
Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Your host, James behind the mic, I am joined by your head of news, our co-host, Melissa
Kaye.
Good morning.
Head of production and co-host, Seth Habagger.
Good morning.
Best listeners and radio.
Thanks for being here.
Everybody.
Happy Monday to you.
Let's kick off the week the way we like to with our friend Brittany Merlot talking a
little month of nature.
Good morning, Brett.
Good morning.
I must say, happy spring.
It's the meteorological spring.
We started it on March 1st.
So, as you want to spring by, yeah, we're here.
Happy spring to you and all your meteorologists, brethren.
We are very, very thankful to all of you.
Appreciate it.
And, and Brittany, we got some interesting weather coming our way considering what we're
just saying.
It's spring.
Yeah.
Right.
It's that typical spring snow storm, right?
That thing.
It's a wet mass of crazy windy one that goes from rain to a wintery mix to snow.
Well, it's sitting on our back doorstep.
And this is the comb before the storm right now.
It is gorgeous outside.
The sun is shining bright.
Not a cloud out there.
But we will see more and more clouds pushing in as we go through this afternoon becoming cloudy
by tonight.
But before we get into all of that, we're still going to be mild today.
We'll reach the upper 40s.
It's feeling fantastic.
A few spotty sprinkles are possible this afternoon.
Nothing major.
Not even umbrella worthy, really.
But we will need the umbrellas as we go into tomorrow.
I definitely bring them with you to work in school because the morning will start off with a few spotty showers.
But by the afternoon and evening, we're looking at some heavy, heavy downpours headed our way where that rain really ramps up.
Potentially putting down three quarters of an inch to an inch of rainfall tomorrow night into the overnight.
And then it flips to snow, a wintery mix and snow on Wednesday morning and accumulations throughout Wednesday afternoon.
So, of course, the most of it, the big chunks of winter storm watches off to the northwest of us.
But we could still accumulate a few inches of slushy, sloppy, wet, heavy snowfall on Wednesday.
After that, though, the rest of the week is sunny and much, much calmer.
Nice.
I want to thank you, Brittany, not only for the update and the look ahead and everything.
But also, we do a section around here called any right stories.
We already got a any right story.
Already got it.
You do.
Brittany with the ease of reporting, as always.
Thank you for that, Brittany.
Have a great day.
We'll talk tomorrow.
You too.
Bye.
Thanks, Brittany.
Best in the business right there.
For him, Brittany, we're taking good care of our listeners out there with this forecast.
We appreciate her.
Good things coming up, everybody.
A busy Monday.
On the way, we got the LKF Abert Day and Anniversary Club looking forward to diving into that.
We got the top, what was that?
The nine benefits of having work friends.
Okay.
We'll get into that one.
We got five things to look forward to in March.
Got all that coming up.
And a busy nine o'clock hour.
We will kick it off as we do on Mondays.
With the kitchens open, Beth Havnecker will be joining us looking forward to that.
Yeah.
I got a fun topic too today.
Yeah.
We gave into that one.
And after that, we'll be joined by our great friend Tom Heiser with our monthly veterans update.
Yes.
A lot more stuff happening now as we head into spring and summer.
And then the rest of the show will be spent on the Oscars.
No, I'm kidding.
Just kidding.
But we will definitely be talking about the Oscars in our entertainment section.
We got that coming up for you as well.
We'll see what else we can get fit into our line up here today because we got a lot of fun things
along with our schedule to get to and some good stories of the day.
But I want to touch on this one right here because with the way the world is and certain things
that we are keeping our eye on, I think that it's important to cover certain topics.
And bananas are not nearly covered enough.
It's a gray area that does not get nearly covered enough.
Bananas.
Now, we talk about this in comedy quite a bit.
You know, where are the banana peels?
We're still using those.
But what about the banana itself?
Huh?
You never thought of that.
Let's dive right in.
Scientists in the UK have created a new banana that stays fresh for 12 hours after being peeled.
What?
So you can put them in fruit salad or other things and they'll get all mushy.
And even at 24 hours, this new variety will have 30% less browning than a traditional banana.
Everything else is the same.
They have the same taste, smell, sweetness, and texture just with edited genes.
And it's slightly controversial, as you would imagine.
You would think so, yep.
They say it isn't GMO because they didn't introduce any foreign genetic material.
They made changes to the bananas existing genes by disabling the ones to create the enzyme that browns the bananas.
The new bananas will launch later this month in several countries, including the US and Canada.
But coincidentally, they won't be available in Britain, where the scientists are based,
at least not yet.
Britain currently bans the sale of genetically edited plants and fruits.
Okay.
That's kind of interesting.
I think that part is very interesting.
I feel like these are topics that we would do a really good job of being able to break these down.
Yeah, if you're overall feeling about this, but then just looking at one angle of it or another.
I think that it's pretty amazing, but we're able to do scientifically nowadays with genes and editing them and all that.
It's fascinating.
While this is interesting, I am more curious about what that can do to help humanity.
And going forward and everything.
I think that that science is fascinating.
I think it's quite interesting when you think of how different countries look at genetically edited plants, fruits, this thing.
