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Morning, world.
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Your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
We're here to have some fun.
We're going to get into some good stuff today.
We got, of course, the LCAPA birthday anniversary club around the corner we'll be diving
into.
Also, I got a fun one about three ways to prevent freezer burn ice cream.
Oh, that's important.
I don't know if I've really dealt with that a lot, so we'll get into that.
You just need it too fast.
That's absolutely yes.
And as we are getting in, we are, of course, in the middle of summer and getting close
to wrapping it up.
The campfire is going on.
It got the fall season coming up.
More campfires.
How do you get rid of that campfire smell out of your clothes?
The eternal struggle for campers.
That's coming up for us.
At the top of the 10 o'clock hour, we got Craig and Rich from St. Philip's Church over
in Rudolph joining us to talk about their 104th picnic.
Nice.
That's incredible.
Looking forward to that.
We got a little bit of entertainment news for you.
We're going to talk about some local entertainment, our newsletter and plenty more where that
came from.
The country with the most overrated food culture.
We're going to talk about that spoiler alert.
It's not us.
It's not us.
We're not overrated.
Nope.
Not on that.
Not on that at all.
But we did want to get into things.
And for anybody who has been, of course, a long time listener or just been recently listening,
it's been a couple of shows since we've gotten to hang out with Melissa and to catch up
with you a little bit.
And certainly by that, I mean, I really wanted to catch up with your new friends and I'm
a little jealous.
I'm going to be honest with you in the audience.
I don't, I don't experience jealousy very often, Melissa.
Okay.
I don't know really.
There's a new step in our relationship, James.
Sort of.
Yeah, because you have this segment with Pat and a shout out to him in this show that
starts before ours and everything.
You know, the pigeon quest that is really exciting.
And I know that I have had a listener to ask me about it.
So not at all, at all, tried to, you know, borrow or take ideas on pigeon questing.
Not at all.
I came up with a completely new segment that is completely different from that called pigeon
press.
And I have the music that I want to play right now, Melissa, I'm just going to play a little
of this for you right now in the audience.
Live from the pigeon convention in Deoria, Bert from Sesame Street.
I love pigeons and I love how they walk.
And I've created a really cool dance called doing the pigeon doing the, it's time for
pigeon press, everybody.
This is where we're going to go ahead and ask Melissa to actually just want to go over
some random stuff about pigeons with you, Melissa.
And just talk about that, basically, that's essentially what I wanted to do.
Oh, that's so great.
I'm sorry.
I had muted my microphone.
Yeah.
No, no.
Final listen on the app.
So I could hear the song.
It's so great, James.
Thank you.
No, I threw a curve at you.
I'm sorry for that, but I had to.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's great.
We need to keep Sesame Street.
Where will we be without Sesame Street?
We would have great songs like that.
We need to keep Sesame Street in fun.
But yes, that is the famous from Sesame Street, Bert doing the pigeon.
Well, I've been working on my pigeon calls because I'm trying to learn Lee Lou's language.
So do you want to hear?
Yes, yes.
Okay.
All right.
Well, because I haven't quite gotten the hand heart, I don't even know what you call
it.
Hand whistle down.
Okay.
Here we go.
Give me a minute.
Oh.
Nice.
Yeah, that's that's that's kind of what I'm working for.
That's great.
Well done.
Well done.
That is impressive.
So I'm trying to like, you know, as I come up to their cage, be as non-invasive as possible
and get them just used to me, I'm trying to build that bond.
Yeah.
So it's going to be a journey.
Right on.
Well, maybe, you know, it'll help to get to know each other a little bit more.
I have some random facts about pigeons that I thought were kind of cool and I just wanted
to touch on.
Awesome.
They are not a bird that I think in rural areas or, you know, even in, you know, states
that they're not as prominent, you may not know as much about them.
That growing up heard a lot about pigeons.
And even I was blown away by some of these things.
Pigeons can recognize all 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Wow.
That's incredible.
Wow.
That's incredible.
That's incredible.
I know they could recognize faces, but I didn't know they could recognize all the letters.
That's so cool.
And I think more famously known than that is pigeons were vital in developing the modern
postal system.
And of course, there's carrier pigeons and stuff like that.
And homing pigeons.
Yep.
Yep.
Now hold up.
Did pigeons, now they can recognize all 26 letters of the English alphabet.
So have they been reading all of those letters all these years?
Like pigeons are, is that how they learn?
They totally literate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They've been, they've been, he's dropping on us this whole time.
But we didn't even know.
But that is a good way to learn to read, I suppose, that pigeons can fly up to seven or
two miles in a single day.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Exceptional visual memory, outperforming humans in certain tasks, even.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
They can even detect earthquakes and volcanic eruptions before humans.
Back in the day, they were actually used for this.
Wow.
That was cool.
They were considered a, instilled to this day in Egypt, considered a very sacred bird,
a sacred animal, one of the, one of the many, but the, and pigeons are found all over
the world.
