Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. Oh, good morning, Beth.
Good morning, do you? I'm so sorry. I feel so rude. Stop the show. I apologize. Good morning.
I'm sorry. That was rude of me. Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, everybody. We got
our head of news, our co-host Melissa K with us. Good morning. Head of production, co-host
Seth Habagger. Good morning. Let me double check. Yep, the best listeners radio are here. Thanks
for joining us, everybody. We got fun things lined up for you in a little bit. We're going to be
joined by our great friend Tom Heiser with our monthly veterans update. Looking forward to that.
Got some entertainment news to touch on as well. Looking forward to all of that. That is going to be
a bunch of fun. We're going to have a lot of good times this hour, but we kick things off the way we
like to. Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday, February 3rd.
So we're in February and Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Love is in the air.
For you and Lisa, that's every day. Oh, well, that was good. That was good. Your story is one of my
favorite romantic stories, YouTube, but this is a food segment, not a love segment. Well, who says
love is just for relationships? Really? One thing I love on Valentine's Day and throughout the year
is chocolate. In fact, February's first was National Dark Chocolate Day. My favorite kind of
chocolate. But did you know that chocolate actually started as a beverage and not as a solid?
According to the article on history.com entitled History of Chocolate, throughout much of its history,
chocolate was a bitter beverage, not a sweet, rich tasting treat. But after it became popular in
the courts of Europe and the streets of colonial America, chocolate soon evolved into the
universally loved commodity it is today. I know that chocolate has been around for millennia,
but it comes from cocoa, right? And that that when sugar is added to a delicious treat.
That's right. All of that is true, but there's so much more about the history that is absolutely
fascinating. The article shares chocolate is made from the fruit of the cacao trees,
which are native to Central and South America. The fruits are called pods and each pod contains about
40 cacao beans. The beans are dried and roasted create cacao beans. It's real quick,
I know we should have never stopped calling chocolate cacao. How great would cacao chips be?
It goes on to say it's thought that the ominix used cacao to create a ceremonial drink. However,
since they kept no right written history, opinions differ on if they used cacao beans in their
concoctions or just the pulp of the cacao pod. The omics undoubtedly passed the year cacao
knowledge onto the Central American Maya, who not only consumed chocolate, they revert, they revert it.
The Mayan written history mentions chocolate drinks being used in celebrations and to finalize
important transactions and ceremonies. Despite the chocolates importance in Mayan culture,
it wasn't reserved for the wealthy and powerful, but was readily available to almost everyone.
In many Mayan households, chocolate was enjoyed with every meal. And Mayan chocolate was thick and
frothy and often combined with chili peppers, honey or water. Nice. The Mayans were the only ones
to enjoy this tasty treat. The article says, the Aztecs took chocolate admiration to another
level, they believe cacao was given to them by their gods. Like the Maya, they enjoyed the
caffeinated kick of hot or cold, spice chocolate beverages and ornate containers, but they also
used cacao beans as currency to buy food and other goods. In Aztec culture, cacao beans were
considered more valuable than gold. Aztec chocolate, which they called chocolate, I like that too,
actually, chocolate was mostly an upper class extravagance, though the lower classes enjoyed
it occasionally at weddings and at other celebrations. Eventually, chocolate did make its way across
the Atlantic to Europe. History.com states, there are conflicting reports about when chocolate arrived
in Europe, although it is great it first appeared in Spain. No matter how chocolate got to Spain
by the late 1500s, it was a much loved indulgence by the Spanish court and Spain began importing
chocolate in 1585. As other European countries such as Italy and France visited parts of Central
America, they also learned about cacao and brought chocolate back to their respective countries.
Soon, chocolate maniacs spread throughout Europe. With a high demand for chocolates, some
came chocolate plantations, which were worked by thousands of enslaved people. But European palates
weren't sophisticated with the or satisfied with the traditional Aztec chocolate drink recipes.
They made their own varieties of hot chocolate with cane sugar, cinnamon and other common
spices and flavorings. Soon, fashionable chocolate houses for the wealthy cropped up throughout London.
Amsterdam and other European cities. Unfortunately, the way cacao is sourced isn't much different
today. According to the article, modern day chocolate production comes at a cost. As many cacao
farmers struggle to make ends meet, some turn to low wage workers or slavery, sometimes acquired
through child trafficking to stay competitive. To expand cacao plantations, many companies are
destroying rainforests, particularly in West Africa. This has prompted grassroots efforts for
large chocolate companies to reconsider how they get their cacao supply and its environmental
impact. It's also resulted in appeals for more fair trade chocolate, which is created in a more
ethical and sustainable way. So all of a sudden, my love of chocolate is not so great.
