Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined in studio by our head of news, our co-host,
Melissa Kay. Good morning. And our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habagger.
Good morning. And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here. Everybody, let's kick
things off the way we like to with our great friend, Brittany Milo. Uh, Brett, how you doing today?
Pretty good. How was your day yesterday? Did you get outside in that heat?
As much as I could. I enjoyed it. My, uh, fur brother Sam got a haircut recently when he gets a
haircut and the nicer weather he likes to be outside even more. I let him out on the deck. He was
out there for 10 minutes. Like, no, no, no, no. He literally did the grandpa Simpson where he comes
into the room, grabs his hat, puts it back out of walks back in. Like he just, he just wanted
nothing to do with it. He was not ready for it. I kept looking over my shoulder waiting for like
mother nature to throw a snowball at me. Uh, but we're here, Brittany. We, it's safe to say we're here.
Uh, you know, we've got nice weather now. Yes, we do. It is set in stone. We've got this amazing
high pressure system that isn't moving. And it's giving us plenty of sunshine all throughout the
week into the weekend for Mother's Day. I mean, it is perfect timing. And of course, we're enjoying it.
We've got a little bit of a breeze pulling out of the north. So in a few clouds out there this
morning, those will be gone by this afternoon. It will be mostly sunny today. Highest look to
flirt with 70. Still seasonably warm. And then tomorrow, we take a little slide. Just a little
bit down to the mid 60s will rebound for Friday climbing to the low 70s. And then we keep climbing.
We're looking at mid 70s on Saturday and potentially 80 degrees on Sunday from Mother's Day.
And I just think that is so beautiful for them because they deserve a beautiful day for such a
hard job. And I like that everybody can just go outside and not worry about the weather destroying
any plans. Nice. Oh, that's beautiful. Brittany, would you help me out? My mom is, I mean, 40 some
years. I've been getting her Mother's Day gifts and everything. And it's tough to come up with
stuff at the end here and everything. Would you help me out? And like, mom, I talked to Brittany.
And she's Mother's Day. We're giving you a nice weather for Mother's Day. I need the points,
Brittany. I really, really need the points. Pick her out for like a picnic or something. So
then really soak up Mother Nature's gift. And then it's like a cute thought. You know, Patrick's
nice. Her favorite. And the problem is is because he's already given her his Mother's Day gift that
he got for her like two months ago. So now we need something that he can deliver on the day. So
Brittany, that was the perfect suggestion. God, just you know, good idea. Good idea. That could have
been true. That's so right. Brittany, we appreciate you. Have a great morning. You too.
Best in the business right there. Pretty Merlot joining us every morning right in this time slot.
We appreciate you joining us in this time slot. Well, we got fun stuff lined up for you.
The Elcafe birthday anniversary club is right around the corner. We also have the official
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I was going to say air scare quotes official. Yeah. That's the way it shows them. The top baby names
hated by grandparents. Oh, good. I was looking forward to this one. Yes. What's coming up?
Nine o'clock hour. Got some entertainment news. We're going to give in two talks in local theater
and our newsletter. And in the nine o'clock hour words and phrases that are overused so much they
have lost all meaning. Those are good. I like those. I like those too. All that coming up. But I
kind of had to start here even though there is no. I don't know if this is the best place to start.
But I was a little I don't get blown away by surveys very often. But I was blown away by the
survey not only in the numbers of it, but the subject matter. And it's something that I don't know
the last time in society we've really talked about, but hitchhiking. Oh, that's curious.
I haven't really thought about it at all. Now, there is a very small list of things I haven't
done in my life. And then there's an even smaller list of things I'll own up to. I've never
even come close to hitchhiking. I've never never done anything. I honestly don't even know
anybody who ever even has. And that's so wild to think about for me. It was something that
used to be when we were kids. I don't know if we even knew anybody that did it. But it was a thing
in TV and movies and songs. All of that. I don't know how much this really existed in America.
Like for how much like how much it was and how much it was actually just something that we said
or what have you. But I'm guessing and God it's so good to have you in studio, Melissa. I wouldn't
get this over this clear feed. I feel like Melissa's got some. I have a hitchhiking story. She has a
story she does. Yes. Yes, it involves a cross country trip and a hitchhiker and a forest fire
and a very devastating car crash. Oh my gosh. For me personally. Wow. That's curve ball. Wow.
