Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day and thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR. Got your host, James J behind the mic. I am joined by our head
of news, our co-host, Melissa Kay. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks
for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great start to your day out there. We are
going to kick things off with our great friend, Mother Nature Whisperer, Weather Whisperer. I
don't know if I'm trying something there, Brittany. Brittany Merlot joining us right now.
Brittany, how you doing? I'm great. Weather Whisperer, Mother Nature Whisperer. Those are
good nicknames. We're testing about. We're testing about. Brittany's going to actually be joining
us, Melissa, Seth and I a little bit later. We're going to be putting her under the spotlight
as we interview her for Directors Cut. We're looking forward to that and really appreciate
her, Brittany. I like the two of us at Microscope. I did, yes, yeah. We are going to get a little
scientific with her. We're going to be talking about your algae and stuff and looking forward
to it. It's going to be a fun conversation. I know you're going to grow me. You'd be like,
what is your relationship with Mother Nature? Tell us the truth. We want the truth. We can handle
the truth. Brittany, I did want to ask you a one question early on, though, because I've been
using our grid funds over travel Wisconsin. They've joined us on the air here a handful of times
over the years. I go to them for the fall color report. Is there somewhere that you would recommend
or just another one that you would recommend to people as they're kind of gearing up and getting
ready to take in one of the most beautiful times of the year here in Wisconsin?
No, I love the travel Wisconsin one. I personally use that as well. That is very accurate. I mean,
they've got the cameras, the pictures up there. They're really diving into different parts of
the counties. I think the only other way is just get out there yourself. Yeah, nice, yeah.
Are you doing any better and give us that report? Yes, yes. We'd love to. That's a great point,
Brittany. Please feel free to call up and let us know everybody. I'll call up on the show here
and let Brittany know. Let us know, Brittany. What is it going to look like today?
Beautiful, great day to go out. Take a walk in the woods, soak up the refreshing feel because we're
still going to be hitting temperatures in about those upper sixties to low seventies. So still
crisp, kind of sunshine out there, mostly sunny today, a calm wind as well. We could see some
patchy fog overnight and through early tomorrow morning, but that's about it. Still sunny,
dry all week long, and in fact, we start to warm things up tomorrow. We'll hit the mid seventies
and then for Thursday and into the weekend, some upper seventies. So the unseasonable warmth is
still hanging on. It's trying to at least for a little bit longer. I always do kind of appreciate
what Mother Nature does this. It seems like we have this almost every fall into, you know,
summer into fall, where she just hangs on for a little bit longer. I love it. And it really
clear blue skies out there today. A great start to the day and to the show. Thanks, Brittany.
We'll talk later. Thank you. Have a good one. Best in the business right there,
friend and Brittany, we're low joining us every morning right in this time slot. And be
I'm look out for that director. I knew episode of directors got this weekend and everything.
Not only is Brittany going to be joining us, but Melissa is going to join us as well.
Oh, yeah, that's right. We're talking on Friday. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Looking forward to it.
Coming up in the show here, we're going to have the El Café, coffee and birthday and anniversary
club coming up for you. We'll also be getting into we might be having flying coffee pretty soon
everybody and looking forward to that. It might be feeling over coffee coffee. If you're feeling
overwhelmed coffee to do list, wait, wait, I'm sorry. Am I saying coffee a lot? You are.
I was like, what did you change the birthday coffee coffee birthday anniversary club?
I'm so sorry, everybody. I'm a little distracted because I had my first cup of coffee today
that I've had like a week or so. It actually feels like it's been once, but I haven't had coffee
at a week with the extraction I had done and everything. I tried it this morning. I had enough
Melissa. I was like, okay, I'm going to milk it down. I'm going to cool it down a little bit,
but oh, coffee, how I missed you. Oh, I missed you. James is in coffee having over there.
I really am. I really am. I'm also feeling a lot of the caffeine. Oh, there should be a fun show.
This is going to be a blast because not only do we have all that going on, but in the 9 o'clock
hour, we'll get into a little bit of entertainment news for you. There is an interesting game show,
based on the 90s TV show that we've got to talk about coming up. It could be fun. That one on
the way, Michael Boublier does something interesting with the voice that I wouldn't have a guest.
Okay. And we're going to mean his voice is velvet. Yeah, it really is. We're going to talk
some local theater as well. And in the 9 o'clock hour, the healthiest vegetable of them all is
we will get into that. I have a guest. Nice. Oh, good. Good. I want to get your guest right
before we get into it. All right. I'll save it. And corporate America's top 10 frustrations. We
will find out about those coming up. But I do want to talk a little bit about coffee. We
normalize coffee. We have it every day. Those of us that love it. No, we don't. But I just wanted
to talk about coffee. We love and bow down to coffee. Thank you, coffee. I'm so sorry.
