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Oh, what an opening. I love it. That's great. Well, today we're going to talk about
lead contamination in food because this has been pretty high on the radar for a lot of
people here recently, especially with the the recall of the cinnamon apple sauce pouches
that had ridiculously high levels of lead contamination. So today we're going to focus
on several different articles that I found over the weekend. One from food safety news titled
Consumer Reports investigation finds high levels of lead in lunchables. Yeah. How many of us
have eaten a lunchable? Oh, yes. Yeah. I have. I mean, they've been my children have. Yes.
Yeah, they've been in use since the 1980s. I believe it or not. That sounds about right. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Takes me back. Oh, no. And everybody knows not only the lunchables, but like generic
versions. I mean, there's a lot of different versions of that. But essentially, the same kind of
thing. What you see. Yep. Yep. It's a pre-packaged kit that has usually very, very processed meat,
cheese crackers, and some kind of like a dessert, right? Right. That's kind of what we all,
and it was a special treat when I was a kid. Oh, yeah. We too. We very rarely use them. Yep.
And would this be the first kind of shark cootery board? Oh, yeah. Maybe. Maybe.
Oh, I mean, those have definitely come into use a lot here in recent years. We all know how to
say the word shark cootery. Yes. We don't have to spell it. I was going to say don't even try to
read it. Just say there's a queue in there. Yeah. It's our cootery. Yeah. With this with this
subject, this is one of those ones, Melissa, where that only does it affect our kids. We were
affected by this. There's almost no statistical chance that we weren't, we didn't ingest some of
this as kids or anything. Yep. Yep. Well, and part of the problem with lead in particular is that
the risks associated with lead exposure are cumulative. Mm-hmm. So we need to minimize
exposure whenever possible. One encourage people to check out the article that Melissa sent to
Seth and I foodsafetynews.com is where you can find it foodsafetynews.com. In that, they talk
about a lot of the risks with this, the finding of metals, but additionally, just quoting from
the article, additionally, some kids showed potentially dangerous levels of heavy metals and a word
I can't say. A filipates, a filipates, a type of chemical used in plastic products,
poising health risk with regular consumption. Mm-hmm. In that last part, that regular consumption part.
Like, this is, there's so many layers to this, Melissa, and I really want to stretch our legs and
get into this because there's one part of this where I'm reading the article, I read the other
article and I get done and when the first things I think of is, man, we have really become comfortable
with processed meats and all that. Oh, 100%. Yes. We're just completely fine with that now.
Like, that's just a thing. We don't fight back on. We don't push anything about it. We're,
we're, I was talking to a friend of mine, Marissa, and she is an athletic trainer. I went to
school for it, knows her stuff and everything. And it reminded me of a conversation you and I had
on playmaker's set that sent me down a rabbit hole of the PCL or the UCL joint in our L. Yeah,
they're the tendon. Yep. It's not, it doesn't completely become developed until we're 26. 26.
Do you realize that this is not common enough knowledge? Nothing is developed in our body
until we're 26. Like, we're, we're, we're, we're all of this stuff is still growing and defining
and everything. Yes, that's true. And there is no more vital time in our lives as far as our health
is concerned and taking care of ourselves than those early years. That stuff, what we do in our
bodies is built, we're built on. It's our foundation for when we, when we finally get into those
mid late 20s and early 30s and everything, we put in the work in early, hopefully. So
this, all of this comes back to the kits. And, and this is what we're feeding kits.
At the most important time of their lives when their bodies are developing, their brains are
developing. And process meets is nothing to us to just throw at them. Right.
And the fact that these companies that love, like I just wanted to, I don't know if you have
this or not, Melissa, I apologize if I'm stepping on your feedage because I'm really excited about
this conversation. They, they can, they asked the people fortune magazine asked the CEO of Lunchables
and, and Kraft Heinz company about this conversation. And just reading from what they said,
Lunchables makers, the Kraft Heinz company told consumer reports that his products, quote,
meet strict safety standards and added that lead and cad, cad, cadmium occur naturally in the
environment and may be present in low levels in their food products. The company did not immediately
respond to fortune's request and have not pulled any of their products. Because they don't care.
They, they make a lot of money. It's part of it. It's part of it. This part of it. And do you
guys remember that a little less than a year ago, they've started serving Lunchables in some
school lunch programs? Yeah. Because of the cost. They're cheap. Yeah. That's, that's what you,
they can afford. Yep. And why are they cheap? Because they're well. That's what we're getting into.
Yes. But yes, it does say, according to this article here on Food Safety News, that consumer
reports have taken proactive steps to address the issue, including petitioning the United States
Department of Agriculture to remove Lunchables from school lunch programs.
Now when we talked about the at cinnamon applesauce outbreak of lead poisoning,
according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 519 reported
cases across 44 states. And now this is acute lead poisoning. The levels in those particular
products were high enough to send these kids to the emergency room.
