Good morning, Wisconsin.
Good morning, world.
It's a new day.
Hopefully, you're having a good one out there.
Thanks for joining us right here at 975 FM, the morning show.
Got your host, James behind the mic.
I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
Happy Friday, Eve to you all.
Let's kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot, talking
a little mother nature.
Blue skies out there again, Brittany.
I think we're like four for four this week.
I know.
Aren't we lucky?
Mm-hmm.
We're so blessed.
We'll take it.
We're good.
I know.
We're going to have it all day today as well.
A little bit of patchy fog burned off here this morning.
Blue skies.
High pressure system overhead.
That means calmer winds today.
And we're just going to stay dry.
Finally, staying dry tomorrow, too.
And we don't have any chances of rain moving in or trying to ruin anything until maybe
Saturday afternoon.
So we're not even going to talk about that until tomorrow because we're not Friday yet.
Yeah, yeah.
Good plan.
Positive.
Just positive.
Yes.
It sounds good.
And we could, I think after a couple of days, it doesn't hurt to have a little bit of
that.
We'll see what comes this weekend.
But we're all much more prepared for today.
Thanks to you, Brittany.
We appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
I hope you guys enjoy it.
We have a good one.
You too.
Thank you.
Listen to business right there for Brittany Merlot joining us every morning right in this
time slot.
Melissa and I got a fun show, jammed up for you, everybody.
We got the LCAFE birthday and anniversary club coming up in just a little bit.
We'll get into people who rarely get sick, shared some impractical secrets, impractical
secrets.
Yeah, I mean, they call them secrets, but I don't know how practical they are.
So we'll find out.
And we'll see how helpful that is.
Mm-hmm.
Old folks, a one-of-band TikTok, a young adults want to keep it for medical advice.
So we will get into that a little bit.
Got that one coming up for you as well.
I also want to talk a little bit about 80s or 90s snacks.
Some way is doing something that got me thinking about 90s snacks, so I want to touch on that
one.
Okay.
Got a real good story of the day for you, everybody, about a woman who rescues wild mustangs
that are rounded up in reunites, the herds, on her ranch.
Wow.
That's cool.
Yeah, that's pretty neat.
Nine o'clock hour going to kick off the way we like to on Thursday.
We'll talk more about that a little bit later and looking forward to finding out what
our new furry friend is going to be today and which dog I have to fight off, not adopting.
That is all coming up.
We'll also get into some rafters news.
Boys of summer are in action tonight taking on our heated rival, Warsaw.
Got a white out tonight I want to get into and if you were listening to Melissa's news
like you should be, you heard that we have a WRCT production, a hopeful production today
that I look forward to.
Yes, a kid show at lunch by the river.
Yeah, that's going to be really cool looking forward to that.
All that coming up and if we have time today, we'll get into a Melissa or maybe we'll
start it today.
I came across an article this weekend from worldatlas.com.
An ideal Wisconsin destinations for a three day weekend.
Maybe you're getting towards the end of the, at least we're in the second half of summer
at the very least and maybe...
We're talking about summer's not half over.
No, no, it's not.
Forget what I said everybody.
Forget what I said.
Living in a state of denial here, James.
And I want to help with that.
Don't ruin it.
I want to help you with that.
I guess I'm going to live my caretiously through you living through that, Michael.
So yeah, we'll try to get into that, wanted to have some fun with it too.
I thought it'd be fun to come across vacations that, you know, only take you a weekend kind
of thing.
Yeah, if you only have to add one extra day, that's easier, you know, taking off multiple
days during the week.
Personally, I'd love to go to see the Grand Canyon, you know, or something like that,
but something a little bit...
I'll take you more than a three day weekend.
Probably, probably.
Unless you've learned how to teleport.
Not yet.
Working on it though.
I will let you know how that progresses, everybody.
Let's do.
We start our show with maybe an interesting one here, kind of a breakfast hack.
Experts say this does really work.
If you want to make the best scrambled eggs of your life, try adding a little seltzer
water.
The bubbles are supposed to make them area and fluffier.
That would make sense.
It doesn't take much.
Just add one teaspoon to your mixture for every two eggs you're making.
A full 12 ounce can is enough for 72 eggs, so, you know, just make the kind of breakfast
mononimate.
Just for her, my papadai, that's just how the woman cooked.
Just make sure you only use plain seltzer if you use like lacroy or something like that.
Something with a flavor in it, you're going to, yeah, change the flavor.
Save the white claw, okay, you know, you don't need it for this.
You don't need it for this.
It works, it works because the bubbles quickly expand from the heat and fluff everything
up.
That makes total sense.
I never would have thought of this, but now that I hear it, it feels like something
we should have always been doing.
Well, if you have seltzer water.
If you do, yeah.
Honestly, I don't eat them very often, but when I have scrambled eggs, I just, I devour
them.
