Coffee Toothpaste? Really? (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

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 K.

Good morning.

Thank you for joining us, everybody.

We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot,

talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

So I have a question for you guys.

Has anyone turned on the heat yet?

Whether it be your house, your car, space heater.

I'm just curious.

Well, my parents last night turned theirs on.

They turned theirs on.

But they weren't fighting about it, but my dad was fighting himself.

I saw him like kind of like like like stuttering towards it and everything.

Oh, I don't want to do it.

I don't want to do it.

Yeah, he definitely did though.

He finally did.

It's 66 degrees in my house right now.

So no.

Oh, no.

I have not turned my heat on.

Oh, you haven't now.

I haven't actually turned the heat on for the entire place yet, but I have used the space heater

and the heat occasionally on my car.

And like you're bad.

It's just like, should we be doing this yet?

Or do we just man up and deal with it?

It's a tough one.

It's a tough choice.

It's a tough choice.

What on a sweater?

What are you doing?

Put a sweater on.

Where you got those socks on with it?

Exactly.

Well, it's crisp out there this morning.

We are dropping near that freezing mark.

We've got frost out there once again.

And you know, that means it's just going to be a clear, beautiful, sunny day throughout the afternoon.

So another gorgeous one.

Temperatures climb to the upper sixties.

Tonight we could see some more frost as we drop back to the low thirties.

And then for tomorrow, a repeat of today.

Still back into those upper sixties.

All ahead of a warm-up as we close this week out.

No rain in the forecast until Saturday night still.

And of course, I know you've heard that major hurricane down south is the big, big, weather story right now.

Yeah.

And keeping an eye on that.

And certainly thinking about all the people affected by it.

Appreciate you, Brittany.

Thank you so much.

We're hanging out tomorrow.

So good.

Have a good day.

You too.

Yeah, you too.

We're going to be in the business right there for Brittany.

And we're going to say every morning, right in this time slot.

Yeah, it sounds like I can't put my pumpkins outside until later this week.

No, not yet.

Not yet.

You won them the last.

There is a certain like a certain temperature.

And like you said in the next week or so where it seems like they last longer.

If you wait to put them out.

You can't let them freeze.

That's kind of the big thing, I think.

Is okay.

Yeah.

Well, because once they freeze, then they thought, oh, then they rot.

And yeah, that thing's happened.

It's like, oh, it's decay.

Science.

Science.

We got better.

But we got more fun stuff coming up for everybody.

Not just science.

We have the El Caffe birthday anniversary club around the corner.

We'll be getting into looking forward to diving into that.

We have air heads releasing a new candy for Halloween.

What?

Yeah.

That could be interesting.

We've got a couple of other ones too, though, want to dive into.

And of course, some have some entertainment news for you in the 9 o'clock hour.

We're going to focus on some local theater.

Looking forward to that.

Also in the 9 o'clock hour, a little bit later, what counts as junk food?

What is specifically like food to some?

What is called junk food?

What is to others?

Isn't maybe.

What is a rose?

But any other name?

You know, of course.

Well, we'll get into some of that.

I got that coming up for you in the 9 o'clock hour.

Also, what again?

The junk food is my health food.

You need that on a teacher.

That's a good line.

That's a good line, well.

And I've got this one I've been sitting on.

I keep waiting for us to have an opportunity to talk about this decluttering hack.

We'll see if we can get into this one sometime today, Melissa.

All right.

But we start off in an interesting spot.

And you know, certainly being in the morning here and everything.

What's one of your morning routines brushing your teeth?

A lot of us brush our teeth in the morning.

Hopefully all of us do.

Most of you do.

Most of us.

I don't know.

But I hopefully.

Don't talk to me about yesterday, James.

Yeah, right.

We're moving forward.

Oral hygiene seems pretty simple.

But if you've ever been in someone else's bathroom, you know,

that people could be a little bit complicated about this and be very specific about things.

A new poll asked over 30,000 people.

So a good sum of people.

How they squeeze a tube of toothpaste.

And 70?

Just imagine if that was the only question on the survey.

That's it.

They just asked you to fill up this one question.

It would feel a little weird.

Like there's got to be more to this.

It's a pretty diverse range of answers.

I'm guessing.

72% of people said from the bottom of the tube to the top, which makes a lot of sense.

But 20% of people say that they squeezed the toothpaste out from the top of the tube,

which I don't quite understand.

And then they obviously didn't include children in this survey.

Yeah, who just grabbed it?

Just yeah.

Yeah.

This is a great time to ask.

Have you ever disagreed with someone you share toothpaste with about how it should be used?

