Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thank you for kicking it off
with us right here at 97.5 FM 13.20 a.m. WFHR. We are locally grown radio. Got your host,
James J behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning and Seth
Habhager. Good morning. No, that's not Seth. Seth will be here in a second. He's easy to get
something printed out for us real quick. I do a really bad for a Seth impression. I'll just be
honest with everybody. It's not very good. I'm working on it though. I'm working with something
strangle the cat or something. Yeah, I did. It's not a very good impression. We got a lot of great
things coming up in this hour. We're going to get into some fun with a little bit of entertainment
news and some other great things coming up. But it is a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. You know what
that means? Hello and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR. As you all know, we were blasted with
a snowstorm last week in the weekend and now we finally have winter weather. So I thought it
would be a great time to talk about desserts you can make with snow. Ah yes, old fashioned snow cream.
You know, that's actually not the first one I thought of. And in fact, until this weekend,
I had never had it before. What is a snow cream? It's like ice cream, but made with snow. Of course,
it is. That makes perfect sense. Well, we'll get into that recipe later. But first, I want to talk
about sugar on snow or tire syrup. I'm going to butcher this one. Tearsur Laneige, which in French
means maple taffy on snow. Thank you for taking that Melissa. Yeah, you could have put that on one
of us. That was nice. Wait, maple? Oh, I am all in. Oh, maple, I'm all in. Yeah, yeah. The first
snowfall this year reminded me of reading Little House in the Big Woods when I was a little girl
and the delicious snow treat that Laura and the Ingalls family got to try for the first time during
the maple harvest. You do realize they didn't actually eat the snow. I realized that now, but the
way I remembered it, it was some delicious concoction of heated maple syrup over the top of snow
that created a fantastic treat. Oh, let's make some right now. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
It's not like we have a kitchen here at the station. And if Melissa makes it at her house, we'll
never get there in time before it's all gone or melted. This are all good points, but I still want
maple snow candy right now. Well, let's try and satisfy your cravings by talking about the history
of maple syrup in North America and how the Ingalls were able to enjoy this treat in 1871.
I really don't think that's going to help, but I am interested to hear about the history
and we're going to share recipes at the end, right? Of course we are.
Well, the history of maple syrup goes back further than the written records in North America.
Indigenous people made sugar from the sweet sap of maple trees long before the colonists
arrived. But the first written observation of North American maple trees was in 1540
by Jacques Cartier, the French explorer traveling up the St. Lawrence River.
And according to massmaple.org, there are many Native American legends about how maple sugar
was first discovered. One iroquoil legend tells how chief woksas had thrown his tamahawk into a maple
tree late one winter evening after he removed it the following morning, the weather turned sunny and
warm. Sap began to flow from the cut in the tree and drip down into a container at the base of the
tree. The sap was then used to boil the meat for dinner. As the water and the sap boiled away,
a wonderful sweet maple taste was left with the meat. It goes on to say, most likely the Native
Americans discovered the sweetness of the maple tree by eating sapsicles, the icicles of frozen
maple sap that formed from the end of a broken twig in the winter time. As the ice forms, some of
the water evaporates, leaving a sweet treat hanging from the tree. Native Americans were the first
to form sugar camps during the month when the sap was flowing. They would move their whole family
and camp in the forest in an area populated with sugar maples. Some collected the sap using a
slash method. Others drilled a small hole and inserted a hollowed out stick to serve as a spout.
They collected the sap and a vessel of some sort. Then after letting the sap freeze overnight,
they removed the water that froze on the top. Then they used hot rocks to boil the rest of the water
out of the sap. They'd heat the rocks in the fire then drop them into the containers of sap.
They made containers out of hollowed out logs, birch bark buckets, or clay bowls.
There was no easy way to store the liquid. A syrup so it was typically processed into hardened,
dry maple sugar which was easily stored. Indigenous people used maple sugar as gifts and for
trading. They also used it to cure cure meats as a sweetener for bitter medicine and as an anesthetic.
One of the first handwritten reports of maple sap as a sweetener came from 1606 when the lawyer,
Voyager and writer Mark Leskabo went to Acadia which is modern day New Brunswick, North of Maine.
He described in his writing the harvest and distillation of maple sap by First Nations people.
The timeline of maple history is fascinating with the push to use maple sugar by the Quakers in
1788 as an alternative to cane sugar that was produced with slave labor in the West Indies.
The first metal sap spouts were patented by Eli Mosher in 1859 and different designs of sugar
evaporators were tried between 1870 and 1890 when the small brothers of Dunham, Quebec
began producing evaporators with crimp bottom pans. These were the precursors to a light
lightning evaporator that's still in common use today. It was in 1959 when they first started
using plastic sap gathering pipeline systems which were perfected in 1997. Now they can be left
up year round without the pipeline stretching or causing damage to the trees. Holy cow, that's amazing.
That's amazing story. You guys ever seen that? I don't know if I have.
No, no. Well, if you drive through like especially up on Irish Ridge which is over towards like
the Viralqua area and you drive through the trees there, you'll see like these pipelines going
from tree to tree to tree. At first time I thought I was like, what is this?
