Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined by
our pet of production, Mr. Seth Habagger. Good morning. And the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having a good one out there. Good things
to get to this morning, like kicking things off with a good friend, Brittany Merlot. Good
morning, Brett. Good morning. How are you guys? We're doing good.
Good. Really beautiful sunny skies out there today. How are you doing? Well, looks
into seaving, right? Yes. And um, quickly ran inside. Yeah, I, I turned into an Italian
popsicle. As soon as I went outside, I was an Italian icy. As soon as I went out of
there, I was like, yeah, I was like, oh boy, I love that. Oh my goodness. Yes, temperatures
are deceiving. 21 degrees doesn't look too bad. I felt like those winds still gusting
up to 25 miles an hour. It feels like seven degrees. So high is today. We're not climbing
above freezing. We're only going to get to the low 30s. And of course, the wind is
staying steady. It's going to be feeling like the 20s. So that's what you should dress
for today. If you haven't already left the house on the left. Yeah. Yeah. Stay warm
out there, everybody. Um, these temperatures, it's misleading the way it looks out there.
And if you have spent five seconds in Wisconsin, you'll understand what the weather's
trying to do to you, right? Oh, yeah. That's what the weather does in Wisconsin. It messes
with you. This is bug you. Does this bug you? Does this bug you? That's exactly what
the weather is. It is that kid poking. Yeah. Yes, yes. We appreciate the updates. As
always, Brittany, have a great Wednesday. We'll talk in tomorrow. I'm good. Have a good
day. Best in a business right there. We love work. We're pretty good stuff. Good stuff
on the way. We're going to have our L cafe birthday and anniversary club coming up
free. Looking forward to that. We're also going to get into the percentage of men that
are self-conscious about their hands. Um, it's what? What? I don't know what that is. Okay.
I didn't read the article of purpose. Okay. And this is one of those ones where the headline
kind of like, oh, we're going to dive into that. It's weird. We're going to definitely
dive into it. We also got the best airports for fast food. We'll get into that one a little
bit later as well. Spring break around the corner. Maybe people traveling. That's true.
That's true. Although it doesn't seem like as many people this time, you guys in years
past. Yeah. We'll be talking about that. We'll talk a little bit about spring breakers
and are they? Are they paying good? What do they? They're paying money for? It's a
then a right story for the ages of everybody. We got that coming up for you as well. It's
Wednesday. That means that after our news break, sometime between there and nine o'clock,
we'll hear from our friends over quality plus printing with our wicked awesome word
of Wednesday. Nice. Look forward to that. We'll be talking about hometown heroes with
them as well as their new promotion going on where they are looking for all hometown
heroes. Yep. We'll talk more about that with our friend Phil a little bit later. Yep.
We've also got a jam pack day of guests in the nine o'clock hour. And nine o'clock, we
will continue our candidate series with Elizabeth St. Myers, Wisconsin Rabbit School Board
candidate. Right. And then at nine fifty Eric Sailor, Port Edwards Village trustee
candidate. Very good. We're looking forward to that. All these things going on.
Yeah. Good stuff, man. Good stuff. You know, sorry. I'm a little distracted here. I
was just, you know, there's a game of an actual baseball game going on right now in
Korea. So that means it's going on right now in the early mornings, which James and I
were talking, we need more baseball, like early morning baseball. So I'm saying, we need
a lot more of this. I wanted almost every day. I know, I feel for the, like I'm a
player's guy. Yeah. I always side with the players, those things in this situation. No,
sorry guys. Got you. No, get out there. You're getting paid millions of dollars. Go
entertain me for it. You know, and I don't know if this game is a microcosm. What's going
to happen? The Dodger scored four runs and the top of the eighth. They're up five to
two and the base is loaded at the top of the ninth. It's just what the Dodgers are going
to be this year. Maybe, maybe baseball's back. I know. I love it. I love it. We're excited
about that. I, I'm with you on this. So what we're going to do today, everybody, you
may notice when I'm talking Seth, isn't that because he's watching the game? I'm just
watching the game. It's the ninth inning. So it should be wrapping up soon. And when Seth
was just talking there, I was watching the game. Yeah, there you go. We're going to do it
back and forth. Back and forth throughout the whole show. It's going to be a lot of fun.
It's only a couple of where it is. It'll be awesome. It'll be over. But that, of course,
I was talking with Tyler Miller, assistant general manager of our Wisconsin Rapids rafters
yesterday. And just that, the rafters coming around soon. Tyler's excited. Everybody's
excited over at the ballpark. They cannot wait to hit that field and hit that diamond.
We know what these things mean. The side of baseball is like seeing a robin. It is
a side of spring. You know, even if you're not a baseball fan at all, I'm telling you,
there's something about, you know, the first couple of weeks of baseball because you're
right. It's summer is almost here, man. That's what it means. And with that, we want to
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it's awesome. So let's kick off the show right here, Seth. I think this is a good place
to start. Okay. There are people who follow college basketball year round. And then there
are people who wait. May what? March, man. This is starting March. Oh, I'm going to fill
my bracket. Where's a bracket? Somebody give me a bracket. March, man, this brackets
are being passed around. And if you want to fill one out this year, you need to get on
it because the first round starts today or tomorrow. Sorry. Yes. Right. In a new poll,
30% of Americans say that the plan they plan on doing a bracket this year and more than
half of them put some money on it. So about 30% of Americans planning on filling out a bracket.
