Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.
Hope y'all have a good Tuesday.
Got your host, James J here with you.
I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And the best lesson is in radio.
That is all of you.
Thank you so much for joining us, everybody.
We're going to have some fun this morning.
We have good things coming up for you, everybody.
We have not only the El Café birthday anniversary club around the corner, but scientists are
trying to read our brains.
Oh.
Well, neuroscientists are decoding people's thoughts using brain scans.
And I thought this was kind of interesting.
And who wouldn't want to talk about that eight in the morning, right?
Melissa, I don't know.
Yeah.
It's insane.
As I'm saying it out loud.
It doesn't work.
We will also talk a little bit of flying.
We've actually talked to a couple listeners over the weekend that are going to be doing some
flying this weekend.
And we're going to get into not only the, will the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy effect flight?
Yeah.
But American Airlines, something they're going to be doing about board line jumpers, gate
jumpers.
Interesting.
It's re-browing at luggage hacks, so we get a couple of those things.
No ribbons, apparently.
Yes.
Yeah, apparently.
We got into that one a little bit.
Also speaking of getting into things, Melissa got me into going down a rabbit hole about a mysterious
bamboo wagon.
Yes.
I knew you would like that one.
Man, that got me.
That was an interesting one.
We'll get into that a little bit later as well.
And we'll kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our good friend Connie Hanky.
She is not only a watercolor artist and a wonderful artist, but the art director over
at the Alexander House.
Yeah.
They got a show opening up.
We want to talk about that and their new exhibit.
I'll get into that with her.
We'll get into some other entertainment news in the 9 o'clock hour as well.
And maybe I can prod Marissa into giving us a little bit of a preview of community stories
tonight.
Maybe.
I got to be nice to her though.
I don't know.
I don't know who Marissa is though.
We might have to find her.
Did I say, I'm sorry.
You did.
I said that because I was getting a text from one of our listeners and I've been trying
to keep an eye on the phone here because I didn't.
It's our connection good here, everybody.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I don't know about everybody else.
I want to five as a little shaky and I was wondering if it was a little shaky over
here and I had two different listeners message us today and she was one of them.
So I appreciate that.
Thank you for our great listeners out there letting us know whenever I am messing up.
I always appreciate that.
No, I can certainly give us a preview of our community stories.
That will air tonight at five o'clock.
We have an all new episode for the veteran series.
So we'll talk about that soon.
I'm looking forward to that.
Looking forward to it.
We will also be getting into the top five must-haves for Thanksgiving foods.
Oh, yes.
I have some must-haves.
Got to have them.
Got to have them.
We got some good stories of the day.
We're going to do our schedule as well.
And we'll talk about some things going on it as I mentioned, our sister station, 105
five.
Got a fun event going on over there at night.
They want everybody to check out.
I'm getting into that too.
But starting off the show, we have to talk coffee.
Of course.
Mm-hmm.
This is really one of the bonding things that Melissa and I have.
This is a coffee or what?
It's the lifeblood of my mornings.
It is our mana.
It is our-
But the only reason to get up in the morning, no kidding.
Melissa, do you know a lot of people that drink coffee the same as you do?
I don't feel like I do.
I don't feel like I know a lot of people that have coffee, you know, it's maybe not exactly
the same, but it's similar.
Maybe it may be similar.
Yeah.
You both like a certain flavor or something.
I know a few people who drink coffee like me, I just, I like it black and strong.
Yeah.
Right on.
It's not that complicated.
You and my partner.
In fact, it's the least complicated coffee there.
It could not be.
It could not just pour into cup.
There you go.
As long as it's strong, it has to be strong.
If it's not strong, I'll maybe drink it if I'm desperate, but otherwise me.
My sister's like that.
My sister, she will not even look at coffee that can't stand up on its own unless the
coffee can.
So do you put sugar in your coffee out there, everybody?
We, Melissa, doesn't I put a little bit of mine?
A new study in Canada found you should try adding something else, possibly.
Canada's most famous export, maple syrup.
Oh, yes.
Maple syrup and coffee is great.
I hadn't thought of this one.
Going to be honest with everybody.
Haven't thought about it.
I'm serious.
Yes.
My brain just doesn't work that way, but it doesn't work well at all as we've heard.
It's I've already just, you know, I've called the long name and I've been, you love maple
syrup.
I do.
I do.
I don't know why you like sweetener in your coffee.
Although, you know, thinking of those alternate sweeteners, maybe doesn't come naturally.
Obviously, honey and tea is a, is a given.
Yeah.
I mean, we all think of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think about putting maple syrup in my tea, but I'd put it in my coffee.
Yeah.
I'd not thought about this one.
And I like the idea in tea, too.
That's a good one, too, Melissa.
That's fair.
Maple syrup in your coffee comes with some major health benefits as well.
Unlike refined sugar, it's got more than 100 compounds and antioxidants that can boost
immunity and help with inflammation.
So the shot of maple syrup I have every morning is a good thing.
Yeah.
Great.
I don't do that.
It's too expensive.
I want to, though.
I want to incorporate that into my daily life.
Instead of my, usually my first thing I do is throw a bunch of cold water on my face.
