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 your host, James J. I am joined by
CEO of your United Way of Southwood and the Ames County's Terry Johns. Good morning.
We got the band back together. We do. How you doing today, Terry? It's Friday. It's
a Friday. That feels good. Oh, it feels good to this Friday. We made it everybody.
We made it to Friday. We are looking forward to a great show today. We got good things
lined up for you. We, of course, have the LCFA birthday anniversary club coming up.
After our news break, we'll make you a star the day with our friends from callers. We're
going to have some fun with that one. Be listening for how you can win some free callers
in a little bit. We've also got, of course, other great things to get to. We're leading
into Easter weekend. So we've got a bunch of Easter stuff to get into. Terry also want
to touch on a couple of other things with you. The best candy of all time. We got to get
into the best candy of all time as we're talking to Easter here. There is also a shrink
of flation, shrink flation, half of America actually want smaller portions. We'll look
into that. I don't know about that one. I want to look into that one. It's probably smart
in there. Maybe, maybe. We got all that coming up for you at the night of clock hour.
We'll have a little bit of entertainment news. We're hoping to get a sports update from
our friend Mike Clements and plenty more where that came from. And we want to start things
off. Terry, getting an update about the United Way. You guys have some great things going
on. We just got a press release about team registration is open now for United Way
Hunger event. Yep. So if people want to register to be part of the United, we can. I'm taking
place in June this year. This is an opportunity to build a food sculpture out of canned goods.
Yeah. So you would build a sculpture of, you know, sometimes people struggle with what,
what could we build? We didn't build anything you want. But some, you know, some popular
things are like characters, you know, like we've seen people building the minions or something
fun like that. One year, our friends at Spyress Riverview built an apple. Like they were
trying to promote health, but it looked like there was a bite out of it. And this was
out of canned good. I mean, it was, it was pretty remarkable. But there's been fun things
on Pantoonboats. I mean, you've judged. There's been, oh, yeah. I've seen everything.
There's been lots of really fun. So it could be anything. There is no like theme other
than you just need to use non-perishable food items. And you can use some paper goods too.
Like, you know, you think about that, things that don't always show up at meal sites or at the
food pantries, paper plates, napkins, toweling, you know, things like that too that are, are of great
cost. So you use non-perishable food items and build a food sculpture. And these are on display
at the Raptor game. And it's just a really good opportunity to build awareness in our community
around hunger. And a Raptor game is where we have our largest captive audience in the community.
So we're very fortunate to partner with the Raptors for this event. Looking forward to, you know,
having, we can probably accommodate about 14 sculptures. And, you know, honestly, if we had
15, we'd figure out how to make it work. But it is a great opportunity. So registration is open.
You can, you just need to tell us if you're going to do a large sculpture, a major league or a
minor league, depending upon the number of cans that you intend to use. And this doesn't have to
be a business. It could be a family, a church, a civic group, you know, something like that.
It's really open to any and all who would like to, like to participate and help us strike out
hunger. It's one of my favorite events of the year. It's really fun. Not just that you guys do
or that happens in this area, it is one of my favorite events of the year. It brings together
two of my favorite groups, the Raptors and the United Way. It brings this whole community together.
And it is a, if not, I would say one of my main causes is hunger and one of the things that I
fight for and I want to see some work done on. I'm so proud of this community. Terry,
this has been going on since 2013. And if I'm getting this rights over 72,000 pounds has been raised
since then. Yeah, it's really cool. Incredible. We did our very first one in the Rapids Mall.
As is where the very first one was. And it was, you know, and it was pretty cool. It was, I think
we had like seven sculptures and they were all fairly small. But it was, but it was awesome.
I mean, it was really great and we, and gave us a good start and then said, you know,
this is, this is what was nice about that was it was climate controlled, right? You know,
so that made it a little bit easier. But we also said where, you know, where can we get the
largest audience? Because our true goal with this event is hunger awareness. Leveraging the food
is the bonus, right? And then we get that to our, to our partners that are providing services
around food in the communities that we serve on Southwood and Adams County. But, you know, by,
like I said, there's more, there's just more people right at the Raptor game. And so, so that's
been a really good fit. And then we invite the community to engage by drawing on bringing a
non-perishable food item with them to the game. Or they can drop it off earlier during the day
if they want to come and see when the sculptures are being built. People can make donations. The
Raptors do a prize basket. So we draw a name from people who bring the non-perishable food items
to the game. And then we also are given the opportunity to do a collection. So we get a 60-minute
window, 60 minute, I wish, 60 seconds, 60 second window where we can do, we call it Miracle Minute,
right? Where we can do a collection in the stands. And typically that leverages about another $1,200
that is used for food insecurity right here in our community. So it's, it's a win-win. You know,
there's just no losing with this event. But we'd like, you know, organizations, individuals,
businesses to be thinking about what could I do for a food sculpture. You know, it's kind of fun
when people build their logo. Or sometimes people will have some kind of a message. And you know,
it's, this is just an anecdotal thing. But it's, it's so funny because you can look at some of these
and you're like trying to figure out what they are. And then you hold up your phone and look at it
through the camera. And you can instantly see right away. It's so crazy how it changes your,
your perspective and your vision. But I'm really glad you told me that too because I wouldn't
have got that right away. Yeah, it is, it's, it's quite remarkable how different it looks when you
look through the, the picture, you know, kind of format. But, but this is really, you know, we're
super excited about it and looking forward to getting teams registered. One other thing that we
have coming up soon is April 10th. So just less than two weeks away is our community Shred Day.
