Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, well, it's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
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Hope you're having a great start to your week out there. Thanks for hanging out with us.
We're going to have some fun this hour. We're not only going to get into some good stuff
in a little bit with entertainment. We'll also get into dictionary.com's word of the year.
Got that one coming up for you. But it's a Monday and the 9 o'clock hour. You know what
that means? No. No. No, no playmakers. Oh, sorry. That's not it. That's it. Where is it?
Where is it? Under Marvin. Under Marvin. Is it that one? Yes. You got it. I'm sorry. I'm
so sorry. I'm just trying to make the segment longer. Good morning, everybody. And welcome
to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday, December 2. Thanksgiving has come and gone.
And so we're not going to talk about. Oh, please don't say leftovers. I've already
eaten more leftovers than anyone person should have. No, we're going to talk about holiday
baking cookies, pies and carmels. Actually, we're going to talk about fritters. Oh, wait,
wait, we're in the midst of the holiday season. And you're not going to talk about holiday
baking. That's right. We have several more weeks for that. And many grocery stores and
other businesses have already put out their holiday, cookbooks for resources and things
like that. So instead, I thought we would celebrate national fritter day. Oh, okay. So
what exactly is a fritter? Aren't, aren't they just donuts that are flat, you know, they
kind of, although some, I guess some are super flat, they look kind of like little mini
mountains. They, if you're big enough, it's like stuff connected together. Yes, yes,
something like that. I live in a little mini mountains. I like mini mountains. That's
what I call my fritters. Yes. Well, according to Marion Webster dot com, the definition
of fritter is as a noun is a small mass of fried or sauteed batter, often containing fruit
or meat. Oh, now forgive me, y'all, but our fritters are southern thing. Well, according,
not really southern living dot com shares corn fritters aren't a particularly southern
dish. It's just that southerners really love corn fritters. For breakfast, lunch or as
a side dish at dinner, these crispy fried bits of doughy corn are welcome all year. But
especially when the corn is just still just picked sweet. Okay, but fritters aren't just
made from corn. No, I wasn't quite sure of that. So I did a little bit of digging. I was
curious to find out where fritters got their start and where they can be found. So
Britannica dot com. Do you remember those like lapidias, the Britannicas? Well, now that
whole set is online, which is things a lot easier to find. So according to Britannica dot
com, they had to say this fritters are found in many cuisines. The French baguettes, Italian
baguettes. I don't know. I thought I'd ask the Italian. I didn't see you. I mean, I'm sorry.
Bene. Bene. Bene. Bene. Bene. Bene. And the Greek l'ocode madeis. Ooh, I've heard
that very loudly shouted. Pretty much a word forward. There you go. Yeah. All right, our
sweet cakes of the first type of fritter. The batter frying technique was introduced into
Japan by the Portuguese and Spanish in the late 16th century. The tempura that developed a
mixture of a mix of fry of shrimps, herbs, and vegetables has been totally incorporated
into the cuisine. The India Pancora. So that's from India is a savory deep fried cake containing
bits of cauliflower, eggplant, or other vegetables. Frito Misto is an Italian dish of bits
of meat, seafood, and vegetables dipped in a batter and fried. And of course, olive oil.
Oh, wow. That sounds good. A specialty dish of various local cuisines is the flower fritter
using daily lilies roses, violets, acacia, elderflow, or squash blossoms. Okay. Nice. So day
of the year dot com elaborated, stating the first known written record of fritters dates
back to 1665 when Samuel peeps, peeps. That's all that's pronounced. So he's my peeps. Yeah,
easy. Okay. Gotcha. So the inventor of peeps. There you go. Why didn't he spell it that way?
Don't know. When Samuel peeps a English parliament member mentioned them in his diary, the industrial
revolution in the 1780s further popularized fritters by making flower production easier, thereby
making fritters more accessible to the masses. Okay. So this has got a quite the history then, in
other words, fritters come from all kinds of places. They do. They have their own spin on all these
things. And that's very cool. Yeah. I love I love the the global. I love the the the the world
feel to this that it's kind of made it the rounds all around the world. That's really cool. So
sorry. I didn't hear anything after olive oil. I was writing down the Italian one. I was
not that I got admit I didn't realize how much history there was till fritters. Look at this
the over the weekend. It's so cool. It's very interesting. And it made me very hungry for fritters.
That doesn't happen with a lot of these segments. Well, good. Glad this one did. Today is
National Fritter Day, which is why I wanted to focus on this. And the neat thing about this is
that each culture has made it its own. There's the common thing is the batter and frying things up.
But they've each gotten their own spin to it. So it's a reminder that we're all really the
similar the same. We have our own takes, but we're diverse in how we do things. Yeah. Music is close
to it. But I don't think there's anything that's a better example of how much we have in common
than food. Absolutely. We'll be able to take something that's you know specific to one culture
and then make it your own and put your own spin on it. Which is that's that's not only
cool. It's so creative. We find the ways doing that. So nowadays you can find fritters that are
both savory and sweet made with meat or are completely vegetarian. There's even I found this
fascinating. There is a Fritter festival in New Zealand. Another reason to go to New Zealand.
