Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got Melissa and James here with you. We
hope you're having a good morning. Yep, yep. We got good stuff coming up for you,
getting getting some entertainment news in a moment. And a little bit after that,
we're going to get into the grossest foods. What are the grossest foods? We want to hear from
you, everybody, 424-2600. It's a phone number call up and join the conversation. We'd love to
hear from you. Hopefully you've already eaten your breakfast. Yes. Good point, Melissa. Yes.
There's no segue for something like this. We are fortunate to do a live radio show and when
that happens, we're able to touch on live breaking events. And we do have to send our hearts,
our feelings, our thoughts to the people of Baltimore and Maryland with the Baltimore Bridge collapse
that happened this morning. Yeah. If you have not seen the video, if you have not caught up on that
yet, tragedy as a Singapore tanker ran into both of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
As a city boy, one of the things I love is infrastructure, is architecture. My uncle Ralph was
an architect, a very good one in Chicago, and grew up loving buildings in the building. What
human beings can do with their hands? It's amazing. We've normalized it, but it's incredible. You
look at the aqueducts and Rome, you look at some of the things that we've done with our hands,
it's just phenomenal. Human beings are also in charge of keeping an eye on these things.
While this was something that did not collapse on its own, it was not an infrastructure thing.
This bridge was given an okay, basically. Out of one through ten, it was given a five or a six,
and it is another example of how we need more funding, we need more money put into infrastructure
in this country. All over this country. Yeah. Just feel for everybody involved with that.
Wishing them the best. Wishing them well. We have to get into a couple of entertainment topics
here in Melissa. We'll go ahead and jump right in. Wishing Arnold Swartz an eager well. He had
surgery last Monday to become a little bit more of a machine. He got a pacemaker put in at the age
of 76, but that was Arnold's line, and I think that's a pretty good one from the Terminator himself.
That's pretty well played. He had a bioscopic erotic valve put in. He previously had open
heart surgery in 97 to have his pulmonary and erotic valves replaced, but since they don't last
forever, he had to go get one replaced in 2018 in the other in 2020. Arnold says. He's got a pacemaker.
Yeah. Arnold said he needed the pacemaker because the scar tissue from his last surgery had been
giving him an irregular heartbeat the last few years. That's no good. He says he's doing great,
and by the end of last week, he was with Jane Fonda and an environmental event.
Quote. I can't do my serious training in the gym for a while, but I will be 100% ready for
Fubar season two next month. So he's getting ready for his next acting gig at the age of 76.
Yeah, 76. Wow. It's kind of funny. This came up the other day with Arnold Swartz an eager.
He's actually like, so he, him and Danny DeVito had a funny moment at the Oscars,
where because they both played Batman villains and they were joking how the bat got them.
And then Michael Keaton's in the audience. And they're stared daggers at Michael Keaton and
Michael Keaton stared daggers at them, but it was really funny. The three of them are actually
friends and everything, but they played up the bit really well. I shout out to Michael Keaton who
did not know they were going to do that and played right along. I couldn't play it along.
But so I'm talking with other actors about this and we're discussing Arnold Swartz and
his career. And he's such a great example of training and working at a craft and you can get
better at it. You watch Arnold Swartz and then he's first movie. Well, technically a second movie,
but he was co-ing in the barbarian. And he's horrible. He will tell you this himself. He does a
very, very bad job. But then watch him in Terminator. Well, Terminator, he's just an action star.
He's just running around killing people and everything and being a machine and all that.
There's no emotion given. None. Right. And that takes effort. Yeah. Yeah. It takes training.
Like the work that he did on that you watch other people that do roles like that and playing
machines or things and it is an actual art to it. And everything he does after that. I'm not
saying that he's a thespian. I'm not saying he's Oscar caliber or something like that. He doesn't
only have bodybuilder. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And thank you, Melissa. The world he's
coming from and where he has gone. Like his his comedic timing. It's not the tumor. It's like
his ability to make fun of himself. Like a lot of these things like it's I don't know. He's
he's one of the better stars we've had as it turns out. And he's still going. I think that's
kind of cool. And I don't think we really give a chance a get a chance to appreciate some of
these guys. I look at Bruce Willis and I see now that we're starting to where he can't he doesn't
even know it. He doesn't know that we're appreciating him. It's it's it's it's it's cool. It's fun to be
able to appreciate these people while they're still with us. Mm-hmm. And I'm glad he is glad
he is. I'm glad he's doing all right. Mr. Schwarzenegger. Um, this is I don't know what to do with
this one. The so the uh, uh, it's just interesting. So here's something you probably didn't know about
the prices, right? They're totally prepared in the event that you kind of have a you can't control
yourself or you can't hold it. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. You get excited on stage. Things are getting a
little out of hand and before you know it. Oh, there's your running down your leg. Yes. Exactly.
