Everyone is Going Analog(Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day, and thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHU.

Your host, James J. Mailov here, and I'm joined by your head of news, our co-host, Melissa

Kaye.

Good morning.

And let me double check.

Yep.

Good.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Let's kick things off.

The way we like.

Two other good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Brittany, thank you for bringing the sunshine.

Oh, you're welcome.

Isn't it beautiful?

Oh.

Mm-hmm.

Can I get enough of you?

Can I get enough of you?

I've caught myself twice this morning running around here like a mad mad and stopping just

to look at like there wasn't the eagle was out this morning, and it's just beautiful

out there.

Mm-hmm.

It sure is.

That's kind of cold.

There's some places at least.

Do you know what I mean?

Yes, yes.

Uh, at least, you know, the wind has stopped.

It's nice and calm out there.

That's good.

We're going to stay bright and beautiful all day long.

So this isn't going anywhere.

Grab the sun glasses, soak it up.

Pies today will hit those mid-forties.

So pretty darn comfortable considering there's no more windshield that we have to worry about.

So a gorgeous day today, we will see some clouds increasing as we go through the evening.

And then tomorrow morning, a tiny, tiny chance of waking up to a little bit of late snow

going on.

I don't know it.

I know it.

Really going to get wet.

I don't think so.

I think it's going to stay further north, but I just, you know, there's a small chance so

I got to say it.

So I'm going to fall off in the morning.

But what I really do think is going to happen is probably some light drizzle by the afternoon

at Darker Cloudy or Kind of Day.

And high as a little bit warmer, we'll be flirting with 50.

And that kind of stays the case for our Thursday too.

And then the sun shines, takes over Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and that's when that warm

up really surges in.

Like we're talking mid 50s, Friday, low 60s, Saturday, and mid to upper 60s on Sunday.

So a gorgeous weekend ahead.

So don't be upset if a few flurry to fly tomorrow morning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Might not even notice them.

Might not even get them.

So we'll see.

Exactly.

We are that much more ready because you, Bernie.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

You guys have a great day.

You too.

You too.

Best in the business right there.

Bernie Merlot joining us every morning, right in this time slot.

We're looking forward to hanging out with her tomorrow.

Melissa and I are going to be hanging out with you for the next couple of hours.

And we got a bunch of good stuff to get into.

The Elca Faber birthday anniversary club is right around the corner.

The percentage of Americans that claim they never touch their phone while driving.

It's also the same as people who lie about that.

It's not about talking about it.

We'll get into that a little bit later.

We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour and one of the more fun ways we get to around

here, talking local, doing local radio.

One of our favorite things.

And we're going to be talking, putting a focus on the regional math 24 competition.

We have Kelly joining us from the Wisconsin Rapids public schools.

And one with Jacob and Trevor who respectively in their own grades won their competitions.

Awesome.

Cannot wait to talk to them.

Cannot wait to feel a little bit dumber.

I'm joking.

I'm not joking.

Actually, I was talking to my dad about this.

He's so excited about this and he just went down a rabbit hole and I thought I did my

homework this weekend.

My dad actually taught me a couple of things.

So he just loves math and is very excited about kids and kids being excited about math.

We'll be talking about that.

Got a little bit of entertainment news for you afterwards and we'll have some more fun

in the 9 o'clock hour getting to our schedule, some local events and other fun things we

got in store for you.

But with the kids coming in, Melissa and it being morning, what better time to talk about

then Candy?

Candy in the morning.

Candy in the morning is great.

No, it's not that bad.

It's not a breakfast.

Candy in the morning.

Candy every night.

We'll just make a song about it.

I was just going to say you've got a great tune right there.

You've got great start right there.

Eminem's just brought back the best flavor yet according to their fans and they are stockpiling

these.

Some years back when we were hoarding other things, well now apparently they are hoarding

these.

Apparently, you find them at Target stores mainly but I've seen them in other places

too.

The candy they're talking about for limited time, Eminem's is releasing their Easter Sunday

white chocolate and dark chocolate Easter candy.

Why is this a fan favorite?

I've never even heard of it.

I'm so with you on this.

They're talking about this as a big reason why it is is because it's nostalgic but I don't

remember this at all.

The win.

Yeah.

Like what era?

What's this from?

The sea.

So we just let people know that just because you say something is true doesn't make it

true.

Can we get back to that?

Please.

Please.

Because if I had to vote it's going to be the pretzel Eminem's own nostalgic.

That's a good one.

And those should I don't mean I think they're still making them and I think they have

so many other flavors that are really good like the caramel cold brew.

That's so good.

That is such a good one.

I've only had one of those.

One bag of those.

I don't need any more.

