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 am joined by
Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habhager. Good morning. The best listeners and radio. Thanks
for joining us, everybody. You're having a good one out there. Got some entertainment
news coming up for you in a little bit. We're also going to get into some fun stuff.
We've got the 10 best fast food joints. We're going to talk about that looking forward
to it, but of course it's 9 o'clock hour on a Monday. You know what that means. Hello
and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR. I have to start today's show with an apology.
Finally, it's about time you apologize to me. What do I have to apologize to you for?
You seriously have to ask? Actually, yeah. If anything, you should apologize to me.
What? Why? Okay, all right, you two. Cut it out. For the sake of our listeners, Melissa,
please just make your apology and let's move on with the show. All right. Fine. I actually
need to apologize to you, James. What the what? Why? Because I pick on you a lot about
not cooking and while you're a good sport-abeladated, it's really not very nice. Thanks. I feel
like I don't know what's coming. Thanks. Okay, the thing is, you're not alone in feeling
uncertain when it comes to your abilities in the kitchen. In the effort of making this
segment appealing to everyone, today we're going to talk about the population in our society
who don't feel confident in their cooking abilities. Finally, rookie kitchen warriors unite.
Now's our chance. We're taking over the kitchen's open segment and making it ours.
Next on the kitchen's open, door dash hacks. How to get your food quicker and spend even more money.
Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but I don't think that's quite what she means. I know, but it's
sounded really good, especially in my head. Yeah, right. But I'm glad you're finally
acknowledging those of us who didn't have your mother. Melissa, teaching you every little tip and
trick how to make amazing dishes in the kitchen. Mom, call in. Call in, please. That's not a shout
at you. I know you tried to teach me and I just didn't pay attention, honestly. I was, I was,
usually grabbing things on high shelves. Yeah, that's what I was doing. You're not the only one,
James. There are quite a few moms and dads out there who simply don't have the time or inclination
to hold kitchen classes for their kids. There's nothing wrong with that. I think it's just more
reflection on our society as a whole than a shot at any moms or dads out there. Heck, most of us
don't know. We're cooking for, don't know what we're cooking for dinner until we get into the kitchen
to start prepping at four or five or six o'clock, let alone giving a full-blown cooking class for a
14-year-old who has zero interest in learning the intricacies or intricacies, I should say,
of what it takes to assemble the perfect lasagna. Now, let's take a moment to honor the fact that
July is lasagna awareness a month. Thank you, Pat Craylow. Days of the Year.com states,
the dish offers endless possibilities for customization catering to meat lovers, vegetarians,
and even those with a vegan diet. Plus, who needs an excuse to enjoy more of this delicious meal?
Lasagna Awareness a Month is a whole month where you can indulge in or discover new twists
on this classic dish. Well done, Seth. Now, let's back to the topic at hand. Let's look at some
statistics. Yes, my favorite. In an article posted on delish.com on September 12th of 2011,
note that date, states that a survey found 28% of Americans can't cook. They only surveyed a
little over a thousand men and women aged 25 and older, and the article said, 28% cited not knowing
how to cook. 25% said not wanting to clean up afterwards was the reason. 21% said they didn't
have enough time to cook, and 51% said they did not cook because their spouser partner does the
cooking. That's interesting. What do you think of those statistics, boys?
Well, I think one thing, just a little gray area here, I think. I think a lot of people,
especially if you're just doing a man on the street thing, and say, hey, can you cook?
A lot of us are almost hesitant to say we can, even though we can cook maybe a couple of meals.
Right. If that happened to me, I'd say no, even though I can make pasta, I can make some Italian
meals. I got a handful of things. I could taco stuff like that, but we're talking like four or
five meals I know how to make. That's it. That's four or five meals. That's true. That's
enough to feed yourself for the week. And I do think a lot of people may know more than they realize,
but when it comes to what we grow up with the majority of us with cooking, actual cooking in
the household, the majority of people do even have. Well, compared to my mother, or care to my
and my grandmother, or Melissa's mom, or something like that, I would never say that I know how to cook.
I wonder how much that plays into it, too. And I think, too, one of the things that we're missing
when it comes to being in the kitchen, and I didn't realize this for a long time, confidence,
having some confidence in what we're doing. It's a big deal to make a meal for somebody.
If you're cooking for yourself, it's not as bad, you know, you don't want to worry as much.
But you must set up. It's fine. Yeah. When you're cooking for others, so for a lot of people,
I think that when it comes to it, like, oh, even if it's again, stranger on the street asking you,
or you're filling out a blind survey, like, oh, they might ask me to cook. I don't know about that.
I wonder how much some of these things factor in, along with what you're saying, Melissa,
about just growing up and not being taught a lot of the basics in the kitchen.