I want to shot a maple syrup and then I'll do that.
That's what I'll do.
There you go.
So yeah, it's got a lot of great things for that.
Not only abuse in the immunity, but helping with inflammation.
And they had a bunch of people use maple syrup instead of sugar for several months.
And here are four major health benefits that came from replacing your sugar with maple
syrup.
Better blood sugar levels.
Your blood sugar didn't spike as much, so switching to maple syrup could help you avoid
diabetes.
Uh-huh.
That makes sense.
Yes.
And that is a strong could help you.
There's no research they're giving you on this one.
This one thing is not going to be the fix-all.
And I know that it's a major staple of our show, but I don't know about anybody else, but
after the election, I don't know how much I believe in polls and surveys anymore.
It really doesn't seem like there's a lot to that.
Well, we know how polls and surveys work.
So yeah.
The selected amount of people that they talked to in this was their opinion.
I am, you know, anything though, you catches your eye when it says could help put, you
know, put off or keep you from getting diabetes.
That does stand out.
Right.
Yes.
Because it's not more all aware of.
Their blood pressure fell.
The average person's a systematic blood pressure, that's the top number, fell about three
points.
Ooh.
Wow.
I am told that's something I have to be very aware of is my blood pressure and my blood.
There's something that the men and my family seem to have a problem with.
Less belly fat.
Fat around the abdomen slowly, but surely started melting away.
Added them in.
Always been a tough word for me to say, I'm going to be honest, that's all I do.
Added them in.
Added them in.
There's like a bee in there that's weird.
A bee in a D should never be next to each other in a word.
Added them in.
Never.
There's no word it should never happen.
They'd only do that just to make it tough on people.
That's the only reason that they smell that word, that word.
That's why English is so complicated and complex and makes zero sense.
Yeah.
We're going to make it tough for people to learn this, look at this.
I love the idea of that.
You're just sitting around, Webster's Dictionary guys in a dark basement somewhere with torch
lights going, how can we make this hard?
When you think about all the languages in the world, English has got to be one of the
last most recent ones.
It's a hodgepodge of every other language.
Not to say obviously, it's not recent, but as far as languages go, I mean, when it's
the last new language to come around, I don't believe it, yeah, it's got to be it, that's
got to be it.
I'm hearing it in my head, all you sci-fi fans out there, I'm not talking about Klingon
or anything like that.
Well, those are much older.
It's much older.
Yeah, so yeah, what do I say?
It finally improved gut health.
They ended up with less harmful bacteria in their gut and more good bacteria, so their
digestive was better.
Adjustive system is better.
That's good.
That's good.
All good reasons.
Yeah, I really like this.
And I actually, I do occasionally, especially later in the morning, my first cup of coffee,
it's always just black and strong.
But as the morning goes on and my coffee, like if it gets cold before I can finish it,
I'll throw some, you know, like a tablespoon of maple syrup in there and add coconut milk
and then have an iced latte, basically, for the rest of my coffee.
Yeah, yeah, that's a good way to do it.
Actually, I'm listening to that.
That sounds like a really good idea.
It does.
And then I recently bought this last weekend, I bought a jug of chocolate almond milk,
like dark chocolate almond milk.
And I've been adding that to my coffee after it gets cold and boy, is that good?
Yeah, that sounds really good.
And it doesn't need any sweetener because the chocolate itself has, chocolate milk itself
has sweetener in it, so.
I want to say for like four or five years, I've been drinking the same creamer.
I don't put a lot of it in.
I put a dab of it in.
I put a, one little bit of sugar and one dab of that.
And that's about it.
I did start putting a little bit of milk in my coffee just to try to help my throat and
they, or to keep it colder.
It was too hot, drinking it this early in the morning and I'm certainly doing a morning
show.
But I'm getting a little bored, getting a little bored with the mocha.
I, I never thought that would happen.
This particular one at least, I'm still, if I'm going, if I'm in a coffee shop,
it's all I'm ordering.
That's the only coffee I drink, which I, which, yes, I know, it's just chocolate coffee.
I get it.
It's so sweet.
They make it different than you make it at home though, especially.
Yeah, they do.
It's, it's coffee shop mocha.
There's a couple of places in particular, yeah, yeah.
But I like the idea of trying this instead.
Maybe I don't put the sugar in it all.
Maybe I just use a little of this.
Maybe I don't even need the creamer.
Maybe you don't even need the creamer, yeah.
Maybe we're trying.
Or maybe you get a different creamer.
You know, if you're adding maple syrup, you could get like a, I mean, you could do cinnamon
at, do you like cinnamon?
Ah, that's okay.
Certain things.
Okay.
Like on a roll.
Yeah, like a, so they have like a cinnamon bun creamer.
That would probably be pretty good with maple syrup in your coffee.
That would be pretty good.
That sounds pretty good.
Now to be clear, we're talking about real maple syrup here, loading your coffee up with
this butter worth isn't going to help you very much.
No, that's corn syrup.
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, nothing against those maple syrups that grew up on them, like a lot of people
do.
But once you try the real thing, once you get original, oh my god, there's no going
back.
There's no going back.
