Good morning, Wisconsin. Welcome to WFHR's morning show.
Seth and James here with you to kick things off. Little howl players.
Good morning, everybody. Got your host, James here. I am joined by our head of production,
our co-host Seth Habhacker. Good morning, everyone. Hope you're all having a great start to the
morning. Let's kick things off the way we like to a Brittany Merlot. Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning. How are you guys doing? Doing good. Doing well. Doing good. We've got a love on the air,
text-to-win contest that we're going to be talking about here in a little bit. So I had to get some
some love music playing, some some Valentine's music playing. Yeah. And when it comes to that kind
of music for me, it's got to involve some soul, some funk, like it has to. I don't know what it is.
I don't know if it being bored in 77 or something. I don't know. But I think of this song and I think
of songs like that. Yeah. Brittany, I don't know. Are we going to have a warmer kind of tone
going into Valentine's Day, going into the warmer weather? I'm trying to find a segway here.
I'm really trying. We're all, we need to know what? Yeah. We are going to have a little warmth
here today. Gosh, she's a good teammate. We're going to hold on to that studio for a year,
week two. So it'll be lovely. Nice. Nice. There you go. There you go. That's good to hear. That's
really good to hear. Brittany, I did also want to make a take a moment to, you know, send some
appreciation to you in your, your, your, your brethren out there. It is national weather person day
today. Nice. So we really appreciate you guys. Yeah. Send a love. Send a love. There's been plenty of
jokes over the over the centuries or decades or whatever about whether people and stuff. There's
a, there's a lot of great notes about that. But I don't think there is nearly enough. We have
normalized way too much. How much weather has changed our lives? Weather people and being
able to get into the weather. Yeah. I think of so many great people that I've grown up and I've
learned from and watched that are weather people. It's one of the tougher jobs in the industry to
be able, every day is, in every minute is something that you're trying to adjust to and work with.
And being good at improv, being good at creativity is a key part of the job. You haven't seen many
weather people that are not charismatic, that are not creatives, that, you know, it's, it's,
it's a really a cool industry, I think. And we appreciate the work that you and, you know,
so many weather people out there do, Brittany. Thank you so much. That means the world to me and all
of the meteorologists across the area. I mean, we do, we work our butt off Mother Nature changes
her mind every second and she has a pain in the butt to deal with and communicate what is she doing.
But, you know, we're all very, very passionate people who love tracking the weather and keeping
everyone safe. I think that's our main priority. A lot of meteorologists have a weather event that
scarred us, that probably scared us into this to help you guys. So keep that in mind and say thanks
to all of them, even the people like you who take weather observations who communicate that information
to us so that we can get it more widespread. That is so, so important and actually I want to take
them in it. If anybody is interested, there's a thing called CocoaRaz. It's CO, CO, R-A-H-S. It's
volunteer weather observers. You can do it, anyone can do it, and you basically take rain and
temperature, you know, recordings and let us know and it goes into this nationwide, actually world-wide
data. That's where we pull up our stuff. So, huge shout out to everyone who helps and who has
a deal with Mother Nature. So here we go. Here's what she's got in store for us today. All right.
We are warming up compared to yesterday. Highs will reach the upper 20s even though it feels
crisp right now. Our windshields are keeping us at three below. But we will warm up this afternoon.
Clouds will be increasing. Lens will start to get breezy too and the snow pushes in by this afternoon.
We're looking at flurries flowing around first. Then lighter snow picking up, probably after five o'clock.
And then it could flip to some freezing rain through the overnight hours, maybe even after nine o'clock.
So if you commute later in the evening, be careful because we are looking at icy spots definitely
possible through tonight and early tomorrow morning. Although I think the clouds and the
salting, everything will take care of it before we commute tomorrow morning. Just keep an eye out on
those rural roads, those ramps because the weather is definitely all over the place with flurting
with that freezing mark. But tomorrow it will be dry and it will be windy so some blowing and
drifting snow from what did fall. I think accumulations in terms of snow probably around an inch
and nothing major. Right on. We are that much more prepared and feel that much better about
things going on. I really do appreciate you, Brittany. Thanks so much for the time.
And the website, I am going to be all over that. That's awesome. I never heard of this before.
Great. Now he's going to have another thing he wants to do. Yeah, man. And I'm going to be talking to
your ear off about it in the break stuff. So yeah, I appreciate you, Brittany. Have a great day.
Enjoy. Thank you. The best in the business right there for him, Brittany. We're
all out joining us every morning. And again, a big thank you to all of our weather people out there.
We appreciate you. You're the best in the business. We appreciate every one of you out there.
Not all of you can be Brittany though. We got the best. We got the literal best in the business.
