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We got fun things on the way for you, we're going to get into a couple of interesting
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We have the five most dangerous expiring condiments in your fridge, we're going to talk a little
bit about the government stopping making pennies, we've got that coming up for you, we've
got some good stories of the day, touch on our schedule, plenty more coming up for you,
we kick off the 9 o'clock with entertainment news, and Jelly Roll has now lost 120 pounds.
He just gave some exercise advice that anyone could benefit from hearing actually.
He shared a post on his Instagram with a top of a mountain after a long hike, and he said
I'm tired, I'm frustrated, I'm sore, but holy, it's just, it's that beautiful.
And then he flips the camera around to show his incredible view he's seen.
Jelly went on to say, quote, I realized today that some days when I get out here in this
process of trying to make this massive life change that some days I come out here and
I feel great, but today kind of reminds me that sometimes you have those days man when
you just don't feel it at all, but those days are the most gratifying.
If you're making it this big of a life change, it's going to hurt.
So it sucks, it can hurt, you can hate it, but you got to keep going.
He says it's especially the hardest at the beginning of your journey when you don't
feel like you're making any progress.
Jelly then went on to promote the 5K he's training for in Tampa on May 4th.
His story is very talented, good writer, good singer, all of those things, but his story
just I think overwhelmingly is so much bigger than any amount of talent that man could
have.
Well, it's relatable.
Yeah.
You know, he's struggling through things that we all struggle with in some ways.
You know, I'm obviously other ways not so much, but I don't know weight loss is a big
one for a lot of us.
Yeah.
Well, and you know, every great thing that ever happened began with change and I firmly
believe that nothing worth having in life happens easy.
I really don't, I just don't, I haven't experienced that.
I'm sure that there are some examples you can pull out if you think about it long enough,
but when it comes to things that you really earn in this world, they feel better because
you earn them.
You're right.
You have to work for them.
And putting in that effort, you know, that the being able to have the reward at the end
of the thing that you worked for, whether it's weight loss, whether it's changing your
diet, whether it's, you know, learning a new skill or starting a new hobby, putting
in more effort at work, like the, you know, more than what was it, 37% of people?
Yeah.
Yeah.
A big fan of his and anytime he gets a chance to catch an interview of his, he will.
I don't know if he even knows any of his music, but I know he likes him as a person.
And one of the things that we've done is kind of, you know, this is a long time ago, we
went on YouTube and looked up a bunch of his interviews.
And it's very, when he talks about addiction and it struggles with that, it's very similar
to what he's saying there that it, it's not going to be easy in the beginning.
If you know that going into it, that can be somewhat of a breather.
But no matter what we're talking about, you got to keep going.
You just do.
And you find that motivation, you find those, the help and the support you can, where you
can.
And, you know, set realistic goals for yourself.
That's something we talk about a lot around the new year.
You know, like don't put yourself at a disadvantage by setting an unattainable goal or something
that's going to take you a lot longer than, you know, six months to accomplish.
And in that five K, he's doing is pretty interesting too.
Yeah, that's cool.
Courage you to check that out, everybody.
Green Day is getting into the movie business.
Yeah, they're producing a coming of age comedy inspired by their own early days of touring
in a van.
It's called New Year's Rev and it stars Mason Thames from the black phone and Jennifer,
Jennifer and Angela Kinsey from the office, which is pretty cool, but they haven't seen
those two working in a while.
So that's awesome.
The movie will fall.
She probably didn't have two after this.
Oh, no, no.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Especially Jennifer Fisher.
She's been, she was really focusing on being a mother and everything.
And then with the rise of podcasting, her and Angela Kinsey got together and have a very
successful podcast.
Oh, no.
And now a days, if you've got like a couple of sponsors for a podcast, you're good.
You're getting paid to do that.
So, I mean, you can make a living doing that now.
This movie will follow three best friends who pile into a van and head to LA because they
mistakenly think that they're opening for Green Day at a New Year's Eve concert.
Billy Joe Armstrong said, quote, Van Day's rules rule.
You will drive all night and with no sleep and then play a show for 10 kids in a basement
of a friend's house, 50 miles east of anywhere you've ever heard of.
And it's just going to be about that a little bit because you're doing it with your bandmates
who become your family and it's unlike anything you've ever known.
It's electric.
Get the music in mischief and suit.
I'm watching that.
That sounds fun.
Yeah, I'm going to watch that.
I will definitely check that out.
I'm not a big Green Day guy or anything.
I don't mind him, but I'm not a huge fan, but that sounds interesting.
Yeah.
The premise of the movie sounds fun.
I like it.
And finally, we wrap up with America's favorite Super Bowl commercials.
How did this pan out?
USA Today did their annual ad meter poll to rank all 57 of this year's Super Bowl commercials.
