Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world.
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Your host, James J. Mailov here, joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
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Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We're going to have some fun this morning.
Got good things lined up.
The LCaff A. Bertay and anniversary club is right around the corner.
We're going to get into why the wait-to-eat rule at dinner can feel a little uncomfortable.
Pizza Hut's got a new limited edition controversial flavor that we've got to talk about.
Yeah, you sent that to me.
I didn't look at it yet.
Yeah.
And are you cool?
I mean, are you cool?
A study found it comes down to these six traits we will discuss and see how many of
them I don't have.
We will get into that and kick off the 10 o'clock hour or some entertainment news.
Our moment, we have our moment of Dolly to get into there.
Just a moment.
We got some more stuff there.
We're talking about some local theater too.
And a little bit later, I got a songs for your 4th of July playlist.
And a study found recycling could or should, could or should have lottery jackpots.
I want to dive into that with you, Melissa.
Yes, this is a fascinating topic.
Getting into that one and all that as we will.
But I do want to cover a couple of things.
This morning, our opening monologue here, Melissa, how is Pigeon Gate going?
How is Pigeon story going?
Pigeon Gate?
Pigeon Quest?
Pigeon Quest.
Yeah, Pigeon Quest.
Well, it's going well as those who are following will know there was a shipping delay because
of the heat.
And it wasn't safe to send paint bucket through the mail.
And then I was talking with, yes, paint bucket is the bird.
It's the bird.
It's the bird that Melissa is going to be getting.
Yes, that is the name the shelter has given this Pigeon.
But their story is just, it's a beautiful story.
And the rehabilitation that has happened with paint bucket and volunteers at the Great
Lakes Pigeon Rescue is just that their stories are beautiful.
I got to give kudos to, I don't know if you've seen these, I should send it to you, James,
because the person who is writing the stories for these Pigeons has a gift.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
But yes, they are to make a long story short, because it is a long story.
The shipping delay happened.
So now I have been in contact with them back and forth through email about, okay, but
the next shipping date only is the seventh because of the holiday this week.
They only ship on Mondays for the safety of the birds.
So they're not, you know, stuck somewhere over the weekend.
So the next possible shipping date was the seventh and I was like, well, if that is still
going to be hot, because, you know, it's July in Wisconsin.
So they, they, we've now arranged that I'm actually going to meet a volunteer halfway
from Chicago and pick up a paint bucket myself.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
So there's no shipping.
It'll be a hand-to-hand transfer in Jamesville.
Be a bit of a bonding thing for you too.
Wait, paint bucket.
Mm-hmm.
So that's happening next, the seventh, okay, all right, but no, the sixth Sunday.
That is wild that my, my father's birthday is on the seventh who was born in Chicago and
part of the reason I'm bringing this up is my cousin who listens to us when she has a
chance in the mornings and everything heard about this.
It was very excited for you and then also offered if something were to go wrong, you weren't
able to get paint bucket.
Her being in the city, she can grab you a penny, a pigeon.
She can grab you.
She'd just let us know.
She's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You shout out to my cousin Cherish.
She's great.
Yeah.
Well, that's kind of you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Let us know how it goes and do send that to me, please.
I would love to read it.
Oh, I will.
I would love to read it.
I will.
I will.
It is a beautiful story.
We're talking pigeons and s'mores this morning.
Summer is moving into high gear and, you know, we're all looking into, there are certain things
that stand out about summer and that, of course, a lot of people enjoy fireworks.
We encourage you to not only enjoy those fireworks, but to enjoy them on the right times during
safe with them.
Be safe with them, of course, and keep in mind that we have a lot of, especially in towns
like ours here in Wisconsin Rapids, where we're a smaller community.
A lot of our community members are veterans and fireworks are very different for them.
And I cannot think of many sillier things to me in our society that we continue to kind
of do this and knowing that it's hurting our veterans and just continue to do it.
Like it's ridiculous.
I'm not saying we get rid of fireworks.
I mean, the knucklehead that midnight on July 2nd has to start lighting fireworks in
his neighborhood.
Who do you think this is for?
Who do you think is enjoying this?
Because I tell you who isn't.
The people that the reason you can do that are veterans.
Well, I just ask people to keep in mind, enjoy these fireworks, just enjoy them at the
right times, keep in mind, maybe even get to know your neighbors a little bit and find
out, hey, oh, I didn't know that Joe over here was a veteran and this really bugs him
when I do this.
Maybe I'll stop doing it because the only real reason I can do this is because people
like Joe and veterans.
Right.
Right.
And I did reach out to Tom.
Tom sent us a reminder of that yard sign just saying, you know, combat veteran lifts
here.
Please be courteous with fireworks.
I reached out to him to see if they have those available at the VFW or where people can
pick them up.
If you are a combat veteran and you want your neighbors to know, the other thing like
you said, get to know your neighbors.
