Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFH, locally grown radio. 804 in the clock at your host, James J. I
am joined by our head of production, Mr. Seth Habagger. Good morning, all. We're here
to have some fun with all of you. We appreciate your de-best listeners and radio joining us.
We also appreciate Brittany joining us, talking a little mother nature with us. Good morning,
Brett. Good morning. How are you? We're doing better now than we get to talk to you
today. Yeah. I know. Yesterday's first five minutes of show was some of the weirdest
by 22 years in radio. That was really weird. It was crazy. I appreciate you rolling with
us on that, Brittany. But thank you for joining us this morning. It's looking pretty nice
out there right now, Brittany. But I'm curious about something before we dive into today's
temperature. I've seen that we are on pace for the warmest winter we've ever had here
in Wisconsin, like ever. Wow. Are you seeing some of the same data? Are you feeling
that? Yeah. Yeah. Really. I guess I didn't really need the numbers to tell me. I
just looked outside. Yes, absolutely. We are already. This is the warmest start to the
month of February that we have ever, ever had. Wow. And you know, we just came off the
warmest January on record and then also December as well. So yeah, exactly. That's exactly
what's happening. And as we look at the next week or two, still above average, however
as we wind down February, we look to get to some average temperatures like our average
highs are climbing at the end of February. So major cold snaps don't look like they're
headed our way. We'll put it that way. Okay. Interesting. Interesting. We will keep the
shorts out. We will just go ahead and just remember suntan lotion, everybody. Please
yeah. Right. While there is very little sod, you want to be careful. You know, here's
a funny part. It was not funny, actually. It's the ironic part for today. The more
sunshine you see today, the more chances you have of a severe storm hitting new layer of
heat. And the dodge and bullets left in around the nature. Well, we'll roll with it.
Okay. So we can fight it. What can we do? No, I put my foot down. No, mother nature.
We want winter now. We would good luck tried to tell by the nature. We like to clap
the thunder. Yeah, there you go. And pretty appreciate the forecast and the updates from
you. Yeah, absolutely no problem. Have a good day. You too. We'll talk tomorrow. Now
the best in the business. We love work. We're British. She's the best. She rolls with
things so well. We appreciate that. Appreciate our team here too. Before we diving into
what we got going today, good stuff lined up for you. But I did want to mention yesterday
if you happen to be listening to yesterday's first five minutes of show, I work with
the best team ever. We were having trouble. Our board was frozen. I've never seen anything
like what we were dealing with yesterday morning. It was like half the computer was working
in half of it. Well, it was very strange. It was weird. It was weird. And unsure of what
to do in part because I've been in similar situations in the past and things that I have
tried have only made things worse. So I'm sitting there with a frozen board and not really
sure where to go from there or anything. We were able to work through it on air and
talking it out with the audience. Seth had the idea of, you know, starting up and out
again, which may not seem like a great, you know, big, brain idea, whatever it really
was in the moment. We switched chairs. While we're switching chairs, Melissa is carrying
on the conversation and doing a great job at it by the way. We recently entered submissions
for the WBA, the Wisconsin Broadcast Association. And a good luck to all participants in that.
I believe that we already have our submission for next year. I think we have it. It's right
there for you. Just locked that up, tightened it up, maybe ended it a little bit. They'll
throw it in some minute. Did they have a grace under fire award? Because I think they
need one. It's like the wackiest thing that's happened while you've been on air and try
to keep keep it moving. So yeah, they are going to create a category just for that segment,
just for that. They should really should. Yeah. It was awesome. It's the it's the definition
of live radio. What we love about it. 100% man. It appreciate everybody out there.
We got good feedback from you guys. You left the log with us and had some fun with it.
Because that's why we call you the best listeners. That's right. That's right. Like that.
Appreciate it. Good stuff lined up for you in a little bit. We'll get into the Elcafe birthday
anniversary club. Look forward to diving into that and celebrating all of you. Yes, indeed.
We have got a little bit later. Obvious things. People didn't know like the origin of
Howdy. Oh, obvious things. People didn't know. So that's going to be an interesting like
that. Howdy. I use that occasionally. Yeah. I've watched a lot. Yeah. We got a Valentine's
Day miracle about Apple bees and that date night thing that we were talking about the
other day. That's coming up. All right. We'll also get into some entertainment news.
A new special on tonight about Toby Keith. I want to mention Tracy Chapman's fast car.
Disney has got a new announcement about a sequel they are doing. Oh, and we've got
Madden predictions for the big game. Along with who was your favorite Super Bowl half-time
performer in the last eight years in the last eight years. Okay. We're limiting it there.
Okay. We're getting that one too. And after all that Seth are going to get and I are
going to get into weird Super Bowl 58 prop bets. Those are always fun. Yeah. We've got
some crazy ones in there. We want to touch on all that coming up for you. Logosome.
That ain't right story. It's some good stories of the day. I'm getting some local stuff
as well. Got a bunch of great events going on over the next couple of weekends. We want
to highlight and talk about what we start right here. Seth, where we should of course
start here in Wisconsin with Nebraska. What? Wait. Yeah. Well, anyway, Nebraska will be
scrapping its awesome tourism slogan. Nebraska, honestly, it's not for everyone. What?
What? Wait a minute. Nebraska, don't stay too long. Nebraska. Just E.A. T.A. T.A. T.A. T.A.
This this week, Nebraska's tourism commission announced that it was ditching the tagline
because it's quote, it's a thing of the past and times change. Everything has a shelf life.
