That’s It, I’m Going To Chips

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Have your host, James J. Mailov here, joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and

Ames Counties, Terry Johns.

Hello.

At the band together on a Wednesday.

I mean, hey, we're rolling, right?

A little bit of a curveball during baseball.

It actually kind of feels more like Thursday or Friday, though, right?

It does feel like.

Absolutely.

We'll take it.

Whatever the day is, we're going to find out the weather with our good friend, Brittany

Merlot, who helps us to figure out what day it is.

She really does.

Because otherwise time is over.

I've been confused.

Well, we count on you, Brittany, because we always see it.

We know what day it will.

It's going to be.

So this is the weather for Thursday or a little challenge here.

Pretty how you doing this morning?

Oh, I am fantastic.

I'm just watching people cut the grass right now.

It's so therapeutic.

And they're trying to get it done before the rain rolls into the LASA area.

But I can see that the rain is already rolling in towards you.

How's it coming down?

So far, we haven't been hit yet.

Just a few sprinkles.

Well, I should say on this side of town.

I don't know how a lot of the areas are around here, but Rapids and Point are notorious

for this where it could be pouring rain on one side of town.

You literally go like five minutes over, and it's fine.

I don't know.

So here, at least on this side of town, it seems to be pretty dry, but it does look like

it's coming.

It's on the way.

Yeah.

Those clouds are working.

It's starting clouds.

One more day of them sticking around and full force.

So we got those chances for scattered showers, probably on and off light rain chances through

about three o'clock this afternoon, then maybe a thunderstorm is possible.

They're going to be widely scattered throughout the state, not really sure exactly who's

going to get them to be honest with you.

So the chances are about 50-50 there for a little light storm.

None will be severe.

We're not looking at anything crazy.

Just some moderate rainfall with those.

Speaking of rainfall, really just looking at a quarter of an inch max today, then we

dry things out tonight.

Temperatures will hit highs of about the mid-60s.

And then the heat cranks up.

Tomorrow, we'll hit the mid-70s with more sunshine out there.

A few pop-up showers are possible in the afternoon.

You know, it's summer weather.

We're going to see some little bit of mugginess start to creep in for Friday.

Hives hit 80 degrees, and then we could see some thunderstorms spark up in the afternoon

for Friday.

But the weekend, looking pretty dry, tons of sunshine, rather comfortable highs in the

mid to upper 70s before it really feels like summer next week.

Those dew points are going to be oppressive.

So get ready, you guys.

Bacy is going to need to be turned on by next week for sure.

Good to know.

And good stuff for me.

Terrible.

I know.

I can't even have to look at you.

I can feel it from Terry over there, like, as soon as you said, humid, or anything, that's

just not her thing.

But hang in there, you know, it's Wisconsin.

The weather will change in 5-10 minutes, so you'll be all right.

Your weather will come around, Terry.

I mean, fair enough.

Eventually.

Brittany, we appreciate you.

Before I let you go, today is National Burger Day.

Do you have a favorite burger?

Do you have a, are you a burger person?

Oh, yes.

A favorite type?

A favorite type.

A favorite type?

Yeah, a favorite type.

Or either one.

Yeah, our favorite place.

Yeah.

I just love a bunch of bacon on there.

Give me some cheese.

Maybe those crispy onions, straws, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What about you guys?

Terry, do you have them?

You know, I kind of like the old California burger, right?

Like lettuce and tomato and some cheese.

Mm-hmm.

I, along with a good friend of mine, Vince, back in the day, and my buddy, Chris, we invented

a burger, the bagel bacon double cheese burger.

It is a bagel as the bun.

And just a, just your regular double cheese burger with bacon on it and stuff.

But the bagel is the bun.

And I'm telling you guys, it is amazing.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

It's more trying at least once.

I don't know if it's going to be replaced, your favorite or anything, but I think it's

just a fun thing to try.

And the bagel is, for me, it all stems from the, I hate when a burger, the bottom bun,

just just-

I don't like the soggy.

It just evaporates.

But a bagel.

Oh, a bagel.

I'm telling you.

And yes, I should admit that, you know, as a Jew, I do take some pride in this.

I will admit.

But that is here or there.

I also include pork on it.

So I think that's, you know, it's universal.

It's for everybody.

Is it a plain bagel?

Yes.

Yeah.

Now, people can, you know, go ahead and try their own, I've only done it with a plain

bagel.

Okay.

Yeah.

But you can put the cream cheese on it, too.

And that would be good.

There you go.

There you go.

You love an olive burger.

You got-

Green olives.

Yeah.

There you go.

Yeah.

I'm pretty.

You just made my mother so happy with the cream cheese light.

Yeah.

You want some points there.

Okay.

We appreciate you having a good morning, Brett.

You too, thanks.

Best in the business, Brittany Milo joined us every morning right in this time slot.

Terry and I are going to be talking a little burgers a little bit later.

Not just national burger day, but how about on a local level?

Our friends at Up North News put together a good list of the burgers and our Wisconsin

beef council who joined us earlier in the month.

