What in the Jonah?! (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 behind the mic.

I'm joined by our head of news.

Our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a great one out there.

Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend Brittany.

We're low talking to a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you doing?

I don't know if we want to talk to Mother Nature today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, Brittany, yes.

Absolutely.

Like Mother Nature, I don't know.

We might be in a fight, her and me.

Brittany, are there other things you like that?

Should we be taught?

Should we?

I mean, we always talk weather with you.

You know what it seems?

Good fuck, jeeps.

Exactly.

Yeah, we can talk about other things if you want.

It is sunny out there.

Pretty much revolves around Mother Nature, though.

Everything like you was using me outside.

So she is a pain in my rear end, too.

She's keeping me inside.

But she's keeping the kids home, too.

If we can't get snow days, it might as well get cold days.

That's true.

A day off for the kiddos is kind of nice.

Seven months in a while.

I mean, those are our memories from when we were young, too, right?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

But besides that, yeah.

It's like snow forts and stuff, though.

It's going to be so cold today.

Highs only reaching seven.

So our actual winchows, what it's going to be feeling like for our highs today, are probably about zero.

It will be the warmest this afternoon.

And then we fall again tonight back to near 10 below.

So we'll probably see another cold weather advisory, at least, to go out overnight tonight once more.

Before we start to warm things up tomorrow.

Tomorrow we'll hit highs in the double digits, nearing 10 degrees.

When we start to ease, and then by Thursday we'll be into the 20s.

So it's kind of sunshine all week.

And the cold, really gripping us today, and starting to let go tomorrow.

And I'll tell you, we do have 40s still on tap for next week.

So we're going to nature maybe all over the place, but it is getting better as we move forward.

We just got to hang in there.

We just got to hang in there.

I need to warm hug.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Somebody work on that.

Yeah.

Somebody figured that out how we do that.

And we'll get back to you on it.

We'll work with Brittany on it, because we appreciate you, Brittany.

Have a good morning.

Thank you, Brittany.

Thank you, Brittany.

Have a good one.

Best in the business right there from Brittany.

We're on load, Jones.

That's every morning, right in this time slot.

Listen, I got a fun show lined up for you, everybody.

On the way, the El Café birthday and anniversary club.

We're also going to get into how many hours does the average person spend looking for something to watch?

I got that one.

Five highly processed foods that aren't actually bad for you.

Oh.

Those are coming up.

And then, of course, in the 9 o'clock hour, we got a fun guest joining us.

We are going to be joined by Bianca Bowden, Miss Wisconsin Rapids team.

Oh, yeah.

That's great.

Bianca hasn't been with us since she won the crown and everything.

Since she actually was running for the crown.

So we'll get an update.

Yeah, we're going to catch up with her, see what she's been up to since October.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Look forward to that.

We'll also get into some entertainment news.

Got a couple of things lined up for you there.

Including, I have a little bit of a review I'm going to do.

Oh.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to do that.

Okay.

And we have a list of words that Americans say they can never spell correctly.

Yeah.

No.

I'll have some to add.

Oh, yeah.

You would be both.

I really...

Does it count if you can't swipe them correctly on your phone?

That's a great one.

That's a great question.

It's a very good question.

You know, that's a current day spelling problem.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Auto correct.

We've got two places to start.

We run a right away mentioned that our great friend Aaron Wells over at the aging disability

resource center let us know last night to do through the extreme cold today.

The ADRCCW will be closing the meals on wheels and senior dining.

Okay.

So keep an eye out for everybody that you know uses those.

And even if you just feel like they might use those services, reach out and check in

on them.

See how they're doing.

We appreciate you doing that.

Look out for each other.

And today sounds like a good day to make a big pot of soup and share.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Just had a chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese last night, actually.

Oh, it's good.

It was good.

It was a perfect meal yesterday.

It was a perfect meal.

Oh, I bet.

And here's where our second half of the opening monologue for you.

A 24 year old kayaker in Chile was briefly swallowed and subsequently regurgitated by

a home back whale in an unusual encounter.

His father caught on camera.

Yes.

I saw the video of this.

It's crazy.

I had to look this up in a couple sources and just to make sure this like this can't really

like this is like this is a story.

Like this is a story.

This is modern day Jonah.

What?

Yeah.

Adrian James, a computer technician originally from Venezuela was kayaking with his father in

Punta Arnes, Chile when he felt an impact on his back that knocked him out of his inflatable

kayak.

