Good morning, Wisconsin.
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Got your host, James behind the mic.
I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kaye.
Good morning.
And the best listeners from radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
We got a fun show lined up for you, everybody.
We're going to be getting into some good stuff.
And just a little bit, we get the LCAP or a day
in anniversary club looking forward to diving into that.
Got a new term to get into water-based cooking.
Back to basics, got it.
Or in other words, the only cooking my mother feels
I'm safe to do.
Then a little bit later, seven money-saving hacks
that may not be actual hacks.
They may not actually save you that much.
We'll get into that.
Got some entertainment news for you.
And also going on in the 10 o'clock hour,
we're going to be joined by our friend Jim Benna, district
administrator with Port Edward School District.
We're going to talk about their 19th annual Black Hawk
Gulf Scramble coming up.
Ooh, yeah, yeah.
We'll touch on that.
We also got a couple of other good ones
lined up for you here that I want to get into.
And some other fun stuff.
We'll get you caught up on our schedule here at the station
as well, and remind you about our awesome contest.
We have going up and down the state,
Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.
Oh, yeah.
All that stuff.
All that stuff going on.
But I didn't want to start right here
because it is a National Egg Day molasses.
We get into our National Egg Day.
And it's an honorary court of holiday.
But now that eggs have become one of our most precious
valuable commodities, there's been some different surveys
and polls that have been going on about them.
And here are some egg-related fun
from our friends at the internet.
Ah, that would be fun.
It's not a thing I ever thought I'd hear.
No, no, and I don't always associate fun at the internet,
but a poll asked, when you buy eggs,
do you generally buy white or brown eggs?
67% of people said white eggs.
20% said brown.
Well, brown are typically more expensive
because more often they're like the cage-free or free range.
But I usually buy brown.
Thank you for that, Melissa, because I knew,
but I don't think the audience knew the difference
between white and brown.
And I did not know what the difference was.
I wasn't 100%.
I wasn't 100% on that.
We'd out yourself, too.
That's between us.
That's between us.
That's between us.
A poll asked, how do you prefer your eggs cooked?
46% of people since scrambled.
25% said fried, 7% said hard boiled,
6% poached, and 4% soft boiled.
It depends on how you're having them.
Yeah, yeah.
They're like all of those ways with different meals.
I had mine fried hard this morning on bread.
So it's like, oh, it's actually sourdough toast.
But ketchup.
It's a side note.
It's a favorite.
Well done.
How often do you eat eggs?
Well, right now, not as often as you did.
Yes, yes.
And it's not even really because they're super expensive.
It's just, I don't know, maybe it's an unconscious thing.
But I go in phases with eggs.
Like I will have eggs every single morning for three months,
and then I'll go three months without eating eggs for breakfast.
Very similar.
Yeah.
I only thought of this because what you were saying before,
I'm similar.
I like all these styles of eggs.
Just depends on what I'm eating.
If I got a sandwich, I want scrambled eggs.
If I got time to eat my breakfast, give me sunny side up,
and I can dip the bread in the egg and all in the yolk
and everything.
Oh, god, it's good.
And if you have an eggs Benedict, you have to have poached.
If you're doing any kind of like an Asian noodle soup,
then poached is really good.
Or hard boiled, that works too.
But if you want the runny yolk, honestly, right now,
I just want to do everything fully cooked.
Yeah.
Just to be on the save side.
Persons.
Seems like a good way to play it.
Yeah.
I got to say too.
And I don't know if I'm like this with other foods,
and they just don't realize it.
But eggs are one of those things.
If I want it, oh, I can't wait.
I'm looking forward to it.
If I have no, if I don't want eggs,
couldn't, like, it's like I've never eaten a egg in my life.
Like, I don't want to eat.
And we're never going to have another one.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it is.
It doesn't look weird.
No, I fell asleep last night dreaming about,
because I had some sourdough bread left over.
And I was dreaming about breakfast as I fell asleep.
That's wonderful.
Hard fries, some eggs.
I'm going to toast my sourdough and put some butter on there.
And then I'm going to tap it with ketchup.
That's awesome.
That's great.
A poll last.
How do you usually crack an egg?
57% of people said that they crack eggs
on the edge of a bowl or pan.
23% said on a flat countertop.
And 10% some other way.
My grandmother could crack eggs with one hand.
Ooh.
And I've tried it a couple times, and I can do it.
I can't do it with 100% success,
and I don't do it often enough to feel like I have to look
cool and do it.
And it's not like I'm holding a baby in the other arm
that I need to do it one hand in.
So I don't know if I could describe it,
but my Nana was so good at it.
