Lemon Wafer Cookies FTW (Hour 1)

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

Time for the morning show got your host James behind the mic joined by our head of news our co-host Melissa K.

Good morning. Head of production in our co-hosts at Habhagger. Good morning. And the best.

A piece here. The best listeners and radio joining us as well. We appreciate y'all being here. We're going to have some fun this morning.

Kickin' things off with a lot of fun and a lot of weather. Talkin' Mother Nature with Brittany Merlot. Good morning, Brett.

Good morning. How's it lookin' out there for you guys?

It's pretty great right now. Yeah, pretty great. Pretty great.

Yeah, stay here. Burn's burnt. Just parked right over us. These clouds everywhere. We've turned it into thick fog. Did you have thick fog this morning?

No, I don't think so. Not too much. How about you?

Nope, not here either. They just north of us. Hey, we're a little bit brighter than those, right?

Yeah, we'll take it. And we can't complain about the temps. I'm kind of liking this.

They're perfect, aren't they? Oh, yeah. 60 degrees right now. I mean, our height temperature last week, right?

So now we're finally starting to climb out of it. Most 70s today will be the highs.

Pretty perfect. Of all more clouds out there. We're going to stick with us throughout the day.

And then we are going to see fog as we go through our overnight tonight. So fog tomorrow morning expected.

But then behind that, nothing but sunshine. And we do have summer weather starting to sneak in.

So tomorrow's still comfortable mid 70s, but by Friday getting a bit more muggy.

Low 80s for us. Partly sunny. We hang on to that sunshine for Saturday to mid 80s. Saturday is going to be super summery.

Yes, I'm very, very excited. And we hang on to that too. Sunday, Monday, even at the Tuesday. Low 80s stay with us.

How about that? Wow. I don't mind some extra innings out of summer. Me neither.

That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. We can take this extra. That's fine.

Oh, run weather. Appreciate that, Brittany. And just to let the audience know a little bit, we will be.

Well, Brittany is going to be gone until next Tuesday. So we'll hang out with her again next week.

Before we let you go, I have to ask you a difficult question, though, Brittany. Do you have a favorite girl scout cookie?

Oh, that one is tough. I asked a hard question, Brittany.

It's like thin mint. Of course, you're going to be thin mint, but there's one with caramel in it.

And I can't remember the name of it. They changed the names.

Yeah, they did. Yeah. It was like the samosa.

We will, we will find a caramel chocolate chip. I think I want to say there was something like that.

Something like that. I know what you mean. We will find that out because we're going to be talking a little bit later, Brittany,

about a new girl scout cookie that they're introducing this year. So we'll be talking about that exciting.

We will make sure to get you the list. We'll make sure just just a case.

Just a case, but we're not watering already.

Yeah, she can't. It's not fair to get to do that.

We'll send the list here for the way you appreciate you.

Okay, thank you all.

You have a good one and we'll talk next week.

You too.

Best in a business right there, Brittany.

We'll join you every morning, right in this time slot. We sure appreciate her.

Appreciate all of you. Good things on the way.

Yes, we are going to be talking about a new girl scout cookie that is being introduced this season.

We'll be talking about that a little bit later.

We'll also get to do something because they took away the what the tree foil.

Yeah. Yeah. Really. Wow.

Got to make up for that.

Yeah.

We will have that along the way with the okay paper at the anniversary club.

And what is the percentage of us to make big life decisions based on gut instincts?

And we'll get into this poll that asked about that and some other stuff.

It's 10 o'clock hour.

We're going to feature entertainment.

We'll dive into some of that.

Talk about our newsletter and some other fun things coming up.

Like local theater wise and stuff.

I want to talk about this thing that Jen Sears are doing.

Instead of a career ladder, they're calling it a career lily pad.

Oh, we will discuss career lily pad.

Okay.

And at some point in this show, I'm going to shoehorn in this great restaurant, this grocery chain in Iceland.

That I want to talk about.

Okay.

Very cool.

It's a grocery chain.

Well, I'm sorry.

I keep doing this.

The grocery chain is called Iceland, but they're in England.

Oh.

Oh.

That's not a wonder.

That's not confusing.

Yeah, not at all.

That's all coming up.

That confusion is on the way.

Along with plenty of other confusion for me, I'm sure.

You're welcome, audience.

And it's not just for content and for comedic purposes.

But sometimes, you know, look, I come across a story.

And I come across a lot in this job in almost 10 years doing it.

Sure.

There is not much new under the sun.

But today, coming across, I don't know what to do with this.

Carnival Cruises is teamed up with the brand Van Lewin for a new sunscreen flavored ice cream.

They're not selling it yet, but maybe next summer.

And they say they're gauging the reaction online to see if they should be a limited run,

or just a fun gift or something they should really look into.

