Get Some Sleep James

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFHR.

Got your host, James by the Mike join by our head producer, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio, nice to be in here.

Everybody, we hope you're having a good one out there.

Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning and hello, sunshine.

Yeah, no kidding.

Your energy matches that sunshine.

It really does.

Nice.

It felt good today.

It was bright like the moment I got out of the house this morning.

It's just been there the whole time.

It's been really nice to see, Brittany.

We're going to have some more of this today.

Oh, yes.

We've got it on tap for today, tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, even still hanging on from

Memorial Day as well.

So, nothing but sunshine.

We are battling a little bit of a wind chill still this morning when they're

gusting around 20 miles per hour.

So, the temperatures are actually feeling both 5 degrees cooler.

But we're going to hit 60 degrees today.

We're going to hit 60 tomorrow.

We're going to climb to the mid 60s on Saturday, Sunday, and possibly for

it with 70 on the Memorial Day.

So, nothing but honestly great weather, especially for us that like to be

outside on this holiday, camping, things like that.

Morning State Parks.

So, I'm going to have no one shaking their fist at me right now.

That's going to feel good.

It's going to be nice.

A little change of pace for what's in a while.

Oh, it's such a thankless task, Brittany.

It's so thankless.

Yeah.

That's why we appreciate you so much.

And thank you for setting us up so well, too.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

Have a good morning.

We'll talk again tomorrow.

Get people ready for the weekend.

Sounds good.

Enjoy the day.

You too.

Best in the business right there.

Brittany, we're low joining us every morning.

Looking forward to seeing you here in that same forecast tomorrow.

Yeah.

Similar things.

All summer long.

Can I put my order in now?

Just like this?

Maybe a little warmer.

But yeah, let's keep it going.

Is that what we need to be doing?

I didn't realize.

Should we be putting in our order?

Maybe that's why we get such crazy weather around here.

Mother Nature.

She's just got it.

Does she have a website?

Maybe she does and we just don't know about it.

Could somebody look into that?

Could somebody?

Because we really should be on that, I feel.

Yeah.

Maybe she takes requests.

I don't know.

We are on a couple of topics.

We'll be getting into the Elcafe birthday anniversary club.

We'll also get into the most sleep deprived of cities in America.

We also have for you, people are debating online whether you introduce yourself when calling

companies.

We'll get into that one a little bit.

Yeah.

Interesting.

I don't know if that's new or not.

I did not get a chance to pre-look at that.

Well, well, yeah.

We'll learn together, I guess.

At the start of the 10 o'clock hour, it's a Thursday.

You know what we do around here.

We have our pet of the week with Denise in the South O'Connie main society.

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Oh, indeed.

Afterward, Seth and I will get a little bit of entertainment news for you.

We're going to talk Ozzy.

We're going to talk Beatles.

And I got a fun one here for Seth, the 10 songs that have been used the most in TV and

movies.

Ooh.

I probably could guess a couple of those.

And this feels kind of weird to say, but for me, there was a surprise at the top.

Oh, really?

Even though I probably watch more movies and TV shows than anybody in this building.

Ah, yeah.

But I was still surprised by it.

Still surprised.

I don't see that braggingly, by the way.

No.

There was no bragging involved in that.

I was so surprised.

I actually a little bit of shape, a little bit of shape involved in that.

I got all that to get into.

And a couple of other fun topics we'll be diving into along with the course wrapping up

our show with some good stories of the day.

We've got a lot of great events going on in their area, certainly with a moral day around

the corner.

We'll be talking about that and highlighting some of those things.

But we begin where Seth and I have course wood with fashion because that's we are on

top fashion news.

We are there.

It's kind of our wheelhouse.

It is.

It is.

New people joining the show here and everything may not realize this, but I can't keep that going.

You can't keep that going too long now.

Anyone who's ever seen you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I am like, if you want to know what's cool, just do the opposite of what is the way I'm

dressing and everything.

You got it.

You should be fine.

You should be fine.

And don't do this maybe.

There are.

There have been a lot of crazy shoe trends, even in the last 20 years, I would say.

I don't know.

I say I stretched out to 20, I almost said 10, but for me, I was just about to say 10 and

I was going to reference Crocs.

They've been around a lot longer than 10 days.

They have.

Yes.

Time is a flat circle.

So Crocs, Crocs, Boots, Crocs, Sandals, I got all kinds of Crocs.

And that's I would say probably the last big, you know, shoe trend that caught on with

the masses.

They did a thing here with like when Kobe Bryant was still selling shoes.

They kind of went back to the old fat shoe where they were wide.