That part is quite interesting, too.
But then there's the part, hey, shouldn't we be focusing on other things?
Was anybody looking for this?
Who was sitting there like, God, when are they ever going to fix bananas?
I am so tired.
It's slightly less browning bananas when they sit out.
Thank you.
Science, because we've been just clamoring for this for decades.
Yeah, because my question is, what does the purpose served by the banana browning?
What did nature intend with the banana browning now?
Banana bread.
Banana big goods.
That's what it was?
Yeah.
That's a great point, man.
And did scientists ever hear of lemon juice?
Yeah.
I know.
Right.
Fruit salad to keep the bananas.
That's the first thing that popped into my head.
Fruit salad juice.
And it also adds a nice tang to your fruit salad.
It does.
I agree.
Because acidic is an important component in good recipes.
Years, if not decades, go into this research, go into doing this stuff.
And again, I'm not going to tell another scientist what to do with their brain.
I just, I like, couldn't even put that decade of the cancer research.
Couldn't we be doing this on some topics that really could change society?
Really do make a difference.
Who is this effect?
Who is this?
Who is really going to have their world completely...
Yeah, I guess so.
The wiggles in their fruit salad song.
Maybe I don't know.
This was all about that.
But it did take place in the UK.
But also the fun part about science is that this might have been a decide effect
that they discovered while they're working on something else.
It's like, hey, these bananas aren't turning brown.
Well, that's cool.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, we do need to touch on, you know, we've been doing this for centuries.
Animals, pets, you know, we've been working, you know, messing with their genetics
by, you know, having them, you know, breed with each other.
And that's, you know, that's genetic engineering.
Literally, that's what it is, right?
And with plants.
Yeah.
It's why we have corn, corn on the cob.
Exactly.
Because we nurtured the grains that could then, you know, like, we did that.
That's why all carrots are orange that we buy in the store.
Carrots come actually in a large variety of colors.
But they went with the orange, and that's how we buy, that's why we get those.
I guarantee there's some, at least one, if not more than that people out there
that just had their minds blown by both of the things you guys just said.
Again, I'm like, wait, what?
Yeah.
You're a model.
I do some dig it on that one.
It's pretty good.
Interesting.
In speaking of doing some digging, we're talking about a garden right now.
Oh, cool.
A Japanese park, or I should say a park, is covering just two and a half square feet.
It makes it the officially world's smallest park.
A park in Nazogami, Japan has been officially named the world's smallest park,
covering an area of just two and a half square feet.
The park near Nagasi Town Hall, about an hour's drive from Tokyo,
was created in 1988 after a worker at the construction management division
of the town returned from a trip to the United States.
The worker had encountered a mill ends, a mill ends park in Portland,
Oregon, which previously held the record at 3.1 square feet.
So they wanted to create an even smaller park.
The park was completed in 1988, but the city didn't bring in a Guinness World Record
adjudicator to officially measure it until December.
Then Nagasaki Park has now been officially certified as the world's smallest park.
All right.
Cool.
It doesn't say, and I looked into it, two different articles on this,
as best as I could, and I did not see what are the requirements to make it a park.
That's a good question.
Yeah.
Do some...
We keep doing research.
They do do maintenance on it, and they do have to keep it up.
They have to keep up the...
I don't know how much that takes.
I don't even know if there's a lawn mower that can really necessarily do anything on this.
Yeah, because two square feet, that's smaller than a sidewalk block.
Yeah.
Wow.
Because it's not like you can fit a swing in it.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Too many plans.
It's just a little...
I'm showing a picture of it to Seth.
There is a little stool that you can kind of sit on.
Or you could put your foot up on if you needed to tie your shoe.
There's a little bit of grass, but otherwise it's just a couple of...
It's a little square, a little brick square with the park in it.
So yeah.
It also looks like you could pick it up.
It does.
It doesn't move it, everything too.
So that's...
Bring your own park with you.
Yeah.
I guess he wanted it.
Is that the next thing where you're going to just have a mobile park?
Yeah.
Yeah.
In your pocket, take it with you.
That's the next thing.
Now that would be useful, right?
Yeah.
Right?
All right.
I need a park.
There it is.
Oh, I got one in my back pocket.
Yeah, right here.
Here we go.
Got you covered.
We was no bench though.
Sorry.
We're the pigeon.
We will be back with more show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café.
We encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow.
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They open their doors, get on over there tomorrow, everybody.
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Wish a great week ahead to our all of our good friends at El Café.
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And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We want to celebrate with you.
We're going to show you why we love your birthdays and anniversaries so much.
For one, just celebrating them.
We're one of the few places if only place in the area doing this.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
But we collect these names.
We grab qualifiers every day, throw them in a big hat, and then we have one of our interns jumping the hat.
Grab a name.
No, no.
Wait.
We have interns?
No, we don't.
We collect all these names.
Right.
And at the beginning of the next month, we are able to hand out a gift certificate to $20 gift certificates from our friends over at El Café to our winners.
Yeah.
And so, get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We love celebrating with you.
Email us info at waffature.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages, and call up.
