Life Hacks for Americans. Sincerely, the World (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off

with us at WFHR.

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

Good morning.

Head of production and co-host, Seth Tabagger. Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being with us, everybody. We got some fun

lined up over the next couple of hours and kicking things off with our good friend,

Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett. Good morning. How

are you guys doing? Doing all right. Yeah, a little clear skies up there today.

It's trying. It's trying its best, right? We've had it with us, but here's a good news.

The alert expires at noon. I really don't think it's going to be extended this time. We've

got a whole other system moving in and winds are already out of the south. So, we'll start

to increase this afternoon probably. Oh, we actually in the next two hours or so. We'll

see guys around 15 miles per hour and that should thin the smoke and kick it on out of

here. And then the next thing we've got on campus, the heat, the humidity starting to

seep in. So we've got a little bit of that today. Huy's will be in the mid-80s both

today and tomorrow, getting muggy, getting sticky. There is a chance for some light drizzle,

scattered sprinkles this afternoon. And then tomorrow afternoon, chances for showers and

thunderstorms. None of those are expected to be severe, but a little damp in the afternoon.

And then that's when the heat and humidity really surge in. We're going to be getting to

the 90s for Friday and Saturday. The two days hot and humid dew points in the 70s. And

then we've got a cold front that I'm going to move through probably Saturday and into

our Sunday kind of stall a little bit over the state there. So that is going to be sparking

up some showers and storms and bills could be strong to severe. So again, that's over

the weekend, but still seeing some stormy activity tomorrow afternoon. And of course some

chances for drivel still today. Good to know. I'm okay with that though, because my

lawn really needs it, especially if it's going to get super hot. Right. I agree with

you. I'm starting to see those dry spots out there. So much rain. Melissa, as soon as

you said that I thought of my dad, the backyard and how my father's just like a single tear

just coming down his high as he looks at his backyard. What happened? It was so great.

The man did not cry when I was born, but this will upset him. How do you know that

changed? No, not chapter. Britty, real quick. One thing I did want to ask you about.

And I have a couple of students that are with us right now that are from overseas. And

this got me thinking about this because along with that, we're doing a story a little

bit later involving some people from outside of the country and are things that we should

try here in the States. And I got thinking about weather in other countries. Do you ever

find yourself looking at the weather in Europe or anything like that? I know when I was

in California that they had been this is a satellite dishes and things like that. And

you could look at the weather in like Scotland and things. And I just thought it was interesting.

Do you ever catch yourself doing that? I used to do that more before when I had more

free time than I do now. It is pretty cool to see their different climates because they

are completely different. And I had learned, I mean, I had no idea that London was just

cloudy and rainy all the time. It is. I never get really, really warm.

I thought it was a joke. People in London are like, hey Seattle, hold my beer. They're

even worse in Scotland. Yeah. That's why they're cranky all the time.

They appreciate you, Brittany. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Sounds good. Have a good day. Thanks, Brittany. Best in the business right there.

Brittany Merlot joining us every morning, writing this time slot and putting up with my

silly comments and questions and stuff. She's great. She's awesome. We appreciate you, Brett.

Appreciate all you hanging out with us. We got the LKF Apertine anniversary club coming up in

just a little bit. We're going to get into that one. What US state has banned AI therapy?

We will get into that. Oh, closer than you think. Tell you that much. Oh, interesting.

We've got a couple of other ones going on that we want to get into and we are going to

wrap up the hour with non-American things that the world highly recommends to Americans.

Okay. That should be interesting. Yeah. I think one of the fun things about this and

not just for us, but we want the audience to participate. I also want to get into the

likelihood that we would do these things. That's not a part of the article, but I thought

it was an add-on kind of thing. It's a good little thing. Yeah. We'll kick off the 10 o'clock

hour talking about some entertainment. We got Dolly news for you. We got Y Adam Sandler,

wears baggy clothes and the VMA Awards. Nominies. I'm sorry, the VMA nominees were now.

Okay. All right. Talk about that and we got a newsletter to talk about as well in an open

house party. We do all kinds of stuff. We got to be out and about today. Yeah. Also in the 10 o'clock

hour, I really wanted to get into this article with you guys that I came across and I thought

it was really interesting. Does anybody ever hear this? That Iceland has banned baby names.

They have names that are banned on a banned list. They have a list of names and I just pulled up

the girl's names and just the A's and was blown away by some of the names. Wow. That are banned

in Iceland. I didn't even know this was the thing until a little while ago. I want to say,

yeah, last month, I saw this article. Wow. I've been trying to get a fascinating for a while

and everything. We got that one coming up for you and plenty of more great stuff. But we kick off

the show talking about our sleep. Okay. Yes. We're like thereof. Our morning show, our morning show

that is designed to try to get your day started right and waking up and we're talking about sleep.

