Good morning Wisconsin, modern world, it's a new day.
Time for the morning show, 105 FMWF HR.
I knew I was going to do it.
I knew it.
I heard it in my head before I even said it.
Hope you all have it.
Hope you all have a great start to your morning.
James behind the mic joined by our head of news.
Our co-host Melissa K.
Good morning.
We hope you're having a great start out there.
Let's kick things off the way we like to.
Haven't been able to in a while.
Our good friend Brittany Merlot joining us with our look at Mother Nature.
Good morning Brett.
Good morning.
Isn't she beautiful?
She sure is.
Yes.
Brittany, there was a little bit of almost yellow, like almost seepy tone kind of haze in the air
this morning.
I would say around 536 somewhere around there.
It's cleared up since then, but it was an interesting start to the day.
Ooh, I'm going to look into that.
I didn't have that up here.
So let me see what that was.
I'm going to get back to tomorrow because the yellowy haze, that's interesting to me.
It must be some particles in the air or something.
I was staring at it because I thought, honestly, I'll be honest with you guys, I thought
that by context, I need to do once or something or there was something about my vision that
was just weird.
I don't know, but I had to go outside and check it out.
It was interesting.
You did the rub your eye, close your eye, open it up a few times.
Yes.
Kind of thing.
Yeah.
Like I was an old, like I was in a loony tunes cartoon, just rubbing the eyes and yes, yes.
Well, no more, no more of that because you need a sunglasses.
Not so much sunshine today.
I mean, our second summer is feeling fantastic.
87 degrees of our high today, 85 degrees tomorrow, still bright and beautiful, sunny and summery.
Things start to change a little bit Wednesday night.
We could take some scatter showers and storms mixed in there.
And then we've got a big low pressure system that's going to start to drag our temperatures down,
bring in a wet weather weekend.
And also, it's going to be windy too on top of that.
Enjoy it now.
But this weekend it's not going to be too bad with the rain mixed in highs in the mid 70s to low 70s.
Wow, that still sounds pretty decent.
Yeah.
But it also sounds like I should mow my lawn today or tomorrow.
Yes, that's a good idea.
Pretty solid idea right there, I think.
Getting it out of the way, that's not a bad idea.
And we look forward to talking to you again tomorrow, Brittany.
You have a great day.
Thanks, you too.
Best in the business.
Best in the business right there, Brittany and Lone joining us every morning right in this time slot.
Melissa and I got a bunch of fun things lined up for you, everybody.
We'll get into the L Cafe, Birthday and Anniversary Club in a little bit.
Gen Z employees, they say they need more praise than other generations.
We're getting into that though, I don't know about that one.
I got an interesting article that Melissa sent over about some new additions to our wood of our well wood zoos and everything.
We will touch on that and I got a great one here.
The most trusted U.S. accents.
The most trusted U.S. accents.
Okay.
All that coming up, we will kick off to 10 o'clock hour with our good friend Art Stevenson talking FRM Fest.
Friends of Rapids Music Fest.
Art's going to be new.
Now I will admit to the audience, I will talk to Art about anything.
Literally, like anything Art wants to talk about.
I'll talk with them for 20 minutes at least about.
So we'll look forward to that a little bit later.
We'll get into those things.
We of course got some other fun stuff lined up for you.
The percentage of people that say calories don't count when you're on vacation.
All of us.
We can kind of move on from that one, right?
I mean, we kind of disagree.
Yeah, segment done.
Just don't count.
I do want to start here and I don't do this very often.
But sometimes we do have to kind of start on a harsher note or a more melancholy note.
And I did want to note the passing of American legend Robert Redford.
Certainly one of my favorites.
One of my first early influences watching Butch Cassie and Sundance kid.
And then immediately after that watching the sting, it was one of my favorite things to do as a little kid.
My papa had a tape because I'm old VHS tape of that just so that I could put it on.
And watch it.
And for the next, you know, two hours, three hours, that's all I was doing was watching Redford and Newman.
Over and over again.
I love, I cannot express how much I loved those movies and that chemistry between those two actors.
And I bring up Paul Newman because I don't know that you can bring up one without the other in many ways when we're talking about them as actors.
Certainly, both had a great careers established outside of that.
But Jeremiah Johnson or the way we were, everything from that to modern classics like The Horse Whisperer, Indies and Proposal that Robert Redford did.
I would recommend to people than movie sneakers.
In part because it's one of my favorite like movies when I was young.
It's from 1992.
I'm not saying it's the greatest movie or anything like that.
But it also, it does have possibly maybe the greatest cast of the 90s.
With just an incredible group of people right there.
But I think you can get it on prime or I'm seeing on YouTube as well.
A river runs through it.
It was from my childhood that I remember that I was allowed to watch.
And then more recently, truth.
Ooh, yeah, yeah.
That one's from 2015.
And it's got, oh, what's her name?
