Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. Welcome to WFHR's Morning Show.
Sing it, Marvin. Happy Thursday, everybody. Got your host, James J 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.
We're going to kick things off with our good friend Brittany Merlot talking a little
mother nature. Brittany, how you doing this morning? Hey, hey, I'm doing pretty good.
Just looking at a shelf cloud moving into WFHR right now. How are you guys doing?
A shelf cloud. Yeah, well, well, you can't just skate by that.
I don't think I've ever heard that before. I need a description. I need what is a shelf
cloud? Yeah, what is that? That is great, Brittany. Oh, you guys have seen those before.
Those are those ominous big clouds that are super long that just look like a spaceship rolling
in. Yeah, that one. That's a shelf cloud. Awesome. I will never ever look at a cloud and not
think of that now. That will always be in my head. That is perfect.
Well, you're going to get a chance to hopefully see one, two of that in about an hour or two.
I think that rain is going to hit you guys lasting till about lunch and then kicking on out of here.
We might even see some sponsor sunshine by this evening after this cold front passives.
But you know, highs today, still mild. We're going to hit those mid-70s. A little bit breezy out
there. And in terms of the rain, we've seen a few thunderstorms. Nothing strong, nothing severe.
Just putting down some heavy rainfall. So anywhere from a quarter of an inch to about three-quarters
of an inch has been seen. So expect about a half an inch throughout the afternoon. And then we're
done. Then we get the cooler, crisper, more refreshing air by tomorrow. Not bad, not bad at all.
We'll take that. Thank you, Brittany. We appreciate the update as always.
Looking forward to hanging out with you tomorrow, getting people ready for the weekend.
I'm good. Have a good one. You too. Thanks, Brittany.
Best into business right there. Our friend Brittany Merlot joining us every morning right in this
time slot. Always love talking with her. Nobody does weather like Brittany. I cannot say that more
complimentary. That is awesome. She's great. Mel and I got some great stuff lined up for you today.
Not only do we have the LCAPA birthday anniversary clever right around the corner, we've got a
couple of topics for you. Lamborghini is getting into the baby game. Yeah, I have not pre-read that one
Melissa. So we're going to dive into that one together. Amazon, Amazon won't let their drivers
listen to us. We're going to get into that. That's coming up. And are we all hoarders or just
half of us? We are going to get into that one as far as Americans in hoarding. We got that coming
up for you. It's a Thursday. That means in the 9 o'clock hour we're going to kick things off
with our good friends from Southville County and Maine society. Sarah's going to join us.
Looking forward to that. That'll be a fun conversation. Afterwards, we'll touch on a little
entertainment news. Wanted to get into a really cool story that Jeff Bridges shared.
Actually, we're not a writer and Jeff Bridges shared. We'll get into that one. We've got it's been
50 years since these movies came out. We're all going to feel old. I'm going to tell you right
now. We're all going to feel old when we hear that list. There's a handful of things down there.
Along with the 9 o'clock hour, we'll also get into this study that found a rush hour when it is
during the day. And the top, who, what, when, where, and why questions we googled in August.
Oh, good. All that coming up, but we kicked things off with a, I don't like starting our show
necessarily in a debate or or anything, but I do think it's important that we talk about certain
things. And I want to keep the phone lines open here. 715-424-2600. You guys are our co-hosts. You
are part of the show as well. Feel free to call in anytime. There are times when two things are
great separately, but not so much together. Now, you decide on this one. The canned meat
company, Hormel, is launching a new product that combines its black label Bacon with Cinnamon
Toast Crunch Serial. Bacon and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Serial. Yes. Now, I don't want to, you know,
get this into a very tense argument or anything in debate. But I mean, you started it off on a very,
very dramatic sounding intro, so I'm taking this seriously. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you. I
appreciate that. I appreciate that. So, questions. Is the bacon hot? Yes, good question. That is a good
question. Because hot bacon added to cold cereal sounds awful. It does sound awful. Yeah, it does.
Hey, the way to make two things I love sound horrible. I don't know how they did that. Now, first
thing like bacon chips on top of a Cinnamon Toast Crunch Serial. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Yeah, I kind of
like that. So it's just lightly, lightly. It's like a hint of bacon. They are not putting bacon bits
into this cereal. They're rubbing the so-called Cinnamon Dust into thick, cut bacon. It's then left
overnight to reach optimal flavor, which is supposed to create a mix of sweet and salty. Hormel described
the combination as, quote, iconic, and you can either take their word for it or try it yourself for
limited time. Black label Cinnamon Toast Crunch Bacon will be available at select Walmart locations
starting Monday, September 16th. It'll also be available at some Kroger stores as well. Okay,
so there's no cereal involved here? No, no, just Dust, Cinnamon Dust, they call it.
