Pumpkin Mug? (Hour 1)

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

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It's time for the morning show here at 97-5 FM.

13-20 AM, WFHR, locally grown radio.

Have your host, James Bond.

The mic joined by CEO of your night away

of Southwood and Ames County's Terry Johns.

Good morning.

Got the band together.

It's a Thursday.

Friday.

Let's do Friday.

Yeah, it's Friday.

It's going to feel like a Friday show.

Because we had a lot of fun things lined up for you, everybody.

I'm going to get into the LCAP birthday and anniversary club.

We have a new trend.

We have to talk about people.

The way they're asking for their drinks at Starbucks

and some other places.

It's long.

Yes, yes.

The happiest and least happy states in America.

We will get into that.

We will kick off the 10 o'clock hour with our pet in the week

from the South of County Main Society.

Denise is going to join us looking forward to that.

Have a little bit of entertainment news for you, Terry.

We'll get to the audience.

And I want to get into a couple of other things.

And in particular, what our favorite season is.

We had a new survey that came out recently.

And talking about that, we will get into what our is our favorite season.

And why it is.

We'll talk about that.

Got some other stuff lined up for you.

Good stories of the day, local events going on in our area.

And of course, our schedule will get into.

But we like to start off with an update on the United Way.

And no day of caring is right around the corner, Terry.

How is that going collecting volunteers?

Going pretty well.

But we could certainly still use volunteers.

Day of caring is on Saturday, October 25th.

If you're not aware, this is our raking event where we help the elderly

and disabled in our community who don't don't otherwise have the ability

to get their yards cleaned up for fall.

So I, you know, I'm certainly enjoying the beauty that literally just descended

on us with these trees, right?

Like all of a sudden.

Less 24 hours.

I think I feel like, yeah, I feel like all of a sudden one day it was beautiful.

But I also am, you know, really hoping they all fall by next Saturday.

Yeah.

But, you know, we'll do what we can do.

Whatever has dropped.

We will, we will clean up.

But we are still in need of volunteers.

So if you can make yourself available the morning of Saturday, October 25th.

We meet at Grand Rapids Lions Club, 8 a.m., breakfast, hot breakfast.

First, and then you go out and rake your yards.

Give us a phone call or a text when you're done.

So we can check that yard off the list.

We have 95 yards this year.

We are not taking more yards.

So that window of time has passed.

But we're definitely taking volunteers.

We do ask you to preregister if possible.

That way you can sign up for your t-shirt.

And you do that by visiting our website at uwac.org.

It's the first thing that pops up on the home screen.

And then you just click.

If you're under 18, we do need your parent to just sign a waiver for you saying it's okay to rake.

And basically, that's it, right?

Like you get an awesome, oh, I should have brought one to show you.

They're cool.

The t-shirts just came on Tuesday.

So we've got the day of carrying t-shirts ready to go.

You get one if you sign up to rake.

And we're looking forward to just seeing a sea of day of carrying t-shirts out there that day.

And this is just a morning, right?

Like we're not asking for a day or a weekend or a repeat effort.

You know, this is just join us Saturday morning, eight till maybe noon.

I don't even know if anybody really gets to noon.

Yeah.

So we're very thankful for those who have already signed up.

But again, we could always use a few more.

And of course, many hands make light work.

I've put in a couple calls to Mother Nature about these leaves in that situation.

Hopefully we get some more leaves for people to rake up.

Or not.

I mean, we'll see.

They'll see how the leaves are beautiful.

So if they stayed and then just miraculously all blew off on the 23rd, that would be fine.

See, that's a good way to do it.

If you could if you work that out, that way, Mother Nature, that would be perfect.

I will email her after the show today.

Just a double check.

Just you know, follow up.

That would be appreciated.

Thank you.

When it comes to this day, I'm with you Terry.

It's one of my favorite things about driving around town that morning,

seeing just all these different spots of green shirts.

I've been a part about three or four of these.

And I don't know that anyone has ever gone maybe close to two hours, but not even really.

I mean, and that's if I'm being honest, that was because I was playing with

Sess kids were a part of it and everything.

And I was hanging out with them a little bit.

So it might have taken a little longer just because I was having fun with kids.

Well, that's part of it though.

Right.

Right.

Make the pile, jump in it, then remake the pile.

I am only human.

It's not even his boy's fault.

It was me that was jumping over there.

You were the instigator there.

Bath and South were probably like James.

Dial it back.

Absolutely were.

