The Kitchen’s Open – Casserole Edition (Hour 2)

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We're going to have some fun this hour.

Not only are we going to get into some entertainment news a little bit later, but before that, we're

going to have Beth hang out with us a little longer, and we're going to get into the top

Disney soundtracks of all time, but yeah, it's going to be fun.

But speaking of Beth, it's a Monday, so you all know what that means.

Good morning, and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR.

Cooking in the kitchen can be a lot of fun with delicious results, but it can also create

a slew of dishes.

Boy, don't I know it.

Let's keep our home life at home, okay, baby?

Quite funny.

I do want to give a shout out to the man who just heard my dishwasher and to my machine,

too.

Anyway, if you're anything like me, you may be looking for meals that dirty as few dishes

as possible.

Thanks to FoodNetwork.com.

I found an article that might be able to help us out.

It's called 93 One-Pot Meals.

You'll keep coming back, too.

Let me guess, there are a lot of varieties of chili.

That is one of the options in there.

That can be a great One-Pot Wonder.

The article used a variety of things that you can make, such as, let's see, things that

are just One-Pot, others that have a few things like pasta, and there were different

options for mac and cheese, so you can kind of dress that up a little bit.

There were soups and stews and other things as well, and I found a couple of favorites.

On the first one, it's actually a meat dish.

You can make chili, or excuse me, chicken, you can do, well, you can make chili with chicken

too, but you can make a creamy skillet chicken, so on top of the stove, instead of bait.

It only takes three steps and just a few ingredients.

What you're going to do is whisk together one quarter cup all-purpose flour with a tablespoon

of salt and a few grinds of pepper and a pie plate or a shallow dish.

You're going to coat both sides of the chick six boneless, skinless chicken breasts in

that flour.

Shake off the excess and then you just set it aside.

Next, you're going to heat three tablespoons of oil in a large, heavy bottom skillet over

medium high heat.

Add the chicken to the skillet and cook undisturbed until deeply golden, and that's going

to take about three minutes.

Turn the chicken and cook again undisturbed until the other side is deeply golden brown,

another three minutes.

Add the chicken to a plate and then add another tablespoon of oil to the skillet.

Add about eight ounces of container of sliced mushrooms and cook those.

You're going to start to sweat those out, you're going to stir them occasionally and they're

going to brown and they're going to release their liquid, and that'll take about five

minutes.

Then add to that two cloves of garlic that you've minced and cook stirring all of that until

the garlic is fragrant.

It's not going to take long, that's only going to take about 30 seconds.

Once you've done all that, you add four ounces of cream cheese that you've cut into chunks

and you stir that in.

It gives you a nice mushroom cream sauce and you do that until it's all melted.

Then pour in one cup half and half.

Again, you're trying to go for that sauce now.

Use a wooden spoon to scrape any of the brown bits from the bottom of the skillet that

helps to add some flavor, yep.

Season it with some salt and pepper.

The chicken back to the skillet cook and covering cook, turning about halfway through

until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chicken reaches

165 degrees Fahrenheit, which will take about 15 to 20 minutes.

We want to make sure you don't get seminella, so make sure that you fully cook the chicken

breasts.

Transfer the chicken to a serving plate filled with warm egg noodles.

Then one 10-ounce package of baby spinach back into the skillet, about eight cups worth,

and then cover and cook until they're wilted.

That'll take about five minutes.

Stir it combined and season again with a little bit of salt and pepper and then pour that

creamy spinach sauce over the chicken and noodles and enjoy.

That sounds really good.

I'm infamously picky, either in all of that, so I don't mean to ruin my brand here.

This has happened to you guys every once in a while, and maybe it's just as more and

more as I get older.

When I see the name of something or what have you, I'm like, I don't know if I'd like that.

I hear the breakdown, I hear the recipe, I hear how it's prepared, I'm like, I would

try that.

There's plenty in there I would like.

I was thinking the same thing, it's interesting that going through the ingredient list and

figuring it out and make something actually makes it more appetizing, which is really interesting.

I never even thought about that.

It's like you can't judge a book by its cover, you can't judge a meal by its name.

Right.

It turns out we do want to know how the sauce is just there.

Exactly.

Revelations.

Oh my gosh.

Mind blown.

Well, there was another one in here because, of course, casseroles can be one pot wonder.

Hot dishes.

Yeah.

Casseroles.

If you're using the right dish, it is still a casserole.

Am I wrong?

I'm just going to take this for baby.

So there was one that uses a common college food, ramen noodles.

