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I am joined by Melissa K.
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Good things in store for you this hour.
Not only going to get in some entertainment a little bit.
Talk about some new things coming up.
And of course, what is new on your local theater stage.
We also got what counts as junk food at that one coming up for you.
Just a little bit.
We'll get into that.
We've also got a couple of other fun stories for you.
We'll get into and plenty more before we wrap up the hour.
Let's kick things off with a little bit of entertainment news, Melissa.
And one of the bigger artists in the world right now is Shappell Rohn, a very popular
artist.
And I've been in the news a lot too with a lot of things that she's been talking about
and sharing with her fans and about her fans, some of those things.
And so she has been able to overnight sensation a little bit.
She has had a quick rise to stardom.
And yes, I've noticed this.
Often times when this happens to an artist, they don't have much of a filter because they
haven't experienced that yet.
Yeah.
They didn't grow it along the way.
I've heard a lot of, I talk with a lot of people in, they've done radio a lot longer
than I have talk radio.
And one of the things they talk about is, you know, you do this job for a while and you
start to annoy the real people, the people in your life you talk to a lot because you
feel like you've got to fill time.
You've got to fill dead air even in person and things like this.
And you start to, you know, realize, okay, I got to pull back a little bit in person.
Like it's not, this isn't, the microphone's not on right now, you know, things like that.
I'm not working.
I'm not working.
Even though I work all the time, I'm not working right now.
So there's a number of different things that kind of fall into this one.
And as far as her, she is not holding back as far as kind of like her life and really
sharing a lot.
Before performing, my kink is karma on Sunday in Austin City Limits Festival.
She said, quote, I usually dedicate this song to my ex, but I dedicate this song to my theater
teacher.
And she used some choice words about this one.
She kind of like, like called out or the old former theater teacher and everything.
And she's been, it's making the rounds and stuff.
People of course have been taking the ball and nobody can just take this.
They've got to find out who the theater teacher is and all that.
I relate on a semi level to this.
I had a theater teacher that treated me pretty poorly that told me that I would never make
it as an actor that I would never be cast as a romantic lead or any kind of things.
And I've been able to prove her wrong, you know, 50 times over.
But I'll never forget when she told me these things and how it stayed with me.
And all it did was motivate me.
I never remember, I remember feeling a little discouraged, sure, but I imagine knowing
me especially right away after that was the rebellious action of, oh, you say I can't
do something.
Well, here, hold this, you know, watch, watch me work.
That's been my life.
That's been who I've always been and I'm not alone.
There's a, you have some of that in you, Melissa.
A lot of people have a lot of that in them and that's in fact where a lot of people end up
making it.
I've mentioned this many times.
The difference of a chaperone and somebody who is singing out there right now, skill wise,
there's not a gigantic difference.
It's how bad do you?
There's certainly other factors, opportunity, you know, a lot of these things.
But at the end of the day, I believe that it comes down to, are you relentless?
Do you want, how bad do you want this?
And I think with that, you know, you're going to have this happen, you know, from time to
time.
You're going to have people that run into this.
But I, I come back to the greatest revenge we all know is just moving on.
And I, I don't know, like in a biography or something like that, I get it.
But something like this, that person's got, like in sports, we talk about this a lot.
When there's a lot of trash talk, oh, I'm in that person's head.
Why is, why are you letting this person take up room in your head?
Well, you know, what, what, well, I mean, and sometimes it's hard not to especially
at a young age.
26.
So obviously that person had a big effect on her at that point in her life.
And being only 26, she doesn't have the perspective that you're talking about James
of being able to say, well, why am I giving this person space in, you know, in my brain.
I don't need to.
But it's hard to, to see that at that age.
I had a teacher in grade school.
Tell me I had fat toes.
I didn't wear sandals for until I was an adult, because it affected me that much.
So you know, it really does matter the words you say and the things you say, it's important
to think about them when you're talking, especially to children.
And you know, the experience that you had from a theater teacher, and while that may
have inspired you for someone without that kind of drive, it could have shut them down.
You know, so it, there's a lot of factors here.
This young lady, I actually, I know zero about her.
A side of having her turn name a few times or seen it.
I don't know her music, so I have a lot of homework to do on that.
But it is interesting to see, you know, that quick rise to fame and how it affects people.
Yeah, yeah.
It's always, everybody handles it differently.
And I don't want to make myself sound too brave here or anything.
It hurt.
I don't smile that much because of some things that were said to me when I was young about
my smile.
I don't, you notice some pictures.
You don't see me show my teeth very often.
I've certainly had plenty of things like that that set me back a step in everything.
But I don't, I don't, I don't know that it does you any good hanging on to those things
or bringing them back up, especially when you've made it to the place she has.
I'm not, I'm not at all telling her what to do or how she should handle this or anything
like that.
It's the own.
But I use this, to me, I think it's more of a lesson to others.
