Transcript — The Kitchen’s Open: Tailgating Treats Edition (Hour 2)

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It's football season and while admittedly, I am not much of a sports person.

One of my favorite parts of live sports is the tailgating that happens in the parking lot before the game.

I have had some some pretty fun times. I remember my favorite time of tailgating was for the all-star game in Milwaukee in 2002.

We basically ended up spending a couple of days, you know, when you're waiting for stuff to happen, just hanging out in the parking lot.

But we had, you know, all our stuff we had our food with and we had everything going and we had our games and everything.

That was a lot of fun. I mean, the whole experience was great, but I do remember specifically the tailgating on that one.

I was always impressed with NDSU out in North Dakota when I would go to their home football games.

I mean, that's when where Carter Wentz went to school and we were there while he was going to college.

And it was, it's just a party on the parking lot.

I mean, general just party atmosphere outside the Fargo Dome.

Yes.

I have not gotten to go tailgating before, but I have been to quite a few sporting events and know a little bit about it

and certainly enjoy watching tailgating.

And that's the whole reason I accidentally played the playmaker's theme song in there.

And I'm excited we're going to talk sports and everything, but we're not talking about one of, I think, the things that brings us to sports.

Absolutely.

Yeah. For those of us who aren't there just about the game, it's all about the food, right?

Yeah.

And tailgating isn't just about that camaraderie, it's about the fans of the same team, it's about the food and drinks.

While here in Wisconsin, the go-to is probably Broughtson beer.

Sure.

There are many other options that can make a tailgate experience stand out.

Delish.com has an article that gives the best 83 tailgate food ideas.

And some are beyond what I ever experienced or expected.

So how does chilly stuffed cornbread sound?

Oh, that sounds fascinating.

So this has two phases to it, but it sounds like it is so worth the extra time and it can really set you apart.

So for the chilly, your first step is going to be in a large bowl over medium heat.

Heat a tablespoon of oil could be vegetable oil, it could be olive oil, whatever oil neutral oil you want to use.

Cook one small yellow onion finely chopped and one jalapeno.

Now this one's optional, if you like it spicier, use the jalapeno if you don't keep it out.

But one jalapeno with the ribs and seeds removed, finely chopped.

Stirring occasionally until soft, which will be about seven minutes.

Add two cloves of garlic, finely chopped and cook again stirring until fragrant about one more minute.

The second step is to brown up that ground beef.

You're going to have one pound of ground beef generously seasoned with salt and pepper.

You're going to cook, breaking it up that meat with a wooden spoon until browned about six minutes.

Drain any excess fat if needed.

Add one tablespoon of chili seasoning, one teaspoon of cumin, and a half a teaspoon of garlic powder and stir to combine that all.

Add two tablespoons of potato paste and cook stirring consistently until that whole paste turns brick red in color about another minute.

The third step is you're going to add all of your beans and tomato stuff, right?

Add one can, which is about 15.5 ounces of pinch of beans drained and rinsed.

One 10 ounce can of diced tomatoes with mild green chilies and one teaspoon of beef stock concentrate, such as better than bullion.

So that little brick thing that you find, that's what you want to put in there.

Right, that's what it's used for.

That's what it's used for.

There you go.

Bring to a simmer and cook stirring occasionally until thickened.

About eight to ten minutes, season with salt if needed, and then let that cool slightly.

Because you're going to start making the cornbread now.

The first step of that is to arrange a rack in the bottom third of the oven and preheat that oven to 375 degrees.

Now normally you hear 350, 375, so it's a little bit warmer.

Place a half a cup, which is one stick of unsalted butter in a 13 by 9 baking dish.

And remember, if it calls for unsalted butter, you want to make sure that that's what you use.

Because if it has salt in it, it's going to throw off the salting that you're doing with all of the other seasoning.

So that's unsalted butter.

Place the dish in a preheated oven to melt the butter in the oven.

So that's a step that you normally don't think of, right?

You would normally know the butter and put it in there.

But go ahead and do that, and that warms up the pan as well.

So that kind of sets that bottom layer of the cornbread.

So the second step is in a large bowl, whisk two cups of all-purpose flour, two cups yellow cornmeal, two tablespoons granulated sugar,

four teaspoons baking powder, two teaspoons kosher salt, and a half a teaspoon baking soda.

Add four large eggs, beaten, and three cups buttermilk, and whisk to combine.

It's okay if there are still some small lumps.

Overmixing can lead to a dense cornbread.

So let there be a few lumps rather than a dense cornbread.

You're going to carefully pour and scrape the melted butter from the preheated baking dish into the batter and stir to combine.

The third step is pour about two thirds of the batter into the bottom of the preheated dish.

Then sprinkle with one cup shredded cheddar cheese.

Top with an even layer of the chili, leaving about a half an inch around the border.

Sprinkle another cup of shredded cheddar cheese on top of that,

and then top with the remaining cornbread batter, and gently spread into an even layer.

