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Good morning, Wisconsin. 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 news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here everybody. We're going to have some fun this morning. Kick things off the way we like to with our friend Brittany Marlowe. Good morning, Brett.

Good morning. I hear you humming to the music. So the good weather and the warmth must have got you in a good mood.

Got it, my veins. Got it, my bones. Yeah, there's a beautiful sun out there. I got to see the eagle this morning. It's a good start to the day.

James, are you wearing shorts? No, I really wanted to though. That's hilarious. I did. I was almost late this morning just debating.

You ever do that because I like to pick out my clothes. I like to have it out of the way so that I know when I'm throwing out in the morning because of the way I sleep and I usually am waking up and I.

So I had all my, I had lined up what I was going to wear. But then I thought about the weather and I'm like, hey, could I pull off shorts today?

Could I do it? Didn't listen to nurse want to know? Didn't do it. Didn't do it. But, but Brittany, it's probably, it might be a good thing.

It's a little chillier than yesterday. It looks like. Yeah, wise choice. About 20 degrees colder today with some lens with thing at about 25 miles per hour, too.

So good choice on the no shorts, but I hope you rocked them yesterday. I was a little weary.

Oh, sorry, sorry. I got excited because I did see two people doing it and I did wear shorts a bit yesterday. I did.

You know what? I saw yesterday. Well, first of all, I was scared to wear the short sleeves. I thought if I went for the walk, I'd be cold at the time I got to the middle of the walk.

That's fine. But as I'm on this walk, I'm walking around the Eau Claire River. And I see this couple coming back in bikinis and spin trunks.

Oh, no way. They put their butts, their tasty butts in that river with ice trunks.

Oh, you know, I've heard a hot and cold treatments. This is lacking the hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like you forgot that.

I wouldn't advise that today, but you'll have you'll have a chance to do that eventually. It's coming up.

Yeah, and is this going to continue this week, Brittany?

Yeah, so we are on this roller coaster. So at the bottom of the drop right now, we're going to climb tomorrow to the mid 50s.

We'll hit the low 60s on Thursday. And then we're even looking at low 70s by Friday, but everything changes over the weekend with rain moving in on Saturday.

And potentially some light snow on Sunday. But even after that, as we go in the next week, we climb right back to some spring temps. So we're good.

Wow. Yeah, it's just all over the place. It's the roller coaster of March.

Really is. Really is. It makes us appreciate you all the more, Brittany, because we don't know where we'd be without you guys.

You meet your relatives out there. You're the best. We appreciate you.

You're doing the hard work. Thank you, Brittany. Yeah, yeah.

You're the best. Have a good morning. You too.

Best in this is right there. Brittany, we're all enjoying us every morning. Her head has to spin with just.

Yeah, I can only imagine.

I didn't get there to get into it too much because I was rambling, but I'm sitting there debating about what to wear and everything.

I can't imagine for her. She goes to bed, the weather, you know, the predictions are one thing that forecasts are saying one thing and then she wakes up. It's a whole other thing.

Well, and she's watching systems move in and going, well, it could go this way or it could get that she's got like inside or knowledge on this stuff.

Yeah.

And still mother nature.

It's also it's it feels like sometimes mother nature just sits back and waits for them to give their forecast and like, okay.

All right. Now I'm going to use a curve ball.

Yep. She's up there laughing with God.

Yep. Yep.

At least I mean, try to make plans.

This we're entertaining, you know, and we are going to entertain you.

We've got plenty of great stuff over the next couple of hours.

The LCAP birthday anniversary club is right around the corner.

We're going to do some rewinding to about five years ago in a little bit.

We'll also get into that and some science.

Melissa and I are going to help you get hired.

We can help you get paid right, but we can help you get hired.

Five things you might secretly be judged for in a job interview.

That is coming up a little bit later.

We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our friend Amy Schultz.

She's going to be here to talk Girl Scout cookies.

Oh, yes. Awesome.

Can not wait.

Can not wait.

We're looking forward to that.

We're going to not only get a chance to talk about the types of cookies they'll have out this year,

but what Girl Scouts means for our young ladies out there and for entrepreneurism.

Yeah. That's awesome.

Get into some entertainment news as well.

We get some local theater to talk about all that coming up.

And what phrases annoy you every time you hear them.

That's a tough one.

I think that's what's relatable.