Yeah. That's the thing you just did. I got to talk to the producer. Some of us. Yeah.

A new study found that the average American begins their nighttime routine at 1015 p.m.

Okay. On average, it takes 21 minutes to get ready for bed so that happens around 1036

and then it takes about 40 minutes before people actually fall asleep. Okay.

And the average person falls asleep about 1118 p.m. Okay. Wow.

Of course, the timing varies based on when people need to get up in the next morning and how much

they need to do before starting work. Third shifters, you know, say shout out to all of you out there.

Certainly, I worked a lot of third shifts in my life. The average person reports that they have

three mornings per week when they wish they'd gone to sleep earlier. Okay.

That's a knowing chuckle more. Three mornings. I believe they lowballed that.

Yeah, they might have. Yeah. The top excuses for why they didn't they didn't include

needing to get more chores done. They're night owls who like to being up late.

They don't want to sleep and fast forward to the next day at work day and they want to connect

with their partner. So they stay up later. Okay. I think there's actually something kind of

encouraging about that last one right there. Yeah. You know, with most people don't work the same

ship. Most people that live together don't work the same shift. If this is one of the ways that you

get to, you know, hang out together is by staying up a little later. Not that that's a good thing

to stay up later, but the reasoning sometimes sometimes that's the only chance. Yeah. It's a heck of a

lot better than my reasoning. I'm very very sad that my reasoning is not on there. Mm hmm. What's that?

Reading a really good book. I can't. Yeah. Yeah. That is always why. You mostly always why I end up

staying with my mother, my sister, same boat. I have, I have the solution to Melissa. You need one

book that's just for bedtime. Mm hmm. And it can't be something you're interested in. You just,

it's got to be accounting terms. I am actually quite serious about this because if you do that and

it's when you don't care, you know, you don't get any, you know, progress on or anything like that.

I'm not going to pick it up then set. I'm just not going to pick it up. You just, well, okay,

maybe not, no, maybe not zero interest. Yeah. Maybe a little bit of interest in, but not

enough to keep you riveted, right? Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That works for me. It's interesting

to find the balance of that, of trying to find what is interesting enough to where you actually

will pick the book up, but not enough to keep you awake. Here's something else that I found. A

podcast where, you know, it's something you like, but it's, you know, people that have, you know,

nice voices and that's kind of thing. Put the timer on, you know, for like 10 minutes and it'll

turn off kind of thing because then you won't miss, you know, if you leave it on and it just keeps

running and you'll miss the thing, you have to back up. But if you do it for like five, 10 minutes,

if you know, you're going to be, you know, dosing at that time, then you don't miss that much.

You can just go back a little ways. So I think that works for me too. I do a similar thing sort of,

but it's a book I listened to before and I just, I just put it in my ear and I fall asleep. There

you go. I love the book. I love the narrator. And I've already know the story. So I'm not going to

miss anything. See, that's a great idea too. Yeah. Well, since it's August now, parents of

school age children generally get less sleep when their kids go back to school, 53% of them say

that they have to get up earlier to get their kids ready and about 25% say that they have just

the up later to prepare lunches or help their kids with their homework.

They're on their own. What are you talking about?

All right, we know how it's suffering. I've waited long enough so they could do that. I'm like,

yeah, you do that. I don't need me anymore. You can do that. And clean up the kitchen when you're

done. Yeah. Yeah. Time to stand on your own. My life lessons. My dad was very, my dad's got a

calculator for a brain. Anytime that we had math per troubles, me and my brother and sister,

we would go to him. What I loved was going to him with like history, with like things he was not

his wheelhouse, but he tried so hard. And we didn't have internet. We didn't have it. Of course.

Yeah. We had one of those things where we got encyclopedias, but not like all of them.

We're like missing the D's and like certain things you know a whole lot about. It's something

you know nothing about, right? Yeah. So we would just be looking at searching for things and he

just tried so hard. And by the end of it, usually be like, well, I think that's where you're going.

There you go. Yeah, at least you had something then. I have not said anything personally about

any of this article because I have no place to. There is not one moment in my life that I believe

I was probably asleep by 1118 at night. I don't think there was one day if I stayed up 24 hours

beforehand, I don't think I fell asleep at 1118. I don't know that that's ever happened for me.

I and I will admit that as I've gotten older, I do, I do like being a night owl to some degree.

But I've tried just about everything including sleep studies and all that stuff and everything.

And I just, I am, I don't think that anybody is a lost cause. I don't think that anybody should

stop trying or anything. But I do think that you try to find, okay, well, I've tried all of this.

That none of that is working. How can I, how can I work with this? How can I try to get the

sleep that I need, that I desperately need? Because you know, I want to live. You know, I like to be able to

do this job well. All those things are great. But that's kind of an add-on. It's it's more so just

kind of want to be here. Yeah, kind of like life. Which, you know, it's important kind of thing, you know.