You know, we can say that. We got a really good one right? Absolutely. We are going to have some
fun with that and we're having some fun right now with this because while Seth and I are going to
get into the LKFA birthday anniversary club in a little bit and plenty of more. What we're kicking
our show off with now until Valentine's Day is love on the air text to win contest. You got it.
Yeah, we're starting up. Civic media is a famous text to win contest. We're going to make these
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In a quick side note here, usually on Wednesdays, we are joined by Quattit Plus printing,
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So we can promote Quattit Plus printing, so we can do that. We'll just do that. We have that
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the 8 AM hour James, what is this key word? I'm sitting here with the Civic Media app open.
What word do I text? The word to text to us for this hour is heart, heart, H-E-A-R-T.
Text the word heart to us, everybody, and have some fun with this one. Thank you so much to
everybody who has downloaded the Civic Media app, who has played this game with us for many times
before. Again, be listening again at the top of the 10 AM, 12 PM, and two o'clock hours. We will
have that key word for you. We will. You can use any WFHR, W-I-R-I to text that, and either one
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Love on the radio. I'm going to be honest, everybody. I have to help, I keep wanting to say,
love on the rocks. No, no, no, James, it keeps playing in my head. And it's not even like, it's not
even like Neil Diamond in his prime. It's some version of some studio lounge, like the Bill Murray
character for that lounge singer. Love on the rock. Love on the rock. Love on the rocks.
It just won't stop playing in my head. Sorry. I have to keep myself from saying that.
I feel bad for you, James. Text us. It's so bad. Text us that key word, everybody, heart
on the Civic Media app. I see that people are already doing that. Thank you so much,
everybody for playing along. Excellent. We just, real quick, I did want to touch on one other
thing before we go to break and get into some fun, because this is kind of an interesting one set,
I thought. We are 36 days into 2025. And if you're not impressed so far, don't worry. There are
just a couple of more months left to get to ones that you like, because a new poll asked people
what their least favorite month is. And the top two responses were January at 26% and February
at 11%. Right. No love for January. None. And I can't say that I have any love for January.
So I guess I'm in that camp too. Yeah. Gotta put me in the camp. Yeah. So I am not a,
this is probably going to make sense to some and be confusing to others. But I,
I don't, winter me don't get along. I'm not built for it. I'm just not good with the cold.
I can handle just about anything else, but the cold. I'm just not good with it. But then there's
you know January and February both have birthdays that are really important, including one that
just happened last month. That is going to be very important to be going for. I don't know if I
mentioned to everybody. I'm a papa. That's right. He certainly is. Throw that in there.
But February has got a handful of birthdays that are important. We're important to mean still
are and everything with my grandparents and stuff. So I have never really mined a January
of February. Okay. I don't mind the months. And I love, I love the start of things. Most things
I love the beginning of and the beginning of a new year. It's fresh. It's brand new feels good.
Right. Yeah. There's something about it. It's like putting on a new coat or something like that.
I feel like. So I mind the opposite end of this one. It's not my favorite months. My favorite
month's October and by far and away. So probably August. Yeah. I do know that there's one
birthday in February that you, you know, rather kind of just slide past. We're not going to let you.
I have no. Yeah. Oh, just you win. It's coming. It's coming. You know, I don't hear mischievous
Seth very often. But what I do, man. Do you have a favorite month? Do you have a? Yeah. It's
probably. It's probably, I would say summer month. I think, I think June is probably up there.
I mean, my birthday is in August, but that was always bittersweet growing up. Yeah. Because,
you know, it's like you're when you're kid, you're excited for your birthday, of course. You're
ready to go. But then my birthday is towards the end of August. And that means school is just
around the corner and summer was almost over. And yeah. So it was very, very sweet. So no, I think,
I think like May, June, I think are like that crossover is probably my favorite time of year.
Right on. In the week before school started was a waste. Because all you were doing was worry
about school starting out. Yeah. Yeah. A new poll asked about the least favorites. January,
February, top the list August was third probably because that's when summer ends as Seth was saying
there and stuff. 20% of people said that they didn't have at least favorite month. People were
also asked for their favorite month. I do want to take a second, though, that 20% of people that
don't have at least favorite month, that's kind of encouraging a little bit. Like, I am, I
mean, scraping the months. Yeah. I'm scraping the barrel here a little bit, but I think that's kind
of encouraging. Sure. You know, it's so easy to say what you don't like. It's a little harder to say
what you do sometimes in these surveys. It seems people were asked their favorite and the ones with
the most votes were October at 14%, December at 11%, but warmer weather was also popular with
May at 10 and June at 10% in third and fourth place. That makes sense. Yeah. It's kind of an
interesting poll. Got it. Got interesting. I like fall too. I mean, I like September and October,
but it's just because, you know, looming behind them is winter. That's what that's what takes a
little bit away from them. But other than that, I like those two. Feel free to call up and let us
know your favorite month. Everybody and why it is 715 424 2600. And of course, you already have
that civic media app out might as well. We know you do. Yeah. Yeah. And don't forget to text us
that keyword heart. Be sure to do so. I'm curious if people's birthdays have to do with their
favorite month or not. I would say that February may have been in my top three if it wasn't for that
one day that you're referring today. Right. Because again, I'm on the opposite end of this. I
wonder if it's a reason for people to like that month or what have you. There's no wrong answers.
