Marathon Monday (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Your host, James behind the microphone joined by a head of news and co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here with us, everybody.

We hope you're having a good one.

We're going to kick things off with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How was your weekend?

Weekend with solid.

How was yours?

It was pretty good.

It was pretty good.

I mean, it was cool.

And Chris felt like fall.

Did a little mountain biking or something, but you know, had to get outside in between

the rain events.

Yeah.

Oh, mountain biking sounds so good.

Oh, that's good.

Right on.

Good on you.

I actually got out one for walk.

Yes.

Walk.

It's so relaxing.

You know, anything to get outside, even if it's raining.

I don't care.

I got to get out there and dance in it or something.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Second out, yeah.

Stop this week, too.

It's just a very, very active week.

We've got a warm front moving in today called front tomorrow, a whole entire low-pressure

system headed our way Wednesday, and then a mass of warm up for the weekend, which is

also going to spark showers and storms.

So we've got a definitely wild wet week.

So today, already, just off to the west of us, we've got some scatter showers.

They're going to be moving in over the next hour or so, so a little bit wet late morning.

We'll dry out this afternoon, but chances for showers and storms do spark back up again,

probably early this evening, maybe like six or seven or so, and then another line wants

to move through late tonight.

Now, that line was supposed to be strong with severe, but it does look like with the newest

data that just came in, that the strong, severe, bad storms, large hail, high winds want

to stay way further northwest, and it really, really weakens and barely touches us now.

So that's good news.

I hope that is the truth, and actually happens, versus the strong lines staying together.

If it stays together, it would move in late tonight after dark, and winds could hit 60,

70 miles per hour, and we could see some hail and heavy downpour.

But hopefully that'll all fall apart, and maybe we'll just hear a rumble of thunder

or two.

Tomorrow, the rain looks to stay south, so it's more sunshine and still hitting 80s today

and tomorrow.

Not bad.

Not bad.

You're not too bad.

You might want to get in the rain just to cool off.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

There's nothing like a summer rain.

There's nothing like it's up.

It's down to feel the smell, all of it, and whatever happens, we'll be ready for things

to you, Bernie.

We appreciate you.

Have a good morning.

You too, thanks.

Thanks, Bernie.

Best in the business right there, Bernie and we're low joining us every morning, all

week long.

We got a fun week ahead for you, everybody.

Get used to Melissa.

She's going to have to work a lot this week.

Oh, we got to be cool.

Yeah.

Hello.

It's my week.

We're going to have some fun with it, too.

We got a bunch of great guests joining us, of course, our unusual suspects that will be

with us, and plenty more.

Of course, we have the Elcaf Abort Day anniversary club right around the corner, looking

forward and diving into that.

In other words, Hines is trying to normalize ketchup on eggs, we will discuss.

I made a mistake there.

I should have gotten a report from my mother on that one.

My mom, that is her thing.

She has been doing that as long as I can be a lot, as long as I can remember.

You and your mom.

Yeah.

We'll get into that.

How much, we have another one here, too, a news chopper reporting, launched into a rant

about his failed marriage.

What?

I don't know.

But that it right story, Melissa, we got to get the touch on a little bit later.

We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour with some entertainment news.

We're talking Dolly, we're talking Bonero, and Roblo.

We also got some local theater to get into, as well.

And of course, this week, it's cranberry blossom fest, we're going to get you ready for

it.

Oh, yeah.

All that coming up, a little bit later, Melissa and I are going to get into discussing

the Guinness World Record for the world's oldest restaurant, or is it?

Dun, dun, dun.

That coming up.

Controversy in the world of old restaurants.

You know, it's one of those stories, and then enough people are talking about Melissa.

We will discuss it.

Reporting from the sticky floor in the back room.

We will get into that.

And what is the percentage of people that don't like their first name?

Let's hear it.

We'll get into that a little bit later, as well.

But I got a fun start to kick off the week here.

And we are, we should make this very clear to the audience, because we try to be very

clear and honest what we are here at, not just WFHR and WIRI, but Civic Media.

We are, support as a democracy.

We take that crazy, you know, gigantic stance of supporting democracy.

It's, I'm being sarcastic, hopefully, everybody believes in that out there, and this is pretty

universal.

You know, we love to cover Dolly Parton.

We cover quite a bit of her Guinness World Records.

You know, that he writes stories, and certainly nobody is covering central Wisconsin information

like we are.

And coffee.

We love coffee around here.

Yes.

Yes.

Big on coffee.

And the company that owns Kirk, Dr. Pepper, am I saying that right?

I always feel like I say it wrong, Kirk, or Kirk, I think is how I've heard it, but I don't

know that it does.

Craig, however you say it is right about that.

I like that.

I'm good with that.

That's really good for me the way I talk.

So basically the people that own them, Dr. Pepper, and a bunch of other brands, just

released it's first ever State of the Beverage's report.

Well, they say that dramatic and serious State of the Beverage's report.

And it found the most important drink of them all is, yes, coffee, coffee, coffee, it's

the top beverage Americans say that they cannot live without, quote, cannot live without.

I would argue water, but okay, 62% agree with the statement.

Watering coffee.

If there is, come on.

Tell me.

I live on that.

62% agree with the statement.

Quote, my day doesn't start until I've had a cup of coffee, 69% agree with that.

Drinking coffee every morning is my happy place.

That doesn't mean coffee is our favorite drink though.

It's just one we need in order to function.

