Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off of us at WFHR.
My voice is going. Oh, no, no, that's what happened there. That's going to be obvious.
Got your voiceless host, James here with you, everybody. Our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kay. Good morning.
Head of production, co-host, Seth Habacker. Good morning. The best listeners of radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. We appreciate the company. Let's kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot. Talk a little more the nature. How are you doing, Brett?
Pretty good. How are you guys feeling?
Doing all right? I'm enjoying the breeze coming through my windows right now.
Oh, nice. Yeah.
Isn't it nice to be on the other side of that front? Oh my gosh. It's finally out of the state for now.
Yeah, we've got this low pressure system that wants to move on in and it's, of course, bringing the rain.
I hate to dampen the day in the mood with all this forecast, but it's going to get soggy out there. Well done.
I'm just laughing. Where are we going, Brittany?
So how is it looking for today?
So we got the rain. This is what I think is going to happen because the system is all over the place.
Wide spread rain, probably by the afternoon, early afternoon. Then by early evening, late afternoon, four or five o'clock or so, I think that it's going to become a little bit more moderate to heavy.
And then we could get another round, maybe late tonight, round 10 to 11 or so, kind of in a line.
And that one could pack some heavy rain and, of course, some gusty winds.
So the biggest concern, of course, is the fact that the rain rates could be heavy at times. We could see some localized flash flooding.
We can also see rivers flooding, too.
The Wisconsin River is getting a little high up there. And with another one to two inches likely, some places could get around three, four inches.
You can underneath the storm, after storm. Yeah, over the next 48 hours, it is going to be soggy.
So if you're in a floodplain, if you're in areas, round rivers that usually flood or streams like that, now's your time to prepare.
Because it's going to be a wet one. Otherwise, I mean, no severe weather. Otherwise, just some gusty winds.
All right. You can handle that. We can take that. We got to get out our water wings.
Did you guys see those videos of the Mississippi River in the cross flooding the streets there?
Oh, no, I hadn't seen that. Wow. Yeah, I have to.
It's crazy over there. The Mississippi River is high.
I have to admit to you guys, getting our forecast, even over the last couple of weeks and everything, no matter how they sound it,
I keep thinking of things like what Melissa's talking about. Like, okay, well, it's not that bad.
Yeah, but we can handle it. We're all right.
It's a good idea to check your, yeah, check your basements, get things up off the ground if you need to because, yeah, Mike, a little soggy.
Yeah, just a real quick PSA, everybody. Look, my dad may reach out to you, help you with that.
He don't let him. Please. My father figures out the weirdest ways to get things off the ground.
He's got like all this wood that he wants to do stuff with. So he's just build him.
He's going to build the gym and put this right.
I think he's got the right idea.
Personally, it does work. It does work. I'll give him that.
It's just very weird. Yeah, very, very, very, very frankenstein with wood.
It's very, Brittany, thanks for putting up with me. He will appreciate you. Have a good morning.
Of course, you too.
This is the business right there. Brittany, we're low.
We got good stuff on the way for you, everybody. We're going to get into some fun topics today.
The El Café, birthday and anniversary club right around the corner.
Have a study that found working 50 plus work weeks breaks the brain.
Break the brain.
Working 50 plus hours a week.
That can break the brain.
I would say that all three of us are, I can pretty much line up on that one.
A study, we're also going to get into online returns. How's that been working out for businesses?
Color psychology. We're going to get into a little color psychology today.
Oh, okay. Interesting.
In the 10 o'clock hour, we'll kick things off with some entertainment news.
We have somebody declining their invitation to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Got a reboot of a TV show I believe you guys like.
I'm not sure. I thought I, I'm almost positive one of you guys.
I thought he did at least. We'll get into that in a little bit.
And what are the contestants on America's Got Talent go through?
Touch on that.
A little bit.
Interesting.
That'll come up along with a couple of other good ones like summer on a budget.
What's the cheapest hobby you can get into this summer?
Have that.
Nice.
In the 10 o'clock as well.
Get into our schedule.
Some good stories of the day.
And some great things going on in our communities that we will touch on as well.
But I, as you know, long time listeners and you two have had put up with quite a bit.
I love looking into the origins of things.
It's one of my favorite like rabbit holes to go down of where phrases come from.
Where idioms are born.
All of these things.
And I came across this topic this morning.
It did not pre-read it.
I wanted to get into it with you guys.
Someone on social media asked non-Americans what is your one Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi.
And what an interesting thought.
Wow, it is.
So early on in the early days of this show, Carl and I thought that it'd be fun to kind of start our shows
with saying good morning and every different language we could think, you know,
come across and everything.
And we had a lot of fun doing that for like I think a year.
We kind of released into that when we'd start off our shows.
Couldn't talk, you know what I mean?
That kind of thing.
And it kind of like branched off into other topics.
But I never even thought about something like this.
I love coming across these things.
One, I hope that others out there also find the commonality here.
