Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us
right here at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by a head of production, our co-hosts at the
Habhacker. Good morning, everyone. And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here,
everybody. We're going to have some fun today. We're going to kick things off the way we like to
or the friend Brittany Merlot. Brittany, how are you doing today? Pretty good. How are you doing?
Doing all right. Doing all right. I was expecting a little more sun today, but I'm all
right with it. I'm okay. We're good. We can handle it. Yeah, the temperatures and everything
seems like a pretty nice calm day today. Yeah, the winds are finally calm down. We've got
thoughts of sunshine out there, but unfortunately more clouds than sunshine. And it's only going to
get cloudy or as we go to the afternoon because we've got another system that's sliding in from
the south. So today, we're getting a little warmer into the mid 60s. We've got a wind out of the
south. It's not too strong. Not too bad today, honestly. We're going to stay dry for all day today.
We are looking at rain, though, moving in overnight. So tomorrow morning, you're going to be waking up
to a damp and dreary start. It is going to be overcast with light rain. We're not looking at any
thunderstorms and we're not looking at anything turning severe. So no worries about that tomorrow.
But we do have another round pushing in at night because the cold front moves through. So it could
spark up the mountains of thunder and obviously some a little bit more rainfall there. And then
that could bring her into Friday morning before the high pressure finally moves in.
Drives us out and warms us up. So little chances of a wet end to the week here and then the
sunshine will be bright and beautiful Saturday and Sunday. We'll be in the mid 60s on Saturday
and mid 70s for Monday. Yeah. Yeah, that's May weather. Mother nature has been doing this the
last couple of weeks where we get kind of our bad weather in during the week and the weekends have
been a little nicer. Yeah, she's coming it out perfect. So I'm enjoying that. She got the note.
Well done, everybody. She got the note. We appreciate that. She works with us.
Has everyone been sending it to her? Yeah, at the same time, just a mass test. Are you feeling
all right? Mother nature, are you okay? Right. We appreciate you, Brittany. Thanks for joining us.
Well, we'll get people ready for Thursday tomorrow. Have a good day. You too.
Best in a business right there. Pretty low joining us every morning, right in this time slot.
Yeah, Seth and I are going to get into some fun this morning and a little bit. We're talking about
a new method of not paying it forward, paying it backward. Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
That will find out. Yeah. We got a mental health hack for you as well. And the percentage of
Americans that hate it when someone asked to help them move. I thought this was in particularly
good for you and I, considering how many times you and I have moved and every. That's true. That's
very true. Boy, you know, that is an interesting thing, man. It's a test of friendship, I guess.
It's kind of weird. It is. Yeah. Got some entertainment news for you. We're going to get into.
And also in the 9 o'clock hour, I want to put a focus on some of our local theater and our newsletter,
the WBAs coming up this weekend. Oh, yes. All kinds of questions. We're going to win.
Yes. Yeah. You guys can help us decide where to put these things. We're going to have so many.
And before we wrap up the show, we got what outdated slang words do you still use often?
Oh, my God. Yes. Right in my wheel. I love it. This is so good. Words I want to try to
bring back and get other people to use. We were definitely, there's some we're bringing back.
Definitely. Even if it's just you and I, we're doing it wrong. What are they saying? All
that coming up for you. And of course, we'll get into our good stories of the day. Talk about
some local events going on in our area. Make sure that you guys are all up to date on different
stuff happening, especially with Memorial Day and other events coming up. We're looking forward
to it. Real quick, they'll get a couple of stories here in our opening monologue. A Michigan
state police troopers attempt to return $5,000 in lost cash to its owner. We're temporarily
frustrated when the money's owner thought the calls were a scam. Oh, no. The MSP said on social
media that the trooper from the Monroe Post found the cash in the middle of Monroe's Hubbard Road
on Friday. Oh, no. It comes across this cash and the trooper contacted in nearby bank, which
confirmed a customer had just made a withdrawal for the exact amount. There you go. That's cool.
Great police work right there. Boom, boom. You know where to go. You're going to be able to get
done with this real quick, file your report. You're done. You got this taken care of, right?
The trooper tried calling the person to took the money out from the bank, but soon discovered
there was a problem. Quote, the subject must have been listed and listening to our public service
announcements on being a victim of fraud and believed he was being scammed and hung up on the
trooper several times. Stop calling me. The person was eventually convinced that the calls were not
a scam and claimed the ownership of the lost body. Quote, it appears the subject after making
the withdrawal, put the money in their pants pocket and it somehow fell out. I know how this happened.
Oh, okay. I know exactly how this happened. All right. This has happened. I think to every one of
us, you just maybe don't know or you just were lucky enough to catch it. Yeah. You think it's in the
pocket, but it's only a corner in or about 20% in the pocket and immediately or like you move a
little bit and it falls out a long time or especially if you go to sit down on the car and it pops
out right in the leg. Yeah. Yeah. The pockets are one of the smarter inventions that we have done
very badly think, like done a bad job with. First, there is. We don't give women enough pockets.
Yeah. That's what's up for most. Weird. I don't know what's up with that. The people that need
them the most were not giving them to. That doesn't make any dark sense. Right. But the pockets are also
like they're not really built to hold certain things. They just hold the built to hold just about
anything which is understandable. Right. But at the same time, I don't feel like they're tested
because I don't feel like they'd make it off of the assembly line if they tested half of these
pockets. Some of them you can't fit anything in. Right. Some of them they're just big enough to
frustrate you. Right. Just enough to like get half your phone in there. Yeah. You know, so here's
a question and I've been told a couple of things. So for men's jeans on the right pocket, right.