What's her name? Kate Blanchett.
Kate Blanchett, yeah.
Yeah, that's a really good one.
And Robert Redford plays Dan Rather in that movie.
It's fabulous.
It's one of his greatest performances.
It's so hard to say that.
But it's one of his greatest performances.
Yeah, it is hard.
But Elizabeth Moss is also in it.
And Dennis Quaid, it's such a good movie.
Yeah, good one.
The Great Gatsby.
I never saw the Leonardo DiCaprio version.
I love the Great Gatsby.
It's already done.
I've never seen the modern version of it.
I've never seen the modern version either.
My favorite baseball movie of all time is The Natural, starring Robert Redford.
Another movie I watched endlessly with my papa.
And I will, one other quick recommendation, if you want,
if you're looking for something.
Because Sneakers is a little bit of a lighter kind of drama.
The movie The Last Castle.
It ended up being James Gandalfini's, I think, second to last movie.
And I watch it because I love James Gandalfini, like Robert Redford,
looks like a good flick.
It's the only movie I've ever seen where Robert Redford may be outacted.
Just at the very least, at the very same level of him, James Gandalfini goes.
If you enjoyed him in the sopranos, that movie takes you in a whole different area.
It shows you what a different actor he was and what the great work that he could do.
Those two really enjoyed working together out of Africa.
Almost forgot about it.
I can keep going, everybody.
How can you forget?
It's been a whole lot.
We're talking about this, man.
And we did not even talk about the fact that he created independent,
you know, a warged company here, the Sundance for independent filmmakers
and something that we could have here, like Khan and some of the film festivals around the world.
Also put it in the one place nobody wanted them to for a very specific reasons.
He didn't put it in LA.
He didn't put it in New York.
He didn't put it in Chicago.
He didn't put it in Houston.
He put it right there and somewhere where it would bring people to the beauty of America,
to the beauty of this country.
Because that's another thing that we have to talk about with him with Robert Redford.
And his dedication to this caring about this country and its people.
And how much that meant to him and how far he would go with that.
I admired.
You know, they tell actors all the time, don't be political, don't talk.
You know, the whole shut up and dribble thing.
And when we tell people that we're telling fellow Americans not to be American.
Like think of how ridiculous that is.
Robert Redford didn't listen to that.
And it didn't affect, and it didn't hurt his career either.
Incredible human being is great of an actor as he was.
And he's one of the greatest actors you've ever seen.
No matter who you are out there, no matter how old you are.
He pales in comparison to him as a human being.
Just thought we had to note that.
And we don't have an entertainment section today.
So I had to get that out.
I had to get that out.
I mean, that's a lot of entertainment to talk about.
Got it in.
Got it in.
And we kind of have no segue.
We just shift gears a little bit to picking up my sweater off the floor, doing that.
And also chocolate and coffee.
Two of my favorite sea words and two of the greater things that I think go together.
This is why I love mocha coffee so much.
I say coffee just because we're starting off in the morning here and everything.
But we are kind of talking a little bit about drinks here.
Chocolate doesn't need to taste better.
The issue is that it tastes too good.
But science has a different take on this a little bit.
So a researcher at University of Bristol in UK named Dr. Natalie Hyketith created a song
that supposedly makes chocolate taste even better when listening to it.
Oh.
Okay.
She reviewed 60 years of scientific research on a multi-sensory integration
and composed the music around, quote, sonic qualified qualities proven to affect flavor.
Pitch, tempo and harmony.
These sounds affect our palate.
These sounds affect what flavors are like to us.
They can enhance them.
They can't change them necessarily, but they can enhance them.
Okay.
The original composition is called sweetest melody.
And it lasts the time it takes for a piece of chocolate to melt in your mouth.
Roughly about 64 seconds.
Oh my goodness.
It's available on YouTube and Spotify.
I am going to play just a little bit of it for everybody right now.
So if you happen to have any chocolate around, you go ahead and grab that.
Put it in your mouth.
Yes, and enjoy this.
Okay.
Okay.
I can see how that...
Yeah.
I can kind of see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a lot of beat.
Not a huge beat to it.
I couldn't really bob my head to it and everything.
But I mean, you know, I guess that's not what I'm doing when I'm eating chocolate.
Here's my question.
Why chocolate?
Oh.
Yeah.
You know, that's...
Oh my god.
That's a good question, Melissa.
I've done like three different articles on this and I never even thought about that.
Chocolate already tastes good.
Why don't we need music?
How about broccoli?
How about you got music?
I mean, I think broccoli tastes good.
Why aren't they...
Yeah, but why aren't they creating music that makes foods taste better for kids?
That kids don't necessarily want to try or eat.
Maybe they're on to something here.
Maybe this is how we get kids to eat vegetables.
Or adults.
I mean, they eat a mashed potato song.
It's not fair.
For James.
