Now That’s a Float (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97.5 FM, WFHR.

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

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

We see you out there.

We appreciate the company.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're here to have some fun over the next couple of hours.

Get into some good stuff.

We've got a couple of great things lined up for you.

The El Caffe birthday anniversary club right around the corner.

We're going to dive into that one.

We have Guinness flavored ice cream.

We will discuss.

We will talk about that.

We've got people, how many people like and dislike kisscams?

We will get into that a little bit later too.

Also, got a fun one here, although I don't know.

Little look behind the curtain, everybody.

I usually prep these shows and put them together at night.

I'm going to stop doing that.

I think I'm going to stop doing that because I've noticed something that I'm doing to.

My night self is doing to my morning self.

And now I've done it to Melissa too.

Because I have a list of the trickiest words for nouns.

And nobody should have to do that before noon.

Like before noon, right?

You should have to.

We'll do that a little bit later.

We'll get into that one.

That's going to be fun.

We'll kick out at the 10 o'clock hour with some entertainment news.

We'll get into including some local theater.

I want to talk about it with you Melissa.

I'll get into all of that.

And before we wrap up the day, how many Americans have been to the beach in the past decade?

Get into kind of that.

I got some good stories of the day.

Got our schedule as well.

We want to get into and all those things.

But we start with where a lot of you might be listening to us right now, your vehicle.

Our vehicle or for many of us, our second home, where we camp out, we live, we throw things in there.

Whether it is clean or not, it is ours.

And there's an interesting relationship between person and vehicle.

Unlike I think it's maybe the most unique relationship we have with, we have with inanimate objects.

I'm not talking about when we're little in a stuffed animal or something like that.

The adult version of the stuffed animal is our vehicle.

It's a close to it.

We name it.

We take care of it.

We care about it.

We talk to it.

We spend how much time with our vehicle.

It's interesting.

So all that said, it doesn't seem very far-fetched that we would give it a name.

There's an old Italian phrase that when you don't know what else to say, give it a name.

Give it a name.

What are you going to do?

Give it a name.

It's similar to me.

It's that where we name our vehicles.

Now, I've had a handful of vehicles in my life, but I didn't start naming them until I got a Jeep.

And I did it just because I realized, you know, I've never done this.

My sister brought it up.

She thought it would be a fun thing.

And I really enjoyed it.

I liked having a name for my vehicle.

I had never done it before.

I'd always wanted a Jeep too.

And so when I finally got a Jeep, I was like, it's blue.

It's quiet.

It makes me happy.

That's Maggie Simpson.

That's, I'm going to call it Maggie.

That's what I'm going to do.

And then I get to say pretty much to say vehicle just a couple of years later.

And I just named him blue.

But that was because of my sister, one of her favorite characters, blue from a great show.

Foster's home from imaginary animals or children or something like that.

But yeah, yeah.

So I don't know.

That's where it came from for me.

I had never done it before.

Yeah.

I thought I'd be fun.

Melissa, you've done this a little bit too.

Yes, I have.

My first vehicle I purchased for myself was also a Jeep.

It was a green Jeep Cherokee Sport.

I named it Humbertink.

It's such a great day.

Yeah.

Such a great day.

It was a great Jeep.

I love that.

And we were through a lot together.

And then I purchased my grandpa's Jeep, which was pretty much a duplicate of mine.

In fact, carbon copy.

But the air conditioning worked, which was cool.

Yeah.

And naturally I named that one Pappy, but it was again a green Jeep Cherokee Sport.

That's great.

Yeah.

They were great vehicles.

I liked them.

I enjoyed them.

And I've named every vehicle since.

My first Subaru was Francis.

Mm-hmm.

That's good.

You're good at this.

I like this.

This is good.

And my current Subaru is named Cleopatra.

Oh, nice.

Damn.

Cleo.

Yeah.

We want to hear from you.

What have you named your vehicle?

715-424-2600.

You can text it to us or call up through the Civic Media App if you'd like.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

And why you name your vehicle?

Or if you don't, do you think it's silly?

We happen to work with somebody who thinks it's kind of a silly idea.

Yep.

Excuse me a second.

Yep.

I was wondering when we were going to lose her.

Yeah.

Again, looking behind the curtain, everybody, we're having a little trouble with our clean feed.

The Melissa is able to call in through us from.

So I am just going to go ahead and try to reset that and get her connected while I am talking to all of you.

We're going to see how that goes.

As we're doing that.

Whoa.

Hey, there she is.

Right.

I hope you went away.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there.

That's never happened with this service before.

But you're back.

Okay.

Good to have you back.

It was Seth.

Yep.

Since I was badmouthing him, he was, you know, I think it actually, I think this time it was the topic.

I think it might have been our little column A, little column B.

