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Hour 1: Here’s a tip – enjoy Christmastime!

Mornings with WFHR · Thu Dec 21, 2023

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off

with us here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I'm joined by Melissa

K. Good morning. We hope you're having a good one. Thanks for joining us to best listeners

in radio. We got a good friend of ours joining us to kick off the show. Our friend, Paul

Trombley, from the Weather Eye Weather Center. How you doing, Paul?

Good morning, Michael Kerah here, filling in for Paul today and tomorrow.

You know, every time, Michael, that I don't look at the caller ID, I do this to you. I apologize,

Michael. I'm going to give Michael a complex speed. Just start, he's going to start answering

the name Paul. He's going to. What does Mother Nature have in store, Michael?

Well, for your first day of winter here for today, not feeling the very wintery out there,

we're going to stay a much milder than average, pretty much for the foreseeable forecast

future. And even possibly approaching some records by the time we get to your Christmas

Eve day, Sunday and into your Christmas day itself for today, first to just holding

on to some cloud cover, but looking to stay dry at least for today, close to 40 for an

afternoon high temperature with our winds fairly light out of the east and southeast,

only up to around 10 miles per hour. Then for tonight, as a week upper level

trough of low pressure starts to work up from the southwest, we do pick up a chance

for some drizzle activity and some areas of fog developing, especially after midnight.

At low temperatures, I think just mild enough above that freezing mark that we shouldn't

have to worry about to too much in the way of icy roadways out there late tonight into

this time tomorrow morning. And by tomorrow afternoon, we'll improve up to a high of 42 degrees,

but looking a bit more dreary there for tomorrow with that drizzle and the areas of fog continuing

throughout much of the day. Saturday, other than some lingering drizzle in the morning,

we should dry things out by your Saturday afternoon timeframe with a mild high of 46, even

some lower fifties for high temperatures for your Christmas Eve day Sunday, but a chance

for some rain returning by Sunday afternoon and continuing right into your Sunday night

as well as a more pronounced, low pressure system starts to work up into the Dakotas during

that stretch of time. Rain's still looking pretty widespread, even into your Christmas

day Monday itself with a high of 48 degrees and still managing some mid-forties with a chance

for rain continuing right into the day on Tuesday.

On the Weather Rology Weather Center, I'm meteorologist Michael Carroll.

Nothing says winter like galoshes. Yep, that's it. It's our first Christmas instead of

a white shirt. Really, yeah. Appreciate you, Michael. Thank you so much for the time. You

have a good day. You too have a good one. The best in a business are friends at the

Weather Eye Weather Center. Always good to talk with them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We appreciate

our friends over there. It is the first day of winter. We'll get to that in a moment.

Technically. Yeah. Yeah. We'll get to that in a moment. We got a lot to get to this

morning. I want to touch on a couple of things. Melissa gave us a great story to kick off

our show about a woman in a possum. Yeah. We get to get to that. I've got a 10-year-old

boy who wants to get canceled a certain emoji. I want to talk about that one. Interesting.

As we are getting closer to Christmas, we are also wrapping up our Christmas stories

and segments and we have got to get into the most popular holiday recipe in every state.

Oh, that'll be good. Got that one for you coming up. Are we getting tipping fatigue?

Want to get into that with you, Melissa? Yes. That one's an interesting one. We'll touch

on that as well. And plenty more. We got good stuff coming up for you in this hour.

We'll have Misty's Menu Birthday and Anniversary Club. Nine o'clock hour. We'll kick off

as it does every Thursday with, of course, our pet of the week from the South of

County Main Society. Yeah. Madison Raffer Executive Director over there are going to be joining

us looking forward to that. Nine o'clock hour. Also going to feature a little bit of entertainment

news and I want to get into a couple of other stories of this five of the oddest museums in the

world. Interesting. Could be a fun one. Could be a fun one. We'll see. You seem so fun. Yeah,

I love museums. We'll get into that. And sometime between now and 10, we are going to give you the final

hint for this mischievous merchant Merlin elf for the hand basket. Our friends at Quality Foods,

IGA on the west side here Wisconsin Rapids have been trying to catch this elf. And we've been

trying to help. We will give you a hint. And you take that hint run on over to Quality Foods, IGA

and take a picture of the elf and then put that picture on our Facebook pages with the hashtag

WR Quality Foods. Yes. We are going to collect the names at the end of the day here. Maybe in

the morning tomorrow, we'll make give it might give it a little bit extra time. And then we will draw

time to get over there. We'll draw a winner on the show tomorrow. Woohoo. It's going to be fun.