Yes, it's not fair to me to say make kids eat other vegetables.
With vegetables with myself and plenty of us adults out there could be doing that or two.
So that's fantastic.
Okay.
So, you know, completely scratch yesterday's show where Melissa's going off to do news and we're
doing our thing here.
Melissa and I are going to go do...
Just make music to make kids eat vegetables more.
That's our new job.
Are you research to make James eat vegetables more?
Because if we can make you do it, I think it would be universal.
That's how we're going to do this.
That's how we're going to start our company.
You can test this stuff out.
We already got a guinea pig.
You can test it out with me.
And if it works on me, then boom, we know it's going to work on seven-year-olds and everything.
So, I think we got our new business model here.
This is going to be good.
You know, look out everybody.
I'm viewing some issues such as texture.
Oh, yeah, good point.
Yeah, you know what?
We should probably just do what we're going to do.
Yeah.
There are some roadblocks here.
There's something seems to be...
The texture of chocolate is very similar across the board.
The texture of vegetables across the board is very different.
That's interesting.
So, I came across something the other day about vegetables in general.
You know, why people get the way they do with them and everything.
And we'll get to that sometime.
But it's pretty interesting as far as not every...
Fruits and vegetables basically was what it was about.
And it was basically like not every...
I grabbed two...
A thing of apples.
And one apple tastes this way and one apple isn't as good.
Or something like that.
Mm-hmm.
It was along those lines.
Because there's varieties within the...
Especially apples.
There's so many varieties of apples.
Yeah.
Whereas there's only one variety of banana.
Mm-hmm.
It was just an interesting article and stuff that I hadn't really thought of about that.
And what I found just as interesting is the excuses people will use not to eat something.
Like, say what you will about me.
At least I'm real about it.
I'm honest about it.
I don't...
Well, it doesn't do this.
It doesn't...
No, I don't like it.
I don't like the texture.
Which is okay.
Which is okay.
Yeah.
I just wonder, you know, James, if...
Okay, bear with me for a moment.
So, we're thinking about the way that chocolate melts on your tongue, right?
Mm-hmm.
It's a similar texture every time.
Okay, suspend your disgust for a moment.
If all of the vegetables were pureed, so they're all the same texture.
And if you could find the music that would make you like the flavor,
would you then like it in its original presentation?
I think so.
I definitely try it.
What you were presenting to me almost sounds like a smoothie kind of thing.
Yeah.
And I don't have any problem with those.
I don't want to be able to be...
I seem to be.
I'm not...
I'm talking a good game right now, put it in front of me.
I don't know.
I like you said smoothie and not baby food, because I don't want to say baby food.
I've reverted back to baby.
This is what I've...
This is what I've become.
This is what my friends think of me.
And this is...
This is how we get James to try vegetables.
And I have walked into this.
I have done this to myself.
I, uh...
Yeah.
Adults...
Adults baby food is the next...
But it may be the way to get people to like vegetables.
Who knows?
You might be odd to something there.
You could buy music with it.
You know, because you give me a smoothie or some, I guess, adult baby food in a little Stevie Wonder.
I'll probably finish it off.
I'll probably finish it off.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back talking to the people that don't need gimmicks.
They just got good food over there at El Café.
We'll talk to them about them in just a moment right here on the morning show at WFHR.
You heard pit bull time to do some celebratein' with our great friends over at El Café in the birthday and anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We need to celebrate you and talk about our great friends over at El Café.
Treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
Find out some of those great specials they got going on over there.
Check out that wonderful menu.
Say hi to the gang for us.
Buy local support local everybody.
Mm-hmm.
And they had a great turnout on Friday for their fundraiser for the Port Edwards Paranormalization.
That was one great.
Yeah, it was great.
I got to go with my little buddy Quinn.
And we had a delicious meal.
They were packed like both like the all the side angle parking on the street was full.
All the parking within their little parking lot was full.
It was awesome.
Yes, some of the best news we're going to hear this morning.
That's fantastic.
That's awesome to hear.
And they must be still tired because they don't have their this week's specials up yet.
Yeah, understandable.
They will be.
They will be.
Looking forward to seeing those.
And we'll talk more about it tomorrow, of course, with our next segment.
But we do encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
Yeah.
Get them to us.
Email us at info at WFHR.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages and call on up.
That number is 715-424-2600.
Also just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.
Yeah, looking forward to talking to you, everybody.
Melissa, I need a one or a two.
Two.
All right.
Give us a circle.
We can get right into it first up.
We want to wish a happy birthday to Alex Cartwright.
Happy birthday, Alex.
Enjoy the day.
Alex, hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Representative Scott Krueck.
Oh, happy birthday, Scott.
Wishing Scott a great day.
Certainly.
No wonder he didn't take my call this morning.
No, I'm kidding.
Yeah, see?
He's busy.
