'm going to be joining my Melissa K. any moment now, but I got

with me right in to start off the show.

Our good friend, Brittany Murlow, to kick us off with some weather.

Good morning, Brittany.

Good morning.

How are you today?

I'm alright.

I got to be honest, Brittany.

I do, you know, I do a quick check of the news every morning and I look at it.

And for breaking news and different things that we can lead our show with or important

things our audience should know about.

And then I come across things that just boggle my mind and wrinkle my brain and I'm just

a little distracted.

I will get to it at the moment.

What does our forecast look like for today?

That happens.

That sure happens.

The news, I'll tell you.

The weather today is not going to, it might upset you a little bit more, too.

Unfortunately, I have no good news.

Oh.

I appreciate the honesty.

It's ripped the bad day off, isn't it?

Yeah.

We're just ripping it off this morning.

Happy Tuesday, everyone.

Yeah.

No, we're starting off partly sunny.

Clouds are going to be increasing this afternoon and we have a wind advisory that's going

into a fact that one o'clock and lasting through tomorrow morning.

We're going to see some winds gusting up to, we'll say it's sustained, a constant wind

at about 30 miles per hour, festing to nearly 50 miles per hour at times tonight.

So today, I want all of you to secure all those objects outside.

If you have patio furniture, bring it into the garage, do what you got to do because

those winds are going to take some of those, especially garbage cans and throw them down

the street today.

Brittany, for what's going to be happening?

Forget about the lawn chairs and everything.

I weigh like a hundred pounds.

I got to put rocks in my shoes today.

That's crazy.

It's going to be windy.

Pick me up.

Pick me up.

I'm going to turn to the Mary Poppins.

I'm going to flip you around.

Honestly, you may get blown over.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Yeah.

I didn't mean to interrupt you.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to interrupt you.

No.

You're good.

But you know what?

For rocks in your shoes.

You're going to want to umbrella the mud boot because we're looking at anywhere from 1 to

2 inches of rainfall.

Some localized flooding is possible.

You're going to see that pounding.

Be careful driving.

Some water on the side.

Pulls your car.

That's going to be the case.

We go through the next 24 hours.

If you're headed down south, though, I just want to give a quick heads up.

There is a tornado threat for the south in the state.

That is not going to be in Wisconsin Rapids or our area.

We could just hear some rumbles of thunder.

Don't get too nervous.

The worst we can see is some hail.

But down south, they've got some things to worry about.

Good to know.

I thank you for the heads up, Brittany, especially us.

So many of our locals traveling and heading down that way.

I know my sister will be.

So she's in Madison.

Oh.

So I appreciate the heads up for that.

Pretty.

I got to ask real quick.

You're, you're bopping down the street.

An animal is, you know, a wild animal that you're not used to seeing is coming down the street.

Of all the animals I could say to you that would throw you.

A hippo would probably be pretty big, right?

Like it would do that.

That would pretty much be like, OK, that's the strangest animal I could possibly see coming at me on a Wisconsin street.

Oh, yeah, I was just going to say Wisconsin.

Yeah, I would.

Did that happen?

No, no.

But it just, it happened in South Africa, which makes it a lot more sense had happened in South Africa.

But it just got my brain thinking about, you know, different because we have so much of this going on.

And more and more as we go on here, deer's going into malls and stores and restaurants.

We've got videos all over of those things.

I'm just trying to think of what's next because animals have already kind of, they're going to try to top themselves though.

They're animals.

They're, you know, they're creative.

They, they, they just got to come up with a new animal.

We've already had the deer doing it.

Everybody's had to stop their car for a turkey.

I'm just curious what the next animal will be.

We've already, now we've got hippos out there.

Now they hippos are doing it.

I'm going to go for, I'm going to go for a moose for this car.

Oh, I like that.

I like that.

Moose will be wandering around.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

That's a good choice.

Oh, I appreciate you, Brittany.

Thank you so much.

Have a great morning.

You too.

Thanks.

We, we, we are joined by Brittany Marlow every morning right at this time slot, getting you up to date on Mother Nature.

Appreciate her doing that.

Melissa and I are going to have a great show with you today.

Everybody.

We got some fun stuff lined up.

We're going to get into, of course, the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

That'll be in just a little bit.

We also got some fun things to get.

I got to ask Melissa a couple of questions about her cat and cats in general.

My guy, you know, I have my own knowledge of cats, but I want to get her a take on these.

Also, we have something that's quite interesting that's going on for the first time for the majority of Americans.

I want to touch on that.

Nine o'clock hour are going to kick off with a new chamber member.

We're going to have Shilor Calhoun join us.

She is from Relax, Refresh, and Reconnect Barber and Spa.

We're going to be talking with her, looking forward to that.

She's going to kick off our nine o'clock hour.

In that nine o'clock, we'll also get into a little bit of entertainment news.

I got some other fun things I want to touch on with Melissa as well.

I got a one coming up in the nine o'clock.

The most overrated tourist attractions.

