Was he in the Honey Aisle? (Hour 1)

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

Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.

The future, the figure, the drama, and then makes no difference what you brought in.

Ah, now everything people.

Let's start the show. Hope you all are having a great start to your Thursday out there.

Happy Friday Eve, everybody. Got your host, James behind the mic. Join by our sales and marketing exec over here, Alia.

Hello.

Hey, is that the right one title for you? Is that the right way to put that?

I believe so. We'll go with it.

I liked it because it sounded really cool. I feel super important right now.

Good. Alia's with us, and we have the best listeners and radio with us as well.

Thanks so much for joining us. Everybody, fun Thursday show lined up for you.

We got the L Cafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner.

You're going to get into that.

Touch a little bit on the government shutdown. Touch on that just a bit.

And then is it rude to say, yeah, instead of yes, this important, deep topic we are going to dive into.

Alia, we're going to get into that one.

We'll get a little more details for you about that in a bit.

We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour.

The way we like to around here with our pet of the week from the kit from our good friends over the Southwark County main society.

Be joined by Denise at the top of the 10 o'clock.

A little bit of entertainment news. We'll dive into get into some of that.

And before we wrap up the show, we will have what's your don't knock it till you try it life hack.

And we've got some examples here. We'll get into and we'll hear from the audience.

Hopefully seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. Join the conversation everybody.

I love these life hacks. There's one of my things I can't.

Me too. They're pretty fun. They're pretty good ones.

I do have a couple of places I want to start the hour.

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We'll get that word out there a couple of times in the hour here.

I also wanted to touch on this as today at sundown I should say is the ending of the Jewish New Year young caporn.

It is a time of repentance or reflection and atonement.

So my guilt is very high.

I know.

It's really it's I'm Jewish.

It's always high.

What am I talking about?

But it's something that we always I think with these holidays I bring up I'm bringing them up for one knowledge.

I think knowledge is not so much power knowledge is understanding.

Absolutely.

And the more we understand the less we tend to hate.

Absolutely.

And I dream of a world where we dislike each other just because we tend to be jerks sometimes.

And not because of our color versus kid or religion or any of that.

Well I grew up Muslim.

So we've got to do in a Muslim in a room together being peaceful.

Everything's okay.

Everything's all right.

We like each other James.

Yes, we do.

And it's working.

It's all right.

We are proof right here.

And I would be lying if I said it was one of the intentions of one that you on the show.

I was being able to show this and prove that and everything.

Now we just started working together though.

So we did.

Yeah, give us time.

Give us time.

We may hate each other by the end of the day.

Ask anybody that's worked with me for a couple of years.

And you might get it.

I did that.

I did want to wish a good day of atonement to everybody out there in a very happy beginning of the new year for some.

And certainly touch on this story because while all of that is important.

The text to win contest, the day of atonement and all these things.

I don't know if it's as important as a holiday in and what they're sent based alarm clocks.

Sent based alarm clocks.

If you're staying at a hotel, you probably don't necessarily maybe the smell isn't always the greatest at them.

Or maybe you have an alarm that you're not used to or something like that.

Now nowadays we tend to use our phones.

I don't know.

I don't know many people to get a wake up call at a phone.

I mean at a hotel anymore.

No.

Have you ever done that?

I mean in the past I have.

And I might do it nowadays like if I were away for a conference or I had an event I had to go to, I would probably set my phone alarm.

But I might call the front desk and be like, I need a wake up call just because, you know, if I have to get somewhere important like a concert, I don't want to miss that.

Back up to, you know.

Yeah.

I know, so I've never gotten the call but I, when I worked at a hotel, I had to do that.

And I know I, so I've done that part of it.

And most of the time it was people wanting a backup.

Like I, I know I got my phone alarm or whatever or I brought an alarm.

But they wanted a backup for the alarm.

Yeah.

I never had anybody though ask, hey could you wake me up at seven and then just split some like, you know,

Glade in my face or something like that because that's, I don't know what's going on here.

It's alarming.

It does seem like it.

It does seem like you'd wake up though at least.

Glade in Express is testing a new quote, sent based alarm clock and it works like a diffuser,

releasing the scent of your choice when it's time to wake up.

They're out, they're, they're trying out different options in different countries.

In Australia and New Zealand, guests can pick from options like coffee, bacon or blueberry muffin.

In Japan, you can choose from Nashy Peer or us and in Singapore and in Thailand, mango is an option.