There are a few birds that they, they're, they're able to handle all climates.
Mm-hmm.
Also, should mention, I don't know if they told you this, they have a, they have a long
lifespan.
They have, they have, they have, they told you that before, I would love that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I did my research pretty clearly.
Yeah.
I figured it out.
And they are one of the oldest domesticated bird species dating back millennia.
Yes.
That is one of the reasons why I decided to adopt a pigeon when I was looking at bird species.
Like, everything I was reading, it just like, this is the right choice.
I had, for those that didn't know, I was away this weekend for my family camp out reunion.
And my entire family is just like so intrigued by the fact that I have a pigeon.
That's great.
My cousin, Jake, was like, okay, but you have to document this.
I'm looking forward to the YouTube channel.
Yeah, that's all, yes, absolutely.
We all are.
We all are.
You may have read this one.
I think you might have even touched on it, but pigeons can recognize human faces.
Yeah.
They have, they've shown an ability to demonstrate their high level of intelligence and memory
through this, which is really cool.
They're really, they're really, they are way, way ahead on the bird brains spectrum.
They're way up there on as far as intelligence goes.
Mm-hmm.
And they demand to investigate it for over 5,000 years.
That is just awesome.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, they had to bend like the first telephones.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I mean, mail carriers is probably the better way to think of it than a telephone, but the
fact that you could send a message miles and my 700 miles to somewhere else using a bird
is just so, it blows my mind.
We've been, you know, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, even in, you know, older people
out there, mail, you know, delivering information has been really, it's, it's been so normalized
in many ways.
And, and good for good, for good, of course.
I don't think we, we can, any of us can really comprehend what it's like.
I've got to get this letter across the ocean.
How do I do that?
Yeah.
Right.
You know, and, and here you go.
You don't have a boat.
Dang it.
Well, and who thought of it?
Who thought of using pigeons?
Who, who, how did you even train them?
Like, who was the first trainer of this to do that?
Like, there's so many followers.
I, my guess would be that the pigeons helped the humans.
Mm-hmm.
Understand that, hey, you know what, yeah, I can take this for you.
It's fine.
I got this.
Pigeons are, contribute to the ecosystem by dispersing seeds and serving as prey for
other wildlife that play a very, very crucial part in maintaining ecological balance in their
habitats, which is very vital considering they are so adaptable and they are found throughout
the world.
Mm-hmm.
So that it's another one of, they are very important bird when it comes to that.
And one last thing I really wanted to mention, just in case it isn't been known, that a bird,
they played a crucial role in wartime communication.
Yes.
Yes.
Which might go without saying considering some of the other stuff we said, but I did think
it was worth noting.
Mm-hmm.
I wanna, I think I have to look back at the stat exactly, but it was more than, I'm pretty
sure, between 20 and 30, or maybe even a couple more than 30 metals that pigeons were
awarded.
That's really amazing.
Number two, it's just for the work that they did to save, you know, to rescue our, not,
well, to protect our troops, really, what those messages did.
Yeah.
And they even carried cameras, James.
Mm-hmm.
These birds flew over enemy territories and took pictures with a camera.
It's, they were like the first drones.
Yes.
Yes, it's exactly where my mind was going with it.
Yeah.
They're incredible animals.
They really are.
They are.
And Lulu and I are just, we're working on, on building our bond, you know, we got
a long life together here now, so we're gonna take it slow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, and there's no doubt that Lulu will recognize you and, you know, possibly go through
your mail, possibly go through your mail.
You know, if I could train Lulu to do that, I'd be thrilled.
It looks, I would be absolutely thrilled.
I hate going through my mail.
Do not be surprised you come home and Lulu's looking through your journal.
It's, we know they can read now.
We know it.
We know what they been doing.
I'm gonna lock them up.
But I'll leave all the mail up for you, Lulu.
Very cool birds.
Well, we, we see it.
We see you.
We'll see you.
Be on to look out.
We will bring this segment back from time to time at everything, pitch and press.
Good.
And thank you for playing along, Melissa.
You are the best teammate ever.
We'll take a quick time.
Oh, thanks James.
We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back.
We'll do some celebrating with our friends at El Café and the birthday and anniversary
club.
It's Melissa and James in the morning show on WFHR.
Smidgen of the kind of ballet sweeps me away and do him, pitch and, and do him,
and do him, and do him, and do him, and do him, and do him.
You are at Pitbull.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café and the birthday
and anniversary club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported words.
Wish them a good morning from us.
Get some WFHR.
Yeah, they got some great specials this week, Melissa, this fresh blueberry pancakes.
I love pancakes.
Oh, I didn't see that yet.
They got a meat lover's Benedict, a Monte Cristo, an El Café, a Berea fries.
Berea.
Berea fries.
Berea fries.
It is Berea fries.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, I want to try all of it.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
No, I'm pretty sure you're right about that.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Chris, French fries, and their fries are really good.
