Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
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Seth. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your week out there. We're going to have some fun on this
St. Patrick's Day because we got good things coming up from our entertainment. We're going
to get in some other cool stuff. How many shows does it take for you to learn to like a show
and all that coming up? But it's a Monday and the 9 o'clock hour. We all know what that
means. Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday, March 17th.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. We're not going to talk. We're not going to talk about
just green food, but we are going to explore some special food eaten a lot today.
Worly Clovers, Potatoes, Guinness Bread. I'm not sure that last one is a real thing, but
I would love to try it. Actually, James, I want to thank you for suggesting today's topic,
which relates to corn, beef and cabbage. So think today about foods that we only associate
with other foods. I didn't do a lot of research on this one. It's more of a personal preference
kind of thing. So what are some of the foods that we only think of eating with other foods?
So what are those? You know, I think it's like grilled cheese.
I appreciate this so much, Beth. I don't know how much other people are going to,
you know, can relate to this, but this is something that I started going through this the other day.
And I tried to talk about with my mother, and she was interested for like five minutes,
and that she kind of like just dipped out. So I, of course, bothered Beth with it.
We had some fun talking about this a little bit, because it happened the other day when we had
La Prabara last cold day, and my mom made soup for my dad and I. And she's like, well,
and she just didn't even ask us. She just made grilled cheese with it, because in our house,
that's, and I'm pretty sure most houses out there, it always associate the two. I love grilled
cheese. I love a grilled cheese sandwich, but I was eating, I was eating and I'm thinking,
well, it's been so long since I had one. And like, well, I had it the last, so when did I have it
the last time, when I, when I had soup the last time? And I just, I feel, I'm pretty sure that
the only time I've ever had grilled cheese is when I'm also having soup. Then I just associate
the two together. That makes sense. And when I thought about having my mom mentioned, well,
you know, it's really good in the summer. And you know, she was talking about her and her sisters,
you see, did all the time in the summer. And I immediately was like, well, I don't eat soup in
the summer. And she, of course, heard my father just looked at me funny and then moved on. Like,
times in my life. And I always associate it with a comfort food. You know, when it's cold,
when I'm, I'm feeling sad, grilled cheese. And for me, growing up, it was always tomato soup.
That is what you have grilled cheese with. Yeah. I've come to find out that is not the only soup
that you have. Well, I didn't like tomato soup. So I had to go with something else. Yeah,
it was chicken noodle. That's right. Yeah, chicken noodle. Chicken noodle and grilled cheese. That's
what we had. No, it's always tomato soup, right? So that's how my mom feels. So way in, text us,
give us a call. Let us know. Is it grilled? Is it tomato soup? Is it, uh, chicken noodle soup with
your potato chowder? But I mean, often we think of soup and we don't have just soup.
You have soup with crackers or soup with bread or soup with a biscuit or something, right?
What are some of those other combinations that we think of? You know, when I was putting this
together, I was thinking peanut butter. Very few people have just a peanut butter sandwich.
That's true. Always partner with something, right? Right. Most commonly, it's jelly. Sometimes
it's marshmallow fluff. Sometimes it's banana if you're Elvis. Nice. That's a lot of people
like bananas and peanut butter. So yeah, that's very popular. Yep. So what are some of the other
ones that we associate growing up? You know, there was a great commercial that was out for a
specific product. You got your peanut butter in my chocolate. You got your chocolate in my peanut
butter. We know that those go really well together. I wonder how much vegetables this is with,
like where people, so many vegetables, the only time they eat them is when they're with another
vegetable or with a, you know, a certain way or certain thing. Carrots and peas, right? Yeah.
Actually, they actually have cans of carrots and peas together, right? Right. And you say we're
we're close like carrots and peas, you know, that's something. So I don't know if people actually
eat like eating carrots and peas or not. Maybe that was so that those that wouldn't eat the peas
could have the carrots and those that ate the carrots, you know, maybe it was, and then you swap
here. You want my carrots? Yeah. I'll take your peas. There you go. I get that.
And there are some other great combinations out there that may not be associated all the time
together, but just taste great when we put them together. Things like olive oil and tomatoes.
Oh, that's true. Yeah. That's the base for a bruschetta.
Bruschetta. Yeah. Love me a good bruschetta. Yeah.
Top of toast. Bacon and maple. Oh, the sweet and salty together in a very very good mix.
This might seem odd coming from me, but steak and potatoes. Oh, yeah. That's a great point.
I want people to think out there, the people that like steak, have you, can you think of it
without some kind of potato with it? Even if it's like french fries or something, because I don't
people like french fries and steaks, but mashed potatoes, baked potato, would it be the same without?
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's it. Actually, yeah, yeah. Some kind of potato, right?
Fish and chips. Oh, yeah. Again, yeah. French fries with fish. It's a great one.
