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We’re Thankful For Appetizers And Infrastructure (Hour 2)
Matenaer on Air · Thu Nov 27, 2025
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We are doing a lighthearted show today for Thanksgiving.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you to Pat Crichtlow, our friend and colleague and host of Mornings with Pat Crichtlow across the network weekdays from six to nine.
Pat, coming up in a little bit, we'll talk Packers Lions.
Of course, you got your Packers jersey on already for the game coming up later on today.
I did want to start just, how much snow did you guys get up there, Pat?
Cause you're in Lake Wissota.
Yeah, here in Chippewa Falls, we were kind of in that dry slot of it, you know, where the rain to snow,
didn't happen right by us, it happened north of us.
So we only got about an inch of snow here, but the wind, oh my goodness.
Right?
It was
crazy.
Amazing.
For a little over 24 hours, it just howled here.
But we did not get dumped on nearly to the extent of our friends say in Ashland with their 15, 20 inches
that
they got there.
I'm looking at snowfall totals from the journal Sentinel Hurley with 14, Hawthorne with 14 cable got 12.
Bayfield, more than ten and a half, Washburn, ten inches, Hayward, eight and a half, and we have more snow coming.
Jane is just a bringer of good news for everyone.
I just want people to be prepped that the snow is expected to start Saturday and then go all day Saturday and then into Sunday morning, it looks like for the southern half of the state,
Of course, this is one of those systems that they're watching to see if it moves further north or south will affect how much snow we're talking about.
But right now they are predicting eight to 10.
Eight to 10 inches.
Yeah.
And again, on, you know, the.
It's no hit on Wednesday and on Sunday, the two busiest travel
days
of the year.
So I hope everybody is just extra cautious and patient and we'll get through it.
And a good reminder, 511wi.gov.
It is a free website.
It's a free app.
Correct.
And you can check road conditions all around the state.
So get some heads up about what's going to be greeting you when you head out the door.
It's a wonderful resource.
So 511wi.gov.
I've been keeping an eye on this throughout this morning.
They're scattered.
We do have a bunch of scattered accidents around the state.
Looks like most of them are out of the way, off on shoulders and things like that.
But still, be careful.
Our sales manager was in an accident last
night.
And luckily, he is okay.
He is good.
But seriously, just take care.
It's starting.
It is beginning.
We are back to winter.
And as we said before,
If you are in an all wheel, four wheel, bigger car, please remember you're not the only ones on the road and not everyone has the same access to that kind of drivability in bad weather.
Just be cognizant, be aware and don't try to take over the road.
If you can go, it's great if you can go 55 into 55, but if everyone else is going 30 or 35 because of the snow, just
You know be cool,
bro.
I got it Have we scolded enough.
Yes.
All right, that's your scolding for today.
Be
careful, but
But it also gives me a reason to yet again be thankful for the public servants of the past who did not mind investing in infrastructure.
And I'm talking specifically about expanding Highway 29 to four lanes across the state because I am old enough that I drove on Bloody 29 for all those years with a girlfriend, now wife who lived on the other side of the state, whether it was 29 or Highway 10, we had to take that thing in snowstorms and ice storms.
And to be able to do that on a four-lane road instead of white-knuckling it on two lanes, every little bit of infrastructure investment helps.
And I'm very thankful on a day like this that we had people who appreciate that.
So here's the question.
And I don't want to get too far into infrastructure talk.
But as you just said, highway
love that.
I know.
But I love to talk.
Don't get me wrong.
As opposed to what?
President Obama and Biden both said, I think infrastructure, infrastructure talk is sexy, but
Highway 29 being expanded to four lanes was a, or giving more lanes to highway 29 was a good thing, right?
You
a
necessary thing.
And it
was,
I still can't understand.
why Milwaukee, we're giving more lanes to certain parts of the freeway that do not need them.
And it's going to cause-
Oh
yeah, diminishing returns actually
in that case.