Yeah.

It's a fun part of this though.

It's something that you get to feel a sense of community that I don't really know that you get all the time.

You're really a part of something, something that's bigger than all of us.

And we're talking about raking lawns.

It is something that may not seem like life or death or over dramatic to some people out there.

It's important to everybody.

But what's just as important and maybe even more important is this idea of showing that,

showing where you are in the community.

Hey, I'm a part of this.

Hey, I want to be a part of these things.

I want to help out my neighbors.

I want to help out strangers.

People I may never have met before, never even knew they were even in town.

And I'm helping them out.

And I don't use this word lightly, but I promise you.

Not only is the feelings you're going to get from this stuff that will stay with you.

And you'll be able to tap into the rest of your life like, oh, I remember a day of caring.

I remember how good that felt.

I guarantee you probably going to want to do it again next year or two.

Because that feeling is contagious and it's something you want every year.

Yeah, and we want you to wear those shirts, right?

Yes.

So I mean, we try, we definitely track the colors.

We go a lot of years in between, you know, when before a color comes back.

Because we, I love it when I'm out in the community, you know, maybe let's say in April.

And I see somebody in a day of caring t-shirt.

I think that's just really, really, really awesome.

One other note is that this is a rain or shine event.

So you need to, you know, you really need to think about that.

And the forecast right now looks fabulous.

Yeah.

Like literally fabulous.

I understand a lot can change in the next, you know, 10 days.

Sure.

But right now it looks really great.

But also if you sign up and it ends up being a little bit of a rainy day,

don't back, don't, don't wimp out on us, right?

Yeah.

Like think about that between now and then if it is raining, what do I, you know, what do I need to do?

Again, we have 95 households that are, that are really counting on us.

And that takes the work of the, you know, a large selection of the community.

So the other cool thing about this is, you know, you referenced families doing this, right?

Like adults bringing their kids.

We have a lot of school age, like high school groups that, you know, maybe it's the national honor society or a club or maybe a sport.

Right.

But they, you know, they organize as a team and, and come out.

And then we also have, you know, couples that are just like, hey, you know, yeah, we can give a Saturday.

We can help out.

So I, that's one of the things that I love is that the, the volunteerism related to this event can be done by anybody.

Yeah.

It's, and it's something that you, you're going to want to be a part of.

Make sure to sign up for it, register early.

Yeah, wait, not only get that t-shirt, but you'll have that hot breakfast to take you through the morning.

With you on the weather, it looks really nice right now.

It, I almost guarantee though, it's going to be decent no matter what, because just the way it's been.

We're looking at really bad temperatures until mid-November for what I'm seeing.

So should be okay, regardless.

And this is a, also great exercise, great opportunity to get outside, get some fresh air and get some good exercise in.

One of the other, like sneaky, wonderful parts about this is, say you do, you're at a lawn.

You've never even been to this side of town.

You haven't met this person before.

You know I'm now, and you're going to make a new friend there.

I almost guarantee you that that you'll make a new friend doing this.

It's a wonderful day.

We want you to be a part of day of caring Saturday, October 25th, right here in Rapids.

Sign up at uwac.org.

And while you're over there, be sure to keep in mind that it is campaign season.

It is go time with our United Way.

And you can make an impact today by just helping out in any way you can with donations and really an investment in our community.

Head on over there, uwac.org.

Be sure to follow them on social media as well.

Terry, I did want to mention this real quick too before we wrap up that we are collecting all Halloween activities, Halloween events.

If you are a non-profit and you have an event going on, we want to know about it so we can let our audience know about it.

We are collecting these. Pam has gotten a bunch of them already.

So not only will we be sending these, putting them out there for the audience and everything, but we'll also have our Halloween times coming up next week.

If you have an event going on that you'd like us to talk about, email us info at www.fature.com.

You can also give our front desk call at 715-424-1300.

Leave a message if we don't answer and we will get your events out there.

You know, there is one event as we're talking about Halloween stuff that's this Friday.

I'm just going to throw it out there because it might be sooner than when you were thinking about announcing.

But the Auburndale School Forest, so this is the high school kids, have their pumpkin glow, but it's this Friday.

That is one of the coolest events.

It's so awesome.

Last year, I think there were, it was either 300 or 350.

I can't remember. Jack Lenders.

It was like 350 or anything.

If you can get there, go.

It is no cost.

They ask for a donation if you're able or that kind of thing, but it is really a cool thing.

