Hour 1: Ai is Not Capable of Creativity

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We hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday out there.

Let's go ahead and kick things off the way we like to, talk a little Mother Nature with

our good friend, Brittany Murlow.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you guys?

What a difference.

Three degrees, mate.

Yeah, really.

It might help.

It's so nice now.

Nothing but blue skies out there right now, Brittany.

It's beautiful out there.

What does Mother Nature got in store for us?

Herred a little bit of, but could see a little bit of rain.

Yeah, just a really small chance.

I'm talking like a 10% chance of us maybe seeing a spotty shower or small storm

this afternoon and evening.

I really think it's going to be after five o'clock more

tours when it's getting dark hour and really no concern whatsoever.

In fact, there is no severe weather risk at all.

And I will say I'm happy to live far north because I don't know if you saw last night.

Those storms weren't crazy along the southern border of Wisconsin and into Illinois.

There was ping pong ball size hail reported, multiple funnel clouds,

tornadoes into the state of Illinois.

I mean, winds gusting up to 85 miles per hour and we avoided all of that.

So that's behind the entire state now.

We've got the mostly dry weather settling in just a small showers this afternoon

possible.

And then we actually had some comfortable cooler temperatures for tomorrow and

Thursday.

Eyes will only be in the mid 70s.

But today, we may still tap 80.

Mm hmm.

Seems yeah, seems like the next couple of days might be good days to get some yard

work done or anything outside.

Absolutely because the humidity will be gone.

Not bad, not bad.

Nice forecast, Brittany.

We appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

We'll hang out tomorrow.

She did it herself.

Yes, yes.

You did a really nice job with that, Brittany.

Thank you for working with Mother Nature on that one.

I love how we do that to forecasters.

I like to work a really good deal.

You know, it was a hard one for me.

Appreciate your bread.

Have a great morning.

You too.

Bye-bye.

Best in a business right there.

Our friend Brittany Merlot joins us every morning right here in this time slot.

Melissa and I got some fun stuff to get into in a little bit.

Next after our LKFA birthday anniversary club coming right up, when someone knocks on

the bathroom door, what do you say?

We're going to get into that.

That's coming up for you.

We've also got the percentage of people that believe texts need an emoji with them.

Every text need an emoji with them.

That's a lot.

A poll found many of us don't know what ultra processed food is.

What?

Yeah.

So I want to get into that one too.

You've got to, because we are a morning show on in America, we have to talk about the

home run derby, the star-spangled banner before the home run derby last night, because everybody's

talking about it, Melissa.

So we have to touch on it.

Well, I did actually listen to it this morning.

Okay.

Yeah.

We'll touch on that a little bit in our entertainment section to kick off the 9 o'clock

hour.

Metallica's black album also hits a feat that we want to touch on.

And we're going to Gilligan's Island.

Hey.

We're going to Gilligan's Island, Melissa.

Sure.

A little bit later.

Plenty more fun stuff for you in the 9 o'clock hour as well.

We'll get into our schedule.

Some good stories of the day.

It's some local great events going on, including a blood drive happening today.

Mm-hmm.

That's correct.

But today is artificial intelligence appreciation day.

Hey.

And there are aspects to appreciate about AI and its significant part of the future.

But most of us are clinging to the hopes that, you know, it doesn't take our jobs.

That's the big fear.

That's the worry that a lot of people have.

So we're going to get into two interesting things here to open up our show.

We're going to talk a little bit about AI.

And then we're going to talk about three signs that we are winning the war with AI.

Just in case anybody out there is still in fear.

Just keeping, keeping score.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I want to get this out of the way real quick.

I am exhausted of this conversation.

That just, no matter where I go, this AI conversation keeps popping up.

I just had a meeting last night with some other actors talking about these screen actors

guild and some work that is being done behind the scenes there.

And it came up again.

And the fear with actors, I understand some fear with that.

But what the real fear to me is the right-wing world.

And the idea that we have a lot of producers right now who are, spitefully, trying to

they can't, they can only do so much with the actors community, with the screen actors

guild, but with the writers guild, they feel like they can push them around.

And they believe, and they think so little of you out there, the American people, the

and people of the world, really, that they can just go ahead and have AI write a script

and throw it out there and you'll all eat it up.

Those are some of the jobs that I'm worried about.

And I don't believe that there is any, at least right now, in present tense in 2024,

there is no true fear of it.

Chatchy, PT, AI, they can only do so much.

