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that were made 100 years ago. And how many of them stick. But it is a Monday morning
in 2024 and we know what that means. Yeah. Yeah. Hello and welcome to the Kitchens Open.
The segment designed to delight, entertain and tempt your taste buds. We're here to tell
you what not to eat and when you can't eat it. Well, that's not very encouraging, Seth.
Hey, it's the time of year when practically everyone has fitness goals. So shouldn't
we be telling people what they can and can eat? Well, that's typically not very helpful.
Oh, you want this to be helpful. All right, then. We're here to tell you what you can
eat and what you can eat. I guess that's kind of accurate. I have a feeling you two
could do this all day and not actually tell us anything. Totally. Yeah, totally right.
Yes. So let's get to the meat and tell our listeners with the topic of today's segment
is, shall we? I hope it's not meat. No, there's actually a lot of debate about meat in our
daily diet and whether it's good for us and the planet in general. That's a very controversial
topic to bring up here in the heart of the dairy land. True, but proponents of less meat
in our diet make a compelling argument, citing not only improved cardiovascular health
for people, but also reduced pressure on forests and land used to grow animal feed.
Don't forget the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that will help us hit our target
carbon emissions goal. Wait, why am I advocating for this? I can't survive without baking
double cheeseburgers. Are you trying to kill me? This is all I live on. Well, it's not
a requirement that you go full vegetarian. There are some diets like paleo that encourage
me. However, your cheese would be out since it's processed. Oh, now I've seen a paleo.
I like a lot. I've read a lot of quotes from paleo. I've no, no, no, paleo, no, paleo,
no, paleo, paleo, sorry, sorry. Yes, it's the, it's as in paleolithic or 10,000 years
ago. The theory is that by going back to the diet of our pale, paleolithic ancestors will
be much healthier. But the real question is, did they have bacon? Okay, this is the great
debate because I could have maybe eat, I could maybe eat a bacon double cheeseburger without
the cheese. But if you cut out the bacon pop, what do I have left? A hamburger? This is
not too much. I'm getting sad here. And we haven't even mentioned raw food diets or
gluten-free diets. Now we're talking, now you're taking my bun too. Hold up. Now this
has gone too far. Calm down. This isn't even the topic of our segment today. It's not.
You mean my bacon double cheeseburger is safe? Oh, God. But I have all this information
on how to diet the diet of hunter-gatherers is better for us and how all this refined
food, 70% of our diet. Did you hear that? 70% of our diet is causing cardiovascular
disease. So BCD diabetes, periodontal disease, bad breath, bad teeth. What does this have
to do with brushing our teeth? It has to do with the excessive reliance on cereals or
carbohydrates by early Egyptians causing both tooth decay, which can cause other health
issues. Now you're going to take my captain crunch berries too, but what am I going to
eat? They didn't have crunch berries in Egypt. Your information is going to come in handy
because we're talking about an eating habit then that's still around now and how it can
be healthy. So we're making my bacon double cheeseburger over the campfire. Oh, God.
Not exactly. We're talking about snacking. Oh, snacking. H and humans didn't snack. Did
they? Actually, there's some argument that's mainly the way that they ate before civilizations
were established. Yeah, that makes sense. It's not like they could whip up a five-course
meal in the middle of the woods with a handful of berries and some jerky. Very true. So
we're going to take a quick dive into the history of the snacking industry as we know
it today and talk about how snacks can help with your diet and keeping to your new year's
resolution. Well, all right. I happen to be the king of snacking. I'll have you know.
You could almost call me a pro. Most of my meals are, in fact, snacks. James, you
do realize that the definition of snack is a small amount of food, small amount of food
eaten between meals. So I'll get to the meal eventually. The definition doesn't say
when the meal has to happen. Yeah, you know, he's got a point. Sadly, yes. Now, on
to our topic. Snacks sometimes get a bad rap. How many times have you been told not
to snack because it'll ruin your appetite? Oh, dear God. Like every day. No. Most
famous words. I swear to you, God, as you were saying that, Melissa, I heard my nanos
say, they're right in my head. I have said it to my own children. Oh, yes. Yes. It's
a universal. Yeah. It's interesting to me how many people live this way. And so many
people that I know that I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have guessed live this way. Our
friend Terry, Terry Johns is a grazer as well. Very similar. And I've always kind of been
that way too. There's, I think there's a lot more that than I ever realized. Yeah. Yeah,
you got it. Well, if we look back a little ways, the snack food industry went crazy in
the 20th century. The development of factory produced foods and the packaging that goes
with us gave us snack foods like Oreos, candy bars, potato chips, crackers, M&M's and
pop tarts. Now, these are the very foods that our moms didn't want us eating in between
meals and for good reason. I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that eating those snack
foods on a regular basis would decrease your appetite for good meals and add to unhealthy
weight gain. But snacks can be a part of a healthy diet and add to rather than diminish
our overall health. If I can't snack, I will probably die. So please tell me how to
do this. Honestly, we just have to go back to what our ancestors snacked on dried berries
and jerky. Actually, that doesn't sound too bad to me. I mean, it's no snickers, but
I like beef jerky. So I'm all right with this. Whatever it takes to stop you from turning
into Liza Manelli. Hey, I would have been a great, I would have been great cabaret. You
know, it's darn COVID. Back to snacks. There's a lot of easy to grab chips, candies and bars
in the grocery store. But as we know, those are highly processed foods and can be associated
with weight gain. A large majority of New Year's resolutions have to do with making healthy
choices in this new year. Now snacking can play a part in helping you stick to those
resolutions. And it's not all dried fruit and jerky. And it's not all what you eat,
but also why and when. This is sounding more and more complicated. Can I just eat when
I'm hungry, please? Actually, yes. You should eat when you're hungry and not because you're
bored or just indulging. These are some of the reasons snacking's got a bad rap. You
need to fit your snacking into your overall eating plan. The trick is planning nutrient
dense snacks that provide a boost of energy and help curb your appetite until you get to
the next meal time. In fact, the concept of meal planning can be applied to snacks as
well. According to an article on hsph.harvard.edu called The Science of Snacking, you should
think about what hours of the day you feel hungry between meals. Think about why you snack.