Oh, big time.
And this is one where I want to look at both the GOP and the Democrats going, why does anyone here support this?
What are you getting out of this?
Tony Evers is leaving office, so it's not like he's going to get a bunch of money to his campaign.
It's not like, I mean, I know that the building, the road building lobby is very strong here in Wisconsin, but
No one has been able to properly explain to me why this is happening.
And I see, I hear conservative talk people kind of saying the same thing, like this is unnecessary.
Why are you?
And they're of course blaming Governor Evers and that's what
they want to do.
No, no, no.
No one has been able to properly explain to me the goal of this project
on top of the fact that we have
so many other projects happening in Milwaukee County right now.
Craig, I don't want to take one of those icky, you know,
buses or trains.
I want my car.
I want my F-150 that I haul things in maybe two times a year, but it's great big and it's mine
and I want to
take that down the road.
You know, mass transit, if you live in so many other cities where people do take, you know, a metro or an L or whatever the case is, and it's just second nature.
But Milwaukee's just one of those cities.
It's not special, but some cities embrace it faster than others.
But I know from my
time, what little time I worked in talk radio in Milwaukee a long time back.
Oh, they, the fewer connections between, you know, the suburbs and the downtown, the better.
Let me just get in my car and get in and get out.
And if we have to have 14 lanes, then that's what I want.
And that's, you know, politicians give into that very easily.
Well, and I think you make an interesting point, Pat, because I live in the city of Milwaukee and I don't know anybody.
who is a resident of the city that wants this, it's the suburbs that want this.
Right, it is.
Because they want five minutes left on their commute back out to Oklahoma.
And I've always
said, I've always said, I'll, I'll be happy to, to support that as long as it's everybody in the suburbs is, is, is, if that's where you put the toll gate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If the people who want to live in suburbia.
will pay the toll, then fine, more power to you.
But, you know, that's, that's your choice.
Whereas that money could be better invested in things like, you know, commuter rail and buses and things like that.
Yeah, I, I guess what it comes down to is if, if, if it's so anti mass transit, which I understand because we, you know, I had an experience when I worked for the mayor of Racine.
Oh my God, many years ago in 2010, we, we sat down with some people to talk about the massive 94
project that was happening and we said you got you got three billion dollars and then that was back when three billion dollars was a lot of money but you had three billion dollars if you took a small percentage I think it was one percent of that money you could one to two percent you could actually build out an extension of the metro line from Kenosha to Racine giving access to all of those stops and Robin Voss's response was
They can buy a car.
That was his
response.
I was in the legislature at the time.
We approved these things called RTA's Regional Transit Authority.
And it was going to make commuting so much easier in places, including the Chippewa Valley, was going to have one as we continue looking to bring passenger rail, commuter rail back from the Chippewa Valley to the Twin Cities, where there's a lot of commuter traffic on I-94, and things were getting mapped out so nicely.
And then you had that Tea Party, Scott Walker thing come in, and it was all about, you know, they could just buy a car.
And, you know, things that we could have solved years ago.
are still problems today.
Well, and now the average price of a car, if this is accurate, is almost $50,000.
Yep.
Even used cars are are really expensive.
So yeah, just telling everybody to just buy a car, just move.
just do all these other things.
They don't have
the affordable stuff.
Mine was a 73 Plymouth Fury, my first car.
They don't make cars like that anymore, thank God.
But I mean, it was cheap.
But
it was a starter car.
And honestly, you can translate that discussion to home buying too.
There's really no such thing as a starter home anyways.
But I guess the point, there's two things that stick for me is one, even if we don't do math,
Don't do mass transit fine.
Don't support it.
Don't give it any money.
I'm used to that You don't want to invest in anything that helps people fine.
Whatever.
That's your brand but Building the roads out to make them wider.
We don't even need to do that then because Milwaukee as far as even even from even from say the zoo interchange to down as you get towards Southside of 94 South to the airport.