I had the family size bag.

Nice.

That's the way to do it.

Yeah.

Reports suggest that these nostalgic treats have already begun arriving at Target locations

nationwide and a lot of people are scooping them up like just grabbing like multiple bags.

The seasonal color palette features a variety of red, cream, brown and purple candies adding

a little fun and festive touch to Easter baskets everywhere.

They look good but I just don't remember these and they're making them sound like they've

been around since the dawn of you know Eminem's.

There is a Eminem's double chunk chocolate cookies that do look good though.

Those are also in this article.

Yeah.

I don't know.

What is your go-to?

Do you remember these or are these more popular with younger generation and-

Help us.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Would love to know what you guys think of this one.

What's your favorite Eminem?

Because I think I'm boring about this one.

I'm with you on what the ones you mentioned but I am a classic Eminem's guy.

I really do like the classic.

You can't go wrong with the classic Eminem's or the peanut Eminem's.

I mean those are the two original flavors.

Now the peanut Eminem's for some reason that's what I thought of when I thought of the

nostalgic Eminem.

Right.

Right.

Because that was the only alternative for how many years I think.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Definitely.

I feel- I know I'm guessing with you and I still feel confident about that.

I don't- I think that they're- it's fun.

All these different flavors that they're trying and they're doing.

The dark chocolate one I haven't tried but I got to try that one.

Yeah.

But the fact that it's mixed in with white chocolate ones, I mean that would be kind of for you

and I.

Yeah.

Like oh I guessed wrong.

Dang it.

Yeah.

That's just not funny.

Because they're probably all have the same candy coating.

Have you tried the crunchy cookie ones?

No I haven't.

Those are pretty good.

Right.

Those forgot about those.

Yeah.

Those are pretty dark good.

Yeah.

They're not bad.

I don't know what it is but I've had the M&M's minis and they don't taste right to me.

There's something about them that the percentage is off.

Something that M&M's and Kit Kat and Reese's, I feel like the best thing that they got down

on their recipes is this balance.

Reese's with the balance of chocolate and peanut butter.

It's never been done better.

I don't know if I feel the balance in the minis.

Okay.

Well-

Because I'm weird.

They're accurate but because there's more candy coating and less chocolate in the minis,

I'm guessing.

I haven't found them.

But I bet they taste more like sixlets.

Apparently it's okay to guess.

Apparently nowadays we can guess on these things.

We call things nostalgic that none of us remember.

Guess what?

We're saying, we're admitting that we're guessing.

We're being transparent and open about the fact that we don't know.

Yeah we do this weird thing on the air where we're very honest with the audience.

But do you remember sixlets?

Oh yeah.

Oh wow.

Yeah I forgot.

They're the candy coated chocolate candies.

Yeah candy coated chocolate candy.

Why did that sound so weird to me?

It was.

It worked.

But I would guess that the minis taste a little bit more like those.

Oh yeah.

Definitely.

Because the ratio you're right of candy coating to chocolate is a lot different than regular

size M&Ms.

Let us know your favorite M&Ms everybody.

Let us know if you think candy is okay for breakfast.

Oh no.

You got to be old though.

You got to be older.

I don't mean like 18.

You got to be a little bit more up there I think.

You got to earn it.

You got to earn it.

You got to be able to have a candy.

At least mid 20s, late 20s I think.

Until you can have a Kit Kat for breakfast.

Until you can decide that it's okay to have a Kit Kat.

Rapping up the opening monologue with a good story.

Melissa sent this one over and got my mom and I just going down a rabbit hole of our

own with the Philadelphia Zoo.

A Galakobos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo just became a first time mom at the age

of 97.

Oh.

They say it's a record for her species.

She's lived at the zoo since 1932.

Wow.

She's finally living it up, living up to her name Mami.

Her name has been Mami this whole time.

Oh really?

Yeah.

I think there was a little bit of a guilt trip going on there.

Maybe I'll get around to it when I'm 94.

Yeah.

You know, it takes a little time, you know, you don't want to, you want to ease in these

things.

It's a little time, so does.

This is a remarkable feat, by the way.

It is.

The hatchlings are scheduled to make their public debut April 23rd, which is also the 93rd

anniversary of the day Mami first arrived at the zoo.

Wow.

There is nothing cuter than baby turtles.

They are so cute.

Yeah, I don't know if there's a cuter animal, baby, you know, I mean, kittens are kind

of cute.

Dog of puppies are kind of cute.

They are.

They are.

But if you got to choose what the cutest one is, you're right, baby turtles are way up

on the list, way up on the list, especially when you watch those, because we, I mean, almost

all of us have watched those documentaries, but when they come out of 30 years later, the

mom returns to the beach to dig, and what these animals do to get to get to this point

in doing this.

