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you in a little bit. We're going to talk time capsules a little bit later. All of
that coming up for you, everybody, but it's a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. You
know what that means.
Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this
Monday, October 21st. You know, with the weather starting to shift, at least it
was until this morning. And the temperature is starting to lower. It's time to talk
about chili. It's national chili month. And I know it's a dish that I really enjoy
having when the weather gets colder.
Yeah. So I tried to eat chili in the summer. And it's okay. It feels it tastes good
and everything. But there is something about this time of year that it just it hits
different. It hits the soul differently. But I imagine that it also affects our bodies
a little bit better. It helps our bodies a little bit more too.
I can only imagine. I feel like you want to be nourished by something like warm. And then
you add those like jalapenos. You want even more heat and warmth. Yeah. I get it. I can
do it. And that all depends on your spiciness. You know how well can you handle it? I know
growing up. I did not like chili. I just thought it was disgusting. I think it's
also spicy. Yes. Yeah. As a kid. And what tempted me to start was I went to a Wendy's
restaurant. I was looking for something and I'm like, I'll try it. And then you know
crumple up the crackers in there. And it's actually tasted decent.
For the audience, it doesn't know. Beth is from the Pennsylvania area and stuff too and
everything. And I'm a little surprised. But I know I know some people from that area.
They just seem to have such a wide palate with meats. Right. Like if you can put it out
of a piece of bread or a bowl, they'll they'll look at a try again. You're talking to
the woman who eats pig stomach. But I didn't want to do chili. Yeah. And it was when
I was in Ohio and we had friends that owned a Wendy's and we went and I'm like, okay,
I'm going to at least try it. And it wasn't bad. But it's also not spicy. Wendy's does
it very, very mild because of the variety of palettes that people have, right? Yeah.
Well, Beth, you're great about finding food information. What are what are the origins
of chili? You know how I love these stories? Oh, yeah. Well, according to what's cooking
America dot net, the only thing certain about the origins of chili is that it did not
originate in Mexico. If there is any doubt about what Mexicans think about chili, the
Dictionario de mecanimos published in 1959 defines chili con carne as and this is roughly
translated detestable food passing itself off as Mexican sold in the US from Texas to New
York. Whoa, that is harsh. So if chili didn't originate in Mexico, where did it come
from? I wondered that as well. So this led me to find the Oklahoma Historical Society's
website. Okay, history. I love that name. Okay, history dot org, which says in 1842 when
Sequoia and a contingent of Cherokee's from the Cherokee Nation visited the Rio Grande
Valley, seeking survivors of the 1839 Texan Cherokee War. The travelers were fed a fiery
concoction of chunks of meat boiled with peppers. Food historians speculate that chili originated
in Texas, Mexico border towns and spread north. In the 1880s, San Antonio's downtown was
famous for his Hispanic outdoor vendors called chili queens at Chicago's 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition. Texas style chili was popular and at St. Louis, 1904, Louisiana
purchase exposition, the Mexican Pavilion introduced other spicy foods. Afterwards, proving
the world's fairs success in educating Americans, chili parlors appeared around the Midwest.
Huh, but that is just speculation. You're right. Because what's cooking America states that
according to an old Southwestern Native American legend and tale, several modern writers
have documented or maybe just passed along, it is said that the first recipe for chili
con carne was put on paper in the 17th century by a beautiful nun, sister Mary of Agriina,
my mouth will work eventually. Well, it's okay. It's so early. It's so early. Agriina
of Spain. She was mysteriously known to the natives of the Southwest United States as
La Dama de Azul, the lady in blue. It is certain that the sister that sister Mary never
physically left Spain. Yet Spanish missionaries and King Philip IV of Spain believed that she
was the ghostly La Dama de Azul or the lady in blue of Native American legend. It is said
that sister Mary wrote down the recipe for chili which called for venison or antelope meat,
onions, tomatoes, and chili peppers. No accounts of this were ever recorded. So who knows?
So it makes sense when you hear it out loud that this could be, it seems like how not only this
food, but a lot of foods would travel, if you will, quote unquote travel, is through missionary
work or through spreading the gospel or any of these kind of things. But it's not something that I
think we really think too much about the or when it comes to origin stories of food or how we got
certain things. Certainly we think of immigration a lot and not just in our country, but in any part
of the world where they have an influx of a new person or a new type of people there. Italy,
especially southern Italy is famous for this, where so many of the meals that you love and
enjoyed today started because some northern Africans and some southern Sicilians got together
and shared, hey, you guys are doing this over here. That looks really cool. I can put a little of that
over here. Yeah, right. The blending of cultures coming together. Absolutely. And you never know that
maybe in different areas, people are coming up with the same idea, but they don't know they're the
other ones doing it. Right. So who knows? Was it this sister in Spain? Was it something that was
created here? Who knows? Well, and it speaks to, I think just for me, and this is certainly,
you know, something that hits close to home in some ways, but this is definitely something that
it makes me think of if it didn't happen, you know, Katrina, it's something kind of set you up there.
