Hour 2: Keep the Socks on

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth, and James here with you.

Hope you're having a fantastic day out there.

In a little bit, we're going to get into a very important story

involving our economy.

We've got that coming up for you, one that touches all of our lives.

We've got some other fun stuff.

And some local things we're going to be touching on here as well.

But kicking off the hour with some entertainment news.

And yesterday, we talked about the National Anthem

before the home run derby.

And it being arguably the worst we've ever heard.

Oh, no.

It was bad.

Ingrid Andress tried to sing the anthem and it didn't go well.

And she has come out and talked about this.

Quote, I'm not going to be as y'all.

I was drunk last night.

I'm checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need.

That was not me last night.

I apologize to MLB, all the fans and the country.

I love so much for that rendition.

I'll let y'all know how rehab is.

I hear it's super fun.

Now, I will first of all admit that I do not know this person

and do not know what is in her heart or her head.

I don't know much.

If anything about her, all I've heard every time this woman comes up

is it's a four-time Grammy nominee.

I went back actually after hearing her anthem Sunday.

I want to say Sunday.

I'm Monday night or whatever it was.

And listen to a little bit of her singing and didn't.

It wasn't my thing.

But I just to hear an idea of what she sounds like and everything.

And I did a little bit of work reading on her and everything.

There are two big parts here I have to mention.

One, I grew up with an addict.

And it's only been in the last 15 to 20 years that I have had my father back.

I saw my father go in and out of at least off the top

my head five different rehab facilities

and a different 12-step programs and all of these things.

I admit to being sensitive to this subject matter.

I will also mention that in my wheelhouse, in my acting career,

I have seen off the top of my head 25 to 30 actors mess up

and then the next thing is their public is saying that they're going to rehab.

And statistically, if any other thing tells you that this is often a PR move

to cover your bases.

I don't think that she sounded silver and maybe she was.

Maybe she wasn't.

Only she knows that.

And whether this is for good reasons or not,

we support her in that journey and hope the best for her.

But I don't know anybody that tries to be...

Maybe she was trying to be sarcastic and joking about the end there,

about rehab being fun, whatever,

and it just missed the mark like her anthem did.

But there's nothing light about that subject matter.

If you're dealing with this, if you're truly facing this.

So yeah, it'll be interesting to see.

Obviously, if you're getting drunk before you sing the national anthem on,

like, before millions of people, then yeah, there's a problem there.

She's got something to address now.

The question is not just about the publicity part that James was talking about.

Is it, does she actually, is it actually going to do anything for it?

Because she's got to want to do it.

That's the whole thing.

Just going into rehab is not going to stop it.

It's not going to do anything.

Yeah, exactly.

So I guess we'll see.

But if she does indeed have a problem and she needs to address it,

then yes, I really hope she gets something out of it.

It doesn't sound like she's entering it in the best.

No way.

No.

So.

And when you're doing it for, if you're not doing it for the right reasons,

IE yourself.

Because my, I can't think of a man loving a person more than my father the way he loves my mother.

And I can't think of a person loving their children the way that my dad loves us

and loved his parents and all these things.

And every time he went in, it was for those reasons.

And every time he was the same guy coming out,

it wasn't until the end when he finally realized I've got to do this for me.

And them.

Yes.

And that's that, that was the change.

To care for yourself first.

Yeah.

Yeah, you really have to in life.

It was one of the biggest lessons I'll ever learn in my life.

The big part of the reason I was born was stuff in my veins.

I was born with heroin and coke in my veins.

I am a, I am born to addiction.

I would be so much worse.

There's no way I would even be conscious, let alone in this job,

without that lesson from my father.

I admit, again, I take this subject very seriously.

But I think we all need to.

And I think we all need to be able to look at people like this.

Even if we've never touched a drink of alcohol or a cigarette in our life or anything

to not judge these things and understand that we don't always understand.

Side question.

Why are they singing the national anthem before the home run derby?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That seems weird.

Yeah.

They're going to do it before the game on Tuesday.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That seems a little weird.

Just get to the game.

Yeah.