And how much we have so much more in common than not.
Whether we're talking about somebody that lives in the city next to us or somebody that lives across the pond.
In any country, in any place, people are people.
We all bleed the same.
We all have the same concerns and worries and all of these things.
And I love finding things that bring us together and show that along with things that are just very wild
and completely opposite of what we do.
Always fun.
It's the fun of human beings.
That's right.
It's the fun of, you know, I think the beauty of humanity and all that.
So looking at this, what do other countries do for, you know, when they got to sack the quarterback sats?
You know, you got to think, one Mississippi, two Mississippi.
In Danish, we have, this is from people from these countries.
In Danish, we have one case of beer, two cases of beer.
Nice.
That's a good one.
And this is something even little kids do when they're playing hide-and-seek and stuff.
I can't believe we don't have that in Wisconsin.
Yeah.
Like we just start that.
We should start a trend.
In Scotland, in Scotland, we have one elephant, two elephant.
Okay.
All right.
There are no elephants in Scotland.
Yeah.
Just putting that out.
I feel pretty confident.
Yeah.
I mean, naturally.
Right.
Sure they have two.
That's something I've been thinking more and more about.
I've never been out of the country.
And I want to do that before it's all said and done and everything.
I've been thinking about what museums and libraries and zoos are like in other countries.
Oh, yeah.
I feel like I'm going to get out of the country and wherever I go, I'm going to waste my time.
I'm not going to see any of the tourist stuff.
I'm going to all the things that like locals do.
What do they serve at McDonald's here?
That's what I want to know.
You know, that's a fair question.
Yeah.
It is.
It's Royale with cheese.
In Quebec, we did one hippopotamus, two hippopotamus.
Okay.
That's good.
Yeah.
That's the one that I, the other one that I have heard.
I've heard that one too.
Yes.
Yes.
You need a word with a lot of syllables.
Is what I'm seeing here.
Yep.
So a phrase.
They say that specific for Quebec in most of Canada, it's one steamboat, two steamboat.
Oh, really?
Hmm.
Well, that's cool.
So we have more common with the Quebecers.
Wow.
That those, they're not all the same syllables though here, guys.
They're not counting the same.
You're right.
Yeah.
We're not.
Good point.
Could cause some issues with hide and seek.
International hide and seek.
Yeah.
In China, we have one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
Then you usually stop when you're doing it at ten and repeat.
So you do it ten times and then you repeat it ten more times.
Oh, boy.
That kind of makes sense.
Well, it does in some ways, but then you also have to keep track of where you're at.
Right.
Yeah.
See, I would be tempted because of music.
I would be tempted to go one, two, three, four, two, three, four, two, three, four, two, three, four, five, two, three, four.
Because I get that track of where I am in the ten.
In Iran, we have a one and a two and a three.
Also another music thing.
What?
They're big fans of Lord's wealth in Iran and the one and the two.
Yeah.
In India, we say tick tick one, tick tick two.
Oh.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
I kind of like that.
I kind of like that.
So it's kind of dangerous.
Why do I hear ticking?
In Australia, we'd say one cat and dog, two cat and dog.
But another Australian said they've never heard that one in their life.
That'd be a regional thing.
Yeah.
Well, Australia is real big.
Yeah.
True.
In Mexico, we'd say uno, brief pause, dose, brief pause, trace, brief pause.
Now, that one, Shaqinari, how was the pause?
Yeah, exactly.
You kind of fudged that one a little bit.
And someone joked that someone grew up in Mississippi said as a child, I assumed other people
used whatever a state they were in.
Oh, because of Mississippi.
Yeah.
So a couple of people.
And a couple of people from Mississippi said this.
So they just assumed that like in Wisconsin, you did one Wisconsin, two Wisconsin, three
Wisconsin.
Really?
Oh, but you need like the syllables on that one.
Yeah.
You could do Minnesota would work because I think it says one Minnesota, two Minnesota.
You know what wouldn't work?
Mississippi, same thing.
What?
Utah?
No.
Utah would be tough.
I was going to say Ohio, but actually Ohio would work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's got a couple of more syllables than you think.
Vermont.
Vermont.
Vermont.
Vermont, I feel like one Vermont, two Vermont.
Okay.
Like it just feels like it's very hot.
One New York.
Two New York.
Oh, that would work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love this.
I love the idea of people in Mississippi.
They didn't take this egotistically kind of, you know, or anything like that.
I love it.
You know, back to the Canada thing.
They've got great province names that they could use.
One man at toba, two man at, why don't they do that?
You know?
That's a good one.
I'm telling you.
What are they doing in Canada?
Huh?
What are they doing there?
I like that.
There was one other part here.
Someone from South Africa said it was over there.
It's one Mississippi, two Mississippi.
But they didn't know what Mississippi was.
They didn't know why they were doing it.
It was a gibberish word.
They just said, someone just made up a word, yeah.
But how amazing is it that they would, you know, that that would be a thing over there?
