Hour 1: Fulgent like a Diamond

Good morning, Wiz Katz.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

And thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.

Got your hosts, James behind the mic.

I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kaye.

Good morning.

And our head of production and co-host, Seth Habhager.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

You're on time.

Nicely done.

We got fun things lined up for you today.

We're going to kick things off of that great friend, Brittany Merlot, talking a little

mother nature.

Good morning, Britt.

Good morning.

How's it going?

Doing good here.

Blue skies.

Complete blue skies.

Not a cloud out there right now.

It's going to stay this way for the rest of the summer, right?

I wish.

I wish.

Yeah.

I was just trying to make the job easy for you, Brittany.

Sorry.

Sorry.

I wish I was.

No.

Today though, is this going to be absolutely fantastic.

I mean, feeling more like a late fall day with this crisp, cool breeze of fleshing

in.

It's also taking away any sense of humidity that won't be returning until next week.

So we get to sit pretty and comfortable.

Lens will be gusting up to about 20 miles per hour out of the northwest and highs today.

Dating in the low 70s.

Low 70s.

Wow.

Take it.

Yes.

It's going to be fantastic.

And honestly, no rain.

Finally.

I don't have any rain in the forecast until Saturday.

Nice.

I can listen to some blind melon today.

That's perfect.

That's right.

Fantastic, Brittany.

We appreciate you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We'll get people ready for Thursday tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Have a good one.

You too.

You too.

Best in a business right there for Brittany Malone joining us every morning right in this

time slot.

Melissa and Seth and I got a lot to do this morning.

We got the LCAP birthday anniversary club coming up.

It's a national hot dog day, so we got to talk about that a little bit as well.

We'll get into it and get ready to call up everybody because I want to know what your

favorite type of hot dog is, your favorite hot dog condiment.

It's summer.

Let's celebrate the hot dog.

Hot dog.

What's a subtle sign that someone is very intelligent?

We'll get into that one and the 10 least common jobs in America.

We've also got coming up for you.

The wicked awesome word of Wednesday with our friends from Quality Plus printing.

Very good.

Very good.

That.

Dive into some entertainment news.

Lenny Kravitz took a call during his press conference or his concert recently.

And it was an interesting call.

I would have taken it too.

I would have definitely taken it too.

We're going to revisit the lady who sing the national anthem and her response to that.

Get into that a little bit as well.

And we got some other fun stuff for you in the 9 o'clock hour.

And an important story in the 9 o'clock hour, one that affects every single one of us that

I don't hear anybody talking about.

I have not heard one.

I waited.

I waited till Wednesday.

Oh wow.

It came up over the weekend.

I was hoping we would hear something.

I was hoping I'd be wrong.

I did not hear one thing about this and involves our economy.

It involves something that literally affects every single American, every single person in

this country.

Wow.

And nobody seems to be talking about it.

So we'll get into that a little bit later.

Interesting.

Yeah.

That's my 5 o'clock news version of something in your house can kill you.

Find out a 10.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What?

What are we going to do?

Five hours.

They always drive us crazy.

We're going to go.

These are something in your house can kill you in the next five minutes.

My, my mother would look at the TV and give it a look that she only, I felt like she

only reserved for me when I messed up.

You and the news guy.

Yeah.

But I want to start right here because I, I, I, there's something that I, as I get older

and I still have this, this rebellious heart in me that wants to push back on things

and, and fight, you know, different stuff and different moments.

And obviously as you get older, you get a little bit smarter, hopefully, and choose

your battles wisely.

There you go.

This isn't something worth rebelling against.

This person doesn't even know who I am or other things that mean more to you.

And so I feel like this story combines the, those kind of worlds together, mischief reigns

in a small Canadian community after a kidnapping left a man's garden vacant of 10 ceramic

garden gnomes that resided there.

Oh, wow.

Swiping garden gnomes.

Oh, my goodness.

Billy Blair, a resident of British Columbia, woke up on a late June morning to discover

his garden gnomes had been stolen from his yard.

Blair was distressed as he had also lost a canoe several weeks back.

And now figured his neighborhood was no longer safe.

He had enjoyed the gnomes company for years and would miss their weathered beaten down faces.

