Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR. We are locally grown radio. Got your host,
James J behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning.
We hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for joining us, best listeners and radio.
We're joined every morning right in this time slot by our good friend, Brittany Marlow.
Let's talk a little mother nature. Britt, how are you doing this morning?
I am fantastic. How are you? I'm doing good. We're doing all right.
We got blue skies here. Yeah, can't complain about that.
Oh, that's fantastic. Were you able to see the eclipse yesterday? Did the clouds clear for you?
They did in Wisconsin Rapids a bit. I know that our two viewing areas for the community were able to catch glimpses of it.
I was not in Amatsford. It was complete cloud cover.
We're going to get into it in a little bit here, but I actually, I didn't feel so bad.
I love the moon. I cannot tell you guys how much I love the moon.
And I was so excited to see it and everything, but at the time that it happened to fall on,
I was getting ready for playmakers, so I was driving into here.
I didn't get to see the eclipse, but what I did get to see were like three different groups of
kids looking up and looking and I saw this wonderful and pretty. You should know this right away.
I am a die-hard foolish romantic. I saw this older couple that had out like lawn chairs and we're
sitting out there. So I think, well, if I was looking up, I wouldn't have gotten to see any of that.
And so I'll cut my losses out of them all right. I wouldn't like to see it, but it was kind of
cool to see the people looking at it. It was cool to take it out. How is your view, Brittany?
Yeah. Well, that is just an amazing take to see the people, because it's hard to look around you.
What I ended up doing was I was out on a golf course, right? So I got to see the people just
taking the whole experience, like listen to the wildlife, just kind of calm down as if it was
night, and then all of a sudden, you know, it was just shadowed. It wasn't anything too dark or
crazy, right? But it was just beautiful, staring at it. I was lost in it. It was, you know, almost
on people's fort. Yeah, yeah. I love hearing your description of it. I just think it's so
cool that you did that. That's awesome. It's it's also kind of cool for any something I was
thinking about watching a little bit of the weather channel the other day with the eclipse in
moments like this. It whether it doesn't get talked about much, unless there's problems outside
or you know, we're trying to make small talking in the elevator or something. It's kind of nice
to be able to have the center, whether be the center of the conversation and it being something
positive, something kind of exciting and everything. I imagine that's got to be fun for you in
your fellow meteorologist. Oh, it is so refreshing and nice to have people excited about it and just
yes, like you said, to be the main event basically, like, well, we see it. Well, these clouds
clear. So it was just amazing. And I didn't have the cloud in the sky in Illinois. Oh, nice.
So cool. So cool. That's great. So what do we got coming up for us here today?
Yeah. So we're looking at just a mix of sun and clouds, partly sunny skies,
nice temperatures. We're going to climb into the upper 50s. The rest of us may tap some
low 60s. We'll stay clear tonight. I know it's going to be great above freezing. And then
tomorrow is really the push of warmth where we could hit 70 degrees. And mind, mostly sunny skies.
Yes. Hey, that's awesome. Not bad. Not bad. We, I think we can live with that. I think we'll
keep that one. We'll keep that one. Yeah, we can't complain about that, right? No, no, no, no,
Brittany, we appreciate the time and thanks again for letting us know how yesterday went and
everything. You have yourself a good one. We'll talk soon. Thanks. You as well. Thanks, Brittany.
Best of the business right there from Brittany Merlot. She joined us every morning,
writing this time, so I'd like to give us some update on Mother Nature. We got a lot of things
coming up this hour. Of course, the LKFA birthday anniversary club looking forward to that.
We've got a little bit more eclipse talk to do. We'll wrap up that. Americans actually agree on
a lot, according to a sausage company. We'll dive into that one. We'll dive into that one.
But there's I think there's some truth in there, even in their sausage. So what do you weigh?
I mean, we got cool true facts and sausage. I also want to get into before the end of the hour.
Melissa sent this over a while ago. And I honestly, we had so many different things going on.
I hadn't had a chance to really dive into it. And then you had vacation. So I want to get into
the different different slang terms we have for being drunk. Oh my. I forgot. I sent that to you.
And don't worry. I sent you an email with the links. I figured it'd been a while. I figured
it'd been a while. But we got that. We have a Reddit article along with another article to go along.
We'll have some fun with it. It's not just words that we have. It's words like around the country.
Yeah, around the world. Yes. Yeah. Which other countries. A little more fun with the around the
world. Yes. There's some interesting ones out there. It's something that I think we need to
incorporate. Absolutely. The nine o'clock hour. I'll have a little bit of entertainment news for you.
We'll talk about Wisconsin's rabbits community theater and some of the cool things they have coming
up. And a little bit later in the nine o'clock hour, we have the 10 best states we're working from
home and a couple of other different articles. I got I got a couple of that in right stories.