I love scrambled eggs.
I like, I think what I like about scrambled eggs is the sandwich, you know, getting a
piece of bread or something and throwing some scrambled eggs on there and some kind
of sausage, link, or bacon or something like that.
I like making sandwiches and I think that's why I like scrambled eggs like that.
Something like this, that's, you know, I've never, I don't know, I'd like to try this.
My dad, in our house, there's only a hand, both my parents always cooked, but there was
only a couple of things where, okay, we're going to go to dad for this one.
Scrambled eggs was it.
My mom doesn't make bad scrambled eggs, but my dads are just awesome.
Yeah, I, you know, I don't make scrambled eggs very often, but I do know if you like whips
the heck out of them, they're better because you're introducing a lot more air to them.
This would save your arm a bit from having to try to introduce all that air yourself with
just adding a little seltzer water.
Yeah.
And this got my mind going, of course, like a lot of our topics do.
And I came across an interesting article from foodnetwork.com and go to foodnetwork.com
and thank Carrie and Jennings for this one, MSRD, 13 Morning Hacks, and we weren't going
to go through all of these because some of them are a little, I think, already common
knowledge.
We already do.
Yeah, and things, and honestly, some stuff that you've covered on the kitchen's open, which
you can catch every Monday at 9 o'clock, everybody, be sure to join us for that.
To cut your cooking time for steel cut oats, try covering the oats with water in a sauce
pan the night before.
Yeah, overnight soak.
And there's a lot of that in these, and for oats, cooking leftover oats in the little
cakes.
Yeah, that's good.
And making overnight oats or China pudding, and they say, trust them on this one, these
are incredibly good once you get up in the morning.
Yeah, I love, for a while there, I was making overnight oats a lot, thanks to Laura, because
she's amazing like that, and they are good, they're great.
You just, you know, a little oats, a little dried fruit, nuts, a yogurt, and a little
bit of water or milk, and stick them in the fridge overnight.
They're amazing the next morning.
I'm really appreciative of the invention of the microwave, and I do like it, but I tend
to not like reheating things.
I don't like the way they taste afterward and stuff, so I don't really, I don't do that
very often.
If I got cold pizza, I'll heat it up in the oven.
I'll take the extra minute or whatever and do that.
But in the morning, a microwave could be your best friend and save you a lot of time.
And they suggested a couple of things, I'll suggest bacon in there.
Just in the sense that it doesn't take as long, and if you're in a hurry.
Yeah, just make sure you wrap it up in like paper towels, you don't totally grease up
the entire inside of your microwave.
Yeah, yeah, I've done that one a couple times.
It's a great note by Melissa, make sure to do that everybody.
They talk about dipping apple rings in pancake batter and cook them in a skillet for an
all-in-one meal.
Ooh, that sounds good.
That sounds really good, yeah, that sounds really good.
Assembling a smoothie, you know, and getting the ingredients together and blending them
up over and before, you know, at night, and then it's ready for you in the morning.
Yeah, yeah, don't blend it at night.
Wait till the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Get ready.
Get it ready to go.
So it comes together quick in the morning.
And they really push these breakfast bread puddings.
It's another big one that they've got.
And I gotta admit, I don't know what that is.
I don't know what a bread pudding is.
I don't.
Bread pudding is just basically bread and milk and then whatever seasonings you want to
put in it.
My mom always added raisins and cinnamon and vanilla.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you just, you mix it up and you bake it in the oven with butter on top.
It's really good.
Sounds pretty good.
It sounds like some kind of, like, kind of like the good stuff that they have over at
LKFA.
We'll get to that more in a moment.
But Melissa, is there any, is there a quick one for you or a quick go to?
I know for me, you know, obviously cereal is a good one.
I go to that quite often.
But I, again, I like making sandwiches and I tend, like if I got a good English muffin
or a bagel.
I love turning that into a little, my own kind of sandwich of a little bit of scrambled
eggs or bacon or sausage or something like that in there.
I've been on a bagel kick lately because I found dairy-free cream cheese.
And so I've just been eating bagels for breakfast.
But actually this morning I made an egg sandwich and usually that's kind of my go to for,
you know, protein and something warm that fills you up and can get you through your morning.
I just make an egg sandwich.
Yeah, there's something about it.
It's good.
It's almost, maybe it's not the right word, but almost comforting, almost comfort for
the breakfast food.
I think I used to make them for us when I was a kid.
I don't always put the ketchup on now because my stomach doesn't like ketchup very much
anymore.
Yum.
I can't put, that's my favorite though.
Every once in a while I will say, sorry, stomach, you're just going to have a bad day.
Look.
And I'll have to catch up on it.
Look, stomach.
Look, stomach.
I don't like you and you don't like me either, but we got to get through this together.
