Hour 2: The Kitchen’s Open

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WF HR locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We are going to have some fun this hour. We got good things lined up for you. We're going to get some entertainment news. Got some local good stories of the day. And then a right story for you as well. It's a Monday. It's 9 o'clock hour. You know how we like to kick things off around here. No,

no, no, it's the wrong one, didn't I? There we go. Hello and welcome to the kitchen's open here on WF HR. Today, we're going to talk about bread boxes. Don't you mean a bread bin? Oh, perhaps a bread croque. Now, that's a crock. But is it bigger than a bread box? You know, it's a good thing you're both dads. Even though I wrote this, only you could get away with jokes that bad.

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Get on there and do it. Call the YMCA to register for any of these classes at 715-818-9622. That's 715-818-9622. Or you can visit SWCYMCA.org to see all their nutrition and fitness programs available to you. Now, bread boxes were one of the most common kitchen necessities in the 17 and 1800s in even well into the 20th century. They were a requirement if you wanted your bread to last more than a day or two before baker's

started using chemical preservatives. They also protected the bread from mice and other pests, including ants and flies. Now, I honestly couldn't find a whole lot of recorded history about bread boxes.

But there is one at the Smithsonian Museum that they used to deliver bread by wagon or train. Ooh, it was constructed of wood with rope handles and could be carried by one person. It was made sometime between 1890 and 1900. It was used by Meinberg's bakery of Washington, D.C. to deliver loaves of bread to the establishments in the city and outlying counties. The box is numbered so agents could track the shipments.

Now, this was obviously a bigger bread box than the one that used to sit on grandma's counter. It measures 20 inches by 27 and a quarter by 21 inches. So by my estimates, it could probably fit about 20 loaves of bread in that box.

That's bigger than a bread box. Did you know that that phrase didn't come into common use until the early 1950s?

Steve Allen, the architect of all talk show hosts, really. The game show host on what's my line first asked that question in 1953. And for those who aren't familiar with the game, a panel of four contestants would ask questions to figure out the guest occupation. Steve Allen used the question, is it bigger than a bread box to help contestants when trying to figure out occupations of guests who dealt in products?

That's not true.

So that phrase is obviously talking about the usual size of bread boxes in people's homes, ones that could hold one or two loaves.

But it must have also been common to have larger bread boxes outside of establishments in cities. I tried to delve into some research on this, but all I found was a couple of short clips.

I found a tiny clip from the Franklin reporter dated the 23rd of July 1914 that was titled anti noise crusade in St. Louis. It said, noise list, bread box lids, rubber tired wagons, prohibition of the automobile cut out nuisance, and the sending of flat-wheeled street carts to the scrap heap are some of the provisions of an anti noise ordinance ordinance being prepared by the city attorney.

I love that. I love those provisions. That is so cool.

It's one of my favorite things in the world to see these old laws or disease things that used to be an issue and just how funny it is.

And one of the other things that makes this makes me do is what in 40, 50 years they'll be doing about us.

That's true. That kind of noise list, bread box lids.

Wow, there's a lot of angry people in 2020. If there's anything I can't stand, it's a noise, it's noisy bread.

I can't, I can't handle it. I can't, I love bread. I love, love, love bread. I don't want my bread making a lot of noise though.

So you don't like to lie in the morning. It's delivered to you. It's glangling.

Yeah, you did the noisy bread when you're putting it in the toaster. That's never, oh man, this bread is so noisy.

No, stop talking back to me. There was another article that I found on secondglancehistory.com that was reprinted from the daybook dated December 11, 1913 titled A Slap at Lovers.

It said because bread boxes in front of bakeries and grocery stores had become popular resting spots for spooners.

The sell Chicago City Council today approved an ordinance compelling grocers and bakers to place all bread boxes on tall stilts.

Oh, that is late night. What? I tell you about chicken chicken.

Wow, spooning in public, man. As as the 1913 as the noted Chicago one on this right station and everything I can, I can attest to this.

You know, there are still to this day. You cannot put bread out and not have it on a still you have something's never changed, you know.

I love the image. I thought it was funny. I did not know that. I had never heard that before. That is also so interesting.

So why don't we commonly use bread boxes anymore? Well, mostly because bread made commercially has preservatives now that keep it from molding and most bread sold in grocery stores is in plastic bags.