But how I know when I would have left him a happy birthday on my message, too.
Well, and that's fitting you mentioned that, Melissa, because certainly talking about him politically and everything,
he has represented our area for quite a few years.
And I think done a darn good job of it now.
Scott and I do not always, you know, we butthead sometimes.
We don't always agree on things.
But we have ended every single conversation we've had for nine years now.
Maybe seven, eight, but somewhere around there.
Laughing or talking about the brewers or badgers or something like that.
And part of that was, is intentional.
When first talking to Scott, one of the things I was very clear with him about is how I feel about politics,
how I feel about some of these things and how I feel about this area, Scott felt the same way.
And we both agreed that, you know, in this day and age and we didn't see where things were going,
but hey, we need to make our representatives, make our officers, our EMTs, our firefighters,
show people the human being behind the job.
And not just...
And make them approachable.
Yeah.
Now, to his credit, Scott is one of the more approachable, I think, politicians we've had in this area.
He goes out of his way to go door to door, literally door to door, going to counties.
He's had some, you know, with the redistricting, he's gone to some new areas.
And he's gone out of his way to do that.
Again, this is something that every politician, this should not be noteworthy.
This should just be common for all of our political people.
But, you know, in this state, especially where we've got these whiny cowards running around all the time,
barking, just can't wait to get on Twitter and tweet a hundred tweets about, you know, how...
No, no, no, no, no.
You know, this nonsense.
But why take your phone call?
Yeah, you got the national news and local, a lot of our, you know, news stations out there
that cannot wait until Vanny says something that basically Trump said.
Whereas you've got a guy like this, like Scott van Krueger, Scott Krueger, that is barely covered.
And yet he's doing nothing but solid work around here.
It's where we put our attention, people.
And why we give attention to people like that when you've got a guy like this,
right in your own neck of the woods, working his tail off for this state,
and should be covered much, much more than just hearing what some whiner said on Twitter,
some cowards said on Twitter.
Our representatives are people deserve better than that.
And in Scott's fighting for that.
And again, not that we agree on everything.
But that's not, you know, we don't have to agree on everything.
That's a beautiful part about democracy, is that we come together and talk about all of the issues.
Because your passion about one thing doesn't mean I'm passionate about it,
but that doesn't make it any less important.
We move on to see who these celebrities are sharing their birthdays with our local people here.
Nick Jonas is 33 today, one of the Jonas brothers.
Are they again?
They were singers.
They are singers.
I believe they're singers.
I know zero, little to zero about the Genesis.
If all three of them walked in here right now,
and they offered me a million dollars if I can name each one of them,
man, I'm as broke as they, when they walked in here, I can be able to know.
I don't mean as a shot against them or anything.
No.
They've done perfectly fine without me buying their music.
They've done perfectly fine.
Well, you're not young teenage girls.
Right.
Yes.
Probably not the demographic.
Not their demo.
Not their demo.
I believe, to me, it is a very, very, very close race.
As far as funny as human beings on the planet,
I think that Tina Fey and Amy Poler are in a neck and neck race.
And given the day, I am going to choose one or the other.
Today, I choose Amy Poler because she is 54 today.
What?
Leslie Nopin, Parks and Recs.
Joy and Pixar's Inside Out.
Of course, former, not only Senate and Live member,
but Groundlings member, the second city of what the West coast really.
One of the funniest human beings on the planet.
I genuinely believe her podcast is great.
I think she's just got comedic talent for days and days.
Her timing is underrated.
Her writing is underrated.
She's a great comedic writer as well.
And just one of the good stories, I think,
to come out of not only second city in the groundlings,
but really an entertainment.
Hmm.
Big fan, if you can't tell.
Yeah.
I could ramble just almost as much about Molly Shannon,
who is 61 today.
How cool is it that Amy Poler and Molly Shannon have the same birthday?
Who's Molly Shannon?
I'm not sure.
I have to look.
Oh, I recognize her.
She was, of course.
Superstar is probably the biggest star.
Yes.
Yeah.
Sometimes when they get really nervous,
I put my arms under my hands under my arms.
She, Mary Katherine Gallagher on SNL is one of her more famous characters.
But I'm 50.
She has quite a few characters.
And Molly Shannon, much like Amy Poler and so many of the greats,
will do anything to make you laugh.
Yeah.
You know, the audience is always right and do whatever it takes to make them laugh.
One of the funnier people to ever be on the 30 rock stage, Molly Shannon.
Let's see.
Magician David Copperfield is 69.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, he is.
That's it.
Yeah.
That's a little surprising to me too.
Maybe that's the greatest magic trick yet.
We think he's older when he really isn't.
Yeah.
And not because of how he looks just because of how long he's been around.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And certainly, somebody that put magic on a whole other level.
I don't think that you have a sick freed and Roy or a pen and teller
or so many of the other great, the amazing Jonathan, some of these magicians
that didn't just do magic, but turned it into much more of a show.
