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Give Me Wednesday, or Give Me … Friday is fine (Hour 1)

Mornings with WFHR · Tue Sep 2, 2025

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day.

Time for the morning show here at 95, 95 FMWFHR. Got your host James behind the mic.

Join by our head of news, our co-host Melissa K. Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. Hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday. Let's kick it off the way we like to with our friend Brittany Merlot.

Talking a little Mother Nature good morning, Brett. Good morning. I hope you had a beautiful weekend.

Did you enjoy that weather? Oh, it was gorgeous. Well done. Yeah, really enjoyed it.

Big thank you to you and Mother Nature for setting that up. Well done. Good timing.

I know she warmed things up just perfectly. I mean, I wouldn't have asked for anything better.

It was so comfortable not to have the humidity and then no wildfire smoke.

Just nice conditions. Sure there were a few showers sprinkled in there on occasion.

But hey, it was a gorgeous weekend. It's now perfect. Things are changing.

That noise you made was fantastic.

It did perfectly sums it up. You don't even have to get the forecast. That was it right there.

That's it. Yeah.

Oh, the darn cold front sitting in the batter's box right now.

And it's threatening some record cold, high temperatures tomorrow, Thursday.

Maybe on Friday still until we start to warm things up for the weekend back to the low to mid 60s on Saturday and Sunday.

But we are following my friends tomorrow's highs will be in the mid 60s dropping throughout the day.

We'll probably hit the upper 50s on Thursday and stay stuck to those upper 50s for Friday.

This means very cold overnight.

Where tomorrow night we could see temperatures creating frost and central Wisconsin,

dipping to those mid 30s. I'm going to tell you right now far up north.

I like Superior, like Vila County, Iron County.

They could see their first snowflakes of the season Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

We do want loads up next week.

This is not here to stay. There is still some summary weather.

So I have to give you positive with the negative.

Right. Well, and warn us. I mean, you got a lot of people that are starting to put away summer clothes.

And not just yet. Not just yet.

It's not actual snow. It's just Mother Nature's dandruff.

She's got to get it out before, you know.

And then we have more summer. It's fine.

She's going to feel a lot better after that.

Yeah. Yeah. We will.

Everybody. Everything deserves that.

Yes. We appreciate you, Brittany. Thanks so much for that.

Before I let you go real quick, Brittany, do you collect anything?

Oh, gosh. Yes. We do.

Okay. Okay.

Because I don't know if you'll be able to compete with the crock king that we will be talking about a little bit later, Melissa and I.

We've got a Connecticut man who's collected.

He is known as the crock king.

And I've really got to be careful as I say that.

I've really.

Get into that a little bit later.

So if he had just a million crocs or he'd got the little jewels and gems or whatever they put on the crocs.

It looks like he's got a million crocs.

He's got or about that, Betty.

We'll find out exactly how many pairs he has a little bit later.

But yeah.

I like huge, huge rock collector.

I love picking up rocks from different beaches, different parts of the country in the world.

I have shipped them from Alaska to my house.

Wow.

And every time I move, the movers have to move these rocks.

Oh.

And they always give me the look.

Yeah.

It's a good thing you're paying them.

You couldn't collect stuffed animals, lady.

Nope.

Rocks and books.

Only heavy things.

Yes.

That's fantastic.

Thank you for sharing that, Betty.

And thanks for joining us.

You have a good morning.

You two things.

Thanks, Brittany.

Best in the business right there.

Pretty real low.

Putting up with me and giving us up to date on Mother Nature.

We appreciate her.

Good things on the way for you, everybody.

To the audience, we appreciate the most.

We're going to take good care of you.

We've got the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club on the way.

We're also going to get into.

Is this current week we're in a possible test for some companies

about the four-day work week?

We will get into that.

We also have with us another good one about 10 things Americans wish

accounted as business casual.

We will get into that.

Of course, it's a, our first day a show of the week.

A show of the month, I should say.

So we got Tom Heitzer joining us with our monthly veterans update.

That is how we will kick off the 10 o'clock hour.

Looking forward to that.

Melissa and I will touch on some entertainment news afterwards.

And we've got a, I have to pull an audible Melissa.

I came across a story this morning.

A bizarre 50-year-old recipe pancake soup.

Ooh, that sounds intriguing.

We will discuss.

We will get into all of that.

As Brittany was asking us and everything, you know,

how the weekend went.

It went very well.

No, you and I worked together quite a bit and have for a while.

So we don't run into each other too much outside of work.

But I do want to thank Melissa because she measured me this weekend.

And I forgot, it has been so long.

Like being theater people, we get measured from time to time.

And we're pretty used to that.

But also in theater, it's a lot of, hey, try this on.

It fits good enough.

Next person.

Yeah.

It's not a lot of that.

