Hour 2: The Kitchens Open – Got Milk?

Good morning, Wiz Katzen.

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I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K.

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And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

And a little bit.

We'll get into some entertainment news.

And then a little after that, ten things everyone does, but never talks about.

No, never talks.

We ain't going to do it.

We keep it hard for us.

We're talking about KT and the town.

We've already talked too much about it.

Yes, we've said too much.

We've failed.

We've failed.

We've got all of those things coming up for you, everybody.

But it is a Monday and the 9 o'clock hour.

You know what that means.

Hello and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR.

Today, we're going to cover a timely topic and discuss milk.

Aren't you lactose intolerant?

Yes.

And.

Seems like a little like giving yourself a paper cut and pouring lemon juice on it.

They kind of like the same thing.

A little bit like me going to like a sleep convention.

Yeah.

The what not to do guy.

Yeah, don't do what I do.

Or we could be talking about milk because the news of it over the last month about the avian flu.

In fact, in cattle herds across the nation and the recent possibly upsetting news, unsettling news for some.

That fragments of the virus are being found in the commercial milk supply.

That sounds scary.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is an intense one.

And it's one that we touched on a little bit here at the station.

We've heard news of it and Melissa's breaks.

And I think for a lot of people, I'm not alone on this one.

This is a topic that I have not been able to dive that deeply into.

With all the 24 hour news cycles and these things and different stuff going on.

Some of the things that slip through the cracks every once in a while.

I appreciate so much when we're able to take a moment and talk about them.

Hopefully we can answer some of your questions today.

Yeah.

All right.

Oh, sorry.

Lost my spot.

Well, since you don't drink milk, I suppose you'll spend the segment lording that over us.

Well, I could, but, but I do ingest some milk here and there.

So I'm not completely out of the loop on this and I ingested way too much of it last weekend.

We won't talk about that.

Plus, according to multiple experts, the commercial milk supply is safe.

You mean I can still buy my beloved chocolate milk?

I am not going to catch some bird flu if I drink it.

I am very relieved by that.

I don't know how to fly.

So I don't know how well that would work.

Well, yes, you can buy your chocolate milk.

You have to drink something other than coffee for pizza.

Hey, I drink water every once in a while.

You've heard me wax poetically about how much I love our water here at the station.

And in fact, I'm like 70% water.

Do you know that?

Let's not stray too far off the topic here.

But James, technically you're 60% water already.

Though your lungs are about 83% your brain and heart are around 70.

And your skin is 64% water.

Heck, even your bones are watery by at about 31%.

Hey, let's focus here guys.

We're talking about milk, not water.

I know, but water isn't milk mostly water.

It's true.

It's true.

My bone.

Wait a minute.

If we're made so much of water, does that mean we're always swimming?

I'm sorry.

I can keep going.

Focus, James.

Yes.

But we're going to pull from several articles as well as the Food and Drug Administration,

the Center for Disease Control and the US Department of Agriculture websites.

NPR posted an article last week Wednesday titled, What consumers should know about the milk testing positive for bird flu?

It's a thoroughly written and research article by Joe Hernandez and worth the read if you have time.

The long and short of it is, the milk supply is safe.

Samuel Elcane is a Cornell University food science professor.

He's quoted in the article saying, there are no safety concerns.

Elcane said of milk with traces of bird flu.

I'm still buying my milk for my local grocery store.

But what about the announcement that one in five commercial milk samples contain traces of the virus you ask?

Well, this is where we get to talk about pasteurization.

Pasteurization destroys harmful bacteria?

Yeah.

Wait, that's a good question.

If the bird flu is destroyed during the pasteurization process, why is it still there?

Because even though the high temperatures used during pasteurization kills the harmful bacteria,

it doesn't erase all traces of a virus.

Samuel gives an interesting analogy on this in the NPR article.

He says some genetic material may be left behind such as DNA or RNA, the instructions that tell the virus what to do.

He says it's similar to this.

A car gets in an accident.

It's no longer functioning.

You can't drive it.

It doesn't do anything that a car doesn't do anything that a car does.

