Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world, it's a new day, thanks for kicking it off with
us at WFHR.
Got your host, James J behind the mic, I am joined by your head of news, our co-host,
Melissa K.
Good morning.
Good morning, the best listeners in radio, thanks for being with us everybody, got a fun
show lined up for you over the next two hours, Mel and I are going to take good care of
you, we're going to kick things off the way we like to, with our good friend, Brittany
Murlow, good morning, Brett.
Good morning, got to start with the bad news, right?
You get it out of the way, no, no, no, no, the thing with your news, whether good bad
whatever anybody wants to call it, it's always got good energy to it, always got good
energy, whatever you're telling us about, I was actually talking about this with my dad
over the weekend, we both decided that if we are going to get bad news, we want you to
deliver it, or Alan Rickman, one of the other, you know, I actually, Samuel Jackson might
not be a bad one too, but it will stick with you, Brittany, I think you're a good
fan, I think you're a good fan.
What does it look like today?
Well, thank you so much, a little dark and a little dreary, unfortunately make sure you
have those umbrellas on standby because the rain is moving in and it's only going to
be ramping up as we go through this afternoon, heavy at times, we are looking a good inch
to an inch and a half through today, tonight, and then it will still linger through tomorrow
too, with some scattered showers and light drizzles still trying to annoy us, but those
winds are vicious, they're out of the east, which is kind of rare to have them this
strong, out of the east, and they're guessing around 30 to 40 miles per hour today, so this
is going to keep our high temperatures right here in those upper forties, right where
we're sitting at right now, holding steady there, but we've got a wind show on top of
it, so what it really feels like is 10 degrees, cooler, it really feels like 39 degrees with
these crazy winds and these rain moving in, it's just going to be a cool, raw day, unfortunately,
both today and tomorrow, but the sunshine does return for Thursday, we've got a ton of
it from Memorial Day weekend.
Well, that's all right then.
Yeah.
Get it out of way now, right, right, exactly, exactly.
At least it's not on the weekend, I'm sorry, I was thinking, I think Dolly Parton might
be a good one to give a bad advice, you know, bad news, you know, she, it sound really
sweet from her with that, almost anybody with a southern accent, you know, yeah, so
about it.
We appreciate you, Brittany, thanks for the time.
You have a good morning.
You too, thanks.
Thanks for it, me.
Best in the business right there, pretty low joining us every morning, appreciate her.
We appreciate you hanging out with us, everyone.
Thank you so much.
It's written the word about the new time slot here and all those other things.
Same show, just different time.
We got good things on the way for you, Melissa and I are going to get into the LKFA Birthday
and Anniversary Club, food tastes better after you've had little booze, we'll get into
that one.
It's a study, Melissa, we have to take it seriously, it's a research study, yes, we will
back up.
And we've got graduation season is upon us, the 10 college degrees that pay the least.
Oh, yes.
That's what you want to know, as you graduate, what I want to get into that and maybe, maybe
how about the 10 that pay the best?
Maybe we'll get into that one too.
Also it would be good to know.
Yeah, yeah, we get a counter there, we get to have them, it's a little bit of both there.
Nine o'clock, I'm 10 o'clock hour, we're going to kick things off some entertainment
news, got some good stuff there, involving Netflix and PBS, Whitney Houston's estate,
we're going to talk a little bit about, and another one that I thought was really interesting,
not only some, something that's premiering on TV tonight that has a local ties to it,
get into that.
Okay, got plenty more, we want to get into as well, we got a fun show lined up for you
everybody, but Melissa, I want to kick things off with Smurfs, yes, yes.
Where else would we start our show?
I mean, it's, you know, it's a Tuesday Smurfs, just seems like a good fit.
I'm blue, d'avody, d'avody.
There you go, you could have that play in the background.
There you go.
A small town in France succeeded in its third Guinness World Record attempt by hosting
a gathering of 3,076 people dressed as Smurfs.
The town of Landern Dau in France's Brittany region had attempted the world record for
most people dressed as Smurfs twice before, but fell short of the record with 2,262, which
was set in Germany back in 2019.
The town made its third attempt Sunday with officials backing from Paramount Pictures
ahead of the release of the film Smurfs of July 18th.
So they had a little bit of a tie into this, which is, you know, that's all right.
The Smurfs bring more tension to it.
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
The Smurfs were created by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliverd, aka Péo, in 1958, and they
are called Scrinfrofs in French, Scrinfrofs, something like that.
I don't speak French, so I have no idea.
The little bit I know that is the closest I can get to it.
We tried.
Now, the story, we do a lot of Guinness records and all that, and you know, we've done
some wild ones before, and some fun ones.
This one, I don't know if I've ever recommended to people to see, watch the video of it.
It's just wild to see this many Smurfs, this many, like, that many blue people.
It's awesome.
I really, I really, the one thing, though, I have one caveat to this that I think is missing.
They're, I would have shown up to this as Gargamel.