There you go. That would that would be fun to attend. I wonder if they dress up like hobbits
and fritter about. Oh gosh. Fritter about my one. Yeah. That's a different kind of fritter there.
Oh okay. So let's stick to the fritters that you eat. Okay. How complicated are they to make?
Well it depends on what kind of fritter you want to make and whether you fry them or bake them.
I found an easy recipe for baked apple fritters on the conscious plant kitchen. Because you know
that's so easy to say. That's the website name too. Oh my god. That's a tough one. The conscious
plant kitchen.com. So here's how they make their fritters. You preheat your oven to 400 degrees
and line two baking sheets with silicone mats or baking parchment paper that is safe to use with
an oven broiler. So you need to double check and make sure you have the right kind of parchment
paper. Oil the paper generously with cooking oil. Peel, core and dice. Two cups of green apples.
About three apples or so into small cubes and then you set those aside for a little bit later.
Then mix together. Two cups of self-rising flour. If you don't have self-rising flour,
you can use all-purpose flour. Just add four teaspoons of baking powder to it and that's what
helps it rise and then add a half a cup of sugar or any granulated sweetener substitute and whisk
to combine. Then you fold in one and a half cups of cinnamon apple sauce and stir until the four
it forms a thick moist batter but don't over mix it. It's similar to pancakes. You don't want to
overdo it. Fold in the two cups of green apples that you previously cubed and prepared earlier and
that stir that into completely incorporate everything evenly. Drop heaping tablespoons of batter
into onto the baking sheet. Leave a thumb-sized space between each fritter. Now I know we all
have different sized thumbs. So just make sure that you have enough room for when it oh
rises and the oven to the thumbs over here. Miner a little bit smaller than your
face. So my thumb size is going to be different than yours but the point is make sure that you have
enough space so that they're not going to bake into each other. Don't make them too big or it will
compromise the texture. So after you've dropped them on there it's going to make about 27 small
fritters and that's why you want to do it smaller. You don't want to have the texture be something
that you don't like. Place it one baking sheet onto the center rack of your preheated oven,
one sheet at a time keeping the second one on the kitchen countertop while you bake the first one.
So this isn't something that you're going to do them both at the same time. Bake the fritters for
about 18 to 21 minutes or until nicely golden brown. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and turn
the oven broiler on to 420 degrees. No more as the baking paper will could burst into flame.
If you go over 425 so 420 is about your max. Meanwhile make the glazing by stirring together one
and a half cups powdered sugar two to three tablespoons of almond milk or whatever variety of milk
you want. I could not use the almond milk because that would kill one of my sons. Kind of like them
alive. So I would use regular milk or possibly even the protein shakes like a vanilla protein shake
and then add one tablespoon of vanilla extract. For crispy baked apple fritters brush a little
bit of the glazing on top of each warm fritter and broil on the top rack of the oven for about two
to three minutes. Keep in a close eye so that you don't burn them because broilers will do that
very quickly. When golden brown remove from the oven let them cool for about 10 minutes
on the rack then dip them into the glaze and return them to the rack to let the excess glazing drip
down. Or eat it and let the glazing drip down your hands. It sounds so much better. It's so good.
Oh my gosh. Two quick things. One bet that people heard this recipe sounds really good to them. They
like it but they're driving right now. Couldn't write it down or anything. Is there somewhere they
can find them? Well we're going to make sure that this gets onto the show notes today. I'll make
sure that Laura gets that put put on. So if you go to wffr.com you look up morning the morning show
the segment and it'll be there. And not so much a question as a new rule. A new rule for this segment.
If you're talking about a food you have to bring this food. I want fritters so bad right now.
Oh my gosh. So there when we lived in North Dakota there's kind of a landmark in West Fargo called
Sandy's Donuts. And they were the go. I mean one of those places that everyone loved and went to
and all that stuff. And Beth would go there occasionally with meetings with other clergy.
When she went into town. All right. Take a run there after Andrews was born just to have some special
mom and son time so he didn't feel left out with a new baby. Exactly. She would bring me these
gigantic blueberry fritters that they had. I'm talking I mean they were big and they were awesome.
Oh my god. They were so delicious. Oh I'm not the one. I'm getting a fritter soon as well.
But the I mean the ones you're talking about making here they're like smaller ones or not. They're
not the really big ones you get at like a bakery or something like that. Correct. And you still
they sound delicious. The nice thing is going online. Going to your favorite search engine type in
fritter recipes and I even added easy fritter recipes if you're kind of daunted by this because
it can be very daunting to try to bake something you've never baked before. This recipe seemed
very easy and it seemed a little bit healthier because you're not frying the fritter. They're
baking it right. The other thing if you're going to do fritters fried you might want to have a
thermometer that you can use in your oil so that you can make sure you have consistent
temperature in your oil and that was one of the reasons why I didn't go with a fried one.