The most overrated tourist attractions.

We'll see if we agree.

We'll see what you think.

Because as always, with this show, it's not just myself and Melissa that do this show.

It's you guys as well.

You're a part of the show.

Let's hear from you.

Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred.

Call up and join the conversation.

We'd love to hear from you.

Good things coming up.

Yes, so I was mentioning this story.

I came across this morning.

Residents in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa had a brush with the wild

when a hippopotamus escaped from a nature reserve and wandered through the streets.

Grassy Park residents captured photos and videos when the hippo broke through a fence

and kind of made some trouble, you know, which is, I mean, if you're a hippo

and you just escaped a nature reserve, right?

For one thing, what's the worst they're going to do to you?

You're going to go right back to the reserve.

So why not have a little fun?

Get out there.

You know, enjoy yourself a little bit.

You're a hippo.

How often do you get a chance to do that?

I like Brittany's answer for a moose.

What would be the strangest animal for you to see that would be, you know,

Wisconsin animal.

You're not going to see a giraffe probably popping down.

Although, you know, but what would be, what would it be for you?

Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred four two four twenty six hundred.

I don't think this is going to be a fun answer, but honestly, like a fox.

Something smaller, I think, because we're used to a lot of these bigger animals.

But I've never seen necessarily like a fox going into a building or something.

That might be, that might throw me.

That might be a little more interesting.

I don't know.

See where this goes.

Nature is certainly not, um, they're not observing our laws, our rules.

They're just going to do what they do.

We got a interesting one here too, that I wanted to touch on attendees at the National Beard

and Mustache Championship in Florida broke three Guinness World Records for the longest

chains of Beards, Mustaches and partial Beards.

The annual event, which is held in a different location each year by Beard Team USA.

I'm sorry, I didn't say that right.

I apologize.

Beard Team USA.

There we go.

That's how you got to say that.

All participants take on three record titles on the Main Street Pier in this year's host city, Daytona Beach.

The facial hair fanatics first attempt, attempted the record for the longest Beard chain, which was previously set at 150 feet

during the previous years National Beard and Mustache Championships.

Let's go ahead and take a phone call.

Good morning.

What's in your mind?

The ostriches are more user and ostriches.

An ostrich?

An ostrich would definitely throw me.

Yeah, that would definitely...

And you know, we've got ostriches.

Yeah, we've got ostrich farms around here.

I know one in Rapids.

At least used to be the one in here.

That would...

Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

That's a great one.

Thank you for that.

Have a great day.

That's a great...

Oh, ostrich, I didn't think of that.

That's fair.

That's one that you could see possibly.

It could escape one of the ostrich farms around here.

And man, that would be interesting.

Our police department, our nature people, our DNR, our fire department.

Everybody's got enough on their plate.

I don't know if they necessarily needed an ostrich.

Pop it around.

But I can see that.

I can see that.

Let's take another call.

This one got you guys going.

Good morning.

What's in your mind?

How about one of those fancy kangaroos from the local zoo?

Yeah.

Oh, that's...

And yes, we...

Right over here at our Wisconsin Rappers Municipal Zoo.

When they open their doors, you can check out the kangaroo exhibit.

It's a lot of fun, highly recommend.

And yes, they could get loose.

Yes.

Not really.

Let's be honest.

They do a great job over there.

Those kangaroos are...

But it's a fair.

There could be much more of a danger to you at your location than any of you.

That's true.

I'm fortunate I get to see Eagles.

Pretty much every morning across the street from me.

That would be a lot different.

I'm looking for the Eagles and I see a kangaroo.

That would definitely be...

With rams a little ways down.

If the kangaroo was smart and went that direction, I bet he'd have a lot more fun.

At the middle school?

Yeah, I think the kids would just love that.

I don't know how the teachers in the principal would feel, but I bet the kids...

What could be more chaotic for a principal or for a grade school teacher

than having a kangaroo just out of nowhere show up in your school?

I don't wish that on any principal or teacher ever.

I do.

Here's a reminder to thank your local teachers and principals.

Yes, well done.

Great.

Yes.

Well done.

You too.

Have a good morning.

Thank you.

Best listeners at radio.

Well done.

Yes.

Thank you to all the teachers and principals and everybody out there.

We appreciate you.

So looking at this records for the Beard Championships.

The Beard Sporting Participants stood by side by side and their facial hair was clipped together into a 86-person chain

measuring 195 feet and 3 inches long.

Organizers then attempted the record for the longest mustache chain with 27 participants achieving a record-breaking length of 20 feet and 4 inches.

Final record, the longest partial beard chain involved only those participants with partial beard styles,

which include like mutton chops, goaties and those kind of things.

That chain made up to 24 participants, featured 42 feet and 8 inches long.

All three record attempts were successful.

If you are growing yourself a beard like me, maybe you want to get in this next year.

It might be fun.

Who knows.

We will go ahead and take a quick time out.

We're going to come back and have some fun with the El Café, Birthday and Anniversary Club.

