Out of Control, or Catching Up to the Times? (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM WFHR.

Your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Our head of production and co-host, making his triumph a return.

Good morning.

And of course, the best lesson is in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're going to kick things off the way we would like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Talk a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

How you doing?

Good morning.

How are you?

How did you handle the heat this weekend?

I mowed.

I mowed a lot.

Yeah.

I did not do the smart thing this weekend.

I was mowing so much that I came in and I see my fur brother Sam.

And he's just looking at me like, well, I'm not even going out.

Yeah.

What are you doing?

What are you doing, man?

You just let a lot this weekend is what you're saying.

Yeah.

You got a lot more weight.

Do you have a good weekend?

I did.

You know, I sought out the free AC.

I went up to Lake Superior.

And let me tell you, I was in Ironwood, Michigan.

And it was, you know, 92 degrees.

In just 20 minutes, going down the hill, all of that towards the lake.

It went from 92 to 55 degrees.

Oh, nice.

Cooler by the lake.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

That's rough.

That ain't right.

That's rough.

That's rough.

That's rough.

Did you get in the water, though?

I tried.

I could only get out and need deep because the water was even told there.

Yeah.

I did not sweat at all, honestly.

But you got to try.

I hear you.

You got to try.

Lake Superior is not usually good to August.

It takes a while for it to warm up, yeah.

It sure does.

But I thought, you know, 90s feeling like 100 degrees.

This is to be the time I want that icy cold water.

Too icy cold.

What is it looking like around here on this week?

So we do have some free AC on the way.

A cold front is moving through.

It's already in the northwestern parts of the state.

So it's going to take our heat away.

The heat advisory goes till about 7 o'clock this evening.

Still looking at temperatures hitting about 87.

Probably feeling more like the upper 90s.

I mean, it's already gosh.

82 degrees right now at 9 a.m.

No.

Yeah.

I'm holding a steady 84 in my apartment right now.

Nice.

Oh.

Bro.

Yes.

So some relief on the way.

Good news.

But of course it's going to drag into bad news with it.

Storms.

Can never have this high heat and humidity at a cold front hit it without storm sparking.

And usually they're strong to severe.

So this looks like around 4 to 5 o'clock.

The storms start approaching us in central Wisconsin.

At first the risk is going to be tornadoes possible and large hail.

But as it starts to line out along the front it's going to turn into more of a wind event.

Like 60, 70 mile power winds are possible.

So we're kind of in the middle of it all.

We could see the stronger side still or we could be on the edge where it's lining out and just the wind threat.

This is again this evening probably around 5, 6 o'clock or so.

It only lasts till about dark and then it fizzles out and it's gone.

Plus it's going to be moving southeast.

So just a couple of hours of storms.

But the rainfall is going to be torrential.

We're looking at around 1 to 2 inches just today.

And then tomorrow the front stalls and sits over the state.

So we've got more showers and storms that are going to be moving through tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday.

So flooding becomes a big concern as we go midweek and closing the week out.

So don't forget the umbrellas and it's going to cool down highs in the 70s for the rest of the week after today.

All right.

All right.

We appreciate that Brittany.

Thanks so much for the update.

We feel that much stronger about taking on the week with Mother Nature.

And you have a good one.

We'll talk tomorrow.

I'm going to have a good day.

Thanks Brittany.

Best in the business right there.

Brittany will be joining us every morning.

We've got the Elcaf Abertin and aversa club on the way for you.

Everybody we're going to dive into that.

And we're also going to get into a couple of other fun topics.

Wearing the color green can make you less anxious.

We can talk about that.

We need to wear more green, I guess.

The top 10 minor annoyances that stress us out.

We'll go into that one.

We are going to kick off the 10 o'clock hour.

Where we like to around here with the kitchen's open.

Looking forward to Beth joining us for that.

We have a bunch of entertainment news to dive into.

I also want to get into a fun one.

What's the weirdest productivity hack that actually worked for you?

Okay.

We'll get into that for you all.

But I would like to catch up with you guys about the weekend as well.

In a minute, I want to talk with you Melissa about cranberry blossom festa.

How that went for you guys this weekend.

But Seth, I got to start off with a bit of a correction here.

For the last week, I have been telling the audience that Seth was gone trying to chase down his minor league baseball dreams.

I was way off on this.

I did not have that right.

I'm so sorry, man.

I misjudged.

