Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day and thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97.5 FM 13.20 a.m. WFHR locally grown radio. Got your host, James
J. I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Adams County's Terry Johns.
Good morning. We have the band back together. Good to see you, Terry. Thanks for being here.
We got good stuff lined up for you today, everybody. We're going to get into a couple of
fun topics. Is ice cream addictive? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, I don't know if it doesn't matter.
Yeah, right. Good point. Yes, yes. We're getting into that. How much the 12 days of Christmas
would cost in today's day and age? Oh, I feel like we do that every year. Yeah. Yeah, we
got it. We'll give them that one. How much inflation was there? Yeah. We'll touch on that one.
And after this hour, we'll kick off the 9 o'clock hour with, of course, our pet of the week.
Our friends from the Southwood County main society, Madison Rafters, going to join us.
Looking forward to that. That's going to be fun. I don't know where my friend Michael is.
Well, we're getting a call right now. Paul is Paul calling us. We, of course, get joined by
our friends from the Weather Eye Weather Center every morning. Good morning, over there, Paul.
Yeah, good morning, you guys. Hey, Paul. How's it going?
Pretty good. Everything's on that head. We're doing good. Sun shining. Yeah, Terry and I are
just sitting back checking out that beautiful sky out there today. What does Mother Nature
got in store for us? Yeah, definitely enjoying another sunny day out there. Still looking
at the more mild weather. So yeah, yesterday wasn't the end of our, our mild weather pattern.
Here's still pushing up about 40 today. As we stay sunny to partly cloudy throughout winds
out of the west, northwest 5 to 15 down to about 19 tonight with a partly cloudy sky.
A break has done some clouds on and off here for Friday in the Saturday, mid 30s Friday, 24 Friday
night, upper 30s Saturday and then Sunday into Monday. Some more mid to upper 30s. Maybe a few
scattered snow showers Sunday and Monday with a little mixed-price of possibility, but otherwise
still hanging in with some highs in the mid 30s Tuesday and upper 30s, maybe another 40
back here by Wednesday and Thursday as December comes in. Pretty, pretty quietly on a mild trend.
Sounds, overall, here. Sounds kind of perfect. Yeah, yeah. I knew as soon as he was saying it,
you were really good. I mean, I would like a dump of snow, but I can be patient. But that
little cold snap we had last week. Holy smokes earlier this week. That was earlier this week, wasn't
it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, time is a flat circle. It doesn't matter. That was kind of crazy.
Hey, Paul, you don't listen. James and I really aren't doing much at all today because it's
actually stay home and be well day, but we didn't get the memo. So I hope you, I hope you can kick
it back a little bit. Yeah, we much would be able to relax a little, Paul.
Hey, thank you for reminding me of that. Yes. Yes. Yeah. You enjoy the rest of your day. You
relax when you can and we'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow, sir. All right,
sounds good. Have a great day. Take care, Paul. That's in a business right there. Our friend Paul
traveled from the weather. He's always scared when it's you and I. When he hears it's you and I,
he's like, oh, yeah, I think at this, I think we've either either he is first off, he's very good
at what he does and he can roll with anything we throw at him. And I also think we've worn him
down a little bit. Crazy. What are these days? We're just going to head to it completely normal
and see how we go with it. That'll scare him even more. That probably would. That probably would
probably be got emailing me off the side like, are you okay? Nine o'clock hour around here,
going to kick off with, of course, the pet of the week from the South of County Main Society.
And we look forward to that. We'll also have a little entertainment news for you in there. And
then afterwards, we're going to get into the top boring tasks we actually enjoy doing. That's
going to be interesting. I think that's a good, interesting list. Well, I guess. Yeah, there's
boring stuff that I do that I have to do. There's a bunch there that I want to get to, but I want
to kick things off with the United Way Terry. I know that tomorrow is a fun start to a really
fun thing that you guys, event that you guys pull off. Yes. So tomorrow kicks off our Reats
Silent Auction. So this is a fundraiser to benefit our annual campaign. We have Reats available
again all online. So you just do it from the comfort of your of your couch or wherever or
during a meeting when you don't really want to pay attention to what's going on. I don't know.
But we will kick this up tomorrow morning 7 a.m. The best way to access the auction is by
visiting our social media or you can visit our website at UWAC.org. Click on the Reats Silent Auction.
And from there, it will take you to a nice variety of
holiday and winter Reats that you can bid on. All are sponsored by local individuals and
companies and even groups like our own women united. I'm sponsored two Reats. So these are all
provided two United Way at no cost by the sponsor. And then everything that's raised from
the Reats auction goes to our annual campaign. So it's really cool. It's a fairly short window.
The Reat Auction opens tomorrow morning December 1st at 7 a.m. closes on Tuesday, December 5th at 5 p.m.
I'm sorry, 7 p.m. So it's just a really cool opportunity to help the community in a little
bit different way and maybe score yourself a Reat. Do we know how many Reats we have so far?
Um, they're, you know what, I don't because I was, I know that we have 12, but we might have
14 now. So, um, so a decent number at least a dozen. You got more than you can just glance at
that. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I was, um, I was out of the office at the end of last
week. And that's when the last was getting wrapped up. And so I'm not, um, I'm not, I'm not,
I'm not certain how many they ended up with. But it'll, like you, I will see it tomorrow.
Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. When it goes live. Um, I've mentioned before that there's
a last couple of years. This is one of the Hanukkah gift I get from my mother every year. Uh,
she loves this. She's got both the Reats, uh, ready to go. She's going dying to put them out.