Okay.

Unfortunately, it is not available in the US yet.

The breakfast smells are not a taste.

The hotels are offering free breakfast.

So it's just supposed to improve your experience by giving you a nice pleasant smell to wake up to.

I don't know that that would wake me up.

Yeah, I don't know.

If you're someone who could sleep through any smell,

even an entire dinner operating inside your room might not do it.

They would still offer wake up calls or knocks on the door.

Oh, I forgot about the knocking on the door.

Huh.

The scent at alarm clocks are just a new in-room option.

If that we're seeing this success in Australia, New Zealand, certainly in Singapore,

I don't know about Thailand and Japan, but I know we're seeing it in certain places.

So we're kind of seeing, I feel like this is an idea that this is probably going to happen in the US.

Above and beyond this concept is who was laying awake at night thinking,

you know what I need to invent?

I learned alarm clock that defuses scents like somebody.

Somebody.

Somebody.

Somebody.

And this was definitely like one of the few two AM ideas that might be work.

Might actually not be a bad idea.

If there is a smell that would help you wake up in a positive way,

because I feel like there's certainly ones as parents, we know there are smells.

I feel like burning fire would not wake me up in a positive way.

It's on fire.

Something that's going to get you going in a good way and get you energized to get going.

Because I think the coffee is a good one for me, but not so much the coffee once it's brewed.

I want that smell when you first open the bag or the box.

I want that as my alarm.

That would wake me up and it made me want to get going.

I set my alarm every morning and I have a back.

I have a secondary alarm that goes off 30 minutes later.

But our coffee pot always goes off at six o'clock in the morning.

And so I always hear it beeping when it's done brewing.

But it's not the scent.

It's the sound that I subconsciously I'm waiting for.

I subconsciously I'm waiting for the sound of that coffee pot to go off.

So I can force myself out of bed.

I don't know if anybody else did this, but I know that when we first were able to kind of like design our alarms,

I chose a song I liked and then I ended up hating that song.

And I wonder if that would happen with these smells.

If I love the smell of fresh coffee grinds or whatever grounds and grinds,

I don't know if I'd like to smell that.

And if I all the sudden I associated with the alarm and then I just start just liking the smell.

But would you become desensitized to an adventure?

That would be my concern.

And it's like, oh, it smells like blueberry muffin again today.

That's just Thursday.

That's right.

Boy, that could be dangerous.

That part of it could be like because I don't have a whole lot of like smells that I like.

I wouldn't want to get rid of some of them.

I do like the approach though.

I will say as far as wild wacky ideas or whatever.

This one has at least a little bit of a little bit of legs to it I could see.

I don't know though that I would want it every day.

I'm very skeptical.

I'm very on the fence right now.

As you can probably tell by my facial expression.

Yes.

I also, one other form of skepticism for me is when it's not already here in the states

that usually tells you, okay, there's some laws over the overseas

that they're a little bit more flexible with them we are here.

That tells me.

There's always those things too when it comes to a new invention like this

that we're not thinking of.

The idea of this going, I don't know how it could go haywire,

but it could and it just keeps on spritzing the smell or something.

I don't know.

If you have multiple smells in there, is this like a true diffuser

where you have to buy the smells maybe something?

I don't know.

It's interesting though.

We'll see where that one goes.

You can find more in the New York Post if you'd like everybody.

They have the complete article there at the New York Post.

Go check that out.

And to wrap up our opening monologue, I had to go to this one.

Now, Alia, as our audience, I get to know you a little bit better.

One of the things that I have come to know is that your mother was British.

Is that right?

That is.

So I had this one I came across, had to do it.

Britain's strongest grandmother has broken four world records just 18 months

after taking a powerlifting by accident.

My new favorite person, Martina Barons, is 65 and has become a four-time champion

after lifting for Great Britain at the world in European championships.

The five foot six mother of three and four grandchildren started lifting

weights for fun back in December of 2023.

But soon realized she had kind of a natural gift at this.

Her form is perfect.

Wow.

I don't know what happened in her life to have this happen.

But it just kind of worked out where for powerlifting, she's got a perfect back for it.

I have a theory.

You said she's got three kids and four grandkids.

That's a lot of lifting.

That's a lot of pick me up.

Pick me up.

And then grandma just gets strong.

You get ripped.

Are we seeing a whole new world for our seniors out there?