Is it because you're truly hungry or because you're bored, stressed, tired or angry? If
you're eating from emotion, that's another conversational together.
Well, let's skip that conversation for now and stay on topic. I don't think James can
handle it if we go down another rabbit hole right now.
Have you met me? Rabbit holes are my jam. Mindful eating practices are helpful in many
aspects of your life. Honoring your food, engaging all your senses, savoring small bits
and eating modest portions. It's the eating slowly and not skipping meals part of mindful
eating. I have issues with, but hence snacking.
Oh, good, great. All right. So let's focus here. The final important thing to consider
when snacking is that what snack choices will satisfy you? If you're craving something
sweet and you decide popcorn would be a healthier choice, you may still feel hungry or want
to snack again because you didn't satisfy your specific craving.
So a better choice might have been yogurt. Maybe, but if you were also craving something
crunchy, maybe you should have gone with an apple and peanut butter to satisfy both cravings.
This is really smart. So it's not only the fact that I'm hungry, but also what types of
food I'm craving. I need to consider when I plan my snacks. Mom, are you hearing this?
This is going to make that you're so proud. Oh, I got to make sure she hears a second.
I'm going to make your snacks. The final important element to planning your snacks is planning
a snack size portion. A general rule is to stick to 150 to 250 calories. So you should only
have about a tablespoon of peanut butter with that apple or string cheese with about
six whole grain crackers. Spittic. Six crackers? Yeah, right.
Then you're not eating enough at meal time, James. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meals are important.
Let's talk about some snack ideas to help you build your daily snack planning.
Pen and paper ready. Go. We've all heard of the mix nuts and dried fruit or dark chocolate
in almonds. I eat that. But what about cucumber slices with hummus, red bell pepper with guacamole
or celery sticks with cream cheese? I do. Any all anyone? I did not understand one word.
It was green and a vegetable. I want to try the red bell pepper with guacamole. I think
that would be really good. No, I think it works. Celery sticks. I actually like celery and I like
it with many, many different things. So I'm for that. Yeah. Melissa, are you sitting down?
I am. I love celery. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. I actually like celery. Yeah. Yeah. That's like
fan of it. I never think about it. For you, though, a person that needs to put on weight,
need to add something to that celery, James. Yeah, celery takes what what's the old thing we've
always heard burns more calories eating that than it adds to your body. Oh, right, right. Oh,
I thought you were going to say you are what you eat because James looks like a celery stick.
Whoa. Oh, you said that. I mean,
Oh,
another great snack is a protein smoothie, especially in the morning before lunch. You can use many
different combinations of fruits and vegetables and then add in healthy fats to make it filling
like avocado is amazing and smoothies. You can also add different nut butters or chia seeds,
even Greek yogurt or tofu can both boost the protein content. One of my favorite smoothies
are blueberries, half a banana and spinach and then you add in the chia seeds.
Hmm. Greek. You can use water but you can also use milk for your liquid. All right. Greek
yogurt and mixed berries are another great snack. High in protein and the berries are a great
source of antioxidants. Hmm. I don't do, I do like non-dairy yogurt. Right. And I try to add
berries into it when I remember. Baries are good for adding to anything, basically. Yeah.
Over the last couple of years, I've worked to try to like replace my normal snacks of, you know,
cookies and chips and stuff with granola. Hmm. And I started doing it with, because they sell
out of granola nowadays with like chunks of dark chocolate in it. Right. Exactly. And I started
with that and kind of moved from that to just regular old granola. But one of the things that I didn't
think about that this is really bringing home to me is the idea that the types of things like
what I'm craving is not so much about the flavor but the texture. Hmm. I've understood a lot more
of that. That. Okay. So I think that when you understand that, it helps you find, well, okay,
well, I'm looking for some, I'm looking for this type of texture. What fits that? That's healthy.
Right. Right. I don't know if I'm doing this right or not. I'm being very, well, no,
that's great though. Yeah. In my head, this is what's happening. Yeah. Right. It's working.
Well, because you're craving something specific and if you have something completely different,
you're still going to have that craving. Yeah. Right. Right. You haven't satisfied the, yeah.
That is literally mind blowing to me. That is awesome. That is really interesting. That is very,
it makes perfect sense. I just never thought about it once in my life. That's interesting.
