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Good morning, WizConsum, morning world, it's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFUNR, WFHR.

Got your host, James J here, I am joined by Melissa Kay, set to have hacker, good morning,

in the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us everybody.

Hope you're having a great Friday out there.

We're going to go to ready for the weekend, take it right to the top of the yard, we're

done, but fun.

Got good stuff on the way for you.

I'm going to get into it a little bit, 12 foods, and only Midwesterners know and love.

Alright.

Dive into that list.

Love it.

And when we're done with that list, or while we're doing that list, I want to hear from

you guys out there about, you know, what is a specialty thing that we only seem to have

around here?

Yeah, I want to hear from you guys.

What's your favorite hot dish?

There you go.

And we will also continue these simple things that we are really bad at.

We will continue that list, wrap that up for you.

Nice.

Alright, we kick off with some entertainment news and a new Star Wars trilogy is in the

works.

But this one will not be a continuation of the Skywalker saga, the story that was told

in episodes one through nine.

The trilogy will focus on a new story, new characters, but there's no word or when it

takes place or any pre-existing characters are going to appear in it.

Little other Star Wars movies are in development, and if it means anything to you, this new trilogy

is being developed by Simon Kinberg, one of the creative minds behind several of the X-Men

movies.

Oh, yeah.

And in another name.

He's a pretty noteworthy guy in that industry.

I know that he's worked with JJ Abrams and some other people.

So he has some ties to this and has some people to lean on if he does.

They can't even finish the script for this Rey movie, though.

I don't know, one of the most anticipated movies for me coming up, what was supposed

to be coming up was Michelle Lee and Blade.

And that's done.

That's not going to happen.

So I mean, this sounds interesting, but whether you're groaning or you would like the

idea, don't get too excited one way or the other.

They've been announcing a lot of stuff over the last several years.

It has really not come to a whole heck of a lot.

I do.

Yeah, I'm very happy that they're getting away from the Skywalker thing.

I think that is what you need to do.

You need to.

You've got literally an entire universe.

It's a big galaxy.

A galaxy that you can tell straight up a huge timeline that you can go on.

You don't have to focus just on these characters.

Come on.

Have some fun with it.

The Mandalorian has proven this.

Yes.

Exactly.

Great example.

And it's one of the, like, because they've come out with a lot of stuff lately.

And there has been some bad and there has been some really good.

I think that's the only way you get that though.

You don't know.

Hey, this is going to be good.

Hey, this is going to be bad.

You don't know unless you put it out there.

I didn't.

I watched Rogue One because a lot of the actors in it I liked.

I honestly was okay with watching it later on.

You know, whenever I got a chance to, I had had enough Star Wars where I was okay with

that.

Right.

It's other than Empire.

It's my favorite Star Wars movie.

By far in a way.

I don't, not just that.

I think it's an incredible movie, like just even if you're not even a film sci-fi and

everything.

It's the way it's acted, the way it's the drama, everything.

I get really into that movie.

I think it's incredible.

And then there's been some other stuff, not so much.

A solo movie?

Not so great.

But even that movie had some charm to it and had some great character work in it and

everything.

I don't mind them doing new stuff.

What I do mind is the Star Wars fan, especially people in art age range, that all

they, they're just waiting for new stuff so they can complain about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You wanted to go back to the old days of Star Wars?

Sure.

Let's go back to a time where there was just a bunch of white jet eyes.

Yeah.

That sounds great.

Yeah.

That sounds good.

Let's go back to where there's basically no plot.

And to Seth's point, all we're doing is focusing on one family, basically.

Right.

This is, this is the change we talked about this a little earlier this week, I think,

when we were talking about nostalgia.

This is the ugly side of nostalgia because what these fans are looking for is that feeling

that they got when they first saw Star Wars.

And it's not going to happen, people.

You're never going to feel that again, okay?

You got to move on.

You got to move on.

That's how nostalgia works.

It hits that part of your brain that you can never go back to.