And I'm like, I want to start with right away. Actually, they're pretty good. But as we were talking
about with Brittany, taking in the eclipse, did see some nice pictures in rapids here and from
this area. It did seem like a lot of people, a lot more people than might have been expected got
to see some of the eclipse. Did you get to see anything? No. Like I said, it was complete
cloud cover where I was. But within our civic media company, a lot of eclipse pictures were shared
in our general chat, which was neat to see different pictures from all across the state.
I have to say, I generally was a little bit hurt that I wasn't able to see it just in the
silliest of ways, just because I really wanted to. And I wanted to be able to talk about it out
in the air. It's content, you know, it's what's something going on. That's what we do around here.
But the getting to see people looking up at it and everything I've never done that before. And I
don't I do a little bit of people watching, but I don't do a ton of that. It's a good reminder to
you know, look around every once in a while. Look up every once in a while, looking, you know,
all the rounds of just taking things in. Well, and the fun thing was that there's so many,
if you're part of groups, Facebook that are Wisconsin rapids, like our WRPS Facebook page,
they had pictures of the kids looking at the eclipse. So great. Yeah. And there was a bunch
of different pictures out there from our community that were shared. Well, let's round up the
clips talk and we probably won't be talking about this again for another 30 some years and
everything. So by as we'll get you know, wrap this up enough. Google searches for my eyes hurt.
Skyrocketed right after the eclipse ended. That peaked around 320 just as the eclipse was
maxing out in the East Coast. Yeah, I've been really I really hope that that was more like people
just joking. I hope so. If you did stare at the eclipse, the weather channel posted a list of
symptoms to look out for like headaches, blurred vision and a blind spot in one of or both eyes.
The good news is it usually resolves on its own, especially if you only peaked for a few seconds,
but see an eye doctor of necessary. I would suggest seeing an eye doctor anyway. Yeah,
I'm going to take it a chance. Absolutely. Because I mean, it's like a sunburn. You don't notice it
right away. Yeah. Because it's the sun. I mean, think of what a sunburn does to your skin. That's
essentially what you just did your eyeballs if you did if you stared at it. I almost feel like
people need to put it that way more that it you know, it's like a sunburn on your eyes. Yeah,
you don't notice it right away. You relate to that. You get that. Don't have a lot of nerve
receptors in your eyeballs. Mm-hmm. Uh, thankfully when you're putting context in it, people have also
been claiming to have eclipse sickness, even though there's no evidence that's a real thing.
Reporting symptoms range from insomnia, fatigue, and no appetite. And one woman who claimed
it knocked her off her menstrual cycle, um, which that okay. I mean, some of this I like let
that latter part obviously I know nothing about, but the other's heads of this and everything.
For one, I mean, that's pretty much my day-to-day life. It's insomnia, fatigue, no appetite.
I'm dealing with eclipse sickness my whole life. Oh man, now we know James. What is the cure for
that is is it, I mean, because usually it's you can't take in more eclipsing. You can't like,
you got to wait a while here. Uh, yeah, or travel. Uh, I say look at the moon as much as you can.
See if that helps. Uh, traveling seems nice. You're chasing eclipses. I like the idea.
Because I mean, it happens every year at some spot, right? Yeah.
Around the world. I get a little weary some of kind of, um, throwing out some of these things.
If we, if we pay attention to some of this stuff or give empathy to some things, I feel like it's
taking away from others that really truly need it. At the same time, we are finding out all the time
about new things that our bodies are dealing with or the ways that the world affects us.
Right. Um, we, we've, uh, we're still preaching to people about the importance of sunlight.
Like we would think we've gotten that by now that we are, vitamin D is important, but we still have to.
We, we still, including myself needs to still be reminded of it. Because now, you know, more than
40 years ago, we have to be careful in the sun. You have to take in sunlight at the right times
of the day. Uh, if not, you need to take a vitamin D supplement. Yeah. Yeah. Which those of us living
in this latitude have to do anyway. Uh, YouTube, we're turned wrestler Logan. I don't want to talk
about him. Uh, if you want to see, uh, for, I just, I'm not going to give him time. There's at
least two different names here that I'm not giving a time or attention to. There's enough of them,
enough media will. If you want to see if you're, uh, from even higher up NASA posted amazing
footage from the space station of the full shadow passing over the earth, it was pretty cool.
Space.com posted a big roundup of eclipse photos from around the US and the hill.com has a time
last bit, time lapse video of different cities being plummet into darkness. That's cool.
Yeah, I love those time lapse. I can't wait to actually, you know, like have the time to go and
look at all this stuff. Yes. I haven't had the time. I haven't. Yeah. I hear you. I haven't either.