Let's go that
The traffic isn't so bad on a regular daily basis.
It's not New York.
It's not LA.
It's not Chicago.
It's not Atlanta.
Oh my god It's not so horrendous that we would even need this.
Yeah, there's gonna be traffic You're gonna wait, but you're gonna be waiting like 10 15 minutes You're not in bumper-to-bumper for
hour traffic.
So fine.
Don't
Don't fund mass transit.
You square that with your God when they ask, how did you help people?
But the thing is, is we still don't, but we don't need these widening projects.
It's a lot of money.
It's huge amount of money.
And it doesn't give us, as
you said, it gives us diminishing returns.
Well, and PJ on the live stream, I think it makes a good point.
If any highway needs to be widened, it's that stretch of Highway 41 between Washington County and Winnebago County, North and South, it's only two lanes in both.
directions.
Yeah.
That's a really good point, PJ.
I
can't believe that that, yeah, because when I worked in West Bend, you know, years and years ago, it was, it was that needed expansion back then.
it doesn't get the attention of, you know, say the big interstates and things like that.
No.
We just need the right donors along that stretch of roadway in order apparently to make something happen.
Yeah.
Because it sure feels like that's the way it works.
How about this?
Every GOP member and every Democrat, I'll give you $50.
to your campaign, give us some train stuff.
I want some train stuff.
I don't know what I don't know.
I mean, because right now I don't know if it's ever in the cards for Wisconsin, specifically Milwaukee County, because this whole, you know, and we're not going to get into this now, but like the whole hop system is, it's so, there's no nuance to the discussion.
It's just easy to hate on it
when there's so much
more to it.
I have not given Scott Walker the attention.
He so craves, but he was again making comments about how rail
is
dumb.
But at the same time, the new ridership numbers came out for the Borealis line, the new line going
through the
state.
big, big success as everybody knew it would be.
And, you know, but the guy that doesn't want to invest in public transit, public parks, public schools, anything with public public health, you know, would rather have everything done in the private sector.
Everything has to make a profit.
Everything has to pay dividends to shareholders.
And that's not necessarily so, but we have to have the people that actually want to make those investments in our infrastructure.
Look how sexy we made this sound.
Well, and again,
Republicans don't invest.
Their only policy position is tax cuts.
They used to.
Tommy
Thompson.
He's the guy.
I would give the first thousand dollars for a statue of Tommy Thompson somewhere along Highway 29 because he saw a need for it and a whole lot of other Republicans at the time said, this is good investment in the local economies.
And they got it done.
Bring back those Republicans, please.
No, they've all turned into MAGA because they want to be relevant.
Tommy Thompson.
When we return, we are going to talk football, Packers and the Lions coming up today.
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I wanted to share one text that came in that is so sweet.
Carol from Waukesha listening on W. A. U. K. Good morning all happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
I am thankful to have the chance to always listen to you guys on the radio.
Jane, I can't even think about your approaching retirement because I tear up every time I think about it.
I listen to this.
I babysit for my granddaughter two days a week.
Every day at nine, we turn on Aunt Jane, and she's
even
started calling you Aunt Jane when she hears your voice, wishing you all a wonderful day.
Thank you so much for that, Carol.
That's gonna make me cry.
Oh, great is
that.
That is so sweet.
Thank you so much.
So
Jane's new announcement, Jane is not retiring on December
12th.
She
will retire whenever that child...
When she grows up.
When she's like 13, she's like, oh, grandma.
Wait till she's 50.
And I'll just, yes, be here forever.
No, thank you so much, Carol.
That is so, so very lovely of you.
We're gonna have fun for my last two weeks.
Yeah, absolutely.
We'll have lots of fun.
So we'll have special guests and...
I understand some surprises.
Oh, we're working on surprise surprises, but you know,
just great.
All right.
All right.
Let's talk football packers and lions.
Our game starts our cup.
What time did our coverage start 11?