That makes it seem like it's been around for generations, but it's only been for around
for about five years. And it was successful. A survey of tourists in the target market for
Nebraska showed interest rising up 19% in 2019 to 39% motor recently. Wow. And Nebraska moved
up to become the 41st state people were interested in visiting up from 50. So Nebraska was the 50th.
It was dead last and it moved up to 41st. Wow. You know, I always thought Maryland was the last
at all these lists. But then I realized that Maryland has like Annapolis, you know, and a couple
other of things of interest to visit. Nebraska doesn't. I mean, Omaha. Yeah. I mean, that's right
on the border. And I mean, unless you're a corn husker. Yeah, exactly. Of course, it was meant to be
fun and self-deprecating something they could use jokingly in their marketing as a way to appeal
to people, appeal to people. But the slogan wasn't for everyone. The governor, Republican Jim
Pillion was in a fan. He recently called it nonsense and urged the commission to find a new slogan.
Jim Pillion to be fair was born with no fun in his life. No, no fun at all. No fun. He does not
believe in fun. No, he is all serious. It's unclear what the next slogan will be. But in the past,
it was Nebraska where the West begins. I thought I was that that one was cool. That's a great one.
I think there's a couple of interesting things with this. One, the actual purpose of the article
of everything is just kind of funny. I think that what do you got to lose? Like you're in 50th place.
You try this slogan and then boom, it works. I think this is another interesting part of this
article that to find out that the slogans matter to people. They didn't move. It's not just a
coincidence. They change a slogan and they move up like nine spots. That's nothing to be light
to take lightly and ask how our friends up north here in Wisconsin feel about tourism right now
with no snow. Exactly. Tourism is the lifeblood of most states anymore. We're pretty fortunate
here in Wisconsin that we actually have pretty decent tourists. We do. We do pretty well when it comes
to that subject. Then there are states like Nebraska in places that not a lot of people want to go to.
So you change up the slogan. You do what's the harm in trying? Right. And to Governor Epilion,
I mean, grow up. And this is coming from the most arguably most serious person in the world.
What do you do? Your people obviously wanted this. They liked this. Your job is to represent them.
Yeah. I feel like politicians need to be reminded this every once in a while.
Sadly, yes. Your opinion doesn't matter. Your opinion is the opinion of your constituents.
It should be. Yes. It ain't about you. The moment any politician makes it about themselves,
I feel like they're doing the job wrong. It ain't about you. Yeah. But we appreciate you doing
this job. Yeah. Thank you. But you were voted in. You got a pretty cushioned gig. Enjoy the gig
and you what your people are asking you to do. Exactly. I don't see the harm in this. No. I am
curious. I don't think that anybody I feel pretty confident about this. Seth and you and I are
transplants. We'll admit that. That's true. Yep. But I feel pretty confident saying there is no
Wisconsinite out there that is going to look for changing on Wisconsin. No. I don't think anybody
looks to change that. And I don't think they need to. I think it's a great slogan. I like the slogan.
Four onward, four words. You know, word you love that. But I am curious if you were to change it.
What would you change the Wisconsin slogan to? What do you think would be a great slogan?
If you couldn't use the one that we already have. Because again, I think that most of us all
agree. We got a good slogan like Wisconsin already. But what would you change it to? Seven one five four
two four twenty six hundred. Keeping in mind, this is a PG show. Please, please. Family show here.
We would love to hear that though. Call up anytime during the show today. Seven one five four two four
twenty six hundred. You can just a touch or two away and the civic media app and thank you to
everybody who was downloaded the app. You know what I think they should do in Nebraska. I mean,
I think they should like lean into it even further. Yeah. So what they should do is have an
ad campaign with famous Nebraska. I know there's a few out there. Yeah. So what they would do is they
come on and they describe, you know, some of the cool things in Nebraska. And then they end it. And
that's why I left. Yes. You can have it both ways. You can both highlight the good things about
Nebraska and then make a joke out of it. It's like, yeah, and that's why I live in, you know. That's
perfect. That's perfect. Which states it? We're going to get into that state. People want the
states people want to visit and visit it the most. We got that coming up for maybe a little bit
later. That's cool. Yeah. We got to get into our birthday anniversary club. That is coming up
right here on WFHR locally grown radio. It's time to do some celebration with the
El Café birthday anniversary club. Yeah. We love celebrating with our good friends over at
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morning to our friends over at El Café. They have such a great staff over there. Really
really good people. Let's go ahead and dive right into our birthday and anniversary list.
Before we do, though, want to remind you, we want this list bigger everybody. Yeah, come on.
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And you can call up during the show 424-2600 or if you're using the civic media app, you're just
a touch or two away. 715-424-2600. In case you forgot, you know, this is the time. Yeah.
So Seth, I need from you a 1 or a 2. 1. Your number 1. That gives us our qualifier.
And we get ready to celebrate. And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to our own
Michael Comer. Oh, Mike Comer. Happy birthday, Mike. Mike does a great job for us. He does.
Uh, Mike is one of the voices for calling games for us. Yes, he is. He does a fantastic job with
that. Mike's a fun guy to work with too. Have you gotten to know him that well? Over the last
couple of months, we've run into each other more and it's been great getting to know him.
Does a lot around this city too. He really does. I gotta tell you, when he started at doing football
this year, I mean, he was, he had not done this before and he has grown so quickly into this,
the announcer role. He's done such a great job. I give a big shout out to him for learning
on the, on the job. Yeah. Yeah, which it is not easy. No, it's this gig. It's one of those ones
where you've got about, you throw a rock and you can find somebody that, oh, I can do that.