That's a pretty high. You know, considering how big this country is and everything. Many
of the people putting money on the brackets are doing it as a random office pool. Another
poll asked if people considered this type of thing gambling. And 51% of people said that
they do 21% 25% said that they don't. And of course, 24% aren't sure. This one, I'll
give them a pass on because it is kind of a gray area. I think this is maybe the second
time I've ever done this. But I agree with you. I'm giving them a pass on the unsure
part because what is gambling anymore? Yeah. It's a question we have to ask ourselves as
a question we're trying to figure out. It's a question that sports doesn't care about.
At the moment they don't know sports. Oh, well said. Yes. At the moment they don't. You're
right. Right. Now they don't care. As soon as we have some Tim Donney connoisseur or
scandal or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not the only one to say this. It's
common people. It's common. We're going to be seated. It's human nature. Yeah. It's
going to happen. Yeah. Definitely will happen. From the very first game that was created,
somebody was trying to find a way to undercut that game. Exactly. It's a little bit like
in baseball when people lose their minds over cheating in baseball. I'm like, okay.
I agree with you. Cheating is wrong. But at the same time people have been spitting on
baseball since the Sonsai. Yeah. It's one of those things. And with gambling, it's such
a gray area now. Our whole lives. Almost everybody out there. Yeah. Everybody out there
listening. All of our lives gambling was that thing over in the side of the corner. You
don't talk about and everything and people, you know, run a number or something and stuff
at everything. It went out. It was big. I mean, sure. But in order to do it, it wasn't
you had to go like find it like sports betting. You either had to go to Vegas or you had
to find a bookie, you know, and those guys aren't necessarily advertising, you know, in
the paper or something like that. So I have so many things I want to share right now
that I can't. I can't. I don't know what the statute of limitations are. Yeah. Be careful.
Be careful. Yeah. But it is, it is a weird place we're in right now with this with gambling.
I have never, I've been on the other side of gambling. I've seen the, the, what it can
do and everything. And I've never gambled a day of my life. I gamble with life. I'm good.
I don't need to mess with a lot of tickets. But I do think it's curious where we're going
to go with this and where younger people that are growing up at a time where gambling,
you can gamble on sports legally. You can do, you know, most in a lot of states. So
accessible now. Yeah. How many apps you can use? I mean, daily sports stuff and all that
stuff. Wow. See, that's the thing that everybody learned from the cigarette companies.
If we put it where everybody can get it, they're going to use it. Exactly. That's all
it takes. For sure. 100%. And so many of these sites are off. I notice almost every
day that's another website saying, we'll give you $1,000 if you gamble on this or something.
Yeah. Oh, free money. No. No. No. There's one thing you need to know about gambling.
Only one thing. The house always wins. I was thinking the exact same thing, man. Wasn't
that what we casino? Isn't that what's up? Robert Tanero says in his voice over. Yes.
The house always wins. It's the truth. It is. I don't care. But I know a guy who won this
and whether. No, no, no, we did. He just won that so to make you think you could win.
That's the only reason why. Exactly. Well, one person wins 90,000 people lose. Let's
gambling one of one. That is about one in three Americans say that they plan to file
the insane March madness. See, here it's unclear how many of them are in for the long
call and how many will drop out as soon as the brackets bust. Seth and I were also talking
in our pregame. Both of us have yet to fill in our practice. We do. Gotta get on that. Gotta
get my randomizer going here because who know? I don't know. I don't think I've ever had
a year where I've gone this late without filling one out yet. I usually, I'm filling
them out before they even have the, you know, it's play in terms of games announced
and everything. It's been a busy couple of weeks. Yeah. It's been so busy. I've forgotten
what time is. Like time isn't just a flat circle. It's a, it's a frisbee that I can't
catch. Yeah. Where's that going now? Oh my gosh. What time is this? It's a boomerang
that doesn't go back. Gotta keep running after it, man. What kind of a boomerang is that?
It's not a guy. Have you ever used a boomerang? I have as a matter of fact. My dad actually
made a boomerang once. He wanted to know the aerodynamics of it. So he actually built
one. It worked all right. It was pretty good. I think that's really cool. I mean, there's
an art to throwing it, though, man. Oh, yeah. It is not an easy thing to get the boomerang
to actually come back. So yeah. From what I've heard from an actual Australian telling me,
it's a lot about the, the way you hold it. Yes. But at the end, the way you hold it at the
end, how you let it go, the angle that you do it at. It's like, it's like trying to
throw a curveball. Yeah. So, yeah. It reminded me of a basketball shot. Oh, yeah. You
know, you, you have that, that arc. Yeah. Yeah. It's all in the wrist. It's all in the
wrist. I'm going to use my wrist to get to our commercial break. We will check it with
our partners. We'll come back and have some fun on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome
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getting a lot of these lately. Yeah. And we cannot get, we cannot thank you enough for
that. Keep in common, everybody. Send them to info at wfhr.com, James dot mail off at
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the civic media app, which we encourage you to do, so you can get along in on our contest
that we have going on. But also, so you can get us those call us in real quick. Call us
up 424, 2600. Get us that birthday and anniversary. Seth, I've got four possible qualifiers today.
All right. That's awesome. Four of them. I need a one through four. Let's do three.
All right. It gives us that qualifier. We can get right into this celebrating the first
up. I want to wish happy birthday to Jamie DeWitt. Happy birthday, Jamie. Enjoy your day,
Jamie. Yeah. We wish happy birthday to Christina Layton. Happy birthday, Christina.