Oh, that's
a great
question.
Hold on.
It
is a good question.
I just found out that we're going to be carrying it on civic media.
Well, is that now?
10 o'clock.
10
o'clock.
All right.
So our coverage is underway.
Packers meeting the lions.
This is a.
tradition that goes back, I can't remember how long, even during the horrible years, when my father was still alive and watched the agonizing packer years.
But the one... The
forest, Greg,
years.
Yeah, but it seemed like the one game they always pulled off was crushing the lions.
Which might not be easy this time.
I know.
It's okay.
Still gonna watch.
Still gonna root, you know?
That's how my wife got me lured into this after growing up in Minnesota.
She said this
was back in the
late 80s.
She's like, you know, you should join us and root for the Packers.
We've never been winners in her lifetime at that point, you know, the 70s and the 80s.
And
I said, you know, you're right.
You know, the Vikings, all they ever do is lose Super Bowls.
Okay, so I will.
And that very next season, they got a guy named Brett Farf.
And so I've actually never known the Packers to go through a stinker roof phase.
And I'm perfectly happy with that.
Yes.
Yes.
You're welcome, everybody.
I also feel like the Packer fandom is something that it makes.
So I was having this conversation with someone recently.
And if you are, if you live in, let's say you live in Louisiana or you live in New York, or you live in Japan saying my favorite team is the Packers, I get that the Packers have such
a tradition and such a history.
And there's so much good around the organization.
And they're like one of the original teams.
And I get all of that.
What's funny is that like, I've never heard someone in like Denver say, I'm a Brewer's fan.
Like I feel like you are a Brewer's fan when you live in Wisconsin, but that's, you know, that's just how that rolls.
But Packer fans, that fandom is global.
And there's actually a documentary, no Packers, no life, no life.
Is it no Packers, no life?
No Packers, no
life.
About
Japanese Packers
fans coming
to Lambo, which
I don't care who you wrote for, I think that Lambeau Field, I think that Wrigley Field, I think that Fenway Park are all legendary places that one should see a game being played because there is a vibe.
Lambeau Field has a vibe unlike anything.
I think Fenway Park is the closest thing where it's
just
all consuming
the
community, everyone's around, having a great time and to witness it is truly special.
So true.
I mean it is.
It's universal fandom as I've come to learn.
There's no place that we've traveled and we've been fortunate to travel a lot of places.
There's no place we've traveled where we can't find a pack or bar.
Oh, yeah.
If need be.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
indeed.
Whether that's because the bar owner has some kind of emotional connection or because that's just a really smart business plan, you're always going to find Wisconsin people who want to have a beverage while they're watching a favorite football game.
Good for them for putting out the flag and making us feel welcome.
I love it.
I absolutely love it.
There was a place we went to in New York called Kettle of Fish in the village.
and it was a Packers Brewer's Badgers bar because the bar owner was from Waukesha and we loved it and also very wonderful gay bar too.
So it was just all encompassing and I told my co-workers who worked in the warehouse, I didn't tell them the last part, they were quite surprised and they still enjoyed the game.
Because fandom is universal.
Exactly.
It is, without a doubt.
Well, if you want to listen to our Packers pregame coverage, it is underway right now.
You can listen on our sister station on WRJN.
And then the game, of course, coming up a little bit later on this morning.
I know everybody is prepping for that.
And can't listen on the app, either.
It's an important thing.
Yeah, you cannot listen on the stream.
You have to listen on terrestrial.
Ooh.
radio.
What if I listened to Extra Terrestrial Radio?
You
have one in your car.
Can you imagine Wayne and Larry on Extra Terrestrial Radio?
Calling play by play as ET ship comes in.
We have news coming up next and then when we return, we're going to put together our dream.
All appetizer Thanksgiving.
Send us your thoughts.
Only appetizers.
We're putting together our menu for our All Apps Thanksgiving.
That's all on the way.
