Put the Bird Back! (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Take it, Marvin.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

Joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning.

And of course, our head.

We'll wait a second.

We're going to have a listen, joining us in just a few.

We're looking forward to hanging out with her pretty soon.

And if you notice, we did not have Brittany with us again this morning.

Yeah.

Brittany will be with us as soon as she can.

We're looking forward to that.

Hope you feel better, Brittany.

Yeah, take care, Brittany.

Yeah.

We have fun things lined up for you this hour.

We're going to course get into the Elcafe birthday anniversary club.

We got that right around the corner for you.

Looking forward to doing some celebrating with our great friends at Elcafe.

Yeah.

I cannot stop thinking about their food.

Well, everyone else, man.

We're all the same boat on that one.

Speaking of food, the 10 most dangerous foods in your fridge.

Most dangerous.

Yeah.

In what way?

Oh, I'm curious now.

Oh, are they dangerous?

We do a really good job of making people hungry on this show.

I figure we got to counter that.

We got to look at the other side of it.

Like, ugh.

I want to do a little bit of that.

I also want to introduce our head of news and our co-host, our good friend, Melissa.

Okay.

Hello and good morning.

Hey, thanks for being here, man.

Good to see you.

Glad to be here.

We're going to get into some fun stuff today.

The three of us a little bit later.

What's the sound from your childhood that younger generations will never hear?

Oh.

And I think that'll be an interesting one.

Yeah.

Thanks, machine.

Got some nice.

Well, right off the gate.

Nice.

Oh, I didn't have that one.

We got some entertainment news for you.

We're going to talk a little bit about Gibson guitars.

And oddly enough, Melissa.

Yesterday, you had mentioned a movie and it comes up today.

Just out of no really.

It's the wildest thing.

Wow.

How fun is that?

We've also got, we're going to get into some news on Stranger Things

and some other stuff coming to Netflix.

And the most anticipated tours of this summer.

Cool.

Want to talk about our WFHR newsletter as well.

And we will finally make the time to get into the Americans

of being the most prolific swears.

Oh, that's right.

I wanted the word that.

I was trying to think of swearing oaths.

Yes.

And what's a weird rule you made up and continued to follow?

I got a bunch of good stuff for us today.

But we try, I try very hard on this show.

And I don't have to try, I shouldn't say I try very hard.

I don't have to try that hard on this show to own when I make mistakes

or that I am, oh, I was this amount of years old when I finally learned this

or something like that.

I feel like we need more of that in society.

Yeah.

On a steep being real.

There's plenty of people on the airwaves lying to you and telling you this

or that or whatever.

I try to be very genuine and honest.

So I will admit that I was 48 years old when I learned that it was a,

it's a myth that you can't touch a baby bird when you see it.

Oh, oh, right, right.

So I did some heavy research into this one.

And it's all started from actually herring an interview with Ron McGill,

a great zoologist who's been running the Miami Zoo for over 20 some years

and does incredible theatrical work and stuff around the world.

And so when I was little, one of the first experiences I had in Wisconsin,

I'm living in Rome and my sister and I are going to the beach

and we see these blue eggs on the ground next to a nest.

And we immediately flipped out and we're like, oh, these are really cool.

But Jillian, who was five years younger than me, keep in mind,

was like, no, you can't touch them.

Not a city can't touch them.

And so we go and get my Nana and we come back.

And this is like five, 10 minutes to walk over to hear it everything.

And this God bless this woman who just put up with us and we get over there.

And it was like, she put up police tape.

Like nobody touched him.

No, my Lord.

No, none of that.

Wow.

And we're all city people, you know.

And to us, we just, we didn't want to disturb nature.

We didn't want to hurt anything.

Right, even wildlife.

And all that.

And all that.

And so I am not saying that you go out of your way to touch these things.

If you see a baby bird or something like that.

But, you know, just doing the homework on this one.

And there's a handful of different websites I went to.

Just the top of it is basically that it's a myth that you can't touch a baby bird.

And its parents will abandon it.

Birds have a very, very poor sense of smell and don't recognize human scent

at all on their young.

Wow.

They identify their babies by sight and sound.

It's generally safe to pick up a baby bird and put it back in the nest if you can't find it.

One of the, and this is where good intentions can go a different route.

Because what we, a lot of, whether we're talking about the Eagle Society

or so many other great bird organizations out there.

We find a, this happens a lot in the city.

You find a pigeon, a baby pigeon.

And you want to take, you want to help it.

So you call a bird society.

And they pick up the pigeon.

And now the mom is looking for the baby pigeon and can't find it.

That, that happens a lot in rural communities with these birds.

Where we find them, we want to do good.

So we call our human society or we call the DNR or something like that.

And we're trying to do the right thing.

