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Welcome to WFHR's Morning Show.
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Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your day.
In a little bit, we're going to get in some entertainment news.
We got a bad bunny on hot ones.
We got to talk about that.
We've also got to get into remembering a legend.
We've got our legend, Wisconsin legend that I want to get into.
And famous albums that were banned by Walmart.
Yes, I think these are all interesting fun topics that I look forward to us
diving into.
But of course, it is 9 o'clock on a Monday.
You know what that means.
Good morning, and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday,
January 27th.
I thought for today's episode, I would begin with a story.
All right, let's get comfortable, everybody.
Okay, hunker down.
Once upon a time, well, actually once upon two weekends ago,
my father came to town for a visit from Ohio.
We talked about a lot of things, but his grandmother's baking came up.
This is my great-grandma Kora.
She was an amazing cook and baker.
I actually inherited some of her recipes.
Just like her, I have a love for baking, at least I do now, but I digress.
My conversation with my father reminded me of the time I was living on my own.
Before I got married, I didn't do a lot of baking mainly because I didn't have anyone to bake for.
But one year around Christmas, I got the inspiration to make a frosted chocolate cookie,
just like my mom always made for Christmas.
These are cake cookies with chocolate icing on top.
They are delicious.
She got the recipe from my great-grandma Kora.
So I emailed my mother for the recipe.
Upon receiving the recipe, I went to buy the ingredients I didn't have on hand.
I found the shortening and the powdered sugar very easily on the shelf.
I checked my list and headed down the aisle to find the next ingredient.
That's when it happened.
That sounds ominous.
What happened?
I went to get the carnation milk.
Sounds easy enough.
But there were two types of carnation milk from which to choose.
Don't, don't, don't.
So you bought the one that was listed on the recipe?
That was the problem.
The recipe only listed carnation milk.
Carnation was the brand, not the type of milk.
I remembered my mom would have these small cans in the pantry that were made by carnation.
What I couldn't remember was if they were evaporated milk or sweetened condensed milk.
What's the difference?
That's an excellent question.
I didn't know and I didn't know if it would change anything with the texture or taste of
the cookies I was planning to make.
Let me guess you did the research.
Got the right kind and made some amazing cookies.
Actually I ended up calling my dad to find out.
However, since he is not a baker, he didn't know.
So to tell you the truth, I just picked one from what I remembered.
The taste wasn't too different but the texture was a little bit thinner than what I was used to.
I don't even remember which I chose and I haven't really made these cookies that much since.
So you just gave up.
I was hoping to get some cookies out of this segment, but this is part of the reason you're here.
Sorry, James. I don't have the cookies today.
But I do have the research.
Last week we talked about sweetened condensed milk.
But when I asked for the recipe originally, I didn't have a lot of resources,
like the internet and there wasn't a plethora of information that I could get there.
You know, like now you can get any information you need from the internet.
So most cooking and baking websites now have information on the difference.
I went to masterclass for this one.
Masterclass.com shares evaporated milk and condensed milk are both types of thick,
concentrated milk that about 60% of the water has been removed from.
However, there are a few notable differences between these common pastry staples.
Evaporated milk is a shelf staple, concentrated form of milk sold in cans.
Evaporated milk was developed in the 1890s shortly after the invention of sweetened condensed milk.
It is made by heating milk at reduced pressure until the water content has decreased by about half.
Evaporated milk is sterilized after it's reduced and homogenized.
As a shelf staple alternative to fresh milk,
evaporated milk was designed to be diluted with an equal amount of water
so that you can turn it into milk.
Evaporated milk is used in deserts, like in deserts, like ice cream, cheesecake, and puddings.
Condensed milk, which we talked about in a different segment,
also called sweetened condensed milk because there is no unsweetened condensed milk,
is a concentrated milk product made by heating cow's milk at reduced pressure.
The milk is heated until the water content has reduced by half,
then sugar is added to bring the sugar content up to 55 percent.
The resulting product is a shelf staple as well and used in a variety of desert recipes.
Canned sweetened condensed milk was developed in 1861 in the United States,
but the history of cooking fresh milk with sweeteners to increase the stability goes back thousands
of years to Indian milk sweets called mithae.
Condensed milk can be used in recipes like lemon meringue, fudge, and custard.
Both evaporated and condensed milk start with cow's milk and are made by removing about 60 percent
of the water to form a concentrated shelf's safe form of milk. However, there are a few key
differences between evaporated milk and condensed milk regarding sugar content, color, flavor,
and texture. So this is where it came in for the cookies.