And if they are veterans, let them know.
You know, a heads up is worth so much when you're dealing with situations like PTSD.
Just them having the heads up to know that you're, okay, I'm going to shoot fireworks
off at 8 o'clock on Wednesday.
And I've been, that's all great notes Melissa and I've been sitting on this for a couple
of years now and I'm just going to pull it, I'm just going to say it.
If you are doing this, if you continue to do this and everything, you're being selfish
and you're really missing the point, you're really missing the point.
The Fourth of July is not just about that.
It's not just about, you know, celebrating fireworks, throwing them all over the place
and everything and, you know, disturbing them, animals and all the above.
Yes.
There are better ways to celebrate.
Yeah.
There are better ways to celebrate.
Like, S'mores.
S'mores.
S'mores are quiet and they're a big sign of summer.
And according to the data from Instacart, this week is peak S'mores season.
We are in peak S'mores season, everybody.
Peak S'mores.
Keep that in mind.
Look, keep an eye at each other.
This week of the Fourth is when we, they see the biggest spike in orders of grandcrackers
and marshmallows together.
The second biggest spike is around Memorial Day, the quote, unofficial start of summer.
Then there's a similar, a smaller jump around Labor Day in early September.
So that's interesting.
It's kind of an interesting way that that develops and everything.
I think that one of the other parts of this that I like too is how to make the perfect
S'more.
There's going to be big debate on this, James, because I have strong feelings about
how to make the perfect S'more.
Before we jump into that real quick, is there a, I don't know that I never really thought
about a perfect time.
I guess some are sure for S'mores, but I'll have them in the winter.
I'll have them in the winter.
I don't know if there's a bad time necessarily.
It might be a peak time, but not a bad time.
When you're camping is obviously the perfect time to have a S'more, but yeah, I like
to, are we getting to the point where we're talking about how to know?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so when I make my S'more, I have to toast the marshmallow perfectly.
It has to be the perfect, melty marshmallow, which takes time and effort to do it perfect
without burning it, because when you're putting a marshmallow on a S'more, you want
the ooey gooey goodness of the marshmallow, not just a burnt outside in a raw middle.
Now, when I'm eating a marshmallow by itself, no S'more, that's when I burn the outside,
because then I eat it in layers.
You burn it, and then you peel off the outside layer, and it's crispy, it's sweet,
oh yeah, yeah.
And then you do that over and over and over, and you have like, I don't know, it's
like the Swiss cake roll of marshmallows.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yes.
Yes.
I love the, getting it that golden brown, and when you know that you've got it right.
For the s'mores, that's perfect.
The roast, just looking at this, a kid's summer camp came up with the most perfect ways
to make s'mores, and we got a little bit of a guide here for you, kind of.
We've done this one before, but bring it back.
The roasting technique, most people agree with it, that the marshmallow and how to roast
it is the most critical part of the equation.
They found that the ideal roasting time is exactly two minutes and 37 seconds over medium
heat.
I'm starving.
I'm starving.
I'm starving.
I'm starving.
I'm starving.
So if we're doing this inside over your stove top, however, when you had a fire, guys,
can you get that fire to medium heat, please?
Exactly.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You know, two minutes and what, 37 seconds for my marshmallow.
And I know that we've made s'mores like for like sleepovers and stuff like that, but I
don't remember any of that.
And I'm pretty sure we just put them on the, we just made them.
We didn't like burn with marshmallows or anything.
We just ate a bra or whatever you'd say.
Oh, inside.
Yeah.
I've never made a s'more when I'm not at a campfire.
Yeah, I don't think I have either.
Right.
As far as the traditional way, yeah.
Yeah.
The chocolate.
While traditional milk chocolate works fine, darker chocolate gives it an extra flavor
punch.
They suggest using a one that about, that's about 70% cocoa, and the chocolate should
be softened by the first, by the fire just before sandwiching it.
It would be better to be softened because s'mores are messy if the chocolate is hard.
That's what I was saying.
Which is I think why the milk chocolate is usually, you know, the easier one because
milk chocolate is softer than dark chocolate.
But the, you know, obviously doing things like Reese's pieces, candies, those are super
soft.
And the marshmallow s'more easy to eat then, and tasty.
And the graham cracker.
It provides the crunch and structure that holds the whole thing together, a slightly
honey flavored graham cracker tastes the best, and the cracker should be warmed for 12 seconds
on each side before assembling to enhance the texture of the flavor profile.
Oh, wow.
I have never warmed the graham cracker.
I mean, you really got to love s'mores to go through all this, I feel like.
Typically at the campouts that I have made s'mores at, you're more dealing with moisture
problems with your s'more or your graham cracker.
So they might be a little less crisp, which is also okay because then your s'more doesn't
break apart when you take that first bite.
Yeah, which happens so often.
And finally, they throw in here the ratio.