57 commercials.
Yeah, there were 57 of them.
We have got the top 20.
We are not going to go through all of those.
We would just give you the highlights here a little bit.
First delivery from Budweiser was the number one.
The little farmer lays.
The ultra hustle starring Catherine O'Hare and William Default, Michelob ultra commercial.
Okay, that one was really good.
I forgot about that one.
Okay.
That was pretty funny.
I don't know if I ever thought about it before, but I need a movie now with William Default
and Catherine O'Hare are starring together.
Well, Catherine O'Hare and anything is fantastic.
And I really like seeing William Default getting the kind of Christopher Walken treatment now
where he's kind of being appreciated a little bit more later in life and getting a lot
of opportunities that he never had before and it's been pretty cool.
So I like that one.
That was probably my maybe even my favorite one.
David and Dave starring David Beckham and Matt Damon, the Stella Arto's commercial.
Somebody from NFL, flag 50 from NFL.
So the NFL doing getting some good work in there.
Big man on call to sex starring Post Malone and Shane Giles and Peyton Manning.
That one felt so like a five year old could have written it.
It just felt like so.
I knew what was coming every five, everything that they did.
I knew that they were about to do it.
Yeah, it just felt very predictable.
Like I don't know.
I collect your money, guys.
Get your money.
Bud lights paying you, go ahead and take it.
Century of cravings with Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Bacon, Martha Stewart, Charlie, the Uber
eats at.
I actually thought those were pretty good.
They had a long running campaign with that.
I don't know if they're going to keep doing it or not.
But basically, the NFL was invented just to sell food and they're Matthew McConaughey
is talking to Christian McCaffrey about it.
And Christian doesn't believe him and then he looks over and Jerry Rice is sitting there.
And Jerry, what are you eating?
Rice.
It's well played, I thought it was well done.
I'm a little surprised by this at number nine when Sally Met Helmins with Meg Ryan, Billy
Crystal, that kind of throwback to that.
That did very well, apparently.
Owners manual from Harrison Ford, the Jeep commercial Seth was talking about yesterday.
Yeah, that's the only one I haven't seen it.
But I saw somebody commenting on how great that was.
The no reason to hate ad was Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady.
That one did fairly well as well.
Slow Monday from Coors Light would do well, but an underrated one, I didn't think got enough
attention.
The Goldilocks and the Three Trucks, Glenn Powell started that one.
It's about Ram Trucks and the ad was going on and my dad and there was somebody else
in the commercial that my dad was trying to place and I couldn't get it.
I'm like, Dad, no, that's Glenn Powell again.
He didn't eat it.
Same person.
Yeah, same guy.
And talk about having a moment, Glenn Powell is, 2024 was his year.
And I got a feeling that-
Oh, that's the star from Twisters, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I got a feeling that in 2025, he's only yearling to hear more and see more of him.
And whatever comes your way from WeatherTech kind of wrapped everything up.
Scooby's ads got some love and some attention, but the Laura Graham won.
Not so much the ones with the flesh-colored head guy or the cowboy hat guy and stuff.
Those did not do well.
There was a lot of body dysmorphia ads.
There was a lot like Eugene Levy's eyebrows going flying and moustaches flying and you
had a guy who had a cowboy hat for a head.
Like, there was a lot of that this year.
I don't know why.
Nightmares?
Yes, I don't know why.
I will say I understand why advertisers do this stuff because they are looking at what
is most popular?
What is big?
Well, one of the things that has been pretty big and really since the pandemic that has
only gotten bigger and bigger is the rise of these horror movies.
And how much people are going to see and how much people are liking horror movies.
And so maybe, not maybe, but with a little of that, they have this kind of, well, we can't
do horror movies and commercials.
They're trying to find that kind of gray area.
They're trying to find the line.
And I don't think they found it.
I don't think they found it.
I don't think that.
I don't know if it exists, to be honest.
I don't.
And I feel like this is also what happens some, and this isn't all marketing people or
all companies, but too many of them at least.
They live in bubbles and some of that isn't even in their own fault.
It's just something that kind of happens with social media and, you know, when we don't
have a lot of interacting with people and stuff, something, you know, that we talked
about earlier.
So you're going to, you're going to see this more and more.
And just as a quick side note, to the horror genre and movies, try harder, try harder.
I, I don't know.
I mean, they're so lazy nowadays.
I don't feel like there, you know, there's any suspense anymore or anything.
Anybody working really hard at it?
Well, I have zero input to put into that because I do not like horror.
I don't like it.
I don't want to watch it.
I don't want really have anything to do with it.
I know one thing you do.
Go ahead.
Well, I was just going to say, can I change the topic for just a moment?
Because, well, I did not go back and watch any of the commercials.