I remember that.

Yeah.

And then that went away.

And now all the shoes, like cars nowadays, they all look the same to me.

Every time an athlete gets a new shoe, I'm excited and then I see it and I'm like, okay,

they'll look like everything else.

Every other shoe that's ever, yeah.

Or they go crazy with it and then they're just trying too hard.

Right.

And I'll admit to admittedly too with all these things, I don't think I've said this

enough before, I don't I don't pretend that it's necessarily easy to reinvent the wheel

when you choose cars or any of these things.

But that is your job.

That is what you signed up for.

Nobody made you sign up for that.

That's true.

You know, you got a job to do and maybe come up with something better than soccer cleats.

Because that is the new trend where people are wearing soccer cleats when not playing

soccer in everyday life.

So people have them on just to run errands.

It's become a viral sensation with the hashtag quote boots only summer and apparently

that's turned them into a fashion statement.

Is it practical?

No.

No, wearing studded boots on asphalt, concrete or tiled floors can be slippery and uncomfortable.

Not to mention can cause injuries, can mess with your joints like nothing.

They are not meant for this.

No, they are not.

Hard surfaces also cause the spikes to wear down faster.

And that doesn't seem to matter though because quote, it's a pure vibe.

Get out of here, you're vibe.

And this is coming, just in case anybody is still on the fence about this actually being

a thing or whatever.

Oh, this is small.

But this is coming from GQ, really, which is still the standard for most of these things

and everything.

Not at all.

To a degree.

Yeah, right.

They may be turning soon.

Yeah.

This is what they're getting into.

Now, I cannot put in my mind the rationality of this, but I do, I do love the idea of somebody

like, you know, they were playing soccer with a bunch of friends or something like that.

They were in a rush.

Then they're like, okay, I'm not even going to, I don't have time to take my cleats off.

And they go to the coffee shop because this definitely happened in the coffee shop.

It definitely did.

Somebody saw this like, well, that's really cool.

Oh, man, is that a trend?

I didn't realize it was a trend.

I got to start doing that.

I don't know.

It's freaking out, right?

All the hipsters started doing it, and I mean, they just point, what do I do?

What are these?

I don't even know what these are.

You can't convince me that somebody decided this was the new fashion trend, and they were

going to start a trend here.

I think you're right.

I think it was an accident, complete, and then it just kind of went, hopefully, this is

one of those short-lived fads, trends, whatever you want to call it.

We each call them fads.

Now they call them trends, whatever.

But yeah, anyway, and not even just soccer cleats.

The whole boots-only somber thing.

What does that even mean?

I want as little on my feet as possible in the somber, right?

And I live in Wisconsin.

I can't imagine where most of these articles are coming from, you know, warmer states

and everything.

Like, what do you do it?

I guess they don't mean like snow boots.

I'm hoping that's not what they mean, because that would just be insane.

But I mean, even, so like hiking boots, okay, I'm down with that, you know, those are

made for walking, you know, and for long distances, and they have breathable, you know, so your

feet don't get overly hot and all that kind of stuff.

So that would make sense.

But I don't think that's what they mean by boots.

I think it's more like, you know, your thigh-high lace-ups or something like that.

You mentioned it being insane.

So is wearing cleats.

That's true.

Oh, so much so.

And I don't know.

That's rough now.

Hey, you hipsters out there.

You know, it'd be really cool wearing golf shoes everywhere.

That will in no way infuriate people that you make their floor into a puncture board.

You know, they won't mind.

I want that trend.

I want everybody.

I want younger people dressing like John Daley.

I want that.

I want that trend, including the haircut.

Yeah.

You got to have the haircut, though.

Here's a trend that has a come around.

How about younger people like it?

I'm talking like a 16 to 18 and everything dressing like in dockers, you know, just like

it just pleated pants.

Yeah.

You know, really dressy shoes.

You look like they're going to like a retreat, like a corporate retreat or something.

Yeah.

That's kind of funny.

You would think that you would think that fashion trends.

That's just the way that this works.

Okay.

Well, we've done this.

We've done this.

Now what is left?

Well, we haven't done this.

Well, see, now we need what we got to do.

The next thing is, you know, to really get out there is you have to start wearing like

a career specific stuff.

Of course, you're not in.

So we need to start seeing lab coats.

Yeah.

Everyone wearing white lab coats, you know, that and it's like, you know, if you want to

get out there, if you want to be really, you know, set the bar, wear lab coats or wear,

like a complete, not a cowboy hat, a complete cowboy outfit.

Okay.

We're talking with the, the, the, the chaps.