I figured by this weekend. Maybe, maybe cloud cover did put up a dent, put a damper on things in
some spots, but other got others got lucky or at least caught a glimpse. Weatherman from Mississippi
got pretty emotional watching it with his family in Dallas. His name is David Hartman. He
nerded out on it pretty hard. It's, it's actually really cool footage. You know, um,
in anyone who missed the full thing, uh, this time around, we'll get another chance when the next
big eclipse cuts across the US in 2045. Or if you can't wait, book your tickets now for Greenland
in two years. There you go. I've always wanted to visit Greenland. That seems like an interesting
visit. Why not? It's the only way you might be able to fix this Holy Clipsons. Uh, well, the clips,
uh, you know, uh, side, side effects, eclipse sickness. I feel like we need a better name
on that. It's the eclipse sickness doesn't it? That's because it doesn't really exist. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That doesn't need a name. Yeah. I didn't want to wrap up the segment telling everybody in the
Auburndale area over at Auburndale High School is Auburndale coffee with the vets today at eight o'clock.
Be sure to check that out if you can and a big shout out and thank you to all of our vets over
there. Uh, for those who don't know today is, uh, National, uh, Prisoner of War Day. Uh, it is
MIA Day. It is a day to remember, uh, those that we have, uh, lost and a little bit later today,
we'll be, uh, reading something from the White House, uh, promoting, uh, presenting about that
and talking about that. Wonderful. Again, Auburndale coffee with the vets happening right now at
Auburndale High School. Go check that out, everybody. Um, we'll come back with our LKFA birthday
anniversary club right here on the morning show at WFHR. It's time for the LKFA birthday anniversary club.
We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to two 21 market avenue and beautiful poor
dead ones reading right off of their Facebook page. Good morning. Hope everyone survived the greedy
clips. It almost feels like a reset. Uh, we're open until two. If you're hungry for something,
a little different stop by. We have something for everyone, uh, Lori and Fidel up from, uh, up front,
Ezekiel and Fidel are in the boys are in back, uh, and go ahead and check it out and say hi to
the gang over there. Wonderful human beings. Oh, delicious food and really good food. And it's very
easy to find. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it, uh, and it gives you a chance to head to Port Edwards. If you
know, you know, head on over there, two 21 market avenue and beautiful Port Edwards,
wishing we good morning from all of us here at WFHR. We've got a great list for you today,
everybody. Uh, and we want to wish a fir, well, actually, Melissa, I'm sorry, I gotta head
myself. I got a so excited. I wanted to start talking about somebody, but don't name names yet,
James. Yeah. I need a one through three. Uh, one. All right, gives us that qualifier so we can get
right in the dis celebration. And first up, we want to wish an extremely happy birthday to the
heart of WFHR Pamela Hilke. Happy birthday, Pam. Happy birthday, Pam. Oh, I hope you have an
amazing day. There are no words, uh, which is very weird because we work in an industry that really
needs words. We really, we need words James. Yeah, but, but go ahead and try to describe Pam. Go
ahead and to describe, try to describe what Pam means to the station, what she's meant to this
community. There are no words. They're really aren't. Um, we talk about it from time to time, but
I don't know that we could ever really put the time in to explain to everybody out there,
not just recently, not just in the last couple of years, but for decades or life, basically,
this station and you listeners, what she's done for you guys, no matter what comes her way,
Pam is the same person every day in at that chair in front there, greeting everybody, smiling,
you'll never know she's having a bad day. Not the way she treats people, not the way that she is.
There are so many times that I've seen that woman have the patience of a literal saint.
And it's, it's uncanny. It's remarkable that you could be in this industry that long working with
so many, let's be real drama and moody and emotional radio people types and stuff and salespeople
and clients. You're never moody. And let's be honest, let's be honest listeners. Sometimes you
guys got complaints and you call her up and how does she treat every single one of us with respect
and dignity? Just remarkable human being. She's also a font of knowledge. If you need to know
something about Wisconsin Rapids, just call Pam Hilkie. She'll set you straight. How many times
have I called her, but like, Pam, how do you pronounce this name? Actually, she just corrected me.
I was pronouncing Dreyfus wrong, the Dreyfus University Center, a layered, you know, like,
at UW Stevens Point. So now I know. Pam is so much more than doing the phones up front and
running scheduling for us and as far as mid to magazine and a lot of our other thing and doing
our programming, scheduling on the computers and trafficking and everything. There is a thousand
other things that she does around here that we, we don't have the time to all get all into and
everything. And, and one of the things that I like to bring up on her birthday that I don't feel
like we talk about nearly enough is her wonderful sets of humor. She is very funny. Pam is hilarious.
Pam has got a great sets of humor. You see Pam today, please wish her a happy birthday from
him. Please do. Yeah, I believe you're driving by. Feel free to stop in. Wish her a happy
birthday in person. We also want to wish a happy birthday to Anthony Aldi. Happy birthday, Anthony.
Tony is a great guy, a masseuse over at Stover Healthcare. We say good morning to all of our friends
over there. Tony, one of those guys, I met the first time one of these people you meet and you're
going to have a 20-minute conversation with him and you're going to enjoy it. It's not, you're
going to have a good time. He can talk about anything and he is so engaging in it's genuine. All
of it's genuine. Great guy and great masseuse. And I know with Stover, find out for yourself.
