Culinary Perfection, The Sandwich (Hour 2)

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Got a great story for you too and going to touch on our schedule and some local great things in our area. But it's a Monday and the 10 o'clock hour. You know what that means.

Good morning and welcome to the kitchen's open. We have some exciting news to share.

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And maybe while you're there, you can get a sandwich. This month is national sandwich month and national penini month. So I thought we'd spend some time reflecting on the history of this meal option.

I love sandwiches. They are one of my favorite things. If you can put it between two slices of bread, I'm there.

If we had stopped as a society with sandwiches, and we never made any other type of food, like that was it. Every food was served inside.

The slice of history I know about the sandwich is that it's named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

That's right. According to the website history.com and an article who invented the sandwich, they say, do we call the sandwich a sandwich because of the 4th Earl of Sandwich?

Yes. Was the first person to come up with the idea? Not at all. So even though we think it's named after him, he's not the one that did it.

So the article says the truth is we don't know who invented the sandwich, but it has existed in various forms for thousands of years.

One of the earliest known sandwich eaters was Halal, the elder, a rabbi and scholar who was born in Babylon and lived in Jerusalem during the 1st century BC.

The Haggara, a Jewish text read during the annual Passover Seder recounts how Halal made sandwiches using Paschalam bitter herbs and unleavened Matsa bread.

In Jewish tradition during the Seder meal, participants remember this by eating their own Matsa sandwiches.

Genius. Yeah. That's a little genius. One of the earlier memories I have. Matsa Matsa sandwiches here.

It brings back memories. I wish we was, you know, sandwich is a name that doesn't really describe what it is.

Right. So I wish we would have come up with a better name before the Earl of Sandwich got all the credit for doing this.

And is it just bread or if I remember Matsa is a more like a cracker type?

Yes. So it's a lot crispier. So it's harder to eat it as a sandwich.

Yeah. Not the perfect. Not the best vehicle for that kind of thing.

When did we stop naming things after the person that we invented it to?

Yeah. That seems like everything was done that way for the longest time.

Everything was named after her last name. We should start calling it the Hillel.

I think we should try to get that caught on like that.

There you go. Got my Hillel. The Matsa sandwich is the Hillel.

And really nice pronunciation.

I know it goes without saying for you, but it's nice to hear. It's just really.

You're welcome. I did my research on that one.

And what do we determine as the bread for the sandwich?

Because would we consider a hamburger sandwich?

Oh, the old thing. Because that's a bun.

That's true. I would call it a sandwich.

Right. And then there's the taco.

Which has more of the consistency of the Matsa.

Right. That's true.

So is that a sandwich or is it not?

You might have convinced me.

And now because of that with the Matsa sandwich, the taco may be a sandwich now.

It depends on who I'm talking to.

I am not easily swayed person by most topics on this one for some reason.

I just like, oh, yeah, you're right. I have no.

I'm not. I have no like a willpower on this one.

I bend to whatever I'm hearing because it's such a convincing argument.

Right.

You don't have a horse in every song.

I really don't.

Yeah, that's a sandwich shirt.

Well, the article goes on to say that it's not clear why the English politician,

John Montague, aka the fourth Earl of sandwich, became the namesake for the food we call a sandwich.

The first known use of the word sandwich comes from the diary of the English historian Edward Gibbon.

On November 24th, 1724th, 1762, he wrote about seeing men eating, quote,

a bit of cold meat or a sandwich, end quote.

But there's no mention of the Earl being the namesake.

Ah, maddeningly, maddeningly, you know, obscure.

It's just, ah, ah.

Then in the early 1770s, the French traveler writer Pierre,

John Grossley, published a gossipy and satirical book called a tour to London,

or new observations on England and its inhabitants,

and it grossly described a scene at a gambling table.

The word sandwich does not appear in Grossley's book,

but many people assumed the scene in the book, which Grossley may have made up,

referred to the fourth Earl of sandwich.

In any case, the name which people like Gibbon were already using caught on.

By at least the mid 19th century,

sandwich was so common that English speaking people were using it as a verb

to describe the process of placing something between two other things

as if one were making a sandwich.

Wow.

So a sandwich theoretically could also be with two pieces of lettuce.

That's true. That's as long as it's between something, right?

That makes sense.

It almost feels like anything between something.

It is almost a sandwich, you know?

According to that definition.

I love the idea of this.