Enjoy your day, Christina. We wish you the best of days. Jan Lengoff, having a birthday.
Happy birthday, Jan. Jan, have a great day. It's a good one for you. And our qualifier today
celebrating their 48th anniversary. Wow. That's a good one. That's good. Close to 50. John
and Cheryl Klingforth. Oh, don't don't don't don't don't share. Happy anniversary. Congratulations.
You guys the best of days. Enjoy your anniversary. It's a Wednesday your midweek. I say celebrate
right into the weekend. You know, I I got to look this up because I'm not sure. So you say,
you know, happy birthday to someone who has a birthday. And but is there something specific
or so safe for an anniversary? I want to say it's like many happy returns or something like
that. There's like a specific. You're supposed like the polite thing to say. Yes. But I got
I got to figure that out because now I'm not I'm curious about what the proper way to say that.
I got to look that up too. Because that's a good question. I've never really thought much
about that. I wonder if there's a more you can say happy anniversary. I suppose. But yeah,
which is fine. But there's more formal way. I don't know. I don't know. We should be as far
as good. That's a good question. It's a good question. Let's look into that. We'll look into
our celebrity birthdays real quick. Now Ruby Rose is 38. Stella and Orange is new black.
She was Aries and John Wick and she was CW's batwoman for a while there. She hung up the
cape after a season and kind of took some heat for that one. I wouldn't say that she got black
bald or anything. But it didn't help her career. In the middle of a hit show and you leave.
The grind was too much for her. The schedule was too much for her. And I think that's understandable.
It is. But it's also one of those things where you have the empathy for it. And at the same time,
you know that well, if you don't want to do the job, there are literally a thousand people
that will do it. And I think I would hope she understood this. That if something like if
she's like, yeah, I got to do this. But at the same time, I do. I'm happy that she did it
with for her health. If that's what indeed what it was. If she just couldn't handle it,
that makes sense too. Always supportive of people putting their mental health first and everything.
Just so you have to understand then. In the acting game, I don't care who you are. I don't
care for George Clooney. There's five, 10,000 other employees right behind you. Yeah. So you take
that and she has to understand that when she's auditioning for roles, the casting people are
understanding. They're going to be a little bit hesitant, maybe. Am I going to sign her up for
another hit TV show if she's going to possibly leave it. Right. And that's the risk you take when
you do that kind of thing. So she's not a bad actor though. I watched that first season of
a bad woman. It was good. I thought she was good. For a CW show, you know. All right. Get
it. Let's see here. Cedric Yarborough is 51. Kenneth on Speechless, Officer Miyaw Mow,
Bojack Horseman, but he was mostly known, I think, as Deputy Jones on Reno 9-1-1. Oh gosh.
He was good on that. That's good on that show. That show was a sneaky good show.
Michael Rappaport is 54. Don Celf on Prison Break, Foley's boyfriend and Gary on Friends.
He was a Doug Gardner on a typical Michael Rappaport has had a nice career,
but a real social media presence is we got a lot of interviews. Yeah. Right.
This is going to make us feel old. I'm just going to warn everybody right now.
Kathy Ireland is 61. Oh my gosh.
That's that's incredible. That's that's a 90s icon. I would say. Yeah. Yeah.
One of the when it comes to like supermodels, one of the first supermodels were even like people
like I don't pay attention to that stuff. I don't really care that much, but even I was like,
oh my god. That's incredibly beautiful human being. Well, the first one. Beautiful.
And then there's the first one. I was remembered with city Crawford, but the reason we know this
is because they were marketed as that. Yeah. You know, they were put in commercials,
and then they got into some movies. And then they went back to modeling. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. Yeah. Actually, I like Kathy Ireland a lot. If nothing else from that from the
MS-T3K episode, Alien from Ellie. Thank you. Thank you. One of the best episodes.
Alien from Ellie. Alien from Ellie. That's it. Alien from LA. Look, I actually, I think the
Kathy Ireland, I've seen her in interviews seems like a nice person. Absolutely. And I admire
what she has done with her status and all those things. The movie Alien from LA. Her performance
in that is maybe the worst acting performance I've ever seen. It's top five. It's her. It's Joe
Don Baker. It's a couple of them there. And she's up there for that. I'm sorry. It's just so.
It's really, you know, when she had like small parts with comedy, she could do it. Well,
a necessary roughness loaded weapon. You know, she was in those and she was fine. Nothing wrong.
She could play the comedy bit, but anytime you're in trade, she was kind of like supposed to be an
action star kind of in the Alien from LA. And it didn't work. It just didn't work. I feel like
my own surprise. I doubt that it would. I feel like it was the director. I feel like they told
her to play this role this way because it doesn't. She wasn't a tuned enough actor to make the
huge choices with her voice and the things that she did. Like, no, somebody told her to do that.
And she trusted them. They did wrong by her. I don't know, man. That was the clip of my wild Irish
Ireland. Yeah. I love that song. David Thuelis is 61. The Werewolf Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter
films. Good character actor. He's been a lot. Very good character actor. He is one of the most
distinctive looking people in the business. And it's actually served him pretty well. Is it some
of the characters he's played? Yes. Holly Hunter is 66. Oh, I love Holly Hunter. It's done.