We wish happy birthday to Nancy Brando. Happy birthday, Nancy. Another great long time listener
that we appreciate around here. Thank you so much, Nancy, for everything you've done. We
appreciate you. Have a great day. And our qualifier today, Beth Sap. Happy birthday, Beth. Beth,
we with you. With you. We are with you. We wish you a happy birthday. We wish you a wonderful day.
No, we're not. No, you might be thankful for that. Beth, we wish you a great day. Enjoy your day.
And you're a qualifier today. Yeah. Congratulations. Get yourself. You have a great name. Yeah,
you really do. You really do. We're big fans of Beth's around here. We are. We want more of those
birthdays and anniversaries. Everybody get them to us. Send them to info at wfhr.com. James.
mail up at civicmedia.us course direct messages on our Facebook pages and call up. Call up on the show.
715-424-2600. You can call up right now and wish your person a happy birthday.
Looking forward to hearing from all of you. We got a couple of great actresses. The kick
things off. L Fanning is 26 Dakota Fanning's younger sister. She's Princess Aurora and
Melissa Fent and it's sequel and Catherine the Great and who lose the great. Good actor. She's
good. Her inner sister. Very good. Kristen Stewart is 34 today. Really? Yeah. Solid actor.
It really has expanded her career into a lot of different angles and different things from the
coming up, trying to break from the twilight. Yeah. She got a little bit typecasted after that.
I wouldn't say but now trying to branch out. What's her most recent hair? Love lies bleeding.
Okay. I think she's got a sport in a mullet for that one.
Gerald Wei is 47. My chemical romance lead singer. I got some good tunes.
It seemed I feel like I remember some of there. I don't know much but I feel like I do well.
Cynthia Nixon is 58 today. Miranda on Sex and the City.
Randford governor of New York a while back. Really? 58. Dennis Quaid is 70. Long time actor.
Well known. Long time. Oh yeah. We celebrated this birthday over on the Sunrise show. How catch
him? Would have been celebrating his birthday today. Born in 1953. Country singer. Big hits like
small town Saturday night. Passed the point of rescue and hearts are going to roll. Actor as well
I believe. And some people no longer with us like Hugh Hefner. Born as Dean 1926.
Hugh Hefner. Was he buried in a robe? And I'm not trying to be like cruel here or anything.
Like it's not like he just passed. It was 2017. Yeah. Most of the pictures you see him in.
He's wearing a robe or like a smoking jacket. I guess is what you would call it. Yes.
Yes, it's a smoking jacket. That's a better way to put that. So I don't know for you.
But it's him at leisure. Yes. Is how you would see him. Much rather spend some time on great
Karl Perkins. Born in this day in 1932, passed away in 1998. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Rock and
Billie Legend wrote blue suede shoes. You cannot talk about the history of music and not
mention Karl Perkins. Got to mention. And Gregory Pincas. Born in this day in 1903, passed away in
1967. Inventor of birth control pill in 1955. Hey. Appreciate that guy. That's an important
noted birthday for a day in these times. That's a very important thing for a woman to be able to
decide if or when she wants to have a child. Because it is such a life changing
event for a woman and her partner, obviously. But but that is a woman should be able to decide
what to do with her body. Yeah. It doesn't have to be any more complicated.
You're right. They did spirit. And they're really should not be much more discussion outside of
that. Like you are not allowed to tell another person what to do with their body. You should not
be allowed to tell another person what to do with their body. Damn sure a man shouldn't be able to
tell a woman what to do with this body. That's true. It is an important note of birthday. I just
I do not I have to be honest. I didn't catch the name right away. It's not as something that was
familiar to me. So I thought that was interesting. It's so interesting to be able to celebrate with
all of you guys. Again, please get us your birthdays and anniversaries. We appreciate everybody
that got them to us today. Yeah. You know, a day like today, these were some we had some
nice list of celebrity birthdays. I much rather spend the 10 minutes talking about all you.
We'd much rather than that. And we know there's more birthdays and anniversaries out there.
Come on. Get them to us everybody. We love celebrating with you. Be sure to do so. And a big
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Till two. Yeah. Enjoy. Treat yourself. I wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
Wish you a happy birthday to everybody celebrating out there. Enjoy your day. Everybody in Pam.
Wish you a great one. We'll see you soon. We'll get to our state and local news and come back
with some more fun on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everyone to the morning show
here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. I'm not aware of the humidity. So I know what I know.
If you know what I mean, I'm kind of sort of know what you mean. I'm just going to nod my head
and act like I know what you mean. Uh, Eddie Berkall, Bohemian's playing Melissa and I in.
It's a good song. It is a good song. It is a good song. Music's one of those things that brings
us together. We all the time have situations where we're with me. You like that kind of music?
