The Kitchen’s Open : 2 Tasty Korean Ingredients (Hour 2)

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Hello and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR.

Today we're going to talk about two ingredients found in Korean cooking that are not only

fun to say but are also delicious.

Wow, you've really been on an Asian ingredient cake lately, haven't you?

Oh, I shouldn't I be.

Not only are the most recipes free from dairy, they often also don't have tomatoes in them.

Oh, so we're just going to talk about foods you like.

What about the rest of us?

Don't you remember that entire episode we did about pie?

That was just a year and a couple months ago on June 26, 2023.

Oh, chair of the North American pan of the Midwest crust of the Central Wisconsin filling

of the pie council.

How many times do I have to tell you, you can just call me Motown PC Top for short.

We're back to the anagrams again, aren't we?

I kind of like it.

It embodies not only my love of pie but also my love of music.

That's delightful.

Can we get back to the topic, please?

Yes, I want to get to all the fun and possible to pronounce words Melissa has in store for

me today.

I have a great respect for Korean culture and I apologize in advance for massacring the

names of the food.

Are you sure we can't talk?

Just talk about pie, you know, we've entered my birthday month and personally, I think

it.

No, we can't.

We must talk about what I think of as Korean chef-foyerity.

Hmm.

Huh?

I haven't tried it completely yet.

But the pictures I've seen of takbaki look like giant beef oroni minus the beef.

Whoa.

First off, don't insult my Italian heritage with chef-foyerity.

But second, how can you have beef oroni without the beef?

I might not stoop to chef-b, but hamburger helper is actually a decent meal in a pinch

and I can make it by myself.

So I'm kind of proud of that.

I'm impressed, James.

Thank you.

Thank you.

But I know we're not talking about beef oroni because I've absolutely no issues reading

that word.

What are these fun Korean ingredients you mentioned earlier?

Are they using, are they using in making oh no, I see you coming.

Oh, it is takbo, takboki, takboki.

You know that was pretty close.

Huh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not bad.

I even used a search engine to help me.

Did you use your friend?

Yeah.

Your friend helped me on that one.

Give me your neck.

Give me the silent treatment.

Well, one of the ingredients used in takboki, for sure, the other is optional, but I'm interested

in them both.

They are gochigaro and gochujang.

Gizu-tang.

Aren't you cute?

I haven't heard of these.

I haven't heard of these.

This is new.

I have been hearing them a lot more in the recipe videos that I've been watching on Facebook

Rills and on YouTube and it got me curious.

I mentioned gochujang last month during our kitchen's open segment on oyster sauce.

Yep.

Yet another episode on Asian cooking.

But you like oysters.

But oyster sauce tastes nothing like oysters.

I've heard that's true.

Not having tasted either.

I have no horse in the race, but I'll stick to my two cents and just stick my two cents

into just so I can say something that's not hard to pronounce.

Just wait.

I read ahead and it gets worse for you, my friend.

I am very scared right now.

Actually, I am really enthralled with this ingredients.

And I do think it's fun to say, but I'll break it down for you.

Could you first tell us what it is?

The word is great to hear, but I'm pretty sure many of our listeners don't speak Korean.

I certainly don't, so what is it?

Gochujang is a thick crimson chili paste.

So gochujang is the Korean word for chili peppers and jang means fermented paste.

Gochujang on the other hand is Korean red pepper flakes.

Gochuj, again, is the word for chili pepper and gochujang means powder.

All right.

Following so far.

Red peppers are good things.

I love chili, chili peppers.

Yeah.

So I found gochujang at point market and Vietnamese restaurant in Steven's point.

The very helpful clerk didn't make me feel bad for mispronouncing the word.

I was just like, do you have some of the gochujang stuff?

Like, I don't know what it is.

She just asked me if I wanted the paste or the powder.

And I said the paste.

She was also the one who suggested using it to make techbucky.

So have you made it?

Kind of.

So I actually tried to make it last night, but it's not authentic because I haven't found

rice cakes yet.

Ah!

Now we're talking about cake.

What kind of kitchens open episode torture is this?

No, Asian cakes aren't actual cake like we think of cake.

In fact, they contain no gluten at all, which is what gives the cakes I love.

It's moist, sponginess and delicious texture.

You're killing me, Smalls.

Is this a cake off?

Are we pitting cakes against each other now?