His father, Medell, captured video as his son briefly vanished into the mouth of the home back

whale.

James said he wasn't sure of what was happening until the whale spit him back out into the

water.

At first I thought it'd swallowed me whole although I didn't really know where it was and

then when I got back to the surface I realized it was a whale.

I also knew that there wasn't that much danger unless it started jumping or knocking my

dad off his boat because then it would be very difficult for us to get back to shore.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They were both out of their boats.

James was not injured.

He was able to reunite with his dad and return to shore.

He said that the incident reminded him of a classic story.

He mentioned Pinocchio.

Oh.

Yeah, but I forgot about that.

Yeah.

Pinocchio, yeah.

That's right.

He lived inside a whale for a while.

Humpback whales can grow up to 48 tons but they normally pose no danger to humans.

They have narrow throats which prevent them from completely swallowing humans and similar

sized animals, which completely ruins all the stories, like all the stories that they're

all ruined now.

They never end up in the stomach.

Gee.

Thanks, science.

Because that was on your bucket list.

No, I don't know.

I just think that's wild.

That's amazing.

That's really interesting.

But no, I'm picturing your bucket list.

Yeah.

Live in the belly of a whale for a year.

No, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up about that.

I knew it.

California high-acre, Julie McSorley and Liz Corlett had a similar experience in 2020 when

they ended up briefly inside the mouth of a breached humpback whale.

Their extra close encounter was also caught on camera from inside the mouth of the Leviathan.

And it is another amazing video if you look up.

And it's another humpback.

What is it with the impacts and wanting to swallow?

They are, you may not think this with whales but they're just busy.

They're going.

They're doing their thing and when you're that gigantic, you really don't worry about

anything else.

You just kind of do your thing.

Just this judge the size.

I thought it was a seagull.

What?

What?

Come on.

What are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

Sorry, humans and their boats.

You go ahead and try to cuff me.

What's the plus size cuffs?

There's not a lot of punishment we could give to a whale.

There's not a lot of...

I mean, besides ruining their oceans.

Right, right outside of that.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Turn dark.

Nope.

Nope.

I know about many of you out there, but you'd mentioned bucket list and interestingly enough,

not being swallowed by one, necessarily, but seeing a whale...

I want to see one in person.

I want to see one in real life, just in somewhere in front of me.

Not too close, but I do want to see it just in part...

Just to see something...

It's so big.

Yeah.

I remember the first time being out in California and seeing the ocean and I just couldn't

wrap my mind around it, like how big it was.

We've all seen it in videos.

We've seen it on even on the big screen in the movie, but nothing compares to seeing it

in person.

I've heard people say the Grand Canyon is like that for them.

They understand that they've seen it, but once you see it in person, it's a completely

different thing.

I haven't seen the Grand Canyon yet, but I have seen the Hoover Dam, and that was also

one.

That was just like, whoa.

Yeah.

But this is just...

This is a feat.

It's a feat of human accomplishment that it's very impressive.

Yeah.

Hmm.

That and the chocolate-covered strawberries in Vegas.

Those are really good.

Chocolate-covered strawberries are great.

I don't know.

I've been flying over the Grand Canyon, but I've never actually seen it in person or anything

like that.

So that is one of those ones that I'd probably on my bucket list too, probably.

I wanted to mention this one as well, because I thought this was a pretty interesting

story too, and I feel like we...

I don't know why, but I feel like this is like a story we need to cover, because a young

gray seal was found wandering the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, and police said

no one knows how the animal ended up in the city.

The New Haven Police Department posted a photo to social media showing the sea crawling

along a city street with a patrol vehicle pulling up, drawing, you know, drawing behind

it.

The post says, meet the newest addition to the department.

The department said investigators do not know how the seal ended up in the city.

It is actually a really cute, cute animal, actually, yeah.

Seals are the smaller ones are cute.

The big ones are terrifying.

Where I was...

Yes.

And they hurt penguins, so that immediately is a strike against them for me.

Where I was a staying in California mainly, there's Carpenteria and there's Santa Barbara

and a couple of cities real close to each other.

Very similar to here with Rapids and Acusa, you know, poor dead wards like that.

And each one of those cities is a sanctuary city for a certain animal.

And where I was in Carpenteria where I was staying, it was a seal sanctuary.

I never really cared much about seals or anything.

It is not that I didn't like care about them.

I just didn't think much about it.

Right, they're animals, but it's not like you in penguins.

Exactly.

