The Kitchen’s Open: Pumpkin Edition (Hour 2)

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We're going to have some fun this hour.

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Um, they were looking forward to that. Got some entertainment news around the corner as well.

But it's a Monday and the 10 o'clock hour. We know what that means.

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But one of the symbols associated with it keeps on going.

Right into the oven for some delicious pie.

Hey, let me squash that right now.

Pumpkins do tie the autumn season with Halloween.

You guys had way too much fun on that.

Yeah, that's awesome. That's fantastic all the time.

Pumpkins do tie the autumn season with Halloween as many families carved Jacqueline turns for the holiday.

But this gourd has many great qualities beyond just being a candle holder or a pie fillings.

Not that it needs to be anything more than that, but it does.

You know, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Systems website, pumpkin is nutrient rich due to its bright orange color.

This orange color comes from beta-carotene, an antioxidants and precursor to vitamin A.

Meaning beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A in the body.

Oh, cool.

Pumpkin is an excellent source of vitamin A with one cup providing 245% of the recommended daily intake.

One piece of high, right?

Wow, there you go.

One cup of...

Another reason A.

Vitamin A is important to preserve vision, fight infections, maintain healthy skin and bones, and regulate cell growth and division.

Pumpkin is also low in calories and a good source of fiber containing 50 calories and three grams of fiber per one cup serving.

It's also an excellent source of potassium at 564 milligrams, which helps your muscles contract, regulate fluids, maintain normal blood pressure, and balance minerals in and out of the body cells.

Pumpkins be good for you.

They do.

In other words, they are really good for you.

I've mentioned before how much I enjoy this segment, the things that you and Melissa started off doing, how Melissa did a great job with it and how you've picked up the mantle and just run with the ball.

I love what you're doing with this segment, Beth, but I don't know if I've had a more favorite segment.

I love pumpkin.

I talk about that a lot and mention that plenty of times.

I don't know that I've ever really thought about the health benefits of pumpkin, and I can take this and just bring this right to my mother.

See?

I do eat something healthy.

I have proof.

The pumpkin part of the pumpkin pie is...

All the other details.

So, because you can use pumpkin for more than just a pie, the website had a great recipe that you can use for breakfast that doesn't include much sugar.

Or actually doesn't include any sugar, but still tastes good.

It's pumpkin oatmeal.

This recipe serves too, so you can either make the whole thing and refrigerate some for later or half the recipe to have just a single serving.

So, when a two-quart saucepan combined three-quarters cup water, one cup skin milk, one small chopped apple, one cup old-fashioned oats, a half a cup of canned pumpkin, pure pumpkin puree, not the pumpkin pie filling.

So, when you're at the grocery store, they're right beside each other.

Pumpkin pie filling has all of the spices and sugar in there.

Pure pumpkin is simply the pumpkin that's been pureed.

So, you want to make sure you get just the pure pumpkin.

You're going to have a half a cup of that canned pumpkin, and then you're also going to add a half a teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.

Bring all of that to a boil, cook, and stir for five minutes or until the liquid has been absorbed.

Remove from the heat, stir in a quarter teaspoon vanilla extract, topped with chopped pecans or other toppings, and enjoy.

Oh, that sounds really good.

Is there a chocolate oatmeal?

You can make oatmeal with chocolate.

Outside of that, this is the best oatmeal.

And what sweetens it, because oatmeal on its own does not have a lot of good sweet flavor to it, is that apple.

When you chop up that apple and you find it.

And that little bit of vanilla, that's where the sugar is.

Because it's a natural sugar right out of the fruit, which is better for your body than all of the processed white sugars that you find.

Which is a good point about getting the right filling.

Right, exactly.

Absolutely.

Well, I also found some other recipes that are good and healthy and aren't pie, that you can use pumpkin for.

So how about healthy pumpkin cookies?

Well, I'm okay with cookies too.

Yes.

They're good, right?

I found this recipe that only has three ingredients, and it's online at TheBigMansWorld.com.

Isn't that agreed?

That's a great one.

That's a great one.

That's a great one.

I love it.

So the first thing you want to do is pre-heat that oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

And a large mixing bowl, combined two and a half cups rolled oats, two cups pure pumpkin, again, not the pie filling.

And a quarter cup pure maple syrup.

And mix that well.

If you're going to, you can add chocolate chips.

You can fold those in so it becomes more of a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie.

Using your hands, form into small balls and place on the baking tray and press the ball into the cookie shape.

This should make about 12 cookies.

