Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM, WFHR.
Your host, James Biden, the mic joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Keg.
Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
Hope you're having a good one out there.
We're going to have some fun this morning, a little bit later, and just a little bit,
we'll get into the LCAPA birthday anniversary club.
Do some celebration.
After that, what year is it?
Because we got to talk AOL, we're going back to my space.
Yeah, we're going all that way, yes, we're bringing it back, bringing it all back along
with the slang.
We'll bring out all of that.
Rad.
Nicely done.
That was deaf.
What you just did there, that was deaf.
Oh, man.
And we have the 10 most hated foods in America, and I want to see how many, how much our audience
agrees and disagrees with this one.
Oh, I'm curious.
Let's see what we think of this stuff.
That's all coming up, and we're talking bears.
We have bears, just bear story, after bear story, after bear story, just there's a bunch
of people.
Are we talking like actual, like, raw bears or sports?
So I know my audience well enough to know that they're going to turn off the radio if I say
other bears.
Yeah, we're talking wild bears, actual bears, not the kind that can't score.
That's my bear.
That's my team.
That's my team.
Yes, poo bears, all that.
Yeah.
10 o'clock hour, we'll have some entertainment news for you, looking forward to that.
We're going to have a lot of fun there.
And we've got some other good topics for you a little bit later in the show.
We got a bunch of things we're going to be doing throughout the next couple of days.
We're going to be out and about a bunch.
All that coming up for you, and so much more.
And I got one here, Melissa, the most ridiculous things fans have left behind at festivals.
I could be interesting.
Could be interesting.
I did not get a chance to look at that one.
I might need to pre-read that one, I might.
All of that coming up.
But as we look at our national day of calendar, today is a couple of fun ones and important
ones.
It is National Middle Child Day.
Hey.
It's a good one.
This is all the middle kids out there.
That's me.
Yeah.
I'm a middle kid.
I wanted to celebrate you and my sister Jill and so many other people.
Beans, my sister, is a birthday in a couple of days, and she is our middle child and our
family.
Right.
The middle child, there's a plenty of story lines and plenty of things that have been
said about this one.
For you, Melissa, do you enjoy being a middle child?
I don't know if I technically count, because I am also the only girl in the family.
And the distance between me and my next younger sibling was like six years, no, four years,
four years and six years and then 16 years.
So I think being the girl of the family, yes, I did have an older brother that picked
on me relentlessly.
I was, he was the only one allowed to pick on me and bully me.
So he did, there was some of that, the near of protection from other boys.
But yeah, I don't know if I really count as an actual middle child, kind of like the
middle child, step child, a little, a little bit interesting, a little bit of this helps
make sense, like some, that thing knowing you now, some of this makes sense.
It's all clear now.
It's always funny to me how much you and my sister share in common.
But Jillian is like that, it's me, Jill, and then my little brother.
So she's the only girl in the family too, and it makes a difference, it really does.
It does, it does.
The middle child is a little different that way, yeah, unless of course it's, it's all
girls, that doesn't really stand out much.
But a recent poll found a third of us are a middle child, or at least somewhere in the
middle, 30% of the oldest, 32% are in the middle, and 26 are the youngest, and 12% are
an only child.
So it is kind of funny, it is, it is kind of, well, and then you've got the bigger families
that have, you know, four or five children, I have a cousin who will have her fifth child
in, why did she say October, she's so excited, their family is so adorable, but I can never
remember their names.
Man, that'll drive you crazy, especially, yeah, I have to get, yeah, if I get the first
one I can usually get the rest of them, they're in Bracen, Traceland, Taven, there we go,
I did it.
All right, it is not your fault that you don't remember those names, you know what, it's not
got you.
That is done.
But here's the thing, I asked about this at the family camp out, and her husband told
me, he's like, she specifically wanted very unique names because she was a, like a, she
was a teacher with young, young kids, I don't know if it was kindergarten or first grade,
and she didn't want any names that would be, would have been in any way influenced by
any of the children that she taught.
That's okay, makes perfect sense, completely understood.
It does, once they told me that, I'm like, okay, I will struggle to remember them because
they're beautiful names, you know, I get it.
They are, they are great names, just very, not easy ones to remember, the meaning behind
that makes a lot of sense.
I think that the middle child too, one of the things about that is that, you know, they're
the one that usually, at least in our family, my parents seem to go out of their way to try
to make sure that they knew that they were special, that they knew that they met, they
were paying attention to them.
I said, you know, especially my little brother was young, really little, and they do things
with the both of them or do things just for Jill that day or just for Nick one day.
I don't know, I always thought that was interesting.
I look at my mom and dad are middle children in many ways, so I didn't, you know, really
think much about that, but they really empathized with Jill.