We're talking all.

You got to go all in.

You got to go all in.

Enough of this cowboy hat stuff.

Yeah.

Just get about that.

Yeah.

Just phoning in.

You need the whole outfit.

Oh, I put a cowboy hat on.

I put a cowboy hat on.

That makes me tough.

Extra points.

Extra points.

The rodeo clown.

You're going to get the makeup.

Make up.

No, everything.

Yeah.

That is the new trend.

I'm telling you right now.

I want to see.

Remember the, the little thing you put on your head and they had the little two polkae

things out in the first bus balls on top.

I want that to be a trend.

The beanie with the antennae on it, right?

Yeah.

That'd be awesome.

I'll just beanie's in general.

Well, because hats, like hats here and there were different for quite a while, where

you had people like in warm weather, we're in the big, you know, stocking cap and stuff.

And I'll say that about the boots thing.

If you're in warmer climates, you don't get a chance to wear boots as often as we do

out here.

Right.

Right.

There's a little bit of that.

But I mean, you're going to have a swamp feet.

Yeah.

I mean, swamp feet right there.

I'm telling you.

Unless you have like the best socks in the world.

Maybe this is different for, I should, I have clown shoes for feet.

I have size 12 shoe feet.

So maybe it's different for me.

My feet are just a walking swamp as it is, possibly.

I don't know.

But for me, I want to get as far away from like anything on my feet as I can.

The warmer again.

Right.

Exactly.

I love being barefoot.

There you go.

Enjoy it.

Yeah.

715-424-2600.

Do you prefer being barefoot or shoes or sandals or something like that?

Well, we have now come full circle James because you are now trendy going barefoot because

now you are touching grass.

So you made it.

I did it.

You made it.

You're finally hip, man.

Finally.

I didn't expect to get emotional about this.

But I'd like to thank everybody that helped me this way.

Every girl I ever dated, they tried to help me get some kind of fashion sense, thank you.

All those strangers laughing at me, thank you.

Thank you.

You really motivated me.

I appreciate this so much.

I can't talk anymore.

We got to go break.

We will come back with some good stuff.

We got the El Café Berté and anniversary club right around the corner.

Looking forward to doing some celebrate in here on Mornings at WFHR.

You heard them?

Time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful poor Edwards.

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Nobody in this area is doing celebrating you.

That's right.

Absolutely right.

We enjoy being able to do this as we do and we really, really enjoy interacting with all

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Now you get us your birthdays and anniversaries, how you got them, whether you want to email

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There's another option too that I want to put out there.

You can stop by.

Give it to Pam.

She'd love to talk with you and get that information from you.

Come on down to 1690 Second Avenue South during our normal hours 9-4 on weekdays.

I don't know if you were in such a crossover transition period with us here.

I don't know if you were here for this, but that's how it used to be done.

People just stop by and give them Pam a little sheet of paper with all the birthdays

on it or whatever.

Yeah.

So feel free to do that.

Of course, we love when you join us live on the air here and you can text us in whatever

you got to do.

Get it to us.

We are here for you.

I am trying to learn Morse code.

So if you want to do that, that's the trend of the newest communication trend.

Going back all the way to Morse code.

Again, with fashion trends, what was old is now new and all that.

Can I be honest with everybody for a vulnerable moment here?

I actually have been trying to learn a little bit of Morse code.

That's cool because you know James, the time will come when you are in a movie where the

whole thing hinges on someone knowing Morse code because that happens a lot in movies.

Many actors know Morse code.

Oh, I do.

Excuse me, Mr. De Niro, you're going to have to move now.

You never know, man, that might be the kicker for one of those things.

I know Morse code.

The whole reasoning for it is movies and TV shows.

I know.

It's the whole reason.

I don't want to know if they're actually doing it or Morse code or not.

It's been driving me crazy for years and I want to know.

And I thought it'd be cool to learn.

I like it.

Why not?

Yeah.

No, it's a pointless waste of time for me.

It really is.

But I appreciate the people that learn Morse code.

It's got to be a Morse code appreciation society somewhere.

It's got to be.

Absolutely.

Absolutely got to be.

We appreciate you getting us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody, taking a look

at our list.

Seth, I need a one through three.

Oh, one.

All right.

It gives us that one.

So we can get right to the celebration.

First up, I want to wish a happy birthday to Christina Burrows.

Happy birthday, Christina.

Enjoy the day, Christina.

Yeah.

It's a good one for you.

And a very happy birthday.

They do Alex Quinoe.

Happy birthday, Alex.

Alex.

And I believe his cousin Ben should have played here before they were on the air with

us.