Wow. Reading right from consumer reports article, quote, we don't think anybody should regularly
eat these products. And they definitely shouldn't be considered a healthy school lunch, says Eric
Boring, PhD and CR chemist who led the CR consumer reports testing. And if you look further in
that article, they actually tested 12 different lunch kits. So these were not just lunchables.
Right. A lot of them were in different varieties of that, but then also armor lunch makers
good and gather from Target, Greenfield natural meat company. So the thing is, is they found
levels of lead and high levels of sodium in all of these products. What they tested them, you know,
the only way that they could measure them because there are no federal limits for heavy metals
in most foods. Yikes. Let me say that one more time. There are no federal limits for heavy
metals in most foods. So what they went by are California's lead standards. Okay.
For the turkey and cheddar cheat cracker stackers, lunchable 74%
of your lead intake allowable by California's lead standards. And that's one of the good ones.
Yeah, that is. That's right. That's the standard by states wise, one of the good ones.
Well, because you're like turkey and cheddar, though, that's got to be good, right? Right.
And then 49% of sodium. And none of us are surprised by the high levels of sodium in process meat.
Oh, no, no, I think that's true. And, you know, oh, go ahead. No, no, you go ahead.
Well, I was going to change the topic. So go ahead. I was just going to say that I do think that
there is something also. I think that every adult out there, we understand, too, that there are
some things that are always going to be in our food, that there is a, that there is some stuff
that is not able to, you know, whether it's in the soil, and it's in that, you know, that
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Well, and just to piggyback out that, the statement that
the CEO mayor that Kraft said was like, these are naturally occurring. Yeah, there's a lot of
naturally occurring things that we don't want to put in our bodies. You know, Mercury isn't naturally
occurring. That will kill you. And we don't want to use that. So that's, that's no defense. That's,
yeah. Well, on that topic, because that's actually what I was going to segue into is the, the,
the assertion that it's naturally occurring in the environment. Okay. Um, but what puts it there?
Right. That's good point. I found another article on Vox.com.
Um, the, it's titled, let it poisoning symptoms exposure to children, whatever. I'm not going to
jump up to read the actual title because I don't want to miss where I am in the article.
But it says that lead usage has actually been on the rise worldwide, even in the United States.
The proliferation of lead acid batteries globally, unless stringent rules in the developing world
for everything from cookware to spices has allowed lead consumption to grow despite its
known health risks. Lead is linked to a wide range of neurological and development of problems
and exposure is especially dangerous for children. Research has found kids with elevated
levels of lead in their blood experience, a range of effects from speech and hearing problems
to learning and behavioral issues. They develop more slowly, physically and mentally.
Now, just because we have lessened our use of lead, like, you know, lead paint, obviously,
or we took the lead out of gasoline a long time ago. But what has happened is that we've just
shifted that lead usage to other countries. So some of the, um, in a globalized economy,
some of the same lead pollution and danger in children in those countries can find its way
into consumer products that travel across the world and contaminate the food that children in the
US eat. Right. So in the case of that apple sauce, that cinnamon was originally harvested in
Sri Lanka, and then it was shipped to Ecuador, where it was ground into powder to be mixed into
the products. Now, both countries are dealing with lead exposure crises. One 2021 study found
that almost all mothers and children living in a certain area in Ecuador had levels of lead and
other metals in their blood that exceed public health guidelines. The pollution stemming from
Sri Lanka's active lead acid battery manufacturing and recycling sector has created health problems
for the workers and people who live near the plants. When the applesauce ingredients passed through
Ecuador, they were contaminated there with lead before they were moved for sale to the US.
Where, as we said before, there have been more than this article says more than 500 confirmed
or suspected cases of acute lead poisoning related to those recalled products.
Hmm. Wow. One of the things that stands out to me about this, so I don't expect businesses to
act human. Their businesses, they care about their bottom line, that's what they're going to do.
It is on us as consumers to not use those products and keep that business around and put them out
of business without not you buying their products. Right. So that comes down to that, that part,
and to me that's put aside. But, and I've looked into this. I'm not just talking from the hip here
or anything. I've looked into how many FDA workers we have per state, how often they work, what the
kind of job they have. If you've ever been in a grocery store, you probably understand that there's
a lot of products out there and there's a lot to cover here. And I'm not at all making light of
that. And I'm not making light of the fact that there is not enough FDA workers. It's not
enough people going into government work these days. There's a lot of other talk conversation
to be had for that. Right. But what are we doing? Why do we have these things if they can't get
things done? And I think that that's a key part of the story. And I think it's something
important to think about, especially an election year. But the other part of this that stands out
to me too, it comes back to the same conversation I think we've been having pretty much since we were
kids. How do we make healthy food cheaper, more affordable, more available, more available? How do we
do this? How do we make, fix this in society where, you know, not just our children in schools,
but people of lower income are able to eat healthier. Like how do we do this? There is certainly,
you know, everybody under the sun will tell you to compare shopping, farmers markets are another
way of this, but that doesn't help schools. What do we do for schools when it comes to that?