They really kind of leaned toward that, whereas Nick and I kind of fended for ourselves.
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Nicholas is the golden child of the family, so he, Nick was definitely in the baby and
my parents were so much more, where I think some, my parents, like, they joke about this
with parents that have multiple kids.
And first baby, you're filling out the baby book.
Yeah, and the last baby, you're kind of like, he was born.
You're lucky we got you a baby book.
What did we name the kid again, what did he do with it?
But it was the opposite of my family, whereas my mom and dad really like locked in by the
time Jill and Nick came around, especially my little brother.
Well, they were young parents, yeah, they were you, yeah, yeah, and that makes a difference.
No judgment here.
I turned out, I turned out, you're here, you're alive, you have all your fingers and toes,
it's fine.
So when it comes to the middle child, that's all, you know, this is all interesting,
I think, and I'd love to talk more about it.
But I did want to find somewhere to take this.
And so we go from the middle child to the middle seat and the middle seat on an airplane.
Now this is one of the harder things to get people to, to sell somebody on the middle
seat.
Now there's some people that prefer it, I actually, my buddy will is a big fan of the
middle seat.
He prefers it.
He will switch with somebody if he is on the aisle or inside.
He won't, actually I shouldn't say that for sure.
I know if he's on an aisle seat, he would give anything for that middle seat.
And so he trade with somebody for that, but he's the only person I've ever known.
I don't mind the middle seat if I know one person beside me, like if I'm traveling
with somebody, I'm fine sitting in the middle, as long as I know one person to one side.
Otherwise, I feel a little hemmed in.
We have this article from a wonderful website view from the wing dot com view from the
wing dot com.
The leader, the thought leader in travel, that's a good, that's a good name.
I like that.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaking of pitching this idea and arguments to make for the middle seat, the travel rider
for the sight view from the wing did an article on why the middle seat on planes might
be the best seat you can pick.
The whole argument is a little half-hearted, but it's still there and you can make the
most of this.
And while it may be a little half-hearted to some, some other people out there might
be full, a whole hearted, I don't know.
You get both arm rest.
We've heard the argument before, the only problem is not everyone agrees, so if there's
a good chance, you're going to be at least getting just, you know, I think it's realistic
to think you get one arm rest.
Yeah, I don't know if you're going to get both.
Yeah, and it should be the arm rest that's closer to the window.
Yeah, agreed.
Agreed.
Airlines sometimes offer rewards from middle seat passengers.
This is the only reason I know this is from Will has told me this.
Virgin Airsoft.
Yeah, because those are the hard ones to sell.
Virgin Australia once gave out prizes and Spirit handed out bonus miles, but it's not
a common thing.
The real perk is, you know, you don't pay for extra for the middle seat, whereas a lot
of people will pay extra for other size seats.
The other argument, it's the best of both worlds.
You can still kind of see out the window and you only have to climb over one person to
use the bathroom.
There's only one person who might have to ask you to move.
So.
I mean, that works if we're talking about a row of three seats.
What about the really big airplanes where there's like five in the middle?
I've never been to one of those.
Well, I didn't even think of that.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah, for overseas travel.
Oh, yeah, like that.
Yeah, big of a plane.
I was in an aisle seat on the window side when I did that, when I flew to London, but
yeah, there was like five seats in the middle.
And I just looked at that and went, whoa, me 20 years ago would have been so jealous of
that.
And it would have, I would have given anything to have know what that's like.
Me now, like I want to try it, but I don't know, I might want to wait a little while.
I feel like the airline industry, and I am only speaking for myself, I encourage people
to do their own homework on these things.
But I feel like the airline industry right now is a new cell phone, and I'm just going
to wait until they work the bugs out.
I'll go ahead now, I'll get the model a little bit later than everybody else.
I just feel a little more comfortable, and I love, love, love flying.
I really love flying.
I miss it quite a bit, and I'm looking forward to getting back out there and flying again.
But maybe once they work the bugs out, I'll get the new updated model, it will see.
And finally, you're more likely to make a friend.
If you are a socializer, you've got two people to talk to.
But if you're not that kind of person, it's not much harder to talk across the aisle, or
from aisle C to aisle C, or something like that.
But they do, they do make this, this is their biggest argument of all of this, that you
can make more friends, that you can get, you know, talk to more people.
I like the idea, I like the spirit of that, no pun intended, I like the idea of it.
I don't know that I've flown a lot.
I think I've flown at least 10 times in my life.
And I would say that one of those flights that I ever get on, where people necessarily,
the people that want to talk, they already have somebody to talk to, I haven't run into
a lot of people.