If you go, you know, in the afterlife,

if you asked the fourth Earl of sandwich,

what a sandwich was, and he'd be like, what?

Yeah.

What are you talking about?

I don't know what a sandwich is.

That's my name.

What do you mean?

Exactly.

It's like asking, like, Abner, double day.

How about that baseball you invented?

He'd be like, what?

What baseball?

What is that?

Right, yeah.

So one type of sandwich that has become popular in the last decade or so is the Panini.

This Italian sandwich has an interesting backstory all on its own.

And an article on the University of Wyoming Extension website entitled

Prest for Dinner, by the way, great title, the Panini.

Originally, the Panini had working class Italian origins.

Whether you're referring to one on Panino or more duet Panini or Panini,

the first sandwiches were made with a simple recipe, a single filling,

usually made paired with rustic bread.

Cured meats, such as prosciutto, salami, and pancetta, were often used

because they didn't require refrigeration.

Panini was usually eaten on the go as a quick meal or snack and wasn't toasted or grilled.

Which is not how we're used to seeing the Panini.

In our minds, it's always that grilled sandwich.

Get that grilled marks on it, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So somewhere along the way, however, a crucial discovery was made while a regular Panino is good,

a toasted Panino is even better.

Today, many people use an electric countertop grill or a stove top grill pan

and press grill to cook both sides at once and get that perfectly toasted,

crunchy exterior paired with a warm and melted interior.

So again, the original Panini had only the meat.

No condiments, no cheese and nothing.

Just really simple.

Yeah.

Bread and meat, basically.

I love the idea that we're doing it wrong, too.

Saying it wrong, it's the singular.

I would like a Panino, right?

Instead of a Panino.

Panini is the plural, right?

Well, and often we think of a Panino Panini as one half of the sandwich.

So technically, a Panini would be both halves, which would be two, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

That would work.

That's the only one on one half.

Trying to win an order of Panini.

Good up an era bread and do that.

There you go.

Now I kind of want to do that.

Yeah.

What?

What are you talking about?

Well, and then you can educate them.

Well, that's actually the plural.

Yeah.

So.

Sir, please just order the sandwich.

Over the years, the Panini has grown in popularity and ingredients began to evolve

into pretty much what we know now.

So the rustic bread, such as Shabbata, Francesco, a small French-style roll, and Faccaccia,

became the signature foundation of the sandwich, not sliced sandwich bread.

So that's another difference between what we understand as a regular sandwich.

Wow.

Those are considered rustic breads.

Yeah.

Which is fantastic.

I love that.

It's not nice bread.

You know, like it's sliced.

No, no, no.

This is rustic.

There's a lot of that.

It has a nice crunch to it.

You think of using, like, if you're going to use sliced bread, use the heels of the bread

that nobody likes to eat anyway.

Right.

That's my favorite part.

And that's my favorite part.

Perfect.

He likes crushed.

Oh.

For every meal I ever had that she made would save the French bread, would save the end pieces

for me.

Oh, perfect.

And just put it right there for me.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Well, people also began to experiment with fillings then, right?

So meats used in Panini included salami, prosciutto, capicola, mortadella.

Pepperoni, ham, roast beef, turkey, chicken, and bacon.

So just about any kind of meat that you would want to put in there.

Cheeses from mozzarella to brie became standard, which adds welcome depth of flavor.

Vegetables, including tomato, arugula, eggplant, or grilled squash, brought garden fresh taste

and texture.

Pesto herbs, mushrooms, roasted red peppers, marinara, marinated artichoke hearts, pickles, olives,

and balsamic vinegar were added to balance and complement flavors.

The combinations really are endless and make each Panini an individual dining experience.

Mm-hmm.

My gosh.

It's the versatility of the sandwich.

You can basically do anything you want with it.

That's what I love about them.

Sandwiches are great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

One of the best things ever.

And the fact that you can still call a sandwich a Panini without it having to be that grilled

Panini.

Exactly.

So if you don't have a Panini press or something like that at home, you can still make a Panini.

You've got your Chebata bread there, just throw something in between and you're good to go.

And if you want to go throw back, just do a piece of salami in the middle of your head.

There you go.

Yeah.

It doesn't have to be fancy or elaborate or create your own recipe with it.

And if you do, include it in our recipe book that we're going to be putting out as part of our anniversary.

You can do that by stopping by our parking lot party on August 20th.

We'll have sheets for you to fill that out.

