We Should Eat MORE Fries (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM, WFHR.

Got your host, James Bond.

Mike joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Hevagger.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

We're gonna have some fun this morning.

We've got some good stuff to get into.

We're gonna kick things off of the good friend,

Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you guys doing?

Doing good.

How are you doing over there?

Pretty good, pretty good.

I'm excited for the summery weather to come back

and that wildfire smoke is gone.

Woo!

Yes, very good, very good.

Hopefully, within the next days or two,

we'll start to feel some of that with our bodies,

have a little more energy towards the end of summer here.

I hope so.

I do.

But the humidity is gonna probably knock us back a little bit.

I don't know about you, but that slows me down most of the time

when it's really hot and humid.

And that's what we're doing today.

We're hitting highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Probably about 87 degrees or so.

But the humidity in the 60s is gonna be feeling

like low 90s today.

And when they're barely gonna be moving out of the Southwest,

then we've got chances for showers

and storms sparking up this afternoon.

And they could continue into this evening.

Now, let's hope fingers crossed these days out of us.

But of course, we're still right on that northern edge

to get those this afternoon and evening.

None of them are expected to be severe,

but we could see some slow-moving, heavy rainfall type ones.

And of course, I could create localized flash flooding

in some places and we're also looking

at gusty winds possible with those.

Then the heat and humidity cranks up even worse than today.

Tomorrow, we are looking at highs in the low 90s,

due points in the 70s is going to make it feel

like 100 degrees.

So, both Friday and Saturday,

feeling like 100, as Saturday,

a cold front moves through,

and it is gonna spark some strongest severe storms with that.

But then give us more relief as we go into early next week.

But an active stormy one, Saturday, Sunday,

and potentially into Monday, too.

All right.

Okay, all right.

So, better than the wildfire smoke, but, you know.

Yeah.

We need a little moderation, not touch the cream,

in each rather way.

One thing we can count on,

Mother Nature is gonna keep it interesting.

Yeah, there is no reason or toast.

No reruns.

Wait, there's gonna keep things moving.

We appreciate you for it.

Have a great morning.

You too, thanks.

Best in the business right there,

Brindermelo, joining us every morning.

We appreciate her so much.

Great way to kick off our show every day,

Monday through Friday.

We're gonna be hanging out with you

for the next couple of hours,

getting into some fun stuff.

Got the LKF April at the University Club

right around the corner.

How many fries do we eat?

We can ask our friends at LKF.

Ooh.

Wow.

How many pounds of fries

did the average American eat per year?

Without that.

Would be a high number, yeah.

Getting to that one a little bit later.

Got a couple of other fun ones, including,

do Gensiers answer the phone without saying anything?

Just click on and then that's it.

Nothing?

Wow.

Get into that.

We, of course, got a great one for you

a little bit later as we kick off the 10 o'clock hour

with our friend Denise in the South of Cunningham,

a great society man.

We got our pet of the week.

Absolutely, yeah.

Looking forward to that.

Afterwards, Seth and I will dive into some entertainment news,

including the odds of the next year's Super Bowl

half-time performer or topic I've been hitting

I quite a bit.

He's not been placing bets, though.

No, no, no.

We never do that.

Not too much.

Which TV show theme song will you never skip?

Oh.

And rock songs that bands have performed

over 1,500 times.

Ooh.

Yeah, it's very special.

It's very special.

Yeah, it's very special.

You're getting all that.

We got all those things coming up.

We got a new newsletter to talk about

at our open house and plenty of good stories of the day.

Kind of the goodies coming up.

All that stuff coming up.

But we begin with drones and food.

Drones and food.

We go to China, bakery and Shanghai, actually.

So this story just kind of broke this morning

a little bit, but there's been other stories like this

in years past, even going back all the way to 2013.

Wow.

A bakery and Shanghai attempted to deliver cakes via drone.

Doing this caused a huge stir and prompted police intervention.

The bakery in cake.

That's all one word in cake.

Okay.

Hope to generate media buzz with the novelty of drone delivery.

Sure.

However, there are an authorized drone operation led

to public concern about safety and eventually resulted

in the suspension of the service.