She waits until December 1st to put that stuff up, but she's going to do it tomorrow right away.
Um, and they're, they're wonderful. They're also another thing to people maybe not, uh,
if you haven't done this before. Um, these Reats, uh, you know, they, they have such a nice shelf life.
They, my mother is continuing to use these. Is she really likes them? She enjoys them. And, uh,
they are, they're the perfect combination for her. There's something unique that you can't
just find anywhere else. Uh, and something crafted, something handmade or homemade or locally made.
And, uh, it's part of her favorite charity favorite organization in the United Way. It's a win,
win, win for somebody like her. And I know she's not alone. There's plenty of people out there there.
You could check all those things off your list as well. And there's some really cool variety,
like they're hanging all around our office right now or, you know, are spread out on tables for
safekeeping until, um, till they can go home with people next Wednesday. Um, but we have one that
is actually a 36 inch, so a three foot wreath, um, you know, maybe for a garage or if you have a
really large wall, um, that's gorgeous. I, I know I saw one that has, um, a snowman theme. There's
one that has a candy like, oh, can't, you know, like children's like edible, like a candy theme.
That's, that's really cute. So, so there's a lot of, um, there's a, I know there's at least one that's
lit. Yeah. Um, the, it's, it's just, it's awesome. There's kind of a woodsy theme. Yeah.
Some Victorian kind of theme. There, there's, there literally is something that appeals to every single
person style. So it's cool. I want, uh, I want to send a, uh, a call out to all of our reef makers
out there, uh, for next year. I, if one of you couldn't make a Hanukkah reef, that'd be awesome.
For two reasons, one, I'd be able to bid on it for my mother and hopefully win it for my mom and
everything and how cool would she, she'd love that to be so unique and everything. And two,
I can't imagine a lot of people would be bidding on that. They can't be that many Jews around
here. So I, I love the idea of me being able to bid on something and I'm just competing against
myself. I'll get you some. All right. All right. Well, let me ask you this. Would it be too late?
Because we always do it like December 1st. Or would it be okay? Because then you could just
have it for the next year. She'd be fine with it. And would it be, would the colors be like
blue and gold or blue and silver? Uh, blue and silver. Blue and silver. Okay. Uh, and, uh, I,
I'm kidding, of course, but I, I think this up. It's a great idea. It's not a bad idea that I'm
saying it out loud. I mean, I don't know that we can put the menor on the candles on it. That
might be a little, but there could be battery operated. I mean, there could be, but there could be
battery ones. I'm not sure we should put like real candles on there. But this is why I don't craft
because I would try to do something like that. But that's a good idea. We do have some people
that are really creative and good at that stuff that can bring, we take the ball and run with it
on something like that. Uh, get in on this recycling auction. It's seven right away tomorrow morning
and, uh, get to bidding. I am not, I've mentioned before, I'm not a gambler. I don't really get a
joy of that. I spend a bucket. I get wind five. Like that doesn't do much for me. But I will admit,
there is something about this and winning these, these, you know, the, you know, the bidding on
something like this that you just can't help jumping out of your chair. Like, yes, it feels good.
And it's fun. Like keeping it watching it. Yeah. You know, so you can put in, you do have the
ability on there to put in a proxy bid, which would be like to say the most I would spend on this
is $75. You know, I'm gonna put in a bid right now for 30. Yeah. Um, and then it'll do like five,
five dollar increments as other people bid. So you can just set it up to do that automatically.
But there's something fun about just like checking on your, you know, checking on my bid. I gotta,
I gotta check my bid. I gotta check my bid. So, um, and that's part of also why we run it over a weekend.
Um, just because and then also closing, leaving it open until 7 p.m. because then you have one last
chance on Tuesday to check it after work. It's a, it's a, it's a fun thing and it's also something
that while we're having fun with it, every time we're checking it, those things, we know that we're
putting back into our community. That we're adding to the United Way that we are, uh, bringing
attention to the United Way and the great things that you guys do over there. So one other thing
that we've heard, we've been doing this about four years. This might be the fifth, I don't know,
fourth or fifth year that we've done this. And but one of the things that we've heard from people is,
you know, I don't, I don't really need another wreath, right? Because I mean, either you cycle out
old ones or or maybe what you have is sentimental. So you're just, you know, you only have so many doors
or so many places to hang. But we have also though heard of, of some people bidding and purchasing.
So basically making the donation to United Way, but then donating the wreath somewhere. You know,
a assisted living or a nursing home or, you know, so there's, I mean, there's a lot of ways
that you could support this, even if you are like, oh, I do not need another wreath because maybe
the one you got last year, you're bidding on one that you like more and you donate the one you'd
last year. Yep. Exactly. So great opportunity. Or like, like yours truly, gift it, right? Yes.
Yes. Yes. When it's and give it. Yeah. That's my favorite part. That's I will do in that. So super
cool, really easy, very user friendly. So don't be scared about the fact that it's online.
And again, opens up at seven a.m. tomorrow. If you're curious about the wreaths,
we've been doing some sneak peeks on our Facebook. We haven't showed, I don't think we've shown you
like an actual whole wreath, but we've been showing you little snippets, you know, maybe a little
bit of a detail. And so just a few teasers. So those have been going on. So you can check those out
on our Facebook, UW-SWAC, or like I said, tomorrow morning, beyond, check it out right away.
