Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at WFHop.
Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, our co-host in
studio, Melissa Kay. Good morning. Good to have you here, Mel. Yeah, good to be here. We're
here when we're joined by our favorite people, the best listeners of radio. Thanks for joining
us, everybody, and our other favorite Brittany Marlow joining us. Yeah, I'm Brittany with
the weather. Good morning, Brittany. Woohoo, good morning. How are you? We're doing good.
A belated happy birthday to you, Brittany. Do you have a good one? Thank you, thank you so
much. I sure did. You know, kicking it off is nice and relaxing. Got to see some friends,
eat some good food, all that good stuff. There you go. The older I get, the more I realize
I love to embarrass people on their birthdays, Brittany. And you've made the weather a lot
of fun. We appreciate all the information and everything you bring to our community and
our listeners. And glad to have you had a good birthday and glad to have you back at work.
It's back to the grindstone. It's back to it. Yeah. Got some clowning skies out there
for today. Are you guys used to the cold yet? You know, it's not so bad. We're just frozen
numb. We can't feel it anymore. Others that we've become numb to the cold. Yes. Yeah, we
do. Well, today, no sunshine, unfortunately. It's going to be mostly cloudy, a bit breezy,
winds about 25 miles per hour. High is hitting the upper 20s, but we stay mild tonight. Those
clouds actually lock in some more. If we only fall a few degrees to the low 20s, but the
winds start to whip even harder. So they're going to be gusting up to 40 miles per hour
by tomorrow. And that is going to be slinging in some shots of light snow throughout the
day. So about a half an inch of accumulation, nothing major, but a beautiful snow globe
and windy cold. And then you're crash hitting you in the face. Yes, right in the face.
And the snow globe thing, we can relate to that here. Our studio is a little snow globe
like. We have a little bit of that effect, especially when we get really hit hard by
snow. It's an awesome feeling. I've never I didn't know that it'd be cool to be inside
a snow globe, but kind of is. Kind of. It's not bad. It's not bad.
Brittany, we appreciate you. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll hang out again tomorrow.
Sounds good to have a great day. Thanks, Brittany. Best in a business right there, our friend
Brittany Marlowe joining us every day right in this time slot. Melissa and I also got
some else that comes up in a nice time slot and just a little bit. The L Cafe Birthday
Anniversary Club. Looking forward to that. We will also touch on that kind of a bring
back to the story from yesterday about you had Oxford's word of the year. So I want
to touch on that. Just touch on that a little bit. And of course, we got some other good
ones for you. A turkey trot that went wrong. Grandma, Grandma may have gotten run over
by a reindeer. Oh, no, we got to talk about that one. I mean, that's the song, but it
shouldn't actually happen. No, no. The best sleep position for wherever, whatever
ails you. That should be a good one. And I want to get into the 10 most fun cities in
America. Okay. In the 9 o'clock hour, we'll kick things off with a bit of entertainment.
We're not only going to get into our schedule around here, but we also want to touch on
Jason Momoa and how he celebrates Christmas. We've got some local theater going on, some
great stuff going on at a radio station here throughout our schedule and coming up today.
All kinds of good stuff right there. But we begin with cookies. We want to thank Diane.
Oh, Diane bring cookies. Yeah. I love you, Diane. I had it in my head. I was going to
get up and physically go get them and bring them into the studio. But I didn't want to,
yeah, we haven't done this in a while. I didn't want to do that to you. But there are some
amazing cookies in the back. And a big shout out to Diane. They gave her that. Diane
best. You're the best. Yeah. So good. And it turns out you can't have cookies for breakfast,
Melissa. Oh, yeah. My mother's been lying to me. Well, that's sad. But you're 47, James.
Time to learn. It's time to learn. I think today is giving Tuesday. And that's where we begin,
where we give to others. Many people have traditions for this day. I don't really get into Black
Friday or the Cyber Monday stuff. Try to support small business Saturday, like most people out there.
And buying local and supporting local. But I really put a lot of my energy into giving Tuesday.
I have a tradition where I make sure that every giving Tuesday, if I don't do it before,
like the weekend before or whatever, I like to be up, give to Dali Parton's Imagination Library.
Nice. Terry, CEO of the United Way of Southwood,
Adams County. So we're going to join us tomorrow morning on the show here.
Kind of got me. I didn't even know about it before that. And got me to find out about it,
learn about it. And I've been doing it ever since about five things in my fifth year doing this.
Nice. And it's just one of those things that I do at the end of the year to try to not get cold.
No. Is that the point of getting Tuesday? You said that out loud, James.
Yeah. Yeah. I did. I did need to. Does it ruin it? If I said no.
Yeah. Honestly, like a lot of people out there, I didn't grow up with a lot of things in a lot of
books. But I grew up in a family of readers and wanting to be like my mom and my sister.
My sister could read better than me. And she's five years younger than me. And it really embarrassed
me as a kid. Sorry. I didn't mean to laugh. But it was funny. It was funny. It was supposed to be.
