Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us at WFHR. Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by Melissa. Good morning.
Seth. Good morning. Beth. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us,
everybody. We're out. We have a great start to the day out there. We're going to get into some
entertainment news and a little bit and talk about the percentage of Americans that can fall asleep,
just like that. All that, those things coming up. It is a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. You know what that
means. Welcome to the Kitchens Open on WFHR for this Monday, February 10th. Last week, we dove into
chocolate. Well, not literally, although the Smothers Brothers did have a song about falling into a
vet of chocolate, which is, which is very funny. Actually, it's one of my all-time favorite beds that they
did. But you're rammed with a little bit, Beth. Yes, but it's not the depression you might think.
This week, we continue with the chocolate theme since its national cream cheese brownie day.
I thought we'd take a look at this delectable dessert. Mm-hmm. According to the nationaldaycalendar.com,
quote, the brownie has been around since the 1800s. An article entitled The Brownies,
the history of a classic American dessert, by Carla Martin on the US History Scene website shares,
the use of chocolate inbaking increased dramatically in late 19th and early 12th 20th centuries.
Largely thanks to the efforts of enterprising housekeeping and cooking educators who partner with
industry in the name of domestic science. Science? Largely. The Institute of Culinary Education
on their website ice.edu shares, it's hard to truly determine who ought to be credited for the
first brownie. One version of history credits a Bertha Palmer, a Chicago businesswoman and
socialite, for inspiring the suite that is about as American as Apple Pie. In 1893, for the world's
fair, Colombian exposition, an event that would draw influential people from around the globe,
Bertha entertained the notion of creating a small confection that has since become beloved
all the world over. Storytellers say that for the world's fair, Bertha asked the Palmer
House pastry chef to create a small cake or confection that could be included in boxed lunches
for ladies visiting the fair. The pastry chef developed a thick, dense, fudgy chocolate bar,
covered in walnuts and a sweet apricot glaze. Oh, that sounds good. It was unlike any other
confection and became incredibly popular. Yes, but it was through cookbooks that the brownie
became known across the country. The US history scene article continues, it was most likely thanks
to the domestic science network and the increasing popularity of related cookbooks,
magazines, and cooking schools that brownies became to be known throughout the United States.
The question of who published the first brownie recipe is a difficult one to answer.
The anti-farmers 1896 Boston Cooking Schoolbook book, cookbook. Then that, believe it or not,
is available online, included a recipe for quote unquote brownies that is significantly different
than what most of us have come to expect. It contained no chocolate. The recipe actually used
molasses instead. Shocking. Would you try that? I would. Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine. Exactly.
I would imagine it would be like that, that layer that's at the bottom of shoe fly pie right
by the crust. So it would be that gooey, fudgy consistency that you look for in the center of a brownie.
Still a brownie without chocolate. That seems so weird to me, man. That's just weird off.
So does that mean that when the brownie with chocolate first came out, that was weird to them?
Yeah, that's good question. Definitely was. Yeah, definitely was.
It must have been better or is it just different? Oh, maybe I have to go back and make that.
This would be and we'll find out. That's a good. Hey, I smell a taste test.
The article continues quote, the first published recipe for the brownies made with chocolate
available on record may be from the service club of Chicago's 1904 cookbook, a publication
of the recipes contributed to buy the club members in a section on candy. The recipe called
Banger Brownies. Oh, that's a great. That's good.
Likely a reference to a long told, but as yet under undistated, understated story that chocolate
brownies originated in Banger, Maine looked like this. Yeah, it's unsubstantiated. So we don't know if
it's. Yeah, right. So the recipe is cream one half cup of butter, one cup sugar, add two
squares, one quarter cake of baker's chocolate. Now that's the kind that you thought was the
good James. That's really only good for baking. Yeah, you can get those bigger. And if you can't,
if you don't have baker squares on hand, you can actually use cocoa powder as a substitute.
So keep that in mind. You melt that chocolate two eggs, one half cup pastry flour and one
half cup chopped walnuts spread on on baking tins and bake for 15 minutes in a moderate oven.
The article also shares also in 1904, Eleanor P. Quimby's home cookery was published in
Laconia, New Hampshire with the exact same ingredients and proportions as the Banger Brownies plus
a little salt and a teaspoon of vanilla. It is thus possible that these recipes for chocolate
brownies were derived from the same original recipe, though a popular myth suggests that mildrid brown
shrump. I love what a name shrumps in this we had we in Bertha earlier. Yeah, I love it.
Nick named a brownie of banger main was the first to publish a brownie recipe.