Especially when you're dealing with like vintage clothes and things.

Sizes are not the same now as they were in the, you know, 1950s.

I forgot not only what it's like to be measured.

But how, like how skinny I am.

There's a point where I was like, I mean, do you even,

do you probably just guess?

You're probably right.

But I did want to thank you.

Stand up straight.

Stop moving.

Are you, are you, are you actually standing straight James?

Because I read it.

It's hard to tell sometimes.

It really is.

But I did want to thank you for that.

I really don't appreciate it.

I was going to help me look good for my daughter's wedding at the beginning of next month.

I'm looking forward to it.

And that got me thinking about, you know, is he my youngest?

Her first day of school and some of that.

And of course, we got a lot of kids out there going to their first day of school.

A lot of parents taking those pictures.

As a note to all you parents out there, I'm going to do something that I don't know if anybody else does.

I like the kid pictures, the first day of school pictures.

I like them.

Oh, yeah, they're awesome.

Well, some people complain that, you know, nobody wants to see that or any of that stuff or, you know, who says, I know, do it.

Do it.

Share them.

I love seeing it.

Yeah, just be safe about it.

Don't share too much personal or identifying information.

Absolutely.

Make sure your little ones are safe.

But yeah.

And piggybacking off of that, we encourage you, encourage you to be late today.

If anything, slow down.

Take your time.

If you are a little late for work, just tell your boss, your manager, whatever.

I'm taking time for the kids.

I'm taking time for school bus drivers.

Keep an eye out for these kids.

Let's get through this week without any tragedies, any difficulties.

You know, just slow down.

That's it.

Yeah.

Take your time.

And how often in life do you have a real true legitimate excuse to be slow?

To be, you know, to take your time.

Lean into it.

Use it, everybody.

And keep an eye out for our kids and our school bus drivers and all that and a big naked wall of them.

Crossing guards.

Everybody who helps make their first day safe and productive.

Really hope it's a good, strong first day for everybody out there.

They deserve everybody deserves it out there.

Absolutely.

So I did want to mention this since we were talking about it with Brittany.

We have a Guinness record that we have to touch on here.

We like to start our weeks off our shows with this.

A Connecticut man known as the Crock King.

Earned a Guinness World record when his collection of Crocs was tallied at 3569 pairs.

Whoa.

You need like a separate house for that.

Yeah.

I didn't realize that I've gotten a lot of pairs of shoes lately.

They've really, they kind of, they just started piling up.

Yeah.

I didn't really realize I did that.

I had to get myself a little shoe thing because I didn't realize this.

I would think I would notice this.

How could you, that's, you couldn't even wear them all.

I don't know if I've ever come across this Melissa.

But if you had, if I had to guess this person's first name, I feel like I would have guessed

Dougie.

Oh, really?

Dougie Sandtiger said his fondness for the footwear began at the age of 16 due to his childhood

in foster care, leaving him without knowledge of how to tie his shoes.

And so this quote, a part of foster care system that people don't realize is there's a lot

of things that kids don't get taught or miss along the way.

And so he said, he made a list of goals in his journal when he was a teenager.

And that's how he started collecting.

It was a goal of his day.

He wanted to have 366 pairs of crocs.

That was the original goal.

And then he started to seek a Guinness World Record for his collection in 2023 when his

collection surpassed 2,000 pairs.

Wow.

And the number is still growing.

So if you are, if you have the idea of trying to compete with this or beat him, you, you

better get going here.

No kidding.

And well, how old is he now?

Does it say?

Because that's been going on for a long time, then, if he started at 16.

Yeah, it doesn't say.

It doesn't say.

How old he is.

But the footwear aficionado said he hopes to eventually show off his collection by opening

a croc use am.

That's about all you could do with that many crocs.

I mean, yeah, I suppose you could start up a like a bowling

type game where you have to wear crocs and so you could just like hand them out.

I don't know.

Are they all the same signs?

I think, well, he probably got them that would fit him.

I would hope.

Yeah.

Yeah, they would think they'd be the same.

So that does not come out.

Although it's over 3,000 pairs, like how many?

That's like, I don't know, 369, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

That's like 10 years of shoe where you could wear a different pair of shoes every day.

There's a lot of shoes.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, my math is probably off because I don't mental math.

But that's still a lot of shoes.

It's close enough.

I'll tell you that.

It's close enough.

I would like to, I was just saying that about school pictures and everything by

sister.

I just got a couple of pictures of my nephews.

I hear their first day of school and they are amazing.

They're handsome boys.

That's great pictures.

Thank you, beans.

Thank you, jelly.

We will take a quick time out.

We will come back doing some celebrating with our friends at El Café and the birthday

anniversary club.

It is Melissa and James.

Take any three o'clock morning here at 97.5 FM, 13.20 AM, WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at El Café and the birthday

anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow.