Oh, you're missing a Gargamel.
Gargamel is the bad guy, right?
Yeah, yeah.
At least one Gargamel, just one person being Gargamel, at least walking around, just
checking things out and everything.
That's a fun one.
It is.
I'm trying to think, maybe, you know, we could make this local, if we want, you know, what
would be a good one to do here in Wisconsin, but even like Betty Boop, I believe, was created
here in Wisconsin.
So maybe a wreck, you know, everybody dressing up as Betty Boop or something like that.
Yeah, or gasoline Alley characters, because that was, that one was, I think, created in
Tomah.
Right.
That mistaken.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah.
I have a whole lot of ties to Smurfs, because I wasn't allowed to watch that cartoon growing
up.
Um, I, I didn't, my sister watched it.
I really didn't watch Smurfs.
I, I wasn't really, uh, it was, it was, it was, it was really my thing.
Um, but Jill, that tells us this racey as my parents were going to go.
Understandable.
It was a racey show.
It was a, yeah.
A lot of planes involved.
I love it.
A lot of danger and adventure and everything.
Um, I love the idea.
I don't know why, but I, I have the image of my head of thousands of people dressed up
as winning the poo.
And I think that'd be fun.
I think that'd be good with Snoopy.
I think it'd be good.
Um, yeah.
Well, and with Winnie the Pooh, you have a variety of characters as options too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because you have Winnie the Pooh.
You have Eory, you have, um, um, oh, what's the little pink, uh, uh, pickling pig,
piglet.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
And Kanga and Brew.
I had to, I had to have told you this story before I, every, every story I've ever told
I've repeated about 18 times, um, with my mom and, uh, the Winnie the Pooh characters.
I don't remember it.
So my mom, when she worked at Book World, uh, during the, she worked there during the
Beanie Baby phase.
And, uh, you know, with that, there was a lot of other companies that were trying to make
their own Beanie babies, Disney got in on it and they made Winnie the Pooh Beanie babies.
And for Hanukkah one year, my mom got us each one of these characters and she told us
ahead of time she was getting them.
So Jill and Nick and I were kind of debating who we were going to get.
Ooh, it's going to get what?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Nicholas, the youngest got Tigger because he is Tigger.
That is very much who he is and is to this day.
And my sister got piglet, um, you know, uh, and you got your, well, I, I, I, I should have
gotten Winnie the Pooh.
I am the oldest.
I am the oldest.
I would like to think I'm the lead character of my brother and sister in all this, but no,
my mother thinks of me as a manic depressive donkey.
I'm sorry to go your punchline, but it's just too perfect.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It's fine.
It's fine.
I know it.
Honestly, I thought at first when you started the story that maybe you got Tigger.
No, no, I'm like, I wish.
Because you, you are like constantly going and you never stop.
Yeah.
There's no, I mean, those, those, uh, uh, fair assessment.
But once you, I knew your brother got Tigger.
I knew you had to be for you.
Yeah, it really fits.
Really fits.
Yeah, Bob.
That was the audience.
That was it.
I still have the ear.
I still have it.
No, I have never heard that story.
Thank you for sharing.
Um, I, I like the idea of this, uh, of the breaking of a record and everybody picking a
fun cartoon character to do.
I think, I think we were on to something with the local ties of the, you know, that we
had there with Betty Boop and, uh, gasoline, alley and some of that before we could come
up with a good one.
Uh, in, uh, we, we were looking for ideas everybody because before this is all said
and done, uh, and everything, we are going to break a world record.
We are going to do it.
Yes.
It's on the list.
I am, uh, looking to, uh, shoehorn good stories into any chance I end to our show, any
chance I get.
And, uh, with a couple of minutes here, I just thought I'd get one more end.
This comes from us from the Good News Network dot org, encourage you to check it out.
A former social worker in Canada is enjoying his retirement in a very similar way to how
he enjoyed his long career, listening to people, uh, liking it, liking it to being the,
uh, quote, stranger on the plane in the seat next to you.
Paul Jenkinson is currently on a cross candidate tour where he shows up, sits down and listens
to anyone about anything.
Wow.
Good listening is a skill rarely found in the world and during a career as a registered
social worker in Nova Scotia, the spokesperson for advocates, uh, for care of the elderly.
It was part of his job description.
Hmm.
And, uh, I will listen isn't an event.
It's just two folding chairs as a, as a, as a wooden cafe table, uh, that's coming
to town near you.
Uh, he is going through Canada right now, but he is looking to do this in the US.
Well, wow.
So he just like sets it up in the park or, yeah, wherever he will is available, uh, able
to do this.
Uh, he just sits down with like basically a card table, two chairs, sits down and just
listens and waits for somebody to come and sit down and talk to him.
Yeah.
I'm there as a fellow human that take connections.