You're going to bake that for 10 minutes, remove, allow to cool on the sheet, allow to cool on the sheet, James.

That's a good note.

It's going to be very hot.

So be careful.

We really need to tell me that.

Yes.

Those sounds so darn good.

Don't they?

Yes.

Three ingredients, simple to make.

I've done this using banana rather than pumpkin.

But you can get even more health benefits.

It sounds like from that, that pumpkin, you get that beta carotene that helps with the.

And the potassium, which you would get for bananas too.

Exactly.

So.

Really don't talk a lot about the health benefits of pumpkin enough.

We don't.

But that's really impressive.

So this is the way to get your veggies in rather than your fruits.

Oh, yeah.

This would be even better, James.

You could just say your mom, look.

Yeah, this cookie.

Yeah, veggies.

Being a carotene.

Vitamin A.

Once she helps me make it, I cannot wait to.

So we talked about breakfast.

We've talked about a dessert.

How about a meal?

All right, let's do it.

It includes pumpkin as a ingredient.

Pumpkin white bean chicken chili.

Hmm.

This recipe comes from once upon a pumpkin RD dot com.

So there's a registered dietician that has a website that she's titled once upon a pumpkin.

Does it all about pumpkin stuff?

That's great.

It has a whole lot of different pumpkin recipes there that you can choose from.

Right.

So this one, it sounds a little complicated.

You need a few more ingredients, but it really doesn't take that much to do.

It's an easy recipe.

So you're going to heat two tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat in a pot.

You know, if you think a large cast iron pot or if your crock pot allows you to saute

things and cook things, that's a great way to do it as well.

You add to that one and a half pounds of shredded rotisserie chicken and saute

for about three to five minutes, then remove and set aside.

This way you don't have to do it from raw.

Right.

If you have that...

It's already cooked chicken, yeah.

Exactly.

And so it's kind of just reheating it and getting it there again.

So in the pot, heat another two tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat.

Add one medium onion that you've diced up, three cloves of garlands that have been minced.

And if you'd like one jalapeno chopped.

Oh, yeah.

I'm not the big spice person, so that would not be going in it if I made it, but if my husband over here did.

Well, real quick note, you can do jalapenos with removing the seeds, and it's not as hot, but it adds a great flavor to it.

It really does.

Yeah, it's the seeds in the jalapeno that really give it that heat.

Yeah.

You're going to cook all of that until it's softened.

And then two that you're going to add one teaspoon cumin, one teaspoon oregano, one teaspoon paprika,

a quarter teaspoon cayenne pepper, a quarter teaspoon cinnamon, a half a teaspoon salt, and a quarter teaspoon black pepper.

You're going to reduce the heat to medium and let that simmer.

So all of those flavors can marinate together.

Then you're going to add five cups of chicken stock, one can of pure pumpkin puree, and one can of white beans, and one can of chilies.

And you're going to let all of that cook up together, you know, so that you get those flavors going.

And in a bowl of a stand mix or using two forks, if you've made your chicken, because you can do this using chicken breasts that you saute,

and then you can shred those there.

Like doing pulled pork or something like that, pulled chicken basically.

But if you, and I know quick trip, if they don't sell all the retreats of your chickens, they sell little tubs of shredded rotisserie chicken.

Which you can just get one of those.

So it's easy to just pick that up and throw that in. That's one last step you have to worry about.

So once everything has been shredded, you've added the chicken back into the rest of that mixture with one cup fresh or frozen corn,

and one cup of cilantro, and you stir all of that to combine.

So this is going to be a good, good, warm meal on a nice, cool day.

It doesn't, it doesn't seem like you're, I don't know, I've never had anything like that before, especially with pumpkin involved.

It doesn't seem like you're going to notice the pumpkin too much, but you're going to, you're going to, it's going to be there.

It's just not, like if you've had, if all you've ever had is pumpkin spice this or pumpkin spice that,

you have original pumpkin, it can throw you a little bit.

It seems like that a little like that.

And that's because the spice is specifically the spices that you put together for your pumpkin pie.

Right, right.

So when you see pumpkin spice, it's not really just, it's not the pumpkin at all.

It's just the flavor.

Yep, very disappointing.

Or a pumpkin latte, they, they are a spiced latte.

Right.

And that's, I think, what throws people off.

We associate that combination of spices with pumpkin pie, which is how it's got its name.

But it's really cloves, cinnamon, and ginger.

That's pretty much all pumpkin spices.

Right, between the three of us, okay, just keeping between the three of us.