Not only that, but it's usually sliced.

Slice bread doesn't stay as fresh in a bread box as a full loaf with just the crust exposed to the air.

Did you know in the late 1700s, bakers were accused of adding ingredients to the bread to keep it white?

Things like alum lime, chalk, powdered bones in England, parliament banned alum and other additives.

Cheese.

Bread was such an important commodity. It was often a matter for the law.

I found this account on smartbreadmaker.com.

Quote, in the 18th century, there were strict rules and regulations regarding baking.

If a baker was found to have overstated the weight of his loaves, he was punished by being strapped to a waterproof chair and don't in a lake or well.

Cheese.

If you're looking for a waterproof chair part.

I love that. I had to be a waterproof chair. We don't want anything to happen to the chair who cares about the person in the chair.

We're going to keep that chair healthy.

No lying about the weight of your loaves, man.

I don't do that.

I love the idea of a line of people being ready to dunk.

Are you a witch? Or did you lie about your water?

You're breadwashed.

You're breadwashed.

You're breadwashed.

You're breadwashed.

You're breadwashed.

Oh, gosh.

Chemical additives to bread in today's grocery stores have been under scrutiny in the U.S.

As we learn more about the risks to human health from these chemical ingredients.

Sadly, the repercussions aren't as strict as they were in the 18th century.

In an article on the Guardian.com, Lisa Leffer's senior scientist at the Consumer Advocacy Group Center for Science in the public interest states.

The system for ensuring that ingredients additive foods are, food are safe is broken.

Leffer specializes in food additives.

She said that once a substance was in the food supply, the FDA rarely look further at, take further action.

Even when there was evidence that it isn't safe.

And this is a whole rabbit hole I really didn't want to go too far down.

Now, I think at this point, all of us are very well aware that highly processed foods and foods with a lot of added chemical ingredients aren't good for us.

So suffice it to say, briefly reading some of these articles I found about food additives kind of makes me want to go back to break, get into baking bread at home.

Not a bad idea.

Of course, then you'll need to get a bread box.

Yeah.

True.

And I think I'd go for a wooden one.

I like the aesthetic of the wood.

But they do take up space on the countertop, so I would need to actually use it.

Hey, there's the rub.

Ooh, Shakespeare.

Oh, hush.

Perhaps I'll invest in a bread machine. Then I'll have no excuse.

And I will expect a delivery every Tuesday.

Don't just slam the bread box lid, please.

I like to sleep past 5 a.m.

Oh, you're cute.

Well, let's keep this segment bread box sized and end things here.

Nicely done.

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the kitchen's open.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Yeah.

Very good.

Another great one.

Another great one.

You do rise to the occasion, Melissa.

And throw that one in there.

That's so bad, Seth.

You shouldn't, you know, but we don't, we understand that you're good at other things.

We don't have other interests.

Melissa, we don't want a boxy in like that.

No, not at all.

She gets crusty every now and then.

Other than that.

Toast.

Man, guys.

Sorry.

You open the door.

You open the door.

Now another but dad jokes.

Rest of the day.

Yeah.

Now I'm going to slam the lid.

Yeah, but these things are spreading thin now.

Okay.

Take it a break.

I'm going to go make toast.

Yeah.

Good idea.

Be back with more fun out of the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.

Thanks for kicking your week off with us.

Let's go ahead and dive into a little bit of entertainment news.

Not a ton of stuff here for you today, but I didn't want to get to a couple of things.

Not that Hollywood is back to working again.

It's time to get excited about some new stuff that could get into the pipeline.

Or not.

We'll see.

Or not.

Or not.

Bradley Cooper did an interview recently and it had a couple of interesting things come out of it.

But one of the things he said, he would probably do a hangover for in an instant because he loves Todd Phillips, Zach Gallifonakis at Helms.

But it is a long shot.

He says he admits, I don't think Todd is ever going to do that.

But there is talk of it.

And if there is money to be made, then you can almost guarantee there will be a hangover for.

Yeah.

We'll see.

We'll see.

We're not sure.

John Ham wants to go into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

John Ham said, quote, I would love to.

I've been a fan of Marvel comics and comics in general since I was probably in single digits.

I think there are tons of stories that I'm familiar with that are still out there to be told.