It is, there's hundreds, like, well, I shouldn't say hundreds, like 30, 40, 50 of them, just

basking in the sun.

And it's really actually kind of cool and amazing.

And when they're like singing or talking, when they're talking, it almost sounds like

singing.

Yeah.

Really amazing.

Quite amazing animals.

Look at the sea one in the middle of a city, you said what?

Very different.

Connecticut?

Yeah.

Yeah.

The other Department of Energy and Environment was contacted and the seal ended up in the

care of the Mystic Aquarium's Animal Rescue Program.

That's good.

Yeah.

The aquarium said the seal appears to be only a few weeks old, and an assessment found

that it was lethargic and dehydrated and underweight.

The seal is now given a special dye to help recover, and it's doing very well, it will

be released back in the ocean.

Well, that's good.

Yeah.

They do.

You got to think that there was some human shenanigans going on around that, because

how would a baby seal end up in Connecticut?

One of the things that you and I tend to do, if you don't take the serious route I do.

And part of the reason I did want to bring this story up is one of the more ridiculous

things I think in human society, and that is the idea of having these certain things

as pets.

The seal is not a pet.

No.

I feel like it's pretty hard to imagine that this is not what that was, or somebody had

it as a pet and didn't want it anymore, and no different than when they don't want

a dog and just leave it on the side of the road.

It's a cowardly behavior, and you're supposed to be better than that, and I just got no respect

for that.

I got no time for that.

And I do also want to use this opportunity to send a shout out to the new Haven Police

Department, and really all the police departments around the country, all of you on social media

are doing amazing work.

They're doing a great job with their social media.

It's fantastic.

Fantastic.

And maybe there is an alternative, perhaps this baby seal made friends with a seagull,

and they decided to go on an adventure together, and since seals can't fly and seagulls

can, he just gave them a lift and accidentally dropped them when he got too big over Connecticut

and...

As is want to happen.

We've all been there.

We've tried to start a gang, but it really didn't pan out, and the seagulls like, I'm

done with you man, I can't carry anymore, so I'm off.

Whether it's a gang, or it's a band, I'm joining.

I'm looking to be a part of it.

That sounds like a couple.

I don't know.

What was it?

Penguins with spoons?

Penguins in planes.

Penguins in planes.

Penguins in planes.

I don't know if the seal is going to go for that.

It's lunch.

You know, my other band member, Sammy, I got to check with him and see, but he sees

you do pretty good with other animals.

It's other dogs he doesn't always get along with, but every other animal he seems to like.

They do kind of look like puppies, especially when they're little.

Do we have this wrong?

Is that why dogs bark at squirrels so much they're just looking for a new friend?

They're just looking to play with other animals?

Yeah, well yeah, obviously.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back with the El Café birthday anniversary club.

It's Melissa and James, take it through your morning at WFHR.

It's time for the birthday anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to talk about El Café and talk about you.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Head on over to El Café.

They're open.

Yeah, it's Tuesday.

They're open 7 to 2 today.

Head on over there to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port.

Edwards, wish them a great day from all of us.

Got some amazing specials and you get to stay all look good.

You get a chance to talk to Fidel.

Do me a favor.

I mentioned to him how much I think he's a good writer.

I'm serious.

He does such a nice job with these posts and just they do a nice job of just being right

to the point but also being charming and fun and I cannot do that to save my life.

I am horrible at writing posts.

I am not good at it.

He's very good at it.

They do a nice job.

And they, you're right Melissa.

They got some amazing specials over there today.

We do a ribeye fajita skillet and he doesn't that by itself just sound delicious but then

you're right about Fidel's writing.

Get ready for a flavor fiesta.

We're talking juicy ribeye, zesty onions, peppers and tomatoes, all grilled to mouthwatering

perfection on top of your favorite potato, ground with two eggs and a sprinkle of cheese.

I mean, come on.

Yeah.

That sounds better.

And I love their 2x2x2x2x1.

Yes.

Yes.

And out over there today, everybody buy local support local, support our great friends

over at El Café.

Like they support us in this community and again, a shout out to everybody that got ribs

over the weekend.

A nice job, everyone.

And then also the picture of Lori stuck in the car.

Yes.

And you got to go to their Facebook page and check out their posts.

If you're not following them, you want to, just for the giggles.

Absolutely.

100%.

And to see what the specials are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You definitely have to do that.

Do that, everybody.

Check it out.

It says in anniversaries.

We want many, many of them.

Please get them to us.

You can email us info at wphr.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

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Get your birthday or anniversary live on air.

