Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.
Got your host, James J. Mailoff, behind the mic.
I am joined by your head of news, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And, of course, the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
We see you out there.
We appreciate you.
Thanks for joining us.
We're going to kick things off the way we like to.
With our good friend, Brittany Merlot, talking a little
mother nature, it is cold.
You're frozen, right?
So am I.
Yeah.
Yeah, frozen.
Just completely.
Negative seven, I'm seeing out there, Brittany.
Yeah.
So, I'm seeing a 26 below zero wind chill into Wisconsin
rapids right now.
So, what it's feeling like to us when that wind is blowing
is 25 below.
Ouch.
So, that's cold.
Yeah.
I mean, it's too cold to think.
It really just, it's not even, I don't know of that.
I'm with you on that.
And it's true.
Honestly, it's so cold.
If you're spending any amount of time outside today,
you are going to slow down a little bit.
And maybe you're starting to pack the thermion frostbite.
So, please be aware of that.
Stay safe.
Cover up.
Bundle up.
All of that jazz.
Because this is dangerous cold, which is why a cold weather
advisory is an effect until 9 o'clock this morning.
So, we still have an hour to go, but the day is not going
to feel much better.
Highs are supposed to reach 11 degrees.
Doesn't sound too terrible, but the winds don't quit.
They'll still be gusting out of the west to northwest at about
15 to 20 miles per hour.
So, that blustery, wicked wind chill is really going to make
our high temperatures feel about 10 below zero.
So, that is what we should be prepared for the warmest
feeling like throughout our afternoon.
So, not the best feeling, but it is bright and beautiful.
On the sunshine, barely any clouds out there.
And it's just going to be lighting up today.
So, we need the sun, but not the cold so much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it sounds like the only good reason to go outside today
is to take a cup of water and throw it into the air
to turn it into immediate snow, right?
Be careful doing that.
Oh, my gosh.
I did that once, and it wasn't cold enough.
It needs a specific temperature and let me tell you,
during boiling water into the air that's not going to freeze.
Make sure you're not in a tap of it actually sitting you.
So, just the heads up.
But, yes.
Oh, breath.
Oh, is it supposed to be boiling?
I didn't know that.
I was just going to go through cold water in the air.
It definitely has to be boiling, and then just don't
hit yourself with it.
But, have fun.
I was going to try to drop some eggs on the ground and see if
they are frozen enough to just bounce around my balls.
We'll see.
Oh, that's, oh, let us know how that goes.
And thank you for the heads up on that,
because both Melissa and I would have done that.
I, however, would have done it with cold water,
because I, you know, that's fine.
I think you, if you do this, document it,
and let me see it.
Cold water is boiling water.
It has to be documented.
It could have been the general chat, so y'all could laugh.
Yes, sure.
No problem.
I would pay attention to what direction the wind is going to.
Just just as woodless, no, no, no.
But, we appreciate you, Brittany.
Have fun out there today.
And, be safe.
Stay warm.
We'll talk soon.
You too.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
Best in the business right there for Brittany.
We're all joining us every morning,
and giving us important tips.
Important.
Important notes.
We have not to hurt yourself.
We got some fun stuff lined up for you throughout the day.
Of course, we'll get into the LKFA birthday anniversary club.
We're also going to get into a couple of other fun ones.
2025's banished words.
I say banished in quotes.
That is coming up for you.
We will also get into a couple of other fun ones.
Got a good one right here.
What is a seemingly cheap hobby that quickly became very expensive?
Got that coming up.
Not a clock hour is going to have some entertainment news.
We're going to talk about a Wisconsin native who made a roll,
had a big roll.
Not a big roll, but a roll in the new Wicked movie.
It was a pretty big roll.
Yeah, pretty big roll.
Yeah, it didn't want to over sell it, but yes.
No, the Wisconsin is pretty big.
We're talking about what be Goldberg and what her family calls her.
That's coming up.
Got some local stuff going on.
I want to talk about what's new on your small screen.
All those things coming up for you.
But Melissa, another record has fallen.
Another Guinness World record.
468 people in West Palm Beach, Florida,
dressed up as dinosaurs on Friday to break a Guinness World record.
The old record was just 252 dinosaurs.
I could have swore we had just talked about this.
So this is a new record.
Yeah, yeah.
The Cox Science Center and Aquarium teamed up with the city of West Palm Beach
to take on the Guinness World record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs.
It seems like such a weird record to be breaking.
I love it.
The adjudicator confirmed that the Florida attempt took the title of 468
almost by beating the old record by almost 200.
Wow.
So that's just fun.
I just think that's a flood one.
It is fun.
But you know what?
We keep seeing these.
I'll bet you the makers of these giant dinosaur costumes.
Because what are these costumes cost?
I mean, they can't be cheap.