You're amazing. I didn't tough it through. I tried to drink you while I was dealing with the
paid that I was. But yeah, coffee goes way, way back. I think some of these facts that I happen
to come across about coffee might be common knowledge. Some of it may be not. So let's get into
some of these Melissa. Coffee facts. Coffee facts. Coffee dates back to 800 AD, where it was
discovered. I went to your hot and fresh. I'm sorry. No, keep them coming. Oh, keep them coming.
That was great. That was good. It was discovered back in the ninth century by goat herders.
Good old goat herders. So goats eating the plant, they noticed that goats were eating the plant
and appeared to be dancing after they ate it. We're like, well, I want to try this. Why are the
goats having all this fun? I didn't want what he's having. I knew the goat herder part. I didn't
know that they that why they even tried it. I never thought about that. You see this bean. You're
not necessarily tempted to necessarily try it. Well, right, but early on, you had to watch animals
because and granted that's not always a surefire way to not poison yourself because animals have
different digestive systems than we do. And they can handle like cows. Can you grass? Don't eat grass.
It doesn't. Well, I tried that in grade school. It does not stave off hunger. Yes, no.
But yeah, you had to watch what the animals were able to eat and not die before you tried it
yourself. That's so true. I hadn't thought about that. Coffee is a fruit for those who don't know.
The beans grow on a bush and are found in the center of a berry known as a coffee cherry.
Coffee cherry. That's pretty good. I didn't heard that either. I didn't know that one. I didn't know
that. One of the more famous fans of coffee was Beethoven. Beethoven apparently was quite
obsessed with it actually using precisely 60 beans per cup and would spend time counting out each
and every bean before having one. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Well, I have to tell you, I went on a bit of a,
it wasn't a deep dive. It was a medium dive on poor over coffee and how to do it properly. Like,
oh, what's his name? Is it Dan? Over at ground up coffee. Yeah. He's like, yeah, no, this
this will be the healthiest deep dive you ever take. And he wasn't wrong. I mean, I watched,
I watched an 18 minute video James on how to do poor over coffee and not only was it fascinating,
but the guy that narrated it was his dry humor. I stayed there for the dry humor. It was good.
Yes. But yes, there are so much, there's so much science involved in how to make a couple coffee.
So Beethoven had it right. You need the proper amount of beans to water ratio to not to have
that sweet spot between not too bitter or not too acidic or there's so many components I can't
imagine. Yeah, man, I see what I mean. We have normalized coffee. We've got to put some more
thought to this one. That's awesome. And a shout out to our friends if from the ground up coffee shop
visit them when they open their doors. Everybody to 50 West grain avenue right here in Rapids.
We now their Finland is known for consuming the most coffee in the world. I would like to say that
we here in Rapids can compete with them. Finland drinks the most coffee on average. They drink 12
kilograms per person per year, which works out an impressive 1,680 cups on average each year.
Whoa, that's pretty good. But did coffee help Finland get to the Olympics? Because it helped Brazil.
Back in 1932, the Brazilian government didn't have enough money to send their athletes to the
Olympics. So they founded the trip by selling coffee. Okay, I just had to do the math on that.
And because I don't meant to I had to calculate that's over four and a half cups of coffee a day
in Finland. That is. They talk about it being a very happy part of the world. I wonder if
there's something to that right there. Coffee wasn't always meant wasn't always for drinking before
coffee was discovered to be a delicious beverage. It was actually a food. East African Trimes would
grind the berries and mix them with animal fat to eat. Oh, kind of like Native American.
Is it peck peckin? Yeah, I want to say peckin. Yeah, yeah. And that's that's not exactly right.
I'll look at it. I know what you're talking about though. And I'm the last person to ask you for
say your word right. You may know this one Melissa with that deep dive you did. There are two
different types of coffee bean. Robust and Arabic Arabic has lower acidity and smoother taste
whereas robust is more acidic and bitter. Okay, they didn't go under the different beans.
Okay, all right. I thought that was quite interesting. Yeah, I got to be admitted. I wasn't
quite sure of that one. And coffee at one point there was a dark time for coffee and coffee
lovers out there. Coffee was banned. Yeah. In 18th century governments tried to ban the beverage
because it was thought to stimulate radical thinking. Our favorite drink was actually banned in
Sweden for a while in 1746, along with anything related to it, including cups and saucers.
What? Sweden was messing around. No, not only can you not have the drink, you cannot collect the
cups either. It seems a bit too far. It seems like it's a little excessive. Can I have some water?