Former producer Mike Richards said, quote, they had a system in place in case someone went number
one in their pants. Quote, I never saw it happen, but there were curtains and a blow dryer and a pair
of sweats just in case since we'd have to get on with the show. Oh, that's great. I I want to
know that because something had to have happened. It's not like they were like the early days of
the price is right. And they're like, okay, so we got to have these prices for this, these
prices for that. Do we have something in case somebody goes number one? Do we? Something had to
have happened for them to realize they needed this. If you watch how excited people get when they
get chosen, I mean, it makes sense. Absolutely. 100% it makes sense. Yes. Uh, it's just I just never
thought one second about it. Watch TV on stage. I've never thought a second about this before,
but now it's it's hilarious to me. Richards also produced jeopardy and you might remember him as
Alex Trebek's replacement for a hot minute. He got removed because of the stuff he'd previously
said in a podcast and some other things, but um, his his uh, so some of what he's saying,
people are taking with a grain of salt, but this has already been confirmed by current price
of the prices right producers. I'm trying to think of other precautions that they have to have
for game shows. Hmm. There's got to be some. There's got to be other. And you've got to have your
your traditional emergency, you know, preparedness, first aid kit. Yeah. Yeah, emergency exits.
But then there's the other things. Right. Well, something for, uh, you know, fainting. Um,
and definitely, uh, the bathroom, like they've got to have a working bathroom at every one of these
places. I mean, uh, I mean, uh, one not just for staff, right? You know, one that they, uh,
cut, you know, contestants, they have an entire audience there. And oftentimes you're sitting
in that place for a while. You're sitting in there for like with the Conan show. We had guests,
uh, people, you know, the, the people in the crowd, they would come in maybe an hour, 45 minutes early
sitting there and just waiting. Well, it's probably not, it's, it's a general seating. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have an assigned seat. So you want to get there early. So you get a
good seat. Oh, not just that on the price is right. If you get called up and you're not there,
like, what would? Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, I never thought of that. Oh, that would be devastating.
That would be rough. Oh, that'd be rough. I can't get to the bathroom and back during commercial
break. Yeah. Well, there, um, so again, I don't know how this worked with other shows, but the, uh,
the Conan show, we filmed that on the Berkeley lot and there was about 60 studios on there. So
at any given time, there's about 30 shows being filmed. Um, and you would see a line of people
oftentimes for a particular show, even if you didn't know what the show was, there was a line of
people for it. You just figure it's a game show. So like with, uh, talk shows, game shows, any tight
daytime TV, really, there's, you're waiting in line for about an hour or so. And then you're
sitting in the studio for about an hour or so until things actually even get going.
Yeah. Get going is probably not the way I should have put that, but, uh, what do I remind
everybody that we've got a really fun one lined up for you right now. We've got the civic media
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We're going to take a quick time out, check in with our partners. We come back. Which of these
foods is the grossest we're going to get into this survey. And we want to hear from all of you.
What do you think is the grossest foods? Uh, seven, one, five, four, two, four,
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We'll be back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back to the morning show, everybody. Melissa and James hanging out with you at locally
grown radio. Mm-hmm. Kind of know what you mean. Sort of.
We got some good stuff lined up for you. Take it to the top of the hour. I'm going to get into
a couple of things before we wrap up today. I want to touch on these millennial parents. How
many of them think they're doing a good job. Uh, we've got a that ain't right story for the ages
coming up in some good stories of the day. We're going to touch on some local Easter egg events too.
Easter egg hunts going on. I'm still waiting for the adult Easter egg hunt. I'm still waiting
on that. We'll get into this one right now, Melissa. The grossest foods. Yes. It's Easter season,
which means there's a decent chance you might encounter some like black jelly beans or something
like that. Black jelly beans are amazing. Some people don't like them. A recent survey told us
that a recent survey asked people about several controversial foods and wanted to know whether
you think they're nasty or delicious. And are these all Easter related? I mean, no, no, just
quick glance at the list. No, but that's a good question. And since I don't see mine on the list
here, I'm going to go ahead and throw mine out there. And it's not black jelly beans. It's just
beans. Just period beans. Oh, you don't like beans. Ah, I don't like the texture. I don't like the
texture. Don't like the taste. I like jelly beans. That's as close as I get. Well, those are sugar.