Oh, no.

It feels like a little bit like a modern version

of War of the Worlds, where people just see these drones.

And it's one thing to see a drone

that is already going to panic just about anybody.

I'll see earlier this year in the United States, right?

Yeah.

But then you put it like a box.

That's scary.

Yes.

What's in the box?

Yeah.

I mean, that's, I don't know.

I don't get freaked out easy.

That certainly would make me pause.

That would make me pause.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Definitely avoiding the drone.

Oh my God.

We're being made by aliens in there bringing us cakes.

Wait, wait a minute.

And I, I think this is going to be a bit

of a controversial take, I think, and everything.

But again, we don't shy away from stuff around here.

I blame radio shack.

I, now, is there any radio shack around anymore?

Even before, I don't believe the drones

in radio shack crossed over.

I'm pretty sure radio shack.

No, they were gone by then, yeah.

I still blame them because you have the generations,

mostly, they're using these drones

and they're messing around with them.

How many of them got remote control cars

from a radio shack or something like that?

And we're associating this.

We're thinking of them as the same thing

when they could not be farther apart.

No, they are so different.

But I did, I'm joking, of course, here and everything.

But I do think that there is a little bit of a tie.

I agree.

No, I totally agree.

Because it's a similar rig, right?

You think about it.

You're like, wow, I had one of those

when I had my RC car like from, yeah, radio shack.

Yeah.

Circuit City.

Yes, our own.

I mean, other defunct technology starts going to die.

I don't even see how many we can name everybody.

Yeah.

One more.

I know there's one more I'm not thinking of.

Yeah, right.

But that's what our real story, our real segment is.

It's just naming businesses and stores that are running.

That are gone, right?

Yeah.

Went to my Monty Wards, you know?

And it's a yes, yes.

I'll be true at Sears.

Yeah, or JC Petty.

One of the things that this story kind of like

brought up in my head.

And I don't know if this already exists,

I apologize, and please go ahead and correct me on it.

But there's been a real rise in TV shows of like,

is it real or is it cake?

Yes.

I'm a little surprised that that hasn't turned into

like an everyday business.

Where you could just like, you know,

how many kids have specialized cakes they want?

True, yeah.

Here's a car, and it's actually a cake.

It's, you know, or something like that.

I bet.

There's your favorite action hero.

Is it a car, you know, is it a cake or not?

Yeah, there's snake eyes.

Yeah.

The GIO, but always the easy cake or is it real?

I don't know.

We do, we do pinion of the donkey, and we do, you know,

a break in things for, you know, for purple pinion, right?

A pinion of stuff.

I feel like there might be something here.

It's, it's a business model that we can already tell

I will fail at.

That as we were just talking about businesses

that aren't around any longer.

James is, is it real or is it cake?

The store.

Of the publicity blitz, and then people were like,

wait a minute, this is at fun at all.

We would be huge for a couple of months.

For a couple of months, we'd be pretty big.

I'm telling you.

And then everyone realizes there's like, wait a minute,

there's no future in this.

Yeah, get out of here.

Just then we got to drop out quick.

Yeah, we open the store for six months, and that's it.

We're out our way.

We're a spirit, Halloween.

For six.

That's it.

That's right.

But it's interesting with this story too, that the,

not only the fact that it's happened, like I said,

there's been two different stories out of this from China

going back to 2013.

And that's not even, and before this one,

I came across this morning.

We are going to see more of this.

This isn't going away.

Well, and you can see it.

I mean, just recently I saw something similar

for a celebrate plover, of course.

We were there for that.

But I remember looking at the website and saying,

and there was a thing, like a note on there,

it says, please, no one, or it's like,

no one is allowed drones except for the police department.

They were the only ones allowed to do it

because they take up air space, you know?

And they can be dangerous.

That's the thing.

So, and my kids actually saw the drone when we were leaving

and they were like, wow, look, there's a drone up there.

It's cool.

And I feel like I'm really boring in this.

I have no interest in drones.

But I never had an interest in remote control cars

or anything like that.

Maybe that's part of it, see?

Yeah, I don't know.

