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 Vine the Mike. I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa
Kaye. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there. Good things on the way for you like this
right here. Brittany Merlot joining us right now. Good morning, Brett. Good morning. How
are you guys doing? Doing good over here. Doing. We're doing. We're doing. It's a perfect
answer. I gotta be honest, just to look behind the curtain quick. I don't know why I did
this, but I was trying to get the garbage is out. And I thought, oh, I can do it real
quick while Mel's news is going. And I did. And I had a brief moment of the door feeling
like it was locked, but it was, it was just that cold outside. Even the, even the door
was too cold. Like, I'm not working today. Like I'm good. You know, you get, you're going
to stay in or out. What are the other? Because I'm not open to get. I agree with you. What
are we looking at today, Brittany? Well, temperatures right now sitting at one degree. We've got
winds moving at about five to 10 miles per hour, which isn't much, but it's knocking
us back to feeling about 13 below to about 15 below or so. So pretty crisp. Those wind
chills will ease the afternoon, but temperatures today only climb to 10 degrees. We're going to
be sunny. We're going to be cold. And it's going to be calm all ahead of the snow moving
into Maraud. So the winter storm watch has been issued. That is for much further south
and well away from us. So the storm is going to be sliding south of us and it will scrape
us. So we're right on the edge of getting anywhere from an insure to potentially
four inches. I think we're going to stay right around that insure to range throughout tomorrow,
but snow moved in by the afternoon. It continues to be afternoon and into the evening hours
before it leaves. And then we get a sunny and cold Thursday too. In fact, all of this
week is kind of cold. So layers get ready for that, unfortunately. Yeah, that's a great,
that's the word of the week. Layers that is definitely it. Thank you for that, Brittany.
We appreciate you. You stay safe and warm out there and we'll talk again tomorrow.
So good. Have a great day. Thanks, Brittany. Best in the business right there.
Brittany Merlot joining us. Good to have her back. We got some fun stuff lined up for you
in this next couple of hours, everybody. First up, of course, we're going to have employees.
Well, our LKFA birthday and anniversary club. And then we'll get into the percentage of
employees who know what is expected of them at work. Oh, yeah. Yeah, kind of an interesting
one. That one's coming up for you. A guy turned orange. And we're going to tell you how he did
that. Your pet's microchip. I want to get into that one. Got an interesting one on there.
And before we wrap up, we will have the five most dangerous expiring condiments in your fridge.
Okay, I wasn't sure where you were going with that. That's coming up for it. I'm glad that's
where it went. And we got other fun stuff going on, of course. But the big one we have is love
on the air text win contest. Yeah. This is a crossover station event we've been doing with our
friends over with our sister station at WIRI. Yeah, our friends too. I mean, they're us.
So what plans with ourselves? Right. You're right. We are having a lot of fun with this one.
We got some great prizes available for you, everybody. All you got to do is pull out the Civic
Media app. Get ready to text us the keyword that we give to you at the top of the 8am, 10am,
noon, and two o'clock hours. You text that word to us and you could possibly get
them this big prize where we've got prizes from Performing Arts Center. Love Inc. Mission Coffee
House Melissa. Just a consequence. Can I can I can I get the rest? Please. Yeah. There's a personal
package from Amethyst Rising. This young lady will design your personal style. It's a it's
almost it's a $199 value. There's also two one hour massages and two one hour rakey sessions
from full circle massage. Honestly, cranberries giving out three bags of cranberries, which you can
freeze. You don't have to eat them all at once. And then there's Paul Gross Jewelers. This bracelet
is $299 value. You should see the picture on our Facebook page. It's fantastic. It's gorgeous.
And if you don't have a gift for your sweetheart, that's perfect. And then also dance
with Digny DJ, a $55 gift card for services. You can throw your own party. Yeah. Yeah.
Giving you all the things you need like you could have this awesome party for Valentine's Day
for just you and your sweetheart or or you know, invite everybody. Yeah. The Mission Coffee House is
an ultimate dinner date night on February 15th. The loving is a $25 gift card to thrift store,
two tickets to Founders Day dinner on February 27th. And the Performing Arts Center is two tickets
to Bachelors on Broadway on February 20th. We're like sending you one. I don't know how many dates
here, James. One, two, three, four, five. Five date options with this one package.