It's one of the things that I love so much about this time of year.

When I talk, I've got a lot of friends and fellow actors, teachers, different people that I know around the country.

And when I talk to, especially a lot of my friends out west, they are so jealous of all the little things.

Like, I'll mention these things in passing or casually like the historic point about spear walk or something like that or the Auburndale, you know, kids and that.

And they just blow up at it.

Like, we don't have anything like that.

We get used to it so much around here, but in the Midwest, in particular, here in Wisconsin, there is almost every week something going on that involves the season that just makes you enjoy the season that much more, I think.

That was a good one.

Yeah, I appreciate that Terry.

Thanks for letting us know about that one or reminding us either way.

We'll be back with the LCAP Favourite Day anniversary club right here on the morning show at WFHR.

Let the good times flow, let the good times flow, let the good times flow.

We're going to let them roll in the LCAP Favourite Day anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends over at LCAP Favourite.

Treat yourself, get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Check out some of the great specials that they got going on over there.

You can look at them right now.

If you go to LCAPWI.com, bookmark their webpage, keep up the date and the things they are doing.

And of course, these amazing specials.

I do want to warn the audience.

You may go there thinking, okay, I want pancakes.

I want pancakes.

You get there, you look at that menu, and now all of a sudden you want a million other things.

Just be prepared to understand that there is a lot of things to try over there.

So you're just going to want to call back and back.

There's no buffet.

Yeah, you know, just order a selection and share.

I love that.

You think four people, right?

Yeah.

Everybody orders something different.

I mean, if you're comfortable.

One of the better things in life school was doing that.

Oh, yeah.

High school and you don't care about that stuff as much.

I don't care about it now.

It depends on your width, actually.

Yeah.

As I was saying, I'm like, wait, I don't care right now.

I'm taking some of those fries.

Totally.

Get on over there.

Check out some of the great things.

You're going to find your new favorite meal over there at LKFA.

Head on over there today, everybody.

221 Market Avenue and beautiful port onwards.

Buy local, support local, support our friends over at LKFA.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages, whether it's WFHR or WiRI.

And of course, call on up 715-424-2600.

You can call up using the Civic Media app as well.

You can text us those birthdays or anniversaries if that's easier for you also.

And you can do that throughout the whole show today.

Just get them to us.

We love celebrating with you.

Terry, I need a one through three.

Three.

I think that's that qualifier.

We get right into it here.

First up, one of which happy birthday to Kathy McGrath.

Oh, happy birthday, Kathy.

Kathy's awesome.

Kathy's great.

We appreciate Kathy.

It joins us on the air from time to time here and everything.

We really appreciate all the awareness and work that she's done.

Not only with butterflies, but with a teacher in the area for quite a while and stuff too.

Reading mentor for United Way.

It's just an awesome person.

Her and her bow.

Great people.

We appreciate you, Kathy.

Enjoy your day.

And we wish happy birthday to Heather Stainbrook.

Happy birthday, Heather.

Enjoy your day, Heather.

Hope it's a great one for you.

And we want to wish a very happy 32nd anniversary to our qualifiers.

Bill and Amy C. Pell.

Happy anniversary.

Bill and Amy, congratulations.

Hope you are a great one.

Enjoy your day.

And you are our qualifiers.

Enjoy your anniversary.

32.

That's great.

32 for Bill and Amy.

That's fantastic.

Enjoy your anniversary, year two.

And you are our qualifiers.

You can think Terry.

You're welcome.

She can't really see it or anything.

So yeah, I don't know how much you can think.

But yeah, I think her.

Why not?

We take a look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.

One of my favorite players in the game today as far as tennis goes.

Naomi Osaka is 28.

She's been in and out of tennis a little bit recently.

And at the age of 28, as wild as it may sound, that kind of makes sense.

Because you get closer to 30 and your tennis career is almost done.

I wonder how much that's going to change going forward.

We're seeing more and more in football older athletes this weekend.

We've got the just for men bowl between Joe Flacco and Aaron Rogers.

You know, we're seeing it more and more where athletes are being able to stay in the game longer.

And tennis just shifts to pickleball.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

I don't know.

I would be great to see tennis players that do hit that age, go into pickleball.

That'd be fantastic.

We do it to still have those athletes.

It's very, it's pretty similar.

I want to see John McRoe playing pickleball.

I want to see that now.

I mean, it's a little less ground to cover.

Yeah.

No, it's fun.

What's also about what you said there is that it's not really far fetch.

