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 am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having a fantastic
Tuesday out there. Happy Tuesday. Yeah, we want to send a shout out to Brittany Merlot.
Brittany, not able to join us today, but you'll be back with us tomorrow looking forward to that.
Yep, yep, yep. It's warmer today. Yes, yes, it is warm. It is warmer. It will take that. We'll
take that. Yeah, but our snow is going away. That part is a little bit tough for some out there,
I'm sure. We are looking forward to getting into the LKF Abert day anniversary club. We got that one
coming up for you. Carton of eggs is so expensive. How expensive is it? We'll get into that a little
bit later. The average person, how many photos do they have on their phone? How many photos do they
have on the? Why was that so difficult? Photos on their phone. Photos on their phone. It's a lot of
peas. It's a little bit of a tongue twister out there. Would you pop your peas? You got to worry
about that. That's all coming up for you. Nine o'clock hour. Got a bunch of entertainment news.
And we got some local entertainment to talk about as well. All of that coming up. We'll also
be getting into people who don't watch TV say they do these things instead. Ooh, I'll be listening
in that part. Should be good. Should be a fun part. But we're actually going to start the way we
like to around here with our listeners. And I believe Melissa, you might have seen this already,
but we got a message from our friend Tyler. Oh, yeah. Tyler's been messaging us for years. He's
been sending us great. He sends postcards. I love it. I love it so much. As a side note, we'll take
all the postcards you got everybody. We love postcards. Fantastic. But his are our special because
he puts them on cardboard from like six packs of IPA beer, which is one of my favorites. Go
Tyler. It works really good. We keep these. We have our wall of thanks that is right behind me.
And we put these right up there with the rest of Tyler's messages. And I'm just going to read this
right from him. Hi, Pam. Greetings from IPA land. Please pass this along to your early morning
radio troopers. My suggestion for an introduction song to Wednesday's wicked, awesome word of the
week that I find apropos. Nicely done, Tyler. Nicely done. So how to have fun with words by Neil
Young or maybe a subject for Seth's excellent Sunday evening show. Seth is the music. Thanks, Tyler.
Thank you, Tyler. Thank you. Now, if you're curious, I, you know, I'm growing up. I heard a lot of
Neil Young. I was not familiar with this one. So I'm going to play a little bit of the song the
Tyler's suggestion words here. Here we go.
Not bad. Not bad. A little, a little, a little like most of a lot of Neil Young songs. A little,
you know, I don't want to see Downey or Downer, but it's a ballad. It's a ballad. It's not a beat.
Now, it did get me thinking though. I did come across this one that I think we might try to use.
This is from an artist C. James words that we said. I'm going to play a little of this.
A little bit, a little bit more morningy and a little more morning-like.
Yeah, it's still a ballad. It's still a ballad though. It's still a, but I will say I came across
a website. This is called, let me get this right, chasic.com, CHASIC.com. And what it is,
if you want to look up a word, like similar songs finders, what it is. So I typed in words,
and just like words as weapons, but C. Thurbo, Durham's word, words, words, like just all kinds of
songs came up with words in it. This is amazing. I have never seen this website before.
I wonder if Seth knows about this website. We're bookmarking it. Tell you that right now. We're
bookmarking this one. Because I don't know. I think that this just opens up so many options for us.
But all because of Tyler. Yes. The listeners are the best. They really are. And I shout out to
you, Tyler. Thank you for that. We are going to, of course, it is Phil's segment. It is our
friends at Quality Plus printing segment. So if they want a theme song, we're going to let Phil
pick it up. We'll give them some options. We'll give them some options and everything will help
make that happen. We love having intro music to segments. It's just something we like doing
around here. It's fun. And we love having sponsors for segments like we do as Phil Hartley
and Quality Plus printing sponsor that and we're friends at Family Natural Foods. We, of course,
have our pet of the week coming up. Our kids in open segment. We've got all kinds of opportunities
for you to be a part of the team here. Give our front desk a call 715-424-1300. Pam will put
you touch with Ashley and get you on the team. Yeah. This is a, I don't know Melissa. This is a
great one or not. But I'm curious where people stand on this. You sound apprehensive as what
you sound. I'm trying to think of how the angle I want to take on this one. And I do this to
Melissa and Seth almost every day. I try to do it to myself a couple times a day as well where I
pull up a story that I have not pre-read. I don't know as much about. So I'm coming into it.
