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up for you. But it's a Monday in the 10 o'clock hour. You know what that means.
Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR. Today is one sweet day.
It's one of my favorite days. I hope we get to celebrate it home later. What am I missing?
Is it just Monday? It's also a national pie day. Oh, Beth wasn't that on March 14th? You know,
314. I thought that's when it wasn't. Yes, James, that was national pie day. But today is a
specific kind of pie day. Can I share? Can I? Well, since it's one of your favorites, go ahead.
All right. It's called him, please. It's national blueberry pie day. That's right. This is
electable. Yeah. So one of your top tiers, I know. So this electable treat has its own day. Since
it's one of many different berries used for filling between flaky buttery crusts, let's explore
this small but mighty or a shall we? Did you know that the blueberry is actually quite old?
It's been in North America for over 13,000 years. Holy moly. Wow. Nice. Yeah. According to the US
Highbush Blueberry Council on their website, blueberry.org, our favorite boost of blue isn't new.
Blueberries native to North American have been part of life here for 13,000 years. The first
Highbush Blueberry bush was successfully cultivated for commercial production in the early 1900s.
And today we grow nearly 1 billion pounds of blueberries in North America each year.
The council also shares that Native Americans were the first to recognize the versatility and
health benefits of blueberries using them for medical purposes and as natural flavoring.
The USDA shares on its website, the development of cultivated blueberries began in the early 1900s
through the collaboration of Elizabeth White and USDA botanist Frederick Covell.
Living on a cranberry farm in New Jersey, White started conducting her own research into
Wild Highbush Blueberry plants in the 1890s. Covell began his research on cultivating wild blueberries
in 1908. After they began corresponding, White eventually invited Covell to work with her
on her family farm. They became business partners in 1911, harvesting and selling their first
commercial crop of blueberries in 1916. So how many of us had actually thought about when
blueberries started becoming commercial? No clues. This is all loose stuff. That's a great
topic. I can't imagine the first time you see a blueberry or taste it, especially because
if it's not being popular beforehand, that's right. Yeah, so the article goes on to say,
since then, commercial blueberry production has expanded in the United States and to every continent
except Antarctica. Enabled by advances in genetics and production practices, blueberries were
grown in at least 30 countries in 2019 and in a variety of climates. That's interesting right
there because you would think it would take a certain type of climate with a lot of trees and
things like that, but this can grow in a variety of them. The major classes of blueberry plants are
now grown commercially, our high bush, low bush, sometimes referred to as wild,
half high across between the high bush and the low bush species, rabbit eye and southern
high bush. Plant production can be short or long lived with some cultivator plants productive for
as little as one to five years or as long as 40 to 60 years. Nice. Wow, that's impressive.
Blueberries also have several health benefits. According to the U.S. High Bush Blueberry Council,
blueberries are a healthy, stress-free food. You get fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K,
manganese and potassium in every handful of blueberries at just 80 calories per cup. Wow.
They're also low in sodium and have virtually no fat, so it feels good to feel good about what you
eat. This is all very fascinating, but when do we, when are we getting to the pie part? Yeah,
a little important part, yes. Sure. How about right now? A lot of people are intimidated when it
comes to making pies. So this can be a very intimidating day. There are a lot of steps and they
can take a lot longer to bake than a lot of other baked goods. So there are a few hacks that you can
use to make a pie in less time. So if you're like me, I don't make a lot of pies because the crust
itself is just intimidating to try to make and they can be difficult to get the right
consistency. So you can always buy premade pie crusts and can blueberry filling from your local grocery
store. So it's as easy as getting that. Now you would think you could just then dump the pie
filling into the pie crust and put it into the oven. But there are a couple of little extra steps
to help make it set properly and even better. So the crusts don't need to be pre-baked,
so you can easily add a bunch of a little bit of cornstarch to thicken that filling.
Maybe a dash of vanilla to add a little bit of taste, a little bit of lemon juice to highlight
the flavor of the blueberry in that canned filling. And then pour that mixture into the crust
and put it in the oven. However, if you are willing to take the time, you can make an even better
version on your own. All right. So there are several different crust recipes that you can find online
if you type in easy pie crust. You can do that. Maybe you have a family one that you want to use.
The key to making a good crust is to use cold butter or some type of other fat, like shortening.
A lot of in the past, the best pie crusts were made with lard. The lard is very heavy in fat
and not very good for your heart. Not as easy to find anymore. It's not as easy to find. My mama
always used shortening when she made pie crusts. And you can also just use a combination of the two
instead of just using butter or shortening because they have different melting points, being able to
use both will make it even flakier. And you can get mom a little baby love shortening.
You can get to do that. Exactly. So and there are others that don't even use a lot of that. You can
make them in the pie crust itself in the pie pan itself or sometimes you need to get a roller and
cut them properly. So food.com had a great recipe that does use the pre made store bought pie crusts.