One that we could all just nod our heads to and everything.

I'm going to laugh through that whole segment.

I'm sorry.

And I want to get into a really good story of the day.

We're going to wrap up our segment, our whole show today,

and our good stories of the day getting into our schedule.

And a great new Buzzfeed article, Melissa sent over to me.

47 teachers who went above and beyond for their students.

We're going to go over some of those, not all 47.

We know the time for that, but we're going to go over some of the highlights of them

and let you know how you can check that out yourself.

And it used this, used that later.

And right now, as a reminder, to all you teachers out there,

to all you people in the education system,

we know you have good stories of the day.

Let them know. Let us know.

And we'll share them.

Oh, we would love to share them.

Yeah.

But let's go ahead and start right here, Melissa.

And everybody, you know, get still dealing with the time change.

There are experts that will tell you that it can take one to three weeks

for you to completely adjust to this.

That's depressing.

It is. It is a little bit.

Now, for those of us that have traveled out of time zones,

I think there's a little similarity to it.

Now, I've never traveled like you have where you've gone to like out of the country

or anything like that.

I've gone to the West Coast.

And that's pretty much the biggest time change I've had.

And that took me at least a week to get used to.

At least a week to get used to that.

And if you think I have a messed up sleep schedule now,

then it was crazy back then.

If you remember, how long did it take you to kind of adjust to the time change?

Or when you've had time changes?

Well, the thing was, like when I went to Hawaii,

it was vacation too long.

Oh, yeah.

So you're a vacation type.

I wasn't on a time schedule.

I don't know.

You get so messed up with the flight anyway.

And then it's, yeah.

And up is down.

And day is night, and you just kind of go with it.

Didn't even think of that.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Especially the vacation time thing.

Well, and because I did have an extended amount of time there when I was cat sitting.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't remember, but it was a lovely time.

Well, it's one of the things that I think about this.

When it comes, especially I didn't always think this,

but I will say in the last couple of years I thought of,

I look for any opportunity to show that those of us here in Central Wisconsin

or those of you in the projects in Brooklyn or the upper state of L.A.

Or anywhere you're listening to us,

relatability and things that we all have in common and things that we all share.

And there are very few people out there, if any,

who are not trying to adjust to this time change.

And it's something that we all have in common.

Except the people in Arizona.

Yeah, those luckies.

They're not the only place, but yeah.

No, but for the rest of us.

There you go.

They do not, they don't follow the time change.

That's such an interesting note to me.

And not surprising.

I think it's one of those things that makes sense when you hear.

But I would have never thought of that until I,

years ago, somebody said something about that to me.

So we have a few things that you can do that might help you adjust to the time change.

Number one, and this is always a good idea this time of year,

whether it is Brittany telling us this or Steven and Katrina from family natural foods,

get some sun.

Spend time outside in natural light and can help reiterate your internal clock,

even if it's cloudy outside.

Even if it's not necessarily the nicest day.

Now this morning we got a chance for it, but.

Yeah, because you, I mean, even when it's cloudy, you do get sun as it's out there.

And well, it's not the same thing at all.

You recommended a vitamin D supplements from your doctor or, you know, research on that one.

Isn't that a bad idea either?

Well, and I was told by, I believe it was a nurse practitioner years and years ago.

She's like, even in the summertime, anybody living at this latitude does not get enough sun.

Does not get enough vitamin D from the sun.

It's not possible.

Let me just take a sip of my coffee here.

Don't lean on that extra cup of coffee.

Dang it.

Don't.

It's tempting when you're tired, but caffeine too late in the day can keep you up at night,

which is just going to mess with that whole missing an hour or even more.

And it's, it's a, it's a band-aid.

You know, it doesn't really solve anything.

No, it's not the replacement for sleep.

But, you know, for those of us who sometimes occasionally struggle to sleep at night,

I don't know.

I don't know if this is the time to get into it, James.

But I think I was trying to be you last night.

Oh, no.

What do you think?

I literally was up until 3 a.m.

Oh, no.

Oh, God, that hurts for you.

I feel for you.

I, yeah.

No, it's not good as you.

When you've been tossing and turning and you look at your phone,

is that I've been doing this for three hours?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Oh, God, yes.

I just felt that.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

Because literally, I was like, okay, I know what they say.