Awesome.

It's going to be fun.

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Nice work, Beth.

Nice work as always.

That's fun.

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Tell me something good.

Strawberries, cherries, and the angels kiss in the spring.

Thank you, Miss Sinatra.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thank you for hanging out with us.

We appreciate Beth and the kitchen's open and the Mead.

Yeah.

That was a lot of fun.

That was great.

Great way to kick off the hour.

We're going to kick off a Monday.

Mm-hmm.

And I actually ate a sandwich while you guys were talking about sandwiches.

And it was literally the right kind.

It was unhealthy white bread with butter and baloney.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Yes.

A lot of good sandwich right there.

Simple sandwich.

That's my brother's special right there.

That's all.

It was a childhood nostalgia thing and I had gotten a white bread for Pudgy Pie.

So I had to use it, right?

It couldn't just start white.

No, we can't do that.

We got to get baloney to eat it with.

There you go.

That's funny.

We're going to get into our main topics in a moment.

But I wanted to do a story that we could kind of continually come back to from week to week every once in a while.

And so I've got one here and we'll kind of come back to this one later in the week, maybe next week.

Seth and I last Friday did a article on songs that artists have played the most.

Oh, yes.

And this got me thinking about what are songs that you hear on the radio and you will never turn off.

You will listen to no matter how many times you've heard.

Yeah.

And so I want to get that going.

What are what are songs you never get tired?

Okay.

That's the topic.

So I want to hear from you guys out there.

715-424-2600.

Call or text in with your answers as well.

We're looking forward to them.

You can also bring in bring those answers down to lunch by the river.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we're going to be at that this for Thursday.

This Saturday will be at the bridge to bridge event.

Yes, we will.

We'll talk more about these things as we go along.

And of course, our open house that we'll be touching on a little bit later also.

Yes, indeed.

Maybe you're signing up for the newsletter and you want to include it in there or something.

I don't know any of the above.

Yeah, lots of ways to get it here.

Yeah.

There's a spot for comments.

Yep.

We're looking forward to that.

But your dog could be the next air bod.

Yes.

Yes.

Now, I will warn the audience.

I came across this article this weekend.

So I have had a little bit of Saturday, mostly Sunday, to train my brother Sammy.

How to dribble a basketball.

How to dunk.

How hard to do a crossover.

Now Sam hasn't picked up any of this.

In fact, Sam's just about as big as the basketball.

And it should be better.

It should probably be noted that Sam is mostly blind now.

And he can't see very well.

So he enjoyed listening to you bounce a basketball and talk at him?

Yeah, this is pretty much a, it was a pretty much one-sided conversation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I, you know, I'm trying it right.

I'm going to ride his co-tales if he gets this job.

And I need, I'm going to take the breaks where I get a few weeks ago.

It was announced that a new air bud is in the works called air bud returns.

Well, now the, the search is on to find the new air bud.

Wow.

And it sounds like the most adorable casting sessions of all time.

Keeping up with the legacy of the character.

The search is for a purebred golden retriever only.

If you think your fur maybe could be the next star.

You could submit an application online.

Wow, an open call.

That's cool.

That is, you can go to airbud.com and find the, find the online application there.

All right.

Even if, even if your golden isn't chosen, you are still eligible to win prizes like

Airbud Jersey's signed movie merch or a trip to the premiere in Los Angeles.

Wow.

That's fun.

That's actually not a bad idea.

I love this.

Yeah.

Now, what is a way to get people to want to come to movies?

What is a way to get people to care about movies that they might not otherwise?

Manimals?

Get them in.

Well, yes.

Absolutely.

100%.

Nicely done.

Well done, Melissa.

Very well done.

You could be a movie producer.

Yeah.

Yeah, the bad animal movies.

But getting them involved.

An article that Seth and I have been talking about the last couple of weeks over on the Sunrise Show at 105.

Join us seven to nine.

Is Luke Holmes who, when he's doing with his next album?

Yes.

And he's kind of, he used this term loosely and jokingly.

I kind of, I use it.

I think it's a good one.

Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing.

Yeah.

He's got like a bunch of songs out there and he's saying, hey guys, tell me which one should be on the album.

I've never heard of anything like this before and I think it's such a cool idea.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Now, Luke Holmes is one of the bigger artists in music, not country music.

Like he's big.

He just did Coachella.

Or was it Lala Pelosi?

One of the two.

Maybe both.

