Good morning, Wiz Gansom.
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 your head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kaye.
Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio, thanks for being here everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday out there.
Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.
Good morning, Brett.
Good morning.
How are you?
I'm doing good over here.
We've got some nice blue skies.
It can't complain.
Yeah, it looks really beautiful like with the snow and the blue sky.
It's just a good contrast.
I love it.
It's a gorgeous day.
We're going to see sun all throughout the afternoon and highs today are going to get
much warmer.
We're going to climb to the mid 40s, melting some of that away and then of course that
means fog passively through the overnight and into early tomorrow morning.
But overall, really just a dry, bright, beautiful week, getting warmer every single day.
I mean tomorrow will be near 50 degrees, or Thursday will be into the mid 50s.
And then we're going to start to see the changes with some rain rolling in for the weekend.
That should wipe out our snow pretty much by the end of the week, eh?
Yes.
And then I'm concerned with between the snow melting all throughout the week and then
added rain on top of that this weekend.
Our rivers and streams are going to be rising pretty rapidly.
Hmm.
Check your basement.
Yeah.
Just going to stay up, just thinking.
I know it's something my parents are.
I'll have to tell my dad, give him a heads up.
Appreciate the heads up, Brittany.
Thank you so much.
Have yourself a great morning.
We'll get together tomorrow.
You're welcome.
You too.
Thank you.
Thanks, Brittany.
Best in the business right there, Brittany.
We're all joining us every morning.
Melissa and I got a lot of fun things lined up for you this morning.
We're going to get into the LKFA birthday and anniversary club in just a little bit.
We will.
There's some special birthdays over there today.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll be diving into that.
We will also, I don't know if I have those special birthdays, Melissa.
We will get into that.
We will also be talking about a couple of other fun things that we've got.
Emerging trend, sweat pant jeans.
Got to talk about that.
Sweat pant jeans, I'm intrigued.
Got the unhealthiest foods on the planet.
We'll be diving into that one as well.
So intrigued.
Nine o'clock hour.
Got some entertainment news for you.
We'll be diving into.
We'll also get into some local theater.
Talk about our newsletter a little bit.
And got a couple of, got at least one or two of any right stories for you as well coming
up today.
But so I had a class the other day that led to an interesting conversation that completely
derailed the whole entire class.
We were doing a sketch and as often things come up with a lot of our, the difference of
ages between the generation between me and my fellow teacher Brian and our students.
And there's things that happened that are called cultural or, you know, pop culture wise
or something like that.
And then there's things that really just kind of, I don't know how else to put this.
We're dumbfounded.
I had a student who was 18 years old and we were doing a sketch and she slipped and fell
on her back.
And had this look on her face like everything in the world had stopped.
It wasn't a bad fall.
It wasn't a hard fall.
It was something that quite honestly and improvise all the time.
But she was having a hard time breathing because she had knocked the wind out of herself.
And she had never done this before.
And she had heard of this, but she had no idea what it was like.
It's hard when you experience it for the first time.
At 18, to go that long in life.
And I mean, I think it was like seven or eight.
I fell off the monkey bars and landed.
Oh, you know, you're doing a lot as a kid.
Yeah, yeah.
And she somehow avoided this.
And it got me, it got us talking about things that you, you don't really get a heads up
about.
You know, you just kind of got to experience in life.
There's no real way to kind of explain to somebody what it's like to get the wind
knocked out of you.
You can say that.
But I mean, how do you, that doesn't really describe it, does it?
I mean, it doesn't really not until you've had that experience of not being able to take
a breath.
It's so weird.
It's such a weird feeling.
And people who have asthma obviously have to deal with that on a regular basis, but it's
I think it's slightly different.
I would, I would assume I don't have asthma, but feeling like you can't breathe.
This is a pretty panicky thing to experience.
Yeah.
You're certainly having panic attacks, similar, but not the same of course, but it did
get us talking about this and what it actually is and what actually happens.
And when this happens, it's a sudden blow or impact to the adamant.
The result is in a spasm of the diagram.
The technical term is ferronous spasm, ferronous spasm, and I worked on that one.
So I know I got it right.
Congratulations.
It just, it got us, of course, going down another rabbit hole of things that you have
to learn the hard way or have to learn difficulty.
I think that, you know, no matter how many times our parents tell us to go before we get
in the car or go before you put on your sweat suit, your sweat pants and you get the
boots and the gloves and yeah, the God of the, of course, you have to go.