How long is it you're supposed to lay in bed before you get up?

Because it feels like it's been more than that long.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I feel for you.

I will, I will say that we'll get into it a little bit later.

You know, for me, I think it's a little understandable,

even though I feel for you and I wish it hadn't happened.

And there's other resources you can do.

Now, I will say, though, I think that you also have to give yourself

some grace at these times.

And if your grace is that extra cup of coffee or something,

maybe one of the ways...

That's what's going to be today.

I hate wasting stuff.

But one of the things that I'll do sometimes,

I'll pour myself my cup of coffee and I'll drink half of it.

I feel a little better.

It's splitting the atom, I wholeheartedly admit.

But it helps a lot.

Well, and sometimes your body tells you, no, you're done.

Yeah.

No more coffee.

Yeah, it doesn't, yeah.

I'm one of those people.

I could drink coffee at midnight and still fall asleep.

At the same time, not drink nothing but water from noon until midnight

and still be awake.

I don't know.

Zero coffee after, like, I don't know, nine yesterday,

so I don't know.

Wasn't that?

Yeah.

Eat meals on your new schedule.

If you normally eat lunch at one,

I feel hungry until two, but sticking with your normal lunch time

can help you adjust quicker.

And don't eat dinner too late either.

It can keep you up.

Yeah.

Well, and this is another thing too,

for those of us that don't have a set schedule,

that it doesn't, I don't know.

It doesn't matter as much, I guess.

I don't always eat it exactly at the same time.

As you were, just predicting ahead of us and everything.

One of my favorite phrases, of course.

You want to make God laugh, make plans.

We all run into this where we have good intentions

or we have a routine or a plan that we're trying to do,

and it just doesn't always work out that way.

I think that working around that in all of this,

that's what they're getting at here, I believe.

I understand what they're saying down to the number,

down to the exact time,

but I think that getting around that is the best you can do some days.

Yeah, and I mean, our bodies like routine.

They like habits.

They like to be stuck in a groove.

And if you've achieved that, then these are for you.

Our brains crave routine.

They crave routine, so anytime you can get to them.

Get some exercise, even a brisk walk can make you feel more alert.

It might also help you fall asleep tonight.

Yeah, I'm going to try that today.

Yeah, I got a friend of mine that's what he does.

If he can't sleep, he goes for a walk.

He also lives in California.

So it's a little bit easier to do.

But yeah, he's done that as long as I've known him.

And hydrate.

You'll feel more fatigued if you're dehydrated.

So drink plenty of water this week, avoiding alcohol is also a good idea.

Yeah, but you know, you can pretty much never go wrong with more water.

Yeah, there are a few situations where you know,

okay, that's enough. Stop now.

Usually yes, it usually is a pretty good idea.

Good idea for us to do some celebration.

We're going to do that when we get back here on the morning show.

Melissa, now get into the LKFA birthday anniversary club.

It's coming up.

It's time to do some celebration with our great friends over at LKFA.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to LKFA, 221 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards.

They're open today.

Oh, yeah.

I'm loving the new bumpers.

Yeah, nice work.

I sent Seth a couple suggestions and then he took the ball and ran with it and had a whole bunch more.

I love it.

Any Zeppelin free in the morning is great.

Nice work, man, nice work.

And great work being done by our friends over at LKFA.

They're hoping everybody has a wonderful day.

You can find that out for yourself.

You follow them on Facebook.

Yes, they have a wonderful Facebook page.

And they always have their specials loaded on there.

Let me pull this up here.

Santa Fe Benedict Polish sausage skillet.

And they're lunch specials this week.

Tuna melt, cafe steak or chicken nachos.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm looking at.

Yeah, I saw that right away.

I'm like, ooh, chicken nachos.

I don't think I've had that before.

That sounds like my kind of thing.

That's my jam.

Also, the Santa Fe Benedict.

I've never had it with chicken.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I would try that.

I would try that.

I would absolutely try that.

Because the holiday sauce is infused with a hint of buffalo.

Oh, yes.

I think it's so creative over there.

They have such great stuff.

I love it.

Check out that menu, everybody.

Enjoy yourself over at LKFA today.

And say hi to them for us.

Appreciate our friends over at LKFA.

Get us your birthdays and anniversaries as well.

Get them to us, everybody.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

You can, of course, direct messages on our Facebook pages.

