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We're going to get into some good things in the 9 o'clock hour here. We've got some entertainment
news coming up for you in a little bit. We are also going to be getting into a couple
of other fun topics as well. But it's a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. You know what that
means, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday,
February 24th. My world's collided this last week. I was at a ministry leaders gathering
and the topic of food came up specifically desserts, not just desserts, savory desserts.
So that got me thinking what makes a dessert savory? Well, one definition of savory according
to Marin Webster's dictionary is, quote, having a spicy or salty quality within without sweetness.
So it's oxymoronic to have a savory dessert. Right. But it's smart. It's a smart
taste treat for your mouth. So I looked up some websites that share some savory desserts
and their recipes. So gentlemen, we're going off script. All right. Let's talk savory
desserts. Let's do it. All right. So it's kind of a combination of salty or erby with
desserts that we were used to. One of the ones that I found that looked interesting was
basil cheesecake. No comment. Well, I had that since I was a kid. I don't know if it's
the same thing or not, but my Nana used to make something very similar to it. It was
so different. I still haven't had any cheesecake like that. Don't tell my mother that.
This is with a sweet and savory flavor profile and a hint of pepper. Oh, basil is a versatile
herb that unusually well placed in a savory dessert. It fits in there. Hey, Beth, I know I know
what it means. But just for Seth's sake, wouldn't you say erby? What would you mean by that?
Herbs are things like sage, rosemary, they're they're plants that you can use in recipes so that
they give it a little bit more flavor. Italians use a lot of herbs and their sauces and things
like that. Things like oregano. Margarine margarine is actually not the oleo, the butter thing that
your margarine is a spice. So it's an herb that you can use to help flavor your foods. Exactly.
It's a term I haven't heard since my Nana to be honest with you, but just between us, okay,
and Melissa, you can't tell anybody this. I used to I thought my Nana forever for like was saying
herby. I thought I thought these like just this collection of sauces. It was not a love bug. It
wasn't it was it turns out. When it comes to the difference of oh, I'm just going to make a sweet
treat. Oh, I'm just going to make something that is salty or something that trying to combine these
like anything it's balance, right? It seems like some that's the key part. Well, and as you
discussed last week on the morning show, I think it was on Friday with Laura that there's actually
a hormone that gets released when we eat. Right. Why do we want sweet stuff after we eat a meal,
right? Right. How do we still have room for dessert? And this is how is that there's this hormone
that once you crave that sugary taste and you can get that naturally in fruits and things like that
or you can get it by baking goods and using sugar sugar cane or substitutes like that.
One interesting part of that I think is when like for me, I love having breakfast for dinner.
I love being able to do that. Right. And how you can do that and you're still afterwards have
room for like a sweet. Right. Like it's interesting. Like I don't know if you like pancakes or
something that have sugar in it, right? Yeah. Right. And you can still like after all of that and be
like, you know what I want to be? It's a cake. Yeah. What is wrong with me? Why do I have the
same way? They just want sweet. Yeah. I think it may be saying more about me. Maybe I'm not sure.
Well, one of the things that we do for breakfast at dinner time in our house is something I learned
from the pen dutch out in Pennsylvania, which is called baked oatmeal. And you can use almost
anything to bake into it. So often I'll use either chocolate chips to make it a little bit sweeter
for my boys because they like that treat or I'll use blueberries, which gives it a little bit of
antioxidants. But you could easily add basil and rosemary and make it a little bit more
savory in how you eat it. That's which is really interesting. One of the on the websites you gave
us, Beth, there's one here that I thought was really fascinating because it's two things that I like.
But I know what they taste like. So rosemary cookie. So I know what rosemary tastes like. I know what
cookies taste like. And I cannot put those two together. Yeah. That's that's something I'd want to
try just because I'm like, I have no idea what that would taste like. Yeah. Yeah. I'd love to try that
one. Yeah. Yeah. Rose-married cookies. Rose-married cookies. I want to look at the recipe and
we can do a taste test or something like that. Anytime it's involving cookies, we will always
do a taste test. I saw a, and these are some great websites you sent over. I appreciate that.
There is one kbc bakery dot com kbc bakery dot com a mozzarella mozzarella retitouille panini.
It sounded really good to me. So it's almost like a savory canoli. Yes. Like it's a perfect
way to put it. Yes, savory canoli. That's why you paid me the big bucks. Yeah, absolutely.
That you eat canoli. Yeah. That one I literally like I'm looking up the recipe for that one.
I'm going to make that one. I'm going to make that one. Yes. That's cool. One that caught my eye on
the taste of home website because they have an article that's 51 sweet and savory desserts
was lime basil pie. And Seth is a huge fan of key lime pie. It looks like it would be very
similar to a key lime pie, but adding that little bit of basil in there to give it the herb.