And when it comes to real maple syrup, well, if only there was a place, oh, there's
a bunch of places around here.
Be sure to check out and join our friends over at Family Natural Foods.
They happen to be, have great stuff over there when it comes to good maple syrup and
stuff.
So, I'm curious if anybody out there feel free to call up during the show today.
If you do this, if you would try this, and please let us know.
If you were a maple syrup grower, or is that how a collector?
Collector?
Yeah.
I mean, because you collected it and you cook it down.
Why not?
Because I know a funnel.
Producer?
Who I like that, producer.
There we go.
Now we're getting fancy.
Now I like the idea of somebody just standing next to a tree and sunglasses and telling you
what to do.
I am a maple syrup grower.
I'm a producer.
I'm a maple syrup producer.
I'm just going to tell you what to do with everything.
I don't really have anything.
I always wanted to do that.
I always wanted to grow maple syrup.
I grow however you put it, I guess.
I don't know.
I should probably learn that part before I even try to attempt to actually do this.
You need to find someone that has a sugar shack and go, you know, spend a little time there
on us on a weekend afternoon, learn a lot.
There are certain topics where I don't have to tell anybody where I'm from.
Like just listen to me talk for five seconds and you can tell who he is from the city.
It's not like that.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back.
We'll do some celebrating with one of our favorites, our friends at El Café.
It's coming up with Melissa James on the morning show at WFHR.
It's time for the birthday anniversary club with our friends from El Café.
It's time to do some celebrating time for you to treat yourself head on over to El Café.
220 in Port Edwards head on over there right now.
Everybody encouraged you to do something.
221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards head on over there.
Check out some of their great specials.
They got a country fried steak breakfast going on over there today.
Ooh, that sounds delicious.
Yeah, that sounds really good.
And they've got a great lunch special as well.
Find out all their great, unique, wonderful specials.
Don't forget to order your Thanksgiving day pie when you're there.
Mm-hmm.
And they have so many pie choices.
You don't have to get pumpkin.
I mean, you can, but you don't have to.
If you are getting one for me, there's only one to get.
It's pumpkin, but you should get one for you.
Get one for yourself, get one, and say hi to the gang over there.
Buy local support local, everybody.
Our great friends over at El Café.
Have a great meal, no matter what time of day.
Just make sure it's before two.
Yeah, yeah, get over there before two.
Everybody say hi to the gang for us.
And say hi to us.
Call up, join the conversation.
Get us your birthdays and anniversaries.
Everybody, you can email us infoatwfhr.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.
And yes, call up.
That's right, 715, 424, 2600.
Looking forward to having you join us, everybody.
We love live birthday and anniversaries.
Love getting to us live here.
We have two possible qualifiers today.
Need a one or a two, Melissa.
Let's go with one today.
All right, gives us that qualifier.
So we can get right into this celebration.
And first up, we want to wish you happy birthday to Jesse Setzer.
Happy birthday, Jesse.
Jesse and Cliff, they run over Wiscoe Wellness here in town.
Good people.
Got to meet them a couple years ago.
Great people, great individuals.
Wishing them a great day.
Enjoy your day, Jesse.
Happy birthday.
And a happy birthday to really not just a friend of the station, family of the station.
Katrina Hittner.
Oh, happy birthday, Katrina.
Technically, Katrina can qualify.
She qualified.
She is our whole fire today.
That's kind of funny how that worked out actually.
That's kind of funny.
Kat's awesome.
She joins, of course, co-hosting with me every once in a while on the morning show here.
And I always appreciate her being able to put the time into this.
Oh, wonderful mom and wife and all, and a sister and all the daughter and all those things.
But what she does with family and entrepreneurs, her and Steven is just,
we can't really put in the words.
It's a great business that offers a lot of great products to this community that you,
where would you find otherwise?
I mean, there's at least, you've been walking the dead store and find at least 20 things.
And the first and the first shelf that you probably wouldn't find anywhere else.
And when you walk in there and Kat's there, she welcomes you like a long-lost friend.
Yes.
She's awesome.
She makes you feel at home, answers all your questions.
She's knowledgeable.
She's got so much experience with the business, obviously, having grown up there.
And just makes you feel okay asking any kind of question you have.
We appreciate you.
Thanks so much.
Well, you guys do for our community and enjoy your day, Kat.
Kat, could you not enjoy your day?
Yes.
Stop in it, family, natural foods, and say happy birthday to her.
Gotta go over there and see if they have anything for when you bite your tongue.
Dang it.
I bit my tongue last night, and it is killing me.
I keep messing up words and everything because I'm, you know what it's like when you have
like something in your tooth problem or something like that.
So you're thinking about your speech more?
Normally, you're just talking stomach.
Yeah, I don't think about what I'm going to say, which I probably should.
Yes, definitely.
That's something you always do, but in this instance, stop over thinking about your
mouth.
Is there any way to heal that quicker?
Is that going to figure that out?
Salt water.
I know.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that would do it, wouldn't it?
Gargle, yeah.
Salt water around in your mouth.
Salt water.
Thank you.
Salt water is so great.
And it's so good for so many different things.
Thank you for that, Melissa.