We'll get the name over to our friends at Quality Foods, IGA before you guys even hear it.

And we'll we'll make sure that they're all set and ready for that to get you that holiday ham

celebration basket. Bring in the holidays with some ham. I got a note from Ashley about this.

And I think it was from Ashley. I'm not 100% actually. But one of the people at Quality Foods,

at least, was saying that they wanted to make sure that people knew that you don't have to

necessarily take a picture of your kid with the elf. I don't know where that came from. I don't

believe we've ever touched on that. We've just been telling people to take a picture of the elf.

I wonder if it's with elf on the shelf being a thing with for kids. Absolutely. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, just so people know they don't have to do that. If you want to, that's certainly up

to you. But yeah, you can also be in the picture too, moms and dads. Sure. This is elf on the

shelf for the adults. Yeah. Yeah. You help us catch this elf. We're going to help you have a great

Christmas holiday ham celebration basket. Thanks to our great friends of Quality Foods,

IGA. And this wonderful promotion we've been able to do the on the shelves at Quality Foods,

IGA. Be listening for that, everybody. That's coming up between now and 10. For right now, Melissa,

let's talk possum. Possum. Actually, before we dive too far into that, when I dig it a little

ahead of myself, I'm excited about two things. I want to talk about the first day of winter with

you. And I also want to let the audience know, give you guys a little tease, a little preview for

tomorrow's show. I would say, probably to kick off the, maybe to kick off the 9 o'clock hour.

Instead of having really an entertainment section or anything like that, we're going to get into

this question that came to us from one of our friends around here at WFHR and Melissa and I,

and certainly our listeners out there, Laura, brought up a great question of if you could choose

your three ghosts. And what this is referring to is the famous ghost of Christmas pass.

Well, the three ghosts in a Christmas Carol. Past, future, present and future.

Ebenezer Scrooge in Christmas Carol is visited by the ghost of Christmas pass, the ghost of

Christmas present and the ghost of Christmas future. I presented Melissa and Seth, give me your

three ghosts celebrity edition. You got to pick famous people. That's the, that's the only catch.

You got to pick famous people and who they are. And we're going to have some fun with that tomorrow.

I am still hammering out my three. Same here. Yeah, good, good, good. I didn't want it to be easy.

I also didn't mean to give you guys more work. That's less than going on. Wait, go James.

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's not good. Well, this is kind of fun work though.

Good, good. I wanted to be fun. And I want the audience's participation.

Yeah, if you've got an idea for this, for what you would need. Now, my question for you, James,

the character of Ebenezer is kind of, you know, like the whole story circles around him,

not being a great guy. Yeah. And by the end being, being good. Yeah. So, so do I do this

opposite? Oh, oh. I think you, it is artist interpretation. I think whoever you, you approach it

is fine. See, what got me thinking about this actually a little bit, certainly Laura's idea,

but it was, I feel like I used to be Ebenezer. Just poor. I was just poor. I was a poor Ebenezer.

And I was, I was a Grinch about Christmas for a very long time. I'm trying to, I've tried in

the last couple of years to be better about it. And it's worked, you know, much better than

a year's past. I just, I thought that'd be fun. My approach to it would be more like that.

I think Seth is going to have a different approach. You'll have a different approach. Our listeners

will. I think that'll be one of the fun parts of this. Yeah. I agree. And we'll have that for you

tomorrow on the show. It's going to be a good one. And it is winter. Congratulations, everybody.