Shrump was not born until 1903 and was therefore too young to have developed a dessert. Interesting.
Two more chocolate brownie recipes followed in prominent publications first in Fanny Farmers 1906
version of the Boston cooking school cookbook with a similar recipe to the banger brownies mentioned
above. This was certainly the most widely circulated version of the chocolate brownie recipe
due to the immense popularity of farmers work. In 1907, Maria Willett Howard, a student of farmers,
wrote two brownie recipes for Lownie's cookbook from the Walter M. Lownie chocolate company
mentioned above with differing amounts of egg, chocolate and sugar. That's right. The brownie
is definitely a yummy way to enjoy chocolate, but ever wondered what makes the brownie different
from a chocolate cake. It's the leavening agent or actually the lack thereof. Does it use yeast?
Yes. Cakes use baking powder and sometimes baking soda. It's not yeast. Oh, okay. That's for breads.
Oh, that's breads, right. So for cakes, it's usually baking powder is most often what you would need
to get that rise that you're looking for or baking soda. That is not usually included in a brown
recipe or if it is, it's been such a minimal portion that it wouldn't even add that rise.
So brownies don't generally rise. This is what makes them dense and fudgy rather than light and
airy. Brownies don't tend to have, and they also have a higher fat ratio.
Interestingly, my mother made brownies this weekend. I know she made them because I
heard her Saturday morning yelling at the brownie tin that they didn't turn out right. They were
too hard. So she didn't think that anybody'd want them. They are perfect. They are perfect. They
are just a bright kind of tone and hard. So it's interesting. I didn't know what made that up or
what didn't. I kind of get there. There you go. But today isn't just the day for brownies. It's cream
cheese brownie day. That's right, James. And I love cheesecake flavor and texture swirled into this
chocolatey goodness. I just love cheesecake. My husband, not so much. So this is one way that I
can possibly get that in my house. I know it's become more and more popular, but I wondered when did
this particular recipe originate in an article by Dan Woolert, food entomologist on WordPress.com. It
was Marisha or Marissa. Marcia. Thank you. Marcia McMullen Hayes for Betty Crocker.
He writes one of the very few references to a Betty Crocker Inventress. And I love that new word.
Inventress. Is that of the cheesecake swirl brownie? In 1963, General Mills decided to publish a
cookie book to help sell more units of their breakfast cereal beans. The cookie book, as it was
titled, went through about five revisions into the late 1970s. In that groundbreaking cookbook,
the editor's reference half a dozen women for invention or adaptation of specific cookies.
They credit Marcia McMullen, a student from Ohio State University. Excuse me, the Ohio State
University at the time for developing the cheese swirl brownie. She was an intern at the General
Mills headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota and created it on a special student project
in 1961. I give her project. That's pretty astounding considering these cream cheese swirl brownies
was the first of its kind. McMullen's cheese swirl brownie opened the door for other American
swirl brownies like the grasshopper and mint swirl brownies, peanut butter swirl and a whole
exotic lineup. Wow. So versatile too. I don't think I've had a whole lot of different types of
brownies. I've had the brown sugar or some of these with a little bit of mix. I've never had a
mint one. I'm weird with mint. I couldn't have too much of it. But when you have a taste for it,
when you, that's what you want, nothing else will matter. It's mint ice cream, mint brownies,
whatever it might be. So here's a quick story. I want to try that. I want a mint brownie.
Well, the town I grew up in and went to high school and they had a really cool bakery that
did a lot of stuff like this. At the time, James, I mean, I'm glad you're sitting down. I didn't like
donuts. I know. Get out. So every time I've done a lot of work, James. I'll do the
sense lines for the rest of the script. Get out of here right now. You cool. I like them now.
I love them now, but I worked on it. I worked on it. But that meant because they had a lot of
donuts there, but I didn't want donuts. So they had these really good brownies, including
these fabulous mint brownies that were too die for. Oh my gosh. So if you're ever feeling
adventurous, James, you got to try it. It's all man. Think of like a peppermint mocha in food form.
Because that's what you can have or an Andy's candy. So that's the difference between the grass
hopper, which would be the creme de menth, rather than the peppermint, which is what you would get in
a mocha. So you can have that wonderful texture and taste. There you go. You can get raspberry
swirled in there. You get strawberry. I mean, all of the possibilities. When I was in my first
apartment, when I didn't have coffee creamer, I would put those Andy's candies in my coffee
for like creamer. Yeah, it's a smart idea. It's a hardened syrup. That was brilliant.
