Warm Beverages for Everyone! (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.

I think that drama and then makes no difference what you buy me.

Let's get it going time for the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM WF HR locally grown radio.

We got your host James here, joined by our head producer here at WF HR.

Hi, hello. I keep doing that to you. You do and I keep correcting you right then.

It's nice that the boards this way so you can do that. You just reach over it and put.

Yes, I'm not pushing the buttons, but I am pointing at them.

X-NAY on the third mic A. We hope you're having a good day.

That was bad. That was bad. I apologize to the audience.

And that is apparently how we introduce this show.

We hope you're having a good start to the day out there. Happy Tuesday, everybody.

Good things on the way. The Elcafé birthday and anniversary club looking forward to diving into that one.

How many questions does the Aaron add the average parent field from their child a day?

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's going to give it that one.

The weight of that.

And to bring things, you know, kind of warm things up after that.

We have a study that found warm drinks can help you avoid winter blues.

Oh, we'll get into that a little bit.

I like a warm beverage.

Got some entertainment news for you. We're talking Dolly Parton.

We're talking people's sexiest man alive.

I don't think that's McCully Culkins in there.

And a bunch of other fun stuff we got.

Okay.

Also want to get into a couple of other fun topics throughout this morning.

Next hour, Crayola is in the news.

I want to talk about them a little bit.

Okay.

We got some good stories of the day.

And of course, our schedule to get into a lot of local events.

I want to touch on all of those things.

Oh, I do have a place. I want to start here, Laura.

Oh, first before I forget.

I wanted to do a review.

Oh, quick.

Candy review.

Okay. Sure. Yeah.

Just getting out of Halloween.

Well, I saw these at a quick trip the other day.

Okay.

And I don't know if they're anywhere else.

Oh, what is this?

This growing up.

Oh, one of my favorite candies I could get was the like to back because I'm old.

They were 25 cents or 50 cents, but a blowpop.

Sure.

Because a blowpop, you got a sucker and gum.

Yeah, it was like candy with your candy.

I've always enjoyed these.

But as I've gotten older in my teeth, I've gotten a little more sensitive.

I have to be a little more selective about them.

And I get a little tired of the sucker part.

I want the gum.

I want to get to the gum and some of that.

Sure, because you're a gum dude.

I like charms.

I like the company and the flavor at all.

Sure.

I don't know how long these have been a thing, but I just discovered that.

Okay.

They are blowpops.

Are you going to make me chew gum inside a microphone?

You don't have to try them if you didn't want it.

I didn't want to put you out of spy with it.

Okay. I'll try them on the break at the break.

Okay. Good idea.

I don't want to do that to you.

Gum on the air is probably not a good call.

Not a great idea.

But I couldn't help myself.

Let me see.

Let me see.

Okay. So they're inside out.

Yeah.

There is crushed lollipop on the inside of this gum ball.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you're all right.

Okay.

I'll give it a whirl.

They are really fun.

I'm kind of excited about that.

I like the idea of already small pieces of blowpop.

Yeah.

Because once you have the little crystals of blowpop in the gum,

it's kind of the best part.

Oh, there's a crunch to it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can definitely see the appeal.

And I will try one of those.

Right up.

Okay.

Yeah.

We'll get your review on that a little bit later.

And we might want to review this one as a team.

Maybe have all of us try this one.

Okay.

Oreo announced a new special edition tin of cookies that tastes like Thanksgiving foods.

You can't get them in stores just online.

It's six different flavors and each tin comes with two of each.

All right.

Give me those flavors.

Turkey and stuffing.

Oh, there it is.

Sweet potato.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh, God, I hate cream corn.

Oh, I hate cream corn with such a passion.

But I could see being able to turn that into a cookie.

Sure.

That would be much easier than the turkey.

I love corn.

I love corn in the cob.

I like corn in most ways.

Cream corn is wrong.

It's not for you.

Next.

Cranberry sauce.

That could also be a good cookie.

Caramel apple pie.

Great cookie.

Pumpkin pie.

Great cookie.

I want to try a pumpkin pie over here.

Did not need to make a turkey cookie.

Turkey and stuffing.

They could have just skipped that one.

That feels a little...

Yeah.

Yeah.

It feels a little...

They could have just...

Not.

You can order a tin for 20 bucks plus shipping at Oreo.com.

And, you know, I...

Please, if anybody ends up getting any of these,

we have to go with their like...

I really want to try the pumpkin pie one.

A pumpkin pie...

They also have...