By definition, nostalgia meets, you cannot go back to it.

And you should be thankful for that.

Yeah.

Like, I mean, because guess what?

You don't remember it as good as you think you do.

Absolutely not.

And it's not me saying that that's science, that's science telling you that's the way

our brains work.

Some years back, they actually named the three most realistic science fiction movies of

all time.

Oh, and NASA did this.

NASA chose the most realistic and least realistic science fiction movies of all time.

They did this a while back and I thought this was a fascinating article.

I can encourage you to check it out.

I'll tell you where you can find it in just a moment.

But for the most realistic, they chose Gatica from 1997.

Seth brought this up earlier this week.

Ethan Hawks birthday.

Yeah.

That's the star of that movie.

Yes.

Ethan Hawks.

I just have a crush on him.

Don't blame you.

Very handsome.

Yes.

Ethan Hawks, Uma Thurman, Jude Law.

It's about parents having their kids genetically engineered to produce their best traits.

It's a really interesting movie and one of the best part, one of the better lines in

a sci-fi movie ever.

I never, how did you make it back and forth?

I never saved any energy for the way back.

I guess it's just such a good part, such a good line.

That has been become like you said and I didn't know about the realistic part but it has become

like one of the holy grails of good science fiction thought-provoking, well written, well

acted.

Yeah.

That kind of stuff.

NASA says it aligns with actual research in genetics which focuses on studying hereditary

diseases and families and hopefully wiping them out.

Wow.

Second on their list is contact also from 97, starring the list.

To a fluster.

Yes.

I love that movie.

I love that I'm with you, man.

It's so good.

Oh cool.

Okay.

Well, at least when I've talked to people about it could be divisive either you like it

or you don't.

No gray area, no in between.

I thought it was a fascinating movie.

It was great.

I found my list to watch again.

Yeah.

It's been too long since I've seen a great cast, I mean, oh my god, the entire cast is really

good.

Her work and that one.

Yeah, to be fair, I would watch anything with Jordy Fawkes.

I would watch, I don't know, her reading addiction area.

Yep.

My favorite actor, actress of all time by far and away and I only say that because I've

watched everything she's done and I go into that movie thinking, okay, it's going to

come.

I've never seen her do sci-fi before.

Saw her do things.

I've never seen her do as an actress and this is an actor who has won Oscars up to this

point and everything.

Yeah.

Like they just really brought her a game to that movie.

Third is the 1927 classic metropolis.

Really?

It's about the conflict ended dystopian future.

And one of the better, like, it's up there.

I think it's in the film hall of fame and all that.

It's one of the greats of all time.

Because of the way they made it and because it's, again, when James and I talked about

Silent Films a couple of months ago about, you know, German expressionism, that was, that's

like the epitome of that style of filmmaking and it has an amazing story too and because

it was directed by Fritz Long who later came to the United States and became a prominent

director here.

So, that's a good one and definitely one to check out everybody.

Yes.

Especially it's not that long of a movie.

And so, what about the least realistic science fiction movies, Star Wars, essentially the

Bill and Ted movie?

No, I'm joking.

I'm joking.

At least those are entertainers.

Yeah.

That would be the disaster flick 2012, which was confusingly released in 2009.

Yeah.

And, you know what?

I can't argue that one.

I can't argue that one.

Absolutely.

I don't want to dump on Roland Emmerich, but come on.

I'm a huge John Q. Sack fan and I Woody Harrelson fan, so I do remember seeing the movie,

but I also remember seeing a lot of actors that didn't know if, I don't know if they wanted

to be there or not, I'm not 100% on that one.

It's got a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 49 metric on it.

Yeah, not too good.

But another one of those movies that came out, I can't remember the deep impact, a lot

of those movies.

Armageddon.

Yeah.

You notice at the, the turn of this, like every century or every decade, you get these

disaster movies or, you know, apocalyptic movies.