And then you see these ones like on the Americas recently saw one where just like hundreds

of these turtles go there.

And it looks like a little bit like you really don't want to be laid on that one.

There's not a lot of room on that beach to begin with, but then you're bumping into

other turtles trying to find a spot and you're, they got a dig.

You got to dig like five, four feet or something like that and get these little babies down

there.

And then these babies got to be able to break through.

The only way they could break through is if it rains, if it don't rain, then they're

stuck down there.

Like it's insane what animals are able to do.

And it's just normal.

It's just what they do.

That is how their life cycle works.

Pretty cool.

And yeah, baby turtles, pretty amazing.

That's a pretty cool story right there, I encourage you to check that one out.

And I don't know about anybody else, but there's certain things that just hit me when we

get to this time of year and I'm itching to get outside, certainly baseball and going

for walks and that end zoos.

Getting back to our local zoos, our public zoos, our state zoos, you know, support your

zoos out there, everybody.

We'll be back with our own zoo here at WFHR in just a few moments here on the morning

show.

It's that time.

You heard people, time to do some celebrate with our good friends over at El Café and

the birthday and anniversary club.

We love supporting our good friends over at El Café and we encourage you to treat yourself

head on over there today.

They're open for the week.

They are.

Head on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Check out some of those great specials they have over there for you.

I have to, I don't even know what the specials are because they can't get there, where's

this one?

Chopstick and eggs, handmade hamburger patty that also pork chopping eggs or chopstick dinner

or the Wisconsin berry burger.

This sounds amazing.

It's not a bacon double cheeseburger though, Jay.

It's a bacon cheeseburger smothered in something I can't see the whole thing.

Oh, smothered in homemade cranberry barbecue sauce.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that sounds good.

Yeah.

I would try that in a second.

Yeah.

That's oh man.

So mentally, I'm already there, everybody.

I really am.

They're also promoting the fact that they can accommodate any table size.

If you have more than six people, you are welcome at Alcuffee because they have a whole

big back room with large tables.

Yeah.

Check it out, break it in for us everybody because I think that's where we'll end up being

when we do our live broadcast.

In all seriousness, I don't know that there's that many restaurants that can do that anymore

so encourage you to reach out to them and, you know, especially when you got, get together

here so that you're getting closer to warmer weather here and family coming to the town

and that sort of thing.

When family comes to town, I know this so much, you know, you're not taking them to a name

brand place.

You want to take them to something local.

You want to take them to somewhere.

They're going to get food.

They can't get in.

Yeah.

You want to take them somewhere that they where they can't get that food anywhere else.

Yeah.

Right over to 21 market Avenue.

Beautiful port Edwards.

Wish them a good day from all of us.

You see him, everybody.

Rise and shine.

The world is waiting for your sparkle.

That's such a good one.

Follow them on Facebook, everybody.

Oh, it's a great follow.

And then you'll automatically know what the specials are.

And like James says, you might change your mind when you get there because their menu is

also awesome.

It's so good.

They have an Irish Benedict on their menu that is so good.

Huh.

Yeah.

A funny thing about my family, my dad, you know, just as the biggest Italian you're going

to meet and everything loves Irish food.

Loves it.

Loves it.

I need to enjoy that.

We'll enjoy it.

Hand on over there today, everybody.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you info at WFHR.com.

You can email us that way.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Be sure to like the page, support what we're doing over there and keep up the date on things.

And of course, you can call up.

That's right.

That phone number is 715-424-2600.

Looking forward to talking with you, everybody.

Go ahead and give us a call.

We have three possible qualifiers on our list today, Melissa.

I need a one through three.

I'm going to go with three.

All right.

Absolutely done.

Get right into it.

First, we want to wish a very happy birthday to a former cast member, if you will.

Joe Casper, our former music programmer over at WIRI.

Nice.

Happy birthday, Joe.

Joe is great to work with.

Joe did a great job for many years.

And I know he's still working hard in the industry, and we wish him well.

We wish a very happy birthday to one of the most talented musicians I have ever known.

Ty Stelman.

Happy birthday, Ty.

Ty is a good guy.

Just one of those people you meet, good people, a hard worker, all that.

His father, a very popular musician in this area for many, many years.

I met Ty through my sister, Jill, who are their very close friends.

And I knew Ty for years and knew that he was a good guy and everything.

But it wasn't until I saw him just walk past the piano and just randomly start hitting

the keys.

I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.

He plays music.

And then he just started going and doing Beethoven.

He kind of nowhere.

I've seen him on drums and he's incredible on them.

Just a very, very talented musician.