Well, we started to see some of this with coffee, fair trade coffees become a big thing.
I think we're starting to see more and more with chocolate as well. You can get really good chocolate
and that's been produced in a fair and equitable way. It's another example. We don't often think
about where our food comes from and what it takes to get the food that we like and enjoy. We just
take for granted, oh, I like chocolate. I'm going to buy a Mars bar or whatever. We don't think
about who's the one making the chocolate. How are the ingredients being sourced? This is a real
eye opener. This month, you're going to have more than any other month chocolate and diamonds being
sold and handed out with loved ones. I've gone on the air many times. I'm a foolish romantic
and I can't think of anything less romantic than the idea of knowing where these items come from.
And both of those items I mentioned can be sourced or created ethically. Yes.
Absolutely. Completely ethically. There's no need to be doing this. There never was, but especially
in 2025, there's certainly no. And I just mentioned in the previous segment, where do you want to be
on the side of history? Because history will judge us on these things. And I don't mean just the people
over there in Africa. I'm talking about the human race. Absolutely. We all get thrown into this one.
It is a military rules here. One guy messes up, everybody gets punished. So let's not let that guy
mess up. Let's go ahead and keep them in line. And as we all know, if you want to do some good,
there's a lot of great grassroots efforts out there. The greatest ones involve money.
The greatest ones involve holding back your money from these companies.
And you think, okay, where do I go then to find this? Well, if you pop on the internet,
you can type in fair trade chocolate. And there is a whole lot of places where you can purchase
fair trade chocolate. Or even give the names to your local grocery store. Maybe you can have them,
us stock it. That's it. They can stock it. And the end of the look out for Jimmy's chocolate
shack. I'm working on my own shop. So you can find all types of chocolate, especially fair trade
chocolate, if you go to the internet and just type that in. You mean like light, dark, and white,
to those are the main three. That's right. The National Confectioners Association on their
website, candyusa.com. Love that name. Perfect. That's great. It gives these criteria for each
of them. So dark chocolate is the bare essentials. Dark chocolate is simply chocolate liqueur.
The centers of cacao beans ground into a liquid. Extra cacao butter, sugar, and the
mulsifier often lectin and vanilla or other flavorings. Dark chocolates make, may contain milk
fat to soften the texture, but they do not generally have a milky flavor. Dark chocolate also
is known as semi sweet chocolate. Those chips that you like to put in your cookies. That's right.
Sweet and chocolate or baking chocolate is 100% chocolate liqueur and is typically very bitter and
stringent. Darker chocolates often have a higher percentage of cacao, which means they have a
higher proportion of cacao beans in them other than other chocolates do. Milk chocolate above
else it has those milk solids to it and surprisingly sweet and creamy milk chocolate isn't usually made
with cold frothy milk. It's usually made with milk solids, dry milk solids, which look like powdered milk.
Milk chocolate has at least 10% cacao liqueur by weight and at least 12% milk chocolate. It's the
most common kind of eating chocolate. Those think candy bars. White chocolate is cacao butter,
takes center stage. White chocolate features cacao butter. Think milk chocolate minus cacao
solids. In addition to the cacao butter, sugar milk solids, lectin and vanilla, white chocolate
may contain other flavorings. It has at least 20% cacao butter, 14% milk solids, and more than 55% sugar.
I knew white chocolate tasted differently. Yeah, you're not wrong. But of the three, dark chocolate has
the most health benefits. According to an article on the John Hopkins Medicine website, hopkinsmedicine.org,
beginning or creating a balanced relationship with dark chocolate in particular,
may have a significant positive effect on your overall health. Dark chocolate contains powerful
antioxidants. Among the most beneficial is a flavonol. I love that word. Flavonol called
epicutexion. Oh wait, epitexion. There we go. Flavonols are compounds found in plants that fight
inflammation and protect against cell damage because by free radicals. That's right. It goes on
to share a few of the ways research has shown that dark chocolate can benefit you. It increases
heart health. The antioxidants in dark chocolate have been shown to lower blood pressure,
reduce the risk of clotting, and increase blood circulation to the heart. That's lowering the
risks of stroke, coronary heart disease, and death from heart disease. It balances the immune
system. Flavonols prevent the immune system from going into overdrive and reduce oxidative
stress, which is an imbalance caused by cells fighting against free radicals and a common cause
of many diseases. It combats diabetes. Now who would have thought chocolate could fight diabetes?
I know. It's great. The epicutexion. I can't even say it here.
Epicutexion. There you go. Protect cells. Makes them stronger and supports the process that helps
the body to use insulin better, which might prevent or combat diabetes. It improves brain function.