Yeah. So not impressed. I like label. I can't do better. I can't think of many things worse than
Milky Bacon. That sounds horrible to me. So I can see them go in this direction with it. I
kind of get that part. Let's take a call. Let's see what our callers think. Again, let's be
adults about this. Let's not get into too heated of a debate here. Listen, good morning. You're out
to show. Cinnamon Dust, coated bacon. Am I hearing that right? Yeah, no cereal involved. Yeah,
I'm going to be putting that inside of my mouth really fast. So this is your pro Cinnamon Bacon.
I am so incredibly pro Cinnamon Bacon that the heartburn will be worth it.
Yeah, that'd be a hard pass for me. That's a, we're tied one-to-one here. It's a one-to-one here.
But Cinnamon is also one of my triggers. Like, it's a bad trigger. Oh, that's not, yeah.
So I really, I can't. As much as I want to. I feel like kind of a jerk for bringing this up now.
Yeah, just like, you know, give me a paper cut and rub a little lemon juice in the while you add it.
Okay, it might have been worth it to get that accent. It might have been. Thank you for the call,
Laura. We appreciate you. That we'll talk to you soon. She'll be here soon. Laura, our newest
team member around here calling up and joining the conversation. Where, how would you think,
everybody? Would you try this? 715-424-2600? I would definitely try it. I don't, but here's my
thing. I hate, I like trying things, but only when they're in a sample kind of size, because I don't
want to buy a whole thing of bacon, get this home, take a bite, and then I got a big lure to take
the rest of it because I'm not going to eat it. I can't waste my food. Yeah, you're right. You're
not going to have just leave it out. Maybe you can just take it over as a bacon bouquet, James.
Maybe that she'll happily accept it. This is what I maybe should do is just buy some and make
it for the whole team. That way you're not waste. They get into people like it. They like it. They
don't. They don't. I don't know. Another thing, like I can eat bacon straight up, just fine. That's
that's how I pretty much spent my 20s. But I like the combination. I like combining bacon with
things. I don't know if this is it. I don't know if this is the combo or not. I would try it. I
definitely try some. Do you have a, yeah, if I was going to add something sweet to my bacon and
be maple syrup. And right on. Yes. Yes. Oh, man, that's such a good pump. Now that is a great
combo right there. That's a great tag team. Is there a special way or a certain way you like your
bacon? Because I've never met anybody that just, oh, just give it to me. Oh, I'll just eat it.
Everybody I know that loves bacon, which is almost everybody I know has a certain. Oh,
it's got to be made this way. Yes, I have a very high bar for bacon. Very high. It must be cooked.
It's understandable. It's very, very, it's understandable. I can't debate you on that one. I can't.
Yes. I do let I certainly I want it cooked, but I do kind of like rubbery bacon. I do kind of
like a little, I don't I don't want it too hard because I feel like when it's cooked too hard,
I don't even taste the bacon anymore. I just take taste crunch. I just taste a, you know, yeah.
I think it depends on the application, you know. If you're making it for a sandwich,
it should have a little bit of crispiness to it, but not too much because otherwise you're just,
you've got a lot of crunch in your sandwich that's not coming from chips, which is really where
crunch should be coming from in your sandwich. If you're, if you're adding it as like a topping to
something like a, let's say a butternut squash bake with a pecan bacon crumble on top,
then the bacon should absolutely be crispy. I agree with all that. Yeah, yeah, we're we're,
we're looking, we got out of this intense, this tense topic without any debate really. We were
going to have to put up our fisticos. Yeah, we look at that, everybody. If we can do that on this,
we can do it with politics. Right. Come on. Let's all get along. Let's all work together and have
let's surprise the world and actually have a November election that isn't insane, but let's just
shock the world. I'd be really awesome because the rest of the world is just sitting there kind of
eating their popcorn, waiting for us to do this. And I say we've proven wrong. I'd like to see that.
I'd like to see, you know, I'm all for it. The punt prove, you know, some of the pundits wrong,
prove so many of the world reporting that is going on about America wrong. And let's get along.
Let's go ahead and prove them wrong. And I do want to real quickly mention our friend Brittany.
We're just talking to Brittany. Hit me up that she is going to be off tomorrow. So she'll
join us on Monday. So just a heads up to our listeners out there. And I appreciate that,
Brittany. Thank you. We'll get to a time out. Take care of our partners. Come back and talk about
L Cafe. I don't know if they have this kind of bacon on their menu, but they got a great
menu. We'll talk about that. And more when we get back, Melissa and James, take any through your
morning here at WFHR. It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at L Cafe and the
birthday anniversary club. Not sure what happened just there, but that was interesting.