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quite low, Pat, quite low, is here for this segment that we call Audio Sorbet.
Ooh.
Where we lighten things up, kinda like this whole show, and get away from the news and talk about lighter-hearted things.
And because today is Thanksgiving, and Greg, you've talked about this a lot, all appetizers Thanksgiving.
Yes.
Forgo the turkey, forgo the green beans, all apps.
All the time, what would be on your menu for an all appetizer Thanksgiving?
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
I'm not saying
you can't have any of those things either.
I'm just saying reimagine them in appetizer form.
In appetizer form, so like little turkey sandwiches.
Little turkey sandwiches, little
sliders, or maybe...
I got
it.
Yeah, okay, all right.
My choice of appetizer would be buffalo chicken dip.
Let's just make it buffalo turkey dip.
I feel like I've just ruined it, but no.
That
would work.
Buffalo turkey dip.
That would work.
Buffalo chicken dip is.
I love buffalo chicken dip.
And it's really super easy to make too, isn't it, Pat?
It
is, yes.
It's just what, cream cheese and some buffalo sauce.
It's also very filling like it's very much a, oh, I gotta just take it little by little.
A little
bit like,
I can't
eat all of it.
You
do?
Yes, because buffalo, for some reason, that dip, it's like two chips, and I am asleep.
It's so heavy.
Oh.
It's so
heavy.
It's
just for me.
Hey, hey, hey.
More for you.
You can
buffalo
chicken all you want.
More for you.
I don't, I think that, that would define torture for me is, you know, two servings, like, you're done, Pat.
But, but.
But, I
just, I did, did,
did.
Just a little more please.
Just a little more.
Pretty please.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
We're putting together an all appetizer Thanksgiving.
What should be on the list?
8-5-5-7-5-7.
We bet the buffalo chicken dip.
So it has to be the Thanksgiving stuff.
So like
cranberry nachos.
Is that what we're talking about?
No, no, no.
It could be anything.
Because I'm thinking like I make a calzone.
And so you take a pre-prepared pizza crust and you roll it out.
And then you put like slices of salami and some onions and lots of cheese.
And then you roll it up and you bake it and you slice it and you serve it with a little pizza sauce or a little, you know, a ragout on the side.
I just
can't think of anything but Parks and Rec when they did the same thing and they all got food poisoning.
Oh, thanks.
This is one
of the funniest scenes ever.
I've made it numerous times.
No one's died
yet.
Oh, they didn't die either.
They just really ruined their insight.
No, I would, that would be one where I'd have to, again, exercise self-control because appetizer, like that's the problem, like that's the problem we have.
And you've heard me talk about this many times is that our appetizer selection for Thanksgiving on the day is so...
Bountiful and so delicious so much from your basic meat and cheese and fruit and veggie to my mom's bringing chili dip today You just get in on it and then
By the time dinner is ready, you already have the meat sweats because you've eaten so much.
Or somebody asks you, you know, you've seen the joke, like, can I interest you in having five eggs for breakfast?
No.
No.
Well, here, I brought some deviled eggs.
Yeah, exactly.
I can eat five of those.
No problem.
Yeah, that's
interesting.
Yes.
Yeah, I.
And those don't, those don't happen in, in, in our house cause prison has a huge aversion to eggs and
that's,
that's, that's fine.
I mean, and, and, and that's fine.
I, if anything, it's really saved me more than anything else because I could, yeah, I could destroy a platter of deviled eggs cause they're just so,
well they're bite size.
That's my go to, was stuffed mushrooms.
Oh,
sausage, stuffed mushrooms.
Actually it was,
I learned how to do this when we were much younger.
There was a lot of med school debt.
A can of underwood, deviled ham and some cream cheese.
Mix that together, put that inside your, you know, pull the stem.
Oh, and the stems, pull the stems off the mushrooms, chop those up really fine.
Mix it with the cream cheese and the deviled ham.
Put a glop of that inside each mushroom.
