The Kitchen’s Open: Complimentary Condiments (Hour 2)

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Catch up, mustard, mayo.

Beth, this is hardly the time or place to be creating our grocery list.

I'm not.

These are examples of what we're going to be discussing today.

Ooh.

Catch up, mustard, mayo.

Oh, we must be discussing condiments.

Did you know there is actually a DC villain called the condiment gig?

I did not.

That is very true.

He actually first appeared on the Batman animated series.

It was kind of a gag thing.

But he later became a part of the regular Batman series.

Because any of these two guns, one shot,

one shot, catch up, and one shot, mustard.

What was he hoping the heroes were going to slip on the condiments?

I don't know.

The condiment gig is no physical powers, but he has his belt

and his weapon.

Yes.

I had to look him up.

I actually, I've heard of him, but I did not actually see that.

I had to do that, too, because I didn't really know that much about him, so.

Well, maybe condiments were his favorite thing in the world.

But September is National Condiment Month.

So I began to wonder exactly what qualifies as a condiment.

According to ScienceDirect.com,

condiments are substances that are normally added in small portions

to enhance food flavor during cooking and or eating,

such as table dips and seasonings.

Condiments have been used since ancient times,

and the word drives from the Latin meaning pickle.

That's according to Marion Webster 2015 and Wikipedia in 2016.

Condiments are generally available in concentrated single forms

or as a mixture of ingredients.

Condiments originated in different cultures of the world

and can be found in liquid, semi-solid, and solid forms.

I really appreciate having this segment

for things like this in particular.

These questions that I think a lot of us have had,

but can follow through or had the time to follow through on.

I love that for this.

I also love when it creates other questions.

And it's a great question and a great topic, Beth.

If I can piggyback on it, how did we start using condiments?

When did we start you? When did we even think of,

okay, I've got this meal. You know what it could use?

A little bit of this.

It's a wonderful question.

I found in my research that I actually respect

the medieval times or ancient times

when they would add salt, salt is considered a condiment.

That would be the original one and that adds that flavor.

It brings out flavors.

Condiments have been around for centuries and millennia.

The thing that got me is that you've to flavor food during cooking as well

because you usually think of it as something you do after the meal is set out.

You know, you're going to dip or ketchup, mustard, whatever, that kind of thing.

But then I was thinking about it just now and I realized,

but you do, there's recipes, you know,

put ketchup in the recipe or put how much salt you put in seasonings,

any kind of thing like that.

So anything can be considered condiment, I guess, in that sense.

Can anything be considered condiment?

So I also found a great article entitled,

we asked eleven chefs to define a condiment

and now we're really confused.

Now you're going to have to talk about right, right?

I thought this was a great article and it's on the kitchen, no e,

just the k-i-t-c-h-n.com.

And I'm going to share, I'm not going to share the whole thing,

but there were a couple of ones in here that I just found were really, really interesting.

Okay.

So chef Matt Highland, who is the executive chef of Pizza Love's Emily restaurants,

says consistency matters.

So consistency wise, a condiment needs to be thinner than guacamole,

but no thicker than ranch,

which this chef thinks is the perfect condiment consistency.

If it's too thick, it becomes a dip.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Boy, that's very specific.

Yeah.

And we just kind of read that dips are condiments too,

so he's got a very narrow definition.

Exactly.

So scientifically guacamole could be considered a condiment.

But according to this chef, it is not.

It's a very specific thing, right?

So it shows you, this is a very personal...

Oh, yeah.

You know, we each have our own opinions.

And we'd love to hear yours, so feel free to call in 424-2600.

Try and remember off the top of my hand.

I got there, 424-2600.

Let us know what you think is a condiment,

and what you maybe what your favorite condiment is.

We would love to hear that.

Yeah.

Call our Texas through the syphymidiapus once again.

This is true, absolutely.

So the next chef who is Julia Shin, who is the chef and partner of Nockney in Oakland, California,

says, a condiment is a sauce or seasoning that is applied by the consumer, not the cook,

to customize the flavor of a dish.

Oh, that is a difference.

That is it.

It is.

Condiments become ingredients when they are added in the preparation of the food.

For example, soy sauce is a marinade as a marinade is a seasoning, but with sushi is a condiment.

So for them, it's what you're using it or when you're using it.

And who's using it?

Right.

Either the chef, it's one thing.

If it's the person consuming the food, it's something else.

I know the answer to this one before the audience is safe.

Don't you need ketchup to make a meatloaf?

Yes.

You don't need it.

Oh, okay.

There are some meatloafs that don't use it.

Yeah, that's fine.

That's right.

In fact, there is a specific ranch company out there, and I'm not going to advertise for them,

but you can use those ranch dressing packets when you make them at home.