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And of course, I don't forget about that direct messaging.
We just had somebody, a good friend of ours, direct messages.
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We appreciate it.
Great.
I'm glad you saw that.
Then I'll let you reply.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
We are our beginning March here.
It's our first March show.
Yes, it is.
Which means we've got to grab a qualifier for the month of February.
All right.
28 days in February.
We had ourselves 28 entries.
A big thank you to everybody out there.
Right on the money.
It's been a long time since we had less days, less qualifiers than days.
Yes.
Very long time.
We appreciate the audience for that.
We're able to do that thanks to all of you.
Yes, indeed.
Does anybody remember who drew last year or last month?
I think it was.
Was it you Melissa?
I think it was.
It was.
It was.
So that's why I'm choosing Seth.
I just wanted to clear.
I just had to point that out before I get outraged that you picked him over me.
I can still get outraged.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter that I got to do it last month.
Yeah, you can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nothing to do with fairness.
Nothing at all.
No.
Not at all.
Because you just like Seth better than me.
Forget it.
It's just fine.
I can't.
I can't always like you back.
Seth, give me a one through 28.
All right.
Let's see.
I'm going to go with the number six.
Hmm.
Excuse me.
That gives us.
That gives us.
Diane Blanchard.
Oh, my.
No.
Seriously?
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
So congratulations.
Congratulations, Diane.
Oh, wow.
Diane Blanchard.
This is just the way it works, everybody.
It was right.
Seth cannot see the list here.
I cannot.
For those of you wondering why we're giggling about this and everything.
Diane makes us a lot of cookies.
She just did.
She just did.
It rips us off.
Yeah.
So that couldn't have worked out.
Oh, that's funny.
I don't know.
I don't think Diane's won before.
I don't know.
I really don't think she has.
Maybe she wins every year and I forget every year.
But I'm pretty.
I feel pretty confident.
It's hard to say, but yeah.
She does not.
So congratulations to Diane.
And you know what?
That's good karma.
That is good to see.
I'm telling you.
Absolutely.
And thank you to everybody who got us these birthdays and adversaries.
Keep them coming.
We're going to start adding to our list for March right now as we dive into today's
birthdays and adversaries.
Okay.
And just got one name on the list today.
So no need to get a qualified.
We already have it.
But we do want to wish a happy 18th anniversary to Stephen and Betsy Faye.
Oh.
And Betsy.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
This is Pam's nephew and wife out of Shia acting.
We wish them a happy days.
Nice.
Have a good day, guys.
And we want to wish a happy birthday to our first qualifier of the month of March.
Paul Jackson.
Happy birthday, Paul.
Happy birthday, Paul.
Enjoy the day, Paul.
Hope it's a good one for you.
You are a qualifier for today.
Excellent day.
We take a look at our celebrity list here.
And Jessica Beale is 43.
Seventh Heaven and the 18th in total recall.
Yeah, she is married to Justin Timberlake.
Okay.
That's right.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
Let's see here.
David Faustino is 51.
Bud Bundy is 51.
Wow.
Let's see.
John Carter Cash is 55.
Son of Johnny and June Carter Cash.
I believe the only child of John and Judy.
The June.
Oh, tone low is 59.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, wow.
Wow thing.
Funky Cole Medina.
And I really thought he was going to kind of shift into being a voice actor, especially
after Ferngully.
He was good in Ferngully.
Yeah.
It was a good voice actor.
It was in a couple of movies too.
We did a little bit of acting, but yeah.
One of the greatest athletes we'll ever see.
Jackie Joyner Cursey is 63 today.
She was amazing.
Greatest female track in a field athlete ever.
I think it's pretty hard to argue with that one.
Yes, she is.
She is the Michael Phelps of it.
I mean, she is just incredible.
She was incredible to watch.
Yeah.
And just the, her legwork was so intelligent and so different.
And it really changed the way a lot of women ran going forward, going back.
They still study that.
Cool.
It's just, you know, that and her nails.
Somehow, somehow I was able to break those records with those nails.
That's impressive.
Hersher Walker is 63.
Former Georgia Bulldog won the Heisman Trophy in 1982.
There are plenty of people out there listening, plenty of people out there being paid to
talk about sports that will tell you that is the greatest college athlete they ever saw.
And by far and away, they talk about this a lot where this guy just stands out.
This guy is so much bigger than everybody else.
There was just a different talent level with Hersher Walker compared to everybody else he played with.
And one of my most, one of the funnest two sport athletes of all time.
Because of course, he was also a Bob sledding.
That was the other sport that he was in.
That's right.
Yes.
He was.
It's very into it too.
He was into it, my goodness.
Jennifer Warnes is 78.
She sang with Bill Melody in the 87 Classic Dirty Dancing.
I've had the time of my life.
Yep.
Also sang with Joe Cocker in the Up Where We Belong.
There was a stretch there where if you needed the duet partner, Jennifer was the one to go to.
Yeah.
It was just too bad because she had a tremendous voice.
And you can see here when she first got started, she was a featured singer on the Smothers Brothers show.
