Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM, WFHR.
You're host, James behind the mic.
Join by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kay.
Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
Thank you. We appreciate the company.
We're going to be joined right now by a good friend,
Brittany Merlot.
That's how we kick things off around here.
Good morning, Brett.
Good morning.
How are y'all doing?
Doing all right.
I feel a beat off.
I'm going to be honest.
I feel a beat off.
I'm trying to catch up.
I'm trying to catch up to that second I'm off here right now.
So I'm all right.
I will say this.
It does look like it is clearing up a little bit out there,
Brittany.
Yes, it does.
So we woke up with a moderate air quality.
You know, we still got a little bit of that wildfire
smoke lingering.
The clouds are pretty much gone.
We've got blue skies.
And we're going to heat things up today.
I'm talking high heat, high humidity.
Temperatures probably in the upper 80s.
And with the humidity, it's going to feel like the low
to mid-90s today.
So a ton of sunshine, warmth, and a little bit breezy, too.
Winds around 20 miles per hour.
So hopefully that'll help with the heat a little bit.
We got a little bit of that tomorrow
to a slice of warmth before we get
snacked with some strong, severe thunderstorms
expected by tomorrow afternoon.
And of course, those again packing a lot of rainfall.
Another one to two inches could fall quickly
with those storms.
And we're also looking at risks of high-damaging winds
and a tornado or two as well.
So an active day tomorrow.
I just want to give you all a heads up.
But that front does cool us down.
So extreme heat today.
Normal summer tomorrow.
And then low 70s on Thursday.
Refreshing.
Brittany, we've got the largest watersky show tournament
in the world going on here coming up on this Thursday.
It kicks, well, I believe it kicks off this Thursday.
It'll be going from Thursday till this weekend.
Any look at the weather ahead on that?
Yeah, absolutely.
So Thursday, we have a teeny tiny chance
of a few pop-up showers.
No big deal at all.
Again, very comfortable temperatures in the low 70s.
Then a high pressure settles in.
So Friday is fantastic.
No worries.
Ton of sunshine.
Upper 70s.
Just a perfect day.
And at our day, we do have chances
for showers and storms as the front moves through.
It's going to be upper 70s, about a 50% chance of rain.
But then on Sunday, beautiful.
Partly sunny, 80 degrees, no complaints.
So Saturday, and maybe maybe 30 days from trouble.
Oh, good to know.
Good to know.
It doesn't sound too bad.
Yeah, we appreciate it, Brittany.
I appreciate you.
Have a great morning.
We'll talk in tomorrow.
Have a good day, guys.
Thanks, Brittany.
Best in the business.
Joining us right there, Brittany,
remember low.
We appreciate her.
And yes, just to piggyback off of that, the Wisconsin States,
the 59th annual Wisconsin State Water
Studio Championship hosted by the Wisconsin Rapids Aquascares.
Big shout out to them is going on this week.
It is the stands as the largest and longest running water
ski show tournament globally.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
That was awesome.
Four-day event.
23 of Wisconsin's premier water ski show teams
and 72 individual competitors all come to town.
It's treat them good.
Yeah.
Let's show them a good time and make sure that we have fun.
And certainly get to this event if you can and take in all this
for everybody involved.
Also keep in mind that effective at 6 a.m. on Thursday through 9 p.m. on July 20th.
They will be asking everybody to stay away from the public, you know, the area.
And then not no boating, no ski, you know, don't try to compete.
Don't do it.
Yeah, none of that, basically.
Yeah, keep the area clear for those that are participating in the tournament.
Mm-hmm.
Melissa and I got a bunch of great fun things lined up for you.
We'll get into the Elcaf Apertain Anniversary Club in a little bit.
Should we be, should we ban left turns at intersections?
I have not pre-read this one.
I wanted to get into it with you, Melissa.
We will dive into that a little bit later.
And which wow skill is secretly, secretly kind of easy, actually?
Like, you know, it may wow you, but if you took the time,
it might not be that hard.
We got some entertainment news we want to get into.
We're going to talk a little bit about y'all alternative, a new style of music that's
interesting.
We'll get into what's new on your small screen.
And I've got a fun one for us, 10 celebrities with weird pets.
That'd be a fun one to get into.
We also have kind of a combination of stories to me at least.
The most and least popular states in America.
Along with that, I have, if you're bored of where you are,
we have cities that will pay you to move to that.
I don't know why, but I felt like those were a good combination.
So we will dive into those a little bit later looking forward to it.
But we're starting off.
It is morning.
We are big fans of coffee around here.
Yeah, yeah.
And talking about, talking coffee a little bit.
So Starbucks has been an interesting business to me.
So much of their beginnings really start with grunge music.
And the alternative scene in Seattle blowing up.
When we were kids, Seattle was looked at as a labor town, a blue collar area.
You had a lot of, you know, anything involving wood.
They were working on up there and stuff and a lot of that.