To get on over at El Café at 221 Market Avenue, beautiful poor Edwards, open they had

a great weekend.

Oh, they're open today, aren't they?

I was going to say it's Tuesday.

It is Tuesday.

That's okay.

You're just so used to doing that.

Yeah.

Got my days mixed up.

Head on over there.

It's understandable.

Start off the week right with our good friends at El Café.

Get on over there and check out some of those great specials like breakfast nachos.

Breakfast nachos.

That's awesome.

That's the way to kick off a week.

That's a good way to kick off a short week.

Check that out and all the other great things over at El Café, everybody.

Buy local support local.

And, of course, get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

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

on up.

That number is 715-424-2600 or just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.

Encourage you to join us, everybody, especially because you could be like the next peep names

we're going to announce because we've got to grab our qualifiers for the month of August.

Oh, that's great.

Our winners.

It's our winners.

It's the first day of the new month and I get to do it, hug, success, not here.

Yep.

Melissa gets to pick the winner from our long collection here.

We grab qualifiers every show we had and now we have them in the list.

I'm going to jump into this gigantic hat we have in the studio and I will grab the

name, the number of the name that Melissa sets.

Those individuals will get $2.20 gift certificates to our friends over at El Café.

That goes a long way over there, everybody.

Let me tell you.

We encourage you to check that out and we appreciate our friends at El Café.

Encourage you to get us more birthdays and anniversaries like the people on this list.

All 31 of them.

Melissa, I got 31 qualifiers.

12th.

Number 12 gives us.

All right.

That gives us our qualifiers.

Where is my number 12?

There we go.

All right.

Ray and Carol Jacob.

Ray and Carol.

Congratulations.

There we go.

Now it's official.

Ray and Carol Jacob.

They celebrated their anniversary.

A little late into the month.

A little late entry right there.

Very cool.

Ray and Carol wish you a fantastic.

I hope you guys had a great anniversary.

Absolutely.

I say celebrate again.

Celebrate again.

I forget you with free food.

Yeah.

Congratulations to Ray and Carol and a big thank you to everybody who sent in their names

and got them to us.

We really appreciate that everybody can get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Awesome.

And congratulations to Ray and Carol.

We'll mention that again before we wrap up the hour here.

Mm-hmm.

And a very...

Oh, I need a one through three from me Melissa.

I can almost.

Ooh.

Mm.

One.

All right.

It gives us that one.

And do it.

First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Barb Mancuso.

Happy birthday, Barb.

We wish you a fantastic day, Barb.

Enjoy your day.

Wishing you a good one.

And we wish a very happy birthday to Alex Romanski.

Happy birthday, Alex.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifiers celebrate in their 53rd anniversary, Dale and Karen Peters.

Dale and Karen, happy anniversary.

Happy 53rd, you two.

That's fantastic.

Oh, good birthday.

Good anniversaries.

All good ones.

Great way to start off the week.

Thanks so much, everybody.

Let's go ahead and take a look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.

Amy Osborne is 42.

Ozzy and Sharon's eldest daughter.

She was the one that has kind of stayed out of the public eye and everything.

Now, she's a bit of a synth pop artist.

She does do some music and everything.

But for the most part, she doesn't really use her Osborne name.

I loved her parents.

Just didn't really want to be, you know, wanted to kind of go on her own, make her own trail.

I respect that.

One of the funniest and smartest comedians in the world today, Cat Williams is 54.

I feel like I've grown up on Cat Williams' comedy.

He's a hilarious, very funny guy.

Let's see here.

KC of KC and JoJo of Jodicy is 56.

Really, really wonderful singer.

Big Jodicy fan.

That was a 90s hip hop.

That's one of my bands.

You will hear some KC and JoJo in one of the more coming up episode coming up.

I just was writing a bunch of the unlabeled this weekend.

Got a new episode for you lined up this Sunday.

Everybody be on the lookout for that.

We'll talk more about it later.

The great, the wonderful, the amazing Selma Hayek is 59.

I will, she is very, very talented actress.

She has shown that.

She's gotten the chance to show that later in life.

She happens to be around at a time where we've been able to, actors getting, actresses getting to a certain age are starting to actually get work.

And not, hey, you're 30, we're done with you, you know, that kind of thing.

So we're getting, it doesn't hurt that she's gorgeous at 59.

I really didn't want to get to her looks right away because I feel like I do that every time with her.

And it's, she deserves better than that.

I do think she is, if somebody asks me who the most beautiful woman is in acting by far and away, I would say Selma Hayek.

Easily, easily, but she's number one and number two.

I cannot think of a more beautiful, cute woman than her.

When it comes to actors and entertainers, singers, you can throw them all in there.

She's the top of the list to this day.