So necessary.

Yeah.

America's favorite beverage is soda, 53% enjoy the taste more than any other beverage, 53%

of the vote.

So that is, that's going to win you an election now.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

Going to karegpepper.com, which is where you can find all the data, the data from this article

and the survey that they did.

Part of what I thought was interesting about this is kind of with this shift in generation

and this happens every generation, your, our generation went through it and the ones

after us certainly have, one that has been on the rise is Fizz drinks, a lot more restaurants

are having those and they've never seen such an influx of that.

That has been the, not just kind of the new Fed, but it's been here for a while now.

You're talking about like Seltzer's?

Yeah, things like that.

And they're seeing it as, it's a daily, or all day kind of thing.

It's not as if they're just seeing a spike at noon or at five o'clock.

It's pretty much all day.

Those drinks are popular.

Hmm.

The alcohol ones are like just waters, like Seltzer waters.

Yeah, Seltzer waters and stuff.

Well, like bubbly water with a little bit of flavor.

Right.

Yeah.

Apologize, I should have been clear on that.

I forget that this is how bad I am with alcohol.

I forget that those are big on alcoholic drinks as well.

I did you think about that.

Well, they have definitely become a big, yeah, every brand has jumped on the bandwagon

for Seltzer.

Everybody's got Seltzer's.

I'm pretty sure we have one.

I don't even know.

Everybody has one now.

So that was something interesting.

We are seeing young people spending more money on beverages than they are on other things.

So they're taking this to heart, like starting off their day and or just staying hydrated.

A lot of this.

Well, if coffee is a necessary thing and you buy it pre-made somewhere, you're spending

a lot of money on beverages.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because coffee is expensive if you go to a coffee place and get it.

It's good.

If it's sometimes better, then you can make it home, but it's expensive.

And I don't mean this.

It's so easy to take shots at corporations.

I don't really mean this at any corporation or anything like that, but it's part of the

reason why I go to your mom and pop places, the places that, well, I advertise with us.

And stuff, not just because they advertise with us.

It is a happy coincidence to be honest with you because I've been going to like from the

ground up in places like that since I was a kid.

But I like going to local places.

Last time I went to a conglomerate, they asked me for my mortgage and I'm like, I don't

even own a house.

I don't think this is legal.

I don't think we can do this.

Sign over your firstborn child.

I don't.

Too late.

They're their own person now.

But Bri, I'm sorry about them, but I am so thirsty.

What is your go-to drink in the morning?

One other quick thing.

We can go ahead and get into that, too.

And you guys call up and join the conversation, 715-424-2600.

I would touch your true weight on the Civic Media app.

I wonder so much of this, Melissa, is not just the coffee.

I mean, not to take anything away from coffee, please don't let coffee think I'm disrespecting

it.

But routine, you know, could it be any different that if you started your morning with green

tea or water and lemon water or something?

Dr. Pepper or Diet Coke.

I think there's the routine.

There's also that caffeine kick, which so many of us rely on.

Oh, yeah, baby.

Start.

And then also just, you know, hydrating our body.

Even though some of those like coffee is a diuretic, but I mean, you do get some hydration

from any liquid there or foods that you consume.

So I think, you know, hydrating our body in the morning is an important thing.

But if you can start with a glass of water, much, you know, good for you.

Yeah, that's probably the key to take away from this.

Yeah.

We all need something to drink in the mornings.

Yeah.

And I think that the morning routine is also a lot more helpful than we realize when we're

just waking up, when we're just getting our day started to have things that we don't

necessarily have to think about, we just do.

And we can get, we can literally wake up.

We can literally get moving here and everything.

We all, if you don't think this is that important, think of the last time you woke up late, or

you woke up in a rush, and you weren't able to do those routine things.

And your whole day was...

Hold on day.

Hold on day.

There you go.

24 hours spent.

Just gone.

Yep.

You go with the lottery that day and you're still going to be grumbling about, you're

not going to...

Yeah, but it didn't get my coffee this morning.

It's how important routine can be for the brain.

I think that that's something that also is encouraging if you maybe don't like the way

your day starts, or would like to change it up a little bit.

Every brain can be rewired.

Every brain can kind of be brought in a different direction.

So I think that's encouraging too about it.

Yeah.

And maybe if you have a habitual bad days, maybe you need to re-examine your morning routine.

Looking at...

Yes, yeah.

Looking at this list, I saw, not only green tea, as far as drinks that are popular,

in the morning and, you know, to with people.

We want to hear from you what your go-to drink is out there.

See in green tea and black coffee, like specifically black coffee, chai tea, water, water, lemon

water.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Warm lemon water.

Water, lemon water, seems a little redundant, seems a little...

My mom used to drink something in the morning called Star's Lemonade, is what she called

it.

I don't know if that has an official name or not, but basically it's water, warm water,

with the juice of a whole lemon in there, a little bit of honey or maple syrup and cayenne

pepper.

Huh.

I might try, maybe try that.

Yeah.

It's a delicious morning beverage, but, you know, the warm water your body can, doesn't

have to warm it up in your stomach, before it can absorb it, and then the lemon juice,

you know, the citrus, all of those things are good for you in moderation.

And cayenne pepper is also really good for your heart.

I didn't know that.

You better, as far as...

Small amounts.

Good to know.

Very good to know.

It's important to tell me these things.