They cannot give you certain things that a human writer can do.

But it isn't going to stop them from trying.

And they're not going to just try this and nobody's going to notice.

They're going to start producing and making movies this way.

It's already happening.

It's already going on behind the scenes.

So this is where I ask people to keep an eye on those things.

There's certainly a lot of other jobs that could be taken from AI.

But at the same time, go ahead and use your text right now, anybody who has a cell phone.

And try texting a swear word to yourself.

You know, just go ahead and try.

Try texting almost anything to yourself in broken English or in slang or anything like

that.

I mean, the text in your phone is going to have a very difficult time with that.

It can't figure out text.

It's going to correct you three times and still not get the word right.

It's the same AI, everybody.

It's the same AI in your phone is the same type of AI that you are fearing and worrying

about.

So while I think we need to choose our battles wisely in life and pick our fears, I'm not

saying take your eye off the ball out of the corner of your eye.

You want to keep an eye on it, but I think that you could say that with a lot of things.

New research is showing that AI is capable of making people more creative, but there's

one significant drawback.

A new study using 300 amateur writers to write a brief story and they were split into

three groups.

One had to come up with ideas of their own and one got a single AI generated idea and

one got to choose multiple AI ideas.

Ultimately, they found that AI was able to make the writers more creative, especially

the worst writers, which makes sense, I guess.

The groups who used AI had stories that scored better for novelty and usefulness.

But even though AI helped people out individually, the collective group was less creative than

the group that didn't use AI.

In other words, the group that used AI had a similar range of creativity than the ones

who came up with ideas on their own.

One researcher said we do not worry that if many people are using this on a large scale

overall, the diversity and creativity in the population will go down.

Because if you think about AI, it's all been inputted into it.

There's no original thought in AI.

It's not coming up with these thoughts by itself.

It's coming up with the conglomeration of the stuff that has been entered into it.

So we can't come up with anything original.

Like a lot of things in life, my concern is not AI.

It is the people that want to use AI or harness AI for things like what we're using it for,

what it's meant for, which is basically the same fear we have with about any object.

I'm driving on the road and I worry somebody's using their vehicle not to transport themselves,

but for something else.

I mean, there's a million examples we have of this.

Well, an AI is a tool.

It's a tool that can be used to great effect with the right application, but you're not

going to use a screwdriver as a paint scraper.

No.

It's not the right application.

It's all about the people using them.

And no matter what you think will happen in the future, we humans are still in charge.

And we have here three things to maybe help you with the, they'll let you know that

we're winning the war with AI.

According to a new analyst, 37% of all chat GPT answers are graded untrustworthy by verified

human experts, including doctors, lawyers, veterinarians and other leaders in the field.

42% of chat GPT answers they reviewed are missing crucial details.

Fourteen percent of chat GPT's answers are misleading and four percent give dangerous

information.

Number, also a photographer turned the tables on AI generated images in photography competitions

by sneaking his own his own in human made image into AI category of a prestigious competition

any one third place.

Once it was revealed that no AI had been used, he was disqualified, but he wanted to prove

a point.

Yeah, I mean, it's a little unethical, but also it does prove the point.

Those remind me too, Charlie Chaplin once finished third in the Charlie Chaplin contest.

That's actually happened quite a bit, you know, an impersonation contest, I've heard

and I don't remember the artist, but like they performed and somebody else is like, no,

this person sounds more like you than you do.

Can I tell you a quick one?

Sure.

My first, I want to say I was at GLX for about two years or so and I'm just early in

radio and I'm at the bar and they have our station on in the background and my voice

tracks are playing.

And I am talking to the bartender and I will admit I was trying to flirt with her and

I am horrible at it.

And she said, oh, I like this song, like, oh, yeah, I played this one earlier and she's

like, you did.

I was like, yeah, that's me.

And she didn't believe me at first and I understand, you know, it's voice tracks and

everything.

How could I be doing this?

And I explained to her a little bit of voice tracking and she's listening and she's

nodding.

And she's like, well, I got to hear it again.

She hears it.

I was on, I was, my voice tracks went for another two hours.

Every time my voice track came up, she shook her head at me.

That's not you.

That's not you.

Every time, including some times that I did not sound very good, I'm like, why would

I lie about that?

Why would?

Yeah.

You just never know.

You never know.

And finally, a report from CNBC says that while AI can help with things like resumes,

you can't expect it to do all the work for you because the results won't be good.