Go back and look at the turn of, from 1999 to 2000 or 1980, you know, 1990 or any of these

things or even from the 2009 to 2010, some of that.

You get so many of these kind of movies.

They just make a lot of them and they get, they throw a lot of money at them and they

get a great cast, a really good cast for that movie.

Not so much.

Maybe you spent a little more on the script.

Maybe you should have spent a little more time on the script there, yeah.

And it followed by 2003 is the core where scientists have to drill to the center of the

earth in order to restart its rotation.

Yeah.

That's not possible, everybody, just in case anybody out there was like, look at the pitch

that I did.

That one, the app.

No, that one you really have to suspend your disbelief, man.

Just go ahead and do nothing.

Just do Jules Verne, you know, journey to the center of the earth if you want to.

And weirdly, like again, great cast, really good actors giving some actors a chance to play

out of type, which is kind of cool.

You don't see that very often, especially for DJ calls, a guy I really like.

But Hillary Swank is one, two Oscars up to this point.

And I don't know, but could not have phoned it in more like it actually, it actually kind

of slowed her career down, not because the movie was, was not a hit.

But because people did not, like they didn't appreciate like, I say producers, casting directors

didn't appreciate some of her performance.

And the third movie, 1998's Armageddon.

Oh, God, yes.

Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck drilling into an asteroid to save the earth.

Oh, I don't care if it's not realistic.

I love that movie.

So that's the point here, I, that's one of the big points I think here, if you go into

Armageddon and you're like, I'm not watching this movie for the science, I'm watching it

to see Bruce.

Yeah, I don't want to see Steve Buscemi as an astronaut.

Like, Liz Tyler.

Liz Tyler.

Come on.

Ben Affleck.

Yeah.

People still pay to pay to watch Ben Affleck.

I don't know.

I don't know where else I'll get to listen to Ariel Smith.

Like all the time.

Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like a ton.

Oh, God, please don't.

I know what it's called.

Why does it not surprise me that Melissa loves that movie?

It's not surprised me at all that.

I've actually encouraged that she does.

I like that she does.

I think that's great.

I, I, all these movies are okay.

Like there's nothing wrong with any of them.

It's just a matter of if you're going into it.

If you're Neil DeGrasse Tyson watching these or if you're one of them, you know, there's

a big difference.

However, contact was it was based on a novel written by Carl Sagan.

Yeah.

Nice.

Nice.

Nice.

Nicely done.

All the way circled.

We circled all the way around.

It's awesome.

I love of call back too.

I'm going to go this weekend.

I'm definitely watching contact.

I'm going to watch some of it at least.

You have three hours to kill.

Yeah.

Right.

That's the way it's the only catch.

It's a long movie.

Looking at what's new on your small screen this weekend.

They have got on HBO.

Michael Douglas is one of the panel guests on real time with Bill Marr.

I haven't watched Bill Marr in a long time.

Michael Douglas, I like hearing him talk.

Saturday on CBS, the 27th annual Family Film and TV Awards.

I don't know what that is to be.

And it's not what the annual again, the 27th.

And I've never, I can't believe I don't believe I've heard of that.

I've never heard of that.

I'm not trying to be mean.

I genuinely know.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Saturday Night Live's got Bill Burr hosting.

MKG is going to be the musical guest.

Bill Burr is a fantastic host.

It doesn't always work having a stand comedian on there.

But having a stand up comedian on there.

This at Bill Burr this week in particular, that is going to be a great monologue, baby.

That is going to be a killer monologue.

Saturday Night Football, the Texans hosting Detroit Lions, that's going to be a good game.

That should be a good one.

On Paramount at 7 o'clock, a Yellowstone returns for its fall premiere to wrap up its fifth

and final season, many are saying.

And the first season finale of the Penguin, actually, it's probably the completion of

the series.

We're going to be able to get that together again.

It was meant to be kind of a bridge to the next Batman movie.

Yeah.

The redone with the Batman movies, Ryan.

Colin Farrell just has another hit show right now and he just signed on for a second season

of it.

