Melissa’s Color Commentary (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James here.

I am joined by Melissa, Seth, good morning, and the best listeners and radios.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're going to have some fun in this hour.

We've got good things coming up for you in a little bit.

We're going to get into the top things we Google about the oldest, youngest, and middle

child.

That's cool.

Interesting.

We've also got what's the best.

When is the perfect time to take that bathroom break?

That one coming up for you as well, during the Super Bowl, that is right, right.

Okay, I was going to say, when you have to, I could not have done that worse.

I could not have done that worse.

Well, I guess, you know, I guess we're covering a very, well, that's weird topic, James.

Somebody needs to tell you when we got a talk.

It seems like a tough one, but we kick off, of course, the 9 o'clock with some entertainment

news for you.

And I had to start right here, you guys.

I came across this one from musicreader.com.

And researchers at Spenzense University in Rome took thousands of songs from six genres,

classic jazz, rock, pop, hip-hop, and electronic, and examined them from beginning until present

day.

I wanted this to find out, hey, is music getting better or worse?

Are we just old?

You know, what a science say, what a science say to this.

And what they found is that the music in all six genres has become significantly simpler

over the years, even classical and jazz music.

Oh, interesting.

And it probably has a lot to do with the fact that technology has made it so much that

anybody can make music.

It's interesting.

You know, if you don't know how to play piano, but you have a synthesizer that can mimic

the piano, or you have a sound machine that can...

Very simple.

I mean, there's apps out there that you can create your own electronic, whatever, pretty

easily.

Yeah.

If you can't sing, there are...

I don't do.

Yes, and all that.

I just said that to get about a reaction from a listener, I just wanted to hear that.

The study says, quote...

You're welcome.

The democurization of the composition process and the advent of new technologies and platforms

have fostered the development of genres characterized by reducing complexity relative to earlier

ear.

Errors.

Earlier eras.

Yeah, in other words, they've simplified it.

They've simplified it.

It makes sense.

The process has gotten simpler.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And while the actions have gotten simpler, the options have gotten more.

Right.

Very much expand.

Well, if you think about it too, take a piece by a symphony by Mozart, and how long a

piece of music that is, and you juxtapose it with a three-minute pop song.

Right?

Yeah, just by the sheer length, it's going to be a lot more complex than just a regular

old song that you sing on the radio.

And you never know when it's ending.

It sounds like it was great, and you're ready to get up and take a bathroom break, and

then it starts back up again with a second ending, and then a third.

Well, then.

A fourth.

So, you exaggerate.

I think that there's one thing about this that, and I think about this too when it comes

to modern day workers, blue collar, white collar, whatever you want to say, no matter what

job they're doing.

There's always this said from the older generations that people don't work as hard nowadays, and

they don't have to work as hard.

And I think that is a little bit difficult to prove or to see one way or the other by

numbers or not.

But I do think that it needs to be, it is noteworthy, that I don't know that people aren't working

as hard.

Maybe they're able to, maybe there are some things that have been simplified, but our

fight or flight and our work ethic hasn't changed that much.

I think people are working just as hard, just differently.

The way they're putting that effort.

Well, the technology is so different.

How could it not have changed?

Exactly.

Exactly.

If you've ever seen somebody try to put together anything for computers, programming

wise, coders, some of those things, that's insanity.

That's insane work.

Yeah.

So detail oriented.

Yeah.

They may not be doing a blue collar job, but their brains are working just as hard as a factory

worker.

Right.

I'm not saying that they don't make them like they used to or something like that.

Right.

I don't know about that.

There are certain things.

Sure, I'm not going to fight with you on that one, but I do.

I have a hard time believing that we aren't where we are economically without still having

hard workers.

Oh, 100%.

And it's in some of that isn't even necessarily because of our work ethic, but because we

have to.

Yes.

No.

Back in the 50s and 40s, you had the white pick offense and the 2.5 kids and all these things

that were said.

And you had less.

If you survive on one income.

Right.

Yeah.

You can't do that anymore.

You can have two people working full-time jobs and you're still struggling to make ends

meet.

You're living in the poverty bubble.

Yep.

You don't believe me.

Look at the house report.

Look at your neighbors.