I didn't want with a baked one because this one seems like one that if you have an oven and you're
interested in trying something new you can pop this one in. Very cool. So this recipe is just one
of many you can find like I said searching online and going through or go through your cookbooks.
You may have one of these recipes at home you can try. You didn't even know. Exactly. And as Beth
was telling us these segments are always a highlight on our morning and Monday mornings we'd love to
have a sponsor for them as well. That's right. I'd love to highlight a business or restaurant during
this segment. So if you're interested in more information about how to make that happen just give
us a call at 715-423-1300 and speak with Pam. She'll put you in touch with Ashley and you all can
work out the details. That number again by the way is 715-424-1300. Sorry, thank you. 424-424-1300 to
get hold of Pam. And go ahead. And with that we'll close the kitchen. Fantastic segment.
Yes. Nicely done Beth. Nicely done. We appreciate that. And I appreciate you. We look forward to
hanging out with you again very soon Beth. Thanks so much. I will have another episode for you next
Monday. Everybody of the kitchen's open. Be on lookout for that. Coming up. We got our monthly
veterans update with Tom Heiser. Some entertainment news and plenty more coming up right here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a fantastic one out there.
Every month at the beginning of the month we are joined by our great friend Tom Heiser with our
monthly veterans update. Tom is in studio with us today. Tom has his headphones on Melissa so he
can hear you. Hi Tom. Good morning. Good morning Tom. Thanks so much for being here.
Appreciate the time as always and everything that you and so many put into our community. And Tom,
let's go ahead and get right to it. I know we have a couple of fun things we want to touch on today
in an honor today. Okay, no problem. Actually yesterday was the Civil Air Patrol was established in
1941. You know, going back a little bit in history. On Tuesday we have the Allied
Bets meeting out of the VFW post at six. And December 7th, they lives an infamy.
Pearl Harrow was attacked in 1941. And this Saturday, December 7th, we were having an event
out the Pearl Harbor Celebration ceremony at the VFW post starting at 10. And one of the people
that comes over is this gunner whom Melissa just happened to have interviewed for the show.
He kind of runs the program over there. It's about an hour long as also. It's really interesting.
It was a really interesting conversation you have with Gunner Melissa. Oh yeah, absolutely.
He is a fantastic storyteller. Encourage anybody who might have missed that. Be sure to check
that out at our civic media. US and community stories. It was the pilot episode. That's right.
Yeah. Did a real good job with that Melissa. Well, thank you Tom. Your story is great too.
Okay, we'll go with that. I do not underestimate yourself.
Yeah, he's in two episodes. He's such a good story.
And thank you for noting that Tom. I appreciate it. I think especially for a lot of our younger
listeners out there, and I mean, even people in our, me and Melissa's age range,
you know, we need to be reminded of not only that day but what that day meant to our country
and going forward. How there are a few things, days in American history that changed our history
and the way our country would look the rest of the world to the rest of the world after that one.
Exactly. And the stories are getting fewer and fewer and fewer in fewer World War II vets.
Right. Meaning. So, and it's open to everybody. It's free. Yeah. So up and there is something.
We have a lot of veterans here. You said 10 a.m.? Yes, this is at 10 a.m. and as far as veterans
being there is going back to a military term. It's a target rich environment because there will be a
bunch of veterans off there. Also in December 7th is a Mekusa Christmas parade. Yeah. And we'll
event and please talk to your weatherman because we'd like to be looking. We're going to work on that.
We'll work on that one for each time. We have the weather woman, but we'll get in touch there.
We'll get out of that. We'll get out of that. And then on Sunday, December 8th,
war was actually declared in Japan the day after Pearl Harbor. The day to live in infamy.
And Tuesday, December 10th is Auburndale coffee with the vets. And also in there is that morning,
Joe and Dole over in Stevens Point. And on Wednesday, the 11th is be the Herald's Cafe. It's the only
one in December because it's the next Wednesday Christmas. Yeah. So it's Christmas.
And then the 11th is also the American Legion post 9th meeting. And then on December 11th is
been Germany and Italy declared war. So it took a day to get it. Yeah. Yeah.
Wild. Really again, interesting thing to note about just our history, our world history and all
that. I'm glad you noted that. Thank you. To 12th is the VBA's chapter one on one monthly meeting.
And also that night is the American Rudolph American Legion post meeting. And then on December 13th,
we're having a military honors training on at the VFW that is free. And show how to
when you have an event like a funeral or something, why things are the way they are, why the flag
is folded, the way is folded. It's a very good learning experience. It's a free fun to attend that.
And then just Tom just randomly asking this question. Say somebody runs a morning show until like
11 a.m. when this kicks off and everything. If they went, if they got there late, would they still be
able to attend the event? Yeah. Usually the first 10 minutes are like every other meeting.