So to make the brownies, the trick is to find something to swirl with, right? So with cream
cheese brownies, you mix together the cream cheese with some sugar and a little bit of milk and
things like that. So you create its own little batter. Gotcha. So once you've made your brownie
batter, you dollop that cream cheese or peanut butter or mints batter into the brownie batter
in rows. And then you take a knife or a toothpick and you run that through the rows. And that's
what creates that swirl effect on top. Or if you're like me and you're not, don't mind having like
a cheesecake bite to it, you just leave the dollop there. So then the trick is going to be deciding
between the fudgy center or the crispy edges. I was going to say James, when you
referred to your mom, she had overdone that you liked the crispy part of the brownies.
Absolutely. A hundred percent. I am more that fudgy, more soft center, yeah,
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kitchen. Alright. Excellent. That was fudgy. Oh my gosh. Now I just want a brownie.
Yeah, but I was so hungry. So that's my assignment for the afternoon.
No, I wouldn't think you'd do that. But if you wouldn't turn it down either.
Of course not. We're looking forward to a new segment next Monday.
Thanks so much for the work, Beth. Nicely done. Very good.
We'll take a quick time out. We'll be back in more show coming up here on the Morning Show at
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the kitchen. So open. Great. Really kick off. That was a great segment.
Be listening next Monday for another edition of the kitchen. So open everybody.
I'm going to dive into some entertainment news now and talk it a little bit about the Super Bowl.
They're around the Super Bowl, if you will. John Batista did a great job with the National Anthem.
Did he ever? That was awesome. I thought him and Harry Connick Jr. were incredible.
Harry Connick Jr. is such a natural out there and so comfortable.
It's a great entertainment. Yeah, went up there and just like the mics weren't working very well,
like this stuff always happens. You can't tell from them though. Like we've heard some recent
performances of famous people and stuff and equipment not working at the inauguration or some
of these things and we've heard nothing but horror stories behind the scenes.
Hear the biggest thing in literally the world going on and Harry Connick or John Batista or
any of these artists and they're just rolling with it. And in part because they're jazz musicians,
I'm just going to say it in part because of being jazz musicians and that is being a jazz artist.
I'm telling you, improvising is one, you know, is the thing. The other thing that I really enjoyed
about it is they're both New Orleans natives and they were, they got to, I mean that was smart
on the NFL's part, get people from New Orleans. I mean it's such a rich history of music in that
city anyway. I mean, why not? Well, and they took a little slack for it. They had to work with Fox
on this because Fox, like John Batista is the, if you don't know, he is the head band leader for
Stephen Colbert's late show, which is on another network. So they weren't sure about how that would
go over. I give Fox credit. They didn't push back on that. They didn't like, no, we should have him.
He's an amazing singer. He's an Orleans native. Yeah. And I thought he nailed it. I thought he
nailed it. Did a great job. Yeah. And the look on his face when he finished, how the pride,
how good it must have felt to do that in your home state. I'm telling you to be something.
His piano rendition was beautiful, soulful, all the things you would want, which is somewhat rare
of an anthem nowadays. But there was a lot of drama over the anthem in Vegas. If you didn't know,
the over under on the anthem length, it's always a really popular bet. If not the most popular
bet. In this year, the over under was said at 120 seconds, 0.5 seconds. John's official song went 120
seconds. Wow. And that's only one second away from making some, you know, people a lot of money.
But you know, maybe you had the under and you were perfectly fine. There you go. Or maybe you
just saved your money and didn't bet on things that you have no control over. That's the thing.
You don't have control over any of this stuff of your gamble. I'm telling you. I actually
late last night went back and listened to it again. Just I just really like the anthem. I'm a big
fan of our anthem. And I really like the one of the things that I think is so cool about
our anthem. Like, yes, obviously what it means to us as countrymitten and people and all those
but they have such a known iconic original song and be able to take that and do your own thing
with it. And I don't mean the people that like, you know, get a rock. Extra notes. Yeah. Yeah,
they stretch it out. Right. Yeah. I mean, taking the original song like Mr. Batista, like taking
the original song and just, you know, singing it your way. Right. Because everybody has a unique
singing style. Exactly. A different way of doing it. So when Marvin Gaye goes out there and does it
with his way, it's no different or better or worse than John Batista or anybody else. It's
such a cool thing, I think, musically. Right. Well, and being a jazz artist, that's his willhouse.
It is. Yeah. Absolutely. Taking a song and making it their own. Not an easy song to do that with,
by the way. Not at all. Because it's a complicated progression of stuff. So yeah. And Melissa brought
this up a year, like years ago and everything. Otherwise, I wouldn't have even thought about it.
But there's a part in there where there's lines that don't make, like, it doesn't flow well.
