Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us at WFHR.
Your host, James, you're joined by our Head of News, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning. And our head of production of our co-host, Seth Habagger. Good morning.
Now I want a dramatic pause. I was going to say, should I pause before that? Yeah,
I'd like that. We hope you're all having a great start to your morning out there.
Thanks so much for kicking things off with us. May have noticed we didn't have
Brittany today. I do believe she'll be back though this week. We're looking forward to
that. I don't see a shout out to her. And a shout out to all of you. Hope you had a
great weekend, everybody. We're going to give you a good start to the week.
Elca Faber, birthday and anniversary club. Right around the corner, be diving in
this celebrity birthdays and some local ones. We got a, that a right story that we
got to get to because I'll just spoil it if we don't. It's coming up in a
little bit about a woman and a one of those art, toy, claw machines, claw machines.
Thank you. There you go. Yeah. That coming up for a little bit in a little bit. If
you need to, need something from a Kia, go to head Best Buy. Yeah. Yeah. What? That's
good. Oh, okay. And one of the more difficult, more philosophical questions that I
think we're going to ask of our audience. And I know it's early. So I'm going to try
to wait until later in the show to do it. But do you wear deodorant when you're home
alone? Yes. I believe. Socrates struggle with this. There's a lot of great
philosophers. Philosophical debate. Yes. Yeah. We're bad. Do you really smell?
We already have Melissa's answer. So have this. It's spoiled. It's not a joke. I'm
kidding. No, no, no kidding. We got, we'll get it. She was very emphatic about it too.
She was like, yes. It was fantastic. I would have written that line for you if you had
set up a list. That was great. All that covered up for you. We'll kick off the 10 o'clock
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It's your act together. Somebody worn all the businesses in town. I'm going to be showing up.
How you doing? Who are you again? I got this show. I'm going to bring the show with me. How
you doing? I got this guy morning show. All that coming up free will also get in some entertainment
news afterwards. We'll have some fun there. Before we wrap up the 10 o'clock hour, the
2025 finalists for a strangest pet insurance claim of the year. Oh, we do these every year,
don't we? Yeah. Get into that a little bit later. As somebody whose kids are in their 20s and
a little bit older and everything, I've noticed this in recent years. Even with doing a morning
show, I don't know the exact date that school goes back to indecestion. I feel like I do. And
I have a pretty good idea. So I'm going to test myself here alive on the air with you.
Okay. All right. First, I will ask, do you know? I do. Okay. I figured it out. I do know. Yes.
Of course. I figured it out. You guys start planning now. Yeah. I also did what to put about
the spot. But James, in your defense, it also is different from school district to school district.
Very true. Very fair. And just looking at locally here, I believe it's the first week of September,
September, second or something like that. That's for a lot of the day after Labor Day for this year.
I know that let's see, in Wisconsin, in general, the rule for public schools is after the first
September. You can't start before that. Now, private schools can start whenever they want. Of
course, they can do that in Minnesota. I believe it still has to wait till after Labor Day in order
to start school. So it might start a little bit later in that sense. And then there are schools
that are doing year round. Yeah. Have a certain number of weeks on and then a certain number of weeks.
Right. Right. You just go to school year round. There's a couple of schools in Tulma that do that.
No. In the public school system. Oh, that's interesting. There must be like a charter kind of thing
going on with that one. Yeah. There's a couple of the elementary schools. That's interesting.
I would do that the year round school thing in Fementa graduated sooner. No, I'm joking.
I wouldn't have any choice. We had a lot of it. For many years ago, we had an exchange
room from Australia. And they do the two months on one month off method. So they do it year round.
But you always get a month off after every semester or whatever they called it down there.
But do we know why we set up the school year the way we originally did? I think it has to do
with farming. I would say so. That's what makes the most sense. Yeah. Because that's the growing
season, right? When you need more people, especially your kids, right? Back in the day,
the big family farms. Yeah. So do I have this wrong? Did we always start school in August?
I feel like we are always back to school in August. Like even by now, we'd be in school or maybe
by the end of August, or I don't know, August, but I don't know. I don't know. I think you're not
wrong, James. Because there, I do remember some years going back at like toward the end of the
last week of August or something. More public schools having to do that. And I always was like,
we don't go back till September 15 or something like that. I tie it together with when the
fall schedule for TV shows started. I remember, wow, I remember school year started. We know what's
important to James. Absolutely. 100%. Yes. That was the date he looked for. But yeah. So that's
what I was thinking. But we are a couple of weeks out one way or the other, wherever your kids,
little ones are starting to school and everything. But who's more excited for going back to school
season? Your oldest kid, your youngest or you? In a new poll, more than 1000 adults were asked how
they usually felt about going back to school when they were kids. 35% said that they were generally
happy about it. And including 14% were very happy. 38% said that they were generally sad about it,
including 16% who were very sad. And another 25% said that they were neither happy nor sad.