Of course not. I just think it's kind of interesting. And I don't know if I've ever really thought
about that. I know. It's rare to come across something that I have not overthought. This is interesting.
I find it interesting. We will take a quick time out. We're going to come back with the LKFA
birthday anniversary club. And of course, we'll remind you before the end of the hour of that
text to win contest and love on the air. Of course, the word text to us as well. It's all coming
up for you right here at WFHR. It's one above. Welcome back, everybody.
It's time for the LKFA birthday anniversary club. One of our favorite parts of the day we
get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends over at LKFA. Visit them at 221 Market
Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards. They wish a good morning to all their friends and family out
there. They've got a great one lined up for you today. Be sure to head on over there and check
out those amazing specials that they have. Always great. And of course, while you're at it,
maybe make plans for the weekend. They got that famous fish fry going on. Keep that in mind as well.
A bunch of great things going on over at LKFA. Visit them today at 221 Market Avenue and
beautiful Port Edwards by local support local. You know, one of the cool things about them
advertising, you know, sponsoring this segment for so long now. It's actually been a while.
Wow. Yeah. I can't believe it. Is that we get to see, watch them grow, you know, as a business and
change and get more integrated in a community. For me, that's the coolest part of all of this.
As we get to see this example of, you know, of doing stuff the right way, you know, in a community
and really being rewarded because of it. And I think it's great. It's a real, you're well
set and we really do appreciate it. And I'm so with you on this. I love seeing the growth
of a business and let alone getting a chance to be right there next to it. It's awesome.
It's going to happen. It's going to be cool. A big shout out to them and a big thank you to all
of you out there for getting us your birthdays and anniversaries. Keep in coming. We want more info
at wfager.com. You can email us there. You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages
encourage you to do that and call up 715-424-2600. Hey, you know, Wes, since we're talking about text lines as
well, you can always pull up the civic media app and text us birthdays as well. We, you know,
a lots of different ways to get a hold of us for this. Absolutely. And I think that's a really good
idea. Feel free to do that, everybody. Text us real quick. We'd love that. And keep in mind,
we'll take your birthdays the whole hour, you know. Yeah, exactly. Get a hold of us this segment.
That's okay. We're looking forward to hearing from you. We do have two possible qualifiers on our
list. Seth, give me a one or a two. Oh, number one today. Here we go. Get us that qualifier.
First up, wishing a happy birthday to Wayne, Washington. Happy birthday, Wayne. Enjoy your day, Wayne.
Hope it's a good one for you. And we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier, Kimberly Copleen.
Kimberly, congratulations. Happy birthday to you. I wish you a good day, Kimberly. Enjoy the day.
You're our qualifier. We say brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals, everybody that
will, you're right. Go celebrate it. I'll cafe too while you're at. Yes. Yes, keep that.
Get it. Go ahead and go out there. We take a look at our celebrity list. Let's see. Sarah
Evans is 55 country singer, uh, suds in the bucket. That's on many a time. One of the most famous
people in the world, Christian Ronaldo is 40 today. Ranked as the world's highest paid athlete by
Forbes in 2016 and 17 and 2023 and 2024. Wow. Just one of the biggest stars in the world.
I thought he's only 40. Yeah, I thought he was older than that. Wow. Man, he, uh, he has felt it.
You know, I think because he messy looks younger than him.
He's really messed with his legacy, I think, by taking, by going and doing some of the
choices he's made and everything, but he's, he's one of the greatest. You can't be successful.
Absolutely. Yes. He's one of those names that even if you don't follow soccer, you've heard
before. That's how famous he is. Uh, one of the greats, I think, uh, and doesn't work nearly
enough, but I love his work. Michael Sheen is, uh, 56 today. Uh, most recently, you might have
seen him as S.V.O. and, uh, good omens. Uh, he was Dr. William Masters and Masters of Sex,
uh, another popular show right there. I believe he was in, uh, the Twilight movies a little bit to,
um, such a good actor. Oh, uh, I really, really love him in the underworld movies. Like, I,
it might sound silly, but if you've seen him in all these other things I've mentioned,
and he can, oftentimes, like in good omens, play a bit of a lighter character. Yeah. Or,
or, or almost comedic relief. Oh my gosh. He's so good in those. In the underworld movies,
he grows a beard and it becomes an action star. Like he is so transformable. And he would,
he would be even, it would be even more noticeable if casting directors would give him more opportunities.
