Oh…I too would like those donuts… (Hour 2)

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But of course, it is a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour.

You know what that means.

Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday March 3rd.

It's hard to believe we are already in the third month of the year.

The time is just flying by.

We've celebrated New Year's and Valentine's.

Oh, don't forget MLK and President's Day and we're going to be going green celebrating St. Patrick's Day in just two weeks.

This week is one of the biggest parties of the year to celebrate.

Mardi Gras, which is the celebration of Fat Tuesday, of course.

Now, isn't Fat Tuesday also associated with the season of Lent?

Yes, but it's called Shrove Tuesday in the Christian community.

It's the day before Ash Wednesday when the tradition to remove all fat from the house happens.

Britannica.com shares.

Shrove derived from Shrive refers to the confession of sins as a preparation for Lent, a usual practice in Europe and the Middle Ages.

Although the day is sometimes still used for self-examination and introspection,

Shrove Tuesday eventually acquired the character of a carnival or festival in many places and is often celebrated with parades.

Like, of course, the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.

Now, Britannica.com goes on to share, as the final day before the austerity of the Lent and Fast, Shrove Tuesday has many customs pertaining to food.

In particular, sweet foods containing eggs, sugar and fat, which were commonly forbidden during Lent and would otherwise go to waste in the six and a half weeks between Ash Wednesday and Easter.

Pancakes are the traditional choice in a number of European countries.

The day is known as Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday in Ireland and in many commonwealth countries.

Similarly, rich pre-Lent and treats, including punch keys, fruit filled deep-fried pastries similar to donuts that are enjoyed in Poland and in ethnic Polish communities in the United States, including right around here.

An iconic part of Mardi Gras fat Tuesday in New Orleans is the King Cake.

It is an ice-ringed shape pastry that is sprinkled with gold, green and purple sugar and typically contains a plastic figurine representing the baby Jesus.

Don't eat that part.

No. Traditionally, the person who receives the piece of cake containing that figurine is called the king or queen of the Mardi Gras festivities

and is obligated to host the next party of the season.

Oh, so that's the catch on that one.

That's the sticky weekend.

Yeah, don't mind being called a queen. Don't know if I want to host a party.

Yeah, there you go.

See, being called a queen is always a plus, right?

The pros and cons to everything.

Actually, although that does sound like the ice-ringed shape, that sounds like a cringle.

It does. It really does.

It sounds very similar, yeah.

I think it's a bit more dense, though.

I'm sure it is, yeah.

And my own neighborhood growing up, my best friend, his family came from Citadel.

I want to say right outside of Nala, Nola and everything.

And they talked a lot about certain traditions from over there and doing them in Chicago.

And one of the ones that they talked about was this.

And the king cake and how important that was.

And so I've always been really like anytime anybody has anything present, something.

I'm always the last one to grab something.

It's just the way I was raised and just who I am.

And they would make this cake and they would make this cake.

And it was only like two or three years in a row that they did this that we lived there.

But every year I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd never got a piece.

Like, still to this day.

I don't know what king cake tastes like and I'm dying to know.

I'll host a party next year for me to get the tricycle.

There you go.

I love this tradition.

I also, I cannot believe how few, how little we ever hear of anybody choking,

like a choking hazard or any of this.

And just real quick side note, the most terrifying mascot in all of human history

is the king cake baby for the New Orleans Pelicans.

That's so weird.

Oh my God.

It's terrifying.

But have either of you made this cake if you tried it before?

I have not.

No, I have not either.

So I mean, it sounds wonderful.

It does.

It does.

It sounds really good.

I love colorful cakes.

Don't care what tastes like.

I just like colorful.

Right.

The hope is that if you have this cake, you already know this tradition.

So you are aware that there might be something that is not allowable in your edible cake.

Yes.

That would be my luck.

This looks really good.

Crunch.

Yeah.

No breaking teeth.

My answer.

Well, growing up, we didn't do this king cake thing.

But we had another tradition from my pen Dutch background.

So strobe Tuesday was always fuzz not day.

Oh, yeah.

It's a pen Dutch tradition that came from Germany in the town where I lived in

when I first started my ministry, which is Lyditz, Pennsylvania.

There was a local grocery store called Stoffers of Kissel Hill that shares this history on their website.

A fuzz not is a typical fried donut that originated in Germany.

They are traditionally served during popular German celebrations such as carnival and fuzz not or on strove Tuesday.

These treats were originally made as a way to empty the pantry of large sugar, fat and butter

before the Lenten fasting period, also known as Lent, which is observed by many Christian denominations.

The German version of the fuzz not is made from a yeast dough, which is deep fried and coated or dusted in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.

Some are filled with fruit jam or pastry cream, fuzz not stiffer from average donuts,

because they tend to be denser and are usually square or triangular in shape.