Ingredients include coconut cream, coconut butter, vanilla extract, and sea salt.

People magazine got their hands on a tub and called it surprisingly delicious.

They say they...

I wish you could see my face because this is not okay.

They say the main flavor is vanilla with notes of...

I'm sorry.

With notes of coconut followed by distinct salty kick.

Hmm.

Okay.

What could go wrong?

What are segments?

What could go wrong?

So it's the only thing that's keeping people from eating suntan lotion I think now is the fact that it's lotion.

And they want to wreck their system.

But the flavors are very similar.

The smells or the aromas, whatever you want to call it, right?

Yeah.

They're very similar.

So as long as you don't put the lotion in it, I think you're okay.

I think you'll be fine.

Yeah, but why do you got to call it sunscreen flavor?

I mean, come on.

People associate it with it, maybe?

I don't know.

No, but think of the children.

Yes.

Yes.

The first thing I thought of.

The first thing I thought of.

They should be eating it anyway.

There's...

No, but you did you hear?

There's some sunscreen flavored ice cream.

Yeah.

Oh!

Now you put this on my body.

It smells just like the ice cream I had.

Let me lick my arm.

Here's some ice cream smelling sunscreen.

There you go.

Well, into a child, especially young winemeter.

How, you know, you...

How much you tell your child, hey, so...

And that all sunscreen is edible.

Kids put...

Kids put legos in their mouth.

They put everything in their mouth.

They put everything in their mouth.

Why don't we just bring back candy cigarettes?

Come on.

Yeah.

But here's...

I mean, yeah, because it's that what we're doing now is a society.

We're just going to roll back.

We're just going to go ahead and like...

There's...

It smells like it.

We evolve.

We do things.

We learn from things.

We have made the jokes a billion times.

Oh, boy.

Do you remember?

People used to smoke on airplanes.

It's hilarious, is that?

Yes, seriously.

And we make fun of those things.

Yeah, right.

Like, we do...

Now they try to bring it back.

Now they want to bring that back.

What are we doing?

Why?

Like...

I mean, all of those flavors that you listed in that ice cream sound fantastic.

Just call it salted coconut.

How about you...

You make a better flavor ice cream.

You come up...

You're creative team comes up with something better than sunscreen.

Like, I...

We're going to come up with a girl scout cookie a little bit later.

I mean, it may not be, you know, completely game-changing or anything.

Right.

But at least it's a little bit different.

At least they're just trying it.

You girls go cookie flavor ash tray.

Yeah, I mean, they might as well go that route.

They're with it, everything.

Well, you guys are forgetting that the whole reason they did that is so...

Morning talk shows could talk about their products.

Yes, that's very true.

So that's very true.

If you just come up with a flavor like you were mentioning Melissa.

The flavors that they did if they just came out with those...

Where's the hook?

You know?

How are people...

Why are people going to talk about it?

We'll say...

They're similar to sunscreen, you know, aromas or whatever you want to call it.

So let's put to say it's sunscreen.

Now people will go crazy about that, right?

I...

I haven't watched any of these.

But I've seen little snippets of them.

Whether it's from TV shows or just clips of people doing them.

But the whole...

Is it cake or is it real?

Yeah.

You got a chainsaw there.

And you don't know if it's a chainsaw or it's a cake.

My kids are into that show for a while, actually.

It's pretty impressive what they can do with cake.

I find it really interesting.

And it's cool, but I also think that there's such a marketing opportunity there.

Four things and making things like that.

I'm trying to think of something that...

I don't know, like a wheelbarrow.

I want a wheelbarrow made of brownies.

And just like I could just pull chunks off of them or something.

Oh, no.

Yeah, but that looks like dirt.

Which is dirt.

Which is the brownie, though.

Oh, that's a very confusing one.

Yeah, yeah.

You got a taste to find out.

And with my lack of sleep, this is not probably a good thing for me to be wanting.

But I don't know.

I'm trying to think of like some kind of way that this actually ends up being a thing.

And then I was trying to think of, okay, well, Mr. Big Ideas,

you're challenging these people to come up with new ice cream flavors as well.

Go ahead.

Come up with a new ice cream flavor.

Genius.

And I'm sitting there like at least like from five to six this morning.

Really?

That's not the only thing I was doing.

But I promise you, it was running through my brain non-stop.

I could not, I kept trying to think of something, kept trying, kept trying.

Honestly, I think that they're just, they're naming it wrong.

Because what is the biggest, latest craze with sea salt?

Yeah.

Can you name it?

Caramel?

Or, yeah.

Yes, sea salt caramel.

So ride that wave.

No cold zone screen, cold sea salt, coconut.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah.

By the way, it's just salt.

Yeah.

It's no different than any other salt.

No, but sea salt sounds better than the salt.

I know, that's why.

But it is.

It brings visions of the ocean versus of the block that dear lick.