And then I ended up married. So you know what? That's that was the end. That sounds like a
pitch for a movie actually is what that sounds like. Off air. We have so many fault. And you'll be
joining me during the rapid support to discuss all this. That's awesome. And that is an interesting
story. Yeah. It's one of the stories I tell in every first date I go on so that people know how
absolutely crazy I am. But you know what? Like just get it all out there right away, right?
Good. Get it out of the way. Smart. This is smart. Hi nice to meet you. I'm Melissa and I'm in
sane. It's a little similar to how the and now you know why all my first dates are only first dates.
My I would say my first 10 15 girlfriends or whatever. I started all out the same way. You know
we're having conversation things are going well and then oh by the way here is my closet of
skeletons. Introduce you to every single bad thing I've ever done. Do you see this pile of
suitcases under the table here? This is my baggage. And I figured if I didn't scare them away,
well this is the you know this is this is not a good dating method. Don't do that. Don't do that.
But speaking about hitchhiking there was a time when hitchhiking wasn't absolutely terrifying.
I just at least said that's what we're told. Right. Right. Right. In a new poll only 11% of people say
that they have hitchtiked and would do it again. Another 20% have in the past but wouldn't do it
again. 11% of people have never hitchtiked but have considered it and 53% of people have done it
and would never consider it. And would never consider it. Never. Have done it and would never
consider it. Thank you. Right. That's what you said. Yes. Okay. I just wanted to make sure because
and and so when asked if they'd hitchhike 73% of Americans say that they would definitely not do
this. 73% that's a pretty high number. Well I mean it's a little bit scarier out there now.
Well I wouldn't say that. The impression of it being scarier out there now is what we hear.
Whether it is or not is is you know to find out yourself but that's a scary thing to find out
yourself. I think about Route 66 the most famous route in all of America and and so many of the
stories both positive and negative that we've heard about that over the years and one of the first
things I think about that is is this kind of stuff like right there's certain places where I
probably would feel comfortable hitchhiking and then there are places you know what I'm hoping it
like I'm just going to hope this I am not even I'm actually putting my thumbs in my pockets just
in case anybody gets the wrong idea I right well you know I'm I'm thinking that there was probably
because I I believe I heard my grandpa talk about this there was a golden age for hitchhiking yeah
and I think it was during World War II because a lot of a GI's they would come back and they
you know had to get somewhere and people were very willing to pick up guys in uniform yeah for sure
to oh hey can I give you a hand you know can I get you to wherever you're going or I can take you
this far or that kind of thing was a way of helping the war right exactly so I remember my grandpa
talking about doing that when you stationed you know at a base in California he said oh we wanted
to go to this thing so a couple of us hitchhiked you know up to Monterey or whatever it was you know
to see this show was like wow and it seems like it seems like there was a lot of that going on but
then later after the war you know then we start hearing the horror stories you know and there
was a couple like it wasn't there like a hit the serial killer that did you know like the hitchhiking
thing and there's a bunch of like just stories written that aren't factual or that you know just
kind of fear mongering type stuff to just make it scary because it's a it's a potentially scary
situation you're trusting a stranger and you're in and then close space right I would say off
the top on the surface I would think in some ways you can make an argument that it's never it's
safer than it's ever been just with all of us walking around with cell phones and location devices
and all of this but that also doesn't mean that that's I would never want to give this is not
an endorsement to hitchhiking yeah that's what I was afraid of I as I didn't catch it as I was
saying it out loud right but yes I don't want to do that although isn't isn't like ride sharing
just like one step up from that I guess I mean you can make the argument I mean you're you're
paying them to do something right yeah yeah and but there's a register but there's a
red you know like you're paying them to do it there's a record of it somewhere there is a record
too but there's somebody knows where you are and why you went there right if it's catching a
ride to work I mean it's just something you do every day you probably get to know those people
after a period of time but basically anyone can do it it's not like a taxi you know who's bonded
and licensed you know taxi services are different because they have all those things with them
this is just a person yeah you know just so it's maybe you're right there's a little bit more
there because like you said there is kind of a record in the the ephemera but yeah yeah I haven't
I haven't thought that much about it but I would feel more comfortable taking a cab than doing
Uber or any of those things and and it just I've never done Uber or any of that so I don't know but
I just I've taken a cab a thousand times in my life right yeah that's nothing you like what's
familiar yeah yeah yeah for sure let's take a call we love those are familiar good morning you're on