You can use that as a seasoning for meatloaf.

Yeah, you can make it ranch.

And when you do that, you don't need ketchup.

That's right.

That's one of the weirdest things I've heard of.

It makes perfect sense, but ranch meatloaf would throw me.

And especially if you used ground chicken meat rather than beef.

Oh, wow.

It makes it taste like ranch chicken.

Yeah.

Wow.

So it's very, very good.

We've done that at our house a couple of times.

Right.

So another chef, Jessica Coslow, chef and creator of Squirrel, Los Angeles, California.

That's a great name for a restaurant.

There is no you in it, though.

It's S-Q-I-R-L Squirrel.

Squirrel.

Squirrel.

Squirrel.

But she says condiments can be more than supporting actors.

Condiments are usually thought of as supporting actors to highlight another ingredient, but sometimes

they're so good that they turn everything around them into a delivery system, like honey

on toast.

Okay.

I like the idea of using it as a delivery system for the, so now I'm guessing that a lot

of these chefs would say because it's not a sauce, right?

That's something different, right?

And especially in French cooking, you know, the sauce is all, that's the most important

thing.

The bread or the meat is just like it's the delivery system, right?

So, but if I, I don't know if I've ever had a condiment, though, that I like that much,

that is like, you know, it's more important than what I'm eating it on, kind of thing.

But does this become, have you ever had the ants on the log when you were a kid, the celery

with peanut butter?

So does that mean the peanut butter and the raisins then become condiments to the celery?

Yeah, according to some, I think that would be, right?

Right.

And I remember growing up one of the things that my mom used to make, and I don't recommend

this anymore because of the amount of sugars we get anyway, bread, butter, and sugar.

So in the morning, take a nice, of course, back then it was white bread, slather it with

butter, and then just pour cinnamon sugar or just regular sugar on it, and we would

eat it straight like that, just a whole lot of sugar.

And you know, you look back and go, what was my mom thinking to sugar up her kids like

that?

But, you know, we loved it.

It was the way that the condiment got into our mouths, right?

My favorite snack as a kid was having my, not as, you know, sauce and marinara and just

a loaf of French bread.

And I would just go to town on that, you know, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So then that wouldn't that become a condiment?

There you go.

The bread would be the main and the condiment would have been marinara sauce.

So at least according to some of the chefs, that's the case.

Yes.

So, another chef reminds us condiments aren't one size fits all.

A condiment is something you serve with an already made dish that doesn't necessarily need

it.

So sauce and ketchup are definitely condiments, but I wouldn't say that guacamole and

hummus are because they can stand on their own.

This is by Donna Savitski, chef and owner at Donia, Thomas, and Oakland, California, and

to Bukka, to Cuba, yeah.

To Cuba, yeah.

That's how I would say that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Berkeley, California.

So according to this chef, it depends on the way that you're using it.

One of the things that sounds like can be a difference, makers, if a sauce or a condiment

are, you know, can be spread or not.

Right.

Well, that would be another interesting thing, right?

Yeah.

If it can be spread, all of a sudden it turns into something else, if it can't be, not

so much.

Right.

It seems a little bit like that.

Right.

It does.

You know, it's, again, all in the eye of the beholder.

Who is the one making that decision?

Wait, I mean, to your point, James, that means you could consider, you get a piece of toast,

you spread butter, that butter now could be considered a condiment.

Exactly.

Because it's, you could eat it, like they said, like this chef said, it's already prepared.

You can eat a piece of toast just like it is.

But if you add the extra thing, I guess then you, they would consider that a condiment.

You're not going to find it in the condiment aisle because that needs to keep refrigerated.

Right.

That's what makes that one kind of iffy, you know, is it, does it need to be like shelf

stable to be considered a condiment or can it be something like butter or sour cream?

Because sour cream could be considered a condiment too, right?

Because we use that to top tacos and things like that.

Beggles, yeah, yeah.

But it's also an ingredient.

I use it in macaroni and cheese to help with the sauce.

So when is it a condiment?

When is it a condiment?

Can things be more than one thing?

I brought back to my days working at a grocery store and having to stock shelves.

I'm like, where do I take these?

Is there, though, in that room, if you took into the condiment aisle, or if I said,

why do I want to show confused somebody help me?

So one other chef, Miles Thompson, who is the executive chef at Michaels in Santa Monica,

California, says condiments should not be eaten on their own.

So anything that can be eaten on its own, like a standalone dish, doesn't count as a

condiment.

Hummus isn't a condiment because you can eat it as a standalone thing.

But I would never think to sit and use a spoon to eat hummus.

I always dip something in it.

So if that's the case, does it really stand alone?

So by that argument, is it a condiment or isn't a condiment?

Right.