Part of the album is called Good Person.

Just thought it through them.

It's a little on the note.

It's pretty good, Melissa.

Nice to meet you.

It's pretty good, Melissa.

Nice to meet you.

It's really done.

Parker McCullum came out right away and says,

he has turned down every anthem offer he has gotten.

He said, I'm going to, you know, make this a kid's work kid show,

a friendly show.

Family friendly.

Yeah.

If you blanket up, you're absolutely toast.

I get that to a degree.

But I, and again, I don't know Parker McCullum.

Don't know him from left to right if he walked in this room right now.

Right.

But I can't think of a, is he right?

Yes.

But if you're asked to do the anthem, do the anthem.

You're an American dang it.

Like, get out there and do it.

I can't stand over patriotism.

It seems like, it just seems like a, like, um, like you're trying to heart.

Theater.

It's a show.

Yeah.

You're not doing it for the right.

You're trying to call attention to yourself.

Right.

It's not about our country.

It's not about supporting our troops or any of this stuff.

It's about, look at me.

I got a bigger flag than everybody else.

I support, I love this country more than you.

Like, get out of here.

Miss me with that.

Um, if you are a singer and you were asked to do this, go and do it.

If you do a bad job, that's on you.

But your country asks very little of you.

And you have, as a artist in speaking as an artist,

I have very little ways of giving back to my country.

There are a handful of things I can do.

If this is one of them, and I'm not a singer, but if I was asked to do the national anthem

by the rafters or somebody like that, I'm doing it.

I'm doing it.

Maybe we'll go viral, but I'm doing it.

Do a rap game.

Um, I'll tell you, I wouldn't do what Fergie did and try to do some horrible bebop version of it or something like that.

Um, it doesn't, it doesn't have to be rocket science here.

The song is already set up for you.

Melissa mentioned a really good point yesterday, I thought,

and that it's not an easy song to sing.

So I'm not making light in that.

No, it's very true.

It's not an easy song.

But dang it, man.

Uh, if you're asked to do this, to be afraid is one of the most un-American things I could think of.

Like, what are you afraid of?

Get out there and do it.

Parker.

Uh, anybody else that's asked to do it?

Well, I'm telling you, this is just strengthening my argument that the only people that should be doing the national anthem

are brass ensembles and barbershop quartets.

That's it.

That's the only things that you do it.

I'm going to like that.

Yeah, I'm going to wait for you on this one.

Uh, during a show in Italy over the weekend, Lenny Kravitz introduced the crowd to a special guest.

He wasn't there.

Uh, uh, so he, he takes this phone call in the middle of it and everybody's kind of like,

what is he doing with his phone?

And why is he doing that?

Um, it, it was, uh, Denzel.

It was Denzel Washington.

Oh, he says, quote, I'm sorry, my big brother just called me up on the phone to say,

hi, y'all know Denzel Washington and he turned his phone to the crowd and told Denzel to say, quote, say,

hello to Italy.

And then he told them, quote, our brother, I got to go.

I'll talk to you later.

And then I'll go.

Is that a bit or was that actually?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Uh, so Denzel has come out and said he, he did not realize that Lenny was out of, like,

out of the country.

Yeah.

The show was actually going on.

I thought the show had finished up or I think it was, I think it was actually,

he was trying to call before the show or some, uh, luck or something.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a little bit off there.

I will admit, though, I don't care.

If, if Denzel Washington called up right now, I'm taking that call.

I'm taking that call.

Whether we're live on the air or not, I'm taking that call.

I don't blame that.

I never realized that they had a close relationship like that.

I knew that, um, I let him grab its dad as big in the, or was big in the, the entertainment Hollywood and the entertainment industry.

So that makes sense.

But yeah.

Yeah, I had no idea there.

And I felt like I know every single thing there is to know about Denzel Washington.

I did not know that on the today show yesterday.

The wonderful, the amazing Natalie Portman named the most important credit of her career was a black swan where she went and asked her.

Maybe the professional where she got her acting debut.

No.

It's the children's cartoon.

Bluey.

