(upbeat music) - Next on "You Oughta Know."

If bowling is up your alley, then you might try your luck at duckpin bowling in Wilmington, Delaware.

Plus, no need to cross the pond to visit this authentic British tea room.

And we know it for its recreational and medicinal uses, but a Philly museum explores the history of cannabis.

(upbeat music) Welcome to "You Oughta Know."

I'm Shirley Min.

The debate over legalizing Marijuana rages on.

But the curator of a new museum on South Street hopes his exhibits shed light on the history, culture and science surrounding this controversial plant.

(bright music) - Cannabis has a very rife history as a taboo subject.

How it became illegal, the socio-cultural aspects of cannabis, some of the ups and downs associated with it, mainly ups.

(Kristopher laughs) The South Street Cannabis Museum started in 2023, only one in Philadelphia.

I opened a museum mainly because I felt like it was a very interesting subject to talk about, especially with cannabis becoming more legal, more aware, like, even more socially acceptable.

There's an untold history that nobody really knows about.

The word cannabis, marijuana, and hemp all have three different meanings even though they mention the same plant.

Cannabis is basically the species itself, which goes by cannabis sativa L. So then there's also designations that are legal like marijuana or marihuana that is defined by the federal government as having a certain percentage of THC.

And then there's hemp, which everyone associates with industrial products and or textiles and paperwork.

It first became illegal not because of its intoxicating effects, it was because of the threat that hemp had on industries like paper making and plastic and nylon.

William Randolph Hearst and Pierre S. Dupont who basically could have bought the industry have decided to use fear and uncertainty to ensure that people were scared enough to be able to make this illegal.

(upbeat music) We have items in the museum that range back from the 1840s.

We actually have a hemp rope that was used on a ship here in Philadelphia.

So a lot of local interest stuff.

We have like the "Ode to the Philly Blunt," prescriptions from 1901, a prescription from the '20s and '30s that actually are also from Philadelphia, old apothecary bottles, the first High Times, the High Times where they have the first cannabis cup, up to things that are even more current, like The Philadelphia Inquirers.

A story about when we're gonna potentially go from schedule one to schedule three.

Cultural memorabilia.

So we have like signed papers by Seth Rogan.

Other things that are signed by Cheech and Chong.

I have a couple things that need to be signed by Snoop Dogg.

So, you should stop on in.

One of our prize possessions, we actually have a film of "Reefer Madness" that was used by NORML, right here, the National Organization for Reformation of Marijuana Laws, to go around the country and show people the absurdity of cannabis prohibition.

- [Reporter] The weed marijuana is grown in every state illegally.

- It was supposed to be scary back in the day.

And nowadays, everyone just laughs at it and enjoys it.

We are still in the history of it, so we just put it all together in a cohesive manner so then it looks educational and cool.

(upbeat music) One of my hopes is that the museum can serve as a cultural epicenter for cannabis in Philly.

We had people come in, and they are in awe by how everything is presented and really start to learn more about the plant itself.

And then there's also activism, get people talking to their state representatives about changing of laws.

Cannabis does not discriminate.

It's all walks of life, and it's been really great being on South Street.

It just has a rich cultural history.

So it's still that same vibe.

A lot of people come down to South Street to experience something new, to go shopping, to be seen, to be part of like the cultural movement that is South Street, that's hopefully gonna be enduring.

(upbeat music) - You don't have to travel far to get a spot of tea and enjoy an authentic British experience.

Our next story takes you inside Delaware's Wee Fancy Tea.

(bright music) Wee Fancy Tea is a tea room with a twist.

- [Elizabeth] It's a fun British inspired tea room.

People come here and they have fun, they enjoy it.

(bright music continues) - The way we designed the tea room and our tea trays, we took a modern twist.

Everything's more feminine and girly and fancy.

We wanted it to be more vibrant and fun.

(light invigorating music) - [Shirley] Opening a tea room was a lifelong dream for Elizabeth.