I learned to read over my brother's shoulder when I was when we were kids and he's 18 months
older than I am. I think that that's cool. I think that that's one of the things that is a great
way to celebrate. Certainly, you know, something like that. We've mentioned before that our friends
over at any nonprofit in this area is a great one to be a part of. But not everybody has got
dollars and cents. So maybe, you know, delivering meals on wheels with the ADRC or something like that.
There's a lot of ways to give back to day. And it follows, of course,
giving Tuesday, follow Cyber Monday, where we give to online shops, small business Saturday,
where we support small businesses. And here are a few stats about giving Tuesday.
Giving Tuesday has been around for 12 years. It was launched back in 2012 as a global
generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities.
Or giving back. Reminding people the reason for the season.
I don't know what it says. We have to be so literal about how, see, when you do nice things for
other people, good things. I don't know. Maybe it's all of us, you know, the what is it? 98.
Whatever percent trying to remind big, giant corporations who have all the money that they need to
be generous. Hello. And 50% of people claim that they dropped more money on giving Tuesday than
on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. That's easy for me because I don't do anything on Black Friday.
In the same poll, 33% of people admit that they haven't given any money to charity in the past year
for various reasons. About 22% have been able to part with a small amount. Another 29% have donated
between 100 and 1000 over the past year. And another 16% have given more than 1000.
13% of people have donated more to charity this year than last year. 29% have given less this year
and 58% say that they are on track to give the same. And there are a lot of reasons to give.
The two most common are it makes me happy and it aligns with my values and beliefs. But 10% of
people admit that they just do it for the tax deduction. Which, you know what, if that's the reason
you do it, okay, it still helps your community. 100% and that it gives back to your community.
And when our communities are thriving, we're thriving. Honestly, yeah, especially in this day and
age where the funding has been cut for so many of these organizations and everything, take,
it will take it. People were asked what they'd give money to if they were given a thousand dollars
to donate. And most people responses were charities involving animals. Health-based organizations
was second, followed by food insecurity, human services, disaster relief, education, and the
environment. Community development and civil rights were also in the list. All good things.
Finally, people said that they would not give to political organizations. They just went out of
their way to make sure to say that. They arts and funding they were okay with. But that what
they had to make alive. Like it's almost like they wrote it in themselves. It wasn't a part of the
survey. But we don't need to anymore. I mean, we weren't bombarded, literally bombarded with emails
and phone calls and texts asking and begging. And I mean, they were begging. Yeah, oh yeah. And
it's ridiculous because I mean, corporations are people now. So they were getting huge amounts of
money from big giant corporations. And yet, they were bugging us little ones for more money.
I'm not over exaggerating or joking, even if it makes you laugh, that I grew up around on
housed people. And I don't remember being begged as much as these political parties were.
Two things, just speaking for myself here, going into the next elections and everything I would
I'm done with. I'm done with polls. No more polls. I'm sick of polls. I'm done with them.
North Pole South Pole. That's the only polls I care about. Is there an East Pole and a West Pole?
I gotta look at that. I gotta look at them. I'm done with polls. And I am completely done with
giving a penny ever to any politician or any political party ever. I honestly never have.
And I work in radio. So there's a good option that I may never have been able to anyway.
But if I did have Bill Gates money or something like that, I would laugh them out of the room.
You go get your, you know, until they take the money out of politics, which they never will,
I got no time for that. They can get their money somewhere else. They got plenty of places to
get it. No, because it's just disgusting and frustration that I feel about the ridiculousness
that is our political situation. But the important thing on Giving Tuesday is to focus on our
nonprofits and our things that in our communities that do build our communities up. And we also
should be holding those politicians feet to the fire to help, to help build up our communities.
It's their job. It's what they raised all that money to get voted in to do. So do it.
Yeah. It's ridiculous that we're asking our fellow citizens out there who I'm pretty
feel pretty confident. Most of them out there listening are not in the top 1%. Although if you are
welcome, I guess I did. But the majority of people we're asking to give today are in no
different situation than you and I or a lot of the people that are receiving these things.
Yeah. I mean, we're all kind of pretty much all of us are living paycheck to paycheck at this point.
So it's important to remember that when we're asking for people to give money. And granted,
there is a definite kickback for you, the good feelings, the positivity that you're putting into
into your community and into these organizations that do so much for our communities. I mean,
that cannot be understated. And no coal or less coal for some of me posting about giving to stay
on social media can be good as long as you don't make it about yourself. Awareness can inspire
action, reinforce social norms of kindness and build community and broad perspective on giving.
And I really love that phrase, reinforce social norms of kindness, getting used to seeing and
feeling that, not just for us, but certainly for the younger generations to see us acting like
adults and treating each other like adults more and more and treating and being good to each other.
Yeah, there's enough negativity on the internet. Let's put some positivity out there.
