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. 804 on the clock. Got your host, James
behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of
production, Seth Habagger. Good morning. And the head of everything else, all of you
out there. By the way, we need our schedules. I had a maze come up here. I had some insurance
questions, but we'll get to you guys in a little bit. We want to kick things off with
a good friend, Brittany Marlotte, talking a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett. Good
morning. Do I get to be like the head of weather? You got it. Yes. Head. Yeah. You're not
just the head. You're the VP. You're our marketing. You're also the HR for weather. Yeah.
I mean, yeah. Weather is very important. Weather. Yes. How was your weekend, Brittany?
Oh, my gosh. It was great. It was beautiful outside. How was your weekend? Good. Good
here. Good here. Lovely. Really nice. I couldn't complain about the weather, even though
it didn't miss. I was just happy with some of the skies. We got some of the sunny skies
we got and got a nice start to the week here. It looks like. You know, we sure do. It's
bright and beautiful out there right now. And highs today are going to try their best
to climb to the mid 60s. Now why I say they're going to try their best is because these pesky
clouds want to move in right in the middle of the day, which could limit those high temperatures.
I think we're still going to least hit 60 degrees. A beautiful morning, but do expect
some chances of rain pushing in this afternoon and cloudy or skies moving until plus we've
got those winds that just won't quit. I think of the 35 miles per hour this afternoon. So
putting us back into a high fire danger risk. No burning, no bonfires. I'm on fire season
already, but we're not there. Come on, mother. Today is Earth Day. It's Earth Day. Anything
today pick up some trash. I don't know. Start recycling. Maybe eliminate the use of plastic.
Just one small thing. If everybody does one small thing today, you will make me the happiest
ever. That sounds like a good idea to us, Bernie. We're going to do our best to make you
smile today and certainly make the earth smile. We appreciate you, Brittany. We'll get
added tomorrow looking forward to it. Have a fantastic day. You too. Have a good one. She's
the best. Our good friend, Brittany Murlow joins us every morning right around this time slot.
Let's you know what you have in store for weather throughout the day. And we appreciate
Brittany got tea on us off there. It is Earth Day. We're going to talk a little Earth Day
to kick things off in a moment. We've also got the alcafe birthday and anniversary club
coming up for you. Looking forward to that. I have a bunch of Earth Day stuff as far as
we're going to get into a couple of things early on and then a little later, of a round
up of some interesting topics floating around the internet when it calms to Earth Day.
We have the most and least environmentally conscious states. We will get into that. Point
fingers. And how many of us have had our mouths washed out with soap? That has nothing to
do with Earth Day. We're just going to get into that night.
Nothing to do with our grandmothers. That old chestnut. We'll get into that one. We
have got, of course, it's a Monday. So we will have our own version of the kitchens
open this Monday. We're going to do the three of us are going to have some fun with that.
I look forward to it. Good things coming up with that. Actually going to kick that hour
off the nine o'clock hour off with our top three late night snacks. Lovely yummy. We have
that one. We want audience participation on that by the way. You don't always get a chance
to do that on the kitchens open hours. That's right. So I want you to be able to call
up and join us to your favorite late night snacks. That's the only catch. It's got to be
a late night snack. Yeah. Something to taste better at night than it does in the morning
kind of thing. We'll get into that. And I've got a really fun one I've been sitting
out. I've been waiting for this one. 15 badly named things that could have better names.
Oh, yes. We're going to discuss. We're going to come up with better names. We're going
to have some fun. We want audience participation. How many bands are on that? It's bad band
names. So many so many bad bad names. So many. They're the best. There's so it's hilarious
to me too. How many band names they got stuck with. Yes. That was not what their intention
was. We need a band name quick. Where we go on stage. What is it? You know, yeah.
Yep. Another corn is another example. Yes. Yeah. Just bands. It did not want to go
by that name, but they got too famous with that. Can't change it. Can't change it.
And then there's bands that are like proud of being called lover boy. Really? Really?
That's when you chance to take a shot at them. You could name your band anything. That's
what you go. All right. Fine. I guess. Are you sure? Sure. Before the albums come out,
you want? Okay. Love. I love the idea of the team is like, are you sure? Are you sure
now? Sure. Yes. Really? What? We can change it. We can change it. All right. Let's start
here though, everybody. Well, first of you guys have a good weekend. Let's have a good
weekend. Yeah. Actually, I got to hang out with some my girlfriends in Steven's point
on Saturday. And then on Sunday, I planted flowers. Very cool. They're metal. They're
planted. I'm going to have to be inserted into, you know, the barrels and then the mulch.