I did this at an actual Starbucks in Santa Barbara, where I tried to order a pumpkin spice latte without the spice.

And I really felt like it was a legitimate thing I could do.

Like, really?

I'm really, in my, in my defense, there was like 30 people in front of me ordering like 20 different coffees with everything out of it, but the coffee.

Right, right.

Yeah, exactly.

I thought I could get it.

It did not work.

No.

As an aficionado of making chili.

Yes.

This is amazing.

And I totally want to make this now.

I'm, I'm, I'm jazz.

Yep.

And you can, when you serve it up in your bowl, you can top it with sliced avocado, which sounds great to me, not to my husband.

jalapenos, again, vice versa.

Yeah.

Great to have not so much to me.

Greek yogurt and cilantro.

And enjoy it that way.

Or whatever toppings you like with your chili.

So this is a nice, what, it's called white because your beef chili uses a tomato base.

And that makes it red or brown.

So this is white because you're using a chicken stock rather than the tomatoes.

I'm thinking of what this looks like.

And with the white beans, I think it looks awesome, actually, with the, with the pumpkin, you have a little orange in there.

So I think it, it actually looks very appetizing as well.

It sounds really good.

And notice it says Greek yogurt path.

Do you think the type of yogurt is important for that?

Well, Greek yogurt is a lot like sour cream, but it's healthier.

So that Greek is, yogurt is thicker than regular yogurt.

And if you get the non-fat Greek yogurt, often does not have sugar added.

Most yogurts add sugar.

Right.

I love those little details.

That's so cool.

I appreciate that.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Excellent.

Oh, another great idea.

Love chili.

Chili pumpkins.

Hi.

Oh, my favorites.

So cookies.

It's so hungry.

Yeah, so hungry right now.

I want those pumpkin cookies so bad.

And again, we'll have all of the links to all of those recipes and those websites on the show notes.

Sorry, sorry.

I just thought of something.

James, for those those pumpkin cookies.

White chocolate chips.

Oh, interesting.

I think that would be excellent with that.

I think that would be excellent with that.

Butterscotch.

Or butterscotch should be even.

That would be good too.

I was thinking of that.

Yeah.

Get creative and let us know what you do with it.

Yeah, exactly.

That'd be fun.

Yes, please.

Make them and bring them to us.

I mean, just make them.

Just make them.

I have some fun.

And be listening every Monday for another edition of the kitchen's open.

Shout out to Beth and her friends over at the hotel meet.

Great work.

Great work.

Thank you.

We'll be back with more show.

Tell me something good.

It's time, everybody, for our monthly veterans update with our great friend Tom Heiser.

Laura and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, Tom.

Thank you for joining us.

Well, thank you very much for having us again.

Always appreciate the time I have to embarrass her and shout out Laura.

Great work on that bumper.

Oh, thank you.

That's fantastic.

I had a good time making that one.

That's a good one.

We appreciate it.

And we appreciate you joining us, Tom.

It's been a whole month of a lot of events to get through.

I don't want to keep you too long, sir.

Let's dive right in.

Oh, wait.

Before I forget those times.

Oh, I'm not forgetting.

I'm sorry.

So sorry.

I came across a great story.

I thought it would be great for this segment here.

And I've been saving it for like two weeks now.

Yeah.

A message in a bottle found during a beach cleanup in Australia turned out to contain letters

from two World War I soldiers who launched their bottle 109 years earlier.

Well, that's for you.

No, that's cool.

No, you guys have initially was one sent to get that back.

Now it's worth a nickel.

It's a wonderful story.

I encourage people to check out involving some vets and just a wonderful start from World War I of all times.

It's pretty impressive.

I encourage people to check that out.

I will send you the link, Laura, so we can throw it into the notes.

Thank you.

Tom, we've got our state cross country.

We're just talking about in our pregame here and everything.

A really nice turnout for that.

Oh, it was just beautiful day.

And there must have been 10,000 people out there coming and going.

That's awesome.

Girls event went first and boys went second.

Buses were backed up dropping people off.

Wow.

Wonderful to hear.

Really, really wonderful to hear.

Yeah.

Got a bunch of other wonderful events going on this month.

One of them happening right today.

Yeah, we had the month of breakfast.

And that's once a month on the first Monday, coincides with here.

Yeah.

And tomorrow we have the allied bets meeting on the VFW post.

And on Thursday, until the end of November, free flu shots for veterans at the VA clinic.

Oh, that's great.

