Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us here at WFHR. Got your host, James J here. I am joined by our head of news, our
co-host, Melissa K. Good morning. And the best listeners radio. Thanks for joining us.
Everybody got a jam packed show for you today on this election day. We're going to be covering
all of that for you. We kick things off the way we like to with a little mother nature
and our great friend, Brittany Murlow. Brittany, good morning. Good morning. How's it going?
We're doing good here. How are you doing? Oh, fantastic. The sun is shining bright. The
temperatures are going to be great. That's something to complain about. Right. I'm very
good to hear. Very good to hear. Anything anything we need to expect as far as like people
out maybe waiting in line to get a vote today or anything like that. Whether going to be
pretty calm, pretty okay? Well, I would put an umbrella in the card just in case because
you do have a chance for a few spotty sprinkles after one o'clock. And I did see some of those
yesterday turning to some storms that put down a quarter of an inch or so. So you never
know you could get underneath a little downpour. But for most of us, we are going to stay
dry, beautiful, nice and warm today with highs in those mid 80s. Excellent. That is beautiful.
That sounds great. That is beautiful. All right. Nice. The way to kick off our show right
a good note there, Brittany. We appreciate that. We enjoy talking with you, Brittany. Thanks
so much. We'll talk again tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a fantastic day. You too. You too.
On the best day. We appreciate you, Brittany. Best in a business right there from Brittany,
Marlow, Jones. It's every morning right in this time slot. Melissa and I got a lot to do.
And Melissa's got a very busy day ahead. We, of course, are going to talk a little election
with you in just a moment. We'll get into some of the news for that. Also, of course,
the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club around the corner. People are obsession with
pumpkin spice. Is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, past? We're
going to talk about that a little bit. That's possible. Chucky cheese has a subscription
plan. That's all, that's all believing you with. We'll talk about the rest of it. It's
left-handers day. We're going to talk about 10 little ways the world has designed for
righties. Oh, got that one coming up. We, of course, got some other fun stuff. And we're
going to kick off the night of clock hour with a great friend of ours, Stephanie Hartman
from the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center. Oh, perfect. They have a Native American art
and a cultural exhibit kicking off on the 17th. We want to talk about and make sure the
audience knows. Oh, that's great. You got all of that coming up for you. A little bit
of entertainment news will touch on as well. And a little later, Gen Z, connecting with
your elders by learning boomer slang terms. And making them unpopular. Yes, yes. We
are going to discuss all of that, Melissa, looking forward to it. But right now, I wanted
to kick right off with the, the speaking of general, we're going to generations. We're
going to kind of begin there and end there a little bit. Which generation sleeps the
most? Hmm. Okay. We've got a lot of people waking up right now. Hopefully you got some
good sleep last night and you're ready to go and ready to get, get out there and help
democracy ring. Um, but which generation got the most rest last night? The boomers who
start nodding off maybe during jeopardy or, uh, Gen Zers who, who sleep until 11 a.m. But
then, uh, are on their phones at by one in the morning or something like that. Oh,
who really? A new survey has found that 75% of Americans get between six and eight hours
of sleep per night, which seems pretty good, but also feels like something we might lie
on a survey about. Um, millennials get the most sleep with 85% logging six or more hours.
Hmm. Gen X gets the least with 18% sleeping five hours or fewer. Don't judge me. Um,
Millenials also rate their sleep quality better than other, any other generation, nearly
half 49% say that they have good sleep. Gen X gets the worst sleep with 27% rating their
sleep as poor. Men are more likely than women to rate their sleep as good, but women are
more likely to say that sleep is very important to them as opposed to men, because God
help it that we admit we need something. Um, overall 41% of Americans rate their sleep
as good 39% say it's okay and 20% rate their sleep as bad. As for what it's, uh, what
is keeping people up the most, this shouldn't be surprising for boomers and Gen X. It's their
biggest, uh, the biggest distributor is their back pain. Yeah. And for Gen Z, it's social
media, uh, other health conditions that, uh, keep people up, including, of course, insomnia,
anxiety, sleep apnea. You're, you're normal run of the mill, kind of, uh, sleep, wait,
keeper, uh, you know, got guarders of sleep. Things that stop you from seeing things that
make you don't go, they don't make you go. And lack of sleep makes talk difficult. It
really does as I am living proof of every morning on this show. But, uh, anything to
take from that Melissa, because I read that, uh, twice this morning and, and I, I, I didn't
really take much from it other than, okay, well, this is good for those general, all
of us, these generations to be aware of and maybe tinker with and work on and work on
ourselves and get some more darn sleep. Well, I mean, it does also speak to how the, the
role that social media plays in our lives now, I mean, the fact that we pay that much
attention to it and, and that it, uh, that it can stop us from sleeping. Yeah. Uh, especially
you know, the science behind screens, you know, having, having that light shining in
your eyes before you try to sleep, it, it, it doesn't, it doesn't induce sleep. It activates
your brain. It makes you more awake and alert. I don't know the science behind it exactly.
