Wake Up, Boo! (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good 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 your head of news. Our co-host, Melissa K. Good morning.

Had a production co-host, Seth Haphacker. Good morning, and the best listeners and radio. Happy Monday, everybody. Thanks for joining us.

Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Bernie Merlow. Good morning, Brett. Good morning, how are you?

Doing good here. We're all doing good. We got a sunny sky out to kick off our week. Not so bad.

Yeah, me too. I think I'm going to be everyone's favorite person today with my forecast.

It's when they love the meteorologist today's the day because summer is setting into the state. How's that for you guys?

I'll take it. 35 degrees above average. So we're going to hit anything.

Any guess what that means? What temperature? What do you think? 70 or close to 70?

72. Yeah, I think we are. I think we're going to start with 70 degrees today.

So definitely breaking records. Our record is 61 degrees. We're going to smash that record. Holy cow.

Yeah, I want to see people in shorts. I want to see people in handcuffs because that's probably one day, one day only.

We're going to fall tomorrow to the low 40s back to where we should be. But I will say we do warm up as we push into the weekend.

So a fantastic weekend ahead and a beautiful Monday. I think it's setting up for a great week, right?

Sounds good to me. I'll take it. We kicked it off right. That's for sure.

Perfect. Thank you for that, Brandy. We appreciate you.

You're welcome. You have a good morning. We'll talk tomorrow.

Sounds good. Have a good day. You too.

Best in the business right there. Brandy, we're loathe joining us every morning right in this time slot.

And she's right. It's going to be a good week. We got a lot of things lined up for you all week long,

including today to kick things off. We're going to get into some fun stuff. The El Café birthday anniversary club is right around the corner.

We also have five tips to help you to adjust to the time change.

Do you love any of these widely hated foods we are going to discuss?

We of course know it's a Monday. That means in the 9 o'clock hour and a kick things off with Beth Habhacker in the kitchen's open.

Yeah. Looking forward to that. That's going to be a lot of fun afterwards. We're going to do a bit of entertainment news.

Got some fun stuff lined up for you there as well as well.

Kind of recapping the weekend for a lot of our local teams and some of that will just give you a touch on some of those things.

And the dumbest things people take pride in.

This should be a good Monday one. This should be a good one.

Making my list. Let's see. What do I like?

It pretty much everything for me. Anything I take pride in is just ridiculous if I shouldn't.

But we kick off the morning with morning talk of course. Do you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?

Does it count if I woke up like in like off the bed?

What is that? What is that? Half on, half on.

I was on the other side of the bed. I don't know that that's where you're supposed to wake up.

I had one leg on the bed. The rest of me was on the floor.

And my fur brother woke me up like sniffing me wanting a treat.

What's going on? What's happening here?

Here are eight morning habits that couldn't make you a little bit better.

Number one, don't wake up on the floor with half your...

No, it's just really not good.

Number one, immediately reaching for your phone.

Give yourself a chance to wake up and maybe go start a pot of coffee or something like that.

Brush your teeth, who knows? Your phone is full of stressful stuff.

So it's not a great way to start your day.

Now, it's not to say that there aren't positive things on your phone.

And I guess if you, for some of us in certain jobs,

you have to look at your phone, especially work related things or time sensitive things.

I think that a good counter to that is immediately checking your phone

or right away afterwards looking at pictures on your phone to make you smile

or having a good picture right there as soon as you open your phone.

Boom, there's your favorite thing or your favorite animal or what have you, something like that.

Or shutting your alarm off.

Yeah, true, that's true.

But you don't have to look at it quickly though.

I mean, you can just quick off your bed.

Dwelling on yesterday's problems are mistakes.

Try thinking of each day as a new chapter or a new chance.

Dwelling on stuff can make your days blend together

into one big stressful experience that never ends.

Yeah.

Why do network TV shows...

Why are the only ones that can get away with it?

Every week, they got crazy stuff going on.

And then the next week comes around and it's like nothing ever happened.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, why can't we all live that?

Character died and then they're back the next week.

Back the next week.

Back the next week.

Like nothing.

I love that.

Yeah, I don't know.

Life should be more like TV.

No, I'm joking.

I'm joking.

But I do think that there was a little bit you could take from that.

Yeah, that's true.

And there's a gift in that.

Every day, I think most of us understand whether we realize it or not

that every day is a gift.

There are no good or bad days.

Every day is a gift.

Right.

When it comes to looking at it that way and have a little perspective with it and everything,

I think that you can look at it as a restart.

Yeah.

It's starting a new book.

It's starting a new chapter.

If you're into video games, it's starting a new game.

Whenever metaphor you need to use or analogy you want to use,

go ahead and use it just to help you get through that morning,

the beginning of the day.

Try for the next high score.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Try not to die.

I'm trying to get extra lives.

I'm trying to get extra lives.