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And encourage you to do that, everybody.

And get us more of these birthdays and anniversaries.

Melissa, we got two possible qualifiers on the show.

OK.

I'm going to choose one.

All right.

Qualifier and getting right into it.

We got a couple of local, you know, close birthdays.

We want to celebrate first up.

I want to wish happy birthday to Pam's cousin, Kathy Eskrit Mayer.

She grew up in Wisconsin Rapids and resides in the southern part of the state now.

All right.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Enjoy your day, Kathy.

Hope it's a great one for you.

And we wish you happy birthday to my Uncle Duke.

Aw.

Happy birthday, Uncle Duke.

He is one of those people.

Nobody dislikes my Uncle Duke.

Like everybody.

Even my stern grandfather loved him.

And one of the first people that I really knew from Northern Minnesota.

My Uncle Duke was also a theater guy.

And one of the first people I could really talk to eat or with and everything.

This is an interesting guy, good guy.

And I wish you a good one, Uncle Duke.

Talk to you later.

We wish you very happy birthday to Hannah Williams.

Happy birthday, Hannah.

Enjoy your day, Hannah.

It's a good one for you.

And our qualifier today, Tom Johnson.

Happy birthday, Tom.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Enjoy your day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We wish everybody a happy birthday or anniversary out there that is celebrating.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Regina Spector is 45.

Wonderful singer and songwriter.

She's good.

Gina, what do I know her from?

She has a song called Edit that I really like.

I don't know, honestly, they say Fidelity is her biggest hit.

I'm not as familiar with that, but her song Edit is fantastic.

She's got a couple of good ones.

She sounds familiar and I'll have to listen to her later.

Oh, she did the song for the Chronicles of Narnia, too.

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Yeah, and let's see here.

Oh, my goodness.

Molly Ringwald is 57.

Really?

Yeah, only 57?

Yeah, it's crazy.

I actually would have thought, too, she did at least a little older than that.

Not much, but a little older.

But one of the queens of the 80s and Fender, just a, I think, I mean, a really good actress.

I thought she was a good actress, especially for the time.

She was a perfect 80s actress, just very good at what she did.

Dr. Dre is 60 today.

Dr. Dre.

Now, while he is not a real doctor, nobody thought that.

He has had quite a fascinating, nobody, nobody thought that.

Quite a fast, if he's in a situation where something's happening to somebody, is there

a doctor here?

Does he feel weird if he doesn't raise his hand?

He has one of the more interesting arcs to his career where, you know, where he started.

And I don't mean with G Funk or with hip hop in NWA.

I mean, before that, with the wrecking crew or something where he was in like a late 70s

R&B kind of band.

And then he went into NWA and went into a lot of gangster rap and hardcore rap, took

that and invented a whole new genre of rap with G Funk and Snoop and some of that.

And, you know, I don't know, I don't think it's far-fetched to say the greatest rap producer

of all time.

And if not in the conversation of a Rick Rubin, Dr. Dre, they're in the conversation.

But then he goes and decides, well, he's got one of the better ears and music.

I'm going to go ahead and make headphones.

And I'm going to design them.

I'm going to work on them.

No musician had ever really done this.

Essentially, whenever you see like a guitar that especially made for somebody, this is kind

of what Dre did with headphones.

Except he wanted to make them, you know, that anybody could use them.

And then he sold that company for like a billion dollars.

And just, I don't know, just an interesting life.

And Beats is a really great name for headphones.

Yes, yeah.

I'm wearing a pair of them right now.

And they're the best headphones I've ever worn.

They're amazing.

Vanna White is 68 today.

Wow.

She makes 10 million a year on Wheel of Fortune.

Yeah, but that's nothing compared to the host.

Absolutely.

Of Wheel of Fortune.

Right.

Which I will give Pat Sejek a lot of credit on.

He really worked to even that when he was still hosting.

He's not on the show anymore, of course, but when he was on there, that was something

that he worked at with, and I don't know what the complete story of it or anything.

But I do know that was something that she came out and said he didn't come out and

say anything.

She said she had come out and interview and said something about it.

Talking about arcs of a career, John Travolta is 71 today.

71.

Got to start doing a ton of commercials.

Just a lot of commercials early on in this life was looking for a break and was taking

just about every audition he could get and worked his tail off.

And was struggling actually because he was like number two, number three in most auditions.

He'd get in the running, but wouldn't get the break.