But you sift through the rubble and you can still find the instruction manual that tells you how it works.

There you go.

That was a really great analogy.

Yes, yes.

The pieces are still there, but they're not active.

Exactly.

Which is a good thing to keep in mind with not just this disease, but a lot of these kind of things.

Yes.

So tests may be showing the virus used to be there, but it's not functioning like it would have before being blasted with heat.

Speaking of heat, let's talk about the pasteurization process for a minute.

According to Wikipedia, it's been around since AD 1117.

In China, they were heating wine for preservation purposes.

Wow.

Cool.

By the 1700s, it seems to have gone hand in hand with the development of canning food.

During this time, they were doing experiments to find ways to preserve food.

Ah, yes.

The Italian priest and scientist, Lazaro Spalonazzani, who proved a liquid could be made sterile after heating it to boiling and sealing it in a container.

And then, in the 1860s, Louis Pasteur developed the method for killing bacteria to extend the shelf life of wine in particular.

Wikipedia says the thermal processing would deactivate unwanted microorganisms in wine.

Spoilage enzymes are also inactive during pasteurization.

The used pasteurization to increase the keeping qualities of butter in Great Britain in the 18th century,

and it was introduced to Boston in the British colonies as early as 1773.

But it was not widely practiced over the next 20 years, and raw milk was responsible for the transmission of many diseases.

Man, the CDC says improperly handled raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source.

The list of diseases prevented by pasteurization is a little startling.

It includes tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and q-fever.

The heating process also kills harmful bacteria such as salmonella, listeria, yorzenia.

Thanks, by the way, Melissa.

I appreciate that.

Yeah.

A capula-bacter, staff, and ecoli among them.

So with that list of possible diseases pasteurizing milk prevents, why would anyone want to drink raw milk?

I'm honestly asking you.

Well, all people who are proponents of drinking raw milk claim it has more vitamins and minerals than pasteurized milk,

and your body can process it easier.

According to an article on bonapetit.com, Mark McAfee, CEO and founder of Organic Pastures,

claims raw milk is non-allergenic, full of good bacteria, and the ultimate immune booster.

However, raw milk is actually illegal in 31 states, and only 19 states allowed to be sold in retail stores.

Between 1998 and 2011, there were 148 raw milk-related outbreaks, 2,384 illnesses, 284 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths, according to the CDC.

Nothing to take lightly about any of that.

And on that note, I do feel an obligation to mention that my family and I for many years were involved in milk bootlegging,

and getting the not pasteurized milk around the country.

And I'm not proud of this, but we did this a lot.

A lot of bootlegging of milk, a lot of...

No, but this is something I looked a little bit into, and in all seriousness, I did look into this a little bit,

and there are people that are incredibly passionate about this.

Yeah.

I had never even heard about this until reading what you had sent over Melissa.

I thought that was really interesting.

It's a whole subsection that I never even heard of.

For a while, when I was growing up, my family would get our milk from a nearby dairy,

I mean, really close by dairy, and we would get the raw milk, but it was from that right there.

So it knew it was fresh.

And after a while, we just, for whatever reason, we just went to regular, you know, sore-bought milk.

But that would be like the only way I would buy raw milk, because if it's like right there at the dairy.

Well, and the thing with raw milk, pasteurizing it, it extends the shelf life.

Yes.

If you get raw milk, it tastes different from day to day today.

It does.

Yes.

Because it starts to quickly just starts to deteriorate, that it's separate.

You know, you've got your way and your cream, and eventually it will occur.

Yep.

Quite a bit quicker than, you know, you buy a gallon of milk from the store.

You can keep it for a couple of weeks.

Right.

You can't do that with raw milk.

No, you can't.

And the concern is obviously the, the, it's possible exposure to bacteria.

Right.

But if you haven't noticed how a cow is shaped,

its waters are rather close to the ground.

That's true.

You know, where the excrement comes out.

So, you know, there's, there's a lot of possibility of milk picking up bacteria,

which is why they...

Man.

Two pastures.

You, you, you dot some landmines right there, but listen.

Nicely done.

Thanks, thanks for reminding me where milk comes from, Melissa.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

We're confused about that, Melissa.