I like how open actors are nowadays about these things.

They used to be back in the day.

It was unclassy to see this stuff and everything.

And now it's just kind of, I'm just being honest.

They want people to be honest in interviews.

Here he's being honest.

Yeah.

Same thing with what Bradley Cooper was saying.

I think that's interesting.

I feel a little bit from Mr. Ham.

He's kind of getting into the game maybe a little late when it comes to Marvel.

But you never know.

Maybe that new blood infusion.

You never know.

You know?

Something that happened?

Well, Marvel is in a downslide right now.

Right now.

And they have been for a little bit.

And I think this is more about the market correcting itself than it is than actually putting bad work out there.

I think that's a lot to do with it.

The comic books was always a niche thing.

And comic book movies were always a niche thing.

It's only the outlier is the last 10, 15 years.

When they're just one right after another after another.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And there's four at a time.

Right.

I think the market is kind of correcting itself where these aren't going away.

No more than Star Wars movies or anything like that.

No, not at all.

But I think it's correcting itself.

Like, okay.

How much is too much?

How much is, how little is too little?

Let's bring it in a little bit.

Yeah.

I'm thinking that out.

The reason that Marvel, part of the reason Marvel was so much more successful than DC, was one patient letting these characters develop and build.

Something they got away from a little bit there.

They did.

And the casting choices to set this point.

You bring in some new blood like a John Hammer, somebody like that.

It definitely is going to change things up.

It's gotten lost into shuffle, but Marvel was already hitting a down slide.

And then they had Dr. Strange come out.

And they saw Benedict Cumberbatch.

Nobody questions his acting prowess.

Not at all.

So while you could maybe, you know, Robert Downey Jr. or some of these other actors are respected.

Nobody is looking at them as Thespians.

All of a sudden you had a Thespian take this role.

And now all of a sudden Ben Kingsley and some of these other actors are looking at the Marvel Universe.

Like, oh, wait a minute. Patrick Stewart can do this.

Maybe I can do this too.

I think that's the major.

That's the big one of the biggest things that's going to change this going forward.

Seeing how that goes up.

Yeah, right, right.

And I think not to get too far in the weeds here.

But you know, trying to do like what you said, what brought them, what brought people in their first place.

You know, good stories.

Interesting casting.

And let's not go too nostalgia crazy with bringing back every single person from the old movies ever.

Yeah.

That seems to be one of the issues too.

I want to get quick back to Bradley Cooper and that thing about the hangover.

I've never seen the hangover movies.

I'm not really interested.

I like the actors that were in them.

Yeah.

I would like to see them get back together but do something different.

Yeah.

It's something new.

It was really good at doing these really interesting new type things, taking some chances.

And he succeeded for the most part.

Yeah.

Doing these things.

So I would love to see him, you know, keep going on that thing instead of going back to, you know, the hangover.

I understand it was one of his big breaks and all that.

But I think it would be more fun to see him in something different.

They used to do that all the time.

Now, hey, these two actors are good together.

Audiences like them.

Jack chemistry.

Walter Mathau.

Yeah.

How many movies do they go in together?

They're good movies too.

Redford and Newman.

Yeah.

There's a lot of examples of that.

They kind of got away from it.

Yeah.

I think that Hollywood would be...

I got to quit seeing Hollywood.

The acting world would be better soon.

Yeah.

Now, only 20% of movies are actually filmed in Hollywood anymore.

It's still kind of a shorthand.

But we know, yeah, we know what you mean.

One of the biggest greatest actors of all time, Denzel Washington, won't be doing a dang thing.

He didn't do a dang thing over Thanksgiving except stuff his face.

Because that's how his wife, Pauletta, wants it.

Okay.

He says, quote, I don't do anything in the kitchen but eat.

She kicked me out of there.

She's like, you have nothing to do with this.

Just go make some money and get out of my way.

He said, pay for it.

That's it.

Yeah.

He says, quote, I'm thankful and I have been blessed beyond measure

with the greatest woman in the world who not only is a beautiful woman and a great wife.

And I love her, a great mother of our children, but she holds everything together.

Yeah.

She holds the fort down.

Denzel and Pauletta are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in June.

Man, that's, I love to hear that.

That's so cool.

And like most things in life, when it comes to Denzel Washington, I can quote him, you have to look it up.