A native Delawarean whose ancestry goes back to England, so having tea was a family tradition.

- My grandmother, we had tea and scones and roast beef and Yorkshire pudding my whole life growing up.

Of course she was like my idol, and I'd say, "Granny, wouldn't that be something for us if we had our own tea room and we could make tea and scones and serve 'em and sell 'em to people?"

- [Shirley] A dream come true for mom Elizabeth who opened Wee Fancy Tea with daughter Annie in 2022.

- So I'm the baker.

My Granny Epi taught me how to make the scones.

It's her recipe.

(bright music) - [Shirley] A recipe with roots in Yorkshire, England.

- When people, you know, talk about the scones, I love to tell them about it.

I love to tell them that it's my grandmother's recipe, and they love it.

They love to hear about it.

It makes me happy that it's hers and it makes it more authentic, I think.

- It's definitely a family business.

My mom works behind the desk and I'm making all the savory portion of the tea tray.

I do the sandwiches and the soups and the salad.

And my daughter, she bakes all the desserts from scratch every day.

And then my granddaughter, she's just 10 years old, but she's also here on Saturdays when she's not in school and here in the summer and is a server or a waitress.

- [Shirley] Four generations in one room, seated with me today for the queen's tea.

- [Annie] You start with your sandwiches, and then you move to the scone, then your desserts at the end.

- Yeah, I wanna go from here down and down.

- Yeah.

- But it's just like a dream to have my mom, my daughter, and my granddaughter, all of us here working together.

I treasure every day being here.

- Maybe you noticed.

Elizabeth goes back and forth saying scone and scone.

The British pronunciation is scone, and that's how she grew up saying it.

But Elizabeth sometimes says scone for the benefit of our customers.

Now to a tea shop in Mount Airy where the owner blends tea with art.

(bright music) (gong rings) - The gong I find very symbolic.

I had a job that was sending me all over the world.

When I went to places like India and Japan and China, I would collect tea.

I got a blood clot, which you don't want to travel with, and that kind of turned my life upside down.

That's the acupuncturist one I was talking about.

I'm not really a entrepreneur type, but when this all happened, I was like, "Should I die tomorrow, I would want to go out on having started a business."

I got into kava kava before I got into anything, and that was my gateway into the world of tea.

It's like a powdery herb that I would prepare like a tea.

I liked it so much that I started collecting things that were similar to it, nerve tonics.

And at that point, I was making blends to make music to.

I started having these tea and vinyl parties where I was inviting friends over into my basement and then putting a record and making blends.

And the combination was very warm and enriching.

It kind of intrigued me that I would be able to get my friends into tea that weren't already into it.

My business is called Craft Tea.

In the very beginning, it was supposed to be like craft beer.

And instead of a beer, I would find an artist to make a cool artwork on a can of tea.

When my friend asked me to sell him tea, I had the cans that I was storing my herbs in.

I had just made a label around it.

My friend Billy, she helped me kind of establish what the cans looked like.

She did the first dozen tins.

So all the artwork, she kind of set the tone.

And for years to come, people kind of emulated her style.

One of my favorite sleep records would be "Evening Star" by Fripp and Eno.

I couldn't tell you how that album ends 'cause it always put me to sleep.

So naturally when I was making a sleep tea, I knew what would pair with it.

On the back of the tin, you have what's in it, what it's good for, what it tastes like and what it feels like.

I give a little brewing recommendation.

And then I say a vinyl pairing.

So a record that fits the vibe of each tea.

With the tea, there's a vinyl pairing, there's a art, there's a catchy name, and then there's the tea blend itself.

I never know what's gonna come first.

So one cool thing about the tea business is working with different artists.

I hold a lot of the originals in the tea shop.

(upbeat music) The vibe I'm trying to bring to tea is a non-pretentious, relaxing way to hang out with friends or benefit yourself, whether it's, you know, a medicinal herbal tea.