On season three episode on a season three, uh, on a season three episode called whale watching.

Natalie can briefly be heard narrating a nature documentary.

The family is watching.

Natalie said, quote, it's a very important show for my family.

And I was really, really, really honored to get the part of it.

It's so wonderful.

It's a pure joy.

And you hear her talk about this.

And she's very genuine about it.

Um, actors get, get going in their careers and they build a career and like a care actor like Natalie Portman.

And the majority of her career is our rated stuff or at the very least pretty edgy stuff.

And as you get older and you have kids and all the sudden the kids are starting to wonder, hey, where do you go every day?

Like what do you do?

Uh, because you are not a rock star to your kids.

Yeah, right.

You were not.

I've heard Denzel, right?

Speaking of Denzel, I've heard Denzel talk about this.

And it's part of the reason his son got into acting is because his son wonder, where does dad go all day?

And dad's kind of a nerd.

He's kind of like weird.

Why would all these things?

And then you get to, you do the kids stuff so your kids can see these things.

Rob Williams, Eddie Murphy did a very similar thing.

Um, it's just kind of cool to see the arc of their careers and where they go with these things.

Now, and Bluey is huge.

But right now it's massive.

It really is.

And man, what I've seen of it, that's a great show.

It is entertaining.

I've seen a couple episodes.

Yeah.

I love that I've heard I had a friend of mine nominate Bluey's dad as the best TV cartoon dad.

And I, I of course, being the Simpsons guy immediately jump in.

Well, wait a minute.

About, about Homer and stuff.

And then I, I actually see some Bluey.

And I'm like, oh, wait.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bluey's awesome.

He's actually a good father.

Bluey's dad.

Yeah.

He's actually a good father.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Uh, new on your small screen tonight who wants to be a millionaire with celebrities.

Uh, and, uh, the 2016 is a premier big brother.

And of course, decision 2024, the Republican convention, uh, starts at eight o'clock at NBC.

2024 American decides a Republican convention.

Nine o'clock on CBS.

The Republican National Convention can be seen on ABC.

Uh, a black America votes the Biden interview.

Nine o'clock on BET tonight.

And, uh, the, uh, and you can hear about the, uh, our coverage of this, uh, right here at Civic Media of the Republican convention.

All week long.

Yeah.

Encourage to check that out.

If you missed anything, we've got the podcast available for you at civic media dot us, uh, be informed everybody.

Yes.

And you can also catch the full, um, 3D, uh, three, third congressional district forum that took place last night.

No, Claire.

Oh, yes.

On civic media dot us on special broadcast.

Nice.

I was, I was wondering which one of us would hit on that.

Thank you, Melissa.

Uh, as a side note, I'd love it in 3D.

That'd be cool.

See you in 3D.

That'd be kind of cool.

3D debates, man.

Yeah.

It doesn't sound very exciting.

No, no problem.

It doesn't.

It seems like what it's in 3D.

It seems like one of the worst versions of uses of 3D.

That really does.

Oh, if there are ribbon dancers.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that make it interesting.

More people are tuning in.

I bet too.

I think so.

I start this, guys.

Back in the day when they were really, uh, struggle.

And this is kind of an interesting throwback, but struggling to get people to come to the movie so they did smell a vision and some of those.

I love the idea of they're getting, like, to the end of using 3D.

Like they've used it on everything, jaws and all this stuff.

Like, how about debates?

Uh.

It's like he's talking right in my living room.

Wow.

So boring.

No.

Rapping up the series premiere of Simone Biles rising is on Netflix.

It's about Simone's comeback this year after her surprising withdrawal from the 2020 Olympics.

I cannot wait to watch that.

I'm definitely going to check that out.

That sounds really awesome.

And gear in a perfect gear up for the Olympics.

We are going to dominate, y'all.

Dominate.

You used to stay a chance in the USA.

I'm telling you I'm used to a chance to get, we're going to be dominating.

The Olympics biggest fan right here.

Wisconsin Rapids.

I cannot wait.

No.

No.