But it's still easy. All you need to do is preheat your oven to 400 degrees, sprinkle five cups
of blueberry in a bowl with a tablespoon of lemon juice and set aside. All right. So that helps
to preserve that and brings out a little bit more of that flavor. Fit half of the pastry because
usually when you buy the store bought there are two flattened crusts in there. So you use one you
you fit that in the bottom of a nine inch pie plate according to the package directions. Then
combine in the with the blueberries actually in a separate small bowl one cup of sugar or sugar
substitute a half a cup of all purpose flour and eighth teaspoon of salt and a half a teaspoon
ground cinnamon in a small bowl and then you add that to the berries and make sure you stir it well
let them and you might have to mush a little bit of the blueberries to moisten the the flower
that's in there. Once you've done that pour it into the pastry cell and dot with two tablespoons
of butter. Now when it says dot that means that you cut up some cold butter so that you have
little squares or just smaller parts and you put it throughout the top of that pie. Sure.
Then you unfold the remaining pastry on a light flowered surface roll it gently with a rolling pin
to remove creases in the pastry place the pastry over the filling seal and crimp the edges
then make sure to cut slits in the top of the crust so that you can allow the steam to escape.
Another little hack to make sure that you don't get bubbles over or pie filling over the pie
put a cookie sheet and then wrap underneath when you're baking so that any of the stuff that bubbles
over out of the pie shell itself gets caught. Doesn't end up in your oven, right? Yeah. But before
you put that pie into the oven you want to brush the top of the pastry with beaten eggs and
sprinkle with a teaspoon of sugar. You're going to bake it at 400 degrees for 35 minutes or
until golden brown. Now during the baking look for when it starts to brown you may want to get
a aluminum foil covering for around the edges so that you don't over brown it so it doesn't get
burned. And then once it's baked let it cool completely so that the filling has that time to set.
Just don't do it on the windowsill so bears will come by and steal it. Cartoon bears specifically.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yogi. Steal your pie. Looks like a pretty good pie. I have to deal with the human
bear in my house going around and see what I have to worry about. I'm not that hairy. When it comes
to baking as opposed to cooking it does feel like you have to keep an eye on it a little bit more.
Baking is a little more like a children and cooking is a little bit more like adults.
It's a little feels like a lace. It's all I have. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes and certain things you
do need to make sure that they set properly. Now remember you're using flour in the filling and
flour needs to be baked to a certain level so that you don't get Listeria or Seminilla. There are
other types of diseases you can get so you want to make sure that it's fully baked. You also want
to give it at least four hours to cool so that it does set up and you don't get a very runny
that center filling to it. Well give yourself some grace with this you know it and nobody gets
it right the first time. I take you a couple of times especially something like this but it feels
like it could be such a rewarding thing. Absolutely. And often people don't bake because it's only
one person you know when I was a single person I didn't do a lot of cooking and baking because I
didn't want to have to be the one to eat everything. And to bake a whole pie that has to get eaten
in a certain amount of time. Right. That that becomes intimidating. So there's a recipe on the US
High Bush Blueberry Council's website again that's blueberry.org for air fryer blueberry hand pies.
I saw that. That's amazing. Yeah. So easy and would be a good grab and go for one person and once
you bake them you can freeze them and then just take them out and reheat them when you want to.
So it's a nice little sweet treat and you get your little blueberry pie and you can take it
with you where you go instead of having to use your fork for soon. So awesome. Great idea.
Pie our pies are great pies are good for any occasion. You should take pie over cake pie is great.
Did I read that right? Yeah. Yeah. You weren't supposed to give him an extra script. No,
sorry. Just had to get that in there. Slip all hail pie pies now. It's getting a little
little bit overboard there. Yeah. If you want to learn a little bit more about
national blueberry pie day, I encourage you to go to nationalday.com. They have some great
information about other ways that you can celebrate this. If you don't want to make a pie,
there are plenty of restaurants in the area that you can go to to check out a great homey. Like
oh, say our friends at El Café have all those pies that they make. They do and it's okay to have
some delayed gratitude satisfaction. So if you want to celebrate national blueberry pie day
tomorrow at El Café, there you go. There you go. Because it's not open today. Just remember that
everyone. But it is a sweet treat to have on any day and one thing that's always sweet around
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Nice. Oh, I'm so wanting pie right now. This segment always makes me hungry, but this time
it's set that it really does. Yeah, exactly. And if you're interested in those recipes, I will put
them in my little article for our newsletter, which you can sign up for if you go to our website.
Fantastic stuff, Beth. Nice work as always. Beth's going to stick around, work a little over time
with us here, because we're going to use it for the rest of the hour. We've got plenty of fun
things coming up, entertainment around the corner. But again, spread the word about this segment.