But now that bird is doesn't, you know, the, the bird's parents cannot find the bird.

So it's just something I learned.

And I thought was kind of cool and interesting.

Right.

And I was very curious.

And I'm so glad Melissa's in studio six here face with it.

Some stories, am I, am I like, I'm very like, yeah, James, this is kind of a thing for a long time.

No, I know, I think your, I think your instincts are correct.

That we, you know, what general guidelines are leave wildlife to be wild.

You know, don't, don't mess with them.

If you see a baby deer, just leave it.

The mom will come back.

Don't, don't feed it.

And as two birds are different than a lot of other wildlife.

And I would have had to look it up too to be perfectly honest with you.

But, um, I have, you know, like, if I'm wrecking my brains for stories, I've read stories of like, you know, you put the bird back in the nest.

You put the egg back in the nest.

Think about cow birds.

The fact that they can come in, push other eggs out of their nest and lay their own egg.

And the other birds don't notice.

And they take care of this cow bird who eventually pushes the other babies out of the nest and takes all the food and just like feed me, feed me.

And it's giant.

Like, you got these little sparrows taking care of this giant cow bird.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

But that attests to the fact that birds, you, they, they, they don't have a sense of smell.

I mean, think about their beaks.

They're going to be really, really.

So they have nausea.

You know, and they say bird brain for a reason, right?

Well, this is the other thing that came up in the article or in the conversation with Ron McGill.

And he's touched on this one before.

I think the most people, especially thanks to Disney and a lot of cartoons growing up, not just Disney, but a lot of cartoons.

We consider, well, what is the wisest bird?

The owl.

Wow.

Actually, the, the owl is one of the dumber birds.

It's eyes are too big for its head.

So it has a very small brain.

So again, where the bird brain comes from and some of that and everything is stems from that.

Actually, the smartest, and this is, you know, not just Ron McGill talking about this or me just repeating him.

But a lot of the homework and the rabbit hole or the bird hole.

I went down.

The bird holes.

I don't know.

The bird nest you dove into.

Yes, yes.

It actually crows are often considered the smartest of the birds.

And I thought that was really interesting too.

And actually, despite what Pat Cretlo has to say,

pigeons are also very intelligent.

Very intelligent.

I mean, they use them for like homing pigeons.

Is homing pigeons?

Is that a city guy?

I don't think so, but he's having a lot of fun with me in my pigeon quest.

And it's delightful.

I enjoy it.

But I am going to push back on him.

You know what?

Pigeons make amazing pets and just you wait until I get my bell pepper.

Yeah, ask Mike Tyson about pigeons.

Go ahead and ask Mike about how smart they are and how amazing they are.

Right.

Pasty.

Yeah, they're amazing animals.

Actually, pigeons are really actually very intelligent.

Yeah, they're very, very smart.

And they want a lot of like actually metals during World War II for their service in World War II.

Whoa, Pat.

What are all the birds to take shots at?

Pigeons?

They've been doing it for centuries.

They've literally like helped humanity.

How much?

Like, oh man, no, not a good idea.

Not a good idea.

He's just having fun with this.

Yeah, it's a good idea.

Hopefully he could take the bat right.

But I think with a lot of, you know, with us and animals and you talk about Disney and cartoons and all of that,

we do have this driving.

I don't know.

We want to personify all of the animals, you know, personification of animals and making them that they think like humans or that they react like humans.

Well, they don't.

They're birds.

Yeah.

They're animals.

They're still animals, right?

They have their natural instincts, which are not human instincts.

By the way, I do want to say there is one show that correctly shows what what owls are.

It's the animated version of the Pete the Cat books.

Oh.

There is an owl character in that his name is Wilson and he is the dumbest character in the entire show.

So they got that one right.

Well, and I think migration is kind of a funny bird cartoon as well that has some rather challenged birds, shall we say.

It was very, I actually was impressed with that one.

It was very pretty.

It was pretty funny.

And as we're wrapping up our opening here, I do want to touch on something and I don't mean to go serious on everybody.

We're having a lot of fun this morning.

We're going to continue to have fun when we come back.

But when we're talking about these animals and the things that these cartoons, while well intended, can mislead kids,

my poor little sister thought that when it came to housework and everything, she wouldn't have to do a single thing.

She thought that the birds and nature and the mice were in Rome.

We're in Rome on the edge of the camp alive.

Jillian just thinks she opened up the windows.

All these animals are going to come in and do all the cleaning.

Birds come in and help you make your clothing.

Not one time.

Whistle while you work.

We tried.

We whistled everything.

Nothing.

Nothing happened.

My poor little sister.

It's just heartbroken by this.

But you know, she makes these are right now.

She figured out how to do her own laundry.

Maybe she still holds out hope that one day.

You know, don't all of us.

One day.

To be real.