I mean, you've all seen them.
They are the big inflatable, they look hilarious.
Like the T-Rex when they're running around in the little hands in the front.
Yeah.
Just like floppy.
I'm seeing them for like 25 to 35.
So that's cheap.
That's not too bad.
Too bad.
I expected them to be more expensive than that.
I did too.
Yeah.
So, okay.
So this wasn't a big huge marketing ploy by the makers of these dinosaur costumes.
Oh.
Well, if it weren't.
We're not selling enough of them.
Let's try to get people to break the Guinness Book of World Records.
If that turned out to be the case, I wouldn't be too mad.
I'd be like, oh, well, that's well done.
Nicely done by them.
Yeah.
It's actually a decent marketing ploy.
That's a fun one.
And I thought that'd be a good one for us to cover, bring up right away and stuff.
And I do think that I want, again, when we're talking about Guinness World Records, this might be one of the more fun ones to break.
The dinosaur thing seems to have been done, but they got a lot of these types of inflatable things.
What about a bunch of badgers?
You know, we all dressed up as cranberry.
Here in Wisconsin.
I like that they also show Jurassic Park on the big screen while all these people were dressed up in costume.
Well, that was a nice touch.
That was a nice touch by them.
Yes.
If we did the badger thing, what movie would we show?
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
We had a thing on that.
Yeah.
A lot of movies with badgers in them.
What is the quintessential Wisconsin movie?
Oh, that's a great question.
What movie?
Maybe that or what movie talks about Wisconsin the most?
Or what movie would you say is, you know, even makes you think of Wisconsin or anything?
That isn't a horror movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, good note.
Yeah.
Because there's so many that are like, you know, take place for some reason.
Horror movies are set in Wisconsin.
You know, it doesn't take place at Wisconsin, but grumpy old men.
The original one, the first one.
That kind of makes me think of Wisconsin a little bit.
Well, I mean, it was, there were parts, I think it was the second one that was filmed.
I actually stayed at the Alexander House Hotel in the town where the second one was filmed.
Part of it.
Hmm.
Cool.
Which was cool.
Yeah.
That's very cool.
That's the hotel that had a cat room where you could run to cat room.
Okay.
Oh.
They weren't still doing that when I was there, but they still had the room, which is just cool.
It's a great idea though.
It's a great idea.
And one of the touch on this one right here, nodding him college in England is offering classes on how to make phone calls.
Yep.
That's it.
End of story.
The main focuses are, quote, phone etiquette and phone confidence.
Homework includes calling restaurants to ask what time they close instead of googling it.
They also have to call stores and ask if something's in stock.
And to be fair, the college we're saying quotes in England is different.
And some of the kids are only 16.
But it's still kind of a, you know, a bit of a curveball to have this class even be a thing.
And there is a term for this, by the way, it's telephobia.
I believe it.
I believe it.
There are people who specifically record on their answering service.
Do not leave me a message.
I will not answer it.
Or they just let their message box fill up.
They never check them.
They never delete them.
And you can't leave a message.
Which is just, I don't know, to me, a little mind-boggling.
But also, I don't know, I grew up in the era of talking on the phone.
Running up really big phone bills, talking to my teenage friends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So talking on the phone isn't that weird.
But there is an actual, you know, people have a hard time with it if they don't do it.
Or if they have a phobia of talking to people.
Or it makes them anxious.
I can totally understand that.
I can't see ever being against education any kind, really.
So I certainly have no problem with this.
But I do think you could save a couple bucks, parents.
And when your kid is dating, just say that they cannot talk to their, you know, boyfriend or girlfriend on their cell phone.
They have to call from a landline.
This will build people skills.
This will build telephone etiquette.
Just make sure you get a really long cord.
Gotta have the long cord.
If you can't wrap that cord around your arm, it's not long enough cord.
Because the best part of having that cord is then, when it's time for them to get off the phone, if they don't, you can just yank it.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
The flip side of this, James, is I actually had a conversation with my younger brother.
And he's 16 years younger than me.
So he is that generation about textling though.
And he actually shared a, like a snippet of a conversation with him and his, you know, same age buddy.
And to show me how, how they text so that I could understand it.
It was fascinating.
It kind of is, especially if you don't, you know, you're kind of new to it or you don't know that much about it.
I think that the shorthand and some of it is really interesting.
Well, and it wasn't even as much the shorthand as much as just how the flow of conversation happens because through text, they actually have a conversation.
It's not one big long paragraph of text.
It's a stream of consciousness like we have in conversation.
They do it through text.
Well, and this is also part of the reason I can't make fun of this too much because I am horrible at texting.
And I could probably use a class on texting.
I could probably use your brother to help you out there.
BBC's story about the class mentioned a poll from last year that found 70% of people under 35 prefer texting.