I could, I could see somebody milking a cow right in front of me,

who can prevent me from drinking milk.

Like, I love, love, love milk.

I love it.

Yeah.

And there are, you know, there's, for those who choose to drink raw milk,

that's, you know, that is your choice.

Unless it's illegal in your state, and you should not do it.

It's illegal to transport or to sell it.

Right.

Retail.

Right, right.

You can still have, like, go to your local dairy.

Yeah.

Some nearby and buy it.

Yes, exactly.

Buy part of a cow, like, not part of the cow, but, like, part owner of said cow,

and then you can get the milk, legally, as well.

Hey.

Hey.

You looking for some raw milk?

Well, you're looking for some raw milk already.

I got, I got this part of the cow over here.

I got, I got some from over.

East.

I got some.

Okay.

So with this new added concern of the H5N1 virus and cattle herds,

that is what they're calling it instead of the avian bird flu,

because it's in cattle.

You may want to use pasteurized milk right now.

There's no information on whether the virus can be transmitted to humans

through drinking raw milk, but the FDA is recommending that you don't.

Granted, they always recommend that you don't.

And, in my opinion, for good reason.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

I've got strawberry.

I've got chocolate.

I've got no.

The other issue that causing some concern in these is these,

that there's only 33 dairy herds across eight states with confirmed cases of H5N1 virus.

However, according to an article on ScientificAmerica.com published on April 26th,

the fact that virus particles are found in milk being sold to consumers is leading experts

to think the avian flu could be more widespread than initially thought.

Now, the U.S. federal rules require that milk from infected cows be discarded.

According to the FDA website, the FDA and USDA have indicated that based on the information

we currently have, our commercial milk supply is safe because of both the pasteurization process

and that milk from sick cows is being diverted or destroyed.

But what about the cows?

An article on thinkglobalhealth.org titled,

cattle veterinarians express confusion over U.S. response to bird flu.

It was published on April 25th.

The author, Rachel Neuer, spoke with Beth Thompson, a state veterinarian in South Dakota.

Thompson said, this is not a previously reported disease in dairy cows,

so there isn't nearly enough data available on how it's affecting animals.

Thompson says, how is it moving through dairy?

How quickly do animals recover?

What does it look like when they recover?

All these questions and more need to be answered.

Another issue is that the reporting of sick cows is voluntary.

The symptoms include loss of appetite, dehydration, and a drop in milk production.

In several cases, the milk that cows produce looks kind of yellow and more vicious.

But so vicious, sorry.

But so far, the cows are not dying with the virus.

It seems to mostly affect middle-aged to older, lactating cows.

Younger heifers can shed the virus in their milk,

but they don't show signs of being sick.

They also don't know how the virus is being transmitted.

Joe Armstrong, a veterinarian at the University of Minnesota, said,

we know that it's circulating in cows, so it's no longer avian.

It's bovine.

The USDA is encouraging minimizing movement of cattle,

upholding good biosecurity practices,

and testing animals before moving them to limit disease spread.

But this is putting a serious strain on farmers.

Cattle get moved around a lot.

And there's no support system in place yet,

like the compensation given to poultry farmers

who have had to depopulate their flocks infected with highly pathogenic avian flu.

Farmers are not being compensated for milk production losses.

Joe Armstrong said, denial and lack of communication and collaboration among dairy farmers,

politicians, industry representatives, and veterinarians is another major problem,

one that exacerbates issues with data collection and resources.

There is some good forward motion going on this issue.

The USDA recently began paying for pre-movement testing of H5N1 in cows.

This started late this month,

but Beth Thompson said significant funding gaps remain at the state and federal level.

So the bad news is lots of cows are probably infected

and we don't know how it's being transmitted.

Correct, but the good news is there's only been one human case of the avian flu,

and he basically just had some redness in his eyes

and his sense recovered down in Texas.

According to FDA.gov, posted April 26th,

epidemiological signals from our CDC partners continued to show no uptick of human cases of flu

and no cases of H5N1, specifically,

beyond the one known case related to direct contact with infected cattle.

