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 behind the mic. I am joined
by our host, our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And the best listeners in the
radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great start to your
Wednesday out there. The days are all mixing together. Time is a flat circle. We will go ahead
and kick things off the way we like to our good friend Brittany Merlot. Brittany, beautiful
skies out there to start our day. Oh, it's so fantastic. Nice summery morning. I mean,
winds are calm. The fog cleared. I know some people saw some patchy fog earlier. But
partly sunny today and high climbing right to those low 80s. Not too much to complain
about. Although we do have a small shot of a shower firing up after 4 o'clock this afternoon
and it's the evening hours. And I will say if we get underneath one of those, they've got
some heavy downpours. We have a couple of them yesterday. We're packing rainfall rates
about half an inch to an inch of rain as it's sat over some areas. So if we get underneath
one of those, a quick downpour. But otherwise, mostly sunny today and pretty much calm. And
we're actually going to stay mainly dry tomorrow and Friday as well. Or all that heat and
humidity starts to build in for the weekend. Yeah.
Well, it's it's kind of I mean, honestly, is there any summer? Yeah, that's it. That's
just the perfect answer. Yeah, it's summer. I mean, really, I think that you almost
may be able to just do every broadcast that way, Brittany. But hey, it's summer. I mean,
take a look out there. You know,
you know, what's this? I'm thinking about a time.
Some of those don't shower. You know how it goes. Yeah, those downpours are kind of nice
sometimes. Yes.
Brittany can hear me. Oh, oh, I don't know. Oh, well, I don't know why she can't. That's
not good. Well, let's see here if that'll fix things. Well, Brittany, we appreciate you
joining us. Thanks so much. We'll talk soon.
I'm good. Bye. Have a great day. Best in the business right there. Our friend Brittany
will fix that. Melissa will make sure to get that touched up texture. Thank you. Yes,
we you're right, though, that downpour. I mean, that is one of the things that's been so nice
at night. I traditionally struggle with sleep. And that rain helps a lot. I love sleeping when
it's raining. I know we don't need any more rain. And I shouldn't like wish for it. But I like
rain just as a sleeping at, you know, additive, you know, something like that. We're actually
to talk a little bit about that and being tired in a moment here. But first, we got to get to our
lineup for today. We got the Elcafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner for you,
everybody. Looking forward to that. All roads open to Elcafe. Yeah. Power companies are missing
with our thermostats remotely. What? Yeah. We're going to talk about that one. Uh, it is
peanut collada days. We'll talk about that. Oh, goodie. Taco Bell is launching a retirement
community for young people. That is a sentence I just said that's actually true. Like I know,
I know what we have to get into that. Does it have seven layer burritos? If it does, I'm in. If not,
sorry, Taco Bell. You're still on my black list. The night of clock hour will feature some
entertainment news. Well, also get to some local theater in your area. Also want to touch on
Melissa. These, uh, the, uh, let me see where we have this year. We got some good stories of the
day as well. I mean, I wanted to start our show in two places. One, one of their mind,
everybody, at least all our veterans, military police and firefighters that American heroes
cafe is going on right now till 9 30. That's right. Kicked off at 7 30 this morning.
Head over to Crossview Church here in Wisconsin. Rapids and enjoy a cup of coffee and some good
conversation and say hi to everybody over their force. And as soon as you walk in the doors,
it smells like delicious bacon. Yeah, it's a great place. And they do a great job over there.
We appreciate our friends across from your church and Tom and all everybody that gets us
this information. We appreciate that. Be ascended. And, uh, one of them also get into this part.
I like, you know, we always like to let the audience look behind the curtain. And, uh, yesterday,
I mentioned the, the, the truth, uh, problem I'm having and the fever that I keep, uh, I'm trying
to fight through here and everything. Um, it's, it's one of those things where, uh, I, I don't,
I don't know. I, I, when I get like this, I just, all I know is push through, get through it,
you know, walk it off a lot of those things. Um, they, they were raised with and everything.
But one of the, the things I've been trying to improve and trying to grow and evolve and have an
arc to my own life, it gets smarter and better about myself, even at 47. So, uh, since Sunday,
I haven't had caffeine. Um, soda, coffee, they, they kind of hurt the mouth a little bit. So,
I just stayed away from it. And then I, I could have tried it this morning, but I'm like, oh,
I'm not gonna, uh, cause I wanted to be honest with you. It's not worth the take of the chance
at hurting, uh, but I, but I, I've been, I've been wanting to take a less, have less caffeine in
my body and my, in my day to day life and everything. And this is kind of helping me do that a little
bit. Um, I think it's interesting when we're kind of putting those situations where we can make
these choices and plenty of people, you know, and no judgment either way, but plenty of people go
the other way with it and just kind of go all in. Um, so it's kind of interesting and, and
encourage people to look at what happens when you give up caffeine, uh, Web MD and there's some
other good sources out there for that. Yeah. Well, you know, James, can I call an audible? Yeah.