Loaded with homemade, Berea, Branchero, and Picoticayo.
It all sounds so good.
Get on over there and try it today and encourage you to follow them on Facebook as well, everybody.
It's a great way to not only keep up the day and everything they're doing over there,
but go ahead and leave a nice review.
It always goes a long way for people, and for buying local supporting local, it goes
on a little farther.
We appreciate you.
And you know, as far as the social media game goes, Fidel's got it down.
If it's not him, whoever is doing it at El Café is doing a fantastic job.
Honestly, if we didn't have the people we already do have in that stuff, I wouldn't
be rubbing a reach out to him for advice and things.
I love what they do over there.
They really do a good job.
The only thing better than a fantastic meal at El Café is the cool waitresses.
That's servant.
Get it?
Cool.
Yeah.
It's great.
It's great.
Nicely done.
Head on over there today, everybody.
Enjoy the great atmosphere and say hi to the gang for us.
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We like celebrating with you.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
We encourage you to do so.
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I'm kidding.
Enjoy.
Get us your birthdays and anniversaries.
Speaking of which, it is my siblings birthday today.
My youngest one.
Oh.
And I, honestly, I'd have to do the math quick to do to know how old they are.
No, I'm terrible.
That's how bad it is.
You know, when you get to the sage people, you know, it's Mitch's birthday today and I
want to wish a happy, happy birthday to Mitch.
A very happy birthday to Mitch.
Enjoy your day, man.
Oh, it's a good one for you.
He's 20-something.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
That was good to say.
He's got to be early 20s.
Great.
Everything I've heard about him.
I wish you a good one.
27.
27, all right.
I don't mental math.
I had to actually calculate it.
27th year, Mitch.
Enjoy your day.
The only reason I remember my brother and sister were five years apart each.
So, that's how I remember theirs and all of my kids were born in specific years.
Like the year I graduated high school or the year in the year 99 or the year 2000.
So every one of them, even I can do the math that I had to figure it out.
That's the only reason.
Don't ask me.
I just, like if my dad didn't turn a solid number, I don't know if I'd remember his
exact age.
I'm terrible with numbers.
And you know, I shouldn't have to look up the birth year because I know that Mitch is
16 years younger than me because I was 16 when they were born.
So, you know, why can't I just do that, Matt?
It's a little funky.
A little funky math stuff.
But they also have to remember my own age, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the tricky part.
Sometimes.
We get us those birthdays and adversaries.
And a very happy birthday to Mitch out there.
Enjoy your day, Matt.
Well, let's say I need a one or a two.
Two.
All right.
Give us us that one.
Please qualify Heather Stahl, happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, Heather.
We like that name.
Mm-hmm.
Heather's a great one.
A great name.
And we wish you a great birthday, Heather.
We'll be able to have a happy, happy birthday.
Enjoy the day.
We want to wish a very happy anniversary to our qualifiers, celebrating their 53rd, Ron
and Sandy Het.
Ron and Sandy, happy 53rd, you two.
Wow.
53.
That is impressive.
That is impressive.
Very cool.
And it's my romantic heart.
I hope we wish you guys a great 53rd.
Who are you sharing your birthdays and anniversaries with?
Well, a couple of names that if you listen to the Sunrise show, you already heard
a celebrate.
And Seth and I got to celebrate a couple of great voices and country music.
One of them, Ashlyn McBride is 42 today.
Oh, yeah.
Great country music singer, songwriter, and one of the better interviews you will see
in country music.
You talk about it.
Oh, really?
Not putting on airs and just being herself.
I would love to see Ashlyn McBride in like every day situations and how she would handle
them because she is just a, even before I was doing the Sunrise show, I knew she was
and really enjoyed her as a person.
I've enjoyed her as a musician certainly, but the person she is, I really like.
Another musician, Danger Mouse, is 48 wonderful producer.
Narls Barkley, his creation, really, and has done a couple of other like side albums
and stuff.
A really good producer.
A crazy was probably the big song off of the Narls Barkley hit list.
Real name, Brian Joseph Burton.
That doesn't hit the same as Danger Mouse, doesn't it the same?
I thought it was a cartoon when you started.
Oh, yeah.
I'm like, what are we celebrating cartoons?
Oh, yeah.
That was a great cartoon back in the day.
I remember Danger Mouse.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So I'm going.
No, you're right.
Yes, I'm sorry.
You're right.
It was a cartoon back in the day.
We're celebrating the artist, but yeah.
Got it.
Okay.
James Otto is 52, Motown Philly, and End of the Road, and Unbended Knee.
So many hits.
I forgot about Unbended Knee.
Unbended Knee is a really good, I forgot about that.
James Otto is 52, country singer, just got started loving you.
Will Wheaton is 53, Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, the next generation, played a version of
himself on the Big Bang Theory, and was a Gordy, of course, in stand by me.