There's a smaller pocket. Yes. In the pocket. What is that for? I've heard like a little change,
but that doesn't make any sense because you'd have to dig in, you know, something like that. Is it
for a watch? Is it for what? What is that little pocket for? I want to know, everyone. I want to know.
It is specifically so people will ask the question, what is that pocket for? It's not a big
conversation. Yes, it's a conversation starter. What is that? It's a great question. It's a great
question. I want to know. I want to know like this is the story we heard about with this officer
in this, you know, this subject and everything. I can't imagine how many times this happens and
we don't know about it. Right. Exactly. Well, and he's glad it was a, I mean, it's good that there
was a trooper or a police officer that found that money. Yeah. Because anyone else, I mean,
no likelihood. They would have been, whoop, they would have been gone. So the little pocket on
pants found on the front side of the right jeans was originally designed to hold a pocket watch.
Oh, it was. The pocket was a feature of early waste overalls, the original name for blue jeans.
Waste? Oh, because they don't go overalls like overalls too, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. That's
pretty cool. I got to say, I think pocket watches are kind of cool. They are. But that's interesting
that the transition of still, because that was before wristwatches, wristwatches came in what,
in like the 30s or the 40s or something like that, when men stopped using pocket watches. Yeah.
They're saying back in 1873, this is what they were for. Wow. Yeah. So I didn't, blue jeans are
that old. Oh, yeah. Levi's been around. Realized they were that old. Oh, my God. And I know certain
groups like farmers and stuff used them at one time. That's the only group that used blue jeans,
because they needed a rougher pant, right? For all the stuff they had to go through, right?
The evolution of blue jeans and the way they are, especially in society. Very interesting,
except anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gen Z has given up on blue jeans. They're done with
them. They're done with clothes. Yes. It's a period. Yes. Good morning, you're on the show.
Oh, we lost them. We lost them. Star and callback. Yeah. One five four two four twenty six hundred.
So I had another one on one of that touch on here as well, Seth, because of course we are getting
ready. We are getting closer and closer to May. It's tomorrow and May 4th right around the corner as
well. I know that May is a big month for my family. We've got a couple of big birthdays in
there. My brother and my oldest and some others. My father has his birthday in May as well.
Yeah. Well, and there's of course wedding season. And a Las Vegas wedding chapel is getting into
the swing of things. Okay. Or the sci-fi of things. Okay. They are celebrating Star Wars day on May 4th
by offering a pair of themed wedding packages inspired by the beloved franchise. Really?
Yes. Now, if they really wanted to do this right and really, you know, honor the Star Wars franchise,
they would come out with 18 packages and only two of them are good. Oh, oh, the boom. I say,
boom, I says, it says the guy that watches every single one of them. It was up until about two of
the boarding watches, the latest episode of Android. What are the episodes of Android? Which is,
which is fabulous. I mean, it is really yes. I'm taking my time with it. I'm only on episode two,
even though they release them. I'm like, I'm only watching one a week because I want to stretch it
out. The little Vegas chapel, which previously offered Star Wars themed weddings on May 4th
in 2024, said couples who want to tie the knot in the galaxy far far away could choose from two
packages. The oh boy, Yoda won for me. Oh, or the love star. Love star should have been the name
of a parliament song. George Clinton should have a song called love star. He can't use it now,
but, you know, that's still, but you're right. That's totally that should have been
funcadelic all the way. The chapel promoted the packages with photos of staff members wearing
t-shirts saying till death star do us part. Jeez. Boy, but even if I wanted to do this,
this would have made me grow so much. I'm like, okay, no, no, you know what? We're not doing this.
I know I got the Han Solo outfit, but we're not doing it. I'll find another use for it.
Oh my god. Both wedding packages offer the efficient, uh, efficient dress as either,
or the efficient dress as either Princess Leia or Darth Vader, and include custom Star Wars music,
bouquets, and, uh, uh, professional photographers. Right. A video of the ceremony and a star
worst theme wedding certificate are also included. It does look like you can also choose to have Elvis
marry you for the Star Wars wedding. Well, Elvis can do anything. So, you know, for me, Elvis,
can't, yeah, that's fine. I'm Elvis and in Star Wars universe. I like that. I do like that.
Uh, to be fair, I'll throw something, you know, there's some of these puns that they're throwing
out there, and I'm almost hoping Disney steps in. It puts a stop to it. It's like, well,
all right, that's enough. All right. I like the idea of of Disney's lawyers, like reaching out
to them, but like, we're not doing this for money. We just, we did this is artistic integrity. Stop
this pun. I mean, wait, there's a, there's a line in the sand and you crossed it. You crossed it
over and over. The love star package is available for $600 and the priceier, wow, the other one's
priceier. I had that wrong. Yoda won for me package, which includes a round trip limousine service
and a unity sand ceremony costs $860. Don't try to make this like a meaningful, you're getting
married in Vegas. Come on. I mean, no, no who you are. Yes, please. I talk about this all
the time and entertainment. The first lesson to learn and all of entertainment. Know your audience.
For something like this, know thyself. Yeah, really, just be aware of what you're doing. They
don't want a unity sand ceremony. They want a lightsaber battle. Yes, that's what they want.