Look to your left and then look to your right.

And you're going to see somebody in that situation.

And that's like hyper-local.

The house report is just here.

Let's think about the whole country, the world.

I mean, yikes.

We had our aga agent Matt Lippard in yesterday and we were talking about this when we're

talking about illegal immigrants.

And okay, you want to do that.

You want to get rid of them.

Who's going to take over that workforce?

Yeah.

Great question.

I know as much as you're focused on getting rid of illegal immigrants, okay, you're going

to do that.

And you're expecting Americans to take those jobs.

So I imagine that you're also looking at minimum wage, right?

Look, you're going to pay people more, right?

Because you want people to do those jobs, don't you?

Right.

You don't want anybody taking American jobs.

Okay.

Well, then you're going to have to pay Americans more.

Otherwise, Americans have proven they ain't doing that job.

Right.

That's how we got here.

Exactly.

This isn't rocket science.

No.

And I would think, you know, a lot of these people making these decisions are, quote,

business people.

Well, how do they know this and how do they not know this?

How are they not good at this?

It doesn't make any sense to me.

So when it comes to music or work or any of these things, the energy putting into it or

hard work putting into it or the simplification of it, I think that's pretty darn easy to

say.

It's a lot harder to prove.

Right.

I don't know about that.

I don't know if music's gotten simpler or anything like that.

I can listen to a song from Mozart and be blown away by the layers of it, just like pulling

up a radio head song and hearing the amount of layers in that song or even pink Floyd

or something like that, the technology hasn't made it, it has made it maybe simpler, but

that's only pushed the creative process.

Right.

And I think we don't necessarily have to say simpler means worse.

I mean, that's the other thing too.

It could be just as good in a simpler way.

And in some ways, maybe it's more accessible to more people if it's simpler.

There's a reason why rock and roll became popular.

It had a simple beat that people could dance to and a couple of chords and it was fun.

That's why people enjoyed it.

That's why people wanted to do it.

And I would also say that the creative part of music, we have kind of eras that we go

through with different things and all of the different genres too.

They all have certain things that they try out within that genre and it's that way

for a while and then it changes.

We may be in the midst of that as well, where we're going to embrace all these different

technologies, auto tuning, AI being able to generate a melody for us.

We may do that for a little while, but then we're going to move on to the next thing.

Our music is ever evolving, ever changing, and that's the beauty of it.

That's very well said, very well said.

Looking at what's new on your small screen this weekend, you've got the 2025 Critics

Choice Awards hosted by Chelsea Handler that is streaming on peacock tonight at 7.

Real time of Bill Mar is back.

You've also got We Live in Time, a movie on Friday on Max, Andrew Garfield, Florence Poo.

Both really strong performances in that one.

Both really good actors, get a chance in that movie to really show you what they can

do as actors.

I was going to say young actors, but actually I don't know.

Yeah.

But be a little older.

Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl is the 30th anniversary celebration of the Lion King

that is streaming on Disney Plus tonight.

Oh wow.

You've got some big names, a part of that one too.

What performance is from some of the voice cast and Broadway cast?

Oh, cool.

Oh, cool.

Robin Roberts presents I Will Survive, the Gloria Gainer story that is going to be on Saturday

night at 7 on Lifetime.

That could be really good.

That could be interesting.

Yeah.

Also on Saturday on Foxy, 26th annual Super Bowl Soulful Celebration, I have no idea what

that is, but it is hosted as Master P in the Islay Brothers.

Wow.

There's still some Islay Brothers left.

I get.

Wow.

That we go strong for a lifetime.

And let's see here.

You've also on Sunday got the puppy bowl going on, puppy bowl, 21.

The three hour special stars, 142 rescue pups.

And hopefully every one of them get adopted.

There you go, Melissa.

There's your counter.

There you go.

I love the puppy bowl.

I love it.

I don't have cable anymore, though, so I can't want to give it up.

And Fox will have the Super Bowl 59 Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City.

Licks.

Super Bowl Licks.

John.

Come on.

That's the only thing that's helping keep Roman numerals around, Seth.

Nope.

Licks.

It is taking place in Nola.

John Batiste will be singing the National Anthem and the great Kendrick Lamar will

have the halftime show.