Where did you guys fall on this one? And not not year to year, of course, but overall.
Overall. Well, for my first grade year, while you go through the whole thing,
that'd be impressive, actually. You can remember that. Wow.
I was typically ready to go back to school by the time school came around because summer's
meant a lot of work. Oh, okay. Because we did the full garden, we did all the painting, we did
all the the picking, the weeding, so much weeding. So, so I was ready to go back to school.
It was a break, yeah. In ways. And the thing I the the subject I looked forward to the most for
some odd reason throughout the summer was math. Interesting. And I and I didn't feel like I was good
at it in school, but it was the one subject I missed during the summer. That's how interesting
that is. Wow. Hey, fun. I took the the SATs before I had actually had algebra, because
oh, way schooling happened for me. And I actually scored really well on the math section.
Really? Nice. I'm just a good guesser. Because I've never had algebra before I took it. Wow,
or either that or you have an intuitive knowledge of algebra, I guess. I don't know. No, no,
I don't. That's my algebra scores would tell you. And actually, when I actually took it near,
I did much better in geometry. Oh, that's hilarious. Oh, my gosh, theorems, theorems,
drumming nuts. All right. Okay. Sorry. What kind of a kid were you, Seth? I don't remember ever liking
going back to school or wanting to go back to school. When you have a birthday on the 19th of August,
yeah, which is you look forward to, you know, when you're kid, that's one of the big things of the
year, right? And then, but I knew every time as soon as my birthday was done, school was just
around the corner. So I was like, I don't, yeah, I don't ever remember being excited about it.
Going back to school, not because, you know, I did find in school, you know, kind of thing,
but I think it's because partially I was bored in school. There's not much, you know, because I
pick up things quickly and, you know, and yeah, so other kids, you know, you have to learn
differently. Everyone's differently, kind of thing. So I was usually sitting there, you know,
waiting for the test. Can I just do the test? Can I just do the test? That's fine. I want to give
me the test. No, Melissa, we're just nodding our head right. We're like, yeah, we do that. Yeah,
we, we get a guess that way. That's interesting. No, my kids, this is interesting. So my oldest is
going into high school. He's going to be a freshman at Lincoln this year. And he couldn't be more
excited about it. Oh, good. Partially because he knows he's really excited about the classes he
gets to take, you know, finally, he gets, you know, again, smart, smart kid, you know, and he knows
what, you know, he can get it. If I do this, I can get this done and I can do this and all these
kinds of things because he's now big into theater now. So he knows he gets to do more that, hopefully.
But I think the biggest thing is his best friend is moving to Lincoln. His friend was at assumption,
but for high school, he's going to Lincoln. So now he gets to be with his best friend. I think
that's the biggest thing for him. He's really excited about that one. That's cool. That's cool.
That's really good. And my youngest is going to middle school and I don't even know if he cares. Yeah,
I don't know that he's not a big school guy to begin with. Yeah, basically. Yeah. Another thing to do.
Yeah. I'm going to be honest. I don't remember. I don't remember. I can remember like my senior year
how I felt, but outside of that, I don't remember that. Well, I'll say that knowing me, I probably
was a mixed bag. I love, love learning. If you had to guess. Yeah. Yeah. If I had to guess,
I probably, I probably leaned closer to looking forward to it, but not wanting to let it show.
I was very bad. I still did this day kind of amp about liking things and letting it,
it's not so much that I want other people or not to know or to know. It's like,
letting myself enjoy something, letting myself look forward to something. I've always had
to do with that. The getting the rug pulled out from under you a lot. You know, when you're
young, it kind of gives you this trigger effect. Yeah. It's a little paranoid. Yeah.
With the things when you're, when you're worried, it won't happen. So when you have 10 different
schools before your 10 and all of these things, every school year, you're, you're kind of like,
okay, I might just go into the scene. Am I going to even know other people? Am I going to know
where to go to class? Where am I going to go to have lunch? A lot of anxiety. Yeah. Oh,
am I going to sit with next at lunch and all those things? So that's, that's stuff that I was
thinking about, but I will say, I think that overall, I probably enjoyed when school got going,
because the one thing that I was missing throughout my whole childhood was routine. Structuring.
Never had any of that. That I, you had some with that. And, and, and whether I realize it or not,
whether you're subconscious or not, I think I looked forward to that. Like most kids do. Yeah.
Kids like routine. Be humans like routine. Humans. Yeah. In general. Yes.
Then parents with school kid at school age kids were asked how they feel about their children
going back to school. 51% said that they are happy about it, including 22% who are very happy
and 22% who sad about it, including 7% who said that they are very sad their kids are.