23% said that they never answer the phone to your Melissa's points.
One student, they asked to, said phone calls are hard because you have to talk off the cuff.
She said texting is easier because you can think about the right way to approach someone.
An older and wiser 28-year-old Brit named a Kyle Butterworth had some advice.
He told them he used to have telephobia too, but learned you have to, quote,
know what you're going to say before you start the call.
Now that he's used to it, he says he does it naturally.
And his brain just does it naturally.
And it is really interesting for us to take a step back and look at the differences
from, you know, the things that were normal.
Well, when we were growing up or that we think are normal,
that aren't for the next generation because it wasn't the same for them growing up.
It's an interesting, you know, like you, for initially, you're kind of like,
well, it's just a phone call. Why is that hard?
Yeah.
But it's a different situation for them because they didn't grow up with it in the same way that we did.
A lot of kids, a lot of kids, I say, but by now, much older than that,
I have no problem pulling up and doing a video for TikTok or Instagram or something like that
and don't think twice about it. You know, there's.
It would take me 50 takes.
At least. At least, I'm, yeah, absolutely.
It would take me at least 50 some.
I have a hard time with Snapchat, like recording a short little video of my face
to send to somebody.
I'm more comfortable using like the filters or something
because then I don't have to really worry about how I look.
Yeah. Well, and I'll say this too,
and this is more of the past agents I've had.
But the filters are one because in that world,
that's where you're going to be filtered if you're on screen.
So they're just adding the casting directing.
But it's also, I think, for some people,
and I'll add to this a little bit.
There's almost a little bit of a disguise to it.
Yeah.
There's almost a little bit of that.
And I think, especially when you work in public like we do,
you take whatever little bits of that you can get.
Yeah. It's a little layer of protection, maybe.
Yeah.
It goes a long way.
And I don't think unless you really do that, you can understand it.
And that includes the telephone thing.
Like you said, we, in our generation,
grew up picking up the phone all the time,
thinking nothing of it.
I don't think we can, we can have a little empathy
for those that didn't grow up that way.
And understanding that little.
It's a funny topic.
I think we could also have a laugh at it, too.
Just in extent, not laughing at the width.
Because, like you said,
the same could be with us.
Teach us how to text.
Yes.
Yes.
I think one of the toughest things we're going to have to learn
to do as a society going forward
is learning how to laugh together and not add each other.
It would go a long way.
I am all for, you know, you know,
I don't want, the PCism has gotten so weaponized
and everything, the term and everything.
But I'm not against watching how we speak
and how we speak about others.
I do think though that there is something to be said for some,
the way that a lot of people, like a lot of people that I know,
especially some of my closest friends,
the only way they know how to show you affection
is by, you know, making fun of you.
Two things.
Yeah, teasing and everything.
Now, I know, especially from the smirk on their face,
the way they mean it and everything.
But if you didn't, you know,
you walked into the conversation,
you might think they dislike me anyway.
But there's this, I think,
a certain way of treating each other
that we've all got to get better at.
We've all got to adjust to and learn.
Yeah. And if you can't, I mean,
we often say, if you can't laugh at yourself,
you're not getting a joke or something like that.
But if you're going to laugh,
oh, I don't know, you can't laugh at people
you should laugh with them.
Yeah.
If you can't laugh at yourself,
chances are you're not getting a joke.
And we will take a quick time out.
We will come back and have some fun
with the LKFA birthday anniversary club.
It's Melissa and James,
taking you through your morning on WFHR.
It is time for the LKFA birthday
and anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends
over the weekend.
It's time for the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends
over at LKFA.
Go treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue.
In beautiful, poor Edwards.
Check out some of the great specials they got going on today.
Yeah, they're open today.
First day of the week for them.
They got a polar-sauced skillet for breakfast.
You could check out Staking Eggs.
Also is available.
Great lunch specials as well.
Beef stir fry, hot chicken breast sandwich.
And their chicken dumplings soup is just the best.
I get it every single time I go there.
Except for when I get their expended for breakfast.
But every other time I have to get the soup.
Enjoy, check it out.
Buy local support, local support, our friends over at LKFA
at 221 Market Avenue.
In beautiful, poor Edwards.
Wish them a great one from all of us.
And give us those birthdays and anniversaries.
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You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.
And feel free to call up.
Yeah, that's right.
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We'd love to hear from you, everybody.
Go ahead, download that app and feel free to chime in.
We'd love to hear from you.
And Melissa, I need a one or a two.
Let's go with one.
All right, and give us our qualifier.
We can get right into it.
We first up want to wish a very happy birthday to Jessica Fine.
Happy birthday, Jessica.
Enjoy the day, Jessica.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Dale Doll.
Happy birthday, Dale.
Dale is a music educator in our school system around here.