Now in the gated area, a little bit more, but once we're on the plane, it just feels like
everybody just wants to get to where their destination, and they're putting their headphones
on or watching a movie or trying to sleep, or something like that.
I don't know how many people are looking, you know, what I'm going to open up my friend,
my friend book here.
I'm going to make new friends.
It's also kind of rude to other passengers.
The last, I think it was actually the last time I flew, I was on my way back from, oh,
from Arizona.
And there were two guys behind me, and they would not stop talking, and they were loud,
and they were obnoxious.
Like there were points where I wanted to stand up and say, you know what, guys, chill.
Yeah, yeah.
But I didn't.
I just put my headphones in, and I tried to ignore them, but I could hear them over
my headphones.
It was obnoxious.
So I try not to do that.
Like I might share some pleasantries with the person next to me, just be like, you
know, hey, yeah, that's a really good book.
Enjoy the flight.
Where are you going?
But mostly we talk on the tarmac, when you're either getting ready to take off, or after
you've landed.
That's the time for conversation, in my opinion.
No, I think that's good.
That's good.
I don't, I can think of maybe two or three times I've really had conversations on flights.
It has not happened very often.
I tend to be, I am, everything I was describing before, I'm kind of that person.
I throw my headphones on, and I am locked in, and I want to get to my destination.
Make sure I get to my gate on time, all those things.
When I'm traveling with people, it's very different.
I'll talk to anybody.
But otherwise, if I'm by myself, I am all locked in and just ready to, you know, get
to where I need to go, get to my destination and everything.
You know, I'm trying to remember, I'm pretty sure I've only ever flown by myself.
I don't think I've ever flown with someone.
Somebody else.
Interesting.
It's fun.
I like traveling by myself, but I think I've done enough of it.
I've gotten a lot of my, you know, do it again.
You've reached your quota.
Yeah, yeah, right.
You know, if you've hit my mark.
You don't need to hit the mark.
I hit the mark.
Hit the mark.
We'll come back and we'll do some celebrating, everybody.
We got the LCaffa birthday anniversary club right around the corner, just for you.
On the morning show here at WFHU.
You heard pit bull.
It's time to do some celebration with our great friends over at LCaffa and the birthday
anniversary club.
It feels good to say this.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over there today, everybody.
They're back open.
They are open.
After week off, 221 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards head on over there today.
Put them to work.
No.
Head on over there.
Enjoy.
I was trying to stretch here a little bit, Melissa, because I cannot get Facebook to
open and this was happening yesterday too.
I'm not on social media enough to know if this is a thing, like they're having outages
or not, or if it's just my computer, I don't know, but I am not able to check out any
specials or anything over there, but I encourage you to check them out.
I'm on it.
Oh, you're on it.
Okay.
Well, you can head to LCaffawi.com, LCaffawi.com and find out more about our friends over there
and check out that great menu of theirs.
Yeah, I love the beginning post.
Well, we missed you.
Nice.
They have churro pancakes, a chequilla, breakfast burrito.
I'm sure I said that wrong, but it's a mouthwatering, Mexican classic, fresh homemade tortilla
chips tossed with zessie salsa, your choice of steak or chicken, and top loose scrambled
eggs, pico de gallo, creamy run churrosas, all wrapped in a warm tortilla.
Woo.
Sounds good.
Only chips in a tortilla.
Yum.
Yeah.
And then they have Ezekiel's famous lasagna or pork stir fry for dinner options, lunch
options.
Yeah.
That just all sounds good.
It does.
I appreciate you reading all that.
All I heard was churro pancakes.
Yeah.
It sounds amazing.
All that sounds good.
All that sounds good.
All that sounds good.
All that sounds good.
Yes, families pancakes topped with cinnamon sugar and drizzled with caramel.
Oh my God.
Oh, that's not fair.
That's that.
Man, that is amazing.
That sounds so good.
Very nice.
Get on over there today, everybody.
Let me live vicariously through you.
Head on over there, check it out.
Man, good stuff.
Good stuff.
We take a look at our list of local birthdays and we want more on there.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
You can email us info at wphr.com.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and of course you can call that up.
That's right.
That number is 715-424-2600.
If you have the civic media app, it's just a touch or two away and it'll connect you directly
to us.
And look forward to hearing those.
Please encourage you to give them to us, everybody.
We take a look at our list here and Melissa, I need a one through four.
Ooh.
Four.
All right.
Nice.
That's a good one.
We get our qualifier and we help all the golfers out there.
There we go.
First up, we want to wish very happy birthday to civic media's own Eric Berkstead.
Happy birthday, Eric.
Eric and Julia, your day, Eric, one of those hardworking people in our engineering team
that keeps this whole thing rolling.
We appreciate you, man.