Well, and as I've grown older, I have, you know, found the whole 20-minute nap thing. Man,

is that, is that awesome? I'm glad I just discovered that and I could do it.

Our nests are amazing. They are amazing. Yes, can't do too much. But if you do that certain,

you know, 10, 20 minutes, you can, you can, you don't feel too groggy when you get up and you do

feel refreshed. It really works. There really is something to that. It is, yeah. I don't, I'm not

able to do it very much. It's really hard for me to fall asleep. But I do, when I, when I have,

I felt great. I feel great from those. And I will recommend directing a play. That, that'll help you.

That, that will help. That, that, that definitely will help. I, I did bring that up for a reason.

Shameless, that's all right. Let's do it. But last night. Oh, it's here about it. Last night we wrapped up

the final night of auditions for on golden pond. I, I just wanted to thank everybody that came

down both nights and appreciate everybody so much. All the people that reached out that were

one of the audition on, you know, outside of those incidences and everything. We will have the

cast ready for you this afternoon, early afternoon sometime. I apologize to the, I, I know I was

like to know the night off. And I really wanted to do that for our actors. But I've got the,

I am, you know, the name under, you know, somebody's got to say, hey, who's directing this thing?

So that's why my name's there. I'm not the brains of this. Gretchen and Bethany are. And, and I got

to, I got the pick best brain last night. And I'm going to, I'm going to look forward to talk with

her more about it today. And we're going to meet up with Gretchen today and talk a little more about

and hammer it out. Very cool. But I, I, I, the one thing I could have asked for this community did.

They made it tough on me. Yes. We, and I can guarantee you whatever combination I go with,

this is going to be an amazing show. And everything you like about the movie, or if you've

gotten to see any of the Broadway play, we're going to be able to bring to you in a Wisconsin way.

And I feel very confident about that. I'm very excited about that for the audience. I think that

if you love this show, if you love this play, if you get this play, you're going to like it that

much more with the Wisconsin kind of tie that it has with the actors. We're going to be,

you know, we have to choose from. I'm really excited about that. And again, to everybody that

audition and does not get a part, we would love to have you backstage. There are other roles for

you. And as I said last night, and I know it's a cornyline and they don't care. The whole world is

a stage, but not everybody is willing to act on it. We appreciate those that do and never stop

auditioning. Never stop auditioning. Whatever it is, keep going forward. Get your tickets and find

out more at wrctheater.org. Be paying attention to social media if you did audition and you're

looking forward to that. But chances are I will be calling you sometime this afternoon. So there

you've been warned. If you have a weird number on there, then you'll know who it is. I still have

an Illinois zip code. Are you calling everything so? Yeah, be a look out for that. And thank you

again to everybody. We appreciate you. We'll take a quick time out, come back, talk and smell

cafe in the birthday and anniversary club. On the morning show at WFHR. Let's get in the mood,

a real groovy mood. Let's have a party. Let's get in the mood, a real moody mood.

Yeah, welcome back everybody. It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at

L Cafe in the birthday and anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself when they

open their doors again next week. Yeah, next Monday. Yeah, they'll be back. Or they'll be back

on Tuesday, I thought. Oh, oh, you're right. I'm sorry, because Monday is always closed. I'm sorry,

that's my back next Tuesday. Make plans to head on over there and check out some of their great food,

a great atmosphere and the wonderful people at L Cafe. We appreciate them by local support.

Love them everybody. And get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you.

You can email us info at WFHR.com direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call on up.

That's right. 715-424-2600. Encourage you to reach out to us anytime

throughout the next couple of hours. We love celebrating your birthdays and love live on the

air. Yeah, even better. Even better. Those are always fun. Melissa, this is our last time with us

this week. So I'm going to put you to work a little bit here. One or two. Oh man, you make it so

hard. Two. All right. We get right into it. And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to

Kim Douglas. Happy birthday, Kim. Happy birthday. Joy, your day, Kim. Hope it's a good one for you.

Have a great day. And we wish a very happy birthday. Happy anniversary to our qualifiers.

Celebrate in their 14th anniversary. Brian and Heather Stainbrook. Oh,

Brian and Heather, happy anniversary. Happy anniversary. They got married one year after we did

Beth and I got married. I realized that. So that's cool. Yeah. It's weird to me. I don't

understand my heart. Yeah, I really don't understand my heart. But I get so excited about the like

50s and 60 anniversaries and stuff. I get just as excited about seeing these ones like in the

teens and stuff. You know, that's awesome. That's really cool. Happy 14th, Brian and Heather,

you're our qualifiers. We encourage you to brag to everybody about it. That's right.

And taking a look at who you share your birthday or anniversary with.

Celine Moonfrey is 49.