You made it to winter, even if it doesn't look like it. Even if Mother Nature didn't meet us here.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. Do I even have any white outside? I'm looking and I don't, I actually,

I see a patch of snow over by the gas station. That is about it. We have a little bit of snow here

in Abbotsford. Um, you know, and so let's dive in touch on this part. The winter solstice is

often referred to as the first day of winter. There are different ways to define the season start

and date. December 21st is the first day of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

Runs to the spring equinox in March. Okay. Is, you know, a lot of what I'm reading, they are trying

to predict what Christmas is going to look like in 2024, 25, 26, etc. And there's a lot of reports

that this could be the new normal with this. We've heard this, you know, Paul told us this about

Thanksgiving. And Christmas, when we talked about these holidays and in our heads, I think we're

used to having snow because that's what we vote. We, we just did tie that to the holiday. But we

had plenty. Well, and that's what our childhoods mostly were like. Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean, you know,

it's as good as as much as we can trust our memory. But you're right. You're right. You're right

about that. It is, it is interesting to think of though that to see where this is going to go. I

don't know. We'll see. Well, and for kids who are getting used to having a brown Christmas,

that that, you know, pretty soon we'll have some songs about it. You know, that is a really good

point. That is a really good point, Melissa. I'm looking forward to that. You're going to have

generations grow a couple of Christmas's like this. You're bound to have new Christmas songs from

that, no matter what the season looked like, especially with that being into it though. I like the

idea of modern, not only Christmas songs, but holiday songs and updating them and making them a

little more, yeah, just a little more modern. That's all. I think they can be a little more. Yeah,

necessarily parodies of old songs. But I would like to see some new songs that reflect the season

as it is now. Yeah. All right. Let's start right here. A Texas woman has gone viral after capturing

the moment she found an uninvited guest hiding in her Christmas tree.

Brett Ingram, 29 and media marketing major based in Dallas, Fort Worth, told the news that she was

finishing up some work at home when she heard a soft sneeze. She kept working. I kept working.

And I kept working thinking I was maybe just hearing things. Then I heard it again with some other

squeaking noises. At first, she thought her cat had brought in a rat or something like that.

It did not mean to be Dr. Seuss there for a second. After looking under her couches and behind

the curtain, Ingram finally found the source of her mysterious noise. Quote as I'm down

crouching behind my couch, I look over to the left and I see his tail, a long naked rat looking tail.

I stopped and kind of looked up at some sort and saw a large breathing ball of gray fur.

Like breathing ball. Ingram made her way around the front of the tree and located the culprit,

a possum. That's something you expect to find in your Christmas tree. Of all the things,

of all the things, a partridge, a pear tree, but not a possum. New Christmas song.

Ingram said she reached out to a friend who is a wildlife and rehab volunteer.

That's a very good friend to have. It was late because it was late and volunteers don't take

night calls. The friend shared some steps on how she best to remove the creature from her tree and

her home. Quote, I just didn't want to hurt him. I was really just calling for concern to see if

babies were in the pouch. What a wonderful thought to think of. I think I commend her on that.

I think that is really impressive. Ingram said her friend told her she'd be able to pull the

possum from the tree, but it became more of a challenge than Ingram anticipated.

Naturally. Oh, it's simple. Just pull them from the tree. Okay, four hours later.

Right, right. And probably a lot of frustration and more gray hairs and a little scared.

Yeah, wild animals are a little scary. Ingram was wearing gloves to protect herself from the

marsupial. As she plucked each of its fingers off the branches to release it from the Christmas tree.

One synchrom had pride the creature from the tree. It's squirmered out of her hands and ran

under the couch. Oh, no. This thing is not leaving. No, it got a taste of the indoor life and it

likes it. It's warming here. Why do we all do this? She shows up on Christmas day. There's like

the whole family of possums are there in the tree. Yeah, they're all there. Ingram was able to

con the animal down before saying it outside her door and releasing it into the neighborhood.

Nicely done. Ingram said she didn't panic after finding the animal, but wanted to assess its

behavior to do whatever she could to make sure it was safe. That's awesome. I believe I've told

it. I can't help myself because it just came up the other day and I know my folks are listening

and it'll make them laugh. I have a crook in my nose because of a mouse. Oh, when I was a kid,

we first moved to the city. My mom and dad really wanted us to have a good Christmas.

And they wanted a good tree. We didn't have one. So my dad and my uncle, my uncle Bob ran to my

grandmother grandfather's house in Eleanor and Chicago or Naperville, Naperville. They grabbed the

Christmas tree out of the barn. They bring it to the city. They take it out of the box that was

in the barn and as most of you people out there know country livers, mice in a lot of other animals

like to live in barns. And preferably inside boxes that are nice and padded with the Christmas tree.