We do a lot of things here at WFHR. We have for a long time. We try to keep you informed. We try to
take care of you and keep you up to date on everything going on in this area. And we're trying
to help your romantic life. We are if you are struggling with romance out there, if you just
don't know how to romance, we are going to help you. We've got it all laid out for you. Yes,
indeed. And Amethyst will make you look fantastic for these dates. And I'm writing that one
down. Amethyst rising. I'm writing that down. That's a good. Oh, she's fantastic. I should have to
also note, and I don't after all these years and everything, I feel like I shouldn't have to
remind some of our team of this. My father was counting on this package for his Valentine's,
and I had to remind him he cannot win. So those of us that cannot win this, you do still have to
make plans for Valentine's, because this is the perfect package. Good luck to have on this.
And of course, we want to remind you as well. You can go to wfhr.com, check out the complete list
of contents for this that you can win. Thank you so much to everybody who's already played along.
Again, be listening up of the 10 a.m. Janine Greg will have or Janine 10 a.m. hour will have a word
for you here and at w.i.ri. And then at noon and at two. And your key word for this hour is
friendship. Friendship. Oh, that's perfect. It's a really good one. We've got to make sure to
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Friendship. Friendship. Go ahead and text that word to us, everybody. That's a good one, by the way.
Yeah, you have the whole hour to text that word in. Yeah, we'll get it to you again before we wrap
up the hour. But thank you so much to everybody who's already played along. And thank you,
especially for downloading the Civic Media app and taking us with you everywhere. It's free.
Happy National Make a Friend Day, everybody. In honor of our text to win word friendship?
Yep, I don't know if that was planned, but God, I love how it worked out.
Yes, but it is National Make a Friend Day. And this is something a topic we've touched on here
on the morning show a little bit as we get older. And it can be a little bit tougher for adults
to make friends. And a poll last fall found 39% of Americans hadn't made a new friend in over a year.
Almost 40%. Wow, someone asked Reddit for advice. And the comment that got the most
upvotes was to find a place where you'll see potential friends regularly.
That's good advice. I don't know why, but I've always struggled with that word in the morning.
Regularly? Regularly. Because it's English games and English is difficult to, because it's
a conglomeration of everything and it's weird. I know I can't prove it, but I guarantee if we
went back at a time machine when they first came up with that word, part of it was, oh, this is
going to mess with people. Oh, this is going to be. So in other words, don't expect to meet someone
once immediately hit it off and become best buds overnight. It takes time, like most things.
Yeah, relationships take time and work. Find something you're into and keep going back.
It could be a coffee shop, sewing circle, pick a ball, even church, book club, whatever it might be.
Just need to be something you're into where you'll keep, you'll meet people that are into
similar things. Into the similar thing. Yeah. So it's hobbies. Yeah. After a while, invite them to do
something outside of the place that you normally do. That's what you do. And it's half the reason we
become friends with coworkers. We just see them a lot. But that's happening less and less now with
everyone, with a lot of people working from home. And, you know, just some, there's a lot of more
of jobs that are becoming more central or, you know, you're in your, at your desk your whole time,
or something along those lines. You don't interact with coworkers as much. Which, I mean,
that's a little sad. Yeah, it is. No, it is. I think it is big time. You know, every industry has
been, literally every industry has been affected by this. And efficiency is such a key word nowadays.
I don't think we think of that word. But it's on our minds all the time. It's whether you are in
charge or you are just started somewhere. Getting things done is so important. And quickly. And most,
yes. And most people like, well, it's, it's obvious with us. And our job, our job is all,
everything is time sensitive with what we do. But yeah, we're not alone. Pretty much every industry
out there is in a similar spot in every industry. Whatever job you're doing, I guarantee you're probably
doing three or four other jobs. So, yeah, all that being said, I can see why people are not able to
maybe go to the water cooler anymore. That we don't have water coolers. No, we do. We do. We do.
We do. We just don't stand around it and talk. Right. Right. Because that would be awkward. Yeah,
where it's placed. It's everything. Although you do have Pam right there. So you can just talk to
Pam the whole time. You could. But then you'd also be blocking the door. Do you need the whole group
of us? It's not a good idea. Not a good idea. We should just do that one day. Actually, why not?
Wester around the water cooler and take a picture. I like it. We have to do that now.
The only water cooler remaining in Wisconsin Rapids. I do think this is, I don't want to say,
I don't know, fascinating. This is the right word, but I find it almost fascinating. Interesting.