This cast and the money that's put into it, that's going to be hard to do again.

If there is a second season, look for it in like 2029 or 30.

It'll be a long way down the line.

It has been incredible.

It has been wonderful.

I hope they can wrap it up and they can stick the landing because it has been the sopranos

in the DC universe.

Like it's very well done.

I've really enjoyed it.

And Colin Farrell deserves an Emmy nod for his performance.

I hope he does.

He really does.

I know that it's a superhero thing.

I know that it's just going to lean to some people.

They have done something with the Batman movie with Robert Pattinson and with this one,

where it is what Christopher Nolan was leaning into and trying to do and pulled off and accomplished.

But couldn't do it on this level where there's no, like, this is as close as it gets to,

like, if this was happening in reality, like, there's no, there's no sci-fi in this.

There's no exception.

Like, oh, I'm just going to take my beliefs or my thoughts and having any brains and put

them aside.

We do a really nice job of merging those worlds in this series.

Right.

And there's a movie.

Yes.

Batman in the comics has done everything.

Basically, he's been silly.

You know, though, we think of the Adam West Batman and stuff like that.

He's been sci-fi.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Which, you know, I think every movie should have that.

No.

But some of the best Batman was the early 80s, the Denny O'Neill, who was with the writer

at the time, was this Batman, the grim and pretty Batman that I think a lot of people associate

with.

And I think that's probably one of your best Batman's.

Yeah.

I think that's the most convincing.

New in theaters this weekend, nothing in too wide of a release, Heretic, starring Hugh

Grant, who has decided to just go evil with his real career.

Do it, man.

And I don't mean just on camera.

I mean, like off camera too, pretty much.

He's just, yeah, he's gotten care anymore.

I can't tell.

Like, I mean, give it some, you know, a little bit of grace.

This guy has been through the ringer through the public eye and he bounced back and had

a career.

And it's really kind of, I think it was very frustrated for a long time, he was typecast.

And now that he's not, and he's able to play these darker roles, jerk characters and

all that, I think he's also been able to kind of like just be himself more.

And Hugh Grant is very like, for sports fans out there, Greg Popovich, or some people

who you can't tell if they're being sarcastic and funny with you, or they're being sarcastic

and mean with you.

Then he's got that demeanor.

You can't always see.

You don't know what it is, right?

But this movie is getting a lot of a claim in the horror film industry or a lot of fans

of that.

And so it could be interesting.

Well, I will just not watch any more of his movies and pay attention to any of that,

because which I don't anyway, and just watch things that were made in the 90s.

There you go.

That's when I love that.

That's the Hugh Grant, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, he may have preferred that.

And new on your community theater stage going on this weekend, us, them, a stage reading

featuring Michael Egrin and Ken Pilo.

There's no charge for admission.

Concessions are going to be available for this.

It is written by one of our community's greatest creatives, Mike Egrin.

It'll be going on tomorrow night, seven o'clock at the Lewis Kent and Studio Theater.

And can I encourage you to check this one out enough, everybody?

Not only because you've got two amazing performers in Mike and Ken.

This is a chance to see really true, like, community theater, like real theater.

I say that as well because of the setting in the Lewis Kent and Studio Theater, which

is a little bit more of an intimate setting and something that we encourage you to embrace

and take in, support the art, support local, it's going to be a wonderful show.

Yes.

Plus these two guys together.

Yeah.

Yes.

They are.

You're going to have fun.

You just go and have a beer with them.

They're going to be sitting in the porch, shooting the breeze.

Shooting the breeze.

There you go.

Thank you.

Yep.

I couldn't come up with a radio appropriate.

Good, right, right.

I could hear you.

Yes.

Just put it like with that.

We need to have a new category on the show Save of the Week because that was the Save of

the Week right there.

You guys usually are saving me.

Usually it's you guys saving me.

That was a good one.

You know what, James?

It's been a long time.

Yes, it has.