Just like this sunscreen.

You know, this is bringing visions of sunscreen to everybody.

We'll mix it all together.

Dear, dear lick ice cream.

Yeah, it might as well.

With coconut.

Dear scent ice cream.

Might as well come up with that too.

Hunter's a little crazy for it.

When it comes to, when it comes to, like, like many of you out there, I've taken a lot of

business classes.

I've, I've studied business marketing a lot of these things.

And one of the things that they, they tell you is, well, looking for a product or looking

for something that society needs that doesn't have.

Nowadays it feels like, hey, we came up with this and whether you needed or not, take it.

They're just forcing stuff on us or pushing stuff on us and everything.

Yeah.

Whether, whether it's sunscreen flavored ice cream or AI, they can't seem to, I'm not pivoting

here that much, but I admit that I am stretching and pivoting a little bit, but I was really

thrown by the newscast because I had not heard this story about bars wanting to have smoking

back.

What are we doing?

Who wants this?

715-424-2600.

I want to know where this is coming from, because if it's coming from Big Tobacco, let's

call it out.

Yeah.

You know, this is, look at who is pushing these things.

If it's everyday citizens, I'd like to hear from you.

Why do you think this should be back in bars?

And don't tell me just because you want to have a cigarette with your beer.

You can do that at home.

Exactly.

And bars, guess what?

They didn't dry up.

They're not dead.

Bars are surviving.

Just fine.

It was constant without smoking.

That's going backwards.

There is no person in the universe that can convince you smoking is even a tiny bit

okay.

Let alone healthy for you.

So let's go ahead and throw everybody in a building with no open windows and we're just

going to go ahead and just hotbox it.

That's what we're doing.

Like, that's what we're going to go back to.

I thought we evolved past that.

It's a little bit further than that, right?

Come up with better than sunscreen flavored ice cream or go back to marketing school.

Quit forcing this stuff on us just because you can't come up with better ideas.

You spent all this money on AI and now we got to deal with it because these companies

spent all this money on this stuff that we didn't even ask for.

You know, it seems to me that boy, as someone who tries not to be overly cynical, it seems

to me that most of these things are really cynical.

All of these marketing things, they're just super.

People are stupid and they'll just do anything, right?

They make fun of me.

They make fun of me.

They're taking it too far.

They make fun of the 80s and 80s people, well the me generation, it was so me, me, me

and everything.

No, man.

We're living in the me times.

All this stuff feels like it's designed for like one person and usually the person that

designed it.

One person with a grievance because they can't smoke an abar anymore or whatever, right?

Yeah.

Somebody who is really disappointed that they can't eat the delicious smelling sunscreen.

They just put on their body.

Let's make it an ice cream.

They're just so upset about the idea that you can't do that.

They shouldn't have gone with pudding.

See, that makes more sense, right?

Yeah.

I was just thinking.

Because it didn't want to look it up, but like how many people have gone to the ER because

they've eaten or they've drank like suntan lotion or something like that, but I'm afraid

of the number.

I know.

Whatever the number is, it's too high.

Whatever it is.

I don't care.

It's 2% up with any of these things, man.

It's way too high.

We don't need that.

You know, something you don't have to know everything.

Right.

No, I don't know everything.

Some things are better than no.

We will come back and help you learn the birthdays of today with our El Café Birthday

and Anniversary Club.

It's the morning show on WFHR.

You heard the boys time to gud some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café and

the Birthday and Anniversary Club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

221 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards.

Wish them a good one from all of us.

Bi-local support, local support our friends over at El Café, as especially they have

a great fish fry lined up for you Friday.

Not only that, but they are hosting the Fish Fry Front Riser for Port Edwards Elementary

School.

Very cool.

Percentage of the sales from Ford 8 will be donated to the school, a great way to

Bi-local, help local, and impact the future at the same time while getting your belly

full and all that.

100% man.

Get on over at El Café today, everybody.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

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

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Call up and join the conversation we look forward to talk with you, everybody.

Taking a look at our list, I believe you, a medalist of your last show of the week, so

I'm going to put you to work.

Give me a 1-3.

Oh, 3.

All right.

All right.

Give us our qualifier there.

All right.

And first up, we want to wish a couple of civic media family members a happy birthday.

James Santel, happy birthday to James.

Oh, happy birthday, James.

Not just a fine first name, but a great individual here in the company.

We appreciate.

And Stephanie, I'm sorry, Stephen Cajet Latin, Cajet Latin, leg.

Oh, wow.

You must be newer.

I'm not familiar with that name, so it must be a newer member of the team here.

Well, we welcome you, Stephen.

Yes, we do.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy your day, man.

It's the one for you.

And we take a look at our local list.

And first up, we want to wish a very hundred and second birthday to Paul Gross.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, happy birthday, Paul.