Like, forget pickleball.

Get in the powerlifting.

You're built for it.

Not for nothing.

But if Great Britain's going to be doing this, I am a big Olympic sky.

We got to get the US in on this.

All right.

Great Britain.

Whooping us.

Get grandma's in there.

We're doing this all wrong.

We're always going to young people.

Pulling up the age brackets.

Since she's been training five times a week for two hours a day, all while working full time

as an academic researcher at Warwick University.

One of the more established universities.

She first, quote, I was surprised to find a talent for powerlifting at the age of 63 after being poor at sports all my life.

I got enormous pleasure from training and competing and the health benefits of increasing strength and mobility are astounding.

That's so cool.

I like that.

Yes.

And she first won the European Championship in Finland last June before successfully defending her title this June in Poland.

12 weeks later, she continued the winning streak in the US at the World Powerlifting Championships in Idaho.

She previously won the 2024 World Championship in Limerick, Ireland.

So all together, she has won four major titles in her division since taking up the sport.

So here's where it makes me a little bit sad.

I am a woman in my 40s and I am very unathletically inclined.

But it gives me hope that maybe 20 years from now, I might discover that I'm like really great at like discus throwing.

You just got to throw into it.

That's the fun part of this too, I think.

Is that this could happen to any of us that there's this hidden talent that's sitting there.

Seth was telling me the other day he was throwing the baseball around with his boys and he's never really bad at left handed.

So he thought he tried just for the heck of it.

He's really good at it.

He's like, are you telling me that I could have been a professional baseball player, but I just called it lefty.

So Seth is a little known fact.

Now it'll be a known fact.

Seth is my next door neighbor and if I see a baseball come through my window, I will know that it was him hitting a left handed.

He may try to blame me, but more than likely it is definitely him.

What are the boys? That's for sure.

I think this is a fun one.

I also cannot help myself coming from an athletic family.

The idea of you've been training at this.

Maybe you've been doing this sport 20, 30, 40 years or something.

You're going to these competitions and you're getting ready to compete.

And then this grandma who just walked into the sport comes in and just destroys you.

Whoops you.

I really got to start thinking about it.

Maybe I need a new hobby.

Pick up a grandma hobby then.

That's what you need to do.

You need to pick up some hobby that maybe you can grandma would do.

Maybe you excel at knitting and you don't even know it yet.

Pick up and get to it.

Get to it and try and give it a try.

We will come back and have some more fun with the LKFA birthday anniversary club on the morning show.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA in the birthday anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Wish our good friends at LKFA a great day.

Head on over there by local support local and of course get some pie.

I just see that they got their homemade pies list up here and it's just looks so good.

I'm not normally into something like this but something about peanut butter silk.

Oh yeah.

That sounds bad actually.

Oh that's delicious.

I haven't had that in a while.

That sounds good.

They got pumpkin.

Oh I got to have that.

Yes.

And espresso.

I kind of want to try the espresso one.

But I am such a coffee person.

I got a really, I need help.

Nothing wrong with that.

Go check it out.

Try all of them at LKFA today.

You are not going to be disappointed by anything you get off that menu.

Wish all the good people they are a great one for us.

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So let's go ahead and take one right here.

Good morning here on the show.

Good morning.

First of all I was unable to listen to the one the name for the September birthday.

Could you tell me?

Sure.

I don't know if I have it here right on me and I don't want to get it wrong.

So I will go.

Oh, actually wait a minute.

I think Pam might have put it in.

No, I don't have it here yet.

No, no, I don't.

I will get it and come back after the break with it.

Okay.

Okay.

And then also it's a little early.

I would like to turn one in for October 27th.

Okay.

For Jeff Fuller.

Jeff Fuller?

Yes.

All right.

And you said that was for the 22nd.

The 7th.

Oh 27th.

Yes.

Okay 27th.

Got it.

All right.

We'll have Jeff on there.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

You have.

You have.

Appreciate you.

You have a great morning.

Thank you.

We appreciate you all out there.

Best listeners and radio.

That is just how it's done.

Thank you for giving the audience an example.

Miss, we appreciate that.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody.

Love celebrating with you.

So Alia, now you got to work.

Now I got to put some work on it.

You got to work.

Yep.

You got to do a one or a two.

Give me a one or a two.

Oh, I'll give you a two.

All right.

Give us a nine and nine.

Now you can take the rest of the show off.