Denzel in interviews is one of the greatest interviews of all time.

This made it so comfortable in his own skin and in life.

And I admit, I am biased about this guy.

He's written one of my top three favorite actors of all since I was born, basically.

But I'm telling you, I don't know how even if you don't like Denzel, you're seeing him in an interview

and you come out of it and you're kind of like, he's a pretty good guy.

You know, I love the fact.

And I think that's why, you know, it's like, wow, you know, you don't hear much about Denzel.

You know, because he keeps it private.

Look, he's been married to the same woman for 40 years.

He's not going to be on any paparazzi layers.

Yeah, he's just like going out doing stuff.

What is the most controversial thing you have ever heard about Denzel Washington?

I don't know anybody.

Nobody's got anything.

Anything because this man is handled.

You know, he visits too many hospitals.

That man, he just, you know, that's it.

Well, apparently he just needs to stay out of the kitchen.

Yeah.

And we wrap up with Gettie Lee.

Gettie Lee from Rush, of course.

And arguably the greatest bass player of all time.

One of them.

One of them.

One of the best players of all time.

Believe it or not, Gettie Lee's highest charting single was not with Rush.

Really?

It was with Bob and Doug McKenzie on their song Take Off.

I remember that.

Oh my gosh.

In case you don't know, Dog and Bob McKenzie are fictional pair of Canadian brothers from the

second city television circa 1980.

They were portrayed by the legends Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.

Yes.

They're their own movie strange, bro.

Yes.

New year movie.

Very weird movie.

Very weird movie.

Very weird movie.

But God, I love that movie.

Yeah.

It's got some great quoted lines in it.

You raise a red in the bottle.

You get free beer.

You get free beer.

Take off.

I used to watch that movie with my Uncle Bob and my dad.

And not, I didn't understand 90% of the jokes.

But I just be laughing with them because they've been left.

Take Off.

Peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 100 singles charts in 1982.

Oh wow.

Which was five spots higher than Russia's New World Man.

Getty doesn't resent it at all.

He says he loves the song and loves this about Russia's legacy.

I think that's pretty funny.

I think that's pretty impressive.

Getty Lee was recently in the news for another reason.

He is selling off his baseball memorabilia, which he's like one of the biggest collectors

on the planet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And now he's selling off his thing, which is just amazing to me.

So if you're a fan of getting some baseball, that's where you're going to want to check

it out.

Because he's got a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We will take a break.

We're going to get to some state news.

Get to Melissa's local news.

When we come back, we got some odd stories to get into from Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving

past.

Todd.

Five times Thanksgiving dinner made the headlines.

Ooh, I'm not going to get to all five.

But we're going to get to a couple of those.

Ooh boy.

And plenty more coming up for you right here on the morning show at WFHR, locally grown

radio.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Little James Diction to play us in.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a great one out there.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

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I'd love to hear how your Thanksgiving was.

Did you have a good one?

Did you have fun?

Anything fun?

Anything weird happened?

Bring it to us.

That's our wheelhouse.

Weird is our wheelhouse.

We'd love to hear it.

As an example of that, I have here from UPI.com a couple of times Thanksgiving foods never

quite made it to the plate.

And some weird oddities about Thanksgiving, things that happened.

Like Aggressive Turkey causes chaos in Minnesota neighborhood.

Residents of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Mobile Home Park complained earlier this year when

they were terrorized by an unwelcome neighbor, a wild turkey.

Neighbors set a flock of turkeys spent time in the area in November 2021, but one of the

birds stayed behind when its cohorts moved on and has been since attacking cars, damaging

property and chasing children.

Imagine looking out your window, drinking your morning coffee, and you see a little kid

just like go panicking running, and then two seconds later you see a wild turkey just

coming out.

Well, and it's not a small turkey either.

It's giant.

Yeah.

That's a big one.

Throw it thrown its weight around, man.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources told residents the best thing they can do is

to encourage the turkey to leave is to keep trash and other potential food sources secured.

Don't leave anything out for the bird.

But if you watch the video, there's this woman who's trying to get it to go away by squirting

a spray bottle of water at it and, and, and quite, help me, help me, somebody help me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's so good.

Crazy turkey, man.

It's a good one.

It's a wild turkey.

Wild turkey.