With the rise of the tech industry, with the rise of grunge music,
Seattle started getting looked at a little bit more.
You look at it now and it's night and day,
between what it was 30 years ago and what it is now.
And part of the rise of that was Starbucks coffee.
And Starbucks kind of rode that momentum to a national fame, a world fame.
It's easily the most popular coffee brand there is or coffee shop there is.
Definitely best well known.
Whether it was to their own degree or not,
I don't know enough about their business and everything to tell you this.
But that's, you know, everything what comes up must come down.
And just like McDonald's or Nike,
some of the bigger brands of our lifetime have actually seen something
that their boards of directors are freaking out over.
They've gone either they've stayed the same or they've gone down a little bit in sales.
None of these companies are going out of business.
None of these companies are, but just a little hair of a, you know,
difference it's going to show.
And so you're seeing Starbucks advertising more than we've ever seen
probably in our lifetime.
Same thing with McDonald's.
And with both of those companies,
they're starting to lean into listening to their,
consider their clients, their, their people, their customers.
And one of the bigger things that customers have done.
And I don't know if this is a younger generation thing or not,
because I don't remember ever coming across this.
And she'll really doing the morning show here is secret menus
and secret menu items.
Now, from what I understand,
a secret menu item is essentially asking them to make something for you.
Like, you know, I hate onions on my burgers and asking for onions off of it.
Now, that's not exactly that,
but just as a very boring, boring, boring loose example.
So they, Starbucks, though, for unlike McDonald's
where McDonald's has done this kind of tongue in cheek
and done a little wink, wink, nudge, nudge with a lot of this stuff.
Starbucks has been very adamant about,
no, we're not doing secret menu items.
No, no, no, no, no, until today, today that changed.
Starbucks is finally embracing the secret menu items.
Social media has been cranking about joking about talking about for over a decade.
They just added four popular quote secret menu items to their app.
And if you've got your own favorite drink,
they're running a contest where the best new idea will win $25,000.
What?
You can submit ideas to secret menu contests starbucks.com.
I'm sure if you just go to their website, you can find it as well.
You have until Sunday to enter.
So they're doing this quick.
Yeah.
For four finalists will get 5,000 each.
And then those four drinks will hit their app.
The fans will vote on the next month on the next month.
The winner will get an additional 25 Gs.
To give you an idea of what they're looking for,
here are four quote secret menu drinks that they added to the app.
Number one, cookies on top.
It's an order a cold brew with two pumps of vanilla syrup.
Then top it with cold foam and cookie crumbles.
Okay.
Dragon fruit, a dragon fruit glow up.
Order a mango dragon fruit lemonade refresher.
Add their peach juice blend and top it with vanilla cold foam.
None of this dragon fruit leads to you being able to breathe fire.
Did you know that Melissa?
I thought I gave it a cold drink too.
It is.
It seems weird.
Really?
Yeah.
11 tea and pearls.
Black tea and lemonade plus raspberry flavored popping pearls.
I have no idea what I just said.
It's basically a raspberry Arnold Palmer with boba balls.
Oh, those boba balls.
Yeah, I haven't had those, but I know what they are.
And just add white mocha.
That's the name of it.
Just add white mocha and iced brown sugar oatmeal espresso plus two pumps of white chocolate
mocha, sauce and top it with cold foam.
Those are the four drinks that they just added, but they are planning to swap in other
secret menu items regularly.
Hmm.
So that's another smart move, I think, by them, but not just it won't get stale these
secret menu items.
I do think that the whole secret menu item is a little bit of a, uh, almost, uh.
Well, it's a misnomer because there's going to be on their app, but just not on their
board at the store or the drive-through.
So the, the hook here is you got to buy the, or you got to get the download the app.
Yep.
Yeah.
And that's, that's where, uh, even same thing with McDonald's, um, you know, where they're,
the only way you're getting these deals is if you download that app.
And I, I don't know a single person, uh, literally in my life around me or in the past, I'm
guaranteeing in the future, there's, you know what my phone needs more apps, more apps.
More apps.
Need more apps.
Gotta have more apps.
It is, um, they've, they're going to have to figure something else out with this because,
uh, and I'm not just meaning Starbucks or McDonald's, I mean, like the tech industry.
Uh, the, the, the, right.
What's the next new thing?
Because apps are, are, are not, they're just not working.
They're, they, they, for everyone that works, there are about 1500 of them that nobody
wants, um, and, and you're being forced to use these if you want to go to these places.
And what they're seeing in part of the reason where I began with this conversation of their
sales going down for these big conglomerates that you never would have thought that happened
to is because they're pushing so many people towards apps.
And for every person that has no problem, hey, I make Donald's every a couple of times
a week.
I don't mind down on the app.
There are a lot of people, a lot more people that are like, uh, I'll go to Burger King.