Happy birthday, Paul.

Happy birthday, Paul.

Mr. Gross, former business owner, of course, Paul Gross Jewelers, and a very knowledgeable

city historian and creator of so many of the Wisconsin Rapids history videos we've had

around here.

Individuals that has joined me on the air before and just a good guy.

Absolutely.

Wow.

Congratulations, man.

Wow.

Oddly enough.

No, this is going to shock you guys.

But at one point in my life, I had a pinky ring.

Okay.

Wow.

Just what?

Just play right into the stereotype, right?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Right into the stereotype.

I had an Italian horn.

I had a pinky ring.

God help anybody that couldn't tell I was Italian.

I had to be darn sure that I was advertising every five.

This ring that I put on, again, not surprising, not the greatest of equality.

Okay.

And I really needed to get it off my finger.

So one of the first places I went to when I moved this town was Paul Gross Jewelers.

Oh, okay.

We're over there.

I didn't know it was Mr. Gross at the time, but he was working.

Could not have been kinder to me.

I didn't have the money to, I didn't know how much it would cost to get the ring cut off

or anything.

Right.

And I was panicking.

I'm like, I don't have any money.

It couldn't have been nicer to me.

I could have been more than like 14 or 15.

Could not have been nicer to me.

Cut the ring off and then like 20 years later end up kind of knowing and working and stuff

together.

Yeah, that's really cool.

Yeah.

Well, because he probably looked at you and was like, oh, you poor boy, it's going to

be a lot cheaper for me to cut your finger, your ring off your finger than you'd have

to go to the ER.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

I don't know how that would have ended.

Yeah.

I love the ring of my fingers, something.

Probably.

Happy birthday, Mr. Gross.

And happy birthday to Libby Par.

Happy birthday, Libby.

Happy birthday, Libby.

Enjoy your day, Libby.

It's a good one for you.

When we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier, Diane Peterson.

Happy birthday, Diane.

Happy birthday, Diane.

Happy birthday, Diane.

Diane, wishing you a great day, enjoy and celebrate and I'd say tell everybody you know

that you're our qualifier.

You're right.

Let them all know.

It's exciting news, man.

Spread the word.

You can get over to El Cafe for some pie.

Yeah.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there.

We encourage everybody to get us more birthdays and anniversaries.

Let's see who you're sharing your birthdays with in our celebrity list.

Ryan Philippi is 51.

Wow.

Wonderful actor.

Wonderful actor.

Very strong actor.

It's crazy.

It's too old for that.

I hope he does more comedy because he's very good at it and he's gotten some really good

stuff there.

But I don't know that there's much he can't do.

I think he's a very solid actor and I really appreciate the way him and Reese Witherspoon

talked about not only their marriage but their divorce and how they have handled that

sense.

They seem like a very, very, very healthy, have a healthy relationship there.

His career was kind of, it was doing well.

But just as he was picking up steam, they get married and they realize they want to have

kids and it's going to, it's not going to work with both of them working at the same

time.

So he kind of slows down and then once she becomes pregnant, she slows down a little

bit and they were doing this kind of back and forth thing for a little while there.

If you look at their careers and their IMDB pages, it really, like it worked out pretty

darn well.

The day you know successful movies here and there and everything, certainly they're not

together anymore but they made it work very well for a while there and gave a bit of

a blueprint for those things.

You're going to have more of these, you're going to have plenty of celebrity marriages

and stuff.

I thought they did a really nice job of that and we're very transparent about it which

this is ahead of social media.

This is way before that and everything where they were doing those things.

I thought it was cool.

Well relationships don't always work out and it's a really good example of being able

to remain friends and co-parent because what's the important thing, the, the, the beings

you create?

Yep, the kids.

Always got to come first.

Yeah.

Always first.

But for me, it was cruel intentions.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

It was a good one.

1999.

That's a good one.

It's in a couple of movies that I enjoyed him and he didn't want me to be in Benizio

Del Toro.

I can't remember the name of it but I really liked that one.

That was a good one.

Nice.

Another directors in the game, Guy Richie is 57 today, Sherlock Holmes, the man from

Uncle Aladdin, he has done, he has taken over the gangster movie model.

People got tired, people got so tired of making Italian mobster movies that even Scorsese

now is making them about Irish people.

Like he's not even making Italian Irish movies, Italian gangster movies anymore.

Even cliche, right?

Yeah.

They're done.

They're gone.

To be honest, it would be nice to understand why it would be nice for one time somebody

would mention an Italian and they don't do this or they don't mention the mob or something

like that.

It'd be nice if we could get to that.

Guy Richie has taken the Scorsese model and turned it on its head and modernized it

to a degree where if for me and I know a number of people like this, I'm not saying he's

the best director out there, my favorite director.

But if I see Guy Richie is even producing something that alone directing it, I'm all

in.