It actually makes a lot of sense.

I think that's good.

And it's funny because I love the idea of John McRoe.

Just losing his mind pickleball.

Yeah, like smacking that out of the ball.

And it's like, oh, you know, it's a little heavier than a wiffle ball.

So like, you know, serena Williams just destroying a pickle.

Yeah.

Like it explodes.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, just destroys.

John Mayer is 48.

Say no such thing, waiting for the world to change.

He says your body is a wonderland.

John's got a handful of quite a few hits.

He has been in recent years, and I think he's been actually doing this for almost a decade

if I have it right.

He's been pretty much the main lead guitar player and singer for the grateful debt.

He's been kind of touring with them a bit and doing other work to pose guys.

Underrated guitar player.

Fantastic guitar player.

He's got rhythm.

He's got a really good style to him.

I don't really know his music that well.

But daughters I do.

And that song will always get me.

Yeah.

For me, his music is kind of a mood.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like every once in a while, I'll be like, oh, and I'll just just listen to John Mayer

and I'm like, oh, I like this.

But it's not, you know what I mean?

It's not, it's not my go-to all the time.

He came around at the same time, a handful of other artists that I hear the same thing about.

A lot of like barefoot acoustic guitar stuff.

You know, that if you're in the mood for it, you're going to like it.

Wendy Wilson is 56, one half of Wilson Phillips.

Singer and the daughter of Beach Boy Brian Wilson.

Hold on.

Release me.

If you were a kid in the 80s, early 90s, you know Wilson Phillips is.

They had a moment.

They had a moment there.

One of the better bass players.

Any of us will ever hear or see.

Flea is 63.

Awesome bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Also a songwriter, part of the band.

And as silly and fun as Flea is in his career as.

And he's a very good actor, by the way, too.

He's done a really good job acting.

Shows up and just random places and everything.

He is, I don't want to call him a musical genius.

But he is one of these music avant-garde.

Like just incredibly talented.

His bass playing is like game changing.

It's been different.

Like a lot of the bass players he's influenced have picked up a lot of his style.

He is like plays a lot of the brass instruments.

There's a song that the Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold to school.

No, no.

Show me your soul, I think.

Show me your soul.

And he plays trumpet at the end.

Does he play trumpet?

Yeah.

When I saw them in Madison, I saw them at the Cole Center some years back.

And they are a credible show.

Top five show of all time for me.

At the end, they're doing the encore.

And just Flea comes out with a trumpet and just starts playing.

And just wailing on the thing.

Like he's been playing jazz for 50 years.

Now that you say that, we saw them at Summerfest.

And I feel like he did that.

Maybe not that exact same thing.

But like, you know, popped up the trumpet there.

And I was because as soon as you said that, I'm like, wait a minute.

He's kind of silly.

And I don't know that anybody really takes them seriously.

But if you strip away all that, you got a really talented musician right there.

He's good.

Tim Robbins is good.

67 for the wonderful lead actor.

Tim Robbins, a perfect lead actor.

Maybe it shouldn't say perfect.

But he's a very good lead actor.

You know him, of course, from the Shawshank Redemption.

Quite a few other movies in the late 80s, early 90s.

He was in.

I don't know that they are anymore.

But he was married to, since he ran for a long time too.

Oh, really?

Yeah. But he's a solid leading man.

He's just a very good leading actor.

And you know, Shawshank, I don't know that Tim Robbins is one of those guys that you would say,

one of the best you've seen or anything like that.

But I don't know that I can picture anybody else in that role in Shawshank Redemption.

Maybe because I've seen it so many times with him.

I don't know.

But did a great job in that movie.

Him and Morgan Freeman's chemistry was fantastic.

Speaking of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir is 78.

You know, one of the key members.

I believe founding members of the Grateful Dead touch a gray many hits they had.

The Turner of Bachman Turner Overdrive is 82 today.

Fred Turner is still being told to play the taker car business part.

You ain't seen nothing yet taking care of business.

Let it ride.

BTO had quite a few hits.

And let's see here.

Some people no longer with us.

Like Suzanne Summers born in this day in 1946.

Chrissy Snow on three's company.

Had a couple of other acting roles here and there and everything.

But I think most, a lot of people at least will remember her from certainly her workout videos.

And that kind of second act that she had from that.

But Suzanne Summers, very funny actor.

Like she did a good job.

She was like for I hear a lot of actors talk about this when it comes to pretty actors or especially actresses.