Right.

Love is a very good drummer.

I know.

Wishing him a great birthday.

Enjoy.

They all play in there.

And our qualifiers today celebrate in their 49th anniversary.

Wow.

Jim and Pam Nguyen.

Oh.

Given Pam.

Congratulations.

Not only the greatest names a couple's could have and I am very biased on that because

that is the same name as my mother in five.

I know it.

But it's also one of these ones where I've been in this job almost 10 years.

And I believe every year we've gotten to celebrate this one.

That's great.

I don't know if they've qualified before.

Well, they can't say that anymore.

They are certainly qualified right now.

But it just makes me very appreciative to our listeners to continue to get us these

and do this.

It's a really fun thing for us to have this little small moment with you guys and share

these days with you.

We really do appreciate that.

We do appreciate it.

We really enjoy it.

Who are you sharing your day with everybody?

Taking a look at our celebrity list.

The Joker is 38 now.

Novak Jokovic.

38 today.

Siberian tennis club.

Some people consider maybe the greatest tennis club.

Well, if you go by majors one, he has, I believe, the record of most majors ones.

So you could make an argument that he is the best.

And unlike some tennis players, you can't argue with the competition because the other

people, some of the other names people want to mention, he's been in the same era of.

So I'm not a fan of him.

I will admit that right away.

It's very difficult.

Personality-wise.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's kind of a, yeah.

But as a tennis player, I admire, not just him, but all these athletes that are able to,

like LeBron James is in his 40s and averaging a double, double.

You know, that kind of thing.

Yes.

Incredible.

Yep.

To see some of this happen.

Apollo Ohno is 43.

Speed Skater won gold medals in both 2022 and 2026, 2010 won a silver and two bronzes.

He is one of the greatest names of all time.

Apollo Ohno.

That is amazing.

What a name.

He did win the fourth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Wow.

He's even good.

Good to dance, or even.

Wow.

Maggie Q is 46.

Wonderful character actor.

A lot of people have seen her on TV.

She was in Hannah Wells and designated survivor, also starred in Nikita and the leader of some

group in Divergent.

Oh, wow.

I never saw the Divergent in the face.

I'm not sure.

Jennifer Goodwin is 47 Snow White.

I want to upon a time.

She was also, does a lot of voice work.

She was in Zootopia.

Oh, that's right.

Yes.

Very good.

That was a sneaky good movie.

That's a very good movie.

I remember it a little bit and everything, but she did a really great chemistry with Jason

Bateman, who did the voice of the Fox and that, and they did a really good job together.

I just such a gigantic Jason Bateman found out.

Alison Eastwood is 53.

Big fan of hers too.

Clint's daughter.

She had minor roles in Bronco Billy in any which way you can and tightrope and that's

what she was a little girl.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And his head a pretty solid her career for herself has gotten some good work too here

in there.

I think I was trying to think of what she's done recently and I just wanted to look

out.

She hasn't worked in a while as an actor, but she's done some decent work.

Nice.

Let's see here.

Oh, Naomi Campbell is 55.

Wow.

Naomi Campbell.

Yeah.

One of the first.

I don't know.

I don't know.

She was the first supermodel, but I know it was like her and Cindy Crawford and some of

those really early, early, mid 80s, early 80s, or when it became a thing, there were like

models that were kind of like that Cheryl Teagues, I always think of like in the 70s.

She might have been like the prototype of the super, but then there was a whole bunch

of them that came.

Yeah, during that where they actually became celebrities, not just, you know, oh, you saw

them in a magazine or something like that.

They were actually celebrities because they were models.

It's not so much, it's a newer term in some ways.

It's only been around since the late 80s, mid 80s, something like that.

So, and I know I believe she was one of the people that get that started.

I believe you were correct, yes.

I know it was like ages ago, but I think about her and her thrown her phone or something

like that.

I don't remember.

I don't remember any.

Yeah, there was some stuff for you.

Johnny Gill is 59, new edition and solo singer, had a couple of hits here and there.

I always, I was very, like, Johnny Gill was one of those guys.

I thought for sure was going to be a hit master, like he was going to tons of hits, didn't

work out.

Oh, boy, does that make me feel old?

Someone from New Edition is 59.

I know, man.

Oh, brief.

New edition, to me, is what New Kids on the Block are the most, you know, just like a decade

later, right?

Yeah.

The brooding Morrissey is 66, lead singer and songwriter for The Smiths.

Now, again, not a fan, not a fan of the man off the affair or anything like that.

Kind of a jerk.