Yeah, really do. When it comes to making friendships, as you get older and everything,
it's something that there is no playbook for. It's not as if we're told, after we learn our ABCs,
okay, now you've got your ABCs down and you can count to 10. Here's how you make friends.
It's, and I think for, I hope at least for most people out there, this is something you have
never had to think about because it just happens naturally for you. But there are some people out
there myself that have never been good at this. And it's one thing to, you know, you see somebody
attractive at the end of the bar and you want to go talk to them and it's your nervous or it's
not easy for you or something. That's one thing. It's a complete other when we're talking about a
situation like this where you're out doing a thing that you love to do and it's just a
friendship that you're looking for and even that you have a hard time getting going. Even that you
have a hard time breaking the ice or whatever it might be. So this is as good of an idea as I've
heard of any as far as putting yourself in situations where you're in those kind of places.
I will also say, and this is not a shot at bars or anything like that. But if,
can we be real? Most bar, most bar life. There are good times. But most of it is not as
exactly the most uplifting atmosphere. And that being said, sometimes it depends on what time of
the day or night. I use it. Yeah, 100%. I think I would context this everything with this.
But it's also, and that's also true in part that the type of energy, the type of mood, and the
type of what you're around, that's what that's the vibe that's going to stick around.
If you're at pick a similar thing, if you're if you're around somebody in the very, very aggressive
or something in sports and that's how you meet them and that's all you know of them,
well, you get them out of that element and maybe see if you you still have something there.
That's a good advice. And it's also, I think, great to talk about trying to meet people that
have similar interests to you. It can be difficult in this, especially in Wisconsin,
to find places where people gather that aren't bars. Most of your other options are sports
or church. I like that you mentioned a sewing club or you can find like knitting groups. Our
library has awesome events going on all the time where you could potentially go and meet other
people. And just, you know, having those conversations is just a great place to start. Even if you
don't necessarily make a lifelong friend, you know, sometimes our friends come and go. There are
seasons of our lives that they are friends. And then and then we're through that season or past
that season. Yeah, I don't know. Friendships are our work as well. You have to have time. You have
to be able to dedicate time to those friends. And you got to make effort. You got to reach out. You
got to be able to reach out to each other, especially think of, you know, anybody out there. I
imagine almost all of us are thinking of somebody we haven't reached out to or talked to in a while.
Today's a good day for it. Today's a good day to reach out and reconnect a little bit.
And in keeping all this in mind, I think there's there's a couple of key things here. One,
part of the reason I'm bringing this up, I think because of my age, I might think I'm referring to
people in my age or Melissa's age range. And I am a little bit. But I think a lot of our senior
population and the isolation there. And how hard it is to make friends at when you're young or
you're middle or you're my age or whatever age you are, especially when you get older and you get
more and more, if you're more and more isolated, we have too much of an issue with that. I want
more and more people to be able to get out of that and have friends, especially we have, we talk
so much negative about social media and apps and all this. They have some positives.
Sometimes that is the connection you have. Yeah, a day like today where you can't get out of the
house, you can still connect with people. You can still FaceTime or you zoom or Skype or text.
Yeah, as any of these things, whatever it does to you know, have some interaction with some other
people. Just I have heard two James, sorry, that referring to isolation as me time actually makes it
better. It does. Yes, yes. I am in your brain. I can definitely. This is me time. I'm not alone.
I can. I'm choosing this. I can testify to that. Yes, and absolutely does. This is me time.
Just to wrap up looking at a timeline of friends and friendship, 8,000 BC. Archaeologists found
dog burial sites that are over 10,000 years old. How long we have been kind of having man
as best friend as a friend. That's going to be interesting. We will take a quick time out. We'll
come back with the Elcafe birthday anniversary club. It's Melissa and James taking you through your
morning at WFHR. It's time for Elcafe birthday anniversary club. One of our favorite parts of
the day. We get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends over at Elcafe. Visit them today.
Treat yourself. Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards. Wish them a great
one from all of us. Of course, check out some of their great specials on their Facebook page.
They have some good ones today. The country style Benedict. Have you ever had a country style
Benedict? No, it sounds really good though. Yeah, they do like a sausage gravy instead of
holiday, over a buttermilk biscuit, and then there's sausage instead of ham. It's almost
a completely different dish. Yeah, but I'm not a ham guy, so I think I'd like that version.