Flavonols in dark chocolate have a positive impact on brain function, including better reaction time,
visual spatial awareness, and stronger memory. Though research is ongoing, one reason
this may be is the Flavonols increased blood flow to the brain. So if you want to remember
something, eat some dark chocolate. Excellent. Boosts athletic performance. The epiconnectin
in dark chocolate increases the production of nitric oxide in the blood, which supports
circulation, and reduces the amount of oxygen and athlete uses while engaged in moderately intense
exercises. This allows the athlete to maintain workout intensity for longer.
It also reduces stress. People who ate dark chocolate reported that they felt less stress
and researchers confirmed that after eating dark chocolate, there were reduced levels of the
stress hormone cortisol. This may be related to dark chocolate's effects on heart health
since stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Now I express recommend minimally
processed dark chocolate with at least 70% cow content, and maybe have an ounce as an occasional
treat. You should always check the label to be aware of the calories, fat, and sugar content,
which could potentially affect the overall health benefit. The article finishes by saying in the
end, indulging in an occasional chocolate treat shouldn't be fraught with stress or guilt,
whether it is an antioxidant rich dark chocolate or white chocolate, which has very little
nutritional benefits. As in most healthy relationships, the key is to maintain a positive and
balanced outlook. Dark chocolate has many health benefits and can definitely be enjoyed as part of
a balanced diet. Mom! She's bath even says that. That's found the research to support it if
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Yeah! Excellent! That's a wonderful one. Wow! I learned so much about chocolate.
Yeah! Nice work. Nice work, man. I don't know if you've ever done a segment that's maybe
more hungry. Be on the lookout for the next kitchen, so it'll be in this time slot next Monday,
be looking for that everybody. Again, thank you to Beth. Nice work, Beth. Thank you.
We'll come back. We'll have our monthly veterans update with Tom Heiser coming up right here on
the morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Your host, James here. I am joined by Melissa. Hello. And Seth. Good morning. And we have right now in
studio with us our great friend Tom Heiser with our monthly veterans update. Tom joins us every
month right around now at this time of the month to hang out with us. We appreciate that Tom,
so much. Thanks a lot for being here and thanks for the notes. No problem. Glad to do that.
Glad to keep you here. Hi, everybody. Good morning, everybody.
It's good to have you here, Tom. And we do appreciate that not only the focus of being able to put
on our veterans, but the time that you yourself put into these things and letting Pam and Melissa
and I know about these events behind the scenes so much and everything. I really do appreciate all that.
Well, I appreciate doing it. I would say I appreciate what you guys are doing that really helps out.
And just getting the information out there and when we sit here and we talk about things that
happen in history. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't know if history, I don't want to over oversensationalize
or anything like that that happens too much, but I don't know if history has ever been more important.
And so when you share these things, I hope that like for many people out there,
it's springboards them to look into this event and to read about this event and find out about this
event certainly first and foremost to remember those that gave every the ultimate for these in these
events or anything, but the history of it is also important not only so we don't just repeat it
that I think is a common phrase. It's important also because that's that we the pride we take in these
things, the accomplishment that we can take in these things. And then maybe remember what we took
pride in. Right. In this month, there is something really special that we all do remember and
it's going to be interesting. Where do we start, Tom? Okay. Number one, there is no Vietnam Veterans
of America meetings in February. Official business meetings we're going to have something coming up
later. No hero's cafe in February. So no chocolate donuts. Yeah, you're chocolate, right? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, nicely done. Today we have the monthly breakfast over at Greece's restaurant. They're
already enjoying that. And also today, as the US oil was incorporated in 1941. Yeah, wow. Yeah,
that's an amazing note. That is a really impressive note. Now for those that don't look at the origin
stories, the beginnings of that, I think it's really interesting. Right, it is because it's been going
on. They're still going to all the time. Yes, they are. We're involved in. We know it's not Bob
Hope anymore, but there's still people going. I want to say a part of it is named after Bob Hope
or something like that. There's something involved that Bob Hope's name is attached to. Yeah,
there's something is I can't remember what I'm talking about. He's still around and everything.
What I just think is very cool. I think that's awesome. He was there for years. He went everywhere.