But as we know, you would not, you know,

just willy-nilly, you know, take a drone out

and do something with it.

Here's like, this is boring, I don't care.

Well, and I also, I don't know why though.

I feel a little weird about it.

Like I'm supposed to or like I'm missing something

or there's something wrong with me

because I never understood what the drive to it.

I do get that it can be fun.

Yeah.

But I, I don't know.

I don't know.

I never did anything for me.

It's too complicated to me.

So, we had Sheriff Becker in yesterday

and one of the things, we got into a bunch of great topics.

And Sean and I always do.

And he always brings such good stuff here.

And if I have a topic from the community,

he doesn't mind diving into it.

We talked about the ice situation and some of that.

And always appreciate that.

A big shout out to Sean and everybody.

Do you want to say a big shout out to our Wisconsin's

Rebs Police Department and Fire Department?

And everybody that was there for a great event last night.

That's one night out last night.

And we got to be a part of and everything.

That was a lot of fun.

One of the things that I like to do with Sean though

is try to give them a light moment.

Anytime it's the Sheriff's Department,

Police Department in here, our Fire Department.

And I try to get them, we get to the heavy stuff.

We don't shy away from anything.

And at the same time, try to laugh and not a joke.

And then on a high note.

And I was talking to him about, you know,

this EMU situation that happened in Florida

about these deputies that on their cam,

you see them chasing down this EMU.

And just the things that you train for in the job,

that then there's the stuff that they can't prepare you for.

Oh no, absolutely not.

I imagine that you know, you're training here in Wisconsin.

And you're learning how to, you know,

say Miranda writes, how to put a pair handcuffs on somebody.

How do you get a deer out of a department store?

I don't know, I can't imagine that there's this

part of your training.

Do you plan for that, right?

Three, week three, we went over that.

Yeah, I don't imagine that there's stuff.

I bet for everything they cover,

they do a great job preparing these guys in women.

I don't know that there's certain stuff

you could really plan for.

I don't know.

I wonder if they have like codes, they just, you know,

because you know, you have a go,

we've got a 314 or whatever, you know,

they get codes for everything, right?

It feels like that.

So what is a code for like, yeah, a deer in a shopping mall

or an EMU running wild, right?

And what's the code for a Kraken being chased

by a grizzly bear?

Oh, because yeah, members of the Seattle Kraken hockey team

were fly fishing in Alaska as a promotion kind of thing.

And their mascot was out there.

And for those that haven't seen it,

the Seattle Kraken's mascot is a little freaky looking,

but he's big.

Yeah, right.

He's very big in everything.

So he's out there with him, of course, to promote this.

Yeah.

Well, while they were doing this,

they were charged by a grizzly bear.

Oh, no.

The team shared a video to social media

showing a team members and support staff fly fishing

and cat to me National Park, which is beautiful,

by the way, my dad has been there and stuff.

And they're next to ex-water.

When a brown bear takes an interest in the group.

Oh, no.

The video caught the moment a bear charged at buoy,

buoy, the team's mascot, sending water flying,

but veering away before getting too close.

Oh, this was probably a bear that had a cub or something

close by and just wear them away.

Yeah, sure.

This is also a really interesting

and kind of cool thing about bears

that not even lions do.

Sharks don't even do this.

Bears are so confident and understand

where they are on the food chain,

that they understand what scaring something is.

Like, yeah, we do this all the time with animals.

Animals don't think like us.

They don't worry about if you're scared or not most of the time.

But a bear, it's like built into their DNA

to know what it's like to scare a human being.

That's where they are on the food chain.

That's like, even though we're higher,

we're still like face up, you against a bear, good luck.

Yeah, you're gonna lose on that line.

I'm bettentary.

Terrifying.

I don't care if they do veer away at the end.

That's gotta be scary, man.

A bear charging at ya.

You know, it's intense.

Wouldn't even hockey players.

I'm like, oh no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I would have loved to have though

a seat of one of the hockey players

throwing their gloves down to them.

No, no, what are you doing?

This is...

They had a good time.

This all worked out really thing.

And it is a fun video.

If you get a chance to check out the video, everybody,

I encourage you to check that out.