That's it. We got some celebrating to do, Melissa. We're going to talk about our good friends at
L Cafe and talk about some great local celebrities, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries.
We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to L Cafe, a 221 market avenue and beautiful
port. Edwards, they got great Thursday specials like Alfredo Scramble and Sirloin of Pork.
They're open seven. Interesting. It does sound really interesting. They're open seven to two,
Tuesday through Sunday and keep in mind Fridays. They are open seven to eight. They're a wonderful
fish fry that is becoming more and more popular. It's delicious. And I have this note from Seth.
Make sure you mention their homemade pies. Okay, I mentioned that. Yes, because without Seth,
we would never talk about pie. It's a good point. It's a good point.
Come on, Seth. Other people eat pie. Other people eat pie. We encourage you to get us your
birthdays and anniversaries as well. Send them to info at WFHR.com. Keep in mind you can email
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You can also call with the civic media app. It's just one button dial in and then you're with us
live on air. It's cool. Looking forward to talking with you all. Go ahead and call up and join
the conversation everybody. Melissa, I need a one through three. Okay, I'm going to choose a three,
but before you get into those, I have a special birthday I have to mention today. Oh, good, good.
My niece Kora turns 12 today. Oh, congratulations, Kora. Congratulations. Kora, the destroyer, we call her.
Oh, God, I love that day, Bob. That's so good. Yeah, she will, she'll take you out.
That's cool. That's cool. I love the name Kora. Oh, I love that name. That is a great day.
She's really into basketball and she's great. I love watching her play and her dad is just so
sting, her papa is so stinking proud of her. And so we get videos and messages sometimes.
And he's like, yeah, they got a really tall kid on the team they're playing. So they put Kora
up against her. And Kora is not tall for her age, but she will take on anybody. I love it.
Love the attitude. Kora, you ever want to talk ball? You go ahead and give me a call.
Yeah, I love it. I enjoy it. And thank you for our early good story of the day, Melissa. That's
awesome. Happy birthday to Kora. We wish a happy birthday to Phil Johnson. Happy birthday, Phil.
Enjoy your day. So I hope it's a good one for you, Phil. We also wish a happy 37th anniversary
to Rick and Mari Austin. Oh, Mary, happy anniversary. M-A-R-I, Mari or Mary. How would you
marry? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Rick and Mari have a great anniversary. Happy 37th, you too. Enjoy.
That's an awesome number 37. And just 30 years away from them, celebrating their 7th anniversary,
our qualifiers, Carl and Margarita Klingforth. Oh, congratulations.
That's awesome. Yeah, Carl, Margarita wishing you a happy anniversary. Happy 7th, you too.
That is cool. Happy. We get so many that are way up there. We appreciate those, but these are always
just as romantic to me. That's very cool. Happy 7th, you too. We take a look at our celebrity
birthdays for today. And let's see, here Rose McGowan is 51. Was in scream, charmed,
grind house in a handful of movies, back in the early arts and stuff. Oh, I recognize her.
Yeah, she was an integral part of the Me Too movement as well. She was one of the main first
people to really bring down Harvey Weinstein. So I don't want that to be the most noteworthy
thing of her career. I think she was a good actor. She actually got into a, she was filming a scene
and got, I believe, kicked off a horse, hit by a horse. It damaged her face a bit. She had to get
some surgery done and made her look a bit different. And it really stunned her, stunned her career
quite a bit. Yeah, because she was pretty busy in the late 90s, early 2000s. Yeah.
A lot of kind of horror-ish, horror-esque movies, planet terror, death proof, grind house,
the doom generation. Yeah. And for everybody that talks about how important and how great the
Me Too movement was and it was and still is. It's not something that has stopped. This is a movement
that he can stop. What we don't seem to talk about, especially my fellow actors and everybody out
there, is the, oh, hey, that's great. You came out and wonderful with that hashtag Me Too.
Oh, you want to audition? No, thank you. Oh, you're too toxic. We don't want to work with you.
For doing what? For doing the right thing? You lose work because you did the right thing.
That's the opposite of what was supposed to be done with this movement for all the well,
you know, placement of this movement. And again, it was very important and is very important.
That don't make any sense to Terry Cruz is another person. Terry Cruz came out talking about
being abused and being almost being raped in things like that. And he's a male actor that is built
like nobody out there listening basically. And this guy couldn't find work because he came out
and was supportive of this movement, things like that. It's a backwards kind of way of doing it
that unfortunately the entertainment industry does from time to time. I think her career
deserves better than that. Dweezel Zappa is 55. I believe the oldest of the Zappa family. I
believe the oldest or second oldest, silly. I'm at maybe, no, I'm at second. Dweezel,
why would you name your child Dweezel? Because you're Frank Zappa. But I just have to ask that question.