10 minutes, 400 degrees.
Irresistible.
Oh, that sounds really, really yummy.
Oh, I wonder if my mother-in-law is going to make cowboy caviar.
I can't explain it other than it's just, it's avocado, some beans, onions.
It's a dip, but it's not like guacamole where it's like smooth.
It's just cut up everything, throw it in and put some oil on it and you just chomp it up like there's no tomorrow.
Delicious.
We are putting together our all appetizer menu for Thanksgiving.
Give me anything you want.
Doesn't have to be Thanksgiving related.
All appetizer Thanksgiving at 855-752-4842.
Tammy and Eau Claire says don't forget artichoke spinach dip with garlic.
Good lord.
Love artichoke dip.
So if we want to include the classics.
something you could do.
And I'm trying to, it's a turkey cord on blue, like small turkey cord on blues.
Just you do everything you do, like, or even like, now it can't do a Benedict, but I'm, but yeah, a turkey cord on blue open face.
So it's just everything up top.
And then you just pull them on little, little biscuits and you just pop them.
And that I would absolutely do that stuffing.
Oh, you know, this could be disastrous, but it would be worth a shot.
Wonton stuffing.
You wrap
up stuff.
Stuffing filled wontons.
Stuffing filled wontons, yeah.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
There's potential there.
Oh my goodness.
With a gravy dipping sauce.
Oh my God!
Shasta, by the way, from Eau Claire, sent in her stuffing recipe at 855-752-4842.
I make my stuffing with mushrooms, sage sausage, mozzarella cubes, and honeycrisp apples.
OK.
Wow.
The honeycrisp apples give me pause just because I'm sweet and savory.
It's a line for me for that.
But it's not like I wouldn't try it.
Oh, yeah.
yeah.
Roger from Stevens Point.
Everyone knows the flavor from jellied cranberry sauce is in the ridges from the can.
Absolutely, Roger.
You have to have the canned raspberries.
I am absolutely team slurp over here.
I don't want that other stuff with the with the twigs and the stems and the seeds and gravel in it.
We're
talking about we're talking about cranberry, not, not, not
light.
No, oh my, that whatever that cranberry stuff is that people serve.
It's you got to put it in a can.
I went to a, I went to a Thanksgiving one year and the person who was in charge of cranberry, who could easily just bought two cans, sloth them out into a plate and said, there you go.
And everyone would have been like, yes.
Instead he made a cranberry chutney and I've never seen food not being taken quicker.
No one cared.
They were like, I don't know what that would look like.
It looked like he had taken cranberry, cranberries, smashed him with his fingers and just put it in dirt.
And then said, there you go.
That's appetizing.
No one ate it.
And also, no one brought up the fact that nobody ate it.
So really, there were no notes given either.
Well, but I'm sure the host, by the time everybody left, is like, well, that big bowl of cranberry relishes went over big.
Let's not do that again.
PJ, on the live stream, oh yes, cream cheese jalapeno poppers are my kryptonite.
Yum, yum, yum.
Yeah, what's the other one with the pickles and the cream cheese and you have a ham around it?
I love those
Western sushi or something.
I've heard redneck sushi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The ham slide.
I'll do that today when I get home.
Yeah, those are delicious.
And this is where the pickle wars come in because I will do both sweet and dill pickles in those rollups.
Anyway, so
we're talking about what would be on your
app's Thanksgiving table.
Calvin, what about you?
What would you put on your all apps Thanksgiving table?
You know, I'm thinking I'm a big fan of a real Thanksgiving meal So I personally probably would not go for the all-apps Thanksgiving if I was planning it but in the event that I Was invited to an all-apps Thanksgiving.
I don't know How would you turn mashed potatoes into an appetizer?