Cause I know you got problems, but let me tell you about my real problem that I had yesterday.
Okay. Cause this is serious. I had to stop at the grocery store and, and every once in a while,
I wear the, you know, the short socks. Yeah. You know, the ones that just come up like right to
your ankle bone. Yeah. The, the, the vein of my existence. Yes. Okay. So I had those on with my
haydudes because haydudes are comfortable. Yeah. And they went with what I had on. I had on a
kind of a sporty skirt thing. It's a great name for a shoe, by the way. It's a great
thing. They are in the first comfortable shoes. Everybody wears them. Anyway. So I had on my
haydudes and these really short, short socks. And this was at the end of the day. You know,
when it was kind of a long day, there was a lot going on. And I had some things that happened that,
you know, or happened. And which is why I missed the host mating. Sorry about that. But I had to
walk through the grocery store. I am in the produce section at Pick and Save. And the socks
start to descend below the heel. Oh, I hate it. By the time I passed the, the, the bread section,
they were all the way under my arches. I had to walk through the entire grocery store with
my socks, not on my feet. This is real pain. And I wasn't, you know, I was only going in for
a couple of things. So I didn't grab a basket or a cart or anything. So my arms were full.
My socks were under my feet. It was the most uncomfortable. 10 minutes of my day yesterday.
It's not right. And my feet hurt so bad. By the time I got to my car, it was rough, James.
I know you have real problems, but this was a problem. No, no. As somebody who growing up my,
you know, especially we didn't get a lot of things. So if you got new socks, you had to make
them last and you had to make them work. And for some reason, my mom let my father buy me and my
brother socks one day or one year. And look for like this half the school year. If not the whole
school, I think until Christmas, we got more socks. They were, they were those socks. And I got 12
and a halfs. I mean, my, there was, there was no short sock like that that was made for feet like mine.
I have found shoes for feet under your arch. Yeah. It hurts. I used to walk on that. That is not
the art support you need. We usually like to save the sock makers. Yeah. Yeah. We usually like to
save the hot takes for playmakers. But I'll say this, those type of socks, only thing they're good
for sock puppets. That's it. Sock puppets. That's it. Otherwise, if you want to just
or sock buns. Yes. Sock buns too. You know, when you cut off the end and you roll them up,
it makes the perfect doughnut thing. No, that is something. I think what you just said,
while tooth pain is relatable, I think what you just said is more relatable to the audience than
anything I've said. We've all been there. That is a rough one. But you pushed through. Nice job.
I did. I did. I made it to my car. One of the things that I was, I was leaning into is this
the study that go that it just took place. If you already feel like you need a nap at, you know,
eight, eight, eleven in the morning here, a poll found that you might be not, you might not be
alone on that one. A poll found that we spend almost 1,500 hours a year feeling tired. Whoa.
That's a lot of time. The average is four hours a day or one,
1,460 hours a year around a third of people said even more than that. 58% of us will avoid
people on social media or social interactions because we're too tired. That's just raised my
hand. Yeah. 34% have skipped an event. 27% have canceled plans with friends. And a third of us
often are always feel tired even after a good night's sleep. Wow. Honestly, I think those numbers
are low. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking. 33% of people said that they usually
tried to push through it and keep going. The number one reason they gave us was you just kind of
have to or nothing gets done. And I think that's why I think that's why the numbers are low,
Melissa. Yeah. I think if you asked, you know, like say people that live with somebody a roommate or
a partner or something like that and ask their partner or their roommate, I think you might get
a different answer. Most of us aren't pretending we'd be, we're wide awake though. The poll found
that Americans will say I'm tired out loud three times a day. Wow. Yeah, I believe it.
That's it. And then the rest of the time we're just living in denial. Yeah. Yeah.
So I mean, I don't like to just bring up time. I think that we got a lot of talking heads out
there nowadays. They like to just throw things out there and give no answers or solutions.
Or you've got the type out there. Well, I'm not saying. I'm just saying, you know, you're really
saying it. It's coming out of your mouth. You're saying it. You say it that way. You're saying it.
Beware of people who won't own their words. I mess up words every day on the air and make a full
of myself almost every day on the air. But I own that. I am that. I own every letter of it.
Anything good, bad. I do. I own it. It's gracious when I correct you. And you take it really well.