This is a conversation we have to have, something we should be focusing on. How about
quit worrying about banning books and get our kids some healthy, dang food? You know, I'm a little
more focused on that. If I don't want my kid to read that book, let me just take that out of your
hand. Thank you. There we go. Done. Done. Paying attention to what your children are doing shouldn't
be on a librarian. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And let's focus on the things because while it's such
it is so low-hanging fruit for politicians to be able to ban books and this stuff and everything
because it catches headlines and it gets you all riled up and everything and maybe you'll vote
for them then. If anybody gives a damn about actually why to get into politics and what you're
supposed to be doing as a politician, this is where your focus should be, is getting lunches
healthier for kids. And maybe one of the ways that we do that is we figure out how to stop wasting
so much food in America. The United States discards more food than any other country in the world,
nearly 60 million tons or 120 billion pounds every year. That's that's 40% of the entire US food
supply. Each single one of us is wasting 325 pounds every year. Yeah. And I think that we should
also remind everybody that if you need to, if you weren't with us in the beginning of the show,
just go back to the beginning of the show, we already solved this. You just don't go shopping hungry.
Problem solved. Just like racism. Yeah. In all seriousness, to help increase consumers' ability to
pay for healthy foods, California, California can make sure that existing nutrition assistance
funds are accepted at all healthy food realtors, promoting cal fresh acceptance in certified
farmers markets. This is something that's going on a lot right now too, with food chair,
food chair organizations or what used to be when I was a kid food stamps a lot of that. Yeah,
exactly. Back in the day, you'd never be able to do this. It was such a strict list of what you
could use those things on. Now you are able to buy healthier foods. And before anybody wants to
bark about my tax dollar this, my tax dollar that those kids, those people that are eating those foods
are going to go on to work in our workforce and pay taxes themselves and probably pay for your
this or that when you retire one day. It all adds up everybody. Miss me with that. Get away from
me with I don't even want to hear it. But this, but California taking some initiative on this
and other, you know, other states doing that. There are states out there where you still can do
this where it is a very strict thing. So then you're you're limiting a lower income families even more.
Yep. Yeah, from that. It's something that we need to be focusing on. We need to put more focus
on a more work into. Right, right. And just to bring back the conversation back to the
honestly difficult truth about lead is that even though we here in the US have cracked down
within the borders of the United States, pollution persists elsewhere. And in some cases,
American efforts to reduce our own pollution has merely moved the contamination to other parts of
the world. Steven Lubby who studies led pollution at Stanford University said so much of the food
that we eat is coming from all over the world. So we are deluding ourselves if we think we can push
pollution problems to low income countries and not worry about it. I went out good. I got
the stuff that I came across this weekend. Totally, I just totally came across it. And I wanted
to wrap up with this because it's not this is not something that's new. We've been dealing with this
kind of stuff for many, many years. Do you guys know what nitrogen trichloride is?
Oh, yeah, he had a hit song in the eights. Yeah, that actually sounds like a pretty good
band name or trichloramine is the other name for it. I was going to say it sounds like a gas
and bleach. It's a chemical compound actually. It's a yellow, oily, pungent smelling and it's
most concentrated form explosive liquid that is most commonly encountered as a byproduct of
chemical reactions between ammonia derivatives and chlorine. So that smell at the swimming pool,
that's what you're smelling. Okay, that kind of chlorine kind of smell. This is this is this
blue my mind. Nitrogen trichloride, trademark as Angie, aging, was at one time used to bleach
flower. Oh, God. But this practice was banned in the United States in 1949 due to safety concerns.
It was so bad that the baking company said, we need to stop doing this. They literally,
they were not forced like the government said, no, you have to stop doing that. They're like,
we found out something really bad. We're not going to use this anymore. So this is this is not new.
We've been dealing with this for ever since there's been a country kind of thing. So I just want
to remind people, change can happen. Yes. We can do stuff like this. Now, I don't think that the
companies today are going to do what they did back then and say, oh, we're going to stop doing it.
No, they have to be forced into doing it. And that's kind of what we've been talking about today.
You know, have your voice heard. We need, we need regulation. We need all this kind of stuff.
We need more FDA people. We need whatever you want. That's what we need to do in order to help
this with this kind of stuff. Yeah. That's right. And with many of these things that we've talked
about repeatedly, you know, these chemicals that we're putting into the earth, they have an effect
on us. You know, that, yes, we stopped adding lead to gasoline and paint. And we're, we,
but it's a lot of it is still in our soil. You know, that's how it gets into the cinnamon.