All right.

Chicken ramen noodle casserole, but it's also called chicken ramen noodle dump dinner.

So appetizing.

Yeah, it really brings you to the kitchen.

Yeah, but it's low maintenance, impact with flavor and the creamy casserole transforms

dorm friendly ramen noodles into a satisfying casserole that can be fed to a crowd.

Okay.

Three heat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

You could put six three ounce packages of the chicken flavored instant ramen noodles.

Keep one of the three packets, discard the other flavor packets.

You only need the one.

Okay.

And you layer those in a single layer covering the bottom of a 13 by 9 inch baking dish.

Whisk together one eight ounce container of scallion cream cheese.

So if you go to specialty stores or if you go into your grocery store, they have flavored

cream cheese in there.

Oh, okay.

So we're at the scallion cream cheese four cups of whole milk and the one reserved flavored

packet from the ramen and you whisk all that together in a medium bowl.

Pour that mixture over the ramen and then scatter two cups of shredded rotisserie chicken.

You wouldn't make sure they take the skin and the bones out of there.

You don't want to have those, but you shred that chicken and put that over the sauce and

the noodles and then scatter one 10.8 ounce bag of frozen broccoli florets on top of

that.

You're going to sprinkle all of that with eight ounces of shredded cheddar cheese, making

sure to distribute it evenly across the whole casserole.

So it's a cheesy broccoli cream that you're going to bake all of that until the noodles

are cooked through and the cream sauce is bubbly and the cheese melts.

That's going to take about 30 to 35 minutes.

Wow.

Man, all I can say is good thing Melissa's not here today because I think she would go

into lactose shock just by listening to these recipes here.

Wow.

That was another one though.

I'm like.

There's some stuff.

I might actually eat my broccoli then, too.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah.

That's how my mom first got me the eat broccoli.

It was putting cheese sauce over it.

And you can remember, you can substitute things like that.

You can use coconut milk instead of the whole milk.

You can use goat cheese instead of the cheddar cheese.

So there are options out there to make it more friendly to whatever type of diet restrictions

that you might have.

Right.

And if you haven't had broccoli with a crunch to it or something, that's a difference.

That's different.

It really is.

So there's another one pot wonder and it's in the mac and cheese family and this one

is so super simple.

I wish I would have known this recipe earlier.

I tend to do my moms, which takes two pots, but this is great.

This one pot wonder has humble beginnings.

It's just milk and macaroni.

I never thought to boil my macaroni in the milk.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

And that's it.

Yeah.

So you add the pasta as the pasta cooks.

The starch is then released and that's what helps thicken the milk to make the perfect

base for a sauce.

Oh my gosh.

So it becomes the rue that you need to mix the fat into.

It's amazing.

So the cheeses and the seasonings are stirred in at the very end and everything comes together

magically.

It's magic.

So here's how you do it.

It pours four cups of whole milk and three quarter pound of album macaroni.

That's about three cups and a medium saucepan.

Bring the milk to a boil over medium heat and stir it frequently to keep the macaroni

from clumping.

Then cook and then you let it cook stirring frequently until that macaroni is tender

and the milk is thickened to the consistency of heavy cream.

So the starches are going to thicken the milk as you cook them as well.

Okay.

About four to five minutes, remove from the saucepan from the heat.

Once it's removed from the heat, add eight ounces of shredded mild cheddar cheese.

That's about three cups, three ounces of shredded part skim mozzarella.

That's about one cup and two ounces of cream cheese cut into small pieces.

You'll also want to add two tablespoons unsalted butter.

That has been cut into small pieces.

One teaspoon of dejon mustard, a large pinch of cayenne pepper.

If you're not into heat, you can easily not do that.

A large pinch of freshly grated nutmeg and one and a half teaspoons of salt and you stir

all of that until smooth, thick and creamy and serve it hot.

The dish will thicken as it cools, but you can thin it out a little bit with a little

hot water if you need to.

Wow.

Now, this came out of the Food Network Kitchens and the cook does have a tip for you.

Make sure to buy block cheese and shred it yourself because the pre-shredded cheese that

comes in bags is often tossed with star cheese cellulose, and that's going to make the

van can cheese clumpy.

That's going to give it a clumpy texture, so if you want that nice smooth texture, go

for it.

Add a little bit of extra time and one extra little dish that you're going to have with

the grater, but grade that cheese yourself.

Yes.

Nothing in a satisfying and shredding cheese.

That's what I think, so I think that's great.