Right. And you know, I used to think, you know, it's like, oh, you go off on your own,
and then you learn to cook. Now you don't. Like you just say, James, it's hard to cook for one person.
It really is. Cooking for a group is so much easier to motivate yourself and all those sorts of
things in order to do it. So yeah, I mean, and I'm with you on the whole, you know, one or two
recipes. I think a lot of us are there for whatever reason we learned them like from our family,
or we stumbled across it at some point. It's like, hey, I remember when I, you know, would have my
sister over when I was single. And I found this meatloaf recipe. And I think for the next five
times that's all I made was this one kind of meatloaf. Your sister, like, how is this the only
producer? Exactly. Do you think I like love meatloaf or something? What's up, dude? I had, like,
the first like three or four girlfriends I had, I would make pasta for them. And it would,
they'd be, oh, this is great. He's making dinner and all this. Then they'd expect me to, like,
this is all I could cook. Like, oh, I can't. If you want pasta, I can do that. But they were kind
of expected to be cooking like other meals. All things like that. Oh, man. Started something I
could not finish there. Well, that's actually what you said, Seth, about being able to cook for
one person. It is hard. And the fact that I, yes, my mom did teach me how to cook in quantity.
Exactly. I have, I have a real problem cutting recipes down to size. So cooking for myself,
I end up with, oh, okay, I guess this is what I'm eating all week. Right. I hope you have freezer
space. All right. Well, let's jump ahead to an article from GroceryDive.com that was published
in now 2018. They state 85% of consumers don't know what they're having for dinner until hours
before meal time, leading many to choose convenience foods from a restaurant, meal kit, or Grocery
Deli, according to a survey from Acosta and Technomic Report, reported by Food Navigator.
The survey found millennials are more likely to buy prepared foods from a Grocery Store or a
restaurant, but Generation Z is likely to outspend them in these channels. And that kind of makes sense
when you think about it about how our food is preparing and that sort of thing. It is very much
a convenience thing because I mean, think about it back in the day. When we were kids, you know,
there was takeout food, but there was only a couple of little kinds that generally did that. You
had your pizzas. You had your Chinese food. And that was it. And you're not going to want to eat
that every night. But now you have a much more variety to choose from, you know, any restaurant in
the area because of like, you know, Dordash and all those kinds of things. Exactly. So I think it
makes the variety itself helps so people would want more, you know, likely to order it. Yeah,
it's easier, of course. It costs more to variety. Yeah, exactly. You can pretty much get anything
you want, depending on the size of the town you live in. Exactly. And we've talked many times
about how healthier food is more expensive and makes it harder to, yeah, that part of it, that
factors into it too. But it's interesting too that they would get convenience foods through a meal
kit. I mean, those are becoming far more popular. Yes. Or even a grocery deli. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely
interesting. The article goes on to say the survey found food delivery services such as grub hub
and uber eats are increasingly popular with young consumers with 44% of millennials reporting
using them in the past three months. Compared to with one in five of all US consumers, nearly 20%
said that they'd used meal kits in 2017 compared to 8% two years earlier. Wow. That's a big jump.
Yeah. In just two years. Yeah. Wow. Now, and this is all pre-pandemic too. Yeah, exactly.
Keeping in mind. Still now in 2018. Right. Right. And I think that's something to keep in mind too,
because I think I know my mind immediately went well, the pandemic changed. Oh, wait a minute. No,
it's before the pandemic. Yes. That's something that is interesting to think of leading into it as
well. It was already trending that way. Exactly. We were we were leaning that much on our fast food
industry, leading into the pandemic. And then of course, pandemic happens. And we don't have that
as much. Right. Right. Well, now we're going to jump ahead two years to June of 2020, pandemic.
The article on treehucker.com titled American still aren't cooking much from scratch says that in
spite of the pandemic, take out food orders actually actually increased. The author cites a survey
conducted in 2019 that found that only 20% of Americans cook daily. Wow. That doesn't that doesn't
mean that 80% can't cook. It's just that they don't. Right. And going back to what I was saying
before about during the pandemic, before the pandemic, we lead into it that way pandemic happens.
And there were there were more people using fast food, but we had less fast food places.
Not everybody was able to keep alive or or keep even open during the pandemic. So then your
choices even go down even slimmer. And and then we see during that time also a rise in prices of
foods when it comes to that and everything. And that factors into it too. Exactly. Yeah. And
there was a you know, a little bit of a surge of people cooking at home, I would say during
pandemic because a lot of people didn't have any other option. That's true. If you lived in a rural
place where there wasn't food delivery, you had to cook from home. Naively, I really thought there
was going to be a renaissance with this where you are going to see more and more people coming out
of the pandemic wanting to cook for themselves, wanting to cook at home. And and really kind of
taking over that and almost going backwards in some ways with the fast food industry and seeing
less and less people using the fast food thing. More of what it was always intended to be I think
in that and every day thing or or you know, a food source even but something fun to do or an
activity. You know, we're going to go out with the kids or I'm going to go out with my you know
partner or something like that. We're going to go do something like that. Right.