Yeah, absolutely. So if she never made it across the Atlantic Ocean, how did Chile get here?
Well, that's a good question. And what's cooking America.net never goes on to, but it does go on to
say on March 9, 1731, a group of 16 families, 56 persons arrived from the Canary Islands of Bexar,
the villa of San Fernando de Bar, now known as the city of San Antonio. They had emigrated
two Texas from the Spanish Canary Islands by order of King Philip the Fifth of Spain. These
families founded San Antonio's first civil government, which became the first
municipality in Spanish province of Texas. According to historians, the women made a spicy
Spanish stew that is similar to chili. I appreciate you, Beth. Beth gave herself all the hard
words. That's a real team player right now. Absolutely. So there seems to be a case of, a case
for Texas to be the origin in the United States of this. All recipes.com shares, quote, a likely
case comes from Dallas oil executive Everett Lee DeGoylor, a chili connoisseur who became a
historian in late years. DeGoylor's findings suggest that chili became popular campfire
campfire among cowboys on cattle trails, most of whom were Mexican, and the gold seekers
call her called 49ers on their way to California. In short, beef, fat, chili peppers,
and seasoning were combined into blocks, dubbed chili bricks, which were stored in sandal bags,
plucking part of a chili block into a pot of boiling water, transformed it into a convenient
filling meal. Wow. And that's such a precursor to certain things that we're doing today.
Right. Think bouillon. That's the kind of thing that they would compress it into,
and then you just put it into the boiling water. But nowadays, chili has become much more
of a regional preference and different areas of the country prepare it in different ways.
Even within the same region, you have different preferences like with or without beans,
with or without noodles, or even without having it over rice. In a search for types of chili,
I found anywhere from seven to 21 styles listed. That's crazy. So I thought there was a number
of things when I was in California when I was living out there that, you know, they had no idea.
I tried to get cheese fries out there, had no idea what I was talking about. Cheese curds,
they had no idea what I was talking about. I got out there in late November, was looking,
I wanted some chili, and I brought it up out there, and I had to double check this.
They're chili. They have dried anaheim pepper that they put in like all other chili. So think of,
I think a lot of people out here, you can't have chili without beans. That's how that is out there.
They won't even have chili if it doesn't have that pepper in it, that particular one.
You're so right about this bet. I would have no idea about that if I wasn't literally living
out there with them. Okay. So then, are you a chili person that likes noodles in your chili?
Or not? Because that's a controversy. Yeah. Right. And that's actually more of the Ohio style.
Mm-hmm. In Cincinnati, they require it, and it's served over spaghetti. So I personally,
even though I lived in Ohio for eight years, not a noodle family that comes to chili. Yeah,
yeah. Interesting. Right. I am not. I do like the beans though. That is my preference.
Seeing this, maybe the most controversial thing I say all day, which is saying something.
No beans. Can't do beans. I can't do beans in chili. I can't do it. To me, that's part of what makes
it chili. Yeah, my guess is what. You know, the beans and all of that. But it's also, you can do
the different kinds of meat, like we've heard with antelope, we've heard with venison. Yeah.
Most of us use ground beef. Yeah. Personally, to make it a little healthier, I like to use
turkey meat. Sure. Ground turkey breast. Mm-hmm. Or corn. You know, like you can throw that.
There's so many unique ways to eat it. Yeah. My dad will sit there and judge me as I eat my
chili without beans. He loves to pick them out. Sometimes. Sometimes. But otherwise, otherwise, I'll
just have it without or I'll make it without or so. Or I'll be the one making the chili so I can
make some without and some with. Right. Well, the seven styles that kind of are the most fundamental
are the Texas chili con carne, which we talked about before. And that's known as Texas red.
That one has no beans, but it has that tomato base to it. Okay. Ohio or Cincinnati chili is
chili, but it's served over spaghetti noodles. Indiana or huzur chili is spaghetti or macaroni.
Excuse me. Mixed into the chili. Oh. And I've seen some of that around here too.
Illinois has tavern style chili, which uses a beef suet instead of the ground beef.
Oklahoma, which we talked about a little bit earlier, calls for beans, but resembles
Texas chili. So Texas red. So Texas red chili doesn't have beans.
Oklahoma chili does. So that's what makes it a little bit different. Missouri or Kansas City
style is pulled pork and burnt ends of brisket or with barbecue sauce more than the tomato base.