Just like Pac-Man and keep going.

Starting your day with compliments.

Try not to roll out of bed and start complaining about the weather

or how much you don't want to go to work.

It sets a negative tone that can stick with you all day.

Yeah.

I've been doing this since high school.

I'm not always, as YouTube both very well know.

I'm not very, always successful at this.

Right.

But I do make a good attempt at it.

I will say radio has actually helped me quite a bit in that.

Understanding that you can't do this job in a grumpy movie.

Yeah, right.

You've marring everyone.

Yeah.

Everything's terrible.

We're here.

We're here.

We're here.

Although nobody's really cornered that market.

Nobody's grumpy morning.

Nobody's really doing that morning show everybody.

It might be.

But I will say that I think that that's one of the harder things.

I think that we need to give ourselves as much as each other's grace.

I agree.

I think that's a good.

That's a good point.

And it takes time.

It takes practice.

I mentioned I've been doing.

I've been doing this since high school because I had a counselor tell me that this is a good approach

to the day and stuff.

I'm still working progress.

You know, even been doing it for as long as I have.

Yeah.

Because I'm old.

And high school.

High school was a long time ago.

We all have to just keep trying every day.

Yes.

It's been a long time to be grateful.

Take five minutes to think of stuff you're thankful for.

Maybe it's something general or something specific that happened the day before.

Yeah.

Study show.

Study show.

We're happier when we take time to be grateful, mindful, or even meditate.

Mm-hmm.

That's cool.

That's a good idea.

In fact, you can do that all throughout the day.

Not just in the morning.

You can do it anytime.

What are the negatives of feeling grateful?

What are the downs of side effects may include?

What are none?

It's similar to being positive or approaching the day with a positive front.

No, I'm not talking about, you know, you're walking in the door slams in your face

and you just smile at it.

I mean, you laugh it off or you work your way around and say,

well, that was one bad thing in a day of 100 great things.

Exactly.

You ever count away looking at it?

Nobody counts how many breaths we have, but we're thankful for everyone, aren't we?

Mm-hmm.

That's right.

Yeah.

Rushing through your morning without fuel.

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

But one in four Americans skip it.

If you're cranky by noon eating something small and healthy in the A.M.

might help.

Mm-hmm.

Oh boy, that's something I should really, should really try to on.

They say,

it's not hungry in the morning.

What?

One in four Americans skip it.

I don't know many people that do it.

Yeah.

I don't think I know four people that do eat breakfast in the morning.

What about you, Melissa?

I do.

Oh see, you're good.

There's one.

Almost every morning.

My children, okay, they both eat in the morning, so that's good.

Yeah, I'm unfortunately.

I wish I would.

Because it's weird.

I grew up getting breakfast every morning with my family.

We would always be around the breakfast table.

Have something, you know?

Do you drink coffee?

I drink coffee, yeah.

Does that count?

Does that be an appetite suppressant?

Oh, yeah.

That's all?

It's all about that, yeah.

I don't think it's exactly that.

No, I've heard that before.

Yeah, I suppose.

Yeah.

I'm in this weird crux where one of my favorite things to eat is breakfast foods.

Yet in the morning, I have no appetite.

I have no...

And it's this way, too, with work, where whether I'm getting ready to go out on stage or I'm

doing this job, I have even less appetite then.

Like, I don't have an appetite even on a Saturday or Sunday morning when I don't have to come

in here or something like that.

But even on, especially during work days or work weeks or some, the last thing I want to do

is eat.

It's the last thing on my mind.

Right.

And it's probably the first thing my body's begging me to do.

Probably.

Yeah.

Just really bad at it.

I don't know what it is.

I got to get some connections mixed up upstairs.

I don't know.

Engaging in negative self-talk.

It goes hand in hand with starting the day off with compliments.

Don't let your inner monologue drag you down with thoughts like you're lazy, you're messing

up, your hair looks weird.

I just...

Hey, wait, you added that one.

You added that one.

It could be self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't...

I do think that you get what you put into life.

And I do think that one of the early lessons I learned, I walk around all day with my

fists clenched, well, I'm probably going to get in a flight.

I also don't think that we...

While we control these things, there's stuff in life you can't control.

Right.

And I do think understanding both is really important.

It is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You mentioned it before getting hit in the face of the door, right?

Well, you can't really control your reaction to that.

It's going to hurt, you know, and pain does not cause, like you said, it's my happy feelings,

right?

So there's certain things that yeah, they're probably going to happen.

Avoiding all physical activity.

You don't have to be one of those people who jumps out of bed and runs five minutes.

Even some light stretching or a short walk can release endorphins and boost your mood.

Okay.

That is one small thing that I have been doing is stretching.

Okay.

Before I get out of bed in the morning.

Like, do you notice anything?

Have you noticed anything?

Yeah.

Actually, I mean, my back feels better.