Now, dairy and fruit are a great snack for those who can tolerate dairy just fine. Think
cottage cheese and peaches or cheese in an apple or pear or even cherry tomatoes and mozzarella.
Mmm, mozzarella. What about olives and cheese? Siklyche. That's a great combination as well.
Actually, olives are one of my favorite snacks. I don't eat them with cheese, but I do. That's
something I have in the afternoon, typically. You know, my brother growing up is a snack or two,
but was a healthy snacker. Like Nick, you, like, we get new olives and they'd be gone. And Nick,
really? He just pounded on olives. He loved them. He just liked them. Like, uh, it was always,
when he would ever grab a sandwich, it wouldn't just be like, what I do, like two pieces of bread
and some pepperoni. Like Nick would actually put together a sandwich. You know, that kind of,
uh, I, I, there are smart snackers that I've known. Smart grazers or however you like. Yeah,
exactly. It's a good way of putting it. And olives are actually amazing. This really literally
just happened. I got a text this morning from a group chat of friends that came across a recipe
for honey whipped feta with olives. And we decided we could plant a party around that. Oh, wow.
That's awesome. Awesome. So, so we're having a black and gold party sometime this spring,
apparently. Nice. Okay. Nice. I get it. Yeah. Let's go. All right. Well, let's face it.
Pretty much all of us snack sometimes in between meals, sometimes as meals like Jane. Hey.
But however you include snacks in your life, it's a great idea to keep, to try and keep them as
healthy and low processed as possible. And the snack food industry isn't going anywhere.
Foods that are easy to carry and quickly accessible are in high demand. Statistics.com says the
United States leads with over $106 billion in profits in the snack industry last year.
And one source said that in the last 15 years, snack sales have grown two to five times faster
than the food industry itself. That's it, guys. I'm done. This is it. I am opening my own snack
business. I'm calling it James Snacks. No, we may know. Snacks with James. Oh,
uh, Bitto James. Oh, oh, wait. That's kind of taken. Snackatoshis. Snackatoshis.
Yikini yak. Don't snack back. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yikini yak. Don't snack back. That's the
company. I failed. That's it. I think this is a lot to close. I'm sorry. We just went bankrupt.
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And with that, we'll close the kitchen. Oh, it's fun to do that again. It's been a while.
It was. That was a while. Been too long. Yeah, exactly. A big, big thank you to Melissa and the
work that she does on this. And I'm not alone on this one, Melissa. I have learned from this segment.
I know many of our listeners have. And I do mean many. I've heard from many of them over the year
or two that we've been doing this. You do some great work with it. Yeah. This one in particular,
I really read like twice. I really did learn some things from this one. Yeah, it's good stuff.
It was pretty cool. It was pretty interesting. And it's going to change the way that I snack from now on.
Look at that and everything. You reached him. Melissa, you finally read him.
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Yeah. Again, a big shout out to Melissa and the work on the kitchen's open segment. They're
very nice. Nicely done. Yes. Appreciate you, Mal. Let's dive into a little bit of entertainment news.
The go on the gloves went down last night and luckily nobody got, you know, in trouble. Nobody
got canceled. Well, nobody got canceled, but Joe Koi might be having a hard time finding work
after last night. It went bad. It went bad, everybody. This is something that doesn't happen as much
as it used to. We were spoiled as kids. We grew up in the time, the end of Bob Hope in the beginning
of Billy Crystal and Billy Crystal. I think we kind of like took it lightly. How great he was at
MC. Every year, he was the host of the Oscar. He was, as far as the modern equivalent of those
things, he's the best I've seen as far as like the host of a show or some outside of Bob Hope.
Bob Hope to me was the goat. I never saw anybody better at it than Bob Hope and I don't know if
we ever will. But Billy Crystal was darn close and very good at it. And then he kind of like pulled
away from it. And we've been looking for people ever since to be able to do it. It really seems
that way. There really hasn't been, name me the person that you've seen that like, oh, I want to
watch this award show because they have this host. 715-424-2600. I'd love to hear. I'm generally asking
that. That's that's rhetorical. I'm not saying that as a because I know I got you.
Right. No, please tell me. Is there somebody you've had? Did you like Ricky Gervais? Did you like
this person? Did you, you know, because it's not just me that wants to know the award shows want
to figure this out. They're they're very desperate at this point. Please, please.
Joe Koi who incurred Taylor Swift's wrath when he told the the big difference between the Golden
Globes and the NFL on the Golden Globes. We have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.
He told that joke and he got an icy stare from Taylor Swift. Of course.
But, but there's a lot of people saying that she was doing this as a joke. She was playing along
with the bit. Okay. That she wasn't actually staring him down. And in fact, she's been trying
to be very clear about this herself. She was not upset by the joke. She could take upon. Yeah, right.
She, you know, she, she understands what the, you know, be where she is. Yeah, exactly.
But the, and I'm not trying to pick on him or anything like that. Taylor Swift has actually done
a decent job with some of the camera work she has done. I don't know if she's a good actor or not.
What I've seen, I, I, I'm sorry. I don't think she is yet. She could be, and she's going to have
plenty of opportunities. Oh, likelihood, yeah. But so far from what I've seen, I haven't seen that in
her. But she is very good in these in these bits moments. You see it in commercials all the time.