You're good.

I'll be napping people.

We take a good look at our list here.

First up, we want to wish Happy Birthday to Civic Media's own.

Craig, logly, Laurie, I think I'm not sure.

He's Trader Craig.

He's from W.E.J.L.J., host of W.E.L.J.'s trade show on weekdays.

It's the equivalent of our over-the-back fence for many long-time listeners over there.

Happy Birthday to Craig.

Happy Birthday.

And a Happy Birthday to Avery Ellis.

Happy Birthday.

Like the name Avery.

That's a beautiful name.

Good name.

It would have been short for Avery, though.

I don't even ever thought of the shortening of that name.

Very.

Oh, maybe, maybe, yeah.

Happy Birthday, Avery.

And Julia, your day hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifiers celebrate in their 38th anniversary, Roger and Karen Schiller.

Happy anniversary.

Oh, happy anniversary to you too.

That's fantastic.

And Julia, your day hope it's a great one for you.

Have a great anniversary.

And we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers.

Let them know that you're our qualifiers for the day.

Let's see who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.

Paul Tuttle, Jr. is 51, American Chopper.

The son on American Chopper.

Oh, wow.

I forgot all about that show.

I did too.

I completely, it was one of those shows where I watched like about four or five episodes.

And I liked it, but they never kind of went back to it and everything.

But I do remember the show.

I'm not a gear head.

But I really do love seeing the building of a motorcycle or a car, especially a classic one.

And especially when you get to like the behind the scenes stuff and get to really see all the different inner workings of it.

There's something that's just so cool to me about.

Well, they used to do a lot of theme stuff.

Yeah.

So it was really cool to see them like incorporate people's dreams and wishes into like their ultimate bike.

And yeah, that was always a really fun time.

And I always appreciate the chance for people to get an inner looking.

There is every creed under the sun is beautiful and has its wonderful uniqueness as to it.

When it comes to us Italians, one of ours is that we cannot do anything at a five.

Everything has to be at a 10.

This just happened last night where I was talking to a relative I haven't talked to in a while.

And she's yelling at me that she loves me.

And if you didn't know better, you would think that we were arguing.

But she was just telling me, you know, how much I'm passionate she was about that she loved me.

She cared about me and she missed talking to me.

And I miss you too, Anne Cher.

But this is the thing.

This is what we do as it is.

That show was a bit of that was a bit of like they would just like in especially how

the landmines that you walk around in the Italian houses,

where at any moment now explosion and there's a fight that's going to happen.

Imagine it's a very aggressive kind of love.

It really is.

Or assertive.

Let's call it assertive.

I want you to know how much I love you.

It is exhausting.

That's what it is.

It's exhausting.

Tiffany is 54.

I think we're alone now.

A couple of hits she had in the

That's an age one.

That one makes you feel old.

That hurts a little bit.

Yeah, 54.

I didn't know she was that much older than I know.

I know.

I know.

Happy 54th to her.

She had a moment there.

Kelly Ripa is 55 live with Kelly and Ryan.

Of course, back in the day I was working with Regis on that.

Kelly Ripa, one of the harder working people in daytime TV.

Yeah.

She is all over the place.

She was in soaps before that crash.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And did double duty for quite a long time where she was on the soap.

I don't know if she still is, but she was doing that.

And not only the daytime talk show there, but she had another

Show tour.

Hard work.

Full-time mom as well and all that.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

But I've heard good things about the new host.

I think it's her husband that's doing it with her now.

Mark Consuelos.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good for her.

I don't know much about her.

But anybody that works as hard as she does in the industry and has gotten

As far as she has.

I have a lot to respect for.

Phil Oakley is 70.

Who is that?

He is the lead singer for human league.

Oh my gosh.

Don't you want me baby?

It's got, God, such an 80s.

That is, that is going to be a top 580 song.

My husband was actually playing that in the kitchen.

He was playing a whole bunch of new wave like 80s hits in the kitchen.

And I'm like, I was sitting in the bedroom doing a working on my computer.

And I was like, this is why I married that man.

He's listening to human league.

Right, right.

The more I hear a lot of my like, I'm like, yeah, yeah.

Lorraine Bronco is 71.

Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the sopranos.

She was course in Goodfellas.

A couple of other key roles that she had in her career too.

But those are probably the two or the bigger ones.

I'm still on season 5 of my first viewing of the sopranos.

