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Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new week, a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFHR.

Welcome to the show. Hope you're having a good one out there.

Got your host, James here. I am joined by our head new, a head of news, head of news, head news.

That doesn't sound right. Head news, head of news, and our call for head news today.

Your head of news is tired.

Melissa K joins us. Good morning.

Our head of production and our co-host Seth Habhacker.

Good morning. The best listeners and radio along with all of that.

Thanks for joining us, everybody. Let's go ahead and get things going with our good friend,

Brittany Merlot. Brittany, how's Mother Nature doing today?

Bringing the heat. That's what she really is.

That's what she really is.

Door me overnight.

How was your weekend, Brittany?

It was great. I went to the Delves. I went to Water Park,

had a blast, and then I just stand up paddle boarding out on the lake as well.

So just really a lot of water activities taking the last little bit of summer

and using every bit of it, right?

Yeah, oh, that sounds so awesome.

The weather is perfect for water sports, too.

I mean, absolutely. She's smart, you know?

Very, very intelligent weekend by you, Brittany. That's awesome.

So we're looking at a hot one today.

Yes, we are going to spike to high temperatures of about 95 degrees.

Under sunny skies with high hot humidity.

It's going to be pretty much Wisconsin's like a fine pan today.

We've got heated biseries, heat warnings all across the state.

What it's going to be feeling like in Wisconsin Rapids today is probably 105 degrees

when you factor all of that in. 105.

Wow, whoo.

Yikes.

A hot.

Yeah, isn't it?

Are these are these are these normal highs for this time of year, Brittany?

Oh, no, no, no, no. We're supposed to be in the mid 70s right now.

Oh, dear.

Dream heat wave for where we should be for right now.

Holy cow.

Did anybody tell Mother Nature that I don't think they did it?

I don't know. I don't know. She knows.

Maybe this is a hot flash, James.

Oh, never mind.

Never mind. I apologize.

I am so sorry for bringing it up Mother Nature completely.

Thank you for everything.

You look great today.

By the way, Mother Nature, you look great.

Well, she's mad at you for saying that because we are in a slight risk for severe weather.

So she's going to strike back overnight and early tomorrow morning

where we could see a bow echo go through, which would mean some 60 to 75 mile per hour winds

and heavy downpours bringing one to two inches of rainfall.

So we've got to, you know, get through the hot day with the AC just blasting

and then we've got to get through tonight without losing power

because it's still going to be hot tomorrow.

All right.

Rats, that was my next question.

Is the rain going to cool us off?

And the answer is no, no, no.

Thank you, Brittany. We appreciate you so much.

Have a great, have a cool, great day out there and we will get people ready for tomorrow.

I'm good. Stay cool.

You too. Thank you.

Best in the business right there for Brittany Merlot taking good care of us with Mother Nature right there.

We've got good things coming up for you everybody and a little bit.

We're going to talk about terms that maybe we shouldn't be using anymore.

Do they, should we or shouldn't we be using them?

The question is, the question is, is it okay to lie to your friends about the time an event starts?

That is coming up a little bit later.

And two out of five people think being rude to AI might backfire one day.

But that's an interesting one.

We have got a great nine o'clock hour to kick off for you with the kitchen's open.

Wonderful segment that Melissa has planned for us today.

Looking forward to that while getting a little entertainment news afterwards.

And a little bit later, Melissa and I started this one, Seth.

And we'll continue with the three of us.

15 old people things that millennials agree with.

All right.

We had some fun with this one last week.

The oldest person in the room that helped us to the rest of that segment.

Got a lot of fun things there going to get into.

But let's get into the weekend.

How was everybody's weekend?

Seth, how was yours?

It was good.

I got to spend a little time at the fair on Saturday.

Not nearly as much as Melissa did, but this last whole last week.

But I got to be there for a little while and it was good.

Good to see the people out there.

It was started the hot, the heat wave kind of.

So it was a little bakey in the, in the expo center there.

But not a bad, not bad at all.

It was very enjoyable.

I got to tell you, when you bring a spitty wheel to a fair man,

the kids come running.

