We Help Plan Your 4th of July (Hour 2)

Good morning Wisconsin, morning world.

Thanks for joining us for another edition of WFHR's Morning Show.

Got your host James here with a bitten tongue.

Join my Melissa.

Hello.

A bit my tongue in the middle of that opening there.

It's gonna bug me all day.

Oh, that's the worst.

Good entertainment stuff coming up for you everybody.

We got entertainment news and a little after that.

We got songs for your Fourth of July playlist.

Getting into some of that.

And a little bit later this crazy idea.

A study found recycling could or should have lottery jackpots.

Oh.

Want to get into that one and plenty more.

But we begin of course our entertainment section.

With Dolly Parton knows our day in Dolly.

And Melissa sent this one over and appreciate that now.

Always appreciate the stories you send over and everything.

This one is a little different.

Dolly tweeted this out and it's in response to a Tennessee legislature

considering a bill to erect a statue of her.

And I really don't I want to get this right.

So I'm just going to read what she said here.

Okay.

I want to thank the Tennessee legislature for the consideration of a bill

to erect a statue of me on Capitol grounds.

I am honored and humbled by their intention.

But I have to ask the leaders of the state legislator

to remove the bill from any and all consideration.

Given all that is going on in the world,

I don't think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.

I hope though that somewhere down the road several years from now

after I'm gone, if you still feel I deserve it,

then I'm certain I will stand proud in our great state capital

as a grateful Tennessean.

In the meantime, I'll continue to try to do good work

to make this great this great state proud.

Dolly Parton.

Now this just makes us want to make more statues of her

and everything because she's such a class act that we love her so much.

And these are part of this is a big part of the reason why we like her.

But she's also right.

Yeah.

She's 100% right.

She's also right.

There's this thing in recent, I would say almost less 30 years,

but especially the less 15, 20 years in sports,

where they just got to put a statue up of a guy.

And stadiums were like five, six statues out in front and everything,

of these athletes.

And it's a little bit of a throwback to Roman times and everything.

And there's some interesting history there.

But I don't know that there's any real harm in it.

And I also don't know that there's any real need for it.

And I don't think there's anybody.

I don't know if there's anybody outside of like dictators

that have ever been like, yeah, I want a statue of me.

There's being humbled.

And then there's being incredibly embarrassed.

And I think it becomes more about a statue you would think it's about the person.

You're going to put a statue of Dolly Parton in Tennessee.

You're doing it for Dolly, right?

Well, she don't want it.

Then I don't think it's right to do it.

And I also think, you know, a statue,

it's got to be one of the hardest things to be able to really pull off.

Not only the construction of it and the making of it.

If you want an example of that, look up Christine Rinaldo,

the most popular athlete in the world,

or second most popular to messy maybe,

but look up his statue.

It's a horror story.

It's horrifying.

I think I've seen that one.

It's horrifying.

There's no other way to describe it.

It is horrifying.

That is one of the most handsome men on the planet.

And that statue of him is just horrifying.

So not only do we not do these right necessarily,

but I'm not sure we're doing a right period.

It just kind of seems weird to have a statue of somebody who is still alive.

Yeah, yeah.

And a statue, like these stem from a time

where it was my way or the highway.

I'm the Greek God.

I'm the Greek leader.

I'm the Rome leader.

I want a statue of me.

Put it up now.

This doesn't have the greatest history.

And in recent decades,

we've been getting rid of a lot of statues.

Because they don't fit the whole community.

They don't fit everybody.

They're stem from a time that isn't right.

And the idea that we take down, first off,

the leader of the Southern party,

the party that fought against the North

and the Civil War.

And the Union.

He didn't want a statue.

Because he didn't believe statues should go to people to finish second.

His own words.

The idea of some of these things become very selfish

and become very much about me or what I think is important in society.

And this is on all sides of the aisle and all of that.

And I just, I feel like this is something we should almost retire.

I don't know if we should be making statues.

I get sports teams doing it and everything.

It's a marketing and selling your team and all that.

And that's a whole other story.

I don't know that there's any person in human history

that we need to make a statue for.

And as a quick note, everybody,

as far as like the idea of worrying about history being forgotten or anything,

we got this thing called the internet.