the show yes I I grew up about thirty something years before you guys by just like it was a common
thing when I was again okay I never did it myself but I have picked up hitchhiker oh okay how was
that experience I love to receive you stand on I 94 with a gas can and the gas of a bundle later a
gas that was just this prop oh yeah yeah I'm worried about that and taking them all the way to
Milwaukee wow that's nice then that way anyway okay oh good good good but that that was good
of you and thank you very much for sharing that sir that's a great story yeah that we that's
more data than we had between the three of us all that to be sure yes appreciate you have a good
morning thank you guys yeah that's awesome that's interesting that's interesting so that is one
of those things too that I know what happened to me I I pick somebody up and I'm thinking I'm
going to take him a couple blocks or whatever it like oh you know actually I've got to go to
Albuquerque and and and because of the situation you're in there the this kind of goes back to
something that I find one of the most fascinating things about people I think this idea of
it's a complete stranger but we still don't want to be rude you know and in the in the extents will
go to to not be rude to a complete stranger like for for all the the talk of the downfall of society
and some of these things and everything there is so much if you take a step back and you actually
think about it that we've normalized and that we do as human beings that are really actually
pretty cool and like and as simple as holding a door open for a stranger or stuff like this where
we're just you know we'll just go ahead and do it um anybody asked you to grab something off
a top shelf or something like that they'll ask you that James maybe Seth but not me nobody asked me
that um I need the bottom shelf that didn't that did remind me of the one time that I did pick up
strangers off the side of the road I was I don't remember which way I was going I think I
must have been coming from work because I didn't have any timeline to be anywhere and there was
a little old couple that was like stranded on the side of the road their car had broken down
and so I stopped to see if I could help them and they gave him a ride to Sparta so I mean it was like
you know and added 40 minutes to my day but they were so grateful and and I just felt so bad for them
because they were stuck on the side of the highway that is that is really cool that it that is
uh I think not only good karma and go what you put into the universe and certainly helping them
and all that that's that's really cool that actually they reminded me thank you um Melissa so there
was a time I was driving and I I pick up these two guys with these really funny haircuts and we're
driving and they were so darn annoying in fact one of them's like you ever heard the most annoying
sound in the world like no I've never heard oh no I that was dumb and dumb are so so all right
right really thought I had something there no nice try nice nice try we should probably get
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surprise you I'll hear a little bit I have not only enjoy but I've made cordon blue whoa yeah
yeah whoa that's a fun thing to make that's a fun thing okay what question was it the frozen one
in the package that you just have to stick in the oven I have made that before but I actually
I did make the actual cordon blue yeah they got some good ones that you just throw
yeah my mom used to get those every once in a great way I was a big treat I would have never
thought I'd like that but it is really good chicken ham cheese me how can you go wrong
go wrong seriously it sounds fancier than it is though as a little kid like growing up
when I would hear I'm like I'm not gonna try that's probably got somebody to like it it's like
oh yeah we need a one through three Seth give me a one through three two right in the middle
gives us that girlfriend get right into it and first up we want to wish a very happy birthday
to civic media's own Tom Hartman happy birthday Tom oh Tom Hartman's birthday can you hear how
can you hear Tom 11 to two Monday through Friday right here right have a good day sir enjoy
that we also wish a very happy birthday to Sharon Cobb Cobbys shop Kobe shop oh happy birthday
Sharon that's a fantastic name that's it really is what do you think Melissa what do you
uh co-byship co-byship yeah okay a wonderful name Sharon enjoy your day well but it's a good one
for you but I could also be wrong so please correct us Sharon yeah call up we'd love that we know
we got your first name right Melissa wrong it happens it happens Seth don't don't don't
so would you keep telling me we wish happy birthday to David fate happy birthday David happy
birthday David enjoy the day Dave open it's a good one for you and our qualifiers today celebrate
in their 30-second anniversary Kurt and Annette a woo so Kurt and Annette oh happy anniversary
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yeah go get some pie bragged anybody you can uh about it let's see who you're sharing your
birthday with everybody mr. Beast is 27 and that is all I know about mr. Beast wow and there's
nothing else to know so keep going only 27 really wow uh the wonderful 80 Bryant is 38 former
SNL cast member uh she was in I feel pretty as well she's really good I keep hoping that she
is funny get a good role and like you know on TV or something like that that's consistent uh it's
it's one of my my my my my side kind of stories that I have with anybody that leaves SNL
and what they do with their careers after that sure and I always wishing them well and for so many
of them it's you know being the second or third or four star on a TV show that runs for four or