Her, she's going to do what she's going to do.
But to the rest of us and to other artists and people out there, I, I would encourage
you to, you know, save it for the biography, I mean, you know, save it for the bio.
You're going to have time to be able to, and, and, and that, and that person remembers
you.
That person, I, I know for a fact that my former teacher saw me out there working on, not
only on the WRCT stage, but in, in no names or found out that I had a set, I was a screen
actor's guild member.
Like, I didn't have to call her up.
I didn't have to make sure, you know, send her an email and let her know.
I brought this up before, Michael Jordan is one of the greatest, most accomplished athletes
will ever see at his Hall of Fame speech.
Michael Jordan invited the kid that beat him out from his JV team in high school.
Like just, just as a motivation thing for him, like, it was, it was really like tacky
to me.
It was really like kind of a sad lame kind of thing to do.
Like you, Michael Jordan's accomplished everything you could accomplish in basketball.
He's still like, got this chip on his shoulder, like, they, they, they, they, they, it takes
away from your, your work, I think, I think it takes away from your legacy.
It's, it's, um, I don't look at them the same, and I know a lot of people that don't.
There, there's a lot of artists like that that I think they, you're not, yeah, and, and
it's not just, like, we, we talk about this all the time, too, Melissa, that teacher,
that person who said something bad to her or to you or to me, um, what good does it
do to flip it back and say something bad to them?
Like, you're, you're just, and they're only human.
I mean, my teacher did not mean anything negative necessarily about my toes.
There's nothing wrong with them, you know, they were just different than, than what her,
her experience, uh, people in her family have long skinny toes.
I have shorter, fatter toes, nothing wrong with that.
I like my feet quite a bit now, actually, but, but it does cause, you know, I mean, and
we sometimes say things without thinking and don't realize the impact that that can have
at a broader scale, this young woman has the world as an audience to what she's doing
and what, and the choices that she's making, and that's going to have a much bigger impact
than what your teacher or my teacher said to us.
I don't, um, I certainly don't think this the last we're going to hear from her and
I don't mean musically.
I mean, you know, she, she's a talker, uh, she, she's going to have more to say.
It sounds like, uh, and, and good honor, uh, you know, I mean, more people need to use
their voice, I think, uh, it just be aware of who is listening and, and be aware of your,
the impact of what your words are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Goes along.
Yeah.
That could, that could be said to all of the politicians and all of the groups out there
that are saying a lot of things that are straight up lying about things and hurting
people.
Sorry to turn it to even a more serious topic, but I think that that's important.
It needs to be said.
Yeah.
Well, it's, it's part of the reason, um, uh, the last Friday when, uh, Representative
Krueger was in, uh, with us and everything.
I, I, I opened our conversation and, and one of the talk about, uh, tackats and, uh, he
was very blunt about it, very honest about it for one, uh, mentioning that his wife would
leave him if, uh, he did attack ads.
So, uh, I didn't see that one coming.
Uh, good on you, Mrs. Krueger.
That's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good otter.
All right.
But, uh, we, he is an outlier.
He is one of the rare ones.
Um, I, to every single politician, including ones that I have thought of voting for, um, these
don't work.
They, they have an opposite effect.
Uh, you don't have to look for it.
You can even look outside of politics.
Um, back in the day, Ragu, uh, and presto had, had this attack ad situation they were doing
in the late 80s, early 90s, something like that, um, and they did this in part, you
know, to, to kind of, uh, profit their, boost their sales and everything.
It brought, it brought them both down.
Yeah.
Both companies lost millions, millions, uh, Pepsi and Coke back in the day went into this
whole soda wars.
It brought both companies down, neither company profited from it.
Why do you think they're not doing it anymore?
Don't you think they'd still be doing this if it was working?
Uh, it doesn't work, uh, politicians and politicians and politicians, politics and politicians
in general are parody artists.
They, they see something working in pop culture and they do it.
Politics wasn't always yelling at each other, uh, all of a sudden they see this rise in,
um, to, you know, not only talk radio, but specifically sports talk radio.
Oh, okay.
Um, listen, you take this side of the argument.
I'll take this side of the argument and go.
And then we just bicker for 20 minutes and people eat it up and advertisers is better
than football.
Uh, go.
All right.
Well, how dare you, Melissa?
You know, uh, but in, in all of a sudden, politicians saw this and politics saw this and,
and maybe just as importantly media outlets saw this and was like, Oh, well, that's easy.
That's easy fodder.
We can, um, we can make some money off of that, um, the New York manufacturer outrage.
The New York Jets just minutes ago fired their head football coach right now in New
York.
They are just sitting back and announcing this and just letting people call in and talk.
And they're pulling like a huge share from it.
Uh, the, the ratings are going through the roof right now in New York, just, just throwing
this topic out there and letting them talk like that sports talk radio.
It's easy.
It's not that hard.