It has been a long time.

And do you want to remind everybody and encourage you to get your tickets for Hate Mail

premiering next week?

Yes.

Hi, goodness.

That's the reason I can't move in yet is because of Mike doing his reading on Saturday.

Wait till Sunday.

No.

Well, written co-written by one of a mystery science theater's own Bill Corbett, who came

from the playwriting world.

He's actually written several.

If you've ever watched the movie Meet Dave with Eddie Murphy, he actually wrote one of

the core writers of the screenplay for that.

Although he does say they changed it a lot, which is not surprising, but it's a fabulous

show.

If you're at all familiar with the show Love Letters, it's kind of a little takeoff on

that.

And it's bonkers and it's hilarious.

Beth and I are going to be taking the stage for this one.

We are looking forward to being able to give you this show and do this.

And this is a guarantee you've never seen Beth or I like this on stage because you're

going to see a very stripped down, very guerrilla theater kind of approach to this where we haven't

had a chance to.

I actually have had to keep the script out of in another room because I have not wanted

to just like I normally do carry the script with me everywhere like it's my tour of my

Bible or something because part of the point of this show is to be giving you a very real

in the moment kind of feelings and stuff and like I am just reading this off a computer

screen and something.

Yep.

I cannot wait.

It has been years since I've been on a stage and done some live theater and that is where

it is made.

I cannot wait for this.

This will be an interesting show.

Everyone, come on.

Come on.

I want to see you.

Get your tickets for a hate mail.

Coming up next weekend, November 15th and 16th, 7 o'clock shows at that Lewis-Chan studio

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Get your tickets for us and them and much, much more.

Hey, get your tickets for a white Christmas.

Get them right around the corner, everybody.

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We'll come back and we're going to talk about 12 foods midwesterners love and only we

know.

Only us.

On the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

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Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Okay.

I have a great Friday out there.

But thanks so much for joining us.

I want to dive right into this one because we got to get this in.

12 foods only midwesterners know and love.

We thank the writer of this article, Martha A. Lovane.

She, you can find this article at msn.com, msn.com.

All right.

Go ahead and check this out.

Midwest is often celebrated for our heartland values, expensive farmlands, and friendly folks.

And of course, our love of interesting foods.

And this is not surprising.

When you look at, and this is not, we're not, you know, rare in this or anything.

Every part of our country has different aspects of foods that you only get in that certain part of the country or that kind of thing.

I think regional foods.

Right.

Where we differ, I think, a little bit maybe from the south or from our friends on the, you know, eastern west coast is such a

Hodgepodge and a true gumbo of human beings of different crades and cultures.

I know it sounds a little biased coming from me.

I don't care.

It doesn't mean I'm wrong.

You look at, I think Chicago is a perfect example of America where you go one block over and you got Chinatown and go a block right from that.

And you got little Greek town.

Yeah.

It is such a...

Remelting pot.

Yeah, really, really is.

And with that, you've got a lot of different immigrants that come to this country and make this country better.

Yeah.

And with that, they bring their culture and their foods.

Yeah.

And food makes it so cool.

It makes me so happy.

And it makes me so happy.

We had, also, this week we were celebrating.

I think that Mexican food is another great example of this where we take the taco and like, hey, that's really cool.

We got to Americanize that.

We got to do that a little different.

So, you know, we do an American version of the taco.

Right.

But Gettie is very similar.

Pizza.

Yeah, pizza.

That's all right.

Now, see, they're all...

Again, food brings us together and also shows how much we have a similarity together.

100%.

Take an ingredient that is used in almost every culture.

And guess what?

Every culture uses that ingredient.

Yeah.

It's not that different than the air we breathe.

We're all breathing the same air, everybody.

Yeah.

Cheese curds are number one in the list.

Of course, yeah.

Probably the greatest example of this.

We had some kids coming out to camp here from the East Coast, Pennsylvania.

We took them before when they went to camp.

We took them to Culver's.