When you finally go to assemble it, the perfect s'more will have a ratio that's two parts
graham cracker, three parts marshmallow and one part chocolate.
Make sure you bring your scale when you go to make s'mores.
Because we've all, we all remember how many times we've seen kids sitting there, you know,
measuring everything and making sure that everything, I just give it, just dive in, eat
it and enjoy.
Most often it's, okay, we got to ration the chocolate so we don't run out, you each get
one square.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
You know, I started following Melissa Gilbert on Facebook.
She's got a, I don't know, I don't have an in front of me.
So I don't know the name of her page, but it's like Midwestern styling or something like
that.
But she did a video where she took marshmallows and made them look like firecrackers and
the way she did it is she'd like dipped them in water and then would dip them in colored
sprinkles.
So you can do red and blue and whatever color of sprinkles you have.
And then you let them dry and set.
And then you can roast them over the fire with these colorful sprinkles on them and turn
them into s'mores.
I just thought that was like, you know, the best combination of fireworks and s'mores in
this time of year and, you know, my little house and the prairie friend.
I like that.
I dig that.
That is pretty cool.
You want to hear how you make your s'mores and I want to hear if anybody's ever done
anything like you ever used white chocolate with your s'mores or candy bars, what's your
favorite candy bar?
Yeah.
Cinnamon graham crackers.
Yeah.
All kinds.
Have you ever done anything different with them?
Or do you just have your own way of making them?
We'd love to hear from you.
You can call us up through the Civic Media app or Texas through there.
We'd love to hear from you.
Keep that app handy because we're going to give in to the El Caffe birthday anniversary
club.
And we want your birthdays and anniversaries and we're drawing our June winner.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's coming up.
I gear up.
Yes.
Melissa's got to get ready for this.
She's got to pick a number of the few minutes.
So, you go ahead and send her yourself.
Yeah.
We'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show in WFHU.
You heard pitful.
It's time to get some celebrating in with our good friends over at the El Caffe and the
birthday anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We get to celebrate you and talk about El Caffe over at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful
ported Edwards.
They're open for the week, everybody.
They are.
And they have some great specials this Independence Day week holiday, Patriot pancakes.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah.
It's three of our famous fluffy pancakes topped with strawberries, blueberries and whipped cream
and eggs are made for $3.
Oh, that's fabulous.
That really sounds good.
Yeah.
That all American burger sounds good.
Oh, yeah.
And so does the Independence Day Benedict.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, James.
I'm still stuck on breakfast.
Yeah.
I know I'm with you.
I'm with you.
I was stuck there, too.
Yeah.
It's an English muffin top with country-fied steak and smothered in our homemade gravy,
certain potato or fruit.
But of course, you would go for the burger.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Absolutely.
But they all sound really good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The atmosphere is wonderful.
The energy over there is fantastic.
Check it out today.
Get on over there, everybody.
They do a great job of updating that all the time for you.
It's a great place to go.
And not only keep up the date on what they're doing, but reach out to them, if you'd like.
Yeah.
And you know, they're just so friendly.
And you feel like you're, I don't know, not that you're home, but maybe in your grandma's
kitchen.
Yeah.
That's a great way to put it.
Yeah.
They're aunties.
The atmosphere is wonderful.
The energy over there is fantastic.
Check it out today.
Get on over there, everybody.
We love 21 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.
Treat yourself.
And get us those pancakes.
Yeah.
Really, they're real.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We love celebrating with you.
You can email us info at wfhr.com.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.
You can call on up.
That's right.
715-424-2600.
And you probably have the civic media app and that's an easier way to call.
Just press the call button.
I think there's one more button.
You've got a press, but then you'll connect directly to us.
Easy peasy.
And we encourage you to do that, everybody.
And you could be like our next winner here.
We're going to draw our winner for June.
What we do every month, every day of the week, the week, the work week,
we grab a qualifier every day.
And at the beginning of the next month, we grab a name out of a hat.
Or somebody actually just picks the name out of the numbers that I'm given.
But I don't have these numbered today.
They're not numbered.
I've never had them numbered.
So I just got to kind of like eyeball this a little bit.
But you know what?
I think you should do James instead.
You should pick the winner today.
No, I got it in front of me.
No, I know, but you don't look.
You do it like you do on a map.
You just close your eyes and you point.
Yeah, I could do that.
I like you.
Because how am I going to pick?
Well, because I know that we had 30 days in June.
And I know we had at least 31 or 32 qualifiers.
So let's say 31.
And let's say one through 31 Melissa.
Should I make you count all the way through?
You did.
I already did.
Couldn't help myself.
All right.
Well, I'm going to make it easy on you James.
I'm going to pick number six.
All right.
That gives us Elliott and Jesse Wart.
Elliott and Jesse Wart.
Yay.
Congratulations.
Elliott and Jesse Wart had an anniversary earlier in June.