There you go.

And after that, you've got the Rob Lowe's The Floor.

It's a game show, I guess.

Wow.

You know, that is one of the more coveted spots in all of TV right after the Super Bowl,

right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's what they're going to do.

Oh, wow.

That's a thing to me.

Okay, Fox.

All right.

Yeah.

Yep.

It's Fox programming.

What are you going to do?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And not a lot new being released in the movie theaters this weekend.

About the band, it's in limited release.

But it is being played in IMAXs.

That would be interesting.

Oh, I got to see that.

That one sounds like a good one.

Hard eyes.

It's a horror movie about a horror character with hard eyes.

I don't know.

Boy.

It's crazy.

I mean, they got nothing.

The horror genre, like to everybody working in the horror industry, try harder.

Like just, just try harder.

What happened to actually having plots and concepts and actually like built out characters?

It's all gimmicks now.

It's all gimmicks.

Yeah.

And if it isn't that, it's taking like a beloved character and making them dark.

Ooh.

Or Arbor Day and making it like a horror movie.

Come on.

I'm sorry.

My hard eyes are all cartoon characters.

Yes.

Yes.

The old Chuck Jones.

Oh god.

Nice.

I know the eyes popping out.

And I will admit.

Five nights at Freddy's.

I will admit.

I kind of want to see this one.

Love Hurts.

It's an action movie.

Romantic action movie.

He's starring Ki-Hu Kwan, who has come back into the kind of public known and everything.

From his days back, from Goonies and all the lives in the Jones.

Had one heck of a renaissance and he is so much fun.

He's so much fun.

One in Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere all at once, last couple

of years.

And now he is back.

And he's got, he's a former hitman who is trying to, you know, come out of, be a good

guy now and everything.

He does all of his, these action moves and like right afterwards is apologizing afterwards.

It's, Martian Lynch is in this and he does a really good job.

Really?

Yeah.

Martian Lynch is actually a really, he's a solid actor.

He's solid.

I love it.

Oh, Martian Lynch.

I'm not saying he's going to win an Academy Award.

But he does a great job.

He's good.

And Sean Aston is in it as well, which is really cool because you get kind of a Goonies reunion

in it.

I, you know what?

Now that I've heard all this, I do want to see this movie now.

It sounds like fun.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

Yeah, it's just a nice fun movie.

Nice fun movie.

I'm a sucker for that stuff and I just tune out.

But you could tune in to Clue.

They are back and they've only got two more performances.

Our great friends at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theatre see Weck have Clue, two

more shows tonight and tomorrow night at seven o'clock at the Century Theatre, 1800 North

Point Drive and beautiful Stevens Point.

Go ahead and check that out by local support local.

That includes the arts, everybody.

Yes.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

I got to see it last weekend.

It was fantastic.

You really love it.

The stage itself is just, it'll blow you away.

Cool.

And then there's the whole acting part, you know, like, yeah, that's it.

That's why it's fun.

I think some of the acting, you know, the show is so much fun.

Some of Central Wisconsin's best actors are on that stage.

Go ahead and check it out.

Everybody shout out to everybody a part of that one.

It's one of my favorite plays.

Go check that out.

Clue tonight, tomorrow night at seven o'clock at the Century Theatre at 1800 North

Point Drive and beautiful Stevens Point.

Get your tickets at cwack.org.

While you're at it and supporting local theater, we've got some other great local theater coming

up for you, everybody.

Arsenic and Old Lace is going to be right around the corner of February 27th.

Encouraging to get your tickets for that because all the other best actors in Central Wisconsin

that aren't on the stage for cwack, most of them are going to be on the stage for Arsenic

and Old Lace.

A perfect cast.

Wonderful work.

Good stuff.

I got great.

Everybody involved in this one.

You want to check that one out, get your tickets for that at wrc theater.org and be

on the lookout for a silver foxes situation comedy or radio show.

That one's coming up.

As long as you're at wrc theater.org, go ahead and fill out your audition form for noises

off.

Yes.

Melissa, do you know anything about the show?

Anything at all?

A little bit.

Okay.

I just got some of the stage drawings for the set from my set designer and builder, so

I'm really excited about this.

For those of you who don't know, I'm directing noises off.