I feel like that counts. Yeah. That's count. Absolutely counts. They're pretty. They're
colored. There you go. They don't need water. That's true. That's good. I did not get a
chance to see her in point on Saturday. I was in point a lot of the day on Saturday as
well. That eagle just flew by. Oh, God. Those things are beautiful. I never get, never
get old. Perfect on Earth Day, right? Squirrel. Yeah. Yeah. I was in point with Bria. Love
the day on Saturday. And it was good. It was a nice day in points. Apparently you weren't
hanging out at Goose or no star. That's where I was. We hung this point in big city, you
know? We hunkered down. I'm really happy to hear that, Melissa. That's awesome. It
sounds like a good week. A good, good, well, good, well spent and a nice way to recharge
some of the soul and all that. Bria and I, Bria is going out for her honeymoon coming up
here. She's getting like a week or so. She's going to be going on her honeymoon. She's
going to Amsterdam. Nice. Yeah. I've blown away by that. Like really. That's a cool.
That's a little different for a honeymoon destination. I like that though. Yeah. I went
like downtown like rapids. Like everything for you. They are. Whatever you want.
After McDonald's. Shout out to the American in. Hey, we went to chips. I'll have you.
No. Keep it in local. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was fun. We put in some work this weekend though.
I want to put a shout out to her. We recorded more than we've ever done before just to get
caught up because she's going to be gone for a couple of weeks. So yeah, we were hunkered
in, but we had a good time when it was a good time. Well spent. Yes. And beautiful
point on this weekend. It was really nice. How was your stuff? It was it was fine. It
was very good. Yesterday we went up to was off for a little bit. Took my kids to to a bookstore.
Okay. So we go to a bookstore and we're and I'm like cool. You know, they they we go to
the library and stuff. We don't go to many bookstores. So we're going to be the bookstore
and they're like, yeah, they're going to love it. Just games there and stuff like that.
We're there 10 minutes. I'm thirsty. I'm bored. Yeah. Yeah. When's mom coming to pick
us up? Mom. Dad took us to a book store. Like books. Geez. I remember. I can remember
reading books early on and at the same time being bored of books early quickly. You know,
especially when you know, you know, you're the attention span is what it is. Well, they
might mention the eagle. I just looked at it. Well, I they found a game like really on
that they wanted. So they were done then. It's like, okay. Yeah. Okay. Can we go home
and play? Exactly. That was part of it. And that's something to do with it. So, you
know, very good. And great to get kids young and interested. Not not so much in books,
but yes, books, but bookstores, used bookstores. Like, I know that that was something I really,
I don't know, some of my earlier memories are going to use bookstores and my mom and everything.
I like. I think that's cool. It's a good idea. Very good. Very good to hear. So let's
go ahead and dive right into this. As I mentioned it, Bri and I were we're going to talk
a little bit more about this later. Our latest episode of What The Muppet Drop today.
And it's called Team Pluto, which is a is a God inside joke that you'll catch once you
get the episode. But Bri and I did not realize that we're releasing this on Earth Day. We're
in a team Pluto episode on Earth Day. That's too funny. I could have done that if we were
planning to. It's cool. I love it. Love it. There are a ton of things we can and should
do to help the planet, especially on Earth Day. But well, wait a second. Let me double check
something really quick here. I mean, just I'm sorry, guys. I should have done this beforehand.
I apologize to you in the audience. Just let me okay. Yeah. I just double checking. It looks like
the Earth is the only habitable planet for human beings. So we should probably check. I just
wanted to make sure, you know, overnight things can change. Turns out this is all we got.
Turns out so we probably should take care of the planet. Seems like a pretty good. If for anything
self preservation. If anything else other than of course it's a good thing to do future
generations, et cetera, et cetera. It's a good idea, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that's
way we're doing this all wrong. We need to like go to Narcissus. Like all the ego Narcissus people
out there. I'd be like, you know, we only got one planet. I might want to take care of it. You
personally will be affected by this. Yeah. Maybe that's how we get even more done. I don't know.
Me personally. Oh, I got to do something. Yes. So today, especially at Earth Day, it's a good day
to look at ways we can improve our planet. We can help our planet. These are three easy things we
should all be doing to help the planet. Number one, stop wasting leftovers. I'll say it'll save
you money too. Yes. Just make it a personal rule. If you buy, if you buy food, eat it. It also
takes a lot of water and resources to grow all those vegetables you buy and let rot.
If you cannot finish your meal, there's always saving it for later. Yep. There are those things
and there are certainly other things you can do as far as local food share places and stuff.
Or composting your food waste. That keeps it out of the landfill and helps reduce greenhouse
gases emissions that we deal with. That's right. Stop overusing napkins. Do you really need more than
one to get through a meal? Are you that bad at eating? You do realize the food is supposed to go
in the mouth. I admit, I forget this sometimes. I have a little note card with me to remind
no, I don't know. There are certainly things like chicken wings or ribs. Yeah. It's a lot of
Barbie sauce. It's better to have a washcloth with you. Yeah. That's a good point. Maybe you should
do that. My look classier too. I love the idea of just sitting down with a pile of
wigs, but you're fancy. You're eating that fancy. It also seems like no one uses cloth napkins at
home anymore, even though they're more sustainable and you can rewash them. And they feel better.