I think I'd like to try that. They have a lasagna. It's on a special this week and they're meatloaf
melt. I'm not going to say this right. Plus, it's incursive. But I can read cursive. I can read
and write cursive. Just want to put that out there. I'm going to I'm going to pull a James.
We'll have to call in and correct us. I love that. I love that. I like what that is a new thing
where Fidel just calls in for like five seconds to save this. So it's homemade tortilla chips.
Ooh, they homemade tortilla chips. Yeah, that's awesome. Sautéed with green or red salsa,
topped with two eggs, our delicious beef, bira, bira, ranchero, chisos, apicadillaio, and sliced avocado.
That sounds fantastic. Yes, nicely done, Melissa. Again, it's nachos for breakfast.
And in any place, it makes their own homemade tortilla chips. Oh, God, they're so good. Yeah,
check it out, everybody. And join them over at LKFA-221 Market Avenue today.
Yeah, head on over there. Buy a local support local. And get us those birthdays and
anniversaries. We love to celebrate with you. You can email us info at WFHR.com,
direct messages on our Facebook pages and call on up. That's right. 715-424-2600.
Call up and give us your birthdays and anniversaries live on air. We want to celebrate with you.
Yeah, and keep in mind, everybody, you can do that through the whole show. It doesn't have to
just be this segment. We'll take it any time during the whole show. Absolutely. We need a one or a
two, Melissa. Let's choose one. Okay, let's get that in. And we got our qualifiers. We can get
right in. We have two birthdays to celebrate. First up, we wish happy birthday to Betty Nelson.
Happy birthday, Betty. Enjoy your day. Hope it's a great one for you. And we wish a happy birthday to
our qualifier, Cassandra Moss. Oh, happy birthday, Cassandra. Congratulations. Enjoy the day.
Hope it's a good one for you. Her friend texted this in and her friend said that she goes by
Cass. So, Cass. Happy birthday, Cass. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a good one. We have a great
birthday and we encourage you to brag to everybody that you're a qualifier today. Absolutely. And head
on over to LKFA because you will get free pie. And also, this is a good time to mention James.
They have the fundraiser happening this Saturday. And I did notice on their Facebook page, if you
want to help them out, give them a heads up that you want to participate. Call them up and let them
know that you would like to get some barbecued, they're delicious barbecued ribs that day to help
out Tony who has had a tragic accident. He's a former postal service carrier and now needs a lot
of help. So they're holding this fundraiser on Saturday from two to six, which is later for them
to be open on a Saturday. And it's $20 for a half rack of ribs, potato salad or baked potato and
coleslaw, dine in or take out. Be sure to check that out, everybody. And support one of our own.
Support somebody to put a lot into this community, worked for this community, worked for the city
and did a lot for us. Let's help them him out and enjoy and get some great food while you're
out. Oh, yeah. That's pretty cool. It's a win-win. You can find out more about that by going to
their Facebook page and encourage you to do that, everybody. Yeah, they have a really nice
right up there on their Facebook page. Taylor Lawtoner is 33 today. Jacob in the Twilight
movies. He was also in Screen Queens and Shark Boy in the Adventures of Shark Boy in Lava Girl.
He had a moment there, you know, my kid. There was a time there were that Twilight stuff where he
was pretty big for a little bit there. I saw the movies. I saw bits and pieces with the person I
was with at the time and I just couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. It wasn't just not my thing.
That's okay. Kelly Rowland is 44. Kelly Rowland from one of Destiny's Child singers.
I like Destiny's Child. They were big. Another big voice here too. Brandy is 46.
Brandy. Actor and singer. I got a couple of big singers right there. Another 90s act. Mike
Shinoda. Shinoda is 48 from Lincoln Park. The MC for the band. Let's see. Oh my gosh. One of the
best singers of our generation and singers, songwriters, and apps. DeAngelo is 51 today.
DeAngelo's Cruisin or... Oh, yeah, those are some nice apps. Yeah, that man's built. Yeah,
he's a very painfully shy kind of person and growing up found music as a outlet and decided to
start to dedicate himself to it and everything. When he started to get to be a little bit of a name,
he was having a lot of trouble with that. So they had the idea. I believe it was the director
and him had the idea. Well, we're just going to do a bare bones just straight up. You got no shirt on
just a video of you and how does it feel? That changed the whole his whole career, just that music
video. And in part because of his body, he's a good looking guy. But I would remember that voice,
that voice, that doesn't age. That part doesn't. Incredible singer, songwriter. The song Lady is one
of my favorite songs of our generation really. Growing up, I love that song. Brown Sugar. Oh my
God. So many good songs from DeAngelo. Great singer. Nice. Jennifer Aniston is 56. Really?