Plus, they don't have the holes in the middle.

The closest thing that I have been able to find outside of that area is more like a fritter.

It is a donut, so it's a more dense dough.

Yeah, but it's still a little different, too, because the shapes are different, too.

It is.

And my mom used to make fuzz knots for us on strove Tuesday, and I really missed this tradition.

So what does fuzz not mean?

Well, the word fuzz not originated from the German word fast, which is a shortened version of the word fastened and knocked, which means night.

So it's the fast night.

Gotcha.

So you get rid of all of this stuff before you start your fasting on Ash Wednesday.

The term was originally used to indicate the eve of the traditional Lenten period, inhabitants of Pennsylvania Dutch country,

which includes Lancaster, York, Emberks, County, and Central Pennsylvania, all celebrate fuzz knots as part of their Easter traditions.

So if you're interested, I now finally have a recipe that was on this grocery store's website.

And the fact that they are able to share it and not just sell them pre-made donuts is wonderful.

So here's what you're going to do if you want to make a fuzz knot.

You're going to find a medium saucepan, and in that you're going to warm up two cups of milk and then add in a half a cup of unsalted butter.

Now, that is the specific thing in recipes when you see unsalted versus salted, because there's a ratio between the salt and other ingredients.

Right.

So that if salt is an ingredient and you use salted butter, you're throwing off that ratio.

Right.

So you want to add a half a cup of unsalted butter, and you stir until everything is melted.

In a large bowl, you're going to mix two teaspoons of salt, three quarters cup sugar, and a quarter teaspoon of nutmeg.

You're going to pour the melted milk and butter mixture into the mixing bowl and stir all of that until it's well mixed and let it sit until it's room temperature.

So you want to let it cool off.

Okay.

One of the mixtures, once the mixture is cold, you mix in two large eggs that are already beaten, and two packages, two packages, not just one like you would use for bread, but two packages of active dry yeast.

So that's what's going to help it rise.

Then you're going to add in three cups of flour into the mixture.

If you have a stand mixer, you beat it at a low speed for two minutes.

If you're mixing it by hand, stir for at least two minutes or until smooth.

Once your mixture is well mixed, you're going to add the remaining cups of flour.

So there's one more cup or two more cups of flour and stir it by hand.

You're going to put the dough on a floured surface and knead for about three minutes.

Place the dough in a greased bowl, make sure to turn it over so that all sides of the dough are greased.

Because then you're going to proof it.

You're going to cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and allow it to proof.

Proofing is basically a cooking term to mean you allow the dough to rest and rise before you bake it.

So you're going to do that once now for about an hour until it has doubled in size.

Punch the dough down and then turn it out onto a floured surface.

Roll out the dough into a quarter inch thick disk.

And then you're going to cut the dough into even squares and cover it again with a kitchen towel so that it can proof a second time for another 45 minutes or until it double in size again.

So twice you're going to let it double in size.

After the squares have doubled in size, begin heating about 2 to 3 inches of cooking oil to 370 degrees in a deep saucepan.

Drop the dough squares into the frying oil but be mindful not to crowd the saucepan.

Because when you add too much, it's going to lower the temperature of the oil and you want to keep it at the same oil.

Once the bottom side of the squares is golden brown, you flip them over to cook the other side and when both sides are golden brown,

that's when you remove them and set them on a paper towel to cool.

You dab the fossa nuts to remove the excess oil.

Unless you want to coat them.

So you can enjoy them in the traditional way with molasses on the side or dusted with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.

Another way to make fossa nuts is even more delicious when you fill them with pastry cream or jam.

So if you do decide to coat your fossa nuts like I said with the powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar,

make sure you do it while they're still warm.

And they still have a little bit of that grease on them.

You're going to place two or three of them into a large tip-lock bag with whatever coating you desire and then you toss them around until they're completely coated.

There is a doughnut I have not heard of.

Oh no.

And now I am on a mission.

Yes, alright.

I would like to take this opportunity to let all my friends and family out there know that I am on a mission.

I am leaving the station.

I am leaving my current job.

I am leaving acting on a mission to find this.

I'm just going to walk the earth like cane.

I'm just going to walk the earth looking for new doughnuts.

It's about 1,200 miles east.

There you go.

Go to Pennsylvania.

I already got my walking stick.

I already got that.

The details in this really make it stand out.

I don't know.

I'm sure a lot of people already have sounded intriguing.

But hearing you describe the ingredients and everything.

I don't know.

Just pull me into wanting to try it even more.

They are delicious.

When they are made well by somebody who knows what they're doing, they are phenomenal.

They really are.

Is it a...

It doesn't sound like you've made these before.

Not yet.

So I don't mean to ask.