The sweetness of the milk is different. Evaporated milk is unsweetened and sweetened condensed
milk is obviously sweetened with the added sugar, which acts as a natural preservative.
Evaporated milk is about 10 percent sugar by weight, because fresh dairy milk naturally
contains about 5 percent sugar, mainly in the form of lactose. Sweetened condensed milk typically
contains 55 percent sugar. The flavor is slightly different. Due to the high sugar content,
condensed milk does not need to be heat sterilized like evaporated milk. As a result,
it does not achieve the same caramelized flavor as evaporated milk.
The color of the two are slightly different. Evaporated milk has a tan color
due to the concentration of lactose and protein that occurs during cooking.
Sweetened condensed milk is lighter in color due to the high concentration of sugar.
And the texture is different. Evaporated milk acts as a lighter area texture to baked goods
and like pies and cakes. While condensed milk provides a dense creaminess.
All right. Makes sense. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot about milk.
That is a lot about milk. And it just makes me want more, more 2 percent milk.
It just makes me really thirsty. Yeah. Honestly, you're talking about that
Beth and I'm pre-reading this and I'm thinking, I'm like, God, the trial and error of all of this
stuff. And the people that got to the point where we are now with this, it's really amazing.
I think it's been normalized a bit, but it's pretty darn cool to think of.
Right. And the fact that they were made for other things, right? They weren't necessarily
made for baking. And we touched on this last week too when we talked about sweetened condensed milk.
But it was, there was other reasons, but as, you know, science has gone along and we learned
ways to preserve milk better and all these things, pasteurization and all this, we don't really
have the same need for them that we did, but we can still find really cool uses for them,
like baking and all sorts of things. Yeah. And until I found this, I didn't
realize that evaporated milk was meant to be diluted and used that way because I've only seen
it used baking. Right. But it can be used as actual milk, just add just add water, right?
And evaporated milk is used in a plethora. I love that word you can't tell of recipes. I mean,
it's a staple in pumpkin pie recipes. Although you can find, I did find a recipe for pumpkin pie
with sweetened condensed milk, which was in the newsletter if you got that last week. Yeah.
You can always sign up and see if we can get one of the archives if you really want that recipe.
But it's used in so many different things. And this episode doesn't even cover powdered milk,
which is another option for milk that is out there that can be used. It's great to have these
shelf staples and to know that the different desserts that will help make that different. So if you
want something that's more the cake texture, you're going to want more of the evaporated milk.
If you want it to be sweeter, you're going to want the condensed milk because of the difference
in the sugar levels. Totally makes sense. So at this point, I'm pretty sure
which of the two belongs in my grandmother's recipe. Okay. But to make sure we might have to make
it make them with both and then have a taste test. Oh, okay. James is on board for that one.
I will make sure you're one of the people for the taste test. There you go.
There you go. There you go. So at this point, I guess my story ends with to be continued.
Oh, great. The sequel.
Even though I'm still not sure which type. Actually, now I kind of, you know,
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Welcome back, everybody. Morning, show at WFHR. Locally Ground Radio. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're all having a great start to your day out there.
And now shout out to Beth and the kitchen's open. That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, very good. A lot of fun with that segment. Let's dive into some entertainment news right now.
And we've talked, actually unintentionally, I've talked about the YouTube show Hot Ones.
A handful of times over the last couple of months. Yeah. For those that don't know,
this is an interview show where celebrities come on and they're asked questions while eating hot,
you know, how you know, you know, wings and things like that. And we're talking really hot.
Yeah, we're so... Bigot progressively hotter. Right.
Oddly enough, also recently we've mentioned Bad Bunny. And again, you know, not maybe a household
name here in America, but throughout the rest of the world is big of a name as there is.
Yeah, you know, any big name you want to mention as a comp that fits. Yeah, Taylor Swift,
Beyonce, it doesn't matter. Bad Bunny matches. All of them. Yeah. He is just gigantic in Latin America.
And he just came out with a new album. He sure did. He's gotten even bigger.
I don't know a lot of his music, but from what I'm hearing, he has done a very like, like,
growing kind of thing. So he's brought even a bigger audience now. Wow. So he's only getting bigger.
This guy. And keeping that in mind, again, I did mention that he is a Latin superstar.
He's very proud of this. And does a really good job being able to do English and American.
Oh, as a side note, I do want to mention as well, not a bad actor.
So I mean, I really like, I am like one of two people that like the movie bullet train.