I'm not talking about like Selma Hayek at a certain age.

I mean, right now she is.

But I, if you don't know her as an actor, you know, the movie Frida is, it'll show you her acting strength, her acting chops.

She is incredible.

She is a, she's a Thespian.

She is good.

So also very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very.

Yes, yes.

Kiana Reeves is 61.

Woo!

My number three on my favorite action stars list goes Bruce Lee, Bruce Willis, Kiana Reeves.

Another guy though, great actor.

Great actor.

Obviously he's gotten a lot of heat over his career for a monotone delivery and some of those things.

But he is a way better actor than people give him credit for.

And, and one of those guys that has been a part of like our generations, like our whole lives.

Yeah, looking back to speed in 1994, that's probably like one of my favorite early movies with him.

I remember running to the theater with my friend to see Bill and Ted as excellent adventurer.

I've been a fan ever since, you know, of course.

But, you know, we could talk about the Matrix, we could talk about the John Wick movies, having a career and keeping it as long as he has and all these things.

And it all pales comparison to just even one good story of him.

And there are millions of them out there of his time helping people and doing things for people, especially in his native Hawaii.

Where he, it's just, there's tons and tons and tons of urban legends.

There was a reporter that went out there because he wanted to follow up on some of these good stories.

He came across like 30 or 40 other ones.

I mean, that's just who this guy is.

You know, good, just good human being.

Let's see here.

Oh, Jimmy Conner's is 73.

Fantastic American tennis player.

At a time when just American tennis was so strong, you know.

And one of those guys that really stood out, I think.

I don't know, but I trust you.

Yeah. Mark Harman is 74.

Older people remember him from NC, I know him from NCIS, of course.

I mean, he's made a great career doing that.

You would recognize him if you saw him.

Yeah.

I don't know his name, but man, if you see him and he's been in like, he was in the Freaky Friday movie.

That was a remake in 2003.

Right, right.

He's been in a lot of movies.

Summer school.

That's the one I remember from summer school.

Like, he was fantastic at that.

He was fed up in 1994.

Oh, yeah, he was good in that too.

He's a good actor.

Good actor.

He plays a great street guy.

Yeah.

And I'm always happy with actors like him that don't get a lot of work later in their life.

When they get these TV roles that recurring gig, that recurring paycheck.

That goes a long way, man.

That goes a long way.

Happy for him.

Good for him.

Terry Bradshaw is 77.

Football Hall of Famer.

Most people will know him, of course, from doing the pregame on Fox for like two or three decades he's been doing it.

But I think also people will remember him from his guest spots.

I'm married with children.

I guess about it.

I'm married to children.

So is he the one that my dad would turn off the sound on the television and turn on the radio?

Might have been.

Because whoever the announcer was on the radio, he preferred over the guy on the television.

Now, Terry does pregame stuff.

He doesn't really do a killer commentary or anything like that.

So it might not have been Terry Bradshaw.

But yeah, yeah.

This is somebody like that, I'm sure.

Sounds like.

And as far as people no longer with us, we wanted to note, Christa, Christa McAlphley.

And I always jumble up her name.

And I apologize every year that I do.

She was born on this day in 1948.

She was the school teacher who died in the Challenger explosion.

And, you know, talking about her on this day in particular with the school year starting for so many kids out there.

It's fitting and also melancholy.

It's incredible what she accomplished, incredible what she did, incredible what she was willing to do going to space.

And what she gave to teaching, she has so many great lines and quotes about teaching.

And certainly the Challenger explosion is something that affected almost every kid, every public school kid.

I remember where I was when that happened in school.

I remember the TV set, what it looked like, the way that the room was just silent.

That our teacher had no idea what to do.

Like, yeah, yeah.

It's a heck of a moment that I don't think any of us will ever forget.

And it's a great opportunity for us to remember her, to honor her, especially on this day when we got so many kids starting school back up.

I think one of the ways to do that is giving some grace to each other,

giving some grace, parents, parent, teacher to teacher, and parent to teacher, and especially looking out for our little ones.

Yeah, for sure.

We will take a quick time out, come back, and when we do, we got a good one here.

This week could be a four day work week test for some companies.

We're just going to dive into that together.

But listen, I, but we encourage you also to head on over to El Café, get on over there, everybody.

They are open.

Get on over there.

Yes, they are.

And enjoy some great food over at El Café, 221 Market, Avenue, and Beautiful Port Edwards.

We'll be back with more show coming up right here on Mornings at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Got some fun stuff to get into to take you to the top of the hour in a little bit.

What is business casual?

What is that mean?

We'll get into that.

Ten things Americans wish count.

We wish what wish counted as a business casual.

We will figure that out a little bit later and maybe even try to hammer down that definition a little bit better.

We will get in all that.

But right now, for a lot of people, the three day weekend is over.