I bet they have a pumpkin pie Oreo out on a shelf right now.

Cut it out.

I mean, honestly, even the...

The cranberry sauce, the cream corn, the sweet potato,

and the caramel apple maybe not.

But I bet there's a pumpkin pie one out on the shelf right now.

I would try the cranberry sauce.

I think that could be interesting.

I think that could be good too.

I do.

I think that could be good.

The caramel apple pie.

I think, you know, the cranberry,

you want to have some orange in there.

So it's either the cookie is cranberry

or the cream is cranberry,

and the other is going to have a hint of orange.

And then with the cream corn,

I was picturing a cornbread cookie.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that actually, no.

Cornbread might not be...

Like a cornbread flavor, you know,

cookie with cornbread in it.

And yeah, the sweet potato, you know,

sweet potato pie.

Caramel apple.

Obvious.

Well, and it comes in a kind of a cool box,

or a cool container.

It's just a big Oreo that it comes in.

Yeah.

I don't know what people are going to do

with some of these other flavors.

You know, I could see eating some of those.

I would try one of each,

and I bet I would like most of them,

but they didn't need to make a turkey and stuffing.

I got to think that it's...

Oreo.

At this point, it's pretty tough to come up

with a new Oreo flavor that would be good.

Sure, yeah.

And maybe they just needed to put one weird one in there.

Oh, yeah.

And that was the gimme.

Yeah.

I mean, they could have done green bean casserole,

be glad they didn't do that, I guess.

Cream corn.

Yeah, but that one could be okay.

Just thinking about cream corn.

It's not a cream corn, it's an Oreo.

And then there's this.

America's, quote, fanciest grocery store

has a new drink that sounds like something

your kid might come up with.

There's a grocery chain in LA called Aeroan.

Okay.

It's basically a store for rich people.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that sounds right.

It is Whole Foods on steroids.

Okay.

Whole Foods, but for the ultra-wealthy.

Yes, yes.

Not just the hipster with a paycheck.

It's a little bit more.

Yep.

And of course, tiktokers are all over this place.

And they want to look like rich people.

So they tend to film themselves going around.

But I don't know if they actually buy anything.

They're just there.

That's making content.

I don't even know what to say to that.

Like, okay, I guess.

So this grocery store is known for things like $15 packets of blueberries

or a single strawberry that costs 20 bucks.

Shut up.

Yeah.

Now there is shut up.

Now they're in the news because the cafes and the stores are selling a new toothpaste

smoothie.

Absolutely not.

It's called the Mint Condition Smile Smoothie.

Oh, my God.

The Mint Condition Smile Smoothie is they partnered with a fancy brand called Boka.

And it's inspired by one of their toothpaste called Element.

This hurts my soul.

Er, Erowana is selling it at all their cafes this month.

People signed up for their loyalty program, which costs 100 bucks a year.

Their loyalty program can try it for free.

Otherwise, it's 11 bucks.

Oh, my God.

It's Mint with notes of banana, mango, coconut, and blue.

Spirula.

Spirulina.

Spirulina, thank you.

That sounds awful.

That sounds terrible.

That sounds like it tastes bad.

It's going to taste bad.

It's not going to taste good.

It's going to taste bad.

Don't put that on your taste buds.

But Boka's marketing manager swears it's good.

So it's literally in the article.

I don't believe him.

Yeah, I don't either.

I think he's a lying liar who lies.

I feel like they also miss something here.

He had a golden opportunity.

What about milkshake toothpaste?

No.

Oh.

Well, they brush your teeth.

Okay, okay.

It brushes your teeth.

Sure.

Like that company that makes the toothpaste that's like really, really tasty.

It doesn't taste like toothpaste.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like tasty.

I have a vanilla one of theirs.

It's really nice.

Like something like that.

Like they should have just like when they have one.

I bet they have like a strawberry milkshake.

Shifting to that?

Yeah.

Just going that route with it.

Hey, kids.

You don't like brushing your teeth.

Here's a milkshake.

Yeah.

They just, you know,

that's the answer.

Definitely the answer.

This is, this is part of also why I don't make a good adult.

It is that I think.

No, no, it sounds like you're solving a problem.

I think milkshake flavored toothpaste is the answer.

It's better than that.

It's better than that.

Oh, it's so much better than that.

You could not pay me enough to have that.

That is not interesting to me.

I don't have a whole lot of friends that have like, you know, that are outside of our

pay range, that are outside of our, you know, whatever we class we are now, we don't

have middle class anymore.