And this takes place at Proveil Bank in Wisconsin Rapids. An opportunity to get your sensitive
documents shredded free of charge. You can bring two boxes for free and then each additional
boxes of $5 donation to United Way. So it is completely free on the part of the, you know,
as far as the, the bank, they are donating the service of the shredding. And then they are also
donating a dollar a pound for the first thousand pounds shredded. And then our friends at bank
account are sponsoring the second thousand pounds. So we really need people to bring their paper
because we want at least two thousand pounds to be shredded. Although I will tell you that typically
we're pushing about four thousand pounds by the time that the event is over. But it's a great
opportunity for us to raise some funds, get a jumpstart on our, on our campaign. And, and also
really protecting the community, right, making sure that those sensitive documents get out of
your house. You know, there's just a point where you don't need to have that stuff sitting around,
but you also shouldn't just throw it away, right? Like it should be shredded. So come on over.
The shredding happens on site. This is from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. You don't even have to get out of
your car. We will, you know, we'll grab the boxes for you and dump them in the shredder or you
can, you know, you can carry them up. But mostly we have volunteers there who can just, you know,
help, help leverage that stuff for you. The event is 9 until 11. But I will say that sometimes the
once the trailer is full, it's full. So sometimes we can't go until 11. So if you intend to participate,
I would encourage you to come in that first hour. Because like I said, what do you,
why don't you reach this capacity? He reaches capacity. This is also a rain or shine event. So
that's something else that's, you know, that says noteworthy. So even if it's raining, we'll still be
out there. And then you definitely don't have to get out of your car. And we will, we will unload
those for you. So I encourage you to participate if you have, you know, things that need to be shredded.
I didn't realize how important that is to mention that part about the rain or shine with the weather
we've had lately. Who knows? And we didn't hear from Brittany this morning. I don't know what happened
to Brittany. Hope she's okay. We just so we don't know what happens. I mean, she might be like
laying out the suns out. Actually, we don't want to bother. She works really hard. It was a
little doer thing. The community Shred Day again coming up April 10th, 9 to 11 over Pervail Bank,
parking lot is shout out to Pervail Bank. A big thank you to them supporting this event. And
being a part of things in the community like they do, we'll talk more about this as we get closer
to it. It's a great event, though, Terry. And I really do appreciate you shining some light on
for us. One of the get into as we dive into our first really segment here, some interesting facts
about Easter, just some random Easter basket of Easter basket of randomness you'll all say.
All right. If you're on the hunt for some Easter egg information, we got you covered.
We ventured out into the internet and turned up some interesting holiday related stats and facts
and just silliness. Like Americans will spend an estimated 22 billion on Easter. Wow.
That is roughly $177 per person celebrating the people that celebrate. Not all of us, but
those that are celebrating. That's interesting. 91 million chocolate bunnies are sold in the US
every Easter season. I love these stats. And 78% of people say that they eat chocolate bunny ears
first. 16% eat the feet first and 6% are weirdos who always eat the tail first. I'm just kidding.
I'm one of those weirdos. I eat ears first. Yeah. I like it depends on the type of chocolate.
If it's a, you know, the hollow ones. Oh, it's hollow or solid. The hollow ones. I don't care
as much where I begin. But if it's a solid one, I'm with you the ears. You've got to start.
It's just a humane way to do it. Yeah. I mean, I always saved the crunchy eye for last.
You know, definitely always save the eyes last. Always, always. And why is that? I love the idea
of somebody just flipping on our station and just hearing like this last tail part of the world.
What are they talking about? Three and four parents plan on having the talk. We'll get into the
talk with their children about eating candy and moderation. That kind of talk. Let's go ahead and
take a talk. I have a talk with all of you. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Good morning. Hey, oh, call back. I was just going to you. Call right back 424-2600. I wanted to
hear what they had to say. I don't know who that was. It would look like a different number than I
wasn't used to. So yes, three and four parents are going to have the talk about eating candy and
moderation. But 80% of parents admit to occasionally stealing from their candy staff from their children's
staff. Well, why wouldn't you? Oh, yeah. You got it. Yeah. I mean, it's the right
of passage. They have to learn. Yeah. I know it's what my dad told me. I'm kind of, you know,
if they take it like upstairs to their bedroom, I'm probably not like I don't want I don't need
it bad enough to go up there and get it. But if it's just sitting on the table, fair game.
It's fair. Yep. You left it out in the open. And maybe not right on Easter, right? But like
by Monday. Oh, yeah, I'm getting it. I'll get it. It's still there the next day. Fair game. You
know what? That's that's a fair one. Not their chocolate bunny or something. But I'm just saying
like the loose candy in the bottom. Yeah, we're doing it on the little bags of
skills or something like that. Come on. I brought you into the start world. Give me a bag of candy.