It's in the soil and it gets sucked up into the tree. And then, you know, like the excessive
contamination of it happened later down the processing line, but just like we're dealing with
PFAS here in the, in Wisconsin and across the entire country. But all of these using of chemicals
and things that are not natural have an effect, a lasting effect. And we need to, we need to not
ignore it. It's, it's, it's something we should have been doing all along. And it's important
that everything we do going forward, we're thinking about the next step that where this goes,
how far it goes and how long it lasts. I got to say, though, I don't know why more people don't
do what I do. I could, I could fix this whole thing. Just forget to eat. I do it all the time.
I do it every day. I don't see what the big deal is here. I don't forget to eat.
But if you are concerned about lead levels in your own body, they're, you know,
see your healthcare provider, you know, make an appointment for your kids. It's, I believe it's
just a blood test. And they can check your levels of lead. And it's better to do it, you know,
sooner than later. Or exactly. Or walk around magnets. That, you know, if they, they,
they attract, even you're in trouble. Let us in make that. No, I know it's not. That was a bad joke.
I was just trying to find a way to light. How are we going to wrap up the show?
The second. I was just trying to buy the light. Well, I think with that, we should close.
Yeah, there we go. Nicely done, Melissa. Thank you very much. Very good. A good topic. Yeah.
Yeah, good one. I'm looking forward to another kitchen's open next Monday. Be on look out for
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Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one out there. We're going to
dive a little bit into some entertainment news real quick before we get to our news break.
And a couple of big ones here. And this one I think is quite interesting. A biopic on Chris
Farley is in the works and it'll be directed by Olaf by Josh Gatt. Really? Wow.
Of course, famous for playing Olaf and a bunch of other things. Josh Gatt is famous for.
Paul Walter, Walter Hauser, Will Star. You may know him as Raymond Stingray,
Poe's Porter on the Netflix series Cobra Kai. Or from his Emmy-winning performance as Larry
in Blackbird. He's also a budding pro wrestler, so you may have seen him in WWE or something like that too.
But he resembles Chris a bit. He looks pretty close to him and everything.
Biopix are always dangerous because like Studio C. Oh wow, this is going to win awards.
Oh, this is going to win awards. I mean, almost every year you see, well, look at Oppenheimer this year.
Oppenheimer is not a biopic, but it's basically all about JD Salinger. Not Oppenheimer yet.
So there's certainly a lot of history for this. We know that it'll get a lot of awards.
But then there is also like the Amy Winehouse bi-pick that just came out back to Black or whatever.
It feels like the only reason they released that movie is to shred that movie.
It's getting not only horrible reviews, but the young lady who plays Amy Winehouse seems to have
done a horrible job. They put her in a horrible spot to do her own singing and she sounds
nothing like it's just really, really bad. And there are people out there who feel that like younger
generations that don't know who Amy Winehouse is. This is their first impression of her and they're
getting like, well, I don't want to listen to that. So it's interesting. It's a tough game to walk.
And I almost feel like even though we lost Chris Farley ages ago, it's too soon.
Weird as that is to say, there's too many of us that have fresh memories of Chris Farley.
And this young actor, this Paul Walter, I don't know him that well. There's no way.
There's just no way he could reach those levels. I deal with this every day almost in class.
Almost every semester, I got a kid that comes in that wants to be Chris Farley.
Not Jim Belushi, not Emily, Chevy Chase or any of these other legends that we've had at
Second City every one every semester. There is somebody that wants to be Chris Farley.
And we have to tell them and talk to them about this and explain to them. I had one kid who was
crying when he realized when you could see it in his eyes when it dawned on him. You are not
going to be Chris Farley. You could be Joe. His name was Joe. You could be the next Joe. But
you're not going to be the next Farley. Like what Chris was able to do. We've studied this at
school. We've gone over this and everything. We have this lesson. We teach at Second City where
you take any emotion and go through one through ten. I want happy at a one. I want happy at a two.
I want happy at a three. And you slowly build your smile. You slowly build these things. It helps
you kind of understand emotions and where to use them and all that. Chris Farley is one of the few
human beings in our lifetimes that could go from zero to a thousand and make it look realistic,
make it look believable. It's comedy. So nobody wants to think about it. Nobody wants to put the time
into it and everything. But I have and I know plenty of other people that have. And that man was an
artist. Was a true artist. Would he was able to do a comedy? Few people were ever able to do.
And so asking somebody to play him is almost a impossible task.