Oh, but hey, why is it I'm doing it?

Nice.

That's cool.

Yeah.

It's an immediate notice of a feeling better in the morning.

I haven't progressed to actually exercising yet, but it's a small first day, you know.

Hey, it's a step.

It's a step scout.

Right?

Yes.

No, it's an important first step.

Melissa, I don't think that the workout does you any good without it.

So even if you, when you even with or whenever you do get to the working out or anything,

and if you don't, that's fine too, because stretching can be a bit of a workout.

Stretching can certainly move in, right?

At least getting, you know, blood to the muscles, right?

Exactly.

Yeah.

And finally, not having a goal in mind when we tend to be happier when we do, it could be

a personal goal, a goal, a work goal or something more long term.

If you don't have some sort of goal in mind, it can feel like you're stuck on autopilot.

Mm-hmm.

Now, one of the greater things in life, especially after a long week or a long day or something

is being able to sit down and realize, I have nothing to do.

I don't have to be anywhere.

Yeah.

There's nothing that I necessarily have to do right this second.

I can get what I need to done in moments.

I can just sit and be.

There's nothing, I mean, it's great feeling, great feeling.

That feeling is part of what feels good about that is the work that you put in to get to

that point.

Absolutely.

And I don't know how good that feeling is without the work, without the...

I couldn't agree with you more, man.

It's the feeling of just, say you get something done, you know, around how something simple,

you know, do the dishes, you know, fold some laundry or something.

I, for me, I specifically try to have that feeling of accomplishment, like you're talking

about.

You can do that.

And then you can give yourself a little reward, like, I'm going to sit down for 10 minutes

or, you know, whatever it is, you know, just, I'm going to do this thing that I kind of want

to do.

And then you can give yourself a little thing, so, yeah, I'm on board with that.

And if the goal of your day is just getting everything on your list done, there you go.

There you go.

It's a great goal.

What the goal is is your personal checklist.

It doesn't, you know, what matters is just having these things in mind, and especially

when you, I do this with my father a lot, because he, I don't think my dad really understood

what retirement would be.

And I know that, I know for darn sure, I've talked to him quite a bit, he never thought

it would happen.

So much of this is, well, I've been working since I was 14 and everything's always been

about providing for my family, been doing this and this, I don't, I don't have to do that

right now.

So what do I do with myself in him trying to figure that out, right?

You know, and he's been retired for two years now, I think, and still trying to figure

it out, still trying to to work through that and everything.

So having goals in mind, no matter how simple or big or small or how much he shouldn't

do them until I get there, sometimes it's, you get goals are good, but sometimes you

got to wait.

Yeah, patience, patience, patience, especially for certain people.

I was just going to say all I can think right now is, is one of my favorite commercials

from childhood or cartoons from childhood.

What are we going to do today, brain, saying things we do every day, pinky, try and take

over the world.

Yes, it's pinky, pinky on the brain, brain, brain, brain, brain, brain, brain, brain,

brain, brain, brain.

Well, you know, you've got to have some goals.

There you go.

Got it.

Even if it's taking over the world, we will be back after this, we'll be back after

this, we'll be back with our El Caffe birthday anniversary club on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

It's time for the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we celebrate you and our great friends over at El

Caffe.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there tomorrow when they open their doors at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful

port Edwards.

They are closed up for today, but they will be back up and running tomorrow.

You've got a whole day to go ahead and plan out your menu.

What do you want from breakfast?

What do you want for lunch?

Find out.

Head on over to their Facebook page.

They've got some great specials lined up for you and encourage you to check that out.

Everybody.

Good stuff.

I especially like their picture of a busy night at Stonehenge.

Yeah.

That's just looking at that.

Yeah, that's really good.

That's really good.

It takes a long time to move those stones forward an hour.

It's so good.

That's so good.

Great stuff.

We appreciate our friends over at El Caffe.

Buy local support local and get over there tomorrow when they open their doors, everybody.

And be sure to follow along with the things they're doing.

And get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Send us to us email us info at wafager.com.

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Yes indeed.

Looking forward to hanging out with you.

Everybody go ahead and give us a call.

For right now, I need a one or a two, Seth.

All right.

I thought I could take you off guard.

I didn't open them.

I'm on it.

I'm on it.

I always pick him every Monday.

Yeah.

Because he never works Tuesdays.

So I did.

I did.

It's the only way.

I could trade off.

I could make it work.

I could make it work.

First up, we wish a very happy birthday to Pam, sister-in-law, Cindy Lueck.

Happy birthday, Cindy.

Happy birthday.

Living in Stouten.

We wish Cindy a very stouten.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

I wish Cindy a happy birthday.

I'm joking.

And we wish happy birthday to Rachel Clark.

Happy birthday, Rachel.

Happy birthday, Rachel.

Joy the day, Rachel.