When it comes to the things kind of on the rise, as I mentioned, you know, coffee is

here to stay, that's where it's been in these, you know, beverages, the sparkling beverages

or whatever, fizz beverages and stuff.

But the one that is really coming for the crown is coconut water.

That has been on the huge rise in major part because of the electrolytes and the benefit

to kidney and liver detoxification, because that is a big thing people are looking for

is detoxification things.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Coconut water is really good for you, but you got to make sure that you're reading the

label, because a lot of different, you know, find a brand that doesn't add a ton of sugar

or a bunch of other things, make sure it's as pure coconut water as you can find.

See smoothies on the list, those are go-to, those have been popular for a long time.

Then I saw apple cider vinegar drink, and I've drink that before when I've had to, not

for to wake up.

I feel like that's a, I mean, I don't know why, it seems like a rough way to wake up.

Actually, it's not bad.

It's some, there are people who have cured, supposedly, you know, like this is a hearsay,

but acid reflux, with apple cider vinegar, and it's another drink, actually, that when

they were doing haymaking in the summertime, it's a drink that they would bring out there

with them to keep their electrolytes up and to hydrate their bodies, and it's a very

refreshing drink.

If you get really, really good cold water and you mix in like a couple of tablespoons

or so of apple cider vinegar, it's a tasty drink.

I might have to try that.

I don't know, so it's one of the things you can get me to usually try is drinks, and

that is picky about drinks.

It's different than the vinegar, the straight vinegar that my grandma used to make us take

by the teaspoon full of we said naughty words.

You wash her mouth out with vinegar.

Straight up, it's not.

I do not recommend that.

My mom, her mother and my mom used to threaten me all the time with the bar soap thing,

and I was, I think I was 11 or 12, I was older, and I basically called her bluff, and

she wasn't bluffing.

I never got the taste of, what is it, oh, the green soap.

Irish spring?

Irish spring.

I haven't been able to get it out of my mouth since, like the back of my bowl there's

bad.

I could still taste it back there.

And see, my grandma thought at least vinegar, you know, it's edible versus soap, so that

was her go-to.

Not that I think, I don't know that I really, maybe one time, that's all it took.

I, I pushed, I pushed the boundaries way too much, and I'm pretty sure my mom just wanted

to see if I do it.

I, I think it was really just a matter, wow, we did it.

We wanted to send a shout out to our great friends over at the United Way of Southwood

and the M's counties.

Have their great book giveaway, their 14th annual great book giveaway going on.

Two more chances to take this in everybody.

They're going to be at the Southwood County YMCA here in Rapids at 1030 today, had on over

there bring the littles, and not only have some adults reading to them, which is always

great to help that reading slide that can happen in the summer, and always fun, no matter

what time of year it is, but they get to pick out free books.

Yay, I'm pretty loves free books.

And everything will wrap up tomorrow at the Lester Public Library of Vesper at 1230, and keep

the mind that even if it's raining, no matter what the weather, the way a mother nature

might bring, they have a backup plan for these events and encourage you to attend them

and find out more at www.swac.com.

Check that out, great book giveaway going on, everybody.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back with the Ocafabe birthday anniversary club.

It's Melissa and James, take it you through your morning on WFHR.

Well in theory, there's nothing like it.

We have an Lcafabe commercial lined up, and that works out perfectly because we're going

into the Lcafabe birthday anniversary.

Let me see if our musical play out, we gotta, you know, try to get that.

Alright, there we go.

Hey, we got music.

Come on.

It's a celebration.

Gotta have that deep voice form back there.

We'll get those commercials in for you a little bit later, no worries Pam, we'll make

sure to get those in during our break coming up here and figure out what is going on

with White Orbit.

Hopefully, we'll have somebody working on that.

But we of course want to get into the Lcafabe birthday anniversary club.

Whenever our favorite parts of the day, we encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow when

they open their doors at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards, everybody.

Appreciate our friends at Lcafabe.

Yes indeed, but you can get food downtown Port Edwards today.

News flash.

Ooh, ooh.

Yeah, they are actually going to have some food trucks down on Market Avenue today this

afternoon.

Actually, starting at 11, I just saw this post and I'm touching base with some people

in Port Edwards to verify everything, but yeah, it looks like El Sambordor who had tacos

at our Rapids transmission live remote a couple of weekends ago.

They're going to be there on Yum House, Deere's food works and bread by Jamie.

Oh, so you're in Port Edwards today and you want food this afternoon.

Even though Lcafabe is not open, there is food available.

That's pretty great.

That sounds really, really good.

I love trying different places and especially with the amount of food trucks we get in town.

Yeah, so nice, so much fun.

All of these trucks have some amazing chefs in them working really hard and doing some,

we're kicking out some really good food out there, everybody.

Check them out.

And of course, we want you to get us your birthdays and adversaries.

Let them to us, everybody.

Email us up at info at WFHR.com.

You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call that up.

Yes, you can just dial 715-424-2600, talk to us live on air or you can just push a button

or two on the Civic Media app and it'll connect you right to us.

No numbers required.

We look forward to hearing those birthdays and adversaries, everybody.

Get them to us.

Melissa, I need a one or a two.

One.

Give us that one.

So first up, we get to wish a very happy birthday to Anita Ray.

Happy birthday, Anita.

Enjoy the day, Anita.

It's a great name, Anita.

Mm-hmm.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Megan Anderson.

Happy birthday, Megan.

Enjoy the day, Megan.

Hope it's a great one for you.