Have a great birthday.
And we take a look at our localist and a gentleman who was with us yesterday on playmakers
for the fourth period.
Happy birthday to GM and head coach of your Wisconsin Rapids River Kings.
Which Paul Peckman?
Hey.
Happy birthday, coach.
Paul?
Just a heck of a coach, a guy who has brought a great attitude, a camaraderie and winning
mentality to the area, a person with the tagline for the River Kings is building hockey up
and down the river.
And this is a man who has taken this quite literally and building up the hockey and the sport
and spreading the word of the sport, helping young people get involved in the sport, going
out of his way, doing above and beyond stuff to do that.
And just an incredibly intelligent hockey guy really understands this game and where the
game is going.
It's fun to talk to him on air, off air talking about this and everything.
All that said, all that pales a comparison to the guy he is.
Just a good man.
Just a good man.
Good guy.
We're fortunate to have him here in town, to have his family here in town and appreciate
everything he's put into this area.
We wish you a good one, Paul.
Yeah.
Enjoy your day.
Talk to you soon, coach.
And we wish a very happy birthday to Sarah Voxvog.
Happy birthday, Sarah.
Enjoy the day, Sarah.
Hope it's a good one for you.
We wish you a great one.
And another happy birthday to Vi Deon.
Happy birthday, Vi.
Vi.
Enjoy the day.
Hope it's a great one for you.
Love that.
We get to celebrate Vi's birthday every year.
It's awesome.
We love that day.
And our qualifiers this year for this one.
Happy 50th anniversary to Ron and Jenny Stowell.
Ron and Jenny.
Happy 50th.
Oh my goodness.
Wow.
58th.
58th.
Oh, 58th.
I must have heard.
58th.
Wow.
That's impressive, Ron and Jenny.
That's impressive.
Yeah.
Happy anniversary, you two.
You're our qualifiers.
Let's take a look at who you share your birthdays with.
One of my favorite actors out there, LaKief Stanfield is 34.
Darius and Atlanta.
He was in Selma.
He played Snoop and Straight Out of Compton.
Was the star of the Haunted Mansion Remake movie.
It's been in a bunch of things.
I think one of those guys that you would know if you saw him kind of actors.
He was in Glass Onion, I believe.
Was it Glass Onion or was it the Netflix murder mystery with Daniel Craig?
He was good in that too.
Oh.
I've never shot.
Maggie Lawson is 45.
Wonderful actors.
Jules in the TV show Psych.
She's really good.
She's a very good actress.
I really like her.
Very talented.
And I thought did an amazing job in that cast with working with those guys.
I had to play the straight man many times and did a great job doing it.
She was really good.
Casey Affleck is 50.
Wow.
Really?
Wow.
Yeah.
That's kind of surprising to me.
I don't know.
I just always consider him so young.
And a lot of him looks young.
You know, Ben Affleck is a far better than average actor.
I wouldn't say he's one of the greats or anything like that, but he is way better than
I think he's kind of gotten noted for.
And he is a very, he's probably a better director than he is an actor.
And he's made it as a writer with Goodwill hunting.
Want an Oscar for co-writing that with Matt Damon?
He's good.
His brother Casey is far more talented.
And I mean that is no insult to Ben.
Not that Ben isn't talented.
It's just Casey is that much more talented.
He's just that good.
Want an Oscar for Manchester by the sea?
Was in Gone Baby Gone.
Allotions 11.
Goodwill hunting.
And he was the star of the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford.
Fantastic Western.
Casey's good.
He's a good actor.
And I feel like he's only getting better.
And I just feel like I've heard more about Ben Affleck.
Yeah.
Maybe it's just the type of movies.
Yes.
I think that's part of it.
Casey has kind of taken a little bit of a different route with other movies and things
he's done.
But he named his kids Indiana and Atticus.
Atticus Affleck.
Great name.
What a name.
Great name.
Yeah.
Michael Ian Black is 54.
McKinley in the wet, wet hot American summer movies.
He was on the state, the old sketch comedy show on MTV.
And he is currently on the news show with a couple of other, it's on CNN and they just
got news for you.
And I got news for you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's kind of the one of the new news comedy shows that is making a great run right now.
And he's perfect on there.
I'm really happy for him.
He was also the voice of the pets.com doc.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's had a couple of things in his career that are really noteworthy.
I'm a fan of his.
He's good.
One of the greatest tennis players of all time, one of my favorite Pete Samperus is 54.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
Oh, okay.
Let's see.
Peter Krauss is 60.
Great actor.
Adam and parenthood.
Nate Fisher in six feet under Captain Nash on 9-1-1.
Peter Krauss said in a really good career.
He's a really good career.
I like him.