Oh no, that's maple syrup collection and they can leave it up year round.
It's cool. It's pretty cool. They figured something out to a way of doing this and not hurting the
trees, not damaging the trees or anything. That's pretty cool to think of. As a side note,
I never got to go to camps like summer camp or anything like that.
If I'd know about there was a sugar camp, man, I'd gone to that. You would have signed up.
All the kids at a sugar camp. Whoa, let's go. That sounds really fun. That's great.
Well, so getting back to the maple snow tree that Laura and her sister Mary got to enjoy the
maple harvest. As Seth pointed out earlier, it wasn't actually mixed with the snow. The maple syrup
is heated to 235 degrees, which is known to candy makers as the softball stage.
Then it's poured out onto a prepared bed of snow to cool it quickly. It turns into maple
taffy that you can roll up on a stick or just pick up with your fingers and enjoy it.
Oh my god, that sounds good. So it's just like a quick freeze method of a hot thing to make it more
not hard but pliable. Yeah. Okay, that's cool.
But still the chewy taffy kind of. Wow, is that cool. It's also referred to as wax maple.
Makes sense. Things I've read because yeah, it's kind of a wax-like consistency.
Exactly. Have either of you had maple like this before? I have not. No. I'd like to try that.
I'd like to try this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, if only we had snow to try it with.
Yeah. We do now.
Well, look, the sap hasn't started to run yet. This is a little early.
Oh, okay. I had to do this anyway. Oh yeah, definitely.
So I found through my research on the topic that the traditional sugar on snow in the New England
area also includes dill pickles and plain donuts. This tradition of sugar on snow parties or
sugaring off goes back at least a hundred years according to one source I found.
The dill pickles cut the sweetness of the maple sugar so you can go back for more.
It's nice. I can think of many things that would cut the sweetness that aren't dill pickles.
I would have never a little extreme to me. I would have never thought of that,
but I can't. I have to admit I would like to try that. I absolutely would try that. That sounds
interesting. I like pickles. Well, the dill pickles are of their palate cleanser in a way.
Nice bows, yeah. A completely different flavor that clears
Oh my gosh. We're eating. And then you can go back and have more sugar.
There you go. Sugar pickles. Sugar pickles. I got to admit I find it really interesting.
The palate cleanse, the things that people use for palate cleansers like in food contests and
things. They'll chew on coffee grounds to like a clean palate. That would do it.
So that because I never thought of this, you're you're eating one food and then okay,
I'm going to sample this food. Well, that's second food you're trying. You might be
tasting from the first one and all that. I don't know. There's a lot of
interesting stuff to that fascinating. It's one of those things so I'm sorry, go ahead.
Now, snow cream is a completely different dessert and has nothing to do with maple syrup
and everything to do is snow. The history of snow or ice being used as a dessert can be
traced back to at least 4,000 BC. According to history.com, nobles among the Euphrates River built
ice houses. That's right. In the Middle East, to take the edge off the Mesopotamian summer heat,
snow was sold in the streets of Athens in the 5th century BC, likely used to cool wine,
and the Roman Emperor Nero enjoyed iced refreshments laced with honey.
In China, sources say from the Tang Dynasty describe a sweet drink made from iced
capora laced a water buffalo milk. Oh, that's camphor. I had a hard time imagining a dessert that
tastes like camphor. You know, that's the ingredients that makes a vix vapor rub smell the way it does,
right? Oh, wow. No, I didn't know that. Yeah. So, but apparently edible camphor is an important part
of India's culinary culture as well. It says on food-quests.com. The addition of camphor is said to
enhance the flavors and sweetness of traditional desserts, usually made with like cardamom and
clove, and that so they're they're all very strong flavors. Yes, they are. Yes, they are.
You need to enhance it, but you know, yeah, I, uh, it's not enough. I need more flavor. I have to admit,
I don't know a ton of, uh, I, I couldn't name Mala, but when I look at my mom's spice rack,
I don't remember seeing camphor up there. No, no, no, no. Well, you probably wouldn't. It actually
can be toxic. Yeah. Um, in, in too strong. Usually, you can only buy camphor as a percentage.
Wow. Interesting. And, and you'll notice in things like Vicks Vapor Rub, it's a very small
percent. That's in there, but it's really strong. Very. Wow. Okay. I didn't know that. It's
surprising. I had to pull some things off of the market for a while, uh, because the children were
being, were being poisoned by things with too much camphor in them. She didn't know that. Didn't
hadn't heard that one. Yes. And then in other parts of the world, people eat it. So I know. Yeah,
right. Right. But it takes all kinds. Yeah. Yeah. Well, now the first European ice cream
is in and sure bets. I've always said that wrong. Sure bets. Sure bets. I thought it was
sherbert. I know. But there's no art. But there's no art. Yeah. I know. I know. But they were likely made
during the early 1600s in Italy and the knowledge of how to make ice cream cross the Atlantic with
the European colonists. It was served at the White House during Thomas Jefferson's presidency.