Oh, I want to do that. And I cannot tell you how many people we have had come up to me over
the years and want to do the gig. And I'm like, all right, this is what it takes. Yes.
And then you get two or three steps in and they're, they're tuned out. They don't, they don't
end up paying attention or anything. You could tell what people, if they really want to do a job
like this. Yeah. It shows. Michael, it shows with it. It's just putting the prep in. Yeah.
Yeah. I get all that prep. Appreciate you, Michael. Great work. You have a great birthday. Yes.
We wish a very happy birthday as well to another person who puts a lot into our community. Joe
Zarflo. Happy birthday, Joe. Joe and Joe, your day. We hope it's a great one for you. Mm-hmm.
And we wish a happy birthday to a great man, a wonderful guy, a wonderful boss as well. And I'm
just reading exactly what he told me to. No, former former colleague around here. Mr. Bob, look.
Happy birthday, Bob. Bob, you could take Seth. You're a qualifier, Bob. Oh my god. Bob couldn't qualify
for many, many years. I think so. I think you did. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I've said this
before. I got two, excuse me, two main people to think when it comes to my radio life. Jim Ross,
Panama Jack, who first hired me and gave me a break in this industry. And for some reason,
kept me, just hired me, but kept me around and actually hired me twice. That's true. Yeah.
I forgot about that. He actually hired me twice. And when I left radio and I was gone for a good
handful of years, I don't, it's one of these industries that is so hard to get back into once you
have been out. I came back to town here to help take care of my pop and these things and need work.
Bob, I talked to Bob and hit it off with him right away, brought me into cover sports.
That's all I was going to do is just run the board. And I was very excited about that. I actually
wasn't really interested in talking on the air anymore. I had kind of gotten my fill in that.
And I was pretty much done with being, you know, talking on the radio, especially with being
different formats. I come from music. I come from being on the air and having to talk for 15,
27, yeah. Doing talk radio didn't seem very interesting, not only to me, but I didn't think
I'd be very good at it. And the jury's still out on the ladder, but I wouldn't even be here.
10 years later. Yeah. And if you, and while you may not, regardless if you like me or not,
for a while there, I'm the only guy here. It's true. And whether you like it or not,
I, because of me being here, we are able to keep on the air. Exactly. And I was here because of Bob.
And I appreciate that out of Bob. If nothing else, man. Yeah. And that to mention,
appreciate his friendship and everything I learned from him over the years. Appreciate you, Bob.
As far as I know, I believe still doing a badger games. I believe you are doing that.
Hope you're enjoying your day, Bob. And we'll talk soon, sir. I hope you have a good day.
You're a qualifier. We move on and take a look at our celebrity birthdays. Bethany Hamilton is 34.
Not just a PSA voice. We hear Bethany Hamilton all the time at her PSA. So we used to.
We used to. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's around anymore. But she was in those. Of course,
incredible surfer. She survived a shark attack and made by, you know, I don't know about right now,
but I guarantee in the last month or two, she's been out there. She's still going out there.
She's, she's, she loves the water. The surfer culture is still alive and well. I don't think it's
as popular as it used to be. But when I was in California, I never thought about surfing.
They got me hearing them talk about it being out there watching them. Wow.
They got me really, really thinking about it. I never got a chance to actually go and attempt it
or anything. I did some wakeboarding and some stuff like that. But surfing looks awesome to me.
You know, you know, there was that time in the 60s when it kind of exploded, you know,
the whole surfer culture. But the diehards have always been there. Yeah. And they're all,
they'll always be there. Julio Jones is 35. Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver. Great receiver.
Probably French Hall of Famer. Okay. I think French Hall of Famer. I couldn't be shocked if he
got it. Anderson Pock is 38. RMB singer. Anderson Pock speaking of sports. He reminds me of
Alan Iverson's playing style. The start stop kind of ability. There's stop. There's the guy
that could stop at a dime. And then there's the guy that could stop at a dime and give you four pennies
and keep one for himself. Give it change. Yeah. All right. Yeah. There's, and that's Anderson Pock
singing style. Like he's just an incredible singer. Like really start stop. Just a really cool.
Interesting flow. Like not one that I've heard before. Yes, on style. That's cool.
The great, the wonderful Sicily strong is 40. SNL alum. She is worked very hard to get to where
she has. I know that because I've seen a lot of it. Sicily was one of the first people I ran
into when I first started that second city. And just one of those people like Quintina Brunson and
some others that I ran into and worked with loosely here and there that you just you meet them.
And I'm not going to say, Oh, I knew this person will be a star. So I'm like, I have no idea.
I have no idea what makes us already. But you work with these people. You're like, man,
there's something they're cut different. There's something about in this stands out. And if I see it,
I'm pretty darn certain Lauren Michael season. You would hope so. You know, with, you know,
it's a track record. If I saw something Lord Michael sought years ago, right? So,
congratulations with her and her sister. She's still going strong. Yeah. Yeah. She's been in this
business a long time. Wow. Yeah. Let's see here. Seth Green is 50. Seth Green. Oh, another
Seth. Hey, yeah, Seth got to stick together. I'm a very big fan of Seth Green. I love his work.
I can't believe he's 50. That's crazy. No. Oh my gosh. Yeah. He's like, he still looks so young,
though. I mean, yeah, he's, he looked young for years and years and he still looks really good
for his age. I look forward to it because it means he's getting older. He's older and he's still
around. Yeah. I am curious to see what old man Seth Green looks like. That's going to be interesting.