I, I'll eat, especially teenage me. I'll eat fries as a, as like dinner.
But I think for a lot of people, you're not going to have a burger without fries.
You're not going to have fries without a burger. Like, you know, you're very well connected.
Yeah. Even having something that's not quite, that's close, like hot dog and fries. Well,
no, you can eat a hot dog without fries, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's no problem. I mean,
nothing but the hot dog. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. But with that burger, man, it makes it so
hard. Right. You're right. And cheese in general, right? I often associate eating cheese with
something else. Oh, yeah. Crackers or in mac and cheese. You know, we talked about meatballs,
spaghetti and meatballs, right? I heard you guys talking about spaghetti earlier. It doesn't
necessarily have to be green. It depends on the type of meatball, right? Yeah. Seth makes a
great Swedish meatball. But again, we don't eat just the meatball. No, with, with, yeah,
with mashed potatoes with mashed potatoes. Again, and now that's something for me that would be very
strange, having Swedish meatballs without mashed potatoes. Just by themselves, that'd be very
weird. But, you know, but you wouldn't do that with Italian meatballs, right? Those are different.
Yeah. Think about eating those with mashed potatoes. Yeah. We're oh my god. Yeah. But with pasta,
perfect. You know, there you go. Mine, not the ghost of my Nana would show up. What are you doing?
Yeah. I got excited, Beth, because when you were talking about that, I hadn't thought of just pasta
in general. Mm-hmm. You don't eat pasta just alone. No, at the very least you put it in some butter
or something. Yes, some sauce, maybe. Yeah, some right. Parmesan cheese. That's a big thing in our
house. You don't have pasta without the Parmesan cheese, right? Yep. That's kind of mac and cheese,
I guess, isn't it? Yeah. In a way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A little different form, but yeah.
Well, there are also some interesting, different food combinations that are out there that I hadn't
thought of before. When I, when I tried to do some research on this, there's not a lot. There's
not been a survey about what foods we often associate with each other. It's we take it for granted,
I guess. Yeah. But I did find an article with 10 quirky food pairings that we could possibly try.
Oh, okay. Let's try it. How about sharp cheddar and peanut butter? Let me think here. Oh,
I could see that. Yes. So maybe you've tried peanut butter and it does pair well with a lot of
things. So, you know, we put some people put cheese on apple pie. That's right. Not to me.
That's a quirky thing. That's not something I ever grew up with, but I'm not going to deny that
maybe that tastes good. Well, think about this way. What I mean, one thing that we do put on pie
more consistently now, whipped cream, which is a dairy product. I mean, it's very similar. But
there's the big debate on that one for apple pie. Is it American cheese or is it cheddar cheese?
Yeah. Which one do you see now? That's that's the big debate and people who still do that. I don't
know many people. Yeah. Another quirky one was steamed broccoli and mayonnaise.
James, I was out of your hand. I'm like, wait a minute here. I'm trying to be a good teammate and
just, you know, the first rule of improv, but we say yes. That's true. That's true.
Growing up, my sisters, I love broccoli. I have since I was little, little green trees.
I did not mind eating. But the way that my mom got us to start doing it in the first place
was she always put a cheese sauce on it. Okay. So mayonnaise is that creaminess as well.
It's made more with eggs than it is with cheese. But that's a dairy product, right? So that
one kind of makes a little bit more sense. I don't really eat broccoli, but every time I hear the
word broccoli, I do think a Dana Carvey singing. I do like that word, I do like that. The next one
kind of got me and I'm like, I don't know about this one. It's popcorn and cream cheese.
You know, I've heard about sprinkling like mini chocolate chips in there and we think of
caramel corn, we think of kettle corn. I never thought about cream cheese popcorn. We have, we have
kind of, it's not a great word, but ghettoized popcorn because it is such a versus
all browned at a whole episode on popcorn. And there's so much you can do with it. You can
use it as cereal. Break this cereal. If you don't salt it, you can just, you know, pour a little
sugar, some milk. You can eat popcorn as cereal. That's wild. So it's, it's, yeah, it's so
versatile. We just don't use it that way. I have no idea. So well, and what are popcorn balls,
remember? Yeah, right. Exactly. You know, what binds that together. Maybe it's the cream cheese.
Yeah, that's true. Another pairing that they gave us is sushi and coffee.
Oh, I have not experienced that. We have not. But now I'm going to have to try and see what it's
like. You get a wonder too, though. Or they just like, nobody's going to try this. We'll just
go throw this out there. We'll just throw it out there. Where's the adventurous eaters?
They got to, you got to fill out the article. We just need one more. I do. How about Parmesan
and dark chocolate cookies? So it's just a different type of cheese because we, we talked about
a couple episodes of that. Chocolate and cheese brownies. So chocolate and cheese. They do go
well together. Yes, that's true. That's the first one and one of the first of many that I've
heard of these kind of things. It's usually a combination of something I like and something I don't
like. I love both of those things. So that one, I feel like I'm going to try. I never know.