Only topped by how good of a guy he is.

I have a good one, Ty.

Enjoy your day.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday to our, another former cast member around here.

Laurie Steckbauer.

Happy birthday, Laurie.

Laurie used to be work here at WFHR.

She was a receptionist.

She was a lot more than that, like any receptionist is, but Laurie was certainly the definition

of that.

I love working with her.

Great, great human being.

Wishing you well, Laurie.

Yeah.

Have a great day.

And we wish a very happy 25th Silver anniversary to our qualifiers, Randy and Vicki Balco.

Oh, happy anniversary, Randy and Vicki.

Happy 25th year too.

Hope you enjoy it.

Wishing you many, many, many, many more.

That's a great one.

And Randy, Vicki, we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, anybody

you can.

Go for it.

Yes, yes.

Let's take a look at our celebrity list.

Felix Hernandez is 39, former Seattle Mariners pitcher, won the Saiyung in 2010, pitched

a perfect game in 2012.

That was a good one.

He was a good one.

Let's see here.

Taylor Kitch is 44.

Tim on Friday night lights, Gambit and the Wolverinex men movies, was also in loan survivor

and a couple of other picks here.

Katie Sackoff is 45, but she's so darn good.

She of course, Starbuck and Battlestar Galactica, I think a lot of people know her from that.

She was a deputy and long-mire, but recently she has been Bo Katana in the Mandalorian,

in Killingit.

Joe's been great.

I was not familiar with her work until the Mandalorian.

Oh, really?

It got me to go ahead and look at a bunch of clips from her from these other movies and

TV shows and everything.

Yes, she's.

She's also a really good voice actor too.

I watched all of Battlestar Galactica, so.

That was really, there was a handful of shows that I enjoyed on sci-fi, but that was their

main flagship show for years that really helped that network.

I would say it was Stargate, but Battlestar Galactica, it also helped.

Yeah, but no, you're right.

Stargate was the one that really brought people over there and Battlestar was maybe

though more original, but yeah, either way, you're right about that.

Because Battlestar Galactica was a remake of the original.

And it did start after the Stargate universe was already well going and well into it.

I don't even know what number C is.

Yeah, yeah.

It was a fun show though.

Patricia Arquette is 57, Avery Ryan on CSI, Ellison in Medium, the Oscar winning and

Oscar winning star Boyhood, just what a fabulous actress, just a good actress, solid.

Another one of my favorites, I don't know where anybody would put her in the upper, the

echelon of actors or anything like that, but a long time favorite and you talk about Nostalgia,

Robin Wright is 59 today.

Jenny and Forest Gump, Claire in House of Cards, but she the reason she's the old Nostalgia

to so many of us is because she has Princess Buttercup and Princess Bride.

Perfectly cast.

Perfect.

Just me.

And while it may not seem like it to some out there, we've seen for many years now, I would

say for almost 15 years, we've seen this push, especially from Disney and Pixar, to no

longer the damsel and distress that the princess has tough or she can hang or she can do her

thing.

I think Princess Buttercup started a lot of this.

Like Robin Wright was not your typical princess.

She wasn't happy, go lucky, smiling all the time or any of these things.

She was very like, she played it very kind of like, you know, melaton, yeah, it's, yes,

stoic is a better word for it.

And it was no pushover.

Well, because she came from poverty, she didn't, she wasn't raised in wealth.

She played it so dead on, not like, you know, oh, I'm playing a princess and just playing

it, you know, no, you're absolutely right.

She played it in depth, which I thought really added to the funny of her character and

the funny of the scenes, when she's delivered the lead to the, to the priest or no to the

father or what, yeah, to the parents or whatever and stuff and she's telling what she's

going to do.

And they're just kind of like, yes, yes, yes, yes, she's so good on it.

As you wish, I, so there's a handful of things that I have called in my life, Melissa, and

as a guy, I have to remember every single one of them.

But there are, there are probably more that I've gotten wrong if we're being honest just

between me and you.

And growing up in my family, my dad, gigantic John Lennon fan.

And so when his son, Julian Lennon came out and had a big hit when I was a kid, much

too late for goodbyes, I thought, oh, this is the next great big artist.

Julian Lennon is going to be the next big pop star.

And I could not wait to tell my dad all this and my dad just smiled at me.

Julian Lennon is 62 today and one major hit on his record.

But it's a good one.

Much too late for goodbyes is a good one.

And he's, he's become a, he's kind of gone behind the scenes and been in a really, really

respected and worked producer.

He's very good at what he does.

Photographer, author, musician, philanthropist.

Yeah, big fan of his.

He's done some really cool things.