And some of us in James, even though she's not here, but she's technically here.

She's always here in spirit.

I'm the Mortic Show here at WFHR.

We are a locally grown radio.

It's time for the El Café, Birthday and Anniversary Club.

We encourage you to treat yourself head on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port.

Edwards, wish them a good morning from all of us here at WFHR.

They got a lot of extra early stuff going on with an early announcement they made for another sunrise.

They're starting a new spring menu today.

Woo!

Yeah, this is pretty cool. Melissa with us, everybody, by the way.

Hey, good morning.

I did, I was at a proper hotel to introduce you. Melissa's with us.

That's okay, I'm a little distracted here myself.

So we're all good.

It was the hip-hop thing, wasn't it?

It was the hip.

You know that, and I was picturing a kangaroo crossing the street over here.

It would be a little weird to see you.

It would be, it would be.

But I liked the collars suggestion of an ostrich.

I really did.

I really enjoyed that one.

That would totally threw me back to Swiss Family Robinson.

Oh, yes.

And the ostrich and zebra races.

Yes.

Oh, good reference.

Nice.

We are here to celebrate all of you and get more of your birthdays and anniversaries.

Get them to us, everybody.

Info at WFHR.com.

James.mailf at CivicMedia.us.

Go ahead and hit us up any time by calling us up on the show as well.

Yeah, 715-424-2600.

Or one button dialing with the Civic Media app.

We look forward to talk with you, everybody.

Be sure to join us.

I have one, two, three, four possible qualifiers today.

Melissa.

Let's go with four.

Nice, nicely done.

All right.

That gives us our qualifier.

And we can get right into this celebrating.

And first up, we want to wish a very happy-

Actually, I have an announcement I wanted to touch on.

Our day in history here with our WFHR radio station and WIRI.

On this date, in our radio history in 2021, Marcus Jagger and Hardle Wisconsin Media took ownership of our station from C.H.A. for broadcasting company.

Hey, congratulations.

That was only like two years ago.

Oh, my God.

Anybody else just like, whoa.

Yeah.

Does it quite seem right?

No, no, it doesn't.

But yeah, 2021, that's what it happened.

Okay, but that's more than two years ago.

No, no, but it feels, I'm sorry.

It feels like it was two years ago.

Oh, okay.

It's just like yesterday, almost.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, it just feels like it just happened.

Yes.

And here we've actually waved in with Civic for quite a while.

No, no, everything.

So it's interesting.

Yeah.

Let's get into our local birthdays.

We first up, want to wish a happy birthday to Ryan.

He was dead.

Happy birthday, Ryan.

And then we want to wish a happy birthday to John Heckelman.

Happy birthday, John.

We're wishing a happy birthday as well.

To Ruth Zinda.

Ah, Ruth.

That was my grandma's name.

It's a good name.

It's a good name.

It's a good name.

It's a good name.

It's a really good name.

And our qualifier today, Gene Elmer.

Happy birthday, Gene.

We hope all of you.

My other grandma's name.

Really?

Wow.

Well, nicely done, listeners.

Yes.

Nicely done.

That's really cool.

One of the odds of that happening.

We'll have to remember next year what this happens again.

Everybody wishing you all a happy birthday in anniversary.

What's your day, everybody?

Wishing you a great one.

We encourage you to celebrate with our friends over at Elle Cafe.

They got a couple of great specials going on in this.

I mentioned they have their new spring menu going strong.

So go ahead and check that out.

We encourage you to do so.

That's exciting.

Yeah.

Their menu was great already.

What's the new stuff going to be?

Yeah, they have got some nice stuff that it's looking like.

A special today country Benedict or barbecue pulled pork quesadilla.

Get on down there.

Check some of that out.

Great stuff over there.

Great stuff.

I'm hungry.

Yeah.

It didn't make me hungry too.

Way to go James.

It didn't mean to do that.

Yes, you did.

Yeah, it's a little bit.

Take a look at our celebrity list of actors and writers and painters and all these things.

Let's Anna Taylor Joy is 28.

Oh, she's amazing.

She really is.

And she is having herself a moment right now.

Yeah.

She was in the Queen's Gambit.

Yeah.

She was Beth in that.

Very, very good.

Princess Peach and Super Mario Brothers movies.

She is in the X-Men New Mutants movie and she did a really good job in that.

She was in Split, which was kind of a sequel of the Glass movie where she was.

Okay.

Her and James McAvoy shared the screen quite a bit.

And I think James McAvoy is one of the top five top 10 actors in the world.

And she held her own.

And that was the first time I'd ever seen her.

So I'm like, oh, I'm going to pay attention to this girl.

Like she seems like somebody to watch.

She's got a new one coming out.

The next month's Furiosa.

It's a prequel to the Mad Max one of the Mad Max version.

Oh, it's in the Mad Max.

Yeah.

Mad Max saga.

She plays kind of a darker character in this, right?

Yes.

And then Dirty Dark.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's a dystopian user kind of thing.

