Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFHR.
Got your host, James J behind the mic. I am joined by your head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your week out there. We're going to kick things off the way we like to
with our friend Brittany Merlot, talking a little bit of Mother Nature. Good morning, happy Monday.
How are you guys doing? Doing good. Not as chipper as you, my goodness.
It's the last week of 2024, right? We've got this. Yeah, we do. Full marks, ladies, full marks. Yes, well done.
We'll get in the rear of your mirror. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're looking at 2025. And what kind of weather are we looking at this week, Brittany?
Oh, you know, we've got a little bit of everything for everyone. We've got that dense fog advisory still in effect until noon today.
And it's freezing fog in a lot of places. Temperatures right now at Wisconsin Rapids are 27 degrees.
So some slippery surfaces out there, but otherwise we are looking at some sun trying to peek out
way around this afternoon, replaced by more clouds, of course, by this evening.
High temperatures today will be in the upper 30s. We will fall back below freezing tonight to the upper 20s
with more patchy freezing fog possible to tomorrow morning.
And then we've got a system sliding by. It's actually going south of the state into Illinois, but
it is going to swing chances of some light freezing rain and also some snowflakes out there too.
So tomorrow, a wintery mix, but we're just looking at trace of accumulation, but enough to make it hard to
travel, especially if you're going anywhere for New Year's Eve. So the good news is,
by the evening, we're winding down to just flurries. We're not looking at any major accumulations.
And then as we go into New Year's Day, it's the last day of holding on to some decent temperatures,
partly sunny skies in the mid 20s before we slide cold for the rest of the week and into the new year.
This weather, I mean, I had nothing on that. So I just, it feels like just like as the weather is
our kind of segue when we're on the elevator around strangers. I'm like, this weather, right?
I mean, sometimes there's just nothing else to say about it. Is this weather?
Right. Describe it. Make sure you got a kit in your car to be prepared for any possibilities.
It sounds like. Absolutely. Yep. And make sure you have all that warm gear in there because
the whole winter is around the corner. We are, we are that much more prepared. Thanks to you.
You have a great morning, Brittany. You too. Thank you. Thanks, Brittany.
Best in the business right there for him, Brittany. We're a little joining us every morning,
right in this time slot. We got good things coming up for you and every time slot in every segment
this morning. Good things coming up in just a little bit. We're going to get into our preferred
method of handholding is changing. Got that one coming up. We're going to talk murder hornets,
party city, and tiktok's table pancake that we got to get into that as well.
Got another one for us. A couple of other ones for us, Melissa, including one that you sent over
in our good stories of the day. We'll get into a little bit later about a young lady from Chicago
doing some really groundbreaking work. Okay. That one is coming up for you and we'll kick off
the nine o'clock hour. The way we like to around here on a Monday with the kitchen's open,
Beth Hedhecker will be joining us. Got that coming up for you. Some entertainment news as well
and in the nine o'clock hour, we would get into a couple of other fun ones. Like collectors items,
you can stop collecting. You can stop. Yeah, it's all done. No point. But I thought the most
proper way to kick off our show. We do hope everybody had a good weekend and everything out
there. With the holidays in the middle of the week, our weekends can feel a little funky,
a little weird, but hopefully people enjoy their weekend out there. But I felt like the most
proper way to start our show would be with the breaking new and blad less over the weekend of
the passing of president Jimmy Carter, former president.
George and peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and true to politics in an era of
the White House scandal who had redefined a post presidential service. There's plenty that
already has been said and that will be said about Mr. Carter over the next couple of days and
really over the next, you know, all of our lifetimes. He's and that would not maybe have happened.
Jimmy Carter served. It was a single term president. The year I was born, he went in the office.
And I wasn't till 81. And by the time that I was old enough to understand things, one of my first
memories of him is of the people on different talk shows and things kind of taking shots at him.
And so my earliest memories of the first president when I was born are of people kind of
shredding him and talking about what he didn't accomplish or what he didn't do in some of these
things. And him almost being used as an example of what you don't want to have as a
presidential legacy. And as time went on and as 24-hour news cycles kicked in and people looked
for more and more to talk about, people actually started to do a little homework and starting to
pay attention to Mr. Carter and the things that he was always doing. But they started to realize what
he was doing with Habitat for Humanity or some of his work overseas. And Jimmy Carter completely
changed the way we look at presidents and the way that we would look at them after their term.
Whether you had a quote good run or a quote bad run as a president, oftentimes you kind of just
faded off until the sunset. If not just passing after your presidency. That was the next time we
kind of talked about you was so and so was president. So Jimmy Carter changed all that and changed
this legacy. And I think you can make in many ways. In many ways, I think you can make an argument.
