Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. We hope it's treating you good.
We're certainly going to. Got my listen, James here. We're going to have some fun this hour.
Good stuff on the way for you. Coming up, we're going to get into some swear words
that are safe, that are safe on air. Safe, safe, swear words. Kid friendly curse words in
around the world. We're going to get into Melissa and I. That's going to be a lot of fun.
Looking forward to that. We've also got a couple of other good ones lined up for you here that we
want to touch on. I want to get into a little bit of food talk with Melissa since we weren't able to
have the kitchens open yesterday. Always love talking about food. Be looking forward to a new
episode of the kitchens open next year. That's going to be a lot of fun every Monday and the 9 o'clock
hour everybody. That's coming up. We are that ain't right story. It's some local good stories to
get to. We also were going to touch on what's businesses and places are closed for today and
this week. We'll get touch on that before we wrap up. But we start out the hour talking sex.
Sort of. Sort of. That's a trope. I remember when I first started in radio, Melissa,
one of the early, we used to do bumpers. We used to do every day. Join James today from six to 10
on. W, you know, know that kind of thing. Travis and Ace, all the guys I worked with,
they were very creative and very good at it. They had a lot of experience with this and I never
done anything like that before. So I'm not knowing how to do those things. One of the tropes is
sex, sex cells and that kind of thing. So throwing out lines like that. I got in a lot of trouble
with my first couple of bumpers that I did. Didn't really good. But I was leaning into that. I
thought that that's what I should do. That that was, you know, the low hanging fruit. That's
usually going to catch people's ears. They're going to get people's attention and everything.
And this has been a trope for a very, very, very long time with media, with entertainment,
with advertising, sex, cells. That's what we've always kind of thought or felt. But does it
any more? It might shock some people, but young people want less sex and more platonic relationships
in their movies and TV. According to a UCLA study, members of Gen Z have, quote, grown tired of
stereotypical heteronormative story telling that valorizes romantic and or sexual relationships,
especially ones that are toxic. Quote instead, they are looking for more representations of
friendships, which is a core aspect of adolescence and social well-being.
Good. I lean on this, I go, I play this card whenever I can. This story actually came to us
a couple months ago, Melissa, but I wanted to do some homework on it. And I've been talking to
not only a bunch of my students, but some random listeners that I've talked to that are younger.
I did a couple of studies on this as far as talking to some people over at some old friends
that I have over at UCLA that are still teaching over there when I was there. Just to get a little
more background on this, because I wanted to be able to approach this with as much knowledge as I
could. And I did all of that, and I found sex doesn't sell anymore. People are numb to it. They're
bored to it. Whether it is because we have it at the touch of a fingertip when it comes to the
internet, or it's just kind of like, all right, that's been done. We're tired of it.
So whether it is the storyline of boy meets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl back, or it's
yeah, or if you're trying to sell cologne and you got a bunch of scandal-y dressed men and women
on the screen, none of it's working. None of it's a big shout out our big cue to all the advertisers
and marketers out there. It's not working. What is the most coveted thing in marketing, Melissa? What
is the most coveted age range in marketing? I imagine that whether you know this or not, you could
say off the top of your head. Well, the coveted age range, I would guess are the ones that are
making the paychecks. Young people. Yeah, 18 to 30. Exactly. 18 to 35, 18 to 34 is the most coveted
market in all of marketing. If you ask your average person in marketing, I will give you that,
but you lose all of the other ranges, they'll be fine. They will take that. That's how coveted that
key demographic is. That key demographic does not care about sex anymore. Does not care about
any of this. Does it want it? Does it want to see it? What they do want to see is something that I
think that you and I have clamored about before. I know that Terry and I have touched on a number of
us. You may even see it in the shows that we do here at Civic Media on our morning shows and
everything. That is more of the parks and wrecks kind of thing. For those that didn't see parks and
recreations, Amy Polar, Nick Offerman's character was Amy Polar's boss. They were the two main
characters of the show. On seven or eight seasons that they had, not one point, did we ever wonder,
oh, I wonder if they're going to get together. Oh, I wonder if they're going to have a romantic
relationship. I think that one time they kind of made a loose joke about it and that was it.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen and one of my favorite parts about it were,
oh, we saw a man, a woman that were friends and that's it. Yeah, an actual friendship.
