Good morning, Wiz Guts. Morning, world. It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.
Good morning, everyone, and the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody. Got a good show lined up for you.
Let's kick it off the way we like to on this Friday Eve with our good friend, Brittany Murlow. Good morning, Britt.
Good morning. How are you guys doing?
Doing well, doing well. How are you doing?
I'm pretty good because I finally have good news for you.
I don't have to talk about the cold as a negative or the bad winds or anything like that.
Yeah, nothing but good stuff. It's got to feel good. It's got to feel good on your head.
What is it looking like today?
I feel like smiles are setting in across the stage.
The sun is out this morning. Temperatures are above zero.
I mean, we're going to climb to high today in the low 20s.
Finally, we should be very nice.
We're getting excited about low 20s.
Yeah, exactly.
We're going to hit 30 degrees by Saturday.
We're going to be nearing 40 on Sunday.
And then we're actually going to be into the low 40s on Monday, Tuesday, and into Wednesday.
So we are going to see some of that snow melting.
When we hit 40 degree temperatures, it takes about a half an inch of snow away at least a day.
So heads up those winter enthusiasts are wondering, will this all be gone?
We've got about what, 10 inches of snow on the ground through a good chunk of central Wisconsin.
So I think some of it will still be left.
But a lot of it will be eliminated as we go into early next week.
So good for some, sad for others.
But that is really interesting. What you say there?
I've never heard that staff before.
I've never heard anything like that before.
That's really interesting.
I thought I had a good stat pretty top be right there.
That's a good one.
I was going to say 28 days till spring.
Oh, that's a good stat.
Yeah.
I threw into a search engine.
Like she did some homework on that.
That was really cool, Bernie.
Thank you for that.
And we always always appreciate talk with you.
You have a good morning.
You too.
Thanks, guys.
Best in the business right there.
Britney Merlot.
We got a good one lined up now.
We had the forecast really sets the tone there.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
Thankfully, the Berkabiner is this weekend while there's still snow.
If they would have waited another week, it would have been gone.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing that they didn't wait.
Yeah.
Seth and I are going to get into some fun topics.
We got the LCAP birthday anniversary
club right around the corner.
We're going to talk about the money.
How much money you would need to quit your job and travel the world?
Cool.
It is national pet day more on that in a moment.
We'll get into the top ways we show them love.
And of speaking of pets, we are going to talk about
to our friends, the pets and the animal kingdom.
As we have the South O'Connie main society join us for a pet of the week
as we do every Thursday in the 9 o'clock hour.
Yeah.
Looking forward to that.
Afterwards Seth and I will get into some entertainment news.
Sharon Osborne actually was able to stop.
I'll see Osborne from doing something.
Wow.
Finally.
Now the season is what?
80s.
Yeah.
Right.
Harrison Ford on riding horseback.
We've got some local good stuff for you.
And then a little bit later in the 9 o'clock hour.
The worst movies that made a billion dollars.
Oh.
And cars with the fewest issues.
The ones in the ones with the most.
Oh.
That'd be a good information for everybody out there.
Yeah.
We'll get into our schedule.
Some good stories of the day and plenty more with you.
And of course your phone calls are always accepted, always appreciated.
Use that morning show play at home version you have.
It is the civic media app.
Go ahead and text us if you'd like or give us a call.
715-424-2600.
I mentioned pets.
They're going to be a big topic throughout the theme for out the show today with our
kind of week and all that.
And today being national love your pet day.
Nice.
It means it's time to go ahead and you don't pay attention to the little guy.
No.
Finally.
Finally pay attention to that thing run around your house.
Pets love pets.
It's in the name.
It's right there for you.
In a recent poll on pets, 44% of people say that they consider themselves a dog person.
18% more a cat person.
And 25% love both equally.
There you go.
And 40% neither.
These are random people.
Exactly.
Lizards maybe.
Yeah.
Fish.
77% of dog owners say that they believe their dogs know that very well.
So the dogs know them really good.
Sure.
Another 20% say their dogs know them somewhat well.
Meaning only 3% think that their animals don't know them at all.
Oh, wow.
And you're a stranger to me.
Yeah.
Which is a dog word situation.
In fact, 20% say that their dogs know them better than their friends and family.
The awkwardness of cleaning up after an animal is never lost on me.
I've done it a billion times.
Sure.
Whether it's at shelters or personal pets or my parents pet or whatever.
And the idea of them not knowing you.
Like that seems even weirder to me.
It's already weird.
It's already okay.
Has anybody ever caught this?
Well, you're cleaning out like a, you know, for the cat.
Little rocks or something else.
Or you're cleaning up after the dog and they're looking at you.
And you can't tell because of their faces and obviously they don't have the human emotions
that we do with everything.
What they're thinking.
And God, I want to know what they're thinking.
It's just a look.
And I can't tell if it's like dismissive.
I can't tell if it's like that's right.
Hurry up.
Or what it is.
Or thank you.
Maybe it's thank you.
What?
Why are you picking this thing up that belongs on the ground?
Yeah.
What's where it belongs?
It's on the ground.
I just got rid of that.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
17% say that their cats know them better than any humans.
61% of cat owners say that they believe their cats know them very well.
Okay.
As for the type of relationships, 26% of dog owners say that they're best friends with
their dogs.
23% consider themselves a pet parent and 16% consider dogs a companion.
13% say they're the owner and 12% say that they're their friend.