We've all seen the viral video that was famous 27 years ago. The kid in the, the drive way
or is a garage swinging his lightsaber. Yep. That's every one of us. Yeah, it's every star wars
fan. You know what they, what they really see now if Disney really got it, right? What they should
do, you know, they have the galaxy's edge down it in Orlando, right? What they should do is, is
have their version of medieval times only star wars. Oh, wow. So not only can have a whole theme
dinner of it, you can have a light, big lightsaber battle in it, you know, you get out of there
right now and you go make that happen. I can't just go go. Like you go reach out. You got
to reach out. That's work there. Come on. She's got to know people. 100,000 of people that
works at Disney. Yes. I like the idea of assuming that lightsaber, because she works at like two
minutes, 20 years ago, years ago, yes, and then she worked there longer than two minutes.
I don't have a problem with theme weddings. I really, really don't know. It's your day. Don't
let anybody have fun with it. I have actually a little bit more problem with a destination wedding,
but even that I don't really have an issue with. It's your day. Do your thing.
But to me, it just be, know yourself what you're saying. Right. If you're going to do the
Star Wars wedding, you understand that you're doing a Star Wars wedding. Right. Just do this to,
if you want to really do it, just do it at home. You know, plan it wherever you are. You know,
you can probably do actually a better job than they're doing, honestly. There are probably
few things I am farther from than getting married again. I don't think that any human being needs
to be put through that. But I got me thinking about theme weddings. If you were to choose,
if you had to choose, like you're going to get married, but you have to choose a theme wedding.
You can't just have a regular one. You have to choose a theme, right? What kind of wedding would
you choose? And I never really thought about this before and everything. And I immediately thought
of a roaring 20s. Like I could see now that would be, that's so cool. That would totally be
in on that. We're right back to the pocket watch. Yeah. You got to have the pocket watch. It's
not a few because I want to zoot suit. I want one of those big zoot suits. And I got to have
the pocket watch. The big chain. It's the big chain there. Yeah. Just not. And you have the ring
on the pocket watch. Yeah, the rig right there. Yeah. That's awesome. I like that. See?
I mean, Western style wedding. I think those are going to be cool. I've seen some of those that
have been the ones. I've been a part of one. I've seen two. One was like a 50s theme. You know,
the whole, you know, T-shirt, the greaser thing and the Poodish skirt thing. Oh, that's great.
That was fun. I like that. Because they did, I mean, the reception was great burgers and fries,
you know, shakes and that kind of stuff, which was really cool. But when I was a part of,
it was a pirate themed wedding. And that was amazing. Because I mean, two very creative people,
you know, friends we met in theater and everything. The reception, they literally built the
front half of a pirate ship. That's incredible. On a stage. That's awesome. To do like,
like highland dancing. I mean, it was really an amazing thing to be a part of. And by the way,
our groomsmen's gifts. Because I was one of the groomsmen's swords. Yeah, that's, we got
action now. I've said that before. Oh, my God. That's the best ever. I still have my sword. Yes,
I do. One of my best friends, Steve, when he got married, we got glasses, custom glasses and
everything. And I really love those. I'm going to call up Steve as soon as we're done with this
segment and yell at him. Where's my sword? The mark. It wouldn't have made any sense. I don't care.
Could have had swords. He'd text his anger wearing swords. Yeah, I love that. I'm a little
surprised. Maybe we should be all be proud of ourselves for this as a society that weddings
haven't become just about that. Yeah. The gift that you get from it or something like that.
I don't even want to be at this thing, but I'm going to a sword. I'm going to a sword.
What would you do to choose for a theme wedding, everybody? Weird and fun answers only.
My sister and her husband, Mack, did a Hawaiian wedding. They got married. A little more
stripped down. They wanted it to be a little more unplugged, if you will. They got married over.
It was each of them and did a Hawaiian theme wedding. That's very cool. It was a lot of fun.
Those are the ones that seem to have less pressure on them. Because they're more about not just
the couple getting married, but it's about people participating and having fun with it.
Their ceremony was outside. And I've never seen a ceremony outside. The vows outside.
The whole thing, right? Oh, that was. I can remember it like it was yesterday. That is beautiful.
It was awesome. It picked a great spot. It was really good. We will take a time out. We'll come
back with the LKFA birthday anniversary club on mornings at WFHR.
You heard the boys. It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA
and the birthday anniversary club. We appreciate the gang over at LKFA. Visit them today.
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Treat yourself. Get on over there. Yes, indeed. And of course, get us those birthdays and
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For too long, we've taken this segment too silly. We need to be more serious. You're right in my
wheelhouse now going serious. Yes. Oh, no. Oh, no. It's finally happening now.
Who is celebrating birthdays for this April 30th, the final day of April? Let's find out.
But first set, I need a one or two. Two. All right. Guess that's our qualifier. So first up,
we want to wish happy birthday to Tom Wilkes. Happy birthday, Tom. Enjoy the day, sir.
Hope it's good. One for you. One for you. One for you. And we wish a very happy birthday to our
qualifier, Sue on Netsie. Sue, happy birthday. Congratulations on qualifying. Say that last name,
Southridge. Oh, Netsie. Oh, Nesty or, yeah, something like that. Oh, Nesty, I think it's how I would say it.
Beautiful last name. I want to get cool. Right. That's a great last name, Sue. I want to get
that right. And Sue, we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, pets,
that you are our qualifier for today. Our final qualifier of the month. That's right.