It's one of the chants, snatch, lock stock and barrel.

There are so many of his early movies that pushed cinema to a different degree.

In particular, dialogue, one of the greatest acting performances you will see, especially

from Brad Pitt, is in snatch where you can barely understand him, but then you hear people

from that part of the country and that weren't like, oh, I understand him perfectly.

He got it.

He got it down.

It's a lot of the different things that he has done with the game that has been very

game changing.

Yeah.

Randy Johnson is 62, I almost said 62.

He's 6'10."

Yeah.

Randy Johnson was 6'2 in 6' great, just a dwarfing the big unit, just one of the most intimidating

pictures in history.

Yes.

Good one, too.

The great Colin Firth is 65, Oscar-winning actor from the King's Speech, a lot of great

roles of his over the years.

Again, one of the more versatile actors you're going to see.

I know they're just silly action movies, but if you watch the Kingsman movies, he's

so dang good at them.

It's what happens when you take, and I mentioned this a number of times, when you take an

actor of his caliber and you put them in an action movie or you put them in a superhero

movie or something like that, and they don't, it's not like they lower their acting.

Some actors do, we've talked about that, too, but for the most part, they only know one

speed.

They're going to give you an A plus performance no matter if they're playing Dr. Strange

or they're playing, you know, King Henry III.

Colin Firth is one of these guys, it's like that.

I really appreciate that about his work, and I really enjoy those Kingsman movies.

Yeah, he's very good at it.

I love him in the rom-coms that he's been in, or like the Nanimic Fee movie from 2005.

Yeah, yeah.

What a girl wants, 2003, he's so good.

He can do it all.

He can do whatever you ask him.

He can do whatever you ask him.

Yep.

And I think that the King's Speech could be talked in acting classes, but that's him and

Josh.

I believe Helen Bottom Carter also, like those three performances are just incredible, magnificent

performances.

Soben Fee is 67, I'm not pronouncing that name right, but I did want to mention her

because she is big hits Venus, Cruel Summer, I heard a rumor with Banana Rama, and then

Stay and some others with Shakespeare's sister.

Oh.

And I just found out today that that's the same person, and I felt bad, so I wanted to

mention.

Joe Perry is 75, amazing Aerosmith guitarist.

Yeah.

I got to see Aerosmith at Alpine Valley, and the most memorable part to me was when they

did Ragdoll, and there was this lull in between before the song, and we're kind of done.

What's going on?

What's going on?

It took them a while to wheel out the steel-flat guitar.

Some Joe Perry could play on it.

Yeah.

And I didn't know you could wail on that thing.

I didn't know you could do solos on that thing.

It was amazing.

That's cool.

One of the more versatile guitar players, and that's not the same as playing a regular

guitar, by the way.

Playing a lap pedal steel is not.

It's very different.

So that's how it shows you how good he is.

And another rock star we mentioned, Danny Hutton is 83, a three-dog knight lead singer,

one writer, one Mama told me, an old-fashioned love song.

And of course, the man that used to sit in this chair, Bob, look, would tell you that

is his favorite voice ever.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

That was his guy.

That was his guy.

Heck of a voice.

Yeah.

Am I mixing up three-dog knight with another three-word band?

I don't think so.

Maybe.

Bob will correct you.

Some people no longer with us.

Like, a couple of sports legends, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer born on this day, golf

god, a legend rumor is that he's made a 50% limitate.

No, that's good.

Hey, he's got a drink named after him.

That's pretty cool, you know?

Yeah.

That's pretty neat.

I know it.

Yeah.

Jack Nichols, Nichols has a guest spot, the golfer, has a guest spot.

Jack Nichols, yeah.

And they're at a golf club and he orders a drink and he orders a 50%, like a 50% limitate

at a 50% whatever.

So all you mean in Arnold Palmer?

He's like, no.

No.

He's just so straight face.

It's hilarious.

No.

Ice tea and lemonade.

That's all.

If it's the only seed you watch of that movie, it's worth it.

It's a great one.

And Roger Maris was born on this day in 1934.

Good old Roger.

Broke Babes record of 61 homeruns in a season, heck of a player, and heck of a season

that year for the Yankees.

Yes, a proud native of North Dakota, in the mall in North Dakota.

They got a nice little, it's a small, but they got a nice little museum to Roger

Maris.

That's really cool.

That is really cool.

Yeah.

Once again, Happy Birthday is an anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.

Can't think of a better way to celebrate than LKFA, get over there today to 21 market

avenue in beautiful port Edwards.

We'll be back after our break with more morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

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

you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We got good things coming up for you in a little bit.

We're going to talk about gut instincts and how often we trust them, use them, and all

of the above.

Okay.

For right now, we're talking Girl Scout cookies.

And of course, we want to hear from the audience.