And Jefferson liked it so much. He included at least 10 recipes in his writings. Wow.
But snow cream is different from ice cream. It doesn't involve the exothermic chemical reaction
caused by mixing salt with ice to lower the freezing point. Ah, because the snow is already frozen.
Correct. The basic recipe really only calls for foreign ingredients. A form of milk, sweetener,
vanilla, and of course, snow. Some recipes also call for a pinch of sea salt to bring out the flavor
of the vanilla, but that is optional. It looks fairly simple to make, but it's snow really safe to eat.
It's important to avoid the yellow snow molasses. Obviously.
Snow acts as an atmospheric cleaner. The lattice structures of snowflakes catch pollutants and
carry them to the ground. According to an article on npr.org, you should wait a few hours into a
snowfall before you gather snow to eat. But even if you don't wait, contaminants in the snow
are all at levels well below toxic. You also shouldn't eat snow that's just been plowed.
What? You don't want a little sand or magnesium for it, but there's snow keys.
I don't need my snow pre-salted, thank you.
All right. Well, now that we know how to collect our snow, how do we make snow cream?
It's very simple. You need one cup of milk, a third cup of granulated white sugar, a teaspoon of
vanilla extract, your optional pinch of salt, and eight cups of clean snow. You can also use
shaved ice if you're nervous about the snow or live in a heavily trafficked area.
Mm-hmm. Or if you want to string the summertime.
Oh, true. Yes, exactly. You may like it so much.
So are you using any kind of milk? That is awesome.
You probably also want to wait to bring your snow in until you have everything ready. I know
snow melts pretty quickly indoors. Good points. Not to be an expert here. No, I show my experts that.
Anyone who lives in Wisconsin, yes. Simply mix all of your ingredients except the snow in a large
bowl. Then add in your snow and stir until you've reached the desired consistency.
It should be fluffy, not runny, so you may need to add more snow.
Then serve it right away before it melts. You can also add sprinkles or any other toppings you'd
like. Chocolate chips, crumbled Oreos, nuts, cherries, or even chocolate sauce. I'm going to go find
some right now. But if you mix cocoa powder and the milk, you could make the chocolate snow cream.
Absolutely. Your imagination is the limit, but you have to eat it quickly.
Well, with all the snow we've gotten over the past several days, it's the perfect time to try one
or both of these streets. I did end up trying the snow cream yesterday, but I made my own recipe,
because you guys know I don't really follow recipes for suggestions, right?
Yeah, it's a wrap. So wrap.
I mixed some maple syrup with coconut milk and a pinch of salt before I added my snow.
It was, I was surprised at how delicious it was. It was light and fluffy. But if you're going to
make this, I would recommend using a larger bowl than you think you'll need and mixing it over the
sink. I almost made a mess on the kitchen table. Almost. You're not trying hard enough. This
does seem like a fun activity for kids and parents too. Oh, yeah. Especially the collecting the
snow party. Yeah. Go kick kids. Go out there. I don't want to go out there. You go out there and
get that snow. Yeah, right. It was cold. And I wasn't sure what to, like I took a container out
there with me. I'm like, well, but I don't want to pick it up with my mittens. What do I? Yeah.
So I took like a tupperware lid with me and you scooped it. Yeah, all right. Yeah, there you go.
Shuffle and shoveled it into my bowl. If you have an ice scoop, that would work too, I think.
Yeah, clean ice scoop. Yeah. I would, I think that it's pretty safe to say, though, I will not
assume that the majority of us have eaten snow before in our life. Oh, yes. And chances are you
did this when you were under the age of 10 or just above that, you know, so somewhere around
there and everything. Or, you know, last week. Right. We're stuck on an icicle. Yes. Yes.
We've all done that. And done it as adults too. Look at the others about that too.
But we do that. And we, especially when we're kids, we're not exactly as yellow. Okay, it's not.
And then we go, we don't put a whole lot of thought into this or anything. No.
After reading this from Melissa, one of the things I did was I, okay, let me think about this
if I was to actually go out and do this. And I've never looked at snow and been picky.
You know, I never thought of that before. It's an interesting like concept or just thing to
thrive. Snow doesn't look very good, but this snow over here now that looks good. Yeah. Right.
Well, you do have to choose carefully, especially on like these windy days because one of the things
I read about in when you're looking at collecting your snow on that NPR article,
it said if you live in a really windy area or, let's say like me, you live in the middle of
farmland. And maybe they spread manure today. And then it snows in the windwips up. That's not
the time to collect snow. Not appetizing. No. No. No. That is. It's really dusty or yeah. So you
could, you do need to be a little picky about your snow. Yeah. It's a good point. And I have to
have to be completely honest. I was like, okay, do I really want to eat this? I mean, it looks clean.
But there's a couple little spots from, you know, like stuff from the trees or bark or whatever.
Like, but I did. I did it. Good on you, Melissa. She plowed ahead with it.