A staggering 3.1 billion was raised worldwide on Giving Tuesday last year, which was pretty much
the same year the year before. They've seen a pretty steady line of this of 3.1 billion around
there. And that's that's billing with the B. That's pretty nice to see. And you can use online
sites. Charity Navigator, Better Business Bureau, I have a number of different ones. I know that
something again that Terry and I have talked to quite a bit about in something the United Way,
I think has done very well is being so transparent about where every penny goes. And I don't bring them
up just to highlight them, but that I think they are a perfect example of not only being evident of
these things, but saying, hey, 100% every penny goes into where you wanted to and you could be
specific about what county you wanted to go to. That stuff matters so much to people nowadays.
And not only that, it's really important that you know who you're giving your money to is actually,
like you said, going to where you intend it to go. Double check. Note, don't just take a cold calls
on the phone or text. Click on links and emails. Just don't do it. Go someplace where you know
is safe and secure. And you can always check the Better Business Bureau. You know, they research
these things extensively to make sure that they are certified, you know, non-profits and that
your money is in you're not being scammed. And give and give whatever it is that you can, whether
it is your dollars and cents or time and energy, we appreciate it. And thank you so much for
giving your time and attention to us and your mornings to us. We'll try to be more positive.
Yes. Yeah. Positiveity coming up. Look, the sky is turning blue. Yeah, so it is. It kind of
is a blue spot right there. Yeah, you can find it. You just got to look for it. We'll find it.
We'll find it. We'll find it. Serious companies start your day right here at Melissa James on
the morning show at WFHR. It's time for the old cafe birthday and anniversary club. One of our
favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and our wonderful friends over at L Cafe.
We encourage you to buy local support, local support our friends over at 221 Market Avenue
and beautiful port Edwards because their doors are open today. That's right. It's Tuesday. They
kick things off for the week. I encourage you to check out their Facebook page as well. They've
always got some fun posts out there. But they'll does a great job. It really does. Can you believe
that it's only 22 days away from Christmas? I didn't even realize that until I read his post.
It's really wild. It's a way to keep us on track. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Some of us
are getting ready for it and everything. Need that prep time. They've got plenty of great things
over there for you. Check out their unique menu and all the wonderful things that they have for us.
Buy local support, local support those to support this community like our friends at L Cafe.
And get by. Yes, get a great pie over there. And of course, get us those birthdays and
anniversaries. We love celebrating with you. Info at WFHR.com is the email you can send it to.
You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well. And we encourage you to call up.
That's right. 715-424-2600. You can call into the studio right here and just talk to us. Tell us
about your birthday or anniversary. Looking forward to hearing from you. Everybody give us a call.
Join the conversation. And Melon, you know, one or a two. Let's go with two today. You need to
pin that stays in your hand. That one's got rubber on it. It's bouncing around like crazy.
I was wondering where the Pam always leaves a note that left Diane left cookies or something
like that. And I bring that in here. So I remember. So I don't bring the whole cookies in here
and eat them all on you guys. I couldn't find the note this morning. I found it. Oh, there it is on
your leg. There it is. I couldn't have done that if I was trying to know how that didn't open for
there. We take a look at our local birthdays. And yes, I need a one or a two from your
Melissa. Two. Thank you. Let's go ahead and give this one a happy birthday to Denise Davis.
Happy birthday, Denise. Enjoy your day, Denise. Hope it's a good one for you. And our qualifier
today, Bob Madison. Oh, hey, Bob, happy birthday. Congratulations. Bob is, that is a great name.
Bob Madison. That's a good name. Enjoy your day, sir. Hope it's good one for you. We take a look
at our celebrity list. Amanda C. Freide is 39. A good actor. Mama Mia, Red Riding Hood,
Lane Miss Arab. Oh, that's why I know her. Yeah, she's good. And I think that even if you don't know
her name, she's one of those actors as you see her face and you recognize her pretty quick. She's
got a very unique look to her and everything. Yeah. Oh, let me see here. Tiffany Haddish is 45.
Actress and stand-up comedian. Let me see here. Brendan Frazier is 56. Really? I like him. He had
a really good comeback story. Certainly recently, people might know him as the robot man and
doom patrol. He was fantastic in that. Did a lot of voice acting. Whale? Yeah, the whale.
We're not asking for that. I think two years ago, we're not asking for the whale. A lot of people
know him from George at the jungle and see no man and some of those movies. There's a movie he
did back in the day called School Ties, which is about a lot of subject matter that doesn't get
talked about a lot. And I thought he did an amazing job. I didn't really see him much after that.
Brendan Frazier is one of the few male actors that have come out and talked about being
harassed and abused sexually and they blackballed him for a while there, where you can't talk about
that, especially if you're a male actor and everything. And one of the things that has come out
over the last handful of years is understanding of this stuff a little bit better, I think.
Not only by the masses, but by the industry. And that, oh, we own these things now. And with that,
you get a lot of actors like him coming back. And look what happens. He goes and wins an Oscar.