Well, I do. I wouldn't have never guessed that. That kind of thing happens all the time in life.
Well, there's a lot of talk about divided America these days and how diverse of
the vice of things are and all that. But that may be changing according to sausage.
The Johnsonville sausage company recently conducted a survey on American attitudes and 80%
of adults say that they are sick and tired of the anger and negativity in America. Let me just
get that one more time for the people in back. 80% of American adults of adults say that they are
sick and tired of the anger and negativity in America. 89% want less negativity in the news
and social media. And it's led to us feeling less connected. 60% of adults say having fun with
people has gotten a little harder lately. But 80% say that there's there are people in their
lives that they are really want to reconnect with even if they disagree on some issues.
That can happen. A whopping 91% of adults say that they don't have to agree on everything to
enjoy a meal together. Yeah, that is very true. 91%. Because what are the two things we shouldn't
talk about at a family gathering? Yes. Yes. Religion and politics. Man. We just avoid those
topics. We would have no trouble getting along. Well, for the most part. Unless unless you're me and
my siblings. Yeah, I know I hear you. Yeah. My the matriarch of our family, my Nana made a point ever
at it before every family meal. No religion, no politics. And you just did not fight that woman.
That woman was all four foot one and nothing but a spitfire. Just just a powder keg. We're not
going to fight with her on those things. And into this day, we still don't do that. We just don't
talk those things because we don't need to. Right. There are so many other conversations you can have.
You don't need to discuss those topics because like we have said many times, both of those things
are very personal to us to each other. You know, unless you're going to a rally where you're
obviously going to talk about or hear about politics or something going on, that's that's the venue
for it. Not when you randomly run into somebody on the street. Or like myself when I went to
Arizona for those weeks, I actually like girded my loins to get ready for the conversations that
were going to happen in the retirement RV park that I was in because I knew they would happen.
Yeah. And you know what I did. I just walked away. Yeah. I just like, you know, I don't want to engage
in this conversation. But I also don't want to like cause angst or anxiety for the people who are
obviously wanting to engage in this conversation. So yeah, I'm just going to walk away.
I've been I've been talking about this for years now. Since a lot of this really got started,
good seven eight years, wherever you want to say it happened. And I talk a lot about how we have
more in common than not. I have an interesting perspective from this coming from an inner city
and in a project area. And then living up here in a rural area like this for a while. And let me
tell you, you guys got a plenty in common and a billion things more in common with the people
from my own neighborhood than you do with the top one percent or a lot of the people that are trying
to bark at you and tell you to dislike those people. We, you know, there is I don't want to change
minds necessarily. I don't want to I don't want people to think that that's not my intention at
least when I'm in this chair. What I want is for us to realize we don't have to. There is a
difference of trying to change somebody's mind and accepting somebody for who they are. And
everybody being able to do that with each other. And if there is something you don't agree on,
guess what? You don't have to talk about it. That's true. It's not that hard. No, um, the only
thing you can agree to disagree and move on. The only people trying to divide us are people
that have an agenda. They don't care about you. No, they don't. It's not about you. It is about
them getting what they want. For some, it's money, some it's power, some it's staying out of jail
or trying to. And they tell you where they stand. They mentioned their name all the time. They say
I all the time. They can't help but make them themselves the center of everything.
They they they're it's so plain to see and is and they don't care about you. It's not about you.
No, not at all. What who does care about you? You're fellow Americans.
Your neighbors, your people that live around you. Let me look at what happens when tragedy strikes.
When we have a natural disaster, people come together because we care about each other.
How would today's politicians have handled 9-11? How would they think about that for a second?
Because no matter how we felt on on the 10th of September, on the 11th, we were all together.
Nobody was asking each other about political parties. Nobody was fighting with each other about
this or that or anything. We were all hand in hand and we need to get back to that to the essence
to remind these politicians to remind these divisive people out there that it's about us and not you.
It is about America. It is about the people. 90% of Americans agree with this. 88% of adults say that
we're tired of this. So let's do something about it. We have the power. We are the ones in control
here. Let's remind them of that and let's remind them that if they don't follow in suit, if they
don't follow in line, they can be replaced. You have the opportunity to speak to any of your
representatives. You just Google their name. You find their website. You email their office.
Call them. They have to respond to you because guess what? They work for us.
Yep. Yeah. They are public servants. Never let them
not tell you know, don't let their egos overcome that. They are public servants.
There's a movie called With Honors with Joe Pesci plays a homeless man and there's a wonderful.
There's two great lines in that movie. One of them. You want to know what the greatest nation
in the world is? Donation. Great line. Great line. There's another one where he's talking about
the office of the president and he's talking about what the president is and the president is a bum.