I remember this like it was a week ago, Melissa. The mouse or two came running out.

And my mother is one of the most fearless human beings I've ever known in my life. I've seen her

face a lot of things that I don't think I don't know many people that could handle including

giving birth to three children. Her and my aunt Karen were on a chair. I don't I think they just

like they just appeared on the chair. I didn't see that. I don't remember seeing them jump up on

there or anything. They just like floated on top of there. Faster than humanly possible.

And my dad and my uncle Bob are trying to catch these mice and I see them doing this and I'm like

five, six or whatever. And and my mother's trying to pull me onto the chair with her and I won't

have it. I want to help catch these mice. She lets me go. I go running and go flying into the coffee

table. Oh no. It apparently I don't remember any of this but apparently I got up. It's it kept

chasing the mouse as my nose was bleeding. Fine. Fine. So I feel like that was a much worse

version of this. This is a much better version of that. Yeah. Nobody got hurt. Possum got outside.

She doesn't have a crook in her nose. What happens to the mice? Yeah. Yeah. But I don't think we really

I don't I don't remember how that story ended. I really don't know. They're still living in that

apartment in Chicago very happily by the way. Good on them. Good on them. You know it wasn't a bad

place. Was it a bad apartment? Yeah. And if you've got Christmas stories like that we want to hear

them. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. We don't have to bring these and that

any right stories or Christmas stories from all around the world. Let's take them local.

Yeah. What creatures have you found in your tree? If you don't feel comfortable calling up on

the air we completely get that. If you want your story to be heard and you'd like us to read

it send it to us. James dot mail of at civic media dot us Melissa dot K at civic media dot us

or you can even just message us on our Facebook page. Yeah. Yeah direct messages that way the same

way you're getting us that Merchant Merlin out. Go ahead and do it that way. We'll take a quick dive.

We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back with Misty's many birthday and anniversary club.

It's the morning show at WFHR. We are locally grown radio.

Do do do do do. I feel like it's missing my back. You do this every time. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to get you a tambourine. Oh yeah that'd be great.

It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at Misty's menu. We encourage you

to treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's. They're back open. Yeah they're open today.

Ninety-fourty-one stayed that way. Thirteen South and Wisconsin Rapids get there and treat

yourself. Treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's menu. Let them know it's your birthday. Get a

free slice of one of Brian's pies. Yeah. Get some pie from Brian while you still can. Yeah. We're

more on that in a moment here. And we encourage you to not only celebrate with our friends at Misty's

but get us those birthdays and anniversaries. We want to celebrate with you. Wow.

Get them to us by info at wfhr.com or james.mailup at civicmedia.us. You can send it to really

any of our staff. Feel free to direct messages on our Facebook pages and call up during the show.

Yeah you can call right now 715-424-2600 and wish your special someone a happy birthday

right on air. Big shout out to everybody listening to us on the civic media app. You were just

to touch or to away from calling up and joining the conversation. That could come in very handy

tomorrow during our star of the day. Oh yeah quick. That's a really quick way to get in touch with

us. I know at least two people have won using the civic media app because of the I just said

that the quickness and simplicity of it and stuff. You don't have to dial. I mean if you got our

number programmed in your context that's great too. Yeah yeah great way to do it great way to keep

in touch with the station and call up and join the conversation any time. I want to touch on this

a couple more times before the end of the year when we have a moment. Our friends at Misty's menu

have some pretty big news. Let's go ahead and read this right from their Facebook post Melissa.

They are excited but also a little bit sad to announce that we'll be closed December 24th through

January 1st for a Christmas break. When we reopen on January 2nd and they will be open on Wednesdays

again. Mike and Chrissy Fleischman will be the new owners of Misty's menu. Mike and Chrissy are

a great couple with many many many years of restaurant experience and they'll have complete

complete confidence that they will carry on what we have built for over 22 years. The restaurant name,

menu, food and staff will remain the same with some new and exciting things to come. To say that we

will miss our Misty's menu family and our wonderful customers is a huge understatement but we most

like we will most certainly be around quite often so you'll never know when we will show up.