It's not. No, it doesn't. It's almost like they were trying to, you know, stumble the singer or
something. But when you hear a good singer do it, it sounds so natural. Yes. Sounds so comfortable.
Yeah. And he did that last night. Yeah, he did. But I'm always listening for that part to hear how
a singer transitions with that. As we're speaking of music, the Super Bowl halftime show has become
one of these staples for an artist. I think a lot of artists, they're big and then they do the
Super Bowl halftime show and they become Lady Gaga. They, you know, they're a giant pop star.
And then they do this in the rest of the world notices. And I use her as an example because she was
a big pop star, you know, and was going to go on to be a big pop star. By doing the Super Bowl halftime
show, casting directors saw her and all of a sudden, wait a minute, she can act too. Wait, she
can do this too. And all the sudden Lady Gaga doesn't just do that. But she's, you know, a Grammy
winner with Tony Bennett. She's a, you know, Oscar nominee and these things. A lot of that happens
from the Super Bowl halftime show. It's bigger than that. And it's a cultural thing where a lot of,
you know, we had the country music artist years and go being on and representing that a couple of
years back having a lot of LA hip hop and a lot of that being represented and everything. And then
there are the artists that approach this like Prince or some others like, you know what? I'm going
to remind everybody who I am. I'm going to remind everybody. I'm Bruce Springsteen. And I'm one of
the greatest ever do this. So I'm going to go out there in the rain or not and I'm going to perform
my tails off. And there is the Beyonce's, the weekends, these artists that it's a lot of
pomp and circumstance and they spend millions and millions on this. They should be noted that no
Super Bowl halftime show has ever been paid. None of these artists are paid to do this. That's right.
They are putting up their own money of this. The weekend famously put up like a million dollars
into his halftime show. Kendrick Lamar's halftime show was so refreshing to me. It was stripped down.
It wasn't all the pomp and circumstance. There was a lot of dancers. There were some props here
and there and everything. But they basically took up like part of the field and just kept to that
stretch and focused on the music, focused on the lyrics and everything. I understand that everybody
likes hip-hop that's listening out there or anything. But I will say to me as somebody who has grown
up with this music and loves this music, I will say to me, the artists that stand out are the artists,
it's lyrics first and beat second. It's as simple as that. Right. You approach it as I'm a poet.
I'm a writer. I am no different than Shakespeare. I am no different than Edgar Allan Poe. I am a poet
and I am out there doing modern poetry. If you look at it that way, I think you can approach this
a little bit differently. If you approach it in just a way of just entertainment, whether you like
hip-hop or not, it is noteworthy what Kendrick Lamar did. Kendrick Lamar is a Pulitzer Prize
winning writer. He is the only hip-hop artist to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. And he went out there
with a lot of the answers and all these other things. But it's always, oh, who's going to be the
who's going to be the cameo? Who's he going to have? He had one singer come out. But I don't think
anybody had as a cameo Samuel Jackson as Uncle Sam. First he performed Squabble Up. I couldn't
believe he did Humbley, D&A, Euphoria, Man of the Garden, Peekaboo, all this. Then he told the
crowd he wanted to quote, play their favorite song, but you know they will sue us. Because Drake
is suing him and currently suing him and his record company right now over the song Not Like Us,
the most popular song of the summer. And there was a lot of talk that he should not do this song.
In fact, a lot of his fans told him he shouldn't even do this song. Kendrick did the song.
Of course he did. He launched into it. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. He finally
gave it to us. And while he didn't say the words in it and everything that he could have gotten
in trouble for, the stadium did. Of course they oh wow. So this song is so big and so popular. He
did not have to do the lyrics that could have gotten him in trouble. Those audience did. Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh. He also dropped in a line like a say Drake, and like looked right at the camera and
smiled right when he said it. He added insult to injury Kendrick brought out Drake's ex Serena
Williams and Crip walked. The whole thing was introduced and done there wonderfully by Samuel
Jackson who just nailed it. Just nailed it. He's a pro. And there were I mean just an incredible
halftime show for people that like that music and like Kendrick Lamar. It was very they for years
have tried to oh what's a band that everybody likes you too. Maroon five these things and then
not everybody likes it and everything. Sure. Because you can't please everybody. No, absolutely not.
So I hope that they do more of this. This is the last year you'll ever see anything like this by
the way. You will I will go out on a limb and say you will never see another hip hop artist be the
center act and you will dig sure and never see a hip hop artist like Kendrick Lamar got. They went
very lay leaned in and they didn't try they they wanted to be they wanted everybody to enjoy it.