Yeah.

I mean, something a country artist has never done before.

And he's also done all this without anybody blinking an eye.

Yeah, that's a country artist.

Like we all, like it's not that he's doing this in kind of like trying to do pop country

or anything like that.

Like if anything, it's a little more rock country than it is anything.

Right.

So I think that that is a good note there.

And it's also incredible marketing.

An incredible idea.

It's huge.

Yeah.

You feel an attachment to these musicians already.

How attached are you going to feel if you got, you know, I helped pick the album.

I picked that song.

I mean, and just think about this though.

I want to quickly touch on the idea of, right?

Because he's putting demos out.

So he's only going to complete, you know, do the full production on the ones that are chosen.

So he's putting out like works in progress.

Which is cool.

Which is cool.

Yeah.

And there's some artists.

It is.

There are some artists that I found that I loved their Janet Devlin is a really good example of this.

I loved her really early stuff before she signed on with a record company.

Because it was, it was her.

Yeah.

You got to hear her, her rock mic.

And raw.

It's very well polished.

Right.

But it's still a low five.

Yeah.

Right.

But what he's doing is similar to that.

It's like, okay, here's some rough drafts.

What do you think?

Yeah, exactly.

That's cool.

So you still get to hear the finished product when they get, you know, he puts it all together for the new album.

I mean, it's a really great idea.

And it doesn't change too much because that's what happened with Janet.

It was bummed about it.

That does happen occasionally.

Yes.

Interesting little note.

The original buddy was a dog named buddy who was trained to play basketball.

He was on America's Funny's Home videos and Letterman.

Wow.

As soon as I read this, I remember to being on Letterman.

Oh, yeah.

I do remember that.

Totally makes sense.

And sadly, Buddy passed away before any of the sequels and everything.

Sure.

Yeah.

But that, that's really cool.

I like this.

And I like, I will say this part too.

It's a real dog.

Not a CGI dog.

Oh, absolutely.

I'm so glad that they're doing that.

Yeah.

Now, I don't know where technology has gotten.

And I got done raving about the new Superman movie and crypto and that.

And how amazing that the graphics were.

If they told me that was a real dog, I would have believed them.

Like, it was that good.

I've never, I don't know.

I've been really racking my brain.

I don't know if I've seen any better example of CGI than that.

Wow.

I think it's maybe the best example.

I would go to like some of the early Matrix movies and some of that.

But even that's more about camera work.

Yeah.

Right.

And this dog is straight up just digital.

And it's incredibly well done.

All that said, use a real dog.

Anytime, use animal anytime you can.

Yeah.

Right.

Right.

As long as it's safe and they're well trained.

Right.

And that the animal is having fun.

Yeah, exactly.

I like the idea too of putting together a team of animals to play basketball.

I like this.

I also think pigeons.

They do it with donkeys.

Yeah.

That's true.

That's the thing.

They do that in Adams County.

I was interesting.

Now, I wouldn't be able to audition right now.

Anyway, I am taking the next couple of months off of auditioning so that I can focus on directing

and all the work that we got here.

So directing and directing.

Program directing and directing.

Lots of directing.

But I would audition for this if I could.

It doesn't look like they have an open casting call for people.

It's just the dog.

What's going on?

Yeah.

Who cares?

We have the other actors.

We don't care about them.

But we want the bug.

Fair.

I don't like new bud.

Well, I do think that it's going to be harder to find.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, somebody who actually took the time to train their dog to play basketball.

And, oh, also wants to be in a movie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's true.

And it's a pure bred golden retriever.

That's true.

I would like to, that's one little thing.

I would like to see them, you know, not be so needy of.

I, we, more than people than not have a, not pure bred animals.

Right.

And I, I think that you would bring a lot more, you know, more, more, more,

relatability with a mixed breed animal.

But I, I get it too.

I mean, Labrador's are beautiful.

They're beautiful dogs.

I get it.

We actually had one when I was a kid.

It was my brother's dog.

His name was Prince.

Um, he would have done better with football.

Because he loved playing football with my brother and his friend.

And he always was in for the tackle.

That was his position.

Well, in, in dogs, as, as we can hear, the dogs are, um,

are, are, are impossible to tackle.

Like they, you know, they would, we go out of anything, putting a dog

on a football team and that's the end of the game right there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can just point them to the, the end zone there.

Um, I know one movie I won't be auditioning for, at least anytime soon,

is Goonies 2.