No, no, no, no.

I'm just pointing out that Asian rice cakes are extremely versatile and can be used in

both sweet and savory recipes.

So kind of like what you say about oatmeal.

Exactly.

I quit.

You can't.

We haven't even talked about a gochujuru or gochikajang or what did I just say?

It was close.

You said them better than I did the first time.

Yeah, that's not bad.

But whoever you say them, they're important ingredients and they're in some fun and delicious

Korean dishes.

Like kimchi.

That's right.

Hey, I've heard of that.

It's kind of like a Korean sauerkraut.

I actually have heard of that.

That's not a bad way of describing it for those of us who have no experience of it.

Wikipedia describes it as a traditional Korean side dish, consisted of salted and fermented

vegetables, most often napa cabbage and Korean radish.

It also contains a wide selection of seasonings, including gochujuru.

That's where the spice comes from.

Now I tried kimchi once in high school.

For some reason, I remember it being in my biology class, which is a little weird, right?

I would love to try it again and I want to try making it myself so I can control the heat

because I really can only handle a little bit.

Have either of you tried kimchi?

I don't think so.

Long time ago, when I was living out in California, it was big out there.

I was going to say, you can't go anywhere and find it there easily.

I want to say, if I got it right, I may have tried it like the Mongolian grill or something

like that.

I walked into that place and walked out just blown away because I did not think that

was my kind of place and I would go there right now.

It was really good.

Yum.

Was it spicy?

Yeah.

That's a good reason that I ended up with gochujang instead of gochujaro.

Although I could control the amount of powder I add to things, the gochujang paste is delightful

in recipes.

According to suchef.co.uk, gochujang is a thick and savory paste.

It adds body and texture to recipes as well as flavor.

It's a little spicy but it has a rich umami taste that adds warmth, tang, and a little

bit of sweetness to dishes.

It sounds good to me.

Everything should have umami taste.

Umami.

Umami taste.

We can say umami more.

Umami.

Fun work.

Surprisingly, actually, most things do and we only recently discovered that flavor and

gave it a name that is being widely spoken of.

Yes.

Huh.

That's really interesting.

Okay.

So let's talk recipes and what you can do with these ingredients.

The first is a simple barbecue sauce made by whisking gochujang with soy sauce, garlic,

and a hint of honey or brown sugar.

Brush that on chicken and beef and you have an instant hit.

I can't wait to try it.

It does sound very good.

I definitely would try that.

Very good.

I'm guessing that's pretty um um what we consider Korean barbecue.

Yes.

That's pretty standard.

If you read Korean barbecue recipes, there are some other ingredients like vinegar, I

think like rice wine vinegar and a couple of other things to add a little more acidity

I think, but I was trying to keep it real simple.

So now the I made and this is another recipe actually I made the other day.

It's a delicious cucumber dish made with just cucumbers and a sauce made with one quarter

cup soy sauce, one quarter cup rice vinegar, two tablespoons of sesame oil, one tablespoon

of gochujang, and one tablespoon of maple syrup in some

lime juice.

You just whisk that up and I could probably eat that every day.

The trick was spiral cutting the cucumbers so they could soak up even more of the dressing.

Ah very cool.

Now the spiral cut all you have to do is you place chopsticks on either side of the cucumber.

I used metal straws because then they didn't taper.

Okay.

And you slice the cucumbers in a straight line.

Then you flip the cucumber over completely and cut it again at an angle all the way across

the cucumber.

When you pick it up, you have a spiral of cucumber and it's great.

It's like an accordion.

You can like it.

I like that.

It's a play of your food.

Come on, playing with our food is fun.

Yeah.

Okay.

Before we run out of time, we have to talk about tecbaki.

Yes.

The whole reason for this episode.

Yes.

Tecbaki.

Did I say that right?

Did I did?

You got it.

You got it right that down.

Okay.

But however you say it, I really want to try it because it looks delicious and I actually

did try to make it last night.

Okay.

But I need to find a source for rice cakes.

But you could also just make the sauce and pour it over any pasta.

Back to the cakes again.

But rice cakes are just that.

Rice formed into different shapes.

There's a lot more that goes into it and the making of rice cakes and the rich history

that goes with it, it's actually fascinating.

But in the interests of time, we'll skip that for today.

But that's what I wanted to learn about.

Well then maybe you should take over the segment then.