The president, we, he doesn't own that house. We pay for that house. The president doesn't,
the president's job is to represent us to be our talking point, our speaking point, not to be a
dictator, something that we fought to get away from, not to be somebody who was out there
dividing us, not to be somebody who doesn't fight for people who did not vote for him because
never forget only a good politician will fight for all of his constituency, not just the people
that voted for him. That's right. Because they represent all of you. The president, if the job
is being done right, is a bum. And that's not, I'm not saying that as a derogatory way. I'm not
saying that as a negative thing. I wouldn't go up to a homeless person and say that in the derogatory
way. No, but I'm saying this as the job and way it was intended by the forefathers. Because we pay
his salary. We pay his salary. We pay the salary of all of these politicians. We pay for their
healthcare. Heck, sometimes we pay their taxes. People lose their minds over somebody collecting
food stamps. But we don't lose our minds over these politicians taking our money and running
with it, not getting a damn thing done. What the heck? What do we do? What do we think about that
for a second? Everybody. It's a little twisted and they did it to us. It worked. This is their
game that they played on us and it worked. Let's undo this. We can. It might take time. It's
going to be, it's going to take patience. But we can do this. We can undo that and make it better.
Oh, my coffee's coming. I'm going to be in a lot better mood, guys. I didn't have coffee today.
I'm so sorry. I should have started the whole show that way. I got to tell you, James, that there
are some things that you have the ability to do from this chair. And you do sometimes change
minds or or help educate those around you. I have to admit, every time I go to the bathroom
in the middle of the night, I now wash my hands with soap. And it's your fault.
I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. Because the facts don't care about your feelings.
Spiriture. We'll be back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and Seth here with you, hanging out. Got some good stuff. You mean Melissa and James?
Did you just call yourself Seth? I just called myself Seth. You did. Are you missing Seth?
Oh, I don't know what that was. I don't know how I did that. I mean, it's what I could name
wrong sometimes, but my own name, my own name. We got no, we have to take a second on that one.
They're gonna let that sit there for a second. You got your own name wrong, James.
I'm gonna start calling you Seth. Let's call you Seth all day long.
22 years. 22 years in this business and never, never done anything like that. I don't know.
Welcome back listeners. We don't know who we are, but we're here to entertain you.
Here's my name tag. We are talking names and different names up things right now.
This is kind of useful. A study found that the English language has 546 different words for
being drunk. Wow. You know the classics like hammered, wasted, tipsy, trashed, smashed,
all those things. Well, even things like swasted, shawasted, SH-W-A-S-T-E-D swasted made the list,
but some are more obscure and a little fun too. Most of these are British terms. We won't get
into why there are so many different words in Britain for them being drunk, but they've been
around longer. But yeah, this is like over the ages. This is from like the 1900s. What's like
1951 is the last one on this list, which is just so fun. So let's go through these Melissa. How about
I name a couple? You want to name a couple? Do it that way. Slap happy is a fantastic one. But it
doesn't truly get like you think of slap happy. You think of somebody to happy mood good yellow punch
drunk. Yeah, yeah. Not everybody's slap happy drunk. You got to really be smart when you're using
that terminology. How about pithicated? Would you even know what that meant? No. Actually,
nowadays we're probably thinking, what are they taking too many pills? Jeremiah. Jeremiah?
Jeremiah. I don't know about that one. Lit. Now that was 1900s, but we still use that one.
That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah. And that one's that's from the that is that's new,
but isn't completely newer. Did we use to use it and brought back? We used to use it in 1900s.
Yeah. That's what I thought you just said. I didn't think I heard you right. Well, I don't think
I knew that. That's interesting. That one's been around a while. Beary. Just calling it like it is,
like calling you what you're drinking. Beary. You're very beary today. Well, here's one from 1901
that would come across differently now, pot-eyed. Yes, yes. Very different now. That's all different.
Well, to piggyback off of that, how about stone occurred? Stone occurred. Somebody tells me
they're stone occurred. The last thing I think it is that they're drinking. It wasn't alcohol.
Yeah, it was not alcohol. Or tanked from 1905. We still use that one. Wow, 1905. That's been around
since, wow. Corned. Just corned. Just corned. Blotto. Blotto was a great one. Blotto was a great one.
That also 1905. Or shellac from 1905. Oh, shellac. Skunked. Just skunked. You're just skunked.
Yeah, I think that one. Spifilcated. Well, about that one. 1906. You're silver if you're using that.
The person you're saying it to might not be, but you have to be silver to be able to say that one.
Fuddled. Fuddled. That's a nice one. Fuddled is a good one. That's good.
Ori-eyed. Ori-eyed. Well, 1910. Cabbage. You just cabbage. Oh, that's good. That's not bad.
Buried from 1920s. Buried. I mean, things were pretty dark in the 1920s. Yeah, they really were.
They really were. Yeah. How about this one's not only a good one, but it also describes your
innards a little bit. Pickled. Pickled. Yeah. Or gassed. 1915. Did you do bladdered. Bladdered.