She would appear, she appeared several times on that as a singer.
So I'm not sure why she didn't make it more on her own.
But she had some pretty big hits too.
She did have a number one right time of the night.
Yeah, that's right.
I forgot about that.
In April of 1977.
Yeah.
Kind of sings a little differently in that one.
You know, just to me, to me she did it and everything.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
She did sound a little different her tone a little bit, but compared to these other ones.
Versus them.
Yeah, very, very.
And it does at the same as all, is it good?
Is it one of the things that I think stemmed I miss is like 80s soundtracks.
Like because I don't know that we do this anymore.
Not really.
Not popular soundtracks.
Of course.
But there was a time where if you were going to have a romantic, like a romantic movie,
you had to have a duet with doing a male and female singer.
Absolutely.
Well, she did win three Oscars.
Yeah.
I mean, amazing.
Yes.
She found her niche there and went with it.
Not bad.
Yeah.
Good singer.
Good singer.
James Duhan would have been celebrating a birthday today.
Scotty on the original Star Trek.
Captain.
I can't.
I don't have enough butter.
We got one of the more famous accents in TV history.
And very.
As far as I understand, that was his real speaking.
Actually, I think he was Canadian.
He was not Scottish, but yes.
I think he had Scottish ancestry.
I heard differently.
Okay.
Yeah.
I might be wrong on that.
We have to look.
Oh, yeah.
Trust you.
I'll trust you.
Way over anything I think I'd trust Star Trek related.
Alexander Graham Bell, also born in this day in 1847, passed away in 1922.
Telephone inventor.
Of course.
Had an assistant named Watson, just like Sherlock Holmes.
He's a Scottish Canadian.
Oh, there.
Oh, there.
There's another connection there.
Nice.
Yeah.
Certainly, you know, we talk about Alexander Graham Bell since we were in kids in school.
Yeah.
One of the early inventors we talk about and everything.
Come here Watson.
I need you.
Practical telephone.
The first thing said over the wire.
That's an awesome first phrase.
Yes.
To come off of there.
And what a way of like a sign of things to come.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So much of a sign of things to come.
Interesting.
One more time.
I wish a very happy birthday again to Diane Blanchard.
She is our qualifier from the month of February.
Yeah.
And celebrated her birthday on the 15th.
But we do want to thank everybody to goddesses, birthdays and anniversaries for the month of February.
And to all of our listeners that celebrated, of course, we wish you great ones as well.
Maybe next year.
Yeah.
We'll see.
This is one of the most direct ways you guys can interact with us, too, is by giving us birthdays.
And it's easy.
And it's super easy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it in a text.
You can even do it through our text line.
Yes, you can.
On our civic media app, which is also free.
And if you see Diane today, you know, let her know and congratulate her and everything.
Tell her she has amazing cookies.
Yes.
Yes.
And if you see Paul Jackson today, congratulate him about qualified happy birthday to him.
And stick around everybody because we got good stuff coming up for you.
When we get back, we've got the top nine benefits of having work friends coming up.
And five things to look forward to in March.
All right.
Right around the corner.
Well, Melissa, Seth and James here on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally around radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you.
Hope you're having a great start to your week out there.
Thanks so much for joining us.
That opening riff.
And one of the greatest of all time.
I agree.
It's so good.
Let's look at some things to look forward to in the month of March here as we let go of February.
There's some fun stuff to get into.
We've already gotten into some of it as we're the third day in here.
Yeah.
Daylight Savings Time kicks off the list.
Starts next Sunday, March 9th.
You'll lose an hour of sleep at that night, but it won't get dark so early anymore.
Let's see.
Then March 20th is the first day of spring officially, although as Brittany was telling us.
Yeah.
And you're logically it has already happened.
Yes.
Yeah.
I just say you today, light savings time.
I was waiting for it.
I was trying to give a pause for what he does.
I don't want to cut you off.
Oh, thank you.
I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Actually, I was joking with someone at church yesterday.
I said, you know what?
I'm just going to start right now.
I'm going to go on Eastern time starting this week.
This whole week.
I'm going to be off an hour and just get ready for it.
But you weren't late today, Seth.
Well, I didn't say I wouldn't mess other people up.
I wait.
I like the idea of that.
So it's 9.30 for you right now?
Yes, exactly.
I like the idea of that.
I don't know.
Am I the only one that, like, the only thing for me is, like, the clock in my vehicle will be better now.
It'll, it'll actually be on time.
It'll be.
You never changed it.
Did you?
I just even gotten around to it.
And now I'm like, well, why would I even buy it?
I don't know.
I love it.
I really meant to do that.
I really do.
Every time you step in getting the car, it's like, oh, man, I should really do that.
And then totally forget about it.
Don't do it now, because you'll just have to change it again.
Right.
Right.
Although, then it will cement in your brain how to do it, because you got to relearn it every time.
It's true.
Every time.
Every time you got to relearn.
And, um, I will, I will, that, uh, comfortably, but I will admit to the audience.
There have been a couple of times this winter that I get in the vehicle, and I think I'm an hour late.
Tap it at least twice.
Thank you very much.