But the good news is there's a shorter four day work week ahead.

Nice way to start off the month.

Many people like to think about these short weeks as a lighter workload.

But what if this week could serve as a test to show that a four day work week could be just as productive every week?

In a survey, 69% 69% of people believe that they could do their job in 32 hours per week.

Only 29% did not think that that was possible, while 3% weren't sure.

Millennials are...

That's almost fair, I would say.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, I think that's definitely one of those times.

I don't have an issue with that 3% being unsure.

This is new territory.

Millennials are most likely to think that they could make it work at 75%, 75%.

That's followed closely by Gen Z and Gen X, both at 70%.

Baming boomers are far less convinced, but still at 48%, almost half of them think that they could.

That's too pretty high.

And if it did happen, what additional day would you like off?

In the survey, workers overwhelmingly preferred Friday at 55% over Monday at 24%.

Does it really matter though?

Nope, not to me.

Not to me.

No, I could care less.

Monday, Wednesday, Wednesday, whatever day you want to make it.

Go ahead and do it.

Let's just get to this.

We have talked endlessly about this topic, and we won't stop until we get there.

Yeah.

This is one of those topics.

I think it's one of the most consistent things that the three of us use Seth and I have talked about.

But it's also something that...

I don't...

When we first started talking about it, it seemed a little bit like science fiction.

It's getting realer and more and more real.

Yeah, but Seth wants a weird day off.

He wants like Wednesday or something dumb like that.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, we also don't know if that was his thinking behind that,

but along with also knowing if it was just to irritate you.

We don't know...

That's very possible.

It might have been a little column A, a little column B on that one.

But I think we're overwhelmingly seeing this more and more.

I mean, especially usually we see a big divide between Gen Z and Boomers and stuff.

And there's not really that big of a divide on this one.

We're seeing more and more people realizing this, especially when you're young

with all this energy and you think you can do anything, it's understandable

to think that you could cram this into a week or get this into a week and done.

It's also the time where you're kind of a little more hopeful maybe,

a little more less cynical on some of that.

Optimistic?

Hopefully.

Then as you get older and you look at the boomer age and everything

where you want to have a little more understanding all this,

you're looking at this and you're like, for one, well, yeah, I guess I could have done this.

I just always did what I was told.

We all have.

This is what we've all grown up with.

No matter how old you are out there, you grew up with a 40 day work week, work in Monday through Friday,

or you know, five day work week and all those things.

But also realizing you're old enough to realize, oh, yeah, I can't take it with me.

That over time is not something I'm not going to be thinking about on my deathbed.

That extra thing that working all that got me, I can't take with me.

So you have perspective with that.

And that's where I think you're seeing a lot of those numbers for them.

Hey, I'd have enjoyed my life a lot more if I had a four day work week.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Well, I think so.

And is life only about work?

Is that what it's about?

Well, I would like to think that's where the stems from.

It is, you know, that it would get more people into the workforce for one.

I think that there's another positive to this.

Here's the thing.

What's the negative?

We could talk endlessly and we have talked endlessly about the positives.

Where's the negative here, everybody?

Please let me know.

715-424-2600.

I would love to hear from actual, you know, I know I can't imagine how many of them are listening,

but CEOs and, you know, general managers and people like that.

Because I feel like whatever you've got for a negative to this, we have a counter to that.

And even if all I did was say back after every single statement you said was,

you know, employee mental health, employee well-being,

because that adds to a better bottom line for you.

We have productivity.

Yeah.

The only reason not to do this I'm seeing is, well, we've always done it this way.

Well, that's not a reason to do anything.

We've got to get done out of that.

There's got to be a better way to take care of B-stinks, Melissa.

B-stinks.

Well, all right.

Look, I was looking for a way to shoehorn this in.

I was mowing this weekend and I was just about done.

I have a tiny little patch left.

And I'm just going over it and I'll be honest.

It was a big yard.

I was beat.

I was tired.

And I just wanted to finish this up.

And all of a sudden, right around my ankles, I feel this just familiar feeling.

Little tickle?

Yeah.

And then I feel another.

And another.

Before I know it, I had at least nine stings before I even like recognize what was going on.

Oh, no.

Please tell me somebody was able to enjoy the dance that I did as I was getting stung.

And there were, just throwing my arms up around the yard, everything.

And I get to this.

There are a few things that I have more of a tolerance for than B-stinks.

I've been stung since I was a little kid.

One of my earliest memories is my mom and her Coca-Cola bottle and taking a swig of it.

But it was empty.

And there was a bee at the bottom of it.

And it stung the roof of my mouth.

Owie.

And my parents, I don't remember this part, but my parents told me they freaked out.

Because they didn't know, hey, if he's got a bee sting, do we do it?

What do we do?