How good is she on that trail?

She's amazing.

Her stillness is so in needed with a guy where it's still on still.

You've got Gandalfini sitting there.

Yeah.

And so much of his work is done in his voice and his projection.

He's amazing.

Well, just sitting there where hers is so it's bottled and emotion.

The stillness to keep, you know, because she's trying to keep him calm

as he's like losing his mind.

And oh, it's such a good show.

So good.

They're chemistry through the roof too.

Yeah.

Eddie Falco's in Gandalfini's chemistry is maybe the greatest,

some of the greatest you'll ever see.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sting is 74.

Of course, with the police or just as a solo artist,

one of the more accomplished pop stars of all time.

Yeah.

I like Sting.

I like Sting.

That's a good actor too.

Pretty good.

Great actor actually when I think about his work and some of the roles that he's done,

like the original Dune.

Sting in the original Dune is freaky.

I've only seen the original Dune, so I have nothing to compare it to,

but yeah.

His performance in that one made, to me, he stood out as an actor in that.

Maybe some of the best acting in that movie, I think Sting does.

Don McLean is 80.

Oh, wow.

1971's American Pie, of course, what we know Mr. McLean from.

Yeah.

And one of those few songs that radio stations would let you get away with playing over

five minutes, like one of those few over five minutes that you can get away with.

Any great songwriter, great songwriter.

Let's see, some people no longer with us.

There was one name on it.

Oh, Bill Michaels, 59.

Bill Michaels is 59 today.

Of course, Quad City's longtime radio performer, world class, water skier, world class act.

Sorry, I didn't manage to get that in.

Of course, a long time guy, Dwyer and Michaels host.

So I wanted to get that in there.

Now, some people no longer with us.

Like a George Spanky McFarland, one of this day, 1928, leader of the Little Rascals.

Yeah.

I never watched the Little Rascals, but I know the reference.

It was, it was on occasionally in my house as a child.

But I, it wasn't my, I like black and white movies better as an adult than I did as a child.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Groucho Marx, born in the state in 1890, Pestoy in 1977.

It was always odd to me that him and Chaplin, like Pestoy in the same year.

Yeah.

Not too far from each other.

And two of my greatest influences.

I, growing up my papa, the three students were okay.

He was a Marx brothers guy.

That's what, so I was going to be a Marx brothers guy.

And Groucho, to me, was the, the, just one of the greatest comedic leading men I've ever seen to this day.

Well, he was leading chaos.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

Just gotta love Groucho Marx.

His comedic timing, you, you're not going to find much better than Groucho Marx's comedic timing.

One that could compete with him though, but Abbott also celebrated the birthday on this day in 1895.

Straight man in Abbott and Costello.

Yeah.

Kind of cool to think of those two sharing a birthday.

Yeah.

And Mahatma Gandhi, born in this day in 1869.

One of the, I mean, as far as, I don't even know where to put him.

I don't want to categorize.

I don't want to label him as a, you know, certainly a leader of peace.

Yeah.

I think of those things, think of his teachings and his quotes even impacting so many people that,

and a lot of people that I've noticed at least, and I don't know that the stats behind something like this.

But a lot of people that I know that don't necessarily have a set faith, but believe.

Yeah.

Whatever that might mean, you know, to each of those individuals.

Really take a lot from Gandhi's words.

Yeah.

Really take a lot from his speaking.

There's a lot to take.

Fun fact when I was in college, his grandson came and spoke at my college.

So I got to meet his grandson.

So seven degrees of Mahatma Gandhi.

Oh, wow.

That's awesome.

I've met his grandson.

One of the, I think most impactful people to ever exist.

Period.

Like I don't know what more I could say about the man.

Other than, of course, being thankful that he existed at all.

Yeah.

Incredibly impactful.

Today is Name Your Car Day.

I wanted to throw that out there.

Name Your Car Day.

Maybe Name It Purple.

Maybe.

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And maybe you might name your car purple.

I don't know.

And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can continue to celebrate

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Lee and I will be back after our break here with more Morning Show on WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

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

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Good morning.

Wanted to get this out there.

Betty Anderson was our winner for the month of September.

Betty Anderson was our winner of the L Cafe Birthday and Anniversary Club for the month of December.

Congratulations.

We have not done yet.

Betty, you won for September.

Keep on getting us those names, everybody.

So hopefully you could be our winner of October.

Keep getting them to us.