It's pretty awesome.
So I'm trying to find the origin of one Mississippi, two Mississippi.
Oh, okay.
That might be a tough one.
I had it pulled up here and I didn't pre-read it because I wanted to read it with you guys.
And now I lost it.
Now you gotta go through them.
I'm gonna, I'll find that out.
Alright.
Yeah, I'm gonna, I don't want to look and do it before I just, you know, read whatever
Googlers are saying here or anything.
Yeah.
I can be dangerous.
It can be.
Yeah.
Yeah, really.
These days.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back and do some celebrating with our friends from L Cafe right here on the
, right here on the morning show at WFHR.
I just want to celebrate another day of living.
I just want to celebrate another day of living.
You heard the boys.
It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at L Cafe.
The birthday anniversary club.
We encourage you to celebrate, get on over there today at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful
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Wish you a great day from all of us.
Got some great specials going on over there.
Check them out.
We encourage you to get us to your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
Love celebrating with you.
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Feel free to use that and you feel free to reach out to us any time throughout the whole
show we'd love to hear from you.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
This is, yeah, this is Mel's last show with us for the weeks of Melissa.
I'll make you do a number here.
One through three.
One.
All right.
Guess that's the qualifier.
You know.
You're right into it here.
Dose.
One hippopotamus.
Trace.
Nice.
Nicely done.
First up, I want to wish happy birthday to civic media's own William Twining.
Oh, happy birthday.
Birthday, William.
William Bill.
What does he go by?
I don't even know.
Yeah, yeah.
You can hear from him at WRCO at Richland Center.
He's your sports commentator.
One of their sports commentator.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Does a really good job.
Happy birthday.
Yes.
Happy birthday to you.
William.
And a happy birthday to Caitlin Shoota.
Happy birthday, Caitlin.
Happy birthday.
Caitlin is probably a familiar name to many of our listeners out there.
She has done reporting for the Daily Tribune for a very long time around here and during
the pandemic was a great partner sharing news with her channel nine and us over here at
WFHR.
We're able to really share information and double check sources and things.
For me here, it was just basically Pam Chuck and I and getting that information was vital
and being able to back up information at a really quick time was vital to our listeners.
She was really helpful in that.
And somebody who really does believe in this area and really wants to support and promote
this area in a day and age where it's so much about, oh, it's got to be my name and
breaking the story and a lot of that.
We shared a lot of stories and a lot of information.
I really appreciate that about her.
Good writer too.
Have a great day, Caitlin.
Enjoy your day.
We also wish you happy birthday to Jack Billings.
Happy birthday, Jack.
Happy birthday.
It's a great name right there.
It's like a baseball player.
It really is.
Yeah.
Yes.
And our qualifier today, Diane Spranger.
Happy birthday, Diane.
Happy birthday, Diane.
Enjoy the day, Diane.
We wish you a great one.
Hope it's a good day for you and yours.
Yes indeed.
And we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals that you
are our qualifier today.
Yes.
We take a look at who you share your birthday with.
One of the bigger names in music right now, Benson Boone is 23.
Yeah.
He can perform.
Man.
I didn't know much about him at all until seeing him on the Saturday live, which is how I
find out about any new artist.
Right.
Exactly.
It's the only way I do.
If they're not, that's it.
Who knows who they are.
I don't know who they are.
And for, I'll be honest, for every artist, and I'm kind of like, okay, this is not for
me.
This is not like, there are people like him that show up there.
And even if I don't listen to their music, I'm like, dang, yeah, this is an impressive
performer here.
And like, he is, so he did a backflip, Quinceena, I was watching because Quinceena Brunson
was hosting.
That's one of my people.
And she's standing there.
She's a little thing.
And he does a backflip right behind her.
And just like with two steps is on the stage and singing his tail off.
And I've never seen, I've watched every SNL episode of, and I've never seen an artist
do that before.
Wow.
He is a great showman and really good voice.
And the kids seem to like him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's not going anywhere anytime soon.
He seems to have a, especially, I didn't know he was only 23.
He looks, he doesn't look old, but he looks a little, like more mature than that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's that mustache.
It's the mustache everybody's doing nowadays.
Can we get past that now?
No.
Like if you were a mustache, if you were a mustache, it's here to stay.
It ain't going nowhere.
This has been a thing for a while now.
And it just, it's like, thanks a lot, Tom Cruise.
How come everybody goes to top gun with those, with the mustache thing?
But Tom Cruise didn't have a mustache and, and Tom, I don't know, I don't know, I don't
know.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Like everybody else did.
Tom Cruise with a mustache.
I wonder how.
Is he ever done facial hair?
I don't think he does.
Can he grow facial hair?
I don't think he can.
I don't know if he can.
I think if he could, we would have seen, he played that samurai movie and he had a beard.
Yeah.
That's true.
But was it a fake?
Yeah.
We don't know if it was a real beard.
Definitely was fake.
I'm almost positive.