Because since you haven't put off just taking a look at it and everything, does it seem like it'd be difficult to make?

The biggest challenge is making sure that you have the oil at the right temperature.

It's always the biggest thing with that stuff.

You want to make sure you have a heating thermometer that you can put in there

that you can keep regulating that temperature.

And you have to have patience because this prep work is at least three hours

because twice you have to let the dough just sit there and do nothing.

And that can be frustrating for people who want to just get it done and put it in the oven.

So this is one that you have to plan to make.

You have to make the time to make, but it is so well worth it.

When these are done, they're just phenomenal.

My mom has said for a very long time, I want to make her a t-shirt with it.

The difference of cooking and baking patience.

Yes, yes.

A lot of it.

Absolutely.

That was a good one, Beth.

Thank you.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

All right.

Another great episode.

I am going to put this recipe.

I'll put a link into our newsletter, which will be coming out on Thursday.

So if you don't have that newsletter and you want this recipe,

simply go to our website.

Nice.

And sign up.

It's free to sign up for the website, and there's so much good information there.

Yes, there is.

Very cool.

Thank you for doing that.

And thank you for another great segment.

A great way to get off the week.

Yeah.

Be listening next week for another edition of the Kitchen's Open with Beth Habagger,

right here at WFHR.

We'll be back with our friend Tom Heisler in a monthly veterans update coming up

on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

You have your host James here.

I am joined by Melissa and Seth.

And every month at the beginning of the month,

we are joined by our great friend Tom Heisler with our monthly veterans update.

We've got to get some theme music for Tom.

We've got to figure something out.

We've got to figure something out.

We've got to figure something out.

We've got to figure something out.

We've got to figure something out for that.

Yeah.

All I have is like lame ideas in my head.

We've got to work on something better because anything I'm going to throw out there is horrible.

But not the information we get from Tom.

I cannot thank you enough, Tom, because the audience may not know this,

but behind the scenes, Tom is always giving us information throughout the month,

keeping us up to date on all the things going on with our veterans

so that we can let the audience know.

Appreciate that Tom.

No problem.

Glad to do it.

And of course, I don't want to keep you too long.

We went dive right into things.

And as we were kind of joking in our pregame here,

we've got some signs of spring coming up, Tom.

You got that right.

Robin is secondary now.

Yeah.

Let's dive right in.

What do we have first up, Tom?

Well, today is the monthly breakfast over at Grace's restaurant started at 9.

And today is also star-spangled banner day,

which was brought in on 1931.

And this weekend we got to state gymnastics tournament.

That's right.

Lincoln High School and our VFW presents a colors before the team

and the individual events.

Love it.

And then also on Saturday is the oaks lodge here in Rapids for $12.

Spaghetti meal.

Mm-hmm.

Can't beat it.

Can't beat it.

Spaghetti meal.

I need the right thing.

You grade up my alley.

What do you ask?

Tom.

It's an error.

Nice.

If you don't mind just for a second, you mentioned about presenting it everything

at the gymnastics tournament and such.

What it must mean for the individuals being able to do that?

It can't imagine the feeling of what it must feel like.

It's really great in so much as pre-game.

We're milling around and talking to people.

And the people that come up and say thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Thank you for your service.

Really appreciate it.

And then you find a vet and you connect with them.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just, it's a lot of fun.

And, you know, no matter the sporting event, no matter the event,

these things are important.

But the depth and the detail, how much, how much more important it,

how much more important it is when it comes to, you know, high school,

kid-related things, having these things going on in kids,

seeing this and kids, seeing adults,

show the respect that we do to our veterans and that.

That part of it has an extra layer to it for me, I think, in general.

So, I love whenever you bring note to these and I appreciate that.

Well, it is interesting because we've had some cultures come up to say

the kids love this.

Yeah.

Right up.

You know, so it's a lot of fun.

And Auburndale High School, the vet's breakfast on March 11th,

which is a Tuesday from 8 to 915 up in Auburndale.

We're back.

The girls' cafe.

That's right.

Yeah.

Another sign is spring.

Yeah.

Coffee donuts and a occasional true story.

But lots of stories.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I know this lady that was there and got many notebooks full.

She's pretty good.

She did indeed.

And on Wednesday, March 12th, American Legion,

has their month of meeting at 7.

Thursday the 13th, the Rudolph American Legion

has their month of meeting.

And the VBA, our chapter is coming back again after a hiatus.

Yeah.

Okay.

Here we go.

Halt the gray hairs on Wednesday, March 19th.

It's a rocky freedom began in 2003.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah.

20 years.

Yeah.

Important to note.

And on Thursday, the 20th, the VFW post 2534,

has their meeting at 6.

And a costable Monday, March 21st,

costable campaign, 1999.

I know that, but when you see it in writing,

it just really stands out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bring cells.