Yeah.

If the animals will save us.

It's in part because she has part cartoon character.

And she can't help herself.

She's from that world.

Yes.

We will take a quick time out.

Before we get to the L.K.F.A. birthday anniversary club, I did want to remind everybody that going on today,

and throughout the next couple of weeks or so, is Civic Media's Scani Summer Text to Win Contest.

Yeah.

I want to lean more into the Scani.

I want to lean into that more.

We're having a lot of fun with this one.

We already gave away some stuff in the 7 o'clock hour.

We got the 11, 2, and 4 o'clock hours for you to listen for that keyword for us to text,

or get to you so you can text it to us.

Yes.

That's right.

Be a very weird contest for us to be texting you.

That really would make a lot of sense.

You have to be interesting.

I'm working on it.

I'm working on it.

But for now, you text us that keyword when you get it at the top of the 11, 2, and 4 o'clock hours today

and be listening through the rest of the week.

And all next week for Civic Media's up and down to state Scani Summer Text to Win Contest.

We have a lot of fun with this one.

We will be back with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

It's Melissa, Seth and James, taking through your morning.

You heard pit bull.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Caffe and the birthday anniversary club.

We hope you are ready to go and getting on over there with whatever you're looking forward to this morning.

Just keep in mind that whatever you have in mind will probably change.

You will see that menu and everything will look good.

If you walk into the El Caffe, thinking that, knowing that, you're going to be that much more prepared.

You'll be gone.

Just blank slate.

Yes.

That's what you need to do going in there.

Let's see.

You could just get the breakfast sliders and then you have one of everything.

Oh, that's true.

I encourage you to go there as often as you can.

That way you can get everything.

Try everything on the menu.

Yes, yes.

No worries there.

I've always dreamed of being one of those people that goes into a restaurant and give me one of everything.

And you just sit there and you just eat that and pick it at it.

You're giving food to people in the restaurant and stuff.

I see that in movies and stuff.

I have a weird break.

Well, that's okay.

That's why we love you.

Give our friends at El Caffe some time today and wish him a good morning from us.

2.21 market avenue.

Beautiful port.

I'm actually really bummed that I didn't get the breakfast sliders this morning.

Yeah.

Because I'm hungry.

And I'm meant to get breakfast.

And time just got away from me this morning.

And I just, you know what?

There's a great dark work.

I am starving and I don't realize it until I'm doing these segments.

Make time to eat, everybody.

It sounds silly, I know, but do it.

Make sure to make time to eat.

And if you don't have time to eat, head over to El Caffe because they'll make it for you.

They'll serve it with a smile and you'll have a great conversation.

Good time and excellent food.

And I know what they're today.

Get us your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

Info at wafjr.com.

You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages.

And you can call on up.

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715-424-2600.

I didn't even let you cut it.

I'm taking it easy.

Oh, I want strawberry rhubarb homemade pie.

Oh, my favorite kind of pie.

Strawberry rhubarb.

Do you think even have a strawberry lemonade?

That's, yeah.

I wonder what that was.

I would tell you what that was.

Yeah.

We love celebrating with you guys.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

As we take a look at our list.

Hold on.

Cran walnut.

Oh, that does sound good.

Oh, that does sound pretty good.

Don't it.

Okay.

El Caffe today, boys.

Before two, we have to get there.

I need, yes.

Yes, absolutely.

I need a one or a two, Melissa.

Two.

All right.

It gives us that qualifier.

So first up, before we dive right into our list.

Of course, we have a very special one to celebrate.

Happy 15th anniversary to Seth and Beth Hatter.

Hey, it's your anniversary.

Yes.

Happy anniversary.

15 years.

You guys should go get some pie.

Only one of us can eat it right now.

So.

One of my favorite couples.

I hope you guys have a great one.

Yeah.

Enjoy your anniversary.

Crystal or watches is what you're looking to do with this one.

Oh, watch this one.

Those are the, those are the, I like the idea of the watch.

The traditional gifts.

Yes.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Yeah, those are good ones.

And again, happy anniversary.

Happy 15th.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

We appreciate your route here.

Certainly at the studio.

So stations.

And certainly everything you guys put on like this one.

Half of it's okay.

I am just reading what he wrote.

I just, I don't know.

Sure.

I'm just sucking up.

I need him.

I need him.

I need him.

I need both of you.

All right.

That's fair.

Hey, both of you.

What am I talking about?

We appreciate you guys.

Happy anniversary to you too.

And very happy birthday to Shana Kreitzer.

Happy birthday, Shana.

Happy birthday, Shana.

Shana.

Shana, enjoy your day.

Beautiful name.

That's great name.

Nice.

And to our qualifiers.

Happy 3rd anniversary.

Lawn and Tracy Shaw.

Lawn and Tracy.