That's going to be interesting to sound like Howard the Duck. Yeah. Who he does the voice up.
He gets a voice up. Yeah. Nicely done. Also, of course, Scott evil in the Austin Powers movies,
Oz and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's the voice of Chris unfamily guy co-creative robot chicken.
Party monster is I think if you are fan of Seth Green and you you want to know,
hey, can he act? Watch Party Monster. The kid can act. The guy can act. He can act. I remember,
man, early ex files episode. He was a guest star in and he played like a teenager because
even I think he's probably in his 20s, but yeah, but he looks so young. He could play a teenager.
And he did he does like a kind of a stoner guy and he does it so well. I mean, he's got the
down. Yeah. If you're looking for a good bad movie, Idol Hands. Idol Hands is Seth Green and
that he's creating it. He's so good at it. The big show is 52, WWE superstar and Captain
Insano and Water Boy. Wait, wait, how old is he? 52. 52. Wow. The big show is only a couple
of years older than Seth Green. That seems weird. That's that sometimes this is. Yeah, it's
a strange man. It's a strange, but the big show is not surprisingly to all of you out there,
even bigger in real life. Like oh gosh. I went and saw I've gone to a couple of
Monday Night Raw match shows and both of all the time, both the show are three of the three that
I've been to nose bleeding seats. You know, right. And you can still like from there just see
these mammoth of human beings. These guys are huge. I've been on football fields. I've been around a
lot of basketball players and hockey players in my life. I've never seen athletes like wrestlers,
like like WWE wrestlers. I've never seen athletes like that. And I thought Triple H was gigantic
and I couldn't believe it because he never seemed that big to me on screen. Right. But in person,
he seemed so much bigger. And then there was the big show where I felt like even from the nose
bleed seats, I could see like the dimples on his face like sweat. Yeah, he's so big. And great job
on the mic. You know, Andre the Giant was one of our, we loved Andre. And if he even liked
wrestling a little bit, chances are he loved Andre the Giant. But he'd be the first to tell you,
wasn't really that comfortable or that great on the microphone. The big guy seldom is. Big
show I think has always done a really good job with that. It's always been very good on the
microphone. That was always been, that was always the more interesting aspect to me when I was,
you know, a kid was the talking, right? Yes. The posturing was always so much fun to watch.
I don't think you're alone, one of my best friends. That's what he would, he would completely tune
out on the matches. But he loved it. Yeah. Anytime, as soon as he saw me in Gene, as soon as you saw
me in Gene, you knew what kind of interview was covered up or something like that. Stephanie Courtney
is 54. You may not know who that is, but I guarantee, you know, who flow from progressive is.
Oh my gosh. That's a flow's real name is Stephanie Courtney. That's great. You know, I love to see,
and maybe it's not where she, you know, thought she'd end up, but it's really cool to see that she
stuck with that role for so long. The young lady who does the AT&T ads learned a lot from flow,
and a lot of people have. What she did as an act is a, is a hard, you know, an actor looking for
work. She gets a role and they can keep her going and they keep her going, but she starts to
notice, oh, I can't get other roles. Everybody knows me as flow. Right. And nobody wants to cast
me as Stephanie. Nobody wants to cast this actor. So what I'm going to do, okay, you want to keep
me progressive. You're going to pay for that. Yep. You're not going to pay for it. A good paycheck,
but I'm going to have some control over the commercials and the content. And so with a lot of people
might not know, she directs a lot of those commercials. She comes up with a lot of the ideas.
And the young lady, I wish I remember her name. Beautiful, smart, funny, talented actor.
She's been doing the AT&T ads for years. She does the same thing now. She's got tons of power.
She has actually some really like, I don't not like CEO level AT&T, but she's got some cloud over
there. And she designs the, like, she's a beautiful woman, but she doesn't like her body to sell
the commercials. She wants her, her comedy, her talent. Yeah. So she hides her body oftentimes in
ads. I just, I didn't, I just realized that, you know, especially the more recent ones, you know,
when she first started out, yeah, they would highlight, you know, what she looked like and all that
kind of stuff, which yeah, I get. But yeah, more recently, it's more about her acting skill, you
know, and that's kind of, that's really fascinating to me. She had a couple of chance. She had a
couple of breaks on shows that didn't make it, you know, kind of like James, who knows very well.
She was, she played Squirrel Girl on a, there was going to be a TV show, a Marvel TV show of,
you know, I can't, the New Warriors, I think it was, and it was shelved. And that probably would
have been her big break, you know, to do that. But, and it's like she was smart, though, like you
said, you know, now she's got more input on that. Stephanie, you know, you get to see her play
all these different characters now on her ads. And I think that's very cool, because at least that
allows her more creativeness, you know, that to come out. That stuff stemmed from her and her
creativity. That's so cool. And this is, this is what you get when you give actors a seat at the
table. Why it's important. When you see an executive producer, credit to an actor or something like
that, that's why, because you, you see these kind of things and things that they can do when you
give them a chance. And you don't just have a bunch of kind of yes people just in the room,
yeah, something like that. Mary McCormick is 55 Stephen Amel's partner in stars heels. She is
the star of networks in plain USA networks in plain sight as well. Okay. Vince Neil from Motley
Crew is 63. Oh gosh. Wow. 63. Yeah, from what I hear still performing, I don't know if he's
doing a great or not, but I hear that there's still touring. Yeah. John Grisham is 69. Oh wow.