So now you're going to get to celebrate a month later, you guys.
Enjoy.
They just got themselves two $20 gift certificates from our friends at OK.
Over at L Cafe.
Big thank you to them for sponsoring this segment, giving us the opportunity to do this.
Absolutely.
Elliott and Jesse Wart are June qualifiers.
Congratulations, Elliott and Jesse.
Winners, there are winners.
I keep doing that.
Yeah, winners.
That's all right.
Congratulations.
Now we look at today's list, who are our first qualifiers for the month of July,
getting right into this?
I can't believe it's July.
Yeah.
You're telling me.
Yeah.
One or two, Melissa.
Hmm.
What?
All right.
It gives us that qualifier.
First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Kathy Stoner, who lives in Texas.
Jeff Stoner's wife.
Jeff used to work here a while ago, but a long time.
For a long time.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, Kathy.
Wishing you a good one, Kathy.
And we wish a very happy birthday to Stacy Nelson.
Happy birthday, Stacy.
Enjoy the day, Stacy.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier, Mary Lou Gums.
Aw, happy birthday, Mary Lou.
Enjoy the day.
Wishing you a good one, Mary Lou.
Have a great day.
Hmm.
Congratulations.
Let's see who you share your birthdays with.
Chloe Bailey is 27, one half of Chloe and Haley.
I don't know.
That's a band, I believe.
That's a band.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I like the name Chloe.
This is a great name.
Yeah.
Let's see here.
Live Tyler is 48.
Wow.
Our win in the Lord of the Rings movies.
And of course, the daughter of Stephen Tyler.
She was in the, or not Stephen Tyler.
Yeah, Stephen Tyler.
Yeah.
She was in the crazy video back in the day.
And that was really a big break for her.
But Armageddon, number of movies.
I really thought she did a good job in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Oh, she did.
And I, I don't know.
Armageddon was kind of the movie for me with her.
Yeah, yeah.
But I did love her in Lord of the Rings too.
Yeah.
And I don't know that she ever really got a real break in acting.
Like, I mean, obviously got lots of breaks, big time movies and all that.
We just mentioned two of the bigger movies of our youth.
But I don't know that she really ever was able to break away from being Stephen Tyler's daughter
or some of the history there.
Todd Rungren deserves a shout out to Todd Rungren helped raise her.
And, and you know, that's also noteworthy.
But just interesting life, interesting person.
And I would like to have seen her get a chance at some other acting roles outside of some of the ones she did.
Yeah.
Of that thing you do.
I also really like her one.
Oh, yes.
Good call.
Good call.
Yeah.
Tom Hanks, first director, first movie director.
Yeah.
Missy missed a meaner Elliott as 54.
Hmm.
I just heard Laura shout.
I just heard Laura.
Yeah.
Big fat, big fat.
She's great.
Complete original.
Complete original artist.
And I wouldn't have guessed her 54 though.
Yeah.
Pam Anderson is 58.
Wow.
Hmm.
You know, not for nothing.
She's really done quite a, quite a job with her career where she was.
And, you know, the Baywatch stuff.
And she has a moment there where she's doing some movies and magazines and some of that.
And then she kind of fades away for a while.
And her bounce back, like where she's done so much for animal rights and a lot of those things.
I've admired.
She's, she's, she's pretty interesting.
And I also just recently saw a video with her where,
where, um, I think it was on like Drew Barrymore show or something.
Hmm.
Where they're talking about embracing her looks as without makeup.
Yeah.
Which is, I think, Uber important for women to be able to embrace their natural beauty.
Hmm.
Again.
Yeah.
Because women are beautiful.
And we don't need makeup to enhance that.
Agreed.
I don't want to.
Yes.
Couldn't not agree more with you.
It's a societal pressure that we shouldn't have to bow down to.
And Pamela Anderson is, is kind of taking a stride forward with that.
And I appreciate and admire that with her.
And yesterday we celebrated Michael Phelps birthday.
Our most celebrated, um, um, Olympian.
Today is Carl Lewis's birthday.
64 9 out of 10 Olympic medals of his are gold.
And when I was before Michael Phelps, that was the greatest, you know,
Olympian I'd ever seen when I was a kid.
I kind of interesting.
They have birthdays back to back.
That's, uh, that's kind of wild.
So if you want to crack field.
Yes.
Yes.
Track and field.
Uh, maybe, uh, as far as, uh, I don't know, uh, overall track and field goes.
Easily the greatest track and field, uh, athlete I've ever seen.
Um, by, by far and away.
Just don't ask them to sing.
Don't ask them to sing or throw out a first pitch.
Uh, it's one of the wildest things in my brain, uh, of seeing Carl Lewis as a kid
doing these amazing things, being one of the last, like triathlon type athletes
that could do it all in track and field.
Not just, now it's all specialized where, okay, you're a runner, you're a shot,
put throw, or some of that track.