Let's make sure that all of our local restaurants know about it and everything. Get them a part of
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Spread the word. Everybody about the show. Be listening next Monday at 10 o'clock for another
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Let's get into some a little bit after our news and sports break. We'll have, dude,
you do hate any of these beloved foods. We'll get into that a little bit later. But right now,
just diving into some entertainment news, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 was announced
last night on American Idol. There are 13 inductees in the performers category. We have bad company,
Chubby Checker. Yes, we got it. Joe Cocker, Sydney Lopper, Outcast, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.
Oh, wow. Interesting mix. Yeah, Salt and Pepper and Warren Zeevon will be inducted in the musical
influence category. Excellent. No, they had that. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense, though, totally.
Three more are being recognized in the musical excellence category. R&B singer and producer Tom
Bell, pianist and organist Nikki Hopkins, and bassist Carol K. Yes, justice for Carol K.
I was thinking the same thing. Yeah. The husband had so many recordings. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. And I should say with her, I'm probably Nikki as well, and Amy Hopkins, but definitely,
Carol K. If there's a popular song you've enjoyed in the last 20 some years, it's probably,
you probably heard her. She played bass on so many songs starting in the 60s and just for decades,
she was on, she was a session musician, thousands of recordings, thousands she was on. Yes.
The Ahmet Ettergan award will go to Lenny War, War Honker. He was one of the, he was once the
president of Warner Brothers Records before co-founding Dreamworks records. Oh, yeah.
As for the snubs, Fish won the fan vote last week with over 330,000 votes, not surprised.
Bad company came in second and Billy Idle followed in third. Despite the love from the fans,
Fish and Billy Idle didn't get in. Wow. So the fan vote doesn't have a ton of influence
on who makes the whole. It only counts for a single ballot among roughly 1,200 that are cast.
This is just the second time that the winner of the fan vote didn't make it in. Previously, it was a
Dave Matthews band in 2020, but they finally got in last year. Right. So I don't think it's
surprising that both of these are jam bands. No. So they have a big following. Yes. For sure.
Yes. The induction ceremony will take place in November 8th in LA. It will stream live on Disney
Plus. It'll be available to stream on Hulu the next day and we'll get a special broadcast on ABC
at a later date. I always find these fun to watch. I know my mom and dad look forward to them every
year just because of the amount of different people that show up to do these songs. Right. Yeah.
Guests spots that are there and everything. That's the fun part. Seeing who's going to play like
their their special songs that that's always fun. Yeah. To me, this is meaningful and certainly
to each artist is going to mean something different. But I also look at this as a really great
opportunity to have a really wild rock concert. Oh yeah. Just amazingly different people that would
never walk to, you know, walk the same path together maybe or otherwise. Yeah. And can we can we
try to start doing something as a society? Can we make up our minds? Our Hall of Fame's
serious or fun? Are they a living fun museum that we get to go to? Right. Right.
I'm like, Oh, look at here. This is cool or whatever. Or no, this is serious. Somebody so and so
worked very hard to get to this particular place and everything. And because there's certain
Hall of Fame's majorly baseball. They take themselves way too seriously. Yeah, I agree. And then
there's some where I don't feel like they get any respect like the baseball Hall of Fame.
Right. Oh, anybody can get in there. I don't even know where it is. The basketball Hall of Fame
is incredibly different than any other type of Hall of Fame in baseball. If I played, well,
no, this isn't 100% true. Maybe a bad example. But if I was a huge Japanese artist, not my
stats aren't included with my baseball stats here in the States. Right. Exactly. Yeah.
Basketball, don't matter where you played around the world. It's your whole basketball career.
Not just your majorly busy, but your college, your pro, you played overseas, whatever it is.
It's all included. Exactly. Okay. Now, I'm not saying what the right way or wrong way to do this is,
but I do think it's kind of silly how we say, Oh, this one means something. This one doesn't.
Like, can't we just admit that these are museums? These are meant to be fun. They're meant to be
a walk down memory lane, a history of the game. So we're learning about stuff. Yeah, the educational
learning about these artists and everything. I mean, it just I would love to be like, Hey,
this is this because it's just right. It's like we can't make up our mind about this stuff.
It's a rock and roll Hall of Fame. Right. Every year, somebody gets bent out of shape that so
and so is not rock and roll. And they shouldn't be in there. Blah blah blah. Like, who are you in charge?
Right. Who made you the person who gets to decide what this and this is? It just seems silly to me.
Right. Well, and that's maybe that's our whole relationship with entertainment because I
put sports in with entertainment, right? Right. Oh, they are supposed to be fun, but we do take
them so seriously, you know, and maybe that's always the balancing act we're going to have to deal
with even with our Hall of Fame's and stuff. And this is when the Hall of Fame is a national treasure
again. There you go. Yeah. Because she didn't even take a fairies like, I'm not rock and roll,
what are you thinking? And then she puts out a rock album to justify. Right. Which was fun.