And thanks to all of you that got us these birthdays and adversaries.
We appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
We take a look at our celebrity list of birthdays.
And Adam Driver is 41.
Wow.
I didn't know he was only 41.
I thought he was a little bit older than that, not much older, but Kylo Ren from Star Wars
movies, of course.
He was in Girls.
That's where part of where he got his big break.
But the most recent movie of his Megalopolis.
Megalopolis.
So many good movies.
I believe as well as been nominated for a couple of awards.
I don't even want anything yet, but he will.
I really have no doubt that it's just a matter of time before he wins an Oscar.
Nominated for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Two B-A-F-T-A awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, four Screen Actors, Guilds Awards,
and a Tony Award.
Yeah.
Just incredible.
So he has, oh, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance and burned this.
Yeah.
That's it.
He's, I guess, spotted on the Simpsons a bunch and he's been really good at it, but there's
two movies in particular that I want to point out.
One, this is where I leave you, which is just one of the, I don't, I don't recommend many
movies.
But if there's a movie that I could, one of the movies that I would say everybody should
see, it's an already movie, so everybody able to see it.
This is one of them.
Let me just give you this cast real quick, Melissa, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda,
Adam Driver, Roseburn, Catherine Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olympia, Dex Sheppard, Ben
Schwartz.
There's a ton in this.
It's just an incredible movie about Jane Fonda loses her husband.
This is a Jewish family.
Jane Hahn, she loses her husband and they sit Shiva, which is something in Jewish tradition
you do when you lose somebody in the family.
You sit in the house.
You sit there for six days, basically, synopsizing this.
It's a dark comedy, you know, it's a dramedy.
It's really good.
That is a great one.
And black clansman, black clansman is a Spike Lee movie all about, it's a based on a
true story about a detective that would undercover into the, I'm sorry, a black man that went
undercover basically into the clan.
It's incredibly active and Adam Driver and John David Washington, John Denzel Washington's
son doing an amazing job in that movie, both those movies.
We've seen everything else he's done in your big fan of Adam Driver's, see those two
movies.
Goddamn.
What was the first one called again?
This is where I leave you.
Ah.
It's one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's just a very, very good movie and if you don't like it, please, you go ahead and
James, you wasted two hours of my life.
You go ahead and you you leave.
Only an hour and 43 minutes.
Ah, see, it's not even that long, it's not even that long.
Billy Courington is 51, people are crazy.
That's how boys roll, great country singer, songwriter.
Savion Glover is 51, Sesame Street dancer who also did the choreography for the happy
feet movies, one of the greater dancers you will ever see.
Go ahead and do yourself a favor.
Look up at Savion Glover and Sammy Davis Jr.
Or I'm sorry, Savion Glover and Gregory Hines, Savion Glover and Gregory Hines dance together
at the awards.
So Oscars, very similar to when Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. did and, man, Savion
could dance.
God, he's got some of the smartest feet you will ever see, incredible dancer, incredible
dancer.
The tapping marvel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see.
And so, Gail Divers is 58 Olympic gold medal runner, she won the gold in 100 meter races
in 1992 and 1996, came close to having her feet amputated in 1990 during treatment for
Graves' disease before she made a full recovery, just an amazing story.
She's amazing.
That's incredible.
For me, actors of all time and one of my favorites, Jody Foster is 62.
It's tough for me to say there's a lot of great actresses in the world and they have
been in all in time, but she's my favorite.
I've never seen anybody that every, there's movies where there are four or five scenes
in it that I've never seen her do in the recent movies.
She is something.
She really, really is.
There are a few actors that will give you what she does every scene, every syllable
like she does.
I've watched everything she's done and she's never, there's nothing that she hasn't done
where she hasn't given 100% to it.
Just a really, really big energy actor, big, like you work with Anthony Hopkins talks about
how humbled he was working with her, that, that, I mean, that's crazy, that, that's crazy.
Nobody says that about it.
People say that about Anthony Hopkins, nobody says that about Jody.
She's just incredible.
And you know, not, not too far from her, I would say Meg Ryan 63.
Wow.
I didn't know they shared a birthday.
How cool is that?
Yeah.
And Meg Ryan.
Two, two of my favorite actors, I like both of them.
Meg Ryan said such a wonderful career, a really cool career and a really good act.
So big in the 90s for sure.
I mean.
One big difference between these two though, Jody Foster was really able to press against
type and be able to do a lot of different things.
I think in part because of being a young actor, she was a Hollywood star.
She got her break in taxi driver as a teenager.
Um, Meg Ryan, I never really felt like was given the chance to do something really dramatic.
No, she always got thrown into the round com role.
She deserves it.
She's great at.
Yes.
And I don't know for Badam that, I believe I've heard her saying interviews that she would
have liked to have done some things.
But I, I don't know that for a fact, but if she did want to, she deserved the chance.
She was good.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Uh, Joe versus the volcano.
God, I love that movie.
I don't care what anybody says.
Such a great movie.
I got to watch it again.
It's been a long time.
It was, that was came out in 1990.
That's pretty much the movie that, uh, both her and Tom Hakes, uh, I, you know, I was like,
okay, that, that's, that's going to like these two further.