Which can be dangerous going on in radio. God, it can. I don't know why I do this. But an
engineer like to live on the edge. An engineering conductor and conducting an engineer conducting
an inspection at a 200-year-old Scottish lighthouse discovered a message in a bottle dating back
132 years. Really? So interesting. Ross, Ross, Russell, a Northern lighthouse board mechanical
engineer removed some panels and he covered at a Coswell lighthouse located at the northern tip
of the gallop and spotted a bottle hidden inside the wall. Russell and his team used some rope and a
broom handled a fish out the bottle of its finding and looked inside. And that's what the team said
the cork was stuck in place and had to be carefully removed using a drill. Inside was a note dated
September 4th, 1892, bearing the name of three engineers who would install a light at the top
of the 100-foot lighthouse as well as the names of three lighthouse keepers. Oh, cool. It was like
it was like going back in time, he says. Yeah, John capsule. Oh my goodness, that is so awesome.
The note reads the lantern was erected by James Wells engineer John Westwood Millwright James
Brody engineer Dave Scott Lover and of the firm of James Milan and son engineers. Milan house
works and it just so essentially that the workers that worked on it. Yeah, they wanted to leave
their names on the place in a way that would not be pound for over a hundred years. Wow,
that is so cool. It's a very cool story. It's really interesting and it's just one of those
things that it seems like we've kind of we don't really do this kind of thing anymore but you know
every once in a while you come across something like this. We've covered a lot of these stories in
the years that we've done been doing the show together. I am a little I cannot wait to bring
this up to my dad. My dad and I have built and worked on I could not even tell you how many houses.
I genuinely don't have a number. How many we've worked out over the years and everything and
especially here in Wisconsin. Why did we never think of this? All that be awesome. Like it is like
putting up some like there's a number of different home improvement jobs we did where we just
tore down a wall and put up a new one. We could have put one of these bottles right in there.
You could have put something in the wall. I've seen I've seen where people actually
signed the wall. Yeah. I think we did that when I was when we were remodeling my dad's house so
you know like my kitty handprints are somewhere inside the walls of that house.
My dad's too professional. He's too professional for this. He would never let me do it. I
I could tell you right now he would never let me do it. I think that's kind of fun though. I think
no it is so awesome and you know in the time then maybe you know they were afraid that the records
wouldn't be capped and it wouldn't you know give them the credit for having built that so they
did it in a way that came to light so many years later and just that's so cool.
It credit even even late is still worthwhile. And you know maybe those records remain because
that's one thing that I love about it's why I love time team James because they dig through those
old records and they and they read the accounts of what happened all those years ago and I mean
they go back to like you know 15 16th century with records and things and it's just it's so fascinating
where we've what what we've achieved as humanity. Yes. And where we've come from and what we've
done as people and and guess what that says something about people. You know like the collective
of us together we have power our our voice has power we have the ability to imprint these things on
the world just us us little people. And and there when you when you look at things and it seems
daunting about standing up to someone or something or something like that remember that that's
they're just people too. And and you that's what you're doing you're standing up for yourself and
for other people as well as against just other people that's all they are as people regardless
of money or power or any of these things or position they're the same as us. Yeah and they need
a reminder of that from time to time some of those people. I think that when I don't know how to
rank this list or what to label this list you write on top of the paper before you start your
one through ten or whatever. But for me this has got to be top three top five things I wish would
happen to me that aren't that significant. It's a very badly titled list but you know you I mean
there's things that you know plenty of people all I want I want to hit the lottery or I want this
or whatever. I'm talking about things that aren't that yeah yeah I'm talking about things that aren't
that significant. They're like your secondary bucket list like if you can't get to the bucket
list or maybe you want to ease into the bucket list. I would love to come across one of these
bottles or you know building on a house and find one of these kind of things. It seems like it
would be just so fascinating. I will say I appreciated that they mentioned that they had to be very
delicate getting out of there because that's the biggest worry I would have. Right that it would
break as you're trying to retrieve it from this place that's you know you can't get to or it's
you know open a broom handle. It's one of those movies where you they pull the piece of paper out
and it falls apart in their hands right as they're about to oh yeah I feel like that's what
what happened to me and I didn't know I could handle that. Since we got to start our show with our
great listeners I thought let's end the opening segment and our opening monologue taking care of
our listeners and detaining our listeners and if you've been listening to midday magazine like
we know you all do. We had the Grace players on recently and we were talking about their great
play that they're going to be doing. It's time again for the annual Grace Dinner Theater. This
year's production will wrap you up in laughter. It's how I met your mummy. It'll be presented
as Grace on Thursday, February 27th through Sunday, March 2nd. Tickets are on sale to Grace
Lutheran Church over at 1531 with Rock Avenue right here in Rapids. The Saturday show is going to be
catered dinner by bread, basil butter and tickets for the show are $25 and they help them put a lot
into the community and everything. It's a really fun production and we want you to be able to go.