And then you've got New Mexico's our chili verde, which uses the hatch chili, which is what gives
it its green color. Oh, okay. I'm working where that came from. And so even within that,
you've got a whole variation of that. You know, how do people do it? Oh, food. You're so
versatile. So with all the choices and styles, the most important thing when it comes to chili,
is there is no wrong choice. It's all personal. It's what you like. So for me, I like to watch
my cholesterol. So like I said, I tend to use the ground turkey meat. And I found a great recipe
on all recipes.com called simple turkey chili. I've also adapted it because I have a very
planned palette. So I don't like a lot of spice. You know, jalapenos mildly may be for me.
So the recipe calls for ground cayenne pepper, but I usually substitute that with ground white pepper.
And I lessen the amount of pepper that I put in there. I also had a bit more of cumin because
that is a spice that I enjoy. To me, that's what makes chili is that cumin. Oh, it's good stuff.
Chili is one of those meals where you can really adapt and change it to your taste. And there's a
plethora of options out there. So unlike the tests we took in school, there is not a right one
right choice. That's all personal. That's right. So well, thank you all for joining us today
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That's right. And with that, we will close the kitchen. Great work, Beth.
I think Beth, you inspired everyone to make chili as Ashley told us today, the weather is going to
start dipping and getting a little colder. We're going to feel that. We're going to all want to start,
you know, smell the smells and taste it. So whatever kind of chili you all make, you know,
it's going to be great. And call us. Let us know what your favorite chili is. What's your family
recipe or your go-to? But thanks for inspiring us with some really good. Keep your eyes
in the ears open because churches and other organizations are going to start to have chili fees. I
know our congregation is going to be doing that on November 9th. So, oh, looking forward to that.
Really reminding the audience about that. We get closer to it, Beth. Great work, as always.
Looking forward to next Monday's kitchen's open. Thank you. Be joining us every Monday at this
9 o'clock spot and we'll have another episode of the kitchen's open for you, everybody.
We'll be back in more show coming up right here at WFHR.
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Big thank you to the Brian sisters singing us in here. Appreciate that. I love those old
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424-1300. Love to have you a part of the team. Let's dive into a little bit of entertainment news
right now and Rockwell Hall of Fame happened over the weekend. My parents watched it and were
glued to it. They loved it. They were really enjoying the talking and a lot of that. The actual
performing I think was what they were looking forward to. They didn't enjoy that as much as the
talking. So I think they came out of it with enjoying a different aspect of it than they thought
they might, but really enjoying it. I mean like just rambling about it the next day and stuff
when I asked them about it and everything. They enjoyed it. From what I could hear, it was
successful and a lot of people did. The stars descended upon Cleveland over the weekend. A lot of
big highlights from this one, Dewey Lupa who we are just celebrating a birthday today. She's
saying believe with Cher who was inducted by Zendaya. Cher told the crowd who two divorces were
easier than getting into the hall. One of the classic quotas of all times. One of the things
my mom noted was some of these guys didn't sound like they used to or whatever. But that was
almost even more impressive that they were. I don't know if it was last week in Stevie Nicks
was the musical guest on Senate Live and you're certainly not going to hear Stevie Nicks from
rumors and some of those things. But what I was impressed by when I saw her out there was she
knew she was not the Stevie Nicks of young. So she worked with that and worked around it in some
ways if you will and found a way to I always admire an athlete that okay I made my living off of
my legs and being fast. Well as I got older I'm not as fast as I used to be. So how can I stay in
the game? Oh I can be good at this or I can be better at that. It's adapting to it is so so
crucial and like it mean as a wee age isn't it kind of nice to see other people age and not look
like they're still in their 20s. They sound like they're still in their 30s like I think it's it's
it's good. Yeah at which and as a note to the to the entertainment industry too we like to see you
age let yourself age graceful. Yes you don't need the Botox you don't need somebody. Right or
like how often do you see people go great you don't really. Right yeah cool in the gang we're
inducted by the greatest rimer of all time in my opinion Chuck D from public enemy James Taylor
and Robert Cool Bell performed get down a jungle boogie and a bunch of stuff. Nice. So that was
pretty cool to see I did see a little bit of that. My mother's favorite moment of the night and the
thing she was looking forward to the most was Diane Warwick getting inducted. Okay. And Diane
Warwick was inducted by Tibby on Taylor who's playing her in an upcoming biopic. Very cool.
So that they both had a moment there Diana saying walk on by and was joined by Jennifer Hudson
and other amazing boys. And Diane Warwick if you've ever heard her in interviews very straightforward
no putting on air. So you're gonna hear exactly what's ever in her head at the time and seem
to have a really good speech. There was an all cast performance all star cast for a foreigner
when foreigner was inducted. They were inducted by Demi Demi Lovato Chad Smith slash and
Sammy Hagar along Kelly Clarkson joined original singer Lou Graham and I want to know what love is.