Well, you better put your hands together. Got no cups. The word is pemican. Oh, yes. Okay,
that now that is much more accurate. Yeah, dried meat, ran animal fat and sometimes like fruit,
whatever they had that they could dry and it was a trail food. That's pretty okay, right?
Nicely done, Melissa. We will get to our Elcafé birthday and anniversary club coming up on
the morning show right here at WFHR locally grown radio. It's time for the Elcafé birthday and
anniversary club. One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and talk about
our great friends over at Elcafé at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port at Wurts.
Their doors are open. They have a fun looking menu this week. Yeah, do you see their daily
specials? I did skillet skillet skillet. Yeah, some really good stuff on that skillet today.
You can get a great one for breakfast, pork skillet, oven baked pork, two eggs, onion, green peppers
and cheese. And they're special for lunch today, spaghetti and garlic toast. Who doesn't love spaghetti?
Yes, I love trying different people's spaghetti's too. They always tend to do really.
Just be a different spin on a great, on a classic. Is it weird that I thought,
because, okay, oven baked pork. I'm like, that's not usually something you think about for
breakfast. Like, wait a minute, Melissa, like every, every breakfast meet as pork.
No, actually, I didn't, you're so right. I didn't even think about that. Bacon, sausage, ham,
they're all pork, but they don't, they have like breakfast pork names, as opposed to oven baked
pork. No, we, but it sounds delicious. We had a, a, a couple different Latin families of
Puerto Rican family, Cuban family lived right on the same floor as us, and they were always at
this time of day. Absolutely. There was ham or, or some sausage or something being cooked or
something like that. And so I, I, I immediately think of that stuff almost, um, actually almost
even more than dinner. Sometimes I think of those things, because they are breakfast, they're breakfast
pork. Yeah, but it's, it's called, call them pork. You call them, bacon, sausage or ham.
I didn't even thought about it. Whenever you call it, order it over at El Café today.
Get on over there, everybody, and think of for us, wish them a good day.
I might have to just drive over there. Oh, it sounds so good. It sounds fantastic.
Let me know how it is. Let us know your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. We want to hear
from you. Get a, get a hold of us by emailing us info at WFHR.com, info at WFHR.com. You can
email any of our staff or myself, james.mailoff at civicmedia.us, Melissa.k, at civicmedia.us.
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Or just one button, dial in with the civic media app, which you have because you want to get in on
this awesome contest we have going on this week. Yeah, more on that later. We're going to be talking
about that and hyping that up and everything because we just got a week left of this one. So
want to make sure that you all get in on this and get some winning it. That's right.
And get in on the winning because we're also at the beginning of every month announced a winner
for our El Café birthday anniversary club. That's why we collect these names. So whether you're
giving to us live on the air or not, yeah, we want to celebrate with you, everybody. Let's grab
a qualifier today. Melissa, I need a one or two. One. All right. Give us that qualifier. We can get
ready to celebrate in the wishing a happy birthday to Greg Langston. Happy birthday, Greg. Enjoy your
day. Greg wishing you a good one. And we wish a very happy anniversary to Bob and Donna Panko.
Bob and Donna, happy anniversary. Wishing you guys a wonderful anniversary. Hope it's a good one
for both of you. Enjoy the day. Enjoy each other and many, many, many more to you. Yes.
And that sounds like just a classic couple name, Bob and Donna. That's a good name. That's a good
set of names right there. Enjoy your, I like that. Enjoy your anniversary, you too. We take a look
for the qualifiers. Yes. I'm sorry. They are the qualifiers for today. Yay. Congratulations, Bob
and Donna. Enjoy and brag to everybody about it. Enjoy it. And go get a pork skillet. Yes. Yes.
Good idea. Taking a look at our celebrity list of birthdays. Ben Platt is 31. Evan and
dear Evan Hansen. You may also know him as Benji in the pitch perfect movies.
From what I, I have to be honest, I haven't seen him, but I hear very good things about his acting.
Let's see. Oh, Nia Velvarbalos is 62, the wonderful Greek actress from my Big Fat Greek wedding.
Fantastic actor. Wonderful actor.
Mean Joe Green is 78. Oh, Mean Joe Green.
Not only a legend on defensive line in football, Melissa, and a part of one of the greatest
defenses in football history, but maybe more famous in some ways pop culture wise. There is a
famous commercial that Mean Joe Green did a Pepsi Coca-Cola commercial. Oh, God, my mom's yelling
at me right now. He's walking down the tunnel after a tough game or something like that,
and a kid goes up and he's, hey, Mean Joe Green, and it gives him a Coca-Cola.