Yeah, the kids really love spending those wheels, man.

So that was kind of fun.

That was new getting them to come over for that.

So, but yeah, no, it was good weekend.

Very cool, very cool.

And did you get any fair food?

I did, very little, but I got a little teeny bit when I was leaving.

So that was good.

Good, very good.

And I know that you were there.

You and Melissa were there a bit.

I know Melissa, you were putting in full-time hours all week at the fair.

She was.

Jessica, thank you for that Melissa.

Do you have a good time?

Oh, for sure.

It was.

It was a lot of fun to talk with listeners and hear their feedback about our stations.

And yeah, the spinning wheel definitely brought them in.

Not just the kids too.

That's true.

Lots of adults walked up.

Can I spin the wheel?

Sure.

Almost sheepishly, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Like they were, you know, afraid they couldn't.

Does it cost anything?

Yeah, I got them a few times too.

But you might win something.

That's true.

Well, because some of the booths had like,

they used it as a promo kind of like, I don't know,

you could get money off of, if you purchase this kind of thing.

Gotcha.

Very cool.

But no, it was fun.

It was a good time.

It was starting to get warm.

I was very grateful for Seth to come and take over for me on Saturday.

But it was a good time.

I'm really glad to get out there and talk with our listeners.

We are so thankful to the such of Wisconsin State Fair

and to a civic media for giving us the opportunity to be able to do that.

Great, big shout out to everybody involved,

especially all the people working behind the scenes over at that fair that do such great.

Oh, yeah.

You'd shout out to Chris, the coordinator.

She is amazing.

It was a really good time looking forward to being back there next year

and a fair season next year again.

You know, having more of that, that was a blast.

Yeah, we're winding down.

Yeah, yeah.

Really, really fun weekend and a really fun time over there at the fair.

Thank you again to everybody who hosted.

And now a really big thank you to our civic media team

and personally here to our staff here.

Everybody working behind the scenes.

Pam Ashley, both of you and so many other people just working hard to make that happen.

Nice work, everybody.

Nicely done.

Nicely done, everyone.

Well, what's that?

What did you do to this guy?

Yeah, how was mine?

It was great, it was awesome.

I got to go out of town.

I want to say something real quick

because I, in the first one to admit that I do need to vacation

and I do need to take some time off and everything.

That's important and stuff.

I have found a way this summer to do both.

To continue to work and to find work while also having some breaks thrown in there here and there.

How does he do it?

I have gotten to do something that I haven't probably done since I was a little kid.

I got to start my summer and end my summer going to Chicago.

Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Been there twice this summer.

Been to Madison twice.

Been to Appleton once.

Steven's point about 19,000 times.

So I've been bopping around.

All right.

And I've been doing some stuff.

We'll travel, keep it a little bit.

Take it a little bit.

I do want to say that one of the best things about going to Illinois

is passing through Madison and going through the,

going past the ABS sign.

I just, I get a kick.

That's always fun.

I get a kick out of that sign every day in time.

I want to start to shout out to those people.

So clever.

The great marketing or whoever does that.

I don't know who does.

I want to get that, but I want to get interview that person.

Whoever does the sign for ABS.

I want to interview that, but I thought that was really cool.

It was a great time.

I love my city.

I'm not going to lie.

I know I'm doing a radio here in Wisconsin.

I'm trying to do this very often.

But to me, it's the greatest city in the world.

And I love it so much.

It was a blast down.

There was a really fun time.

So some really good bands.

A shout out to Incubis and Coyde Campy.

Very fun time there.

I know that as fun as I had,

it was appaels a comparison to what Laura enjoyed.

I didn't know she could float.

But somehow she was not only glowing,

but floating at the same time.

Awesome.

Shout out to our newest staff member, Laura.

New-ish.

I mean, it's not new.

New and more.

It's been a while.

And it was a blast.

We had a really good time and joined a bunch of people

had a good time.

I do want to say one thing that I noticed, though.

I've been playing this game.

I've been doing a lot of traveling throughout my life.

This trip in particular from

with central Wisconsin to Chicago,

I have made...

