The Perfect Bumper DOES Exist. (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world.

It's a new day.

And thanks for kicking it off with us right here

at 97.5 FM, 13.20 AM, WFHR, locally grown radio.

Got your host, James J here.

I am joined, of course.

Well, I don't call myself that in ages.

We are joined right now by our good friend,

Katrina Hunter from Family and Natural Foods.

How are you doing, Kat?

Good morning, I'm doing good.

And I think you should keep that name.

I think it's lovely.

I don't know where that came from.

I was thrown off by the theme music

that plagued everything.

So I was going to do some,

I was going to do my version of Slion of Family Stones,

but I don't want to do that to you or Brittany.

You know, nobody wants to hear me sing.

Nobody wants that.

Brittany, how are you doing?

Are you sure?

I'm going to hear you sing.

I don't know.

I'm with you, Brittany.

We got much more, no, we have too many things.

It's, we got to keep things moving here and everything.

Nobody wants to.

Brittany, how are you this morning?

I am good.

The sun is shining bright here.

We've got an amazing forecast ahead.

We made it through the worst of the wet weather.

And now we just get to enjoy the autumn season.

Yay.

So excited.

I cannot wait.

I've been looking forward to this.

This, this time of year, certainly some of them,

not only mine, but I know a lot of people out there

is favorite.

And we're already kind of getting some of that feeling

today, aren't we?

We sure are.

It's just going to be a gorgeous day.

It's partly sunny.

It is going to be hitting highs the low 70s,

probably about 72 degrees, winds barely moving.

So keeping all those leaves intact because you know,

we sit here nervously wondering which big storm system

we're going to knock them all off.

We don't have any in the forecast so far.

So it's good.

We've got a gorgeous rest of the week, nothing

but partly sunny, turning mostly sunny by Thursday.

And in fact, temperature is getting warmer

as we push into the weekend as a massive high pressure

system holds tight.

We've got a dry spell.

So highs today, low 70s, both day and low 70s tomorrow, too,

will hit the mid 70s by Thursday,

and then climb to the upper 70s for Friday.

So still some summer-like temperatures,

and very comfortable conditions.

It's just gorgeous.

Oh, love it, love it.

And all this for the start of a new year, too.

At least for some of us.

This is something I was talking about with the gang yesterday

about having multiple calendars

to grow up with being Jewish and everything.

And I say Ishma, Tova, to everybody out there

and happy, Rosh Hashan, happy new year,

birth of creation and everything.

So nice with the equinox lining up with that, Brittany.

I thought that's kind of cool.

Ooh, that is cool.

Yeah, that is fantastic.

I love it.

And not a coincidence.

Not a coincidence, everybody.

Part of the things and part of what

autumn is and everything for us.

So it works out.

It's kind of cool.

Brittany, we it's always cool hanging out with you.

We appreciate you.

You have a great morning.

You too, thank you.

Best in a business right there,

Brittany Merlot joining us every morning

right in this time slot.

Appreciate her and appreciate all you being here.

We got a fun show lined up for you, everybody.

We got the El Café, birthday and anniversary club

right around the corner beginning into that.

You want to exercise more?

You got to go to bed earlier.

That's at least with this survey.

This report is saying, Cat, we'll be getting into that

a little bit later.

All that coming up for you, along with the best things

about fall.

Ooh, yes.

We're getting into this one.

We're getting in.

We want audience participation on this.

Oh, yeah, definitely call it in.

We want to talk about what's the best of fall to you.

Looking forward to that.

Also looking forward to the top of the 10 o'clock hour,

we're going to invite some more guests in.

We've got Jesse and Annie from the Girl Scouts

of Northwestern Great Lakes joining us.

They got an open house coming up

and some other fun things.

I want to get to know them a little bit, talk about it.

And not just because I want to make a connection,

a pipeline to the cookies.

That's nothing to do with this.

That's not it.

No, it is not about their missions and their visions.