Users and hiring managers who are looking at hundreds of resumes are noticing that ones

that use AI are very generic and look exactly the same.

So it may look fine to you, but you're eroding your competitive advantage by doing this.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I don't know, James, as far as resumes go, that's kind of a catch 22 because you

have to write your resume to get past in some companies, you know, like bigger companies

if you're applying for it.

You have to write it to get past the computer screener, which is an AI, a computer screener.

But then you also have to get past the human person that's going to look at it next.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

So if you use AI to generate it, it might get you past the computer screener.

But then you've got to get past the next level.

That's actually a really tricky conundrum.

It seems like it.

And it does seem like there are stopgaps.

There are things to keep this in check.

But it's also, again, one of those things, I don't blame people for having fears.

I just encourage you to choose your battles wisely and that this is not necessarily one

of those ones that I think we need to be keeping our eye on, are both sets of eyes on.

I think that it's something that, you know, I keep saying I, even with the AI thing,

I think that's why I keep saying I.

Well, and yes, fears, sure, you know, keep it in check.

But also, don't expect AI to do all the work for you for people who are leaning so heavily into it.

You can't.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It can be, like we said earlier, a great tool.

It can be very helpful, but it's not going to do all the work for you.

And I think that, you know, a lot of my writer friends would want me to certainly mention

as well that it can be an asset, your assistant, if you will, when it comes to

writers, so many writers work better in a team and not many writers have that opportunity

to have that.

Now, I work with my friend Will out in California and him and I zoom, but we don't get a chance

to do that nearly as much as we used to.

And he kind of has to work, you know, a lot.

And I'm not there to help him with a lot of his sketches and a lot of his work.

So he started to use chat GPT for some things.

Now he's used it mostly not to come up with punchlines, but to come up with like kind

of responses to punchlines and some of that.

I don't know the full extent.

Fuller.

Yeah.

Conversation stuff.

Yeah.

I've never used it so I don't know it that well.

So I, but I'm basing what he's told me and everything.

It's been very helpful.

It's been like having an assistant in the room.

I've been playing around with it a little bit more here and it, it, I think, has a lot

of applications where it can be very useful.

But again, it's all about how you're using it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Everything it comes down to that human or human interaction with the item and how we're

using it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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Melissa, I need a one through three.

Ooh, let's go with three today.

Okay, it gives us that qualifier.

We can get right into the cellar right in the first step.

We want to wish happy birthday to Danny Webster.

Happy birthday, Danny.

Enjoy your day, Danny.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish happy birthday to Ross Peetz.

Happy birthday, Ross.

Ross, enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Love the name, Ross.

It's a great name.

Great name.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier today, Pam Skibba.

Happy birthday, Pam.

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Keep them coming, everybody.

Absolutely.

That's a good story of the day right there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We take a look at our celebrity birthdays.

And first up, perfect timing.

Carly Lloyd is 42 soccer, Olympian in 2015.

World Cup winner.

Woo.

One of our best that we have had in the history of a women's American soccer.

And boy, women's soccer has gotten much more competitive throughout the world.

But the USA team is still just stellar.

Listening to Carly Lloyd talk about this team, it makes me feel pretty confident going

into the summer games.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

Cory Feldman is 53.

Wow.

Wow.

Mouth in the goonies.

Teddy and Stan by me, Edgar and lost boys.

I don't think there are many actors.

Many child actors that have the opening resume that Cory Feldman has.

That's a really, it's actually a really incredible, like I'm thinking of, you know, oh, what's

the old, old actress, the first real child star actor, Shirley Temple.

Shirley Temple.

Shirley Temple.

Like that's, it's up there with Shirley Temple level of like beginning of your career

and how good it was.

But he was in so many of them.

Stan by me, the goonies, the lost boys.

And they're all either hits or, or, or cult, cult favorites.

Yeah.

They're just, they're iconic movies.

They're not just movies.

They're, they're iconic performances and movies.

And you can't picture him not in them.

His, his performances.

And now he's, and now he's making money with his music.

He is.

Okay.

I wasn't sure what he was up to.

That seems to be what I'm seeing here.

Right on.

Good on him.

Good on him.

I was, he was one of those child stars that I was not surprised that didn't transition

very well.

Well, he's got a very specific look.

Yeah, yeah.

And, and I think that benefits you as a kid and doesn't help you as much as an adult and

not in Hollywood the way it is.