She has moments where she's very charming, very, you know, she's very friendly with the camera.
And this was one of those moments. It should have been really funny.
I, Joe Koi just didn't land the, the, she, he didn't set her up right. You got to, you got to
set her up. You got to give her an opportunity. It, it actually came across where she looks,
she makes, it makes it look like a jerk when she's not trying to be a jerk. She's just trying
to be fun. Right, right. Because that wasn't like a mean joke. It was just pretty innocuous.
There's nothing. Yeah. Then I, I got to imagine if I'm Taylor Swift, that's one of the
tamest jokes anybody has ever made in my expense. Exactly. I think so. So that's not the first
that said something like that. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great point. Things about shots of NFL being
more popular now because of her. Mm hmm. I mean, to, to me, I, I, I, when your show starts that
way, that's why that opening monologue is so important because the whole rest of the night is,
is kind of like rough from there. It's, it's a big part of the reason why you see more times than
not, music numbers, music numbers, open award shows almost, almost consistently, like 98% of the time.
Because you, you, well, that's a hit or miss thing. Mm hmm. But you always get people that love
music. Yeah. And, and, and people that are watching these shows, production number, yeah, tend to love
the pop and circumstance and all that. Sure. As for the awards, Oppenheimer won Best Motion Picture,
Drama Silly and Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., and director Chris Frenoland all took home individual
awards. Wow. Lily and Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon became the first Indigenous actress
to win a best female actor in a motion picture film. Wow. She also gave the, you have to hear
the acceptance speech. She did it in her native language. Oh, that's so cool. So cool.
Thinking, uh, for those of us that grew up seeing, uh, Marilyn Brando, uh, you know,
win an Oscar and, and, and, uh, having a Native American go up there and accept the award.
Right. Actually, having, actually, having a Native American win an award. Like, yeah, first off,
it's a damn shame that it took this long. Yep. There's been a lot of great Native American actors
over the decades. Yeah. Uh, the, the industry is built on a lot of information, right? Although,
I mean, they have, they've been out there, but there's been so few, you know, roles for them to play.
Yeah, exactly. That's the tough part. There's so many roles that they should have had were, uh,
given to people not of that. Right. Exactly. A bit of a shocker here. Uh, Barbie lost out to poor
things for best musical or comedy film, but it did win the new award for cinematic and box office
achievement. Um, what? Uh, yeah, going to go. It made the most money in other words. I,
I really don't know what to think. Wow. Um, and Billy Eilish took home a globe for the soundtrack
song. What was I made for? Um, poor thing star Emma Stone, one best female actor in musical or
comedy award. Congratulations to her. I'm a big fan of Emma Stone's. Yeah. She's great. HBO
succession was named best TV drama while, uh, Karen Culkin and, and a bunch of others, uh, all one
for their work, the bare one of best TV musical or comedy. Uh, congratulations to them. Yeah.
Jeremy Allen, white one, acting awards for it as well. Uh, so congratulations on that. And
just taking a look at the quick list here of winners that I haven't covered. Um, let's see,
apology, a moddy one for best actor and musical or comedy for the holdovers. Oh, nice. Um,
I did mention, uh, Robert Downey Jr., when best supporting actor, didn't I? Yes, you did. Okay. Uh,
so those are the big ones, um, that are in the TV awards. Uh, I'll went to, uh, non TV,
non network TV shows. Succession, uh, the bear, uh, I see even individual awards were to the
bear and were to the crown or succession. No network TV shows on this list. Wow. That's,
that is difficult. That is very interesting to me. Yes. And, and, uh, a real, not only in the,
we can all make the, that we could spend the next 20 minutes talking about the side of the times
and all of that. Eh, we all, that conversation is going on. Billing times already. Right.
I want to know what the people think about this and how they feel about it. Yeah.
Award shows are meant to be for people. They're meant to be for the fans. Every award show that
exists is supposed to be built for fans. Right. The Golden Globes is one of those ones that skewed
this a lot over the years and has become, hey, we just want to pat ourselves on the back. Yeah.
Um, and a lot of that. Yeah. So I think that there's a little pushback from that. The ratings show
that. But how, how you get that, that group of people, the, and I'm not picking on this at all.
But if, if you will, the, the CSI crowd, the, the, um, the, the blue bloods crowd, the,
the group of people that are still, that's where they watch TV. They have no interest in streaming.
How you get that group to get, uh, connect with this group. Yeah. And, and that's going to be
interesting going forward. That's going to be interesting seeing how that develops. And, uh,
where we go with this. It's going to be interesting. Yeah. Very interesting. I, um, I got my award,
my votes in, um, before the end of the year for, uh, sagging the Oscars. And I'm not going to
get into too much of this. Although Seth and I will talk a little bit about it on director's cut
coming up. All right. Looking forward to that. I will tell you all, um, I am putting my name on this.
I don't think there's going to be a sweep this year of any one movie. Okay. But the closest we're
going to have is Oppenheimer in all likelihood. I think you're right. Yeah. Um, best film, best
actor, best, uh, best, uh, supporting actor, best director, best original screenplay, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom. I voted for all of those without, without even thinking about it. Um, I,
but not a problem in my mind. Right. It's, it's one of the most important movies I'll ever see.