Happy 3rd anniversary.

Happy 3rd anniversary.

It's fun how this goes.

Where I see like somebody like Seth and Beth with a 15.

Or we see some like we're fortunate to see some 30 and 40 year anniversaries.

I can just get just as excited about like the three, four year old.

Yeah.

I like that.

That's all special.

Congratulations, you two.

And you're our qualifiers.

All right.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Angelina Jolie is 50.

I can't believe that.

That blows my mind.

Wow.

She's fantastic.

I really enjoy her performances.

I don't, it's not to me that she's not just one of the best actors I've seen in my lifetime.

But that she still is.

And that somehow she gets better.

And one of the things that I think, you know, we talk about actors all the time.

And one of the things that every, almost every actor has on their IMDB page on their resume.

A couple bombs or things like that.

Or movies where you could tell they didn't just give their all.

I defy anybody to go through every single thing that Angelina Jolie has done in her career.

And it's fine.

One scene where she has not given you everything she's got.

I will use her latest movie as an example of the Eternals.

Where she wanted to do a movie for her kids.

Where her kids could see her and everything.

And they were flipping out like Angelina Jolie wants to be in the Marvel movie and all this.

And so they didn't know what to expect.

Kevin Feige and some other people are saying, well, you know, she's pretty intense.

She's pretty serious about these roles.

How is she going to take this?

And she gave you the, like, one of the best superhero characters ever and performances ever.

She is just that incredible.

She is on a level that very few actors will ever get to.

And she continues to work at it and continues to push herself, get better.

She's a good director, producer.

The work that she has done with the UN, the United Nations and some of that that is above and beyond her pay grade.

You know, and she said that.

I admire her a lot.

I think she's incredible at what she does.

She's also going to be eternally my lower craft.

There's another great example where she just gives her all for these things.

It doesn't matter what the movie premise or some of those things is.

She only knows one speed.

She's good.

Let's see here.

No Wiley is 54.

Dr. John Carter on E.R. Tom Mason on Falling Skies.

He was Flynn in the librarians and now stars on the pit on Max.

No Wiley has had a really nice career.

Smart career.

He's done a lot of the...

It seems like he became a producer as well as an actor pretty early and it has served him very well.

The whole librarians thing, you know, they started out as movies.

And now there was a TV series.

Now there's another TV series.

He's very smart with that.

Yeah.

I always like seeing actors like him that make a really good living, that do well,

and have like multiple hits in his career as far as TV.

And he stuck to what it works for him, TV.

He's a TV actor and I was a nothing wrong with that.

No.

Horatio Sans is 56, SNL's.

One of their first Latin member, really.

Yeah, I believe here, Horatio Sans was the first Latin member of SNL,

which is way late.

Yeah.

But you know, boy, they brought a good one in.

I love Horatio Sans.

I think his star would have been a lot bigger if it wasn't for Jimmy Fallon.

But I do admire and like his career quite a bit.

Albey Sure is 57.

One of the better names.

And Albey Sure with an exclamation point.

Yes.

A big thank you to Albey Sure for giving me opportunities to walk up to a girl to dance

and then shy away real quickly during night and day.

That song was just long enough to be able to do that.

Just long enough.

I'm going to talk to her.

I'm going to do it.

I'm going to talk to her.

I'm going to go talk to her.

No, no, no, no.

Keith David is 69.

Oh, the amazing Keith David.

One of the better character actors I've ever seen.

I think a lot of people oddly enough might remember him from others.

Something about Mary.

He was, he was Mary's dad.

Yep.

In that.

Yeah, I like him.

He is a really good actor.

And he's got a very deep voice.

It was the voice of the army for many years.

I think he might even still be.

He's voice acts on Rick and Morty.

Yes, yes.

He plays the president on Rick and Morty.

He's got a, yeah.

Actually quite a few animated Coraline.

He's got that voice.

Yeah.

Yeah, did a great job on community.

Just one of my favorite character actors of all time.

Yeah.

And can do it all.

He is incredibly funny.

But most of his career, he's been used as a darker character.

Or a villain.

Or is some of those things.

Yeah, it's really good.

Michelle Phillips is 81 of the mamas in the popus.

Wow.

I believe she is the last remaining.

Yeah.

The rest of them have all passed on.

Yeah.

Bruce Dern is 89.

That feels good to say.

Talk about a character actor.

Yes.

Tremendous through his career.

He has done it all.

He started in the B movies with Roger Korman.

He did a whole bunch of Roger Korman movies.

And then he kind of graduated to character actors in bigger movies.

He had a couple of starring roles in a couple of films.

Yeah.

Critically claimed ones.

But man, what a career he's had.

There was a ton of great, a ton of actors that I really like in the hateful eight.

The only real reason I watched it was because he was this movie.