The firm, the client, the rainmaker, the chamber, the pelican brief, the the, the, the, the,
John Grisham actually named the band, though, though, he actually named, no, no, he did that.
He loves his love. He loves his does, but it's a very obscure. It's very. Mary
Steen Virgin is 71. Oh wow. Mary to Ted Danson. I think a lot of people know that, but a great actor,
great, great actor for many, many, many years. You know, she, she is a, she's a very attractive woman,
but for whatever reason, she got a lot of mom rolls. Yeah. When she, she's had throughout her career,
a lot of mom rolls. I don't know why. I don't know why. Maybe he's just, he has a certain amount of
warmth or something that comes across or whatever it is, but she's, she's had a great career, though.
She's done a lot of really cool things. Creed Bretton is 81. He played Creed on the office.
They just named him after him himself. Oh, did they? Yeah. Okay. I have never heard
the reasons why, but yeah, a lot of the characters on that show were actually went by their
real first name. Okay. He was also, he played guitar in the grass roots back in the 60s. What?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a pretty good guitar player. I think there was an episode where he did.
I think it was an episode where he played guitar. Of all the, the office characters, like background
characters, he's like top two, top three. He's gotta be. He had some of the funniest lines and
the weirdest stuff going on with him. You could have done a spin off of Creed that I don't think
would have lasted more than a season or two, but I'd have watched him. I'd have watched it.
Nick Nolte is 83. Oh, God. I heard one somebody describe Nick Nolte's voice as if an
ashtray could talk. And I don't think it was an insult. I don't, I don't necessarily think it was
something about, yeah, something about his voice, something about his gravel, his approach.
Obviously, one of the most famous smug shots ever. And that's kind of what a lot of younger
generations know of Nick Nolte. Yeah. People might not like me saying this or not. Nick Nolte
very good actor. Very good actor. Very good actor. No, no taking that away from him. Look at
his body of work, especially from the 90s. Yeah. Look at the movies that man was in. He was
nominated for awards. I mean, yeah, I mean, whatever happened since then, whatever. He's not
a good actor. No, like Gary Busy. Same thing. Good actor that just, yeah. Yeah. Him and
Oh, no, Gary Busy was, no, was Nick Nolte. Him and Julia Roberts had the falling out in the film
that famously you go back and watch like they would not be on the, they, they played love
interests, but they wouldn't be it by the time they ended, they ended in the movie. They wouldn't
be on set together. Yeah. It was for and it really torched his career. It really did a lot of ways.
Yeah. And dooms up. You know, that's not just that's that's partially that's partially on him.
He's got to take course. Oh, yes. Yeah. Though we just got to celebrate one of our great journalists
the other day, Ted Coppel is 84 today. Another one. Good old Ted Coppel. We, you know, growing up,
those three great journalists we had and those three major networks. And you know, that nightline
was Ted Coppel. Yes. He's the one that created it. And then they never, and when he retired,
they never kept it going. You know, it was such an outlier for news because late night,
because ABC never had a late night show. Yeah. They had Ted Coppel. They had nightline. And they
covered some really interesting topics on that show that the other news shows would not cover.
Absolutely. They did some real hard hitting stuff. I remember watching it a lot. Oh, yes.
It's not often we can say this. Oftentimes when we say the goat or the greatest of all time,
there's some debate to it. There is no debate about the greatest composer of all time. John Williams
is 92 today. For movies, man, you are 100% right. The greatest. You can have favorites. You can
have people you like more than John Williams, but you cannot deny that the mega composer behind
Star Wars Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws,
Superman, Jurassic Park, Shindlestless, Memoirs of a Gaysha. He's been nominated 54, 54
Academy Awards and holds the record for the most Oscar nominations by a living person. Of
those, he's only one five times. Poor guys, only one five Oscars. He's also won 26 Grammy Awards,
three Emmys and four Golden Globes. Wow. And a dad of the year mug.
What can you say? I mean, just look at his body of work, man. He's one of the most remarkable
movie people of all time. And apparently not a diva. Like a great guy to work with. People love
work. And one of the reasons to work. Yeah. I think that's one of the reasons why people kept
using him because he was just a really good guy to work with. Really seems to have a love of
movies as well. And that I think that's a huge part of why he's good at this job. And it may not
seem like a necessity on your resume. But I think as a composer, that would be something that would
be, they would matter to me. He'd you love music. Do like movies. Exactly. Some people no longer
with this. The great Gary Goldman born in this day in 1968, passed away in 2012. What's
you talking about, Willis? Gary Coleman made a good career out of everything. Yeah.
Three amazing actors right here. But one of my biggest influences, one of my favorites of all time,
Mr. Jack lemon born in this day in 1925, passed away in 2001. Some like it hot.
I saw that as a kid. And I mimicked and I wanted the B Jack lemon. I thought he was just so
funny. I thought he was saying, and I wasn't a funny person. And I thought Jack lemon was
funny. And I one of those actors that could do drama and comedy equally well, you could do both.
And that is really rare about how well he could do both. I think some actors, not to anybody's fault,
but some of them just kind of get lost in a shuffle. And we don't get a chance to truly appreciate
them till we take a step back and we look at their lives when they're past. Yeah. Jack lemon is one
of the pure examples of that. Interestingly enough, I think Walter Matthew was another one who
partnered with quite a bit several times because of how good. Think about starting out some
like it hot and then grumpy old men towards when he was older. It's still he could do it all. He could
do it all. And in one thing that Jack lemon and Walter Matthew showed with that with their
arc of their careers, what to a Robert De Niro, to Al Pacino, to Christopher Walken, to a lot of
these other actors that we see nowadays doing very similar things that they did in their careers,
going from drama to comedy. Right. A lot of that. Well, now it's nothing to see a dramatic
actor shift into that. Yes. I think a lot of that stems from the success that they had
doing it with grumpy old men. And it was all talent. Neither of them were like pretty boys.