I just learned from her this tap.
And that's just what I've always done.
I don't know if I'm 100%, but I'm pretty high
on the percentage on that one.
I always do it on the edge of a counter or the edge of my stove.
I don't do it on the edge of my pan,
because if you happen to have a little piece of the shelf
like off, it always lands in the pan.
Yes, it tell you 100%, yeah, 100%.
And a poll asked, what came first, the chicken or the egg?
44% of people said the chicken, 32% said the egg
and 24% weren't sure.
And that's okay.
That's very okay.
Now, we have had a little science on this one over the years,
and the correct answer is the egg,
which beat chicken by a couple hundred million years,
unless you're talking specifically about a chicken egg,
and then it's murkier a little bit.
Chickens likely evolved from a subspecies
of red jungle file many thousands of years ago.
And at some point around domestication,
the last ancestor of the modern chickens
would have laid an egg containing an embryo
with enough genetic differences to be distinct.
So the egg did come first.
But really, what this question is,
is it's a philosophical question,
asking whether you believe in evolution
or that God created the earth in seven days.
Yeah, yeah, in the earth is 7,000 years old.
That was in seven.
There was some variation in there.
Yes, yes, to each their own.
I have not at all.
None of them are wrong, if that's what you believe.
Right.
So when it comes to eggs,
does it, did anybody get hungry for eggs from this?
Cause that's another thing that I was thinking,
is most of the time we're talking about food,
and we were talking about these,
which are the special pancakes that El Café is making.
I had no interest in pancakes before or French toast.
We were talking about their French toast.
Oh, yeah, yeah, the French,
the banana bread French toast.
Yes, wasn't even thinking about it beforehand.
Now it's the only thing my body wants.
It's it's it.
But I'm talking about eggs and I have no interest.
I have nothing.
Unless I get an interest for eggs,
I just don't really,
they're one of those weird foods to me.
I got to really be in the mood for it, I guess.
And I like eggs, I really do.
I like all kinds of eggs.
This is one of those things I'm really not that picky
about for once.
Wow, Red Butter Day people.
Mark it down.
What about a side?
I think that when my favorite way,
is there a fate, that's what I wanted to say.
Is there a favorite way for you to have eggs?
I know that we were talking about
you're in the certain mood for things.
But to me, if I got to choose,
I love eggs are the perfect thing for a sandwich to me.
I got a breakfast sandwich.
For a breakfast sandwich, yeah,
it's got to have egg on it.
I don't know, I just think eggs are so versatile
and there's so much that you can do with them.
Yeah.
Since I already had eggs for breakfast,
talking about eggs right now makes me hungry
for my mom's potato salad.
Oh, oh.
Which has boiled eggs in it.
But the way that she, and sorry,
if this grows as anybody out,
but the way that she would make her potato salad,
I don't know if she was always in a hurry,
or if she had four hungry kids to just get food
in their face quickly.
But we would, you know, boil the potatoes,
and then before the potatoes were completely cooled,
she'd be cutting them up and putting them in the bowl
with chopped up hard boiled eggs,
which are also still a little warm,
usually celery,
black olives, sometimes onion if Josh,
for some reason, wasn't gonna eat some,
his Josh hates onions at that point.
I think he likes them now,
but that's neither here nor there.
But then when she would add the mayonnaise
and the, or it's Miracle Whip,
not actually mayonnaise, Miracle Whip,
salt and pepper a little bit mustard,
and then she'd mix it up,
and the potatoes would kind of like,
almost mash as you're stirring it,
so it'd be like this creamy, slightly warm,
yummy gooey goodness with eggs in it.
Mm-hmm.
And that's not what I'm hungry for.
Nah, yeah, you know what?
I would definitely eat that right now.
You sold it to me.
You sold it to me.
You sold it to me, but no, you sold it.
That, I don't know what it was,
but there was something about that description
all of a sudden.
That's amazing, because you don't like mashed potatoes.
Nope, nope, but there was something about that description
that was like, it just sounded so homie to me,
so it's so like, you know, just, hmm.
I love a good meal, I like it.
Well, and we cook out some time,
I'll bring some, and you can try it.
Definitely, we gotta do that again.
Yeah, we gotta look at this.
Yeah, you should.
I don't have a grill, man.
I gotta go somewhere and steal somebody's grill.
And now that we're stealing.
We just have to get a team meeting together again,
because I know we went,
we got a couple of things we wanna plan
for this summer around here,
so we'll have to do that soon.
All right.
For now, one thing that we do have in the middle of right now,
a Civic Media Scotty summer text-to-win contest.
Oh yeah.
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That is so awesome.