five years like it's a great gig like that's a great you know there's not meant there's no you know
kind of after gig after SNL it's kind of like you fight fight fight you audition audition audition
you get on there and then you fight fight fight to get your sketches on or get your all these
things and then when it's done it's kind of like you're done like there's no what do I do now where
you go next right there in 50 years of this show there's never been a blueprint of what you do after
whether you're at a Murphy or Chris Catan uh you know what you're what you're going to go with your
career uh let's see oh the great uh I like her a lot Maya Erkshine is 38 not a household name but
if you see or you're gonna know her uh she was uh Jane and Amazon's Mr. Mrs. Smith with Donald
Glover oh yeah I think the world of Donald Glover there may be a none other actor I want to work
with more than him and uh in that being said she she like stole scenes from that man left and right
I'd never seen her nice before I she was in wine country 2018 uh she's good she's really good
and um that show whoo that was a good show oh Amazon puts a money into that one that was a good
Mr. Mrs. Smith I like that one cool let's see eagle eye cherry is 57 oh save tonight um he is
the half brother of nana cherry uh who was famous as well Buffalo stance uh they they they were
pretty big in the late 90s uh yes they were he was Swedish and uh I didn't know his his his
father is actually the the trumpeter dawn cherry the jazz trumpeter dawn cherry and who yes who married
a Swedish woman that's right moky yep so uh yes uh very good musical pedigree there dawn cherry
one of the great all-time great jazz trumpeters from like the 70s and the 80s yeah I never put
that together yeah dawn cherry is I never put that together wow that's interesting uh Randall
Texkov is 75 former professional boxer uh also went on to star as an actor uh and um dog owner
and ace fit he was the dog owner and ace ventura earnest cell mate and earnest goes to jail but I
think more people would know him from the classically underappreciated movie raising Arizona uh
Nicholas cage john goodman um the scene with john goodman they break out of the jail at least
coming out of the bud it's it is such it was one of the funniest seeds you will ever see in your life
because goodman gets out of it and that's one thing and that's funny but then he you see him like
put his hand in the dirt to pull out like the other eyes so good uh to he was great in that movie
well 1987 good uh and then some um co-in brothers I believe yes yeah one of the early co-in
other movies yes uh and then some people no longer with us oh and heart uh former professional
wrestler born in 1965 passed away tragically in 1995 was actually watching the pay-per-view
uh with my buddies uh where he died uh and um they didn't they didn't show anything it just cut
it just went to black right and then it comes back and jr who is one of the greatest announcers
of all time like any sport I don't care what you're talking about jr is amazing and he's just start
and you hear it in his voice and you know something bad happened and this is like
early early internet days so there's no twitter or anything to go to right and they thankfully
let us know what happened later on in the match but it was just it was a dark time and wrestling
for a while after that because it really was it wasn't just that he passed away it was the
beginning of okay k-fab is there's a the gray area here how do we keep this as hey these guys all
hate each other the wrestlers the rivals actually no oh and heart was one of the most beloved people
in all of wrestling history he was a prankster people loved him he played all these weird funny
characters and was usually a heel and disliked by the audience but um behind the scenes these guys
love this man and he was such a good and it was the beginning of me understanding more and more of
how much not only um wrestling and acting are tied together but how much these guys give to this
sport i thought i understood it i thought i knew it and you notice i called it a sport um because
the injuries are real the the the results at the ending might be you know you've decided one
way or the other but the injuries are real and and you unfortunately have no better proof than
what happened on heart at a young age um just doing his job just trying to entertain people doing
the family business the heart business the his brother his father all these people generation after
generation doing this and just a shame just a shame uh guy who gave a lot to the industry and
is is kind of lost in the shuffle of when people when people remember the wrestlers 34 years old
huh wow Tim Russell born in this day in nineteen fifty meet the press host yes uh great great uh
host for many many years yes very good at what he did and um uh the and not only arguably one of the
greats i believe tied for with Tom Brady now for most uh wins of all time because the NFL recently
introduced the old record books and and tied them all together nice so johnny united is born
in this day nice johnny you oh man one of the all-time greats johnny you yep one of the all-time
great nicknames yes that's that's a great it was great terrible haircut terrible hair yeah but
other than that he was awesome yep and one of the strongest greatest actors you will ever see
Gary Cooper born in this day in nineteen oh one Hollywood legend starting over a hundred films
every one of them westerns no 35 year career uh the the the the phrase strong quiet type uh all
starts and ends with Gary Cooper yep right of the Yankees love in the afternoon mr.
