Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us
right here at WFHR.
Got your host James J behind the mic. I am joined by your head of production,
our co-host Seth Habhacker. Good morning and the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us
everybody. Hope you have a fantastic Thursday out there. Happy Friday Eve. Let's kick things off
the way we like to. We're in Brittany Merlot talking a little about the nature. Good morning,
Brett. Good morning. Oh, man, I'm just riding this warm wave. I'm loving it. Yeah, nice.
Just feeling it. I'm going to go out tanning later. I'm actually never tanned in my life. I just
am this color. Brittany, we are looking for any signs of warmer warm-ish weather. Again, that word
that it's used so differently this time of year than any other, but especially considering what's
coming up this weekend. And we've been hearing a lot of the warnings to national services and
everything. We just want to keep reminding everybody that it is going to be a rough one.
Yes, it really is. So if you have anything, you need to run errands, go outside, do stuff. I don't
know. Today or tomorrow is the day to do it because we are going to be hibernating throughout the
weekend and into early next week because it's going to be dangerously cold. So let's start with
the positives. 32 degrees is our high today flirting with that freezing mark. It will be mostly cloudy
unfortunately. So I'm not sure James that you get to work on that pan. There might be moments of sun.
Pick your moments, right? Otherwise, yeah, yeah, it's going to be breezy too. Winds out of the
northwest, resting around 30 miles per hour today. So it'll be feeling more like the 20s,
but we do climb to the upper 30s for tomorrow. Hives at about 36 degrees. It'll be mostly cloudy once
again. Of course, at the warm up, the clouds come with it and the clouds are actually lacking in
the warmth too. So it's good news if you hate the cold. Counts start to clear on Saturday. This is
when the cold snap starts. Temperatures will be sliding down to highs and just the teens for Saturday.
So it's really going to be feeling like zero because it's still going to be blustery and windy.
And the winds don't quit on Sunday. Hives below zero negative four. And then as we go overnight into
Sunday night and Monday morning, actual temperatures look to fall anywhere between 15 to 20 below.
And you put winds on top of that. It's going to be feeling like 40 below. So very, very deep freeze
headed our way. And that's going to last into Monday Tuesday before we start a warm up on Wednesday.
Bears really have the right idea. They do. Yeah, it's really the right idea.
I don't know what we're doing as human beings. We're supposed to be higher on the food chain.
I wonder sometimes bad. They really feel like they got the right call.
Brittany, we appreciate you. Thank you so much for giving us a heads up and not only on today,
but this weekend. Looking forward to hanging out tomorrow and getting people ready for the weekend.
Sounds good. You guys have a great day. You too. Best in the business right there.
From Brittany Merlot joins us every morning and really appreciate that she does,
especially times like this. Yes, indeed. I pay attention to the weather. I focus. I get into this
stuff and I still learn something when she talks to us in the morning and feel better prepared
because of talking to her. Absolutely. We appreciate you joining us. Everybody,
got a fun show lined up for you. In a little bit, we're going to get into the LKFA birthday
and anniversary club. We encourage you to head on over there for breakfast and especially because
I've got a study coming up about how much time we spend on breakfast. Oh, interesting. And we'll
stay in that kind of a wheelhouse because crispy cream has new donuts. Do we got to talk about new
donuts? I am working to be either the cookie commissioner or Zarr. Yeah, okay. I'm okay with
cookies Zarr or commissioner. Okay. Or the donut king. The Duke of donuts. The Duke of donuts.
There you go. Right. Wait, you know what? I'm going to get a hold of Ashley. You got to get
new business cards. I'm going to cover everything I can on donuts and cookies going forward.
Excellent. Similar to how we cover world records, Dolly Parton. And certainly, of course,
central Wisconsin news. Sweet treats. Yep. Let's do it. Got a couple of those coming up for you.
It's a Thursday in the 9 o'clock hour. You know what that means. We will have our pet of the
week from the South of County main society. Excellent. Denise is going to join us. We're looking forward
to that. We have a lot of fun getting to know her. Yeah, it's been great. She got us new shirts.
I got it. I got it. I got it. I got the shirt. That you got it. Very nice. It's coming up.
Entertainment news will be after that. I got a couple of interesting stories in there. Timothy
Shallabe getting fined for the silliest of reasons. And an interesting story on Renee Zellweger.
And when I get into what's because some new stuff coming here to town. Oh, yeah.
I encourage you to check out everything. Everybody. It's going to be fun. And rock albums that turn
50 this year's Seth. Oh, no. I keep going. Oh, no. I'm getting a little tired of these stories
that just make us feel old. Oh, God. I don't know. I don't know about that. So those of you out there
who, you know, struggle with math, that's 75, 1975 is what the year they're talking about is.
We will get to all of that. But we will. And we've got a fun story for you coming up here too.
But I do want to dive right in Seth to some fun things happening here at the radio station.
And by that, I mean, I want to talk cereal. I love cereal. I mentioned cookies. I mentioned donuts.
The rest of my body is made up of either marinara or cereal. Yeah. I love cereal. It's fantastic.
I just had the bowl yesterday. And it was fantastic. It was great. But I need to prepare too.