Thanks to them they gave us four tickets. I got them right here for you everybody. Oh wow
that's awesome and if you want them all you got to do is call up and give us one of your favorite
plays, one of your favorite theater plays. Yeah, yeah. We would like to give this stuff away. I'm
not trying to stomp anybody here. We want to give them to you and we want you to be able to go and
support this theater, support people doing good work in our community. You can find out more at
glcwr.org, glcwr.org and if you want these tickets, call up and give us your favorite play. You
can do it anytime in the next two hours. That number is 715-424-2600. Just a touch or two way
on the Civic Media app. We're looking forward to getting these tickets in your hands everybody.
Melissa and I will take a quick time out. We'll be back with the LCAFE birthday and anniversary club
on the morning show. It's time for the LCAFE birthday and anniversary club. One of our favorite
parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends over at LCAFE.
Treat yourself. Get on over there today. They're open for the week. They are.
Head on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported. Words everybody.
Yeah, I was trying to quick navigate to their Facebook page so I can see what specials they have.
They have some good ones lined up for each other. Yeah, I'm oh, a Makahada Benedict.
A mix of chorizo and shredded carne to meat resting on a grilled English muffin. It's resting.
It's very quiet. For now, it's resting. Topped with poached eggs and drizzled with our signature
wrenchero cheese sauce served with fruit or potato. Good stuff. And the meat lover skillet.
Like you can't go wrong with those two options. No, it's something for everybody over there too.
They really do have a unique and a vast menu over there. And some great Facebook posts.
This picture is just fantastic. Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't even see that it came.
That's a great picture. She's such a goofball too. She's so much fun.
They are awesome over there. Visit our friends over at LCAFE by local support,
local support, those support this community. 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported.
Edwards. Did you see their lunch though, James? Italian combo. Yeah, it looks really good.
Lasagna, chicken alfredo and spaghetti all on one plate.
Check it out for yourself, everybody. Get on over there today. Wish them a good morning from
all of us and get us those birthdays and anniversaries. You can email us info at wfhr.com
direct messages on our Facebook pages as well and call up. That's right. 715-424-2600.
And you know what has happening this week, James? On Friday, it's their two-year anniversary.
Wow. Wow. Really? Wow. That's awesome. Oh, congrats.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's a second. That's awesome.
Yeah, congrats. We've got to make sure to make a big deal of that on Friday.
Absolutely. Yeah, we definitely will. We will definitely be doing that. A big shout out to them
and a big thank you to them as well. We go ahead and take a look at our list.
Melissa, I need a one or a two. Let's go with one. All right. Guess what's that
qualified? First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to our good friend, Marcus Jagger.
Happy birthday, Marcus. Marcus, of course, our former boss around here with
Heart of Wisconsin Media. Currently doing his thing along with the team over at W106.
Down in Adams. Yeah. We say good morning to all of our friends over there.
Still very good friends with Marcus and our friends at Heart of Wisconsin Media,
which is so nice. Like it doesn't, that doesn't happen in business, let alone in radio.
Usually it's kind of, we don't talk about that. That's how radio used to be.
Like the audience didn't know that we used to be under different ownership or anything like that.
I'm so thankful for real radio. I'm so thankful for the way we handle this medium now,
at least the way we do here at WFHR. I'm proud of that. And I'm proud of the relationship we have
with Heart of Wisconsin Media and everything. There's no reason we can't root for each other.
Absolutely. And I have to be a big thank you to Marcus because it's because of him that I got
into radio. And obviously you two James, but you know, he was the owner of the company when I was
hired. And then when Civic bought us out, he wanted to take me with him, but he said, no, you should,
you should probably take the offer from Civic. And I'm glad I did because I'm really proud to be a
part of this company. That's interesting because when we had the conversation with Marcus, he was very,
he had the relief on his face when he knew he didn't have to work with me anymore. I was just really
no, I'm kidding. I want to say a similar shout out because I, while I, you know,
Marcus didn't give me a start in radio. He believed in me. And at a time that I wasn't sure about
it myself, I was at a crossroads where I was looking to move to Connecticut. I was looking
over mine. I'm sorry. I was looking to move to Vermont out there because there was a
the WPR, the National Broadcast Association over there was hiring. I was looking at the work.