You know, they're not to say that Burger King's any better, but no, or they'll just walk
inside and order or order the drives you because I mean, those still are options at this
point.
And, and, and more people, well, yeah, for now, let's see how long that lasts.
I don't know.
Um, the, the other concern, anything about apps is how many permissions they ask for and
what they do, what do they do with your data?
Data.
Do you read all of the small print?
Heck, no.
Who does that?
No.
Should we?
Yes.
Absolutely.
They're pushing back against some of the small print, but who's got the time for that,
James?
And that's what they're counting on.
Exactly.
Uh, because, uh, for as long as I can remember, I don't know which the first digital signature
I signed or whatever of, you know, hey, download the update, uh, you know, and then read
through the terms of, you know, and all that.
They put it in such small print for obviously reasons.
Right.
There should be, and you can skim it.
There should be laws against that small print.
There should be laws against the way that they do that.
Um, they, it should not be on the consumer to, to do certain things.
And now, uh, personal responsibility being an adult, uh, accountability, I think is, is
vital in life.
And we are losing sight of a lot of that.
Just like, I don't know if anybody caught this or not, but we've gotten rid of shame.
Shame doesn't exist anymore.
Uh, at least for certain people, it doesn't seem to, um, with something like that, we need
to, if I'm a business, I am going to do everything I can to spoon feed this stuff
to my, uh, consumers, uh, that's how you stay in business.
You work with the consumer, like it doesn't make any sense to just do very few things in
life are one size fits all.
And if you don't believe me, go ahead and wait.
You'll find out outside of hats, uh, there aren't many things that are one size fits
all.
And when you try to take that model in business, no matter what the style of business,
it don't end well.
And this isn't an opinion of me.
This is, you can listen to war and buff it.
You can listen to people that know a lot more than I do about this stuff, telling you that,
uh, and I don't feel like these companies, um, are doing it.
I can tell you this in the sports world, they're darn sure not listening.
They're really not listening.
They don't care.
They see dollar signs and that's it.
Um, and in this, like this current football season, never are you, I will call you as far
as hot takes.
It's a big thing in sports, Melissa.
You got to have hot takes my, my hot take.
People are going to be barking a lot about being able to watch these games and, and where
they can catch them.
And wait a minute.
I need to download this app and I need to have a Netflix account just to watch the Christmas
games and blah, blah, blah.
And all this, you're going to hear a lot of it this year and, and only half of it's going
to be for me.
Oh, only a half.
Oh, good.
We'll see where it goes.
Uh, I can tell you this.
L. Cafe doesn't have an app.
L. Cafe doesn't need one.
Uh, that's great.
Do you have a Facebook page in there?
Great.
Follow.
We're about that when we come back with the L. Cafe birthday anniversary club on the
morning show here at W.F.H.R.
You heard pit bull.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L. Cafe and the birthday
anniversary club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over there today.
Everybody at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.
Check out some of those great specials on their Facebook page or their website, L. Cafe
W.I.
Com.
They're open today and they got a great breakfast special up.
I saw it.
It was like two muffin, L. Cafe, L. Cafe muffin breakfast sandwich.
Yes.
And the everything omelette are two of their big specials right now.
They also got a ham and cheese club that looks really good too, but then L. Cafe muffin
breakfast sandwich sounds amazing.
Because they're on, I was, it's English muffins, not like blueberry muffins, which for a
second I was like, wow, would that be good?
But the English muffins, they make a great sandwich.
They really do.
They're perfect for it.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Are you sure to check out that today?
Wish them a good morning from all of us.
Everybody.
Appreciate our friends over at L. Cafe by local support local.
Also get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
We love celebrating with you.
You can email us info at WFHR.com, direct message us on our Facebook pages and you can
call on up.
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715-424-2600.
Oh, we appreciate you calling in.
Love hearing from you, everybody.
Love those live birthdays and anniversaries.
Get them to us.
Mm-hmm.
I'm a list I need a one or a two.
How about a one?
Mm-hmm.
I give this a go.
And there we go.
And our first up name up on the list is Bobby Kirk and Halfer.
Happy birthday, Bobby.
Bobby's an old friend.
She's fantastic, a wonderful person, a really, really amazing photographer, fantastic photographer.
And just a great person.
We're wishing you a great birthday.
Bobby, enjoy your day.
Happy birthday.
And we also wish very happy birthday to Wayne Dawson.
Happy birthday, Wayne.
Wayne is a new listener and came right out the gate with that.
He said, I knew.
I said, okay.
That's right.
Well, we're glad to have you here.
And happy birthday.
Appreciate you, Wayne.
I didn't catch where Wayne is from, but yeah, he's very interested in what we do around
here and it was fun talking with him.
And I was like, well, we do the, one of the things I mentioned was a birthday anniversary
club.
He said he had a day coming up.
And then we talked about if he could nominate himself, put his name on the list.
I'm like, yes, you can.
Oh, heck yeah.