That's what I remember him from.
I didn't see him on Star Trek, really, that much, but him is Gordy.
He's a good young kid.
He was perfect.
He did a perfect job.
All four of those kids did a great job.
They were all four perfect performances in that movie.
Every one of them were great, and nothing against anything that they have done in their
careers, but for each one of them, really, maybe their best work, it's really great work
that movie.
It's because of most of us saw it when we were young.
I don't know if we either romanticize it or we just kind of brush it off.
Really good movie, though.
Very well done movie.
We're going to end a great book, of course.
Yeah, yeah, my mom loves that one.
Let's see.
And then Martini McBride was the other birthday we celebrated.
She is 59.
Her to her called the Selene Dion of Country Music, and there's a little bit of a comparison
I would say just because of how powerful her voice is.
But I don't know that you really, there's any comparison for either one of those artists.
Yeah, I don't know.
She does definitely, she can belt.
She definitely can belt.
Concrete Angel Reckless for these times, so many hits by Miss McBride.
Yeah, Independence Day in a broken wing, those are belters.
Yeah, I played.
You take those on and karaoke, either, either prepared to be wowed or, or, yeah, yeah.
We played a Independence Day for her, did I really like that one?
Oh, good, yeah.
Maybe some people will tell you, I love music, I listen to a lot of music, I'm not one
of these people that's going to, I don't like being a music snob, I'm not going to pretend
I know music.
But I do know that a lot of people that I, that I, I've been around a lot in my life
that have studied music, know it a lot better than I do, will tell you that the greatest
bass player they've ever heard is Getty Lee, who was 72 today, rushed legend, rock and roll
Hall of Famer, spirit of radio, fly by night, closer to the heart free.
Well, limelight, keep going, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, I mean, every song that I played
in my classic rock days for sure, but you listen to Tom Sawyer, and I think that alone
will tell you, yeah, this guy's different.
Not to mention, his singer, songwriter, incredible artist, and, yeah, I mean, happy 72nd
to Getty Lee, the great Tim Gunn is also 72, Project Runway, Fashion Consultant, and
it's done a lot of, I think he's done a lot of hosting gigs on other shows, I think,
as well.
Oh, yeah, I recognize him.
I don't know much about him or his career or anything like that, but somebody I was
seeing at the time was into that Project Runway show the first season that came out,
I saw him, and I really like his attitude.
I like the way he handles things.
I'm not sure ex-decent, at least in the beginning, I enjoyed it.
I'll say that I, as somebody who doesn't know anything about any of that stuff, I thought
it was cool that they had to make the, the dresses and all that stuff, and then seeing
them doing that.
That was really kind of cool to me, I thought.
The creative process of that, I thought that was pretty interesting.
Let's see here, and some people no longer with us, like great character actor, Tony
Sirico.
Born in 1942, I think about a lot of people know him from some, from certain projects,
a lot of mafia movies, but he is Pauli Walnuts on the sopranos, one of the more iconic
characters on that show, and one of the weirdest characters on that show too, easily.
Tony, great actor, great actor, and one of the three great journalists that we got to,
we got to grow up with many of us, Peter Jennings, born in this day in 1938, Pestway in 2005,
one of the go to reliable reassurances of news, everybody had their family, every family
had their channel that they watched of the three major networks, and that one you tended
to stay with for the news.
My mom liked to shift and like to go around and listen each one of these guys, and Peter
Jennings was one of those ones that she usually liked him, his broadcast in the middle of
the week.
Yeah.
What is his full name?
Do you know it?
No.
Richard Charles Archibald Eward Jennings.
Wow.
Was that a name day?
Yeah.
Right.
He is also, and they bring this up every year on his birthday, and I don't know how
I feel about it, but he is also an uncounted casualty of 9-11.
Peter had gone 20 years without a cigarette until the attacks of September 11th in 2001,
causing him to start up lighting up again, less than four years later, he died of lung cancer.
I bring it up mainly to hopefully encourage people to stay away from, you know, cancer-related
items.
I don't know how else to put that.
Yeah.
It's probably the best way to put it, although I mean, it's a pretty broad, well, and
that's the spectrum of things to stay away from, but yeah.
Right, right.
And I don't ever want to see him.
There is a moderation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's a great, great journalist, great journalist.
Absolutely.
And again, a happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there wishing you great ones
happy birthday, Heather and happy 53rd to our qualifiers, Ron and Sandy.
Yes.
On a happy birthday, Mitch.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
And happy birthday, Mitch.
Enjoy your day, man.
Well, it's a good one for you.
Get us more birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
We love celebrate with you.
Keep getting them to us.
We can keep celebrating with you.
And our good friends over at El Café visit them today, 221 Market Avenue in beautiful
port Edwards.
Some pie.
It's so good.
Oh, yes, the pie gets some pie and bring me a slice.
We will, we'll be back after our news, sports and entertainment and partner break.
