Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I'm joined by
your head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And Beth Havager. Good morning. We're here
to have some fun. Everybody, we got good things lined up for you. Gonna get some entertainment
news in a little bit. Looking forward to that, that's gonna be fun. Also, touch on some
local good stories of the day. Some of that ain't right stories. All of that coming up
for you. But it is a Monday. You know what that means. Hello and welcome to the Kitchens
Open on WFHR. We have an extra special episode for you today because Beth Havager is on the
show. Yeah. So good to have you back Beth. It is great to be here. And since Beth is
here, we can talk about obscure cooking terms that James doesn't understand. That is
a great idea. What do you mean? I know food terms. Hey, wait a minute. I'll bet you guys
don't know the actual Italian definition of Eldonte without looking it up. Actually, you're
right about that. I don't. I do know it means that the pasta is a little bit firmer than
what most Americans typically like. In Italian, Eldonte means to the tooth, or as
Manano would say, to the bone, which refers to pasta being cooked to the right level of
resistance, when chewed. So there's more than one level of resistance. Yeah. Yeah.
Teach as my Donna would say, everybody likes to differ. Everybody likes to differ.
So, but Eldonte is for everybody. And I don't usually like bite it to see, sometimes
I do, but other times I'll just, you know, like, break it. Are we supposed to throw it
up against the wall? Yeah. Throw it against the wall. That's what my, my Nana would always
let one of one of the grandkids take us take a noodle and throw it on the wall and see
if it's stuck. I remember getting a couple for that. If it sticks, yes, it's supposed
to be Eldonte. Okay. Yes. Well, there you go. All right. Well, we'll have to let you
have that one, James. But before we dive into our weird and sometimes wacky cooking terms,
we have to talk about canning. Or should we say jarring? It could be jarring if the pressure
cooker is an adequately vented and blows up. Or if you don't protect yourself when you
do a quick or cold water release, that's true. It's probably a good idea to make sure
your release valve is clean. Sometimes you have to use a toothpick. What are you guys
talking about? I am so lost right now. Food preservation. The method of processing food
and sealing it in an air tank container so that you can store it on the shelf. Oh, so
like peace. My mom never canned peas. They're too labor intensive to process by hand.
So grief. Yes. That is what we're talking about. But then I were chatting last week and
both of us questioned why it was called canning when you preserve food and jars.
Naturally, this is part of the topic this week. Absolutely. But the method of preserving food
in large amounts began in the early 1800s in France. The government offered a cash
reward to any inventor who could find a way to preserve military rations for the brand
Armee. The prize was awarded to Nicholas Apart, a parrot in 1810 after he developed a method
of sealing food and glass jars. They didn't know why the food didn't spoil, only that if the
seals didn't leak, the food stayed relatively fresh. Yeah, it wasn't until 50 years later that
Louis Pasteur discovered the role of microbes in spoiling food and developed pasteurization.
And then the 10 can came into use shortly after that in 1811. But the canning process was slow
and labor intensive. Cans were made of tinned, rot ironed by hand and they took up to six hours to
cook. This made canned foods too expensive for ordinary people. The main market was the British
Army in Royal Navy. By 1817, the developer recorded he had sold 3,000 pounds worth of canned meat
in six months. That's over 322,000 pounds today or over 409,000 US dollars at today's exchange rate.
Wow, that's a lot. canned food became a status symbol and a bit of a frivolous novelty for
middle-class households in Europe during the mid 1800s. It's probably a good thing canned food
wasn't widely consumed as early methods of manufacturer used poisonous lead solder for sealing
the cans. But by the 1860s, inventions and improvements to the canning process used smaller
machine-made steel cans and reduced the cook time from six hours to 30 minutes. This brought the
price down significantly. Of course, the Americans won't let me left behind. The first canning factory
in New York City began producing canned goods in 1812 using improved tin-plated rot iron cans
for preserving oysters, meats, fruits and vegetables. The demand for canned goods increased greatly
because of the wars that happened during the 19th century and after those wars ended,
companies sold canned foods to working class city dwellers. So the world when World War I came
and this was and this is when the quality of canned foods really got better and the variety
greatly increased. By 1916, soldiers were complaining about the poor quality of the canned foods
that they had to eat. Think bully beef, pork and beans and canned sausages.
All right, just between us, what's bully beef? It's the British version of
tend corn beef in a can, shaped much like the spam can. That would be a very boring diet.
A lot of nutrients and protein and stuff packed into that, but that's boring.
Yeah, but who wants to eat congealed food all the time? Right. And probably sometimes cold.