Jenkins told the host of CBC News, uh, as it happens, quote, I just create that safe space
for them, a little bit like the stranger on the airplane that you're never going to
see again, uh, and how many people do you know, uh, who'd love someone that isn't a
therapist or a family member or somebody that necessarily has personal ties to you or
the people you, you might be referencing, um, and just being able to talk freely.
Uh, quote, I think they're curious for sure.
Who is this older man?
Um, people go back and go back and forth a few times, uh, you know, kind of not sure.
And then they finally just sit down.
Uh, there's no timeline, uh, no topics barred, no charge, no pressure, as well as a promise
to keep everything confidential unless the speaker expresses the intention to harm themselves
or others.
Hmm.
That is certainly what a therapist would do.
Oh, oh, and he doesn't have a home, uh, Jacobson isn't des, uh, desuit, uh, he's a transit
with a financial means and, and we'll come, uh, anywhere he's invited at the moment he's
in Nova Scotia with the next stop being in Prince Edward Island and, uh, loosely got
some, uh, plans to take him through Canada up until the winter and then he is, hopefully
going to be doing this in the US.
Wow.
That's cool.
Just, it's, it's, he's just living like a gypsy, yeah, traveling around and, um,
uh, you know, a traveler and, and listening to people's stories.
That's really cool.
And he's not like recording them or, or doing anything, no, besides just listening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's just there just there to, yeah, I, one of the reasons that I think that, um, therapy
can be great for darn near anybody, uh, is, is the simple in this of, uh, whether you're
looking to go into it for, quote unquote, help or anything like that, um, it's, it's a
third party that is there to just listen, uh, they're not trying to solve your problems
and not trying to give you advice necessarily or anything like that psychotherapist is a
different thing, but as far as just your everyday therapist, um, they're, they're a third
party.
They're to listen and, and, and they don't have the emotional or, you know, historical
ties to some of the people you might reference or even you, um, it is what you, you, you get
what you put into it as I found, um, you know, yeah, it's, it's, uh, it doesn't do your,
do any good to go to the doctor and only tell them about half your body, um, you know,
that, but it is something that I think can be beneficial to anybody because almost everybody
in the world, anybody out there listening right now could use somebody to listen.
Yeah.
Just be able to get some things off your chest or talk about something that you experienced
or happened or, or that you want to share with someone new.
I think way back, we're talking like 1700s and everything and the early days of therapy,
they, the quote unquote head shrinker thing might have been more of a thing, you know, you,
you're 99% of therapists in this day and age have no interest in trying to solve your problems.
That's not their job.
If it was, I doubt they would get into therapy.
I mean, I, I imagine trying to solve a stranger's problems, it doesn't work that way.
That's, you know, that's not something that, uh, that, it's more so just being able to
talk and that's what he's giving people here, um, I, and I, I think this is something
that's really cool, really unique and guess what all of us can do.
All of us can be a good listener.
Uh, sometimes there, there are people who are, are looking for your two cents, are looking
for your advice and more times than not, they'll ask you for it.
But I think the majority of people out there, nine out of ten, are just looking to talk
and just, you know, maybe vent, maybe get something off their chest, they're not looking
for you to solve anything.
They're just want you to listen.
Um, this is something I learned through dating, uh, like, I would say that this is a thing
that guys really struggle with because oftentimes when you tell a guy something, they want
to fix it for you.
It's like, no, I don't need you to fix this.
I just need you to listen.
And Melissa, I've got the perfect solution to that night.
Yeah, duct tape.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
Dr. Jokey.
No, that was funny.
And I'm, sorry, I trounced that again, but it was great.
We're going to take a quick time out.
We'll come back with the L.K.F.A. birthday anniversary club.
It's Melissa and James, take it through your morning, right here at WF8 Jock's.
Parts of the day, celebrating all of you with our birthday anniversary club and a great
friends at L.K.F.A.
Treat yourself.
Get on over there today, everybody.
221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.
They're just waiting for you.
That's right.
They're open today.
And they had an awesome picture on their Facebook pages morning of the sunrise because
it was gorgeous today.
So I usually, they do funny, really good over there.
And I pull up their page right away in the morning to check out what their specials
are, something like that for the show here.
And I was expecting something like that.
And I am with you, Melissa.
I had to like pull it up the big, make it big on my phone and everything just to take
a good look at that.
I love pictures like that.
They got a good one there, nicely done by them.
And they really are doing social media well, like do yourself a favor and follow them
on social media, everybody.
Yeah, their Facebook page is a lot of fun.
And then you'll also know about their specials.
Today's specials include a two by two by two, which is the best breakfast ever.
Two pancakes, two eggs and bacon, sausage or ham so you get to choose your meat, but you
get two of each.
And you give me a cup of coffee with that.
That's the perfect breakfast.
That is perfect.
And if that doesn't strike your fancy, you could get a country-fied steak skillet.
Ooh, I like that.
I like that.
Yeah, two eggs and a country-fied steak on hash browns with onions and peppers smothered
in sausage, gravy, served with cakes or toast.
Oh, that sounds really good.