And then yes, 46% of Americans think the Easter bunny should give out money like the tooth fairy
does. That's interesting. Oh, I mean, I guess it depends. So I know my Nana, she used to put like
dimes and quarters and nickels on at an egg, tape them to an egg. And then when we found that we
got all excited because we found like a 50 something like that. And said it like she could have
yeah, or like put that in the plastic egg instead of candy. You know, I don't know. I guess it
just depends. I don't know how much I suppose a lot of some kids eat a lot of candy yet. My kids
aren't big candy eaters. Yeah. So I don't I mean, I didn't grow up. You know, I've been very clear.
I grew up in a mixed family and everything. And we we sell it. We have both religions and
Judaism and Catholicism. So I growing up, I didn't wasn't around a lot of Catholic like events.
When we when I did do Easter egg hunts, it was always on my Nana and Papa's and their house in
Rome. And she would use real eggs outside. Yeah. Outside and have molded but hard boiled hard boiled.
Yeah. And because you'd be chucking them at people. Well, and also hard boiled because she
hid them. I mean, really hid these eggs like we had to hunt for them. And she would tease us
relentlessly if we couldn't find them. I can't remember being out there for like an hour
looking for an egg. Isn't that super fun? Those are the best memories. So my best memories.
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I loved it. But I thought that that's I didn't I didn't know that they'd
like plastic candy about, you know, that you could put in there and stuff. I remember the whole
new world to me going to my aunt's one time. And she would do Easter. But I was already a young
adult, right? But like for the younger ones or like her grandchildren, she's like, okay,
and I'm going to have an Easter egg hunt. I bet you there were like seriously like 500 plastic eggs
in her. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like, you just take a bag and flake because there were so many.
Like I don't even know how you, you know, but it was so funny because there was there weren't
even that many kids. So they were just like in have you know, like it was as many as they could
hang on to. It was so cute. I love the image of her just like walking outside and just throwing
them. Just throwing them out. Like five kill buckets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just but you know,
and it was so cute because her only thing was you could keep what was inside. But she wanted
the eggs back because then she would do it again the next year. But it was but it was so cute
because they couldn't even just like get them all, you know, that's that's it. It was so fun.
It seems like a blast. So I want to know a couple of questions from the audience today.
Get ready to call up seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. We're going to talk about
our the best Easter at candy of all time and Easter candy. Just candy in general in a little bit.
So I want to hear your favorite candy or your favorite Easter candy. Or maybe better question is
what was the your favorite candy to get on Easter? What was your favorite candy get on Easter?
And I want to know how many people if they their parents hid their baskets because I'm finding out
more and more that parents don't do that as much. No. Because the bunny does it. Yes. Of course
the bunny does it. I'm so sorry. I mean the bunny of course doing it. Yes. The buddy doing it.
But regardless of like the basket being hidden like that doesn't seem to happen as much anymore.
I know my dad like there's few things that would bother my father more I think that the idea
that people not just not only hiding them but hiding them good. My dad just like his mother,
my Nana really good at hiding things like really good. Doors one year my sister was like physically
like almost upset like he had to finally go get it for and everything because you couldn't find it.
I don't know. We always had we always had the Easter bunny visit. Yeah. And at our house too.
Like when I was a kid and then at our house now. Yeah. For sure. My dad took a lot of pride because
he helped the Easter Bunny do these things and everything. So I would see why he could do it. You
do that. But actually I wonder how much he actually helped him. I don't even know if he actually
knew the Easter Bunny now that I think about it. I'm not even sure if he knew the guy. One more
fact for you here. This year there will be 195 different Easter hallmark cards available.
Really? That's all. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. What are they doing?
Yeah. I don't know. But we got to get to break. We're running late. We got to get to break. We'll
come back with the Elcafe birthday anniversary club. Right here on Mornings at WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at Elcafe in the Elcafe birthday
anniversary club. Yeah. It's one of our favorite parts of the day. I'm in a muppet mood. I did
those my kermit. That was me. I got to 21 market avenues where you want to be right now.
Head on over there. Enjoy a great breakfast, brunch, dinner. They're open till two. Visit them
right now with some of the great specials that they got going on and a great way to lead into
Easter weekend. Do want to keep in mind that they will be closed on Easter so that their employees
can enjoy with their families. I appreciate that. Great idea. I love that. Very good idea.
Love when businesses do that. Big shout out to Elcafe. A great, great food, great prices,
wonderful atmosphere. All of that being said, the people will top all of that. The great people
over there. We've had great experiences there. It was a really great spot. Go ahead and visit
our, don't take our word for it. Go check it out. Everybody, 221 market avenue in Port Edward. It's
open right now. Wish them a good morning from all of us. We will dive into the birthday and
anniversary club. But we want to remind you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
Send them to info at wfhr.com. James.mailup at civicmedia.us. Direct messages on our Facebook pages.
And of course, call up and join the conversation. 424-2600. We'd love to hear from you.
Call up and get that birthday anniversary to us everybody. Terry got some work to do this morning.
I'm sorry. I need a one or a two. One. All right. Gives us that qualifier. And I need a one, two, three,
four, five. A one through five. Wow. You almost got to your second hand. Four. All right. That gives us
that qualifier. And we need a, oh, we just got the qualifier. We just had the one for Sunday. So
diving into our list. First up, we want to wish you happy birthday to Janice Hudson.
Happy birthday, Janice. Hope you have a good day. And we wish happy birthday to Amanda
Mather. Happy birthday. Amanda is our qualifier for today. Nice. I also have another birthday for today.
