The Kitchen’s Open : New Year Traditions(Hour 2)

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Good morning, everybody.

And welcome to the kitchen soap and on WFHR for this Monday, January 6th.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Happy Epiphany.

No, that's right.

This is actually our first episode of 2025.

And since we just celebrated a calendar page turn, I thought we might be interesting

to look at some traditional meals for New Year's Day.

All right.

Beth, did you just cover traditional holiday meals a few weeks ago?

I understand the confusion, but this is just a little bit different.

I think I know where you're going with this.

Some cultures associate certain meanings with the type of food you eat

and it can signify prosperity or challenge.

Correct.

For instance, my Penn Dutch heritage says that you should always have

pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day to ensure good luck

and fortune in the year to come.

We sure did.

And it was good.

Well, some of us had sauerkraut anyway.

Yeah, the pork was fine.

The Visit Pennsylvania website, visit PA.com shares according to a number

of food historians.

The tradition can be traced back hundreds of years to Germany.

And well before the first Germans arrived in the then New World in the 1600s.

So why pork?

Along with being readily available as many families raised pigs,

by nature, pigs are always looking for food

and constantly moving forward in their search for food,

symbolizing moving forward into the New Year to bring good luck

or vegan-look in German.

Pork is the dough-to-food.

Sauerkraut is similarly, my mouth will work eventually.

Similarly, I could do the German, but I can't say similarly.

Anyway, associated with prosperity and good fortune.

Harvested in late fall and soon after crafted into sauerkraut

to produce a nutritious vegetable dish to be enjoyed in the winter months ahead.

Cabbage, the main ingredient in sauerkraut,

is round and shaped similar to coins and green a sign of wealth.

Consuming sauerkraut would therefore bring prosperity and good fortune in the New Year.

And hence, the tradition began and lives on and lives on,

in families of Germanic and other Eastern European descent.

No worries if your cultural heritage lies elsewhere.

This is just one of many traditional ways to do that.

Forbes.com published an article entitled,

Five New Year's Superstitious Foods that Promise Good Luck and Prosperity.

By Stephanie Galavasi.

In it, she shares this about my heritage.

In Italy, Leninci and Cornicilio or Cortino is a staple of New York's day.

Their round-shaped reminiscent of coins has made lentils

a symbol of wealth and good fortune.

Brazil shares its tradition with lentils often featured in celebrity dishes.

Lentils are humble but powerful, eating them on New Year's Day carries the hope

that small efforts will grow into something bigger, financial abundance,

personal growth, or simply a fulfilling year ahead.

The article also shares about another tradition in southern Europe.

Spain, to be exact, it shares,

eating 12 grapes at midnight is a ritual that began in Spain in the late 19th century.

The practice, tied to a particularly wonderful grape harvest,

soon became a New Year's Eve tradition that spread across Latin America.

Each grape represents one month of the year,

and the hope is that they can bring sweetness and prosperity.

Even if you miss the countdown, eating leftover grapes on New Year's Day

can still set the tone for a sweet start.

The practice ties celebration to a deeply rooted superstition.

Sweet grapes predict good fortune while sour ones warn of challenges.

Chowhound.com

It's a great name.

I love that.

Chowhound.com, in an article written by Hillary Wielin Remely,

one New Year's meal that's particular popular among Irish Americans,

or Americans who are Irish in spirit,

and that's corn, beef, and cabbage.

The meal, which is often associated with St. Patrick's Day,

is meant to bring good fortune into the New Year.

Folks opt for corn, beef, or pork for the meal,

as chicken and fowl supposedly bring bad luck,

because they dig into the dirt for food.

If you eat these birds on New Year's,

it is said you'll have to dig around searching for food in the New Year too.

As far as for the cabbage,

well, cabbage is green like money,

and therefore will attract wealth in the upcoming year.

At least that is the stated reasoning behind the supposedly traditional Irish holiday meal.

It's funny. I just heard a podcast about New Year's Street,

like superstitions and stuff,

and they talked about this one.

It's also because roosters and chickens,

when they scratch, they go backwards.

They don't go forward,

which is why the pig is good luck in the chicken is bad luck,

because they're always going backwards.

But anyway, going back to the article at Forbes.com,

in the American South, New Year's Day,

wouldn't feel right without black eyed peas,

often served with rice,

in Hoppin' John, which is such a great name.