We're talking about they had a contest going on who was Wisconsin's national burger

who had the best burger in Wisconsin.

Cool.

We'll get into that a little bit later.

You know what it made me think of was the rafters with their glazer burger that they

had there for a while.

Yeah.

I love-

I love this time of year.

One of my favorite stories is the article of every- every ballpark's crazy burger and

seeing what these- every year what they come up with-

It feels like a while since they've done that, maybe we need to get them to revive

it.

I think so.

I think that's not a bad idea.

We'll have to talk to somebody about that.

We'll get into all that.

And of course since we're talking burgers, the average American only feels fully healthy.

How many days a month?

Get into that.

Who's more popular?

You are your dog.

We will get into that one as well.

All that coming up for you.

But one of our favorite things to do is take in some phone calls.

Let's go ahead and do that.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Good morning.

I wrote a receipt and next to our high school bought a block away with the A&W and they

made a double cheeseburger with the real meat you know you didn't get a patty.

They made it from rolls of- rolls of- you know made it place right?

You know there is-

That was the most-

There is something about an A&W burger.

Yep.

Still.

No one called the Papa Burger that has kind of like all the fixings on it and I love

those.

Yeah.

We stand one actually right over across the street from us and everything the A&W.

When I lived on this side of town I went there all the time.

Yeah.

That's a good one, sir.

That's a good reference.

That was the most awesome burger ever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

You remember your favorite burgers too.

You really do.

That's a great one.

Thank you, sir.

Have a great morning.

We appreciate you.

Let's keep that going everybody.

Let's keep those calls coming.

I want to know your favorite burger.

If it's a place that's fine, you can shout it out.

If it's a style of burger.

I like a burger with this or whatever.

Want to hear from you?

Let's go ahead and celebrate the burger.

We'll also get into a couple of other fun things throughout this show today.

But we'd like to kick it off and wrap up with an update on our United Way.

We are taking time out of Terry's Day.

We got to make use of it and everything and it's one of our favorite things to talk

about.

One of our favorite partnerships is with the United Way of Southwood and Amsterdam's

WFHR and United Way have been working together.

I think even longer than you and I have been around Terry.

There's been a long partnership that we're really proud of.

One of the reasons is certainly the big events that we're going to touch on and everything.

If you don't mind, Terry, I'd like to start with the diaper drive that's going on because

I feel like this is one of the prime examples of how our United Way stands out in our area

with a lot of great nonprofits and a lot of great work being done.

You guys are very good and I should say you, your staff, but you in particular, really

listening to this community and paying attention to this community.

It's part of the reason why we have CEOs and we have people in charge of these, whether

it's a business or a nonprofit, the more local they are, the more tied they are to the

area, the stronger you see that the work being done.

Again, whether it's a business or a nonprofit and you, I think, are a big key of this, noticing

something like this and that this is something that could help this area is a key part of

what the United Way does.

Yes.

It was something that we saw that a lot of our partners were doing, but then again, like

you said, hearing feedback of, hey, this is a need.

We last year kicked off with our first annual diaper drive and now we are back.

From Mother's Day to Father's Day, we are collecting diapers, wipes and creams to be distributed

to programs that have the opportunity to meet the needs of parents that are struggling,

right?

Like they may have some diapers, but not enough diapers or maybe at the end of the month,

things just get so tight that it's choosing between diapers and something else, paying

a bill, certain grocery items, that kind of thing.

This is a way to, again, extend a hand, form a bridge and help people who may have that

need.

We are collecting diapers, wipes, creams.

Those can be dropped off at the United Way office at 351 Oak Street.

And then in June, after Father's Day, we will be distributing those to three places to

focus food pantry because people do present there with a diaper need, the Family Center

and their pantry there and for those who may be there in shelter.

And then also first choice pregnancy resource center because again, this is where these

are the problems that we're hearing from that are saying we have this need and United

Way being a community convener, we have the ability to make that happen.

So we've seen a good number of diapers, I'm donated so far, but we certainly have an

opportunity.

We also wrote a grant to be able to purchase some diapers, but we're not doing that yet

until we see what's donated, right?

So that we don't end up with a whole bunch of, you know, one size.

We're trying to get a little bit of a variety.

But I will say that the larger sizes, sizes four and five are where we have the greatest

need.

So if you're, you know, thinking about picking up a bag or a box of diapers to join us

in this effort, the bigger sizes are where the greatest need is.

But of course, we would take any unopened packages of diapers that anyone may have.

It is helpful to know the ones that could really be helpful and that's a great key note

of this.

And again, that is going on till Father's Day, everybody can drop those off at 351 Oak

Street, say hi to our friends over at the United Way at their offices.

Terry, I've been thinking about taking some classes and getting back into school.

And I figured, well, now it's a great time because the desk is coming up and everything.

And I don't, I don't know, I'm sorry, I'm not qualified.

I don't think your age has been listed.

No, no, but there's a lot of people that do.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So this is the time to register for school supplies for next school year.

So if you, if your child qualifies for free or reduced lunch, they also qualify for free

school supplies.