They are cloth napkins do feel better. That's true. I might not use to use them all the time
of grandmother. Reusable grocery bags. Stop telling the checkout person. You forgot them at home again
and don't pretend you'll really reuse those plastic bags. You've just balled up and thrown
in that one cabinet you never look in. I threw that last one in their element. It might seem
like these things won't even make a dent, but if we all do them, it might. Or if at least a good
place to start, why not do them that? It's amazing how much less grocery bags I have, like the
plastic ones that accumulate. Yes, they do. Just by using the reusable grocery bags, it's crazy.
And it's not hard once you get in the habit of it. I just thought I'd look this up,
piggyback off of the earth, a conversation and everything, and some of the pushback for some people
on recycling. There's a lot of comments here I'm seeing about how this will never become normal.
There's this is something that most people are not willing to take the time to do,
that we will never see any change by doing this. Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize, everybody.
Those comments are from the late 70s. So yeah, yeah, not only is this something that we've
been barking about for a long time, but there's been a there was a pushback at one point about
recycling and about the idea that the American people, just talking about America, that Americans
would never get behind this, that you can never get Americans to be able to do something like this
and then nothing would change. This is what they were saying in 1979 that these comments were
being made that this was the quote unquote norm of the American people. And look where we are
here in 2024, where every single one of us today is probably going to recycle something. Yep,
at least one thing we're going to recycle and you're not even going to think about it.
You're not even going to, it's not going to even cross your mind and boom, in plastic, boom,
you're moving on. We can do this. We can do this and this is not something that should be divisive.
This is not something that should be pushed upon people or pushed upon you or anything like that.
We shouldn't need to get you to want to do this. Like you either do it or you don't. You're either
on the right side of history or not on this one. There are very few people out there asking for
more government control or more government input or any of those things. The majority of people
want to be able to take care of things on the road. So let's do that. Let's take the initiative
here. Let's do it ourselves. Are you saying, James, that in order to have certain freedoms,
we need to take responsibility for it? I am. I'm standing up on it. That's right, everybody.
Actually getting on a soapbox. Do I sound any different standing up? Do I side down? No,
no. That's how important this is. Well, especially this time of year, how many of us notice the
amount of trash and plastic and just random stuff on the sides of the roads after the snow is
melted? It sticks out more. Let's stop doing that. Let's pick it up.
Absolutely. There are probably opportunities for you today to be able to impact your community,
impact your world. Again, very few people get to get to solve polio, get to cure polio,
but there is plenty of people that can do something in their neck of the woods in their community.
Every one of us do something like that. All of a sudden, you see change. All of a sudden,
you see a better planet. It doesn't take a lot. No. We will get to the LCAFE birthday and
anniversary club. We'll come back with that and more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at LCAFE with the LCAFE birthday
and anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over there right now. They're
waiting for you over at 2.21 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Wishing everybody a good
day out there. They got some wonderful specials, whether it is breakfast, lunch, brunch, whatever
you're thinking. Head on over there and wish them a great day for all of us here at WFHR.
Good people over there at LCAFE. It sounds like they had a good weekend.
Good. Awesome. We encourage you. And even though there's construction going on over there,
you can still get to LCAFE. Just follow the screens. Keep that in mind, everybody,
and head on over there right now right away. We want you to get us to your birthdays and
anniversaries right away. Get them to us, everybody. Info at WFHR.com, James Dimelev at civicmedia.us.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well, and feel free to call up and join
the conversation. 715-424-2600. That's right. You can wish your happy birthday or anniversary
live on air. I like it when Melissa gives the number. I meant to pull out the
jump out real quick, and I didn't jump out fast enough so that I just wouldn't have a number.
You gave the number and yeah, man. That's all right. We do need a one or a two,
a Seth. Give me a one or a two here. Two. All right, it gives us that qualifier. We can get right
in the to celebrate. And the first one, we wish our happy birthday to Emily Goodman.
Happy birthday, Emily. Happy birthday, Emily. Hope you have a good day,
Em. Enjoy your day. And our qualifier today, Holly Johnson.
Happy birthday, Holly. Happy birthday, Holly. Love you when Frankie goes to Hollywood.
Yes, yes. Sorry. So they've never heard that before.
Enjoy your day, Holly. We hope it's a great one for you.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this celebrity list of ours. Let's see. Daniel Johns is
45 silver chair lead singer. Oh, wow. Well, this is a band I haven't thought of in a while. Yeah.
Let's see. I prefer thought of them. 90s. Yeah, 90s. 90s.
All right. Yep. Let's see. Cheryl Lee is 57. Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks. Oh, yes.
That show. That show. Man, a mind. My trip. That show. Oh, it's David Lynch through. Yeah.
I'd like to see David Lynch just do a straight up like just just comedy. Just just a comedy.
Just I'd like to see that. Well, he did do the straight story, which is kind of it's not really
comedy, but it's basically straight forward movie. Yeah. Fantastic actor. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
is 58 today. A lot of people will know him as Negan on the Walking Dead. And he's in a spin-off
with that show as well. But he long before that show, he was like building his name as a good
lead actor. And there's a movie called The Losers with Chris Evans, you know, Captain America.