It was like, Busy Phillips is 46.
Actor.
She was Audrey and Dawson's Creek.
And I feel pretty.
She was on that show as well.
She's busy.
Busy.
I'm sorry, a different show.
Busy Phillips.
Linda Caradellini is 50.
Hawkeye's wife in the Avengers movies.
She was Velma and Scooby Doo.
She was on Mad Men.
Had a really good role on there and she was on ER as well.
Yes.
Very good actor.
And a sneaky good show, I'm thinking of Dead Like Me.
This was Dead Too Me.
She was on.
Dead Like Me was a sneaky good show.
That was a really good show.
Oh, you saw the one?
I love that show.
Yeah.
I didn't see all of it, but I definitely the first season I really liked.
Yeah.
I didn't wrap up the greatest.
I started watching because of many Patikin being on it.
And I was really impressed with that show, great concept of like Frim Reepers, and it's
like a nine to five job.
It's so great concept.
Jeff Cohen is 51, Chuck on Chunk in the Goonies.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah.
Chuck.
Jeff is an entertainment lawyer now and is the attorney for his Oscar-winning Goonies
co-star, Ki Young Kwan.
Yes.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that that he left the business and became an attorney.
He also like any time anybody asks him to do the chuckle shuffle or anything like this.
He always he's always placed along like he's a nice seems like he's really cool about
that stuff.
That's cool.
Angela Kinzli is 54, Dwight's tightly wound lady Angela on the office and podcaster now.
One of the funnier laughs I've ever heard, Ricky Jervais is 64.
Boy, either like or you don't like him.
I'll say that.
I feel like he's pretty, you know, black and white about that.
He's got a great laugh.
He really is a really good laugh.
And people sing the love, you know, let's see here.
Oh, yes.
Dino Knight.
Oh, geez.
Jimmy Walker.
Jimmy Walker.
Yes.
Oh, yes.
Good times, baby.
Oh, that was my show.
Love that.
Carly Simon is 82.
Oh, wow.
You're so vain and so many other good songs.
Yeah.
Fantastic writer and singer.
Yeah.
I want to say rock or roll hall of fame.
I don't know if she's in it.
She should be if she's not.
So for many, many years, people, it was a debate.
It was a question who was your so vain about and everything.
And for charity, she told somebody, but they said that they couldn't tell anyone.
Yep.
And then like a month or a year, whatever it was later, like I don't know, she said
it in an interview, but it just became common knowledge, basically, that it's about
Warren Beatty.
That they always assumed it was about him.
Yeah.
Nobody.
Then the rumors went all over the place and then it just became common knowledge and it's
about Warren Beatty.
I'm not 100% on that.
No.
I don't think that's been been proved.
And let's actually hear it from her.
I don't know that I believe that that's just I'm holding out for Mick Jagger because he sings
on that song.
I hope it's about him because I think it would be awesome that he was singing on it.
I got to say too, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a little similar to the Jolene
thing where it's somebody we didn't none of us know.
It could be.
Or famous or anything.
Or like the other famous, you ought to know from Aladdin's more set.
She still hasn't revealed who's that, who that's about as well.
Yeah.
A lot of people believe it's Dave Cooley A.
He's actually taken a lot of heat for that, but they were both young in a relationship.
I mean, come on.
Yeah.
I never liked when people do the whole team this team that stuff in relationships like
you don't know.
You don't know what's going on in those relationships.
Stay out of it.
I mean, you might want to stay out of relationships with people you even know.
Not a bad idea.
And some people no longer with us.
George Michael born on the day in 1963.
I mean, so many hits with the boy with WAM and a solo career and then going away and
completely reinventing himself and it worked.
Like, that just does not happen very often in music especially.
No.
Hey, I'm, you know, I'm a team-bop star and I want to do serious stuff now and it never
works well.
But every once in a while you have the Beatles going from, I want to hold your hand to
Surgeon Pepper or Dylan going from acoustic to electric or George Michael going from a
kind of a poppy band to want to be taken more seriously as an artist and freedom and so
many of those songs and he didn't work.
He did it.
He had the talent.
There's no question he was an extremely talented musician, songwriter.
I mean, yes, fantastic.
Father figure.
That song, man.
That song's still good.
That's a song right there.
He's got so many good ones.
Anthony Bourdain born in this day in 1956.
This is my true song.
Yeah.
One of my favorite people.
A very, very troubled person throughout his life.
That's too bad.
Yeah.
I hope he is an example of that, you know, we need to lean on each other more, be there
for each other more.
And doing your National Day of Counter, they have a National Day of Bourdain Day is today.
And you are encouraged to get out, travel, you know, experience the world, try different
foods, live life to its fullest.
It is a carpe diem life that Anthony lived.
And one of the, you know, his TV shows, you may have known this.
If you saw, watch them and everything, a very curious mind.
And while he came across very rough in a lot of those things, nobody that ever worked
with him would not say anything negative about him.