715-424-2600. Please call up and give me five different times in TV shows. You've seen the
main characters do this because I tested my, I'm not just putting this on you guys. I did it myself.
I tested myself the other day when I was getting ready to do this story and yeah, I got enough,
I got like maybe three, maybe two, three in the in the history of TV. I've got maybe two or three
examples of this. Well, and it's not just the entertainment from visually entertaining by movies
that it's being requested. I've actually seen several threads on Reddit recently where people
are asking for books that have those types of characters that are just friends, that there's
no romantic involvement between them because I think it represents more of our population and more
of our relationships that we have because I mean, we have one typically significant other
partner and the rest of the people in our lives are friends. I think that the one of the jobs
of art is to be a mirror, is to be a, you know, for society, is to show up, you know, hey,
society, this is what you look like, that kind of thing. But we don't do that enough. We don't
actually do like enough representation of what society really is like. You just hit it on the
head Melissa. We, there are plenty of us have had relationships in our lives where we've had
a friendship with the significant, not with the opposite sex or whatever and been okay,
they're just friendships. It can happen. We need more of that on TV. We need more of that out there
and not just because we're clamoring for it, but again, that most coveted market, that's what
they're looking for. You can keep on, we've got a lot of people that are in positions that may
not need, maybe they shouldn't be in those positions, maybe they should have been able to retire
and aren't able to or maybe they're just living a bubble, but we've got, we've got a real calling
for this, a real need for this. And so far, it hasn't happened. I mentioned that this story actually
came out and entertained me weekly. I want to say in October, I waited because I wanted to do
some data. I wanted to do some of my own reporting and I was also hoping, okay, this news has come
out. Let's see what they do with it. And I'm very curious to see. I don't think we've seen much yet,
but there's time. There's time here. Oh, they've got a bit of a backlog. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot
going on and it takes a while to build these things and make them, but I am very curious to see if
they're going to listen because whether we, you know, there's a survey or whether we bark about it,
those things are important and I encourage people to do them, but money is what's really going to
matter. And if anybody has looked at the weekend box office numbers, not just this past weekend,
but for the last year, they're going to be listening. If they want to keep their jobs, they're
going to be listening. Yeah. You've got to get people on the seats. They've got to give them what
they want. Well, I mean, this, there's two big weekends a year for the movie industry. It's
the fourth of July and it's Christmas weekend. Those are the two biggest weekends this weekend.
What even came out this weekend? I mean, that's such a, that, that right there just answers. It's
so well, Melissa, everything we've been talking about, but, but it's also me. We're talking about
here the, the person least in touch with what's on your big and small screens. Bear point,
fair point, but you're also, you are also part of that, not, not, not, whether age range or not,
you're part of that covet part that they want. They already know they got people like me that,
that they can throw anything at the movies and stuff. And I'm going to watch. I'm going to get
into movies. I'm going to probably tune in and stuff. They want people like you. They want people
that aren't necessarily interested necessarily in every single movie that comes out or the big
new blockbuster. If they can get you, then they know they're doing something right.
They ain't got you. They ain't got people like you. That's a big part of this. They're running
into right now. You're only going to see, we, we saw this right before the pandemic and it kind
of faded out and then it went away completely. We're only going to see more and more movie theaters,
like really like to having circuses in the movie theater just to try to get people to go to the
movies. You really want people to go to the movies. I got a, I got a crazy wild idea. Give them good
storylines. Give them, give them something to watch. Give them something that they haven't seen a
billion times already. Boy meets girl boy loses, girl boy gets girl back. You know, all of this.
Like you give them something to watch. Maybe they'll come. Even play some of the old classics,
like we were talking about the other day on, you know, when Seth was mentioning seeing a white
Christmas on the big screen. Yeah. Movies that came out before we were alive or able to go to
the movies. I think movie theaters should do that. I would go see those. I think that's a really
good idea. Re-releasing hits. You know, couldn't hurt. Couldn't hurt. You've already gone.