Treat yourself.
Get on over to El Café today.
Maybe two-twenty-one market, every beautiful port Edwards.
Wish them a good morning from all of us.
And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
I want to celebrate with you.
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We look forward to talking with you, everybody.
Melissa, I need a one through three.
Hmm, well, I don't want to be like Seth and choose the middle number.
So I'm going to choose three.
OK, all right.
That gives us a qualifier.
Get right into it.
And first up, we do want to note the memory of Carl J. Hilke, who would have been 70 today.
Oh, wow.
Carl, of course, somebody that you can't tell the history of WFHR without Carl Hilke.
You can't tell it.
I think the history of Wisconsin Rapids without mentioning him.
And the impact he made and the news that he covered over decades and the work that he
did here.
Certainly, one of our favorite personalities of all time here at the station, whether it
was the news that he covered or doing the morning shows or some of the other fun things
he did.
And not for nothing, one of the most romantic stories in radio history all over here is
him and Pam.
So we think of him, remember him.
And I got something special I want to do at the end of the segment here.
We'll get to that in a moment.
And I miss you, bro, and I think of you every day.
And we wish a happy birthday to Jamie Banks.
Happy birthday, Jamie.
Enjoy the day, Jamie.
That's a good one for you.
And a happy birthday to Max Edwards.
Happy birthday, Max.
Got a great name there, Max.
Enjoy your day.
I hope you have a good one.
And our qualifiers that just got in under the wire, thanks to Beth.
And I really appreciate it, Beth, because I've known these people longer than she has and
I would have felt bad if I missed this.
Very happy anniversary to Steve and Jenny Martin.
Oh, yeah.
Happy anniversary, Steve and Jenny.
I have rambled about Steve many, many times over the years, one of my favorite people
to work with, favorite actors, one of the greatest actors I've worked with and directors
I've worked with.
And Jenny is fantastic.
She is awesome, known Jenny, just as long as I've known Steve, one of my favorite couples
and just a wonderful human being, Jenny.
You get a chance to really talk to her too.
You see, like, she's, Steve is hilarious, Steve is really, really talented, Jenny's
the funny one.
Jenny's, Jenny's got more copies, she's funny, she's got some great, she's great, wishing
you guys a happy anniversary to you too.
Enjoy your day.
Your qualifiers today.
That's awesome, that worked out.
Thank Melissa for that.
Yeah.
Thanks for that, because otherwise I would have gone down the middle.
Yeah, right, there you go.
Who do you guys share your birthday with?
Well, let's see here, Rachel Platten is 44, a fight song.
I don't know that song, but I know the reframe because it was in a lot of commercials.
This is my fight song.
I think that's her.
I think that's the song.
Sure.
I don't know.
One of the better names in music history, Busta Rhymes is 53.
Oh, that one, you know.
Trevor Tehem Smith, Jr.
This is really.
Yeah.
Now, my favorite rapper, Chuck D, one of them, Chuck D from Public Enemy, gave him the
name Busta Rhymes.
It's a shout out to former NFL wide receiver, George Busta Rhymes, so that's where the name
came from.
That's interesting.
Tony Stewart is 54, NASCAR superstar.
And one of the greater actors I think I've seen, I love Timothy Olympiad is 57.
If you have a role and your character has a cowboy hat and you can't get Sam Elliott,
Timothy Olympiad is the next best bet.
Oh, yeah.
What do I know him from?
Ed Wood justified.
He was in the Mandalorian, Santa Clara Diety did with Drew Barrymore.
One of those faces, I think you know when you see it and such a good actor.
He's good.
He was in live free or die hard from 2007.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
One of the greater endings to an action movie ever.
Ever.
Oh, it's so good.
Oh, God.
I don't want to say it because I don't want to spoil it if anybody hasn't seen it.
But if you haven't seen it, it's not a, it's, it's an okay movie.
But the ending with Bruce and Timothy is so good.
Oh, I love it.
Oh, it was also in Scream 2.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Okay.
I'm 97.
Big fan of his.
Let's see here.
Bronson Pinchot is 66, much like Screech and Erkel and Horshack Balke from Perfect Strangers
was one of those 80s like just mainstay characters.
Every TV show needed that weird kind of character on it, and it wasn't going to be a head if
you didn't have that.
Gotcha.
He was that for Perfect Strangers.
I used to watch that show with my Aunt Pat Bunch.
She loved that show.
Well, he was in a lot of TV shows, Beverly Hill Cops.
Yep.
Good answer.
He was in risky business, too.
Really, whether, all those actors, all those characters I just mentioned, you, you
noticed you probably didn't seem those actors a lot because they got typed.
They got typed.
And I give him a lot of credit because he was able to fight through that a lot.
Dave Thomas is 76 today, the guy who did the Bob and Doug McKenzie bit with Rick Moranis.
A long time second city member, Dave Thomas, a great, great, great comedic actor that never
really got his, I feel like got his due like Rick Moranis did and some others.
