I’d Eat That With a Fork(Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James here.

Thanks for joining me, everybody.

I am joined by a couple of fun co-hosts today.

A little different show today.

Want to introduce Laura to the audience.

Laura, thank you for being here.

Hello, yes.

I came here for the fun.

Yeah.

We got it in store.

We got it.

We got it.

It's right to your left.

Just go ahead and pick that up right there.

And Beth, have aggro for this.

Good morning, everybody.

Good to have you guys here.

Thanks so much for being here with us today.

We want to send a shout out to, of course, Brittany Marlowe,

who is not with us this morning.

Brittany is enjoying herself, hopefully.

Enjoy your flurries in Florida.

Yeah, yeah.

She'll be back with us next week.

Bring back the warmth.

That's all we ask.

We got a jam pack show for you.

I have 10 hours of show that somehow we will cram into two hours.

We always do it.

And we're going to have some fun doing it today.

We got the Elcafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner going to dive into that one.

We'll also get into a couple of other fun topics.

Progresso is selling chicken noodle soup cough drops.

No.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the right reaction.

No.

Pop culture moments that'll be a decade old in 2025.

So that is going to be interesting.

Because this weather's not making us feel old enough.

Right, right.

Yeah.

So I just thought I'd just push it over the edge a little bit.

Thank you.

And if we have time, the 100 worst rated foods in the world.

Oh, can we really get to that one?

Yeah.

We will kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our friends from the South O'Connie Main Society

and our pet of the week looking forward to Denise and the gang joining us.

We'll get in a little bit of entertainment news for you.

We're going to talk Harry Met Sally a little bit.

Rewind to that Post Malone Oreos.

What?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Post Maloreos.

You're welcome.

That's nice.

Well done, well done.

Not even 830.

You didn't pull that one out.

I have three Sips of coffee in.

You guys are in for a treat.

But we do want to start the show in two places.

One, a quick programming note.

We have been enjoying and appreciative of our Tuesday and Thursday lineups in particular

between five and six when we've been playing community stories.

Melissa's fantastic show that she's been taking a bit of a hiatus this month.

She'll be back next month and we're looking forward to that.

It's incredible work that she has been doing on that show.

In the meantime, we've been playing on Tuesdays and unlabeled and on Thursdays.

A set face of the music.

Well, this Thursday, we have a very special episode for you between five and six.

We are going to be playing our director's playhouse, which is director's cut.

Just re-imagined and everything.

Just re-done a little bit.

So this is actually our first director's playhouse of the year and with the new name.

And boy, do we have a set of guests for you, everybody?

Because yesterday joining me on the phone was Colin Mockery from whose line is it anyway?

Wow.

And that is who gets.

The award winning.

And personally, I think outside of Rob Williams, the greatest improv artist I have ever seen.

And he's from the original run of that show.

Yeah.

Colin joined us along with Assad Mecky.

And they are doing hip-prop.

This awesome combination of hypnosis and improv comedy.

We got to know the guys a little bit in the first half of the show.

And the second half of the show, we really focused on the show that they are going to be doing this Saturday.

At the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, 730, get your tickets at grandtheeter.com, grandtheeter.com.

I put up a post on my page and I shared it on our Facebook page.

So there's a link right there if you want to get tickets and see this amazing show.

I cannot stress enough that it is very rare that you get to see this kind of talent in person.

Let alone an improv.

I will say in some years back, my sister and I went to see George Carlin at Stephen's point.

And we didn't know that it'd be on his last tour and one of his last shows, but it was.

And I listened to Carlin my whole life.

I'd never seen him like that.

I'd never heard him like that.

There's something different about seeing somebody live.

And it's seeing a talent like Carlin's in person when there's no script.

He's genuinely a legend of improv.

A second city alum too, right?

Yeah.

So what I mean is a staff bonding evening on Saturday night.

That's awesome.

Great team.

And then we convinced them to hypnotize James so that he can see.

Here he is.

He'd missed the show, but it would be so worth it, wouldn't it?

Yes, it would.

Yes, it would.

Yes, it would.

I've been working on this for about a month to get this interview.

And then I hadn't heard from their representation for at least a couple of weeks here, actually.

And I just kind of thought that the interview was not going to happen.

It was moving on.

They got in touch with me less than 24 hours before we were going to do the interview.

Which is how these things work a lot of times.

The guys had an interview on TV right after our interview.

So this is how this kind of works when they're promoting a show and everything.

So I had like 80 questions.