He is everything that we asked for out of the presidency. He gave and gave and gave the time
that he was in office. Every time that when he was serving in politics, he gave everything he had
and he gave you a genuine per human being. And he fought for his constituents. Whether he was running
in Georgia or whether he was running the country. And then afterwards he kept doing it. He didn't
stop. We commend our soldiers for this. Almost every single soldier that you know out there and
that we have on the air with us, this is the way they are. I've talked with Sheriff Becker many
times about this when we talk about our police officers and how many police officers out there
are still chasing cold cases. Even though they're not getting paid for this, they're still working
at the job. This is what Mr. Carter did. And as big as his legacy has gotten in the last 20, 30 years
of his life, it's not big enough. And I don't know that we've paid enough respect to what it means
and how he changed the game in the way that we what we expect of our presidents. We should not fear
a president. Nobody feared Jimmy Carter. Nobody should have feared Ronald Reagan after him and so on
and so on. And if we have to fear a president, anybody, that that is a bad sign. Jimmy Carter was
the standard. He turned into the standard. He went from a joke to the standard. And that is the
American way. That is that is the American dream. That is a comeback story, baby. That's what that
is. And I'm touching on just light things of him. Melissa. Yeah. He truly dedicated his life to
service. One thing that I thought would be fun was going over some of the things that maybe you
didn't know about Mr. Jimmy Carter and some random facts. You can find these at Georgia Humanities.org.
Georgia Humanities.org. Jimmy Carter was the first US president born in the hospital.
You did see that. That's interesting. I love that one. I love that one. And I think it's also
kind of wild when you think about it. It wasn't like he was the third, fourth president or something.
No, but if you look at the history of gynecological care throughout history, it's not that surprising.
Yeah. His first job was working at a library. Wow. That was the first time that he worked.
So his first job was actually in public service. Jimmy skipped school and missed out on being
valedictorian. In 1941 during his 11th year at Plains High School in Georgia, he did not
add 12th grade until the adaption of a new state constitution in 1945. Jimmy was set to be
valedictorian, but he lost a position after he and other senior boys left school on April
Fools Day and went to America. Senior skip day. Yeah. Before he was a peanut farmer,
state senator governor, president Carter served as a some some arena in the US Navy.
Carter, it's also believed to be the first president to live in public housing.
Oh, that's an interesting one too. That is an interesting one. The Carter started the new the
tradition that we see today when they walked in the Neogro parade. We still see that many times now.
And let's and he was also one of the first presidents where like constituents and quote, you know,
I don't know if it's proper to say fans of his, but fans of his actually traveled to that parade
from Georgia to see him. Wow. Carter has was a baseball fan for life. Die hard baseball fan.
Carter got to shake Hank Aaron's hand the day before the day he broke the nationally record for
most on runs, which I could only imagine was one of the greater like a cheap like higher things for him.
And keep in mind Jimmy Carter was a prolific author. In addition to his post presidency work with
Carter Center in Habitat for Humanity and numerous other charities and how he changed literally
changed the world for other countries. Carter penned more than 30 books about his life career
and experiences. Wow. Subjects ranging from all over the place. He even won three Grammy awards
in the spoken word album category. I did not know that. Carter was a Grammy winner. Wow.
Just a prolific life, an incredible life. And again, not only citizen of the South,
citizen of the world. And we'll be missed. Not just for what he did, but for again, what he set,
the tone he set in the tone. And something for future presidents to strive for
after their presidency. I hope we see that. If I can add to that, Melissa, not just strive for,
but what we as citizens should expect and demand, we should accept nothing less. This is America.
This is our country. Jimmy Carter set the standard. We should not settle for less. We don't have to.
We don't have to. But it's on us to vote people into office that have those qualities that
will do those things after their presidency. Yes, that's why I say we don't have to settle.
We can make these changes ourselves. We can do this. I'm just wrapping up a quote from Mr. Carter.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
It's a good one. It's a good man had bars. Make it right. I just thought I wanted to
fight a fun note to wrap up the opening a monologue here with. And I think I got a good one here.
And what that just everybody say is says doe as soon as they see or hear the headline.
A California's couples engagement photo shoot in snowy Utah took a turn for the worst
when their engagement ring vanished into the winter wonderland. Oh no.
Kim saw 33 in the field of my 34 were having an engagement photos taken in park city win
photographer Sabrina Boka noticed the ring was missing from Zaw's finger.