It got a bunch of Adres Elbas in it. A bunch of great actors. Came out years before The Walking
Dead or any of that and everything. And he's the lead actor in it. And he is awesome. It's a great
movie. He's like a little bit of fun action movies and everything. It's a fun one. It's a great
movie. And he shows why he's such a great lead actor. These are actors that we need, by the way.
He is like the epitome of the grizzled actor. Yeah. He does it so well. I also I always like to note
this too. Because Jeffrey Dean Morgan, den good person. And early on in his career, I wouldn't say
early on in his career, but he's got a good career. All of a sudden, he gets two big breaks.
He gets a role on Grey's Anatomy. And he gets a role in this new, which is a new show at the time.
And in this new show, Supernatural, where he's playing the dad of these two brothers. And they're
both big parts. And he is told early on, well, you're going to might have to choose eventually,
because both of these characters, we have big storylines for and everything. Flash forward to the
season finale of both of these shows where he is killed off on both shows. Oh,
and as an actor, it's not just that, okay, that hurts. Oh, that's rough to deal with. It's also,
oh, yeah, I blocked off my schedule. I wasn't taking auditions for other roles. So when these
producers and these people tell us these things, and we put our lives on votes unhold for them,
it's not them that is caught behind the eight ball. It's not them that is in trouble in his
part of the reason why we had the strikes and all of this. But Jeffrey D Morgan, where a lot of
actors have been in those positions, and I've talked to actors who have been in this position,
and they quit. They're done. And they done. They're done. And I don't, I don't, I get it. If I was
an insane, I might have been two. He, him though, he's insane also. And he's keeping pushing forward.
And that tenacity is why he's where he is today, where he's an incredibly successful podcast.
He's on incredibly successful TV shows. He is sought after as a movie star, not just a TV star,
a movie star. This is perseverance. This is the difference between those that make it and those
that don't. It's cool to see because not a lot of guys do that. Not a lot of people do.
He was the, the bright spot of the Watchmen movie too. Yeah, he was the perfect comedian. Yeah,
he was the perfect comedian. He was perfect for him. I couldn't agree with you more, man. Thank you
for that reference. I almost forgot. The great, the legend, Ryan Stiles, a 65, all six foot six of a
whose line is in any way? Do you carry show? Have you ever heard anybody say,
that Ryan Stiles? Oh, I can't wait. We all love Ryan Stiles. Awesome.
I don't believe he's 65. Yeah, that's crazy. You know, great, a master improviser too. Man,
he's so good. Oh, my goodness. Peter Frampton is 74. Everybody had his album. Every suburban
family had that album. If you were born in the 70s, like 1975, I think they gave you a copy when
you were born. They gave you a copy. They gave you a copy of that in a card table.
Everybody had a card table. Everybody had one of those 70s card tables. Metal edges that cut
you cut yourself on. Yes, yes, yes. Cardboard top. Fantastic guitar player. Fantastic guitar
player. Frampton. Frampton comes alive. We joke about it and everything, but that album sold
millions and millions of copies. And it still sells. It still sells really well. Also,
he started out with the guitarist for Humble Pie. Yeah, 30 days in the hole. Humble Pie,
man, there's some songs and Humble Pie's for one album, I believe. They're really good,
really good. The great, the legend John Waters, groundbreaking, some merciless,
messy filmmaker. We credits like Pink Flamingo's female trouble, the original hair spray,
amazing author. John Waters' story, I tell all the time. A lot of us believe, well,
you see a celebrity and publicly leave them alone, which is the way I've always handled things.
I hear John Waters on the daily show and he's talking about he's having dinner at this really
ritzy, fancy restaurant. A person is, you know, they want to come up to him. He can see they want
to come up to him, but he's, nah, they're edgy and he finally calls him over and like, I'm so sorry
to bother you, Mr. Waters. Mr. Waters says, are you kidding? Please, honey, sit down. Have some food.
You paid for this. You bought my book. It just, it was, it just is such a cool way of handling
things and handling your fame and your celebrity and everything. A ground breaker. Whatever you
like, his movies are not ground breaker. Way ahead of his tone, John Waters. Everybody else
in society as far as the rainbow and everything under that rainbow goes is catching up with John
Waters, where he said the bar. And speaking of setting the bar, one of the greatest actors you
will ever see, Jack Nicholson is 87 today. Oh, yeah. All work and no play.
There's, there's nobody who doesn't, hasn't done at Jack Nicholson impression. Yeah.
It was the first one that I learned to ever do. And I lost it somewhere along the way.
Oh, you have to practice this way. You've kept up on it. But I, I learned it because I,
there are few actors that I wanted to embody more than Jack Nicholson. He was the guy to me. He
was one of those guys to me growing up in the late 80s, early 90s. There, there wasn't any time
of a role that I saw him in that I didn't think that is the coolest man I've ever seen.