Is it bad news that they're finding virus particles in the milk supply?

The FDA said on Saturday that they've received additional results

from the initial limited set of geographically targeted samples

as part of its national commercial supply sampling underway in coordination with the USDA.

The FDA continues to analyze this information.

However, preliminary results of egg inoculation tests on quantitative,

polarizmic, chain reactions.

Positive retail milk samples show that pasteurization is effective

is effective in inactivating HPAI.

Huh?

The additional testing did not detect any live infectious virus.

These results reaffirm the FDA's assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe.

Oh, now that I understood. Oh, good. Yes.

Chocolate milk for dinner tonight.

But it is bad news that dairy farmers aren't getting enough direction

or support in dealing with this virus infecting their animals.

This is where I have permission to get on my soapbox.

Thank you, Mel.

And urge you to contact your representatives if you're concerned about this.

You can easily find the information on myvote.wi.gov.

That's myvote.wi.gov or by visiting the Wisconsin State Legislator website.

Enter your address on either of those sites and you'll have the contact information

of your local representative.

Well, and in the dairy state,

you think this would be something that people would be concerned about.

And they should.

And they haven't, you know, so far there's been no reported detected confirmed

cattle herds in Wisconsin affected with it.

But like it said, you know,

there's no incentive for farmers to report it.

And we don't know how it's transmitted.

I do think that that's one of the early things that we could do to be better active,

more proactive about this is having it not be voluntary

and having this be something that we require.

Absolutely.

But then also to have the support there in place to give the farmers the incentive to,

yes, report it.

Let's tackle this problem.

And if there is a loss on that farm of cows having them have security

and insurance to be able to back that up and everything,

there's so many layers to this when it comes to this too,

that I don't granted Melissa to an incredible work on this subject and everything.

But this is just scratching the surface.

And especially when it comes to the farmer's perspective of this, I imagine.

We always love to hear from you guys.

And if any of you out there have any feedback on this one,

love to hear it, please reach out to us.

You know, there's a theme in a lot of these that we've been doing recently

about this food supply in general and the safety of it

that's something we really, really need to look at

and keep very vigilant.

Huge country, you know,

and we're transporting our food across it on a pretty regular basis.

And cattle, like we said earlier, get moved around a lot.

Caves are born at one location.

They don't have the equipment in the facility there to house those calves,

so they get moved to another place.

And then, you know, the haveers get moved somewhere else when they get older

and start lactating.

So the cattle are moved around all the time.

We have a call coming in. We'll take it in just a moment.

All right. Well, thank you for joining us today for another segment of The Kitchen's Open.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Let's see if we have anything continuing the conversation.

Good morning, you're on the show.

Well, good morning, folks.

And this upcoming Sunday is the fourth of May.

Yes, yes.

When I'd like to tie your milk segment in with the blue milk that is now real.

Well, Todd.

I think the intergalactic, the rebel alliance and everybody is out to kill that avian and or bullvine flu.

Yes, so we got to get on.

Yep, yep.

With that blue milk.

It's the blue milk with the blue milk.

Nicely done.

Nicely done.

It is quite delicious.

Always.

What does it taste like?

It would be.

It has the texture of eggnog, but the flavor of vanilla milkshake.

Wow.

Wow.

That was good.

Interesting.

If I wasn't going to be sick for a week, I'd try it.

Excellent, Matt.

Thank you so much for the reporting.

Nicely done.

Nicely done.

Always good to talk to you, brother.

Have a good morning.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Appreciate that.

That is fantastic.

That is really good.

And another amazing job, Melissa.

Thank you so much for the fantastic work of you on that segment.

Thanks for playing along, guys.

It's not just a great writing, but it's great reporting, Melissa.

Good work.

Be listening every Monday for another edition of the Kitchens Open right here on WFHR.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

I set the Melissa and James here with you.

We're going to get into a little bit of entertainment news for you right now before we get to our news break.

Keep in mind a little bit later.

We're going to get into 10 things everyone does, but never talks about.

Keep it on the hush.

Yes.

We do want to send a shout out to Willie Nelson, happy 91st birthday to one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

I'm going to greater personalities of all time, Willie Nelson.