He didn't know the ring was missing for like 10 minutes because his hands were cold.
Yeah. They went looking and looking for a while. And the park city ski patrol even
responded with a metal detector to help say where's the metal detectorist.
They did find the ring everybody. They did find the ring. A similar mishap occurred
earlier this month in Cleveland when firefighters ended up needing to be called to rescue the
engagement ring that fell down a sewer phone. Yeah. We did that story. That's so cool.
Can I just offer a thought on this one that I had the other day because I have to say that I've
done at least 30 or 40 of these in my time doing the morning show.
Propering. Propering. Propering. Come on. Get a propering. Get a propering in there. Is anybody
in engagement photos looking at the ring? Can you even see the ring that well?
Oh come on. They do the photo different than do the photo different as much as these rings
cost are as much sentimental value. Yeah. Or don't put so much pressure on on jewelry and rings.
I mean, you know what? If I'm ever in that situation, let's just all have a laugh at that idea.
If I'm ever in that situation, I'm not only using a proper ring. I'm doing one of those nice
and gated. You know, beautiful shoot. You know, we're in front of some trees or we got the
ocean in the background or whatever. And below us is a big tarp. Just a big tarp. Big blue
tarp that we've all seen our whole lives just there waiting to catch that ring because I
I could have I would probably drop it. I would probably do that. Oh yeah, it could happen.
I don't think a propering is a bad idea. I don't think it's a horrible idea. Do you have a strong
point about if the camera is on the ring? Yeah, you can't do it that way. We can photoshop it in.
Photoshop the ring. Either way, you're just adding adding more cost James. Propering's cost
money. The ring I wanted was only $300. The person I chose to marry refused to buy that for me.
He had to buy something far more expensive. Guess how much use I got out of that ring?
I wouldn't wear it because it was too expensive. Yeah, I don't blame you. I would never feel the same
one. This one is jewelry box. Not a proper ring maybe. Just one of those candy rings with a
big diamond on it. That one though. The big sucker. Perfect. I like the idea of a beautiful
classy expensive picture. One of those pictures you can tell it's expensive just from looking at it
and then just brilliant blue sucker ring. I love that it's blue. Yeah, yeah.
Melissa, James, take it through your morning. We'll be right back here on the show.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café and the birthday
anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to 221 Market Avenue,
beautiful part Edwards tomorrow. They are not open today. They are not open today. But head
on over there everybody tomorrow. Make plans to head on over there tomorrow. Talk to the amazing
staff. Check out that wonderful unique menu and of course all the other wonderful things about
our friends at El Café. Pie. They have so much good pie. We appreciate our friends over there.
Bi-local support, local support those that support us everybody. I mean looking forward in the new year.
Ashley and I were talking last week about some fun ideas with our friends over at El Café.
Some stuff that you and I have been talking about for a while Melissa that I think would
be able to make happen. Awesome. We're looking to do some cool things with our friends at El Café
next year. It's going to be a lot of fun everybody. For now get us your birthdays and
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Appreciate you calling and we love live birthdays and anniversaries everybody. Get them to us.
We take a look at our local list and we have two possible qualifiers. Melissa I need a one or a two.
I want to choose one today. I like it. Nice. All right. That gives us our qualifier. So first up we
wish a very happy birthday to Bill Fuller. Happy birthday Bill. Enjoy your day Bill. Hope it's a
great one for you. And wishing a happy 24th anniversary to Chuck Brody and Carol One Row Brody
from One Row's greenhouse. Oh happy anniversary. A big shout out to One Row's greenhouse.
Been there many times over the years. Wonderful people. Wonderful place. And a big happy
anniversary to Chuck and Carol. Yeah. Have a great day. Enjoy your anniversary you two.
It's a unique day I think. I feel like to have an anniversary. I think that's a fun one.
Like you can just lead it. Squash it right in between Christmas and New Year's. Yeah.
You lead right into the New Year using this. I mean, celebrate, man. That's a fun one. You're
already already having fun on New Year. So I mean, that's a great idea. Good one. And a happy
anniversary to you two. Indeed. We take a look at our celebrity list of birthdays. Actress Tracy
Altman is 64 today. Really? Back in her height, Tracy Altman was one of the greatest impersonators
and the greatest like one of the more versatile creative comedic actors we had.
Still is. But the Tracy Altman show was fantastic and a huge influence on me as a kid.
So many great actors on that show that would go on to do great things like the Simpsons.
Because we would not have the Simpsons without the Tracy Altman show.