On that note, I think we'll close the kitchen. Thank you for joining us today for another segment
of the kitchen's open. We'll be back next Monday with another edition. Oh, that was great. That was
nice work, Melissa. Nice. Yeah. You just like it because we talked about maple syrup. Yeah,
absolutely right. That too. It's also very well written. Nice work. Nice work. We're always,
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Be a part of the segment. Be a part of the team. Doesn't have to be food related. Although, I mean,
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Morning show. Morning show. We're playing midnight hour. It's better than summer song.
It is. It is. It's going. It's confused. Well, I love this song, though. Great song.
Great song. Awesome. Dive into a little bit of entertainment news right now. And kicking off on
a solemn note, we wish the best to the friends, the family of Joyce Randolph, who passed away
yesterday. Joyce Randolph was the last of the original cast of the Honeymooners.
Amazing. A wonderful actress. She was also in the Jackie Gleason show. Everything's Jake,
a lot of people remember her from as well. The doctor and the nurses had a nice TV career.
She did. A nice career, period. The Honeymooners certainly, one of those shows that I don't believe
has aged well in certain ways like nothing does. Nothing really ages the best or anything.
But I go back and I watch episodes all the time. And in part because of I think some of the best
if not the best chemistry I've ever seen in TV is all for those actors. It's amazing. It is
just incredible when you watch. Just watch one or two scenes with all the actors. And how seamless.
There is no dropping. There is no breath between lines. It is a conversation. It flows so well.
And all four of them were incredible. All four of them well. The ladies on the show got a second
billing oftentimes and didn't get the dude that they deserve. I feel like it is up to us as
creatives as actors to give note to them when we can. And Joyce was amazing.
Art Carney also didn't get the decreed he deserved. Oh, never, never. He was an amazing actor.
Yeah. Yeah. But this isn't to take anything away from Jackie Gleason who was one of the greatest
of all time. Jackie Gleason performed the first episode of the Jackie Gleason show with a broken
leg for God's sake and did the whole show. He was he was called. He was given the nickname
the Great One by Orson Wells. Yeah. So that's telling you something. I respect that Jackie Gleason was.
I'm going to go back and watch some old honeymooners. I think sometimes this week when I get a chance.
TV spin-offs are getting more and more common because it's easy. You know, it's be honest.
Hey, we have a hit. Cheers is a gigantic hit. Well, we could come up with other hits or we could
just pull one of the characters, put them in a different setting and boom, there we go. All in
the family is a huge hit. We could make a new show or we could take these fun characters from it,
send them up town and we'll turn them into de Jefferson's. I mean, it's been going on since
the dawn of TV. Yes, it is. It's been a little bit happening a little bit more recently because
everything is costing more and more to make. Everything is costing more and more to do.
Advertisers are asking for more or advertisers are being asked to spend more and more dollars.
So with that, you want to take less risks. I want to have more surety with my risk.
And there is no assuring what's a hit? How do you design a hit? How do you make a hit TV show?
It's never been figured out. Yeah, a Norman Lear couldn't have told you that. Let alone anybody else.
So, well, okay, at least I know this shows popular. I'm going to pull off a character from that.
One of the biggest shows of the last 15 years is the Big Bang Theory. They pull a spin off of that
and turn it into Young Sheldon. A show my father watches more than I know anybody else that does.
Well, my dad loves that show. CBS is hoping that there can do with this again.
So the Young Sheldon is ending. They already have a spin off there and they're going to have
another spin off of Young Sheldon. So a spin off of the spin off.
Does Chuck Laurie just want all the money? Yes. Do you want every single dollar that's left?
I swear to God. The new show is going to be called Slightly Older, but not quite as old as he was
on the Big Bang Theory Sheldon. No, it's not. It's not going to be that long. It's really long.
I like that title. I do like that. There isn't a title yet and it's not even about Sheldon.
The main characters will be Sheldon's brother, Georgia and his fiancee Mandy played by
Montana Jordan and Emmett Osmond. Emily Osmond. It's being considered for the 24-25 season.
There's already another Big Bang Theory spin off in the works with mostly new cast,
but the guest appearances from the stars of the original series are certainly going to happen.
Okay. Good luck. I don't know. It may work.
They tried this with that 70s show and that 80s show and that didn't do very well.
No. I'm pretty bad. But then again, I gave you a couple of examples of ones that work too.
It still is. Either way. I mean, maybe there's a little less risk, but you don't know if
people are going to respond to it. I honestly didn't believe Young Sheldon was going to work.
I did either. It did. Yeah. Worked just fine. We only seen snippets of Young Sheldon, but
yeah, not my thing. Me neither. No. I believe that that's the reason my dad watches it.
I've asked him before. There is nothing else on it. It feels like they're trying too hard.
Yeah. That's part of it, I think. I know it costs a lot of money and it's not my money,
but I believe that this goes back to what we were saying before. You don't have to dumb things
down for us. You don't have to. You don't need to go to the low-hanging fruit and everything.