Just by beating himself.

Yeah.

There is a billion great stories about Willie Nelson.

None of them I can really read on the air.

Not a lot of them.

But I do encourage you to go ahead and check out a bunch of great things.

Learning I think one of the fun things to do out of day like this.

Certainly listening to Willie Nelson.

Maybe you want to see some of the performances he did in movies.

I like looking at live footage and live concert work and everything.

Otherwise, random facts about any of these people is always interesting.

It's always fun to learn something new about somebody who we've all known our whole lives.

We're losing more and more of those artists.

More and more of those creatives that have been around literally our whole lives when we grew up with.

So it's always nice to win one of them is still with us.

Be able to take a note, tip our cowboy hats to Mr. Willie Nelson.

Also wanted to touch on this.

A lot of comedians struggle with political correctness in the routines.

But Jerry Seinfeld says it isn't a problem if you just think about what you're saying.

He told page six quote political correctness is something to have a worry for people that can't think.

They think stupid mistakes that are offensive.

So how do you avoid making stupid mistakes?

Jerry says it's easy.

Pick up a paper.

Find out what's going on and just navigate around it.

It's really not that hard.

As a matter of fact, we do it every day.

We do.

We've been doing it for a long time on this station.

A long time.

There are years back when Carl and I were given the show.

Well, had to take over the show.

We were put in the awkward position that we had to take over.

And we, okay, the inmates are going to run the asylum now.

So there was a couple of things him and I believed in right out the gate.

We are not doing negative.

We are going to do positive shows.

I don't care how it comes across to the audience.

We're going to be positive.

There are also some people politically that we're not going to highlight.

We're not going to talk about every day.

Plenty of people are doing that.

We're not going to do that.

There are things that we're still doing to this day.

Now all of that is a great idea on paper.

Then you get into it.

Oh, I've got to create content for 16 different segments every day.

And I can't swear.

I can't be offensive.

I got to make sure that I appeal to as many people as humanly possible and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

There is a lot of the things that there.

And I can understand how if you've never done this stuff before.

Or if you're used to doing just whatever you want, that can be difficult.

But if it comes down to this to a comedian.

And again, I've been around a lot of comedians.

And I see it in every one of them.

Is it about you?

Or is it about making the audience laugh?

The ones that it's about them and getting their five seconds of fame or anything like that.

I think you can all tell pretty quickly.

And most of them don't have much of a career.

But the ones that are just trying to make people laugh.

They just want to make people laugh or something like that.

So many of them take the time to think.

And that's all it takes.

And we're not...

Notice Jerry didn't say you have to be a comedic genius or an idiot savant or something like that.

All you got to do is think.

That's it.

And most of the time, if you're thinking something like...

I've been in a lot of comedian rooms, including even on the Conan show,

where somebody had...

Oh, I got something.

They say it in Dead Silence.

Dead Silence.

Okay, moving on.

I'm not going to do that one.

You know this stuff instinctively.

And I think that most of the comedians out there that all they care about is lighting fires

and it's during the fend audiences and that.

They let you know where they are.

Those aren't comedians.

Those are wannabe politicians.

Those are people that are...

And probably going to get into politics.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

That's hope not.

Because they fail as comedians.

They need a job.

We're boring politicians.

I would really like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I thought that was pretty noteworthy for him.

That was pretty cool.

And he's pretty successful.

You know, decent, sweet and successful.

You know what he's talking about?

Seems like it.

Hey, I've heard of him.

So he must be.

It's nicely done.

I did want to remind everybody.

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Okay.

I need to know what the title of this week's show is.

Flower Crown.

A Flower Crown.

There's so.

I love it because it's so tricky.

Now you want to figure out what?

Yeah.

I want to know what that is.

And I guarantee, especially with this one, I guarantee as soon as you hear the Muppet

that is featured in this one, it is.

Oh, yeah.

Flower Crown.

That makes perfect sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But still, I love it.

I did want to also remind everybody to it is a it is go night.

It is an audition night everybody.

Disney's Newsies, Jr.

A part of Hopo and a part of Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre.