I, I, I, I bite on my inside lip. I, but no, I honestly, for me, when you, when you do that or
anybody does, I, I like learning. So I don't, I don't mind. I look at, to me, I'd rather learn
than, well, for one sound silly. And, and, and honestly, it's not about me, even my, my,
you know, little ego or anything like that. It, it's about getting the things right, especially
with the job we have here at WFHR. We want to be correct. But in the honestly, even in, in the
side, if you do it or anything like that, I, I really don't mind. I've never mind that from people
because that's how you learn. That's how you get smarter and better. So I should continue to
send them you those text messages. Yeah. So, but with this, with this survey, how do we combat
this? How do we stop our, our, our fellow Americans from being so tired? What do we do? I, I think
there's a lot of naps because that's, that's okay. So I was just kind of like doing my own little
poll and I only talked to about maybe nine, 10 people. And that is the overwhelming answer I got
Melissa is, is, you got to just take naps. It, it wasn't work less. It wasn't, um, spend more time
to yourself. No, no, it's not. So this is where we go. We just look to find, where can we squeeze in
some sleep? Where can we squeeze in, uh, maybe 20 minutes or an hour? So when it comes to that naps,
what do you do you think makes the perfect nap time? Well, it depends on how tired I am honestly.
Sometimes a 15 minute power nap is the perfect amount. Sometimes I need 45 minutes.
Huh. Um, uh, NASA determined that the ideal nap length is 26 minutes to maximize its effects on
job performance and alertness and minimize the effects of sleep in a, inertia inertia and days
luggage feeling commonly experienced from longer naps. Okay. That makes sense. And you know what?
That means to me, everybody should get a one hour paid lunch during their work day. Yeah.
Because you could take a, you could take a 26 minute nap and still eat your lunch and then get
back to your work day and be productive. Exactly. More productive. Couldn't agree more, couldn't
agree more. I, I, I think that we need to find time for those things and make more time for those
things. And this is more evidence of it. This kind of survey here. We'll, uh, get to our partners
here and we'll take a quick commercial break. We will come back with the L cafe,
a birthday anniversary club. It's Melissa and James taking it to your morning at WFHR.
It's time for the L cafe, a birthday anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself,
head on over to L cafe. Their roads are all open, everybody. You can get there just as smooth
and easy as ever. Get on over to. And I'm very nicely finished road. Yeah. Good to hear.
Visit them out to check that out. Visit them at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported. Words.
They get some great specials going on today and really the whole week. Keep in mind their Friday
fish fries becoming more and more famous as the days go on. As the Fridays pass.
The only day they're open until eight, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's a late night for them.
They got a great team over there. Wonderful, wonderful people. An incredible menu. Go check it out
for yourself, everybody. And support those that support us by local support local.
Join our friends over at L cafe. Have yourself a good time.
Nice to see them getting more and more popular too, by the way. I had somebody mentioned to me
the other this weekend. How much they love that place. And I'm like, oh, that's really cool.
And we're talking. They had no idea I was in radio. They had no idea about the boarding show or
well, they knew about the show, but they didn't know that they'll cafe was apart all this.
They just said they were just randomly talking about L cafe. That was cool. Nice.
We appreciate you guys getting us your birthdays and anniversaries as well.
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That's also a great way to win stuff too from whatever heard from people.
So you get it in real quick before you're going to punch in all the numbers.
Melissa, I need you to punch it in number for me. Give me a one or a two.
Two. All right, gives us their qualifier.
So we can get right into this celebration. First up, we want to wish a good friend of ours.
Al Carsey. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Al.
Al is a right way cleaning services who professionally clean our offices here. We greatly appreciate that.
Nice. And they are amazing. Yes.
Because I am messy. No, I tried not to be, but no, they do a great job in here. I have to say this
part. And my mother is making me say this. I am a borderline neat freak and I do try to keep
things clean, but I'm still a man. So I clean like a guy cleans usually. They clean like professionals.
They do a great job every week we come in here. The offices are great. We appreciate that very much.
And I am so, so, so, so thankful for them. Yeah, big, big help. The big appreciation of them.
And you know, right way cleaning, not only are they great at what they do,
but I think that there is a correlation of keeping your offices clean and your staff healthy.
Yes. Absolutely. That's science.
We appreciate it. You need to kill, Jerse. That's what I hear. I just, I read it somewhere.
I stopped sticking my fingers in my mouth. I think I read it in a cracker jack box or something.
I'm not sure. Thank you, Al and your team. We appreciate all of you.
And have a wonderful happy birthday. And our qualifier today, John Caves.
Happy birthday, John. John, you're our, our qualifier. You'll move on to the next round.
We appreciate you so much and appreciate whoever got us these birthdays and adversaries.
Thank you so much to everybody. John, have a great day.
Yes.