You should go and fill out an audition form.

Yeah.

That's right.

Now there are a lot of great roles in this one, both big and small.

There are plenty of work behind the scenes.

If you'd rather be doing that, oh my god, there's going to be so much work behind the scenes

in this one.

Yeah.

We're going to need it.

We're going to need to think through.

Yes.

And maybe it hasn't been on stage, but Melissa has directed both Seth and I in our radio

programs and some of those things.

And she is one of the most fun of people to work with.

You're going to have a good time.

You're going to enjoy yourself.

You're going to grow and have a good time and have fun and everything.

Yeah.

But I'm a task master.

I'm going to like put people to work really hard.

Actually, you're going to have to for the show.

Just fair warning.

Fair warning, everybody.

I'm just reading the script.

You wrote the list.

Did I do it wrong?

Sometimes you do that, James.

And other times you choose not to.

Did I do it wrong?

I did it wrong.

I'm so sorry.

No, please do come audition or volunteer to help backstage.

We are going to have so much fun.

Yeah.

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Yes.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and we're going to talk about the best time to go to the bathroom.

I turned it super, super simple.

Sorry, I forgot the last part.

Gotta get that in there.

Dang it.

We'll be back more.

Shall I get to work on this, man?

Best time during this.

Okay.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Hope y'all are having a great start to your Friday out there.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Seth Melissa, James here with you.

And we're talking bathroom breaks.

We're talking bathroom, but this will keep this one.

So we're not supposed to talk about that, James.

Right.

Right.

You're toilet humor.

Boy, I almost kind of miss the days when there were topics we didn't talk about.

We didn't talk about it.

Exactly.

Yes.

You don't talk about that on the air.

Yeah, I agree.

Boy, I didn't think that would happen.

So of course, the Super Bowl right around the corner.

And whether it's the Super Bowl or a TV show you like or a movie,

made for TV movie or watching, it does still exist.

The idea of how do I time out my bathroom break?

I don't know how long this is still going to be a thing, but it's still a thing for now.

Okay.

And if you're trying to figure out when the best time to do that is, we got you covered.

All right.

Help you out.

Nice.

A new survey asked people for the best and worst times to leave the room.

And the top I answer was right before halftime, 27% said that that's the best time to go to

the bathroom.

Another 27 said that you should go during halftime show.

And 25% said that that's one of the worst times to go.

Oh, wow.

That's kind of funny.

Now, that's interesting.

There's a lot of conversation that this happens every once in a while.

It seems like every other year that we remind people that for decades, the Super Bowl

halftime show was the perfect time to take the bathroom break because the NFL just

phoned it in.

One of the funniest things to do is to go back and look at the Super Bowl halftime shows

right up to Michael, like right up until then.

Because as we've talked about and many of you've heard out there for years, they didn't

do anything.

And then MTV had the idea or in living color and Damon Wains and Ken and Iver Wains and

all that had the idea, let's go ahead and have something counter programming.

Yeah.

Hey, during the halftime, you know, we know you're not going to watch it because this

Fox couldn't get the Super Bowl rights.

So they smartly figured out a way around this and like, hey, during the halftime show,

we know you're going to go to the bathroom.

Why not come over to Fox and watch an in living color special?

And then makes sense.

MTV had the idea.

Well, hey, come over here and watch celebrity deathmatch, you know, and that kind of thing.

And the NFL saw this is like, oh, no, we're not losing one viewer.

We're going to go ahead and valuable commercial time and to their credit, they didn't just

come back with music.

They came back with the king of pop, like they mean, just to show you how seriously they

took this and everything and then going and since going forward, it's been nothing but

big musical acts and whether you like them or not, they put a lot of money in time.

They do really a lot.

Yeah.

And where they hire Jay Z to run that Super Bowl halftime, that's been Jay Z's job

the last like 10 years.

It's only done that Super Bowl halftime show.

It's all he does.

He's got a plan.

I mean, it's huge.

Yeah.

It's that and have, have coffee with Beyonce.

Like that's Jay Z's life right now.

And into another point, this is his last year doing it, by the way.

This is, I believe that they're, I don't know who they're going to have next, but they

are looking, they are taking interviews right now for somebody to take over that job

next year.