No.

I just read what I'm given and slip in little nuggets of information I store in my head

when it's relevant.

Fine.

So besides the rice cakes, the sauce for the Tecbaki is made with two tablespoons gochujang,

one tablespoon soy sauce, one tablespoon sugar, one teaspoon of minced garlic and you can

add chopped green onions for garnish.

If you have gochujaro, you can add that for spice if you want more.

The gochujang is actually, it has a fair amount of spice as I learned last night.

No.

Many of the recipes call for boiling the rice cakes in water or broth with onions then

adding the sauce.

You end up with this orangey red sauce on what look like giant, straight elbow noodles if

you're using the rice cakes.

I honestly can't wait to try this with a proper ingredients, but guys I made this last

night.

And I have a picture to show you.

I was going to try to bring in an example, but I didn't think you wanted to smell Korean

chef boy or diet nine o'clock in the morning.

And I didn't have time.

You also get to see my fridge scape because it's in the fridge, so I just took a picture

of it.

Oh yeah, that looks.

Yeah.

So I made it with, I had some chickpea lasagna noodles.

So I.

For some reason.

For some reason.

Which looks good.

Yeah.

I didn't make the lasagna with them obviously, but they need to get used up because they

expired last month.

So.

So I broke them up into pieces and I mixed together the sauce in the pan.

I threw in the onions and the pasta and then brought that to a boil.

The recipe that I followed for the amount of water I put in there, called for two thirds

of a cup of gochujang, which was probably too much for me because I can't only handle

so much spice, but it's delicious, guys.

It turned out so good and what I ended up doing because it was really, really spicy.

I mixed in a little bit of the lactade cottage cheese that I buy, so it has lactade added

to it, so that to help counteract the lactose that my body doesn't like.

Right.

It tasted like my mom's lasagna.

Really?

Yes.

It was so good.

And I had added cabbage in there too to just have a vegetable because I was not going

to make a separate thing.

I wanted one pan dinner, but it was so good.

Nice.

I can't wait to eat the leftovers.

Very cool.

Awesome.

But I got to find a place to source the rice cakes because I do want to try them.

Yeah.

Would you have tried this without it being blunt content, being part of the segment?

Oh, yeah.

That's cool.

Most of these content that I write is because it's something I'm curious about.

I think that's cool.

Two sets point.

But I also know sometimes you've done things just because you get down a rabbit hole.

And so I was curious about that.

No, this is one I definitely wanted to try, especially because that nice young lady in

Point was like, oh, yes, you should just look up Tik-Pakki.

It's really good.

And if you look up recipes for it, a lot of them do call for cheese.

They'll add cheese to it.

The base recipe, and this is a very common street food in Korea.

And something you can get there, like anywhere.

So I think that it, yeah, it's a very delicious food if you stand a little bit of spice.

Oh, bring it on.

Well, I think we better wrap this up for today.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Yay.

Very good one.

This is really fun, Melissa.

That was really fun.

Thank you so much for that one.

Although, I'm talking about my character next time.

So we'll get into that.

You know, as long as Seth is talking to you, I could really use some direction on my character.

What's my motivation, Melissa?

We'll talk during the break.

We'll be back with a good friend.

Such a pain in the butt.

We'll be back with our friend, Todd Heiser, right here on Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth, Melissa, James, all here with you, and we are joined at the beginning of every month

by our good friend, Tom Heiser, or the monthly veterans update.

Tom, good to see you.

Thanks for being here.

Well, thank you very much for having me.

I really appreciate it.

Always appreciate the time and everything that you and our friends put into this, not only

this segment that this community, Tom, would greatly appreciate that.

Let's go ahead and dive right in.

What do we have up first?

Well, we've got a busy September, our August coming up.

It's crazy.

In fact, Beth's breakfast is going on this morning.

That's the first Monday of every month.

Next Monday, September, Labor Day.

So they're going to move in.

Yeah, I don't know what day that's going to be.

Tonight, military Monday at Rooter Field, weather permitting.

Yes.

Cross your fingers, everybody.

Yeah.

The weatherman is whatever.

We have the L.I. Vets meeting on Tuesday night.

The VFW post at 6 o'clock.

Leaders from all the veterans groups get together and plan out what's going on next month.

I don't want to override each other.

Also, Wednesday, August 7th is Purple Heart Day.