That's four times per day to win,
and then four times to get in on the grand prize, right?
Yep, that's pretty cool, yeah.
That is cool.
Be listening at the top of the 11 o'clock hour, everybody,
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Mm-hmm, be ready.
Melissa and I will be back with the Elcaf Abert
at the Anniversary Club on the morning show at WFHR.
I just want to celebrate another day of living.
I just want to celebrate another day of life.
You heard the boys.
It's time to do some celebration with the Elcaf Abert
and Anniversary Club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to Elcaf A today.
Everybody wishing a good one from all of us at WFHR.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
Another day of living.
Yeah.
Man, Melissa, they got some amazing specials
over there too today.
Oh, they do?
Is it the Southern Benedict?
Yeah.
Or a Country Benedict.
Country Benedict.
Well, it's similar because it has the sausage gravy
instead of the holiday, which I mean,
I'm a sucker for holiday, and I usually
don't get the sausage this gravy because it's got dairy in it.
But every once in a while, I hate myself.
I hate sausage gravy.
We got these breakfast sliders right now
that they're going for you as well.
A little some lasagna later or chicken or beef stir fry.
I mean, I've got a lot of good options.
But the breakfast sliders was a really awesome idea.
I've never seen that because sometimes you just can't
choose what you want on your breakfast sandwich with egg.
But these come with, you get one sausage, one bacon,
and one ham mini breakfast sandwich sandwiches.
Like all three, you don't even have to choose.
You get them all.
And it comes with egg and cheese, but no substitutions,
you can add fruit or potato for $3 or avocado for $2.
That's an awesome breakfast right there.
I appreciate you seeing that because I'd never
heard of breakfast sliders before either,
but I've already owned up to not knowing things today.
I'm done with that, so I appreciate that.
Head on over there today, everybody.
Zika and the boys are going to make some good food for you,
Kimberly, and lower your holding things down in the front.
Get on over there and say good morning to every one of them
for us.
We appreciate our friends at El Café.
Hope they have a great start to the day over there.
And you will always have come out of there with a smile,
if not because of the delicious food,
because of the amazing people.
Yeah, yeah, you can't go wrong.
And you don't even have to take our word for it.
Head on over there.
They're open right now, everybody.
We appreciate it.
And we appreciate you getting us your birthdays
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Keep in common.
We love celebrating with you.
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We appreciate you doing that, everybody.
Keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries.
Melissa, I need a one or a two.
One.
I really had to think about that for some reason.
I don't know why.
Wasn't that hard.
That was awesome, that was good.
First up, we wish Happy Birthday to Civic Media's own
Tony Zimmerman.
Yeah, Happy Birthday, Tony.
Tony's great.
Yeah, a new dad.
Oh, that's right.
A new, again, dad.
They had another baby here recently.
Cute pie.
Congratulations.
There's something special about having your birthday
close to your one of your kids.
That's a fun one.
And I think it's a month or two away,
but that's still close to you.
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's cool.
Happy Birthday, Tony, and enjoy your day.
We also want to wish Happy Birthday to Faith Peterson.
Ooh, Happy Birthday, Faith.
Faith got her birthday earlier today.
She said she is a new listener,
and we appreciate that, thanks for having me.
Happy Birthday, Faith.
And our qualifiers, celebrating their 31st anniversary,
Roger and Pam Denny.
Oh, Roger and Pam, Happy anniversary.
Wishing you guys a great anniversary and joy your day.
Hope it's a good one, 31.
That's awesome.
Happy, congratulations, you too.
And who do you share your birthdays and anniversaries with?
Well, Rafi on the doll is 39 today.
10 is superstar.
Beat Roger Federer, 10 out of 14 times,
and many people consider him one of the greatest
of all time, Federer.
Their final Wimble to match in 2008
was one of the best I've ever seen.
Nadal, along with this three-headed monster of Federer
and Jokeovich, just have been a great run
of 10 is here over the last 10, 15 years.
And Rafi on the doll is also one of the weirder,
like, not weirder, but just interesting looking athletes.
He's a tennis star, and he's, I believe, yeah, he's right-handed.
His right arm is overwhelmingly bigger than his left arm.
It's just kind of weird to look at sometimes
at different points in his career, especially,
but he is a very impressive athlete.
And one of those guys that everybody seems to like,
like, people love playing against,
and even when you lose against him, he's a classy guy.
That's good.
Anderson Cooper is 58.
58.
I think of Anderson Cooper.
I used to, I should say, I thought of him
as one of the better up-and-coming journalists in the game.
And really had a lot of high expectations for him with that.