And if people that go there, just be prepared to be in a line.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a wonderful service to be able to offer our bets.

That's great.

Exactly.

And then Friday, we have bets in a classroom.

Three of us are going to go up there and talk to the students and they're going to ask us questions about veterans day.

So we're getting back into the schools Monday.

Don't talk to a Marine on Monday.

Yeah.

That's Marine birthday.

Ask any of them.

They'll tell you exactly how many years it was.

Make time if you're talking to a Marine.

Yeah, exactly.

You're going to need a minute.

And it's worth it.

It's worth it.

It is.

And then on November 10th, we also have the VA or the VFW spaghetti dinner.

It's an all you can eat deal.

And we have a sponsor this year that's paying for all the veterans meals.

That's so that's eat free.

That's awesome.

That's cool.

And then on Tuesday, we have the veterans day ceremony at veterans park at 11.

And veterans day.

Okay.

And then at one o'clock, we have the legacy stone dedication.

That's going to be held at a assumption high school.

And then at three o'clock, there was a stone out at mid-state tech with a little plaque.

They moved that to the front of the school.

Oh, cool.

So now it's more visible.

So we're going to have a three o'clock ceremony on veterans day.

That's awesome.

Had some people wondering about that.

That's great to hear.

That's what's going on with it.

That's great.

Mm-hmm.

And then Tuesday also is the morning Jo and Doe over at Steven's point.

And also Auburn Dale has a program up at Auburn Dale High School.

And then on the 12th, we have the hero's cafe.

Yeah.

Now, there's only one this month because of Thanksgiving.

Yeah.

That's right.

December because of Christmas when those fall.

And then they take a little bit of vacation.

We'll discuss that at a future endeavor.

Sure.

Yes.

And also on that day, we have the quilts of valor.

Oh, I love quilts of valor.

Yeah.

That is really cool.

The vets get their quilt.

And if you have the opportunity, stop and see that.

It's a really cool pool.

Especially if you've never seen it before.

Yeah.

It's a great moment.

And those quilts are made by some fantastic ladies in the area.

And they're free to the veterans.

So it's really a good idea.

Mm-hmm.

Uh-huh.

The Veterans Day Ceremony.

We have another Veterans Day Ceremony that Eden Brook assisted living.

We go there every year.

And then on Wednesday, November 12th is the American Legion Post monthly meeting.

And on 13th is the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 101 monthly meeting.

It starts at five.

And then Rudolph American Legion is at night at seven.

Mm-hmm.

So you see we're a little bit busy.

Yeah.

Well, November is going to be a busy month.

We're just in week two of November two.

Yeah.

We don't even put gear hunting in here.

Yeah.

And then Friday the 14th is a diversity blood drive out of the VFW pool.

So, you know, come and donate blood.

Yeah.

Every donated, every month that's donated helps three people.

Right.

Yeah.

And that's just a standard donation.

Yes.

And it's another one of those things that our VFW hosted just above and beyond.

It's really cool to do.

And then in the 20th, we had the VFW post 25 or 34 monthly meeting.

It starts at six.

Friday, November 21st was Grenada Campaign ended in 1983.

Yeah.

So we count the gray hairs on this one.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And another one to read up on if you don't know much about that in particular.

Right.

That wasn't real big.

However, it was another situation.

And the important one to read up on.

And on Sunday, November 23rd, the anniversary of the United States Coast Guard women's reserve.

That was in 1942 that came in.

And there's no hero's cafe because it was Thanksgiving week as we talked about earlier.

And on Wednesday, the 26th, we have the rekindle of spirit parade at 530.

And that is really a large parade.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We're actually doing a little parade announcing at that one this year.

Yeah.

We're looking forward to it.

We're looking forward to seeing all the floats.

Everybody involved.

It's going to be a good time.

Yeah.

It's really something how they decorate them up.

Yeah.

They do a great job.

Yeah.

We lead that.

On the 28th, we have the cranberry classic basketball game of assumption.

And then that Saturday, they also have it.

We're there for the resendant of the colors.

Yeah.

And then getting into December.

We have the December 7th Pearl Harbor Day ceremony at the VFW post.

Sure.

We're one of the few posts in the whole state.

They're recognized.

That does that.

Yeah.

There's only like, it's under 10.

And we're one of them.

I appreciate that you all do.

Mm-hmm.

And then on December 6th, we have the Nikusa Christmas parade.

Mm-hmm.

And then December 10th is a Heroes Cafe.

And that's the last one of the year.

Yeah.