deeds goes to town mr. deeds goes to town okay it was too small i couldn't read it yeah
those are not westerns i just had to mention no that's good that's a good yeah yep
nicely done nicely done south i love Gary Cooper he's great great actor great editor and uh that
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welcome back everybody morning show here at wf HR locally grown radio Melissa Seth and James
here with you thanks so much for joining us we got a fun uh rest of the show lined up for you
and everybody we got some entertainment news coming up in the nine o'clock hour we're going to
get into some fun stuff too we got some bunch of good stories of the day uh words and phrases
that are overused so much they have lost all meeting all that coming up i'd like audience
participation with that one and this one right here us news and world report does a study each year
that ranks all fifty states based on everything from education and health care to infrastructure
and economy and this year they according to us news and world reports the number one state in
america is Utah yeah who had that on their bucket list on my big car Utah tops the list mostly
because it landed in the top ten and five eight of eight categories it's first is fiscal stability
third in both economy and infrastructure fourth in education seventh in crime but it's
fifth forty-eighth in natural environment yeah right um seventh in crime that that's that's
high to me like for Utah I really I really have no idea I'm really showing my cards here that I
know it like I really don't know you talk that well new hamster is second followed by Idaho
Minnesota Nebraska Florida Vermont South Dakota Massachusetts and Washington all right new
Minnesota was going to be on the list and according to they make all these they do they always make
those I'm telling as far as the worst states to live in according to the u.s. news and world
report of course yeah I just want to make sure we're getting this really clear I don't want to
sound like I'm from one source especially because their number one state is probably the number one
state I want to visit Louisiana really I've never been to Louisiana but we wanted to check that out
it's very interesting I was there once as a young I think I think it was like seventeen or eighteen
and it was it's beautiful the moss and the trees was absolutely gorgeous I mean it was just so
cool Spanish moss yeah it is gorgeous they also have dried through daiquiri shops which really
blew my mind the even even the cemeteries are beautiful oh yeah oh yeah oh that was so cool growing
up my bad my first best friend was his family was from there and they just I don't know if they
romanticize it to me or what it is but I've always wanted to visit there but apparently you don't
want to live there according to this list according to the list right Alaska is second worst followed
by Mississippi New Mexico West Virginia and Alabama and as I we note on these lists more often than
not how many of our southern states show up in these and because of many factors we've talked about
a lot but certainly not not positive ones right now that's that's the shame but I think that
there anybody in any of those states can make an argument for why it's you know a good to live
there I don't I agree yeah I'm looking for with okay so Wisconsin is 17th on the list 17th
best overall okay so that's at the top you know yeah that's not bad at all yeah we're in the top half
yeah right they finished 27th in crime and corrections 7th in education 26th in health care 25th
in natural environment 27th in economy 18th in fiscal stability 13th in 31st in infrastructure
time dyslexia see what I did there with 31th and ninth in opportunity 31 in infrastructure
something we need to work on I think yeah yeah fix the being roads yeah right they're working
on it they're trying yeah we need the well of course the budget is going on right now but yeah
they're take note and take note you know I would say our last two mayors have been working very
hard in the infrastructure in this area where it comes to our roads and everything so certainly
on a local local level I know that this is being addressed but I know I know Wisconsin level it
definitely needs to be addressed much more yeah I understand that it's not the sexiest topic but it's
probably the top five top three most important topics I think the first thing you think of
as roads and it's the first thing I think of two but right after that I think of a report that I
read in a study a piece that I saw about dams in this country oh yes bridges isn't that terrifying
I know bridges is a whole other terrifying topic yeah but dams like they talked about Alabama
there in Alabama there is one guy in charge of like 11,000 dams I know like it's insane man that's
not that there's no logical reasoning for that like yeah that's insane so you wonder why infrastructure
gets lift up to the wayside and all that yeah when we have that kind of good points yeah I think
that there's there's a lot of interesting data with this oh yeah there's so much we could dig
into with that so so much just move to Minnesota that's what now no desert remember there's no
desert in Minnesota no no none in Wisconsin either is there a is there is there a overall factor
that makes you because I feel like it's jobs that's that's one of the main things that makes us
move to a whole other state because I'm not thinking about moving even up and down the state I
mean you're moving to a completely different state I feel like it's the number one thing is jobs