That's coming up a little bit later,

looking forward to it.

And before you wrap up the show,

now, when you're joining us,

you don't get to join us that often.

So when you do, I try to have a lot of fun,

interesting topics for us and things.

Thank you, so I'm not yawning over here.

Yeah, I think I'd be yawning over here today.

You don't want to bore the co-host.

It's not something you want to do.

Ever once do I like to work our brains a little bit, though?

I have the top word each state has trouble spelling.

Ooh, please don't ask me to spell it.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, it is, I would not, before noon,

I don't, I think it should be a rule.

Can we make this like a societal rule

that before noon, you don't ask anybody

to spell anything, no math.

Like it, before noon.

Outside of the job's call for it, like ours

and things like that, but other than that,

I think that yes, we should just keep things open.

Okay, that'll be fun, though.

We'll get into our schedule.

We've got some good stories of the day.

We'll talk about some local events going on as well.

Entertainment sports, all of that coming up for you

in the next two hours.

I got a really good good story of the day.

I want to get to as well.

But we want to kick things off with an update

with our great friends over at Family Natural Foods

because less than a month from now, Kat,

you guys are going to be up to one of,

I think I want to speak for you

and the team over there or anything.

But to me, you're really your biggest days of the year

in your anniversary spell.

It's true.

And for us, it feels sometimes like it's multiple weeks

of that because we're a lot of preparing

as I told James this morning,

I was at work at 5 a.m., getting all of the orders placed

for our anniversary sale that's coming up

on October 3rd and 4th.

So that is our, that's our 79th James.

79, that's awesome.

79 years.

I mean, like I'm just a little tiny bit of that 79,

but I feel really fortunate.

At the end of the day, it's like we appreciate

our community for supporting my grandfather, Frank,

my dad, Mike, and Steven and I with the business.

We're really, we're really grateful for that.

So this is like a birthday for the store,

but also a custom appreciation day.

And so we, if people aren't familiar with it,

please come in to Family Natural Foods,

910 West Grand Ave on October 3rd,

which is a Friday or October 4th, which is a Saturday.

We're going to have lots of fun and sales in store.

So our supplements are on sale,

our cosmetics are on sale,

you know, essential oils are on sale,

so on, so forth.

A majority of stuff is on sale, not the food,

but we'll have some different demos and things like that.

I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of it,

because I don't want to take the fun away for Thursday,

because we're on Rapids Report on Thursday at 11.30 a.m.

So tune into that, everyone.

Yeah.

We're going to be on, I'm sorry, not 11 a.m.

You're going to have to cry.

Well, we pre-recorded it then,

but it'll be online.

It shows like four o'clock, right?

Yeah, it'll be online that afternoon.

Okay, sorry, I get, I get, forget, like,

leaving in here versus when it's on.

So,

Unless you've been doing it for like 20,

and even doing it 20 years, you forget some types.

The other day, I messed up doing a track for unlabeled,

and I freaked out because I thought I did it on air.

Oh, sure, right?

And I'm like, oh, wait a minute,

I'm off air, what am I doing?

Yes, this is not great.

Those are like nice.

Oh, okay, I got it that.

This anniversary special,

because like a lot of things over at Family and Natural Foods,

they, you guys do an amazing job selling your shelves

and your products,

but I feel like you also do not give yourselves enough credit.

So, I'm going to take over for just a second Katrina.

We will get more into this on the Rapids Report on Thursday.

Okay.

In our community, I don't know anybody

that doesn't anniversary special or sale

or anything like you guys do.

It's not just for a couple of hours,

it's not just for one day, it's multiple days,

and it's so many products in such great sales.

And I just asked this community

to not tell Stephen or Katrina

the definition of what an anniversary is

or how they're usually celebrating.

So, we're supposed to be giving you gifts.

We're supposed to be doing things for you guys, but.

Oh, you have birthday presents, right?

Yep, guys.