Yes.

That's what I mean by dirty.

And it may not seem like a big deal to Samba for an actress to do that.

Like a lot of times agents will try to talk them out of that.

Well, because it changes her look completely.

I mean, her entire, she looks like a doll.

She has such a unique face and eyes and her nose.

Her eyes are so big and such a sculpture.

You know, our sculpture cheekbones are gorgeous.

Yeah, gorgeous.

She's drop dead gorgeous.

She is.

She looks like she was drawn.

And in this, in this show, it looks like she rolled around in a month.

Yeah.

It looks really good.

I'm going to be honest.

I can't wait to see it.

It looks really good.

I also really want to see the menu that came out in 2022.

It's one of those ones.

It just keeps slipping through the face.

I wanted to see it.

I've heard great things about it.

She's supposed to be really good in it.

And I haven't gotten to see it.

Yeah.

That's one of those ones.

Let's see.

Claire Foy is 40.

She was cleaned a little bit on the crown.

She was also in the girl in the spider's web.

Good actor.

Good actor.

Gerardo is 59.

Rico.

Suave.

Rico.

Wait a minute.

Rico.

That's how you go.

Do you get a role?

Ecuadorian rapper and singer.

Oh my god.

They call them a rapper.

Wow.

That's tense.

That's the little tense, right?

I don't care if they call them a pop star.

They call it a rapper.

That's the little tense.

I don't care if they call them a pop star.

They call it a rapper.

That's actually a sense.

American rapper, singer, and actor.

Later became a recording industry executive and more recently, a pastor.

Wow.

Good for him.

Wow.

Is it illegal, swave?

Good hit.

I'm going to be plates of people, that's going to be interesting.

That's going to be an interesting...

You got t-

That's all not usually illegal,wall-

that's interesting flex.

Do your thing, dude.

Good autumn.

Did not see that coming.

That was a surprise.

Martin Lawrence is 59.

Oh.

One of the funniest people of the planet, I love Martin Lawrence.

He's very weird.

�� like Rulub blood in that show, Martin.

My tan.

That was a good show.

So many good movies, too.

Good boy movies.

Blue streak.

I really like to lose streak.

I like to lose streak, too.

I did.

I did a good cast, yeah.

Oh, and mine caged.

Did you see that one?

It's 2022.

Yeah, that was an interesting one.

Yeah, I was an interesting one.

I'd watch it just because he's in it.

Yeah.

He's one of those guys, same way.

I'm the same way with him.

Yeah.

If he's in it, I'll probably see it.

John Cryer is 59.

Ducky from Pretty and Pink is 59.

A lot of people might know him as Lex Luthor in the Supergirl series.

He was also in two and a half men, of course, Alan on that show.

Nice career for John Cryer.

He was in hot shots in 91.

Oh my God, that's right.

He was good in that two-year glasses or something like that.

He's made a good career out of things.

Let's see.

David Perner is 60, Solasylum lead singer.

I believe another singer, Jimmy Osman, 61 for him.

The great Ellen Bark in his 70s today.

The Big Easy, Sea of Love, Oceans 13.

Oh, what an actress.

What an actress, man, Ellen Barkin.

She is something.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I had to look her up.

I could not picture her.

She's good.

I don't know.

Maybe if I had to say my favorite basketball player of all time, I would probably say it was

Lou Elcinder.

That is Karim Abdul-Jabbar.

Many Milwaukee Buc fans would remember him as Lou Elcinder when he won a championship

in Milwaukee, a couple hours from us here.

And then, of course, went on to LA to go on and Karim Abdul-Jabbar, just a couple of

little things about him, Melissa, two-time NBA MVP, six-time NBA MVP, finals MVP, two-times,

six-time MVP, six-time NBA champion, 15-time all-MBA, 19-time all-star, 38,000 career points,

second all-time on the all-time points list, third on the all-time rebounds list, 49th

on the assists list, third on the blocks list, and invented the hookshot.

They told him, Hey, Karim, you can't slam anymore.

You can't get into paint.

You can't slam the ball.

Everybody did what he designed, a hookshot that he would do, that nobody could defend.

And everything I just said, pales in comparison to the kind of human being he has been after,

as a player and in retirement.

I think Karim Abdul-Jabbar is, almost you could make the argument, the conscience of sports.

Wow.

I firmly believe that.

I'm not saying that everybody agrees with him, and you don't often agree with your

own conscience.

Well, you don't listen to your own conscience sometimes.

Sometimes.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

So, yeah, I think he deserves his flowers, and certainly here in Wisconsin, I would think

that there's some pride in Karim and his love of the blocks.

He's come back to that team a number of times and has a good memory with them and has made

good with a lot of that.

Wow.

It's a very impressive list.

I apologize that it was basically meaningless to me, but you know, it's very impressive and

good on him.

I appreciate you letting me ramble.

Thank you.

Well, you're a good team.

You're a good team.

You're not of a choice.

Not really.