Yeah. It's interesting that to think of, you would think that, okay, food is important,
so we're going to make our packaging work around our food. But it seems more like in the early days
of getting this stuff around. It was like, okay, this is how we package stuff,
figure out how you fit food in there. Right. You figure it out, everybody. I mean,
working out yourselves or something. It's interesting how that process developed.
Yeah. Yeah, because they didn't actually have can openers. Yeah. Yeah.
They use their bayonet swords to open up the cans or they smashed it with a rock. I mean,
whatever was nearby. Imagine doing that to modern day people. Yeah, you just open
that can with a rock. Go ahead and find a rock. Go do that. And then how much do you
damage the food that you're trying to get to? Yeah. Right. And the rocks are probably not,
you know, the cleanest. No field. No. No. Well, the widespread dissatisfaction and increasing
complaints about the food rations resulted in militaries in Britain, France, and Italy to seek
better quality food to improve morale. Soon the French army, French army were eating beef
burgundy, French onion soup, and vigisois. And the Italian army experimented with canned ravioli,
spaghetti boulonnaise, and pasta y frisoli. After the war, companies began to sell these upgraded
canned foods to all citizens. That's very interesting. Fascinating, really. So this history of
storing food in cans is why it's called canning today, even though the first person who did it
stored the food in glass jars and most home preserves, preserves use glass jars today.
This is clear as mud. Well, the reason for it is the original containers they used were called
canisters, which was later shortened to cans. So can't we go back to the jarring though if we're
putting them in jars? Yeah. Yeah. We call it jarring. Can we make some more sense to me?
I love the idea of people trying to get that term like going though and using the word jarring
and people not understanding why they're saying something is jarring. Wait, wait a minute. That's
not, how I real good thing is jarring. I was going to say it's a whole new understanding to the
word that experience was jarring. Yes, yes. Well, we just got done doing some canning. That was
really jarring. Yeah, absolutely. It really was. And more ways than one. There's actually several
terms used to describe this home canning method other than canning or jarring. It's also known as
putting up or processing and also bottling, which is kind of more common, I guess, in the UK.
But speaking of obscure cooking terms, let's go through some of the
weirder ones to close out our segment today. Right. Like Barty. Oh, are we singing to our food now?
If you'd like. But this is a method of covering meat and cooking it in fats like bacon
to keep the meat moist and infuse it with some flavor. Think bacon covered chicken breasts or
tenderloin medallions. That does sound really good. Whenever you cover food in bacon, it's usually
better. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it's a good rule of thumb right there. I also like the idea
of singing to your food. I do think that that's something I do like that. No. Okay, how about
coddle? We can't hurt the poor food's feelings. We must coddle it or it'll break down and cry.
We don't want emotionally disturbed food. You don't want to eat that. Well, you're not far
off, James. Coddling food means cooking it very gently in water just below the boiling point.
So think poached eggs. Yeah. And then dusting food is a great way to incorporate subtle flavors.
I don't think it's a good idea to leave your food out so long that it collects dust,
Beth. I don't think you're doing it right. James, it means to lightly coat the food with a
powdery ingredient or perhaps lightly coat your work surface with flour. I knew that. I was just
teasing you. What about a stripper or a reamer? Whoa, whoa, Melissa, this is a PG show here. Let's
take it easy, drop it down a notch there. James, a reamer is a tool used to remove juice from citrus
fruits and a stripper is a tool designed to remove the outer covering of fruits and vegetables.
Maybe you call it a peeler. Of course. Yeah. I knew that would do. Yeah.
Did you know there were there are two types of grunts and cooking? The type, it's a type of fish.
So you can catch a grunt and cook it. And it can also be a type of fruit cobbler or pie.
As opposed to the person who gets ordered around the kitchen to do all the worst job.
Or the sound you make when you have to eat something you really don't like.
Yeah. Yeah. Where at my age when you're trying to stand up? Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. The Homer's noisy makes is considered a grunt. So don't, don't.
So it's what you say when you make all those mistakes in the kitchen. Yeah, exactly.
Well, it's time to truss up this hot pot of a segment so James can nap. So we're trying up,
tying up the kitchen to throw in it, throw it in with whatever veggies we have to make a stew.
And James is covering his bacon double cheeseburger with a thin layer of hollandaise sauce.
Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. Okay.
What, you know, I might actually, I can't believe I stole Melissa's line there.
I might actually try that. I'm not going to nap my burger. I might, but I might dip it. I might try
that. That's very adventurous of you, James. Actually, hollanda, I know, on a hamburger or
bacon double cheeseburger. Sounds kind of good. Yeah.