Well, maybe in Wisconsin Rapids, he's got a commiserate in my sister because she's the biggest one in Lake Mills.

Mm-hmm.

She's a, she's a, uh, she's a Olympic call, a maniac.

Nice.

Oh, we got to get a text change going.

We got to.

We're going to come back and, uh, we're going to talk about one of the more important stories you were going to hear this year.

Uh, coming up on the morning show at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.

I told, I told the dog job.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't help myself.

I apologize.

I couldn't help myself.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning show.

Thank you.

Morning show here at WFHR, Melissa and Seth.

And the best listeners in radio joining us right now.

Um, we, uh, we have accomplished something, uh, but I have yet to hear anybody really truly talking about it or addressing the matter at hand.

I admit that, uh, over the weekend, some earth, uh, earth breaking news broke and, and it was pretty much going to take over the national airwaves for a while.

Um, and we've had a couple of days.

We've had a Monday.

We've had a Tuesday this week.

Uh, I've heard nothing about this.

If you all have please, uh, feel free to call up or either of you if you'd like to chime in, please do.

But, um, we have, uh, turned a corner here.

Uh, America has a slain inflation.

Oh, last month for the first time in four years, prices on everyday goods and services actually fell.

Oh, in other words, this June was the first time since the pandemic started that we paid less force stuff compared to the previous months.

Wow.

Nice.

Well, the situation is dead.

Mm hmm.

The surprise price decline is seismatic, uh, seismatic news, at least, uh, among econ longs and, and, and others, of course.

Um, and, quote, uh, from a labor economist, Aaron, so, so here, inflation is dead and jobs are alive.

We have a very good chance right now of sticking this soft landing.

So, Hazah, this is amazing, right?

It's a great thing.

This is huge.

So, local news outlets will be covering this.

I'm sure that your major news, uh, stations will be covering this.

Let me check CNN.

Let me check Fox.

Let me, no, nothing, nothing on this.

Wow.

But why?

Why is there nothing happening with this?

Why are we not hearing anything about this?

Why wouldn't we want to talk about the news for the American public?

The single best economic news of the past decade is a murmur.

Think of this, a murmur,

barely audible against a clamor of politics shouting down President Joe Biden's age,

or, uh, what happened with the former President Trump this weekend or any of those things.

Mm-hmm.

And, and, and, and here's part of the, the crux of this.

For the past three years, President Biden's biggest political liabilities have been painfully obvious as age and is in the inflation.

Right.

Uh, and, and one of the problems has been more of a less evaporated.

The inflation has been steadily cooling from 9% to 3% on annual basis for the past two years.

Mm-hmm.

We have not been stealing with inflation hardly at all for two years now.

And now, inflation is dead.

Period.

Let me say that again for the people in the back.

Inflation is dead.

And it is dead thanks to what we have done over the last three years, the work we as a country have put in.

We made this happen.

And it's not being covered.

Yeah.

Nobody's talking about it.

Well, and especially when it's such, you know, you touched on it there when it's such like a hot button political thing, you know.

I swear to God, when this started, you know, I get the pandemic.

That was a weird time, you know, and things went crazy and all that kind of stuff.

When, when things stabilized and then it started to go, the first thing, okay, you hear, like, one thing, okay, gas.

Gas is going up.

Oh my God, inflation.

You know, it's, they start freaking out everybody.

And then, and then they say, and then they did not specific about it.

It's like, oh well, lumber prices are going up.

So maybe house building and you cost more to build a house or maybe these things one thing over here.

But it's not like every single thing in the economy is going up.

And it's like, oh, inflation.

Kind of thing.

And now we get to a point where like, hey, prices are actually going down a little bit.

Hey, and that great.

Yeah, crickets.

Nothing.

Nothing.

What the heck?

They had the horrible story on page one.

And then when they find out the facts, they do the retraction on the pack of back of page eight.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Kind of the smallest print you can find, right?

Yeah.

Oh, it doesn't sell.

It doesn't get, it's not clickbait.

Exactly.

Boom.

You got it.

There we go.

That's where I wanted to go with this.