You know, that was they got through on their talent. Twelve angry men. I almost forgot
to mention twelve angry men. Got to get that one in there. I'm going to watch some Jack lemon scenes
today. That's good stuff. And I'm going to be watching some James Dean scenes. James Dean,
born on this day in 1931, passed away in 1955. I think when we lose people young and especially
a guy like that, so charismatic, handsome and everything, it gets, again, lost in the shuffle.
He was only getting better. You watch all three of his movies, which I've done this twice in my
life where I watched all three of his movies back to back to back. In order of the grad school. Yeah.
Just I wanted to see how he was growing as an actor. Was he growing as an actor? Did he care
about acting? Yeah, he did. Yeah. There's a reason that a rebel without a cause is so successful.
It's not the greatest script. It's not the greatest movie. No. It's got a couple of strong
performances in it, but it is all about James Dean and his facial expressions and the depth that he
takes that character. It's one of those things. What if questions that I have that I've had since I
was a child? What if he was still around? What if he could have done more? Yeah. We'll check out his
early live television roles. Live. Yeah. Yeah. And that's some good stuff too. And we wrap up,
remembering the great Jules Verne born in the state in 1828. Pestway in 1905 around the world
in 80 days, 20,000 leagues under the sea, journey to the center of the earth. Just like a couple
things on Jules Verne resume. You know of the early of the big three early science fiction writers
between him Edgar Allen Poe and HG Wells. I think he was the most consistent. Yeah. Of all
the stories. He was probably the best writer of the three. Poe is my favorite in one of my top
favorite writers, but I heartedly agree with you. Yeah. Yeah. Wholeheartedly, especially with
the consistency. Very consistent. Yeah. That's a good note by you. One more time. We shouldn't
happy birthday to a good friend, Michael Comer. Happy birthday, Mike. Our friend, Joe Zerflip.
Happy birthday, Joe. And our former colleague and great friend, Mr. Bob Luku, who is our
qualifier today. Wish Bob a good birthday today. Happy birthday, Bob. And have you joined our
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Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio,
Seth and James behind the mic with you. Hope you're having a good morning.
You know, up to make it.
Pretty famous song right there, Georgia. Mhm. But did you know Bob Skag sang it? Did you know that?
Probably probably you probably underrated. I like Bob Skags. Yeah, he's so underrated man.
We're going to get into some other things that may seem obvious that you didn't know, but maybe
you think you did when just a moment, first let's take a call. Good morning, what's on your mind.
All right, you know, we would do two on. We got to get a little bit of playmakers in there. Sure thing.
Sure thing. Quick quick quick quick episode of playmakers and real quick here. Yeah, you know,
you're talking about McNulty having his birthday today and and I have to agree with you James,
he has a really good actor, especially one of the, you know, many movies he he was in, you know,
48 hours. Oh yeah, but one movie that I think he did a great job acting in because he had a deal
with a bunch of athletes for that. He had no idea how to act was in blue chips. Yeah, yeah. Wow.
Blue chips is a, it's actually like again, I don't know how great of a movie it is, but it's kind
of a classic and into a certain generations, you know, to our generations and everything because
it was one of those first movies that kind of gives you a little bit of honest look at college
sports, yeah. And any documentary style or anything. There's obviously some, you know,
they blow some things out of proportion and all that, but his performance is so the like coach,
the high school basketball coach or the college basketball coach of the time. Yes.
Obviously took a lot from the Hoosier's guy Bobby Nights. Yeah, yeah, I'm mimicking a
lot of Bobby night and everything, but yeah, it's a great performance and the movie holds up,
but you're so right about this. Like Shaquille O'Neill has turned into like,
become very comfortable on screen. I didn't know if he's great at what he's great at selling
that far. I don't know if he's great at acting or anything like that. But boy,
was he really green behind the years? Yeah, I forgot they used actual players for that movie.
Wow. Yeah, I don't know if it holds up, but it was a fun movie. I liked it. I thought it was
a good movie. Good reference. If I go through my TV guy or, you know, the list or whatever,
if I see that on, you know, I'll probably watch it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm talking about it.
I'll talk about it. I'm probably trying to see if I can find it. It's one of those things.
It gets in your head. You know, I haven't seen that in a while. I got to go see that. I love
it. A good movie is like a good song that way where even if you don't sit around for the whole
movie, you want to catch certain scenes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, how many times have you
listened to a song? And all of a sudden, you're like, I got to go to Pandora and look and find
her. Oh, yeah. Your station. Yeah. Yeah. You know, a bunch of time. Yeah. So right. Hey, good to
talk to you, man. Have a great morning. All right. You guys have a great day. You too. You too.
Best lists. There's no radio. Appreciate hearing from you. Man, good sports movies are hard to find,
too. Let's let's be fair. Sports movies. Just there's so few really good ones heard a group of
people trying to put together a list of the top five best football movies of all time. And they
were struggling. Like they were having a hard time with it. Never just the last Boy Scout count.