Yeah, that's a good one, Tom.

That's one that I know that we usually like to highlight every year.

What is that day specifically about?

It's honoring service people that were injured in the line of duty.

Yeah.

Purple Heart.

You know, and I appreciate that, Tom.

Just I know that it seems like there's some younger people out there.

I think for a lot of generations, we know we hear Purple Heart.

We know what it means.

And some of my students, like a little past year, I brought it up and they didn't know

what it meant.

We had to get into a detail of what the Purple Heart is.

It's one of the most important things that we can give to our soldiers.

So I wanted to make sure that we really hit that home.

What the Purple Heart is.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Right.

And it's one of the higher ranking medals.

Medals have a higher Archi, so to say.

Yeah.

And it's kind of high up there.

Yeah.

We'll go for that one.

On Thursday the 8th is Rudolph American legions, monthly meeting.

And then on Saturday at the 10th is Agent Orange Awareness Day.

That's primarily for the Vietnam era of veterans.

It's not just Vietnam, it's Thailand and a few other areas where they have associated

Agent Orange with.

And on Tuesday, your favorite one, Morning Joe and Dole.

Yeah.

It's great.

What's up?

Great.

Orange Stevens Point Wednesday's the Heroes Cafe, the 14th, starting about 730.

And let's see.

Also on the 14th is Navajo Code Talkers Day from World War Two.

Oh.

That was really, somebody was really thinking on that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's especially if you haven't done any homework on that one or done any, like looked

into that one.

It's one of the most fascinating pieces of our history.

Like how that all broke down, how that happened, where the idea came from.

The people that put work and time into it and everything.

It's a great day to be able to, I don't know much about that.

Really dive into it.

Go down that rabbit hole.

I guarantee you, you're going to be fascinated by what you find.

It is exactly.

That's a fantastic idea and probably saved a lot of the war.

Absolutely did.

Absolutely.

And none on Wednesday, the 14th is American Legion Post 9's meeting.

Thursday is the VFW post, the 15th are meeting at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the 16th

and 17th.

That's a kilner cornfest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a fun one.

Okay.

Give me that this year.

I didn't get much corn yet.

And a VFW is the only organization selling sweet corn out there.

You're old, that's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very good.

That's a good one.

Now money will go back into the community.

We really appreciate it.

And on Tuesday, we have a VFW night at Culver's from 4 to 8.

So a percentage of that sales during that time frame goes directly to the VFW.

One of the more win-win situations in our community where you get culverts and you're

putting back into the community helping our vets who help us.

It's a win-win situation.

Right.

I'm like the most on the clock last year.

Everybody has to eat.

Yes.

That's true.

That's true.

Why not get some culverts and put back into your community at the same time?

And then Friday and Saturday, we have our VFW poppy drive.

The poppy is an interesting concept.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Tom's handed me one right now.

Yeah.

The poppy money is specific.

It does not quarter the local VFW as such.

We cannot use it for paying our bills.

This has to go to stable veterans, veterans already sick, veterans in need is where it goes.

So this is a separate pocket, so to say, where that money when it goes, veterans, dependents

and orphans of deceased veterans who are in need, who are wearing and display the red

poppies, continue to honor the lives lost in service to our country.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, information.

I don't know if everybody knows.

Thank you for sharing them that time.

No problem.

I'll get you more information.

Yeah.

Let me take you back on my computer.

Yeah.

And then on Wednesday of the 28th, this year's cafe again.

And then on the 29th is Marine Corps Reserves Birthday.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Another important one.

And then on Friday of the 30th, we're out at Nekusa for the football game.

Cool.

Where did somewhere go?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It's meant to come and do an ad.

High school football just popped in my brain like, yeah, geez.

That's right.

It's right around the corner.

Exactly.

You know, we present the colors out there and we work with the VFW and Nekusa Ice

when they're very, very receptive to us.

And it's a very good, nice field.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Be there.

Mm-hmm.

And every Wednesday, Tom, really do appreciate you noting this one as well.

The mobility for VFW.

Right.

The mobility for VFW shop over in Wapaka.

We have VFW from Rappens that drive over there every Wednesday.

Yeah.

They work on wheelchairs, they work on other devices for people that have issues, they work

on beds.

Oh, yeah.

If you get an opportunity to stop over there and see it because it's really something.

Mm-hmm.