I don't even know what number to throw out there

as an exaggerative joke.

If I said 200 times,

that sounds low to me.

I've been literally making this trip my whole life, 47 years.

So I don't even know a ballpark number to say.

But one, my favorite game to play when I was a kid

was we would have this...

My papa and I would have this game.

But who could count the most...

Get the most states off of license plates?

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

And I just have shared with you all.

I lost my papa recently.

We lost my papa recently.

And I don't...

You know, the game now means a little different to me.

I'm playing it and I'm still playing it with him.

I just don't know if he's whooping me or not.

But I gotta say, this time,

Iowa, Nevada, Kentucky, Nebraska, Michigan, Minnesota,

Wisconsin, Virginia, California.

Nice.

I might have been my best one.

One of my best ones.

That's pretty good for a search trip.

Yeah, pretty good list.

Pretty good list.

It was a fun time.

Wherever you are,

if you are living in your hometown right now,

congratulations, that's really cool.

Enjoy.

Certainly travel is great because it can help you

remind you how much you miss your own bad.

Miss your own hometown.

But if you haven't been there in a while,

Seth, I know you can touch on this a little bit

with your recent vacation and everything.

There is something about being in your home area.

Yep.

I couldn't put my finger on it my whole life

and I think I finally figured it out.

You know that feeling when you have a friend

who, I've been on both sides of this,

but when you have a friend who's got your back,

who's like standing right there

in a situation you need him to.

Or maybe you're standing behind your friend

or something when they need you to.

That feeling, that confidence that comes from that,

that's how I feel when I'm in Illinois.

And that's, I think a feeling

that I think a lot of people go relate to.

So if you haven't been to your hometown in the wild

I encourage you to reach out,

get out there, check it out, visit, travel people, travel.

See what has changed.

Yeah, yeah.

And just in general, just travel.

Right.

We pass so many signs of so many wonderful

Wisconsin exhibits and different things

going through, getting back here to Central Wisconsin,

Kaven the Mounds, House on the Rock.

There's so many cool things to check out.

Explore your state, enjoy your state

and take in these last days of,

that in Mother Nature, you're giving us a summer.

Although they're awfully hot.

I'll true, I'll true James,

except if your hometown is told month,

then there's no point to go.

Hey, hey, oh my gosh, I'm fired.

Wow, where did that even come from?

It's a Monday morning.

And to be fair, I only graduated high school there.

I grew up in Sparta.

Oh, see, you're safe then.

So you're good.

Nice to meet you.

They are the biggest rivals in the area.

That's true.

Yeah, I remember that.

I'm always conflicted.

I wanted to wrap up our opening monologue here

with great road games, great road games.

And how many of these are still played?

I mentioned the states games to my pop.

And I used to play none.

And there was always I spy.

And I don't like that one.

Her and Jillian would play that game.

All I spy with my little eye, you know,

what is that?

There's 20 questions.

I don't think we ever really did that one.

But it's coming up in a search and I'm looking at here.

The alphabet game.

Yeah, I was going to say the alphabet game.

We always did that one, especially on our way home from school.

There was only one cue on the road.

So it was a battle to get to that point.

Yeah.

You got to that sign.

And then the first one to see it.

I always lost because I had terrible vision.

Oh, plan for this one, people.

I will tell you, plan, if you go to a place

that doesn't either A doesn't have a lot of signs

or you're going to miss, it doesn't have enough for that one letter.

You're going to be waiting for a very long time.

Because that's what happened when we were on the North Shore.

No cues.

Have you heard of a car bingo?

It sounds like the same, almost the same thing as the alphabet game.

Just a little different.

Players make a list of things that might see on the trip

and mark them off as they spot them.

Yeah, I never thought that one.

You get boards where you can just they have it.

I'll preset for you that you can check them off.

Yeah.

I like the scavenger hunt one too.

I'm seeing here players keep track of the things they see during the trip

and the winner may receive a prize or choose a restaurant.

We're going to go to hate.

I like the idea of the prize being.

That's going to choose where you eat.

That's a cool idea.