There's just a long list of these things that I want to hear from the audience.
I want to hear from everybody about one of these things that we have to learn the hard
way we are a PG show.
Keep it family friendly.
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You can, of course, text us through the Civic Media app.
You want to keep that app handy, everybody, because we got this amazing fun contest going
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So many great prizes.
Up and down the state Civic Media is breaking the spring text to win contest.
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We got more coming 11, 1 and 4 o'clock hours.
We're going to be listening for keywords during those hours to text us through the Civic
Media app and you can get some great prizes, Melissa.
Yeah, so many chances to win.
Yeah, yeah.
Keep on listening for that, everybody.
We'll talk more about it a little bit later.
And I want to hear from you about your lessons, the hard way things, and I want to have that.
Because that's an interesting one to try to explain to somebody.
And then honestly, just to try to think about lessons learned the hard way that are radio
friendly.
Yes.
Because there's a couple that come to mind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I hear you.
Shouldn't have got married at 19, lesson learned the hard way.
It was 18 for me, but yes, 100% 100% of with you.
They're not you come back from that one.
It's a tough one.
That's a tough one.
One of the other things that we do, certainly, especially what we're young and stuff, is
have these habits as a heavier word than I mean, but things that we might do that we
don't necessarily keep up doing as we get older.
One of them tends to be chewing on things, chewing on pencils, chewing on our fingernails,
this kind of thing.
Okay.
Now a new study in South Korea found chewing on pencils could actually improve your memory
and help you focus.
Really?
Yeah.
Where was this when I was in grade school, right?
Right.
I mean, we always chewed on pencils.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why they don't make all pencils edible, by the way.
I don't know.
Well, edible.
Well, edible might be taken a little too far.
Way too far.
Way too far.
But I just loved, I don't know why, this brought back the memory so poignantly for me, James,
of taking a number two yellow pencil and putting it between my middle molars and just biting
down to get the impression of my teeth in it is such a satisfying thing to do.
It was that little, that little give that it had, right, that's what it was for me.
Can't go too far.
No, no.
Can't go too far.
Yeah.
As kids, it was how we were living on the edge.
I don't know.
But I would do it all the way up and down the pencil.
You can always tell which ones were mine.
So people did better on a cognitive test when they were told a chew on a wooden, a
chew chew on a wooden or a wooden tongue depressor while they took it.
They're not sure why it helps, but they think it improves blood flow to the brain and releases
an antioxidant called GSH.
They also try it with gum, and that helped too, just not as much.
But they say that more research is needed to kind of get this down completely.
Your dentist won't like the idea because you could chip a tooth, but the next time you
really need to focus chewing on a number two pencil, a popsicle stick, or a wooden tongue
depressor might actually be helpful.
Now one thing, there's still a lot of studying and a lot of work that's got to get done
on this.
But I wonder if any of this has to do with nostalgia, and what you just were talking
about, Melissa, when we're chewing on this pencil, 99 if not all of us are in school when
we do this.
And in school, we're pretty locked in and focused.
For the most part, I know we're all kids, so at the time, so take that with a great
assault.
But I wonder how much our brain is connecting that with, you know, as an adult chewing
on a tongue depressor, or what have you?
Yeah, I don't know, or a pencil.
That's an interesting connection, but I wonder what age of people that they did this study
with?
So many variables.
Yeah, there's so many variables.
Yeah, if they did this with kids, yeah, I don't know, that's really interesting, interesting
to think about.
I loved school as a kid.
I really, I loved learning.
I loved just the being in the classroom, getting the answer right.
It was really enjoyable for me in grade school.
Yeah.
So I don't know, the thought of biting into that pencil really brought back some positive
memories.
So maybe it isn't nostalgia, I don't know.
Well, we're, you know, of course, still mapping so much of the brain.
And when I feel like it's one of the few topics that almost all, and everything's on the
table, you know, as far as connecting dots and what connects this to this and some of
that.
And it's part of why I find these studies so interesting as we're trying to understand
the brain or really ourselves better.
Yeah.
I wonder too.
I don't know, you put me back in my one room school, I'll say as a kid, James.
I wonder what, you know, what, as far as when it comes to needing to focus, what most people
go to as adults, because I feel like it's a lot about setup.
You know, the room has to be right or, you know, getting black out curtains or having
certain music on or a lot of these things where as kids, give me a pencil.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's, that's fine.