You never know. How about peanut butter and chocolate cake? Oh, that's an easy one. That's
so bad. Yeah, chocolate and peanut butter again. Two things that go really well together.
All right. Potato chips and tuna salad. Yep. Put them in the sandwich. I've seen people do
that before. Totally see that. And I think it's not sold on this one. Well, I don't know what he
feels about with tuna fish. Yeah, I was going to say you may not be a fan of tuna. It's the smell.
And to be fair, both my Nana Papa, my mom and dad love it. So I just grew up hearing you smelling
it so much. That would do it. That would do it. Actually, I just had a phenomenal tuna meal at
El Café last week. They know how to do it well. I'm telling you. Chex mix and cereal treats.
So we think about the chex cereal and cereal bars, but this is the mix set. Oh, okay. Yeah,
the season stuff, right? Yeah. And things like that as a treat. So that sweet and sour,
that sweet and salty kind of combination. So that would be interesting. Yep.
Bree and chili crisp. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So I know what Bree is.
Chili crisp. Yeah, that's what I don't know what that is. Okay. Literally serving a creamy tangy
French cheese with spicy savory chili crisp is one of the favorite combos. So it's a crunchy
chili condiment. So it's kind of like a chili chutney kind of thing. Oh, wow.
It's insane. Oh, wow. I want to make that. I want to try that. Yeah. I'm intrigued.
Yeah. I'm intrigued. Yeah. Oreos and cheeses.
I have one at home that might just dive right into this one.
Anders loves both. Yeah. So yeah, he might try that one. Yeah. I love cheeses.
Yep. So sometimes I'm the easiest coach. Yeah. So those are just 10 different combos
that maybe we would never have put together, but could be good. And the kitchen is a great way
to place to experiment and things like that. Did you have a listener text in Swedish meatballs
with egg noodles? Oh, yeah. Oh, I don't know. You're stretching me. You're stretching me.
How about tuna sandwich with sour cream and onion chips and pickles? Oh, that would work.
Yeah. That would work really well. Yeah.
That would be great. With the chips on the sandwich too.
Exactly. Or you use the chips to you use the tuna salad as a dip.
Yep. Right. That would work too with the pickles. Yep. Yep.
So excellent. Yeah. That's great.
Great suggestions. Yeah. Thank you. Keep them coming. If you have any ideas, please text me.
You can text in the text line. Let us know what those ideas are. You can email me
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Yeah. All right. Another great one. Yeah. That was great. Beth, nice work. Thank you.
Very nice work. Be listening every Monday right in this time slide. Everybody for another
episode of the Kitchens Open with Beth Habhacker. We'll take a time out. We'll come back at
some more fun on the morning show. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Want to send a big shout out to Beth Habhacker and the nice work she does every
week with the Kitchens Open. Oh yeah. Did you hear me shouting at my radio?
Yeah, yeah. No, we did not. But you're all your all caps text came through a lot of the
clear. It was pretty good. Yeah. I like that. It got stuck. I'm sorry.
It got stuck. No, the garlic, the crunchy garlic chili sauce. Well, I have one that's got
garlic in it. It tastes so good. See now I want to try it now. It's an amazing
condiment. It's so many, so many Asian dishes. It would be fantastic over cheese. Oh, now I
really want to try it. All right, let's go. We dive into entertainment news now.
Dolly Parton has made her first public appearance since the passing of her husband Carl Dean.
On Friday, Dolly attended a special event for Dollywood season pass holders in Tennessee.
It should be noted that nobody expected her, including her fellow employees and some. I should
say fellow employees because now that's way Dolly puts it. Her fellow employees, not care.
Her, her, her, her employees, right, yeah, workers, right. But so nobody expected her to be there.
And everybody was understanding about it. And just as importantly, the people that showed up,
like the fans that showed up didn't expect her to do some, but she still showed up.
She thanked fans for their cards and flowers and said, of course, I will always, I always love him
and I'll miss him. But I want you to know that I will always love you. Dollywood is celebrating
its 40th anniversary season this year. Wow. Wow.
Is amazing. Forgive me, everybody. I really do say this with apology and trying to say with respect.
Is Graceland still open and running? Yes. It is. It is. Okay. You can still do tours there. Yep.
Can like regardless how you feel about Elvis or Dolly or any of this stuff, can we just kind of
admit that I mean, I should say to me at least, I think that's kind of cool. I think it's kind of
cool that those things still exist. Yeah. That they're still something and that they matter.
In this day and age, where if you want to know something about either one of those individuals,
I Google it. I look it up. Yeah. All the information right there. Yeah. But people still want to
actually be there and actually experience that stuff. Yeah. It's a type of like theme parts,
parts sort of thing that's kind of fallen out of practice because of those things you mentioned.