Yeah. Yes. Yes, he did. Okay. And then Wednesday, American Legion post,
they're a monthly meeting at seven o'clock. And then also on Thursday, February 13th,
as Rudolph American Legion has their meeting. And then on the 13th, also was the Marine Corps
Women's Reserve was established in 1943. Wow. So another impressive note in history. You talk
about Rosie the Riveter. You also had female Marines. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, the waves,
you had the wax. You had all kinds of yeah, all of that during World War II. Yeah, they all came
about in the was with the Air Force, I believe. Yeah. And we just I mean, there's such a different
story if we don't have that. The war is so different. If we do not have those assets,
we don't have the that that come into the right thing will be very important. And then on Friday,
the 14th of VFW is going to be presenting the colors that the boys basketball game. That'll be
cool. Yeah. And then on Saturday, the 15th is a VVA budget meeting. So if you remember the VVA
come on out. See where our money is going to be distributed in the community. Nobody gets a salary.
It's all turned back over to the community. It's a great way of kind of finding those things out.
It's the transparency with our VFW like most of our non-proficies days is unparalleled. I really
do appreciate that. I know the community does. I hope that it encourages people to give and do
look into these things. I also think it's just interesting. I just think that I don't think
people most people, even those that care unless you are actually working with the VVA and the VFW,
you know all the work that they do. So I think that that part is just interesting too for people
who kind of have their eyes open to some of this stuff. Exactly. You know, the broad fries.
We don't get any of that money. Right. Yeah. That's our gas money. Our time is all
makes only this sort of say again going above and beyond. Right. And then on the 20th,
the VFW has their monthly meeting at 6 o'clock out of the VFW post. On Friday, the 21st,
we're doing a girls basketball game presenting the colors at that. We just got done doing the
wrestling. Oh good relationship with the school district here. And okay, here's the one we
can all remember. The 23rd was evil, jima flag raising. Oh yeah. Everybody, you say that,
you know, you got you got it in your mind. I got chills when he said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I just hear you say 1945. On Thursday, February 27th, the Persian Gulf cease fire started. So
and then going into March, the monthly Vets breakfast is on the 3rd and on 7th and 8th VFWs again,
doing presenting the colors at the state, gymnastic tournament that is here in rapids. I mean,
everybody from if you want to go on to one of those and seeing the kids, yeah, they're awesome.
It's just what they can do is fantastic. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Some of the greatest athletes you're
going to see are on those mats. Yeah. Exactly. You know, jumping and twisting, turning. My knee already
hurts. Yeah. That's a good thing. You know, yeah. Yeah. Right. That would be great though. You
guys will ignore to the present these though. You got to do a bunch of that. What I appreciate about
this two time and I can imagine for the individuals to get to go to these events is certainly the
representation and being able to see this and us giving respect and respect being given both sides
and all that. But I talk about this a lot with Sheriff Becker. I talk about it a lot with most
of our extension people and certainly with our teachers and our educators in this city. You
have no idea what spark might be started. Right. From seeing an individual from seeing this. What
kid in that audience, even if just one kid sees that and it's like, I want to do that. I want to
be that. We need that. We need more of that. And I could say that about a lot of industries,
about a lot of things. But especially when it comes to this, we have no idea what that might spark.
You know, so there's so many layers to something like this and seeing our our vets at these events,
it's important. You know, and you look at it, rappers is holding state. Yeah,
yeah, tournaments across country meet. That's kids from all over the state. The gymnastics meet.
You have the watersky tournament. Yeah. I mean, and there was so much. And I, I'm sad to hear
people say, well, there's nothing to do. Oh, there's a lot to do. They're not looking exactly.
And then something other something else is on Mondays. Every Monday at three o'clock,
the VA has joined a conjunction with the YMCA where you have an hour of Tai Chi. Oh, cool. Very
cool. It's got to go through the VA. You got to get on the list and get in there. Started going
there. And there's I would say 30 people there. Yeah, right. You know, very cool. And
nobody's doing martial arts. You're just getting sore muscles. It's different moves. Yes,
right, right. It's such a wonderful workout. Such a great way to get some flexibility back and
some agility even. Yeah, it's a good one. So that's one. Okay. Tom, thank you so much for this.
If people have follow up questions, Tom, they'd like to know more about some of the things we
mentioned here or anything is there a way for them to get that information reach out to you or
right. Biggest thing to do is just call the VFW. Our Commander Sean Plan is very familiar with
what's going on with the VFW, the VVA, the American Legion groups. So just give us a call at 715-6000-0401.
And he answers or if he's busy, just leave a message and he definitely gets back to you.
All right. Yes. And if you miss that or need that information, we can get it to just reach out
to our front desk at 424-1300 or me, James Ed, it's shipping media.us and I'll go ahead and make
sure to get it to you, everybody. And be listening next month for another monthly veterans update
from our great friend Tom Heizer. Appreciate you, Tom. Thanks for being here.
And thank you very much for doing this. I really appreciate it. Get some word out. All right.
We'll get to a news and sports break and take care of our partners. We'll come back and we'll
have some more fun here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one out there.