I'll go with that.
Maybe that's, maybe that's what I should try now.
Well, because a lot of times when I'm like reading and my brain is too busy, I have to
have some kind of like instrumental music playing in the background, just some kind of like
white noise almost to help me focus on the words on the page, especially like as, you
know, the way things are in the world right now, our brains are just so busy with everything
that's going on, I need something to help with the noise, maybe I'll try a pencil.
It might be, it might not be a bad idea, but it might be bad.
Now, here's another one, do you, now I know, I'm guessing, I'm just assuming, but I, you
know, knowing you a fairly well, we are similar in this regard, I'm guessing that you do
have pencils in the house, but I, I didn't thought of this, but I wonder for some people
if that's even, you know, if that might, it might have to go get pencils.
We have a mutual friend who, a, a, a, a horse pencils, they've not used them.
Yes.
And, and maybe you only have mechanical pencils in your house.
Oh, yeah.
I actually, I have a serious lack of pencils in my house.
I have one, I have one, and it's, it's from my mom's old collection of, of office supplies,
so it's, the eraser doesn't work.
And it's not yellow, honestly, last night at rehearsal, my, my wonderful production crew
has brought in a whole lot of yellow pencils.
That's great.
And so, and everybody grabs them and uses them, you know, like their communal pencils.
And I almost started chewing on one, and I was like, hold on, everybody's been touching
this.
Yeah.
Literally had that thought before I put it in my mouth.
See?
Be proud of that.
You had the thought beforehand.
You, you thought it through.
It was so close.
It was so close.
Uh, we, we love to hear from you about this when everybody feels free to call up, join
the conversation or text us if you'd like.
You can find the complete article at sciencealert.com, sciencealert.com.
Before we go to break, I want to let everybody know about a new show that we've got pre-mearing
this Sunday.
Debate VHR is a new line, a, a, a fun lineup for you on Sunday nights.
We of course kick it off with directors playhouse from five to six, from six to eight
set faces of music, and from eight to nine unlabeled at nine o'clock, we're going to
have masters of mystery radio hour.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, we had a host Rob Young reach out to me a little while ago, and I was checking
with Chuck and seeing what they think of this and everybody liked the idea.
So we're going to go ahead and premiere this feature.
It's featuring the best mystery thriller writers in conversation with the most interesting
people.
Cool.
And it was held earlier in the month in Minnesota, and they record and produce an hour long
special, which we will be airing for you at the last Sunday of every month.
Oh, that's awesome.
And the premiere episode for us here at WFHR will be this Sunday at nine.
I'm sure to check this out, everybody.
It's kind of a fun thing to be able to bring to the show.
As we try to, you know, walk the line here of, of being informed, an informative station,
an information station while also trying to entertain you and give you some fun to
listen to and everything.
Sounds like a great Sunday lineup, because you'll have the director's playhouse where you're
talking about theater or creative people, and you've got music, and more music, and more
music, and then mystery.
Mystery.
I don't know.
Something about anything mystery related at a Sunday night.
On a radio station.
Yes.
No.
It's again, nostalgia.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
We'll talk more about this as we get closer to the weekend.
For now, Melissa and I are going to get to our time out.
We'll come back and do some celebrating with the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club
on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
It's time to do some celebrating with the El Caffe, and we're going to do some celebrating
with the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day, we could celebrate you and our great friends over
at El Caffe.
Go visit them today.
They're open for the week, 221 Market Avenue, and beautiful porn edwards.
Mm-hmm.
And while you're there, wish Laurie and April happy birthday today.
Yeah.
Yes.
Wish them good ones, everybody.
Be sure to check out their Facebook page, and I only could you comment there and wish
them a happy birthday, but you could also check out some of their amazing specials.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, they have so many good, delicious things, and I can't get to their page to see what
they are.
Oh, yeah.
They got some good ones here.
There we go.
And some great pictures of those pies.
My goodness.
Hey.
Yeah.
Laurie makes the pies, and they're so good.
They are so, so delicious, and so many choices, too.
She's just got a variety of options, but their Esperanza favorite is at the top of the
specials list today.
Tasty hash browns loaded with steak and cheddar jack cheese, then topped with our homemade
ran-chero cheese sauce, served with toaster pancakes, and you can add eggs for just an additional
three bucks.
My goodness.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
James, did you see the launch special loaded fries?
Yeah.
Loaded fries.