Really what Harry Houdini was really started and began
and just kind of got let go of once Vaudeville passed on.
And, you know, we weren't doing that anymore.
We went to TV and then movies or movies and then TV, really.
Magic didn't have his place.
And then David Copperville comes around and kind of brings it back out there.
Mickey Rork is 73, Iron Man 2, The Expandables, had a pretty nice career early on
and then decided at the peak of his acting career, I'm going to be a boxer.
And smashed up his face real good.
And then he had a bunch of plastic surgery and he was hard to recognize.
All that said, when he does the movie The Russellor and you watch that movie,
you get to finally see, I think, the full, why Mickey Rork was really cast.
And it wasn't because of that jawline.
He's a solid, solid actor.
And that movie The Russellor is one of the most, like, one-off performances
if you're going to see a guy's career.
It's like, dang, why didn't he work more or something like that?
Like, really good actor, really good.
Some people no longer with us, like the legend BB King.
Born in this day in 1925, him and Lou Seale have entertained us for many, many years.
Every heartache I've ever had, first thing I do is listen to The Thrill Is Gone
from BB King and Lou Seale.
One of my favorite artists of all time, BB King.
If I had the story right, I was like five or six or something
and like late at night, my mom heard about something and took me to this,
like kind of not really a bar, but just this dive establishment in downtown
and BB King was playing.
Oh, wow.
And that's why she dragged me out.
That's why she went out and everything.
But if I got the story right, I have to ask the double check that though.
Yeah.
Peter Falk, born in this day in 1927, of course,
Colombo, so many other great performances in his career.
And as a lot of people know, his right eye was surgically removed
at the age of three because of cancer.
So I don't think we talk about this enough with Peter Falk,
not only being a cancer survivor at such a young age,
but in the industry where image is everything,
when you first walk in the door in a casting session.
And they're eyeballing you and they are looking you over and over
and making sure you're perfect.
And if you're not, you're not going to get cast.
So what do you got to do?
You got to have acting talent.
You're going to have skill.
You got to be able to get yourself not only in that room,
but walk out with a role.
Peter Falk was able to do that.
That is noteworthy.
In that industry, especially back then, that is very noteworthy.
Did that without any famous relatives or any connections,
just went in there and as Peter Falk was able to land roles.
And he was the grandfather in the Princess Bride.
Yeah, that's another one that we got to mention.
Yes, such a great performance too.
And the legend, Lauren Bacall, born in this day in 1924.
Of course, the 44 classic to have and to have not.
You just put your lips together and blow.
So many great movies with Humphrey Bogart,
her and Bogey, one of the original great tandems,
I think, in Hollywood history.
Incredible actress.
Incredible actress.
I don't know that Lauren Bacall ever really got the chance
to really show her complete work.
Her complete, like everything she completely was able to do.
No, because in that time era, it was all, she was the sultry.
Yeah.
Them Patel kind of.
I don't think we really got to see the chance to see her complete,
like, in legendary actor, one of the best you'll ever see.
And at the same time, I don't think we got to see her complete range.
Yeah.
That'll do it for our birthdays and anniversaries.
We'll wish you a great one out there.
Everybody celebrate and we'll be back after our news,
sports and entertainment break.
Take care of our partners.
And we got this one about Gen Z and just workers in general and praise.
Coming up on the morning show.
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.
Want to dive into this one, Melissa, in a new survey,
76% of managers say Gen Z employees need more praise than older generations do.
And nearly 60% say Gen Z's performance improves with more praise.
71% say Gen Z expects praise for meeting basic expectations
and 58% say that they wanted even when they failed.
30% of managers say that Gen Z employees have cried after receiving negative feedback.
And 10% of managers say a Gen Z employee's parent has contacted them following critical feedback.
38% have had a Gen Z employee call out sick the day after getting criticized.
So call in sick, basically.
That is a weird way we word that though.
What do you think about it?
And 27% have had a one quit over criticism.
So I think we kind of, like the survey does,
kind of have to break this down a little bit in things.
There's a lot involved in this.
Yeah, because now this idea that Gen Z needs praise more than under generations.
Maybe they've been vocal about it,
but I don't think that they're any different than boomers or Gen Xers or et cetera or et cetera.
Employees have always needed this.
Employees have always thrived on this and done better with it.
What is the negative to giving positive praise?
Well, and is it praise or is it just communication and feedback?
Yeah, yeah, right.
Absolutely, yes.
And I think that's more so of what we're talking about.
Well, and I think it's having worked in a remote,
not remote type of job, but you know, like we're,
our workplaces are different now in a lot of ways than they were.
Not all of them, obviously.
There are retail jobs and fast food jobs and convenience store jobs
where you are at the physical location.
But we do have a lot more jobs where people are working remotely
or they're working, we tend to find ourselves in these silos
where you don't hear feedback at all.