We got this thing called school

that does those things, covers those spaces.

And we have this thing called life

that you can look into history and find out more.

Like I had to do with my history.

Because there is no statues of my people.

There is no, you know, a great day.

There's no Jewish history day or anything like that.

There's no Italian history day.

I had to look it up myself.

It was that much more rewarded for doing it.

Well, and I also want to just say

that I don't think these things need to be destroyed.

But I think that they should be put in appropriate places.

You know, I mean, do we want to have,

do we have, and maybe we do,

a museum of the,

I can't even think of the name of the army.

The Confederate.

Thank you, Confederate.

Do we have a Confederate history museum?

I think that that, so absolutely appropriate

to put the statues in there.

Yeah, I'm with you.

Save them.

But do they need to be displayed

where they are causing,

I mean, the history that they symbolized

caused a lot of pain and suffering

and perpetuated a lot of the evils

that happened in our early history in this country.

Being an American is understanding

that you don't just live in this country alone.

And you got, you got, you live with other people.

You got to make it work with other people.

We got more freedoms

than most other countries will ever have.

And we also have some dark things in our history.

Yeah, and it's embracing all of this,

and owning all of this.

Can you erase it?

I mean, that's, I don't know.

I think that that's one of the things that,

to me, to show to other Americans,

to show to the world that we are not afraid of our past,

we are not afraid of our history.

We're not trying to erase anything.

And I'm with you on the,

I don't want to get rid of these statues.

I think putting them in a proper place

is what needs to be done.

I don't want to get rid of them either,

because I don't, I don't think that helps anything either.

I don't, I don't think that,

you know, I've known a number of people

who are very proud of their southern history.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

I think that just having some context

and some understanding of that too,

the people that I'm talking about

could not be more, you know,

more happy about, you know,

not being slavery in some of those things.

I'm speaking of one of the people

in particular is African-American.

So I suppose it goes with a little without saying,

but for the, but he's very proud of being from Texas.

He's very proud of the South.

And, and although he,

he just, he can be proud of the South

without, you know,

running around with a Confederate flag.

Right.

And, and forgetting or,

or trying to abolish the history that happened.

We go from one older, loved legend

and Dolly Parton to another in Dick Van Dyke.

This is a, this is a story we,

we cover just to kind of cover him a little bit.

Um, 90, you know, Dick Van Dyke

had to skip his own charity event recently

on this, this past Saturday due to an unexpected illness.

No, no.

His wife showed up in his place

and told the crowd, quote,

when you're 99 and a half years old,

you have good days and bad days.

And unfortunately today is not a good day for him.

He's sick and can't be here.

Dick attended live via live stream

and vowed he would be the next event in person.

Dick will turn 100 on December 13th

and we are really hoping to be able to celebrate that.

Wow.

Lee, the greatest pratfaller in history.

Along with a million other things

that Dick Van Dyke was very good at.

But I, as a little kid studying his falls

and the Dick Van Dyke.

So I, yeah, he's, he's the past.

He's, he's fabulous, fabulous on screen.

Also still a good dancer.

There was a video of him,

there's this past year of him dancing

that they were promoting.

He's still, I got the moves.

Yeah. And I don't know how much

you saw these Melissa growing up

or even just in recent years or anything.

But very pot, you know,

we talk about popular commercials.

And by that, I mean like commercials

that have been around for many years

that we see them all the time.

Whether it's a repeat

or it's just a reimagining of the same commercial.

One of the ones I would think that is most known by people

is the ASPCA commercials.

The commercials for animals

with the Sarah McLaughlin song

in the arms of an angel playing

and you see the abandoned animals.

Well, Sarah McLaughlin recently

was talking about this.

And she said she gets it

that those are sad commercials.

Even Sarah says,

as she can't watch those ads

because they're too painful.

But she loves animals

and had a friend on the ASPCA board.

So she did this for them.

Yeah.

But the ad didn't show her

as the happy and optimistic person

that she is.

Quote,

it showed me as some sort of quiet

sad person with all my puppies

and kittens.

I'll never forget the director saying,

I just need a little more sad face from you.

So it all worked out though.

Sarah says in a year,

the campaign raised over $30 million.

Wow.