And it just speaking for me, I encourage others to check it out. But, uh, I think that it was.
And I'm really happy to see movies like poor things and, uh, the leftovers, getting some notoriety,
getting some, uh, chance to poor things. It's a little bit of a different film goes in different
directions, but an independent contract and, uh, the poor, uh, the, the, the, the, uh,
the helllovers. So they're, they, they, the leftovers, leftovers, that is a whole
lovers or whatever was. Yeah. That is an interestingly beautiful movie with no budget. And,
and Paul Giamatti just, it shows you all the green screen, all that stuff and everything.
You can't get that with that acting. Acting can't give you that. Paul G, you know, acting like
the performance he gives in that, you can't get with a green screen. You can't get with special
effects. It's, uh, it's all right there. Yeah. It's a really interesting one. Cool. I used to love
the Golden Globes as a kid. I thought it was such a cool idea. TV, movies, music, everything,
right? Bring all these worlds together. Um, and I, I honestly, I don't know how much longer the
Golden Globes are going to exist. I, I really don't. Yeah. I, it's going to be interesting to see,
not, not just the Golden Globes and that's going to just pick on them all award shows.
When was the last time anybody was drawn to an award show? And I'm not just talking about
entertainment. The NFL honors, uh, the, the MLB SPs, the SPs. They just get watched because
they're on. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. Well, yeah. Uh, like there's plenty of people that will do that.
I guess there's nothing else on, especially a lot of people won't have network TV going against
these shows. Right. So there's literally nothing else on. Yeah. But with the power of streaming,
I choose what's on. Yeah. Exactly. I don't have to wait. So if, uh, in, in years past, if there
was nothing else on when I normally watch this show on Sunday night, I'm, okay, I'll guess I'll
watch the award show nowadays. Yeah. Oh, an award show is on. I'm going to pull up Hulu. I'm
going to pull up Netflix. I'm going to pull up one of these shows that just won. Yeah.
The ones that, yeah, what is this? I'm going to watch this movie now. Let's watch that instead.
Why watch them? Watch what? Why watch the actors and creators get awards for it? I'm just going
to watch the dang show. I think it's one of those things where they'll, I think they'll always give
out the awards, but I think the whole presentation, you know, kind of thing would be one of my
favorite things is like the first Academy Awards ceremony was like 30 minutes long. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's it. You know, it's like, oh, here's the awards. No speeches just that. Here's to one.
Here's your statue. Yeah. Thank you. Good night. Yeah. Okay. Um, I, uh, I, uh, I
reason being a big party. They'll do it virtually. Everybody gives their awards acceptance speeches
from their living rooms. Yeah. Yeah. And they've already had a little bit of that since the,
during the pandemic. So yeah, they've done it before. I recently, um, I've been trying to get better
I have watching, uh, some Arab Williams work. Uh, because I, I still haven't been able to get
myself to watch one of his movies. Okay. Uh, full movie. I've watched scenes, but I haven't
been able to watch a whole movie yet. Uh, I pulled up, I used to do this every Oscar season,
but I haven't done it in years since he passed. I used to pull up, uh, the clip of him winning
the Oscar, uh, for Goodwill hunting. It's one of my, it's my favorite moment in award show history
by far and away. That in Sally Field, those are two one and two. My favorite award show moments.
I watched it this weekend and it's such a beautiful moment. If you get a chance to watch it,
I encourage you to, especially because it's like two minutes long. It's not even that long.
Right. Robin goes up there and he, the first thing out of his mouth, uh, I'm actually speechless
for once. And he, and he kind of shows it. He gives you a very simple boom, boom, boom. There's
a little bit of an awkward moment there with a canceled person, but, uh, it's a, a beautifully
sweet, just quickly, very fast and you don't even realize that's Rob Williams because he's talking,
like you never heard of before, really. It's from the heart. It's, it's sweet and funny and it's also
beautiful and short and short. I think that that's a good note on that. Um, Seth, when you're talking
about the award shows being short, yeah, everything. We'll get to our news right now. We'll come back
and have some more fun. We got to get into this one, guys. Uh, 10 predictions about 2024 from 100
years ago. All right. Ooh, can't wait. Yeah. Coming up, you don't got to wait 100 years. Just a
couple of minutes. Coming up on the, uh, morning show here at WFH. Well, come back to the show,
everybody. Morning show on WFH are locally grown radio, Seth Melissa. James all hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a good start share week. Uh,
list of predictions from 100 years ago in 1924 came out. Um, what do you think the world would look
will be like in a hundred years from now? Someone looked at predictions people made in 1924 and here
are some of the highlights. Okay. A few insightful predictions and some that weren't so spot up. All right.
Now I want to do two things with this. I want to do this list. We'll go through this. Uh, and you
guys are welcome to join the conversation as always, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six
hundred. Then I want to do our own predictions for a hundred years from now. A hundred years from
now. Yes. Yes. All right. So let's have some fun with this. And again, we want audience participation.
You all receive your morning show at home, play at home games. So you can call up and join the
conversation, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred. Nice. No one would have teeth.
This was predicted. This was the first prediction. Nobody's going to have any teeth. A nationally
syndicated advice columnist thought America's eating habits could drastically change our looks.