This is going to be auditioning tonight.

A first night of auditions.

Yeah.

Gretchen Powers is directing this one one of our greater directors.

And of course, executive director over at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre.

I did auditions today and tomorrow from five to eight over at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre auditorium.

Yep.

If you've ever wanted to get your kids involved in play, if they've been involved in place,

if your kids are driving you crazy.

Get them out of the house this summer.

Yes.

It's a great way to do it.

Give them the Gretchen.

What a great show too.

Newsies is going to be a lot of fun.

Can I just real quick a little aside here?

I just want to publicly thank Gretchen Powers and her family for being very generous to my family this weekend.

They did something above and beyond and I have to say a big thank you to them.

So in any of us that knows her is not surprised.

Yeah.

Gretchen puts a lot into this community, into this theater, and into almost everybody she knows lives.

Yep.

And that is the kind of person that you are entrusting your kid with.

That's right.

And you feel pretty good about it.

Yeah.

You feel pretty good about it.

And they're going to have a great time.

I guarantee that they'll enjoy themselves.

Just like we guarantee and you will enjoy yourself at rumors.

That's right.

That's right around the corner guys.

This weekend.

This weekend May 3rd is when it premieres.

Opening weekend.

Yeah.

Opening weekend for rumors.

Get your tickets at WRC theater dot org, WRC theater dot org.

Otherwise you can get them the day of right at the auditorium.

I encourage you to take in this show by local support local and that includes the arts everybody.

Yep.

And I want to say as someone who's been in the show before and this is extremely funny.

It's hilarious.

Yes.

It is a hilarious show.

It's great.

Not like the last one.

Okay.

That was a little heavy.

This one.

Lots of laughs in this one though.

It was a very good one though.

That last one.

Very good.

And this one will be to help us wrap up the main stage season with rumors.

Break a leg and shout out to all the cast members.

Have fun.

Enjoy yourselves during this run.

Absolutely.

Have a great cast.

Find out more and get your tickets at WRC theater dot org, WRC theater dot org.

We'll be back with more fun in the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a great Monday out there.

Happy start of the week to you.

Fun stuff to take you through the rest of the hour.

But right now I got 10 things everyone does but nobody ever talks about.

What are you talking about?

I don't do those.

I don't do those.

This is going to be a very quiet conversation.

What's a common human experience that no one ever discusses for some reason?

Something we've all done but no one talks about.

Someone put together a list and how many of these things have you experienced?

And again, we encourage you.

You all got the morning show played home version.

So please feel free to call up and join the conversation with things.

Especially if you have extras that you want to add to this outside the lines here.

Kind of things like when you get a call from a weird number and immediately Google it.

I actually haven't done that.

I haven't done that one.

This is what I do.

If I have an area code that I am not familiar with, I immediately say Alexa,

what area code is bluntly thing?

That's what I do.

So it's similar but not quite the same.

But that's kind of cool actually.

That's one of the best uses that I've ever heard.

It is quite handy actually.

I like that.

I usually just wait for it to go to voicemail.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Same, same.

Yeah.

When your flight doesn't board for an hour and you need to eat,

but you walk to the gate first anyway just to make sure it's there.

Oh my gosh.

I do that every time.

Well, you've got to know where it is.

I know where it is.

I got to know.

I got to know.

And you get to pass all the restaurants on the way there.

Yeah.

And they can decide what you want to eat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like that.

You're breathing fine until you lie down and one nostril immediately closes up.

It's not right.

It's not right.

It's not right.

But it's true.

Sometimes it helps if you roll over to the other side.

But that doesn't always fix it.

And then the other nostril.

Not yet.

Yeah.

I've got one that's not on this list.

How about when you're laying on the pillow and there's some noise that you hear.

There's some weird noise or something like that.

You don't know what it is where it's coming from or anything like that.

Yeah.

And so you sit there for a good.

Exactly.

You sit there for a couple of hours.

What is that?

Is it in my head?

Yeah.

Is it in my brain?

Am I actually hearing you?

Is it outside?

Yeah.

A few things question you're saying to the more than just this weird noise for you to hear.