Or the board is just mad that you haven't named it yet.

Oh, that's maybe dead.

You're right.

I haven't thought of that.

All right.

Well, you know what we got to get on that.

Because all I'm thinking of is Bordy.

And that's really not good.

Does your car have a nickname?

The third of Americans have nicknamed their car, according to a new survey.

A third of us.

Okay.

The pull-ass people, what their car's name is and the full list is pretty random.

But most of the answers fit into one of these three categories.

One, pop culture names.

Like the Batmobile, Lovebug, Millennium Falcon.

Yeah.

There we go.

I like that.

If I had a big vehicle, I think I'd name it the Millennium Falcon.

I think I'd name it.

No, you got to do it with a small one.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

It's a matter.

Yeah.

That makes me treat it.

Yeah.

Strong names like Beast or Silver Bullet or Hank.

No, I don't know.

I threw that last one in there.

That's like the name Hank or actually going off of where you're going with it, like a bug,

your name Hank or something, just a little, like a little more.

And self-deprecating names like Turtle or Slug or, you know, similar things like that.

Where maybe you got an old, old, reliable.

Like that.

Like your junker.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why did I almost say that's so bad.

I almost said Seth.

Yeah.

That's because Seth's very reliable and I just saw him.

I did.

That's only because of that.

Yeah.

You tell yourself that.

A separate poll last year found the top things we consider when naming our car is our,

it's personality and the making model and how it performs.

The new poll took it one step beyond personality.

One in eight Americans said that they think that their car actually has feelings.

I don't think I could go that far.

I don't think I could go that far with it.

I have a, it's, I have a complete understanding that this is a mechanical thing.

It's not, I will, I kind of reserve that for things that are, you know, have a heartbeat.

And that's just me.

I'm not saying that's right or wrong.

I'm just saying that that's just the way my brain works.

Well, I could see it now just because we have so many computer systems in our cars that if, you know,

you want to have a view of computers having some kind of, I don't know.

There's, there's a line there of, do they have feelings?

Because when I insulted, it stops working.

Right.

No, that's okay.

There you go.

Now, there's something to that.

There's a thread I'd pull.

That's, yeah, I get you there.

Now, it may be you're thinking about this and you're like, well, I just don't have a name.

I haven't thought of one.

Well, I came across an interesting article from CountryLiving.com.

I encourage you to go check out the great website there.

And they have an interesting one of just random names to kind of get you going here.

Like Frodo.

I don't know.

I like Frodo.

You're always on a journey with your car.

That's true.

That's true.

Yeah.

Mr. Bean.

Is good.

Is good.

I like that one.

Fraggle.

Wicked.

Jedi.

Shakenbake.

I like that.

Shakenbake.

Little Miss Muffet.

Okay.

Mr. Potato Head.

They're just grabbing pop culture.

Like, they're not really, okay, so I really thought that there'd be some, a little more creativity.

Not against it.

Just, you know, it doesn't see.

No.

They're not really.

Tartus is one.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I, Taylor Drift.

Not not bad.

Okay.

So that's what I was looking for.

Taylor Drift is what I was looking for.

There's the names.

Yeah.

That's it.

If you always have a hard time finding your car, Beetlejuice.

That's just off the top by head.

I'm just thinking of a...

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a fun one.

We want to hear what ones you would go with.

Everybody let us know.

Those have one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six, hundred to call up, or join us through

the Civic Media app.

Indeed.

That's free.

I have had this story for, let me see here, uh, 12 days, and I've been dying to get

to it and everything.

And I sent it to Melissa a little bit earlier today, and I apologize, Mel.

I meant to send it to you.

Like, given that I've had it for so long, I meant to send it to their suitor.

But this comes to us from Emerson Lehm, uh, Lehmann, uh, and this is out of WBA.

Uh, this is a fun one, I think.

It takes us to Brilliant, Wisconsin, where inside West Haven assisted living, uh, over

there, Joanna Ebert is a fan favorite.

Uh, quote from Joanna, I love everybody that's here, and they love me, uh, and that love

is, isn't just because of her witty personality or how, uh, she's got an amazing smile, by the

way.

Um, I cannot express enough how much you guys, if you need, especially if you need to

palicklands or out there, go ahead and look up this, uh, wonderful lady, Joanna Ebert

at a brilliant and her wonderful piano playing, uh, she says, quote, they say laughter causes

you to live longer.

And that's my problem, Joanna said, I laughed so much at 90 years young Joanna has found

a new purpose inside the walls of West Haven using the talents she picked up as a young

kid.

Hmm.

Quote, when I first came here, they played bingo and do exercises.

Well, my excuses, I don't understand bingo.

That's too difficult for me because I don't do bingo.