Um, they, they've turned this into politics.
They've turned us into everyday life where we do this and everything and it doesn't, doesn't
solve anything.
Attack ads don't solve anything for one, even if it's from somebody you believe in, you,
you don't tend to believe what they're saying because it's an attack ad and our instincts
are immediately, well, I don't know about that.
And, and they don't help you.
They're all they're doing is bring, um, so one of the things that they notice with the
Pepsi and Coke thing, uh, Pepsi would say something about Coke and what what happened was
people would start to think of it with Coca-Cola, but then they'd be reminded of things
they didn't like about Pepsi.
And, and so nobody bought soda, nobody was buying it, and that's what's happening with
politics.
Yeah.
Well, and then that's the, the flavor that some of them want, because if they can disenfranchise
voters, well, that's, um, and they're not using their voice and people need to use our,
we need to use our voices for good.
I don't, not politicize the disasters that are happening, not spread lies.
We need to, we need to help people, we need to talk about the real issues.
Demand better from our politicians and, and that starts to me with, uh, representing
your constituents and, and not doing attack ads.
And, and to every politician out there that does attack ads, I have opened the door.
I have welcomed them onto our station.
I have welcomed them over, uh, your, your, uh, Van Orden's, your Ron Johnson's, they refuse.
They will not answer my emails for years.
They haven't, um, because we are not in their district.
Uh, is what I've been told, um, and, and I, to say, to that, I say, well, we have plenty
of people, uh, that, that are on the airwaves with us that haven't been Katrina Shanklin has
been on with us.
Ron Kind has been on with us.
We've had plenty of people on the airwaves because I don't have a deep conversation to
have.
This isn't going to take very long, uh, what, what is the purpose of these?
And what are you accomplishing with them, uh, attack ads are one of the things that are
driving people away from politics, are keeping people away from it.
More people are voting on American Idol than they are in the presidential election for
a reason, uh, and people are getting disenchanted with some of these things.
And they're being bombarded with it into, uh, something you touched on before Melissa,
not only be aware of the politicians that are doing these attack ads, but why are they
trying to push you away from voting?
Why don't they want you to vote?
Because that's what they're doing with those attack ads.
They're not telling you not to vote for their, their, their, their, their, the people
going up against.
They're essentially telling you not to vote.
Uh, that, that, that should, that should be a huge red flag right there, a huge alarm
right there.
Keep an eye on that stuff, people.
Right.
And if they're just saying, well, everything's wrong and everything's bad and there's
nothing we can do, why are they saying that?
What's the point of making people feel hopeless?
Everything in life, uh, has its positives and its negatives, um, that is life.
And if, if you, if they are just, uh, shedding a light and all they're talking about
as the negatives, that tells you a lot about that person.
Right.
And we have the power to make change.
We have our vote, our voice.
Yeah.
We can do it.
Uh, we, uh, my vote dot w i dot gov, check your registration, make sure you have a plan
to vote on November 5th.
We are less than a month away from the election.
God, I'm so thankful.
I am so thankful.
Can we just do it now?
Can we just get this done with, uh, well, I mean early voting has started and you have
up until I believe, uh, five p.m. on October 31st to request an absentee ballot if you do
not or are not able to vote in person.
Be informed, get out there and vote everybody and take a quick commercial break, come back,
talk to some local theater when we get back on the morning show here at W F H R. Welcome
back everyone morning show here at W F H R locally grown radio.
Melissa James hanging out with you, hope you're having a great Tuesday.
Out there, everybody, a little bit of inner little more entertainment news here for you.
Just wanted to wrap up some other stories.
Taylor Swift just added another line to her resume.
She is now the richest female musician in the world.
Oh, wow.
Taylor is worth an estimated 1.6 billion, which puts her right behind Rihanna, who is at
1.4 billion.
Wow.
Uh, Taylor is also the second richest musician over all behind JC, who's, uh, got a pretty
substantial lead at 2.5 billion.
Uh, Rihanna still keeps the title of richest female musician of all time because she was
once worth 1.77 million, a bill, billion.
But Taylor Swift might eclipse that once the eras tour is finished.
Another, uh, interesting note about this, you know, well with artists and, and then just
in, and as far as their power and their control and what they can do, um, you know, it, um,
it's noteworthy.
It's, it's a stupid amount of money.
Nobody needs that much money.
Sorry.
They don't.
Well, yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
Um, I, I, I, she could never spend that ever in her entire lifetime.
She owns an island.
Like who needs to own an island?
Like, nobody needs that.
Yeah.
I mean, we, I could say that about Jeff Bezos and, uh, Elon Musk and all these others too.
I mean, uh, nobody does.
Nobody needs that kind of money.
And, uh, let's be real about this, um, I don't, I don't know that anybody is worth that
much.
Not Taylor Swift, not Jeff Bezos, not anybody.
I don't, I don't know how a human being can be worth that much.