It's not just a wild turkey.

Yeah.

Nice.

It's a wild.

Wild.

Inert, World War II, Gernade found among potatoes at factory.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Workers at a factory in the suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand spotted something on their potato

convoyer belt that definitely would have ruined big skivings, you know, mashing of the

thing.

Right.

No kidding.

First employees at Mr. Chip's factory said 28 tons of recently delivered russet potatoes

were on the conveyor belt when a worker spotted would initially appear to be a partially

mud-covered spot.

The New Zealand Defense Forces' explosive ordinance disposal team ended up getting involved

when workers discovered the object was a Gernade dating back to World War II.

Wow.

The device was found to be non-explosive Gernade likely used for training purposes.

Wow.

And it got buried.

That's amazing.

That's the statement though.

Yeah, no kidding.

The conveyor belt.

Hot potato.

Hot potato.

You take it.

Don't touch that potato.

You take it.

You take it.

And 500 pounds of cook pasta found by New Jersey River Basin.

I remember us touching on this.

This is your turn.

This is your Thanksgiving meal.

Yeah.

Now, I had to read this story beforehand because when I saw the headline, 500 pounds of

uncooked pasta just left, it gets me a little emotional.

All that pasta.

All that pasta.

All that pasta.

Just unused.

How dare you?

No.

Monsters.

Monsters.

You did an evil.

But 500 pounds of cooked pasta next to New Jersey's River Basin might be excessive for

even the most, you know, even for me.

And it's all spread out.

It's not like it's in one little spot or something.

Oh, it's spread along the road.

I do the writing here is pretty good though.

The derelicted Durham's semolina was hauled away.

Oh, good.

That's such a good line.

That's a good line.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That ain't right.

That's a good line.

Good line.

That's a good line.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That ain't right.

That ain't right.

Yeah.

That ain't right.

Yeah.

That ain't right.

Yeah.

I think of Thanksgiving dinners and joyer's.

Might have David Andersen of Washington County, Georgia to thank for their feast after

he harvested 186 pounds of sweet potatoes from a single plant.

Wow.

Really?

Wow.

I didn't know that was possible.

No.

No.

Oh, man.

Anderson said weather conditions were ideal this year for a bolted crop of potatoes

and sweet potatoes.

Wow.

Good stuff.

The single root system yielded 186 pounds of sweet potatoes, breaking the record of 81

pounds and nine ounces set by manual Perez of Spain in 2004.

Cheese, that was that destroyed that record.

500 pounds.

No kidding.

Wow.

I like the idea of breaking a record so that nobody else could break it.

Yeah, literally.

You could not.

You'll not happen, right?

And finally, truck rolls over, covers Ontario Highway in salary.

Oh, my.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nobody was skipping their veggies.

Nobody's skipping their veggies on this day.

I can see that I can see it playing out.

Hey, did you hear there was a truck that fell that tipped over on the road and its

contents filled over?

Really?

What was it?

Celery, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm like, okay.

Like, even people that loves like salary can't get excited.

No.

Like, if you ever saw so.

Ooh, salary.

Like, I like salary.

I don't mind it.

Yeah.

But I don't ever remember getting excited about salary, though.

I like that.

I'm kind of excited to see it on the veggie tray that Jeff's brother's mother in law brought.

Oh, there you go.

Nice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is possible.

Yeah.

I love the idea of that, though.

You calling up your friends.

Gotta get over to Highway 53.

Why?

There's a bunch of salary.

Just lay in there, man.

It's all for free.

Yeah.

I'll pass.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's all right, man.

Well, and if you see it, look at the pictures.

It's not like the stalks of salary that you buy, like the whole head.

No, it doesn't.

No.

They're like individual little branches of salary.

Oh, my God.

Just laying all over the road.

It does seem like it, as far as like, we've done a lot of these stories of stuff getting spilled

on the roads.

This seems like one of the easier ones to pick up.

At the very least, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Not easy by any means, but easier.

Easier than most.

It's not cool.

You know, it's like, it's not liquid.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was fun.

That was interesting.

That was good.

We're looking for more Thanksgiving stories, everybody.

Feel free to share them with us.

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I do this thing where I look over all of our news.

As soon as I get up in the morning, I go to, you know, WPR and our news sources and a

number of other different places, really all your major newspapers throughout the world,

the New York and Washington Post and a lot of those.