You know, cereal was not just great because it was sugar. And I mean, I don't know. There was some
other stuff in there, but that's what I focused on. No, no, cereal is great. There's plenty of
great kinds. And even as an adult, you can enjoy cereal, whether it's sugary or, you know,
some of the healthier stuff here for you. Yeah, absolutely. But one thing that we missed out on
as adults, and I don't know that it still is a thing as it used to be, is the toy in the cereal box.
Oh, yes. God, we love that. Yeah. There were some cool ones over the years, man.
Man, there was nothing like, you know, getting a cereal. And for us, it usually was a cereal
we didn't usually get because I'm sure we bugged our mom. And mom, can we get the thing with the
tried cookie crisps, I believe, because of that. Yes. Excellent.
Fruity pebbles. Yep. Another one. Yeah. Yeah. I like cocoa pebbles. But I never really
was into Fruity pebbles. Yeah. Like those. Okay. Except they had the great prizes. Yeah.
They did. Yeah. Yeah. So in a half the time, those prizes, you know, we're not always,
they looked like one thing on the box that you get it and you got to put it together. Yeah,
it wasn't. Yeah. But it was still worth it. You still got a cool toy that you didn't.
You felt like it was, it was, it was free, right? Yeah. I can see on the cake. Exactly.
It was all that. Yep. Well, that is something that we are going to be giving you on Saturdays.
We're, we, morning show is cereal. It's your favorite bowl of cereal. That's right.
Every day, Mondays or Friday, we are your favorite bowl of cereal. But on Saturdays,
we are going to give you the toy in the cereal box. Toy in the cereal box. I love that metaphor.
That's great. It's the only way my brain thinks is metaphor as I can't help it.
But it all, we're coming to what we're getting to here, everybody. And I'll be honest with
everybody. I'm taking my time getting into this because I'm not that comfortable with this
because in part because I, I'm not just a, I'm not just somebody who's worked here for,
you're almost a decade and then going back my first run, you know, if you put it all together,
oh, well over a decade, I've been at this station. I've been in this area for a long time. And
I'm also not just, I'm a fan of WFHR. I've been listening to WFHR since my family moved to this
town. I love this station and there's so many things that our station does that I think are
original and very unique, not just to our area, but to radio. One of the more unique things that
we have done for decades is over the back fence. It's a show that, you know, going back to
many, many voices before us, we're all proud of. When I first got into WFHR and I got a chance
to be a copywriter, this is decades ago. My first live on air talking was on over the back fence.
I did a couple little things on GLX and stuff, but I was mostly voice tracking over there. I had,
I think, a four hour stretch on Saturdays. That was about it. And it was just, and that's not really,
it is technically talking on the radio, but it's not talk radio. No, there is different. I never
talked more than 20 seconds or 30 seconds at a time or whatever. Getting the chance to do
over the back fence is the reason I can do this job now. It was all just getting those reps in
early on. Great training ground for it. It's true. I wouldn't have had that opportunity without that
show. I wouldn't have had the chance to find my voice. I wouldn't have had the chance to have
those reps and everything. And I'm not alone. I took the show over for Christie K, who had a similar
situation. And Christie was a favorite voice on those airwaves. So many of the voices that have
done over the back fence are a lot of the audience's favorite voices. You know, in recent years,
Carl and Bob were doing the show from time to time. We had our good friend, you know,
running our boards all the time as well. Doing it. And some people running boards and doing it as
well. We had Tim Hubble running it for quite some time. Doing the poker show and over the back
fence. That's right. Yeah. It was one of my favorite blocks while we had it. I enjoyed listening
to the poker show and listening to Tim growl right into over the back fence. And of course,
in recent years, Seth has taken the show over. That's right. I just realized that I've been doing it
for basically since I started here. So about three years or so. Yeah. Wow. Wow.
Blows my mind. And you've done a fantastic job with the show. I've heard from listeners. It's not
just me. One of the things that I've enjoyed is your incorporation of music and just having
some fun with the show. Right. And not being bound down by anything that, you know, some others might
have been. Yeah. It's really been helpful. But as you, as I mentioned that, Seth's been playing
music during a college show because there's a hint there. Yeah. We haven't been getting the
calls. Yeah. We just have not been getting the calls with that show. That show is a sponsor show.
We want to do right by our sponsors. So we going forward starting not this Saturday. No,
but I'll be on the air on Saturday. Yeah. Seth will be here with an over the back fence for
you this Saturday. Love in the noon. Be sure to check it out because it will be our last over
the back fence for now for now for this foreseeable, you know, future. And like a lot of things we do
around here, audience participation is encouraged. Yes. We want to hear from you, not just
on over the back fence, but we want to hear from you what you think of what we do with that hour.
Because we're going to be using that hour for that toy in the cereal box the best of the morning
show. Yep. We'll take the best segments throughout the week, put them together and get a little,
like James said, a little best of compilation. And, and, and, you know, with that hour being ours,
this is in part to keep that hour ours and keep it local, being honest with the audience and
and everything. And this isn't anything we haven't talked to our higher ups about or anything
like that. When it comes to that, that means that that hour will also maybe be able to do live
remotes with that hour, or maybe we'll play a best of the community stories or, or are Seth
face of the music who knows? Yeah. We're just looking forward to what that means creatively for us
in our audience. But as always, your opinion matters the most. And we want to hear from you about it.