There you go.

Yeah.

Which gives us a chance to shout out everybody involved with the Heroes Cafe.

Yeah.

And how much we appreciate them doing that.

And how much we appreciate all the people attending it.

And spreading the word about that event as well.

Yeah.

And that's spaghetti feed.

Like I said, it's like 13 bucks a person.

Yeah.

It's coming up.

It's on Monday, November 10th from 430 to 7pm at the VFW.

Yeah.

It is incredible.

Yeah.

13 dollars.

All you can eat dinner includes spaghetti with marinara and or meat sauce.

Dinner rolls salad.

A sort of dressings.

A sort of desserts.

Milk and coffee.

Speaking as your local daygo, your local Italian, I will tell you it is very good.

It is very good.

It is very, very good.

It is very well done.

Oh, and it should be noted.

They have a cash bar.

Yes.

Both things are noteworthy.

And attending these events or any of these events that Tom just told us about are certainly,

we appreciate people do we encourage people to do.

We also encourage you to spread the word about these events.

Tom joining us on the air.

He does a great job.

We try to promote these during the weeks as well.

But we all know word of mouth how far that goes.

Yeah.

So, please spread the word about these events.

And every day whether there's an event or not, you can be an ally.

You can be a friend of a veteran.

Yeah.

Very much so.

And we really appreciate people coming up and saying thank you for your service and we appreciate

it.

It's.

You wouldn't understand, but we do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we appreciate the time, Tom.

Thanks for putting up with us and hanging out with us and everything.

We'll talk again next month, okay, sir.

We will try to be your best weekend.

I'm sure I'll see you before the end of the month.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll definitely talk to you before the end.

Yeah.

You're doing things.

We'll see you.

We appreciate you, Tom.

Thanks a lot for joining us.

Thank you very much for having me.

If people have follow up questions they'd like to know more or help out with it in any way

they can.

We're always looking for volunteers certainly for these events.

What's the best way to get a hold of you?

Tom, just call our phone number at 715-6000-0401 and Sean will answer the phone and answer

any questions that you have and thank you very much for having me again.

Absolutely.

I appreciate it.

Have a good day.

You too.

We'll be back after our new sports and partner break here on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFH, locally grown radio.

Seth, Laura, James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Shout out to Beth in the kitchen's open.

That was a great way to kick things off.

Yeah.

And of course our friend Tom Heizer with the monthly veterans update.

Mm-hmm.

Only can play this bumper once a week.

So, I know.

I got to get it there.

It's the Monday one for you.

Yeah.

We wrap up Halloween and everything.

We go on to get to a little bit of a celebrity Halloween and some of the dress up things

that went on.

Oh, what's that one?

Sure.

I have a couple of, not a whole lot of photos here for you guys.

I was trying to find some, but do you have one of Heidi Klum?

She, Heidi Klum seems to never fail at this.

She nails us every year.

No, it's true.

She does.

If you had the budget of Heidi Klum, I would hope that you would.

I mean, that helps.

That's the whole thing.

But I do feel like celebrities are missing a little bit of the fun of Halloween.

For sure.

She's not, but for sure.

I do think there would be something charming about somebody with her budget coming out

with like a very custom she clearly made, like I think there's something charming and

fun about it.

I agree.

I'm with you on that one.

Yeah.

And something every celebrity could use, relatability.

Yeah.

That's fair.

That is something missing with this.

But it is a little fun.

Heidi transformed into Medusa with fangs and mechanical snakes here in her hair.

Oh, my gosh.

That sounds right.

The body of a snake, her husband Tom Kalutz, went as a warrior who was made of stone.

That is really cool.

Melissa and Sethi image of this right now.

That is so good.

That's actually not that different from she may be reusing a good portion of that costume

because I think she was like a big worm last year.

A bit.

Oh, that'd be smart.

Yeah.

That for relatability.

Sure.

Sure.

She does not look anything like Heidi Klum.

That's the great thing about it.

No, she does.

She does such a good job.

She really, really gets into a good, she really gets into a good, and at a very

clash of the Titans vibe, which is absolutely bring me more of that.

Yeah.

Looking at some others, Lady Gaga, she was the Garden of Eden and its gardener.

It's a reference to her song Garden of Eden.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sounds right.

That's good.

Yep.

It was not able to.

It's a good song.

I don't know if there was any images of this one.

I didn't see much.

Oh.

Let's see it.

Let's see if there.

Oh, there we go.

Sure.

Oh, that's interesting.

Oh.