This is a United Way initiative, which is a collaborative effort of Wisconsin Public

Schools, Port Edward's Public Schools, and Nacusa Public Schools.

It is open to all children in Southway County that go to, you know, parochial or public

public elementary school.

And we, you know, our goal is to support them with the tools that they need to start their

school.

You're off right.

The registration is required, and it is first come first service, far as the pickup times.

So that's why we encourage you to register now, I'm register early.

Registration will be open until August 1st, but August 1st is it.

It opened on May 1st.

So, you know, we give three, four months to register.

We still always have someone on August 2nd, though, reach out to the second, I register.

But, but we really, you know, want to encourage and try to spread the word to get registered.

And, you know, the, the big part of that is so that the volunteers that are part of this

event can, can plan, right?

We need to know what supplies we need by grade level.

So again, registration is required.

You can find that registration form on our website at UWSWAC.org.

You of course can always call 2-1-1 between 8 and 5 Monday through Friday to get registered

for our local stuff, the desk event.

registration will happen on August 15th and 16th.

And when you register your students, you also pick up, choose a pickup time during, you

know, during those days of August 15th or 16th.

So, you know, it's a great time to plan ahead, get it on your calendar, get it taken

care of before, you know, the end of next week when the kids get cut loose for summer and

things get chaotic.

And we just encourage you to get the taken care of as soon as possible.

One added feature this year, again, based on feedback, is we have put right on the registration

form.

What supplies by grade level stuff the bus will provide to you.

So that also gives time for people to plan for, right?

Like the teacher list might come home and there might be six things that stuff the bus

is not able to provide, but you know that you have the summer to get those items or accumulate

those items.

So this is a new added feature, I guess, so that you don't have to wait until you receive

that back pack on August 16th to know what the kids are getting.

So that list is available, again, on the registration page and also comes to you as the follow-up

once you have completed registration.

Find out more at uswac.org, be sure to bookmark that page, follow the United Way on social

media and share their posts on your page, you just never know who might see them otherwise.

And before we wrap up today, Terry and I will give you another update on some of the things

going on with our United Way, appreciate that, Terry, nice work.

We'll be right back with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club, we're doing some celebrate

and when we get back at it, I'm the morning show here at WFHR.

You heard the boys, it's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at El Caffe and

birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself, get on over to El Caffe today, 221 Market Avenue,

in beautiful port Edwards.

Wish you a great one from all of us, everybody, got some great specials lined up for you,

they are just waiting for you to head on over there.

Looking at their specials, they got a pork chop skillet going on, homemade banana bread

french toast.

Oh my God, that sounds amazing.

That sounds awesome.

I like pork chops, I think I might hit that skillet.

I like that skillet, that does sound good, but the banana bread french toast sounds, I've

never heard of that before, that sounds amazing to me.

I'm distracted, that sounds so good.

Head on over to 221 Market Avenue right now, everybody, let them know that we appreciate

them and by local support local, appreciate our friends at El Caffe.

And of course, encourage you to give us your birthdays and anniversaries.

You can email us info at WFHR.com, you can direct a message us on our Facebook page with

either one, WFHR or WRI, and you can call on up 715-424-2600, you're just a touch or

two away on the Civic Media app, you can also text us through the Civic Media app if

you're a little busy right now in the office or anything like that.

Feel free to reach out any time during the show over the next couple hours.

We'd love to hear from you with those birthdays and anniversaries.

Terry, I've got two possible qualifiers needed, one or two.

One.

There we go, made it easy for me, there we are.

First up, we want to wish Civic Media's own Don Rosen, a very happy birthday, Don out

of a WRJN in Racine, doing amazing work, I like Don, Don's a good guy.

Happy birthday.

It's a great guy.

To hear on the air is what you get off air of a great guy, good guy, I appreciate you

Don, have a good birthday, sir, enjoy your day.

Taking a look at our local celebs, we wish a very happy birthday to Danny Olson.

Happy birthday, Danny.

Enjoy the day, Danny, hope it's a good one for you.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Avery Nelson.

Happy birthday.

Wishing you a good day, Avery, but it was like the name Avery, it's a good day.

Yeah, it's pretty.

Enjoy the day, Avery, we wish you a good one.

You're a qualifier, we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, neighbors,

strangers, animals, you know, brag to everybody, oh, there you go.

We don't brag enough in life, I think we go, go for it, go for it.

Let's see who you're sharing your birthdays with.

First up, Michael Orr is 39 today, former office of Tackle, who is life was inspired by

the Blind Side movie, help win Sandra Bullock and Oscar in a round, I'm a Sandra Bullock

fan.

So I love that movie.

Same.

You know, here's something to about that movie, because it's come out recent, you know,

recent years, it, you know, like shockingly a movie had said, you know, pulled some truths

here and there or whatever and everything.

That's movies.

Like if you're going into them, unless it says documentary on it, you shouldn't be expecting

anything less.

I really do put that on the watcher.

I don't do this very often, but as a watcher and you're going into it, and if you're expecting

verbatim, like everything that happened, it was true in the blind side or something, that's

a little more on you, I feel like, unless you've never seen a movie before, then maybe

it's a little different.