Yeah, that would be interesting because key limes are different. I don't know if people know
from regular limes. There is a different flavor to them. I do not know that. Yeah, it's still a little
bit, but that's, and there's a certain, and it's a quality and I cannot pinpoint what it is
for good key lime pie. It's almost like a feeling rather than a flavor. It's like a little sting
that it has. And I'm curious how the basil would, I think, and this is just speculation,
would actually enhance that part of it, which I think would be really interesting. And the recipe
is really easy. It's one package of reduced fat cream cheese. So that's eight ounces. One can
or 14 ounces of fat-free sweetened condensed milk, a tablespoon of grated lime zest, a half a cup
of lime juice, two large egg yolks, not the whole egg, just the yolks. Okay. A quarter cup
of minced fresh, fresh basil. That's the other thing. There's a difference between using the
fresh and the dried. One reduced fat gram cracker crust. That's about nine inches. And sweetened
whipped topping or cream French, French, which is optional. French. Thank you. You could
preheat the oven to 325 in a large bowl. You beat that cream cheese until it's smooth. Do it
nicely. I beat it. I beat it with the eggs. Choke the toast. It does not owe you money.
No, it does not. Gradually beat in the milk. Add the lime zest juice and egg yolks. Beat until
everything is blended. And then you stir in the basil. You don't beat it in because you'll tear
it apart. And then you lose that crunch to it. And then you pour it into the crust. You bake it
for about 15 to 18 minutes until the center is set. You cool it for at least an hour on a
wire rack. And then you refrigerate for at least two hours. So this, this is one. It is delayed
gratification. You have to be patient for at least two hours before serving. And then if you
desire, you add that with cream on top. I thought you were going to say, cool it on the windows
sill. You know, the old the old a trope of, you know, the pie on the window. Yeah.
Love it. And there's actually a savory dessert out there that we don't often associate as being
a savory dessert. Okay. And it's chocolate covered pretzels. Oh, yes. That's cool. Even if they're,
you know, just dipped or if it's completely covered, you got that sweet salty combination which
makes it a savory dessert. It's something you don't even think about because they're so prevalent,
you know, the chocolate covered pretzels are everywhere basically. I never thought of that,
but I love them. And those are the easiest things in the world to make because all you have to do
is find melting chocolate. So you can find chocolate wafers on in the baking section of your grocery
store. And they give you directions right on the package, how to melt those properly. And then you
just take your pretzels and dip them and then let them set. Don't try to make them with Hershey
bars. Just trust me on this one. Everybody will trust me. Sounds like from real life. They
temper the chocolate in different ways to be used in different ways. If it's a chocolate bar,
it's already been tempered and it's designed to be what it is. There you go. James learned so much
from experience, you know, one last note before wrap up here. I did want to mention as well that
some of these websites are also showing us some really cool recipes, some very unique things,
but also things like tuna salad sandwich and some traditional stuff that maybe you've had
for your whole life and you thought about it. Put a little bit of some extra on there,
maybe two points. Here's one that I went, and we won't go into details. I'll have you look
it up. It's on the Taste of Home website. Chocolate covered cheese with black sea salt.
Wow. I can see that. I can totally see chocolate and cheese. Sea salt has made a huge,
like a ride. You see a lot of stuff nowadays. Yeah. Before we wrap up, I got one more for James,
here specifically. James, I'm going to read some words and I think you're going to enjoy maple,
bacon, cupcakes. And the picture looks absolutely delicious. Oh my god. Oh, there we go.
I'm going to try that. Yeah. If you're interested, that's on the fine dining lovers by spelled
greeno, spelled greeno, spelled greeno website. Yes. Oh man. Good stuff. It's all great. So,
explore. See what a savory dessert is for you and what you like. We'd savor the opportunity to
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That number again is 715-424-1300 and with that, we'll close the kitchen. Wow. Now I'm really hungry.
That's really hungry. Not realized until this segment. Like most weeks. Get hungry with us every
Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. Yeah. We appreciate the great work, Beth, as always. Nice job.
Thank you. Melissa, Seth and I will be back with more show-cone up on the Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Shout out to Beth in the great work she does with the
kitchen's open. That was fun. That was a lot of fun. I want chocolate covered pretzels, right?
I want them so bad. You and me both, but that's the big one for me. That's not a,
we said some good stuff in there. That's the one I haven't had those in a while.
I'm curious about the basil though, because I really like herbs added to things that
normally expect them in, and that just sounds delicious. There you go. Experiment, Melissa,
and then bring it in and have a try it. Yes, yes, please. As a side note to the audience,
whenever you try these things or anything like that, let us know. If you go ahead and do it,
we'd love to hear from you. We can get your review on air or off air,
however you're comfortable. We just love to hear your feedback on that stuff.