I love that.

The tradition traces back to West Africa,

where black eyed peas were cultivated,

and later brought to the US through the transatlantic slave trade.

After the Civil War, the dish became a symbol of resilience and prosperity.

Black eyed peas symbolized new beginnings.

There's even a superstition that eating them ensures good luck

for every day of the year ahead.

Pair them with collard greens,

representing money,

and cornbread for gold.

Wow, and you've got a full plate of hope.

Let's not forget our neighbors did a North Day.

In an article from NationalMegraphic.com,

by Leah Lee Worthington,

quote,

what do you get when you combine eggnog

and ice cream float in a ton of alcohol?

A six stomach.

Yeah, no kidding.

Moose milk, of course.

Of course.

The festive Canadian cocktail known for being deliciously smooth

and dangerously boozy

is a favorite holiday liberation,

or a libation within the military.

Maloo?

Yeah.

Maloo, yeah.

According to Michael Boyar,

a retired army officer in history professor

at the Royal Military Academy of Canada.

The drink is typically made from a deadly combination of milk,

buttermilk, spices, rum, and ice cream.

Wow.

As Boyar says, the libation can lead to

uproarious wonderful parties or some bad scenes.

Probably both at the same time.

That's my kind of party.

That's my kind of party.

Moose milk has been a mainstay in military social events,

including levies,

official New York,

New Year's Day,

receptions bringing together government and military officials

with members of the public.

Huh.

Though, that seems like the worst place for the family.

Exactly.

Whoa.

Okay, Canada.

Why is Canada new on?

I guess it is Canada.

Yeah.

It's the last World War they got involved in.

Maybe that's it.

Maybe they can afford to drink moose milk.

Yeah, I don't know.

Moose milk dates back to before the First World War,

according to Boyar.

Oh, wow.

Isn't it ironic that that comes from the military?

Yeah.

I'm a little frightened.

Yeah.

That is what the military are doing.

Yeah.

That is a bored military.

That is Canada.

That is our military.

That's all we got to do, man.

I like the idea of the Canadian and Swiss military.

All they have to do is just prank each other.

They're just like calling up and pranking each other all the time.

The longest Cold War ever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love traditions like these is not only remembering the history of them.

And that I think is important for our ancestors,

whether they are our personal ancestors or not,

just ancestors in general, whether it's your culture or anything like that.

But I think one of the coolest parts of this is the stuff that we can see.

Oh, we pulled from that.

And that's where we got that from.

And so much of this really came out of this article,

or this episode that you created here.

Things that I thought I knew and I didn't know,

or things that I thought were really interesting.

And I'm like, oh, I never heard about that.

Yeah.

And oh, this, and it got me down a rabbit hole of,

oh, this started here.

Yeah.

And that's where that came from.

That's really cool.

It's fascinating.

And what I love about doing something like this on New Year's Day

is New Year's is a time to look back.

You know, see where you came from, see what you've learned,

as well as looking forward to, okay, what's to come.

And this kind of blends both of them by honoring your tradition,

but letting it move you into a new phase,

into a new year.

So yeah.

Stephanie finishes her Forbes article

with a great explanation as to why connected foods,

why we connect foods with symbols.

She writes New Year's Day isn't just about eating well.

It's about sharing, starting with purpose.

Across cultures, food rituals carry powerful symbolism

from wealth and progress to health and happiness.

Psychologists say these traditions help us feel more

in control of an uncertain future.

As the Oxford Research and Cyclopedia of Food Studies explains,

the active eating during celebrations is often more than sustenance.

It's a way of creating shared meaning and signaling traditions

in the calendar and in life.

By eating foods that represent luck or prosperity,

we create a sense of optimism.

In some cultures, things not to do on New Year's Day,

like cleaning or eating quote unquote unlucky foods,

reinforce the idea that our actions,

even small ones, shape the year ahead.

These traditions also connect us to family and community,

whether it's the comforting warmth of lentils

or the ritualistic precision of long noodles.

These dishes carry generations of meaning.

They remind us of where we've been and where we want to go.

From the sweet promise of 12 grapes to the hearty richness

of black eyed peas, the New Year's superstitions

and the foods we eat on New Year's Day reflect the universal desire

for a better year ahead.

There are more than meals.

They're tokens of hope.

So you might have heard in that last little bit,

some traditions we didn't mention.