Mm-hmm.
Well, yeah, but he was in Strange Brew.
Oh.
Rick Moranis.
My God, Strange Brew.
I love, love, love that movie.
Oh, Beethoven's fifth.
Oh, cool.
He's done some voice acting, too.
Yes.
Yeah.
He's had a good career.
And then there's Cher, who is 79.
Oh, wow.
Cher.
Just an incredible artist, career, and actor, good actor, good actor, really, really talented
human being.
It hits in multiple decades, too, which I always like to note with artists, you know, when
they're big artists in the 60s or 70s and she still had hits in the 80s.
For really her, I think her prime in the 80s and early 90s and then had another hit
in the 90s and early arts and everything.
Yeah.
She's an icon.
Mm-hmm.
Absolutely.
Joe Cocker would have been celebrating a birthday today, born in 44, a wonderful singer
and a musician.
Great cover artist, too.
A lot of kids of our generation will know that voice from the Wonder Years.
He was the, he had the theme song with a little help from my friends for the Wonder
Years.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think about Joe Cocker is his self-deprecation, though.
Jim Belushi did this impersonation of him and he was afraid to do it in front of Joe Cocker
because he really liked Joe Cocker and Joe Cocker would show up on Saturday Live a lot
and Cocker pretty much demanded that he do it and so they did it together.
They did get by with a little help from my friends.
It's one of the greater videos you'll see, I think, of Joe Cocker and Belushi doing this
together.
So, Belushi's impression is dead on.
It's not over-exaggerated, it's more of a tribute.
It's really, really well done.
And Jimmy Stewart, born in the stay in 1908, passed away in 1997, one of the America's greatest
actors.
Harvey is a dream role for me.
Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
My favorite role of his vertigo, the man who knew too much.
Oh, God.
The shooting.
It's a wonderful life as my probably my favorite.
It's a wonderful life.
I will always, the rest of my life, I'm going to over-ramble about Jimmy Stewart because
I didn't do a good job when I was a kid.
Of all the actors that I watched, James Cagney and Sidney Portee and Carrie Grant and stuff,
my Nana really loved Jimmy Stewart and tried to get me to really watch him a lot more.
And I just didn't get it.
I didn't see it.
It wasn't until I did it, it's a wonderful life.
And I get done with the play and I go back and I watch the movie that I realize, oh,
I missed the mark.
I missed it.
I didn't see what everybody else in the world saw in him and I get it now and I went
back and I watched, like I went through a run of watching all of his movies back-to-back-to-back
and just-
There's so many.
Wow.
Wow.
What an actor.
Really, really.
Are you the dead voice work on an American tale?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's my sister's favorite.
I don't go to the West.
Oh, cool.
A quiet strength with him, a subtle strength with his work and his delivery and everything
that I just did, I think is really noteworthy.
One of the greats.
And speaking of the greats, I thought what better way to go into our news break than
paying, just this little snippet I have when Carl last joined us on the air he called
in to talk to Terry and I one morning, I'm just going to play a couple of seconds of this
everybody as we go into our news break, Melissa's news break with some sports and entertainment.
And we'll be back with more show coming up, Morning Show at WFHR.
We're joined right now by Carl Hilkey.
Carl, how are you this morning?
Well, I'm hanging in there, buddy.
Good to hear your voice, man.
Good to hear your voice.
Good morning, Carl.
Good morning.
Hey.
Thank you so much for the soup.
Oh, you're welcome.
Well, so now I open.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning Show here at WFHR.
Hopefully grown radio.
Hope y'all are having a great morning out there.
Thanks for joining me, Melissa and I.
Got an interesting study here, Mel.
Because according to science, alcohol might make your food taste better.
Okay.
Yeah.
A research study published in 2015 set out to make sense of this phenomenon.
They gave half the women alcohol and half the women a scenelein solution.
In other words, they all ate lunch.
Okay.
Okay.
And the women who had alcohol prior to eating said that their food tasted better
and they ate more than the women who didn't have any alcohol.
Similarly, in the test, in a test with men, they gave some a vodka
and orange juice cocktail and others just got orange juice.
And the study concluded that those who drank alcohol had an increase appetite
for high fat and savory foods.
The most interesting part of the study suggested that people actually feel rewarded
when eating high fat foods after drinking alcohol.
So there you have it.
If you aren't feeling your meal, you could always add a little,
maybe a beer to it or something.
What have you?
Now, this is one of those studies that I feel like we kind of knew.
But I feel like we understood this in some degree already.
Maybe, but also, why would they give some women alcohol
and some women saline solution?
Did they just inject it into their bloodstream?
I'm really...
Why would you drink saline solution?
I really, really would like to do a follow-up on that particular part of this.
Yeah.
And why?
So they don't really reference what kind of alcohol they gave women,
but they're very specific about the alcohol they gave men.
And I don't understand the difference there either.
And the fact that it was orange juice and orange juice with vodka.