Keith Wilkes. So happy birthday, Keith. Keith is going on the list. Keith Wilkes.
Happy birthday to you, sir. Happy birthday to you. We take a look at Saturday's birthdays and we
wish a very happy 40th anniversary to Dale and Donnaville mom. Oh, happy anniversary.
Wish you guys a great one. 40th anniversary. That's awesome. That is beautiful.
Also, happy birthday to Mike Stratton. Happy birthday, Mike. Enjoy your day, sir.
And we wish happy birthday to Tracy Hackman. Happy birthday, Tracy.
Have a great day, Tracy. And a very happy birthday to Tracy's mom, Luis and Crow.
Happy birthday. Mom of, uh, oh, no, I'm sorry. Tracy's the mom of Luis. No, no way.
Other way around. You're right. I had to write the first. You were right. You were right.
The first time. Mark it down, Pam. Mark it down. Oh, she's not here.
Uh, it's your figures. Happy birthday to both of them. That's, that's really sweet to have
a, uh, the share of birth. Yeah, that's cool. I think that's really cool.
And our qualifier today, celebrating her seventh birthday, uh, uh, uh,
Linley went, Linley went Katrina and Jason's daughter. Happy birthday.
And that was the one I did not pick that. Terry didn't pick that. That's just the way it worked out.
That's awesome. That's fun. That's a fun. I like that.
Congratulations to, uh, her and we wish her a great, uh, great birthday. Enjoy your weekend.
And on Sunday, we have one big special birthday to celebrate. We wish happy birthday to Betty
Carlson. Happy birthday. Enjoy your day, Carlson. Uh, Betty, uh, we hope it's a good one for you.
Enjoy it. I don't know why I called her by her last day, but, uh, you usually do that with
dudes, don't you? Yeah, exactly. Yes, it's exactly what you do. I don't, Betty, I don't know
you like that, but I do appreciate you. I'd appreciate everybody getting us these birthdays and
anniversaries. Thanks so much for celebrating with us. Everybody, keep in common.
Want to keep celebrating with you and keep in mind the next week, we're going to be announcing
our winner of March. Woo. That winner is going to get a winner is going to receive a two $20
gift certificates to L cafe. Thanks to our friends over there. That's so fun. That's a great gift.
That's a great one. That's a great thing to win. Uh, big shut it to friends at L cafe. Let's
take a look at our celebrity list for today and go through the weekend. Uh, today Lucy Lawless
is 56 Zina that warrior princess. Uh, she was in a couple of other things too, but I think
of Zina jeans, when you say that. Oh, nice, nice. Uh, but Lucy Lawless, I like her. She said,
it did some good work. John Popper is 57 blues travel, uh, blues traveler, uh, lead singer and
songwriter. Okay. I would have never known his name, but I know who you're talking about. I,
I forget it all the time and then I hear it. I'm like, oh, yeah. Uh, let's see here. Amy Sederis
63 very funny actress. Uh, very, uh, very, uh, very, uh, did some really good work at second
city. Jerry Blank on strangers with candy, uh, her true TV show at home with Amy Sederis, uh,
ran for three seasons. A lot of people like that. She was James Conn's secretary and elf,
and she has the voice of Cinderella in the, in the Shrek movies. Oh, how, uh, Perry Forell is 65
today lead singer of James addiction and, uh, creator of La La Paloza. Uh, Jerry, Perry Forell,
a lot of great work. Christopher Lambert is 67. The Highlander. There can be only one. I'm
Duncan McCloud at the clan McCloud. Uh, love the Highlander stuff. Christopher Lambert.
That's a good one, too. Uh, let's see here. Uh, uh, uh, Eric Idol is 81. Happy birthday to
Monte Python genius, Eric Idol. Uh, one of my favorites, uh, biggest influences. Love
Eric Idol. Loved his work. Uh, let's see here. And, uh, some people no longer with us, uh,
like Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, uh, born in 1918, passed away in 92. And then let's take a look
at Saturday birthdays, shift over gears into Saturdays, take a look there. Thomas Redis 34 tomorrow,
popular country singer songwriter. We played a little bit of music today. Let's see, Justine Moore,
40 years old for another popular country singer. And, uh, Nora Jones is 45 tomorrow. Wow,
we're just hitting it with the vocals there, huh? Yeah, we're not done either. Uh, I love Nora Jones.
I do too. Love her voice. Great singer and still working, still working really good, doing a lot of
good stuff. Uh, let's see, Celine Dion is 56. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Uh, we're going to keep going, too.
Now, um, I should note, I was never a big fan of her as a musician or anything, um, but I feel
for her and I really have admired the way she is. She can't really do much anymore. She can't
really sing or perform like she used to, but she's been a real big advocate for a lot of the things
that she's struggling with and a lot of the mental health issues. Um, it's, it's not easy to be in
the public eye when you're in a condition like this. And I admire what she has done. She's, I think
a lot stronger than she realized and a lot stronger than I think a lot of us gave her credit for.
Yeah, I completely agree. Uh, let's see here. And also Tracy Chapman is 60 tomorrow.