Bake that cornbread until the top is golden brown, about 25 minutes, cover with foil, and continue to bake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, similar to baking a cake.

That's going to take another about 10 to 15 minutes more.

Let it cool for at least 10 minutes, dollop of sour cream, and enjoy.

Wow, so I am not a fan of cornbread.

But I love chili, and boy, this sounds awesome.

I think the chili is going to outweigh the cornbread on this one, especially with the sour cream on top.

That, wow, that just totally blew me away.

And this allows you to have the chili on a plate, because instead of a bowl, you don't have to have an extra container and chili.

Use your hands, just grab a hunk of the cornbread, you know, and just a piece in this, there you go.

Well, the chili may still pour out the cornbread, but we eat messy things at tailgating.

This is true.

It's a barbecue rib.

I could see those two things going really good together, chili and cornbread.

I love cornbread.

Yeah, so that sounded wonderful, but there's another dish on the list that puts two cultural favorites together into one tasty treat.

Taco lasagna.

Wow.

So think layers with all the goodies on top, and here's how you make it.

The first step is to arrange a rack in the center of the oven, preheat to 350,

and then in a large skillet over medium heat, heat one tablespoon extra virgin olive oil.

Add one yellow onion that's been finely chopped and season it with salt.

Cook stirring occasionally until soften about seven minutes, and then add one and a half pounds ground beef and cook stirring occasionally until brown,

or stirring until brown, about seven minutes, drain the fat if desired.

The second step is you're going to add two garlic cloves that have been minced.

One fourteen and a half ounce can of fire roasted tomatoes, three quarter cup water,

half a cup of sour cream, two teaspoons chili powder, two teaspoons ground cumin, and a quarter teaspoon cayenne,

and stir until combined.

Cook stirring until slightly thickened about five minutes, and you're going to stir in then a quarter cup of freshly chopped cilantro.

So you're kind of getting that chili and taco season altogether right there.

So the third step is in a thirteen by nine baking dish spread, one eleven to twelve ounce bag of tortilla chips,

preferably the restaurant style, those big ones, into an even layer, top with half of the ground beef mixture,

one cup of shredded cheddar cheese, and one cup of shredded pepper jack cheese,

repeat for a second layer.

So next layer of those restaurant style tortilla chips, then this seasoning, and then,

you're going to repeat that, and then top it off with a little bit more cilantro.

The fourth step is you're going to bake that until the cheese is melted and the tortilla chips are softened,

and that's going to take about 20 minutes.

Let cool for five minutes before slicing.

Oh, that's not even that hard.

That's a pretty simple dish to put together.

The hardest part is letting it cool for five minutes.

Yeah, right.

Oh, I want to show that.

That sounds so I want to write now.

So this is a different take on like nachos, right?

Not as you would eat each of it.

This blends the not the chips into one layer like a lasagna noodle, so you eat it like lasagna.

I love that.

Oh, I love that.

So good.

The crunch is going to be amazing.

Super bowl party.

That's what I'm going to try that one, if you're not going to do any tailgating.

Again, nothing that I would have thought of.

And who would have thought of using Mexican, or what we have created as Mexican dish,

as a lasagna, which is very Italian, so it's a great combination of the two.

Absolutely.

Okay.

The next one I have, I might actually have to try it at home this time because it's a

take on one of my favorites from the East Coast.

It's a Philadelphia cheese steak pasta.

I've never thought about doing this with pasta.

We see the subs all the time.

And I've had it on pizza or strumboli.

But as pasta, I hadn't thought about it.

So this one, the first step is in a large stainless steel skillet over medium-high heat.

One tablespoon of oil and swirl the pan to coat the bottom of the pan.

In a large bowl, you're going to toss one pound skirt, steak, or rib eye thinly sliced across the grain

with one teaspoon Italian seasoning.

And so it's kind of the same that you would have for a cheese steak, but you're going to use it differently.

So once you've done that, you are going to arrange that steak in a single layer in the skillet

and cook undisturbed until the underside is browned about two minutes.

Stir and continue to cook stirring occasionally until it's no longer pink in the middle.

One to two more minutes.

Transfer that steak then into a large bowl.

The second step is you're going to reduce the heat to medium and in that same skillet.

So this is almost like a one-skillet wonder kind of thing.

You're going to cook eight ounces of chromini or white mushrooms sliced, stirring occasionally until starting to brown.

It's going to take about eight to ten minutes.

Season it with a pinch of salt and then transfer to the bowl that has the steak in it.

Your third step isn't that same skillet.

Over medium heat, heat another tablespoon of that oil.

Add one medium yellow onion thinly sliced, one green bell pepper, and one red bell pepper.

Seeds and ribs removed thinly sliced.

Season with salt.

You cook that stirring frequently until those peppers are softened.

That's going to take another eight to ten minutes.

Add four cloves of chopped garlic and cook stirring until fragrant about one more minute

and then transfer that into the bowl with the mushrooms in the steak.