I did not really get the prep for this like I usually do and thin it out and everything.

And one of the questions that I was going to have is what you do with subjects like me.

Because I've been told that I can't be hypnotized.

My brain just is one of those brains.

There's a lot of people like that in life.

Mine is just it does not stop.

And that doesn't help a hypnotist.

Right.

But I'd be very curious to see how you would handle everything.

Yeah.

They do a great job with this show.

They're having a lot of fun with it.

The tour is not stopping anytime soon.

But this is the only stuff that they have in Wisconsin.

So if you want to see them, this is your shot.

There are still tickets available.

And I would be remiss if I did not mention as well because my agent's voices in the back of my head.

There is a chance you might even see me out there one time.

So keep your eyes on that tour everybody.

Because that is going to be pretty cool.

Again, I just have to say really quickly to Assad, to Colin.

Thank you so much for the time.

We had a little bit of technical issues with Colin's phone.

Okay.

You're going to hear pretty quickly in the interview.

You can hear him the whole time.

But there's a little bit of robotics involved.

We had some fun with that.

Because we are children.

You put three children on the show together and everything.

And we're going to do that.

But the guys could not have been greater.

A big shout out to their representation as well.

For hooking all this up with me.

It was a really fun time.

Join us today from five to six for a special edition of Director's Playhouse,

where that will be playing for you.

We will also have it for you on Sunday when Director's Playhouse usually plays at five o'clock.

A special shout out to a man I share a brain with in Seth, who is technically on vacation.

Well, I get one half.

You get the other half back.

That's how it works.

I swear you told me that actually.

Well, you know, I couldn't swear.

It was backstage at WRC.

You told me that.

Maybe I'm wrong.

You can have the whole brain as well.

I'm a good shareer.

My mom taught me well.

Winnie's here.

Winnie's here.

I can power the brain.

There you go.

Seth is on break technically right now, but he's still going to stop in today to get this done.

I actually reached out to him right away because I was like, hey, man,

do you think we can do this?

Would you be a game and all that?

Too good of an opportunity.

Right.

Too good of an opportunity for our audience, for our station to not get this on the air.

A big shout out to him for working extra a little bit there.

Again, get your tickets for this amazing show coming up this Saturday at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

730, you can get your tickets at grandtheeter.com.

And I didn't think you did a voice.

I appreciate it.

Yes.

So we actually have to start in an interesting place here because Dr. Pepper.

Yeah.

Dr. Pepper is one of the more popular sodas at the Baltic.

Yeah, a big fan.

Been around a long time.

Also unique because of its flavor, I would say.

Yes.

It's got a very unique flavor.

All of them.

Yes.

Yeah, right.

Right.

Now, I notoriously many flavors.

Long time listeners of the show know that we, part of our, we keep the show fresh.

And interesting is with each guest, I try to tailor the show for them and give them topics

that they can talking points and everything.

No different than you would any interview or any guest you have.

I think you open up your house to them and you let them around and stuff.

You let them drink.

So with it comes to Dr. Pepper, Laura is the one person I know that is a diehard Dr. Pepper fan.

Yes, true.

And I don't believe there's a flavor you don't like.

There's something like more than others.

Yes.

That's accurate.

I will, I will even drink the zero sugar ones.

I'm a fan.

Unintentionally, I just, down one of the many rabbit holes I go down, I happen to come across

this article from MSN.com and I shout out to them for this about the origins of Dr. Pepper's name.

Oh, yes.

The notorious Dr. Pepper himself.

I had never heard this before and I thought it was kind of interesting.

The company's official website has one answer, but there's more answers online.

And this is actually kind of like a running story going on and everything.

It's fascinated people for many, many years.

So the one aspect seems to be, so one of the stories is that Dr. Pepper got its name

by a old Morrison's old corner drug store in Waco, Texas.

That was the first one sold.

Pharmacist's name Charles Alderton is credited with the invention of the beverage,

but the store's owner Wade Morrison was the one who sold and marketed it.

Although the logo and slogans of the drink evolved over the years, the name has remained the same.

The company's official website claims that they have an answer to the name.

It states that Morrison fell in love with a doctor's daughter, specifically the doctor of Dr. Charles Pepper.

Thank you.

Despite the corporate Dr. Pepper's sight sharing this tale, the story has been contested over the years,

with a few different versions being shared.

But there's a lot of pushback on this one timeline-wise.

The story is still circulating, despite its lack of credibility.