We got.
And I love what you said about bagels.
I always eat bagels.
I have my whole life, but I have moments where I eat them more than other moments.
And I'm kind of in one of those myself.
There's just something about a good bagel too.
Because I like savory, more so in the morning typically than sweet, I get, I've been getting
the everything bagel and it, because I just have plain cream cheese.
So and everything bagel adds a little bit of flavor and then with the dairy-free cream cheese
on top, it's been, it's been a treat for me.
I think those are good notes and hopefully your breakfast is a little more exciting, a little
more fun or maybe even some more options for you out there, everybody.
But if I had to pick a fruit flavored bagel, it's blueberry.
It's a good one.
A blueberry is a good one.
I don't think I've had a bad blueberry bagel.
Those are really good.
We'd love to hear your tips or your hacks or any of that above.
Feel free to call up and join us for those.
We'd love to hear from you, everybody.
We'll tell you how you can call up and more in the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club
that is coming right up on the morning show with Melissa and James on WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with the birthday and anniversary club featuring our great
friends over at El Caffe.
We encourage you to treat yourself when they open their doors back up tomorrow, everybody.
Just a reminder they are closed all day today, so please let your friends and family know
out there, spread the word and be sure to spread the word about the great stuff that Fidel
and the gang have over their great menu, wonderful people, perfect atmosphere.
You can't have a bad time at El Caffe.
And for the weekend, when they open their doors tomorrow, a 221 market avenue in beautiful
port Edwards.
Get down there for a great fish fry tomorrow because they're open till eight.
Yeah.
And we encourage you to, of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
Keep in coming, everybody, info at WFHR.com or you can direct messages on our Facebook
pages as well.
You can email any of us directly like James.mailf at civicmedia.us or Melissa.k at civicmedia.us.
You can hear us.
So you can call up 715-424-2600.
Please feel free to.
We'd love to hear from you, everybody.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
And if you're not able to join us right in this time slot and it's a little bit later,
that's all right.
We won't tell anybody.
We'll still throw it in there.
Let's take a look at our list.
Melissa, I need a one through three.
Let's go with one.
All right.
It gives us that qualifier there.
So we can get right into the celebration.
And first up, we want to wish a happy birthday to a good friend of the station and this
community.
Debbie Clourth.
Happy birthday, Debbie.
It's amazing.
Debbie's awesome.
We appreciate you, Debbie.
Keep up the great work and we keep on having a, I hope you have a great day.
Wishing you a great day.
That's beautiful weather for your birthday.
Yeah.
We also want to wish a couple of happy anniversaries, happy anniversary to Tom and Colleen Johnson.
Oh, Tom and Colleen, happy anniversaries.
Wishing you to a wonderful day.
And our qualifiers today celebrate in their 60th anniversary, Doug and Barb Kasten.
Happy anniversary.
60 years.
That is beautiful.
Congratulations.
That's one of the most beautiful things I'm going to say on the air all week.
Happy 60th anniversary, you two.
That is fantastic.
That hits our romantic heart.
We appreciate it.
And I say, both of you, all you couples out there, you're celebrating an anniversary
today.
We ain't got to tell anybody celebrate right through the weekend, right through the weekend.
Yes, well, go for it.
Heck, I say celebrate all month.
Yeah, 60 years.
You get the chance.
You can celebrate that all year if you want.
I got no problem with that.
Congratulations on that one, you two.
And you are a qualifier for today.
That's right.
Keep getting those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We love celebrating with you.
I have to pull it audible real quick.
I apologize, everyone.
I'm using my glasses today.
And I am the world's worst person with glasses and keeping them clean.
I don't know how I got a fingerprint on them, but I did.
And I can't see that.
Well, no, I can't.
Now I'm good.
But I don't know how I do that, Melissa.
I am so bad with keeping my glasses clean.
I don't know what I do.
That's rough, James.
Is it because I talk with my hands?
It's possible.
And your hands are kind of big.
So they do run into things.
Oh, that's enough.
Oh, I didn't get to tell you guys what I did.
Okay, real quick, real quick.
I had of all the people I could do this in front of too.
It couldn't have been worse.
I had Terry in yesterday for a midday magazine the other day
to talk United Way.
It was a great, it was a great interview
and encourage you to check it out and find out more
about your United Way at UWSWAC.org.
I've been working with for the first time a screen,
a sound screen in front of my microphone.
It helps with S's and Z's and it makes us sound
a little clearer, a little better.
Shout out to Chuck in the civic media for these.
We love them.
I'm not used to working with them.
I was talking to Terry and I was animated like I get
and I was talking with my hands and I hit this thing,
the screen, right into my eye, right into my eye,
a jammed, a right into my eye somehow and we had to,
impressive.
We had to start the interview over.
We had to, it was just so bad.