12% consider themselves master.
2% say that they're roommate and 1% say that their dogs are servants.
Room it.
Whoa.
Hey.
You know, weird area there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very weird.
Very weird.
And that says a lot more about you than it does the animal.
Absolutely does.
A lot more about you.
If you need that kind of like, like, I don't know, confidence boost or ego boost or
whatever, that probably that's some other things you want to work out through folks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know if I've ever seen this.
I recommend therapy.
Yeah.
Really?
If that's the case.
And things are different with cats, though, 21% of cat owners say that they're pet parents
or companions to their cats and 15% consider themselves a friend, 14% say they're their
owner and 12% say that that's their best friend.
Okay.
Okay.
I would say what's the number that they think that they're the cats servant?
Now, that one would be an interesting one.
5% are a servant to their cats.
There we go.
Nice.
I've percent.
That's not the best.
That's a decent number.
Yeah.
Pretty decent number.
Cats, they know how to work the system, man.
They really do.
And cats have one of the greatest marketing teams ever.
They do.
Cats do have a little bit of an attitude to one of my favorite jokes ever as we know the
Earth's not flat because cats would have knocked everything off it by now.
It's very true.
It's very true.
I love that joke.
But I don't think that cats and dogs are actually that like personality wise, that different.
It's so much of what we project on them.
It is.
And, you know, one of the things you know talking about how well does your pet know you
kind of thing?
Well, they pick up on all of the things that you do on a routine, right?
Because they're there all the time.
And animals that repetition, of course, that's why dogs get to know certain words, right?
You know, walk, food, you know, dinner, or certain sounds and they know what that means,
right?
Yeah.
It's because they keep doing it over and over and over again.
That's what it means.
If you do a certain thing with your face, they're going to know because they've seen it before,
right?
And they're like, ah.
They do know you because they're always there.
I think one of the more interesting like rabbit holes I've ever gone down is a dog hole
actually about the history of dogs and the domestication of them and the going from wolves
to wild packs of dogs to them being able to, okay, well, I can't find food here.
But that restaurant, that bar over there, they're leaving food out at the garbage.
Yeah.
Well, I can get fresh food if I just give them a look.
And dogs evolving to the point of literally being able to read our faces better than some
humans can.
Yep.
To the point where we bring them inside, we bring them in and here we are hundreds years
later, whatever, where, you know, we're having a pet of the week here in a couple of
years.
Exactly.
It's fascinating.
It is.
It's really interesting.
Yeah.
And I mean, kind of like, like respect, like that's evolution on a whole different world.
Yeah.
That's pretty impressive.
And really, whoever it is, whatever kind of pet you have, you know, treat them well today,
give them some love and appreciate them.
We brought these animals into our world.
I think it's part of our responsibility as being on top of the food chain and having
the responsibilities we do.
Like you said, we're the ones that domesticated them.
Yeah.
If they can't live on their own, we have to do it because we're the ones that made it
that way.
I mean, if you really have an issue with you, you can go back in a time machine and find
that very first person that fell for this, it's brought and brought finally inside.
And it was like, okay, it's that person's fault.
Yeah.
We can do it enough as it's because of that.
But appreciate your pets today, everybody.
And stick around because we got some good stuff coming up for you in a little bit.
We got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club right around the corner.
Of course, during that, we grab a qualifier every day and at the end of the beginning of
every month, we're able to give them a gift certificate from our great friends at LKFA.
We love giving things away around here, love being able to do this kind of stuff.
And I grew up in TV and radio and know how this game works when we're going to give
things away.
What do you do, Seth?
You wait until the end of the show so you can get the listeners to stick around until
they're there.
I know our listeners.
You guys are going to be here at the 10 o'clock.
You guys will be here to the end of the show, you know?
So I can give away tickets right now if I want.
Right now.
Right now.
And we're going to do it.
All right.
Bachelor's of Broadway.
Gentlemen of the theater coming to town today.
Tonight.
Tonight, they're in town.
1130 at the Performing Arts Center right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
We encourage you to maybe go to some coffee or something over it.
The ridges beforehand.
Maybe a nice drink or whatever, as long as you've got another driver.
And then head on over to the Performing Arts Center and enjoy these incredible gentlemen.
They are great singers.
They're going to be playing some of the hits from Wicked, Miss Saigon, Jersey Boys,
Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, Late Miz.
You're going to know a lot of those songs.
You will know them.
You can get your tickets at saverthearts.com if you need more than two.
But I got two right here for you.
All right.
We're going to hold on our pockets right now.
As long as you can pick them up today, they're all yours.
Just give us one of your favorite Broadway shows or favorite musicals or music acts or something
like that.
Let's go ahead and get ourselves a winner.
Good morning.
You're on the air and you got yourself some tickets.
You got a favorite Broadway show or a favorite play or anything.
I mean, I have a Broadway, a phantom on the opera.
There you go.
That's a good one.
Some people would say that's a good one.
That's not necessarily me, but it works.
It works.
It does.
It works.
Yes.
Let's make this official.
All right.
We just wanted to get the tickets up.
There you go.
All right.
Now it's official.
Can I get your first name, sir?
Mike.
Mike, thank you so much for listening.
We're going to get the rest of your information off air.
But we appreciate you, Mike.
And you are going to see bachelor's of Broadway tonight over at the Performing Arts Center.
Appreciate you.
All right.