I was able to experience a lot of really cool stuff in my traveling days and just wanted to kind of pay that forward to people in a way.

- Think you're a bowling pro?

Well, there's a place in Wilmington, Delaware that has a unique style of bowling and a New Orleans vibe.

And make sure you go in hungry.

(spirited music) - Duckpin bowling, the best way to describe it is horizontal ski ball.

This is a recreational activity highlighted in the New England states.

We are the only duckpin bowling alley in Delaware.

WILMA stands for Wilmington.

The beautiful mural that's over our bowling alleys, that's the playful side of Wilmington and WILMA's.

We also have one of her portraits where she's a little more serious and a little more sophisticated with a little southern hospitality.

We know that the duckpin is unique, but bringing in that New Orleans Southern hospitality and flare kind of creates a homeyness.

Recreation meets dining, fun with frivolity.

(bowling pin clacks) Romance with rad balls.

I don't know where that came from.

But it's Wilmington.

We're diverse.

Wellness is diverse.

(bowling pin clacks) (upbeat music) Similar to a ski ball that you might play at any carnival game.

Not heavy like your 10 pound bowling ball.

The lightness of it makes it very adaptable for little ones, seniors, guess of all ability.

Just like traditional bowling, you're going to get all 10 frames.

You get a little extra if you get a strike or a spare.

We only have four lanes so we do limit it to four players per lane.

Our guests by the time, they want a bowl.

You wanna hang out with us all day?

We will slow you a lane for the entire day.

As the guest rolls the ball, it trips a sensor which talks to a pulley system attached to all of the pins.

That system talks to the scoring system, and now we have your display on the screen.

(spirited music) (bright music) During the week, being downtown, we get a lot of the business class that comes in for a quick lunch and a good meal.

But as the sun sets on Market Street, our vibe changes a little bit.

We have a happy hour from three to 6:00 PM and we are finding that bowling is very romantic for your date night.

It's a great way to get to know each other in a comfortable space.

We have all your traditional favorites.

You think of New Orleans, you think of gumbo, you think of French Quarter creoles and po' boys.

In New Orleans, you gotta have beignets.

Chef also has some great ones that are coming up with our new menu for this spring.

He's introducing a grasshopper pie.

Along with that, we have a Mississippi mud pie brownie that is just heaven.

We have quite a few signature cocktails here at Wilma's.

We also have your traditional ones, the hurricane and the voodoo daiquiri.

But we do encourage our team to think out of the box and create unique specials.

I have guessed that ranging age from school kids all the way up to families coming in for reunions, groups in town may be for a wedding.

Our clients are very diverse, and we love that, so we welcome everybody.

Our private dining room can seat up to 21 guests comfortably and they exclusively get our second floor.

We have retro arcade games, video games.

Wilma's has something that suits everybody's need and purpose.

And we're gonna treat you right.

We're gonna show you a good time.

(upbeat music) - WHYY recently launched a brand new newsletter for parents and caretakers of children called WHYY Familyhood.

And joining me now is Caitlin Corkery who has been on "You Oughta Know" in the past as the creator of "Albies Elevator," but today you're wearing the hat of co-content creator of this newsletter.

Welcome.

- Thank you so much for having me, Shirley.

It's nice to be back.

- Love having you on.

Why did WHYY create this newsletter?

- Yeah, so we were talking about kind of, you know, we have this history of always really serving kids.

We have this great content on broadcast and online that parents kind of turn to for educational programming, but we're also making all these other great assets for parents and families and caretakers.

So, Studio 2 is doing stories about screen time, The Connection is doing stories, The Pulse, even, "You Oughta Know," you know, you're doing stories that are relevant to kids and families.

And we want to kind of curate all that content.

So take it together and put it in one digestible format.

So, we're acting almost as like a concierge for parents, and we can say, "Here's all this stuff that came out this month for you to read that relate to you and your families."