Uh, now, uh, people are priceless.
Oh, we have, uh, uh, but, you know, I'm sorry to that, as far as that, I don't know
what that I've ever been saying.
Something like that.
It's like, heck me out.
Um, but, uh, um, I, I mean, as far as your skill level and everything, uh, I mean,
they get your talent level.
Like, I, I don't know whether it's Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Jay-Z, or any artist that I could
think of.
Um, I'm not sure that anybody's worth billions.
I mean, that's, that's a lot of money right there.
Um, but it, you know, congratulations to her and, and it, and it, and it certainly, it's
an accomplishment.
That's for sure.
Uh, looking what's new on your small screen tonight, dancing with the stars, kicks off
at seven on Disney Plus and ABC.
They are of hair, metal night tonight, uh, the, the voice says they're blind.
The audition is going on at seven as well.
There is a one hour Oprah special, the Presley's Elvis, Lisa Marie, and Riley, uh, on CBS
at seven o'clock.
Oprah does a deep dive on the Elvis family.
Uh, apparently doesn't do a deep dive on herself, though, apparently.
Um, she, she is on a part of a story that I'm working on, Melissa, uh, a recent trend
of, um, artists who are of the, uh, Taylor Swift level, like Oprah, um, uh, who are
buying their documentaries.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, and, and the, you know, this comes back to journalism.
This comes back to, uh, you know, um, getting the importance of, of, of the true message,
of getting a message out there and everything and, and letting art in the, and creativity
as well.
Yeah.
Um, the, uh, the, uh, stand up special Ali Wong simple lady is on Netflix as well.
That is new on your small screen tonight.
I encourage everybody to get your tickets from Matilda, uh, uh, central, uh, constant
area community theater as their great show, Ronald Dolls, Matilda, the musical coming
up October 25th.
Wow.
Uh, it's good.
A couple of weeks away.
It's going to be running October 25th through November 2nd.
Get your tickets at cwack.org, cwack.org encourage everybody to do that.
Mm-hmm.
And, of course, great musical.
And tonight is the final night of auditions over at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater
for white Christmas.
That's right.
Get out.
Singers and dancers should get over there.
They, uh, they have, this is a wonderful play that has been around for a long time.
And, um, I know it's a lot of people's favorite Christmas movie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, this is one of those shows, too, where if you're looking for a big part, you're looking
for a small part, you want to be behind the scenes, uh, there is something for everybody
with this show.
Yeah.
They got a big cast for this one.
And, uh, we need all hands on deck, uh, to fill this cast out auditions again tonight
final night of auditions, seven o'clock, six o'clock over at the Wisconsin Rapids Community
Theater.
Um, you can fill out the application online and get that out of the way before you go.
Uh, you saw right where I wanted to go to that Melissa because I, I was talking to some
listeners recently that have been interested about auditioning or even just being a part
of things at the theater, whether on the board or anything like that.
And one of their first questions was, well, I've never auditioned before.
I don't know how to fill that out.
Um, and I'm telling them, you know, it's a really simple thing and you can do it online.
You can even do it beforehand, if you'd rather, uh, and then there's no pressure when
you're in the moment.
And, and as I was, uh, mentioning before and I mentioned to these listeners, um, there
are plenty of opportunities to be a part of the theater and you don't even have to be
on stage.
Very true.
Yeah.
If you want to help with the set, if you want to help with, uh, concessions or ushering
during the show, all of those things are available.
And it's one of the ways of putting back in your community.
Um, you know, it may not always seem like that, but community theaters around the
country are one of those things that, uh, entertain our communities, give our communities,
uh, things to do.
And, and certainly are a part of the economy of our communities.
Yes.
Absolutely.
And plus it's just a good time.
Yeah.
So much fun.
It's so much fun.
I, I do like to warn people, if you join a community theater, you will be back.
You will be back.
Uh, there are no community theaters.
I've ever worked at where I didn't immediately feel like this is my second home.
Um, this is, you know, this is something I, well, there would stage coach in Illinois
or here in Wisconsin's rapids and, uh, W R C T, um, any community theater I've ever worked
at.
You, you just can't help but keep coming back.
Uh, so other people are fun bunch, um, W R C theater dot org is website, W R C theater
dot org.
Get on down there for the final night of auditions for Irving Berlin's white Christmas,
uh, going to be going on tonight, get on down there and check it out.
Everybody.
Uh, and, uh, we'll get to our news break.
But I didn't want to tell everybody coming up.
We are going to get into a couple of fun topics.
We have got lined up for you, want to get into what is junk food?
What counts as junk food?
Uh, your health food is my junk food.
We will be diving into that when we get back.
Uh, the morning show here at W F H R.
Welcome back, everybody.
Melissa and James back with you.
We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.
Happy Tuesday, everyone.
Hmm.