Yeah. It's an incredible turnaround in a career. And necessary, those things need to be addressed
and they need to be spoken of in the daylight. He's honestly one of my favorite actors. Not so much.
It was certainly one of the talented ones that I know, but it's so much on the field, off the field
for him that I'm a fan of. Montel Jordan is 56. I don't know who that is. Yeah, this is how we do it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That is all that is all we can afford. We can afford the song. So we can do a little snippet
off it. You can three seconds. That's it. And that's all we know of this. I did see him recently
like a year or two ago or whatever looks the same. Oh, yeah. His age is great.
Oh, Montel, or whatever he's doing to do it well. And another person aging incredibly well.
Julian Moore is 64. Oh, I like her. Gosh, what an actress. What an actress. So many things that
she's been in that I really enjoyed. I love actors that give so much facial expressions.
I'm a big fan of that. It's something that I try to do a lot. And I think it's something that you
see a lot of theater actors do. And Julian Moore is just incredible at that. She can give you so
much without saying a darn thing. And she's very versatile. I don't think she gets enough credit
for her comedic work. The big Lebowski, of course, stands out. But she's got some really great
stuff in there. Incredible actor. And just a huge amount of work that she's done. Yeah, yeah.
She keeps busy. She has consistently stayed working. And not for nothing, but that really speaks
to her talent because pretty much every age she's been able to find work. And as an actress,
that is just that's a feat in itself. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she was in all the hunger game movies.
And then, of course, in her younger years, she was all over the romcoms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Great actress. Another great one. Darryl Hannah is 64. Darryl Hannah. Splash. Yeah, that's the one.
Steel Magnolias. Oh, good one. Yes. Yes. Underrated performance in Steel Magnolias. Because
there's so many great performances in that one, but this doesn't get talked about. No. And I got
to play her character when I was in Steel Magnolias the first time. So that was, it was pretty pivotal.
Why did that give me goosebumps? I don't know. That was interesting. Just thinking of you with that
role, that you must have nailed that. That was one of my first, actually. Early, very early on,
on the old stage at ACT. I think that building is not there anymore. And that weird.
Yeah. I just had that happen the other day around here. There was an old movie theater in town here.
And I was trying to remember where I saw, because it's Christmas time, and my buddy Chris and I
went and saw a scrooge in the theater. And I was trying to think of where we saw it in town,
and it didn't make sense that we were at the other theater. I'm like, oh, no, we're at this theater
that's not even there anymore. It's just a blank space. Splash. That's a good one for me with Darryl Hannah.
And the King of Hard Rock, Ozzy Osborne is 76. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
One of the most interesting stories in all of music history. Like whether you like it or not,
it is a wild story. And somebody's going to make a biopic on that one someday. And good luck
trying to cast whoever's going to play Ozzy Osborne. Good luck with that. I can't imagine who they're
going to find to play that role. But there's got the only reason I think that there hasn't really
been one made so far is because of the difficulty of trying to find somebody to play that character.
It's difficult, man. Good luck. And happy 76 to one of the kings of metal, really.
Of Rock and Roll of music, Ozzy Osborne. And one more time, we want to wish a happy birthday to Denise Davis.
Happy birthday, Denise. And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Bob Madison.
Congratulations, Bob, and joy your birthday. Wish you a good one. And wish you all a
great day and encourage you to check out Elcafe. Head on over to 221 Market Avenue. Beautiful
Port Edwards. Check out some of the great specials and have a delicious meal no matter what you order.
Yeah, yeah, you can't go wrong. You can have a glass of water there and enjoy yourself.
It's a wonderful place. I have fun and wish them a great day for us when you head on over to Elcafe.
We'll be back more after our news sports and partner break here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James here with us. We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there. Happy
giving Tuesday to everyone involved and out there. We appreciate you joining us.
Got some fun stuff lined up for you. A little bit, Melissa and I are going to get into
the best sleep position there for whatever ails you.
And we've also got the most fun cities in America. We'll be touching on that one as well,
but kind of a follow up to yesterday where we were talking about dictionary.com's word of the year.
Demure was dictionary.com's word of the year. And Melissa had mentioned during the conversation
that Oxford dictionary had put theirs out and that one did not popped up on my timeline until
today. I wanted to touch on that and that what you mentioned was brain rot and that is Oxford
dictionary's word of the year brain rot. They define it as the supposed deterioration of a
person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overcompensation
of online content considered to be trivial or unchallenging during an election year.
That is very sad and also very predictable. Yeah, yeah.
According to their stats, usage of the term brain rot steadily grew up to 230% over the course
of the year, but it's not a new term. The first recorded use was in Henry David Thoreau's book
Walden back in 1854. So people were already complaining about brain rot back in 1850s.
Yeah. Well, it makes sense. I'm telling you these newspapers. They're the rowing kids.