And you can text us or call us.

That's right.

Well, our phone number here at the station is 715-424-2600.

You can wish your happy birthday or anniversary.

Share it with us live.

Or you can just text it in through the Civic Media app.

Yeah.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

We really love live birthdays.

So go ahead and get them to us, everybody.

Birthdays and anniversaries.

Even if it's not today.

Yeah, yeah.

We don't mind.

We don't mind.

We will go ahead and dive right in.

Melissa, I need a one through three.

Whoa.

Hmm.

Three.

All right.

Gives us a qualify here.

Get right into it.

First up, we want to wish a happy birthday to Caitlin Wilson.

Happy birthday, Caitlin.

Enjoy your day, Caitlin.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish happy birthday to Brittany Wandsnider.

Happy birthday, Brittany.

Enjoy the day, Brittany.

We wish you a good one.

We like...

We like Brittany's around here.

That's good to say.

Yeah.

We're big fans of Brittany's around here.

So yeah, yeah.

Enjoy the day, Brittany.

Hope it's a good one.

Hmm.

And our qualifier, Marge Wint.

Oh, happy birthday, Marge.

Congratulations.

The best of days, Marge.

Enjoy.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, animals that you are.

Our qualifier for today.

And get over to El Café because you will get free pie.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Let him know.

Let him know over there, everybody.

And your pie selection is fantastic.

I got to try.

He's got to get over there.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

A Jody Comer is 32.

Villanella on killing Eve and Millie and free guy.

A very good actor.

Very good actor.

I have not seen her in a ton of stuff.

I didn't see killing Eve.

A lot of people told me I should watch it.

I never got a chance to.

But I did see her in the movie Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds.

And she was fantastic.

Oh, yes.

No.

Her in killing Eve with Sandra.

Sandra, oh, yeah.

Yes.

That was fantastic.

She was absolutely fantastic in that.

I've seen some scenes from it voting on Sag Awards.

And I was blown away.

She's in the new 28 years later movie

that's coming out.

A lot of people are excited about.

She's just really good.

I never got to finish all the seasons.

But what I did get to see was just.

Oh.

Yeah.

That was one of those shows.

Thora Birch is 43.

Kevin Spacey's daughter in American Beauty.

And it in Ghost World.

Danny in the Halloween movie.

I like her a lot.

She's good actress.

I really, Ghost World is fantastic.

My sister and I watch a movie like three times.

Like it's a good movie.

Benji.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry.

And it takes me a while to find them.

And then I know who it is.

She's good.

She's good.

It's the, she was one of the kids in Hocus Pocus, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got to be honest with the audience.

I don't know that my sister watched that movie all the time.

And I would babysit my sister and brother.

But I was a teenager.

I didn't really watch it.

Yeah.

I wasn't paying attention.

Yeah.

I saw the actors in it.

I'm still blowing away.

Sarah Jessica Parker doesn't look like her in that movie.

Like it took me years to realize that was her in that movie.

I don't know why.

Just something about the way she looks in it.

It just didn't, it was unrecognizable to me.

I don't know if she didn't get a great job.

I mean that no bad way or anything like that.

Right.

Just saying, you know, just didn't, I knew Ben Middler.

It was hard to miss.

Ben Middler's shadow shows up in a movie and then no she's in it.

I mean that's that she's one of the, she's incredible.

But Benji and Joel Madden are 46 twins of whom the suburbs had part of Good Charlotte.

Okay.

Let's see here.

Oh, Benji has married the camera D as wow.

I didn't know that.

I got two kids.

Okay.

Good.

Johnny Knoxville is 54.

Of course.

Famous from the jacket.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Famous from the Jack S TV show and movies and everything.

But um, a sneaky performer.

Sneaky.

Yes.

Yeah.

Good way to put it.

Yeah.

Uh, sneaky thing about Johnny Knoxville.

Good actor.

He's a good actor.

He's, he's, I'm not going to go crazy.

It's easy to ask her type caliber or something like that.

But he's, he's way better than average.

Okay.

He's a very solid.

Yeah.

Solid act.

In a solid voice actor.

He's, he's, he's a, does a really good job with both.

I, I don't, I would love to be able to interview him and find out.

Hey, did you want to do with acting and this kind of came first hanging out with your buddies

and doing all these crazy, you know, stunts and all that stuff?