Then on July 3rd, about a month later, not really a couple weeks, a knock was heard

on the back door, opening Blair be held a mysterious old woman, standing stock still holding

out an envelope addressed to the homeowner.

Admitting she could, she could answer none of Blair's questions, he opened the envelope

to discover a paper silhouette of a gnome with the words gnome restoration society written

down the middle.

The woman remained tight-lipped, led Blair to the back of her truck, where arranged neatly

in boxes, he saw all of his gnomes smiling back at him from behind fresh coats of paint.

Quote, the gnomes are home, said Blair to the black press.

It's just totally, it just totally made my day.

The messenger said the folks want to remain anonymous, and apart from that, she said no

information to give Blair, who said he was amazed at the exquisite detail in pristine

restoration these mischief makers undertook on behalf of his garden gnomes.

How about that?

The detail is quite incredible, he says.

There are pictures of before and after, and it looks professional.

It looks professional to me, to the naked eye at least.

I am not a garden gnome enthusiast, I don't know that much about these, but for what I

could tell, that looks pretty cool.

Blair said he would like to thank all of those involved in the gnome restoration project.

Thank you so much for this random act of kindness.

You probably could have done without the horror of having him stolen on the first place.

It's like, okay.

Shout out to Andy Carbley for the great reporting on this one.

Go to goodgoonsnetwork.org to find out more information.

You are Blair in this situation.

How do you react before, after, you know, curious, Melissa, do you have any thoughts on this

one?

I'm more curious about the group of people that are doing this.

Me too.

What did they decide, like, oh, let's get together, hey, you know, we ran out of ceramic

things to paint, and man, are they expensive?

Let's just steal a lot of people's yards, paint them, and put them back.

I'm so with you, I have this, Melissa, 100%.

Blair wished him well.

I think it's cool at all.

Yeah.

I'm glad he's happy about it.

Yeah, really.

Yeah.

And I'm a little surprised that the police weren't involved, because this could involve

a, not a false police report, but a police report that you would have to go and, you know,

if you had reported, they were stolen, right?

Yeah.

So nothing, none of that came up, and I read another article on this story and didn't

see anything about that either.

So a couple of parts, I want to be in the room when this known Restoration Society formed.

I really, really do.

Because yes, restoring gnomes, that seems really cool.

Hey, lots of people in our neighborhood have gnomes.

This seems great.

But to do it so mischievously, because you want to remain anonymous, and I get that.

But is this the most mischievous Canadian story you've ever heard?

This is such a Canadian story.

This is so doing something mischievous, but with an apology.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

It's perfect.

It couldn't be better.

That's a couple of questions, though, that I have that they didn't quite address in

here.

I mean, so he lost his gnomes.

Did he just not want to go out and get more?

Oh, yeah.

I just wanted it because it was not that they weren't the same or something like that.

Maybe because it was a month it said, so that's kind of a long time.

But they're cheap.

Well, I guess not, so he said in the story that he had enjoyed their weathered smiles and

faces.

And so maybe he had a personal connection with these people.

Maybe he did.

Yeah.

Boy, that would be my luck.

Is that I would pick a house where the people like those gnomes were like there.

They were ancient and they're like, they're that way for a reason.

And then I go and I paint them all up and everything.

How dare you?

It seems like something I would do.

I don't know.

I love this story.

It goes hand in hand with another one that I wanted to bring up because it little similar.

We go to the States for this one when a Michigan man went for a routine walk to his mailbox

to collect unwanted supermarket papers and public publicity.

He discovered to his surprise, he had some uninvited guests, two wooden dials sitting

on a miniature couch in the back of the box with a note between them that read, we've

decided to live here, Mary and Shelley.

That's cute.

Don Powell first thought as he told news outlets, the dials had been placed there by mistake,

but a quick and befuddled interrogation of the neighbors in the cul-de-sac, including

one named Shelley, turned up nothing.

A psychologist by training and president of a company that organizes corporate wellness

retreats.

Powell is all about a pick me up and when he moved into his current home five years ago,

he and his wife Nancy ordered a custom mailbox that would mirror their house with ample windows

and solar powered light bulbs that would illuminate the mailbox after dark.