Diving into some entertainment news. Again, one of these stories, Melissa sent over to me,
and this is a little late, I admit, getting to, but I did want to touch on this. Just in case
anybody had not heard that former president, Jimmy Carter, had won a post-humanist,
humanist Grammy for his best audio book narration. That's right, yes. It gives me a chance to
mention also to check out that great audio. It is great reader, great narrator. It's very well done
and a very good book. Man, there's something about Jimmy Carter's voice that has like a reassurance
to it. That light, you know, he didn't have too deep of an accent, but it's there.
That light Georgia accent sounds so pretty. I don't know what else to put it. It's just a very nice
sounding accent. Yeah, he was, yeah, love it. Also, I don't believe this was his first Grammy. I
pretty sure he's got like two or three. He did several spoken like really audio things. Yeah,
absolutely. You're right. One thing that I felt for that was brought up with his passing,
we have, you know, the teaching we do, some students are online and have a couple of
our, in our writing class that are in the south. And we don't traditionally get a whole lot of
people from down there. It's always great to be able to get that. And I love southerners. And I
love talking with southerners and getting to know that part of the country better because I just
don't have as much experience with it. Right. And there was a joke, but it started as a joke,
but there was some fear behind it. The idea that we will never see another southern president
that we've kind of gotten away from some of that that like Clinton may be the last kind of
time we see something like that. And their main thing that they were talking about is the idea
of when we hear that accent, you're either expecting to be charmed or you're not, you're giving
that person no, you know, benefiting that nature. They're dumb, right? Yeah. And some of these
stereotypes that exist with that. Exactly. It's something that I am not close enough to that I
had not picked up on before. I thought that was interesting. And so, you know, when we're talking
about these accents or these things that, you know, make us us in this world, right? You know,
I think making more common or comfortable or comfortable is certainly a good thing. Right.
I actually heard another take on that recently too with accents of embrace them because
your accent makes you uniquely you. Yeah. Yeah. And even if you're learning another language,
you know, don't try to necessarily mimic the accent of the other language, keep, keep you you.
Yeah. That's a good way to say it. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it.
As so much tries to get away from individuality where we're, whether it's sports and telling
players and coaches, you know, making them take media classes or everybody sounds alike and says
the same thing or cars and vehicles nowadays where every single one of them look alike and all
this. The boards of CEOs. Yes. They all look alike. They all look alike. That's not alike. They all
yeah. We need to, as we, the people need to embrace creativity, individuality, much more and
demand it more out of things. Well, you know, James, I couldn't agree with you more, you know,
it said. That's a very good point you make there. I appreciate it. Now, I'm so thankful for this.
Everybody, that's the way Seth really talks. You don't read when he's not on air.
Well, not on air. That is how I talk. That's true. Now, that's his on air voice, but how he talks
actually. Rihanna just turned 37. I know this because we share. I just want to make sure to mention
that's a whole reason for this segment. Okay. And she went on Harper's, she did a new profile
piece on Harper's bizarre and said that quote, getting old is crap, but it's also a blessing.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's both. Now, her words here are not necessarily, you know,
a mind blowing or anything like that, but I thought it was kind of interesting. She goes, quote,
I'm even, I'm even in the space of not even spending my money on things, but I'll spend my
money on my experiences. That's something that you realize as you get older and experiences
mean more than things, right? Yeah. Rihanna also addressed her new album that we've been waiting
for for years. It's finally, quote, it has to, she said, she didn't want to say when it's coming
out, but she promises it'll be good, quote, it has to count. It has to matter. I have to show them
what the worth, the worth the weight. She's very appreciative of her fan base and the fan
base that is stuck around with her, even though she hasn't had new music in a while. Right.
There are some artists I've heard. I don't know this for a fact, but just the ones that have quoted
it, like take a Christina Aguilera who, you know, hasn't really had new music in quite some time.
For her, it's gotten to be a fear now of, oh, I don't want to let my fan base down. So it's like
holding off her, putting out new music. Shakira went through this, I guess, at a her and her
career and everything to make sense. I can see that. Yeah, it could be, and boy, you know,
especially if you have like a standard that you're trying to hit and it can, I suppose the more you
put it off, the more frightening it becomes, you're not going to make it that kind of thing. So,
yeah, I can understand that too. It's not to say that, oh, this is worse than anything else,
or that, you know, it's, it's, it's just that one of those things that adds on to the creative
process and everything. Right. Her last album came out in 2016. So it's almost 10 years. Yeah,
yeah. And again, when you get older, it's just, it's not as, you know, you see this with artists
all the time, right? And they're 20s. They're releasing music like crazy, you know, all the creative
juices are flowing. But as you get older, it, you know, not, not every artist, some, some continue
putting out a lot of music or whatever it is they're creating. But you tend to slow down a little
bit. Maybe the energy isn't quite what it was and that sort of thing, maybe your life, you know,
was a little more rougher than, you know, the kind of thing. But it usually takes longer. You know,
the creative spirit doesn't come as quickly. It's still very creative. I mean, you, we can see all
these artists that have done that. But that just tends to happen for a lot of a lot of, especially
musicians, I think. And for some of them, they want to take off time to be a parent. Exactly.