We're going to get into a topic that might be a little divisive for some, but we want
everybody to feel welcome and everybody to, uh, feel free to call it and join the conversation.
715-424-2600.
What is junk food?
It's not be divided on this topic, people.
Let us come together as a nation, as people, and decide once and for all what is junk food.
Uh, and, and, and the list ends there and we can move on.
Uh, we're done.
We're done.
And there we go.
Uh, I was just going to say the junk food is whatever you want it to be.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
I know people that eat grapes and consider it junk food.
So, uh, you know, sugar in those, so everyone knows your definition.
Everybody knows you're, you're supposed to limit junk food.
That's certainly something that we all kind of realize, uh, if you don't realize it soon
enough, you do once you're a teenager, um, a new poll asked people if they consider
various foods to be junk food or not, and there are about 40 foods overall.
The one, the, the most people said that was junk food was sweets, 91% of people consider
sweets to be junk food, and only 8% say they're not, uh, and here are the rest of the top
10.
So, number one was sweets.
That's 91% of people believe that anything sweet, you know, anything like that, that's
definitely interesting.
Sugar.
Yeah.
I think that's a better way to put it.
Anything high in sugar.
Uh, soda and pop came in second, 89% of people say that that's junk food, 7% say that
it is not.
No, I'd say it is.
I think because it's a liquid, some people might not think of it that way.
Um, but definitely, uh, it's a junk food.
That's, that's been junk food for my whole life.
The same, same.
Yeah.
Chips, 88% say that they are junk food, 10% say they are not.
I'm pretty sure they qualify as junk food.
I, I feel like if you look up, uh, junk food, 10% are in denial.
Yeah.
Like if you look up junk food in the dictionary, it just has a, a picture of Doritos.
It's just a, a bag of chips and a soda.
Yeah.
That's kind of what a, junk food 101, I feel like, uh, maybe even a candy bar.
Yeah.
Uh, energy drinks come in next at number 4, 87% say that is junk food, 8% say they
are not.
I'm actually a little surprised by that one.
Hmm.
I'm very high in sugar.
Hmm.
Obviously energy drinks, but I don't know.
I don't, I don't use, or use, don't use them myself.
Hmm.
I don't drink energy drinks myself because it would tear up my stomach.
Yeah.
I would not be okay.
I drink one.
I've already got a, a, a rough stomach, uh, and, uh, rough kidneys, uh, energy drinks
would just knock me out like any, anything, any positive they had would have, then
it would be far away by the negative, which is the case for most people out there with
any drink drinks just as a side note.
You know, believe me, go ahead and look into it a little bit, um, but they are, they are
built basically to destroy the inner lining of your stomach.
I mean, they're not, not, and that's the majority of energy drinks.
I'm sure that all of them aren't bad, but, uh, the whole things are created equally.
Mm-hmm.
Chocolate came in at number five, um, 80% say that's junk food, 7% say it's not.
That's because most of the chocolate in the United States is not, is junk food.
Mm-hmm.
Dark chocolate has actual health benefits.
No.
That doesn't mean you can just eat it all the time, whatever you want, Alyssa.
But it means that it's a little bit better for you than milk chocolate.
You easily could have said, uh, James is well there.
Either one of us would have fit.
I, I hear you.
I, I try to only rep, reprimand myself directly when we're having these conversations.
Unfortunately, uh, I'm included in that.
You were not allowed in that one.
Cakes, 78% say that's junk food, 19% say they're not.
But cake.
I really want cake.
I don't know why, but, oh, who was it that was saying that the birthday cake flavored
anything is wrong, even actual birthday cake?
Yeah.
I don't know who did.
I met him in Peachwabba.
Yeah.
But I was ready to send him an angry meme.
I love cake.
Don't, don't disparage.
Cake, cake.
It's amazing.
Cake is awesome.
Cake is great.
If Seth was here, I'd ask him if pie would be considered a junk food or not, um, you
know, I'm not sure.
Well, let's get to it.
Well, let's get his take on that one.
French fries come in at number seven, 78% saying that is junk food, 19% saying it is
not.
I wouldn't have thought of that, but yeah, I could see that.
I mean, it's, it's potato, which potato has a limited nutritional value.
And then you're dunking it in hot oil to cook it.
So I mean, those things considered probably, yeah.
You used to be one of my favorite snacks.
I would throw a bunch of fries in and just eat fries like that.
And if you bake them in the oven, they're better for you.
Yeah.
That's how I did it too.
And especially, you know, if you're making them like a few potato wedges, I love making
potato.
I actually haven't done that in a long time.
I should now that I can, it's cold enough.
I can turn my oven on next.
I should make some potato wedges, you know, icing came in at number eight with 76% calling
that junk food.
18% said not.
I see.
Just like by itself.
Yeah.
Are people just eating icing?
I mean, I've never heard of that.
Usually I put it on something, which could also be considered junk food like cake or
a pudgy pie or I don't know, I think.