So they really got into that one. And one of the big I would say one of the bigger moments of the
night was Roger Roger Dulltree of the who inducting Peter Frampton and then Frampton jammed out
to do you feel like we do with a little help from Keith Urban. So it was a nice tie-in right there
with that. And just as a side note James Taylor I mean Peter Frampton's live double live album
is still the greatest double live album being sold ever ever sold. But it's still on the top of
the charts. It's still selling. People are still buying it. My dad was telling me about this. He
was blown away by like Jimmy that's still a big album and everything. It's pretty impressive to
think of. And a tribe called Quest Dave Chappelle praised them for being cool and being different
at a time that nobody was really doing that with hip-hop. There's still one of my top three
favorite bands of all time. They were inducted by a bunch of great people too. And Mary J. Blige,
the thing that I was looking forward to the most. One of the greater voices I'll ever hear. Dr.
Dre met the man and deducted her. She's saying a couple of her big hits and they just really brought
it all home. Jack Black inducted Ozzy Osborne. That's cool. That is a good fit. That nice tip of
the head to the hall. That's a nice fit. Ozzy and Ozzy Osborne who sat on a bat throne and watched
an all-star performance of his solo hits featuring Chad Smith, Billy Eidel, Steve Stevens,
Maynard James Keenan from Tool, Wolfgang Van Halen, Son of Eddie of course, Zach Wilde,
Ozzy's main guitarist after kind of Randy Rhodes and some of those guys a little bit later
than Randy Rhodes. And then Jelly Roll came out and gave his take on Mama I'm Coming Home,
which was a little bit more of a soulful version of the song, which Ozzy talked about afterwards
being the best version he's ever heard of the song. That's incredible. I can't imagine what that
must have meant to Jelly Roll. He was talking about even before the show how emotionally he was
getting to do this and growing up on Ozzy Osborne and some of that music and everything.
Just pretty cool. A pretty cool night. Jimmy Buffett was finally inducted, although he got in with
a musical excellence award. James Taylor and Kenny Chesney performed in his honor. So did Dave
Matthews. So that was pretty cool. And Dave Matthews performed themselves after being inducted by
Julia Roberts. I don't know why Julia Roberts adopted them. I don't know the tie in there,
but that's cool. They brought in so much different diversity. Whether it's actresses or actors
and then other genres of music. Really cool. They really thought it out.
I guess for copyright reasons and a number of different things, you couldn't necessarily call it
the music hall of fame. But I think that from the very beginning, they've kind of really
hit the note with this where it's not a rock and roll encompasses so much. And it's so much
bigger than we realize. Country music is well established with the grand old operating. And they're
kind of country music hall of fame, if you will. That's really set in stone. But every other genre
really doesn't have that any type of music you're talking about. So if you're going to have a rock
and roll hall of fame, why not bring in more things? And I talk about this all the time with business.
If you're selling to half the country, well, why not sell to the other half? If you're Ben and Jerry's
and you make one of the greatest ice creams out there, why not make a lactose intolerant version
and double your profits? If you're the rock and roll hall of fame, it'd be a little silly to just
only have people with electric guitars in there. When we all know that music, they're all playing
the same notes. There's only seven notes. They're all just, they're all playing the same stuff.
Why not have a bigger genre and a bigger group of things brought in? I think that that's not only
smart on their part. It's accurate. I think that's the right way to do it. Now just because I don't
know, does this happen every year or is this like bi-yearly? Every year. Every year.
Okay, it's really fun. But that's cool. So lots of good artists and it's amazing to think like, wow,
who are they going to have next year? But there's so many great artists.
I may have a chance to talk about this a little bit more tomorrow, but I wanted to find out
from Laura and her girls and I know a bunch of other people in town went to Wisconsin for
Abyss Community Theaters. Spooky karaoke night on this Friday. I heard such good things about it.
I heard it was a really fun time and went really well. A shout out to WRCT for a great job there.
And keep that in mind, everybody. Pull up your WRCT homepage. Just go to wrctheater.org and get
your tickets for Let the Spirit Move You. The Silver Fox's most recent production is coming up
this Thursday. Well, be sure to get on over there and take that in. And if you want, I mean,
also find out maybe about performing with the Silver Foxes. That's not a bad idea. While you're
at it, get your tickets for White Christmas, Irving Berlin's White Christmas hits the stage,
December 5th. The holiday show from WRCT is coming right up. Be sure to get your tickets for that.
And as long as we're talking theater, let's get even more local with this one.
Our good friends at WRPS Junior Theater are presenting The Wizard of Oz.
Wisconsin Area Middle School Auditorium is where this will take place. Tickets can be purchased at
the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce and over at the Central Office for WRPS at 510 Pete Street.
As well as one hour before performance times. So you can get them the day of, but you can't guarantee
it. Take it. So don't even mess around. Get your tickets right now. And make sure that you can
take this in. You guys know how I feel about theater. And you know, I feel about our local theaters.