Good point. Excellent point. Because being a parent takes time and effort. Sure does. This is,
this was a big reason for her to take a step back. She also put a lot into other things like her
makeup company and that she is one of the most richest women in the world are in America, I should
say. And when it comes to that, like to some of you, what you're saying there and to some
what Melissa is saying there, all this stuff out of them. Like, where's the inspiration?
Where's the time to write a song? Especially if so much of your inspiration was struggle.
So much of your inspiration was a lot of it comes from. Right. And now you're not struggling.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. And this is something that is, creatives have faced since the dawn of fame.
Yeah. And it's the idea of, oh, I struggle. I struggle. I write. I write. It brings out
the greatest in me and all that. And then I get a break. And I see this in a rap a lot. I see
this in country music a lot. The artists it starts out and they start out very, you know, for the
people and a lot of that and it turns into something else. Right. And there's no judgment to me
on that. No, that's just it is what it is. In perspective changes. Yeah. And some people like it,
some people don't. But I think the old, well, I like their first album the best. No matter who I'm
talking about, no matter what the industry or whatever, that's what most people say all the time.
And part of there is a little bit of truth to that for some, I think, because of what it is for
an artist, right? And how you stay down. Like whether you're a country musician or a hip-hop artist
or an actor or a painter or whatever you're doing, the term remains the same. How do I stay down?
How do I stay true to my roots? Right. And I can get me back and be very difficult with success.
Well, I don't know if she could do a master class on it. But if she could and she could really
put it in the words, Dolly Parton would probably be able to give the greatest master class on doing
that, walking that line. I don't know if you can give me a better example in human history
of somebody taking like a so famous, so popular that it came from nothing to get to that point.
And still everybody looks at like, you know, even with a wig, even when rhinestones and all these things,
well, there's someone who never forgot where she came from. No matter how dolled up she might be
or whatever, nobody has ever looked at Dolly Parton. I thought, well, there's somebody like, no,
we all understand she knows where she came from. She has never forgotten 100% and we got a lot
of proof of that with Dolly. As we get into Dolly Parton news, as we are the home of Dolly Parton
news, right? And two quick stories about Ms. Parton. One of them, I encourage you to check out,
you can find articles about this in a couple of different places. But Dolly Parton recently called
out Indiana Governor over the plan to dump her imagination library. For over 20 years,
this program has benefited kids and helped kids with early grade reading and getting books in
their hands. You heard us talk quite a bit about this with our United Rob Southland M's counties
and women united. Power of the purse coming up, by the way, everybody go to uwswac.org and find
out more about that and find out more about the imagination library. Yes. This amazing program
that Governor Mike Braun is looking at cutting in their state budget.
Because it costs so much money. I mean, it's not even that one of the oldest complaints all
of us have heard is how American kids are behind China and this, behind Russia and this, behind
this and this. Yeah. Our report cards are dropping. We just got done getting here and somebody who
this wannabe politician who now has a job saying that American kids are dumb and saying that we're
not smarter than, you know, foreign born kids and stuff because of some of our standards,
because of some of these things. So the answer is to get rid of books. That's that's the answer.
Like the idea like spending is not bad. Spending is spending when it's done smart is not a bad thing.
That's the purpose of money is to spend it wisely and to spend it in things that we need to.
Invested in things, right? Just making cut like this is this is business CEO work 101.
This is top 1% or work 101. I'm going to make a bunch of cuts and people are going to think we're
saving money. That's not how saving money works. You know, I saved a whole lot of money this month
by not paying my rent. Right. Exactly. That's the logic. That's the logic behind this. Dolly Parton
goes into this with detail in facts and stats for you and everything along with the fact that
this all the heart she has. What have we gotten to in society where there is people out there
that think that this is a good idea. Not just this, but cutting other government funding
that is only going to affect our test scores and our kids, which affects our future because
these are the people that are supposed to run our country. And also what do we want our taxpayer
dollars to go towards feeding children or making sure that they get books to read or funding
billionaires? It's the money going somewhere. This isn't difficult. But I would want my money to
go to to the kids. Like for all the actual like funding cuts that we could actually have, we're not
seeing. I want to see some actual stuff and show the pay show the books like show the books show how
much money we're saving show why cutting these amount of jobs and why this amount of government
workers that don't have a job right now that Monday morning started out this week in the unemployment
line. Well, okay, how much money did we save on that? And where exactly do we save instead of
just a couple of want to be alpha males up there patting each other on the back and saying that
they made a bunch of cuts and we saved a bunch of money. Give me the details. If you got them,
that's not asking a lot here. If you can prove your work, what do we have to do in school?