That oftentimes there's this fear that they're not willing to do certain things.

When actually every one of them wants to do these kind of things.

Be put in silly situations.

Be the comic relief because they don't get that opportunity very often.

Thought Suzanne Summers, especially on three's company, really took advantage of that.

And not just, I mean, plenty can be funny.

But she just, she timed out the dits, you know, like so well.

It seemed so natural.

As somebody who is still trying to find my own and teaches it,

comedic timing is the hardest thing to teach.

In all of acting, period, end of sentence.

There is nothing tougher in acting to teach.

I've learned Shakespeare. I've learned defense.

I have had to walk in high heels.

I have had to do a lot of things as an actor.

There's nothing tougher than trying to get comedic timing down and trying to make people laugh.

And always will be the toughest thing about it.

And Suzanne Summers had perfect comedic timing.

She really did.

Yeah, she was great.

Unfortunately got kind of typecast from that role.

And really, she didn't want to just play Ditsy Blonds.

So that's why she ends up starting to do the workout videos and everything.

Which ends up kind of working out for it.

She probably made more money off of that.

Although you know what's funny?

Like in some of those videos, you know,

she still did like the really high ponytail and stuff.

So she still just, she didn't get away from her typecast.

I don't think so.

I mean, I think that her following really enjoyed those videos.

And she was inspirational.

So, you know, it's all good.

And then there is Angela Landsbury, born in 1825, passed away back in 2022.

Of course, Murdershey wrote Jessica Finch Fletcher.

I don't know if she was a detective, but I heard a good one the other day.

Most famous detectives from TV and movies and everything.

And I thought of her right away.

But I'm like, well, I don't know if she just solved Murders.

I don't think she was an actual detective.

I can't remember.

I do know that my non-impoppa loved that show.

And I was thankful that they did because I got to see one of the better actresses I've ever seen.

I think everyone in that age group loved that show.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, because it was, you didn't have a hundred thousand channels to choose from.

And it was good.

She, of course, for younger audiences out there, they might know her for voice acting.

She was in the Grinch, and of course, very well known as the Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast.

But for anybody out there, and I think some of our older listeners out there may know where I'm going with this one,

don't forget that not only was Angela Landsbury a great young actor, but she was beautiful.

Holy cow, like if you have not seen young Angela Landsbury,

whoa, man, that is a beautiful woman right there.

There's a beautiful human being, the Manchurian candidate.

You get to watch the original Manchurian candidate.

It's got Snatcher in it.

Angela Landsbury, what runs acting circles around everybody in that movie.

Well, and she aged very gracefully here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a really beautiful solo, beautiful human being, and a great actor.

Angela Landsbury, born on this day.

We will wrap up our birthdays and anniversaries,

and we want you to keep on the celebrating,

whether it's your birthday or anniversary or not.

We're going to have a fun over at El Café and celebrate and enjoy a good meal with our friends over there.

221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.

Be sure to follow them on Facebook, keep up the day and all the fun cool things that they are doing over there.

And again, congratulations to everybody celebrating a birthday or anniversary.

We'll be back after our break right here on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

There's apparently a trend of people taking carved out many pumpkins to Starbucks

and having baristas fill them with their drink order.

This is a big trend right now.

The idea is Starbucks lets people bring their own mug,

so why not celebrate fall by using a hollowed out pumpkin as a mug?

That sounds disgusting to me.

Yeah, videos are popping up on social media of people trying this and the results are very, very mixed.

I cannot stress that enough.

I honestly do not see a whole lot of these working out.

So I'm just curious.

You must have to use a straw then.

How the heck would you...

I know what how would you drink out of that.

Yeah, I don't know.

So in the videos of...

Okay, there's videos of people that are just dragging this out because they're showing them buying the pumpkin.

Like, I don't believe that.

Show us how you hollowed it out.

So that's kind of cute with the whip cream in it and the nutmeg going on top.

But I don't even understand how you...

So this brings me to something about Starbucks.

Because I've felt this and I...

Oh, they have straws.

Okay, sorry.

They do have straws, so that's good.

That's a good note.

I know that I'm not the only one to probably notice this.

And I'm sure I'm not saying anything new here or anything.

But the whole industry of Starbucks is basically built on image.

It's just walking around making sure that everybody sees you have that logo.

Whatever the new drink that everybody is popular on TikTok or something like that.

And so in that case, this is perfect for Starbucks.

Because I don't think you really care what the coffee tastes like.