The 24 hour news cycle was supposed to be able to keep us up to date on things.

It was supposed to be able to do what newspapers and your local five o'clock news could not do.

Right.

It was, uh, it was the intent of it.

And all it has become is sensationalism.

That's all it's done.

And while I am not speaking of my civic media brethren, uh, or some local news outlets

or somebody like a Caitlin who works at the Daily Tribune or something like that, I'm talking

about national reporting journalism has gotten super, super lazy.

They have forgotten their job.

They have forgotten how to do their job.

Hey, what are we going to talk about today?

I don't want to get into that.

That's boring.

I don't want to get into that.

That's not ratings.

Let's talk about Biden's age again.

What's on social media?

Let's talk about Trump's little bandage on, it's over big bandage on his ear and everything

for us, uh, uh, what happened.

Let's, let's get into that.

That's easy.

That's a little hanging fruit.

That's what we'll do.

And why do they do this?

Not just because it's easy.

Where are, who is watching?

Who is giving them these ratings?

We are.

We are.

We need to face this.

We need to quit every person out there listening to this right now.

Every one of us need to take accountability for this.

Every single one of us.

Don't give me.

It's not my fault.

I didn't do it.

Blah, blah, blah.

You're an American.

You're part of this country.

We got to start unifying.

We got to start working together.

And pointing the finger is a child's act.

I didn't, I didn't make the mess.

They did.

Why should I have to clean it up?

Because you're in this house.

That's why.

Because you're family.

You do things for family.

You do things for each other.

All of this has been being done is on our watch.

And we all have to take claim for it.

Just like we can all take some credit for helping kill the inflation.

And just like we can take credit for keeping democracy alive.

Every one of us, whoever you vote for, as long as you're voting,

you are helping keep a democracy alive.

You are helping freedom ring good on you way to be.

Just like we take credit for that,

we have to take the blame when it comes down to these stand-of-things.

And journalism has gotten so bad in part because we have accepted it.

Because we have not demanded better.

We continue to watch.

We continue to give them their ratings.

We continue to buy the newspaper.

Well, a couple of us buy newspapers.

Wait, there's a, are there any left?

People don't want to pay for news anymore.

They don't want to buy it.

They want it for free.

Then you have what do you expect when you get something for free?

Right, what you pay for?

Then quit barking, little dog.

Quit barking.

You got nothing to bark about.

If you are not adding, if you are not adding to the solution,

you are part of the problem.

That is it.

The only way this gets better.

The only way we actually get real news out there is if we demand it,

demand it.

People like to throw the word fight around.

We're gonna fight for this.

We're gonna fight for that.

And they mean it metaphorically, of course.

And it's a joke.

They're not, because if they were actually fighting for something,

they'd be getting something done.

This is, this is where we need to really rise up.

This is where we need to actually do something about it.

Stop watching the national news, stop giving them the ratings.

Do, do demand it.

Reach out to them.

Reach out to the program directors.

Reach out to the people in charge of these things, producers.

Reach out to the advertisers and say,

I demand real news.

Why did I not hear that the inflation is dead?

Why are you covering a story that you have covered

every angle of, and every possible thing of.

And we're going over and you did that like five days ago

and you're still covering this story.

Why are we not covering the actual stuff

that is affecting my life?

Because guess what?

What is happening to these two politicians

on the campaign trail?

Not affecting my life.

Not affecting my day to day.

That's true.

That's very true.

Demand better people.

Demand it.

Demand it of me.

I'm not even just talking about all that.

Demand it of me as well.

I beg for that.

I ask for that of you.

We want that.

If you're any good at your job, you should want that.

And if you're not, get out of the dang business

and go be a reality star.

Because we got real journalists out there.

We got our work really hard, especially on the local levels.

I know it's going to sound like I'm just talking about this

because of I work at this company and everything,

but I am damn proud of this company

and the work that is done here.

From everybody from Alissa to anybody else

that is working in the news department,

they work their tails off.

You guys don't see all the things that they do,

all the running around, all the double checking of facts

and making sure that everything is right.

It's important.