I'd love to know which came first for him because if he just fell into acting and he's this

good, that's, that's not fair.

That, that didn't set stuff there.

His real name, Philip John Clap.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

I wouldn't, well, with what they used to do with all the crazy stuff of the, the, the jackass

stuff and everything, I would have thought Clap would be a good last name.

I wouldn't have.

Lisa Loeb is 57.

Stay.

I missed you.

I love that song.

It's still a good one.

Not only very self-deprecating with that song, you know, she's, she's always had fun with it and everything.

It's, you know, I think the movie Reality Bites really set it on a standard.

But what Lisa Loeb did is something that we're really inspired and really set the stage for a lot of other artists.

Lisa Loeb's, that hit, what was a hit without her having a record deal.

She put that together.

She did that.

She produced that and everything.

And it eventually got caught on and, you know, she got a record deal from it and everything.

But it's very, it doesn't happen that way in the industry.

You get the record deal and then you get the hit.

For her and other artists since her, like Chance the Rapper and so many others,

Nipsey Hussle, a lot of hip-hop artists have done this, where they own every second of their music.

They're not, they've seen what happened, you know, the Beatles and other artists.

They're not losing it.

Right.

I think I would much, I know that it's got to be tempting to sign a record deal.

I can imagine how tempting it is.

I wouldn't imagine doing that as an artist.

To keep power of your over your own destiny when it comes to your creation.

Yeah.

But she also was in several movies.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

Hot tub time machine too.

That's right.

Yeah.

Hanukkah on ride.

Yeah.

I got to see that when I got to see that.

I wouldn't say that.

Good one.

She's a good singer songwriter.

Mm-hmm.

The great Bobby McFair in his 75 today.

Don't worry.

Be happy.

Yes.

Bobby McFair and did a lot of great work with Yo-Yo Ma as well.

There's some really good work.

I guess you would call it duets with them.

Anyway.

But I will always value and appreciate Bobby McFair and in major part because of the music video

for Don't worry.

Be happy.

Which of course features Rob Williams.

They asked Rob and to be a part of this.

Rob and was a fan of Bobby McFair and they were friends.

So we decided to do it.

People may not know this.

Rob and did it for free.

And you can't get away with that anymore.

In this day and age.

There are actors that literally work for a dollar just because of the way that the rules are now that you have to be paid something.

It's for the betterment of all actors.

But it does it every once in a while.

It's a little it gets in the way of some things.

The whole video Rob and in propped.

And you go back and you watch that video.

And it's not only a fun song.

There's like stories he's trying to tell it.

He just creates in this video.

It's all pretty much one take too.

It's one of my favorite videos of all time.

I get goosebumps thinking about it.

And it's a fun song.

I like to watch it.

I'll admit.

As a kid when that song came out.

I got tired of it real quick.

Yeah.

I mean, it's repetitive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wholeheartedly admit that.

But now when I hear it, it doesn't bother me as much.

And I love.

I especially love the video.

I go back and watch it every once in a while.

It's a good one.

I will definitely have to actually listen to more of his music though.

Because that's really the only song.

You know, that's this most recognized one.

Yeah.

But this man has a four octave range.

Oh, yeah.

Bob McFarron is incredible.

His history is not going to do right by him.

We're going to remember him for this when you go ahead and look at how many awards

and how many different things that man has won and everything.

Yeah.

He's incredible.

And all his different is scat singing to polyphonic overtone singing.

Yeah.

I.

Whoa.

Okay.

This bucket list.

Yeah.

He's a good one.

He's a good one.

Sam Donaldson is 91.

ABC News Legend.

When we were kids, we had the three big names.

We had Donaldson, Jennings, or rather, these great journalists that we could count on and trust and go to.

And all of them, in many ways, worked together and behind the scenes.

While they were all fighting to break stories and everything, they also, there was a camaraderie with journalism.

Yeah.

There was an idea of, do we want to break the story?

Yes.

But we got to get it right.

Mm-hmm.

And it's better to be right than be first.

Right.

Yes.

That is correct.

It's tough to wrap our brains around that in American society because winning is everything.

And coming in first is everything.

And in all these things.

But not with the news.

Not with that, not with this one department, with at least with this one department.

That's not the case.

I would rather the could story be right and accurate than be...