I misjudged the situation.

You misjudged the situation.

I should probably talk to you about what you were actually doing.

I just assumed.

I was ping pong ball championships.

No, good guess.

Good guess.

Well, no, you're both wrong.

I was actually in Cleveland last week.

I could not try out for the team.

The Guardians were at a town, you know, which they seem to do.

Every time I go to Cleveland, I'm like, hey, we should catch a Guardians game.

They're always at a town for some reason.

So, but we were there, you know, family gets together on Beth's side.

My father-in-law is celebrating a big birthday this year.

So we were doing a little early, having a little family vacation.

But when you're in Cleveland, you know, certain things that you need to do, especially, you know, rock and roll, hall of fame.

Of course, we went there.

Beth and I were also able to catch a performance of Hamilton while we were there as well.

Which was really cool.

Yeah.

Nice, nice, very cool.

Thank you, dear.

A little late anniversary date for us on that one.

And you've been to a couple of Hall of Fames, right?

I have.

I've been to like baseball, football.

I've been to this.

Second time I've been to the rock and roll, hall of fame.

The first time I didn't get to enjoy it as much as I had a very small child with me.

And I had to kind of keep an eye on him.

Luckily, this time he was a lot bigger and he had a blast.

He loved it.

I thought it was really cool.

Very cool.

Very cool.

And you'd recommend.

Oh, absolutely.

100%.

They have different exhibits, you know, ones that they, you know, special ones that they have throughout the years.

Right now, the special exhibit they have is a SNL 50th anniversary music.

Of course, it's always a big part of Saturday Night Live, all the live bands.

And they've got a really cool exhibit of costumes, you know, call sheets, scripts.

All kinds of stuff from that.

And they had this giant video of mashups of all these performances put together, which was really cool.

As you know, as a producer and editor, that's the part that really got me.

I was like, wow, how did they do this?

It's really amazing.

They put, lined up all these songs together.

That's really cool.

I, a few times I've been more jealous of somebody when I saw that text for real.

That's really cool.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

It was a lot of fun.

I mean, you're in Cleveland, everybody.

Yes.

You should check that out.

Absolutely do that.

And Melissa, we, we all had fun this weekend with the cranberry blossom fest.

I got to see a little bit of the carnival yesterday.

That was fantastic.

I am a little kid every time I see a fire truck.

I realized, I really am.

Even, just seeing it yesterday, it immediately was a little kid again.

Did you get one of the little plastic hats, though?

No, no, I didn't.

You know, the kids deserve more than me.

But one day, one day, I will get one of those.

We had fun with our broadcasts this weekend as well.

We did.

It was a full team effort.

And even Beth and Seth were back in time to help out with it, too.

But yeah, everybody was on deck.

Michael was there.

Pam and I started out the live broadcasts.

Everybody assisted getting things over there and set up.

And the heart of Wisconsin, I got to say the chamber had everything so smooth.

They did.

But it was such a slick production to get pulled in, unload, pull out,

and get the vehicle parked so we could set up.

And then the broadcast was great.

It was, the heat was a little challenging.

But what became more challenging as the day went on was the wind.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

When that picked up, yeah.

When it picked up and it started gusting really bad, we were literally hanging on to the tent poles.

And neighboring tent poles to try to help keep vendor tents from flying away.

And displays from tipping over.

But it was wonderful to see everybody helping everybody else.

And just doing our best to get through was much of it as we could.

A few vendors did pack up and leave early because, man, especially in a couple spots on that street,

the wind was just brutal.

I feel for those.

Not as bad as what happened in Hayward.

No, no.

Yeah.

I do feel for those vendors, certainly.

But I, and I don't make light of that by any means, of course.

But I will say that just sitting here listening to you guys a little bit,

you know, as you were waiting in between breaks and everything.

And boy, did I have fun playing DJ this week?

Yes.

I had a lot of fun doing that.

So be appreciated.

You being on the board.

Yes, it was great.

It was great not only hearing all the interactions with everybody,

but when I did hear some things like that going on,

hearing so many people coming in helping.

And not everybody knew each other.

Not everybody was doing like a friend helping a friend or something.

This was strangers helping strangers a lot of times.

Oh, yeah.

Even people who were just there as attendees were like, oh, grab and stuff.

And as it was flying away, they were catching it or stepping on paper plastic bags that were going by.

There was one young man.