You just want people to see you walk around with a mini pumpkin.

I mean, I...

I'm not judging.

No, I know, but I'm just saying I don't think that...

I don't think Starbucks started this.

No, no, no.

I don't think they do either.

But it makes sense that their clientele would think of something like this.

Oh, yeah.

Because it's all about it.

Yeah.

It's all about...

I'm curious about how it tastes.

Now...

I actually want coffee to taste good.

So I'm all focused on how this would taste coming up.

But if you think about...

Because I was like...

Oh, that's gross.

Because I think of it as like slimy.

You know, like think about when you're scooping out a pumpkin.

Yeah.

But I was also then thinking when I saw that whipped cream going on top, I was like...

Okay, so like if you get a...

What if you get an iced pumpkin spice latte?

Mmm.

I mean...

Put that sucker in there and give it a try.

This may be the ultimate way to have pumpkin spice latte.

I mean...

I'm not doing it.

No, I wasn't.

And just for the record, when I was there this morning getting a cup of coffee...

Legit.

No pumpkin sitting on the cover.

Okay, all right.

So I mean, it just maybe hasn't gotten here yet.

It may be, maybe.

Some baristas have heard of the trend and are willing to do it.

Some are very...

Even enthusiastic about it and take photos of themselves while others...

Other videos the workers had not heard of it and didn't want to do it.

So they just gave the customer an actual cup and let them pour it in themselves.

Let them pour it in themselves.

Because you have to kind of...

And then...

Okay, now here's where I just went.

What happens when you come in with like the 15-inch...

Yeah.

Like ginormous pumpkin that you can't even carry in a cup of coffee if you need to fill that?

I also wouldn't want to...

Baristas...

I mean, they're not paid that well and they have a lot put on their plate.

It's not an easy gig.

I don't give me another thing to like try to...

Actually, if the pumpkin is not taken care of well and you pour the coffee and it spills out or something like that...

Also for those who maybe aren't thinking ahead, like don't carve the pumpkin just clean it up.

Oh, dang it.

That would be something I've been doing.

You know there's one.

You know there's one.

And it would probably be me.

And it's going all over the counter and all over the floor.

Yeah.

Some comments are asking people not to do this because it slows everything down.

And it can be a little bit of that too.

So keep that in mind.

Context is everything.

It doesn't sound like Starbucks has an official policy on this though.

So, you know, they're not necessarily...

You got to kind of play it by ear every Starbucks is going to be different.

It is kind of super funny.

I like the idea in theory and everything.

But I like it more like do this at home.

Make your own coffee at home and do it, I think.

But I don't know.

And so I wonder too how quickly it'll be before people start putting a Starbucks logo on the phone.

They should.

They got it right.

If they were good, they would just kind of chisel that in.

You know, you can't carve it out.

But then the other thing is you can't...

They don't fit in your cup holder.

Like what is going on?

Oh my God, that's right.

I mean, you might stay in the restaurant.

I get that or in the coffee shop.

But like, you know, you take it to go.

Oh, absolutely.

Now that's what would happen to me.

I would probably be smart enough to not carve the pumpkin.

But I guarantee you I would do this in a hurry.

And I get into my...

My Jeep and I'm like, oh, where do I...

I don't...

I'm like putting it in the passenger side, just like buckling it in.

There's...

And the taste part of this is the thing that I'm not hearing a lot of people talking about.

Nobody's really commenting on the taste of it.

I would...

I'd be very curious, you know, if it tastes pumpkin-y.

I feel like you have to put something pumpkin in there.

You got it.

Or fall flavored.

You know, like they have a good like pecan flavor.

You know what I mean?

Like something like that.

I wouldn't...

Me personally.

I couldn't put just a regular cup of...

Because I just drank plain old black coffee.

Like I couldn't put that in there and then drink it.

I like...

I like pumpkin flavored things.

The only thing that I've never really gotten into a pumpkin spice is just...

I always feel like I taste too much of the spice.

Maybe this would be a true pumpkin coffee.

And then, you know, if you didn't clean it out really good,

and you're sucking through the straw,

and obviously you get one of those stringy...

Oh, yeah.

Pumpkin guts.

Oh, no, that's not good.

No, you don't want that.

I got to get pumpkin.

I think it sounds super cute, though.

Yeah, it does kind of.

I mean, again, in theory, in the way it looks.

It looks fun.

It looks cool.

But, yeah.

I don't know.

If you...

I definitely...

I don't think I tried.