They loved working with him.
Love this guy.
I think one of the cool things about Anthony Bourdain, incredible interviewer, really good
listener, really good interviewer.
I've studied his work and I really admire and have picked up things from him as an interviewer.
And I never heard anybody give him credit for that.
But he was really, really good at it because he was a really good listener because he loved
people.
It's rough as he came across and all of those things don't get, don't get it twisted.
That guy liked people.
He liked life.
Yeah.
I know how it ended for him.
I love the depression and the things he dealt with.
I refuse.
I watched him too much.
I watched everything he did.
I read all of his books.
That's a guy who loved life.
That's a guy who liked people.
He certainly liked people.
He may have not even realized it, but he did.
And today Bourdain Day, I get out there and live and taking an episode of No Reservations
or something.
George Orwell also born in this day in 1803, author who coined Big Brother and the 1984 and
one of the bigger authors of his time.
Animal Farm.
Animal Farm is the one that I found out in London and Paris.
That's a good one.
Oh, wow.
I forgot about ice.
There's several of his books.
I really need to read.
Yes.
I want to read Animal Farm.
Very good writer.
I never had.
Or maybe I did in high school, but I don't, you know, that was high school.
That's the unfortunate.
It was different back then.
Yes.
Well, that's the unfortunate thing.
I think with a lot of high school books.
Like, I remember liking the outsiders.
I remember like, that was one of the books we had to read that I actually liked.
And I don't remember much at all about it.
Get it back.
And I even liked that one.
Yeah.
That's the grapes of wrath.
And I don't remember much about it.
There you go.
I think Animal Farm is, I hate to say must reads.
I don't like doing that.
But I do think it's, you know, I think it's important for me to be important.
Yeah.
Kind of like to kill a mockingbird.
Yes.
Yes.
That one I do remember because I had to do it three times.
One of my favorite books of all time.
That'll always be in my top life.
When I was in school, you know.
Yeah.
Tell me about it.
I'll hear you about it.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back.
And we're going to talk a little bit about this study that found what it found with
when you work 50 plus hours a week.
Oh.
Coming up on.
Cushionary too.
Yeah.
The three of us immediately heard your spurt up like, oh, it's not to do.
Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Should have dragged out the R long time.
Yeah.
That's all right.
I should have.
It's like like a pirate.
Buddy, Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Hope your Wednesday morning is treating you.
Good.
Happy hump day out there.
And hopefully you were not working.
You haven't hit your quota for hours yet or anything.
Oh, gosh.
I wouldn't say for that.
Hope not.
I would hope not.
A new study found working too many hours a week literally changes the structure of
your brain.
Researchers scanned the brains of 110 health care workers and split them into two categories.
Overworked and not overworked.
They defined overworked as 52 hours a week or more.
They found that working that much can cause, quote, significant changes in parts of the
brain associated with executive function and emotional regulation.
And it can mess with your decision making skills because you get emotional or fly off the
handle a lot.
Also can affect your memory and attention span.
They didn't look at the long squirrel.
They didn't look at the long-term effects, but they suspect that being overworked for
years on end isn't great for your mental health, especially if you work through weekends
and never take a vacation.
You can find the complete article at Fox News if you like.
So I don't know that any of this.
This is a little bit of a kind of, well, yeah, I mean, we kind of get this and everything.
I did a little bit of digging on this one, not a ton.
So keep that in mind.
Take it with a grain of salt.
But the idea of the 40-hour work week is man-made.
It is.
It is not something that has been handed down to us from our ancient ancestors or something
like that.
It's not a natural thing, right?
Natural occurring thing.
No.
This is something that a bunch of corporate business people came up with.
Right.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Continue.
No, go ahead.
Well, I'm just saying that we limited it to 40 hours a week.
Because people saying, no, don't work us to death.
Right.
Right.
But again, yeah.
But that was the limits that was agreed upon by those corporate business people and the
people pushing back against the 40, 50, 60, 80 hour weeks.
Right.
Yeah.
You got to keep going.
No, I knew you'd say it better.
I knew you could say it faster and better than I could.
So I just wanted to get out of your way.
When it comes to us doing this, we have the power and the ability to adapt to modern
times with these things.
And the positive of the idea of keeping, having a cap, if you will, on a worker, is the
idea as well of possibly maybe even bringing in more workers, more people to have jobs in
some of these things.
So the, and I mean, we know this.
We don't need science to tell us this one necessarily.
We need science to tell this to the powers that be.
Right.
Yes.
Anybody that does this on a weekly basis, and I'm guessing a lot of people are raising
their hand right now.
I know almost everybody in this building is, they don't need a study to tell you this.
We already know this.
We feel the effects of this old.
It's nice to have the back up.
We're a case study.
Yeah.
Right.
Why you shouldn't do this.
And maybe even a better people to ask are the people that are around us outside of,
that outside of our industries, outside of our jobs, the people that we work with or
we live, I'm not working with, but the people we live with are significant others, our
family, our friends, that deal with these quick emotional changes or some of these things
that we are working with.