Like, both of those are drinks you would enjoy drinking.
Yeah.
No one wants to drink saline solution.
And as far as, you know, there's a lot of things that give people an appetite.
There's a lot of things that can make people hungry.
Like, I thought this was more focused on like that the alcohol literally makes the food taste better.
Like, there's something in the alcohol that is helping enhance our taste buds.
This sounds more like we're just distracted.
Like our brain or our inhibitions are a little less.
Yeah.
Lowered.
It doesn't necessarily seem like something that, I mean, is really, you know, really groundbreaking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Which is disappointing because again, anything that can enhance the flavor of food, I think,
is fun.
And if it's alcohol, that's an interesting twist.
I didn't see coming.
But, Matt, that is not.
But, I mean, we also know that there are certain foods that make you crave certain beverages.
Like, if you eat it McDonald's and you have french fries, you want a soda.
Yes.
It just, there's nothing goes better with french fries than a bubbly soda.
Yeah.
No, you're right, you're right, you're right.
There's certain things like, for me, I don't like, if I got a good steak, if we're talking really good steak,
I don't, I don't need a one sauce or anything like that.
But I love to have a beer with it.
I like to have that with it.
Same thing with a, like, not so much a store-bought burger or, you know, fast food burger,
but when my dad makes one in a grill or something like that, like, that's a perfect combo.
Yeah, that's a good time to have a beer.
I like to have red wine with pasta.
Yes.
Yes, that's a good one.
I mean, it's just, you know.
But they go.
Or with bread and cheese.
But it isn't because they necessarily enhance the flavor, is it?
Or, I guess, I don't really, I don't know.
It wasn't that long.
Or maybe it's just the pairing in my mind that it goes together, and that's what I want.
Yeah, yeah.
That's okay, too.
Yeah, that's all right, too.
I just a little disappointed in this study, that's all.
I really expected it to be a little more, have a little more, you know, mean on the bowl there.
I wish we could have some answers on the saline solution, though.
I'm looking.
Because it doesn't seem fair that the women didn't get to drink the alcohol.
Yeah.
Because that, how else wouldn't, yeah.
Well, we won't have answers, and I won't pester you about it.
You can go to pubmed.net if you want to find the complete article.
And they do get a little bit into some of the science of this and everything.
So I imagine they might have had some reasoning.
But I also imagine there's other things you could do with your life.
Yeah, I have a few other things I need to read.
I'd leave the rabbit holes to me, everybody.
I'll take care of it.
I'll cover all that for you.
I did want to mention something programming wise that we were excited about, kick off the 10 o'clock hour today.
We're going to be joined by Michelle Rogas.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, we're going to spend some time with her as a new chamber member.
And we're going to talk about Rapids transmission and some of the fun stuff that not only they offer there,
but some of the history of the business with Michelle looking forward to that.
Yeah.
And next week, I'm sure we'll talk about the grand opening they have coming.
Yeah, because we're going to be there live and direct.
We'll talk with our sister station 10555WRI.
We're very excited about that.
We'll talk about that with Michelle and more.
It's going to be fun.
Look forward to it.
And a quick reminder to everybody that Raptor baseball is less than a week away.
Oh, so excited, Melissa.
Very, very excited around here for our 16th season.
We are covering Raptor baseball.
That's awesome.
We've been here for every hit, every pitch of Raptor baseball.
And we're very proud of it.
Really, really enjoying working with the Raptors.
We always have.
But this season's been a lot of fun with some of the new blood they have in the front office.
That's been exciting talking with Jake, a new assistant GM over there.
I've been talking with him almost every day.
Just setting up different things for meet your Raptors and promotion stuff.
We want to make this the best year yet for Raptor fans.
And enough for nothing with the talent they're putting together.
I think that it could be wins and losses wise as well.
They've got a really nice team they're putting together here.
So it's going to be a really fun summer of Raptor baseball.
You can go ahead and stop by here, pick up a pocket schedule and start making plans.
I want to go to this day because they're doing this or something like that.
And those pocket schedules fit right in your pocket.
They're so cute.
Yeah, they do a really good job on those.
That's fun.
Stop by the studios here anytime, pick them up and everybody.
And again, be listening at the top of the 10 o'clock hour.
Michelle Rogas is going to be joining us from Rapids Transmission.
We will look forward to hanging out with her.
Melissa and I will be back to Rap Up the First Hour of Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
This song will be in my head the next two days.
Blame Seth.
Yep, definitely blaming him.
Got an interesting article here from Fortune.com.
They posted a list of the top 10 college degrees that earned the least amount of money straight out of school.
And I didn't put it together but I found the counter of that.
The 10 college majors that have the highest salaries coming out of school.
So we'll go into the lowest first and we'll kind of go cover that and then we'll get into the next.
Now, the median income for all the jobs listed is between 40 and 42,000 a year.
Yeah.
So with that being said, in no particular order, a foreign language like majoring in French.
It's the lowest at 40,000.