There were the sequel that has been been teased for almost two decades now.

Seriously.

Um, it's, it's still out there and all that.

And it hasn't gotten green litter or anything.

But if it does, Josh Brolin is all on board.

Um, one of the things I like about Josh Brolin is, uh, in his interviews is he has,

he's a very smart guy and really, you know, but, uh, not going to put on airs.

Mm-hmm.

And, and really kind of let stuff out whether he intends to or not.

He is, uh, going out of, like, not going out of his way.

But, like, he'll bring up bad movies even when the interviewer isn't.

Uh, Jonah Hex is one of these ones that just out of nowhere.

He'll bring up.

And, uh, how he's surprised.

I think it was one of them where they were asking about a movie that didn't do well recently.

And he said, well, I survived this.

Or Jonah Hex or someone, you know, so it was, it was along those lines.

And one movie, if you go back and I'd love to see somebody piece this together,

almost every interview he can, he will bring up Goonies.

Even if it's not brought up just because he loves that movie so much in that time and life.

Sure.

And that experience he had.

Um, if it does, Josh is on board at the Goonies two happens.

Uh, he says he wants it.

He wants in because, quote, the experience was so great.

The movie has received so well generation after generation.

It's just everything good about it.

He added the, the, the trepidition that I have is that you release something else that

taints the original.

Or does it taint the original?

Oh, right, right.

I don't want to taint my memory of it.

Brolin says five scripts had been proposed so far and none of them were approved.

But since the guy with final approval, Stephen Spielberg, uh,

and Brolin isn't really worried about, uh, quality.

He says, quote, if Spielberg approves it, you know what's going to be good.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, that's good.

And I'm glad they've rejected five scripts so far, honestly.

Yeah.

They weren't good enough.

Don't do them.

Exactly.

That's such a positive thing to hear in this day and age.

Yeah.

You know, they turned down money essentially.

Yes, they did.

And I like the idea of this.

I, I don't know that it's ever going to go anywhere.

Uh, but I do like that they're talking about it and stuff.

But more, more to the point, uh, that it's okay for something to just stay there.

Mm-hmm.

It's okay to do something one time.

Yep.

You know, you don't have to redo it.

You don't have to make a sequel.

You don't have to, you know, yeah, I do think it would be fun to do a spin off

either cartoon or anime.

Because I think there's so much you could do with that.

Mm-hmm.

That would be really fun.

I, I like the, the concept in the idea continuing.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, just not a remake.

Just anything else they want to do with it.

I'm okay with it.

I, I'm not one of these people to get mad about them not making new stuff

and constantly going back or anything except for remakes.

Mm-hmm.

I have never seen a remake that was better than the original.

And I've never seen a remake that necessarily gives credit to the original that well.

Right.

Some try, but they don't do a good enough job.

No.

See, we want to know what happened after the pirate ship sailed into the cove.

That's, that's the next chapter.

Yeah, there you go.

And if we're going to remake stuff, I, I feel like we're remaking the wrong things.

For one, we should be remaking, if we're going to do it, we should be remaking things

that the technology wasn't there at the time.

Right.

And maybe we can update that.

Or was a good idea, but the execution wasn't up to snuff, right?

Make a better version of a film, right?

Or casting things appropriately, like breakfast for Tiffany's

and actually having maybe not one of the most racist characters of all time.

Exactly.

Or, or, you know, how many times we cast a white person as an Indian person or a Jewish person

or something like that.

That's the kind of remakes I'd like to see.

Now, I just lost half the audience and I know that.

But we need to remake Tombstone then.

And there's, there's so many old masters.

Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I mean, Tombstone.

We can't, we can't remake that.

We, we can't.

Is, is there some stuff that has not aged well?

Absolutely.

But I, that just broke my heart.

When you said that, like, I know you're, you're right though.

You're absolutely right.

The nostalgia for that film.

God, I love that.

Okay, I was thinking of the TV show.

What's the TV show that's similar to Tombstone?

Oh, oh.

Is it Maverick?

No.

Not Maverick.

Okay.

I don't know.

I'm going to find it.

Deadwood?

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Oh, you're talking like old TV shows and stuff.

Yeah.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

There's a lot of it.

Well, why at Earth was a TV show for a while?

And I don't know if they touched on the gun fight at the O.K.

Corral and that or not.

But that was way back in the 50s, though.