And then 23% who didn't feel they're the way the way the matter. Yeah. The parents who are sad
about it might be stressed about school related concerns and a poll the most concern, the most
common concerns parents have are bullying students not meeting learning objectives, violence,
students depression and anxiety, teacher shortages, funding shortages and the banning of books.
Wow. Yeah. Just on the list. Just a couple little things that parents got to deal with now.
And how many of those are self made by us as a society? For what it's worth when people
were asked how they prefer we handle the shortages of teachers and funding. 74% said that they like
to pay teachers more. 29% said that they'd like to see the school day reduced from five days to four.
Ooh. That's how many days a week I went to school as a kid.
Boy, you know, my old high school just last year went to a four day work, you know, the first
school I believe in Minnesota to do that first public school. And I should go back and see
how that went with them and see if they have some results because I was very interested to see
how that would work for them. I know the teachers were very excited about it just because I mean
for understandable reasons, if nothing else they get an extra day that they can catch up.
Yeah. Right. Where they don't have kids to worry about. They can just catch up with all the stuff
they have to do anyway. Well, and look at how often they have, I mean, some schools have gone
to like a delayed start on Mondays that teachers have time for collaboration. They have such
large numbers in classrooms now and to have individual because kids learned individually.
And to have that ability to tailor things for even small groups within your bigger group
at things time. It sure does. It has an effort and thought and emotion and so many things.
Teachers are amazing. They are. But the reason that we had off on Fridays is so that we could
clean the house. There you go. That was always the Friday. Chorris. Chorris. We actually have a lot
of parallels. Melissa is surprisingly now. Yes. What you were saying about working during
the summers and some of those other things. I feel like you're just without the high control
religions. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. There's gifts and takes there with both
of our stories. It's kind of funny. Almost the opposite. Yeah. They're fascinating. How things
yet? How they work out that way. So when you bring up a four day work week or a four day school
week, any of these things, I think that especially when it comes to the four day school week or anything
involving kids in knowledge or our kids in school, I should say. There is this pushback that
immediately comes up of comparing herself to other countries and how much more advanced their
children are or their test scores compared to ours or anything like this. We really, really,
truly need to stop doing this as a society. Just as much as we compare one household to the next.
It doesn't make any sense. Every kid learns definitely. Every person learns differently. Every
household is different with a different set of circumstances. Same thing from country to country.
The, the, if we are worried, that worried about kids in school and education, then why are we
cutting funding left and right? How does that add up question? Yeah. I didn't, I didn't, I was never
the a valedictorian. I was never the smartest person in my class, but I don't even, even I know
that doesn't add up. Right. Right. I didn't know how to perpetuate high school to know that.
The number you just read, 74% of people want to pay teachers more, 74%. That's a large number.
It seems like the people that are holding that back are the people that want more in their,
their paycheck. The people that I don't know, tell me how many congressmen, how many senators,
how many presidents are earning their paycheck? That's a great question. Because I know they like
to look at us and tell us if we're earning ours. I know they like to tell us and look at our
bank accounts. Are you working hard enough? They like to tell us what to do with our money. I,
they're, I mean, just as much an American citizen as the rest of us. They're no higher on the
podium told than us. Yep. Like I don't look at any single politician in history as anything other
than an American citizen. Do I respect your job title? Sure. But you don't have more rights or
more say than I do. That's right. And you sure darn sure shouldn't be making more than I am.
That's right. I work a lot harder than any politician out there. I'll put my work day against
anybody's out there. Yeah. Don't make any sense to me. And I guarantee that any teacher out there
is working twice as hard as I am. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't you're paying more. And I, let's see what
happens here. I'm sorry, Melissa. Let's see what happens here. If we did do this, what would happen
if we paid teachers more? What would happen if we put more into the education system? Do we think
that like society would fall over? What's the downside to that? Seriously? What is the negative
to that? Don't miss me with the national debt and all of these things. Not a single soul out there
is ever woke up in the middle of the night. Oh my god. The national debt went up. Not a politician
to any soul out there. Nothing and none of that. We that is the making of our own. Don't let them
twist that on you and make exactly. Let's put some money in education and see what happens.
I'll use my shoe if it doesn't work out. And like you said, James, it's not, it's not
not necessarily needed to compare us to other countries, but there are some things that we can look
at that we know statistically would improve children's education. If education was funded,
if kids weren't hungry, if we started early, you know, literacy earlier, if they were able to
access 4K pre-Kenergarten starting early and then also taking care of our child care system.
So that parents have after school care before school care so they can work so they can have
money to put food on the table for their children. Yep, there you go. That was the point I was
going to make. You got it right on there. We'll come back with the LK Faber birthday and
anniversary club on the morning show at WFHR.