And I thought that it was the last time I'd get to see him in a movie.

Father of Laura Dern too.

Yes.

Yes, Laura Dern.

Another amazing actor.

And so people no longer with us.

The great, and boy, you talk about trailblazers.

A few have done what she did in her career.

Dr. Ruth Westenheimer.

It would have been 97 today.

The topics and the things that she talked about at the time that she did.

Nowadays, she comes out and does that show.

Is it that big of a deal?

No.

Maybe a little bit, but not too big of a deal or anything like that.

At the time she did it.

And it's the tact and the voice and the tone, her energy, so much of what she was doing.

That accent.

I love the accent.

I don't think, I don't know who else could have done something like she did.

I know who you could point to and say, oh, that person could have pulled that off.

I don't think Dolly Parton could have pulled off what she did.

And I mean, that's the most lovable person on the planet, arguably.

She was so direct about it.

And matter of fact, I think that was one of the reasons why she was successful.

Because she didn't, you know, she didn't, you know, go round the topics like that.

She just went right in there and was.

Being direct is sometimes the best way.

And she was very good at that.

And with her famous catchphrase, get some.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nice.

I mean, girl of monsoon, born in this day in 1937, former pro wrestler, one of the architects of wrestling today.

And all of my fellow 80s kids out there, I'll remember girl of monsoon.

Probably the brain, he and doing a great job, commentating these things and stuff.

Didn't get to see him wrestle, but yeah, I thought you said girl of monsoon.

I'm like, that's an interesting wrestling name.

It's a band.

It's a band that girl of monsoon was in.

It's a great job.

Oh, yeah.

Sounds like a band name.

It does.

It really does.

Yeah.

And that'll do it for our birthdays and anniversaries.

We appreciate you guys getting us all of the, oh, no, I'm sorry.

I skipped one.

I apologize.

Freddie Fender, born in this day in 1937.

Freddie Fender.

I didn't get that one in there.

Musician.

Yes.

He was one of a kind.

One of a kind musician.

That will do it for our birthday anniversary.

One of a kind mustache.

Yes.

Oh, he had a tremendous mustache.

Awesome.

One of the best.

One more time.

Happy 15th anniversary.

Do Seth and Beth.

Happy birthday anniversary.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's a very happy birthday to Shana Crites.

Happy birthday, Shana.

Happy birthday.

And a happy third anniversary to our qualifiers.

Lawn and Tracy Shaw.

Happy birthday.

Lawn and Tracy.

Happy anniversary.

Happy birthday.

Aversary.

Aversary.

Aversary.

Maybe we can get a new word?

Married on your birthday.

That's what we call like that.

I like that.

No, then you never were going to forget that one.

That or not.

That or not.

We will take a quick time out and get to our news, sports, entertainment, and partner break.

We'll be back with some fun.

Get back, we're going to get into the most dangerous foods in your fridge.

At 11.

The most dangerous foods in your fridge.

At 11.

Coming up on the Morty Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Diving right into our segment.

Consumer reports posted a list of the most dangerous foods that might be sitting in your fridge right now.

Here they are for you to get into and will give you little details for them.

Right out the gate, I think a pretty easy one, deli meat.

There were 87 hospitalizations last year in 10 deaths.

Whoa.

This is a deli meat.

That's not good.

That's scary.

That is rough.

You hear a lot about contamination on deli meats with like equal eye and there are things.

They're particularly susceptible to that.

Yes, they are.

Cucumbers.

No deaths, but 173 people were hospitalized from cucumbers.

Right.

And just remember when hearing these numbers, they don't sound like a lot.

But if those were people that were hospitalized, that means there were many, many more people who just got really sick from it.

They just didn't need to go to the hospital.

Also, maybe not, we're not tracked because some of them didn't need to even get care or it was reported.

Exactly.

So yeah.

ER visits, I don't know how many of those would have been reported as well to this list.

It depends on if they can get them, if they can trace it back to what caused for a second.

A specific thing right now.

That's exactly what made me think of that.

Our next one, raw milk and a raw milk cheese, 29 people in the ER.

And this one was a little more specific about mentioning the ER.

The others didn't really mention that.

Interesting.

I don't know.

But that was certainly one that I think is more common knowledge.

Right.

Right.

It is dangerous.

It's more dangerous than pasteurized dairy products.

When you talked about these things that are dangerous in your fridge, I thought we were going to be talking about condiments.

Because we often don't look at the expiration dates and they sit in our fridge for years and years and years.

That's true.

These are things that are dangerous in your fridge, not necessarily because of your fridge, but because of our food supply system here in the US.

And a lot of these safe guards are being taken away.

Right.

Out of our food supply system.

So it's very especially important to pay attention to these things.

Yes, it is.

Keso fresco and a cotija cheese or a cotija cheese.