And of course gets a chance and set it in a fever and urban cowboy and some of those

early movies of his goes away for a while and then has this huge comeback with pulp fiction

where he a completely different audience he hits on.

And it gives him this whole other extension of his career where all of a sudden he started

to do action movies and things.

Face off.

Is any of this sound familiar to anybody because this is basically the blueprint for every

actor over 40.

Travolta built a blueprint.

Whatever anybody thinks of him or anything like that or takes him his acting seriously

or any of these things, what he did every like every male actor over 40 or 50 is pretty

much doing the same thing.

Ben Zell, Liam Neeson, there's a ton of actors that pretty much followed suit to this.

And I'm not saying John Travolta invented this, but along with the comeback story he had

which doesn't happen in acting very often, it's pretty amazing.

Look who's talking.

That was the movie.

As look who's talking the first guy on the back and then he went away for like a couple

years and then pulp fiction comes out and yeah, just I'm not a big and I'm not a huge

show, John Travolta guy, but I do admire anybody who can persevere like he did early on

in his career doing any work he could get just to get it be a working actor to where he

is now.

Yeah.

It's impressive.

I like him okay.

I mean, I wouldn't like purposely go see a movie just because he's in it, but I don't

mind.

Yeah.

And that's certainly not.

That's so judgmental.

No, it is what it is.

I don't mind if he's in one.

Simple Shepherd is 75, wonderful actor, wonderful actor, great actor, I remember sitting back

and watching moon lighting with my mom and not understanding any of the content, but I

really like Simple Shepherd and Bruce Willis.

I really like them.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

She was in so many movies like the 70s.

Yeah.

Dennis D Young is 78 today, stick singer and songwriter.

Joco Ono is 92.

Let's see here.

And she has at least that many pairs of shoes.

Yes, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

It's kind of the only thing I know about her.

Well, she broke up the Beatles, right?

Well, yeah, you know, no, no, she didn't.

I know that that's the stereo that that's and I don't blame you for, you know, because

you know, you know, your brain has better things to think about.

For a long time, that was the stigma, that was what was put on her.

And for a long time, it was put on her that she kind of not only did that, but, you know,

brought John to a different level or took him down a peg or any of these crazy things.

I was just going to say I think that I'm not saying that people are gigantic fans of

Joco Ono or anything like that.

But I do think that she is fortunately and this doesn't happen very often, lived long

enough to where people have kind of come around and Paul McCartney, Ringo, George Harrison

when he was alive, have all come out and said, look, we're going to break up no matter what.

We had pushed the boundaries creatively.

It wasn't that this was a breakup because they hated each other.

This was a band that went from, I want to hold your hand to Sergeant Pepper to just

trying to evolve to the next thing.

And then most logical, next evolution was for them to all do their own thing.

The thing that I think that misses this, if John had stayed alive, if we hadn't lost

him, they would have reunited.

And I don't think the stigma on Joco Ono would have even come up maybe by the time we're

around and we're teenagers and everything.

By that point, I'm sure Joco Ono is just Joco Ono.

But because of not only the ending of maybe the most influential and biggest band in American

history at the time, but also losing John Lennonette, such a young age, all the combination

of all this stuff, I think led to people needing, they were angry.

And frustrated.

And back then, we didn't have social media and all these things so that Paul McCartney

could just go on Twitter and say, no, we broke up because we wanted to.

We're grown men and we decided that we didn't want to play together anymore.

Get over it.

It's a shame.

Shame an easy scapegoat.

Like most of history, the woman became the scapegoat, yes.

And that's unfortunate.

I'm thankful that she at 92 is getting some respect.

Her own, you know, in her own right as an artist, singer, songwriter and piece activist.

Yeah.

Well, I take nothing from the love and what they had together, her and Lennon and the

things that they did together.

She's an artist herself.

She's a person herself and, you know, she's also worth $700 million.

So yeah, in a lot of shoes.

Some people no longer with us, Tony Morrison, the wonderful author, born in 1931.

She was the first African American woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

Yeah.

She's a great writer.

There's a book by her that I absolutely need to read.

It's called Beloved.

I have heard it.

It's amazing.

It's fantastic and it's on my list.

My mom, that was one of those books where she read it.

She loved it and then she had to take a break from reading for like a week or something,

which for her is like a year.

She loved that book though.

And one of my favorite directors of all time, John Hughes, born in this day in 1950, wrote

and directed the Breakfast Club 16 Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Offs, Plains

Trains and Automobiles.

He directed those, also co-wrote in them.