Punky Brewster is 49. Oh my gosh. Wow. Wow. Wow. Just that. I don't know if there's ever been one

that hit me this hard. Wow. I don't know why. I don't know. Oh my god. And especially when you

realize that you grew up around the same time because he's my sister's age. And it's like,

I thought she was younger than me. She's actually a little bit older than you. Yeah.

She also played Roxy on Sabrina, the teenage witch. Yes. So that's no way.

She was one of those child actors too that struggled a little bit. So it's just

cool to see that she got back in acting and doing some stuff. They did an updated Punky Brewster too

with she has a little kids. They did that for a little while. It was a fun little show.

Yeah. To me, it's a little similar to what we're seeing right now with Lindsay Lohan and her getting

kind of a third act, if you will. I don't, you know, I'm not a big Lindsay Lohan fan or anything

like that. But I always thought she was talented. I liked her when she was on SNL. And I like seeing

anybody, anybody in the world, for the most part, being able to make a comeback. Let's see here.

Vera Farminga is 52, one of the better actors I think I have seen in my lifetime.

It's not worked and it doesn't work much. Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring movies, I think a lot

of people know her from the past. She was on the short live TV show Bates Motel, where she played

Norman's Mom. This is a prequel. Yeah, right. And I watched the video. Yeah, I remember, yeah,

a little bit of that because of her. Now that the the the kid that went on to play the doctor,

the autistic doctor and stuff, that show that did pretty well and stuff. He was on there and he

did a good job too. But Vera, Vera is one of these actresses that is just so like you and you

you just she pulls you into every scene. She really is good. I love to see her work even more.

Jerry Hallwell is 53, Ginger Spice. Wow, I watched a that's even worse than

Punky Brewster, the cheese in her 50s. I watched a dark side of the 90s that focused on a lot of the

the boy bands and the girl bands and stuff like that. I knew zero to nothing about the spice girls.

I learned a lot about them and those those ladies like first off they were the first like

and only really like British girl band. Yeah, they really put a mark. They really set a bar for

that to where Destiny's child and so many other bands come out after them. But Jerry Hallwell was

the glue of that band. Like she was the the one that really kept that band focused and they

spent like six months to like a year in a in a just a crummy apartment practicing training,

working their voices. None of them were necessarily a 10 in the talent spectrum. But when they

worked together, they really were. And I again, not my music, not my thing. But I was again,

I'm always impressed with people that can rise above, that can do these things. One of my all-time

guilty pleasures, the Spice Girls. I love the Spice Girls. I do. I do. I admit it. That's awesome.

M Night Shyamalan is 55. At one point was considered the next Spielberg with his run of early movies

and then he kind of went to the well too many times. I think he became a little too

too free with his obsessions and putting him on the screen and things. I mean,

six cents by all accounts, great movie all the way around. It's just a fabulous movie. And then

diminishing returns after that for a lot of them. I saw a couple movies I couldn't stand. I just

didn't like them. I think that science was the one that really pushed people away. That got me.

Because in part because people were let down that the twist or what have you ending wasn't more

of a real hit home. I don't think it's worth. I think you just do a movie unless if you have

miraculous twist, sure. But this whole, can we please end the whole dream sequence thing?

Oh, he woke up and it was all the dream. It was all the dream. Laziest storytelling of all time.

I hate that story once. Once. That's it. It worked once. But now you can't do it anymore.

Nobody can do it again. And for him, again, there's a theme here, I guess today, unintentionally,

but he couldn't win away and never does anything again. But he keeps going at it. Does the last

airbender and some movies that aren't his and kind of proves that he can do scripts that aren't his

own. And then he comes out with a couple of movies that are bangers. They're really good. And

kind of gets back to what he was good at. And then, of course, he's had those last two movies

bombed and done horrible. But that's the life. And that is part of the business. Yeah.

I will say the sixth sense is, and I was raised on suspense movies and Alfred Hitchcock and all

that and everything. And Jordan Peele is the new Hitchcock. He's amazing. But M. Night Shyamalan's

The Sixth Sense is one of the greatest suspense movies. If not, you can make an argument. The greatest.

Yep. Suspense movie. There's ever been everything. It's really like that. It is a flawless movie.

It is so much so. My best friend in the world spoiled the movie for me. I told me the ending. Oh,

no. Twice. Just in case I forgot. And I still love that movie. And it was enthralled

and blown away by it. It was incredible movie. And I'm guessing that's one of those things

that totally worked. It was an earlier movie. I know he'd made movies before that. But that was

an earlier movie in his career when you make a movie like that. What do you do? Yeah. It's like

Citizen Kane. What do you do after that? Man, it's like, it's hard. The Admiral David Robinson is

60 NBA legend. San Antonio, San Antonio Spur center and champion multiple times. I think you

at least won one. Maybe one two. He did. I think I believe he won two. Yeah. Great, great play.