Bobby Vitten is 89 today, blue velvet star, and that's a people no longer with us, like

Pope Benedict XVI born in 1927, just passed away a couple of years ago in 2022.

One of the brighter stars that was diminished in recent memory, Selena was born in this

day in 1971, passed away in 1995.

I could fall in love, dreaming of you.

Her star was only going to get bigger and bigger.

Yeah.

That's a shame.

Great Dusty Springfield born in this day in 1939, Rock and Roll, Hall of Famer, I only

wanted to be with you, wishing and hoping, will you still love me tomorrow, son of a preacher

man.

So many hits.

Woo.

Son of a preacher man.

Anytime that comes on, I'm moving to it.

I'm popping to it.

I love that one.

Selena preacher man.

Jordan.

He's been redone a whole lot of times too, hasn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

George, the animal steal born in this day in 1937, passed away in 2017, old school wrestler.

He used to, he used to bite the turnbuckle off of the ring and he had a big green tongue.

I only got to see him like towards the end of his career as a wrestler, but man, I like

guys like him, guys like him or what made wrestling.

Okay.

Doesn't make me want to watch it, but all right.

No, no, no.

Gene Rafferty born in this day in 1947, passed away in 2011.

He co-wrote stuck in the middle with you, but biggest hit Baker Street.

I maintained the Baker Street is the quintessential 80s song.

It really is.

It's got the sax solo.

It's got the dramatic build up and the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

It's got everything you could ask for in the 80s song and it's kind of a one hit wonder.

Gene Rafferty not really a whole lot of hits after that, but didn't need many because

that one hit.

I don't care what anybody says.

That song stands up.

That song stands up.

And if you're curious, the Foo Fighters did a really cool reimagining of it if you will.

I like the Foo Fighters.

I don't think they're really, they didn't do it with the sax solo.

I think they did it with the guitar solo more so they it's more of that, but they did

a really nice version.

Let's see here.

Henry Mancini born in this day in 1924, genius composer of the Pink Panther theme, one

four Oscars, 20 Grammys.

Nowadays we've got a lot of great composers, but back in the day, Henry Mancini pretty

much stood out.

I would say that he was probably the best of his era.

Oh, absolutely.

And when it comes to influences, Melissa, there aren't many that I go back farther with

and the great Charlie Chaplin born in 1889, passed away in 1977, the year I was born.

Wow.

Classics, modern times, city lights, the gold rush, the kid.

The gold rush is top five favorite movies of all time for me.

I'll still, I just actually just watched it a couple of weekends ago.

Charlie Chaplin nowadays, it's not a big deal to see somebody as an executive producer

or even they wrote the movie and directed it and star in it.

We see that quite a bit.

As a little kid, my papa wanted me when he found that I wanted to be an actor, one of

the first person I think he had me watch was Charlie Chaplin.

Really?

And it's Jimmy.

Look at the, look at the credits and I'm watching the credits.

Okay.

And then the next time I'm watching the gold rush, I realized Charlie Chaplin did just

right, direct and star in it.

He was also the editor, the, the, the makeup, the sound effects.

Like everything, everything, you watch just one scene of the gold rush and there's a scene

where he's in a house and it's shaking because of the, this wind, the storm that's going

on outside.

So what's going to happen today?

Yeah, pretty much, yes, nicely done.

And you see the house moving and shaking and everything.

And if you pay close attention and you look, you'll see a string on his right foot.

He's using, he's pulling the house.

He's the one moving the house with his foot.

He's the only one he had to run over there and hit record on the, on the recorder and

get back into place, put this on his foot, get all set up and just to do this.

Wow.

Wow.

Talk about one man show.

Just can't even, and all of this and, and that pales comparison to his great dictator

movie.

You want to see him, especially a movie that is timely nowadays, go ahead and watch

the great dictator Chaplin nails that one and nails, uh, nobody has to, nobody ever had

to make fun of Hitler because Chaplin did it.

Chaplin did it so good and, and rip that man and brought him to the light so well that

almost nobody had to afterwards.

The great dictator is a great one.

Chaplin Chaplin.

The most important figures in motion picture history.

And I think in, not just in, in, yes, and, uh, in the sense of what, where we are nowadays,

where we're getting the more, we're getting to learn more and more about our heroes, about

our, our people we look up to, people we like, Charlie Chaplin was by no means a perfect

human being.

And, uh, there, that has to be said too when you're talking about him, but you can do

both.

You can talk about all that and ramble about him like I just did as well.

Uh, and I, I think that's a great lesson in today's, I, you know, day and age two because

we keep finding out more, more about people and some of it you'd like, some of it, you

know, uh, we are going to wish one more happy birthday to all of our qualifiers, our, our,

our guests today.

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Well, come back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a good start to your day out there.

How and makes me want to dance.

It does make me want to move.

It does, it does make me want to move.

I'll tell you that I agreed.

We got a morning topic to get to in a little bit, but Melissa, I got to talk, uh, we got

to talk cats.

We got to talk cats a little bit, right?