Sir, mix a lot of 62.
Oh, really?
Wow.
Baby got back.
Yeah.
Baby's got a bad back at 62.
Yeah.
Hopefully not.
But I hope.
Nice to meet you.
I hope he's doing all right.
I hope he's doing all right.
I don't know.
I think it's an interesting conversation of who has made the most out of their one hit
for one hit wonders.
I would say he's got to be up there in the rankings.
I mean, as far as people have made the most out of that, it's still kind of like Pete,
you make the reference and people still know it.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
Little in the middle, but you got much better.
Still make the reference.
Still get it.
Jim Beaver is 75.
Wonderful character actor.
A lot of people know him from Deadwood and Supernatural.
And let's oh, and Mark Knopfler is 76.
Mark Knopfler.
Dyer Straits guitar god, Sultans of Swing contains some of the best guitar playing ever
recorded.
Yeah.
Mark, my dad and a lot of this is coming from my father.
I'll admit.
My dad, big Dyer Straits guy, but he's right.
Mark Knopfler, amazing guitar player.
And he shares his birthday with a, oh, I'm sorry, almost skated past George Hamilton
is 86.
Oh, really?
George Hamilton is 86, his tan is 40.
I have always liked George Hamilton.
I saw him as a kid in movies, love it first bites and a Zorro, you know, the Zorro parody
and some of those things.
He was on like Hollywood squares, a lot of those things.
But the thing I like about George Hamilton so much, George Hamilton is very aware of
what you make fun of about George Hamilton.
And he's very self deprecating.
He's very, makes fun of himself, doesn't take himself too seriously.
I really admire that in people.
I admire anybody that can make, make fun of themself, they can take a joke.
He's always been very good about that and a good actor, good actor.
I like the name of the Zorro movie he was in, Zorro, the gay blade.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's one, I don't know how well that would age, but yeah, there's definitely one of
his bigger roles.
And some people no longer with us like three legends.
We celebrated this on the Sunrise Show Country Legends Porter Wagner born on this day in
1927 and Buck Owens born on this day in 1929.
Now country music is nowhere near where it is without those two gentlemen and they share
a birthday.
That's just amazing to be.
And one of the, you know, when you're talking about film, one of the people you have to
mention, Cecil B. DeMille born on this day in 1881, the Ten Commandments, of course, his
most famous production.
Or maybe you know him from the Lifetime Achievement Award that the Oscars have.
That is the name of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Oscars is the Cecil B. DeMille
Award.
That is going to do it for our birthdays and anniversaries, but we wish a great one to
everybody out there celebrating and joy your day.
You deserve it.
Yes, I do.
And I can't think of a better way to celebrate than an L Cafe head on over there today,
everybody.
Two twenty one mark and everything.
Beautiful part of it.
You know, they're all fresh.
Try those churro pancakes, my God.
That sounds amazing.
And then tell us how good they are.
So James has to go get some.
Please, please do.
When Melissa and I get back, we're getting in a time machine or going back to 2006 and
using American online.
We're going to build the rest of the show going to be on AOL.
That's right.
Ready for the dial-up sound.
When we come back on the morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Hope you're having a good one out there.
This music takes you back a little bit.
It has almost a 70s vibe to it.
So we went too far back in the time machine.
We got to have the speed up a little bit.
Move up a little bit.
It happens.
It has to mix a lot.
Converse.
Yes, that would have brought us back to the, closer to the right time.
We want to do it.
We want to do it.
We want to do it.
We want to do it.
We want to do it.
We want to do it.
We want to do it over journalists.
For stole.
A official truck, a truck.
We're closer to the right time.
We've all been there.
You are getting a time machine, a year.
You're going to hit the eight and you'll hit a break.
It happens.
Your flux capacitor just overloaded on you.
I don't know about you guys,
but when mine's acting up, I hit it with hum with the palm of my hand.
It's a nice tap.
ItIt's either a small
Yes, that's right.
AOL announced their dial-up internet service is shutting down.
Yes, it is.
It's still an option in 2025.
Really?
I didn't know that.
I think we could easily spend the rest of the show talking about
why it's needed to be an option.
Why people do need it and stuff and draw a ban and the need for more, you know.
In rural areas, we do not have broadband.
A lot of places.
I also don't think I need to mansplain that to our audience that is very aware of it,
because a lot of our audience deals with it.
So I'm not going to do that to everybody and everything.
You guys know how important that is.
Some that keep in mind when election season comes around
or when we have a bills proposed or any of these things.
But sticking with AOL and kind of getting into this time machine with this,
AOL is, yes, shutting down.
It's how a lot of Americans first access the internet back
in the 1990s.
Back then it was called American Online.