Joanna said music, music, music, all my life, I just sit at the piano, note after note,

song after song, Joanna's talent echoes throughout the halls all for all to hear.

Hmm.

Quote, God gave me this talent.

I don't know how, how I do it.

I can play with my eyes shut.

It's just a blessing.

Wow.

Uh, and not just for her, but for her neighbors at the assisted living center.

She plays for them all the time.

Um, it's to enjoy hearing her.

That's so neat.

There is a lot of family members that come and see other people at the living center.

And they will sometimes sing with her.

There are breakout concerts that happen all the time.

It's a, and this is a, and every day thing, this is a one woman show for the most part

every day that she's just going out there and performing.

Wow.

Um, the, the whole world's a stage as they say.

And, and I think one of the arts of a true performer is you put one or you put a billion

people in front of them and you're going to get the same show.

Mm hmm.

That's Joanna.

That's, that, that's a performer right there.

That's an entertainer.

That's a, a wonderful human being that I was one of my favorite new people I've learned

of.

Uh, that's really cool.

And I, I just, I'm not doing her enough justice with her trying to get her quotes in.

You got to hear her say this stuff.

You got to hear her talk.

Uh, it's, it's a wonderful article.

And again, uh, shout out to, uh, WB, uh, WBA, um, out of Mad, uh, Green Bay, um, if you're

looking for the article in particular, it's 90 year old shares joy by playing piano.

There you go.

That's a wonderful article.

I encourage you to check that out.

And I got to get, we got to get her on, uh, rapids report.

We, we got to get her out of rapids report.

One meter.

I just want to meet her.

I, you know, I get the interview.

That'd be great.

But, uh, I just selfishly want to meet this person.

She's wonderful.

Yeah.

That's really cool.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

You heard pit bull.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L Cafe and the birthday

and anniversary club.

They're open for the week.

Everybody treat yourself.

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

Uh, enjoy some of that great atmosphere, the wonderful people and of course the food.

Absolutely.

How about a Americana burrito for breakfast or a grilled ham and cheese breakfast sandwich?

That sounds fabulous.

Sounds really good.

But I'm all focused on the pies.

I'm looking at a chocolate toffee that sounds really good and they got their death by

chocolate.

Death by chocolates back on this James.

I got to go.

I got to go.

You got this.

Bill, I see you.

You got this.

You'll be fine.

Does it remotely train me how to run the board from afar yet?

So no, I'll text you later.

We appreciate our friends at L Cafe and a great job as always on their social media by

their team over there.

I encourage you to check out their Facebook page.

It has these specials and more over there.

Check it out, everybody.

Yeah.

Good food.

Good atmosphere.

Good people.

And by local support, local help other good friends that help us out.

We appreciate the gang over there.

Appreciate you guys getting us these birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Keep in mind, you can always email them to us info at WFHR.com, direct messages on our

Facebook pages, whether it's WFHR or WRI.

You can call on up.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

Feel free to call up and join the conversation with Brittany not calling in and not hearing

from her.

I'm a little worried the phones aren't working to be honest with you, so I...

But we will go ahead and keep moving forward and I will check them again.

I tried them right before we went on air and they seemed to be working, so...

Well, you want to use that EAA, so it's possible that the lines might be busy down there.

Who knows.

Very understandable.

Very understandable.

We do wish you a good morning and we love getting your birthdays and anniversaries

get them to us, everybody.

Yes, indeed.

I need a one or a two, Melissa.

Hmm.

How about one?

Okay.

Gives us that qualified.

We can get right into it.

First up, we got a local birthday.

We want to celebrate our very own here at FHR and WIRI, Beth Ron Habhacker.

Yes, happy birthday, Beth.

Beth is amazing.

Beth is wonderful.

I've enjoyed working with Beth whether it's on the radio here or on the WRCT stage.

She has put so much into this community in such a short time to her and that family

others.

They've definitely made their mark around here already.

I hope for the audience that you guys have gotten to know Beth a little bit off air or

a little.

A lot of fun here.

I get a chance to really take advantage of on the air here sometimes.

There's a lot of fun here.

A great sense of humor.

I hope you have a great day, Beth.

Enjoy your day.

Yes, indeed.

And we take a look at our rest of our list.

We wish happy birthday to Les Ross.

Happy birthday, Les.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifiers, some other friends of the station here.

Happy anniversary to Gary and Heather Sayers.

Oh, happy anniversary, Gary and Heather.

I hope you guys have a great one.

You're our qualifiers.

Congratulations.

We have our audience is very familiar with Heather.

Still hear her voice every now and then on some of our commercials.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

And of course, you've seen her recently on the WRCT stage and noises off.

Yes.

She was my daddy.

I have told her this, so I'm not saying anything out of school here.

That's the best I've seen her on that stage.