What's your favorite Girl Scout cookie, 715 or 242600?

Call it Texas through the Civic Media app.

That's right.

There are no wrong answers.

Of course not.

Unless it's something you don't make then.

Yes.

That would be different.

Yeah.

That would be, that does make sense.

But so please don't.

It really does.

It's just nostalgia.

There we go.

That's what it is.

If you have a, if you know, the Girl Scouts just unveiled their newest cookie and they're

called Explore Moors, Explore Moors, and they're Rocky Road inspired.

Oh.

Interesting.

It's not nothing brand new, but something a little bit different.

I think that this is.

It's a cookie.

Yeah.

So much you can do.

Right.

Exactly.

So you have a description.

You can read us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Although, as you said that, Melissa, it's a cookie.

All of a sudden, I thought, well, what?

Maybe they should start making square cookies.

Like, they're chocolate chip.

They're not.

I think they used to.

Did they?

Yeah.

Right.

Because they're maybe rectangle.

I don't know.

Maybe try to do a thing.

I don't know.

So they're chocolate, quote, chocolate cookies, which have a creamy filling with notes of

chocolate, marshmallow, and toasted almond flavored cream.

Ooh.

Oh, I'd put that in my mouth.

I'll try then.

I'll try.

Sounds good to me.

The organization says that they reflect the spirit of exploration at the heart of every

Girl Scout.

Oh.

Good line.

Good line.

The Explore Moors will be available when Girl Scout Cookies season begins in January.

The full lineup includes the classics, along with more recent editions, like Adventure

Fools, Lemon Ups, Toffee Tastic, and Carval Chocolate Chip.

I don't think I tried the Toffee Tastic.

I don't think I've tried that.

It's not bad.

It's good.

If you like Toffee, yeah.

What is it like?

It's more of a hard cookie because it's like a hardened Toffee in it.

Yeah.

So it's like a chiff bar.

You know, if you've ever had a chiff bar, you know, yeah, that kind of stuff.

But it'd be great dipped in coffee as what I'm hearing.

Oh, yeah.

No, they think about it.

Right.

They are.

Yes.

I will tell you that.

It's like a Biscotti.

Yeah.

They definitely are.

And I am such a Biscotti guy.

I love.

I love having something like having my coffee.

Interesting.

Something to go with the liquid.

Something crunchy and hard.

Oh, yeah.

That's my game.

Wow.

Yeah.

I love it.

Wouldn't have paid you for a Biscotti guy.

Yeah.

That's cool.

That's cool.

I'm out of bed.

Not very often.

They're like, I'm surprised people with things.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

I think they brought back their last new flavor, raspberry rallies, which I was going to

ask about that.

They're basically raspberry version of thin mints.

They seem like a big hit, but apparently not enough to impress the, you know, their sellers

or the buyers, I think.

The Girl Scouts themselves.

Well, that's because people didn't get to eat them.

Yeah.

Like, they ran out too fast.

They weren't, well, a word I can't say on the air of describing of the people who did

this, went and bought them all up, and then we're selling them for massive amounts

of money in eBay.

It's just ridiculous.

It's gamers.

As somebody who tries to grab silver linings of everything and trust me, it's annoying.

There are times where you just want to be, you know, just, ah, this, this is socks.

But no, my brain just can't help but fight.

Well, you know, James, even though you're stuck your foot, it stopped you from doing this

or whatever.

My brain just is wired that way now, and I can't help it.

When I, when I, that story that you're talking about there, Melissa, and I'm glad you brought

that up, I think one of the things that's noteworthy to this, Girl Scouts is great as

these cookies are.

Awesome as they are.

This is all about teaching young ladies some business world, you know, interacting with

people, being able to talk to strangers and, you know, sell a business, sell these

different things.

So this is a business lesson that they learned here about modern business and something

that we see happen from time to time, actually, and by modern, I shouldn't even say modern

business because this has been happening since Cabbage Patch Kids, this has been happening

our whole lives, basically, of this, this product comes out, there's a limited release

of it.

And then, of course, you have people going out there and buying it up and everything.

Some fine demand.

And Nintendo does every time they release a new system.

It's, it's unfortunate lesson to learn, and it's not something that I think any of us

are kosher with, but, you know, it's a lesson.

Earlier this year, they announced that they'd be nixing Girl Scouts s'mores and toasty

yeas.

So those won't be back either.

Okay.

Yeah, toasty yeas.

That's the ones that's not going to be back anymore.

And that's the one of our, what of our tech, a lot of message, a text that I got to toasty

yeas.

That's where we all get toasty yeas.

I had it wrong.

Excellent.

That figures.

Because if they got rid of trefoils, I think there would be riots in the street.

Yeah.

Because that's the shortbread.

Yeah.

Yes.

One.

Yeah.

No, that's my mom's favorite by far.