For you, it would be considered one because you'd never eat it all by itself.

I guess is what he's saying.

So I guess it all comes down to personal preferences, maybe?

I don't know.

I think we hit on this earlier, though, there's no one size fits all for this answer.

No, not really.

Exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

But it's fun.

And it's always interesting to see what's in that condiment aisle because there are things

in there that some of us wouldn't think of because there are different condiments that

are used in different countries as well.

And these articles kind of go into that one, specifically the one on the science one.

It talks about the different condiments.

It goes a little bit more into the history.

So I will put links to both of these articles in the next newsletter so that people can

go check them out.

It's interesting.

And again, text us, email us, let us know what is your condiment and what do you consider

a condiment?

It's also considered a condiment.

That's a good one.

You know, those are the kind of questions I want to know the answers to.

Friend of mine texted in relish, it's their favorite condiment and then they did not

know if it was a condiment.

It's not a really good idea about it.

Because can I sit there and eat relish on its own?

Yeah.

Because theoretically you could.

I don't know, man.

We're trying to help you.

We're trying to help you.

We're trying to help you.

So about the condiment case.

So he had two sidekicks.

One named salt and one named pepper.

Nice.

All right.

I guess he's talking.

We don't have to cut him off.

We just lower him.

Well, here I'll get him back.

I hope that this discussion cut the mustard and you catch up on Celebrity National Condiment

Month.

Oh, good.

If you relish exploring new condiments, head to your local grocery store and pick one

you may or not have used before.

You may remember to just find a, you may or just find a new favorite.

Oh, well done.

You got to stop taking writing lessons from Mike Colmer.

What you got to do.

Oh, my goodness.

If you can bring, bring dump about comic villains, then I can make my puns.

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close the kitchen.

Yeah.

Another great one.

Wow.

That's a fun discussion.

Well done, Beth, and a big thank you to you and of course our friends over at the hotel

meet.

Yes.

Yes.

Be listening next Monday for another edition of The Kitchen's Open.

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That was a lot of fun with The Kitchen's Open.

Have another edition for you next Monday.

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Look out for it, everybody.

We dive into some entertainment news, but to remind her that before we wrap up the show,

we do have six medieval health tips that sound like TikTok hacks.

Let's see.

Look at Ford with that one.

Getting to that a little bit later, but right now, how many people knew that this was

happening and how many of you watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night?

I did not.

Any of you?

Anybody out there?

All right.

All right.

Well, let's first off, let's go ahead and take a call from a caller here.

Let's go ahead and take a call.

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I think you need to turn your radio off in the background, sir.

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Try calling them back when you get your radio off.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry about that.

We love you, callers calling in, but you got to have your radio off.

In the back.

Very echoey.

And yes, not fun.

Yeah.

We can't understand each other.

But that is a little bit also kind of how things work sometimes.

Yes.

Sometimes we don't understand each other.

That's the other way.

The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards kicked off last night and doing something very different this year.

They put it on broadcast TV, ABC, have this and everything.

And also, it started off with Kenny G.

Really?

Yeah.

Hey.

Kenny G.

That's right.

Kenny G was the first performer to hit the VMA stage for 2025.

Now, this is in part because he was part of the Doja Cat performance.

Okay.

But still.

But still.

Come on.

Kind of interesting.

I told a lot of records, man.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

While I don't listen to his music, I have a ton of respect for Kenny G.

Absolutely.

A ton of respect.

An incredible musician.

Yeah.

Another highlight was in the tribute to Ozzy Osborne featuring Youngblood and Steven Tyler

and Joe Perry from Aerospace Smith.

Wow.

Cool.

Other performances included Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren, Busta Rhymes, Post Malone and Jelly Roll,

and the Video Vanguard Award recipient, Mariah Carey.

Oh.

Wow.

In her acceptance speech, Mariah asked MTV, quote, what in the, what are you guys doing?

What took you so long?

Since this was her first moon man, this is the first MTV video musical award she has received.

That's crazy.

That's insane.

It was technically her second because earlier in the night, she won Best R&B video for

a type dangerous, but obviously it's still crazy to think the Mariah Carey had won one long.

Yeah.

I mean, seriously.

She's so right too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, I don't know what video I would pick that she has won should have won one before, but.

Isn't it vision of love isn't hers?

I think that's the one.

Yeah.

That's one of her first big hits.

Oh, that's song.

Like that to me, that's the ultimate Mariah Carey.

Yeah.

You can have all the others.

They're fine.

I have nothing against them, but that song right there is the one to me that I'm like, okay,

this person's different.

Yes.

This one sings different than the others.

Absolutely.