We're coming up with more stuff on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for being with us.
We appreciate the company.
Good things coming up.
Before we wrap up the hour, I want to get into a good one with you, Melissa, how to get
the campfire smell out of your clothes.
Yeah, I need to, I have a pile over there.
I need your help with that.
We will get, we will get to that.
Do some laundry a little bit.
I'm used to doing it at night, but we'll do it in the morning.
That's fine, that's fine.
We can change it up.
We always talk about it.
We're helping people this morning, Melissa.
We're not only are we going to do that, but we're going to get, we got three ways to
prevent freezer burnt ice cream.
It happens when you thaw and re-freeze something too many times.
That part melts, turns into ice crystals and it's no good and really doesn't go well
on a cone.
Yeah, absolutely not.
I had, it was a funny line, which you said earlier, but I hadn't thought about it before
and I actually think the reason you're 100% right, I really do eat it too fast.
That's why I've never, I saw this article and I didn't think too much of it and then
I saw, excuse me, readers digest it.
Oh, so there was some good research probably that really went into this.
Yeah, I will say the first thing, a second thing I ever had published was the readers digest
and I'm a big fan of their work, my grandfather really liked their work and used to carry around
a reader's digest with them wherever he went.
No, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on some old copies of that.
I, yeah, I hear you.
The old, the thick ones, you know, that used to actually be a substantial magazine.
Yeah, yeah, they were really cool back in the day.
It's a billion articles in them.
Well, in the jokes, there were at least like what, four different joke pages and they all
had different themes, but, and they never got like the military ones, but I still read
them.
Yeah, my grandfather would explain it to me, I'll tell you, I'll be honest with you, yeah,
yeah.
They do, and so just as a reminder, and it's another, you know, kind of a sub part of
this story, readers digest as a wonderful website and go to rd.com, if you'd like to take
a look at one of the, your trusted friend in a complicated world, that's a great tag
line.
That's a good one.
And it's still some great reporting being done over there by them.
Awesome.
Now, the best way to avoid it according to them is to eat your ice cream.
Just eat it.
Just eat it.
I don't even give it a chance, don't even know.
If you melt it, eat it.
But here are some things to help prevent freezer burnt ice cream.
Store it in the coldest part of the freezer.
Keep it in the back, never on the door.
It doubles as a good hiding spot as well if you put it in the back.
I know that from my father.
I know that from back.
It's still.
Put it behind other stuff.
That guy would give, not just give you the shirt off your back, but he'd do it and then
ask if you need anything else.
But man, ice cream.
No, ice cream candy, like, no, no, there's just two things he's horrible about sharing.
That's okay.
You know, we all got to have our things.
I think most kids, Halloween, you're used to your parents coming over, checking out
the candy, of course, making sure it's safe and maybe they steal a piece or two or something
like that.
We hid from my dad because quality control was coming in and we're going to have a whole
lot left when he was done.
Oh no, you can't trust this.
You can't.
It's a sticker bar.
It's a sticker bar.
Yeah, these squishy ones, you're not at all.
This is so bad.
Number two, serve it quickly.
Don't leave it out on the counter to soften up.
Run the spoon under hot water.
Instead, oh, this is game changing for me.
Oh, what?
How has nobody told me this?
In general, you want to get the pint back in the freezer as fast as possible, but I am
used to the ice cream being too hard or ice.
Does it really say pint?
It, let me see here, it does say, yeah, it does.
It says in general, you want to get the pint back in the freezer because we all buy ice
cream by the pint.
I didn't even catch that.
Okay, so if it's a, you know, like those cardboard containers, I think it's like a quart.
Yeah.
But then you get up to the half gallons and then the gallon size ice cream.
So my grandma always bought gallon sized ice cream and buckets, but she did that.
She'd warm up the, her ice cream scoop, put it in warm water and then scoop out what
she wanted to make the milkshakes and then yeah, she'd get it back in the freezer right
away in her ice cream full gallon, you know, they'd get through it and it really didn't
get freezer burnt.
I've been such a fool.
I've been, I've been so glad to share this with everybody.
Today, years old when you learn.
Yes, yes.
Oh my gosh.
By the way, now our grandparents were mainly the ones that bought that style of ice cream,
I think.
Yeah, some of our parents bought buckets.
There was, now they definitely wanted the ice cream, but it was about the buckets too.
It wasn't just about the ice.
Right.
Multi-purpose, but also, you know, cheaper to buy in bulk.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you buy a gallon of chocolate ice cream, you can't get that in pint sizes for the
same price.
You know, when we talk about things that have changed for the better or worse or whatever,
we all do this with items all the time, almost every day we do this.
I don't know how much I've thought about how the, whether it's coffee cans or it's those
buckets from ice cream, the repurposing of things and how much we used to do that and how
much I missed that we do.
I don't, I can't think of one product that I buy right now and I, oh, shoe boxes.