- And I love this kind of content because it's so nice to hear from real parents who are in the weeds with you.

- Oh my gosh, I like...

The thing that I think about, and I think I wrote in the first newsletter, is I'm always struck by like parents, they walk among us.

Because even in meetings, like, you're with your colleagues and you know this person and what they do professionally, but then offhandedly, they'll be like, "Oh yeah, summer camp signups have been madness."

And you're like, everyone is dealing with this in the background.

And the best way to find out anything is through word of mouth.

I rely so heavily on my parent friends, on networks of school moms, even on Facebook neighborhood groups.

Like, I don't dunno if you're in any of the Facebook mommy groups, but like that's how you get information.

That's how you find out where to go, who's doing it well.

People are real there and you can connect with them, and we kind of want to, we wanna combine the fact that WHYY has been doing this for years with this realness.

We're not gonna steer you wrong on stuff and deliver that in a newsletter.

- I love that.

Who's the target audience and is it only for parents of kids of a certain age?

- We're really aiming to make sure that it covers the full gamut of childhood.

So, I'm a parent of young kids, but we're getting weigh in from people who have teenagers who are thinking about, you know, sending their kids to college.

Even last month, we talked to Musi Salerno who is the fabulous mother of a middle schooler who's entering high school to talk about their ideal Saturday morning.

So we're really hoping parenting is all encompassing, and it's a marathon, not a sprint.

So we're hoping that we get to kind of cover all of those- - Long marathon.

- Long, long.

- So long.

(laughs) - But like a very enjoyable marathon at times.

It's lovely.

- Well, how can parents get to the newsletter?

- They can sign up at wyy.org/connect.

Scroll right on down at the bottom.

It's WYY Familyhood, and it comes to your inbox monthly.

- And I love to, it's fun because at the bottom of last month's newsletter, I think there were these burning questions that it was like, "What's the going rate for tooth?"

I mean- - Yeah.

- This is something I want to know or I did wanna know when my kids were at that age.

And this month's question was, "What's something your kid says incorrectly or mispronounces that's so cute for you to correct?"

- It was adorable.

The answers that we got were so, so fun.

The one that I submitted is one from my niece who, so my niece, instead of saying Philadelphia, always said Defalfa, which I think is very charming.

My daughter who's four calls pins and needles noodles, but she'll say it's so frustrated where she's just like, "Ah, got noodles in my hands."

The vocab is, it's incredible.

- I love it.

And you probably are still gonna say that well passed after she figures out how to say it.

- It won't make sense to anyone else.

- Right.

(laughs) Okay, well, they say it takes a village to parent, and this newsletter is just one part of that village.

Caitlin, thank you so much for being here.

- Thank you, Shirley.

- Okay, well we're gonna stay with the family theme, and our next story takes us to Diggerland.

The construction themed amusement and waterpark in New Jersey is a summertime destination that is loads of fun for the whole family.

(upbeat music) - Can you dig it?

That's the vibe.

Everybody's digging, everybody's having a great time.

We are America's only construction theme park.

We've actually spent time developing patents, and we actually own some of the technology.

I mean, you are driving real construction machines that have been modified.

And so those that have seen them on TV, seen them at construction site, seen them being hauled on the road, this is where they can come and experience the real deal and have fun doing it in a safe and really unique environment.

(machine whirring) My father started his own construction company.

So we grew up in the industry, and then I became more of like the diesel mechanic, my brother became the civil engineer, and we had this vision of trying to figure out how to get families to enjoy construction machinery in a safe environment.

And so we decided to branch off and try our experience in the amusement world.

(lively music) Ultimately, our mission is to just get families to have the experience of driving real construction machines in a unique setting.

A lot of our learning elements are, really, hand and eye coordination, right?

So when you're driving a construction piece of machinery, some of them are propelled by joysticks.