Bladdered or bladdered. That was the number one on this list. How about rum-dum? Rum-dum is good.
From 1931. Rum-dum is good. I like that one. I can't say on air, but you all know what that one
would be. Right, right. From 1940s. How about shwacked? Shwacked is not bad. From 1941. Shwacked.
Sloshed. 1950s. We still use that one. Yeah. Slosh is a good one. Yeah. That's a go-to one. That's
not bad. Squift. Squift. Squift. How about lubricated? Yeah, but see that one. For stinko from
1927. There's words. Here's another whole other side category, but there's words that
aren't. They are not naughty, but they sound like they are. Like you can get like you can only
save around certain people and everything. That's one of those ones. I think that you said it
before plastered. I think that's a good one. I like that one. How about ones that sound like
they're in a Batman cartoon. Boxed, zonked, clobbered. It was rough in the 1950s. Holy rust and
metal, Batman. We've had too much to drink. And I get to say my favorite one. I think
trouser. Trouser. Trouser. Trouser. Just trouser. You can't even keep your trousers up. I don't know
what that means, but I like it. Hopefully you still have your trousers on. Yeah, yeah.
Whole other set of problems. You can keep those on. You can find the complete article that
read it. Let's go ahead and keep this going with the phones with our listeners out there. We'll
keep this up until the top of the next hour. What's your favorite radio friendly term for
being plastered? We'd love to hear it everybody. Grinned. Grinned is good. Oh, nice one. That's
a jugged. Jugged. It feels a little bit like what you are actually experiencing. Yeah,
drinking out of. Of course, that one came well 1919. So right around before prohibition.
It's interesting. The ones that came around that era, like before prohibition, jugged,
canned, juiced, fried. Now what's interesting, what part of the reason in this country, and I can't
speak to England other than them being around just longer than everybody are us at least, but in
this country, the reasoning for so many different words stems from a lot of prohibition. I couldn't
just say, hey, I want to rum. You know, I had to say I had to say some kind of slang term or some
hidden words or anything. Right. You had to have the secret password. Yeah, I never know who was
listening. And I have to say, I don't know if it's a popular opinion or not, but I was a part of
a show for Netflix that didn't end up happening, but it was all about bootlegging and it was about
the history of bootleggers from New York to Kentucky and back and forth. And I did a lot of
homework on that era. And it is some of the most creative things we have done as Americans
is how we transported, how we hid that stuff, man. We were going to get that alcohol. We were
going to get that drinking. We did just bowling balls, just different transport things we did to be
able to get things just from here to there. Well, you know, when there's a will, there's a way.
Yeah. I do like this one from an Irish grandmother pixelated. Oh, that is good. That's good.
Pixelated. That's pretty. Meaning slightly tipsy. It is a little bit like how you see things,
too. That's good. That is good. Do you do you have any other good ones? No, I was kind of
scrolling through the comments here to see if there were more. But you go ahead and throw about
tight. Yeah, it's tight. That's been used since the 40s.
Let's get into snacks. The most popular snacks in the US market research company released a map
that shows the most search for snack in every US state. And the results are pretty all over the
place. Rice Christmas treats are number one in 18 different states. Doritos was preferred.
The preferred snack in 16. I was going to say chips has got to be way up there. Cheetos was
top up top snack in eight states. And so far 42 of 50 states picked one of those three.
There were a few slightly more unique picks like Fritos and Chex Mix both carried three states.
Lays potato chips were top pick two states in New Jersey went with Cheetos.
That adds up to 51 because they included Washington DC. A few other favorites that didn't rank
number one, but made the top five were goldfish, pringles, tostitos, starbursts, and chipsahoe.
Goldfish are really a great snack, especially for kids. Yes, yes. Great snack. Great snack.
Here in Wisconsin, Rice Crispy Treats were number one. Cheetos were in Illinois and
right everywhere else around us were Rice Crispy Treats. And out of all of those,
Rice Crispy Treats are the only ones you can make at home. Yeah. Right?
I mean, everything else is very obviously cereal's processed, but you're making the rest of it at
home unless you're buying it. But you know what I mean? What is your favorite snack, everybody?
Go ahead and let us know. 715-424-2600-424-2600. I don't know about you Melissa, but I know I'm a
grazer, especially the later in the day, the more I kind of just pick at things. I'm not great at
sitting down and eating a whole meal, like an adult. And especially- I have that problem, Jane.
Especially at night, I find myself grazing a lot, but usually we're just grabbing whatever's
there. So I want to know what your preferred snack is. I can't believe pretzels didn't make the
list. Yeah, me too. That is such a common popular snack. That's so easy to go to low and fat.
You can get flavored pretzels. Don't even talk about dots pretzels. Those things are like crack.