Seven a.m. right there at UW-S-W-S-WAC.org. Be sure to bookmark that page if you haven't already
done so. Well, we'll wrap up today touching on that again and reminding everybody about the
re-signal auction coming up. Coming up. Coming up, we've got Miss Dismany birthday and anniversary
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We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to Miss D's. They're open right now till two.
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Wish them a great day from all of us. And keep in mind that your Wednesdays at Miss D's
going to have to wait on that for a little bit. But it just makes you appreciate it more
than we go on Thursday. Yeah. And we hope Brian is healing up over there real well and looking
forward to them being back open seven days a week soon as they can. If you're celebrating
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that to happen. Oh my gosh. We encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries everybody.
Let's go ahead and take a look at our list. And we've got two names on the list. We have one to add.
Yes, we do. We do. So we're adding Josh Hofferman, who is my sister's husband,
so my brother-in-law. Josh, happy birthday. Happy birthday, Josh. Hope you're working hard.
I hope you stayed home today. I know he didn't, so I'm just teasing him. No, no, but Josh,
we appreciate you and have a great day, sir. So Terry, I do need a one or a two from you.
We'll take a one. Well, right. There we go. That gives us our qualifier, so we can get right into
the celebrating. And we wish a very happy birthday to Amy Williams. Happy birthday, Amy.
Enjoy your day, Amy. We hope it's a good one for you. And we wish a very happy birthday to our
qualifier, Jerry Hossel. Happy birthday, Jerry. Enjoy, Jerry. Hope it's a great one for you,
and you got in right at the last day that you could to be a qualifier for next month's free
misty's menu. I like to be the person that does the drawing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's my own fault.
I write my own schedule. Yeah, you kind of do, but I can't. But why am I not here tomorrow? You know
what? You can just call up on the show and just give me a number and then you can go. It's a
call up, baby. I'm sure whoever. Who are you with tomorrow? I'm sure he'll love that. Really?
I actually have a big set of mind either way. I don't think you'd mind either way. We encourage you
to get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you and we can announce our
winner for the month of November tomorrow. And that winner is going to win two meals, two pieces of
pie from our great friends over at Misty's menu. And big thank you to them for that. What do you
just want pieces of pie? Yeah, I wonder if you might be able to work some out with them. I might
be able to. We borrowed our ideal. I like that. Let's get a pie. If anybody would do it,
it'd be the people at Misty's. They would. Yeah. I'd like pie for an appetizer and pie for
the main course. Yes, pie pie. Well, different pie for dessert. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I'm not an animal. I don't want a whole pie. I want several pieces of pie. I'm not an animal.
I'll use a fork. What are you talking about? Look at our celebrity birthdays.
Kelly Cucco is 38 today. Many, I think most people know her as Penny on the Big Bang Theory.
I don't remember the name of the show. I didn't really watch it, but there was a show,
John Ritter show that she was on for a while. That was kind of where she got her break.
But she's been around for a while doing this. And very, I think she's been very smart with her
career. She's taken this kind of like the Big Bang Theory fame and spun it off into obviously
other roles. But she's also had a couple projects that she always wanted to do. She's a huge fan
of the character Harley Quinn in the DC universe. And so she got some power and some rights to be
able to do that show. And she's had in the show on HBO Max for a couple of years where she voices
the voice of Harley Quinn, which is a big dream of hers. She's been able to like do a good job to
me from what I can tell. And her agency is actually the same representation as mine.
She's been able to kind of like take some chances, do some fun projects. And at the same time,
kind of do some things that she's always wanted to do and and still become and still be relevant
like through all of this, you know, which is such a big deal to a young actor. And it probably
makes it just that much more meaningful for her, right? You know what I mean? If there's things
that she really wanted to do, she's she learned a lot from the John Ritter experience,
from not only working with him, but losing him as a friend, as a colleague and all these things.
That cast of that origin that showed that last show that he was on. It's interesting to see
so many of them having great careers. And no matter how many years we get away from it,
they go back and yeah, John told me this or they pull everything back. Yeah, it really is.
It shows the influence and impact. You get quite an impact. You really did. One of those actors
that kind of got lost in the shuffle in a lot of ways, John Ritter. But his impact is lasting
as long as his career, you know, as long as his legacy is great. That's cool.
Chrissy Teigen is 38 today as well. Lipsync Battle host, I believe. She's married the John
Legend. I know she's big on social media. I like John Legend a lot. I'm going to say she's married
in Millie Vanille. I don't know much about her. Yeah. Eliza Culbert is 41. She was Abby on the
ranch and she's been in a couple of other things too. Good actor. Clay Aiken is 45. Oh,
having thought of that name in a while. Wow. I know he was after the American Idol stuff. He
was off and singing and everything. But I don't remember. Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't
happy with him. Yeah. Yeah. Same talent. I mean, talented. I didn't mind his music, but I wasn't
like a fan girl either. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, let's track him for sure. The great Ben Stiller is
58 today. Big fan of Ben Stiller. I like Ben Stiller a lot. What did I meet the fuckers?
Yes. Yes. I mean, the parents like those are hilarious. So good. I like comedies. Oh, yeah,
you do. Yeah, you do. Yeah. You tell them in that text chain. You do like comedies. Terry's
in a battle in the text. He comes from one of the greatest families in comedic history in the
in the Stiller family. And Jerry Stiller, of course. Is that funny? Like it's just in their jeans?