It's what we are.

The abs and the have nots, I guess.

But if I had a richer friend and they told me they just bought a single strawberry for

20 bucks.

I would slap them in their face and say, where was your mom?

I don't know how I'd ever look that person in the eye again with respect.

I don't know if I could.

I'm like, I'm half joking.

I'm half serious.

I don't.

Like man, I've got a box of those in the fridge.

You could have given me 20 bucks.

I got to say this too and I feel like this may even say a little bit about me, so to

be fair here.

But there's no way a $20 strawberry is going to taste worth it to me.

No.

There's no way I can spend 20 bucks on a strawberry and I'm meeting them like, oh my God,

that's the thing that tastes great about it is the wealth.

Yeah.

I'd rather have the $20.

I can't imagine the strawberry tasting that for.

To want to waste 20 bucks on a strawberry, it's the privilege that's so tasty.

It's been 50 cents in a strawberry artificial flavored piece of gum.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

It also feels like, so they stayed up at like two in the morning trying to come up with

ideas and this was all they had.

This was the best they came up with.

It's not a good idea.

A toothpaste smoothie.

This is a bad, bad idea, bad idea, bad marketing team, bad, very bad.

Tell me you're out of touch without telling me you're completely out of touch.

No one wants that.

We barely like our toothpaste while we're brushing our teeth.

Stop it.

I, um, so between these two stories, whether it's Oreo or these kind of new smoothie

things or whatever, eat the turkey and stuffing Oreo and then drink your toothpaste smoothie

to wash it down.

I guess.

Yeah.

Don't mix them.

I hope they have a Thanksgiving smoothie.

I can't think of anything worse in my life.

It's bad.

It's bad.

I, I, I, and I'm trying really hard.

So I want to push back on the Oreo thing, but I'm trying really hard to come up with

a new flavor for Oreo.

They, they, they, they, they, they seem to be willing to do whatever they want.

Yeah.

And they've come up with everything.

Yeah.

I don't know if there's a type of Oreo that is enough.

I was about to say a coffee one, but they got a Java one.

They got, you know, they got a Oreo for everything.

My favorite flavor combination is blueberry and lemon, preferably with lavender and they've

never done that before.

So.

Okay.

There you go.

Yeah.

The Oreo is respectively.

Yeah.

Yes.

Thank you.

Yes.

Take a time out.

We'll come back with the L Cafe.

Birthday anniversary.

Love it.

Laura James.

Take it to your martingone.

WFH up.

On baby, let the good time roll.

Come on, baby.

Let me thrill your soul.

Come on, baby.

Let the good time roll.

Time to let them.

Good times roll.

Right over to L Cafe at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Treat yourself.

Everybody get on over there.

They're open for the week.

Yeah.

They are.

Head on over there.

Sorry.

I'm chewing gum.

No, I did.

I was trying to talk for you.

We appreciate our great friends over at L Cafe.

Go visit them today, everybody.

And of course, you can find out more about them by going to their website, lcafewi.com.

Check out their Facebook page.

Keep up the date and all the cool things they are doing over there.

A lot of the things that they do happen to be involving with the community or having

our good friend, Kathy McGrath over there for story times or all these kind of fun things

that they do.

They are so much more than just a great restaurant.

That's true.

I love it there.

I don't know if they realize this.

And their weight staff is great.

Perfect staff.

Perfect staff.

It's awesome.

They have become a bit of a hub in Port Edwards.

Awesome.

A bit of a community hub and everything.

And I think that is a-

That's the way to do it.

Organically happened.

And it's a really cool thing.

And we appreciate our great friends over there.

Love working with them.

Yeah.

Get on over there today, everybody.

221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Wish them a good morning from all of us here at WFHR.

Yeah.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

You should do that.

Do it now.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

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Be sure to like our pages.

Great way to give us a request and all those fun things.

And of course, call on up.

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But if you'd rather talk to Pam, that would be 1300.

Or you can text us using the Civic Media app.

Looking forward to hearing from you, everybody.

Laura, I need a 1 or a 2.

2.

Alrighty, there we go.

Also, for the record, the gum was good.

It needed another layer of candy coating.

I needed more crunch.

It was good, but I needed more crunch.

I didn't want to interrupt the segment.

So I was going to bring it up after the newest break.

I did.

No, that's fine.

So you were all right with it.

You just died of need a little bit more.

It needed more of the candy coating.

I get it.

I get what they were going for.