Yeah. Yeah. You can do you can pretty much lie this lock me into anything sugar related. But
yeah, I that's just not my eye. Don't like them. Don't like them.
Well, you know, have you tried all of them though? Have you ever had edamame?
Yeah, I think it's a kid, but I don't remember. So I probably should try him as an adult. Yeah.
We had some amazing roasted edamame with garlic at a Japanese restaurant in Arizona while we were
there. They were awesome. It's like they're like peas and a pod. Sounds tempting. Sounds tempting.
Well, let's hear from you, everybody. 715-424-2600. Call up and join the conversation.
What do you think is your grossest foods? We'll start at number 13 here and work our way up.
Number 13, five percent of people think that carrots are gross.
Five percent. Well, that's a pretty low number. Specifically cooked carrots. They're talking about
specifically cooked carrots. Well, that definitely changes the texture of the carrot. Yeah. Yeah.
How about broccoli? A broccoli? Nine percent say it's gross. It's funny that the first two are
vegetables. Yeah. Yeah. Not too surprising. I suppose not. I will say I broccoli cooked like when
it's got a crunch to order it or whatever. Oh, I love it. That's good stuff. Right. If it's
if either of those vegetables or any vegetable period pretty much are overcooked, you know, by
themselves, yeah, they're going to be gross because you cooked them the mush. Sorry, mom, I don't like
your pickles. Pickles come up on the list 16 percent. Wow. Yeah. Aaron doesn't like pickles.
But I think pickles are amazing. I like pickles. Yeah. Now, I'll say this though, I don't really like
pickles on my burger. I don't and I couldn't tell you exactly why. But I like pickles on the
own. I like them more on the own than I do with like other things. And there's a lot of different
kinds of pickles. Yeah. Some people like bread and butter pickles. Some people like sweet pickles.
My grandma used to make amazing refrigerator pickles. I have to eat kosher pickles. That's the
only guy I eat. As long as the kosher. I'm okay. We had to take six jars, big jars of pickles
down to Arizona for for Karen. Aaron's aunt Karen. She only, you know, she likes the Milwaukee
pickles. And you can't get them in Arizona. Oh, man, I can't tell you how many times we used to
we used to do things like that going back and forth around the country. Yeah. I love doing
that. That's kind of stuff. This tastes in under the sun. Sorry. Nicely done.
Peas come up next. And the list 16% of people say that those are gross. I think peas are amazing.
Yeah. I'm I put peas and beans in the same category for me. Yeah. Not a fan. I mean, I think
they are both legumes. But peas are a very high in protein for a vegetable. And I think they're
delicious. I, um, I'm trying to get better. I, I would say about five or six years ago, I ate
like a 10-year-old. I'm up to about 14 or 15 now. I mean, maybe a well-educated 16-year-old
possibly, possibly. I'm working my way up. I'm working my way. Getting better. Getting better.
Marzipan. Marzipan shows up on the list. And 18% say it's gross.
Marzipan is a special thing though. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's not got a whole lot to it.
And it's a dessert. You know, it's traditionally found in confectionery shops across Europe.
So we don't come into contact with it a ton. Yeah. I'm trying to think of even what, you know,
when I've used it last or what I've had with it last or what anything. I probably haven't.
It's made from ground almonds, sugar, and egg whites. And it's shaped or dyed to look like
fruits or vegetables or it's often used as a a decoration piece on other
cakes or things. But it's also, you know, just can be straight-up served by itself.
Interesting. Next up, sushi. 18% say that's gross.
I like some sushi. I don't, I'm not a huge fan of all of the raw sushi's branded. I haven't tried
them all. But I'm far more inclined to try the cooked sushi than I am the raw.
Yeah. This is another one of those things that I'm trying. I need to get better about
and trying more, though, that cuisine, things like that. I really haven't had a lot of it growing
up. As an adult, I haven't really tried a lot of a whole lot of different things.
On St. Patrick's Day, we, as when we went to that Japanese restaurant and we had sushi in
at a mame. And I was talking with Erin's aunt Karen. And she's like, we had corn beef.
It wasn't the greatest. I'm like, yeah, I'd probably take mediocre corn beef over sushi any day.
I do love the idea of having. Don't tell Erin that. No, no.
Sushi on St. Patrick's Day. That's interesting. That's a good one.
Tofu shows up next on the list at number seven. 20% say that one.
I am not surprised by that. But a lot of the reason for it, I think, is because they haven't had it
in a way, you know, prepared in a way that was tasty to them. Because there are,
there's such a broad variety of things that you can do with sushi.