And on Tuesday, March 25th, there's a free army field ban show

at the pack center.

Free, get ahold of the pack center,

and you get your free tickets.

Yep.

That's right.

Yeah.

We'll be talking about this, and that and many of these

are leading up to it.

And on March 25th, there's National Medal of Honor Day,

which was brought into fruition in 1991.

And Wednesday, the 26th, Second Heroes Cafe of the Month.

That's right.

We want to talk to you in stories.

And on the 29th of Vietnam Veterans Day,

it was in 2012.

Okay.

March 31st, the anniversary of Somalia.

And ending in 1995.

And we had a starting and ending, same one.

Yeah.

Now, here is a sign of spring.

Veterans brought fry.

All right.

Brought some back.

Yep.

And that's on Saturday, April 5th.

On Sunday, April 6th, the US entered World War I in 1917.

Man.

Yeah.

So April is really interesting.

And April 6th, the US Army Day.

And on Monday, April 7th is Vietnam.

I should say the Veterans Breakfast Again Grace.

That's the first Monday, opposite of me.

So I'm never going to go.

Yeah.

That's a shame.

Yeah.

That's a bad break.

Great one and a great note there, too.

And Tom, appreciate all of this.

I do want to remind everybody as well that this time of month

is ready, closer to filing.

And for that, there's free filing tax filing for a lot of veterans.

There are a lot of opportunities for that out there.

You can get personalized one-on-one support.

For that, Veterans Community Support Program is out there for you.

If you would like to find out more about that, we can help you with that as well.

Otherwise, encourage you to go to their website.

Yeah.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs for more website.

Exactly.

More information, more website.

More information.

You're going to get on the website.

Yeah.

You're going to get on the website.

Yeah.

And then Auburndale High School is very, very, very veteran friendly.

And they've got a lot of things coming up.

They have the duck trip.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

The Dells Ducks.

Yeah.

And that's on Wednesday, May 14th.

You're right.

The original Wisconsin Ducks, followed by a meal at Pizza Ranch.

All right.

Nice.

That sounds like, oh, the good afternoon.

The chicken at Pizza Ranch.

Yeah.

And they have a really good salad bar, too.

That's true.

They do.

That's a great place.

And let's see.

And you got to get a hold of Auburndale High School by a head of time to let them know

something.

You know how many buses to get and they want to know by Friday, April 16th.

So call Auburndale High School.

And the school holds a veterans coffee club on a second Tuesday of each month.

And it's at Auburndale High School in New Jim Lobby from 8 to 915.

I know there's some vets from Rapids that do travel up there and they say it's a really

good time.

Yeah.

And if you're a veteran, doesn't have to be Vietnam, doesn't have to be, you know, if you

are a veteran, they are doing their history class with conducting interviews of veterans

on Tuesday, April 8th.

Oh.

Wow.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Really interesting one.

Wow.

That's a great idea.

And Melissa, I gave her your website.

Good.

Nice.

And she said, thank you for that.

And those are going to be at 930 and 115 up in Auburndale and they're going to be doing

the flags for veterans across on Main Street like they'd have here in Rapids.

Right.

Rudolph.

So that's going to be coming up also up there.

So any information just, if you want any more information, call Auburndale High School

and they'll go from there on that.

Very good.

In time, if people do have follow-up questions or they'd like to know more or maybe even

get some information to you, how can they get in touch with you?

715-6-00-0401.

And keep in mind everybody, if you miss that number, if you miss this episode, but you

want to catch up with Tom or anything, reach out to us.

We'll help connect to you or anything like that.

Like Tom connects us with our veterans out here.

We appreciate that so much, Tom, and looking forward to hanging out again next month and

talking to you real soon.

No problem.

And the Curels Cafe is still at Crossview Church.

One thing I forgot to mention, just that it's starting up again, and I know a lot of

bets can't wait for that.

All right.

Yeah, they're not alone.

They're not alone.

We know how much the community loves that one.

We'll be highlighting each of these things as in our good stories of the day leading up

throughout the month here again.

Thanks for the time, Tom.

No problem.

Thank you very much for having me.

Enjoy the weather.

We'll be back with more show coming up here, everybody.

We've got plenty to talk about as far as an entertainment section all that on the way

after our new sports and partner break here on The Morning Show.

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It's a side note.

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We got to thank our guests so far this hour.

A big thank you to Beth and Tom for joining us.

That was a fun way to kick off a Monday for the month and everything.

That's awesome.

Absolutely.

Appreciate the information from both of them.

Let's dive into entertainment now as we are like to do in the 9 o'clock hour.

And of course, we got to talk Oscars and we're going to talk Razzies.

We're going to wrap up with Razzie talking about Razzies.