We take a look at our celebrity list. Isabella Merced is 23.
She's the star of the new live action door of the Explorer movie. She is door, I believe.
Oh, I really wanted to see that.
I didn't, I heard good things. I heard it. It didn't do bad. I just don't know how well it did.
I didn't see that. She was also in Transformers and Cicero Day of Soledato.
Let's see here. Jessica Simpson is 44.
Oh, I haven't heard that name in a while.
Yeah, it's been a bit.
Yeah, yeah. But I'm not sure what she's been up to, to be honest.
And that's, I don't mean that it's a slight. I just, I don't keep, I don't follow her.
I don't keep up with her or anything. But I hope she's doing what?
It had a good stretch there. She did.
It looks like she hasn't been up to a lot.
I'm going to do my best with this next one, because this actor deserves it.
Chihuahal, tell, a, wa, tuwala, tuwa four.
He is an amazing actor.
Forty, he's 47 today. He was Carl, Carl Mordo in Dr. Strange,
movies he's scarred in the live action, Lion King remake.
He was also a Solomon in 12 years of slave.
Ah, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
He's a, he's one of these character actors that is a leading actor in a character actor's role,
you know, world and incredibly good at what he does.
I've not seen that man deliver one bad line. He's very good.
He was in Maleficent.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he was really good.
I gotta, I gotta say, I watched that because kids and I thought it was good.
I was surprised. I didn't expect to like it.
I thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty good too.
There's something about, whatever you think of her off the field or anything like that,
there is something about Angelina Jolie that is such a throwback to classic actresses.
And it has a lot to do with her being one of the best in the world because she is.
She is one of the best actors in the world.
Not actresses, one of the best actors in the world.
Maybe it comes a little bit from her lineage and everything too, but the way she cares
herself and the way she acts, what I said about Chihuacala before is a compliment,
and I mean that. But with the body of work that Angelina Jolie has,
and the fact that I've seen, I believe I've seen everything, but maybe one or two performances
of hers. I've seen her in small roles, big roles. I've seen her with a good paycheck,
a bad paycheck, a movie that was badly reviewed and doesn't matter.
She gives you a thousand percent with every show every time.
That's what the old actors used to do. They didn't have own things in.
They gave you everything they had on every scene. Sophia Vagara is 52.
It's a great actor. She was on Modern Family for a while.
She's done a couple of other things too. A good actor.
Okay, sorry, I get distracted because Pat talked about her as well this morning,
and all I can think is I named my lawnmower Princess Sophia because she's so personality.
It's understandable. It's a track.
Yeah, I mean, she has to be taken care of nicely. Otherwise, she doesn't work.
I can relate to that. My father's old mower. That's exactly how it was.
That thing, you looked at it. It looked at you. I'm going to make this hard on you.
Oh, man, the mowing is already hard. It's got to get harder.
I put premium gas in you. Don't matter. I'm going to make this hard on you.
A couple of singers celebrate in birthdays today. Gary LeVox is 54, Rascal Flat Singer.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Neil Tenant is 70, Pet Shop Boy's Singer. Wow.
Wets 10 girls. What have I done to deserve this? Always on my mind.
I don't know. I kind of think I was a sneaky Pet Shop Boy's fan. I didn't even know.
Really?
Yeah, there's a handful of songs that I remember like it as a kid, but I don't think I shared that with
anybody. I think, well, you just did. Oh, yeah. No, I don't care. I'm 47. I don't care anymore.
But when you're a kid, especially where I was growing up, either my father listening
to nothing but hard rock or all my friends, this is when hip hop was first getting on the radio
and everything, literally the first days of that. So that's all we listened to on the street,
was that stuff. Maybe some, you know, R&B or whatever, but pop music or music, like it's
especially a lot of the 80s music was not really didn't go over well with people until I found out
my best friend back then. And I mentioned that he's African American just because of the context.
He was a huge the class fan. He loved the clash. And that threw me. I didn't expect him to.
And ever since then, I've never projected anybody as oh, they like this type of music or oh,
you like this type of music for everybody. And I think that that's something that really should
go away. Music snobs, get over yourself. There are. If you want to make other people feel bad
for what they listen to, I don't have time for you. Yeah. This is one of my, the last pet peeves I
have left in me is music snobs. It's one thing if you don't like something and you share that.
But when somebody else says they don't, they like something and you immediately trash it,
that's just being a snob. Like your opinion is fine. You can go ahead and not like something.
But to counter somebody else's like with dislike or just to dog them for liking something is.
Yeah, I'm gonna make fun of people for their music choices. I just, it's so, I don't know.