Boy, excuse me, we do a lot of recipes on this show, but these ones I think are really

cool because even if someone's just listening, I know you'll put these in the newsletter so

people can read them, but things that are simple like this, even if you're listening, it's

like, oh yeah, I could just do that right now, and it's easy to remember even if you just

heard it over the air.

Great.

And if you want to re-hear all of these, you can always go to our website and listen to

the podcast, because we're there for life, right?

Yes.

Yes.

So these recipes are just three of 93 that were in this article, and it didn't even include

things like broccoli salad.

When I made my broccoli salad at home, I do it in one bowl.

You do.

That is correct, yeah.

And it's easy, it tastes good.

You mix the sauce as you make the meat.

You do that first in the larger bowl, and then you add the broccoli and everything else

and coat it that way.

That way you're not dirty and as many dishes which might dishwasher to my left here.

Really appreciated.

I appreciate that.

I do.

Yes.

I love when you bring these topics back to us that not only could apply to any family

out there, big or small, or college students, who just say, I have only one clean bowl.

That's all I have.

I'll be okay.

That's right.

Yeah.

One of these is a moron.

I already got some ramen here.

I go.

The single spoon and one bowl.

I have that clean.

I'm good.

And fun fact.

When I was in college, I bought a recipe book for college students that had very simple

recipes in there.

And one of the things that I've continued to make that always gets a huge review when

I take it with me to the church is a peach cobbler because it's three ingredients.

You pour two or three cans of sliced peaches into a nine by 13.

You pour over that a box yellow cake mix and then you slice up one stick of butter and

you dab that all over the top and then you just put it in your bake.

You're done.

You're done.

Fantastic.

I like that.

Yeah.

That's good.

So again, another one tell wonder.

I should have thrown my own.

There you go.

Right.

Yeah.

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All right.

Another great episode.

Well done, Beth.

Nice to meet you.

Hungry once again.

Very interesting.

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Open.

Tell me something good.

I love the colorful clothes you wear and the way the sunlight plays upon your head.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Beth and Seth and James here with me.

Hope you're having a fantastic day out there.

Let's go ahead and get into another fun set of topics.

We are going to get into a big one right now and we had to bring in extra help for this.

A pro.

Right.

She knows her stuff.

Seth has one of the better ears for sound that I've been around and I really appreciate

that.

You can hear that in everything he produces.

I know quite a bit about entertainment, TV and movies and everything like that.

I feel like I do.

At least I certainly have taken in enough content to at least say that in my life.

But not only is Beth a fan and a great singer herself and all that, but also it worked at

Disneyland for some listeners out there that don't know.

Walt Disney, we're all down in Florida.

Yeah.

I was down there for two and a half years.

So we have a pro with us.

Yeah.

So we can truly do this.

Everything about Disney.

No.

Not everything.

What we have here is the greatest Disney movie soundtracks of all time and I want a nice

nice.

Nice.

We got out of here.

We got to get 10 minutes out of this.

Sorry.

Sorry.

That was awesome.

I do want audience participation of this one.

You can call Texas through the Civic Media app.

You can call up as well.

Four, two, four, twenty, six hundred.

Get a hold of us.

We want your favorite.

You know, it doesn't necessarily have to be it wouldn't even be on anybody else's list.

I have.

But your favorite maybe Disney song or soundtrack or what have you right before we dive into

that though.

I did have one kind of interesting note, Disney originally passed on the Little Mermaid,

which of course has a pretty famous soundtrack.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

On the sea is probably the most famous song.

Right.

Yeah.

I think part of your world.

Yeah.

There is a world where that we never get that.

Oh my gosh.

They almost passed.

They don't get to kiss the girl.

Yeah.

No.

None of it.

None of it.

None of it.

Well, it was her age, I thought, or something.

Yeah.

No.

But they almost didn't in for the most interesting reason because they were all locked

in and they were worried that it was going to interfere with a big sequel they were preparing.

Splash 2.

What?

And 2 was going to be spelled T-O-O.

It was going to be Splash 2.

Oh gosh.

No Tom Hanks, no Darrell Hannah, none of that or anything.

I don't even think Eugene Levy was going to be at it.

Well, whatever happened happened the right way.

Yeah.

Of course, the script falls apart and never happens.

And so they go, oh, we'll go ahead and we'll do this little project a little mermaid anyway.

It turns into a gigantic hit.

Well, Tim Rice just knows this stuff.

That's a good song.

So wild thing to think about.

Yeah.

I don't know.