But I think if they had a thin layer of it around the outside of it, then it's a winner.

You're not a huge gum person either.

No, I am not.

That's a win right there for the gum computer.

But the lever was right.

It was very good for me.

I would have kept chewing it, but you know, microphone.

Oh, got to talk thing.

Yeah, yeah.

That makes it real hard.

I do one thing.

I barely ever bring things into what they get bring it as gum.

The worst thing for radio.

We appreciate you guys getting to see birthdays and adversaries.

And a real big shout out to Pam who always does a great job keeping track of our in-house birthdays.

We say a very happy birthday to Civic Media's news director, Charlie Pittman.

Yeah, happy birthday, Charlie.

Not only a...

She's awesome.

She's the news director for Civic Media.

She's excellent.

So, Charlie is beautiful name.

And she is a heck of a human being.

She fits that name.

I have not got to really talk to her too much, a little bit of interacting.

I've done blown away.

Yeah.

We are really looking at her.

I haven't gotten to know her very well because, you know, we're not in the news department.

But she's every interaction I've had with her has been excellent.

Well, I'll say this to somebody that I respect very much in Melissa, you know, things highly of her.

And that's enough for me.

And that's enough.

Yep.

Have a great birthday, Charlie.

Yeah, happy birthday, Charlie.

We also wish happy birthday to Dale Abbott.

Happy birthday, Dale.

Dale, enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We appreciate Dale's...

I believe his daughter got us his birthday.

Oh, thank you, Dale's daughter.

Yeah, that's cool.

We'll appreciate that.

And we want to wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Margaret Heffner.

Happy birthday, Margaret.

Congratulations on your qualifier.

I love the name Margaret.

It's great name.

Great name.

I've had a couple of friends named Margaret.

Enjoy your day.

Enjoy your day, Margaret.

Hope it's a good one.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals that you're our qualifier.

And of course, be listening at the beginning of the first day of November or December that we're back.

Yeah.

It's November now.

Yeah.

And get on over to El Café.

Yeah.

You should do that.

Let's take a look at who you share your birthdays with.

Let's see here.

Des Bryan is 37 former cowboy and Raymond, I think he played for it too.

Sure.

Let's see here.

Matthew McConaughey is 56.

Ooh.

Well, all right, all right, all right.

I knew you were going to say it.

That's why I didn't.

So that's where he gets his start.

That's where we get introduced to Matthew McConaughey.

It's interesting because that's a line that he came up with.

Yep.

That was just purely him.

They had no line.

They had nothing good.

It didn't.

The director and Matthew were kind of working together and like, hey, we're just assuming

the camera and that doesn't really work.

Would you mind saying something?

And just on the spot.

That's what he came up with.

He just comes up with that.

He has this stretch where he's kind of doing rom-coms and he's not really doing the

work he enjoys and he's getting a little frustrated with that.

And he's then discovered on a beach playing bongos, you know, high off his brain.

And I love that for him.

I believe he was.

He got cited.

I don't know if he was arrested.

But he got cited and there was some talk of him, you know, you know, just not necessarily

really is he locked in?

Is he focused?

Is this kind of the beginning of the end of Matthew McConaughey?

And it was not.

And he gets, he's trying really hard to find work and he can't.

So he sits down with his agent and he says, we're taking a year off.

We're taking a year off.

We're not doing anything.

If it's a rom-com script, I'm not doing it.

This as an actor is one of the most suicide missions you can take.

It's insane to do this.

But if you want to reset, if you really, he does this and he's saying no to all these

scripts.

And finally, he gets this script for True Detective.

Yep.

And it changes everything.

And it was him and Woody Harrelson.

And it's part of the reason he wants to do it and everything and him and Woody have

this great relationship.

And that season, the first season of True Detective is one of the greatest seasons of TV

I will ever see.

It's one of the greatest written, acted.

It gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

And Matthew McConaughey has become one of my favorite actors and one of my favorite

like arcs because of not only him, but working on the craft.

And he could, to this day, he's 56 years old, he could still be doing rom-coms.

There's no reason that he had to do this with his career.

Other than artistically, this is what he wanted.

It wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame, it was about the talent, it was

the craft.

And I don't think any of us saw that coming.

I sure didn't.

No, and it's incredible.

It's such a turnaround.

It's such a flip and to so many actors out there, he is such a northern star.

He's a guiding light a little bit.

Yeah, you can do it your way.

You can bet on yourself and win.

You can do these things.

But you got to be able to follow through.

You got to be able to do it.