But he was in it and he did a darn good job. Very good. Very, very much. I did a good job.
But Bad Bunny is not apparently very good with the hot ones.
Oh, really? On the most recent episode, he bailed when the sauce got too hot.
Oh, oh, oh. At one point, he said, quote, I'm feeling it. And I don't like it because I'm worried
about my colon. I think I will be I think I'm going to be he's he's basically like the whole
trip back to Puerto Rico. He was worried. Oh, no. And then he then he just taps out. He's like,
there's no way I'm going to be able to eat all those. No, there's no way.
Bunny Bunny now joins the wall most made it, which is the show's list of celebrities who
who made it. The DJ the people who quit before they the they the last year. Right. So
DJ Khaled, ice spice, Taraji P. Hanson, Jim Gaffigan, Ricky Jervais, and chance the rapper.
Okay. I just want to say that of the like, I'm going to I guarantee that at some point
today, I'm going to be surprised by something or sometime this week of the on the other side
that a things I am least surprised by. It's that Jim Gaffigan did the last log on.
He's made a career out of talking about food. I mean, I'm one part of the big part of his
act as food. Yeah. He likes to talk about it. So and the fact that he has dropped no no
surprise at all that he can't handle the hot stuff. I by the way, as a side note,
one of my like top 20 people I would love to interview. I would love to interview Jim Gaffigan.
That just made me so much fun. He'd just be a great one. Good old Midwesterner from Indiana.
I don't think he can say anything and not be funny. And I whether he's trying to or not,
it's just his tone the way he says. Yeah, I think that'd be a fun. So yep, that's an interesting
list. That's hilarious. I do think it's and I only say this because I have so many Latino friends
and everything. But I will mention that other than maybe DJ Calla, I think he's the only Latin guy
on there. No, I mean, that's that's what they that you're going to lose some points there. You've got
some points about and people who know, you know, a lot of latin cooking has, you know, tends to be
spicier considering, you know, where on the planet that it's located, you know, the whole make
your sweat. Where it's gross. Yeah, where it's shillies grow and makes your sweat and helps cool
you off. That's why people eat spicy stuff and hot weather. But yeah, that's that is kind of
funny. And I always like asking the audience, if you would do this, if you were asked to, you
know, you were a celebrity, you were asked to be on the show, would you do it or not? Cause it's
funny. This isn't a show that a lot of publicists push people to do. This is something that most
celebrities want to do. And that's what's made the show really popular. Right. Part of the reason
publicist is this isn't all well and good. You got to you got to have insurance for these things
and a lot of that. And there's a lot of red tape and a lot of that. So it's a lot easier to just
put you on the, you know, today's show that then to bring on this show. But a lot of celebrities
want to be on. They do want to do it. I think that's kind of cool. Which is fun. Yeah.
And before we get into Walmart's band, a famous band albums, I did want to take a moment to
touch on something and you can find this article at Wisconsinlife.org, Wisconsinlife.org,
actor Gina Rollins, known for a dramatic, deeply emotional performances and movies like
Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, maybe most famously the notebook. She won four Emmy Awards,
two Golden Globes. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, eventually receiving an honorary
Oscar back in 2015. And all of this being brought up in part because this woman ties her
roots to this state. That's cool. And we lost her recently. She passed away, she passed away at
age of 94 back in August. Wow. And author Dean Robbins is looking back on Rollins legacy and
one of her most iconic roles. Now she was born in Cabriol, Wisconsin back in 1930.
And it's not surprising that she grew up idolizing a lot of big time actors. Her favorite was
Betty Davis. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. And now she's kind of being immortalized in a book.
Oh, okay. That's just had here and I cannot buy it now. I'm so sorry, everybody.
So it's I think that if you look her up, you're going to know her from taxi driver,
you're going to know her from a couple of other great performances and everything.
But I feel very confident saying you will know her. Yes, you will remember her. And I don't
think a lot of it may have been common knowledge that she was at Wisconsinite. I did not know that,
no. She, Dean Robbins is a mostly a children's author. He doesn't do a lot of this stuff.
But I thought it was pretty noteworthy that he just he wanted to do this.
From the little bit that I've seen, it looks like this is a good one. Yeah.
I would say if you want to know more about Gina Rollins and her iconic performances,
definitely a woman under the influence directed by her husband, John Casavetes,
which is one of my favorite directors. And then Gloria, I believe he said,
also, kiss the face, I can't remember. But that is another fabulous performance by Gina Rollins,
probably two of her most famous roles. And man, a woman under the influence is just amazing.