If you have something to donate, give them a call at 715-281617,

and they'll set up something to pick it up, pick up old style wheelchairs, the new mobility

wheelchairs, you know, with the batteries and new motor and stuff like that, so.

Handsome ones.

Yes.

They do a lot of great work.

Reach out to them if you would need.

And we had one to wrap up on Tom, the VFW ultimate car rifle.

Yes.

That's still going on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

On the acclimons, 400 cubic inch engine.

Mm-hmm.

We're talking muscle car.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Contact any of VFW member as there's some other places that have these tickets as well.

With the crews we just had.

Yeah.

If you look in the mirror, you will look good in that car.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

You are not kidding.

You are not kidding.

You are not kidding.

Tom, did you have anything else Tom?

No, that's about it.

Okay.

We're getting busy, and that's the way it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We encourage you to, we never you come across any of these events, spread the word about

them in your community, attend them as much as you can help those that help us.

Like, RVFW always has and always does.

Tom, if people have follow questions or maybe they want to get information to you or find

out more about some of the things we talked about, is there a way to reach you?

Yes.

He's called 715-600-0401 or Commander Sean Plant will answer the phone.

And answer any questions that you have.

Also a good source for raffle tickets.

You don't want it for more than one, you don't want it.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And Tom, we look forward to every time, every month when you're able to join us.

So the audience knows Tom leaves these notes with us.

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Greatly appreciate you, Tom.

Thanks so much.

And we really appreciate your stations, stations, plural, doing this for us because it does help

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Yeah.

Appreciate you, Tom.

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Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

So I, I, I want to talk about the new Deadpool, the Wolverine movie, but I don't want to

spoil any of the cameos for anybody.

So if you don't want that spoiled, if you have not seen it yet, earmuffs, earmuffs,

but, uh, Wesley Snipes showed up in it.

Whoa.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

Wesley Snipes showed up as late.

Whoa.

Wesley snipped out of my.

That was a cool.

I freaked out.

Oh.

I was still freaking out.

I still am.

I still am.

I still am.

It is incredible that they made this happen.

I cannot express how incredible it is that they made this happen of all the cameos.

I thought might show up in that movie.

This one, I would have bet you money wouldn't happen.

And when I saw him pop up on that screen, I literally popped up in my chair.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

I'm looking at the people.

It's played.

You turned right up.

Um, so Wesley Snipes broke two Guinness world records thanks to his return as Blade

in Deadpool and Wolverine.

He now has the longest career as a live action Marvel character.

His return comes 25 years and 240 days after his first appearance in Blade 98.

And if it weren't for his cameo, Hugh Jackman would have taken the record after first appearing

an X-Men in 2000.

Patrick Stewart had previously held the record.

Snipes also broke the record for longest gap between character appearances in Marvel.

The last time he played Blade was in 2004, Blade Trinity, so which is a gap of 19 years

of difference.

Wow.

That record previously been held by Alfred Molina, who played Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 and

then in the most recent stuff, Spider-Man No Way Home.

Snipes says quote, what really?

I get a certificate.

Do I get a certificate?

He said a huge thanks to Guinness world records.

He was actually really humbled by this and it was a really like kind of a sweet moment

for him.

He's like, really?

I'm a record holder.

He was all like a little kid about it and everything.

People forget.

People forget that was the first one.

Oh, yeah.

Blade was the first Marvel movie.

Now this was obviously before all the continuity stuff and they all connected to each other.

But that was the first one that actually got decent, big budget that was actually made.

So he does have a little special place in the whole Marvel thing.

There is a really unique and really cool thing that they did with this where Sony, Fox,

the whole craziness that was going on with all that stuff, all that, so much of that,

if not all of it, has been, it's all on Marvel now, Disney owns all of it.

So it's all kind of like straightened out.

But in the movie, they're kind of saying goodbye to some of these characters that didn't

necessarily get a send off, that didn't get a goodbye in some of that.

So you've got a lot of the previous characters from that regime showing up in this movie.

And then getting a chance to kind of not just say goodbye to these characters, but for

audiences to get to say goodbye to these characters.

It's a really cool, well written way of doing it, while also getting the cameo fixed that

everybody wants and everybody was, of course, yeah.

But it works out story-wise, like it isn't shoehorned in, it isn't forced in, it seems

perfectly with the rest of the story.