But we know that science proves that having those screens shining in our faces does not
induce sleep. Yeah. The science has proven that. But also just knowing that the topic
on social media, the, the people you follow, the things you look at can also cause mental
disturbances. I feel it. Let's just say I had several this morning, uh, looking through,
because I have to scroll through social media when I'm looking for news things because
sadly, most often the, the place to find information from our police departments, from our
fire departments, from our sheriff's offices, from our local community organizations, the,
the easiest and best place to find them is on social media. Mm-hmm. But that's also a place
for rampant misinformation. Yeah. Yeah. So be aware of being formed double check sources.
Don't just repose something because somebody that you like or that is a friend of yours
posted it. Yeah. You got to be, um, well, you know, honestly, I, I, I understand that
there is some confusion out there. I understand certainly for certain generations, uh, that
there is a mass confusion when it comes to misinformation and some of those things. Um,
and for everybody, young, old, whatever generation you are, we got to grow up. Like we got
to police this. We got to police it ourselves. Um, we can't expect others to do it. We can't
certainly expect the people that are spreading misinformation to do it or anything like that.
So it is on us as human beings, as grown adults, as people who have a working brain to figure
these things out to research, to do our homework. It shouldn't necessarily be that easy.
Getting information should, sure. Making a decision necessarily shouldn't be. It should
take some brain power. You should have to work at it a little bit. And there is a lot
of confusion out there. But this is also the beginnings of, we're still in the early days
of the internet is crazy as that might sound to some people having it around for two decades.
Look at what we're talking about here. It's no different than our country. A day like
today is a wonderful day to remember that America is a teenager. Compare our history to
India, to Russia, to China, to Europe, to any of these things. So these bumps and bruises
were feeling these growing pains that we're having, whether with our democracy or the
internet or anything else, it's important to remember that we're teenagers here. We're
growing up and we're becoming something. And what we're doing here in this country,
is the greatest experiment that has ever been done on this planet. What we're doing is
something that has never been done before. And other countries looked at us when we started
this and laughed and figured, well, we're going to be taking that land soon because that
ain't going to work. And look at where we are. Look at what we have accomplished without
so many helping hands without other countries helping other things. Where we are right now
is in our early late teens, early 20s and we're just starting to feel it. We're just starting
to get a handle on things. It's going to be some bumps and bruises. Yes, there are
going to be some tough times and there is going to be misinformation. That's where we
call on you to act like an adult. Do your homework, research these things and feel better
about these, these answers that you get. I'm not saying it's that easy, but I'm also
not saying it necessarily should be. This should take some brain power. And knowing where
your trusted sources are is also another thing that you have to determine. Yeah, Melissa. Yeah,
that's my trusted source. I go to Melissa for all my information. We do want to, if you
have any thoughts about the sleep and the different generations, please feel free to call
up 715-424-2600. Remember, our phone lines are wide open. All show long. What, what
makes you sleepless at night? Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead, Doug. We'll just, we'll just
turn this into a therapy session. It'll be our new segment. It's difficult time shutting
my brain down at night. It's hard because we have so much coming at us. So during the day,
there's so many things to keep, you know, plates to spin as you like to say, things to worry
about, things to be on top of things to get ready for for the next day. How do you shut
your brain? Why at your brain? Calm the bouncy balls of anxiety in your head to, to let
yourself relax and, and calm. Honestly, the thing that works the best for me is focusing
on my breathing. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I really do. I focus on my breathing and I play a song
in my head. I don't see. Okay. That one we have in common. Because that forces me to, to
shut all those other things out. Mm-hmm. The, the, the, whether it's the breathing
that you focus on or the song, it takes your mind off of the, what other things are on
your mind. I, I've dealt with this my whole life. I think it's part of the reason for
my insomnia. And, and, and when it comes to like what we're just talking about with politics
and America and all that, that stuff, I don't necessarily, doesn't keep me up at night.
It's more family anxieties or, you know, things like that they are going on or even work
to be honest. That, that'll keep me kind of up at night and everything. And I do a very
similar thing that you do. I've, um, so, like a, a, when I get down with my news morning
and I go through like you do Melissa, social media, our major news networks and the bigger
papers out there and stuff. I need a palette cleanser. I'll look at, you know, animals,
uh, the two strange animals hanging out together and stuff, a duck in a dog being friends.
And it lightens my mood and gets me ready for my game face on and I can do the morning
show here and everything. Mm-hmm. When it comes to at night, I have, uh, you know, tried
to be okay. I'm going to sleep in an hour. I'm trying to stay away from screens, my
laptop, everything for at least 45 minutes an hour. Um, I will listen to some music, usually
something calming or some jazz or something like that. Um, or sometimes I'll read. Mm-hmm.