Lady Gaga's performance of Abercadera and Dead Dance was pre-tapped because she had a show across

town in Madison Square Garden, but she did attend the VMAs long enough to accept the trophy

for artist of the year.

Nice.

For her.

I would think to me, even if you want to listen to it on mute, her shows are worth watching.

Like Lady Gaga shows.

They're just that kind of like pomp and circle of dance.

She's a true performer.

Yeah.

She leans into spectacle.

And we've talked about that a few times about rock and roll lens itself very much to spectacle.

And I like it when people lean into that.

Yeah.

Ariana Grande had a good night, winning video of the year and Best Pop video for brighter days

ahead.

Sabrina Carbender took home Best Pop Artist and Best Album.

Makes sense.

That is your wrap-up of the VMAs.

All right.

Yeah.

I'm a little surprised.

Were they all women?

Pretty much.

The majority of winners were women.

It seems like, yes.

Wow.

That is very noteworthy.

Yeah.

I agree.

I will say it's happened quite a bit in years past.

It's not with this particular award show, but it's still very noteworthy.

Yes.

Either way.

And also, it sounds like they toned it down a little bit because it was going to be on broadcast

television and everything.

And I don't know that that helps them or not.

Yeah.

I honestly don't.

I'm not asking a question when I really mean something else.

I hate when people do that.

Right.

I'm generally asking.

I don't know if it helps them or not.

Well, could we think about some of the more outrageous things that have happened on the VMAs in the past,

Brittany and Madonna, sucking face or whatever kind of thing?

Right.

That was kind of their calling card, right?

You're right.

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson is the relationship America really wanted, really just kind of like

without them coming out and saying that they were a couple, we made them a couple.

Now, they were holding hands and some things here and there, but it wasn't as if they had a press release

that told people this or anything.

Or is it anybody's business?

Exactly.

To be fair, I think the biggest point of all this, it ain't none of our business.

Yeah.

People were devastated when tabloids reported claims that it was a PR stunt to promote the naked gun.

But Pam had some words on this at a film festival in France over the weekend.

Pamela said, quote, I do not and will never feed into PR stunts.

That would be a death sentence.

And now, a lot of artists might say things like this.

I think very few of them have had to experience this like Pam Anderson has.

There were rumors and talks many, many years of her and Tommy released the sex tape on purpose or blah, blah, blah.

You hear her talk about that incident.

You hear her talk about the vulnerability and what they did to her and everything.

That was no PR stunt.

No, that was not something that I think when she's saying this, those words carry so much more

and hopefully remind us of how we have to be careful of these things

and how we can't just lump people into just because a Kardashian does it.

It doesn't mean that she did or something like that or anything.

Yeah.

And quote, I'm authentically driven.

I'm superstitious when it comes to love and I'm not comfortable sharing any shred of my romantic life.

There you go.

And she's always been this way.

This is not something that's new for her or anything.

Yeah.

And it's smart.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know the positive.

Like for a lot of people that they will they will have the okay so and so my agent called so and so

and now we're going to be a couple because it's going to help both of our movies or our careers or something.

I'm not saying that doesn't exist.

But I don't think enough people take this into consideration.

Yeah.

That you just don't know because it ain't your business.

Yeah.

Right.

It ain't up to you.

No.

Are you dating her?

No.

No.

I don't know what they want to share.

If they want to share.

So yeah.

And don't we get enough?

Seriously.

I feel like we need more.

I feel like we need more.

I feel like we get enough of people.

I don't know that we need to necessarily do that.

Now there is a rumor I wanted to touch on actually.

And this one keeps popping up every once in a while.

I see one article from March 9th, 2024.

I just saw one recently and it's after leaving office was Ronald Reagan offered a role in back to the future three.

And this is a long time rover that some have heard and some I've been hearing this since I've heard that before.

I was wondering if you guys had it.

So now we do have confirmation.

It turns out from Robert Semeckis and some others that no Ronald Reagan was not offered a role in back to the future three.

However, he was known to be a big fan of the film.

In fact, appearing on the film's 1985 movie poster, Reagan also made a brief appearance as himself in the first back to the future film.

But he was apparently a gigantic sci-fi fan.

Wow.

Ronald Reagan, which if you look at some of his term and Star Wars and some of the things that he used.

Some of the terminology he used.

Yeah, fair.

That's a fair thing.

But I just thought that was kind of interesting that Ronald Reagan gigantic sci-fi fan.

And to the point where as an actor in his acting career, he never got to do any of this stuff.

No, he did not.

There was a part of him that kind of still wanted to do it, even when running for president.

But after the president, he was never going to do it while being president.

No.

That would be insane.

Could you imagine a sitting president wasting his time doing TV and movies?

Oh, wait, wait.

That's right.

But no, this guy, he wanted this so bad that he really wanted to kind of like wrap up the presidency so he could go and do a sci-fi.