Tomorrow, we get to pick the winner. That's right. Tomorrow, Terry's going to freak out. She gets
this. She never gets it. She's never going to do that. Pick the winner for the month of April. That's
nice. Nice. And thank you for setting that up, Seth, because yes, tomorrow, we're going to be
announcing our winner for the month of April. What we do is collect qualifiers every day with this
birthday and anniversary club and the beginning of every month, we pick a winner and they win two
gift certificates to L Cafe worth $20 a piece. I mean, all you got to, and it's free. All you got
to do is get us your birthday or anniversary, everybody. You can do this. It's pretty cool. They
get it. Tom Sue and everybody to goddess those birthdays and anniversaries. Let's see who they're
sharing their birthday with Travis Scott is 34 rapper and married to Kylie Jenner. Those are the
things that I'm seeing about Travis Scott. It should be the other way around. Married to Kylie Jenner
and maybe. That's what you do when you're married to an Uber rich person, right? You know,
not for nothing though. When you're getting that mid 30s in your rapper, that's hard to evolve.
Like if you're a rock star or heavy metal or country or anything like that, you're in your mid 30s,
you're almost in your prime. Yeah, as a rapper actually, you got to start deciding what you're
going to do with the rest of your career. You really do because there, you don't want to be the 45
year old rapper with the head turned back where it's trying to do lines that you were doing in your
20s. It doesn't go over as well. Just doesn't. It's an interesting thing to see. There's certain
rappers like that we can maintain and keep going and then there's somewhere. It just doesn't work
for them once they hit a certain age. On a day, Armas is 37 wonderful Cuban Spanish actress,
starring in the upcoming John Wicks, Spinoff, Ballerina. Can't wait for it. She was incredible in
Knives Out. She was really like, Knives Out has got one of those eclectic, incredible casts and she
outacts almost everybody in it. It's impressive considering the talent there. Yeah. I think Daniel
Craig is almost an underrated actor in some ways. In this happens with a character or an actor that
plays a famous character oftentimes a lot of action roles too. Yeah, but I think the world of him
has an actor. She just plays him. Don't move, he mad. She's so good. Nice. And she was the
bond girl no time to die. She was in Blade Runner as well and played Marilyn Monroe in Blondt.
Wow. Yeah, she's clear. Gal Gadot is 40. Wow, she's 40 years old. Wonder Woman's 40.
There's been some great actors to play that character of course and everything, but I really
appreciate what she did with the role and the way that she really paid homage to it and everything.
Very similar. I don't know if they talked about it or not, but it's hard for me to believe
that it's a coincidence. So when Henry Cavill got the role of Superman, the first thing he did was
look at the training regiment at Christopher Reeve went through. That's right. And made an
agreement with James Gunn and all those, everybody, I'm not wearing a fake suit. This is going to
be me. So when you see Henry Cavill as Superman. That's him. Just like Christopher Reeve. Yeah,
there's no fakeness or anything to that. And Gal Gadot did an almost same thing with, oh no,
I just had it. I wanted to see Linda Hamilton, but Linda Hamilton would have made a great Wonder Woman.
Linda Carter. I think it's what you're looking for. Linda Carter. Yes, she really worked with
Linda Carter, talked with her a lot and that's really cool. That was cool. Yeah. The one thing missing
from the Wonder Woman movies, where was the invisible jet? We never got to the invisible jet.
That's one of the cooler things about the whole thing. I love the pantomime. It's so funny.
A lot of people seem to really like, I didn't see it, but a lot of people liked her as the
evil queen in Snow White as well. There was something. There was one of the few things people
commented on, positively. Right. Kristen Dunst is 43. Another great actor. 43. Man, you forget,
she started so young and she's only 43. Wow, she's been in for a long time. Another one where
interview with a vampire and she's working with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderis, amazing,
amazing actors that are fantastic. And that young lady out acts every one of them. She is incredible
in that movie. She got tight cast. She was so good in that movie for a while there. A couple of
the Bing-Bang Theory actors celebrating a birthday, sharing a birthday. Canille Nenhari is 44,
Raj on the Bing-Bang Theory. And of course, Johnny Galecki is 50. Wow, Johnny Galecki is 50.
Leonard had the Bing-Bang Theory, but I think most of us got to know him as David on Roseanne.
On Roseanne? Yep. He's been in a few movies too, so no, he's had a really good career. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, he and Kayleigh Kukou are doing it. Did a TV show or a movie together recently.
He's got some great work. You know, he's been doing it. He keep it up. We're going to go to work.
Right. Oh, let's see. I say, Thomas is 64 Chicago's own former NBA star, NBA coach, NBA champion.
GM. I mean, he's done everything, basically. They can do the NBA.
Kyrie Irving has got incredible handles and is an amazing dribbler on both sides of the ball.
He ain't, he ain't Zeke. Ain't Zeke. There's only one Isaiah Thomas. Yeah.
Not talking about off the court or any of that stuff or anything. But man, when it comes to guys
who made a, his legacy is unknown to anybody outside of Chicago. Because Isaiah Thomas paved the way
and set the stage for Tim Hardaway and Anthony Davis and so many other great Chicago athletes
coming out of certain high schools in that area. And the go back and watch Isaiah Thomas,
watch his dribbling watch. It's nothing to see an NBA player dribble without looking at the ball.
Right. Isaiah Thomas dribble without touching the ball. Isaiah was the greatest dribbler ever.