It's fun, right? It's entertaining. It should. I don't know. If it doesn't start with,
it should end with fun. Whatever we're talking about when the entertainment and especially the
the Hall of Fame. And this is coming from the most serious person on the planet. Like, I'm telling
people, you know, it's gone too far. Right. Speaking of serious, I have heard from many, many years
different people's takes and like, why does Yoda talk the way he does? And there's a lot of
different things I've actually heard people talk about with this one. But we finally actually
have an answer. If you've ever wondered why Yoda speaks backwards in Star Wars, well, George
Lucas finally gave us an answer during a 45th anniversary screening of the Empire Strikes Back.
Nice. Quote, because if you speak regular English, people won't listen that much. But if you had
an accent or it's really hard to understand what he's saying, they focus on what he's saying.
Quote, he was basically the philosopher of the movie. I had to figure out a way to get people
to actually listen, especially 12-year-olds. Yeah. I suppose. That makes sense. Yeah.
Is there big fans of the movies? So is that how we need to get the rules across to our kids?
Starts like Yoda? Like Yoda? Beth saw exactly where I wanted to go. Oh, yeah.
The dishes you do have. The dishes you have to do. Garbage needs to go out, yes.
Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. First, look at you. Like, what is wrong with you?
Exactly. Did you have a stroke? Yeah. Keep doing it. Yes. That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah. Also, let's all be thankful he didn't try using an accent. Yes.
Because God with that of age badly. Well, the other times he did choose to use an accent,
George, they did not age well. Yeah. I mean, even recent history, some stuff as an A-stew.
I think that one of the things that, especially with how much Star Wars stuff there is nowadays,
and how many different creatives you have in these worlds from John Favreau to the Ridley,
oh no, the guy that just did the last three. Oh, yeah, right. The director, right? DJ Abrams.
So many different hands and people in the kitchen now and everything. It kind of gets lost in the
shuffle. Not only that George Lucas get all this started, but he got it started from nothing.
Right. He's going outside of airports and getting kicked out of airports for trying to record
planes flying by stuff and some of these things. It really all starts in that brain of his.
Yeah. And the ideas and some of the things that it's amazing what so many creatives have done with
that universe for the decades since, especially in the last 10 years, where we've just an abundance
of stuff. But at all, I mean, I don't know if there's still anything more creative than the original
stuff he did. I think that's a really good point. And something that we should not normalize,
all of the Star Wars films except for maybe the first one were independent movies.
Yeah. He paid for them himself. He used the success from the first one to do the sequels and
stuff. And you know, whatever you think about the prequels and the sequels and all that,
he did it. He took a he took a chance that these were going to be successful and look at what he
what he created. So you got to give him credit for that. And we're wrapping up the just got a
couple of minutes left at a segment. But I do want to bring up a topic and I want the audience
to participate whenever they feel like whatever you can, you can go ahead and use the civic media app
to text us or call. Yeah. Encourage you to do that. Everybody because I want to know who is your
favorite Disney villain. I would I would give anything to have been in the the boardroom,
the creative room when they're all sitting there and they're like, okay, the Disney vault is no more.
You know, some of these movies we aren't able to rehash anymore. We need something new,
everybody. We what are we going to do? What are we going to do? And somebody raises their hand
and like, Hey, you know, we haven't really focused on the villains that much. Oh, thank you.
It flashed for 20 years later and almost everything is villain focused now.
From, you know, really to be fair, Melissa Fent I think really like they came out the gate strong.
Right. And that really set the bar. Not everything is hit the mark, of course. It never does. But
this again, it's Ben and Jerry decided, well, we're the biggest ice cream in the world. Why don't we
go ahead and expand our market and get make ice cream for, you know, vegans and non-dare people
with lactose intolerant. Right. Disney sees a whole end of they have not touched on.
Well, we got all these amazing villains that people love and we haven't put a lot of focus on them.
So let's go ahead and do some of that. And it has worked out so well for them. So I very, I think
this question is incredibly different now than it would have been back in the desert. I mean,
there are even in the process of putting a whole section of one of the parks in Florida to
devoted to the villains. Really? Oh, I didn't heard that. Wow. Interesting. Now, I wouldn't just
ask this question without doing some research and some homework and having somebody, you know,
that can actually add to the conversation here. So of course, I bring this topic up when I
have Beth here. Yes. For those that don't know, Beth worked a little bit over in the desert.
I did. I did. All does in the world. So I have to start with you, Beth. Do you have a favorite
Disney villain? Um, I think for me, I go back to Corolla theville and I don't know why. But I
just, I appreciate her. And it's more, I think maybe the Glenn Close Live action version of
Corolla. And then they, they read it and they do a whole movie with Emma Stone and she played that
to perfection. And I'm really hoping they do a sequel to that because it, it, there's a,
a lot of time between when that movie ends and when you get the storyline for a hundred and one
domination. Right. But yeah, I think she just has a depth, she added a depth to that character
that I really loved. Did you know what took me till I was like in my 30s till I realized that
her last name is devil? Yeah. Yeah. I was like, wait a minute. Her last, oh, geez. Yeah.