Your interesting note about his career is a lot of people told him early on, hey, pull

away from the Southern thing.

Pull away from the Texas thing.

Pull away from a lot of those things.

And it has worked in his favor this whole time.

Yeah.

First off, what person is telling a Texan that's not being Texan?

And I think it's going to work.

Yeah, what idiot does that?

Because that's a, I'm sorry, but that's an idiot who's like, that's an idiot who knows.

But also, let there be room for all of these different accents instead of hiring people

who don't genuinely have the accent.

Why not?

We need more of that in sports.

We need more of it.

We need more of it in everything.

I want more Southern announcers in sports.

I want more of that.

I don't even listen to sports.

But I agree with you.

Ralph Machio is 64.

Yeah.

It is unfair how handsome he still is at 64.

It's not fair.

It's not fair.

Daniel.

That one.

Karate Kid.

Those movies lost our outsiders, you know, couple of roles.

My cousin Vinnie I think is a forgotten role of his that he was really good in that movie.

I thought he was one of the best parts.

I love Joe Pesci.

He was one of the best parts of that movie.

Jeff Props is 64.

Oh, love him.

Survivor creator, producer, and host.

Jeff Props is very good at what he does.

He is.

I watched the first couple episodes of Survivor.

I haven't seen it since, and I haven't really seen him since.

But I do remember thinking, wow, this guy is very good at this.

I can only imagine he's gotten so much better at it, like, 50 years or whatever they've

been doing.

Once upon a time, I attended Survivor parties after Packer Games because that was usually

when Survivor was airing.

And I watched a lot of it.

And honestly, you get to a point where you're kind of watching the show for Jeff Props.

Huh.

Yeah.

I don't, that's surprising to me almost, but not as surprising you doing that.

I wouldn't have pictured that.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

That's fun.

They were really weird people.

That's fun.

Yeah, that's great.

Yeah, that's great.

That's great.

Kathy Griffith is 65.

Oh.

Yeah.

Kathy Griffith, you know, certainly in less, in a handful, less, in full years, there's

a lot.

You could say it and all that and everything.

We were focusing early on her early career and one of those actors, one of those comedians

that really, really had to battle through a lot of stuff to get herself out there and

is noteworthy in the sense of that she even got the jobs that she has gotten because

Kathy Griffith didn't have any of the things that a lot of stand-up comedians have going

in their favor.

Yeah.

She battled against a lot of type to get to where she did.

Yeah.

Well, and in recent years, she has kind of taken a step back and done some self-evaluation

and, you know, tried to make amends for some things.

Yeah.

And that's really noteworthy because she didn't have to do that.

She could have just kept being and still had fans.

Happy birthday to the first lady of Texas, former first lady, Laura Bush.

Oh, I think birthday.

I always like the way she, I don't know if there's many first ladies that I don't respect

or appreciate in some way or another.

Her step-grandmother, however, I'm a step-grandmother, but her, George's mom, her mother-in-law.

Yeah, her mother-in-law, thank you.

God, I don't know why I couldn't think of that.

That's okay.

I always respected her so much and the way she handled herself in the public eye and I

feel like she learned a lot from her in the way of that.

Yeah.

I think that the way that I've viewed it is I felt that Laura Bush handled her position

with Greece.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think that's the...

You don't get to choose who you love.

And when you end up, like, it's one thing for this guy, George Bush senior, George Bush

junior, whoever it is, to want to get into politics, the families, the wives, the way

that they...

It's such a different game and I have such a different...

I have no expectations for that position other than, how are you doing?

Yeah.

Like, how are you handling it?

Are you okay?

Honestly.

Yeah.

Because regardless of their husband and their political feelings or anything like that,

I just find that a very interesting thing to be in.

And some people no longer with us, Loretta Swift would have been 88 today, just passed away

just a little while ago.

Hotlips on mash.

Sure.

Love her.

Hotlips, Honolulu.

Honolulu.

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Honolulu.

She's a couple of years ago in 2021.

The great Christine Sullivan and Nightcourt.

The only person that could handle Dan Fielding.

Her interacting with those actors on that show, her comedic timing, never got the credit

that deserved.

I loved her later on in life.

I believe it was something about Mary.

She played Mary's mom.

And seeing her just the years later and stuff, I always enjoyed her.

Great actor.

And Doris Roberts, legend actor.

If Doris was still with us, she would be my grandma.

And if there was, I was filming something.

I would want her as my grandma.

Raise mom and everybody loves Raymond.