They needed they needed something. Tracy wanted to do a live sketch. She wanted it to be
similar to SNL. She wanted to have live sketches along with recorded sketches.
When they would do the live sketches, of course, the actors as you and I know very well had to change
costumes and everything. What do you do during that time? And you don't have enough time for
to go to a new commercial break. They needed something to play in between. So they had the idea to
have a cartoon playing. They reached out to local cartoonists in the California area. And Matt
Matt graining was one of them. And at the time, he had a very, very popular comic life in hell.
And that's what he thought he was going to use as the intros, between the sketches and everything.
That was not what he went with. They ended up going with the Simpsons. And here we are.
She had her one hit number or hit number two on the UK single strike. They didn't,
they don't know for stiff records. But the album, I just want to mention this. You broke my heart
in 17 places. That's a good name. That's a good name. That incredible performer. Just an incredible
and great impersonator too. Tracey, I'm very good at impersonations.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, Tiger Woods, is 48 today. 48. Wow. It seems like
he should be older than that. Yeah, it really does. Yeah. But you know, many would say that,
well, I don't know. There's plenty of debate whether he's the greatest golfer of all time or
not here or there. You cannot make that you cannot deny that he changed golf more than anybody.
Yeah. Everybody knows his name. Yeah. Even if you're not a fan of golf.
There are a billion kids that didn't look like your average golfer before him,
that picked up a golf club after him. The doors he opened. There are still segregated golf clubs
in America. But there are less thanks to him. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at the history of the
masters for a second. Yeah. Yeah. You'll be disgusted by it. Hopefully you'll be disgusted.
Some might not be I suppose. But yeah, there's a lot of history there with golf that Tiger Woods
really broke. It's crazy to think of breaking color barriers when he did. But in many ways,
he did. It's not to put him up there with Jackie Robinson or anything, but it's in a similar category.
It still has a positive effect where it is much needed still in today's day and age.
Don't see this very often. Two legends sharing a birthday like this in their particular field
of Tiger Woods there. LeBron James is 39 today. King James. On the cover of SNL at like
eight SNL. On the cover of Sports Illustrated, I think 17 or 18 years old. Very few athletes in our
lifetimes have had more height put on their shoulders and even fewer have lived up to it.
This is the thing about him that I don't think gets talked about nearly enough for every
accomplishment for everything he did. He did it unlike unlike and I'm the biggest Michael Jordan
fan you're going to find. Unlike Michael, unlike Will Chamberlain or Matt Johnson or Larry Bird or
anybody else. He did this with all that pressure on him at a young age. There's plenty of
pressure that was put on Magic and Bird and Michael and all these guys. Nothing like what was put on
him and including as LeBron James became a star in the turn of the social media time as
something that none of those other athletes I mentioned had to deal with. LeBron James has
been a star in all this time and outside of one situation I can think of pretty much as
avoided controversy. He's a billionaire like the things that that man I'm not even a big LeBron
James fan being honest but I believe giving credit where it's due and what he has accomplished
is incredible and again this was all put on his shoulders in Akron, Ohio at the age of 18
and he's lived up to every bit of it. That's incredible to me. In fact, you can make an argument. He's
even higher than expectations. That's wild. That's just wild. And recent game one against the Warriors
115 to 113. That's a close game. I didn't even get to mention that. He's 39 or 40 years old and
still averaging a double double in the NBA. He's still one of the greatest top 10 players in the
NBA. 37 minutes worth 31 points. It's insane. It's just insane. That's great. And he did something
that nobody's ever done before for whatever, you know, nonsense you want to say about it. He got
to play a game with his son like a real game in the NBA with his son, something nobody's ever
accomplished and probably nobody ever will. This is son playing it for a different team.
The Lakers. He plays for the Lakers. So they got to play on the same team together on the same
team. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, just wild. Oh, man. I don't know. I don't know. As a parent,
I don't know how you couldn't love that. That's just fantastic. I'll admit to everybody out there.
Again, not a big LeBron James fan. And I got I got Terry thinking when that happened,
I got all emotional about it. The idea of doing something like that with your kid. That's
amazing. Yeah. Singer Ellie Golding is 37 today. Good singer. Was that a couple of hits? I believe,
at least. Let's see your English singer songwriter. Yeah. Singer Noel Paul Stucley of Peter
Paul and Mary is 86 today. Really? The wonderful, the amazing James Burrows is 83 today. Cheers,
taxi, so many big ones. Let's see here. Actor Shelley or Lee Raf Raphael is 68 today. A lot of
people know her from Moisha, but you might know her now is from Ad Bid Elementary. She's wonderful
on that show. It's really cool to see her. She got her niche. She found her spot. She's been a great
character actor for a very long time. I've done some really good work. This is her role.