I don't get a chance to read very often. And reading does kind of calm me down, tires me
out a little bit, makes me a little sleepy. Um, and, and I get some reading in, so I have it.
Yeah. Yeah. I stopped and I'm reading, but the trick is reading on paper versus reading
on a, on a device. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's helpful. Uh, reading out of a book
or a paperback or something like that, even a magazine, you know, um, whatever you need.
Uh, anything, uh, outside of an instruction manual, I tried that once, didn't work very well.
Didn't work. No, no. No, I just got up and started fixing the toaster. I just, I don't know.
We of course are in election, oh, air in an election day today is Wisconsin's fall primary.
We want to say partisan primary. Remember that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Melissa, any other notes you want to
mention about that? Um, well, the polls are open now and they're open until eight.
They're open right now. I got to go. Do make a plan to vote. If you are, are informed and you
want to get out and vote today, make sure you know about the referendum questions and what that
is going to dig into them because if you just read them, they're confusing and they're confusing
on purpose. They're confusing for a reason. Mm-hmm. And that is unfortunate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's very unfortunate. It's also like something a child would do. Um, I'm just being blunt.
I'm just going to be honest about that. I mean, the idea of trying to confuse constituents,
trying to confuse voters means that you don't have a leg to stand on. Like, people,
Mark Twain put it perfectly. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Right. If you're really standing on your, your views and the things that you believe with
and your camp, um, and you believe you're representing your constituents the best with this
particular thing, then what do you got to hide? What, why are you being, what? First off,
why can't you answer a question? And two, why can't you just put things in basic English so others
can understand it? Mm-hmm. It tells you a lot. Um, I, uh, I got up, uh, I actually stood up and
started the walk out of the room and you said that, Melissa, I was going to, I really wanted to
get over there and vote. Uh, but I, I realized, oh my god, I forgot where do I vote. So I went to
myvote.wi.gov and let me see here. I see, oh, my voter info. What's on my ballot? Uh, registered
a vote. Well, I've done all those things. So let me find my polling place. Now, this is probably
going to take, oh, wait a minute. No, uh, just ask me for my address. I put that in and I'm
hitting search and boom, there we go. I've got right where I need to be. Uh, pretty cool. It's
very easy. All the information is right there and you only have to enter your address.
Yeah, and I gotta say a shout out to myvote.wi.gov. It is a really good site. They do a really
good job with this site. It is very well done and unlike other things like this one is very
basic, very easy to understand when they're explaining things to you and everything too.
Yes, indeed. Uh, get to myvote.wi.gov, get, make sure that you are registered. You're going to
the correct place and get out there and help freedom ring everybody. Mm-hmm. We'll talk more
about this before we wrap up today, but I do want to send a shout out to our civic media news team
and specifically our own Melissa K and the amazing work that you guys are doing. Melissa,
every, every well, one of these, man, it makes me think of Carl and how proud he'd be of you. So
we appreciate it. Keep up the great work. But we will be, yep, we'll be doing live election coverage
starting at 8 p.m. tonight on most of our civic media stations and you can join us to hear
election results live as they roll in. We're going to do our best not to wear Melissa out.
Uh, then the rest of our news team, we add a lot of people on the call tonight.
Yeah, yeah, shout out to all of them. We're going to come back with the LKF
birthday and anniversary club. It's Melissa and James taking through your morning here at WFHR.
Here at WFHR, please, please, uh, the computer's not working. Oh, no. Of course. Yep.
So, oh, wow, everything's frozen. It's not even letting me. Yeah. So we're going to try to exit
out of this and I am going to try to get it to come back up here. Let's see the magic buttons
that says makes do the things. Yeah. Yeah. He's pretty good at doing that. But I'm not, um,
doing our best here, doing our best to try to get that up and running. But it nothing is
coming up here. Here we go. Here we go. Now it's going all right. So, um,
have any good breakfast this morning, Melissa? Did you? Did you? I had a bagel. Oh, good on you.
I had an onion bagel with, um, tofu, dee, dairy, free sour cream. That sounds really good.
Cut it. No, no, no. What are the words? They start with a sea. It's got cheese in it.
Cheese. Cream cheese. There we go. Cream cheese. Cantonberry. And I also had a banana,
because you know, we talked about how important it is. Oh, good on you.
Fruits and things in your diet diet. So yeah. Nice. Good on you. I had, uh, I had, uh,
pan-made brownies. I had two of those. I had. We will take a break.
We'll come back and have some more fun with the LKFA birthday anniversary club.
Right here on Mornings at WFHR.
It's time for the LKFA birthday anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself.
Yes, they are back open and ready for you. Bushy-eyed and bright-eyed and ready to go.