I would have never done very well there that what they're offering me and pay and how much it
cost to live out there. But I was going to give it a shot. And I had a long conversation with Chuck
about this guy who was interested in buying the station. And before it was official, Marcus,
and I had a deep conversation. I want to say it was a day before the day after Christmas,
somewhere around there, and got talking. And I don't know that I've ever talked to somebody in
this business like the way Marcus approached this game. And still appreciate his approach to it,
still love the way that he does. And appreciate him believing in us, believing in the station,
giving us a new building, investing in us so much financially and emotionally. And it's because
of all those things that we are in good hands with civic media that we are, I think,
Marcus and I have talked about this. We're in the right place now. This is where WFHR has always
been in the information station, a talk station, so many things that Marcus necessarily wasn't,
you know, looking to do. And for lack of a better way to put it. And we understood that. He
understood that. And man, did he get a good deal out of us? So, I mean, he's good. We're good.
And we wish him a fantastic birthday and many, many, many more, sir. Many, many, many.
Absolutely. All right. Happy birthday to our qualifier, Laurie Pegel Schultz.
Laurie, congratulations. Happy birthday.
Laurie are rapids native and we appreciate getting these birthdays so much. Laurie, we encourage you to
brag to all your friends and family and anybody that you can see, anybody, anybody.
Laurie Tomal. We take a look at our celebrity list. James and Oliver Phelps are 39 may not know
them, but you might know them from the Harry Potter movies. They are Fred and George's twin brothers.
Okay. They did a pretty good job in those, by the way. Those two good actors. They did a good
good job. I don't think actually, I don't know if there's many movies like the Harry Potter hole,
like franchise where I don't know that there was any bad acting, like any character. Well, all of
those kids did a fantastic job. Really set the bar. Like it's not to say that child actors haven't
been doing this for a long time. Going back to Shirley Temple, but that those Harry Potter movies,
it was a difference. It's a huge cast. Yeah. Yeah. Rashida Jones is 49. Parks and Recreations,
the office Angie Tribeca. She is the daughter of legendary producer Quincy Jones and a fantastic
actor. I really like her. She's good. Chelsea Handler is 50. Chelsea Handler. Chelsea Handler,
a great comedic writer, but also got a stand-up comedian has had a couple of talk shows that she's
done and very outspoken. I would say a modern boy just the best way to word it because I don't
want to type her. I don't want to just mention another female stand-up comedian. I think she's
more than that, but she's definitely like her. You don't one way or the other. I feel like she's a
little kind of like on that way, but very talented. I mean, it's sold out shows, so that's
selling author. She's got quite a few credits to her career. Sean Aston is 54, Bob on Stranger Things,
Sam Wise, and the Lord of the Rings, Mickey in the Goonies, and so many other great roles,
great actor. Oh yeah. Has had a great career. Part of the reason why his career resurged.
For one, Adam Sandler and him working together back in the day. 50 first days.
Yeah, yeah. It gave him a kind of another showed him in a different light and as an adult and
everything, but certainly his other work. He's got it. He's one of these guys. He didn't care
necessarily how big the role was. He was going to take whatever role he could get and obviously
playing Rudy. He was in a casino man. That's right. Yeah, that's another one where doing those
kind of movies really gave him a chance. Let's see here. Carrotop is 60. Carrotop was featured in a
sketch that I recently wrote. Yes, you mentioned him the other day. That's funny. I didn't know
this birthday was covered up. You know, we may be laughing at Carrotop, whether it's with him or
at him, but he is the last one laughing. Carrotop is worth 70 million dollars, everybody.
Oof, duh. Yeah. Carrotop has invested his money and done a very, like, those props aren't cheap.
I really know nothing about this person. He's looking at the pictures and then I don't, yeah.
I mean, his hair is very impressive. He is such a throwback. Like, I don't know that those kind
of comedians will ever have a place anymore. The Gallagher's, the prop comedians. Oh, he's a Las Vegas
comedian. Okay. You don't see that anymore. Like, I'm a little surprised that, you know, you see
like a puppeteer comics or magician comics still. So much of that has gone away. I don't have
any problem with it. When I was a little kid, I thought the problem is I think that your age range
is so, you know, it's such a gray area. You're looking for young people, but people that are old
enough that can actually understand your material and also come see your shows. Right. But it's also,
you know, sometimes juvenile humor and I don't know. I like this question that pops up here.
Is Carrotop worth seeing? And the response, I agree with some of the other reviews and that I was
hesitant to go to the show. But after seeing it, I am now a Carrotop fan. He was our favorite show
of the weekend. He interacts well with his audience and kept us laughing the whole time.