I mean, that's based on a true story.

Yes, exactly.

It tells you right there in the title.

So that being said, I feel like none of the true, none of the stuff that's come out since

then should affect anybody with the movie.

It's just a good movie.

And the spirit of the movie certainly is, you know, true and noteworthy, I think.

And you can't take away from her performance.

Her performance, she gave everything in that role and I think Sandra Bullock should

have wanted to ask her for some other roles, but that she won one for that, that stands

out to me.

And I thought Tim McGraw was great in that too, actually, I, I don't know, I just like

that movie a lot.

And I don't, you know, Michael Orres come out with his own book sense, and that's all

cool, right?

Like it's his story to tell, but like you said, it just shouldn't affect the movie.

No, I think you could, I think you can separate the things that you don't have to not like

it because some things are different.

There's a lot of people that really love the move, the book wicked, but don't like the

play or the movie, and vice versa, so I mean, you know, it's entertainment, take it

in as you do.

Potato potato.

Exactly.

Casey Mulligan is 40, actress who's married to one of these singers from Mudford at Sons.

She was Winnie Gecko in Wall Street, never sleeps, Daisy in the Great Gatsby, she's been

in a couple of things, good actress.

Let's see here, Jake Johnson is 47, Nick on the new girl, he is Sebastian and Zac Efron's

neighbors movie, and let's be, he was one of the guys in Let's Be Cops, I think one of

those faces that you probably know if you see, he's very funny.

I really, really like him, he's very funny, I didn't, I didn't see much of the new girl

or anything, but I like him, he's funny, and somebody that I keep waiting to get a bigger

break, I feel like he's, he's one of those actors at any, at any time, I wouldn't be surprised

to see him become a household name, he's that funny and that, like just naturally charismatic,

you did a show with Steph Curry a little while ago that I actually thought was going to

be successful, but I didn't think they marketed it very well or anything, but he's good,

I like him.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck is 48, went from survivor to the view and to Fox News and has done

a really nice job of like navigating all that and how to do, how to be that kind of personality

in today's day and age, when we were kids, if for her, oh I go to this or I'll do this

show.

Now the gates are wide open and people are able to go from this universe to this universe

and I'm going to talk about entertainment, now I'm talking about politics or what have

you and just it's all over the gamut now and I, you know, no more stay in your lane.

No, no, that does not exist anymore, no.

Kylie Minogue is 57, can't get you out of my head, she's had a couple of hits.

Yeah.

As big as she's been here in the States, she's gigantic in her native country, I believe

in Australia and she's really big in England, she's really big over there.

Let's see here, Mark Sanford is 65 former governor of South Carolina and Kirk Gibson is

68, 1988 won baseball's MVP award as member of the Los Angeles Dodgers and made it to the

World Series where he hit one of the most memorable home runs in baseball history.

As soon as I saw his name immediately, I'm starting to fist bump and thinking of that

play.

I was fortunate to be watching that game like a lot of baseball fans out there when that

happened and I will never forget it.

In part because I was rooting for the A's, I was rooting for the A's and that's here's

Ricky was out of that team and I didn't want the Dodgers to win.

As soon as Kirk is and hit that home run, everything changed.

It's really one of the first early memorable moments I remember as a young sports fan.

Back in 88, that happening, there's a lot of like different moments like that, that was

one of the key ones.

Great ball player too.

John Fogarty is 80 today, Creedence Clearwater Revivals lead singer, songwriter, great solo

artist as well, put me in coach center field, so many good songs.

One of the more like really original voices too.

I don't know if anybody really focuses on this or talks about this but John Fogarty to

me had the perfect like not only he could do soulful and very kind of like almost beautiful

songs like have you ever seen the rain, you know, stuff like that.

But like it's the it's the almost macabre darker southern like buy you songs that Creedence

Clearwater would do that his voice was so perfect for.

I really enjoy his work.

I really like it.

Interesting combination here, John Fogarty also shares a birthday with Gladys Knight.

That's an interesting combination right there.

Of course Gladys Knight, the legendary singer.

We hear you hear Gladys Knight usually when we play him and they train to Georgia as

one of our wrap-up songs and some people no longer with us.

The great Ian Fleming born in the state in 1908, passed away in 1964, British author

behind James Bond series.

He created James Bond.

He worked in British intelligence during World War II where he came up with the actual

operation called Gold and I.

That's interesting.

Very, very.

In recent years with the Oppenheimer movie, Ian Fleming showed up in that movie as one

of the people who was integral in all of that and you actually is almost like a side story.

It's not really brought up in the movie, of course, or anything like that, but you can

see the actor and the character really taking form there almost.

It's kind of one of those, like if you know you know, like it's a secret, you know,

I mean, like it's a little secret sidebar of the movie, that's cool.

Yeah, I love that stuff.

The logo is, it would have been celebrating a birthday today and by the most, all the

sports fans out there knew what I was talking about.

Jerry West born in his day in 1938, NBA Hall of Famer, wanted to tie it with the Los Angeles

Lakers, maybe even better as a GM for the Lakers and other teams.