Is he Stradlin, a 63 former Guns and Roses guitarist, a really good one himself?

Let's see here.

John Schneider, a 65 original Bo Duke, Duke Saezard.

He's also played Jonathan Kent on Smallville.

He was a country star as well.

And then there are some people no longer with us.

Like the great Bismarkey hip hop legend, just a friend, Bismarkey brought in and incorporated

kind of like, like a little more fun, a little more, just kind of like having fun with it.

One of the most bizarre pop stars of all time, like the hip hop stars especially.

But somebody with a hit, like you wouldn't imagine that he would be able to do that.

But he did and made a classic Betty Ford born in this day in 1918, passed away in

2011 former First Lady and of course, founder of the clinic that's helped many, many people

out there with addiction.

What a legacy, you know, that continues on.

We've seen a lot of movies focused on presidents.

I would love to see a movie that focuses like over the decades of on First Ladies.

And their impact on society, on the world, even on politics.

I think it would be really cool to be really just a movie where they're the lead actor.

And it's from their vision and their perspective.

And you just kind of go down the years from our presidents, like each decade or, you know,

choose a different First Lady or something.

I think that would be really cool.

It's a nice thought.

Yeah, yeah, I don't ever happen.

But yeah, yeah.

No, I hope it does.

I hope it does.

I know.

I actually.

I can't be in that.

But we're a bit of a patriarchy still.

Oh.

Oh, continuing to be a little longer with us, John Hevelcheck born in this day in 1940, Boston,

Celtic.

And Catfish Hunter, one of two baseball Hall of Famers, two pass away from Lou Gehrississies,

but also just an amazing player.

I apologize.

I read that from the thing they have here on the Wise Brothers.

I swear they've got a bunch of like just guys in school that like think a joke is funny

and they only two people laugh kind of things.

Buddha born on this day in 563 BC, passed away 43 BC.

Legend has it that he could walk and talk at birth.

Wow.

Okay.

Now, whether that's true or not, I want everybody to imagine, especially parents out there,

what that would be like.

Your baby comes out like immediately stalking you, immediately talking to them like that's

wild.

I don't know if that's a right.

I don't know if that's right.

I don't know.

What about that one?

Well, what's amazing to me is that the date, like they actually have a date for the

birth of Buddha.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

I think that if you can read these things and read them as history, you can find some really

cool and fascinating history about, we're involving that in Buddhism and everything.

It's remarkable.

It's a remarkable faith.

We will take a time out, but one more time, we should have your birthdays and anniversaries

to everybody out there.

I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than with our friends at LKF.

Mm-hmm.

You'll have a great meal and a good time.

Visit them at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards.

Wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.

We'll be right back after our new sports and partner break here on The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there.

Little programming note for everybody.

Today at 9 o'clock, we're going to be welcoming Kelly, Jacob, Trevor.

We're going to be talking about the regional math, 24 competition.

Jacob and Trevor did.

Spoiler alert, they won.

Great better than you and I would have.

Yes, yes, very way better.

We don't math.

I know, I don't math.

With a fifth or fourth grade math, they do better than me, yes.

That'll be coming up and then on Wednesday in the 9 o'clock hour, we're excited to have

our Girl Scout taste test.

Yeah, yeah.

We are finally doing it.

Now, Girl Scout season is wrapped up, but we're going to extend it a little bit and shout

out our Girl Scouts.

Mm-hmm.

Awesome.

Fun with that one.

Be looking for it at 9 o'clock tomorrow, everybody.

When I'm Seth Melissa and I and Laura will be sitting in with us on that one as well.

Awesome.

Right now, let's all be honest.

This is a safe place.

Safe place.

We can all be honest.

April is distracted driver awareness month and you'll be thrilled to know that most people

say they've never been drive distracted.

In a survey, 74% of Americans claim that they have never touched their phone while driving

over the past year.

Other percentage?

74%.

Other people do it, though, 65% of people say that they see other drivers using their phones

behind the wheel, at least a couple of times a week, 89% say that they witness speeding

at least a couple of times a week, 60% see people speeding through school zones and 67%

witness red light running at least once a month, 63% of Americans think that the average

driver has gotten worse in recent years and 78% think drivers in their state are reckless.

But 65% of people say that they have never driven distracted in the past year.

So who's doing this?

Because the numbers don't add up, everybody, don't know.

The natural highway traffic safety administration says that distracted driving has caused over

3,000 deaths and over 400,000 injuries nationwide in just 2024 alone.

That's just one year, but yet nobody's doing this.

On my drive to work this morning, I saw at least two people that were either one was distracted

and the other one certainly didn't seem to be caring or at least speeding at the very

least.

And there's a lot of talk about this.