Tour de force acting. My gosh. You watch that and you're like, okay, well, that's that's
what in the Academy Award performances. That's what it is. And you can find out more,
go to Wisconsinbookfestival.org and find out more about this and all kinds of great books.
Wisconsinbookfestival.org. Be sure to check that out and celebrate to Great Wisconsinite while
you're at it. Yes, indeed. And then there is this. Walmart has banned its share of albums over the
years, UltimateClassicRock.com put out a list of 20 of the most famous ones. And here are 10
examples. I think this is kind of funny considering like how people buy music now. It is. And like,
I love the idea of them being like, well, we're banning something now like, oh, no, I don't know,
what we're doing. We're banning this. So wherever will I find this music now? It's kind of
interesting that it's still going on that they're still banning stuff. And I almost feel like,
too, now I haven't been able to find anything recently, but they did in their company policy,
they do said that they still do hold the right to do this. Right. They still from time to time
use the use it. That policy. I also find it interesting too. Like to it, if I'm an artist,
this is a good thing. Like, this is one of the best things that can happen to you is have your
music banned. Yeah, it just intensifies your profile. It just makes you that much more edgy and
cool and all blah, blah, blah. Back in the 90s, when a lot of these that, you know, on this list
happened, this was news, man. This would make like the normal news. And today, you know, Walmart
banned all copies of inter-artist here. And then people were like, what? What? No, I need to hear
Oh, yeah, why? We just did an unlabeled an episode, our parental advisory episode. It's kind
of a play on that when we were kids and they first started using the parental advisor explicit
lyrics label labels. Yeah. And I don't believe that anybody understands that all that did was
make kids want those albums. Yes, it did. 100%. There, I genuinely believe that there is not one
teenager that saw that. I was like, well, I can't look at that. I better not touch that. Yeah,
I better. There might be an adult around. I mean, are you kidding me? Like, come on.
I'm like, it did nothing for two stop kids. No, listening to that. It's them. If anything,
it just pushed them too more. I don't know. I don't know. But never mind from Nirvana shows up
at this list with the naked baby on the cover. That's going to happen. Nirvana, Nirvana refused to
alter it and Walmart eventually gave in because the album was such a big hit. But I do believe that
they covered part of it. They did. I remember seeing that sticker over it. Yes, they did.
Walmart also banned Nirvana's in utero because the back cover includes fetuses and the song
title rate me, which at the time Nirvana made changes to to get on the sleeves. Now, it should
be noted as well that Cobain wrote that song as an anti-rape song. Right. That's what that song is
all about. And it was very like one of in his last, like some of his last interviews. You hear him
talking about how, how, how ridiculous that, not ridiculous, but how hurt he was that that got
taken the wrong way. And then it went the wrong direction and everything when he was trying very
hard as a, as a young dad at the time of a young daughter to try to like, like, get this alpha
male like thing out of that industry, especially out of rock and roll and trying to push against that.
You know, that, you know, and of course, people just read headlines. Right. Exactly. Mr. Halfie
Go Lucky from John Melon Camp. Like what? The original cover had Jesus and the devil on it. So John
got rid of them. Oh, Jesus. Seriously? Oh my gosh. Oh, Cheryl Crowe. Cheryl Crowe. This song. I
remember this one. The song Love is a good thing had a line about kids hurting themselves with
guns and they, and they, that they bought at Walmart. Yep. Cheryl refused to change the lyric and
probably lost hundreds of thousands of album sales and it didn't hurt her career one bit. No, it really
didn't. It didn't. But I do remember that one. Specifically, it was big news. Yeah. Once again,
Walmart, you're missing the point and your marketers are adors, our fools are fools. You don't
understand. You lean into these things. You show that yes, yes, you're right. We did do that. Oh
yes, we are capable of that. Yes. We still got them for sale. Like I don't know or or or
stop doing it. You know, maybe, maybe, maybe. Well, that would be novel. Maybe. Maybe she's got a point.
I love that. Yeah. The fat of the land from prodigy with a song that smacked my blank up. Yeah.
Yeah. I remember that. Also another flip around song where it was supposed to be about women.
A women on women crime. Some of them. Dookie from Green Day. I had a couple of big things
that you see on there, which I mean, that's like sophomore. I mean, you know, sophomore
humor. I get it. But it's not. It's like, so what? It's not that offensive. It's just kind of
bad taste. Walmart ended up selling it with a slightly altered cover. I don't know if I've
never seen what that was. Wasn't that the wasn't that the album that had like the green? Yes.