Mike, we'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
You heard the boys?
It's time to celebrate with our birthday anniversary club and our great friends over
at El Café.
Treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port edwards.
We appreciate you getting us those birthdays and everybody.
Get them to us.
You can email us info at WFHR.com.
Feel free to call up and join the conversation as well.
Yes, indeed.
715-424-2600.
And visit our friends over at El Café that got some great specials going on today.
They're getting ready for the weekend.
Keep in mind that they are open late on Fridays.
Check out that famous fish fry.
Fish fry.
Enjoy everybody.
One more famous fish fry.
Yes.
Yeah.
Enjoy and go ahead and celebrate with our great friends over at El Café tonight.
And today.
Appreciate them.
By local support, local everybody.
And thank you so much for everybody getting us our great list today.
We got one moving.
We got five possible qualifiers.
Oh, really?
Macarole.
All right.
Awesome.
Nice.
One through five from Seth.
Let's see.
Five.
So rarely gets to choose a five.
We got to do it.
Yeah.
We got to have to.
That gives us our qualifiers so we can dive right in.
First up, we wish Happy Birthday to four.
Well, good.
Always a good friend of ours around here.
Used to join us all the time on Midday Magazine.
Cameron Ethers.
Oh, happy birthday.
But the Cameron.
Yeah.
Cameron Kutarski's.
How a lot of our audience may remember her and everything.
Cameron was awesome.
She was.
Fantastic.
And wishing her and her as well.
Our crowd celebrating a birthday today.
Happy birthday, Sarah.
Sarah's awesome.
Worked with her.
WCT and she's got some great ties to our community.
And our station here, actually.
Oh, and appreciate Sarah and wishing her a good birthday.
Awesome.
Happy birthday to Bo Soplina.
Happy birthday, Bo.
Enjoy the day.
Bo.
Hope it's a good one for you.
I wish I had your name.
That's great.
Bo is a good name.
I like great.
Yeah.
And a happy birthday to Larry Barthels.
Happy birthday, Larry.
Enjoy the day, sir.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And to our qualifiers celebrating their 54th anniversary.
Ross and Linda Lou Miller.
Oh, Ross and Linda Lou.
That's great.
Man, congratulations to you.
54 years, man.
That is so awesome.
Congrats, you too.
Hope it's a good one.
Enjoy your day.
And since it was weird for him to do it himself,
I'm going to do it right now.
Also a happy birthday to our own James J. Maylove.
Yes, it is his birthday today, everyone.
I am not going to make a big deal out of this.
I did it once two years ago.
If you remember who you recall, the certain bumper.
So I don't need to do it.
I don't need to do it again to say happy birthday, James.
You topped yourself with that one.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Well, let's take a phone call real quick.
Good morning, you're on the show.
Yeah.
Good morning to you.
Also, I would like to add another birthday.
My son, Scott Matthews.
All right.
Thank God.
And how do you say it?
I'll smell that last name, please.
M-A-T-H-E-W-F.
All right.
Happy birthday, Scott.
I just wanted to make sure I got it.
Sometimes I see Matthews with two T's.
Yeah.
So I want to make sure to get it right.
You're good.
We're wishing Scott a happy birthday.
Thanks for calling it in.
Yeah.
Have a blessed day.
You too.
Thank you.
All right.
Got an extra edition.
Extra edition.
I love it.
You know, as a side note real quick, we hear people.
And it's the birthday anniversary club.
I don't need to get serious about this or anything.
But we have people all the time change their names.
The first name, their last name.
It's very normalized.
It's very common.
Why can't we change our birthday?
I want to change to the 30th of February.
And then I could just avoid this one.
Oh, come on now.
There's got to be a way.
We got to work on that, man.
As a society.
We have to work on that.
Choose your own birthday.
Yes.
We'll try to get that in this work somewhere, right?
It was worth a shot.
It was worth a try.
Thank you for that.
Thank you to everybody who has already been the best listeners to radio.
You guys have hit me up already.
Yes.
That's right.
I think we got another call.
A call.
Okay.
Okay.
Good morning.
Oh, hello.
Okay.
Maybe you're something.
Ah, who knows.
Anyway.
But one more time.
Happy birthday is in anniversaries to everybody.
Let's take a look at our celebrity list.
And you can.
Rihanna is 37.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot you share a birthday with her.
Yeah.
I think you told us that a hundred times.
No, no.
It has been about a minute since I've mentioned it.
That's true.
It is the first thing I would say to her if I ever met her.
And that would be like to my horror.
I wouldn't, it would just come right up.
Just a horrible, horrible situation for me.
Trevor Noah is 41, former Daily Show host.
Cool.
And a fantastic stand-up comedian.
I honestly, what are my favorite pictures of this of our era?
Or this most recent era and everything?
I did not realize that we shared a birthday.
No.
Just in Verlader is 42.
Oh, wow.
Oh, man.
How did I miss that one?
That's not bad at all.
It's not bad at all.
Huge.
And that is a throwback.
The definition of a throwback picture.
And a guy, one of the first guys that forgot this right,
who really proved that Tommy John Surgery was not the end of your career.
He was at the point where he came back specifically throwing just as hard
as when he did before.
And that was a big eye opener because a lot of people thought,
oh, you lose a little bit, you know, when you have Tommy John.
Nope.
Just in Verlader had no issue with that.
Cindy Crawford is 59 today.