In all seriousness, it is a really cool way of doing this

because you make this not just your guys' anniversary,

but the communities.

Yeah, it's fun.

It's really fun.

That's a fun way to do it.

It's everybody's.

And the story of Family and Natural Foods

is very similar to a lot of our local businesses out there.

And a lot of us here as a radio station

as a local business.

It's the story of Rapids.

It's the story of this area.

We're really when you look at the history of it

and you go, I encourage people to do that

along with taking advantage of those amazing sales,

looking into the history of this stuff

because this is your history too.

This is something to take pride in.

Well, you know what?

We'll have to have one of the expert historians

of Wisconsin Rapids, aka my father,

or a kid.

We knew somebody.

You know a guy.

All right.

You know a guy.

You know, we had him on, when it was the old station,

Stephen and my dad and I came in and we did the history

of things.

One of my favorite episodes.

It was so fun.

But unfortunately, through the changeover and technology

and so forth, we weren't able to keep that in the archives.

Still but we need to really do that again

because I'd love to have that as an archive thing.

And it'd be fun for everybody to tune in to like,

oh, here's the nitty gritty of it.

So maybe this fall winter will come in

and we'll do like a larger episode on,

hey, here's the history of family and afterwards.

We're doing that.

We're definitely doing that.

And this will be able a little bit more up to date too

because it's a couple of years later and everything.

But we're looking forward to that.

Yeah, let me just highlight a couple more things

before we jump on.

And I just want to highlight that we have a presentation

on October 8th, which is called Wellbell,

its hair skin nails focus.

So it's a supplement talking about how we can have better

hair skin nails.

Stephen and I will probably go through the nitty gritty

details of it again on Thursday.

But definitely something to come to.

Laurie is a local expert in that

and she'll be guiding that one.

And I just really want to highlight a moon health

for just a quick, quick second here.

We could talk all day about it.

No, yeah, yeah, we could.

Actually, you would like it, Ram,

look about it.

Yeah, it's the season, right?

The sneezing, the colds, the flus,

the kids are bringing it back.

We're bringing it back.

We're more stressed this time of year

because we have less time to get the things done

that we want.

So naturally our immune system takes a dip.

So what I would suggest is try building it up right now

instead of being like, oh, I have a cold, what can I do?

Which is fine, we're there for you if that happens.

But let's get something right now for deep

immune health through the cold and flu season.

So you don't get that cold.

Stay healthy as best as you can.

And a great time to stock up on those things

would be I had a customer appreciation sale

in just October 3rd and 4th.

And we hope to see you there.

Well done.

And appreciate it because I think that reminder

is needed for a lot of us and by that I mean me.

But everybody else too, everybody else too.

But there is something about forgetting

to take care of myself that I do every time this year.

And I have no excuse.

I'm a grown man.

I know what happens this time of year.

And I know how important it is for me to be available

for everything that I am asked to do and stuff in this world.

And yeah, last week I messed up.

I did not take good enough care of myself

last week's of this week.

And I really tried hard to do some of those things

and going forward throughout the rest of fall, winter.

I am going to be working very hard to take care of me

so that I can do the things that I need to do.

Yes, exactly.

Take care of the immune system.

Yeah.

Now, I mean, I'm talking a good game.

Please keep me hold me accountable, everybody.

A little bit accountable.

We'll talk about this next month.

Thank you.

That beautiful hair with Well Bell is coming up again

right around the corner of October 8th.

Next one.

Oh no, not next one.

It went to October 8th.

Yeah, a couple of Wednesdays.

And I'm excited about October.

So that's right.

I know.

And that anniversary special goes on October 3rd

through the 4th.

Be in the lookout for that.

Be sure to find out more about family

and natural foods at FamilyNatureFood.com.

Follow them on social media and be sure to share their posts

on your page.

You just never know who might see them otherwise.

And of course, stick around.