We appreciate the work he does in that.
Absolutely.
Boy, there is patience.
And then there is a music teacher, patience.
And I mean that with all the love in the world.
I was one of those kids.
So I know exactly what I'm talking about.
But we appreciate you, Dale.
Keep up the great work.
And we say brag to the kids.
Bragged everybody that you're our qualifier today.
Absolutely.
Get yourself a good meal over at El Café.
Dale a musician, not alone.
He is celebrating with a couple of other musicians.
We kick off with one.
Dave Grohl is 56 today.
Foo Fighters and Nirvana Hall of Famer.
Both bands have made it into the rock and roll hall of fame.
Fantastic writer as well.
I should mention also when Kurt and Kurt Novicellican and Kurt Cobain were looking for a drummer.
They sent out a bunch.
I think they put an ad in the newspaper.
And Dave Grohl sent in a tape.
And it was this song, Merry Gold, that you can find online.
It's a really beautiful, really cool song.
They really enjoyed it.
But what they are blown away by was it's him singing and playing guitar.
And there are some drums in the back.
And Dave did all of those.
He recorded them all in his own little system and spliced them all together.
Just to put together this like demo tape and handed it into them.
And the effort that he put into it, along with how talented he was,
was part of how he got the role.
Just in a wild story to think of.
Nirvana isn't, I like the band, Kurt Cobain.
Amazing, obviously, for many, many reasons.
But that band's not the same without Dave Grohl.
No.
And it's really interesting to think of an artist.
I mean, so tied to a band and is able to make it from another one.
I think of Daniel Radcliffe having a hit with Harry Potter
and being able to play other roles and have them be successful
in people not think of Harry Potter.
Yeah.
As far as child actors go, that is a hard mold to break out of.
I can only imagine if you're a part of a band or a hit song
or something and being able to break from that.
Show us a talent in the artistry.
Absolutely.
One of my favorites, top 20, I would say.
At least in Bateman is 56 today.
Marty on Ozark.
He is also in Horrible Bosses.
Does a great job in that.
Recently, I had a role in a darker role in a caught up
or caught or something like that.
It's on Netflix.
I know my mom and dad loved it.
They're big Jason Bateman fans too.
But most of us love him as Michael Bluth under arrest of development
one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
My opinion, my opinion.
I've never seen it, so I can't come in.
Oh, I should mention as well.
It's a fun show.
It's a smart show.
I think you're to enjoy it, Melissa, if you ever board.
I would say also Jason Bateman, part of how he got his break back.
Because he had a big break and then kind of went away for a while.
He was in Dodgeball and he had a bit role in Dodgeball.
It was just, it was one of the better performances in that movie.
I think that's saying something.
He was great in it.
He was actually on Little House on the Prairie.
Oh, I forgot that.
I think that's where his break came from.
Yeah, him and his sister both had a big break.
Yeah, he was James Cooper, which is just a side character.
Oh, cool.
I'll have to go back and watch that now and see if I can pick him out.
Yeah.
LL Cool J is 57 today.
More acting now than he is a rapper.
But of course, Mama said knock you out.
One of the greater rimers of our generation.
One of the biggest names of our generation when it comes to music.
And as Melissa, do you know what his name stands for?
I have no idea.
Ladies love cool James.
Yeah.
Not pretentious at all.
No, no, no.
I mean, that just screams 80s.
That just screams like you came up with that name in 1981.
You definitely did.
Zach Wilde is 58, a leader of the Black Label Society that has banned
also Aussie's former lead guitarist.
Yeah, I have to be impressive hair.
Yes, very.
And a beard.
Great beard.
Also, he just speaks to how darn good you've got to be at something in order to be
Ozzy Oswords guitar player.
Really is.
Slick Rick is 60.
Long time hip-hop artist and one of the old school rappers.
Let's see here.
Steve Soddenberg is 62 director of Magic Mike, traffic Aaron Brockovich.
Oceans 11, 12 and 13.
And a number of other movies.
Solid director, very solid director.
One of the better musicians and producers I think that will ever hear.
T-bone Burnett is 77 today.
Produced to County Crows.
Also a research and assembled much of the music from O'Brother We're Out thou.
It's worked with Alice and Kraus many times.
One of the Oscar for Best Original Song and Co-Writing the Theme to Crazy Heart.
Also did the Co-Writing Brothers movie in St. Lily Davis.
Just an incredible producer.
Yeah, a ton of albums.
Faith Dunnaway is 84.
What, 84?
Wow.
Bonnie and Clyde, of course.
I try to town I think stands out a little bit more than Bonnie and Clyde by not by much.
And just an incredible, incredible career.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, Mommy Dearest.
Oh, Mommy Dearest.
Another one.
Yeah.
It really, really one of those actors that just kind of.