You had to prove your work. Prove your work. Show me. I'm not at this. This isn't controversial
what I'm asking here. I'm an I'm an American taxpayer. That's my money. Show me where it's going.
If it's just actually helping, if this is actually going to work or if the numbers are actually
what you say they are. And let's make sure our numbers are right. Yeah. And I got I got a far
out there thing here too. Everybody as far as hot takes and stuff as somebody who put you into this
position because I am a voter and whether I voted for you or not, I kept democracy alive.
Therefore, I put you in that job and you are in charge. I am I am your boss, right? Mr. President,
I'm your boss along with every other American in this world in this country. I not only want all
of those things. I want some accountability. Where's the cuts to your money? How come? Let's see
some cuts there. In fact, I want Elon and all these people to be working pro bono. They got money.
Yeah. Right. They don't need to pay. They don't need to pay check for I don't need to be paying him.
He's got more money than he knows what to do with. What are we doing? If you are so noble about this
job, do it for free. I don't think that's controversial at all. No. I agree. What we ask is strictly
the bare minimum here. The bare minimum. Sadly, we're asking for the bare minimum here. Like I just
want some things to back up. What's happening here. And by the way, how? Accountability would be nice.
How dumb is the governor of Indiana to pick a fight with Dolly Parton of all the
series? You are. You are. I'm sorry. That is a bad political move, dude. It is a bad PR.
God. And one other Dolly Parton story for you. When will the Wiggles and Dolly Parton
have finally released a song together? Well, I have been I've been wondering what people have
wanted this for years. A lot of this goes back to wanting to see the Beatles and the Stones together.
You know, it's very similar. You don't have to wait any longer. The Wiggles double down and
are putting out two new songs for Dolly Parton. All right. That's so cool. That is cool. The first one
is called Friends and it's all about making friends. Very cool. And it's catchy too. Actually,
I can listen to a little of it. And the Wiggles can write good songs. I'm telling you. They write
some very catchy tunes. Yep. And the second song is Counting One Two Five. Counting One Two Five.
Oh, no. Oh, my God. This is so brilliant. Just when you thought she couldn't do anything,
just I mean, who knew? It's so cool. It is a cover of Dolly's classic. Of course it is.
Which is so awesome. Interestingly enough, on this day in history,
you became a Grammy. I think you want a Grammy? Okay. I think I want a Grammy or want an Emmy
on this day. And both of these songs will be featured on the Wiggles new country album called Wiggle
Up, Giddy Up. Yeah, everybody's going country. Oh, I love it. They could do that. They could do
every genre and there's nothing wrong with it. We've proven that Australians could be country singers,
Keith Urban, you know, Betsy, you know, they can do it. Yeah. The album will also feature
Laney Wilson, Oliver Peck and Dasha. It is cool. Again, out March 7th, go ahead and check it out,
everybody. Man, I can't remember what streaming service it's on. There's a documentary about
the Wiggles. Watch it. It's really fun. It's really cool. We will take a time out. We'll get to
our local theater a little bit later. We got some great local theater coming up this week. Everybody
and plenty more for you on the morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Seth, Melissa, James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your Monday out there. Kind of interesting one here for you.
And this is I think one that everybody can relate to or at least have an opinion on or
feeling on. Go ahead and call up 715-424-2600. You can text us through the Civic Media app. Speaking
of apps, there is a viral thread on social media where people are talking about things people
underestimate, but are actually very hard to do well. I use the phrase all the time refuse to
normalize. I think there's so much in life. We have normalized. It is quite amazing.
At some point in the next year or two, we may make a trip to the moon and it'll probably be the
10th story covered that day. Like it's just insane to me. Like that's still amazing. And another
news, man, walked on the moon again. This kind of stuff happens a lot, I think. We do,
this isn't necessarily one of those things that you can put the finger at and blame somebody
or something for. It's just what happens with time. We just kind of, it can't help ourselves,
it's human nature to normalize things, but it doesn't hurt to ever once a while tip our hat to
some stuff out. Sure, I think. And it kind of does that a little bit and maybe creates a little more
empathy for some of these things. Here are some of the best ones, driving. Everything about it.
I'm telling you, defensive driving, maneuvering in traffic, having a feel for how big your vehicle is,
being predictable, keeping an eye on the sides of the roads in many areas like ours, all of these
factors and the wild life kingdom that we have to watch out for. Right. Black ice. Like just,
I mean, just any of these things. Every single thing that could go wrong when you're driving,
I mean, it's just, it's actually maybe you shouldn't think about it.
Maybe you should just get, let's try to what you're doing. Yeah, do that instead.
That's a tough one. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's one that I, I don't know.