It's a great question. It's a great question. I'd love to be able to ask him. Brad Wilk is 56.
Rage gets a machine in audio slave drummer, fantastic drummer, insane drummer. He's very good.
Also very good. One of my favorite actors growing up. Michael Keaton is 73.
Wow. He is Beetlejuice from many of us. He is Batman. He's also the Vulture and the Spider-Man
movies, which is kind of interesting. What do you think about him playing Batman and DC and a villain
in the Marvel Universe? Michael Keaton's got just a ton of great movies out going. But long before
Batman or some of the other stuff he did, he was in a movie called Night Shift with Fancy.
Darn it. Henry Winkler and Shelley Long. And it's not a great movie, but he is so darn charming
in it. And so like just, he pops off the screen just does. And it was the first time I remember seeing
him. I'm going to be a fan of this guy forever. And he does Batman and all this other stuff. But
if you get a chance, if you want to see, I think, I don't know if it's his greatest performance,
but I think it's most underrated performance. Michael Keaton watch a movie called The Dream Team.
It's him. It's Christopher Lloyd. They are a couple of guys who are, they're in an insane
asylum, essentially. And they go to a baseball game for like a field trip. And the person taking them,
you know, spoiler alert, they're shaperone basically passes. And they got to figure out how to get home.
And it's just a wonderful, it's an 80s movie. So there's not a ton of plot or anything,
but it's a fun movie. And him and my Christopher Lloyd are so good together.
Well, yes, I would pretty much watch anything. Christopher Lloyd was in the same, same.
Let's see here. It's also got Peter Boyle. Oh, that's right. I knew I was forgetting the name.
Thank you, Melissa. I knew I was forgetting the name. Yeah, the great Peter Boyle. God,
I love Peter Boyle. He's my Frankenstein. He's my Frankenstein. Peter Boyle.
Some people no longer with us, like one of the greatest voices any of us will ever hear.
Freddie Mercury born in the state in 1946, passed away in 1991. Queen's incredible singer,
songwriter, so many amazing hits throughout his career in an amazing life. Bob Newhart, born
in this day, would have been 95 today. Just passed away a little while ago, born in 29,
passed away just a little bit ago, comedy genius, comedy legend. Many younger people up there
were know him as Professor Proton on the Big Bang Theory or Papa Elf and Will Ferrell's Elf.
But many other of us remember him from the Bob Newhart show and so many other great performances.
Also a wonderful stand of comedian and comedic writer. Nobody did deadpan like Bob Newhart.
Nobody. Nobody. Trust me, I try. And nobody did it better than him.
The great, the wonderful Raquel Welch born in the state in 1940, passed away in 2023.
Fantastic actor, 1 million BC and so many others. And Jesse James, born in the state in 1847,
passed away in 1882, the outlaw. Interesting life for Mr. James, if you're ever curious of,
if you like the real history of so many of the Western legends, I encourage you to look into that
because it's a very interesting life that he lived, an interesting story. So many of the people
back then, not just obviously the outlaws, but your doc holidays, your wide earps, all amazing
stories to read about. And that's going to do it for our birthdays and anniversaries. One more
time. We want to wish Happy Birthday to Cora. Happy birthday, Cora. Happy birthday to Phil Johnson.
Happy birthday, Phil. Happy anniversary to Rick and Mari Austin.
Call us up and tell us how to say your name correctly, please. Yes, that would be awesome.
But happy anniversary. And please feel free to mispronounce my name all you like.
And to our qualifiers, Happy 7th anniversary to Carl and Margarita Klingforth.
Happy anniversary, you too. We love getting these birthdays and anniversaries. And Melissa,
hit it on the head earlier perfectly. We'd love to talk to you and hear you announce it on the
year live. Feel free to do that, everybody. Indeed. Visit our friends at El Café. They sponsored
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221 Market Avenue. Beautiful Port Edwards. Melissa and I are going to get to our
state, local and sports news of checking with our partners. We'll come back and we're talking
about Lamborghini deciding to expand their business and getting to the baby game.
I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't know. We'll find out together. Coming up on the
morning show here at 975 FM 1320 AM 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 fantastic
Thursday. Happy Friday Eve, everybody. A lot of kids going back to school and we want you to
encourage you to remind you to be smart out there. Be safe out there. Look around for little ones.
Make sure that they're popping around. You also might want to be looking around because they may
be fast. They may be strolling around real fast. Lamborghini is releasing its first ever baby
stroller. Oh, they have partnered with the luxury stroller company in the UK for it. It'll be
available early next year. The website says it's for parents and or babies who want to discover
the exhilarating fusion of luxury fabric and precision engineering. Yeah, no word yet on if
this is an SNL sketch or not. And no word yet on the call. I really wish it was or an onion
headlight or something like that. No word yet on the cost, which tells you quite a bit.