But a lot of conversation, of course, after every Oscars, people kind of, I don't know

if people realize they're doing it or not.

But you're giving right into the Oscars with talking about all the things you don't like

about the Oscars.

Exactly.

At least you're talking about them, right?

Yeah.

That's all they want.

I didn't even know they happened.

That's awesome.

Less you, Melissa.

Bless you.

That's double awesome to me because I think of Melissa as a creative.

And I think that's awesome.

I think that's great.

So big night for Anora.

Anora was the big winner.

And I think if you were paying attention, a lot of people kind of predicted this, that

it was going to run away with this, which is why I'm a little surprised.

People were so surprised that it ran away with this.

They were surprised they were right.

Usually they're not.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

Mickey Madsen, one best actress, Demi Moore, was the, a lot of people felt like was going

to win.

But she did not.

And so they're calling this denied or she was snubbed or something like that.

Oh, of course, because they got to put a negative spin on it.

Absolutely.

Now, the substance did win best makeup and hair styling.

Adrian Brody, one for best actor in the brutalist and it was his second Oscar.

Karen Kalka, one for best supporting actor for real pain.

Zoe Zaladana, one for best supporting actress for Amelia Perez, some of the bigger winners.

Nice.

Some of the bigger notes were from the night.

Carol Hannah came out and had a nice, she did a nice job in talking about some of the

things going on as far as David Lynch and some other stuff.

I'm really focused on Conan O'Brien.

Okay.

So there's a lot of things that we'll talk about here, but real quickly, I want to make it,

just bring it home here.

Conan O'Brien introduced Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan at the end and he said, Meg Ryan,

you know, et cetera, great actress.

And the greatest Oscar host of all time, Billy Crystal.

And I don't disagree with him, but if Conan keeps at that, he could be the best.

They did this right.

They treated this like if you were a long time Conan O'Brien fan, this was a throwback

to the old late night show that can use to come on after the tonight show.

He brought his writers with him, but he still made it adaptable to everybody.

It was a perfect hosting job, whoo, perfect.

I have no notes.

I did, I did text him that.

I don't even get back to me yet.

I know.

I'm kidding.

Imagine it.

But I was extremely proud of that.

There were a couple of cool moments.

Isabella Rosalini wore blue velvet and had Laura Dern as her, as her plus one.

Yeah.

For those who don't know, David Lynch's former wife, Laura Dern, as well as wearing blue

velvet, famous for the movie.

Of course, yeah.

Thought that was just a beautiful tip of the hat.

A little tribute.

Yep.

Thought that was great.

Um, the, the, the, the, one of the note, the immemorial, every year, people get, now

these are actual snubs.

This is an actual snub when you were not included in the memoriam, Michelle Trechenberg that

just passed away.

Right.

Now, you might say, well, she just passed away in the last week.

They weren't able to fill her in.

They did have Gene Hackman in there who actually passed away even shorter.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Tony Todd is one that really frustrated me.

Tony Todd, a famous character actor.

Most famous for, of course, for playing candy man, but Tony Todd dedicated his life to

acting.

Yes.

He did a lot more work than he did all kinds of stuff.

Yep.

Tony Roberts, Martin Moll for God's sake.

How do you not have Martin Moll or Shane Doherty in there?

Uh, there, there was a number of names that should have been mentioned that weren't.

And you can give me, although you want about time, then don't do it.

Yeah.

If you are not going to do it right, if you are going to include certain names, then don't

even bother doing it.

Nobody in human history has asked for this.

We can, we can honor these people in our own way, whether it's Gene Hackman or it's any

other, it's the sound engineer that nobody knows of that they put up there or something.

We can honor these people ourselves or you can do it right, Academy.

Don't do it at all or do it right.

One of the other.

Yep.

And it should matter.

Like you said, the time should have no, uh, have nothing on this part.

No.

I do tip my head to Morgan Freeman and the great, uh, uh, narration he did of Gene Hackman

in his life.

Uh, I thought that was very respectable, um, as far as, uh, I'm hearing some, uh, some

talk about Demi Moore not winning and, and, uh, the young lady that did win, uh, Maddie,

uh, and for Nora and her work, um, like, as somebody who voted on this and I don't like

sharing this stuff that often, but I will admit that I voted for Demi Moore, okay?

Uh, I voted for her in part for the wrong reasons.

I voted for her in part because of Samuel Jackson.

Uh, I voted for her because I don't believe that the, uh, awards for best actor, best

as supporting actors, all these things should be lifetime achievement awards.

That's what the Cecil Bill Demil award is for, right?

Uh, if we get it wrong and you don't get an Oscar in your career, that's on the Academy,

not the actor, right?

And not the other actors, right?

It's on the Academy that Demi Moore did not win for GI Jane or some of these other things.

It is not Mickey Madison's fault.