Or what type of toothpaste to use?

21% of people said that one.

Yeah, I've definitely had that happen.

Finally, people were asked, how much toothpaste do you typically use?

28% of people say that they squeeze out about a full brush length of toothpaste.

That's the bristles part, of course.

31%.

Not the whole toothbrush.

Oh my goodness.

I love that they had to be specific about that.

Should we be laughing at that?

Is that something we should be more sad about?

This is Tuesday morning.

You can laugh about what we want.

That's right.

And half the brush length.

Some people said about half the brush length.

And other people said, 32% of people said about a pea size.

Well, that's what it says on the container.

Is it really?

I'd never look.

Yeah.

And 4% of people are really skimpy using an amount of the size of a single grain of rice.

What are you doing?

Okay.

Apparently they have fresh breath all the time.

And they're going to make that toothpaste last.

I'm going to get the money's worth.

The demographic that was most likely to use less, the pea size or rice amounts,

are younger females living in Western US.

Interesting.

Okay.

And I think that there's...

Well, I don't know if there's a wrong answer to this.

Now, certainly you could be wasting toothpaste or maybe you're not getting as much out of it

if you're squeezing it from a different angle or something like that.

I'm just glad people, this many people are brushing their teeth.

I just want to take the win.

Let's just take the win that people are brushing their teeth.

Yeah, I met somebody once that was very proud of the fact that they didn't brush their teeth.

Yeah, that's...

And like, that's weird.

Brush your teeth.

There are...

You know, I'm all for a weird fraud.

I'm a odd flex.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I certainly am known for doing my own weird flexes, but that one I don't quite think

you really want to put your name on.

I don't feel like that's one you want on your resume.

No, not if you want to kiss somebody.

Never.

Like ever.

Like, you know it's bad when dogs are even turning away from you.

Like, oh, man, brush your teeth.

Brush your teeth, man.

So my question about the amount of toothpaste person uses really has less to do

with how much you squeeze out every time you use it and has more to do with,

do you cut the toothpaste tube open when you think it's empty?

Oh, see now that good.

Because do you know what?

There is, like, at least potentially five to ten times more brushing that you can get

out of that tube of toothpaste if you do that.

I do it.

Yeah.

Every time I do it now, because I was astonished.

You know, you think you've squeezed out every little possible bit you can get out.

No, you haven't.

No, no.

There's still more.

I even got one of those little devices.

I can't find it.

It's in my top drawer somewhere.

One of those little, where that twists it for you.

It gets every little bit out of it.

Yeah.

As far as types of toothpaste, I think that was an interesting one too, because there's

literally a billion types out there.

I mean, brands, but flavors not so much.

Oh, no, no, but brands.

And it's such a different day now with toothpaste.

The sensitive toothpaste that they have are a game changer.

Yeah.

Sense of dying and things like that.

Man, those things are amazing.

All those toothpaste are.

But people who have two sensitivity issues, I agree.

Yeah.

That's something I've dealt with my whole life.

Until that toothpaste came out, I was in bad.

I was in dire straits with a lot of that.

I love you coffee, but I can't drink.

Yeah.

It's pretty much that.

That toothpaste has been a game changer for me.

And a lot of people out there, I imagine.

Now, as far as flavors of toothpaste go, though, I'm on outlier here.

Because I like cinnamon flavored toothpaste.

Oh, yeah.

And it's hard to find.

Besides, like, close up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's, you know, I mean, if you're talking a little kid toothpaste,

there's a billion.

There's like a wonka toothpaste and all that.

But for us adults, maybe you're looking for something

a little bit more out there or something like that.

Maybe cinnamon is something that you're looking for.

Like Melissa's talking about.

What about, can I interest you in bacon toothpaste?

Bacon toothpaste.

Bacon.

Bacon flavored or cupcake toothpaste.

Doesn't.

I would not.

No.

I would not feel like I had brushed my teeth.

I would have felt like I had just tasted bacon,

but not actually eating it, which is, you know,

a mouthful of disappointment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That seems like you're lying to your teeth, your taste buds,

that you're just treating them poorly.

Wasabi.

They have a wasabi toothpaste.

Lemon toothpaste.

Lemon wouldn't be so bad.

Lemon's at least fresh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Coffee.

Now that seems like defeating the purpose.

It feels like you're really defeating the purpose here.

What are you doing?

What?

I swear that's whatever.

High school history teacher I had in high school was using.

Yeah.

No, you're right about that.

And there's a lot of different ones that like a real seal

herbal mineral ones.

There's a lot of those type of ones out there.

You have the activated charcoal ones now.