Can't believe it. See that. Oh, do you, uh, do you have a favorite villain? Do you have a
gosh? I'm trying to think I, you know, the name that does, I was just thinking about it now when
you were talking about it. And the name and the villain that popped in my head was Jafar.
And I like Jafar because I, I'm trying to figure out who the voice actor did such a great job
with, with him. Oh, yeah. But I had to look that up. But I, I just love his that, that's
sneering, the kind of like, like super evil. And you got that, you know, he's got the, the
Iago pair, you know, the comic relief with them and stuff like that. But I thought he was just so
like really, really, some of the villains can be more funny, you know, like you have, like, you
know, like Hades, like Hades, right from Hercules and that kind of stuff. Jafar is not funny at all.
He is like super sinister the whole way. And that's what I think I like about him. So those
are great ones. I forgot about the Hades one. I forgot that James Woods is really good. They
are really good at that. Danny DeVito is great. Matt one too. He's funny. Yes. Scar from the
Lion King dominates in the majority of the country. Oh, he's followed by my choice. Oogie
Boogie from the nightmare before Christmas. Of course. Of course. Yeah. That's a surprise.
This one surprised me though, a little bit Ursula from the Little Mermaid. Closes out the top three
by being the most pop. She used the most popular and only two states main of Vermont. But she's
still got up there quite a bit. Every good. She's good. That's a good villain. Yeah. That's a good
one. Yeah. That's a good one. Just lost. I thought of that one. The horned king from the black
cauldron is the most popular among boomers. Really? Yeah. Wow. Oogie Boogie is the millennial favorite
and the Ursula's Moray eels float some and jet some. Plot some and jet some. Plot some and jet some.
Yeah. Our Gen Zs. Okay. Where's Gen X? Yeah. Good question. We're not represented in this anywhere.
We never do. We never do. We never do. We're the ones that got all of that plethora of the new
Disney animated movies. Starting with the Little Mermaid. Yeah. In 89. Yeah. Maybe it's because we
can't choose because there were so many good ones during those years. I wouldn't have thought of
this as one as a Disney. I don't think of this as a Disney property. Even though it technically
kind of is in many ways and in the cartoon is certainly Disney. And I saw when I was a kid with
my sister. I would have chosen the headless horseman. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's sleepy hollow.
And all of that would have been attached to Disney. But this it's an interesting addition to this.
So Scar, Oogie Boogie, the headless horseman in Indiana, the most popular villain in Indiana,
of course. Interesting. Ursula again over in the east and main of Vermont and then the Queen of
Hearts over in with Wyoming. The Queen of Hearts in Wyoming. Wow. It's a great one. Yeah. I
wouldn't have thought of the Queen of Hearts. That's a good one. Also her head. Yeah. Let us know
who your favorite Disney villain is, everybody. Yeah.
That's a choose from. Love to hear from you. Get into us. Everybody through the Civic Media
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I can't stop reading about the black culture and I never heard of this before.
They actually recorded it in Burbank in the old in the famous lot where I worked. Oh really?
That's right. And not just me but billions of people. Right. Yes. Sorry. That sounded really like
I worked. No, it was not meant to sound that way. But they did a lot of cool stuff I worked on
over there over the decades. Let's dive into this one with Beth and Seth. It foods that we have a
love-hate relationship with. Or is it just things that some love and some hate?
So there are foods. There's a generic genetic thing where we have certain things that I think
we just like don't like it kind of instantly. An Instacart survey found 13% of us don't like the
coordinate or I'm sorry. Solon tro. Solon tro. Solon tro. Solon tro. Can I I'm trying to
place the taste because I can't remember even what cilantro tastes like. It's often used as a
garnish in on tacos and Mexican dishes. That's true. Yeah. Right. Okay. And there are some
people that are allergic to cilantro. That's true. So this got the ball rolling on foods like this
as far as do you hate any of these beloved foods. What a food what's a food most people love
but you don't like. Okay. Here are five popular foods people are were asked about in the online
poll. Okay. Cheeseburgers. 5% hate them. Another 25% said that they're just okay. Okay. Interesting.
Now what happens if you remove the cheese? It's like a hamburger. Now that be interesting follow
up question. So our children one likes hamburgers. He does not like cheeseburgers. Right. And one
doesn't like any of them. It's true. So I don't know we're weird family. What did we do wrong? Our
oldest didn't like any type of burger until like two years ago. That's that's a couple years ago. Yeah.