That's honestly, I've been thinking a lot about this because I didn't want to just

write, come out of the movie and say, that's the best movie ever or anything like that.

It is easily for me top three greatest superhero movies of all time.

Dark Knight is always going to be number one for me, selfishly.

But honestly, I would say the Spider-Man movie No Way Home is right up there just because

of the writing of combining all those different multiverses and making it all work.

This one, it is, one of the things that we like about Deadpool, that we like about some

of those movies is the Breaking of the Fourth Wall.

He not only breaks the fourth wall in these, but also breaks the fourth wall of other

franchises and other movies in doing this and combining it all together.

It's incredibly done, writing wise, like just the writing alone of the movie, let alone

all the different things.

It had to have been a heck of a writing process to get all that together.

And it just over the weekend broke the passion of the Christ record for the greatest selling

R-rated movie around the world of all time.

Like shattered it, shattered it.

That's a record that stood for like 20 some years and everything.

Just really, really impressive what they were able to pull off with this movie.

It sounds like you're wrapping up talking about that because all I heard was, you're most

of that.

Sorry.

I just tuned out.

Thank you for you to get to the end because one of the ballet threads that I follow on

Reddit, there was a, I'm assuming a gal in a dead pill costume doing, doing a ballet routine

on point.

Oh, that's so cool.

I almost sent it to you, but the dance got a little, um, um, R-rated, we'll say, which

would make sense.

No, probably PG 13, but, um, but I just did, that was when I didn't want to send it to

you.

No, I could see.

But I thought of you at the beginning.

I was like, oh, I should send it to this to him.

And I went, no, I should not.

I appreciate that.

New on your small screen tonight, Olympic highlights from Kevin Hart and Keeney Thompson

on peacock at six prime time Olympic coverage begins at seven.

Do a great job of recapping the day's events.

The Bachelor Red is on its seven on ABC and streaming premiere of One Life on Paramount

Plus, Jonathan Flynn and Anthony Hopkins star as British humanitarianists who helped

save hundreds of Jewish children from being murdered by Nazis in Czechoslovakia during

World War II.

Helen and bottom Carter is also in this one.

Um, um, it's going to be a tough watch, but I'm seeing that one, I'm definitely seeing

that one.

I did want to remind everybody, it is a Muppet Monday, uh, Bri and I's podcast, what

the Muppet have a new episode premiered before you get it wherever you get your podcasts

and be sure to check out YouTube and, uh, subscribe to the page.

Thank you to everybody who has done so already.

All right.

Uh, we'll take a time out here.

We'll get that out of the way.

Before we end the entertainment segment, I just have to do one more shout out to the

Hopo production cast and crew of It's a Madhouse.

I got to see it yesterday.

It was so good.

Nice.

I can't believe that these young people are able to pull off a full length show in three

weeks.

Amazing.

It is so amazing.

Very impressive.

Yeah.

Super impressive.

They did such a great job.

Congratulations, Steph.

You guys, you knocked it out of the park.

Yeah.

Shout out to the parents to drop the kids off to shout out to all the people working backstage

and a big shout out to that whole entire team because it takes a team to make something

like that happen.

And the house was full.

I don't.

I'm not surprised.

One bit.

Good to hear.

Good to hear.

Thank you for that, Melissa.

Be sure to support WRCT and follow along with mwrctheter.org and follow them on social

media.

We'll come back.

And we're talking a WFHRWI parking lot party.

Open house.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa, Seth and James here with

you.

Wrap it up the show.

We're going to take it right to the top of the hour.

Closing time.

Open all the doors and let you out into the world.

We are interesting coming out of this song to talk about a party.

But we got one coming up, everybody.

We do.

WFHRWI parking lot party is coming up.

We are just a handful of days away.

Yeah.

A little over a week.

Yeah.

It's happening on Wednesday, November.

Whoa.

Where did that come from?

August.

August 14.

It's going fast enough.

To be fair.

We're all going to need a party in November.

We're all going to need a party.

Maybe we'll just have a reprise.

Yeah.

There you go.

But this is going to be a blast, everybody.

This is sort of an open house where we want to have you all come down and join us.

We're not only going to have you be able to check out the building and everything, but

you're going to be kind of taking over the building a little bit.

Some of our airwaves.

Yeah.

We hear from four to six broadcasting, and hopefully we'll have some local guests on

with us.