And some variations state that the drink was named as thanks to the doctor for his approval of Morrison's marriage proposal to his daughter.

Still cute.

So that's interesting, too.

Then there is the other story.

The story may hold some, but on the surface, real timeline reveals a dark twisted, dark twist.

At the time of the drink's release in subsequent naming, Morrison was 19 years old,

while his legal age to get married, the alleged young Miss Pepper was not.

She would have been only eight.

Oh, not cute.

No.

So obviously the story doesn't work.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I think it's pretty fair to say that that just didn't happen.

I think it's pretty fair to say.

I would love to say that.

But however, history would correct me because that definitely would have happened.

It could have happened, absolutely.

You know, but it doesn't hurt my brain to just move on.

Right, sure.

Let's just move on.

I just wanted to recognize history because that is who I am as a human.

So what did the name come from if not from the father of Morrison's first love?

There is another variation of the tale that fortunately doesn't suggest the existence of many child brides.

Yeah.

The story states that Morrison actually worked for Dr. Charles Pepper where he lived in rural Virginia.

According to this version, Pepper must have been a pretty great boss.

It said that Morrison named the drink in honor of his former employer,

despite refusing Morrison's request to marry his daughter.

So that part still seems to stick around Dr. Pepper.

Yeah.

At the end of the day, it seems Morrison did not end up marrying anyone from the Pepper family.

Instead, he left Virginia for the Lone Star State while living in Texas.

He opened up his own drawer store.

The one where Dr. Pepper was first sold.

Okay.

That was kind of a better as a nod to the guy who got him started on his career kind of thing.

Yeah.

I prefer that story to child bride story here.

Yeah.

It seems as though the actual story of how Dr. Pepper got his name will remain a mystery.

Nevertheless, there are many, many ways to utilize the soda that people have found,

which have kind of reminiscent of its inventors, which I think is kind of cool.

And one of the other cool things I think has happened about this is a lot of diehard fans of it

have come up with their own origin story.

Yeah.

So here's mine.

It's that there are 23 flavors notoriously in this Dr. Pepper.

And so I just always kind of assumed there was a spicy one and they're like,

ah, that one's got some pep to it.

And it's medicinal because it was the time where everything was medicinal.

Right.

So, you know, Dr. Pepper.

Nice.

Nice.

I like it.

It's as reasonable as anything else to be fair.

I like the idea of somebody taking a sip.

They walk and they just, they skip for no reason.

Oh, I got to pep it myself.

Exactly.

And that's where it came from.

It's a rich.

You're writing Dr. Pepper ads.

Yeah, I really have.

I really have.

Yeah.

We want our money.

We want our money.

No, no, no.

You can pay me in Dr. Pepper.

Thank you.

Let's take a call before we go to break.

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I'm not sure on this one.

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I didn't see that one coming.

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Thank you, bud.

We appreciate you.

Have a great morning.

You have a good morning.

You know, big thank you to our friends over at the ODC.

We appreciate you.

We say shout out to them.

Encourage you to find out more about.

They were just on the air with us yesterday.

They were.

They have an event coming up in March, right?

We're very excited about that.

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It's going to be a really fun event.

You can find out about that and more at odc.com, odc.com.

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Support our good friends over there.

We will come back with the L.K.A. birthday and anniversary club.

It is Laura Bethan-Jane's here at the morning show on WFHR.

You heard Mr. LeBong.

It's time for the L.K.A. birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to celebrate you and our great friends over at L.K.A.

Join them today at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Buy local support local support our great friends over at L.K.A.

They are rolling out their new menu today.

Let's make this official.

Yes.

Yeah.

They're rolling out the new menu today.

And enjoy the menu, everybody.

Check it out.

Give them your feedback on it.

Be good to our friends over there and check them out.

Great stuff over there at L.K.A.

Buy local and support local.

And get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We want to celebrate with you info at wfhr.com.

You can email us there.

You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.

And we have two different phone numbers you can call.

I gosh, it's true.

Yeah.

It is.

One of them is.

424-2600.

And our front desk.

475-424-1300.

Oh, see.

Through the area code.

Nice job.

Nice work.

Yeah.

Not all of our listeners are 715.

It's right.

Very good.

Well, even in the 715, you have to dial 715.

That's true.

It always throws me when I got a dial.

Like some places you got a dial.

The one before the 715 and some you don't.

And then I got this.

Oh, man.

Hey, I looked at the L.K.A. menu just to look.

Just to have it.

And James, you're not going to believe it.