Carl Lewis is one of the last throwbacks of doing all the, oh, as many events as he could.
Um, and then you see him trying to throw out a first pitch.
And it's just like, it, it, it looks like somebody who has never seen sports before.
It looks like it just got awful.
And then, you know, his singing.
Just doesn't think he never practiced.
It kind of is humbling almost.
I would hope.
I would hope for him.
Um, I think the most underrated person to ever walk on the Saturday Night Live stage,
Dan Acroix is 73 today.
Wow.
Dan Acroix, almost a household name if he isn't, uh, very popular, great movie career,
many, many different things that he did in his career.
And all that being said, completely underrated on that show in his legacy.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and not for nothing.
I mean, that's actually kind of a credit to him in some ways,
because that show was at a lot of egos and a lot of people looking to get on that stage
and have a recurring character or something.
Maybe nobody more than, uh, Chevy, uh, nobody more than Chevy Chase, certainly.
But Belushi wasn't that different from that.
And there were other cast members that were.
And then, there's Dan Acroix, who, hey, what do you need from me?
Hey, where do you want me?
Hey, what do you need me to do?
Oh, the writers came up with this great sketch.
Nobody wants to do.
I'll do it.
I'll do Basil Matic.
I'll do this, you know, and, and it's just led to him being one of the, I think, the more, uh,
greater careers to ever come out.
Not only at, uh, his SNL career, but his career afterwards.
Not everybody has a great career afterwards.
Dan Acroix had quite the career.
Ghostbusters, trading places.
To me, it's such a credit, too, that it's so many of these things he's done,
uh, are outside of his SNL, you know, he did a movie cone heads and stuff,
and, you know, that was good, but for the most part, most of his...
He was also in my girl.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, he's great.
I love Dan Acroix.
Fred Schneider is 7-day-4.
Uh, legendary voice of the B-52s.
Love shack, Rome, rock, lobster.
Um, yeah, Fred Schneider.
Uh, good singer, songwriter.
Terrence Mann is 74, wonderful actor.
Uh, and Debra Harry is 80.
Uh, blondie, lead singer, songwriter, rapper.
Um, yeah, Debra Harry wrapped everybody.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, yeah, she's some, yeah, great artist, great artist.
Uh, the wonderful Jamie Farr is 91, uh, mash.
Yeah, mash.
She was a clinger and mash, uh, cannibal run.
I think he was in both of me.
I know he was in the second one.
Uh, Jamie Farr, great.
Also, uh, was on a lot of game shows.
Hollywood Squares and a lot of that over the years.
He was a good one.
And then some people no longer with us.
Uh, one of my favorite character actors of all time, Andre Brower.
Uh, born on this day in 1962.
A lot of us will remember him from the TV show Homicide.
Uh, he was in a movie City of Angels with, uh, Meg Ryan and, uh, Nicholas Cage.
But in recent years, he was on Brooklyn 999.
And, uh, got to play a more comedic character, more funny character,
which is something he never really got a chance to do.
And, uh, just one of the most complete actors I'll ever see.
Hmm.
I loved his work.
Uh, and Sydney Pollock, born on this day in 1934.
Movie producer, director, out of Africa, Tootsie, the firm.
Uh, eyes wide shut.
Uh, he's also played, uh, Will's dad on Will and Grace.
Oh, okay.
A great director.
And, uh, Princess Diana was born on this day in 1961, passed away way too young in 1997.
Uh, one of, uh, I think one of the more, one of the more integral people, um,
that I, I got to see in, uh, like all of us of our generation and stuff,
got to experience her in, in that time, in that moment.
Um, there was nothing really like her out there.
Um, somebody who broke the mold of, you know, she had the Disney story.
She came from, um, you know, humble beginnings and, you know, became a princess.
And by all rights, that, you know, everything else should be, you know, just written in any Disney movie
you've ever seen and stuff from there on.
But it wasn't.
And instead of just kind of doing what so many people had done, not just her and,
not just somebody in royalty, but many, many people out there.
Uh, well, we're already married.
I'm going to, we, we should stay together.
You know, we, we, we, that's what we did or whatever and that.
And especially with the pressures of that.
Well, she didn't.
She fought against tradition.
She fought against that and said, no, we're not happy.
And our kids are not going to be happy if we're sticking together.
So she left.
And then she gets hounded relentlessly by the paparazzi.
This is a woman who during the time of HIV and AIDS,
when everybody was afraid to even be in the same building with somebody with HIV,
she's putting her arms around them.
She's showing you firsthand that it's okay.
And, and I know a lot of people when they talk about this, say, risking her life.
She wasn't risking her life.
That was the point.
She was trying to show that you weren't risking your life doing that.
Right.
And she was the very first person to do it and one of the least likely people to do it.