Definitely worth checking out up here in Vegas. He's a pretty good review. Yeah. Very good. And
you don't get to Vegas. You don't get 70 million a career. You don't have, you know, his career
has lasted. He's in movies and stuff when we were kids. He's been around like three decades.
And he's ripped. Yeah. He's gotten in shape in the recent years. Yeah. I would love to be able to
ask him is as part of the, you're getting in shape a response to some of the negativity he's gotten
in everything because that we, I've heard of that before and I've seen that before in comedians.
Dave Chappelle did this similarly. Where they just kind of get buffed out is whether they're thinking
about it or not is almost a response to those things. Woo. Rick Flair is 76, 76 years old for the
nature boy. And I'm going to be honest, I thought he was a lot older than that. Restly, Rick Flair has
lived a hard life and lived it on the road as a wrestler. And, and there is good. There is bad
about him, but you cannot talk about professional wrestling without mentioning the nature boy,
Rick Flair. Woo. It's, it's an interesting world. Yeah. Yeah. Karen Grasel is 83.
Caroline Inglis on Little House on the Prairie. Oh, Ingalls. Karen Inglis. Karen Inglis. Sorry.
Ingalls. Yeah, that's okay. And boy, is this why he did it? People no longer with us. George
Harrison, born in 1943. Maybe on this day. Maybe. Yeah, that's right. We talked about this
yesterday. Yeah. Was this maybe the smartest move by him where we're just talking about him two
days back to back and everything? Probably. Man was a genius, like a literal genius. So it wouldn't
shock me if if that was the case. Imagine being you're in a band that's so talented that you you
are one of the better songwriters and guitar players of your era. And you you can barely get on
the album. Your songs can barely get on the album. That's how that's how incredibly built the
Beatles were. And incredible career. You can make an argument while he hasn't done as much maybe
as Paul McCartney. He's had just as successful if not a more successful solo career than Paul McCartney.
Maybe I'm cheating a little bit with including, you know, the traveling willberries.
But George Harrison's like after career from the Beatles was probably the most healthy
of all of them. Ringo up there because Ringo really kind of got into acting a bit more and really
took a real break from music. But I don't know. It's wild to think of all four of them. And
had we not had a coward take out John Lennon. I believe that we would have had a very similar
thing with Lennon. All four of them pretty good not just good solo careers, but pretty good
lives afterwards. It just doesn't happen very much when bands break up. Well, and for a band
as huge as they were, I mean, the fame that they achieved was just unparalleled, I think.
Yeah, yeah, it's still to this day. We wish a happy birthday to everybody celebrating the
birthday anniversary out there and encourage you to stick around because we got more great show
coming up for it's Melissa and James taking you through your morning show right here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa and James
hanging out with you. We hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for joining us everybody.
We're going to talk a little bit about the price of eggs and how that has soared to new record
highs over the past month. And some people are desperate for one egg like they were once desperate
for one single cigarette. Now, I don't know how much they do this here in rural towns or small
towns or anything, but in bigger cities and bodegas and places like that, convenience stores oftentimes
would sell looses. That was like a single cigarette for a quarter or something like that.
I think the name is funny. I always did too. It's the only reason I really remember it.
I was too little. I didn't smoke at the time or anything like that. But every once in a while,
I would go down to the big hug and grab one or something like that from a dad or something along
those lines. I remember what they were called in mainly because of the name, looses.
Well, now one place in New York City has applied that to eggs. Oh wow. Pamela's green
deli in the Bronx has started selling egg looses. They say they're doing it because many locals
can't afford a full carton of eggs. They're selling three loose eggs in a bag for $2.99. The owner
says that that's better than paying at least a $12 from one carton. Wow. Other places are doing
it too. And the idea might spread as far as we know, there's no legal issue with breaking up a
carton of eggs for individual sale. At least as long as sellers are not jacking up the prices any
further, this will not last. The companies will see, the story will carry, the companies will do
whatever they can about it. It may go down, it may go on actually on a lower level like a little
grassroots, a little behind the scenes kind of thing. But as long as people are covering these
stories like CBS News covered this story, they're a pretty big company. Those egg companies are
I mean, you know, they're going to do what they got to do. They're not going to let this stand.
Yeah, but selling the cigarettes by, you know, one was also technically illegal.
Oh, yeah. And they crack down on that. Philip Moore is cracked down on that one. They're
going to get their pennies. They're going to get every cent they can out of you. And any business
will do that. There are no, there are no, there are very few moral businesses out there.