Yeah. Because he is as versatile as it gets. Yes. Um, you can do it all. He really can. Yeah.
Really talented guy. Um, another, uh, talented and not used enough, uh, individual. And I,
I have this thing with my students at Second City. I've been doing this for a long time. The Dan
Acroid Award. The, the, the, the most talented, but most under, pre, under appreciated, uh,
person on the, on the cast. Oh, see. Okay. I think every cast has this actor, this person that we
don't nearly appreciate nearly enough until years later or something like that. Dan Acroid,
whether it was Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray. Um, there were so many names and so many stars
on that show. I don't think Dan Acroid ever really got the credit he deserved. Right. Um,
and maybe now later in time and everything. Uh, I, I just feel like Dan, like Dan would have been
the star. If you moved any of those other people out, it would have been Dan Acroid. Well, I mean,
his writing talent alone, you're not even talking about his performing talent. I mean, yeah,
absolutely. I think, uh, as far as modern, uh, SNL alums go, Chris Parnell may be that person.
Uh, Chris Parnell is 58 today. Uh, Dr. Leo Spaceman, 30 Rocks, Cyril Figgus in Archer. Um, so many
voices he's done. He's been an anchor man. Of course, he is the, the famous, uh, he delivers the
thing. Why, bro? It's so good. But the thing that stands out to be about Chris Parnell is every,
you need these actors in, in, in the world, you need these guys that are not afraid to not look
cool to be the, but of the joke every single time. Uh, so many of these things in Chris Parnell
does it with a, uh, with his chest out. Doesn't proudly. Um, he, he is that guy that if you need
somebody to look the fool, he'll do it and he'll make it and make everybody laugh and do it with
style. Like do it, do it his way, right? Great voice, great character actor. Um, I, I really do
enjoy his work a lot. I, I think he's underrated. Um, and, and, and it's good to see him continuing
to work and work and work commercials, all these different things. He is, and he's got a great
agent. He has got a great agent has been very smart about his career. Excellent. You leave Saturday
live. Uh, nobody, there's no retirement plan. Nobody knows what's next. Oh, you, I mean, we've
seen how many careers after Saturday live have gone pretty much nowhere. We've seen that happen.
He has found his niches and been able to continue to work and especially in voice acting. That's
really cool. The great Laura Linne is 61 today. Oh, God. I love. Amazing. Great actress. You can count
on me, Mystic River. Love actually. Um, uh, uh, Kinsey, but I would say younger audiences will
probably know her from Ozark. Uh, she, she, uh, was really heard in Jason Bateman. We're really
going on that show. Uh, the great Jennifer Jason Lee is 63. Oh my gosh. Uh, single white female,
fast times the rich man. Hi, uh, the heatful eight. I got to love Jennifer. She's been in so many
movies. Oh my gosh. Can you be a young man born and growing up in the 80s, uh, and not love
Jennifer Jason Lee? I don't know if that's possible. No, I don't, I don't know if it's possible.
Uh, and if I wasn't going to say, uh, for his cast, maybe Chris Parnell was the most underrated,
you could say Tim Meadows was for his, uh, Tim Meadows is 64 today. Wow. Uh, great actor.
Man, and he was, he was one of the stalwarts too. He was on SNL for so long. My goodness.
He, uh, uh, him and Kenan Thompson, I think believe I have the longest stretches on SNL.
Um, there's a great sketch where Tim Meadows sings about why did I sign a 20 year contract?
I love it. Christopher Gas to 77 count Rugen, uh, in the princess bride, uh, uh, uh, Harlan
and best of show, uh, spinal tag, uh, Nigel and spinal tag. Yeah. And he directed several of those
movies. The, uh, best and show, uh, a mighty wind, all those funny ensemble comedy pieces.
Who had, uh, count Rugen being one of the better comedic directors of the 90s and two early
arts and all that? Like, uh, he really is. He's great. Well, I say, did you, uh, uh, uh, waiting for
government? I think waiting for government was also him as well. Yeah. Man, and the talent
he, he assembles for those movies is really good. All of this, uh, and in SNL, um, should mention,
as we've talked about a lot of, uh, SNL people and it should be, uh, as mentioned, he gets to wake up
every morning to Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, it's, he wakes up and they've been married for a very long
time. Very long time. That's got to be one of those ones where I could have, like, you want to have
a cup of coffee with those two. Like, you know, that, that I believe he is also, I don't think I
think they, they perched the roles, but at one point his family was got not royalty,
but like nobility in England. He comes like from noble stock as well. It's hilarious.