Right. And I've attended a few of those. Yeah. I'm talking about. Yeah. So if they run
10, you know, please dude, the National Guard is going to put it on because they have their own
honor. Yeah. And they participate in many, many events around the area. So they're familiar with
that. Oh, and getting back to the December 7th, you know, that's quite a ceremony because we have
navy bets that raised the flag. Yeah. And lower the flag that was flowing over the USS Arizona.
Wow. That's it. That's it. Wow. That's emotional. Yeah. You know, 21 guns salute and you know,
caps. Yeah. Just you even saying it, I felt something. I can't imagine when it's actually
happening. Yeah. It is. It's cool. Okay. Getting back to what we were. The 14th is the VFWVVA
Christmas party at the ridges. And on Sunday, December 15th was the official end of the war in Iraq
in 2011. Okay. Another big one. Another big day to know. Yeah. And wasn't that like just yesterday
or completely? Yeah. Right. It was like. Yeah. It was just yesterday. Okay. And on December 15th,
Sunday is Bill of Rights Day. It was declared in 1941. Battle of the Bulge was on December 16th.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, so a lot of our work stuff. And then on December 19th, the VFW post,
2534 is monthly meeting at six. And December 20th, Panama campaign began in 1989. And then
the 31st, closeable campaign ended in 2013. Wow. So it's if you're into history, world history,
and especially American history, December is the month. Yeah. There's so much in December to look
at. And for us to honor and remember, we're not here without it. Exactly. You know, any one of
these things, Tom mentioned, we're not here without any of this. So we appreciate that time.
Appreciate these notes. And we will be talking about these as we get closer to these events and
reminding people about them. But we get an earlier reminder and people can mark these on their
calendars because you take the time to come in. You do the homework, getting all these together.
Really do appreciate it, Tom. Well, I appreciate it. It's actually fun, you know, to do that,
to look at history and go, wow, that was then. It's wild to think of it. And we look forward to
every month you coming in. Thank you so much for being here, Tom. Appreciate the time. No problem.
We appreciate that, you know, giving us the time and all that December 7th, again, we are one of the
few VFW posts in the state that still have that ceremony. So it's really cool. Central Wisconsin is
really veteran friendly. Yes, absolutely. And something to keep in mind. And Tom, if people have
questions about anything we brought up today, we don't have any follow-ups. How can they reach you?
Okay, pen and pencil.
Civil one, five, six, zero, zero, zero, four, zero, one is a VFW phone number. And our
commander answers that and we'll answer any questions that you have and help you out.
All right, appreciate that, Tom. And just another quick shout out. Go to civicmedia.us, go
under shows, find community stories, Melissa K, find that pilot episode and everything. You can
listen to all the episodes, yeah, so far. Interview, we're touching on there. We're still in the
middle of the veteran series with community stories. And actually this week on Tuesday is the
post commander of VFW post 25 Sean plant. Very good. Very cool. Thank you. I look forward to that.
I look forward to the next month talking with you again, sir. Thanks, Tom. Appreciate you.
No problem. I appreciate it. Melissa, good job on that because she does have some lady veterans as well.
Yes, right. Not just, you know, this is not cigar smoking guys all the time.
All right. I'm looking forward to that. We'll be back after a news break right here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
A big shout out to Beth and Tim joining us kicking off our Monday. Tom, did I say Tim?
Yes, I was just thinking about Tim Hubble for the whole day. I mentioned that. Yes, I did.
Tom, we appreciate both of them joining us and kicking off this nine o'clock hour for us.
We dive into some entertainment news and we have to kick off our entertainment section with Mowick.
Mowick. He's so determined. I'm going to make this happen.
Well, that nobody budgets. Yes, nobody. Well, they tried to, I forget what they were calling it,
they were trying to do this with gladiator and wicked. Yeah. They had a new lake for it.
Lake Glick. Kalik.
As Seth was touching on it, I think we've all noted a little bit here and there.
This is what happens when they try to do it and they don't let it just happen organically.
We're going to look at the Weekend Box Office numbers real quick.
Did you have some, Melissa?
Well, I was just going to ask what your acronym stands for because that's the thing.
Glyct doesn't really tell you what it is. Barbentheimer was very obvious what the two movies were.
Get it in a second.
All right. Number four. Red one grossed 76 million and it's third week release.
Not bad. Not bad. Pretty well. Gladiator two, the one that was supposed to kind of take the top spot
actually finished in third this week and it's second week in release, 111 million.
Wicken in its second weekend release came at 226 million is a week and gross of 80 million is
total at 226 million. Wow. It's doing very well. Very well.
And Melana too came in at number one and it's first week of release at 221 million total gross.
We can gross of 136. Wow. So real quick note, the holiday movies are seeing movies on the holidays
seems to be back. Okay. We just noted earlier about some movies that are coming out on Christmas day.
They haven't done that much since the pandemic. This used to be a big tradition in my family.