Congratulations to them on their retirement. That's exciting. Very well-earned. Very well-earned. We

appreciate them so darn much and very excited not only for Misty and Brian and the next chapter,

the next adventure for them. That's exciting. They have earned that and we're just as excited for

Mike and Chrissy and to see what they do and working with them. We've worked with Misty's menu for

I think to deck I mean almost as long as Misty's has been around they've been a part of things at WFHR

I believe. That's awesome. Love working with our friends over there looking forward to doing that more

and more. Again I know over there and say hi to the gang force. Melissa. Yes. Yes. Melissa I need a one

through three. I'm going to choose two today. Give us that qualifier. All right we dive in and we wish

a happy birthday to Crystal Tracy. Happy birthday Crystal. Enjoy your day Crystal. Oh it's a good

one for you. We wish a very happy birthday to Steven Flint. Happy birthday Steven. Fantastic

fantastic day to you Steven. Enjoy your day and a happy 49th anniversary to our qualifiers Tom and

Emily Anders. Oh 49. That's cool. Wow. Tom and Emily congratulations. Gearing up for the big

5.0 you two congratulations and joy and celebrate right all right up to the end of the year I say.

I say celebrate the whole rest of the year. Why not? Why am I not? It's 49 man. You got to

celebrate that. What do you get in joy? No reason. Yeah. You don't need to rest up for next year.

You can party this year too. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy your anniversary or your two and thanks everybody

to goddesses birthdays and anniversaries. We really appreciate it. Let us take a look at our celebrity

list. Our first name up on here. Samuel Jackson is 74 today. Oh wow. Legend. Yeah. Yeah. One of the

hardest working. I think the hardest working man and the hardest working actor we've ever seen.

I think that that is one of the greater compliments we can give him. Yeah. Does he ever stop working?

Only because his wife makes him. I saw an interview with Samuel Jackson before he really was

like doing a movie a month like and he talked about this. He waited so long to get that big break.

He got a break and I believe Goodfellas and Martin Scorsese cast him and Goodfellas. Small role

but it you worked with Martin Scorsese. You put your name on the map. Oh yeah.

Him and his wife made a deal because he told her I got this break. I'm not going to stop working

and she knows him and he has got incredible work ethic. He's a hard hard worker. She told them okay

but I get one month. I get one month a year where you don't work and we go to Africa. We go

vacation. We go do something. I think for like 20 some years that's what they've been doing.

That's how that's what they do. It's part of the reason you see Samuel Jackson all the time.

It's also incredible. If you were any type of entertainer you couldn't design this. I don't

care if you had CA as your agency. Most actors they will tell you hey don't say yes to everything

because you can over saturate the market. You can have a dead you know a lot of actors who are

overnight sensations become you know what has been real quick because people audiences get tired

of them. This almost happened the due law. As far as recent actors this has kind of happened to

and everything. Samuel Jackson could do a movie every week and nobody gets tired of him.

Just keeps on working and it's like oh great. Samuel Jackson again.

One of my favorite stories in acting they were doing Django Unchained.

Leaned out of the capriote I always wanted to do this. Work with Quentin Tarantino had not

really played many villains. If ever and never really played a villain let alone a villain like

this. A guy who in the movie says the N word quite freely. Leaned out of the capriote was never

said this word. He's not comfortable with this word or this type of thing and they're there.

They're filming. They're in costume on set. The cameras are rolling. Money is being spent.

You've got to get this done. You've got only so many takes. I don't care who you are Leo,

Sam, me. You've got only so many takes. He's struggling. He's struggling and finally he has to take

a breath and he walks outside for a minute. Samuel Jackson comes over to check on him.

Samuel Jackson is known as one of the best actors. He works with actors really closely and wants to

bond with them. Leo looks at him and he tells him. I don't think I can do this. I think I've made a

mistake. I think that I've cost everybody time and money. I don't think I could do this. I'm not

that person. Samuel Jackson looks at him, says his famous two words and says it's a Tuesday.

This is what we do. This is acting, baby. This is what we do. It was the pep talk he needed.

Went in there did a great job. It's an incredibly dark scene and he was phenomenal in it.

And in Samuel Jackson in that movie, I think is the evilest character I've ever seen.

And he's always one of the most likable characters in movies too. He is so darn personal.