Doesn't sound so bad. Yeah. Actually, it doesn't sound bad.
Yeah. Well, thank you for joining us for another special segment of the kitchen's open.
It was fun having you here today, Beth. It was great to be here.
Yes. Yes. Ms. Tammy, you're out. Ms. Bean with you guys.
You're going to have to have you back a lot sooner. We're going to have to have you back very soon.
Well, and for our listeners, you can join us next week for another segment during the
9 o'clock hour on Monday. We're still looking for a sponsor for this segment, everybody.
That's right. I would love to showcase your business during the spot and see what we can
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And with that, we'll close the kitchen. Another great episode. Not a great episode. Well done,
Melissa. Very dead man. A nice work, Beth. Nice work on that one. It's been a while.
Good to be back. It's fun. Be on look out for another kitchen's open segment.
Next Monday, right in this time slot is how we start our Mondays and the 9 o'clock hour.
We'll come back and have some fun with some entertainment on the morning show here at WFHR.
Tell me something good.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Beth, Melissa, and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one out there.
Everybody, thanks so much for joining us. And thank you, Melissa, for another amazing
kitchen's open segment. Great way to kick off the 9 o'clock hour. We always start things
right in the 9 o'clock on a Monday. Diving into some entertainment news. Now,
Polly Shore played his short movie about Richard Simmons at the Sundance Film Festival.
It's called the Court Jester. It's about 10 minutes long. Now, that is noteworthy in its own
sense. This isn't something that you hear at Sundance very often. So the fact that they even played
this gives some legitimacy to it. Regardless of some of the other things that have been attached to it.
During the introduction, Polly said that Richard actually texted him and wished him good luck with it.
Of course, last week, Richard said he did not support Polly making a full-length biopic about him.
In a separate interview, Polly said all of this is coming from a place of love.
Quote, we don't want to bug him. We want him to be left alone and we don't want him to bug him.
We want to pay him homage to him and kiss his feet and say he's done a beautiful stuff.
If you want to see Polly, what Polly will do as Richard, the Court Jester is now on YouTube.
You can catch it right there and see this. There's no word and if it's going to be extended
into a longer film or anything like that. It is something noteworthy because most people,
when they've seen this story, they've just seen the headlines and the majority of people think it's
like a funnier die sketch or something like that. It's not an actual real thing, but if you watch
it, I did. Polly Shores Acton is tail off in this. He's trying, at least. Whether you believe it
or not, whether you believe that he's really working hard or not, that's to each their own.
To me, I've seen Polly Shores act my whole life. We've all seen him in movies and stuff.
I've never seen him do this. I feel like I've actually never seen Polly Shores act.
I've seen Polly Shores play a caricature of Polly Shores in movies. I've seen that, but I've
never seen Polly Shores actually acting. I feel like I just did in that biopic that if you want to
call it that or whatever. If you're a fan of Polly Shores, if you're a fan of Richard Simmons,
I think it might be interesting to you. I will say a legitimate Richard Simmons biopic
isn't a magnificent idea. Magnificent idea. I think that that's something that easily could be made,
but I also think that that's something that if it happens and I don't want this to sound morbid,
if it happens, it'll probably happen after Richard passes away. Unfortunately, yeah. It doesn't
seem like something he wants. I think that you should respect his wishes on that. But then again,
you think of our generation and what we knew growing up about exercise. He comes to the forefront.
Between him and Jane Vonda, those are the two people that you think about when you think about
the exercise movement of the 1980s and into the 90s. Right. In all the videos.
Just as a side question, are you guys, I know the world readers and growing up, I went through a
stretch where I just read biography after biography. I don't like reading bios when it is obviously
able to be. When the person that the bio is on, it doesn't have anything to do with it.
I've gotten into debates with my mom about this where she said before that oftentimes,
if the person is not involved, then oftentimes she feels that you're getting a true telling of
that person. You don't have their influence on it. You watch the last dance with Michael Jordan
and his production team produce that. So it's kind of leans pretty heavy in Michael's favor.
And you don't see some of the negative stuff about Michael. That kind of thing. Whereas to me,
I don't care about that. I mean, I do and I don't. If somebody is telling their story,
I want to hear it from their perspective. I'm going to make my own assumptions,
their thoughts or feelings about these other things. And I'll look into stuff and finally,
well, that doesn't seem to add up. I want to know what other people felt about that.
And I'll look it up myself or whatever. If anything, it just leads me down to other rabbit holes.