I'm your Huckleberry.

It's such a good movie.

We will take a quick time out.

Before we do, though, do you want to remind everybody

that our open house is just about a week away.

A little couple days.

A week and a half.

Yeah.

Next Wednesday, August 20th.

We're going to be opening our doors for both studios

and welcoming everybody here.

We're going to have a lot of fun.

We've got a lot of great things lined up for the whole family

for this one.

We want everybody to come on by.

We will talk more about this tomorrow and Wednesday.

And as we get going here and everything.

But a quick reminder again, our open house.

Our parking lot.

Party.

Woo!

Wednesday, August 20th.

We will kick this off in noon.

Isn't that what we're doing?

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Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Hope you're having a good start to the week out there.

Thanks for kicking it off with us.

Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you here at 97-5 FM.

We've got good stories of the day.

You're going to get into our schedule a little bit later.

Looking forward to all that.

But right now, we touch on this every year

when we get it from our friends over at Nationwide Insurance.

We have with us right now the 2025 finalists

for the strangest pet insurance claim of the year.

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I love that name.

Or the strangest ways pets injured themselves in the past year.

Oh no.

I hear the highlights.

And of course all of these animals are okay.

They all rebounded and they're healing.

And they're healed and are doing okay.

No.

Wash.

A month in Tennessee that got sick because he wouldn't stop eating cicadas.

Oh no.

Oh no.

His owner doesn't even know how many he ate.

Oh.

But it's all.

But it's all he did every time he did a little outside.

Oh no.

Wash.

That's not something you want to do.

You're tasty.

How much?

I'm bet you they are.

Maddie.

A bulldog in Virginia that ate a preserved alligator.

Oh.

My mutt will actually eat anything.

Yes.

Literally.

Wow.

Present preserved alligator.

Yes.

Maddie is a park goat.

Maddie.

Taxidermists use toxic chemicals so her owner had to take her in right away.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Keep that in mind everybody.

Zia.

Z-I-Y-A.

Zia.

A dog in California that came nose to nose with a loose bull while out on a walk.

Oh no.

He defended his owner and lost a tooth when it kicked him.

Oh.

That's too bad.

But still.

I mean, you.

It's a brave dog.

Well, you.

You survive a fight with a bull and all you got is a loose tooth.

I'm bragging about that.

Every dog I come from.

You kid me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you survive any bull at night.

It would say that.

Yeah.

You're so right, Melissa.

They're scary.

The thing I most of.

Of animals, I'm not afraid of a lot.

Bulls are terrifying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because they're big and mean and are they can be.

But I mean, it's like.

Oh.

That's ordinary.

They are.

There's.

There is that that word describes.

To a tee.

To a tee.

To a tee.

You know, when it comes to animals that like certain animals, they look intimidating and

just are.

I think the same thing you said.

The first thing I thought of is a hippo.

Oh, yeah.

Our whole lives.

We've seen them in cartoons and hunger, hunger, hippo and games and everything.

They usually seem benign.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, they're just sweet animals or whatever.

I ever saw a hippo in the wild.

Like I would run from that faster than a bear.

They are aggressive.

I'm not.

I'm not nearly as scared of a bear as I am.

Yeah.

Like that.

The new Jurassic or the new Jumanji took that completely out of, yeah, hippos are not are

not friends.

Yeah.

Well, they are not.

No.

But there's no defense to a hippo.

There's nothing you can do.

They're big and they're fast.

People forget how fast they are.

Yeah.

Because they're related to horses.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like no.

Hazel.

A great Dane St. Bernard mixed.

That's got to be interesting.

That's a big dog.

Wow.

And she's in New Jersey that picked a fight with a groundhog and lost a bite on her paw

earned her a trip to the vet to be picking on the groundhog.

She shouldn't have messed with the groundhog.

Now that would be mean.

Now, that groundhog is bragging to L of its groundhog friends.

Oh, it's like, yeah, it's got a big dog like that.

Do you see that horse size dog I took on?

And he's over exaggerating about the size of the dog, but to be fairies, you know,

he could only look up so far.

Right.

I know.

So tall.

That dog was too.

Salem.

The only cat in the running this year, Salem's a great name for a cat.

By the way, it's great.

Yeah.

From Sabrina.

Are you sure?

Oh, yes.

The name of the cat is Salem.

That's well done.

Well done.

Her owner in New York couldn't find one of their AirPods and thought she ate it.