One of the last places I go to is the AP News.

I just mean speaking, I trust the AP News.

I've always enjoyed the reporting.

I came across this, so I did not.

I purposely am doing this one because it did not get a chance to really dive into the article,

so I'm on the same page as Seth and Melissa are with this.

Oftentimes, I bring up stuff that I know about before you guys do.

Right.

And we get your first impressions on it, but it's not my first impression.

We're getting our first impressions on this one.

Okay.

Especially in an age of deep fakes and post-truths and artificial intelligence and Elon Musk

acting a fool.

We've got all these things going on.

So what would Marion Webster word of 2023 be?

Well, it had to be authentic.

Oh.

Nice.

Authentic cuisine, authentic voice, authentic self, authenticity as artifice.

Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company's site, but were

boosted to new heights throughout this past year.

Editor Peter Soloski told the Associated Press.

Quote, we see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity.

He said, what we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.

Interesting.

Okay.

Wow.

That's cool.

That's pretty interesting.

That's pretty interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We value it even more.

Yeah.

I think, you know, James, you know, you mentioned over on the morning on the Sunrise Show.

Something about, you know, Dolly Parton performing at the halftime of the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving.

And the fact that it was, it wasn't live.

She was lip syncing to a recording.

And there wasn't a lot of pushback on that.

And I think that's, I think people are starting to realize it's like, no.

It's not because Dolly can't sing.

We know that's ridiculous.

We know she can sing.

It's because of, you know, acoustics and because of the power that she needs.

The location.

And all that kind of stuff that goes into it.

So, yeah.

I mean, but we know it's authentic.

We know that's fur.

Because it's fur.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So, you know, it's one of those things where I think, especially now, people are craving that authenticity.

But at the same time, if we know, you know, it's like she was trying to fool us, you know, like saying it.

Like she was actually singing live.

No, she wasn't like this.

She's like, no, we're doing this is the way we're doing it.

If you're going to do something like that, owning it and being authentic about it is the best way to do it.

Absolutely.

Yeah, the only way to do it to be authentic.

The only people that quote, double down are people who already know that they're audience.

And their audience doesn't care.

Their audience doesn't care.

They could say anything and their audience is going to chew it and eat it up.

Exactly.

Their audience can literally tell them, I don't care about you and they're still going to vote for that person.

They're still going to care about that person.

Right, right.

You know, so as far as like certain people, certain parts of society, you just never authentic or not, that word has a lot of different meaning to that.

Yeah, exactly.

But I think that's part of the reason why it's so important going towards the people.

Yes.

Choosing these words.

Yeah.

They're really craving it these days.

I find it interesting that you said that you appreciate it more by questioning the authenticity.

I think that we find ourselves doing it very often now with headlines.

Because I will see a headline and I'll read it and be like, yeah, maybe.

Yeah, maybe that's what this article is about.

Right.

Or they're just trying to get clicks.

Yeah.

But then when you do read the article and be like, oh no, that was an accurate headline.

And I appreciate that.

I can't think of anything I look up anymore or any news I get or look into that I don't triple check.

Yeah.

No matter who the original source is.

And I mean that like Melissa says the story.

I know Melissa.

I trust Melissa.

I'm going to look it up.

I'm going to look at other things.

Not only because not to necessarily see what was Melissa saying true.

That's not so much it is that there's always other angles or there might be something else or along those lines.

Or let's be honest.

And Melissa has a minute to get the news.

She doesn't always.

She can't always give you all the context or all.

Maybe something else about it or whatever.

Everything you should be doing this with.

Melissa does it.

That's how she does her job.

You know, we all this day and age going forward.

We so many of us grew up at a time where the news.

We just, okay, I show up at five o'clock on channel seven or channel nine or whatever.

And they're going to give me the news and that's all I need to know.

It's brought to me.

That ain't the world anymore, man.

You got to hunt this stuff down.

You got to be a news hunter.

You got to be an information hunter.

You got to care.

And I don't think that's a bad thing.

No.

And we're getting to the point where we have to care with our pocketbook.

Because if we don't support local journalism, we're not going to have it.

Yeah.

It will be gone.

I was this morning and I'm a little guilty of this too.

This morning I was complaining to Seth.