Yeah, kind of a jerk, yeah, but, you know, there's a couple of his songs I do like.

Yeah.

I actually like the remakes of the other, like covers of them a little bit.

Like how is it now?

Yeah, right.

There's a great cover of them, like more than the Smiths version and everything, but

although his work with The Smiths was really, I mean, in a lot of ways, so influential

on a lot of other bands and stuff like that.

You know, his solo career has been hit and miss kind of kind of stuff.

But man, The Smiths, they were a special group.

They had their place, especially with that style of music and everything that led the

way for so many others.

And if you want to, you can give all the credits to Johnny Mar, the guitarist, because

a lot of people do that, because they don't like Morrissey either.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I'll do.

That's what I'll do.

Johnny Mar is way cooler anyway.

Wow.

Elton John's brilliant songwriting partner, Elton John will tell you that any, your favorite

lyric, he probably wrote it.

He did.

Bernie Topin wrote, say, I mean, you think of all the big hits that Elton John have, very

few.

We're not, the lyrics were not written by Bernie Topin.

Yeah.

I know Elton John is very quick to not give himself any credit or anything like that.

So I certainly think that he was, you know, integral into the songwriting process and

all those things.

He wrote all the music for it.

I do love the idea too of how much he wants to push the credit to Bernie Topin and that

that, it's not very often that a songwriter, you know a songwriter's name.

No, especially like a lyricist, because I mean, that's very, very rare.

But you're right.

Elton John has been very clear that he's not where he is without Bernie Topin's own.

It's kind of cool to think of when you, you know, in this day and age, that a name

and I don't know how much it'll happen going forward.

But the only thing we know about Bernie Topin, he's not, it's not because he's an actor

or singer or any of those things.

No, not really.

He was a writer, and don't feel bad for him though.

He's made a million dollars off royalties.

So you're good.

He's good.

He's doing all right.

I'm sitting here wondering like, is he knighted?

He's like, yeah, because he's had quite the life to have quite the career and everything.

And I also admire too, we were talking about this earlier artist that could just sit back

and keep kicking out greatest hits albums and everything.

They just got done working like I think two years with Brandy Carlisle on an album.

I mean, that's crazy.

I mean, it's kind of cool to do that stuff.

He's a man's energy.

Where does he go?

How do he get?

Anyway, he's amazing.

And some people no longer with us like Harvey Milk born in the state in 1931, openly

gay man to be elected to public office in 1978.

He won a seat at San Francisco's board of supervisors and 11 months later, he was assassinated.

Yeah.

And now to be clear, it wasn't because he was openly gay, it was a political thing, the

reason that he was killed.

So yeah, I do think, I think his whole story is noteworthy in that part.

It is important of it.

It's hard for me to say this because I do think that Sean Penn is an incredible actor.

And he's done some really important pieces in good work.

It's hard to say that that's not his best work as Harvey Milk.

It's hard to, and especially with what that piece meant to him and everything, it was

a passion project for him.

Yeah.

And Seth and I were just talking about this yesterday off aired everything.

Sean Penn is one of the weirder people in it.

He is the guy that our whole lifetimes has like smashed cameras and you know, and you

just behave like interviews and just behave like a little brat in interviews and stuff.

Yeah.

And then I almost guarantee you, the next natural disaster there is, Sean Penn will be

there without cameras or any of that pop a lot of your energy to go there to help people

in person.

Not just give money.

Yeah.

He will do that.

He looked at the things he was doing during Katrina or some of the things that have happened

in Haiti.

And he's there.

Like, and it's not, and it's usually a reporter like stumbling across him like, oh my

god, Sean Penn's here.

So he's not even doing it for the PR or anything like that.

He's a weirder.

He's an interesting guy.

He's a great actor.

Really cool.

And it's a pretty good director too.

He's a good movie.

Yeah.

But man, I don't know if I'd want to sit down with Sean Penn.

I don't know if I'd like this is weird for me to say I don't know if I'd want to interview

him.

I don't know.

He might get the little test.

He might have a better chance just having a beer with him.

Like that might go better.

That might go better.

Yeah.

You know, interviewer or something.

I don't know.

And as we are getting into our National Day of Calendar on the Sunrise show, we noted

this.

It is Sherlock Holmes Day in honor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of this day in 1859 author

and creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Yes.

Indeed.

If you're famous detective, if you're going to be a one hit wonder, you know, as a writer

I can't, to me, I'm sure that music, it's very similar in everything, but I couldn't

think of anything more frustrating than being a one hit wonder as a writer.

To me, that is death to me.