Okay.
Wow.
Charles Barkley.
62.
I didn't know you said.
Share the birthday with Charles Barkley.
Oh, yeah.
That's the cooler.
Big fan.
Yeah.
Roundbound to rebound.
And just one of the greater voices in all of sports.
All of sports.
French Stewart is 61.
Oh, he's good.
Yeah, I like French Stewart.
He's been very talented, very funny.
He never seems to stop squinting, though.
He's always, it always looks like he's squinting.
It's weird.
Yeah.
I don't think he's actually squinting, but it does seem like he is.
Well, especially we know his most famous character on third rock,
from the Sun.
You know, he did.
His character was always squinting.
So it's hard to look at it.
Not doing it yet.
Yeah, and interesting.
Joseph Gordon Levitt's birthday was yesterday.
That's true.
Yeah, stars having back to back birthdays there.
Sandy Duncan is 79.
Oh, I didn't, you know what?
I didn't even know she was still alive.
That's awesome.
That's pretty cool.
Makes me happy.
I like Sandy Duncan a lot.
And if I'm being honest, there's a couple that I'm very proud of to share birthdays.
Okay.
These are three of them.
All right.
First, the greatest actor I've ever seen, and I will ever see probably.
Sydney Portie is celebrating birthday today, born in 1927.
Just passed away in 2022.
He wasn't that long ago.
He wasn't that long ago.
Man, one of the all-time grades.
I say similar things to this.
You've never seen his bad scene.
You've never seen a bad line or anything like that.
I say that you've never heard anything bad about this person or something along those lines.
All of that stems from Sydney Portie.
He was the first person I thought that about.
I dove into.
I studied their career.
I had no idea we shared a birthday as a kid.
I just really enjoyed this man's presence.
Interestingly, the first movie I saw with him.
I didn't really...
He was the one that stood out to me as much.
But watching him over and over and every year.
Every year of my life, I've watched a Sydney Portie movie.
That's pretty much.
There's some really good movies in his career, yeah.
And I'm still learning from him.
I'm still growing and learning from him as an actor as a performer.
And the definition of class in the face of classlessness.
The definition of it.
Uber professional.
I mean, the man was nothing but...
You were right.
The classiest.
Nobody could deliver a line like Sydney Portie.
Nobody in the history.
We're all trying to come into second place when it comes to...
I was going to say that's one of the most famous movie lines of all time.
And it's because of the way he delivered it.
That's why.
Just like a goosebumps just thinking about it.
The Great Late Kurt Cobain, born in this name, 1967.
One of my favorite singer songwriters of all time.
And I'm just an incredible artist.
And speaking of great singer songwriters, incredible artist Walter Becker from Steely Dan.
So, wait a minute.
Now, is that the why you're a Steely Dan fan?
Or you just found that out later.
You were a fan first.
Oh, okay.
I was in my 20s by the time I found out that Sydney Portie or Walter Becker were...
I'd already been diehard fans of these acts and everything.
It's just weird how that works out sometimes.
Yeah.
Again, to everybody celebrating a birthday or anniversary out there,
we're wishing you a great one.
Enjoy your day.
Yes.
Have some fun out there.
And keep getting a cease birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We love being able to do this.
We've done our homework on this one.
And I've actually asked around to other PDs and other people I know in the area.
Nobody is doing a birthday or anniversary club anymore.
We love that we're still hanging on to this one.
Because you guys love it.
Yep.
Honestly, wouldn't do it if you didn't love it.
Absolutely.
If you didn't send us names like this.
And we had five, six names today.
I mean, that's awesome.
Yeah.
People still want to hear it.
We appreciate that.
And greatly appreciate our friends over at El Café.
Go visit them today.
Yes.
Everybody, treat yourself.
Get on over to El Café and enjoy to 21 Market Avenue.
Beautiful Port Edwards.
Yes, indeed.
We'll take a time out.
Check in with our sports, our news, and our partner break.
We'll be back with more fun as Seth and I are going to come back.
And we're talking about how much money do you need to quit your job and travel the world?
We're going to help you.
It's going to make me sad.
Yeah.
And then out, or just, you know, daydream.
Yeah, right.
Whether the case might be coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a fantastic Thursday out there.
Happy Friday, Eath.
Seth and James hanging out with you.
Hmm.
This is one of those songs you hear the beginning of.
And the reframe pops in your head right away.
It is a real right away.
Got an interesting one here for us, for everybody out there.
And I think that this one is going to vary for person to person, of course.
But on average, how much money would it take for you to quit your job, drop everything, and travel the world?
Someone pulled 2,000 Americans and the average answer was $288,000.
Really?
288 Gs.
That's a lot lower than I thought it would be.
Me too, yeah.
Me too.
How about that?
Okay.
18% said that they'd take off for less than 50 grand.
While 32% said that they'd need at least a half a mill.
And this last group either loves their job or hates to travel.
17% said no amount of money could get them to drop everything and leave.
That would be me.
I was going to say, even on your birthday.
Still not doing it, no.
And I love traveling, I really do.
But I wouldn't be able to enjoy myself.
You'd be just, yeah.
Yeah.
The poll also asked, what do you do if you suddenly had a million dollars?
Travel budget, I'm sorry, a million dollar travel budget you had to spend.
Got you.
Here are the top five answers.
Take your family and friends on a during vacation was number one.
Cool.
Cool.