So I took Quinn and we got some food and we were sitting on the grass on the other side.

And a wind came up and it knocked over the two big like the trash and the recycling bins.

Just knocked him right over.

Wow.

And this young man stopped on his bicycle.

I mean, I would guess he was probably anywhere between 12 and 14 would be my guess.

And maybe even a little younger than that.

And nobody was with him and he just stopped and he picked him up and put him back where they belonged.

Wow.

And then rode away.

It was nice.

Nice young man.

Good job.

When it comes to me, you know, this is one of the better examples we have of our community, the cranberry blossom fest.

You bring in so many different businesses and different people, different walks of life.

There's so much to do.

That is the example of our community.

Right.

What people stepping up, people helping each other out doing those things.

It's maybe the best example along with all this other stuff that happened over the weekend.

It was really cool.

Congratulations to everybody for pulling this off and doing this again.

It's not easy.

I was trying to get an update on the duck drop for the cranberry blossom fest.

Due to the river conditions, the drop didn't happen.

They did draw for the winner at 230.

It looks like.

The other river was really choppy yesterday.

I was wondering how that would go.

I was choppy.

I'm not seeing if they, if they're going to bring it bad, do it again or not or anything like that.

It doesn't look like they were able to reschedule it.

But that, so that's, you know, disappointing.

But otherwise, very successful weekend.

Congratulations to everybody this weekend.

Now we start gearing up and looking ahead, not only some other fun events that we have going on,

but in no time, we'll have that state water ski show tournament going on.

Yes.

Fourth of July coming up and all kinds of stuff.

That's a busy weekend, a busy summer around here every summer.

And just enjoy it.

Everybody goes, man, does it go by quick?

I toss.

We're almost on with June.

I looked at the calendar today.

Stop linking James.

Yes.

Yes.

Just everybody stayed.

Did no blinking.

Just enjoy.

And stick around.

We got the Elcafe birthday anniversary club coming up.

It is Melissa Seth in James.

Hang it out with you on the morning show at WFHR.

It's a celebration.

It's time for the Elcafe birthday anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We sing it to celebrate all of you and talk about a friends in Elcafe.

Visit them today at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Let's treat yourself.

Get on over there.

Everybody.

I shouldn't have done the deep voice thing by voice.

Now you ruin yourself.

You ruin yourself.

And also, if you do head over there, they won't be open.

But there is the food truck lot there today.

So you can get coffee from Rustic Road Coffee.

The daily special Yamhaus and El Sambrador will be open at 11.

Nice.

Nicely done with the pronunciation there too.

That was very good.

Yes.

And what a booster Melissa is for Port Edwards.

I really want to try in that coffee.

I really want to try that place.

That sounds great.

Head on over there tomorrow to Elcafe.

But check out those food trucks today, everybody.

Yeah.

This is the second week of them trying this new food truck lot.

That's very cool happening there on Market Street.

So it's cool.

I want to get down there and check it out.

Awesome.

I really dig that.

And I have to say two real quick notes here.

One.

Shout out to Elcafe doing things like that.

This part of the reason why we love working with them.

They really do buy local support local.

We encourage you to do the same for them.

But I've had a couple of Port Edwards people in the last couple of weeks for

Rapids report and everything.

Things are going really well over there.

I'm very excited about Port Edwards community and everything.

That's fun to hear.

It's really cool to hear.

Very deserving too.

We encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

You can email them to us.

Info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call on up.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

I encourage you to join the conversation.

Looking forward to hanging out and talking with each and every one of you.

We have a great list today.

But we only have one person who can qualify in the list.

I don't care.

Neither of you have to work this segment.

All right.

Seth, you don't get to do it.

Please, ease me back into it.

That's what I'm saying.

Yes, yes.

First up, I want to say a very happy anniversary to our sister station.

105-5WIRI.

It was on this day in 2021.

The WIRI became country legends with country and all of that.

Yes.

Four years.

Amazing.

That's crazy.

Yes.

It's the only word that can describe him.

It's crazy because that does not seem right.

No.

It really doesn't.

It's wild to me.

Crazy.

Nice.

Oh, well done.

Very well done.

Yeah.

Congratulations to all the fans of that station too.

Yeah.

Because you guys have made us the second most popular country station around here.

Yes.

That's incredible.

I had to see a lot of those fans at the cranberry blossom fest.

Yes.

That's right.