Oopsie.
Oh, yeah.
It's almost March Madness time.
The selection Sunday as March 16th, then the men get started on the 18th.
Women's tournament starts up the next day.
All right.
Uh, New Major League Baseball season starts in just a few weeks.
Cubs and Dodgers play the first series in Japan starting March 18th.
Opening day for everyone else will be March 27th.
I was gonna say that's, that's, I know those are real games and everything, but no.
That's not the real opening day.
It's just two teams.
We had the, uh, Oscars wrap up, and that was a big part of March.
A lot of people were looking forward to.
We'll be touching on that a little bit later in our entertainment section.
Go over winners and some other things about it.
Um, I'm holding my tongue moving.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I was, I was already a little furious.
And then this morning hearing some of our, our, our content here on the radio stations.
Yeah.
Maybe even more furious.
American Idol.
A Grey's Anatomy.
Reno or a 911.
I almost said Reno 911.
Oh, they bring it back.
That I wish.
Uh, the righteous gemstones and John Malini's live Netflix special are all some of the TV that
you have to look forward to.
Right.
There's a lot of network shows are coming back.
Yes.
Um, you, you had a lot of shows taking off because of award season and the sports that were on the radio.
Like, if you had anything you liked on Fox on Sundays, I was wrong.
Yeah, forget it.
Right.
And that and the things like that.
Bill Burr's next, uh, new standup special hits Hulu on the 14th.
Very curious about that one.
Okay.
Um, Bill Burr is walking a line that I don't think anybody else is walking.
And anybody else can walk.
Bill Burr goes out there and will say some things that almost any other comedian says and they would get canceled.
Right.
But because of his, he's been grandfathered in in some ways.
And, and something he would admit to I have heard him in interviews.
He has an African American wife.
And I think this oftentimes gives him a chance to say things and not everybody could say.
But it all, it's also, it's just his delivery.
It's a lot of his delivery and who he is.
And what, again, what he's been kind of grandfathered in for.
I'm very curious to see what that special be like.
He's also very smart about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's intelligent about how he does it.
Yeah.
There's such a, I want people to understand the big difference between him and some of the rise of these bro comedians.
Yeah.
These comedians that the only way they are popular is by taking shots at other, by degrading or taking shots at other things or other people.
There's a difference of insult comedians.
Watch the actual good insult comedians.
And then these people that are just, they're, you don't know what, it's not what they believe or don't believe.
It's, oh, what can it, what's going to get me likes?
Oh, what's going to get me, you know, what's going to make me viral.
Exactly.
They're not being controversial.
They'll be controversial.
They're being controversial because they're unfunny.
They can't come up with anything else.
That's all they got.
They're used to, we used to say this about comed, they used to say this actually about Eddie Murphy.
That, oh, Eddie Murphy's not intelligent.
He's not a smart comedian because he's got to swear all the time.
Now we look back and we're like, oh, wait a minute.
Actually, Eddie, that was very, he did that specifically for a reason.
Yes.
Yeah.
There's a difference of that.
And oh, I'm going to make a racist joke because I'm unfunny.
And it's just low-hanging fruit.
And that's all I can come up with.
I ask every one of these begazis and these comedians and everything.
Can you, what act can you do without that?
Show me what you can do without that.
Then I'll say if you're an actual comedian.
Until then, you're just a racist.
You racist with a microphone.
That's all you are.
You're a sexist racist without a microphone.
That big deal.
Yeah, anybody can do that.
Anyone can do that.
Anybody can do that.
Let's see.
The Seth Rogen, new TV series that a lot of people are excited about in Apple TV.
The studio starts on the 26th.
These Simpson's returns for its 37th season on March 30th.
Wow.
Incredible.
That is, that's something else.
Yeah, I'm going to enjoy it while I got it.
I didn't get a last one.
Well, are you sure?
I don't know what they could forever.
A year ago, I would have said differently with the way things are going right now.
I don't believe that the Simpson's will last past 32 seasons, maybe.
That's still a lot longer than, you know, everything else.
Yeah, yeah.
I can't complain.
You should not have done it.
No complaining about that.
Another one people are excited about.
Robert Pattinson's sci-fi space thriller Mickey 17 lands next Friday.
That looks very interesting.
Is that a movie or is that a show?
It's a movie.
It's a movie, okay.
He's basically, like, he keeps being, like, they keep producing him, like, making new copies of it.
Oh.
And because they're trying to save humanity and they're using this, this Mickey guy as it.
Robert Pattinson's playing.
I get it.
It's Mickey 17.
Okay.
All right.
The 17th incarnation.
Yeah, gotcha.
No, not many actors play cool and play smooth the way Robert Pattinson does.
He's got one of the greatest draw lines in all of cinema history.
I'll give you that.
He gets a chance to play these dopey kind of, like, lesser than characters or characters.
You know, characters you don't expect to be a hero that are or any of this stuff.
When you could just take away almost a little bit of the, if I can, the shine from him.
Man, does he just glow?
Is he just so talented?
Cool.
He's such a good actor.
And I feel, I bring this up in part because I didn't care about the Twilight stuff.