Specifically to have cheese curds.

Nice.

They had never, of course, experienced them before.

So, it was fun to watch when they first got to bite into one.

It was a treat.

I looked all over up and down from the middle to the bottom part of California trying to find cheese curds and could not.

I couldn't find cheese fries.

Nobody knew what I was talking about.

So much so to the point that at that night, my buddy Will, that I was living with at the time.

And good friend of mine and everything.

Stand up comedian.

He used it in his bit and had the audience making fun of me.

Like, it was bad.

It was bad.

What are these silly cheese curds?

What?

Sounds terrible.

You have one.

You'll never forget them.

Yep, that's right.

They're great.

Hot dish.

Hot dish is the ultimate comfort food from Midwesterners.

Yes.

Hot dishes from Minnesota.

Castle Roll dish.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That's what we call them hot dishes.

Yes.

They're casseroles or whatever.

Yeah.

Originating from Minnesota.

Hot dish is more than just food.

It's their tradition.

Yep.

Tater tot hot dish.

That's one of the best things ever.

Yep.

Or green bean casserole.

Yep.

That works too.

Yeah.

Get those onions on there.

Yeah.

We always did a tater tots on top of our green bean casserole.

Okay.

Always did the French fried onions on ours.

Never did that.

It doesn't matter as long as it has cream and mushroom soup in it.

You're good to go.

And then everything else.

You can just put whatever you want.

Yep.

I will never touch that.

I will never touch that.

But we want to know if you would go ahead and call up everybody.

We want to know your favorite things here.

Let us know.

So 1-5-4-2-4-2-2-600.

Next on the list is a left left see.

A left saw.

Left saw.

Left saw.

Another Scandinavian treat.

And it's amazing.

You can do so much with left saw.

Yep.

It's like almost.

I don't know.

It's not.

It's like a crepe almost.

It is very thin.

And you can use it for savory.

You know, you can put bacon and eggs in it if you want.

Or you can put some sugar.

Yep, we can put sugar and cinnamon on it.

That's always really good.

This is a Norwegian flip.

And forgive me for this if I'm wrong.

But you don't get sweet in that together very often.

You don't get a lot of that together.

So, I wouldn't have thought of that very well.

It's very versatile.

You can use it just for just about anything.

It's really good.

It is really good.

I would try that for a certain.

Yeah, definitely try that.

I'd like to try both ways.

Like, or not both ways.

I'd like to go all these different ways,

these different combos you can do too.

Right.

Yes.

That sounds really good.

I should open up a lefsa restaurant.

There you go.

There you go.

Lefsa and Parogi.

Oh, there we go.

Nice.

Let's help try that.

And I love me some puppy chow.

Oh, puppy chow.

Yes.

My grandma Ruth made the best puppy chow.

Sweet snack mix with cereal, peanut butter, chocolate,

and powdered sugar.

Yep.

Muddy buddies.

Some people, that's what we call them.

I will make a note also because it doesn't seem like they knew what I was talking about.

But didn't use it that much when I was down south and when I was out west.

But they don't seem to use a lot of powdered sugar.

God, I love powdered sugar.

It's awesome.

It's one of the greatest things ever.

Maybe they use it on donuts, but that's it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But so personally, can you use it for anything?

Puppy chow is awesome.

And that we've got next up on our list.

Buck eyes.

Named after the nut of the Ohio Buckeye tree, these sweet treats are a beloved confection

in Ohio and beyond.

Yes.

Those are very good.

Beth is probably, if she's listening, she's like, yeah, bug eye.

Combination of creamy peanut butter and rich chocolate.

I don't think I've had these.

No, they're good.

They're very good.

Yes.

How have I not had that?

That's right.

And I don't know how.

That's why I find them.

Or at an Amish store.

Amish candy store, they sell something similar to it.

I don't think they call it a Buckeye, but it's the same thing.

Because they do look like the Buckeye nut when you make them.

That's why they call them that.

Gooe butter cake.