And not as much as an actual Lambo, but likely going to be in the thousands probably. I mean,
I would be shocked if it's not. Yeah, so this is not for most of us. Like like 90 what? 98 percent?
I would say 96 to 98 percent I think is pretty fair. I think that's pretty fair.
They say they're producing an extremely limited number of them. Well, that's good.
They're not going to sell many. I would love to look at the sales numbers of this once it comes
out. They're they're billing it as the world's most exclusive purchase push chair.
So if your newborn child has a need for speed, there you go. Yeah. Well, if you have a need for,
I don't know, like, yeah, I don't even know what it's called James. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay,
the Lamborghini X Silver Cross is what they're calling it and boy, the commercial
is trying so hard to sell it. And it is a stroller. It doesn't come with a motor.
Can you stand on the back and it motors you and your baby around?
Because okay, I'm looking at a quick video of it right now as we're talking. And I'm
okay, it looks like it's got the it's very padded. It has a very similar padded seat
as you would find in a Lamborghini. And that's it. Well, other than the Lamborghini logo and everything,
there's nothing about this. I've used a million strollers in my day and I've never,
this doesn't look anything different than any other stroller I've ever seen.
Well, you know, there are there are grades of strollers for sure. There's your just your
basic stroller. And then there's ones that are like running strollers. I saw a guy running
in Stevens Point the other day when I was there with a baby and a stroller. I was like,
that's really cool. You know, that it's secure enough that you don't have to worry about it tipping
that you can literally run with it. Yeah, yeah. And then it's so you can choose to spend a decent
amount of money on a stroller. But what is your rationale behind it? Is it for functionality or
is it just because you want to look impressive with your impressive Lamborghini stroller? Sorry,
that's not reality for most parents. Yeah, all this all this screams to me is, you know,
attention seeking. Yeah, yeah. And really in a sad way. Like it does not almost would probably
have to point out, did you notice the Lamborghini logo? Did anybody notice? Did please somebody notice
it? It's black with some orange lining. It's not even there's not even any like Lamborghini logos
necessarily. Like there is, but the kids head is covering it. So it doesn't even like that part
doesn't even add up. I'm really wrecking my brain trying to find like a good reason for something
like this. And I got nothing. I really think we could come up with a lot of other ways to support
parents and and you know, the then and grit and you know, obviously this is not for us James.
Yeah, this is not for us or for the majority of parents out there. It's a status symbol. Yeah,
and you know, that brings up something that because I I felt like if any if if I ever was one of
those people that cared about what the Joneses are doing or keeping up with the Joneses or
anything like that, all that went out the window the day I became a parent. Like it was all about
survival and and taking care of the kids in so many of those things. I'm expensive. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I don't I don't outside of that top 1% that we all are aware of. I don't know how anybody
can swing something like this. Like I don't know who the obviously we know who it's marketed for.
But here's here's the other thing like I don't understand about things like this and products
like this. How does this help Lamborghini? How does this help? Like obviously it expands their
business and maybe if it works, you know, you've got a whole new market that you know,
racket you can get into. But if you're Lamborghini, you were you were appealing to a certain
audience in that audience. Oftentimes is doesn't have children.
Maybe they've done their market research James. Yeah. All of the people who own Lamborghinis are now
starting families or or have grandchildren. That that's potentially another another possibility.
Baby shower gift. Oh, Grandpa got us a stroller. It's a Lamborghini. I don't know. I don't know
about that one. That don't feel right to me. This doesn't either Melissa. There's there's talk
online that Amazon is banning their delivery drivers from singing along to the radio.
Some employees and former drivers said the Amazon was that Amazon was cracking down
undistracted driving and dinging them if they were caught singing. How would they know? Well,
Amazon has cameras in their vehicles that spy on their drivers, not shocking at all. And
that's how they'll be able to see if you're driving and really, you know, getting into a real
big course of rolling in the deep or something like that. You got bohemian rap city playing and
you're singing along to it. Amazon is of course denying this. A spokesperson says quote,
this is completely inaccurate. Amazon has never issued guidance or communications that prohibits
singing in the vehicle. And they even offered up some evident quote unquote evidence by sharing
a previously produced video detailing a quote day in the life of his Amazon delivery driver.
It does mention the camera in the vehicles to promote safe driving. That's a nice twist.
But it also shows the delivery person singing in the van. And they were not punished for this.
Yeah. Was that an actual delivery driver? Or was that just an actor?
Right. Right. And good luck figuring that out. You know, I would like to, I would love to see
if you're the actor in the video and you come out and say you were acting, it kills your career.