Not if the kid wins and you have to go to the McDonald's every time.

Every time you're going to Chuck E. Cheese maybe every time.

Or whatever business sounds like the weirdest.

If you're in Texas, you're going to Wattaburger.

You're definitely going there.

You're definitely going to places like that.

A big thank you again to everybody that helped with the

Central Wisconsin State Fair.

I didn't want to wrap up on that because that was a blast.

We had a great time with that.

We did.

We will get to our time out.

We'll come back with the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

It's the morning show featuring Seth, Melissa and James.

WFHR, locally grown radio.

It's time to do some celebrating.

We encourage you to treat yourself and head on over to LKFA.

Let them know.

It's their day when they open their doors on Tuesday.

That's right.

Yes, we encourage you to get a day off.

On Tuesday to head on over to LKFA.

And get your appetite ready and bring your smiles with you

because it's going to be a good time over there.

A 221 market avenue and beautiful port edwards.

Wish them a great day from all of us.

And enjoy some LKFA tomorrow when they open their doors.

Keep that in mind, everybody.

They'll be open 7 to 2 tomorrow.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Let's dive into our list before we do.

Remind you that we want your birthdays and

anniversaries.

Bring them to us, everybody.

Info at wfhr.com.

James.mailupheadsevicmedia.us.

You can of course email any of our staff that way.

Like melissa.k.at-sevicmedia.us

or set.have-hagger-at-sevicmedia.us.

Reach out to us anytime, everybody,

as long as you know how to spell our last names.

I was going to say, Melissa's probably your best bet there.

This is the easiest spell last day.

We encourage you to do so.

Of course, you can also hit us up on our Facebook pages.

Just type in your search bar, wfhr, or wi-ri.

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And go ahead and send us a message.

And call up.

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Look forward to hearing from you, everybody.

Call up and join the conversation.

Yeah, call on Friday, didn't you?

Someone called in during the birthday party.

That was so cool.

That was very cool.

That was awesome.

We had a good one too.

It was a very good call.

Keep those calls coming, everybody.

Seth, I need a one through three.

Two.

All right, gives us the call of ours.

So we can get right into the celebration.

First up, we want to wish happy birthday to Heather Caruso.

Happy birthday, Heather.

Happy birthday, Heather.

Enjoy your day, Heather.

Wishing you the best of days.

We wish a very happy birthday to Ben Samson.

Happy birthday, Ben.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy your day, Ben.

Hope it's a good one for you.

In our qualifier today, Amanda Hawks.

Happy birthday, Amanda.

Happy birthday, congratulations.

Wishing you the best of days, Amanda.

Enjoy and congratulations to our qualifier.

Go ahead and brag to people about this, I say.

I qualified, man.

Yeah, it's something.

It's something you can hang your hat on.

Let's take a look at our celebrity list.

First up, Kiki Palmer.

Wonderful actor.

Password host and star of Jordan Peel's

Nope, also known for as Kim on MTV

Scream and Zade on Scream Queens.

She was GGM star and the star of Net

Nickelodeon's true Jackson VP.

I don't remember that one.

Okay.

I've only seen her in little bits and pieces,

but I saw Jordan Peel's nope about a year or two ago.

And she blew me away.

She was, there's great actors in that movie.

Some really, really good actors.

And she blows me away like to at least

stole the show for me.

I thought she was really good.

And that is a great one to see.

If you, if you like suspense movies,

if you like the old Alfred Hitchcock

kind of like suspense type movies,

not horror, just suspense.

Jordan Peel's movies are a must.

That one in particular.

I really like that one.

Dylan O'Brien is 33, 30 styles on MTV's Teen Wolf.

He was Thomas and the Maze Runner movies.

He's a love and monsters or something like that.

It was called.

He was in that and was really good.

I had that movie on in the background.

And I wasn't really going to watch it that much.

And his performance really pulled me in.

I like it.

He's a good young actor.

Brian Kelly from Florida, Georgia line is 39.

We celebrated him with crews today.

We played one of their first lead singles.

But you can catch more tributes and more requests

over on the sunrise show from 7 to 8.