It's a celebration. Welcome back. Sorry. Thanks Don Cornelius. It's time for the birthday
and anniversary club with our great friends over at LK FA. We encourage you tomorrow to treat
yourself. They'll be rested and back at it tomorrow. Looking forward to that. I hope they
enjoyed their break. Go ahead and go to LK FA WI dot com and check out their menu. Maybe make
some plans and then make plans to change those once you get there and see their specials.
It's happened to me more than once actually. I have to admit that. I've been there three times.
I can't help myself my brain just does it and I think each time I've gotten something different
there. Yeah. And when you walk in just like the smells is like oh my god what smells so good.
I want that. Be sure to follow them on social media as well and keep up to date and all the
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and talking with you everybody. And let's see here. Oh Seth, I need a one or a two. One.
Got our qualifier. So first up we get to wish a very happy birthday to Civic Media's own
Mark Lundin. Oh Mark. Happy birthday Mark. Happy birthday Mark. He's up in Hayward I believe.
Yeah. A white shirt guy. Yes. Yes. Famous for his shirts. Yes.
Green hair too. Grey hair. Yeah. Grey hair. Happy birthday Mark. Enjoy your neck.
Hope it's a good one for you. And we wish a very happy birthday to John Anderson.
Happy birthday John. John Anderson. How many people are in John Anderson? It's a tough one.
It's got to be tough. But hey happy birthday to all the John Anderson's out there.
Yeah. Specifically that one. Enjoy your day man. Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a very happy birthday to Shirley Bates our qualifier.
Hey happy birthday Shirley. Happy birthday Shirley. Enjoy the day. Hope it's a good one for you
Shirley. I like to make Shirley. That's a good day. Good name. And we take a look at who you're
sharing your birthdays with. Thor is 42. Chris Hemsworth is 42. All right. Not just
Thor in the Marvel movies of course, but has done a great job of getting a lot of other work.
I encourage people if you like action and you are a fan of Mr. Hemsworth,
the extraction movies on Netflix are incredible. They're amazing. He just he's he's such a good
leading man. He can carry a movie. The movie story is seen he really is. And with his health issues,
he is in the last couple of years talked about that he's going to be forced to retire sooner than
later. He's not going to be able to do this much longer. So I know that for me, I'm going to
appreciate whenever I get to see him and doing stuff. I don't know where I put him in the echelon
of actors or any of that. I just enjoy his work in him as a person. And I like a lot of the characters
we talked about in the Marvel universe. I never thought two seconds about Thor. I never thought
that much about the character. I love him doing that character and what he has done with that role.
And it stems a lot from the work he himself has done. That is correct. A lot of his personality
in there. Yeah. Viola Davis is 60. Speaking of superhero movies, I'm into Waller and the
Suicide Squad movies. She was of course in How to Get Away with Murder. And yes,
consummate actress. Yeah, I mean, yeah, like if you need if aliens land on this planet and they're
wondering what acting is showing Viola Davis, you know, yeah, yeah, she's that good.
We're stepping out today, everybody. Joe Jackson is 70 what? Oh my gosh. Where are my 80s kids?
Oh my gosh. Is she really going out with him? Is she really?
Oh yeah, Joe Jackson. I love him. Good stuff. Let's see here. John Connelly is 79 country singer,
Lady Lay Down, backside of 30 common man in my eyes. It's got a quite a few hits. Very cool.
And then some people no longer with this. Like Hulk Hogan would have been 72 today.
Of course, just recently passing away. Alex Haley, born in this day 1921, passed away in 1992.
Most famously, the author of Roots. Yes. My grandfather gave me a couple of books to read when I was
a kid. There was a War of the Worlds and in the Edgar Allan Poe collection and Uncle Tom's
cabin and Roots. He gave me this collection in part because of not only the stories that they
told in understanding American history a little bit more and all this, but understanding good authors
and good writing and that. And it should be, it should also be noted he was the one that helped
Malcolm X. Right. The autobiography of Malcolm X. It was as told to basically Alex Haley.
Yeah. It's one of my favorite books of all time. That book. Well, that book changed me.
And Eric Carmen, born in this day in 1949, passed away in 2024 just the other year.
Speaking of the 80s. Hungry eyes.
Well, that's for the dirty dancing sounds. Yeah, go ahead. I heard that song so much when I was
like, oh my god, I can't. Eric Carmen, very accomplished artist. Yes, he is. I can't handle his
music. I'm so sorry. I'm about to be for Eric Carmen. Oh, wait, he's successful. Nothing poor about
him. Yeah, he had a good, good life. Yes, he did. And everybody, again, out there celebrating your
birthdays, your anniversaries. We wish you fantastic ones and joy. We wish you a great day.
It's certainly a better day than this lady in California had at a Chuck E. Cheese.
Yeah, we're going to talk about what happened to her when we come back into that,
a right story. We got that coming up. It's after our news sports entertainment and partner
break right here on the morning show at WFHR.