Sushi 18% dislike that. Okay. Mm-hmm. 18 if they tried it or they just saying that. Yeah.
They actually tried it. And for some people's a texture thing. Oh I get that. Yeah.
kind of stuff. Or they don't like fish in general and that's what most sushi is. That's correct.
Or did they see an episode of The Simpsons when they were a kid? Oh no.
Oh no. A little fish. Come on now. Oh no. And specifically is it sushi or is it
choux semi? Because those are two different things and is it a roll or is it just the fish?
Right. I mean it comes in different varieties. Correct. I had sushi when I was a kid it gave me
food poisoning and I haven't had it since. Well I can understand that. But I do think it's one
of those things I need to try as an adult. I haven't had a lot of that kind of stuff. Like that said
you can have like a sushi roll that doesn't have raw fish and you can have. And there are some
things in it. Yeah. Popcorn. Only 4% hated. 41% said it's wow that's higher than I thought. Wow.
Popcorn is only a take it or leave it. Yeah. Is that a click? Now if they'd specifically said like
movie theater popcorn with that chain oil. Yeah. Because there's something different about movie
theater popcorn. Yeah. Don't know what it is. It's a little like getting a hot dog at a baseball
game. Right. There's it enhances some flavor. Exactly. There's something different about it.
I don't know what it is. And there are now so many different toppings that you can put on popcorn.
You can have it sweet. You can have it. Cheesy. Chocolate. Spicy. You know people put
pepper on it. So I don't know what happened. I don't know when it changed. But at some point
like regular popcorn and caramel popcorn got boring to me. And now it's all about cheddar.
It's all that. Right. And cheddar popcorn. Cheesy popcorn. Yeah. Love it. I can't get enough of it.
It's great stuff. My aunt Sherry shout out to my aunt Sherry. She's the best. My parents or
I she will send a bin one of those three. Yeah. That thing spins. I cannot tell you how many times
that is just sitting there with the regular popcorn just still right there. Yeah.
All the cheese is gone. All the caramel corn is gone. It is a very similar to in our house where
when we didn't have a lot growing up. But every once in a while we get ice cream and always got
the Neapolitan ice cream. And sure enough that vanilla slice was always just sitting there.
Poor vanilla. Um burritos. Only four percent dislike burritos.
Okay. Again, that's something you can you can mess around with burritos. You can put a lot
of different stuff in burritos. But the classic old bean burrito. I'm not a fan. I don't need
them very much, but I like them. But it took me I mean it took me well into my adulthood before I
even had an inkling to try refried beans. Oh, okay. You know, most kids have refried beans. But
that's what they use in a burrito. Mostly right. They put some type of a bean in there. And kids
are not that apt to try beans. I don't know why. Beans are awesome. One of the greatest things ever.
And finally wrapping up ramen at four percent. I have to admit not one of my favorites.
Is that beloved though? Hmm. Oh, I would I would say because sometimes you just got to have it.
You know, that's all you can afford. It's a lot of on the finances when you're in college.
There you go. More of an necessity. Yeah, more of an necessity than beloved. Got to see you
gallon of milk and 84 packages of ramen. I'm good to go. Well, and I think there's a difference
between that package like ramen that you get when you're in college and actually going to. Oh,
that's very different restaurant that specializes. Fabulous. By the way, love it. Mm-hmm. So that was
Instacart's list. Now time for mine. All right. Let me just go ahead and get out my long, long list
here of things. All right. Let's take a while everybody. Yes. Beginning with the ACE, we have
a couple. I would say that a couple come up. I came up just in talking about this, but beans
are probably one of the bigger ones for me. Other than a jelly bean, you are not going to catch me
eating any type of bean. I don't like them. Never have. There is something about the texture of them
that just even thinking about it makes me not want to touch food again. I feel so bad for you.
I do because beans are just glorious. They are the one of one of the great things of the beans.
No, beans are glorious. No, no, no, no. I agree with my dad. Lime of beans are God's
mistake. Lime of beans are delightful. I love lime. See, now when I was a kid, my parents,
we were forced to eat lime of beans and then I didn't like them. But now, because maybe I just
messed up my brain or whatever it is, I love lime of beans now. I think they're great. Love them.
You brought up an interesting point before too, Seth. They thought about the way these
are prepared are the flavors or some of that. Now, I have said on the air many times, I don't
eat potatoes. I'm not a big potato guy. I don't like mashed potatoes at all. But boy,
you give me a french fry or a potato chip or something and I will devour every minute of them in
front of them. Funny how that works. It's like I'll eat tomatoes but I won't have ketchup
or I'll eat ketchup but I won't eat it tomato because of the different texture.
That's where I am. I am like half sugar. Half my blood is marinara. I love tomatoes
sauce, ketchup, some of these things. But you'll never see me put a slice of tomato on anything I
eat. And that's where I think it's more about the texture than the taste. So you have to get that.