Gooe butter cake is the St. Louis specialty.

That's a decade as it sounds.

The rich, sweet cake has a dense, chewy base topped with a gooey buttery filling that melts

in your mouth.

The origins of the gooey butter cake dip act to the 1930s when a baker accidentally

used the wrong proportions of ingredients.

That's awesome.

Have the accident.

Yeah.

I love the happy accident.

I think we need to head down to St. Louis.

I want to try that.

Get some barbecue.

Yeah, there you go.

Often dusted with powdered sugar.

Oh, the Midwesterners love their powdered sugar.

Oh, and this cake is perfect for dessert or a sweet breakfast treat.

Right.

Interesting.

Is Missouri in the Midwest?

That's a great question.

I don't know.

I don't know if we're, it's considered to be.

I've heard this debate a lot, actually.

I've actually heard a lot of people.

It's the same debate that stems back to is East St. Louis, Part of Chicago or not.

In my whole life, this has been a debate.

It's not.

It's not spoiler alert.

It's not.

No.

Pork tenderloin sandwich.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Those are good.

Yeah.

Yes, those are really good.

Cinnamon chili.

Cinnamon chili is unlike any other chili you've tasted originating from Cincinnati, Ohio.

This chili is made with a unique blend of spices, including cinnamon, all spice and chocolate.

Yep.

I've made chocolate chili before.

Excellent.

Typically served over spaghetti and topped with shredded cheese, onions and beans.

Cincinnati gets your act together.

You do not put chili, it's spaghetti time.

No.

It drives me crazy.

Why would you do that?

I don't know.

Why would you add cinnamon?

I mean granted, I'm, I'm, I'm a love cinnamon, but it doesn't love me.

So add something.

No.

No, it adds an interesting, not texture, but an interesting flavor if you do chocolate or cinnamon.

And with chili, I think it actually adds a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like things.

I, I, I, I gotta try something.

That sounds really good.

Jello salad comes up at number nine.

Oh.

Minnesota, you couldn't go to a potluck without like three.

Oh, yeah.

People would bring, I saw cartoon ones where like at a church function, it was all jello salad.

And the cap and the caption was well, it was bound to happen sometime.

I am quite sure.

The church ladies didn't call each other that way.

That's right.

They didn't.

You cannot have a church picnic without jello salad.

I believe they will call it off.

They will say no.

No one right now.

Wait.

Jello salad.

We'll meet back here next.

Yeah.

We'll meet back here next Sunday.

Everybody bring it.

And that's where you get the cartoon.

Because everyone brought it.

My mom made something when we were kids called glorified rice.

So did my family.

Yep.

And it contains rice, jello, and whipped cream.

Yep.

That's good.

My dad.

My dad always called it mortified rice.

Did he not like it?

Oh no, he hated it.

But the other thing she always made along with that was pistachio pudding.

Because that was my absolute favorite.

Not bad.

Which is basically just pistachio pudding mix with pudding or with whipped cream.

With whipped cream, yeah.

Or cool whip, yeah.

Yep.

It's so good.

I love these things that our parents or families did or what have you.

For some of these things where we think everybody did them and it turns out nobody did.

Or things that we think only we did, but everybody did.

Yeah, right.

I love when that happens.

That's fantastic.

The one thing that was.

Oh, sorry.

You have more.

No, go ahead, go ahead.

Well, I was just going to mention like the loaf meals.

It's all like different ones that aren't meat loaf.

Yes, yes, yes.

Because that is a pretty Midwestern thing.

My mom made a special K loaf, which is basically just special K cereal crushed up with cottage cheese

and a lot of eggs.

Really?

And George Washington seasoning.

It is so good.

I'm intrigued.

I like making loafs.

I want to try that.

It's delicious.

And then it's really good cold as a sandwich.

I can totally see that.

Oh, that's cool.

That's cool, Melissa.

And then the other one like lentil loafs are very popular as well.

We've done that before.