Do all we can. I love the summer. Trump's please. Summer's fading, man. I know we got to enjoy
all we can. Hope y'all are having a good one saying those bad words. We hope you're having to go
now. They're Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Man, we're here to bring you with any
right story a little earlier in the show than usual, but this one. It's Monday. Kind of,
kind of, can't help myself. Let's do it. So remember the Chuck E. Cheese slogan where a kid can
be a kid. Right. Well, that works if there aren't adults messing things up for the kids. I mean,
an unidentified woman in California. And I just love this in this day and age where it feels like
everybody like each one of these stories always has the name attached to it. Right. I
know, I identified woman. I did. That's even better to me. I don't know. So this lady in
California was at a Chuck E. Cheese last Thursday afternoon when she decided to go inside a kid's
game called Snow Day. She got her arm stuck somehow and firefighters had to come free her.
Oh, brother. In the game, kids go into a large phone booth-shaped chamber and balls drop from
the top. You're supposed to grab the balls and put them into a hole with a certain amount of time.
Ah, okay. The old ticket booth thingy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Man, I would have killed it at this game.
Where was this one? We were kids. No, right. Might, might. You just had a ball pit. Yeah. Oh my
God. That's so awesome. I want to do that. I'm stuck. All right. I want to. The woman got her
whole arm stuck inside the hole and she was so trapped that she couldn't move. Oh, no. Unfortunately
for her, there were plenty of people around with cell phones. So, you know, they were taking video
I'm sure. Yeah. And somebody posted a video online and then went viral. It took firefighters
22 minutes to rescue her. She was fine. She even remained at the Chuck E. Cheese with her family.
Why? Okay. Okay. We're a quick pause. This happens to you. Are you leaving or do you
stay the rest of the event or whatever it is that you brought you there? Because I'll be
completely honest and I don't have a lot of like I don't I have shame but I don't really worry
about what other people think of me that much. Sure. I am leaving this Chuck E. Cheese and I am
determining whether or not I need to move. Do I need to leave town? Do I? I'm telling you,
this is a boss move by her. Yeah. I mean, that's really cool. I'm totally. I'm totally
with her on that one, man. Yeah. Nice. But my question is why did she need to stick her whole arm
down the tube? If all you're supposed to do is put the balls in there. Yeah. That's for balls,
lady. Not your arm. Yeah. Yeah. Now Chuck E. Cheese is going to have to print new stickers that say
do not stick arm in. You're so right about this. Yeah. To make it stuck. To that point, Melissa,
it's unclear why she went into the game or why she stuck her arm into the hole. That's very
next to the article. Very unclear. Nobody asked her. She didn't know what she was doing as she
fell into it or maybe she was trying to retrieve something she didn't fall in or something.
Oh, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. In any event, the game was shut down until technicians could
look into it. Right. So a bunch of kids were upset, definitely. They chucked something,
reached out and grabbed me. I don't know what it was. There. Now that's what my defense would be.
Right. That's like a horror movie right there. Yeah. I got to come up with something here.
They've set in a Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, my God. I got I got to come up with something other than
I was curious. I was interested and see what I don't know. I wanted to see what happens. Yeah.
Yeah. But seriously, guys, that would actually make a better horror film than like turning
what did they turn into a horror film? Oh, they've done so many. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That one. Yeah.
No, set it in a Chuck E. Cheese. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's sort of the premise of five nights at
Freddy's is going to say, but this is a little bit different though. It's a little different.
Yeah. There's not an arcade in that. I don't remember a Chuck E. Cheese spokesperson said the game
does not pose a risk and that the young quote young adults was young adult was playing one of the
games instead intended for children and decided to stick their arm in a hole not intended for
hands or arms. There you go. So you're a little too old and you're too big and you're doing
something I'm not supposed to. Yeah. And yet you stayed there afterwards. I give her a
I give her a fork for that one. Yeah. Yeah. That's for sticking it out. Good job. This would definitely
I could definitely see this happening to me. I could definitely now I wouldn't happen to me
because I was curious. I would have I could definitely see dropping something one of my you know
something in my it was in my hand and dropping it down there and just reaching down not even
thinking about it to get it out of there. That's true. Fair. And I could definitely see this
happening to me because if I'm around something like that you can go ahead and have must be this age
to do it or not. No. I'm at the point in my life at the National Night Out where I'm walking past
a bouncy house and I'm thinking about well if I get my shoes off really quick and I jump in and
out of there. Maybe nobody will notice that. Yeah. No one will notice. Yeah. I'm I'm at that
any right story myself right now. I don't know. Maybe like the monkey and then in the jar and
reach in. Yeah. Grab the thing and then you can't get your hand out because you're not going to
let go of the thing. Right. Oh yes. And then you're there for eternity. I have been I have been
joking about this for a while. But in all honesty like as adults we see stuff that kids are doing
all the time that we didn't get to do. Right. That does bring out the kid in you. And like I can't
be the old one. Those little electric cars. Yes. Oh, slot cars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, the ones you
drive. Is that what they're called? Oh, oh, I'm sorry. The ones of the battery that. Yeah. Oh,
I yeah, just I don't know what those are called actually. They're cool. They're very cool. I'm
with you. I wanted one. I this. Listen to the little flight driving around. I mean,
they just here's a ball pit. Kids. Yeah. Jumping out of the ball. That's it. Like that's all you
get to do. And by the way, watch out for things that are on the bottom of the ball pit. Yeah.