I know it costs money. I know it involves risks. So did taking a chance on a TV show about a bar
and bar flies and cheers worked out pretty good. A show about nothing that worked out pretty good
for Seinfeld. Like a show with some weirdly shaped yellow people. Yes. Yes. That is the most
successful show ever. I mean, there's billions of examples in TV history of taking chances
and those chances working out. I granted Coprock also existed. I mean, that's also, you know,
they tried that too and that didn't work, but I miss minimal. I miss minimal.
It's I think it's I think you're better at the risk reward. The ceiling is so high on these things.
I think it's better to take these chances. Personally, I agree. I agree. I think it would be
better. And speaking of taking chances, one of the things that I'm very excited about with
Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater going forward is their new director over there and Gretchen
powers. Gretchen not only grew up in this area, but grew up in WRCT and and gets theater, understands
theater and also understands the audience. And I think one of the things that I appreciate about
that is that she understands that she doesn't know everything. And you know, sometimes she wants
she needs to listen to the community, listen to the audience. And one of the ways of doing that is
is giving your director's freedom, giving your director's the ability to, hey, I want to try this.
The Glass-Managerie has been done since the, you know, it was it from the early 40s. Yeah, I was
going to say I was going to say 40s, but I wasn't confident about that. It's been around a long time.
Yeah. And it is a magnificent play. It is one of our well more well written plays. But with these,
it's new audiences are getting to get new people to them. Sometimes you want to try things a little
differently. And with this current production, our winter production of Wisconsin Rapids Community
Theatre is a Glass-Managerie. This is some of your intent, correct Seth? Yes, yes. And there's one
thing, you know, we love to redo the old plays, the famous ones and like that because
they're, first of all, they're tried and true. We know that, right? They're very well written.
Just like you said, James, it's one of the, anything Tennessee Williams wrote was was magnificent,
you know, as he was just such a good writer. But at the same time, we've seen these before. We know
the stories. So how can we present them in a different way? You know, maybe make them
spice them up a little bit. We don't have to worry about the words. The words are fine. How do we
present it? So it looks a little bit different. And one of the really cool things about this play
in particular is that you read the first page of the script and it's the notes and it says,
hey, this is a play where you can do whatever you want. Basically, you're given carte blanche
to do how you stage it, how you want exactly. People in theater don't know certain playwrights
were very specific. They wanted all their stage directions to be followed to the letter. They
wanted all of the things, you know, all that way. But this is, as it said, it's a memory play.
So we know our memories are great. Things get pushed together and foggy and we don't know
that kind of thing. So it gives a director or directors a leeway to kind of experiment,
to do different things with it, keeping the great scriptins in there, but finding different ways
to present it. And that's kind of the woman who did it that I was a part of. That's what she wanted
to do. And that's why I wanted to do something very similar is just presented in a new and different
way, which I mean, it's it's already, you know, there's some technical challenges that are
going to be coming up with this, but I have no doubt we'll be able to figure everything out
that we need to in order to present this in a way that I think people will enjoy. And when you
have actors like, well, Melissa Kay, who is, who is so fabulous, you know it's going to turn out
just just great. Right. The team over there have already started rehearsals. How are those going,
Melissa? They're going really well. We worked on blocking a lot last week, obviously. We're not
quite through that yet, but it's fun to work with. We have a, well, compared to me, the rest of
the cast is very young. Well, you are the mom. So, you know, this is very true. And then we've got
some new actors to our stage, which is always exciting. And we've only had a few rehearsals,
but already there seems to be a chemistry between us. And we've had really good interactions
so far. So I'm excited to see as the progression goes. And as we develop our characters, it's a lot
of fun. I agree with what Melissa said already, you're seeing the cast. And you know, it's a smaller
cast. And so it's kind of easier to do that sometimes. But at the same time. There's only four of us.
Exactly. So it's going to be fun. The journey for me, if you've ever been involved in a play,
that to me is the most fascinating thing. You know, of course, the final product is very important
because that's what everyone else gets to see. But when you're involved in the process, to me,
that's just, that's part of the fun. That's part of the, and to be fair, that's part of the,
you know, the tension as well, because you don't know, this is everything going to turn out. But
just living in the tension is also part of theater, which I love. And that's one of the reasons
why I wanted to do it. And I think that the vision that Seth has and that Beth is, is helping with
as well, is really going to bring these characters to life for our audience in a way that they've
never experienced before more than likely. Yeah, I hope so. Thanks for letting us look behind the
curtain, you guys will continue to do that as we build up to the play and encourage you to get
your tickets for the Glassman Ashery and the Golden Age Radio, the Silver Fox's next production
coming up in February. Nice. Get those and find out more about your local theater, support local
theater at wrc theater dot org wrc theater dot org. Nice. Quick glance at what's new on your
TV tonight. NFL wild car game. They got moved to Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers. They
move that tonight. Then it'll start about three 30-ish. So kind of an afternoon Monday game.
Monday night game 715 on ABC Tampa Bay vs. Philly. The 75th prime time Emmy Awards on tonight at
seven on Fox. Usually you don't go up against football. I'm a little surprised. I'm kind of
programming. Wow. Yeah. America's got talent fantasy league on seven on NBC and
Bar McGadden is new with Bill Engel vs. AJ McCarran. It should be an interesting one as well.