So, but there are egg alternatives. Yes. So, you know, I mean, there's a good chance that if people
can't afford eggs, they're going to be buying something else. Well, guess what's going to happen
to the price of eggs then? At the demand goes down, you know, I mean, there's a shortage right now,
obviously, which is why the price is so high. But if people turn to other things, then the egg
farmers are going to have a problem. It's, it's, it's, it's an interesting situation. We don't,
we don't run into these things that often. But with eggs or something and in what we're going
through with this, with the bird flu, and a number of those things going on right now,
along with the, the, the kind of a combination of prices being already where they were. And then
this, it adds on top of it. Yeah. Well, and it's worth noting that, you know, the egg, the,
the avian bird flu is not going anywhere. It's not going away. In fact, people are being,
there were two people hospitalized with, with the bird flu already. So, and, and a rat has contracted
it. So, I mean, this is something that we need to pay attention to. And it's worth mentioning
to our representatives like, Hey, why aren't we hearing more about this? Why aren't we hearing
more about about why eggs are so high? And about the, the concerns of, of this becoming a pandemic.
I mean, we need to, we need to press them about these things. Well, we know one reason why.
We don't, we don't have a Democrat in office. I mean, let's be honest. Let's be real about this.
And again, I am not affiliated with any party whatsoever. But when, if Biden was in office,
when this was going on, it would be his fault. And the fact that we don't have him in office,
we have somebody else, it's not his fault. It's never his fault. He never, he has never taken
the accountability for anything, literally anything in his life, let alone as a president.
And certainly not that he should take accountability for this, but just saying knowing the way the media
works and everything and how certain companies run their, their news networks and everything.
If, if Biden was in office, this would be him. And how he's, he's the inflation. And how probably
the, look at the price of eggs for God's sake. Nobody be looking at the reading the articles,
just the headlines. But with this guy, they're, they're so busy being, like, he's going to buy
Greenland or some craziness like that and everything. And we're not talking about the real issues.
We're not talking about real things that we really need to be do something about.
Right. Which is why I'm saying. And, and, and my point is, we, the people need to remind our
representatives that these are the things we care about and that they need to be focusing on these
things. Yeah. Just as long as those representatives are in his pocket too, and just a mouthpiece.
Doesn't matter. I think if we, if we keep the, keep up the, the, the voice,
or use our voice. I agree. That is there are only, are only, you know,
response to this. You need to focus on the things we care about. You work for us.
Yeah. I, I, I, I chant this every chance I get. I'm just as all, also, you know, being, being
under, understandable that I don't want to sound like I'm blaming him for this, though.
I'm not blaming anybody for this. I'm just talking about the way that the narrative can be.
This is something that is out of the hands of anybody. I mean, all this, things like this happen
in society and the animal kingdom. So it's one of those things that, you know, we're, we're working
around. I do like that you brought up the egg alternatives. I, that's a great one. And then,
I angle on this one and then the way to wrap that one up. I did want to touch on one other one
where is the, yeah, this one right here. Melissa, this is an interesting one. Just came across
this this morning. Believe it or not, it is almost March. And there is reason to be excited. March
is national sauce month. Really? Yeah. And to celebrate Instacartus release some data on America's
favorite pasta sauces. Okay. They released lists of, was states that order the most and least
pasta sauce. And Iowa leads the way as the most obsessed with pasta sauce. Iowa. Iowa. Didn't see
that coming. Yeah. All right. And Wisconsin is second. Followed by West Virginia.
I thought that was very interesting and I have no rhyme or reason for this. I, I've spent half
my life in this state and I got no idea why sauces that popular in this state. But I think it's
kind of cool. I think it's interesting. Well, and the fact that they're ordering it from Instacart,
though. Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of us make our own sauces. I mean, maybe not
tomato sauce. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot of those available on on the shelves.
But I've actually been recently making my own sauces for pasta because as long time listeners
know, I don't eat tomatoes or dairy very much. So I've been making different sauces out of
combinations of vegetables, beans, tofu, and coconut milk or coconut cream. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.
I'm just thinking about the the ingredients there and everything. It's interesting. Actually,
I have three sauces because you know, it makes a big batch. I have it frozen in my freezer.
I have three different sauces and I was talking to my brother about this and he's like, they sound
like spring because one is green. One is like this dark, dark red because it's made with beets.
And another one is kind of a a nice yellow color. So I have spring sauces in my freezer.
Nice. California is dead last on this list. Idaho and Maine also don't buy much pasta sauce.