No way out of the bottom. Nobody knows what's at the bottom of those ball pits.
I think it's a gateway to another dimension. Personally, so that's what I think. It's the
modern line of the woods in the wardrobe. It's so. You got to get through all the nasty stuff
first to get there. Yeah, good luck. Here's an interesting one. IKEA is opening a bunch of
mini IKEA stores inside Best Buy locations. The first ten will pop up at Best Buy's in Florida
and Texas this fall. Quick side note wins the last time anybody saw either of these stores.
I was actually in Best Buy not that long. I think they're still a Best Buy in the cross.
That's the only one I ever use to regularly. There's one up near the steams point area. Yeah,
there's still one open there. Each mini IKEA will be around 1000 square feet and feature cabinets
and other storage solutions for your kitchen and laundry room. They're hoping people shopping
for fridges and washer dryers will see IKEA stuff and decide their space needs a redesign as well.
Two of the best two of the best buys will also let people have an IKEA product shipped
there for pickup. IKEA hasn't said if they plan to come to open more mini locations in other
states, but there are only 52 IKEAs in the US and over 8,000 Best Buies. Wow. So a wide scale rollout
would put their products in front of a lot more eyeballs. That's true. Are these two companies
coming together to do this because they're not owned by the same. No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, there must be a meeting. Yeah. So this meeting that in the not too distant future,
you might turn to your spouse and say, we need something from IKEA. Let's go to Best Buy.
Now to be fair, they have the same color scheme. Blue and yellow. So they have the same color scheme.
That makes that makes it. One of the things that I did stands out to me about this story.
One, I always thought that the the poll to IKEA was how big they were and how much stuff they had.
Right. Right. I almost would have thought this vice versa. Best Buy is going to IKEA's,
but then you see the numbers of how many stores there are in a mix. That makes this big difference
there. Yeah. Well, and also the things that IKEA sells, you can look at them on a computer and
order them and ship it there. I don't know. I think I would want to see the things in person at
a Best Buy. Maybe more than a, I don't know. Actually, I'm saying that out loud. I don't know.
But you know what you're getting with IKEA. Yeah. That's true. It's it's build yourself
whatever's with complicated directions that you if you're spouse in your partner and you can
make it through that, then your relationship is golden. I was going to say, how else are we going to
test relationships anymore if people are going to IKEA's together? Because I don't know one
couple that's ever gone to an IKEA and not gotten into a fight. Or ordered an IKEA thing and then
put it together. Yes. Yes. And made up. Yes. And I would argue that Best Buy is the opposite.
Right. Because you have like complete electronic things and people love buying electronic things,
right? Yeah. So you leave the store. You're usually happy when you leave Best Buy, right? So
maybe they're trying to find a middle there. So people want to have each other. Yeah. Okay. The wife
or the domestic partner that likes those kind of things can go look at the cabinets and then
that and then the other one can go look at the electronics. There you go. It's a match made in
heaven. There you go. See, we've decided that now. And you know, if this and I don't know if this
was something you were going to get into a Melissa or not or or leading into. But if this keeps
more business around, if this keeps more businesses and of a float more actual stores. Yeah. Right.
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And I like the idea of of less to look at. That's why I often choose to go
to Aldi instead of Walmart because fewer choices. I'm overwhelmed by choice. I don't want to have
to trek across the entire store three times because I forgot something on the other end.
There's there's one other part of this too. And this I do want to shout out Kate Lichita.
Great reporter here in town. Doesn't a lot of great work for a long time. She had an article
recently in the trip about the KFC Taco Bell in town. Okay. And you know, a lot of people
wondering why that's closed. So they closed because they didn't have enough people. Yep. And
they're training people right now and they will be reopening. But that I remember when KFC
and the Taco Bell combined. And I thought of this very similar as this story here. Like this is
the future of the economy. This is the future of business. Right. Um, these kind of things. I
think I love being able to get mashed potatoes with my tacos. Right. Right. Yeah. Right.
I same thing about biscuits. I like it. I love their biscuits. Okay. I say, um, this doesn't
now. The only downside to this. There are plenty. I'm sure other things that you could bring up.