Have a great one.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Yeah, and thanks to getting us these birthdays and adversaries, we appreciate them.

And if you go to El Café later this week when they're open starting tomorrow, you will

get pie.

Just tell them your birthday was today.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah, that's a great way to get a great way to kick off Tuesday.

That's a good one right there.

Head on over there, everybody.

Taking a look at who you share your birthdays with, Daniel Brull is 47, Baron Zivo in the

Captain America and Falcon in the Winter Soldier Show.

He's also Dr. Kreitzel in the Alienist.

So a good actor, a good solid actor.

Let's see here.

John Cho is 53, Mr. Sulu in the new Star Trek movies, Harold in Harold and Kumar.

There's been an handful of those.

Phil Mikkelson is 55, a professional golfer, one of the greats, one of the guys that really

hung with Tiger for a while there and kind of gave him a run.

I would say, well, yeah, I gave him a run.

Yeah, Phil is that a good career.

Yeah, I've actually at least heard of him.

Yeah, I mean, that's a great note, Melissa, because that just speaks to his popularity and

his longevity.

He's been around a long time doing this.

He looks like he was just cut from the tournament.

Yeah.

The US Open.

You have father time is undefeated.

Phil's getting up there.

It's starting to show.

But I mean, at the same time, you know, every time Phil's in the counter box, I want to

say a boxer.

Every time you kind of golfer out, they seem to show back up in tournaments and everything.

Well, we do still have an American in the first place, JJ Spahn.

Yeah.

Oh, he, yeah, he had a really amazing weekend, just a crazy course and he was the only one

that really seemed like he could survive it.

Sorry, meccaf is 70.

Jackie on Roseanne, children's mom on the Big Bang Theory.

She was in screen too, a bunch of different roles throughout the years.

I loved her on Roseanne.

I thought she was just the like perfect sister on that show.

She was fantastic.

It reminds me a lot of my sister, actually, and that's probably part of the reason that.

And I never really got into the big bang theory or anything, but I know that her from a lot

of people that have, she was really good on that show too.

Yeah, she was.

And I really, I enjoyed the Big Bang Theory.

That's when I actually watched.

Speaking of, I like to show it just didn't really, I wasn't, I didn't get a chance to really

watch it consistently, but not a bad show at all.

Roberto Duran is 74.

Roberto Duran, at the time, when I was a kid, him and Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray Leonard had

this great, you know, well-to-weight title of fight and they were, they were known, it

was all a build up, especially Duran was just, you know, a fighter that you could count

on and all these things.

And famously in that fight, we said, no, Moss, which meant that, you know, he wanted

to walk away, just quit the fight in the middle of the fight.

Duran simply walked away, quit in the middle of the eighth round, and it's one of the most

to this day, it's still one of the most legendary things in sports.

And I don't know of what the equivalent even is of it, of a guy just in the middle of

a game and a fight, just drop and just stopping, especially when it comes to boxing.

It's such a, I don't think that anybody really understands what it takes mentally to

be a boxer, what it takes to know that you are walking in and you are going to get beat

up.

And that is your job.

One of the toughest things about boxing is you know you're going to get hit, so you

got to make sure that you are taking the hits that you can handle by giving the ones

they can't.

Well, and his nickname was Hands of Stone.

Oh, man, Duran was a fighter.

It isn't just shocking the moment in time and in sports and everything would happen.

It's shocking because of the guy that did it.

It's just, and you know, say what you will about this statement and everything, but this

isn't me.

This is more other people, and especially Latin boxing commentators talking about it for

a Latino to do it.

It was just unheard of in any day and age, little guy.

He was five seven or is five seven and 162 pounds.

Unheard of steel and would have never seen it coming.

Never would have guessed something like that.

Joan Van Ark is 82, Value Ewing, Andalus in Notts Landing.

Eddie Lavert is 83, lead singer of the OJs for the love of the money, love train, so

many songs, so many songs over the years.

And then some people no longer with us.

Like to me, just my opinion, my book, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Shakur, born

on this day in 1971, passed away way too young in 1996.

Where so many artists look at their lyrics as secondary, Tupac was a poet first, and

a rapper second.

And in proof of that, there's a wonderful poem that he wrote out there.

This is a guy who, in a day and age where most people were talking about the Rolex or

girls or whatever, he had songs that might touch on those things, but he also had songs

about single mothers and about, you know, and about real, true things.

He had depth.

This was a guy that would change his voice for different, like, lyrical moments, hit

ups and downs, actually had a voice that arranged to him, was also an incredible actor and

was only getting better and better and better as an actor, incredibly complicated person,

not perfect by any means.

But as far as I, somebody who literally has been around since the dawn of hip-hop, since

the beginning of it, since the first songs that were played on the radio, to the first

boom box that had it, that's the greatest rapper of all time, period.

I don't even know who's in second place, and gone too early, gone too early.

The ultimate warrior was born in this day in 1959, WWE Hall of Famer, and certainly

one of many wrestlers that many kids like me grew up watching.

Jack Albertson was born in this day in 1907, a wonderful character actor over the years,

probably most famously known as Grandpa Joe and Willie Walken, the Chocolate Factory,

in the most awkward bedroom scene ever.

That setup that was going on in that movie, I don't know.

I mean, I grew up poor, but I don't know.

That was a weird setup for that.

He was also the man in Chico and the man, and it was also in the Poseidon adventure.

He had a lot of great roles over the years, actually.