Right.

That's black.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I tried that one for a little bit.

That one's not too bad.

I really thought I understood how many different toothpaste

there are.

There's a billion.

There's a billion.

Yeah.

And then you have the ones that don't have fluoride,

which are a little harder to find.

And then also, you're never going to find them in cinnamon.

Yeah.

Right.

Oh, green apple.

That's unsound bad.

That seems alright.

What are you finding these toothpaste?

James.

Stay in.

Okay.

Fine.

They don't sell them in any stores.

I've ever been in.

No.

No media there.

No.

Those stores are smart.

Those stores.

Green apple wouldn't be too bad, actually.

I kind of like the green apple when I might try that.

Especially if it had actual, which I'm sure it doesn't.

But green apple is something that they say if you're doing voiceover work

or talking into a microphone a lot.

There are, I don't know what their chemicals are.

I can't think of the word, but there are things in green apple that kind of help dry your mouth out a little bit.

So you have less mouth clicks and mouth noise sounds.

There is a law suggest that I used to use green apple ones.

I can't remember what they were called, but I used to use them all the time.

And now that I'm talking about it and hearing my voice,

I should probably go back to using them.

I should probably give them five those again.

But you're right, green apples.

A lot of people in radio actually have used a green apple over the years and stuff.

It can be even just eating an apple beforehand.

Right.

That's what they recommend.

But I'm saying with the toothpaste, they probably don't include those elements that you would find in a fresh green apple.

Yeah.

But it'd be kind of cool if they did.

Yeah, it would be.

I'd have a whole market of people to sell it to.

I might have one right here.

I might try.

I love green apple.

We will take a quick time out.

We're going to come back and we're going to hang out with you and do some celebrating with the LCAFA birthday anniversary club.

It's coming up on the morning show right here at WFHR.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at LCAFA.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to LCAFA, 221 Market Avenue, beautiful port.

Edwards, wish them a great day from all of us.

Got some great specials going on over there today.

One of the more unique menus you are ever going to find.

Check out the great food over there.

Go meet the great gang and say hello to them for us over there.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Keep that app handy, everybody, because we're going to give you some more opportunities

to win some stuff coming up.

We need a one or a two, Melissa.

How am I going to choose?

Yep.

Stuff.

Stuff.

Take your time.

Choose one.

There you go.

Let's get right into the celebrate.

First up, we get to wish happy birthday to Linda Hamm.

Happy birthday, Linda.

Enjoy your day, Linda, wishing you a good one.

And we wish a happy anniversary, happy 36th anniversary, to Herb and Jonah Cronholm.

Herb, Herb and Jonah, happy anniversary.

I hope you guys have a fantastic anniversary.

Happy 36th to you both in your qualifiers today.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Bragg about it to everybody that you know.

And if you want to...

Awesome breakfast.

Sorry, I almost swore, because I'm so excited about this.

They're having prime ribbon eggs at El Café this morning as their breakfast special.

And their lunch is hot meatloaf sandwich or a hot meatloaf dinner.

I don't know about you, James, but a meatloaf sandwich is fantastic.

Yeah.

As much as younger me didn't really like it, older me is really liked meatloaf.

Yeah, that's good stuff.

Yeah, that's good stuff.

And they also have a great display outside of El Café right now.

They've got mums and pumpkins.

It's really a pretty display if you walk up.

And you can get your mums or your pumpkins right there.

I love the added stuff that they do over there.

They go both and beyond.

And not just with their menu and the way they treat people, but stuff like that.

It's a fun place.

Go check out El Café today, everybody.

Mark and I have a beautiful Port Edwards.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

And Bruno Mars is 39 today.

Really?

Great singer and songwriter.

I don't know what's really been going on with him lately really.

He hasn't done too much.

I believe he did a duet with somebody recently.

I think Lady Gaga or something like that.

But I haven't seen too much of him in a while.

He's been doing, I don't know if he's still doing it, but he was doing a Vegas residency for quite some time.

And that seems when people do that, like when we were kids, it was Wayne Newton and people like that

that would do the Vegas kind of thing.

And it was usually at the tail end of your career.

Now, if you're hitting a, you hit the certain mark where you're huge and then your star, you know,

dips down just a tiny bit and you go and do the Vegas residency.

And that kind of like just seems to be a segue to the next stage or the next part of your career or the next album or whatever.

You're doing that's kind of what Bruno Mars seems to be doing for the last handful of years.

And it's a good gig.

I mean, you're staying a hotel for like six months or a year.

They pay you, you don't have to travel.

It's one location.