The mom and the incredible movies. Detective Grace and saving Grace. She is a petty and
old brother. We're out now. She wanted to ask her for the piano. Yeah. And yeah, she's just,
I mean, an incredible actor. It's credible. He'll be very good stuff. There's a sneaky good movie.
I don't know. It's a good movie to me. I like the movie. It's a movie called a lifeless
ordinary camera. He is. You know, McGregor. Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter. Delroy Lindo and
Holly Hunter play kind of like angels sort of. It's, you know, it's an odd movie. Let's just put it
out there. It's a very odd, very weird movie. Stanley, one of the weirder Stanley Tucci
performances too. Yeah. But I love that movie. It's a silly love story. But I love it. And those two
in their chemistry and how good they are together. I would never put them on paper. I would be like,
how does that work? They're so good together. They're really good. Holly Hunter. I don't,
I don't think she can do bad work. I don't think she can. She's a professional professional. Yep.
One of the greatest directors of all time is 67 Spike Lee. Oh, wow. One is first Oscar for the
black clansman. Shoot a one. It should have been his second. He should have won for Malcolm X.
There's several actually. One for actually. Very true. Very true. Do the right thing. Movin
our blues. She's got to have it. The original Kings of Comedy. Malcolm X that I mentioned.
Spike Lee's one of the best directors ever. Is he divisive? Is he? Is he a bit controversial?
In some ways. Yeah. But I don't understand why. When he was a director, you know, that was less
because it's art form. He was doing what he wanted to do. And yeah, he dealt with some issues
that were, you know, hot button topics and stuff like that. More recently, I can understand it more
because he's, and it's not because of his directing. It's because of his public persona.
That he's used that for. It's been very off-putting and weird. And it's, I don't know what's going on.
Not bad. I think what I should have been more specific. I've never understood why his films are
controversial. Right. But, you know, him. Yeah. Well, he was just him as a nix fan. I think it
could be, it could be a little divisive. It could be a little bit true. True. True. But you can't deny
the man's skill and talent and the thing in the brave choices he took that producers gave him the
opportunity to do. And to which Martin Scorsese said, that's the best young director I've ever seen.
Martin Scorsese. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of different things that Mr. Lee did.
There's a lot of scenes. It's famous now, but nobody was doing this before. When you're in a
director's chair, when you're in an actual physical chair of the camera and you're literally behind
the camera filming, that's something that we've known forever. Most people that have ever looked
behind, you know, behind the scenes in a movie or anything. Sure. Spike Lee was the first person
to put an actor in that chair, flip the camera around and move them around. Nobody did that before.
That's cool. Nobody was thinking of that stuff. These are interesting and important parts in
the history of cinema that Spike Lee has added to. It's incredible. Some of the work that he's done.
Very, very influential. Jimmy Vaughn is 73 today. Stevie Ray's older brother and member of the
fabulous Thunderbirds. Good guitarist in his own rights. He's very guitarist. Yeah. Carl Palmer,
74 of Emerson Laken Palmer. He's the only one left. I know. Oh, I just realized that. That's
sad. Yeah. Good band. Good band. One of the greatest hockey players of all time. Bobby Orr is 76.
Hockey Hall of Famer. And I think the best statue ever. Or the best statue. Bobby Orr, of course,
is a famous scene for the Bruins where he's flying in the air, basically. Right.
And they've got a statue of that outside of the boss's seat. That is pretty cool. That is pretty.
I don't know how they designed it, but they did a pretty cool job of that. If I'm going to have
a statue like that, that's the way to do it. I think you can make the argument the greatest
NBA coach ever. And one of the greatest NBA lives ever. Pat Riley is 79 today. One of the
greater winners, whether it was as a player, as a head coach, as a GM, GM, all those things.
He's won a title in every realm. And the best dresser. Oh, dude, I was that's exactly where I was
going to go. Like the sharpest dressed man ever. Somehow pull, you know, the slick back hair look
does not work for most people. Yeah, pull it off. I forgot about that. But he could do it. He could
do it. He could do it. I love big fat. Pat Riley. Helllinden is 93 today. Happy birthday. Helllinden.
Barney Miller is 93. 93. I love that show. Love that show. Man, he was awesome. Helllinden was great.
Barney Miller is the dirtiest show ever. Like as far as when you watched it, the police
precinct, like nowadays you watch TV shows, the police shows and everything. Yeah, everything's
all clean. Nice and everything. That the dumpiest look. It looked like the dumpiest precinct ever.
I don't know where they filmed that already. I have a look into that. How they where they filmed
that ever. I love that show. That was a great show. It was I if I remember right as a kid, it was
on right before taxi. And I'd sit there with my dad to watch Barney Miller in taxi. Man,
get your get your ape. Go to yeah, sure. I mean, that a great cast of Barney Miller too. Man,
good cast. Some people no longer with us. Like the great, these are all greats here. William
Hurt born in 1950, a secretary of state Ross in Captain America, civil war. William Hurt did
nothing but great work in his life. Absolutely. Such a great actor. Such a great actor. Karl Reiner,
born in the state in 1922, comic genius. He's a meathead's real dad. He directed just a couple
of little movies here in their summer school. The man with two brains. Oh God. And of course,
the jerk. Yes. And boy, one of the people who changed television.
Yes. Not only was he one of the writers on, uh, uh, since he's your show in the 50s with
Melbourne, that great writing team that they had there. Then he went on to create the Dick Van
Dyke show, which for my money is is one of the great sitcoms of all time. I think that I don't
think I agree with you. I don't think it's not it's not only one of the great sitcoms of all time.