In recent years, and really in the last 10 years or so,
he's done a lot more where he's become more of a reality star
in some ways.
And he does a lot of things that have nothing to do
with the news, like they have a very famous New Year's Eve
celebration that him and Andy Cohen do.
They have a great time with, he's done a lot more,
where we didn't use to know our journalists.
We didn't, I didn't know who Dan Rathers' favorite baseball team was.
I didn't know who Walter Cronkite rooted for,
who his favorite musician was, or some of these things.
It's a different world now.
We're getting to know people differently.
Yeah, because everybody's got their own social media
that people follow, and you get to know them a little more as people.
Now, I think for years, I have said,
I've been personally been a little disappointed in his career
because I had such high expectations for him as a journalist.
That's on me.
That's not on him.
That's his life.
He can do what he wants.
He's doing what he has to think.
I had this idea.
I grew up, like many of us, grew up with separating these things,
these worlds of journalism and people and that.
And that's just not the world we're in anymore.
We also had people like Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and Ted Coppel and...
Some of the amazing women journalists whose names they can't remember.
Barbara Walters and Connie Chan...
Oh, yeah, just incredible, incredible journalists.
Yeah, and that to me, that's where the bar is.
But yeah, maybe I have to adjust that.
Maybe I have to.
Not as far as what we're expecting,
as far as facts and truth and good journalism and that line between the powers that be in the rest of us.
That's the art, that is the work of journalism.
But maybe I have to adjust not those expectations.
I will never lower that bar.
And I'm sorry to say this, but shame on anybody that does.
Because this is the line in the sand that we all need to respect and appreciate.
That going back well before Walter Cronkite was the difference between us and them.
The powers that be and the people that put them in charge and so many other things.
As far as businesses and consumers and so many other things.
And making them accountable for their actions and their decisions.
He's at a time where he's at that crossroads where he's coming from the old school
but, you know, maneuvering into what is new.
And, you know, I just don't want to see the bar for journalism go down.
I don't care if you want to be a reality star, all those things.
It's just going to, you also have to take into consideration that's going to affect your
journalist. That's going to affect the way people are going to look at your stories.
For better or worse, that could be good and bad.
Some stuff it may be like, well, Anderson Cooper knows what he's talking about.
He's been through this, this, and this.
Other stuff it may be like, well, he's coming at this from a different, you know, perspective
and that. And that's, again, that's not what journalism is supposed to be about.
It's supposed to be about the story, the facts.
I'm learning that as I'm trying to read a crane story.
A news article and all I keep doing is turning it into a story.
I'm horrible.
That's James from a horrible journal.
That's the short sentences.
Yes, yes, thank you.
Denise Williams is 74.
Let's hear it for the boy.
It's going to take a miracle.
And, of course, the theme song to family ties along with Johnny Mathis, she famously did.
And then some people no longer with us.
Like the great, one of the greatest game show hosts of all time, Chuck Bears.
TV genius behind the dating game, the newlywed game, the gong show.
One of my favorite shows of all time.
God, I love the gong show growing up.
Oh, I never saw it.
Oh, my God, I love it.
Surprise to no one.
He was really good.
You go back and watch any clips of Chuck Bears.
And you'll be blown away.
That one, they got away with half the stuff they did in the 70s.
But also just the newlywed game, the dating game.
Like those, those seemed, I don't know, weird to me.
Yeah, I never saw him for just the premise behind him.
Just the premise.
You know, and it's almost, I think, you know, at this point, especially,
but at least I think it's almost better just having the premise.
Just whatever is in your head is going to probably be better than whatever you look up.
But I will say, if you get a chance to look up Chuck Barris,
just even like a highlight thing of him or something, I think you'd be really blown away
by just how natural and how good he was at the gig.
I wouldn't calm the best ever, but if somebody wanted to, I wouldn't fight him on it.
That's how good I think he was at what he did.
The great Tony Curtis born on this day in 1925.
Famously, of course, now most young people, younger people,
and even our generation knows him as Jimmy Likertis's dad.
But I was talking about the movie the other day, some like it hot.
Him, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, it's one of the most perfect casts I've ever seen,
and all three of them have moments in that movie where they steal a scene or they just take
blow things away. Tony Curtis is a wonderful actor.
He was also one of those Hollywood heart throbs at the time.
He just had that look.
One of the few people that could pull off and ask out, too,
like, oh, many people that could do that.
Like, I couldn't do it.
Curtis Mayfield born on this day in 1942, Superfly,
a pusher man, so many great funky songs of the 70s and 80s,
and even Curtis Mayfield had some health issues
and put out an album when we were in high school that I really got into.
And that's how I really got into Curtis Mayfield, actually.