So, you know,

she just kind of,

like a lot of things with her,

she is very just self-deprecating

and very honest about things.

She kind of gets that some people

don't know her music that well,

kind of just associate her

with being sad and all this.

And a lot of her music is more,

I would say,

ballad related.

It's not upbeat.

I'm a big, big fan of hers.

I would say there's at least 10 songs

over the top of my head,

I like.

And yeah,

they do tend to be a bit moodyer

or that.

I like that she kind of gets this,

and it kind of owns it.

And related news,

Sarah is releasing a new album

on September 19th called

Better Broken.

Looking forward to that.

That's exciting.

Yeah.

I bet you that's going to be good too.

A great songwriter.

Great songwriter.

Wonderful music.

She's an original voice too.

I really love the way she,

her dexterity with her voice

is just really good to me.

Really interesting.

And we wrap up entertainment

talking some local entertainment

and a West Side story.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

The teen summer production

being brought on by Wisconsin

Revitze Community Theatre

will premiere July 10th,

11th and 12th,

and they'll have a show

on the 13th,

a matinee on the 13th.

Wow, that's coming up so fast.

They got so many great kids

from our community,

being a part of this.

They've been working really hard

on the rehearsals.

The way they broken this up

this year,

they're doing different plays

for different age ranges,

which is perfect.

So this one will be

from kids 12 to 19.

So you've got a really fun mix

there of kids.

Yeah.

And they're doing this in like

a month.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's pulling off a full

length show in a month.

You know.

And so I've been a part

of two major

guerrilla theater productions.

And that's what we used

to call that back in the day

of when you would get together

and you put on a show

within a couple of weeks

or a month.

Did Romeo and Juliet

and Grant Park

and Illinois

and what was a part

of a couple others.

And then, you know,

did this unintentionally

with it's a wonderful life.

And the nerves

and the racking

of the brain.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As an adult

and around other adults,

these kids

walking into this

and choosing this

and wanting to do this,

with their summer

by the way, everybody.

The most coveted thing

to every child

in the world,

their summer vacation,

their summer away

from school.

And how do they choose

to spend a good month

of it or so

entertaining us?

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

The least we could do

is show up.

Yes.

And it's a good thing

kids are sponges

because they

got to memorize these lines

super quick.

One of the,

I think the gifts

of being young

is almost not knowing

any better.

Yeah.

Like, you're just

excited and all that.

And they've such a great

cast.

So many wonderful people

a part of this one.

Do want to send a shout

out to Susan Becker,

their director.

Nice work, Susan.

Check this show out.

Get your tickets

and make plans to attend

a west side story.

The wonderful

team musical production

being put on July 10th,

starting July 10th,

over at Wisconsin

Service Community

Theatre.

You can get your tickets

at wrctheter.org.

Get on over there right

now.

Get those tickets.

Yeah.

And support local

theater.

Everybody by local,

support local.

We appreciate our friends

over at WRCT.

Actually, am I going

there today or tomorrow?

I'm going to be going

over there to talk

with our stage,

our stage creators.

Looking forward to that.

Sorry.

I was just a little

bit distracted, Melissa.

Give me 30 seconds

for playmakers.

Just a quick

30-second playmakers,

everybody.

Okay.

Well, last, just this last

week, a guy who won a

championship in basketball

with the Indiana

Pacers, Miles Turner, just

agreed to a four-year

hundred and seven-million-dollar

deal with the Milwaukee

Bucks.

That is a nice signing.

That is a nice

signing for the Milwaukee

Bucks.

That is a nice signing

for the Milwaukee Bucks.

That is a nice signing

for the Milwaukee Bucks.

That is a nice signing

for the Milwaukee Bucks.

That is a really good

addition to go along

with Yannis and that

team.

That is a team that is

building.

That's a team that's,

you don't do that signing

if you're going to trade

your big superstar,

everybody.

So anybody thinking Yannis

said that Gupo was

going anywhere.

I'm telling you, he ain't.

I've been saying this.

I've been saying all

over ESPN right now,

you're going to have

Stephen A Smith and all

these people talking about

where Yannis is going to go.

Where Yannis is going to go?

He ain't going nowhere.

He may go to Greece

for the summer.