Whatever little your career you might have from that moment, it's gone because Amazon and
companies like that are in the not only, not only because of them in the making of videos and
stuff and TV shows and all that now, but also the power that they have and the control that they have.
And yeah, I think the frustrating thing about an Amazon or any of these kind of things is we did this.
We built that we made this. We built Amazon. Like it wasn't Jeff Bezos.
Bye from them. Yeah. Bezos had an idea. You made it very, very convenient. Yeah.
I'm very easy. And when we go back to our previous conversation about how 97, 96% of us,
and I'm lowballing there, are in that struggling area or that area where you live and check the check
or some of that, I mean, what are you supposed to do? I don't know any, I don't know one person
who has ever said, I love Amazon. I love shopping at Amazon. There are people who like enjoy shopping
and enjoy a deal, but that's not because of Amazon. That's because of the convenience and some of the
things they offer. If there was other companies that could compete with Amazon, like they're supposed
to be able to in our market, then it'd be different. But Amazon is in this boy, a sweet spot for them
where they can't be looked at them as a monopoly. They almost are outside of that spectrum
so they can get as big as they want. Yeah. But to the detriment of small companies, to the detriment
of small businesses, it's, I don't know, the issue I have with this story, James, is what we talked
about earlier this week about Facebook and or meta or whatever you call them now saying,
no, we're not listening. No, we're not listening to what you say. Our speakers aren't tuned in
all the time and then turning back around after gaslighting us for how many years and going, oh,
yep, yep, yep, we are. Yeah. So how could we trust a corporation now that they're saying, no,
we don't do that. No, look, here's proof that we don't do that when they turn around and go,
yeah, actually, we lied about that. Yeah, you can't. Where's the, how can we have faith in them?
You can't. You can't have any faith in them. You can't have faith in, I don't know any of these
corporations really because they don't give you anything to build on. If they if they did some good,
like when's the last time you heard Amazon doing something charitable or or Apple or doing
something charitable and I'm not saying these organizations don't do those things, but they certainly
don't do them enough to where we're talking about them a lot or enough to a point where it makes a
thing like a, okay, yeah, Amazon's a big conglomerate, but look what they do for this subject. What
subject? They don't do nothing for anybody. Bezos just keeps getting richer. I have a word of
anyway. And yeah, and well, I do think that this is this is part of where we come back to why we
talk about why we preach by local support local and why that is so very important. It's not just a
phrase to us around here and I think to this community, I do take some comfort in that, but not in
the fact that Jeff Bezos is just, you know, collecting more money and going to be able to fly
off to the space. It's not even going to space. He's going to the Apple atmosphere. There should be
a rule about that. You shouldn't be able to call yourself like other, if I was an astronaut,
I'd be offended by that. But like, wait a minute, I risk my life. I'm an American hero or
another country's hero or something going into this actual space. And having gone through all the
rigorous training and, you know, stamina work that they have to do to be able to be out in space,
because that's hard on your body. Meanwhile, the bald weirdo boy over here just wants to go into
the upper atmosphere with his brother. Like, that's not being a hero. That is not doing what
astronotics was invented for. I don't know. I don't know. It's just him marking something off his
bucket list. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm a little tired of helping him do that. I think a lot of us are
and chickens come home to roofs. They always do. I don't know. I say to all you Amazon drivers out
there, we appreciate you. Even if your boss doesn't, we appreciate you. We thank you for what
you're doing out there because a lot of those are our postal workers. A lot of those are just
people working, you know, a hard job and not even getting paid that well for it. Absolutely.
So we appreciate you. I also support people singing. I mean, yes, do pay attention while you're
driving, but good grief. Quick follow up for just a friend of mine, Melissa. Not me, just a friend.
Does it matter if you're not a great singer? Not at all. Okay. Cool. Cool. Then I'm with you
belt it out. Oh, it's the only safe place for me. I have all the concerts and all the concerts I
do were in the car, all of my car, only my car blue, only Jeep, my Jeep blue has to put up with
my voice. We won't be back with some more fun on the morning show here at WF HR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR, locally grown radio.
Can we forget my mother for you?
Melissa, James here with you. We hope you're having a good day out there. Thanks for joining us
on this Thursday. Happy Friday Eve, everybody. Got a couple of topics to take us to the top of the
hour. Keep in mind we're going to kick off the nine o'clock hour with our friends from the
South of County main society in our pet of the week. Oh, yeah. This is an interesting one, Melissa.