We got the Elle Cafe birthday and anniversary club coming up

right here on the morning show at WFHR.

I don't know if I believe Katrina and James here

with you, everybody, welcome back to the morning show

in 97 of 5 FM 1320 AM.

I'm gonna get into the Elle Cafe birthday and anniversary club.

Now, I can't, I believe that the birthday song

is public domain now.

So you can actually do the actual birthday song

for a very, very long time.

You could not do that song

because it was an expensive song.

If you were there, you played three or four bars of that.

And you've got a paycheck.

You've got to get out there to the birthday people and stuff.

I don't want to take that chance.

I don't have that kind of paycheck.

So I'm just a birthday, birthday, birthday.

Oh, what are we doing birthday right now?

We'll see it.

Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy.

Happy birthday.

Oh, happy, happy.

Happy birthday.

September 23rd birthday people.

All right, nicely done, nice.

So we might have something there.

That might have the new birthday song.

If you want to use that, I will write off on it.

We're gonna snip that up.

We're gonna put that into a bumper.

That is our new birthday song.

No.

We encourage you to find a much better music

and much better things over at our friends at Elle Cafe.

221 Market Avenue Beautiful Port Edwards.

Visit them today by local support local.

Got some amazing specials out there for you, everybody.

Find those out at their Facebook page.

Go on over there, check that out.

Subscribe to their page.

Keep up to date on the things that they are doing.

And when you get on over there,

wish them a good morning from us.

Appreciate our friends at Elle Cafe.

Yeah, it always smells delicious in there.

It's us.

I'm not kidding, the vibes and the energy of that building.

Always great, always great.

We appreciate it.

I'm so happy that they're in that space.

I feel like it's really fulfilling a new part

of Port Edwards, which is great.

You know, I've been there with other businesses

and stuff, and I'm with you.

That's, I like that just building itself and everything.

Let alone the way things are set up in Port.

I like it.

It's a great town.

Great town.

Wishing you guys good morning over there.

And of course, they're back at it this morning.

I had yesterday off their benzes for this is their Monday.

So go ahead and get on over there,

keep busy, and I enjoy yourself at Elle Cafe, everybody.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries

so we can continue to celebrate with you.

We would much rather spend more time on our locals

than celebrities and all that.

What we want.

We really would.

So get us more and more birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody, you can email us infoatwfhr.com,

direct messages on our Facebook pages,

and you can call on up 715-424-2600.

Just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.

Feel free to text us through the app as well,

whatever's handy for you.

We look forward to talking with you.

Keep that app handy, of course, as well,

because we got our up and down the state, multiple state.

Go for the greener gold text to win contest going on as well.

So you want to have that app handy for that.

Can I need a one or a two?

Oh, let's go to today.

All right, this is the two there we go.

All right.

First up, we want to wish very happy birthday to Wally Morris.

Happy birthday, Wally.

Wally Morris is also a 1918 baseball player.

No, I didn't.

No, I don't.

I felt like a name for that.

It's a joke that I told Wally this morning, and he laughed at it.

So I'm just going to go ahead and use it again

and hope that he still laughs.

But that does sound like somebody who played baseball in 1918.

It does.

Wally Morris sells it to go.

I'm pretty sure that there was a ball player that day.

But Wally, enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you, man.

And thanks for calling that birthday in.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Jamie Graper.

Happy birthday, Jamie.

Jamie, enjoy the day.

OK, so I have to do a Jamie info on this one.

And I want everyone to know, I did not see James Sheet.

Nope.

So I didn't see anything about it.

I keep these things very guarded.

But Jamie is a staff member at F&F.

So I can speak about her for a little second here.

She's an amazing human.

She just led our herb walk that we had at Red Sand's Beach recently.

She's just a go-getter.

She's a retired physical education teacher.

And she's so knowledgeable.

She comes to the store and she is just

ready to help people, help them with whatever it is.

She's so knowledgeable.

We love having her around.

And she's just a joy.