It's one thing as an actor and musician, all these other things, but as a writer, you're

almost built to write different styles and be able to come up with different stories

and everything.

So it's got to be a weird thing, it was a weird thing for him so much to the point that

he tried to kill off characters.

He did.

He didn't want to do it anymore.

And the newspapers and the people lost their minds.

And they, you know, almost, I wouldn't say write it, but almost write it to the point

where he brought these characters back at times and everything to sound but twice with

him in his career.

And it's just, if this happens nowadays, it's a story, but it's not as big of a way.

Back then, for that to happen, imagine the outcry that had to have existed for him to

be like seriously, like taking it back by that.

Like, okay, Moriarty's coming back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Got to bring Holmes back.

Yeah.

Right in other stories.

It's crazy to think of that.

Again, this one, I don't know if it's because you're born on May 22nd or something, but

another, not a great personality either, very prickly.

He was kind of nasty in ways, so I don't know what it is.

I am eternally thankful to his work because as a young kid, getting to read that complete

collection of Sherlock Holmes, just, oh, man, it was like finding a great TV show and I

just couldn't stop reading.

I love those early stories and getting the chance to play him and everything is an honor

that I'll always cherish and stuff.

But yeah, I wouldn't want to interview him.

No, I wouldn't want to.

No.

Well, they don't have to worry about it.

He was the, he was like the mortal enemy of one of your favorite people all the time

of hearing you, so yeah, you know, yeah, that wouldn't go for well.

That would be my first question.

That would be right out the gate.

He wouldn't like me.

He wouldn't like me.

We hope you do.

Because we're coming back and we got a good one for you when we get back.

The most sleep deprived cities, we're also going to get into, should you be introducing

yourself when you're calling a company?

All of those things coming up.

I don't know about that one.

I don't know.

I'm going to be interesting.

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Seth, we're going to get into an interesting topic here.

The most sleep deprived cities in America or basically wherever I am living.

Haha.

Boom boom.

Thank you very much.

Everybody worked down there all night.

A research team used data from the Centers for Disease Control to look into the sleep

habits of people in 100 major cities and then they put out a list of the most sleep deprived

cities here at the top 10.

All right.

And it does look like these are in order.

Okay.

We'll start at 10.

Yeah.

The Memphis Tennessee.

Okay.

Hmm.

There's so much to do in Memphis.

Why would you want to sleep, man?

There's a lot of great stuff there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Flubs and restaurants and yeah.

I know when I finally get to Memphis, I doubt I'll be sleep because I'm going to whatever

if I want to head over to Nashville.

What a check at Nashville.

Yeah.

You can just go back and forth.

Yeah.

It's really cool in Beale Street.

They've kind of closed off a main portion of it because it's become kind of a tourist area.

But they have a whole bunch of street performers that are there.

You know, all kinds of different stuff, acrobatics and stuff.

That was really cool to see that.

That is so nostalgic to me.

Anybody doing anything on the street corner or on the street.

Some of my earlier memories of the guys grabbing buckets and playing drums or break dancing

or anything like that.

Three card money.

There's a call.

Wow.

That's different.

I'm going to talk about that.

Number nine, Cleveland, Ohio.

And how dare you call Cleveland a sleepy town?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Maybe people lose a sleep over the browns.

I'm not sure.

I don't know.

Maybe they lose a sleep over the browns for years.

Yeah.

Laredo.

You would think you'd be numb to them.

Yeah.

But you think.

The Laredo Texas set number eight.

Laredo Texas.

Really.

And just looking ahead, one of only two southern states on here.

Okay.

So they usually get pretty good sleep down south.

Okay.

Good for them.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Number seven.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

Totally get that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to guess.

I'm going to take a brief prediction here that a lot of them are going to be the East Coast.

Yeah.

There's going to be a lot of sleep deprivation on the East Coast.

At number six, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Oh.

Okay.

There's a midwestern one.

All right.

And it gets even more interesting, I think, Seth.

Number five Cincinnati, Ohio and number four Toledo, Ohio.

So what's going on in Ohio?

Cleveland and Cincinnati and Toledo and spoiler alert everybody in our top three, not New

York City.

The city that never sleeps.

Oh, really?

In fact, New York, not even in the top 10.

So therefore, I believe Ohio should from now on that never sleep.

Yes.

Ohio should lean into this.

Or they don't sleep well.

I mean, that's just that they don't sleep very good.

Yeah.

You don't have to read between the lines.

You're just going to be able to leave in the headlines.

Here you go.

Yeah.

A lot of the fact that Ohio shows up three times on this list.

That's interesting.

Makes me want to dive more into this.