So I don't watch any of that.
No.
I'm very late to the game on Robert Pattinson.
This man is a good actor.
I'm very excited to see what all the things he's doing going forward with his career.
Because once you get that Twilight money or Star Wars money or any of that kind of
Star Harry Potter money, you're not, I want to say you're set.
You're always a working actor.
You've always got to focus on that.
But if you're smart with your money, you can take chances like this.
You can go ahead and go all out and do different things with your career.
And it's really cool to see him doing that.
And the amazing thing is that it leads to more stuff.
Yeah.
Especially if you do it well.
I got to admit, I'm very excited about these Steven Sottenberg Spy Thriller Black bag.
If you haven't heard of this, Kate Blanchett, Michael Fastbender, Regie Jean Paul,
Pierce Bronson, Naomi Harris, Spy Thriller, Steven Sottenberg.
Wow.
Yeah, it's just, he's fantastic.
That sounds fantastic.
He's good stuff, man.
Oh, no kidding.
I can't wait, I can't wait.
And Disney's new live action Snow White opens on March 21st.
The holidays, the big ones are Ramadan, which starts just already started.
Lent starts this Wednesday.
Yeah.
This Wednesday.
Yeah.
March 8th is International Women's Day.
Perum is the 13th.
And on the 70th, of course, Saint Paddy's Day.
Right.
There's also National Serial Day on March 7th.
I am already celebrating.
It's just eating nothing but cereal.
Until that day.
Well, you like to get a head start on daylight savings.
I like to get a head start on National Serial Day.
Yeah.
Reach their own.
National Ranch Dressing Day is on the 10th.
That's my day.
Yeah.
Really?
Yes.
I didn't know you were such a ranch fan.
I am a huge ranch fan.
And even though I have a dairy intolerance, it doesn't count for ranch.
I mean, it does.
It does, but it doesn't.
Yeah, I hear you.
It would be nice if you could just like, hey, body, just take a time out on this one product.
It would be nice.
And it would be really nice if Hidden Valley could have produced a dairy-free ranch that actually
tasted like their other one.
They didn't quite nail it, though.
Yeah.
It's hard.
Without the buttermilk.
Yeah.
It makes hard.
It makes it hard.
Pie Day is on March 14th.
National Puppy Day is...
Yes, yes, of course.
It makes your skate past Pie Day.
Geez.
I almost did.
I almost did.
Yeah.
I think it's cool how celebrated that is.
I know.
I do think it's fun quality.
I love how that is.
National Puppy Day is on the 23rd.
Oh.
I'll be honest.
I was just trying to get to a joke.
That's why I skated past National Pie Day, and I apologize to all the pie lovers out there.
Yeah.
How dare you.
You didn't leap across the desk and take you out.
You know there's enough.
To be fair, Pie Day, we're talking about the math equation.
I know.
But I'm curious, Seth.
But it's also the word pie.
It is the word pie.
So do you just use this as an excuse to eat pie, and can you eat the pie in something other
than pie form?
Yes.
Like do you have to eat it exactly for the circumference of pie?
I think the whole reason that came up with the day was just for that reason.
Yeah.
That was it.
To have fun pie puns all day long.
I love it.
I love as a society when we all agree on that.
Yeah.
We're good with this.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
We're good.
It's great for morning TV shows.
Yeah.
For National TV shows and everything.
Yeah.
On March 27th, it's a National Viagra Day.
How do you celebrate that?
Waffle Day.
Waffle Day.
Waffle Day.
Waffle Day is on the 25th.
I will be celebrating that one a lot.
Oh, man.
I'm going to have to go up to my cousin's restaurant up in Superior, Wisconsin.
Superior Waffles.
It's an awesome restaurant.
You need to go up there and have it.
Everybody's at goods.
Oh, my God.
It's so good.
You've mentioned them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I tried when I was up there.
They were close that day.
Yeah.
Road trip.
Yeah.
I'm telling you.
That'd be fun.
That'd be.
I just love trying different waffles yet for waffle places.
I found it.
I've been saving this for you guys.
And I couldn't.
I couldn't.
I had to scroll too far back my photos.
But anyway, eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony.
However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin or sign of pie is always zero.
Oh, is he perfect?
Oh, my God.
Oh, that's great.
We made we've become full circle on this.
That is the circle on the go.
Oh, I'm just going to go to break.
I'm just that's not so much a drop the mic.
It says like pick up the mic.
No.
Like we're a part.
Yeah, we're like to apologize for those last.
Back a more show coming up morning show.
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Love to hear from all of y'all.
We got an interesting one here.
Now, how do you do this?
I know growing up my, both my grandfathers, both military men.
So not too surprising to hear of a separation of things.
But we're very adamant and come from a generation maybe you could say.
You separate work, life, business, all these things.
There's a separation of them.
And I think in part of this was just because my grandparents didn't want to lend family money.
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
You did all the time, including me.
In a survey, 59% of workers say that they couldn't get through the day without having friends at work.
And 49% of people who are currently looking for a job are worried about being able to make friends at their next workplace.
OK.