Like she's just killing it on that show. And it's been very, very good on it.
I'm trying to find what I owe. She was in sister act two. That's what yeah, I knew she was in a
big movie. I couldn't think of which one. Yeah. She's good. She's very good. And you're all good.
And then thank you so much for getting us these birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. We
appreciate it. Been a lot of fun. Keep it up. And keep getting them to us. Yeah, keep getting
them to us. Listen to Melissa. Keep getting them to us. There's more to come. We'll have more to
come coming up and keep on listening to Melissa. We got our news coming up. We got a sports break
entertainment and plenty more coming up for you on the morning show here at WFHR.
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line. Engines pumping and thumping in time. The green light flashes.
The flags go up churning and burning. They're in full the top. They definitely welcome back,
everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Melissa and James here with you.
Bumpers are back. I hope you're having a good, good day out there, everybody. Thank you to Seth
and the work he puts into these bumpers and everything. Absolutely, but I missed the Christmas ones
already. I already do. I already do. I'm with you. I already do. I was actually also had one in
my mind. I was going to go to the purple snowflakes and I was like, oh wait, it's not there. I
hadn't looked at that. So I just went with right away. Just click it on one. Some great ones up here,
everybody. Seth put some new ones in there. That's fantastic. Really do appreciate the ad
effort you put into that man. Nice work. We got a team of added effort around here. A lot of
people working hard on this one and this and everything we're doing around here. We'll get
into that a little bit more tomorrow with a kind of a year end wrap-up show we'll be doing.
Yeah. As we're wrapping up the year and a lot of businesses are looking at their bottom lines
and the black and how they finish the end of the quarter, it's a huge a bunch of talking points
in a lot of the business world right now. There are some interesting things happening, I think,
for just everybody every day news and I don't know if anybody saw this or not, but I just wanted
to touch on this headline. You can look into it more if you'd like to. Party City is closing down
all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business. Wow. The people that worked at these
businesses did not know. These establishments did not know. From everything we're being able to
tell, it seems like it was the last second thing. I'm not last second, but they dragged this out
as long as they could trying to make the business stay alive. Yeah. And then couldn't do it. So
suddenly it's, hey, happy new year. You're fired. I feel for these people. I don't know
many couldn't have seen this coming. I don't know necessarily what you could do. There's
plenty of things you could do, maybe to have stayed alive. Maybe there isn't. Who knows? Maybe
they tried them and it didn't work. Again, there's plenty of details you could look into as far as
the bankruptcy and collapse, the ending of this and everything. I'll let you go ahead and look into
that one if you care to everybody. But I did think it was noteworthy to mention. Yeah. And the
thing to also focus on is loss of jobs. That's more. More people out of work. A lot of approximately
6,400 full-time and 10,000 and a hundred part-time jobs. Spirit Halloween has been some of the,
it's going to make up some of this. Some of the workers will be able to go there. There is already
people being hired by Amazon and Walmart to that degree. And I know we do not give Amazon
much credit for many things, especially right now, but they stepped in right away on this one and
offered work to a lot of the employees from there. For many, it is a quick transition.
The helium shortage actually played a big part in this. I thought that part was quite interesting too.
Well, yeah, because Party City would be the place to go to get your helium balloons,
or lightable balloons for parties. Yeah. Another one of those things we have not touched on very much,
but there is a shortage of helium everybody just so you know. I didn't know that. Yeah, that is
one of those things that is not getting, because we're so busy covering things that I don't think
we deserve our time and time of day. And I don't mean us here. I mean, it's a national. We need to
focus on things that will outrage people so we get clicks. It's a helium shortage, isn't one of
those things. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately. And also noteworthy big lots announced last Thursday.
It was starting going out of business sales at all of its locations after a plan for a private
equity firm to rescue the bankruptcy retailer failed. Major chains are on track to close the
highest number of stores in 2024 than in any year since 2020. Wow. Thanks. Again, noteworthy.
And when we tell you to buy local support local, we're not just saying it. It's not just a phrase
or anything like that. There is some importance to that. When it comes and I bring this up,
not just because of our small businesses out there and so many businesses that are going to be
opening in 2025. And so many things that we're looking to do just here locally in Wisconsin,
Rapid, let alone Central Wisconsin, let alone the states, you know, in 2025. Supporting local,
buying local doesn't always just mean mom and pop businesses. A lot of franchises are run by your
local neighbors and friends and family and everything. It's important, I think, to look into these
business looking just like we tell people and this really happened a lot during the pandemic.