Quote, will we have any teeth at all? Will there be any color on our face except paint? Will
the men have any height to speak of or will they all be girth? Oh, they didn't think we were going
to go taller. We were going to go wider. Well, sugar was a big boom. You know, like it really
took off in a very short period of time. So, you know, I mean, that's not far fetched.
It's funny how that's it's kind of similar to what we're still talking about.
We kind of went the other way with this though. What dental care is definitely better.
Yes. That's for sure. Yeah. And but not only that, but the things that you can do with your
teeth nowadays that not only getting you know, verniers or having them redone. Yeah. But I mean,
you can put gold on them. You can put silver on them. Yeah, exactly. I can't imagine what somebody
with wooden teeth looking at people nowadays would be thinking, oh, yeah. Polatosis. Horses would
go extinct. A professor, a professor at USC predicted horses would be endangered species because
of the invention of automobiles would render them useless. Quote, in another hundred years,
you may find horses and zoos, I'm sure we will find, we will not find them anywhere else. Wow.
Well, I guess that's kind of similar to our predictions of AI taking over and yeah, yeah,
it's good thing to keep this in perspective. Yeah, exactly. I'm ready. We're two in and I'm like,
why do people ever make predictions? Seriously. We suck at it. Yeah, we're terrible. Really bad at
this. Not even Nostradamus was good at it. Anything they give Nostradamus credit for is the
vaguest stuff you'll ever read. There will be a natural disaster. Yeah. Oh my God. Where's the
natural? What's the natural disaster? What are you talking about? He was right.
Working from home in a book called Wireless Possibilities. A guy basically predicted the internet.
He said we'd be doing most things remotely and it would be great if you don't like cities. Quote,
what a help to the man who objects to a large city. Why could why could he not conduct his business
from his home from the comfort of his own home? Wow. That one came true. That one did come true,
nice. Not exactly in the form and they never do. I mean, the ones that are right. But of course,
it's still that's very very interesting. Yeah, insightful. 75 would seem young. A British
politician predicted life expectancy would be at least 100 years old and we'd still feel
fairly young at 75. Okay. I think that's about half right? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I agree. It depends
on lifestyle and how much effort they put into keeping, keeping fit. Right. But we have kind of gone
through that, you know, the 50s, the new 40s and 670s, 60s, 70s and all that stuff. So I think
that part's true. I don't think we're quite at the living to 100 yet. I mean, I guess on average,
obviously we're not. But average no. No. But so yeah, that's not bad though. Not bad. Take that one.
It's a kind of an interesting one. The average life expectancy, of course, varies throughout
the world and everything. But 76.4 years, it was the average in 2021. Okay. There you go.
You're declining a little bit. Right. Get on those healthy habits, people.
Healthy snacking. This one's a little uncomfortable. World peace.
Movie mogul, DW Griffith predicted moving pictures would help end all wars because they were a
universal language that could help us all understand each other. He said by 2024, movies would
have played a huge part in, quote, eliminating from the face of civilized world all armed conflict.
I actually do think that there was a little bit of a little bit of self-awareness there. Certainly,
this is a guy in the film industry. So you can't put it lightly that he wasn't promoting the
film industry, of course. But the idea of, like, it sounds like he was an optimist. It sounds
like he was somebody who believed in empathy. And okay, there's thousands of, you know, people
around the world who have never experienced war, seen war. But then you see a moving picture
about war. And you all the sudden maybe understand what war is a little bit more, and like, well,
maybe you're a little more hesitant to go to war because of that. How could he have predicted,
or anybody could have predicted? Actually, know that that didn't change things at all. Like, as far as
we know. Because it's not us that chooses to go to war, right? Right? Not the general, the general
population doesn't say, hey, yeah, let's do this. Let's go to war. When was the last time? Yeah,
when was the last time we voted on that? Right. Yeah, we were at a referendum. Should we go to war now?
Right. I mean, we're not just us. I'm not just talking to America. I'm talking about all democratic
countries. When, when, as any of them ever voted to go to war, whenever, like, that's as far as
that goes, that's something that I think is kind of like never talked about, but isn't awfully,
awfully needed interesting conversation. Yeah. It's not about whether I have no, I'm not at all
asking if you believe in war or not. That is not the conversation I'm having. What I'd like to
have is that what Melissa just touched on, when we do go to war, who decides it? Politicians,
presidents, these things. Who's fighting these wars? Not presidents. Not politicians. Not politicians.
Long now back in the day, when you had George Washington out there in the front of the army and
everybody, and you had things like that, a little bit of a different story. That was a little
different. Yeah. When was the last president you saw suit up? The last time we saw president even
look remotely like this was a nominee and it ruined his run. What was his name?
D began with the D power Dean. No, no, not how we're doing. The guy, the guy that went in the tank.
He, there's oh, uh, oh, do caucus. Michael, the caucus. Yeah. Like, Michael,
the caucus takes a picture of him in a tank and it killed his whole entire political run.
Like, that was it. That was the lowest. The last time you heard of him. We don't see our
politics. We see our politicians bark. We see, we see, you know, them pretend, but I mean,
we've had a couple of presidents in a row here who haven't even, don't even have any military
experience. We got one that dodged a war, dodged a war and got in. And this guy gets credit for
being a manzly man, but when he's the last thing of it, like, so as far as I'm manzly me, I don't
know. That was a lot more manly than anything he's ever done. Oh, yeah. Like that terminal.