One of the best. The Admiral. I mean, what do you think? Right. David Robinson went to

it. We was in Navy. Yeah. I believe he went to the Naval Academy as a matter of fact.

Yeah. That's where he got the nickname Melissa. That's another. It's a great nickname for

a nice player. One of my favorite pictures of him was always in his whites. His navy whites. He

looks so good in those. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The wonderful. And I think one of yours, Michelle,

Yao is 63. I met him. I'm horrible in Wicked movies. She is a Philippa in Star Trek Discovery.

And of course, one best actress for everything everywhere all at once. And was also

in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I love Michelle Yao. She is one of those people that no matter

what she's in, she makes it better. And I totally believe that. She is so amazing. One of my favorite

stories about her. So she was in, she was a Bond girl in one of like tomorrow,

never die, whatever, whichever was one of those peers. And when they first approached her

about this, you know, because she was used to doing action movies, you know, and, you know,

the stuff, they approached her, said, do you want to be in a, you know, James Bond movie? She's

like, really, I get to be James Bond. And they're like, no, you're the Bond girl. After that,

she was a little disappointed. She's like, but then they, you know, they worked the script. So,

I mean, she is no normal Bond girl in that at all. Yeah. I mean, she does an amazing job. And

that's why I mean, she's a me, I, she's one of my all-time favorites. Yeah. Love her. She's

incredible. Yeah. And I would love to have seen her at James Bond. I, I would love to see. She

would have made an amazing, yeah. She wanted to kill it. She was, but awesome. And she shares a

birthday with, when we look at people no longer with us, the legend Lucille Ball. Born in 1911,

Pestway in 1989. Lucille? It all really starts with her. And what I love so much about

Lucille Ball, and that is a long list, everybody. I say that it all starts with her, and she would be

the first person to tell you that it doesn't. You know, that's just, for, as, as bolded of a bulldog

as she was, and how much she had to fight, like pulling, like pulling up your sleeves and getting

into it, every room that woman walked into was filled with nothing but old white men. And that's,

they thought they knew more than her and thought that they could, you know, outsmart her or whatever.

And all she did was walk out of every one of them with them dumbfounded. She, incredible human

being, that entertainment industry is not what it is today without Lucille Ball. Right. Period. And

period. I mean, in her early movie career, she was an ingenue, you know? She appeared in several

films in like the forties and stuff. She, people kind of knew who she was, but it wasn't until

she, she founded a production company and made her own TV show, which became Lucille Ball. That's

right. First female studio head in Hollywood. That's right. And, and if this, if that story broke

in 2025, it would, it would lead most of our shows, it would be a headline. It would be such a big

deal. Did she did that then? In the 1950s. Yeah. It also speaks, and it also speaks to the fact

that it hasn't happened enough since. Right. That's, that's true. Very, very, very. We, a couple

quotes by her. Can I just go ahead? Go ahead. I'd rather regret the things I've done than the

regret the things I haven't done. That makes it. Oh, that's grace. Love it. The secret of staying

young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. So good. And she was really funny.

We have to forget about that. She's also very funny person. I would say it's a, it's, it's tough

for me to decide between her and, um, no, no. I, I think Lucille Ball had the greatest community

timing I've ever seen. No, there you go. Yeah, I think, I think it's the best I've ever seen.

Just flawless, flawless. It's top notch. Yeah. Love yourself first and everything else falls

into line. Oh, that's the way one. That's my favorite one of first. We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on The Morning Show at WFHR. Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR. Summer edition of the show. We hope you're having a good one out there.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you. Got some interesting story I want to get into here

in a moment. But real quick, a little bit of breaking news, if you will, from a connection I have.

I happen to know a guy over at the United, no, Terry John C over your night away of South

Williams County sent this over to us. Due to the forecasted rain tomorrow, they have moved the

school supply collection, stuffed the bus to East junior high school from 11 to one. All right.

We encourage you to spread this the word out to this. Yeah, maybe you know some families that

have signed up for that. Make sure that they are aware of that and they know or some people that

want to drop supplies off. I'm sorry. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you know, or help out or anything like that.

If you want, you can reach out to the United Way to find out more,

www.swac.org. I would encourage you to do that. We give them a call 715-421-0390.

We help take the guesswork out of it. You'll drop it off here today because it's the last day we're

accepting those items. So yes, drop them off here. We will take care of them tomorrow.

Yeah, we'll bring them over there ourselves. If I got to do it personally, I'll bring it over

there and everything. If anything, just to bug Terry on her, on her stomping grounds,

I heard her for once. Yeah, like she does to me all the time. We appreciate Terry and the gang

over there at the United Way. Keep up the great work and thanks for letting us know about that.

We'll get that information out there a couple of times this hour. Yes.

So I, you know, I've been doing radio here half my life. I've been in Wisconsin half my life.