So what is, you know, you don't have to be a Disney adult to have a favorite Disney movie

soundtrack.

Or even children, I think.

There's another note here.

You don't know.

I think that's usually you would think, oh, you got to have kids.

Yeah.

And over at ranker.com, people are voting to the, on the greatest of all time, the greatest

Disney soundtracks.

And they do have these in order.

So of course, we'll start at number 10, okay?

Okay.

One that I, that threw me tangled from 2010.

Yes.

And anymore.

Oh, right.

To the voice of Rapunzel.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Levi was my greatest name.

It's Flynn.

Flynn.

Yes.

Yes.

Flynn writer.

Yeah.

I feel weird saying this new because it's 2010, but I know that I do know that as somebody

who doesn't have little kids.

That was one of the ones that I heard about more, and I heard was liked, well, by her.

It was another story of a princess kind of saving herself.

Not needing the man to save her.

She just longed to get out, and she just needed the means to do it, and she was able to manipulate

him to be able to get out of her situation, which is great.

And it involved a frying pan, which is fun.

Yeah.

That was her weapon of choice.

At number nine, another modern classic, although again, that's weird to say because it came

out in 2013, which seems like forever ago now frozen.

Yes.

Yes.

Let it go.

Let it go.

I'm a little shocked that's at number nine.

I would have thought, especially some of these you hear, but again, I don't know what I'm talking

about.

But think about the years and years and years of Disney soundtracks going all the way

back to Snow White.

Yeah.

She's saying in that movie.

That's right.

So you've got decades.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a lot of years.

And because it was so big in the moment, frozen, I mean, and it was because it was like

everywhere.

But I think at time, it's, you know, it's kind of fallen the background a little bit.

It's still, I'm sure a lot of people's favorite.

And you can't think of Olaf the snowman without thinking of the song Summer.

So far.

So far.

Or Olaf.

At number eight, Mulan from 1998.

Oh, that's interesting.

Yep.

That's higher than Frozen.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

I didn't know what I was talking about.

And part of that may be that there was a pop hit that came out of that, the Christina Aguilera

saying.

Right.

Oh, that would make sense.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think that's really noteworthy going forward.

I think that's something I wouldn't have thought it right away.

There's a lot of crossover songs from Disney movies into pop culture.

Right.

And, and ones that were for every like hit, kind of hit, there were ones that were hits

just because they were a song in the movie, kind of thing.

Exactly.

I think at number seven, that might be the case with Hercules from 1997.

Yes.

Again, I was, my kids were a little older at that point.

So I didn't even see that until I ended up being an adult in everything.

And then I'm like, oh, I know that reference now.

Emperor's New Groove is another one.

Yes.

I didn't see that with my kids.

My kids didn't see that one.

So I was an older when I saw it.

I'm like, oh, now I get that reference.

Yeah.

I know that song.

And that's one of the things I love about Disney animated films is even though they're

geared towards children, they always put some adult references and humor in there so

that the parents stay engaged in these movies.

They can enjoy too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Going back to Looney Toons and everything, whoever was the one that originated and got

the idea of, well, parents watched these two.

And I'm going to include some adults humor right here and that.

Just lightly sprinkled in there and everything.

Whoever originated that, that's very smart.

Man, they, they're really incredible.

It's really, we're all very, all of us are being parents.

Yes.

At number six, Molana from 2016.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Lynn Manuel Miranda.

Yeah.

He did.

He did.

He did.

Boy, you know, if he had just, you know, Hamilton and all that, the stuff he's done on

Broadway.

I know you're a remarkable songwriter, but the stuff he's done since then, including Moana

and Conto.

I mean, I mean, he's gotten hits from that one, you know, we don't know about Bruno.

We don't talk about Bruce B.

We don't talk about Bruno.

We don't talk about Bruno.

So.

But the question then becomes, is Hamilton considered a Disney film?

Oh.

Because they put it on Disney Plus.

No.

Yeah.

Definitive no.

I would say no, but at the same time, like, I'm not, I'm not going to mess with Disney's

lawyers.

I love whatever we're getting your call in right now.

Oh, no.

Have you said Mr. Mouse, whatever you say?

Uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, that's your biggy voice.

I, um, uh, with, uh, with that one in particular, so I, I, I don't care.

How corny this sounds.

I think every single creed culture has beauty, has some interest to it, especially ones

I don't know as much about.

I can find myself going down a rabbit hole finding.

But since I was a little kid, I have always just loved Samoan culture, uh, been around

a little of it in my life and there's something about it that just really is, just beautiful

to me.

