Hour 2: Have a Great Weekend!

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 Jay. I am joined by our head of production set. Have a good morning. We're here to have some fun. Get you ready for the 10 o'clock hour and the whole weekend and a bunch of other good things. We're going to touch on some entertainment news to kick things off a little bit later. We're going to get into the long the 10 states with the longest work commute.

We've got that coming up. We'll also get into some of the right stories. Good stories of the day. Touch on our schedule for the weekend. All of that coming up for you. We kick things off with some entertainment news and Devon Sawa. I think that's how you say his name. Nice character actor late 90s early early. I believe he was in final destination and a couple of other roles. I think he even had a role in one of the X-Men movies. I'm almost positive he did. Good actor. Good young actor.

He played Eminem's in Stan and the video Stan and kind of famously in some ways a pretty well-known video with a pretty well-known song. Well he got that part in Eminem Stan video because of his role in the horror movie Final Destination. But he was not the first choice. He says quote they went out to McCulley Culkin first and I think they wanted him and he wasn't available or didn't want to do it or what have you. Luckily Dr. Dre had just seen Final Destination was a big fan.

He was like I want that kid. Wow. So they did not audition. They just reached out to him. He freaked out and was kind of more excited to do it. He went and died his hair that day just to play the play the Stan of Eminem and all this. And he says quote it's one of the proudest things I've been a part of. It's pretty cool. He didn't make Jack off of that. Nobody really remembers him being into the movie. But for him as an actor that you don't get a lot of opportunities.

He's especially as an actor at that point. You're working for the paycheck. I will never forget one of my favorite moments. An interview history I think.

Deezis and Merrow are interviewing Samuel Jackson. Sam go ahead you could tell us what movies have you done for the money? All of them. It doesn't miss a beat. All of them.

It's my job man. It's the work. I mean of course there are roles that you like to do like he talked about doing King Kong or the Godzilla movie or whatever.

Growing up like in those movies. So you want to do that one or whatever. But you know you're an actor. This is your job. Of course you're living.

Ask some ask a clerk. You know how much how much when what are the items you like to check out which are the items you don't.

You know what you do for the love of the game. I love that idea. But no Reese's peace. I have to sell a recess. Feel good. Yeah.

So you're absolutely right. You know especially when you're young. You know and it started your career kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. You do work. Will you do whatever work? Give me work.

Heck. Even at my point. I did the job I did yesterday. I didn't do because I wanted to was for the money. It was for the resume. Yeah. I mean I'd be completely honest about it. I'll tell them that. Yeah. Right. I pretty much think I did.

At least now last week's total solar eclipse pushed sound guards 1994 hit black hole sun to number one in the billboards hot hard rock songs chart. What?

That's hilarious. Number one. Wow. Last week alone it earned 4.2 million official streams which is up 34% and 2.5 million in radio

play audience which is up 19%. This is the first time sound garden has top this chart which was created back in 2020. Other songs I got a boost of course.

Bonnie Tyler's totally clips of the heart CCR's bad moon rising and pink Floyd's eclipse. Of course. We are predictable. Yeah. But I like that actually. I think that's kind of cool. That's not bad.

That's not bad at all. That's interesting. Someone should make a show like that. You know it's a good idea and then plays a bunch of songs. I love that idea. Isn't that a great idea? No. No. No. We shouldn't let this go man. Okay. In fact since you came up with the idea I think you should have the name your name in the title. I think that's fair. Okay. I think that's fair. So. Now hear me out. Okay. Hear me out. Seth listens to music. No. That doesn't sound right. That's not really recognized. Not really memorable.

Seth plays records. Not bad. Not bad. What about Seth plays eight tracks? Nobody's nobody's doing that. No. I got that whole lady to myself right now. You know. Or maybe Seth faces the music. Yeah. Maybe that would be a good one. Maybe that would be a good one.

More on that in a moment. I should just take the segue. But I do want to get into new music this weekend being released today. You've got new music from Ann Wilson. Rebel. This is our second album.

Not to be confused with Ann Wilson from Hart. No. Because a few Ann Wilson's out there. I should say Annie Wilson. I think it's her name. Annie Wilson.

The Melvins have tarantula heart out. This is their 27th album. The Melvins. The Melvins are still doing it. Good on you guys. Yeah. That's pretty impressive.

They've got a hardcore like a core following. Yeah. That just does everything. What was everything they do. So I appreciate them doing be sticking around for so long.

Local natives have a new one out there. Sixth album. But I'll wait for you. Another good one. Okay. You be 40 with their 21st album and recognition of their 45th anniversary. Wow. Wow. Good for you guys. And it's called you be 45, which is pretty good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Actually. That's not bad. You be 48.

Dark Matter from Pearl Jam. This is their 12th album. And it's been a little while since they released their own material. Not that long, but a little while since they have great to see them still pumping out.

Man, you know, I was looking for picking up some songs for like unlabeled or something. One of the two. And I saw you know on Google on sorry, sorry, sorry, YouTube. You know, so how many people subscribe to the Pearl Jam. It's over like one and a half million. It's crazy.

I had no idea. They were still going so strong, which is great. It's awesome. You'll be able to hear you be 40 and Pearl Jam. Not Pearl Jam, but you be 40 in the next unlabeled.

That's right. I'm going to have that lined up for you. That's going to be fun. And also, of course, the big one being released today, the tortured poets department from Taylor Swift. This is her 11th album. Her guests on this one include Post Malone and Florence and the machine. Wow.

So, you know, new music from her, of course, is always going to be ground, you know, make, make news and everything. I will admit, I like the name of the album. I like that. That's pretty good.

Not surprising to see her post Malone work together. Finally, I don't know if they have, but they are big fans of each other. So they, that's really cool.