Yeah, you can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go for it.
Go for it.
And look at that.
Look what happened.
Wayne became our qualified.
And everybody out there celebrating a birthday anniversary.
Yeah.
Head on over to L. Cafe.
You get a free piece of pie.
There is not a better way to celebrate.
Get on over.
Mm-hmm.
Looking at who you share your birthdays with, Yachty Abdul Matin, the second is 39.
Great actor, Black Manta in the Aquaman movies, The New Morpheus in the Matrix movies.
He was Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen series.
And that's where I saw him first and he was incredible in there.
He is also going to be in the MCU's Wonder Man.
He's going to be the hero today.
He is not only an up-and-comer.
He's here.
He's there.
He's established.
He's really.
It's a tough name.
There's no getting around it.
But I think it's going to be his household as that name can get.
Travis Fimmel is 46, a wonderful actor, Desmond Hart on the Doon series, Ragnore in the Viking
series.
Very good actor.
He's another one that's only going to...
He's done a lot of stuff in his home country.
The more he's getting noticed here in the States, casting directors are going to start
using him in American stuff a lot more.
Oh, yeah.
The great Diane Krieger is 49, Abigail in the National Treasure movies.
I've seen her in a bunch of stuff over the years.
Very good actor.
Mr. Fluffy is 49, Gabriel Iglesias, as he calls himself Fluffy Comedian.
Say you got a couple of Netflix specials out there.
He's been in a couple movies too.
He's pretty good.
And then we've got a couple of 80s or 90s stars shared in birthdays.
Brian Austin Green is 52.
He was, of course, David on Beverly Hills 9-2-1-0.
And Scott Foley is 53.
He was in Grace Anatomy and Felicity and a couple of other shows.
Oh, I probably know him.
I didn't know the first guy.
Scott Foley, I bet you'd know.
If you looked at a picture, I mean, probably no.
Eddie Griffin is 57, one of the funniest comedians I've ever seen.
I love Eddie Griffin.
He's hilarious, very, very funny comedian.
Adam Savage is 58, or is he?
He's from Mythbusters.
And I don't know.
I think Adam looks a little younger.
Maybe we should do a Mythbusters.
Yes, they check now.
Adam Savage 50.
I didn't see it.
I really liked that show.
I didn't see a whole lot of it, but what I saw I liked.
I thought it was a fun show.
And a show, like one of those shows where if I had the chance when it was on, I probably
would have binged it a lot.
I love solving mysteries.
I love finding the answers to things, and it seems like that, I felt like that's a lot
of what that show was.
Yeah, it was.
And they definitely did a lot of, um, uh, and risky things.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Jason Bottom is 59, son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bottom.
John passed in 1980, but Jason takes his dad's place on drums when the surviving members
of Led Zeppelin get together.
He's a very well-established musician and very good.
His father was, to me, um, what are my favorite drummers of all time and was basically if, if
they did a live action Muppets, uh, his father, John Bottom, would have played animal,
uh, just incredible musician.
Um, he's really picked up right after his dad.
One of the best actors I've ever seen, uh, Forest Whitaker is 64, uh, Tachala in the
Black Panther movies.
He was, uh, saw in the Rogue One, but, um, the last king of Scotland is probably his greatest
work.
Want to ask her for that one.
Forest Whitaker.
I don't even, I wouldn't even know what number to throw out there with how many movies he's
done in his career.
Uh, I would not even be able to guess if I said a hundred, I'd feel like I'd be lowballing
it.
Um, and he's one of my biggest influences in major part because of a lot of the interview
city.
I heard him do early on.
Uh, Forest Whitaker, as you, if you've seen him, you, you see that he has a, he, uh, doesn't
has, uh, his eye has a little bit of a, a little to it in some of these things.
He definitely recognized him and I'm trying to look back to see he was in, uh, good morning
Vietnam.
Yeah.
Um, and a couple other ones from like the 80s and that, then while the 90s, definitely
that I recognize an incredible actor, but I think part of what is incredible to me about
him is him being able to break through type, him being able to get cast with, um, some
of his appearance, which may seem shallow and selfish, uh, or shallow, uh, and I don't
blame anybody that thinks that.
That's casting.
That's the world that I, uh, is played with just about everybody, uh, incredible guitar
player.
He, uh, actually worked a lot with a couple of the members from Van Halen to, um, Marke
Ramon is 69, uh, the Ramon's drummer, speaking of the drummers, see here, um, Linda
Ronstein is 79, um, wow, rock-a-roll Hall of Famer, um, they're currently struggling with
Parkinson's and we feel for her and think of her, um, she's, uh, responsible for the formation
of the Eagles, um, the original members of the band were all in her backing band.
Oh, I did not know that.
And it's kind of cool.
Yeah, along with obviously being one of the more recognizable voices heard, so many of
the blue by you, uh, blue by you, don't know much, just a wonderful artist and a very
good voice actor.