And she brings spunk and sarcasm every day.

She really is something.

And she's such a great talker, so much fun to have her on the air

and talk with her about things.

And you cannot, you really can't throw her a curveball.

She knows her stuff.

She's got it.

And also, somebody was put a lot in the discommunity

when you were talking about her previous gig.

And this gig currently, everything.

She's worked with and touched.

Yep.

Appreciate you, Jamie.

There you go.

You're our qualifier.

And yes, Katrina cannot see this list over here and everything.

Integrity is very important these days,

and especially at this station.

Absolutely on radio.

Yeah, we've been doing this a long time.

I'm not going to mess it up now.

And I'm not on my watch.

No, no, no.

Jamie, enjoy and Wally, enjoy your birthday as well.

Absolutely.

We look at who you share your birthdays

and anniversaries with out there.

Anthony Mackie is 47.

He is the current Captain America.

He was the Falcon, now he's that.

He was in eight miles.

He's been in a couple of other things.

The Hurt Locker, he was very good in.

That's a great movie.

If you haven't seen the Hurt Locker,

that's one of those movies.

Intense.

I'll need to Franco is 55.

Not right.

One of my all-time favorite voices.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

One of my all-time favorite, I should say,

singer, songwriter is all of the above, really.

But certainly one of my favorite voices,

finding it was a friend's over at the 89.9

college radio station I heard her for the first time

and didn't back then because I'm old.

I could not just look her up online,

necessarily, and see who she was and all this.

I just had her voice and her lyrics to go on.

And immediately really enjoyed what I was hearing.

When I got the chance to start learning more about her,

she's somebody who just did not want to jump

into the kind of like machine of the record companies

and everything.

So she made her own record company,

Ruthless Bay Records, and giving a lot

of other independent artists a chance.

And because of that, she's been able to do her own thing

and really control her music.

She had a big hit with 32 flavors

that was done by another artist.

But her version is incredible.

She's got an untouchable face.

Shy is a great song.

But if you get a chance,

and I think a lot of people,

but I might lose some people of this one.

But I think my favorite version of Ave Maria

is Anita Franco's version.

Okay.

It's like you've never heard it before.

It is, or yeah, yes.

I believe I got that right.

It's incredible version.

It really is.

I think we have to check that out.

She is one amazing singer.

Jason Alexander is 66.

George Costanza unsign felt.

Of course, interesting thing for him on that show

where he was playing pretty much a real person

in Larry David.

And now a lot of people have seen Larry David

and TV shows and everything.

But at the time, Larry David was just a writer

and not really known by anybody.

So you're really getting the early impressions

of Larry David through George Costanza unsign felt.

And we did not realize how good of a job

Jason Alexander was doing playing this man,

but he did amazing.

He's also a complete actor.

Jason Alexander, he's not gotten the chance

to do a lot of drama,

but there was an episode of Criminal Minds

where he guest spotted on.

And he played a much darker character and nailed it.

Was great.

Did a really good job.

He's a complete actor.

He's good.

Jason Alexander, 66 today.

The boss is 76 Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey's own.

The boss.

When you've got that as a nickname.

I know.

That's, I mean, I don't know.

I don't, I think that one of the cool things

about nicknames is when you don't necessarily

lean into him too much.

You don't call yourself it or anything like that.

Shaquille O'Neal is pretty much the only person

I've ever heard of that got to give themselves

their own nickname.

Like otherwise, we don't do that in society.

And sometimes you don't remember who was the one

who gave you that name, either.

Oh, that's a wild one too.

My dad actually was bringing that up

with my mom and I the other day.

He's called me Yamo, my whole life.

Yamo.

And, and we've asked him this from time to time,

but it's been probably a good decade or so.

We thought, well, he's a little older,

maybe we can get him or anything.

Sure.

Like dad, why do you call me Yamo?

And my mom actually brought up the question first

and everything.

And he's just looking at us like, I don't know.