Exactly. That's interesting. And just when you look up the word class in the dictionary,
you will see Miss Parton smiling back at you. She is the definition of that. She is. It's
pretty cool. I hope she's healing well. Yeah. Going on to another direction here. So a
doors fans looks like Jim Morrison might be alive. He's been hiding out in Syracuse, New York as a
maintenance worker named Frank. At least that's according to a documentary called Before the End
Searching for Jim Morrison. Oh my. It's been on Apple TV Plus since January, but for some reason,
it started to get attention now. The movie claims Morrison faked his death and went into hiding,
eventually meeting this guy meeting this guy Frank and assuming his identity. Frank,
quote unquote, Frank actually speaks in the documentary and even has a scar in his nose where
Morrison had a mole. In the movie, the filmmaker shows a picture of Frank to two of Morrison's
ex-girlfriends and they burst into tears as at the resemblance. Because Frank looks an awful lot
like Jim Morrison. Okay. Yeah. He does. He looks a lot like him. He sure does. He is not him.
He is not. I can save you all a lot of time, two hours or whatever of your lives.
You will not get that documentary. I will say one thing that's interesting to me is the fascination
with the concept of this. Yes. For many, many years, I've had people try to commit. I personally
think the Tupac was the greatest rapper of all time. Sure. And a big, big fan of his. I've had people
and, you know, well, you know, he's still around or you know, he's still doing this or he's
also like, can I, can I say two things here? One, I don't begrudge people wherever they want to
take their imaginations. As long as you ain't hurting anybody, that's fine. What I don't appreciate
is when people try to take advantage of other people with that. And that's a good point.
You know, hey, you want to, you want to find this so and so, you want to read so about so and so,
we'll watch my documentary or watch my this or buy my this or something. That, that pushes me
a little way. It seems a little wonky. Yeah, a little. But also to all the, the musicians that we're
talking about with this, whether it's Elvis or Jim Morrison or Tupac or whoever, I would,
I would imagine if you are, if you are an artist and you do this, it feels a little lame at this
point. Like it's been done, you know, and there's a whole movie on this. There's Eddie and the
Cruisers. It's, it's never going to be done better than the movie Eddie and the Cruisers. Like,
you know the same thing because you've seen it 6,000 times. Yes, yes, 100%. I do, I do love the idea
of like trying to pull this off if you are Jim Morrison or Elvis or any of these things. I mean,
seriously, like I kind of, I kind of almost like there's a part of my curiosity that just can help
itself and the idea of like if this actually, like just once, if this actually were, like this is
been a theme in a, in a, in a, a theory that we've thrown around about artists forever, like even go
even before Elvis. This is something that was, yeah, but I don't, but there's no rhyme or reason
behind it. It's not as if, you know, so and so had been hiding for 30 years and it turns out,
you know, Paul Inc. is alive and Paul Inc. has been, well, it's such a, it's such a, it's such a good
plot line. It is. And it's something that I think peaks all of our imagination and our, our,
our wish for, you know, the, the, what we can't have. Someone to come back from the dead,
someone that we loved and, and looked up to and, and enjoyed how they entertained us. It would
be fantastic. Is it possible? That would take a lot of dedication from someone who had a successful
career and when they're like, I'm just going to check out for 30 years. I'll come back when I'm
old and regularly. Right. Yeah. Well, how about this, Melissa? It's, it's the, it's the idea that
having secret knowledge. Yeah. Really? That's why conspiracies are so prevalent.
Conspiracy theories and having that secret knowledge. And again, this has been something since
the dawn of humans. You know, I have the secret knowledge that for, I mean, it may, it may not
change anything, but it's, it's because I have it. And that means I know, you know, I know when
you don't know, and I've got the secret. Yeah. That kind of stuff. So I think an interesting note
too is what Melissa says about how it's tough for us to let go of these individuals sometimes.
And it just helps sometimes the healing process of thinking, you know, yeah, Tupac died really
young and, and, and, and, you know, pointlessly. But maybe he's often Hawaii, you know, just,
literally, growing his hair out and having drossed the dreads. Or I don't know. I mean,
it helps sometimes for people with this because we have no actual, we, we're not going to the funeral.
We don't, we don't really know them. So our morning, that morning process is very different than
the people that really know that his actual family. Again, I don't begrudge anybody, any of
this stuff, unless you're trying to take advantage of others or hurting other people. They can
a buck off of somebody's grief legacy. You're just sitting there one to talk about it with your
friends or anything. Yeah, it's no problem with that. I mean, what it is. Oh, you're okay with
that. Well, then, James, I know. Oh boy. As long as you're not over sensationalizing it, you know,
that's the thing. Yes. Yes. It's going to be. This is alive. It's going to be a very long
time. Yeah, right. It's going to be very, very long. By the way, Paul, it's still alive. It's still alive.