You're going to increase the heat to medium high.

Pour three and a half cups low sodium beef broth, scraping any brown bits from the bottom of the pan.

Stir, stir in one cup of half and half and bring that to a simmer.

Then you're going to add that eight ounces of cavatappi spasta

and a single layer and return to a simmer.

So it's kind of like starting to boil your pasta, but you're going to create it as a layer there instead.

Cook and cover stirring occasionally until that pasta is all dente and the sauce is thickened.

That's going to take about ten to twelve minutes.

Then you're going to stir in six ounces of shredded provolone until melted.

Stirring the beef mixture to that skillet and toss until coated and then serve.

Serve.

Wow.

That sounds yummy.

Oh, that sounds yummy.

That sounds yummy.

That sounds like something definitely we're trying.

Yeah.

It's going to be a little bit more time consuming than just doing spaghetti or just doing a philly cheese steak.

But it sounds like it's going to be so worth it.

And adding that half and half to make that sauce creamy and taste more like that provolone,

that's going to, I'm just salivating over here.

We're on the same page of that one, yes.

Excellent.

These are just a few of the many recipes I found and I bet our listeners have some creative go-to tailgating recipes as well.

So if you do have that recipe, why don't you consider submitting that to our 85th anniversary cookbook that we're putting together.

You can find a link on our website at WFHR.com.

Stop by the station to pick up a submission form or even have Pam just make a copy of the recipe card and we'll get it in there for you.

Mm-hmm.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Yeah.

Oh, so good.

Man, I'm hungry now.

Boy, a bad, bad, and that don't tell me.

Yeah, it's all great, all great.

Absolutely.

That website, you mentioned delish.com.

Shout out to them as well.

Yes.

The Snickers Puppy Chow, I saw in there sounded really good.

I didn't thought of that before.

I really like that.

Sweet treats, yeah.

Something that I can recommend to all of our listeners, the football cookies.

Yes.

This is very simple.

They're just basically cookies that are made to football.

Yeah.

Perfect.

And we can eat them here very easily at the station.

I'm the one I'm not sure why I'm bringing it up.

Anybody?

And I will put a link to that article into the newsletter article that I write this Thursday.

Excellent work as always, Beth.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

And I thank you all for listening and be listening every Monday, right in the 10 o'clock,

top of the 10 o'clock hour for another episode of the kitchen's open right here at 975 FM 1328 AM WFHR.

Tell me something good.

Welcome back, everybody.

Good morning, show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Got the gang together for a good morning show.

We appreciate you all joining us.

We want to say a big appreciation to Beth in the hotel, Meade with another great addition

of the kitchen's open.

Very good.

Very tasty.

It's pretty much tasty right now.

I am.

There are certain segments that make me hungerier than others.

That one, man.

That one really got me.

I'm starving.

That sounds really good.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Beth.

Great work.

Great work as always.

I want to talk a little bit about some in-house stuff as well in a moment, but we begin with Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift, the queen of marketing, is releasing a film in theaters to go along with her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.

It's called Official Release Party of a Showgirl and it's 89 minutes long.

It'll be in theaters October 3rd through the fifth.

Wow.

Tickets are on sale already and they are $12 each before fees since it's their 12th album.

So it's just making a $12 each.

That's okay.

I guess that's not too out of line with most movie tickets.

Yeah.

It's about the same.

The film will include the world premiere of the music video for her new single, The Fatal Ophelia,

plus behind the scenes footage of making of the album in a lyrical video.

Wow.

Taylor said, quote, looks like it's time to brush off the erse tour, the eras tour outfit, or orange cardigan.

I don't know what that just said.

Hey, you see theaters are welcoming Swifties to sing and dance.

There's just no standing on seats or blocking the aisles.

Okay.

But safety issues, yeah.

Yeah.

And I teasingly say like they do in the article here calling her the queen of marketing.

Right.

And I don't think that anybody outside of the Swiftie realm doesn't see this as, you know, a bit of a marketing move.

And, you know, hey, I can sell a lot of albums.

Why not sell even more this way?

All of those things.

Right.

I want to, I want to, and I've read a couple of different articles over the weekend about this and a number of different people.

And it feels like a lot of people have agendas one way or the other when they're writing these all usually.

But I'll say one thing I have not heard anybody say that I'll come out and say, and I am, I could not be the farther from a Swiftie.

I am appreciative of her in this regard or her eras tour, you know, a movie she released or whatever.

It's getting people to movie theaters.

It's getting people to go to the movies.

I am just thankful that people are still going to the movies.

And what they're seeing is up to them.

That's right.

A lot of people will talk a good game about wanting people to go to the movies.

But then they want them to go see the movies.

They want them to see.

Sound familiar?

Yeah.

Sound a little, sound a little like politics.

Well, hey, you should vote.

Oh, enough for that person.

Right.

Hold up.