To him, it's more like why not?

Like it makes sense to him.

But we have no idea where this came from.

And now, by this point, I don't think he remembers.

Right.

I think he's just not telling us,

because he doesn't remember.

I don't know.

I don't know how you get Yamo out of my name.

I don't know where it came from.

But yeah, there you are.

That's awesome.

Bruce Springsteen, one of the better singers,

songwriters in American history, period.

Yeah.

Just one of the best.

And interesting too, didn't really,

he was one of these guys who wasn't starting out like,

I'm going to be the next pop, you know, rock star or anything.

Right.

He wanted to be the next Bob Dylan.

Yeah.

He wanted to be a folk artist.

He kind of just had his career go this route

and, you know, as musicians evolve,

he kind of went to electric, similar to Dylan,

and kind of started doing a little bit more rock.

And, you know, his albums were doing well

and then born in the USA, comes out

and puts him on a whole other level.

This, it also should, I think, should be noted.

Oscar winner.

Yeah.

Like Bruce Springsteen Oscar winner.

Yes, definitely.

He's got so many credentials.

We don't really mention that very often.

But, and one of these guys too,

another thing that I don't think it's brought up enough,

just with musicians in general,

what you hear on a CD, on an MP3, on a tape,

whatever you listen to music on,

you hear the same thing live.

Like, he can back it up.

He doesn't just need the studio to make himself sound good.

He sounds like that in general.

Like, and I've never heard somebody say

that they saw a bad Bruce Springsteen

in the East Street band show.

Yeah.

Just incredible artist.

Another great one, Julio Glecius is 82.

Oh, really?

Yeah, wonderful singer.

Wonderful singer.

Also has a great version of Hafe Marie, I believe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then some people no longer with us.

Like, one of the biggest stars,

and Hollywood history, Mickey Rooney,

born in this day in 1920.

Yeah.

For a good stretch of time,

Mickey Rooney was literally the biggest star in the world.

Or at the very least in America.

Yeah.

Just his, his star was on the level

of maybe like a Timothy Chalamet nowadays.

That's how big he was.

That's how popular he was and how,

how much he was liked and appreciated.

And I was just brought in the vaudeville kid.

He liked a lot of the actors of that day and age,

learned how to act, how to do things live

and with one take and all that.

And I think really added to his career.

A lot of younger people out there

might remember him as the retiring guard

and knight at the museum.

That I believe the first one had a nice job on that.

He was the, did some voice work too.

He was the voice of Santa Claus

and Santa Claus is coming to town

in the year without Santa Claus.

Really wonderful voice actor.

Just, I don't think that there was much Mickey Rooney

couldn't do.

There's one role in particular.

Maybe I'm breakfast and Tiffany's,

but that was not on him.

And I mean, actually bringing that up,

I think that there's a good note here too

because he plays a character that would never be made in 2025.

He would not play in 2025.

But Mickey Rooney, way before cancel culture

or wokeism or any of these things knew this.

And it was friends with the director,

did the role because of the director asked him to.

And honestly, the director told them

that this would be a good idea

and it would be funny and all these things.

Obviously didn't, and he knew right away it wouldn't be.

And always owned it.

Always went out of his way to say

that should have went to an Asian actor.

I shouldn't have done that role.

Those kind of things.

I really admire that.

In this day and age especially,

he did this a while back.

But there's a guy, an old school guy

who, nobody telling him to, had accountability

and owned it and everything.

And we need a lot more of that.

We need a lot more Mickey Rooney's out there.

That's for sure.

And maybe some more Ray Charles.

Oh my God, Ray Charles born in this day in 1930.

We don't get to say this word very often

and I don't think anybody can really, you know, deny it.

Genius.

I mean, musical genius, but there are a few artists

that have crossed over all barriers.

I hear many people that know much more

about music and are much smarter than me talk about this.

But where Ray Charles did in the country music game

was literally game changing.