And Stan Laurel, born in this day in 1890, the skinny of Laurel and Hardy, one of the

great tag teams of all time, one of the incredible artists.

That is going to do it for a birthday and anniversary club for today, but we wish everyone

out there a very happy birthday and anniversary, especially to work qualifiers and wish a good

day off to our friends at El Café.

They'll be back open tomorrow, everybody.

Yes indeed.

We'll be back after our news in sports and partner break, hopefully Melissa, hopefully it.

Hopefully.

Yeah, let me see how this works here.

Let me...

Yeah, nothing's working.

Uh-oh.

That thing is going, of course.

We have to do a reboot.

I'm trying.

I've been trying.

I have been trying.

Very hard to do a reboot here.

And I've also reached out to our staff, our engineers, so we're trying to do a couple

of things here to get this fixed.

We will see how that goes.

Um, for now, let's go ahead and just come.

We'll just keep going.

That's all we can do.

Okay.

So, I did have a couple of stories that I wanted to get to, but before I do, um, yeah,

let's go ahead and do that.

Let's just dive right in.

I wanted to ease us into this Melissa.

I didn't want us to have to jump right in.

I'm sorry.

I apologize, everybody, if I seem a little off, but this is just...it throws me off and

it has...

Since I was a little kid, do you put ketchup on your eggs?

I do.

Actually, yes.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Now, how long?

I love ketchup on eggs.

Just the only way that I'll have it, though, there's only one way.

If it's on an egg sandwich, I don't like ketchup on my eggs any other time.

Like, don't get ketchup near my eggs and hash browns, but on a piece of toast, absolutely.

Okay.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Um, I've never even tried it.

So yeah, yeah, you know, I was just about to take some shots at my mom and I realized,

you know, what?

Actually, I've never even tried it.

So I don't know what I'm talking about.

I just beat me being me.

And I think that because it's one of those few combinations that I've been experiencing

so long and it just seems so, um, so much my mom's thing.

Well, I don't know.

I don't really have a good reason why I haven't.

I really don't.

I know.

Just being honest, I don't.

Oh, well, and that's fair.

But I mean, think about all the things that, because ketchup, obviously, is tomato based.

But think about all the other good things that do go well with eggs that you may be like,

like, pacante sauce.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Yeah.

I don't like the purpose of burrito.

I don't like the purpose of burrito.

Okay.

That's, yeah.

That is pretty good.

Or like a salsa with eggs on a burrito.

Yeah, that's not bad.

That's not bad.

I don't do a lot of hot in the morning, but you're right, though.

That is good.

I don't mind trying that.

Yeah, but who doesn't like breakfast any time of the day?

That's true.

That's true.

And you're not alone there.

Hines is trying to normalize ketchup on eggs with a new ad campaign that claims ketchup

on eggs or even bacon is perfectly acceptable.

They part on bacon?

What?

Apparently.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

They may have gone a bridge too far though.

They partnered with 100 waffle house around the country and or or or that's either a

100 waffle houses or 100 waffle house.

I don't know if that's an actual company or not.

I apologize.

100 waffle house.

Be a good.

I mean, you know, 100 waffles when you walk in like what or that's all they serve in

one day.

I can't imagine that being a very good business model.

I don't know.

I don't know.

We're running out of waffles.

What?

They changed their they changed their name to 30 waffles.

They just lower the bar a little bit.

So they and they change the labels on their bottles to say breakfast ketchup.

It's the same product.

Just the label is different.

So they're literally trying to like rebrand some of these things.

Huh.

Interesting.

Around 50 diners across the US will also have a limited edition bottles shaped like maple

syrup bottles.

Hmm.

Huh.

Huh.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tyne's claims one in four people use ketchup at breakfast, quote, ketchup at breakfast

should be norm, uh, not the exception.

I do think cause a lot of people like ketchup on their hash browns, which, you know, you

think about fries and ketchup, I mean, nothing goes better with ketchup than french fries.

And hash browns isn't that far removed from it.

But I have to limit my tomato intake.

So if I'm going to have ketchup, the only two things I usually have it with are french

fries and my egg sandwich in the morning.

And they have one.

That's right.

Yeah.

So you know, when you can only use ketchup for a few things, you got to, you got to choose

carefully.

Right.

Yeah.

No, that's, that's a, I hadn't, and that's, um, it's good to hear for people like myself

that don't really have those kind of, I don't really think about that stuff very often.

So it's, it's good perspective, um, I, I tend to use it a little ketchup.

I use all condiments sparingly.

There's no condiment.

Oh, wait a minute.

Okay, maple syrup is a little different.

Hold up.

Caught myself there.

I caught myself.

Uh, yeah.

Uh, there, there was about to, uh, on, on, uh, all over social media, there was about

to be a ton of pictures of me just dousing, uh, things with maple syrup and catching me

in a lot of it.

And, and after James finishes a plate of pancakes that have maple syrup on them, there

is a lake of maple syrup left that he then proceeds to lick off the plate.

I mean, it's, you know, I, not everybody can watch it, but for those of you who

can search it out, that's, that's, um, that's a little too far, Melissa.

Um, I, I think that's a little, uh, I don't, I don't, I have a little more cl, I, I use

my fingers.

I use my fingers.

I, I, I, I lick it with my finger.

That takes so much longer, James, just, just to base yourself and put your face in your

plate.

It depends, it depends on if everybody's looking, uh, let's go ahead and, uh, take a call

here.