It's pretty good.

The moment it probably wasn't fun,

but hey, you got her, we can laugh about it out of that.

I wanna see if we can see any of this here.

Okay.

I think, yeah, okay.

So this is just them that I'm talking about.

Yeah, right.

But they're out there and the cameraman catches the bear.

Yeah.

Otherwise, they would not know.

Yeah, right.

They all look at, oh, bear.

We'll just kinda...

Yeah, I wouldn't say the bear is close,

but the bear is close enough to where they're like,

yep, we're out.

Yeah, we're gonna move,

because it is in now in the water with them.

And so, and it circles them.

Yeah.

It crosses the river to go to the other side.

And I, like this mascot, you can't see this human being's face.

Yes.

And the mascot face doesn't change, of course.

Right.

But I can see a terrified human being.

Like, it's never low.

Look at that, man.

That's actually a lot closer than I thought.

Yeah, that wasn't pretty close.

That, that, that, you've been...

Stating character, though.

That was good, though.

Yeah, he did.

He wiped his brow when the bear veered off,

which is actually, that's good.

That's a good performer right there.

That is a true performer right there.

Right there.

The big, that's proud.

The big, that's a good one.

Man, that's also the moment you asked for a race.

Yes, that's the moment.

You're not paying me enough, man.

I could have died in a crack in costume.

What is my future we're gonna look like?

Oh my god.

That ain't right.

They may not let him in heaven for that.

I don't know how that works.

I don't know enough about that stuff.

Before we go to break, I did have a PSA we wanted to do

from our friends over at the United Way of South

one of the M's counties.

Due to the forecasted rain today,

they have moved the school supply collection

for stuff to bus to East junior high school

from 11 to one.

We want to make sure that everybody knows about this

and specifically, of course, the people

that we're going to be dropping off items.

So keep this spread the word about this, everybody.

If you're around the old water cooler,

make sure that everyone knows.

And of course, we'll be mentioning this a couple of times

throughout the show today, but do wish them well.

Hope that goes good.

And a big thank you again to everybody

that dropped off supplies here,

and that have been dropping them off

throughout all of town.

It's, I did a little digging on this one

because it seemed like the last couple of years

this has been a little more of a heavier topic than usual.

It's always been important to me,

but I haven't seen this really as where it is now.

And it's because of the cuts and a lot of the funding

being cut to a lot of our programs,

a lot of our schools, and a lot of the abilities

that they had a lot of, I mean,

there's nobody out there walking around that I would hope

that it thinks that teachers paying for school supplies

for their own students is right.

And now we're going to see even more of it.

Let's prevent that.

Let's help our kids.

They are the future.

They are, look what happens

when you do not have a succession plan.

Now you can look at China for that

and see what the trouble that they have been for,

I want to say going on three decades,

they are behind because of not having successors

to take over for the CEOs and the people in charge

or even just managers of a gas station.

They don't even have that.

Let alone what's happened here politically,

where we have nothing but senior,

I'm not senior citizens,

people that should just be sitting down

in the rocking chair doing whatever they want,

not running a country.

Right.

This is not an RD thing.

This is, oh, this is the best we've got.

Like, and this is what happens

you'd notice in a succession plans.

This is when it happens.

We don't care about the youth.

We don't put into investing the youth.

Those of you that have, we greatly appreciate it

and encourage others to.

Now the school supplies are going to go a lot farther

than we could ever put in the words.

Absolutely.

Hope it goes well for the United Way

and the volunteers and everybody

putting those together today

because that's a lot of stuff in that back.

They're going to, it is, but they always do.

Great job.

We appreciate them.

Find out more about going to

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We encourage you to treat yourself next week.

Not today.

No, not today.

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We hope they are enjoying themselves

in this break and recharging and resetting

and getting ready for next Tuesday

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Call up and do that.

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It feels like a sibling thing.

Yeah, right.

I gotta get my brother's birthday.

Birthday.

Birthday.

I don't want it to be happy.

It's your birthday anyway.

I acknowledge that.

I would, my birthday comes around.

Feel free to everybody do that to me.