Oh, goodness, it's pre-recorded so you could.
Yeah, and of all the people I could do that in front
of the one person who will never let me live in doubt
and will never, nor should she.
Even though we're absolutely, absolutely 100%.
We dive into our celebrity birthdays.
Chase Crawford is 39.
He is a Nate on Gossip Girl and plays the deep
on Amazon's The Boys.
Okay.
Good actor, good actor.
We've got, I actually got a bone to pick.
So today is the great Kristen Bell's 44th birthday.
Kristen, she's so cool.
Elsa's sister Anna in Frozen movies.
She was Veronica Mars, the narrator on Gossip Girl
and a lot of people know her from,
not only TV shows that she's,
or commercials that she's done a lot of those,
but Eleanor on the good place.
The good place.
Yep.
There's a lot of shows out there
that I don't get to watch,
but there's ones that I, you know, I'm catching up on.
And I'm currently catching up on the good place.
It's so good.
It really is.
It's a fantastic show.
Got a stellar cast.
I have one gigantic pet peeve in this world, Melissa,
and it is spoilers.
Okay.
Boy, Pat, gentlemen, who is on before us
in the mornings and everything,
spoiled the good place for me.
He completely ruined it for me.
This morning, completely ruined it.
I got a big bone to pick with that man.
Like, I know the show has been out for years.
I know that if you really loved the show,
you probably would have been watching it when it was on.
Some of us work three jobs, Pat.
Some of us couldn't keep up with it, man,
and didn't need it spoiled.
I'm seriously angry about it.
Like, I'm very angry about this.
I'm sorry.
But it didn't come out in 2016.
It did.
And I completely agree with it.
I completely get that.
And 99% of people out there that heard it,
probably already knew.
But for me, oh, that bothered me.
I'm trying to forget.
I'm trying to forget.
You may as well, because the show itself is so good.
You're gonna enjoy it.
I'm gonna keep watching.
Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy it.
I'm sure.
And she's great.
Kristen Bell is such a good actor.
I think she is a great actress.
I didn't know how versatile she was
until the Frozen movies, really,
in that she, you know, all the different things
that she could do voice acting wise.
Mm-hmm.
Vin Diesel is 57.
The voice of Groot in the MCU, Dominic Toretto
in the Fest and the Furious series.
And in a-
And in a-
Mm-hmm.
Been in a couple of other movies, too.
It obviously has done a pretty good job with his career,
right?
I like seeing actors that maybe don't have the acting chops
that a lot of people might think that they should
or do or what have you,
but are able to have incredible careers.
And not for nothing,
Vin Diesel is much more of a well-rounded actor
than I think a lot of people might realize.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He also makes bald looking incredibly sexy.
He's got that down.
He definitely has that down.
He did a movie some years back.
Actually, a couple of them that were pretty good.
First off, the Chronicles of Riddick are underrated.
Those movies were very underrated.
But did this movie knock around, guys,
where he played a Jewish man who works with mob.
And on his arm, he had this gigantic star of David
on those big pipes of his and everything.
And I gotta admit, you don't get to see
that Jewish actors are Jewish characters like that very often.
And he nailed it.
Did a great job.
Was very honorable with the role.
Sydney Lament hand picked him to play a real life
crime drama character.
It's a couple of different things he has done in his career
that really stand out to where this guy can act.
A man apart is another good one that he did.
That was very good.
And he also did some, you know, kid shows.
He did voiceovers and Ralph breaks the internet.
Yeah, that's right.
The pacifier, who was in that one as well as himself,
the Iron Giant.
Really got his break in the,
well, he got his first role in the movie Awakening's
with Rob Williams and Robert De Niro,
one of my all-time favorite movies.
So that's part of the reason I'm a little,
I like him a bit, but saving Private Ryan,
he was really good in that too.
And a man apart, again, that just another good one
that I wanted to make sure to mention.
Find me guilty.
Harrison Ford in presumed innocent.
Plack, I played Jackie Dinarcarsio in Find Me Guilty,
a real life story directed by one of the greatest directors
ever in Sydney Lament.
And he's unrecognizable in that movie.
And he does a fantastic job.
He's, I think he's a, I'm not saying he's a Thesspy
and necessarily, but he's a way better actor than the guy
that just is behind the wheel, driving a car
on the side of a building.
Well, two people are hanging out of it
and he's got something else hanging from it.
No, those, no, I will wholeheartedly,
I'm not making fun of him though.
I watch every one of those facets of your movies.
I don't care, I don't, I like car chases.
I've seen the first couple.
Yeah, and then you've seen them all.
You've pretty much seen them all that day.
Isn't there one in space?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't want to see that one.
Man, there is a, and they, they, they take a car into space.
Everybody, they shoot a car in the space.
It's so great.
Just take any, take any logic you have in your brain.