Going a really long road trip.
That would be a really, now that I can get behind that would be kind of fun.
Visit as many famous landmarks as you could.
I love this one.
And I think this one has been in my head since I was a little kid.
Visit the seven wonders of the world or other historical site.
That would be cool.
But imagine being able to check off on your list.
Think about this everybody.
Put yourself in these shoes.
Say you are at the pyramids.
Right.
And you've got this literal physical list in your hand.
And you are checking off the last of the seven wonders.
Is that cool?
I can't imagine what that might feel like.
That just seems like such a cool feeling.
And start working on your travel bucket list.
Wrap the list up.
There you go.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
I'm thinking about for me though.
I'd be like finding them some like really obscure.
Yes.
Yeah.
One of the most obscure spots in the world.
I go down these rabbit holes all the time.
A different like the hardest place to reach in the world.
Or these things.
I'd with you on that.
I travel to Antarctica.
Is that allowed?
No.
Actually, I don't want to go there.
It's too cold.
So audience go ahead and feel free to call up or text us your answers to the Civic Media app.
What would you do?
I think the most interesting part of this is if you were given a million dollar travel budget.
I love the idea of it's not just a million bucks.
Yep.
You have to spend it on travel.
Right.
You have to spend it on yourself essentially.
Now you can't like the number one answer here.
Bring your friends and family.
But you're going along.
So you are a part of this.
And I would be a part of it.
You would be a part of it.
The first part of this.
What if?
Yes.
You can only use it for travel.
Yeah.
Like that.
Spend a year at Disney World or something like that.
Hey, you know, fine.
You should go.
There you go.
I've never left the country.
So that's one of my oldest dreams.
But I would love to travel.
I would I want to go back to Italy.
And travel the path that my Nana said our family did from basil to Venice.
Some cool about that.
Yeah.
I want to go to Russia and Israel and see where my family, my mother's side of the family,
came from Egypt and see where my dad's side.
Yeah.
That's cool.
And all that.
I'd love to trace my family's lineage.
But what I really love to do as well is really see a lot more of America.
Like there's a lot of great stuff here too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's take a call.
Good morning.
You're on the air.
Well, happy birthday, James.
Not again.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You filled your contractual obligation.
If I had something lined up after I spent all that money, I probably would do it.
Okay.
I mean, how far could you really go?
Yeah.
288,000.
I mean, you guys think you know the way travel is it been?
Mm-hmm.
You figure if you're going to like see it, let's say you're going to want to go to France or something like that.
It's probably a $5,000 bill just to get there.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then you got to take it all the food you got to, you know, so yeah, you probably could do it for a year.
Do the traveling for a year.
But after that, I mean, what are you going to do?
Hey, you know, just let the audience look behind the curtain here and everything.
Kevin's a great guy, great friend and wonderful caller to the station and everything.
Hey, man, this is my wheelhouse.
Why did you have to make the subject so serious?
That's what I do.
Don't steal my thing.
He's been hanging around you too much.
That's what it is.
This is my only wheelhouse, man.
You're absolutely right.
It does make you think of that, though, because I was thinking as well when I first saw this this morning, though, that number,
well, like Seth said, that's kind of low.
It seems that way.
And if we lowered the expectations of our dreams, like, maybe we have.
I don't know.
We're not even thinking about it.
We just kind of have already lowered expectations of that.
What the dream was or what have you.
It used to be kind of just traveling and not even really thinking about money.
Now, even in your imagination, even in your what-if scenarios, we're doing that.
That seems unhealthy.
That seems like it's all sad.
And it's all of us.
Everybody's doing it.
There's people, there's comments online that has mentioned.
What I'm saying here specifically, but basically what Kevin is saying there and everything,
that even when proposed with a million dollar travel budget that is a what-if dream scenario,
we still can't help.
We still can't help.
It says something about where we are, I think, and how we need to dream more, I think,
maybe just or maybe just to be paid better.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What are those two little column A little column B on that one.
But I do have a site, don't, and we're going to I didn't get a chance to ask you this last night.
Now, there's only pretty much one marquee basketball game on tonight.
It's on TNT.
Yeah.
I mean, how many eyes you think are going to be on that?
To the Canada USA hockey match tonight.
You know, like you said, even though even though it doesn't have, you know, you're not playing for gold
and you're basically playing for pride.
And next week you're going to be playing with those guys again on your own team down the, you know, next week.
Where do you think the eyes are going to be tonight?
You know, Bucks and Lakers are a big game.
It's a big match up, certainly.
Zero.
I don't believe that anybody in America or in Canada.
So almost in all of North America is going to be watching any basketball at all today.
I don't even know if there's TV shows that are going to do well.
I know people that have never watched a hockey game in their life that went out and bought a USA shirt just for tonight.
Wow.
That's two people.
But I do know two people at least.
You and your dad, right?
Yes, exactly.
That's great.
That's great.
I really can't think of many people who aren't going to be taking this in.
That aren't sports fans.
Right.
They aren't already in the sports.
But I do know some people who are just loosely sports fans that are even paying attention to this one.
I cannot wait.
I remember I got a class tonight and I'm hoping that it gets canceled.
I'll be honest with you.
I really am.
I really am.
It should be a great game tonight.
And go USA.
USA.
USA.
Have a great one.
Safe travels out there, man.
All right, guys.
Have a great day.
You too.
Good call to appreciate you.