I actually think that'd be kind of fun.

I a little like that.

We encourage you to do that.

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Seth, I need a one or a two.

Two.

All right.

It gives us the qualifier.

First up, want to wish a very happy birthday to a good friend

of our stations.

Rachel White here.

Oh, Rachel.

Happy birthday to you.

Rachel's out and about doing her thing.

Like she did here for many years.

We really enjoyed working with her at the station here.

And she's off doing great stuff.

I've still talked to her every once in a while.

She's doing good.

Nice.

We keep up the great stuff, Rachel.

She's really doing a lot to promote and bring awareness.

Not only to our environment, but to help our ag industry, our farmers out there.

Doing good work.

Yep.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Avery Butler.

Avery, happy birthday.

And congratulations to you.

And Julia, your day Avery.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We should go in and we encourage you to brag to everybody that you're a qualifier.

Oh, man.

The Decemberist song Avery just popped in my head.

Yeah, Avery.

That's a good song.

Looking at celebrity birthdays, who you share your birthdays with, everybody.

Mike Trout is 34.

Mike Trout is 34.

Wow.

Angel's outfielder and one of the best all-around players in baseball today.

And really, I mean, especially looking at his first nine, ten years.

Oh, generational talents.

Generational talent.

Yeah.

And it's kind of been lost to it.

It has.

It is so weird in this day and age where if you want to see it, you can see it.

Right.

There's a way that you've got to hunt it down sometimes or maybe you've got to go through

a pace there somewhere.

But you can find it.

And yet this guy, the only things we've seen are some highlights here and there on the

mouse or something.

I mean, it's weird where he has spent his career and it's just kind of been quiet.

Yeah.

He's kind of a quiet guy to be fair.

So, yeah.

And I give him a lot of credit for that in the regard of not demanding a trade every five

weeks or something like that and everything.

He's never done that.

And at the same time, I kind of wish he did.

Yeah.

I know.

I kind of like have all organizations to stay loyal to.

One thing that we do not talk enough about in sports, it is on the athlete to be loyal

to this team, but the team is never meant to be loyal to the athlete.

We don't expect the same thing, which is, yeah, and we can't go out of our way enough to

clap ourselves on the back when a team, look at that team, how they, they paid that guy

or whenever and everything.

Where that team would not exist without the players.

That means.

Come on.

I don't remember this.

Yeah.

Doesn't make any sense.

Sheree's there on is 50.

Wow.

One of the greatest actors you will see, just period, just one of the best.

Of course, Oscar winner for monster.

I think one of her greatest performances is among kind of like overrated and kind of big

performances.

I like the movie The Devil's Advocate.

Al Pacino is the devil.

Come on.

That's great cast.

That's great cast.

Kiana Reeves is really good at it.

Yeah.

Kiana Reeves kind of under-accident.

Al Pacino does a little bit more, like a little, a little bigger than he might need to be

in certain scenes.

Sure.

Where her performance is perfect and it's still and it's so moving.

It's perfect.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

It just doesn't a great job.

And you see her in that and it's one of her earlier movies.

Like, well, she's going to go on to do great things.

I knew I did, she go on to be one of the best actors in the game and Oscar winner and

all that.

Right.

Look up her story.

Her life story.

It's been a while.

It's a wild story, the ups and downs she's had, where she grew up, how she grew up.

And some things that happened to her, it's really remarkable that she was able to get

to where she is.

It really is.

I mean, a lot of the stories like hers end up not so good.

Yeah.

Her whole thing about her end of the person she is today.

Exactly.

Exactly.

The company is 65, folks, Fox, Mulder is 65.

Very nice.

Wow.

California Cation had a big hit with that too.

As well.

Yeah.

He's had some other stuff here or there or anything, but never really hit the mark that

I think a lot of people thought he would.

Right.

Right.

It is so difficult.

You know, you could be the biggest TV star in the world and it means nothing in the movie

industry.

No.

Even with the world's crossed over and maybe in 10 years this will change or something.

But even in this day and age, you're still a TV star.

And that's just not the same thing as being a movie star.

Right.

And being able to transition that to movies.