Wishing you a good one.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier Dick Hartman.

Happy birthday, Dick.

Happy birthday, Dick.

Happy birthday, Dick.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And again, thank you to everybody who got to see birthdays and anniversaries.

Yes, thank you very much.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Emily Osmond is 33.

Miley Cyrus is best friend, Lily, on Hannah Montana.

She is on Young Sheldon.

Georgie and Mandy's first marriage.

She's also the younger sister in the sixth sense.

She did a really good job in the sixth sense.

Yes, yes.

The kid actors in that movie are incredible.

Both of them turned out to be pretty darn good.

Yeah.

Olivia Wilde is 41.

13 on house.

She directed Don't Worry Darling, Stepford Wives.

Wow.

And Thomas and others.

Cool.

Very wonderful sounding Carrie Underwood is 42 today.

Wow.

Currently went back to American Idol to do it to be a judge.

And in that has been able to kind of go down memory lane with a lot of people and everything.

We are celebrating her on the sunrise show this morning.

And she is tied with Reba McIntyre for most single, like number one single hits on the country music charts.

Like Scott 14, her and Reba.

For women, right?

Yeah.

That's awesome.

That's quite impressive to me.

And one of the things about her too that I note with singers often, I don't know her whole library.

I don't know a ton about her.

But I know if I hear her voice, that's Carrie Underwood.

You know her when you hear her voice.

So one of those, I think, powerful, unique sounding voices.

She's also like one of the only people most people can name as a winner of American Idol.

Yeah.

That actually went on for like a substantial career, right?

I think she's probably the most famous.

I would say so.

Of the winners.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can't think of that.

Well, I've never watched the show either so.

Well, Kelly Clarkson, did she win or did the other guy win the Justin guy that nobody knows where he is now?

Nobody knew him.

I didn't mean that.

I didn't mean it, but I didn't mean it.

I think Kelly won, actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think you're, I don't, I think Carrie Underwood is still bigger than Kelly Clarkson.

Yeah.

She thought I was trying to think of other people I know that even won.

There was a, there was a guy in there somewhere.

There was, there was some, yeah.

He had a good voice.

Taylor, what's his face?

I really don't know.

I've just, I've just, I've literally just throwing the most generic things I can out there.

There was a guy.

He was going.

Danny Putty is 46.

Abed on community.

Oh, I love him.

Great, great, great, great character actor.

I think one of the guys that is going to maybe go down in his career as one of the great character actors.

He's still very young at 46 and still working, got a lot of work ahead of him.

Oh, thanks James.

You just called it the young person 46.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

But I, I will say one of the things that I, I will admit, I'm biased with him.

He's a Chicagoan.

But he got his, part of how we got his break is so he would work at the United Center during

bulls and black cock games, you know, selling peanuts and things.

Oh, wow, really?

And he was not very comfortable with people.

This got him very comfortable with people and he would try out voices and bits.

And, you know, just slowly got working at like other avenues in Chicago theater and stuff and just got a break.

How about that?

Yeah.

Just very, very humble kid too.

A very humble guy.

That is a barker.

I love that.

That's great.

I love him.

Great actor.

One of the better producers of all time, Timberlin is 53.

Rapper, producer.

Oh, kind of done all kinds of work.

He says.

I don't know if there's much music from our era that wasn't, you know, that hits that didn't come, wouldn't know Timberlin.

Yeah.

The great John Hamm is 54 today.

Don Draper on Mad Men.

He's now Tyler on Land Men.

Been in a bunch of other stuff too.

Great actor.

Great actor.

Pageant Brewster is 56.

Hey.

Emily Prentice on Criminal Minds.

She was also on Community for a little while as well.

Fantastic actress.

And a fabulous narrator.

Oh my gosh.

She has done a whole bunch of documentaries.

She's got a great voice for it.

She really does.

I didn't know she had that in her.

Yeah.

I follow her on social media and she's one of those actors that reaches out to other actors all the time.

Not like personally me, but me and other actors of my own.

Right.

One of the things that she has been saying, she's doing a little bit of this on social media, but she's doing a lot more of at least privately in this group that I'm in with her and others and everything.

Really encouraging actors.

Hey, if you don't have a part, if you don't have something lined up,

embrace the gray.

Embrace the gray.

Embrace the gray.

And specifically to women and female actors.

Right.

She's doing this right now herself.

Looks amazing.

It looks really good on it.

It doesn't look bad on anybody.

I don't know anybody.

I've ever seen the looks bad with gray or silver hair.

Yeah.

It's something that we fight and I get it.

But it's something she's been very much embracing.

And I really, I think that's really cool.

That's really cool.

We need more of that.

Yeah.

I agree.

You have 559.

We know what she is.

She's just a birthday girl.

Yeah.

What I want.

What I want, what I want.

That's right.

Yeah, that was the.

There's good harmony.