But they were very you know direct about hey if you don't that's fine go go to the bathroom.
You're right get your snacks. We're going to do this. This is our moment. We're never going to
get this chance again. This is the first and only time we're ever going to get this. And I
thought they nailed it. Let's take a phone call. Good morning around the show.
James could you and I still be friends? Absolutely.
I have to disagree with you 100%. I feel it was one of the worst half-time shows ever.
I mean I don't mind hip hop music. And the ones I was watching that the football game was
relocked at each other like once I had to go right now just all over the place. I understand
I was just down but yes it was not but I mean and then if you take the social media
I need to go reading I think. See and this is uh this is where we have two Americas
because on my social media and in my friend base just could not we were especially with the
game being boring. We're in the fourth quarter and we're still talking about it. We're going online
and looking up things. Like this is this is this is what we're talking about here. Some people
we're going to get into it and a majority of people we're not going to get into it and that's okay.
It doesn't like I think that you're better off doing this than you're trying to please everybody.
I genuinely think that and it's okay that it wasn't an act that everybody loved wasn't an act
that everybody was going to get into in part because not everybody needs to. Like that's culture
that's life that's work that's entertainment right um Kevin's opinion is just as valid as mine
like both are okay yeah uh there there's nothing wrong with any of our answers. There's no wrong
thing here or anything and you guys are still friends wow see isn't that what a great example
see how this goes see how this works is you could disagree 100% yeah um I will I will uh talk
with Kevin more about the game later though right right you're gonna get into that kept save your
voice for that but I appreciate your feedback man and thanks for calling and you have a safe good
day out there okay all right you guys have a great day too you too good one thanks Kevin um yeah
I am curious to see what happens though with that into lawsuit and all those yeah that'll be
interesting I'm glad Kevin called in though because I was going to say the one comment I saw
this morning was somebody saying that the halftime show was terrible okay I didn't look beyond that
but um yeah that's all I saw well and what I would like to hear from because I I don't think
that's any more surprising than when you two or maroon maroon five was the big one to me where
I like now that's one where cat what Kevin's saying all my friends and family were like that
terrible yeah like what is it what is this or like you say the black eyed piece yeah another horrible
one another horrible one yeah um I uh that's that's music that's how music works it seems like
not for everybody it seems like you said James you know the people in the in at the game really
got into it they sound like they really enjoyed it now I'll say this too uh to anybody like Kevin
out there anything like that that didn't like it you don't worry you'll never see that again
yeah two americans you'll never see that again uh the the NFL is going to put somebody a jay this
the last year Jay Z is going to be running the Super Bowl halftime show and and that going forward
you're going to absolutely see a completely different halftime show yeah it's going to be country
it's going to be I was going to say I'd almost bet my money that it's going to be country now
yes it'll be too I would I would I would literally bet anybody they wants right now five dollars
it'll be Laney Wilson I would I would almost 100% that would be really well because I work in
radio that's like five hundred four big money Melissa would you talk about you work in radio two
okay I will put Casey Musgraves up against your Laney Wilson I like that they'll both end up
being in it we uh we we nice we we do stuff to talk Super Bowl commercials we have that coming
up and the percentage of people that can fall asleep real quick all those things coming up for you
right here on the morning show at WFHR welcome back everybody morning show here at WFHR
Melissa set then James hanging out with you thanks so much for joining us this one guess what guess
what what what the Eagles won the Super Bowl she finally found out what I did I finally found out
thanks Mike 9 30 on all that you listen to that's right he did say it there yeah he did
you said it's important thing and I was here to hear it so yeah we got a nice sound clip from
Patrick my homes you know he got to say as I will be you know back again and and even though they
lost he's still so even keel it's like nothing nothing anything he's not too high he's not too low
we we have to talk a little bit of the Super Bowl was Super Bowl commercials the last time
the Super Bowl was on Fox in 2023 a 32nd ad cost seven mill that has gone up a million to eight
mill now since there's no longer an element of surprise quite a few commercials were released
ahead of time but there are still some fun ones out there I want to hear from the audience
was there any ones that stood out any Super Bowl commercials you liked because to me I I feel like
we've done something and I was just touching on this was set the little bit that we've done
something with sports where every athlete every coach has to go through a you know a marketing
and marketing and media classes right and how to answer questions and all these things so we've
taken so much person that would be as tall as possible basically right just to do yeah two stats
point about this yeah we've seen a very similar thing I think in the automobile industry where
everybody's afraid to make an automobile that stands out anymore look the same yeah they all look