They shortened it to AOL back in 2006.
It worked through your telephone line and you heard a series of love screeches.
When you were logging on.
The other drawback was...
It's a sound we'll never forget, though.
No, it is one of the more consistent noises, our generations period,
going the forward, no.
The drawback is, you know, you had to log off if your parents had to make a phone call
and all that, which is always funny.
I will never forget.
My mom loves horror movies and books and things like that.
She is incredibly difficult to scare or freak out or anything like that.
The first time she picked up the phone, I can still remember the yell she made.
I can't imagine what she must have thought that was.
I don't even know.
I never even talked to her, but I just remember the noise and her yelling at me.
So, everyone used to get American Online CDs in the mail,
offering free trial memberships.
The first 100 hours were free and then you had to pay.
Broadband wireless eventually laughed dial up and made it more obsolete.
It felt like for me because I feel like I got online late.
Not late late, but like a year or two later than most society was.
So, by the time I was doing that, we already had dial up.
We didn't even need an AOL or anything.
I don't remember really using it too much.
I remember my parents using it a bit.
I myself didn't, according to census data,
160,000 Americans were still using dial up in 2023.
That is around 0.1% of all internet connections in the US.
But they need it because that's the only option.
There's no person in this country that if they want it,
should not have internet access.
I think you can make an argument.
There's nobody who couldn't use it.
There's people that need it more than others.
We can't do this to society.
We can't move everything online and then not give free access to it.
It's not free, but it should have access available.
It should be, I agree with you.
Yeah.
At one point, cable was free.
Cable shouldn't cost anything.
I'm not saying the major, I'm not talking about 80 channels for free.
I'm talking about the three basic channels along with weather channel
and news channels, something like that.
These things that we pay for,
it's been normalized long before you and I were born.
We could have got it right with the internet.
We could have made the internet completely free and done this right this way.
Of course, no, we couldn't do that because we got to let businesses
and make millionaires, billionaires.
But the very least could make it so everybody can access the internet.
That's literally the least we can do, especially considering again,
we've moved everything online and that's not fair to older generations.
That's not fair to people living in rural areas.
And where is the only free place that you can access the internet, James?
Yeah, the library.
Libraries.
I think that's pretty much it if you don't have your own device.
Well, we love our libraries and shout out to them
and our friends at McMillan here locally.
That's not right.
That's a failure on us as a country.
I don't care if that sounds exaggerated or anything.
You go ahead and think of all the things you need to get online for.
And we're only getting more and more in that route.
As far as making appointments for almost anything nowadays.
Any of these things.
It's on us as a society.
And they're pushing us to that.
They're pushing us to do it online.
Because as soon as you call one of those numbers,
they're like, do you realize that you can do all of these things online
and you don't have to talk to a real person?
For me, this animated person.
Part of the trouble is we have gotten way too used to
and normalized way too much looking at the world.
Like we're the only ones in it.
Chris Rock has got a great joke about guys walking around with a weapon
that don't have no idea how to use it.
They act like they got the only one in the world.
We approach politics.
We approach technology.
We approach way too much of society.
Like it's just us in this world.
It's the exact opposite.
We need to be looking at it more of,
okay, how do I work with everybody else?
How do I work with the society?
How do I work into it?
And not just for ourselves, but with things like this,
with the internet, or when we're voting,
or any of these other things.
If you want to just look at the world from your own perspective,
fine, but go find an island.
Go find somewhere else to be.
That's not how this works.
That we got to work together.
We've got to make things roll together.
And part of that is making things accessible for everybody.
Society is made up of individuals.
And that's what makes it beautiful and also ugly.
How else are we going to ever get more likes on my profile?
If we don't start and click,
that's what this is about.
Man, you want to-
Are you trying to get dogs on the internet now, James?
Yeah, that's about it.
Those dogs love me on social media.
I am huge in the dog community.
Huge.
I'm glad you rolled with that the right way.
Thank you.
Because there's a came out my mouth.
I was like, oh no.
So with AOL putting out the statement,
saying it routinely evaluates its products and services,
and decided to discontinue dial-up internet on September 30th.
It doesn't mean dial-up is totally dead.
If you enjoy-
You know, if you need it,
Microsoft Net Zero and a few other companies still do offer it.
It's mainly used by people in remote areas,
where only option is satellite internet.
Dial-up is cheap, like $10 a month or less,
because it's a bit of a slower process.
Right.
It tops out at 56 kilobits per second,
so it would take about 12 minutes to download a song using those formats.
As we all can remember,
a lot of us can remember,
and some people are currently dealing with.
Well, and one of the things I remember about the internet in the early days
is like, I'd bring a book.
Yeah.