It's the blueprint for sitcoms. Absolutely. Just about. Just it's just I know that sitcoms are,
you know, different plots, different things, but the arc it they blew for the blood and guts of
it. It is been is what has made what TV shows are made of what sitcoms are made of. Think of all
the shows from the the I mean, sitcoms is they're kind of on the down thing right now, but they'll
come back. They in some form. They'll come back. Everything does. Just think about the family sitcoms.
That was for absolutely the blueprint. Okay. You got the house. You got the kids. You got the
parents trying to do the the advice kind of thing. Now the Dick Van Dyke show was not focused on
the kid. It was focused on Mary and Dick, but you know, it did, but but you still see that. You
can still through the years. You can see it. There's a reason when you watch like say one division
and the first episode they did the old 50s TV show thing. It's like a carbon copy of the Dick
Van Dyke show, like the way that the house is set up. I mean, come on. When I've watched a like
history of TV and shows like that and they talk about Carl Ryan, it did one of the things they
know too is the the shift that he gave forever. It was the man of the house and he's he's you know,
he's just the man of the house and that's all he is and everything and he has the the gifts of wisdom
at the end of the father so bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of stuff. All the sudden Dick Van Dyke comes
around and he's not the the smart guy in the room. He's not that he's the he's the comedic relief.
Yes. And the mom becomes more of the architect and the the stable part of the house to give
Mary Tyler more and Carl Ryan or credit for that. Yeah. Because she was like, yeah, she's the one
that she was the smart one. Rob was always getting into these crazy situations and she's the one
that she was the grounding force. Tell me the last TV show where it was the opposite of that.
It I don't know where the mob is like the smart one right? Yeah. I mean, so it changed it literally
changed the way that architect that whole thing goes now. Now it's it's the it's always the mom
is the serious or one you know tends to be the one that's more the brains or the the heart of the
family and all that and the dad's a comic relief usually. Yeah. Like that's the way the almost
every sitcom since then has been it's absolutely true. I don't know any other sitcom that I
can think of I'm sure it might have happened but off of my top of my head, I can't think of any
sitcom where it's the opposite of that. Not really. And not not anymore. Not after the Dignity Show.
Chester Bennington was born in this day in 1976. Pestway in 2017. Way too dang young. Great singer,
songwriter. Incredible voice. Incredible voice. Live or on a CD or or download or whatever.
And a great lyricist. He's missed. Jerry Reed born in this day in 1937. Smoky in the band. It's
superstar. Coach Red in the water boy. Oh boy. Yeah. Jerry had quite a career. Quite a career.
Mr. Rogers. Mr. Fred Rogers born in the state in 1928. One of the biggest influences any of us
kids ever had. Oh man. And one of the best. One of the best. I gotta give my mom a little bit of
grief on this. Okay. My mom lifelong educator. Okay. She taught high school. She taught you know
and she worked for the Minnesota Department of Education. She did all these things. She didn't
get Mr. Rogers. My sister and I would watch it. And she's like, I don't get it. I don't understand.
What is this? What is this? She didn't stop us from watching it, but it was hilarious. She just
didn't. I don't understand this guy. That's funny. That's pretty funny. And we wrap up with
Ozzy Nelson born in the state in 1906. Pestway in 1975. Of course, of the adventures of Ozzy in
here. Jerry, we give him Ozzy Nelson. Yeah. Interesting tie-in, right? Although, yeah, he might have
been a little bit of precursor to Rob too. Yeah. He was. He did his wisdom, but he was also dopey.
He was. Yeah. And it's clumsy and funny. Yeah. Ozzy and Harriet was one of the like before
the Dick Van Dyke show. It was the big. It was. It was the blueprint before that. Yeah. Exactly.
That blueprint is what they used for the blueprint for Dick Van Dyke show. Exactly. It's a
progression. And it's still. I think that blueprint is still from Ozzy and Harriet. The Dick Van Dyke
show and all these are still being used. It is. We encourage you to go celebrate with our friends at
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Join them at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. We should be a great day from all of us
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You're the best thing that I've ever found and only with care.
Welcome back to the show. We hope you're having a great Wednesday out there. Everyone
ours is just about to get better because every Wednesday we are joined by our friends from
Quality Plus printing with our wicked awesome order Wednesday. Right now on the phone,
we have Phil Hartley from Quality Plus joining us. Phil, good morning. Good morning. I'm live on
location at my, I got a sick cat. I'm at the veterinary this morning. Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Yeah.
She's 18 and she's well beyond her and I am I. Yeah, yeah. We're seeing if we can get her
a few more out of her. Good. Here's hoping. Here's hoping. Yeah. You know how that is with the
family pets and she sounds like a great cat. Sounds like a great cat. Phil, we don't want to keep
you too long then today, especially if you got those things going on, but we do want to make
sure to touch on our hometown hero promotion that you guys are doing. This is a really fun thing.
Be getting a lot of good feedback on this because I know we have. Yeah, I have. We've got some
entries. We'll take a lot more though. We're going to keep throwing that out there, but yeah,
we've got a couple great entries already and so bring it on. If you have a hero in your life that
you want to nominate to get a free shirt, some Raptor tickets, and now, now we're adding in some river
kings tickets. Yeah, nice. But Paul came over and I talked to him about this yesterday and they
definitely want to be a part of this and they'll have the puck drop too for the winners and during
their hockey season. So they're adding to the fun too. And so I'm very happy and good luck to
them this weekend out there. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, yeah. Safe travels to them. Yeah. Yeah, so proud of them.