Or sorry, with tofu. You could make sushi out of it.
Nicely done. Some of these, like, I think of like when tofu first got popular and at first
started becoming a thing. And if you tried it then and you haven't tried it since,
I think that's one of those things, too, where you need to give it maybe a chance again.
A lot more, a lot has changed with it since I first started, you know, being popular.
And also have it made by somebody in a specific way that you would like it, you know.
There's such a, the sky's the limit with the things you can do with tofu.
Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. When I hear from you and what you think,
let's check in. What's on your mind? Good morning.
Is this why I'll radio one on five point high?
One on five point five is our sister station. You can call up our front desk if you want to.
There's nobody really over there on the board right now. Can we help you with some?
Is this the out of Wisconsin Rampers station? Yes.
You guys, is this the radio station that plays classic country?
We play a wide variety of country music over there. Yes.
Okay. Did you use to play all the time classic country?
Yeah, we used to. We used to play a lot more classic country over there. Yes.
Could you, could you play even more?
We might be able to, we can talk to the people in charge of that.
Instead of the new country, we'll see. My husband and I, my husband and I like to listen to it
when we're relaxing. All right. We used to grow up in the classic country music.
Right on. Well, we appreciate the feedback. That's how we know what to play is from all of you.
So appreciate the feedback. Thanks for calling up and you have a good morning.
You too. Thank you. Thank you. 715-424-2600 is our phone number over here.
If you want to call up and join us about the nastiest foods you've had or if you want to call
up and talk about another radio station, I guess we can do that. It was a joke.
It was a joke. It was trying to teach your voice, James. Your voice is on both of them.
Oh, that's tricky. That is tricky. That is tricky. Number six on the list, mushrooms.
Yeah. I'm not surprised that one is as high on the list as it is and I know you don't like mushrooms
and it's a texture thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But there are also a variety of mushrooms.
Most people, though, that we commonly encounter here are the button mushrooms, the white mushrooms
or bella mushrooms. Yeah. Bella? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I've cooked mushrooms before but I've
never really, I haven't really eaten a much since I was a kid and that's another one of those
ones where I've got to try it. I've got to try, you know, as an adult and tried the different
ways that they're prepared and everything. You know what you should try is a marinated portable
mushroom burger. It's basically the mushroom is replaces the burger on the sandwich and it's
amazing. I would try that. I would try that. And for vegetarians, mushrooms are a very common
meat replacement. Oh, I can see that. I can make it taste pretty much like meat.
That's impressive. That is pretty cool to figure that out.
We get into the top five now. Raisins come in at number five. 26% say they are gross. Wow.
Really? I'm not huge on raisins but I've never thought they were gross.
I think it also depends on, you know, like, are they in something? Because sometimes raisins in
something like, I don't like raisins in rice pudding. Oh, yeah, yeah, I can see that. No,
no, thank you. I think raisins are gross when you're grabbing a cookie and you think it's
chocolate chip and it turns out raisin. Oh, you'll raisin? Yeah, yeah. That's the only time I
think it's when they trick me. Yeah. Nothing but there's nothing like being tricked by sweets.
You just don't know what to do. When a dried fruit replaces your sugar, I can see you
hitting that. Number four in the list beats 30% I think they're gross. Oh, I think beats are
amazing. I don't know. Have you ever had pickled beats? No, no. I'm really struggling here to
think of when in my life I've even had beats like even in general. I don't know. I had to have had
beats at some time in my life. That was one of the staple foods that we had in our pantry as a
kid because my mom used to plant green beans and beats a lot of them in the garden and so then
we would can them. So kind of our poverty go to meal was a quart jar of green beans and a quart jar
of beats. I mean, you heat them up and that's dinner. Wow. It's good. It's kind of like a comfort
meal now. Yeah, I was going to say I bet it is. I bet it is. I could see that. I can't believe this
though. This is the first food we've come across and all these foods we've talked about that.