And then we lose this amazing human being because of paparazzi,
because of TMZ type stuff and the inquire and all these things.
And one of the most foolish thoughts I've ever had as a kid is seeing that report happening
and coming out of it being like, well, maybe the good thing is maybe this will stop.
Maybe this will slow down.
Because the only reason I love to get mad at TMZ and inquire and these people that these photographers
that go around, you know, going through people's garbage and all that,
I love to get mad at them.
I can't stand that part of the industry.
But I can't get too mad at them because they're not doing it for free.
They're not doing it because they enjoy it.
They're doing it because people are buying that stuff.
People watch TMZ.
People watch the inquire.
They read the inquire and these things.
So it's on us as a society.
Her death is on us as a society.
Like, we all got to take the hit on this one.
Because while I've never picked up an inquire in my life, I can't stand TMZ all this stuff.
I'm a part of society.
And this is, we do these things together.
That's how she lived life.
That's how she did things.
And what have we learned from her passing?
Not a damn thing.
Nothing.
It's an insult.
It's an insult.
I would think to anybody that experienced what it was like when she was around.
I'm not saying she was a saint.
That's again, one of the points of her life.
She wasn't perfect.
And go ahead and raise your hand if you are.
Other than my mom.
Other than my mom.
My mom.
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More morning show on WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at 975 FMWFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
I actually talked about this a little while ago.
And it's kind of odd to see this article come up.
It brought to us by StudyFines.com.
What's the most awkward thing that happens when you're at a restaurant?
Someone accidentally splitting a piece of food across the table while speaking
or someone confidently mispronouncing quesadilla or quesadilla or something like that?
Dropping your fork.
It's always when it's quiet.
What about when someone has their food and someone else doesn't?
Like your friend's food arrives before yours does.
So you immediately tell them to start.
But when the roles are reversed, you insist on waiting to take the first bite.
A new study looked into why this situation is so uncomfortable.
I've mentioned this many times.
As long as I can remember, food comes out.
I let everybody get theirs and then I grab mine.
It doesn't matter if it's just me and my mom and dad or I'm at a business meeting
or whatever I'm doing.
I cannot help myself.
My mom teases the living day lights out of me about this.
We always have dinner.
We make a point to have dinner on Sundays together.
There will be times where my mother will slowly grab her plate and slowly grab.
Just stare at me like, well, she's doing it and everything.
Just take your time.
Just mess it with me and everything.
I think that she doesn't don't know where this came from or why I'm like this necessarily.
So maybe we'll find out.
This new study looked into why this situation is so uncomfortable.
I've found that many people hold themselves to stricter standards than they expect from others.
And it isn't just your preference.
In a survey of 625 people across 91 countries,
91% reported that waiting for others to receive their food before eating
isn't expected in the culture.
I don't know when the last time we've seen 91% for anything.
That's incredible.
That's really staggering to me.
All the food.
How does anybody eat?
If there's 91% of us waiting to eat.
You go first.
No, you go first.
The food's getting cold.
Somebody eat.
Somebody be rude.
Please.
When you're the person with the food in front of you,
feel uncomfortable about being watched while eating, guilty about seeming inconsiderate,
or anxious about appearing rude.
So it's easy to follow the norm and weight.
But when you see someone else in that same situation,
you can't process the intensity of that emotion.
You might sense them feeling awkward so you say it's no big deal.
Start before it gets cold.
Even then, some people don't want to proceed though.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Have you ever even thought about this situation, Melissa, ever you did?
Yeah.
For instance, when you're...
I mean, not that we ate out a lot when I was a kid,
but when you break bread together, when you have a meal together,
there's certain protocols that you follow.
Everybody sits down at the table together
and then you wait to start dishing out the food until everybody sees it.
I think that's a similar situation.
We've gotten away from that a little bit in society nowadays
with just the time factor,
and families not eating meals together as often anymore.
So I think it's changed societally,
but when you go to a restaurant
and your server brings out the food,
yeah, if there's one person that doesn't have theirs yet,
it's probably depending on the size of your group,
and your people are probably going to start eating.
But if it's just one or two, or even three or four,
the pressure to wait is there, yes.
There's these little types of things in society that happen.
I think we've talked about this social norms
and social shame in some ways,
where some of this is.
I'll go back to the fireworks thing on this a little bit.
Shame is something that you have to really take in the moment
and it's a case by case thing,
because I think that it can be very hurtful
in a misused weapon, yeah, many times.
We're at the same time.
You're going to go back to that person
and ask the light fireworks at midnight during a school night
or during the weekday or something like not a school night summer.
But during the weekday or something like that,
I think that neighborhood should shame that person.
Like, hey, knock it off, Phil.
Knock it off, Joe, whoever it is.
Don't be doing that.
I think that we need to get back to some of that.
I think we need to bring shame back.
We got a lot of people, especially politicians
that seem to have no shame whatsoever
and it lets them just get away with anything.