that gets us to do that I know that you know that there's love and in other things I just blot say
over a month just yeah I love and that's the whole love thing and I'm okay about that jobs
that's one up talking I can't think of other ripe I'm not I'm just talking taxes maybe especially
for businesses yes ding ding ding yes and well quality of life I think it has a lot to do with it
honestly and for some people temperature yeah oh that's very that's very true yeah absolutely true
so that's the downside yeah so is the weather is I totally agree with you on that one although the
weather from then most northern part of Minnesota to the southern part of Minnesota are quite
different yes and we have the same is true here in Wisconsin that giant lake you know can really
cause problems telling you right now problems and beauty yeah well I love it but yes minutes which
is bad Minnesota is the only state I've been in where I feel like when I go to their major cities
I don't recognize the state I've been I feel like everywhere I'm in Minnesota I even in the
nice times I've been though there's ice like there's ice everywhere but then I get the
St. Paul or Minneapolis or something like that and it's just a major city yes like any normal thing
yeah it's just but what you you had to be paying attention because it's the people I note this
all the time about Chicago because Chicago is a big city but it's still a Midwest city and and so
people are still 100 percent Midwest kind but in a fast pace you know yeah it's like fast forward
complete opposite in Minnesota where they like niceness comes first like if they're not just holding
the door open for you they will wait for you while holding open the door much like here in the Midwest
in small towns people for sure just we're just seeing a major city yeah you know I'm not used to
that uh they they yeah just admit it it's let me say this is better Melissa you can't do it
the Minnesota so much better I can't go that far I can't hold me back James hold me back
because he's right there and I can get him below as much as I'm a hover and as much as I love
Illinois you've never heard me say that Illinois because we both jump across the desert yeah yeah yeah
one other one here for you and this is just for fun Guinness World Records shared video from their
historic meeting between the world's tallest living dog standing at three feet three inches tall
and the world's shortest dog who stands at 3.59 inches tall three inches
Reginald a seven-year-old great-dane and Pearl a four-year-old Chihuahua came together for a record
breaking puppy play date at regional's owners house in Idaho I that Chihuahua's owners brave man
yeah or that dog is just fierce they could be which is also possible as Chihuahua's can be they
can be Reginald's owner Sam told Guinness World Records that the canine is just a big baby who acts
like a human toddler wait tantrums and I hope not to your point Melissa they say I'm not worried
that Reggie won't be careful around Pearl he's very very cautious and aware I anticipate that he
will be ready really good with her and probably more interested in Pearl's owners than maybe Pearl
herself people dog the two canines were introduced on the couch at Reggie's home and quickly hit it
off oh that's so cute I expected it to be like a mastiff or something like that aren't those
sometimes bigger than their gains they weigh more okay they might not be tall
proteins can are just really tall dog that little Chihuahua is so tiny showing some
yeah video of this oh my gosh that that's a big boy he's taller than the kitchen counters yes
that is a massive dog right there he put his head right in the kitchen sink like he doesn't
need a water dish he can just turn on the faucet he's bigger than her own their owner yeah she's
not a very big person you know he's sitting on the couch and he's taller than oh my god he's
like two heads taller than her that is definitely what a glorious dog and such great face yeah
and he looks so friendly this is one of my favorite things about dogs yeah little dogs have no idea
how big they are or how you know how little they are little they are big dogs have no idea how
big they are okay that his his food dish was as tall as a garbage can yeah that's amazing I
mean I guess that's so we have to get down on the floor to eat the only thing they missed is that
I thought all great Danes were named either Scooby or Marmadou yeah so what
Reginald's a little no that's the perfect name for that dog what a gentleman she's feeding
uh feeding him while drinking he's drinking out of the sink he was yes that tall that he's just
drinking right out of the sink I told you don't want to don't want to be licked by that dog you get
drenched man yeah it's nothing like the bone they don't have to they don't have to jump up on
their hind legs to lick your face though they could just do it from standing I love big dogs
oh I've always wanted to see now for you that would be fine but like if you're like six feet
tall like James you know like halfway there he would jump up and completely plow you over
this one I run into this with my little fur brother Sam that's a head butt situation
waiting to happen yeah that's just you look you look down at the worst time of open to come up
this lick years I'm there um that is a great dog that's amazing cute dog too yeah that little one
oh we'll take our final time out of the hour when we come back we're talking baby names and ones
that grandparents don't really like I like those all right coming up on the morning show here WFHR