Put it on the side and just watch two hours
of just non-stop action and, you know,
cars flying into space.
Ricky Skags is 70 years old today.
Country music hall of fame inductee.
Ricky taught himself to play the mandolin at the age of three.
Wow.
Place the banjo fiddle and guitar as well.
A heck of an artist.
Let's see here.
Martha Reeves is 83, leader of Martha and the Vandell's.
Heat wave, dancing in the street, nowhere to run.
I love nowhere to run.
That song never gets old to me.
That's a good one.
And then some people no longer with us.
I like, I just think one of the greater human beings,
any of us will ever read about or hear about
while also a complicated human being.
Nelson Mandela was born on this day in 1918,
former South African president and international hero.
If you don't know the story of Mr. Mandela,
can I encourage you enough to read and look into it
and know what he did through apartheid,
where he started when we first kind of get introduced
to him as a world and going from prison
to being the president of South Africa.
Yeah.
Not a guy who tried to stay out of prison
by becoming president,
but a man who was in prison who came out
and became president.
Yeah.
John Glenn, one of our first real heroes,
I think for many generations out there.
Born in 1921, Pestaway in 2016,
the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth.
And for nothing, in 1998, Senator Glenn
also became the oldest person ever launched into space
at 77.
Oh.
Held the record until we opened shit
or broke it back in 2021 at the age of 90.
Thanks.
There is a lot of great artists and writers
that I have grown up and I have enjoyed
over my lifetime.
I've mentioned Maya Angelou many times,
Langston Hughes.
I like to beat generation a lot, Jack Kerawack,
a lot of those writers I look up to,
but I don't think there's a writer I'll ever look up to more
or I feel more of a kinship to than Hunter S. Thompson.
Born in this day in 1937, Pestaway in 2005,
Johnny Depp played a masterfully in fear
and loathing in Las Vegas, the rum diary.
Bill Murray played him and wear the Buffalo Rome
back in the early 80s.
I think that there is a lot you could say
about Hunter S. Thompson when you talk about the,
some of his political talk or his drug use
or some of those things.
If you are able to put those things aside
and just look at the creative mind of Hunter S. Thompson,
you have never heard another writer like him.
Not only could write like Shakespeare
and give you true poetry, but raw, real.
Everything that we look for nowadays in our mediums,
Hunter was doing long before.
Most writers would even think of putting stuff
like he did on a page and putting their name on it.
And Hunter S. Thompson, whether you like them or not,
a complete original.
Nobody ever liked him and nobody ever liked him again.
Well, you know, dedicating his life a year
to be able to write the, you know,
his publication of Hell's Angels.
He spent a year with them.
Yeah, yeah.
That's incredible.
I mean, what a real journalist is,
what a real reporter is.
Hunter S. Thompson was that 100%.
Obviously, a Gonzo journalism,
another thing that he spawned off
and created that was incredibly important
and even more important in today's society
where we don't always know,
hey, you know, I'm reading this article online.
Oh, yeah, this is a really interesting article.
Wait a minute, who's this sponsored by?
Who did this?
You couldn't buy Hunter.
You couldn't, you couldn't do that.
And God, God, if you tried,
you'd get the opposite probably.
We could use a reporter, a journalist,
like that right now.
Glenn Hughes, also born in this day in 1850,
passed away in 2001.
The original biker in the village people.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And one more time, wishing a very happy birthday to Debbie
Cleworth.
Happy birthday, Debbie.
Wishing happy anniversaries to Tom and Colleen Johnson.
Happy anniversary, Tom and Colleen.
And to our qualifiers celebrating their 60th
Doug and Barb Kasten.
Doug and Barb, congratulations and happy anniversary.
Yep, we wish you the best, all of you.
Have a great day and of course,
keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries.
Everybody so we can celebrate with you
and send you over to Elk Cafe.
Remember, their doors are closed today,
but they will be back open tomorrow
at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
Be back more fun after our news break on the morning show
here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.
This song takes too long to get going.
It's the only problem with some of our bumpers.
They take a little too long to get going here.
We need five, 10 seconds to get going.
I gotta do when I move.
Although, don't mind playing music.
Don't mind that.
That's fun.
You got an interesting one here.
COVID is surging again with cases in 26 states high
or very high.
I apologize.
Don't kill the messenger here.
That's just the way it is.
And that's just kind of the way it is going to be
kind of going forward here as we have,
I don't want to say tamed this virus
as much as we have or can currently,
but we have certainly gotten a much more of a hold on it.
Thanks to our virus hunters,
our medical industry,
and so many hardworking people out there.
So here's a question for people who rarely
or never get sick, what's your secret?
Come on, tell us.
Come on, I won't tell anybody.
You can tell us.
I don't go anywhere or see anybody.
Okay, all right, I'm writing that one down.