They're talking to look at kids get your head on a newspaper. Oh, these kids, you can't get
their heads out of those papers nowadays. Oxford picks their words by choosing six finalists
and letting people vote. The other five this year were Slop, Dynamic, Pricing, Romanticy,
and Lore. Okay. And of course, as we mentioned to Muirone for dictionary.com.
Okay. Interesting. I'd love to hear noting. I'd like to hear from anybody out there.
What they think the word of the year was, again, keeping in mind, we are a PG show,
715-424-2600, 715-424-2600. Call up, join the conversation, looking forward to talk with y'all.
Melissa, I got to share this one with you in our audience. Now, this does involve a visual
component. I am aware we are in radio. So give you a little homework out there and maybe a
pellet lens or maybe something to make you laugh. I want everybody also to keep in mind.
Everybody is okay. We only do that in right stories of people that are okay afterwards.
Yes. That is true. A turkey trot in upstate New York got interrupted on Thanksgiving when a bunch
of deer came charging through and destroyed a woman just ran right into a woman who was running.
Luckily, she wasn't seriously hurt and actually kind of laughed it off a little bit.
Now, she doesn't look that old, but people are joking that grandma really did get run over by a
reindeer this year. I am going to show Melissa a bit of the video here. I thought I could make it
a little bit larger. I'm sorry. That's okay. I can look at the screen up there.
Okay, so it's just people walking and here come the deer. Oh my goodness. They ran right into her.
Oh, wow.
The doctor over.
Okay, so this is right into the gut. Like she's almost turned in face to it and these deer are just
booking through. They are. They're like going real fast.
And there's a lot of them. Uh-huh. And one ran right into her and then basically took a 90 degree turn
with the other way. I admit to being a city boy and I admit to not knowing a lot about these
things. But if I see any animal, a group of animal running one direction, I'm running that direction.
Right. Go with them. Yeah. Yeah. They're running from something. They know better than I do.
And I'm following them. But that lady took a hit like a linebacker. Yeah. And she just got right
up. Yeah. Got up. How do you? How do you explain that to your doctor? Like how did you get
this injury happen? No. Look, I know you're not going to believe me. The other five doctors
didn't. But I need you. Please believe me. A deer ran into me. There were witnesses.
So you mean you were driving your car? Are you hitting? No. No. I was running.
I mean, actually she was walking at that point. Yeah. She was even right. Yeah.
Yeah. We're moving very fast. Oh, no. That ain't right. That is not right. That is tough. But
she handled it well. She handled it well. And she is okay. And it's important part.
Right. I feel for her at the number of levels. But maybe the most doesn't look old.
And throw a gram out there. No, but because of the time of year, you got to have the play.
It's too close not to insert the joke. Yes. It's close enough, you know. And it was a deer.
It wasn't even a reindeer. Probably a white tail. That's good point. That's a pretty good video.
But grandma got run over by rainders is better than middle age woman got hit by a white tail deer.
Yeah. There's a roll of the dog. Doesn't have the same flow to it or anything.
According to a sleep medicine physician, the ideal sleeping position is one that promotes
spinal alignment from your head to your hips. According to me, if I'm asleep, I'll take it.
Overall, and here are some very helpful sleeping tips from this expert and a number of other
experts who have backed this up. And just out of habit, I kind of looked into some of these. And
they all kind of were consensus for most sleep experts and most sleep studies and all of that.
But this is a good one. Maybe it'd be better if we did this on our late night show.
Yeah. Which we're still working on. We're going to. I do love the idea of doing a late night
show. I do love the idea of that. Overall, sleeping on your back or side is better than your stomach
because it's easier to keep your spine supported. I had to break myself of sleeping on my stomach
when I was having so many back problems. It's hard to do, but you can. For those of you out there
who'd say it, no, can't. Yeah, you can. Yeah, I can't say that. It's a while. Yeah, I can't say
I've ever really been asleep that was slept on my stomach. Oh, I did. That was the side person.
That's always how I fell asleep as a kid. I will say though, I move around so much in my sleep.
I may sleep on my stomach at some point. I don't even know. 60% of people sleep on their side.
The best way to do it is with a pillow between your knees, it'll eat it'll even out your hips
and keep the spine straight. Yep. That's how I sleep. Yeah. That's something I forget to do,
honestly. And and half the time I'm passing out and I, you know, I don't even, the pillow is
on the other side of the room or something like that. It's either between my knees or if I'm
sleeping on my back, it's under my knees because that also helps your hips and your your low back.
Do you have a certain pillow you use for that? Yeah, but it's just a regular old pillow. Do they
sell pillows for that? Do they do? Okay, I got to look into that. I'm not joking on that what I do.
Let's see, sleeping on your side also cuts down on snoring. Yeah. Your left side is best because it
puts less pressure on your internal organs. Sleeping on your right side can also make your heartburn
worse. Wow. So sleeping on your right side can make heartburn worse. Yeah, because of how
your stomach is. Yeah, just where your stomach attaches to your stomach. Yeah, sleep on your
left side. It's interesting. I kind of start that way anyway, but as I said, I end up with my,
you know, my feet on the pillow, my head on the end of the bed or something like that.