Well, and I do think that there was some effort by people to help keep the restaurant industry
alive during the pandemic by ordering takeout food. Good point. Because they couldn't you couldn't go
there in person. So you know, your favorite mom and pop restaurant like we want to keep them
alive. So we're going to we're going to take their once a week just with you know,
no with contactless delivery or whatever option they had at the time.
Okay, well now let's talk about this article from studyfines.org called half of American struggle
cooking easy to make dishes like pancakes and pasta. It was written by Chris Mallor on January
10th, 2022 with an update about a year later in 2023. So Chris says in this article that in a
survey of 2000 adults, 56% mess up easy to make dishes and 59% feel embarrassed about not being
able to cook certain foods the right way. The article goes on to say although 7 and 10
respondents confidently consider themselves natural born cooks 71% 73 71% do that 83% of those who
mess up easy, quote unquote easy dishes confess it makes them feel like a failed chef.
That happens to me too. Why make something and it absolutely bombs? I'm like, oh,
well, I feel like a failure right now. I cook a lot. Yeah, it's going to say you cook I think a
lot more than the I mean, I cook for my my family, but it's nothing, you know, special natural
born cooks, huh? Boy, I have to I have to cooking takes a lot of practice. Watch any like
celebrity chef for one's got a TV show or anything like that and you're looking at him go and it's
like, wow, look at him go. That's because they've done it 100 million times. Yeah, it's repetitions.
It's like anything else. You got to work on it. Well, and knowing what like, okay, so you watch
them taste a dish and then they add something. How did they know what to add? You know, that's
practice. Yep. Knowing whether, okay, well, this is missing a salt or this is missing an acid or
this is missing, um, what's the other flavor? Like an umami, you know, it needs, you know,
or a sweet. Yeah, it's a little sugar to bring off these other flavors. Yeah, that all takes
practice and repetition. You're not going to just be born knowing how to do that. Sorry. Hundreds
of times, thousands of times. Yep. I must have seen my Nana or my grandmother cook a million meals,
a million or bake a million different things and I never once saw them look at a recipe. No, not once.
Like, it's right by the time that I met these people, they had been doing this for quite some time.
It's pretty up and they had this down. Yeah, like to your guy's point, I think that that's
something to keep in mind. If you are trying to make new meals or trying to get in the kitchen more
and cook more and everything, it's going to take reps. It's going to take time like every good thing
does. You don't learn it through us Moses. No, unfortunately. He tried. He really tried. I would
be so good at this. It's so good. Well, the article continues, the hardest easy meal to make,
according to the poll are pancakes with 38% saying they struggle to make a good batch of flapjacks.
Meanwhile, a third of respondents struggle to make simple dishes like eggs, pasta, mashed potatoes,
or sweet potatoes. The other easy foods people have messed up listed in the article include mac and
cheese, soup, rice, grilled chicken, and fish. Now, I would say that some of those you just listed
off their set are actually rather difficult to cook fish hard to make good grilled chicken that
isn't dried out. Yes, fish is also one that can be very tricky. It depends on what kind of fish
you're using and yeah, it's really. I'm actually afraid to cook fish. Seriously. I believe you,
which is too bad because man, if you make certain fish, certain way, man, walleye. I've had some
really, really good fish, but I'm always afraid it's not done enough or that, you know, it's going
to be too dried out. Like, there's so many questions with fish. I've only been doing it for about
10, 15 years, but from the first time I cooked salmon, I just had it down. I had the timing down.
It was really good. Turned out well. I've never had salmon not turn out very good. I have messed up
mac and cheese. I have messed it up on more than one occasion for my brother and sister making it for
them as kids, where they looked at it and like, we're not eating that. Yeah, why is this soup?
Yeah, we have we have mac and soup. It's not supposed to be moving on its own. It's not, um,
yeah, to this, quote unquote, easy meals to make. It can anybody can mess them up. And again,
just take some time and some getting, you know, giving yourself some grace with these things too.
I will say one of the things that plays on this and this, when it comes to this, though,
in that process, it's like other things where, um, oh, you know, maybe I didn't hit the marker.
I wanted to in my mile, but I'll get it tomorrow or something like that with this. And then you add
on some of the other factors we've talked about in this segment, the rise of the price of food.
All the sudden, when you mess up that meal, it hits even harder because, oh, that's wasted.