Today's lunch featured menu item is a bacon cheeseburger.

Oh, my God.

All right, we're going.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to try it.

I'm already there.

I've got to go.

Yeah.

Mentally, I'm already there.

I'm not even here.

Look at that.

He's out the door.

It's like he did it just for you.

And those breakfast tacos look incredible.

That's avocado slices right there on your breakfast tacos.

Shoot.

Dang.

That sounds good.

Yeah.

We have two possible qualifiers on our list today.

I need a one or a two.

Lord, give me a one or two.

One.

All right, gives us the qualifier there.

And let's go ahead and dive right in.

First up, we want to wish you happy birthday to Todd Bates.

Happy birthday, Todd.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish you happy birthday to our qualifier, Janet Meadow.

Happy birthday, Janet.

Happy birthday, Janet.

Happy birthday, Janet.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Enjoy the day.

Hope it's a good one for you, Janet.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, animals that you are our qualifier today.

Yes.

And keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

We love to celebrate with you.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Kicks it off.

Josh Thompson is 47.

Country singer.

Biggest hit.

Way out here.

He's also got a cold beer with your name on it.

That's another one of his hits.

He is actually a Wisconsin native.

Shoot.

I thought so.

I thought so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's been a big songwriter in Nashville for quite a while, too.

Written for just about every big article.

Yes, he has.

Tiffany Theson is 51.

No.

Oh.

I didn't expect that to make me feel old.

I know.

But she's still lovely as ever.

Oh, happy birthday.

Yeah.

Say by the bell Beverly Hills 90210.

She is currently was Alexis Mom on the Netflix show Alexa and Katie.

Yes.

And that's about a teenager who has cancer.

Oh, yeah.

It's actually a pretty good show.

So it's like it.

I don't know how you guys look at this, but I look especially as we get more and more

mediums and streaming and cable and basic TV and all these things.

I think that when I think about TV actors, I think there's a giant difference between doing a show on NBC and doing a show on HBO.

Yes.

Yeah.

Just what you can get away with and all those things.

Yeah.

And the level of acting you can go to because there's only so high you can go without looking like you're overacting or it just doesn't work on a small screen.

That does on a bigger screen or a screen when it's HBO and they don't have the rating issues that you have on basic TV.

I don't know in the history and as much as I've studied it and everything and there's so many great actors and actresses that I've seen on TV.

I feel very comfortable putting her in the top 10.

Mariska Haggerty is 61 today.

Oh.

Mariska Hargette.

Hargette, thank you.

Oh, yeah.

I love her.

Mm-hmm.

Of course, famously known as Captain Olivia Benson on Law Learners Special Victims Unit, but she has showed up on all the law and orders.

Well, and here's the other thing, right?

Like, as an actor, right, among actors, right?

You can't outact the crew that you're with either.

And sometimes that's limited by the production company and whatever budgets.

SPU has never had that problem.

Like, every actor on the show is incredible.

Yes.

And so they're really all able to hit tens every episode.

It's fantastic.

That's why the show is still going the way that it's going.

And her commitment to that character because she's been playing that for over a decade now.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It's one of the only roles she does play because she really focuses on being a mother.

Exactly.

And that's incredibly important to her, especially when you know a bit about her past.

Her mom was Jane Mansfield.

And Mariska and her brothers were in the back seat of the car during the accident.

It took her mom's life in 67.

She was only three years old.

Right.

So while she loves to act and loves to perform, loves her crew, this is good enough for her.

Right.

She comes first.

Yeah.

She's getting an amazing paycheck from SPU.

She's not doing just fine.

Oh, yeah.

Her family is great.

She gets time with her family and her kids.

I mean, she's doing it right.

And it cannot be birthday, Mariska.

It cannot be stressed enough.

The dedication that that original cast put to that show, the leap of faith they took in that show

NBC and the importance of that show.

Not saying it's the most important show of all time, but it is up there.

And I know about this because I talk to people about this when it comes to sexual crimes,

and we're making us part of what people have gotten away with these cowards, these people that hurt people like that,

is us not talking about it.

Right.

And then it really did make it possible to talk to them.

Show like this brought it out more.

Right.

People were watching it.

We were just talking about a show and then it related to life.

Yeah.

Princess Caroline of Monaco is 68, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier's daughter.

Oh, wow.

Happy birthday.

Yeah.

Robert Zander, 72.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, an amazing guy from a lead singer and songwriter for cheap trick.

Oh, okay.

The flame don't be cruel.