So we go from him, this movie mogul, DW, uh, believing that, uh, DW, yeah, DW,
DW, believing in world peace. The next one was constant war everywhere.
The president of the American Chemical Society had a different, uh, take, he thought futuristic
weapons would mean major cities would constantly be under attack. We are not there, but no,
there's still plenty going on. Yeah. Mm hmm. Well, a little self-interest there too,
chemical industry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On there too. Yeah. Women would be in charge and men would
be racing the kids. And a letter to the New York Daily News, a guy said, women will occupy all
highest positions and men will just do physical labor or just stay at home to quote, wait on the babies
or mine the pets. It doesn't record whether he thought this was a good thing or not. Was he just
complaining? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Or if he's being sincere. Yeah. It's, it's
interesting to note. And it's kind of interesting to see that, that, you know, we, we haven't gone
that route completely, but we have certainly, it is, um, we have a little of that. Yeah.
I'll address inequality with women in the workforce. More world leaders too, you know,
uh, leaders of countries, prime ministers and that stuff. For sure. Yeah. It's, um, it's, uh,
it is on us to certainly give credit to the trailblazers and the people that have gotten us
this far. And it is also on that that we need to say that there was a lot of work to be done
when it comes to them. Yep. A limit to the number of kids you could have. A Department of
Agricultural, uh, official predicted we wouldn't have enough food to go around. So bursts would
quote, have to be limited in some manner by 2024. Wow. That did happen in some places. Uh, it did.
But this is the, we've had these population, um, uh, what do you want to call it? Uh, scarce.
Yeah. Every like 20 years or so in the 70s, it was really big. The population bomb and all that
kind of stuff. So yeah, that's not, not unfamiliar. Ask China how that goes. Uh, because you got a whole
entire country, one of the most powerful countries of all time that is, uh, that is scraping and,
and trying to figure that out right now because they, because of what they did with that. Uh, they
paid the price for that. That is not, uh, that has not gone over with the, uh, population is
decreasing now. Yeah. You've got 80 year olds in China running companies because there's nobody
to take over. Uh, they can't retire. Yeah. You got a huge gap going on where you've got that
grid generation and then like 30, 40 year olds and they're not ready to run major companies.
And the fascinating thing is, is in a lot of developed countries, Europe and the United States,
we're doing it ourselves. We're, we're, we're decreasing the population because we're just not
having as many kids we're choosing. And yeah. So yeah, cities would be totally rebuilt around cars.
Hmm. Yeah. The 1920s were when cars really started taking off in 1924, a Swedish architect wrote in
the city of a hundred, in the city of a hundred years from now, I see three deck roads speedways
through the heart of town and skyscrapers with entrances for automobiles as high as 15 stories.
Well, he was as close as you can get to being right, not quite to that level, but man to the
struck, you know, like the architecture part of it. But definitely cities are built around cars,
yeah. And remember it. Remember everybody, we, uh, I want to bring this back. And when we get
together again on Wednesday, I want to do predictions for a hundred years from now. Okay.
All right. We'll talk about that. Uh, but uh, yes. And the final one on this list, everyone would
be flying to work. Flying cars. A real estate mogul in New York said the airplane was still in
its infancy, but eventually we'd all be using them. Quote, it will be the everyday occurrence for
the businessman to fly from home to office and back home again. His feet never touching the rock.
If you, yeah, if you're got a, if you're billionaire, yeah, you can handle that. But the rest of us
know too much. We've all seen the, the recent videos of, of guys with jet packs. Uh-huh. Man,
is the jet pack finally going to be a thing? Is it finally going to be a thing? No.
Yeah. Is anybody ever seen the, the, uh, the jet pack work like when they're trying to make
jetpats work and like the test one test tube. It's really, we don't, we have walked the moon
and we cannot figure jetpacks out. We cannot figure those out. It is a, it's probably a lot of
operator error going on. You, you want to go down a weird rabbit hole jet packs like at NASA,
the different companies that have worked, uh, private companies that have worked on them. It is
fascinating. We wanted to work so much. Shit, we had been, uh, I want to say it's going back to
early 1900s. We've been, dude, trying to create jetpacks. Personal, right? Yeah, personal jetpacks.
Yeah, crazy. We've done our hang gliders. Yeah. Don't use any fuel. Just use the wind,
true. We will, uh, we'll take a quick time out, come back and have some more fun on the
morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Do, do, do, do. I'm so used to bumper me. Do,
do, do, do, do, do, do. Yeah. And I keep doing the Mario theme. Yeah. I don't know why. I,
I have no idea why it's easy to do. I haven't played that game in two decades. And then it just
pops, it just seems to pop right. I want to get to our schedule here. Our, uh, sports and
some local good stories of the day, but we got to touch on this one real quick. This happened
over the break. Uh, I don't know if anybody got to see this. There's a temporary new exhibit
at a large Bass Pro shop in Leeds, Alabama. If you go to the aquarium, uh, you might be able to see
a guy trying to swim in fishes over there. Um, last Thursday night, a 40-year-old man named
George Owens crashed his car into a pole in the parking lot of Bass Pro shops. Then he got out
of his car stripped down to his birthday suit, ran into the store and did a cannibal into the
aquarium. Later, he walked over and stood under a waterfall. Naturally, the shoppers were quite
stunned. Uh, he also heard himself doing this, by the way. The police showed up and before they
caught him, he jumped into the water a second time, then slipped, fell, and knocked himself unconscious.