I did go back and watch the halftime show, and I wanted to give some, some comments on
it.
And my thoughts on it, because we talked about, you know, the kind of the outpouring
of love and dislike for this.
I actually, it was split on my Facebook friends, you know, when I scrolled through.
I, I saw about half and half people really for it.
People really not liking it.
And, and I watched it myself kind of through the lens of, of art.
Yeah.
And I think that that is how it should be looked at.
I've, you know, honestly, I've never gone back and watched a halftime show for anybody
else.
And Kendrick Lamar is not, I, I don't, couldn't name one, a single one of his songs for
you.
Um, it's not the style of music that I liked, but I thought that from an art perspective
that it was fantastic, I think it was a commentary on, on, you know, things that are going on
or things that have happened.
And I think it's one that's going to be talked about for, for a long time to come.
Yeah.
And looking back on it through the, the lens of, of time, it is going to be something
that people will talk about.
And that's it.
That last part you said, there's very interesting to me.
I think that's, I didn't thought about that and I heard anybody say anything about that.
I appreciate your perspective, Melissa.
I want to be able to get to our caller here.
Let's go ahead and take a call.
Good morning.
You're on the show.
Good morning, guys.
Hey, how's it going?
Kevin?
When it comes to the commercials, obviously the, the, um, the people that put the commercials
on it are getting what they want was what we're doing right now.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They're talking.
Mm-hmm.
How many of those commercials that we saw during the, the Super Bowl, are you really going
to see throughout the year?
I mean, there's going to be a handful of them, but yeah, you know, especially, especially
the ones that, that, you know, I think you had that, that top 20.
They spent a lot of money on these.
So they're going to get their money's worth.
Oh, we are, for at least the next month, we'll probably see them for a little bit.
But I know what you mean.
Yeah, we're, they're not, to your, I think maybe even more to your point, man, whether
they play them or not, how much they stay in our brains, how much we remember them.
Right.
You know, you know, you know, we talked about this on Friday or Thursday last week, and
I know that, you know, can you remember the Super Bowl commercials that you see in
the past?
Yeah.
Some of these this year, I don't know, I mean, the, obviously, the little farmer girl,
I thought was pretty cool, um, with the potatoes for, for, for lace today.
I did like that.
I did like it.
Pretty cool.
You know, so that was going to stick in my brain a little bit.
I mean, the dumbest commercial was the cowboy flush hat.
Oh, my God.
That's, that's, I mean, I'm not going to be able to burn that one out of my brain.
No, no, no, that was weird.
It was too weird.
I'm all for weird, but that was way too, that was a step above for me.
That was too far.
Yeah.
And then, you know, and then I'll be to the Harrison Ford one, especially when he kind
of threw a dig at, oh my God, it was good.
And Ford at the end of all.
Oh, that was fun.
The commercial.
So, yeah, I thought that one stood out pretty good to you.
Did any of these commercials make you want to go out and buy the products?
No.
Oh, I have the same answer.
No, no, none of these, not a single one of these, maybe one of them, if I wasn't already
buying their products, I'm not going to start now because of them.
I've never used Uber Eats once.
And I love their commercials.
I thought they were hilarious.
Didn't make me even think for a second of using them.
All right.
All it does, and I'm an outlier here, I'll admit.
But just as an example, seeing those commercials, all I could think was, well, I want a movie
of this now.
I want to see this in a movie.
I wasn't even thinking about anything with Uber Eats or anything with half of these.
Sometimes I'll admit, I'm not a, you know, teach their own.
I'm not a Budweiser guy.
When I see the Bud Light ads, it just reminds me of why I don't like, okay, I want one
of those.
It makes me actually want a different brand of beer.
Like it reminds me of the ones that I do like, and maybe I haven't had a little light
in a while, you know, whatever it might be.
I don't know that, and I don't know necessarily how you can fix that so much.
If you're an advertiser, if you're a marketer or something, and you, well, okay, you're listening
to this conversation right now, and you got halfway to the goal line.
You got people to talk about your product to your point, Kev.
But you got to bring him home.
You got to get him to buy the product.
And that part is completely wild.
When you talk to marketing specialists and people, as far as like getting them home and
getting it over the goal line, they just don't know how necessarily to do that.
There's no exact science to it.
One, the thing is though, too, is that compared to years in your past, and I know that,
I mean, they showed a graphic of how much of a commercial was back at Super Bowl I,
to now, you know, it was really not, it was at like $2,000, or whatever it was, and now
it's $8 million.
But the one thing I noticed a little bit more this year is the amount of celebrities that
were in the commercial.
So obviously, if you're going to spend $8 million on a commercial, you're going to bring
somebody in to help, you know, make that money back.
I mean, yeah, I couldn't believe the amount of celebrities that were part of the Super Bowl
as this year.