It cost me a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. And so we are a little more hesitant to try, I think,
some of these things. It's all the more reason why I feel like we need to, though. Not that I want
us wasting money or spending money or anything, but think about once you do get good at it, you will
be spending less and using less more than likely. Yes, you're right. Well, here's some good news for
those of you who persevere after making a failed recipe. It seems that the fourth time may be the
charm. The survey said on average, either people will get the dish right by the fourth time,
or they'll just give up entirely. Wow. Four. I, you know, that's, that's pretty remarkable.
I love the idea that people keep trying, though. Yes. And get at least to the four. But that, you
know, that does make sense to me. I think if I would have gotten to the fourth time and it's like,
and I'm just still not getting it, I'm like, no, I'm not getting whatever reason I can't get this.
One of the tougher things in life is realizing, am I, am I struggling at this and I just need time
and more reps or am I not, I just should never do it. I just, I really, this is not me. This is not me.
Well, you know, a home cook meal also doesn't need to be made entirely from scratch.
Delishknowledge.com recommends combining ready made foods with some homemade items to
streamline efficiency and reduce the chance of failure. The website states, healthy meals don't
have to be synonymous with complicated. The health benefits of a home cook meal outweigh
almost any other method of eating, no matter the recipe. You can control the amount of added
salt, sugar, and fat when you cook at home. It's also easier to control portion sizes at home.
Yeah, so you can combine a ready made entree and then make your side dishes to go with it.
You know, something easy like that, it cuts down in your prep time, it makes it go quicker,
or buy some of those ready made things like you can get rice already cooked.
Yes. And ready to just heat up out of the package.
I've used that before to actually what didn't turn out that bad at all. It was really cool.
Breakfast foods are a great place to practice and a great place to feel, get some confidence in
cooking. I found that at least. I love breakfast foods and I wanted to be able to make waffles,
I wanted to be pancakes and these things and you just do it and do it and get a little bit better
at it. And I think that some of those items aren't as cost heavy as some others too.
One of my favorite things to make is eggs and all the different ways you do it, yeah.
I just enjoy it. I don't know why I just enjoy making eggs. My dad is always smiling when he's
making eggs. I don't know why, but yes. Eggs are good. They are.
Well, and there is another reason to continue to cook. Cooking can reduce stress and boost creativity,
getting into the kitchen more built confidence and learning to cook can bring a sense of accomplishment.
Boy, that ain't that the truth. When you get a good thing put together, man.
Yeah, well said. And when you have people to eat or even yourself to enjoy after, so I made a new
recipe last night and it was basically cabbage in a sauce with chickpeas and some vegetables.
Oh, and it turned out so good. And it was pretty simple. Nice. Yeah. And I had it over rice.
I'm and now I'll be eating the leftovers all week. It made too much. Yep.
Well, I think we better wrap it up here, boys. Thank you for joining us for another edition
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Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.
Thanks so much for joining us. We got it. Oh, jeez, what did I just do?
I turned the monitor. Turn your monitors, though. He slammed into it.
You're still good. Well, we got to take a phone call anyway. Good morning. You're on the show.
Well, I'm not no fiscal enceiver, but I got your report for Friday's movie of Whistler.
Yeah. Okay. So I appreciate that, Kevin. I didn't want to put you on the spot, but I was hoping
you'd call it. You saw Twisters over the weekend. You along with many other Americans made that
movie the most popular movie in America or this over the weekend. What did you think of it?
Well, first and foremost of that, now I wonder, now I know why I don't go to the movie theater.
Between admission and the big telepop board and two large sodas of 40 bucks.
Yep. Yeah, that's crazy. You know it. Crazy.
Yeah, and then you don't get your free refill on the popcorn. If you finish your popcorn, you want
more. You don't want to get the free refill anymore. I don't know how anyone gets through one
to hold with those, but anyway. Oh, I did get my big box, a box of dots, or two. That was great.
That is, that is interesting. That's great. Got to have the dots. But that's for the movie.
Start out and almost got to the point. They go boy. What does that really
we gave the back story that got like they did with the first movie. They gave a back story to it. Why
is the person put into it? But it kind of started off pretty rough and
but as the movie went on, it got better. And then at the end, I was basically sitting at the end
of my seat, 10 stuff while there was an inch in it going with a tornado. And it was like,
oh boy, you know, you're kind of dancing up with everybody. Yeah, but it was a good movie. I mean,
I was suggesting to go see it. Or it's a period. I could pick up on streaming to and or
or what. It was a good movie. I would go see it again. But that's very cool.