Well, just tons of singers. And to yesterday, something in the air or that day, huh? Yeah, uh,
but we got a handful of birthdays, uh, local birthdays on Saturday. I wonder if any of them are
singers. I would have a lot of singers on the tomorrow board. Uh, and not, okay, a couple more
musicians. MC Hammer is 62 tomorrow. I mean, we'll use that one loosely. Yeah. Although I, I mean,
I like MC Hammer, but he's not really in the same league as those. No, no, not really a singer either,
but still like 62 for Hammer. That's crazy. Paul Reiser is 68 tomorrow. Love Paul Reiser. Matt
about you. He was on Stranger Things, a bunch of other stuff. Um, Eric Clapton is 79 tomorrow as
well. Geez. Man, big birthdays tomorrow. Warren Beatty is 87 tomorrow. Wow. We never get
good birthdays. No, no, I can't. We always get the crappy ones. Got all these good ones. This is
impressive. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Uh, and, uh, somebody no longer with us would have
celebrated the birthday on Saturday. Frankie Lane, uh, born in 1913, he's saying the theme to
wrong hide, ride, ride, uh, and let's see here. Sometimes I should have like a panel between you
and I because what I see your face doing that that I just get that left. No, that's the whole point.
If you don't laugh, it ain't funny. Uh, let's see Sunday birthdays. Uh, I think one of the greatest
at top 10 top five greatest actors in the world today. You and McGregor is 53 on Sunday. Uh,
Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars movies, Emmett and Fargo. Uh, he was, uh, of course in, uh, Mulan
Rouge, um, bunch of other great. Yeah. He was in a lot. Yeah. He's in, he's just, I think, just
so dang good and he only gets better somehow. Uh, it's almost frustrating as an actor. Almost
frustrating. I really like his work. Very good actor. Uh, let's see here. Angus Youngest 69 on Sunday,
original AC DC guitars, uh, Duck Walk. So much love. Angus Young. My house, uh, growing up, my dad,
such a gigantic Angus Young fan, like one of those guys you could not talk to Ash about that,
not that I would, but if you were going to, uh, Al Gore celebrating a birthday on Sunday as well,
uh, 76 for him. Reoproeman is also 76, uh, Karla and cheers and so many other great things,
love to work. Great, reoproeman, great actors. Gabe Kaplan is 79 on Sunday. We know him as Mr.
Carter from Welcome Back Carter. Oh, that's good one. Uh, Christopher Walken is 81 on Sunday and
still working everybody. Christopher Walken's in the newest Dune movie. Like I mean, he's still working.
Great, great actor. And uh, somebody no longer with us would have been celebrating a birthday on
Sunday. Uh, the hockey legend Gordy Howe born in 1928, passed away in 2016. Uh, they say that Gordy Howe
has gone and it's true. But wherever he is, he is playing hockey. I guarantee you that there's not
many things we can't, we have no idea what the afterlife is or any of that. But one thing we do know,
Gordy Howe was playing hockey. We know they're going on. Yes. Yeah. Uh, uh, and uh, wishing,
wishing everybody a great birthday and anniversary out there. Hope you have a good one. Everybody,
stick around. We're going to make you a star of the day with our friends from Calvars coming up
and we'll get to our news break for now. We'll come back with more fun. But again, a happy birthday
and anniversary to everybody out there. We encourage you to celebrate with our great friends over at
L Cafe. Go celebrate with them right now. There are 221 market avenue in Port Edwards. Wish them a
great day from all of us at WFHR. Lights, camera, action. It is time to make somebody a star
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Got it right before the welcome. Good morning. What's your answer?
Welcome back Carter. Nice job. Nicely done. Nicely done. We're going to make this official for you,
sir. I got to make a call because this is official. There we go. No, it's official.
Who do we have on the phone with us? What's your name? Bruce. Bruce, thank you so much for listening
and playing along. Were you a fan of the show, Bruce? Welcome back Carter. Yep. Yeah, that's what my
favorite shows of all time. I love that show. It's a good one. Bruce, you knew it right away. We
didn't even get to the welcome. Yeah, got it right away. That was good. Thank you for that. Bruce,
where you called us from? Rapids. Right on. Got ourselves a rapids winner. Thank you so much for
listening and playing along. Bruce, hang on the line and get a little information from you,
but you're our newest star of the day. Okay. Thank you. We appreciate you. Yes, we thought we'd
celebrate Gabe Kaplan's birthday, 79 years old from Mr. Carter himself. He's also a financial
whiz in an amazing poker player. He's actually made quite a, you know, a run at that. He's one well
over one million just playing poker. So take that, Mr. Woodman. Take that. Oh, Mr.
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That's the way it works. He's it. Yep. We'll get out of here. We'll come back and we'll
have some more fun when we come back. We're talking some Easter Terry and I on the morning show
and we get back.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Terry and James hanging
out with you. Thanks so much for joining us everybody. Got some good stuff to get into. We're
going to talk a little bit about Easter candy and wrap up those random facts we have about Easter
too. I have some fun with that. But before we go too far, Terry, we used to do our National Day of
Calendar over here. And one of the things that we like to do is everyone's a while bring one of
those back over here because we do it on the sunrise show now, which you can catch Monday through
Friday, seven eight over on West Country, one of five five WI Iraq. But I wanted to touch on this one
here just because this is one of the more noteworthy ones. Certainly today is good Friday. We wish
everybody a good Friday out there and wish everybody a wonderful Easter this weekend.