I probably keep shoe boxes every once in a while, but even those, I don't really keep
that in my mouth.
No, because once you have several sitting there, you really don't need more, but the buckets
and you're right.
I went to an estate sale and I bought coffee cans, specifically, I mean, there was actually
stuff in the coffee cans too, but I bought it because it was in a coffee can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because they're just useful.
They are.
And they hold up.
I've seen some really beat up old coffee cans that were buried for like 40 years and they're
everything, the contents, everything in them are still fine.
It's crazy.
It's still fine.
They were great for storing things in your garage, but yeah, you can never have too many
one-gallon ice cream pills in your house.
You just can't.
Yeah.
True.
And finally.
I mean, there's probably a limit.
Number three, store the carton upside down.
Freezer burn is more likely when air gets in.
Flip in the carton upside down can help prevent it.
Huh.
Huh.
Huh.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, maybe when it's full.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Otherwise.
But you're not going to put it in their upside down if it's even a little bit melted
because that's going to make a mess.
I feel like that one.
Eventually.
I feel like they kind of lost me on that one.
I don't know about that.
I feel like I, well, because I'm thinking of toppings and whatever you got on top.
But maybe it doesn't matter.
You know, maybe you can.
Well, I mean, you don't really put ice cream back in the freezer once you put toppings.
No.
No.
I mean, you put toppings right in your, your pint.
Yeah.
No, it doesn't.
No.
So I guess I guess I guess it would work.
If you found the point, usually it has toppings in it, like a bun and jerry's or something.
Hmm.
Yeah.
I don't know.
But I would definitely, I will say I am so, I did not pre-read this or anything, but
I did see that it was a reader, digest article, and I like to be able to reference that.
I'd not thought of the whole putting the spoon under the free, you know, warming it up.
I'm so glad we did this.
This is a precautionary for you, James.
Yes.
I want to go eat a bunch of ice cream right now.
I want to test this out.
With a warm spoon.
To serve it.
There, there's not a better time than this time of year.
So go ahead and enjoy some ice cream, everybody.
That's true.
And, you know, while you're at it, look for that red label.
Make sure it's a Wisconsin product, Wisconsin made product.
We make the best ice cream here in this state.
You, because we have the best cows.
Biological support local, everybody.
Melissa and I will be back after another time out.
We'll come and wrap up the hour of the morning show on WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday morning out there.
Got some fun stuff to take us to the top of the hour.
We're going to kick off the 10 o'clock hour, having Craig and Rich join us from St.
Phillips Church over in Rudolph.
Talk about their 104th picnic.
That's crazy.
That's awesome.
That's really wild.
I can never get enough at them care what the event is of these big events and the long
times that they've been doing them.
It's always great.
We'll get into all that in a little bit.
We'll have some entertainment news for you in the 10 o'clock.
Also get into, of course, our schedule and plenty more for you.
Right now, that campfire smell.
I love it.
I like it.
It also will not go away.
Right.
That's the problem.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It stays with you.
It's one of the more consistent things, too.
I can think of plenty of times where I can get really stuffed up being around a campfire.
And I can still smell it and feel it and all that.
Camping is one of the most fun things you can do with your friends, family, as far as
that's just me, Ron Bergening, and I'm just reading an article because I've never been
camping.
So I know I refuse to lie to this audience, even in any way, I'm not going to just read
the lie in front of me.
I'll be honest with everybody.
But everything I've ever heard about camping sounds awesome and I want to do it.
I really, really do.
But one of the drawbacks is that campfire smelled.
It stays on your clothes for weeks to come.
We got five tips.
You should try to get rid of that strong smell.
Air out your clothes, hanging clothes out to dry in a breezy place for a few hours can
help a lot.
Fresh air and sunshine help break down older molecules.
Yeah.
Sunshine is amazing thing for something like that.
Molecules.
That's a word.
I feel like I struggled that for a second there.
You know what?
It's before 10 o'clock.
Give yourself a pack.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I did also want to mention too that it's great as this list probably is in everything.
I want, we always want to hear from the audience out there.
If you guys got, you know, things that you've done over the years or tips or anything like
that, let us know.
We'd love to hear from you.
715-424-2600 or just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.
Number two.
Wash in warm water.
The heat helps open up the fabric fibers which release that campfire smell.
Oh.
There you go.
All right.
I don't do a lot of washing.
I just trust all of mining cold.
Yeah.
I don't really, I don't tend to usually wash stuff in clothes in warm water.
I don't know, I don't, I am used to, I could have a thousand shirts and I still would be
worried about losing, you know, not having enough clothes or something.
I just growing up, I didn't have a lot of stuff and I don't know if that's ever going
to change in me.
I keep trying to, but I, so, you know, you got to take care of your clothes and usually
washing it in cold, just kept them from shrinking or decals from falling off or anything
like that.
Hmm.
Number three.
Use baking soda.
Just add it into your washing machine.