I think just one of the better all-around actors I've seen in my life. I genuinely like her a lot.
I think she's a great actor. The only thing I would have an issue with, if I got a chance to
interviewers, why don't we see you more? Why don't you work more, Jennifer? Because, oh, that's
right because you got friends money. And you don't have to. Doesn't have to. I can choose which
movie she wants to do now. Being honest, I never really saw friends or anything. So I didn't
really know her work from that. She hosted Saturday Night Live and blew me away. I thought she was
so darn good on there. And then seeing her in horrible bosses, where Jason Bateman and Charlie
Day are two of my top 10 favorite comedic actors. I love those guys. And every scene she's in,
she steals. Every scene she's in, she's just so darn funny. Good actor. Good actor.
Well, and it's kind of, I imagine a little, I don't want to say hard to, but she was so iconic
in the friends. And that was so well loved. That kind of has to be a little difficult to break out
of that. Yeah, it's a tough one. Absolutely. Yeah. And let's see here. Cheryl Crowe is 63.
Really? Oh, love her music. Great singer, songwriter. And a great story too. Cheryl Crowe for a
long time was a backup singer and a songwriter. And kind of wanted to be a front singer,
didn't really have a lot of opportunities. Finally got the chance. And man, did she take the ball
and run with it? Yeah. Nine time Grammy award winning singers. Yeah. She said. And actress too.
She's done some acting. And she's still working. I mean, I don't want to make it sound like her
career is over by any means. So she's still working. Tina Louise is 91 ginger from Ginger,
Gilligan's Island. I almost said Ginger's Island. That was the sequel that didn't happen.
Ginger on Gilligan's Island. 91. Wow. And some people no longer with us, but my God would
a list we have here, Melissa. Bert Reynolds born on this day in 1936.
Before Tom Selleck, the greatest mustache there was. Bert Reynolds. What are my favorite?
I love Bert Reynolds. Love everything. Big, big, I don't know what smoky in the band it. He did
some voice work too. All dogs go to heaven. The longest yard. The longest yard is my one of my,
maybe my favorite sports movie. Yeah. And it's yeah. And it's I watch that movie endlessly with
my father. I cannot tell you how many times I watched that movie with my dad. And he and just
Hooper. Bert Reynolds not only had a strong career, but also did a like so he did this movie
Hooper that my little brother just loved. He watched it like it was a cartoon. But it's definitely an
adult movie, but it's all about a stuntman. And a big part of the reason for the movie was how
much Bert Reynolds had such a a respect and friends of a stuntman. And before back in the day,
there wasn't really a union. They didn't really have a lot of rights. Bert Reynolds was a big part
of them getting some respect in the industry and everything. Just a I don't know, very well-rounded
career and very interesting man. Leslie Nielsen born on this day in 1926. What a by by I don't know
my biggest influences in comedy. I learned pretty quick. I wasn't born with a funny bone.
But I watched Airplane endlessly as a kid. And I would study and watch Leslie Nielsen
and how he could just oh, you can be serious and funny. Oh, you can do that. Yeah.
The deadpan delivery. Oh, my God. Just masterfully done. You can make the argument nobody did it
better. And nobody has done it better since. It's just an incredible career for Leslie Nielsen.
Dracula dead and loving it from 95 is probably my it's my favorite of his. It's so corny,
but it gets me every time when he comes up from the coffin and hits his head. It just gets so good.
And it should be noted Leslie Nielsen got a lot of his break, a lot of his start here in Wisconsin.
Really? Yeah, working TVs, working commercials and ever working TVs, working TV commercials.
And they are the really talking into Airplane. He was not even that sold on that. He was not a
comedic actor. He was you know a serious actor and trying to get respect as a serious actor.
And you know that that didn't really happen for him. And I feel for him in that way. I feel like
I'd like to have seen Leslie Nielsen do some serious work. Right. Because he definitely had the
chops, but he got a great career. I bet I imagine he had no no complaints. Let's see here. Bobby
Portis Pickett, born in the stay in 1938, the Monster Mash writer. Oh, okay. And Eva Gabor,
born in the stay in 1919, Lisa Douglas on Green Acres. And of course, she was a little sister.