I think one of the big things of that is a side story, something I've talked a lot about
with the rise of reality TV.
There are less and less opportunities and jobs for actors, and there is no retirement
plan for actors.
There is no 401k.
You work as much as you possibly can.
So if it's a commercial, it's a whole different day where when we were kids, we would never
see an A-list actor doing commercials.
Now you're going to see George Clooney doing commercials going forward.
You're going to see these big names doing it.
In part, just to get some work, some people are retiring on that kind of money.
I'm glad that you brought up, Kevin, because that was what my thought was, is are these
commercials so expensive because they've got these huge celebrities in them?
It's part of it.
Maybe not.
No, it's part of it, I think.
I definitely is going to raise the par.
But the one of the things that I think stands out are the ones that did well and the ones
that didn't and everything, I don't know as far as getting people to buy the product,
but as far as if the commercial did well, they're telling a story most of them.
They're trying to tell you something.
They're trying to explain something, and not just the product.
But I think the little farmer girl I had with Lays was perfect for that, where they're
giving you a bit of a story, and I think they're even giving you a little empathy to our
farmers and our ag industry in some ways while also trying to sell their product.
That seems to be one of the ways forward of trying to do this, of trying to, whatever
the story is, the Catherine and Harry are willing to foe at, with the Michelob ultra.
They're older, and they're going to go play pickleball, and the young people think that
they can beat them, and of course, they slaughter them, the old people slaughter them and everything.
So they're telling a story of that there.
Each one of these have that.
It's not the same thing, but it's similar to when you ask people, well, what are you looking
for nowadays when you go for a vacation or anything else, and it's not a destination
and it's a moment, it's experiences, that's what people are looking for.
When they're doing anything, whether it's an event or just getting out of the house,
they want a moment, they want an experience.
I think the same thing is with commercials, they want a story.
Well, right, and then, if you're going to have a good story behind it, obviously you're
going to have that people are going to remember it.
Now, I guess with the one with Harrison Ford, I mean, if I can go on by a Jeep, you know,
or if someone has afforded, they're going to throw it away because there is no, no, no,
it's going to tell the story.
And actually, the way he may present a death story with that owner's manual, I mean,
that was a great story.
Yeah, I thought that was a good one.
That was really well done.
Now you've convinced me, Kevin, I have to go back and watch the Harrison Ford commercial.
That's pretty good.
It was pretty good.
Well, that and I love Harrison Ford.
He was my first celebrity crush.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Good talking to you, man.
You have a great week and a great week and be safe out there.
All right, you guys have a great day.
Stay warm.
Yes.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back and we're going to be talking about pennies.
We're talking pennies when we come back.
And coming back on the morning show.
We'll come back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
We got good things coming up for you.
And just a little bit after our news break, we're going to get into these five most dangerous
expired condiments in your fridge.
We need to know James.
Find out.
Find out.
Find out of the 11.
No.
Find out at 936.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Run that time.
Run that time.
But it is.
This is an interesting one and it's a big story and it is going to be.
Well, there are a lot of stories that are going to be coming up, not just in the next
couple of weeks, but over the next couple of years, that I'm going to be honest with
the audience.
We're probably not going to touch on certain ones.
There are certain stories that are, whether you, what you believe is your beliefs, but there
are certain things that are done in our media nowadays that basically distract us from
take our eye off the ball and focus on things that we are not really issues in everyday
life.
When Representative Krug was in with us last week, we talked about this a little bit with
the talk of immigrants, illegal immigrants in that.
And well, okay, you want to get rid of illegal immigrants.
What are we going to do about pay?
Because if there's a bunch of jobs opening up, I know talking to Matt Lippert and other
farmers, they're wondering who's going to be doing these jobs and who's going to pay
them, who's going to pay better and all these things.
There's so many other factors going on before this and things that we need to address in
a time-sensitive matter like childcare or homelessness or so many other topics.
One of the topics that got talked quite a bit about, but I've seen fade away quite a
bit is inflation.
That was the biggest thing in the world, we were leading up to the election and as soon
as the election's over, now nobody's talking about the price of eggs anymore or anything.
And they're not going down.
Yeah, I've not seen anything drop.
I've not seen any prices drop or anything like that yet.
And some people say that the penny can be part of the issue when it comes to inflation
and where we're spending on money, literally spending on making money.
We've been talking about getting rid of the penny for a long time though.
Very long time.
This is not a new topic.
No, and that's why this one is not one of those topics to me that is a distraction topic.
This is one that needs to be discussed.
The current president says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies
because they cost more than a penny to produce.
Quote for far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more
than two cents.
It's a wasteful time.
They think it's a waste.
And technically, you can see somewhat of a, I guess, in a simple mind kind of way you
can see an example here.