Baking soda is one of the best odor neutralizers out there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Baking soda is an amazing cleaner.
There are so many different things you can use it for, along with obviously baking.
It is a go-to.
It is a great one.
Yeah.
And, and here all I thought it was good for was putting in your refrigerator.
I thought you just said it in your refrigerator, I thought that's what you did with it.
Put it in the smells.
That's what it's in there for.
So the fact that it helps get the smells out of your clothes makes perfect sense.
My first apartment, I get there and I'm like, oh, cool.
There's already one of those little arm and hammer guys in there.
That's great and everything.
And then you learned you should replace it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fill that up.
Fill that up the hard way.
Yeah.
Number four.
Try activating charcoal.
Seal your stinky clothes into a bag with some charcoal overnight and let it work its
magic.
Now, I kind of, these other processes seem a little faster, but I kind of would like
to do that just to see how that works.
Yeah.
I love that we have kind of, charcoal has been around almost long as us, you know, and
everything, but we, in less, what, 15, 20 years, we've been finding more and more
purposes for it.
And I like that.
And activated charcoal has been a part of like my medicine cabinet since I was a kid
because that was something that my parent, my mom used to give us in a, she'd make little
capsules of it.
And if we were sick, like, sick to our stomach, kind of like throw up puke sick, she would
give us a couple capsules of that and make us drink a bunch of water and it just would
help absorb all of those toxins or whatever grossness in your stomach and get it out.
Wow.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But activated charcoal definitely helps with the absorption of, of a, a key stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very interesting.
Very cool.
Have you tried any, like, there's a charcoal face stuff.
There's a toothpaste all that if you tried it.
I have tried the toothpaste ones.
When I was at Laura's house, she had a tube of it.
It was weird that my teeth were black.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's exactly where I wanted to go.
But I don't, I don't know.
I mean, sure.
If it works great, you want to use it more power to you.
I have just so many, like, in some of the, because it was kind of a thing in the church
that I was raised in, activated charcoal was like this.
I don't want to say miracle medicine, but it was definitely got had its uses as a natural
medicine.
It does have its place.
But I also had, there were people that would instead of putting it in a, in a little,
you know, fillable caplet, capsule, and swallowing it, they would mix it in water and drink it.
Whoa.
And it was so disgusting.
Yeah.
I can only imagine.
Yeah.
Because it would, I mean, your mouth would turn black.
Your cup was called, because it's charcoal, you know, and, and, and all of this,
being said, the activated charcoal is in a very important part.
There needs to be medicine grade, like, body soluble charcoal for you to be ingesting it.
Yeah.
So, you know, no, I'm not giving any medical advice to anybody.
I'm just telling you what happened to me as a child.
Right.
Right.
And I, and I didn't die.
I'm still here.
So.
Yeah.
You're all right.
Go ahead.
I, I, I, I don't have a lot of things that bring out the kidney, even when I was a kid,
that was a much of a kid.
I was way too serious and didn't enjoy it.
The first time I was using that charcoal toothpaste and my, I didn't, I didn't realize
nobody told me that it, I should have realized, but I didn't think about it.
And my mouth went black and all that.
And I have to admit there was a part of me that, like, looked at it and played with it
for a little bit.
Right.
It was fun.
It was fun.
How can you not?
It was fun.
Because, of course, yeah, once you're finished brushing your teeth and you rinse your mouth
out, nothing's still black.
It's weird for me to say it brought up the kid in me when there was never a kid in me
really.
There was never a chance.
Oh, come on.
You're a human once a problem.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And finally, try lemon juice, combine lemon juice and water in a spray bottle with ratio
1.6 and now spritz your clothes inside and out.
Mm-hmm.
Just then don't put it out in the sunshine because the sun will lighten it more so than
it would normally without the lemon juice.
Wash it first.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can go to mentalfloss.com if you want to check out the complete article everybody
encourage you to go on over there, mentalfloss does some really good stuff.
Check that out.
And you know, James, the funny thing is is that all of those things that you mentioned,
the baking soda, the lemon juice, those are all really good natural cleaners.
So why wouldn't they work on campfire smoke?
They also work on, you know, all the other smells in your house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know how much this has happened to you, Melissa, but I did think that it was
an interesting topic considering your background for those who don't know, Melissa, worked in the
education system for a bit and everything.
So I have an article here about teachers and students sharing their most horrific places
they bumped into each other.
And I think that you can also, if it hasn't happened to you with a teacher that you can
certainly insert other things with this.
I know that my, a good friend of mine ran into his doctor once at like a, I think it was
a baseball or football game or something like that.
And both of them were intoxicated and both of them were judging each other.
And like secretly and all that, like there's, right, right, right, right into your dentist.
The places you don't expect to see people you have respect for.
Yeah.
You're at the county fair eating, you know, elephant ears and you see running to your,
you know, dentist or something like that.
There's different situations in life.