People started really caring more and more about, hey, if I donate $5 to this cause,
how much of it actually goes to the cause? Right. And I am proud of people for doing that kind of
work. I think that's very cool. It's a similar thing with supporting local businesses.
I don't want to go to that place because it's a big franchise. We'll look into it. Who's
running that franchise? Right. Is it is it locally managed? Are they hiring? Are they putting
money back into the local community? Yes. Because that matters too. You know, you look at a culverse
and a culverse. That's a big franchise. That's a big, big time franchise. That's a franchise that
puts into their communities. Right. And they're locally, you know, they're run locally.
I can't think of a more natural transition in talking business and something like that,
Melissa, to handholding. Wait, no, that doesn't. I had no segue up here. I don't want to hold your hand.
One of the monkeys really didn't have a hit with that one. I don't know what they were thinking
with that one. Here is something you probably weren't thinking about today. What's your preferred
way of holding hands with someone assuming that it's something you do from time to time? In a poll,
30% of people say that they prefer holding hands with interlocked fingers. 20% would rather do it
with cupped hands and 38% say that they're fine with both equally and 4% said neither. No,
handholding for me. Now, maybe I was going to make a joke about that, but I just thought about it.
Maybe they mean the old school, like, honestly, I don't mind handholding, but I kind of like the
whole putting the arm around each other. Like that. What do you call that? Locking arms? What would
you call that? I don't know. Put your arm around someone. Am I describing this right? Do you
even know what I'm talking about? Of course, I know what you're talking about. I don't know that it has
a one word term. That wasn't on you, Melissa. That was on me as a describe. I didn't feel like I was
doing a very good job. Put your arm around someone. I think of handholding in a lot of different
ways because, yeah, you hold hands with your romantic partner, but more often, I would hold
a kid's hand walking in a parking lot or across the street or something like that. Then interlocking
fingers is not an option because they have little fingers. Yeah. With little hands, and that's what
I was thinking of too, Melissa, with little hands, you're always cupping. Yeah, you're always cupping
that one. As a side note, I love, I saw this a while ago and a couple of years back even did this
myself with a very, very cool five-year-old. The two adults are holding the kid's hands and you do
the whew, and you lift them up or whatever, you know, all the different games you play during
doing that. I love that that still exists, that that's still a thing. That's fantastic.
Absolutely. The results are similar for both men and women, but they were very different
depending on age. Holding hands with interlocked fingers is much more popular among younger generations
than older. 38% of younger joints. 38% of Jen's ears, like that method, compared to just 70%
of boomers. On the flip side, 15% of Gen Z prefer the cupped hands method compared to 29% of
boomers. I think it depends on the activity you're doing too though because if you're just sitting
holding hands, interlocked fingers are fine, but if you're walking holding hands, interlocked
fingers are harder unless you have a comparable height. Yeah. Yeah. This changes with a lot of
various variables. Right. They need more variables in the survey, James. I'm not satisfied.
So is this a change that just happens as you get older or because of your joints and everything,
like bull as I was saying, or is it a preferred method of holding hands shifting over time,
maybe maturity, maybe you're not, I don't know. I've never honestly, there are very few subjects I
haven't given like an extensive overthinking to. This has got to be one of them where I just,
I don't know if I've ever thought much about this other than like I was saying with, you know,
you get to hold your kids hand and, you know, get them to shoot them up in the air and
rock a chip and everything. I don't know. I do, again, though, I do think one noteworthy
thing about this that they did not mention in the survey that we're still holding hands, that this
is like, hold this hand holding. Probably as old as humans. Yeah. Yeah. And we're still, you
know, it's still the thing. I don't expect people to, you know, rave about that. Would have
been blown away. Like, oh my god, he's right. But when we think about gestures, when we think
about things that, you know, we don't do anymore and how many things have been kind of faded out
of our societies and stuff, hand holding is still there. Yeah. There are different methods of,
of, I don't know, showing respect or attention that we don't do. We don't bow or curtsy anymore
very much in this country anyway. But yeah, I don't know. I liked, I liked hand holding when I was
in a relationship, but some people don't, you know, if your love language is not physical touch
and they don't like holding hands, yeah, kind of lose that part of it. And that's, you know,
I don't know that it's important to, who it's important to, to know about that.
Potentially since the earliest days of our species, there is no actual timeline for this or nobody
who really, you know, this was the first recorded bit of hand holding or anything like that.