That's probably the biggest upside for them is not having to travel.

You can actually just kind of settle in for a bit.

Seems like a sweet gig.

I mean, Adele just finished up a residency there too.

There was a bunch of talk about Bruno Mars and not just him but other artists and getting in trouble with gambling a lot with being in Vegas.

Well, because you got to stay there for a year.

What do you, you know, I mean, yes, there's a lot of shows you can go see and places you can walk through.

But for a year.

Yeah, I have no, I have literally no interest in gambling never have never probably will unless I was in that situation that I could see.

You're around at 24.

You're there for a couple of months.

And after you've seen, you know, when not the sick freedom Roy, but you know, things like that after seeing every show that they've got.

Right, you know, they do the same one over and over human instinct.

Just be like, well, what else am I going to do?

I'll just, I'll just try what?

I'll just try one machine.

And you know, there you go.

Did you know his real name is Peter Jean Hernandez?

Oh, wow, that's just right.

Okay, yeah, I can see Bruno Mars being there.

Yeah.

And he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I knew he was Hawaiian.

I wasn't sure about it.

I did not know his real name.

That's interesting.

Nick Cannon is 44, host of the mass singer.

It used to be a pretty good stand with comedian in his time and had a handful of TV shows he did for MTV and some other places.

Let's see here.

Matt Damon is 54.

Really?

Yeah.

Matt Damon, I think a solid actor, you know, I wouldn't put him in the upper echelon or anything.

I don't know that one of the things I appreciate about him is I feel like he doesn't take roles that he doesn't feel like he can pull off in the sense of like a lot of actors do that.

But in the sense of he knows, he knows he, not every actor has an understanding of their talent of, you know, the range.

And Matt Damon seems to have fit in his, he doesn't really take a lot of chances with his, with his acting, but kind of still has been able to do a bunch of different genres.

Yeah.

I mean, he's definitely got a range of genres he's done.

I'm sure you've seen the Martian, but that's basically him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's pretty solo for most of the movie.

Very impressive to me whenever an actor does that.

And he hold it off.

Yeah, absolutely.

A handful of movies I've seen him, Sam Rockwell and Moon is another one where it's just him on screen basically the whole movie.

And he pulls it off.

He carries the movie.

There's not a lot of actors can do that.

I think that's a great note on his career.

I wouldn't have thought of the Martian right away.

Well, it isn't, you know, of course, as good as the book because they never can be.

Yeah.

It's still a really good movie.

Yeah, I thought they did a fairly good job.

My mom was a little disappointed with certain parts, but she loved the book and in thought his performance in the movie was good.

I will always, like, I'm always going to have a little bit of a soft spot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck because they helped Rob Williams get his Oscar.

And I obviously, you know, a little biased on this one, but don't mean I'm wrong.

Robin should have won an Oscar for about three different performances before that.

So the fact that he finally got it for goodwill hunting a movie that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote and won an Oscar for I think is pretty, you know, upstanding and pretty cool.

I can't believe he didn't mention true grit, James.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That was good.

It's going to win a good performance.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Teddy Riley is 57, super producer of Black Street and Guy and Rex and FX and so many hits of the 80s and 90s.

Darryl Hammond is 69 today, SNL master impersonator.

Sederate Live has had a handful of amazing impersonators over the years going back to Phil Hartman and, you know, Darryl Hammond and Phil Hartman were good friends.

And Darryl Hammond picked up the mantle right from him.

Bill Hader would pick it up from him and they've got some good young artists that are doing some good impersonations nowadays.

But these guys were on a different level of being able to impersonate somebody.

And even if they didn't nail it, they made you believe it.

You know, just looking at him because I don't know him.

I've not watched a whole lot of SNL, but he could probably do a pretty mean impersonation of Elon.

Oh, yeah.

I bet he good.

Yeah.

No, that'd be great.

Robert Coolbell is 74 today from Cool in the Gang.

Celebration.

Ladies night.

Get down on it.

Oh, so many good songs from Cool in the Gang over the years.

One of the game changers in acting.

Sigourney Weaver is 75 today.

Oh, Sigourney Weaver.

Certainly younger people out there or know her from the Avatar movies.

A lot of us kids from the 80s know her as Dana from the Ghostbusters movies.

But her playing Ellen Ripley and aliens changed a lot of things for women in casting.

Yeah.

What really Scott did with that movie, he, a lot of people don't know how hard he had the fight to have her be the lead.

There was another gentleman in the movie, a great character actor, that they were actually trying to push

and trying to get a big name in there to kind of dwarf Sigourney Weavers.