Maybe I'll have you on.

Sure.

Maybe I'll have you on.

You come by and we'll see.

We're also going to be doing a fun thing over on WIRI.

Yeah.

So talk about that.

Oh.

Oh, okay.

I must be involved in this one.

That was great.

No, we're going to be involved in this one.

That was great.

No, we're going to be involved in this one.

No, we're going to be involved in this one.

That was great.

We want your requests to play during the party.

So we're going to play it over the air in WIRI as well as out in the parking lot.

So you get to hear the whole thing.

We want your requests by August 11th.

That is the deadline for that.

Make sure you get it to us by going your emails.

Doesn't matter.

Like Seth at civicmedia.us or anyone here, we'll get the information.

We want you to get them in early.

So if we don't have it in our library, we can add it to that before then.

So make sure you get there.

You can also text us on the WIRI text line.

That's right.

And we've also got one.

We've already got one from there.

Yeah.

If they want to include a dedication, can they do that?

Of course they can.

We did.

Dedication.

Apology, to your wife, whatever it is, we'll do it.

We'll say it over the air.

That's great.

And then I'm really excited for the events for the kids.

We're going to have some fun stuff going on as well as taco social truck food truck.

You can get tacos and they have such a delicious menu.

Like I'm so excited for that.

I'm eating there like three times as well right here because they're going to be here

from noon to six.

And the events for the kids, I'm so excited about this, I can't wait.

If you have any interest in learning about what it's like being in radio, you're going

to have the opportunity to, we're going to have little outlines.

You can choose what job you want to try.

Do you want to be a news reporter?

Do you want to be a morning show host?

Do you want to be a radio DJ?

You're going to get the opportunity to do that, record it, and then I'm going to throw

it on a USB drive that you can actually wear on your wrist, which is kind of cool.

And you can take that home with you and show it to your friends and family.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And maybe even make James play a couple of them on air during a life.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You know, we're going to do that.

Yeah.

So plan to bring your kids.

We're going to have fun.

We're going to have some, we'll have sidewalk chalk here for them to play and decorate our

parking lot area.

All right.

We're going to have food.

We're going to have fun.

We're going to have a hulu hoop contest.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

I say we do it at three o'clock.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the point is that James is going to do it.

Yes.

That's true.

He's going to be able to do it.

Exactly.

So it's not a him versus me who's going to win.

Yeah.

He's going to be able to do it.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

But if you want to, if you want to try your, your hips against James's, bring him down.

Yep.

Yeah.

We'll put a hulu hoop on you.

Take all challengers.

Take all challengers.

We're looking forward to that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

And this is one of those things that not only we're looking forward to this year, but

in the future.

We'd love to be able to keep doing this.

Yeah.

We're still working out some details with, but we might have edge VR here.

We might have some zoo animals here.

Yeah.

Like, there's so much in the works we're still working on.

Wood County is County Health Department is going to have a table with some information.

I'm hoping I haven't quite heard back from them yet, but a lot of details we're still

working on.

All kinds of surprises.

If you would like to be a part of the WFHRWRI parking lot party, reach out to us.

424-1300.

Just go ahead and reach out to us and we'll get in touch with you.

We're going to see what we can do.

And everybody else, put it on your calendars.

Yes.

Come on down.

Don't plan to park in the parking lot because that's where the party is.

But you've got all of the street down here.

Hopefully we're working on talking with a bread and butter shop across the way and having

parking nearby for you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on down.

Have a good time.

We look forward to seeing you, everybody.

We'll be talking more about this as we get closer to it.

But be sure to mark your calendars.

August 14th.

Wednesday.

August 14th.

Noon to six.

We're going to be here.

And we want you to come and join us.

It's going to be a lot of fun there.

Giveaways.

Yes.

Don't forget, if you can bring a donation for either a food pantry or we're going to find

out from the United Way when that gets closer if there are items that they still need for

the school supply drive, bring those things.

And hopefully we'll get confirmation from Chuck that your name will be entered into a drawing

for prize.

Yeah.

Right?

We're going to have a prize.

Yes.

We're going to have giveaways.

We're going to have prizes.

Yeah.

We're giving stuff away.

Give it a shot.

Give it a shot.

See?

You know, if anything, you can keep the tupperware.

You can keep the tupperware.

You got that.

You can free tupperware.

Wow.

That's generous.