Evidently, some tricksters believed in a perfect place for a dial to make their home.

Powell at first disagreed and ordered Mary and Shelley's eviction right into the garden

can.

But a change of heart saw him put the dials back to see what would happen next.

And he was right to wait.

The tricksters returned, bringing a dog, rug, and a four-poster bed for Mary and Shelley

to sleep in.

By now Powell was enamored with the game and went next door, a sort of Facebook exclusively

for people who live on one street.

I've never heard of that before.

Oh, interesting.

He's really enjoyed this with Halloween.

He said that he's going to keep it up at least to Halloween and then Christmas time because

he's hoping that they decorate.

They decorate?

Yeah.

I'm going to show Seth a picture of the house and that's really kind of cool.

Wow.

That is really detailed.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

Little wrapped packages under the tree.

Oh my goodness.

A nice little Christmas tree.

Yeah.

Everything.

It looks great.

I love the dog.

I like the little dog.

That's pretty great.

This is great.

I think these stories are good and it does, to me, again, with that rebellious mischief

heart, I feel like this would get some of that out of my system doing something like

this.

Some harmless pranks.

But I know at the same time I would, I feel like I would mess this up.

I just feel like I would do something somehow.

Somehow James.

The police would be involved.

Yeah, somehow.

Absolutely.

Absolutely, somehow.

That would be caught in the middle of this and I would be charged with this thing with

the person's mailbox or something like, no, I was just trying to do some nice, yeah,

write mail off.

Yeah.

You know your resume.

No, no.

I changed.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I do like this.

I also, I don't promote this necessarily because I do think that a million things can go wrong.

Yeah.

It's got to be a good situation, right?

But man, we could use more good stories like this.

Still, I'm still trying to wrap my head around.

It's kind of weird to have a mailbox as a replica of your house.

Does seem a little weird.

I know I have seen it a couple of times, but it's weird to me.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's just a little strange.

It is.

It is.

A barn shaped mailbox too.

I like those.

I love the individual style mailboxes.

I always wonder, God, how much of that cost?

Yeah.

You know, I'm a little curious about that part of it, but I do think it's kind of cool

with the more individual mailboxes.

I do like that.

This is one of the biggest mailboxes I've ever seen.

So it does have room.

It's not going to interfere with his mail or anything.

If I was him, I would almost have a new, like a mailbox just for mail, right next to

it.

Just a standard old mailbox and everything.

I wouldn't want to mess with this one.

We're going to come back, do some celebrating with the Elcafé birthday and anniversary club.

It's Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you on Mornings at WFHR.

It's time for the Elcafé birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to encourage you to treat yourself head on over to Elcafé, a 221 market avenue and

beautiful port.

Edwards, which is a great day from all of us.

Enjoy that wonderful menu, those amazing people and that wonderful atmosphere over there.

Do you forget about the pie?

There's pie.

There's pie.

There's pie.

We got the head of the pie council over here.

We won't make sure to mention that.

Never forget.

I did also want to mention, for those that don't follow along on Elcafé's Facebook page,

encourage you to do so.

They keep you up to date on their menu and different things going on.

They will be closed tomorrow, everybody.

So keep that in mind and if you know anybody that likes to regular Elcafé or might be planning

to go there tomorrow, let them give them a heads up.

Let them know that the doors will be closed tomorrow, but we'll be looking forward to

when I'm opening them back up real soon.

Head on over to Elcafé today and get your fix and enjoy.

And wish them a good morning.

Absolutely.

We have a great list of birthdays and adversaries today and while we've got four of them to celebrate

on our qualifying list, we want more.

Get them more of them.

More, more, more, more.

I always want more.

I've let the audience know this a number of times.

The only reason we do celebrity birthdays is to fill the segment.

Exactly.

I'd rather fill it with your birthdays, everybody.

Get us more of them.

Send them to info at wfhtr.com, james.mailofetcivicmedia.us.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and of course, call up.

715-424-2600.

Thank you, Vanessa.

Yeah.

Call up and join us, everybody.

So I need a one through four, Seth, give me a one through four here.

Let's go with four today, I guess.

All right.

Gives us that qualifying.