And sometimes that lack of any communication or feedback
just leaves you feeling kind of like,
okay, hope everything's okay.
And if it's not, hope somebody tells me.
I kind of get floored when people truly compliment me
or compliment the work I'm doing or something.
I'm not used to that and I often am waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I noticed that that's my approach to it.
I had something completely out of,
Gretchen messaged me a nice message about my directing.
For me, it was out of left field.
And for those that don't know,
her Gretchen's one of the kinder people you'll meet.
Somebody who doesn't have a,
what you see is what you get kind of person.
Gretchen's the executive director of WRCT.
Thank you.
And yet I read that and immediately was like,
what is she trying to get?
Is she there's no reason?
Like there's nothing I could do to help her or anything like that.
Like there was no reason other than just to say that to me.
Yeah, that's a nice thing.
I think that another part of this is how people are in our generation,
especially, but just generations in general learn to not have praise.
And now when we do get it,
we don't always know how to take it.
We don't always know necessarily where it's coming from and stuff
because I think that that's another thing we've dealt with too.
The manager that comes in and they do say something nice and it's a sandwich.
Right, I was just going to say that.
Yep.
It's a compliment sandwich.
Yeah, it's, hey, hey.
Oh, you know, a nice job with this today.
By the way, I need you to do this, this, this, this, this, and this better.
Oh, and have a good day.
That's something that in the 80s they taught every manager in every industry.
And now that's kind of how that's what we got used to.
So I, um, it's not that we don't need expectation like you're saying of,
okay, why are you complimenting me about this?
What do you expect in return?
Yeah.
It's not that employees of all generations don't need and deserve praise.
It's that we got used to not knowing to living without it.
We, you know, we just kept going.
Uh, this, this young, just Gen Z.
I think that, uh, on a major part are just kind of,
they're willing to speak up.
They're willing to say something.
They're willing to put their name on things.
I will, I will pull back a little bit on the idea though of 71% of Gen Z
or expect praise for meeting basic expectations.
I, I don't know that you deserve a pet on the back for doing your job.
Um, I, I don't think it hurts.
I don't, I think I think a good manager does do that.
But I don't know.
See, again, this is my, this is the generation I grew up in,
where you're just expected to do things and you're not, you know, praise.
What is that?
Um, I, I think that's more where that opinion is coming from.
Well, and, you know, just having positive work environment will lift morale.
Whether that's, you know, yes, you don't need to be praised for every little thing you do.
But if the environment that you're working in is overall positive
or that there's a positive spin on things when appropriate,
that just helps with morale overall.
Yeah, I don't know what the negative is to positive energy,
to positive, you know, compliments or just a good positive work environment.
And also just investing in your employees.
Yeah.
You know, that is something I think it's not saying that I think it's gone up and down.
Obviously, you know, if we look way, way, way back before we had a child labor laws
and all of that employees were expendable.
You're right.
And it was only to, to, to put, to, to continue the, the wheels of progress.
And some people were crushed and, oh, well, well, you know, that's part of progress.
Well, no, it's not people matter.
And, and the, the morale in the workplace does matter.
Well, and I, honestly, it is interesting as some of this is.
And, and I do, you know, pull back on some things.
When I was in sixth grade, my mom had to, like call, got called or had to go to the, the school.
And I'll never forget it because I was so embarrassed that my mother had to go and do this and everything.
I couldn't imagine as an adult, my mom calling my, imagine my mom calling sage,
calling sage up.
See, you were very mean to my son.
Like, I cannot imagine how that conversation would go.
I cannot imagine my mom with the fold with chuck and, and be like, hey, you know,
you were a little too harsh on my son.
But though, I kind of, I kind of just want to do it.
I kind of just want to do it now, yeah.
But, you know, we also had a generation, and it's not a total generation,
but the helicopter parents, where, you know, they, and some of this is created by society,
where they had either a very difficult childhood or their parents weren't involved,
or, you know, there was something that pushed them to be a helicopter parent,
whether that was trauma, whether that was something that happened in their childhood,
who knows?
But, that's not necessarily the child's fault that they have a helicopter parent.
Right, right.
And, you know, you can only...
So, who do you blame for that?
Yeah, yeah.
And, and maybe it's, maybe that's one of the things we kind of need to do.
Like, it's one thing to solve problems.
And to figure out, okay, this is what caused it.
It's another thing to have to, and I'm not saying at all, you're doing this, Melissa.
You're the opposite of this.
But, the need to...
A lot of kids, so...
Well, the idea that we need to have somebody to blame.
Like, that's so much of our culture right now.
We can't just have feelings about something.
We have to attach it to somebody to blame, or something to blame.
And then, on top of that, adding on to that, with more blame, more blame,
and notice how everybody that wants to point the finger never wants to take any accountability.
Right.
Nobody wants to take any accountability.