Don't even know if I've had like most of this stuff I had as a kid because my mother really did
try to give me a full palate. She really did. It just she was going up against a you know an
impossible force. Very stubborn James. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I don't know. I might have to try
some beats. Might have to try some. Number three on the list. Olive's 32% say they're gross. They
didn't specify which kind though green black or anything like that. I love olives too. That's
sometimes I will have them as a snack the afternoon just open up a jar of green olives and
pop a few. Like a lot of people out there growing up we didn't have a lot of money for snacks and
things. So my sister I've mentioned before she loved pickles and pickle juice. That's what she would
do. My brother, it was olives. Nick loved olives and I asked him like a couple months back. I was like
Nick, you still eating olives and he sends me a text of a picture of just like two bottles of
refrigerator. And there's a variety of olives too. I mean within like green olives because
green olives are the same as black olives. They're just not right. I believe. I don't actually know
so I shouldn't speak to that. But there are a variety of green olives. I know and they taste
different. Number two on the list blue cheese 42% think that's gross. I'm surprised it's
blue cheese and not any of the other stinkier cheese variety. There's plenty to choose from when
it comes to smelly cheeses and everything. I'm a little surprised myself because that's just
seems like a popular one. And number one on the list for grossest foods is black licorice. 59% say
that's gross. Oh that's funny. No quite a few people that like black licorice actually.
I'm surprised that there are some of the other things that didn't make the list like cilantro.
Oh yeah yeah. There's basically two sectors of people when it comes to cilantro. People who
like it and people who think it tastes like soap or or Windex or whatever chemical flavor they
associate it with. Guacamole I think is one. And that's surprised to see it on the list because
it's so popular but I do know a number of people that as popular as it is just as it's just as
unpopular for some. Asparagus is another one. Oh good one. Yes. That's good. And since we're in
this season and you mentioned black licorice what about peeps? Oh peeps didn't make the list.
It's impressive actually. Peeps not on the list. Wow. Yeah but it is a very seasonal thing.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah you're probably right about that. It would know it is. It is a seasonal thing.
Although I was just thinking that Christmas and around Christmas you get them too a little bit but
even that is a seasonal thing. Yeah but they're mostly associated with Easter. Marshmallow peeps.
Yeah. If you're curious about the complete list you can go to Buzzfeed.com and check that out
and encourage you to do so. We're going to get to our state and local news and some sports.
When we come back the 10 most stressed out states in America. Hey hopefully it's not ours.
Yeah we're going to be we're going to be uh uh Pins and Needles until we find out.
And just to save you the suspense black and green alves are the same fruit. Yeah we know now.
The backgrounds are just raper. More great information come a deal like that from Melissa at
our news break right here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Take me down.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. Thanks for joining us everybody. We're having a very
calm, relaxed, stressless morning, easing into your day, smoothly getting in started
because we're going to talk a little stress right now.
If you're stressed out does uh does good music make you feel better? What do you do to kind of
unstress? That might be a good idea to keep that in mind. A wellness brand just released a
ranking of the most and least stressed states in America. It's based on 16 factors that are
grouped into four categories. Money stress, work stress, health stress, and family stress.
Okay. And Tennessee was named the most stressed state. Yeah. I'm not surprised. Yeah and especially
once you hear the top 10 Melissa, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Nevada, South Carolina,
Georgia, Arizona, West Virginia, and Indiana.
Some parallels with a lot of those states. Like a lot of these lists we do, our southern states
tend to be hit hard with some of this. Do have some Midwest states in there too.
The highest level of poverty in our nation. Yeah. Yeah. Which is something that we're continuing
to not only struggle with, but we're trying to, you know, balance try to get this whole country
all on the same page. The 10 least stressed states are North Dakota, Utah, Iowa, Nebraska,
Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington. Your least stressed.
Few of those states are not very populated. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very fair point.
In fact, yeah, you're looking a lot of these. And another interesting thing, almost all these are
cold states, or at least that have cold weather, winter, that kind of thing. So I don't think that I
wouldn't have expected that. Wisconsin out of the top, out of the 50 ranks 40th in least stressed.
Hey, not bad. Yeah. Not bad at all. And not exactly where I think a lot of us, if I asked you
to put where you would, you know, peg Wisconsin in the 50 states, I wonder how many Wisconsin
nights would say, like, you know, in the bottom 10. Yeah. But I don't know if you think that,
which I agree with you on that, James, what does that say about our nation as a whole?
Yeah. Well, we tend to, you know, only be able to get the perspective from our own angle of
things. And if you're a Wisconsin, you're living here in Wisconsin, you're going to probably,
and you're really stressed out, you're probably going to think you've got it harder than anybody else.
It goes back to that phrase, our mother's always loved to tell us, you know, there's always
somebody out there that has a worse. And the reminder of that, hopefully it creates a little more
empathy in us for, for other people in other states and that, because we do, you know, let,
well, let me just double check this really quick. Yep. We all have to live together.