So I think that that's interesting for one.

I think why most people used to think that, but now, like this particular year, I'm

going right before.

I need to catch this halftime show.

I don't know since Prince, I've been more excited about a halftime show.

This is interesting.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or not that they decided to have Kendrick Lamar

on here.

Maybe, I don't know before the whole thing.

I don't remember if he'd already been announced before the whole thing happened with

Drake.

Yeah.

You do that.

It was.

No, it was announced beforehand.

And then he dropped.

I think we're going to be, I think more people will be paying attention to this one then

in a long time.

So here is the rest of the rankings of the perfect time to take that bathroom break.

Why don't we call it a timeout?

Why don't we call it, I got to take a timeout.

Why don't we just call it that during kickoff?

How do my nose?

There you go.

Yeah.

During kickoff, 19% say it's a good time to do it then, 25% say it's a bad time.

During the first quarter commercial break, 19% think that's a good time, 6% say it's

a bad.

During the second quarter commercial break, 15% think that's a good time, 5% think it's

bad.

Oh my gosh.

After the broadcast has ended, 13% think it's a good time, 3% say it's a bad time.

Oh, that you got to want it.

You got to want it.

Who wants to think of during the entire game?

Right after the halftime show, 12% think that's the right time, 4% say that's the bad

time.

To me, I think if I can last that log, that's what I'm doing.

I'm just being honest, I'm 47.

During the third quarter commercial breaks, 9% think that's a good time, 3% say that's

a bad time.

Then 4% to 7% of people think it's okay to miss a few plays in the first and second

quarters, if needed, or coming out of the halftime into the third quarter, and about

the same percentage of people think it's cool to skip one, skip out on the post game

celebrations and interviews.

And the game's over then.

Yeah, right, right.

And the tough, the boringest part, man.

The times when very few people are willing to step away are during the third and fourth

quarters, especially in the final two minutes of the game, as well as over time if there

is one.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

Even for a non sports person.

Right.

Right.

Yeah, right on Melissa.

Yeah.

Another question, though, is how long does it take you to go to the bathroom?

That's a good question.

Yeah.

But seriously, people eat more fiber.

Has this conversation completely derailed?

Yes, yes.

You're welcome.

I did have one other thing over the break up with the Super Bowl, unless you guys got

anything else on that side.

Oh, the only thing is the only reason that I would watch the post game interviews is

if the chiefs win, and they probably are win-win Patrick Mahomes gets his moment.

Well, you know, no one believed us through the season, and we showed him, we showed him

we could do this.

And you know, it's history is all great and good and all that stuff.

But I mean, even if he went three to row, it's going to be like, yeah, it's really cool

that we're one three.

Yeah.

Very standard.

Yes.

Very prescriptive.

No excitement or anything.

He's just going to, yeah.

I am all here for your limited Patrick Mahomes impression.

I love more and more of it.

I want to write sketches just for you to do this.

I love it.

I love it.

In a new poll, 30% of people said that they're favorite part.

What are they, they are listening for during the game.

So I think this is another interesting part of this.

Why do you watch the Super Bowl?

There are so many percentages and different factors here for people that are watching the

game for anything but the game, anything but the score of the game.

The Super Bowl is always the most watched telecast of the year by far.

If you don't believe me, go back and not just this year, but go back every year for the

last 20 years.

20, 25, 30 who knows, yeah.

And the top 10 best rated programs of that year in the Super Bowl has about six or seven

if not eight of those slots.

Yeah.

It's insane what it does.

The numbers it pulls in.

Yeah.

And every year, by the way, we, not every year is as bad as this one, maybe, but every

year I hear from people, well, I watch in the Rams and the Patriots, well, I'm not

watching the Falcons and the Patriots.

And they, you know, get out of here like every year, the numbers speak differently.

It's true.

And a new poll, 30% of people said that their favorite part is, well, the game, then 17%

tune in mostly for the commercials, which is in recent years has been compared to 20%.

So they've gone down a little bit.

Okay.

Interesting.

16th, I wonder if advertisers are realizing that, hey, take note, take note.

16% are mostly, mostly excited about the Super Bowl halftime show.

So.

This 17% for commercials, 16% for the halftime show.