Really, I wanted Sigourney Weaver to be the biggest name on the movie and wanted by clear by no doubt she was the lead

and she was the hero in the movie.

And it seems like a simple thing, seems like a silly movie.

It changed everything as far as that goes.

Linda Hamilton is stars in Terminator 2.

She pumps those arms out and all of a sudden you, well wait a minute.

Are you telling me these ladies can't just play moms?

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

The action stars?

What?

What the what?

You mean women are tough, you mean the whole reason any of us are here?

Like, oh wow, go figure.

It took them way too long to get to this, but when they finally did, it changed the game.

And now it is, it's very common to see a strong female lead in the action role.

Angelina Jolie really took that and ran with it.

A lot of other actresses have too.

Yeah.

And then it's finally starting to make its way into even cartoons for kids, which is good.

Yeah.

Sigourney Weaver, just a side note, also just one of the most fun interviews.

Like, she is a great interview.

We should certainly mention Gorilliz and the Mist, maybe her best work, arguably her best acting work.

Cause I mentioned, you know, her action acting and everything, but it shouldn't be taken lightly.

This is a Thessian.

She is a Thessian, she can do it all.

Oh, absolutely.

The Defenders was good too, but she's, yeah, just great actor.

You know, I'd watch any movie that she's emphasized aliens because I don't like horror.

Yeah, I never saw the Avatar movies, but otherwise I've seen everything she's done.

You haven't seen the Avatar movie?

No, it looks like Smurf Sun, like another, like, you know, Smurf Sun acid or something.

I don't know.

Well, it doesn't really, it doesn't really, it's not my thing.

I'm not a James Cameron guy.

I'm not a lot of, I'm not a, I'm not into his movies too much.

But her performance in all of these movies, including even in the Avatar movies, in top notch,

you always get a performance from her.

I just, her being 75 really hit me.

I didn't realize she was 75.

It makes sense.

Yeah, that's kind of hard to believe, but it obviously makes sense to me.

Chevy Chase is 81, one of the original Senate Live members, one of the kings of the 80s comedy.

There's a billion 80s comedies with Chevy Chase, and I laughed at every single one of them,

and was a big fan of his as a little kid.

But there was always something to bug me about Chevy Chase, and we kind of found out a little bit later in life.

There are, I, teaching at Second City or, or, or work going to school there,

that you can't not talk about people like Chevy Chase, who can't win through those halls.

And of course, we're on the original cast of Senate Live.

But I also use him as an, as a perfect example of a very, very talented writer,

a talented actor, funny actor, but that's not enough to keep you in the room.

Because when you treat people poorly, that, you're not going to stick around.

And there's a reason that nobody likes to work with Chevy Chase, and people stopped working with him.

Goldie Hahn is one of the most like likable people in the industry of like all time,

and even she couldn't handle him.

It's a shame, because you look at it, if you just look at his body of work, what a body of work?

Like a great comedic body of work, like an amazing career.

I would kill for that career.

But as far as the kind of human being he has been, nah, not worth it.

Then, don't justify the means. He ain't that funny.

RL Stein is 81 as well, author of the Goosebumps series.

Wow.

My sister love those books.

I never got to read them.

Yeah, I never read them myself, but I know my sister really loves them.

Let's see here.

Part of the reason I don't like horror.

Maybe.

Jesse Jackson is 83, civil rights leader, and one of the, on the forefront of the civil rights movement,

and many layers, including way back when he was young, marching with Martin Luther King, I believe.

Paul Hogan is 85, Crocodile Dundee.

Oh, really?

Yeah, 85 for Paul Hogan.

That's not a knife.

That's not a doggy called that a knife.

That's not a knife.

I loved those movies.

I figured that's a little silly.

And the next one where he goes to, was it New York?

New York.

Yeah.

I'll never forget that one.

I never saw the one where Crocodile Dundee and Los Angeles.

But I think it's free on YouTube right now.

I think I ran across it the other day.

I'm like, I might have to watch that.

Yeah, I never saw that one either.

But there was like a Crocodile Dundee reboot or something like that.

The very excellent Mr. Dundee.

I don't know.

It had Margaret Roby and Hugh Jackman.

A bunch of Australian actors in it.

And I never saw it.

And I never heard much of it.

But like Margaret.

Yeah, it's got, well, I don't, I see Olivia Newton-John in that one.

Way night.

Yeah, not sure.

Yeah.

Haven't seen that.

Because this one was in 2020.

The very excellent Mr. Dundee.

Okay.

Interesting.

Very interesting and very good menu over at OL Cafe.

Encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over there.

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Beautiful Port Edwards.