And Mean Joe tosses a majority. And it's just a simple ad, but it was the biggest ad in the world
for like a year or two Coca-Cola made use of that one. It was a big one. And kind of really,
there was always celebrities and commercials, but that one really showed how popular that could be.
It'd done right. And it's kind of a simple commercial, but it actually is really kind of a,
when you watch it, especially going back and everything, with how much we overthink this stuff.
You know, pretty cool. Well, that's the thing. Sometimes the simpler ones are the ones that hit the
best. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that the case? Yeah. Yeah. So when you try too hard, man, looks like a
trying to hard. We've got some people no longer with us. And all three are going to take a moment,
everybody, because first up, one of the greatest, I think, members of 30 Rock of Senate lives,
alum Phil Hartman, born in this day in 1948, passed away way too early in 1998.
SNL start, you know, actually got to start with the groundlings. Really one of the, I believe,
one of the architects of the famous improv group, the groundlings, which is just about as big a
second city is here in the Midwest and out east. The groundlings are out west.
Phil Hartman had about 19, at least 19 to 20 different characters, recurring characters on
Senate life. One of the biggest things you can get on that show is you get on the show. And then
it's, okay, I have to have a character that they keep bringing me back in sketches. So they keep,
they got to use me. I'm going to be out there. Also, how else can I be used on that stage? Am I
just an actor? I'm not going to get used that much. Well, if I'm a writer and an actor, I can get
used even more. Phil Hartman came in to Senate life a little bit older, not super old, but a little
bit older than usual, your usual Senate life member. So he had a little more seasoning and he was
able to walk into that writer's room and walk on to that stage at 30 Rock and make sure every person
that watched that show knew who he was. The history of great impersonators on that show, nobody
better than Phil Hartman. There was nobody who was a better impersonator than Phil Hartman.
And they've had some greats. It's really saying something. And then a lot of people have a hard
time transitioning from Senate life and going to the pro game, if you will, going to TV and movies
and everything. Phil Hartman, they couldn't wait for him. Casting agents to this day talk about how
they were, they wanted Phil Hartman and more stuff, but the Senate life schedule kept him so busy.
So it wasn't able to do a lot of things. So when he got his break on TV and doing news radio,
I and it had on their day fully from kids in the hall. Another great improv show, one of my favorites
of all time. I was glued to that show. It had a perfect cast and Phil was, to me, the best part
of it and did a couple of great movies over the times. Also so much voice acting. And as all of
that being said, one of Phil Hartman's greatest legacies is also about mental health and the
importance of it and the importance of paying attention to it, the importance of addiction and
where that can go. His legacy is so much, so many layers to it. And I just think one of the,
there's, every year on this day, I go back and I watch this sketch, his last episode, Chris
Farley came out and Farley didn't want to let him go. And this wasn't a bit. This was something
he really felt. And you have this beautiful scene of Phil Hart of Chris Farley putting his head
on Phil Hartman's shoulder. And it's just a beautiful moment. Linda, I have to mention so many
things from my childhood that he was in tailspin, duct tape with Jetson's Darkwing Duck. I didn't
watch it, but he was in a lot of the Peewee Herman shows. The Brave Little Toaster.
My favorite, my sister's favorite cartoon. Yeah, I thank you so much. I forgot about his voice
acting. He got his start. Before the groundlings, actually, through the groundlings, I believe,
working with Peewee Herman and was a writer with him and helped create a bunch of this stuff,
if not half of the stuff that we loved about the Peewee Herman stand up and the TV show.
It's a great note. Of course, the Simpsons. Yes, yes. Easily the best cameo ever to join the
Simpsons. He was Lionel. He actually was so good that they ended up turning him into a regular
on the show. Had he been around, he would probably still be on the show doing Lionel Hut's
attorney at law or try my clerk. You might remember me from such shows as such a great,
one of the legends of everything that he did. Linda McCartney, born in this day 1941,
passed away in 1998. Paul McCartney has mentioned many, many times that his career,
wings, none of that happens without Linda. Linda was very shy. Linda didn't think she was a great
musician. Paul didn't care. Paul had worked with perfection. Paul had worked with, you know,
being in maybe the most legendary band of all time. He wanted to work with his wife.
He wanted to work with his friends. He wanted to do work that he loved. And Linda brought that out
of him. Linda McCartney was also one of the first and biggest voices and advocates for veganism
and being a vegetarian. And more importantly, eating healthy and paying attention to labels and
everything. It wasn't so much. She never pushed anything. She wasn't the, you shouldn't eat meat
or anything like that. She was this very adamant about eating healthier way before a lot of other
people were. And Jim Henson, born in this day in 1936, passed away in 1990. Genius. Genius.