Every one of these people that cannot wait to jump out, and get on social media,
and blame the other side, and all these things.
They never have any single bit of accountability when it comes to that.
I think a similar thing could be said for management, and management,
not having enough accountability when it comes to these conversations.
And maybe, you know, some of it's your fault, and some of it's not.
But you can take accountability for the part of it that is your fault.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, two things can be true at once.
So, you had a terrible childhood that doesn't make it okay to over-parent your child.
Yes.
Yeah.
And okay is the wrong word.
But you know what I mean? It's extreme.
Absolutely.
There's extremes on everything.
And I don't know.
I think the most important thing here in this conversation is just communication.
Yeah.
Talking with each other, building each other up, having conversations when something isn't going well,
but it could be improved.
Talk about it.
Don't just go, don't just play the blame game, have a conversation, and see how things could be better.
Maybe a part of this would help if it was a good accent.
Maybe the accent goes a little ways with that, or something, as far as all this.
I mean, like when we get the weather, bad weather delivered by a British accent.
Yes.
It's better.
I think so.
Or when it's British.
Or when it's British.
That's what I was thinking.
We will come back and we're going to talk about our most trusted American accents.
The most trusted US accents is coming up on the morning show here 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.
I wouldn't know what to label a British voice or accent, but you heard it right there, everybody.
No matter what she's saying, it feels all right to you.
It's going to be all right.
It's going to be great delivery.
Yeah.
It's going to be all right.
We feel that from the weather.
We get that from accents and from different tones and voices and all these things.
That is part of what I thought was so interesting about this article here.
So we're talking most trusted analyzed US accents.
They analyzed this, did research and everything.
Some very interesting research analyzed 14 different American accents to figure out which ones are the most and least trustworthy.
The process involved looking at internet search interests around the friendliness and professionalism of each accent,
along with financial crimes, the number of lawyers, and the number of primary care doctors associated with each regional accent.
Interesting way to do this.
I don't know.
And again, there's no exact science to any of this.
So keeping that in mind.
In the end, the sixth most trustworthy accents are, should I go from six up?
Sure.
All right.
And number six, Texas accents.
Okay.
I could see that.
That's a very recognizable accent.
Something familiar about it.
New York accents.
Kind of supposing to me.
A surprising but another very recognizable accent.
Yeah.
But New York, there's a variety of accents there.
Absolutely.
Yes.
So.
California accents.
Come in at number three.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Number four, I'm sorry.
Number three is Philadelphia accents.
Oh.
Which I'm very surprised to see as a most trustworthy accent at number three Philadelphia.
The one that I would have thought for sure was going to be number one is actually number.
Hold on.
Before you move to number two, my cousin Vinnie with Danny DeVito.
Is that a Philadelphia accent?
Joe Pesci.
Sorry.
It's more of a New York accent, I would say.
But yeah, maybe.
Maybe it's more.
I've only seen it once.
So I shouldn't say.
But I think it's a New York accent.
He's doing it.
But yeah, yeah.
I know Marissa Tomay is definitely doing a New York accent.
Oh, yes.
But yeah, but the lawyer is very right.
No, you're right.
Yeah, I think it might be for you.
It might be right.
It might be a Philly accent.
Okay.
And he played a good lawyer.
Oh, yeah.
Pesci, Pesci is great.
Pesci is awesome.
At number two, a Cajun accent.
I would have thought that would have been number one.
Okay.
I would have thought that would have been number one.
But nope.
The number one most trusted accent, US accent is Boston.
Never would have guessed that in a hundred years.
Never.
Never.
Well, it's nothing against Boston.
I just wouldn't know.
But it makes sense when you say it.
Well, it is.
It comes from some of the oldest parts of our country.
Maybe there's something in that.
Isn't that where Harvard is?
Yeah, somewhere in New York.
Somewhere up over there, over that way in East.
I've never really thought much about where it is.
It's just because there's no reason.
I mean, unless there's a gag or a joke that I don't know about,
I've not been invited to Harvard at the time.
It's in Boston.
It is in Boston.
I knew I was getting that wrong.
Oh, no, Massachusetts.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Just across the river from Boston.
I knew I was going to anger my New York friends out there somehow in this segment.
I just did it.
I just did it right there.
It's Massachusetts.
Yes.
And the Brooklyn.
Oh, there.
I hope they got them back.
And you were right.
Joe Pesci was a New York lawyer.
Okay.
All right.
This is in my cousin Vinnie.
The six least trustworthy accents in the US are.
At number six, Florida accents.
Okay.
At number five, Midwestern.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
One of the more trustworthy accents I would think.
They got this revolver first.
Friendly.
I would say friendly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which I guess I associate with a bit with trustworthy.
But maybe not.
Or if you ask anybody in the Midwest if we have an accent, they'll say, well, no.
Hmm.
Hmm.