The original Thomas Crown Affair.
Nice.
In 1960.
I forgot about that.
Carl Weathers is 70.
Would have been 77 today.
Greg in the men, grief in the Mandalorian series.
That was really cool to see him in that.
Of course, most people remember him as Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
Or maybe you remember him as Chubs in the Adam Sandler movies.
Happy Gilmore and Little Nikki.
Speaking of arrests and development, he had one of my favorite cameos and reoccurring characters on arrests and development.
He played Carl Weathers, but he played like an acting coach who was really, really, really cheap.
Like the cheapest person you've ever heard of.
It was just like a funny character day he played.
It did a great job.
It was awesome.
Let's see here.
Andy Rooney born in this day in 1919, passed away in 2011.
Wow.
Yeah, one of the legends of entertainment and all.
Yeah, the voice.
Yeah, that voice.
Yeah.
The American, yeah, a few minutes with Andy Rooney, his weekly broadcast.
The Journalism and so much.
And really even some younger people have gotten into his work and everything.
Some of it for his eyebrows, but you know, some of the reporting that he did is still brought back when it's noteworthy.
Well, and when the commentary at the end of the 60 minutes TV show, like that's where I remember him from.
I can't remember what the show was, but there was a show on its seven right after that, I believe, when football ended at the, you know, on time and everything.
And I would catch usually the tail ends of that.
Yeah, as a kid, I remember.
One of the more recognizable faces and names in TV for a long time.
That is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club.
Encourage you to get us more birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you all week long.
Keep them coming everybody and do yourself a favor.
Celebrate with our friends at LKFA.
Had on over to LKFA on Market Street in Port Edwards.
You will not be disappointed.
We'll be back after a news and sports break on the morning show at WFHR.
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Morning show at WFHR.
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Hope you're having a fantastic day out there.
Thank you so much for joining us everybody. Happy Tuesday to you.
Happy Tuesday.
If you think it's a little weird to have banished words, I hope you take it into consideration.
It's said in just.
I only say that because so I did something for my mom, my daughters and my sister.
I got them each a t-shirt for Christmas.
And it's all the same shirt.
They picked out different sizes and colors.
But they all say I'm with the band.
And it's just a set of books that have been banned in recent years.
And we're talking, you know, Catcher on the Rye of Mice and Men.
Why the Cage Bird sings.
Important literature.
And I personally believe that, you know, the word band has one of those words that will may have gotten banned in 2024.
But not that one, not that one, but we got some others here.
Lake Superior State kicked off the year with their annual words and phrases they'd like to banish from our vocabulary.
It's the 49th year they've done this.
Really?
I think that's interesting.
Here are some of the words that they have thrown in.
Number one, cringe.
They say it is very overused.
I would agree with that.
I don't know the last time I heard somebody say it.
But I think that it's not a word I really care for.
So I don't really, you know, I don't use it much myself.
So I don't think I'm the wheelhouse for this one.
But I do hear a lot of younger people say it.
That is so cringe.
And you can't say that.
It's the new like.
I've learned also, you can't say that you don't like sus.
Because then they will just say that that's sus.
So.
Yeah.
Learn that one the hard way.
Right into that one twice.
I guilty of this next one.
So guilty of this next one.
Game changer.
Again, people use it too much and for things that aren't really a big deal.
I will say that I only use it when it's, I think, appropriate.
But I do use it a lot.
I'll completely own that.
Yeah, but you also do a sports show.
And that's kind of a appropriate term to use when you're talking sports.
I like to think so, but I appreciate that.
Error comes in.
And they blame Taylor Swift for this.
Well, just because it was in the headlines so much.
I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again.
That one I haven't heard as much.
Yeah.
And I don't know why you would like, I mean, that seems like a weird one to banish.
Now, you mentioned sports Melissa.
We talk, we talk eras all the time in sports.
And I can't say one time in the last year I've said error in thought of Taylor Swift.
It's nothing, that's nothing against Taylor Swift.
It's just what I think of error.
I think of sports almost immediately.
You actually use the word how it's intended to be used.
Not attaching it to a celebrity.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Dropped.
Like my new album just dropped.
My new single just dropped.
Yeah.
That's weird.
That's weird that they would banish that word.
I mean, that is a functional use.
I just dropped my coffee cup.
And my coffee is filled all over the floor.
What I can't use that word anymore when I was supposed to say.
What are you supposed to say?
You released your coffee.
I flung it on the floor.
I'm dead of this.
Well, that is a little funnier.
That is a little funnier.
Totally on purpose.
Yeah.
IYKYK.
Short for if you know, you know.
That's just irritating.
I'm just going to for me.
We're going to banish an acronym.
I'm okay with that.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
I'm actually okay with just getting rid of acronyms altogether.