We appreciate everybody doing that.

So we got to talk about this one.

And every once in a while, we got to dive into these kind of topics.

We try to be a break for people from the wear-down of the day and the 24-7 news cycle

of some of those things.

But we are an information station.

We do touch on things from time to time.

And it's day two of the government shutdown.

And no one knows how long it could last.

But it's not stopping people from offering up their best guesses.

Someone pulled over 3000 Americans.

And despite what some insiders are saying, most Americans don't think it will last very long.

Over half of us think the government will be open back up by the end of October.

That includes one in six who said that by the end of the week.

And the most common answer was a week or two.

Only 9% think it'll last more than a month.

36% said that they have no clue and wouldn't even venture a guess.

Which is probably a safe bet.

I think that's a safe bet.

I mean, can we just say real quickly that it is just sad of every one of these individuals?

In my opinion, just my opinion.

But I find it very sad that not only for the shutdown and that they're shutting down

and this whiny little childlike thing that back and forth,

no, it's Democrats fault, no, it's the Republicans fault.

No accountability from any of these side, from either side or any of these people.

No accountability.

It's all pointing the finger and blaming other people.

But the fact that we have surveys for this and that people are,

we're just so used to it now that we're just rolling with it.

When I was a kid, I thought it was shocking to see the baseball players go on strike.

It seemed wild to me.

To my dad and my papa, it was kind of like, yeah, they do this from time to time.

The normalization of these things.

I understand time only goes forward, but I think we need to stop sometimes,

take a breath and be like, this ain't right.

We hired these people to do a job.

If you hire somebody to fix your roof and they decide, you know what?

I can't work with this other contractor.

We're going on strike.

We're going to hire new roofers.

I look at it like, you know, if I order a pizza and both of my kids are fighting over the last piece,

you know, you can cut that in half and each have a piece.

We're all Americans at the end of the day.

We should be getting along with one another instead of not getting along with one another.

If you can't, that's fine.

Get out of the job.

Yeah.

This job is a privilege.

It's not a birthright to represent your community, to represent your constituents.

It used to come with a matter of respect to it and everything,

because the individuals brought that respect with it.

We've got a lot of people in office right now that are just in office for themselves.

They're not looking to represent anybody or the only person they're looking to represent

is the monger at the top or whatever that they think that they have to just be a basically an echo chamber for.

When it comes to that, I want people to think for themselves.

I want people to think for their constituents and represent those constituents to the best of their abilities.

Absolutely.

And I want people that are willing to work.

It should never come to this.

No.

Like, I understand stalemates, I understand, you know, bartering and negotiating and all that.

And as we've always all heard at a good negotiation, both parties leave.

You're a little happy, a little angry.

That's a good negotiation.

Come from eyes.

That ain't what happening here.

No.

What's happening here is a bunch of little kids in a sandbox that came.

Blaming, blaming, blaming, blaming.

I want that toy, but it's my toy.

I want to play with it.

No, no, I want to play with it and they're fighting over it.

Yeah.

And the only people really suffering are us.

Because please call up if you are representative or a politician out there that is struggling right now

because of this government shutdown.

That is dealing with the fallout of it like us everyday citizens are.

On all of the workers that are being, you know, laid off or furloughed right now

and they can't provide for their families and it's just sad.

We should all get along.

Work together.

I think that if you can't do the job, if it comes to this point,

that we should have the option of bringing a new representation.

I don't see why.

I don't know about this whole, you get two years in the job.

You get four years in the job or some of these things.

I'm starting to think more and more that this, that doesn't work for me.

That doesn't work for America.

I mean, term limits are never going to actually be voted on

because why would you vote to lose your own job?

Right.

I get that, but they all come in saying, oh, we're going to vote on term limits.

You know, it's a double edged sword.

On one hand, can someone come in and represent for only two years

and make a difference?

Maybe, maybe not.

I would hope a very efficient and effective person could.

But it can take more than a two-year timeframe to actually affect real change.

So, again, drawing heavily on my very, very old political science degree.

You know, it's hard.

It's really hard.

It's a strong point to bring up.

It's something that I actually, because of my sports brain,

I think of that with coaching a lot, where I couldn't expect a coach

to go in there in one year and change everything.

Right.

You can't expect that from our politicians either.

And I certainly understand that I want this bill passed.

I've got to work with this guy about this and I've got to try to maybe

I do a little something for him and he does something for me.