If I'm going to tell you, you got to take in a show, taking a kid show. Any chance you get, take
in a kid show. It's not only some of the most fun you'll ever have, but a really good theater.
It really is. These kids give everything they got. The Wizard of Oz. You know this one.
That's a no brainer right there. That's going to be fun. That's going to be a lot of fun.
There's performances our Friday, October 25th, Saturday, October 26th. Both of those shows are at
seven. And then Sunday, the 11 o'clock matinee for you. Again, all these taking place at the Wisconsin
Area, at Rapid's Area Middle School Auditorium. Get your tickets for WRPS as the Wizard of Oz.
It's going to be a fun show. That's going to be a good one. We'll get to our news break. We'll
come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. It's music to see us. It really sets the tone. I feel like every
topic it needs to be Macabre or something, but they're not. They're not even close, not even close.
But we are happy to have you with us, everybody. Cat and James here with you. Thanks so much for
joining us. We got another half an hour with you. We're going to wrap things up with some good
stories at the day and talking about family and natural foods. Got all that coming up for a little
bit later. We're getting to our schedule as well. But I came across a story this week in Katrina
that I thought was really cool. I sent it over to her just because I wanted it. It sent me down
a rabbit hole. You know, the National World War One Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri,
which encouraged everybody to check out if you get a chance. It opened a 100-year-old time capsule
that contained items including newspapers and a letter from then-president Calvin Coolidge.
Wow. The time capsule was buried inside the museum's Liberty Memorial Tower in 1924,
with instructions left to open the container in 100 years. The time capsule commemorated the
memorial's dedication. The museum extracted the time capsule from the monument during the summer
a process that was complicated by 18 inches of limestone and concrete. Official said extraction
was also made difficult because by the presence of nitrate film in the container which is also
known to be highly flammable. Sure, sure. The time capsule's contents were revealed during a Wednesday
ceremony. The objects included a copy of the U.S. Constitution, newspapers, a Bible, and a copy
of the U.S. Declaration of War from April of 1917. The box also contained letters including one
from President Calvin Coolidge and several from allied commanders who attended the Liberty Memorial's
1921 groundbreaking ceremony. The time capsule also held a November 1st 1921 printed plate from
the Kansas City Star. The copper box bore multiple engraving signatures from people who
officials who were unable to identify. They were not able to tell who these were on there,
but they are believed to be members of the team who assembled the time capsule itself. Very neat.
I don't know that we don't do this very much anymore. Why don't we do it more? It's cool.
I know that we have the internet and I think I feel like we used it as kind of like this
a book holder. It'll be there for us, but who knows if it will. I don't need to remember this.
The internet's got it. I can always look it up. It's similar to our phone numbers. We don't
have to remember our phone numbers anymore, but there's that one time, every once in a while.
Hey, so can I get your phone number? Yeah, it's seven. It's, what is my phone number?
And then we do that and everything. I think to that point, kind of piggybacking on that,
I agree with you. I think we should keep doing these. If anything, I think we should do more of them.
Right. Or maybe it's not 100 years. This one, which is really impressive that it survived,
didn't get open. There was a handful of things that could have penetrated and not been accessible,
but that's really great that it was there. But maybe it's just 20 years or 50 years. That's
even exciting. And I'm curious what we'd put in it now, too. That's fascinating. They put in it
and what we'd put in it now. Yeah, we just throw a phone in there. Like, oh, you can look everything up.
You've got to have an inner connection. Yeah, not every community has newspapers anymore.
And so they put a newspaper in there of what was happening at that time. But very interesting.
And I love that there was, you know, personal letters from presidents. And there's like, you
know, who assembled it, even though it might not be known of really who did. But that's really
cool. That was a big team and an effort. I don't know. I wonder if we're patient enough nowadays
to do this. We are going to open this time capsule in 50 years. And like, you know, five years
goes by and like, oh, we're going to do it now. Let's do it now. I wonder too about that part of it.
But this sent me down a rabbit hole, which also got Katrina and I talking about rabbit holes
this morning. Used to be when you were a kid, you had to hunt things down. Yeah. And there was
something really satisfying about that, I think. Now you just started into a search engine.
This one was a little digging, though. It took me a little bit of digging, no pun intended.
I wanted to know what the oldest known time capsule was. Yeah. And where this, who got this ball
rolling, who came up with the, the idea to even do this and everything. And the two answers are
one the same. It turns out. Okay. The oldest known time capsule to be opened is a copper box found
in the, uh, Spire of the Church of St. St. St. Alotus in, uh, in Poland. The box was placed in
the church in 1726 and contains items from 1726, 1786, and 1884, and 1914. The contents include
coins, metals, newspaper, documents, and a parchment detailing a fire that destroyed the church.