the same no matter what the company is and pretty much every one of them looks the same they just
parityed at each other right and those and we're seeing a very similar thing in marketing with
with with with as much now not average marketing I'm not talking about every day commercials or
anything like that right I'm talking about eight million dollar commercials right where where
people have seen okay that the pets dot com place they were they were they were too big to fail
and then they spent eight million dollars on a commercial and nobody's heard of them since they
failed the we love your subs the quiz nose people did the similar thing nobody wants to be that
business so they're playing it safe they're going to do things that I'm going to give you eight
bunwides are going to spend eight mil but we're going to give you the client sales everybody loves
the client sales we're going to give you those and and into that you know it's understandable I
think any human element to a degree but it really hurts creatively they're it is killed to create a
process it is killed the personality of sports we will never see people like Charles
Barkley again will not see these people that are just larger than life personalities until they
retire then you get to see it a little bit right they don't have to be that way right I I I was I
was all prepared for the Super Bowl to be boring I we've seen blowouts before and on paper it
looked like it could be a blowout so I wasn't shocked by that what I was I was disappointed by
what was the commercials there I just didn't feel like there was a whole lot
noteworthy or anything interesting risks yeah yeah there were no there were no risks there were
no taking chances yeah we're no like I don't know right right off the bat I got I got to make a new
rule for Super Bowl commercials no sequels to the one you did last year yeah yeah first of all
no one remembers what it was last year the Dunkin Donuts was one of the dumbest commercials I think
I've ever seen in my life yeah that was so stupid I also wow it was no it was disappointing it
really was very much so I now that makes me want to watch it well go straight ahead well in fact
Melissa there is an extended seven minute short film of it oh god called Dunkings to the movie
yeah yeah that's um cultural artifact I'll give it that but other than that no dumb
I I think that one of the things that was missing this year was so much of this is the
chances is that taking you know shots just giving a chance um there was a Pringles ad where like
famous people's mustaches got pulled off like Nick Offerman and James Harden and Andy Reid and
all that I thought that was going somewhere yeah yeah yeah yeah it's kind of that a similar one
with little Caesars and Eugene Levy with his eyebrows yeah which again yeah it was kind of funny
I guess I I don't know uh there is a Mountain Dew ad with seal as a seal that um that was bizarre yeah
and borderline offensive to me I don't know I just thought it was really it was weird it was
really weird it was one of those things where to your point um I'm watching it and it feels like
there's something that's offensive but I don't know what exactly I'm wrong with it yeah this is
something bad vibes bad vibes maybe just creatively yes maybe it was there a lot was built up maybe
the one that was talked about the most was the homins ad featuring the reunion of Meg Ryan and
Billy Crystal uh I didn't see that one um and this time Sydney Sweeney was the one sitting there
with the reaction the big reaction and everything I love those two actors and I like seeing them
doing this together but whatever money they spent on this it would have been funnier if they had
just told us they were gonna do this like whatever there was no surprise with this ad as soon as
you saw those first up the build up to it yeah we already knew the commercial was coming right and
then you see the adness before they even say a line you know what's gonna happen she's gonna
do the famous scene from it and it's gonna be because she loves helmets I should not be able to
write the ad I should not be able to do the predicting 30-second commercial right it's bad enough
I can predict Hollywood endings half the time it's horrible that I can that a you put a couple
of monkeys in a room and they're gonna come up with this okay James I got to tell you I had an
idea last week and since you're talking like this now I really think this is something we should do
okay so the build up to all these commercials and even before they release them um just the talk
about them I think we should make them ourselves yeah oh we can do parodies of what the commercials
might be like and release them ourselves hey that's not a bad idea I like that idea that's awesome
I'm 100% so there's one ad I thought was was fun was the Jeep ad with Harrison Ford
that was that was really fun and it was simple it was a simple ad he pulls up you know driving around
he's like I'm really enjoying this even though my name is Ford which I thought was that was
pretty good that was pretty good that sounds good I thought he's so charming too yeah you can pull
anything off I thought it was it was okay I liked I liked I like I like what they're trying to do
with a lot of these ads in the Americana they're trying to create and the cry pride in these things
but so much of it is pat parody it is absolutely pandering to a point where I I find it almost
insulting uh the the idea of that and everything and I'm a little tired of that in pop culture in
general um I'm I'm proud of my country I love my country I don't need to try to prove that more
than my neighbor I don't need this idea that I have to have more American flags my American flags
gotta be bigger than the next guy and all this and something that's not what the med the flag is for
that's what people have died and fought for that flag for is so that you could have it on a belt
buckle um or you could use it to sell things right I don't like that I love that last line though