I want to give my mom and dad some time to themselves. So I would take my brother and sister to the
movies. It's where we went and saw Jumanji the first time and all basically all the Lord of the
Rings movies came out around Christmas. It's true. They did. We went and saw those and it was a good
chunk of time too. Yeah. Now what happened here was this Wicked and Gladiator came out last weekend
and so that's where they were trying with the Glick or whatever. Now this weekend,
Melana came out and a lot of people went to see Melana and then Wicked. That was happening in a
lot of major cities. So Melana Wicked. Mo Wicked. Mo Wicked. Mo Wicked. Mo Wicked. I see. I actually like
Mo Wicked. Yeah. It's not that bad. It's better than Wicked. Yeah, no kidding. And it deserves a
name because Melana too and Wicked created the best Thanksgiving box office in 12 years. Wow.
Interesting. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. And both of those are kid friendly shows.
Yes. Exactly. Yes. Because when I went to see Wicked last weekend, there were a ton of kids there.
That's cool to hear. That is cool. That's very neat. That's very neat. That, you know,
if we always say this, if Hollywood would, you know, get their act together and figure stuff out.
Man, why don't they have more family type movies? You know, one that everyone can go to because,
like Melissa said, yeah, there's a lot of adults that love Wicked, right? But it's also one, you know,
take your kids with. They love it. Kids like musicals. They really knew. So that makes a lot of sense.
And especially when it's so colorful and vivid, and it's a story that there's somewhat familiar with
the character of Oz. Yeah. It's necessarily completely foreign to them. Yeah, exactly.
Makes sense. This was the biggest boost for the health of the theatrical theater since the COVID.
That's the fourth theater since COVID movie theaters. Yes. Wow. That's interesting.
Very interesting. And a pretty big weekend. A big weekend for Dolly Parton. As we have to mention,
this is we are the home for Dolly Parton news. If you hadn't heard, Dolly Parton was just named the
greatest country artist of all time by billboard. Wow. Now this, of course, like anything nowadays,
was met with some controversy for some. But as for the top spot, no one could argue.
So no, but there was a lot of controversy about this except for the top spot. Nobody had any argument
with that. And I think that's kind of cool. Because how can you argue with Dolly Parton? I'm
serious. Seriously. That's pretty cool, though. Yeah. Actually. And here's what she had to say when
she found out about the honor. Well, y'all, no, I wish I could do a Dolly Parton. I just learned
that billboard magazine just released their list of country music's greatest artists of all time.
And they have my name sitting at the top. Can you believe that? You can hear her saying that.
Now when I was a little girl, I would sit around the radio and listen to the grand old
opera and hearing all those great big artists like Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, and Johnny Cash.
And I dreamed of what my life could actually become as well. She closed it out by thinking her
fans and saying, I take none of this for granted. So thank you for giving me the opportunity
to see my dreams come true. She has never taken anything for granted. No, no, she's a hard worker.
She knows her roots. She worked for everything that she has gotten.
There are people, I mean, we've heard this story as you know, rags to riches and that stuff.
There are very few people who were as like desperately poor as she was growing up, like
literal little dirt floor in the house she lived in. I mean, it's really remarkable.
I think you can make the argument in all of entertainment, but especially in music,
she may be the best story, the best story, gotta be. We're coming from nothing of rags to
riches of all of that. Yeah, almost purely on her talent. Yeah. Right. And then not being like
having her head turned over it. No, you know, she's kept her head on her shoulders the whole time.
To my knowledge. Yeah, right. Yeah, same. And I will say too, you know, nothing
against artists that make it nowadays or even in the last 20 years or anything like that. But
making it now and making it back then completely different universe. Absolutely.
Completely different. Yeah. And speaking as we're talking about Wicked a little bit and everything,
you might think that Judy Garland earned the most in the Wizard of Oz to be the main character
in everything, but that is quite wrong. Now, the three of us would know better. Yes, we would
know that. Yeah. Judy made 9,600. Would would amount to about close to, you know, 200
mill or 200,000 in on nowadays and stuff 218,000 to be exact. Okay. It was considered a lot of
a lot at the time and was a raise for Judy who went from making a hundred bucks a week at MGM
to 500 a week. Wow. But Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West made 21,000,
which would be over 476,000 nowadays. Wow. Partly because she was a Broadway star,
but also because she suffered burns from the filming he's seen with fire. Yeah. That
makes it laid into it a little bit there. The studio kept her on salary for six weeks as she
spent healing. So that was part of that. Oh, wow. Okay. Now, that's a little surprising to
some. It also saved them a lawsuit. That's true, too. And it might surprise you that the
scarecrow made the most of all at 72,000, which would equal out about 1.63 million today. Wow.
Ray Bulger was already a star and had performed on Broadway and Radio City musical. So that was
part of the reason for that. And he was a man. Yeah. And that's just that like it is horrible.
Is that sounds and everything? That's the way they did things back. That's the way they did it.
Back back then. Sorry. So still doing it now. That's very true. Well, hang on, Melissa. Let me look.