But the actual stats are, according to the U.S. Mint, each penny costs 3.7 cents to
make.
But like a lot of things, the situation is more nuanced than that.
This cannot be more things in life than not, cannot be solved with a bumper sticker.
No.
Now, there are two problems with moving away from pennies, two major problems that are
not being talked about nearly enough.
People would say this would cause us to need more nickels, which we're also losing money
on.
So according to the Mint, each nickel costs 13.8 cents to make.
So we're actually, by getting rid of the penny and having to make more nickels, we will
actually be spending more money.
Yes.
And analysts say this is, this will cause prices to rise for consumers.
If the penny is phased out, prices would just be rounded up or down to a 5 cent amount.
And guess what?
It was going to round it down.
Nobody.
Nobody, nobody wants to stay in business.
Right.
Because their costs are going to increase too.
Right.
Canada stopped minting its 1 cent coin in 2012 and in 2018, an economic analyst found that
the Canadian's paid about $3.27 million more at grocery stores each year due to prices
being rounded up.
Oh.
What?
Yeah.
Why are we even considering this?
That said, there are also problems with the alternatives, pushing towards a cashless
society, continuing with status quo.
One reason that the government has to make so many pennies every year is a large percentage
of them don't remain in circulation.
People don't value them.
So they get stashed in junk drawers at home or they fall into the ground or between our
couch cushions.
If you drop a penny, you're not as likely to bother picking it up as you would a silver
coin.
And Melissa, thank you so much for being one of the best teammates anybody could have because
it just teed me up perfectly like you always do.
Pick a penny.
Pick a penny.
Yeah.
Find a penny.
Pick it up all day long.
You'll have good luck.
We can actually fix this problem quite simply.
Pick a penny up.
Pick it up.
Start using it.
Start putting them in in circulation because the answer is not as simple as some people
would like it to be.
If we get rid of the penny, it's actually going to be costing us a lot more.
It's going to be that much more expensive for us.
That isn't opinion.
That's math.
Right.
That's math, everybody.
There's no, can we at least agree that math is not fake news?
At least on that, I know that words don't mean what they used to and in nowadays, no
matter what side of the aisle you're on, you get to throw around the word fake news and
not have any accountability.
And we at least agree that math is real, that math is for the love of all that is.
And the math is telling us this.
The math is telling you the penny is more valuable in circulation.
And so if we have an in circulation, this problem ceases to be a big of a problem.
If you take it out of circulation, you're looking at what Canada is, 3.27 million more
that you're going to be spending at the grocery store and at other places.
And this is not an opinion.
This is again, math.
Well, and if you think about it, it really from the broadest perspective, if you take away
the smallest denomination of money that we have, well, then you don't have the ability
to spend that smallest denomination anymore automatically prices have to go up.
Like you said, businesses aren't going to round down.
They're going to round up.
Let's take a call before we go to our news break.
Good morning around the show.
If for one year they stopped printing coins altogether, it would increase the value
of the coins already in circulation.
I don't interesting take.
Yeah.
I don't know much about it.
I would have to look into that a little bit, but I don't, you know, there aren't, there's
almost no bad ideas right now.
Uh, honestly, uh, well, well, certainly we're, we're never in human history in politics
has it been easier to just pitch stuff.
Like you can literally throw anything out there right now.
So there are literally no bad ideas, um, and this is, that thought is, is better than
getting rid of it completely like, uh, yeah, they still, they still made, they still hold
their current value, but it would increase their value or at least cut down on the cost
that's costing us.
We would just be using more coins to begin with, keeping them in circulation genuinely
man.
That is one of the better ideas I've heard about this because I, and I, I can't have
even done a ton of homework on that.
I don't know.
There's a lot of research don't need to be done, but as we're just spitballing here, I
mean, that's, you know, they put it on the board.
It's an idea.
It's what it out there.
Let's see.
Never grew my gut.
You too.
You too.
Uh, we will take a quick time out.
We'll come back after our new sports and partner break.
Uh, we'll be talking about those condiments, all those condiments.
Which ones are in that?
Danger in your fridge.
Danger.
Uh, we will be back with more show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Um, as kids growing up, uh, the, the five o'clock news, uh, was something that was almost,
uh, oh, it seemed to catch all the time.
And, and one of the things that it used to boggle my mind and, uh, it's a borderline
frustrate me as a young kid would be, um, there's something in your kitchen that could
kill you.
Find out at 11.
Well, it's five o'clock.
We got away five hours to find out what the, what are we doing?
What?
And I'll be sleeping by then because I'm a kid.
Right.
Right.
I have to go to bed and have nightmares.
Tell me now.
Like, that seems like breaking news.
That seems like time sensitive news.
I feel like you should tell me.