I was just waiting.
I'm just sitting here waiting to talk about that.
Yeah.
That looks amazing.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Machaka?
Machaka?
I don't even know what that is.
Yeah.
Oh, we have to go find out.
But, Fidel's I lay awake at night dreaming of food burger.
Yeah.
Yes.
How do you get out of here?
How does he come up with these?
Fantastic.
Well, and I believe that that one was an accurate one.
Like, he was literally laying in bed and thought of that one.
And dreaming about it, and it sounds fantastic.
A bacon cheese burger loaded with grilled onions and mushrooms topped off with our jalapeno
cheese sauce served with fries or fruit at out of avocado or a cup of soup for two bucks.
Bi-local support, local support our friends over there at LKFA at 221 Market Avenue and
beautiful port Edwards, everybody.
And follow their Facebook page because you're going to get to see pictures of delicious
food, delicious pies, and they just have fun on their Facebook page.
Great job, Laurie.
Mm-hmm.
Hope your day goes by fast and you make lots of money.
Yes.
Yes.
Tipper.
And, of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
We love to celebrate with you, everybody.
Info at wfhr.com, direct message us on our Facebook pages and you can call up.
That's right.
715-424-2600.
Or you can just touch or two away on the civic media app.
You can also text us through there as well.
So we start off wishing, of course, Laurie and April happy birthdays.
I wish you guys the best of days.
We appreciate you so very much.
And the rest of our list, Melissa, I need a one or two.
Ooh, how about one?
All right.
It's a causal fire.
Next up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to friend of the community, friend of this radio
station, Amy Shide.
Happy birthday, Amy.
Amy's awesome.
We wish you a great day, Amy.
Enjoy.
Hope it's a good one for you.
We appreciate you.
And, taking a look at our qualifier today, Gina Benz.
Happy birthday, Gina.
Gina, enjoy the day.
Hope it's a great one for you.
We encourage you to brag to strangers, friends, animals, everybody that you are qualifier
for the LK.
Birthday anniversary club.
And we would prefer that you also take video of you bragging to animals because that
would be hilarious.
It would make my day.
Yes.
It would make my day, please.
It would make all of our days.
Yes, please do that, please.
Let's see who you're sharing your birthday with.
Catherine McFee is 41, American Idol runner up.
And it's a solid, I think, is a solid career from what I can tell.
Denny Capatric is 43, former auto racer.
Okay.
Let's see here.
Jenny Slate is 43.
Great actress in a fantastic voice actress.
She's got such a unique, wonderful voice.
She does some voices on Bob's Burgers.
She is in, it ends with us and a couple of other things you might run.
Notice her.
If you get a look at her, I think you might notice her.
Hmm.
Okay.
Lark Vorhez is 51, Lisa unsaved by the bell.
Ah.
Let's see here.
Sarah Jessica Parker is 60.
Wow.
Really?
Hmm.
I guess that makes sense.
I just, I didn't expect her to add old.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, kind of like our childhood there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm such a big part of it.
As I each inch closer and closer to 50, 60, doesn't seem that old anymore.
It's funny.
How that works.
It's funny.
How that works.
Ah.
Let's see here.
Um, Lisa Gay Hamilton is 61, a judgeholder in the Lincoln lawyer, Rebecca in the practice.
A wonderful character actor.
Hmm.
Let's see.
And, uh, Sir Elton John is 78.
Wow.
Sir Elton.
Having the, um, Michael Kavanaugh in town recently and singing the hits of Billy Joel
and Elton John, uh, got me on a, uh, go down a rabbit hole of Elton John songs a little
while ago.
Um, there's, it's, it's tough to pick a favorite, but he's got a couple, um, that, that
just really stand out.
And, and I, I don't know, he's one of those artists when I think of that his music just
kind of like, it, it's not really era music.
It's not, it's just his kind of eternal.
Uh, I don't, I, it's hard for me to imagine 30, 40 years from now, songs of his leave
on or, or your song or, uh, tiny dancer that are not still going to be relevant, not
still going to be listened to.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Because his music is very, I don't know, it's iconic, but it's also far reaching.
I know him more for, like, the songs from Disney movies.
Sure.
Tarzan.
Yeah.
Um, but because I didn't really listen to a whole lot of his music.
But my goodness, when you look through pictures of him and all his different classes.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
You want to talk about artists who were completely themselves and always had them.