Hold up here.

Right.

No, I, so I would say the same thing about her concerts.

It's getting people into live music again.

And I know she's not the only one.

And there's a whole lot of people going to live music.

And a lot of young people are going to live music.

But for a lot of those young people, where did it start?

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

And like, I'd have to credit her to that.

Because as cool as movies are, I'm so much more of a live music person.

And so that's kind of where I applaud her, honestly.

Yeah.

And she did do that.

It's just me, or as being a pop star, insanely complicated these days.

Boy, everything is.

I mean, you got to do, like before you know your band, you get together, you sign your deal with the record company, and then you go on tour.

You know, you release a single, an album, you go to promote it, you go on tour, you go to a hundred cities, whatever.

You know, it's a lot of work.

And you know, and you got to really get it out there and everything.

But that's all you did.

Yeah.

Now, you have to make sure every social media platform is covered.

You know, you got to, you got to do like, you got to do like a regular video, then you got to do a lyric video.

You got to, you know, figure out, make all the streaming services, have your music ready to go at the right time.

I mean, oh my gosh.

Yeah.

It seems so complicated.

Oh, I, I know for me, one of the things that is, because so I've thought about this with athletes a lot.

When it comes to modern athletes and older athletes, the modern athlete has so much to do with nowadays that they never did back in the day.

They also got a big paycheck.

Exactly.

And I would love to ask former athletes, is it worth the trade off?

Hey, you're going to get generational change, generational changing wealth.

Almost no matter what athlete you are, what round you're drafted, anything like that.

The way that these things are, how much money is in sports, even your lowest paid athlete is making a pretty darn good paycheck nowadays.

Right.

In comparison to those in the workforce is all I'm doing.

Right.

But you also, there's never been more landmines.

Yeah.

There's never been more opportunities for you to lose that money.

And have nothing to do with sports.

Have nothing to do with your career or anything like that.

And I'm not saying that this is a good or a bad thing.

It's just the world we're in.

Sure.

I wonder if the trade off is worth it to athletes.

It would be to, you know, if you're an older athlete, I would trade nothing because I hear older athletes talk about this a lot.

You couldn't pay me to be around nowadays.

I would not handle social media.

Sure.

I wouldn't have lasted three years in the league.

Some of those.

Well, and the other thing about athletes is you have to think of the age that they are when they're at their peak or whatever.

That's right.

They're young.

It's easy to forget sometimes how young they are now.

As a formerly 20 year old kid, we do dumb things when we're young.

And if we were young, dumb and had money, yeah.

You're probably going to do dumb or things.

This is your access to more stuff, right?

Exactly.

It's about grace, right?

Showing grace.

You can check that out soon.

Everybody be on the lookout for it.

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live may have been the wrong move for Disney on many different reasons, especially on a financial one.

According to one report, the company's market value dropped $3.87 billion overnight.

Billion with a B.

There have been multiple calls for social media to boycott Disney and all of its subscribers, including ABC, ESPN, Disney Plus, and Marvel.

There is a number of different actors and different people who have come out, of course, out of the woodworks and talked about this and everything.

Sure.

I try not to...

One of the things that we really worked on this show, Carl and I, we first were building it.

We wanted to be a non-device of place.

We wanted to be a place to go where you can get away from things.

Have some fun.

Talk about stuff.

I'm not going to ask us not to do that with topics any time that I am going...

Any more than I'm going to.

I set this up very open so that we can take things in any direction we want.

One thing I will talk about that I would like to bring attention to that I would think that we could all get behind is the idea that the monopolizing that is going on with these companies.

Yes.

And how dangerous that is to mix that with government.

And that government has its place and we are appreciative of it.

That's what we do not want to lawless land.

I don't at least.

But one thing that we hold dearly in this country is freedom of speech and the separation of church and state.

And I'm using that as an overall thing of basically the separation of money and government or corporations and government.

And I understand that in 2025 lines have been blurred like they've never been before.

But maybe I'm just old school.

Maybe this is one of the few things I'm old school about.

But I still believe in those mantras and those key things, freedom of speech.

I still believe in separation of church and state, business and government.

This is something I believe in.

And when you see that all I got to do to mess with this one because it used to be back in the day, you had 20,000 different newspapers.

And sure there was one guy like a Rockefeller that owned a handful of them or what have you.

But you could try to mess with the Rockefellers, but there was 30,000 other papers out there able to report on.

Right. Right.

Now all of these things are being owned by one conglomerate or this conglomerate.

And so if I don't like what they're saying and I want to shut them up and I'm going to be dictator coward, all I got to do is just put my finger on one of them.

All I got to do is say, hey, you want that there is a gigantic deal that these companies I just mentioned are waiting to have happened between the NFL and ESPN.

And in order for that to happen, well, the FCC has to okay it.

So guess who's in charge of the FCC and all of these things.

Right.

Now keep one other thing in mind.

We've been doing this a long time, everybody.