Good, good morning.

You're on the air.

Good morning.

I'm going to be different here.

I don't even have a ketchup bottle in my house.

I don't even have ketchup.

Wow.

I would never put it on a hot dog.

Doesn't belong on a hot dog.

You'll be able to be arrested if you put it on a hot dog with you on this, with you

on that.

And I would never put it on a bacon.

Why would you spoil the way taste of bacon?

That's, that's what, yeah.

That horrified.

Yeah.

I agree with you on that one.

That, that horrified me.

That, that, that, that, what do you dip your french fries in?

Nothing.

I take them as hot as I can do them and eat them right there.

Just that way.

Wow.

I love them back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, I really, I, I'm very similar.

I'll have, now, if I'm sitting down somewhere or something like that, sure, I might have a

little ketchup there, but I barely use it.

I like to taste the food that I'm eating and I don't really need condiments much.

I, I'm with you on this, sir.

Yeah.

Appreciate it.

Do you dislike ketchup?

No.

Some of it tastes good on their own.

I wreck it.

Yeah.

I actually do.

True.

But do you do not like ketchup at all, you just don't like it?

I've had it before, yes, but I like it, says I don't have a ketchup bottle in my house.

So it's not a necessary kind of?

So it's not a necessary kind of thing.

So it's not an unnecessary kind of thing.

Yeah, but all the other chimneys I might put a little ketchup on it.

Yeah, okay.

Some of the heavy else like pickles and onions and mustard and stuff like it.

And then I might put a little ketchup on it.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's fair.

I, I, I hear you, sir.

Yeah.

Thank you for the time.

Oh, appreciate you.

Best listeners in radio.

Thanks for calling out, man.

Appreciate you.

Yeah.

Not even a ketchup bottle in the house.

I, I don't know if I've heard of that, honestly, but-

Well, I didn't.

I didn't have any ketchup, like living on my own here until I got a little bit better

handle on my S-reflex, which just means they up my medication.

So now I need a little bit of ketchup now and then.

So I did buy it.

I do have it.

But for a lot of years, I didn't have my choice, but-

I don't, you know, I'm trying to, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm able to say, okay, because maple

syrup does count as a condiment, right?

Now, now, now I'm, now I'm questioning myself, I'm questioning everything this morning

right now.

You know what?

I guess you could count it as a condiment.

Hmm.

I mean-

Okay.

It's like a sauce, though, our sauce is condiment.

That's, that's the thing.

So, okay.

There's that.

And then Melissa, I got into, so we're, we had a class last night that didn't start

at about 25 minutes late because my students got into this thing about what makes a soup.

And it can, can a, can a soup be cold?

It's cereal a soup.

I mean, it's just, I, these debates sometimes, they just try-

Well, the spot show soup is cold.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, that is definitely a soup.

I, I personally, I, I, I don't really care, but personally, I, I, I do think that you,

a soup can be cold.

I don't think that there's anything wrong with that.

And I, I, I, and then can condiments be sweet?

I don't mind these conversations.

It's, it's when they go too far.

Like when people start getting like bent out of shape, it's like, okay, all right, come

on.

We're lucky charms is a soup.

Yeah.

I'm going to die on this hill.

Right.

Yeah.

It's like, okay, come on, man.

It's like, do you want stock in the company or something like, is, the way some people

get so passionate about these things and, obviously, I could be that way about certain

stuff too.

Oh, sure.

For silly things, you know, like, like these conversations, let's call them, why not?

Yeah.

You know, it's, it's, it's friendly debate and we need more of that.

That is a, yes, that is such a great point.

If we can have it about silly topics, like is cereal a soup or is maple syrup a condiment?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

You know, maybe we can progress to civil conversations about really difficult topics.

As long as we're talking about condiments and food, let's get into this one that I

came across from the Associated Press and a big shout out to them and the great reporting

they always do.

And Suzanne Nassihamad, who did the article about this, in the heart of Spain's capital,

Sobrino de Batín holds a coveted Guinness World record as the world's oldest restaurant.

Oh.

Exactly 300 years after it opened its doors.

Milton welcomes droves of daily visitors from the Castilian fair with a side of history.

Okay.

Tell me you wouldn't want to check this out.

Yeah.

Like, I'll have a cup of coffee there.

Like, I don't care.

You got to try the food, but I mean, I, it's just anything.

It's just on the outskirts of Madrid and, and tourists and all kinds of people come over

there.

It is endured many different things and not just the Spanish Civil War back in the 1930s

and the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, but even the war of the Spanish succession

as, as the start of the 18th century.

Whoa.

Um, they, uh, they have quite a strong lineage as well.

Um, uh, you know, it's been around since 1702, they're saying, but there are some rivals

to this.

Okay.

Uh, both.

Uh, so there, there is another tavern that Cassie, uh, or, um, yeah, there's another tavern

that is saying that it's been around, uh, since, um, it's only been around that one's

been around since 1750, they've been around since 1702.

So both taverns are kind of fighting about these and trying to see which one is, has been

around the oldest.

I mean, that's a long time to have a, uh, a place that serves food, continue to serve

food.

Mm hmm.

Uh, I, I'm trying to think of like, uh, you know, okay, well, like, um, like what, what

is Wisconsin's oldest, well, you know, restaurant, um, that kind of, it was probably a supper

club.

You're so right.

I'm kidding.

Um, that's, well, no, it would have to be something, um, on the East Coast more likely.