I had to correct.

I had to inform someone I was standing with at the parade yesterday.

Who saw, you know, one of our competitors, you know, cars drive by and I was like,

well, our ratings are better than theirs.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

I appreciate you all.

And we want to say a very happy birthday to Civic Media's own Darla Isham.

Oh.

Yeah.

Happy birthday Darla.

Happy birthday Darla.

Darla.

She's up in Park Falls.

Yes.

Working very hard over there in Park Falls.

She manages a couple of the Western stations in Wisconsin for us.

So she does an excellent job.

Big shout out to all of our friends in Park Falls.

Love listening to them.

Love the work that they're doing over there.

Big good morning to all of them out there.

And a happy birthday to Darla.

Mm-hmm.

And a very happy birthday to our one qualifier here.

It's Hannah Sanders.

Happy birthday, Hannah.

Hannah, I enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Yes, indeed.

Yeah.

Have a great day, Hannah.

It's a good day.

Let's take a look at who you share your birthdays with.

Melissa Rothsch.

I never know how to say her last name, right?

Rock, rock, rock.

I think maybe.

I don't know.

She's 45.

She is?

I would never have guessed that.

Never.

Like she's maybe her mid 30s.

Early 30s or something like that.

Bernadette on the Big Bang Theory is where she got her big break.

And then wonderful voice to the great job with.

I thought her voice was fantastic.

Yes.

But I really enjoyed.

I didn't get to watch the first season of the revamp of Nightcourt.

Because that was her on that.

You were correct.

She was a Harry's daughter.

Yeah.

Now that just got canceled, unfortunately.

I was very disheartened to hear that.

But it got three seasons.

And to her credit, I mean, she really carried that show.

She did?

Really did a great job.

She can lead a show.

I think that she's got a great future.

And I really like her as an actor.

Very different character as well.

Then one, the one she played on, Big Bang.

She should be noted too.

Yeah.

It is good note.

Because that show meant a lot to me.

The original Nightcourt.

And Harry Anderson meant a lot to me.

And she played the daughter of Harry Anderson.

Yes.

And I went into it very like, oh, I don't know.

I'm going to feel about this or anything.

She was so like, I don't know if she went back and tried to be like him or not.

But in little touches, it almost felt like she was his kid.

Yeah.

And I'm like, darn, that really, I didn't expect that.

She did a good job with that.

She really did.

She's very good.

I like her.

And it looks like the pronunciation is rosh.

Rosh.

Oh, okay.

We'll get it right.

That makes sense now to hear it out.

Thank you, Melissa.

One of the best football players I've ever seen in my life.

Ladinian Tomlinson is 46.

Wow.

Yeah.

True.

Ranked seventh in the NFL history in rushing yards, second in rushing touchdowns,

and third in total touchdowns.

I mean, if you catch a pass, the people forget about that too.

He was really good.

He was so much fun.

So good.

Yeah, you were.

I love those backs, those dual backs to my favorite.

Love it.

Jason Morass is 48.

The remedy.

He said several hits.

Yeah.

I love him.

Yeah.

Katie Tuntstal is 50.

Suddenly I see.

Yeah.

She's a good singer.

I forgot about her.

Yeah.

She's good.

Yeah.

She's good.

I did not know she was Scottish.

Oh.

I didn't know that either.

Yeah.

That's cool.

That's cool.

Yeah.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Joel Egerton is 51.

Jason on dark matter.

Uncle Owen and Obi-Wan.

Chris Pratt's team leader in 0-30.

He was in red sparrow.

He was a red sparrow.

The handler in red sparrow.

He said a lot of character work.

Yes, he has.

The great Selma Blair is 53 today.

Wow.

Dr. Kate Wales and anger management.

Liz in the Hellboy movies.

I imagine is one of the ones she got a lot of nose.

Those were fun movies.

Yeah.

And it's great of an actor.

She is.

I really like her as an actor.

Her best work has been off stage.

She's back in 2018.

She revealed that she's been struggling with MS.

And has been a real.

I hate to say face of that.

Or anything.

But she's done a lot of good work on that.

Shine a light on it.

Yeah.

Really has.

Yeah.

This is going to bring a lot of people back.

She got the barge is 59 today.

Oh, good lord.

That's crazy.

Debarge.

Oh, yeah.

That's crazy.

Not mentioning him.

Francis McDormatt.

Yes.