I was a kid watching that on Joby G and, and I love that movie.
Uh, and, and, you know, another one, uh, Alison Janney is 65, uh, Bonnie on mom, uh,
CJ on the West Wing, amazing character actor.
Uh, she was in, uh, the Margaret Robbie.
I, I, I, I Margaret, or, yeah, the, uh, oh, yes.
I love her too.
I, I can never remember her name, but she was in also the West Wing.
Yes.
And the character she played in that TV show was just fantastic.
Yeah.
CJ's, uh, one of those characters, people remember, yeah, she's, um, but she was in the
help and, um, there's, I want to see, honestly, I would love to see anything she's
in because I, I enjoy her performances so much.
I didn't see a lot of it, but, uh, the, the TV show mom, she was really, really good
on that.
She, she, she just, she just plays those type of roles better than anybody, really.
Uh, she's so good.
No nonsense.
Tell you like it is.
Yeah.
Uh, one of my favorite, uh, journalists that I've read since I was a kid and, uh, one of
my favorite, uh, people, uh, the talk sports, uh, somebody I look up to quite a bit.
Uh, Michael Wilbond is 66 today.
ESPN's pardon the interruption co-host, uh, Chicago's own.
And he will make sure that you know that more than maybe, uh, even I, um, but he, uh, well,
now for nothing, one of the smartest and better writers in sports that I've ever read,
uh, and one of the better minds too.
And Currie is 68 today, former today show host, uh, let's see here Calvin Klein is 82, uh,
the famous, of course, designer, um, Ted Turner, 86, uh, Ted Turner, uh, another one, big
name.
And then some people no longer with us, like, uh, one of the greatest to ever do.
What we're doing right now, Melissa, Ted, uh, Larry King, uh, born in 1933, passed away
in 2021, uh, Larry Suspenders and all, um, one of the greater, uh, voices in radio history.
Um, you know, the man, uh, most, uh, generations, most people know Larry King, of course, from
CNN and interviews and all of that, but Larry got to start right where, what Melissa and
I are doing right now, uh, doing local radio and Florida, uh, and I got a big, uh, got
a, got a couple of opportunities here and there and got to meet some people and got the
chance to meet Frank Sinatra and, um, uh, became, uh, he ended up doing a favor for Sinatra
once and Sinatra told them, well, I'll get you back one day.
And so for a months, uh, they're talking about doing this, uh, live thing on the air where
Frank comes on the air and does a big interview and it was at a, a key point in Frank Sinatra's
life.
And this is when Sinatra is the biggest thing under the sun.
There's nothing bigger than Larry King's kind of got a bit of a name in Florida, you
know, maybe in Southern Florida, but that's about it.
And nobody basically believes Larry, including his own staff, like everybody's basically,
like writing his, like Larry King's memoir about his days and radio because he's going
to be done.
And at the last possible minute, who pulls up, not being driven up, pulls up himself
Frank Sinatra and comes trolling in like it's nothing, uh, does like 20 minutes or half
an hour of a live, uh, TV live radio with Larry King and Larry King that literally overnight
becomes a sensation.
And, and, and one of the better interviewers, uh, I think especially over 50,000 interviews
on TV and radio that he did.
There was a time where it was a benchmark in your career to be on Larry King, just similar
to the tonight show and everything.
Like if Larry interview you do, you knew you mattered, you knew that you would made it
and stuff.
Um, and, and I don't think it got credit enough, especially late in his career.
I don't know how strong this was or not, but especially prime Larry King, amazing interviewer
would ask questions.
A lot of people wouldn't think of would ask follow up questions.
A lot of people wouldn't think of just one of those guys I, I really, I really looked
up to and, uh, look up to as an interviewer, uh, very, very good, uh, Mr. King, born
of this day in 1933.
And uh, those are who, uh, you guys share your birthdays with all you sharing birthdays
out there.
You haven't birthdays out there.
Yeah.
And enjoy and share your birthday with our friends at El Café.
Mm hmm.
What are your anniversary?
Go down there and have some delicious pie to celebrate.
Yeah.
And I know over there, two twenty one market avenue and beautiful port edwards.
Wish you a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
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More fun here on the morning show.
Welcome back everybody.
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Little Sarah McLaughlin to play, isn't?
I don't know if there are words she could sing that I wouldn't want to hear.
Like I, I, I know there are words that bug us like you don't like they make you cringe
or whatever.
Like I feel like she could say anywhere.
Like a lot of people don't like the word, uh, moist, like the words like that.
It's just thinking that it's a lot of people were and I didn't want to say it, but
I did.
I did.
I did.
I did.
I did.
We got good stuff here for you everybody.
I want to touch on this one.
It is timely.
Uh, especially we've got a lot of people getting ready to fly for the holidays.
Not only Thanksgiving, but the upcoming, you know, December marathon of holidays that are
coming up.
So is there anything spirit airlines doesn't charge you for yet?
Uh, because they might need to, they might start spirit filed for bankruptcy protection
yesterday, though for those that did not hear the low budget airline hasn't turned
a profit since 2019.
Oof.
They filed for chapter 11 to restructure their debt.