That used to be never, that was never even close.

Yeah.

That's interesting to me too.

And 2% claim that their favorite part is the announcers.

Well, good luck with that this year.

Now I think Kevin Burkhart is a very good announcer.

Yeah.

I think Kevin Burkhart is a solid, strong announcer.

Tom Brady is horrible at this.

And I'm not even picking on the guy.

I don't mean, I just have, I, I wholeheartedly admit I am a very high bar.

For announcers.

I don't, I don't know why I just do and I admit that.

But I don't think you have to have that high of a bar to just be better at the job as

you're going along.

Somehow he's gotten worse at it.

And, and I, I say, I think it's noteworthy because I think it's very little and very seldom

do we have this in life where we see somebody who is arguably the greatest at the job he's

ever done.

I mean, it's, it's, you know, if somebody wants to say Tom Brady is the best quarterback

they've ever seen, I'm not going to fight him on it.

I will, I will nitpick at it a little bit.

Maybe he's the greatest winner you've ever saw.

I don't know Joe Montana to me is still the band with ice water in his mains.

But maybe it as a may, I don't know how you can convince yourself to Tom Brady is a good

announcer.

Like, where is your bar for this?

The man is just, he's talking over Kevin Burkhart half the time.

He's rambling too long.

Well, a play is going on.

Like, he doesn't, like, this guy, it was a master at learning from the last play and

not doing that same mistake again.

Like, he was so good at it.

I don't know how he hasn't done it with announcing.

It's really weird to me.

I just may not be able to do it now.

Yeah, it's, I'm not so much nitpicking as it is.

I am just like being kind of like asking the question, like just really like, wow, why?

How is this happening?

Aaron Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will be on the sidelines, both of them are top notch at

that job.

Aaron is so good.

She's, she really is a masterful at the job.

Yeah.

So you got some really good announcers, some really good people covering the game.

10% of people are not sure what their favorite part is.

They like it all or they hate it all, I guess, could be either.

Yeah.

Or they don't care.

Or they don't care.

How many people don't care?

That's what I want to know.

I want to know the numbers.

And 26% say that they are really love and they don't really love any of it.

So maybe there's your hand and maybe there's part of it.

26%?

So they just watch it because why?

If you don't like it, that's weird.

Okay.

She and their house has an eye.

That's probably true.

Yeah.

I had an ex that wanted to watch it just because she knew I was and in part of it, I with

her, I watched a couple of shows of hers that I didn't really get into and she thought

it was the same thing.

Like for her, we were only together two years, but every year, for each year, it was kind

of like, well, I'm watching all these shows with her all year and then they, she watches

the Super Bowl with me.

Hey, I think that's a fair, let's say what's the calculus on that.

I was okay with it.

I was cool with it because she genuinely, like, got into the game.

She genuinely tried it.

She asked a lot of questions and everything, but she was trying it.

I thought that was cool.

I thought that was pretty cool of her.

And I think that you got to go into it with that too.

Like how seriously are you taking the gig?

Oh, I got a lot.

Everybody be quiet.

I got a focus.

Like that ain't what the Super Bowl is.

The Super Bowl is a party.

If you just want to watch the game, sure, more power to you, but do it alone.

You know?

I don't know.

What we need is we need to have Melissa sit down and watch the Super Bowl and record

all of her comments while the game is going on.

I think that would be gold.

So I think that would be wonderful.

It sounds like work.

Are you going to be for this?

Yeah, yeah.

We do it for the station.

We'd say, oh, yeah, Melissa's taken Super Bowl.

When they're asking you where these hours came from on a Sunday night, like, hey, yeah,

I put an hour.

I put an hour.

Hours.

I will say.

The game, even.

I don't even know.

So they're.

I don't know seven o'clock.

I think five, seven, six.

Yeah, it's late.

It's late.

It's late.

It'll start to late.

I wonder if people want to take off on Monday.

Yeah.

It's ridiculous.

Um, I will say that.

That's my bedtime.

ESPN does something here and they're losing a lot of ratings in it.

So I don't know how long it's going to continue.

But they have kind of like for Monday night football, they have the Spanish broadcast and

they also have the Manning broadcast where they all, you can watch the actual game, but

it's just commentated differently.