One quick thing I wanted to mention with this is this is that maybe not the first time

in our history or anything, but at least the first time that I've been doing this show

and noticed something like this is the first time that one of these surveys came out and

people didn't say that the drivers in the neighboring state were the worst drivers.

They're actually saying that the people in their own state are the worst drivers now.

And that's a, that might not seem like a big deal.

It's kind of funny, but it's also quite a shift from things where we're seeing this.

And I even did this in, you know, local states and ours and in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,

Michigan, every single one of them, they're saying their own drivers are more reckless,

the more reckless drivers.

Well, when you're seeing it happen around you and in front of you and behind you in real

time, it's hard.

It's not, you know, it's not hard to say, yeah, the drivers here are not doing well.

So we're owning it on that level, but not on a personal level because again, 74% of Americans

claim they never do this, which, hey, if that's true, awesome, that's great.

I would love that.

That's fantastic.

But I don't know that doesn't really, yeah, doesn't really add up.

And if we're being honest, there have all been moments for probably every single person

who has ever gotten behind the wheel where you have times that you are distracted.

It happens.

Yeah.

Even when you don't, you know, purposely do it by doing something like, look at your

phone.

Yeah.

I, I will say especially when I first got a cell phone and I wasn't, you know, I wasn't

used to the noises and all that stuff and it took me a while to learn.

Oh, I gotta turn, I turn my phone off, obviously, when we're at, as soon as I walk into the

studio, so actually the building, it's off, the volume is off.

And I kind of just leave it off now for most of the day.

I tend to, you know, it works better for me.

It's not that I miss anything really.

Maybe a phone call here or there, but that's usually just spam.

So it's not really missing that much.

And it's, it's helped me with driving.

Now, I'm also of, in some ways, you know, it's a mixed bag, but in some ways lucky that

I got into driving later in life.

So I was already a little more, you know, as supposedly a little more mature.

Or at least a little more aware.

Yeah.

There you go.

Put it that way.

Yeah.

But realize too that the habits that you are doing in front of your kids makes a difference

on how they're going to be and what kind of drivers they're going to be.

Yeah.

Whatever we're talking about in life, we can bring it right back to that, everybody.

The kids are...

Because I can attest to the fact that that is why I was a distracted driver early on.

Because I saw that example played out to me my entire growing up years.

It's really, and this is all meant to me at least, just speaking for myself and my take

from this and everything.

It's certainly numbers that you should be paying attention to, you should be caring

about.

But the last thing I think that you need to do is beat yourself up about it.

I think it's a moment to, okay, well, you know what?

I need to treat this like I'm 16 again.

I need to drive.

The first time I'm behind the wheel, and I'm a very in tune, and I got my hands in the

right spots and everything.

Driving is...

It's good that we've normalized it.

It's very good.

But it's also something that we really need to respect a lot more.

Yes.

The respect that we have for driving and fellow drivers on the road has really gone out

the window in many ways, and this is an extension of this idea that I don't care about anything

unless it's happening to my house or my people.

If it's not affecting me, then it doesn't matter.

It can.

It can affect you.

It can.

Anything that if it can happen to one person, it can happen to you, like whether you're

on the road or in your house or anything else, and to not have some empathy for your fellow

human beings, it says more about you than anything else.

And also, if you're a distracted driver and you happen to come across another distracted

driver, bad things will happen.

Yeah, yeah.

You can only do so much.

You cannot control other people on the road or anything like that, but you can control

yourself and how you handle it and being in a smart driver.

It molassesens over articles from time to time and in my tons of content that I have

and folders and folders upon folders of content that I have.

Sometimes I get them lost and everything, but this one, I knew this one, Melissa.

We're going to get into it in a second first.

Let's take a phone call.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Yeah.

Good morning.

You talk about driving and stuff.

I said to Hawaii for 35 months, when you backed out of a parking spot in Hawaii, people

stop.

When you backed out of a parking stop here in Wisconsin, they blow a little horn to flip

you off and all that.

Yeah.

I wish they would change that rule, huh?

I got a small car and you can't see past the van that you parked next to.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

How many times does there are a tree or something like that in the way, you know, or any

of these?

So plenty.

Yeah.

I hear you, man.

I appreciate the notes, sir.

I always do.

You have a good morning.

I wanted to piggyback off of that, too, in the more we look out for each other, the better

we can be.

And there is no law that's going to change this.

There is no, you know, we don't need the government for this one.

We can do this ourselves.

We can do it ourselves.

Yeah.

And in Hawaii, it's called driving with a loha.

Oh.

I was going to ask you, but yeah, yeah, and I experienced that when I was there a couple

of years ago, it's it because they don't have that many roads.