I know because she, uh, did a spot on the Simpsons once and she's very good, she's very
good on that.
Uh, and that is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club.
We wish everybody a happy birthday and anniversary that is celebrating out there.
If you enjoy your day and treat yourself, get on over to L Cafe today and check out
some of that amazing menu and great food and wonderful people they have over there.
And be astonished by the number of pies you have facing you.
It's a very difficult choice, but they're all good.
And just end up looking at the waitress like, I don't, I you pick, I can't decide.
What one's the best one today and she'll reply all of them.
Yes, right.
Yes.
Head on over there to 21 Market Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards.
Melissa and I will be back after our news, sports and entertainment break with more fun
on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Happy Tuesday to you.
Melissa and James hanging out.
This is, uh, an interesting one, Melissa.
And this sounds like a good idea until you're running late for work and have to make three
rights.
Um, a professor of civil engineering at Penn State thinks we should ban left turns at most
intersections around the country.
He says they're more dangerous than most people realize.
Around 40% of all crashes happen at intersections and over 60% of those crashes involve someone
making a left.
Half of them involve a serious injury and one in five involve of fatality.
So he says banning left turns at busy intersections would save a lot of lives.
Another reason is to do it to make the intersections less efficient or another reason to do it is
they make intersections less efficient green arrows make left turns safer, but then everyone
else at the intersection has to wait just so few cars, so a few cars can turn left.
He thinks more cities should make left turns illegal at least during rush hour.
He would save lives and maybe get you to work a little faster.
Um, I don't know if I'm smart enough for this one.
I don't know if I, uh, if I, if I, if I am, I'm just being honest with the audience.
I, I, I don't know if that's, um, yeah, that's not what I know a lot of people are doing
nowadays.
They know everything blah, blah, blah.
I'm not that person, but I'll say this, I, I get a little tired and I feel like we've
seen this a lot in recent years of, well, we can't count on people to do the right
things.
So we're just going to come up with a device or an app or something like that to, they've
got an app right now that's gaining popularity because say you want to jump on Facebook.
Well, before you do, you've got to do 10 push-ups, uh, that, that kind of thing.
I forget what it's called or whatever and my, isn't it like the touch grass app or
something like that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, okay.
So you're, you're, the way you're fighting your, your, you know, need to be on social media
or need to go to the world or whatever is by another app is, you know, so you don't want
to go to these apps.
So you're going to use an app to keep you from going to other apps when basically willpower
or just, you know, not doing it.
And I know the, I know it's not as simple as that.
But I, I do get a little tired of, of kind of like, oh, left turns are dangerous.
Why are they dangerous?
People.
It's, it's, it's, it's not the laws.
It's not the cars.
It's people.
It's, you know, we've been driving a long time.
We've been doing it this way a long time.
I, but they do also, you know, like, I'm, cars used to not have safety belts, seat belts.
And now they do and it's a law.
So I, I think there is some wiggle room in the conversation.
Definitely.
Around this.
Definitely.
And I think that it's, you know, if, if we're examining data, like, you know, whoever
did the study, obviously, they looked at all the different parameters and what would
make intersections safer.
One of the things that we are seeing even in our community are roundabouts.
You don't make left turns then.
And you only make right turns.
But you have the option to, to go out whichever road you need to versus you can't turn left
here.
You know, I mean, so, and while there are a lot of complaints about roundabouts, mostly
because we're just not used to them yet.
And it takes time to understand how they are.
Have you seen those really huge ones, James, in European countries?
It's, I couldn't imagine.
They got the one in Paris, the famous one in Paris, where I've heard just their stories
of people that have been stuck in it for like a half an hour and things like, yeah, yeah,
there's, it's crazy.
But, I mean, that does solve the left turn, turns, you know, safety issue and accidents that
do happen, they still happen in roundabouts, but they tend to be less severe because you're
not having the, as much of the, the head on, the crashes and the, the force, I mean, obviously
there's going to be data about that as well.
But, you know, I, I'm one of the things that our, our previous mayor, Mayor Blazer, talked
to us about a little bit was some of the, behind the scene stuff and some things.
And one of the things he mentioned was, at least at the time, roundabouts often are cheaper
for cities to build than, then, you know, just your regular old street or your regular
intersection.
Well, there's no lights involved.
And I, and I bring that up in part because it, my first, not my first stop, but one of
my very first thoughts with this conversation is, this is, okay, this is great, anything
that makes driving safer, I'm all for, who's paying for it?
Who's going to pay for this?
Who, if we're going to get rid of left turns and we're going to, are we going to start
just, you know, when we're building new things, we're just going to build, you know, we're
not going to make as many left turns.
Are we going back to our roads and cities, the roads in our cities that have been there
for decades and decades and we're going to, you know, revamp them, reimagine them, change
them.
Again, I'm all in favor for that.
To me, you can't put a price tag out there that I'm going to take over people.