It was really good.
He did it with a lot of other artists and modern artists and stuff.
It was a really good album.
And that is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club for today,
but one more time, a happy birthday and a anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.
Melissa and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than with our friends at Elcafe.
You'll have a great meal and you can always have a huge selection of pies.
That's going to be your hardest decision of the day is choosing just one.
We wish you luck.
We could will and all that with that.
Have a piece for us.
Yes, yes, and please do us a favor.
Wish everybody a good morning from all of us at WFHR.
Let them know that we are.
Mention them and we appreciate them and enjoy some great food over at Elcafe.
Melissa and I will be back when we get back.
We're going to talk a little bit about
these, where is that that I had here?
Oh yeah, the water-based cooking.
We got to get into it.
Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
And a good foot.
Little James Brown to play us in.
Hardest work in managed show business.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thank you so much for joining us everybody.
As we, we guys didn't intend to, but we have a food theme going this morning.
Oh, and they were going for it.
I kind of show eggs to Elcafe to now one of the new cooking trends.
And boy, you guys can't see that, but I am saying that with quotations.
The latest cooking term going viral on TikTok is, quote, water-based cooking.
And it is what it sounds like.
One video shows a montage of things being boiled, steamed, and cooked as soups and stews.
With the caption, quote, you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear.
Your stomach is thriving and you can recover from illness overnight.
Some claim that water-based methods like boiling, blanching, steaming, or poaching can reserve
reverse aging.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, the idea is that the, quote, gentler cooking style avoids, quote, unhealthy techniques
using oils and high heats like frying, sauteing, baking, air frying, and grilling, which is
supposedly the worst. Naturally, cooking with water isn't groundbreaking. So people, not a new
thing. A lot of people in the comments are having fun with this one, quote, Gen Z Discover Soup.
This is just everyday food, especially in Asian cultures.
Right.
I'm two days in and I'm already looking younger.
Yeah, I don't know what to do. Now, I do think that there's some of this that is coming from a good
place or trying to at least. Yeah, from a, you know, anytime you're going to.
Yes, it is trying to come from a good place of, hey, here's another alternative, try this.
But I, so this reminds me years, years and years ago. I can't remember if it was,
who the artist was, but it's a world, world famous artist and been around for like 20 years,
big time hip-hop artist. They're doing some award show and Sir Paul McCartney comes out and
starts playing with this artist. And there was a ton of people on Twitter and all that saying,
well, another, another time that this guy discovered this great guitar player.
So there was people out there, lots and lots of people out there that had no idea who Paul McCartney was.
Right. Yeah. So they didn't discover Paul McCartney, obviously. They just, for them personally,
they had just discovered Paul McCartney. Right. I feel like that's what's happening here or
something. At least that's the closest explanation I got as far as, so I've got this new way of
cooking. It involves water. Now, you're going to want to write this down, okay?
But actually, you know what, no, for real though, I recently discovered the beauty of like noodle soups
or just kind of like soups in general with an Asian theme. And so this is kind of a conversation
that Lauren, I had recently, because she shared an article with me about like those food home
delivery services that talks about whether or not it's economical. And the reason that they
are economical is because you get all of the spices and the seasonings and the sauces
that allow you to have a variety of like ethnicities of food. So if you have a one that comes with
an Asian dish in it, it'll have the the hoisin sauce and the oyster sauce and the fish sauce and
you know, all those different sauces that you maybe don't keep in your fridge or the same with like
an Indian type dish. But what I've discovered is I just bought all of those ingredients for like
Asian foods and I keep them in my fridge now. And I make so many Asian dishes that are so easy
and that are really just water-based like soups. You make a broth, you add noodles and vegetables,
voila, a protein. Very interesting. Very interesting. And I'm getting better at making like
Asian sauce mixes just off the cuff without looking at a recipe because I've done it enough times
I kind of know what flavors go well together now and then you can play with it a little bit,
add some ginger sometime, decide to add like some some garlic chili oils another time.
It's it's a lot of fun. I'm enjoying soups in a different way than I did before.
Wow, the only people not really suffering from the food prices and everything are politicians.
The rest of us kind of certainly are dealing with that. So a lot of people are trying different
techniques, different ways of cooking, maybe even just a simpler ingredients and some of that.
Right. What you're talking about is...
And soups are cheap. Exactly. It sounds like a really not only practical and smart idea,
but it sounds like a fun thing for your palate. Change it up a little bit.
Well, and I think that a lot of our like typical soups that we think of here in the Midwest
are a little heavier or you think of like comfort food in cold weather you want soups.