And if you miss over the back fence, if you want it back, the only way it's come the back is
hearing from you. Because right now, from what we're hearing from you is no. Yeah. It's not
people aren't interested right now. And, and there's no blame there already. I don't know how my
tone sounds already think, but I love that show. But I love this station in this audience more.
Yeah. And I want it. We want to do right by the audience. Right. We want to find out what's the
best way to fill that time right now. And that does not seem to be doing it at the moment. So
I don't put program director down because I just like the way it sounds. I, this is the job
that we do. And in doing that, we want to give you the best program we can with the hours that we have.
Absolutely. So going forward, after the on the 18th, starting on the 18th, Saturday, the 18th,
that will be a best of hour. And, and, and see what else happens with it going forward.
Well, we'll, we'll just have to play it by ear as they say. I do want to thank our sponsors,
Crockett Sceptic. Yeah. For sponsoring over the back fence for a long time with good friends
from Crockett Sceptic. Great people. We love them there. And I certainly want to think the audience,
the, you know, original, original collars, the original people, the people they got the whole
thing started. And of course, the consistent collars. You and I know some familiar. Oh, yes.
On that show. Awesome. There's a regular's out there. Yes. We appreciate them. We appreciate
those regulars out there. I think that very much. And I want to thank you, Seth, for keeping
it going because I think that this show, for the audience doesn't know this, even before Seth
got hired, this is something we've been talking about doing. And a couple of years now. Yeah.
There's a chance that that show is not even there for you. Yep. So I think for, for you as well,
it was a really chance to earn some reps and to learn the board and everything. 100%. Man, it's a,
I cannot tell you how important it was for my, for my development as a radio person. So, yep.
Got another programming announcement to make in just a second. First, let's take a phone call.
Good morning here on the show. Yeah. I have one to keep over the back turns alive. Yeah. Yeah.
There you go. Now, I know right now it's kind of a slow because, but by the time we get to the
rummage sales and stuff like that, it really helps all these people there and answer
rummage sales and stuff like that. 100%. Yeah. 100% rights are, and who knows? Maybe come summer,
something like that. It does come back. We need more feedback like this. Just like that. You are
one of our most consistent callers and listeners. And I cannot thank you enough for that. And not
just with our show here, but with them in the back fence, you've been great to us for a long time.
We need more of you. We only have a couple out there when it comes to over the back fence.
We're going to need some more of that. But I can't thank you enough, not only for calling all
these years, but for calling right now and giving us that feedback, I was really hoping for that.
Yeah. Appreciate it. Yeah. I would think that if they were able to switch the times around to
a little bit earlier, if Terry was all you know, you that thought that would probably be perfect for
the summer time. If you keep it between us, that is something we've been talking about. That is
something, but that's just between all of us. Yeah. Right. That is something we've talked about and
where we're working on it. We've got a lot of options right now and we're looking at a lot.
So yeah. But I think you hit it on the head that right now, this time of year is a good time to
not only do this, but to test this out. Because that's what all of this is as a test and to see how it
works. Yeah. Thank you for the call, sir. You have a good morning. Yep. Got to get to one other
thing before we get to our first break. We do have another programming adjustment happening.
Our show director's cut is taking on a rebranding because that's what you do in entertainment
these days. You rebrand. So we're giving you the, but we're not going to do a prequel or
already. No, no, we're not doing that. No, no, no, we're just changing one little thing about
the show. Yes. Instead of director's cut, it is going to be director's playhouse going forward.
Yes. We're excited about this. This is a lot of fun. We already have new imaging up because
media is awesome. We have some great people here. Fantastic job. Oh my gosh.
I shout out to our team because they're amazing. I love the imaging. I love the picture as it is
and everything. Coming up, we got some great people that are going to be joining us.
Pete Schwab is going to be joining us coming up. We'll also be having Pam and Carl from the station
here. Yep. You and Melissa, Laura and Tim, we're going to interview everybody. Actually,
we're going to get in there. We'll have everybody on and we'll interview everybody as part of our
civic series. Yep. But just as importantly as that to us, we want to hear from you and all
you creatives out there. Yes. I am working on a pretty big one right now. Yes. We'll see.
Very exciting. Very exciting. God, I want to say it's a man. I'm bad at this. I really want to
say something, but you can't tell it's like that. No, no, can't. But we got some fun ones lined up
and we know how many bands and musicians we have in this area that we have been in this area
for years. We want you on the air with us. Go back and listen to our Lizards show or any of our
interviews with any of our musical guests and every one of them come back. Every one of them,
the only reason Lizards didn't is because they're not a band anymore. They're done. They quit.
Yeah. But all of our bands come back because they have a fun time. We make darn sure of it.
Email either set their eye at james.mailoff at civicmedia.us.