You act absolutely.
You're 100% right about that.
At number four, Hawaiian accents.
Hmm.
What?
Yeah.
Not trustworthy.
I don't get it.
I really do feel like they mix this list up.
I really do.
It doesn't seem right.
Hmm.
And Southern accents come in next.
Okay.
I'm trying to see what the difference of a Southern and a Cajun accent are.
There's more of a French twang to your twang is the wrong word, but inflection.
Yeah.
Now as soon as I started to look at the words, all I had to do was think about Cajun words and Southern words.
Yeah.
But again, Southern accent, I would think it would be very, to me, it's very trustworthy.
I don't know.
New Jersey accents come in at number two.
I kind of saw that.
That kind of makes sense.
Yeah.
I gotta felt that what was coming.
And at number one, Mountain West accents are the least trustworthy accents in the US.
I don't get it.
I don't quite get this.
Hmm.
The quote, friendliest accent is a New York accent.
And the accent, most linked to financial crimes, was Midwestern accent.
I would have said Florida for that.
Yeah.
Like, again, I don't know who filled out this survey.
And it feels like this was done in the East Coast.
And that's it.
Well, and it would be interesting to go to each one of those regions and ask them the same, you know, sweet of questions and see how it's different from each region.
Yeah.
That's, yeah, that would be an interesting one.
Yeah.
Like, would the people in the Midwest give completely different answers than people in Florida?
Probably.
Well, that's something, that kind of piggybacking on that, Melissa, I kind of would have loved to have seen like a real breakdown of this in regions.
Because I wonder, do we trust our own accents more than we do another one from another state, another part of the country?
Or is it reverse?
You know, that we don't trust our own accents.
And it's, we hear an accent that we're not familiar with or don't hear a lot.
And we're more prone to listen and believe it.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
And then the other question, too, is how,
there, you need background information on the person answering the survey.
How much experience do they have with people from these other regions?
Do they travel?
Have they done business in these other regions?
Have they visited a doctor in these other regions?
You know, so there's a lot.
But again, our country is so big.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
The fact that we have all these different accents is really kind of cool.
I think that's one of the things that I would like to focus on is how unique and how cool that is about our country and how amazing it is.
And certainly, we'd love to hear from all of you out there.
What is your most trusted accent?
What do you like the more?
Just an accent you like.
Like, is there an accent out there that you enjoy or anything like that?
I do like Hawaiian accent.
I do think it's a wonderful dialect.
And their language is beautiful.
Like the fact that it just has so many vowels in it and you pronounce all of them.
It's fascinating.
Yeah.
That part takes a little getting used to for me.
But yeah, it's wonderful.
That's great accent.
We got some great stuff coming up for you more in that moment.
But I do want to remind everybody that we got dueling blood drives going on today.
We have our blood drive going on right over at the former Eastern High School Music Room.
The held in the cafeteria area there at 311 Lincoln Street.
That is kicking off minutes from now.
It goes from 10 to 3.
Again, right over at the former Eastern High School Music Room.
Go right over there.
You guys have signs lined up for you to get you right into the right place.
Yeah, and that's the Community Blood Center.
Yeah.
And then from 10 to 3 over at McMillan Library, they are accepting donations today.
And I would guess that's the Red Cross?
Yes.
490 East Grand Avenue.
You can head on over there and donate there.
And either one of these places are great opportunities to not only put into our community, help our community,
but to do some good in our community.
I say this all the time, but you don't have to have a cape and a tragic backstory to be a superhero.
It's a lot easier to just donate blood.
Imagine trying to come up with the being a new superhero.
Listen, they're all been done.
They've all been done.
You know what?
There might be a new one coming.
Maybe, maybe.
There might be.
I have an idea.
Okay.
We're more on that.
But you could be a hero right now without the cape.
Just by donating blood, we encourage you to do that if you can.
And a big thank you to everybody who has.
You know, or a reminder that our Red Cross has told us about it.
Going back to last summer, we have been short.
It was something to keep in mind.
Let's go ahead and try to take a very quick phone call,
because we only have a minute left of show this hour.
Good morning on here.
Yes, I was in Hawaii.
You talked a little bit about Hawaiian language.
They don't use all 26 letters in Hawaii.
There are about 8 letters short.
What were you used here?
Oh, wow.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
And I kind of wish, I kind of wish a group with that.
It seems like a little bit easier for me.
I don't do great with the language we got.
The word letters we got over here.
I might have done better with that.
That's interesting.
My papa was stationed over in Hawaii for a while.
He told me a couple of stories about something.
Not misunderstanding the language and stuff
and ending up with a lot of spam.
Something along those lines.
But he loves spam.
He loves spam.
Always good to talk to you, sir.
Thanks for the call.
You have a good morning.
You all stick around because we got our friends from FRM coming up.
We're talking FRM fast when we get back right here on the morning show.
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