I want you to want me, of course.

And couldn't have been a nicer man to a young radio DJ who was just starting out.

And with five minutes to go, walking up to the stage was told, hey, you're going to introduce this band to the grand central theatre.

Well, not grand central.

I'm sorry, it was the Wasa State Fair belief.

And Panama could correct me on this.

He would know for sure.

But yeah, it was just a wild thing.

And him and Rick couldn't have been nicer to me.

My eyes must have looked like giant saucers.

And they're like, hey, man, let's have some fun.

They were great.

They found out I was from Illinois too.

And we just talked about that for like two.

It felt like 20 minutes, but it was like two.

Right.

And they couldn't have been nicer guys.

Incredible frontman.

Very good.

Very strong frontman.

Very strong frontman.

Very strong frontman.

Let's see here.

Cheetah Rivera would have been 92 today.

1933, she is West Side Story.

Yes.

And Chicago, really, for a lot of people out there.

Yes.

And she was the first Latin woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honor.

Yeah, quite a career, quite a life.

Anita Pointer, born on the stage in 1948.

One of the pointer sisters, of course.

Yes.

We are family.

I'm so excited.

They are on the Atlantic.

They are on the Atlantic.

Neutron Dance.

Yes.

Neutron Dance is not...

Oh, yeah.

That was on the radar.

We stopped doing it.

Why did we stop doing it?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Come on.

We need to be doing the Neutron Dance.

Break it back.

That's great.

That's great.

That's great.

Love that.

What a season.

Come on.

I'm trying to think of my head.

Because I know.

I was alive, but that was a thing.

And I'm positive.

I did the Neutron Dance at some point in my life.

It was probably seeing a girl that I was not old enough to talk to.

Across the street or across the room.

And tried to do the Neutron Dance walking up to her in her laughing and going the other way.

That sounds...

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure that's how it went.

And wrapping up our birthday and anniversary list, Rucker Howard born in this day in 1944, passed away in 2019.

The hitcher, Blind Ferry, Hobo the Shotgun.

He was also the CEO in the Batman Begins movies.

Had a really solid career.

But Blade Runner is what we know him from.

And I would like to throw out there too.

There's a...

I think of it right now.

There is a Rucker Howard movie he did with Matthew Broderick.

I talk about it all the time and now for some reason I can't think of it.

That's usually how that works.

Yeah.

The one time I needed it's not there for me.

He wasn't Sin City as well, too.

Lady Hawk.

Thank you.

Lady Hawk.

One of the best worst movies of all time.

And I say that because I watch it so many times.

It's a good movie.

But for some reason.

Yeah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick.

Yeah.

It's a fantastic cast.

It's a beautiful kind of story about like Michelle Pfeiffer's character.

They're cursed.

Her and Rucker Howard's characters are lovers, but they're cursed.

When the sun goes down, he turns into a wolf and she turns into a hawk.

And they can't be the...

One goes human, one goes animal, and they can't be together.

So they're constantly trying to get together and Matthew Broderick's character is trying.

And it's all set in kind of like the Renaissance era, then Lord of the Rings kind of...

So it's also...

Yeah.

...however.

If they had just done all that, I think it would have been a fine movie and might even be a cult classic.

It's a cult classic mainly because they decided, you know what we're going to do for the music?

Synthesizers.

Just 80s synthesizers throughout the whole year.

Yeah, that turned into magic.

And it just doesn't blend well, but that's part of it.

That's part of the charm of it.

That's part of the charm.

Maybe I remember Heath Ledger's Nights Tale.

Yes.

Now in that one, I feel like they had the same format, but they used like, we will rock you in some songs.

The music was spectacular.

And it worked.

Yeah.

It seemed to work pretty good.

Yeah, that's a solid soundtrack.

Just very honestly.

But I will say, if you are kind of underestimating Rucker Howard, don't think much of him.

Watch the last two minutes of Blade Runner.

Okay.

His face.

The line he delivers is, I think you can make an argument the most iconic line in sci-fi history.

And the most iconic scene in sci-fi history.

Him and Harrison Ford and that scene with the rain coming down.

I've watched that scene at least 9,000 times, at least.

And I still get moved by it every time I see it.

It's to me, anything Rucker Howard had for talent and skill and everything put everything into that scene.

And man, it was worth it.

Yeah.

It's underrated movie in some ways.

And to me, even though it's a pop culture big head and everything, I understand how big movie is.

But I think because of that scene, it's almost underrated.