I think this one is interesting.
Pizza, 76% said pizza is junk food, 20% said it is not.
That's a hard one.
That is a tough one.
I mean, I guess, you know, everything comes down to ingredients.
Right.
And how often you eat it.
Tortilla chips came in at number 10 was 75% saying that that is junk food, 20% saying
it is not.
So the other chip category that was earlier up, those were just, whoa, it was potato chips
specifically, wasn't it?
I mean, it said chips, just said chips.
See?
Yeah, that's weird.
We said chips.
Now, they were just trying to round out to 10.
They were just trying to get to 10.
Some of the items they asked about, the one that most people agreed was not junk food
was strawberries, 98% said that they are not junk food.
One percent said that they were.
They were.
That's fruit.
Yeah.
That's fruit.
Yeah.
I mean, yes, is fruit have sugar in it?
Sure.
Of course it does.
It's why we have sweet things.
But it's not junk food.
Yeah.
Again, you know, the ingredients, how much?
Strawberry-shaped gummies.
Yeah.
Like, just because something is artificially flavored strawberry, doesn't make it good for
you.
But just because it says schmuckers has real fruit, doesn't mean that it's not, you know,
cool strawberries.
I've got a strawberry.
Yeah.
I had my, I had my fruit intake.
I have a strawberry laughing taffy.
I'm good.
I'm good.
That doesn't count.
No, no, no.
Carrots came in next, and as far as not junk food list, 38% said that is not junk food.
So those are also really high in sugar, and they do have, but there's far more nutritional
value in those whole foods that you're now talking about versus anything else we listed
before.
Yeah.
And carrots are good for you, but not as good for you as I thought they were.
Yeah.
Because they're high in sugar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was way, I was much older than I probably should have been when I learned that.
Yeah.
But they're still good.
You eat them, you know, in a balanced diet, there's nothing wrong with that.
Oh, meal, 96% say that is not junk food.
I would have, I would have never thought of any of these.
There's, there's someone later on the list, but yeah, I would say this one is probably
a, even a questionable because a lot of people eat oatmeal in the form of oatmeal packets.
Right.
That have, you know, like my personal favorite, especially as a kid, peaches in cream.
Yeah.
Baker oats packets that have other stuff in it.
If you're talking about straight up oatmeal, you know, old fashioned rolled oats.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are definitely a health food.
Yeah.
Um, baked potatoes, 96% say that is not junk food, as long as you're not piling on a ton
of cheese and bacon and sour cream.
Sure.
Yogurt comes in next at 92% getting a little bit more, you know, none sure.
A lot of them have sugar and so much added sugar in them.
If you're buying just straight up like Greek yogurt, um, if that's unflavered and you're
adding your own stuff to it, that is a much healthier choice.
Hmm.
Granola comes in next at 79%.
Another one that can be guilty of a lot of added sugar.
Yeah.
And that was one of those ones that I used to trick myself.
I'm eating healthy and there's big chunks of dark chocolate in there, yeah, yeah, I do
love granola.
Granola's good.
Yeah.
Granola's good.
99% say they are not junk food.
Even though they have flavors, I actually have some of my cupboard right now that are like
uh, caramel flavored, but they're a decent snack if you need something crunchy, but also
a little sweet.
I don't know.
I don't think they're junk food.
Yeah.
I've never thought of any of that.
That's another one.
I never would have thought of rice cakes as junk food, but I suppose I do remember in
college, uh, seeing a guy, um, he was in basketball, uh, but he was, he had to put on
some weight.
Uh, he was eating right.
I had to do it with rice cake, too.
Yeah.
Well, it's all he had.
We're in college.
Nobody has any money and he's an athlete and this is before NIL.
So of course, he really has no money, um, and uh, he, he's, but he's got the rice cakes
and he's just putting like a ton of peanut butter on there.
Wow.
That's a better way to do it and putting another rice cake on top of that and I remember
sitting back with Will just being like, I got to see how he even tries to like, how does
he even attack this thing that where do you, where do you start to bite?
See, that's the thing with rice cakes, the full sized rice cakes.
I love now that they have rice cake bites, which are actually like one bite sized, but
with those, their thinner, they actually have more sugar on them because, you know, there's
more of a, the smaller of a space to coat, less rice, more sugar, um, but those are far more
convenient to eat.
Full sized rice cakes.
They're messy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're messy to eat.
Cookies came up next at number nine, 78% saying that is not junk food.
No, a tie and sugar, but if it's, if it's 100% juice, you're much better off.
Yeah.
You really got to look at that sugar intake on these.
Yeah.
The proportion size is important too.
Cookies, ice cream, popcorn and frozen dinners just miss the cut on the junk food side
and crackers, cereal, smoothies and croissants just miss the cut as the not junk food side.
Hmm.
I push back on popcorn.
Yeah.