That's pretty interesting, I thought. Very interesting. I like it. It's interesting that they also
put things in at different, almost decades, but usually I think of you, you do it once and then
you leave it. But like for them, they kept putting things in, which is really intriguing. The oldest
known time capsule in the United States is the one buried in the cornerstone of Massachusetts
State House in 1795 by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. Uh, the capsule was opened in 2015 and
contained a variety of items like newspapers, coins, a page from the Massachusetts colony records,
a silver plaque that was likely engraved by Revere himself. Sure. Uh, it's pretty interesting.
Very interesting. Uh, and some of the earliest American time capsules were from 1876,
Century Safe and Massachusetts State House Time Capsule, um, which we kind of noted on there.
That's just kind of interesting. And yes, uh, this, this all got started in really kind of, uh,
what we, what we know of now of time capsules, uh, by, you know, some Europeans and, and certainly
by American influence. But really, this whole thing came from the pharaohs in the, in emperors,
I should say pharaohs and emperors. My Egyptian people, uh, they, they would bury mementos for
their afterlife, of course, famously. Yeah. Most people know that. Well, the first, uh,
planned, uh, this first came to, uh, the idea of that is sprung, uh, time capsules. Sure.
And the idea of, well, why, we don't, we don't bury ourselves with a lot of things anymore,
even back then they started to stop doing some of that. But how do we, how do we take these,
history essentially, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's just kind of cool to think. And it's, uh, I don't,
it certainly was, um, I don't know if this was the intention or not, but it feels like it might have
been. It's kind of a, again, a safeguard. Yeah. Right. Now, if, if this goes down, if this,
if we don't have this, um, yeah, uh, for, for so much of human history, it was not only about
survival, but about, okay, we've made it this far. I don't want a backtrack. I, I learned how to
make a fire. I'm going to make darn sure that my kids know how to make a fire. And I'm going to
pass that down to them. Um, it, it's, it's the essence of humanity. Yeah. We're not here without it.
So this time capsule, it's just an extension of that, I feel like. Very good point. I've kind of
like, Oh, well, I want to make sure that nobody forgets how to make fire. Yeah. But it seems like
a good one. We should probably continue to teach them. No, it, it, that makes a lot of sense. It's
wild to think of, to, to look at the, to kind of backtrack on this stuff and see where it all came
from. That's interesting. And, and you, if I board anybody out there, oh, man, you, be thankful
you're not my parents, because boy, I was bored the daylights out of them this weekend with time
capsule talk. Let's talk time capsule. No, how cool. You, you, you know, you, you've lost, uh,
your, your, your audience when they're retired and they've got nowhere else to be. And they're still
like, they're stuck. You know, there's something I, oh, I gotta go do this. Shoot, I got the
laundry to do. Yeah. Oh, there was something I was meaning to do. No, I think it's interesting.
It makes me want to do like a family time capsule or something like that. That's a while. See,
no, man, I see we still got that chemistry. We still got it. I wanted to wrap on, you know,
not only doing this more, but why do you, we don't need a bunch of pomp and circumstance.
No, we don't have to have a president to sign something or have it in there. It's like,
you could do it a local one with your community, which could be really cool. You could do it in
your workplace, which would be cool. Yes. Or like your own family one. And maybe, again, it's not
like 10, 20 years. Maybe, maybe it's more of like a, this is a five year one or, or we'll do it in
20 years. I think it's, it's really interesting. I, uh, your personal history is just as fascinating
as world history. You know, and it deserves to be preserved just as much. Uh, you know, do your,
I think that's a fun thing. I, and, and, uh, it really touches on the topic you brought up as
well of what to put in there. I think that's a fun topic just in general. Right. They're just even
thinking about that. Well, I was thinking about my family and having these young, two young girls,
like we could even say like, what is this kid into and what is this kid into? And we read this
like 20 years later and we're all just sitting around like laughing at it. Um, and of course,
like putting certain things in there, which could be really fun. I like the idea of putting things
in there that are timely right now that a hundred years from now, I don't know, we'll make perfect,
a lot of sense. Right. Like a selfie stick. Yeah. Wait a minute. What? What was it? Oh, yeah, it's
like the rotary phone. You know, like a dial, you know, yes, yes. Uh, certain things that they
would have no idea. And, and, uh, I, you know, another part of all of this too, um, say you're
putting a rotary phone in there. Mm hmm. You're not just, uh, you know, sharing some fun
history that is going to blow their minds and everything of how people used to do things.
You're also, hey, somebody invented that. Yes. And then it's a conversational starter, right?
Yeah. Uh, this person that invented said this and everything you can highlight that person and
keep them alive in history, keep their name around and the great work that they did, regardless
of anything. Same thing with the, you're putting an article in there from a newspaper. Well,
this journalist, this writer, we're continuing to keep their, keep their work alive in some ways.
So much of this gets lost in history. So it's another way of keeping that and preserving that.