Yeah. And it's interesting too because he'll be the first one to tell you. He's not nearly as
funny as his parents were. And I love him for that. His self-deprecation is very well,
it's very on point for us, juice. But it's also it's it's very like humbling, I think. I think
it's got to be coming from a family like that. It has to be his father. Jerry Stiller to his
last days was entertaining us in TV shows and Seinfeld and King of Queens and these things. And
it had a wonderful mother. It was just as funny and talented. Maybe the funniest and talented
of all three of them. It's a great great family. Interesting thing. That's cool.
Billy Idol is 68. White wedding, hot in the city. Rebellion. He kind of has though. Yeah,
he kind of has. Yeah. My whole life, I should say. Top five greatest athletes I've seen in my
whole lifetime. And I make the argument that anybody in our age range Terry could say the
same thing. Bo Jackson is 61. I should say Vincent Bo Jackson is 61 today. The last of the great
double sport athletes, you're going to see some artists do some some athletes do some similar
things here and there. But you're never going to you're never going to see anything like this again
in part because of money. There is so much money put into these players nowadays. And if I am a
NFL head coach or GM or owner and I'm paying quadruple millions of dollars to this athlete,
I'm not going to go let him play for another team and get possibly injured and ruin his chances
on my team in another sport or anything. I get why they don't allow this. But I am so thankful
to have been alive in the time and gotten to see Bo Jackson play. Yeah. And another side note of
that wasn't that like one of the greatest ad campaigns of all time really was. I mean, that was
genius. Top five, too. Yes, bonos. Yeah. Easily top five. It was it was cool. Yeah. Yeah. Great
hour. Great athlete and has done a great job. I would I wouldn't I wouldn't begrudge him if he
was angry. If he had some, you know, distaste for his career ending so shortly and in these things
and stuff. That man, every time I see him, he's smiling. Every time I see him, he's in a good
mood. He seems to be smiling. He's always helping out younger athletes and trying to, you know,
make it bring attention to athletes and their health and a lot of these things. I admire the way
he has handled his off the field and his life. Well, and he might have been, I have no idea,
but he never came across to me like like a diva. You know what I mean? Like he just he was like that.
He was humble. Yeah. I mean, maybe he wasn't, but he just he had this outward appearance of
just being a good guy and an amazing athlete. I think he has what a lot of the a lot of people
that I notice and that I look up to have a quiet confidence where you have confidence in this
particular area. I know I'm a bad man when it comes on that football field. You put me out there
and that kind of thing off the field. I'm me. I'm, you know, I'm just guy. I'm just who I am and
everything. I get that a lot and I felt that from him and I think that from a lot of artists like
a lot of athletes. Okay. My name is Indega Montoya. You get him. My father prepared a die.
Maddie Pateekin is 71 today. Saul on Homeland. Homeland. He was of course a bunch of criminal
minds for a long time. Wonderful. Amazing theater actor. One of the greater voices. I've ever heard
his Mandy Pateekin. And of course, he was Indega Montoya in the princess. When you first started
talking though, I'm like, wait, slow down or speak up. Like, wait a minute. One of the other.
One of the other. Yeah. You sound like my father. Yeah. Because I would run around the house. I
would run around the house yelling this at him all the time. Like dead. You got to be the five
fingered man. Like, what are you talking about? Just pretend. Just pretend. I'd run out of the room
and I come run it back in my name is Indega Montoya. You kill my father. But I am your father.
You can't do that line to me. It's like come closer. I'll help you with that. Oh, yeah. He had some,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a me. It's a word. All right. Lefty and righty. Those were his words.
Huge, huge, huge, huge Phantom Mandy Pateekin. I think top one of the greatest actors will ever
see easily, easily. I think Ridley Scott is 86 today director of Alien Gladiator Blade Runner,
Thelma Louise Hannibal, Black Hawk Dawn, Prometheus, the Alien movies. A lot of really good ones.
Yeah. Yeah. He probably doesn't want you to know about his most recent release though.
Napoleon. That is not doing well. Not doing well. Not going to be in there. The top five movies
would eventually worry Scott. I'm kind of I was kind of curious about seeing that. I was I was at
first until I saw the trailer. And then I saw that you have a the most arguably the most famous
French person of all time being played by an American with an American accent. Like it. And
apparently there are it is just riddled with historical inaccuracies. Yeah. Which you just can't
do nowadays. Like you can you can get away with that to a degree. If you go into it saying we took
some artistic liberties here. Like people got to know that, but you can't sell it as a doc and then
have falsehoods. Well, in this day and age, we're just like, yeah, it's just like we were talking
about before about fact checking. You know, 30 years ago, yeah, you maybe could because by the time
someone left the movie and went and looked it up in an encyclopedia, yeah, they've forgotten about
it. But if I can be sitting in the movie fact checking it. Yeah. Well, and one of the things that
is really important, I think to think about when it comes to releasing a movie, it matters to us
here in America. And we think it's a big deal. And certainly the American box office is one of the
top two top three biggest box offices in the world. So it matters. But you need your movie to sell
around the globe. How is this selling in France? How are they enjoying this in France? When they're
seeing Joaquin Phoenix up there with an American accent playing their most famous person. Like I
wouldn't think that go over very well. It cost almost 400 million to make this. They need to make
200 million to break even on this. They've made 33 million, 33 million worldwide. I can't imagine
that's going very well. But happy birthday Ridley Scott. And we digress. Yeah. Dick Clark,
people as we celebrate people no longer with us, we start with the great Dick Clark born in 1929,
passed away in 2012. But American band stands. What do you remember him most from New Year's Eve?