Our friends at LKFA, a 221 market avenue and beautiful port edwards.
Uh, check out their Facebook page. Everybody got a great post on there.
Join them today for corn, beef, hash, and eggs for breakfast.
Or you can get, uh, for lunch, a ham and cheese club.
Plenty of delicious soup there as well.
You got a chicken dumpling soup for starters.
Soup is so good. So many great things. A wonderful and unique menu.
The most amazing people you're going to meet. Great atmosphere.
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Everybody feel free to call up and join the conversation.
Um, Alyssa, I need a one through four.
Ooh, um, how about three?
That was really hard.
That was a tough one for you.
I don't know if I was Australian.
We appreciate it. Thank you.
Well, we first up.
I want to wish a couple of birthdays to some people who can't win.
Because they're related to me.
And that's full.
That goes farther than just the radio station here.
I want to send a shout out to my aunt Sherry.
Sherry, my aunt Sherry is one of the more smarter people I've ever known.
My mom's oldest sister.
She is a great like crafter.
She's one of the only people I've ever known who is
incredibly good at that stuff.
Like things that you could buy in a store kind of good.
Really good at those things.
And just a sweetheart of a person.
And Sherry, hoping you have a great day out there.
We'll talk to you a little bit later.
And do want to send a shout out to my cousin,
Lisa Redalinsky.
Lisa Hosey.
Lisa is my cousin.
But she's really like a little sister to me.
She always has been the work close.
She means the world to me.
Love you, Lisa.
Hope you have a great day.
We need to take a look at our local celebrities here.
We first up.
Why don't wish happy birthday to Jenny Damaro.
Happy birthday, Jenny.
Enjoy your day, Jen.
Hope it's a good one for you.
We wish happy birthday to James Fuller.
Happy birthday, James.
Got a fine name there, sir.
Enjoy your day.
Hope it's a good one.
And we wish happy birthday to a good friend of ours
around here at the station.
Matt Lippert.
Oh, happy birthday, Matt.
Matt is our Wood County Ag agent.
joins us from extension.
Usually once a month, we talk Ag with Matt.
And I learned something.
I've learned a lot from Matt over the years.
Really informative, very smart man.
And one of our not only are friends that joins us
a mid-day magazine, but a farmer.
He and his family have a farm out there.
And so we send a shout out to all of our hardworking farmers out there.
For them, let's see, at 8.30.
Well, they've already got half their day in.
They've been up since three.
So they're right.
Shout out to Matt and all of our good farmers out there.
And we say a happy anniversary to our qualifiers.
Happy 58th to Warren and Peggy Mertens.
Oh, happy anniversary.
Happy 58th, Warren and Peggy.
Congratulations, you two.
That's beautiful, fantastic.
Let's take a look at our celebrity list.
First up, one of Melissa's favorite NBA players
of all time to mark his cousins.
34 years old.
Yeah, that's who I would pick.
Because I knew that name.
I bet you might remember his nickname, Melissa.
His nickname, Boogie.
Boogie called Boogie Cuts.
Well, I can remember that, but I still don't know who he is.
No, no, but that's here or there.
This is a great nickname, right?
That's the other thing.
Yeah, that's a good nickname.
Sebastian Stan is 42, the winter soldier
in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
It's also been really like taking the certain actors
have been waiting for a long time for this break.
And they get it, whether it's through Marvel or anything else.
And they take the ball and they run with it.
This guy has been doing that.
He has been in a lot of movies.
He was in the Hulu Tommy and Pamela movie,
playing Tommy Lee General Art, Tommy Lee from Marley Crew.
He's got a new movie coming out.
It's a pretty wild two where he plays a person
who has a disfigured face, gets surgery done,
and doesn't have the life that he thought he would afterwards.
It looks really interesting.
And I appreciate actors like him
that take difficult projects.
And he seems to do a lot of that.
Yeah.
Andy Griggs is 51 country singer
with tonight, I want to be your man.
Let's see here.
Danny Boniducci is 65 from the Partridge family.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
Amazing, amazing character actor who played nothing
but pretty much villains throughout his whole life.
Kevin Tai is 80 today.
He was John Locke's father unlost.
He was the guy who cheated Sawyer as well unlost.
A lot of people might remember him
at the owner of the double douche bar in Roadhouse
or the eldest among TV show Emergency.
Kevin Tai had an amazing career, fantastic character actor.
It could probably walk into any gas station
or any grocery store and be perfectly fine.
But has an IMDB page that any actor would give
their middle finger for or something.
He incredible career for him.
Well, because he just looks like somebody
that lives next door to you.
Yeah, yeah.
And a really good facial actor,
like a lot of facial expressions through him
and good, bad, creepy, whatever he did,
he could really get it across the screen.
Very good actor.
Joyce Lynn Elders is 91.
The first African-American surgeon general.