Free tupperware.

But we got a kind of a that a right story here, a sort of.

So here, let's get into this.

I should be getting paid to say this, but one of the funnier ad campaigns in recent years

is the one about saving you from becoming your parents.

Let's face it, we're all becoming our parents whether we like it or not.

I mean, we all kind of knew that going into this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In a new poll, 27% of Americans say that they have, they're worried they're becoming their

parents.

27%.

That's it.

Yeah.

And the average person first realizes they act like their parents at 30 years old.

The survey also asked which court travel habits people are worried they picked up from

their parents.

And the top five were getting to the airport too early for getting something at home,

wanting to find the gate before doing anything else, going to the bathroom right before

or during flight boarding, and quote, making friends at the airport.

That makes you like your parents.

I do all this, those, except for the last one, I do all those things.

And I don't know, my parents don't fly anymore.

So I don't think that's them when you were saying that too, it's like my parents didn't

travel anywhere.

I mean, we went to one thing every year.

But beyond that, I don't know that I think that a lot of this, a lot of this happens

organically and certainly from DNA and those things.

But I gotta be honest, I've been, I think that my father's been trying to make me turn

into him.

I like going out of his way, like, I haven't thought much about it.

But when I was a little kid, my hair goes all over the place.

But my dad, Jimmy, we've got to pull it back.

We've got to put, so he even work and work and work to pull my hair back and everything.

So it was straight, slick back, the way he talks, like, no, no, you say it like this.

Like, the more I'm thinking about it, I think he has been

slowly, slowly over the years.

Jimmy, you're a minimi.

Just get away. Brenda, turn me into that.

Like, I don't think it happened organically.

I think he made it happen.

I've got a checklist.

Pictures of my mom, I am, I am looking more and more like her.

The her that I remember from being a kid.

Not like the, it's not just the pictures, but it's also the, like, when I looked at my

mom, I the visual, and I look in the mirror and I'm like, yeah.

That's a carbon copy right there.

Yeah, that's it.

What's been interesting to me, I think we know this part of it, what is, what has been

really fascinating to me is seeing like the, the connections with my kids and other family

members, my daughter, my oldest daughter, Briya, like, it looks almost just like my mother

and has so many mannerisms of my mom and so many of those things.

My, my, my son, JC, he looks and acts so much like my little brother and so many of

those things.

So that, like, seeing some of that has been very interesting to me, turning into your parents

is one thing, but seeing like other, you know, these other connections and stuff.

Yeah, I see that with my nieces and nephews sometimes too, where I'm like, oh, yeah,

you look a lot like this other cousin, like it's, it's interesting, it's family ties.

And I should put this out there too, because well, my daughters seem to be okay for the

most part.

It's on my poor son is, I have a coffee with Izzy last weekend and stuff and we're, we're

going up for coffee and we're standing in line and she's getting her stuff and, and she

asked me politely, you know, do you know what you're going to have?

And before I can say anything, she's like, oh, I think I know what this is and I'm looking

at her and I'm confused.

It's like, yeah, I'm going to get what I always get a mocha, she's like hot, right?

Like, yeah, shakes her head and so just like JC, it could be a hundred degrees outside

and my son and I are the only two people in the world that will order a hot coffee.

Like, so it does keep happening.

It just keeps on going on like that.

You can't shut that off.

So you 27, the rest of the, the people that didn't vote out there, you are like your parents

just get over it.

Yep, yep, yep.

Spove.

In some small ways, not obviously all of the ways, because you're a different person.

Right, right.

Getting to our schedule, we've got a good one lined up for you, of course, a little bit

later today.

Join us in.

I'll join us all week long Monday through Friday, Friday, Friday from midday magazine.

We've got a great one lined up for you today.

In part one, we're going to talk to Hannah Wendell Scott, food wise nutrition educator

with Wood County, UW Extension, looking forward to that.

That's going to be a great one.

And in part two, Wisconsin State District Assembly representative Scott Krueck is going

to be with us.

Really good conversation with Scott.

Encourage you to check that out.

Of course, after baseball, on your radio dial going strong, if my, what happened with

my paper here?

It's the humidity, James, everything sticking together.

We have got the boys of summer, our rafters hosting Minnesota tonight.

Be sure to check that one out.

And it's military Monday.

Yes, yes.

Get on over there for that.

Everybody.