Yeah, turns out, turns out we all got to live in the same country together. In fact,
we need each other. Yeah. Yeah. I was just double checking that Melissa. And yes, we do need
each other. It turns out we can't do this without each other. So we're going to have to work together
everybody and look out for each other too. And it also tells you the one of those really important
phrases that just come out in the last handful of years. It's been around forever, but become
much more popularized. You never know what's going through another person's mind and heart.
Yeah. I don't know what they're dealing with on a day-to-day basis. Yeah. Yeah. Oftentimes,
I think a lot of people wear their feelings on their face and they may have a look on their face
or feeling something and you may taking it personal when they don't even know you're in the room.
Like, you know, that, that kind of stuff happens a lot in life, I think. And it's part of the
reason why communication is so important and why it's so important not to judge, not to think,
you know, you know, well, that person's an awful, that person's a real jerk. They didn't even look
at me when they even say hi to me. Well, that person might have just had something really devastating
happen and they're stuck in their own head. Yeah. And then it's a reminder too for us to get out of
our own heads and to try to have empathy for others. Yeah. It also, like, I wouldn't have thought of
some of these, like, I don't think we think of this stuff very often as far as, like, stress.
And I actually think this is the way they broke this down is pretty darn good. They don't
always do that to, to, to, to those again. Money stress, work stress, health stress, and family
stress. And those are obviously the top stressors in life. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it really, it really
speaks to, like, just in general life, like, we, we've never had more conveniences ever in human
history. But we've, there are so many things that have never been easier, more accessible.
Technology has made things better and easier. It's sometimes worse. It's just incredible where
we are. And we, but with that also can come more stresses or just the stress in general of life
can, can still be there. Granted, if you are a person listening to this and you have no stressors
at all, 715-424-2600, please, please tell us what it's like to be a ghost. Please, I'd love to
know because I can't think of a human being that could actually have that. I, I, I, I genuinely
think that that's one of the most relatable feelings in the, in human existence is dealing with
stress. Yeah. And to find out how to deal with it is another one of those emotional intelligence
stepstones we need to keep working on. How do you deal with stress out there? I'm asking
rhetorically. I didn't mean that sounds specifically doable. So put you on the spot there. But 715-424-2600,
how do you deal with stresses? How do you lower them? How do you handle them? What are your best ways?
I think we've touched on this before. Music is a big one for a lot of people. For me,
the way my brain works with science and data and facts and numbers and everything, I find the
my best way of dealing with it has always been facing it and really dissecting it. Anxiety,
stress, these are terms we have given that these things as human beings and we have defined them as
human beings, which means that they can also have some interpretation to them. And to me,
anxiety and stress, they're negatives. I don't like feeling them, but I harness them.
I use them. I have since I was a kid. I found it's the only way to deal with stress and anxiety
for myself is to face them and to realize that they are not, I am bigger than them. I have,
I have overcome more than this stressful moment. I can do it again. I don't think I've ever
turned on this microphone and not been a little nervous. It's one of those things I find that,
okay, I care. I'm engaged. The day I turn on this microphone and I'm not a little nervous,
I'm not a little, I probably shouldn't be doing this job anymore. And I feel that way about being
on stage. I feel that way about a lot of things. It's part of for me the tool that I use to get to
that place. Well, and for all of us dealing with stress, there's, you know, maybe need to take a
break from from news. I know that that definitely reduced my stress when I was on vacation. I just
ignored it for a while. And that's okay. It's okay to take a step back for a moment and take care
of yourself, take care of your body. Add, you know, just a few, even if it's five minutes to
just unwind and focus on you. I struggle with that though. It's like I, how hard is it to find
five minutes? It shouldn't be, but it is. I don't want to push back on this, Melissa, because I'm
really glad that you were able to do that, but because I don't like fighting with you or anything,
but are you telling me you didn't pay attention to news for a while in the world? Didn't end?
Are you trying to tell me that? Are you trying to tell me that you you turned off the news for a
little while and the world kept moving? Everything was okay. Are you still here, James? Yeah, let me,
yeah, yeah, I'm here. Yeah, did you pinch yourself? I did. Did you feel that pen I threw at you?
I did. Ah, yes, I did. It took a while for it to get here, but yes, it just did. Thank you for
that. Right in the ear, man. No, I think that's a really good note and that's coming from our head
of news. Like to show you the importance of this, I, as crazy as I am about news, I guarantee you,
Melissa's more in depth on it than most and it does a really, really good job at it, too.
And you're hearing that from her. Like that's like I ramble about that all the time,
taking a break and you know, unwinding and those things. I think it's noteworthy for me. And I
think it's a great note. We all could use to do that. Trust us, the news will still be there.