Seth at civicmedia.us. And of course, you can enter direct messages on our Facebook pages or call
up today or at the station. Call up 424-1300. Talk to Pan. Or go to the website. I think WFHR.com
because you can contact us there too. Anyway, you got to do it. Please get ahold of us. And
please also keep that in mind when it comes to over the back fence. We want you to get ahold of
us for that as well. Yep. We'll get on it. We'll touch on this again tomorrow. For now, we get to
our commercial break. All right. And coming up, LKFA Birthday and Anniversary Club on the morning
show at WFHR. It's time for the Birthday and Anniversary Club with our good friends over at LKFA. We
encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to LKFA, 221 Market Avenue, in beautiful poor dead
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set of specials for you lined up. Get on over there. Check out that amazing menu and the amazing
people over there. Yes. Courage to do so. And encourage you to get us to your birthdays and
anniversaries. Yes, indeed. Want to hear from you. We do. Give us a call on the phone lines here.
715. Oh, sorry, but nope, that's our 424-23 curveball. Yeah, I jumped into that right away.
That's all right. I have some of our Facebook pages. Of course, you can of course email us
info at WFHR.com. And yes, you can call up. Yes, you can. 424-2600. There we go. There we go.
All right. Here for me, everybody. Go ahead and reach out to us. We have one name on the list
today. So we get to give Seth the segment on. All right. And we get to wish a very happy
birthday to Tom Anders. Happy Birthday, Tom. Tom is our qualifier today. Our low name.
Regulations. Yeah. It's an interesting last day with you. Tom Anders. My family. Yeah.
Tom, wishing you a great birthday to your nacer. We say brag to everybody that you are our
qualifier. That's right. We take a look at our celebrity list. Okay. And Lin-Man Moranda
is 45 today. Wow. Could possibly be the most famous songwriter out there right now. He's got
a big one. I mean, not only for Broadway, but Disney movies. And I mean, he's so talented,
but still amazing creator of Hamilton and also Heights did the Heights. Yep. He did almost all
of the music in the Moana movie. He is Bert's former apprentice Jack and Mary Poppins returns.
That's right. But he is also Lee Scorsberry in his dark materials. And that was a fun show. I
really enjoyed. James McAvoy was in it. There's a couple of other good actors in it as well.
And his work and I thought was right up there with Hamilton. Like, yeah, it was really well done
and there's a very different character for him. Very different. Absolutely. I really enjoyed
his performance in that. But Hamilton is one of those things where I'm not a big musicals guy.
Right. I got burned out from musicals from my mom. She does her big,
anti-loid webber fan man. Oh, that would do it. And I can sing it for you, but I can give you
every lyric of Phantom of the Opera or Les Mis or any of those because she just played them all
the time. She had a one side of a cassette tape, the Phantom of the Opera and the other side,
she had Les Mis. Oh my goodness. You heard them all. But I enjoyed, I actually enjoyed Wicked in
part because of some of the music. I felt like some of the music in the play version of Wicked
that I haven't seen the movie on the play version. There's some songs in there that could be pop.
Really good songs. Yeah. It could be in one of gravity is a fantastic song. But not till Hamilton,
did I hear anything where I'm listening to them in my playlist. I got Hamilton songs in my
shuffle. It was the game changer of all game changers in theater. I don't know that there's
been a bigger game changer in theater than Hamilton. No. Not only on a representation level,
they're probably, I mean, I believe the color purple was done on Broadway. I don't know if even
in the color purple, they had that many ethnic people on stage at one time, let alone that many
diverse people. I don't think so. To some people that may seem silly, to some people that may
seem, quote, wokeism or whatever, this is just creatively cool. It's just interesting. And I think
that some people miss the point. Part of the reason you see a Puerto Rican playing Alexander
Hamilton is the idea that we are all Americans. And so it doesn't matter if it's a Puerto Rican
playing him or not, just like it doesn't matter who's playing what color the person is playing,
your mall Santa or any of these things. We're all Americans. And there's so many different things
that Hamilton did along with the music and the creativity of it and everything. Just, I mean,
if he never does anything big again, he's going to keep working. He's good. The kids seem to like him,
you know, because I believe he also did the music for in Conto. Yes. With, you know, we don't talk
about Bruno. That's right. That's right. He's really good. We had in a shut up to Michael Comer,
not only the great work he's doing on our newsletter. And of course, covering our games,
doing a lot of broadcasting, but he sits in with us on playmakers. And it's a shame. I wish
I would have known this if he was in yesterday. Albert Poulos is 45 today. Oh, wow.
Michael's a big cardinals fan. So I would have mentioned that. Yes. Albert Poulos could probably
still give you a good, a good 275 batting. He could. He could. I'm convinced even at 45. He could
do it. I might not say that until his last year in St. Louis, but the fact that the way he came
out. I'm telling you. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Roy Jones Jr. is 56. Captain Hook is
what they called him. And man, is that a great nickname for a boxer. 66 in 10 in his career, 47
who wins by KO from a world title holder in four divisions. One of my favorite boxers of all time
for pound for pound. The fun is guys to watch. And yes, that hook boxing is so jab oriented.
It's such a jab focused thing. And the hook really shouldn't be used unless you have the opening.