But as far as on the surface, the biggest downside to me would be, are you still training and
paying employees enough? And as long as that's the case, then this, bring on more of this.
I just want to see more, I want to see businesses that don't belong together trying this.
I want to see some more challenging, more fun ones. I think that would be interesting.
Well, that's a long John Silver is in an ANW. Oh, yeah. That's good. Yeah. I think they're still,
I mean, maybe they're still open. I don't know. They were starting to develop on that other
side of the interstate there. I like the idea of interesting. Yeah. We'll see, but I do think
that we're going to see more and more of these things. Uh, we're going to see businesses combining
more and more. It's got to evolve. We have to, we have to do something. That's right. We'll take
a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun and talking deodorant. Uh, when we come
back on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show at WFHR. Melissa Seth and James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us.
Take it to the top of the hour. Kick off the 10 o'clock with CBS News. Get a local news update
from Melissa and we'll be joined by Beth for the Kitchens Open. Yeah. Looking forward to that.
It's all coming up for you, everybody. But for right now, it's no secret that some people
let themselves go a little bit when they're home alone. You know, I know for me, I'm not leaving
if I put my adidas on. I'm like, I'm in, I'm in for the day. I'm not going out. I don't even want
to go. Very good. Very good. Like I'll walk, I walk my fur brother out, but that's about it. I love
being at that moment in the day. Sure. Um, especially in the middle of summer. Uh, you know,
when we tend to just let it go, let it all hang out a little bit more even in everything.
A poll asked, do you wear deodorant when you're alone at home? 66% of people said, yes,
that's about two in three people. And 24% said, no. Okay. Uh, let's uh, go through the line here.
You know, we got Melissa's answer earlier. Yeah. We did. Yeah. She said she does and everything.
Yeah. Um, I wear deodorant. Mm hmm. Right. Just everyone knows.
We're clear on this. Yeah. I, um, I, I will say this, uh, I, I, I pretty much, uh, live, you
know, helping my folks out and everything. And uh, if I didn't, I would, I would know right away.
If I, like if I forgot, my dad would have no problem telling me, Jimmy, you are, you were smelling
funky. You are. Exactly. And I know this because he's told me this before. It was a long, long time ago,
but I do know that, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the time or two. Yeah. Um, uh, yeah. So for me, uh, I,
I don't know. I, I, I, I just, I, I'm also a routine person. Mm hmm. And I don't think about,
well, am I going to see anybody today? Right. Do I have to not do this or not? I just kind of do it.
Just kind of put it on one of the first things I do in the morning. Right. Right. Well, for me,
personally, um, now I have, I have a roommate and, and Lilo is very sensitive to smell.
Mm hmm. Okay. My pigeon has, you know, but their bird lungs, it, they're, they're more sensitive
to things. I have to shut the windows when the air levels are bad. You know, so we scatter it and
we're, and we're really gross hot in here, but we can handle the heat. You know, although,
not this one, particulates in the air. So, you know, just for, for their benefit, I sacrifice
putting on deodorant, but no, that's not the real reason I just can't stand myself. Right. Right.
I like there. You go through this elaborate thing. It's like, no, no, really, I just, I stink.
Here's the idea. I did. I smell better. I do not like smelling bad. I like, I care if it's just me
and I'm alone and I'm the only one that can smell me. I hate it. You know, I take a shower,
but I got to put the, you know, deodorant on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just got to do it. The,
the aluminum-free stuff. I, I do try to be conscious about what I buy. Right. And I buy guy stuff
because I think it smells better. Well, that's cool. There's something that really should be
talked about more of the aluminum and deodorant and some of that. And like, I was very, I was much,
much way too old before I found that out and learned about some of those things. I think that's
one to look into putting poison in our products. Yeah. Yeah. But should we pay attention to that?
Unfortunately, for me, I can only use one brand. And I'm guessing it's not the best,
but I can't use anything else. Otherwise, I will break out. Yeah. That's why. That is always
powder fresh. Yeah. That's, that's got to stay there. That's good. That's good. That's good.
Yeah. I just remember being a young adult and, you know, and trying to, like, navigate the deodorant.
My mom used like the white stick. Okay. Right. I don't even remember, like, swav or some kind of,
you know, carefree. Are you sure? You know, one of those brands. And it's just a white stick. And
I'm just like, you, it makes like little white balls under my armpits. I don't like this. It's
icky. Now, we all like to, we all want to smell good and like smelling good. But are there
situations where you don't mind? Like, because I know for me, whenever I'm, if I'm outside working,
if I'm working on my hands or if I, you know, I get done with a big project or physical big
project or something and I smell a little funky or whatever. Like, I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know. I know I want to get rid of it as soon as I can of course. I don't want to stay
there. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to. It's an amostink. Yeah. You earned it.