I kind of had a little fun with that with this topic here by bringing it up early in
the show and waiting until the end of the show to do it.
This is a little probe.
I always do teasers.
I kind of do.
Um, so, uh, people magazine just named it, uh, named catch up, uh, as one of the
most dangerous expired condiments.
What?
Uh, yeah.
People magazine.
People magazine.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
People magazine.
Yes.
No, no, you said that.
I just, I just think that that's funny that that's the magazine that's exploring your
condoms.
That, that is funny.
It's also kind of funny that it just said, if I had just said people, like, it's just,
yeah, people are talking and people, they have decided, James, what do you talk to people
about?
What do you want?
What kind of conversation?
Catch up.
It was the last time you looked at the expression date.
Just sitting in the elevator, you know, make conversation.
So here are the five condiments that might not last as long as you think in your refrigerator.
Manays shows up at number one.
It's got eggs.
So it's, uh, once it's been opened, the USDA says it's only good for two months.
Give it the sniff test.
If it doesn't smell right, chuck it.
Well, that's the good thing about mayonnaise is that you can sniff it and tell it's off.
This would not work for me because even fresh mayonnaise smells weird to me.
So yeah, but you don't eat mayonnaise, so why would you have it in your fridge?
I'm an outlier.
Nope.
I don't count.
Salad dressing, creamy kinds that have eggs or cheese are all supposed to be tossed
after two months, oily dressings last longer.
Wow.
Now, this one is probably, I know I'm absolutely guilty about this one.
I don't have a lot of the creamy kinds because I don't do as much dairy, you know, with
cheese and whatnot, but I wonder, does that include, like, uh, miracle whip?
Because I don't have actual mayonnaise in my fridge.
I use miracle whip, but that's a creamy dressing because it's got, it does have eggs in it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you're questioning, if you're wondering it, I think it's worth checking out.
I think it's worth, you know, I will say, I, uh, when I was young, I didn't mind ranch
and stuff, but I, for decades, I've pretty much just been Italian dressing.
And that's more of an oily dressing, right?
Right.
That's more of a, yep, or your vinaigrettes or, yeah, catch up in barbecue sauce.
They've got about six months to use them.
Keep an eye on the color.
If it changes, toss them.
Get them out of there.
Get out.
Wow.
You're out.
Six months.
That doesn't seem like I know.
I have things in my fridge that have, well, not this fridge, but I, I know in my, in
the past, it's happened every once in a while.
You got to go through those condiments and, but see, then, James, this isn't even the
expiration dates.
Yep.
This is once they're opened because on the shelf, they're shelf stable for a heck of a lot
longer than two months or six months.
Well, and it's one of those things, too, with the expiration dates where some of them
mean one thing and some of them mean another and great best used by or expired.
Yeah.
And the idea that they're, they're really should be a clear cut method to that.
I really, I really feel like that.
By the, when I'm throwing condiments out, I like to be a baseball umpire.
You're out of here.
Yeah.
You're up.
It's fun.
It makes it a little more fun.
Mustard.
It lasts longer because there's more vinegar in it.
Oh, once you break the seal, you've got about a year to use it.
Okay.
That's good.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Yeah, because you don't use, I mean, I don't use as much mustard as some of these other
condiments.
Same.
Same.
Yeah.
And finally, soy sauce.
Some people assume it's one that lasts forever, but again, you've got about a year to
use it.
Well, I go through soy sauce faster than that.
So out of all of these condiments, at least right now, the way that I'm cooking, I probably
use soy sauce the most.
Oh, okay.
So you're going through that pretty quick.
That ain't going to last a year.
Yeah, that's actually, I got to, I had to buy another, I have to keep one in the cupboard
and one on the fridge.
So if I run out, I have a backup.
And it should be noted too.
A lot of people mentioned in the comments of these things that if it smells fine, they're
using it.
I would not tell anybody what to do or anything.
I do think that this is going to be more and more of a bigger topic going forward because
you're going to have with what we were just talking about before with the rise of prices
of things and everything.
And that not seeming like it's going to change anytime soon, people are trying to make
their products last longer.
Right.
Or the people are trying to keep, yeah, use what they have as opposed to wasting it because
that's good money down the drain or in the garbage.
And I don't know that we're giving people any insight here that they didn't already
have.
But I would think that for me, at least when I see this, it confirms kind of the way
that I've was raised to do this.
I think that part kind of helps a little bit, honestly.
Just, okay, yeah, that is the right way to do it.
The smell test does work for some things.
But at the same time, I don't know that that's the, I would just go by that.
Right, right.
But I mean, with condiments, you probably can, you know, it's not like, it's not like
botulism.
Yeah.