So a lot of times they will stop on the main thoroughfare and let somebody in because otherwise

traffic doesn't stop and you can't get out.

You can't turn right or left, but especially left.

So his point of them stopping to let you back out, that's normal there.

Like that is just that's how people drive.

They drive with a loha.

I never heard of that and I love it.

I think that's awesome.

Well, the, you know, going back to what we were talking about before with kids and everything

kids are in the car with you seeing how you drive.

And, you know, if you have good habits, chances are they will have good habits.

Yeah.

So I'm mentioning this article and it comes to us from DiscoverWildLife.com.

When a colossal iceberg broke free from Antarctica, scientists found something staggering beneath

it.

Oh, yes.

I remember sending you this.

What the hell?

It's a cool article.

With the help of a remotely operated vehicle, the researchers discovered a breath taking

world hidden under the ice for centuries.

The video from this is amazing.

I cannot encourage you all enough to check this out of team International Scientists aboard

the Schmidt Ocean Institute research vessel.

I have shared a remarkable set of images and video from a section of Antarctica and sea

floor that have been the concealed beneath ice for centuries.

Wow.

You've never been seen before.

The remarkable things that they're finding and they're seeing under this are, first

time, for one, they're game changing and they've never been done before.

A research team going out here is focusing just solely on this iceberg that is about the

size of Chicago that broke off in everything.

So beneath this is just a whole ecosystem, a whole other world, basically.

There's certainly, as you would expect, they're finding different species and new species,

but jellyfish that we didn't even like a species of jellyfish, we didn't even know existed.

Just doing their own thing under the iceberg.

And I think you might be wondering how does this affect you?

One, it's your planet.

Care about it.

I think it's pretty cool.

But also, the research and the things that they discover, you just never know.

We didn't know when we went to the moon, we'd find Velcro.

We'd figure out Velcro.

This is human in New Jersey.

In New Jersey?

Ingenuity.

Ingenuity.

Sorry.

I couldn't come up with it either.

I'll fix that in post.

It's not live.

Wait, no, it's live.

We're live.

Yeah.

So this got me thinking about something else that I had seen recently about in Yosemite National

Park.

The glaciers on top of there.

The top of a glacier is this high altitude, Alpine Tundra ecosystem found at the peaks

of mountains within a national park.

And there's just again, a whole world of stuff going on there that we didn't even know

about until this was discovered.

And their own little world going on in the tops of these things, whether it's at the bottom

of this or underneath this glacier or at the top of this, you know, glacier, I'm not

at the top of this national park.

It sounds like the next Pixar movie.

Yes.

Yes.

Oh, you're right about that.

Where are they?

Oh, wow.

I think I've done this.

Oh, that'd be really good.

It's just fun.

I think this is also just fun to learn about interesting things that we didn't know before

and discoveries.

I mean, for as much exploring and, you know, years and decades and just so much history

of discovering about our planet, the fact that we still don't know things is cool.

Yeah.

And I think, for me, it also leads to, well, what else do we not know right now and what

are we going to discover in the next days and the next months and the next years?

It just leads to a lot of cool discovery and a lot of more understanding our planet

that much better.

Yeah.

We will discover wildlife.com is again that where you can find that article discover wildlife.com

show pop up right for you.

You type in your search bar, iceberg, broke free, Antarctica, any of the above.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa and James here with you.

Hope you all are having a good one out there.

We're going to kick off the nine o'clock hour with a lot of fun.

We're going to be talking about the regional math 24 competition.

We've got Kelly in with us.

We'll talk to Jacob and Trevor.

We're going to have some fun in that nine o'clock.

Be sure to join us for that, everybody.

Little entertainment news for you.

We'll talk some Dolly.

We've got Halle Berry and Chris Hemsworth talking about that and we're going to talk some

local theater.

Yeah.

And a little bit later in the nine o'clock, the 10 best states for working from home.

All that coming up for you, but right now it is spring and it feels good and spring

cleaning has been effect.

I know plenty of people out there may have already started or done some or maybe you're

getting ready to do some this weekend.

Well, if AI is so amazing at doing human jobs, how about starting getting on this spring

cleaning thing?

Yeah.

Could you please?

Get on.

Yeah, dust.

Yes, I hate dust, dude.

So even give the robots a choice.

They can start deep cleaning the bathroom or decluttering your inboxes and your phones

with all the pictures and everything like that because digital spring cleaning is another

thing that's going on now.

And there's a yeah, I suppose there's a new survey out on digital clutter and it found

that the average American has in these stats, Melissa, 1444 unread emails, 12 unread text

messages.