That's me.
But I'm also not in charge of anything.
And we are seeing right now, cut after cut after cut, whether you're in favor of them
or not, you're seeing cuts all over the place.
You're telling me they're going to put money into infrastructure?
You're telling me they're going to do anything about this way it comes in again.
This is not at all a critique on politics.
This is just working with the data we're given from this administration.
They don't care about safety.
They're taking funding from that.
They don't, they are much more of the mind of, hey, you figure it out and states figuring
it out.
And that's again, well, you know, to each of your own, what you think of that.
But you can't, anybody, I don't care who you're voting for.
You can't tell me that the current administration is going to put money into infrastructure.
I mean, please call me up right now and correct me if I'm wrong about this.
But I don't see that happening.
So this is a great conversation and I really like the idea where it's going and the idea
of reimagining these things.
Again, if it makes it safer, wonderful, who's going to pay for it?
Well, and I have seen like there are certain intersections in certain places.
I don't think there's any that I've seen really here.
Where left turn, they just, they put up a sign, no left turns.
So a sign isn't all that expensive, but the enforcement of it kind of falls on people.
And also like, okay, that signs as a can turn left.
I got to not do that.
Have you?
And, you know, we can see what is happening with Eighth Street and the repairs on that and
how long it's taken.
And we've talked with Scott Krueg about that.
I mean, he's got some very strong opinions and feelings about that particular reconstruction
process and how long it's taken and the direction that they've started with that.
But as some of these repairs need to be done, obviously DOT and even cities and counties
plan these out so far in advance, because they have to, because they need to secure the
funding.
But our roads are in a lot of places.
We can see it deteriorating.
So when these things do have to be fixed, maybe we need to look at all options.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we're going to be following this one.
See where it takes us.
A Washington woman earned a Guinness World Record for her collection of 4,060 different
jigsaw puzzles.
My mother is going to challenge her.
Lies of Firemen, 46 of Bellevue, told Guinness World Records, she started collecting puzzles
in 2019 and she has since accumulated thousands of designs, mostly from her favorite manufacturer,
Ravensburger.
That's a great name for her.
Oh, and they make great puzzles.
Yeah, that's a great name.
I've never heard that before.
Which is weird because my mother has been about puzzles my whole life.
Well, maybe you've just never looked at many of them.
I guess, yeah, I didn't think about it.
I didn't set out to break the world record.
I just fell in love with puzzling, Firemen said, but not just any puzzles.
Ravensburg puzzles.
I love their quality, their design, the history of puzzles.
It just became a passion.
She said that this collection, so this collection was enough to take the Guinness World Record
for the largest collection of jigsaw puzzles from John Walziak, whose collection was tallied
back over 2022, back in 2023.
Her collection includes numerous Disney puzzles, as well as puzzles based on TV series and
James Bond franchise and Hello Kitty and all that.
Quote, if I kept all the puzzles I did in a year, I could easily carpet my house with
puzzles.
Wow.
I do kind of like my mom and dad.
I don't know if they've, I think they've talked about this, but I don't know if they've
come across one that they want to do it with yet.
When they put together the puzzle and then they, I don't know what they do, but they
put the puzzle glue over top of it and you frame it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that's really cool.
It is.
And especially with those really big puzzles, that I particularly, my favorite puzzles are
like landscapes or really cool look in rooms.
The last one I did was like this bookstore and it had a curved staircase and it had different
bookshelves all over and like the counter and the door going outside.
It was really pretty puzzle.
And that would be one that would work as wall art.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That sounds like it would.
Yeah.
I don't know how to dig this for this lady.
That's really cool.
And again, I'm going to let my mother know right away when they get, are you sure you want
to do that?
I kind of do.
There's a little, it's her fault that I'm like this.
I get it for her.
The instigator in me.
I get it from her.
I just want to say, hey mom, see this lady's challenging here is her.
And then the house is just going to be filled with puzzles.
That's just going to be.
That's what's going to happen.
We'll see.
We'll take a quick time out.
When we come back, got an interesting one here, which, wow skill is still, is secretly
super easy to learn.
We'll get into that when we come back on the morning show right here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Well, if you're having a good one out there, thanks for joining us.
I know that growing up, one of the things, there was a couple of little things that I
used to do that would just wow my brother and sister, like playing spoons, doing that
or the thumb trick where you make your thumb disappear or you separate your two fingers.
Yeah, that's what I said.
So I just, I can picture their faces right now, then just sitting there and entertaining
them when the, well, we're, you know, trying to figure out how to get cable or something
like that.
And as they got older, they, they, of course, realized, oh, my brother, my brother's not
magic.
My brother's, you know, it's not that hard.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think that's kind of where we're going with this next article.
We all know that feeling, you're hanging out in the porch, you know, hanging out, now
the son, your friend comes out and says, hey, you know what, I can breathe fire.