Oh, another one of these articles.

It's behind a paywall.

Paywall.

And it drives you crazy.

And at the same time, I mean, I understand why they do this.

I think they're wrong.

I don't think that the business model works.

I think we've seen that by now.

People are not going to pay for written articles.

They just don't.

And if they do, it's usually because somebody else is paying the bill for them.

Right.

Or something like that.

That is not going to help journalism stay alive.

No.

There's a lot of other ways we can do this.

And I think to the news outlets out there, to the newspaper companies out there and everything,

I beg you, please stop doing this whole paywall thing.

It's not working.

And you're only killing your industry.

Whatever's left of your industry.

Yeah.

So rounding out the company's top words of 2023, we have Riz, R-I-Z-Z.

It's slang for romantic appeal or charm.

They got some real Riz to them.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Moving on from that one.

Cubots.

Kibbots.

Kibbots.

Old school.

There was a massive spike in lookups for a communal farm or settlement in Israel.

Of course, for recent current reasons.

It's done.

I'll let it implode.

Another one that got...

It wasn't one of those big words.

It's a misused word, by the way.

Most people meet and explode when they meet and explode.

But anyway.

I was here under water.

Doppelganger.

Doppelganger was another big one.

I believe that's a duplugonger.

I'm not going to do that.

I always like this.

I just like to say that word.

Yeah.

Doppelganger.

That's a good one.

And you can find all of the others for at marionwebster.com.

Marionwebster.com.

Go there and find out all those other great words.

What is that word that my son is using now?

Eat?

Oh, yeah.

I still haven't figured out what that was.

Yeah.

Here it a lot though.

And sus.

That's another one.

Oh, that one's got to stop.

That one's got to stop.

You know, the problem is, if eight-year-olds are using these words, let them have them.

You don't need to take over them over and use them on social media.

Let the eight-year-olds have the words.

It's fine.

Yeah.

Well said, Melissa.

You're using eat anytime soon.

I'll tell you that.

I'm still, I still like the words we used when we were in school.

I know.

I still use it all of those.

Yeah.

Dude, it's rad.

It's awesome.

And gnarly.

Yeah.

It's so cool, man.

It's really tough.

Truly.

Word up, man.

Oh, okay.

I don't know.

I got accused of changing Kevin's name to Ralph this week yesterday.

Oh, nice.

It was accurate.

We're going to take a quick break.

We're coming back with a really fresh segment, though, everybody.

A really fresh segment.

We got to come it up for you.

No roughing.

No roughing going on here.

It's good.

It'll be tubular, man.

Radical.

Morning show.

We used that one already.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Snow.

Snow.

Snow.

Snow.

It won't be long before.

We'll all be there.

With snow.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

And a shout out to our head of production, Mr. Seth Hathah here.

We have Christmas bumpers.

We do.

I was going to ask when they were coming.

You didn't even wait till December 1st.

That's okay.

It's after Thanksgiving.

You got it after Thanksgiving.

I'll let you have it.

I'm in a gray area with Christmas music.

As soon as it's after Thanksgiving, I'm fine with it.

But I kind of like starting on December 1st.

Okay.

I kind of like having them.

I'll get into more Christmas music come December.

Okay.

We're going to touch on the bumpers here in a little bit.

To be fair.

That one wasn't a winter song.

Yeah.

It was a snow.

It's from a Christmas movie, but it's a song about snow.

That worked.

Perfect.

Because of the snow we got this week.

Yes.

Well done.

Well done, Seth.

Very well done.

No, this day I complimented you.

Completely wrong.

Random.

I had nothing to do with it.

We've got good stories of the day coming up for you.

Local good stories of the day.

We kicked this segment off with a little bit of that name right possibly, to me at least.

I'll let you guys decide.

You can always call up 715-424-2600.

Do you wait to wrap all your gifts on Christmas Eve?

Well, here's a more relaxing way to do it.

A mom on TikTok is going viral for planning her third annual gift wrapping getaway at a hotel.

She books a room for herself and leaves her kids at home.

That way she's got no distractions and doesn't have to be sneaky with it.

It also doubles as a weekend getaway just what she when she needs one at the most stressful time of the year.

Right.

She booked two nights a last year, watch TV while she wrapped or to take out and drink a few beers.