Phil, if people, if I want to nominate my mom, and I want to send it because I'm just trying,
I've got to get the points, you guys, my little brother and sister killing me on this.
So I want to do that. What was the best way to do that? Did I direct messaging on Facebook?
Should I email you? Yeah, all those things. Yeah. So of course, looking off on Facebook or
quality plus printing on Facebook, and you can or where I'm incorporated on Facebook. And you can
message us in that way. Give us a call if you want to call me over there. Or it's where I'm
incorporated, I and K, we're incorporated at gmail.com. We don't email us.
We all know some people like this. I guarantee, I don't think you just know one. You know a couple
of people like this out there. And maybe it's somebody that, so this is what happened to me the
other day, Phil. I had somebody I wanted to nominate and realized, you know, I don't know their last
name. I know their first name because they trick me out all the time. They're a clerk. And I've
known them for years and they've worked at this gas station for years. And I've seen them do some
really cool things for people before in situations that I don't think a lot of people would handle very
well. I really admire retail and people that can work that job and do that job well and everything.
So I was thinking, I think that that's something, you know, go ahead and ask what I was just
very honest with her. I was like, look, I want to nominate for you for this. I think that you
deserve it and everything. I don't know your last name. I was very honest. I was very honest about it.
Great pickup line. It really does, doesn't it? Now that I think about it, oh, God, I wish I would have
loved that. No, this is a great opportunity for us to highlight the heroes in our lives. And that
doesn't just mean necessarily people that you know that well, but maybe people that you just know
randomly and root. That's a great example. And tell you what, if you don't know their last name,
nominate them anyway, and we'll do the detector work. There you go. Yeah, definitely don't mind it out.
All right. That our ways, right? Help us celebrate the heroes out there with who's your hero,
this amazing contest, this fun promotion from WAM and our friends at Quality Plus printing.
Phil, what is our wicked awesome word for today? So you're going to like where I found this one,
James, I think. So I was watching, I don't know. I must have been streaming video somewhere and
and probably my favorite comedian of all time came on. It's just normal, Donald. Oh, nice.
Love is that guy. Yeah. Love it. Love how he sets stories up and jokes. Anyway, he was not
calling him one time and he just said, Kona, I got this new word I've never heard of. It's
Rizzable. Nobody told me I'm Rizzable. R-I-S-I-B-L-E. Rizzable. And he, you know, he repeated it several
times and dragged Kona, not, of course. But it needs, but it needs to provoke laughter. Oh,
that's a good one. Yes, yes, let's make someone make someone laugh. So if you're visible, you know,
you're, you're, it's a funny situation usually in your room, make someone laugh out loud or whatever.
I love that word. I also love that. If I told you that Snoop came up with that word,
you'd believe me. No, yes. If you'd never heard that word before, you're like, that's a word
Rizzable. Rizzable. Yeah. So this just sounds a little different than how he does it, but
I-I-B-L-E. R-I-S-I-B-L-E, which maybe somehow they played off of each other. I don't know.
Yeah. It's a great word. It's a good one. Donald, where I saw this one. So that's too cool.
Not needed, so. I, uh, I was a huge fan of Mr. McDonald's. Love
Norm McDonald. I think my favorite thing about Norm McDonald is I never felt like Norm McDonald,
like, uh, had to be on TV or had to be talking or had to be interviewed or had to be on
weekend update. Like everything he did, it just kind of felt like, oh, hey, there's a camera.
Well, I'm just going to be me. I'm just going to go ahead and do this right now.
It really seemed that way. I'm going to make it laugh. I mean, even like I, uh, I went back
the other day, I watched a little bit of Billy Madison because I needed to laugh. And I,
I realized I've watched any of that like 20 years and underrated underrated comedy, Billy Madison.
There's, there's like 90 legendary funny scenes in that. There's some stuff. Adam Sandler. I mean,
Norm McDonald plays Adam Sandler's buddy in it and everything. He doesn't have a lot of lines,
but you watch him in the movie and even him just being there. It's just the smile at his face.
And stuff makes you laugh. It makes you funny. You just want to laugh at it. You just want to laugh.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's comfortable. He makes you feel comfortable. Yeah. You know, like,
he's just your buddy telling a story to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is so good. How he sets things up.
It's no on my camera. I think that's a great word, Phil. I think, uh, because I,
Norm McDonald made you feel more comfortable with him. Even though he was kind of a little
weird, the awkward of everything. Yeah. Yeah. He, uh, I don't think I've ever seen a performer
like him before where he just, he didn't like, hey, you're going to put the camera on me. Cool.
Not all right. I'm going to keep, I'm going to keep being Norm McDonald. I'm going to keep
doing what I'm doing. You know, this is great guy. Great guy. Great guy. Great guy.
You're a great guy. Phil. We appreciate you. Okay. I got to tell you to play rumors.
Yes. Yes. Wow. Thank you. You set me up perfectly. I wanted to congratulate you.
I want to congratulate you in the cast. Yeah. Thanks. It's going to be fun. It's a wild ride.
That play. Yeah. Yeah. Rumors is, uh, is, is a one of, I, if not, uh, I want one of
Neil's, it's hard to say what Neil's time is the most famous play is because every time I think I,
I say it, somebody else says, well, no, this one or that one. Yeah. Right. But this is definitely
one of his most famous. You've got a perfect cast. You've got a great group of people to work with.