But it's a fun idea. Well, I feel like we need to bring this back to this more in life
and everything, more time capsules. Uh, more show coming up for you right here on the morning
show at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Katrina and James hanging out with you for one more segment. Take it right to the top of the hour,
get into our schedule in a moment here. Have some fun there.
Good stuff coming up for you, everybody. But I wanted to just touch on this story real quick.
And as I like to do from time to time, encourage people to check out the good news network.org,
good news network.org, not only some great reporting over there, but a perfect palette cleanser,
if you are looking for one, we can get a little bog down in the news these days, especially as we
get into, you know, closer and closer to election day, everybody could use a palette cleanser,
encourage you to go to good news network.org to find, you know, as an option. There's a lot of good
options out there. Civicmediate.us being one of them. Just throw that out there as well. I came
across this one that I threw over to Katrina because I thought this was fun as well. And I could not help
the idea of picturing you and your father doing some of these. I couldn't help it. Just in time
for Halloween, I meet the dad and daughter who like to dress up together as famous Disney duos on
frequent visits to their favorite theme park called Disney Bounding. Charlie Perez and her dad,
Eric McDaw, I have now enthusiastically dressed up in eight sets of father and daughter costumes
over the last 16 months in an homage to iconic films such as Toy Story Beauty in the Beast,
Pinocchio, and Up. The ideas came from a former follower on Charlie's Instagram page who pointed
out that the 71-year-old looked a lot like Jane's father from Tarzan. And so he thought,
oh, I could look, I could dress up like him. Right. They've also expanded this though to kind of
give, you know, families ideas for Halloween costumes. Now, I think that we think a lot about
combination costumes. Couples have their ideas. Families have their ideas. But expanding on that,
we haven't done a whole lot of that. You know, this is an older gentleman. Just going to say,
this is not like a, hey, you have an eight-year-old and you know, like a 30-year-old dad, 40-year-old dad,
whatever it is. This is like a probably what 70-year-old man and maybe like 30-year-old daughter,
something like that. And they're just having fun with it in a whole different light.
They're getting time together. They're making memories together and at the same time, yeah,
and maybe giving people some fun ideas. I don't think they're trick-or-treating to get candy. Maybe
they're dressing up in excitement, but more they're doing it definitely as like a fun and kind of
like showy thing, but really bringing a new approach to like Halloween and really dressing up in
general. And I love the creativity of this too. They're doing this all out of pocket. They're
not, you're getting any help with this or anything. And the costumes are more like every day,
but they look like a costume. It doesn't, it's not like, you know, you bought like the dinosaur set
and you've got everything that's set for you. You know, this is like, hey, I have this yellow dress
and I have this blue bandana. Now we're going to look like, you know, tarzan and so it's more of
what they have, which I think is cool. I like all of these. I kind of like the idea of dressing up
as any kind of like older king. Like, oh, it sounds fun. That seems like a fun gig. There's a lot
of great ones. And there's so many great Disney characters and combinations throughout history
that you could look at and check out. I encourage you again to find that article at goodnewsnetwork.org
and a big shout out to them with the nice reporting that they do. Absolutely. I want to get to our
local good schedule and a lot of local good things going on in this area. First up, of course,
join us for midday magazine. Good one lined up for you today to kick off the week in part one at
four o'clock. We are talking with our friends over at Save of the Arts. The Arts Council is going to
be joining us. Of course, Sally Kissner, executive director of the Arts Council. Beware, Eric Brittenocker,
ahead of the performing arts center. Eric will also be with us. And we are being joined by Eric
Stabenow, who is the music director of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Cool. We're going to preview the
Glenn Miller Orchestra coming to town here next month. Get into some of that. Love getting to
interview some of these guests that we get. And this guy is, no, man, Eric is amazing.
Where do you guys hear his resume? It's going to be very, you're going to be very impressed.
And in part two at four thirty today, we wrap up our last visit with the Miss Wisconsin
Rapids contestants. That, of course, is coming up right around the corner. We encourage you to get
your tickets. We'll tell you how you can. We have a contestant. And Miss Wisconsin Rapids herself,
Amelia Gillman's Wagner coming in. So we'll talk with Amelia a little bit. Also, Ruby Marty,
Miss Wisconsin Rapids team will be here and Addison Moran. Miss Wisconsin Rapids team, 2024.
So the last two will happen. Really cool. So we're looking forward to this. We'll be talking a little
bit about the workshops that they've done. Get behind the scenes, kind of look at what these young
ladies do and everything and really looking forward to that. A big shout out again to everybody
participating in that event. That's going to be a fun one. Looking forward to that. Also, one of
the remind everybody that our harder Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce have their great event going on
tonight, networking at night, networking at night going on. Be sure to check that out, everybody.