Like it's fine. It's also noteworthy. But you're right. Melissa used a perfect word for it,
sensationalizing. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to think of it earlier. That's a good word. You're
welcome. And I wanted to share this good, early good story of the day with everybody. And this
comes to us from sfgate.com, a wonderful website, wonderful paper, sfgate. I encourage you to check
that out. A youth theater production rises from the ashes of the Los Angeles fires. Oh, man.
Oh, right. So the day after her house burned down, Laura Gans sent a group message to the youth
theater troupe she runs that they would not let the Los Angeles firestorm stop their upcoming show.
Quote, so many of our castmates have lost everything. Roe Gans, the director of the youth's
theater production. We will continue with rehearsals. I am confident we will find a stage.
Okay. The devastating January 7th fire gutted every inch of the 125 seat Pearson
playhouse from the basement to the roof, leave behind only one mangled steel skeleton.
Many of the young actors watched on TV as their homes and their fellow castmates homes burned
down. About half of the show's 45 cast members aged eight to 17, lost their homes and couldn't
yet and can't yet return because of severe damage, right? But the show did go on. A two-week run
of the musical Crazy for You opened in a nearby school auditorium making a triumph at return to
the stage for a community determined to see its theater rise from the ashes. Wow. Amazing. Amazing.
The experience not only lifted the youth performers of the theater palisades youth group,
but the community in general. I can totally see that. This is a quote from Calum Gans,
17, the director's son. The first time I felt happy after the fire was when I walked into
the first rehearsal. Yeah. Amazing. Wow. It is the power of performing. Yes. Absolutely.
Coming together, man, it's the show must go on and they really took it at its word.
Yeah. It took it hard. Absolutely did. Yeah. It's one of my favorite phrases and it's an important
one, I think, but it's also probably never been more know worthy, I think I'm telling you.
I've used it a billion times, but I've never used it accurately like these people are.
And on top of that, when they published, they posted some things on social media about this,
parents took to social media and posting pleas for donations. They were met with an outpouring of
generous and generosity from artistic community stretching from Hollywood to Broadway. Nice.
Emmy award-winning hairstylist, Joey Zapata, saw one of the posts emailed the mother who wrote it
to make sure it wasn't a scam and then put out a call to her friends in the business world.
Quote, I have done horror films with 100 extras running down the Pacific coast highway,
but this time the story was real and it blew me away. So her and some other hair and makeup people
came down and like gave the kids like all of this like a professional. That's amazing. And we're
a wonderful Broadway actress Carrie Butler, a Tony nominated and winner of Beetlejuice and so
many other things. She was down there coaching the kids and then sat in the audience and watched
the shows. I was going to say, man, that's something they will never forget. Man, try
up in the face of adversity. I mean, there's no better story than that. It really isn't.
That's fantastic. It's the power of theater, the power of the arts,
how they can bring us together. Oh, so much. We will take a quick time out into our new sports
and partner break. We'll be coming back with some more fun. We've got to get into how many
episodes does it take to know if you like a show? And we're going to talk about a local name,
the Big Mac guy. The Big Mac guy had a milestone. We're going to talk about that coming up on The
Morning Show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WF HR, locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth
and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Got a couple of fun
topics. We'll get to in a moment, but Seth, you had our text line going on. Yeah, a couple of
things you're wanting to throw out their Patrick from Wisconsin Rapids sent us a limerick
in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Now, I've checked it out. It's okay to say on the air.
Okay. I was like, clean limerick. It's raining with the sensor. Just in case. So here we go.
There was a tired worker on staff who could barely muster a laugh when we asked him why his
answer seemed dry. He replied that he only drank decaf. Oh, I love it. Thank you Patrick. Oh,
that's fantastic. My mom and dad love those. I'm going to share that with my parents later.
That's great. Thank you, Patrick. And then after she left, Beth also texted in another movie
for everyone to check out in St. Patrick's Day. It said in Ireland, not necessarily St. Patrick's
Day. It's called Circle of Friends, starring Mini Driver and Chris O'Donnell. I forgot about that one.
Yes. I love Mini Driver. Yeah, she's good. I was in high school. I think when that came out,
and I was a gigantic Mini Driver fan. So I remember that one. Yeah. It's a good, nice job, Beth.
Yes. We'll talk a little bit more about episodes in that in a moment, but we've got to touch
on this one real quick, because this is a local guy we got to get to here. 71 year old Don Gorsky
of Wisconsin. Just hit another milestone. He, he might remember him as the Big Mac guy.
He had his first Big Mac in 1972 and loved it so much. He ate two more than he went back the same
day and ate six more. So nine total and he hasn't stopped since then. He has averaged two Big
Macs a day for 53 years. Good day. A day. Is he eating anything else? It's a good question.