Yeah. I can't really think of many. Wow. That's what they were doing. But one of the people
had silver linings playbook as their number one football movie. I'm like, that is a football
football. You can't do that. It's a playbook on it. That's all. And they were all wrong.
In my opinion, just my take, just my opinion on this, I think if you're I would say off the top
my head, the best football movie I've ever seen, other than maybe any given Sunday, but that one
kind of blows things out of proportion, too. The longest yard. The longest yard is my favorite
football movie. There you go. It is completeness nostalgia for me. It is sitting there with my dad
watching the longest yard on WG ad and waiting for the final scene. It's my dad. It's just it may
be his favorite final scene in any movie ever. Really? Every time that that that he's going to go
get the spoiler alert anybody. It's the longest yard. It's the longest yard to the title.
At the end, Bert Reynolds is going is walking away and he's obviously he's an inmate and they're
they're ticked off that the inmates beat the you know the yeah and so it looks like the they
think he's going to run away. They think he's going to try to take off and so they're going to
shoot him and they don't because he's just going to get the game ball. That's awesome. It's awesome.
It's a great scene. Wow. Look at how animated you are. Wow. Wow. That scene. Love that scene.
It's a great movie. What was your what did your favorite football movie 42426? Okay. I got
I got to I got to throw this out there. It's kind of cheesy. It's kind of cheesy.
Necessary roughness. Oh, okay. That it's got such a great cast. It's a silly movie but I like it.
I like it. It's got it's got Scott Bakul in it. It's got Sinbad in it. It's got Kathy Ireland as
the kicker. I mean, it's it's great. A good friend of mine that played college ball and got
farther than most people I ever know in that game. Sure. Said when I brought this up with him,
immediately the replacements. Oh, the replacements. Wow. Okay. Really? There are replacements.
It's like, yeah, that movie. There's parts of that movie where they give you insight that you
may not realize you're getting the quicksand speech that Gene Hackman gives where you're you're
we just saw with the Detroit Lions. Everything is rolling. Things are going good. One thing
goes wrong. Get your foot and quicksand and you just start sinking and sinking and you can't
and he said that that's what the game can really be like. Wow. That everything is rolling and you
just trip just one trip and all the sudden it feels like, oh, well, this is a trip. It's no big deal.
But then one other thing goes and another thing goes and it's also rolling. Yeah. Yeah. It's
it's crazy. Yeah. 715 424 2600. Let's celebrate the Super Bowl. Let us know what your favorite
football movie is. So there's a thread online where people are talking about the obvious things
that they didn't pick up on until someone else pointed them out. I always think these lists are
fun and you can have a good time with these. Yeah. We've talked about this before with certain stuff.
I think a good example is on your your gas gauge. There's a little arrow that points that arrow
is pointing to where your gas cap is. When some people when they first hear that, they're
mind it's true. That's true. And other people like, yeah, I knew that when I was 16, what are you talking
about? I still use it. Even though I've had my car for 100 years, brother, I still I still have to
wait. No, which side is the gas cap on? Yeah. You're not alone on this one. Yeah. Yeah. You are
not alone. Anybody who says that they never use it like I may be not a lot, but never use it. No,
no, that doubt that. I doubt that. So here's some interesting ones. Okay. How the judicial bail
system works? Someone said that they thought it was a fee that you paid to avoid jail. They didn't
realize that it was basically collateral and that you got the bail money back if you showed up
for your trial. Yes. Yes. That's the theory, right? That yeah. Yeah. Now that's interesting to me
that that would be right there up. That'd be that high on the list. Are that many people worried
about getting arrested and having to post bail? Is that what it is? Yeah. There's not a lot of
advantages growing up on the other side of the tracks, but you know how to do that? I do this one
right away. I do that one pretty early life. Someone said that it's someone said that it's called
metal because it's harder than rock music. It's actually debatable how the term metal rose to
represent the genre, but this is amusing. And we couldn't, you know, couldn't help putting it
on our list here. Wow. Heavy heavy metal. Now I've got I've got someone. It's just hilarious to
be somebody dissecting this. Well, I got it. The what I heard, one of the stories I heard. Okay.
Chaz Chandler famous the basis for the animals, but also a manager of Jimmy Hendrix. He's the one
that brought Jimmy up and got him his first contracts and got him going. He said that the first time
he ever saw that was in a review of Jimmy's music. He said that the reviewer and I don't know who it
is and I've never actually seen the review. So I don't know how accurate this is is that he sounded
like heavy metal falling from the sky. That's that cool. That's what he said. Hendrix guitar playing
sounded like. And so maybe that is where it came from. I don't know. I love the origin stories and
these. Oh, yeah. Led Zeppelin's origin stories. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That hundreds of years ago,
goodbye was born out of the shortened form of God be with you. Oh, that's cool. I think we've
had that in our random facts. I think we have. No, we've done more. But that is interesting.
That hundreds of years ago, howdy came out came out of how do you? How do you? Yeah. I'm going to
start using that instead. How do you? I cannot wait to hear you react to see the reaction of
somebody when you do that. How do you? So howdy came from how do you? Yeah. Okay.
Contraction. Yeah. We like to do that. I in a boy, that was that's a blessing because how do
you? I don't know if I'm responding to that. Like, yeah. What are we in 18th century? Yeah.