Really? I remember him most from the 10,000 more pyramid. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I remember I'm doing
that too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was great at that. He was, this is the thing. He could do it all.
Like there wasn't anything he couldn't do. Dick Clark was the ultimate, one of the ultimate MCs.
My favorite MC of all time was Bob Hope. I thought Bob Hope was the best I've ever seen. Dick Clark
is right up there and they're right up there with him where there wasn't anything he couldn't do
as far as MC and hosting. Also very, I don't think I don't remember a lot of interviews with him.
But the couple that I do, one of the things I liked about him that I didn't expect, he's very
, he was very self deprecating. Like you make a lot of people would joke for a long time. Dick Clark
still with a full head of black hair, you know, at 80 years old or whatever. He did a Simpsons
episode where he made fun of that. Oh, really? That's a great thing. I always liked that about him.
Let's see. Some people no longer with us continuing the list. June, June Porter,
a pointer from the pointer sisters born in 1953, jump, automatic, neutron dance, so many songs they
had. Many McCreedy, who we mentioned earlier, born on this day in 1975, passed away in 2013.
Alan Sherman, 1924, passed away in 1973. Many of you might not know that voice out that name
out there, but hello, mother, hello, father. Greetings from camp. My, my, my, my dad would do that
voice all the time. My, my papa did a, I did a great Alan Trem, Alan Tremon impression. Great
one. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II, born on this day in 1874,
never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It's one of our greater quoters too, but I, I, there's, there's good. There's bad with a
character like a Winston Churchill. On, on, on most of these days, I focus on these things that we
can take from his career, his life and, and hope that some of our leaders today can look at the
what he had did, what he did at the time that he did. Even just to have a fraction of what,
yeah, his insight. His country is, is, is dying. It's falling apart and it's going to get taken over
by one of the most evil insane human beings this planet has ever seen. It comes over here to try
to get America to get in on this, to do the, the, the, the, the what he did. It's just incredible.
It's, he spoke to our Congress, came over here, what he did. And, um, the, the rallying that he
did with his own people waiting for, for reinforcements to come. None of us, like outside of those that
are still alive, the fought in World War II, and God bless every one of you, um, can relate to this,
can understand what the, what that was like in that time and that era, most of us have lived
through wars. We've never lived through a World War. Not, the outside of those people that are
still out there, that greatest generation that is still out there. Um, when we have an opportunity
on days like this, a birthday or an anniversary or something to remember these people, you got to
remember the good with the bad. Uh, certainly, I'm not, I'm not saying there ain't accountability,
but I tend to focus on the, the impact, the, and, and the, the positives and everything. I think
we get so caught up in negatives in this day and age with an, and a huge, uh, character in human
history, like a Winston Churchill, you have to take the good from it. I don't, I'm not saying you
don't acknowledge the negative, but you have to take the good from it, especially somebody that
did so much. Our world would be insanely different without a Winston Churchill. For sure.
And we wrap up with one of America's greatest authors, Mark Twain, born in the state in 1835,
Pestoy in 1910, uh, a brilliant author, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, did a lot of journalism, a lot of
reporting and things, uh, Mark Twain, not, not nearly, nearly talked about very much, did it and
sit in the ins a lot, uh, wrote and sit in the ins in general in many ways. That was a long life for
that time for that, you know, Wow. 1835, the 1910, you're right. That's a good note. I didn't notice
that. Um, my grandfather, when I was a kid, made me read Uncle Tom's cabin and, uh, uh, uh, Huck Finn
and Tom Sawyer and a lot of these things. And I, I became a huge fan of Mark Twain as a young,
a young adult and somebody who wanted to learn to be a writer one day. And I, I came across this
quote and, and it, it really started here for me, my love of quotes, where if you tell the truth,
you don't have to remember anything. And it's just, it's something I've lived my life by,
and for many, many ways. And, um, there's a lot of depth to that, I think, but it's also very simple.
Yeah. You know, it's, it's a great quote from a great author. One more time, we should have
happy birthday to Josh Hoffman. Happy birthday, Josh. Happy birthday to Amy Williams.
Happy birthday, Amy. And to our qualifier, Jerry Hossel. Happy birthday, Jerry.
Happy birthday. Be sure to be listening tomorrow. We're going to announce a winner for December's
missedies. It's going to be fun. Somebody's going to win some free missedies tomorrow.
For right now, we're going to get out of the way. Let's some state and local news come at you.
You're on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Terry and James here with you, moving you into these, a little later in the eight o'clock hour
here. Thanks a lot for joining us, everybody. Got good stuff lined up for you. I want to get into
the craziness of the addiction of ice cream now. But before we do that, I do want to send a shout
out to Beth Habhagger. Beth told, uh, let us know eight simple rules. That was the TV show.
John Ritter and, uh, Kaley, uh, Kaley Cooper on and stuff. Yeah, eight simple rules. Yeah,
I remember that he was on the show later, but I did, you know what I mean? Like it. Yeah, I
remember, I never watched it. I think he passed when the show was still running in everything.
So it's part of the reason I remembered it. Um, but yeah, yeah, that's, uh, thank you for that.