Yeah.

I love the idea of the Super Bowl, but commentated by Melissa, but it's the regular game, but it's

just Mel sitting back and just kind of every once in a while jump again.

What?

Melissa?

Melissa doing the color commentary and someone from England doing the play by play with no

idea what's going on.

Yes.

That would be awesome.

But see, you guys, you guys, as much as I say that I don't like sports and I don't watch

them.

You neglect to remember that for the first entire like half of my life, I watched every

single packer game there was, so I probably could give you the play by play just fine.

That's probably true.

Well, I don't want you to do the play by play.

Just the color.

That's what I want.

Yeah.

I don't even know what that is.

You comment on what's happening on the game and you can, I would just love to hear

you say that.

What's going on?

Well, he slipped and fell.

What a clots.

We will get to our newest break, our sports and our partner break.

We'll come back and we're talking the top things we Google about the oldest, youngest

and middle child all coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show on WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa, Seth and James here with you getting

played in by Senator Vanna.

Nice.

We're a good one here for you and we're not saying that you do maybe Google this because

I can't imagine ever googling anything like this, but those that are going to be interested

in this one.

And Google looked at the top questions people ask about birth order.

So the oldest, youngest and middle child, and here are the top three of each.

What is, for, we'll start with the oldest first.

Okay.

I, I, I, I wonder why James would say such a thing.

Why, why the oldest, James, when they always get to be first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, and this is the best of everything.

I don't know why.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know if, uh, there is, if, if middle children or younger children do this, but

I do know as the oldest that we do bring this upward if we have an opportunity to, as

much as he can.

In part, because it's all we have, it's one of the only things we have, it's it.

So what, what are we googling about well, um, with the oldest, why is the oldest child

the shortest, huh?

It might be true for some reason, but it's not clear if it really is several studies have

conflicting results.

I, no, no, no, I think that's, that's ridiculous.

Get out of here with that.

I've never heard of that before.

No, I haven't either.

Why does the oldest child get blamed for everything, uh, because they're the tallest.

Nice.

Nice.

I can see him first.

Yeah.

That was you.

Um, it's easier to instigate her, that too, that too, little column A, little column

B on that one.

Wow.

I'm fine.

And there's, there's some real pushback going on here.

I could tell which one was not a first child in this conversation.

Uh, what?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Don't know what you're talking about.

Don't know what you're talking about.

Why is being the oldest so hard, uh, well, in part C, C, C, uh, the, the, what we just

talked about.

Um, yeah.

I feel so sorry for you.

Wow.

You got, you got first time parents trying to figure this whole thing out.

Yeah.

Um, you know, that, that's true.

You train, you prep, maybe took classes, maybe read books, and then real life happens.

And it all goes out the window, yeah, it's all out the window.

Yeah.

Uh, so yeah.

It's, it's understandable.

I think it makes sense for a lot of it now.

What about the middle child, uh, the first question that we are googling about middle

children?

Is a middle child always hated?

Wow.

Um, that's okay.

I don't know if I was hated, um, that far.

Yeah.

I will say that I blame for a lot of stuff, but I, I, I will say that in our family, my

sister is the middle child and there is not a more loved or adored person in our family

that we go.

There you go.

No hatred there.

But we are the, we are usually the outlier with most things.

So it's not, that's not going to stand out to you, but, uh, why is the middle child always

forgotten?

Hmm.

Hmm.

Okay.

Is that true?

Melissa, are you forgotten?

Well, um, um, I was the only girl also, so I think that that kind of skews a little

bit.

Oh, qualifiers.

Same with our family.

It's not, and I wasn't the only middle child.

There were three of us.

So there you go.

I did that.

I didn't have any changes.

Yeah.

Throws it in there.

Yeah.

Why is the middle child always left out?

Uh, that is another one.

Hmm.

Okay.

And I think you could see the other questions there.

That would make it.

Yeah.

Now for the youngest, why is the youngest child the favorite?

Uh, the baby of the family.

Um, and it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, I don't think that any parent could really put it into

words.

And certainly no parent is going to tell you who their favorite is, uh, except my dad.

Um, my dad, my dad, you're honest.

Very honest.