And they don't have it in your mouth.

Yeah.

They don't have the internet.

They can't Google those things or anything like that.

So afraid.

But then this weekend, I get stung.

And I'm like, well, what do I do with these?

What do I do with a bee sting?

I still don't know.

We still don't know what we do.

There's nothing.

We have not improved this technology, people.

We have not improved what to do with a bee sting.

And why?

Because we've kind of always just, well, it's not life or death.

Unless, of course, you're allergic.

Right.

And so we just keep moving.

You know, oh, a flat tire.

Everybody deals with it.

We just deal with it the way we've always dealt with it.

That's not the reason to do things just because we've always done it this way.

Right.

I'm pretty sure it's baking soda.

Like a baking soda.

I can sense that now.

Is what you put on it to get the stinger out.

Well, where were you yesterday?

No, I'm too joking.

Why didn't you call me?

I should have actually.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I should just go away right away with those things.

We can change stuff.

We evolve all the time in society.

We grow in society all the time.

I don't mean to keep hanging my head on recycling.

But it's such a universal and perfect example of how we can do things differently.

Well, and we used to not have a 40-day work week.

We used to work six or seven days a week.

I mean, that changed for the better, for the protection of workers.

Why can't we continue that?

It's okay to make change.

It's a great point.

It's a really strong point.

We used to let 10-year-olds and coal mines.

But we stopped doing that.

Wait a minute.

This is wrong.

Now you would like to think that we were always known that was wrong.

But we eventually learned.

We stopped doing it.

And guess what?

Society didn't fall apart.

Society didn't get worse.

It didn't get ruined from this.

No, it got better for the average person.

Yeah.

So where is the downside to going to a 40-day work week other than, oh, oh, the hassle.

Oh, now we've got to deal with this.

Now we've got to deal with that.

Get over it.

We adapt all the time.

We change all the time.

I understand that not everybody likes change.

I'm no different than anybody else out there.

Change takes some getting used to.

But that's the world we live in.

That is life.

To go to a 40-day work week would only lead to the betterment of society, period, end of sentence.

Because we want the betterment of society for all, not just the select few super rich at the top, right?

Yeah.

Why should you have to be a billionaire in order to be able to have a 40 or less than that kind of work week?

It shouldn't take that.

This is something that I don't see the negative of.

Now, where I do see, I do think a lot more people because these numbers are only going to go up.

You're not going to see, you know, next year we do this story and less people believe in a 40-day work week.

You're not going to see that.

But what I do think is going to be interesting because I generally believe in my heart.

I don't know when, but I think we are going to get to this point.

I think it is just a matter of time.

As long as there is a society, we are going to get to a 40-day work week.

It's just when.

Is it going to be years from now or decades from now?

I don't know.

That I'm not sure of.

But I do believe it is coming.

What I do find is going to be the most interesting about this, though, is what day we take off.

Yeah.

That is going to be where things get really fascinated.

Yeah, because it's definitely going to have to be a Monday or a Friday, in my opinion.

So let's go.

Shush.

Seth.

Stop it.

Get out of my head.

So last week before this gigantic trade between Green Bay and Dallas with Micah Parsons, that

Wednesday we had a playmaker, and Michael and I were talking about it.

And it was just in theory, and nobody really believed the trade was going to happen.

But I'm like, you know what, man, let's just have fun with it.

Let's just go ahead and play this out as if the trade is going to happen.

And then sure enough, the very next day, it happens.

So we kind of got ahead of that without intentionally trying to.

Let's go ahead and get ahead of this one and try to figure out this right day.

And by that, I want to ask the audience, the smartest people we know.

That's your vote.

Yes.

Let us know which day.

Yeah.

Let us know.

You can, you know, email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

And of course, maybe the easiest way to do this is through the Civic Media app.

Mm-hmm.

Because it's just a touch or two away.

You can call us Texas, and I think there is even evil through there.

Yeah.

So go ahead and Texas.

Just whatever day you think would be the right day.

Say we're going to a four day work week.

What day do you want Monday, Friday, Wednesday?

You want to throw a Thursday in there just to be different, you want to be different.

Feels like something I would do to be honest with everybody.

Yeah.

Just to throw off the algorithm a little bit and everything.

It's kind of cool.

Well, for people who have to work weekends though, I mean, you know, maybe they would

want Wednesday to be the day off or Thursday.

I, I, there's so few subjects like this for me in life, I generally have no take on this

one.

I'll take whatever day.

I just want to get here.

I just want to get to that point and get to the place where I think I, again, I think

we're going anyway.

I feel like we're just kicking the can right now.

It's a matter of time that this happens.

You know, eventually, even though so many of these CEOs and so many politicians out there

have not done a good job of having the next guard, the next man up, the next person who's

supposed to be able to take over, you know, and any of this, they are going to eventually

leave these jobs, whether they die in the job or not.