I'm saying that right.

I don't remember how to say it either.

I'm sorry.

Two deaths, 23 hospitalizations.

There was a big, a long-running investigation into those specific items.

Because of the place that they were being processed.

They kept getting cited for, I don't remember the type of bacteria.

But once it's there, it's really hard to get rid of.

Yeah.

Eggs.

They landed 34 people in the hospital.

Not that ain't right.

I mean, it's the price of eggs and everything.

That's just not right.

I know what happened here.

You were not rocky.

Okay.

Do not put the big raw eggs.

Don't eat raw eggs.

You are a tough guy.

I'm going to put them right.

No, don't.

Don't.

Like we talked yesterday, James, I want my eggs cooked all the way through right now.

Please.

Make sure it's done.

Make sure it's done.

All the way through.

That's probably wise.

I don't know if better safe than sorry has ever been more apt than with food.

Scramble eggs.

Just get all scrambled eggs instead.

You know it's cooked then, yeah.

Yeah.

Hard fried.

Yeah.

Onions.

One death in 34 hospitalizations.

Oh no, that's not right.

That's not right.

That ain't right.

That's just crazy.

Because you've got to use onions for so many things.

Yeah.

Well, there is also the importance of making sure that you're properly washing your fruits and vegetables

before you consume them.

Yeah.

Everything.

Everything needs to be washed.

Yeah.

Leafy greens.

There was one death and 36 people had to be treated.

And this is another one that we need to be especially careful of right now with the pre-packaged

what are supposed to be pre-washed.

It says it right on the bag.

It does.

But because they're so highly processed, the chances of having some kind of contamination are higher.

So even though it says pre-washed, it's a very good idea to also then again wash it.

Wash it.

Just to be safe.

Just to be safe.

Just to be safe.

Organic carrots.

There was one passing in 20 hospitalizations.

Wow.

Really?

Wow.

And organic.

That too.

Yeah.

It's scary.

And organic basil.

There were four hospitalizations from that.

That one hurt my soul.

Jay, why are you doing this to us?

I mean, it's important information to have you.

To try to lower these numbers.

Yeah.

Okay.

This is for good reason.

All right.

I'll give you that.

I don't want to.

Honestly, I'd pick.

I'd like, if you'd notice, I try to pick very fun stuff.

Yeah.

But every once in a while, we've got to get into stuff that, you know, isn't necessarily

the most fun topics and everything.

But I think it's on a stage.

No, you're right.

Keep going.

Destroy my soul.

Pre-cooked meat.

That includes things like pre-made salads and frozen burritos.

They toss it on the list because stuff like that gets recalled a lot.

It does.

It does.

In fact, there's a recall right now for packaged ground beef, I believe.

I got a look.

Okay.

One other reason I bring this list up is not just to the two reasons, really.

One is we are seeing a ton of people losing their jobs right now in key positions as you

touched on before Melissa.

I remember this was almost 20 years ago.

I saw a report on people who were in charge of our infrastructure and that there was one

person in charge of all the dams in Alabama.

And there are like over 11,000 dams in Alabama.

There's one person in charge of them.

That was like 20 years of them, right?

There's like 20 years ago.

And the idea of getting rid of any of these jobs, not adding to these jobs, but getting

rid of them.

It does not save the American person money.

It does not save the American money.

It's going to cost us money.

It's not only going to cost us.

It's going to cost lives.

Right.

It's just got done telling you.

Yeah.

And this is that.

That's where we're at.

The American life is not worth it to our people in power.

They don't care about us because that's what they're telling you.

That's what they're showing you.

They're trying to tell you, oh, we're going to save you a buck or two.

Oh, this is going to look at the debt.

Look how it's going to go down, not yet and not anytime, anytime soon by that.

They continue to lie to you in your face and all we do is take it.

There are elections coming up.

There are chances for people to make a difference and for making a change.

There are people in power right now that you need to be calling.

You need to be reaching out to do not let Ron Johnson or Derek Van Orton just continue

to collect money from people outside of the state and people in their pocket.

And if either of them have any issue with anything I had to say, please for the love of

God, give me five seconds with either one of them.

Just and I mean on the air, not alone, although I would I'll take that to I would love that.

Go ahead and look how that room looks when you walk out of it.

To me, just give me five minutes with them and I'd love to ask them some questions.

But right now I encourage you and especially if you are in their area to ask them questions

because these numbers are going to rise.

We do this list again next year and oh, this isn't fun.

This is an exciting because that's where we're at, man.

And the other reason I bring this up is because I am getting more and more into cooking

and I just want to warn everybody that they are not on this list.

I mean, the most dangerous thing in your kitchen, James.

It might be me.

It might be me.

So just so you know, just ahead of time.

I wanted to throw out there because this was a Consumer Reports article.