You can always catch it right here at 7 media. That's right. And you can always just catch,
catch right back up. It doesn't take long. We will check in with our partners. We'll be back
more fun on the morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Melissa and James here.
Let's become our end of song show, Melissa. Just has. Just has. I don't know. I didn't really
intend for it to be, but it's just kind of stirred into it. We're going to wrap up the show here.
Take it to the top of the hour. Stick around. Matt Nair on the air coming up for you, everybody.
Looking forward to that. We love Jane's show and love what Jane is doing over there. Be sure to
support the work she is up to. It's going to be a fun show for you today. We got to get into
that eight right story, Melissa. We haven't had one of these in a little bit. Have you ever pulled
an elaborate prank on someone? Well, this guy wasn't, this guy was doing something like that.
Coming to Kentucky is where we go. It's just across the border from Cincinnati.
And if you drive through town right now, it's hard to miss the new billboard that just went up.
It looks like a craft mac and cheese ad at first, but it's just a photo of a guy eating mac and
cheese. And the sign says this man consumes over 20 gallons of liquid cheese in a year.
People thought maybe it was a viral marketing stunt by craft, but it turns out it's part of
an ongoing prank war between two co-workers. Oh, the man on the sign is Jake Laws.
He works with a guy named Jonathan Pittman who recently snapped the photo of him eating mac and
cheese at work. Jake showed up at his job last Monday to find Jonathan had handed out T-shirts
with the same photo on him, but Jake didn't find out about the billboard until his sister-in-law
called him and told him about it. He admits he does eat a lot of cheese, but he's not sure if it's
20 gallons a year. Quote, I never knew I would ever need to do the math on that.
Jonathan rented the billboard for a full month, so it'll be up for another three weeks according
to the sign company. One month at that location costs over $1,000. Yikes. Oh, that's an expensive
prank. I mean, I just don't even know what to do with that. That is an incredible prank.
That is very well done, sir. All of us pranksters have to up our game now. That is
noteworthy. That's pretty good. I also, I'll tell you this right now, that man's single.
That man is single. There is no way, no way in the universe you can convince me that his
significant other will be like, signed off on that. And you're saying, well, James, maybe he
did it and they didn't know about it afterward. It's a billboard. It's a billboard. It's a thousand
dollars. Yeah, you're going to know that on the bank statement. You're going to see that like,
hey, honey, uh, notice that you spent the thousand one thousand two hundred dollars on a billboard.
What are we selling? Are we in business? Do we have a business now? Are you proposing?
Exactly. Oh, that's a good one. That's pretty good. That's pretty funny.
Oh, it's something interesting to see how he won up some on that. That we are following this story.
We are good to see what happens with that. Uh, we get to a palette cleanser in our good stories
of the day. And it kicks off with midday magazine. Be sure to join us today. It's going to be a
really fun one. We kick things off at three o'clock. Lacey Ailing events and engagement director
with our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce going to be with us. Oh, good. Got a lot of great
local events to fill you in on. Lacey and I are going to do that. And then in part two, Jessica's
going to be with us from the family center. Nice. April is sexual assault awareness month.
Oh, we're going to be talking with the family center quite a bit next month when it comes to that
category and getting into that and looking forward to it. And of course, a big shout out. And thank
you to our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center and the vital work they are doing over there.
Yes, indeed. Uh, we've got some great stuff coming up for you a little bit later on the dial.
Join us tonight at six as it is a ball night. Melissa Milwaukee Bucks host into LA Lakers.
LeBron is out for this game. If you heard Mike Clemmons earlier, letting us know that no
King James for that game, AD going to be there. I believe Yannis is suiting up for this one.
Dame Lillard in there. It's going to be a good one. Be sure to catch Bucks basketball right here at
WFHR. The home of Milwaukee Bucks basketball. That feels good. That feels good. That sounds important.
Keep in mind, everybody. We will follow Wisconsin women's basketball as they advance. Uh, and as a
Pam was actually filling me in on I did not get to catch the game last night. Pam was telling me how
Wisconsin came back in that game. Go Lady Badgers on Wisconsin. We will continue to follow them as they
go on in the tournament. Good on them. That's going to be fun. I want to remind everybody tomorrow's
show going to be a good one. The morning show is going to be great. Now we'll have the gang together.
Melissa and Seth will be with us. We'll be joined by our friends. We'll be joined by our friends
from quality plus printing with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. And it's live radio. We put
the three of us together. Who knows what can happen? Got some great local Easter egg hunts.