I I love that last line of him just looking at the camera and saying jeez ferrison Ford
yeah just well played very well part of it but I am a little bit sick and tired of these
companies thinking that they can use my country to sell their goods I'm sick and tired of that
I'm sick and tired of politicians taking it and using it it's not yours it's all of ours
mm-hmm that that flag belongs to every single one of us doesn't belong to one party more than
other or anything like that I'm I'm real tired of that it was a great line though yeah uh
I gotta gotta take that one let's take a call before I go to break good morning here on the show
hi James Feet Revelle and I want to make a comment about the football game or about the show I
guess uh you know what to begin with I myself don't find much musical value in hip hop just
from a musical standpoint but I gotta tell you this I sat there for 20 minutes watching this guy
do something that I think is unhuman and that is to be able to spit out words and I'm there's
no ways reading this from a prompter it's too fast I want to know how a human being can can
just go on and on with with verbiage I'm unbelievable Pete I appreciate I've been on the airways
many times talking about my respect and love for you and I have that in part because of your
history and what you know about jazz to this point Pete when you've watched great jazz artists go
up there and a trumpet on a coronet or saxophone or something and be able to play for hours and hours
or four or five minutes like seven minute long jam sessions or something like that and they where
they taking a breath how are they doing this how are they playing that way I have not I I talked
about this with my friends but I didn't hear many people other than its social media and this
and that talking about this Kendrick Lamar just pulled that there was nobody helping him there was
no like this man was being able to run and do all this himself we've seen singers like most
singers a lot of that some singers at least will do the halftime show and they have a you know
they're they're they're voicing it they're not actually singing they're just lip singing
yeah that was recorded earlier right whether you like this guy or not whether you like hip hop or
not I think just as an artist you could take a step back and be like well that was impressive
I didn't like it but it was impressive that's the point he kept me entertained for 20 minutes
one under just a quick question have you ever run across a actor who had was able to memorize
that many lines I just can't imagine I've run two I've ran into two I've ran into two
of my old friend Bernie Schoeneman came into when we did and then to kill a mockingbird he played
out of his finch and when he came into the read through Bernie had all his lines already memorized
oh my gosh it's the only time I've ever seen that um and uh and Ed O'Neal I saw Ed O'Neal do this in
person uh Ed O'Neal were famous were married with children and all that he was in our TV show
and he was in one uh episode our last episode and the director uh the the writers changed the lines
about five ten minutes before we went out there and they gave him about three or four extra lines
in the middle of his monologue and he looked at that sheet went out there and then the director had
us deal about ten to twelve different takes and Ed nailed every single one of them with the added
lines and then when the director would have a catch here or there he would make the change but not
change anything else wow it was like watching a computer work I was sitting next to him through it
and it was like watching it you wouldn't think that Al Bundy might be that you know this the this
that's me or anything but I watched him like pull something up I didn't do that as an actor yeah
but it's a great question Pete and it's always great to talk to you sir thank you for the time
and and thank you always for all you do for us appreciate you Pete appreciate you
the deer from yeah uh one of the best love Pete one of the best entertainers our community has
yep uh love you and a great perspective too on on the show yeah that was a really interesting
look at it yeah I don't I don't think that was hard for Pete for Pete or for anybody to do where
you can be like okay I don't like hip-hop but I'm watching this guy impressive impressive this is
one guy out there doing all this by himself uh there's the it's yeah yep we'll take a time out
we'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR welcome back everybody
morning show at WFHR
Melissa set in James here with you we're gonna wrap up the show take you to the top of the
our get into our schedule and some other fun big thank you to uh the best listeners in radio
all the balls today good calls uh Melissa brought this up earlier but if you guys noticed all
of our callers we had contrasting opinions and thoughts and everything and there was no raised
voices there was nobody yelling at each other nobody talking down to each other no insults we treated
each other like adults that's life you can do it it can be done yeah we just proved it could be
done on a daily basis yeah expect better from each other uh anyway putting it we we can do better
we we can do that 100% and I'm talking about the Super Bowl commercials yes I'm talking
no 100% fine all stuff fighting with sun oh no that's great understanding that's great content
no wait I don't want that wait wait wait wait don't go too far now let's not get crazy here let's
uh okay good see the only thing that brings me joy uh we uh the only thing well okay that's
a whole other time yeah uh do you want to talk about our schedule here and we got some great stuff
lined up for you we got Matt and air on air coming up right in just minutes from now
not only are Jan and Greg gonna have a great show that's gonna lead you into the new hour
but they are of course are gonna have that love on the air text the key word the text to us