He was our rentals in many ways. And we got him late as far as our generation. Right. He was
already well established by that 70s. Chinatown is still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Chinatown man, I forget it. Yeah. It's such a, there are so many classic roles of his,
and so much versatility to his career. Nobody ever gives Jack Nicholson credit for this.
Name is John where he hasn't done. Name one thing that man hasn't done. And, okay, let me correct
that. Name one thing he has, he's not done or done and not been great at it. He's incredible.
And it gets kind of lost in his shuffle as these guys get older and we lose them or we don't
see them as much or they play caricatures of themselves and later ages and everything.
But Jack Nicholson, one of the top 10 actors of all time. And initially didn't want to be an actor.
He didn't even want to do it. He wanted to be a writer, a director, producer. He really didn't want
to be an actor. Yeah. Because he'd done much like, because he got in behind the camera. Yeah,
he's directed a couple of movies and he wrote a couple. In fact, one of his early ones, drive,
he said. Yeah. It's a basketball movie. Yeah. Because he's, well, he's Jack loves basketball.
And the Lakers. But yeah, no, it's actually pretty cool.
One of the Lakers are in the playoffs. You'll see one as long as the last.
I can see Jack now there. I wish you a great base day, sir. Great day.
Some people no longer with us. Like the great Charlotte Ray born in this day in 1926,
passed away in 2018. Miss Garrett from both different strokes in the spin-off facts of life.
Charlotte Ray underrated, underrated actor and ATV actress underrated. Glen Campbell,
the Ryan Stone Cowboy born in this day in 1936, a legend of country music.
And, uh, been playing guitar on thousands of recordings, thousands.
Building for the Beach Boys, didn't it? Yes, he recorded some of their stuff. Yeah. He was the part
of the group called the Rekking Crew on the West Coast. That's right. Yes. And he and his guitar
has been, is on, I mean, it's amazing how many recordings he's on. Yeah, great guitar. Yeah.
And, and, and, and I don't know if you're going to top that name Rekking Crew. Like,
yeah, I love your top. Yeah. Green acres is the place to be. Eddie Albert born in this day 1906,
passed away in 2005. Green acres legend. Done it done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
God, we all got it. We all know it. That's crazy. Uh, how can you not? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And, uh, Jay Robert Oppenheimer born in this day in 1904, passed away in 1967.
Encourage you if you have not seen it already. To read the book or to watch the movie Oppenheimer,
it is the, um, it is the true, uh, the closest we have had to a true telling of this man and his
complexities and the, um, the, he was a complete human being, the good, the bad, the great, all of it.
You get all in this movie, that movie and in the book. Yeah. And it's finally a real telling
of, of what happened in all of that. Uh, we as American people finally getting the full story
on that. And I think it's, uh, it's, it's a must watch to me. It's a must read to me. Um,
I encourage others to dive into that one. It's called American Prometheus. That's the book,
by the way. Thank you, Sam. Uh, and, uh, it is, uh, it's also Passover and Earth Day,
so we, uh, and national jelly bean day. So, uh, enjoy that as well, everybody.
Uh, jelly beans. I don't know if they have any over there, but you can ask over at L Cafe.
Maybe, maybe, either way, wish them a great day, everybody. There are two 21 market
avenue in Port Edwards. Uh, we wish them a great day. We wish a great day to Emily and to
Holly, Holly Johnson, our qualifier today. Happy birthday to them. Happy birthday, ladies.
Stick around. Got some great local and statewide news coming up free on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone to the morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great Monday out there. Thanks for joining us. Melissa, Seth and James
here with you. Let's talk a little more Earth Day. Uh, we got a roundup of some interesting
topics floating around the internet when it comes to this. All right. Like the first Earth Day
was observed back in 1970, almost 55 years ago. So I have things improved or gotten worse since then.
Ooh, it depends on who you ask. In a new poll, 70% of Americans say the amount of pollution globally
has increased. 11% say it stayed the same and 8% say it's decreased. In a separate question,
63% of people said global temperatures have increased since 1970. 20% say the temperatures have
stayed the same and 3% say they have decreased. In both questions, Gen Z years and Millennials are far
more concerned that things are worse while boomers are more likely to say that pollution and global
climates are the same or better than they were in the 1970s. Thankfully, we have science to tell us
that it doesn't matter what any of these people in opinions are. That's true.
It's actual facts to tell us if it is worse or better. Exactly. Again, let me just take a second
to double check. Yes, it's worse. Um, yeah. And no, in all seriousness, I did actually look into
that this morning and everything prepping for the article and, and yes, they are. We have more,
we have more people. We have more business. We have more et cetera, more et cetera. It doesn't,
it's not rocket science here. But many Americans are worried about what comes with them.
70% of people say that they've actually lost sleep worrying about the environment. 54% of them,
a primary concern is that the planet won't be livable for their children and grandchildren.