Sorry for you. I mean this for critics too. I mean this as far as the critics go and the people
that are paid to be musical critics or critics in general. To me, it's very tacky. It doesn't
go over well. I've never, I've never respected anybody because they were, they tore down an artist
or something like that. For one, I think again, you can have your opinion. But how many hit albums do
you have? I mean, just, I don't, that's part of the reason I don't say anything. I talk, you hear
me talk about acting differently because I can talk about that. Music. I'm not here in the industry.
No, I'm not talking about that music now. Arlo speaking of music and singers. Arlo Guthrie is 77.
Alice's restaurant is probably his most famous one, but he's done a couple of other great ones.
I actually heard him. I went down, I couldn't, I couldn't get comfortable last night, couldn't sleep,
and I went down a rabbit hole of the covers of St. James and Firmary Blues. It's one of my all-time
favorite songs. If you're a fan of the blues, you know this song. If you're not, I encourage you to
look it up. It's a beautiful song. There are a lot of great renditions of it. Rebe Gibbons does an
amazing one. Rebe Gibbons is one of the most underrated singers of all time. Arlo Guthrie did a
version and it was really nice. Did a really good version of it. I would like to hear his version of
Shenandoah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'd like to hear that too. I haven't heard it. And some people no longer
with us, like the great Jake Lamatta. My dad's favorite. My dad grew up a big Muhammad Ali fan,
but Jake Lamatta was one of his guys. Born in 22, passed away in 2017, boxing legend played by Roberto
De Niro in Raging Bull. Lamatta was the world heavyweight champion, middleweight champion from 1949
to 1951. I believe he went undefeated in that time. Okay. Good for him. Incredible boxer. Incredible
story. Sorry. I don't have much to add to it. Yeah, but De Niro, I'll say this, you know, De Niro is
the, a lot of actors were doing little things to kind of get into the role or play the character
before, but Robert De Niro more than Marlon Brando. And this is a hot take and people get mad at
me for it, but more than Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro changed the game with this. He put on like
40 or 50, maybe even 60 pounds for basically 10 to 15 minutes worth of film.
Because he played Jake at not only in his prime, but at an old age when he was after he was
retired and everything. So in the beginning of, I believe, yeah, in the beginning of Raging Bull,
you see Robert De Niro as a bigger guy. And then they go to him and you see him in shape. And he
got into shape for that role. Raging Bull is still one of the greatest sports movies of all time.
They fight me on that one who boxed me on that one. Yeah, but let's see here. Fred Gwen is
would have celebrated the birthday today, born in 19, born in 1926, passed away in 1993. He is
Herman Munster. Oh, yeah. His laugh. His laugh is Herman is classic. It's one of the best.
He was also the judge on my cousin, Vinnie. Oh, Ron Glass born in the state in 1945,
passed away in 2016, shepard on Firefly. Oh, sorry, you say Firefly and I'm all in.
Yeah, he was really good on that. A lot of us will remember him as well as Detective Harris
and Barney Miller. He was really good on that too. One of the three voices we grew up around
so much. David Brinkley born in this day in 1920, passed away in 2003, former NBC and ABC
news correspondent. And a couple of more for you. The legend Arthur Ash born in this day in 1943,
passed away in 1993. First African American inducted into the international tennis hall of fame.
Arthur's passing from AIDS also was another one of those stories that added to the details
that we would learn to find out about AIDS and HIV. He acquired it via blood transfusion.
And I don't think anybody that famous had experienced that until him, at least that we knew of,
and his story and sharing it meant, I don't know, meant everything in the growth.
Probably educated people a lot on what, you know, how you can contract AIDS.
Yeah. And Don Herbert born in the state in 1917, passed away in 2007,
given name Don, but you all know him and I knew him as Mr. Wizard.
I loved Mr. Wizard. That's a great show. He has a good one. I never saw it.
That's a good show. That's a good one. One more time. We want to say happy birthday to Al Carrey.
Happy birthday, Al. Carsey. Sorry, Al Carsey. And a happy birthday to our qualified John Caves.
Congrats, John. Enjoy your day, both of you. And all of you out there, enjoy your birthdays and
adversaries and keep celebrating. We'll keep going. We'll encourage you to head on over to LKFA,
221 Market Avenue, beautiful, poor Edwards. Wish them a great day from all of us at WFHR.
Welcome back. Morning show on WFHR. Locally grown radio.
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give me a call 715 4237 440 4237 440. I didn't want the audience to be left out with a word or
anything though. So you came up with one. I picked one. Yeah. Oh, look at you. Earth.
E-R-F. E-R-F. Okay. Were you talking with Sammy or brother? Yeah, basically. Yeah. No, it's
actually a word that means plot of land. Oh, so that earth over there. R-F. Yep. I'll be honest,
I was looking up fun words to say. And after I got past Shaboygan, I got to, I got to
earth. I thought that was a fun one. I'm like, all right, earth, that works. Next time you're looking
at a plot of land, you know, I'm thinking about building on that earth over there. I like that.