Asian soups aren't that way. They're lighter. They're you know, they're still hot because they're
a soup, but they aren't like the heavy comforting warm stews or like other soups that we make
chili and you know stuff like that. I don't know. I'd love to hear from everybody if they've tried
this yet or if they're thinking of trying it. I'd love to hear from you everybody. Feel
free to reach out to us. Or if you want recommendations on what sauces
you need to have on your fridge to be able to make this happen, I can help you out.
Oh, that's a good one. You might be careful. You might stare out, create a new segment.
I'm okay with that. I like this. It's food related, dude.
A recent survey found that 31% of American adults hang on to old devices because they aren't
sure what to do with the phone's video game consoles, laptops, chords or other tech accessories
that they no longer use. I have that problem. Melissa, I'm going to throw this out there and I
actually want to hear from the audience. I'm almost demanding to hear from the audience.
Texting, calling, use the civic media app and tell me if you don't have a bunch of these
I did like two or three of these items in your house because I generally believe at this point
in the game, everybody's got at least two laptops, a couple phones, a bunch of this. This is one
of the newer problems that we're dealing with, not new new, but newer problems that we're dealing
with here. 19% of people say that they do throw away old tech, probably not correctly.
Yeah, that's the problem. The garbage can doesn't count, everybody. That's not technically throwing
it away. It's just giving it to another person for another problem. And you're creating a problem
not only for our planet, but you are creating problem for yourself because you will get caught and
you will get fined. 30, if you don't believe it, go ahead and test it. You go right ahead.
No, please don't. Please don't. But I mean, we do have options. Look for e-recycling. We have
events that happen. Portish County has one going all the time and you can call them up and talk
to them about bringing stuff in. Yes, I was trying to find the data for, or here it is,
Clean Sweep coming up. Yes, yes. The next one is in September, it's the 13th.
Yes, September 13th, Saratoga Town Hall. We'll tell you more, but we'll, of course,
be talking about that as we'd call us or to it. I don't think that's e-recycling. No,
that's like hazardous waste. No, but as some things, you know, that we can get rid of here.
So 37% of people say that they like to trade in old electronics for an exchange or
upgrade. And 25% try to sell their old tech. 30% say that they give away old devices to friends
or family, whatever possible. And 17% have donated them to charity. I don't, I have to double
check on this one. And I'm shame on me for not knowing. I know the family center for many years
work taking in unused and old phones and sending them to a company that, you know, there they
were get the money from that. Like, like, forbash them or, yeah. So I know that that's something I've
done in the past and others have as well. But this is the new problem. As some of us, like me,
are worried about the information that's on that device. And if I can't access that information
and get it off of there and know that it's gone, gone. That's my worry. But I'm paranoid. So
I'm sure there's other smarter people out there than me that can tell you know that's safe.
That's fine. This is what you do. I think that it's, and not only do I, not only is it a
genuine concern, Melissa, but you're not alone on that. And I think that that you bringing it up
only gives more credence to the fact that this is a part of the reason why we're hanging on to
these things. And they're just taking up space and they're not really doing much for us.
It's one of these things. Eventually, there's going to be a solution to this that we're all
going to be like, well, why won't we always doing this? You know that's going to happen at some point.
It's probably going to be an entrepreneurial type thing. Like somebody's going to say,
I can show this into a business. And they probably already have. And I just not aware of it.
I know when I was a kid growing up, one of the ways, you know, you needed a couple of bucks or
needed to help with something, you collect cans. You go around your collect cans. And every,
every city I ever lived in, and boy, if I lived in a lot of them, had a recycling plan.
Why don't we just bring that back? Why don't we, I mean, there's got to be something like that
around. I'm sure there is. And I'm just not realizing it. But I think they're in third world
countries, James. I don't know. There's got, there's a lot of
heavy metals and like gold and different things that can be taken out of these electronic
devices, basically mind from these electronic devices. But it's, it's labor intensive work that's
nitpicky and not safe. And so we don't necessarily, that's at least what I understand about it. And
please take my word with a grain of salt because I don't actually know. Well, and it's one that we
all should look into more, you know, and we could all do a lot better knowing more about it.