And I think it's really amazing.

Uh, that movie really, I thought did a great job of shooting, showing a lot of light

to a lot of things that I don't think were common knowledge.

No, no, not at all.

It's a song and fun and everything.

I was cool.

Yeah.

We even got Dwayne the Rock Johnson singing.

Yeah.

I mean, you're welcome.

Yeah.

Uh, and number five from 1989, Tarzan.

Yes.

Yes.

That Phil Collins.

Phil Collins.

Did the score for that one?

Yep.

Uh, at number four, the little mermaid from 1989.

Yes.

Our first red-headed princess.

Yes.

Yeah.

That was, uh, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.

Some rice.

Yes.

Yes.

Howard Ashman sadly.

I mean, he did, he did that.

And I think his last one was, uh, he did a lad in Beauty and the Beast and I think his

last was Lion King before he passed away of AIDS.

But yeah, he was an amazing composer, yeah.

And a little bit better than Splash 2.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Probably a bigger audience too.

It did.

Yeah.

I made a bigger splash.

Yeah.

Oh.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Come on.

That's my number one.

That's my number one.

Yeah.

And obviously it's my number one.

And I'm obviously biased.

But I do think that out of everything on this list, and we do have some other big contenders

coming up, uh, at number three, I think it's perfectly placed as much as I love it as

much as I is.

Of course.

I look at this list and I'm like, yeah, okay.

I get it.

Right.

Well, and the fact that Robin Williams ad lived the entire intro, the prologue to this,

going into the song was phenomenal.

Right.

I mean, getting, we didn't get to hear him sing.

Yeah.

We got to sing a little bit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But he didn't, but other than that in Aladdin, that's about all we got to hear.

He, uh, I will say he does get to do a little bit of singing and death to smoochie, but it's

with other actors.

You don't really get to see it.

But it's not like a musical.

Right.

Happy feet.

But again, yes.

Your point is made.

Yeah.

Not enough.

And a credit to Disney releasing a lot of the outtakes and a lot of the background stuff

that we wouldn't have had if they didn't, if they didn't allow it.

So I'm very thankful for that.

Let's take a quick call.

Oh, excellent.

All right.

Good afternoon.

You're a good morning.

You're on the air.

Good morning.

So this is Ben's line.

I love, you know, just thinking about that Disney song because, you know, I, of course,

still have my favorite.

So I haven't heard you mention, you know, um, Aristocats.

Oh, yes.

Great one.

Yes.

Great one.

Yes.

Anyone wants to be a cat.

Um, and also jungle block.

Hmm.

I don't know.

Maybe it's the jazz.

I'm with you.

I want to be like you.

Yeah.

The connective tissue of both of those Phil Harris.

Yes.

Phil Harris who played blue.

And then he, I quit the character, the one of the cat, the, the, the jazz cat.

Yes.

And Aristocats.

Phil Harris to the voice.

Who is one of my all-time favorites.

I love Phil Harris.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And of course, I'm, I'm open number one.

We'll be Mary Poppet.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, we'll see.

But that is a great contender.

Yes.

That was one that was going through my mind earlier.

Yeah.

Oh, great references.

Next time we do this, we're bringing you in.

Great work.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great work.

Oh, no problem.

Have a great morning.

Have a great day.

You too.

You too.

Best listeners in the radio.

Wow, that's right.

Listeners in the radio.

Those were good.

And I have to tell you guys, not on the list.

Any of those ones you mentioned.

Oh, really?

But they all should be.

Yeah.

I mean, what's your list?

Everyone make their own list, right?

Yeah.

And she was, she wasn't, like, running those off.

And I'm like, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And I hadn't thought of some of those.

At number two, Beauty and the Beast from 1991.

Of course.

Yeah.

One of the more famous soundtracks of all time.

Angela, Angela Landsbury.

Yeah.

Just, you know, I mean, she was always such an under, underrated.

We did not rate, Angela Landsbury enough when she was alive.

Sure.

Because she was so good.

When you said that about not getting the hair robin saying,

I immediately thought of Angela Landsbury.

Yeah.

Because I had to list in front of him.

Right.

But I thought of the same thing.

Like, well, yeah, we never heard him.

It's not like she built it out showtunes during murder.

She wrote all the things.

If you want to hear her sing more.

Great.

Yeah.

That had been great.

Go see a classic Disney film.

Bed nobs and broomsticks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She does phenomenal in that.

And that was on my top, my top three.