Right.

Right.

I did want Kevin to be a part of this conversation, uh, and we do appreciate Kevin being a part

of the show whenever he joins us, whenever he's time.

He absolutely refused to come with me today.

I tried.

You know, he, he's, he's boycotting the harness.

I, I get it.

He's afraid of treats now because treats usually means something's bad's going to happen

to him.

Like he's going to end up in a harness or he's going to get his ears queen.

That's rough.

Yeah.

It is rough.

So I've been, I've been trying to give him treats not related to.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

Trauma happening to him.

It's a smart.

Yeah.

But now he just, he straight up said, nope, no car red today.

Uh, it's smart, smart.

I, I would stay home too.

I don't blame him.

I don't blame him.

It, it, the life seems pretty good of a, of a domesticated animal.

It doesn't seem so bad to me.

No.

In fact, if I could, yeah, I think I'd be a cat.

I, I feel like a cat or a dog, I'll take you to one, you know, as long as I get to be

inside.

At some point we, we need to talk about his moth hunting abilities.

Oh, oh really?

Yeah.

Oh, I want to get into that one.

Uh, first this though, if you're a cat person, you probably think you know, put them pretty

well.

And also not at all because they're in enigma, uh, they are the definition of it enigma.

Oh, yeah.

If you look up enigma in the dictionary, it's just a cat cat.

It's just a cat giving you a look.

It's just like, you know the look of talking about.

Only 17% of cat owners got it right in a recent poll of this question.

How many toes does your average, does the average cat have, how many toes, that's an interesting

question.

Only 17% got it right.

Uh, do you want to know the answer?

Do you want to take a guess?

Do you want me to just tell you, uh, I would guess four, yeah, four in each poll.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Eighteen.

The answer is 18, ten in front and eight in back.

Oh, I did not know that.

I'd be completely out.

So I didn't know that five on each one in front and four on each one in back.

Right.

Okay.

Uh, and so, uh, so what it, the only reason I knew about them in front is because I had

a cat with five toes.

I had a Hemingway cat, I called them Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway famously had a six-toed cat,

sorry, six-toed cat and, uh, actually, one of his homes, I believe he left in his will

to keeping four six-toed cats as like a home for them so that they would breed more, make

more of them and all that and have a sanctuary, basically.

Okay.

So yeah, I was like, I've always remembered that.

That's the only reason I know that stat is not because I have met a lot of cats or talked

to a ton of them about their manicures or anything like that.

Did I get that right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Pedicure?

Pedicure.

Pedicure.

Pedicure.

Yes.

Oh.

Let's take a moment on that, what everybody.

That's a pedicure.

Oh.

Oh, that's bad.

That's bad.

You didn't get it, did you?

I caught it right away.

Of course you did.

Oh, that was sick.

That's pretty bad.

So 92% of cat owners think that they know a lot about cats.

But here are a few more extra cat facts.

Like, it's not uncommon for cats to have a few extra digits.

The record is 28, lots that happens a number of times.

That's a lot of toes.

46% of cat owners don't know cats are lactose intolerant.

So a cow's milk isn't actually good for them.

Only 53% of no cats tend to drink more water.

If it's running water, so fountains are better than a dish.

And only 44% know cats sometimes per when they're happy or stressed out.

Now I've read that the stressed out part, that's more of a, like, you see it in their fur.

Like it's up kind of like the hair in our arm stands up.

It's a little like more like that.

Or their ears.

Yes.

You get a little, like they're just agitated and you can usually see it.

Most domesticated cats, the purring is strictly for, I'm in a good mood.

It certainly every animal is different.

But that is just from the shelter I worked at and a number of like, my ex-wife, we had

like 20 cats in the time that we in the like two years we were married.

And yeah, they learn to pick a couple of things up on that.

So that the per part, the other thing that's really fascinating about a cat's per, no

idea how they do it, no idea where it comes from.

Google it right now.

They're not going to have an answer for you.

It's fascinating.

Everything we discover and learn and everything we know about ourselves, about the world,

about animals.

And that's something we still don't know.

That's crazy.

I love that.

I saw something describing the cat is vibrating.

You mean it's purring?

Is that what that means?

Yes.

It's purring.

Oh, I did not know they vibrated and purred.

I love that going to your local search bar or your local veterinarian.

My cat is vibrating like my phone.

What does that mean?

Do I have to turn the sound off or do I tune the vibration off?

Is there, I have not found the button and I don't want to look.

I'm going to be honest.

Don't want to look.

My cat, I've had my, I've mentioned my ex had a bunch of cats.

Well, I had one cat for pretty much my existence, a Hemingway.

He was a six toe cat.

I mentioned him before.

I did not know Hemingway was a boy for a long time because I didn't ask.

It just wasn't my business.

It wasn't about the check.

I didn't grow up with animals so I don't have a lot of familiarity with them.

I was not comfortable.

But if you got him from a shelter.

I knew he was a boy.

He was fixed.

I knew he was.