How about what president are we on?

I mean, we've been doing this a while.

When it comes to this, every single president we have ever had has taken so much heat has taken so much.

The greatest comedians of that era have come out at any low hanging fruit about that president about the leader of the free world and made fun of them.

And every single president has taken it in stride.

Because that's what it is.

That's part of the job.

The president has taken it in stride exactly the part of the point.

Yes, I almost called you Melissa.

It would be an honor.

I'm so sorry.

But all the sudden that changes.

That's cowardly behavior to me.

That's Clinton.

Think of the things that Clinton took.

The heat that he took.

Think of Reagan in his last months and they were making fun of him.

On the tonight show, they were making fun of him that Nancy was doing the words and all this stuff.

And nothing.

I don't remember here in Ronald Reagan, all the sudden decided to cancel Johnny Carson.

Not even Nixon.

They did rights.

I mean, think about that.

Take a step away.

Yeah.

And regardless of your political beliefs, regardless of where you land on things and take a step back and look at where we are with that.

Because regardless of how I feel about politics or anything else.

I value freedom of speech more than few things in this country.

Right.

And it is being affected right now.

Yes, it is.

And that is not a political thing.

That is no R.D. in front of it.

It should not be your political thing.

Well, I'm not going to let it be when I'm on mic.

Sure.

That's all I'm saying.

To me, it is not.

And to me, these are things that literally every single American get behind and should be on the same page on.

Yeah.

I understand that we're not all going to root for the same sports team.

That we all got a different taste in favorite bands and all that.

But when it comes to these key things I'm talking about, the separation of these things.

Yeah.

And the value of freedom of speech, every single American.

If you don't back that, I question how American you are.

Yeah.

Sure.

It's one of the bed rocks.

You can run around with all the American flags you want.

If you don't believe in those things, I don't believe how...

You don't sound like an American to me.

Freedom of speech is the whole thing.

That's right.

That's the whole thing.

Without it, what do we have?

It was first for a reason on the list of things, you know?

I...

It is not...

That number is not...

We're not joking about it.

It's not surprising to see how much...

No, I'm not surprised either, honestly.

And it'll be interesting to see where that story goes.

Yeah.

We will take a quick time out when we come back.

We're going to get into a couple of local things.

And including one of the things that we have to get into.

What is something that you will show up early for?

We are.

We're going to get into all of those things.

Tailgating.

It's a fun list.

There you go.

Coming up.

Good answer.

On the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

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Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

What will we show up early for?

Do you guys know people who are just always late?

Yeah.

They're just always late.

I'm the always early person.

I'm a habitually early person.

And I don't apologize for it anymore.

I just kind of warn people.

I will be there early.

Does anybody else do this?

When you have plans, especially on like an off day or something.

Do you find that a lot of your day is built getting ready for those plans?

And so I tend to be a little early because of that because I'm already running.

I'm already well, I already got ready.

I'm just sitting here.

I might as well just go.

Right.

I feel like that.

I feel like I do that a lot.

Right.

Well, a new poll found the top things will show up early for.

And this is an interesting list.

If you're running early for work today, great.

If it didn't make the list, that's okay too.

A new poll looked at the events we're most likely to show up early for.

And the number one is a job interview.

Sure.

Oh, that makes sense.

You're already nervous.

You know, you're already getting your full of energy.

You know, you want to do the big thing there and you're getting ready and like.

And you want to show up at the good front and the early.

That's right.

You get in there early and then you sit down and wait for 15-20 minutes.

And then it's all gone and you're just terrible interviewing.

Right.

And now this is all voluntary.

People's bosses were not standing over them as they were voting on these things or anything.

So I find it kind of cool and interesting that job interview showed up that high.

Also speaks to work ethic, I think.

Sure.

And a lot of that.

Good impressions.

87% of us would try to get there at least a little early.

At number two, concerts at 80%.

That was the other one that would have been my answer.

Wow.

It ranked first for arriving very early.

So as far as we can weigh, we're early.

But what are they considering early?

Is it the headliner or?

Oh, I think they're talking like before the door is even open to let people in.

Sure.

I mean, if it, and it depends on the kind of concert having worked many.

And it depends on the tickets you got.

Right.

If it's like an open floor.

Yeah.

Where it's general audience.

You know, people are going to get ready to get, so they want the best area to stand in or whatever.

But if it's, you know, seated kind of thing.

It doesn't really matter.

It doesn't matter.

But it's not much you want to drink, I guess.

If you want to go to yougov.org, you can find the complete survey.

It did not seem like they, they, they just broke this down very early,

a little early, right on time and so on.

But they don't know, they don't give you an idea of what's very early.

10, 15 minutes.

Exactly.

I think that's a good point.

I think that's something I would have liked to have seen in this.

At number three, sporting events, 76% of us.

Sure.

Some of those, those people are tailgaining, of course.

Of course.

Yeah.