The AirPods still isn't turned up, but she's okay.

Okay.

Oh, there's a mystery involved in this one too.

Have they had to go in for an ultrasound?

Yeah.

Just to make sure.

Yeah.

Foxtrot.

A grape dain in Texas that stole a full turkey leg from her owner on Thanksgiving and

swallowed it whole.

Oh, my gosh.

The bone had to be removed.

Well, they were coming for it.

They were coming for it.

The dog had to eat it quick.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's one of those moments where, so I'm used to this with my kids where they would

do something and I know I'm supposed to be the adult and get mad at them, but I'm like,

that's just impressive.

Like, that's just, I don't know how.

I've mentioned this one before my son when he first started learning the walk.

I would, I would, the mornings where we had a routine and I would have a big, big glass

of chocolate milk.

And one time we're sitting there and I look at like a highlight on ESPN or something

like that.

I was a glance away for two, three seconds.

I look back over and he's in his onesie and he's got up to his elbow, his whole arm in

the chocolate milk and he pulls it out without really spilling much and just staring at

me the whole time while he's doing this.

And I'm trying to think of what I'm going to say to him.

And as he's staring at me, he starts sucking the chocolate milk out of the onesie.

He knew he couldn't pick up the glass, so he figured out a way to get that chocolate

milk.

Oh, I'm telling you.

And I'm like, I should get mad at him, but I'm just too

impressed.

Yeah.

I'm just too impressed.

Yeah.

I don't know.

An interesting straw bro.

But I like it.

Yeah.

I don't know what to do with that.

I don't know what I'm supposed to be mad at.

There's no hair to look for that.

There's no really isn't.

I will say one thing and I don't, I don't really have a good reason for this, but I don't

like it when people name animals after another animal.

Like you can't name a dog with fox in the title.

I don't know.

It's a little weird about that.

I don't like it.

I don't like it.

You can't name dog.

I mean it seems almost insulting.

You can't name cat.

Yeah.

Right.

A cat named dog.

A dog named cat.

Yeah.

We've heard those ones.

Yeah.

Cat dog.

Oh, cat dog's awesome.

That's a whole different story.

Cat dog rules.

Duke.

A lab retriever mixed in Ohio that licks some peanut butter off a spatula and end up swallowing

the spatula head.

Oh no.

Those are detachable.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Let's be honest.

That could happen to any one of us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a spatula in my mouth.

It's just a natural reaction of swallow.

We've all been there.

We've all been there.

I don't know.

I don't know about that.

And Havanese.

Am I saying the right?

A Havanese, I think.

No, I don't know.

A Havanese in Illinois that ate an entire bouquet of flowers.

Ooh.

Bella is where we ran.

Oh, no.

Bella.

Her owner found her covered in pollen.

Oh no.

Oh my gosh.

On the plus side had great breath for weeks.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Unless they were lilies.

Yeah.

Or lilacs.

These are.

What?

Lilacs are gorgeous.

Lilacs are awful.

They're the best.

They're the best.

These are interesting.

We'll die on that hill.

Does anybody have any, it doesn't have to be a dog, but a pet memory or an animal memory like

this.

It's just weird.

I feel like I have so many of them, especially when I work at the shelter.

Right.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

A lot of strange animal behavior.

Yeah.

Just these things.

Sammy, my, our, our, for dog, one of the things that I've noticed with him where he will,

like, well, he doesn't done this in years and years and years, but when we first got him,

he would show up and like, hey, where'd you get that toy?

But, and especially this is weird.

My parents only have one set of neighbors on the other side.

There's, uh, there's not, there's no house over there.

So in the house where, when we first got Sam, there was nobody living there.

So it's not like he was stealing toys from the neighbor's dog or something like that.

Like, to this day, we're not sure where these toys came from.

Oh, it happened like two or three times.

All I could think is that he just wanted to make himself a male off.

I don't know if he's just one of the, he's an entrepreneur, um, you can't blame him.

Oh, I'm going to say, man, is you are lucky because our dog brought home, uh, dirty diapers,

um, she brought home, like almost entire deer carcasses, yeah, I've heard of the animal

that will bring the, the, yeah, from the, the gut pile from the person, you know, the,

the deer hunter, yeah, you know, just throw the, the, the awful, the old folks in the back

door.

And then come home.

Now she would bring, she would bring skulls back.

We, I mean, we had these large deer bones, deer legs, you know, in our yard.