Ooh.
And some people no longer with us.
Like, I don't know.
I mean, there's a lot of great suspense.
There's a lot of great horror directors out there.
For me, there will never be another Alfred Hitchcock.
Born in 1899, passed away in 1980, lived quite the life.
Wow.
Everything that Hitchcock did,
there's no filmmaker that you've watched
or you've seen that hasn't been influenced by him.
No matter what they do, no matter what genre they are,
whether they're young or old,
everybody goes back and watches Hitchcock.
And there's a reason.
He's one of the greats.
Back in the day, it was kind of a feather in the cap
if he cast you.
And so you would see Kerry Grant and Jimmy Stewart
and actor said you would never think
would do those kind of movies in those movies.
Because Hitchcock was known to not only make you
a better actor, but to push you,
but also give actors that were typed a chance.
As you can imagine, Jimmy Stewart quite typecast
throughout his career.
After Hitchcock gave him a chance
to do something different,
he didn't look at everything the same way.
Just remarkable man the way he saw film,
the way he looked at these things.
Yeah.
Brett Larr, born in this day in 1895,
passed away in 67,
the cowardly lion and the Wizard of Oz.
Ah.
Incredible performance there.
Mm-hmm.
Incredible singer and songwriter Dan Fulgerberg,
born in this day in 1951.
A leader of the band, same old, same old Lang Sain.
But maybe one of the most beautiful love songs
you'll ever hear is Longer by Dan Fulgerberg.
It is hard not to hear that song
and not get a little bit romantic.
It's a beautiful, beautiful song.
And Pat Harrington, born in this day in 1929,
passed away in 2016, Schneider,
on the original one day at a time.
Oh, okay.
That is it for our birthdays and anniversaries.
Everybody's celebrating out there wishing you a great one
and joy and remember that you can get us
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We are gonna get to a time out,
check in with our state, local, and sports.
We'll come back with after all of that
and we'll talk a little left handers
and some other fun stuff with the morning show on WFHR.
Well, come back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
You're going to lean on us.
That's a good song.
I love these bumpers, but some of them take a little log
to get into the beat.
Take a little while.
They take a little while.
We appreciate you joining us, everybody.
We got some fun stuff lined up for you today.
We'll get into more of our schedule in a little bit.
But as America's love affair with Pumpkin Spice
drawing to a close, is it beloved still?
Call up and let us know.
What do you think?
715-424-2600?
424-2600.
The first day of fall is still over a month out,
September 22 for those keeping track.
But an early poll for it found 58% of Americans
think Pumpkin Spice is not the best fall flavor.
58% of Americans think Pumpkin Spice
is not the best call ever.
58%.
Well, it's A fall flavor.
Mm-hm.
Well, let's look at the rankings here
of these fall flavors, Melissa?
Okay.
Tosted marshmallow is 24%, pecan or Pecan.
26%.
Smores at number six with 28%.
Mm-hm.
That's an interesting one.
Some people think of that as a summer thing.
Some think of it as a fall thing.
So, yeah.
I mean, some of these are like, these are fall flavors.
Like, what flavor is anything sweet potato
besides sweet potatoes?
Yeah, I know.
That went through me a little bit.
Could I get a sweet potato latte, please?
Yeah, yeah.
Hold the phone.
It doesn't happen.
I don't want any foam on that sweet potato latte.
All right.
Maple 28% at number five.
That would have been not my number one.
Mm-hm.
Pumpkin spice comes in at number four.
32% said it's still their favorite.
Okay.
At number three, candy apple at 36%.
Mm-hm.
Salted caramel at 37% at number two.
Yeah, that one's good to you around.
Mm-hm.
And at number one, cinnamon.
39% said it's one of their favorite fall flavors.
Yeah, I can't, I like the smell of it.
I can't eat it anymore because it's really a bad trigger
for my acid reflux for whatever reason.
Yeah, that's not a good time.
That's not a good time.
And that is very sad.
That is very sad.
I can't even move.
It's very sad.
It's a nice reminder to people out there
to, you know, what it's like to live with some of those things.
I think, you know, create some empathy for some of that stuff.
Well, we all have our things, you know.
Some of us don't sleep.
Some of us can't eat cinnamon.
We all got our things.
It's the cinnamon.
It's a good choice.
It's a smart choice by you.
Interesting to see pumpkin spice lower in there,
but I don't know.
These things go in ebb and trends and everything.
Well, the problem with pumpkin spice in my opinion
is it's been so overdone.
Yeah.
They've got it in everything.
They've got pumpkin spice cookies.
They've got pumpkin spice.
I have a coffee creamer.
They've got it in candles.
They've got it in, like, air fresheners.
Like, it's just, they went totally overboard with it,
which is how everything gets ruined.
Yeah.
When they just do it too much.