Because this stuff is, there's no sweeping it under the rug than none of this stuff. No matter
what we're talking about plastics or we're talking about electronics, you can go ahead and think
you're, you're just, oh, well, with this a problem for somebody else or whatever. No, that's not how
the world works anymore. We're dealing with these problems currently. Right. And I'm, yeah,
while I'm just keeping my old devices and they're not really, you know, I'm carrying them from
place to place as I move. It's not really taking up that much space in my life. Once I die, what's
going to happen to it? It's still a problem. Yeah. Yeah. I, I also, I feel like the, not only coming up
with an idea of what to do with these things and everything, but I, I'm, I always look forward to
the ideas before that. Should we be having more like, like games with these, like old laptops,
where we use them for like, you know, lawn games or something? I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
I just, I'm trying to think of something else to do with this stuff. Old laptops should be used
exclusively for karaoke nights. There you go. Yeah. You know, you just need to be able to
access the internet with a stream YouTube karaoke tracks. Have karaoke parties. I had somebody
almost, you know, almost made me, had me convinced that they had exactly what to do with their old
phones. And what they were doing was basically just like giving them to their kid, like taking
the battery out, of course, and it didn't work anymore. But their kid was just using it with
their dolls. And so they had a little Barbie had an actual actual cell phone, actually.
So there's an option, I guess. But that is an option for like, for your children. If they are
not to an age yet where you want to get them their own phone, if you have an old phone that you
don't have a plan on, it can still dial 911 because as long as it has a battery charge, you know,
when it's, it's still functioning, it was dial 911, even without a cell phone plan. So they can
carry that if they're walking to a friend's house or whatever and have access to, because I know
that that's a concern for parents nowadays. I love that feature. I love that it still has that.
Yeah. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun on the Morning Show at
WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning Show at WFHR.
Feels like an easy song to write. It feels like you're just looking at a map.
It is writing a warm, warm climax. But then the verse comes in and it's just like,
oh, it's such a tropical song. Very well done by them.
Proving, too, like four or five decades in that the Beach Boys could still put out hits
and everything. That's always impressive to me. We talk about hacks on this show quite a bit,
actually. We have been for a very long time. It's one of those things that I find really fun and
interesting about modern times and the way we share information. It used to be stuff that we just
handed down from relative to relative or friend to friend. Now it's just strangers and strangers
helping out with the hacks and stuff and I think that it's kind of cool. At the same time,
there are a lot of people out there or a lot of times that things are brought up that are
quote, hacks, but they're money-saving hacks, but they actually aren't. They can actually end up
costing you more in the long run. We're going to get into some of these right now and some of
the better examples of these that hopefully give you a little heads up and I don't think that it
means that, okay, don't do this. Just take it with one of my favorite terms, grain assault,
and maybe tinkering with it or doing your version of it or what have you. That could be the case
for any kind of any of these hacks. Driving to the cheaper gas station across town,
unless it is a lot cheaper, you don't have to drive far before it's not worth it anymore.
There's a calculator that also factors in what you think your time is worth.
The Matthew Minor is crunching calculator. It says, when do you get gas out of the way? It's
all just like a mad libs thing. Would it be worth to go blank miles out of your way to get to
14 gallons of gas, blah, blah, blah. So you just plug the numbers in and it'll tell you if it's
worth your time. That's cool. I have to show this to my dad. I have to show. Oh my god, it's going
to love this. Yes, you do. Oh, that's amazing. But that's something I think about too. Often,
I've noticed that gas here in Wood County is usually cheaper than like Portage County.
Not always, but sometimes. So if I'm there, I'm like, I need gas, but I can get back to Wood
County. I'm going to wait. When I live in when I get there, because it's not out of my way,
you know, it's on my way. When I lived in Nacusa, I would not get gas on the gas station right
outside of town. Any gas station on the outskirt of town or anything like that tended to be
higher gas back in the day. I don't know. I haven't really looked into that stuff in modern times.
Well, and it's really hard to judge necessarily from town to honestly, I look at gas
buddy all the time. Granted, I report on it every Monday and I read their reports and follow that
pretty closely now. I never did that before, but it's very interesting. My, you know, my
Papa being a truck driver. I don't know if other truck drivers were like this or not, but he really
got it in my head about this stuff. So this, this is one that I've actually, I can't, my brain just
does. Oh, it's cheaper over here than it is here and not just with gas, but like items. Oh, I can
get it here. It's closer. So I'm going to go here and pay maybe a dollar more, but it's cheaper gas.
My brain just does that stuff. I don't know. Well, and like during the Memorial Day weekend,
it was like on Sunday, I probably should have gotten gas, but I'm like, yeah, but if I wait two more
days, it'll probably be cheaper. And it was DIY repairs, unless you know what you're doing,
especially with big projects. And, and for the love of all that is do not mess with your,
your lights or electronics, unless you, electricity, yes, unless you have a degree, like I've done this
and it's paid the price. Please be careful, everybody. Yes, James, I will call and schedule my oil
change. I have done it myself with help. Not oil change. Don't have the tools. I don't have
things. That's different. That's the thing that would offset it. I actually think that I recommend,
not with a car. Anytime you can do stuff like that, I think everybody should learn, but you got
to have the right tools. You got to have the right tools. And like you said, your time is worth
something. That too. That too. It would take me 20 times as long to do it as the professionals.