And one of the things that I've tried to do is embrace some of the, you know, things about

Wisconsin that I love and enjoy. And some of that is, of course, having all my kids were born here.

My brother was born in this state and those kind of things. But one thing I never,

I never get lost in the shuffles that I am never going to be a, a actual Wisconsinite.

Right. Most Wisconsinites make sure to let me know that.

But every once in a while, I get to raise my chin up as a, as a, as a proud Eleanorium.

Eleanorium. And this is one of those moments for me.

All right. Eleanorium just became the first state to ban AI therapists.

A press release this week by Governor JP Pritzker signed the bill into law last Friday.

People can still ask chat GPT for advice on their own time. It just spans companies and actual

therapists from using it like that. The new law says license therapists in Eleanorium. I can't use

AI to quote make therapeutic decisions or communicate with patients. They can only use it for

administrative work or things like managing their calendar. Therapists or companies that don't

follow the new rules can be fined up to $10,000 per violation. It's supposed to help protect

people from bad advice and also to protect jobs. The press release included a line about

protecting the jobs of Illinois thousands of qualified behavioral health providers.

So the big question is will other states follow this or is this starting, the starting something

that is going to be much more talked about AI bills, AI laws, some of those things. We are

way, way, way behind on this one just like we were with the internet. For many, many years

those of us that work at the family center or places like that could not understand how somebody

that gets caught with a marijuana is doing hardcore time where somebody gets caught with

raping somebody is doing a couple of months like some of those things. Now some of that has gotten

better. It isn't where it needs to be but it's gotten better. That is an example of where we were

with the internet. Like that's that's rape and I know nobody likes that word. I'm sorry that

you're uncomfortable with it. That's our society. And if you don't like it, let's get rid of those

numbers and let's bring those numbers down and start bringing domestic violence numbers down.

Otherwise, I'm not going to shy away from words and I'm not, I'm going to make people face

stuff. When it comes to something like this, we need to face this. I know, I'm tired of hearing

people talk about AI. I'm so tired of it. You want to get, you want to get done talking, talking

about it. Let's solve it. Let's figure this out. This, I don't, I don't say that, oh, this is the

bill to end all bills. This is the greatest bill of all time. I don't mean like that. No, they're

doing something. Yeah. They're trying. They're working at it. And one of the more important

aspects of all of this, AI is meant to make our lives easier. It's not better. It's not

supposed to be easier. It's supposed to be better. Better. There's a big, big, big difference of that.

And AI, doing my therapy. No, thanks. On any level, there is no level where I'm uncomfortable

with AI in the brain and diagnosing things or anything. I'm not even sure how comfortable I am

with a calendar. I don't even know how to feel about that. Well, because it's exaggerating a little.

Every, well, what we see now, every time you look at an AI, if it comes up unbidden, by the way,

it's not something that I was, you know, looking for. It's just there. It always says the same thing.

It may, some of the information may be incorrect. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, okay. That alone should make

you pause, right? To say, wait a minute. Okay. And then now you were talking about like possible

vulnerable people. Yes. Okay. That, that this is could be extremely dangerous for people who might

be looking at self harm or something like that, you know, or in a bad quandary, that kind of thing.

No, no, we cannot have AI doing that. It's not qualified. Remember, please, everyone. Remember,

all AI as it is constituted right now is just the stuff that it's gotten from the internet.

Okay. Stuff it's scraped from other places, which is a whole other topic. But this is stuff that

it doesn't have. There's everything's not on the internet. First of all, we can't have anything there.

It's not thinking on its own. No. It's not doing that. All it is is coming up with the next

most likely thing. It's literally the odds. That's what it is. It's probability. That's all

that it is. It's looking at what this is used the most this way. So it's probably going to be this,

right? Like autocorrect, right? On your phone. How wrong is autocorrect? Often. Often, this is just

this. It's the same thing. So we have to remember where we are right now. Don't stop. Do not

do not listen to the AI companies and what they are saying. I hate to say it like this. They're

lying to you. They are lying about what it's capable of right now because they need to keep their

stock price up. Yeah. They have invested a lot in this and billions of dollars. They're going to

try. They're not going to be able to, but they're going to try to get their money out of it.

We're going to try and they're going to use us to do it. They're going to use us to do it.

And that's all that. This is going. This is the job of politicians to look at the gray areas

in life, the things that we're not taking care of on our own as a society. And to be able to look

out or look ahead or think ahead or any of these things, if you're on the fence about this,

if you think that we're over exaggerating, every single one of you out there have called a

customer service line with some kind of annoyance or some kind of product problem or something,

something that is difficult, but probably not the end of days for you. But a frustration

doesn't listen. It don't make light of. And how many of you have called up and gotten a computer

system and representative representative representative. The problem isn't on the list that they put out

there for you. Of course not. Represented them. It drives you insane. Real person. Real person.