The end of the show will wrap up and mention our Easter egg hunts in the area. But today is also
National Vietnam War Veterans Day and we want to send memories to that and thank you to that
and appreciation to that to not only everybody who served in that war, but everybody's families
that were affected by the war and all of those that we love and where you know that help us
celebrate democracy, help us celebrate freedom. These great individuals that we are not here without
and we appreciate them very much. There is no segue because they're not supposed to be.
We go right into standalone. I mentioned earlier that growing up in a mixed household and
everything. Easter was one of those big, big holidays for us because not only did we get to
do the Easter egg hunt and the Easter egg baskets and all that, but it was when the family got
together. And I know that one of the things that we are always appreciative to the Easter bunny
for because Easter bunny does some heavy work. It's a lot to accomplish. It's a lot to do.
A lot to do. You're not just dropping off baskets, you're hiding eggs and there's all,
you know, I don't know if anybody noticed this. There's a lot of kids out there. There's a lot of
work. A lot of work. So I always appreciated that the Easter bunny seemed to know the candy I
liked. Good points. That was cool. I don't know how the Easter bunny was able to pull it.
Candy, do you like not black jelly beans? No, no, but I do like jelly beans and gummy stuff.
I like gummy worms, gummy bears. I'm a big gum fan. I like gum, things like that. But what are
your favorite candies? That's what we want to know? 715-424-2600. Listening under civic media app,
just to touch or two away, call up, join the conversation. It's where we're going with our
conversation. If you have kids at a certain age or a sugar addiction yourself like I do,
you're probably going out out of candy run or two this weekend. There's a ranking online
of the best Easter candy of all time. Thousands of people have weighed in, literally thousands of
people have waited on this. It's pretty cool. Okay, do you like peeps? I love peeps. Yeah, I
remember this. But they have to be the yellow ones. Yeah. Not a different color and none of the
funky flavors that are out there. Just yellow peeps. And I would prefer the bunnies over the chicks,
but I'll eat either one. I'm a little surprised by the fact that you just like the regular ones.
I don't know why. I have no reason why, but you did this last year to me too. I was a little
surprised. I don't know why. I don't know. But that's a good one. That's a good one. And a really
popular one. If you like peeps, this is your top of here. This is your top. So let's start right
at the top and we'll work our way down. Number one, or do you want to go start a 10? Should we start
a 10? Yeah, let's start a 10. Number 10, Hershey's Easter solid milk chocolate bunnies. So the
solid one. Okay. That's a lot of chocolate, man. Yeah, that's kind of shocking to me that it's
that low on the list. I would have thought that'd be higher up. And boy are people picky about this
one. They want either if they like the solid chocolate one. That's the one they want. They
don't want any other one. God forbid you get the hollow one. Although like like lint chocolate makes
bunnies now. I mean, that's good chocolate. But, but I, you know, I also don't know. It's
cost wise. There's a difference too. So yeah, jelly bellies. Number nine in the list. Regular jelly
beans are 15th on the list. So these are just a little high. But jelly bellies are fun. You can
get those on boxes, you know, where it's like you get like a dozen of each flavor and the little
map. But it's just fun. So good. Yeah. Whopper's Robin eggs. Oh, I forgot about those. So I can't
eat a lot of those, but they're not bad. They're not super high on my list. But if they're they're
like I would grab a couple of them for sure. Actually, a little thing. I'm kind of I like that
they're still whopper. Otherwise, I don't eat whoppers. Yeah, like they wouldn't be high on my list.
But, but for Easter for some reason, I mean, when they're shaped like a cute little Robin
eggs. Yeah, I mean, that works. It works. But I can't remember the last time I even saw those. I
used to love those. They come in that little box. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I liked. I like the box.
It's like a little milk carton. And that milk carton was indestructible. That thing was I don't
know what they made that they got it, but it was indestructible. Hershey's solid milk chocolate eggs.
Another good one. Yeah. Number seven on the list. Number six and five are pretty close together.
At number six, Cadbury Carmel eggs and a number five Cadbury cream egg. Oh, they are not even close
to the same. They're not not same company. You're right. You're right. You're right. We're very good
point. Cadbury cream eggs. I love those dumb things. Yeah. Yeah. They're good. It's
I don't know why. Because I'm not I usually don't like things with like a like a jelly filled donuts.
It's the only kind of donut I won't eat. I'll eat every other donut in the universe except for
anything filled with jelly. I just don't like stuff like that twinkies. I'm not a big fan of. But
those Cadbury eggs. I love those. And then they started making little ones. Many ones. Yeah.
So you don't have to eat that whole big thing. Yes. Yes. But I will every year usually eat one
of the big ones. Just because. Yeah. Yeah. It's Easter. Come on. Number four on the list. Easter
pastel M&Ms. Yeah. Yeah. I'm okay with M&Ms anytime. Yeah. I think we're on probably like
big 10 of those in our house. So far. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Number three. Here you go. Chocolate
lint gold bunny. Nice reference by you. Yeah. I got to try one. That's an upgrade for sure. I bet.
I mean, I think we always had like when we were kids in our basket was like the Palmer
Hallow, you know, like the Palmer chocolate, the the hollow bunny. And I always like those.