No, you're right. 100% right. Boy, you know, if there was as much and I like the original
Wizard of Oz, I think it's one of the best better movies ever made. Really, you really
was. But if you read about the making of it and some of the stuff that that Judy had to go
through and I mean, just some of the poor girl during that movie, some of the stuff we're talking
about now about the salaries and stuff and who got, I mean, it's, it's a sense. It's a really
sense. Poison in the makeup. Yeah. I mean, the first 10 man was, yeah, was buddy. I mean,
there was a lot. There was a lot that happened in that movie. Anybody who's seen
heart of darkness will tell you that it may be more interesting than the movie Apocalypse Now.
It's about the making of the making of the nightmare of that and everything. The Wizard of Oz tops
that. The Wizard of Oz, the making of that movie tops Apocalypse Now, tops almost anything
Herzog went through and did to his character. Yeah, you know, things like that. It is a nightmare
of a movie to the point where I have a hard time watching it to be honest. I can understand that.
I'm one of those weirdos that can't, has a difficult, like I'm watching a movie and I'm also
dissecting it to try to see what, you know, the prop person was doing here and what kind of
graphics they were using over there and stuff. So I don't, I can't separate the two and when I'm
watching it, I can't help but think of these actors. What happened? Yeah, when they went through
when everything makes sense. Well, when we, when we know those things, like as you're a kid, like
I love that movie when I was a kid. Another one I really adored as a child was Milo notice.
And I watched it again now as an adult and I was like, wow, how did they get these animals to do,
hold up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I started to look into it and was like, oh, it really isn't
anything documented, but you can just imagine. Right, right. I mean, knowing what we know now.
Right. And what Melissa, you know, your point Melissa about, you know, the glass ceiling and everything
that's that's very well taken. But imagine, I mean, especially Judy was still a teenager when
that was child actors and animal actors. How badly they've been treated throughout the years.
And I mean, it's like, oh, yeah. So things are changing for the positive. You know, we are making
progress. We need to keep going. Keep it going. Yeah. Yeah. Real quickly. I want to mention that
your favorite Muppet podcast has a new episode today. What the Muppet dropped a new episode?
Episode 68 are top five favorite Muppets. Oh, this had to be hard for you. Oh my gosh. I have never
actually been angry at my kids. This was as close as I've ever been. How dare you? How dare you?
I do want to not only thank the audience for enjoying the episodes with us and everything.
We're getting close to wrapping up the second season. It's going to be a while. We're going to take
a little hiatus here and everything. So I just want to thank everybody that enjoyed the episode,
put up with me talking about it on the air. That includes my co-hosts. And it was a lot of fun.
Be sure to check it out, everybody. And please, if you are listening to the episodes, we want your
top five. I want others to suffer. I mean, enjoy. I really do. It's a hard list to make.
Little teaser for everybody here. Apparently, Super Grover and Grover are two separate things.
Apparently. That's what you came up with. He was James. He was very passionate apparently in this
episode. My goodness. Oh, I get the check out what the Muppet, wherever you get your podcasts,
everybody. I think you get so much to all of you. And a special thank you to Bria Hoyt
and the amazing job she does. Absolutely. And get your tickets for White Christmas, Irving Berlin's
White Christmas. It premieres this week, everybody. Yes. That's crazy. That's crazy.
So excited for this one for a course. It came up so fast. It did. This is, of course,
being directed by Susan Becker, or with musical direction by Ben Shitek. It has a cast of
wonderful, wonderful people. A lot of them, you know, and you've heard on the air here with us.
That's true. Yeah, best in it. That's right. And some you're going to hear a little bit later with us,
as we're going to have a couple of the cast members on for Midday Magazine today.
Now we kick things off. Very cool. They've got production dates on the fifth, the sixth,
and the seventh of this month. And then they're coming back on the 12th, 13th, and 14th.
All right. Wow. So Thursday through Saturday, both weekends. That you got it. Yeah, that is
the new schedule at WRCT. Yep. And we encourage you to not only get your tickets for it, but
get tickets and check out some great other great stuff coming up. Like Arseneck and Olay says,
auditions on December 16th and 17th. It's on the way. Mark your calendars for that.
And the LFT party that is going to be taking place on December 8th. That's Sunday. That's going
to be fun. My goodness. And they're going to have their first ever Children's Theater Christmas
program on December 20th. There are so many great things going on. Find out more.
Follow Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater on social media and share their things on your pages.
And of course, get your tickets and more at www.wrctheater.org.
All right. We will take time out. Come back and wrap up the show. Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning Show here at WFHR. Melissa, Seth and James here with you.
We got to run. We got to take it to the top of the hour. I'm not running. Okay. No, no, no,
you know, slowly, briskly leave. We will take it to the fast walk run. I will frolic,
but I will run. We will be frolicing off at the top of the hour here, of course.
But before that, I want to get to a couple of fun things. We've got some local events we want to
get to and other things. But first dictionary.com has their word of the year. All right.
What has been your word of the year? We will keep this open and to throw out the whole week here.
I want to hear from you out there. What is your word of the year? Keep in mind. We are a PG show.