The crystal that we used to call those. I can't remember the plastic covers with like a green
tinted one. Yeah. Tool had a problem with undertow because of some of the nudity and the inside
of the album cover and everything on the inside. Right. Which you can't see when it's displayed.
Right. Arctic monkeys and a couple of other bands also over the years. I've had because of
their album titles and what the albums were called. They weren't able to promote them at Walmart
and everything. And Willie Nelson. Yes. Willie. Countryman. Wallyworld objected to the pot leaf on
the cover. The record label made an alternate version for them. Because if there's anything,
anything more associated with Willie than that. I mean, seriously. I wonder with the rise of
Amazon and online shopping and everything, how much a store that had so much power and loved
its power. How they're feeling now about that. Because you know, for decades, they got away with
stuff like. Oh my gosh. Yes. They did. Because they were the biggest game of town. And they're not
anymore. They're not even on the top three of the biggest games in town anymore. So I am curious
that Walmart ain't hurting for money. Oh, no, no, no, not going anywhere. Nothing like that. Right.
No, they're still putting small businesses out of business. Exactly. Exactly. But what did they do
in return in response to that but become like conscious? I don't need my business to have a
conscience. It's a business. And if I'm a CEO or from a board member, probably don't want them
to have a conscience. Yeah, exactly. And where they get to pick and choose on these things is
always been very interesting to me too. But what is offensive to one person is not to another.
So who gets to decide what is offensive? Well, apparently Walmart did. Apparently in the 90s,
they did anyway. I'm not saying that they're like everything should be out in the open. I'm not
saying that there isn't rules and regulations for reasons. I actually think that one of the smartest
things that the movie industry ever did, maybe the last smart thing the movie industry did was come
up with a rating system. Right. I actually think that's not a bad thing. Movies don't give you a
lot to go on and a name or a trailer or even a movie cover or something like that. Yeah.
I would want my kids or kids kids or anything like that to be able to have a heads up on these
things. Makes sense. As an artist, I'd want that. I don't want a somebody who can't understand
my work watching it. I don't need that. I don't mind. This is a grow from that. This isn't going
to be benefit of. I want them. I want them to be able to enjoy it when they're older. They may
not if they take it when they're young, like me with a shine. Do that's the where I went.
I'm going to try to lighten them up a little. So artists want this too. Like there are many artists
that certainly there are plenty of artists don't want to work censored, but I think almost every
artist wants their work to go to the right source. The appropriate audience for whatever that
art is that makes the most sense, right? Yeah. I don't think that that's a land dish or anything.
I don't I agree with you. But where they lose people is where they just put down this line
in the sand. It's like arbitrary almost. They're barking or they're telling people what to do.
Yeah. That's different. That's a big difference. There are very few times in life where
somebody is. You know what? I like being talked down to. I like being having my moral compass.
You know, let me just take that. That's dictated to you. Let me make that up for you. That
doesn't work. And I don't when we look at how we fell for Amazon so easily, it's not surprising.
Yeah. With Walmart the way they were and only getting more and more powerful and only more
and more stronger and more and more morally, where whether you agree with their morals or not,
I'm guessing most people didn't like them making those decisions for us. Right. It's not
surprising that Amazon was sitting right there in Amazon. Hey, we don't judge nothing. Yeah,
just by you want this album, we got it right here. Yes, you know, and of course they blow up.
And now we got another monster. I got a monster. Oh my god. Everything.
But this they're part to blame for the rise of Amazon. There are big parties. I absolutely
that too. And part of this all starts with what Melissa hit on the right point of them knocking
out smaller businesses. Yep. When they're when people are looking for the alternative,
they're going to go to wherever is available and Amazon was available. Right. Yeah.
I saw somebody trying to pitch to me that you need the bi-local support local and that included
Walmart. And I'm not going to argue too much with that because there's a lot of our friends and
family members that are working at Walmart have jobs that are neighbors that are working at those
and everything. There's also a lot of our friends and neighbors that are working at actual mom and
pop businesses, actual local businesses and everything. And if you're going to go that far with it,
you know, maybe close your Amazon account too. Like how far are you willing to go with these
things? There you go. And I'm not at all saying this like I'm some like great moral compass of all
this. And I do all these great noble things. I'm saying it. I'm bringing the questions up.
You're not? No. Then I'm going to stop basing my life on your teachings, James. Man.
I am. But I didn't want to brag. I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I'm so disciplined.