And I like the white chocolate too. So you and my dad, my dad and like he, I don't know what
happened, but he had a shift a couple years back. And now everything almost everything's white
chocolate. He really likes. And again, call up. Let us know your favorite Easter candy. Everybody
715 424 2600. Let's expand this a little bit too. What's your favorite things about Easter?
I want to hear that. What is your favorite stuff about Easter? 715 424 2600,
a touch or two away on the civic media app. Number two on the list, the Cadbury mini eggs.
Yeah. Those are my favorite. I love those. I don't even I don't even buy them.
Like leading up to Easter, you know, I have some different little candy dishes and stuff.
Because guess who eats them? Me. See, that's just self-preservation. Like the M&Ms, I can walk by
and others in my house eat them like it's, you know, of a meal. But, um, but I, yeah, those
mini eggs. I love those things. This is the trouble when you're a, a grazer like us. Yeah.
When you have candy and things like that sitting around the house, I mean, we're the ones that
end up eating it all. Yeah. Uh, number two on the list, the Cadbury mini eggs and number one on
the list, Reese's peanut butter eggs. Hmm. I can see that. Yeah, I can see that too. Um, I,
I don't think that there's a necessarily a wrong answer here, but that one is pretty popular
one year in a year. Not high on my list, which is fine because I'll have those at the house
and the kids like them, but then I don't eat them. Overall, 24 Easter candies were ranked and coming
in dead last was bunny corn, which isn't too surprising. It's not that popular.
I don't even know what that is. Uh, that's the Easter version of Halloween candy corn. Oh,
ew. I don't know how it's different, but it has to taste different at Easter time. It for sure
would for me. Uh, oh, wow, Brock's bunny basket eggs are a second to last followed by Brock's
chicken and rabbits. Uh, both of those are marshmallow candies, but what about the Brock's gum,
the Easter egg gums? Yeah. Those were one of the three candies ever. Oh, I love it.
Those little Robin egg gum. Yeah. And they were in that little tray. Yeah. The tray. Oh, god,
I love those. I gotta find those. I'm, Terry, you got this, right? I gotta go get some of those.
I'm not gonna head over there. You know what I like is those marshmallow eggs. Like,
they come in like an egg carton and it's like, uh, I like those. I mean, I'm not a, I wouldn't
like if they were, you know, switching with the candy corn. Like, if all of a sudden there was
marshmallow, something for Halloween, I probably wouldn't eat it because to me, I just associated
with Easter, but I like those. Speaking of Easter candy, Instacart has a map of the top selling
Easter candies across the country. And in most of America, Reese's eggs are number one.
Hershey's milk chocolate is bigger in the southwestern part of the country. California, Nevada,
Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, plus North Dakota, and Cadbury milk chocolate is number one
in Alaska and Washington, DC. What about here in the, uh, in Wisconsin? Let's see here. What about
Wisconsin? Um, hmm. Oh, it's not gonna tell me, of course. Uh, so, oh, oh, the most popular
marshmallow chick color in each state. Uh, so that's an interesting one blue here in Wisconsin.
No way. We're talking about peeps right now. Yeah. Yeah. That's yellow. Yeah, yellow. It's got
to be yellow. Yeah, you would think you can find that list again at, uh, uh, DoorDash.com,
DoorDash is the one that has that for you. And seriously, if you are door dashing candy,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. You should probably get up and go for a walk. I feel like that's fair.
I feel like that's fair. Yeah. Uh, those chocolate lint bunnies, I gotta try one of them.
Got me thinking about that. Isn't that funny that DoorDash is ranking candy?
It is a little bit. It is a little. Thank you for calling that out because I was a little
huff. I didn't mention it off air. So you just got to it early. 46% of Americans think Easter,
Easter bunny should, uh, give out money instead of that, like the tooth fairy. So that's, um,
the one that I wanted to come back to. Yeah. I don't mind that too much, but I think it's more of
if what your family's tradition is. If your family's tradition has always been, you know,
one thing over the other, I think that that's it. But it doesn't matter. What does the Easter
Bunny want to do? Like if the Easter Bunny is deciding this, that's kind of what we go with.
Are we? I trust the Easter Bunny on this. I feel like the Easter Bunny knows Easter pretty well.
His call. His call. The New York Post has an article, uh, kind of talking about the commercialization
of Easter and, um, and kind of wondering is the Easter Bunny infringing on Santa's territory
by bringing gifts on top of all the candy? So, um, there's been a thing of like gifts being
given on Easter and I haven't heard of this. You know, I don't, I guess our Easter rascals have
always just been candy or something fun. Um, but yeah, I guess, um, according to a new study,
the best place in America to celebrate Easter is Pittsburgh. Is that because of the Hershey
chocolate factory? I think so. I think that's part of the reason. That's why at least in the article
here, that's what part of what they're saying. Um, yeah. Interesting. In a poll on holidays,
13% of Americans say Easter is their favorite holiday of the year. Oh, interesting. That is very
interesting. I was just thinking the best place for Easter is wherever I am, right? Yeah, right
on. Yes. 9% and another poll people were at, uh, in another poll, people were asked how they plan
to celebrate Easter. The top answer was having a special meal with family or friends. 21% said that.