I'd rather be 10th or 12th to a story than be first with inaccuracy.

As one of the names that I mentioned there found out the hard way and Dan Rather.

One of the greats.

And he had a black eye on his career because of that.

It's the 24 hour news cycle and the advertiser thing that really throws a muck into all this stuff.

Where money became more important than facts.

Yeah.

And I don't know.

It seems to be, I don't know, the root of all evil.

Yeah.

That really does.

Which is in part why we value so much working for civic media and how important that is.

With what we do here.

We want to keep the lights on.

We want to keep sage healthy.

With all these things.

But at the same time you heard me mention one person.

I didn't mention a conglomerate.

I didn't mention a board of directors or something like that or anything.

We are fortunate that our company has run really by a bunch of people.

But one person at the top and that person looks at profit as a second or third-dairy thing.

Democracy is the number one thing.

Civic engagement.

And certainly entertaining.

Having fun.

We have a lot of music stations under the civic media umbrella as well and everything.

Informative entertainment.

Yeah, I think we do it both.

I think we do both well.

Also some people no longer with us.

Just a shout out to Vinnie Paul born in 1964.

Past away way too young in 2018.

Dying bag Daryl's little brother.

Both brothers gone now.

So that's just a shame.

This is a shame.

Great drum got to see Panther alive four times.

Amazing band.

Amazing band.

We wish everybody out there celebrating a birthday or anniversary.

A great one.

Enjoy your day.

Everybody.

And celebrate with our friends at El Café.

Yeah, yeah.

Get down there and have some pie.

It's awesome.

221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

We will take a time out.

Get to our new sports and partner break.

When Melissa and I come back, we're going back in time.

Back in time.

Back in time.

Going back in time.

Back in time.

Now I want to watch back to the piece.

Yeah, now I do.

I do.

I've got a song I ain't got no melody.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Got some fun stuff lined up for you.

We'll be getting into it in just a little bit.

But right now we're rewinding.

We're going back in time.

Five.

It's stuck.

I know it's stuck in my head.

It's stuck in my head.

It's stuck in my head.

Five years ago today, we were all really stressed and really, again, relatability.

I think everybody was almost on the same page with the same emotions.

It is the fifth, five years ago, COVID-19 hit.

The World Health Organization declared it the global pandemic on March 11th in 2020.

Within days, the world unraveled.

If you weren't holed up in a bunker or running around trying to grab as much toilet paper as you could or any of these things,

the national emergency was declared on March 13th, then schools, businesses, and borders closed.

California became the first to issue stay-at-home orders on March 19th, then other states followed suit.

The stock market had its worst crash since 87, and all sports leagues shut down.

There was the...

I have really bad...

Well-intended, let's say, to be nice.

But really bad, imagine video.

Oh, that was bad.

It was cringy.

It was rough.

Yeah.

We learned a lot of different phrases like social distancing and essential workers and things like that.

And the World Health Organization, finally declared COVID, was no longer a global health emergency three years later on May 5th, 2023.

According to their official stats, over 7 million people died worldwide, including 1.2 million in the US.

Wow.

Yeah, that shouldn't...

It feels like that is somewhat under-reported.

I know we had the constant updates and the daily notifications, but that number seems just big.

I learned this when I was a kid.

If you say I love you every five seconds, it loses its meaning.

It kind of doesn't mean as much the first time you said it.

It's at the 18,000th time you've said it.

If you say it just back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

I've got friends over in the New York area that talk about this, because they've got in New York, the national debt thing that keeps ticking.

And while there was good intentions, probably behind that, just like with the COVID-19 numbers and some of that...

It just becomes numbers.

We got numb.

We got numb to it.

And so I think I could not agree with you more, Melissa.

It's part of the reason I want to even do this article is talking about that 7 million people that we lost worldwide.

And the 1.2 fellow Americans we lost, especially when a lot of this didn't have to happen.

And that's not in me pointing fingers or anything like that.

That's just life.

I could say that about a lot of things.

I could say it about polio.

Now this one's a little bit different for various reasons, but I'm just trying to be fair here.

And I think that that's something else to take in mind with this too.

We were all trying to do the very best we could, especially our World Health Organization.

The intentions were good to protect public health.

Everybody wants to be armchair quarterback now.

Everybody wants to be Monday morning quarterback.

Oh, 2020.

Yeah.