Big, big fan. Big influence, Mr. Jackson. Thank you, Mr. Jackson. Steven Yen is 39, a famous

actor from the Walking Dead and done a lot of voice acting lately. Let's see here. It's, oh,

Jane Fonda is 85. Really? 85. Legendary actor from a legendary family. Certainly has done,

you know, there are like every actor we can mention on here or every entertainer. There is

off the field stuff. There is on the on the stage stuff. Jane Fonda, however you think of her,

her legacy, her career, lasting as long as it have is very noteworthy in an industry that

likes to chew women up and spit them out as soon as they're done with them.

And she's always fought for the empowerment of women and girls and human rights.

Yeah. Ray Romano is 65. Fantastic.

Everybody loves Raymond. I think most people know him from that, but you might also remember him

from Ice Age as the Willie mammoth in Ice Age. He's done a couple of other things.

Yeah, he's done a lot. He was in all the Ice Age movies.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. One of the better casting decisions I think is casting him as a Willie mammoth.

His voice is just, I mean, it's perfect for it. It's just perfect. Keith or Sutherland,

another coming from another great Hollywood family, the Sutherlands.

Yeah. Keith or just as good as his father, I believe. And that's, I think that's the best

compliment I can give him because Donald Sutherland is a legend. He is. He definitely is. But I like

Keith for a lot. A designated survivor was a really good show. I enjoyed watching him in.

And then of course, all the movies he's been in. Yeah. He's done some great performances in a

lot of great movies. There's a movie, Phone Booth, where it's just him. You only hear his voice.

And it's incredible performance by him. But, but lost boys. Am I lost boy? That's what it comes

down to. Lost boy. The great, the wonderful former colleague. And I say that with huge stretch.

I did, I did. Quittina Brunson is 33 today. Second City's own. You know her from Abbot Elementary.

Maybe Black Lady Sketch Show. One of the funnier, better comedic writers I have ever met in my life.

Could not be happier for her the success of Abbot Elementary.

Awesome. She's wonderful. Just a wonderful human being. Actually emailed me a couple months back.

Just a really sweet note about my papa. And especially now with things and everything.

There's certain things that people do that you never see coming. That was one of them.

That was beautiful. And people no longer with us. I have to send a shout out to I believe the most

underrated guitar player in history. Frank Zappa. Born in 1940. Pestway in 1993. Frank Zappa,

one of the, I think a lot of people look at his lyrics and a lot of his work as silly and fun.

And certainly was. Frank liked to have a lot of fun with lyrics and playing around with songs.

Also incredibly, incredibly intelligent and intelligent musician. Frank Zappa was one of these

guys who'd wake up in the morning and record an album. He was incredible at guitar playing,

incredible layering the music. The production of his songs was always top notch. And just as

importantly as all of that, Frank Zappa spent the last days of his life literally on courthouse steps

fighting for free speech. Frank Zappa, John Denver and D Snyder standing there in front of Congress

talking about this. I'll never forget as a kid. And seeing a very sickly Frank Zappa guy who was

not doing that well. But that's how important it was to him. Yeah. Well, he released more than

60 albums in his 30 year career. Just incredible artists. And that Melissa, his kids have said

there's albums and songs of his that will probably never see the light of day because they weren't,

they didn't finish the production on him. And he probably wouldn't have wanted them to be released.

But that's it along with all of the albums you just mentioned. It's incredible. Just incredible.

One more time we want to wish a happy birthday to Crystal Tracy and Stephen Flint. Yeah,

happy birthday everyone. And a happy 49th anniversary to our qualifiers, Tom and Emily Anders.

Hmm. Happy anniversary to you too.

Enjoy, treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's menu. They're open right now till two, open six to two,

seven, six days away. And ninety forty one, keep doing that. And ninety forty one,

stay the way 13th South of Wisconsin rapids. You get there. Thank the gang force. Wish them a

great day from all of us at WFHR. We get back. We're going to talk about the most popular holiday

dish in every state. Oh, good. Coming up on the morning show right after our state and local news,

WFHR. We are locally grown radio.

Welcome back everyone. Melissa and James here with you.

Morning show at WFHR.

The rain's coming down.

That doesn't sound the same. It doesn't sound the same.

It does not.

Melissa and James here, we are speaking a little bit about Christmas talking a little more.