And then there's whatever we just did.

I don't know what that was.

I don't know about that.

That's kind of fun.

It's our new dissonance group that we're gonna have for him.

Anybody can have harmonies.

Yes.

Seth and I.

Yeah.

You all.

Eddie Breckell's great.

Yeah.

I don't know if she's still married to Paul Simon or not.

But when she married to Paul Simon or whom I'm mixing, no, I'm mixing.

No, I'm mixing her up with somebody else.

Yeah.

I know.

Oh, no.

She was married to Paul Simon in 1992.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Well, they see you were right.

There you go.

You were right.

Another great.

But I love the name of the shooting rubber bands at the stars.

Oh, that's a great album title.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A bunch of great 90s singers and musicians.

Nina Cherry has 61 bottles to hand.

Yep.

A couple of other great ones here.

Great singer, songwriter.

Jeff Omment is 62.

Wonderful basis from Pearl Jam.

Mm-hmm.

Always had that great hat.

Including the other great hat.

Good bass player too.

Jasmine Guy is 63.

Whitley on a different world.

Good actress.

Good actress.

Let's see here.

Mitch Gaylord is 64.

Born in 1984 Olympic gold medalist who has two gymnastic techniques named after him.

The Gaylord II and the Gaylord Flip.

Whoa.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

Stuff named after you.

A lot of attention and rightfully so into Mary Lou Retten in that and particular Olympic

and understandably and everything.

But his performance kind of gets lost in the ether and it's a shame because it's one of

the better gymnastic performances you'll ever see.

I believe you can go back and watch it.

That'd be cool.

I think it's on YouTube.

I think you can check it out.

Sharon Stone is 61.

Great actor.

Wow.

Great actor.

I don't know if she's ever gotten her due.

I don't know if she's ever gotten her due as an actor.

Probably not.

Let's see here.

Tom Shoals is 78 lead guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter for Boston.

Also as a master's degree in MIT.

Yeah.

I believe in engineering and yeah.

Yeah.

And he hasn't released anything in 40 years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All that brains, all that stuff and yet the most ridiculous pop song of all time.

More than a feeling.

I do that was going to come up.

Oh boy.

It can't be more than now.

Feeling.

That move.

Oh, hi.

A Chuck Norris is 85.

Still alive and kicking.

Yeah.

Chuck Norris.

Get it.

Get it.

That was such a dad joke.

It was.

It's such a weird day and age we live in where so many people out there are going to know Chuck Norris from memes.

Like Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer.

Like those meme things.

The one with the beard and the fist is coming out of the beard or whatever.

Like that's a lot of people know him from that.

It's fun.

It's Walker, Texas Ranger.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Here you go.

I got one for you.

I got one for you.

From the late 70s, trucker boom.

You know, remember, you know, confoying all that.

When that happened, they rushed out a bunch of, you know, cheap trucker movies and Chuck Norris is in one called breaker breaker breaker.

And it is bad.

But it's bad.

It's bad.

But Chuck Norris sands facial hair.

Yeah.

No beard.

No beard.

No mustache.

It's very weird.

It's very weird to see.

You know, I'm telling you.

You got a bit spot.

I want to say an enter the dragon as well because he was trained by Bruce Lee and stuff.

And I believe he's facial.

He has no facial hair in that much.

I know he looks so weird.

It does look weird.

It does.

It does.

He was in a couple Bruce Lee movies, several of them actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was one of the best.

When Bruce Lee came to the States and decided to break tradition and start teaching techniques and these moves to people of different skin and different culture and everything, Chuck Norris was one of those people that really jumped on that.

And it was really very one of the bigger faces of it.

That's cool.

And the lone wolf McQuade needs to be mentioned though.

Oh, wow.

Great title.

Nothing else.

That's a good one right there.

We will take a time out.

Get to our new sports and partner break.

We'll come back and we're going to be talking about some interesting stuff.

The militaries are moving from photos and different things and a little bit later we've also got five tips to help you adjust to the time change.

All right.

Need those.

Oh, coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio Melissa Seth and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Got a couple of topics to get to.

We're going to get you to the top of the hour with some good things on the way.

But I wanted to bring some attention to something and shut up to Melissa Case sent over this article from Newsweek about the military moving in oligay photos or violating DEI rules.

I wanted to get into this one a little bit with everybody because I don't.

I heard a little about this and then it just kind of went away.

And if I'm being honest with everybody, it was something that with the 24-7 news cycle and everything.

It was something that I bookmarked in my brain to come back to.

And then Melissa sends me this article and I realize I have not gone back to this subject.

So I just personally appreciated Melissa but also appreciated for the audience and for us as a show.

For those that we can catch everybody up on this.

And I've gone to two different sources for this one.

Certainly in the Newsweek article that you sent over Melissa.

The Associated Press has a really nice article on this too.