Yeah, come on out. Dictionary.com just announced theirs and it is Demore. Demure. Demure. Demure.
D-E-M-U-R-E. Which became a popular meme on TikTok if you spend a lot of time online,
writing, you might have come across this one already. They picked it over other virtual
sensations like Brad and BrainRot and Weird. Just the word weird. BrainRot is the Oxford
dictionary word of the year. That's why I was laughing. They're all going to have their own
words. You know, Demure had a meteoric rise in a usage this year, especially this summer.
It was up 1,200% between January and August. Wow. And used sarcastically? Yes. Yes.
That's a weird word to use sarcastically. The word of the year last year was hallucinate. I
didn't remember. Oh, really? Oh, I don't remember that. Now that's a reference to the rise of chat
bots in AI and everything. Oh, AI hallucinating. Got you. That makes sense. Okay.
And if you know, this is one of those pictures were weird. Most of these are very are seldom
relevant to us. You know, so I was like, you know, what your word of the year is out there.
I want to hear from you out there what you're what you think it is, what you what you prefer,
what maybe it is. Yeah. Can I enominate one? Please. Wackadoo. Oh, good one.
This 10 oh, Wackadoo year. Wackadoo is I like it. See, that's what I think. So they seem to do
this with the word that may have like risen up or been used a lot in our lexicon and all that.
And then they find when they search on social media or something, I always thought at
least I feel like what Melissa just did is the way to do it. What's a word that you think perfectly
describes the year? Oh, they're being very specific about words we actually use this year.
Right. And ones that we maybe didn't use much in years past, we used a lot this year. I like
the idea of finding a word that perfectly sums up the year or tries to sum up the year. I think
Melissa just did it. She nailed it. Wackadoo. That's good. That's fun.
WFHR word of the year. Perfect. We'll have our own. We need our own dictionaries that we need.
Get on that social media team like yeah. Oh, okay. I didn't mean you.
But right now I am the team. Check it out at our newsletter.com. Yeah, there you go, there you go.
And yeah, you can go, you can find this article if you'd like addictionary.com.
I encourage you to go check it out. Or sign up for our newsletter at WFHR.com.
Be sure to do so. Got a new one coming up this week, everybody. Yeah.
Got some local events we want to touch on and get into our schedule and looking at our schedule,
we got a good thing coming up for you. Matt Nair on air at the top of the hour.
Jane and Greg have had some time off. They're going to be coming in fresh and ready to go.
I got a great show lined up for you today. Be sure to join us a little bit later today for
the Maggie Dawn show from 2 to 4. Maggie's just doing a great job. Amazing, really.
And then from 4 to 5, Midday Magazine. Yeah. As I mentioned before, we kick off the week with
our good friends from Wisconsin Raps Community Theatre. Awesome. We're going to bet Leo and maybe
Sue in with us. I think Sue, I saw out there. I saw Daniel. Yeah. Very cool. Okay, so we'll have
some people with us. Just be a proud. Yes. Yes. Not Samuel Peab's. Just Peab's. Just Peab.
Theatre folks. Nicely done. Nice. Let's call back. We're going to preview White Christmas for
everybody. Let's you know what's what's in store for that. That's going to be a lot of fun.
Could you excited to get those tickets? Yeah. In part two, today at 430, one of our favorite people
to talk to. Rock, Larson, Wood County Veteran Services Officer. Always loved talking with Rock.
He's going to be in talk with a veteran service update from Rock. Always important.
Looking forward to that. As I mentioned, get your tickets for Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
They premiere this week, everybody. Yes. Get those tickets are going fast, too.
Yeah, they are. Yeah. So make sure you get your tickets now.
Polynesians go fast. They do. They just do in general. And a big holiday show.
Big cast. Yeah. Big show. A lot of people. So going really good things for that.
Seth wanted to remind everybody as well about when Tom was in with us earlier. Yes.
The Flet, the take to start again. Action. Flag folding and honors.
Rendering training. This is by the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs,
the Military Funeral Honors Program. It's coming up Friday the 13th of December from 11 to 1 p.m.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Donald J. Canuth Memorial Hall. That is VFW Post 25 34 27 11 red and
road in Wisconsin Rapids. This is training session. It is free to participate.
It's good training to have for all honor guard members as well. So that's everyone is included
on that one. And like James was saying, it's something I learned in Scouts is how to correctly
fold the flag and also being playing a bugle for different honor guards for the VFW. I grew up at,
I played taps at many funerals. So it was, that was always one of my favorite parts is when
they took the flag and they folded it and they gave it to the next of kin. It's always one of my
favorite parts of a military funeral because it's got such meaning behind it. And so this is a
great way to learn how to actually correctly fold the flag, which I think is really important.