We can get right into the celebration.

And first up though, somebody who cannot win but has is a winner.

I will say, a very happy birthday to my youngest Isabel Reign, mail off.

Oh, happy birthday, is he?

Wish her a very, very happy birthday.

Isabel is one of the most creative people I know and sweetest people I know.

Genuinely.

Like a genuine heart.

Her and I share a heart.

Our hearts think alike.

And she is one of the most important things in the universe to me.

She's the last kid I'll have.

And there's something about that.

There's something about it.

You're always your kids, you're always your parents' baby when it comes to that.

You can keep getting older.

That's fine.

You are always going to be that little girl that love to love the color on me.

She like my tattoos and she always wanted to add to them so she would draw on me and

stuff.

Isabel had one of the most, while her brother was creative as well, J.C. was much more

structured with it.

Is he?

Everything was a palette.

Everything.

The walls and everything.

She wouldn't just draw on them.

It was always like something.

She loves cows.

And she draw like farm animals a lot, everything.

Incredible mind and a beautiful heart.

And I wish you knew the best of days, honey.

I'll talk to you a little bit later.

Enjoy your day, Raindrop.

We move on to our qualifiers list before I start tearing up.

Because I'm just thinking about her being born and everything.

I really am.

I really am.

I really am.

We want to wish Happy Birthday to a good friend of the station and of ours, Jade Johnson.

Happy Birthday, Jade.

Happy Birthday, Jade.

Jade is an old high school friend of mine.

Her and her husband, Jason, put a lot into this community and we appreciate them for

that.

And friends of the show too.

We send a shout out to them.

Enjoy your day, Jade.

Wait.

Jade and Jason Johnson.

Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

That's all that.

High school sweethearts too.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good story.

Good story.

They're great.

Happy Birthday to Tammy Johnson.

Not related, I believe.

Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Birthday to you.

I'm pretty sure.

Tammy, wishing you a great day.

Enjoy your day.

Same Tammy.

And we have wish Happy Birthday to Rick Lau.

Happy Birthday Rick.

Happy Birthday Rick.

Wishing you the best of the day, sir.

Yes, indeed.

And our qualifier today, celebrating their anniversary, Harold and Helen Fuller.

Harold and Helen.

Oh, no.

I'm going to couple of these.

Yeah.

My eliteration is not very good today.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Yeah.

Happy anniversary to you, our qualifiers today.

Yeah.

Enjoy your day.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

And Billy Lorde is 32.

She is a Carrie Fisher's daughter, Debbie Reynolds' granddaughter, and Leah's communications

officer, Lieutenant Connex, in the new Star Wars trilogy, who is really cool to get

to see them work together, especially considering we lost Carrie and everything.

Right.

I don't believe that they, that was, I believe that's the only time that they did get

a chance to work together.

That's pretty cool.

I think if I remember correctly for when they did the stand, you know, after Carrie had

passed away and they wanted to still use Princess La, I believe Billy was the stand-in.

That's right.

For all of those scenes.

Yeah, that's right.

She was the one that did the action.

So yeah.

She, by just a glance, I don't think you notice the relation, but if you look, and especially

if you see them next to each other, it's uncanny.

And I'm a big fan of, I was a big fan of Carrie Fisher as an actress.

I thought that she was a very good actress that didn't get a chance to do half the work

that she could have done.

She did a cameo on 30 rock.

They'll show you that, like her range and everything.

Billy may have more opportunities than she did.

She's already shown that she has range.

I saw her first in American Horror Story and she blew me away.

And I'm like, I got to follow who this person is.

I got to pay attention to this person's career.

And then I'm doing a deep dive on her and find out, oh, she's related to Carrie Fisher's

daughter.

I didn't know.

She didn't promote that.

She didn't celebrate that or anything.

She really made her bones on her own name and on her own talent.

That's a great actress.

Let's see here.

Luke Bryant is 48.

Play it again.

Drunk on you.

Crash my party.

Country star.

Let's see here.

Alex Winter is 59.

Wow.

Bill S. Preston.

S. Quar.

Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.

Bill and Ted's bogus journey, Bill and Ted movie, all of that.

He was also Marco in the Lost Boys.