This one's interesting to me and I know nothing of this world, but I see commercials for it
every day. Meal kit services like hello fresh. You think you'll order less takeout, but a lot of
people still don't cook and just waste half of the food. If you want to cook to save money,
find some recipes or go to the store or listen for Melissa's upcoming segment.
Well, like I said, in that article that Laura shared with me, it's the sauces and the spices
that really save you money. If you want to eat a diverse takeout menu at home, but you got to be
willing to cook. I think that most of us are accustomed to this one. Buying the cheapest option.
Sometimes it's fine, but the stuff like shoes and clothes quality tends to last longer.
This is actually something I think you learn when you grow up poor real quick. My parents knew
that they could get me one pair of shoes for the year. I learned real quick. Converse,
Chuck Taylor's, those things last. Adidas, those things last. If you were going to get a name
brand, it was because it lasted, not because of the brand name. Then you also learn that buying cheap
shoes makes your feet hurt. Then you have to do other things, spend other money to help you get
over that. You're not really saving a lot of money. Growing your salt is cheap. How many soaks does it
take for your feet to get back to where they were before you wore the crappy shoes? Buying stuff just
because it's on sale. If it's something you need next week or next month, great. Just don't do it
with stuff you might need. Yeah, I learned that lesson in my early 20s when I stopped shopping at
Walmart. Yeah, I used to never understand why people bought impulse items until I became an adult.
The only way that I still do that is with food. If it's something that's shall stable,
and yeah, maybe I don't need it today or this week, but I will eventually eat that.
Can you go grocery shopping hungry? No, I shouldn't. One of my oldest friends will. He loves food and
loves cooking and all these things. He refuses to go grocery shopping if he's even a little bit hungry.
No, I get a snack. I'll go through a drive-thru and grab something. Him and I took the bus line.
Most places we were going when we lived together in California. This guy would miss the bus
because he had to eat a snack before we went out. Can I tell you how seriously he took this?
Yeah, I guess. Well, no, because you will spend too much money in the grocery store.
You're hungry. You're back. Speaking of food, growing your own food. Having a garden is great,
but it's easy to end up spending more than you would just buying organic. Same applies to raising
chickens to save on eggs. Yeah, it's a time factor too. That stuff takes so much time.
That's what I would have thought of more than the price part. I think that the price part
probably evens out for a lot of people if not you are probably saving a bit. But when you factor
in the time, that's different. Do you have the time? Can you make the time all of those things?
Well, and then also do you have the space? Do you have the land? Do you have the dirt?
All of those things matter too. Yeah. Finally, trying to make something for
cheaper than you can buy it. It's hard to do now that everything is mass-produced.
Sometimes, even if it does cost more, I think it might be worth it.
Or finding something that's used versus buying it new. I mean, that's always, I am so
for buying other people's. I love going to a state sales. This is one place that I go and I buy
things that I don't necessarily need, but I might. But they're super cheap. I'm a fan of it,
and I had been since I was a kid, but I love the younger generation and how behind this they have
gotten. And for all the reasons too. Yeah. I went to a state sale a couple weeks ago and I got
so much stuff that it just, it brings me joy knowing that I'm utilizing someone else's old things
and there's a new life for them. It's a cool feeling. It really is. And I encourage more and more
people to get in on that and get that feeling. Melissa, as we're wrapping up here in our last
minute, I did want to take a second to touch on something. We'll talk about this more as we
get closer to it. But you sent over this benefit that is coming up. The Andrew Mueller Memorial
Show and Benefit is going to be going on Saturday, June 21st. There's going to be a ton of stuff
going on down from 8 to 530 at night. They're going to have a vendor set up register and show your
vehicles. It's open to the public. There's going to be awards ceremony. I'll take and place a
Golden Sand Speedway. Any chance you can get over there. It's also. And this, yeah, the story behind
this is tragic. He lost his life due to Interflactic Shock because first responders didn't have
the epinephrine. And so that's what his parents are working towards getting a state law that they
carry it. It's a really important thing that I hope more and more people are learning about.
And I love the vehicle that they are using to do that. This Memorial Show and Benefit is going
on again on June 21st over Golden Sand Speedway. We'll be talking more about it. Mark that
calendar down to get that one over the Golden Sand. Love our friends over there. We'll take a
quick time out. We'll come back and have some more show for you. This is locally grown radio. WFHR
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