You know, uh, Elton John, you, yeah, whatever you like him or not, he has always been
himself.
He has never put on heirs.
But he's got multiple names, Sir Elton Hercules, John, born, Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
Yeah.
Quite a name, quite a name, quite a career.
Uh, him and Bernie Toppen, the, uh, the, the, the legacy that they have created, whether
it is, uh, you know, in music or on Broadway or wherever you're talking.
Yeah.
Quite a life.
Uh, some people, uh, oh, Gloria Steinem is 91 today.
Want to mention that?
Wow.
Really?
Yeah.
91.
And Gene Shallet is 99 former Today Show movie critic and one of the better mustaches in TV
history.
Um, I don't know if I, I, I think Gene Shallet is one.
I'm not sure.
I don't remember exactly, but there was a movie critic that I disagreed strongly with
every one of their takes, but I still listened to that.
But I think it was Gene Shallet.
I don't remember exactly.
That's quite the mustache.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
You're not going to see mustache is like that every day.
No, no.
Gene Shallet.
I mean, I mean, that's almost, if he had mutton chops, my goodness, because they extend
almost all that way.
Some people no longer with us, uh, like the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, um, uh,
respect.
You make me feel like a natural woman, um, to have a nickname like the queen of soul
is, is, is quite amazing.
And it's also really says something.
I didn't have to say her name.
If I just said that, everybody knew who I was talking about, one of the more legendary
voices, voices of all time, um, and also, you know, notably to mention her work with
civil rights, um, and being an activist for, for people really paved, uh, the way for
so many artists and, uh, did, did so much trailblazing work in her career.
Uh, you didn't mess with Aretha either.
Uh, and I think that, I think the two went so well together.
Her, her stage presence and who she was off stage were virtually the same.
And, and she was up there and she was at demanding respect.
She was, she was, uh, talking about what it is to be a woman and certain things, but
with no caveats, no, no apologies, no excuses, no this or that, just, this is it.
This is what I'm looking for.
I had demand respect.
This is who I am as a human being.
I'm a woman.
This is that.
It just very direct and no kind of like, not even really with like what so much of the
music of that era and even music in general, a metaphors or these kind of, no, just straight
up.
This is what I'm thinking.
This is what I'm feeling.
And her voice projected that.
It's very, very impactful artist and one of the greatest sports casters and announcers
of all time Howard Cosell born in this day in 1918, passed away in 1995, uh, down goes
Frazier.
We do with the passing of George Foreman.
Many of us were going back and watching a lot of old fights, uh, particularly of George
Foreman's and you can't do that and not watch the Frazier Foreman fight.
And of course, uh, Cosell's famous call, one of the most famous calls in broadcasting
history.
Howard Cosell also had an amazing career, um, kind of not broadcasting, but interviewing,
uh, athletes in particular, Muhammad Ali, um, they, they would have a almost sparring
back and forth, uh, but a, a, a, a love and respect for each other that was really necessary
at the time for a black man and a white man and, um, so much of the, uh, the, each other,
they give each other credit for their careers.
Cosell would not have been as big of a name without Ali Ali had a really hard time trying
to show people who he was and Cosell helped him do that.
Um, the pairing was, uh, you know, you, you, it wouldn't work on paper, but it worked
and, and it's one of the best parts in sport, one of the best stories in sports history.
Uh, and, and Cosell was one of the greats.
One more time we're wishing happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody out there celebrating.
To encourage you if you happen to run in the Amy Shide or Gina Benz today to wish them
happy birthdays and get on over to L Cafe and go right directly and wish Lori and April
happy birthdays.
Yeah.
Do so.
They'll, they'll appreciate it and you'll appreciate the pie.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Uh, go ahead and enjoy yourself over there.
Everybody.
221 Mark and have a beautiful port Edwards.
We're going to get to a sports news and partner break.
Melissa and I'll be back.
We're going to talk a little bit about the White House Easter egg roll and, uh, the emerging
trend of sweatpants jeans.
Oh, coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, got a couple of reports coming in from a number of different websites Fox, CNN, uh,
that say next month's White House Easter egg roll will include corporate branding for
the first time.
The annual event has been a tradition on the South Lawn since 1878.
And this is the first time that they have ever had corporate advertising for it.
It's not the first time it's had any type of sponsor though.
The American egg board donates the eggs each year and others kick in money to avoid using
taxpayer dollars.
But it's the first time you'll be able to pay to have your logo prominently displayed.