That was up there.

Right on.

And at number one, of course, the Lion King from 1994.

Yep.

Yeah.

You got to give, again, Tim Rice with the lyrics,

but Elton John with the music on that one.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't care.

You can see any iteration of that film.

I honestly, if we were going to do a serious Disney poll,

well, it's the greatest film that Disney ever produced.

Lion King, I think, would have to top the list for me.

Because any way they do it, it's a hit.

You know, it's huge hit on Broadway.

Right.

They did the live action.

And that's like the only one that was a huge hit.

Right?

That's something special, Lion King is something special.

What you give Disney credit for is they're able to adapt

and add to it.

So it's not only great as an animated movie, they add more songs

and make it an even better Broadway.

Right.

I won't say even better when it comes to the newsies

which would be my number one.

I was going to ask, what is your top, if you want to add.

That is my number one.

Okay.

And if you've never seen it, you get to hear Christian Bale sing.

Yeah.

Which is something that I would like to.

That it is something.

Hey, I became obsessed with that movie when it came out.

I was a senior in high school.

My parents bless their hearts, tried to find the soundtrack.

And at one point, it was worth $100 to go buy the movie

or the soundtrack.

Because it wasn't a hit though.

It wasn't.

It wasn't.

And it's become a sleeper hit to the point where they have now remade it

into a Broadway show.

But they've changed some of the plot.

They've changed some of the songs.

And I'm one of those.

It had me at the movie.

If they could have just done an adaptation of exactly

what the movie was on the stage, I would have been a happy girl.

But I still like the Broadway show.

Easy for you, Robin Hood.

Oh, gosh.

That was my favorite growing up.

And I still love all the songs from that one.

It's one of my...

The Fony King of England.

I love that song.

I'm such a sucker for stories involving the roundtable,

the King Arthur and all that.

And that one as a kid was one of my favorite times.

I don't really think of the music with that one.

It's so much of the characters.

Oh, I love the characters.

Yeah.

And one of the things...

One of the other things that I think that whether it was Disney,

they're animators, whoever, they were really good at.

How do I match this character with an animal?

Correct.

And the right ones and everything.

And they always get it right.

They do.

They seem to always get it right.

They always get it right.

Every one.

That doesn't seem easy to me.

I also want to give a shout out to Pete Stragon.

There were some great songs that came out of that movie too.

Well, it's a great list.

It's a fun list.

You're all wrong.

It's a nightmare before Christmas.

What are we doing?

What are we doing?

No.

That's what's great about this.

All the discussions that it starts.

Exactly.

There are most Disney.

And I'll say it that way.

Most Disney movies have at least one song that's going to catch up.

Got it.

Yeah.

We love to hear from you, everybody.

We'll keep this thing conversation going.

You go ahead and let us know what yours were.

And thank you very much for calling in.

We appreciate all your feedback, everyone.

And Beth, thank you for sticking around a little longer.

We'll be back after our new sports and entertainment break on the morning show with WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Seth and James here with you.

Thank you so much for joining us.

You're going to dive into some entertainment news.

But a big shout out to our listeners and to Beth.

Yeah.

That was a real fun first half hour.

That was a great, great, that was a great segment.

First half hour of the hour.

We're going to talk a little entertainment with you, Seth.

Especially with the big box office weekend we just got down with.

And when you stretch out a little bit more wider angle, the wrapping up of the summer blockbuster year.

Season, right?

Season.

And I only mean by releases.

There's to be some other good movies coming out.

Oh, I'm sure.

But the big dogs, the big ones have all come out now.

And the dust is beginning to settle a little bit more.

And we can see how these rank, how they did.

And how many people came to the movies this summer.

Right.

Which a lot of them did.

Right.

And this has always been the high season.

So yeah.

A pretty successful summer for the movie going public for not just, yeah, certainly the entertainment

industry.

I care a little about that.

But I don't, I also don't.

Yes.

I don't care about their bottom line so much other than that means that actors getting more work.

And not just actors, but creatives getting more work.

Exactly.

That part I do care about what I care about more is we came to these movies because they were

good.

And so we had some entertainment along with air conditioning.

Always a plus.

Always a poll.

They're those.

I would love to know the percentage of people that see movies because of the air conditioning.

Just because it's nice inside.

Right.

Yeah.

Marvel.

And we get most, I pulled from a couple of different websites and articles.

But mainly deadline for this one.

Marvel's Disney's The Fantastic Four for Steps has come in with an estimated 218 million globally.