And I'm just going to read, you know, what I've got here and kind of back off because I don't know
if I really have a place in this conversation, but I do think it's an interesting topic and I
wanted to bring it up for you in the audience and everybody else. A new poll asked people,
when you are sleeping, do you more often feel too hot or too cold? 42% of people said that they are
more often too hot. 12% said that they are too cold and 39% said neither. 8% weren't sure. I
don't know about that. The demographic then was most likely to, the demographic that was most
likely to say they were too hot was women between the ages of 45 and 64 in the Midwest. Very
specific. It doesn't make sense, menopause. Yeah, it's just very specific. So we can now say that
Gen X women in the Midwest are the hottest literally, literally. The demographic that was most likely to
say they were too cold was young adults in the Northeast. So I can't really make a joke on that one,
but it's an interesting thing to me and you brought up, I think, a major point about this, Melissa.
Yeah, I mean, when women are going through hormonal changes and this is pre-menopausal,
menopausal and post-menopausal, which are stages of menopause that we don't talk about enough.
There's not enough. I mean, there are the sciences there. It's developing,
but it's worth a conversation more in depth than we've had. But as far as temperatures when you're
sleeping, for me personally, it depends. It depends on the temperature in your room, yes, and then
what time of the night it is. So when I go to bed is usually when I'm cold. And I have to put
I can't fall asleep if I'm cold so I have to put socks on. But then when I get hot, I have to take
the socks off. It's a nightmare. It cannot sleep with socks on when I'm too hot. It's not, it's just
not right. It's then it right story to begin with right there. I gotta say that. And I also,
I like to have a blanket on. So if it is really hot, which we've, you know, had several really hot
days here in the last month, it's really hard to sleep when it's super hot and you have to have a
blanket on. And then the fan is blowing on you and it's making the blanket move or the sheet,
you know, whatever. And then disturbing your sleep that way, it's sleep is difficult, which I know
I don't have to tell you that, Jay. Just saying it for the rest of us. So I have a bit of an ulterior
motive with this one too. I actually, I pre-tested this topic. I had a group that I brought this
to. And by that, I mean my mother. And I talked to her a little bit about this. And she got a little,
and this is not my mother, but got a little quiet and got a little sheepish for a second. And she's
like, Jimmy, are you gonna bring, are you gonna talk about this on the air? You know, you're gonna
be talking about menopause. And I was like, yeah, we're gonna talk about it. I might do it with the
topic with Terry or Melissa. I'm not sure yet. And she just seemed a little surprised by that.
And it takes a lot to surprise my mother. And I was, as I've mentioned many times, I was raised by
hippie feminist. I was nine years old, if not younger. My mother, telling me about her friend visiting
and things like that. And going to the store and getting tampons for her or something like that. So
these topics, these words, any of this stuff is common to me. And it doesn't seem like a weird
topic to bring up or anything like that. But some people get uncomfortable with these words in
these topics. And I think that that's wrong. I feel like these are things that we should be able
to talk about, say, and not have any issues with. Have the population, doesn't?
Well, I mean, for generations, these things weren't talked about in public.
Yeah. So it's understandable for someone of your mom's generation to be like, well, you know,
maybe that isn't something you want to talk about. I think it's fully understandable because of
societal pressures to only speak about what's polite and only talk about things. But the problem
with that then is that we don't know what's happening. To our bodies, it's a similar thing to,
we need to teach young people when they're going through puberty, what to expect, what changes
their body is going to go through so that they know how to handle it and deal with it, not only
physically, but mentally and emotionally. The same is for women. I mean, I'm now in my early 40s.
And I am and I am post or pre menopausal, which means I'm starting to lose estrogen from my body.
And there are changes that are happening. But it is not something that we talk about very often
because we don't want to be seen as old at age 40. It doesn't mean that I'm old. It just
means that my body is still going through changes and doing what it does.
I think that not talking about these things also does not give an opportunity for men not only
to learn about this stuff, but to have some empathy for women, which we need more of, especially
in a country where we are taking women's rights away. Like it's no, like there aren't,
like women don't have some, something to say about these things. We are.
We're subhuman. We're second-class citizens.
Excuse me, Melissa, I was talking. No, I'm joking. Just to try to lighten the mood, sorry, I'm joking,
joking, joking. It frustrates me when it comes to this topic. And I can't, and obviously,
doesn't affect me. I can't even imagine what it must be like to be a woman in this country right now.
Not like men don't go through changes too. You do. I mean, as you age and as you grow,
there are changes because we're humans. We're humans. Yeah, we're different genders. But we should
be able to talk about these things that our bodies go through that as changes happen and have
helpful in conversations that build, not that tear down. Yeah. And we have forgotten something
in our society that is vitally important, I think, in life. Getting older is a good thing.