They've racked up more than 2.2 billion of it in the last five years alone.
Hm.
JetBlue tried to buy them for 3.8 billion this year, but a judge blocked it saying a merger
would harm travelers by allowing all the airlines to up their prices.
Uh, because we're not supposed to allow monopolies and let two companies own everything in the
world.
Right.
They're flying spirit for the holidays.
Don't worry.
They're not going out of business today.
Uh, it's the first major airline to go bankrupt though since 2011.
So, uh, it's not that unusual, but a little bit unusual.
It has been a little while.
They make it sound like it, you know, what happens every day.
It has been over a well over a decade.
This has happened.
Uh, and I mean, every year, every, every month, practically, uh, we're living in a different
world, let alone 11 years ago or 12 years ago or anything like that.
Um, America, Delta, and United Airlines all filed for bankruptcy at one point.
So this, you know, if anything, they're doing it to fit in.
Um, yeah.
You just want to be part of the club.
Yeah.
Spirit put out a statement saying all tickets will be honored and people can, quote, continue
to book and fly now and in the future, uh, that said, one industry expert thinks they
could end up trimming their schedule or even canceling some flights in the upcoming months.
Yeah.
Um, but that doesn't sound like it's going to affect the holidays.
That's for sure.
Uh, quote, unless you work there, of course, all right.
They're not going to stop flying tomorrow, but inevitably they're going to emerge, uh,
emerge, uh, and even smaller airline after this process.
Uh, so that means that they're going to be some hiccups in, uh, in the routines.
Um, um, and he said that that might start operating, uh, operating a fewer airports,
which means less, uh, competition.
If that happens, tickets to and, uh, from those airports could even be more expensive.
Um, and I, I will say, um, a lot of actors in my ilk, uh, fly spirit airlines, uh,
it tends to be a lot cheaper, uh, just being blunt, you know, uh, that, that is one of
the things and we do a lot of travel, um, you know, so, uh, it's something that I know
that me and a lot of my, my colleagues do, um, and I've never really had a bad experience
with spirit, but I've, I don't say this to be mean, but, uh, there's never been a time
I flew spirit and I, I thought, okay, well, that I don't know how good this company is.
I, and there's certain things and it's not because of certain, like, the people, the people
are fine.
I've never had a bad experience with anybody that, the people that work at spirit airlines
and four of those.
And I've honestly never had any bad experiences with people that work in the airline industry.
It's more the companies and some of their decisions that they do, um, that make me question
and, and make me wonder if they've ever taken a business class in their life.
Well, and you also then wonder about safety if they're having to cut so much, many corners
to keep competitive with prices, you wonder about safety.
Yeah.
I, I, there's certain things in life that like I, I, I think you and I have even talked
about this, Melissa, um, you know, I'm not a name brand guy, but if there's, you know,
shoes, we use our feet constantly and we don't, we don't appreciate them nearly enough.
So shoes, I will spend a little bit more for a better pair of shoes, um, I don't mind
having a, a, a cheeseburger from a gas station or whatever if I'm starving, but if I'm taking
somebody out or I'm going out or me and my parents are going to go have dinner, I'll
probably go to callvers, um, and over McDonald's.
Yeah.
And I'm going to wait a little bit.
But, and I'm going to, I may pay even a little bit more, but I know I'm going to because
I get great quality.
I've never had one bad meal at callvers.
I've been eating there for over 20 years and I've never had one bad meal.
I feel it's like a worthy investment.
Yeah.
Certain things in life are worth paying for.
I don't like humane society, just throwing it out there, just off the top of my head,
um, thinking certain things like a good safe airlines, knowing that I get on a plane and
I don't have to like, you know, say every prayer under the sun just to make sure that I
get home.
Yeah.
A door is not going to come flying off.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It was an important thing.
Certain things in life are worth paying for.
We've got a lot of nice new roads, not just here in Rapids, but in Central Wisconsin,
and really around the country, uh, the infrastructure bill saw to that.
Yes.
I like these roads.
I think it's pretty nice.
It's pretty nice.
Uh, it, it is really nice to be able to take a drink of coffee wherever it not just
have to tell me about it being, yeah, splashed in your face.
There's seriously some spots you got to do that with, I mean, yeah, certain things are
worth paying for.
I feel like a lot of these companies, including Spirit, and I'm not throwing this out there.
I've done my homework on this when it comes to this particular company and, and some similar
ones.
Um, they, they, they don't put the money in the smart places.
They're, they're so, we're going to spend half our budget on advertising.
Okay.
Cool.
You get everybody to come to your company and it's not any good.
And you don't have enough flights to accommodate them all.
They ain't coming back.
Good planning.
The, the, the point is, of course, repeat customers getting people to want to come back.
And people tend to like safe, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I, I feel like that
seems like a one, I wanted to get a focus on that seems like.
Yeah.
And there's a fair amount of people that have a fear of flying.
Uh, yes.
Safety is kind of important.
Uh, uh, American Airlines is testing a new system, uh, that they will flag when people
attempt to board before their group has been called, uh, people do this and it's kind
of rude.
Yeah.