You can find it at apnews.com.

Encouraging to find this is yourselves, everybody.

And go ahead and do some digging into this one as well.

Because he references to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient.

The Anola Gay Aircraft that dropped in Antonic Obama, Japan.

And the first woman to pass Marine Infantry Training are among the tens of thousands of photos.

An online post marked for deletion at the Defense Department works to, quote,

purge diversity, equity, and inclusion content.

Oh my God.

So we're erasing history because of that.

Some words.

Well hold up, hold up everybody.

I'm sorry Melissa, we'll get into that in a second.

I apologize.

I think I just made us all gay.

Well according to them, like just talking about this, just even the words.

Just the image and everything, you know, could alter your brain chemistry and all this.

Oh geez, I'm so, I apologize everybody.

I didn't realize I did that.

Does that sound ridiculous?

Because that's what's happening right now.

Too quick things.

Anybody check the numbers of how many people are enrolling in our military and our services right now?

Do you see the numbers?

They're way down.

Do you think we can afford to have anybody at one less person, let alone thousands and thousands of people who would not be able to enlist?

People who are willingly enlisting.

The idea of a person not being able to serve their country is one of the biggest insults you can have as an American to not allow somebody to serve for their country, something along those lines.

The idea of diversity and equality, when did these become negatives?

And if I can, when did we start taking these lessons and the lead on this?

From a guy who dodged every war he could, who got his daddy to get him out of everything?

We don't talk about that anymore.

Because again, our president is a draft Dodger.

That's a fact.

There is no, that's another opinion.

There's no fake news about that.

He's actually quite proud of this early on in his life.

He doesn't look at his interviews on lifestyles of the rich and famous or some of his work with TMZ or some of his work on Access Hollywood.

These are all interviews you can Google and find out there's no fake news here or nothing like that.

I did my homework on this one as well as as that goes too.

We also have somebody who is not even from this country who doesn't, who can go back to his own country anytime he wants, trying to tell us what to do with our country and controlling our country.

That sounds pretty un-American to me.

It sounds like the opposite of what we all started this whole thing for.

And as far as our military started, our military started opening everybody because we had to.

That's how you want to go into the Civil War everyone and talk about that.

Do you want to talk about Vietnam?

Do you want to talk about World War One, World War Two?

Any war we talk about would not, no war is one or anything without diversity.

So if this is the case and this is what they want.

So they just want a completely white bread military?

Is that what we're going for here?

I guess so.

And please, somebody call up and tell me 715-424-2600 or text us through the Civil Community app.

How this makes our military stronger or better?

Yeah?

Because I got nothing.

I got nothing on this one.

My brain, because of my silly rebellious brain, I can't help but see the other side of things.

Even when it's something that I agree with, I tend to see the other side of stuff.

Right.

I got nothing on this one.

Like even my realistic, over-reptilian brain has not figured out another side to this.

And it's not even, it's lazy.

All they're doing is putting in certain words and searching the database, you know, like, oh, the gay, right?

The word gay or any of these other words that we've heard about.

And just say, okay, yep, we're just going to delete everything on there.

Even though it's.

That's it all.

Yeah, yeah.

But that's just cutting out a chunk of our history that, I mean, we all know that if you don't learn from history, what happens?

Do you repeat it?

Well, but wait a second.

I mean, it wasn't that long ago that they were crying about the history being erased.

And there's their southern, you know, statues being taken down.

And how dare we erase their history at all that, wait, well, what about this?

Well, you can erase a little.

So it's just the, it's just the racing what you're not comfortable with.

Oh, oh, maybe that's what it is.

What about the people who are on the, you know, the people that are the ancestors of slaves?

How uncomfortable are they when they, they take their children to the park and they see a statue of, you know, Lee or somebody like that?

Well, apparently they don't matter.

So, yep.

Well, you know, I think the biggest thing that we need to, to take from this is that we need to talk about these things.

We need to talk about them openly and, and have a good conversation about it that's, you know, backed by facts.

And not, not fear mongering and, and he said, she said, and it's just, it's, it's just frustrating.

Like, why can't we talk about history?

Why can't history be an open conversation?

Right. What are you afraid of?

But, what, what is that?

Great question.

Just, I'm, I'm genuinely asking.

I'm genuinely asking that question.

What are people afraid of?

And what do you think is going to happen?

Right.

Um, where, where are we going with this?

Because this, if you can give me some answers, I'm willing to listen.

I'm willing to hear you out.

I also would prefer, would appreciate that as much effort and time being put into this.

Could we put that into our VAs as well?

Because right now, if you didn't see the news over the weekend, a lot of jobs being cut of their VAs.

A lot of, a lot of money being put into our VAs is being taken out.

And it's being done by two people who have never served a day of military in their lives.

And I'm not even sure how much their families have.

Anybody know how much the Musk family has fought for their country or fought in our, our wars?