Beth and I have made a lentil loaf before, yeah.

That one does sound pretty good.

That does sound pretty darn good.

We come up with cringole next.

That's very Wisconsin.

Cringole is, yes, from Racine, Wisconsin.

Found its second home there.

This Danish dish.

Cringole is typically enjoyed during the holidays, but many Midwesterners indulge you around.

Because why wouldn't you?

It's so good.

It's so good.

I haven't had cringole in a long time.

I've got to have some.

We have to do some cringling this holiday season.

Yes, definitely, definitely.

Cringling.

We're going to do some cringling.

Can we Carol, will we, Cringole?

Yes, I think we shall.

Runza comes up on the list next.

Runza is a bread pocket filled with seasoned ground beef, cabbage and onions originating

from Nebraska.

Oh.

I was going to say I've never heard of those.

Wow.

We are really expanding the Midwest here.

Yeah, they're really good at Nebraska.

We have pasties.

Yes.

Yes.

Pasties, especially Michigan, the UP.

They're famous for their pasties.

You're down right, dairy.

Yeah.

You're definitely up there.

They're on a UP, the Upers, you know.

And we wrap up with Boya.

Boya is a hearty stew that's a staple at community gatherings in part of Wisconsin

in Minnesota, made with a variety of meats, vegetables and sometimes even beans.

Boya is cooked slowly over an open flame for several hours.

Yeah.

It's a Belgian, has Belgian roots.

Oh, that's cool.

That's one of those things where you can just throw whatever you want into a pot basically.

It's a Midwest gumball.

Yeah, it's a Midwest gumball.

It's called stone soup.

There you go.

Not like that.

Yeah.

Now, stone soup is what I know more as well.

Yeah.

I honestly haven't heard Boya soup before.

I got to be honest.

The name is a little maybe a little more recent.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But that's a good one too.

Great stuff.

And I did not see cheese fries on this list and I'm very disappointed.

Very disappointed.

But those are probably popular everywhere.

I couldn't find them in California.

Apparently not in California.

All over.

I could not find them.

I shouldn't surprise you though.

You know what?

It shouldn't have been.

But it did.

And that's more on music.

He was just home.

He wanted some cheese curries.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

It's 100%.

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Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

I'm going to watch that video later.

It's one of the best of all time.

It really is.

Yeah.

That's one of the end.

I used to ask this so far.

Long ago, I used to actually watch the MTV movie musical music awards.

Music awards.

Yeah.

His performance during that was just as good.

I loved you, Mark.

They're awesome.

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Great band.

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Eating with chopsticks comes up next.

Oh, I'm good at that.

I'm good at that too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Practice.

Oh, James.

He's oddly silent.

I don't know what's going on here.

It's so frustrating.

I've got these...

My fingers are chopsticks.

I was going to say you don't even need them.

You just use your fingers.

I've got huge hands.

And I'm actually very dexterous with my hands.

I used to be able to flip a coin around on my fingers and some of that stuff.

I cannot shuffle cards anymore.

I don't know what's happened, but as I've gotten older,

I can't shuffle cards as well.

And I cannot use chopsticks as well.

Oh, I don't have the dexterity.

I used to have with my hands.

Oh, yeah.

It drives me crazy.

It's the top of the already setting engine.

I know.

With those fingers.

I'm hoping not.

They sell those special little things that you can stick on the end of chopsticks

to hold them together for you.

So you don't have to do it with your fingers.

And then you could still use chopsticks.

I'll leave out the fact.

Or actually, you know, you can close your ears, James.

These are made for kids.

Yes, yes.

They work for you.

You do that.

There are, there are, this may be a list of one of things that I won't do

because of shame or I worry about what other people think.

Like, look at me.

Listen to me.

You know I don't really worry about those things except for with chopsticks.

I should do that.

That's a smart way to do it.

I wouldn't do it.

I can't do it.

His pride won't let him.

If I was either just struggle or you'll ask for a fork.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Get a fork.