Yeah, which is a shame is a shame because I wonder if modern if, if, if he was around

now, if that would have changed his career, the course of his career.

Because nowadays you see so many child actors, whatever they look like, be able to continue

to work.

And, and, and, and, and, and, and Haley Joel Osmond as a perfect example of that.

He'll be the first to tell you he's not necessarily a GQ stutter or something like that.

But because he's persevered, worked at it.

And because of the connections he had early on in his career, he has been able to have

a very, very good career going from AI or six feet on to the six, six, six cents to where

he has gone on now and, and he's unrecognizable in some ways.

But that's because of, in part, because of the work he has chosen.

Speaking of music, Ed Kowalskick is 53 live, live, lead singer and songwriter.

Okay.

I don't like the idea of naming your band live.

I'm sorry.

I don't know how many times I've said live, and live now with, I mean live.

The great, the funny Will Farrell is 57.

Really?

Yeah.

Big fan.

Big fan of Mr. Farrell.

I am not.

And you're not alone.

There's a number of people out there that have run into almost every year we celebrate

his birthday.

I hear somebody say that they're not a fan.

But it doesn't seem to be heard as box office numbers.

No.

And I don't, it's, it's not that I'm not a fan of him personally.

I don't, I just very often do not like the comedy in the movies that he's in.

I'm not, I don't go for the stupid funny.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, um, I learn.

That seems to be his pretty much a lot of his repertoire is stupid funny.

Like a lot of things I learned from my mother, um, that you sometimes, uh, you need that.

I, I could never understand my, my grandfather, the only thing he would brag about with my mother

is her genius IQ and, and how she did on her SATs and all this.

And it's the same woman I would see in standing in line in the grocery store and the national

choir.

Oh, who's Batboy?

What's this?

Um, I, I guarantee you that sometime this afternoon, she'll be watching a documentary

about some European city or something like that and then right away afterwards watching

ghost stories.

Um, and I couldn't understand this, but our brains need that release.

Our brains need, uh, sometimes a silly, funny comedy that doesn't have an intellectual

comedy to it or something and, well, Ferrell, sorry, I got it that, um, so, so you need

that break, everyone.

So he's also, um, a very solid actor, like he can do serious work.

He can do, like he has wide range when it comes to it and everything.

I'm curious to see if he gets older, if he gets more opportunities to do more serious

work.

Uh, probably will just, you know, based as, as you age, you have a tendency or as Hollywood

actors age, they have a tendency to be able to kind of do the projects they want to do

versus ones they've been typecast in for most of their lives.

There's a great example that he's worked with quite a bit and Steve Carell.

Steve Carell is considered by many to be just as much of a comedic actor as a Thessbian.

So, and then he did that overnight.

It feels like.

Yeah.

Well, but he often was the straight man, you know, yes, yes, which lends itself to more

serious.

Yeah.

Helps you lead it.

I know that's my main role in comedy is playing the straight man.

I mean, that's usually what I do.

And I hear what you're saying there.

It's it.

We, um, we learned this from Leslie Nielsen, you know, Leslie Nielsen, uh, a long time

Thessbian, long time serious actor gets the role in airplane and becomes a comedic actor.

Without changing anything about his style or his approach, just, just doing what he does,

just being Leslie Nielsen.

Yeah.

And if, if Will Ferrer was in a serious movie that I, you know, wanted to see, I would not,

like, not watch it because he's in it.

I would want to see it.

Um, Fobie Kates is, uh, 61 Linda and Fast Times in Regimen High in Kate and Gremlins.

She is, uh, married in real life to Kevin Klein.

That's a cool couple.

That's an interesting couple.

I don't think I knew that.

The Lord of the Dance is 66, Michael Flattely.

Ah, yes, River Dance, right?

Yes, yes, River Dance, yes.

I remember those commercials quite a bit, yeah.

It's it, it's a complicated type of dance.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I got a lot of respect for River Dancers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just dance in general.

Um, I have a lot of respect for it.

Whether I like the dance or I can do the dance or not, that's, that's kind of here or

there.

That's different.

Just watching, if I'm just looking at dancing, I don't care what kind of dance in

there doing.

If they're pulling it off, I'm impressed.

Mm hmm.

Uh, Stewart Copeland is 72, drummer for the police.

Let's see here and, uh, Jimmy Johnson is 81 former coach of Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins.

Uh, now co-host NFL pre-game show on Fox.