There are several articles and we can add them

to the description for this hour

of where you can go to learn a little bit more

and if you go to allrecipes.com

and type in traditional New Year's food,

they will bring up several of them

and give you recipes for how to make them if you're interested.

Very cool, yeah.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

All right, very good.

Oh, great. Kick off the air.

It's a great one.

That's a really fun one, Beth.

Thank you for that.

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You can check out and nice work on that by the way, Beth.

Thank you.

It's very good and some other stuff

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Yeah.

And I did want to also mention, Beth,

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That's right.

We will see you in the morning, Beth.

That's good.

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Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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Seth and James here with you

and we got to, you know,

get a bumper for this.

I was just thinking about that.

Yeah, I was.

I had a couple of songs in my head,

but they all felt like lame right away.

I'm going to be honest.

All right.

So we're going to have to come up with something better.

Okay.

Every month in the beginning of the month,

we are joined by our good friend Tom

and we are getting to our monthly veterans update.

Tom wanted to thank you very much for being here today, Beth.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning to you.

I started in one show was clean.

That's how it's a plus.

Oh, it's a plus.

Boy, is that a great way to start the week?

That is a good way to start the week.

It's a great way to start it with you, man.

Thanks so much for being here.

We always appreciate the time and effort you put in.

Not only into getting all these details together,

but certainly the other things that you and our VFW do,

we say a good morning to all of our good friends over there.

Tom, we kick things off.

Letting people, reminding everybody that January and February,

we've got some things we won't be having with our VFW and that.

Exactly.

There's no yet non-Vetrons of America meetings in January or February.

Okay.

And if you used to go into the Heroes Cafe on the second and fourth Wednesday,

not until March.

So if you're going to just wait for everybody to be there,

get the car running and get some gas.

Just be ready.

Run some errands.

Kill some time while you're at it.

Exactly.

Do you want to send a big shout out to everybody that makes those meetings

in those Heroes Cafe's amazing.

Whether it's the guests in the volunteers or are the guests or the volunteers

that everybody that works on that stuff.

And we really do appreciate the work.

The deserve the time.

Take some time off, relax, enjoy,

and we're looking forward to seeing you in March.

Exactly.

And what's interesting is about the Heroes Cafe

and most of the VFW's organizations,

we don't refight the war.

We go there.

It's for fellowship,

camaraderie,

and occasionally it's some truth.

A lot of, you know,

stretch to the truth here about that.

No, but that's the good point.

The only good way to get that, I think.

Yeah, thank you very much.

No problem.

Today they have the monthly breakfast over at Graces.

It started at nine o'clock,

and it's the first Monday of every single month.

And then Wednesday, January 8th,

American Legion post has their monthly meeting.

And then on the ninth,

Rudolph, American Legion has their monthly meeting out of their post.

And then on Thursday,

the VFW has their meeting,

January 16th.

So we're still meeting last month.

The VFW meeting,

we didn't have enough people

because of the weather man.

Yeah, right.

It was a little bit extra snow on them.

We could get there.

Yeah.

And then, okay,

now we're going to see how fast time flies.

Yeah.

January 16th,

Desert Storm began in 1991.

Wow.

That blew me away when I read that.

I had a bunch of lights.

It just really took me off guard.

Yeah.

That's something.

Eight or nine years ago is all.

100%.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That happened about five or six years ago.

Yeah.

Right.

No, that was the 90s.

Yeah.

And then on January 27th,

if you had no more had a ceasefire in 1973,

on Friday, January 31st,

Panama campaign ended in 1990.

Oh.

Okay.

Once again, we're,

yeah.

Yeah.

It's wild when you think about the dates of these things

and how some of them were in recent history.

Exactly.

And on Saturday,

February 1st National Freedom Day,

and Saturday, February 2nd,

Army Nurse Corps Establish in 1901.

Oh.

And on Monday, February 3rd,

the USO was incorporated.

They've done a lot of shows.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, the work that's done by our USOs,

my, my, my papa was one of the first people to tell me

about how meaningful and how important that stuff is.

It's part of the reason why when you hear me talk about Bob Hope,

the way I talk about him, the way I do.

That's the greatest MC any of us will ever see.

And in part because of a lot of that USO work,

I don't mean just that he did that,

but the work that he learned and how he grew as an entertainer

through that work.

It's correct.

Some of his best feedback came from soldiers.