People are not going to look at you funny when you say that. Not at all. Not at all.
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local support, those that support us, everyone. I will have Phil. Did you happen to look up
the origin of this word? Earth? Yeah. No, I didn't. It's actually from the old English spelled
Y-F-E. I-R-F-E. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Okay. I-E-R-F-E. Yeah. Okay. Which means inheritance bequest
property, inherited property, property that passed to an air. Oh, okay. So you'll buy it. You
inherit it. You inherit it. All right. Even cooler, actually. Oh, interesting. We appreciate
our friends over at quality plus printing. They'll be with us next Wednesday with another,
with a real wicked awesome word. Not one that I just- I tried to fight. That's okay. Yeah,
hey, that's kind of fun. And we learned a new thing. And we did. We love learning around here.
And especially when they affect our energy budget or affect our lives, quick, frankly, who
touched the thermostat fights are getting more interesting with this trend. Oregon's biggest
power company is rolling out a new, quote, smart thermostat program where they get to change the
temperature in your home. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. This is a then a right story. I feel like.
This is an invasion. Other cities have been adding similar programs over the last few years.
Basically, you install a smart thermostat and pay a little less each month in exchange for
letting them control your thermostat remotely. During peak hours, they up the temperature by a
few degrees to reduce strain on the grid. It usually happens between three and nine.
The new Oregon version limits it to three degrees. So if your thermostat is set to 71,
they might put it up to 74. Some cities set the- some cities set the max even higher,
like a program in LA, that lets them increase it by four degrees. But you can override it by changing
the temperature manually. Okay. So is it worth it to save a few bucks and help the environment?
Or are you the only one who gets to mess with your thermostat? I hear- okay, real quick if I can-
The parameters you just outlined are reasonable and you have a choice.
Therein lies the this is okay in my mind. Okay. Yeah. Um-
But what were you thinking? I- I'm just of the mind that I don't like anybody being able to
control things in my house remotely. Like a period. I- I'm not- I don't know. I haven't gotten
to the place where I'm good with that yet. I admit that that's not necessarily the most rational
thought or feeling. Um- and I- and I own that. But I- at the same time, the- the thing that gets me
on this is the environment part. Uh- that- that- that- that makes me listen. That makes me hear this out.
And- that it's only three or four degrees. And honestly, if everybody's doing this,
I'll- I'll go right ahead. I ain't gonna put up a fight. It's not- it's a hill. I'm not worth- it's
not worth dying onto me. But being honest, I- it does zoo. It kind of rubs you wrong. Yeah.
When you're just first looking at it, I agree. Because you heard my instant reaction.
No, this is an invasion of privacy. But then when you look at it also as, okay, but if we can take,
you know, 100 households on the grid that are setting their thermostats at 71 and up it to 73 or 74
and the grid doesn't shut down and everybody doesn't lose power.
Hmm. Yeah. That kind of changes the argument. It really does. It really does. And- and it may be that
people aren't home, you know? They left for the day. They set their thermostats at 71 because
that's where they like it when they get home. Um, and- and- but upping it a few degrees is not going to hurt
your things in your household, your pets, your plants. And- and you can manually override it.
So there is that. So if you are home and you're like, oh, no, no, no, no, it's getting too hot in here.
Not- not many people would turn down saving a few bucks on their energy bill. That's for sure.
And not losing power. That's kind of the clincher for me.
But something that stood out to me about this, um, that I realized instantly, uh, reading it this morning and
having a similar kind of, uh, in about 10 seconds, the same kind of process, you just went through
Melissa. I- I- I was reminded of something my mother taught me about the environment and about
caring about the planet and everything. Um, my mom, uh, former hippie feminist, as she would tell you,
uh, but you don't really retire from those roles. And one of the things she raised us on
the environment and caring about the planet, it's not about us.
It- we matter. And we're- we're here right now. We matter. We- we certainly have a place.
But we, um, we plant trees not to see them grow necessarily, but for the next generation to see them.
Right. Uh, and this planet is like that. So when it comes to that, uh, yeah, my opinion matters.
But if everybody says this is the better way to do this, I'm going with it. I'm not- it's not
about me. I got- I think I got at least a good 100, 150 years left. But I- I've never really looked
at the human age expectancy, so I'm not sure about that stuff. But, um, but I- I do think that
regardless of how much time or you don't have or do have or whatever, um, this is one of the arguments
people will have. Well, I, you know, I won't be here for it or something like that. Well, fine,
but it was never about that. It was never about that. And if you only care about yourself,
then go live on a deserted island somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. And see how it goes. You buy yourself
with no help. You know what? I like the person that, uh, I really admire the mental gymnastics
that you have to do to the person that doesn't- that doesn't think that anybody deserves any help.