And some people no longer with us, like, uh, uh, Orville Rettenbacher.

Born in this day in 1907, passed away in 95.

Best popcorn.

Yeah.

Popcorn guy.

Uh, uh, good popcorn.

Also, uh, kind of something that we've gotten away from an advertising, it used to be a

lot about faces.

Yeah.

You know, uh, and we've kind of gotten away from that.

You don't see that much anymore, even with Orville Rettenbacher brands and stuff.

Well, because it's not a, there's no, it was important in way back, like when he was

doing this, uh, early 1900s to put a face with a product because that gave it some,

you know, authenticity.

It gave it a, uh, yeah, versimilitude.

Yeah.

As nice work.

And they don't really do that anymore, because products aren't backed by people.

They're backed by giant corporations.

Yeah.

Um, but it is interesting to see the change, uh, how that's happened and everything.

And finally, uh, speaking of amazing dancing, Ginger Rogers, born in this day in 1911,

passed away in 1995, Fred Astaire's, uh, main dance partner.

And, uh, according to Astaire, the best answer he'd ever worked with, uh, including

himself, by the way, uh, because the, I remember the interview, the interview we're asking

right away afterwards, including yourself, Fred joking and everything in Fred with a straight

face.

Yes.

Uh, Ginger Rogers, wonderful actor, wonderful performer, uh, just so much fun to watch.

The, the, when I hear people say light on their feet, she's the first thing I think

of.

Yeah.

No, she can fly.

Yeah.

Basically.

Uh, we wish everybody celebrating the birthday anniversary out there.

A great one.

Uh, happy birthday to Danny and Ross.

Happy birthday, Danny.

Happy birthday, Ross.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Pam Skibba.

Congratulations, Pam.

Congrats.

Congrats.

Take that good luck throughout your throughout the rest of the day and take it on over

to El Café at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful poor Edwards, which will be a great

day from all of us right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

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

Thanks so much for joining us on this Tuesday.

Happy Wednesday Eve.

No, that doesn't work.

That doesn't work.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Uh, let's see.

Let's get into, uh, an uncomfortable one here.

Melissa.

Okay.

Um, so no, no one wants to be interrupted or rushed when they're using the restroom.

But we've all been there.

We've all had that happen.

Someone asked the internet when someone knocks on the bathroom door while you're using

it, what do you say?

And it's kind of interesting because all of the responses are awkward if you think about

it.

Okay.

And, uh, I wonder if we can come up with the right, the right solution, the right phrase

to say in, in, in instead of, you know, uh, just, just yelling at the person or anything.

Run!

Like just, just run!

Go away.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I've never had anybody do that.

Just run away.

Run now.

I don't know.

Something about that seems like it'd be a, maybe that the best way to handle it.

Uh, and we want audience participation.

Of course, all of you have the morning show, play at home versions.

Go ahead and call up 715-424-2600.

Yeah.

That's the civic media app now, isn't it?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's pretty nice.

One button dial in.

Yeah.

Go for it, everybody.

It's neither here nor there.

Yeah.

So here are some of the responses.

The most popular answer was shouting, someone's in here.

Uh, yes, in the third person, though.

I mean, right.

Right.

Right.

What do we do in here?

What do we, I've done this by the way.

What's in here?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Versus what?

That's something?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Uh, number two on the list.

Occupied.

Well, okay.

Uh, but if it's locked, I would imagine that they kind of figured it out.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Um, although around here, we have locked the bathroom, the men's bathroom door a couple

of times without anybody being in there.

I don't know how we've done this, but we have managed to do this.

It's just set then I here.

I guess Chuck too.

But, uh, it is not like there's a ton of guys coming in and out of this building or

anything.

And you managed to lock.

Yes.

Twice.

We've done this twice.

Yes.

Wow.

Well done.

And impressed.

Uh, the next one, I, I would, I've never done this one.

I'm almost done.

Uh, uh, just a minute, like, I don't know.

Just a minute.

I've heard that.

And I've probably said that myself, yeah.

But I'm almost done.

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

I don't need any, any added information.

No, no, no context.

They could be washing their hands.

True.

True.

I'm in here.

There's another one.

I'm in here.

That's actually the first thing that popped into my mind when you brought up this topic

earlier.

It's like, what do I say?

It's been a long time since I've had somebody not going to door on a bathroom door when

I've been in it.

That feels really had to think about it.