I would encourage everyone.

They just published a very big investigation piece into Kroger.

And I bring this up because Kroger owns Pick and Save, which we have in town here.

And if you go cops, anything, all of those are owned by Kroger.

They did a very large investigation into how they use the information they collect for

their rewards program.

I'll give you one number, 30% now, 30% of Kroger's profits come from selling information,

not supplying grocery.

30% selling information that they collect from people who join their rewards program and

shop there using that all that information they collect.

So I would encourage you to go to Consumer Reports and read that.

It's a very good article.

It's very good.

And unlike some things Consumer Reports doesn't have anybody in their pocket.

No, no, no, they are excellent.

Also like to mention the raw ground beef that was recalled was sold at like Whole Foods,

Market Locations, Nationwide, Organic Rancher, Organic Ground Beef that was sold between

May 22nd and May 23rd.

If you have it in your freezer, throw it away.

All right.

We will come back and have some fun for you.

So we're going to get into some nostalgia and talk about some sounds from our childhood

that may not be heard by new generations coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Hope you all are having a good one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We'll take you to the top of the hour.

We will kick off the 10 o'clock hour, some entertainment news, looking forward to diving

into that.

We'll give it later in the hour.

We're going to get into a couple of other fun things like USA, USA, America's number one

swearing.

Do be a distinction.

But yes.

Okay.

And what's a weird rule that you follow and that you made up but you continue to follow?

I think we're going to have more to that list than we realize.

I think a lot of that is stuff that we've been doing for so long.

We don't even think about it.

Right.

That one.

As always, we want audience participation, 715-424-2600.

Call up and join the conversation through the Civic Media app, if you'd like.

Millennials, Gen Xers, boomers online are listing the nostalgic sounds from their childhoods

that the younger generations they think will not hear.

All right.

I thought this would be a fun list to look at here.

So, I'm going to go ahead and pull this one up on the screen so you guys can see all

of this here and get through these and they're not in any particular order.

So, we'll just go ahead and start right at the top, a floppy disc being read.

What a sound that was.

That was exciting to me as a kid.

I thought that was an exciting, any time a computer made a sound, I thought it was in

war games.

I thought it was cool.

I was waiting for Danny Coleman to show up at a cloaked dagger or any of those great

80s movies that involved computers and stuff, I thought it was cool.

Stop trying to make cloaked dagger a great movie.

I'm trying.

I'm trying so hard.

I haven't seen that movie in 30 years.

I have no idea what it was like.

I was going to say if you might be disappointed, I don't know.

I don't remember a single.

I remember Danny Coleman, but I remember him being a spy and the kid that was in it too,

I don't remember.

I don't remember.

The click of those metal seat belt buckles.

Oh, yes.

The metal one.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Now, think about that sound.

They're different now.

It's still a similar sound.

You still have the metal and metal click, but it's different than the ones that had the

metal.

What do you call it?

The receptor and that has the square button in the middle.

And they're like metal.

It's silver colored.

Yes.

James, just before we move on, because I had to look it up, because for some reason, can't

remember their title, who knows what a floppy disk sounds like today, air traffic controllers,

because that's the equipment they're using.

They're still on.

The old floppy disks.

That's insane.

It's insane.

Look at half of the VBAs, the programs that they're running at those things.

It was just not even 20 years ago that they finally moved them to computers off of a paper

system.

It's insane.

Yeah.

We want to talk about cutting waste rot and abuse.

Let's get proper equipment for these government essential functions.

I don't know about you, but I don't plan to fly anytime soon.

I'm with you.

That hurts.

It does.

Yeah, it does.

It does.

But I would be scared.

No, me too.

I'll drive for seven days.

To train.

Train is awesome.

They do love taking the train.

Yeah.

I sound that you can hear before unlabeled every show, a cassette rewinding or no, a clicking

of a cassette.

Yes.

The sound of the pushing the fast forward button.

Yes.

And the reminder faster and faster and faster.

And then that final bump.

Yes.

Yes.

And the thing pops out.

The button pops up.

Yep.

I still have a cassette player, like a little, a little, I don't know what you call it,

movable, mobile.

It's not a walkman.

It's not a walkman.

Boombox?

No, and it's not a boombox.

I just wanted to say it was.

It's a smaller one, though, that's like a, and it records as well, so you can record.

Oh, it's just a tape recorder.

It's a tape recorder.

It's a tape recorder.

Yeah.

It's a tape recorder.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it has a radio on it, too.

That's it.

I could be.

I had one of those.

One of those flat ones where you push the two.

Yep.

No, I remember hefty.

You had to hold.

That play button would stick some time.

Yes.

And you really had a mash it down.

Yeah.

A host asking, smoking or non-smoking.

Yeah.

That is wild to think of.