It sounded like it seems like a perfect movie theater movie. It was a good movie to see in
the theaters. What did you feel that way about it? Yeah, I mean, it is. You get the more of the
special effects on it. It would have been kind of cool because I think that all scary told me
or or somebody else told me they just didn't have it in 3D and watch, but they don't have it in
3D here and wrap it. But 3D would have been really cool to see some of this stuff. As things
are flying around, it showed more compared to what the first movie came out with. This showed,
you know, more destruction in towns, especially smaller towns and how some of those bigger storms
are interesting. They showed the destruction. And I mean, that of the reality of a tornado,
especially if they're bigger tornadoes of what could happen.
One of the up and coming. Oh, go ahead, sorry. No, it was just it was just really neat how they
all they did everything. At the beginning, it was kind of corny and some of the stuff that they were
doing, but as the movie went on, it got better. Okay. One of the bigger names,
rising stars out there right now, really since Top Gun Maverick is Glenn Powell. How was his
performance? That's where the corny miss was at the beginning.
I was going to kind of talk about the actor by clinton think of his name, so I'm glad you brought
that up. He was kind of arrogant. It's the game that will be in the early anime of the tornado
Wrangler. And it was kind of like it was kind of like he was in Maverick, really arrogant.
But as the movie went on and he kind of got to see the softer side of him of that character.
And the vulnerability of his character and it was it was good. I guess it just started out a little
weird for me, but as the movie went on, it got pretty good. I appreciate that. Yeah.
I always appreciate the feedback from you and our great listeners. I do want to remind our
listeners, be on the lookout for our new show, Real Reviews with Kevin and James.
It's coming. It's coming everybody. We're just working on the bumper.
It's working on that. I appreciate your band. Thanks so much for the call. You have a good one.
All right. You guys have a great day. You too. Appreciate that first 15 minutes of the show.
It's just complaining how expensive movies are. It's job. It's exactly what it would be.
It'd be for me at least. Twister's shocks. The third biggest opening of the year at 80.5
million. A lot of people went and saw it and enjoyed it like Kevin did. That is it is something.
We'll go to break here in a second. We'll come back when wrap up our entertainment. But I did
want to mention something he said there that has been going on for quite some time with movie
theaters. It seems like the movie theaters were way ahead of inflation. They've been doing this
for like 20 years. Now inflation is just caught up with them. They've been able to do this in part
because certainly the rise of what it costs to make a movie and some of that and so much of the
money that is put into movies. So movie theaters have had to raise their prices in many ways.
But they've also done something to themselves with the industry where they have monopolized the
industry. And you're seeing more and more, including our own local theater, more and more places
deciding, no, I'm not going to play this nationally, nationally released movie in my market.
Or I am going to play this movie in my market because of whether it's political choices or beliefs
or other ends of that spectrum. And that is not what movie theaters should be. Movie theaters
should not be about you and your ownership. It should be about people and people getting to
see movies, especially more rural communities. When you have these limited released movies,
I'd like to see some movie theaters actually fighting to get those in theaters in rural areas
so that more people can see them instead of them being the guards, the gatekeepers of you're not
going to see this movie in my theater or some of that, which we have seen. It makes me do something
that is against my core and going against a local business. But I refuse to, for one, put into
businesses, they do not put into this community. And now how many times have you seen that advertisement
with any other business or any other thing or any sporting event or anything like that? But it's
also this monopolizing that has happened that has made it almost impossible for a family of four to
go see a movie, a family of two, a family of one, a guy in his girl, a girl and a girl, whatever.
Any combination, it's going to be 40, 50 bucks to go see a movie. And you're going to have more
and more people that aren't able to do that, which is going to make it that much harder on us
to be keeping movies alive and keeping the industry alive. At least in this form, it may change
the distribution part of it. Like many things, this is not just a one thing problem. It is the
movie theaters and the monopolization of that and the fact that, well, if you want to see a movie,
you've got to come to me. You've got no other choice. And the movie industry, just being insane
with how much these movies cost, stop making $500 million movies. And you don't have to charge
as much. Stop making three hour epics that nobody wants to see. Now, two hours is plenty long
and yes, yes, it's a two-fold fact that if they don't, if all of these factors don't, like,
smarten up, the movie industry is never going to die, but it's not going to look anything like
what it used to. Right. And we're going to get away from that. And you're going to get more and
more people not wanting to go to the movie theaters and one of the more fun experiences you can
have. It is. It's not that I go into the movies. Can I just throw out there that I know you're
going to be all shocked, but I went to the movie theater. Wow. Wow. Right. I went and saw
twisters. Oh, nice. Yeah. And I went with Brittany Merlot, Army Erologist, and just to throw out
there the science, but as the movie went on, not in the very beginning. Oh, it's that cool. Yeah,
there's one thing you should never do. And it's one thing that they did in the beginning.
But yes, she said that the science was was really solid and she was glad that they leaned into
that and then also the history of what has happened with tornadoes. They included some of that
in the movie, which is really, really cool. That's what you should do. Take a meteorologist
here. She's your twisters movie. That's smart. Good move on your part. Oh my god. I love that.