There will be an audible alert when they scan their boarding pass and the agent will tell
passengers to please step aside.
They say the purpose is to ensure customers receive the benefits of, of priority boarding
and quote, help improve the boarding experience by providing greater visibility into boarding
progress.
Good.
Um, it's also just kind of a chance to shame line jumpers to, yeah, it is.
That.
Uh, uh, kind of interesting fact, airline employees often refer to, you know, people
that line jump as gate lights, gate lights.
Yeah.
Oh.
Had a good friend of mine that worked at all hair for like, I don't know, 10 years or something
like that.
And, uh, did just through this term out there once, like I was supposed to know what it meant.
And I seriously thought there was some kind of like, like, like issue or something like
that with, like, you, wait, you go through the gate, you get light, what would you get
light?
Yeah, I didn't understand.
Yeah.
But that's, they have.
Thank you.
This happened so much.
They've got a name for it.
Yeah.
Uh, so far, uh, so far American Airlines said that they have been pleased with the test, uh,
in doing this and, and travelers have responded very well to it.
In fact, some people, uh, when they did this, started clapping, uh, for, uh, well, yeah.
Well, yeah, because you never like the people that are rude and that line jump, that's
just not nice.
Wait your turn.
You know, and granted, this doesn't work, obviously, as we've seen, uh, and especially
in recent months, shame doesn't work on everybody, but in certain areas, it's almost the perfect
like medicine.
Because you can't go too far and you certainly don't want to go this, you know, to take
it to this notch or anything like that.
But boy, when it's you, when it's needed, shame is the perfect tool in the toolkit.
Mm-hmm.
Well, and we see that with some of these, like, life hacks that have come through of, of
how to scam and get it, because it's basically a scam, you know, to, to be able to get a
cheaper ticket or to be able to board quicker or to be, you know, I don't know, to purchase
the, the seat with one in between so that nobody else buys that one and then, you know, expect
to have two seats when you're on an airplane.
All of these things that people do to try to scam the system, yeah, shaming them is a
good response.
I mean, it works for a reason, you know, I feel like it's got, we've got it in our toolkit
for a reason.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
We will take a quick time out, we'll come back and we've got three brilliant luggage
packing hacks.
Oh, good.
It just, after you just brought up hacks, I couldn't help it.
We've got that coming up.
I still want to talk about this mysterious thing that, this bamboo wagon found in a
melt.
Yes.
It was found in a melted glacier.
Yeah, we got to get into that.
That's coming up too.
Good morning, show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning, show here at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
So much, appreciate every one of you.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Get into some fun stuff right about now, but we'll get into some really good stuff in
the 9 o'clock hour as well.
We're going to kick it off with Connie Hanky.
She is going to join us.
She is the art director from the Alexander House in Port Edwards.
Got a new event coming up, a new exhibit we want to talk about.
Let's go be fun.
There's Friday, I believe.
Yeah, yeah.
We're going to talk about that with Connie.
Looking forward to it.
We'll get into a little bit of entertainment news as well.
And in the 9 o'clock, we also got the, what are the five must-have Thanksgiving foods?
Five must-hats.
Five must-hats.
My must-hats better made the list.
We're going to find out.
We're going to find out together.
All right.
Now, just continuing this flying theme that we've been having and we're touching on this
out and off as we get closer to the holidays and stuff and people flying more.
People are traveling.
Someone posted a bunch of luggage packing hacks that they learned from a flight attendant.
And here they are.
Let's go ahead and dive right in.
Number one, use balloons to prevent spills.
Okay.
Cut the ends off uninflated balloons so the opening is bigger and slip them over toilet
trees like hair gel or shampoo.
They can spill in your bag and sometimes, you know, cause issues.
Yeah.
Could be problematic.
Been there.
Been there.
You really got to make sure those caps are tightened.
I thought I was being able to get a really prepared, when I first moved out to California and
I had the, I wanted to bring, you know, the shampoo conditioner, whatever that I had.
So I got those traveling bottles.
Yeah.
I felt so, so adult.
Like, I bought these.
I bought, I bought these.
I didn't tighten.
I planned for this.
Yes.
And I didn't tighten one of them.
And then they come.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I did not have a lot of clothes I brought with me over there.
That was, that was awkward.
Use diapers to protect wine bottles.
Hmm.
Oh.
If you're, if you're packing wine, a wrap one diaper around the bottom of the bottle and
one around the top.
It might still break, but if it does, they're more absorbent than just wrapping it in a
towel.
I mean, that is what they're made for, I suppose.
Dippers soak up stuff.
I, I won.
So like for how many, if you don't have kids or your kids are old enough, you don't have
diapers in the house.
And how many people are traveling with wine?
Like how many people are doing this that they figured out a hack for it?
I, well, depends.
Are you coming back from Spain or Argentina or, or Australia or, I mean, then you have
to bring wine back.
It's like a requirement.
Is this a hack just for parents?
Because the, the, the factors that you need to have in order to pull this hack off or
need this hack, it feels a little bit like it's leading towards parents.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
Well, you can lock up to somebody in the airport, be like, you know, I really just need
two diapers.
Can I give you 10 bucks for two diapers?