Had a small part in that.

Alex Winter, interesting guy.

He has been mostly the reason you don't see him acting much is because he's a filmmaker.

And he's made a lot of experimental films and sort of things like that.

It took a very interesting turn in his career after the success of Bill and Ted and everything

like that.

No, no.

He's an interesting guy.

Jim and Kiana Reeves, still very close.

It's part of the reason they did that latest Bill and Ted movie as they were hanging out

and talking about it and they came up with a story together and stuff and Alex really

got behind it and they're like, yeah, let's do it.

I think that's kind of cool that they're still close.

Angela Markle is 70 today, the first female chancellor of Germany and one of the toughest

people on the planet.

Do not mess with that woman.

She was a chancellor for a very long time.

Very long.

Yeah.

She stayed in the office for a while.

And really impressive.

To see not only what she was able to do, but getting that position in Germany.

That is impressive.

An impressive woman.

David Hasselhoff is 72.

Speaking of Germany.

Right.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Yeah.

Huge in Germany.

Still huge in Germany.

Like still to this day, even with younger generations to grow up on their parents music and

a lot of David Hasselhoff.

Of course, a TV star as well.

Well, David Hasselhoff has been shredded and kind of ripped apart and everything, pulled

fun of a lot.

Yeah.

You can't change the fact that the man had hits in multiple decades on TV and that is

not easy to do.

Man, we forget.

Baywatch was like the biggest show on television.

It was.

Seven years.

All over the world.

Man.

And crazy.

And I think the most impressive thing to me about that is when that kind of thing happens

and it's not a syndicated show.

It's not on, oh, this is on Fox.

Oh, this is on ABC.

Yeah.

It wasn't one of those shows.

Three-year shows, freelance kind of show.

And still became as big as it is as it was, and they had two spin-offs.

Yes, it's right.

Yeah, that's right.

Baywatch Lion Wedding and Baywatch Knights.

Baywatch Knights.

Terry Geeser Butler is 75, amazing basis for Black Sabbath.

Got to see him alive.

Wait a minute.

He's his name is Geeser.

Yeah.

I know he got that when he was young.

So it's like, yo, you old Geeser.

I love the idea that he's had it.

And now he is a Geeser.

Yeah.

He made it.

He made it.

Fantastic.

Baseball.

Fantastic.

And then some people no longer with us, like a gentleman we just lost, Donald Sutherland,

who would have been 89 today, just passed away just recently, and such a magnificent actor.

Of course, father of Keith or Sutherland, and there are so many great performances in

Donald Sutherland's career.

I'm still seeing people, even though it was a couple of weeks ago, still seeing people

posting things.

Oh, I forgot he was in this or oh, I didn't know he did this.

He worked well.

I mean, he was working almost right up to the end there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, he'd never wanted to stop, which is interesting.

To me, that's the dream.

To be able to, that's one of the things I love about acting.

I don't have to retire if I never want to.

I can act as long as I can be able to work, do anything.

Val Kilmer is a good example of this, where he can't speak and was able to act in the

Top Gun movie.

Some of that.

And then the extreme examples of Donald Sutherland up to his last days, or Anthony Quinn,

one of my all-time favorite actors, doing that right to his last moments.

I don't know.

To me, that's the dream.

Phyllis Delicious Diller, born on this day in 1917, passed away in 2012.

Never been another Liker.

Never will be another.

Fine.

Oh, so good.

So good.

Love her stuff.

Amazing.

The amazing Vincent Guiardi, born on this day in 1928, passed away in 1976.

Amazing jazz pianist.

One of the best pianists you'll ever hear.

And of course, did the peanuts music?

Yes.

One of my...

Iconics.

He just made this little soundtrack for this little Christmas special on TV, and it became

and it just exploded, man.

It was great.

Lines and Lucy is seriously one of my top ten favorite songs.

Yeah, it's good.

It really is.

It's one of those ones, and I hear it, and I immediately smile, but it doesn't matter.

And Joe Cool is a great song.

Listen to BB King do it.

There is a version.

I bought the backwind CD, as I bought, of a collection of famous artists doing his

songs, Vincent Guiardi's songs.