That's an interesting outfit.

Carmore sword than I was expected.

Yeah.

Very cool.

That is there.

That is big.

That is Garden.

But also, you know, that's a really good song and it's a solid album.

So like, I'm going to root for Lady Gaga here.

All right.

Kiki Palmer.

Wonderful.

Wonderful.

Funny actress.

She and her son dressed up as Snoot Dogg in Biowild.

Spectacular.

Oh.

That's good.

Oh.

Yeah.

Very good job.

Fantastic.

Genoma Ne.

She was a cat in a hat.

Julia Fox went as a bloody Jackie.

Oh.

I don't know.

Whoa.

Oh, dear.

Oh.

That's wrong.

That's wrong.

Ed Sheeran went as Pennywise from it.

Sure.

This one.

I did not look this one up.

I did not have a chance to.

All right.

Let's see it.

We need to.

Because this one's.

It's got to be around here.

It's got to be cool.

Oh.

Oh.

He nailed it.

Really good.

He nailed it.

I think he used his real hair.

He did.

Oh, that's great.

But he put the mask on so that he had the receding hairline still.

I enjoy Ed Sheeran.

I like him.

I don't know.

A ton of his music.

But I enjoy him as a person and everything.

That is the least intimidating Pennywise is still.

That's fair.

There's some kind of thing to his face.

He just doesn't look mean.

Yeah.

I've seen little kids dress up as Pennywise and are more scary than this.

To be fair, some children are.

I have met some horrifying children.

Yeah.

And I don't mean they look horrifying.

I mean, these are horrifying children.

But not Ed Sheeran.

He can't just can't pull it out.

I mean, he can't pull it out.

I don't feel bad for him.

Like, you can't look too terrifying.

You cannot do it.

Oh, goodness.

Paris Hilton.

She was Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman.

Oh, hey.

That's not bad.

We'll take that.

Sabrina Carpenter win as a bedazzled blonde Wonder Woman.

That sounds right.

Yeah.

Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman isn't blonde.

Yeah.

Wonder Woman also isn't normally her or so.

But still.

I mean, Taylor Lautner.

He and his wife were Dale and Bernine from Step Brothers.

They did a nice job.

Not bad.

That was not bad.

Not bad.

I saw an image of that one.

I'm pretty sure his wife is also named Taylor.

And it's like a thing they do.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Adorable.

They nailed that.

That's really good.

Yeah.

Pretty good job with that one.

Let's see.

I don't know what dress does.

She was a melty mozzarella sticks from Chili's.

I need to hang on.

No.

That is amazing.

What is...

She just straps some cardboard to her back.

No.

The dress.

The dress.

It looks like drippy cheese.

It's like you break open a mozzarella stick, right?

Yeah.

In the middle and then the cheese loses out.

That is good.

It looks like the mozzarella stick breading is like wings.

It's very inventive.

I love it.

If you don't look at the full picture,

it doesn't seem that...

It's amazing.

You got to see the whole body picture.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's really cool.

That may be my favorite right there.

That's pretty good.

And Travis Marker and Quartney Kardashian,

they were Jack and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas.

Sure.

And as everybody has to do this at least,

one couple has to do this every year.

Yeah.

Every year.

They were the couple that did it this year.

Yeah.

There's their past.

Yeah.

It's fine.

I mean, he's super skinny, so I guess.

They got it.

I don't know.

I didn't see too many other ones in everything this year.

But there were some pretty good ones.

There were some alright ones out there.

Yeah.

Go ahead and look them up if you get a chance.

Everybody and have some fun with that.

Mm-hmm.

This is a little lost on me,

but I was curious if either of you caught the show at all,

especially since it was on for as long as it was.

It seems like you can put MTV...

Put MTV on for a solid month and see nothing but episodes

of ridiculousness.

Yes.

After one after another and well.

The show has lasted 15 years, 46 seasons,

1,700 episodes, but it ends in 2026.

MTV has officially canceled ridiculous

after 46 seasons.

Ridiculous?

That's what it's called.

Ridiculousness.

Ridiculousness.

And honestly, it could have been canceled 10 years ago.

Source to say MTV wants to return to shows

that are more likely...

More like the stuff that they did in the early.

Uh-huh.

More experimental days.

Their lineup still includes shows like the challenge,

RuPaul's Drag Race, Jersey Shore, a lot of those.

They are slowly guiding away from those

to go...

They're going back to music-oriented.

Yeah.

And there's a rumor,

and I know this just because they're doing some casting calls

for it and everything,

and I've got my name out there.