You couldn't take the actor out of Ronald Reagan, right?

I think that's been cool to see him in the third one.

Yeah.

But yeah, the fact that when Michael J. Foxx goes back in time and then Christopher Lloyd's asking,

who's president?

Ronald Reagan.

The actor!

Yes, exactly.

So great.

He was in a lot of, and he was in a lot of Westerns to when he was an actor.

And that would have fit him perfectly to be in the old Westerns.

With the third one.

Yeah, exactly.

And a fine actor at that.

Yeah, he was a good actor.

He was a good actor.

And speaking of actors, as we went through our National Day of Calder on the Sunrise show,

what happened?

And the notice today is actors day.

Oh, wow.

This is day that, you know, we have these different things for all the different arts acting being one of them.

I will note that in my experiences since I've been seven and being an actor and working at it and talking to other people in the artistic field,

acting tends to be the one that gets made fun of the most or kind of taken as lightly as it is.

Yeah.

And I like to, on a day like this, to note great acting.

Now, one of the things that I love about acting is unlike, I see a guitar.

I can't just pick it up and play it.

But anybody can act.

Animals can act.

Like, that doesn't mean that it's not as strong of a craft.

It just means that, hey, watch this actor and then watch Paul Newman.

Watch Sydney Poitier.

Yeah.

Watch, you know, Helen Mirren.

Well, you know, there is a difference of this.

Yeah.

Just like, hey, somebody learning guitar and, you know, Eddie Van Halen.

Right?

And I think it helps you respect the art a little bit.

And actually, one of my favorite, like terms to apply to this is to, if you, you know, don't believe anybody acting,

there's nothing to it or whatever.

Well, Bob, who used to sit in this chair, I think he had a great line about this to him.

The only thing he needed to do to be able to tell if an actor was good or not.

Well, can you picture anybody else in that role?

And when you think about it that way, it's a very unique way of looking at it, I think, of that.

And it also reminds me that I want to thank my fellow actors and not only the two I'm working with right now

and the ones in this studio and this building here and everything.

But the ones that I'm going to be seeing a little bit later during rehearsals.

Yes.

I'm golden pond.

Yes.

Where, let me see here.

Yep, you can get tickets right now.

How about that?

Well, I just, I didn't plan on this.

It just happened that way.

Sure.

Get to WRC Theater and get those tickets.

And actually, I did plan on this part.

We have a variety show happening at WRC Community Theater, a golden anniversary variety show.

And we want everybody in town to be a part of this one.

Yes, indeed.

It's a great opportunity to try and add something.

It's not a big commitment.

It's not a big huge time commitment.

It's easy, whatever you want to do.

That's right.

If you play the nose flute, I'm seriously, we want you to join in.

Because not many people do the nose flute.

Yeah.

All your recorders out there, you guys still play in your recorders?

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

I'm going to bring my kazoo collection.

I just realized I know someone who plays the nose flute.

They've realized that what I said.

I do know someone who does that, actually.

I've already talked to Gretchen and I've got two options for her.

I was either going to do some spoken word poetry and some of that or play spoons.

I was going to actually do a great version of free bird on the spoons.

I got the solo in there and everything.

It's about eight minutes long.

I'm going to take a while.

It's like, you know, like, it's a late thing.

Whatever your talent or skills.

Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.

We have no time for the other acts because James Boone plays.

That's my, that's my whole goal.

It's not to be good.

It's to take up all the time.

It's to take up all the time.

So that people get, get, find out more at wrctheater.org sign on up everybody and keep in mind

if you don't want to necessarily be on the stage.

They are looking for volunteers and people to be around things.

Come and watch.

Enjoy the show.

Yeah.

I'm sure to make plans for that.

This wonderful variety show is going to be coming up October 11th at two o'clock over at

WRCT Auditorium.

Yeah.

We will take a quick time out.

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

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

I got some fun stuff to get to before we wrap up the show.

Our schedule for the day will get into some good stories and of course some local events.

But right now we go back in time sort of.

If crazy TikTok health hacks are your jam, congratulations.

You are carrying on centuries old traditions.

Oh, okay.

Someone shared a list of medieval health tips that sound like they could be modern day

TikTok hacks.

And quite a few of them actually have a bit of influence from that.

That's right.

It's migrated there.

Yeah.

I think some of that is intentional.

Some of it might not be.

You know, there are things that we are re-quote rediscovering all the time when it comes to

just life in general, let alone things like this.

We got a bit of time, we only got a bit of time so I don't know if we're going to get

through all six of these but we have at least five of them I definitely want to touch

on.

Like a vinegar mask for glowing skin.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

It's vinegar, flour, and oil and rub it all over your face.