Darryl Wall trip is 78 NASCAR legend. Uh, also Darryl Cattrip, uh, and cars in the cars movie.
Uh, he was in the car. Has anyone turned a, a car racing career into a media career like him?
I mean, he's been really good at it. Al Cooper is 81 Blitz, what in tears founder and former
keyboardist wall of the keys on that man. Oh, man. He, uh, makes an appearance in a complete
unknown. Yeah. Cause he famously, of course, played the organ on, uh, like a rolling stone.
That was Al Cooper. Oh, that's cool. That's interesting. Uh, Roger Staubeck is 83 legendary
Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Um, yes, uh, legendary head voice quarterback. Sorry about that.
Some people no longer with us in this one will, uh, make you smile a little bit, um, especially
in this state. It is Hank Aaron's birth. It would have been Hank Aaron's birth. Yes.
Born in 1934, passed away in 2021. The home run king hammer and Hank hammer and Hank.
Uh, one of my favorite stats about Henry Aaron. Take away all of his home runs.
He still has 3,000 hits. So insane. He was, he was one of the best hitters in baseball history.
Period. Don't forget the home runs, man. He was one of the best hitters in baseball history.
I love this about my father. Uh, he loves baseball, love sports, and loves talking about it.
In my whole life, he has talked about how, uh, the best overall, like best field he ever saw
was, uh, Roberto Clemente, you know, uh, best hitter of this and that and stuff.
But the best overall baseball player he ever saw was Willie Mase. And he talked about it like,
adamantly and lovingly and everything. And I would say it was about five, maybe a little bit
longer than that years ago where he's looking at his baseball cards and he's sitting there and he,
and I see him at the table and he's just staring at this card. And I go and I do some things.
I come back and he's still there. And I'm like, Dad, what's going on? And he's like, Jimmy,
did you know? And he tells me the stat that Seth just said. And he starts thinking about,
he looks at me. He's like, I was wrong. Like, what are you talking about? I don't know what he's
referring to. He just says he was wrong. He's like, I think Hank was the best baseball player of all
time. I, you can make it, you can make an argument. And I love that latent life that he could have
that realization that he could admit that he was wrong. If he was wrong, because this is all
arbitrary, it's all, you know, of course it is. Yeah. But just say you could have, you could
have that your whole life, you're thinking this and then late life be like, you know what?
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it was actually Hank Aaron that was the best. Either way, you can't go
wrong. Will he be his Hank Aaron? Not at all. There, there's no wrong answer here. And certainly
what a memorable birthday in this state. I'm telling you, there was, I think he had a lot to do
with establishing baseball in the state of Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah. You can't, you can't deny it.
And red buttons would have been celebrated birthday today. Last century is most famous and
most famous comedian. Yeah, red buttons right far and away, but far and away. One of the most
famous comedians of all time. It's to this point in Europe, still big in Europe. Really? Yeah.
I didn't know that. Red skeleton red buttons. So many of these old school guys still are big
over there. I will only know that from having students that they all that come over there. They know
who red buttons. That's amazing. Yeah. Like crazy. I don't have American students that know who
this is. They wouldn't know who red buttons is. Yeah. Europe, they know who he is. And that's
going to do it for our list. But we appreciate everybody getting us these birthdays and
anniversaries. Keep coming everybody. We love hearing from you. And we encourage you to
celebrate with our great friends over at L Cafe. They're open for you right now. Go visit them
today. Two to an one market avenue and beautiful port Edwards by local support local. Be back
after a sports. Did you have some? No, all right. Let's go. Let's go. We'll be back in more show.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at W F H. R. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James here with you. Little bit of the fifth beat of the play I said. Mr. Preston.
Hope y'all are having a great one out there. We are joined usually in this time slot by our great
friends over a quality post printing. Phil Hartley usually joins us with our wicked awesome
word of Wednesday. We could awesome. Phil not able to join us today. That's cool. We're all
right with that because I do have a word for us and we're looking forward to Phil joining us next
Wednesday. All right. Maybe even in studio. Oh, no, we'll find out. We'll find out. I'm waiting
to wear the shirt he gave me until he's in studio. Yeah, get ready for that. But we don't want to
leave our audience hanging here or anything like that. You guys deserve a word of the day. We could
awesome word. I believe that is correct. So I searched through my Lexicon to think of one and I
did not choose Shaboygan like I could have. I could have easily said Shaboygan. That's true.
That's true. A shout out to him. Good morning to our friends and Shaboygan. Yes.
But we do want to use the word for our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. Bum fuzzle. Bum fuzzle.
It's fun. It's a fun word to say. It is fun to say. It's a simple term that refers to being
confused, perplexed or flustered or to cause confusion or a lot of my life. Bum fuzzle life.