That is a good question. And he hit 35,000 on Saturday. Wow. He did it at the same McDonald's
in Fondalack where he found the first Big Mac. How about that? I hope they give him a plaque.
They think they have done that. Yes. Fans deserves it. They've been more licensed seat, I believe.
Yes. We talked about him before. Yes. Yeah. This is I think this is nothing on that day. I don't
remember this. He handed out, he even handed out commemorative buttons and coupons for a free
value meal. Oh, that's really cool. He's been open from, he's been open about having OCD and says
it's why he's so obsessed with them. Okay. claims that they make up at least 90% of his diet.
So he walks six miles a day to make it make up for it. See? I was right. 90% of his diet.
Because that's a lot of calories. Yeah, but he keeps in shape. Look at that. That's impressive.
That is impressive. Wow. Wow. He, in part of the reason that he has come out with this story
and everything's to bring some open mind in this to OCD and that struggles that people have with
that to the point of it's not just the burgers, but you mentioned that six miles he walks, he has
to walk that like it's part of his. It's part of his. Yeah. His obsession with the burgers. He
is just as obsessed with the exactly six miles. He earned a Guinness World Record in 1999 after
15,000 Big Macs and he takes his record very seriously. He claims he's saved every receipt
in every Big Mac container. Oh, my goodness. We have an extra Romanist house. That's going to
say, well, there's no question. They can just count the boxes and they'll know exactly how many he ate.
Oh, my goodness. He actually had to dial it back last week to make sure he hit 35,000 on the
nose in the three days leading up to it. He only had one Big Mac. Congratulations to him,
not only on this, of course, but on everything. Yeah, that's fantastic. We got to give him my
midday magazine. If I have to order something at McDonald's, I go for a Big Mac every time.
Yeah, that's my go to say I want to. I'm telling you, well, because it's, you know,
that it's so consistent, you know, tastes the same. So I'm guessing that's one of the reasons why
it's been good for him. So wow, that's amazing. And it's a really easy thing to ask for without
cheese. That's true. That's right. It should be noted as well. Also, amazing sideburns. I'm
Mr. Gorsky. Amazing. Oh, I haven't seen it. I never saw a picture of amazing sideburns.
Nice. Got an interesting one here. There's a new study based on IMDB ratings where IMDB
for those who don't know is internet movie database. And it found out that you should give a new show
in average of six episodes to get good. Well, six. That seems like a lot. That's a big commitment for
me here. And here are 12 shows that took a little while to hit their potential. And the number of
episodes it took to reach its potential. Okay. So interesting. Interesting. Interesting, interesting
to just convert conversation, I think. Breaking bad six. Dr. Who six. Friends seven. Oh, South
Park eight. Seinfeld 16. That one makes sense to me. That actually makes sense. Yeah. It's so
it's South Park. Yeah. Yeah. It's so different. Yeah. It's always sunny and Philadelphia eight.
Buffy the vampire slayer eight. Community seven. Brooklyn nine nine six. Agents of shield 13.
That one I believe as well. Because I was one of those people that took one. Get going on it.
The 100 took 100. No, nine. Nice. Nice. And Bojack Horseman with eight. There is a complete list of
much more here and everything. We're just giving you a kind of a parameter here of what it is.
Right. I'm I'm really bad at this. The older now when I was younger, I was fine with it.
But the older I've gotten and the more I work and the more busy. I'm you. Yes. Yeah.
It's so tough like breaking bad for me. It's funny that it showed up on this list because this is
my number one example of this. That's an amazing show done with amazing production, amazing
writing with fantastic actors that I love. I will watch everything these guys do. Those main
big actors from the show and everything big fans seen two episodes. I couldn't get past the
first one. I couldn't I couldn't. Yeah. The first and honestly after the first episode,
I thought it was so good. I'm like, well, I'm good. Like I you know, like I it was really it was
that kind of I thought the first episode was fantastic. No, no, no. Now on the other side of it,
the first two episodes of criminal minds, I watched every episode of that series just because
of those first two episodes. Wow. It was it never for me. It was an amazing show that had
amazing episodes and amazing writing, but it never got better than those first two episodes
for me. It was like a movie. It was the way that they ended the first one going into the next one
and it all was so well done. It's when TV is done right like that. In certain shows, I think what
Melissa was touching on there was really important too because it's not just the fans that got to
get their bearings, but the writers that got to figure this out. Oh, I totally believe I have
that the theory of TV writing or not even I mean, I think this is the issue they had with radio
back in the day, the same kind of thing. You got to get your sea legs, man. Right. So you got
to you got to get them to like at least like the middle of the second season is usually when they
start finding their voice kind of thing. And then they can go I mean occasionally shows can just
write off the bat, you know, and just shoot off. That's right. Community was like that for me.