It really seemed like man, he was a champion. I mean, those pistons teams from the early,
the late 80s, early 90s. I mean, he was not only the leader, he was their best player,
to be sure. Interesting group of guys. Yeah. That was an interesting team, man.
Starting five for the bad boy pistons wouldn't survive two minutes in the NBA today.
Not because they weren't good enough because they'd be fall out. Yeah, I'd be Bill Lambeer. I mean,
come on. Bill Lambeer alone. He'd walk on the court and they'd fall about like you've been
ejected immediately out of the game. Falled out. Uh, Merrill Osmond is 72 of the Osmonds. Oh, wow.
Okay. I know there's more than Donnie and Marie, but they're a bigger group family. And some people
no longer with us. Like the legend, the great, the wonderful court, Chloris Leachman,
born in the state 1925 Mama on raising hope underrated TV show Beverly Ann on the facts of
life. Throw out about bloucher and power. Maybe her greatest role. Like, or I would say maybe,
not I don't know about her greatest role. That's hard to say. Yeah. But probably you're more
famous. She was in so many. I mean, all those notebooks movies that she was in. So funny,
man. Her comic timing was just on on like right on right on one of the, you hear me say this a
lot with actresses fearless. Um, I, I would say that she may have been the first one. Maybe Goldie
Han, uh, you know, there's a couple that I can think of now that I say it, but are actually
Lucille Ball or Carabinette Charlie. Yeah. But really, Chloris Leachman's one of the first ones
that I remember because I watch young Frankenstein like on an endless loop when I was a kid. Yeah,
but she's incredible at it. Uh, and Al Lewis, uh, born in this day in 1923, Grandpa Munster,
uh, the Munsters. Al Lewis with those eyebrows. Those eyebrows, man. Yeah. So expressive. Great
facial expression. Yes. Great face. He was very funny in that show. And, uh, one more time,
wishing a great birthday in anniversary to everybody out there celebrating and especially a great day
to our friends over at L Cafe. Join us tomorrow morning, writing this time slot. We'll be announcing
our April winner and we'll be celebrating our first birthdays of May. Yeah. We'll be back with
our show coming up mornings here at 97 5 FM W F H R. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here
at W F H R. Locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a
fantastic Wednesday out there. Happy hump day, everybody. Yeah. Um, you've heard about, uh,
paying it forward. We were actually just talking about this earlier this week, paying it forward,
the idea of it, the meaning behind it and all those things where, um, this is where someone pays for,
now looking at this in a drive-through sense. Um, this is where it came from, right? Yeah. Um,
so where someone pays for the person behind them, it's nice, but it also puts them in a spot where
they have to decide if they'll do it for the next person. Um, it's a little like the idea.
It's not the same thing, certainly, but it's a little bit like the idea of getting somebody a pet
for their birthday or for a holiday or something like you might be trying to do something nice,
but you're really giving them a responsibility. That's the thing, right? Yeah. Actually watched a great
SNL sketch last night about, uh, basically was, it was a game show, but the person won right away,
and they got a turtle. I'm sorry, I'm a tortoise. They can live up to 200 years. And it was
basically the host of the game show just did this because at six years old, his dad gave him this
tortoise and he's been living with it ever since. I just gotta get rid of it. Oh my god.
Get rid of it, right? That's good. I like that. I feel like that when we're trying to do these
nice things, sometimes in society, we're putting, uh, putting something on somebody's shoulders that
one, for may not want to do it, right? I don't want somebody doing something nice because they're
forced to. I wanted to do it for the right reasons, right? Um, and that person may not have the
finances to be able to do something like that or whatever, and you just don't know exactly.
Well, a woman is going viral on TikTok for sharing her experience of someone paying it backward.
Oh, okay. Interesting. Her name is Samantha, and she was at a Dunkin Drive through last week,
and when, uh, when she pulled up to the window, the clerk told her that the guy ahead of her,
who'd left, told them that she would be paying for his order. In the caption, she said,
to the random guy in front of me, who lied to the employee, I hope you have the day you deserve.
Samantha later posted a follow-up where she clarified that she did not pay for his order,
and that Dunkin employees were very cool about it, even though they were frustrated that the guy
had essentially stole his coffee, right? Uh, she said that she was taking a back that someone would
do that. She also shared the video of her trying to restore goodness in the world by going back
to the Dunkin and paying for the person behind her. Okay. Um, uh, there is a Tim Robbins sketch
also like this. Tim Robbins is underrated by the way. His show I think you should leave on Netflix
is amazing. Um, the idea of this, obviously, this is, this is tacky. It's wrong. All those things.
Right. I don't have, um, a ton of, uh, I wasn't born with a lot of hope or faith in me. My brain is
much more reptilian and I don't like it, but it's who I am. And I'm trying very hard to be better
about this in life and open myself up to more of these things. Um, when it comes to something like
this, this does go to something that I believe a hundred percent. And I, I have very few things like
this in life where I can't tell you mathematically why this happens or scientifically why this will
happen. But I do believe in karma. Okay. I do believe that you get what you put into this world.
Okay. I, I can't put my finger on why, but I've seen enough evidence in my life to be like,
okay, that, that was karma catching up with you for better or worse. Sometimes it's a positive
like this lady, I believe genuinely that something great is going to happen to her.
Right. Uh, and I believe something negative is going to happen to this person.