It's a really, I think it's a cool thing too to get a little bit of the behind the scenes and
have a little more detail, which gives a little more respect, I think, to it. And it never hurts to
look into the flag code. I mean, there is so much that there's a lot in there. Yep. There's a lot
in there that isn't being adhered to. No, it's not. It really isn't. So it doesn't hurt to
look into because I mean, it symbolizes our country and the freedoms that we enjoy. If we're going
to, you know, if we're going to do this right, we need to respect that thing the right way. And
what Melissa said needs to be known by every American. Every American should know exactly the
rules and the regulations of our flag and how we should be respecting it and treating it.
Properly care for it. Yep. These or funsters have their festival of trees going on still.
Yeah, it's open, not right. It opened Friday. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Just a reminder to everybody
is going till December 8th. Be sure to check it out. You can find out more at Zoreshriners.com.
Zoreshriners.com. Curtain Church. We're currently here in Wisconsin.
Rabbits. They're at the Messianic Center. 2321 Second Avenue South right here in Rapids.
Again, find out more and check it out. Zoreshriners.com. Zoreshriners.com.
It's a lot of week from one to seven. And just a quick reminder to everybody out there,
especially in this giving season with giving Tuesday tomorrow. I know so many of you are going to
give to our local nonprofits out there. And I greatly thank you for that. And they thank you
even more for that. But if I know that there are a lot of people out there that like to give but
don't have maybe the funds to be able to do it. And you want to be able to put back in your
community. There are a lot of nonprofits out there that you can volunteer at.
Arguing out a way of Southwood and the Amps counties has 211. You can call to find out more
about those. If I might recommend our Aging and Disability Resource Center of Central Wisconsin,
the ADRC and things like meals on wheels or packaging meals or helping out with their dinners.
There are so many different ways you can help out and they greatly could use individuals. Man,
this time of year delivering dropping these meals off if you're able to do it. It's not just
the meal and it's not just making a new friend. It is it is impactful as we get in these colder
months and everything. There's a lot of layers to something like this and it's something that's
always easy to do. It is whatever you got a little bit of time. If you just got a little bit of time,
they will work with you on your schedule and help you figure it out. Find out more and find out
if you can be a volunteer at ADRC-CW.org ADRC-CW.org. Looking at some world good stories. A woman
in Alaska named Escher Sandolin helped make sure that neighbors in remote areas had a happy
Thanksgiving by air dropping them frozen turkeys as she flew by in her plane. I hope that came
with a pre-warning. I really do. Just so you know, a 20 pound turkey. I'm in your way. Come with your
way. I like a cannonball. As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Especially frozen turkeys.
I love the idea of thinking about it. Anybody that gets that reference, thank you.
And a 74 year old retired Marine in Iowa named John Rankart is in the news after decorating
every house on his block with Christmas lights. He did it. He does it for his wife who loves
Christmas and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's four years ago. He says he'd do anything to make her
happy. A bunch of people ended up pitching in to help him with it and his neighbors are returning
the favor by setting up a PO box where you can send Christmas cards for him to read to her.
Oh, that is so touching. Yeah. If you would like this address, I'm going to read it on the
ear here, but go ahead and feel free to email me direct messages on our Facebook pages or just
email me directly. James.Mailoff at civicmedie.us and I will get you this address. It is John
Rankart CO Frank Ewers PO box 133 Indian Ola Iowa 501 25.
That's and I don't expect anybody to have been able to write that down. So please feel free to
reach out to me. Otherwise, if you just throw this one into your search engine,
retired Marine in Iowa decorates neighborhood. You know, things like that. You should be able to
find it. Yeah. But I'm definitely doing this. I am definitely doing this. I'm definitely
going to use our stationery. I'm going to make sure that that's a big challenge. Yeah.
Everything. That's perfect. And CNN did a big story on how bald Reddit might be the nicest
place on the internet. Guys post photos and ask if it's time to just buzz their head.
And a lot also posts before and after shots. And the whole vibe is very, very, very supportive.
How cool is that? And like we seem to have none of this on the internet. But hey, thank you,
Reddit. And specifically bald Reddit for a good story to talk about online.
There's a few threads on there that are just really uplifting. And their moderators do a great
job of keeping it that way. Which is good. Who does to them? Because that's a lot of work.
It's one of the one of the few sites that I go to quite often still. Like I don't know if there's
many that I hit up as much as I used to, but that's one of the ones I still do. And mainly because
of the moderators, the people doing a really good job of keeping those things in check. That's
right. I do want to remind everybody a little bit later today. We got playmakers from five to six.
We are going to have a lot of fun today. Got a good show lined up for you. I can't imagine
what we'll talk about. Yeah, nothing happened in sports this weekend. Not a thing. Nothing.
We will be talking about quite a bit. Get your get your phone calls ready to call up for that show.
Big shout out to quality post printing. And of course, our Wisconsin Rapids River Kings,
who gave us some tickets to give away. We're going to give away River King tickets tonight.
Be listening for that and plenty more during playmakers from five to six. Great show YouTube.
YouTube, man. Welcome back. Welcome back. Have a great day. Everyone. We'll talk to you
sooner than later. Right? You're right. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin
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