And I'm not trying to be, you know, callous about this or anything, but, but it's the fact

it's the truth.

We can be honest with each other about this.

Right?

It's some people ain't going to leave the job until then.

Okay.

Fine.

Eventually.

You have a lifespan.

Father time is undefeated.

When you, as you have younger CEOs, people who younger people in, in these roles and everything,

you're going to get more and more people who are like-minded of the four-day work week.

It's going to happen.

I just don't know when, and I am curious about that day.

We want to hear you.

Cast your votes, everybody.

What day?

Go ahead and let us know.

We'll, we'll tell you this one.

Make it happen because people have the power.

That's right.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and we're talking business casual when we get back on the morning show

at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

10 o'clock hours going to kick off with our monthly veterans update from Tom Heizer.

Looking forward to that.

We will have that lined up for you.

We'll also be having some entertainment news for you in there.

We're going to get into in the 10 o'clock hour, a little bit of telephone.

We're going to talk on telephone Tuesday.

It's telephone Tuesday today.

So we're going to get into that.

All that coming up for you, but one of the bigger debates a lot of people have is, is

this going to work for this situation?

I just talked to a friend about this over the weekend.

They were going to a funeral and they were worried that, you know, what they were wearing

was it, you know, classy enough, basically.

Yeah.

You know, different situations in life have us looking in the mirror and wondering, okay,

is this right?

I started off our show talking about how nervous I am going to my daughter's wedding and

wanting to look good.

Because I got to look good, Melissa.

Well, of course you do.

I mean, your father, the bride, you know, and when you're solo, when you're going by

yourself to a wedding, you got to, I don't know about anybody else, but to me, I got to

look good.

I have to.

You know, see, I just prefer to blend it.

Okay.

That's a good way to do it too.

Yeah.

I should probably take a note of that.

We'll talk more about that offer.

I'll get some tips from you on that one.

I've never been very good at blending in.

That's why I'm ordering you a camouflage suit case.

Yes.

Actually.

Am I fit in with the wedding, actually?

Am I fit in with the wedding?

Google says, so we, we, we, in what comes up with this and everything is usually the idea

of, okay, well, with work or with, you know, some of these situations.

Right.

A appropriate dress for appropriate situations.

Business casual, this phrase that has been part of our lexicon for a while now.

Google says, searches for business casual are at an all-time high, and it's mainly because

no one knows what it means.

Right.

Marion Webster defines it as, quote, a style of dressing for white collar employees that

is less formal than business attire.

So, pretty vague.

Right.

Very vague.

If you, you know, it, it, because if you asked anybody, what is a white collar worker?

A lot of people wouldn't even be able to tell you.

Yeah.

100%.

So, Google looked at some of the things that we wish were business casual, whether they

are depends on your own definition, and maybe who your boss is.

Or what gender you are.

That too.

Yeah.

And that's a part of this that I, I, I would like to get into as we're going through

these.

So, here are some of the types of attire we've been asking about this year, along with

the cities that googling in the, googling on the most, quote, our sweatpants business casual.

No.

Very easily.

No.

No, no, no, no.

People in L.A. are googling that the most.

Nope.

I mean, if you are, if you are a sweat instructor, I don't know that sweatpants are still the,

you know, the right.

You might be able to get away with it if you're a dance instructor or a yoga or, you

know, it's like some of their athletic type situation, but no.

You know, and nowadays with leggings, they seem like the leggings are fine for, and literally

any situation, but I'm a guy.

I don't know anything about it.

No, it depends on what you have over them though.

Mm.

Okay.

Yeah.

You can see that.

Because leggings just leggings with like, you know, a crop top.

No.

Right.

Quote, our baggy jeans business casual.

No.

Salt Lake City is looking for that one the most.

No, no, no.

My friends know they are not.

All you 90s kids out there, I'm telling you, no, no, they are not.

Oh, come on.

Doc Burton's and bag of jeans, James.

Yeah.

You throw, you change that for Adidas, and that was me.

And I had to look, it took me a long time to realize.

But then when I finally started wearing jeans, it like fit me better and everything, then

the baggy thing came back, and I like, nah, nah, nah, that's always how it happens.

Yeah.

I'm doing that, and everybody on this, I don't know.

Quote, our cowboy boots business casual, people in Charleston, South Carolina, looking

that one up.

Chug.

I guess it depends on what you're wearing them with.

Because typically you wear jeans with, or boots, cowboy boots with jeans.

Yeah.

I would think that if you're wearing cowboy boots and they're, you know, like, because

there's so many different, there's fancy boots.

I don't think there's any way.

They're very, yes.

With fancy cowboy boots with a pair of trousers, no, I got no problem with that.

That's, if you, that's what you choose to wear.