That is going to do it for our list, but we wish everybody a great birthday or anniversary
celebrating out there and encourage you to get your names to us. And of course,
celebrate with our great friends at El Caffe, two twenty one market avenue and beautiful port
Edwards. Going to get to our news and sports break. We'll take care of our partners and we'll
come back and have some more fun. We're going to be talking about do people know what they're
doing at their job right now? Do people do people do anybody know what to do? I have no idea.
No clue. Just phoning it. I mean, just completely literally phoning it in.
Take a break. We'll be right back on a worship.
Welcome back everybody. Downtown. We're going here to kick off the segment.
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can't always go.
Downtown. We hope you're having a good start to your morning out there. Happy Tuesday, everybody.
James and Melissa here with you. Let's go ahead and dive into an interesting one here.
There is a Gallup poll out on Americans. Americans in the workplace and have found that
just 46% of employees, quote, clearly know what is expected of them at work.
46%. Not even half. One problem is engagement. Only 31% of employees reported feeling engaged
at work, which is a 10 is at a 10 year low and 17% are actively disengaged.
Even though things have been trending downward, those numbers aren't too different than usual.
Throughout the 2010s, engagement improved every year before peaking at 36% in 2020.
So why don't we feel engaged? Well, only 39% of employees feel strongly that someone at work
cares about them, which is a drop of around 47% in 2020. And only 30% strongly agree that someone
at work encourages their development down from 36% in 2020. And I think that I don't like most
things in life. There is no one clear cut answer and there's no one clear cut solution.
But I do think that there is one very big key problem to this. And I think like most things in life,
it starts from the top. And when we have leadership that has no accountability, that we have
leadership that winds and complains, you're going to have people that do that.
There's a book Art of War by SunZoo. It's been read by every great mastermind,
whether in business or in military, since it was first published. And my grandfather had
me read that as a kid. And it's been very impactful in life for a number of different reasons.
But one of the key parts of it is that the idea of a general blaming his soldiers. And well,
well, how have you been leading? And in SunZoo asks, and the general has not been leading well,
putting all of his work on everybody else. Well, of course. So in SunZoo didn't blame the
general, though, he blamed himself. He took responsibility for it, that he had not trained that
general well enough. Everything starts with accountability and leadership from the top.
And when we have leadership, and I think people might be thinking I'm talking about politics,
and I'm not just talking about politics. I am, but I'm not just talking about politics.
Right. Because there's leadership in every organization.
Yeah. And this may sound like, well, James is just saying this because it's the company
works for. No, James works for this company because he has leadership like this. It's not,
it's not the one way. It's the other way around. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't. We had issues
this morning with our wide orbit system. And I reach out, and I'm able to immediately within a
couple of minutes here from either Chuck or Sage or one of our leaders around here. And they're
up to date. They're getting, they're working with me on it. There are, there are, I cannot even count on
one, I can't, I literally could not count how many times we have an issue at midnight or one in the
morning. And before I can even text the text chain or find out anything, are the owner of our company
Sage is out there working on the problem. When you have leadership like that, how can you not
lead yourself? How can you not be inspired? How can you not want to do a good job? He cares. He
shows that. He's literally putting in the work. He could be off on a beach somewhere. Drinking my
ties or something like that, just like checking his numbers. Like how am I, am I in the black? Okay,
cool. I'm good. Like it doesn't have to do that. That's true leadership. That's putting action to
words. I don't think that leadership is something that is that difficult. I really don't. I think
you, most people lead by example for every raw, raw person or something like that. I think most
people are almost everybody out there is a leader just by leading by example. That's a big part
that's in communication. Yeah, communication is big too, but we're taught that as children not,
you know, only by your parents, but in school to, you know, set a good example for those that are,
if those of us that have siblings heard that a lot. Yeah, yeah, set a good example for your
younger brothers and sisters. They're watching you and they're going to, they're going to copy you.
And that's how leadership works. If our leaders are setting a poor example and they're just
blaming other people and they're, they're not willing to take responsibility for anything. And
they're not, um, showing the, they're not putting action behind, you know, the things that they
say you should be doing. They're not doing those things. Well, then why, why should we? Yeah,
this accountability that we're talking about, it certainly stems with employees as well.