Thank you, Beth. Appreciate you, Beth. Thank you. So ice cream, how addictive is it? Well, uh,
there is a crazy headline from the New York Post, uh, ice cream potato chips are just as addictive
as hardcore drugs. Um, yeah. They're referring to a new study at the University of Michigan that
looked at the ultra-processed foods or UPFs and how addictive they are. That includes things like
chips, ice cream, soft drinks, uh, sugary cereal and other junk foods. It found 14% of people are
addicted to them. That's one in seven worldwide. But ice cream really isn't as addictive as, uh,
you know, these other heavy things that we're talking about. Well, you probably won't get the,
you know, um, withdrawals from not having too much, uh, from not having ice cream or anything
like that might be as addictive, but not in the same, you know what I mean? Like in the same way.
Like it's not as harmful. It might, but it can be just as hard to quit ultra-processed foods.
That's what they're saying. Uh, junk food gives you a nice shot of dopamine, uh, that,
that feel good hormone that we get from all kinds of things from whether it's holding a door open
for somebody or you see a like on a post you made or all of these things, you know. That's like a new
diet. Yeah, it really, yeah. Pass on the chips. Hold the door. Hold the door. Hold the door.
Hold the door. Then you eventually crash and crave more of that. So it's similar to what happens
with drugs. Uh, but the real issue is that ice cream is a lot easier to get than, of course, illegal
drugs. And one expert compared it to trying to quit smoking back whenever one smoked, quote,
trying to quit UPFs now is like trying to quit smoking in the 60s. It's not that weird. Yeah. Um,
and it's, it's a, we, uh, we do this as people and I say we, because I am included in this,
I do this too. I'm not like pointy fingers or anything. Um, we, it's easier for our brains
to, you know, categorize addiction. Okay. Drugs. We think of that right away. And that's where
our brain starts and ends. And we don't really, you know, in, as far as adding anything to that
category, um, that stuff doesn't fit. That's food. That's enjoyment. That's something else.
That's, uh, you know, it's not the same thing. Sugar is just as addictive as hardcore drugs.
We've known this since the 80s. Uh, but we continue to kind of just kind of, you know,
use it as much as possible and put it in a million different things. Um, that's okay. Uh,
because our laws say so. That's it. That's the, that's the, that's the reason. Like, I mean,
we don't give you a ton of other reasons. Can you overdose on sugar? Probably not. No. There's
not a real likelihood of it. Can you be addicted to it to the point of other, other things?
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We've known this. Uh, we didn't need you to tell us this Michigan.
I don't think it's really fair to put ice cream in there. Um, it's, it's not, it's not,
it's not, that's my point. It's not fair to put any of these things in the same category as hardcore
drugs. Can we, you have to be able to, you know, work your brain a little bit. You've got to
ask it to separate these things. I agree. Um, it's no different than a lot of other stuff we're
trying to do in society right now in life where we got to separate stuff. So I have this thing,
like, I love that peppermint stick ice cream that, you know, that only comes out at holiday time.
It's usually their pink or green and then there's chunks of candy cane in it. And I love that stuff.
And I've just, it's been on my radar to get some and I haven't yet, but now you're pushing me over
the edge. No, you're gonna try it. Uh, and just to speak to that, um, how many people out there,
uh, immediately wanted ice cream as soon as I started talking about it. But, you know, it's ice cream.
I know. It's ice cream. I know this. It's, um, you can have this in categories in your head if
that's better. Or I mean, uh, layers, you know, worse to easiest or what have your worst okay or
whatever and stuff. And it's not at the worst. It's just up there. And I think it's important to
keep in mind when it comes to these, um, these fake sugars. The, the, the, how, uh, it's,
it's a fake sugar. It is a chemically designed sugar. And then that chemical is something that is
going to make you addictive, uh, make you addicted to that chemical. That's a drug dealer.
Like, that's what these companies are doing. You're like, that's, it's, it's, it's not the same thing
obviously, but it's important for us as consumers to understand this stuff. You do what you want to
do with your body and your dollar, but being informed, I think, is the least we can do. And the
least that we, these companies should at least be held accountable to do. So staying on ice cream,
though. Yeah. Have you ever made homemade ice cream? No, I've always wanted to. I bet. I've
always wanted to try it at the very least. I mean, and especially if you don't have an electric,
I mean, cause they make electric ones now, like a countertop, but like it, when you have to like
crank it, you know what I actually like. Yeah. It's, it's, it's a cool experience. It's fun.
I had a, a, a, not so cool experience yesterday. And I'll be completely out of
this as embarrassed as I am by it. Um, I, I just, uh, I was in a rush and I was looking for something
neat, wasn't a ton around. So I'm like, oh, it makes a mix. I make, I haven't had eggs in a while.
So I'll have some scrambled eggs on toast. Now just eat that quick and get to class. I, um,
I'm making the eggs. I'm, I'm doing this. And I, I think I put too much milk in there.
Because I, I, it was, it was like soup eggs. It was horrible. And it wouldn't firm up.
Oh, I, I took like one bite. I can't do it. I can't do it. I, I am the last person of the
world, the waste food. I hate wasting food. Or to be like hyper sensitive. Yeah. Yeah. I,
I, I took like one bite. I made one bite. Uh, like when you make French toast batter, you
know, and you, and you get it too milky. And then you just have like soggy bread. Yes. Yes. I,
I felt so rid of like, how do you mess up eggs? How do you mess that up? It's one of the easiest
things to make. You're probably distracted when you were more of the most. I was, I was, I,
but I, I feel like, um, there's, I feel like the only time I'm not distracted is when this
microphone is on. I genuinely have like last couple of weeks. Yeah. As soon as I'm off air,
it's completely different. But when I'm on the air, I'm pretty focused and I can do my job.