That's funny you were saying that because I was thinking about that maybe being a deep fried mashed potato balls
something like that
or or how about this you take strips of bacon short strips and you put them inside cupcake tins and you fry up the bacon that way and then you put some mashed a dollop of mashed potatoes into the cut into the bacon that has now been fried in the cupcake and
then Pat I'll help I'm gonna I'm gonna take the baton and you make a savory frosting
look look at us okay Jane what would you add to it
Nope.
Oh, there we go.
I don't know that I'm I'm very pro bacon and I make Stuffed it's called good heavens.
What is it called?
It's with mushrooms and Swiss cheese and Bacon and I make little mushroom cups with a little pastry that's made out of out of cream cheese Which are very very very tasty.
Okay.
I could eat like 47 of those.
Yeah, that's never good
I feel like, though, to Calvin's point, yeah, what we're basically inventing there, Greg, is a loaded baked potato.
But instead of the baked potato with the bacon and cheese and everything, you put the mashed potato and the bacon, a couple of cheese and some chives, whatever.
No, no, no.
That's not
how
you're looking at all wrong.
You're boiling in a bag at all.
We got to look at it from Dietrich and Meg's point of view.
We're not just doing that.
We're deconstructing the loaded potato and reimagining it with Thanksgiving tones.
and holiday flavors.
So I did there.
I love it.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
We are talking all appetizer Thanksgiving.
What would be on your menu at 855-752-4842?
We haven't even gotten to any of the sweets yet.
I'm
fine with
it.
I think we should have individual little cheesecakes.
Little pies, little tiny pies.
And Carmella sent in her cheesecake recipe too that looks
Awesome.
Curtis on the
live stream says butter.
I'm sorry.
I
don't
know what this
word is.
Let's, uh,
let's, uh,
plus chocolate calabars that cause health issues by simply walking by.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Totally enjoyed your show
today.
Thanks so much.
Um, so you guys got me running back to the own age catalog here.
It's not just the cringles, but there's these little mini chocolate eclairs.
Yes.
Things like that.
Have you ever had their seven sisters?
You will fight a family member for them.
John from Milwaukee texting in taco dip is a must for me.
And Mark from Cornell listening on WCFW, butter a dinner roll, put on turkey, two pickles from the relish tray and ranch dressing.
As a kid, this is what I ate during the main meal, my mother, wild.
Watching me make it at grandma's house, that is hilarious.
And nowadays you could go to a restaurant in Bayview, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and probably pay $15 for that exact same thing.
And they'll just name it something else.
Yeah.
They'll name it something
else.
And they'll tell you it's inspired from the young days of the chef.
And you're like, that's great.
Why is this $25?
Because
you're not getting it in Cornell.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You would not charge us $25 in Cornell.
We know you're having chicken.
You're having deep fried chicken wings.
Deep fried chicken wings is on Hats menu.
Very, very nice.
Yeah.
Time to go watch the pregame.
Yeah, I am yeah, we're getting out of here.
I do I thought I was gonna get a reprieve from the store I'm not I still have to go to the store So God help me God save my soul and
and can I just say by the way because I have to go to the store too because I forgot a couple of things Thank you to all the people who are working at a grocery stores today.
Absolutely.
I did not realize that many Were open and how long they're open.
Yeah
So thanks to everybody.
Thank you, Pat Critello.
So very, very much for joining us on our special Thanksgiving show.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Sherry.
You
as well.
Take care, buddy.
We will see you on Monday.
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But.
We will have
a brand new episode with fresh content.
I don't like saying that, fresh content.
But we have new interviews.
We're going to talk to Sean Fetaplace and Karine Hendrickson from Main Street Alliance.
Correct.
About the importance of shopping locally, if you can.
And they're also going to talk about just how difficult it has been this year for small business owners, whether it's rising costs, tariff prices, all those things that is, I mean, our politicians say it all the time.
They are the backbone of our communities and it's important to frequent them and give them business when you can because it makes all the difference, especially in this day and age.
Yeah.
We're also going to speak to Lisa Schiller at 9 30 from the better business bureau.