I'm really tired of this.

And I'm especially sick of it from politicians.

Because I don't want my politician to tell me that, oh well, we should have been doing this or we should have been doing that.

Learn from our mistakes and let's move on.

And move on.

Yeah.

Because we can't change the past.

Yeah.

Past is past.

We need to move forward.

And can we, as we are moving forward and we are five years removed from this?

Can we get back to trusting science?

Yes, please.

Can we go back to that?

You know, the thing that got us almost pretty much, along with human will and creativity and so many other things, got us to where we are in society today.

Right.

Helped eradicate diseases that used to kill children, you know?

Yeah.

I mean, the cemetery used to be full of tiny grapes.

Yeah.

But we eradicated disease because of science.

Polio.

It's not lose sight of that.

There's too much work to be done in the science field and when it comes, I say this all the time and I won't stop saying until it changes.

These diseases are running game on us.

One of the biggest threats to humanity is diseases.

And we continue to bicker about political parties and sports teams and silly things while these diseases just run game on us.

They don't care if you're rich or poor.

They don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat.

They don't care if you're an American citizen or not.

And getting our egos out of the way and getting out of the way of, you know, who wants to make another million or any of these other things and just focusing on humanity and it being better and sharing of information and the need for this.

Getting back to trusting science.

Yes.

Science will be the first one to tell you that science isn't always a thousand percent right because science isn't ever adapting thing.

But when it's right, it's right.

The earth is round.

The earth is round people.

The certain things science.

James, you said it.

Certain things science got right and a good 99% if not more of that.

And when it doesn't get it right, it gets it right very shortly after or adjusting to curves or different things.

Right because it doesn't ever evolving thing science.

The only thing.

The only thing from our mistakes and we change and we adapt and we grow and I don't know what things change.

I would think we would want that life is ever changing.

I mean, the only thing that's right ever always is my mom.

That's it.

That's it.

You are correct.

Speaking of science and trusting science, look what science can do for us.

Eggs.

Eggs are very expensive right now.

Everybody's talking about it.

Every stand of comedians trying to come up with jokes about it.

Right.

Seriously, I was the other day this weekend.

I was for about an hour working with my buddy Will.

He's trying to come up with these bits on eggs.

And it's just like, can we just move on, man?

It's not happening.

We're not coming up with anything here.

And people are getting sick of it.

Yeah.

It's kind of old hat now.

Researchers in Italy released a study.

Science has figured out a new way to cook eggs.

To cook eggs.

Yeah.

Okay.

So this study that they released is called the periodic cooking.

It's not complicated, but it does take a while, 32 minutes.

Okay.

The two parts of an egg don't cook the same.

Hard boiled makes the egg white rubbery, which some people don't like.

But soft boiled doesn't fully cook the yolk, so they designed it to cook both parts perfectly.

Hmm.

It takes some dedication in two pots of water, one that's 212 degrees and one that's 86 degrees.

Okay.

You cook them for two minutes in hot water, move them to the warm, warm water for two minutes,

then repeat the process seven more times.

Oh my goodness.

After 32 minutes, you end up with the perfectly cooked eggs.

But many people are wondering if it's worth it.

I think the only people really doing this are a lot of...

I'm kind of one of these.

I'm a borderline science nerd.

But I think that's the only people doing this.

I can't imagine anybody that has the time for this.

Well, if we were stuck at home in a pandemic,

there you go.

Oh, there you go.

Where was this five years ago, science?

Yeah, I take it all back.

Science, you're lazy.

Where were you, five?

Where's my hoverboard?

Oh, man.

Yeah.

It does seem like I would be interested to try to taste the egg.

Yeah.

That's perfectly cooked.

I like hard boiled eggs.

I don't mind.

I mean, I don't think of the texture of the white says rubbery,

but I don't mind them.

I like hard boiled eggs.

But I'm curious what this would produce.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm kind of curious how they would...

Okay, I don't know if I can just own silly here or not.

I wonder if they'd change how the scrambled eggs tasted

or something like that.

I don't know.

Not sure.

It doesn't seem like it would.

Well, I don't think you would get a scrambled egg go...

Oh, no.

Could you turn it into a scrambled egg?

Couldn't you?

Well, no.

No, you can't.

No, it looks already solid.

Thank God this isn't live.

Can edit this out later.