Ask David Kuroso about that.

Bruce Dickinson is 67, cancer defeating lead singer of Iron Maiden.

Nice.

Yeah.

Good on him too.

And not to be confused, of course, was super producer Bruce Dickinson, who Christopher

walking, you know, mimics in the Recalbell sketch and all that.

Newman is 70, Wayne Knight is 70, all right.

Jerry's arch enemy, Newman, I haven't signed felt it all that great character actor.

You have no Jurassic Park without him.

No.

He's the guy that drops the right.

Yeah, he's the guy that starts the whole thing basically.

Yeah.

It's so weird to me that if you press me and I have to do a book report on the first

Jurassic Park movie, it's that in the water like ticking.

Yeah.

That's all I remember.

I don't know why.

I like the movie.

I didn't think it was that movie or anything, right?

But for some reason, hip drop in that little shaving can, I remember it was the shaving

can.

Yeah, right.

The the the the water one.

That's one.

That's the thing everyone remembers.

It was in all the trailers.

Yes, that's why.

And great.

Perfect Spielberg.

Perfect Spielberg.

Yeah.

Oh, it's so good.

BJ Thomas would have been a celebrate in a birthday on this day when they dropped 42

falling on my head.

Huge artist in the country industry.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was reading about the crossover hits, though, too.

He did a lot of pop songs too.

One of my all time favorite movies.

It's Buchkasten in the Sundance kid.

I am a sucker for anything those two men did together.

The sting is another one of those movies that love those movies.

One of the most misunderstood scenes I cannot understand in all of movie history is

that scene.

The bike scene.

I don't understand it.

It feels like a completely other movie.

It does.

It just pops into it.

It's weird.

There's not even a segue to it or anything.

Yeah.

It's weird.

It's an incredibly well done movie.

The ending is ahead of its time.

I didn't even see coming and all this.

And then for some reason, there's this happy go lucky bike scene in it.

I have no idea why.

I would love to know why that was in there.

Love that movie, though.

And let's see, oh, there was somebody else.

Oh, Billy Burke, born in the state in 1884, Glinda, the good witch in the Wizard of

Us.

Billy Burke.

She had a long career.

She was a stage actress for many years.

And then she appeared in some classic movies, of course, Wizard of Oz.

But she was in dinner at eight, which is a fantastic 30s movie.

And she is one of the stars that when she does a great job.

We will take a quick time out.

But again, a big shout out to our friends at LKFA.

Make sure to make plans when they open their doors next Tuesday to head on over there.

We'll be back after our news, sports, entertainment, and partner break on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

We got good things coming up for you.

But for this segment, we're talking fries.

All right.

Yep.

Fries.

So the National French Friday was the other day.

And according to a recent report, the average American eats 17 pounds of fries per year.

All right.

That doesn't seem too much, really.

I'm the scheme of things.

Yeah.

Well, and I hope everybody understands.

That's not all on you guys.

At least three of those are me.

At least three pounds of that.

He's skewing it to that.

No.

Yeah.

I am definitely messing with the average on this one.

And maybe you're meeting more than that, maybe less who knows.

Right.

Across the whole country, Americans eat at least 5.6 billion pounds of fries.

Enough to fill 155,000 school buses.

Wow.

That's a lot.

Fries are the most popular in Virginia where locals scarf down more than 21 pounds a year.

Okay.

Alabama is next, followed by Georgia and Maryland.

Okay.

Maryland's sneaking in their way.

That's all kind of down south.

It looks like.

Or Southern.

They like their fries.

28 states.

And they definitely like the fry thing.

So I mean, they do.

28 states prefer the basic, straight and seasoned fries, particularly in North Dakota,

Mississippi, Alabama, Wyoming, Louisiana, and Utah.

Shoestring fries are the most popular in Hawaii, New Hampshire, Michigan, Maine, and

Texas.

Really?

You can keep them.

You can keep them.

You're not a fan of the shoestring.

The only, well, that fry and the waffle, okay, yeah, the waffle fries, nothing on waffle

fries.

I don't know what it is.

I don't really, I don't get them.

I don't like it.