That makes sense if you're going to, you want to do it before the game, of course.

So yeah, get it over with.

Yes.

And also a great topic for the kitchen's open.

Great topic.

Movies, 76% of us most said just a little early for that one.

Just a little.

Now, I, this used to be mandatory for me.

If I was going to the movies, I was getting there at least 10 minutes early,

because I was not going to miss a trailer.

Right.

They didn't want to miss a preview because there was nowhere else to see them.

Exactly.

And that's where you got to see the new trailers and everything before anybody else.

So it was almost, to me, part of what I was paying my ticket for was getting to see those trailers.

I genuinely saw that as the way of the world.

This is the way.

I just saw it that way for a very, very long time.

I don't remember when this happened, but I remember going to the movies and being like,

all right, trailers, all right.

And then commercials.

And then more commercials.

And like, wait a minute here.

Right.

I pay for the movies so I don't have to see commercials.

Right.

Like the idea, right?

Right.

And as somebody who not only loves movies and loves going to movies,

but somebody who wants to make his living making movies and being a part of them,

I still say this is a failure on the movie industry and the entertainment industry.

This should have never happened.

We all know why they put commercials in there.

It's to make a couple more bucks and everything because people aren't going to the movies like they used to.

Who's fault is that?

The movie industry.

People making movies.

It is a mutual thing.

It is not people's fault.

No, they alienated us.

So why are we suffering for it?

Why do we name it please?

715-424-2600.

If you've ever wanted to watch commercials before a movie.

If that's something you go to the movies for.

Right.

That would be wild.

Because now the trailers are out there everywhere.

After these movie companies.

After these movies.

You see them for two months.

This Jordan Peel film, Hillm.

I've seen that trailer nine billion times now.

Just watching YouTube.

That doesn't even me what it used to.

So where is the now?

I'm almost on the opposite.

If the movie starts at 7.05.

I'm probably there at 7.03.

I don't care about my seat.

I don't care about any of that.

I would rather have a worse seat than sit there for 20 minutes watching commercials.

You got to make time to get your popcorn though.

Good point.

Five minutes early.

So yeah, you got to be five minutes early.

So you've got time to get popcorn.

I've got a quick easy fix for you on this one, James.

It's called touch grass.

Don't be online so much.

And this is I'm only I'm only half joking on this one.

Because we just and it's everything's been brought home recent weeks kind of thing.

How just super not good being online too much is.

Sure.

We are we're seeing it like kind of real time right now about the brain melting this.

Yeah.

For lack of a better term of what's going on.

So give yourself a treat.

What are the movies without seeing the trailers beforehand?

Yeah.

You'll go for the movie kind of thing, you know.

And yeah, I mean, of course that's the I'm hoping that's the main reason you're going.

Right.

But if you know if you like that that feeling because I'm with you, James, I remember being that way.

It's like, wow, you know, we're I'm at a movie, you know, it's not something we get to do very much.

And we're here and now we get to see previews.

And it's really cool because we'd see what movies are coming out and all these things.

Yeah, exactly.

Give yourself that, man.

Yeah.

Don't be online so much.

Good point.

And at number five on the list weddings, 71% of us will show up early for that.

You don't want to be walking in when the bride does.

Well, I mean, that's the limit.

Yes, I'm also early to those.

That's one that if you a little early.

Depends on if you matter if you care about the seating, I guess.

Yeah.

If you don't want to say the last wedding, you went to his outside.

Sure.

And it was a very warm, humid day.

And you know, we're all dressed up because it's a wedding.

Yeah, that's what it's like.

So it's like, we don't want to get there too early.

Otherwise, we're going to be sitting in this for, you know, however long before the wedding actually starts.

So 61% of us also said that they'd arrive early to church.

57% would arrive early for a date.

Video calls 57%, 55% like getting to restaurants a little bit early.

The one thing we don't really like being early for is parties.

No, you'd know.

A third would get there early.

34% said right on time and 31% said being a fashionably late.

That is the one time that I will be on time.

No, it's for a party.

I love me.

I'm sorry.

I love people who come to and it's because they can't really help.

They just end up being there earlier.

Oh, I came early to help.

You know, what do you need to do?

That's my mother.

I love that.

You need to meet my mom.

I love her.

I love it.

I love seeing these kind of things where the majority of people fit.

And you see such high numbers on these things.

80, 70%, 80% of that stuff.

So many people are, you know, quick to this one.

And it's such a universal thing.

So many people show up early for these said things we have here.

And as soon as I said parties, everybody agreed.

And one way or another and to it to it.

So it's a complete opposite on that end.

But it's just kind of one of these things we all just accepted society.

Yep.

Have you ever gone early for a part or gone to a party?

And noticed, hey, there's no other cars there yet.

And then you drive around.

Or type back.

Like, oh, no.

Oh, that's weird.

It depends on the host.

It depends on the host, right?

Because of the host.

Yeah.

It's not one of the only person there.