Right.
You might, might have some takers.
If somebody comes up to you and asks that question, Melissa, are you asking a follow-up
question?
Because I, I have to, I have to ask, I have to ask.
Is this for a baby or wine?
Yes.
If it's for a baby, I'll just give it to you.
But if it's for wine, you can give me the 10 bucks.
100% in my exact answer as well, like, not that I would, you know, carry diapers around
but it might almost be worth it just in case this effort does.
It does happen.
Just have two of the packs.
Two of them.
Yeah.
That's to my travel list.
Pack your sandals where they can't get your clothes dirty.
Most suitcases have an interlining that unzips.
And also, I mean, don't people use plastic bags for those stuff?
I mean, isn't that kind of the point?
I packed all of my liquid things like all of my toiletries in a Ziploc bag.
I learned that after my trip.
Yes.
I've been doing it ever since.
It's still fail.
So the balloon is a really great, another backup plan.
But I feel like the people that did this list, and you can find more on the article if you
like and everything.
But I feel like they've never heard of plastic bags.
Like you show them like a bunch of plastic bags.
What is this?
This seems very weird to me that they, although there are places that are moving away from
plastic bags, which is wonderful.
We should.
We need to.
But reusing the ones that we do have is also can be for these purposes.
I use a grocery store, you know, a pick and save bag to put my sandals in.
Yeah.
Any of those work.
And if you have any hacks that you've been doing or using you want to share, please share
them with us.
715-424-2600-424-2600.
We go to heritagedaily.com right now, which is a really interesting website that I'm very
thankful that my co-host showed me.
There's some cool stuff on here, including past sciences.
Check out that.
That's where we're checking out alone, everybody.
But we got this article from Mark Milligan, shout out to him, Mysterious Bamboo Wagon
found in a multi-glacier path.
So far away from where Bamboo was grown?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is just one fascinating part about this.
I think most people, if you replace the Bamboo Wagon with dinosaur bones, most people are
going to be peeking up right now, oh, what's that and everything.
Even in 2024, it's still quite amazing when we find dinosaur bones.
It might even be more amazing now considering we've found so many already.
But this is very similar to that to me.
It's right in that same bowl park.
According to a statement published on social media by the Canton of, oh boy, Rubodon, a mysterious
Bamboo, Bamboo Wagon has recently been discovered at a section of melted glacier in the
Alps.
Yeah.
The Alps.
The wagon was found by Sergio Verde, who was hiking in the area, and Alpine, and it connects
the Swiss Valley area.
The documentary, the documented evidence suggests that the pass has been used since antiquity,
where it was possibly known as the Kunis Amaruus, as shown by the similar maps that you
can look at from that area and that time.
It's an old place.
It's been used a lot.
Long, long time ago.
Lot of traction in that area, high traffic area, you would say.
This is fascinating for one, just finding this, and when you see pictures of it to see
it intact as well as it is.
It's in pretty good shape, considering.
The examination appears to equip with two wheels that are made of bamboo rods tied with
laces, and to Melissa's point, part of the fascination of this is bamboo is a grass
fan.
It's in the grass family.
Right.
It does not grow on the Alps.
It's not a native plant to Europe.
It was first introduced to the continent in the 1700s or 1800s, which suggests the wagon
likely dates back to the 20th century.
Wow.
It's pretty cool.
It builds on a recent find reported by the Secrets of the Ice Project in the summer of
23.
Archaeologists uncovered what appeared to be the 20th century sled.
I think we talked about that during our morning show as well when that happened.
It's interesting.
It was interesting.
Just still be finding these things, that there's so much still undiscovered.
The fact that we're losing our glaciers isn't great news, but finding this stuff that has
been locked in those glaciers for so long is really incredible.
It's fascinating, and I don't know that we'll ever be able to normalize this, and I like
that.
I love the idea that there are still things in life that we can't normalize, similar
like we cannot afford to normalize or find a silver lining to global warming, or something
like that, especially in the current climate.
We can't afford to be taking our eye off the ball here.
We got generations about generations about generations that are counting on us to care
about the planet.
So it's a strong point, Melissa, but I do find this stuff fascinating, though.
Well, and then think about the humans that used that wagon, all those years and years
and what they transported in it.
It's fascinating.
I love things like that.
We can't tell us certain things like what they used it for, what the items that it carried,
how strong it was, or anything like that.
But which trace is left?
Sometimes.
Sometimes there are some really things.
But one thing we, I will put my name on it.
I am certain happened that a couple of teenagers, one was in it, and another was pushing it
at some point.
Which is when it crashed.
Yes.
That's how it happened.
Now you have to carry the stuff, guys.
Great job.
And they just left it there.
They just left it like, all right?
They left it.
That's what happened.
I feel confident in that.
I'm pretty sure that that happened.
I feel very confident that we are going to have a great 9 o'clock hour for you lined up.
We got serious comedy on the way, everybody.
We're going to be joined by Connie Hanky from the Alexander House to kick things off.
We're going to do our schedule.
We're going to maybe even preview some community stories for you.
That's going to be fun.
Pretty more coming up with Melissa and James right here on Mornings at WFHR.