It's supposed to give you glowing skin.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Is that true Melissa?

Have you tried this?

I have not tried it but I would say it's not going to hurt you.

That's true.

I'm sure it wouldn't.

Yeah.

So I think my follow-up would be right away, you know, if everybody can do this kind

of thing.

But you just need to make sure that you're diluting the vinegar enough and that you're

not using a vinegar that is too high acidity.

Right.

Right.

I think the problem with some of these, quote, hacks is oftentimes people aren't looking

in the fine details or thinking about exactly the way they need to go about it, right?

Or you need only so much of this and so much of that, you don't just dump it in there.

So what was the phrase they use glowing skin?

Yes.

What is glowing skin?

That's my question.

Very.

I don't know what that means really.

I've heard it many times but I don't know exactly.

Clean skin?

Yeah.

Okay.

Hydrated.

Okay.

I think you know it when you see it too.

Okay.

I think one of those kind of things, too.

All right.

The original juice cleanse, an ancient year long detox plan had people drowning different

herb infused drinks, each month featuring a different herb, things like cinnamon, sage

and ginger to cure your ills.

Oh.

Interesting.

I like the idea of it being a different one for every month or every season or whatever.

Like a year long cleanse.

Well, and the reason for that is because you have different plants growing at different

times a year.

That's true.

It's only available certain times a year.

Exactly.

It's very cool.

It's almost as if this was all worked out for us, but it's all really interesting.

Although some of those were pretty exotic spices.

So only the people in certain areas could use them or they were in the rich.

Or only the, yeah, exactly.

Well, at least times they've changed with the, no, wait, they do the same thing.

That's the same.

Barley water.

Barley water.

Now make sure.

The beer.

Yes.

I feel like if you're going to order that, you have to say it like that, yeah.

This one actually does pop up on TikTok sometimes.

You basically just boil a bunch of barley, then strain the water and drink a text from over,

whoa, a text from over a thousand years ago claimed it would help with digestion.

Okay.

There you go.

You get your barley water.

But it also tastes horrible.

I'm sure it does.

Oh.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

I didn't even think about that.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm totally with you on that one.

Dead vultures.

Curl.

Huh?

They say a special prayer while you, you kind of like eat this vulture too, by the way.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Oh.

Now, anything that feeds on curry and is not in my food lexicon.

People.

People claimed vultures, skull and bones, could prevent migraines.

Oh.

Their eyeballs could help sore eyes and they could induce labor with their feathers.

Wow.

Yeah.

Their ears.

Why?

Yeah.

I want to know the reasoning.

And you should also stick a knife under the mattress to cut the pain.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

Just certain things.

But we have to remember all this is done for a reason that they just, some guy didn't

just come up and say, Hey, you know, if you do this, they know I'm guessing there is

a reason.

There's a logic to it.

Maybe wacky logic.

But I'm guessing there's something to it.

Well, maybe because they did feed on carrying Melissa.

Maybe that's why.

They had all these health benefits.

I don't know.

Uh, you know, a colleague in the radio industry, I heard talking about this recently because

his daughter is dealing with a scarlet fever.

I believe, yes, scarlet fever, I believe.

And, you know, there was a real concern with this.

And the things that this young girl is going through, and she's only six, but she's completely

different.

Her attitude, her, her, the way she is just kind of a empathy is gone and what it's

doing to her skin.

Yeah.

So many of these other things and stuff to the point where he got him and I talking

about it.

And he's like, you know, when this was gigantic in the 1700s or something like that,

you could see why people would think somebody was obsessed because it's a completely

different person.

It looks so different.

Yeah.

They're contorting because they're having seizures and different things like you could

understand the confusion.

And hey, I don't know.

Something's got to be causing it.

Right?

How do we fix this?

Let's take it to the med doctor and the doctor don't know.

So he's, give me some leeches.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Right.

What?

We got to get that out.

I guess suck that out of you.

All right.

With all of these, does anybody love the idea also of picking like the 1600s or 1700s, but

it's, but it's like a modern like, you know, you're going there and you're picking, hey,

where have we got the leeches?

Yeah.

You just get a canister.

Just a little, you know, brown bottle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you can't, you still get, even back then, you couldn't open a bottle.

You couldn't open a bottle.

Damn.

I can't.

Dead lizards for healthy hair.

Whoa.

Okay.

This is our final one and it's a doozy.

A priest in the ninth century claimed lizard ashes could give you lush, flowing luxe.

Just cover your whole head in a mix of salt, vinegar and a plant called summer savory.

Then burn a lizard, mix the ashes with oil and there you go.

Anyone?

Anyone?

Melissa?

You try that one out?

No.

I choose not to burn lizards.