Wow. Yeah. We'll just go to break back your heads together. She can't. She's not here.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.
Seth and James along with Melissa here with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Hope you're having
a great one out there. This is an interesting one. What everyday skill becomes suspicious if
you're a little too good at it. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred call up and
join the conversation and let us know what's a skill that you see somebody and they're good at
and you're like, oh, that's cool. But how do they learn that? How do they get good at that?
They come across that. They might be a little too good at that. One man says he and his wife
went to a shooting range and fired a variety of guns for the first time and his wife's accuracy
with a glock was expert level. Oh, the trainer whispered to the guy. Check her background.
That's kind of weird. Give me that one. Yeah. It's only a savant and firing. Yeah. Wow.
And if you could tell a lot of this is done tongue-in-cheek. Yeah. Obviously, then it was fine.
But one man was so good at making fake money for movies that he got a visit from the FBI.
They even told him he had to make it look more false. Remember that story.
So this was years before the movie catch me if you can. But they actually used the same guy
and excellent and he got in trouble again during the making of that movie, which is hilarious
to me because if you know the whole of the home console, the movie is about. Right. Exactly.
Back in the day, by the way, and you were not allowed to show actual money on screen.
They had to make fake money. They didn't even look anything like it. So they've actually
they've allowed them to do a little bit more these days. But be careful, apparently.
If you don't want to visit the FBI, the Secret Service. Walking silently. Yeah. Yeah.
Now this can mean, you know, some, you know, things that maybe, you know, may not be on the most
moral side of things and everything. Or it can mean you're a parent. Oh jeez, what are you doing?
I didn't even know you were there. Yeah. You have to be able to like, you get that kid down
and they're finally asleep. Yeah. And you become light as a feather. Somehow you're an ninja all
of a sudden, right? Yeah. Yes. Or or or as a parent, you're popping around the house and you
you out of the out of the corner of your ear, you hear your kids say a word or say something they
shouldn't say. And they're like, I mean, like just silent also and boof. You just pop up like a
what did you say? Where did you even come from? Nice. Being able to BS your way out of a situation.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely definitely made up. Yeah.
Now, I will say though that you could like, you can earn that skill and have a completely,
you know, completely fairly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't necessarily mean
that you're a bad person. But officer, I know. Digging deep holes.
You know what would be more would be more worrisome to me is if if they not only, you know,
if they someone could just look at a hole and say, oh, yeah, that's six feet.
That would be very alarming. Yeah. I mean, how do you know that?
You're not an undertaker. You're not a bitch. You're not a person who digs in the cemetery.
It took you two seconds to look at that hole. Well, how do you know that?
Also though, why would digging deep holes be in everyday skill?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless you like digging holes, like if that's right, you do that a lot,
I don't know. Yeah. Remembering random details people mention in passing.
It can be a good thing that shows you listen and you are invested in people.
You meet until you are too good at it and it can seem almost weird to some people.
This is what I'm guilty of. He's dropping. I've never, I've never looked at this as weird
or mischievous or anything. I've always thought that that would that meant somebody just cared.
I really did. This may be one of the few naive, like windows I have. Because I care about you,
James, as well. Listen to your guys. I know all the details of your life that you've
ever shared on the morning show. That's creepy. I don't know why, but that's also like,
it makes me like no longer like, okay, all my whole daily life makes sense now.
I don't know why. Knowing how to use a lock pick to set or get into a house or car quickly
when someone has locked themselves out. Yeah, that could be a little concerning.
It's like, I mean, helpful at the time. How many of us, his kids, wanted to learn how to
lock pick locks. All of us. That's probably true. Yeah. Or is it just me? Sure story.
Sure story. Okay. I'm going to be real vulnerable, real honest right now.
When I, the first day I had been in in a long time when I was living out in California,
and she was a grade school teacher, and I wanted to impress her. So I was trying really hard
throughout the whole day to be on my best standards and all that. And speaking properly and stuff,
I even sat with good posture and stuff. And I walked her home. She wasn't far from the coffee shop.
So I walked her home, and she locked her roommate locked in and out. So I'm like, oh, I get to be
the, I get to be the, you know, the hero, the hero. I really impress her. This is my wheelhouse
and everything. I'm like, hey, anybody got a car? Anybody like that? Boom. I get them in there
like two minutes. And they, they didn't say a word to me afterwards. They shut the door all like,
well, watching me like the whole thing never heard from her again. No, no, no, that's not the kind
of things that you're like sitting there. Ah, ah, ah, ah, impressive, right? Wait, where are you going?