Yeah, all right, all right.
So here are some of the people sharing their tips online.
And I think that this is all pretty basic,
but I do think that there might be some insight here
or what is basic to some might be news to others.
So go to sleep early and get as many hours,
nine hours of sleep every night.
Yeah, yeah.
Getting good sleep is really, really important for our bodies.
Another one going to write down, get sleep.
Okay, well, stay active, drink plenty of water.
Yeah, also good things to do.
Wash your hands constantly and don't touch your face
or rub your eyes.
And by constantly, they don't mean like every moment
of every day, not plausible.
I think you carry a sink around with you everywhere.
No, Melissa's right, yes, don't listen to me.
Wash, one person said, I barely leave the house.
Do you do your boiler before eating, of course,
fruits and vegetables, avoiding unhealthy stuff
as best as you can.
Stop eating indoors at restaurants, another person mentioned,
which I could see, okay.
There is still a lot of people that are more comfortable
in feeling, if not bringing in back,
have never stopped wearing masks.
Yeah.
I don't see an issue with that one, you know?
No, I don't either.
I mean, they're not trying to, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
There's lots of reasons to do it or to not.
And I think it's up to each person individually.
Yeah, yeah.
Take vitamin D supplements, or I will add onto that.
There's a lot of great one a day vitamins out there nowadays.
I even take one, maybe that's how common they are.
Even I'm taking one, there's a...
Yes, but it is a well-established fact
that we just don't get enough sunlight here at this latitude.
So taking a vitamin D supplement is a very good thing.
Now these next ones, along with that one,
I think are actually a bit helpful
because they also encourage the vitamin C zinc, fish oil.
These are all good ones to also keep in mind.
Keep an optimistic attitude.
Hmm.
That is important.
Our attitude has a lot to do with how we feel.
More so than you would think.
It took me a long time to realize that one.
And I think some days as some of my staff will tell you,
it takes still a little bit, I'm still learning.
But it's one of those ones that I feel like,
once you get on the other side of, there's no going back.
Like I spent the first half of my life
being much more pessimistic and much more cynical.
And since that switch flipped and I rewired my brain,
now I find myself even in the harshest moments,
even when I'm sad or depressed,
or something like that,
still finding silver linings in life.
It does help.
Having a positive mental outlook
makes everything a little bit better or at least tolerable.
Avoid stress.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice.
Sure, could we, that'd be nice.
They got a supplement for that one.
They got a,
it's certainly, I think, something that we all go,
you know, try for and everything.
But it's also something that I think you can't,
what I think is important is how you handle stress.
Yeah, learning to manage your stress properly
or doing things to de-stress,
whether that's trying to get into a better routine
for your day or making lists and knowing that,
okay, well, I have all of this to do,
but I can only worry about this one thing right now
because these other things I can't get to until later
or don't happen until later.
So they're not even on my thought process right now.
Yeah.
And being able to write those things down for me personally
helps take the stress off because,
well, I can't do that yet,
so I don't need to worry about it.
And I think there's all great points, Melissa.
Great stuff.
Don't be lazy is another one on here.
So that one comes in my opinion with a little bit
of a caveat because there's a difference
between being lazy and allowing yourself
to have some downtime.
And I think as Americans, we really struggle with this
because we live in such a society of,
well, if you're just sitting around doing nothing,
you're being lazy.
Well, sometimes you need that.
You need it physically and you need it mentally.
Yeah, same page, Melissa.
I was gonna go to a very similar direction.
I work like crazy.
I am a workaholic and I cannot seem to turn my brain off
when it comes to that.
I'm always looking for ways to improve
or add content or something along the lines
with these jobs that we do.
I find that I have to force myself to be lazy sometimes.
And I've noticed that when I keep consistent with this,
I'm much more creative.
I have a much more rest enough for your brain.
Right, because you've taken the time to refill your cup.
You cannot pour from an empty cup.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you don't give your body and your mind
that time to rejuvenate and refresh,
you're not gonna be as productive.
And a lot of people are also talking about
improving your immune system and working on that.
And certainly that goes back to a couple of other conversations
we've had and some other stuff.
But that's something that they're really adamant
about on this one and the idea of embracing germs to a degree.
Yeah, we've long known that it's not good
to use antibacterial stuff over the top.
If everything is antibacterial in your home
and you're using it constantly,
your, the germs start to grow immune to those antibacterial things.
And then you're dealing with a whole nother level of issues.
Mm-hmm.
But yes, wash your hands, obviously,
but you don't need to be a germaphobe.
Mm-hmm, yep, yep.
It didn't work well for Howard Hughes,
but it didn't go the greatest for him, you know,
but certainly finding the balance for this too.
If you are a germaphobe or maybe you don't even know you are
or something like that,
what Melissa's saying has a lot of heart to it
and a lot of science behind it too,
just for what it's worth.