You should do it. Yeah, yeah. And there's movies that even new releases that they do well and they
come back to theaters. That kind of thing. But we have one of the prime examples of this in the
past year of them living in bubbles and not really paying attention. The movie Morbius was one
of the worst movies that's ever been released and it did horrible in the box office. They pulled
it from theaters as quick as they could. But on social media, a lot of people were joking. Oh,
they got to bring it back. Oh, more than time and all this. And it was all jokes. It was all memes.
None of it was realistic. So what did they do? So he brought it back to movie theaters. And it
did even worse the second time. And it's Jared Beatles' birthday today, James. I think they're
really got a pic on it. It was really rough. That was rough on my phone.
Speaking of Seth, Seth is not going to be with us this week, everybody. He's on vacation.
Wishing him well. And Joy will see him next year looking forward to that. But he did leave some
notes from Alyssa and I. And one of the things he asks is if we could please mention the Glassman
Ashery every second. Every segment. Every segment. Every segment. So if Seth asks, just tell him we
did that, everybody please. But we do want to bring it up from time to time. If you want to remind you,
the Glassman Ashery is the next production for Wisconsin Rabbits Community Theater,
directed by our very own Seth Habag. Yeah. Auditions are January 2nd and 3rd at 630
over at the WRCT Auditorium. And for those looking to audition on the stage or behind the scenes,
we encourage everybody to do those things. The production will kick off a March 1st. So you might
want to keep that in mind that you have March free. Beginning first to begins a March.
There is not that this is an incredible play. It's a wonderful one. There are only four parts in
it, though. So encourage people to if you can get to both nights of auditions, give Seth,
make it hard on Seth, make it difficult for him to decide who to choose.
And enjoy everybody. And again, if you've ever been on the fence about auditioning for WRCT
or any community theater wherever you're living, this is your year. This is your time. Take that
chance. Make that jump. You're going to be thankful. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Find out more at
wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org. And yesterday was a muppet Monday. I want to remind everybody.
It was a you had one on Christmas. Say hey. Yeah. Yeah. Bring it. I decided when I was I because I'm
a nerd and I plan I look ahead and see where the Mondays fall. So I think it was in October. We
were talking about, I'm like, do we want to we have a Christmas day and a new year's day episodes
that could we could do. And what do you think? And my daughter just being her, I could see the
brain, her wheels moving and her brain getting excited. And we couldn't wait. So many things we could
do. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a lot of fun with our 22nd episode, a Mary Muppet Christmas. We focused
on Emmett Otter's jug band and talked about that a bit. And it was a lot of fun. We wore Santa hats.
Way to get in the spirit. Be sure to check out the pod wherever you get your podcast. Just type
in the your search bar, what the muppet. And if you're a visual watcher, go ahead and check
us out on YouTube, type in your search bar on YouTube, what the muppet. Gigantic thank you to
everybody who has supported the show and the podcast and had some fun with us as we tried to find
the rainbow connection. Take a break. We're going to come back and have some more fun. Melissa,
we got to get into this when we come back. Kids friendly curse words in Europe.
Yes, this is fun. It's coming up on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. Little Durand Durand to play us in.
Rio always makes me think of warm weather in summer. So it's a little taunting to have it
playing right now, but it's still still kind of fun. Durand Durand could be a swear word I
would think. Like if you didn't know the band or anything, Durand it. Like you can see that,
I can see that. We'll get into now a fun one I think here. It's something that Melissa sent over
and I got about, you know, I really appreciate everything you send Melissa whether we're able to
use it out of the air or not. This is from our friends over at Reddit. Kid friendly curse words in
Europe. What are kid friendly curse words in different European languages is where this one
took us. And it got me thinking, I don't know about you Melissa, but it got me thinking about not
only like growing up in my household where we spoke Italian and broken Italian and broken Yiddish
and some of the words that we would use from that. But like just kid friendly words that we knew
we could get away with when we were a kid. Holy cow, you know, shoot things like that.
Melissa, we're going to get your mouth washed out soap. Yeah, yeah. This is a fun topic. It's
a little dangerous for us to do out of the air. You know, we might make the FCC some money. Who
knows? That'll be well. We're going to have some fun with it. So how did you come across this
article, Melissa? I just happened to cross it on Reddit. I'm flipping through and I was like,
oh, this looks like something James would enjoy. No, you're audience. You definitely do.