Real person. Now imagine you're in a mental health crisis. Yeah. And that's what you're dealing

with. That's what they're trying to prevent you. These are vulnerable people. I think the next

fascinating part of this is where will other states follow suit or should they or not. Because

I'm not saying that this is again, the law to end all laws and that this is the right way to

handle this. I am, I am thankful that they are doing something. They're acknowledging that it's

there. It for nothing else. Exactly that. As I'm saying this out loud, I'm realizing the bar for

politics with me. Pretty darn low. Just the fact that they're doing something. It's pretty,

it's kind of sad. Yeah. Really just kind of sad. I didn't realize that as I was saying it. How many

of us have already heard stories about people having conversations with chat GBT and it turns

really dark. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, those are just conversations. Yeah. It's not a, I'm in a mental

health crisis and I need help. So yeah. The press released mentioned one real life example of how

AI doesn't always give great advice. A study last year had a therapy chatbot talk to fictional

patients, including a former addict named Pedro. And it ended up telling Pedro, it's absolutely

clear. You need a, you need to basically do drugs. The AI told him that the only way he would

feel better is if he did the drugs because because it doesn't know because it's not thinking for

it's not thinking. It's not thinking. It's not thinking. It can't feel. And really the only real reason

I brought all of this on is to talk about the most insane song of all time more than a feeling

which doesn't take any sex. How can it be more than a feeling if you feel it? I think I'll

get you bring it back to Boston. I was just trying to find a way to wrap up. I was trying to find

a drill. That song might have been early AI. I don't know. I could have been AI could easily write

any Boston. I'm sorry. Oh, nice. I'm trying to insult Boston. The great band got a lot more hits

than I got. But I feel like AI could have written that. Oh, I love it. Don't change the thing. I'm

this is going to be the next story over the next five, 10 years of new bills, new laws being

created and how they, you know, whether they are a positive or negative and stuff and figuring

that out. And if they work or not, if they help the other thing too, yeah, that's it. And also,

I wonder how many of them will be written by AI. Oh, the irony. The irony. That's the perfect

type of humor where there's a little bit of truth in there. We will take a quick time out.

We back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR. I mean, if it's called more than a feeling,

don't think I know this one. Neil Diamond playing us in here.

I don't know. There's many more smoother singers in history that Neil Diamond. I'm not a Neil

Diamond guy or anything. I respect the man very much. And in his career, very, very songwriter,

absolutely. But I don't know. I've heard many. I couldn't tell you what my favorite Neil Diamond song

is. I don't know. But there are a few singers I've heard that make sound so smooth and so

natural. This is one of my favorite songs he has. That's a good one. He has a good one. Melissa,

Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for hanging out with us everybody. We got some

fun stuff to get into before we wrap up the hour. This is an interesting one. There's a forum online

where people from around the world are sharing the non-American, quote, non-American things that are

highly recommended to Americans. And here are a few of the really good ones. We'll see now along

with this, I want to see what's the likelihood we will do these things or whether it's in our

lifetimes or not. First one on the list, month long vacations or holidays or going on holidays.

Going on holiday, which is something I want my, that's the only, that's the way to get me to go

on vacation. I get to say I'm going on holiday. Man, that sounds cool. While we got another,

we got another bullet in our arsenal there, Melissa. Let's keep trying that. One of these days,

it's a holiday. It walked into that one. Doesn't that sound cooler than going on vacation though?

We every time we walk through the room, holiday. Nice, nice. America is work obsessed and is one of

the countries that offer the least paid vacation days around the whole entire world. As a surprise

to absolutely nobody. Yeah. Which again, you cannot use as an excuse, James. Civic media.

Very generous. No, yes. We are vacation days. We are very lucky here. I don't know. I don't think

that that's likely to happen in our lifetimes. I would love to say, now I do think though that we

are closer and closer every day to a four day work week. I agree. So that's part of where I'm

thinking my thinking is. Let's hope this comes like after that, maybe part of that whole thing.

That'd be nice. But how ridiculous that to me, the greatest country is so behind entry

and treat, treating its people. Like we should be getting this better than most. We got,

we're the youngest of all these countries. We should be able to learn from their mistakes

and everything. Come on. Now that also though, as much as we beat up on our fellow Americans in

ourselves and myself, I'll speak for myself. I beat up myself about my work that I am work

obsessed in all these things. It's to a degree understandable. Whether it was our ancestors

or not, the ancestors that started this country had to work their tails off. There was nothing

to build on infrastructure wise or government wise or a lot of these things. And it's not surprising

that all these generations later, again, even if your relatives didn't come over on the main flour,

that you have this obsessive work ethic as soon as you get into this country. Look at how we

talk about accents and you spend a couple of months in a state and you start picking up an accent.