And then he wrote Mr. Mom, the first three vacation movies, Pretty and Pink, some kind

of wonderful Uncle Buck, Home Alone, one of the King of the 80s, you know, I think it

could make the argument.

And one of the greatest writer directors we've ever had.

I love John Hughes.

And then she was the birthday with Molly Ringwald, who starred in many, many of those movies.

Just, you can't write this stuff, man.

That's just perfect.

We again want to wish everybody out there a happy birthday and anniversary.

Thanks so much for celebrating with us, everybody.

And a special thank you to our friends at El Café.

Treat yourself.

Absolutely.

If you get over there for lunch, have their Greek chicken.

That sounds amazing.

Yeah, really does.

Yeah.

Check that out.

And check out our new sports and partner break, Melissa and I'll be back with more fun

when we get back.

We're going to talk a little bit about the, where is that, oh yeah, the healthiest meal

in the world.

Got the healthiest meal in the world for you to meal.

Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Hope y'all are having a great start to your morning out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Got your host, James here.

Join by Melissa.

Hello, hello.

Let's get into this one, Melissa.

Oh, it's not your average lunch, but we got the healthiest meal in the world right

now.

A nutritionist in England came up with this and she claims it's the healthiest meal

in the world.

I had to get that really in there, you know.

Yes, yes.

It sounds very grandiose.

Definitely not your average lunch, but it does include cheese and chocolate.

Oh.

I don't know of how I feel about that combination, but let's go ahead and dive into this.

Are you kidding?

They're amazing.

It's three courses, starter, a main course, and a dessert.

The whole thing is 1,200 calories, so it's a good amount of food.

OK.

But you ain't going to find it on a menu anywhere.

The starter, Lebanon cheese, and roasted tomatoes, and broccoli.

Lavena is a fermented cheese popular in the Middle East.

It's got healthy bacteria that's good for your gut.

OK.

Hmm.

Main course, citrus mackerel salad with chickpeas, fennel, and red onions.

I've never had mackerel.

Mackerel is one of the healthiest types of fish because it's loaded with omega-3s.

She says to top it with black olives, sauerkraut, and pumpkin seeds.

Interesting.

I'd try that.

Yeah.

I would try it.

And for dessert, tofu, chocolate, mousse, and with blueberries.

Yum.

The recipe calls for dark chocolate, not milk chocolate.

The blueberries are loaded with, and blueberries are loaded with antioxidants, even I knew

that one.

Mm-hmm.

The blueberries are good for you.

Yeah.

I felt that when I was like a year ago.

No.

No.

That's, I would try this.

I would actually try this meal.

Yeah.

I mean, the side of the cheese for me, and keep, although if it's fermented, that actually

I might be able to digest that better.

I was going to ask off the lactose, or the, yes, some of the lactose is already broken

down.

Hmm.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I wouldn't have guessed that.

I wouldn't have guessed that.

Interesting.

Well, the longer a cheese is aged.

Oh, sure.

So I don't know about the fermenting.

I'd have to look into it.

I don't know if I've ever, I've never had fermented cheese.

Although, is it all of it fermented when it's aged?

I was going to ask, again, I had like two or three questions for you off air.

This is another one.

We need a kitchen's open on this.

Come on.

Help us.

Hey, where's the kitchen's open people?

Oh, that's a, that's a great question, though.

Yeah.

But the meal does sound delicious.

Like, I, I, if I could eat all those things, I totally would, because you know, chickpeas

are our tie-in protein, and obviously the, the fish is going to be high in protein as

well.

It's a meal that would fill you up, and it also sounds incredibly healthy and delicious.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's a lot of food for 1200 calories.

That sounds good.

I would try.

I'd definitely try it, especially when I think about this, though, is it seems, I'd also

maybe this is, you know, I'm off on this one, but it seems like it'd be fun to make, too.

Mmm.

Like, I like making, for, you know, I, every once in a while, it's nice to just make

something I've made since I was a teenager, but I like to try different, make it.

I think a new recipe is also a fun adventure, because you have all the ingredients.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Which, that is going to be a complication here, I think.

There is a, a handful of things that it seems like are pretty, you know, it's different

in Europe, of course, where you've got so much more ability to be able to cover so

many things, or get so many different, you know, ingredients and products and everything.

Yeah.

Probably the hardest thing is going to be that the cheese, the lippna, of course, and

then the macro.

Mm-hmm.

Have you ever seen Mackerel in the store?

Right.

Yeah.