Anybody know how much our president has fought in his family, his fought for this country?

Any, any member in that family ever fought for this country.

Once in one war, I'm talking about him picked up a musket.

Um, I did my homework, everybody.

And guess what?

Not a single one.

Not a single one.

Hmm.

Either family, neither one, never fought for their countries.

Yeah, yeah.

And they're going to tell me coming from a military family.

You're going to try to tell me that this is important, that this is, that this is necessary.

Right.

Uh, when I, I'm more focused on, hey, how about we actually do, I put some money into our VAs?

Yeah.

Uh, to the soldiers that fought for this country, the people that, uh, shed blood for this country.

What are we doing for them?

You know, if we fix every single problem and then you want to start nitpicking on things and trying to rewrite history,

Oh, I'm not going to do it.

No, I, you know what?

Let's hear everybody out.

Let's go ahead.

Everybody give everybody their moment.

Um, but this doesn't add up.

There's no, there's no answers here.

All this is is a distraction.

It's a distraction.

It takes your eye off the ball.

It's no different than when you're, you're, you're playing catch with your brother or sisters.

They look over there and you look away.

And then what happens?

They, you get bombarded.

Um, I did at least.

But it was a bit, they might have fallen for it.

I had a brother and a sister and they teamed up against me all the time.

Tell her very talented, very smart kids.

You've come out to you.

Uh, I, I, I'd like to have an open dialogue about this one.

And I'd like to know from people, uh, that where they're coming from on this one,

why it's important to them.

Uh, I don't want to come, I know I tend to come across with my energy, a bit crazy.

That's just because I'm Italian.

Um, but I, I generally would like to hear because I can't, I got nothing on this one.

I don't understand the point of this.

No, no, me neither.

And not only racing our history to Melissa's point, what she's saying about that,

but so much important history.

Does anybody know why an oligay, uh, what that is?

Mm-hmm.

I'm not moving about it.

Yeah, I'm not going to tell you.

I want you to look it up.

I want, if you don't know, I want you to look it up.

I want you to find out.

And then when you're done, uh, guess what?

You're still going to have the same sexual preference you have beforehand.

It's shocking.

It didn't change a darn thing other than you having some American pride.

Cause that's what they're cutting at here.

American pride.

This is stuff we should be proud of.

These are moments we should be proud of as Americans.

Not a racing, not trying to hide.

And if you're going to be a race in that again, I go back to,

well, what happened when people tried to, uh, not a race,

but try to just remove from our public eye some of these things,

how people lost their minds.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, yeah.

Uh, what's good for the goose?

Yeah.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander sauce.

That is, is that one of the most confusing phrases or idioms

you'll ever hear?

I love, I can't even tell them apart.

I love looking these things up.

I don't want to look that one up though.

I just want to, I just thought that one just did to be.

I just, I don't like what I know what that would mean.

Uh, we will take a time out.

We will come back and we're going to get into some fun.

I got a good one here for you about the foods.

Do you love any of these a widely hated foods?

Oh, I can't wait.

We shall discuss.

Good one.

I'm back on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for joining us everyone.

So, uh, let's flip the script on this one

because we've talked about ones we love.

Let's talk about how many of these widely hated foods

do you actually like?

Why do we hate it?

Why do we hate it?

Yeah.

Kind of like low hanging fruit when it comes to, you know, punch lines for food.

Well, you know, I hate low hanging fruit.

It just doesn't taste very good.

So, number one on the list, low hanging fruit.

Oh, no, no.

The ants can reach those.

Yeah.

So, uh, we love audience participation in this one.

715-424-2600.

Keep in mind, if you are busy or you just don't feel comfortable calling in,

you can always text us through the Civic Media app.

Mm-hmm.

That's right.

Number one, anchovies.

13% of people love them.

How many of our listeners do?

How many of you out there love your anchovies?

How many people have tried?

I've never tried anchovies.

I've never had the pleasure of trying anchovies.

The only thing I've had anchovies in are gardenos.

Oh, okay.

Wait, they have anchovies?

They do.

There's anchovies and gardenos.

The reason I know this is because when I was a child,

and we were vegetarian, I was not allowed to eat the delicious snack gardenos

because they contained anchovies.

Really?

Devastated.

A little tear just rolled down my heart.

Like, that's sad.

Well, is it the anchovies that make them so tasty the gardenos?

I mean.

So, maybe I'd be willing to try an anchovie or two if that's the case.

You might change your body.

Yeah, I don't have any opinion one or the other.

Instead, I've never had them before.

So, I don't like to pre-judge foods.

Yeah, I try them.

So, I've never met somebody that likes anchovies,

but I do remember a person in college,

there was a couple dating,

and they teased each other all the time.

And once it went too far because he was teasing her

that he loved anchovies,

and he was trying to be sarcastic,

but he was bad at sarcasm.