Oh no. Uh, it's unclear if he was, you know, what this was, a breakdown, whatever, uh, that might
be, but he was charged with public fluidness and, uh, and a bunch of other things. He is not going
to be able to run into a Bass Pro shop any time soon. They're going to have his picture, uh, his,
his, his picture, uh, everywhere, every Bass Pro shop. Do not let this man in. I'm not mad at him
for wanting to jump in the pool. That's got to be something that's very tempting to anybody.
You see a pool in a, in a shop that's not normally doesn't have one. It's going to be
tempting to do, but you can't do it. You can't do it. You can't do it naked. Yeah, that, that's the
weird part. That, that is the weird part. That is. Didn't anyone ever tell him, don't run around the
pool. Yes. You won't slip and fall and, and knock yourself out. That may be the biggest part of
the day, right? Part of the story. That's the learning. Yeah. We all know better. We all come on,
everybody. You just don't do that. Yeah. Uh, I need a palette cleanser and boy, we got a good one
for you today. Everybody join us from three to four for playmakers. It's our life sports call
in show. You can call them and join the conversation and a very special show today. One, of course,
we got Randy Paul joining us again. That's going to be fun. We'll be covering some local sports for
you. It is Axe Day in the NFL where there are a lot of head coaching jobs going, but not working
no more. We're also going to have a, a very important conversation with GM and head coach.
If you're Wisconsin Rabbits River Kings coach Paul Peckman, you're going to join us today at 330,
looking forward to the fourth period and talking with coach and talking from River Kings.
Nice win for them yesterday. Very nice win. I'm looking forward to number one team. Yeah. It's
going to be a good show. We're going to be a really good one. Well, fun with that. And then, uh,
at 630 tonight, Milwaukee Bucks versus Utah Jazz. Oh, that's right. Right here on WFHR baby.
The Bucks are here. We finally got them. Yes. Tip off at 630, baby. Yes. Yes. Uh, on W, and on
WIRI, I've got some great basketball going on as well. High school basketball, Nielsville at
assumption, assumption girls basketball, Randy, Michael Seth on this one. You know, it's going to
sound good. I love hearing them lady royals. That's going to be a good one. Uh, we also have
our homeless point and time count coming up Seth that I wanted to let people know about. Yes,
because they need volunteers, everyone. It's a semi annual survey, which seeks to gather a
snapshot of homelessness in every community in a single night. During the PIT count,
volunteers canvass southwood county to record the number of people experiencing homelessness
locally and offer resources as available. It begins at 11 p.m. Wednesday, January 24th and wraps
up early in the morning on Thursday, the 25th. It is the program. It's at the North Central
Community Action Program's office that's located at 2111 8th Street South in Wisconsin Rapids.
Get there at 10.30 p.m. for a brief training orientation before the events again,
begins no prior experience or training is necessary if you want to get in touch with the
United Way. Ben is the one to talk to. You can call 715-421-0390 or email Ben at
uwswac.org to get more information. All the concerts at Rams Auditorium are going on. We want to
tell you about there is one happening tonight. Six grade band concert going on tonight. I believe
it starts at 5.30 p.m. I have six o'clock here, but I've been told 5.30 is going to start. 5.30
Okay, all right. And you can find you can actually live stream this. Really? Oh, what did know that?
W-R-P-S dot org W-R-P-S dot org shut out to Laura letting us know about that. That is really
cool. Take in this concert if you can. It is it like you go and you're going to see some very young
talented people and that is wonderful. Whether they sound good or not doesn't matter, it's the
support. It's them looking out into the auditorium and seeing tons and tons of familiar faces and
tons and tons of strangers that came to see them perform. Gotta start somewhere, man. It builds confidence,
it builds, you know, self-worth. There are so many positives to supporting these kids along with
being entertained. Yep. Go to the Rams. Oh, and that Rams auditorium. One of the best places
you can hear anything. Really nice. The acoustics in there and everything are fantastic. Yeah.
Break a leg. Have a great great concert you guys enjoy. Yeah. Again, about 5.30 p.m.
raged concert starting at Rams tonight. Be sure to check that out. Yep.
Hey, so the US Mint released three new coins celebrating Harriet Tubman who helped run the
underground railroad before slavery was abolished. They include a new five dollar one dollar and
$0.50 piece. Congress passed a bill to create them back in 2022. Very cool.
And I wanted to touch on this too. In 89 year old Navy vet in Florida loves hanging out
at a diner in Pensacola called Seneca 90. So last month, they posted a photo of him on Facebook
and said, Mr. Lee loves our company, but we love him even more. The post went viral and now they're
planning a big 90th birthday for him. All right. Looks pretty cool. Awesome. Great show today,
you guys. Yep. Yeah. It was fun. Thank you, everybody. Yeah, sure was.
Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon later right here at locally grown radio,
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