If you care about this country,

if you truly do want to wave that flag,

you really do want to be American.

Then help democracy.

Help truth and fight for real news.

Get out there and actually work for this.

Demand this and spread the word about inflation being dead.

Yeah, that's a good news, that's a good news.

Someone wake up Jerome Powell.

Yeah, yeah, let him know.

Yeah, that's fine.

He can, so I'm being a dough.

Anyway, I will say though, I make all this barking

and I get on my soapbox and all this stuff.

I did not go to the funeral for inflation.

I did not.

I should be respectful of the word.

I did, I did, I did send flowers.

Did send flowers, did send flowers.

Yeah, well, about other things.

Um, we, uh, you can find out more about this subject

by looking at your computer, uh,

throw it into your search bar

because it's all out there, everybody.

It's, it, it's actually being covered.

Tell me up and obviously it is actually being covered

by some outlets just online.

Yeah, nobody's talking about this on,

on your, on your TV or anything like that.

At please correct me if I'm wrong.

I want to be wrong on this subject.

Please tell me I heard about this last week or blah, blah, blah.

Please fall four to four, 22, 600,igration, join the conversation.

We're gonna get to some real news right now

and we'll come back and have some fun a little bit later.

We're gonna get into these states

with the biggest sweet tooth.

We got that one coming up for you.

On the morning show here at WF HR

where we are locally grown radio.

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Welcome back everybody,

morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We have a fantastic day out there.

Thanks for joining us on this hump day.

Everyone knows they should probably cut back

on sugar a little bit.

Yes, mom, I know.

And everyone plans on starting doing that tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

I'll do it tomorrow.

I'll do it tomorrow to get it tomorrow.

I'm not till next week.

But you know, it is summer

and then of course you got holidays coming up

and you know what, I'll get to it.

The American Heart Association

recommends a limit of nine added teaspoons

of sugar for men and just six for women.

And everyone is blowing way past.

Yeah, yeah.

There is a map online that breaks down sugar intake

by state and the state with the biggest sweet tooth is

Kentucky.

Really?

It's all those mint julep stager.

21.2 teaspoons per day,

the average Kentucky and eats.

Wow.

Mississippi is next and the other sugar heavy states

include Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Dakota,

Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,

South Carolina, and Hawaii.

Alaska is the state with the lowest average intake

at 14.8 teaspoons that's still around double

the recommended amount.

Oregon is close behind

and the other low sugar states are California,

Washington, Idaho, Montana, New York, Massachusetts

and New Jersey.

All right.

If wondering, locally of course, Wisconsin

is right in the middle of the pack on this one

with an average of 15 to 16 teaspoons of sugar a day.

OK.

So what do you, what are your first reactions to this other

than I really want to doughnut right now?

Yeah.

Talking about sugar makes me hungry.

If you're drinking any soda, you're automatically

increasing your sugar intake.

Exactly.

Exponently.

Yep.

That's, that's, it's, and it's so easy, you know?

You just grab a soda and drink it and you don't think about it.

What do you know how to mount and do is almost 20 teaspoons

of sugar.

Right there.

Yep.

So I couldn't help myself.

There is a connection to this and some other things

we have talked about today, and that is addiction.

And the things that we, for every time we look at, well,

this is definitely addictive.

We know that sugar is addictive, but we don't really address it.

We don't really talk about it much.

Part of the problem is sugar is in everything.

Right.

So much of what we eat, especially processed stuff.

It's in there.

So much.

Yep.

Mm hmm.

A lot of times they do add sugar.

They do.

Yeah.

Well, let's hear what you have to say out there.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Okay.

California Beach Soul Bowl.

When they drink all that wine over there.

Yeah.

Interesting question.

Yeah.

That is a good question.

Mm hmm.

Um.

And for Wisconsin, to be in the middle of the pack,

I mean, doesn't, uh, when you drink some beer and all that stuff,

you know, I'm answering sugar and take a little bit.

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's some sugar in beer.

Yeah.

I didn't realize that.

Yeah.

I'm just learning that.

I am 47.

And I'm just learning that.