And it is a Monday. You know what that means everybody? What the Muppet? It's an opening
Monday. That meant depression. Okay. No. This is depression fighting stuff. Yes. Yes.
Counter that I know. Counter that the blue Monday with the Ladies and Muppets episode of
What the Muppet. Our 25th episode. Be sure to check that out. We had some breaking news in
there as well. 25 episodes. Yeah. That's remarkable, man. I'm blown away by that. That's so cool.
We have been having such a blast doing this. And well, Bri and I, it's a chance for us to do
stuff together to work together and all of that and build memories together. We didn't expect to
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some more fun. Oh, we almost forgot. I have one less entertainment note. I apologize.
We have a concert at Rams tonight at the Rams Auditorium.
The sixth rate orchestra is going to be performing at six o'clock tonight. Be sure to check
that out and whenever you can take in any of our local schools having these concerts. Please
take them. Take them in. All right. Find out more by going to the public website. I'll get
that to you before we wrap up the show. We'll take a quick news break. Come back and have some more
fun on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Thanks so much for kicking off
your Monday with us everybody. We hope you're having a great start to your week. Stay in warm and
safe out there. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. I want us all to play a game together
right now. Okay. All right. One audience participation. 715-424-2600-424-2600. You wake up and it's
1924. What is your top priority? Oh, okay. So here's a hypothetical. If you woke up tomorrow in
the year 1924, what would be your top priority? A new poll asked that question and most people
picked two, one of two responses. Do you want to hear the responses or do you want to give yours first?
Oh, wow. Let's see. 1924. Not starving. That seemed like back then. It seemed like one of those
things. It was pretty important. There's nothing in this that says anything about you wake up and
you're, you know, you have this set of clothes or that set of clothes. When I first read this,
just being honest, my first instinct was covering myself up. I don't know why I thought I would
just wake up and be naked. I don't know why that popped in my head. I don't know what terminator.
My mind was, I need to get some fringe. Nice. It's a little clothing related. That's true.
Oh, that's good. Interesting. That's good.
Popped in your head first. My gosh. Okay. We'll keep this open to the audience. 715-424-2600.
44% of people said that their top priority would be finding their way back to 2024.
Well, 41% would use their, quote, modern knowledge and skills to get rich.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good luck. Good luck.
I don't know how well that would work out.
5% of people said that they'd try to find and meet their ancestors.
4% said that they'd be fine staying in 1924 and would just get a job and start a life.
And those were all men. Oh, good points.
If I could be real specific on that one, all white men.
The very different story, if I'm in 1924, I don't know if I'm sticking around.
I'm not sure. I love the idea of visiting your ancestors. I think this also
and to sci-fi nerds out there. And I'm one of them immediately. Well, there's a lot of
different laws when it comes to time travel. You can't meet yourself. You can't be in the same
room as yourself. Oh, then there's the other ones, though, where you can help yourself
pick yourself up and everything. Yeah, there's that. Just create the divergent timeline theory,
right? Right. I also, I love with this subject where there's some stuff that we believe is canon,
with a sci-fi subject with a subject that can't do that. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, you can't be
doing that. Well, I don't know much about the show Outlander, but apparently they've pushed
every envelope. They've if it can be done, they've done it with this time travel. I think the
best, one of the best all-time time travel stories was in Futurama. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's probably
what that's good. One of the best was fries. It's so great. It's so great.
Yeah, I don't know. This happens to me, like I said, the first thing in the clothing. Once I
realized I have clothing on, I would want to, I would want to blend in as quick as possible.
I do not want to be standing out. I do not want to be one of those. To me, that's where
you, all of a sudden, they throw you in a lap and they start dissecting you and stuff and all
that. I mean, how did this person time travel? A lot of questions. It's going to be a lot of
questions. You're lucky on National Hat Day that you, hats were big. So you could just cover up
your hair. Yeah, they're good. There we go. There we go. You're hat. You're good. Yeah.
Find some clothes that fit it with the regular tonals. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so I don't know. I think it's an interesting question, though. Tracking down your ancestors
sounds like one of the more interesting things, too. To get to like know what they're, I mean,
that could actually be a double-edged sword. Yeah. You need to know what your ancestors were like.
What if they're like just really crabby, you know? Just like meeting celebrities and they do have
to be. Yeah. Yeah. They always say, be careful. You don't, you know? Yeah, exactly,
they're like, be to heroes. So if your hero happens to be, you know, what are your ancestors?
Be careful. That is fascinating. That's an interesting top. I also don't know where this is really
coming from. Nobody, nobody knows where this started or why it started. They just kind of got
running on social media and just people just ran with it, but. Huh. Interesting. Fascinating.
We will go ahead and get into, well, let's take a time out. We'll take a time out. We'll come
back and we'll have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.
Well, come back everyone. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James here with you. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Got some good stories of the day
to get to some local good stuff we want to touch on. And we're going to celebrate Dr. King as well.