Like if you don't know the host like that, yeah, it's worth the driver on the block.

Yeah.

It was not the kind of situation where you wanted to be a little host.

I just have to tell everyone I'm, I'm never early.

I'm never late.

I'm precisely the right time.

All right.

Was it where I was going to say thank you Gandalf for that one.

Yes.

Nice.

A wizard arrives precisely when he intends to.

And that's right.

Very well done, very well quoted.

And of course, very well done by our listeners, the best listeners and radio.

You guys can constantly give me evidence so that I can go ahead and say that statement

with a straight face every day.

And we got a new one over the weekend here from one of our long time listeners

that we keep getting these poster cards from postcards that he makes himself, by the way.

It means postcards and sends them to us.

Yeah.

It's great.

We appreciate that one.

And this one in particular shouted out our good friend Tim Hubble, the polka guy.

Polka guy.

Nice.

This is his first day and he wished Tim a very polka happy birthday.

Yes.

Awesome.

With some great puns and some great worries.

Fantastic puns.

Really do appreciate whoever's writing.

Thank you very much.

And thank you for listening.

Wow.

That looked like an old ham's box.

It does look like an old ham's box.

It's not bad.

That looks classic though.

I hope we didn't ruin anything valuable.

Feel free to reach out to us like that any time everybody.

And of course you can always use that civic media app as well.

Keep that app handy because we've got our go for the green or gold text

to win multi-state contest going on thanks to our friends at Rapids Transmission

and of course civic media and so many other great partners that we have out there.

Taking a quick time out.

Come back and wrap up the show for a Monday morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Laura, Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you've had a great Monday out there and a great start to your Monday.

Thanks so much for joining us everybody.

Got some local good things we want to touch on in our schedule here to get to.

Let's go ahead and dive right in.

Be sure to join us for a great edition of the Rapids Support.

We've got two great guests lined up for you today right at WFHR.com.

Big thank you to everybody who supported the show and listening.

We appreciate you.

Today we're going to be talking with our friends from the Arts Council looking forward to that.

We've got Sally and joining us for that.

And Michael Moore is going to be calling in.

Right.

Michael is of course the lead of Willie and Family Live, a tribute to Willie Nelson.

They're going to be performing October 9th right here in Rapids at the pack.

We're going to be talking to Michael and talking to Sally about this.

Ken not wait.

I got my questions all lined up.

All right.

Perfect.

I'm looking forward to that.

It's going to be fun.

And then in part two today, we're going to be speaking to the cranberry gross association.

Grant Holley's going to join us.

Yeah.

Grant's a great guest.

Grant is a wonderful guest.

Yeah.

Great talk or great guest.

Looking forward to that.

We say a gigantic shout out to our sponsors for the Rapids Support.

We appreciate the gang over there.

My local support local everybody.

Got an edition of Playmakers on this in store for you tonight.

Be sure to join us over on our sister station 10555 WIRI from 4 to 5.

Randy Paul will be in with me everybody.

All right.

Randy.

The Randy signing.

The return of Randy.

Looking forward to that.

We got plenty to talk about.

We'll be doing that and we'll be talking about it with you.

Because it is our live sports call in show.

Feel free to get your sports takes and feelings to us during Playmakers 4 to 5.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Thank you to quality post printing for that.

Laura, we got something a hero opportunity in town.

We sure do for all the heroes amongst the listeners.

The community blood center is having a blood drive at the Wisconsin Rapids former East Junior High School

at 311 Lincoln Street today from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

You can schedule your appointment by calling 800-280-4102.

Excellent.

And one of the remind everybody that we are still collecting recipes for our WFHR cookbook.

Yes, we are.

We're putting together an 85th edition here and everything.

And I talked about this with the soul of this station.

Our station manager Chuck Jinero yesterday was talking with him about it.

I'm like Chuck.

I want people to submit these recipes.

But I want to also be able to tell them if you submit a recipe, you get a copy of the book.

That makes sense.

And we want to do that.

Yeah.

We want to do that.

Chuck liked the idea.

We got the green light.

Let's do that.

So not only will you submit your recipe and immortalize these recipes.

But you're also getting yourself a card.

For every submission, you get a book.

Yeah.

For your submission, thank you.

With its supposedly brilliant cover stuff.

Oh, it's going to be good.

Which I just, I don't know.

The buildup is almost too big at this point.

It's pretty good.

It'll bring it home.

I'll give you a hint.

It's a sandwich.

It's going to bring it home.

It's going to be good.

Submit those recipes to us, everybody.

And thank you so much to everybody who already has.

You can go to WFHR.com.

Sign up for our newsletter.

And of course, submit your recipes.

We want them.

And we want to celebrate this area.

Thank you so much, everybody, who has done so already.

Yeah.

Do want to remind our audience as well.

That Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre's fall season kicks off this week.

It is.

This week already.

Boy, doesn't it?

Wow.