That's why I was going to ask someone like because I like Chris Farley. But I was never a big fan,
you know, of his like, wow, he's a comic genius guy thing. I'm not I'm not done playing him when I
say that. But I know James, you're a lot closer to that just because of your attachment to Second
City and all that kind of stuff. To me, it's like why? Why make them? I mean, I get I know what
everyone in Hollywood or the movie business, why they do it to make money. That's why they what
they think, wow, we have a market here. Let's do a biopic of Chris Farley. People still love Chris
Farley. Let's go ahead and do that. But what are they going to focus on? Yeah. Okay, you can still
watch all of his comedy bits that he did on set in our life. You can watch his movies. You can watch
some of his live stuff that he did, you know, wherever. What's the point? Because that means they're
going to what are they going to be focusing on? Yeah. The doubt, the bad stuff, right? His issues,
his problems and all these kinds of things. And while there might there's there's room for that,
you know, saying, you know, maybe bringing more awareness to this, I get that part of it. But
man, to me, a lot of it feels like exploitation. It really does 100%. 100%. He was only 33. Yeah,
yeah. And he died and he died in 1997. I like you have said, just I don't think enough time has
passed. Yeah. I really don't. And I think that's an important part point that you're making
there too, Seth, about what do we have to gain from something like this? Right. He's not here to
give his two cents about it. Like a lot of artists are have done it with biopics. You know, they've
maybe they didn't like everything about it, but they were able to say, you know, whatever,
and maybe give their blessing, you know, but he's gone. I don't know if there's ever a time where
I'm willing to watch a biopic or watch a documentary even that doesn't have at least somebody from
the family or somebody involved in it. You know, there's there's times where it makes sense that
they're not because of where the the the the ball at the documentary is about or whatever.
Right. Or they're like a serial killer or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, in those
situations, I'm fine with not hearing from them. But something like this, Chris Farley's got a
very a family that has stayed very active considering in the public eye for in many ways. And they
talk about Chris quite a bit. And they've shared things about Chris. There was a great there.
Here's another thing. There was a great bio that came out about Chris Farley just a couple of
years ago. I feel like really nailed this already. Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see. Another thing,
the kind of similar thing almost at Reese Witherspoon is working on a legally blonde TV series.
She's working with Amazon to develop the series. It's early on. So there's no any plot
details yet. It's unclear if Reese will play L Woods again. She previously said back in 2019
that she'd love to like to discover the what age means to that character.
To L Woods's character and legally blonde everything. I just it will say as a side note one,
I think Reese Witherspoon is one of the top 10 actor actresses in the world. I think she's
that good and very, very good at what she does. I only saw legally blonde because of the girl I was
dating at the time. And I'm so glad I saw that movie. That is a great movie. It's a good movie.
Like not only is Reese Witherspoon really good in it, but what's her name that is all over now?
She's she's blown up at the lady that plays her friend in it and everything. I can't think of
it. I can't think of her name, but I find it. You know where if you saw her. Let's all find it.
Yeah. It was a good movie. It was one of those ones where I was like,
hey, you know, even I who makes such a point of don't judge a book by its cover thing,
I even I can learn from that. Well, again, this is a known property. Okay. I've got something
and I'm I'm half joking, but I'm half serious when I say this. Why do we have to keep going with
like successful things where, you know, it's so hard to maintain the level of how good it was.
You know, that kind of thing. Why don't we do properties that just stunk? Yes.
And then try to remake them, but better. Yes. I don't understand this. I'm so with you,
a billion percent with you on this. There are I was talking about this, like, I don't know,
a year ago and I and it's actually referencing some I brought up the other day, Lady Hawk.
There's so many movies where oh, everything this was at eight. This was out of 10. This is
a seven out of 10. This is at eight out of 10. This is at a zero out of 10. But everything
else was fine. So just fix that one part. I'm like, I'm with you on this. It could work. It's a
good idea. Quit remaking good things. They're already making bad things make them better. I think,
I think we're on the cusp of a revolution here, man. I think this is the next phase of Hollywood.
Yeah, that gets it. We're going to fix our mistakes. We're good. Long again. That's what we're
looking for. Good one. But that would then kind of get the charm. But then they kind of did that.
Well, I actually, I can't say that. I'm still very bitter about the fact that remade roadhouse.
Because roadhouse is the best bad movie ever made. That's the standard that you have to
measure all bad movies against. I'm very torn on that. I'm not going to watch the new one
because it's like, no, the first one is too perfect. It's badness.
I don't know if they made it good or not. But can you make something that iconic
but like yeah, can you potentially make it bad? Can you do that? Yeah, I don't know if you can.
I don't know if you can intentionally make something bad. But it almost shows when people try
to do that. So yeah, I don't know. But there's no Patrick Swaisy. And that's, you know, I'm sorry.
Those end moments, you know, are how about this as you bring up Patrick Swaisy? How about we remake
even movies that aren't bad, but make them correct? I was 47 when it dawned on me that
dirty dancing isn't an illegal movie. How old is Patrick Swaisy? That girl's 17?
I didn't, I don't think I realized that. This movie should have been,
and I'm not going to make it. Let alone five. But why are they, why are they,
everybody cheering for them at the end and singing? Like, he's, he's, he's, he's,
breaking a law. There's nothing. Don't put baby in a corner. Don't let baby in the room with him.