I did not know that.

Kevin, are you a sugar guy?

Do you, do you, do you have your, have a sweet tooth?

Who doesn't have a sweet tooth?

Especially, especially in the summertime when it's the hot days.

It's like, oh, it's going on the dairy cleaner.

Go to callers and get some.

Fried meat shoes or blue.

Yeah.

I mean, I was, I mean.

Every time it's, it's the most private.

Most of all, I get my sweet tooth.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

I think ice cream is better in hot weather.

Yeah.

It really is.

I think around the, the holiday marathon is when I probably have the most sugar,

you know, Halloween to, to January 1st.

It's so much more available.

Yeah.

Right there.

It's a long stretch.

It's a long stretch.

But I've been, I'm just trying to be very honest with everybody that I,

I definitely take in more sugar in that stretch than I do the rest of the year.

So it makes sense.

Is this something, cause I think oftentimes the immediate reaction is,

well, then we have to completely get rid of sugar, you know, or something like that.

It's always an extreme.

It doesn't seem like an opportunity for us on a case by case basis.

Us, each of us individually to look at, okay, I can't get sugar completely out of my diet.

But you know what?

I'm going to have one less soda or I'm going to do one less of these.

I have one less candy bar or something like that.

It's an opportunity for us to kind of make our own changes individually.

Yeah.

Or am I insane?

I don't know.

I am.

Okay.

All right.

That's not fair.

I am crazy.

That's not fair to ask you guys.

It's all good when you try to try to do it.

But it's just, you know, you know, when you talk to doctors, especially if you're trying to cut sugar out,

you know, it needs the weight or whatever.

If you're craving that chocolate bar, well, then you start using everything else around that chocolate bar.

And you're putting the weight on anyway.

So I always, it was been told that you can have that, you know, urge.

Have that one chocolate bar.

And that's it.

Just one moderate.

Right.

Limit yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then you just let your body to even start to get moderate.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Yeah.

Hey, Kevin, as long as I've got you, I was going to message you this.

It does look like your interview with us yesterday is up on the podcast at CivicMedia.us.

So you can go ahead and check that out.

I just saw that man.

I shared it with the people that I needed to share it with.

All right.

Excellent.

It was great.

It was great having you in studio the other day, man.

All right.

We appreciate it.

And it was a good time.

Take care.

Yeah.

Thanks for the call, as always, man.

Best listeners and radio right there.

Mm-hmm.

And we did have a great conversation about Boy Scouts with Kevin yesterday.

Be sure to find that at CivicMedia.us.

You can find all of our podcasts right there.

Mm-hmm.

So, in for a penny, in for a dollar is a little bit of the feeling often with sugar.

Well, I already ate this.

I might as well go all in.

That happens with a lot of things, but I think you're right.

Yeah, exactly.

So, I started to destroy my, whatever it is at this point.

Might as well just keep going.

Yeah.

But like Kevin said, you know, if you could just limit, you know, you know, you want something,

you know, just have the one thing and then be, you know, be done with it and say, okay, that's it.

Because he is right.

I have experienced that.

I was like, I want this, I don't know what, you know, example, a chocolate bar.

Sure.

But I'm not going to eat that.

Instead, I'm going to eat a carrot stick.

Okay.

Well, I'm still hungry.

I'm going to eat some chips.

I'm still hungry and I still have this craving.

I'm going to eat, I don't know, this gallon of ice cream.

But I still want the chocolate bar.

It's a vicious cycle.

Now, obviously, a whole gallon.

That's right.

Yeah.

But, you know what I mean.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Then you just, yeah, you just make it worse.

Might as well just go right to the source, right?

And then I beat the whole thing of Oreo cookies.

They've got a Java Oreo cookie right now that's like a coffee cookie.

Oh, no.

It's so amazing.

Oh, wow.

Why don't you tell me that, James?

I know.

Because I'm really hungry.

Keep talking.

A little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little.

I would like to, everything I was saying before about demanding out of journalism and out of your new

sources, facts and information, real stories, all of that.