The quintessential like mom, grandma, just incredible actor.

Really great career too.

Like, long before you knew her from everybody loves Raymond, Doris had a wonderful career.

Yeah.

One of the greatest journalists and maybe the definition of American journalism Walter

Cronkite born on this day in 1916.

I say this jokingly, but it really does mean something with, oh, you know, a real Einstein

over here.

Like, you know, Einstein's name being associated with brilliance and smarts.

Cronkite's name has totally become that.

He is the Einstein of journalism.

He is the Cronkite.

Oh, real Cronkite over here.

Or at least a news anchor.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes, news anchor.

I think is the right way to put that.

That's a good way to do it.

And rightfully so.

No, he earned that.

Especially when I first started doing Rapids Report, he was one of the people that

I went back to read up on and watch his demeanor the way he handled things.

You didn't know where Walter Cronkite stood on things.

He just gave you the news.

He just, and he did this where I don't think a lot of, maybe I don't know if people picked

up another, not or anything like that because it may not seem like it, especially if you

just see little snippets of him, Walter Cronkite had empathy without being emotional, without

really giving his emotions up and down.

But there was an empathy when he delivered the news that is sorely missing today, where

it's now just people reading off of a piece of paper.

We've all become too callous.

Yeah.

Whereas there was something to him and I don't even know how you put your finger on it,

but there was a heart to what he did.

He was the best.

He was really not the best to ever do it necessarily, but certainly one of the best if

that.

In his time, for sure.

In his time, yes.

And Alfred Heineken, born on this day in 1923, I would have thought he'd be older.

I also would have thought he'd be older.

But I guess Heineken is not that cool.

I guess, yeah.

Alfred Heineken, born in 1923, passed away in 1902.

So, you know, not that.

Heineken is a newer beard, I guess.

Judge brewing genius.

Sure.

That's what we could go on.

Well, that's what they're saying.

I shouldn't.

I'm not saying that necessarily.

Although I drink plenty of Heineken's in my life.

Fair enough.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun when we get back here on the morning show.

Welcome to our house, everybody.

Oh, hi.

Morning show here at WFHR.

It is.

We're locally grown radio Lauren James hanging out with you.

Hi.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

That song from Madness, our house.

It's a fun one.

It always gets me.

It does.

I've got to get a fun story here, sort of.

If you're a parent, you are your child's personal chat GPT.

Yeah, kind of.

According to a new report, the average parent with a young child feels 46 questions per day

from said child.

Sure.

What age are they considering young?

So one parent within like 14 to under.

So they're saying.

Okay.

So they're even talking pre-teen age.

Yeah.

That's going to be a high number.

Now, for anybody out there, I ask you to, if you're in a similar situation, I guess

you don't have to.

But if you are not, I ask you to think of Laura's situation, where that's 46 questions

times four.

Yes.

And that's on average.

Did that number just before I go too much farther?

Does that number sound somewhat right to 46?

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would say that I'm lucky that the ones that are close in age tend to like lump their

questions together.

But yeah, that sounds right.

Well, I would say when we're lucky to have Quinn around in the office here, I feel

about 30 some questions from her.

So I mean, that's just in the right time around her here.

Those are the overflow.

She had those ready to go for anyone other than me.

Can't even imagine what you must tell you.

Yeah.

Most of the time, the questions aren't that difficult, parents say that they typically find

themselves without answers about 35% of the time.

Okay.

91% of parents believe it's important to quote foster their child's natural curiosity

and interests.

Yes.

You want them to be aware of their surroundings.

The average parent tells their kid to be careful 27 times per day.

Yeah.

And that's a low estimate.

Yeah.

Definitely.

77% of parents believe their child is more curious than they were at their age.

No, I don't think so.

But I might be an extra case here.

You know, I would say that my kids and I were on a pretty similar path when it came

to that.

And so much so to the point where there were times where I couldn't, I couldn't help

it be just, you know, where you see a little bit of yourself and your child and you're

just kind of, you know, it's a warm feeling.

Yes.

I see myself and my kids all the time and I was, I was an incredibly curious kid, but

I'm also a very curious adult.

So I hope that never stops.

Nearly all parents pulled 97% would describe their child as curious and 71% of those would

go on to say that their child is very curious.

When they were growing up, parents pulled most often heard the phrase because I said so

61% of the time.

Only about half 49% admit that they had a positive reaction when they got that response.

And today, the approach has changed only 22% often say because I said so or that sort

of come back.