There's somethings.

One pocket holds your phone and the other holds everything else.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you're lucky enough to have pockets.

Ah, yeah.

True.

Very true.

But yeah, no.

Yep.

Well, phones are so big that you can't put anything else in there.

You can put a whole pocket if you want.

Yeah.

This is one of the weirder things to me.

Everything in society goes from big to small.

Everything does.

Except our phones.

They started to.

It was heading that way.

It was going that way.

And then smartphones.

Well, yeah.

And everybody started to use their phones for everything else.

Everything else.

Making phone calls.

Well, I need a big screen if I'm going to watch.

There's a whole dang computer.

Yeah, exactly.

When you swallow water in a weird way and there's that excruciating pain in your chest that won't go away.

Yes.

That air bubble.

That just, you feel it all the way down.

Oh, yeah.

It goes down the wrong two.

Yep.

Ouch.

It's painful.

When you need a specific item at the grocery store but someone standing in front of it so you pretend to shop for something else until they move.

Just so you don't look awkward.

Absolutely.

I just did this this weekend.

I wanted some cheese nips and I've all gone to hoax.

I haven't had them in a long time.

I'm like, oh, I'm going to get some of those.

There was a guy standing there going through stuff.

He was taking it his time.

So I'm just standing there looking at the other things next to it.

And then he gets to move and leaves.

But I feel so mean saying this.

He moved and there was a stench that was there.

And while there's nobody in front of the cheese nips, the stench was there.

I just grabbed a bunch of like goldfish.

I was just like, no, no.

All right, that's enough of that.

I'm done.

I didn't even want it.

It was worth it.

For me, it always happens in the freezer section.

Like when you get a pizza or something like that.

And they're like right at the...

There's like a wall of frozen pizzas at every grocery store.

And they're like at the one place I need to be.

You know, right there.

It always happens.

It always happens.

The remote goes missing and you're convinced someone else is sitting on it,

even if after they check.

Come on.

Fess up.

Fess up.

Where's the remote?

I don't know.

I don't know.

You tell me where the remote is.

The worst is when you lose the remote for about six months.

Yes.

Because somebody stuck it on a shelf.

Oh, the random placing things down.

Oh, yeah.

In a weird spot.

Yeah.

And then you order a replacement and you get the replacement

and then you find the old one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I did that once with my iPad.

I had put it in the towel closet.

Because I had picked up a towel and I said it.

And I was like, what did I do with it?

Am I losing my mind?

There's so many things I've done that with so many things.

Well, you know, there's a place for everything.

And when you don't put the things in their place,

they're blocked forever.

Yeah.

When you think there's a bug on your neck,

but it's just the tag of your shirt.

Or a hair.

Or a hair.

Yeah.

Or a hair tickling on your shirt.

Yes.

That's a weird feeling.

That's very strange feeling.

A hair anywhere inside your clothing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I get a haircut and I need to take a shower.

Almost immediately.

He's like scratching himself on the way home.

Yeah.

Drives me nuts.

Drives me nuts.

Let's see.

That satisfying feeling when your ear randomly pops

and your hearing increases like 50%.

You didn't even know it was plugged.

Oh.

Oh.

What sound is that?

Wait.

What's that sound?

No.

Yeah.

Yes.

And when you walk into a store to buy something,

but they don't have it, when you walk out,

you feel like you're shoplifting and you've done something wrong.

Yeah.

Because you didn't find anything.

Yeah.

You come in and it's like, yeah, you feel a little weird.

Because it's like, that's what this thing is here for.

They can't wonder why I came in here and didn't buy anything.

What does that guy do?

What does that guy do?

It looks suspicious.

Here at the Dollar Tree.

What's it?

Yes.

Yes.

The idea of when you're rubbing your eyes and nothing,

you can't concentrate on anything else while you're doing that.

Oh, yeah.

Or you get an itch in your nose and you like compulsively do that.

That's the only thing you can focus on.

Yes.

It's all consuming.

The way we judge people for how they search for things on search engines.

We don't say anything out loud.

Oh, no, no, no.

No.

No.

In our heads, we certainly do.