So I'm guessing the Tesla logo will be on every egg or something like that.
An event company hired by the White House sent out a nine page document offering different
branding opportunities, packages ranging from $7,500,000 to $200,000.
You can pay for things like naming rights for key areas or elements, logos featuring an
event signage or custom branded Easter baskets.
Like always, people online are split on this one.
Some think money making money off of it is wrong, especially with kids involved.
So you're basically making money off of kids and families.
Others think it's just another silly way to make a buck that we're used to with this
administration.
All the money will go to the White House Historical Association nonprofit that works to educate
people on the history of the White House as well as paying for official presidential portraits,
which is not a nonprofit.
And yeah, yeah, this.
So I don't have words, James, I just, I don't have words.
How often in life has somebody had to offer to pay you to do something and it was a positive?
I'm not talking about work, whether we're talking about the ketamine guy and trying to offer
people money for their vote or to sway them one way or the other, or something that is
supposed to be about as far as I know, and I'm not saying that this is my wheelhouse, but
I believe it's a faith-based holiday, Easter, and if not a, and if that isn't what hits
you, kids, hits you, Easter is a kids holiday in many ways, at least I've always thought of
it as one.
How often when you associate money or sponsorships to these kind of things, do you feel good from
it?
Do you feel like you're really hitting the meaning of the moment?
Isn't this the same group of people that complain that Christmas has gotten corporate?
How is this any different?
And I understand that immediately some people will turn off from what I'm saying because
you're going to think that I vote a certain way or I'm leaning a certain way and teach
your own.
It's your brain.
You think what you think, but I swear on everything I am, no matter who was the president,
no matter what initial they have in front of their name, this is disgusting to me.
And we don't need to do this.
This is a money grab.
This is something you see out of a desperate business.
That's not something that our government should be of doing.
That's not something that I believe.
If you disagree with me, please call up 715-424-2600.
You can jump right in through the civic media app.
This is a conversation.
This is not me standing on a soapbox.
If I'm wrong about this one or there's an angle I'm not seeing on it, I would love
to hear it because I've done my homework on this one and even going to like other sites,
like Fox or different websites that usually support a lot of these things are very disgusted
by this.
It does seem a little distasteful, especially because of what the holiday itself usually
represents.
Yes, it has gone away from the religious aspects a little bit with the Easter Bunny and
eggs.
I never really understood as a kid why, I mean, yes, Jesus rising from the dead, the birth,
the egg.
You can tie it all together, but why is it for sale?
Yeah, that's it.
I didn't think that these kind of things were supposed to market.
I understand that years ago I stopped buying newer sports jerseys because they all have
a logo on them now of a different brand of a company because the NBA and soccer and MLB
and all these leagues looked like they, well, we can make a couple extra bucks if we put
this onto Jersey.
I don't want to promote that.
I don't want to support that.
I don't blame them for doing it because they're a business and that's what they do.
They're trying to make every book they can.
Easter's not supposed to be a business.
Easter's not supposed to be done this way, we're not supposed to, as far as I know, again,
if I'm wrong on this one, I'm fine with that.
I'm willing to listen, but I need to be told why this is okay, why this is a good thing.
If we're cutting money everywhere, left and right and everything, when does the saving
begin?
For all these jobs and all this money, and all this draining the swamp or what have you,
where are the savings?
When is this supposed to be helping the middle class?
There is no middle class anymore, but people who used to be in the middle class, those of
us that used to live in this world, where is the assist?
How is this helping to bring prices down?
I would love, I just wanted to interview, and I just want one question.
You just give me one or two questions with our current administration, anybody in it,
and anybody who I suppose is, wasn't voted in, but somehow got pulled into the administration
and now gets to do dos and all this stuff, even though we didn't vote for that person,
or anything.
How can you relate to us?
What have you had to sacrifice?
What have you had to do?
How has the rising price of this or that affected your life?
What one politician can answer that for me in a relatable way?
How is any single, and this is Republican or Democrat, man, this is everybody?
How is any single politician expected to relate to the modern American person?
What have they sacrificed?
Because I guarantee you, I might not be getting any calls on the other side of this, but
if I ask anybody to call up and tell me what you've had to sacrifice in the last six
months or the last year, I guarantee that everybody can call up and tell me something.
What can they tell us?
What have they sacrificed?
You haven't been able to purchase or something that you were planning for that you now
can't do because you can't afford it or something you've had to cut back on.