17 unread social media notifications, 11 unread app messages, 15 open browser tabs,

9 unused smartphone apps and a partridge and a pear tree.

I don't know, that's a very odd list and it's a little bit but it's accurate for some

of us.

Going to be clear, that's unread emails and text messages not unanswered.

Not everyone can.

If they're unread, they're probably also unanswered.

I mean, yeah, that feels like that goes without saying, but not everyone can handle leaving

something unseen.

63% of people say that they currently have zero unread texts and 54% say they have no

unread social media notifications.

Email is a little harder though.

32% of people claim that they have zero unread emails, a little a lot lower on that one,

almost 30% lower.

Just a few more stats, 77% of people feel digital clutter negatively impacts their life.

50% say that they get frustrated because digital clutter makes it difficult to find

apps and files they need and 31% of people have paid to upgrade a device to one or with

more storage because of digital clutter.

I feel like this is one of those ones where so many people can relate to this, so many

people are in this one.

Yeah, because most of us, most if not all of us, at this point have some kind of digital

footprint.

We either have a smartphone or we have an email address or we have, you know, files saved

somewhere.

That's all digital clutter.

And it does cost me stress, James, because Google keeps telling me that I've reached max

capacity.

I need to start paying for it.

And I refuse.

Yeah, yeah.

Refuse.

I don't blame you.

Which means I can't save anything more, which means I need to go back through and delete

stuff.

And do you know what a pain in the butt it is?

Yeah.

No, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I like the idea, perhaps, possibly, of AI assisting with that.

I also would be worried about it deleting something that I want.

No.

I'm no way.

No way.

I like the fact that my phone will automatically like recommend, like this, this app has been

asleep for blah, blah, blah days or you haven't used this app in so long.

It's going to go into deep sleep, which means it's not, you know, it's still on your phone,

but it's not using up any data.

And I appreciate that it does that, because yeah, I have apps on my phone that I don't use

often, but I want them.

So it, but it kind of just like turns them off, which that's cool.

All right.

But it told me about it.

Space is the new frontier, and I don't mean like, you know, outer space.

I mean space, I mean like space on our phones, a space in our servers, you know, all of

these things.

It's where everything is going, because think about that on just a, you know, a personal

level or your own personal stuff or anything like that, even on a work level and tying those

worlds together.

And then you think about this on a governmental level or a scientific level or some of those

things and imagine the data and everything that is being, you know, those servers are

being put through and how much they have on there.

And we're only going more and more in this direction of collecting more and more data.

Let's not talk about collecting data or data.

Instead, let's talk about pictures, because that's what's taking up most of my space on

my phone, because I don't want to delete any of my pictures.

So do we need to do this?

So I had this idea, Melissa, and I'm going to share it with you.

And if somebody else uses it, that's fine.

I'm okay with that.

What if we take these pictures on our phone?

And we start printing them out, and we put them in a book that has nothing but all these

wonderful memories and everything.

And then we don't have to have them on our phone.

We just have them in this book.

And it's a pretty...

Can we carry that book around with us?

No, no, we can't, though.

I don't know.

I kind of miss the idea of photo albums and you know, scrapbooks and some of that.

I have photo albums, scrapbooks.

I do love them.

But I don't look at them as much as I look at the pictures on my phone.

No, you don't.

Convenience of it.

Right.

And whereas a lot of people have a ton of pictures on their phone and don't look at them,

I actually do look at mine.

I reference back to stuff now and then.

And I save things that I want to use later for something else.

Or I want to remember to tie into something else.

I mean, I don't just have random pictures for the fun of pictures, although some of them

are.

My photo album.

Yeah, I have a picture collection problem, James.

Yeah, I admit it.

I admit it.

I'll admit it, too, because my photo album is oftentimes my happy place.

I'll go there.

I'll see pictures of my kids, young and old, see Sammy, my fur brother, you know, things

like that.

And they just make me smile.

It's a palette cleanser for me.

My niece is in nephews when they were little pictures of my mom.

I recently got a haircut and noticed that I've never been great about my photos.

Anyway, I've never really liked pictures of me or anything like that.

But I notice when I see ones with my old haircut, I'm like, okay, those are gone.

Those are worthless.

That doesn't matter anymore.

That actually has helped me a little bit like cleaning up some of the clutter.

There you go.

And I think if you can maybe help yourself do that, or you know, some of these photos that

you have that you really don't want to let go of and you're afraid of losing, I do think

you should print them out and put them in a photo album.

Maybe you can't take it with you, but you know, for darn sure you got a hard copy.

You got a hard copy of those photos, you know, because when we talk about the digital

things that we think we own, I think it'd be kind of cool to see, you know, scrap books