Getting older is okay. Everybody does. Please, you survived another day. Yeah, if you're lucky,
you get to do it. That's the gift of life, everybody, is getting more days, getting the one thing
nobody could buy, not even Jeff Bezos, more time. It's a good thing. We should be supportive of it
in our communities, in our society, regardless of man or woman. This is a good thing. We should
be embracing that. And part of getting older is understanding each other's bodies, whether you
were a man or woman, understanding what's going on with those things and maybe having a little more
understanding and empathy for this stuff when you're in the voting booth. Yeah. I think it's important.
And I'm glad we were able to talk about it. I also had a bunch of just memories of being a little
kid and walking to the bodega, trying to remember the name, the brand that my mother told me,
and then it had to be a certain size. I'm freaking out because I had to go back to the apartment.
I had to go back. I forgot. I had to go back. See, the beauty of smartphones now,
is that you can take pictures of products. This is what I want. No kid, this up.
No kid messing that stuff up anymore. Got that down. Got that down. I want to get into this one too
with you, but it's just lighten the mood a little bit here. And I think it's a fun topic too.
This is kind of interesting. A dog named Buckethead was rescued from a plastic container in Vermont.
A dog scene wandering for over a week in Vermont with a bucket-like plastic container stuck on
its head has been rescued, an animal control officer announced. Why was it a week?
Yeah. Why was it going for a week? Maybe they couldn't catch it. Maybe some citizens.
Animal control officer Renee Falconer put a great name for that animal control officer.
Working in animals, yeah. Announced on social media that the dog known as Buckethead,
or Bucky, was captured on September 1st over a week after he was first seen.
The bucket found to be have been come from an automatic dog feeder, had a hole in the end that
gave Bucky a very limited ability to eat and drink. Falconer said, so that's how the dog survived.
Okay. Bucky was lured into a trap using McDonald's chicken nuggets, which was he was able to eat.
The container has now been removed and Falconer is caring for the underweight dog until he is
healthy enough to be adopted. He snapped out of survival mode very quickly, Falconer told the
local news. He's still a little leery about some things, but loud noises, vehicles, and stuff,
but he is surviving and doing well. Yeah. We'd expect him to have a little bit of trauma after that.
Yeah. And we, boy, we need to call out our societies a little bit more. If you were,
if you see somebody like setting up a trap for a stray dog, that's a, that's a weak human being
right there. That's a coward. We need to be calling out those things in our society. Our humane
societies, our communities have enough troubles. We don't need knuckleheads like this. We don't
need trouble makers like this. We need to shame people like this, call people out on these things.
To me, it's the same thing. It's the person that leaves their dog in a world-up window car
and a hundred-degree weather. Animals can't defend themselves. It's on us too.
I don't take care of them. Yeah. That's something that falls on everybody in society.
I hope people realize when they look back at this era in time in 10, 20, 30, 50 years,
they're not going to look at it and say, wow, people really did some messed up things back then.
Except for Joe. Joe was good. Joe was a good guy. They're not going to single us out.
We're all going to be judged by these things and all collectively. Let's change the game. Let's
flip the script. Let's try to make things better and different, whether it is learning more about
women's rights or caring about animals or just giving a darn about your community.
Every time that we help in our community, we help lift everyone up.
Rising tide raises all boats. That is something to keep in mind with this coming Sunday.
Where our friends over at Three Bridges recovery have falling into recovery from 10 until 2 at
Wildwood Station at 207 West 6th Street in Marshfield. They're going to have a resource table
there for those struggling or maybe want to learn more about that. They're food, harm reduction
supplies, entertainment going to be down there, and stone press food trucks going to be there
from 11 to 2. And all of this being said, they also have a bounce house optical course.
How cool does that sound? That sounds fun. Do you think there's an age limit on it? Do you
think I'm very curious? Maybe, maybe height and weight. You can find out more about this going
into go into civicmedia.us, go under shows, midday magazine. We had Liz and Sarah join us just this
week talking about the event. It's going to be a great event, a fun event and a great way to not
only get out there. Have a good time for free. It's a free event, but also support those that could
really use it and deserve it. Have been working for it. And as we said, help in your community.
Find out more about our friends at three bridges recovery. They got a great Facebook page
encourage you to check that out. And you don't have to register for this event. You just have to
bring some good attitude and have some fun falling into recovery. Coming up this Sunday,
10 to 2 at Wildwood Station at 207 West 6th Street in Marshfield. Again, this is a free event.
Have some fun. Bring your appetite. Bring your smiles and enjoy and support our good friends
over at three bridges recovery. It's going to be a good event, Melissa. We've got a good time
coming up right in the top of the hour. We'll have our pet of the week from the South of
County of Maine Society. Looking forward to that. And so much more. We got plenty of great show
coming up in the next hour here at 975 FM 1320 AM WFHR. This is locally grown radio. WFHR 1320 AM
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