She is 68 today.

Now, if there is a colon brother's movie, you are going to see her in it.

Yes.

That's just the way it works.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

Not mentioning him.

Francis McDormatt.

Yes.

That's just the way it works that she's married to.

Is it Ethan or Joel?

I can't remember which one she's married to.

Joel.

Is it Joel?

She's very Joel.

It's Joel.

I almost positive.

Yes.

You are correct.

Okay.

Good job.

Thank goodness.

Is there a colon brother card there?

Is there any chance of her hearing this?

Probably not.

No.

But on the off chance, she might of all the people I don't want to insult.

She's way up on the top of the list, man.

She came to prominence in Fargo.

Yes.

And Marge Gunderson, yep.

It's really hard for me to say this because she only does good work, but I still think it's her best work.

There's something about seeing her pregnant in the snow, trudging around or something, and just that was so believable and somehow relatable to a man.

There's no reason I should be able to relate to any of that, but there was parts of her character that were so relatable.

It's such a good performance.

It was the accent a little heavy at parts.

Yes, that was intended.

Yes.

I don't think people realize enough that the colon brother's dark sense of comedy and some of that, what they did with those characters and everything.

That's true.

And that to mention, so two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress, Fargo, three-board billboards, and almost famous.

I don't know that you could find a work of hers that wasn't good.

She recently did a Shakespeare piece.

A lot of people were very hesitant to know, how is she going to be in this and everything.

She killed it.

She hung with Denzel Walsh.

I mean, everybody, she's an incredible actor.

She could do anything.

Just incredible, 68 for her to do.

Let's see.

Randy Jackson, the 69 American Idol judge.

Oh, yes.

Apparently one of his notes is reuniting journey.

But what?

Randy Jackson was a record producer.

Yes, before he was on American Idol, he was a producer.

And also single-handedly killed anybody using the word dog.

Nobody uses it anymore.

He did.

He stopped that because he said it every sentence.

I'm telling you, dog.

I'm telling you, this dog, that just killed it.

Sorry, Randy.

Nobody does it anymore.

Glendanzig is 70.

My God.

Glendanzig 70.

Of course, lead singer of the misfits.

And Danzing.

Yeah.

Mother.

So many hits.

Let's see here.

Clarence Thomas, 77, Supreme Court Justice.

And June Carter Cash would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Literal country legend.

As he would tell you, there is no Johnny without June.

That's right.

From the first family of country, the Carter family.

Which I mean, if you know anything.

Speaking of the rock and roll hall of fame, said no one.

They do have a piece on, of course, the roots of rock.

Rock and roll.

And country is one of them.

And they do prominently featured is the Carter family.

Along with the great Jimmy Rogers.

But yeah.

The first and main family.

Yes.

And you cannot talk about the history of music without the Carter family.

That's right.

And June, wonderfully played by Reese Witherspoon.

I'm talking about greatest work.

Reese's greatest work.

And that's saying something incredible actor.

Underrated actor.

Reese Witherspoon.

June and her got to like, I guess, talk a little or something.

Oh, wow.

On those lines or something like that.

There was something in there where she really was able to do something

with that character and due homage to it.

That's great.

I'm a big, big June Carter family.

Yes, me too.

That is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club.

But we cannot encourage you enough to head on over to L Cafe tomorrow.

And have some fun.

But today Melissa, they got some food trucks over there.

Yes, they do have some food trucks there today.

You can head down right now and get coffee from rustic road coffee until 1 o'clock.

The daily special will be 11 to 6 and Yum House and El Sambrador will be there from 11 to 7.

And you guys, I saw the menu for Yum House.

I might have to go down.

You might just have to do that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Probably a plan to me.

Melissa.

You look yummy.

You are our head of news.

I mean, you have to report on stories.

And our main story.

Well, this is the second time they've done this now.

And they've done this now.

So, you know, we got to see if this is popular.

People are showing up.

It's important.

It is.

It is.

And I just have to, you know, and then you guys will pay for my lunch, too, right?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Absolutely not.

What are you talking about?

Absolutely will.

And by we, I mean civic media.

They can do it.

Yeah.

We'll let them take care of it.

Stick around.

We got Melissa's news coming up along with some sports.

Pete's entertainment and plenty more of lined up for you in the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Seth Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a great Monday out there in a good start to your week.

Speaking of your week, let's talk about the work week a little bit and job applicants.