Join us over there for that as I pull my headphones out.

I can't do that.

I can't do myself right now.

What am I saying?

You don't work with that headphones.

No, no, I got this.

It's it's funny that I can't.

I really can't hear myself that well.

What I'm talking and the headphones

are headphones are plugged out.

Because these really are good headphones.

Yeah, that's right.

We really do block the sound, man.

Shout out to B's headphones.

They really do work.

Chris Pine is 44.

Wonderful actor.

44 for Mr. James T. Kirk in the Star Trek movies

or Steve in the Wonder Woman movies.

He is enjoying a really good renaissance right now

for his career.

Where he was supposed to be doing what he's doing now

when he got the Star Trek role.

Yeah.

But they didn't really they thought,

well, we can't cast Captain Kirk for anything.

So he didn't really get a lot of roles for a while there.

That dipped down and then he got the Wonder Woman gig

and reminded everybody, oh yeah, Chris Pine.

Pretty good actor, yeah.

Not only bad actor, but I mean,

some of them are pretty eyes.

You're ever going to see that.

That's true.

He's got some beautiful eyes.

Just a solid actor.

It does a solid job.

It seems to continue to work and push himself as an actor too.

And I respect that.

McCulley Culkin is 44 today.

Oh my gosh.

Wow.

A fine actor.

Very fine actor.

I don't know if I'm going to be a jerk here or not.

But as a kid actor,

I was not blown away by McCulley Culkin.

Right.

I did not see what everybody seemed to be.

A lot of people saw a cute kid

and hid his marks,

was had some comedic timing.

But I didn't see that much in everything.

He did a movie later on in his life called Saved,

where he's in a wheelchair.

Yep.

And I was like, oh, okay, wait a minute.

Like I was watching a movie for other actors.

He was really good in it though.

I'm like, okay.

And then everything I've seen him do since.

He is a fine actor.

Very good actor.

He's worked very.

He's grown, yeah.

He's really grown into the role.

And good on him for like being here.

Like it's such a low bar with child actors.

Like the fact that he,

I'm sorry if it sounds macabre,

but that he's here.

That he's, you know, enjoying his life at 44.

And then he's doing all those things.

That's actually really good to see.

Let alone that he's working in a good actor.

It's a rough road.

I didn't know he was a singer too.

He is.

I didn't know that either.

Neither did I.

Wow.

That's cool.

Good to, nice catch Melissa.

My culture is 48 Luke Cage.

He's also the star of a very popular show

in Paramount Plus as evil.

But good actor.

Good actor.

He's great as Luke Cage.

48.

I can't believe he's 40.

Wow, he does not look that old.

And he's, I look 10 years older than him at least.

And he's, yeah, he's like a year older than me.

One of the, if somebody told me this is the funniest woman

in the world, I would not argue with them.

It's not my pick, but it's not, I would not argue with them.

I think she's in top five in my list.

One of the most fearless actors I've ever seen.

Melissa McCarthy is 54 today.

I guess I like her a lot.

And not just because she has my name.

And I don't like her just because she's from Illinois.

Ghostbusters, Mike and Molly, bridesmaids.

I mean, all of these are great ones you could watch.

She's done, the movie she did with Sandra Bullock,

I actually really like too.

They were very funny together.

But I encourage you, if you want to know what I'm talking about,

watch her on Saturday Live.

She's hosted, I believe, five times on Saturday Live.

And every one of those, there are at least three or four sketches

that she does something.

Then like, oh, God, is she okay?

Did she hurt herself?

Just in a different parallel universe,

Melissa McCarthy would have got her break on SNL,

because she is such a throwback to the Gilder radners,

to the Molly Shannon's, the Asherio Terries.

These actors that are just fearless on that stage

and will do anything to make you laugh.

Physical comedians, surprisingly physical, yeah.

Yeah, just so good at her job.

But you cannot forget the Gilmore girls.

Oh, was she on that? I didn't know that.

Oh, gosh, she's on that, okay.

Oh, yeah, she's the chef.

Oh, didn't know that either.