I feel like, I feel like I'm just going to stick with the shampoo and conditioner.

You know.

I just, I finally just found one I like.

Actually.

It's a new experience.

That are okay for your hair for the most part in small doses, but lizard ashes?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's in your shampoo.

Didn't you know that?

Lizard ashes?

Everyone's shampoo.

So now it's under some name you can't pronounce.

Nowadays you can't walk into any store and see a billion different varieties of any one

product.

Was this back then their way of like they used like Melissa was saying that all these

things would work for your hair, but somebody was trying to be different.

So they just threw a dead lizard in there to try to be different.

You know.

Well, I have found the new apothecary shop, you know, he had an excessive amount of lizards

in his backyard.

Well, I'm going to do with all these lizards.

I got to do something.

Well, so many problems in life can be solved by a dead lizard, but I think that's probably

what it is.

It's marketing mostly.

Marketing.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You're a population boom that year.

Come on.

I do find it kind of interesting to look at these things.

I also try not to be too judgmental about them.

You know, we didn't because everything was trial and error.

Yeah.

Basically and the trial and but you could still draw the wrong conclusions.

Right.

Because something happened like like which a reaction happens.

You didn't know what exactly it was.

So then you just say, well, it must have been this.

Well, naturally it was the lizard.

That's right.

Exactly.

But you did, you know, they didn't have quality control.

They didn't have controlled studies and that kind of thing back then.

So yeah.

I can only imagine if they did what they would look like or be like a controlled study

back then.

It's very interesting.

It's quite interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like the look up the notes and the ventures.

No part of that one or so.

We will take a quick time out.

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We appreciate y'all joining us and appreciate your calls.

Of course, let's see if we can get this in real quick here.

If we can get this in real quick, still not working.

I do think that it has to do on our end of south.

I think that we are still on AM air over here on this phone.

All right.

We're going to fix that.

We'll take care of that in post.

We'll do that.

Fix it in post.

All right.

But we also will get to of course some good things going on in our areas, some good

stories of the day.

We want to touch on all that.

And first, of course, we want to touch on our schedule and we got a banger of one for

you.

We got a good lineup for you.

Of course, we'll take you to the top of the hour.

Nothing but civic media, great, aggressive media programming afterwards.

We're looking forward to that and encourage you to join us for the rapid support today.

A couple of great guests going to be joining us.

A big thank you to them.

In part one, we're going to be talking to our League of Women Voters.

Oh, we have various kinds of rapids area.

We have Mary and Mary joining us.

Join us quite a bit over the years.

Always look forward to talking to them.

And then in part two, we're going to be talking to big brothers, big sisters of Central

Wisconsin.

Beth is going to join us for that.

Very nice.

We've talked with Beth many times over the years as well.

Some familiar organizations.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Familiar, wonderful guests.

Joining us a little bit later.

Be sure to join us for the rapid support at WFHR.com.

You can catch it.

Streaming exclusively there.

We should have a new episodes there for you this afternoon.

Look forward to it.

Throughout the week on rapid support, tomorrow we'll have the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of

Commerce and Reality Radio with David Farmbro.

On Wednesday, family natural foods and an evening of harmony will be talking with those

groups of people.

Oh, yes.

That's coming up.

That's very cool.

On Thursday, UW Madison Extension, Wood County will be with us along with Kathy and the

Monarch Migration.

All right.

Yeah.

On Friday.

That's fun.

There's some should Catholic schools.

And then we will also have our friends from Visit Wisconsin Rapids area, Meredith and

the Gang set up an interview for us with FRM Music.

The music fest coming up.

Yeah.

Very excited about all that.

Great stuff coming up for you.

Everybody we're looking forward to.

Want to remind everyone as well, Seth, that we got some great stuff on 105, 5WIRI, including

playmakers from four to five.

That's today, everyone.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so always make sure you check it out.

All in, 424, 2,600 or text in, of course, on the Civic Media app.

And of course, we have high school sports coming up this week.

On Tuesday, we got more volleyball.

We've got the big Newman Catholic rivalry with the Subtion volleyball for that Mike and

Beth on the call for that one, 650 pregame, 7 o'clock, tip off on that.

And then on Friday, we have our first Dacusa game of the year as Dacusa takes on Watoma.

And that one is once again 650 pregame, 7 o'clock, kickoff, Randy and Mike on the call

for that.

Yeah.

Looking forward to it.

Going to be good stuff, everybody.

And more, more high school sports throughout the whole season.

Shake a stick at.

Yeah.

Going to look out for it.

It's going to be good things.

We had our friends from the South of County, YMCA in the other day.

And one of the things we were talking about is their strong smart.

This a 3 30 minute onboard sessions.

They're available exclusively for new members of the Y.