So there's something about a shortbread.

Well, you can't take away mom's favorite cookies.

No, there's something like a good shortbread cookie too.

There's something about that.

Simple, but very good.

Yeah.

Buttery.

There is something about my palate too.

And I don't know if it's just because of the way I grew up or what it is.

But I can, I got nothing against Oreos and chips of hoi.

They're fantastic.

Wonderful, wonderful cookies.

Almost every version of a my like, I'm a cookie guy.

You give me those like dollar, like, you know how you get like a like 20,000 cookies for

a buck.

And they're just, or the off brand of vanilla wafers or anything given to me.

Right.

I'll take it.

Doesn't matter.

They will eat them.

They're fantastic.

I love every one of them.

I don't know that I've had a bad cookie.

Okay.

I've had ones that aren't my flavor that aren't really what I like, but it's nothing wrong.

It's nothing against the cookie.

He's still going to eat it.

Yeah, yeah.

The cookie's fine.

I don't know.

There's something about cheap cookies.

I love.

I don't know what it is.

I'm with you.

Very specific kind though.

And I think I just answered the question guys about the circle square kind of thing.

So those sandwich wafers that are rectangle, I believe those are considered cookies.

Oh.

Yeah.

And they, and I love those.

And you're right, man.

Oh, right.

They're super cheap, but they're really good.

Yes.

You get them.

It's strawberry vanilla or chocolate, right?

Chocolate or lemon?

The lemon ones are really good.

They're always remind me of my grandma.

I think of those as grandma cookies.

Church.

We always had them at church functions where I was growing up.

They're so messy though.

Yeah.

They're very, very crummy.

They're very crummy.

Yeah.

I was thinking about this with the new cookie that they're introducing this more cookie.

Now, I don't like marshmallow traditionally, but the flavor of marshmallow doesn't bother

me as much.

Right.

I don't know what that is.

For me, for me, regular marshmallows, it's the texture.

I don't like the, the way they, they, they feel, I guess it's like a better word, but

I like the flavor.

Yeah.

Raw.

Or even roasted.

Yeah.

Or even roasted.

Yeah.

No, I don't know.

Roasted with you.

Yeah.

I'm okay with them roasted to a degree, but not too much.

And I still would, like, I'll order a s'more without the mushroom.

With the, also without mushroom, because you don't like those here.

That was a slip of the tongue.

Wow.

I'm accurate.

Let's hear from somebody that knows how to talk.

Good morning, sir.

You're on the air.

Yes.

Good morning.

I'm not much of a sweet guy, but I, I, I had two boxes of girls called cookies, 10 minutes

and 15 or by a patty.

Yep.

Those are my whole.

Yeah.

They're both excellent.

Excellent.

10 minutes out of freezer just a few weeks ago.

Oh, okay.

See, just in time.

Oh, man.

Good job stretching them out.

Good job.

Yeah.

My mom would be so proud.

She tries so hard to do this.

And she puts them in the freezer.

And I always thought that she put them in the freezer because they taste, she likes the taste

of them.

And they do taste really good, especially thin minutes frozen.

You're so right about that, sir, but I also think she does it to keep them out of

eyesight.

Yeah.

Out of sight out of mind, right?

Yeah.

Exactly.

Take a three inch wrong cookie and that make it last three days.

Oh, man.

Wow.

You were impressive.

That is impressive.

That is impressive.

I'm with you on that one.

That's it.

Always appreciate the call in the conversation, sir.

You have a good morning.

Are you two?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Always appreciate the call, sir.

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How many of us make life decisions based on them?

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Little of their mones to play us in there.

And also shock everybody's system.

Everybody immediately felt they were late.

We all did.

Everybody just get that feeling because I was playing it.

I knew the sound that was coming and I still

looked my first reaction was, oh god.

Oh, wait, where am I?

Oh, I don't have time to have a detention.

I got things to do, man.

I'm a teenager.

Still at my locker.

Oh, my god, I got to cross this school.

I'm never going to look better.

I got to get moving.

We have to dive into talking about this subject here.

And I honestly, I was really looking forward to getting

into this with you two in particular in our audience.

I find this to be one of the more fascinating subjects

of gut instincts.

And how often we rely on them, how often we use them,

how often do we actually listen to them?

I've touched on this a bit.

I think that most people in their comings and goings

and articles and stories and movies and TV shows who

have heard about fight or flight in this part of our brain.

This is how human beings, part of one of the major reasons

why human beings evolved.

Why we are still here in so much of that.

It is certainly as simple as it sounds,

while also much, much, much more complex than you would

realize, because while we evolve to standing upright

in certain things, there are other things about us

that they have to go somewhere.

And while we are at a point now in 2025,

where convenience is king, and almost everything

is driven by that, our brain is still looking for problems.