Right.

Like, it'd probably be the first to tell you that.

He loved it.

He loved it.

He grew as an entertainer through that,

just as much as he enjoyed doing it and everything.

Well, I did have the opportunity.

I did see one of his shows.

Oh, my God.

Really?

Yes.

Wow.

David's bearing the lead on me.

Oh, we're talking after the show.

We're talking after the show.

We're talking after the show.

That's awesome.

And so interesting is he brought those starlets over there.

Right.

And over the years, he starts showing up.

National news, national media.

That's true.

One of the ladies that we saw actually did the Olympics.

The lady that always wore the sweaters.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, wow.

And also about that.

Yeah, that's something.

Yeah.

You want to see a look back at that.

And then once again on February 3rd,

the monthly bed breakfast at Graces.

So there's not a lot going on.

However, in the background, we're already planning our

rot fries.

Yep.

Okay.

All right.

Which is part of the reason why I think it's important to have

that a bit of a time off there.

So you guys can plan those things out.

We are talking about a nonprofit here.

We are, you know, talking.

There's not a, we, and I bring that up for twofold.

One, to remind everybody how there isn't,

not no such thing as a retired soldier.

Our soldiers just continue to put into their communities,

continue to put into our lives, continue to do great work.

And they shouldn't be doing it alone.

El volunteers out there, people out there that can help out,

especially if you have a family member or somebody like them.

But even if you don't, it could always use extra hands when it comes to,

when they come, when a hero's cafe comes back around or any of these events.

And certainly all of us can be a part of these things when we do see a

rot fry going on or something like that.

Get yourself a rot and put back into your community at the same time.

You know, we'll do the cooking.

You'll do the eating.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, right.

Go see.

Perfect.

Tom, greatly appreciate you joining us.

Thank you so much for the list and the great reminder as always.

So we appreciate you, man.

Thanks a lot for being here.

Thank you.

And if anybody has any questions,

I can just give the VFW call and it's answered 715-6000-0401.

I have to, I don't mean to do this, but I have to do this.

You just did a great job with this.

And you do every month when you join us at the beginning of every month.

And you brought up Desert Storm, Vietnam War, cease fire,

Panama campaign ending, all of these things.

And even growing up in a military family, I make the jest up.

Wow, that seemed like it was yesterday, but it was actually years ago.

I bet you the people that were in that war, it's very current.

It's very current.

It's very much so.

And it's great for us citizens to be reminded of that from time to time.

While this is something for us that a moment in history or a blip on a timeline

or something like that, it is so much more than that.

And it's important for us to remember that.

Regardless of what the war is and how you personally feel about it or any of those things,

one of the greatest lessons my grandfather ever gave me was,

it doesn't matter if you support or don't support the war,

you can still support your soldiers.

It's 100%.

There is no give on that one.

That is 100% in on that.

And this is a reminder of that to me.

One term I've always heard used, they walk among us.

No, whatever.

Whether it's Vietnam or Panama or Afghanistan or Iraq or any of those.

They're just behind you in the line to box store.

That's our everywhere.

And we're fortunate for that.

Yes.

We really are.

We're fortunate for you, Tom.

Thank you so much for joining us.

One more time, do you mind getting that number out there for the VFW

if people have follow-up questions or want to know more?

No problem.

715-600-040-01.

We'll talk to you soon, Tom.

Probably off air, certainly.

But at the time it's got me laughing all throughout the week and everything.

But we'll certainly talk next month around this time.

Thanks again, Tom.

No problem.

We will be here with Lord willing to creep snow and rise it.

All right.

Seth and I are going to go to our news break.

We'll come back.

We'll talk some entertainment and more on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show on WFHR.

I'm talking enough about the pace of they might be giants.

It's great pace.

It's great timing.

They're time.

It's awesome.

It's a big, it's a part of the band.

It is.

It is.

Almost any song.

They mess with time signatures a lot too, which I love.

I like the idea of just messing with stuff.

Certainly, if not their most popular song, one of the most popular songs is Stan Bull.

And most people know that one.

That song is a failure without the timing.

It's so precise.

And if you want to treat anybody, if you know that song, especially if you've known it as long as it's been out,

look up a live version of it.

I'm going to blow you away.

I'm going to blow you away.

I'm going to blow you away.

I'm going to tell you they did that during the on-credit show.

I was at this last year.

Oh.