I mean, I want people to start using these words. Like I don't know. In everyday conversation.
Even if it's just for the day, it's fun with it. We give you a word when Phil gives you a word
or something like that. We encourage you to use it in your Lexicon. A little note in the back
of the brain. Yeah. Just throw it at me. Hey, can you help me with this? This has got me all
bum fuzzle. This has got me all bum fuzzle, man. I guarantee if you use that and people will take
notice and say, oh, wait, that's not a word, is it? As a matter of fact, it is a word.
Well, let me actually. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. And you can promote quality
prosperity while you're at it. Exactly. Support the local business. I heard it on the radio.
I encourage you to incorporate the word bum fuzzle into your life more, everybody.
It's fun. It's fun to say. Not only do we need words to mean what they've always meant.
You know, maybe get back to that a little bit, but we also could use a little more fun with our
eye. Absolutely. Language is so much fun or can be fun. There is, I genuinely think that every
language under the sun is beautiful and every dialect and everything. I really generally mean that.
I will say nobody has more fun with language than America. This is the joy of being one of
the late ones to the game here and everything is we're a young country, which, again,
I think is important to note to people that we forget that sometimes, but we are a very young
country. And so we got to be late in the game to this. So we're going to, we're incorporating
all the words language. We get to invent things, man. We get to take words. Like you said,
from other languages, we get to invent words because English is in a live language. You can do
that. There's other languages that are very, you know, you really can't change anything. They're
just kind of there, but English is one of those languages. It's as difficult as it can be to learn.
It's also a lot of fun because of the way you can play around with it. Whether you're talking
about economy or tourism or anything, every country leans into what they do, what they do that nobody
else does or does better. The thing that we have in this country that makes us, one of the things that
makes us so powerful, so amazing is we are everybody. We are everyone. That's right. We have people from
all around the world in this country. We do. And every one of those types of people from their
different creeds and races and religions and all these things make up America. And they make
this country as great as it is. I generally believe that we are the greatest country in the nation
in the world. And we are that because of that. We are that because we are in corporation of
everything. Everything. There is no one thing that makes you an American. There is no one thing
that makes you this or that or whatever. Every one of us are immigrants. Every one of us came to
this country and made it what it is. We all can take a little pride in that. We can all take a
little love in that. And realize that we are have more in common than not. And it takes all of us
to make this what it is. You are correct. And as a side note, it all falls apart if we don't work
together. That's right. None of this works if we don't work together. That is it a key, right?
I think whether we're talking language or whatever we're talking about, these things bring us
closer together, hopefully show us that we have more in common than not. And we get to have fun
fuzzle. The other thing too that I want to bring up and you're so right about that we have more
in common. But even when we don't, let's celebrate those differences. Yes. Instead of saying,
oh, you're different than me. That makes me upset or angry. I'm like, wow, you do that differently.
That's kind of cool. I do it this way. You do it that way. Hey, that's fine. Nothing wrong with
that. You don't have to answer this. You don't have to ask this out loud. But definitely in your own
head, I want you to look in the mirror and I want you to think, do you want everybody to look
like this? Oh, God, no. I don't know. I definitely don't. I definitely find it so much better. It's
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And of course, our text to win word and everything. Yeah. Well, on average, people are saying
fewer words than they used to. Really? According to a new study, people are speaking about
3,000 fewer words each day compared to 20 years ago. Really? The current average is about 13,000
words per day. That is down from 16,000 per day in 2005. Wow. And the reason more real reliance
on digital communications like texting and social media. So instead of calling your mother-in-law
back, you're getting your texting or emailing or something like that. And there's a stereotype
that women speak more than men. And this is not true by that much. At least the study found that
women speak about 13,350 words per day that is compared to about 12,000 for men. Yeah.
So a lot closer than you might think. Yeah, that's, that's, yeah. I don't, honestly, I'm,
I'm Ron Burgarding that. I read what it was in front of me because I don't know if I've ever heard
that women talk more than men. But it was a joke back in the day. It was a lazy joke. You know,
like, ah, you know, it's the old sinbed women be different from it, you know, something like that.
Yeah. Yeah. I've heard a lot of those. I'd never heard that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, those hands together, you know, some really bad jokes. Yeah.
Shocking, not only not funny, but not true. Yeah. Exactly. Um, so all that man's planing going on.
Right. I mean, constant. So, you know, ah, as a side note, has anybody ever seen man's
planing happening to another man? That is one of the funniest things you will ever see in your life.
You just sit back and watch that happen as two guys, especially if they're want to be alpha male
guys and stuff like the way going back and forth. That's leading to each other. It's hilarious.
It is awesome. It's all about like one upmanship and stupid. Yeah. It's, it's ridiculous.
But it's funny. It is, it is comedy goal. Yeah. Um, so a researcher say that, is this a bad thing?