They really are good. They really are good. Yeah, so what did you go to snack, everybody? We want
to hear that. And what's your favorite? I like sweet stuff at night. I like more- I'm not a
chip guy at night as much. During the day, sure, but I'm more of a brownie, more of a cookie kind of
person. It's breakfast time. Bring me the pringles. I mean, come on. It's a breakfast, breakfast,
main stay pringles. But I have noticed too. We're just talking about drinking and everything.
And one of the signs of getting older is having a long night with your friends or something like
that and not being able to rebound like you used to. Oh, man. Three days later. Yeah, now it's days.
It used to be hours. Maybe the afternoon and you were feeling better. Now it's days. It's a
similar thing with snacks where it's not so much the way they affect my body, but that I just don't
like I feel like, well, I always love Doritos. I eat Doritos, you know, my old childhood and all that.
I just I don't like them anymore. They don't give me the save. It's not the same. And I feel like
I feel weird and I don't like I don't mind getting older. Getting older is a good thing. It's
better than the alternative. But there is some stuff that I'm dragging my feet about. This is
one of them. Like I feel like I should still like the same snacks I did when I was 17. It bugs me.
It bugs me. On the plus side, James, if you're substituting those Doritos for something like
apples and peanut butter, you know, that's a much better healthier snack for you. Will you accept
granola? Yes. Absolutely. I do. I've been trying to eat healthier and I've been trying to snack
healthy. Your granola is one of those things that I do actually like. It of course depends on
the, you know, brand and the sugar content and whether it's chocolate flavored granola. I
wasn't going to mention that some of the granola he does have chocolate chunks. Yeah, I kind of figure.
What if it makes you feel marginally better about your health and you go go for it?
Um, and I do I do have a just I call it a clean one. It's just granola.
I'm going to have me some clean granola today. Oh, really good. I'm going to be good today.
I'm better than your dirty granola. Yeah. Right. It really is. It really is.
We have to wrap up with another fun one here, Melissa. And I think this would be a fun one.
A literal pancake house is available for a three-night rental in Tennessee.
In cake house. Oh, it looks just like a pancake. It's even got service. It's got like chocolate
syrup on it. It's got an ego sign at the top. Oh, wow. I'm trying to see. Oh, I mean,
inside it's all decorated like bunk beds. I'm like honey. It's like yellow and brown and
it's very 70s. And this is actually from ego. This is something that ego put together. It looks
like a bed and breakfast kind of. Yeah. I hope it comes with breakfast. You know, they
it'd be cruel if it didn't actually. Right. There should the freezer should be stocked with
a the ego house of pancakes constructed by ego in honor of a national pancake day.
It's furnished with breakfast inspired to court, including pancake inspired beds with strawberries
and cream cheese and pillows. This is in Kentucky. No, Tennessee. I'm sorry. This is in Tennessee.
Okay. It's available for a three-night stay if you're interested.
The house is located in Gatlin'sburg and described by ego as the pancake capital of the south.
Hey, hey, flapjack loving fans and families visiting this unique vacation destination will be
transported into a pancake paradise from the amount moment they step inside.
Breathe in the scent of sweet syrup infused mountain air. Oh, wow. Get cozy in the fluffy
pancake beds and bean bag chairs. The kitchen is stocked with ego frozen pancakes as well as
many pancakes for making s'mores as the house is fire pit. Oh, it's got a fire pit. Hey,
all right. Well, it's got to have something more than pancake pillows. It does feel like it also
comes equipped with a maple syrup fountain. What? Oh, what? I'm booking this. I'm booking this. You
had like none of the everything else is just kind of like all right. It seems like it'd be fun if
if they paid for they paid me to do it. I would now I'll pay them now. I'll pay them. Now you pay.
You had me at maple fountain. Yeah. Maple fountain. Wow. Can I bathe in it? Can I probably not
I don't think so. That sounds unsanitary really does. The house is listed on home to go for three
night stays at March 7th through the time to go. And that already obviously passed. But they are
opening it back up. Bookings open again at home to go dot com. You can check it out there.
Interesting. It's a very interesting one. All right. Got a couple of notes for you. One of the
make sure to get to for our great listening audience out there was got some emergency management
WEM and the National Weather Service and WS are conducting a statewide tornado drill on April 11th
145 and at 645. So in a couple days on April 11th there will be a NOAA weather radio stress test
during the drill times in many local communities may test their sirens as they do. Yes.
ours is one of them. I know that go into Washington school here in rapids in sixth grade. They
got thers right there in the school. Yeah. You can't not hear it. Yeah. Yeah. Every every noon
a lot. Every noon lunch and noon recess. Yep. Yep. You'd hear it. So keep that in ear out on
for that one. Everybody spread the word about that for everybody out there. But it is severe weather
awareness month as well. So you know, have a plan. Yes. Talk with your kids about what to do in
the case of an emergency. Yeah. Keep that in mind. Everybody look out for each other and stick
around. We got good stuff coming up for you right here at WFHR locally growing radio.