General social sciences, jobs like youth counselor or teacher aid.
Also performing arts.
Yeah, I could have told you that.
Anthropology.
Another one.
Early childhood education.
Family and consumer sciences.
General education.
Miscellaneous biological sciences, jobs like tab tech, lab tech or research assistant.
Social services and theology and religion.
So those were all in that price, that, you know, yearly income range, low income.
I do think it should be said that most of those industries, if not all those industries, are passion industries where you know going into it.
When you started your collegiate career, you didn't necessarily think you were going to become Bill Gates.
You know, you didn't do this necessarily for that.
And I think it should be noted that a lot of those industries, you can make a good living in after, you know, eventually.
Yeah, or it's just to live in a very rural area where your cost of living is very low.
But then also dealing with poverty, for example, young children education.
More dealing then with, with a lot of social issues.
Yeah, hang on to that one, Melissa.
Hang on a bookmark that for me because I want to talk about the, the, oh, the, the, I do, I did have here the 10 best as far as out of school.
Well, and I think that the, you know, $40,000 is a pretty decent salary for this area, especially.
Yeah, yeah, not bad at all.
Um, okay, I got to tell everybody I had a sneeze coming there.
I know I heard it.
Did you hear it?
I did hear it, but I could tell that's what you're doing.
Nice work. Nice work by you. Well done.
I love working with you.
So the top 10 coming out of school, highest paying gigs right out the gate.
I can, I can make this really quick for everybody.
It's all engineering.
Chemical, computer, aerospace, electrical, computer, mechanical, civil, all engineering jobs.
An industry that has been taken care of pretty darn well.
Yeah.
And, and very good industry that, you know, they could, they're very important industry.
Yep, we need, we need engineers.
They are getting the paychecks they should in most regards.
If not more.
Yeah.
But with that, so should the first 10 people we mentioned.
Yeah.
Because every single one of those industries outside of maybe one or two, we hear every political
season, the need for better people in these jobs or laws are bills being passed to bring
more people to these jobs or encourage these.
And we continue to do this over and over and over again.
And yet I haven't heard anybody other than you and I and Seth talking about minimum wage.
I don't hear anybody referencing this.
I mean, Bernal.
But.
Sure.
Yes, absolutely.
I'll credit to Bernie, I'll see you at the meetings.
When it comes to this topic on a local level, on a rural level where I think it's the most vital
and the most important, I'm going to keep banging the drum.
And until somebody can convince me or show me the stats, not convince me, you just got to show me the numbers.
That somebody making that paycheck working 40 to 45 hours a week can live a normal life, can live a good life.
And also afford things like health insurance and car insurance and groceries.
Because let me tell you something, I don't know if you've looked at the job market recently, but I have.
And there isn't a job out there that I could go and get right now that I would be able to live off of without getting a second one.
Yeah, I have to admit it's been.
And the biggest thing is because of health care.
It's been a while since I looked at jobs or anything and in the last year I have.
And yeah, was was in the same boat as you, like looking at it and just like, wow.
It's like, okay, if I want to work two retail jobs in a fast food job, maybe I'll be able to make my ants meet.
But I won't get insurance because you, if you work three part-time jobs, you're not going to be able to get insurance.
We want good people in these industries.
We need to be able to pay them a good wage.
And we talk about not being able to fill these jobs.
I hear it all the time from all sides of the aisle.
Well, we just, we don't have any workers. They don't want to work.
Like, well, no, we do want to work.
But we also want to be able to live off of this job that we're working.
Well, and if you can make just as much money opening an Etsy shop or something like that, why wouldn't anybody?
Like, the Jeff, you're not going to have health insurance anyway. Why does it matter?
The onus is not on the employees.
It's, oh, the onus is on the business to make the job attractive and want to do.
Like, that's good leadership. That's what a good boss does. That's what good own, anybody can own a business.
Anybody can run it and like, be a manager or anything like that.
It takes that to be able to make a business work.
Ask anybody who has a business that's working right now. And I almost guarantee you, that's one of the reasons it's working is because they're treating their employees.
Well, it's where it all starts.
The idea of the way of doing this, where the customer is right, we were half right about that.
The employee and the customer are usually always right.
You got to start doing that. If you're not, what do you think is going to happen logically in your brain?
What do you think is going to happen?
If you don't invest in your workforce, then they're not going to be loyal.
If they're not going to invest in your company, that's plain and simple.
I don't think it's rocket science. I don't think it's that difficult to figure out.
And I love to sit back and watch, and I've done this with every politician I've ever interviewed.
I have, and I continue to bring it up and ask it.
And I love to watch the mental gymnastics they do to try to swing the, like, how do I pull this off where I don't?
I just don't want to basically do it.
Like, that's what it comes down to. They just don't want to.
It cannot be, I refuse to believe that the people that are in positions of making change and getting things done
are that illogical to think that they actual, that this people can make a living when that.