That's it.
I was wondering about that one.
Yeah.
I mean, it depends on how much you're, you know, butter you're adding or if you're just
getting, or runbuckers, bagged microwave popcorn.
Yeah.
It's not going to be as healthy.
But if you're air popping it or you're popping it yourself on the stove and choosing
how much your butter or other oil you're adding to it, it can be a very healthy snack.
Remember the first time I saw somebody put chocolate syrup on popcorn and so on.
My favorite thing to add is brags, which is an alternative soy sauce and nutritional
yeast.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Also called bruise.
I would try that.
Yeah.
It's something that a lot of vegans use for a cheese replacement in recipes because
it kind of has a somewhat cheesy flavor, I guess you could say, but I don't know, I think
it's really good.
I'll try that.
The item closest to being split 50, 50 is jelly.
Hmm.
Huh.
Didn't see that coming.
Huh.
I've got a lot of sugar in it.
It, you know, jelly is one of those ones that you don't want.
You don't know, you might not want to, but you do.
You got to look at what the intake is on some of those because especially that's one
of those ones that we, our brains kind of get tricked into thinking it.
It can be healthy.
Obviously it's fruit.
Right.
Yeah, but read the label, just look for the one that's whole fruit.
There's so many times in my 20s that my brain went to that.
Like, if it had fruit in it, it's probably good for me.
It's, there's a lot of that in my past, a lot of it.
All that rationalization.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Yep.
Yeah.
Just no wait.
But you're back onto eating solid foods now, right?
I'm getting there.
Much more, much more.
I actually had a brot last night.
It was great.
It was awesome.
It was awesome.
It was the best brot I've ever had.
I bet.
And not just, not just because how good it was, but my dad has been so proud because I,
I think I mentioned this before, the bottom is grill, hollowed out, it rusted out.
And he was panicking about, oh gosh, you know, I don't, when, when am I going to buy
any grill?
You don't want to start the deck on fire.
Yeah.
I've never heard the bottom of the grill.
Go dad.
He's dead.
He's dead.
This is the second time he's tested it out.
It worked both times.
So I love seeing, there's nothing like just seeing your father out on the deck.
And you know, he doesn't know your look.
You see him or anything.
And he's just out there.
He's got his chest all puffed out.
Yeah.
He's proud of himself.
I'm grilling it.
But he should, everybody should get to feel that every now and then.
Definitely.
Definitely.
And I was worried that you weren't on a solid foods yet.
I was going to buy something to bring in to taste test on a show.
And I was like, I better find out first.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for checking in.
And I'm looking forward to that.
We haven't done that in a while.
I don't want to, you know, bring in something you can't have.
We haven't done the taste test thing in too long.
We got to do that.
That's fine.
That's a good radio.
Yes, because eating out air is something you love to do.
Fair point.
Fair point.
It's never stopped.
Steve the Katrina.
They always bring stuff in from family and after foods for me to test.
They have so many good things to taste.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll be back more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
We're going to take you right to the top of the hour.
Get into our schedule and talk about some good stories of the day.
All of that coming up for you.
We hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday out there.
Thanks for kicking it off with us, everybody.
I wanted to take a moment, Melissa, to kind of focus on some good things going on in our area
and good stories out there.
And I really wanted to take a moment yesterday and didn't have the chance to focus on a story
that you just recently published that you authored the Hurricane Elena Survivor.
Would you mind touching on this just a little bit to kind of preview this a little for the audience
and we'll let them know where they can read it?
Well, this was someone I have been friends with for years,
but we haven't seen each other for quite some time because she actually moved down to North Carolina
a few years back.
And she, I had seen some postings on Facebook by her, her daughters,
and that her town was really heavily impacted.
She was trapped in her driveway.
Her house survived, but she was stuck by down power lines and trees for five days,
immediately following the aftermath of the storm.
But once she got back to Wisconsin because she came up here to not be a drain on resources
there for people who had nowhere else to go, she had some more to go.
So she came and her kids needed to see her.
So she came back to Wisconsin and was willing to do a phone interview with me
to tell people what's going on down there.
And one of the biggest things she said besides obviously all the devastation from the Hurricane
that's hurting the people who are there is the spread of disinformation and misinformation.
It's hurting people because if people think that well FEMA is not here,
well then they don't apply for the benefits.
FEMA is there.
They're helping people fill out applications.
The National Guard is there.
Still doing rescue operations because people are still missing.
And it's awful what's happened.
And I'm worried about the next hurricane that's coming, Hurricane Milton.
That is looking like it's going to hit Florida at a really strong, you know, category hurricane.
We need to not spread misinformation.
It hurts a lot more people than we could ever realize.
And part of the way we were able to do that is with good journalism, good reporting
and appreciate you doing that, leading that for us here at WFHR.
My mother was really moved by the story and really appreciated it.
She's been very glued into the hurricane coverage and what's been going on with that.