So you think this ends in school when you had to move around and everything.
You'd even start over again with friends.
Trust me.
That was just a nightmare.
I'm not sure that was that fun.
But it still goes on when you're at work.
It still goes on as an adult.
Younger adults are more likely to say that their work friendships are important to them.
That drops as you get older with seniors carrying the least about it.
But there is still a good portion of the care about it.
The survey asks job seekers what benefits are to having besties at work?
And here are the top nine responses.
So the positivity of having friends at work.
This improved mental health, 47% said that.
Makes sense?
Seems like I'm going to do this right now.
Pretty obvious right now.
We can just stop right there.
That feels like a pretty good reason right there.
I mean, if you like the people you work with, yeah.
You're not coming to work every day.
Oh, man.
Got to deal with all these people.
These games gang.
Well, now it's all coming out now.
I was just going to do that.
I'm sorry.
I could help it.
I had this little heartfelt sentence I was about to say.
I'm moving on.
That was great.
That was too good.
Improved productivity.
46% said that.
Okay, it makes sense again.
I think so.
Yeah.
Positive environment, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Increase.
People that you can bounce ideas off over talking is through.
That helps.
Yeah.
Increased desire to stay with the company long term.
45% said that.
Well, yeah, because if you like your work environment, you don't want to stay.
Why would you?
In fact, I would say, you know, for depending on how important it is to you, you may not even,
you know, find that job, that other job that pays more or whatever because it's like, no,
I like it too much here.
So.
Increased more L.
41% said that.
That's an easy one.
That's an easy one.
Reduced burnout.
39% said that one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I suppose that depends on what you're doing and your job too though.
But if you can share the burden.
That's true.
Yes.
Even verbally.
Yes.
I think going back to the mental health part of this with that one, being able to, there's
only, you know, you could vent to your, you know, your significant other or your best friend
or whatever, but they're.
Or your plants.
Yes.
Your dogs, your animals, your pets.
Yeah.
But they're not going to relate like a coworker.
Well, because the coworker is one of the only people that's going to understand what it is
literally like you're doing and everything.
Right.
And every job is so unique nowadays.
There's, there's every, every job out there also involves carrying more than one hat,
wearing more than one hat.
Exactly.
Let's desire to quit or leave the company 34% said that.
I don't know what the difference.
I guess burnout is you're burnt out, but you're staying.
You're keeping, you're going to keep collecting.
I'll add it.
Okay.
Fewer inter, inter personal conflicts in the workplace, 33% said that one.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
That actually stood out to me.
Okay.
That actually was surprising to me a little bit, because I would think that if you weren't
making friends at work, what are you going to be, you wouldn't be having personal conversations
with them.
Whereas if you are, you have more opportunities for that to happen.
Right.
But, you know, I guess.
But if you're friends with them, you are more inclined to be a little more gracious in
your interactions.
I think.
Well, and you spend more, you know, except the second most amount of time you spend with
any group is the people you work with, right, other than your family.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Because you spend so much time with them, you know.
Yeah.
I guarantee I spend more time here or with you all that I don't know if there's anybody.
Like on that list, I'm pretty sure.
My co-workers, I shouldn't say.
Better opinion of company culture, 33% were on that one.
Okay.
Yep.
And better opinion of company in general, 29% said that.
Okay.
Naturally, bosses want their employees to have good relationships with co-workers, are
whopping 97% of hiring managers agree that there are benefits to employees forming friendships
at work.
I just want to know what that 3% worth thing like, no, they must be competitive and everyone
scratching and clawing for the next.
There are some people who have that take.
That's true.
Oh, oh.
I have the answer.
It's the cast of Glen Gary Glen Ross.
It's those are the 3%.
I got to get those click Gary Lee.
Bless anybody that gets that joke, anybody.
One of my all-time like dream roles.
Oh my gosh.
I was thinking of pitching that for next year.
I was thinking of pitching that for WRCT next year, I was thinking about that.
So when it comes to this and you out there, how do you feel about this one, how important
is it to have friends at work?
What are the benefits of having friends at work?
Right.
You know, I don't think that, I think negatives are kind of already understood.
Right.
Right.
The question that I had when we were talking through this whole thing is it's like, I think
it's good to have good relationships with people who work with obviously we just went
through the whole list, right, of all the positive benefits of it.
But my question for people would be, you know, where does it stop?
You know, do you continue to be friends outside of work?
Do you, I mean, and it's one thing to go out like say, you know, everyone's going out
for a drink or something after work, but you're still as a group kind of thing.
You know, you're all still as that work thing.
And, you know, and I'm not saying you can't meet, you know, like your best friend at work,
I'm sure it happens all the time.
You can meet, you know, your, your future significant other at work, you know, that's
happened too.
Again, we spend most of the time with it.
Exactly.
Because we spend so much time with them, right?
Well, and then people wonder why actors fall in love on set, you know, or things like
that.
Very intense relationship.
I mean, he spends so much time together too.
I'm not saying it's okay.
I just, you know, I mean, to the point, it just follows, right?
Yeah.