And this young lady is taking the heat right now for, for not, for what, doing her job?

For doing her job better than anybody else.

Like that's what we're giving her a hard time for.

It is awful.

It is kind of, like, it is symmetry of this too that I don't hear enough people talking

about that the whole point of the substance was what just happened to Demi Moore.

She just lost out to a younger actor, like, it's the whole point of the substance.

So you're missing the whole point of all of this and, and, and this is just so everybody

else can feel good because watch Demi Moore when this is going on.

I don't know if there's anybody more excited for this young lady than Demi Moore.

There was no, oh, I can't believe she won.

Now, though, you look at the other actors and that category and some of them had some

looks on their faces.

But Demi Moore couldn't have been more happy for this young lady.

No different than Susan Lucci every time somebody won a daytime Emmy and she didn't.

Yeah, every time you saw that, you never saw Susan Lucci angry in there or anything like that.

And I'm sure she was disappointed she didn't win.

But she, how could she not be?

Yeah, exactly, but I'm, but she realizes this is, and maybe it's because she's been in

the game for so long, you know, and it's just like, yeah, this is how it works out.

And I'm not going to waste my energy, you know, being, being upset about it, you know?

Yeah.

So I mean, I don't know what she was thinking, but, you know, you hope that's what it would

be.

I also voted for Timothy Chalamet for best actor.

He did not win.

Adrian Brody won.

I was very happy for him to win.

His speech was dragged on.

You could tell that he did not expect to win.

That he had something in mind, but that he did not think he was going to be giving that

speech.

I've seen a lot of people taking shots at that speech.

I'm going to move on from that.

What I would like to focus on is some things that I heard on our own airwaves this morning

who about people, hey, is I actually heard the line.

Do we do?

How do we feel about Adrian Brody winning an Oscar for basically playing the same character?

Thinking Brody won for the same role is not only out of touch and sad, but screams of

right next anti-Semitism, but not getting there quite.

They're different.

If you don't see that, it's on you, not the actor, and it's a life of privilege that those

of us that wear the Jewish star of David cannot have, to look at those two roles and think

they're identical or that he won an award for the same thing, it just screams of not being

out of touch.

It just screams of not paying attention to the work.

Adrian Brody himself noted this in part in his speech, and it just in a day and age

where anti-Semitism is on the rise literally every day to just throw these things out there.

People have no problem throwing a shade at Jewish people and Jewish things.

Anything else under the umbrella, anything else out there, they hope they hesitate.

They worried about getting canceled.

Nobody worries about throwing this stuff out there, and yet it continues to rise.

The anti-Semitism continues to rise.

We've got stuff going on as close to us as Warsaw, if not in this own town that we live

in.

And yet people just keep on going with this and rolling with it, and throw out things

like that, like it's nothing, like it doesn't mean anything, like it's a joke.

There's nothing funny about this, and that performance he gave, just like for the pianist,

is one of the stronger performances you will see in acting.

The only reason I didn't vote for him is the wrong reasons again, because he already

won, and I want to see a young person win in the ward that hasn't won one again.

I did this wrong, and I owned that hundredly, and the academy got it right, because there

is a gigantic difference of playing Bob Dylan, and playing the character that Adrian Brody

did in the brutalist.

It's incredible work.

Give me AI, give me all these different things you want.

It doesn't take away from the performance he gave, and it was the strongest performance

you saw last year.

Column and Domingo did an amazing job too.

I wouldn't have had a problem with him winning, and obviously what I said about Timothy

Shalamy.

Right.

I don't want to escape past this.

Your opinions matter.

If you think somebody else should have won, that's fine.

But the idea that he shouldn't have won because he quote unquote played this character before,

well that's typecasting, man.

That ain't his fault.

That's typecasting.

Why don't people get mad at the real things to get mad about here, casting directors,

or that there aren't that many roles for Jewish people outside of World War II picks?

That's the only time we get to where our cry, that's the only time we get to actually

be proud of being Jewish, is if we're talking about something involved with the Holocaust.

Otherwise, nobody gets a dang.

How about we talk about that instead of the idea, well, Adrian Brody wanted to ask you

for playing the same character again.

Tell me you don't know anything about acting without telling me you don't know anything

about acting, because you just did.

It's ridiculous to me, and I don't care if I get in trouble for this.

I don't care what calls come my way.

I'll take it.

I'm tired of this.

And I'm tired of people just skating past this.

We've got our own government doing it, and nobody is getting upset.

Nobody's getting canceled.

It's ridiculous.

And if anybody is okay with that.

If anybody has a problem with me getting on a soapbox right here, 715-424-2600.

My email is James.mailup.

That's Civic Media.us.

I look forward to talking with you.

Razzies now.

The opposite of the Oscars.