So I was looking at this and some of these words are certainly very difficult for me to say. I'll
be completely honest. Well, especially if they're in their natural language. But at the same time,
some of them are just so much fun that even if I mispronounce them, I think that the point is made
and it might even be more fun with me mispronouncing them. I guess I look at this and I look at the map
of beautiful Europe place I want to visit so much. I look forward to traveling some day to that area.
One of the first places I want to go, of course, the boot. I want to go see my family and trace my
family roots over in Italy and growing up in an Italian household. The first words, some of the
first words I learned were Italian swear words, which I will not say on the air. But one of the ones
that I can say is Chuch. Chuch means basically a jerk, basically somebody who's ordinary or
somebody who just can't get along with people or something like that. But this was one of the
easiest and most fun words to say in my house growing up because it's just a fun word to say.
Chuch. It's just it's fun. This is an easy one. They have here suggested Caviolo,
which is cabbage. That's a great curse word. That's a really good one, right? It's not like that one.
That's a good one. I like go to the sparrow. I like that one too.
Go to the sparrow. It's a fun. That's hard to pinpoint exactly where that one is because it's
kind of like Croatia and Bosnia. Bosnia, I believe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, thank you.
I had to double check too. I had to like triple check on some of those. Because that one kind of
covers more than just one country. Go to the sparrow. If I heard a little kid say in that,
that really would catch me off guard. That's a good one. I like that one a lot. I'm trying to see.
I think this is Ukraine, I want to say. This is Ukraine, I believe, where their word is. Go scratch
the armpits of an earthworm. No, actually, it's Lithuanian. It is Lithuanian. Thank you.
Mike, my computer won't zoom in. So I'm having a little hard time with that one. That's a
who's the one with chips? I don't know why, but that's one of my favorite one chips.
That is Amsterdam and Belgium. Okay, Amsterdam and Belgium. If you are a little kid,
you're one of your go-to swear words. Oh, chips. That's a good one. That's a good one.
Do you got? I like Germany's window pane glue. Oh, that is a good one. Window pane glue.
What does the window pane glue do to you? That's a good question.
Germany's is great. I like that. Let's see. Hen House. I like that. Hen House is a good one too.
Yeah, and the Czech Republic. Yes, yes.
There was another one I wanted. The entirety of France and Spain, they just pick on a day.
Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, that's the one. That's a good one. Let me see in Finland. Finland,
I believe, is another good one here, where Finland is for iron nails.
Just kids running around. Iron nails, dang it. Iron nails.
I think the only one we probably shouldn't say on air is Ireland's.
Yeah, yeah, that's, and that's, I mean, that kind of hits, actually. That kind of fits.
It does. It does, but it's a little too close. Am I seeing one of these for soren?
Yes, for soren. That's, that is in Norway.
Thank you, Norway. That's a great one. Although a dead mark says pretty good too, by the cave.
Yeah, by the cave. That's a great, in that one is one of those ones where, for some reason,
that makes more sense than a lot of these. And I have no idea why. It just feels, well,
for the cave, I tell you. Well, what about chicken in Poland, as a swear word?
I didn't see that. Okay. I mean, we that that one is like, you know, calling people that name.
That's good. But not really is a curse word. I like that. No, that's good. And then in Russia,
it's pancake. Yeah, I was, I was saving, I was saving that one. That may be my favorite one.
A shout out with that one, because pancake is a great one for, I would think even as an adult,
that's a fun one to say is a swear word, but this stub your toe pancake.
That is a good one. Although, you got a, we got honorable mention for Switzerland.
Godfried Stutzel. Oh, that's a fun one. Godfried Stutzel. Stutzel. That's a, that is a good one.
I like that. Oh, I like that. So it is true. As Mark Twain said, under certain circumstances,
profanity provides relief denied even to prayer. It's a great quote, great quote.
But these words, you know, are words. They only have so much, you know, meaning and
intone to them and everything, but they can be fun. I also think that it also speaks to,
you know, why they are so fun to us as kids. Yeah, yeah, saying something that seems
feels forbidden. Trying to think of some fun ones, Baldur Dash. Baldur Dash is a, I think that's
one that we need to bring back. I, I like the idea of bringing some of these words back, but
them coming out of the mouths of people that you would never expect. I want Baldur Dash to be
really big in the urban communities. What? And that, some of a monkey. My favorite one is, okay.