So it's less easy to tell then.

Very true.

Last stats, seven and ten cat owners feel like they can usually tell what their cat is

thinking.

Okay.

That's an interesting one.

And kind of wrapping up the cat's segment.

There's no way to check that.

And so of course they can say they do.

That's true.

That's true.

Now, that being said, you would think the number would have been higher.

Right.

It just shows you that even with even on a blind survey kind of thing, only 70% of us

are that kind of confident.

I have no idea.

I have to, this one is a bit of a visual one in an audio medium.

That can be difficult.

So it encourage you to throw this one in your search bar.

But I don't know if you'll need to, as I mentioned before, cats have that one look.

And you know what I'm talking about.

It's very similar to when you put your mother in an awkward position or a relative or

a teacher or somebody like that and they give you this look.

We've all known, we know exactly what it means.

Maybe I'm just dealing with a lot of like, I've dealt with that look a lot, but I think

you know what I mean.

A cat rescued from between two walls by firefighters in England is going viral on social media.

Thanks to its amusing facial expression.

And Char fire and rescue service who we send a big shout out to and a big thank you

to their service and their work.

They were on social media and their crews from Preston responded when that the curious

cat was found trapped between two walls.

Our firefighters carefully chiseled them out as safe and sound.

Firefighters wrote the post quickly went viral online due to the cats seemingly angry

expression while being held by the rescuer.

The furrowed feline earned comparisons to former social media star grumpy cat.

So there was that that has brought that back.

And Melissa, I don't know how well you could see this picture.

But yes, he is discontent.

The fireman looks happy.

But the the the cat in question here does not look.

Yeah.

He's a calico.

His face is just very like, why are you doing this to me?

I don't know if the cat feels like it needed to be rescued.

I feel like I was fine.

I seemed like he maybe would have been better left where he was.

I was obviously not, but I was enjoying the wall.

It had everything I need.

I was fine.

I mean, the wall we're getting along just fine until you guys came along.

The the all the cat is happy and safe and sound, good, important to know and important.

Yes, but that facial expression where they're just kind of like their eyes aren't completely

squinted shut.

But they're just like a little half littered maybe in the way to describe it.

And they're just kind of glaring at you.

It's kind of that say, say some, but you tell somebody something and then two seconds later

they ask you it again.

It's almost like this.

Really?

Really?

It's it's it's angry and irritated, but not like full bullet like at a 10.

It's not that bad.

But it's your your you're definitely grumpy or the expression Kevin gave me the other

day when he was sitting on my lap and I made like a bird whistle sound like it sounded

nothing like a bird.

You know, it was me whistling and he looked at me and then he kind of half closed his eyes

and continued to look at me like, who do you think you're fooling?

The that's not a bird.

I yeah, yeah, I know exactly the look you're talking about, know exactly what you're talking

about.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back after checking in with our partners and we're going to get into the

most stressful time of day.

The most stressful time of day.

We're going to touch on that and and play more coming up for you on the morning show

here at WFHR locally grown radio.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Melissa James hanging out with you.

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

Thanks for joining us everybody.

Let's get into this one, Melissa, although the happy music doesn't necessarily really set

the toad for this next guy, but it's happened.

It doesn't matter if you're a morning person or a night person, mornings are more stressful

than evenings according to this new survey.

That makes sense.

The survey says that the most stressful time of day is 8.15 in the morning, and you get

to spend that with me, so I wonder if it is a little bit.

That makes sense.

8.15 a.m. usually involves some combination of getting ready in the morning, helping others

get ready, preparing any breakfast, commuting, helping others get to work or school, and

generally operating before the caffeine kicks in on top, or if you're like today, I forgot

my coffee.

Oh, again.

Yeah, I know.

Like Tuesday's are really bad for me with coffee.

I just, I really, we got to get a coffee sponsor just for my own sanity.

On top of the usual running around, mornings are also more likely to be to bring unexpected

challenges.

The average person estimates that they lose 20 minutes and 28 seconds on average to morning

chaos that's mostly out of their control.

I would think that, you know, unsuspecting traffic accidents or road construction.

Yeah.

Yeah, especially this time of year, it's orange cone season, everybody.

Orange barrels.

Orange barrels.

Nice.

Keep a lookout for all those workers out there, the other one.

Yes, please.

Drive slow.

Pay attention.

This being said, here are five things that can help you make mornings go smoother, especially

if you have children, prepare the night before, lay out clothes, pack school bags, prepare

lunches, set up breakfast plans for the night before.

You may even consider showering in the evening.

That is one of the biggest reasons why I am any good at this job.

I learned right away that that was, that was the way I had to do this job.

I prep.

Yeah.

I'm way too much of a night owl.

I'm up too late.

All these things, if I'm going to be up and I'm going to be, yeah, you got to have everything

set in place beforehand so you can fly out the door.

We used to do the show six to nine and then it was in different shifts, different times,

but it's always been pretty much a three hour block and it still is for me doing the sunrise

show and doing these two hours.