But it's, it's considered deeply ingrained behavior within the roots of our primate ancestors.
Well, and that makes total sense because the one, the first thing I brought up was holding a
kid's hand to keep them safe. And when you think about human evolution, I mean, we would have had
to have done that to keep, to keep our little ones safe and with us and to keep them from
wandering off. I mean, at some point in time, we designed harnesses and leashes, which was awesome.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and for as much as we pick on, you know, you put your kid in a leash,
what if they're not a pet, well, no, but they wander. Yes. Yes.
Hotdler's wander. Mm-hmm. They do. Harnesses are amazing.
We're going to take a time out. We're going to come back and have some more fun on the morning
show here at WF HR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR. Locally grown radio.
Oh, we got some 80 spumpers back. Okay. That, that, that made me feel a little bit better. Okay.
I missed the Christmas ones, but that made me feel a little better. All right. We hope you're
having a good one out there. Melissa and James hanging out with you. Let's get into this one, Melissa.
And, and as we wrap up the year, we need to take the wins and you're going to see a lot of year
end reviews and you're going to hear some from us, even. But we got stories that, you know,
with all the, the Christmas talk and Hanukkah and holidays and New Year's talk and everything,
there's stories that we did not get to touch on very much. And I don't know if anybody saw this one,
but everybody get ready to chant, you essay, you essay. We did it. We officially won the war against
murder hornets. Murder hornets. Does anybody remember this? Yes. Yes. People were losing their
minds about this. Okay, but that was scary. It was. You hear the term murder hornet. It should
freak you out a little bit. Great. I feel like that's fair. They would have had to have made like
six movies about this. Right? Yes. I am, I apologize. I'm very disappointed. I love the sci-fi
channel. I'm watching it in a decade, but I love that channel. I'm a little disappointed that
we didn't have more murder hornet movies. I feel like that's their wheelhouse. They, they really
do this well. Those will be coming James. They got it right. First, we had to get past the actual
like, yeah, that's true. That it actually happening before we can make movies about it.
You thought you were safe from the murder horn. Exactly. I love the idea of them, but the murder
hornets are actually like just like like Jason or Freddie or their life. Like the characters
from horror movies or something. Trust. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. The Department of Agriculture.
Sorry. It's like the B meets. Yes. Yes. You see it. You see it too. The Department of Agriculture
announced this week that they have officially been eradicated in the US. They showed up a
Washington state back in 2019 and everyone panicked and then they they're much bigger the normal
hornets up to two inches longer. Yeah. So that is that is something to be freaked out about. That's
a really big B. As the name suggests, they are more dangerous too. Their sting hurts more and
their venom is more potent. But the bigger issue was that they can slaughter a whole hive of honey
bees in 90 minutes. Right. No, that's a problem. The real term murder hornet was not for human beings,
but more so for other bees and other, you know. Right. Right. You don't need to worry about the
murdering us, but if they threaten our honey supply. Yeah. Then then it cool. That's then a
right story right there. No. Officials say they haven't been spotted in the US since 2021,
but they are not confident that they are officially gone. They're going to keep a lookout though.
Well, thank goodness. Yes. You have to. Obviously. I am appreciative of this and I don't think it gets
talked about enough of when it comes to these things and we're like, hey, we're done with this,
but we're not late taking our eye off the ball. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's that's important. That's just
going to assume that it's not a problem anymore because they still exist elsewhere in the world.
One bug expert in Washington state said it's a pretty big win because bugs tend to be very
tough to take down. It is a rare day when the humans actually get to win one against the insects.
Yes. Because there's so many more of them than us. Pretty wild when you think about that,
that right there. But I don't know that it's surprising. I think it's pretty wild. I don't know
if it's surprising though. When you think about that, the idea that an expert saying this
means it has weight to it to me and him saying that it's rare that we beat insects is pretty. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I mean, this was a pretty important one to beat. I mean, if it, you know, because you
would not want them to get a firm foothold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here. No, thank you. No. I'll
ask. And this might be something you already do, but it's got a name now. And have you seen
Tiktok's table pancake brunch hack? No. I have not either. Okay. Well, neither of us want
to take talks. So there you go. Yeah. There you go. So it's for when you're out with friends and
you want pancakes who and because who doesn't, but you also want something savory eggs, bacon,
hash browns, and pancakes is a lot for most people and more calories than anyone may want
or need. So a quote, table pancake is up all about sharing. You all order whatever you want.