Or that we're talking less or not? Uh, that's the topic. I think most people immediately have a,
a, a, a, a, oh, this is negative. This is bad or whatever. Well, researchers say that the
declining trend has, uh, broader implications for human health and well-being. Quote, social
interaction through conversation plays a crucial role in mental and physical health,
similar to exercise or sleep. Hmm. And so the next trend could be goals of speaking more than
10,000 words, similar to stepping to getting 10,000 steps in. Oh, wow. How interesting is that?
In fact, there are new tools being developed like a Fitbit that would measure daily conversation
time without recording content, without recording content. Thank you. That is a key part of it.
I think we're being surveilled for everything else. Can you not do that? That'd be nice. Yeah.
Um, I don't know why anybody does anything wrong anymore. Like, uh, I mean, you just constantly,
like, you can't get away with it. Your phone or, yeah, yeah, you're watch now. Yeah.
Taking out the idea of this being recorded content. That's, that's put that aside. That is not
going to happen. And that, that, well, wouldn't, shouldn't let that happen or anything like that.
And I can't imagine people using a device that's going to record them. Uh, you know, at will
and all that. Um, but the idea of counting our words, uh, isn't a horrible idea, I don't think.
No. Um, unless you work in radio, I was going to say, we blow past that every day. Every day,
we blow right. We would have no problem with that one. Um, what I think is, is good about this.
Uh, and I, I think almost undeniably good about this is that we're having the conversation and
that we're aware of these things. This isn't the first time we've talked about or, uh,
heard a conversation or read an article about the concerns we have, not just, uh, for younger
people, for people in general and interacting with each other. Right. We're very on top of this
topic. It doesn't mean that it's no problem. It doesn't mean that we, we've got it fixed or
we got this on the butt or we know how we're going to fix it. But I, I think so often in life,
if you look at the, the history of issues, the histories of problems, so often we're getting
late to the game where, whether it is PFAS or it is the environment or, or, or, I could mention
20 other things. It's like we're getting into this late. Yes. You know, it, we're arriving to the
movie where we, we don't even know the character's names. Uh, we're just jumping in late to it.
This one, we're a little ahead on. We're a little, not ahead on, but we're a little bit neck and
neck with at least. We're a little bit closer with which I think is a good thing. And I, I really
think we need to take the wins in certain, certain things in life. Yeah. And, and okay, hey,
that's great. We're, we're talking about this. We're thinking about it. Right. How do we solve it now?
Yeah. Um, mental health comes to mind when it wins this. Yeah. Comes to mind. You don't say,
I, I should not be allowed on. No, that's gold, man. That's comedy. I, I, I should be saying
some less words. Maybe less of your words. Maybe, um, God, that was bad. I, I, what I, what I,
what I think is, is key to this is that we are talking about it. We're aware of it. And
we're all trying to do something about it. It's so easy nowadays. And as I said nowadays, uh,
to get overwhelmed, society is very complicated. Our lives can be very complicated. I mean, we're
seeing it right now in real time, you know, like what's going on with things and then what, what
effect, you know, that you might not think would have, but they, they are going to have an effect
in the future. And we're seeing that. So sometimes it's easy just to grab onto something like this,
you know, maybe it's nice. They just think about, you know, something simple like that. And it's,
you know, just ruminate on that a little bit for a little while. Take a break, everybody.
And I think the more aware we're of these things, better we can attack them and, and, and solve
them, make them better. I agree. I, I, and I gotta say too, uh, the, I would be just as concerned
about other generations than the youngest generation. Um, the younger generations are certainly,
certainly something to be aware of. Right. But like most things, they seem to be able to roll
with most stuff. Yeah. Uh, and, and adapt because this is what they know. They were raised with it.
They, this is all they know. I got to, I, I think that a lot of them are, are doing a lot better
with this than people in our generation, for example. Well, and, you know, in, in the focus so
much on the younger generation, can we focus on everybody? Yeah. I mean, we're all important,
you know, we're, we're all in this together. Let's, let's, let's, let's, well, let's focus on
everybody. You know, young people are going to talk to people that are older than them, younger than
them. Exactly. And we're going to talk to people that are older than us and younger than us and
all that. I mean, it's not as if we just talk to our own generation. No. So if we're worrying about
words and talking more, I, I agree. I don't think that it really helps us. I think we're okay. Yeah.
And no more than separating the how many words a man says and how many words a woman says,
right? That doesn't really help us either. And besides, I mean, the, the cool thing about
younger generations, they come up with neat new ways of using words. Yes. You know,
Skibbidi sigma. Well, I agree, but I will say, I, and I've done this in two their faces and I've
done this with my students. I am a, a, a little bit disappointed in the youngest generation.