Don't face the right word. Well, and like you said, Wisconsin, man, I mean, just my neighbor
last night, hit a deer. Oh, that happens. I mean, how many people do you know have
been a deer in their life? A lot, especially in this area. Me. Yeah. Substitute.
More than once. Substitute teaching. Oh, my goodness. Yes. That is it. That's a tough one.
So I teach, but I say this loosely because I don't want to make that that sounds like people
teaching out there literally right now in grade school or high school or college or something like
that. Yeah. But there are some familiarity with my teaching, the type that I do. And for your
everyday teacher in our public school systems or private schools or anything like that,
the way that people treat substitute teachers, like it doesn't matter what the, if you're a substitute
teacher, like the clause come out and the way you are. And this is something that I'm very
familiar with because I would say a good 80% of the teaching I've done is subbing for somebody
or jumping in on a class an hour or two or a day ahead of time. Right. It's actually a blessing
if I get a day ahead. And then you get these wonderful emails of, so this is what we're going over.
And then you bring it up with the students and they have no idea what you're talking about. What are
you talking about? We're not doing that. And you're supposed to, you know, keep the guard, keep the
the old guard going and everything. Well, also trying to do your own thing and trying to get the
kids to even know who you are. Right. Like I may laugh is not the easiest. It doesn't roll off the
tongue. Like, Mr. You, whatever. The guy sitting on the other end of the camera. And again,
that's on my level. Imagine, you know, your third grade substitute teachers out there or some other
things. Yes. It's a, it's a hard job. And those that do it well are in high demand. Yes,
they should be scheduled substitute teachers. And man, I had a list of ones that everybody wanted.
I'll bet. I'll bet. And I had a list of ones that nobody wanted. Ask yourself this question.
Would you, listener, be willing to do that? Yeah. I mean, that would, that's a good weather,
vein of whether or not, how difficult you think it might be. I personally, I don't know if I
can do it. I don't know if I can do it. So that tells you how I think it's, it's a very important
and it's very tough. Yep. We've got a lot of these. So some of them will put together like home
cooking and creating a new recipe, making a sandwich. These are things that we've kind of normalized.
And yeah, almost anybody can do, but doing them well and doing them right or doing,
doing them specifically for the person that you're making it for. Right. Yeah. Because there's
the difference between a sandwich and a good sandwich. Yeah. The one you put care into, put it,
put it together very delicately and nicely. Good combination of, of items. Your proteins and your
vegetables and your, well, it's not the same thing. I do think that I'm blown away by literally
every new song. Whether I like it or not is here or there, but I'm talking about in the
completely original song. We're still using the same seven notes that Beethoven used. Like,
it's not like we're making new stuff yet. We create new music all the time and it's nothing
to anybody out there. Oh, my favorite artist came out with a new song and then as good as their
first album. Like, it's new music, man. Like whether you like it or not in opinions and all that
so side, the fact that artists are creating new music all the time and we make nothing of it.
And again, the same seven notes with a new recipe. Yeah, you got a bigger pallet of work within
everything. But I still, at this point in 2025, after everything we've done with food and people
are still making new stuff, I'm not necessarily going to give a Nobel Prize to KFC for coming out,
moving out bread and replacing it with chicken patties or something like that.
But I will at least tip my hat a little bit of like, okay, I didn't see that coming.
Let alone the actual good recipes out there. Right, exactly. So yeah, no, no, I'm totally with you on
that. Starting and running a business, especially in the food industry. That's daunting.
It is hard. That is daunting. And I know there's groups out there that help. You know,
you couldn't, you know, there's, we have groups in the area here that will help you, you know,
navigate all this stuff you need to go through. But that in itself is work. I get your salt,
you're so right. Yeah, that's just getting to that point where you're ready to do it. Yeah.
Fast food, register worker, and even more so for drive-through. Yeah, 100%.
Back in my old stomping grounds, you had Portilos. And Portilos were the first business that I knew
where you were standing in line. And there's like a line of eight cars. And there's a 16,
7-year-old kid coming over there and taking your order. And so by the time I get in the line,
I could pay, I can pick up my food and I'm out. Right. They were so efficient at this. And then
I started going to Culver's. And oh my God, the machine that every Culver's is. Like, you know
going into a Culver's going to wait a little bit because of the way they cooked the food. They
could refresh and everything. But the amount of times I've had like perfection in my order from
Culver's is insane to me. And then you think about the majority of kids working there. And
they usually have an adult manager. But so many of the kids are 17, 16, 17-year-olds and stuff.
Yeah. Just a big tip of the hat to no matter what age you are, every great fast food worker out
there. We have not appreciated you enough. You deserve a better pay and we are fighting for that.
Yep. It's hard work and you're spending a lot of plates. Every job is important. And maybe
that sounds corny to say that. But it's so true, man. If we don't have the people doing that job,
then you don't get that service. Exactly. Yeah. We've seen it when they can't hire enough people,
they close. You know, I want to go to Subway. No, sorry, you can't. We don't have enough workers.