But what he is really well known is the logo, one of the greatest, if not the greatest

nickname you can have because the logo for the NBA is, is the silhouette of Jerry West

dribbling the ball.

That's his nickname, man.

And one of the greatest minds in basketball history.

What an honor though.

Right?

I mean, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just thinking about it.

Like, oh, you're that guy.

And celebrating his birthday with Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest athlete to ever walk

in this country.

Easily.

I mean, when you're talking about greatest athletes of all time and you're mentioning names,

if you're not bringing up Jim Thorpe, you don't know history enough.

You do not know American history enough and you don't know sports history enough.

I'm sorry.

But if you need a better example of this in the pro football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio,

cannot recommend it enough.

The second you walk into that building, there is this gigantic statue of Jim Thorpe that

my uncle was making fun of me because I must have had my mouth dropped open and I was

just staring at it.

It's like, you know, it's a whole museum to check out.

But that's the point, right?

You get the awe right away.

Native American US Olympic gold medalist in football Hall of Famer in 1950 was voted

the greatest American athlete of the first half century.

And just incredible athletes one and should be noted the the Olympic medals that he won.

He won in borrowed shoes didn't even have exactly where I was thinking when you said that

was just think about the equipment, the you know, just just how different technology has

made the tools that athletes have now versus what he had.

I take nothing from modern athletes and even like athletes of this century or anything

like that.

But you're so right about this.

It's such a different level and a different credit that I think needs to be given.

And I don't know that we give enough credit to Jim Thorpe.

I don't think we do.

I have any opportunity to mention his name, reference him and talk about him as a lover

of sports as somebody who spends so much of my bandwidth on sports.

I think Jim Thorpe none of this almost none of this happens without him and his popularity.

He was truly the first superstar in the country as far as athletes athletes, athletics

go.

He could probably say athletics too.

He could probably say it.

We will take a time out, but we will come back after our news, sports and entertainment

break.

We'll be getting into burger day.

We're talking burgers here and morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show at WFHR 80s version.

I mean, I'll even still wear them now when it's overcast.

There we go.

We hope you're having a good one out there and you have your sunglasses on.

Or you're having ready for tonight.

I should say.

For sure.

Yeah.

I'm going to need them tonight for sure.

We're going to get into national burger day in a moment.

I did want to I meant to start here.

I wanted to say congratulations to all the graduates out there and I know you got a little

of that over at your neck of the woods Terry.

So congratulations, all the graduations out there going on this weekend and that have

gone on and coming up and everything.

It's a fun time of year.

Yeah, it's a great time.

And a perfect weekend for a burger.

It's national hamburger day today.

So door dash looked at the most popular types of burgers in all 50 states right off the

bat.

Might need to call a little bit of a technicality because it's a chicken sandwich of burger.

Now what?

No, it is not.

I have no authority.

I have no authority on this subject, but I will take full authority just the way from

whoever has it.

If they say that chicken burger is a burger, a chicken sandwich is a sandwich.

It's a chicken sandwich.

Let it be its own thing.

This isn't they they have their own day.

I'm sure they're sandwich day.

I'm sure they let them have that day.

They claim chicken burgers are now the most popular type of burger in the US.

They say the rankings are based on what people order the most last year and they claim hamburgers

or cheeseburgers were the most ordered type of burger in 14 states.

You know, that's assuming that people do it as though.

Yes.

That's the outlier here with a lot of these things.

All these lists end up doing something along those lines.

And in this list, I these lists are interesting for that data, but they don't they don't do

a good they try to like a lot of news and a lot of stories and surveys nowadays.

They want to cover as much ground because that brings more people to the article or to

the story.

Well, and to their service, right?

Right.

Right.

And so while they don't begrudge that, it does make the information you have to really

read between the lines like you just did right there.

That's a key part of this door, especially once I get to because I can't imagine how people

are going to feel once I tell you what the burger in Wisconsin is.

You're not going to like this.

I don't think a lot of people always a burger is a burger is beef.

Yeah.

We don't overthink this one.

It's beef.

That's compared.

So that is these 14 states chose the burger or hamburger or cheeseburger.

That's compared to 17 states where chicken burgers were number one, then veggie burgers with

13 states, mostly of North and turkey burgers in six.

You're not alone.

If you expected a cheeseburger to be number one and all 50 states, but door dash says

people are looking for healthier options than red meat these days.

That's fine, but don't call it a burger.

Yes.

Yes.

You can eat all the healthy white meat you want.

It's still not a burger.

I understand the marketing angle of this, but it doesn't help anybody.

It's not doing any good.

They say chicken is also riding a high from the virtual chicken sandwich trend that caught

on a few years ago, so there's that too, which is semi interesting, I guess.

They say in Wisconsin, the veggie burger is the most popular type of burger.

I have lived in this state for over 20 years.

I've been to countless grillings and up and down the state and Madison to way up North.

And I have never even seen a veggie burger in this state.

Let alone somebody cooking one on a grill or somebody at a party asking for one.

I've seen them because I know somebody who eats them, but it's not me.

But I mean, like, no, that's weird.

Strange.