Every new member is offered a 3 session 30 minute onboarding package designed to set

for you.

Up, set you up for success and schedule a time that works for you as well.

That was really neat, really thoughtful, really interesting way of working with the community.

And the not, you know, realizing that exercise isn't a one size fits all and everything

like our Y does.

That's right.

That's right.

Taylor, you can just go up to the front desk and sign on up.

If you want to everybody, it's open to ages 14 and above.

And we encourage you to do this.

And certainly while doing this, if you are on the fence about, oh, I don't know if I

can afford a membership, well, the Y has got you covered along with this community and

so many other great people that can put into their membership for all program.

Yes.

They work with you.

They will work with you.

So find out more through our Y and be sure to stop by at 601 West Grand Avenue right

here in Wisconsin.

Rapids.

Got some great events going on in our area as well that I wanted to touch on.

One of them, two of them in particular coming up.

One, the 39th annual festival of India is going to be taking place over at the Stevens

Point area senior high school.

Very cool.

12.1 North Point Drive, right and beautiful point.

I, I've been to this many, many years ago and I really enjoyed it.

It's a wonderful.

It's the first one when you get enough.

Right.

Yeah.

Might as well.

It might, well, it might have been like the second or third one.

Actually, nothing.

I'm thinking about it.

This is going to go from 12 to five.

Again, over at Stevens, at a pointer high there.

Go and check that one out.

If you have questions, give them a call, 715-341-1538-341-1538.

And we got some concerts coming up from our friends over the arts council.

We're going to be talking more and more about over the next couple of months.

Benefiting, this one is benefiting Lincoln High School Choirs and evening of Harmony featuring

the newfangled four.

That's a great name.

Way for exceeding group.

Love it.

They're going to be over at the pack on September 19th with the Showtime at 630.

Get your tickets at savorthearts.com and find out more about the cool things they're

doing.

Can I request a pirate shanty for a talk like a pirate day?

Will they do that for me?

That's what I want to know.

Absolutely.

I think they might.

They might.

Well, especially since you got more to get to there.

We do.

We have in speaking of the pack, we have a show coming up in October on the 9th.

That's a Thursday at 730, Willie and family live.

And this is really cool because not only is it going to be a fabulous country show, we

are one of the sponsors of it.

The URI is.

So we hope to see you there for that one, everyone.

This is a, let's make Michael Moore's tribute to Willie Nelson.

It's a 90 minute show, a heartfelt homage to the legendary outlaw of country music,

Willie Nelson.

Michael Moore, born and raised in McKinney, Texas, brings the soulful twang of Willie Nelson

to life through his exceptional talent from the epit-rhythm of whiskey river to the classic

tales of good-hearted woman and mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

This show captures the essence of Willie's timeless contributions to the genre.

Of course, you can always get your tickets 24 or 7 at savorthearts.com, you can also

go to call their offices up if you want a little assistance with that 715-424-2787 during

their normal office hours Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 230 p.m. and that's a way if you

need a little help getting tickets, they can certainly do that as well.

It's really good.

I did my homework on it.

I mean, he's very, very good at what he does.

I can't wait to see him and talk to him about that.

That sounds really cool.

It's a very cool show to get around here.

And we got some trivia coming up, everyone.

On the first weekend in October, that is Sunday, October 5th from 5 to 6 at two doors down.

Brewing company, our friends at Grace are putting on a fundraiser, join them for a fun

afternoon of trivia, food and a silent auction.

Put together a team of up to six people, it's free to play.

Free will offering will be accepted along with the silent auction and all the proceeds

will go to paying off debt.

This helps students pay off their lunch debt if they have any in area schools, especially

for seniors who are hoping to walk when they graduate, they need to have everything paid

up in order to do that.

So that's what they're helping out with.

It's a cool idea and a cool cost.

We'll be talking more about that as we get closer to it.

I want to remind everybody about the bookman set.

Oh my gosh.

Only a week left, everyone.

Next Monday is the final day to get books for the book sale this fall.

If you have not done so yet, head on down to 310, 1st Avenue South, just off of Gog and

Street there.

There's a book been outside by the glass doors.

And through next Monday, they will be accepting all of your used books for the book sale that's

happening October 9th through the 11th.

And a reminder on that the book sale proceeds all help scholarships at mid-state.

So put it off long enough, you put it off long enough, bring those books down everybody.

Get them that.

Last chance.

This week.

I want to remind everybody again to go to WFHR.com signing up to check out our new newsletter.

Had a new edition drop last Friday.

Some great stuff in there.

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Send it to us.

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Everybody in one of the ways we're going to do that is with you in this cookbook.

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Now, Terry brought this up last week.

Can you only submit one?

I think that you can submit multiple.

We can't use them.