Phew.

What's that?

Oh, good.

Sorry, James.

At least I'm being honest though.

Yeah, I don't know many people that could try this or even have the time to try this.

Or have the money to try this right now.

Yeah.

Because if you screwed it up or it didn't turn out and you didn't like it,

you're like, man.

That's the other...

How much did that egg cost?

That's the first thing I thought of is if you go through all this and do it,

and then at the end of it, you're like, it didn't taste any different.

That would really aggravate me.

Or you only did it with one, and it was fantastic.

And now you have to do it again.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to make some toast.

Order a pizza.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back.

And we're going to help you get hired.

We're going to talk about five things you might secretly be judged for in a job interview.

Coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We're going to take you to the top of the hour and kick off the nine o'clock hour

with our friend Amy Schultz.

She's going to be here talking Girl Scouts of Northwest Great Lakes.

Yeah.

We're going to be talking about that coming up just a little bit.

But right now, your resume shows if you're qualified or not.

An interview is more about whether you'll click.

And people who run those interviews can pretty tricky with the way they judge us on them.

Someone asked hiring managers to name any quote special tests they use to secretly judge

people during interviews.

And here are five different tactics they mentioned.

The water test.

Water test.

Oh, boy.

It's apparently a pretty common one.

If they offer you water, saying yes makes you seem confident.

But if you chug it too fast, you look nervous.

So say yes to water, but just sip.

Okay.

Who is not nervous in a job interview?

Yeah.

Like why wouldn't you be nervous?

I mean, at least a little bit.

I want you.

I want you a little.

I want you a little nervous.

I want you a little.

I want you a little nervous.

I want you a little.

I want you a little out edge or a little nervous or something like that.

Because I don't like people feeling that way.

But that does mean that you're engaged in that you want this.

And that you want the job.

Yes.

Trying to catch you on a lie.

Like pretending to know a non-existent person at one of your old jobs,

they say, oh, you work there.

Do you know Zeke?

If you pretend you do, you're out.

Seeing if you're a team player.

A manager at a restaurant said that they like to leave a broom on the floor

to see if the person picks it up when they walk by.

If they step over it, they don't get hired.

Okay, but if the manager stepped over it.

Like that would be...

Yeah.

I would do two.

Honestly, I would leave a broom on the floor and a rag on the floor.

A manager picks up the broom.

If you pick up the rag.

Sure.

All right.

We got two more of these, but I got to do something real quick here.

And I have done very little hiring in my life,

being completely honest with the audience.

And Melissa knows how bad I am.

Job interview.

But when it comes to this...

I do that as I have a mouthful cock.

You did just fine.

When it comes to this, the one thing that I am...

I push back on.

And I am so sick and tired of when it comes to the work for working.

In general, no matter what type of work, no matter what you're doing out there.

Head games and office politics.

Yeah.

Who has the time for this?

Nobody.

I don't care how good you are at your job or what position you're in.

If you are playing head games with your employees, with your coworkers.

If you are doing things like this, you are wasting time.

In time, as far as I understand it, as money.

If you can't read a person, if you can't get a good judge on a person,

a good read on a person, I don't think you're right for the job.

I don't think you should be doing the interviewing.

If you've got to go through this extent to be able to figure out if somebody is right for your company,

I don't think you're good at the job.

You're good at hiring people.

I think you should let somebody else.

Maybe this is what AI should be for.

Oh, gosh.

Well, that's a different topic.

No, that's a whole different topic.

No, I don't mean that.

I was just joking.

But the idea of this is not only a waste of time.

It's childish.

Well, it's something that I expect from, once you're over the age of 13,

head games need to stop.

It's pointless.

It's tiresome.

It's lazy and I find it childish.

Well, I think it points out how cynical we've become.

But we expect everybody walking at us or coming to a job interview

to be trying to trick us, to be trying to pull the wool over our eyes

and to pretend to be better.

I don't know.

It's a...

Going through these last two, asking questions that don't have a correct answer.

Oh, that's a great one.

Hiring managers at Google used to do it.

One question they'd ask, how many golf balls would fit in a school bus?

Jeez.

You need to know the exact size of the bus to do the math.

So the real reason they asked was to see if people would toss out a number

or think it through and explain why a right answer wasn't really possible.

Honestly, that doesn't seem like a really hard question.

No, no.