I mean, for me, the food that I cannot even touch that most people like are melons. I cannot do
honeydew, cantaloupe, any type, even watermelon. I have tried watermelon again and I just cannot do it.
I like the watermelon flavor when it's added to something but I cannot do watermelon.
Interesting. That's an interesting one too, Beth. I love peanut calada flavor.
Peanut calada flavored things. Almost anything peanut calada flavored. I'm all over it.
But you give me a coconut and like, yeah, yeah. Which is, yeah, that's like the main flavor in it.
A peanut calada is coconut flavored, right? Yeah. That's wild. I feel like the more I talk about
these things, the more the the weirder I sound. And that's really saying something. That is really
good. We all have our own little sequences. And I would love to hear what our audience has to say,
you know, text us using the civic media app. Call us 424, 2600. I think what we've learned
basically from a lot of these conversations, if we talk about this, you know, every now and then,
is that there is no universal food. It is true. There's nothing that every single person likes.
We know this. I mean, apparently 4% is like the weirdly the magic number for people like hate
certain things. 4% people aren't going to hate anything, right? That's what they were saying.
Yeah. Yeah. I think that there's something almost to that too. That's probably fair.
That's a little when you're young and everybody likes a certain food or whatever.
There might be more and more to that than we realize. Humans are weird. Yeah. I think that's the,
I mean, really almost every survey we do, that's that's really what we should be coming back to.
There's no common common ground. There's nothing that we all agree on. So there you go.
We'll come back to wrap up the show Monday edition of Mornings with WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Mornings show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio, Beth, Seth, and James here wrapping up the show for today.
We'll be back tomorrow 9-11. Be sure to join us all week long 9-11.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. It's been a lot of fun. We have got some local things
we want to touch on along with our schedule. Let's take a look at that schedule real quick gang
because it has changed a little bit over the last week. It has. We want to encourage you guys to
join us a little bit later today for Playmakers over on 105-5-WIRI.
New home for that one. Yes. We'll be there all week. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, four to five.
Be sure to join us with your sports takes and feelings. You can call up. Way you always have
715-424-2600 to just use the Civic Media app. Got a solo show today and let everybody know that
you can call in and join me. So I'm going to be by myself. So I want you guys to call up and join
all up everyone. We did have a game scheduled for today that has been a rescheduled set.
That is correct. So we of course with the uncertain weather coming up looks like maybe something
severe. The soccer game we were going to broadcast today on WIRI starting at 4.50 in the kickoff
at about five o'clock has been postponed until tomorrow. So I've been in talks with Mike
about that. And since we had a softball game also scheduled for tomorrow we are going to do the
soccer game between DC Everest and Assumption tomorrow. Same time, 4.50 pre-game, 5 o'clock kickoff
for that game tomorrow on WIRI. No game today. Thanks. Appreciate the update. And be sure to join us
all week long for playmakers. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, four to five, over on 105, five WIRI. Big
thank you to Quality Plus Printing and Family and Natural Foods giving us that opportunity.
Absolutely. I also want to let everybody know about a couple of things going on in here in town.
There will be a protest on the Expressway Bridge by the hospital on May 1st. This is part of a
nationwide protest. They will be there starting at 5. Saturday, they'll be there noon to 2.
Also wanted to let people know that we are calling all heroes. All you heroes out there,
we've got a blood drive happening today is Super Hero Day. So now it's clearly being a superhero
seems like a pretty cool gig. But I got to say the older I get the more I look at that cape
and costumes are a bit much, right? They seem a bit much. The tights, you got to have a tragic back
story. You have to have a tagline. I just feel like and all the good names are taken. Yeah, I mean,
you know, paper cut man. I mean, seriously. I feel like all that's left. It's a much better way to
be a hero nowadays. And that is by donating blood. We encourage you to do that. You can do that
from two to seven today. Over at the former Eastern High School Music Room in their cafeteria,
311 Lincoln Street and Wisconsin Rapids. Again, this will be going on from two to seven today.
Every bit counts. Yes. Every two seconds someone in the US needs blood. We greatly appreciate all
you Super Heroes out there donating today from two to set between two and seven over at three,
three 11 Lincoln Street right here in Wisconsin Rapids. That's we have a couple of other things
that I wanted to touch on as well. We do. We are participating in Little Charlotte's Animal Rescue.
It's a pet drive going on. They're looking for things like blankets, towels, dog and cat food,
treats, toys, kennels, crates, garden hoses, clean and supplies, all of that. If you would like to
help, this is going on from April 15th through May 1st. So through this Thursday, you can drop off
those donations at From the Ground Up Coffee House at 250 West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids.