That may be a little too on the nose. The FB might be. There was a book series I was reading once
and the little girl when she swore, she said, scissors. I just thought that was the greatest thing ever.
Barnacles. Barnacles is a fun one. Actually, like, I'm Italian, all right. Look, off-air, I'm
a, I swear. I'll be honest. I, you know, that just do my upbringing and all those things.
I think that kind of happens in radio because we have to be so careful and honor that when we're
off-air, we make up for it. Absolutely. 100%. 100% right on that. I do also think, though, this is
a little bit of a tie into the, what we were saying before about kind of giving people something new
or people wanting something new. I don't know the, like, the, what age it happens? We're
swear words stopping any fun and you only really use them when you do stub your toe or when you're
angry or something like that. Like, we go, when we're young, we just, we'll use swear words every
five seconds just to say them, even if it doesn't make any sense, just because we want to say
swear words. At a certain point, we kind of burn ourselves out of that, I think. I, I think that
if we had, you know, some newer, like, like, we're saying some of these. Fui. You know,
Jesus crackers. It just, it brings in some of these. It might make them more fun to see.
Suffer and suck attached. Well, that one, that one's always a favorite.
Gadsuits. I do like in Estonia. Their swear word is just bad.
That is a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Blimey.
Jeepers, creepers. There's a lot of good ones out there. There's a lot of good ones.
That was a fun, that's a fun topic, Melissa. Thank you for bringing that to us. That's a good one.
Keep in coming. We will get to, but this is local news after our state news here. We'll come back
and we're going to get into some more fun topics. I want to touch on one that I got here,
Melissa. Where did that go? It is. Ah, the hottest travel destinations.
Hottest. Got that one coming up. The hottest travel destinations. We got to get into and I want
to get into a little bit of food talk with you as well. That's coming up. All right.
On the morning show here at WFHR, well, we're a locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Get out your walkamans, your hair ties, your hairspray. Trying to think of, you need a headband.
You are so low today, Melissa. I don't know why your volume is so low today. I've been having a
hard time hearing you. I've got the headphones kicked up the full gear here. Wow, you should have
told me that. I can turn myself up. I was going to text it to you. I wanted to talk to you about
it off-air, but I wanted to hear back from Chuck first to see if it was on my end. I didn't want
to bug you with it. Sometimes my volume on my microphone just turns itself down. I don't know why
it does that. Appreciate you, I appreciate you, David. We've been able to hear you just
find all day. It's mostly on my end, I think. Is that better? Can you hear me now? Yes,
yes, clearly. Clear as day. Great connection. Shout out to our friends over at Clean Feed. We
appreciate them. Feel free to call up and join the conversation. 715-424-2600. If you're listening
to us on the Civic Media app, you're just a touch or two away from joining the conversation.
A little bit, Melissa, I want to get into a, that ain't right story with you about a guy painting,
something I didn't even know you could paint. We've got the hottest travel destinations of
2024 to touch on, but just a quick segment here where I wanted it, just a little notes came across
over the weekend. They were both food related, so I thought it would be noteworthy since we weren't
able to have the kitchen's open segment. We can still talk a little food to kick off our week.
I have, the past year, I've had more food talk than I've ever had in my life, I think.
Not just from the show, but off air as well, and not complaining about that. I've never
taken the time to really, really think not only about food, but my relationship with food.
I've been doing a lot more of that as I'm trying to actually get my metabolism right and put
on weight and get a better diet. I never thought about what my favorite food is,
but I had this asked me a little while ago, and I really was pressing myself about them like,
geez, what is my favorite food? It's very hard for me to decide. And then it hit me.
It's not bacon double cheeseburger. It's not. I know. Shocker. A little bit of a spoiler.
Upset, an upset. But I would say if I impressed, my favorite food in the world is Italian beef.
Okay. I love Italian beef. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Can you see that?
One of those things that I could eat at just the multiple times a week and never get tired of.
I don't know about other people, but when I was pressing myself with this question,
that's one of the ways I presented it to myself. Could I eat it multiple times a week and enjoy
it pizzas? Another one of those things. You mentioned bacon double cheeseburgers. That's another one
for me. I don't have the greatest, I have the palate of a 13-year-old, basically.