Okay.

Quote the requirements in job listings may be out of control these days.

Today's job applicants are making some major demands.

Now, real quick, are these major demands or are they just demands?

Or are not even demands.

I mean, just things that they're looking for.

Right.

Yeah, right.

That either we didn't, you didn't think we could do.

Like our generation, like we didn't just even think like of this.

Or it's just kind of like the balancing out of this, you know, with employees and management

and trying to figure this out.

I don't know.

I think it's an interesting question.

This survey asked today's workforce about the quote, non-negotiable perks they're looking for.

And the most important stuff is health benefits and financial security perks.

Yes.

That's not perks.

That should be standard.

It should.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So here's the list of the things that are non-negotiable with today's job applicants.

Paid overtime is the top non-negotiable benefit.

76% say it's a must have.

76%.

Mm-hmm.

Paid sick leave is next with 75% saying that's a requirement.

Yes.

Number three, comprehensive health insurance packages.

73% said that one.

I think a key part of that is packages, not just health insurance.

You are right.

Taking whatever you can get.

But they want options.

Yeah.

They want that.

Yeah.

Or it's dental and vision.

It should all be together.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

And it should be affordable.

Or it shouldn't be tied to our employment.

That's the other thing.

Yeah.

Exactly.

It should just be, you know, national health care.

Right.

That's my opinion.

Agreed.

Totally agreed with you.

No.

401K retirement packages comes up on the list at 67%.

Okay.

Yes.

And number five, I will say most places I've worked at have had that.

Yes.

I've offered that.

I should have offered that.

That's probably the most consistent thing I've been offered in my employment out of all this list so far.

And number five, comprehensive dental packages at 59%.

CC what Melissa just said.

Exactly.

Further down the list, there's a noticeable difference between men and women.

Financial security is the top priority for men.

20% of men consider stock and investment options to be essential compared to 22% of women.

20% of men say they financial that financial planning and counseling is they must have versus about 15% of women.

Okay.

Women prioritize supportive, inclusive benefits, family needs and workplace culture.

Oh.

36% of women say that the comprehensive maternity and paternity leave are essential perks.

Oh, yeah.

Again, perks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm using the word perks.

I know.

That's not feeling good.

It feels weird.

Yeah.

27% of men agree in 30% of women say DEI programs and training are non-negotiable compared to 23% of men.

Oh, wow.

But no one has higher standards than younger Gen Z and millennial workers.

30% of Gen Z professionals are seeking comprehensive four day work weeks and comparable work life balance flexibility.

In 18% of Gen Zers quote, want fun rooms with games like ping pong and recreation areas.

17% of millennials consider nap rooms essential in 20% of Gen Zers and 14% of millennials say that they need pet friendly offices.

Oh, interesting.

Those are some interesting things.

All of those things would definitely make it more fun to work in the office.

Here's my only catch with those latter things we mentioned there.

That I have seen in many times in the business world, especially in certain industries,

that they will give you the ping pong table and not the health insurance.

Exactly.

That they will give you this and not give you the real things.

It's kind of a hand wave.

Yeah.

We've all experienced this.

It's the company that gives you the Christmas bonus but not the race.

It's this way of doing things.

Or we'll give you a Christmas party instead of a race or something like that.

Yeah.

Which nobody in human history has ever asked for.

No employee has ever been like, you know what I'd much rather have than money.

The Christmas party.

And this is not a shot at businesses.

No.

This is not that.

It's just standing up for themselves and everything.

And I think a lot of that is happening here with this.

We're again in one of these situations in society where we're trying to fix the boat on the water.

It is not, it got way out of hand, especially in the early 80s.

And it never got fixed as far as management and employee.

It became, we started out with this whole thing of the customer was always right.

And then in the early 80s, a lot of business decisions and a lot of things that we don't have the time to get into right now,

mucked all of this up.

There was a time in history where it didn't, if you were taking out a full time job,

it was just a given that you had health insurance.

You were certain things attached to that.

The greed of the 80s completely changed all that.

And because it was always, yes, the customer is always right and the employee never is.

That's the way business was run for the majority of time in the 80s and going into the 90s and so on.

And we're trying to fix that now.

Things went way too far on the other side.

Unless you were a part of the top 1%, you're not probably going to disagree with me.

That's what we're trying to do.

Bounce things out right now.

They always tell you ask for it.