But I like bios. I just like them when they're when the actual person it's on has something
to do with it. They're involved in it. Do you guys feel that way? Or do you care if you read
bios? Go ahead, Melissa. I was just going to say it adds legitimacy to it. I think if the person
is involved. Well, and even if they're not involved in the writing of it to just authorize and say,
yeah, go ahead and look into me. Because to me, the difference between a biography and an autobiography
is how involved the person is. An autobiography is completely from their own perspective. This is how
I experience things. Whereas a biography is somebody else looking at that life, doing the research,
finding what the events were and being able to tell those stories in that way. It's interesting.
We have a follow-up to a story from years ago, actually. So the man who stole Dorothy's ruby
slippers from the Wizard of Oz, it's finally revealed why he did it. Okay. He looks really good in
them. No, I'm joking. Does he get to go home every time he clicks his heels? Yes. He thought
that would work. It's so nice. The crook is a career criminal named Terry Martin. He lifted
the shoes from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005, but not because he knew anything about their cultural
significance. Terry had never seen the movie. A mob associate hired him to steal them so that they
could cash in on the rubies. He'd heard the shoes were insured for one million, so he assumed the
gems were real. They ate their glass. No, no one think about the acting world. They would never
use the shoes. No, no. After delivering the slippers to the guy who hired him, Terry
retired from a life of crime, but they were recovered in 2018, and Terry was charged with stealing them.
He'll be sentenced a week from today. Wow. I guess there's no place like prison. Yeah,
those shoes ain't going to help you inside, man. No. And weren't there multiple pairs of shoes
to do? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Because I believe there's a pair
in the Smithsonian. Yes. Yes. So I believe that the actual pair, because there was like a two or
three pairs on set. Right. And I think the original pair that Judy wore were in the Smithsonian.
And the other pair were in her museum. Okay. But yeah, they were in there. I don't know.
If they were recovered in by now, if they are back there or not. And as a side note,
a Judy Garland museum. I checked that out. I checked that out. That sounds like a good idea. I think
I like that. Yeah. Let's go ahead and get into this one too, because we like to cover local
good stories of the day around here and why wait to get to one of them. We have a great concert
coming up right here in Wisconsin Rapids and just a couple of days. MJ the illusion. Yes.
That's right. Coming up this Thursday over at the Performing Arts Center shows at seven o'clock.
You can check this out. Encourage you to, if you haven't gotten a chance to listen to it on
Midday magazine, we were able to have our friend Sally Kissner on. And we were actually able to talk
to Mr. Knight, Michael Knight, who is doing the impersonating and the impression and the tribute really
to Michael Jackson. And where a lot of artists do these, do these kind of things for various reasons
or whatever. Michael is a true fan and a lover of the career of Michael Jackson. And with that,
I think because of that, if not, he took this kind of to an extra to an extra as extent. He went
above and beyond. He actually found Travis Payne, the guy who worked with Michael choreographer.
They worked with Michael on the immortal tour and worked with him to get the dance moves down
and everything. He worked with Seth Riggs, Michael's longtime vocal coach to get to like really hammer,
like how am I sounding like him? Really, really sounding like him. I just really went above and
beyond to be able to give you an amazing show. Let's give him an amazing audience. Let's make sure
that he's got a great full house over at the Performing Arts Center. Encourage you to get your tickets
at savorthearts.com, savorthearts.com. And if you would like, you'll have a chance to win some
tickets. Yay. Keep on listening, everybody. Sally gave us two extra tickets to give away. We'll be
doing that sometime in this week. Be listening for that. Good. And it is again, savorthearts.com,
savorthearts.com. Be sure to check that out. It's a Monday. And that means a handful of things
around here, including Muppet Mondays. Yay. It's time to start the music. It's time to start, Joe.
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people that have joined us. It's been a lot of fun. Be on the lookout, everybody. We over this
week and recorded a couple of episodes with a couple of guests, including we had on a wonderful
young man who is the Guinness World Record holder from Muppet Memorobelia. Wow. He joined us for
an episode to fit into sitting on an episode with us. And then we did a special Patreon episode
where he showed us around all of his stuff. Not spoiling anything. He's got some really cool
items in there, like the Ove and the Muppet Show and things like that. But he had, like, I've never
seen this before. I, I, I, I, I, Brio was shell shot, like just shot. And, and she was a little
tongue tied. And so I kind of like took over a little bit of some of the interviewing. And I was
doing, you know, I'm kind of looking at her and I'm smiling in my head like, oh, I'm so happy
she's having this moment and everything. I'm very glad I could take over. Oh my god. And then there's
a Ralph in a white in the white suit. Does anybody remember Ralph, the little toy figure of Ralph
in the white suit? I had that toy. And I see it. And I'm immediately like a bad bad bad bad words.