But in doing this, I'd never really thought about where some of these foods come from.
Okay. And how they were created. And I think that the origin stories of literally everything
are interesting. I've never heard really an uninteresting origin story of anything almost.
Let alone food, where so much of it comes from interesting places. And Italian beef
is pretty cool, because I'd never heard the history of this before Melissa. The exact origin
is unknown, but many believe it was created by Italian immigrants who worked for Chicago's
Old Union stockyards in the 1900s. They often would bring home some of the tougher,
less desirable cuts of beef sold by the company. I knew it had to be in Chicago.
I wasn't sure, but it kind of just, I didn't know any of that before. I said that it was my
favorite food. It kind of just turns out to be my favorite food, and that is just one of the
most obvious answers ever. Once you hear the origin story of it, I think it makes a lot more sense
than everything. But it got me down a rabbit hole of this, of so many of our European immigrants,
and the different foods that they created when you had more of an influx of Latin immigrants
in this country. And the salsa, where that came from, and how that was a very similar kind of
thing of just kind of taking what you had and putting it together. And here you go. A lot of
Scottish dishes are this way. Yeah, you use what you have. It's just interesting. And I'm not saying
that like this is mind-blowing to anybody out there. I'm sure some of this stuff makes sense.
But I just hope that it gets the ball rolling for you and maybe looking into your favorite food
and finding out the origin and the history of it. I think it's actually kind of cool. It is cool.
But the real question is, do you prefer the aju on the side or dumped over your sandwich?
I like it on the side. I like a little bit of it on the sandwich itself, but I don't want it on
the bread. I like the bread to stay strong so it can hold the meat in the aja aju. Telling beef is
one of the harder things to make from what I've been told. When I've made it, it's always been
already pre-made and I'm just heating it up. The actual the process of actually making it,
like I tried to like hang with it and I like I like they lost me like halfway through it.
It's not to me it doesn't seem easy to make, but it's so worth it. It's so worth it.
I think the cooking method is the big thing because you can make crock pot Italian beef. That's
that's very good. But yeah, it's all about it's all about the process. It's pretty good. If you want
to call up with the origin story of your favorite food, feel free to call up and join the conversation.
424-2600-715-424-2600. We go to allrecipes.com for this next one where our friends at land of lakes
settled the debate. How long can you leave butter out on the counter? I started reading this article
and I never got back to it. So I am curious to know. When it comes to storing food, many of us
simply follow with our parents or grandparents did who cares about reading the package in instructions.
When grandma left her butter in the butter bell or just out on the table or something like that
all day every day, right? Right. So maybe your butter's home is on the counter in a dish or if not
on the counter at all times, perhaps you leave your butter sitting out overnight too soft and
before baking. But should you really be leaving your butter sitting out under refrigerated?
And if so, how long can it be on the counter before it becomes unsafe to eat?
It turns out that this concept is a little bit more complicated than a simple yes or no response
because it's more than just a question of safety. According to Tanya Egan, land of lakes culinary
content specialists, the USDA and FDA require that most dairy products be stored in the refrigerator.
Butter doesn't always fall into the dairy category because, according to the USDA,
butter is safe to consume at room temperature. However, that isn't the only concern. While butter
is safe to consume at room temperature, you don't always want to want to. Leaving butter out can
cause it to go bad and become a rancid which can significantly impact the flavor. So land of lakes
have some recommendations to ensure the butter is the best at its best. For storage, land of lake
recommends following the keep refrigerated directions printed on the label.
But don't worry when you need to soften butter, you can leave it on the counter without it going
rancid. Land of lakes says taking your butter out other fridge for about 30 to 60 minutes before
you use it will perfectly soften it for spreading. That seems like a lot of planning.
So how long can you leave your butter out? They say do not leave your butter at room
temperature for more than four hours. I don't know if people do this or not. This is not my
wheelhouse. So I'm not sure. But I always keep my butter on the counter and a stick of butter
probably depends on how much cooking I'm doing. But typically a stick of butter is going to last
about a week. And I don't know. I think that part of the reason we get away with this and we do
this is because I mean how like you just said there a stick of butter doesn't last that long.