But man, I, I, I hear you because you, how do you mess up eggs and toast? It's not that deep
of a process. Uh, we will just had ice cream. Yeah. There we go. That's it. I'll just do that
next time. We will take a break. We'll come back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Yeah.
Terry and James here with you. We hope you're having a great start to your Thursday.
Happy Friday. Eve, everybody.
Nine o'clock hour is going to kick off with our great friends with South O'County and
Main Society Madison. After going to join us with our pet of the week. See who our new furry
best friend is going to be. Uh, look forward to that. And plenty more for you in the nine o'clock
hour to look forward to. It's a scaly friend. Uh, it might be. It might be your right. It's good
point. It's hard to believe that it is December tomorrow. If you couldn't find a black friday
deal on a partridge and a pear tree, you better get on that because before everyone at the store
sell out on them. I mean, what would you do? Yeah. If you had guests over for dinner or something
and they came to the door. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, I don't know that they could
strategically have the partridge in the tree, but they have like a tree under one arm and a bird
cage under the other. Hey, where do I put the potridge in the tree? Uh, I like that. I like that.
I like everybody showing up. Everybody. Yeah. I didn't surprise that. PNC Bank does an annual study
on how it would cost, uh, how much it would cost to buy everything from the song 12 days of Christmas.
And I, I seem to remember you and I always get this one. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, we should. Yeah,
we should. We should. The answer this year, uh, do you, do you want to take a guess? Maybe we
should leave it up to the audience. Let them guess a little bit. Yeah. I don't know what I was just
thinking as though of the days of the 12 days, like which one, if you can only pick one, which one
would you pick? I might pick the five gold rings. Oh, I like that. I like that. That's a good one.
You know, um, I'm, I'm torn between the nine ladies dancing and the seven swans are singing.
I love the idea. Like imagine this to the audience. I, I'm there with these, uh, these seven
swans and I'm trying to get them to sing trying to teach these birds to sing because I'm taking
this so literal, you know, and I'm not getting swans. What are you, when you're saying it? I'm
seeing like a great big white goose like swacking at you like, oh, no, you're so right about this.
The city boy that I am, I go out looking for swans and I'm like, Jake, James, that's a goose.
What are you doing? Like, no, are you sure? Well, there's geese in here somewhere. Come on,
there's got to be a couple swans in there, right? I think it would take it. Uh, okay. So is it,
let's talk about the money. Yeah. Now, are we talking about like, just buying each, like,
one, these two, these, or are we talking about the song where it's cumulative? It's cumulative.
It's so it's like all of it. So like, you're getting the five gold rings seven times. Yeah.
Because as you sing up the song, right? Like, you're right. Right. So, oh my gosh. Is it like
$700 million? I mean, yeah. Now that you, not as you say that, I actually, I wonder if they're
doing it like 12 drummers drumming. So I'll give you the first one here, 12 drummers drumming,
$3,468 to hire them. Oh, okay. So it's each thing. Yeah. That's what it is. And with that,
the answer, $46,730, that is up 2.7%. Holy cow. Or if you bought the items over and over each day,
like the song suggests, that's 364 total gifts that comes in at a $201,000. Could you imagine?
I mean, first of all, why not, I mean, 46 gifts, that'd be kind of funny. Yeah. That would be,
that would be kind of interesting. Yeah. I love the idea of doing it. It's crazy. I love the idea
of somebody actually doing this, like actually pulling this off. I don't know anybody other than like
Warren Buffett, maybe they could, but I think that'd be kind of cool. That is, that's pretty neat.
It's kind of funny that they also track it. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. I think so.
Yeah. Because I mean, would you, the 12 days of Christmas is still, I don't know what the top 10
most popular Christmas songs are. I got to think it's in the top 10, but it's not as common as
jingle bells. It's not as common as some other ones. So I think it's kind of cool that they still do.
But one thing that I think people don't know is the 12 days of Christmas is actually after Christmas.
Right. This is not the 12 days leading up to Christmas. This is the 12 days after.
Which I have no problem admitting to the audience. I spent half my life thinking it was the 12 days
before. But then, but then when you figure it, when you find out, it's like, it makes so much more
sense. Yeah. Yeah. So again, those 12 drummers drumming going to cost you a little under four grand,
$3,468 to hire them. How much for the ranks? We'll get there. 11. You got to be patient.
11 pipers piping, $3,207. 10 lords leaping, $14,539. It's the most expensive guests on list.
Well, because where do you find these lords? Yeah. It's based on how much it would cost to hire
10 dancers from the Philadelphia by L.A. So they're not really lords. Right. Right.
Nine ladies dancing, 8,308 bucks based on hiring nine women with a modern dance company in
Philly, which is where the PNC. Strippers might be a little different. Might be a little
more expensive. Eight maids of milking, 58 bucks. What? Weird gift. But the cheapest on the list,
that's eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25. Shame on them.