welcome back everybody morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio Melissa set the James
hanging out with you we're going to take it right to the top of the hour we will have some fun
stuff lined up for you in the 10 o'clock
oh baby names they're wonderful they're fun and it's also something that note you know there's
always going to be somebody that doesn't like the name you try create tension in the family you
know the only thing harder the naming your child is revealing the name to the kids grandparents
yep they definitely have an opinion in a survey 69 percent of grandparents think that it's
fine for grandparents to give their opinions to their grandchild's name on their grandchild's name
sure when they can give their opinions yeah business meaning has weight exactly 38 percent
parents say that it's none of their business and 31 percent of grandparents also agree with that
oh mom okay might get that to each throw yeah yeah sure I mean what's the harm of just saying
about your thing I'm with you it's not nice like why did you name your child that that's awful
like that that's kind of what's a negative why would you do that number one to your kid number two
to your grandchild you're a hundred percent right Melissa and I am also just now realizing how
how me my family could be sometimes this is this is nothing to me my family would never hold back
out any of this like it's true like if anything we go to my grandparent or would go to our grandparents
right everything for opinions like again I don't try to do this very often but I I gotta say that
this is a stereotype I do see a lot in Italian families where there is no it's more shocking when
you don't know something an opinion that somebody has because as soon as they have the opinion it's
out there and everything so yeah 15 percent of a parents admit that that that one of their
child's grandparents or on their side of or in the in-laws dislike the grandchild's name many
grandparents get over their initial opinion only 4 percent of grandparents say that there's a
child named that they just can't accept even over time wow 28 percent grandparents say that
their main objection would be would be if the name was ugly quote unquote ugly and 17 percent
would want it to be don't like it when it's too weird quote unquote too weird well I thought that
was where this was going like weird spellings of me oh okay well yeah I can see that but you're not
spelling it when you say it that's true so I mean what would the problem well but you also
were gonna know yeah you're gonna see it I can eventually know how that's what's bothering you but
ugly but it wasn't ugly name thank you thank you I I don't think I've ever heard anything you know
words described as ugly I don't know right yeah I mean unless the name is ugly yeah yeah why would
you do that you like yeah you got to be there have you met you know have you met my son Tar Pit you
know nothing like that I mean that would be pretty ugly kind of thing right and uh it did
to hear so here you met my son weren't here's frank and oh wait somebody had that name and
sword in the stone yeah I'm just right disgusting what what oh it's a family name it's handed down
you're disgusting he's the third disgusting in the family other common complaints include they
don't want it to be old fashioned like them so that's an interesting one okay I want to keep
it new yeah old fashioned like them why wouldn't they okay they get annoyed if it's a family name
uh oh and they also get annoyed if it's related to the other grandparent not well that I can
see a little family rivalry there but why would they get annoyed if it's a their own family name
maybe they really just don't like it you know if you know egg burt is in the family they're like no
please don't do that don't use egg burts no and the final two reasons that grandparent may not
like the name they don't like that it reminds them of someone they don't like yep okay there's that
that was my mom when it was one of the names we were floating by for for our first ron which we
ended up naming ron he uh Beth was one of her grandfather's name was Eugene and we thought maybe Eugene
would be a good one my mom was like no because she had a bad experience with a guy named Eugene
okay that kind of thing so we can understand why that would yeah I mean some names have a bad
connotation because of his past history or you know but that would be the only reason why or
that relative in the family was a serial killer I don't know about that I would go oh man
that would really create some issues that Thanksgiving yes don't want to name him that just trust us
please please don't do that have we ever told you about uncle Tom I didn't mention that name oh
well that's a reason um and the final one they don't like the spelling up there you go
yeah I know that was going to be in there somewhere right so how do you know if a grandparent
it doesn't like a name well we got three easy ways to tell for you here maybe eight percent of
grandparents admit that they have have pretended to love that name when they didn't let all um
and nine percent say that they simply said what four percent I like that and four percent say
that they just remained completely silent which is quite the answer itself yeah they didn't do
this in the Midwest if they had it would have been oh that's nice yes that's what they would have
done yeah well isn't that nice that nice there's also a random list of the top names hated by
grandparents and they include Aurora Charlotte Elijah Finn Jack Lindsay Noah Sally and Tabitha