In another survey, 60% of people say that they make an effort to minimize their paper use in
everyday life. But only 31% say paper overuse is a major ecological problem. More people are
concerned about water and air pollution. Yeah. The, the, the water issue is, is, I think, hitting the,
the headlines more and more, uh, talking about, um, uh, you know, like an even Wisconsin and
stuff that Melissa is reported on, the PFAS in the water. And I heard this morning on, uh,
up north news, uh, that, uh, and there's, uh, the, the worst PFAS site is in the state of what,
like the third worst in the world is in Wisconsin. In the world. That is like, wow. Yeah,
I think it's in Marinette County. So, uh, yeah, that's not good. And no, it's not. In a new study,
a new study suggests that hotels could save water by bringing AI into showers. The idea is that
there would be a screen that would provide guests with data feedback about their shower length
in water use. One aspect could include a timer and encourage people to beat the clock.
Supposedly, this could reduce the length of time they spend showering by more than 25%.
This is our big idea. This is what we came up with. That, that, like, look, every little
bit helps. Yes. And I, I think still, I think there are two really important things right here.
And they almost tie together. Um, when it comes to, uh, I think most of us can relate to this,
whether it's your house, your room, your apartment, whatever, it's a mess and it's a lot. And you've
got to clean it all. It's all on you. And like, my God, how do I get all this done? What do you do?
Well, most of us break it down. I'm going to start with the dishes and I'll do some sweeping or
I'll pick everything up and then I'll sweep or whatever you break it down. This is no different. We
have to break this down. We have to work on what we can and do what we can. Um, while we can,
because that seems to be important factor here to time. Yes. Um, uh, it is important to not, uh,
throw your hands up at the air and be dismayed by this to just, uh, give up. That is something
that is vitally important. Right. Oh, absolutely. And let's come back to one other stat here real
quick, uh, that many Americans, if not all Americans are concerned about this, including 54%
that this is their primary concern and their primary concern at being about children and grandchildren.
Over half of the American population. Right. That increases to over 75% of people when it includes
just caring about the environment. So it's a pretty good chunk of people. Yeah. Very big. Yeah.
And again, doing all my homework this morning, I learned that, um, politicians are meant to
represent us and the American people. Well, and it seems the American people want a better planet.
Yeah. Want to take care of the planet. Um, whereas most politicians, when's the last politician
you heard talking about the environment? When's the last time you heard them talking about any of
this stuff? Yeah. So it seems that our country is being run by corporations and not by the American
people. Corporations famous for, uh, for, uh, their care of, of how they make their money, you know,
very famous. Yes. Yes. Yes. Pay attention to who you're voting for. Yeah. Pay attention to, uh,
miss, forget about parties, get over parties, um, get over it. It doesn't matter. Republican
Democrat. Get out of here with that. Where do you stand on the issues? Are you going to fight for
our country? Are you going to fight for my children? Are you going to give my children a planet
to live in? Who's in your pocket? Who is in your pocket? Ask them. Talk to this and get this
out there. Quit this, this stuff about it being hidden and not talking about it or anything
like that. I got Senator, I got testing and crew gone me once a month. Do you think I have any
problem asking them questions? Go ahead and listen to those interviews and they have no problem
answering them. The real ones don't like push this subject. Don't just let it be earth day that we
care about this. Right. Keep fighting for this. Do you want to end up like Pluto? Do you?
Pluto. Listen, Pluto can't even bring itself around the other planets anymore people. It's
ashamed. And that's not right. Trying to find a community. I'm not sure how you did that. Wow,
that was amazing. I think that we should stop calling them parties because they're not fun.
That's a good one. Can we add the show right there? I should take an hour and a half
early, but that's like it. That's like a drop the bike one. That was good. That was excellent.
I'm always looking for a comedic way to add segments. I should just let the lesson do it.
I want to get in the way of your Pluto thing. That was pretty good. Yeah, yeah, that was
this falls on us. This falls on us and we can do something about it. Let's care about the planet
and not just today everybody and put some work into it. Every little bit helps. That's right.
We will take a time out. We'll come back and we're going to talk about soap in the wild. So
is there, well, Earth Day, at least in most conscious Earth Day states. We'll get to that a little
bit later. Let's come back with this. How many of us have had our mouths washed out with soap?
Let's bring that all just that back. Going over going over childhood trauma when we come back
up the morning show here at WFHR. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Yeah. Welcome back everybody.
The morning show here at WFHR. Completely silly and it's already it's only the start of the
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It doesn't have to be anything like completely original or you can be just talking about recycling
or different things that you do. We'd love to hear that or any tips. Yeah. Walking instead of
driving. How about that? It's a good one. Yeah. It's good for you too. Yeah it is. We are going to
kick off the 9 o'clock hour as we do on Mondays with our kind of a fun version of the kitchen's
open that we have lined up for you. We're going to get into some fun topics there and we want to hear
from you about them. Yeah. I want to know your favorite late night snacks and what you would rename
if you could. Give it a better name. Different items that we have. We'll give you some examples.