mm-hmm you'll have it there the 10 o'clock hour that's right and it'll be in the uh 10 o'clock hour
yes it will for you yeah I'll be listening for that another chance to win and be listening at
noon and two o'clock today for that love on the air text to win contest word yeah there's four
words to text in today to enter you four times yep it has some fun with that when everybody be
listening for that uh we of course are gonna great midday magazine for you to employ a what a
banger to kick off the week everybody in part one we're gonna begin by talking at four o'clock
today with Shannon star she is the eldest granddaughter of Bart and Sherry star about that yeah uh
we're gonna be talking about these stars uh cookbook cooking with the stars um love it this is
not only a cool cookbook with a lot of great recipes and great for packer fans out there and
Wisconsin sports fans but this is also uh all the sales are gonna go towards pediatric cancer and
research and care wow really looking forward to meeting Shannon and uh talking with her a little
bit later today that'll be at four o'clock and then at four thirty we got our Wisconsin rapids
rafters in studio with us we're gonna get to know Jake Adams assistant GM and Gwen Philippi
community relation sales manager for your rafters nice some new faces around here for the rafters
yeah i'm gonna be talking host families group tickets uh and and and i'm gonna try to see if i can
get out of some of these new jerseys out of them i'm gonna see what i can get out of them maybe
you're gonna try use my all my journalistic uh every bit of the power i have your charm yeah
there you go there you go i could lead to don't know and at five o'clock playmakers for you we're
gonna be here uh we will be talk i want to talk super bowl i want to talk uh a baseball and basket
ball i want to talk about football's done now cyber baseball yeah i want to talk other baseballs
but we'll talk about what you want to talk about because it's your show everybody i may host
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about that yes uh Seth we also want to let everybody know about some great entertainment coming
up in town here we have some band concerts on the way everyone these are all gonna be taking place
at the Wisconsin Rapids performing arts center on 16th street south uh they will be accepting
they're all free of course but they will be accepting donations to help benefit the music programs
at Lincoln high school so tonight at six thirty the Lincoln high school band will be having their concert
and then a week from Tuesday from tomorrow on the 18th at six thirty the orchestra will be taking
the stage for their concert and then on monday the 24th the district choir concert will be happening
at the pack at six o'clock so that's a little bit different six thirty for the other ones six o'clock
for the district choir concert on the 24th of uh a february and of course any other schools out there
that have concerts coming up let us know so we can talk about them on air and get people to go to
them so yeah yeah support these kids get to these shows everybody it's gonna be a lot of fun yep
the never miss a super bowl club is still at it the three surviving members aged eighty eight eighty
five and eighty two all made it to yesterday's game they've gone to every super bowl since the first
one in nineteen sixty seven oh yes that's that's kind of crazy that's that's really cool I know
that I know one of the the members passed away but I'm glad to see they're still doing it that's
really cool yeah that really takes diehard fan to uh we're telling yeah yeah 102 year old Eagles
fan named Louise Brown got to go to the super bowl yesterday she has lived in Philly her whole
life the team surprised her with the news last week and told her they were bringing her to New Orleans
for the big game how wonderful I'm guessing she enjoyed herself I bet you she enjoyed herself
to the hill I'm gonna take a good limb and say yes and he our doctor in Fort Worth Texas shared a
photo after someone paid his eighty five dollar bill at a restaurant and thanked him for being a
great dad they wrote on the receipt thank you for being the dad they need you to be regardless
of who's watching and they signed it a retired army medic oh wow that's sweet and employees at
the Pittsburgh Airport use social media to reunite a six-year-old with their her stuffed animal
they got left behind they posted a video of workers taking care of it after it was found in baggage
uh they did a posting a second video of her great-grandparents picking it up oh that's sweet
very sweet was that the one where they were like the stuffed animals doing activities with them
around the airport how creative how creative I I think of these things when when social media like
brings me down a little bit I think of these things I think about like positive yeah the uh they all
pretty much every police unit in the country has great social media and are doing it better than
anybody um like things like that that yes are building these bridges uh right now there's a lot of
fear there's a lot of oh concern about their lines and flying and everything um these stories
remind us of the human beings and the people that are working on this and I don't know and it's
just a cool story like 100 percent you know I unfortunately because it's my brain I've always got
to have something mean something it doesn't have to sometimes it's just be cool because it's a nice
story it's a good story that's that's okay too yeah okay too um that's a good one and uh again a
good one out there everybody be listening for the love in on the air contact text-to-win contest
that is still going on all day long and all week long till Thursday good Thursday yeah great show
today you two have you two man you two James we'll talk to you soon in the later right here
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