It's going to be going on over at the hotel meeting conference center. Nice. So it's great
opportunity. Not only to get over to the hotel meet, enjoy the raffle or appetizers, but check out
and do some networking. Not working. Connect with some of those people you don't know about or,
you know, businesses. It's fun. It's a fun way if you're especially new to the area. But if you've
been here for years, it's another way of, wow, I didn't know that existed or this person, you know,
it's a great way to connect with people, make a new friend too. It's a free event and it's going
on tonight from five to seven over at the hotel meet. Join our hard to Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
for a great time, networking at night. That should be a lot of fun. Go meet them over at the Whitney.
Shout out to the hotel meet in the nice construction they've done over there. Those workers,
construction workers over there, nice work. Really nice job. Katrina, you guys just got done,
you know, having a bunch of fun with your customer appreciation week a couple weeks ago.
I know you're gearing up for a good fall. What do you got going on over at the shop?
Yeah, a couple little things. Let's see. Earlier we talked about building your immune system up.
So come in and talk with us. Let's build you up so you don't get a cold.
But let's also talk about getting that kit ready for you for the season we're going into.
So there's that. Let's also talk about we got a panel discussion next Tuesday,
October 29th at 515. You can come in and talk about, well, like, ask questions. We know whether it's
your dog's health to your kids health to, you know, questions you have. We're here to answer.
It's going to be fun. That's at 515 on October 29th. And then don't forget to sign up for your
local fresh turkey. We're doing that for a few more weeks here. So we'll be in on Thursday. We'll
talk more about these details at the midday magazine. But that's just a little highlight of,
come on over and chat with us. We're here for you.
If you got questions, they're looking to answer them and hunt them down with you.
Join our friends over at Family Natural Foods today, everybody. They're doors opening in
already open. We're open for the best hour for the best hour. Over at 910 West Grand Avenue,
right here in Wisconsin Rapids by local support, local support, those that support not only this
station, but this community for over 70 years. They've been doing it over there. Support our good
friends at Family Natural Foods. Give them a call 715-423-3120. It's 423-3120. Be sure to follow
them on social media. It is going to be one of the greater follows you do. And especially in
Instagram. Be sure to follow them on Instagram, everybody. It's a great follow. Be sure to keep
up the day and all the good things they're doing. And we'll talk more on Thursday as Katrina said
there. Looking forward to that. Do you want to remind everybody our friends at the United
Way of Southwood and M's counties have their day of caring coming up. It is this weekend,
October 26th. It'll go on this Saturday. You're going to have a free breakfast. They're going to
have free t-shirts, you know, wolf supplies last. Breakfast and registration will be at 8 a.m.
Raking will begin at 9 a.m. They'll have you wrapped up and should have everything done by
noon, noon-ish around there. They'll meet over at the Grand Rapids Lions Club at 24-1136
streets south right here in Rapids. To register, to volunteer, just go to uwac.org. If you are just
one person and you want to be with a team, they can do that. If you are a team or a business,
they can do that. Reach out to them and help out. Be a part of one of the most special days in
this community day of caring. It's one of my favorite days. I love fall, so you're not only
you're you're bopping around, taking in the on the leave changes and all this, and you're going to
be driving around town or walking around town and seeing all these red shirts and seeing strangers,
helping strangers. Yeah, you're helping each other out. It's a cool event. Be sure to check it out
everybody. Day of caring going on this weekend and be a part of it by going to uwac.org.
U-W-S-W-A-C dot org. 82-year-old woman in Georgia named Betty Cartilage just voted for the very
first time. Her late husband discouraged her from voting, but he passed away last year, so she said
she had her niece take her to the polls to vote early. She didn't reveal who she cast her vote for,
of course, but she said that she'll be back next election and she called it a neat experience.
Awesome. Now, that story is a good story, of course. It brings note to how many people
were were not able to vote for for very long. Yes. And I'm not even just talking about the laws
that changed that, but society changing and people changing their minds about this.
And that's sad to think of her not getting a chance to do that for so many decades.
Right. It's a beautiful story to hear her doing it now. Yeah, she can action on it. I love it.
And you have no excuse. Nobody. Not one of you out there have any excuse. Be registered. Go
on myvote.wi.gov and get, make sure that you're registered. Make sure you know where the polls are.
When you're out there voting, be an informed voter, be a smart voter, treat our poll workers well,
treat each other well. Let's show the rest of the world how voting is done. Let's show the
rest of the world how democracy gets done. Yes. Nobody does it better than us. Let's make sure they've
proved that to the rest of the world and have a safe and fun election. Everybody. It's a cool
story. That was really fun. It's been a cool show today. Thank you Katrina. Hey, it's been fun.
Thanks James for that. And we'll talk again. We'll have you back soon. And we'll have more show
coming up for you right here at. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids
and always streaming on the Civic Media app.