They also broke it down by specific cities in the places that order the most pasta sauce are Kansas
City Buffalo, Philly, Columbus, and Virginia Beach. The cities that order the least are mostly in
California, San Fran, San Jose, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Miami all wrap up the top five.
Well, they have access to so many fresh ingredients all the time. Yeah. So I would say they're
probably making their own sauces. I agree. Yeah. Not everything in the report was surprising. For
example, one of America's favorite sauces is the least healthy one, Alfredo. Overall, though,
Marinara is number one. Yeah. Marinara. Well, it would have to be. I love Marinara. Got to love
Marinara. Tomato basil, tomato garlic, a plain tomato sauce, pesto, tomato and cheese, meat sauce,
vodka sauce, and mushroom sauce all wrap up the top 10. But mushroom sauce, you cannot go wrong with
that. It's a good one. It's a good one. I know you don't like mushrooms, but it's such a complex
flavor. And you don't have to include the actual mushroom itself. Because it's a texture thing
for you. But adding mushroom powder, if you get or like a mushroom bullion, if you can find it,
two things really add such a complex flavor that is really delicious. My non would throw one of
those. I don't know which one it was. I didn't get to see her doing it. But one of those type of
things in her sauce every once in a while and just to mess with me. And I can never tell. I
can never tell that there was mushrooms in it or anything. And I ended up loving it just as much
as anything else. So I do have some evidence that I like mushrooms. You just have to trick me.
Well, it's that umami flavor. You know, I mean, you can you can add it with me so. But for us here,
our natural native umami flavor would be mushrooms because that's what grows here.
What is your favorite sauce? Call up and let us know. Everybody, we'd love to hear from you.
Feel free to join the conversation. And remember, we got these tickets to the Grace players play
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Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
I hope you're all having a great start to your Tuesday out there. Let's go ahead and listen
James here with you. Let's go ahead and take a phone call. Good morning. You're on the show.
Hey, how are you doing this morning, James? Good. How are you doing, man?
Oh, now bad. You were just talking sauce, but you forgot the best one. It's g-lob in this special
Oh, it's a good one. It's a great band. Oh, great shout. Great shout.
And I will suggest for anybody listening out there, try putting tartar sauce on a hamburger.
Yes, I'm back you with that. Interesting. Interesting. I'm glad to try that. Thanks for the
thanks for that. You guys be pontificate. Have a great morning, man. Have a great
morning. You know, tartar is an under-appreciated sauce. I just want to point that out.
You're not alone in that one. My dad is a big fan too. Yeah, it's great for french fries.
I love it. That is a good one and a great call. Thank you, listens. We appreciate you. Good
stuff right there. So this one right here, Melissa, is one that I feel like we have to talk
about the site WalletHub just went after Google for something is it getting harder to find
stuff on Google and is it on purpose? So WalletHub goes after them claiming that they're
intentionally making their own product worse because they realized it's more profitable.
If you find what you're looking for in two seconds, you don't spend time looking at ads.
So the idea is that they're drawing the process out and forcing us to look at them over half
of Google's revenue comes from those ads. WalletHub posted a bunch of data to support it.
They say Google even did their own study back in 2020 and they found worse search results would
quote, not result in a significant loss of revenue. Normally, making your product worse wouldn't
be a good for business. So it all hinges on the idea that Google has very little competition.
Basically, even if their search function gets worse and worse, they're confident you'll still use
them over Bing or Ask Chiefs. I don't even know if there's an Ask Chiefs. Any of these other
search engines that they're that confident in this tells you that they've gotten too big.
Anytime a company is that confident or that arrogant, they've gotten too big. Anytime a company
forgets who made them the people going back to that as it always does, they need to be brought
down a peg. They need to be brought down and they need to be reminded who they work for.
The thing about this is though, yes, WalletHub is very good. We use WalletHub from many surveys
and different things. They are a reputable source and they did their homework on this.
Even with all that and all the time and effort they put into it, there's not evidence of this.
There's no smoking gun of this and I'm hesitant in this day and age to go too far out there and
say, well, they're definitely doing this when we don't have actual, actual proof of it. We don't
have a whistleblower from inside the company or something along those lines to tell us, yes,
they are definitely guilty of this. As a society, we've gotten away from the whole, you're guilty
until proven innocent thing. I don't know. I have a hard time doing that. I don't like conglomerates,
anybody more than anybody else. I would love to talk about the movie industry and talk about
movie theaters and the monopolies that they have and how much that has, you know, infected
movie-going experience and movies in general and all of that. This isn't that different what
Google has done. They have cornered the market on searching. Yeah, but we could also look at
antidotal, antidotal, where's big brain when I need them, Seth? The word. Yeah, you got no help
for me. Our own experience and me personally, I mean, sometimes I do have to scroll down
three pages to find what I'm looking for or four pages on Google, which I didn't have to do before.