Thanks to Beth for the kitchen's open and Tom for the monthly veterans update. Yeah.
Fun hour already. Got some entertainment news to dive into. And before we get to some
Grammy news and some local theater news, Netflix is rebooting Little House on the Prairie.
The original series told the kind of true story of the Ingalls family who lived in a farm in
Minnesota in late 1800s. It was mostly based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and it ran from
74 to 83. A Netflix exec says that the new version will be, quote, part hopeful family drama,
part epic survival tale and part origin story of the American West. There's no word yet on
the casting or start date. The original series streams on peacock where people watch more than
13 billion minutes of it in 2024. Whoa. And still very popular. My goodness. Honestly,
I don't usually get to these stories. If there isn't anything like a casting news or a release date
because oftentimes this stuff can be lost in the ether. You know, and we never hear about this
or anything because the money wasn't there or something like that. Trust me. My acting career is
riddled with it. But I think that that part that last part I thought was really cool and really
noteworthy. The original series streams on peacock where people have watched more than 13 billion
minutes of it in 2024. That show is still relevant with people. It is. What do you think, Melissa?
The reboot should be lost in the ether. I was wondering how you're going to feel about that.
They absolutely are wrong. They're wrong. Wow. With this one, they cannot make it better
because what they did in the 70s with this show was so much better than the books. The books
whitewashed everything. That's true. That's true. And Melissa Gilbert has come out and spoken
about this and said, you can't, you can't just don't bother. So I think that certain stuff,
I generally, as popular as it is, I think certain things. Oh, well, we got better graphics
nowadays. Oh, we can take that. Oh, I can take buck Rogers and I can make it incredibly more
fascinating and interesting now. Stargate or what was the big one of the years back in sci-fi.
There's a couple of these where they remake them and it's a whole new audience and they
people enjoy it or whatever. But that, to me, it tells you right there in the surface what
it should be remade and what shouldn't. And it's involved stuff that involves the future,
stuff that involves things that are far away. Can you firefly? Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. Good example. I think those things completely get why. I completely get why we're
making new Star Wars movies and everything. We're able to do so much more now with graphics and
all that and sound effects and everything. We just have so much more ability. Anything that is
about the past that was made in the quote past and the recent past, you can't do it better.
The technology actually will not allow you to do it better. Exactly. Just as an example,
there's a band called Taiman Paula. Great band. I really like them a lot. Part of what I like about
them is, I don't know, I guess I don't know in recent albums, but the first couple of albums,
they literally went out and bought old guitars. In old 70s guitars and everything. So the sound
is exactly from that era. No upper up techniques or anything like that. None of the modern science
on the boards or anything straight up all the equipment. Not just the guitars, the core. All the
sound that recording equipment, everything from the 70s. Because you cannot do that on any other
way. So little house on the prairie literally can't be made any better than the way it was made
originally. If you're trying to do something that is not autobiographical, but somewhat. If you're
trying to tell the past, the only way to do it was that. Now you have all the great graphics,
you have all these different things, costumes, all that stuff. None of it is going to come close
to the original. That's not what the viewers of that show even want. They want the original show,
right? They want the original. Melissa Gilbert even said we tackled racism, addiction,
nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spalsal abuse. Every other kind of woke topic you can
think of. Thank you very much. The show was way ahead of its time. I don't see why you couldn't
just do the wilders and just do a whole different completely show. I mean, you could do it similar
to this. You could still tell her books in the story from those or whatever. But I understand
the need to parody. But this has only an opportunity of blowing up in their face. And I immediately
knew this was a Netflix thing. I did not need to look at the trades or anything to find out.
All they're doing is looking at the numbers. Yeah. They look at it and say, wow,
look at how popular the reruns of the show are on peacock. We can exploit that because that's
all Netflix does is look at numbers. That's all they look at. Netflix subscribers, when you see
those prices rising, it's for things like this that we didn't even ask for. That nobody wants.
Let's ruin a good thing. Yeah, exactly. Let's do that. Let's have Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight.
And not even do it well. We have so many amazing authors and artists and creatives out there.
We have local ones that are writing wonderful books right here. Take one of those and turn it
into a Netflix show. Right. Maybe ask the artist first because they might not want you.
Your your grubby fingers on their work. But we have we have wonderful things being created now.
Why do we have to keep rehashing old things and remaking old things Disney with your live animations?
It's it's pathetic. Netflix Netflix has board members and executives that live
everyone of them live in their own bubble. And and it shows with things like this every time.
This is not what people want. Now, if you want to buy the rights from peacock for the original
T show and play it on Netflix, there you go. There you go. That's not bad. I bought marketing.