And they mess with that song.

I mean, it ended up being John Lennel just making mouth sounds at one point.

Oh, that's funny.

It's hilarious.

I think I saw early versions.

Yes, it's good.

That's pretty cool.

We got some entertainment news to get to, but real quick, do you want to send a shout out to Beth Habhacker?

And the wonderful job she does every Monday with the kitchen's open.

Thank you, Beth.

We'll see you later this week.

And of course, our good friend Tom joining us with our monthly veterans update.

A real great way to kick off the week.

Our first full week of 2025.

Yeah, we made it.

And looking at things, it is award season.

This is part of the reason I bring this up.

We are kicking off awards.

January really kicks off award season.

Yep.

And this is all here and there.

Awards are so, you know, subjective.

Yeah.

It really is a lot of that.

But every once in a while, something happens that I do think is noteworthy in awards.

And the Golden Globes are noteworthy for a number of reasons.

Some people do believe that this is the precursor to the Oscars.

Right.

Often times the person that wins the gold.

And I think there's even some stats to back this one up.

I'd be curious to see what exactly the one-to-one is on that.

Some percentage of people who win best actor in a Golden Globe win the best actor in the Academy.

And the cashiers and stuff.

So that can be noteworthy.

We'll get into some of the winners from last night in just a moment.

But I do want to send a gigantic shout out to Demi Moore, who won her first acting award yesterday.

That's her first?

Her first?

What?

Really?

That's an insult.

That is an insult to acting.

Oh my gosh.

That's just incredible to me.

Wow.

It's hard to believe.

But at the Golden Globes last night, Demi Moore won her first award for acting, like ever.

So she let the crowd know in an emotional speech that was pretty much the highlight of the night.

Wow.

Demi won best actress and rightfully so for her performance in the substance.

And noted that she's been acting for 45 years.

She said that 30 years ago, a producer told her she was a popcorn actress.

Meaning that she could, quote, do movies that were successful and made a lot of money.

But that couldn't be, wouldn't be acknowledged.

Okay.

She said she believed it and was corroded by her, and it is corroded her over time.

Oh, that's awful.

She had agents, she had directors that would reach out to her and say, hey, Demi, I think you'd be really good for this role.

And her self-confidence was so low that, oh, no, I couldn't, that's an art house movie.

Or, oh, I don't think I could do that or something like.

Man.

It's part of the reason why she goes and shaves her head for G.I. Jane.

She goes to the extremes, she does in some later roles after that happens.

I don't think so much, in part because she's a good actor and that's what good actors do.

Also, I think there's a little bit of overcompensating probably happening in her head, which I completely understand.

Demi said she was at a low point and was considering retirement when the script for the substance hit her desk.

Quote, the universe told me, you are not done.

Wow, how about that?

I think we can talk about actors and performers and, you know, whether it's musicians, athletes or any of these things.

And not have to be so in the moment in hyperbole.

Oh, this is the greatest ever.

Oh, this is the greatest ever or whatever.

And even I do it sometimes, I know.

But we all could do a little bit better of this.

This is true.

Demi Moore is in our generation going to be one of the more noteworthy actors.

And for her, just at this point, winning the award, where I felt like she should have been nominated for GIJ.

There's probably a couple of other ones.

Oh, yeah.

Showgirls.

I mean, no, not showgirls.

No, not showgirls.

The other one she did with Bert Reynolds and everything.

Stripties.

Stripties.

She could have got for ghost.

She could have done it.

I mean, there's so many roles that I'm thinking back now, you know.

She could have been nominated for so many of those.

But wow, that's really interesting to hear that.

I think it's just one off-handed comment.

And it had such a profound effect on her career.

Wow.

And she's not alone.

There are so many actors from that air actresses from that era, Kim Basinger, Darryl Hannah.

I can name like 20 actresses from that era that never got a chance to do serious work.

And in part because of casting directors.

Casting directors, the gatekeepers basically.

The gatekeepers.

Yes.

Did I have to be nice too?

I mean, nice.

I don't want to say anything negative about casting directors here.

Nobody's doing that.

Nobody's doing that.

But they are the gatekeepers.

And so often this happens in the game.

Now nowadays, if you think of the top 20 actresses out there, I almost guarantee you every one of them has had multiple genres.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

Scarlett Johansson and Emma Stone.

Yeah.