Hey, right. We're going to get to a news break here. We'll come back and have some more fun.
On the morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
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It's time for your workout. And one and two and one and two. Get those leg warmers on.
Headbands. Headbands. Yes. Yes. A lot of spandex. A lot of spandex.
And I always. More is always better. I always say the people that got in on, like, you know,
Microsoft when it first started, they're like, get on on spandex in the 80s like that.
That was everywhere. You never have to worry about money again.
We've been talking food a little bit today, and we're going to continue that conversation.
If you've been trying to eat better recently or want to start, this is for you.
It's a list of four common health, quote unquote, health foods that dieticians and nutritionists
say aren't always as healthy as you think. Okay. Like, number one in this list, I think is the
number one for me and a lot of people out there, granola bars. I've been trying to eat healthier
for a good couple of years now for a while. And one of the first things I noticed was, oh,
I like granola. I'm going to eat more granola. That's healthy for me. And then I looked at the
back of the label and I wait a minute. It's awful lot of sugar. Oh, my god. So it's just being
smart. I do eat a lot of granola, but it is just being careful about which brands you use in that.
Granola bars. It's true that there are granola bars with whole grains, nuts, and dried fruits,
but even more contain high amounts of sugar, refined grains, hydrated oils, and artificial
flavorings and colors. Flavored yogurt. Yogurt can be a high protein low calorie option,
but the yogurt section at the grocery store is filled with flavored yogurts that are loaded with
sugar, artificial sweeteners, and sometimes even candy. Really? Yeah. The ones that you can flip
the candy over on top of the yogurt. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Why even eat your ice cream?
Seriously, I'm going to say, what are we doing here? Well, there's probiotics, and it's kind of
have less overall fat than straight-up ice cream, right? Probably true. Then you should treat it like a
dessert. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Juices, store-bought fruit juice usually contains extra
sugar and other additives. It's better just to eat a piece of fruit. There you go. Natural
fruits. I don't think it was until I had kids, and we were on a food share program, and part of
the program was, well, you can only get 100% juices. You can't get any juices with sugar in them.
So it made us all the stuff. That's heartbreaking to me. I mean, if it's not marinara,
it's a wine punch, my blood is made of. It's some weird cow. Yeah. Oh, cow coolers. Nice
reference. Yeah. I mean, I love those kind of things, and I wanted my kids to be able to have them,
and then I started looking at the labels of these things, and I'm like, oh, yeah. There's,
there are only a handful of juices out there for kids that are 100% juice. Right. With the no
sugar added, yeah. Yep. You have to read the labels. Yep. And as a side note, I never hear that as
a positive of people that are on food share programs, that they're, we're able to learn more about
these things, and learn more about that kind of stuff. There is some, you know, there's
something to be said for that too. And then finally on this list, you can find the complete list
at TheHuffingtonPost.com. It's also on a couple of other websites as well. Organic snack foods.
We see the organic stamp on something, and we just assume it's healthier. But cookies, chips,
and other snacks labeled quote organic often have just as much sugar, unhealthy fats, and calories
as non-organic versions. Yes. That's just how it is produced. Doesn't mean it has anything to do
with how healthy it is. Exactly. Organic is, that's all it means that it's produced in a certain way.
Easy marketing. Oh, absolutely. But because the, the, the, what you can call organic,
it's wide open. I mean, there's no real, like, like litmus test that you can use for that. You can
say, well, one part of it is organic, so maybe I can call it organic now. I mean, I don't even know
what the rules are. Right. But I don't think that there, there's for a farm to be called organic,
is far more, it's huge, what they have to go through to be able to get that, what they have to go
through to put that on a label. I'm not so sure. I'm guessing that's pretty simple. Yeah.
Let's look at the, our condiments here. What's your favorite condiment, and where does it rank
as far as health goes? Someone asked nutritionists to name the best and worst condiments for our
health, and here are the top three of each. The healthiest mustard mustard. I knew it.
Mustard. She did say it right, as I said it. That was perfect timing. That was great.
Salsa and straight vinegar. All right. Vinegar might be number one because it's good for your gut and
adds a lot of flavor without adding salt, sugar, or fat. Mustard also has a little to no sugar,
but it's salty. Salsa can be salty too, but has a ton of vegetables. Right.
And the least healthiest, mayonnaise, ketchup, and barbecue sauce. Oh, yeah.
Mayo amounts of sugar. Yeah. Mayo is the worst because of saturated fat.
Catch up and barbecue sauce are next because they're usually low to with sugar.
Now, you can find, at least barbecue, I don't know about ketchup, but I know there's barbecue
sauces out there that have, that you can find that have very little added sugar to them. Yeah.