It's not that different and it's just something that I don't think we need to point the finger

as a blame. It's more of we need to fix this. We need to make this better. Let's find it better

for everyone. Yeah. Because the other side of that page is that so many people have to work

constantly just to be able to make rent just to be able to afford to live. There's no time

to take off. Right. That's part of it too. The next one. Taxes included in the price tag

not to mention service fees and tips. So what you would see is what you're paying.

Right. That would be nice. That would be nice. That's really nice to know.

Exactly. And I think that's something we could do. I think that's something we could do.

I think a lot of people would be- I think corporations would, yeah, but corporations would push back

on that. Of course. Because they like to show you that fake number of what it actually is.

And then we add all these fees to it. Great. Yes. It's going to be this much, but oh,

and then this and this junk fees, I believe they're called. Yes. High-speed trains or trains in

general for public transit, not for freight. Oh, I hope so. Oh, I hope so. I'm completely

fine. It was so close. Yeah. They don't make any sense. It doesn't make it, especially when

you consider how much we use trains still for transporting goods for freight. Yes.

They're good enough to transport freight, but not people. Yeah. Get out of here with that.

Yeah. We can do both. Well, you know, the railroads would have to put in a lot more

safety and support their workers before he's safe and over. I love, I love

trains. I love everything about them, except for a lot of the way that the railroad industry has run

this. You guys are absolutely right in both counts. The industry that, you know, should be one of

the heartbeats of this country has become a little bit more of what more money can I get.

Yeah. And I'm so big. I can't fail. I'm so big that I can just pay off fines if I do things

and you don't like in your communities. And by the way, it's about to become a complete, almost

complete monopoly because the two biggest ones are looking to merge. And with the administration,

I think it's going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which monopolies are not good for anybody.

No. Join Michael and I a little bit later on playmakers as we talk about the ESPN and NFL

merger. Oh, yeah. What's going on with that? Implications. There is the only good monopoly is the

board game. That's it. I would also argue that that is also not that great. Yeah. Yeah.

It's going to be trapped for three or four hours. So right. It's monopolizing my time.

It is. Oh my goodness. So games never end. They end. It's just with the board game in the

air and my father running off the table over my father with a literal $500 monopoly bill in his pocket.

Like, what are you going to do with that? Throwing hotels at you. What are you going to do with that?

Hot legal tender. Tall, uh, towel warmers in bathrooms. Oh, I don't know. It sounds nice.

I ran across that one time. Oh my goodness. I can picture the bathroom. But I don't know where it is.

Oh, no. Oh, yeah. No, it was really. I was like, whoa. I've never seen that. I do think that sounds

nice. Very good. Along with that heated floors instead of vented heat. Yes. So that is coming to

be more a little more. You see it often. It's called geothermal and it's if you if you tie that in

with heat pumps, you have amazing energy efficiency. Yeah. Oh my God. And you have very comfortable

houses as well. Mm hmm. Just throwing that out there. Um, chicken salt. Uh, it's it's uniquely

Australian. Everybody should try it. It's apparently just an incredible salt. Okay. From chickens.

Yeah. Yeah. I know. Or maybe they just used on chickens a lot. I don't know. This is literally

the first time I've ever heard of it. Never heard of it. I mean, I've heard of veggie

might, but now we're going to do. Right. Um, uh, uh, uh, uh, so, uh, poutine. Um, yeah.

Poutine. It's fries, gravy, cheese, curds. It seems like it'd be. Yeah. It's a Canadian. Yeah.

Yeah. Very Canadian. That's where it comes from. It's Canada. Yeah. That's wow. I've had it before.

It's delicious. Yeah. And I've seen it at place or two here in Wisconsin. Um, desserts that

aren't insanely sweet. Just desserts. Yeah. Oh, I'm totally on board with that. Man,

the best pies aren't super sweet. By the way, I just want to put that out there.

Freshly, uh, fresh squeezed juice machines and grocery stores. Oh,

never thought of that. Sounds good to me, though. Uh, split duvets. Uh, no more blanket stealing.

You can, you can regulate your temperature. Nice, nice, nice. It's an interesting one. I wouldn't

have thought about that. Um, let's see here. Uh, butter on sandwiches. Okay. Yeah. Um,

a lot of people do that anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Butter and your other thing. Yeah.

Exactly. Butter adds another factor. Moisture and moisture. Yep. This one has been on the rise,

which I didn't find no until reading this article. But days, I was going to say that's got to be

on the list. Yeah. But days have been in traction in the US. That's great to hear. And chicken

salt, a blend of herbs, spices, salt, onion powder, and garlic powder. Oh, it's a seasoning.

Nice. A blended seasoning. Oh, very cool. And finally, on things that other people outside

of the country think that we should try to do here in this country, quality of life improvements,

like universal health care, um, and maternity and childcare, lead and affordable college.

Yep. That's, that's right. I'm on board. Yes. On board. We'll be back with more show.