I mean, any of these actors have done, and it's in part because of this stuff.

Because of casting directors.

Not only that, but guess something really wild that happened about 15, 20 years ago, everybody.

Women started being in the casting sessions, helping with the casting process.

I'm shocked.

But it actually hasn't been that long that that's been going on.

So that's much more prevalent, and that's changing this a lot.

That's good.

Congratulations to me more.

Absolutely.

I think it's still shocked by that, but that's great.

Big winners from the night of the Golden Globes.

Best drama went to the brutalist.

Best musical comedy, Emily Perez.

A lot of people excited about that movie.

A female actor, Fernando Torres, for I'm still here.

A male actor went to Adrian Brody for the brutalist.

I'm very happy about that.

Adrian Brody is awesome.

I love that, man.

I love his work.

And I love what he does with his done with this career so much.

Fascinating.

A female actor went, I guess, we said to me more for the substance.

A male actor, a Sebastian Stan for a different man.

And that one, a lot of people are excited about.

And his performance in it, a lot of people are.

Yeah.

Because I think that's a lot of, because people really much,

pretty much associate him with one role at this point.

It's nice to see that they can see him stretch out a little bit.

Not many people have taken being unknown and getting into the Marvel Universe

and run with it like he has.

Yes.

Like he has found like a lot of openings.

He really has.

And apparently the ladies seem to like him.

Yeah.

Best, yeah.

Here we go.

I don't know.

A female supporting actor Zoe Seladana for Emily Perez.

Happy for her too.

Oh, another Marvel actor.

Oh, yes.

Oh, she's great.

Male supporting actor, the great Karen Culkin for a real pain.

That movie looks pretty good.

He looks great in it.

Director Barely Cobra for the brutalist.

Best cinematic and box office achievement.

Wicked.

Wait a minute.

Is this a new category?

I don't remember this one.

It's the Golden Globes.

They have categories for a lot of things.

The cinematic and box office achievement.

That's, we're doing that now.

Okay.

All right.

Because making a billion dollars isn't enough.

You have to get an award for it too, I guess.

Yeah.

That's not against Wicked.

No, nothing against Wicked.

No, nothing against Wicked.

It's like, why?

That's why we need it.

Do we really need that?

Cobra.

Animated movie with the flow and original song Melta,

a memoir from Emily Perez.

On the TV side of things, Best Drama went to Shogun.

Best musical comedy hacks.

Best female actor Anna Soye from Shogun and Best Male Actor.

The great Herokia Sanada from Shogun.

See, now, I've heard a lot about Shogun when it came out last year.

And then, you know, and it kind of ran its course.

Man, I got to watch that.

I hear just so many good things about that.

I watched the first episode of Blumia Way,

and I also realized I need time to watch this.

It's not a short thing.

No, it's not something I could just put on in the background at midnight

and while I'm doing reading or something.

You got to pay attention.

I got to be able to walk in on that one.

But it was really impressive and beautiful.

It's incredible.

It affects puts money and time into a show.

Man, did they do it right?

There's at least like three or four shows over the last 20 years.

That I love that came from that dog couple.

It's really cool.

Yeah.

A big shout out to Jean Smart for winning for Best Female Actress in Hacks.

I love Jean Smart.

Jean Smart is so, so good.

Her second act has really been amazing.

Amazing.

Beth has watched the show,

and I just caught bits of it, but she is so good in that.

Oh my gosh.

Best Male Actor, Jeremy Ellen White for the Bear.

I like him a lot too.

Congratulations from him.

Best Male Actor in a limited series or TV show Colin Farrell for the Penguin.

Nice.

That's impressive.

Give some love.

Good, good.

And Best Female Actor in a limited series, anthology series or whatever,

it doesn't matter.

Jody Foster.

What?

The name is right.

He doesn't care what it is.

It doesn't matter.

That Jody won.

That's all I care about.

Love me, some Jody Foster.

She should have won for true detective.

Actually, I do mean it.

Both her and Colin.

The work that Colin Farrell did in the Penguin, you can make fun of me if you want, but

it may be the best he's ever done.

Yeah.

And that's impressive to me.

Because he's had a good career.

No shortage of talent there.

I can't say that about Jody Foster.

But I can't say if she showed me things in that that I didn't know she had.

She had levels and gears that I didn't know she could do.

And that's in with the amount of career she has had.

I thought that was pretty no where to.