This is one of the more fun award shows, I think, the Razzies.

And while you wouldn't want to be invited to the Razzies, it does seem like it'd be kind

of fun to go, right?

You're going and you're having, like for those that don't know the Razzies are the opposite

of the Oscars.

Right.

The worst of acting job.

Yeah.

Well, worse performance, worse film, worse, all that stuff, yeah.

I do think I admire, like, Halle Berry, fame and Adrian Brody for that note, have both

shown up at the Razzies and, like, accept it and been very, like, had fun with it and

everything.

I admire that.

And it's one thing to see them do that.

But Francis Ford Coppola showed up at the Razzies and accepted his award and it couldn't

have had more fun with it.

He accepted it and said against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking.

He had in this wreck of a world today where art is given scores as if it were professional

wrestling.

I chose to not follow the gutless rules.

Let us remind ourselves that box office is only about money and, like, wars, stupidity

and politics, has no true place in our future.

Madam Webb won for a worse picture.

Yeah.

Very good.

Jerry Seinfeld won for worst actor and unfroasted Dakota Johnson won for worst actress and Madam

Webb.

They did not collect their awards in person now.

That's actually what I want to see.

Is the man Webb?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, hey.

That one is out on video already.

Okay.

It went out pretty quickly.

And actually, I'm going to scoop their lots.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And a number of these did, too.

A number of these did.

Yeah.

One of the other things I find funny is usually when this award is won for nominated for Razzie

and for an Oscar, which just has happened in the past, yes.

I believe Amelia Perez was nominated for some and that was nominated for a couple.

And I want to send real quickly, just going back to the Oscars real quick because I forgot

this part.

Zoe Zellandana's speech was fantastic.

And I was very happy.

I haven't heard about it.

I haven't heard the speech, but I heard it was interesting.

Karen Culkin's speech was a little uncomfortable, but was pretty funny.

But I did really like, I thought the speech of the night was hers.

I thought she just did an amazing job there and she was a really nice, a really strong

job.

Very cool.

We will go ahead and get to our time out here.

We'll come back and we're going to save one of our stories here for a little bit of

later.

But we will get into this one thing about society that surprised a guy who got released

from prison after 30 years.

Oh, I'm touched on that.

Cool.

We come back on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

I'm going to get to our schedule and some good stories of the day, but thought this was

a good one.

A 51 year old guy in Hawaii named Gordon Cordillo got out of prison on Friday after spending

30 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.

He was convicted of killing a guy 94 over a drug deal gone bad, but he always maintained

his innocence and DNA evidence finally cleared him.

One of the first things he did was go out for a nice steak dinner, which was a little different

than the poised prison food that he had been eating, of course.

But he said the craziest thing about his experience so far is everybody's looking at their

phone all the time.

He had never seen a cell phone because smartphones weren't a thing until 94.

He didn't even have a flip phone until 96, and all he had was a beeper.

So, wow, he told a reporter he got his first cell phone as soon as he got out on Friday,

but he's not obsessed with it yet, he says.

He mainly just thinks it's weird how messages are over.

The boy's flooding in, quote, it keeps beeping.

Just won't stop.

You can turn that off, buddy.

Welcome to 2025.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, we've talked about this endlessly about this, but I think the perspective is just

interesting to take and maybe hopefully gives people a little bit of a beat to this to

think about it before immediately pick up your phone to second your board, and maybe

look around a little bit on every thing.

All right.

Interesting.

For him, I think just being out and doing stuff, so maybe that's why he hasn't gotten

obsessed with it yet, but he's like, well, the novelty will wear off of being out of

prison after a while, so go to the phone.

But it is interesting if you go somewhere, just try it one time, look around and see how

many people are on their phones.

It's interesting.

It's really interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm a bit of a people watcher, so I tend to catch this a lot.

But I am not at all saying that I am not guilty of this myself.

Oh, no.

Not guilty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes you use it as a deterrent.

That's true.

To keep people away from you.

All right.

Yep.

I will be honest with everybody out there.

I keep headphones on me, almost 24, 7, 4, that very thing.

If I have just did not a people mood, it's better.

And trust me, this is for the betterment of society.

This is for the betterment of everybody.

I mean, did you just hear the last segment, me going off like a big, come on, it's just

nobody wants that in personal life, nobody.

Jay and our aquatic animal rescue will host an exotic pet surrender event on March 28th

in Stevens Point.

I wanted to give people a heads up on this one.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to send a shout out to Patrick Lynn and nice reporting he did of this one.

And the event, the event is scheduled for noon at 3 o'clock at the Holiday Inn Convention

Center and offers pet owners a safe and responsible alternative to releasing unwanted animals in

the wild.

Very important.

Very important.

No.

Because they're not from here.

No.