Real quick, I only had a couple of major surgeries. One of the first major surgery I ever had was
having my adenoids and my tonsils taken on. And the major reason was it's because of my snoring I
was told. My family used to, my dad actually recorded me sleeping once just because my snoring was
so weird to have but so out there. And I, yeah, it's always been something I've been very conscious
up. That's the actual real reason I don't sleep. It's for others. I don't want to, you know,
I don't want to mess with them with the snoring. If you have neck pain or a stuffy nose,
try sleeping on your back, propping yourself up with a pillow can help with the congestion.
Yep, drainage. Sleeping on your back is the worst position for snoring though. So your partner
might not appreciate it. Or you have to get those those little strips you put on your nose. Yeah,
yeah. Those things work really good for a lot of people. And we spend less than 10% of our time
on our stomach. So it's the least popular position. It's not great for your neck and it can be
harder to breathe, which might make your sleep feel less restful. There's a lot of reasons here
I'm seeing and to not be sleeping on your stomach. Yeah. It doesn't, it does work for some people
though. So things that can help stomach sleepers include a firmer mattress, a thin pillow under your
hips, and using a very thin pillow for your head or no pillow at all. I'm also seeing something
here and I don't know if this is talked about or if other people realize this long before I did
or whatever, we need more than one pillow. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I need at least three.
For my head, one for my arms and one for my knees. Yeah. Yeah. I honestly, I'm 47 and I've just
now realized this and I've done a lot of what's even worse is I've done a lot of homework on
sleep and research on sleeping and everything. And I don't remember a lot of things being brought up
about the pillow between the knees or any of this. Other people have told me that or I've seen
other people do it, but I've never necessarily heard from experts about these. So I know looking
at the sleep foundation.com is where you can find some of this information, but I've also gone to
a couple of other Oxford.org is another place. Of course, it have a lot of great research on sleep
and studies on them. One of the leaders in the country when it comes to that. One of the things
that I had to look into was more of this like having an extra pillow and having a pillow between
the knees and some of that. There's also, you know, like a lot of different types of pillows that
you can get. I don't like a feather pillow, mostly because of a traumatic incident where I got a
feather in my eye. It was very awful. But anyway, that'll do it. Yeah. That was supposed to be bad.
But there's pillows that have like a curve for your neck or a little nest. You can set your neck
in. You know, I mean, there's all kinds of pillows. And sometimes I switch them out. Like, I have a
flatter pillow sometimes. And then other times I need more neck support. So I use my neck curve pillow.
Now, that is one that I have done myself too. I have the whole
have multiple or having one pillow for I'm in this feeling this way or I need this because my
neck is all jacked up and I need a softer one or I need a firmer one, that kind of thing. I actually,
I haven't had to do this in a long time. I got to find a new mattress. I was I do the flip mattress
thing and I flip my mattress and it's just, you know, fallen apart in the middle. I'm like, okay,
I flip it again and it's still falling apart. It's time. But did I did this thing where I flipped it
and I didn't realize I wasn't really doing anything. I was just kind of like turning it around
basically. I didn't really and and I'm laying there and trying to figure is what is going on with
my hip and a spring in my hip. Yeah, that'll do it. Oh man, that was not good.
Uh, Melissa and I will take a time out. We'll come back. We're talking about the funnest cities
in America, the funny cities in the country. It's coming up for us on the morning show here at WFHR.
You just had to do that. I had to do it. I had to do it. Uh, I also was, this is not what I was
looking for though. That was not the version I was looking for. There's more of a sing-a-long
version. Yeah, I was looking for the original. That's what I wanted. Well, you only had so much to
yeah. Okay. We won't judge you too harshly. Appreciate it. Melissa, Jay back with you. Thanks
so much for joining us everybody. Hope your Tuesday is treating you good. Let's talk fun. Let's
talk the funnest cities in America. Wisconsin Rapids, of course. Right at the top of the list,
Wisconsin Rapids, done with the list. We don't need to do any farther. Walletup.com ranked the most
fun cities in America and the top two are not too surprising. They based this on 65 different
metrics, including how many bars, restaurants and festivals there are. They even factored in how
far you'd have to travel to get your closest bowling alley or frozen yogurt shop. Hey. And
according to the results, the top 10 most fun cities in America are Las Vegas at number one,
Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and New York.
Vegas ranks first for nightlife and parties and Honolulu is 16th overall, but ranks first for
entertainment and recreation. They also ranked each city according to how much it costs to have fun
and if that's your main concern, start planning a trip to Toledo, Ohio.
Little little different. The top five cheapest cities for fun are Toledo,
Wichita, Montgomery, Alabama, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Oklahoma City.