That's smart business. Yeah. That would actually be smart business. This is just wasting money.
This is just burning money. And you're money, by the way, everybody. You're money. They're burning.
You're money that you're paying the extra money you're paying, which is why I canceled by
and I'm looking back. Yeah. Yeah. You're not the only one. Yeah. There's a lot more people
doing that. And I'm one of the last people can afford to because I audition for Netflix shows
like a couple times a year and everything. And I'm still doing it. Because that's that's where
the the business is unfortunately right now. Yeah. Well, that's the that's one of the few things
I'll say nice about it. It's like they're giving actors a lot of opportunities. There's a lot of
shows, but but there's watching them. Here's the weirdest thing. And I'm sharing a little bit of
insider stuff here, but not really. I think that if you're into the acting business, you may know
what I'm about to say. But there are agents out there that will tell you not to audition for Netflix
shows. Wow. Say I audition for Netflix show and I get cast great. And I'm on this show. And we're
going to do a whole season. Fantastic. Well, I am booked for that show. So I cannot audition for
other things. Right. So when Netflix decides, hey, this show is really popular. Let's cancel it.
Those jobs that I could have been doing that actually would have been long to actually give
me consistent work are gone. So it's it's it's the equivalent of putting enough gas in your car
to get you to work, but not home. It's it's it's a little like that. You know, yeah, it's it's
it's really interesting to see that. And and the that that side of the creative now, you know,
of actors and stuff, seeing that is really fascinating. Well, and this is what agents will tell you.
Now, I don't know a single actor that's turning anything down. Right. It's work is work. Yeah,
including myself, which even though I know better and everything I just said, but as an as
as a struggling artist, what do you think I'm going to do? I get a good acting opportunity. You
can take it. Yeah, I got to take it. I got to. It's just it's in the got actors behind the barrel
on this one. Yeah. And it's it's and creatives, not just actors, creatives under them.
Speaking of creatives, last night's Grammys were just as much about the LA fires as they were
music in that part. I do note them for the show even ended with a local firefighters being brought
on stage to be cheered by the crowd. Wow. And to announce album of the year, which Beyoncé won
for cowboy Carter. Nice. You know, because you heard a bunch of people whining about it. Of
course. If you can't believe it, this is Beyoncé's first win in that category, despite four
previous nominations, only proving her point that the only way to get get, you know, this award
was to do that that type of music to like go way off script, right? Yeah. Yeah. Basically,
she didn't say this. Everybody else was. Everybody else was like, Oh, so now you'll give it to her
because she did country music. So yeah. And and and to to this point, this Houston, Texas native,
this country raised girl has been completely dismissed by the country industry, except by the
radio stations and by the masses and everything. I cannot like understand this is one of those
talents that people in charge don't know what they're doing almost cowboy Carter also won
best country album. So there man. And in addition to honoring first responders, the show raised more
than seven million just for viewers watching at home. That's not even to say like every artist was
doing similar things like where they were donating certain stuff of their costumes or whatever.
There were several musical tributes to the city as well. And the show kicked off with the band
the Dawes leading in all star band performance of Randy Newman's I love LA. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
teamed up on California Dreaming from the Mamas and the Papas. That's cool. And there was a surprise
performance by the weekend. So I guess he apparently he's him and the Academy are okay again now.
And speaking of a little bit of surprises, Will Smith narrated a tribute to the late Quincy Jones
which included performance of some Cynthia Ervo, Herbie Hancock, Laney Wilson and Stevie Wonder.
Oh wow. Interesting. It was cool to see Laney in there too.
That was great. And Janelle Manoe who brought the house down when Michael Jackson's don't stop
till you get enough did a great job. An amazing job. That's cool. It's a really cool one.
Nobody had a worse night than Drake. As a shock to nobody. Yeah.
You can't stop laughing about this man because Kendrick Lamar's song is was a song of the summer,
not like a song of the summer all that you've got people in other countries chanting this and
singing it. But then Kendrick Lamar goes out there and wins when multiple awards including song
of the year and record of the year. Oh no. And so you have the entire and as he's walking up to
actually got to see a little of this. Actually he's walking up to stage. You've got Beyoncé and
Billy Eilish and all these people, Krip Walking, people just dancing to his song. The whole
entire music industry just basically just shredding Drake. Just like everybody in Unison.
Wow. I've watched rap beeps my whole life and I've never seen anything on this level.
No. It's insane. What has happened here? Craziness.