Seth, I didn't get a chance to ask you really.
You get that million dollar travel budget.
You can go do anything.
You know what I think?
I think, yeah, you know what?
I think, kind of, Kevin's point there.
You know what?
I think you should do, you know, it's a trip around the world.
That's what I envision, right?
But I would say do it without flying.
Oh, wow.
Do it like with you.
Because you can take, you know, there's cross-atlannics, you know, boats that go.
Boats ships.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, because, you know, the Queen Elizabeth, QE2 still goes back and forth.
You could have a really nice trip over the, you know, the Atlantic and then take, you know,
trains or, you know, whatever.
There's a lot of great public transportation, other countries.
But you can really, you can do that.
You could take a whole trip around the world, I think, without flying anywhere.
And that would be really cool, I think, for me.
That sounds great.
Yeah.
That sounds really good.
That sounds a good one, too.
And we'd love to hear from you, would you?
Yeah.
And we'll go to the R242600, just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.
And remember, you can always text us, too, everybody.
If you don't have time to call in or go feel comfortable calling in, we know sometimes that's the case.
I'm going to go ahead and text us.
Yep.
You can do it through the Civic Media app.
Absolutely.
If you ask someone about their dreams, some people are going to describe them vividly in detail.
And others can't remember a single thing.
Now, a subject that I have, there's not many subjects I've done more homework on than sleep and dreams.
I have a story series that I've worked on that ties into those.
Oh.
And my obvious lack of being able to hang out with the Sandman very often.
Not sleeping and he's writing about sleep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're right what you know where you don't know.
Yeah, exactly.
But one of the more interesting things that I think that I don't know of is common knowledge, not I apologize if it is.
But we actually, in your average night of sleep, say you get your six to eight hours or what have you.
You have thousands of dreams, thousands of them.
Maybe hundreds, but at least hundreds of them.
A lot of dreams and everything.
And the ones that you remember tend to be either the ones that happened at late in your dream or late in your sleep.
Right.
Or late in your REM sleep.
Right.
It can go either way.
But you have tons of them.
And one of the things that they cannot figure out is why some people remember their dreams more than others and some of that.
That's really fascinating.
Yeah.
We don't have the science on that yet, which is just kind of cool.
Like the mysteries that we still have then.
There's still mysteries.
Plenty of them out there, everybody.
Well, according to a comprehensive new study, three factors can contribute to whether someone remembers their dreams.
Okay.
A person's general attitude towards dreaming.
People who view dreams as meaningful were more likely to remember them.
Oh.
So they basically willed themselves to remember them.
Interesting.
No science to that or anything.
It's overwhelming the numbers of people that remember their dreams.
Voice.
Is that just deep in the mystery?
Yes.
I mean, about the whole mind in general, the whole mind complexity issue, I mean, but still.
It's like an episode of Lost.
Now I got more questions.
Exactly.
Where did the polar bear come from?
Yeah.
What did they do?
They're typical sleep patterns.
I know some deep cut.
They're typical sleep patterns.
This is the most specific one.
So they're typical sleep patterns.
People who typically have longer periods of lighter sleep with less deep sleep were better remembering their dreams.
That makes total sense to me because the time, the only time is basically that I remember my dreams anymore.
And maybe when I was a kid, it was different is like the morning dreams.
So you know, like you wake up and you go back to sleep and then, you know, then you have dreams.
Those are the ones I remember.
And that's basically it anymore.
I think I don't say overnight ones.
I do not remember at all.
I will also say real quick.
I don't know about anybody else out there.
I have an imagination that doesn't run out of ammunition.
I have a wonderful imagination.
I'm very thankful for.
For some reason, it is, it's asleep as well.
And me and my imagination take it just asleep.
My dreams, I've had a couple of interesting ones.
But for the most part, I would say 98 to 97% of my dreams boring.
Just boring.
Nothing going on.
I'm saying they're reading a book.
Yeah, I'm not even exaggerating.
They're just boring.
I think your brain is like, all right, I finally got a chance to sit down and pick my feet up.
I would love it.
Simply cup of tea in the book, you know.
I make classic overthinker.
I have a classic.
And I don't know if it's that or what it is.
That's funny.
I think my brain literally is like, all right, I'm checking out.
I'm clocking out.
Right.
And then we've got, you know, and people who have like really bizarre dreams, my sister,
who's had some really strange ones over the years that she's described to me.
And then you got people, you know, I think Melissa wants to mention cheap dreams in black and white.
Yeah.
Which is really interesting to me.
The fact that it's first of all that you could remember that you dream in black and white.
Yeah.
Because I know all my dreams are as far as I can tell in color.
So it's really interesting, fascinating subject.
Mine are in sepia tone.
That's weird.
Sepia tone.
I think it's an old movie.
He's got a piano roll on the background.
Is it old time?
I'm thinking of the music for my brain.
They're typical sleep fatter.
This is the most scientific one.
People who typically have longer periods of lighter sleep, with less deep sleep,
were better at remembering their dreams.
Right.
So we got over that.
And three, their tendency to let their mind wander during waking hours.
The participants who regularly caught themselves daydreaming, or engaging in spontaneous thoughts during the day,
were more likely to remember their dreams, even overnight.
Wow.
So, huh.
Well, that's supposed to be hard to quantify.
Daydreamers, yeah.
To a certain extent, but he doesn't everyone have that, you know, where you,
all of a sudden you have these weird, unbidden thoughts that pop into your head.