He may go, you know,

maybe with something like that.

I'm going to do another team.

I'll put my name on it.

Telling you, he ain't going

nowhere.

We're going to take.

Right.

Thank you Melissa.

Thank you for that.

That was Playmakers, everybody.

You're welcome.

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We'll take a time out.

When we come back,

we're talking music.

What kind of music

should you be listening to

this weekend for your

fourth of July weekend?

We got your playlist

all set up.

It's coming up on the

morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out

with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Got the fourth of July

right around the corner.

Kind of cool when it falls

on a Friday.

That's kind of nice.

Yeah, it makes it

for a nice three-day weekend.

And I don't know about

anybody else, but I feel like

the only time I really

get the chance to listen

to music is on the weekend,

so that just kind of

lines right up.

The fourth of July,

almost upon us,

and if you don't already

have a patriotic playlist,

we're going to help you build one.

Yeah.

Get you some music to play

on your playlist.

Now, if you are my

father, you will have a

crazy eclectic, like some

patriotic songs, and then

some songs that are like,

what were you?

Dad?

What?

All over the place.

But we look at this list,

and it's in no particular

order, but we'll start at

number 15, Kids in America

from Kim Wilde.

Where are the kids in America?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, now I remember.

Yeah.

At number 14, surf in USA

from the Beach Boys.

Yeah.

That's, that's especially

with the-

Surf in USA.

Passing a Brian Wilson

and everything.

That's another very

no worthy.

Yeah, yeah.

And number 13,

Texas Holden from Beyoncé.

If you listen to the lyrics,

you're really paying attention.

That's a very American song.

Yeah.

I've only heard it

at like once.

It's a fun one too.

But it is fun.

Get your movement.

Yeah.

This is a great list.

There's a lot of great

songs on here.

If I got to get things moving,

like the other day

with our remote,

and I got to play DJ

and I was playing music

and everything.

And I'm thinking, okay,

I got to play a song

that I think most people

are going to like.

The majority of people

are going to like and all that.

And it's going to get people moving.

American Girl from Tom Petty

and the Heartbreakers.

Oh, yeah.

That's one of the go-to's.

It's a go-to.

It's a great one.

Yeah.

At number 11, American Pie

from Don McLean.

That one's a little more moodier,

I would think.

And you, you know,

definitely going to have to

put aside 10 minutes.

That you're going to,

that's a longer song.

That's a long time.

That was a,

that was a bathroom song

back in the classic rock days.

If you needed to run

to the bathroom or something,

you put that

or a pink Floyd song on

and you got time,

you got time.

America, America

from Simon and Garfunkel.

That's a go-to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not playing in my head,

but I probably've heard it.

Yeah, you might know it if you heard it.

Born to run

from Bruce Springsteen.

Odd to see that one on here,

not born in the fourth,

you know,

a born in the USA,

a born in the USA.

Born in the USA.

Born in the USA.

Yeah.

But that's a good one.

And one of Bruce's

better songs,

I think.

So that's a go-

And it is a little bit

about America,

America's life.

Actually,

it's a lot about American life.

So, okay, I see it, yeah.

Okay.

America, the beautiful

from Ray Charles.

Mm-hmm.

One of the better songs

you'll ever hear.

Mm-hmm.

That's such a good song.

I love that song.

I like his voice.

Yeah.

There's something

about Ray Charles' voice.

It's not only universal.

Yeah.

It's just,

nobody else sounds like him.

Well, and I,

you know,

one of the things

that's really interesting to me,

and I've been discovering

this more and more

doing the Sunrise show

over in our country station.

You know,

he did a country album.

And,

but he didn't sing any different.

He just sang like Ray Charles,

and he pulls it off.

He sounds like a country.

His voice is so versatile,

yet he doesn't have to change it

for the genre.

He sang like Ray Charles,

saying no matter

what the genre was,

the background music

might be different.

Yeah.

And it worked.

It's just crazy.

Yeah.

Born on the bayou

from Creens Clearwater

Revival.

Oh.

Good song.

Good song.

Any CCR will get me.

Any CCR.

Mm-hmm.

At number six,

we didn't start the fire

from Billy Joel.