They don't save time like they're supposed to.
No, because I have to look them up.
Yes, yes.
I didn't know.
No, I'm done with them.
Sorry, not sorry.
Now, they say it's a half-hearted apology.
I'm masquerading as a bold honesty.
Just say what you mean.
This one is wild to me, Melissa, because this was annoying when we were kids.
I thought that was popular in the late 80s, early 90s.
Sorry, not sorry.
I never heard it then.
You know, maybe it was a regional thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe.
I don't know.
But I guess, I don't know.
I will occasionally use it now, but it's super ironic.
Well, I do use it.
Yes, yes.
Like it is over the top.
Yeah.
Obvious.
But otherwise, no, you're just being passive aggressive then.
Skibbited?
Skibbited?
I'm not cool enough to know what this word is.
S-K-I-B-I-D-I.
Skibbited.
Skibbited either.
Yeah, I don't know.
And they don't even know what it means.
Because some of the gen-alpha can't agree on what it means.
Either it's cool, bad, or it can mean nothing.
It's just a filler word.
So, yeah, let's get rid of this word.
We don't know what it means.
Perfect.
You know, there are certain frequencies that you can't hear once you get to get a bit older in everything.
I feel like some of these words are like that.
Like they're just, they're in a frequency we can't understand.
You know that?
We're just over complicating already complicated English.
Great.
Yeah.
Wonderful.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for doing that, everybody.
100%.
Yeah.
I could see it.
You know what?
I would actually rather get rid of than 100%.
110%.
Yeah.
Anything above 100%.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're just, you're over, overdoing it.
Overcompensating.
Yeah.
Very much.
Very much overcompensating.
Can you just, James, could you just give me 101% today, please?
I just, just one, one more than 100%.
You know what?
You got it.
I don't know.
How would you, I don't know.
You can't.
No.
Yeah.
It's physically, it's literally scientifically, mathematically impossible.
Utilize.
Stop trying to sound smart.
Just say use.
I don't really have a problem with that, but I do kind of like the meeting, or the reasoning for it.
Just, I don't know.
Yeah.
There, there is something to be said for people who try to sound super smart by just like
pulling up at the sores and, and using other words.
And then there's those of us who do it because you don't want to use the same old, tired
words all the time.
I don't know.
In radio, and, and even in talking in general, we do this, but we don't notice it as much
just in cotton, basic conversation, but in radio, we have crutches.
You hear me do it from time to time when I say, you know, and something like that, that
tends to be a crutch, or, or what I just did there, can be crutches in radio and everything.
Yeah.
It's, it's your brain just filling the space until it can come up with the next thing
you need to move on to or say.
We have a, a couple of students that over the years have been doing this and, and it's,
you know, it's not a big game break, it's not a game breaker.
Game changer?
Game breaker?
And then I realized what I was saying, you know, I like to hold it back.
Um, wait a, utilize your brain there, James.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I gave 110%.
Um, period comes up.
Period comes up at the end of this list.
It's the best TV show period.
Uh, they quote, overuse has turned this into a period we are ready to end.
Um, so we had a student that did this.
And, and I mean, did it to maybe the worst I've ever, I've ever heard of it where it
just felt like even when he was on stage improving, he was doing it as different characters
and everything.
So one of the ways we found to break this up was, um, me and another teacher started
to do the same thing with punctuations, just with commas and explanation points.
And, uh, it actually helped them, it actually helped, we had fun with it.
We laughed about it and everything and we laughed together about it.
Yes, you're, you're pointing it out in such an obvious way that it doesn't make him
the butt of the joke.
And one of the things that can, um, be hard about this is when you're thinking of these
things, you're automatically, it's the old radio at it, um, you know, back in the day,
I wasn't, they told me one of the first things they told me, don't say the point.
You just got to say 103, you know, to say 103 point three or 97.5 FM, you just say
97.5, but if you're thinking that in your head, as soon as you turn on the mic, guess
what you're going to do?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but it can also help you break through that by just kind of facing it and getting
through it and everything.
Very similar, I think, to, uh, making phone calls or some of the other things that you
need, you know, want to be better at or want to work out if you're vocabulary or whatever
it might be.
Well, I think what this points out to us is everything in moderation.
Just don't overdo any one thing to exhaustion, which is what that, what, what these are.
I mean, period, uh, it's basically done.
Um, some of the other side, uh, some of the other words they're mentioning are slay, side
hustle.
Um, yeah, slay.
Yeah.
We can get rid of that one.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's kind of cute.
To see people use it.
It's, it's, to me, a lot of these things, it seems like the younger generation trying
to just put their brand on stuff, which is fair.
I think they should get to.
We did.
I mean, everything is cool and rad and, and, you know, bodacious and, um, exactly, we did
that.
Why can't they?