Employees do have to do, you know, they do their job. Right. Right. But it, um, more times than not
from what I've seen, whether it's my own in the work light world that I've been in or it's just
from talking to people, there is no, no, it starts from the top. Yeah. Because if there's a rule in
your office to not put your feet on the desk and you walk into your boss's office and his feet are
on his desk while. Yeah. Are you going to follow that rule then? Um, it's, it's a, um, there are so
many examples in history of, of this, uh, where, when it comes to just, I don't know, uh, the,
the simplest of accountability and the simplest of, you know, you expect one thing, but you're not
expecting them to do it. That, that, that doesn't work well for anybody in no situation. Every,
any parent can almost tell you that. Right. Can't talk out of both sides of your mouth. Yeah.
And, and, and I will say only parents can get away with. Do what I say, not what I do.
Only parents. They're not bosses. No, no, no, the people, not your co-workers. The, the other
ones are get away with that. Um, and, and I actually have no issue with that. No, no, no,
issue with whatsoever. Um, but, but it will, it all truth. I, this is something that, um, also
happens when the disengagement or the disenchantment, if you will, uh, with as we get more and more
farther away, that top 1% gets smaller and smaller, uh, as, as, you know, greedy millionaires are,
are only going to have so much road that that top 1% is getting smaller and smaller. Um,
millionaires, uh, yeah. I brought up millionaires because they can't get into the billionaire club.
Uh, so that group of people and, and then the rest of us, we're getting farther and farther
away from each other. Yep. Um, and, and while we, I think as, as people, those of us that are in
what used to be the middle class or whatever's left of it or anything, uh, we, I, I think there
is some genuine work at trying to connect and trying to bring our country closer together.
The people in the top 1%, that's not what they want. Divide and conquer. Yep. Divide and conquer.
It's, you don't have to read, uh, the art award and know that. That's as old as time. Uh, and
that's what they're doing right now. Yep. Keep us fighting amongst ourselves because then we
aren't paying attention to what they're doing. And again, I'm not just talking about politicians,
although they are definitely at the top of this list. Uh, employers do this too. And that's not
good management. That's not good leadership. Uh, and you don't have to put up with it. You don't
have to put up with it. There's a lot of jobs out there. Uh, there's a lot of workout there.
There's a lot of things you can do for a living. Um, the, the more you, you, uh, push back at these
things, the more change can happen. Yep. Uh, and, and I, I think to, uh, again, the personal
responsibility of this for everybody, whether you're a manager and a leadership position,
or you are an employee wherever you are, uh, accountability communication that go a long way.
Well, and there's also the, the, um, the self, you know, feeling good about, about your work and
what you do. If you're not putting effort in, you're not going to feel good about it. At least
for me personally. A great. No, that's a great point. Yeah. That is definitely true. Uh, let's go
ahead and, uh, take a quick time out. We'll come back. And, uh, this guy turned orange. I don't
know how, but I want to find out how Cheetos, right? Uh, it's got to be, right? It's got to be Cheetos.
We'll find out when we come back. I run the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR, locally grown radio. Melissa and James
hanging out with you. We're going to give you that love on the air text to win contest word
before we wrap up the hour. Mm-hmm. It's coming up. Be listening for it. But real quick,
one of the touch on this one, cat and dog owners are freaking out over reports that their pets
microchips might not be working right now. Hello. A Texas based chip company called, uh,
save this life went under and apparently didn't tell anyone. Uh, if you scan one of their chips
right now, it's not linked to anything. So there's, uh, no, there's by no way to contact you.
Oh, no. The American Animal Hospital Association keeps a central database of
all chip numbers, but pets registered through save this life aren't in it anymore. Yeah.
Now the good news is your pet's microchip is fine. You just have to re-register it through
another company. A few do it for free. Others charge about 20 bucks. Uh, your vet might have your
pet's chip number on file or they can scan it. Um, if you have it written down, you can check it
yourself at a-a-h-a.org. That's a-a-h-a.org. But all the bad chips, uh, start with one of these
two numbers. Nine hundred nine, uh, nine, nine, one or nine, zero, zero, one, six, four.
Wow. So, um, keep that in mind. And, and I would say, I know I'm going to do this with my
fur brother. I'm going to check just in case. Uh, I don't know how many, uh, people know where
their chip is actually from. So, uh, I would write what company produced the chip that's in your
animal. And especially if it was put in at a shelter. Yes. Um, you know, it depends. You could
probably call that shelter and ask. Yeah. If you don't have the information yourself, but usually
they give you like a card or, um, like even a tag you can put on your, on your keychain. Yeah.