I was absolutely from the get go. Love that show. That was my that was one of the one I was
going to use as the best example I think of this is that pilot episode and the way that it grew
after that pilot episode where the writers, this is another thing that I think is incredibly
intelligent that when the writers Dan Harmon, one of my favorites and so many others decided,
well, we've got all these amazing talented actors here. We're going to let them do some
of the writing too. We're going to work with them. We got Joel McHale. I think one of the funniest
TV actors of all time, all time, one of my favorites of all time, whether it's talk soup or it's
the million shows he's done. He's in a show right now that's really good. I love Joel McHale.
Big, big fan and they let him in the writing room more and then community grew into what it was.
I think one of the best TV shows I've ever seen. Maybe it's Dan Harmon.
Dan Harmon's huge in this. Because he did that with, he also did that with Rick and Morty,
because that was another show that just bam, hit the ground running. And I'm going to express
an unpopular opinion here. You didn't mention it on the list, but games of throne is one that's
very like breaking bad for me. I couldn't get past the first episode and it was so hugely popular
and everybody's like, oh, you just have to keep watching. And I'm like, no, I can't. I even tried
listening to the book. I bought the audio book. And I couldn't get past chapter three.
I was the exact opposite Melissa. I had read several of the books before it came out. And I gave
up at one point because I was like, this is dumb. And I got tired. But I did the same. I watched
the first episode and I watched half of the second. And I was like, nope. I'm done. I'm not,
I don't need to watch it anymore. This is why we're hate mates. This is why.
What brings us together. That's right. Our hate. But just between us, I only watched Game of Thrones
because of my sister needed somebody to talk to about it. I believe that. I totally believe that.
I thought that there was a lot of good acting, but I thought the writing wasn't, you know,
just too much. And that they were trying too hard. It felt a little similar to some of the other
things I've heard about Barton. Yeah. Yeah. Then you get rid of one of your best actors.
You know, anytime you get rid of Sean Bean, what are you doing? Yeah, you can't know. Don't get
rid of Sean Bean. So Seinfeld was so much about this on the other side where they had an idea
and they were going to stick to it. But the audience it took a while to kind of get into it. Absolutely.
It did. Yeah. And when you watched those really early episodes, it's like, what is this?
Yes, exactly. Even with all the history we have now. Yeah. Yeah. But when you see those first
ones, it's just kind of like, whoa, this is I'm not familiar with this type of. I don't know.
I think it's a good note on just in general, giving, giving shows a chance. But to me. Netflix.
Yes. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you, Melissa, because you did. That's exactly where I wanted to wrap
with this. Jacked at their prices again, too. While it's important to certainly two audiences and
everything, I think that to the creative community, when you give people an opportunity to breathe
in a chance to grow, you get great work. All of these shows we mentioned, whether you up there,
like them or not are incredibly popular, made those, those businesses and a lot of money.
A lot of money. It's just smart business to give things a chance to breathe. Whether we're talking
about sports or entertainment or whatever it might be, things need a chance to learn how to do what
they're doing and adapt. Nobody has graded anything when they first start out. Michael Jordan didn't
learn, you know, dribbling or he wasn't a perfect dribbler. The first time picked up a basketball.
Of course not. I mean, you got to give people a chance to breathe and grow. At the same time,
I think it's also understandable to how much of a link at least you write.
Right. Of course now episodes shows are only 10 episodes long. So give him sick. You might
as well finish it. It's interesting. We will take a time out. We'll come back and wrap up the show.
Morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great start to your week out there. Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Seth Melissa and James here. We're going to wrap up the show. Take it to the top of the hour.
I'm going to get into our schedule here and plenty more while we're at it. I've got some good
stories and other things to share. But do you want to encourage you to stick around,
Matt and Aaron, air coming up. Yeah. Join Jane and Greg. I've got a great way to lead you into the
noon hour looking for some fun there a little bit later today. We'll have midday magazine for you
from four to five. And today we are going to be kicking off something our spring candidate
interviews. Yes. So behind the scenes for weeks now, Pam has been working very hard with a lot of
our local candidates to work out a schedule where they can come in. I can talk with them and do
what WFHR has done for 80 plus years. Each candidate, we ask the same candidates,
same questions as their other candidates. We give them all equal time and are trying to play
them in equal times of the day. Yes. We're trying to make sure everything is as even as possible.
Right. I do want to thank every one of these candidates for coming in and putting up with my
questions and everything. We've got some great individuals out there and I want to use this as
well as an opportunity to remind everybody that government runs from the people, that we the
people, no matter how whether we're talking local government or state government or national
government. It doesn't matter. It is about the people, we the people. And these individuals that
are with us, whether you agree with them or not, are taking time out of their day to be a part of
this. And we thank them. I appreciate every single one of these individuals. Today in midday
magazine at four o'clock, we'll be talking to Vito and Carl and Tim, who are all running for a
town of Rome supervisor and Mark, who is running for a town, also Mark, who is running for a town
of Rome supervisor. So that will be that part for part one and part two today. Nice.