That's for sure.

If...

Am I...

Am I trying it at home?

That's different.

Am I trying it at home?

I'm not trying it at all.

I'm not spending ten bucks on a coffee,

and then it turns out like it does a taste good in the pumpkin.

I ain't doing that.

But I do like the idea.

Let's look good.

If you order a pizza,

are you ever worried about missing the delivery

because you fell asleep or you just...

You know, you're in the bathroom right when they show up

or something like that.

I will share this with the audience.

When ordering food,

I am like a dog waiting for the mailman to get there.

I hate the idea of making delivery drivers wait.

So, I am constantly like...

You know, when we got trackers nowadays and stuff

to tell you, you know,

when they're close or anything.

But I am a dog looking out the window.

Are they here yet?

Are they here yet?

And, like, who doesn't take their phone in the bathroom?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I don't.

But I'm just saying, like, in general,

if you're expecting a delivery...

Yeah, yeah.

But a note on the door.

Well, Grubhub knows your concern,

especially if you're a college student.

And Grubhub says 72% of college students

have missed a late-night delivery order

sometime in the...

orce order sometime in their college career

because they have nodded off

or they have just missed the call.

They forgot about it.

There's something along those lines.

72% of their orders.

That's in...

Oh, their college orders for college students.

That's a pretty high number.

So now they're offering snooze insurance.

If you're a Grubhub student member,

they're offering a, quote, make-up meal

to replace the one that you slept through.

It's not a built-in feature.

You need to apply through their code and everything.

And I think it costs a little extra a month.

But it's something that they're trying out.

They're rolling out and everything.

It's basically just a marketing gimmick

to advertise their student membership accounts,

which are free to join.

If you're enrolled at a participating school,

there are a few other perks,

free or discounted deliveries,

5% credit on pickup meals,

and some other options right there.

How about setting an alarm?

Yeah, yeah.

It's available for students

at more than 400 college campuses.

It does sound like this is more...

It's strictly about gimmick, you know,

and marketing and all that.

But I actually feel like you're on to something there, Terry.

Because one of the things

you're supposed to be doing in college

is, of course, learning how to be, you know,

good citizen jumping into the world,

and all of those things.

In the real world,

you're gonna have to make your appointments.

You're gonna have to be...

Okay, seriously.

You order the pizza.

However you do that,

you text, you go on an app,

you go online, you call it.

They say 20 to 25 minutes,

set an alarm for 20 minutes,

even if you're staying awake.

This seems insane to me.

I don't know how this could even happen to somebody.

I'm not even sure how you could order something

and then forget about it,

or fall asleep after your order.

Especially when you're in college,

because I'm guessing you don't have a ton of disposable income.

Yeah.

You spend 20 bucks on a pizza,

or however much they are now.

I think you're gonna be on top of it.

I know when I was in college,

food was just the most vital thing.

You took whatever you could get in everything.

I'm not...

If I ordered food,

I'm darn sure not forgetting.

I'm too hungry to forget it.

Okay, now, though.

Is it bar time food that's getting slept through?

I thought about that, too.

I was thinking about that.

And for something like that,

you're usually picking it up,

or if you're hungry enough,

you'll be awake.

Well, yeah, we had to pick it up

or go through the drive-thru

because there was no late night delivery.

Yeah, yeah.

We didn't have a choice.

We're old.

Boy, I don't know.

I'll give him credit on the marketing end of it.

It's a good idea, marketing-wise.

Well, and if they have their college,

whatever membership,

it is a good way to promote it, right?

But I just think that that's kind of funny.

It seems kind of...

He seems a little silly.

We will take a quick time out.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

When we get back,

we're talking about this annual survey we do

usually every year.

The happiest and least happiest states in America.

Coming up on The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning Show here at WFHUX.

Locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

We're going to take a rate to the top of the hour.

To kick off the 10 o'clock hour,

we got Denise joining us

with our pet of the week

from the South of County Main Society.

Looking forward to hanging out with her.

And of course getting you that pet of the week.

10 o'clock hour is also going to have some entertainment news.

We are going to talk about what our favorite season is.

We've got a new survey out collecting that

and finding out,

well, what's our favorite season out there?

We'll get into that.

And I got another one about Hershey's lawsuit.

If we got time, I want to get to.

It's a bunch of fun stuff.

I'll come it up for you.

But right now,

this annual study that we seem to touch on every year

has finally come out.

An annual study found the happiest states in the U.S.

in 2025.