Sure.

It's a beautiful scene.

Great actor too.

One more time.

We shouldn't have happy birthday to Todd Bates.

Happy birthday, Todd.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Janet Meadow.

Happy birthday, Janet.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

We will get to our new sports and partner break.

We'll come back and have some fun.

We're going to talk Los Angeles.

We're talking Los Angeles.

We're talking cough drops.

We're talking cough drops.

We'll make come back everybody.

Make sure you got some.

We'll make come back on the morning show.

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Make a hole with the guy who perpendicular to you.

Hope y'all are having a great start here morning.

Happy Friday Eve.

Happy Thursday everybody.

Laura Beth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a good one.

Had to play the might be giant's bumper.

This is my thank you to Seth.

I was going to say.

Thank you Seth.

I appreciate it Seth.

So yes or no to this.

And we do want audience participation.

You all of course got your morning show play at home versions a long time ago.

That is the phone number 715-424-2600.

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Let us know.

Yes or no.

There's no middle ground.

Progresso just debuted.

New chicken noodle soup flavored cough drops for National Soup Month.

No.

Heart pass.

They're called soup drops.

Soup drops.

But they're not medicated in any way.

So they're technically marketed as soup flavored candy.

Which is somehow even worse.

I don't like that.

So it's a it's a broth drop cough drop.

Yeah.

Nice nice.

Nicely done.

They announced them.

They announced them yesterday and they sold out immediately.

But they're doing another drop next Thursday again week after.

You get 20 drops for $249 plus a dollar shipping.

You can also get a can of actual chicken noodle soup with it.

The press release says, quote, when you're sick, nothing is truly more reassuring than chicken noodle soup.

So we thought why stop at the soup bowl?

Someone who tried them said that they do taste surprisingly similar to similar to actual chicken noodle soup.

Okay, right there.

Similar.

It doesn't taste like the soup.

So if I want soup, I'm getting soup.

I'm going to get soup.

Yeah.

So I'm also so two things.

One, I listened to Jane and Greg cover this on Matt and Aaron air yesterday.

So I've I've already been briefed if you will.

I have feelings.

So for the headline to me is that the media company chose to use the tagline soup.

You can suck on.

So basically what they're saying is the soup sucks.

Oh.

It's.

Oh.

And and I'll have you know I have been trying to load the progresso soup drops website just to see because I I know that they dropped some this morning.

No pun intended.

And the website is crashing.

So like they're probably selling out again.

This is insane.

If this is something you're into, please call in.

I want to hear from anyone interested in such things because I am so confused that it hurts.

I'm not sure who this is even marketed towards.

Well, isn't the whole point of chicken noodle soup the chicken world that helps.

There's something about it that helps heal you.

Isn't it about it's about having a warm.

Yes.

Bowl of comfort.

It's what we have cough drops for this.

Eat soup.

Yeah.

I feel like that nobody really eats soup for the flavor.

Like it's everything you guys were just saying.

Oh no.

I eat soup for flavor.

Soup is one of my favorite things to make and chicken noodle in particular.

Okay.

Chicken noodle in particular.

If you do it right, you can eat it for the flavor but not progresso chicken noodle soup.

That's yeah.

I was going to say that the one standout I would say is homemade chicken noodle soup.

Yes, right.

Like that's certainly a whole different ball.

Okay.

That's a whole lot of flavor.

I want something that has menthol in it that's actually going to clear my sinuses or something.

Yeah.

Not just something to suck on in my mouth.

If you're going to give me a hard candy to suck on, give me a jolly rancher.

I feel like you're doing candy wrong.

I feel like I even know you could do that.

But somehow you mess this up.

Well, and this isn't the first attempt to put something savory into candy but candy is sweet.

But let's keep candy sweet.

Yeah.

It feels like this is and forgive me.

But it feels like this is marketed towards our senior population more.

Oh, God.

That's the new grammar candy, isn't it?

That's what we're going to find in the bottom of all the grammar's purses now.

It's a soup cough drop.

I happen to pull a handful of our listeners, a handful of people that I've talked to at the gas station and that in the senior age.

And all of them laughed at me and said they would never buy this.

Thank goodness.

Listen to your elders.

One gentleman offered me a worthers.

I got pulled out a worthers' hand when he needed a pot.

Yes, please.

Okay.

Here's a quote from a fastcompany.com, right?

Clearly, soup flavored candy is the hot new item.

We didn't know we needed.

On Thursday, this is last Thursday, progress.