And this was a story that she had not heard and a different angle on a story that she had not heard.
Just a big credit to this lady sharing her story, appreciate her doing that.
And certainly the work that you did on this Melissa.
Well, thank you.
And if you, the article includes some, you know, SNPs snippets of the interview,
but the full interview is included at the bottom of the article.
And if you listen to it, it's Andrea.
It's Andrea's voice telling her experience in her story and it's heart-rending.
I mean, I, I know her personally.
So I also, you know, care at a deeper level than, than a stranger that you don't know,
just because that's what we are as humans.
Our empathy can only go so far, but I tear up every time I listen to it.
It was a difficult interview to edit, producer point of view.
But yeah, it's a, it's a beautiful story because she also talks about the good that she saw.
And how people came together, it didn't matter.
It didn't matter who they were or what differences they had before.
The tragedy brought everyone together.
And she said she saw the best of humanity while she was in that situation.
It's a great note and a great perspective for those of us not going through it to keep in mind
and carry with us as we go through the next couple of weeks here leading into the election.
Remember, we are stronger together and those that try to divide us only want us to be weak.
We are stronger together.
But those who are trying to help the situation not use the situation for their benefit.
And a big thank you to everybody who has been helping with this situation with this hurricane relief.
We have been, there's a drop-off location for items over a semi-trailer at Pickensave on A Street South right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
You can donate items there.
They are looking for water, baby formula, hygiene items, generators, things like that.
Yeah, cleanup supplies, you know, gloves, paper or plastic bags, anything that could be useful.
But make sure you're bringing new things, you know, unopened packages of hygiene products.
If you're able to, or if you have questions about items they could need, reach out to Andy at 715-459-4153.
That's 459-4153.
And thank you to everybody working so hard on that.
Yeah, and if you're able to donate your time at that donation site, contact him as well.
We got, we had Bill Heck, I don't know if you like, and Tom Heiser in yesterday.
Bill, you used to join us with our monthly veterans update. Tom has been nice enough to be pulling the rain since.
And he was letting us know some great events coming up in the next couple of days.
Like tonight is Culver's night at our Wisconsin Rapids Culver's.
It's a perfect excuse to get some junk food.
I mean, good food.
Yeah, they've got great food over there at Culver's.
So make sure you go down, say hi, say thanks to the veterans for the work that they do in our community.
Get some good Culver's in you, and dinner's easy.
As Tom says, everybody's got to eat.
Yep, go ahead and get some Culver's tonight from 4 to 8.
Know that you are not only helping out your community, but you are getting some great food at the same time.
Culver's night to night supporting our VFW over 4 to 8 at our local Wisconsin Rapids Culver's.
And keep in mind, tomorrow morning, you've got Heroes Cafe going.
Hey, hey.
That'll go from 7, 30 to 9, 30 over at Crossview Church.
All area veterans, military, police and firefighters are welcome.
Spread the word about this event.
Make sure that all those different groups know about this event, and they can look forward to having some fun with that one.
It's a great time to just get together. Have breakfast.
You know, visit with those who have similar experiences to you.
It's a good, it's a good time.
Yeah, go check that out, everybody.
And a big thank you to everybody that works so hard on Heroes Cafe.
Again, that is going on tomorrow morning, 7, 30 to 9, 30 over at Crossview Church, right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Got a great lineup for you today.
Be sure to join us from 4 to 5 from Midday Magazine.
And part one, we're going to hang out with Promise and our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Oh, great.
Looking forward to that.
A lot of great events going on in the area.
And the next, not just this month, but coming up, Promise and I will get into a bunch of that.
And then in part two, it's Reality Radio with David Farmboro.
Oh, hey, hey.
We've kind of, yeah, we've kind of updated the, let's talk real estate segment and going to be doing this with David.
At least until the end of the year, it looks like.
And I think this is a great opportunity.
Real estate is one of those industries that, whether you're buying a house or looking to or not, it really affects all industries.
So it's a fun topic.
A little bit later tonight at 7.05, we got the Wisconsin hockey hour.
Be sure to check that out.
Everybody that is going to be a lot of fun.
And our good friends at the United Way of Southwood and the M's counties have their day of caring coming up October 26th.
Yeah, you can register now and get in on the t-shirt and the breakfast.
Oh, it's going to be a fun day.
Yeah, if you or somebody you know has a lawn that could use some help there, you know, in a position that they can't do it themselves.
Yeah, elderly are disabled, particularly are who they're looking to help here.
And if you are a person that would like to be a part of this and or a group of people or a business or something like that.
Encourage you to find out more and register today at uwac.org.
You can also call them at 715-421-0390.
That's 420-390.
Encourage everybody to get behind this one.
Great show today, Melissa.
Yeah, you two games.
You guys have yourselves a good day out there.
Be good to each other and we will talk to you soon and then later right here at...
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