So I encourage you to do that.
Get out there and live everybody
and take some of these tips to heart
because we want you around.
That's right.
I mean, we really do.
We need the ratings people.
Please stick around.
No, I'm joking.
I'm kidding.
We'll take a time out.
We'll check with our partners.
We'll come back and we're having nothing but fun
and we're going to get into another kind of health topic here,
sort of.
We're going to talk about TikTok
and who's using it, who wants to ban it and all the above.
Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Round round, get around, I get around, yeah.
Get around, round, round, I get around, I get around.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
You're going to have some fun,
take you right to the top of the hour.
And in the 9 o'clock hour, we'll kick things off
with our friends from the South of County Main Society
and our pet of the week.
Oh, yeah.
Look forward to that.
We'll touch on some entertainment news.
Got some Emmy nominations to talk about.
And also wanted to get into a couple of other fun topics
from Melissa.
We'll talk about some local theater going on in town here.
A little lunch by the river.
All kinds of fun stuff.
But I want to dive into this one too.
It remains to be seen if the supposed ban on TikTok
ends up happening or not.
A lot of it seems to be politically motivated
and side-motivated, unfortunately.
Because I do think that we do need people keeping an eye
on all apps, not just TikTok, but all social media,
all apps.
And we do need a, I don't want to say a governing body
necessarily.
But I do think that we need some kind of third party
keeping an eye on these things that doesn't have,
whether it's a political motivation or some money
in their pocket or something like that.
And I'm not saying that we need that entity
to be able to be like a UN of the internet.
And they decide what stays on and what doesn't.
I don't like that at all.
But I do think that there needs to be some kind of regulations
about these things.
Yeah.
There should be.
If they're not going to do it themselves,
then yes, there should be.
Right.
And we all know that we can trust corporations
to do things themselves.
No.
I needed that.
Oh, that was good.
In a new survey, 46% of American adults
that support the law that would ban TikTok,
if it's a Chinese owner doesn't sell it.
Due to national security reasons,
that's 46% of American adults.
There is a big difference in age, though.
66% of people, 65 and older support the ban
compared to just 33% of people under 30.
And only 15% of people, 65 and older
approve of politicians using TikTok
for a campaign content compared to 42% of people
under the age of 30.
Please, please, please.
I understand that almost every single politician
in human history has hypocritical sides to them.
But there is hypocritical and hypocrisy.
And I find it very funny that some of the people
that have been up out this ban are also on TikTok.
You're using it.
Yeah, using it.
Yeah, to promote their run for office.
It's a little like, I don't know,
somebody saying that they think
that a former president is Hitler,
is America's Hitler, and then now taking the knot.
It seems a little hypocritical.
It's pretty darn hard.
Completely supportive of them.
Be honest, everybody.
If that was a friend of yours,
you wouldn't know what to think about that.
Can you trust that person?
You wouldn't be able to trust that person, man.
You wouldn't let that person walk your dog.
Do they have any integrity?
Yeah, yeah.
That's the word integrity.
Let's demand some integrity again.
Not just from politicians, but from each other as well.
Because politicians are going to,
politicians are oftentimes a ugly mirror,
but a mirror of us.
And they're going to do what most of these guys
and people and women and all that want to get in office.
So they're going to do what we tell them to oftentimes
or what the people and their pockets are telling them to.
And I do think that there's an important part of this too
that never gets talked about.
How many younger people have tried to show some
of these 65 and older people what TikTok is to them?
Or what any app is to them?
If I'm 65 and older and I've never seen TikTok,
I don't use it.
I'm not going to begrudge somebody that much older
being afraid of something like this
if they don't know anything about it.
No, and if they're only hearing negative information
about it on their news sources,
of course they're going to look at it as something
that's negative if that's what they're hearing.
And they have no experience with it.
It's on us as a society to reach out to each other
and to share these things.
And it is a lot more difficult to be,
you might still not like it,
but at least you're not afraid of it.
At least you understand a little bit better.
Well, the unfortunate thing is,
James, with all of these social media platforms,
there is always the possibility of misinformation,
always, because anybody can upload anything they want.
So it is on each one of us to be a discerning intake
of this information.
Question it, no matter what it is
and who it's coming from.
You should always question it and do your own research.
The thing that has me a little concerned about this
is why do they want to ban this app?
Yeah, they're saying all this stuff about,
well, we gotta be afraid of the Chinese.
Well, is that really it?
Or is it that you don't want the ability
for people to put information out there quickly
when it's happening for reasons?
Right.
I mean, question all of this.
On two notes on that, one, the Chinese don't need TikTok.
And also, it's incredibly important.
You hear the words Melissa is saying there.
Because who is the people saying this?
You have to question the mention Hunter S. Thompson earlier.