So took to Instagram to explain that in under an hour it was sold out of soup drops.

Well, this is super awkward.

They spelled it that way.

Our soup drops sold out before we had the chance to tell you the post reads.

But don't worry, there's a fresh batch of soup.

You can suck on coming your way next Thursday.

That is today and their website is crashing.

So I'm going to guess they're selling out.

They're selling out again.

There are people buying this.

I don't know what to do with that.

I don't know what it says about our world.

And according to Greg's math, this is not my math.

I'm not mathing it.

If I remember right, he said it's the can of soup drops with the little mini can of soup

that comes with it is only 14 cents more than an actual can of progresso chicken noodle soup.

So just buy the soup.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Please buy the soup.

I mean, I just buy soup.

I do want to make this very clear.

I love, I love their soup.

Yeah.

Love their soup.

Love their soup.

I will buy progresso soup still.

But I'm not buying soup drops.

That's what progresso does.

They do soup.

Stick with what you know here.

I do however I believe have a, the perfect jingle for them.

Okay.

They steal the song Freeze Frame from the Jay Gallaghan.

Yeah.

Soup drops.

Soup drops.

Soup drops.

Soup drops.

Soup drops.

And I will tell you now, have that earworm in your head for the rest of the day.

Oh, good luck with that.

Let's go ahead and pull this bandaid off.

Let's get into this one.

Pop culture moments that will be a decade old in 2025.

These are things off of a list off of buds feed.

It's almost, it is 2025.

And maybe a little bit fast for this might feel like.

But some of these movies are going to shock you that they are 25 years old already,

or not 25 years old.

10 years old.

10 years old.

10 years old.

A decade old here.

Making it even older.

Making it even worse.

And they're not in any particular order or anything.

We'll just go right at the start.

Star Wars returned with the Force Awakens.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That actually feels like it was longer ago.

To me.

Yeah.

2015 was like a weird year for me.

So all of these are going to be shocking.

I think in part because I've watched Jayce about and I think I have outside of maybe one

two things I've watched everything Star Wars has come out with since then.

And it feels like it's been longer than that.

Yeah, because of all the content today.

That kicked them into high gear by Star Wars standards.

They've made 25 years of content since then.

Yes.

Yes.

The Hunger Games mocking Jay Part 2 came out ending the original Hunger Games saga.

So that wrapped up.

Wow.

So the third movie came out 10 years ago.

Shoot.

Hoverboards were a big thing.

And Apple Watch has made their debut.

Yes.

Apple Watch.

Happy birthday.

Apple Watch.

I guess.

Remember the Hoverboard thing was going around there.

Yeah.

And they were going on fire around there.

They were.

Yes.

They were combusting.

That's really the only reason I remember that is that.

Yeah.

Uptown funk.

Gonna give it to you.

Uptown funk.

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars was the biggest song of the year.

And it still has not lost its popularity.

It's a good song.

My 10 almost 11 year old loves to put that on the little woman in a box and just dance around

the house.

I had.

I had Bruno.

It's a lot could change.

He's still a very young man.

But up to this point right now, I had Bruno Mars career wrong.

I thought he was like the next line of rich.

Yeah.

I thought he was like going to be just blow up and just the next eight albums.

Yeah.

He's going to come out.

We're going to be huge.

It's like he took five years to step back and just enjoy it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Win a Grammy.

He's got a residency in Vegas.

He's just having to hang.

He's just having a good time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I can't blame him.

He's out there doing his thing.

The left shark upstaged Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Everyone remembers the shark.

Go shark team shark.

I remember that.

I remember that.

Zane Malik announced his departure from one direction.

Yes.

We all remember where we were.

I don't know any of the words.

I just said.

I don't know.

Taylor Swift's 1989 tour was the highest grossing tour of the year.

Of the year.

That year.

And it.

Say what you will.

Yeah.

Just keep building on how to do it.

10 years later.

It's still.

Yeah.

That is impressive.

Steve Harvey announced the wrong Miss Universe.

Oh.

Oh, I can't believe that was 10 years ago.

Yeah.

Pizza Rat was 10 years ago.

Oh.

Pizza Rat.

Oh.

The Rat that was carrying the pizza slice it out in New York.

Yeah.

The big celebrity weddings.

Jennifer Aniston married Justin Theroux.

So if we have Vigarra married Joe Mangello.

Meal Akunis and Ashen Kutcher got married.

Meanwhile Ben Affleck and Jennifer Gardner announced a divorce.