Actually, no, that's going to be a 10 o'clock interview from the better business bureau of Wisconsin.
She's going to be going over some of the 12 days of holiday scams with
us.
Lots
of scams, lots of scams, lots to be out there and be vigilant.
So please tune in and then Terry bar.
Yep.
Got Terry bar with audio sorbet.
Yep.
So that's all.
coming up tomorrow.
Again, it will be a pre-record, but it's all fresh content.
So if you're out and
about when you're doing some shopping for Black Friday, I hope you can join us for that.
Also, one of the shares, just a couple of texts that we didn't get to, Carmela sent us her recipe for an authentic Roman Mediterranean cheesecake.
What that looks really really good Carmella says love and joy to you all Thank you so much Carmella right back to you and Dietrich and Meg you guys were all coming to your house for Thanksgiving now fried turkey tenders fried turkey tender fingers with homemade ranch honey mustard
and buffalo sauce for their all appetizers.
Thanksgiving.
I told them that we need the Dietrich and Meg cookbook to come out and they responded.
It'll be the Meg cookbook.
Very nice.
Very nice.
But have us on for a cooking segment.
Happy holiday.
I mean, I'm not, I'm, I, I'm just going to say we can take the show to Eau Claire, invite Shasta, Dietrich and Meg.
I'll find a space and we can just
pig out.
Pig out.
That would be great.
It is 10 55 Calvin.
Yeesh.
It's getting late.
That means it's time for
This
shouldn't be a thing if you ever find a thing you think this should not be send it into Greg and me at Jane says at civic media dot u.s.
J8 and Esa ys Jane says at civic media dot us This is from delish calm Amanda mectis has the byline the headline is Oreo
is selling some unhinged Thanksgiving flavors and fans are divided.
Oreo is selling a limited edition 12 count cookie tin with six unique Thanksgiving inspired flavors.
Stop using the word inspired.
The Oreo flavors include turkey and stuffing.
Creamed corn, sweet potato, cranberry sauce, gotta have ridges, caramel apple pie, and pumpkin pie.
Oreo fans are divided when it comes to the flavors.
Some say they're excited and intrigued.
Others are saying, no way, thank you, no.
Not creamed corn Oreos.
It's just wrong.
Cream corn
in and of itself is a
food crime.
It's a
food crime.
I hate food crabs.
Oh, did I just find my Trump?
Holy cow.
I think you did.
You stumbled on it.
I mean, we ate a lot of cream corn as kids.
I didn't because I had, I
pushed it away.
Your parents
loved you.
No, no, no, no, no.
They gave it to me.
I refused cream corn.
creamed anything, honestly.
I don't understand in the 80s, this economy of creamed things, creamed things and cooked vegetables.
See, to me, it goes back to
the 60s.
Sure, maybe I didn't,
I wasn't
alive back then.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not as vintage as you are.
See what I did there?
But like literally everything was creamed, everything was, everything was cooked.
But really when it comes down, you like, you want, you want me to eat corn?
Just put it
and I'll eat it.
Available and online in a 12 count tin Oreo fans can order their complete Thanksgiving dinner in Oreo form.
Every tin includes two cookies of each flavor.
Again, including cranberry sauce, turkey and stuffing, creamed corn, sweet potato, caramel apple pie, pumpkin pie.
These are the actual Oreo flavors.
They sound more like something you got in Willy Wonka that's
You just chew it and then it turns into different flavors.
I think they knew that they had, they didn't, I think they knew what they were up to because there are a lot of dessert sweeter ones.
Cause they didn't throw in a creeping
casserole.
They didn't throw in,
well I guess yams are sweet potato.
Sweet
potato.
They didn't throw in just, you know, dinner roll with butter.
Yeah, it's Willy
Wonka gone a muck.
Willy Wonka gone bad.
Gone bad.
Pretty much.
That wraps up today's episode of.
This shouldn't be a
thing.
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And thank you most of all for calling and texting and listening and joining us today.
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