I don't know if I'll get called in,

but I got my name out there.

They're bringing back a lot of their game shows.

Sure.

They're bringing back a lot of that stuff and everything.

Oh, that's fun.

My hope is that they bring back remote control.

I would love love...

Wow!

That's a deep cut.

It's never coming back.

Probably not.

People want to go,

RuPaul control, what is that?

We don't even know what that is.

Look it up.

It's how we got Adam Sandler.

It's one of the smartest marketing ideas I have seen

in a very long time.

It took them maybe too long to get here

and might be even too late.

But the idea of,

what do you do?

You hit on the market,

you hit on something,

you can do that nobody else can.

We know this very well.

It's how we've stayed alive.

We can report on central Wisconsin better than anybody.

Right.

Whatever we're talking about,

whether sports news don't matter,

we got to cover better than anyone.

That's how you stay relevant.

MTV has something that nobody else has.

Nostalgia.

Oh.

It's in spades.

It's got a ton of that.

Yeah.

And instead of trying to get younger and newer people,

which is how every business stays alive,

there's nothing wrong with that.

That demographic, right?

Yeah.

But it's 18 to 25 to 23 to 20,

no, 24, whatever it is.

Yeah.

It used to be 18 to 34.

Yeah.

It's really narrow to that.

But anyway, anyway,

they can really traffic in that.

They can really hit on that

better than anybody.

Right.

Because they're in a position

where that younger demographic

wants the same thing

as the moms and dads

that are trying to watch TV.

Right.

Because we want our MTV back.

Nice.

Very good.

Very good.

All of the younger generation has heard about

is how good MTV used to be

because all they grew up with

was ridiculousness.

Right.

Well, and it's like people,

younger people coming back to radio.

Yeah.

We have all these playlists

that you can build.

You've got streaming services

all over the place.

But there's something different

about turning on the radio

and listening to

just whatever songs are on the radio.

You could do that with MTV.

I would argue it's the same thing.

Yes.

It is.

You can go to YouTube.

If that's how it was designed.

Yeah, and watch any video

that you want to right now.

But there's not the thing.

What's next?

What's coming up?

We don't know.

That kind of thing.

There's something special I think about that.

And I think people are missing that.

As much as we love choice,

we love it to a degree

in certain ways with our entertainment.

I want the choice to be able to come home

and just hit the flipper.

But I want this surprise

or whatever you want to say of

who's nothing like it.

I don't know what I'm going to come across.

Who I'm stopping on this.

I haven't seen Shawshank Redemption in a while.

And you stay on that or whatever.

We do that.

It's one of the things

that we all grew up with in many ways

that so many younger people

hear about now they want.

It's not even just those of us

that want that old way of doing that.

It just sounds more interesting to them, right?

Yeah.

And final entertainment story here.

A new Dr. Seuss book is on the way

in time for America's 250th birthday.

It's technically not new.

It's a completed manuscript

that was found in his archives

back in San Diego,

along with a cover sketch

and a art direction for it.

Cool.

Also, basically, he just didn't finish it.

So he had, in other words,

he had everything ready except for the front of the front.

Yeah.

He had everything ready to go

and just didn't get made.

It's called Sing the 50 United States

and will teach kids the name of each state

with the help of the cat in the hat.

Oh, that's so cool.

Oh, that's cool.

I love that idea.

I wish I had that as a child.

The CEO of Dr. Seuss Enterprises says,

quote, uncovering a new work from Ted

is like finding a time capsule of his imagination.

Sing the 50 United States

celebrates his boundless creativity,

genius, it with words

and his genius with words.

Absolutely.

And enduring ability

to inspire young readers everywhere

we're honored to share this new Dr. Seuss treasure

with readers across America

during such a meaningful milestone year.

It comes out June 2nd, 2026

and is already available for pre-order if you'd like.

Very cool.

This isn't Dr. Seuss's first post-humanist release.

His most recent one was

what pet should I get back in 2015?

Okay.

That's cool.

That's when archives are fun.

Yeah.

We're fortunate with many of our favorite musicians

that we get music years and years later

from them and some of that and everything.

Don't get it often from authors.

I know that what was it?

There was the sequel,

The Prequel to Kill a Mockingbird.

Right.

The Night Watchman.

Yep.

That came out.

There's sometimes it happens.

A little bit and everything.

But I don't know.

Even if you were in a fan of the author

even if you don't have any children in your life,

I think this is a pretty cool story.