Yeah.

What's going on in Ohio?

With any state that showed up three times in a sleep deprived list, that really does make

me wonder like, what is going anywhere else we want to point to, you're pointing to things

to do and stuff.

Right.

And I'm not saying there's not things to do in Ohio, I spent a lot of time in Cleveland

and loved it.

That showed up to all the Ohio people.

They're good people.

But, unless they're, you know, go to the OSU or something like that, that's a little different.

Yeah.

I can't think of, you know, is it environmental thing?

It feels like there's more there than we're seeing than this survey is showing us.

There is, and I think, James, you can, I think you can back me up on this one.

So there are fewer states with the possible exception of Illinois.

Ohio is the difference culturally from the northern part of the state to the southern

part of the state is vast.

Yeah.

And like, you know, Illinois is very similar in that way, because there's very different

cultures there.

So the fact that they are three from different parts of, because Toledo is more in the

center of Ohio, that's the whole state.

Doesn't matter where you are.

It's not getting enough sleep.

What's going on?

I don't know if the story made it up here or not, but I do remember when I was a kid,

there was, like, loose talk of Illinois splitting.

That's how different of a study is.

Right.

Obviously, it would never happen.

No, it's nothing like that.

But it was something that was talked about by, like, you know, columnists and stuff.

And there's no tribune and all that.

I remember back in the day.

Yeah.

Right.

Ohio probably could have had a similar story.

Yeah.

One of the things that I went into with this list that I was thinking about wasn't so much

the New York cities, but the high agriculture cities and having people having to get up

super early in the morning, when they went to bed super late at night or anything, like

a lot of our ag industry does, like a lot of our farmers and everything, and shut out

to our farmers who've already put in the full day.

Yeah.

That's right.

I don't know how much that plays into it either.

No.

This will speculate.

Right.

And number three, Detroit, Michigan.

Okay.

Well.

Yeah.

Man.

They're just busy worrying about all the people awake in Ohio.

That's it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

At number two, New Orleans, Louisiana, while why would another, why would you want to sleep

in New Orleans, man?

Too much going on.

Guarantee I won't be sleeping on wink whenever I go to New Orleans.

And Northfolk, Virginia at number one, Northfolk, Virginia, the most sleep deprived city

in America.

What?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Why?

Yeah.

Yeah.

What are you doing in Norfolk, you people?

This is one of those ones where they, they, Virginia of all states too.

They need, they need follow-ups to every one of these cities.

Really do.

What's going on?

How about the 10 least sleep deprived?

How old?

These ones getting their good sleep.

Okay.

At number 10, San Francisco, at number nine, Oakland, California.

Okay.

First two in, in the Bay Area.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And at number eight, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Number seven Denver, Colorado.

Yeah.

I was gonna say Lincoln.

Not much to do there.

So kind of going all over.

Without Denver, now there's more to do in Denver.

Yeah.

At number six, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Totally.

Yeah.

And, and right now, the entire city of Minneapolis is laughing.

Yeah.

We told you guys, you don't do nothing.

You, you roll up the sidewalks at 10 o'clock.

At number five, boys, the old Idaho.

Nice.

Okay.

Number four, Madison, Wisconsin.

Madtown.

Madtown is a good sleep there.

Wait a minute.

Yeah.

The big, the bad, the bad town.

Like the, the, the, the, the M.

Monica.

They, they, they must not have studied the string weekend.

Yup.

When school is in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're definitely not, they did not do this questionnaire on the

weekend.

No.

No.

At number three, San Jose, California.

Another California town.

Well, in northern California too.

At number two, not so sleepless in Seattle.

Seattle, Washington.

The whole reason they did this survey is, they make, yep, show.

Yes.

Yes.

And at number one, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Okay.

I was waiting.

They'll see balls laughing.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Both are doing the spider-man meme.

Yeah.

They're pointing at each other.

That's good.

Yeah.

So a couple of Midwest cities in there getting good sleep.

That's interesting.

Nearly all of the 10 most sleep deprived cities are in the eastern half of the US.

Good call, Seth.

And Ohio has multiple cities in the top 10, California, Minnesota have multiple cities

and least sleep deprived.

And outside of the Lakers, I don't know that there's a whole lot in common with Minnesota

and California.

Not.

No, there's a, there's, there's a few states that, that Minnesota has a weird connection

with.

Minnesota in Texas.

Oh.

And there's a very weird connection there.

And of course, you know, all the Midwest states, you know, Iowa and Wisconsin and all the

decodas and all that kind of stuff.

Not California.

Yeah.

Nothing there.

No.