I don't know how much

of a fourth of a...

Yeah.

It's a bit of a...

It's got a real bug.

Really good history lesson

in America.

Mm-hmm.

It goes through a lot of that.

At number five,

R.O.C.K.

in the USA

from John Melican.

R.O.C.K.

in the USA.

I believe a fourth

greater wrote that song.

I believe not.

Good kidding.

At number four,

living in America

from James Brown.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That...

I can't imagine that song,

though, without seeing

Carl Weathers come out

in a big hat and everything.

They said they had it

in the Rocky movie,

so I...

That's why I always think of...

Firework from Katie Perry

comes in at number three.

Yeah.

I mean, it's kind of pretty,

but just says it in the title.

Yeah.

At number two,

my shot from the cast of Hamilton.

Wow.

Again, this isn't in any particular order,

but I did.

I was, you know,

just even throwing it that high

on the list,

and I kind of just throwing it

in the mix.

I...

I guess so.

Yeah?

I haven't...

I haven't seen Hamilton,

or heard something.

Oh, okay.

Even I've only heard

little bits and pieces of it,

what that show is about.

I can see that.

There's definitely some songs in that show

that would be appropriate for...

Right.

...Independence Day.

Yeah, and that's probably

the most popular one

from that song, though.

And at number one,

the star-spangled banner

sang by Whitney Houston.

Oh, yes.

Her version of that is just

so beautiful.

For me, it's the Marvin Gaye version,

but I have...

I will never argue with people

choosing Whitney over Marvin Gaye.

That's just a personal thing

about me and his voice.

And the way he sang it,

the way he did it,

he did it at a very unique style.

Whereas Whitney Houston

has probably the most iconic,

and maybe the most...

If you're gonna...

I don't know if this is the right way

to put it, the most perfect version of it.

You know, the way that you...

You originally hear the song,

and then hearing somebody

who is not only has a

legendary once-in-a-lifetime voice,

but singing it just the way

that we heard it,

and we would sing it in school.

You know?

And that's how...

I think the masterfulness...

the masterfulness of her doing that song

is not just...

I'm Whitney Houston.

We all know how powerful my voice is,

but I don't have to show it off.

I don't have to do something different with this.

Just my voice alone

is gonna make this song unique.

And that could be the case for many singers.

I don't think a lot of singers

they'll take it that way or approach it that way.

Well, so many try to make it their own.

Yeah.

And it's really...

That's not the point of the song.

Where did it so much better

than I could have Melissa?

I like that she didn't make it about her.

Yeah.

At least it feels like she didn't.

You know, I can't get in her head

or anything like that.

I will never forget them doing that

and her out there.

And it was one of those ones,

at least the first time I heard it

and seeing her do it live and everything.

It's just, you know, goose bumps.

Mm-hmm.

And...

Every time.

And I'm not even a big...

I couldn't...

I don't know what my favorite Whitney Houston song is.

Really, you know, I wasn't a big, big fan of hers

but I certainly respected her voice.

And when she went out there and did that,

it was kind of like, all right.

That's, that's, you know...

And hearing that...

Man, it just gets you pumped up for America.

Just in USA.

USA.

There's something about it, yeah.

That's a great version.

For sure.

Make sure you include it in your playlist this weekend.

What is on your playlist, everybody?

I don't...

They didn't touch on any country music.

There's got to be at least 80 country songs

that would be perfect to play this weekend.

I think that there's a lot of great jazz classics.

I would encourage people...

Every, you know, usually around this time of year,

I pull out a summertime from Ella Fitzgerald

and Louis Armstrong.

Mm-hmm.

I was one of my all top ten favorite songs of all time for me.

I could not encourage people enough to listen to it

if you've never heard it.

There's, yeah, there's some good ones.

Anything you can think of Melissa putting you on the spot.

Well, some of our other...

Some of our other actual, like, patriotic songs.

Oh, is it America the Beautiful?

I think that's what it's called.

Yeah, some of those come to mind.

Honestly, there's some hymns that I think go...

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They're not like...

I don't know, they're not like...

They are patriotic.

Even more so than they are religious, almost.

Yeah.

In my mind.

Those kinds of songs make me think of being patriotic, being...

I don't know.