So, yeah. Being able to give good instructions. Yeah. Being able to explain things so that
anybody can understand. That is a true talent. If you're one of those people, that is amazing.
I always have a lot of respect for that. One of my favorite skills that somebody can have
that I wish I had. I wish I could matrix download that. Just be able to do that. Me and the audience.
Yeah. We wish I could do that. Anything that involves dealing with a random bunch of people.
Yeah. Okay. Dancing, singing, public speaking. These are all things that are difficult.
And we, again, normalize, but are quite impressive when you see them done well.
When you think of people who suffer from, you know, stage frights or something like that,
don't get very uncomfortable in front of other people. I mean, the idea that, that, that, I mean,
that's to, to go out, put yourself out there, you know, no matter what it is, like, you know,
dancing or, or public speaking or, you know, theater, you know, sure, we'll throw that in there.
It's, that's something that, you know, that's, wow, that's impressive. I misspoke there. I said,
anybody that does these things well, I'm more to says point. Anybody that does these things,
the period, it doesn't good or what's himself out there. Yeah. That's certainly noteworthy.
That certainly stands out those that are better than other things. Yeah. Yeah. But
literally anybody doing any of these things, it's impressive to me, especially when it comes to
public speaking. And I know so many people that struggle with that one. And it's so impressive
to me to see people get up there, get out there, even fight through that stuff to do that. Yep.
Photography. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. There's difference between snapping, you know, decent photos
and somebody who really has the art down there. The difference is amazing. I know because we all
have cameras on our phones now. Right. But there's a big difference between me and Annie Leibowitz.
You know, there's a big difference there. That's a more than 100%. Bragg, it's bagging groceries,
but because of my dyslexia, I was going to say bragging groceries. Man, all right. This one,
I'm a little controversial, but I'm sick of celery always bragging. I mean, yeah, I get it.
Dark groceries. You're good for me. Oh, come on. I did quit bragging so much.
You cost more calories to chew than you contain.
Between. Yeah. Overachiever. Well done. Well done.
I, I, there is an art to that. There is a science.
I'll go ahead and do it. Yeah. Somebody who does it well, when I take in my, you know, like,
if I have three to reusable bags and they are able to pack everything into those bags perfectly,
like I always compliment them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
In casual sports, like golf, bowling, hacky sack, things like that. People that are really,
sack is a true talent. Yeah. I mean, if you don't throw out a knee or a hip doing that game,
you're, you're good. Scratch golfers have always been impressive to me. People
are really good at golf, just like seemingly out of nowhere. That, that's impressive.
We will take a quick time out. We'll come back. We got a minute right story. Good stories of
the day. We're going to talk about some local events going on in our area and some local
theater all coming up for you right here on the morning show.
Okay. I had to everybody. I had to let us see. Wiggles doing their version of nine to five
counting one to five. Yep. I don't have the version with Dolly though. I was trying to get Dolly in
there. I was trying to any excuse to get Dolly partner in a way. I think it hasn't been released yet.
So yeah. Transparency with the audience here. That's all I was doing was just trying to get Dolly
on the radio here. But we will find other opportunities. That's fun. It's fun.
And we got some great stuff to get to including our schedule for today. Let's go ahead and dive
right into that. First up, be sure to stick around. Matt Nair on air. Got the team back together.
Yes. Janie Greg. I don't be bringing a great stuff right to the into the new hour.
What what a team up that is. Good stuff. Maggie Don's a fun. Maggie Don show from two to four
today. Be sure to join one of the more powerful and impressive and amazing voices we have here
at Civic Media and Maggie Don. Hope she had a good birthday over the week. Yeah. Yeah.
Be sure to stick around for midday magazine and part one week kick off the week the right way
with our great friends. Our second home around here was council rabbits community theater. We're
going to be talking about arsenic and old laced. Yes. Indeed. And looking forward to that. That's
going to be a lot of fun in part two. We'll catch up with our great friends over at the Boys and
Girls Club. Other Wisconsin Rapids area. Looking forward to have them join us. I love some of their
programs. Yes. Yeah. We look forward to every opportunity we get to talk with all of them.
And of course, we got playmakers for you later tonight. Be sure to join me from five to six.
Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines. We're going to have some fun today. I should have
a good show. We'll catch up on the weekend of sports and plenty more gumming gumming up
including getting you ready not only for the great guard show at six oh five right here at WFHR.
You know, you're soon to see what coach has to say after the weekend. But on set seven oh five
on our sister station, WRI 105 five Lincoln high school boys basketball host and Tomah. All right.