I'm pretty sure all of us can say something like that.
Where is the relatability?
Where is any kind of empathy or kind of understanding of what we are going through when they have
no idea?
We're talking about the majority of people who have never had dirt under their nails, have
never had to work a real day in their life.
On the surface, that money is being donated to, sure, an educational cause maybe, and presidential
portraits.
Is this because the current administration doesn't like the portrait that was painted in
2019?
Yeah, I don't know.
That's getting a lot of attention right now because that painting has been around since
2019.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We've got a lot of artists out there.
I guarantee there's at least a couple of them, if not many of them, that would do it for
free.
No matter who the president, no matter what, I mean, just for the opportunities to portray
their art in a prominent position.
It feels like a pretty easy thing to be able to do.
And since 1878, this has existed, this amazing tradition that our White House hosts, and
to think that it's going to be branded by the, by whoever, it doesn't matter, by the
highest better.
It doesn't even matter who the company is.
I find that a little distasteful, but I want to hear from you.
What do you guys think?
Good morning, you're on the air.
I've got a very trivial question on that matter.
How many eggs on sticks do you think they'll have?
Eggs on sticks.
Yeah, sure.
Not sure.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's always like an Easter time decoration.
Easter.
I don't know that one.
Yeah, eggs on sticks.
I never understood it either, but they're, if you go to a craft store or like any, like
craft, like, decoration place, there's always like eggs on sticks.
Yeah.
Is it stick them in the Easter egg baskets?
Okay.
Yeah.
Right?
As decorations.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
When I worked for a moving company, we ran across them all the time and we would always
laugh because nobody, nobody knew what the hell they were for.
What kind of chickens are these eggs coming from?
These ones, these ones grow in the flour, that's like, where did the, somebody explain this?
Yeah.
No, that's a really good question.
Yeah.
Very good.
Hey, appreciate you, man.
Thanks for the call.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
We got to get to break.
Come back this emerging trend of sweatpants jeans.
We got to talk about that.
Oh boy.
Come on up.
I'm the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
This is actually an ongoing topic that goes back to Terry being with us the other day and
Seth and I even touched on it.
We'll get into it a second first.
We got to take your calls.
Good morning, you're on the air.
Hey, James, I hate to call you back and bother you, but I don't know if you touched
on it.
But did you know that 55 years ago today, the band of sixies was released on vinyl?
Oh, no, I didn't.
Oh, I did not.
Nice.
What do you mind?
Just send me a text to that and I was like, I got to call James back.
Yeah.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Good heads up.
Hey.
55 years?
Have a good morning.
I got to listen to that today.
Yep.
That's definitely what I'm listening to.
We have the best listeners.
We really do appreciate all of you guys.
Feel free to call up as much as you like.
You can never bother us.
One of the things that I thought is interesting about this ongoing conversation that we've
been talking about is kind of like with the younger generation and how they are just
done with jeans.
Like, I didn't see this coming, but like they just decided, you know, jeans, not going
to do it, not worth it, not going to have it.
So it used to be just casual Fridays that this was a thing where you could either wear
your jeans to work or maybe if you were a place where you already wore jeans, you could
wear more casual like jeans, what have you.
With the pre-pandemic and pre-remote work and with the younger generation, not really
like just not going with this, just kind of pushing against it and certainly with the
need of being able to bring people in.
The standards that used to be are not what they used to be.
And so there's kind of this given take and pull of, you know, what is professional wear,
what is business casual, all of that.
Well, there's an emerging trend of people wearing sweatpants jeans.
If you haven't seen this yet, it's what it sounds like.
There's sweatpants that are made to look like denim jeans.
They're only already available in a bunch of styles.
If you Google sweatpants jeans, there are ones in every style that regular jeans come
in, including high waist, wide leg, low rise, torn or distressed and skinny jeans.
The link that was included in the article that you sent me, I was like, whoa, no way, those
are hideous.
I would never wear those.
But then once I googled sweatpants jeans, you're correct, they're in every style.
Yeah, yeah.
I really think that this is, it's just a fashion trend changing to more comfortable clothing.
I hate jeans because they're so restrictive.
I can't handle tight things across my stomach.
And so I'm all for these because I like the look of jeans.
I like how they look, but they're just not comfortable unless they're stretchy.
And so I'm kind of, I'm very intrigued by this.
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to be honest.
I'm upset.