Absolutely.

Wasn't the Samarillian release posthumously?

The Samarillian?

Yes, it was.

Thank you.

Because JR Tolkien never finished it in his lifetime.

So his son Christopher had a good call.

Yeah.

It's just a fun story to me.

Yeah.

I think that's an interesting one.

We will take a time out.

We'll come.

Oh, no, no, no.

One more thing.

Wait, hold on.

I'm just off today.

Hold the phone.

Stay tuned.

Is that what the kids say today?

Hold the phone.

So for sure.

That's what they're saying.

I realized way too late that my laptop here is a touch screen.

And so when I tried to move my fingers and stuff.

I was here when we discovered that.

I closed things too often.

Yeah.

I closed our recipe thing.

I wanted to remind everybody that we're collecting recipes.

Yes, we are.

Now we have our 85th anniversary that we are celebrating all November long.

On Wednesday is our official anniversary.

It is.

Wow.

Just between 85 years.

85 years.

Just between all of us.

I am looking to get some special guests on.

I'm in the work.

It's in the work.

It's behind the scenes.

Well, see what happens with that.

But here's hoping everybody crossed your fingers.

Otherwise, we will be celebrating all month long.

And part of our big celebration is our anniversary cookbook.

Yes, it is indeed.

We're very excited about this.

We need more recipes.

In fact, I need to submit a recipe.

I realize that.

I have not done that yet.

I need to do that.

I haven't either.

Well, I think we should get on that.

Because we're going to be cutting that off soon.

You guys.

I figured I could still eat it in a cookbook after.

We'll get it in.

We'll get it.

Make sure to get yours in.

And make sure you out there.

Get yours in, everybody.

Good to WFHR.com.

And sign up for our newsletter and go ahead and submit your recipe.

It won't be the same without you.

If your recipe is submitted, you'll get a free edition of the cookbook.

Mm-hmm.

Encourage you to do that, everybody.

That's awesome.

WFHR.com.

We'll come back after this break and wrap up the show.

Morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio, Laura Seth and James here to take you to the top of the hour.

Get nothing but great civic media program and coming up for you throughout the day.

Since some of our listeners out there are hearing us and not being able to hear are good friend Jane.

I do want to stand a shout out to her.

Yeah, Jane announced this morning on her show that's on the other civic media radio stations across the network that she is retiring after 44 years in radio.

Yeah.

Come December.

So congratulations to her on her retirement.

Congratulations.

And thank you so much for doing us the honor of working with us for all of this time.

Whether it's a moment or it's, you know, a lot longer than that.

Anybody who has ever worked with Jane, she's one of your favorite people you've met in this industry.

Yes, absolutely.

And one of my favorite voices of all time.

When you mention a class act, that's exactly what she was.

Or is, I should say, very much a class act.

I love you, Jane.

Yeah, great working with you.

Huge, huge, huge ups.

I'm a humongous fan.

And thank you for all that you did years and years ago when you started in Rio.

Yeah.

Woman to woman.

Thank you.

There you go.

We also want to thank a good friend Beth for joining us with the kitchen's open earlier.

That was a lot of fun.

Shout out to the hotel meet.

And of course Tom Heiser with the Veterans Update.

Yeah.

As a fun, a fun, great busy Monday.

We like busy Mondays around here.

Yeah, we do.

Yeah, we do.

And we've got a great jampec day lined up for you as well.

As I mentioned before, civic media programming throughout the day here.

As well as coming up a little bit later on the rapid support.

We're going to be talking to Juliana.

Yeah.

She is from Park Place Adult Day Services.

We'll be talking about them and their anniversary coming up.

Very cool.

Looking forward to it, be sure to join us for their Rapids Report at WFHR.com.

I got a great addition.

A playmaker's lined up for you today.

Be sure to join us from 4 to 5 over on 105 five.

Looking forward to talking sports with everybody.

I don't know what we'll talk about.

There's no reason.

Sure.

I've been anything going on.

I don't know.

I didn't hear anything.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Be sure to join us today 4 to 5 on 105 five.

Bring us your sports takes and feelings.

And here at 97 five FM.

We're going to have some Wisconsin men's basketball hosting Campbell.

630 should be a good game as a badger basketball gets going.

Yes.

Kicked off once again.

Looking forward to that.

Whatever.

Also one of the mentioned that three bridges has a presentation

about opioid addiction and resources going on today.

It is happening from noon to 1 30th at the Wisconsin Rapids campus auditorium

over in the mid-state.