Kick off the 9 o'clock hour. Also get in some entertainment news. Then write stories. Good stories
of the day all coming up for you. Right now. Let's dive into this one. And again, audience participation.
We want to know if this has happened to you when you were a kid or I guess as an adult. That'd be
weird. But still. I'd be very curious about it. Happening to you as an adult. Most people have
probably heard parents say, watch your mouth or a wash it out with soap. But it was just an idle
threat or was it actually something that they would do? A poll asked people if they've ever actually
had their parents follow through with washing their mouths out with soap. And about 12 percent said,
yes. 12 percent. Okay. 12 percent. I don't know if that's higher low. Honestly, I've never really
thought much about this. Right. I don't know. But they didn't break it down by age. But from the
comments, it sounds like it's more of an old school thing and it isn't done as much anymore.
One person said, my mom tried to do it with my sister and she bit down on the bar and swallowed
part of it. No. My mom completely panicked and that was the last time that happened.
Another traumatized the parent. Backfire. Another joke. Soap actually tastes pretty good from what I
remember. Yeah. I think what the Christmas story is maybe the most famous example of this.
Yeah. The red bar. Yeah. The red bar. I've never seen that bar like a red bar of soap before.
I love to know if that's an actual thing or they just made up a prop. No, it wasn't actual soap.
Yes. Back in the day. It's called Life Booy. Life Booy. They had the famous ads. Booy. I remember
those. Yeah. That was Life Booy. Oh, I never saw that. Okay. So real quick story time. Oh, yes.
My dad and my family, my father's side of the family is Italian. I think I've mentioned this.
Maybe once or twice. And look, there are certain stereotypes that you push back against and
everything and then there are some that does just app. And I've never met an Italian family that
does not swear a lot. I'm just saying. And so I grew up with this. And there was a certain point
when we moved out here that my father realized, oh, he's he's a little too free with this stuff
and everything. So he he told me, Jimmy, I'm going to put I'm going to put soap in your mouth like
not it did to me. If I catch you swearing 10 minutes later, he catches me swearing with my friends.
And he never did this kind of thing. But he grabbed by the arm and he's like, you're going to do
this, Jimmy, because he's really trying to get me to learn and trying to get me to be a gentleman,
a better man and all this. And we go into the bathroom. There's nothing but liquid soap.
And so I'm watching my father for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out a way.
And I kid you not people. He had the, he had the, of this, the squirter, the squirter. Yep.
In his hand. He was getting ready. He was going to do something about it. If my mother had come by,
I don't know how that ends. He was determined to do it. He was like, well, I said it,
now I got to do it. He really wanted me to learn the lesson. He really did. I was like, I was like
25. I was like, no, I love the idea of that. That's hilarious. Did either of you ever have anything
like this? Did I, I did not. My sister did. And it wasn't seen that cup. And it wasn't
because of a language thing. It's because she lied. Oh, it's for something she like,
I was a boldface liar. I don't remember. But my dad was so mad. And yeah, he sure did. He,
he brought her to the bathroom as, as, as my mom and I were just kind of like, oh, okay. All right.
You know, got to watch this happen. Yeah, right. So that it's, they did it. She did it. You
know, he did it to her and everything. That's the only time it ever happened. She still talks about
it. Yeah. Oh, of course. She still talks about it. That was traumatic. Yeah, sure. My dad was like
that. My dad would, like, it happened to him when he was a kid. Yeah. We talked about it. Like,
it happened yesterday. Mm-hmm. When I was little, my grandmother, if we were caught saying something
we shouldn't, we got a spoonful of vinegar. Oh, that's different. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean,
vinegar is used in a, as a household cleaner. Mm-hmm. Oftentimes, it's actually a lot better for
you than soap. True. That's not going to hurt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. In fact, some people take us,
you know, tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every day. Yeah. We get the icky white stuff, though.
Just the regular distilled. Yeah. Just the regular distilled. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That is nice.
Might not. That's not going to hurt you. Exactly. My Nana would threaten my sister and I with that,
that if we didn't settle down or if we didn't, uh, you know, stop with some of the things we
are doing to each other, like, you know, or anything like that, that that would happen. The
spoonful of vinegar, spoonful of vinegar or wash our mouth out with vinegar or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember. Uh, that's, that, that's interesting, huh? Yeah. Okay. I forgot
all about that. So, uh, I forgot all about it. We gave people a new idea. Yeah. Yeah. It's,
it's just as bad tasting, but it's, uh, it's safer for you to vinegar. And now this is an actual,
like me actually being genuine with you and all of the audience and everything right now.
Did anybody else have this where I almost wish my mom and dad, my mom specifically would have
done things like this because I, I know a joke about it. I can't stress this enough. The,
the, what, when I messed up and I messed up a lot, uh, it wasn't that I get necessarily grounded
or spanked or anything like that. It was, I'm so disappointed in the new James. I wasn't Jimmy.
I was James and it was disappointment and I, the disappointment on her face, the disappointment
of my mother. I, I would have rather her beat me, uh, and I'm kidding joking, obviously.