I think we need to bring shame back
and I don't think it's a bad time to do it.
But I also think we need to pick and choose it.
I don't know that shaming somebody for grabbing
the first pork chop is really the right use of it.
I don't know if somebody has to go first.
When you're sitting down to a family-style meal
and usually it's the person who cooked the meal
or passes the first dish.
Like mom sits down and hands the mashed potatoes to dad
and the people just start dishing up their plates.
But I think it also depends back to eating in a restaurant.
It depends on who you're with.
Yeah.
If you're there with your best friend
and you're starving, your food gets there and there's doesn't
and they say go ahead, I'm going to go ahead.
Yeah, you got it.
You got it.
But other times if it's not so important
and you might just continue chatting
and not be a big deal to be waiting for their food to arrive.
Yeah.
So according to StudyFinds.com,
it's awkward because there's a disconnect between what you feel
and how you perceive other people's feelings
in that same situation.
Again, 91% and not just here in the States,
but in 91 countries.
So this is a really universal thing
that we can all kind of relate to,
which is another cool thing I think that brings us,
we have things in common with people all across the other side
of the world.
And food brings us together.
You really does.
It does?
Oh, sorry, Melissa.
No, that's okay.
I just saw an opening.
I jumped on, sorry.
It does bring us together.
And it can divide us a little bit too with controversies.
We have Pizza Hut officially a controversial limited
edition flavor to get into when we get back.
We'll discuss that when we come back.
But listen, James, hanging out with you this morning on WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning, show here at WFHR, 975 FM 1320 AM.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
10 o'clock hour.
We're going to kick off with some entertainment news.
Got some good stories of the day.
Gonna get into some, not only entertainment,
but songs of your, for your Fourth of July playlist.
Got that coming up.
Talk a little Fourth of July and some other great events
going on our area.
Had some of our nonprofits and other places.
But we wrap up the hour a little bit in a controversial place.
And, you know, whether it is a civic media as a family
or it is us here at WFHR, we have never shied away from controversies.
We will face them as a community together.
In summer 2025 is the summer of love, apparently, for Pizza Hut.
This past Tuesday, the fast casual pizza chain
announced the creation of its Hut Lovers pizzas,
a limited edition menu featuring four over-the-top pizzas,
each piled high with premium toppings and all that.
So Hut Lovers pizzas.
Yes.
Three of the four Hut Lovers are old favorites.
They got the meat lovers, contained six different types of meat,
pepperoni lovers, which has extra cheese and 50% more pepperoni.
That's a lot of pepperoni.
Veggie lovers featuring mushrooms, onions, green peppers,
diced tomatoes, and black olives.
And then the fourth one, a spicy Hawaiian Lovers pizza.
Controversy.
To which Pizza Hut acknowledges that this fresh offering ignites
one of the most debated pizza controversies that we have.
Only 38% of pizza fans say yes.
They, you know, like this kind of pizza,
the spicy Hawaiian pizza and everything.
To their point, it consists of spicy marinara sauce,
topped with cheese, ham, bacon, pineapple, jalapeno,
and red chili flakes.
That does sound spicy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And this goes back to, you know,
whether we're talking pineapples or anchovies or whatever,
what you should and shouldn't put on a pizza.
Obviously, there is no should and shouldn't be pizza.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It is really whatever you want.
But I am curious to the audience out there.
There's so many, we're doing this with foods now,
where there is, you know, you know,
what I just want to cheese pizza.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Go ahead and a tombstone at the grocery store.
You know, for the most part, you're lucky to find
a four cheese pizza or something like that.
It just feels like there's nothing that's, you know,
quote, regular anymore.
Everything's got to have a little bit extra to it
or something along those lines.
And, you know, I get that from marketing,
from a marketing perspective.
But to people out there, are you interested in these?
Do you like these?
I love pepperoni.
I am a huge pepperoni fan.
But I've had the, like, not just pizza,
but other places like when they pile on the pepperoni.
I don't know, it's too much for me.
Like, I don't need that much.
Yeah, too much of a good thing can be not good.
I've learned that the hard way,
many times in life, Melissa.
Sugar has entered the conversation.
Yeah, it's very much, very much.
I'd love to hear from you guys.
Melissa and I would love you to join the conversation.
Let us know what are your favorite toppings,
what are some wild ones you've tried?
What are their most controversial toppings?
Yeah, yeah.
That could be a household thing, you know,
like in the house, it's, you know, for your family,
it's a controversial thing.
Yeah.
Some people hate it, some people love it.
I actually, my sister-in-law put a ruggola on a pizza
that she made for her and I,
because we don't do dairy either.
One of us, and it was delicious.
Huh.
Huh.
I've tried that.
And I don't really like a ruggola,
because it's got kind of like a peppery flavor
and it's a green, a lettuce type.
Yeah.