One of the first things I learned
and I gained from not only him,
but growing up in a very political family,
question everything.
It doesn't matter what social media platform
you're taking things in on
because all of them have misinformation, all of them.
And while young people are not necessarily trying
to save TikTok for politicians,
they're mostly into it for entertainment,
connecting with friends, and getting medical advice.
According to a new report, 56% of Gen Zers
use TikTok for wellness, diet, and fitness advice.
And a large chunk of them use the platform
as the main form of health advice.
66% of Gen Zers said that they trust TikTok videos
with about their health if they come
from a doctor, nutritionist, or an athlete.
So it does matter who is saying it, of course.
Well, that's good, but.
Yeah, still, still, but.
It is still something that, yeah, you got to worry about.
You got to be questioned, again, question everything.
In my opinion, this says more about our healthcare system
in this country than anything else.
Like they don't, they don't,
there's so many people don't have the ability
to just talk to their doctor or go to their doctor
because it costs so much money.
Having health insurance is astronomically expensive
for most of us, unless you fall under the poverty line,
and you're able to get a state Medicare or Medicaid.
If you have to pay for your own insurance,
oftentimes you choose not to go to the doctor
because guess what, you're paying a premium
and then you have to pay to go to the doctor.
Yeah, it's not surprising to see that a lot of people
would be looking for advice in these ways
considering the way our healthcare system is.
But you need to be very, very careful.
Oh, God, please, please be cautious.
Medical advice from someone, and maybe yeah,
maybe they're an athlete, maybe they say they're a doctor.
I would still caution.
Again, every social media platform has misinformation.
Yes, question ever.
I don't know if you've ever heard the terms,
snake charmer, snake oil, salesman,
that you need to be careful.
Yeah, just to wrap this up, the whole TikTok,
the ban TikTok movement started back in 2020
with then president Trump who pushed for it heavily.
And of course, now his changed its mind
and wants TikTok to be spared
with all of his Chinese connections.
We look at this story right now to wrap up the hour.
I encourage people to read this one.
I'm not gonna do the work for you.
I want you to read this one.
It comes from us from the Good News Network.org.
You can find it right away.
It pops up as one of the first stories
in a shadow to Andy Corbley.
This woman is, I just think amazing.
She's a former Hollywood producer,
turned rancher and she is rescuing Mustangs and wild donkeys
from being sold at auction
to potentially abusive environments or slaughterhouses.
Oh my.
Claire staples as her name
and when she first became aware
that the West's wild Mustangs are rounded up
by the Bureau of Land Management and sold at auction,
she realized that this meant the horse's families
were being separated against their will.
Already having passed 50 and looking for a purpose-driven
mission in her life,
she founded the Sky Dog Ranch in Sanctuary,
intended to provide 9,000 acres of grazing land
where Mustangs and wild donkeys and called bureaus
can roam and familiar peace for the rest of their days.
Hello.
Staples uses a network of photographers
to track members of families and even hurts
and use the money made through the nonprofit operations
to buy them at BLM auctions
to end that they have them reunited at a ranch.
Wow.
Quote, it's kind of like being a wild horse detective.
We rely on the photographers who go out into the wild,
Staples told the local news station
that there are certain herds, especially in Oregon,
where people name horses and they become well-known
on Facebook pages.
The roundup has been going on for decades
and inspires controversy in every state where it takes place.
Proponents of the roundup say
that wild Mustangs and bureaus are non-native,
invasive species that negatively alter the landscape
for her sensitive native species.
Opponents argue that the origins of the roundup
come from ranching interests,
those herding of cattle,
which are far outnumbered,
the population of wild Mustangs and bureaus
complete with these animals for grazing space.
So they're competing, it's just kind of the natural order
of things.
I mean, this happens a lot.
We've even touched on this a little bit
with the wolf population here in this state.
And there's another topic where please be informed
on that one,
because there's a lot of people out there
that want to, there's certainly something to be said
for keeping a certain animal population down
so that they don't die off
because they eat all their food resources.
I.e. deer is a perfect example of this.
And that might be the case with wolves.
We are not there yet.
We are not there yet.
So go ahead and, you know,
I know how thirsty some of you are to hunt.
You don't need to on this one.
It's, you're probably going to have an opportunity,
but we're not there yet with those.
It is a very similar universe that is going on
with these horses and some of this
with the way that they are with the lamb.
So it's an interesting one.
It's interesting because there's again that balance of,
okay, are they actually destroying the natural habitat
any more than your cattle are?
Or is this an opportunity for you to make some money?
Yeah, that's what you got to look into on that one.
And it's just real easy for you to throw out that,
well, what care about the natural environment?
Never mind these thousands of dollars
just putting our pocket.
We got to go, Mel, but we do appreciate it
and we appreciate you.
We'll be back with more fun on the morning show.
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