Uncle Cut fries are the preferred style in states like Nebraska, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,

and Illinois.

That's my favorite.

Yeah, me too.

That's my go-to.

Yeah.

And waffle fries only found love in Colorado.

Okay.

All right.

63% of people agree that fries can be considered a main dish, not just a side.

Wow.

And, well, got to have a lot of them.

Got to have a lot of them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I did not think that literally anybody else in human history had ever done that little

load of was actual thing.

I don't know.

Wow.

Well, you can do that in Canada.

Poutine.

That could be a meal.

We just talked about it yesterday, right?

It's got, you know, cheese and gravy and stuff on it.

I mean, that could be a meal right there.

The top seasoning ranged from classic salt to garlic powder to the less common, like parmesan,

old bay.

I know a lot of people like that old bay, especially in the South.

Yeah.

Paparica and cayenne.

Can I make them a little spicy?

Yeah.

The top dips were classics as well, catch up ranch and cheese sauce.

Okay.

And 77% of people claim that they'd share their fries if they were eating with a group

of people.

65% admit that they have stolen fries from someone else's plate.

Sure.

Both of those numbers are off.

Both of those people are not being honest.

Yeah.

We're not being honest.

I think that they're both higher than you would think.

Right.

I think more and more people are willing to share their fries with others.

Right.

Some of that is just out of being, you know, that kind of person.

And I think some of it is out of kind of public pressure or that little, these things

to be able to do with your stuff, yeah.

And as far as the stolen fries thing, is that the, like, they've seen you taking them

or you take them on the side and they're not looking?

I think that is the single, one of the single universal allowed stealing is fries.

Because you do it, no, see, the best way to do it is when they're looking at you doing

it.

Yes.

Yes.

And the reaction is always the same.

Hey.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's always the same.

I like, I like ignoring it and then taking something of theirs, like whatever they got,

even if I don't eat it, like, even if I don't like it.

But no one's really upset.

No.

They don't mind you taking a fry.

I mean, come on.

I, I think that one of the smarter campaigns I've heard in recent years, McDonald's doing

this with thirst about, like, it's kind of like, they made a joke or made a thing.

Right.

Well, we put more fries in there.

So you can.

Sure.

Like people can steal them.

Right.

Yeah.

Which of all the companies they should lean in.

Right.

Seriously.

They got the money.

And their fries are pretty popular.

Yeah.

When, when it comes to, like, go to places for friendly, do you, because to me, I will, if

it's a difference maker, like most places, oh, they got, they got all good burgers.

They're all okay.

Sure.

But fries stand out to me in certain places more than others.

I agree.

And that could be a decider for me, especially if I can't, you know, I, I know I want a burger,

but I can't decide where to go.

Right.

I like the fries here better.

So I'll go there.

It's the only side I can think of that's like that.

You know, it is because there's so many different ways to do it.

So I mean, if, if it has crinkle fries, so around here, you know, there's, there's several

places that do that, you know, that have that.

And there's always my favorite, you know, go to first, our good friends at Chips, you

know, just down the road here.

They obviously have the crinkle fries, love their fries, culverts I've, I've spoken of

them before.

Yeah.

So Arbis, if you don't get the curly fries that are seasoned, you get crinkle fries.

That's their normal fries, which I really, I like that too there at Arbis.

Here's the one that they didn't mention on there.

And I'm curious what people think steak fries.

Oh, yeah.

Because those are more, you know, the thick cut.

Yeah.

So you get more potato in there.

And I actually, if they do it right, I really like those.

But you don't not, not everyone prepares them correctly.

So you get, it's a crap shoot on that one.

Those you got to cook a little longer and it seems like people don't do that enough.

Right.

Right.

Because I wouldn't get on that.

But I really like them when they're cooked well.

They're bad.

When they're cooked right.

Yeah.

They're definitely all right with that one.

I, I, I think this is an interesting one too, because the, the shoe string, I didn't

know that they were still as popular as they were.

I didn't even know people serve them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And not just that, but that they're so popular and, and like, especially like in Texas,

where, you know, they, they like more of the size, more bigger, you think, right?