That feels like a roommate one or your partner or something like that.

Like, uh, you know, that, but when there's only two people in the house kind of thing,

yeah.

Yeah.

Um, number five on the list.

Yeah.

Like that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Better than what?

Yes.

Yes.

Much better.

Someone noted that in Japan, you're apparently supposed to knock back, which is so, uh,

very interesting to me.

So someone else said, I understand the silent courtesy of the culture, but this creeps

me out a little bit.

So I, I, I could see that if you're not used to it.

I could see that where you, and then somebody else back, oh, wait, whoa, wait, am I inside

the bathroom?

Am I?

Is there an echo in here?

Yeah.

But it does say something to about their culture, their bathrooms are small enough that

they can knock on the door from the toilet.

True.

Very true.

Yeah.

Oh, that's an interesting point.

Yeah.

Or I mean, I suppose they could knock on the wall.

It's not necessarily that.

I, I hear what you're saying, though, and not that I, okay.

I know a little bit about Japanese bathrooms, only because I, I, I am not obsessed, but

I am really interested in bidets.

Mm-hmm.

I really feel like there's, there's a miscalculation being done in this country when it comes

to bidets.

Yeah.

They're far more common in European countries and Asian cultures.

They're the cleanest way to clean ourselves, like scientifically and by opinion, whether

you're talking to people or you're talking to science, everything agrees, but days are

the way we should have been doing this since the invention of bidets.

Yeah.

And they're most less wasteful than using toilet paper.

How many bidets have you ever seen in your lifetime in America?

Three.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

I've never seen one.

I've never seen one.

Uh, not one.

I, I, this is a, this is a-

No, actually four.

I've seen four.

Right on.

Right on.

Uh, it's, it's, um, there, there are becoming more five, actually five.

Wow.

I've seen a lot of them.

Okay.

Apparently.

Yeah.

But they are, they are, it is something that you can get, they have kits now.

You can buy to put on the toilet you already have.

Yeah.

But I've also seen a toilet that like came with one that was really impressive.

The water was heated.

There was like multiple options for how you wanted the water to spray.

There was a, a, a fan option, like a drying option.

There's just no reason, no reason we shouldn't be, you know, thousands of dollars invested

in a toilet.

Yeah.

Maybe not those, but these are-

I can only imagine, uh, especially with these ones that, and nowadays with these kits

that you can buy where they can be put in installed in every single one, there's no

reason we shouldn't be using them.

There's none.

Uh, the paper industry will be fine.

The paper industry will survive.

They don't need the toilet paper industry.

We'll be okay.

Perfect.

We would maybe have more trees.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

There is a million reasons why we should be using bidets.

I'll, I'll, I'll get off my soapbox.

Okay.

So this is why you know something about Japanese bathroom.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Number seven on the list.

A lot of people said that they say nothing assuming the door is locked.

One person said, I don't get knocking on a locked bathroom door.

Someone is clearly using it.

Hmm.

Okay.

Well, I mean, do people just knock on a closed door or do you try the handle first?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, if you're walking up to a public bathroom, like in a restaurant or something,

typically you try the door.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would hope so.

And then you don't knock.

You just wait.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Other people claim they have fun with the response.

Here are some of those responses.

Hey, come back with a warrant.

That's a good one.

I'm with the client.

Ooh.

Maybe not.

Just finishing up some paperwork, but you're right with you.

Too much information.

What's the password?

You got to know the password.

Yeah.

Got to know the password.

Okay.

Who is it?

Hahaha.

Hahaha.

And the person outside, um, it's Dave.

Dave's not here.

And someone said they don't say anything.

They just scream.

Okay.

Well, all right.

That's that's not.

I don't think.

I don't know if that would save.

You might be calling for help.

Yeah.

I would be calling for help.

How would you answer this one?

Feel free to call up and let us know everybody we would love to hear from you.

You know, I read a, I don't know if I read a study on this or I saw a video on this years ago.

And every single respondent in this, and it was a small survey they must have taken.

But they all said they replied acupato.

No.

Yeah.

I've heard that.

My dad likes using that one.

Yeah.

Okay.

But the funny part was that they don't all speak that language.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

Most of them were English speakers.

And they say acupato.

It's like, well, that's just the response you're supposed to say when you're in a bathroom.

Like, I never say that.

I would never think about that.

No.

No.

When I say acupied.

Because it's just like that feels a little.

Yeah.

I honestly say I'm in here.