You know, these things are going to go bad and you're going to be able to tell they'll
be mold in, you know, or they'll smell bad or like with the ketchup or the barbecue
sauce, the color is off.
Yeah, I hate to, I know none of us have money to throw around or anything, but when it
comes to your health and in your family's health and all that, I think it's worth throwing
out the cot.
You're not sure.
Don't take the chance.
Better safe than sorry.
Yeah.
When you're boiling water for pasta or, or things like that, do you start with cold water?
Or do you give it a head start and use hot water from the tap?
A TikTok mom is going viral after she found out the hard way you should never start with
hot water.
No, you should not.
It is more likely to leech lead and chemicals from your pipes and in your hotter, your
water heater.
So it's safer to use cold water and wait a few extra minutes for it to boil.
Yep.
Apparently, and I haven't seen the video or anything, but apparently the thing that they're
talking about the viral video is this woman finding out the hard way of this by it basically
in real time, finding it out.
And I don't know.
I guess I've never really thought too much about this.
I just think from a young age, making pasta from a young age and everything, I learned
pretty quickly how you just didn't.
And I don't know.
I don't know that I would ever even think to use hot water.
Well, I think that if you're just thinking about it from a very simplistic viewpoint of,
well, it's already partially heated up.
Right.
That's going to help me.
It's going to make you faster.
Yeah, I can see that.
If I want to drink a cup of warm water, well, why can't I just drink a cup of hot water
out of the tap?
But you got to think about all of the places that water has been.
It's been through the pipes.
Now it's been in your water heater and it's heating up.
And that the repeated heating of water, which, you know, you don't empty your water heater
out every time you use your hot water so that water stays in there and it just keeps heating
and that reheating of the water causes those minerals to, you know, condense.
Science.
That's not the right.
That's not that was no scientific.
That is just antidotal.
Sort of science.
Sort of science.
Sort of science.
We know something about it.
Don't drink hot water, unless you've heated it from cold.
I would have liked to play the video for you guys, but she does say a swear word at it.
So if you are looking up the video, keep that in mind.
Yes.
And yes, start with cold water, start with cold water.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back, wrap up the show, Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning, show here at WFHR, locally grown, ready.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us.
We're going to take you right to the top of the hour, get into our schedule now for a
little bit.
And of course, at the top of the hour, you got Matt and Air on air.
Join Jane and Greg.
They're back at it, having a lot of fun, getting ready for the new hour.
Be listening.
And of course, during their show, you'll be able to hear the love on the air, text
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That's right.
Coming up again.
Just to enter to win today.
Yep.
A big thank you to everybody who has already played along, a special thank you to everybody
who has downloaded the Civic Media app.
We appreciate you doing that.
Keep it up, everybody.
Keep on listening.
We're doing this through Thursday.
We got another keyword coming up for you again at 10 and then at noon and 2 o'clock today.
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in the morning tomorrow at 8.
Yeah.
We got a great lineup for you this afternoon as well.
Be sure to join us for Midday Magazine.
Got a great one lined up for you.
In part one, we hang out with Promise in our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
All right.
Looking forward to that.
In part two, it's Reality Radio with David Farmboro.
Yeah.
Find out what's happening in the real estate business.
Fascinating.
The real estate industry, it's just fascinating to me.
And it's the really the bellweather of our economy more times.
In fact, you go back to the 1920s and the stock market crash and some of those things and
look at where the real estate industry, how that was doing and that kept water.
There's interesting things about it when it comes to that tie into that in our economy.
David and I will be talking a little bit about scams today and once to look out for.
Okay.
That's important information, because there's a lot of them.
Great night of hockey.
It's a puck night tonight, everybody here at WIRI and WFHR.
Here at WFHR at 705, we've got the Wisconsin hockey hour hanging out with the Wisconsin
Badgers head coach and our sister station, 1055 WIRI, join us at 649 tonight.
We are going to be broadcasting Lincoln High School hockey as Wasaw West.
We're going to do this along with our cousins over at WXCO, Chad Holmes, the great Chad
Holmes is going to be doing the broadcast along with Bob Look.
Awesome.
We're very excited about this.
Of course, longtime listeners in this area, Bob, has broadcast in this area for a long time.
This is his 50th year of broadcasting.
Chad is going to bring Bob in for the first and third periods, but that second period,
all Bob.
Nice.
It's going to be Bob, running that.
I cannot wait.
I've got a class tonight and my poor students are going to have to be also just going to
be half in.
I'm going to be honest with everybody.
I haven't got to hear Bob calling a hockey game in forever.
I used to run the board for him doing this.
I'm very excited about this.
I'm a big, big, big shout out to Chad Holmes, opening the door and letting this and helping
this happen and everything.
Bob means a lot to us in this area.
Means a lot to me.
So we're excited about this.
The game will begin again at 649.