Yeah.

It's still open.

Yeah.

Um, I'm trying to see, um, I'm trying to see two, uh, like, well, as far as this article

goes, um, what, did it ever take time off?

Did it ever, like, was it ever not open or something like that on those lines?

And I'm not sure.

I'm not sure anything.

I mean, you, you got to assume that they would close occasionally, hopefully to like,

you know, do a deep clean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In 200 years, 300 years.

You would, you would help.

If you, one would help.

Have we known it then?

Yeah.

No, it's good to clean out the corners, get in the cracks, the crevices, it seems, it

seems like it would be a smart, uh, smart idea.

Yeah.

Uh, I mean, they haven't been shut down, you know, so obviously, yeah, they're doing

something, right?

Um, hmm, I, yeah, I don't know.

There's something about that that seems pretty cool.

Uh, it looks like our friends had up north news back in April, did an article about

inside Wisconsin's oldest restaurant, shout out into Christina Leroy, uh, for that.

Cool.

Cool.

So, uh, that went, I can't read the article, it's fine to pay a wall, paying it, uh,

a free subscriber wall, free subscriber wall, should, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, but that's something you can navigate while you're also trying to spend how many

plates right now, James?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, so, uh, not Nash, Nashokas Red Circle in, uh, I'm sorry, I'm probably horribly mispronouncing

that I apologize.

What's he called in?

Not Nashokta, Nashokta's, um, uh, Red Circle in.

Red Circle in.

They first opened their doors back in 1848, uh, throughout its 170, 70 year history.

The in was welcome traders, trappers, settlers, tourists, and working class.

All right.

Yeah.

Wow.

Gotta get there.

We got a check.

Pictures are really cool.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, yeah.

These, this looks really cool.

I want to check this out.

Looks good too.

I'm hungry.

I'm so hungry this morning.

I don't know why, uh, I don't know what it is.

Yeah.

Um, that, that looks like a really cool one.

If, if any of our listeners have been there or anything, let us know, we'd love to hear

from you.

Uh, 715.

Especially how to say it.

Cause I also don't know how to say it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, the show.

Uh, oh, yeah.

I like that.

Actually, just like that pronunciation, better.

I think that's it.

I think we'll go with that.

That's pretty good.

Um, yeah.

That's good.

Um, it's also, I think, uh, noteworthy as far as opening any type of business restaurants

have one of the tougher ones to, to keep going.

So, because the margins are not very big because food prices, especially now with food

prices increasing, they can't charge excessive amounts for the food that they're serving

because people aren't going to be willing to pay it.

Um, maybe the best tacos I got in central California was at a place that was a, a kind

of a side restaurant, but mostly a mechanic shop.

Um, and, and many of the people that worked on the vehicles also were cooks.

And they did clean their hands and everything, um, obviously, yes.

But just as an example of like how many, like what it takes to keep a restaurant around

sometimes, um, those people did that.

They wanted it to be a restaurant.

It just kind of grew into the mechanic shop and that's what kind of kept them, the restaurant

afloat.

Um, there are a billion different types of restaurants nowadays and, oh, yes, and, and

all the different cultural foods that you can find, which are awesome.

Oh, and the industry, uh, you know, ebbs and flows so much, um, what was it?

I don't know if I'm getting my timeline right here or not, but 20 years ago, when you

saw the right Ruby Tuesday, TGI Fridays and, you know, all those kind of places, the

rise of the chain restaurants and then that, that died up.

Now that's gone.

Apple bees are closing down everywhere now.

Yeah.

Uh, but we've also seen, especially since the pandemic, uh, an uptick in your mom and

pop restaurants and, and, and those sorts of things.

So it, it, good luck to ever, and I, I generally mean that I'm not saying this or, I mean,

I think my tone this morning isn't great.

Um, I also started the show way too dramatic.

My good morning, like way too dramatic.

I don't know what it was.

Um, you've set the tone, James.

It really did.

Yeah.

That's why white orbit isn't working.

That's why this is the problem.

It's my fault.

I put my hand up.

That's on me, everybody.

It's on me.

Um, but yes, it is hard to keep a restaurant business going in today's market.

Yeah.

It's just a lot of, of increasing costs and, and it's hard to balance all of those

costs out and not pass them on to the customers.

I, um, when, when we think about, uh, how, how hard it can be for so many of these, uh,

places out there, it's, it's a big part of the reason why you hear us, uh, since really

the inception of this station, um, uh, trying to support as many restaurants and many local

businesses as we can.

Mm-hmm.

Well, because those are the things that make our, our community vibrant and wonderful

is having, uh, options of places to eat and frequenting those local businesses and those

local that have the tie to the community.

Yeah.

Um, okay.

So just, uh, for anybody who's just joined us, we're having a little bit of, uh, technical

difficulties right now.

Some of us and I have been talking for 47 minutes straight now, um, and, uh, well, he was

here for a little bit.

Oh, true.

The spot the weather.

Yeah.

That's right.

I, I think that maybe this topic might be a good one, uh, how much we, how much time

we spend a day worrying, uh, how much, uh, how much, uh, according to a new survey, the

American, uh, the average American spends 138 minutes worrying every day.

That's a lot.

How many minutes?

138 minutes worrying every day.

138 minutes.

Uh, that's over two hours, James.

Two hours, what, 18 minutes?

Something like that.

Don't make me mad.

I know me neither.

Yeah.