Which is kind of like, I mean, it's corporateism.
It's, you know, it's a lot of different things.
There's certainly something.
Well, the public likes this.
Well, let's make it in everything.
Yeah.
It's hard to know, well, okay, well, if they're doing it,
what can we do it?
Or is that too much and figuring that out?
And by the time you're creating these products
and they're getting them out there,
there's been three or four other products
similar to yours that are already out there.
Yeah.
So I thought it would be interesting.
Well, there's two, there's two angles.
They don't want to go with this one, Melissa one.
Are you more likely to feel sad when summer ends
or excited that fall is here?
People were almost twice as likely to say excited for fall.
And I love, love, love summer.
I love the summer months.
I really love fall.
I've always been in love with fall
since I was a little kid.
I've loved autumn.
There's something unique and beautiful about it.
And I actually feel like the...
It feels like the whole world
or the whole, I should say, our whole area
that is affected by autumn,
wherever that is in the country,
in the whole country, of course.
We find our footing.
We kind of...
Okay, it's been a long year
or it's been a long summer
or any of these things.
And let's get going.
Let's get doing this.
And it's kind of a marathon to the end of the year
with the holidays and all of that.
It seems like there's almost a focus that happens.
Mm-hmm.
The best thing about fall in my opinion
is, you know, this is harvest time.
So we have so many great foods
that are available to us.
Sweet potatoes being one of them.
And yes, Laura, sweet potato pie
is delicious and wonderful.
But it's still made with sweet potatoes.
Just putting that out there.
It's not a flavor.
It's actual potatoes.
I don't know anything that's actually, like,
sweet potato flavored.
Mm-hmm.
Just to get that out there for our listeners.
Right, right.
But being fall being, you know,
the change of seasons,
the cooler nights,
because we've survived the really hot days,
which we're going to have a couple more of here.
And I'm sure more,
as we continue on into this season,
but the cooler nights,
I think, is something that,
at least for me personally,
I really enjoy about fall.
Yeah.
And then, of course, you know,
watching the leaves change.
That's always such a fun time too.
I think just the change of seasons,
like you're talking to finding a footing
or finding a base,
like the start of something
else, the start of the school year,
the, you know, moving on to the next chapter.
There is so much about fall
that just feels like a beginning.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
That's exactly, yeah.
Well said.
We'll talk more about this next month
when we can close it a fall.
We're going to talk about our favorite things about autumn.
Get into that a little bit.
You brought up something
that I don't think about very often.
The temperature change.
And just the slight change that there is,
there's something comfortable about it,
that I agree with.
Well, being able to sit around,
you know, a campfire at night,
and not sweat.
Yeah, yeah.
Actually, enjoy the warmth of the fire.
Just as a nice feeling.
Yeah.
Being around a campfire.
Period.
Yeah, that's great feeling.
But what are some of the
weirder pumpkin spice flavored things out there
to prove Melissa's point about
we've taken this too far
as if we didn't know already.
But we're just to bring it home.
Pump, a bush pumpkin spice dog brew
is one of the things that comes up.
Is that a beer?
It's a beer for dogs that taste like pumpkin spice.
So if you really,
if you want your dog to run away,
basically, that's what you do.
Hefty cinnamon pumpkin spice ultra strong trash bags.
Gross.
Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross.
So I have a serious issue with smelly,
like, smelled chemical smelling garbage bags anyway,
but a pumpkin spice one?
You, you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The cinnamon really,
for some reason,
never really threw me on that one.
Yeah.
What about a pumpkin spice avocado oil caviar?
What?
I don't know.
I don't know what I just said.
I don't know.
I don't know what I'm looking at it.
They still don't know what this product is.
I don't know.
Oil caviar that is flavored with pumpkin spice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There are so many things wrong with that scent.
There's just, I mean,
almost every word in that sentence just
that makes me not want to eat anything ever again.
Pumpkin spice latte body wash.
Okay.
Now this one,
this one I can maybe be okay with,
and here's why.
Mm-hmm.
Um.
You had the answer,
but now you're going to think about it.
No, no, I do have an answer.
I was just trying to decide how to make it PB-13.
Um,
then, like, the smell of baked goods.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So, if you want to make yourself smell good,
or a male in your life,
pumpkin spice body wash is not the worst choice.
You could also go with nutmeg,
or you could go with cinnamon,
you know, cinnamon,
pumpkin spice,
like any of those options smell like a walking bakery,
and you're going to attract all the men.
Another great way to attract men,
being the opposite sex.
Um.
Not always.
Not always.
Not always, not always,
but yeah.
Uh, pumpkin spice wipes for dude wipes.
Uh, that's just wrong.
Um, that is just wrong.
All kinds of wrong.
Um, there is, there's this so much to,
to just,
move on.
Move on to the next one.
We're moving on to our final one here.