Very cool, very cool.

Melissa's really bringing it, she's bringing it today.

She is knocking us out with the entertainment facts today.

They're having a rough time.

Yeah, it is kind of weird.

But that one I actually knew myself, I didn't look at it.

Oh, okay, very nice.

Shirley Manson is 58 today,

garbage lead singer and songwriter,

man, a big fan of hers.

Oh, garbage loss. Great band.

Great band.

And Valerie Simpson is 78 today, another great singer.

The sweetest half of Asherid and Simpson.

Yep.

Solid, a mountain high enough,

ain't nothing like the real thing.

A lot of songs with eight.

Yes, and great songwriters too,

before they even started performing,

they were right and hits for other people.

Nice, yeah, yeah.

And a great character actor, Michael Jeter,

born in this day in 1952, passed away in 03.

Elmo's, I'm like buddy,

and the second Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street.

He was also Father Igadius in Sister Act 2.

Had a wonderful role as the guy who was terrified

of squirrels and patch atoms.

Oh, gosh.

If you see him, you'll know who I'm talking about.

Michael Jeter was one of those wonderful character actors.

And we wrap up with Mother Teresa.

St. Teresa of Calcutta, born in this day in 1910,

passed away in 1997,

one of the sweetest and most meaningful

souls to walk our planet.

And not perfect as she would like you to know.

She was not perfect.

It was very important to Mother Teresa

that people understood that she was a human being.

But she was not perfect.

She was not a saint.

She was not any, she was a human being.

That we're just lucky enough to live in a time

where we were alive,

which she did the things that she did.

We will have something else with Mother Teresa

before we wrap up out today.

For now, we're going to get to our time out.

Take care of our news break and our sports break

and our sponsors and partners and all that.

We say a big shout out to all of our friends out there.

Celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.

Thanks so much for celebrating with us.

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

When they open their doors tomorrow,

we encourage you to head on over to El Café

and visit them.

We'll be back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

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

Thanks so much for joining us.

Get into an interesting topic here.

I think this is a fair point

and I've heard this from a number of people

the really my whole life actually.

It's only been, and I'd say the last four or five years

that I've heard more and more people kind of

calling this term out.

A writer for slate.com thinks

we should stop saying the term empty nester.

Empty nester.

Okay.

424, 2600.

When's the last time you heard anybody actually use this phrase?

It's been a while.

It's been a while for me too.

But I will say that when I have heard it,

it does seem to be like that when you're,

it wrinkles your brain a little bit.

Yeah, that don't seem right.

It's a melancholy term.

Yeah, it is.

She thinks it's a subtle offense or even damaging term

because quote, the word empty conveys only absence.

It's a word you almost never use in a positive way.

She also thinks it's an outdated term

because a lot of quote empty nesters

don't really stay the way that way anymore.

How many times have you seen a baby bird fly off

then come back four years later

and stick around another decade?

I just want my kids to move out.

Just for the level.

The term empty nest has been around for over a century.

It was coined in 1914 and came to describe a sort of

malaise that can set in once your kids are gone.

She thinks it's time to replace it with a different term.

But what would that term be?

Her suggestion was next chapter.

Okay. Yeah, that works.

Like my kids are finally gone and I can move on to my next chapter.

Yeah.

You can't really work as a noun.

You can't say you're next, you're a next chapter.

But is she right that it's a more positive one?

I'm next chaptering.

That's the verb of it.

Yeah, that's interesting.

I am the next chapter.

Oh my gosh.

I am chapter, hear me wrong.

No, no, no.

Still doesn't quite work.

No, you're trying.

I give you a march for that.

There's nothing wrong with a new phrase for that.

I've heard a lot of people say, you know, I've turned the page.

Yeah.

Or I'm barking on a new chapter.

I've heard people use that phrase.

Book words, interesting.

But refer to books.

Anyway, but because a lot of them actually refer to that,

that's past now, that's over with.

And the point is is that, well, maybe your kids may have to come back

and live with you for a while kind of thing.

But I don't know.

That's a good question.

I think it, excuse me, too.