And there's BB King doing Joe Cool.

It's only like two minutes, but man is it awesome.

It's so good, you guys.

It's so good.

There's this surprising one that was from one of one of the later peanut specials, called

Little Birdie, that has become a standard in jazz circles.

Everyone sings it, and it's a classic little, it's fun, it's just because it talks about

Woodstock, you know.

Yeah.

It's like Little Birdie.

Why do you fly upside down, you know?

It's a great song.

It really is.

And then one of the most versatile actors of all time, James Cagney, it would have been

celebrating a birthday today, born in 1899, passed away in 1986.

This is the man who went from Angels with Dirty Faces and White Heat to Yankee Doodle Dandy.

The range that this guy had, coming from a vaudeville family.

It might not be that surprising, but you go ahead right now in name actors, we've got

a lot more of this now, but back then it was so much harder to do.

If you were popular at this, we're not letting you do anything else.

This is your job now.

If you're Boris Karloff, you're a monster, the rest of your career, and the very most will

let you play a villain that doesn't have to wear makeup, but that's your career now.

James Cagney was so good at what he did.

He was able to push through that type, and to the point where casting directors, like

I got a casting, he is Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Part of this of it, if we see him as up until that point, all anybody saw him was as a gangster

really.

Right.

And here he goes and just completely changes his career and his legacy from one role and

then boy, what a role.

What a performance.

I don't know how I couldn't say the last time I watched the whole movie, but I've watched

clips of his almost every year on his birthday, and I follow, I do it chronologically, and

I love starting with Angels with Dirty Faces, I like White Heat, I like going through this,

and then I wrap up with Yankee Doodle Dandy, and it's just impressive to me.

It's an artist working.

It's true art when you see him act.

I would recommend, I'll go ahead, Melissa.

I was just going to say also a fantastic dancer.

Yes, he was.

He didn't do it a lot, but Yankee Doodle Dandy is a great example of his dancing, how

he, and he had a specific way of dancing too, which is really interesting.

I was going to say one of the movies I'm going to recommend, I think it was from the

30s called City for Conquest, where he plays a boxer, and he has a brother who is a very

talented musician.

It's kind of melodramatic and all that stuff, but his performance is amazing, because he

ends up, because of boxing, he ends up losing his eyesight, and it's really, towards the end,

it's really interesting how he plays it, and it's really good, so it's a fun movie.

There are nothing short of great performances from James Karen, he did all that at 5-5.

Yeah, just an impressive human being.

We wish a happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating, to Jade and

Tammy and to Rick, happy birthday to all of you.

Happy birthday.

And happy anniversary to our qualifiers, Harold and Helen Fuller.

Harold and Helen.

Congratulations.

Yeah, finally got it out.

And happy birthday, Isabelle, I will talk with you later.

We'll get to our news break.

We'll come back.

We'll have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Every bumper is going to be steely down from now on.

Every bumper.

We appreciate your joining us and putting up with me, everybody.

Melissa and Seth are here, though, so that makes it, you know how to even sit out.

Even sit out.

I feel heartily also, I will be joining us with our, we could also more to Wednesday, looking

forward to that.

And coming up next Wednesday, I believe, the 24th, yeah, we're going to have some of the

gang from Home Depot in to talk with them, we'll talk with Phil about that in a little

bit.

Nice.

And it's national hot dog day.

And you can celebrate by creating something unique.

A recent poll showed that most people have relatively classic taste when it comes to toppings,

73% of Americans like mustard on hot dogs, 62% like ketchup, then onions, relish, and

chili all got at least 50%.

Nice.

But today, ballpark brand hot dogs is celebrating freedom of expression by challenging hot dog

lovers to post their unique hot dog toppings, mash-ups for a chance to win $2,500.

Wow.

It's a weird amount to get away, that's a weird amount.

Why?

Anyway.

Plus not only the 250, but the ultimate backyard cookout you will also win.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

That makes a little different.

Yeah.

To enter, post your hot dog topping combos on TikTok using hashtag hotdog hottakes.

It's not bad.

It's not bad.

And tagging ballpark brand.

The videos have to be at least 60 seconds or less, and the contest runs through August

17th.

Wow.