Want to let everybody know about? Uh, for Wisconsin Rapids, Kiwanis Club is hosting their 94th annual
Kiwanis Easter egg hunt this Saturday at Lincoln High School. 94th. That is beautiful. That is impressive.
A shout out to the Kiwanis. Uh, Lincoln High School located in 1801 16th Street South in Wisconsin
Rapids. It will set it will be set up in the staff's parking lot on the north side parallel to the express
way activities will start at nine and the egg hunt will start promptly at 10 a.m. at the sound of
the air horn. Oh, if there is incumbent weather, they will move the activities into the Lincoln gym.
They'll have crafts pictures with Easter bunny games, all kinds of stuff. Fun.
Also want to remind you that there will be an Easter egg hunt in Rudolph at the village park on
March 30th at 10 a.m. And the annual Grand Rapids area merchants Easter egg hunt put on by the
Grand a GRV FD is coming up this Saturday at 10 a.m. at mid-state technical college.
There you go. Arrive early to get parked and meet the Easter bunny equipment will be on display
before and after the event for multiple area agencies. And a big shout out to the Grand Rapids
volunteer fire department putting this on. We appreciate all the good work that they do in our
communities, including events like this. Absolutely. And when it comes to events like this,
if your organization in in the area has is hosting an Easter egg hunt, let us know. We want to be
able to talk about it like we just did. Help support your local organization. Give Pam a call at
715-424-1300-424-1300 and let us know about your local events. And speaking of great local
events, every first and third Thursday of the month one reminds you the Pete Revelle and
form the floor get performing. They'll be back at it in the week or so. Be sure to check that out
and plenty of more great things that are Central Wisconsin Cultural Center. They're hosting an
exhibit right now of local artists that's going to be going on for quite a while. Be sure to check
that out everybody. And it's a great place to just stop in and take a moment to de-stress. Yeah.
Take in some great art or some excellent music. Got some really great things over there.
I encourage you to check those out and support the arts, support local everybody.
Appreciate you doing that. Let's take a look at some world good stories, Melissa. A poll found
84% of Americans will go out of their way to, quote, pay it forward whenever they can.
The average person is the high percentage. Yeah. Yeah. 84%. I'll take that.
The average person estimates that they have five generous random acts of kindness moments a week
or 268 a year. Nice. Yeah. I could see that. Yeah. That's awesome. Let's try to beat those numbers.
A World War II vet in Texas named Carl Slesinger just turned 106.
And he offered some practical advice for anyone who wants to make it to that age. Just do your best
to not die. Actually, I think the Carl without really intending to kind of gave us a really good
insight in how to live longer life. Be able to have a sense of humor. That's very true. You got to be
able to make fun of yourself in this life. Yep. If you can't laugh at yourself, chances are you
don't get the joke. If you missed it, check out the viral ad that came out for a world down syndrome
day last week. It's actress Madison Tevlen from the movie Champions listing stuff people assume
she can't do like living on her own or learning Shakespeare. It's a beautiful video and it's very
informative. The point is more of us assuming people with Down syndrome could do that stuff
than maybe they would. It's a really good commercial. It's very well done. I encourage people to
check that out. It's great. And a mom in Georgia was driving with her two sons when she crashed into
a river and five girls from the University of Georgia saved them. Four jumped in while the other
called 911. One had to do CPR on the youngest kid, but everyone is doing okay. Oh, that's wonderful.
The woman and her two sons got released from the hospital a few days later. She said she planned
to meet up with the girls to thank them. Oh, that's great. And this is always a little bit risky,
but an animal control officer needs to rot near Toronto helped out a skunk with a peanut butter jar
stuck on its head. The skunk is okay and ran off. No word on if anybody got sprayed or not though.
I think we would know. Yeah, I feel like that would be it would have been included. It does seem
like it would be right. It does. It's a great story. And we want your good stories, everybody.
We haven't been able to remind you this in a while, but I want to remind you to get us your good
stories of the day. We want them. We want local good stories and we're looking for local heroes.
We'll talk more about this tomorrow with our friends at Quality Plus printing, but they have a great
local hero promotion going on. We all know local good people. Reach out to our friends at Quality
Plus printing. Reach out to us and let us know. Write up a couple lines and we'll get it to them
at over Quality Plus printing and maybe you'll get your face on a t-shirt and get in on their
your book. Yeah, they're heroes. It's a fun one. And we'll talk more about it tomorrow on
tomorrow's show with Melissa and Seth. Mel, have a great day. Yeah, you two James.
Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon and later right here at