Absolutely.
There was just happened to be slay.
I mean, we've all been influenced by Dr. Sioux's, uh, let's just, let's just put it
out there.
Like Dr.
Sioux told us, uh, you know, especially for the younger generations and the generations
after that and after that, we've taken all the good ones, like, I mean, so many, we've
already kind of taken over so many of these, I, that's, when, when we were like in high
school, one of the things that I thought would be like bringing them back some of the
old words that we don't use anymore, I think that's what's eventually going to end up
happening.
Well, yes, things get recycled.
I mean, if you, that's very true in fashion, just wait and it'll come back and be popular.
I mean, look at, uh, mullets, for instance, yeah, I think that should never have come back
or suddenly back.
There's a list we got to do.
There's a list we got to do.
Skinny jeans.
Um, yes, but with words, I think it's, it's, I think it's fun to see what they come up
with.
Yeah.
And the fact that I can't understand them is also okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But there's, you know, speaking to each other in their own language, as long as when
I asked them to explain it to me that they're willing to, that's totally, that's fine.
That goes a long way.
Yes.
Yes, middle school student, explain to me what you just said, because I don't understand.
And I want to, because I like you and I care about you, so please tell me what you mean.
Sorry, if that was cringe, sorry, we will take a time out.
We'll be back with more show, Marty's show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James here with you, take it to the top of the hour.
Well, kick off at nine o'clock hour with some entertainment news.
We'll get in some other fun topics in that nine o'clock.
We've got a good one lined up for you where we're going to talk about, where did that go?
Um, darn it.
Where did that go?
I just had it.
Um, we got that.
That thing that we can't find.
We're going to talk about it.
We're going to talk about that thing.
That thing, you know, that thing.
You guys know.
That one thing we're going to talk about.
That's coming up for you a little bit later.
Oh, um, yeah.
Are you sick of it?
90% of Americans are sick of something.
We've got that one lined up for you.
We get into that bloody board the nine o'clock hour.
But right now, one of the touch on this one, I thought that was kind of interesting.
What is a seemingly cheap hobby that quickly became, becomes very expensive to continue
doing?
Mm hmm.
And feel free to call up and join the conversation, 715-424-2600.
There's a list online of seemingly cheap hobbies that quickly become expensive.
And here are some of the more popular answers.
And they're not in any particular orders.
We're just going to go right down the list.
Woodworking came up as number one of them.
Why buy something when I can make it half as good for three times the price in a couple
of months?
In a long time period of time, yes.
Now there is, there is no price that you can put on the feeling of accomplishing something
and looking at it.
You know, throughout your time, having that item, when you walk past and just randomly
think about when you were putting it together and you slammed your thumb with a nail or
or something, I wouldn't have.
Well, and it would seem, you know, it just depends on how much equipment you need.
Like if you want to do woodworking with just a little kit, an easy carving kit, sure.
That's pretty cheap.
It's once you get into the, okay, but I need a sander, okay, but I need a bigger saw,
okay, but I need it.
Okay, but I need a doctor visit because I cut my thumb off.
Yeah.
Horseback riding.
Well, why would anybody think that that's cheap?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know anything involving horses like I mean, unless you're just, you know, like
it's not your horse.
If you own the horse, then yeah, there's that that's expensive.
Oh, man.
And even, you know, renting can be, I'm sure it could be more, but it's definitely cheaper
than owning.
Yeah, definitely.
Boating and even fishing, if you can't resist upgrading, I don't, I don't understand
also why they would think that this one's cheap is expensive.
And you're going to just sink money into it.
I like that.
I don't remember what B O A T stands for, but there's an acronym where it's just like,
you're just going to keep sinking more money into it.
I didn't heard that one.
I'll have to look it up and see if I can find it.
Fish keeping or having an aquarium.
Yes, yes, I can speak very highly of this one.
I've probably had about 30 or 40 tanks in my, you know, since I was in my early 20s.
And every one of them started out simple.
And they just did not end there.
Especially if you, you know, keep adding fish as you lose fish or anything like that.
I get, now that is one of those ones in like some of these hobbies.
In fact, I think most of these hobbies, once you get, you know, the groundwork done,
you know, and you get a base, sometimes it's not as expensive to keep up, but it's still
not cheap, I wouldn't say.
Yes.
And boat stands for bring out another thousand.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
3D printing.
Yes.
I would also say that, yeah, this one seems like the filament is not terribly expensive.
So after you've made your initial investment, but then you want to start printing bigger
and bigger things.
And so, yeah, it can get more expensive, depending on what you do with it.
I might say this is the number one or number two on a list.
If I was putting it together, cycling.
As in bicycling?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we're talking people to get together with other groups of people to cycle like in the
morning or any afternoon or something like that.
And bike equipment is just up there.