And something nobody had really done before.

Not to mention, of course,

you can make the argument.

He is the creator of soul music.

Like he is, he is, like, definitely.

I mean, there's so many different things

that you could say about Ray Charles.

And of course, I think almost,

everybody has a favorite Ray Charles song.

I think Georgia, Georgia on my mind.

That's got to be it for me.

That's, they're ain't a bad one.

Hit the road jack though.

I remember singing that song with my dad all the time

when I was a kid.

Yeah, that's a fun one.

That's a good one.

Everybody's got a song.

Everybody's got some Ray Charles that they like.

Amazing, amazing, amazing artist.

I'm definitely not to listen to it.

I'm not listening to any Ray Charles in a while.

I'm gonna do that.

If our music was going today, we could be playing for that.

That's, I had this all lined up.

I had nothing but just Ray Charles music all lined up.

And there it goes.

No, I didn't.

I did not do that, everybody.

A big shout out and a big happy birthday to Wally Morris.

And to our qualifier, Jamie Graper.

Happy birthdays to you both.

Happy birthday.

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Kat and I'll be back after some news, sports, entertainment,

taking care of our partners on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back to the show everybody.

Morning show here at 975 FM 1320 AM WFHR.

Katrina and James here with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there.

Happy Tuesday.

Try to speed ahead the day.

Don't do that yet.

Days are all mixing together.

That's all it is.

We were talking earlier about immune systems

and taking care of yourself and some of those things.

I don't know if I was talking about this

with a couple of other people that are actually

a lot smarter than me when it comes to taking care of not

just their bodies, but just in general.

And it seems like when we're young,

we don't get a playbook on how to take care of ourselves.

And we kind of learned from our elders

and some of that in just society and some of those things.

And if you're fortunate, you get a routine

because our brains, we know this scientifically.

Our brains need routine.

They thrive on it, they desire it.

We like a little anarchy, a little chaos here and there and

everything.

Not too much, just the right amount.

Yeah, but for the most part,

it is basically looking at your kitchen.

And you got your kitchen, it's all organized,

but we all got that one messy drawer.

And you love that messy drawer

because you can just throw things in there.

And eventually you'll clean it out

and then eventually you'll get messy again.

It's kind of how we like our lives

and it's kind of how we end up running our lives.

And if you don't have a routine early on,

well, you get to your late 20s and 30s and some of this

and you realize, oh, my body is not doing as good as it was

and I need to start taking care of it.

And all of a sudden you're kind of starting from scratch.

And some of that, there can be a gift in that

where you're kind of, you know,

you get to design this the way you want to and everything.

And for others, it's like, well, how do I get motivated?

How do I get started on this?

What is my incentive, some of those things?

Yeah.

It can be tough, it can be difficult.

I think when we talk about exercise,

we talk about taking care of ourselves,

there's so much more depth to it and time

that a lot of us don't have.

Right.

Yeah, but a solid plan is the best way

to succeed within that, right?

Yeah, yeah, I think that's the best way

to kind of get, put these things in there.

If you don't have this stuff in your day

and you want to include it,

I think this is a good way of doing it,

the timing of it.

And hey, if you look at it, I can't exercise every day,

but if you look at it and say, I got 15 minutes.

Or even five minutes, grab those free weights

that are over there.

If you have five minutes or something,

it's better than nothing.

And there's other things too that you do

to kind of prepare for this.

You know, we talk about stretching all the time,

even if you're not going to work out,

stretching in the morning is a great idea.

Yes, it's great for mobility as we age.

It wakes your body up and yeah,

the mobility part is fantastic.

And then if you want to exercise more,

there's also going to bed earlier.

Now, this comes to us from ink.com,

but I understand that it's not directly at me,

but sometimes these articles feel a little personal.

I don't know, I'm sorry.

Feel a little personal.

Yeah.

I think we all planned them for you.

A new study thought, you guys are good.