No.

No.

And I honestly, I've never seen it on a menu or anything, but I, I'm not a big fish guy, so.

I think I can.

Yeah.

But that is not going to be the same.

No, no, no.

I don't know a whole lot about fish, but I know that you get a fresh.

That's the way to do it.

That part I know.

We're actually, we're going to take our break a little early, because I see Bianca, who

is about to come in, but there are doors unlocked.

So I'm going to go let her in.

Okay.

Then we'll come back and we'll have some fun when we get back.

Melissa and James, on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa and James, hang it out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour with Miss Wisconsin Rapids team Bianca Bowden.

It's going to be joining us.

Looking forward to that.

Excellent.

We'll have some entertainment news in the 9 o'clock hour for you as well.

And Melissa and I are going to dive right into a fun topic.

We've got a list of words that Americans say they can never spell correctly.

Oh good.

I have some to add.

Yeah.

Get your list together, everybody, and get it ready for the 9 o'clock.

We're looking forward to it.

But right now, I want to dive into an interesting one here.

I thought Melissa, high-processed foods that actually aren't that bad for you.

Okay.

I feel like the word processed food immediately just throws people off, and they don't want

anything to do with it.

Well, because we've been talking about it so much that you need less processed food and

highly processed foods are bad for you because they have all these wide range of ingredients

that aren't real food.

I remember when I found out that all fat isn't bad.

But kind of like, oh, wait a minute, I mean, I was in my 30s, but I'm kidding.

But I do remember being thrown back by that, it's one of those things because like you

said, we're always told fats are bad for you, and then you find out some are actually

good for you.

Well, we're in the age of clickbait, and we have been for quite some time, and there's

been a lot of eggs or bad.

Nope, eggs are good.

Eggs are bad.

Same with butter.

Butter's bad.

Butter's good.

It's the ying yang of moderation.

So an interesting one here, avoiding processed foods is a good idea in general, but healthy.com

posted a list of five you don't need to feel that guilty about eating.

Like number one, and that doesn't look like they're in any particular order, but the

first one on here, whole grain bread.

Yes.

All bread is processed, even the healthy kind.

Whole grain and whole wheat breads are just a lot better because they retain more of

the nutritional value when processed white bread doesn't.

Yeah.

They have more of the whole grains in it, which means more fiber, which means your body can

process it better.

Yeah, but white bread's good.

Yeah.

I mean, for certain things, every once in a while, you need to have just squishy right

food.

Yeah.

Grass-fed processed meats.

A study in 2022 found grass-fed is better than grain-fed.

It has more healthy omega-3s.

There's those omega-3s showing up again.

That's one that I think maybe is maybe a little more well-known.

I'm not sure.

Well, if you think about it, you got to imagine that a cow being able to wander in the

field and eat grass is going to be healthier than one stuck in a pen, bed grain.

Hummus.

Hummus.

It's got a lot of fiber in protein.

Look for versions made with olive oil and not a lot of preservatives or extra ingredients.

Yeah.

That one you can usually find pretty low amount of processed food in it, but it's also

one that's really easy to make at home if you have a food processor.

One of the ones that I'm actually trying to add more to my diet, yogurt, plain Greek yogurt

is best in adding fruit or honey is better than brands and with added sugar.

Yeah, because you know what you're adding to it then.

But even some of the sweetened types are a good source of probiotics, calcium, and protein.

Yeah.

Yogurt is usually a great snack.

Yeah.

That's, you know, me and Anacha, I'm a grazer and I was, I'm looking for...

James just needs more snacks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And healthier ones, ones that actually put a little meat on my bones, you know, or something

like that.

And yogurt that I've been told and it seems like might be able to do that, might be one

of the things you can do that.

I can't just eat that, of course.

And yogurt is also a really great ingredient to be, to use like in place of cream or in

place of sour cream.

The plain Greek yogurt is a great replacement for sour cream.

Well, and as one of the pickiest eaters in the universe, I will say, there, it, I, I,

I used to work at a grocery store here in town cops and I, you know, I, I did a sorting

and some of that worked at night.

And one of the things I did was sorting the yogurt and I remember how many, there was

a lot of brands back then.

It's insane now.

If you can think of it, there's a yogurt for it.

And I found a coffee one, Melissa.

I just, yeah, there's a lot of, I don't know, even a picky person like me, I couldn't,

I, I found like four or five that are like, all try this one.

But it is a really good idea to look at those ingredients like they're talking about

here.