But we have to get to that ain't right story yet. And remember how annoying it was when a lot of
places started charging 10 cents for a paper bag. Well, meanwhile, this is what's happening in
rich people world. Louis Vuitton is now selling a quote sandwich bag for $3,130. Oh boy.
It's not actually a brown paper bag. It's just shaped like one. It's made of cow hide leather
and a blue fabric fastener, which resembles how a lunch bag may be taped shut. The bag was
designed by Ferrell, the musician. And there's also a matching shopping bag, which comes with
handles. There's no word on how much that one costs. The Louis Vuitton sandwich bag. If you are
interested, of course, you can find it at Louis Vuitton website. I'm pulling it up and looking
at it and it looks very uncomfortable and very awkward. Yes. I also, I do not understand fashion.
I really don't really really don't very, very confusing fashion is very confusing.
This is the definition of that a right story to me. I'm sorry. I'm not going to tell rich people
what to do with their money, but come on, man. I mean, if I see somebody walking around with one
of these, I am doing nothing but pointing and laughing. Dude, you know, I know you say, you say
that, but I'm going to say don't buy that. Okay. Seriously, why? Is that like the eat sandwiches?
They're not they're not bringing PB and J to their office every day. That's so good.
You don't know that for sure. Well, I possible. I think I'm going to risk it.
Just a little chance. Yeah. Oh, I like that. That's funny. Oh, that's good.
So you need a palette cleanser. You know what? Out of all the Louis Vuitton bags I've seen,
I kind of like this one the best. That I agree with that. I agree with you 100%
of the list. I can't believe that. Yeah. I love the the the brand of this of that of the bag
and the way it looks and just see somebody with one of those on the internet. It just seems so big
and awkward. I don't know. It's so weird. But I bet. So this was designed by rich people
and people that are kind of out of touch. It seems and everything. They don't know what a sandwich,
the size of a sandwich it looks like. They really it looks like they do not know how big is a sandwich.
Yeah, they get their crust cut off all the time, figure sandwiches. They don't know what a sandwich is.
Getting getting a little bit of a palette cleanser in here. Be sure to be sure to join us today.
I love the idea of you. Just the next five minutes. Just rambling about sandwiches.
Rich people and sandwiches. Playmakers today from three to four. Join Randy Paul and I
and as we get into local sports, touch on what went over on the weekend. I have a bet in my head
going. Will Mike McCarthy be fired before playmakers at three this afternoon? We will find out
with the burning question right now. That's coming up looking forward to it. Now we'll go over
our sports schedule as well. Set them one of the touch on a couple of local things going on. We
have a great blood drive happening tomorrow. Let's let people know. Yes. Indeed. Tomorrow is Tuesday,
January 16th and we have the next blood drive with the Community Blood Center. Now this is a group
that just recently merged with the blood center of North Central Wisconsin. So this is their new name,
the Community Blood Center, but it's going to be at the same old place everybody. Former East
Junior High School Room 111. That's 311 Lincoln Street. Enter off of Lincoln Street. Of course,
appointments are encouraged call 800-280-4102. That different number 800-280-4102. The Community Blood
Center as as before is the primary supplier of blood to the Aspires River View Hospital. 10 to
3 tomorrow. They'll also be having another one on Monday, the 22nd from 227 over at the former
East Junior High School Room 111. You heard about this in Melissa's news break. We're looking for
volunteers for the homeless point in time count with the United Way of Southwood and the Ames Counties.
This is coming up this semi-annual survey which seeks to gather a snapshot of homelessness
in every community on a single night. During the PIT count, volunteers canvass the Southwood
County area to record the number of people experiencing homelessness locally and offer resources
at that are available. The PIT count will begin at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, January 24th and wrap up
early in the early hours of Thursday. Volunteers will meet at North Central Community Action.
You can find out more about this and be a part of it by giving our friend Ben a call at 715-421-030-421-030 or
emailing Ben at UWSWAC.org. Ben at UWSWAC.org. I'm going to talk a little bit about ways to celebrate
Dr. King Day. One of the best ways you can do that is by volunteering is by helping out in your
community. Here is one of those ways. This is really neat. We started the show with Reagan on
a government being no fun kind of thing. This is a great example of how we can help veterans,
especially in Wisconsin. This is coming from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
They're doing valentines for Wisconsin Veterans homes this year. The Wisconsin Department of
Veterans Affairs is asking once again for caring individuals to send valentines day cards to our
veterans, living at the Wisconsin Veterans homes in Chippewa Falls, King, and Union Grove. Please
be sure to mail your valentines card to our veterans no later than January 31st so they may arrive
in time to be distributed to all of the homes on February 14th. We ask that you do not include
candy, food or snacks with these due to allergies of course and dietary restrictions. All you need
to do is send them to Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, attention, veterans, valentines,
PO Box 7843, Madison, Wisconsin, 537-07. This is a very, very cool event. And they had last year,
they got 24,000 valentines they were able to distribute. I say let's try to make that even better
this year. It only takes a few minutes to send on a fun valentines card. I think most people
could do this. It's a fun activity especially with these cold days maybe you and the kids indoors
and stuff maybe you and the kids do this. There's an idea. There's a fun way to do something for
and a great way to also teach your kids of not you know not only respecting our soldiers our
veterans but giving back. Absolutely. And honoring the service and it's homemade cards are fun.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. They're the best. They are the best. Yes. One more time the Rams Auditorium is
going to be full tonight. Sixth grade orchestra going on. Sixth grade orchestra concert is going to
be a six o'clock tonight over at Rams Auditorium. If you are unable to make it at which we really,
really encourage you to be there in person if you can. If you're not able to though the Rams
Sixth grade orchestra concert will be online go to WRPS.org WRPS.org. It's right there in the
upcoming events section. A big shout out to our Wisconsin Travis public schools. Yeah.