Interesting list. Yeah. I mean, that all makes sense. But out of out of those like cheaper cities,
I would choose to live in those places over the ones you named on the top and like I would never
want to live in Las Vegas. I've been there twice and I'm good. I don't ever need to go back.
Yeah, I had an hour layover there and that was about it. I really actually literally got to do
almost everything I wanted to do in Vegas. I really if I never go back there, I'm good. It's
it's okay. I mean, teach the wrong. It's okay, but you get off the strip and it's scary. Yeah,
and I'm not a gambler. So there's a big part of that city that is wasted on me. I go in for the
air conditioner. Yeah, and the shows are really cool. And there's a lot of in the hotels there,
there's a lot of free shows that you can catch even and the hotels are very impressive. I mean,
they're massive. Like we were in the Sands Convention Center for a bicycle convention and it was
huge. Like you get a workout just walking from one end to the other. So I mean, it's neat. It's
cool to see, but I would never want to live there. And I'll say this. I don't mean this is an
insult or a mean way. I generally mean this. I think my favorite thing about Vegas is flying
over Vegas and the light that shooting out at night. It's so dark cool. I think I always think
it's cool. So it hasn't got old to be. I've been past it like four times and every time it was
cool. Taking a look at the world map here, US map for our most fun cities. I mentioned Chicago
at number eight, Aurora, Illinois at 161 home of Wayne's world. What about some, what about
Wisconsin here? Well, Madison ranked 68, not bad though. And considering like we've said many times,
the United States is huge. I'm just a big fan of college town, Stevens Point, Madison, La
Cross. These are some of my favorite places. I love going to all of those. And Milwaukee ranks 39.
Hey, hey, not bad at all. There we go. I have seen so many concerts and so many things in Milwaukee.
And there's I generally actually think that as popular of a city that is and as much as people
know about Milwaukee and everything, whether it's around the country or the Midwest or just here in
Wisconsin, underrated. I think Milwaukee is actually underrated. Yeah, well, it gets a bad rap.
But so do most big cities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's such a strong good point. And most,
I would say almost every big city in the country is mislabeled or misunderstood. And most people
that once you visit those cities and realize, oh, it's not a rock. It's not certain areas in
everything. There's a gigantic difference. Yeah. Sometimes whether it is word amount or media or
whatever it might be, I don't think there's enough perspective in these things oftentimes. I
talked to one of my I have an aunt and an uncle and a cousin that live in Israel. And my mother
and I talked to them over the weekend for the holidays and everything, not that they celebrate
Thanksgiving over there. But you know, it's still a beautiful thing. You had time. Yeah, exactly.
And it's oh, and there's no way to word. There's no way to talk about what it's like to go get
milk in those areas or something like that. So I think it's important thing to keep in mind
perspective when it comes to this stuff. Yeah. And and once like you said, we have a tendency
as humans to always gravitate toward the negative. I mean, we we click on things that, oh,
this happened. Let's look into it. I mean, with sensationalism, we're drawn to it. But that
doesn't tell the whole story. And oftentimes those things are blown out of proportion to get
you to click on them. Yep. Yeah. Which, you know, people will click on fun things too. It'd be great
to see people like just like this huge shift in media and news and everything else. Hey,
wait a minute. People like good stories. Oh, and just start leading with those and leaning
into those. I'm not saying that you can't cover the harder stories. But it probably doesn't have
to be the very first story in block A. Yeah, you know, we've been doing pretty darn good ratings
wise and things doing that for a long time around here. As far as on the morning show. And I
think midday magazine, a lot of our content, this awesome new show that I heard about on Tuesdays
and Thursdays called Community Stories and Community Stories Junior, which you'll talk about and
hear more about later. Things like that. Things like that. Yeah. Yeah. Shameless plugs are what
are my favorite things to do. I love it. One of the most common complaints about work is not
feeling appreciated. They may be that may be a failure of management or it, you know, might not be
other. It might be other factors too. But it whatever in the case might be a pull-ass people,
what it would take for them to feel more appreciated because this seemed to be a thing. And all levels
of work that are that is noted. Whether you work in retail, whether you work in finance,
you know, whatever these work revel this is something that most people are feeling. And a pull-ass
people, what it would take for them to feel more appreciated at work. And some of the stuff just
requires a little more effort for management. And then there are some fun ones on here.
Number one list. Personal thank yous from their direct bosses. 48% say that this would do the trick.
They would immediately feel like almost half of people would feel more appreciated if there was
just some more thank yous. One of the most simple things we can do in life. Yeah. It costs nothing,
can mean everything. Being able to easily communicate with their co-workers and boss. 46% of people
would appreciate that more. And it would make them feel more appreciated. It's more communication.
Being appreciated by their peers, customers, or the public. 41% feel that one. You could see that.
Being paid a living wage or being given regular raises. 39% of people would like that one.
Yeah. And why that is-
A living wage. I don't understand why. That's hard to understand for some people.