I bring my book while I'm trying to load pages,
because otherwise you're just sitting there waiting forever.
I was in the last-
I remember using this.
I was in college.
And I do-
I remember like reading-
Like, if I had to read something,
I would get my reading done.
While I was waiting for my songs to download or something like that.
Yeah.
RIP to America Online.
We got mail.
So thank you for that.
And getting us to this point.
You know, these businesses, these industries,
they will-
A lot of it will come and go.
You know?
A lot of it will.
But we-
I don't know.
I think it doesn't hurt us to kind of like give a tip of the hat to all these businesses
to get us to where we are today.
Well, yeah, absolutely.
We wouldn't be where we are today without things like AOL.
You got mail?
Which is free right now on YouTube.
Real quick note here.
Melissa some breaking news.
So I have to jump in with the playmakers real quick here.
Playmakers.
We speak sports shout out to quality plus printing and family and natural foods, our sponsors.
Green Bay Packers, quarterback Jordan Love to have procedure on left thumb.
Expected to be ready for week one.
But still noteworthy considering the injury history he's had and everything.
And it's a starting quarterback for the local team.
You got to talk about it.
Got to mention it.
Got to mention it.
So we'll see how that does for him.
And the thumb is probably pretty important when you're throwing a football.
Yeah, it's on his throwing hand.
I do believe too.
So that is that is noteworthy.
But also tough kit.
One thing that doesn't get talked about with Jordan Love enough.
He is one of the tougher quarterbacks in football.
Just doesn't, doesn't brag about it.
There doesn't, you know, wear it on a sleeve or anything like that.
But going back to his days in college, tough quarterback.
So I have no doubt he'll be ready for week one.
But still noteworthy had to mention it.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back and we're talking of crazy things.
Oh, no, no, I got the most hated foods by Americans.
We'll see what we agree and disagree with coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a good one out there.
Happy Tuesday, everybody.
Just a quick follow up on what I was mentioning about Packer starting quarterback Jordan Love.
Adam Schefter is reporting that Brian Kootenkoot said that Jordan Love will undergo a procedure on ligament issues with his left thumb.
The team is hoping love can return by week one.
So just just added details to that wrapping that one up.
We'll keep an eye on that one for you.
Got some good stories of the day and some great local events going on that we want to touch on before we wrap up the show.
Next hour we'll kick off though with some entertainment news.
Talk about some of the events we're going to be at this weekend and all other kinds of stuff.
All that coming up for you.
But right now, I want audience participation.
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What do you agree with and disagree with on this list?
Someone pulled thousands of Americans to find out what the most hated foods in America are.
And here are the top 10.
And most of these I think are pretty guessable, but guessable.
I don't know what that is.
But I do think that I like to hear from people about this.
I think pineapple on pizza is one of the big ones that we go to where I feel like my whole life 50-50.
I met 50% of people that like it and will die on that hill that it's good and 50% that will refuse to even be in the same room with the pizza.
Weird how it seems like such a divider to people.
I don't know.
And Chovies come up first on this list at 56% yeah.
Yeah, I expected that.
56% of people dislike or strongly dislike them.
I don't know if I've ever had just like an Ann Chovie.
But Ann Chovie flavoring is really important for so many good things like Guardedos.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever actually had an Ann Chovie.
Yeah, I don't think I have.
But I can say with the way I am with texture, I don't think we get along.
I do not think we get along.
I've met many cans of sardines in my cupboard right now.
I imagine.
Shout out to you.
After noises off.
Yeah, shout out to noises off of the cast and crew of that.
Liver comes in at number two with 55%.
If you smell it cooking, I think that there's just no way you can eat it.
Yeah, yeah, because it just I don't know.
There are people who absolutely love it.
Yeah, that's great.
My papa just the liver and onions.
He would I my papa you would see this smile on his face.
And you would like what did he just win the lottery?
And then my Nana would walk in with liver and onions holding her nose.
And immediately come in with a bunch of rigatone for her and me.
Sardines come in at number three Melissa.
52%.
I was actually looking at ways to prepare sardines because I mean,
you're just going to pop open a can and eat them.
Yeah.
But there's actually a way that you can, you know, like bread them and fry them.
Just kind of like smelt.
Our good.
Our good friend Heather Saras was in yesterday talking about the Nikusa circus coming to town
and some of that more on that later, everybody.
She was nice enough to give us tickets to give away.
Keep on listening for that.
She had there's been coming around a little bit more and everything.
And I of course saw her in noises off and really enjoyed it.
But we were talking and at one point I look up and I'm listening to her.
And I just I just saw that sardines fall.
I got her.
And I just I was like, oh, I got I got a lock in.
I got an interview to do here and everything.