Yeah.

I think we're just not that good at door-dash.

In Wisconsin.

That's where the popularity is, or that's where the dad is coming from.

As you mentioned, door-dash.

And that's where I think you need to put the focus of this article is that.

Now, what I want to know is you're, I want to interview or survey all Wisconsin up and

down the state and find out what is Texas?

Texas is a chicken burger.

Okay.

See?

So they're right there.

Yeah.

Really?

No way.

There's no way you could convince me.

No way.

No way.

Or Dallas or anywhere in Texas with a chicken burger, they're not going to kick me out of the

state.

They may even drive me to the border, like kick me off an Oklahoma or something like that.

I don't know.

There's no way you can convince me of that.

With Wisconsin, though, and we send a shout out to the National Wisconsin Beef Council,

and certainly our friends it up north news who are covering this one, a big shout out

to them.

The brazen head pub in West Bend won the 2025 Wisconsin Best Burger contest.

The brazen beer cheeseburger, it sounds like a really good one too.

The brazen burger is a feature to half pound Angus B. Paddy, cheddar cheese, bacon, onion

rings, and heart beer cheese all on a pretzel roll.

Wow.

Not bad.

I don't think I could eat a half pound burger.

I could.

I could do it right now.

I could save it.

I mean, I could save some of it.

You know what I mean?

Like cut it in half, but that's a lot.

I love a big burger.

The dump bar and grill in Cambria, also a finalist, along with straight home bar and

grill in Ellen's, Skippies, a burger bar in Thalesville, one of the finalists.

Pickles bar and grill and hazelhurst.

I've heard of them a couple of times.

I want to check that one out actually.

I want to go out there there.

Fairy King bar and grill in Merrimic, also a finalist, dog house bar and grill in Mount

Orb.

That's a great name.

That's a great name for that one.

But I saved my favorite name of all of these because this is another side story of

this and I really enjoy is hearing a place that I haven't heard from before.

Crafty Cow in Milwaukee.

That's a good name.

That's a good name.

A crafty cow.

I'll go into that place.

That's done.

That's awesome.

Where is your favorite spot?

Everybody is it local?

Is it somewhere outside the area here or anything?

We talk about culverts every week and then a big shout out to them.

I've never had a bad meal there.

I love Culver's food.

I do want to send a special shout out to Chips.

They're not advertising with us.

So why am I mentioning that because they're a local business and that's what we do.

Yes.

And that's what we do around them.

There's some about that.

I almost feel like you kind of had to grow up here or like you were here early.

But there's for me just something about a chip's cheese burger still.

I still, once in a while, I'll be like, oh, we should get burgers from chips.

I don't know.

I think it's the flame, the flame broiled or whatever and I just, I don't know.

There is something about that.

That was always my favorite thing about burgers growing up was the flame broiled.

You could taste the difference between the flame broiled and something that was sitting

under a hot heat lamp or something like that.

And I feel like at Chips, I always get the fresh.

I always get it that way.

There's just, I don't know, there's some about it.

And there's nostalgia in there for me.

You know, it takes me back to when we were kids.

We'd always get the family pack, you know, you get nine burgers and what a pound of fries

or something.

I have to say, one of my favorites is the Olive Burger at Sportsman's.

Yeah.

Oh, great show.

I like that one.

That's a good one too.

That's one of my faves.

Who is yours, everybody?

Call up, let us know.

You can use the Civic Media app to call in or text us if you'd like.

Otherwise 715-424-2600.

We'll keep this topic going throughout the whole show.

You can shout out your favorite burger or just your favorite type of way making the burger.

My father figured out this hack a years ago that he's been using and I think I have never

really talked to him about it.

I think he thinks that it's something like he, like I'm pretty sure he stole it from

my nada, his mother.

And I think he, in some ways, he thinks he's the only one that does it.

I'm sure he's not, but he puts a garlic powder, a bit of garlic powder on every burger

he makes.

I don't know what it is, but man, now I, when I, there's something about that that I tied

to like a homemade burger.

I don't put it on maybe, you know, the chains or anything like that, but if I'm making

a burger at home, even if it's just for myself, I put a little garlic powder on it.

I can't help myself.

You know, for me, I still love a pizza burger too.

Yeah.

You know, like sometimes people, sometimes it'll be on a menu, like on a, you know, bar

burgers or something.

I just, I like those, but when the color brought up in W before, they have a good pizza burger.

I don't know.

There's just something about that that I like those once a while.

I don't know if I have a favorite spot for a burger, but I know when I'm, you mentioned

something about nostalgia, I think when I'm in the mood for a certain type of, oh, you

know what?

Burger King is a little like that for me too.

When I was a kid.

Poppers?

Yes.

When I was a kid, my dad and I went with my dad on a lot of his trips and a lot of the running

seed do.

And there was, under the L train in Chicago right on, I want to say over by old town, there

was a Burger King over there that we went to every, like every week.

And so so much of my memories are tied to that food and everything, same thing with chips.

There's a lot of those like that and we want to hear from you.

What are yours?

Shout them out.