Oh, I love that so much. Oh, that's cool. And so you enjoyed it, Melissa? I did. I loved it.
But I also love the first one. And yes, there was no Helen Hunt in this one, which made me a little
sad. But the gal that played the lead in this did a phenomenal job. Cool. Very cool. Very
impressive. Very cool. And I'm going to go see it again. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, that's not that is
impressive. That is impressive to me. You must have really liked it. Yeah. I did. I really liked it.
Cool. Beyond the lookout, everybody, for our new show, real reviews with Kevin and Melissa.
We will get a break in. We'll come back a little more news for you, an entertainment fold. And
of course, these top 10 fast food joints were getting to that before we wrap up on the morning
show here at WFHR. We are locally grown radio. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth, James here with you. Thanks for
joining us, everybody. Gonna wrap up our entertainment section here now. We went a little long and
one of the other segments. So I kind of crammed this in here. But good stuff. Soundtrack to Deadpool
and Wolverine, the new movie coming up. It includes Madonna's like a prayer, interestingly. But
Ryan Reynolds had to meet with Madonna personally to get her permission. He says, quote, Madonna doesn't
just license the song and particularly that song has not been licensed before in a movie.
Oh really? Wow. So it was a big deal to ask her for it and certainly a bigger deal to use it.
We went over and met with her and showed her how it was being used and where and why. And not only
did Madonna give them the song, but she also gave them a note about how to make the particular
scene better and they used it. Oh wow. Reynolds says her idea was, quote, spot on and right.
And they went with it. It was not a it was not a factor of her then getting the song or not.
This was something she threw out there. And this is long before they were actually even in the
filming process. Okay. So, you know, they do these things months, months, if not a year beforehand.
Otherwise, when they're filming, you know, oh, we got to get Madonna's pretty mission about like
a prayer and they can't use it. Well, then you all that filming you just did is for nothing.
So it's an interesting note too. And not for nothing. Madonna has worked so hard to be one of
these artists that actually owns the majority of her work. She does. So I think that for one,
that is noteworthy about her and her career and her legacy. And she's one of those artists that
really paved the way for many Taylor Swift's and other artists to learn to do this. But it's also
says something about her her feelings about this movie and all that. Well, it does. And the fact
that she does, she takes so much ownership of her of her mirror past and her music. I actually
appreciate that a lot. Yeah, that she it's not just because you know, there's a plenty artist
out there like, yeah, I should sit all over the place who cares. There's nothing wrong with that.
But the fact that she cares enough, that makes that's really cool. You know, and then one of the
thing with her too and just because of the song like a prayer and like a virgin and all these things,
they pop in my head, I don't know if I've ever heard her apologize. And I don't mean that
that's not a shot. I know what you mean. Yeah, but she's had a lot of quote unquote controversies,
right? And usually when a controversy, quote unquote controversy happens, like the sex book she
came out with or something. And it doesn't get received that well. So what is happens? The
celebrity comes out and says, you know, I apologize, blah, blah, blah. I've never heard her do that.
Like, you know, you like her. You don't. She is who she is. She stuck to her guns. She really did.
And all careers been like that. Can't help but respect it. Can't for myself. Travis and Jason
Kelsey have teamed up with General Mills for their own cereal. It's called Kelsey mix. And it's
technically not new. It just the just mixes their three favorite cereals, cinnamon toast crunch,
lucky charms, and Reese's puffs. Oh, wow. It'll be in stores in September. Jason says, quote,
the only thing Travis and I know more about football than football is cereal.
I mean, get your money, man. Get your money. Get your thing. Do your thing. And there's no, I mean,
how many times when we were kids, did we see, you know, special cereals come out for like our
two shows and all these things, you know, you know, more power to. Well, they're still coming out.
Yeah, they do. They still do recently, recently came out with a Wendy's frosty flavor. That's
right. That's right. Not about that. I'm telling you, Tom Brady is going into, I was tempted.
Tom Brady is going into the broadcast, both right. And he is the, you know, by all rights,
the goat, and many people are hyped up about that. Jason Kelsey being going into retirement,
whatever he does is going to dwarf whatever Tom Brady does, I think. I really do. I feel like
that's a hot take. But with the not only his popularity, he already had, and then you add on
the Taylor Swift popularity, he's going to be huge. And maybe it's just he, maybe he's hiding it
really well. But everything Tom Brady does is calculated. Yeah. He calculates every move he makes.