And so we try to get them to understand what a joystick does and how to coordinate those movements with both your left and right hand and how to actually make the machine move, whether you're in a digging excavator, whether in you're one of our mini dig challenges where you're trying to pick up a shape, or whether you're actually operating of our service cranes or log loaders or driving one of our farm tractors.

Everything that we do here is, really, to help the child or the parent to understand operating real construction machines.

One of the cool highlights is that each ride creates a different experience.

Our service cranes, these are real cranes you see operating on service truck.

So we've built an experience where you're actually operating and picking up an object.

And then we move over to a new experience where we have log loaders.

People can use a giant claw and pick them up.

We have our Spindizzy, which is a nine person gondola sitting in front of a 25-ton excavator.

And as they spin you, that's the name Spindizzy, everybody comes off a little weeby and a little wobbly because of that ride experience.

And then we have something called like our Sky Shuttle.

So that's a telehandler that takes you 54 feet in the air.

You get a beautiful view of the Philadelphia skyline.

And then, of course, we've added the water park on hot days 'cause everybody looks to cool off.

So we've themed some of our water attractions to represent some of our fun construction experiences, whether it's a giant excavator bucket tipping water, or we have our crossing activity pool with giant overhead cranes (indistinct) of water on you.

But, of course, the highlight is our wave pool, which we added last year.

It's just, you know, fan favor, crowd pleaser.

Everybody loves to wave.

And so what's nice is on hot summer days, you know, they get to cool off up there, then they get to run around here in the dry side of the amusement park and get the best parks, you know, and best world.

- [Visitor] We have come from Buffalo, New York.

It's about a seven-hour drive, but this look like a fun place to bring the grandkids.

(upbeat music) - [Ilya] If you're not a kid at heart, you can't be in any movement business.

(bright music) - In this week's Flicks, Patrick Stoner talks with the stars of "Firebrand" about what it was like to portray King Henry VIII and his sixth wife.

- [King Henry] Catherine, I pray no one saw you there that day.

- [Catherine] I believe that I was chosen by God to get the king to change his will.

You have to go.

If they find you here... - We would have to have their head cut off.

- I'm sure you would come up with something much more creative.

- Sometimes we think you know us better than we know ourself.

- [Patrick] Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and one of his wives, Catherine Parr.

That's a story not quite as well known, but much of the six wives of Henry VIII is well known, and therefore I asked them what they didn't want to do.

- I'll go first because I think with Catherine, there were so many more options because she had never had her story told.

- No, not really.

I was like, you said these things, but maybe I hadn't seen it, but I felt like I knew the least about her story from what I had seen in television and film.

- 'Cause she had never had her chapter.

- Yeah.

- [Jude] I just didn't want him to be seen as this, it sounds crude, but like the jolly tyrant.

I wanted... You know, there was something always a little, you know, that somehow his laughter and his big personality could sometimes, it somehow excuse his psychopathic tendencies.

- That's very often the case with dominant characters who are nonetheless very bad- - Or buffoonish, yeah.

I wanted to really make sure that the threat was real.

- And I guess what you said about the threat being real, I think that's what I also wanted to do.

I wanted to follow certain information that we know, but first and foremost, I wanna be truth to the woman that, you know, started to form within me on set whilst I had all this kind of preparation and information and historical information with me from the beginning.

- [Patrick] Jude, this character has come down to us over the years and has remained fascinating.

Was there something else about his reign that, like Elizabeth say, for example, he would've come down to us even so?

The potential that he had and the fact that it crashed into such a physical embodiment of aging and failure that I think is fascinating to all of us.

I think sadly, there are also traits that remind us of figures in modern history, and there are all sorts of parallels that I think equate to the history and the accurate knowledge we have of Henry, and then, of course, how a story like that enters into our- - Collective imagination.

- Exactly.

- Thank you both very much.

I appreciate it.

- Thank you.

- Well, that is our show, and I hope you are now in the know.

Goodnight, everyone.

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