1760 century Englanders. Oh, come on. Come on, man. Howdy. I love that. How do you? Which is so
formal. Sounds great. You know, yeah. Very strict and murder went to howdy, which is so
kind of howdy. Yeah. You know, it's friendly. The pipe that pipe cleaners aren't just for childhood
crafts. They're they're for cleaning pipes tobacco pipes. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I love the idea
that though. I would have been that kid. I would have been that little kid that thought they were
just strictly for GI Joe guys. That's all I would have that's all I used them for. And who who
thought, you know, you're growing up what pipes you're they're talking about. They're not thinking
of tobacco pipes because hardly anyone smokes them anymore. Yeah. So they're thinking of like, let
you know, like your pipes water pipes. I did though. I used to get in trouble with banana pop,
though. They, you know, the little swords that they used to like like for mesh our cherries and stuff
for your drinks. Yeah. They could never find them. They could never find any of them because I had
all of them. The GI Joe guys need the sword swords. They're sweat buckling man. They need swords.
That the that reindeer actually exist and they aren't just a mythical magical creature.
What? I boy, to live in the world where you thought reindeer's were mythical creatures. That
seems like reindeer are just caribou I think basically the same animal I think. So yeah,
reindeer coffee instead of with that change. They should change their name for the holidays.
They yes. Yes. That the mad and mad men stood for Madison Avenue. Not crazy. Yes. Not insane.
Right. Yeah. That one. I think you could be forgiven if you didn't know that one.
Well, if you saw the first episode, they like the first thing it said, they called themselves,
you know, Madison, mad men. So they actually let you know at the very, but you have to, I guess,
watch the first episode to know that. And it does seem, I mean, like, Adman, mad man. Mad man.
That's kind of yeah. That Felix is the Latin word for lucky or happy. And that since the cartoon
character Felix, the cat was a black cat, the name is meant to be ironic. Oh, wow. I didn't know
that one. Did not know that one. Some people say Felix was named as more of a play on feline as
well. So there's that there's that too. That would work. Yeah. One of the most underrated cartoon
characters ever. Felix, the cat loved Felix the cat. Great. It's kind of really old. You know,
he's he's got to go back a ways to get to Felix. But yeah, good stuff. That bats are not actually
blind. Like the phrase blind as a bat would suggest not bat speed. No bat species are blind.
Micro bats see differently than humans, particularly in low light conditions. But megabats have
eyesight as good as humans. If not better, their site is adapted to both night and daylight,
including some color vision. Wow. See, now that's way better than ours. I had no idea that any of
that. Right. But I think it's because they use, you know, sonar to find things. That's why people say
that. Yeah. And that's a that's really fascinating. Yeah. And some of the comments were far more
obvious than others. Like someone said that they were in their 20s before they realized that
Mickey Mouse was a mouse. What? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. That's weird. They they
would be more curious of what goofy is. I still look at the fence. He's supposed to be a dog.
Yeah, I know he's supposed to be a dog, but Pluto's also a dog. It's a big, very cute
dog. And and and they said that somehow always thought Mickey was a dog until they asked someone
what Mickey? Why Mickey had such skinny skinny little tail? That's I don't know if I
admit that one. I'm going to be honest. I don't know if that was it. It's in his name.
Right. What is something obvious that you missed? I think that these are fun. Yeah. I think,
you know, if you can't laugh at yourself, you're not getting the joke. All right. Everybody does
silly things. Every human being on the planet should be able to laugh at themselves. Yeah.
I can't respect somebody that can't laugh at themselves. So we all do it. It's everything
everyone does. I know. I'm positive. I guarantee you that I've got some of these. I just can't
think about it now. I had a recent one that I was like, Oh, wow. You know, blow my mind
because it was so simple, but I can't remember it either now. So before the end of the show,
we'll try to think. We'll try to think that. I'll try to think of what what what these are
and stuff because I know that there's some there. There's a good we'll think of it. We'll think of
them. We'll have some fun with that. And if you've got any that you're thinking up 424,
2600, 715, 2424. Up, up jog our memories. Maybe we'll come up with something quick update on a
story we did the other day. Applebees announced a date night pass, which costs 200 bucks. We'll
give you $30 off your next 52 visits over the next year. And it could be worth over $1,300
in savings if you eat a lot of Applebees. The initial run sold out in seconds. But don't worry,
Applebees noticed and they're making another thousand available due to the quote amazing
interest. Wow. That is actually a pretty darn good deal. I mean, especially if you go there a
lot, that would make sense. It's, you know, usually, yeah, it's it's pretty quick to. If you're not
a regular, though, I would go for yeah. That one I agree with you. I think that's pretty
very good deal. Pretty good deal. Pretty good deal. Pretty good deal. I like that one. I think
that's not bad. And if people are curious, you can go ahead and go to Applebees.com find a more
that this time, they're selling them through a lottery, but you'll still need to act fast,
the register by drawing Applebees website through tomorrow. And you'll maybe have a chance to win
this. There you go. The quote winners will be notified by email on Valentine's Day,
so they can still work as a last minute Valentine's gift. If you are willing to take it, you know,
to the chance, are you feeling lucky? Are you? Are you? Are you feeling in love? Are you?
Want to celebrate love? We sure are here at WFHR. We're celebrating love right up until Valentine's
Day. We want your love stories, your origin stories, tell us how you met your significant other,
or something like those lines. Yeah, funny, happy, weird. We love, we want them all.
Share them with us on our WFHR Facebook page. Go on there and comment on the page. Otherwise,
you can go and direct messages through there or you can email us your love stories. Yeah. Get
them to us. We'll draw a winner on Valentine's Day and they'll win a two-night stay at the hotel
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It's going to be a lot of fun. Be sure to do that and celebrate love with us here at WFHR.
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