So, she ordered him a pizza.

Like, for his birthday, his favorite pizza is joint,

but it was all anchovies.

Because she thought he was ordering without anchovies for her.

So, she did this for him.

And then he tells her, he's like,

oh, I was kidding on all this and everything.

She made him eat that pizza.

Good.

Yeah, I would have done the same thing.

Absolutely.

We're in college.

We didn't have a lot of money.

Like, you're gonna eat that.

Yeah.

Every slice.

We, man, that was a fun night.

That was a lot.

That pizza lasted almost until, like, midnight.

It did just, like, pick again and throw out the night and everything.

Did you try it, James?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was trying to help out, actually.

Yeah.

So, how did you enjoy the anchovies?

I'm tasting, I think.

Really?

I feel like I didn't taste anything.

I don't know if it was because of the pizza and the acidic sauce

or something like that.

Well, I know they're salty.

Anchovies are pretty salty, so, yeah.

But I should probably also admit that I maybe had a beer or two.

I may have.

That might affect your taste buds a little bit.

It could have possibly.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm pretty sure I ended the night with a lampshade on my head.

Oh.

It's a cliché.

Blue cheese, 27% of big fans of blue cheese.

Oh, blue cheese is amazing.

I honestly really only had it in dressing.

Blue cheese dressing.

Yep.

It's fantastic.

I like blue cheese dressing every now and then.

It's not something I'd like him want every day.

But I have to say, one of my favorite steaks

is a blue steak with blue cheese on it

and that whatever that sauce is they put on it.

Man, oh, delicious.

Love it.

I wonder what sauce they do put on it.

I can't remember what it's called.

It's like made like a, I don't know, in many ways.

It's good.

I like it.

Next up, black licorice.

16% love that.

I am of the 16%.

Yes.

I love black licorice.

I think it's great.

Oh, you in?

I would say I love it, but I will eat it.

Oh, no, actually.

I have to say that those people that hate it

won't touch it.

That's true.

But actually, I do really enjoy it.

So I have to say I can,

you put that on the positive list.

I don't, you know, the snippets,

like a full, like thing of black licorice,

not so much, but they're little snippet things.

Yeah.

I put a jelly bean, like the classic jelly bean.

It's a black one, so you can do one of those.

Yeah, black jelly beans.

Yeah, that's a bad.

Thanks, Beth, for your opinion on that.

Yes.

Oysters.

35% love them.

65% would not touch them.

35% for me too.

Love oysters.

They're great.

Especially on the half shell.

I mean, like, I would want to try them on the coast.

I've only had this in Wisconsin,

and I feel like that's not a good judge.

No, no, no, no.

No, you have to.

I would say, and in fact, I wouldn't eat them,

especially if you're eating raw oysters.

I have to do it somewhere where I know they're fresh,

because I want to, don't want to get, you know,

some nasty and gastrointestinal thing.

But I would recommend, for a lot of people,

it's the texture, because they're pretty slick.

But there's this really good cocktail sauce

that you eat with them.

Very good.

Well, they are slick.

I know.

That's really appetizing for people.

No, I'm just picturing these oysters in, like, as greasers.

Yeah.

Only on, like, oysters.

I always imagine them as greasers, like, my dad.

When you're chasing one with a fork,

you're back here.

Get over here.

They're coming.

Here come the jets.

Here come the jets.

Yeah, you have to get them on the half shell, you know,

and just, and there's a little two prawn fork,

and you get red, get them loose,

and then you have slobber them down.

No, I've got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theme song,

stuck in my head.

You said half shell twice.

Oh, I did.

Oh, whoops.

Slurp them down.

Slurp them down.

I don't know if that's really the definition of something.

But that's what you do.

I know.

But it doesn't sound good.

I have been working really hard

to grow up and be a better adult eater.

I still eat like a teenager, and I admit that,

and I'm trying to be better about it.

If there is one food that I can promise the audience,

I will probably never eat it as oysters.

I get that.

A lot of people are with you on that one, I think.

There's something about just looking at them.

I hear you.

There's nothing that appeals to be about it.

Nothing.

But I also admit that they could be great,

and I'm just not giving them a chance.

Once again, I will hardly admit that.

Very salty.

Obviously, because they come from salt water.

That makes sense.

I'm not big on salty things.

It's a part of it.

But again, it's a texture thing for most people.

And finally, pineapple on pizza.

48% count themselves as fans.

21% are indifferent, and 31% said it's gross.

So actually, there are plenty of people out there

who will eat pineapple on pizza.

This is not big fans, but they'll say,

I'll eat it.

Yeah.

I think people know this.

It gets a bad rap.

Not my favorite, but I'll eat it.

If it's there, I'll eat it.

No problem.

It's another one of those that I don't really notice

when it's there.

Well, it depends on how small they cut the,