This happens.
I think another good example.
It's not the same thing, but the, you have coffee with a friend or a first date or something
like that.
You say goodbye.
And then it turns out you're both still walking, you're both still going the same direction
after you're goodbye.
So it's that awkward kind of thing.
I know everything's awkward.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there's a couple of these, but this is making the rounds on TikTok.
I thought a couple of them were kind of funny.
There was one where the therapy, he was on his way out.
I was on my way in.
It's an interesting wonder run, definitely.
There was one where a student said that my professor canceled class one day because of
the family emergency.
So I decided to go to a mall that was an hour away from campus and ran into her at Nordstroms.
That's funny.
A student said they locked eyes with a high school teacher whilst I had a stoplight.
They were skipping class.
And apparently the teacher was too.
Oh.
Okay.
That's weird.
I'd like to know more about that one.
Well, it could have been a plan day off for the teacher, but yeah, the kid was definitely
skipping.
But I don't know.
I think that these are the kind of things that we, I think if you think about it, I think
we kind of actually embrace this stuff pretty good, but it's awkward.
But there is no playbook for awkwardness.
Is there a being awkward for dummies out there?
Is there, I mean, I don't know that there's any self-help books on being awkward or dealing
with awkward situations necessarily.
I'm sure there are, but you know what I mean?
It's not something that's handed down to us like tying our shoes.
How are we handled these?
Yeah, usually you just talk to the people you respect.
Yeah, yeah.
But those are the ones that sometimes you run into when you're not working, do I?
Exactly.
Yeah.
I think that when it, one, I love pointing out things that bring us closer together
hopefully and show that we are more connected than not and we have more in common than not.
And boy, is this one of the big ones we have in common?
I guarantee I will bet anything anybody wants.
Anybody out there listening has a situation when I've been describing that you've run into
somebody that it was an awkward situation.
It was one of these kind of scenarios that we've mentioned.
Everybody's had that happen.
Absolutely.
And when it comes to running into somebody at an awkward place, why not have it be here?
We have our station open house coming up August 20th.
Oh, that's right.
That was a segue.
That was a segue.
That was a segue.
That was a segue.
It should be awkward to run into people who know it or are parking lot party, but maybe
if you come and costume.
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah.
No, we are very excited.
Next month, August 20th from noon to 6th, we are going to be having a parking lot party here.
Huge celebration.
We're going to be talking a lot about this in the next couple of weeks.
So we will certainly get the details out there.
Just so everybody knows, we did send out invites.
You've got it right now.
If you're listening to us, you've got the invite.
It's a verbal invite.
Yep.
You are welcome.
Come one.
Come all.
We are looking forward to hanging out with you.
Especially if you have not gotten a chance to stop by our studios, and for many of our long
time listeners, these are still new studios.
Maybe you haven't checked them out.
Yeah, it's been, I mean, we've been in the building for several years now, but that doesn't
mean everybody's stopped by, so we would be happy to see you.
Especially when you're in 85-year-old station or going to be 85, you know, I imagine that
there's some people out there having a chance to check out the new-wish digs.
Come on by.
Say hi.
We're going to have food trucks down here.
We're going to be broadcasting live, so if you can't make it down, we'll make it, so you
feel like you're here.
You need to come taste the staff competitive cooking contest that we have going on that
day.
They'll be desserts for you to try for free.
Yeah.
I'm, I, this...
Cast your vote.
I was, I'll let the audience know, I was a little on the fence about doing this event
again.
Melissa really, the gang won me over with the staff cook off.
So that's, I was like, okay, yeah, we got to do this, we got to, and also I'm going to
let you in behind the curtain here folks, for real.
James left the meeting before we decided who was cooking for this staff cook off.
So...
Oh...
Okay.
I look forward to reading the notes on that.
I'm like, got to write in front of me.
I suggest you keep reading here.
You should keep reading at James because guess what?
We are going to have a blast.
We're going to be laughing like that through the whole entire event.
I just got news that Katie Cruz is going to be coming down because we of course are doing
this with both of our stations.
Oh, I get to meet her, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm excited about that.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
That's awesome.
So not just, of course, our long-time listeners here at WFHR, which is a big part of where
this idea comes from, but our sister station 1055WRI, very popular station here in Central
Wisconsin.
We will be having the personalities.
We'll be having the personalities from over there at the event as well hanging out
with them.
It's going to be a blast.
Everybody, mark your calendars, August 20th, noon to 6th.
Get here.
Be here.
We're going to have some fun here.
We are.
We coming up on the morning show.
We're going to be joined in the next hour by Craig and Rich from St. Philip's Church in
Rudolph.
We're going to talk about their 104th picnic.
It's coming up right around the corner.
We cannot wait.
It's going to be exciting.
We're going to get into details of that and tell you more about how you can attend it
and hang out in Rudolph coming up right here on mornings at WFHR 975 FM 1320 AM.
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