Like you earned it. Like, if you earn it exactly, like, for some, I don't know what it is about me,
but I'm going to owe this and say that smell, that particular smell. Like, there's something
that goes proud. That comes. Right. If you come in from mowing the lawn in 85 degree weather.
Yeah. There you go. Yeah. I was doing work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well done. I should prove it by
my smell. In this survey, one person said, I can, I can still smell my armpits when they're
stinky. So yes, another person said they always do regardless of where they'll be because it's
just part of their post shower routine. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. There you go. That makes sense.
But others say they don't bother because they, they, they shower regularly and they,
they extra protection isn't necessary. And if they're just relaxing at home alone, you know,
way, save on the deodorant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is if it's cheap. So yeah. Yeah.
Well, and there's also like different levels, but everybody's body is different. And everybody is,
you know, like, we do things to our body is that sometimes makes them have a funkier.
I mean, for people who eat a lot of garlic, that can have an aromatic aftermath.
Come out your pores. Your body. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there are reasons.
I had a lot of garlic. And maybe that's not the reason, but it's yeah. Yeah.
Garlic is great. We are not, we're not saying anything negative about garlic. No, we are not.
We want any garlic out there. Did all garlic to know that? Yes. I just want to make darn
against you, garlic. This show will never go against garlic. And keeps vampires away.
You know, that's the other good thing. Thank you. Thank you. The vampire thing. I think it's
not worth it. Yeah. Yeah. I think the way, you know, I also wanted to note a couple of other
things before we're going to break, but I was curious for everybody out there, how they think about
this one, what they think of this one 424 2600. Feel free to let us know. I, one other thing
about this topic. And, and I will say that I think that when it comes to personal things,
this one we're fairly good about. But we, I'd like to see us get more and more comfortable
as a society talking about these things. And, and, and sharing this kind of stuff.
Being bodies are weird and we stink. They are. Yeah. It's so funny to me how much money and time
is spent into avoiding the subject of that we're weird. Bodies are weird. Human beings are weird.
Kind of gross, actually. Bodies are gross. Yeah. That's okay. We're all in the wheel. This,
this would bring us closer together, I believe. It is something that literally all live in bodies.
Yeah. Yes. It doesn't matter what country you're from, what race you are,
creed you are, how you were raised, rich or poor man, woman, whatever. We all got weird,
smelly, funky bodies. We do. We should be broke. Well, this should bring us closer together.
Yes. That's all right. Our f**kiness. We are lucky. We are lucky as a species that we keep
rolling. The fact that one human being looked at another and said, hey, that's attractive. We
should be very, very excited. Exactly. That we all made it to adolescents and, and hormonal
changes. It's also very impressive. Think about the human race for a second. Like, we're
getting to deal with it now with all these luxuries of deodorant and cologne and all this.
When this whole thing started, they sure did. There were nothing like that. There were no showers.
I was going to say that we all agree that we should get rid of acts. Yes.
This is a general rule. Yes. It's horrible. It's horrible. Yes. It's horrible.
I will, I will, because I don't want to knock a business and jobs out of the line or
everything, I will say this. If you are under, if you're in middle school, they have a
middle school and down, you could still wear acts. Okay. I feel like that's what it's for.
It's dope getting ready. Yeah. Okay. But with moderation, please.
Yeah. Don't do what they do in the commercial. Yeah. Here's the other part.
The X, the X dispenser can only kick up. That's it. Like one little poof, right? That's all you
need. That's all you need. Then it's on a time walk and you can't use it for another 24 hours,
right? Yeah. There you go. Then, then they can keep acts around. I like the time block.
I love the technology, actually. I want the technology. You can only apply this between
seven and one time. That's it. We are going to a little bit later. We're going to be talking
about some local events going on in town here and everything. We certainly got an open
house next Wednesday. We're looking forward to we were going to invite everybody over to our
home here. And we are going to be out and about before that and lunch by the river. It's coming
up on Thursday, everybody. We're going to be there. We're going to have some fun. We'll have
a table out there. We're looking forward to being hanging out with everybody. We encourage it to
come down to lunch by the river. Check out some of the best food in town. Of course, some great
vendors and other great things will be done. Yeah. Man, it got Tuesday going to be down the
great band. It's going to be a lot of fun. And we encourage you to say hi. We'll be down there.
We're looking forward to maybe sign up for the newsletter or something like that. We'll have
some fun. Meet us at lunch by the river this Thursday. Only got a couple left. I know.
There's like the end of August. That's it. We're done. 1130 to 1 over. Beautiful. That's
some more. You'll park. Meet us there. Everybody because it's going to be a blast and they won't be
the same without you. That's right. We're looking forward to it. We're looking forward to the
10 o'clock hour. Great things coming up for you right here. Add.