One more time.

I'm a mum while you're there.

Yeah.

One more time.

A happy birthday to Linda Hamm.

Happy birthday, Linda.

And to our qualifiers.

Happy 36th anniversary to Herb and Jonah Cronholm.

Happy anniversary.

Congratulations.

Enjoy you guys.

And have a great one.

We're going to get to our news break and come back with some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.

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Sorry, I was throwing it off a little bit by this one.

It's fine.

It's a good one.

I like it.

Yeah.

The haunted mansion from 999 happy haunts.

Nice.

Interesting.

Melissa and James here with you.

Hope you're having a good morning out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Let's get into this one.

This is kind of interesting.

And I'm just hearing about it this morning.

A survey found 10% of Americans are planning to participate in silver October this year.

And another recent poll found 38% of adults don't drink at all.

So if you combine those, almost have to country isn't drinking this month.

Avoiding booze is a trendy thing to do right now, partially because young people aren't drinking as much.

The poll found the number of Americans who are at least curious about a silver lifestyle has doubled since 2020.

A lot of people are commenting that the pandemic had a lot to do with this.

People weren't able to go to bars as much and realize that they didn't need to go to bars.

40% said yes compared to 20% when the same poll was done four years ago.

Okay.

And this is, you know, I think it's as interesting as anything else that we're going to talk about this morning necessarily.

But the part of it that I wanted to get into is kind of a side story of this that I've been reading about a lot over the last couple of years.

And it's this that the younger generation really isn't going out as much.

Really doesn't do it.

They have just as many activities as we did will be young, but they don't involve going to bars or really centered around drinking.

Well, and that there's other options, more options available, especially in bigger cities.

There are not so much in tiny towns, but it's good that that's increasing.

Yeah.

Look, I'm all for, I have nothing against drinking when it's unresponsibly and done smart and safely, like all the things that you would expect me to say, you know, responsibly about this subject.

And I mentioned many times that I don't mind a beer here or there or anything, but I don't drink regularly.

So I understand that I'm a little bit of an outsider on this one.

And certainly an outsider of the state.

I wasn't born here.

It wasn't raised here.

I've been here the last 20 some years, spent a lot of time here at school here.

And one thing that has never made sense to me, and I have talked to many of our leaders on this subject, whether they are political leaders or community leaders about this.

And it is the idea that of Wisconsin and Wisconsinites being known for drinking and being known for alcohol.

And this is something that is a part of the culture.

This is something that is embraced by the culture, by the people.

You have a baseball team named after brewing in the state.

And I don't, I am all for state pride.

I am all for pride from where you're from.

If you've heard me talk for five seconds on the air, you know how I feel about that.

And you also know how I feel about this state.

I love the state.

And I appreciate this state.

And I love the people of the state.

I use all of that.

And I say all that to say, you're better than that.

Like Wisconsin has a million things they could hang their hat on, other than drinking, other than being known for drinking.

And that has a kind of funny part to it until you start looking at the drunk driving, you know, stats.

And you start seeing some of that.

And also the negative health effects of drinking.

Underage drinking, negative health effects.

I mean, we can spend the next half an hour talking about the negatives.

Definitely negatives involved in drinking and the consumption of alcohol.

We've got a city here in Wisconsin Rapids that is looking at expanding our ATVs and UTVs and getting them on the roads more.

And I've talked with Sheriff Becker about this on air, off air.

In order to be able to do this, my question was to him, did we earn this, you know, as far as being able to do that.

His answer was yes.

His answer, he believes yes.

And he believes that that's something that we can work with.

And that'll help our bars.

That'll help a lot of our establishments.

Not as much, I think here in central Wisconsin, as much as it would up north, where they do this already, a lot of that.

And they've seen and they need all the help they can get up north.

With the way it was last winter and everything.

So I'm not saying any of this to take jobs or to bring down the economy or anything like that.

And me saying something is not going to affect one person out there as far as drinking goes.

But I will get back on this soapbox any chance I get.

And remind Wisconsinites, you're better than this.

You can be known for more things than alcohol.

There's a tongue and cheek that comes with it that I don't...

You may not care what other people think in other states or anything like that.

But you deserve better.

This state has a lot more to offer than just, hey, you want to tie one on?

I mean, come on.

Well, I think if you take a step back and look at it from a further away lens than just, you know, Wisconsin culture.

I think that the consumption of alcohol is eventually going to go the way of smoking cigarettes.

I mean, if you jump back a couple decades that smoking was so prevalent, it was everywhere.

Doctors smoked in their offices when they were examining patients.