Right.

Yeah.

Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man.

Yes.

One of the best castings ever.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Yeah.

They needed to hire a young man for the job.

Yes.

And they just hadn't done it yet.

Who was passionate about the role too.

The amount of work that he put in just to audition for that was phenomenal.

They're both been backed by now.

But I will never forget how I felt when John Stewart hosted his final tour.

And David Letterman hosted his final late show.

Yeah.

They were almost like back to back weeks.

And those are two of my bigger influences.

Yeah.

And that really rocked me.

Yeah.

I really thought that David Letterman especially.

So I didn't think John Stewart was going to go away.

Right.

But the way he was talking at the time him and his wife have this home on their farm mountain jersey.

In the farm mountain.

For animals that are need a place to go.

Yeah, they have a family sanctuary.

Yeah.

And Jersey.

But like for rare animals and stuff.

Like not your everyday ones and stuff.

Like people that can't accept a cow.

They take the cow and that kind of thing.

Right.

And he seemed so locked in on that.

I thought that's where he was going to go with the rest of his life.

And maybe jumping to politics here and there.

He's had about two shows since then.

David Letterman, I thought was just going to go away.

We never see him again.

Because Letterman doesn't need this.

Right.

But I don't mean money wise.

I mean just entertainment wise.

Yeah.

He's got his accolades.

He's got his fame.

Yeah.

Uh, uh, uh, David Letterman is whether you like him or not.

He's one of the greatest stuffer do it.

And that's never going to change.

The only thing that's happened since he retired is he's just solidified his legacy even more

with some of the interviews he's done.

Yeah.

And stripped away all the corporate stuff and everything.

It's just him and somebody else and a couple of microphones.

Uh, I think he's gotten better as an interviewer without all of the pomp and circumstance and everything.

And, and I love the beard.

Well, I guess he's probably finally getting to ask the questions that he wants to ask.

Exactly.

He's being told to ask without the legacy behind what he's doing.

He's, yeah.

I used to do the greatest limited David Letterman impression by that.

I mean, I could do his laugh.

I can't do it anymore.

Uh, madmen and parks and recreations aired their final episodes.

Wow.

Okay.

Madmen.

I didn't watch the show.

I saw a couple of the first episodes and everything.

But I will say that that sees that series finale.

A lot of people seem to be happy with and you don't hear that very often.

Right.

You didn't hear a lot of complaints on that one.

And parks and recs is one of my favorite shows.

I love that show.

Yeah.

And the white and gold or black and blue dress broke the internet.

Yeah.

It was black and blue, right?

White and gold.

Oh, come on.

No.

No.

Definitely black and blue.

White and gold.

I had to look it back up.

I had to look it back up to look at it and everything to get a look at.

It's just an inverted filter, guys.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just.

It's white and gold.

It's, it's right.

Yep.

It's funny.

It's what it is.

It's funny.

It is.

It's funny.

And in many ways, I kind of, I wish that that was the only debating we really did online

with silly things like that.

It was dress.

There.

I solved it.

It's a dress.

Yes.

Nice.

As a society, we should all just make like a gentleman's agreement that that's all we'll do online.

The only bickering we'll do is over like nonsense things like this.

Right.

Yes.

Like we saw just a green picture of an animal.

Tell me what you think it is.

Yep.

I don't want to bicker a bit.

There you go.

It's a squirrel.

No.

Sure.

It's a rat.

What are you talking about?

It's a beaver.

It's a beaver.

We will take a time out and come back with the 100 worst rated foods in the world.

We made time.

You guys made time.

We'll come back with another morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Something show at WFHR.

Wow, that voice.

Laura, Beth and James here with you.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

How adventurous of an eater are you?

The sight, taste, atlist, ranked the 100 grossest foods in the world based on 390,000

online reviews from tourists.

Most of the top 10 sound pretty gross, and Nordic countries dominate it.

Not surprising, right?

But is there anything on the list that you would try?

And find out.

We want to hear from the audience as well on this one.

424, 2600.

Okay, so I'm going to say this up front.

I will try any food item one time.

Good to know.

Food item.

Like, guys, you specified.

I do not limit that to just food items, but for this conversation, I will.

Blood pancakes shows up first on the list.

Pancakes made with onions, spices, and reindeer blood.

They're popular in Sweden and Finland, but the average rating from tourists was 1.6 out

of 5.

Yep.

Well, I mean, my dad and I used to stop up the juice left over from steaks that we would

make with bread.