And those things, I just searched those out because they're actually, for me, they're better because
I don't like sweet barbecue sauce. I like more of the zesty kind of stuff. Well,
then the thing is that's American ketchup. That's true. I catch up in the, in like the UK,
you can be in for a surprise. It is not sweet. And they don't, they don't use it on things like
hot dogs. You don't put ketchup on a hot dog. Which you shouldn't be doing anyway. People,
I got to be honest. I don't understand mayonnaise. So that one doesn't surprise me too much.
I don't understand ketchup. I really don't get ketchup. I don't understand why range dressing
isn't anywhere on these lists. Great point. Great point. We will, if we had to ask about
condiments that I would prefer to eat on everything. I can't. That's true. If you could,
if you could, what would you drench everything in? Right. We will take a time out. We'll come back
and have some more fun to wrap up the show on the Boarding Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here. We're going to take it right to the top of the hour. Got some good
stuff to go over as far as some local things we want to touch on. I want to let everybody know.
Tomorrow, we'll be Melissa and I hanging out. We got good things lined up for you.
And on Wednesday, the three of us will be back together. And we're going to get into wacky pet names.
Wacky. The finalists for the chug chug or the the list of chug chug is on there. That's why I just
didn't say that. That sounds like one. Yeah. Pet insurance company came up their annual list of
the wackiest pet names. We're going to get into that on Wednesday. It should be a lot of fun.
I look forward to that. And tomorrow, or Wednesday as well, I want to get into this one about
the average American kid. How quickly they get bored. We're going to touch on that one too.
Yeah, that should be an interesting one. Pointing fingers. Not a word you would use around my
grandmother. Board. Oh, no, yeah. My parents in the same way. That was definitely one of those
things that you had to be careful. Oh, your board. Are you? Well, I got something for you. Yeah.
Aren't any right story is an interesting one to say lightly. High school kids have been pulling
you know, silly stunts for a long time. The key is not to be charged with a crime when you do
a 17-year-old student at Baker High School in New York was arrested for a stunt he pulled last month.
He sent a fax posing as the principal announcing that he was resigning. He was caught after the
police realized he put his own cell number on the cover sheet of the fax. He created a fake email
account. He did a bunch of these things, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that this is what
the young minds that is going to be working in the industry working in the world one day. Very soon,
17 years old, right? He's already working. He's put his phone number on the fax sheet.
The one thing he forgot, you know, the one clue they say that the criminal always leaves. Sometimes
it's obvious. Yeah. Yeah. That's really obvious. Yeah. Yeah. That ain't right. That ain't right.
We're looking at our good stories of the day. We've got a couple of things lined up for you.
One of them is of course our shows going on, our content for the day. Be sure to join us from
three to four today for playmakers. Nobody made a highlight from the sideline getting the game.
We want to hear your sports thoughts and feelings. We are going to be joined by the
greatest listeners in the radio as well as Seth is going to be sitting in with us today as well.
And we'll be joined by Tyler from the rafters. He's going to be joining us every other
week for leading up to the baseball season and probably even more on a regular basis during the
rafter season. Yeah. Rafters. We're going to be getting close. We are getting close.
Rafters have made a couple of announcements over the last week about like different giveaways
and different promotional nights. We're going to talk about that during playmakers and some of the
exciting players they have brought in. It's going to be fun. We're looking forward to talking
rafter baseball and talking with you during playmakers from three to four today. Big shout out to
our friends over at Quality Plus printing getting your words out here in Wisconsin Rapids.
And joining us every Wednesday with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. And of course
sponsors of playmakers. We appreciate them. Milwaukee Bucks are in postseason action. We're going to
be waiting on that. See where that things roll with that. But we can tell you that as of right now
and I mean as of right now, this could change in the next five to 10 minutes. There is baseball
to be played tomorrow on WIRI. Merrill at Wisconsin Rapids High School baseball. We're hoping to
have on WIRI for 55 our pregame would stop not looking looking great right now. The weather looks
like it's going to be putting an onion in our ointment, man. As part of what you do that. Yeah.
One of the things that we enjoy is our partnerships with our nonprofits and our local businesses
around here. And one of the great ones we have is with our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Whenever you become a new chamber member, you get to join us on these airwaves for a little bit.
And we have a new member joining us tomorrow morning at the kickoff the 9 o'clock hour. We're going to
have Shilor, Calhoun joining us from the relax, refresh and reconnect barber and spa. That's
cool. That's a long name too. Our new chamber member. Yeah. We're going to talk with them and about
the ribbon cutting coming up and about the business and find out more about them. Yeah.
Got some good stuff going on there. And what are a mind everybody that your favorite
muppet podcast is got a new episode out. Puppet masters of none. They're great guys. They do a
really good job with their puppet. I'm joking. But there it is really if you are looking for a good
podcast about puppets done by puppeteers. Puppet masters and none is actually a really good one.
But I'm talking about what the muppet of course. Yeah. Bri and I have a new episode out today. I'm
walking here. It's the name of the episode. I'm walking here. Okay. I can just buy that and knowing
what I know about the muppets. I think I got an idea about who it's about. At least part of it.