Don't know. And like, I got just like she was. It was so cool to see this. A big thank you to him
for joining us. We're going to have this gentleman Tim on with us as well. He is a puppeteer who
worked with Jim Henson, who worked on the Muppet movies. He's going to be joining us as well.
Cool. I had no idea how big the Muppet community is. It's huge. I feel like every other day,
her and I are hearing from somebody who has a podcast or was a puppeteer or something like that,
just a gigantic thank you to the Muppet universe out there. And everybody embracing my daughter and
I in this fun adventure. Check out what the Muppet everyone. It's a lot of fun. And we
encourage a big thank you again to everybody that has already supported it. Yes.
And since I have the two of you with me, I do want to just put out there one more time or
a reminder that the next production for Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater is right around the
corner. The beer before we know it. Get your tickets and find out more about the Glass Menagerie
at WRC Theater.org, WRC Theater.org. You guys are ready to hit the ground running this week.
Rehearsals and all that. Melissa, how are you feeling? Yeah, feeling pretty good. I got some work in
this weekend on it. I was talking about my traveling. I had plenty of time to listen to my
my lines. So making progress there. Very happy to hear that for you, Melissa. You weren't
you've earned it and deserve it. Beth, how was it going for you with the the assistant directing
side of things and all that? Apparently, I got a promotion. Yeah, that's one drink. That's right,
you did. I did. The night of the audition goes, you know, since you're going to have to do so
many of the rehearsals, since I have to be at work, I'm going to, if it's okay with you, make
you my co-director. So all of a sudden, I found myself making more decisions than I expected to,
but it's been a lot of fun and especially working with Seth to bring this vision forward,
because I was a part of the production where he was in the Glass Menagerie that he's trying to
kind of flavor what we're doing. So I have an understanding of the overall vision that he wants.
And came up with an additional piece that he's intrigued by. So we're going to have a set piece
that rotates during the show itself. And so I'm looking forward to working with the actors and
once we get this set piece up and going to make sure that that's a smooth transition. So some new
pieces to it, but it's a lot of fun and the actors just are phenomenal. The four of them,
the chemistry is great and it's been great working with all four of them.
Can not wait. I'm so excited for this. Get your tickets for the Glass Menagerie at WRC Theater.
I'm looking forward to the show. Yeah. That'd be a lot of fun. We know a lot of you are looking
forward to MJ the illusion. Michael Knight coming to town in just a couple of days to bring this
performance to us. We want you to be able to go for free. We got two tickets right here.
A big thank you to Sally Kissner from the uh, See for the Arts for getting us these. Thank you,
Sally. You want to see MJ the illusion this Thursday at seven o'clock at the performing art center
right here in Rapids. Give us a call seven one five four two four twenty six hundred seven one
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love to hear from you. Love to have you join us for this great show. Let's get Michael a great
audience. Let's get a big, big crowd. We'll go ahead and take that winner off air. We'll come
back with some more fun after our state and local news right here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Beth Melissa James here
with you. Nice to kick it off your week out with us. We appreciate you. Thanks so much.
Let's dive into this one. If you want to lose weight without doing anything and you can't afford
ozempick, uh, this list might be for you. I don't know about that ozempick. I don't know about
that stuff. Someone asked experts to name weird ways to burn calories or lose weight and here are
some of the easier ones. Okay. Sleep more. Get more sleep. Yep. Getting enough sleep keeps hormones
in check and lowers levels of stress hormone cholesterol. Uh, when cholesterol is high, we tend
to stress eat. So getting enough sleep can reduce those urges and help you cut calories.
There you go. I thought it just meant you're not awake so you can't eat.
I do a little deep dive on that one. You find out actual science behind it. Okay. Do some deep
breathing before you eat. Hmm. Okay. When you're in a fight or flight mode, your body wants to
store calories instead of burning them. So a few deep breaths before dining can calm you down
and prevent it. Wow. Your mind doesn't realize that you're not, uh, in, in, uh, living in a cave
and hunting terror, you know, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Our brains that,
they, while they have evolved, there's certain aspects that never will change. They will never
evolve. They're part of the human brain, they're part of the human condition. One of them is our
fight or flight response. And you may think, well, I'm just sitting down eating dinner. I couldn't
have a less care, more carefree lice or anything like that. It doesn't matter to your brain. If
you're starving, if you're really, really hungry, when you sit down to eat your, your, your,
your breathing, your, your, it's going into the meal. Survival mode. Yeah. Yeah. And so it,
I think that's a really good tip right there. And I've never heard that before though. No.