Man, I'm sorry.

I thought it's Floss Context.

Someone's in my favorite movies.

That's so good.

I got to just mention this one out of left field a little bit.

But for any South Park fans out there, 2024 or was a little bit weird.

Because you only really had one special in the series is really not been what it's

said, but they're still going.

And Trey Parker's main creator behind South Park has been making the rounds lately talking

about the show and mentioning the people that the show is going to be back in 2025 in a lot

of ways.

Now, they are going to be having they have a deal with Paramount.

So they're going to be doing some some of that.

Oh.

And they got some specials that are coming out with that.

They've been doing this for a couple of years now.

Right.

And they have a the series they're going to bring back.

So they're going to even have episodes back a whole new season.

Wow.

Which is really exciting too.

Now, Trey started talking about why they haven't been working as much on the show last year.

And it's because they're working on a new movie.

Oh.

Which is pretty exciting to fans, especially if you were a fan of South Park bigger longer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But then he kind of just casually mentions who they're working with.

Kendrick Lamar.

What?

Kendrick Lamar and his main producer and Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the past couple of

years have been working on a movie.

Like this has been going up for a while.

Okay.

Just real quick.

Is this a South Park movie or is this just a movie?

It's just a movie.

Just a movie.

Oh.

Yeah.

Crazy man.

Man, when worlds collide.

I don't think I would have put them together.

No.

That would have been it.

That's low in my bingo card there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Quote.

Kendrick Lamar is very involved in day free.

His producers, main producer is very involved.

Every day they are working on it.

But that is what we are doing.

And then we will do South Park beginning of next year.

So they want to finish this project up with Kendrick.

Wow.

And then work on the South Park stuff.

But yeah.

Like Kendrick Lamar is.

Right.

That's just wild to me man.

That's maybe the greatest if not the greatest rimer in the game right now.

Wow.

He is the greatest rapper right now.

Right now he is.

Not on that single all time.

I just right now.

Oh, by far and away.

Kendrick Lamar isn't just the greatest rapper right now.

He's the greatest one, two.

He's in the top two spots.

For him.

And for him to go in the comedic direction and to work with these guys and stuff.

I'm curious to see what it is.

I'm not a huge South Park fan.

But I'm just curious about this.

It looks interesting.

I'll be following that story.

When we come back, Seth and I are going to have some fun getting into a good one here.

We've got the what trend died so fast that you can hardly call it a trend.

Not really a trend.

A trend.

Fascinated by that.

Going back on the morning show WFHR.

You say yes.

I say no.

I say stop.

I say go, go, go.

I say stop.

I say go, go, go.

Seth and James here with you wrapping up the show.

You say goodbye and I say hello.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Everybody thanks so much for kicking off your week with us.

We're going to take you to the top of the hour.

We're going to do our schedule in plenty more.

Got some good stories the day for you coming up.

Trends.

Oh, trends.

They come and go.

They do.

They sure do.

It seems like there are constantly new trends that are supposedly happening everywhere and spreading

like WFHR.

And I've never heard of.

I'll tell you that much.

Exactly.

I was going to say by the time we hear of them.

They're over.

But for some of those trends, they seem to disappear just as quickly as they arrive and are less than

like WFHR more like a match.

Okay.

There is recently asked the internet what trend died so fast that you can hardly call

it a trend.

Okay.

So there's some fun ones here that we're kind of interesting and there are no particular

order.

But back in the 90s when some kids were walking around with pacifiers in their mouths.

I remember this.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

This was even in like music videos and in movies.

Is it a couple of movies too?

Yeah.

It felt like that was a thing for like a week.

Yeah.

But it was coming.

It came and went as fast.

It was weird.

It was weird.

It was weird, man.

And there was nobody.

There was nobody.

Nobody could pull that off.

No.

When there were moustaches on everything.

There were people and there are people.

I actually know of at least one person that have tattoos on their fingers of a moustache

so that they could put the moustache up to their face.

Like a kid you're not, man.

Tattoos.

Yeah.

Yeah.

At least you can hide it.

At least you can hide it in your finger.

Yeah.

Gangdom style or whatever.

Gangdom style.

Gangdom style.

Gangdom style.

Yes.

Yeah.

That very brief period of everyone dancing badly.

Yeah.

Flashmob speaking of dancing.

Sometimes badly.

They show up every now and then.