Like the, the, the pair of gloves alone, you know, let alone half of the stuff that they,
they spend on that kind of thing.
Yeah.
I suppose.
And you want to get a better seat or you want to get the, the, the fancy pants with cushions
in the butt.
Yeah.
Right.
Combining these next two, surfing in the summer or snowboarding in the winter.
Yeah.
That equipment is going to be expensive.
Mm-hmm.
And then the traveling to go to these places is not like we have the opportunity to surf
right outside our front door.
You got to drive there.
Yeah.
Or even snowboarding.
Yeah.
I mean, where's the closest snowboarding hill?
Yeah.
Right now, especially.
Golf.
Oh, yeah.
That's, that's probably the number one, I would say.
The number one that I've seen people that, I'm going to get into golf and, and then they're
broke.
I just, I don't know, I mean, a set of golf clubs isn't cheap.
Mm-hmm.
But beyond that, I guess maybe a golf club membership?
Yeah.
And, of course, the clothes.
You have to wear crazy clothes.
No.
You have to, I don't know.
And do you have to buy your own golf cart?
Oh, yeah.
I think you're right to buy them.
I think you're right to.
Crochet.
Yes.
Orniting, I would say, yes.
Because every time you go somewhere where they sell yarn, you're like, oh, what kind of
make out of this?
And you buy it.
And it's not even just about, you know, the project you want to make, it's about your
hoard.
Because you have to have a yarn hoard.
For those of us who are crafters, we all have our hoard.
Mm-hmm.
For me, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that I inherited my mom's knitting and weaving
shop.
Oh, yeah.
So, um, I have, I did sell a bulk, I like the bulk of her weaving or her knitting yarns.
I did sell a lot of it, but, um, I still have all of the weaving yarns.
I sold the knitting yarns, but I have the weaving yarns, so it's a hoard.
Yeah.
Gardening.
Uh, someone joked, the first tomato was $100, but the second tomato was also $100, and
there is no third tomato.
Um, that would be for someone like me who it doesn't have a green thumb.
Now, however someone like Laura, who had a very successful garden last year, um, you know,
I think it done right.
Gardening doesn't have to be super expensive.
And I, you know, I, I would let her speak for herself, of course, but I bet that she
would agree that you make a little bit of a, what, you know, what you spend, you kind
of make up for a little bit with some of the food, um, that you grow.
If you're growing food, I suppose, uh, yeah.
And then there's also the, the enjoyment of, of doing the hobby itself, and that can
be said about all of these things, you know, that yes, it might cost you time and money,
but what you're getting back is also valuable.
That's kind of where I wanted to wrap up.
They've got hobby farms and crossfit, coffee, drinking, all in the list as well.
Um, but I, I would say that, you know, certainly not spending beyond your means that, that's
never good for anything or any, no matter what we're talking about.
But if you're working within your boundaries, everybody deserves a release.
Everybody deserves some kind of break from things.
If this is your break.
Probably of some sort.
Yeah.
I mean, out of all of these that we listed, yes, some of them can come like snowboarding,
my last snowboarding attempt, and ended with a damaged tailbone, but, you know, I, I,
I fixed that with hot totty, so it was fine.
But you know, like out of all of these, drinking is probably the one that's going to damage
your health the most.
Uh, unless you're not very good at snowboarding or surfing, but no, you know, you're a hundred
percent right here.
Uh, I would say too, um, that when you're, when you're doing these things, uh, just enjoy,
enjoying them and not thinking about, because if you're cycling, and that's what you love
to do, when you're on your bike, don't be thinking about over oh god, I spent too much.
Oh god, I did that.
You know, I, I feel like you're, you're defeating the point and you're taking away from the enjoyment
of your hobby.
And I say this as somebody who did it.
Uh, I, I really wanted to get into, uh, surfing when I was on California, and I spent
the little money on it that I maybe didn't have.
And I never even really got to learn or enjoy because all I was thinking about was that.
And it was, I didn't really get into it as much.
I, yeah, wait a self sabotage there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Man, I am good at that.
If you ever want to teach a, a master class on self sabotage, what not to do with James
Mayloff, Professor Mayloff, and, well, first off, but I do have a hard time understanding
how coffee is on this list, though.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I, I was, I didn't, I didn't know that why it was on there or anything, but I was, you
can go down a rabbit hole of reading or learning about how to correctly do a pour over.
I, I got sucked into an 18 minute video one time, but it was worth watching as close as
entertaining.
That, that happens.
That's, that's a completely relatable and understandable.
Uh, I do have a couple of things coming up in the night clock hour, one in three vegetarians
and vegans admit to cheating by eating meat and weird food news.
We've got those coming up for those with the articles I was looking for.
That's all coming up with Melissa James on the morning show here at WFHR.