seriously what's wrong with all of those names are beautiful yeah those are good
all those classic name summer classics are newer you know what the nice mix yeah Aurora is a
you know like a fairy tale princess right yeah I got nothing they had a problem with the name
yeah Tabitha like I'm just Sally what's wrong yeah Sally that's that's kind of very that's the
one that threw me the most for some reason like why I don't know they don't like Dick Jane and Sally
although I love those books that's why I learned to read in yeah I feel like I feel like you've got
to almost work to dislike the name Sally like you've got to like find something you know maybe there
was a Sally in their class yeah they were a kid that they just didn't get a little at one point
there were a lot of Sally's around right that was a very common name for a while very popular name
I should say but so maybe that is something to do with it like all the kids that name Sally in
their school like that name anymore with um I give my parents a lot of credit on this one it
actually kind of brought the family together I joke a lot about my name but my first name coming
from my great-grandfather that when he first came to this country all he had was his name and a
couple of cents in his pocket and the first James of that James is always going to name his son James
I did that my father did and all that but in with my mom and dad them having a lot of other factors
that kind of kept them apart and were very divisive in the both families with them being
different religions and races and all that um they chose to go with the middle name of my
grandfather my mom's dad so I have both of their names now my father but you know has a different
reason for my middle name uh it still works still works but it covers both bases exactly um and
so my my ex and I we sort of tried to do something similar with that together and with our kids names
and uh my son's name James Kavan and uh Mandy chose the middle name Kavan which is a Celtic name
and kind of brought both creeds and both you know houses together and everything we really like
that and then Isabel my daughter Isabel her name is Isabel Rain um and Isabel obviously very
traditional Italian name and everything had nothing to do with why we chose Isabel
but we let the family think that hey well exactly hey they look what we did over here
and then the kid Isabel even the traditional spelling of Isabel right right back going back to the
food huh you do try I think um especially as young parents it is something that you think of a
lot of oh I want the family to like everything I'm doing and I want okay and I it's one I want
to bring up it's always important as uh older parents to treat younger parents well give them
some grace support goes much farther than critique um anybody can get anybody can critique a young
parent anybody can do that uh support encouragement that goes a lot farther and do and builds a lot
stronger bond so you get to see the kid more probably if you want and everything um but but also
uh understand that it's not about you it's not about it's about the kid it's about the then
this young family starting their own tribe right and I like the fact that my my mom and dad chose
to name all of um my me my me and my brothers all our middle names are grandparents um right on
our own yes we did that with with our two sons where are both of their middle names are from
grandfather my for my grandparents um the whole reason we rain we name roan roan is because
that's best maiden name roan oh well differently but but they're help to carry that well it does
because on her both my my father-in-law and his brother all girls the name is dying out on that
side of the family so they to honor that what's one of the reasons why we we may name his first name
roan so yeah my uh my oldest bria her middle name is Ann because uh her mom and I uh both uh both
of our grandparents were named Ann so yeah right yeah I love I love the what what is happening with
like with bria and mech because I actually I should mention journalistically I am a grandparent
technically I can say on this and I love the name they chose they chose an awesome name I think
it's fantastic and everything had I not liked it nobody would know exactly nobody would know
I'm not even telling strangers or you know the you know that person on the train you meet that
you're never gonna see again or something like that right because I'm on a train so much why yes
yes where did that come from do we do here box car jane strangers on the train that's
okay from that that old that old uh you know it's cock movie it's all it's cock movie I couldn't
help myself I knew it come from somewhere um I don't know interesting list you can see the whole
list if you like in the complete article at grandsnet dot com grandsnet dot com you could just not
judge other people's choice in their new child I mean what what a thought yeah stop judging me
being judgmental stop judging me stop it look okay okay you're the only person I enjoy judging
Seth deal with it they named the kid eight off or something they know you want to say something
sure okay I like that it's like um uh but no I don't know that there's really any scenario that
you really should be speaking up a lot of what another what another set of parents are going to
name their kid it's it's their thing it's their thing um we are going to have some fun in the
nine o'clock hour looking forward to it got a bunch of great little ten o'clock hour it will do
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