Or maybe they just go for more, just like a, a big old pile of them.

Maybe that's they like, like a haystack of, uh, shoesting potatoes.

Fries are great.

That's the, and that's, that's where we wrap up here on them.

So we, people, we obviously love them in this country and we are going to eat many, we're

going to eat lots of fries.

And of course, as we mentioned, the main side for these are ketchup.

That's the number one side that people find with them.

But I don't know that they want it like this.

Oh.

I don't know if you really want to dip your fries in your smoothie.

Oh.

Yeah.

Uh, so, uh, Heinz and smoothie king just debuted a ketchup smoothie.

Oh no.

And now there are reports saying that it's good, but I mean, that's reports and who knows?

They announced it.

We asked one guy, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which by the way, you never heard of smoothie king.

I've never heard of it.

I've never heard of it.

I've never heard of it.

Wow.

There you are.

You're way back there, man.

This shows like the tagline for the show or the names could just be old businesses that

are out around the court.

That's all we're talking about today.

Yeah.

Oh, my god.

By the way, hey, you're remembered.

KB Toys.

Yeah.

Just throw it randomly.

How about any toy store for that matter?

They're all gone.

Yeah.

Didn't they try to bring toys a wrist back for a little while?

They might have.

They just didn't work out or something.

No, that was ruined.

So they announced it after smoothie king teased it earlier this week with a post that

said, if tomatoes are a fruit, is ketchup a smoothie?

What?

And it's not just ketchup, because that would be insane.

The Heinz tomato ketchup smoothie includes strawberries, raspberries, apple juice, and

asia, and Heinz signature ketchup.

Okay.

Right.

Yeah.

A writer for People magazine described it as sweet and tangy and said that they were impressed

with how well the savory ketchup blended with other ingredients.

Okay.

Question.

You should see that on paper, right?

Right.

But not one that in reality.

Okay.

Catch up.

Savory?

Yeah.

Never thought.

I got to put a question mark on there because they put a lot of sugar in ketchup.

Yeah.

And I thought which was one of the reasons it's so popular is because it's got that sweetness

to it.

So I guess I technically it's savory because tomatoes are very savory, you know, very acidic.

So that makes sense.

I don't know, man.

This is one of those things too where it so when people try to involve ketchup with pizza

or anything, it's like I know that marinara and ketchup that they both come from.

Based on tomatoes, right?

It does.

But it does not work.

No, it's a big difference.

Yeah.

Very bad.

Very bad idea.

Well, I don't even like ketchup to begin with.

So I'm like, I'm not going to go out and get this smoothie because I don't like ketchup.

So I marvel like outside of anybody over the age of, you know, 13 or whatever.

Like kids, of course, you expect, if you give a kid a ketchup bottle, expect half the plate

to be ketchup.

Exactly.

That's the way they do.

That's what kids do.

Exactly.

As an adult though, I marvel sometimes at the individuals that do that because they're like,

man, you know you're not going to eat all, you know you're not going to go through all that.

No.

Why did you buy the food?

What does the food really matter?

Drink the ketchup.

I mean, you're just, you can toss, you can take a piece of cardboard and poke it in there.

You're just going to taste it out.

If that's all you want is the ketchup, then why not?

I'm sure there is more to it than that.

There's much more nuance that my horrible mouth does not understand.

No, no, no.

I mean, no.

To try one of these things or if you want to avoid them, either one, if you're going to run the two.

One of the two.

Or run away from them.

Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Fort Lauderdale in New York.

I kind of think it's funny that they're doing this in Chicago with the way that my fellow

Chicagoans could be about ketchup.

Oh, Lordy.

I kind of like this.

See where that one ends up.

Let's take a call before we go to break.

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You're on the show.

Second Monday.

His arm is very dry.

It has to be a lot.

I don't know if those look too much.

They have to come all out.

And now the whole batch of garlic is right before you repurchase the sandwich.

Okay, yeah.

All right.

Yes, I'm with you.

And the best.

Stop by the home village and ketchup.

At 100%.

Yeah, 100%.

I don't like my food touching.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yep.

I'm so with you on this.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

You see, there's another one out there.

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