They've got so many cool things going on and they do so many of these awesome things where
hey, I'm a grandma and grandpa that maybe are out of town and can't make it or something.
Here you go. You can still see the grandkids here. You just watch them online or something.
They have it online. Yeah. That is so cool. Watch it. It is really great. Yeah. It's just fantastic.
A shout out to them. Go ahead and support these kids and take in a great show everybody.
Getting these six great orchestra Rams concert tonight at six over at the Rams Auditorium.
Unless you have rehearsal with me. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. That'll work. That'll get to work.
It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and while we, you know, could have taken the day off like let many
people do, I use this day as an opportunity for us to talk about Dr. King, talk about his message
and to promote that. And we are a service industry. So I believe us in radio, we belong here.
This is what we should be doing today is talking about the man doing our job and all the above.
Martin Luther King Jr. was named after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther.
I believe most people might know that, but those that don't. Right.
Cost me a lot of confusion when I was a kid though. I imagine that.
Wait, it's two different people. Oh, okay.
King entered college when he was just 15 years old.
Wow. He skipped two grades and entered college at the age of 15.
He was admitted to Morehouse College in 1944 and graduated in 48 with a BA in sociology.
At the age of 19, Morehouse president Dr. Benjamin E. Mays became an inspirational figure to
King. I believe marched with King as well. He was a, he was a prodigy. I didn't know that.
Oh, that's amazing. King was arrested 29 times, ranging from civil disobedience to traffic
violations, harassment. A lot of it was harassment. Yeah. Right.
Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. One of King's speeches from
the letters of Birmingham, from letters from Birmingham, jail, which by the way is amazing.
Those are amazing to read. By the way, that's a good day to get.
That's really kind of where he forms a lot of his ideas and it's really cool.
So I would recommend reading those. There are so many fascinating and beautiful things that
you can learn about this man and ways to celebrate him. And there are quite a few different ways
that they are recommending as far as different websites, different things that you can do.
You can learn from King's legacy going over his notes, going over his speeches.
And even looking at the teachings, but the philosophies of Dr. King. And of course,
his wife, Coretta Scott King, who did amazing work as well, especially after his passing.
Yes, exactly. Continuing his message. I have to say, I experienced something really cool
when last year, when my family and I were traveling, we went to Memphis. And my sister and her family
were able to go, my family was not. We weren't able to get into it. But they have their
the Lorraine Motel, where King was assassinated. And it's been turned. The whole hotel has been
turned into an museum. It was just a normal, like Saturday, whatever in the middle of the summer,
the line to go in was so long. Of people of every color, every stripe, you name it. People
wanted to go in and see it. Talking to my sister after she was done and her whole family,
it was it was an experience. I mean, it was so moving. It was because you learned not
any to learn stuff about that. But what happened, of course, the tragedy that happened there. But
the fact that they've preserved it and now they have that you can learn more by going there,
it's remarkable. It's a great experience. Can hear it in your voice. Yeah. Yeah.
They recommend being a part of history. If you're looking for something to do from home,
help rewrite history, the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress are both looking for
volunteers to digitally transcribe historical documents. Man, that seems like a cool gig, actually.
I'd do that. Wow. You can fund those on the front lines. The Equal Justice Initiative works to
end mass incarceration and excessive punishment and racial inequality. Very important.
The National Urban League is also another wonderful organization that you can help out with.
I encourage people locally to call 211 and reach out to our United Way, find different ways that
you can be the good, put good into your community. That is what this is all about. It isn't just
us being able to work together and live together, different creeds, different races,
different religions and everything. It's what is the world we are creating for our children?
This is a big part of his message and I think it's lost. Yes. I agree. I agree.
This life isn't about you. It's about the next generation and the generation after that
and focusing on that and what we can do while we're here to make it better for them.
I would like to wrap up with my favorite Dr. King quote. The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. Well said. We're going to get out of here but enjoy the day everybody and thank you
so much to the best of the listeners and radio for joining us and the best team in radio. Thank
you guys. I appreciate a good show. Good day. Thank you James. Bye everybody. Be good to
each other. Have a great day everyone and we'll talk to you soon and later right here at Opam. You
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