A new study found people who go to bed early

are more likely to get some exercise the next day.

They tracked 20,000 people,

pretty darn good number right there.

And the ones who went to bed by 9 p.m.

got around 30 more minutes of exercise the following day.

That is compared to night owls

who stayed up to about 1 a.m.

Sure.

Part of it could be that early birds

are just more on top of things

or take their health more seriously,

but that doesn't mean you can't adjust

to our point before about if you want to do this, you can.

I actually think that there are a few things in life

that are truly impossible.

I think that a lot of things are doable.

Just do you want to do it.

Yes.

Yeah, it's what I've been saying for a very long time.

It's not just that the dog's too old to learn,

does the dog want to learn.

You can teach an old dog new tricks

if it wants to learn.

Yeah.

Part of this is also that the study found

that when night owls made a conscious effort

to go to bed earlier, the amount of exercise

they got went up almost automatically.

Sure.

So if you want to get in better shape,

maybe stop scrolling at night as much

or maybe put the book down a little bit earlier

or something like that and try to crash a little bit earlier.

I mean, it makes sense.

If you go a little bit earlier,

you're going to be more refreshed.

And therefore you're going to be like,

oh yeah, I can get that in.

I'm waking up a little earlier.

I don't feel drowsy and I need to keep sleeping.

So of course it makes more sense

for you like physiologically for your body.

You're more, your body's ready to take that on.

And or your maybe your body can take more on,

maybe more weight, like weight, you know,

weights you're lifting or more stretching

or more time doing it because your body is like able

to accept it versus I'm exhausted.

The last thing I need is that I need sleep.

So no, my body doesn't want to do that

or it's not as efficient at doing it.

When it comes to being able to get that down

or figure that out, I think this is a case by case thing too.

For some people you might want to exercise at night

or in the middle of the day.

I prefer those times.

I kind of have a different time during the week

where I'm doing it sometimes in the afternoon

and sometimes I'm doing another.

We're here earlier in the morning.

Does it make sense?

It wouldn't work with your lifestyle.

My sister should go at her lunch hour

because she has a desk job

so she eats her lunch at her office

when she's like working essentially

and she'll go and take her lunch break

and work out in the afternoon.

You can be creative and you can morph it.

It just depends on how you do it

or don't feel like you have to have a grandiose plan.

Like maybe you even just say,

I'm gonna do it twice a week, something.

Everything starts with baby steps.

And so doing it once, twice a week, five, 10 minutes,

whatever it might be.

And again, you don't have to be trying to be

the next Mr. World.

You just, whether it's free weights

or it's just doing a little bit of stretching

exercising for yourself, I feel like

if you wanna know why we're encouraging this,

give it a shot and give it a shot for a couple of days.

I'm just saying a couple of days even.

And I almost guarantee that you are gonna see

what we're talking about here

and the positive results to it and that make it worth it.

Absolutely.

I have one more thing to put on that too,

is find something you like.

So if you like dance, do a Zumba class

at maybe your local YMCA or gym.

If you like more like being in the weight room

and you don't want people to teach you something

but you wanna do it, do that.

Or maybe you wanna class that's leading

how to like lift properly

or a physical trainer to do that.

What I think is really important to keep sustainably

going and doing it is find the thing you like.

If it's swimming, do that.

I like, I may be the only person in the world

that's gonna say this.

I like doing like ab crunches.

I actually kinda don't mind doing those

and I really like working on my punching bag.

So I will kind of start with one of those

and end with the other or something.

It's a motivate yourself almost like that.

All right, I'm gonna do this and I like it.

Okay, I'm gonna do the cardio but I don't like it

or I don't like the weights

but I'm still gonna do it.

It's also one of the only times that I have to listen

to a podcast or listen to music.

So I will do that as well while I'm doing it

and that helps a lot.

That's motivating.

And focus a little bit on your breathing.

That's something that we don't do enough

when we're exercising.