You know, part of the reason I think that that's low on the list is because a lot of people have
almost, I don't want to say given up on the fight, but they have given up on that style of work.
Say that they are, you know, distraught by the fact that, I don't know, minimum wage hasn't
changed almost 20 years in certain states. And so they're not working in those industries anymore.
They're moving on. And they're going to industries where they're feeling more appreciated.
And they're making a different wage. Or they're working through jobs. Yeah. Yeah. So I think
that's a huge one right there. And they're too exhausted to say anything. Imagine having to choose
between- I want my boss to tell me thank you every once in a while and I'd like a living wage.
Like that's what we're asking our industries out there. You know, our fellow workers out there.
Having a flexible work schedule is a big one. 35% of people have them. Respect for their time
outside of work hours. Yes. 35% all that one. So the same type of people that want the flexible
work schedule would like some respect for off-air. Yeah. They want to be off this time,
have time for family. That's important. And we struggle with that here in the United States.
Yeah. Yeah. And in so many industries- Work life balance.
Yeah. So many industries are not a clock in and clock out industry. More and more we're seeing
that. And even in industries where that used to be the case, where that is, there's generations
out there that don't have no idea what a time sheet is. They really have no idea. Their jobs
are not like that. They don't really clock in or out. They may leave the physical building,
but they don't really leave the job. Yeah. Being empowered to be more autonomous.
Autonomous, okay. I pulled that off. You did, not dude. It's so sad. 18%. 18% would like that one.
I didn't try to get. They would like autonomy at work.
Having a wellness program offered throughout my workplace. 17% of people would like that one.
Yeah. That'd be nice.
Is that, to me, and honestly, I'm not trying to be funny here. I'm not sure what they mean
necessarily by a wellness program. Are we looking for more support from our peers,
more of a physical and actual support group? I think is that the kind of thing you're thinking
there. They offer a gym membership. Or they have a workout room at your building.
Daycare for the kids, something like that. Some way for you to be able to get wellness into your
routine without having to, I don't know, having help, basically. Yeah. Yeah. Because gyms
are expensive. And gym memberships are a scam in some places. I mean, can we mention any time
fitness? Three-year contract. You can never get out of no matter what. And that's just that
Melissa throwing that out. No, that's me personal experience of having had it. Just saying also that
there's been a number of court filings and different things out that as well. They're trying to change
it, which is good. They need to because that's not okay. Yeah. Anything that you are locked into
like that is not okay. I don't care what your business is. If you have to trick people into it,
you are not doing this right. Like no business should involve small print or any of these things.
I understand that it happens. But if you have to do those things, I question how good you are a
business. And how good your business model is. And how good your wellness programs are.
Company wide and and or team wide shout outs. 15% would like that one. Yeah. I mean, those are
nice. I suppose sometimes those feel like platitudes though. Yeah. Like if if you're not,
if you can't say thank you genuinely or like you actually did a good job, not just it. Okay,
great job. Great job on this today. Yeah. But do you know what I actually did? Did you actually
did you actually listen or did you actually look at what I did? I noticed something with the
you know, social media and with like Facebook, for example, in Facebook, birthdays. It's a great
way for a lot of us to remember, oh, this one's coming up or what this is happening. And I used to
go online and make a post on their page or something like that. And that's a fine way to do it.
And I have nothing against that. But I have more and more. I've been more like just direct messaging
people. Yeah. Versus putting it on their page. I do the same thing. It became more of a thing of
where, oh, I'm not doing this for others. I'm doing this for this direct person. And I wanted it
to go directly to them. And I think that a compliment is meant to be that way as well. It's not a bad
thing necessarily to tell the masses, hey, I appreciate this person. But it goes so far, especially
again, going to back to management, going back to communication and so many of the other things
we've hit on in this, just being direct right face to face. Hey, I appreciate you. Hey, thank
you for what you do. You are appreciated. It takes nothing. It costs nothing. It costs nothing
can mean everything. Yeah. It goes a long way. And this goes to show that some of the cheesy stuff
that some people don't want like to to Melissa's point. And like Derek, he really wants the
MVP of the week trophy. And that's another thing people want. They wouldn't mind a trophy. 10
a good 40 to 50% of people said that they wouldn't mind a trophy telling them this.
Like these things. Oh, trophies are fun. It's not bad. I don't know what you're going to do with it,
but I do like the idea of it. I don't mind it. I'm not against possibly doing something like that
around here. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We can get a little competitive around here.
So we'll see how that one goes. I actually think that if we're going to have it, though,
I can't win it. I think that's only fair. I think that's only fair because I will be too
competitive. I don't know if you've ever really seen my competitive side. But see, you know,
James. I don't know that. I don't what we'll have to talk about the software because I have
I have thoughts. I like them. And I want to hear them. And we'll hear. Maybe you don't.
We'll be back a more show coming up on or maybe I just keep the show going so I don't
we'll be back more show on the morning show WFHR.