Yeah.

I was wondering.

I was getting a little bit worried.

I knew our listeners would chime in.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

What do you think?

I just went to the Jimmy Buffett show.

And you know, the women's bathroom has about 50 stalls.

And maybe I don't know.

A lot.

And then they're awful.

And then the people in front of the line.

The line's way out.

Instead of going in and standing in front of one of those stalls.

They lead about five in.

So there you're standing out in the hall.

Move on in.

And standing in front of the stalls.

Instead of just five dwindling at a time.

And the line is so long on the outside.

Oh, I'll tell you.

And it happens a lot of times that the Packer game too.

But I think they've gotten wiser over the years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That could be trying.

That could be tough.

But I said, boy, those women are dumb.

We appreciate the call miss.

Thanks a lot for trying to go calling up.

You have a great morning.

You too.

You too.

You too.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back.

And we're going to have some fun.

And we're going to talk a little bit about ultra processed food

and what that is.

OK.

We'll come back.

Melissa and James on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Local liquor own radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Wherever you are up to.

So more and more research shows

we should be avoiding ultra processed foods.

But a new poll found a major hurdle.

A lot of us don't know what ultra processed means.

44% think it's basically just means fast food.

And yes, that is one example.

But this is not the only one.

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods

are things that are still close to the natural state.

The think fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, eggs, milk, and meat.

Processed means it's been changed enough

to alter or destroy some of the vitamins and minerals.

Think things like tortilla chips, whole wheat, bread, and fruit juice.

Ultra processed means it's gone through a ton of that processing.

And the list of is a lot longer than just the stuff

you'll find in a drive-through.

Ultra processed foods also include things like flavored chips,

soda, energy drinks, candy bars, and lots of ingredients.

So basically junk food.

But also sneakier stuff like white bread, flavored yogurt,

and sugary breakfast cereal.

The easiest way to tell if something is ultra processed

is by looking at the ingredients.

If it's a long list with words you cannot pronounce,

it's probably ultra processed.

And this comes to us from the Harvard Business School

as well as health line and in-of-market insights.

So just to see some of the reporting coming from this,

from some pretty big brains, if you will, to put it lightly.

But where are they getting the statistics that people don't know

what ultra processed food is?

Well, most of these come from a blind survey

that are open to all like schools.

This one in particular is one of those ones where they'll do these survey.

They'll have, you know, oh, here's a grant for this.

You need to do a survey to find out if it's, you know,

if you're going to get more money or get the grant at all,

sometimes that's where they come from.

So it's far, that's the most details we have on these.

They have all the actual data as far as ages and sexes

and that kind of thing.

Well, I don't know.

I don't think people are that dumb.

I'm pretty sure that they know what ultra processed food is.

Yeah, at the same time, I'm not going to...

Carl and I did a, that ain't right story years ago,

about seven, or nine percent of the population

believing chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I am not going to put it past anybody that 44 percent

don't know what ultra processed.

I mean, especially considering so many of us don't...

While we have gotten much, much better

at looking at the ingredients of things,

it doesn't always stop us from buying it if it's cheaper.

Yeah.

And that's true.

But...

The unfortunate reality of that is that we sometimes

have to choose the cheaper option

because that's what our pocketbooks can afford.

Right, yeah.

Yeah.

And so I mean, I think the more we talk about these things,

the more people will understand.

Maybe they know what ultra processed means,

but they're not thinking about it when it comes to

some of those latter ingredients,

latter things we were talking about like white bread

or flavored yogurt.

I know for me, for one, I'm looking at a thing yogurt.

I'm like, oh, yogurt.

That's healthy.

You know?

Because I don't know any better.

So I got to look at the label.

I got to...

What is this xenoguac?

What is xenoguac?

What is that?

That ain't a word.

And then I start realizing.

So we...

Is it fair?

And this is an open question.

This is not directed at Melissa.

This is a rhetorical open question.

Is it fair that if I...

Okay, I'm in the health section.

I should be able to find healthy foods and only healthy foods.

But I don't find only healthy foods.

Is it fair that everybody needs to be looking at ingredients

of everything?

Well, I mean, there's multiple reasons to look at ingredients.

I think it's a fair to make the reminder of...

It doesn't hurt to look at the ingredients.

It's just one of those things where most people are...

Very few people go grocery shopping relaxed.

Or at least not having to rush or not having to be in a quick pace.

This is how we live our lives.