And now, well, maybe that's just my friends, but I seriously, that's seriously something
that happened to me.
Shout out to my buddy, Steve, just kind of, we're sitting out of this porch, just hanging
out.
All of a sudden, Steve's like, hey, by the way, I've been learning to breathe fire and
just started to do it in this front yard.
It was amazing.
Oh, my.
He's very good at it.
He's really talented.
And that takes a lot of work.
Yeah.
Don't just try that one without some training.
But once Steve told us what he did and how he trained and how he learned to do it, it
actually didn't seem that difficult.
And I think that there's some kind of things like that, these wow skills that are kind
of actually easy to learn once you figure it out.
But it doesn't take a way of the wow factor, I think, in anything I hope these things incentivize
people to try them themselves or try something themselves, like origami.
I think that's a good one.
It does take practice.
It's, there's definitely a learning curve for that one.
It's certainly going to be people that are better at it than others.
But definitely one of those things that if you really want to, I think that if you practice
and work at it, you can probably learn to do.
Oh, yeah.
Magic is another one, like that.
And I don't know that we're talking about you being, you know, David Copperfield or something,
but maybe, you know.
Have it like card tricks or.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Getting up a rabbit and a hat.
I had a character that did learn how to do the whole, you know, quarter out of your ear
thing and learned how to do that for that.
Lock picking.
No.
No.
That just, I don't care if you're even doing it to your own house.
Like this is only a skill that is going to lead to bad things.
I don't ask me how I know that.
I'm just telling you.
No, but that's, I'm sure one too.
And I think it's one that we've all like wanted to do as kids, really spy stories and
adventure stories.
Oh, yes.
I want to learn how to pick locks.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Any kid that's what your size 100% there.
This, I like this one and this is one that I'm actually been doing my whole life.
Learning the sky.
Stars and constellations at night and even being able to provide a basic weather forecast
by looking at cloud types and formations.
You know, I don't know if pretty realizes this or not, but that's one of my favorite things
about talking to her.
It's kind of just like picking up these little things that she touches on and she's,
she's so sharing of information and how she knows these things and how she learns these
things.
Oh, yeah.
She's so knowledgeable when it comes to all of the different things that go into why we
have the weather we have and I love how she explains it.
I loved being able to take my kids out.
Actually, not too far from here where our old apartment was and we'd go out at night,
you know, when this, this, in just point at constellations and being able to say that's
the big dipper or something like that.
Like, it just, I love that kind of thing.
Yeah.
When we were kids, my dad took us up on the roof a couple times and it was a really clear
night and we'd lay up there and look at the stars.
It was cool.
Balloon animals.
You can pick it up in a few hours and be the life of any family party with kids.
It seems a lot, that one seems tough to me.
I don't say impossible by any means, but it doesn't look like origami.
It's the practicing and, you know, the hardest thing, the first thing you have to figure
out and learn how to do is blow up the dang balloon.
Huh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wouldn't have thought.
Or you have one of those little pumps.
Right.
Yes.
Basic clothes, mending and altering.
Yes.
You don't need a sewing machine for a lot of it, and I kind of back off from the mic on
this one for you, but this is more your wheelhouse, this is more.
Oh, well, it's actually something I've been really getting into here recently.
I do have a sewing machine, but there is a fair amount that you can do just hand stitching.
It does take more time and you need, but all you need is a needle thread and the scissors
and maybe some scrap fabric.
One of all of these, I would, this is the one that seems like it would be the most useful
and day-to-day life.
A lot of these are a little bit more of entertainment value where this one, not to say it doesn't have
entertainment value, but this one seems like one that would come in really in handy.
It's one of those things that it's just a good thing to know, like how to sew on a button.
It's buttons fall off.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
To be able to wear those clothes, you kind of need buttons.
Next, nuts.
I don't remember a whole lot of them, and I miss my grandfather every day, but he'd
be so mad at me right now if I said they heard me say that out loud because he's the one
that taught me so many of them.
But that's kind of a fun one for kids to learn, I think.
Yeah.
And like when I went down to Historic Point Boss and with, for the scout campery, the
scout campery, they were showing me how all the different knots that they could tie
to put together different structures and just the way that different knots work differently
is really neat.
And like with sail, when you're on a sailboat, you got to know some different knots.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I use different knots with the fiber art that I do with weaving, there's a lot of knots
involved.
Yeah.
But also knitting, crocheting, sewing even, you need to know how to tie some simple knots.
I don't know if I've ever shared this or not with anybody, let alone on the air.
But when my grandfather was first teaching me these things and he was teaching me very
military based stuff and a lot of that, I was also just learning to tie my shoes.
And I went through a lot of laces because I just thought that I should use some of these
knots on my shoe laces.
I mean, I didn't understand why, why wouldn't you, you know, I didn't, you couldn't get
them on, right?
They couldn't get them on time.
They had to literally cut up like with the scissors and come on.