Really? Really? It just sums me up in a nutshell of like, oh, oh, bad. I am. I think is impressive.
It is not impressive. So one man says he went back home from college and whooped his dad's butt
at darts three times in a row. His dad said, you've been in a bar too much. That's a good one. Yeah,
yeah. What are you doing with your time? Well, dad, I just, I bought a dartboard and I have it in
my basement at the house. That's where I've been practicing. Come on.
The next one knowing all the ways a drug test can provide a false positive. Oh,
not just that, but also knowing like all the different types of like counters to it or whatever
it is. Yes. Like, none of that seems good to me. No, no, no, wait a minute. People that are good at
lying show up. Ah, ah, ah, ah, shuffling cards. That's an interesting one. That is interesting.
Okay. I've known. It depends on how you shuffle cards. They're standard shuffling.
What you don't want to do is play is like people you're going to play cards with don't do
car tricks. Then, then you go before the game starts before the game. Then they're going to be
like, wait a minute. How did you? How do you keep winning? Yeah. What's going on here? Yeah.
So cleaning blood stains. Yes. I would say that that's probably not. Or again, maybe you're just
coming on. Or you're a mom. Yeah. I was going to say or a nurse or, you know,
with kids that that skin their knees all the time. Come on. Or you're a woman. You're a woman.
Yep. I was right about the same, but there you go. There you go. There's certain things that I
think would come a lot better from a list said. I was one of them. Make sense. Thank you, Melissa.
Thank you. Remembering license plates. That's kind of weird. Come on. Some of us just pay
attention to those things. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's weird. That's weird. That's weird. That
one. I'm not sure. No, no, no, no, no. That's funny. That's weird. It's a little strange.
50 on that one. I don't know why. I don't even know why. I don't know. But there's something about
it like, oh, I don't know. But there's also something that I think is kind of cool about it too.
So I don't know where I follow that one. Do you guys know your own license plate number?
Yes. Yeah. Mostly. Oh, I do. But my I cheat. Mine. I got control of the last time I
said it out of the air. The mind is actually a call letters of one of our stations. Yeah,
the numbers, the frequency. That was not intentional, by the way. I've had so many listeners say,
wow, man, you really love that place or something like nope. I was behind you in traffic one day,
and I noticed that I was like, oh, wow, James license plate. It's the same as that's kind of
funny. I didn't think you did that on purpose, though. But a lot of people don't even know their own
license plate. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And having a knack for getting out of complicated relationships
definitely without anyone ever hearing from the other person again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
wait a minute. Oh, no, no, no, of course. But I think that there are skill like these are what,
this is something I don't think we think about a lot. We you may see a skill or see somebody
good at something and you don't really question it or think too much about it until later.
That's right. I think there's some actually interesting like lists like of these or you can
create a really interesting list in your head if you think about this. It isn't so like mischievous.
It isn't so, you know, I don't know. It's an interesting list. It's really is.
Well, is that better though? I mean, is it a little more mysterious? Is that better than like
knowing like really boring things like I could name all the brands of canned corn out there? You
know, that's just boring, you know, but it's a skill. I know. Or you know the location of all the
US embassies in every country. There's that. That's that's good. Oh, you're a spy. Oh,
there's there's stuff where you can't tell if it's either mischievous or just weird or just weird.
Yeah, it's not always easy to tell that it's a gray area.
An interesting obsession with something, you know, I mean, come on.
It's why you can count on us, everybody, because we live on that line. We live in that gray area.
I know all the flavors of spam. Thank you for proving my point, Melissa.
Well, that's just smart. I mean, that's just a, yeah, yeah, that's very useful. Yeah,
we'll take our final tie-up out of the show. We'll be back with more fun. Melissa, set the James
on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you had fun over the last couple hours. We sure did. Thank you so much for joining us,
everybody. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Melissa and I have to be hanging out.
Tomorrow looking forward to that. Two days with Melissa. We are going to be having some fun
with that show. Be listening for it. Everybody, we've got some good local good stuff to get to.
Our schedule, we want to touch on as well. Let's get into some good stories of the day and
some good things going on in our area. As we mentioned earlier, this Friday, January 31st,
C. Jeff Allen and the amazing show that's going to be taking place at the performing arts center,
730, that will be taking place. Save for the arts.com is where you can get tickets and keep in mind
at $3 of every ticket sold. We'll go to the opportunity for hope. The recovery service going
on over there. I'll be listening tomorrow. Maybe we'll give away another set of tickets.