Unless you're Roy Jones Jr. Where I saw that man, you can look it up. You could have it blocked
perfectly. And he's still getting it through. Or he strategically put it in the right place.
Being having smart hands is one of the most unappreciated things in boxing. People do not think
about it enough. Smart feet, smart hands. You got to have that in boxing. You got to have. It's not
just about weapon people. Side A is 66. Oh my gosh. God, I love her voice. Amazing thing. Smooth
up reader, ordinary love, the sweetest taboo, sweet great hits. But that is not her name. That is
the name of the band. That is a playoff of her name. And it is. They have it here, but I could have
told you her name is Helen Adu. That's her name. That's Helen Folesade. Folesade Adu. Yeah. That's
where she gets the, that's where they get it from. Right. But I heard she was in, I don't know if
it was MTV or VH1 or whatever it was. She was in an interview and she was explaining this. And
I remember hearing it as a kid, but she introduced herself as Helen Adu. She even say the side A part
in there was until years later that I heard that that's a play, the name side A is a playoff
of her middle name of her actual name. And it's yeah. Boy, thanks for confusing us.
Right. The legend Debbie Allen is 75 today. Legendary actress dancer choreographer,
starred in fame. That's right. She is actually Hondo's mom on SWAT and she was in Gray's Anatomy.
Wow. And she is Folesade's sister in real life. I did not know that. Debbie Allen's had a heck
of a clear, I love her. And we don't get to hear choreographers' names enough. No, we don't.
Really underappreciated part of entertainment. It is. It is. It is. And so important. So
important in so many things. One of the legends of horror, one of the better directors, John
Carpenter is 77. Yes. Director of Halloween, 80s remakes, the thing, Christine, the fog,
assault, unprecinct 13. Big trouble, little China. Yes. And in so many others, escape from LA
and escape from New York and those movies and everything. I think John Carpenter is a great
director. And now basically just a recording artist. Yeah. He does. He goes on tour. He concerts
with the music. He's composed for many of his films. His parents were both musicians,
which makes it makes it understandable why he's such a good musician himself.
I like directors. Certainly I'm a fan of the Scorsese and Spielbergs and stuff, but I like
these directors that you can tell their fans of movies. And whether it's whatever the genre is,
they're making a movie that they think they would want to see. Right. I think that the perfect
example, assault, unprecinct 13 is underrated. It's not a horror movie. No, boy, the suspense
and everything. And it is very good. But big trouble, little China man. I don't care if it's a
silly 80s movie. That movie had repeatability in the 80s. It is a sneaky smart. Yes.
Movie as well. Yes. Where the quote unquote hero isn't actually a hero. No. That's,
and people everyone missed that when it came out. And I really love the casting that he would do.
Oh, yes. He's an incredible caster. And in that movie in particular, you get one of the better
performances from one of the, I believe the Asian actor in there. I can't think of his name,
John Yan or, oh, yeah. The bad, the main villain or what? Yes, villain. But he is one of the,
he has one of the greatest IMDB pages you'll ever see. There's so many great things. Yes.
Ronnie Millsap, 82 today, country legend. Mm-hmm. Any day now, lost in the 50s tonight,
somebody good hits. Mm-hmm. And some people no longer with us like Ethel Merman,
born in this day 1908. Speed of theater. Man, one of the greats of all time, one of the great
theater actors of all time and singers. Maybe the greatest, maybe the, you know, there's one thing
to have a theme song for a TV show or movie or something like that. And there's another thing
to have a theme song for something that's legendary famous and generations know it. She has the theme
song for entertainment. All of entertainment. There's no business like show business. And
you get your gun. She was the one that originated the role. Yep. And maybe the greatest cameo we
will ever see. Her cameo in airplane, where you saw in there, she's shell, a shell-shock soldier.
And they think she thinks she's Ethel Merman. Or I think, yeah, it's just classic. It's maybe
the best cameo you ever seen. Aliyah would have been 45 today. 79 passed away, way too young
in 2001. I was a huge fan of Aliyah. Love her. She was going places, yeah. I like her music a bit.
I really thought she was a great actress. I thought she was in a couple movies, yeah. If she's
only building as an actress and going forward, I really thought she was going to be quite good at
that. Miss her on this day. And once again, wishing a happy birthday to Tom Andrews. Happy
birthday, Tom. Enjoy your day, Tom. Have a great one. Celebrate with our friends over at El Café.
And I know over there today, everybody, wishing a good day from all of us here at WFHR,
221 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards. Get to our news, sports, take care of our partners,
and come back with more morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
And maybe you'll go away and never call. And a taste of honey's words have been
learned at all. Cannot interrupt smoky rabbits. Notice I got in and out. Oh, I love that.
You got to jump it. Oh, that voice. We are jumping back into a segment. Thanks for joining us,
everybody. Happy Friday Eve at Good Thursday to you all, Seth and James here with you and talking
a little breakfast right now. All right, let's do it. Some people say breakfast is the most
important meal of the day. And boy, whoever came up with that phrase really should have
gotten written back. Yeah, they really come on. We've gotten a lot of use out of that one.