So you know we're not leaving it out there for a month at a time or something like that or
or so. Now I have experienced the where the butter turns a color not in recent but in previous years.
And I don't know if it was just the house that I was living in at the time that had no air
conditioning or like ventilation. And so I think in the summertime it was just super hot and the
butter got gross. I did not eat it. Yeah. Yeah. Because it changed colors. And the butters
not supposed to do that. Nope. Nope. That that seems like a pretty good sign to me. It's not like
a hot wheel car. Now when you run under cold water, you just put it under hot water. It's a
different color. Oh my god. I forgot all about those. Oh, that was one of the coolest toys ever.
I forgot about those. Those were so awesome. You know they I don't know. I thought
we're going on a complete side tangent here. For it wasn't that long ago. They had vehicles that
had that they were painted that would change color. The temperature changing paint.
Well, when we talk about things like that we get wrong. Like I could not wait to when I saw
that I could not wait to tell people this is the next thing. Like all cars are going to be this
way from now on. Every car is going to have this going forward. Didn't exactly happen.
No. I really thought it might though. But it turns out people want one color more than
than we realized. I think it's surprising though. Because if I could have a car that does that,
I think that would be really cool. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think the cost of the paint along with
not as many people wanting that is as you and I might think. Really really led to that not being
as big of a deal as I thought it would be. I really thought it would be huge though. I thought
every car company in the world was going to start doing that with their vehicles.
Instead of a mood ring you have a mood car. Yeah. I like that. Oh wow. With rage driving and
that kind of thing. I imagine there's a lot of red cars on the floor. Or you wouldn't even have
to maybe it would tone down the rage out there and everything. Because you wouldn't have to be giving
hand signals or yelling stuff in your vehicle. Your car would just change its color. Man,
that guy's really mad at me. Do you see how red his vehicle is?
Thermal chrome chrome chrome. Thermal chrome car paint.
I don't know. I really thought that would be a lot bigger of a deal that it turned out to be.
What is the bottom line when it comes to this? Well, Landelake says that 30 to 45 minutes is okay
at room temperature. They say otherwise at 15 minutes to an hour it should be okay.
And while no one is saying you need to throw your butter dish away it might be time to rethink how
you store your butter. Especially if you're not experiencing the full joy of what fresh quality
butter tastes like. While you might be used to it doing it this way and while doing it this way
might not have made you sick or anything. It may be a flavor thing. So it's worth it might be
where I think it's worth trying is if you use butter a lot especially with baking or anything
I think it might be worth trying just to see. Hey, does the butter actually taste better?
If it doesn't, hey, it's thrown, you know, do your own thing. Do you do your own butter?
I do. I do think that it's one of those things though. You don't don't test this. Don't
don't try this too much. You know, as far as how long can I leave it out? How long can I leave
it out? I don't know. If your butter is talking like getting up and like walking out of the room
like that. It's been too long. It's been too long. We will put it back. Take it a break. Come back
with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Put it back.
Welcome back everyone. Be aware of those feisty winds.
Listen, James here with you. I'm a Metallica to play us in.
Little feisty or something. Yeah, I got some feisty music out.
Those drums kick in. Lars is birthday boys drums.
We hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday out there. Everybody your work week is kicking
off all right both of you that are working. We're actually going to touch on that in just a little
bit about some closings that are still taking place with our good stories. Get to that in a moment.
ran a little bit long on time today in some of our segments. So we're going to get into those
hottest travel destinations tomorrow on our show. All right. And special show tomorrow not only
because you got Melissa and I hanging out together, but we're going to be joined by hard at WFHR
Pam Hilke. Yay. That's right. Pam's going to be with us. It's Wednesday tomorrow already.
Yeah. Weird. It is so weird. It's been too long since Pam's been able to join us on the
air. We're looking forward to that. That's going to be a lot of fun. We will have a great week of
shows for you with that. Melissa and I will be hanging out with you on Thursday. And then on Friday
we're going to have Katrina and her and with us. All right. You're going to update from family
natural food. That would be great. That'll be a lot of fun. We're looking forward to it. Right now
I got this. That ain't right story. I got to touch on. I'm glad I don't live next to this guy.