Why? With some of the, I feel like a lot of the words, like we came up with radical and
bodacious and, and gnarly. Yeah. And things like that. And they're just reusing words. They're
just like, you know, they're just reusing like actual words that mean something. It just like,
well, now it means cool. So now, then, then now they need to, they need to be a little more creative
in other words, a little more creative, a little more, just a little bit more. I want you guys to
invent some words like we did radical. It's radical, man. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. I don't know if you
should do that. Actually, he's probably just fine. There's more important things to worry about.
No, no, there's not James. This is the most important thing. This is a board.
Um, I, well, there's that. And then there's this, Seth. Some parents think that we
cuddle kids too much. And they're coming too soft. Oh, jeez. And in the Netherlands,
they're trying to correct this by making playgrounds less safe. Oh, God. I don't know. We'll figure
out this. Is that a right story? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing? Netherlands? Come on.
That's this. They're not talking about leaving rusted out slides already.
We'll leave these rusty nails here. Let's, yeah, a new policy proposal in the Netherlands would
increase kids access to open outdoor play areas to climb, play the with water and fire and sword fight
the sticks and all these kind of things. It's not just about making spaces riskier. It's making
them less boring, they say. Okay. More kids are sitting inside being less active and they're trying
to find things that will pull them outside and bring them to play more. My goodness.
One mother says, quote, risk taking play can be a good thing because it's learning about boundaries.
Okay. Someone else says rough playing might lead to bumps or cuts, but it helps kids make
social contact and to learn to deal with risks. And it's a, it's a, it's a kid who actually,
you have kids who are actually playing in playgrounds. Yeah. Mine are not necessarily doing that
anymore. Well, maybe when you're not looking. Yeah. Well, you know, I, I don't think it's as bad
as people make it out to be. I think kids still play, you know, they still use their
imaginations. They still play in ways that, you know, like, you know, you know, maybe it's space,
you know, maybe when we were kids, it's like cub wasn't anything. Whatever. But now it's,
it's like space man or superheroes or whatever it is. There's always going to be some risk
involved in that that, you know, any kind of active play is going to do that. I, I think it's a
little overblown to the whole over making things too safe for people. I don't know. Kids could still
fall off the monkey bars. Like they always have, they could still break their arms. So I, I don't know
where I grew up where I lived for a while before moving here. There was no playground. We played,
we literally played in dumpsters. We played King of the Hill and dumpsters. We, uh, we, we found
things that were the rats. You know, uh, I had, I can't help my body has been stung by bees so many
times and it's from that basically. Yeah. Like that was pretty dangerous. Is that what you want?
Like every generation does this where we look at the younger generation and point at them and
tell them what they're doing wrong and how they're soft and all this. And I was up. Yeah.
And this thing keeps moving and we keep kicking out quote unquote tough people, quote unquote,
you know, strong people and everything. Um, I, I, I think that you can do both things here.
You can let kids play in the mud while also, you know, getting them their shots and making sure
that they're not going to get sick from the mud. Exactly. You can do both. That's just a smart
society. That's evolution. That's being smarter and using what we have around us and everything.
By the way, wasn't that the whole plan all along was to make life safer for kids? And now we're
upset that we may leave safer for kids. Ain't nobody going to give me a greatest dad mug or
anything like that. But even I think that one of the things that the jobs of parenting is to have
your kids have a better, easier life than you did. Yeah. That's part of the goal of being a parent
is having your kid have a better life than you did. That your kid having a stronger, better life
and all these things. Otherwise, what's the point? What are you doing? What's the point? Yeah.
You want them to have a worse life than you? What do you tell you? What's your definition of tougher?
Because that's a great point. Excellent point. That's all over the ballpark. Everybody's got
a different definition of that. What does that mean? Exactly. Yeah. Talking about words and
meanings. How many stories have we heard about a kid being trying to be made tougher and it didn't
work out that way for that kid? Yeah. I think strength is something that is developed not just
through adversity, but through not seeing what your parents and your friends and your family
go through it. Right. Learning through it, right? Yeah. Learning through other people's experience.
You could do that too. I think if you're worried about this, I would focus more on yourself
and how you are coming across. Good idea. Good idea. How you are. Because that is your kid.
You can control that. Yeah. Exactly. That is where your kid's focus is. Yeah. That is where it is
going. Yeah. You know, they may see other things in society. Of course, nothing is going to
impact them how you are. Yeah. So I would take a look in the mirror before you're worrying about
other things. Yes. And I think that's never a bad thing either. Like I'm not saying this is
a negative. I think that's bad. Good thing. Yeah. And especially that we're talking about
them. We're Dutch people. Yeah. Yeah. Telling them that. We are going to be talking about more
entertainment when we come back and play more here right here in the morning show.