23% of American adults say it's their favorite meal of the day, but still we have zero time for it
apparently. In a new poll, 56% of people say that they always or usually have breakfast. It's one
of the other. It's not always or usually are two very different things to be at least. I don't
and 57% of people say that they usually prepare their own breakfast. Okay, but 10% of people
say that they scarf their entire breakfast down in less than five minutes. Whoa, 34% say that
they carve out five to 10 minutes for eating it. Okay, 33% say 11 to 20 and so on. All right,
only one percent of people devote up to an hour for breakfast and zero percent of people say
it takes them more than an hour to enjoy breakfast. I don't know the last time we did a survey,
we had a zero percent. Wow, no one can take that much time. Wow. Only one percent of people
devote up to an hour for breakfast and zero percent of people say it takes them more than an hour
to enjoy breakfast. Wow. Now, we'll get into some of the reasons for this in a moment and
certainly want to hear from you out there. Do you take the time for breakfast? What is your
breakfast like, you know, whatever you're comfortable sharing? But I think it's noteworthy.
Not only this is a survey come from you, Gov, which I would hang my hat on as one of the very good
data. Yeah, but also this is a large collection of people. This is young, this is middle age,
and this is retired people. So even in retirement, when you hopefully traditionally at least
you should have more time in the morning, right? Yeah, it's the answer reason.
Yeah, still aren't spending that much time on your breakfast. Yeah, so it's the excuse of
I got to get to work or anything, James, I'm talking about myself here. Of course.
Even then, doesn't seem to fall into play. No, no, and that's, you know, it's one of those things
where I mean, so many, I can think of it for myself, and I think for a lot of people would love
to have that extra time, right? Loved it like linger in the morning a little bit over something
to eat or something like that. Now, I'm not, I'm one of those people that when I wake up,
I'm not hungry. Yeah, it takes me a while to get my appetite in the morning. So that's the reason
why I don't usually eat breakfast until later, if at all, you know, our way to lunch or something
like that. You know, maybe on weekends though, you know, like a Saturday, go in at like nine or
something 10 o'clock to a restaurant or something like that. But other than that, no, I mean, timing
is just terrible. I mean, that's part of it. You hit on something really that hits home to me.
The idea of not, not being hungry. Yeah, I feel like I have to work up an appetite. And I don't
think we're alone in that. And more on that in a second, I have figured out though how to make
me eat breakfast because all this being said, I have no problem jumping right in the work. The second
I'm jump out of bed. That's true. I'm immediately thinking of content, immediately thinking of work,
and get jumping in here. And for close to a decade, I've been coming in here at five or six in the
morning or earlier than that. And that has become routine to me. So what I need to do is treat breakfast
like work. Oh, okay. I need to literally punch in and sit down and be like, oh, I got to do
my job right now. And that's to eat some breakfast. Maybe that'll get me to eat breakfast. Maybe
that'll actually get me to do it. And I like, I really enjoy breakfast food. I love
breakfast. I love eggs and pancakes. I love all that stuff. So, but it's just, you know,
here's the other part of this too. What if we got this wrong? Now, it's not not in
tradition. Back in the day, back in the day, it was certain why breakfast started and all that.
But nowadays, with, you know, the climate and the environment work environment, what it is in
everything, I think that breakfast has changed so much and certain people are only hungry at a
certain point. Should we be instead just forget about breakfast and focus on brunch? Oh, I like
where this is going. And brunch is the new breakfast. Brunch is the new breakfast. Okay. Guy
Berenger, a British writer, is credited with pointing the word brunch in 1895. Okay. All right.
So I wonder if we have him to thank for that. Maybe we should be doing it that way. Maybe we
should have like, you know, you know, why do we have to limit ourselves to three meals? You know,
why don't we give a variety of meals? You know, you could do your, your, your brunch, you know,
your lunch, your, you know, your 11z or whatever they call it in England. Yeah. You're, you know,
your tea. Yeah. You can always bring the tea here and that kind of thing. So, you know, yeah.
Now, one reason that I thought was interesting that they say that breakfast is like that,
like this for most people is that breakfast isn't a communal meal for most people. That's right.
I thought that's interesting. 53% of people say that they eat breakfast alone. 47% people watch TV
while they're eating breakfast. Mostly adults, 34% look at their phone while they're eating breakfast.
Makes sense. 17% music or podcasts. But it is, I think that almost accountability,
buddy, of, hey, did you eat this morning? Right. Not having that kind of leads to this a little bit.
We're left to our own devices. We don't tend to do this very often. Right. I don't know about when
you were growing up, James, but my family was very intentional about having breakfast together.
My parents were very, you know, one of their things they wanted to make sure we all had breakfast
together. My mom being a homeic teacher, maybe had something to do with it. But other than that,
but it's so, I mean, I grew up, you know, every day, you know, this time here you go. We're all
sitting down. We're having breakfast and then, you know, you're off to whatever you're doing. So,
that's where I grew up. But ever since I've been out of my own, it's been out of the window.
It's the way it works. It's just interesting how the way it works. And we all know this. We're
told it from a young age. Hey, breakfast is the most important meal in all that. But it fueled
ago. Right. Well, I'll call it coffee, my breakfast. Yes, that can sit. Can you consider that?