But it's really good on pizza.
I, I really want to try that.
That sounds really good, actually.
Huh.
I like a ruggola.
So, oh, that sounds really good.
I like to try that.
This, and we'll keep this conversation going.
Reach out to us through the Civic Media App.
You can text or call us anytime you like.
I did get me thinking though about, you know,
fast food chain,
or just pizza in general and pizza chains.
And now, who is, who is the big dog?
Who's the one at the top of the chain on this one?
Because when we were kids, there was the pizza wars.
There were, you know, pizza dominoes.
And dominoes.
He had other markets, other places kind of jumping into that.
And I was curious, you know,
where, how these numbers were looking.
Where are they right now?
Yeah.
So, here's some, and I would too,
you can go to post toast.com to find the complete article
if you'd like.
Dominoes ranks number one in the US locations,
global locations, and total sales revenue.
Really?
I was a little surprised by that, actually.
And just because usually, like I would say that it's pretty easy.
Dominoes probably advertises more than any other pizza place.
And usually when you see that,
there's the second place, you know, team that's doing that.
I would have thought that they weren't number one,
but they are number one by far and away.
With over 19,000 locations worldwide,
and the second highest US presence,
pizza hut remains a major global player as well.
Yeah, pizza hut was the big one when I was a kid,
but because in Sparta, they didn't have a dominoes.
Oh, okay.
So we only got dominoes very rarely
if we went to lacrosse to the mall,
because then we would go to the, you know,
food court area,
which wasn't a food court at the time,
but we got to pick what we wanted.
Well, I never chose dominoes,
because I was one of the year old.
Oh, yeah.
Speaking of all of our fellow mall rats out there
at 90s mall kids,
Sparo had the highest year over year growth
in both US locations and sale revenue,
signaling a strong presence.
So Sparo's not only still out there doing well.
Yeah.
And they smell delicious.
I love Sparo.
Nothing that smells better in the mall than pizza.
Yep, 100%.
What is that?
I don't know.
What is that?
And the cinnamon place?
I just, I knew there was one I was missing.
You're 100%.
Yes, cinnamon place.
Or also the coffee,
okay, they all smell good, apparently.
But also the coffee place.
Coffee place is good,
but I don't know if it was a mark
if they, like, design this,
if they thought it's through
or it just happened this way.
But it felt like the malls that had the cinnamon
at the right at the front of the food court,
so you got hit by that smell right away.
Oh, they had, I bet you anything.
They were more successful.
I bet you had anything there.
Well, I think that it also depended to,
like, now they've got food courts
where they cram all the food stuff together.
But back in when I was a kid,
they were, like,
parcled out throughout the mall.
Yeah.
So you'd have,
you'd walk past the coffee place
and all you would smell was coffee.
Not competing food options.
There was something cool too
about being a teenager
and having, like, five,
ten bucks in your pocket
and walking on the food court,
be like, okay,
what do I want?
And just,
and seeing all these options
right next next to each other and everything.
Yeah.
It's like an abadons of choices.
Yeah.
I like what you were saying, though,
I like to, when they were spread out more,
but there was,
there was something too about a food court.
I think more, more so in major cities, though.
Like in,
yeah.
In, like, areas like ours,
I like to, when they were spread out more.
If I'm going to, like,
to the one of the east
or west-town mall in Madison
or something like that.
Yeah.
So according to this,
as far as the numbers go,
here are the ten largest pizza chains
in the U.S.,
dominoes at number one,
pizza, then little Caesars,
Papa John's at number four,
Papa Murphy's at number five,
Marcos Pizza at number six,
Godfather's Pizza at number seven,
and then M.O.D. Pizza,
Hungry, Howie's,
and Chuck E. Cheese wraps it up.
Hi, Chuck E. Cheese.
Hunger Chuck E.
Interesting to see Chuck E. Cheese in there still.
They used to be,
they're what,
I think there still is a Chuck E. Cheese in the cross,
and we would always go there
for my brother Andy's birthday,
because it was on New Year's,
New Year's Day.
One of the first birthday parties I got invited to
was at a Chuck E. Cheese.
I'll never forget it,
because I was so happy to be invited.
I was so happy to,
we're having pizza.
This is fun,
and then those animatronic things came out.
That was a show.
What the?
What the?
That and the ball pits.
Yeah.
All the ball pits were great.
My little sister would hide in them
because she didn't want to leave.
Well, where's Jillian?
Every time we went to,
like the hardest year in town
when they had it and everything,
every darn time.
It's interesting to see,
I want to go to this Hungry Howie's too.
I want to try that.
I don't know.
I love trying different pizza places.
Yeah,
and that's not something
that I can eat very often.
In fact, I shouldn't eat it at all,
but you know what?
It's pizza.
Yeah.
You know, we only live once.
It's so true.
It's so true.
I hate you, stomach.
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