I mean, she really, really let it all out there.

Did a great job.

And Gary's awesome.

Gary's a great guy.

Enjoy your day, you two.

And you're our qualifiers.

We encourage you to brag to everybody that you're our qualifiers.

Awesome.

And before we go on to the celebrities I have to mention,

it is also my dad's birthday today.

Oh.

Happy birthday, dad.

Happy birthday, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Enjoy your day.

That's a good one.

Thank you for getting that in there, Melissa.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's awesome.

We take a look at who they share their birthday with celebrity wise.

Selena Gomez is 33.

Who?

That's it.

Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah.

I got cheese.

I'm so.

So I don't mean that in any way.

Just she's been around.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And for me, I'm so late to her career that I feel like that I'm not sure if that's young

or old for her.

I just I think I immediately think, oh, she's got so much ahead of her.

Career wise.

And I think the world of her, and again, I didn't see her as a Disney star.

I don't know her music, really.

But as an actor, I've seen her in only murders in the building.

And since then, I've seen her in other movies and stuff.

And I there's very few people that are a bigger influence to me than Steve Martin or

Martin Short.

And there's very few actors or comedians that I've seen literally every single thing

they've done.

I cannot tell you how much I think of them.

And that young lady blows them off the stage all the time.

She's that kind of talented.

And she just rolls with those two so well.

The three of them it becomes such a close knit friends.

It's really interesting to see, I think.

And it just shows me and tells me a lot about her.

I feel like I again don't know her.

But one of those people would kill the work with just love to work with.

I can't imagine how much fun and how great it is to work with somebody like her.

She's very talented.

At 33, I feel like she's, I don't even know if she's peaked yet, as an actor, as an

actor, I don't know.

No, I'm sure she hasn't.

She's got a lot, a lot of more options ahead of her.

AJ Cook is 47.

All of you criminal minds, fans out there.

You remember her as JJ on there.

Love that show.

God I love criminal minds.

Good show.

Let's see, Colin Ferguson is 53.

He was Sheriff Jack Carter on the wonderfully underrated sci-fi show, Eureka.

But he was also, he is, I think still, the Maytag repair guy.

That's where a lot of people might move from that.

Oh, and he's, yeah, he's been in a lot of other, like kind of, be horror films as well.

Yeah, he's a good actor.

He's a handsome man.

Yes, I, he's one of those guys that has, I think, slipped through the cracks on casting

directors because he should be a lot more well-known.

He's very talented.

That show Eureka was criminally, like, underwatched and a very fun concept, very fun idea, early

sci-fi network where they did, they had a bigger budget than they do what to do with in some

ways.

And he was, he was fantastic on the show with a lot of other great actors too.

Mm-hmm.

I got a little distracted, Melissa, when I was a young, the thing that kept me in football

was being able to be a return guy.

I kicked and punt returned.

It was one of my favorite things to do in sports.

And in part because I grew up watching a lot of great returners.

The first one I could remember maybe is Tim Brown, who is 59 today, retired Oakland Raiders,

Wide Receiver, and of course, kick and punt returner, one of the greats of all time.

Mm-hmm.

Sean Michaels is 60, the heartbreak kid, former WWE, WWE F, everyone to say it, a star and

champion.

Oh, wow.

David Spade is 61.

Woo.

Yeah.

David Spade.

Obviously, one half of one of the greatest comedy tandems of all time with Chris Farley and

David Spade, even though they were never really looked at as a tandem, going back and looking

now, I think you can, whether you're talking about some of the sketches on a SNL that

Spade wrote specifically for Farley or Adam Sandler would write specifically for Spade

and Farley because of their chemistry and then obviously the movies they did together.

And I can only think of, you know, they would have done so many more, I think, together

too.

Yeah.

But on his own, when Farley passes, I, a lot of, like, once the kind of dust settles, a

lot of people are wondering, well, what happens with David Spade?

Where does he go?

Because he was in an obviously tough emotional place.

And also trying to keep a career going where there was a lot of people that said that

David Spade had a career in part because of Chris Farley.

Now we, I never thought that, I never would have thought that, but we have proof now that

that wasn't the case at Joe Dirt and, you know, he's just shoot me, he was had a great

recurring role on there.

He's made a career in a name for himself outside of that.

I loved his voice overwork on the Emperor's New Groove.

Oh, yeah.

He was the llama.

Yeah.

It was so good.

I love that movie.

It's really cool to see at 61 where, like, his career has gone.

He does a really, really popular podcast with Dana Carvey now.

And that's cool.

It's cool to see, I think, David Spade, that's 61 today.

One of my all-time favorite people, actors, comedians, stand-ups, John Ligwizamo, 65 for

him today.

Great character actor.