Yeah.

You, I say.

Right, right, right.

I think that everybody has their own playlist.

That's the way music works.

And to eat their own.

And I think that's one of the coolest things about music is

what hits you and what gets you differently.

I love the researching songs and the creation of them.

I don't always look into, or I guess I don't seek out,

what a lyricist was intentions were when they were writing a song.

Sometimes I'm curious, and I do look for it,

but most of the time I just come across it.

Because to me, it's like a piece of art.

What you get from it and the interpretations,

it's a little like when people mess up lyrics.

I have no issue with that.

That's fine.

That's, you know, you're enjoying the song.

You're singing the song.

And maybe those lyrics mean more to you and all that.

It's art.

And when you...

For better or worse, once you create art and you release it to people,

it stops being just yours.

Right. Right.

But there are so many, like the Battle Him of the Republic,

during the American Civil War.

That one gets me.

That one gets me.

That's another one.

And you're a grand old flag.

That one's just fun.

That's a fun one. That's a good one.

We'd love to hear from you.

Go ahead and let us know through the Civic Media app or call on up.

And let us know what songs are on your fourth of July playlist.

Speaking of them.

That's good one.

I remember singing that in school.

Speaking of the fourth, we will not be here with our original live programming this Friday

on the fourth of July.

We are going to have a cool lineup for you, though, starting at 9 a.m.

The Sunshine Poke of Variety show featuring Tim Hubble.

Yes, that's yeah.

More on Tim later.

But yes, he will have that for you at 9 to 10.

And then at 10 to 11, you'll have Seth Face of the Music.

Independence Day special.

Woohoo!

Seth's really excited about that.

He's been talking our ears off behind the scenes about it.

He's got a really good one lined up for you.

Join us this Friday for that lineup.

And of course, all day long, we'll have great Civic Media programming for you.

And here in Rapids, we're gearing up for the Independence Day celebration.

We're going to be talking more about the details of that a little bit later in the week.

We'll get into that tomorrow and Thursday.

Cover a bunch of that.

But do want to encourage people to go to wirapids.org and the city's website to find out more.

And press releases.

It's the top one.

Yeah, get all caught up on that and be ready for the fourth this weekend.

We'll have more conversation about it throughout the short week here.

Yeah.

We're going to take a quick break into our new sports entertainment and partner break.

When we come back, a study found recycling should or could have lottery jackpots.

Oh, I can't wait to get into this one.

Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

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A new study at the University of British Columbia found a simple trick might encourage people to recycle more.

A bunch of states pay you to turn in bottles and cans.

Anywhere from 2 cents to 15 cents depending on the type of container.

But even 15 cents isn't much.

So the study looked at what could what would happen if places skipped the normal payouts and used a lottery system.

Instead of 10 cents each bottle gave people a 1 in 10,000 chance of winning a thousand dollars.

So the same amount of money per bottle but only one person gets it.

And the crazy part is it worked really well.

People in the study recycled 47% more bottles when there was a big jackpot online on the line.

Wow.

I would like to throw out there that there is a big jackpot online.

Our planet.

Well, yes.

Sorry.

Sorry.

The third author of the study explained it like this.

Quote, the thrill of possibly winning a big prize is more motivating than a small guaranteed reward.

It's the same reason people buy lottery tickets that that tiny chance of a big win is exciting.

And if you're skeptical, it would actually work in the rest of the if it would work in the rest of the real world.

It turns out it already is working.

Norway has a lottery based recycling system where you can win prizes worth between a dollar and a hundred thousand dollars.

And they actually blend both systems.

When you turn in the bottle, you have a choice of getting a few cents for it or a chance at the big money.

It's become so popular that Norway's recycling rate is close to 100%.

Wow.

That's incredible.

Yes.

Yes.

It is.

It is incredible.

It's awesome.

It's right on to Norway.

And if this works, all the more power to it.

I find it really sad in some ways that it took this.

I'm just sorry.

I got to get that out there.

I can't help myself.

I find it sad that it took money and to motivate people to recycle.

But it were recycling.

And that's what counts.

That's what matters.

And however you're motivated in your own personal life, that's teach their own.

That's the part to take away from this.

And Norway is a much smaller country than the United States.