I grew up idolizing and loving Jim Henson, one of the biggest influences I ever had and
never will have, like a lot of us out there. And really did my homework on him because I do
these deep dives on people. And I like to know where they're born, how they, they're origin
stories and everything. It's one of my favorite things about people because people are one of my
favorite things. And Jim Henson was a self-made person. Think of, you know, jumping into the
entertainment industry and trying to make it as a singer or an actor or something like that.
Now try to think of doing it with a part of the genre that has not even been invented yet.
Hasn't even been done. And doing this. Not certainly not alone, but with a great team and
finding good people to work with. And not only working with good people, but trusting those people.
And finding the joy and the greatest joy and creativity is when you create for others and when
you create, create with others. And I still learn, it feels like almost every year more about him
that just fascinates me. There's a beautiful documentary on Disney. I encourage you to check out
about Jim Henson and the origins of the Muppets. And all these things this man gave me. And
maybe the greatest one I get to do later tomorrow when I get to podcasts with my daughter doing
the podcast we do called What The Muppets, where it's all about Muppets and everything.
Yeah, the man keeps giving. And just a legend, a true genius in what he did.
I'm gone way too soon again. Yeah, yeah. We wish Happy Birthdays to Greg Langston.
Happy birthday, Greg. And all of you out there celebrating Happy Birthday, everybody.
Happy anniversary to everybody celebrating out there, especially our qualifiers Bob and Donna
Panco. Bob and Donna, congratulations. Happy anniversary. Enjoy your day, everybody. And if you
want to get us, if you, if you're just kitchen this segment at the end and you're like, oh no,
I missed the birthday anniversary club. No, you didn't. No contact us. Yeah, call in or contact us
anyway. You feel comfortable. We will celebrate it a little bit later or even in tomorrow's show.
Absolutely. Mel and I will be back more fun on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everybody. Melissa and James here for the morning show. We'd like to send this
song out to our love coffee. We hope you're having a great Tuesday morning out there, everybody.
I thought Lou jumped in suitor here. I thought you timed this out wrong. I thought he jumped
in a lot suitor. I didn't know it didn't drag it without this log and everything. That's okay.
And it's another, you know, little segment that he's coming in now. Yeah.
I'm dancing with my coffee. And I don't care. I don't care who can, who can see me.
Windows are wide open. I'm dancing with my coffee. I don't care. Melissa and I got some fun
stuff lined up for you, everybody. We're going to get into a little bit America being down to
its final K-Mart. A big day on that. A big moment in pop culture and just, you know, consumerism,
really. That's coming up for you. But could we have flying shopping carts before we have flying
cars? Flying shopping carts. Yeah. We've been promised flying cars for around a hundred years now.
But actually, anyone actually working on it, like I am curious about that. Is anybody actually,
because we're, we're, we kind of, it feels like we jump to step. Instead of flying cars,
we're just trying to get to the atmosphere now. Not even space. They keep saying space. It's not
technically space. They're just going into the higher atmosphere. But regardless, maybe they're
just waiting for us to stop getting into accidents on the ground. Yeah. I'm a firm believe. I
feel like I feel like I get in trouble whenever I say this one. And I know I'm not going to win
anybody over here. But I don't know that we've earned it. We treat driving and cars and everything
like it is a birthright. And it's not. It's privilege. You have to earn this. You have to take a
test to be able to drive. You can have it taken away from you. So whether it is having more
ATVs on our roads or it is having flying cars, I feel like these are things that we need to earn
as a society. And I don't, I'm genuinely asking. I don't pretend to have the answers. I am not
standing on a hill and pointing down and judging anybody. But I do think we need to ask this question
much more if we're going to go forward with these things. And especially if we're going to have
flying shopping carts because a robotics team in South Korea is developing something called a
pelletrone, which is a combination of a pallet and a drone. It's supposed to be an improvement on
a shopping cart that can go over any kind of terrain, including up and downstairs. Okay. The current
vision of the palletrone isn't that smart. It can it can hover at a certain height while safely
balancing wherever cargo you put on top of it. And it doesn't even have to be a basket. It's
stable enough that it's more like a table. But a human still has to control it. There's a handle
on the front like a normal shopping cart and you exert force to direct it where you want it to go.
And it doesn't seem to, but it does seem to take less effort than an actual shopping cart.
Right. Because there's zero resistance in the air. And you don't have to worry about picking zero.
And how many times there are a hundred carts. Those people do all the all the cart guys and
ladies out there grabbing carts. You guys do a great job. I used to do that job. You do great work.