Or the exhaustion and the inability to join in on the fun things in life because we're
just too flip-and-tired.
The quality of life goes down because of that.
Yeah.
I don't think there's any, you know, epiphanies happening here with this, but I do think
this is something that corporate, you know, and again, the powers that be really need
to hear and listen to because if you are, if you are good at your job, then you are
good at managing employees as well as having a making a profit.
You can do both.
There are a million industries out there right now doing that very thing.
That's right.
You do not have to crush your employees to make a profit.
And if you feel like you do, you are bad at business and don't belong in the game.
Find something else to do or work by yourself.
I will say this about the way that things, just looking at America and just looking at
our system and the way things are.
I do believe that more and more going forward, that stuff is going to weed itself out.
That's the bad businessmen, the people that cannot run a business any franchise are not
going to stay in the industries very long.
In part because I believe that everything starts from the top.
So if you are that kind of management, if you do run your company that way, I don't
believe your company will survive.
I don't care if you are Nike.
I don't think it will last.
I think these things have a shelf life.
Employees revolt.
Employees push back.
If they can, here in America, we can.
I know Nike.
That's why I said America.
I was specifically talking about America.
I said America right out the gate and that's what I am specifically talking about because
I don't know enough about other countries and the way they run things.
And especially if you are going to talk about other countries, this is going to be a
20-hour conversation.
The country does things differently.
We could spend 20 hours talking about China.
But just looking at the states here, in the way that our industry was run and business
is from a rural level to a city level, I don't know that that has a shelf life.
I don't know that that survives very long.
There's plenty of businesses that you can counter me with.
I'm not saying that this is perfect or anything.
I don't think that many, just by the way that looking at the history of business and
all that in America, you don't survive if you don't treat your employees well.
You may make a profit.
You may be around for a little while.
You may even be around for a decade or two.
But you ain't going to be around that long.
Look at the industries.
Look at Levi.
Look at some of the companies that have been around almost since the beginning of America.
Most of these companies have pretty good employee relationships and everything.
They don't work their employees to death.
Not all of them.
Just some of them do.
And I do think it's really important for us to have these conversations because the more
conversations we have around employee rights, ideas to make work, life, balance better,
all of those conversations help to move the needle in that direction because we the people
do have the power for now and we should continue to use our voices to advocate for ourselves
and how we want to live our lives.
I don't take anything lightly, but I don't believe that that's ever going to change, Melissa.
I don't care who's in power.
I'm glad you believe that.
I don't care.
I just, I'm too much of a kid of history and while there are things going on right now
that we've never seen before, there's also stuff that this country's been through worse.
This country's experienced more and I don't believe that anything can kill democracy.
I don't think it's possible.
There is no, we will never be run by a king.
We will never have a dictator.
I don't believe that's possible in this country.
I generally don't.
I don't care who is in office.
I don't care.
What is happening?
And I have a realistic brain.
I have a reptilian realistic brain that drives me insane that doesn't see enough positives
in life often enough and looks at things way too cynical, oftentimes in life.
I don't think it's going to happen.
I don't think that there's anything more powerful than the human spirit and especially
when it comes to this country and the way we take that democracy and we take freedom.
Keep it the faith.
I could be the last naive bone I have in my body and I'll own that now.
You can throw this back at my face and stuff if I'm wrong, but I'll take it.
Just take it and run with it.
But when it comes to the work week in this going back to one of our older conversations
the three of us have had, I think that it comes the four day work week pops in my head
and ways to limit this and keeping people from hitting 50 hours a week.
And as much as I want to point the finger at ownership and business and management and
a lot of that, we've got to take a little of this medicine too and by that I mean me.
Among us are our older enemies.
Yes, yes.
Just speaking for myself completely.
I'm going to say one thing here because this has been inculturated or acculturated I guess
is the correct word for it.
If you remember, I mean it's one of those things where it's like you're not working if
you're not working overtime, right?
You're not working.
This is a cultural thing that's been going, it's been off and on for like 20, 30 years
maybe because I remember hearing about this in the 90s, you know, where people are working
all these hours and they're proud of it.
You're like, yeah, I'm working so much, you know, I'm working 50, 60 hours a week.
I don't have to, but I'm going to do it kind of thing.
It was like a badge of honor where used to be, you know, it's like your leisure time was
the important thing, right?
It's like, yeah, we're taking the kids to whatever and I know I'm working.
That's the important thing.
I just keep working.
So to be fair to you guys and to anyone else, you know, who feels like, wow, man, I'm
working so many hours, that's kind of the culture we grew up in.
And now we're starting to see a little bit of a shift on that, which I think is a good
thing.
We do think that it's also something the more like Melissa was touching on, you know,
the more we talk about these things, hopefully the more we normalize and we bring attention
to it and some of that.
I would love to have this conversation a year from now and see if anything's changed.