But then we'll go and collect social security or- or, you know, something like that or something.
That's your money. It's more about the, uh, the expect the fire department to show up when your
house is on fire. Right. But, but you don't want to help the planet, but you don't want to help anybody
out. Yeah. It's not how this works. Uh, we get a lot of help from our government. We get a lot of-
that we put into. Right. Because social security is something that we pay into our whole lives.
Exactly. Um, which we all got to be paying attention to, by the way, because they're trying to take
that from us. Certain, certain parties are trying to take that from us or certain representatives of
those parties. I shouldn't- I don't like lumping. I can't do that. That's- that's what the- that's
what the knuckleheads do out there. We're not lumping everybody together. There are certain
representatives of a certain party that are definitely doing that. Um, but regardless of any of this,
your point is- is the strongest one, Melissa, that- that if you are leaning on, like all of us do,
government services, then what are you doing? You don't- you don't have a- I don't think you have
a leg to stand on in this- in this debate. Care about the planet. It ain't just about you. Uh, and- and
this is a pretty cool planet. I'd like to keep it around. Uh, and- and you don't- for everybody that
says you- you're all alone? Well, you're not. No. I mean, you have- you have- uh, aunts, uncles,
moms, dads, nieces, nephews. If- if you don't have any children, you know, you still have extended
family of a sort. Nobody- than the family you choose. Yeah. Nobody gets through this life alone.
Uh, and- and trust me, I've- I've tried. I- how's that going for you?
Uh, it went really bad. It went really bad. Yeah. And by the time my- I- I- my late 30s,
I changed my ways, yes. Well done. We will take a time out. We'll come back. We'll talk a little
bit about Taco Bell launching this retirement community for young people. I'm curious. Coming up on
the Morning Show, WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning Show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here. We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there. Happy Humpty,
everybody. Yeah, that's right. It's Wednesday. Yeah. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.
I- I- I have a- I- I don't know if the- the last time I've worn a baseball cap in the studio here,
but I've got a cap on today. And my brim keeps hitting this, um, guard that we have for the microphone's
now. I don't know if it's making a- a noise. Uh, yep. Okay, it is. I heard that. I really didn't notice it
before then. Okay, I apologize. I'm trying to talk over it, everybody. Let's take a look at this one,
Melissa. And this could be a daddy ride. It could be a good story. Let's see. Uh, it all depends on
that seven later left seven layer burrito here. This seems kind of cruel since there's no chance
Gen Z will ever get to retire. Um, but I'm a kidding. Hopefully kidding. Hopefully kidding. Taco Bell is
opening a retirement community for young people next month near San Diego. It's called the Cantinas.
And it's just a gimmick. It'll only be open for one week and August 17th and 18th. They're trying
to attract more Gen Z customers by learning- leaning into Grand McCore. Uh, a lot of young people think
old people stuff is very, very cool now. Okay. They've got day passes for $50 or for $150, you get
lodging it for two nights plus an elevated, uh, an elevated Taco Bell dining experience and
access to various old people activities. So this talk shopper board, this, this Taco Bell experience,
does it, uh, does it avoid the other Taco Bell experience that we have after having Taco Bell?
Because that'd be great. Nope, nope, nope, nope. They include that's why you pay the 150 for the, uh,
lodging with a bathroom, right? They've included pickable tournaments, painting classes,
knitting circles, boat, uh, Baka, croquet, golf, uh, bachi, bachi. Thank you. I knew I should know
better than that. And a quote wide variety of old school games and maybe board games. Maybe that's
what it is. Yeah. That sounds fun to me. I would totally do all of that. None of this sounds bad to
me except for the Taco Bell part, baby. Uh, you have to be a Taco Bell rewards member to go,
which isn't a high bar to sense anyone can join. The bigger hurdle will be landing a spot,
reservations, open next Tuesday at the Cantinas, uh, cantonias.net and its first come first serve.
So, uh, would you do this, Melissa? Uh, give Taco Bell that much money. No, yeah, no, yeah. I got
first off, I'll admit, journalistically, in my lifetime, I don't think I've spent $150
at Taco Bell. Oh, I have. And part, and that's not me, uh, like saying, I don't need Taco Bell.