And now they've proven the negative effects of smoking.

And you can see where that societal trend has gone.

I think alcohol is going to go the same way.

We're seeing more and more establishments that are, you know,

still based around a gathering, having a beverage and spending time together and enjoying time together.

But the beverages they are offering are non-alcoholic.

But there's still a wide range of choices.

If you go into a bar in Wisconsin in a lot of places, especially small towns,

the only non-alcoholic drinks you're able to get are soda, coffee, or water.

You know, so I think expanding the options available is going to help this societal change come about.

And I think it's inevitable.

I mean, there are more and more reports coming out about the negative health impacts of alcohol.

None of this means that alcohol is going to go to the way of the dodo.

Or it happens either.

Right.

They're still around.

That's exactly how I think that it's going to play out as well, too, Melissa.

I don't know how long it's going to take or anything, but I think you're right about that.

And I'm much more of a drinker than you, James.

And if anything, I honestly would like to drink less if we're being perfectly honest

because I don't see it impacting me in a positive way.

It's just, it's in some ways, it's societal pressure, it's habit, it's, you know, I mean,

we like the things that bring us in comfort, whether it doesn't, it does or it doesn't actually do that.

In our brains, sometimes we're able to rationalize those things and the reasons that we do those things.

And I think that change will come eventually for myself personally.

I hope it does.

And I'm right with you.

And knowing you, I believe that you will.

I do also think that everybody deserves a release.

And I think that there's a line in the sand on that that we all know.

And you've got to know where your line is.

If you want just a, I don't know, a sad laugh kind of, I mean, it's funny.

And then at the same time, it's not too funny.

And if you look up smoking sections on planes back in the day, wow, just wow, just man.

Yeah, because they're going to keep that smoke out of the rest of the plane.

Yeah, I mean, to your point earlier about how smoking used to be and everything.

And how prevalent it used to be, I don't know.

And I don't know about this one.

How do you guys feel about this one?

The makers of Airheads Candy are releasing a candy-scented foot spray for Halloween.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I'm just going to let that sit there for a second.

No, no, no, no, no.

Like, I like Airheads.

And when you brought up this topic earlier, I was like, oh, yay, a new flavor.

Yeah, yeah, no.

For my feet.

It's called Trick or Treat Smelly Smell My Feet.

Well, that's original.

Golf clap, golf clap.

The can is shaped like a foot.

It's supposed to smell exactly like cherry flavored airheads.

They say it's for parents with smelly feet who have to accompany their kids on Halloween this year.

Not a specific market at all.

No.

What is there?

They really, really try in there.

Their promo video says that the average Trick or Treater walks 1.25 miles.

So they're trying to help with that.

Since it's not something most people ever actually want, you can't buy it.

They're doing a limited run and giving them away through their website.

You can sign up to win one next Monday at airheadsfootspray.com.

There's a website address that they had no problem buying.

Nobody had that.

And anybody that gets one of these is going to give it at Christmas time as a gag gift.

Definitely.

And you'll see them on eBay.

You will see them all over.

They'll be white elephant gifts at work.

Footsprays are not a bad thing, certainly.

What if this opens up like a whole new market for airheads?

Like these become popular or something like that?

You see companies pivot all the time.

Sprays of different kinds have become more popular.

I mean, look at poop paris.

Yeah, that's true.

You got those.

You got sprays for your toilet.

You got sprays for your feet.

You got sprays for every other part of your body.

We're getting, I don't know if this has been good or bad for culture with all the sprays.

If you know a little science and everything, our own pheromones that we kick off and everything

are what attracts the other people and stuff.

So sprays feel like they're more for us than they are for others.

Even though we usually use stuff because we tell ourselves because we don't want to smell to other people.

Yeah, well, I may think that anytime that you yourself can smell the spray that you're wearing or the perfume that you're wearing, you're wearing too much.

Yes, yes, yes.

Because you shouldn't be able to smell it yourself.

You become nose blind to things pretty quickly.

That's just something to keep in mind if you're doing it for others.

Just because there's like eight ounces in that ax can, doesn't mean you got to use it all.

No, don't mean you got to use it all.

I mean, eventually, but let's make it last a year.

Yeah, stretch it out.

Get your money's worth.

We will be right back with more fun.

We're going to talk about this decluttering hack when we get back on the morning show at WFHR.

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If your home is cluttered and organized, it feels like a huge lift.

And here's a strategy to help you get there.

Stop by putting it off and try organizing it in 15-minute chunks.

Yeah.

The hardest part is getting going.

Exactly.

An expert on organization says the best way to get your home looking good

is by dedicating 15 minutes a day to just one thing.