And then on Tuesday in the five o'clock hour, we will from five to six, we will have those
running for Port Edwards Village President, Wisconsin School Board and Port Edwards School Board
and Rome Board Supervisor. Okay. We will be having those individuals and we'll talk more about
that tomorrow when we'll be playing it. Yes. But be on lookout for these everybody and we will
also be doing some more with this and we have a couple more candidate interviews to come yet.
After that, we'll have playmakers for you from five to six. Be sure to join us for it.
Once your sports takes and feelings everybody, big sports weekend with the NC bracket being
announced. Local teams got plenty to talk about today. Go ahead and join us from five to six.
Monday through Monday, Wednesday and Friday for playmakers. Big thank you to quality
post printing and family and that's your foods for sponsoring it. Very nice.
Tomorrow on the show joining Melissa and I, we're going to have Jeremy Schmidt,
Joe as stopping by. He's going to be talking about Sand Slicer and I got a great business,
part of the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. One of the things we do with new chamber
members, bring them on and get to know them a little bit. I thought he was fine.
We're going to wait to hear what that is about. Yeah, it's going to be fun.
No invention, yeah. Look forward to it. And remind everybody about some local events going on in
their area. Like tomorrow, we got a blood drive happening. Yeah. Blood drive from 10 to 3 tomorrow
over the Wisconsin Rapids former East of your junior high room at room 111 and 311 Lincoln Street
Wisconsin Rapids encourage you to find out more by going to communityblood.org and make plans
tomorrow from 10 to 3 to stop on by and donate. All right. And Seth, we had some other things.
A couple more things to get to. Yeah. On Wednesday coming up here at the first,
excuse me, the seventh day Adventist Church at 611 24th Street North. They have a free community
meal from 430 to 530 pm. Doors open at 415. So a value yourself of that coming up on Wednesday.
And then on Thursday, the big show everybody, we've got Mr. Michael Kavanaugh playing the
music of Billy Joel and Elton John. You're going to want to get your tickets. Today,
everyone go to savorthearts.com. Pick your seat. Find out how many tickets are available.
Still, I'm sure this one is going to be a very busy show, very popular show. So get your tickets
right now. That one's coming up on Thursday, the 730. I believe it's when it starts. Yes.
Is there somewhere? Yes, there it is. 730. This Thursday at the Performing Arts Center of
Wisconsin Rapids. So get your tickets. Today, everyone, it's going to be a great show.
And you want those tickets. Call up right now. 715 424 2600. I got two tickets right here.
Just give me one of your favorite theater shows, favorite plays. Something like that. Doesn't
have to be Broadway. Yeah. You know, extra points if it's a Broadway show. But regardless,
we just want to hear one of your favorite plays and get these tickets in your hands. So you can
make plans to see Mr. Kavanaugh this Thursday at the Performing Arts Center. Shut up Sally,
Eric, and all of our friends. And I shut up to Michael for joining us on midday. What a great
interview you guys. He was fun. Yeah. He was really good. Really, really a humble guy too.
If you missed it, you can check that out on wfhtr.com. Yeah. Head on over there. Bookmark that page,
everybody. Yes. The Portland Trailblazers have been testing out a new device that helps
visually impaired fans enjoy live games. They recently became the first NBA team to add a one
court, one court devices. They're little pads that vibrate and tell you what's happening.
There's also an audio feed that pairs with it. They have five of them available for free at home
games. A kid named Hank Vogel recently got to try it and loved it. He said it's the first time
he's really been able to enjoy a live sporting event. How cool is that? How awesome is that?
Wow. Food. Amazing. Food scientists are working on a new type of great fruit that doesn't mess
with medications. People on some cholesterol and blood pressure meds can't have it.
Right. It also clashes with certain antibiotics and around 80 other medications.
Geez. I didn't know that. I thought just that was nowhere that dangerous. Great fruit.
Really? No. Yeah. And a study found playing with a dog for 15 minutes leaves you and the dog
feeling less stressed. Oh. They proved it by measuring cholesterol levels in saliva.
Interestingly. Okay. But volunteer, the health, the, the, I mean, humane society. Yeah.
Yeah. It's got it out. Um, uh, I don't know if it was the saliva from the individual or the dog.
I don't know who they, yeah, maybe a ball, maybe a ball. Um, and again, just want to send a shout out
to all of our local teams and all the great, uh, work. When are lose? We appreciate your way,
love them. Yes. Good stuff, guys. And a great show today, you too. This is a great,
great day. Happy safe Patrick's Day. Everybody enjoy. Be good to each other out there.
And we will talk to you sooner than later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320
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