And then you also order one pancake for the whole table and you put it in the middle so everyone
can ask if equal access. Pancake family style. Another option is to wait and order the pancake
after your food arrives. Then it's like a breakfast dessert. You get dessert. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I'm a big pancake guy. So I'm going to say if I do this with anybody order to
because I don't want to take, I don't want to take too much. Well, it depends on the restaurant,
but most of them, the pancake is the size of the plate, like the dinner plate, not the
salad plate, the dinner plate. They're huge. These things would only become, are these things
are becoming more and more popular with a lot of what we've talked about over the last couple
of years with the rise of fast food and prices and it being more expensive than ever to go out and
eat and a lot of those things. We're seeing a lot more of these trends and a lot more of the younger
generations really getting ahead of this stuff, I think, and being smart about a lot of these things.
Well, and also being realistic about like, I don't know, food serving sizes and restaurants in
America are big. It's usually more food than you really need for a meal. I appreciate that because
I like taking the leftovers home, but that can be more difficult with breakfast foods.
I like the idea of sharing. I think that's, I like it. I think it's cool.
I love it. I love the idea. I'm all in favor for it. I would do this myself. I will say,
though, this, I am probably one of the few people affected by this. This would mess with me.
In many ways, I don't know necessarily, according to therapy, this comes from wanting my brother and
sister to eat before me, but I am in a place where it doesn't matter if I'm around strangers or
family or friends or whatever, I get my food last. I always get my food last. I want everybody to
get what they want, get their portions, get that chicken leg that they want instead of the
brads or whatever, and then I go get my food. If I'm doing this, I'm waiting for everybody to
take their piece of the pancake before I'm grabbing mine or anything good. Put a second pancake out
there. That's all I'm going to say. All right, two for James. Got it. Am I the only person
like that I can't be right? No, mothers everywhere, James. All mothers do that. I'm sorry. I was
thinking outside of parents and everything. I should have said that. You're right. You're 100%
My grandma always ate cold food. Yeah. Cold, and she always just ate whatever was left, because
that's just what mothers did. Yeah. Yeah. And we appreciate that out of every single one of you
often. I have to say, though, when you're talking about like the pancake on the table, we know
what came to mind was people who are covering their tables with tin foil and then dumping out like
an entire kettle full of spaghetti noodles and then the sauce on it and just giving everybody a fork.
I thought that's where I just eat off the table. Yeah, that's totally what I thought it was.
100% was picturing like pancakes stacked across the tinfoiled covered table and then dumping
syrup over the whole thing, because I would also do that. As much as it may sound like a making fun
of it, I actually kind of think it's fun and interesting in part of our country, but this is
what we do here. Like a shircurtory boards shircurtory boards weren't enough. We got to turn a whole
table into one. We got one giant buffet. We're all eating off of because what germs?
Who needs those? I love I haven't seen any in a long time, but I love some of the videos I saw
that are like these really fancy beautiful like kitchens and kitchen tables and people just throw
in a tarp on there. Yeah. Or the kids' faces when they're doing it. What's happening right now?
What are you doing? Oh, that's like all of that's okay. And then they're like throwing the garlic
bread at them. That does seem like it would be a lot of fun. It would be fun. I would actually
want to do one of those. Actually, now that we're talking about it, it seems like it'd be a fun
to do. We have got fun things coming up for you in the 9 o'clock hour, everybody. We're going to
kick it off the way we like to with the kitchens open. Kitchens open. Looking forward to that. We're
going to talk about win wicked. We'll be hitting streaming. We'll get into that as well. I've got
some other fun ones for you. Yes, I'll have to share about the movie that I went and saw this weekend.
Yes. It's on movie this weekend, James. That's nowhere near right there. There's the headline.
But I'm not going to tell you what it was. Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait. We got all that
coming up for you. We're looking forward to. I did real quick one to remind everybody about some
opportunities for you to donate. If you can, especially as we're getting towards the end of the
year here and our blood supply is low. It has been really since I would say June. It's been low.
If you are able to be a hero and donate, we greatly appreciate you doing that. There are a
number of opportunities. Some going on, well, you might not think about it. A lot of people
have time off now, you know, and it may be away from work or something. So in Steven's point,
they have a blood donation opportunity is going on today from noon to seven over at the Steven's
Point Blood Donation Center at 321C Main Street. There is also opportunities coming up here in
Wisconsin Rapids this Thursday from 10 to three over at the Melon Library. Nice. And we've got
some other things to tell you about the Melon Library coming up a little bit later today in midday
magazine, more than the nine o'clock hour and plenty more Melissa and James right here at.
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