The worst they could say is no.

I don't have an issue with people wanting these things or anything like that.

I think a big issue becomes, well, I'm just not going to work then.

Well, that's not going to help anybody.

No, that's not a good idea.

That's not strong.

And there is a bit of concern with the balancing of, hey, what's more important to you?

Health insurance or napped rooms.

Right, right.

And I think most people would, well, like you said, the percentage, all those first things you mentioned, 70%, you know, high 70% on all of those kind of things.

And that's like, we have to, one of the things that we're trying to figure out right now, I think, as we see what's going on, you know, in the world,

and where we are in the United States right now, is we can find, I think, we can find a way that we can all work together.

We can all work together on this, right?

We can have businesses that are profitable, but at the same time, they're filling a need.

And like you were referring to James, they were treating their employees well.

Because I think you have good, happy employees, your business is better.

That just makes sense, right?

Yes, yes.

And then your customers will be happier.

And then all around, everything, and that means maybe you do more business.

And that means the owner or the business owner is happier because they're making more money, that kind of thing.

It seems like we are able to do this.

Walk and chew gum at the same time.

And offer some of these things, or like Melissa said, you know, let's take medical care off the table.

Let's just give that to everybody, and then businesses don't have to worry about it anymore.

That seems like a thing they would like, right?

But the other thing to talk about, too, is the difference between what the average worker has paid and what the CEOs are paid,

and how that has changed over the last 40 years.

And you know, in 1965, the difference was about 10 times as much.

The CEOs are paid about 10 times as much as the top wage earners.

Now it's 290 times as much.

It's insane.

That is insane, doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

And meanwhile, employee income hasn't gone up that much.

And in states like ours, they haven't touched minimum wage since the 90s.

12 over 20 years.

What world that makes any sense?

And what world, like, are we, do they just think we're dumb?

They just think we're stupid.

And the idea that this can be organized or taken care of by local businesses, if for one, it shouldn't be on them.

And two, that's just not happening.

We're just not seeing that.

We're seeing more so this push and pull effect between employees and businesses of, hey, I can only hire you for this.

Hey, I'm not working for less.

And this push and pull that's not helping anybody.

I don't know.

And they're complaining about not being able to find workers.

Well, maybe it's because you're not offering adequate compensation for their work.

Yeah.

I don't want anybody not to make it as a business.

I don't want anybody to have to close their doors.

And at the same time, this is the world we live in.

This is what it is to be an adult and do make adult decisions.

I love to sing.

I love singing.

I cannot tell you guys how much I like to sing.

I'm not good at it.

So no matter how much I may want to do it and everything, it would not be a very good idea for me to quit my job and to go try to be a singer.

Would not work well.

I would only be on American Idol so they could laugh at me.

That's it.

And then you'll never see me again.

And who knows where I end up already?

Except in your local karaoke bar.

Yes.

You are the star, James Mello.

This is the life.

This is the way it is.

I'm sorry if you wanted to open this business and you don't know how to make it work business-wise or anything.

That's the world we live in.

If you can't, to Melissa is what Melissa is saying.

And I think we've all talked about a number of times here.

Two local businesses, two small businesses.

If you can't pay your employees.

I don't know that you belong in the game.

That's just the world we are.

This isn't a handout kind of situational society.

No.

And something that I think we need to talk a little bit more about is how important work is.

Just in general.

Because I know people, you know, it's like the work life balance is very important.

And I'm not denigrating that at all because I think that is very important.

But work, we have so much to do in this country, in this world.

There's work to be done.

Can we find a way to get the people to the jobs that need to be done right now?

We can.

I think we can do it.

Maybe there's mechanisms that we need to do.

And yes, we do need to get the government involved.

Sorry, the libertarians.

But we do need to get them involved to get these jobs done.

That need to happen for us to survive.

Very important.

Because, you know, the important things in society we wouldn't have with a government.

Look at all the infrastructure in our country that wouldn't have existed without government intervention.

The social services that we rely on like fire departments and first responders.

You know, all of those services require some support from an organized government.

We need it.

We take it for granted.

We will be right back after our commercial break.

We look forward to hanging out with you.

We're going to talk about the top annoyances.

Top annoyances that stress us out.

Government.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Number one in the list.

She's coming in your anarchist ways.

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Add to the conversation of what are some minor annoyances that really stress you out.

The stress doesn't necessarily equal the annoyance.