I love the idea that we thought that at one point, having a non-smoking section would protect

you in any way.

From the smoke, which is right next to the smoking section, didn't make any sense at all.

My favorite was the restaurants that would have that, like, one little fan.

That you could hear making tricky noises and everything.

And you looked at it and it's, like, stained orange from the 15th.

I mean, I don't know because none of us are old enough, but I mean, can you imagine places where, I mean,

like a plane.

Like a airplane or a doctor's office.

Yeah.

Yep.

We went from, you were looked at funny if you weren't smoking to now where, you know, for over 30 years now or something like that, it's been where, you know, you get looked at funny if you do smoke.

Yeah.

And I just, in my lifetime, and I grew up around smokers, so I'll say that for sure, but I don't know that I ever saw this coming.

Like, maybe of all the bigger surprise, not the biggest, but one of the biggest surprises to me is where we went as a society was smoking and how anti-smoking things went.

That's a great thing.

I just never thought I didn't think it was going to happen.

Well, and, you know, I really wish there would be some movement made toward for the people who do choose to smoke because that's a choice and you can.

There's nothing wrong with you choosing to do that in a way that doesn't harm other people.

But we really need to go after those cigarette companies who are putting horrible awful things into their cigarettes.

Well, and the idea, I mean, again, this administration did this the last go around and they're looking to do it again where they're lowering laws and are making it easier for these.

Taking away protections.

These vape companies to make fruitier and more tasty stuff and all this work.

Getting kids hooked on nicotine at a young age because it lines their pockets.

Well, and not putting all these companies should also, if you want to do this stuff,

okay, but you also got to put just as much money into research and telling us what's going to happen with this stuff because we don't even know the results of vaping or anything like that yet.

We have no idea on that data.

The cha-ching of a manual credit card machine thing.

Oh, yeah.

How about just a cha-ching of cash register?

But no, what they're talking about is when they made the impression of the car.

It was like a little machine.

And then they have the carbon copy paper that put over top of your credit card and it goes, yes, I remember that.

And then you'd sign this little slip.

Yes, none of that was electronic.

No, no, it was not.

That static-y sound from those gray computer speakers that we all kind of got with our PCs,

when a call was coming in, because those speakers were awful.

Yes, they were not very good.

How about, here's a really good one.

Old school, clapping out chalkboard racers.

I used to do that.

That was one of my favorite jobs in school.

And Mr. Kudabal had me doing that a lot.

What purpose did that serve again?

It cleaned out the chalkboard.

Did it?

Yes.

And it threw it all into the air.

Well, you go outside and do it, Seth.

I always thought it was just for punishment.

Exactly.

It was just make people punishment.

You go whap the racers.

I haven't tried to use a chalkboard a racer that was full of chalk,

and all you got on the chalkboard was more chalk.

I have used a chalkboard so little in my life.

I know what you're talking about, man.

I don't even remember.

I know exactly what you made.

Yeah.

And Seth, you had it right on that.

It's like trying to clean a window with a wet rag.

Now the bit streaks.

The little static discharge fizzle when you turned off an old tube TV.

And that little, when you watch the picture go down to the pinpoint.

Yeah.

An old cathode ray tube.

That's the old school ones before everything went digital.

Yeah.

Casey Kasim.

Just Casey Kasim.

Just him on your radio or the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Everyone had a Casey Kasim impression, but none of them were good.

Yeah.

Because he had such a distinctive voice.

But to that point, Casey Kasim, not just on the radio,

but marketed so many things.

His voice was used for so many different things.

Shaggy.

So it's Scooby-Doo.

Really?

Yeah, he was shaggy.

How many different generations had some experience of him?

I love the iteration of Casey Kasim.

Yeah.

The sound of a quarter dropping into the coin return of a payphone or a vending machine.

Yes.

Yeah, because a lot of vending machines now they take only cash or debit cards.

Because everything is over a dollar.

Yeah.

I hadn't even thought of that before.

I got it.

There are still pop machines around that take quarters.

Yes, but the the the clink of the coin in the phone of the payphone.

Now that's a very distinctive sound.

Yes.

I generally don't remember the last time I used a vending machine.

Wow.

It's been that long.

That's crazy.

I think while you were somewhere on point with this one Melissa,

Dot Matrix printers.

Yeah.

During that.

During that.

Yeah, yeah.

And with the three or the.

No, the three.

The perforation.

The perforation.

The perforation, yeah.

Because when I when I my first job at Fort McCoy, well, my second job at Fort McCoy, whatever,

we had one of those Dot Matrix printers and it had the the holes on the side and then

it was like carbon copied paper.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

So many of us for one project or another had to pull those little things off like tear the

little perforation on that side.

Yeah.

Just what would fit in the filing cabinet.

Yeah.