That sounds pretty common to me.
Maybe I don't know him, but.
I can't prove this, but you know, things you just, you feel are right,
but you can't prove it.
Right.
I don't think that there's been a human being in history that hasn't had those thoughts.
Right.
Exactly.
The weird things that pop in your brain, yeah.
They also found younger people were better at remembering dream specifics,
while older people who more frequently reported white dreams,
where you wake up knowing you definitely had a dream, but you can't remember it.
Yes.
I have those more often than not, where I know I dreamed of something,
but I can't remember a lick of what it was.
That could be a little disjarring.
It is a little jarring, yeah.
But I do know, I think for me too, when I was a kid, I seem to remember my dreams a lot better when I was a kid.
Yeah.
Then I do now, for sure.
And dream recall fluctuates seasonally.
People remember fewer dreams during winter months compared to spring and fall.
There's still a lot of mystery surrounding dreams.
This is just another step in trying to understand how the brain processes and stores memories during sleep.
So it's collecting data, really.
Right.
It's one of those fascinatingly, you know, almost universally shared thing that humans have, right?
There's certain things, of course, that we all share as humans.
And that's one that's so ethereal, you know, so ephemeral that you can't really grasp onto it.
But yet it's something we all experience.
It's something, to me, that's the fascinating thing about it.
Yeah.
And one thing I did want to touch on with this story, as they mentioned it,
how this can change with the seasons and everything.
I've had some people close to me recently who have been struggling a little bit with depression,
but have never really struggled with it or one person that has.
But another person who has never really dealt with this to the point where they're in their 40s
and they were literally unsure what's going on.
Yes.
I don't understand why I'm sad.
I don't have any reason to be sad.
My life is bad.
That is depression.
And seasonal depression disorder is a real thing.
It may not seem like it.
I think that nowadays we kind of just blow off a lot of these things as,
oh, that's just new handed stuff.
They're just labeling things or whatever.
It's a real thing.
And whether it's affecting your sleep or your mood or whatever it might be,
as we're getting closer to spring, I brought up the 29 days for a reason.
Right.
Hang in there.
And there are different things you can do.
A light therapy is a great one.
It actually getting vitamin D in your system with supplements and some of that can be really helping too.
The sun is so important.
And I think, you know, what you were saying, James, about, you know,
we're not making stuff when people do this.
We're not making stuff up.
We're just labeling things that are there that we didn't understand in the past.
Yeah.
So seasonal effective disorder.
Well, what is that?
Well, if you don't get enough sunlight, guess what?
It's going to make you sadder.
Yeah.
And that's what it means.
That's all it is.
We're all, and this has some cool stuff, too, to it.
So just a bit of a, you know, thing here, a Superman gets his power from the sun.
We are all Superman.
We get a lot of our power and a lot of our energy from the sun.
Absolutely.
And when we don't have as much of it, we don't need kryptonite to slow us down.
We, you know, it takes, it doesn't take much too.
Yep.
Keeping these things in mind, hopefully, can help you balance this, work your way through it,
find the different, it's a case by case basis.
So the different things are going to make it happy that others were.
But, yes.
Certainly being aware of it, I think, is one of the best, biggest first steps you can make in your life.
Just being aware of it, just acknowledging it and talking about it,
whether it's with a loved one or even to your own self.
Yep.
But, in hanging there, because it does get better.
They're a better day.
I got an even better one, you know, 28 days till spring.
That's great.
34 days till opening day.
Oh, see, now that's what we really do.
Even better.
That'll make you happy.
Yeah.
Let's play ball.
Even shorter to wrap your baseball, too.
Yeah.
That's right.
It's going to be closer.
Good stuff.
We got the River King's this weekend in town to keep us company.
That's going to be fun.
Get your tickets at RiverKing'sHockey.com.
We'll be back with the wrap up the first hour coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Little, they might be giants to play us in.
Got Seth and James here with you.
Thank you for joining us, everybody.
We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour.
The way we like to win a Thursday with our friends from the Southwark County Humane Society
and our pet of the week.
Yes, indeed.
Want to remind everybody that that segment is a great way to promote your business.
You cannot buy that kind of PR.
Nope.
We would love to have some sponsors for our pet of the week in all of our shows, Kitchens
Open.
We've got plenty of room for you, Seth.
We do.
Music.
We could use sponsors for all of these.
It's a great way to attach your...
You hear how we talk about our sponsors, how our partners.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Any chance we get, we mention quality post-printing or family, natural foods or L.K.A.
Colvers.
And did I just say all this just so I could ramble and mention every single one of those
businesses extra?
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
That's marketing, baby.
And that's what we do around here.
Give our front desk a call for 2-4-1300.
Pam will put you in touch with Ashley and put you in to make you a part of the team.
Thought this was an interesting one, especially as we're getting ready for a pet of the week.
And it is National Love Your Pet Day.
Okay.
A poll looked at the top ways we show our pets some love.
All right.
Number one, playtime.
14% said playing with their pet is the top way to show them love.
I make the joke, the pets love pets, but it's a reminder of acknowledging your pet, petting them, playing with them.
Tension, man.
It's all they're asking for.
Obviously you should eat them and let them out.
Well, of course.
Outside of the basics, really, it's not hard to be a pet owner necessarily.
Right, right.
They're not asking for a lot.
No, they're not.