Here at our studios at 1690 Second Avenue South in Wisconsin Rapids or over at Family Natural Foods,
910 West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids. The Southwood County Historical Museum is having a
traveling exhibit that is going on through April 30th. So you only have, till Wednesday,
to see this. It's the Laura Ingalls Wilder. It's a 16-panel display provided by the Laura
Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum and the Missouri Humanities Council. It contains photographs
and information about Laura Ingalls Wilder, her famous Little Housebooks and America's Westward
expansion. You can go see that Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So you've got this Tuesday and Wednesday
from 1 to 4 p.m. to head over and check out that particular exhibit. They will have a new one coming
in next week. Be sure to support our friends over the South of County Historical Museum,
doing some really great work over there. Also, I want everybody to remember that our show Midday
magazine has evolved into the Rapids report. It is streaming exclusively. You can catch new
episodes starting at four Monday through Friday. Looking forward to our guests today, we're going to
have in with us some of the gang and the cast from Wisconsin Rabbits Community Theaters latest
production of noises off. Nice. Nice. That's going to be a lot of fun. And we will also be talking
with our friends over at the Port Edward School District. We got District Administrator and Elementary
Principal James Bennett in with us along with Amelia Anderson, who is their instrument music instructor
over there. Very cool. And a lot of fun talking with them today. Yeah. Looking forward to that and
keep in mind, you can catch previous episodes and plenty more at www.sr.com. One will send you there.
Let's look at some interesting good news around the world, everybody. Good news update. The
miniature weiner dog that survived 16 months in the wild in Australia is head and home.
Nice. Wildlife officials announced on Friday that they finally managed to catch her. Her name is
Valerie. She ran off while her owners were camping in on kangaroo island near Adelia in late 2023.
Wow. She somehow made it 529 days on her own. Wow. Good for her. And apparently wanted to stay
alone. Get away from it. Yeah. Yeah. They seem like it. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. If you try to sell
this to Pixar or Disney or something, I don't know that they would buy it. No.
No. To unbelievable, right? Weiner dog surviving in the amd. Yeah. Forget it. That's an awesome
story. That's really cool. Good on that dog. This was almost much more scary than it actually.
It was scary, but it was almost even worse. A person tried to drive off with two kids in a car in
Jacksonville, Florida, but more than a dozen good Samaritans jumped in and stopped them. Wow.
Cops caught the guy later the same day and arrested him. We're seeing more of this. I think
and and part of this, I unfortunately think that is the rise of everybody having a camera.
But this isn't new. Like this kind of stuff used to happen in my own neighborhood all the time.
Yeah. Beep. Nothing heads acting up. And you saw some lady in the second floor come down and
like, yeah, I mean, I don't ever want to encourage people to get involved in situations that
could get them hurt or make the situation worse or escalate a situation. But I feel like if you
trust your gut more times than not, it's going to tell you what you should be doing or not in these
situations. Again, we have officers for a reason letting them take charge is what you should
normally be doing. Right. But you know, every once in a while, you see something like this and
then a good on them. And a woman in Minnesota named Brenna Bortner says her dog knew she had
breast cancer before she or her doctors did. She found a lump and was waiting on a biopsy, but she
says she knew it was cancer when her cockapoo named Mokai became fixed on her chest. She did 16
rounds of chemo and finished up with treatments about a year ago. All right. But this is actually
not the first time we've heard stories like this with animals and animals being able to detect cancer.
That is so strange. Yeah. What if it's certain smell or maybe that's got to be something like that.
You know, and animals are able to detect things in humans that we can't. I mean, that's why there
are dogs that are specialized to help those who have epilepsy because they can detect a seizure
coming on before the person is able to really realize what's going on. That's remarkable.
And wrapping up with it, that ain't right story, everybody. That's just some fun here. A Massachusetts
town is under siege after from an apparent territorial plated woodpecker being blamed for
damaging more than 25 vehicles in the area. Vehicles? Yeah. Whoa. Rockport resident Janelle
tried to capture a photo of the culprer caught in the act of targeting a vehicle with its jack
hammer like beak. Oh my gosh. Some residents said that they have started protecting their
mirrors with plastic wrap or sweaters while their vehicles are not at use. Wow. Cars with sweaters.
And an expert said the woodpecker cracked his passenger side or the resident said the woodpecker
cracked his passenger side window while he was sitting in his pickup truck. Oh my gosh.
It's a rogue woodpecker man. He's just ticking, ticking, everyone on his angry. He's about
something. A wonderful guy you can hear on the Levitard Shore. As well in this article,
Ron McGill, a zoo by Emmys communication director, agreed that the mating season is likely
to blame. He said it makes sense for the woodpeckers to be targeting reflective surfaces.
Oh, that would make sense totally. So does this make it Mary Woody's cousin?
No, we just need dating apps for animals. That's what we need. This is what this is telling us
right here and everything. Glad the show's ending right now. That's we're ready to go.
So we're ready to go. Have a great day, everybody. Be good to each other out there.