I'd love to say the same thing about when it comes to processed foods or too much sugar in our foods,

demanding better from these companies and everything.

I encourage you to do that.

But I also, I'm not going to hold my breath when it comes to these companies.

They're going to go to the bottom line.

So I look at my fellow Americans.

I look at us as individuals to hopefully make change in our own lives where you see fit and where you can.

Where you can is the kind of the crux too.

Exactly.

Yeah, it really is.

It really is.

Because I'm a big believer and don't bark if you don't got an answer, if you don't got, you know,

something to counter with and say, well, this is wrong, but we could do this.

You know, if you don't got a solution.

And so I'm scraping the barrel here I admit at a solution for something like this other than,

you know, again, demanding out of these corporations, hey, get the sugar out of my mac and cheese.

You know, I don't need it in there.

It's a little like if you ever go to a restaurant and they oversalt the food,

that to me is a sign, okay, well, I don't know if this is a good meal.

I'm not sure.

I always always raise that you only add salt to something if it's not tasting good or something like that.

I'm not saying that's an actual fact and you can go ahead and trust that or something.

I'm just what I grew up with.

I don't know.

There's only so much we can do on this subject other than, you know,

making our own individual change and starting there.

Be your own revolution.

And you can choose to buy products from different, you know, similar product.

If you like cocoa puffs, there is a version of it.

I think it's like mom's cereal or something like that.

That is the same type of flavor, but with less sugar.

Yeah, and I, I don't notice a difference.

I've really dealt with it.

A lot.

And I noticed more of a difference when we were kids and they went away from like real sugar to artificial and vice versa.

Yeah, kids taste buds are a lot different than adult taste buds.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're more sensitive.

They haven't been destroyed by years of coffee and Doritos.

I'd be great if our teeth grew back.

You know, as adults, really would.

Really would, man.

Hey, they're working on it.

Yeah, it's very true.

Very true.

Another story that is amazing that nobody's talking about.

Sounds like a horror film to me, but okay.

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But we've got a fun one here about playing etiquette.

One of the touch and not just a little bit here.

How do you spell etiquette, James?

You, you, you, you.

Just you are just the worst.

You are.

Melissa, get them.

Right.

Oh, man.

So I said to Seth earlier today, I was bookmarking something and I was trying to label all my bookmarks.

And this is 10 more airplane etiquette rules.

And I'm trying to write the word etiquette.

And I cannot think of, like, I'm sounding it out.

I'm doing all the tricks.

And it's just one of those tough words to me to spell.

That's a tough word.

You, you, you.

So if you're flying, that was hilarious.

If you're flying somewhere this summer, make sure your airplane etiquette is up to snuff.

Kayak did a survey on the unspoken rules of air travel.

So can you recline your seat?

88% say yes.

But a third say only a long haul, a long haul flights in red eyes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Actually, I'm kind of behind that, you know.

I think it's, you should be courteous to the person behind you.

I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm with you on that one too.

Especially if they're like, one food is delivered.

Oh, yes.

On the tray table.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good point.

That's a good note on that.

And let's see.

Can you take your shoes off?

56% of people say no.

44% say yes.

So kind of a toss up.

Okay.

77% of people agree your socks should stay on.

Don't take the socks off.

Do not take those socks off.

And if your feet stink, don't take your shoes off.

No.

There is no possible way your feet don't smell.

If you are on an airplane, you just spent an hour or two waiting in line and sitting there

and people watching and reading your book and all of this.

I have a very hard time believing that your feet smell like roses.

Even how roses, but they don't stink, James.

I'm not taking the chance.

I take my shoes off for the CA and all that and then I put them right back on and they're

staying on.

Wait.

Is he implying that your feet smell Melissa?

I don't know.

Is that what he's doing?

That is exactly what he said.

And I'm offended.

Does the person in the middle seat get both arm rests?

57% say no.

They have to share them.

This leads me to a question.

Why is there a middle seat?

Yeah.

I think they, I think, yeah.

I dislike that.

I mean, I guess on the really big planes, you can get away with it because the seats are generally

bigger.

But man, no.