Yeah. You got an idea. You're right. Yeah. It's a we had a real fun time with this episode
encouraged and go ahead and check it out everybody. And keep on spreading the word in the show.
Because Bri and I Bri had a great idea about giving a contest to give away something to our listeners
and our watchers. Once we hit a thousand views. Which we're right on the custom. I was going to say
you had to be close. Right on the custom. Yeah. Everything. So help us continue to do that and spread the
word of the show if you want. Find the video on YouTube. Go to the type in your search bar.
What the muppet and of course find out. Find out wherever you get your podcasts. And thank you
so much to everybody supporting the show and helping. Helping. Bri and a young artist get her thing.
Yeah. Cool. We have a great event coming up in town tomorrow. Seth. A great opportunity for
people to donate. Yeah. The next blood drive is happening tomorrow. Like it does a couple times
every month at the former East junior high school and room 111. That's at 311 Lincoln Street in
Wisconsin Rapids. Blood drive from 10 to 3 tomorrow. Appointments are encouraged. You can call 800-280-4102.
That's 800-280-4102 to make an appointment. Walkins of course are also welcome as long as they've
got some space for you. They will take it because we we know how much we need this year round everyone.
There's never an offseason for giving blood. So tomorrow from 10 to 3. And then we'll be talking
about it more. But on Monday the 22nd from 2 to 7. They'll be there again. So keep that in mind everyone.
Mm-hmm. Also keep in mind if you are in the Stevens Point area almost every day the Stevens
Point Blood Donation Center is open over at 3201 C Main Street. You can find it right down Main Street.
It's not hard to find at all. Encourage you to reach out to them and find out more and pretty much
anywhere in your area. There is probably somebody an American Red Cross or a blood opportunity to
donate. Opportunity to donate. Go to RedCrossBlood.org to find out more. Yeah. And our friends over at
the United Way have United Weekend Hunger event coming up. You can participate. You can put a team
together. You reach out to our friend Ben at 421-0390 or Ben at UWSAC.org to find out more and get
your team together. This is one of the best events that we have in this area every year.
I want you to have a fun time with this one and get ready for it. It's an opportunity for us to
not only take in a Raptors game as a Raptors are going to be going up against a Battle Creek Battle
Jacks starting at 635 that day. But it's also a chance for us to help out our community and
do put some good into the community. And it's such a fun event too. It's so cool. I want to see the
sculptures that people come up with. Find out more at UWSAC.org. Be sure to be listening this Thursday
when Terry CEO of the United Way is going to be joining us and we'll talk more about this event.
And of course you can find out more right now by following them on social media as well and
jumping on their social media pages. That's right. A couple of quick stories for you from around
the world two pool two pool players named Russ Redhead and James Harrison Jr. had a big
beef about a decade ago. They were huge rivals. But they eventually made up and became friends
and they're probably a lot closer now as Russ just gave James a kidney. Whoa. He'd been on dialysis
for three years and he's doing great two months after surgery. James' wife could barely hold back
tears talking about it. What a huge gesture. Yeah. That's very cool. There's nothing like sports
rivalries. And it's so cool to see one of them go this way this direction. That's pretty cool.
Melissa, I don't know if Kevin's going to want to hear this one but I got a special one for Kevin
and all the cats out there. A 30 pound cat in Indiana named Thicken Nugget. Whoa.
Is slimmed down using an exercise resume and usually reserved for dogs. A place called the
canine aquatic center is helping him swim his way thin. In seven weeks he's lost five pounds.
They're hoping you could drop another 10. A cat swimming. A cat swimming. Boy that's a
rarity. Wow. Cats do like water. But it's yeah it's not a normal thing for cats. It's not a normal
thing for cats. It's a job in the bathtub when it's empty. Yeah. Yeah. Now every cat when you're
brushing your teeth it is not uncommon for a cat to want to select the water. You just got a
little bit of water running. Yeah right right doing that. But yeah that's being immersed in it. No
not so much. Yeah. And the world's oldest gorilla just celebrated another birthday. Her name is
Fatu. She was born in 1957 and lives in the Berlin Zoo. She's celebrating her. She celebrated on
Friday her 67th birthday. Wow. I didn't know gorillas who lived that long. I didn't. That's really
cool. I thought that was pretty dang cool. That's pretty unique story. And we encourage you to be
the good story out there and get it to us everybody. Spread the word about good stories that you hear
here. And of course get us your good stories. Yeah. Reach out to our staff or me James. mail
up at civic media. US. Of course any feedback you have on our stations. We encourage you to always
reach out to me. Hit me up anytime. Love hearing from all of you. Appreciate all that you guys do.
You two have a great day. You too. You two James. Be good to each other. We will talk to you soon
in the later right here at. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 A.D.E. Wisconsin Rapids
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