It's kind of where we're going with this one today.

I'm like pet peeves.

Yeah.

That's a good phrase.

You turn.

I like that.

Here are a bunch of them.

Someone pulled 2,000 people and came up with some answers.

They fall into one or two categories.

Annoying sounds or annoying people seems to be kind of like the list of things.

A lot of stuff on here.

All right.

Let's see.

A knock at the door when you weren't expecting one.

That's annoying.

That's surprising.

It sounds like a societal thing.

I blame society.

Well, no.

I mean, in a way, it's true because this goes back to like the 50s when there was the push for everybody to live in their own home and not live in their own little communities and not want people to come by.

You are yourself in your own little world.

Master of your domain.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I think there's a lot to go.

We could go delve real deep into that one.

Let's know.

We could.

Someone talk to you when you're trying to focus or want silence.

Yes.

Yeah.

I need to focus when I'm doing something.

My brain is just constantly trying to get me to think about anything other than what I'm trying to focus on.

It's everything in life.

It doesn't matter if I'm reading on Robin Williams.

My brain is still getting distracted by other things and stuff.

And when people talk to me or things are going on around me, it's very difficult.

It makes it difficult, yeah.

At the same time, look at what I do for a living.

It's my own fault.

I mean, it's not, you know, I got nobody to blame, but my own self.

I chose this life.

Nobody's making me do this.

Well, I tell you what, you got to learn that real quick when you live in the household with three people with ADHD.

I can tell you that right now.

I believe you got to learn.

Don't interrupt.

You're only imagining it.

Let's see here.

When the Wi-Fi slow is down or cuts out.

Mostly because you can't do anything about it.

I think it's part of it.

You can turn off the router or turn it on.

That's not working.

Ah!

Well, I think it is going on.

I mean, when it cuts out, it usually comes back.

I kind of look at it as, oh, it's a good time to take a break.

Yeah.

See, that's the good side of it.

Yes.

I think unless you were focused on something.

Or if you were watching a show or something, but think about it back to the time where we had these things called commercial breaks.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah, commercial breaks.

I had somebody in my life for a while that would get so furious with like the 10 second commercials on Hulu.

I was like, geez.

You know, take a chill pill.

Yeah.

It's not that bad.

Take a chill pill.

Well, go back to the 80s when they had commercials.

And that phrase.

Yes.

You're welcome.

Spontaneous.

I think this one is probably my number one.

Loud chewing.

Yeah.

I knew that was going to be.

It's going to be.

It's coming up.

Yeah.

I was going to say that at the top.

But I didn't want to ruin your.

I prayed there.

Well done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've talked about that enough.

Am I alone on that though?

No.

There's plenty of people out there that don't like it.

Yeah.

And that's one of those things when relationships end.

That's something somebody else complained about.

Yes.

You know, like, now after X number of years, I don't have to listen to him chew anymore.

Why do I eat?

It's so quiet.

I had an X that clicked.

Her mouth clicked when she would chew.

Ooh.

Like a TM.

What is that TMJ?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you do the job?

Yeah.

No.

I think only I can hear it.

Super annoyed.

Right.

My mom has that or had it.

I don't know if she still does.

But yeah.

Through no fault of their own.

No.

It's just something that their mouth does.

Yeah.

Right.

So I would never have said anything.

You know, I don't know about that.

But still.

It's when you need to bring back those really long tables.

And you reach set it one end.

I can't say anything.

Just to let the audience, like, behind the brain here, not even curtain behind the brain.

I wouldn't have said that if I wasn't confident that she lives in Europe now.

There's no way she's hearing this.

That's how I feel.

That's funny.

I ran that through my head real quick.

Just in case.

A phone call you weren't expecting.

Yeah.

I think that that one.

Again.

With the.

Hmm.

Go ahead James.

No.

I think that this one may be for more so for younger people.

Because I guess I don't know.

I don't think that this really rocks us that much.

It's maybe a little surprising.

Like, oh, my phone is actually having a phone call.

I don't know.

I mean, this is what the way it was always.

Yeah.

I mean, you didn't have even before.

The phones were for and they didn't give you any warning.

And there was no, like, before call ID, before caller ID, even that you didn't know who was calling you.

You just had to answer the phone.

I'm trying to study a phone to see who's there.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But now I get a call from, you know, somebody that's, I would say, younger than me or in the next generation under me.