So, you know, and I really, really, I almost used the H word, but it seems a little strong.
I very strongly dislike the AI summary that pops up at the top of the Google searches every time.
I don't like it. And I scroll right past it because I don't want to read that. I want to look
for my own search results. I have two g-mails. I have one for my acting and personal life,
and I have one for here at Civic Media. And the one at Civic Media, I accidentally clicked on
something and now that AI thing comes up in my emails all the time and everything, go away.
I would love to be able to, like, this is the thing. When you go away from, okay, I'm not going
to use Apple anymore. I'm going to use Google. Okay, well, you're just trading one lesser evil
for the other. None of these companies necessarily are like, you could feel great about sponsoring or
we're carrying them around with you wherever you go. It just seems like you're trading one problem
for another with this. And it's really difficult to get a hard to get away from, because it's so
immeshed in the way that we function and the way we live in society now. But as much as possible,
I try to just scroll right past it. Because, you know, if you spend any time on it, they count that.
They track it. Yeah, I do that a lot. Well, it doesn't help that much.
If I can, I do stuff in incognito. I try my best to get around these things, but I'm with you.
I mean, there's not much, there's only so much you can do at the end of the day too,
because we all need to use these search engines. But, I mean, it is also something worth
saying to those that represent us in government. Because the more we say and the more we speak up to
the more they remember who they work for. And know what the actual problems are. Because if they're
taking ants, if they're taking the problems in America are this and they're coming from the top,
they don't understand the problems that we have. They live in bubbles. They have a much more
comfortable and not check to check type of life than the rest of us do. So by hearing from people,
they're constituents, which any good representative wants, if they're not, if they're not a puppet,
basically, if they're not, you know, they've been holding listening sessions and people have
been showing up in that matters. It does. It does. It does matter. It goes a long way. And it's also
one of those things that is you're in your power, everybody. You can do this any time you want.
Just use your search engine to look up your right look. Oh, darn it. Dang it. Oh, man, I walked
right into that one. I did want to mention something important to us around here. And we're going to
be talking about this a little bit more today at 430 when we are joined by the Wisconsin's
Rapids Family Center. Ashley's going to be joining us talk about this and other great things
going on over at the Family Center and the important work they're doing. Chefs for a change is
coming up February 27th. It's right around the corner. Yeah. And this amazing event is going to
feature appetizers, appetizer competition between local culinary towns, a delicious, delicious
plated dinner highlighting locally sourced ingredients and signature cocktails, an amazing silent
auction. And I cannot stress how amazing this silent auction is, everybody. The community came
out in big time for this auction. The excitement begins at five. You're going to have a cocktail
hour. You can ease in kind of, you know, do some mingling talking about everything. Networking. Yeah.
The dinner program begin at six. All of this taking place at an Acusa Community Center at 416
Crestview Lane in Acusa. Wonderful place to hold an event and wonderful people over there at
the Acusa Community Center. Tickets for Chefs for a change can be purchased at FamilyCTR.org,
FamilyCTR.org, or you can give them a call 715-421-1511-421-1511. As always,
we like to remind you that the Family Center has your back. If you are in need, please reach out
to them or let somebody know that you know that is in need. 715-421-1511, that number is available
at 24.7 for you and somebody will be there to help. This is an amazing event. Joe, goodness,
going to be your MC. You can't go wrong with that. No, it's going to be a fun night.
All these things going on and while this is happening and you are experiencing a wonderful night,
a great event, getting out of the house, having some fun, you're going to be seeing some of our
local community leaders, some of the most influential people in this area, and knowing all throughout
all of this, we are making a better future for our kids. We are making a better world for our
kids, for our people in general right now. This is where we stand now. We are on the right side
of history with this. We asked, did you also join us on this one? And help build up your community
because that's what this will do. FamilyCTR.org, go check it out. And I cannot stress this enough,
while it is very important and they don't have a lot of fundraiser opportunities, domestic
violent shelters. Funding has been cut across the whole country. This is going to be a really fun
event to everybody. Don't let me get too serious on you. It's going to be a lot of fun. They're
going to have a lot of good time. You got Joel coasting it. It's going to be good. They're great MC.
Oh, it's going to be a lot of fun. Find out more at FamilyCTR.org and stick around.
Listen, I'll be back with more show coming up right here.