Bakudos for creativity. A 64 year old man in Iowa named Doug is facing charges for painting his
neighbor's plants. I've never heard of anything like this. It is very difficult for me to come across
one of these stories and like literally shock me. I've never heard of anything like this. He got
arrested last Friday. People please say their security footage of him walking into the property
and applying paint to some of their plants outside. They estimated the plants were worth about 40 bucks.
It's not clear if he's got beef with them or what this was all about, but it's not the
first time he's vandalized someone's property in a creative way. Earlier this year he got arrested
three times in the span of six days. I don't know if I'd use the word creative. Yeah, I feel like
that said that that's I Ron Burgundy that they wrote it that way in the article. I would not
word it that way. I apologize. We don't know if it was the same neighbor or not, but back in May,
he dismantled someone's porch lights and turned on spigots outside of the flood their yard.
Cops think he also removed a bunch of flags that were part of a memorial day display.
Then he trespassed on someone else's property. Again, this is a 64-year-old man.
What's up, dude? He's been dealing with multiple charges for all this stuff. Now he's facing
additional charges for painting his neighbor's plants and trespassing in criminal mischief. He is
a knucklehead. No matter what your age, especially at 64 when you should know better, that ain't right.
And those poor plants that they don't recover from that. Yeah, that's how they breathe. You're
covering up their lungs. Yeah, you're killing them. Yeah, there's nothing funny about that. Nothing
right about it. I will say because our job is to find the funny and the not funny. If this
person's going to do some time, they're going to do some jail time. And you're sitting there in
that jail cell. I have to think of all the thing when you're going around and telling,
you know, what are you in for? What are you in for? Of all the times in life where you have to make
something up, make something up, man. You do not want to be sitting in prison. Tell me,
yeah, I'm in here because I painted a bunch of plants. I'm a bad man. I'm a bad man.
Hey, no, no. That is not how you want to be walking through prison.
Hmm. Hmm. I just, what's the motivation? I mean, is he just doing it for attention?
Is there so many questions? Yeah, a lot of questions. A lot of follow-up to that one.
Let's get to, let's palette cleanse. Let's get to some good stories of the day. Midday magazine comes
back today. We got a good one lined up for you. We in part one, we'll talk at three o'clock today.
We'll talk with our good friends from the Southwood County YMCA. Always good to catch up with them.
Got a lot of great things going on over at Y, over at our local Y. We encourage you to learn more
about that and we'll talk more about it today at three. And then in part two, we are going to have
a replay of when the Family Center joined us last week. Oh, nice. We had a great opportunity to
talk with Amy and Tina about not only volunteering, but about ways that you can impact and help the
Family Center. It was such a good interview. We're going to play it again for you today at 330.
That's going to be a lot of fun. Look forward to it. Very important organization in town.
We have some holiday closings. Want to touch on the Wood County Courthouse River Block and
Marshfield Annex offices will be closed Friday, December 29th through Monday, January 1st for the
new holiday. Sheriff's department deputies and other emergency responders will remain on duty,
but their offices will be closed to the public. Scott with Rapid City Hall will be closed today and
the first of the year. Our chamber, it will also be closed on those days.
And the visit Rapid's Area Convention and Visitors Bureau will be closed on Monday, January 1st.
Keep that in mind, along with visit Rome being closed today and then 31st in the first,
the ADRC of Central Wisconsin will be closed today and January 1st and 2nd.
Very good to know. Going on tomorrow, the Port Edwards Lions Club have their fishery over at
NEPCO Lake County Park. It goes from 10 to 3. Available like drilled holes, many chances to win
prizes, hot food and beverages served inside the NEPCO Shelter House. A lot of big ticket prizes
available, prizes during the day for walleye bass, northern bluegill perch, croppy, all that.
Other prizes donated by local businesses, valued over 5,000. All the proceeds go to eyesight,
conservation and community projects. Some great work being done by the
wonderful Port Edwards Lions Club. Check out their fishery tomorrow. It's going to be fun.
Great show, Melissa. Very safe on the ice. You too, Jason. Yeah, be safe out there,
everybody. Good point, Melissa. And thank you for a good show. We'll talk tomorrow.
Yeah, sounds good. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon later right here at
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