It's going to be such a fun show. Uh, say hi to the cast for us. Have a great time with this.
And we're going to have you guys in real soon. We'll be talking with the cast of rumors and, uh,
Christine, uh, their director and everything again. Looking forward to it. But for right now,
break a leg. Congratulations to you in the cast, Phil. Oh, thanks. Hopefully we'll see you guys there.
Oh, yeah. Definitely. Definitely. We'll see you there. I got to see this one.
And we will talk with you next Wednesday. Phil, one more time. What is our wicked,
awesome word of Wednesday? Rupertable. Mm-hmm. Very visible. Such a good word. Neil's time is very
visible. Yes. Yeah. Have a great day, Phil. We'll talk soon. Yeah. Take care. You guys. Thank you. You too.
See you, Phil. Uh, big, thank you to Phil Hartley and our friends over at Quality Plus printing.
Now, we want to encourage you to get your tickets for rumors, uh, and find out more about WRCT.
They're looking for directors for next year. Would you like to direct me in arsenic and old lace?
Because I will have that part. Um, I'm terrible. I'm terrible. I'm a horrible person. Oh, boy.
But there's plenty of opportunities to work behind the scenes. And on the stage at WRCT,
find out more at wrctheter.org, wrctheter.org. We'll be having Gretchen on directors,
cut to talk about some of the, uh, summer projects they have coming up for kids. A whole bunch
of stuff. A lot of stuff coming up for the kids this, uh, and, uh, I believe auditions next month
for that. So again, find out more information at wrctheter.org. And of course, our good friends at
Quality Plus printing have their, who's your hero promotion going on right now? We all know hometown
heroes. Find somebody write something up. Just a couple of lines about that great person and
email it to our friends at Quality Plus printing or direct message them on their Facebook pages.
And, uh, of course, stop on by. Yeah. And you can get the information to us too. And we'll get
a tool. We'll do it, man. Uh, whoever you got to do it, get it to us. And of course,
visit our friends at Quality Plus printing. There are 35, 15, 8, 3, South in Wisconsin,
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Be listening next Wednesday for another wicked, awesome word. From our friends at Quality Plus
printing, we'll be back more on the morning show. Welcome back everyone to the morning show
here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you, it's a little weird to have
this one as the bumper music for with you and I. I got a bit. I got a bit. This is a little weird.
It's a little weird. It is, it is one of those songs though. It is. And it's one of those songs.
Of course, we're released in the 90s, which means you could request it if you'd like for our show
Unlabeled. Not only is it iconic 90s song, it's an iconic soundtrack song to which which is
something that you're looking to do on mixtape. That's a good 90s mixtape. That's a good
side name for it. Be sure to join us every Sunday for Unlabeled. It's our 90s mixtape. It's your
90s mixtape. It's an opportunity for you to hear any song you want to hear from the 90s.
I don't care what genre it is. That's why the show is called Unlabeled. That's right.
Yeah. Any genre we will play it. If it was released from 1990 to 1999, we will play it.
Just got to keep a quick reminder out there. Every song in the 90s was five minutes long.
So we are limited to what we can play sometimes because we, you know, we really got an hour or so.
It would remind everyone that. That's hilarious. That is something that I had to, it's been a
while since I've had the program music. And I just said a little bit behind the curtain here
a little bit. Sets helping me with this show and producing it with me and everything. Thank you
very much for that. It's not as if you don't have enough on your plate already. But I send Seth,
I'm like, I've got these songs. I want to play them. I'm so excited. I've been talking about
doing this show for what a year or two now. It seems a lot longer than that actually. I said
set the first playlist and had like 30 songs. Yeah, he sent me a list and I think I had to cut
four of them. I was like, sorry, dude, we don't have enough time. And it's funny too because working
it with country 105. It's almost the opposite with country songs. Country songs usually three
minutes in your out. Two, three, four, maybe, maybe, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So it's interesting
with that. You're right. Get us those requests. Everybody james.mailoff at civicmedia.us. You
can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well. However you got to get your song requests to
us. Please do. Big thank you to everybody that already has sent us requests. I've been
bombarded by requests. When I worked in at a music station, I didn't get as many requests as I
had been for this. That's awesome. I'm not even a joke. I'm like a dead serious. That's awesome.
The nostalgia is heavy with people out there. You want to hear your 90s? Well, we'll be
able to play for you after Seth faces music this Sunday. Seth, do you have a theme for Seth
face music? I do. Now I'm going to think about what is. Oh, oh, geez. We are overworked. I was
getting. No, no, no, it's because there's so many now. I got to figure out. Okay, which one
am I working on this week? Okay. It's a. Now don't get excited, everyone. Don't get excited.
It's touch. Oh, we're going with songs about touching. So just just keep it clean, everyone. Yeah,
yeah. It's a PG show. Yeah, except for one or two songs. Yeah, except because we still have
I think most people may know what I'm referring to one specific song from the 90s as it were.
As it were. Yeah, I had to include it just because it's actually not a bad song, but it is kind of,
it was controversial when it came out. We'll just say that. Oh, man, was it? Oh, was it?
Nowadays that wouldn't it wouldn't be bad. Not bad at all. Not bad at all. But back in that,
yeah, you're right. It was very controversial. And of course, you can catch that from six to eight
every Sunday. Seth faces music, one of our more popular shows. And then after that, we'll be
unlabeled. Yeah. Take a listen down memory lane with us as we have some fun playing your hits
from the 90s. And I just want to tease this a little bit to everybody out there. Okay.