I like, I haven't either. Uh, don't skip your chores. Vacuuming for 30 minutes can
burn a hundred calories or more. And mowing the lawn can burn 200 instead of thinking, instead
thinking of them as something you have to do. Look at them as an extra workout you get to do.
There you go. You get to do. Yes. Yeah. But, uh, I mean, conning ourselves as one of the
greater things that we have to do as human as adults, you know, um, if you want to zero it out,
you can always reward yourself after doing that half an hour of vacuuming with a cookie.
Like I get to vacuum. I get a cookie. Yes.
Uh, word system works. I, I remember first going to the dentist and, uh, in, in leaving,
and they give you a sucker. Yes. It was just kind of like, I remember thinking as a kid.
Counter. Yeah. Oh, well, this guy's just trying to keep it his jaw. That's how they make sure
they get repeat business. Yeah, exactly. Just try to make sure we come back. Oh, you know,
this seems like fair. I ate the sucker. I did. I did eat the sucker. Um, and finally, pace around
when you're on the phone, it can help you get your steps in and burn around five calories per minute.
Any of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s knew this, uh, that, that we always did that on the phone.
Nobody just sat still on the phone. Usually you were usually popping around and moving around.
We still had cords and could slip ourselves on. Yes. Yes. But you have the really long cords. Yes.
Oh, you, you, you know, um, that, that, uh, things were, your parents liked you. If they got,
if they were able to get you the really, really super long cord, yeah, that's not so much for your
phone, but the, like, the, the community phone, if you will, the main phone in the house.
I'm just thinking of that part too. Like I do, does that even exist anymore in houses where it was
like the phone everybody used or does everybody, is there like one, two phones, mom, dad of a phone,
maybe the kid when their old enough gets one, like, that's a, I didn't even think about that.
Some households have gotten rid of the landline. But we, we prefer that at this point, but all of the
landline phones now are cordless. Yeah. So you just keep it mounted to the wall and you only have
the receiver in your hand as opposed to having the receiver connected or having the long connecting
cord to the phone. Cause now you can mount it on the wall and all of that. And it's very easy to
pace with a cordless phone. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I, I do like the idea of when your kid turns 12 or 13,
you change the phone in the house to with one of the old cords. They just, they got to experience it.
Just for a year or two. And it has to be the rotator filing, the rotary dialing. Yeah. And they
have to figure out how to use it before they can get any other phone. I, I think there are certain
things that we, oh, I love that. I like that a lot. I think there are certain things that we
agree. Like, Oh, kids should not read a map. Kids should know how to do this. That I like the idea
of just throwing in these other things there. Just two, just for our own amusement. Just so that we
didn't, we weren't the only ones that had to experience it. Yep. That's fun. Do, um, these seem to
have some science behind them. They seem to add up. You guys agree with this list? I mean,
it seems like a pretty good list. We often don't realize the little things that we do that
do burn some calories. I mean, those of us that fidget a lot or rotate in our chair,
every time we do, that's going to burn a, a calorie or two, not enough to equate a piece of pie,
but at least it's something. Absolutely. That's an interesting one. I like that. Anything that you
guys can think of that you do to help with this, like burn a calorie or two or just to even get
some exercise in for, you know, for getting about the calories, but exercise where you don't normally
get it. Like, when I am doing errands around the house, I try to do this. I'll try to get little
exercises in here or there. Um, I have a Fitbit watch and what I love is you can set it that if
you don't get a certain amount of steps by 10 minutes to the hour, it will vibrate from
your wrist and it will remind you to get up and get some steps in. Yeah, that's, that's a great
help. Yeah. But yeah, doing, doing chores definitely, um, helps burn calories, going grocery
shopping, um, burns calories, you know, all the things that we have to do in the day.
Mm-hmm. Uh, Beth has got a lot of things to do today. So she's got to leave us a little bit
early, but want to thank you again, Beth, for being with us. Thank you for having me back.
And want to remind everybody that the Wisconsin, that the Meravian Church is Winter Farmer's
Market is back. The Wisconsin Winter Farmer's Market. We are back and going, um, after a week's delay
because of weather, we finally had our grand reopening. We were able to give away five gift
baskets, um, and raffles and some other things that happen there. We do every week when you come,
you can get some warm coffee. We have a hospitality station, a little something to nibble and come
check out all of the vendors and we've, we're always getting new ones. And so it's been,
it's been wonderfully received and the vendors seem to love being there as well.