So we have to take that into account as well.

But I do think that here in the United States, we could definitely be doing a much better job at recycling.

And it has to come from the corporations.

Yeah.

It can't just be on the people because that's where the burden is falling right now.

I mean, we have to do our part too, obviously.

But the corporations also have to be doing their part and they're not.

Since I was a little kid, I generally can't remember the last time I saw somebody not recycling.

And when I think of that in my head, I'm thinking of people that you would not expect to be your type of recycler,

whatever you're imagining in your head.

I've seen every type of person recycling.

I've seen different people from different walks of life all around this country.

I don't think the problem is people.

To your point, Melissa, it's corporations.

And so what motivation does a corporation have for this?

None.

They don't care.

They're not about this or anything.

If anything, this is distracting from the actual problem.

Like, again, if it gets people recycling, let's bring it to the States.

Let's start doing this.

Every state has a state lottery nowadays.

Go ahead and incorporate it with that.

And make it easy to recycle.

And then also what is happening to the recycled materials after you put them in your recycled bin?

It's different everywhere.

Yeah.

It's different everywhere.

And we need to find...

If we streamlined this across the...

At least across each state, we would make strides towards having better recycling rates and less garbage.

Yeah.

If this increased the recycling in a state by 5% it's worth it.

No matter what the percentage, it's worth it.

But all of this is good, but it's busy work if we're not actually taking care of the real problem.

Which is these big corporations that have no...

All they do is pay a fine.

That's right.

They don't care.

They'll pay fines all up and down.

And they don't care.

It doesn't matter to them.

It's funny.

It's nothing to them.

Where it's everything to us.

And while they don't care about that, they do care about their bottom line.

And the only way to make change is to affect their bottom line.

You can write your representative.

I encourage you to do that.

You can go ahead and have protests.

I encourage that.

I have no problem with peaceful protesting and all of these things.

But at the end of the day, you really want to make a revolution happen.

Start your own home.

And the greatest revolutions.

No great revolution started with somebody standing on top of their house

and saying, I'm starting a revolution.

They just did it.

They just started.

No matter what we're talking in human history,

it all starts with one person or a couple people and then just doing it.

Not having to get on social media and create some big post about it.

Or looking waiting for the TV news station to show up or something like that.

They just did it.

You want these corporations to listen, stop buying their products.

And they're going to, hey, why did you guys stop buying my products?

Because you don't care about our planet.

Because you don't care about consumers.

This isn't a long conversation.

We can get this done quick.

Once we start doing that, that's when you'll see change.

If that doesn't happen, don't expect any change.

What incentive do...

This is an issue with a lot of things in life right now.

Accountability.

If people are not held accountable,

when are they ever going to act right?

Why would they ever change?

If you tell your kid, hey, you got to clean your room.

Hey, you got to clean your room.

Hey, you got to clean your room.

But that's it.

What do you think's going to happen?

You got to have the follow through.

You got to follow through on this stuff.

And we as a society have to follow through on these things

and see, put our money where our mouth is.

Or not put our money where our mouth is good

because we don't want to spend the money.

I'll figure it out.

Put our money elsewhere.

I haven't figured out the size.

Under the mattress, James.

Under the mattress.

Under the mattress.

Perfect.

We solved all the problems.

I asked you, this Melissa, just as much as I asked

our wonderful audience.

Do you guys think this would work in the states?

Do you think it would work on a state-by-state basis?

Maybe not all 50 in the union, but some would.

My brain is an overload on this one.

And I don't know.

I don't have a real answer.

I don't know if it would work or if it wouldn't.

I kind of leaned towards.

I feel like it would work in some states.

But not others, maybe.

I think if it was a statewide thing where it didn't matter

where in the state you lived,

it was the same procedure to recycle.

Because right now every municipality has different rules

and different laws.

And there are, you know, some are single-streamed.

Some you have to separate.

Some you don't.

In some places.

And I'm sorry, but this is true.

The recycling just gets dumped into the landfill.

Because they don't have the facilities to process it.

I think if we did it on a statewide basis,

each state could set up their own way of doing it,

we would have much better recycling rates.

And if there was a lottery attached to it,

then heck, yeah.

Yeah.