Again, I understand how negotiating works.

Yeah.

And I wouldn't expect anybody to be able to get something done the first day

you walk into the room.

No.

But, and there is always a but.

When it comes to where we are right now,

and so many of the people that are in currently holding a position,

whether you're a congressman or a senator,

you've been doing this long enough.

Many of them know.

You're not new at this.

Yeah.

Like, this shouldn't happen.

This is a shutdown of our government.

Think about that statement.

Think about what's happening there.

And most importantly, to me, think about while that's going on,

and they're just sitting there in their suits and dresses and nice clothes

and all that and not worrying about a darn thing,

we got every day Americans struggling and suffering.

And they're all still getting a paycheck.

Yeah.

Whereas so many of our fellow Americans out there are not.

Or having this not being able to get medications

or some of these important, literally important life or death things

that shut down because our government did.

Because these little kids in the sandbox can't get along.

Get along.

We're tired of it.

Yeah.

If there's one overall thing that you see on both sides of the aisle

being sick and tired of the divisiveness.

Now, that is something that is multifaceted.

We can't just put this on politicians.

This is also on us as the voters.

This is also on us as constituents.

We got to get along better as well.

They're going to take their lead from us.

They're not that different.

You see what happens when money gets involved.

CBS.

Listen to the...

Okay.

President wants us to do this.

Okay.

We're going to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel.

The amount of subscribers.

The amount of people that they lost from that.

Overnight, they made the decision.

Nope.

Money is more important.

We're going with the money.

Yeah.

So you want change?

You want to affect things?

Mess with their wallet.

Start messing with their wallet because they're messing with ours.

And they're not thinking twice about it.

No.

I think it's very important.

And I also think I need a pala cleanser.

So we go to a bear in Arizona.

That...

But it's natural.

You know, after talking politics, talking about a bear escape loose in their zone is just a natural transition.

Oh, this isn't the fat bear contest?

No, no.

No.

No.

I just...

I found the different way.

There's just a lot...

To that point, there's a lot of stories of wild bears right now.

Well, I was also going to say last time I was here, you talked about an escaped animal so as layer.

Oh, is there a theme here?

I've just associated that with you now.

Yeah, that's your thing now.

That's your wheel of...

That's my thing.

A wild life photographer who failed to find any interesting wildlife in the state park,

ended up capturing footage of a bear in an unexpected place, a grocery store.

So this...

Excuse me.

This wildlife photographer is going around all through nature, all through the park.

Can't find a single thing.

Not a bird, not a squirrel, nothing.

Goes to the grocery store and a bear breaks in.

The Aura Valley Police Department confirmed a bear wandered into the Fries grocery store

at first in Oracle in Aura Valley around 6.30 a.m. in on a Monday.

A wild life photographer, Charlie Elkhoff, said that he was returning from an unsuccessful trip to their state park

when he stopped at the store to pick up supplies.

Quote, I could hear something shouting and someone say, hey, there's a bear in the store and I'm like, yeah, right.

He was buying it.

Then he sees that there is one and runs to grab his camera and to get footage of it.

And he was able to get a couple of good shots of it.

Was it in the honey aisle?

Oh, nice.

Nicely done.

Well, well done.

But I need a rim shot.

I need a bump bump.

The bear fled the store and was spotted outside in nearby Starbucks,

where he was mainly just angry at the prices.

He just needed coffee up.

I mean...

Couraging on honey.

I don't know why he was so angry.

He just hadn't had his coffee yet.

I didn't eat coffee.

I mean, we all turn into a bear when we don't have our coffee.

Right.

All right, that was not called for him.

That was not a good time.

So I want to apologize to the audience for that joke.

Leave, leave, please.

I don't know how to work all this machinery, but you just need to leave.

We'll bring a Laura Seth in here.

They'll just do the show with you.

We'll be back at the bar show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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Thanks a lot for hanging out with us.

Hope y'all are having a great Thursday out there.

Happy Friday, Eve, everybody.

Yeah.

Lee and James hanging out with you.

We'll take you to the top of the hour.

Got great stuff lined up in the 10 o'clock for you, everybody.

We're going to be joined by Denise and our pet of the week

from the South of County of Maine Society.

You can now wait to see what Denise is bringing with her.

I should have a good one right there for you.

Looking forward to it.

One of the dive into this one.

And this is an interesting one right here.