Yeah. And shame on them. The federal minimum wage as well. That's just me saying. Seven swans
of swimming, $13,125. Can you not rent swans? They think you have to buy these. I think they
are synchronized swimming. There's a lot of training. You can get us any old swan, but in order to
get ones that are swimming, seven swans of swimming. I don't know. So I like the idea of I mixed it
up with them and everything that the singing and swimming. I still like the idea of me still with
the seven swans trying to get them to unify like it goes with the ghost in there. Yeah. Five gold
rings. One thousand two hundred and forty five bucks. That's for five fourteen carrot gold rings
according to the national jewelry chain. Oh, interesting. So not bad, but not cheap either. Not
next to the next day or start like chain. Four calling birds, six hundred dollars for that.
Three French hens, three hundred and thirty bucks for that. Two turtle dubs, seven hundred and
fifty bucks. It's a whopping twenty five percent. That's up a twenty five percent from last year.
The rise of a turtle dubs, I guess. I don't know what. And a partridge in a pear tree, three
hundred and nineteen bucks. The price of the bird stayed flat, but the tree it lives in grew by
fifteen percent, reflecting overall growth and housing. I still want to see somebody pull this off.
I still want to see somebody do it. I'm sure someone's done it or or maybe not legit these items,
but some variation. You know what I mean? Like something to represent each of those. I'm sure
that someone has done it. I don't think I've ever like I had to look it up. I don't think I've
ever seen or knew what a a turtle dove exactly was. That's a beautiful bird. They are pretty.
They're really pretty. That's a really pretty bird. I can see why they put it in the song.
Yeah. Yeah. I like the idea too of, and I don't know if anybody's ever thought of this,
but if you got a big family, like everybody taking a day and doing one of these things,
now I don't mean to the extent of like actually hiring eight maids to milk go cows,
but you could finding eight cows and all that. But you could have like milkshakes for everyone.
Right. Like some variation of it be kind of fun. Yeah. I think that would be the like much like
how every family has different rules for monopoly. Every family kind of taking the 12 days and
doing their own thing with it. That'd be kind of funny. Like for Christmas Eve, we always do
some kind of like we used to draw names back in the day, but as everybody just ages off, it doesn't
need stuff. So we do some kind of a game or some kind of you know, little gifty thing,
but wouldn't it be funny to assign each person and just be like, okay, you need to bring,
you know, six or six ones this woman. Oh, and then it's up to the person to figure out
and interpret that. Yeah. How they all I like that people could like vote on what's the best.
That could be the present. That could be the present. Right. We just came up with a great
tradition. I think we just came up with a great new Christmas tradition. I love this. I want to
do this. As I say this, I know my family would not jump in on this woman being ice cream date. Like
when you say the turtle dove, like I'm thinking a blob of white. So like white ice cream to represent
a dove and then you know, and then the chocolate caramel and nuts to make it a turtle. Yes,
yes. I love that. Oh, the French hands is easy. I mean, you just get some, you know, figures,
figurines, some hand figurines or something like that. You can have some fun with this.
You also could drive your family like crazy. You could white elephant the heck out of this.
Yeah. Like you're in charge of the drummers and you show up with like actually 12 actual
drummers. Like they're just played drums. Oh, you just get kids drums. Everybody gets a drum.
Yes. I like this. Yeah. I really want to turn this into so I think this would be fun.
And how do you celebrate the, how would you celebrate the 12 days of Christmas? What would your
interpretations of this be? 715-424-2600? Call up and join the conversation. We'll keep this
going next hour as well. You know, you can turn each of these into some kind of food.
Would that be fun? Yeah. Like like you, you'd get assigned a, you'd get assigned a day. But then
you have to bring some kind of an appetizer that reflects that day. Yes. Yes. Oh, yes. That'd be fun.
Some of these would be so easy to do too with the eight maids milking. That would be hard. Oh,
yeah. Lord's leaping. That was just trying to think of that one while you were saying that. I was
trying to think of the Lord's leaping part with that cover of crickets. I like that. Or I like the
idea of taking like a picture or a CD of Lord, the singer. Yep. And just having that like a,
like on a spring. And it's just kind of leaping. It's just kind of, it's a real reach.
What if it had to be food? Yeah. Oh, it had to be food. Lord's, hmm.
Hmm. Hmm. Sturray. Is there like King Pies? There like a Lord like a food? I'm trying to
think of any food with like royalty attached to it. And of course, can't think of anything. But
there's gotta be. There's just definitely foods with royal in it. What about crowned royal soda?
Like some RC. Can that count? Yeah. Let's say crowned royal is whiskey. Royal crown is soda.
Royal. You're right. You're right. Well, Freddie and slip there. No, you know what it is. My
pop is on my brain 24, seven these days. And my papa, he had one like at night. He wasn't a big
drinker, but a night had to have his crown royal crown royal. Like I can't tell you how many of those
purple bags I had growing up. Like everything, anything extra we put in those purple bags with a lot.
James, James brings his gym shoes and a crown royal bag. I carried all my toys like my G.I.
Joe guys. I put them all in. Well, those are perfect pouches for that. Perfect for it. Yeah.
Perfect. That's funny. And we want to know what you would do. How you, how you would interpret
it 12 days? Feel free to call up next hour with those things or, you know, email us. Let us know.
I don't want to let this idea go. I want to turn this into something. I think it's pretty fun.
That's a cool idea. Coming up in the 9 o'clock hour, we're going to be joined by our friends
from the South O'County main society, Madison Rafter going to kick off the hour with our pet of the
week. Looking forward to that. We'll touch on a little bit of entertainment news. And then I want
to get into with you Terry, the top boring tasks we actually enjoy doing. We'll get into that.
And a lot more coming up on the morning show at WF HR locally grown radio.