But every time man, there's a hundred carts and I grabbed the one with the bad wheel or the shaky
wheel every single time. So you don't worry about that. That's true. No wheels. No wheels. And if people
leave this cart in the middle of the parking lot, it'll remain stationary at least until it runs
out of batteries. What happens when it runs out of batteries? It just like falls to the ground. Man,
drives over it. These can't be cheap. So working, you know, there used to be cops here and
working that and grabbing carts at night at two in the morning or whatever and you're running around.
There's always that one cart that some Yahoo sent all the way over on the other end of the shop,
go parking lot or something to grab in all these things. And there's the bad wheel one and everything.
I can't imagine that on top of that. Have I got the charger? Yeah, we got the things dead. You
can't move it if it's dead. One of the I just similar. The question though is, how does it fly?
Yeah, that's a good question. What makes it levitate? They're still in the early testing phase
where the carts are only holding about seven pounds of cargo less than a gallon of milk.
And I haven't read it yet of how it levitates. That's such a great question.
Since there aren't many stores or parking lots that require you to go up and down steps,
you may be hoping that this is something that could carry your bags up and up the steps to your
apartment, but that's probably not realistic. The developers say that they believe that this will
be more practical for commercial and industrial use rather than residential.
Not if it only carries seven pounds. Yeah, yeah. And while it's in the early stages,
grocery stores, I don't know that it's uncomfortable saying that they're just coming back
economic-wise from the pandemic. But I wouldn't say that there's very many grocery chains that
could afford this. This is one of those things that much like big, big flat screen TVs.
And there was a point there where you knew if somebody had money because they had one of those.
And then eventually they just became so much. Now you see them on the side of the road all the time
and everything. It's going to need to get to that stage with something like this for, you know,
definitely a supply and demand kind of thing. But you know, the only thing I can think
that it would how it would levitate are like something like fans.
Yeah. And so then what? It's blasting the ground with air to stay in the air. Can you imagine
what that would be like in a grocery store? They better keep their floors pretty darn clean.
And watching the test video of this, like they, it seems like they're, while they're not using
a lot of effort, they're moving very slow, very slow, which is the opposite of your shopping
experience. Yeah. No, you want to get in and out as quick as possible. And this, this doesn't even
take in the biggest consideration of all factors in the whole. Where do you put your child?
Where do you put your child? Where? Where? Where? Where?
It only holds seven pounds. I'm sorry. I mean, putting the kid in the car. Sorry, Jimmy. You're
going to have to walk. Yeah. Yeah. I'm nine months. Hey, leg it, kid. Work out those calves.
Comes with a backpack so you can carry the kid on your back. I feel like we're always away from
this, what everybody. And probably a ways away from flying cars too. I just want the hoverboards.
Yes. That's what I, I'm with you. Yes. Yes. Yes. I don't even care if we ever have flying
cars, but give me a hoverboard today. I want one of those right now, especially it's getting colder
out. We're not going to be able to use it for much longer. I don't know if you want to use a
hoverboard in the winter. I don't know. Oh, would be kind of cool in the snow though. Oh,
that'd be pretty cool. It's like a hover snowboard. Have you snowboarded before? I have to
disaster. That's right. Yes. That's right. We talked about. I, I like, I ended with a sore
tailbone and hot tatties in the chalet. It's a waste in the complete loss. Yeah. It was so
bad. A little, a little positive. I think snowboarding with one of those hoverboard would be pretty
dark. Cool. That all sounds terrifying to me. But yes, one to watch other people do it. We,
you've probably heard a number of people by now talking about this. Kmart just announced
it's last full-size store in the US is closing next month. The location in Bridge Hampton,
New York on Long Island will shut down shut at the doors October 20th. A smaller Kmart in Miami
will be the last one operating in the lower 48. They also still have a few left in the US Virgin
Islands and Guam. The first Kmart opened in Garden City, Michigan in 1962 and by the early 90s,
there were around 2,300 of the Kmarts across the country at its power. At its bad, you know,
almost powerful, but they went bankrupt to no two and merged with Sears and then went bankrupt
again in 2018. Even the last location in Miami isn't much of a Kmart these days. They recently
subtly released it to a home furnishing chain. And only the only part that still a Kmart is a
small section that used to be their garden department. So it's not really even a Kmart anymore.
It's like two certain generations. This is Melancholy. This is a little sad, I don't know, sad
the right word, but a little bit because I know for me and where I grew up, we couldn't afford,
you know, marshals or some of the other stores, but we could always afford Kmart. And Kmart
also had a layaway plan back in the day that, you know, for lower income people, there was
nothing really like that. That was really important back in the day. And it had its place, it had
its time. I do think that it's, we could be sad, but I would also, I would rather put my energy
towards what learning from this and what businesses can do to survive and how, you know, instead of
just whining and complaining about Amazon or big chains, what can we do to compete with them?