You've seen him in a lot of movies from John Wick to a bunch of others, but he is maybe

the most popular for being Sid The Sloth in the Ice Age movies.

Yeah.

He's good too.

I like him a lot.

William DeFoe is 70.

What?

Wow.

William DeFoe is 70.

At the Green Goblin and the Spider-Man movies, Sergeant Ellis and Platoon, if you've

seen William DeFoe once, you will always remember him.

Yeah.

He's such a good bad guy.

I love seeing him do comedy.

He is so darn funny and he has so got great comedic timing.

Going back to Mean Streets, going back to Martin Scorsese, he kind of discovering him

or giving him a lot of big breaks way back in the early days and stuff of his career.

There was a lot of people that felt like his face just wouldn't work.

He was not going to get a lot of roles and the roles he would get were always be villains.

So I don't know if he sat there and decided this or not, but with that knowledge decided

I'm going to be one of the greatest villains of all time.

And he was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Along with just being a complete actor, at 69-70 still pushing himself.

One of his most recent, I think his most recent movie, he plays a retiring thief who, you

know, the one last score and he breaks into an apartment and gets locked in there for

like a week or a weekend or something like that.

Always that inside?

Yeah.

And it's just him.

It's just, and it's an acting tour de force.

It's just incredible.

He's something.

He is something.

He was also in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which is in 2024 and then it looks like the legend

of Ochi.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

In 2025.

Boondock Saints is another one.

Oh, he's live action.

Okay.

Yeah.

He's something.

Don Henley is 78, lead singer and drummer for the Eagles along with a many, many

solo hits.

The great Albert Brooks is 78, comedic genius.

God, Albert Brooks is great.

I don't know.

Young people out there, you might not know him, but man, look him up.

He is amazing.

You'd recognize him if you looked him up.

He, yes.

Mm-hmm.

Danny Glover is 79, getting too old for this, no, Danny Glover, lethal weapon movies, of

course, and plenty of other great ones.

Grand Canyon.

You want to see Danny Glover's greatest acting, I think, other than the color purple probably.

There's a great movie, Grand Canyon, Kevin Klein, All Starcast.

Wonderful movie.

Wonderful movie.

He's fantastic.

So many good movies he was in.

Yeah.

The King of Funk, George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic's own 84 years old, one of my favorite

musicians of all time.

Gotta love it.

Flashlight, atomic dog, give up the funk.

Funk music is not where it is today without George Clinton.

And if you are a fan of rap or hip hop, it is not where it is without George Clinton.

Terrence Stamp is 87, wonderful character actor.

And then some people no longer with us, like Bob Dole, World War II hero, retired U.S.

Senator and Congressman from Kansas, regardless of where you fall politically, Bob Dole was

a true American and gave everything he could to this country, along with all that incredibly

funny.

Like Bob Dole showed up, I never didn't know much about him other than that.

Then he was a politician and as a soldier.

But he showed up on Saturday Live and was very self-deprecating and actually pretty darn

funny, I thought.

I really admire that would politicians do that.

I think that that earns them a lot more than votes, you know.

And maybe the greatest game show host of all time Alex Trebek born in his day in 1940,

passed away just in 2022.

There's a lot of great game show hosts throughout history.

But I feel pretty confident saying at least for our generation, the best ever do it was

Alex Trebek.

I mean, he was the face of Jeopardy for a long time.

A lot of good ones.

Not against Pat Sejack or any of those guys or anything, Monty Hall, any of the greats.

But just for my money, I never saw somebody who looked more like, yep, this is what he

was born to do.

Alex Trebek was very talented, could do a lot of different things, but as far as being

a game show host, nobody made it look more comfortable, natural or back and forth.

The wonderful, but that's the thing, like I love learning.

So Jeopardy to me wasn't about trying to get the questions right, I just wanted to know

what the answer was.

It was interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But what kept me coming back to it was the back and forth that Alex Trebek would do, the

improv that he would have in those moments with these people and just how I thought he

was very funny, I thought he was very talented.

Happy birthdays, anniversaries to everybody out there celebrating a happy birthday, Beth,

enjoy your day.

Yeah, happy birthday, dad.

And we wish you a great one and we're going to be back at this tomorrow, join us again

for another LKFA birthday anniversary club tomorrow, everybody, and we'll be back after

our news and sports and entertainment break here on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Melissa and James hanging out with you on a summer morning, hope y'all are having a good

one out there, thanks so much for joining us.

We're just going to rip the bandaid off on this one, Melissa, we're going to go right

it.

All right, let's all be honest with each other, this is a safe place.

What's the last word you Googled to pronounce or know that you were spelling correctly?

I think for me it was, I think it was either condolences or something along those lines.

I know there was one, I know I just can't think of it right now, but I know I've done

that recently.

I'll be honest.