It's just most of the time I've eaten there. It's usually off of their small menu or something like
that. I don't eat a lot of food from there, um, because it hasn't ever really sat with me and,
and growing, uh, spending a lot of my time here and whether it's in Chicago or in Wisconsin,
I hear in rapids. In Chicago, you had, you had, you know, um, Mexican restaurants and we get our
tacos from those places. Out here, it's Taco John's for me. That's, that's my place. I like,
went to East. It was right across the street for us. We just, I don't know, I don't know,
many kids that didn't go to East that don't love Taco John's. We didn't have a Taco John's
in the towns that I lived in. Um, as it, you know, as a teenager, I was in Toma. So, no, I can say that
I easily have eaten 50 seven layer burritos, which would equal to about $150. You would think
that you would, until they took them off the menu, you would think you'd, you kept them alive
with the amount of them you bought and everything. Like, like, we're getting a profit from these
somebody's buying them. Um, no, they just, they just shot themselves in the foot with that one.
If they brought back the seven layer burrito, sure, maybe I'd do this, but that's a pretty big if.
Well, uh, I, I was just hoping to find out a little more information, trying to go to the website
and it says the site can't be reached. So, I don't know. Well, it doesn't open up until when,
next to next Tuesday, next Tuesday. Yeah. Maybe that's why. If anybody, uh, does try to do this and
actually gets a reservation, please let us know. We love to hear how it went. And, and I, I,
like, I will say this though, Taco Bell has always been very good at marketing, um,
along with the, uh, the, uh, Chihuahua that they had for a long time. And, uh, there was a good stretch
there where Shaquille O'Neill was doing a lot of ads for them and everything. Um, they set, uh,
are the, uh, Pete Davidson ads, I think were great more, more recently for them. They've always
been really good at marketing. I, I think that they over, they overanalyze, they have over analytics
in their departments because they, they get rid of things. You're not the only one that, uh,
has this has a seven layer burrito. There's other people that have other things that they've
gotten rid of over the years that did quite well. And they just, they, they have to make room on
their menu because they're coming up with new stuff. And I don't know that they need to.
Well, I think what they're missing the mark on maybe is regional things that work well
regionally. McDonald's has done this fantastically internationally. As we've mentioned many times
where they have a, a specific menu for a specific country or area or city. Even Taco Bell
should do that with their menu. Yeah. Across the state. The United States is huge. Yeah. Huge.
And we have such a diverse culture across our country. Why don't they do this? Bring the seven
layer burrito back to Wisconsin, Taco Bell. Do it now. Yeah. Yeah. I, I think that, uh, that's a
fantastic idea and, and something that more restaurants need to do. Uh, they do it for countries.
Why not do it for us? Uh, for my state. I think that's a really cool point. I think that's, uh,
insightful, Melissa. I, I hope that they hear that. I hope they listen. Yes, because Taco Bell
marketers are listening to us right now. Oh, they're big fans. Big fans. Yeah. Yeah. Um,
I did want to, we are big fans of the world's largest water ski show tournament. Yes, we are.
We're a week away. Uh, the 58th annual Wisconsin State water ski show championship presented by
bank first will thrill spectators July team through the 21st at beautiful red sand's beach on
Lake Waziccia and Wisconsin rapids hosted by our favorites, the Wisconsin rapids aquaskiers
since its inception. This four day extravaganza showcases 23 Wisconsin's premier water ski show teams
and 72 individual competitors, all aiming for the, uh, coveted state title in a shot at the
national water ski show championship. And it's a fun family friendly event. They have so many
other things going on to besides just watching the show. So you're going to have a good time if
you go down to Lake Waziccia next weekend. You know, and I, I will certainly listen to our
higher ups, but, um, at the, at other companies I've worked for in this state and radio,
including the one that's, uh, promoting this one, they had a thing on us. Well, if another station,
if another station is sponsoring it, don't talk about it. Well, we're not that petty. It's a community
event. Yeah, it's a community event. We're not that petty or, or, or childish, or that silly to think
that, well, that'll change things if we don't talk about it. Uh, we only look like, if, imagine if
we didn't talk about the Wisconsin state water skier tournament, like imagine that. That's a big,
maybe the biggest event our area has. It's a pretty big one. It's, it's got to be, if it's not the
biggest, it's in the top three. Uh, and it's one of the longest standing ones. So I, I couldn't,
I couldn't, I couldn't think of a really cool. Yeah. I couldn't think of a more ridiculous thing.
We talk local. This is local. Uh, the added, added to the excitement, uh, visit central Florida
will livestream the entire tournament globally. That's really cool. They had almost 150,000 viewers
last year. And no, we got a lot of Wisconsinites out of town and everything that's still missing.
That's, so that's going to be pretty cool. And what I want to tune in. That's really awesome.
We'll talk more about that as we get closer to it, but then get ready, make plans and enjoy everybody.
Listen, I'll be back with more show on the morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.
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