What can we do to not saying looking forward? Yeah, yeah, and building and learning from this.
How can we build up small businesses in our local area so that they aren't, you know, at danger of
going under because of these big huge giant businesses that also, as we're talking, can go under.
And the importance of moving on, you know, evolving, whether you're a business, whether you're a
person, time only goes one direction. And everything is better off when you let it revolve organically,
naturally or scientifically. This is just business. And, and yeah, it's rough. It's, it's tough to
see, but at the same time, hey, what did Kmart, what came, what could they have done to stay around?
Walmart is still around, target is still around. You still do have some stores that are still
physically around and selling. What are they doing and how do they do it? It's, they're evolving
with the times. Yeah, that's what you got to do. And, but I don't care what you say, James,
I'm going to lock myself up in my house and watch back to the future. Time goes more than one
direction. Hey, that's a great point. Where we're going? We don't need roads. We just need commercials.
We will be back with more shows and other boards. You can hang on the end of a car and get a ride.
We'll be back with more fun 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. Thanks for joining us. Hope your Tuesday is treating you good.
Got some fun stuff lined up for you. We'll take you right to the top of the hour.
In the nine o'clock hour, we'll kick things off a little entertainment news, talk some local
theater. And eventually in the nine o'clock, we're going to get into the healthiest vegetable of
them all. I know what it is. Crown one. Oh, okay, wait to hear your answer. I'll get into all that.
Oh, now you just said that. Oh, oh, okay, keep going. We want to get into this one.
An article from mash.com. Send a shout out to them with the fast food chains that do and do
not use real cheese. Sorry, sorry. It's kind of a funny, you know, it is funny, but I also can't
wait to hear this because if it's not real cheese, I can eat it. So the fast food, food places that
do use real cheese and most menu items include Panera, Starbucks, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Wendy's,
Chick-fil-A, and Jack in the box. And colvers. And colvers. Nice. And the ones that do not include
McDonald's, Burger King, Sonic, Dairy Queen, Tim Hortons, and you know, something else to keep in
mind any subsidiaries of these. You know, Tim Horton. Yeah, I've heard of those, but I've never
actually seen one Wendy's. I eat at a fast food place called Tim Horton. I don't know, it feels like
I'm going to show up at some dude's house. Tim, what's the lunch? Hey, look, we don't have a
whole lot back today, so the menu is a little thin. Wendy's is on the real cheese list, but they're
junior bacon cheeseburger. The one in the deal features American cheese, which is classified as a
cheese product. Cheese product. And Buffalo Wild Wings may not be fast food, but their cheeseburger
also comes with American cheese, so keep that in mind. So that's kind of an interesting list.
And I don't know how much this changes people's direction, one way or the other, how they're eating
these things, except when it comes to like you were saying Melissa. Okay, but I just looked up
Tim Hortons. Okay, I'm going to look this up now. No, it's in Canada and here, but they sell
something called Tim Bits. Oh, no, oh, no, no, I think they're like little donut, like donut holes.
Oh, wait a minute, you can't, you can't. Yeah, no, you can't do that. I got a name already, Tim.
I'm sorry, you can name your neck. It could be, it could be his name. It could be based on,
oh, it looks like it's out up out of the Wendy's organ of family and the Wendy's organization.
I'm sorry, that just got me. I just feel like I'm not going to some dude tell us and buy in his
Bits. You have such a normal sounding name, Tim. I'll show you. I'll name a restaurant after my name.
You'll see people will be excited by the name Tim Hortons. Sorry, I get my older conversation.
Yeah, no, that's all right. We're discussing cheese. I'm somebody's Bits. I think that this is
going to be helpful maybe. Otherwise, I don't know how much rhyme or reason this really has to
do it other than that. Well, I mean, for those of us who are lactose intolerant knowing that,
because I mean, like I know that the ice cream and McDonald's I can digest easier than
obviously something from Culver's because they use real milk that and McDonald's uses a lot of
sugar. Yeah. Yeah. And other ingredients. So knowing that I could actually get the cheese on
the big Mac that I always order without cheese. Maybe, maybe I'll do that next time. I don't know.
It doesn't add a whole lot though. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. And, you know, having food at almost all these
places, except for Tim Hortons, which we will never ever eat at. No, not going to your place, Tim.
Timothy, I don't notice, honestly, I notice a difference with the meat more so. I think I'm more
of a meat person than a cheese. So I guess I don't really pay as much attention. So the post a real
cheese to a processed cheese or what have you. I guess I don't notice the difference when they're
combined, maybe on the run or on a girl cheese sandwich. God, all of this sounds so good. I'm so hungry.