Uh, that's almost the exact length of the Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens.

That's incredible.

That's it.

Uh, that's incredible.

I, I don't know what's more weirder than I know that or that, that's, that's, yeah.

There are a lot of motivational quotes about how worrying is a waste of time and energy.

But that doesn't stop people from obsessing over the stuff because that's the way our brains.

That's how human beings have survived for, uh, you know, millennia.

Yeah.

Yeah, fight or flight.

Uh, in fact, so, um, there are, uh, so in fact, 10% of young adults schedule a dedicated

worrying time in their daily routines, only about 3% of those, um, 45 and older intentionally

make time for it.

What?

So kind of make this sleep make time to worry.

Yeah.

Huh.

That seems counterintuitive, but maybe it's not.

Yeah.

Why do they?

Well, uh, maybe they, they think worrying will be productive or that the, uh, the dedicating

time will be, uh, reduct it, reduce it.

62% of Gen Z years and millennials say that they're constantly feeling anxious compared

to 38% of older folks, um, uh, ranking, uh, so here's the other thing too, um, when we're

worrying, it's not as if, okay, well, I'm going to take time to worry right now.

When you're thinking about things, you're not thinking about maybe necessarily the actual

that you're actually worrying.

You're probably just thinking about the topic, you don't think of worry as a thing.

You think you're thinking about the thing that is making you worry.

Am I, am I, am I, I'm not wording this right?

Um, it, it's, if I'm worried about the rent, I'm not thinking about, oh, I'm worrying.

I'm thinking about the rent.

Right.

So there is no specificness to it or anything.

So I actually, I, I kind of understand, it kind of makes sense.

I don't think it's just a younger generation necessarily that is guilty of that.

No.

And I think that there is such a wide array of things for, you know, this, this young

generation that's coming up or coming into, you know, trying to buy a home and start

a family.

There's so many things for them to worry about right now that it's hard to not spend

two hours a day worrying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, you're like, you mentioned the rent, okay, making sure that I have enough money

to pay rent this month.

What about putting food on the table, what about taking care of your, your, your, where

you live, you know, cleaning your home or mowing your lawn?

All of those things that are a day to day, but then you also have to maybe work two or

three jobs to be able to afford the money to come in to, have you heard the saying we

made it small?

No.

Just a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But hey, we have wide webbing back.

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

Rapping up this list before we go to a much needed commercial break, a ranking of the top

things people are worrying about are technical difficulties.

No.

No, no.

That's a good joke.

They did top things we worry about are things like family, health, work, politics, getting

enough sleep.

Those are the sorts of things that can really keep us up and keep us, you know, from being

able to really, I think, enjoy ourselves.

That is where it seems to be.

So what we'll do real quick, we're going to take a real quick break here.

We'll come back and wrap up the first hour of mornings here at WFH.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa and James here with you, hope you

all are having a great, great day out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We started Monday with a marathon.

That's my exercise for the week, right?

Yeah, right.

Yeah, we got all of our talking in for the week.

We're done.

We're done.

Appreciate you all hanging out with us.

The comments too.

We got some good feedback from some people out there.

So thank you best listeners in radio.

Melissa, are you a roller coaster person?

Do you like roller coasters?

Okay.

Sure.

I don't know if I'd like them now, but when I had the opportunity to ride on them in

my younger years, yes, I enjoyed them.

That's a really good, you got me, I don't know the last time I was on one, huh?

Yeah, it's been a while and now I would worry about like, is it, am I going to hurt my

neck?

I can hurt my back.

Did you ever...

Some of those roller coasters can be really rough.

It's not a roller coaster, I know, but do you ever be on like the Gravitron, that thing

that you just...

Oh, like at a fair?

Yeah, yeah.

You go in there and it just, you stick to the wall or whatever.

Yeah.

I mean, I did that when I was young now.

Any spinning thing now, I can't even, I can't even hardly handle a swing.

That's it.

No, that's where I was going.

I think old...

I think it like wants to push me into vertigo.

This version of me, I don't think I'd ever get out of the Gravitron.

I feel like that's where I would be from now on.

That's just where I live.

Yeah, I can't.

I wouldn't be able to do it.

It's roller coasters a lot.

The Ferris wheel, the Ferris wheel is about as spinny as I can get.

Roll coasters are fun and I've never really been on a ride.

Like one of those big like Disney World type rides or Six Flags or anything like that.

I've never really been on something like that one of those gigantic ones.

I think I'd want to do it just to do it, just to try it.

Yeah.

No, and it's fun.

And I think the newer ones that are smoother.

I would be more than happy to go on, but some of the old wooden, framed roller coasters

because I went to Valley Fair when I was like, I was a teen, probably 16, 17, somewhere

in there, and that one was rough.

Well, for some people, there's fun.

It does sound a little mixed bag there.

Some people riding a roller coaster is nothing like it.

They can't wait.

They love it.

There are clubs out there for it and people that travel and go to ones and stuff.

It's in a adrenaline rush for sure.

Yeah.

And for some people, it's also dangerous because they end up eating cicadas or other bugs.

Oh, yeah.

There's an amusement park called Kings Island in Southwestern Ohio and they've been dealing

with masses of cicadas which have made their way to the surface for the next few weeks.

The cicadas are everywhere outside and the swarms are so dense that people are being

worn to keep their mouths sealed shut while riding in roller coasters at Kings Island or

you might get a bite.

Don't scream with your mouth open.