And partially that's because he, you know, who he is, you know, all the fame and all that stuff
that comes with it. So he's very careful about that. Jason Kelsey strikes me as a guy that's just,
here I am everybody. This is me. I remember before the, the Super Bowl or around that time,
just that video of him playing with his kids. Yeah. I thought that was one of the coolest
things ever just hanging out with his family kind of thing. That's great. I mean, you know,
he didn't have to do that. And he's like, Hey, check it out. This is me playing with my kid. So
it's a great moment. I think he's, I think he's very cool. It's a Muppety Monday, everybody.
We encourage you to check out what the Muppet, the podcast that Bri and I work so hard on. And
today's episode is the start of season two. All right. Hey. After your epic season one. Yes,
the 47 episodes season one. Imagination portal kicks off our second season. And we're doing
things a little bit differently now. So this year we have four hats. And the first hat is a movie.
And we're talking all your big major movies and everything. I will pull out a movie and whatever
movie we pull out, the next hat is a Muppet. And we pull out that Muppet. And whatever Muppet we
grab, we cast them as the lead role. So say we have, we pull the Princess bride. And I pull out
beaker. So beaker is Wesley. Nice. It's a little like that. Now we have other hats that we
put these Muppets into in situations. But what we do with the movie is okay, we have the lead role cast.
Then we cast the rest of the movie with Muppets. Nice. Perfect. So I could see sweetems as a very good,
you know, a physics. The under the giant. Yeah. Yeah. Some things like that. I think that it's,
you know, a little on the nose to put Miss Piggy as Princess Buttercup. I kind of like the idea of
putting Janice as Miss Buttercup. Oh, the bassist. Yeah. Man, I don't know. I'm not sure about
these. We have a lot of fun with this one. And it was a banger of an episode. Great work by Bria. If
you're curious, check it out wherever you get your podcasts. And of course, you can go to YouTube
and check out the video of it at what the Muppet encouraged you to. And thank you so much to
everybody who supported this pod and helped us build this. It's fun, man. Appreciate you. Our good
friends. It was cast. Rapids Community Theater getting ready for it's a madhouse. The production
dates August 3rd and 4th. Yeah. Get your tickets soon. They sell it fast. They do. Yeah. I actually
tried to reach out to Gretchen to find out. Should I talk about it? Did you guys already sell all the
tickets? But we do want to promote it and celebrate it because whether you can get tickets or not,
this is a fun show. It's a hopeful production. And find out if they got tickets open to find
it. Get your tickets at WRC Theater dot org. WRC theater dot org and keep in mind auditions for
their first main stage show of the 24 season. Drinking habits comes up August 12th and 13th.
Those will be audition dates. It's coming up fast. Super fast, man. We're going to get to a time
out. We're going to come back, wrap up the show with the top 10 fast food joints coming up. All
right. Morning show WF HR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody. Morning show at WF HR. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. Thank you so much for joining us. We're going to take
it right to the top of the hour. And honestly, guys, I want to kind of impress and pull
audible here. Okay. But this top 10 fast food joints, this feels like more than a couple
minutes segment. You want to say this for Friday? You want to say that? That's cool. Yeah,
we can take our time with it a little bit more. Good. And we can get into some other good stuff
here. I wanted to mention certainly got some good stories of the day. I thought we could wrap up
on a 14 year old boy named Harold Teller launched a Harold's hopes for a hoops for hope,
which has raised thousands of dollars for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Oh, wow. It's a nonprofit where they play basketball and do other different
events to raise money and awareness. Oh, that's really cool. Again, this young man is 14. Yeah,
amazing. His mom says it's all him. It's everything he envisions. He's an honorals student and
he plays travel ball and he finds time for this somehow somehow. Wow. My goodness. That's
incredible. That is so cool. Habitat for humanity got a team of workers from total roofing and
construction in Illinois to get an Air Force veteran a new roof for his home. Awesome. Wow.
The vet, Bruce Suggs has been struggling ever since his 11 year old granddaughter, Janice,
was diagnosed with leukemia, but his leaky roof was fixed. Suggs gets emotional when he talks about
it because the job would have cost him over $20,000. That's great. It's like winning the lottery,
says. Something as simple as that. And another one here, researchers at Georgia State University have
found that antibiotics in llamas might hold the elusive cure for HIV. What? Wow. Wow. A
treatment that could neuralize nearly all strains of the virus would be a gigantic game changer
in the fight against HIV and AIDS. How about that? And we may have llamas to thank for this.
Lama's are awesome. Lama's. They do spit. They do spit. They do spit. You need to watch out for
that. But thank you to the llamas out there. We appreciate that. That's pretty cool.
That is all you llamas. Some pretty cool news, right? Yeah. I got some other good news for you.
Everybody will get to that in a moment. But first, want to get some local things. Want to make
sure that we have time for that. That comes first. Seth, we wanted to let people know about our
lineup for today. So let's get right into that. Okay. Of course, in just a little bit, you'll
have Matt Nair on air. Be sure to join us for that. It's going to be a fun show. Jane and Greg do a
great job on that one. Be on lookout. We'll have Jane and Greg on the next director's cut as well.