We got a handful of more Christmas stories we're going to get in the next couple of days here.

And we got to get into this the most popular holiday recipe in every state.

Good. We got some stats from Thanksgiving going along with this.

And between Thanksgiving and on Thanksgiving, 50 million pumpkin pies were eaten at least.

Wow. And 122 pounds of eggnog are consumed every holiday season.

The team at Brightly and you can find the complete list at Brightly.Eco. That's Brightly.Eco.

Put together this list and study past Google searches data to determine the most popular

holiday dish in every state. Okay. Certain regions had very, I want to say unique holiday favorites.

Some of them in our own Midwest here, Indian and Michigan are fans of Buckeyes,

peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate, chest pie or a chopped and dipped in chocolate.

I've never had that. That does sound pretty good though. It's peanut butter and chocolate.

So you can go wrong.

Chest pie, a custard pie with a crisp browned topping.

I think that if it wasn't dairy.

That came out on top in Tennessee and Pizzola, Pizzoli, a traditional Mexican stew,

was the top search in New Mexico.

There are some pretty interesting ones out there.

I see a lot of green bean casserole on here with Ohio and Oklahoma.

Let's see. Turkey and Mississippi, so some standards.

You know, some standards. Arizona, standing rib roast.

Fancy.

In Florida, coquito.

A little different ones there. Some interesting ones.

Let's see. In Iowa, it's puppy chow.

Puppy chow is pretty good. My grandma made it every year for Christmas.

I like puppy chow. I'm not going to die on this hill.

But I think it's got to be homemade like that.

There's something about it that way.

I've seen store made stuff and everything.

It just doesn't taste the same to me.

There's something about it to be made.

Well, no, because it's not homemade.

Just a case with both things, I think.

In Wyoming, sugar cookies make a show up on the list.

Mississippi is still looking for more Turkey.

I can't get enough Turkey.

There's plenty of great ones out there.

Again, you can find, but you know, we want to go local here.

What about that? What about locally?

I mentioned Indiana with the buck eyes.

Iowa puppy chow.

Let's see here.

I apologize. My computer is not acting very fast right now.

I did have it. I did have it.

Texas has got gingerbread.

That's an interesting one.

That's a great one at Christmas time, obviously.

We want to know about Wisconsin.

What about Wisconsin?

Well, I think you pretty much could guess this one.

Do you want to take a guess, Melissa?

Do we let the audience take a guess?

Ooh, let's let the audience take a guess.

715-424-2600.

Tell us what you think Wisconsin's favorite holiday recipe is.

What is Wisconsin?

What do we like making the most during Christmas here in Wisconsin?

Let's go ahead and give that a minute.

I'll look at some other...

I don't know if I would...

If I have to guess, I don't know.

I need time to think about it, too.

Yeah, yeah.

Christmas time.

You go ahead.

Personally, I would choose sugar cookies,

because that's what my mom always made at Christmas time.

I think that's a great choice.

And Vermont, of course, has that one.

They love their Christmas cookies,

and they also like making them with confetti on top.

Confetti?

Putting a little...

A little flair to it and everything.

Let's go ahead and take a call from the best listeners in radio.

What's on your mind?

Do you got an option?

Hamroll.

Ooh, good choice.

Hamroll.

Good choice, sir.

Good choice.

Strong choice.

And you feel confident about that one, don't you?

Well, yeah.

I mean, wherever you're going to take any holiday party,

go to the always-have-hamrolls

with either with-pickles or without.

Yep.

Or the other one could be devil dicks.

See, I would have said devil dicks.

Good choice.

Yeah, I would have said devil dicks,

even with the answer in front of me.

I'm still saying devil dicks.

I picked devil dicks because I don't do cream cheese.

Okay, yeah.

I've never been to a holiday party.

I don't think whether it's Illinois or Wisconsin

and not seen devil dicks.

Like that one, for sure.

And you're right about the Hamrolls, too.

You're right about the Hamrolls.

But we're all wrong.

It's pican pie or pican pie, however you want to say.

Ooh, I got one.

I got one sitting in my freezer right now.

I made it last week.

Okay, so when are you inviting us over, Kevin?

I mean, I could see that, too.

I really can.

But I would think that would have been more of a southern state type.

Yeah, me, too.