I'm going to listen. Keep that between us, though. I'm actually going to want to.
That should be pretty cool. I also wanted to mention that there are some pretty cool things going
on. Over at Millen Memorial Library. The family fun at Macmillan happening tomorrow. A collaborative
art project is going on tomorrow. From six to seven, paint a mini canvas for other February
display. They have so many cool things over there. That should be a fun one. Don't forget
this Friday, they got a book pocket pillow that they're going to be making. That's at 10am
and at two. These things look really cool. That's really cool. That's not going to be a fun
one. I'm going to try to check that out. You can find out more at MacmillanLibrary.org.
I want to remind everybody as well that there is a great opportunity to be a hero in our community.
You can go donate blood. You got an opportunity this Wednesday, the 29th, to donate from 10 to
three over South O'Connie YMCA over at six and one West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin.
Again, that'll be from 10 to three. We'll be mentioning that again before we wrap up the week.
Very good. You got something for it. Yeah, you have until Friday this week, the 31st,
to get your valentines for veterans in everybody. These are going to be handed out on valentines day.
So they need them sent in by Friday so they can get everything organized and they can get those
handed out to veterans at the Gold Star family. Veterans facilities throughout the state.
The address you send those to is Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, attention, veteran
valentines, PO Box 7843. That's 7843. PO Box in Madison, Wisconsin, 537-07. They do ask,
do not include candy, food or snacks, due to allergies and or dietary restrictions.
Doesn't matter if you send candy at all, they just love getting those cards being thought of
everybody. So a great little way to say thank you to veterans.
I've heard a lot of good things already about that. A big thank you to everybody who has
been working so hard at it. Taking a look at our schedule today, stick around from Matt and
Air on air, coming up in just a few moments. Be sure to join Jane and Greg for a great time,
right up into the new hour. And be sure to join us a little bit later today from 4-5 from
midday magazine. We kick off the week strong. In part one, our friend James Benna,
going to be joining us district administrator at Howard Elementary School principal. I'm going
to be talking about the court Edwards area a little bit. Very nice. Very cool. And in part two,
our great friend Stephanie Hartman, executive director of the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center of
B here. I don't know how we'll fit everything going on at the cultural center into 20 some minutes.
I'm going to find a way. Yeah, so much going on. New exhibit too. Everything. Yeah, it's great.
We'll find out about that and so much more a little bit later today. Of course, we'll have
a playmakers for you today at five o'clock. Be sure to join us from five to six. We have a big
thank you to our friends at Quality Plus printing and keep on listening because might have some
new sponsors with their coming up everybody. Oh yeah. Nice. I've joined us today for that. We'll
have a blast. I think a solo show today. I don't think Randy will be in with us. So that's
all right. Well, I got all you to hang out with. It'll be fun. And join us on our sister station at
105 WIRI at 650 Port Edwards Boys basketball hosting Northern Lutheran. Yeah. We got you guys
covering this one. This is Laura. We'll be working the board tonight for that one. And I'm not
sure if it's both Mike and Randy or not at the game tonight. But someone will be there. I
can tell you that much. Somebody with a microphone will be calling basketball. That's right. We can
get into it. Yes. Keep in mind also to that point, our friends over at WXXCO will have
assumption girls basketball versus marathon seven o'clock. Yeah. Check out the app. You can just
look it up real quick. There go to XCO. You can hear it there. Our friend Chad doing that one.
Yeah. A woman in Alabama gave birth in a crispy cream parking lot on Wednesday. Oh my.
My sister was so in love with this story. There's Jillian. I like it was so this is such a
Jill story. She and her son Dallas are doing great. Crispy cream is giving them free donuts for a
year. Wow. That's awesome. And offered to throw him a birthday party every year until he's 18. Wow.
Whoa. That's actually pretty cool. That's above and beyond. I like that. That's cool. That is
marketing 101. I'm smart. Very smart. I'm very intelligent by crispy cream. I don't care what
they're spending on that every year. It is going to be a story every year. It is. It is. And
that kid's going to think it's cool except for the years. What? Yeah. Yeah. 15, 16, 13, 17,
something like that. Another big bang on 18. I got to say it ends up working there. I'm a little
disappointed in the couch company that done the couch that I was born. I feel like they missed
a golden opportunity. I didn't think about that kind of thing. James, it didn't have a great day.
Everybody, you two. Great show. Yep. You two days. Be good to each other out there.