But I think it's relevant, especially right now,

when people who don't have children seem to be a little bit under,

I don't know, scrutiny.

That's the right word for it.

Yeah, I think it is.

And whether that is by choice or whether it is by circumstance.

You can't always have control over that.

That's right.

And honestly, if there's a way to reword things to make them better,

I don't see the problem with it.

I don't know why anybody would be bent out of shape on the other side of this.

Well, I'm a very big fan of that term.

I use it every day.

How dare you?

I don't know how you could get bent out of shape out of this one.

I don't know.

You have a political agenda and you're trying to distract people

from the actual things that are going on.

Oh, yeah, wow.

I'm excited.

That's, I don't know.

But it's a curious one.

Let's hear from our audience.

Good morning, you're on the show.

Okay, so yes, I'm running late.

Hi, Laura.

I think for this conversation regarding the empty nesters,

let's straight up say yes.

I'm someone who has used this term.

But I use it to reflect the mindset of the person I'm talking about.

Because they very much win there.

And it's someone who I know very well,

who I have seen go through the empty nester, you know,

brief my house as empty.

What am I doing now?

The stage.

And so it fit because it fit.

I wasn't trying to be derogatory.

It fit.

And I kind of see that person about to go through it again.

And it looks the same.

So it's still fit.

I think it's important to use it

with the correct intention and understanding of the meaning of it.

Because yeah, it's a sad term.

It's a sad thing to watch a person experience.

Because it's such a transition in their lives.

Yeah, yeah.

Exactly.

I'm not saying that that is not an understandable feeling for them to have at any point.

Especially as a mom.

Oh my God, do I understand that that's big.

Because you devote your entire life sometimes.

I've seen lots of women in my life and my family

who devote all of themselves to their kids.

And so when their kids leave, they're like,

oh my God, what do I do with myself?

I'm not a mom right now.

Right.

All really good points.

But Laura, I'm going to need you to put a sock in it.

We don't say that anymore.

We don't say that term anymore.

That's true.

I'm going to hit the hay.

I'm going to start, James.

Okay, okay.

A point.

I should have done that.

I should have done that.

We'll see you soon, Laura.

Thanks, Laura.

Thank you.

Great stuff.

Great stuff, Laura.

Thank you so much.

I say hit the hay a lot.

I do.

I say that too.

I probably do too.

Everyone's in a while.

But the okay.

So we say that.

But how many people younger can we expect to know what we mean

necessarily?

I also say I'm going to jump into bed.

I never do that.

Since I was a little kid, I've been telling my family,

oh, I'm going to go jump in the shower.

And every time they would say, hey, but walk.

Don't jump.

Don't jump in there.

Jump.

You'll slip.

Every time they love that jump.

I love that dad especially loves that.

But my point is only that not to insult Laura, but to just to show that

there are so many phrases that we might have used when we were little

that we don't know anymore.

Every day or every life cycle, there is new phrases of different things

that come about and everything.

So if we update this one, if we change it to new chapter next chapter,

chapter two, my hair can start.

I can actually start to do what I want with my life finally.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's kind of a mouthful, but I like to teach their own.

Exactly.

And more so to the point, I think, of being in a supportive society

with anybody in every, all the different walks of life there are for other people out there.

There are so many different people out there dealing with different things

and walking through life differently than you.

That's right.

Being an understanding, accepting of that, not only is going to be beneficial

for you before that person.

Right.

Oh, put a sock in it, James.

James.

I'll do that.

I don't know.

Well, how am I supposed to go?

Absolutely not the one you're wearing.

How am I supposed to go to break with it?

Well, sorry.

You know, we used to do this.

We haven't done this in a while.

I want to now we want to look that term up.

I want to know where that came from.

I want to look that term up.

Oh, idioms.

Yeah, we haven't done that in a long time.

Oh, idioms in a while.

We'll look that one up.

We'll come back and we'll have some fun on the morning show here at WFHR

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It was really tempting I was going to look up the heat as on

from Ben Fah and play.

I felt like it was a little taunting.

A little too other nose there.

Yeah, I did feel like that could call on mine.