It'll be simulcast with FM 98.9 WXCO and FM 1055 WIRI.
Awesome.
You can of course get it on your radio dial.
Otherwise, on that civic media app, go right ahead.
That's right.
And you're going to have that app downloaded anyway, so you can be entering our text to
incontest.
Bob is in his 27th year as a PA announcer at UW-Madison for Men's Hockey there.
So not only does that lead perfectly into WFHR having the Wisconsin Hockey Hour, but
it just, I bring it up just to kind of one more time, give credit to where it belongs.
And one of the, you cannot tell the story of WFHR and not include Bob look.
It's good.
That's good.
We will.
I do want to remind everybody as well, some great concerts coming up in the area.
Lincoln High School has their concert series still going on here in February.
And on the 18th, they got to show at 630, Lincoln High School Orchestra.
Awesome.
Get out there and support our kids.
Yeah, it'll be at the Performing Arts Center, free with a donation to benefit the Lincoln
High School music program.
And as you have heard us mentioned many times, Wisconsin finished dead last and funding
the arts.
So they need it.
They do.
And another group that needs your help as well is our friends at Empty Bowls.
The 11th annual Southwood County Empty Bowls of it is coming up this Saturday.
Yeah.
It's the Saturday.
It'll be at the new focus location at 2321 West Grand Avenue.
We have Mary Schultz in the other day talking about this.
And if you're curious, you can check out the Midday Magazine interview at civicmedia.us.
Otherwise, it just occurs you to show up.
It's going to be a good time.
A $10 donation and not only get you a bowl that's going to come home with you and you can
take around, but you're going to have some great food for some of our best chefs in the
area.
The event.
So many great restaurants donated soup for this will be.
Yeah.
The event runs 11 to 2 and will include basket raffles with products and services donated
by businesses in our community.
A big, big thank you to all the businesses and all the people that came together for this
one.
We need to feed these kind of things in our society.
We work together.
We come together.
We are stronger together than not.
And a focus and this event is a perfect example of that.
You can find out more by going to their Facebook page.
We'll meet you there, everybody.
It's going to be a great event.
I look forward to it.
And students from our local schools, I was trying to find the post.
I can't find it.
But I know that we have those bowls were made by local artists and our kids, which is
just so cool.
Yeah.
It's a great point.
A great other part of this.
Keep that in mind, everybody.
And these bowls, the soup itself, obviously, the meal itself won't last very long.
In fact, part of the point of the event is for you to leave a little hungry.
That's to remind you of what that's like.
But these bowls will last with you forever.
So a year, two years from now, when you're having cereal in it, or you look at it and
you're kitchen or something like that, you'll be reminded of the good that you did with
this.
You're going to be reminded of this cause.
And hopefully the good that we can do when we come together about it.
Journalistically, I should mention that in my family, one of my nicknames was EOR.
In my family, I am EOR.
My brother is Tigger.
My sister is Piglet.
Does it have anything to do with your disposition?
Probably.
Well, a sad donkey named EOR is doing much better after a new home on Vancouver Island
in Canada.
He just moved in.
He lived alone in his whole life in someone's backyard and wasn't great with other animals.
In a sanctuary called Home for Hoves, took him in when his owner passed away.
And the woman who runs it wanted it wanted to give him something to do so she tossed
him a big yoga ball in it pen.
Well, he played with it constantly until it popped, but then people on social media started
sending more of the yoga balls to him.
And he's got about 40 of them now.
40.
Whoa.
He still plays with them, but doesn't need them as much anymore because he finally bonded
with three other rescue donkeys she brought in.
She says it's nice to see him finally having a family.
She also renamed him EOR because EOR just seemed too depressing.
He didn't fit anymore at all.
That's awesome.
That's a great story.
That's a really good story, I like that.
In case you missed it, a 311 year old strativarius violin sold at auction on Friday for 11.3
million.
Experts say it's one of the finest instruments ever made.
I would give anything to just be in the same room as it.
It was donated to New England Conservatory of Music in 2009 and the money from the auction
will go to cover scholarships there.
Oh, that's so great.
How many future artists is that going to create?
Is it going to help?
Many jobs, careers, is that going to create?
That's just a really cool story.
That is really cool.
And a guy in LA got to meet firefighters who saved his home in Paladay last month.
His name is Dr. Anthony Nezburn.
They left a heartfelt note in this mailbox that said they weren't able to save many homes,
but they were proud they could save his.
Oh, that's awesome.
Big thank you to not only those firefighters, but all of our local firefighters out there,
wherever you are listening to us.
We appreciate them.
Thank you for your service.
Appreciate you, Melissa.
Great show.
Yeah, you two James.
Have a great day.
Everybody out there.
We will talk to you soon in the later right here at...