And sometimes I use words and I'm like, am I using that correctly?

So I just look it up to, you know, check the definition and to make sure I'm spelling

it correctly.

I hear you.

Maybe it's a proper name you've seen in the news, an uncommon word that you hear rarely

spoken or something along those lines.

Analysts looked at Google search data from the past 12 months to find which words drew

the highest number of pronunciation inquire inquiries that included things like, how do

you pronounce blank or pronunciation of blank and so on?

And the, oh, and they use, I remember the last word I looked at, it was alacrity.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'd have time saying that.

I don't blame you there.

Yeah.

Let's see.

They used the results from a list of 10 words that are tough to get right.

So I think one of the things that I want people to think of with this article and with

this topic is, to me, the fun side stories of things.

And I think you're going to find that there's so many words here that we have in common

with people all over the country.

Yeah.

Because English is hard.

Yes.

And regardless of where you fall politically or what sports team you root for, you and

your fellow strangers, Americans out there, all mispronounced croissant or misspelling

at least.

Oh my goodness.

I wouldn't even want to try to spell it.

Yeah.

In French, it's croissant.

In English, it's pronounced croissant with the tea.

Yeah.

And in a sant, like the sant, you've got to get in there.

Croissant.

I feel like I have that on a croissant, please.

I feel like I've always say croissant.

I don't know.

I like saying croissant.

Oh, then.

And just like over, over, pronouncing it just because, you know, just be silly.

But.

How about A-C-A-I, A-S-I-E?

Yes.

I hate that word.

I always say it wrong.

Yeah.

That's definitely one for me, definitely.

It's four letters.

Hmm.

Shouldn't be that hard.

And it shouldn't be that hard, but you've got to say each one of them.

It's one of those words that where I immediately become a thesaurus.

And I'm like, okay, what other word can I use for that one?

So I don't have to try to pronounce that one or try to say it or.

It's a kind of fruit.

There isn't any other word.

Yeah.

No, no.

You're stuck every time with that one.

It's like trying to rhyme orange.

Yeah.

Schedule.

Hmm.

Maybe people were just confused by the great British breakoff or something.

I don't know.

Or listening or watching a lot of BBC.

Because in England, in any time you're watching anything in proper English, it's schedule,

schedule.

Yes.

Which I will say as somebody who has played a lot of English characters and done a lot

of English and that, that's probably the word that I've had the hardest time getting

down.

I can get a lot of different British accents down and there's not many tons that have

a difficulty with them.

You can find yourself just kind of rolling with it really.

But schedule, that, see, right there, how to halt Tom with it right there, couldn't

get it.

Schedule.

Yes.

Yes.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

I think that's never one I've had trouble spelling.

Yeah.

And I'm sorry, I meant to come back to that.

This list is also I think fun when you think about it trying to spell it.

Because I think that's another reason why we throw words into Google or into our search

or engines and stuff.

Yeah.

Because I do both.

Yeah.

How to spell.

100%.

I may be the world's worst speller.

If you put me into a spelling bee with fifth graders, you laughter will ensue.

It will be one of the funniest, just straight up, just not even trying to be funny.

Just doing an actual competition where I'm up there competing with fifth graders is

going to be one of the funniest things anybody ever sees in their life.

That wouldn't mean that would be and it would build those kids confidence through the

roof.

There you go.

Porsche shows up next on the list.

Porsche is how it's supposed to be pronounced with two syllables, not Porsche as I just did.

Which is how I think most people in the states say it.

Yes.

Instead of Porsche, Porsche sounds like a girl's name.

I feel like you've got to be able to afford one to really care because I mean I know

I'm reading this and I understand this and I'm not trying to insult the car or anything

like that.

Or the maker.

This is probably the last time I'll ever say Porsche.

That's probably...

I'm just being honest.

I'll probably differentiate it together.

Even if I owned one which, that's never going to happen.

Yeah, I know.

Because even if I could afford a car like that, I wouldn't buy a car.

That's not what shoots better money on.

No.

Jack wire.

No.

If somebody gave you one, you're not going to say no.

No, I'm not going to turn it down if they're listening out there.

I will promote your Porsche.

I will even pronounce it correctly.

You know, I'll give you that.

I love the idea of what is the most famous car brand of the world decides to have me advertise

for another.

Oh, he went out of his way to pronounce it correctly.

Let's give him one.

Completely different.

I'd be cheap.

I'll tell you that.

I'd be cheap.

They'd just give me a car.

I mean, do you agree?

Genre.

Genre.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

It's pronounced with two syllables.

Genre.

Or Genre.

Genre.

Genre.

Genre.

You pronounce it.

Genre.

Not like I just did.

Genre.

Where you just...

Which is...

Genre?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So is it about speed?

With our speech?