I'm mad.
Are you?
Yes, because I'm with you.
I also don't like jeans.
Where was this when we were in school?
Where was this?
We were first starting our business careers.
Oh, man, that's awesome.
We could have a whole conversation about fashion, the fashion industry, James.
And the innovative fabric that was denim, like when denim was first used as a clothing
and clothing item, it was revolutionary, you know?
It's a fabric that's durable that would stand up to all of these things that you needed
it to do.
Well, that's not what we need it for now, it's a fashion, it's a look.
It's not, well, I need pants that aren't going to rip.
Now they put holes in them on purpose.
Right.
Right, yeah.
So I think that the need for the actual denim fabric that what that jeans are made from,
is it necessarily needed anymore?
We just want the look, and if we can have it, with also comfort, wow, why wouldn't we?
According to the prices are all over the map, but many find them affordable, and they're
closer to sweat pant prices than trending jean prices.
You mean spending over $100 for a pair of, like I said, denim pants that now have holes
all over them, which makes them trendy and more expensive?
And are uncomfortable.
Yes.
You know?
Yeah.
According to CNN, they're becoming a major viral trend, so someone at your office or
your work life or something like that is probably already wearing these, or has already worn
these.
And the only way you'd be able to tell more than likely looking at the pictures is if you
like walk up and feel their pants, which I don't recommend trying to do to somebody.
Not unless you haven't met your new HR person yet.
And you need a swift introduction.
One of the things too that stands out to me about this is the idea, and I admit I have
nothing to back this up.
I just, in my own day-to-day life and the work that I do, I find that I am much more focused
and do a lot better if I'm comfortable, you know, simple as that.
If people are more comfortable no matter what the business or what field they're in, it
feels like that's going to be more work.
They're going to be able to work better or work more or what have you.
I don't see anything wrong with that.
We're talking about something that is an opinion, that is a feeling.
There's no science backing this up that says, this is what it means, you know, if you
dress this way, you will be taken seriously, or if you dress this way, you'll be better
at business.
That's just a feeling.
That's just an opinion.
That's something that we put on that.
This is what it is to be dressing, you know, like a respectable human being.
This look particularly, you know, and-
And the final expectations on how we look to qualify as being professionals.
Yeah, yeah.
Why can't we change this up?
I mean, we make the rules.
Well, the only pushback to that I would say, James, is when I worked at school, you
know, schools, especially during like homecoming week, you have dress updates, right?
On pajama day, when I would wear pajamas to work, I did not feel like I was in work mode.
Yeah.
So it's a strange, a cognitive dissidence of, okay, but I'm in my comfy, jammy clothes.
I don't really want to work.
No, no, no.
Like, so I think there is some truth to that.
However, it's not that, you know, we're coming to work in our pajamas.
It's that the fabric of the clothing that we're wearing that still looks professional
is now also comfortable as opposed to restrictive.
And when you're wearing uncomfortable restrictive clothing, you're distracted by it sometimes.
I mean, how many times have you sat down and the waistband of your jeans digs in somewhere?
Oh, it's doing it right now.
Or it's doing it in the crease of your, you know, your hip flexors between your leg and
your upper body, your torso.
And you have to like stand up and readjust and sit down again.
That's uncomfortable.
And that causes distraction when you're working.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a family show.
So I'm not going to add on to what you just said, but I agree with you.
That's all I'll just say.
And everybody can experience this is something that brings us all together.
We've all experienced this.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Which is why I'm currently wearing leggings.
Ah, I'm jealous.
I'm just jealous of this whole article, of this whole thing.
I got no problem with it.
And I really feel like given the field, whatever you're doing, you have a pretty good idea
of what is, hey, this is okay.
This is casual professional.
This is going to work.
You don't want to look like a slob.
You don't want to, I don't know.
There's just a line there that I feel like most of us understand.
And if you don't, somebody's going to explain it to you.
Right.
But jeans are becoming like you can dress professionally wearing jeans and look very nice.
Yeah.
So if somebody out there, one of our listeners has these and you have an outfit, I would
love for you to send me a picture of an or tell us what they, what they look like because
I have zero money to go buy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's something I could say for it because I would love to have a pair of jeans that
were comfortable, that fit well, that also looked professional.
It seems like a rip in pockets and pockets has got to pocket for the love of everything,
pockets.
Not asking a lot here, pockets, just pockets, not a big deal.
Yeah, pockets.
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