And all 50 states were ranked based on 30 different metrics,

including stuff like emotional and physical health,

career satisfaction, unemployment,

life expectancy, depression, sleep, and weather.

So, not bad.

A lot of factors in there at least.

The 10 happiest states in the U.S. are,

Hawaii, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey,

Connecticut, Utah, California, New Hampshire,

Massachusetts, and Idaho.

Wow.

A lot of New England.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I noticed that too.

And not too much,

not too much really in the south or out west.

You know, you got California, you got Utah.

Nebraska.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nebraska.

You don't have any southern states represented here.

There's no Midwest either.

And no Midwest.

Yeah.

The 10 least happy are West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas,

Alabama, Alaska, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kentucky,

Mississippi, and Colorado.

So, where it's hot and dark.

Yeah.

And a lot of southern states.

But that in mind, right in the middle, the 25th state,

which apparently doesn't really go either direction,

is South Carolina, which is sitting right there in the middle.

Interesting.

New Jersey is number one in emotional and physical well-being.

Really?

Yeah.

That's hilarious.

That is hilarious.

West Virginia is last.

Utah is number one in work life.

West Virginia is last there too.

And Utah is also number one in community and environment.

Texas is last for that one.

And certainly, you know, we, we, you know, anybody,

if you've been in the, in America long enough, you know,

quite, you know, Utah.

A lot of the residents of Utah.

And I think that that's something to keep in mind with this too.

Because that might add to this.

There's a lot of like-mindedness in Utah.

So maybe there's a little bit more of that, you know,

that camaraderie, or you will, or some of those things.

But the list is interesting for the factors and the things

that it brings up.

But I don't, I don't know how accurate.

You know, New England is on my bucket list.

And now hearing that, you know what I mean?

Like it peaks my curiosity even more.

Yeah.

Well, it, and it's, look, it's a smaller state.

Now you definitely don't have as many people in it and everything.

So, yeah, maybe there's just a little bit something to that.

I don't know.

It definitely is eye-opening to me the least happy states

and to see so many Southern states represented there.

And it feels like a lot of the times we're doing these surveys.

Our Southern states are the ones that are getting hurt the most,

or getting hit the most at least by a lot of this stuff.

So I thought that was noteworthy.

That was interesting.

And as far as the happiestness goes around here in the Midwest,

how are we looking?

Well, Minnesota just finished right outside the top 10 at 11.

Iowa, 17.

Oh, Indiana at 34, little ways down the list.

Michigan right behind them at 35.

Illinois sits at 22.

And Wisconsin is right at 20.

So not bad at all, especially out of 50 states.

20 is not bad at all.

But I, and I feel like that's exactly the way it feels

at Wisconsin to a degree.

Like it's, it's not bad.

It's not good.

Necessarily there's this great in between for people that,

well, and I mean that there's a lot of things you like about the state

and there might be a couple things you don't.

And, and that's kind of living.

That's wherever you're going to be.

And you said weather was one of the factors, right?

Yeah.

So, I mean, I guess I'd be a little curious about the timing of this.

Because if you do it in, you know, mid-February when it's just been cold and mwah,

you know, maybe people are like, no, I don't like it.

Right.

And, and how many of these, I mean, that's, that's such a key factor of this

that we never really get the details of.

And I understand their blind surveys so you can only get,

but you, hey, I collected this many votes here, this many votes there,

something.

You would be interesting and kind of noteworthy, I think,

because everything is context.

Yeah.

It is interesting.

If a person who likes where they live and is answering this,

they're probably going to answer pretty highly on their things,

and vice versa if they don't.

So, it could be this, it feels like it could be skewed one way or the other.

But there is, you know, numbers don't lie.

So, there is, there is something to be said for some of this data.

And again, I think when you're looking at a lot of our happier states

or our satir states, as it will, you, I don't know,

I think it's noteworthy.

Interesting.

And I don't know how accurate it is.

I don't know how accurate.

How much you can really bet.

I get on this one.

I will say, though, when it comes to like, we've talked about this before

on the air and stuff, I've only been to Minnesota maybe 10,

15 times in my life, you know, which doesn't feel like a lot

considering how much traveling I've done.

I've never ran into anybody in Minnesota that was a jerk.

I haven't, it just hasn't happened.

Now, I've been there mostly as a tourist.

I haven't been there a whole lot as I've never lived in Minnesota.

And I am positive that like every other state,

there's jerks in Minnesota.