If they think that, I would love to see them. Let's have a little experiment.
How about for six months, you live on that wage?
Let's try it. Let's go ahead and see.
In fact, I'd like to see every single politician from the top on bottom try to do that for six months.
Live on that wage and see how your life is. See how it goes.
Because anytime you're getting into politics going forward, you need to ask yourself before you check, before you vote for that person.
How can they relate to me? What have they sacrificed? What have they given up?
How do they truly relate to me? How do they really get my life?
Because 90% of them don't have a darn clue. Have not had dirt under the nails.
Have not understood what it's like to actually work for something.
Or don't go grocery shopping. Because how many of us go grocery shopping?
And the word groceries is as commonly used word in my vocabulary.
When it's the last time I'm listening, you took a real walk down the serial aisle.
I love the serial aisle. It's one of my favorite things.
It's like a palate cleanser to me. But I was almost a little overstimulate.
There are so many choices.
There's so many choices and I have to try to stay away from the sugary ones because I'm always tempted.
My go-to, actually, I ate it this morning for breakfast.
I get a box of graham crackers because my favorite serial when I want an indulgence is a bowl of graham crackers and milk.
Because my grandma used to make that for me.
That is good.
Yeah, but you got to eat it fast because they get mushy real quick.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
But that's part of the enjoyment, too.
Is there anything... No, there is. Absolutely.
But one of the worst things I think there is is a soggy serial.
There are certain kinds that are definitely worse than others.
Oh my gosh, okay. All the kinds I like.
There are some that are better toward the end of the bowl.
Like frosted flakes, for example.
Oh, yeah.
But if they go too far, then it's gross.
There's a certain time frame.
You got to eat those frosted flakes in it.
I want to do another one of our morning show staples, a taste test,
but I want to do it with some of the new cereals out there.
Yeah, yeah.
Minus the milk, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You'll do it dry, serial.
Okay.
That would be hard to try multiples.
It would probably...
Yeah, you're right, I probably would.
I did pick up something the last time we were doing one, though,
about taking a drink of water.
I used to forget to do that.
You got to take a drink of water in between everything to clean the bowl.
Yeah, because otherwise you got it.
Yeah.
That's what the pros do.
I learned that from the cooking shows.
We are very excited about bringing in Michelle Rogas
from Rapids Transmission.
She's going to be joining us at the top of the hour.
I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the things that they feature over there
where their business is located, of course.
I want to get into some of the history of the shop as well with Melissa.
Michelle, that's going to be fun.
Look forward to it.
I already did it once.
You did it once.
That's a tally one.
Yep.
Got it.
Everybody, everybody keep track of that.
How many times I mix their names up.
That's going to be coming up for you, everyone.
Looking forward to it.
I also wanted to bring note to something else.
Yesterday, Sally Kissner from the Arts Council joined us.
And we were talking about the next season that they've got coming up
over at the Performing Arts Center with our great friends at Save For The Arts.
And they've got a pre-season show coming up.
Yacht Rock Gold Experience.
Really?
Yeah.
This is going to be fun.
There's going to be a lot of fun.
All your favorite Yacht Rock songs.
They're going to be performing.
And Elliott Lurie, lead singer of Looking Glass, who is Yacht Rock Royalty.
The famous song Brandy, the most people, especially.
Got a real rise from this from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
And that sounds right.
So they're going to be coming to town for the fun begins at 4 Sunday August 10th
over at the Performing Arts Center.
Love the idea of a Sunday show during the summer.
That's a great idea.
It's going to be a really fun show.
Get your tickets.
They're available already over at the Arts Council at Save For The Arts.com.
Get on over there, pick up those tickets.
And while you're there, take a look at the season ahead that they have.
They have got some amazing stuff lined up for this season at the Arts Council.
And I just want to send a big shout out to Sally Kissner in the amazing work she does.
Bringing in these artists.
Sally spends a lot of time like a one particular artist.
This really big get for us in this area that is going to be coming to town.
I want to make sure to get his name right.
Yeah, Frankie Monroe.
He is just incredible.
Incredible.
And has a ton of hits under his belt.
Has performed on pretty much every great stage there is.
And he'll be here in March.
Oh, nice.
It's a guy who's used to performing in New York in places like that.
And he's going to be right here in town.
And he won the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Sally's been trying for like three years.
Well, Frankie and Sally have been trying for like three years to work it out schedule wise to get them here.
And here he is coming to town in March this year.
They've got a really fun December show lined up as well.
This is very excited for the season ahead.
A big shout out to Sally, Eric and all of our friends at Save For The Arts.
Get your tickets for their pre-season show, Yacht Rock Gold Experience.
And look at the rest of the season at SaveForTheArts.com.
And be listening all season long.
Sally will be joining us along with Eric.
And she usually brings in pretty cool guests for us to talk to who's featured in the show.
And oftentimes ticket giveaways.
As she does, she's really good about that.
We'll be back with more show coming up morning show at WFHR.