That would be interesting.
Yeah.
And a year from then and a year from now.
Let me see how that goes.
Put a Google calendar thing in here.
I do think that the study involving healthcare workers really stands out to me.
And it does give, you know, all industry, we all industries have people doing things
like this, but we do send a special shout out to our healthcare industry and so many
of the people that's particularly stressful and hard job to do.
So it is.
It's become worse.
So after the pandemic.
Oh my gosh.
Yes.
For so many reasons.
Yes.
And I'm realizing it also doesn't help things that a lot of us work 50 hour work weeks and
we have to go to these people to healthcare workers.
I've worn myself out.
You have to help me.
Yeah.
I can relate.
Same problem.
Yeah.
They just sit down right next to you.
I can tell me about it.
We'll take a time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there.
Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
We're going to kick off the 10 o'clock hour with some entertainment news, get into our
schedule.
Talk about some good things going on in our area.
We also got to get into this one somewhere on a budget.
What's the cheapest hobby you can get this?
I'm ready.
I'm excited.
I want to know what this is.
Picking up sticks.
Yeah.
It's going to say we didn't.
Yes.
Yeah.
Got a couple options for you.
Selling your plasma.
There we go.
What we're doing.
That's a weird hobby.
Can only do this once every day.
I know.
Let me do it more.
I don't know why.
We will get into all of those a little bit later.
Right now, how would you like to feel a little less anxious?
Boy, I think we can all agree on that one.
That's too bad.
That's really good.
Color psychology is the study of how different colors can affect your mood and behavior.
Wow.
Now, this is something that, again, I have gone down a rabbit hole.
I went down years ago and thank you to the pandemic for this.
I started to look into this more and more.
In part because a lot of people were struggling with isolation and just my mood and a lot
of that.
I love the color orange.
Does that have any effect on me?
Should I be wearing more color orange?
I noticed I didn't have any shirts that were orange or anything like that.
I started looking into it more and more.
I found it different people for different things.
This can tie into a lot of things with the brain connecting to other stuff.
For me, with being OCD and needing things in certain orders and a lot of this, I found
that when I wore multiple grays or a lot of blues or something, my mood was just a lot
different.
With this job and needing to be in a good mood no matter when these mics go on, I found
that the two really helped each other.
You're going to see me for the rest of my life dressing like a fool.
I don't have any style and I have no real way of any fashion sense whatsoever, but you're
going to see me usually in patterns.
Black and white today, yesterday I think it was mostly blues.
Again, I'm a guy so I can't match for anything, but I look at this and I do this and I have
to be honest with everybody, as silly as it might sound, it really has made a difference
for me.
It really has helped them with my bad days aren't as bad, my good days are a little stronger
and I feel them more.
It's just simple from this and I actually think Robin Williams for this because I saw
him talking about it and then interview once about how Johnny Carson asked him, what's
with the crazy shoes?
He said, well, they make me smile.
I was like, it was simple as that.
I was like, oh, they got me down this rabbit hole.
That's actually something that I've been trying to do a little bit more here too.
It's going to take time because I got to completely redo my wardrobe just because I also
need to redo my wardrobe so it's something.
But I say dress how you feel and I've been following a lot of people talking about clothing
and how it affects our moods and how we view our bodies and how we view ourselves as
people in society that wants to dictate how we look and how we dress.
I think it's fantastic that you're doing that, James, kudos to you totally on team James
for this.
Do your own sense of style?
Yeah.
Let's go with whatever you got.
Back at you, by the way, Mel, and I love your style.
You have a great sense of style.
I try to, I'm actually thinking about stealing it, I beg you.
So with this color psychology and looking into how colors can affect the mood and behavior,
not much of the evidence in the field is anecdotal.
It's anecdotal, the field is anecdotal at best, but artists and interior designers have
long known how important colors are to your mood.
For example, red, yellow, and orange are known as warm colors.
They can evoke feelings ranging from warmth to hostility, whereas blue, purple, and green
are known as the cool colors and they can make you feel anything from calm to sadness.
But according to a color psychologist expert, one color stands above them all, especially
when you wear it.
She said, quote, green is the psychological primary color that balances the other three.
Red, yellow, and blue to stress, it will calm you down in the dumps, it will lift you
up.
It's a calming color, and I love wearing it.
Now, I added that last part because it's part of her quote, but also as much as I love
this article and everything, I think that it's probably noteworthy that she's even telling
you that she likes the color.
It's her favorite color.
Yeah.
And I don't know if that plays into these or not, or maybe it's a byproduct of this.
Maybe she didn't like the color green before, but now she does, or she liked beforehand
and it's just a happy coincidence.
Right.
I mean, who knows?
Whatever the case may be.
It's very hard.
It's very hard to detach yourself from things that you like and don't like when you're
doing it.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's very hard for anyone to do it.
So let's keep that in mind.
And there are studies that show seeing the color green in your environment lowers your
stress level.