I would have, I would have, too.

I would have, too.

Great to hear from you, man.

Thank you for playing a log.

We appreciate it.

All right, guys.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Have a Merry Christmas, bro.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Good to hear from you.

Best of lessons in radio.

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What do you think it should have been?

Do you agree with pican pie?

Or do you think it should be something else?

Feel free to call up anytime during our run here of the show

between now and 10.

Call up and join the conversation.

Yeah.

I would have said devil dicks.

I think that's the one to me.

You know, I think Kevin nailed it, though, because I actually,

you see ham rolls more often than devil dicks,

because I think they're easier to make.

You know, when I'm, now that I'm going to change my answer, actually.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think you're right.

I'm going to do the one thing you're not supposed to do in talk radio.

Melissa, agree with you.

Change your mind.

I agree with me.

And change my mind.

I did both.

Yeah, yeah.

I completely ruined talk radio.

No, I'm so sorry, everybody.

All the rules.

Let me change that.

No, no, no.

Pecan pies.

Rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble.

Pecan pie is amazing.

But I think like something like blueberry or cherry,

I would see more often at Christmas time.

Pecan pie is kind of a thanksgiving thing in my mind.

I was going to say, well, you know,

Melissa and our family, it seemed like every thanksgiving in Christmas,

we always had pumpkin pie.

I, we had that as I'm thinking about it now.

And it's dawning on me.

And nobody else really ate it, but me.

I'm pretty sure they got it just because they knew at least there was something

in the table that I would eat.

Some of you would eat.

So bad.

Until they start serving bacon double cheeseburgers at Thanksgiving, James.

It's pumpkin pie for you.

I mean, there's my wardrobe, my palette, all need to grow up.

They really do.

Never grow up, James.

It's overrated.

I don't think I have an eye.

I'll have a choice on this.

I'm not sure if it hasn't happened by 46.

We will take a break.

We'll come back.

We got more fun in store for you right here on the morning show at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

You know Dacia and Dacia and Brancer and Vixen.

Commit a cupid and donner and Vixen.

But do you recall?

The most famous reindeer of all.

Root off the red nose reindeer.

Had a very shiny nose.

And if you ever saw it,

you would even say it goes like a light ball.

Well, thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's hard not to sing along with that one.

It really is, really is.

Welcome back to the show everybody.

Melissa and James here with you.

Take it to the top of the hour.

We will kick off the nine o'clock hour with CBS news,

local and state news.

And we will talk to our pet of the week

with our great friend Madison Rafter

and the Southwood County Main Society.

More great stuff coming up for you in the nine o'clock hour as well.

Tomorrow on WFHR's morning show,

we're going to kick it off.

Seth Melissa and I are talking to get into detail

about our 30 hours of Christmas.

We're going to break that down for you.

Awesome.

Can't wait.

Later in the show, we will have our choices,

our celebrity edition of our three ghosts

from the Christmas Carol.

We are going to choose.

And these can be any celebrities, right?

Living good.

Yep.

And they don't necessarily have to be like traditional

famous people.

I mean, they could be, you know, famous people in history.

Celebrity in my life.

Yeah.

Yeah, that anything.

There's no, there's no wrong answers.

There, you know, there's no wrong answers.

And I want that to be very, very understood by you

and the audience because it's supposed to be for fun.

So we'll have fun with that one tomorrow.

If you were Ebenezer or however you look at it,

who would be your three ghosts?

We'll get into that one.

Right now, let's get into this, Melissa,

a tipping fatigue.

This number actually seems low,

which is a little crazy.

A new study found the average American tips

at least five people a week.

And half of us have tipping fatigue now.

53% say that they're fed up with it

and here are five more tipping trends to watch.

Why do we leave a tip when we don't really want to?

43% don't want to look like a jerk.

And 34% don't want to seem cheap.

Yeah.

I'm guessing maybe the other percentages of people

are doing this because it feels good

or feels like the right thing to do.

Or that they used to work in the field that required that

and they know that it makes up the wages.

But look at how many answers we've given

before we got to because they gave good service.

You know, that's the reason tipping was supposed to be

and been invented was supposed to be there and everything.

It wasn't supposed to be there because companies and businesses

and owners don't want to pay their employees.

So we have to make up for it as consumers.