But it showed that I learned the knots, I learned how to do it, but they didn't see it
that way.
They didn't see it that way.
That is something that if you don't practice it, you forget, you know, it's just like
any skill if you don't keep using it, you lose it.
I think similar off of that, juggling three balls, it looks impressive, but you can learn
to do it in about a weekend.
I've, I've dabbled with that now and then like I can get them, I can get all three up
in the air and maybe catch a couple of them.
But yeah, it takes practice.
An easy way to learn is to use like really light handkerchiefs or even even clean
x's.
I mean, it's harder with clean x's if you have some decent handkerchiefs, cloth handkerchiefs
that are light, that they stay, they float a little bit so you have time to catch them
with your hands.
You just do it the accidentally instead of like you toss balls up, turn your hands over
so that your fingers are facing down and you toss the other way.
I like that.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Juggling is one of those things that kind of seems like it'd be kind of fun to know
how to do it.
That's a cool skill.
And you could learn four or five chords on the guitar and play a ton of different songs.
I think a lot of people would be surprised how many songs on guitar at least don't really
use that many chords.
Yeah.
And if you want to go even easier, ukulele because it's easier to push down the strings
and there's one less string and a lot of chords only require you to hold down one string
at a time.
I have, I've got a bunch of different bookmarks and folders on my computer and everything.
One of them is for just, you know, items that you will probably never buy James.
There's a mandolin that's been on there forever that I just, I want so bad because I feel
like if I were to actually buy it because of the way my guilty conscience works, I'm not
just going to buy it, I'm going to learn to play it.
And I've just, that's an instrument I've always wanted.
That violin, there's a couple of string instruments I've always wanted to learn.
When I learned to play trumpet and cornette, I enjoyed them, but the whole time all I wanted
to do was learn to play one of those instruments.
That's the instrument.
Yeah.
I didn't really like those.
It's something that feels like, it feels like something I just got to do.
You got time.
And finally, on the list, although there are plenty of more things on the list that you
could get into, you can go to askreddit.com if you'd like to find the complete list,
moonwalking.
Now, it may seem difficult, but I guarantee you, if you've got two left feet, everybody,
you can do this.
I learned to do it as a kid, watch, and Michael.
I just, I, it was one of those early things that I taught myself in a long history of
that.
And Melissa, I haven't done it in a long time, but I am standing up right now.
I got to see if I can do it.
I got to see if I can do it.
I can do it.
Yeah.
Because it does.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These shoes aren't the greatest for it.
Oh, yeah.
And you're on carpet, so that's okay.
And I can still do it, even with all that.
Come on.
Because it's really a rhythm thing.
You're, you're really what you're doing is you're, you're, the back, it's like you don't
have a heel.
You got to treat it like you don't have a heel.
And just kind of, you're just going on the balls of your feet kind of sliding.
And it looks really cool.
Like they don't ever get old.
That's one move that will never get old, no matter who you are.
The coolest thing is teach it to a little kid.
And once they get it down, like it really, I guess I'm the majority of these things that
when you can teach them to somebody younger or something like that, when they, you see
the look on their face, when they get it.
That light bulb goes on, it's a fun moment.
There are a few things that are more rewarding than that.
It's a really cool feeling.
So I think that's a fun list.
That's a lot of interesting things out there.
All things that I think, especially, you know, you're looking for something to do or
you're looking for things to, I don't know, just learn.
I think learning is just fun sometimes.
And it doesn't always exist.
It's just you.
Yes, yes.
And as you and I have talked about and we've talked about on this show quite a bit, we
want your brain healthy, everybody.
We want your brain healthy.
The older you get, no matter if you are 18 or you are 88, you are who we're talking
to and doing things like this, that is how you keep your brain healthy.
That's how you keep your brain active is finding new activities and giving it challenges.
And many of these things don't cost much money if any.
Yeah, that's another big key to this, I think.
I think that, you know, even if you were, they don't sound that great.
There's other options out there.
Or I think even just giving something a try that seems a little interesting.
I have to say that as soon as you said that about the juggling, now I got to try that.
I was literally thinking, do I have three handkerchiefs?
Do I have?
I think that's really cool.
I've never heard that before.
I think that's a really good way to do it.
I like it.
We like hanging out with you.
Everybody, we got another hour to do that.
We are going to come back next hour.
Not only will have some good stories of the day, some local events going on in our area
and get into our schedule, but we are going to have some entertainment news.
Got some fun stuff there.
We're going to get into, we're going to talk about what is a y'all turnative.
We are going to look at what's new on your small screen.
Ten celebrities with weird pets.
I want to ask Melissa about the newsletter.
A little bit later, the most enlist popular states in America, along with, if you're bored
to wear one of those cities, if you happen to live in one, we got, we found cities that
will pay you to move to them.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that's all coming up when Melissa and James are right here at 975 FM, WFHR.
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