A pumpkin spice latte engagement ring.
What?
What even is that?
Jewelry Company Angelic Diamonds
has brought back its pumpkin spice latte ring,
aka the perfect ring for when it's,
when it's love at first sip.
Oh dear God.
Uh, this is over 10 grand.
What?
This, uh, it's a custom ring.
It features a rose gold band that holds white diamonds
and orange sapphires in a conical shape mimicking the foam
atop a, a pumpkin spice latte coffee.
Uh, with emeralds studying the band on the sides,
it comes in a box with a pumpkin shaped clasp,
and a cardboard wrap reminiscent of the sleeve
on a hot cup of coffee.
Oh wow.
This is where you officially take something too far.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I, I, man, I love you.
Well, you're just filthy, stinking rich
and you got nothing else to spend your money on.
Yeah, the, as an engagement ring, that just feels...
Does anybody, do we, do I, I don't know anybody
who has that problem?
Do you, James?
No, no.
I definitely do not.
And I definitely don't know anybody that has that problem.
Yeah.
I agree with you.
Um, yeah.
I just, I, I'm just picturing, uh, you know,
I'm, I'm picturing this very stereotypical,
but man gets down on one knee, proposes.
She's excited.
She cannot wait.
She sees the ring.
What the what?
What is, is that a little coffee on the, wait, wait.
Did you, did you think this was romantic?
Did you think this was a good idea?
But we met and you, and I didn't even order a pumpkin
space latte.
Pumpkin space latte.
I was kidding.
I was.
I could just see, I just, for some reason,
I feel like this ring goes badly.
I don't know, but it'll teach their own.
And, uh, we, we could always use more love in the world.
So if you're doing that for more power to you.
Yeah.
It is, uh, left handers day, Melissa and I are going to talk about that
and how the world is, uh, ten ways the world is designed
for righties when we get back.
On the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good, good Tuesday out there.
Happy voting day, everybody.
We're going to talk more about that in a little bit.
We're also going to talk with our good friend, Stephanie Harmon,
to kick off the 90m hour from the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
They got a native American art exhibit
and culture exhibit going on.
We want to focus on.
Yeah.
That's going to be a fun conversation.
Got some entertainment news.
Other fun stuff that lined up for you in the nine o'clock hour,
including not only our, uh, Alaskans are worried about hurricanes.
We'll get into that.
Uh, but Gen Z connecting with your, with elders by learning
their boom slanger terms.
All of that coming up.
Okay.
Getting to all that in a little bit.
But right now, uh, it is left handers day.
Shout out to all my fellow left handers out there.
Yes indeed.
As I mentioned before on the air,
I was born left handed.
My grandfather believed that I should be right handed.
Um, so I learned how to do things with my right.
He would, uh, literally tie my arm back.
Uh, on my left hand to be able to do things with my right hand.
That includes him throwing a, a baseball at me
and me catching it with my bare hand
to learning to write with it.
Um, a number of different things.
So now my brains just all mixed up.
Um, and, and I'm a dexterous with some things
and other things I can't do anything with either hand.
Um, but I'm not alone in this.
There's lots of people that were raised that way.
And there's lots of people that realize real early on in life.
Hey, the world is kind of designed for righties.
Mm hmm.
Uh, so celebrating the one and ten people who have, uh,
just a little bit harder in life, left handers.
Unless you're lefty, you don't notice many of these things.
Uh, you know the big ones like scissors and can openers.
But here are a few more that are, are kind of like a little,
almost they feel personal.
Like it's not, uh, but it almost feels that way
when you're trying to do these things and you realize,
wow, they did not even consider like lefties in this.
Zippers on jeans.
The flap covering the zipper is on the left.
So it's nearly impossible to zip up with your left hand.
Hmm.
Trust me.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, but I have been guilty of the whole, it flies down.
Oh, come on.
Uh, uh, credit card machines.
The swiper is always on the right.
And if there's a pen, guess what?
It's either to the right side of the machine,
just like the pens at banks.
That is true.
Measuring cups.
If you hold one in your left hand,
you're stuck measuring it in millimeters instead of ounces.
Go up, just turn it around.
I just, yeah, I, I, I flip it.
I kind of just turn it in.
Um, uh, car fobs.
The kind with a key that opens like a knife,
uh, the bottom is always set up for righties.
Lefties have to open them upside down.
Hmm.
Yeah, there was it flips into your hand.
There's a couple of big ones on here that I was,
I, I was going to bring attention to if they didn't.
Uh, microwaves.
Microwaves for sure.
If you push the button to open it with your left hand,
the door hits your arm.
It's going to hit you.
Yep.
Can I tell you how many times that does happen to me in my life?
Rulers and tape measures.
If you use a tape measure left handed,
the numbers are upside down.
Yeah.
This one gets me power tools like chop saws.