So, how many people can relate to the life that you're living of the, you know, another
actor, right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Well, let's take a call and hear what you think.
Good morning.
You're on the show.
Well, hi.
I thought I might be the perfect person to call in for this segment.
What you got?
Well, as someone who works there with, works with you guys, two of whom are quite literally
my closest friends and confidants, there are, like, ground rules we had to set before
I took that job on a personal note, like it was kind of a, how much are we going to
talk work?
And it's kind of a, we, like, wave a flag, hey, this is the work conversation, hey, this
is a friend conversation, and we carry on that way, and it's not that we're two different
people.
Like, this is WFHR, Laura, and this is real life, like, that's not really what I'm doing,
but it's also kind of what I'm doing.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But it's good.
We have to, you know, keep work things work and keep friend things friend.
And she brings up a good point of going to a job where you are friends with them before.
You know, you know them and your friends, and then you're going to work with them because
that creates a different dynamic, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that can create some interesting things, yeah.
Yeah, that's why it was a part of the conversation that I had before.
I even submitted my resume with, you know, Mal and James, you know, both of those are
my best friends, guys.
It's like real life.
We have been titled when it, I put it on my resume right away.
Thank you, Laura.
We appreciate the conversation.
Yeah.
We'll see you soon.
Good point.
Yeah, good stuff.
Very good stuff.
Appreciate that.
One angle I wanted to take this, a little bit different angle, and maybe I don't think
it's a reach, but it does come up a lot in a lot of our other conversations about how it
is as an adult to make new friends and how difficult that can be.
Right.
And there's no real playbook for this.
I bring it up from time to time when we're talking about different events in our area
and encouraging people to check them out for the various reasons that the event is being
held, but also, hey, it's a chance to maybe make some new friends, maybe meet some people
out of your regular wheelhouse here and everything.
We just have so few opportunities for it.
And it's understandable all of this data I just gave you and all of these things, because
where's the easiest way to make friends as an adult work?
Work is where you are all the time, right?
Yeah.
Like, you could say the bar, you could say, you know, after a leisure activity or a baseball
league of joy or whatever, you know, that stuff, but-
The thing is cost money.
Yeah, and that's the thing too.
You have money and they take time.
And you don't see any of those-
You have all you have time to do is work.
Well, guess what?
Thank you.
Yes, that's exactly where I wanted to go with all this.
Obviously, this stuff is obvious when you take a step back and you think, well, first
the work culture we have in this country, and then on top of it, how difficult we make
it to make friends as adults, and all of these things being said, I'm surprised these
numbers weren't higher.
Right.
Like, I'm actually a little surprised that we know in a more 50 to 60 percentage things
here, as far as the improvement of this or the purpose of it or why it's important.
And I wonder if there's not a little bit of pushback from people when they, you know,
all you just said is like, you know, well, what if I don't want to do, you know, I don't
want to be besties with my work, you know, I do want to have a separation, you know,
like we started the conversation as-
I am.
I'm not going to win any fan boat.
I like a separation.
I really do.
Yeah.
And I think I'm alone on that one, but that again is the way it was read with the other
stuff too.
Yeah.
Let's find out from you.
Good morning on the show.
This is free friends is what this is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good way, buddy.
It's free.
And then plus I'll have three radio friends.
That's not even better.
Yeah.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
Radio free friends.
We don't charge you a darn thing.
We maintain that.
For 80 some years, WFHR has never charged a friend anything.
Right.
It's never, never.
We don't do that.
We're really good at that.
Yeah.
We're very good at it.
But it's a great point though, man.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
I mean, I've been at my place since 11 or 26 years and I mean, I made a lot of work
friends.
A couple of them I do have gone out for a couple of years after work was and things like
that.
But otherwise, yeah, I mean, I don't have really any best friends at work.
It's their work friends.
And we could do some cooler talk with them, I know, and if they're bare fans, they could
sit there and tell them they're their team stalkers.
Yeah.
So the reason you have bare friends, you're not, you're not planning vacations with them
in other words, you know?
It's like, yeah, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No vacations with them.
I don't know if I could handle it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And for those that haven't before, you just got to look at what it's like for three guys
to sit around and talk.
Because the three of us just take, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then the sports run out.
Now what are we talking about?
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Is this the point where I share my one time I went on a work vacation with a bunch of
work friends to Vegas?
Oh, God.
Oh, I'm not.
Can you share that?
Are you allowed to do that?
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
You're not supposed to talk about that.
You're not.
I thought that was like the law.
I love the idea of people like they take it that literal in Vegas, like you're getting
on the plane and you're like, you have to decide a season doesn't look like a waiver.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kevin, thanks for the call, man.
Safe travels out there.
All right.
You guys have a great day.
You too.
Stick around, everybody, because we got more friends coming up here.
We're going to be joy by friends today.
Lots of friends today.
We got Tom next hour as well.
We'll get our kitchen's open and our monthly veterans update.
All of that coming up for you.
And we still got to talk Oscars.
Word, the only morning show in the world that didn't start with the Oscars.
You're probably right.
That's where.
We'll be getting to that in a little bit as well.
I think that's it.
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