Now through May, you can check out the Winter Farmer's Market and to all you vendors out there,
be a part of things, reach out to the staff to the, uh, the team over there and get a part of
things and be there. Uh, and to everybody else in the community, come check it out, especially
if you haven't been there. Uh, come check it out. It's going to be fun. It goes on every Saturday
from nine to one over at the Wisconsin Ravits Meravian Church. And again, you can find out more,
go into WR Meravian.org. Be sure to follow them on social media and like that YouTube page.
Yeah. Find us on Facebook because we try to, to list sometime during the week, the vendors
that we know will be there. So maybe you'll find something that you like that way. Mm-hmm.
And we'll see you, we'll see you there, everybody. Yeah. We'll see you soon, Beth.
Thanks so much for being here. Thank you for having me. We'll take a time out. We'll come back
and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back to the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. James and Melissa hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a good one out there. Big shout out to Beth Habhager for joining us. Thanks, Beth.
Yeah, thank you, Beth. It was fun hanging around again.
Yeah, it was fun hanging out with you. We'll see you again real soon. Melissa and I will be tag team
in the show tomorrow looking forward to that. We're going to have a lot of fun with you. Be sure to
join us and joining us as well will be Addison Morin. Our own Miss Wisconsin Rapids team of 2024.
Awesome. Looking forward to Addison joining us, getting to know how the crown is fit in her,
how she's doing with that and all of the above. That's going to be fun conversation, Melissa.
It is. Let's dive into this one. So a new study found the smell of women's tears makes men less
aggressive. This is weird. Yeah, yeah, it's a weird one. They had a bunch of women watch a sad movie
and collected their tears as they ran down their face. Meanwhile, they had men play a special video
game designed to aggravate them. Their points were unfairly taken away to make them angry. Once the
men were sufficiently aggravated, researchers had them sniff each either the women's tears or a
small amount of saline solution. They found men were 44% less aggressive after getting a good
whiff of women's tears. Scans, yeah, scans showed that they also had less activity in areas of their
brain associated with aggressive behavior. Tears have subtle chemical compounds we pick up on,
but not all tears, just emotional tears. They think it might be evolution's way of protecting babies,
but even when adults cry, it tells us that they're vulnerable and calms us down.
Weird. Yeah. In another weird way, this ties into the other conversation we were saying about
fight or flight. And that part of our brain this hits. While we focus on, especially dogs and how
we've domesticated them and how dogs have evolved over the years to be able to read people's faces,
and that's where the puppy dog look and puppy dog guys come from because they learn they do,
you know, that stuff. It would it be shocking or surprising to anybody that if we also did this
with ourselves that certain facial recognitions, you know, it hits our brains and our hearts a little
differently. I just wonder if the men knew what they were smelling. Oh, yeah, yeah, that part I'm
very curious about. I got a lot of follow-up questions for the study. I love follow-up questions.
Do you know what you're doing in this study? Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I mean, all data, I have a
hard time saying that any data is negative or positive. Numbers are numbers. Data is data. It's not
about feelings. It's just information. It's just, you know, but with something like this in a
topic like this, I don't know. I almost don't even know if it's worth releasing this study without
further information. And yeah, and why? Why were they doing this study? Like, who asked the question?
Do does a woman crying really actually calm down guys? Because sometimes that doesn't seem to be
the case. Right. Yeah. In actual practice. Right. And I wouldn't want, we wouldn't want anybody
thinking this is a like a fix all that this works on every case or what have you or anything like that.
And how close do you have to be to smell tears?
Well, and it shouldn't take tears to get a person to calm down either. No, it shouldn't. But there's
just that there are so many follow-up questions. A lot of follow-up questions for that one. A lot
of them. Very curious to see where that goes. What else comes of that?
It's going to turn it into a perfume. Yeah.
But what what would the name of that perfume be though? Oh, that's tears. Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah, I guess tears. So remember when you could order a rare steak and we all we're all
cool with it, right? Well, not those, not anymore. An American tourist in Canada posted a photo
after they ordered a burger in Toronto and the Toronto Airport, Hilton, and had to sign a waiver
to get it cooked medium. The waiters took their order and brought the burger that she handed them a
quote food waiver that said they couldn't sue if it made them sick. It's not actually a new thing.
Canada's had the laws on the books for years. They say restaurants have to do burgers well done
to kill off any possible E. coli that said at least 160 degrees. Medium is 140 or 150 or 145 degrees.