Would not blink an eye.

Jill.

Without a blink of an eye.

Not even to just, these only easy, only parent I've ever known to be like this.

But, uh, but I love it for it.

I love it for it.

Uh, but yeah.

So I don't know.

I think that there's also obviously some, uh, human nature involved in that.

And, and if you're a parent and you have, uh, you don't survive to have at least two

or three or maybe more children, you're going to treat that one like it's gold.

Well, and you know, it's your, it's your last, if you know, it's your last child.

Of course, you don't know until you know it.

Yeah.

But yeah.

What?

That's your plan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, why is the youngest child always spoiled?

Um, again, I think we kind of answered some of this.

I think it has something to do with, and I think it may happen that way.

I think it has something to do with the age of the parents as they get older and, and certain

things, you know, you get more tired.

I don't know.

Whatever it is.

Or you start to relax and delight a little bit.

Yeah.

Maybe that's it.

Maybe that has something to do with it too.

Or maybe when you have, you know, your first child, you're not as financially stable.

You know, and then maybe later on, you have more money in that kind of thing.

Who knows, you know, or you've made all the mistakes with the first kid, you, you've done

a little better with the next feeling by the last one, you've got everything figured

out.

It's fine.

With your first child, uh, their, their first, uh, you know, toenail is, is the greatest

thing in the world.

And you've never seen anything like it and it makes you cry and you're saving clippings

of it to everything.

Uh, and by that third child, you realize that this, you know, maybe not everything is,

you know, the best thing in the world.

Um, and I, I think you, all of what you guys are saying adds to that.

I think that's all, it's all, like, comes together.

Um, why does the youngest child get away with everything?

Well, you know, we've worn our parents, as the oldest child, we wear down our parents

so that by the time the youngest one comes around, uh, you guys have it a little bit smoother

a little bit.

Something to consider, the younger children, and this is after the first one, they learn

from the oldest, they learn all of the tricks and the tray, right?

Right?

So they have, uh, they have a playbook, the oldest child doesn't, they're doing it all

on their own.

Yeah.

And the house is really busy by the time you got that many kids around, yeah, more kids

the more.

Yeah.

Chaos.

Come on.

Man, my, my, my little brother has looked at as the golden child in our family.

And he, I mean, he, I can make an argument.

He was just as much knucklehead as I was.

He was just smarter.

He was as much smarter.

He learned from his brother.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They also looked at the top questions people ask about only children, uh, why are only

children weird, uh, that's not fair.

That's not fair.

Uh, no, they're weird.

I've known a lot of the children are weird.

I've known a lot of old children view of life.

That's a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of both.

Why are our only children so sensitive, um, that's an interesting one, uh, that, uh, that's

an interesting one.

Yeah.

It's a case by case basis on that one.

It is.

I would agree with that.

Uh, you know, all of this is a case, basically all of this is a case by case, of course.

But I, I do, I do think that that's, uh, not only, I think it's an interesting question

to be proposed or to be, to hear and everything just as we talk about mental health and, and

any thing that has to do under that umbrella, right?

And why are, uh, only children spoiled, um, and I feel like this one is a little more

self-explanatory because they, all the attention is focused on to share exactly with another

kid in the house.

And you're not going to learn to share, I mean, you'll learn sharing elsewhere at school

and all these other places, exactly.

Yeah.

It's not the same as having another kid in your house.

No, it is not.

I know that it is a struggle though for parents.

Most parents, uh, you, you very seldom do hear a parent say, I want my child to grow

up spoiled.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You're wanting to do that.

Uh, and, and I think with all of these, whether, we're talking about your siblings or

you're talking about parents or whether you're parents or you are a parent, um, one

of the biggest, overall things we can do here is give each other some grace.

That's why the perfect number of children is two, and I'm not just saying that because

I came from a family of two, and I only have two children, but, uh, it's actually two

point five.

It's actually two point five.

It's actually my child and half.

What are you doing?

Hey, figure it out.

Figure it out, everybody.

I'm just, I'm just giving it the numbers.

I know.

It's all about the numbers.

Right.

It's all right there.

I just want a white picket fence, guys.

Come on.

They are.

I, you know, just it, just because what that means that you have property, like they