It's part of the reason why that voice in the back of your head

is usually the harshest voice in your life.

And it's part of what keeps us, our hearts beating.

It's part of what keeps us moving and motivated

and everything.

It's constantly looking for challenges.

And this is every single brain.

This is not, well, some more than others are something sure.

But every brain has fight or flight in it.

And I think that one of the better things you could do

for yourself and for society is understanding

your own fight or flight mechanisms.

What triggers them, what happens with them,

understanding them, controlling them.

It could be one of the better gifts

you can give to yourself.

It's honestly the reason I'm even here right now.

It literally is having this instinct

and having an ability to figure those things out.

It's also something that I think that could be very helpful

when it comes to self-doubt.

We are so quick to doubt ourselves.

The most confident human being in the world

still does this from time to time.

I'm sure.

And more times than not, how often do we think

or do we find out our gut instinct was correct?

Doesn't mean it's always right

because nothing is a hundred percent.

Not AI, not mom.

Wait, no.

Moms are always right.

Be careful.

You don't think she heard that.

Yeah, you don't think she heard that.

So we called it tension.

Yeah, I shouldn't have done that.

I needed a better third example.

That's right.

A new poll found 70% of Americans go with their gut

or rely on it to some extent.

When making big life decisions, 70%.

That's a lot.

And how many of them do you think realize it

or even do it willingly, you know?

Well, that's just about, yeah.

I've got an idea, but I keep going on this

because I'm curious.

They used gut instincts as a catch-all.

It includes your intuition, general vibes,

your feeling, or any insight you might have

might get from prayer.

So they included a bunch of different things in this.

Okay.

Kind of all under the umbrella of gut instinct.

They asked about 10 big decisions

you may have already made at some point in your life.

Would you mostly use your gut to decide on these things

or would you choose to be more rational and fact-based?

Now, for real quick note, I don't think they're virtually,

you know, they're, you know, necessarily separate.

Yeah, no, absolutely right.

You're, no, you're right.

Yeah, I would not separate those two things.

No, I wouldn't, right.

Well, and part of this thing is something I've been,

kind of studying a little bit,

the idea that human beings don't have free will

in the sense that we usually call it free will, that, right?

That every decision that every human being makes

is just a progression, okay?

Of all the stuff that's happened to you before, you know?

There's always something, this caused this,

this caused this, this caused this kind of thing

goes all the way down to the, you know,

when you were born that kind of thing, right?

And decisions, right, the decisions that weren't necessarily

you made or were made for you, and you know,

trauma you've had, incidents you've had, experiences you've had,

this all goes into this giant mess of that.

So I would say, and you know, put a theory out there,

there's obviously no proof on this kind of thing.

There's, you know, circumstantial evidence

that gut feeling is just that.

It is all of your experiences up to this point, you know,

and it's gonna cause you to go one way or the other,

but it's not necessarily a decision consciously,

it's something because of everything you've experienced

up to that point.

And sometimes when you get in that loop of overthinking

all of those things that, okay, well,

these are all the parameters I need to consider

when making this decision, you get in a loop of that

and you find it impossible to make a decision.

Right, yeah, that can happen a lot too, yeah, my God, yes.

So then you either like go to the people in your life

that know you and care about you and can help you

or they're best or, you know,

what like you mentioned prayer, whatever it is

that you need to do to help get you out of that loop.

Otherwise you're just, you're sure to make the wrong decision.

You're in loop, you're in loop.

Yeah.

Here are some of the things that we have been making,

choosing to make these decisions with our gut

and the percentage of how often we do it,

like choosing a new job or choosing a job.

32% have picked a job based on gut instincts.

I'm here in part because of that.

That's wild.

Yeah, just trusting my mom and listening to her,

but trusting my gut because honestly,

I did not see this happening.

Right, well, and on the flip side of that,

I took a job once which there was lots of indications

I shouldn't take it, but I still did for a number of reasons

I think my gut was part of it.

And also because I really wanted a job and I needed a job.

But it didn't work out.

And that was, and then I looked back and I'm like,

oh my gosh, all the warning signs were there.

I just didn't notice it because I was so focused on

this kind of stuff.

I just answered a newspaper ad.

Right, see, there we go.

That's the same thing I did, Melissa, yeah.

Deciding where to move.

26% of us trust our gut on that one.

That's such a big decision, though.

Wow.

I think maybe a top three toughest decisions

in the world to me is always going to be moving, right?

No matter what is waiting for me on the other side

or anything like that, no matter what the initiative,

I've mentioned before, I went out to California,

I moved out there with a little bit over $5 in my pocket.

Right.

And I don't regret a second of it or anything,

but I know that my gut was telling me to do it,

even though my brain was telling me,

what are you doing?

It's California.

You literally can't buy a gumball for $5 in California.

What do you expect to do there?

Right.