We're trying to get these words out there faster, so we're not taking the time because English

is...it's just...it's so much longer.

It feels like...

You've got to put the emphasis on the correct syllable.

Mmm.

Nice.

Oh, geez.

And just add that to a list of words I'm going to be googling later.

Emphasis on the correct syllable.

Right.

If you don't do it that way, if you don't do it right, then yeah, it doesn't every year.

That happens a lot for me, I think, with words that I just have read and never have heard

said out loud.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then when I try to pronounce names a lot of times, especially in like fantasy books,

or sci-fi books where they're making names up, it's like, okay, well, how did the author

want this to be said?

I'm just going to say it this way.

I think I spent as much time reading the whole series of the Lord of the Rings as I did

looking up how to say those names, or how to...yeah, yeah.

Gyroscope.

It's broken down actually into three syllables.

Gyroscope.

Gyroscope.

Hmm.

Yeah, and I think I've already said it gyroscope with like an O in the middle.

Interesting.

I think maybe the most universal as far as America goes.

It got to be a top five, most universal words that we're missing and we're misspelling.

Warsha Shire.

Yeah.

The most accepted pronunciation in American English is Wasa Shire.

The key is to drop the R and soften the C. So washa Shire.

Shire.

Hmm.

I can't do it.

I think I've always said Warsha Shire.

Warsha Shire.

Warsha Shire Shire.

Warsha Shire Shire.

I'll have a little of that Warsha Shire.

You know what?

Just give me the steak.

Just give me the steak.

But actually, it's a really, really good flavor.

It is, yeah.

Sauce to use in more things than just steak.

It's great in soups, especially that have a like a beef base.

I've never heard.

I've never heard.

I'm trying that.

I'm trying.

I've never heard of that.

That's awesome.

That's a beef stew.

Add some Warsha Shire.

That's...

I gotta try that.

Just don't try to say sauce.

Right.

Yeah.

With that, I can make a bottle less forever because I don't need a lot.

I don't know about it.

No, no, no.

I love that about it.

It packs so much in just a bit of it.

It is a really good sauce.

And actually, I've been adding a little bit of it to some of the Asian dishes that I've

been making in case I need because it's an umami flavor.

So that adds just another flavor profile to...

Now, Melissa, I know what that word means, but just for the audience's sake, umami.

What is it?

Umami.

Umami, wasn't it?

Umami.

So that's another flavor profile because you have sweet salt.

I'm not going to be able to name them all, but umami is one of those within that flavor

profile.

And it's think mushrooms or it's like a savory but not salt.

Feels like it would also be a good song lyric, like umami, umami, umami.

Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur is that.

It's pronounced entree per ner.

Entree per ner.

Entree per ner.

Entree per ner.

Entree per ner.

Pener.

I don't know.

No, no, no.

I'm already done.

I'm already done.

I did learn how to spell it when I was, uh, in taking college courses for my business management

degree, um, because I was in a class where we had to spell it regularly.

Mm-hmm.

So, yeah, I did get there, but it's a, it's kind of a dumb word.

Even if you, uh, so like with a schedule and entrepreneur, uh, in words like that, I

will say them, and I probably not saying them correctly, but in my head, I am.

I'm not doing this the right way.

It needs to be opposite of that if anything, but I know in my head, I can't help myself.

Well, yeah.

But anyway, you, like if you said what entrepreneur, entrepreneur, like you didn't know what you

mean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, hi, arki.

Hi, er, er, rk.

Hi, er, rk.

Hi, er, rk.

Hi, er, rk.

Hi, er, rk.

Yeah.

There you go.

Yeah.

Which is a fun word to say.

It is kind of fun.

It says you get your, get your tongue, uh, a little bit of exercise, say in that word.

Um, it's no shaboigan, but it's a fun one.

It's a fun one to say.

Uh, I bring up that, uh, wonderful city, uh, obviously log type listeners.

No, I love just saying shaboigan.

Um, but I think, uh, as far as the state goes, um, the, the most universal, I think in

America, the most universal word that we mispronounce or we have a hard time spelling,

uh, maybe Massachusetts, um, in part because we all got to learn the states and we all

have to, you know, so I think it's a common one.

It's probably one of the most common, probably the most common one on here.

Just looking at it that way that we all go to grade school, learn our states.

So we've got to learn how to say it.

And it's pronounced mass, uh, two sits, it sits at the end there.

That sits, I never get mass, uh, or, uh, you mass, a lot, a lot of, a lot of my college

friends out there will know you mass and just say you mass.

That's what I'll, I'll go to, uh, you hear me do that.

You know why everybody?

The spelling of it is probably harder for me than saying it.

I don't, I don't know that I, I spell that word correctly.

All of us can spell Mississippi.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yep.