The event held during the Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Convention as part of the Wisconsin

Water Week highlights the environmental threat possessed by about these animals.

Yes.

I got, I have a question for James, you and Melissa.

You both are recent pet owners or, you know, you're round pets and that's a, are you

you guys, maybe it's just me, but I'm so uncomfortable with exotic pets.

And I know a couple of people who have them, but to me, it just, uh, it's just, there's

so much that could go wrong, you know, that I just feel it's like, oh, it just makes me

uncomfortable, I guess.

No, I hear you because I wouldn't choose to have an exotic pet.

Like if I had a pet, I would want to dog or a cat because I want something that I can,

you know, pet and, and that will give me attention in return to the attention I give

them.

I know that exotic pets do that.

That's a good point.

I mean, sort of in their own way and maybe if that's what you're looking for, if, if that's

not what I'm looking for, yeah, uh, we, we domesticated a lot of these animals.

And I believe that that falls on us to take care of them.

Right.

I think we did not domesticate a lot of these exotic animals.

This is a vanity project.

This is, this is about you, not the animal.

And anytime it's about the person and not the animal, you lose me.

I have never heard one good reason to have an exotic animal.

I've not heard one good reason.

Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Yeah, it's a selfish act and you deserve whatever karma you get from that.

Like whatever happens from it, I said for you and Roy, they, they, they, I mean, come

on.

How many years did they have it?

And all of a sudden that takes one time and then you're in the, uh, in the hospital

for a year.

That's how karma works, man.

Like, it's a lot lined for a book or a movie.

It's not for real life.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to talk more about that as we could closer to the event, wanting to get

into our schedule and some other things that we got going on around here and certainly

a big thank you to Beth with the kitchens open today and Tom with our monthly veterans

update.

Always do those.

Yep.

Uh, we got great stuff coming up for you as well later this afternoon.

Join us for midday magazine in part one.

We're going to talk to Caitlin Kessler, Wisconsin beef council.

All right.

So it's for dinner.

Yeah.

We're talking about the best burger contest.

We're talking corn.

Beef getting you ready for, uh, yeah, we'll say Patrick's day and every day.

Nice.

And, uh, Jacqueline is going to join us from rise up central Wisconsin in part two.

We're going to talk about the mural.

Hope project here in Wisconsin.

We're happy.

Very cool.

Yeah.

Looking forward to that.

Of course, uh, playmakers going on tonight from five to six.

Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines.

Get ready to join us.

A big thank you to quality plus printing and family natural food sponsoring that hour.

We got playmakers all week this week too Monday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, we'll be here

with you for the show.

Yes.

Uh, and we wanted to let people know about this, uh, a couple of other things, Seth.

We got a bureau here, though, uh, new one, we want to check out.

Yeah.

Of course, visit Rome.

They put out a really cool visitors guide every single year and we have some here at

our offices, 1690, second Avenue, south and Wisconsin rapids.

You can stop by during a normal business hours, nine to four.

It is free and it is very cool.

Lots of great stuff that they do because they also kind of handle the Nikus area as well.

So it's not just Rome.

It's that whole, uh, central Wisconsin area there.

And we have a fabulous, the final show this year, uh, for the arts council and their

season.

It is the music of Billy Joel and Elton John, uh, featuring Michael Kavanaugh.

He is the one who, I'm not going to say impersonates both.

He doesn't do that, but he sings both of their songs and this is a, I did, I was really

shocked by this.

A top 50 touring act in the country.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Think of how many touring acts are in this country.

That's an amazing thing.

And I mean, if you're a fan of either one or the other, Billy, usually you're the fan

of both because I know, you know, that's what people like in their pop anyway.

It's going to be really cool.

Of course, get your tickets at saverthearts.com.

Pick your seats.

You can get there.

That's 24 seven.

If you need a little bit of assistance, you can stop by their offices at 1040, 8th streets

out, sweet 101, uh, or give them a call 71542427, 87 Monday through Thursday, 10 AM

to 2 30 PM.

That is when they are open and they can give you a hand if that is what you need.

We'll be, uh, talking with Sally and Michael, uh, coming up with, uh, Sally and I have

been working with Michael behind the scenes to figure out a good time for us to, uh,

hard guy to get a hold of for some reason.

I can't imagine.

Yeah.

Shockingly.

Yeah.

It's probably busy.

Yeah.

Uh, we're looking forward to that bringing that interview to you, everybody.

A school bus driver near Cleveland saved 15 kids on Thursday after the bus burst into

flames.

Oh, dear.

Officials said that there was some kind of mechanical issue and the fire started behind

one of the back wheels.

The whole bus was gluted with, uh, gutted with by flames, but the driver got everyone

out quickly and no one was hurt.

Excellent.

That's a hero right there.

Yes.