The time just flies when you're having fun.

Or you're learning to get everything together, directing for the first time.

Or something.

Something like that.

All the things you're just on.

Golden Pond is premiering this week.

Everyone's starting on Thursday at 7 o'clock.

Then again, on Friday at 7 and on Saturday on the 27th at 2 p.m. for a matinee.

And then we're doing it all over again next week.

The second, the third and the fourth.

Once again, Thursday and Friday at 7 o'clock.

October 4th to wrap things up at 2 o'clock, everyone.

Come early.

We do want you to come early for this because there's always some good concessions there.

And you can talk to the fabulous people that are a part of Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre.

And come take a fantastic show.

You know, I don't want to put James in the spotlight at all.

But when you get to this point, and when you're directing a show,

it's very weird.

Yeah, it's very weird because you basically have done, I mean,

a few other things to wrap up.

The next couple of rehearsals is you get a tech ready and everything combines to make the thing.

But after that, then you just kind of sit back and let the actors do their thing.

It's one of those things that I know the other side of it.

But I never experienced this side of it.

And I don't know what to do with myself in many ways.

But if I've done my job and everybody else has, there is not much for me to do.

Exactly.

So I'm actually kind of just running around looking for, hey, does anybody need me to help with anything?

Because the actors are fine.

They've got this.

And all of our extra people, a part of these things are props and are lighting and are the backstage stuff.

Everybody's working so hard on this and does such a great job.

And come together for one of the cool things that I've seen throughout this process is when an actor drops a line

or struggles with the line, the other actor working so hard to help them.

The way that we have been able to work with our lighting to our people, our costumed, our wonderful props department.

All these different things come in together.

That everybody's going to be able to look at this play and see a little bit of their fingerprints on it.

Absolutely.

And I know that this is a very popular show.

This was a very popular movie.

You ain't seeing it like this, everybody.

That's right.

Oh, it's going to be a good one.

It's always something new and different.

Get your tickets at wrctheter.org.

We'll meet you there this Thursday for opening night.

Oh, I'm so excited.

I'm still hopeful that one of the actors will ask me to just take their part.

No, no, no.

We're not letting you do that, James.

I'm telling you, I would make a great Billy Jr.

I would make a very good 12-year-old.

No, I wouldn't.

I didn't even when I was 12.

Even when I was 12.

No one really did.

No, I'm not that good of a doctor.

We do have some really good stories around what we wanted to touch on everybody.

A dad named Chase Harris posted a touching video on TikTok where he encouraged his seven-year-old son with Spina Bifida to use a walker and step off a curb.

Chase told the media, quote, we use the curb as a metaphor of us conquering an obstacle that could typically hold us back forever.

It's basically a mountain that either we're going to get over or we're going to fall down.

It's a very moving video.

It's a very sweet video.

That's very cool.

I'm just going to show you guys a little bit of it.

It's a very long video, but it's just a very sweet video.

I watched it this morning three times.

There you go.

It's really good.

Oh, that is so cool.

It's a very sweet one.

I encourage you to find it out there, everybody.

For everything we say about social media that can be a little bit low and everything.

There are stories like this out there.

I encourage you to check out.

A 27-year-old woman from California named Diana Morales was driving for Uber when she made a lasting connection with a 90-year-old daughter.

With a 90-year-old driver that after he'd ordered a ride to church one day last year.

They exchanged numbers and now she's basically his personal driver.

Whenever he needs a ride to run this weekly errands, she picks them up.

He even goes golfing with her family a couple of times every month.

Oh, that's cool.

Initially, he started paying her directly, but now she doesn't even charge him anymore.

Yeah, that's really sweet.

That is.

That's a great story.

Very cool story.

It's a really cool one.

Fantastic stuff.

Very cool stuff.

And one of the cool things I think that happens with someone's strangers running to each other.

I will also use this as an opportunity to throw out their meals on wheels.

Reach out to our ADRCCW, everybody, because that is another great opportunity for these kind of things to happen.

And the lifetime relationships that you build and make through that are going to mean as much to the people receiving those meals as they will to you.

Absolutely.

Finally, a 17-year-old girl just became the first woman to reach Eagle Scout status in her area in New Mexico.

Woo!

Yeah.

Her name is Gabriela Montoya, and her advice to other girls who hope to follow in her footsteps and earn Eagle Scout status is.

Just take the leap.

There you go.

Just take the leap.

Just do it.

Yeah.

I mentioned Billie Jr. earlier.

We have a wonderful young actor, Maddie, who is playing that role.

And that role is traditionally a boys role.

Maddie tried out for it because she thought, why not?

You know what?

What's the worst that could happen and everything in there?

She is now cast in the park, yes.

She had the right vibe.

Yeah, she did.

I was there at auditions.

You just never know.

You never know what can happen.

You got to take that leap.

It's a great, it's a great bit of advice.

Great show today, you two.

Thank you, you two.

Have a great day, everybody.

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