It's a great day for everybody and a very good day for a burger.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back and we're going to talk about health.

The average American, how fully healthy do they feel every throughout the year?

We'll get into that and coming up on the, we go right to a family and after food spot

here too.

Perfect.

Shout out to our friends at Family Natural Foods, whose spots are a lot of great stuff

here at WFHR.

One of that got to keep that 80s thing going was looking for a certain one of cars playing

us in.

Terry and James here with you.

I'm the morning show at WFHR.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us everybody.

It's National Burger Day.

We're going to keep that conversation going.

Let us know your favorite burgers or your favorite burger joint.

Love to hear from you.

According to a new report, the average American only feels fully healthy 19 days in typical

month.

I'm going to buy that.

I'm going to say it a year.

Yeah.

Oh boy.

That's bad.

That is roughly 63% of the time.

So only about 63% of the time in a given month does the average American fully feel healthy.

So you'll feel fully healthy for about four of the days of a week, four of the days and

less healthy for three days in a typical week.

And that is just about feeling healthy, not that everything is awesome necessarily.

So we're focusing a lot on that.

People were asked what health issues that they battle the most frequently.

And the main problem areas are fatigue.

People struggle with that about 13 days per month, mood changes, 10 days per month, digestive

issues, 9.8 days per month, and headaches, 7.5 days per month.

That's how it's going to say when you said, you know, people feel healthy.

I'm like, you know, that's a lot somewhat maybe on food and intake, but it's also, you

know, a lot on sleep, exercise, you know, all of all of those other factors.

People were asked how they, how they were feeling right now.

And only 28% felt completely healthy at the time.

72% said that they were in moderate or poor health.

And 51% admitted that they're living with recurring health issues, which have been ongoing

for six months or longer.

So 15% said that not, quote, not feeling well has impacted their ability to fully enjoy

time with their family.

So, you know, and there's so many layers to this and everything.

We can talk about, you know, health care and a lot of those things.

That is certainly an issue.

One that I think that every American out there is aware of.

The fact that we work so much and how much time and, you know, if we look at a pie chart

of our day, how much of that is spent on work and focused on work.

And I don't even just mean the time you spend literally clocked in, but getting the

work, thinking about work, how much of your day you spend on that, so many of those things.

So all of this factors in certainly.

But I think that there's also just this natural human instinct that you learn at a very

young age.

I think you learned this really young, whether it's subconscious or not, that the Midwest

mentality of rubs some dirt on it, get on out there.

We talk about this in sports a lot, especially in football.

Get to about week eight, week nine, and then, you know, now this player's playing hurt.

They're all playing hurt.

What are you talking about?

It's football.

It's a warrior sport.

The only guy not hurt is the kick, the backup kicker on the, you know, and even he's

got a bum knee or something like that.

Like it's, this is what sports is as a reflection of life in that regard.

There is, I guarantee, nobody out there walking around in complete health that is 100% unless

they are a baby.

That's just life.

That's it that we understand that our bodies are very similar to vehicles in the second

they get off the lot.

They're starting to go down in value.

And that's just the game.

That's what we signed up for or what we have been signed up for.

And I think it's just like what you said, you know, there's the whole rubs some dirt

on it, mind over matter.

I mean, you can look at it a whole bunch of different ways.

And I think, I don't know, I mean, I, I support of that, right?

You do have to, you do have to recharge and you do have to reset.

And sometimes you do need to take a health break.

And, you know, like, like those kinds of things, but, but I also think you also have to

have the mindset that, you know, here's how I move past this.

Here's how this gets fixed.

Here's how I, or here's what I need to connect with.

You know, like you said, maybe it's health care.

Maybe it's just a part, you know, whatever.

Here's, here's how I get to that, you know, being as healthy as I can be again.

Right?

Like you said, everybody's playing hurt.

We can, we can sit and worry about the hurt or let's, you know, let's, yeah, move forward.

I, I, there are, there's a time and a place for all of those things.

And especially, you know, you hit a wall sometimes, you're like, okay, I need this.

And that's where I am very encouraged about where we've gone with mental health and

mental health days and some of those things.

But they, they don't, they, they don't hold water and they don't hold the meaning if

we're not using them right or if we're overusing them.

Anything, anything, anytime you abuse something, it loses its meaning.

And, and really the, the, the people on the other side of the argument, all they have is,

you know, more and more, you know, ammunition for what their argument.

When we're trying to really move society forward and into better place, where we do put

ourselves ahead of work, where we do put our families ahead of work, I, I think that we're

getting closer to that.

Or even closer to that.

Balance it.

The balance.

You know, yes.

And that's a better way to put it.

And so, but I do love you.

Who is the third string kicker anyway?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was a roster.

It's not the spot.

Yeah.

He's not even, he's not even in the studio.

He's not even in that practice.

Um, you hit the word, uh, the perfect word I think for this and finding that balance, um,

that hey, I don't, I would say on average and, and just in this second run of radio of

mine in the last 10 years or whatever, I don't know the last time I was on the air and

I didn't have a migraine.

I didn't have a headache or something like that.

That's how mornings usually go for me.