You know how some people think it sounds, you know, kind of trace

to use periods after one word text, like responding no period.

Some of that, I do that a lot.

I do that a lot.

Well, this is another level, some say.

Someone put up a poll online asking, quote,

is it rude to say, yeah, instead of yes?

Then added, quote, for context,

my partner always corrects me when I say, yeah,

and he says, it's so rude.

I think it's just casual.

What are your thoughts?

And this is the question being proposed out there and everything.

Well, about 5% of people said, yeah, or yes, they think it is rude.

The remaining 95% said, no, it is not rude.

In the comments, one person said, is your partner 60 years old?

Relax, it's not that big of a deal.

Another said, I feel it's rude if you're over 15.

But apparently that's a minority opinion.

The people who asked the question said his partner was 28.

Well, knowing that we were going to talk about this,

I have actually been very cognizant of the fact that almost every single time

you've asked me a yes or no question during the last hour,

I've responded with, yeah, or yep.

And I have felt massive amounts of guilt every single time I've done that.

But it also reminds me, this is kind of a thing.

I don't know if there's any fans of the movie,

Miss Congeniality out there, but that was a big thing between Sandra Bullock

and Candace Bergen's character in that film.

And it was a punchline at the very end.

I love Candace Bergen.

Oh, she's amazing.

She was also in the movie Gandhi.

A full circle.

A full circle.

I love that.

That's nice.

But yeah, apparently I'm a big yeah,

or because I've been saying it the entire time.

Well, especially in this context with what we do,

we try to be a very casual, easy going morning show.

So it works for that.

This is such a context thing to me.

Yeah.

Especially I'm talking to somebody older.

I tend to say yes.

I tend to be a little more direct with it and everything.

If it's just a casual conversation or it's a friend or somebody like that,

definitely yeah.

I would say for sure it is.

And I think a lot of this also comes from in person.

In a text and in person, there's two so different worlds.

Everybody, I think that by now, especially in 2025,

literally everybody out there has had this happen,

a misunderstood text.

Somebody asks you, how are you doing?

But you take it as, how are you doing?

Why'd they say it like that?

Why are you coming for me?

What did I do?

It's just asking, that's just saying good morning.

But we put our own context behind some of these things and stuff.

For a long time, when I first started texting,

and I am not proud of this,

I was so worried about being taken the wrong way.

A lot of my friends, I would text a little S.

So they'd meant sarcasm.

Then I was being sarcastic in my text,

because I did not want to be misunderstood so badly.

Yes, I stopped doing that a while ago.

They were thankful to the staff here.

I don't do that anymore.

No, I just be misunderstood.

When it comes to that, I get that part of it.

When it's in person, I don't know.

I feel like that's a little bit of a...

I mean, but also when you take in differently,

for example, in my household, my husband is half German,

and we speak a lot of German words just for fun,

because I'm trying to learn it.

I've got a 216-dualingo day streak on my German.

And so in German, yes, is yeah.

And we say, yeah, you know, right around the kitchen,

like, yeah.

And so, yeah, it could be, yeah.

Or in French, it's we, which could be, yeah, as well.

So a lot of yeses in other languages don't actually end in the S sound.

They end in the A sound.

And so maybe we're just being multilingual and really educated.

That's pretty good.

Hi, Brow.

That's how I like that.

I like that. That's pretty good.

And very interesting.

Oh, good idea about the language, by the way.

That's awesome.

It's one of the better things I think people can do for their brains

is trying to learn a new language.

That's a fun one.

Yes, it is.

Or y'all.

Oh, yeah.

I just learned word too.

That's good.

I love learning new words and new languages.

When it comes to being able to say, yeah, or yes,

I think it's a context thing.

I think it's a case-by-case thing.

I don't know that there's a right or wrong way to do this.

Although it's very few polls that we see are this overwhelming of one way or the other.

95% of people saying, yeah, it's fine.

I don't know.

We got bigger fish to fry.

That's just it.

Yeah.

Like sometimes with some of the things that people get bent out of shape about or this hill that they will die on.

And I'm kind of like, man, I wish that was the biggest issue of my life.

I wish the biggest problem I had in the world was what you're losing your mind over right now.

Because that's just it.

I have a hard time getting worked up about a lot of things nowadays.

I've noticed this in even recent personal stuff I've been through,

where it's like, yes, this hurts.

Yes, this sucks or whatever and everything.