And it's one of the longer names of a state in our country.

I, um, I, I think football, uh, for me being able to spell Mississippi because, uh, you,

you couldn't sack the quarterback until you spelled Mississippi.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

That or just spelling the word.

Yep.

Uh, you can go to mental floss.com to find this complete list, everybody.

And of course, always share with us the words that you have in tough time with, uh, we'll

have some fun with this or we'll keep this thing going.

And I did have to look up umami, which has spelled UMAMI and it is one of the five basic

tastes along with sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

It's often described as savory or meaty.

Right on.

I love learning new words.

Awesome.

Yeah.

It's, it's fun.

Add it to the list of words that I mispronounced and missing.

Uh, we will come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Help adhere this song and be brought back to it being a kid chasing my dad around.

Some of Breeze playing us in, everyone.

Melissa and James here with you're going to take it to the top of the hour.

We'll kick off the 10 o'clock with then only CBS news and our local news from Melissa,

but we'll get in some entertainment news and have some more fun in the 10 o'clock.

Looking forward to it.

Uh, I do want to send a shout out to our team out there, uh, uh, out there having some

fun.

I just am pulling up the pictures right now.

They look great up there.

Yeah.

And Alia are out on, uh, at the Ridges golf course for the chamber golf outing today.

Hope they're having fun.

Uh, big thank you to them for doing that and representing.

We appreciate them.

Appreciate the chamber having us and partnering with Phil from Quality Plus printing.

Phil Phil.

Let me double check it.

I feel like I know that.

No, of course.

We know Phil.

We know Phil.

We love Phil.

Uh, we appreciate Phil.

Phil actually will be joining us, uh, it's set tonight on tomorrow's sunrise show

with eight o'clock, uh, top of the eight o'clock hour with our wicked, also more to

Wednesday.

We're looking forward to it.

Awesome.

Uh, in a big shout out to Phil and the gang over Quality Plus and Wham Incorporated.

And of course, uh, our great team over there.

Uh, we got some really, really great people, uh, working here and over there representing

having, I hope they're having fun.

Yeah.

Uh, looks like the weather's cooperating.

So that's good.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a little overcast, but it's a nice day.

It's a temperature.

It seems like I, uh, yeah, perfect.

So, um, there are foods that are so divisive that either love or hate them.

There is no in between.

Um, Guinness can be one of those things when it comes to drinking, you know, when it comes

to alcohol or just beverages, if you will.

Um, but ice cream is not so much.

Ice cream is pretty universal.

I don't know the less people like ice cream.

Yeah.

Well, teaming these two together, I don't know what happens.

Worlds collide, Melissa.

Uh, Guinness has teamed up with Van Leehuehn ice cream to create the Guinness flavored ice

cream with chocolate chunks.

It is a limited edition flavor.

So if you're interested, you got to get one now.

It's available at select Van Leehuehn scoop, uh, scoop shops and online through their

website for 12 bucks while supplies last.

The pints are called lovely day for a Guinness.

Great.

That's a good name.

That's a good name.

It was inspired by an old Guinness ad from the 1950s.

Oh, I love it.

If you're able to score one, you should try, uh, dropping a scoop into a tall glass

then pouring cold Guinness on top of it to create a beer ice cream float, if you like.

That actually sounds really good.

It doesn't sound bad.

If I'm in the mood for it, I have no problem with a Guinness.

Uh, I've been around to.

Yeah.

I love dark beer.

I, I just got to be in the mood for it.

That's all.

I mean, I'm, you know, especially, you know, going back to what you said earlier, somebody

gives me a free one.

I'm not going to turn it down, but, um, the only, the only caveat to that is if you're

not in any way, like if you're full, like you've just had a full meal, you can't drink

a Guinness.

No.

No, that's tough.

You've got to almost have to have like a light beer.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would try this because Guinness is almost like a meal.

I mean, dark beers are filling, they're filling heavier.

But yeah, as a, as a ice cream, that sounds, I would try that.

Not for $12.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

And I'm not going to buy it online to have a chip to me.

That seems weird.

Yeah.

I've never, I've never ordered ice cream online.

I don't know about that.

I don't know.

I've never ordered anything that needs refrigeration or freezing to be delivered to me.

Uh, I was talking about this with Terry.

I've been trying to find a bubble gum ice cream.

And I found one online and I was so, I was so close to ordering and I'm like, I can't,

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You'll just have to drive up to Abbotsford and go to Hawkeye Dairy and get a bubble gum

ice cream from there.

Road trip.

Road trip.

Geez.

I take any kind of road trip right now.

I feel like I haven't done anything with my summer.

I feel like I feel like the kid getting ready to go back to school.

Just look away from you, James.

Yes.

I haven't some serious foam over there.

I feel it in my bones.