Sometimes it does actually get to that is the answer and that's the only time I say it.

Like when it comes down to, she's questioning why it's a bedtime and I'm saying because

I'm mom and it's bedtime.

That was for me always the break glass in case I needed.

Right.

That's exactly what it is.

That is your last line of defense.

If they're not going to see reason, they need to at least see authority.

My son would just lay in bed and not go to sleep and he wouldn't really bother anybody.

He wouldn't really make noises or anything like that.

Izzy was much more of like, I'm going to make sure that everybody in the neighborhood

knows it's I don't want this.

It's not time for me.

She would literally like bang like pots.

And I can see I can remember some scenarios where that was kind of like a so because I said

so it's bedtime because I said so.

Right.

It is a little bit of a frustrating and almost hypocritical feeling coming from a nocturnal

parent where I'm telling you, yeah, I did feel a little hypocritical about what I did.

Very dare you.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That's kind of interesting to me to see that gigantic drop of that as a phrase as they

come back.

Well, it shows how that made us feel when we were kids.

We remembered that feeling.

No, I hope this isn't understand it.

They're from me and I'm so I'm not pointing the finger at our parents now saying this is

but this is evolution, right?

This is how society evolves and changes.

We grow from the experiences we've had and the things that we've learned at our lifetimes

and we pass it on to our kids and they're in turn going to learn from their experiences

and there are things that we're doing right now that are going to be issues with those

kids when they're adults and we're just going to have to be okay with that, learn from

it and own it.

That's how humanity is going to survive.

We have to be willing to grow and change.

I think outside of, of course, extreme circumstances of parenting, I really, really distaste

any parenting judgment.

You could be the world's greatest parent.

You don't have a right to judge another parent.

You just don't.

Like again, there's extreme circumstances, of course, putting those aside.

I hate the idea of a parent judging another parent.

I know I really, really don't like that.

More often than not, we should at minimum be able to commiserate.

Yes.

They'll be able to lean on each other's shoulder, compare, none of us got a playbook for

this.

Nope.

Nobody did.

No.

It's worth noting not a single one of us necessarily came from perfect parents.

Outside of me and my mother, outside of that, of course.

Of course.

Outside of that.

No.

Of course.

She'd be the first one to tell you.

She would fall on the sword easily that she was nowhere near a perfect parent.

That's what it is, right?

We're all broken people and that's okay.

It's about whether or not we're growing into something from those broken pieces.

One of my favorite quotes, Hemingway, of course, we're broken.

That's how the light gets in.

Yeah.

And understanding that, having a little bit of grace to each other towards that, I think

only helps.

And when it comes to the whole, because I said so, that's what I kind of like that about

us.

That's something that we've kind of grown from.

Yeah.

I kind of like that it has become a, in case of emergency brake glass phrase.

It's no longer the go-to.

It's going to cool when you think about it in the way.

Yeah.

Ohio State University celebrated the 60th birthday of its mascot, Brutus Bucky.

By breaking the Guinness World Record for the most conical party hats worn at a single

event.

Oh, that's great.

Am I saying that right?

So they're wearing a conical, so it's shaped like a cone.

Right.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

I just had never heard that before.

Yeah.

The school gathered 1923 people to Don party hats Wednesday at the Recreation and Physical

Activity Center on campus.

Spectacular.

The gathering took the Guinness World Record from Britain's Sutton Codefield Grammar School

for Girls, which gathered 1161 people in party hats.

Oh.

And I don't know if anybody can see where I'm going with this one, but I do feel like this

is a record we could break.

Oh.

That's right.

Cone-shaped hats, everyone.

It doesn't say a specific type of hat just hats.

So we could do any hats.

We could do bowler hats.

We could do, you know, derby hats.

We could do any kind of hat.

Like, I think this is one we could break.

If you can't make one from scratch, store bought is fine.

I'm a cowboy hat.

We could tie a 1055WRI into it and everything.

We could do a record for most people in cowboy hats.

Or don't.

Just where would you want?

We're a hat.

We'll figure it out.

Just most people in hats.

Ooh.

Ooh.

And bring a donation for the food pantry.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

I think there's something here.

I think there's something to that, actually.

Yeah.

I think that could be fun.

I also, I don't know where the, I blame Beth actually for this.

Oh, no.

I've never had an actual Buckeye.

Have you had a Buckeye before?

Like a nut or then he put in chocolate or something like that?

Yeah, sure.

I don't think I've had one before.

I kind of want to try one.