Shaperone picked up best new artist. Oh cool. So she's fascinating. Yeah. Also
best pop vocal album went to Sabrina Carpenter along with best solo performance. Best duo Lady
Gaga and Bruno Mars. Charlie XC X, a one for dance dance and electronic. Best rock performance now
and then from the Beatles. Really? Whoa. Maybe they're last. They could very well be the last one.
Yep. Vincent won a bunch too. She won for best rock song, best alternative and best alternative
album. That's because she's awesome. Yeah. She's really absolutely fabulous. If you don't know her
everybody, like look her up. Best comedy album went to Dave Chappelle for the dreamer.
And let's see her. Oh, and best audio book, narration and storytelling recording. Last Sunday's
in Plains. A Sentinel celebration by Jimmy Carter. Oh, that's pretty cool. Warded posthumously. Yeah.
Want to remind everybody that our great friends over at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre are
celebrating 50 years and you can help them celebrate by going to see arsenic and old lace.
Yeah. Coming up at the end of the month, everybody gets your tickets now so you can pick out your
seats. They have such a cool seating arrangement there and there really isn't a bad seat,
but if you want to pick the special one out, you can you can do that by picking up to your
tickets at wrctheter.org, wrctheter.org. And keep in mind or so to see the set, you guys, it looks
so cool. Isn't it nice? Yeah, it's great. Very cool. Very, very cool. I want to remind everybody
that coming up on February 20th, we've got a silver foxes have their situation comedy.
A radio show. Be then the lookout for that one. That is pretty cool. And you know, just the next
month, got auditions for noises off. Yeah. That's right. It's coming up soon. Someone, someone we
know doing that one. Yeah. I can't, I can't remember off top of my head. As soon as I find out
who that who's directing noises off, oh, I'm going to be bombarding them with my with my head
shots and my resume. And I can't wait. Oh, I got to look down. Find out more at wrctheter.org,
everybody. Buy local support local. We'll be back with more show coming up. Can we mention wrcwact's
I got to see clue yesterday, you guys, and it was fantastic. Absolutely. Yes. I was going to bring
this up tomorrow. So yeah, let's do it now. Yeah. It's so good. It's really, really good.
If you haven't seen it, you absolutely have to get over there and see it. Their set is fantastic.
Cool. Yeah. That's what I wanted to bring up. What did you think of the set? Yeah. Yeah.
It was so cool. Like they, they, they, there were parts of it that just like
fold out. It's like, it's like the game board on stage. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. That's a great
way to pull. Nice. Yeah. That is. See what we're talking about here. Get your tickets for
the clue. They're coming back on the seventh and eighth this week. So be sure to get your tickets
for that at cwac.org, everybody. Cwac.org. Nice. Be back with more show coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We're
going to wrap up the show, take you to the top of the hour, get into our schedule, get some good
stories of the day and some local events we want to touch on. All that coming up for you,
everybody. I had mentioned that we were going to get into one of the most popular super bowl foods.
We're going to do that on the coming up here in a couple of days. We'll get into that one.
We'll be having a little more time because it's a longer one. That's all right. We'll get into
that one a little bit later. For right now, do want to touch on some local events going on and
start off with our schedule. And boy, do we got a good one lined up for you. Be sure to stick around
for Matt and air on air coming up at 10. Jane will give you a great time right up to the new
hour. Please stick around for that. Maggie Dawn show from two to four today. Be sure to tune in
for that one as well. And we'll lead you into midday magazine four to five. In part one, we kick
off the week right. Oh, strong kick off to the week. We have the our friends from the Arts Council
in Sally Kissner, executive director of the Arts Council of air Brittnogger from the Borming Arts
Center over here as well. And we're going to be joined by Ron Dista Fennano, co-creator of
Bachelor's Abroadway. Cool. Ron's going to join us. We're looking forward to talking Bachelor's
Abroadway and talking about all the great things going on over there. It's going to be a fun one.
Yeah. In part two, Mary Schultz, chair of empty bowls and chair of focus is going to be with us.
Excellent. It's that time of year again where we talk about empty bowls and it's a fun event.
Yeah, I love it. Love it. I cannot wait. Great stuff on your radio dial afterwards too because at five
o'clock we got playmaker's playmaker proudly brought to you by quality plus printing and family
natural foods. Excellent. Yeah. We got two sponsors. Yeah. We are so excited about today's show.
We got a bunch of great things to talk about and we're going to talk about. I'd be talking
Super Bowl all week long, of course, as well. And on our sister station over at 105-5WRI,
it is a ball night. 650R will kick things off ported where it's boys basketball host Northern
Lutheran, Randy, Mike, and Laura are going to have that one for you. That's going to be good.