That's how it's been since I was about 12, uh, it's a constant thing for me.

You just learn to deal with it.

You just learn to find balance of it.

I drink more water.

I, I, maybe everyone, when it's really bad, I'll take a couple of aspirin once in a while

I hate doing it, but I'll do it just to get through because that's life.

And things are hard.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

Things are hard.

Sometimes with, um, not just the younger generation, but certain types of workers and the person

that gets the job and then immediately wants to tell me or something along, well, I'm

gonna need this week off, uh, and I'm gonna need these days and I can't work through this

and I can't do that.

Well, what do you want?

Like, you just want a free paycheck?

Is that it?

Because that's not work.

Like, look up the definition of work.

It is meant to, like, it is supposed to be a, you know, work, like it's not, it, there's

there's a fear I have of this, of it catching on more and more and more and that can be, that

can lead to a lot of other problems that have nothing to do with our health or anything

but our economy and really what we bring to the world.

There's gotta be balance.

Yeah.

There has to be.

And I feel like we will find it.

I have no worries about society.

I'm not scared at all.

I'm not worried about things.

I'm not worried about the latest news story and the, the, the screams and cries and panic

and oh, the sky is falling or anything like that.

I'm not talking, you can talk about any issue, bring up any issue right now.

I am not worried.

I, I am a student of history.

I have seen society and what they can survive and what they can handle and in comparison

to other eras and other times will be all right.

I, I try, I believe in society that much.

I do have that.

Maybe it's the last little bit of hope I have in me, but I, I believe that we work things

out and I think we'll work this out.

I don't think it'll be a government law that will do it.

I don't think it'll be some, you know, a fat or trend.

It's just something we do in society.

It's just something, you know, what, for all the laws and rules that, that, that were

clamored on us when it came to recycling, that's not what did it.

It was people that did it.

People decided, you know what?

This isn't that bad.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this and now everybody's doing it.

I think that, you know, this balance of work and life and work and mental health and

all that, we're gonna figure it out in real time as, as a society.

Well, you know, and going back to just the whole how healthy people feel, there's just

also something about, and I don't care what, what your ability is, what your limitations

are, what your interests are, there's something about just getting outside and getting some

fresh air.

Yeah.

Going for a little stroll, sitting out.

It's like, you know what I mean?

Watching, just watching nature around you and, or the busy street in front of you, you

know, whatever it might be, but there's, there's something about that that's cleansing,

I think, for, for your mind, for your spirit, for your body, I'm just, just getting outside,

even if you don't like going outside, just, you know, there's, there's just something

about that.

Something, there's something to be said about that, helping your health as well and your

mental health as well, not only getting outside and doing those things, but I think when

you really do put in a work day, that feel, yeah, it can be a grind.

It could be a hassle and you, you could be, you cannot wait to get home and all that.

At the same time, you feel good.

Yeah.

Your night feels much better when you've, you've done something with your day.

I don't, I, I don't think there's many people out there that can't relate to that.

And I, I think that's, get part of what that balance is.

And you mentioned finding a, not only a balance, but getting outside and everything.

This time of year, one of the best reasons and best ways to get outside is taking in a

ball game.

Now, on Friday, we're going to be giving away brewer tickets, we're going to be looking

forward to that.

We'll be doing it all summer long.

Thanks to our partnership with Milwaukee Brewers and a big shout out to them.

Nice game yesterday.

Man, Christian Yellich.

Man, it's nice to see him have those moments.

You couldn't have written that one better, a hubbitch, a Hollywood writers couldn't have

written that story better last night's game.

You want to go to games like that.

We're going to give you opportunities all summer long on Fridays, giving away brewer tickets.

And we are kicking off today our brewer, our rafter ticket giveaways.

The rafters we're here last week were nice enough to give us a bunch of tickets, open

game tickets, redeem for any game all season long.

And we're going to be giving those away throughout the summer, throughout the whole season.

We want to encourage you to get to the ballpark, support your rafters, support a local by

local.

Get on down there and have some fun and a great way to get outside.

You know, and yeah, and there's something about that and they've always done that from

year one.

Like, they're open tickets.

It's not, oh, this is for tomorrow's game.

It's stop and see us.

You can get tickets for whatever game you want.

I love that.

It's, it's so accommodating.

It's a smart idea.

It shows how much they pay attention to the community, care about this community and

know how busy people can get quite blunt.

Yeah.

I've got four tickets right here and I'm going to be doing this all summer too.

We've got a, they were nice enough to give us these, you know, the pocket schedule.

Pocket schedules.

I'm going to give a pocket schedule with the tickets just so you could really plan your

schedule out.

You can plan your day out.

Now, let's be honest.

All right.

They tell you first off, Coach Ziggy would tell you rafters are on two right now.

Not a great start to the season.

I know exactly what is missing you.

Dave, you, they've been missing, yes, they've been missing you at the ballpark.

So why not go get on down there, make plans, they had to win her field.

They've got four tickets right here.

All you got to do call up, tell Terry and I, how about your favorite 90s baseball player?

Yeah.

Tell us your favorite 90s baseball player.