People are pretty hardcore about what you can put on a pizza, but when it comes to hot

dogs, people are very open-minded.

96% of Americans say that people should be free to put whatever condiments they want

on hot dogs.

You hear that Chicago?

Talking to you, Chicago.

I don't know.

They're pretty hardcore about it over in the UK, too.

Oh, really?

I didn't know that.

Oh.

Wow.

82% say that there's no wrong way to dress a dog and 41% enjoy non-traditional condiments,

like barbecue sauce, ranch dressing, sriracha, and, quote, savory jam.

Okay.

To get you to that.

To get you going, if you want to get in on this and everything, we've got some crazy

hot dog toppings that I just kind of pulled up here and everything.

Like Doritos, pulled pork, barbecue sauce, and bacon, all on one hot dog.

Oh.

Oh, actually.

That's a lot.

That's got to be a pretty big dog.

Otherwise, it's going to be drowned in the toppings.

That sounds good, though, actually, to be truthful.

That sounds pretty good.

You got a fried egg, guacamole, and a garlic, and you'll learn that?

How about caramel popcorn?

Oh, that's due.

That's different.

Okay.

Caramel popcorn.

Celery.

Celery and blue cheese.

Mm-hmm.

Hot dog.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe if it's a spicy hot dog, cheese, marinara, basil, and pepperoni.

Say, some of these things I'm worried, all I'm thinking about is how do you structurally

make these?

Yeah.

Like, so you can, like, fit them on the, and still fit it in your mouth.

I mean, they work with the blood of Mary people.

I was going to say that with a chicken dinner on the side.

It really does feel like that, right?

It does.

It does.

It does.

It feels exactly like that.

It really does.

We are joined every Wednesday by our great friends over at Quality Plus Preting, getting

us out.

We can also order Wednesday.

Good morning, Phil.

Hey, good morning, everyone.

How's everybody doing?

Pretty good.

Yeah.

Pretty good.

Doing good over here.

We got hot dogs.

Yeah.

Home land of Maine.

A few days ago, right?

I spent almost a week out there with my family.

Mm-hmm.

With my family.

Yeah.

One of the main reasons I go back to Maine is the thing called a red snapper.

Have you ever heard of that?

No.

No.

So, red snappers is a type of hot dog that has a red casing to it.

And the casing is snapped if you break the hot dog in half.

You can hear the noise.

Oh, okay.

And I know a lot of people are seafood buyers.

And I'm not one of them.

Some things are not a lot, you know.

Wow.

How do they let you back into Maine?

I know.

She's.

That's why I can't look off.

I can't look out.

Right.

I'm looking at these fill.

They look amazing.

It's red snappers.

That's one of the main.

Go back.

And there's usually a couple food stands in my hometown, you know, on food trucks, whatever

that sells and do those during the summertime.

And sure enough, they took a party of about 30 of my family and emptied out this guy with

about $300 worth of red snappers.

Wow.

Wow.

That's awesome.

That's awesome.

They're freaking awesome.

Yeah.

They have a favorite to them.

And I don't know what's in them.

Of course, it's like any good hot dog, but.

Right.

Right.

Or do you want to?

No.

But they're amazing.

Yeah.

And I must have at least three, I think, because I don't.

Once again, it's only something I get every once every couple of years when I go home.

Cool.

Would you put on top of them?

Yeah.

The red snapper, one of the better hot dogs in the nation.

Yeah.

I don't know if you heard Melissa there, but Phil, but what do you put on that?

Boy, you can do anything.

I know they're doing chili dogs.

Let them.

They're doing just a normal hot dog care.

Yeah.

Okay.

Very cool.

Phil, I'm glad you're back.

We're happy to have you back with us and everything.

And I'm glad that you guys had a great trip.

I'm curious.

One of the one of the mention to the audience conversation we were having before about next Wednesday and bringing on some of the home depot team.

Yeah.

So awesome.

So they're the hero of the month.

Are you going to.

We're going to honor them here coming up with a social media and the city times going to blew a little arc on it.

And of course, we want to bring them in to you guys.

And yeah, so next Wednesday, I'm still crossing my fingers.

But it looks good.