What kind of nut?

I mean, a lot of them.

It's a Buckeye.

Oh, it's a Buckeye.

It's peanut butter.

Yes.

It's a peanut butter Buckeye.

Yeah, yeah.

That's it.

I have had those.

They're good.

Because when I was living in Maryland, there was a family from Ohio on base that we were

friends with.

And so they would bring Buckeyes to all of the gatherings.

I got to try one.

I want to try one.

I'm pretty sure it's just like powdered sugar and peanut butter and a liquid for consistency

and then dip it in chocolate.

You had me at powdered sugar.

I know.

You could put powdered sugar on a hat and I would enjoy it.

Do not recommend that it's not nutritionally sound.

We will take a quick break, come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

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That's, um, I actually tried out for this pan of my cement.

I tried out.

I was the guy going to be the guy in the background.

Yeah.

I was mad.

They, they laughed at me.

Didn't go well.

I tried though.

I put myself out there, Laura.

I tried.

I, I like the band, the look.

I wish I could see the little, just the disappointed, I think they can feel it.

Just the disappointed look at Laura's face.

Sorry.

Sorry.

I was just giving him a dead pan stare.

Great.

I was just going to let him keep going.

There is a healthy weight, a healthy tip to get you through some of the colder months

that are coming up here and everything.

Something that I really appreciate out of Steven and Katrina over family natural foods.

Sure.

They usually take time, you know, throughout the winter months to talk about your, your

health, your mental health.

Yes.

Getting enough vitamin D in some of these things, especially with the decreased sunlight.

Yeah.

It's above and beyond kind of thing that they do that I really appreciate.

And especially for people like me that had never really thought much about that until

talking to, you know, cat about it and some of those things and realizing, oh, how important

this is.

And there's a lot of really great resources nowadays when it comes to those winter months

and getting the vitamin D you need.

And we talk a lot about mental health nowadays.

One of the things that I think that is fun about this topic is some of the funner ways

of doing this.

Yeah.

I think I found one here.

All right.

A study at San Diego State found shut out to the Aztecs found that we move into, we move

into winter as we move into winter.

Warm drinks might be better for your mental and physical health than you realize.

Oh, I just thought they were fun.

People who drank a lot of hot beverages in winter tended to have fewer issues with depression

and insomnia.

Hot foods like soup had the same effect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it makes sense.

Stuff was also linked to fewer digestive issues.

Maybe because your body has to work harder to get digestive, digest colder stuff.

Okay.

Yeah.

I did not know this.

Right.

Well, and when your body is cold because it is winter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I guess that makes sense because, you know, we're cold.

We crave warm things.

It makes sense.

It takes more energy to warm up your stomach and it takes more energy to warm up your stomach.

So therefore, the warmer food you don't have to do as much of that.

And it does impart and it imparts its warmth.

Quote, something as simple as the temperature of what we eat and drink can have real

impacts on our health.

That's awesome.

Food and wine has this complete article if you'd like to do a little more homework on it.

Nice.

And then I enjoyed it.

I don't know that this is, you know, somebody is just...

No, it's logical.

Yeah.

But science is backing up the common sense.

And that's a really cool thing to see.

As much as I love these new discoveries from time to time or like, oh my God, we never

saw this coming or anything.

I almost just as much love these affirming stories that when science is kind of like,

oh, it's not just because to me, if you told me this, without the science, I'm immediately

going to stowage it.

I mean, like, oh, you know, there's a reason hot cocoa tastes really good and makes me

feel better mentally because I'm reminded of it.

Well, and it's fair to think that, but also, you know, consider that you're cold and

that beverage is hot and now you feel warmer.

It's not that complex.

It's not as...

Right.

Like most things in life, I overthink this.

That's shocking.

Yeah, right.

I for one, I'm stunned.

But it's kind of cool to think of that it's not just a mental thing, but it literally

physically, the science behind it is actually good.

What is your go-to winter drink, everybody?

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This time of year right now, we're talking hot cider.

Sure.

Some hot cider right now, really good.

Put a nice cinnamon stick in there and give her a good stir.

That's the business.

Yeah, yeah.

You ever suck on that cinnamon stick or chew on it?

You bet I have.

They're really good.

Yeah.

There's good for steering as they are for chewing.

You give it another month or two and it's the hot cocoa.

It's the...

Sure.

Anything chocolate that's hot.

I like tea year round.

I'm such a tea person.

I have quite a selection of teas in my home for this reason.

What is your go-to, everybody?

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