And, and I will wholeheartedly admit that this is also maybe even a placebo and maybe there is,
it's just to make me feel better about these stories in life. Sure. And I don't have any problem with
that. No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. You know, there's something else to consider
here too. What, you know, how do you take a bad situation and what good can you bring out of it,
which I think is very underrated. You know, especially when you're in the middle of bad stuff.
You know, and it's, it's easy. It's totally and I get it. It's totally easy to be like, oh bad
stuff has happened. And man, oh, what, what's wrong? Why me? You know, that kind of thing and then
again, that's natural. I get it. That's, that's fine. But it's, it's taking that and turning it
around. What can you do to make the good out of the bad? To me, that's, that's some, some of the
most truly amazing things that have happened to that humans have done in this world is from doing
that, taking the bad and making it good. I don't even know if he realizes that when I was a kid,
my dad gave me a really good life lesson. They, they won a big game and him and his team were freaking
out. They are excited. I remember him staying up late and everything. And then I remember him
getting up early and I'm eating cereal and asking him why he's getting up so early after the
long night. It's like, we got practice. Make, you know, and it was like nothing had happened
the day before. Wow. And it just went right back to work and everything. The idea of giving yourself
some time was something and then moving past it. Whether it's a good or a bad thing. And I,
I do this, I try to do this with negative things. How can I learn? How can I get better? I get
myself a couple hours or a night with something. Right. As the next day, you try to move on, try to
get past. I think a lot of this kind of, these kind of situations in life, you have to give yourself
a venting moment. Oh, absolutely. You got it. You get it out of your system, hopefully. And you
can move past it. And it can be hard. I understand that, you know, it can be really hard, especially
for like really bad stuff that happens. Man, it may take longer, you know, it may take longer than
just an hour or two. You may have to go through a process, you know, like when someone very special
to you passes away, you know, that's a process, the grieving process to help, you know, you move on
to the, what the next thing, right, without them, unfortunately, but that's what you have to try to do.
And I, I, I got to say, and again, not speaking for anybody else, but I feel like, if not always,
that you, we've all experienced the, the joy of killing somebody with kindness. Yeah. There
are a few things better, like any good comeback or, or quote, revendre or anything like that,
like that stuff is here there. It has its moment or whatever maybe, but killing somebody with kindness,
it's such a great way. It's such a mental, just a karate chop. It's such a good, it's that
whole, you're not going to get me. I'm not going to allow you to get to me. I had, when I was working
at a credit union many years ago, we had one of the tellers who was amazing at that very thing,
a difficult customer would come in, something would happen, and she would get sickly sweet.
I mean, it was amazing to watch her do this and it was just always, man, wow, she was good.
There's, there's people that are just masters of tax. They really go to that. Yeah, that day,
right. That, that story. No, no, this is a right story. If you ever work through your, if you
ever, if you ever work through your lunch break, you're not alone. And it's not just an American
thing. A recent study in Australia found around 80% of workers do it sometimes and most said it
has a negative effect on their mental health. It's easy to do if you've got a deadline or you're
in the middle of a project or you're me. I just don't even think about it. I don't even think about
it. I don't. My stomach is yelling at me and I'm like, what do you want? What are you bugging me
for? Shut up. I took care of you yesterday. Why are you here again? Go wait. Oh, oh,
that's right. Every day, I'm going to do this every every. Oh, man. So for people like me,
there's this mental hack that they're this making the rounds and everything. So there's talking
about setting a lunch alarm. That might be a good idea for some people. Like on your phone,
having an alarm set for noon or whatever you have time for lunch. Sure. Just to specifically
remind you, hey, eat. Yes. And to refuel an expert in workplace psychology talked about why working
through lunch is a bad habit to get into. She says we think that not taking breaks is making us more
productive. But the trade off is we're not giving our brains a chance to rest. And over the long
haul, it actually makes you less productive. She says putting strategies in place to prevent burnout
is the best approach. So setting a lunch alarm can encourage you to take the lunch break more
often and the one you need. Just don't hit snooze 12 times when you're doing it. See, this is,
okay, we've learned this a long time ago in exercise, right? You need to give your muscles
that break in order to function properly. Just going in every day, working eight hours a day is
not going to make you stronger or healthier. In fact, it could have serious effects on the opposite
on your body. The brain is exactly the same. We have learned, you know, every time you use your
brain, you know, for like your job, say you use your brain a lot, it uses the exact same amount of
energy as it does for physically laboring. It's the same thing. And this makes total sense to me.
You need to give it a break because like you, like they said, you're not going to be better
if you just keep working. You need to take that break. If you want to be better at your job,
you need to take breaks. One of my favorite things is learning new things. And I learned a
while back that no matter what I tried to do, I could not retain information after midnight or
certain things, right? Because my brain was done. Yeah. My receptors were done. It literally can't
do it anymore. Yeah. You just, you don't really retain information. And it's no different if it's
a noon or midnight. You know, if your brain is tired or if your brain is not getting the rest
and needs, it just literally scientifically cannot take that information in. I'll bet you
anyone has done this before. You're trying to do something and it's not working. You get super
frustrated. You keep trying. You get more and more frustrated. Okay. You walk away in hour,
whatever it is. You come back. You got it. Yep. Immediately done. See, it works. It really works.
I feel like this is one of those things as well where here's an opportunity for us to all
do an exercise that every single thing, every single person on the planet needs to do and get
better at. And that is we've gotten really good with mental health and talking about mental health.
Hey, good on us. High five, everybody. That's cool. That's really great that we did that.