So our first two songs for this week's episode, I'm going to start with a live from Pearl Jam and
go from that to nothing but a G thing. Yes. I mean, come on. Great juxtaposition. Like the way you
started the first show too. I love it. Absolutely. You're going to notice a bit of a theme with that
as we go along here, everybody. Now, now those of you out there remember, he said anything. So
get your 90s country hits out there. You know, we'll play those two. So come on.
The I would especially I'm learning more and more as we go along here. The kings of the 90s
that brought country music around, your Garth Brooks, your George straight, Clint Black,
these guys. They're not only did they change country, but they they change music in a lot of ways.
We didn't have a ton of country music in pop culture or at the time, at the time.
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton and all that were doing those things in the 70s and everything.
The 80s saw kind of a drop from country music. It was. It was like so in the beginning of the early
80s, you had, you know, Urban Cowboy, you had some stuff like that come out. That amazing
soundtrack really can make the argument. The first big soundtrack was Urban Cowboy.
As far as the where soundtracks go from then on. From there. Yeah. But then it hit that high
and then it just dipped back down. Kenny Rogers had some hits here and there's a crossover.
It is, but by then he was on a more pop. Then he was for kind of the country at that point.
Then all of a sudden you got those 90s boys of country. Garth Brooks hit big. Not just a man,
but, you know, but no, he's country artist. You're rebuzz and you're, you know, you're patty
lovelies. Yeah, all the, all the ladies too. So we'll take those songs too. You want to hear them
give them to us? We'll play with Thunder Rolls. We'll play some stuff like that for you. Just go
ahead and send it to us. Looking forward to on another episode of Unlabeled this Sunday,
right after Seth basis of music. Be sure to join us for that. Six to nine. I would say it's your
block. Six to nine music block. Yeah. Let's go and get into this one, Seth. The travel site
upgrade upgraded points ranked the top US airports for fast food based on how easy it is to grab
some grub before during a quick layover. Okay. This is a pretty good bear parameter. They looked at
the 60 busiest airports. How many fast food joints they have? Now, how many people pass through
each day? Fewer people means shorter lines. Right. If you're Jones and for fast food, the best
city to fly into is Cincinnati. Really? Wow. Yeah. Cincinnati. Wow. The average number of daily
passengers per fast food prices as was places 6,916. That's compared to an average of more than 25,000
passengers at most airports. That makes sense. The rest of the top five are George Bush International
in Houston, Ontario International near L.A. Cleveland Hopkins International in Ohio. It's
great airport. I've been in that one. The Duolais Air International Airport near DC. Oh, it's
Dallas. Thank you. Dallas. I knew I was saying that wrong. You made it all fancy. I don't know what
I was doing. And looks like Minnesota's St. Paul Airport. The Minneapolis St. Paul. That one. I
know that one really well for obvious reasons, but that they actually have a really nice setup.
That's a sneaky good airport. It is. It really is. I didn't know that when I had to lay over there.
And I didn't know. I had to lay over to Minnesota when I was going out to California.
It's a weirdest thing. But yeah, I'm really glad I did. It was a nice airport. Yeah. So that's
your list of for fast food. Okay. If you are if you like variety, you should book a connecting flight
into Dallas for it worth another great airport. It has 19 different fast food chains to choose from.
It is like a mall. It is like. They did this a lot in Houston. The Houston Astero's where they
play. They play in a mall. They do. Yeah. That that that tropical field. That's a mall that
happens to have a baseball stadium in it. Right. And they did this a lot in Houston. Nothing.
I'm not talking trash about it. I like Houston. I enjoyed my time in Houston. There is no
everything's flat though in Houston. It's everything. A lot of Texas is flat. So yeah.
LaGuardia in New York only has one a Shake Shack in Terminal B. But technically Logan Airport
in Boston tied for worst as far as not not having a lot of writing. That's also the case
and Midway Airport in Chicago and seven more of America's 60 busiest airports. Yes. I have to say
that it's true in LaGuardia. It's hard to find because I've been that laid over in some
reason in LaGuardia a lot. It is hard to find food in LaGuardia. I don't know why, but they
I don't know. They're just not ready for it. I guess. I haven't been in New York. So I checked out
JFK or any of the airports out that way. But I've heard things like that my whole life.
And I'll say they don't have a hair on here. They're midway midway. I was the other airport.
Yeah. I always thought that oh hair was pretty good about this. Here's not bad. But yeah,
been there a few times. It's interesting. I'm I'm curious. What's other with the other
interesting thing is how many people aren't traveling this time of year. Usually. Yeah. This is
one of the busier times getting rid of for spring break and spring break. People just aren't
traveling this year like that. And when the and those that are are doing it by train or by
a car. So there you go. We're going to have a very interesting nine o'clock hour for you.
Everybody will have some entertainment news, then a write stories, some good stories of the day.
And we are going to continue our candidate series. We kick off the nine o'clock hour at 905
with Elizabeth St Meyers, Wisconsin Rabbit School Board candidate. And then we wrap up the hour
at with 9.50 with Eric Sayler, Port Edwards Village trustee. Very good. Looking forward to that.
Plenty more coming up for you right here on. This is locally grown radio WFHR 13.20 AM W248DE
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