I just want real. It's what solid food. I think it's a very, could be very helpful what you
talked about there outside of that. I am curious how much this would, if you weren't lactose intolerant,
if this would, you know, help you direction wise on what you're eating or anything.
Well, I mean, and if you're just looking to remove a little bit of calories or fat from your meal,
having it without the fake cheese will do that for you. And then, and removes something that is
probably a lot more chemicals and, and, and not great ingredients that you don't need in your life.
We're trying to. Yeah. We're trying to help you make, you know, it could be tough sometimes
in the middle of the week trying to figure out what to feed yourself and, you know, maybe even your
family and all that. We get these lists. And when I want to thin out that to do list for you,
and speaking of to do lists, they can help you stay on task and get more done. But is it possible?
You're already getting too much done. If you're feeling overwhelmed, think about making a to don't list.
Don't. I've never heard of this one. I, um, I am a big list maker, a list doer. I get it from
my father who gets it from his father. I come from a long line of list makers. Um, and, uh, to,
to don't lists are for all the nonessential things we did, uh, we do that suck up our time,
or things we do a certain way that might not be so hard if we change them up. A to don't miss.
A to don't list might include things like don't over commit to social engagements or don't
offer to do favors for everyone or don't schedule meetings before 11 AM. Don't skip lunch.
Okay. So this is learning how to say no. Yeah. Uh, the idea is to be mindful about the stuff
that's eating up your time and making life less enjoyable. But unlike to do lists, you don't need
to make one every day. Just do it once and check in on it. Uh, Reno to remind yourself when you need
to. Reminder don't over commit. I need that one every day. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I'm going to be,
if this could be really cool for some people, I think, I bet you there's some people that could,
you, you make this list, laminate it, keep it in your, your, your purse, your wallet, whatever.
Impa, yeah. Yeah. Uh, if you're lucky enough to have pockets, um, any of those things, I think
that'd be great for somebody like me. Um, this would just be reminding me of things that I'm not
doing, not reminding me to do things. Um, there are certain, there's certain, you know,
ways that my brain works. It is just weird. And, uh, this is one of them where I feel like, I,
I already, I already got this list in my hat. This, this, this to don't list. I've already got it
there. Um, and, and I check in on it and I try to keep up with it, but between you and I, Melissa,
not always the greatest at it. I feel like having a physical one in front of me, um, might almost
have, uh, not the opposite effect, but, uh, not, not as, uh, positive as, as an effect.
Hmm. Well, and I do think that it's good to be mindful of those things I have had to become more
mindful of that as I've gotten older, just because I don't know, there's only so much
you can cram into a day or an hour. Mm hmm. Before you're going to either let yourself
for somebody down. Yeah. So, I mean, that, that, for me, that's the motivation. I don't want to
over commit and then not be able to follow through with what I promised. So that is, that has been
my driving force to being able to say, uh, no, sorry, I can't do that. I love the idea of having
something a daily or almost, uh, when you need it, go to brake glass and case needed,
positive, you know, reinforcement or, or something, a nice positive reminder, um, something like
that or along those lines akin to that, I, I got no problems with, I, I recommend something like
that. Um, they, they, they think they're just what that is is, you know, I think we're, we're trying
to navigate that, trying to figure that out. We've never been more in touch with our brain.
You know, we, we've never been more connected and more understanding of it and we've never
understood the brain better and all that being said, we still don't know what's going on up there.
Still don't know a lot of it. You know, we still got a lot of it. We're trying to map out.
Imagine, in some ways, it's a little reassuring. Yeah. Imagine that the, if the brain was the world
and where we have it now and if we looked out, you know, the Americas, even North America,
we got all that mapped out. That's great. The rest of the world, I got no idea what's going on
out there. No idea what's going to, like that is the brain. That is, that is what we're dealing with.
So we're still trying to figure these things out and navigate this stuff. And as we do this,
it's important to not only give each other grace, but give yourself grace. And whether it's
overcommitting to things or it is not, you know, taking the time to let yourself just breathe,
just be, you know, whatever it is. Something that I read recently kind of really resonated with me
and I don't, I don't know quite know how to explain it, but it was something along the lines
of who benefits from your self-hate. Who benefits from that? Yeah.
So if that can be a reason to, to love yourself and to try to think positively about you and what
you're doing and what you're able to accomplish, whatever way works, because we all need more self-love.
Yeah. Yeah. There can't be enough of it. We're not, we're not, we're not on too much of that.
We need more and more of it. And we need to have more of good vibes, good energy. We're able to
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