Oh, oh, oh, my old stomping grass. Yes. Yes. That's going to be a good one. Be sure to check
that out. Everybody on 105 five at seven oh five. Great one catch tonight. I will mention this
as much as I possibly can Wisconsin finished dead last and funding the arts last year. It is on
us the people to support the arts and that is on every single level including the kids. Lincoln
high school has their concert going on today at the performing arts center. It'll be going on at
six o'clock over there. It'll be their district acquire concert. Yes. Very nice. Check that out.
Get all the kids in it involved in that one. Encourage it always by local support local that
includes the arts. But there ain't many more fun things of checking out anything to do with high
school kids. Right plays their concerts anytime you can go to them they just gives them such a jolt
for them to see people in the crowd. Mm hmm. Indeed. Again, the district choir concert with Lincoln
high school going to be tonight at six o'clock over at the performing arts center. Mm hmm. Seth got
some opportunity for people to be a superhero. We want to let them know. Yeah. The next community
blood center drive is today everybody starting at two o'clock going till seven over at the former
East junior high school in a room 111 at 311 is Lincoln Street in rapids just enter off of Lincoln
Street. You can schedule a donation by calling 800 to 8 0 4102 that's 800 to 8 0 4102 appointments
are appreciated. But if they can fit you in if you walk in they will also try to do that as well.
They will try not to turn your turn you away everyone once more today from two to seven over at
the former East junior high school room 111 for the community blood center blood drive. You can
be a superhero and you don't even have to have a tragic backstory or wear a cape. You can just go
ahead and donate blood. You can also do that in the Stevens Point area from noon to seven today
over at the Stevens Point Bud blood donation center at 3201. See Main Street to go and check that
out and thank you to them. Yes indeed. And our great friends over at the Wisconsin Rapids Family
Center. We were talking about this during a board meeting the other day how excited we all are
for chefs were change. It is coming up February 27th. Sightman will begin at five with a cocktail
hour while you bid on treasures and this amazing signline auction save the appetizers from some
amazing chefs in our area dining and programming will begin at six over the Nacusa Community Center
shout out to them hosting this great venue great venue shout out to them that's at 416 Cressview
Lane tickets for chefs for change can be found at family CTR dot org family CTR dot org keep
that in mind. Now they've had a decent MC in the past but they got a great one now Joel goodness
going to be your MC all right one of the better masters of ceremonies you're going to have
some amazing food from great chefs at dairy food works MSTC's culinary program hotel
meat great expectations yeah oh this is going to be a great night you're going to have a blast
everybody you'll be talking about it all week long and one of the greatest things about all this
you're going to get to look around that room see a lot of like-minded people see some of our
community leaders and know you are on the right side of history yep know that you are
are supporting something that is so vital in our day and age yes and even more going forward as
we have seen the cuts to our domestic violence shelters mm-hmm yep more more important than ever
that you do that hey James I got a local good story of the day to kick those off what's that
Seth well yesterday we had at the beast tap house two doors down brewing we had a a trivia contest
for walkoff debt for the grace group on that's of course to help pay off school lunch debt for seniors
well I'm proud to say and very happy to say that they raised over a thousand dollars
for paying off debt so it was a tremendous success thank you everybody who showed up for that who
gave money for that and it looks like they'll be doing it again sometime so just keep listening
and a big shout out to two doors darn two doors down brewing for hosting it big shout out to them
for letting us use their space for that was really good how wonderful yeah great people over there
by local support local support those to support this community everybody like two doors down
in places like that we appreciate them a couple other big good stories of for you a guy in
Pennsylvania named Sean Moyer just got a new kidney courtesy of his prom date from 35 years ago
oh my goodness her name is Elena Hershey and she lives in Colorado now she went to prom with him
after the girl he was supposed to go with dumped him for someone else a mutual friend told her
Sean needed a kidney they weren't a match but she signed up for a kidney exchange so hers went
to someone else and Sean got a new one because of that oh oh my god I didn't even know that was a
thing that's really cool so he asked her out on a limb just or I'm sorry no she asked him out
because of his break break up and then 35 years later gets a kidney from it wow I mean that is
just how that's a weirdly romantic story if I if I saved his face at prom and saved his life
yep if I went into a big production company and said hey I got a script idea for romcom and here
it is they'd laugh me out of the room that's not so unbelievable nobody would buy that no no
and a guy and a guy and his 12 year old son got stranded overnight while hiking in Utah last
month and someone else's abandoned backpack saved them they they found it sitting on the ground with
water blankets flares and all that oh my gosh it turned out a 15 year old named Levi left it
behind when he got stranded and rescued from the same area last month oh geez um Levi said it's
pretty cool knowing the supply kit he'd put together ended up saving someone else that's so cool
maybe they should leave something there all the time yeah it seems like just an idea yeah more
to that one yeah yeah great show you two you two man have a great day be good to each other
out there we will talk to you sooner than later right here at