The Tim Halverson who's kind of the head of the group of 10 team depot over there is going to come with me and at least him and be on the other explain kind of what they do.

And basically, and they help veterans out with projects around their houses that need to be being done.

And what a great, what a great way to call, right?

Absolutely.

About 10 of them that volunteer their time.

And they have a home people has a foundation that helps fund their projects with the other materials needed.

So it's a great cause and they've done some great work.

I know that he talked about doing a wheelchair ramp ramps just last week for about.

So I'm happy to have Tim come in and explain a little bit about what they do.

And I was very happy to have them nominated.

I thought it was a great nomination for our hero of the month.

Yeah, we can't wait to talk with them more about that spread the word about what they're doing.

And we appreciate you giving us the avenue to do that, Phil.

And of course, way I make giving us the opportunity to do that.

Tell everybody how this happened, what way I make is offering and how we're looking for hometown heroes.

Sure.

So when we came up with the way I make that way, I was pretty cool.

I make it a superhero theme.

And then I wanted to find a way where I was going to have to make it back.

I mean, it's just, you know, to do good things.

And so the idea came off of having a hero the month, a local preliminary local person anyway or people.

In this case, like with Team Depot, that do good things.

It just makes life a little bit better for people out there.

And then, you know, we can call him a hero.

You know, just a good, good, good cause, good person that does something good.

If you please let us know when we're still looking for more always, you know, we know we will stop looking for something.

If you can give us something, we pick one out a month.

And we honor them and give them a little publicity, but also getting my tree.

Really cool t-shirt to wear around probably showing them to be in the hero hero of the month.

And hopefully people ask them why and they can be a good thing.

Yeah, put a couple sentences together and email our friends at Quality Plus,

and make or us right here at the station.

We'll make sure Phil gets it.

We're looking forward to celebrating more hometown heroes.

And very much looking forward to our Wicked Awesome Order Wednesday, Phil.

We have made the audience wait long enough.

What is our word for today?

The wicked awesome word for today.

Folgent F-U-F-B-E-N-T.

Hmm.

I mean, dazzlingly bright radiance.

Oh, radiance.

Just like the sunshine out there today, man.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice.

I see a little benefit used for an example.

It's like fall colors, right?

And the trees are...

We're Folgent.

Hmm.

Okay.

Makes sense.

Folgent.

I feel like I don't know if I've heard that word before.

I don't know.

I don't think I have.

That's a really cool word.

I like that one.

Yeah.

Wasn't one I've heard used before too.

So now we got a new word to add to our vocabulary.

Yes.

Keeping your back pocket.

Just toss it out there and make yourself look smart.

Yeah.

Especially on a day like this, you can use that word a lot.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You have to look it up in hopes that I was good.

You're right.

I like it.

That's a nice one.

Phil, I real quick before we let you go.

What are some of the projects you guys are working on right now

over a quality plus printing?

Well, you know, it's really cool.

I heard you get it.

I was able to listen to you guys a little bit today.

I was doing some deliveries here.

And LCAPA.

He's a great person to dial.

You know, not only great people,

you know, you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

you know,

not only great food,

but just great people.

But we can do printing for him.

His menus,

his tabletop menus.

And sign is in anything for him.

And he's a great partner for us.

And so we're working on some projects for him today as well.

And so that's really cool.

Mid-state Technical College has a

tenuous education catalog that they've sent to us.

We print out for them too.

So that'll keep us busy today as well.

So a lot of good local businesses

are proud to partner with you know.

Yeah.

And busy.

So keep it coming.

Excellent.

Going to and we keep getting orders.

So give them coming.

I got a new thing I got to show you too when I come over next week.

Ooh.

You know,

so.

Right on.

We're looking forward to it.

Yeah.

And we're looking forward to having in studio next week with some of the team from Home Depot Phil.

We appreciate what you guys do in the community.

We're going to give you guys even more business and since more people your way, okay, Matt?

No.

You're about to say same here.

Same here.

I can't recommend you guys enough and I appreciate you.

So thank you.

All right.

You have a great one Phil.

We'll talk again next Wednesday.

All right.

Take care of you guys.

You too.

Thank you.

I always appreciate our time.

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