The idiom put a socket it originated in the early 20th century Britain.

The first known printed use of the phrase was in 1919 and London based literally

in a literary magazine.

The ethanenium.

Wow.

Which defined it's as a meaning it's meaning as leave off talking, singing or shouting.

It is believed that the idiom was coined sometime in 1919 or before but why a sock.

Why a sock specifically?

Yeah.

That's a good question.

It was an early form.

Oh, while some suggested putting a sock and it was an early form of volume control for

gramophones, the dates don't really add up.

So the term is actually from the newspaper article.

That's pretty clever though.

I like that.

Yeah, because you can muffle that with a sock.

Right, you could do that.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

Pretty good.

All right.

How British is leave off of something?

Cheese.

Yeah.

Leave off of doing that.

Some people would agree lying to your friends should be avoided but is this the type of

lie that is accepted?

A woman's tiktok is going viral after her friends and made a dinner reservation told her it

would be at eight o'clock when it was actually eight for eight thirty.

In other words, they knew she'd be late because she's always late and it turned out they

were right.

She showed up at eight twenty two and the hostess said that she was the first to arrive.

So from an ethics standpoint, is this okay to do?

One expert weighed in and said it's the best to avoid lying but confronting a friend can

also backfire and make you seem controlling.

So maybe lying and tricking them and I'm using air quotes for the lying and the tricking

words could be work could work by shaming them into being on time.

Either way, people online seem less concerned about the ethics and more focused on how

rude it is to be chronically late.

One person warned to warning to her was next step is for getting to invite you.

Oh wow.

So they took this on that side of things.

They went about that.

They went that way.

Yeah.

For one, I think that you know, this could mean communication, you know, hey, why are

you late all the time?

Well, I've got twenty kids.

Yeah, right.

And I'm lucky to get out of the house alive, low on time or I slept in or I don't know

what the reasoning is, but whatever it is, find out by I don't know, asking your friends

questions and talking to your friends.

Now, now maybe they already did that and this was the next step.

I don't, I actually don't know, but yeah, actually, I don't think this is a bad idea at all

when you're talking about reservations and things that are on a specific time.

Right.

If you really do need to be on point for these things and do what you got to do, you know

your friends?

I actually think this is, and maybe this is the way that I see friendship or that I have

that many friends or I don't know what it might be.

But to me, I almost see this as a sweet thing like this lady.

It's almost considerate.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like, well, I want my friend to be a part of things.

I know that they're always late, so I'm going to work around that for them.

And so I wanted to get together at eight, but well, we'll make it eight thirty.

Yeah.

And saying all this with the context of you've already talked to your friend about being

late and those things, I actually think that that's kind of a, that's a nice thing to

do for your friend.

Maybe I'm just looking at this from a weird perspective or something that would not be

the first time or the last.

No, no, no, will it be the last?

Well, I honestly, well, everyone seems to be taking, that's the positive look at it.

In my opinion, that's the better way of looking at it.

So many people seem to take this like really negatively and then they start blaming

the person.

Well, they should be on time all the time kind of things like, what, they're your friends,

you know, supposedly you're going to be giving some grace and stuff and, right, right.

I don't know.

And if you know that that person is always late, like you said, it is almost considerate

to, I mean, it is not great to lie.

Like I would probably be more inclined to say, yep, dinner is at 830 and then tell

the friend that it's at eight and the rest of the friends get together maybe for drinks

at eight.

Oh, I see what you're doing.

Yeah, okay.

I like get it ready for, yeah, yeah, that's not a bad idea.

That's really good.

That's really, you know, she's going to miss that part.

Okay, that's fine.

But at least she'll be on time for dinner for dinner, right?

Yeah.

That's not bad at all.

I like that one.

That's a good one.

But then you can't tell her that the actual reservation is free.

No, no, yeah.

Which is still kind of a lie.

And you could be honest about, hey, we're meeting where, you know, we're getting ready

to eat.

Yeah, we're getting ready to eat at 830.

Be there.

You're not saying, but we're showing up half hour earlier for drinks, okay?