But I mean, seriously, like it was heavy. Arrow to the heart, right? Yeah. Yeah. Like she didn't
have to put my mouth out. It was so for anything. If I'd disappointed my mother, like I could still feel
it, like it was tough, man. Yeah. My mom was the queen of the guilt trip. Oh, she was so good at it.
Like, yeah, but it's, it's kind of damaging. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially if you do it too much.
Yeah. Yeah. It's like all the time. Yeah. Uh, I, yeah. Go ahead and Melissa. Sorry.
Well, I don't know if I should. Yeah. It is one of those things and it's something that I,
look, this is not at all me, uh, critiquing parents or anything like that out there or anything.
We're all doing the best we can. Uh, and, and I, I, I really think we need to be much more supportive
of parents than being so quick to take shots at parents and everything, specifically, maybe even our
own more than anything, uh, when it comes to that stuff. Um, at the same time, I know that, uh,
when I was a parent, um, when my kids would do something wrong or something like that, uh,
I learned from those things and, and, and some of it I learned from that, what not to do.
Right. And I think that's part of parenting too. Yes. Uh, yeah. Cause you catch yourself sometimes
and, and I do, is obviously I'm not a parent, but I do have interactions with children.
And when I catch myself doing the, oh, no, I am not going to lay a guilt trip on this child
for, for what little thing that they did because it did traumatize me as, uh, having gone through
that as a child. Right. Um, and for my parents, a lot of it was, it came from the religion that
they were in that they leaned very heavily on the guilt trip method of parenting. But, uh, yeah,
it didn't, it did not end well for me. Right. Should, uh, soap companies be making soap taste better,
just in case, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I suppose that's the problem. Yeah, let's make it so people
want to eat soap. Yeah. That's great. Oh, blowing bubbles. We're really trick them.
Lord's wealth reference. Nice. Nice. What a foul. I want to foul. What else as a parent,
do you do in these situations? You know, I mean, there's grounding. There's, there's, uh,
as we're, but taking away privileges. You know, there's, it's, um, there's certainly a ton of
different methods out there. Right. I'm not saying that there's no good methods or anything. But
I do, I do think that it's easy. It's easier to judge than not. Yeah. And even as a parent,
I will say that. Right. It depends on the kids too, of course. What would they respond to better?
Of course, that has something to do with it. In the situation. Yeah. Absolutely. Well,
that is such actors. That is such a good thing to bring up. Um, there's a reason my parents never
tried to ground me. Uh, it just didn't, uh, for one, it didn't, like, I think I drove them crazy.
I, I think that it was actually them being punished. I'm pretty sure. I'm half kidding out
about this. And I'm half kind of like, well, I, I wouldn't have been of a question to kid. Like,
I, I don't know how easy it was to be to raise me. Well, that's true. It's true. Uh, also,
like me as a bookworm, go to your room. Okay. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I was the same
way. Melissa, my parents couldn't do that. They couldn't grow up because they're like, they
couldn't tell me to go to my room because they know, okay, cool. Yeah. I'll go to my room. It's
awesome. Now our punishment was often chores. Ah, I was in a similar boat with that. Uh, we never
had, I never had my own room growing up. Once I finally did, uh, it didn't matter if they sent
me to it. That's where all my stuff was. Yeah. Exactly. I was already going there, but all right.
I'll go to my room. I guess. I don't think it's a punishment, I guess. Uh, we, uh, we, the three of us,
our, uh, theater heads and love theater talk, uh, highly of theater and encourage people to
support local theaters. Um, uh, certainly with Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater, CWAC,
our Warsaw Theater, a lot of these community theaters in our area. But we really, uh, cannot
encourage you. And as much as we do with those, um, I think that, uh, for all three of us,
we would agree. We want you to see at least one kids theater, uh, kids show a year,
one show a year, whether it's hope, oh, it's one of our local high schools putting on a production,
trying to make a note to yourself, you know, especially if you don't have kids in school,
if you have kids in school, definitely do it. Um, obviously you're going to be there. Right,
right. Uh, but you have theater kids. Um, we want, we want everybody out there. Um, this is a
way to impact your future. This is a way to encourage kids to give them confidence and to help build
that on. Um, a lot of these kids like athletics, maybe only a small percentage of them might go
on into the arts, but ever one of them are going to do something that they're going to want to be a
good public speaker. They're going to have a few more confident being in front of people and all
of those things. We can help with that by going to these shows. Yep. And you can go ahead and check
out a show from Lincoln High School in their music department this week with my fair lady.
My favorite one. It's so good. Such a great one. It holds up. This Thursday is when it kicks off.
There'll be their opening night at 6 30. Love a show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well.
That Sunday show will be a two o'clock matinee. Uh, all these. And Friday and Saturdays are at 7 30,
right? Yes. Thank you, Melissa. Yes. Friday, Saturday, 7 30 shows. Uh, you can get your tickets at
the performing arts center today of the shows where these will be taking place to shout out to
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