Like if you see a green space in a city, it can lower your blood pressure and heart rate.
Yes.
Now, a lot of people don't know.
This is why they have the green monster in Boston.
No, I'm joking.
Hilarious.
Yes.
Because we all know Bostonites are very calm, especially when it comes to the red fox.
Yeah.
Bostonian students.
A psychologist and raky master agreed and said green tends to be a soothing so soothing.
So wearing green can make you feel much more relaxed and less anxious.
And this if this is true, I would like to talk to New York jet fans because I don't
see.
The color has always been green and it has not worked.
But it doesn't have anything to do with it.
No, no, you're right.
That's not it.
The fourth world is a total different monster.
Right.
As the green lady.
Yeah.
The lady that wears all green all the time.
Can I interject because I've been doing some studying on how animals look at color.
So because I really want to dye the bottom half of my shower curtain a bright yellow, but
I'm a little worried because I was doing some research on what colors pigeons are affected
by.
Oh, yeah.
And oranges and reds, those bright vivid colors that you're talking about, they can make
them scared.
So I'm like, dang it.
I don't want to now dye my shower curtain yellow.
Yeah.
If it's going to scare my new pigeon buddy.
So now I'm waiting.
We'll see.
We'll see how they react to the yellow in my pants.
My apartment is really colorful.
I love color.
I have more and as much color as I can everywhere.
Nice.
Nice.
I got a theory if you don't mind real quick.
How about, so we orange yellow reds, okay?
Those are warm colors.
Is that because they're fire colors?
Okay.
Are they as though because they're, that's the color of fire, right?
The different colors of fire are orange, red and yellow, you know, the different, how
hot it is, right?
And then for like blue and purple and stuff, I think of water.
You know, is this, are we taking this from like our, our surroundings?
With the natural world.
I would think so.
You know, it starts green is, you know, growing things, you know, grass, trees, you know,
all the stuff that's alive, you know, that's green and that's, you know, because, and
we, we associate nature, right, exactly, a lot we associate nature with that, you know,
that kind of, you know, get calmed you down, reset kind of thing like that.
Get out in nature, touch grass.
Yeah, exactly.
So I wonder if that has something to do with it.
I wonder if it's just taken from, from what we see all the time and what we associate
with fire, you know, it's warm, but it's also volatile, volatile, right?
You can't predict what fire is going to do, kind of thing.
Color theory is really, it's deep in there so much involved in it.
There's actually a gal that I know who, who does color draping on your person, on your
body, to, to tell you which colors complement you the best.
She did it for me and I was surprised by the colors that complement me best, not
the ones I would have chosen.
Hmm, interesting.
Yeah, her name is Hannah, Anna, I got to find her last name quick break because I will
tell you.
That's fascinating.
That is.
That's really interesting.
Are you more of an autumn?
No, I'm just kidding.
I, I wonder too, how much of this has to do with your own personal bias or feelings
or experiences and all of that.
Absolutely.
It's, it's a, I agree with both of you about the sports thing, you know, being a whole
other subject.
I do wonder how much that plays into things.
I, my favorite two colors are black and orange.
I've always loved those colors as long as I can remember.
I have no idea how much that has to do with a lot of the sports teams I grew up loving.
I had orange in their color.
Right.
Sure stuff.
I don't know if the two were connected one who would came first to chicken or the egg
or some of that.
Of course.
Of course.
But, uh, well, go ahead, Melissa.
Well, I was just going to say her name is Anna Haffaker.
She's Amethyst Rising is the name of her business and she'll do color draping because
she's still like learning the, the color theory.
Oh, okay.
She's practicing.
I think she said my color palette is, uh, cool spring, maybe it's like, it's like,
it's like a, like a peach, yellow, a bright green, kind of a grayish brown salmon and aqua
blue.
Like those are not colors I normally would have picked.
And again, it's, and it's funny even that what she uses as the, you know, what is called
is based on nature.
It's based on spring, right?
A season kind of thing.
What colors you associate with spring and that's, that's kind of where it goes.
So that's, it's a really interesting topic.
It's fascinating.
Yeah.
And the fact that the color you wear can make you look thinner, can make you look younger,
that's also fascinating.
So check out Amethyst Rising.
There you go.
I want to say she's been on with us.
I think she has.
I recognize the name.
Yeah.
And it really interesting.
Really.
It knows her stuff.
Really.
I want to check that out.
I also need, this is another reminder too to me of one of my, my real blind spots in
life.
And my little sister used to rub this in my face all the time.
I, for the life of me, am terrible at making colors.
You know, I can take this color in this color and it makes a color.
Man, there are no cat, there is, that may be the worst category in the world for me.
I don't know what it is, but my brain cannot put that together.
No color blending for you.
I'm really, really bad at it.
And every little kid I've ever known just rubs us in my face.
Just like, wow, how do you not know that this and this make this?
I don't work that way, man.
I just don't.
I'm bad at it.
Just bad at the colors.
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