I say that.
And then there are people out there getting ready to take a vacation, trying to figure out what to do with their pets.
Exactly.
Oh, what do I know?
There can be some difficult.
But giving them treats and gifts, 13% say that one.
Okay.
That's easy to do.
That is good.
That isn't a bad thing.
But again, playtime number one.
Cuddling them, 12% do that.
Those 12% are not cat owners.
No, I'm not joking.
Ah!
Nor are they giant dog.
Yeah.
If you're cuddling your mastiff is kind of hard.
You can't get on your lap.
They just kind of crush you.
I've had that.
I've had that happen.
I joke that about cats.
But it's great.
I'm a dog guy.
I really love dogs.
I don't really have anything against cats.
I've had a cat.
Actually, my first pet that I owned was a cat.
A six-toe cat named Hemingway.
But when a cat chooses to cuddle with you, it just seems to mean a little more because of the stigma and all these things to it and everything.
The cat I grew up with, okay.
She would be good.
You know, she'd jump on people's laps and stuff like that.
But when she was really, you know, in that contented mode, you know, sitting there purring away, she would drool.
Oh, wow.
So she would have the riblets going down her cheeks and on her whiskers and stuff like that.
It's like, that's a weird cat, man.
That is that.
I've heard of plenty of dogs, which are like bulldogs and everything.
Oh, interesting.
Very fascinating.
Cuddling them.
12% will do that.
And then 10% will tell them I love you.
That's completely for us.
Oh, 100%.
I do, I do, when the science tells us this, that animals do pick up on tone.
So that is...
Probably more than, obviously, than words, yeah.
Because you usually tend to say things the same way with them, yeah.
But there are, to your, what you were saying earlier and everything, there are some key words that animals have learned.
And, you know, maybe they have learned love.
Yeah, we say it a lot.
Combination of sounds and tones.
Yep, exactly.
Just hanging out with them.
10% like watching TV together and stuff.
Oh, yeah, that's the, that's the best.
Just having them sit there, you know, petting them while you're watching them.
Yeah, that's a great pastime.
Next, it's a three-way tie between carrying on a conversation with them, giving them kisses, and letting them sleep in your bed.
Now, wait a minute, wait.
Carrying on a conversation with them?
Yeah.
That's all one-sided, okay?
They're not, you may think they're, no, they're not.
They're just listening.
It's your voice, you know, they're paying attention to your voice.
Now, interestingly though, so I do this with my fur brother Sam a lot.
And I've done this with where I'm practicing a monologue or I'm just talking like a scene out with him or anything.
Like I actually have found it to be really, I joke about it all the time, but it actually is kind of helpful.
It actually is a little bit.
And I do think that Sam, I don't think he understands what's going on, but he knows the routine.
Exactly.
I take him out for his last time at night, comes in, gets his special treats.
He really likes them, just happened to be like really good for his teeth, so that worked out.
That's nice.
Then after that, he gets some energy out, fighting his little lamb chop toy.
And then he comes into my room, like I'll go in there just to leave him be and let him play and stuff.
And I'll come in there, and then he always comes in, and sits right down in front of me, like, okay, go ahead and entertain me, Mr. Human.
It's hilarious.
It's a hilarious routine, man.
They animals thrive on it.
Animals and kids thrive on your teeth.
Another way is taking them to places like parks and beaches got 5% of the vote.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Parks are great, obviously.
They're great places for animals.
Beaches, though, man, all that sand gets in there for...
No, that doesn't sound pleasant for the animal life.
Yeah.
You know, getting all that...
You know, some days all you're looking for in life is to get home and sit down on your bed, your couch, wherever it is, and just flip through channels.
Sure.
You don't really want to watch anything.
You just want to flip through channels.
Just some mindless TV or mindless reading or anything that kind of just helps you tune out of life.
This isn't that different for animals.
No.
They...
As far as, okay, so for animals, it's the same thing with smells.
Dogs I'm thinking of in particular.
Right.
A dog wants to flip through the channels.
You take them to a park.
You take them somewhere new.
Where it's not just the backyard that they've already smelled.
No, amazing smells.
You are making their day.
You know what?
They are going to brag about that to all their friends.
The whole neighborhood's going to hear about it.
Right.
It's a great treat to your animal.
Just taking them somewhere different.
It doesn't have to be some...
To you, it may seem like, well, this is just the park or this is just where I go all the time.
For them, it might as well be Vegas.
It might as well be, you know, the...
She likes it.
She likes it.
Downtown New York.
Right in Manhattan.
Yeah.
And 2% said the top way that they show their pets some love is by dressing them up in costumes.
No, wait.
Seriously?
That's what it says.
Yeah.
I couldn't tell if that was a bit or not.
I really was hoping it wasn't.
Oh, no.
And that's weird.
Oh, my gosh.
All of this has a little bit of selfish behavior to it just because of what Seth said and stuff.
We don't know necessarily what they think and feel.
We don't.
But the name makes 100% confident on.
That is all about you.
I genuinely don't know that there's an animal that's ever loved to costume.
Some like sweaters, some like to...
To stay warm.
To stay warm dogs like those stuff.
I can't imagine a dog that is ever loved being put into a hot dog costume.
That's gotta be too weird.
I mean, cause they're not...
Sorry, they're not bred for it.
They don't need it.
But...
Plus we need new costumes.
We need new costumes for animals.
Something more interesting.
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