Now the real work begins where we not only give each other some grace in these subjects,
but we give ourselves some grace on these subjects as we're learning more and more about the brain
that we've ever known before and more about these things that are going on up there.
Right. There is not a person in the world that can control these things. It's a chemical thing.
No, absolutely right. Whether we're talking about whatever we're talking about, there needs
to be a balance of personal responsibility and owning these things and understanding your own
brain and understanding as best you can, more you go on the older you get. Well, also your
friends, your family, all of these things, understanding, I can't control this. This is not
something I can control any more than you get to choose who you love. Right. It's just the way
that our chemistry works, our brains work. And we got to roll with it sometimes and try to get
better and give each other grace. And that's one of the things is about taking responsibilities,
understanding what you can take responsibility for. There's so many things you cannot.
And if you do, that is a very negative effect on you as a person mentally and in all those things.
Finding out what you can control and you can't is very important. I just wish I had to read this
study in high school. Man, man, so many times I stayed up late thinking, oh, I'll just stay up
late and cram and did not. Spoiler alert. Everybody didn't work. Did you know? Ended up in radio.
No joke. Take a time. I'll come back and have some more photos of the morning show.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Seth and James, hang it out with you. We hope you're having a great Wednesday out there.
Oh, every 90s kid just started bopping their head. They did. Totally.
90s beats, man. It seemed like a good time to be a producer.
Man, let's take a pause here and appreciate a new Jack's wing. Yes, for a minute.
Yes. It did last very long, but actually it was pretty dark.
It was really good. I loved it, man. That was some good stuff in that time.
Here is a fun one and an interesting one, I think. What is the percentage of Americans that
hate it when someone asks to help them move? This, the subject of many TV shows and comedy sketches
over the years, sitcom 101. Yep. Yep. Someone helped me move.
The, the, and from both angles of this, the person having to ask and the person, of course,
you know, needing to help or should help or we're going to help. There are three kinds of
favors. The minor kind people are like helping with. The major kind people will reluctantly
help with and someone asking for help with a move, which is, of course, the most difficult, of course.
In a survey, 38% of people say that they secretly hate when even being asked to help a friend
or family member move. Wow. And that makes some sense. It's hard to get out of. It takes a long time
and it typically involves stress, manual labor, and the risk of messing stuff up. Wait a minute. It's
hard to get out of. So wait, wait, you're saying yes, just to figure out a way to not do it.
Come on now. What's wrong with you? I maintain this is one of the most fascinating things about
human beings to me. Oh, I think you're right. The, the politeness to strangers we have. And this,
this, you know, where we, there's no like rhyme or reason, it's not some lesson we learned in school
or, or something along those lines. Right. We just have this tendency for everything rude we might
do, or for every time we're asking people to give some grace or pay it forward or something like
that, there are things about us in society that if a coworker that you just met asks you to move,
you feel a per, immediately are either thinking of, um, do I, you know, do I have the time?
Do I have the physical strength to do this? Or how do I get out of this? Do I look like my calendar?
I gotta have something, right? This is a stranger. You could just tell them, no, I don't want to do
that. Why would I want to spend my Saturday helping you move? I barely know, I don't even know your
last name. But instead, we're like, oh, wow, Tony, yeah, uh, pie. Oh, I'd love to. Oh, I got
this thing as your brain, you're making noises to try to come up with something. Yeah, you're stalling
basically. Oh, what do I do? Actually, I'm, I got to move. Oh, darn it. No, that's, yeah.
Well, wait, Tony, can you help me move? Uh, darn it. So, uh, if you're, the one that need,
if you're the one needing help, people say the top three things you can do to sweeten the pot are
buying food and drinks, uh, paying for the help. And of course, promising to return the favor
when the time comes. Now, the first two I agree with, the idea of paying somebody is great on the
surface. What human being is going to be like, yeah, yeah, pay me. Like it's usually a family member
or a friend, man, I ain't going to have my friend begin me 20 bucks to help them move. I could never
live with the guilt of that. Man, if you're going to pay for someone to move, just pay move
professionals. Yeah. Yeah. The amount of money you're going to spend on the food and the drinks
or the paying someone or any of this, you might as well spend 10 more bucks or whatever it is.
Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I know it might be more or more expensive, but I mean, seriously,
just just do it that way. Uh, so, so why don't people just hire professionals? There we go.
54% of people say it is too expensive. 29% say that they don't feel like they need professionals,
cortical professionals and 70% say that they don't trust strangers with their stuff.
That's professional. Yeah. I have dealt with enough professional movers now that a lot of
different things. They're all have been very courteous. They've all been careful. I'm, you know,
they'll cliche about them, you know, just chucking stuff into the truck. That's not true.
They would sustain business exactly that. Every business is a reputation business. If one of
these businesses was doing that, you would know because they would been bankrupt by now. Exactly.
Especially movers. Yeah. We're very important. Um, now the, of course, the expensive part is
very understandable. I mean, I get that. 99% of the moving I've done in my life is because I could
not afford the last place. So I get that. Yeah. Um, that happens. And, and both Seth and I have moved
a lot in our life. So I feel like this is not our wheelhouse necessarily, but it's something that we
know quite a bit about some, some information. We've both been in this situation a lot. And I,
to me, I only asked people that I have a good feeling are going to say yes. Right. Yeah. Exactly.