14% said going to church. Another 14% said buying and eating candy. Uh, 13% said dying Easter eggs
and 12% said attending an Easter egg hunt. You know, it's interesting. I think that, um,
for me, like, it's not my favorite, but it's not my least favorite. Yeah. You know, for me,
it's much more about religion and church and that kind of stuff, you know, like, and being
reflective and that kind of thing. Yeah. But, um, but we still get together, you know, have a nice
meal with family and that kind of thing. It's always been, uh, those are the things that I've
always thought of with the day. Uh, it is, um, that the family part of things and being thankful,
you know, that's a big one too. Uh, and that always a good idea to be a good opportunity to have
more of those opportunities. Uh, let's go ahead and take a phone call. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Well, I don't know if it's the same as encroaching on Santa's territory, but
Santa Claus and Easter Bunny used to work together for my family and we would get toothbrushes
and toothpaste in our stockings and our Easter baskets to make sure we had our fresh
toothbrushes every six months. That's a great idea. Great gift. Yeah. That's a great idea. Yeah.
Uh, especially if you're going to be getting the budget candy. That was, that was how, uh,
we'll go with the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus balanced the thing. Right, right.
Very strategic. I'm immediately kind of like feeling like a little guilty as a parrot that I
didn't think of that. Then I kind of wish I would have done that with my kids. I got to
always, it's a really good one. That's a good one. Thanks for the call. We appreciate you.
Uh, let's go ahead and look at this, Terry. I wanted to take a look at another one here. This, uh,
ha, so shrinkification is going on. Half of Americans actually want smaller portions. That is
our headline. There's been a lot of talk about, uh, shrinkification, putting snacks and drinks
into slightly smaller packages and, uh, uh, charging the same as the large portions used to be.
We've seen a lot of this in the last two years. I would say stretching it out maybe
last year and a half, but at least two years where the products that you, you know, that bag of chips
you've always bought, you know, for the same price you're buying it, but you notice when
a minute there's less in there. Oh, it's a little bit smaller. More air. You know, yeah. That kind of
stuff. Yeah. Well, according to a new study, some of us want that sort of new research out of
Georgetown suggests that, uh, shut up to the hoys, suggests that 54% of Americans want smaller
portions. Naturally, those are mostly people who are already protective in about living in a healthier
lifestyle, but still, uh, that's for both reduced sizes in food packaging and restaurant portions.
And the percentage is as even higher if they have young children in the household.
If you break that down by generation, it's most common among, uh, older millennials with younger
millennials and Gen Zers close behind. Older folks are more likely to want larger portions.
Okay. No one is forcing you to buy a certain size portion. First of all, new splash. Yeah.
Maybe DoorDash doesn't offer all of the options, but I mean, I get that. I think that we, we all
probably should be smarter with portion control, but isn't it really just like self-regulation kind of,
you know, you know what I mean? Like, absolutely. Oh, no, a billion percent, Terry, you just
teed me up because I've been waiting to jump on this one. Uh, get ready, everybody. Sorry. I'm
giving you. Yeah. Yeah. No, self, uh, self governing, like taking care of your own self, like,
like taking some responsibility and actually, like deciding, I'm not going to do this. You don't
need, uh, this or that to tell you, you can make those decisions. You can have some dang willpower.
No. It shouldn't be on other people to have your willpower. I think on the other hand, though,
is if, if you really are, let's say you're just really truly struggling with weight or with a
certain diet that you need to, you know, follow or something like that. Sometimes it may be easier
to purchase smaller, portioned packaging, you know, just for the sheer willpower of it, but that
doesn't mean that everything needs to be regulated by size. You, you, you make your own adjustments,
right? Um, yeah. I, I honestly, I feel this way about, um, like almost, I wouldn't say I feel
this way about seat belt laws, but I'm very close to it. If you're not going to put a seat belt on,
that is on you. And, and you, you, like, the, the idea of, um, I'm not doing that. It seems insane
to me. So if you weren't going to do it, like, I'm, I'm, I'm tired of governing people who are not
going to take care of themselves. Like, at a certain point, you're an adult. Do this, you know,
you got to, we have enough of, uh, of people like, kind of needing this or needing that. Like,
I get that. Everybody needs a hand in life and everybody needs somebody looking out for them.
It's a, it's a very good thing to be able to do. But at a certain point, you got to be an adult.
Yeah. But in general, I would say we are overeaters. Yes. You know, I mean, just, so, so really
understanding what is a, an actual portion, you know, I mean, and I can think of, I know exactly
which foods I overeat, you know, your comfort foods, your favorites, your, you know, whatever.
But, um, but to say that portions are not provided appropriately, you got to own that yourself.
I really feel you do. I, but I will also say to this is a topic. I'm not, I'm not that great on.
Like, I don't, I don't eat that much to begin with. I don't eat right to begin with. And,
and I have a very, very, very insane metabolism. So I'm a very, very much on the opposite end of
a lot of this. So I just to be fair, it's not necessarily my wheelhouse. But I, I do think that
taking some responsibility and taking some, you know, initiative of your own self,
that's how you build willpower. That's how you build character and all those things.
You know, because if there's 40 cookies in the roll, it doesn't mean you have to eat all of them at once.
Right. You can eat 35. You can eat 38. Yeah. You can play it by your play.
You know, the dog might eat one. Right. That's always right. Yeah. We are, we have one more day
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