Yeah.
The handle you pull down is on the right.
If you want to use it lefty,
you have to cross your arms over and reach over the blade.
Not exactly a safe idea.
No.
Um, I don't know if you've ever noticed this.
I think Seth has, uh, oftentimes,
the way our, our board and our computer is set up,
I have to kind of cross my arms over to do things,
because I'm a little more confident with one hand
than I am with the other.
And this is a very time sensitive job we have.
So he's getting things on point is very important.
Um, but I do say, I've had to do similar things on,
uh, construction sites and things, uh, like that,
uh, power tools.
And this one bothers me probably maybe more than others,
in part because it's such a wasted opportunity for these companies.
You can almost double your profits by creating left handed tools.
Mm-hmm.
It's a marketing 101.
You can reach more people.
Why would you not do this?
There's no way that the cost would not, uh,
add up to the, you know, benefit.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, come on.
They can make pumpkin spice in everything.
I can't think right handed and left handed power tools.
That is one of the stronger points you're going to hear today, everybody.
Novelty coffee cups.
Uh, if there's, if there's only printing on one side,
guess what?
It faces out for righties so other people can see it.
For lefties, it just looks blank to other people.
Yeah, but then you get to enjoy it.
That's true. That's true.
Um, playing cards.
A lot of them only have numbers in two of, of the four corners.
You can't see them well when you're holding them in your left hand.
Yeah, that's true.
And that's why I'm a bad card player.
Uh, no.
No, that's not one.
That's not one.
That is not why it all looked at one.
And serrated knives.
Even a lot of lefties don't know that the teeth are set up
to offset the tendency to twist clockwise with your right hand.
So lefties tend to cut things like bread, thinner,
at the top, and fatter at the bottom.
Yeah.
Okay.
I do that with my bagels all the time.
Hmm.
Or my English muffin.
Yeah.
Do you have things that are a little harder to cut like that?
It's the harder to cut them straight with free handing it.
You can find the entire list at reddit.com.
You can just go to reddit.com and check that out.
I'm curious.
Uh, what other people, if they've got any out there, uh,
anybody out there has any?
I would say, um, they mentioned ATMs.
Well, gas station pumps.
Yeah.
Um, that's one.
Uh, sewing machines.
I remember my, um, my mom complaining about sewing machines.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, they don't have those.
Yeah, they were pretty quick to, or, I don't know, about quick.
But, I mean, we do have left handed scissors for people who are dominant with their left hand.
Um, and then that makes perfect sense.
But this, it brings up an interesting conversation, James, about the acceptance of the fact that people are,
there's a difference, you know, some people are dominant with their right hands.
Some people are dominant with their left hands.
Historically, people that, you know, uh, we go way back hundreds of years,
people were persecuted for wanting to write with their left hand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seems unthinkable in today's society to tell a child who has a tendency to write with their left hand
because that that's their dominant hand.
It makes more sense for their brain and their body to use that hand.
To tell them they're doing something wrong.
Yeah.
That could apply in so many other areas of our lives if we think about it.
Uh, especially when you consider it's not something that we exactly have a choice on.
We are just born this way, which is something to really keep in mind with what Melissa is saying
and really just in general in life and in society these days.
Uh, we are, uh, all born with certain things.
And, and I bring this up because I didn't choose to be born in Chicago and be a fan of Chicago sports everybody.
This is something that was put on me.
I just am trying to honor my family.
No, uh, we're talking about much more important things than that.
Uh, and, and one of the things that we are talking about today too,
that is a choice.
And we are very, very proud and thankful for that.
Is the choice to be able to vote and be an informed voter.
Um, we encourage you to get out there and vote everybody in our primary.
Let's take a quick call.
We got a minute left before we got to hit our break.
Good morning on the show.
James, we are always new.
You were kind of weird.
Yeah.
You kind of solidified it now.
It really, really brings it home.
It really does.
Yeah.
You know, I, my oldest son, he's left handed, but it's kind of really weird on him.
You know, um, he's, he writes left handed to each left handed.
He, he throws left handed, but he plays baseball.
He hits the ball, right handed.
He kicks the ball right, right handed.
He shoots a gun right handed.
It's, uh, the way our brains work with this, it's interesting.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I mean, it just, I mean, my whole, I mean, most of my family is right handed.
There's a couple that are left handed.
But yeah, it's just really, I mean, it's just really kind of weird.
I mean, usually if you're left handed, you're right, right left.
I dominant and he's right.
I dominant.
You know, and, uh, it's just, it's just kind of one of those weird things.
Yeah.
It's different.
It makes us all unique and different.
Uh, it's just shout out to, uh, to him and all the lefties out there.
And Kev, always good to talk to you.
Have a great morning.
Say, be safe travels out there.
Sorry, I have a great day.
You too, Kevin.
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