Which is a little bit lower than where they saw it.

But they first expected it.

It actually remains a pre above week in projections.

Okay.

So better than projected.

Okay.

Both worldwide and in terms of international box office.

Okay.

Later landed a hundred mill at the end of the are their pre up opening projection.

Okay.

So not by that much, but by better.

Yeah.

The overseas debut is 13% ahead of Thunderbolts and 11% of Superman.

Okay.

Wow.

And 4% above Captain America brave new world.

Okay.

So it did well, especially in most country, every country really.

Wow.

I'm surprised that I'm really surprised that's doing a little bit better than Superman internationally.

Because I thought Superman was more of a known quantity as like an international thing.

Everyone knows who Superman is, right?

Kind of thing.

Right.

But that's really interesting to me.

Wow.

Now in the States, Superman did better by like a couple mill.

Okay.

Very close.

Very close.

It was incredibly close.

But what's really important for, I think, again, if you like owned into movies and you like these kind of movies,

is that okay, we now we got a better idea how to do this.

It turns out people don't want to have the market oversaturated with anything,

even something they really like.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I love chocolate.

But I remember telling Linda, which she was making a birthday cake for me during the place I was in,

I wanted chocolate frosting, triple chocolate, this, too much.

Too much chocolate.

Too much chocolate.

They oversaturated the market with superhero movies, TV shows and all that.

And they're learning now the balance of it.

And it's incredibly important for DC and Marvel as one Marvel is coming out of not only some,

it's not so much failures.

They could survive a failure, which you can't survive is being canceled.

And having a canceled guy in your workings.

Right.

Yeah.

Which Jonathan Majors is a gang thing and stuff of where do you go from there?

They have their next branch.

It's good.

It's good to go now.

They've got the doomsday coming up and then the secret wars and that'll wrap everything up for this.

Yeah.

One of the interesting things.

And then bring on the mutants.

For Superman, it's the birth of DC and starting over.

Yeah.

And okay, and not just starting over, but not starting over again and again and again.

Yeah.

Like look, we got a timeline now.

We got something we're working with here.

Right.

And that worked out for them.

I've seen both of these and I'll say that the thing that I thought there was impressive about both of them is they didn't try too hard.

Okay.

And they didn't treat the audience like they were dumb.

That's good.

They didn't feel like they had to explain to you so Superman's origin story.

So the fantastic force or like if you don't know any of that,

you can still get into it and enjoy it.

They do a good job of telling it.

It's one of the more difficult things when you're going to bring introduce a superhero.

Most of these people we already know their origin stories,

even if you don't give two seconds of care about any of this.

Right.

Whether you like it or not, it's been given to you in pop culture.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

You don't have to do it again.

How do I do it differently?

And in both of these directors, both of these writers really did a great job of that, I thought.

That's excellent.

And with the big difference to me of what the Superman won,

it's a billion, not cameos from like big names necessarily cameos from characters.

Yeah.

It is not just a Superman movie.

It is a movie with the green lantern.

It's a DC movie.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yeah.

It is a cast of characters of that one.

Whereas what the Fantastic Four, which is focused on four main characters,

it's really got a really small list of people that you're focused on

and trying to learn about or anything like that.

Which makes sense, yeah.

And I find both impressive the way they did it with both.

How you introduce all these characters and Superman and make it work

as much as how you lean on all these characters in that.

Both of them did very well.

I was impressed with both of them.

I want to say, I don't want to spoil anything for anybody because I hate that.

Just one note on the, two notes on the Fantastic Four.

Four notes on the Fantastic Four.

Four notes on the Fantastic Four.

No.

One, they finally got it right in my book.

They finally got it right.

Thank you.

And I want to apologize publicly to Vanessa Kirby

because I have never given her enough credit.

I thought I understood her as an actor.

I've seen her in Mission Impossible in John Wick movies.

And she is edgy and dark and so good at all these things.

That is not so storm.

No.

And I did not know how that was going to work.

I love being wrong.

I love it when I'm wrong.

I love it in general because it means I'm going to learn something.

I'm not joking here.

There's no joke there.

I generally love being wrong in that regard.

But there are a few times that I love being wrong more than with an actor.

And she, I, you guys can go ahead and laugh at me all you want for this.

I would not be surprised if she gets nominated for something.

Ooh.

Her performance was that good.

Wow.

And I didn't know she had that at her.

That's really cool.

I love it when that happens.

That's very exciting.

I know Pedro Pascal can act.

Oh, yes.