It's like, come on, dog, man.

Come on.

Well, actually, Prince was so, was such a, like, uh, reddish gold color as a golden retriever

that we had to tie him up during deer season because he looked like a deer.

Yep.

Yes.

We were afraid of him getting shot.

100% had to do the same thing with our dog.

She was golden, like, her name was sunshine, which gives you an idea of what her color was.

So yeah, we had to do the same thing.

And she was like just about the right size to, she was a bigger dog.

Yes.

We had to make sure she was tied up for hunting season.

Uh, they're, they're, um, and, and the dogs defense in all of this.

It's not as if they've got a credit card.

I mean, if they want to get us a gift, they only got so much to work with.

That's fair.

That's fair.

I brought you this dead deer because I love you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a form of love.

It's a form of love.

I will.

I love languages.

Stinky.

I will tell anybody, uh, any, any young, uh, daters out there, don't try this, try this.

It does not work.

But I brought you a fish.

Don't you watch?

Uh, it was a fish.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They do not try it.

Dead and rotten, but it's, it's a sign of trust me on this.

Uh, if you take any dating advice from me and you probably shouldn't, uh, this is the

one.

I think you're good on that one.

I think you're okay.

Yeah.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the show.

A morning show on WFHR.

Welcome back to the morning show here at 975 FM, WFHR.

Thanks to listening, everybody.

I think I was trying to say, listening and joining at the same time, my joint in my brain

was like, you know, when you're two people are trying to go through a door at the same

time, the both words were trying to jump through.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, get into our schedule.

Some good stories going on in our area here and of course, some events that we're going

to be at.

Uh, we're looking forward to and everything.

We've really been enjoying this summer, uh, being out and about and doing some things

in town and everything.

It's been a lot of fun.

100%.

That's been, been very fun.

Do you want to say a big thank you to, of course, our sales team, uh, we say a shout

out to them.

We say a shout out to our, our staff.

We are a small staff.

These events take a lot of people and I'm impressed with the work that has been done

by this team.

Shout out to everybody.

And of course, a big thank you to these businesses that have hosted us and all of that.

100.

Yeah.

Great stuff.

And all our listeners.

It's fun to meet people when we're out and about.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's a blast.

We do enjoy it.

We also appreciate the way you guys have supported some of the changes that have gone

on here in the last couple of months, uh, one of the bigger ones, of course, the rapid

support.

Uh, that has been turned into a complete, uh, podcast and you can catch it at WFHR.com.

Just go under our shows and you'll see it over there with that.

Uh, check it out.

Uh, the popularity of the show has not dipped.

If anything, it's gotten stronger and we really, really, really appreciate that.

Yes.

We do.

I put a lot of work into that show.

I know Laura puts a lot of production into that show and our guests put a ton into

these shows.

Yeah.

So we really, really, really appreciate that.

We got a new episode for you today.

Be sure to head on over to WFHR.com and check it out.

We're going to be talking, we're putting our spotlight on Nekusa.

Our good friend Heather.

Sarah is going to be joining us talking about the circus coming to Nekusa.

Yeah.

On Saturday.

That's right.

It's an honest to goodness circus.

Yeah.

Wow.

A real circus big top and everything will be talking about this.

I want to watch water for elephants this weekend.

Oh, good one.

This week.

I trust.

Um, when it comes to such a good book, that's the first thing I think of when I think

this circus is not.

That's a good one.

It's funny.

I think a big fish.

I think of the movie.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

It's right away.

I do.

I don't know.

It's such a good movie.

He's such a good one.

And there's another book, Night Circus.

Oh.

It sounds good.

I took that one out.

It sounds good.

Uh, looking at our sports schedule, playmakers.

That's it.

That's it.

This is one of those rare weeks, everyone that we don't have any sports on either station.

And that happens like twice a year, I think that's it's next week.

All right.

So Jane, I'm going to need, I'm going to need a blog from you for the newsletter this

week.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

Because there's nothing to put in the sports section of our newsletter.

So can you just write something up for me?

You got it.

You got it.

All right.

No, actually, it doesn't matter what I can always come up with something to say about

sports.

And I know Michael could do.

Oh, yeah.

Seth, Michael, they'll be joining me throughout the week this week on playmakers at different

times.

And we'll be talking, uh, getting people ready for the football season, of course, but

also the high school sports season.

Yes.

Which starts the 21st.