But all I wanted to do was talk about that scene with her just completely out of nowhere.
It had been a completely out of left field.
We should have no idea what I was talking about.
Oh, she wouldn't know what I was talking about.
But why I went there.
Right.
Or the audience would have been like, what?
It was just so memorable.
It was such a memorable scene.
Great job.
Oh, and she did such a great job.
She killed it.
She was great.
Yep.
So sardines are on the list.
Next is tofu at 46%.
Hmm.
And I push back on that because I just think people haven't tried it in a way that they like.
Because it's such a versatile food.
And maybe I haven't had a lot of it or anything.
Because for me, I find that really silly.
Tofu didn't really have a lot of flavor to me or anything.
It didn't bother me.
It was kind of an add on.
I didn't really think of it much.
Well, and it's something you can I mean you can use it to make sauces.
You can I made it.
I fried it a little bit in some like I tossed it in cornstarch and then fried it in oil.
And I added in some veggies and a peanut sauce.
It's fantastic.
I got to try that.
That I would try.
It's so good.
To be honest, almost anything on this list, if you fried it, I probably would eat it.
I probably like if there were boots, I have timberlands were on this list.
I'd be like, well, you know, I mean, it's a good brand.
Squid comes in next at 43%.
Not calamari.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, yeah.
Okay.
I've had it as calamari.
Yeah.
And I don't think I don't know if I've ever had it on sushi.
Is that a thing you have on sushi?
I don't know.
I think so.
But I don't know if it's raw or if it's cooked.
I will say I got in trouble with my family on this one.
And I will get a lot of my fellow Italians out there, mad at me for this one.
But calamari, overrated.
Kind of overrated.
Kind of overrated.
Yeah.
I mean, because it's a rare, it's kind of a delicacy or it's kind of rare in some places and everything.
I think it gets made up to be a little bit more.
Maybe there's a little more pop and circumstance.
It reminds me of what's the other fancy food on that oysters, but.
Ascargo.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I say it.
I mean, put a name on it.
I don't know.
A caviar is what I was trying to think of.
Oh caviar.
Okay.
Like there was so hyped up and it was so much attention to it and everything.
Oh, this is one of the greatest caviar in the world and all this.
And I try it.
I'm like.
What do you guys, you know, you're only saying you like it because you paid so much for it.
That's the only reason nobody really.
The price tag does matter.
Yeah.
But I couldn't get it.
Like I wasn't looking at anybody and when they were eating it, like say you jump, you dive into a big, a good cheeseburger or a nice steak or something like that.
You can tell the person's happy when they're eating it.
Like these people were nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These they were not happy eating it.
And caviar comes up next with 43% time was quick.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Oysters at 42%.
Yeah.
I tried those once.
I wasn't super impressed.
Blue cheese at 39%.
Oh, see.
That's wrong.
Hmm.
Blue cheese is amazing.
I can't really.
I shouldn't eat it anyway.
But blue cheese dressing, like fresh may, blue cheese dressing is one of the most fabulous things you can have on a salad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Agreed.
A grid.
Chitlins come in at 39%.
Are those exactly?
Are they?
They're an internal organ.
Yeah.
That's a huge intestine.
Okay.
Now I had…
Well, for what I was told, I had homemade chitlins.
And admit I didn't need a ton of it or anything like that, but was much better than I would have expected.
I'm much better.
I had it in some…
I don't know if they were pig, but some kind of intestine in a fa.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And they were really good.
I was surprised.
I was so…
So visually more appealing than I thought they would be.
Yeah, yeah.
But chitlins is also one of the funnest things to order because you get to say chitlins.
Yeah.
You get to say the fun name.
It's a fun name.
And finally, on the list at number 10, sushi.
38% of people dislike it.
However, 23% say that they love it.
It's their favorite food.
And it was the only one on the list that had kind of the counter of that.
That's one of those love hates.
Almost like cilantro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Quacamole or avocados or something like that.
I'm thinking of…
There's another one like that that seems like it's, you know, hit or miss, 50-50.
Right.
All in nothing.
Yeah.
I don't know how many of these foods they serve at Culver's, but we encourage you to…
Head on.
None of them.
You can get stuff so much better at Culver's.
And tonight, you can do it and feel great about it.
From four to eight tonight, it's VFW night over at Culver's.
Go on over there and 10% of all proceeds from both dining and driving sales will go to our local VFW.
Get to your Culver's.
Get some.
Not only does the Culver's feel good, but as you're eating it, you're knowing you're putting
back in your community, helping some of the individuals that helped us get to this point, our VFW members.
Get on over to Culver's tonight.
We'll mention this again before you wrap up.
And if you go after four, you get to say hi to them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Be sure to do that.
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