Otherwise, it just, I don't need more candy.

I've got plenty of that.

I've got, you mean the kind that has the, the candy on the side of it, you just dump

in the yogurt?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't need that.

It's a decent dessert replacement.

Yeah.

That, I'm trying to eat more granola too.

I like granola.

Yeah, granola is good.

Yeah.

Add, watch for that.

Add a sugar though.

Yes.

Yeah.

And finally on this list, canned beans.

Mmm.

Yes.

They're a processed food, but still a great source of protein, fiber, iron, and magnesium.

Look for low sodium versions that don't have a lot of added ingredients.

Yeah.

Cause I mean, dried beans are cheap.

They're really cheap, but they do require processing that you have to do at home.

And it takes time.

And for, you know, when we're pressed for time, like we are every single day, it's hard

to find time to, oh, I didn't soak the beans overnight.

Drat.

There goes dinner.

It's one of the, I, you know, I encourage people to try at least once a week, maybe, making

your, making meal for yourself.

I try to do this.

I'm not like preaching this.

I try to do this.

It's something I've tried to do for a very long time.

I started doing it when I, I started helping my parents out a lot more and just making

sure they ate, and it kind of worked for me too.

There's something to it.

There's, there's certain fast food.

I mean, there's nothing, there's, there's some things, especially on the right day, there's

nothing better than a culvert's burger.

You, you didn't have to make or grind over anything.

Just give it to me.

Here's my money.

Go.

And I'm going to go.

That's it.

But there's something also that feels just as good and tastes just as satisfying of

making that meal, sitting there, eating it and taking your time, and, you know, that

you put the time into it.

Really enjoying it with all of your senses, and then the, the satisfaction of, of a job

well done.

Yeah.

Um, I actually made a pasta, because, I mean, for those who have listened for a long

time, no, I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't do a whole lot of, like, um, pasta sauces

that have any cheese or dairy in them, but I actually recently made a pasta sauce with

beans.

It was just like a two cans of, of, um, canoli beans, or, can, cannot, I don't even know

how to say it.

White beans.

Um, and then that blended up with some, some nutritional yeast and a bunch of seasonings.

It was actually really, really good.

And that's a fiber and protein packed pasta, then, yeah, it was delicious.

It sounds good.

Sounds good.

There's some, there is something to doing things with your own hands, with your own, in

your own self.

It wasn't.

The recipes you've never tried before.

Yeah.

A little while ago, I took my dad driving around town.

Him and I have worked on a couple of buildings and built a couple of things around here, and

it was probably 20 some years ago, but still going past them, still takes a lot of pride

in it.

I think making food, especially for others, has a very similar feeling.

Yeah.

I do enjoy cooking for others.

And we wrap up the hour with an interesting one as well, because I don't know how about

anybody else out there, but it doesn't matter if when you were a kid and they had 100 channels

on cable and you were flipping through, or with the streaming services we have now.

And you're, it's, it's, you're more stalled because there isn't anything just playing

automatically.

You've got to actually, you got to do this whole picking thing.

I got to think all of a sudden, a poll found the average American was 110 hours, 110 hours

this year, just searching for stuff to watch.

Wow.

That's around four and a half days worth of time or roughly one percent of your year that

you'll never get back.

One in five.

A lot of time spent just on the search menu.

One in five people think it's hard to define something to watch today than it was 10 years

ago, even though there's way more content.

Right.

Because there's a lot more to look through, that makes total sense.

There is such a thing as too much, too many choices.

The most common complaint was streaming services are loaded with too much old stuff you

have to sit through.

One in four also think there's too much original content being produced.

So you can't win for losing.

This is entertainment 101.

This is this is every, every producer, every sales executive, every director, writer,

creative is sitting there.

How do I reinvent the wheel?

How do I tell how to chicken cross the road differently?

When you do and half the audience thinks it's great and other half of the audience thinks

you're doing an old joke, you can't win.

This is why I feel like embracing personality and embracing individuality is your best bet.

They've done this thing in not just in sports, but it really started in sports where, okay,

we're tired of knuckleheads.

We're going to have everybody take media training, coaches, players, everybody.

So now everybody answers every question the same way.

Right.

Because they're afraid of saying the wrong thing.

So whether you like or dislike some of the personalities in sports, they've kind of gone

away.

If Charles Barkley was around these days, nobody know much about him.

He doesn't say anything.

None of them, he says anything anymore.

We talked about this with vehicles.

Car companies are so afraid to take a chance.