Hmm. The person who ordered it said that they didn't even end up eating the burger. They took a
few bites just being told it might kill them ruined their appetite. A spokesperson. Yeah, that
would be kind of a little bit of a culture. It does seem like it does seem like it would kill your
appetite. Yeah, but a spokesperson for Hilton said it's something they do at the specific hotel,
but it's not standard practice for Hilton's in the US. Hmm. I mean, we've all read that disclaimer.
It's in every menu. Yeah. I don't in this day and age with with the amount of sous happiness
there is and those things. I don't blame restaurants for doing this. No, you really can't.
And if you've looked into the meat industry, even just a tiny little bit, it's you want to make
sure that you're getting really good quality meat if you're going to eat it not fully cooked.
Yeah. Yeah. I have always enjoyed my burgers a little bloody. I've always, you know,
some of that and everything, but I've also kind of like changed that over the years.
You know, younger me like we know. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And I found that I still
enjoy my bacon double cheeseburgers just as much. Like they really hasn't affected me at all,
really. As long as they're not dried out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, um, I would,
I would prefer, I, especially with all the things that are going on with this and everything,
I would prefer that over the, of course, negative, the other part of this.
Right. We just had a recall. We've had a couple of recalls recently because of E. coli.
Well, this is, this is not something to be messing around with. That is a true,
that ain't right story. Everybody. Yes, indeed.
Inside the waiver. If you really want the burger, sign the waiver. What do you care?
I really want it. Inside it. You know, we need a pala cleanser.
Uh, uh, that would let's go. Oh, thank you for this courtesy laugh. I appreciate it.
So funny. We've got good stuff on your radio dial tonight.
Be sure to join us from three to four for playmakers our live call and show.
Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines. Get in the game. Call up and join the conversation.
Looking forward to joining us for playmakers. When I hear your thoughts about the packer season,
how you felt it ended. Are you, are you shifting gears now to pucks basketball? We,
uh, we're going to be talking a lot of bucks, especially because we got the bucks on the radio
tonight. Oh, yeah. Five 30 mocky bucks taking on the Detroit pistons should be a good one.
Be sure to check that out right here on WFHR your home for a bucks basketball.
Please. And our sister station WRI at 650 great high school boys basketball port Edwards at
Northern Lutheran. Randy and Seth can be running that one for us.
All right. Looking forward to that because those two are so busy tonight, I don't know if they'll
be able to join me for playmakers. I might be doing playmakers solo today. We'll find out.
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Wednesdays in the right Wednesdays right before the eight o'clock right before the top of the
nine o'clock hour with our wicked awesome. Where to Wednesday? It's wicked awesome. Sure is.
Be sure to check it out everybody. We have a blood drive taking place right here in Wisconsin
Rapids today from two to seven over at the former Eastern high school music room at 111 our 311
Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rapids. You are able to make appointments if you would like, but
awakens are also welcome. Yes. And our blood supplies are critically low right now. So if you
can donate do so. There are this there is this opportunity and there are other opportunities coming
up. We will tell you about to all you heroes out there. We appreciate you donating if you can.
Yeah. You got an opportunity today from two to seven for the at the former Eastern high school
music room at three 11 Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rapids. Yep. And enter from the Lincoln side.
Yeah. Yeah. Good note, Melissa. The the point and time count is a semi annual survey which seeks
to gather a snapshot of homeless and homelessness in every community on a single night during the
PIT count volunteers canvases south of county to record the number of people experiencing homelessness
locally and other recent and make sure that other resources resources are available for them.
This will be taking place this Wednesday and it'll kick off at 11 at night and wrap up early in
the hours of Thursday. Volunteers will meet at north central community action. You will be escorted.
You will not be alone out there. They and they will give some training to go along with this.
If you're interested, we greatly appreciate you being a part of this. Contact our good friend Ben
at the United Way at seven one five four two one zero three nine zero four two one zero three nine zero
or email him. Ben at you WSWAC dot org. Ben at you WSWAC dot org. You can find out more about
the United Way by going to you WSWAC dot org. Yes you can. I wanted to touch on this
I hope this dog gets a lot of treats a 65 year old in northern Michigan fell through an icy lake
and his dog was there so a so a cop called the dog over tied a rope to her collar and she brought
the rope to her owner and saved his life. Oh my goodness. The cops chess cam caught all of this.
If you are if you are looking for a beautiful moment to you know for your day,
check that video out or shout out to that officer and to that good dog. Good dog. Good dog.
Good boy. Wow. Melissa, fun show. Thanks for hanging out. Yeah. It was fun to have a good day James.
Have a great one you too and you have a great day. Everybody be good to each other. We'll talk
to you soon and later right here at Oh Mel you take it. W F H R Wisconsin Rapids 1320 AM and W
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