People online are embracing the idea coming up with all kinds of tweaks.

For example, you could make it more affordable by joining up with a few other parents and renting an Airbnb or something like that.

That's not a bad idea.

That's an option, something to think about.

Yeah, but then you have gift envy.

Oh, you got your kid that?

Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

No, no gift envy allowed.

Gotta be cool about it, all right?

Let's take a call.

Wrap only in your bedrooms.

Let's take a caller.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Okay, I got a couple of things I want to discuss today.

Yeah.

First of all, you've got to change your name and your dad.

I didn't name him to be fair.

Because I'm sure all the Kevin's, especially someone that's on the phone right now.

Probably.

But hey, I won't forget your name.

And then the other one is, I guess I want to find out.

I want to get such entertainment people here.

And I know we're going back to entertainment.

I was told over the weekend that guy's heart is more of a Christmas movie than the white Christmas.

It was not a good discussion.

I can only imagine.

That's a good one.

We will discuss that.

I've heard this argument before.

Yes.

I've heard this.

It's not a new thing.

Yeah.

I would say in the last five or six years, this comes up around this time of year.

And diehard usually springboards, other movies that people tie into Christmas.

Or Christmas happens on that in the movie.

So is it a Christmas movie and all that?

To me, this comes down to, does it give you a Christmas feeling?

Like, does it make you think and feel of Christmas or miss Christmas or something?

Or if you're watching diehard in July, does it make you look forward to Christmas or something like that?

Like, I watch diehard and I'm not even thinking about Christmas.

It's a last thing I'm thinking about.

It's just a distraction in the background.

It might as well be an extra actor or something.

But I don't, like, if somebody watches diehard and they get like a real Christmasy feeling from it or whatever.

Okay.

I guess that's teats the wrong.

I am on maybe.

Yes.

Questions, yes.

I have a follow up questions.

But every teats the wrong, I suppose.

Well, I have to tell you guys, we're going to an ugly sweater party this coming weekend.

My boyfriend got a, it's a t-shirt because he wants to be cool.

But it's got a picture of the Nakatomi Plaza on it.

Oh, nice.

She says.

And it says Nakatomi Christmas party or something like that on the bottom.

1988.

I've seen that.

I've seen that shirt.

Yes.

That's not a bad shirt.

That's pretty cool.

I like that.

Where do you fall on this one, sir?

Well, I mean, I don't think diehard is a Christmas movie.

And I don't get to play it a little bit during Christmas time, you know, with, you know, this family here.

But I mean, Greta, I know why Christmas.

I still think it's one of the greatest movies out there.

People laugh at me when I say that.

No way, man.

I'm with you.

Yeah.

No, I'm with you.

I'm with you.

I love it.

I'm still with you.

Every year, watch that one.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I got the DVD of it.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

That's a classic.

It's a classic.

Yes, indeed.

Right along with my kids.

I love it.

This time of year, I put on a white, I'll watch white Christmas.

And then the icon.

And I'm sure Seth and James and maybe Melissa on this one might agree with me.

Is Emma Otter, Jugman Christmas.

Yep.

Yep.

Oh, my God.

I love that reference.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

I hope you guys talk about that.

I'm one of your podcasts.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's coming up.

Yeah.

It definitely is.

It definitely is.

Oh, he's good talking to you, sir.

You have a great day.

All right.

You guys have a great one.

Appreciate it.

Bye, Kevin.

Best listeners in real life.

He's right, by the way.

It's your cast now, Ralph.

I got to change the world.

Because I like that better.

I like that better.

Well, after you.

Yeah.

That's not Ralph.

I got to change the world.

Because I like that better.

I like that better.

Well, after yesterday, it might be that permanently.

There's some spots on my carpet.

I still need to try it.

Oh, boy.

That's going back to this idea of renting a hotel room to wrap up your Christmas gifts and

everything.

Brilliant idea.

Love it.

I love the idea of moms or parents getting a chance to get away, especially this time of

year.

What a perfect idea.

I'd love to see this start a new tradition.

The then a right to me part is that they have to do this.

That they haven't, that they're not given the time and all that.

Yeah.

I remember my, us doing this.

My mother is saying, OK, I got to go wrap.

Mm-hmm.

And we just left her alone.

That door was closed.

Yeah, close the door.

You didn't go in.