I know that Joe Perry is a good actor.

I know that, you know, the Grossman, the guy from the bear and stuff.

Yeah.

Good he is.

You know, credit to all of them.

They all were great.

Man, I did not know Vanessa Kirby had that in her.

That's so great.

She was good.

Fantastic.

Nicely done.

And so if you see it, I want to know what you guys think.

Let us know.

Yeah.

And any of these movies, and we'd love to hear your views without spoilers.

Very important.

One other quick note in entertainment news I wanted to touch on.

George Lucas made his big Comic-Con debut yesterday in San Diego.

Really?

Which is kind of as long as it's been going on.

He's never been there.

He's never been there.

I didn't know that.

He revealed that he is opening a museum.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles sometime next year.

It'll house everything from movie props to artwork from Frida Kahlo, Norman Rockwell,

plus comic art from the peanuts, creator Charles M. Schultz, comic book creator Jack Kirby.

Wow.

Lucas has been collecting art of all kinds for over 50 years and he wants to share it.

Wow.

Gerardo Toro, who may house some of his own collections there, was also part of the panel.

And he touted the importance of comic book art.

Comics, quote, comics were the first ones the punch Nazis.

It's a very specific cover of the first Captain America comic as a matter of fact.

That's a great line.

I didn't know but he's still had that.

That's a great line.

That's so cool.

It's a really cool thing that C. George Lucas doing this and to see more and more of the things that he does.

Seriously, what else do you do with art?

You share it.

You need to share it with people.

I've never understood people who buy paintings and then keep them boxed up somewhere.

Yeah.

Which is ridiculous.

Why would you do that?

Also, it's nice to see him happy because I feel like the last time I saw George Lucas

was when he was signing over Star Wars.

And I'm not kidding everybody.

Look at when he's doing this.

Look at his face.

He looks heartbroken.

Like nobody's making you do this, George.

No, he looks like crestfallen.

Yes, but it's good to see him happy.

I am very happy for him, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

And I'm glad he's doing it.

It's very cool.

And one quick, shameless plug, everybody.

Do it.

Wisconsin's Rapist Community Theatre's main stage production is kicking off.

And of course we're going to be focused on the kids.

They got a show coming up in August.

Yeah, but we'll be talking about everything.

But just one of them mentioned if anybody is curious about getting on the main stage

whether you've been there before or you've always wanted to check it out.

We have a great set of plays this year on the main stage,

all four with all kinds of actors needed from every age, every type.

All it's that we run the gamut.

And we kick things off with the fall show on Golden Pond,

directed by, written by Ernest Thompson, directed by Jeremy Moot.

I don't know how to pronounce that.

It's a heartfelt drama.

It's Jamie Miloff.

We're going to need three men to women in a early teen boy.

You know, although I have some wiggle room with that that I can make.

You can budget them.

Auditions are August 4th and 5th from 6 to 8 over the beautiful WRCT auditorium.

What? They are?

Oh my gosh.

They are right around the corner.

And there was a little bit of shocking to me.

We were talking about it this morning.

This morning, yeah.

I thought it was the second week of August.

I thought it was August 14th and 15th.

I had it a little off.

But I'm very excited that I'm going to get that.

That's very cool.

And you can even get a little early on this.

You can fill out an audition sheet if you'd like at wrctheater.org.

Yeah.

We had lots of people submit them already.

Yeah.

Big thank you to everybody who has already submitted it.

Yeah.

Really appreciate that.

And have some fun with that.

WRCT Theater.org again go over there.

Fill out an audition sheet or make plans to come audition and we'll join us on stage.

Yes.

That'd be a lot of fun.

Very cool.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back with more fun.

Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning Show at WFHR.

We hope you've enjoyed the show.

We sure have enjoyed hanging out with all of you.

Thank you so much for joining us everybody.

Got some good stories of the day and some good events going on in the area I want to touch on.

Yes.

We're real quick looking at the schedule.

Join us for a great edition of the Rapid Support today.

We'll have that streaming for you this afternoon.

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We got links right over to the side.

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Head on over there to do that.

And today we got some great guests.

Laura brought this up this morning.

We got some fun people to talk to.

BMX Badger State Nationals.

We're going to have Kelsey joining us to talk about that.

Oh nice.

I love talking biking.

That's very cool.

We're talking bikes.

We're talking competitions.

It's going to be fun.

Join us for that one.

And we will also be talking with Ms. Czech Slovakia Wisconsin.

Maya Hernandez is going to join us.

Yes.