That's right. That's going to be fun. A little bit later today. The Maggie Dawn show from
2 to 4. Join Maggie as she is. I cannot wait to hear what Maggie has to say after the weekend.
She's going to be. It'll be interesting. Whatever it is. She's going to have something for you.
That's for sure. We're looking forward to that. And from four to five Monday through Friday,
midday magazine. Yeah. Join us for that one. Everybody in part one. We're going to kick things off
with our good friend from the Wood County Health Department. Nikki's going to join us in part one.
And then at 4.30 today, the 77th Alice in Dairyland. Haley Heitzel is going to join us.
Hey, our new Alice. Very cool. You get to know her a little bit. That's going to be a lot of fun
looking forward to it. And then after that, you will have playmakers. We'll be here. I'll be here.
It's a solo show for me today, everybody. I'll be running the show so I'll need. But I'm not alone.
I've got the best listeners and radio that you're joining me. Call up everyone. Yeah. If you have
sports thoughts and feelings, today's a good day for it because I'll be solo. So we're
I won't be here and do a victory lap of the brewers sweeping the twins this week. So you can just
just get it. Get it. Get on it there. Well, between that and Seth destroying me in fantasy
baseball, he was not allowed into the show this week. That was pretty crazy. That's very, very
pretty. But yeah, we got a great lineup for you. And we got other great things going on here in
town. I wanted to tell you about like, of course, these free meals for kids are still going on
through the middle of August. Lunch is available at Mead Park near the splash pad up until August 16th
from 1130 to 1230. And at Whitter Park near the shelter outside of the aquatic center until August 16th
from 1130 to 1230. Big thank you to everybody that makes that happen. Yes. And we have a blood drive
going on today over at the Wisconsin Rapids or former Eastern High School music room at 311 Lincoln
Street. That is going today from two to seven. Head on over there and donate if you can. We
appreciate all you heroes out there doing so. Keep in mind, Steven's Point Blood Donation Center
has openings almost every day for you. Reach out to them over there for that. And coming up this
Friday, 10 to three Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department is hosting a blood drive at 1511 12 Street South.
Very cool. Lots of opportunities and the need is great. It is, especially in summertime.
In Tuesday, we got a great event going on with our Wisconsin Rapids City Band. This makes me so
sad because there's only three more opportunities to see the city band band. And it means we're running
out of summer. No. No, sorry. But the next one is going to be really cool. It's happening tomorrow.
Of course, at Robinson Park, I know the weather is going to be a little iffy. So the backup is the
pack at Lincoln High School, just in case everyone goes to 730. This week, they are being joined by
the swing doctors. It's the dance party. The one they do every year. So join them for some great
swing music. And it's an organization that's been around since, what is it? 1870? Yeah.
The band, the city band in Rapids. So come and join them there. It's always a great show,
everyone. Yeah. Great time. And what time is that? 730 on Tuesday. All right. And of course,
our United Way has their stuff, the school bus desk collaborative going on right now. If you can
pick up extra supplies and drop them off, we greatly appreciate it. And certainly sign up all
those kiddos that need to be signed up. Get in there before August 1st. That is the cutoff time.
Find out more at UWSWAC.org. And be sure to follow the United Way on social media. It's a great
way to keep up the date. What they're doing. Seth, you guys are doing something cool over there
at the Moravian Church. One more reminder. Keep reminding you, everybody, because the book sales
coming up this fall. So you've got till September 15th to bring over your summer reading, whatever
books you got, bring them to the parking lot of the Moravian Church at 310. First Avenue South.
We've got a bin outside. Just fill up the bin. And we will take whatever books you have for us.
All right. Keep in mind, I'm sorry, I apologize, everybody. The 24th is Wednesday. That is when
that blood drive is taking place. All right. And that is also when the rafters get done with the
Northwood League All-Star break. That is going on until Wednesday. So keep in mind I won't have
any rafter baseball until then. Yep. And one more good story for you. 26-year-old grad student at
University of Missouri, Kansas City spent a year living as at a senior living facility
where she would share her love of music and playing the piano with the residents in exchange
for free room and board. Wow. Hey. She wasn't taking anyone's place. She was serving as a
quote artist in residence. Huh. Cool. Wow. That's pretty cool experience. Man. That's pretty cool.
That may start a trend. It might actually be a trend. How about that? How about that? You know,
so many other things. That's something. Keep an eye on that one. That's going to be a story.
Great show today, you two. Yep. It was fun, man. Yeah. Be good to each other out there. We'll
talk to you soon and then later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE
Wisconsin Rapids and always streaming on the Civic Media app.