I don't want information on it. I don't want to dog this company too much or anything, but I,
um, no, no, I didn't mean to do that. Uh, I was cringey. Uh, I didn't, I don't, I don't know
their story. I don't know what, but it is, it is really, you're, if you're a company based on
helping animals to not go the extra mile and say, Hey, we are going bankrupt here. Um, you
know, you're going to have to get those chips checked that completely defeats the purpose of
the company. Uh, but I think they'd have customer listen easy way to just email everybody.
Yeah. I, I will say, um, that, uh, not only will we be talking about this again with our friends
from the pet, uh, from the Humane Society on Thursday with our pet of the week, uh, to remind
everybody about this, but I think that no matter what, there's a good way to look this up. And there
are, uh, they're right. There are a lot of different free ways to do this. Um, 24 petwatch.com,
24 petwatch.com has a good list as well. There you go. And, uh, again, we'll bring this up again
on Thursday with our friends from South of County Humane Society. Be listening for that in our pet
of the week. It's a good segment. A Florida man in his forties just landed himself in a
medical journal after his crazy diet turned his hands, feet, and elbows, a light orange color.
Oh, uh, this, they diagnosed him with something called, uh, Xan, Tula, Asmua, Xan, Tula, Asmula.
It's when your cholesterol gets so high, fat starts building up under your skin. It causes
yellow or orange deposits usually around your eyes, but it can happen anywhere on your body.
So what was he eating? He told them he'd been following an extreme carnivore diet for eight
months, where he's only eating hamburger meat, cheese, and full sticks of butter.
Full sticks of butter? Dang. He told me, I don't even, I don't know how you even come up with that.
It only took eight months for him to turn orange. It's actually, yeah, yeah. He told them he'd
lost some weight and was feeling really good, but when they checked his cholesterol, it was over
1,000. Anything above 200 is negative. That's a bad thing. Oh my goodness. Now, part of the reason
we're doing this story is because he is doing fine now. He's okay. You know, hopefully he's got
some vegetables in his diet, maybe put some greens in there. Right. You need to, you don't want to
get scurvy. Man. That's a keto diet to the, not the keto. What was the name of that diet,
where it was, oh, it started with an A, I think. I don't know, but I know you said keto,
but I thought you said cheeto diet. Cheeto diet. That is not me. No, no, he did. Or real cheese.
I mean, sometimes they say there's real cheese in them, but I don't know. I do know that this
is not something you want to run into. No, I really don't want my hands elbows and feet
turning orange, but it's something. Oh, one of our listeners texted in Atkins diet. Atkins,
thank you. Thank you. Shout out. Shout out. Got best listeners. Best listeners in radio.
You know, the fact that this has a name, and so it's happened more than just two of this guy.
I don't know about anybody else, but that stood out to me. Whenever they have a name for something,
you know, it's happened a quite a few times. Yeah. I mean, because there are different,
you know, eating people, people eat what they like. Yeah. Until they know different.
I know that we've done stories here. Years and years ago, I'm pretty sure it was when Bob and I
actually were doing the show together. There was a story of some people turning blue.
It was mainly from the water that they were drinking. Oh, it was something along those lines that
we've had stories similar. Yeah. I've had a guy turning orange from eating just carrots. Yeah.
I think he was eating just carrots and almonds. Can we just say the human body's weird?
Can we just admit that it's weird? It is just weird. Nothing against the design. I'm very happy
with it. I'm thankful for it. But at the same time, it is weird. It is too thick. I am grateful
for medical advancements and replaceable parts. Like, I don't know how much anybody else. I don't
really take a lot of time to think about it. But my elbows have been dry lately. And I started
thinking about it. I'm like, I don't know if I've ever really paid attention to my elbows.
Lotion, James. Yeah. I'm not good at that. I'm horrible at that. I really need to be better.
You and every other, well, okay, most every other guy out there. Yeah. I just not one of those
things I think of. I was bad about it for years. Got to get better at it. And especially,
it's not like they don't have a billion lotions that don't work for you nowadays. There's
a million things out there that you can drive. You have lots of options. And as Terry Bartel says,
you can even use Chapstick. Yes. Yes. Oh, that's a great one. God, I love her, I love her segments.
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Good idea. Good idea. Melissa. We will do that. We'll have Phil join us tomorrow.
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