How about, like, especially if you've got a drink in front of you and nobody's around,

especially if nobody's around, and no matter what age you are, you have to make bubbles.

I like that.

The need to do this.

It's only really satisfying in milk, though.

Yeah, because the bubbles stay.

Otherwise, you're just making like a hot tub, you know?

Here's a throwback or a cold tub.

Yeah.

It's nice.

A throwback.

When you would miss a day of school and you'd look at the clock and be like, oh, they're

eating lunch right now.

Oh, yes.

Oh, they're in math class right now.

Like that.

You're mentally in school anyway.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And the time flies so much faster when you're home.

Yep.

And it would have if you were in math class.

I've got a whole day in front of me and then you turn around.

Oh, it's three o'clock already.

I'm ready.

The idea, too.

And I think a lot of us feel this one, too.

But the idea, I had it.

I had it and I lost it.

I'm going to be honest with you guys.

I had it though.

I didn't want to interrupt you guys.

It happens.

It happens.

That.

That right there.

That happens all the time.

And we don't.

For every time we tell people about it, there's times.

No, I'm not going to say.

No, I'm not going to say.

I'm just going to keep this to myself.

No.

I had something that was going to be the most funny thing that has ever been said in radio history.

And I lost it.

But I'm not going to tell anybody.

Because I embarrassed and I forgot it.

Or when you do like what you just did and you start and then it's gone and then you have

to say.

And then you have to say because people are like, what, what is he doing?

Yeah.

You have to buy time.

But mental train just a rail.

Exactly.

Empty box.

There's another one.

The arguments that we have in our heads with our brains.

The way that we yell at our brains sometimes and we treat our brain like it's a separate entity.

Come on.

Come on.

Actually, it kind of.

Kind of is.

Kind of.

It is.

It's just mind of its own.

Have to just say, thank you for that thought.

Brain.

Now put the stopper in.

Because I need to move on with my day.

Enough of that.

Listen, Brain.

I don't like you and you don't like me.

But we've got to work together.

Come on.

Let's get this done.

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But first, that ain't right story before we get to our good stories of the day.

All right.

A man of Pennsylvania named Barry got two pieces of tax information in the mail last week.

First, there was a refund check from the federal government for $900.

The second one was a tax bill.

Saying he owed the state $34 billion.

What?

That's being billy.

Billion.

Yes.

What?

Barry says he had a feeling there might have been a blunder.

Especially since he makes less than a hundred grand a year.

Yeah.

Earlier this year, Barry's tax prepper prepper noticed a mistake on his 2022 return and filed an amendment.

He doesn't know how the $34 billion error was made if the tax prepper made a mistake or if there was a glitch in the tax system.

In any event, he was able to get through to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and get the situation resolved actually pretty quickly.

That's good.

That's surprising and good.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

They said it was an isolated incident that involved the wrong numbers being imputed.

Yep.

Yep.

I would have guessed it would have been numbers worth it.

Who knew the entire state budget of Pennsylvania is paid by Barry?

Man, that's good for you, Barry.

What do you do for a job?

Because you know, I'd like to apply.

Barry's heart is still.

Just still.

You can imagine looking at the...

Whoa.

Oh.

Oh.

Like, we're looking at Barry a lot.

Well, that's very outrageous to the point that we know.

Yeah.

Obviously, there's a mistake here, yeah.

I mean, if it had been like 30,000, probably it would have had more of a heart attack.

That's true.

A hundred percent agree with you.

Yes.

A hundred percent.

Except if you're talking about this happening to me.

Like, if it's me, it's at least a minute or two before it registers in my brain that this is way too much.

Because I'm immediately thinking of everything wrong I've ever done.

Mr. Mila.

And at that point, we're doing CPR because you've stopped breathing.

Yes.

Mr. Mila, we're starting to inform you that your entire family has always been wrong on their taxes.

And you owe us $34 billion.

I don't know who this James is.

Who are you talking about?

That's right.

We need a pal.

Obviously, fake accent is Mr. Mila.

Please, no.

I don't know who this is.

Maloo, what?

We need a pelvic laser.