It's the closest I can do it. Or donuts, which is where we go next. Oh, wow.
As I look to claim the title of Duke of donuts. Duke of donuts. Thank you for that, Seth.
In 2025, the year we finally run, is that the idea this the year we run out of food ideas?
Because we are just stuffing stuff inside of stuff now. We're not really coming up with anything new.
We're just stuffing stuff inside of stuff. Crispy cream just added three pop tart inspired donuts.
Including two that come with mini pop tarts on top.
They use the bite sides versions. They've been selling in pouches for years now. They're
called pop tart bites. Those are bad. The three donut flavors are frosted strawberry,
chocolate fudge and brown sugar cinnamon. The strawberry one has the strawberry filling.
They're also at crispy cream stores for a limited time. They're also selling half-dozen boxes
and grocery stores. Oh, really? That's interesting. Yeah. So if you're in the mood for sugar on sugar
on sugar on sugar, there you go. That's a lot of sugar, my god. Well, if you do want to get
that really quick boost in the morning, I guess that's how you do it. I, uh, it doesn't last
very long though. That sugar rush. It kind of peeters out pretty quick. They do look good. Oh,
they do. Look at that. They have like a mini. Yep. On top. They're just one on the specific ones,
but they do look nice. Yeah. I'm credit for that. I need to get a pop tart with it.
I think this is one of the better mashup ideas though. Not bad. This seems to go together really
well. Yeah. I feel like the first words in that meeting when the crispy cream people in the
pop tart people sit down and talk is like, why don't we do this sooner? Like where are you guys
been? I mean, it feels like they should have been doing this a long time. I love the idea of
people having like specific things have like people, you know, it's the pop tart people.
It's not just that. They actually are to look like they're actually like a pop tart,
like they actually are dressed as that. Everything that you see in the business world or anything,
it's that just. They take it so seriously. I mean, there's 100%. I believe that the CEO
of McDonald's dresses as Ronald McDonald. That's how I liked it in vision meetings.
Just because when I see some of these people getting like corporate bonuses while we're also
firing 10,000 people or something like that, I like to imagine them as they are clowns. Yes,
yeah. A lot of them. A lot of them. They might as well go full hog, you know. This dress up
like a clown. Own it. Go all it. Go all it. I definitely got to try these. I think that one of
the things that will be fun to do in the winter months here too is bringing back a morning show
tradition and the taste tests. The taste tests. Yeah, we're going to have to start doing that again.
Well, we'll get on with it. That's fun with it. But that's a while. Yeah, it has been a while.
It has been a while. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back. When we get back,
we're going to talk about the first recorded audio of a meteorite hitting the ground.
Yeah, yeah. We're really that's not been recorded before. That is so cool. That should be
pretty interesting. I decided along with some other fun stuff on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
I got to get right into before the symbol. It doesn't count if you don't. Come on.
Something about soul music in the morning, man. It makes it better. It's everything better,
man. Curtis may feel. Maybe we need that soul music with breakfast. Maybe that'll help.
There we go. Nice home. Thank you. Yeah. You should do it a little dancing in the morning.
That'll bring your appetite up, right? Certainly seems to. A small meteorite hit a walkway
outside someone's home in Canada over the summer and their ring camera got it on video.
It happened in Prince Edward Island in July. The homeowners checked their security footage after
they saw debris on the ground outside and the footage just got released. Experts think it's the
first time the sound of a meteorite hitting the ground has ever been recorded. Wow. Now this
happens really quick in the video. So I'm going to play this for everybody, the audio, of course,
of it. Let's see here. Let's go ahead and play this and see what we hear.
Wow. Whoa. That was cool. Yeah, I'm going to try that again.
Oh, here. There you go.
Oh, wow. Oh, that's a cool sound. Yeah. It sounds like metal glass.
That's a thing, right? It sounded like it because obviously it shatters when it hits the ground,
but that little foosh right before it. Wow. That's really cool.
I encourage you to look up the video because I really, the video along with it really does add
to what you're taking in. Certainly having the context going into it. You just see the video.
I think it's going to catch. I really do think you're even not knowing what the video is about.
I think you would catch your ear. Absolutely. That sounds good. What was that? Yeah, exactly.
But I don't know. You certainly are. Oh, that sounds like a meteorite because we've never heard
them before. Exactly. That is pretty cool. Well, that's because it makes sense, actually,
because you need a stationary camera in one spot constantly in order to catch it, because you
can't catch a meteorite. You don't know where they're going to fall. So I mean, there's no way
you can pre-plan it unless it's just there. That's also kind of freaky. It is. Kind of freaky
when you think about it. That came out of the sky. That lands just a couple of inches here or
there and stuff. It might be a very big cause of issues. Yeah. Yeah. Just, and while this is
really cool story, and I'm going to play it for you again before the end of the segment,
I do think that what the coolest part of this to me is the things we don't even know,
these things are going to pick up yet. For every porch pirate or every person slipping and falling,
and it becomes a viral video or whatever, or a meteorite sound we get for the first time.