I plan out 16 to 24 segments, I do my homework and get all these things ready and set to

go.

I understand as well, none of it may matter, none of it may matter because you come

on the air and a couple of things go wrong and they set the timing off and all the sudden

you have to do you shorter segments.

I can't do this story because it's going to be too long for that segment.

You have to improv, you have to think in the last second.

All that being said, the more I have prepared, the less I am more ready, my brain is freer

for this chaos.

Right.

It's, to me, I call it entropy agility, agility, entropy agility.

Light is chaos, there is entropy all over around us.

The agility we have, balancing and bouncing around those things is intercold of being happy

and having a good life.

Be prepared for any circumstance, basically.

Einstein got this.

Now, you don't have to take it as far as Einstein did.

He wore the same outfit every day, but he believed that it was a waste of time to spend

worrying about what to wear, you know, so does the Harry Potter kid.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

There we go.

I couldn't think of his name.

Establish and stick to a routine, the more you're able to turn your mornings into a repeatable

mental checklist, the easier it'll be to keep things moving and avoid forgetting things.

When's the last time you had to think about how you brush your teeth?

You just brush them.

You don't really think about it.

Right.

You think about a bazillion other things while you're doing that.

Yeah.

You're multitasking.

The more you do these things, the more you get in a routine, the more your brain is got

a blueprint to work off of.

And you can, in your subconscious, think about other things while you're doing these main

routines.

Well, and human beings we like routines.

Think about, I don't know, talk about things we have normalized.

The fact that we can carry two thoughts in our head at once, it's not that impressive

I understand.

But if you think about what that we're still figuring out the brain, that we don't know,

we're still trying to map the brain in many ways.

It's kind of fascinating to think about how we can do these things.

Our body can be doing something while our brain is doing something else.

That's pretty cool.

And we're still learning that sometimes we need to say, oh, thank you for that thought

brain.

Yeah.

And file that away because I don't, you're not always right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

True.

True.

Very true brain.

Very true.

Put you a check, Brian.

I'll put you a time out brain.

Well, sometimes you have to do that.

Yeah, you do.

But before the kids, if possible, wake up at least 30 minutes before the kids so that you

have time to get yourself ready in peace, that's fantasy.

If you're a parent, I don't care if you've got one kid and there's two of you and you've

got everything under control, you think you're taking every second of sleep you got.

You let alone your average parent out there who doesn't have the luxury of maybe always

doing this.

If you can, more power to you.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, if you can.

So, the only problem with some of this stuff to me, Melissa, is it's, it all seems great,

except it also gives the opportunity to beat ourselves up another, another opportunity

to do that.

Oh, I didn't do this.

Oh, I didn't wake up 30 minutes early.

Yeah.

And feel guilty for the things that we're not doing, but you got to give yourself grace.

Yeah.

These are great things to, to strive for.

That doesn't mean that you have to try to do them at all.

It's good way to put it.

Any one of these, you know, might help make your morning easier and if it does, that's

awesome.

So, delegate responsibilities, assign age appropriate tasks to your children.

This teaches a responsibility and also lightens your load.

Now, I mean, are they going to do it exactly right?

Are they going to do it the way you want them to?

Yeah, but that's part of parenting, right?

I mean, you got to, they have to learn at some point.

My mom taught me laundry.

It was a huge help for her.

I don't know how well I did it, but I was able to do it.

And I manage only once to put a pink shirt in with a bunch of whites.

The whites?

Only did it once.

Only once.

Wow.

That's impressive, James.

But, you know, that's how I was 25.

I was 25.

But you got better with time.

I did.

Yeah.

Your white shirt today isn't pink.

No, I learned.

So, you're going to take that as a win.

I learned, yeah.

Limit technology in the morning.

It's better to keep mornings free from the distractions of TV and tablets.

Everyone should focus on getting ready instead of getting sidetracked.

That's a good thing.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can see that.

What about your suggestions?

Everybody?

715-424-2600?

Call up and join the conversation.

What do you think?

What do you do to get to have a sane or a sane of a morning as you can have?

You know what would be easier?

One button dialing with a civic media app.

That seems like a real, like that right that alone.

We could have just ended the list with that.

We saved your time.

Yeah.

Plus, you take us everywhere with you.

Yes.

I like that.

I like the list.

And I like even more.

I would have liked a list even more in the article more.

Had they included the context that you put in there.

If you can do one of these five things,

it should probably save you some time or help out.

And to give yourself some grace with these things, everything takes time.

We can rewire our brains, but it takes patience and it takes time and it takes work.

And it also takes knowing yourself.

Yeah.

Like if you are not a morning person, like having your outfit ready the night before,

choosing what you're going to wear.

If you're someone who has to put together an outfit for your work day.

That's when I worked at the high school in Toma, that's what I did because I knew in

the morning, I was not going to be mentally acute enough to try to put together an outfit.

So I did it the night before and then it simplifies things in the morning.

You don't have to try stuff on.