And in my family's experience, um, I being honest about this one, this is where you find out
who your real friends are. Um, my mom and dad were in a very difficult situation where my father
was not available. It was just up to my mom and my sister and I and my brother. And this is when
I was much younger. And we asked a number of people around here to help us move. And one person
showed up. Oh, no. Uh, and, and we haven't talked to any of those other people since. Now,
had those people given us an excuse and not just ignored us. That'd be completely different.
Something else, right? Um, I'm all for, uh, all understanding of, hey, I don't, even if they said,
I just don't want to, at least they reached out and give you enough, you know, courtesy for that.
I have no issue with that as it is. It's not an excuse. It's fine. I would rather that. Um,
because I've also with the experiences of hand moving had the person who says yes,
but they're not really there. No, they're, they're grabbing like silverware. They're grabbing like,
you know, the paper towels and mood. Yeah. And stuff like that. I don't need you, man. I don't make,
you know, um, the whole reason I could have done that myself, right? Yeah. I need the other
stuff, man. On the other side of it, helping people move. And I just helped my, uh, one of my,
my oldest friend do this, uh, some months back and everything. Um, this is one of those ones where, uh,
I, I, I've never said no. I've never said no to ask somebody asking me to help them move. Right.
Uh, but I am, I have always been nervous about breaking something of theirs. That's part of it. Yeah.
I bring up. It's my oldest friend. There's literally nobody in the world outside of family members
that I've known longer than this guy. And I, I still was nervous about breaking his dark set,
or, or something like that, or whatever, or everything. That part I completely understand.
That I get. If you're thinking about reciprocity, I mean, you know, there's always the
chance that you're going to need help yourself, right? At some point. And a good way to get people
to help you is to totally hold it over their head. No, I'm just kidding. Yes, yes, yes. I helped you move.
Ah, yes. My old guilt. It's a great one. I'd love to hear from you guys. If there's other
options or other things that you can think of to sweeten the pot or, uh, what have you or, or,
what is your go-to excuse? What is your reason? My back. I get, uh, doctor says, I need to back you
out of me. You know, no one. Oh, man, you know, I got to say there's, there's something good.
There's something very satisfying, you know, after helping someone move and getting the beer and
pizza, you know, the obligatory beer and pizza or pop or whatever you drink. There's something
very satisfying about that moment after you're done. And you know, you did something good. You
helped a friend out and you got some pizza, you know, if, if pizza's at the end, that's not a bad
thing, right? It's usually most things in life. Right. If it ends with their pizza, that's good.
I couldn't agree with you more. We, um, we don't, uh, I think focus on this enough in life where
they're doing the action and the feeling good from it. Yes. You know, satisfaction of a job well done.
How much that's worth it. Um, I, I had that, uh, helping my buddy the other
a couple of months ago, but the thing I didn't catch of it, and I don't know what this says about
me, but I found it nostalgic too. Oh, it's moving. Like just the idea of doing it and everything.
How much you did as a kid. I can totally see that as weird, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
One of the fun things our city is doing is adopting no more may. We've been doing this for years
around here. And, uh, well, the mayor just put out a proclamation about no more may tomorrow,
kicking off tomorrow. Everybody starts tomorrow. Uh, now the city has done a couple of cool things
with this. They have allowed it to where now you don't have to have a sign out in your yard.
You might, but you don't have to. Right. They've also designated some spots on city property
leave on mode. Um, the 20th street over by two mile Avenue and Griffith 16th street over to
buy two mile and coon, uh, Whitrock Avenue around the stormwater pond on 16th and two mile
Sandlot Park and McMillan Light Memorial Library. All right. Uh, all great things for all of our
pollinators. Yes. Very important. What should, uh, if you get it, if you're in somewhere where you
can look outside right now, I want you to take a look and see some of that beautiful green out there.
It could be greener. It could be bigger and it will be if we do this right. If we go ahead and
just give ourselves a couple of weeks here of, of this. And when I was a kid, I remember there
being a real push from two of our states to not celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday.
And I also remember having the thought afterwards, how much do you have to dislike something to
not take the day off of work? That's just crazy. Like nobody says you have to, you know,
do anything as far as Martin Luther King. No, not go to work that day. Right. How badly do you
have to dislike something to not do that? All we're saying here is you don't got a mo for a month.
Right. That's it. Right. Like, like, oh, oh, no. Oh, oh, oh, no, oh, you don't even have to say
you're doing it for the pollinators. You could say, because you just want to give your moor a
month off or your body a month off. The pollinators don't care. The bees are buzzing around. He's
not doing it for the right reasons. Yeah, forget this guy. Because bees do buzz in between their
words. And they speak English apparently. I just do it. Just do it. And I almost promise you,
you're going to see the rewards in your lawn the rest of the summer. You're going to see the
rewards in our city the rest of the summer. Right. This isn't some kind of like a hoop-to-doop-de-thing
that people did just a bunch of people came up with for fun. We live in an agricultural state.
This is very important in an agricultural state. Everything is connected. We talk about this
with our water all the time. Our land is no different. And what you do here affects the state,
affects the planet. Yes. It's a positive. And there are no downsides to this. We encourage it to be
a part of no moment. It's coming up. Starting next month. We'll be back with more show everybody. We
got it right around the corner for you. We're looking forward to diving into some entertainment news.
Got some other fun stuff. And before we wrap up, some outdated slang words that we're going to
bring back. Ready. I am so ready. We're bringing them all back. It's going to be so radical. Can't wait.
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