Yeah.

Now, if you add spurs, that's a, that's a hard no.

Nope.

Can't have the spurs with it.

Can't, can't have the spurs with it.

No.

But the jingle, jingle in the office is just too obnoxious.

Yeah.

I, I, yeah, actually, I'm with you on this one.

I got no issue with that one.

Yeah.

Well, cause there's some really fancy cowboy boots.

Right.

And a lot of the time that's the kind you're going to see, people, the, that's why

they wear them.

Right.

Because it's a fashion statement, they're going to be fancy.

Our hoodies business casual, Denver wants to know, no, no, unfortunately, not as much

as I wish they were.

James is very disappointed about this, but no, that's probably the one that hit me the

closest.

Yeah.

But you're right, though.

I, again, these are all context, you know, you have to know your bosses, know you're

in, invite them into everything.

Well, if you're working in construction, you're not going to be expected to wear business

casual.

Right.

So it doesn't matter.

You can wear a hoodie.

But in this realm, yeah, it's just not going to work.

If you're working in an office setting, and I think that's a really good outlier right

there.

Yeah.

Our, our combat boots business casual people in Chicago are hopeful about that.

And again, I would say if they're in good shape, because think about like Doc Martens, those

are the same, a similar type of boot, like, you know, just structure wise.

And look wise.

Timberlands.

Timberlands are considered very, you know, business like, there are people that wear those at different

things.

And it just depends on what kind of shape they're in.

Yeah.

If they're all scuffed up and dirty and gross, then no.

Yeah.

But if they're perfectly, you know, like in good shape, shiny, whatever, yeah.

Our flannel shirts business casual San Francisco Googling that one.

Um.

It depends on how you style it.

Yeah.

A flannel shirt can look really nice.

Hmm.

In fact, I can think of one person I know very well, while I know that I see occasionally

that wears a flannel shirt that looks fabulous in it.

Hmm.

Oh, very cool.

Our yoga pants business casual Hartford Connecticut looking that one up.

Again, depends on what you style them with, because yoga pants are essentially leggings.

And if you're wearing them under a, you know, like a dress or a short or a longer top,

sure.

I just realized as we're doing this, the only reason I should be doing anything to do

with what people should wear is what not to, like just so you know what not to wear.

Well, as the, as the, as the walking living embodiment of what you should not wear, like

I, I feel like I'm a, I'm the great example of that for everybody.

I am the great equalizer.

Melissa, this, if you're unsure of what to wear to work today, just, uh, hey, James, what

are you wearing?

Okay.

Not that.

All right.

Cool.

Fashion and the difference between what society says we should wear and the reality of we're

each an individual human body, yeah, and we are not mannequins.

We don't, we don't all fit into the same cookie mold.

Mm hmm.

So it, it, what you wear should be what is comfortable for you.

And then also what is appropriate for where you work, yeah, should be as simple as that,

but it's not.

You think that this has gotten much better for women in the workforce in, in that regard?

Well, yeah.

We can wear pants now.

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

It's funny.

It's funny that we still can't have pockets, but at least we don't have to wear dresses

all the time.

Well, again, I think that it's definitely harder for women in general, but, but there's

also, um, in some ways, we have more options than men style wise.

Um, I, I find that interesting.

I, I was curious, I, I've asked my mom about it this weekend as she was getting ready

to retire.

She noticed a change and stuff and she's like, yeah, for the better.

That's a bit, that's pretty much what she said.

Um, I, I will say, um, that, uh, when it, when it comes to this subject, you know, it's

something we can all be better about and I'll, I'll, I'll improve on and keep an eye

on and everything.

Uh, and at the same time, don't dress like me, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't even

well, and also just, don't judge people for what they're wearing.

Yeah, I mean, we want to be, we want to get all weirded out because, uh, guys want

to wear skirts or dresses.

Guess what?

If you go back into history, that was far more common, mm, men wore dresses all the

time.

Finally on this list, our shorts business casual Eugene Oregon asking about that one.

I can't think of many situations where it's, you know, shorts are probably business.

Well, okay, think about this, though, James, think about a really nice tailored plaid

shorts paired with a nice button up dress shirt and some loafers.

Oh, yeah.

Well, and especially in warmer climates, if you're talking linen, if it's linen attire,

you're, you're going to, you're set.

You're looking, you're going to look good.

Yeah.

So, uh, yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

I think they could be.

It just depends on what they look like.

And, um, Melissa over the weekend, uh, during them, the, uh, mighty measuring that Melissa

was doing there, uh, we figured out how to, how to get women pockets, take them away from

men, uh, women, women, women get them right away.

You know, and, and I have to tell you, James, I'm taking the pants, the pants I'm trying

to make fit you.

I had to tear out some seams because now you have no pockets.

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