If you can make it a habit, your whole home will end up feeling a lot more organized within a few weeks.

Eventually you'll get there.

Start by looking around and making a list of all the spots that need a tidying up.

Then knock one of them out each day.

Studies have shown doing things in small chunks like that can help you motivate.

Get motivated.

Yeah.

Don't overdo it.

Keep each project small and really try to commit to the time limit.

And here are a few things that should take like 15 minutes or less to declutter.

Like your junk drawer, your pantry, your vanity or personal care area, your medicine cabinet,

the spot where you toss your mail or your keys, your desk, your fridge,

and a closet or even just one section of a closet.

Now, I think we've all, in fact, I'm positive.

I am positive.

This is one of the more universal feelings we have all had.

We were young.

Our room was messy.

And when we were told to clean it, it looked impossible.

Right.

And you were just overwhelmed because you didn't know where to start.

And so you just sat down and started playing with something.

Yes.

If you were me, you sat down and listened to music that you blasted.

Yes.

And as adults, we're like, okay, I have so much to do.

So I'm going to do a tiny bit here and a tiny bit here and a tiny bit there.

And pretty soon you've got like 10 projects going in your house.

And none of them are getting completed.

Right.

Breaking it down like this has always been an easier way of doing it.

If you just focus on one thing and you tackle that for one,

it doesn't seem so daunting.

Oh, well, this is all I'm in charge of today.

I've just got to take care of this.

It helps.

It definitely helps.

I actually did this this weekend because I'm still settling into my no apartment

and putting things away and I tackled the closet in my bedroom

because I had just stuffed boxes in there.

And I couldn't find something I was looking for.

And that was the last place to look.

It was the only place it could possibly be.

And it was there in a box underneath other things.

But now that closet is clean and organized and I feel better.

It feels good.

It feels good to get these things kind of out of the way.

And when you're away from home, it gives you another incentive

or another good feeling about heading home or getting home or walking in the door.

Right, you're not walking into a mess.

It's always nice.

And it really is, you know, I think a good time used to.

I think sometimes we would rather be doing other things.

If you are looking for, well, I want to make this more fun.

It's not motivation.

It's just boring or you just don't enjoy it.

I think it's a break.

I don't know about many adults out there, but for me,

I don't have a lot of chances to listen to music.

And this is one of the few times I do is when I'm cleaning.

So it actually gets me.

I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to it, but I have no issue.

But I won't give you some motivation to do it.

For me, it's audiobooks.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah.

Podcasts for a lot of people out there.

You want to catch up on your podcast.

Get some dusting done or some organizing.

The only time I ever successfully dust is when I'm on the phone.

Typically, when I was on the phone with like one of my grandmas or my mom.

They're all gone now.

I never dust.

Yeah.

I...

I've never been much of a duster, but I've always been told the dust.

I'm the person in the house that usually is the dust.

Because I'm tall.

And I can reach things that they can't.

But there's so many little things that it can...

It's understandable to...

Like it feels like a lot.

And I like the idea of making a list.

Yes.

Whether it's just in your head or it's on paper.

It can feel better on paper, I would say, because as you check those things off,

man, that feels like you just want a Super Bowl.

Like it feels good to not take things off the list.

Yeah.

And when you get sidetracked,

and you accomplish something else that wasn't on your list,

just add it to the list and mark it off.

That feels good, too.

It gives you a little bit of an endorphin boost.

And they're right about the time limit thing.

Keep these things within a limit.

There's a lot of stuff that you could clean.

And then you could just go to town on.

And spend like 20, 30 minutes on.

But you would be not taking time on other projects.

Well, and being able to do that,

this project is going to take me six hours to accomplish.

But today, I'm only going to spend an hour on it.

Yeah.

You know?

I mean, it helps you to not feel overwhelmed.

Or at least it helps me to not feel overwhelmed.

Same.

Same.

And that's what this is all about.

Because everybody deserves to have a, you know,

whether it's a clean home or.

Or a nice decluttered.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's to each their own.

I mean, what is,

some is a little bit more than others or different than others.

But certainly, you know,

some structure or brains just thrive in that.

They work better in that.

And sometimes, James,

there are doors for a reason.

And you just close that.

Yes, exactly.

Now, here's the other part of this, too.

I'm glad you brought that up.

I think that, especially if you, you know,

whether, if you live alone, especially.

But even if you do have a family or anything,

you, your bedroom should be able to be whatever you wanted to be.

Like, if you want to have a messy bedroom,

that's fine.

Who else is in there?

It's just you and your significant other, right?