Yeah. I can't imagine what we might be able to pick up. Right. You know, even outside of that.
Maybe interesting. You know what? I think this is how we catch Bigfoot. I think this is if
there really are Sasquatches out there, I think this is how it happens. Anything, anything in the
crypto universe, anything like that. I think this might be how we do it. Possibly do it.
Wouldn't that be? Sasquatch pranking everybody now. That's what it's going to be. And if that
does happen, boy, you will never live that down in the Sasquatch community. You will never hear
the end of it. Think of that. Thousands of years possibly. They have been able to stay hidden.
Nobody knows. No one. No, no remains. No, no, no, scat. No nothing. And nothing at all.
And what gets you? What what uncovers your whole species? Just a ring camera.
A ring camera. The fact that everybody's got to have a camera like that. I mean, you would never be
able to live that down as a Sasquatch. Well, there you go. Thank you, surveillance state. I guess.
Yeah. Yeah. You never, never. One more time. I want to play this sound for you. All right.
How is that interesting? That is that interesting. One of our listeners texted in the
shattering meteorite who sound could be your oh, oh, oh, oh, okay. It's that of the show.
Sound. Oh, oh, oh. It's that of the show. Sound effect is a great idea. Oh, that's a good idea.
Oh, we like that. More work for you, Seth. Oh, yeah. Pull that out. I might have to find that audio.
I think that's a good idea. That's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool sound. And again,
I can't imagine what we might find coming up. I also wonder what it must have been like for them
in that watching that video. And they couldn't have known that that was a meteorite.
No. What was that? Yeah. I've never heard something like that before. Well, that's why.
Interesting stuff. Sort of just as interesting is this idea. If you've ever gone into like a
handful of different kind of stores like Walgreens or those kind of places and you see some stuff
locked up for pretty much understandable reasons or at least you know the reason whether it's
understandable or not. But then there's like seeing deodorants and toothpaste locked up and
you're like, what's going on? What is that? And in a lot of inner cities, you'll see this with a
lot of hair care products or locked up behind things. And you know, it may seem like we're headed
towards everything being locked up, but it's actually different. There's hope for a more sensible
future. Okay. The CEO of Walgreens just did an interview on Fortune magazine and he said that
Walgreens had a 52% increase in theft or shrink in 2020 and 2021. So they invested an increased
security off like all those locks and locking everything up. But it backfired because it turned
away actual business. He said it's been largely ineffective. When you lock things up, you don't
sell as many of them. Yep. We've kind of proven that pretty conclusively. That makes sense.
Totally makes sense. First, it's just some pretty blunt honesty from him. Which is interesting. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's nice change of pace. Yeah. Exactly. But also, I think a lot of us could see this and
maybe have even experienced it. Where you are going to grab that product, but you're like, oh,
that there's one person working here. They're working. Yeah. Exactly. I'm not going to go bug them
just for a thing of deodorant. I don't even really need right now. I can get it next week. Whatever
the case, I could see that this happens. I can speak from experience. That has kept me from
buying things. Yeah. If it's behind a lock and key, it's like, no, that's not worth the. I mean,
it's not like the effort's a lot, but it's like, no, no, I don't feel like doing it. And like you
said, I mean, it depends on, you know, if there's enough people there, you know, if there's one
get person, you have to pull away from, you know, the register or something like that. You're going
to have to wait longer. So yeah. Yeah. He stopped short of saying that they take them out. But he
did say that they're working on the other other creative solutions to tackle the shrink problem
while improving the in-store experience for people who are trying to buy things. Shrink problem.
Why can't they just call it stealing? Yeah. I don't know why they had to do that. I don't get that
anyway. And I don't know if this is going to help or not. But I do think that it's good that they're
trying different things, looking at different ways of doing this. Yeah. I don't know. We'll see what
happens with that. But I think it's going to be an interesting story. That is for sure. Some other
interesting things going on in their area, there was one I wanted to make sure to talk about.
And that is, of course, we are the home of the Wisconsin rabbits rafters. We are indeed.
Have been since the very first pitch day through a winter field. That's right. And we love that. We
love being friends with them, partners with them. And we have been for so long that we get so
excited about these things still. I think that's pretty darn cool. And our community is with us
on that. And we are very excited that the rafters are bringing back their hot stove event. Oh man,
nothing like that in January. Yeah. Yeah. This annual event will be this Saturday at the hotel
made from six to nine, a fun night in store. They're going to have members from the front office
there that you may have not met before. Get exclusive sneak peeks at the 25 promotional schedule,
special presentation from field manager Tom Zygolowski. The new field manager. Yeah. Yeah.
Hitting coach from the 2016 championship team and current Mets organization member Devon D. Young.
Oh, cool. And a first look at the 25 rafter and intern staff. They just actually signed a
couple of more players yesterday. A couple of returning players as well. Yes. Yes.
Emission is five bucks. If you RSVP in advance, $10 at the door, season ticket holders, ticket
whole package holders and host families are getting in for free. Yeah. Yeah. Man, they've got some
nice young new talent there in the front office. Oh man. This is going to be a really cool year.
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