I, I have a lot more follow-up questions with this after reading this study.

Yeah.

Even Wisconsin has something more with the whole dairy cow competition, you know, because

California trying to say like, no, we got more cows or something like that, but.

So just a couple of quick takeaways.

Both Norfolk and New Orleans, the top two most sleep deprived cities ranked high for short

sleep duration and poor sleep quality.

Nearly all the 10 most sleep deprived cities are in the eastern half of the US.

And yeah, just a couple of interesting ones.

Wow.

That's really interesting.

Well, a duration.

A question.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A big part of what leaned some of these cities one way or the other.

Okay.

Yeah.

Now I want to learn just more about Norfolk, Virginia.

Yes.

It's like, okay, well, why?

What is causing this?

I want to know more.

They got something going on in Norfolk.

Yeah.

They're keeping them themselves.

Like we do not want to.

They're certain cities that, you know, have like blown up in our lifetime.

Yeah.

Atlantic City stuff like that.

Yeah.

They saw that happening.

Like we're not going to be, we're not going to turn into Brunson.

Yeah.

Right.

That's a thing.

We don't want to just keep it quiet, everybody, but it's really fun and cool here.

We'll come back and have some more fun and coolness when we get back on the morning show

at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James behind the mics, thanks so much

for joining us.

You know, if you're having a good day out there, everybody, we're going to get into some

fun stuff in the 10 o'clock hour.

We'll have Denise from the South O'Connie main society joining us with our pet of the

week.

Very nice.

Looking forward to that.

That'll be fun.

Got some entertainment news for you.

Some other fun stuff we'll get into as well and I want to dive into an interesting one

here.

The top 10 songs that have been used the most in TV and movies.

Should there be some surprises there?

Yeah.

I got that one coming up a little bit later.

But to begin this next segment, let me go ahead and just do this real quick.

Okay.

Let me introduce myself to introduce myself.

From Austin Powers, Mr. Mike Myers.

Yes.

Hopefully you guys heard that, okay?

Yeah.

It was a little quiet, but yeah.

It's allowed myself to introduce my sets.

One of my favorite lines that he's ever done.

It's a great one.

And we're talking about introductions right now.

When you're calling a store to ask how late they're open or if they've got something in stock,

do you introduce yourself?

Like, hello, my name is Jamie Smith and I was wondering how late you were open.

There's a TikTok that's going viral where a woman says she's always introduced yourself on the phone

when calling places like a restaurant to make a reservation.

She says it's just common courtesy.

Her two friends don't do that.

They say hi or something and get right to the point.

It's nice.

You're very polite, but no one else does it as their debate about this.

Right.

Okay.

This debate started online with some saying they always introduce themselves.

Another saying they never do it unless they're specifically asking for their name.

Like the business is.

Yeah.

For what it's worth in the comments, a call center worker said that she loves it when people introduce themselves up front.

But another person who has been a receptionist for 10 years said she makes fun of people who do that

because, quote, why do I care?

Just tell me what you need.

Oh.

So it's a very different, you know, it's a case by case thing.

She's going to secretary for 10 years.

How does she last in that long?

Sorry.

It's kind of rude.

Anyway, it's what with her attitude, I see what you're saying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have not thought of this before.

And I like to think of myself as a gentleman.

I like to think of myself as somebody who has that kind of courtesy.

Do myself and everything.

Have not even thought about this because it goes a little bit farther from me where I'm thinking of the part

where they mention about wasting time.

I know this person more than likely as other calls waiting or other calls are going to be coming up.

I'm trying to get in and out of the conversation so they can get back to what they're doing

and then get back to what I'm doing.

I'm not trying to be rude.

To me, I'm being overly polite maybe in my head.

I'm not saying I actually am.

I'm just saying the overthinking that I'm doing with that.

I have actually thought about this from time to time when I'm calling a place I've never,

or you know, maybe a place of business I only call, you know,

once like getting an oil change or something like that, you know, a car repair shop or something like that.

I have decided I'm going to land on the side of introducing myself.

And for a number of different reasons, the reason I didn't do it in the past was because

do I use just my first name?

Do I use my whole name?

Do people get distracted by my last name?

You know, that's one thing I have actually thought about.

Have Hager.

Are they going to be like, what?

Are they going to get stuck on that while I'm talking?

But I've landed on the side of going ahead and introducing myself.

Because I do believe it's courteous to do that.

And I also think like though the one lady said,

I think you actually get better service.

If you personalize it a little bit more.

And if you're willing to do that, you know, say, I'm, you know, so and so.

And this is what I need and that kind of thing.