Yeah. We're looking forward to that. Wait, no, that is not happening. That is not what I have
the wrong schedule. No, wrong schedule. Yes, I was reading it. I knew it was wrong. Yes, I was
reading it. Oh, yeah, that's the last one. I knew it. I knew it. I ran burgundy that completely.
Just read what was on the teleprop. We do have some high school basketball this week.
We do a Tuesday and Thursday. So it's Tuesday tomorrow that we do tomorrow that we have an
XR next year. I apologize about that, everybody. A set and does have something that actually
is coming up. And boy, are we excited about this? Yes, James mentioned it just briefly. We do
have the bachelors of Broadway, gentlemen of the theater coming to town coming up on the 20th
of February at 730 at the Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids. You're going to hear about
that today on Midday Magazine from Sally and Eric. It's a brand new three-man act features
a lush symphonic arrangements of songs from modern and classic musicals like Wicked,
the fandom of the opera, Jersey Boys, 42nd Street, Miss Saigon, the greatest showman,
Dear Evan Hansen, and Lay Miz. It's going to be a fabulous event. Everyone go to get your tickets
right now, sayoverthearts.com. If you need a little help with that, you can contact the arts
council at four, excuse me, 1040, 8th Street South, sweet 101 and Rapids. Monday through Thursday,
10 to 230. You can also give them a call 715-424-2787, but wait. There's more. They're also
having a dinner before the show. This is going to be at the ridges. They're offering a special dinner
for this. You must purchase those meal tickets before February 6th. That's Thursday. Let's
try to let you know about this now, everyone. If you want to participate, yeah. You have to
all Thursday to get those meal tickets in conjunction with the great show. The bachelors of Broadway.
Yeah, awesome. The little senior center will again be partnering with the ARP to provide free
tax counseling for those who meet their criteria. The appointments are necessary, and you can make
one at 715-422-2778-422-2778 between the hours of 10 and one Monday through Friday. Keep in
mind that this program runs today through April 9th, so we encourage you to reach out to them anytime
in between then for all your needs. Again, you can give them a call at 715-421-1051 for more questions
or reach out to them for the schedule and appointment 715-422-2778. Very cool. And just a reminder
everybody, one other event we got coming up south. Yes, indeed. Over at Assumption High School,
they've got a barn dance coming up Saturday, February 22nd at Assumption High School gymnasium.
They're going to be doing all kinds of great stuff here, everyone. You get your tickets now.
They got a pre-sale going till February 19th at the AHHS office, $10 for an adult, $5 for children,
it's a little more expensive if you pay at the door, but they're going to have a bag's tournament
there, a bean bag tournament as well. But the big thing is they have a dinner from 5 to 630,
includes a broader hamburger, mac and cheese baked beans, good solid cowboy meal, and then dancing
from 6 to 9 line, circle and square dancing led by an actual caller, everybody. They're going to have
an actual caller there, so they can be a fun event. Saturday, February 22nd, barn dance at Assumption
High School gymnasium. Pretty impressive. Yeah. A professional jump roaper named David Fisher used
his double-dutch ropes to save a teenager who fell through an icy pond in December.
Oh my. Wow. The city of Westfield, Indiana, honored him with their life-saving award at a
ceremony last week. Very cool. That's pretty quick thinking. Yeah. Yeah. A mini dashed hound in
Utah fostered a kitchen and a kitten and raised it as its own as their own, a video of them playing
in making the rounds on social media, feeding the pellet cleanser and nice. It could be a fun one.
And here's how resilient kids are. A mass shooting at a splash pad near Detroit last year,
left nine people injured, including a little boy named Jack Bobbi Boat. Thankfully, no one passed,
no one died, but it robbed him of his eyesight. He's in the news again because of his positive,
how positive he stayed throughout all of it, but also because he's eight years old and
thinks Farts are hilarious. When he was in the hospital, he was playing with a toy called Flarp.
It's a jar of slime that makes fart noises and boil that. And it was the first time he left
after the shooting. He asked his grandmother if they could use it to cheer up other kids,
so they rounded up two thousand four hundred jars of it and he's handing them all out to the
other kids in the hospital. Wonderful. This young boy is doing more than our politicians are
for school shootings and for school kids. I'm telling you. Yeah, that's it. Lesson learning.
Is this an uncomfortable awkward story? I'm sorry. No, I'm not. Wait, no, no, I'm not. I'm not
because we need to talk about these things. And it is just a reminder of how resilient and incredible
kids are and how they are doing more good in this topic than we adults are. We need to take note
to everybody that we're being led by our children in a lot of ways these days. It's a pretty darn
cool story. It is. Very cool. And we want to remind everybody about our WFHR newsletter.
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