It's not too surprising there. I will say it is a compliment to Taylor Swift. If you are going to do a song with Florence Welch, if you're going to do it with Florence Welch, you better be able to bring it.

And that's not me like that's not anybody. That's just have you heard Florence Welch to your God man. There's few singers alive right now that can do what that woman does.

She's got pipes. She is incredible. Watch her set in a live performance, watch any bit of her live and she will blow you away. This is interesting. So I listened to a little bit of the Beyonce new album and not a whole lot.

But what I did, what I've heard more of is a lot of people who really know music and really know like country music and genre music and all this and talking about it.

And there was a lot of compliments made to Beyonce and all that.

Excuse me, including a lot of the guests on the album and everything. One of the songs she does with Miley Cyrus.

Oh, yes. I remember hearing about that.

And if you don't know and if you're like me and not that familiar with Miley Cyrus and don't know that much and I'm being told by everybody, this is a banger, you got to hear it, you got to hear it.

And you have to hear it from one particular reason. I'm like, okay, whatever. And I listened to it. And I know Beyonce and I know what a powerful singer she is.

I want to apologize to Miley Cyrus right now. I had no idea how good that woman is.

That woman can sing. Like she has got a incredible unique voice and really like I forget that both of them have a kinship and that they started so young in this industry.

And many and for a long point of their lives, they were the breadwinner.

Like you think, well, Billy Ray Cyrus, he had a hit. Of course, no, no. He did not have money. He did not have those things.

They were making money off of their kids. And that's on a shot at the parents or anything like that. I'm not talking about any of that. I'm just saying how long they've been doing this since they were 12, 13 they've been doing this.

And then you hear them sing together. And I got to say, if I'm Beyonce, I'm not sure if I would have released that.

Other than I'm a big fan of her and I don't care if people think I could sing as good of her as not.

Because I don't think anybody's going to say Beyonce is not a great singer.

But I don't think enough people seem to realize how great Miley Cyrus of a singer she is.

She is saying good. I give a credit.

Well, I'm not a fan or anything like that. I'm not saying it like that. I'm just saying, geez, you know, give credit where it's due.

Well, and it's kind of what we're talking about about Samuel Jackson. It's their job.

You know, this is what they do and they're good at it. You know, that's kind of thing.

Now, and if you don't, you know, if you're not familiar with Miley Cyrus or you've heard some of her music,

not necessarily things that she gets to display her vocal chops a lot because it's, you know, dance music and that stuff.

It's fun and there's nothing wrong with it. But it's not necessarily she gets to let loose, you know, kind of thing.

And then when she gets to that thing, wow, you know, that's kind of cool that you get to hear that.

You hear her in this song and it's her like showing you, oh, I can sing.

Oh, wait, it's not just the party songs or anything like that. I can also bring it and she really did.

And then there's the melons who've released the same album 26 times.

Yeah, just so much. I'm just kidding.

Anyway, new on your small screen this weekend already premiering on Friday, today on Netflix Rebel Moon Part 2, the Scargiver,

the second half of Zack Snyder's Space Drama. A lot of people have been taking some shots at it.

I actually didn't think it was bad. I just, I, it's one of those things when they put, they put too much hype on stuff sometimes.

Yeah.

And, and to no fault of anybody's because you got to sell these things, I get all that.

But it does get to a point when you do that that the bar is set, you got to meet it.

I'll watch the second half only because I watch the first half to be out of it.

That's fascinating to me, you know, because certain properties are, I was going to get tons and tons of hype.

And if it's something that's like less than, you know, stellar, space joke.

Nice.

It's going to say, oh, it was overhyped. But now, take for instance, show gun.

Yes.

Which was also very hyped. But people are like, wow, this is amazing.

You know, this is such a great show. You don't hear, that was overhyped.

Yeah.

Because maybe it meets a certain standard. I don't know. Not the same standard, but a certain, you know.

But, you know, what people, people appreciate more, they say it's better, you know.

Yeah, what you have in your head.

Critical, critical acclaim.

Critical acclaim.

And audience acclaim.

And I think that, like Oppenheimer stood up to me, like all the hype that went into that.

And when I saw it, I'm like, actually, they could have sold it more.

Yeah, right.

So maybe, maybe it's, I think it all has to do with how things turn out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can check that out, everybody.

Also tonight on CBS 8 o'clock, the rebroadcast of Billy Joel's 100th Alive at Medicine Square Garden event.

Hopefully they'll let you hear the whole thing this time.

You can see after their epic fail.

Yeah.

Wow.

Roku has the serious premiere of The Spider-Wik Chronicles. It's a remake that stars Joe Joy Bryant.

And also Christian Bale is also in it as the villain.

Ooh.

Interesting. That's a big get for that.

That is. That's an interesting. He played a lot of villains lately.

He has.

That's interesting.

American Idol will be on on Sunday with the top 14 performers doing classic rock from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songs.

The current inductees, it looks like.

Also on A&E on Sunday WWE rivals, Hulk Hogan vs. Rock, Rannick Romm, Macho Man Randy Savage.

I couldn't read the title though.

Wow.

And they're wrestling each other.

Well, I think it's a bio kind of.

Oh, I'm like, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

They're too old to be doing that.

Yeah.

I don't think Macho Man's around.

No, I think you're right.

Yeah.

So that would be a very quick match.

Sorry.

That was.

No.

He's now the entertainment.

Oh, brother.

That was.

That was pretty good.

That was.

It tasteless.

Yes.

But.

Wow.

But funny.

I know.

He would have liked it.

Oh, he definitely would have liked it.

He definitely would have liked it.

He definitely would have liked it.

Not a lot being released in theaters this weekend.

You've got the Ministry of Ungentably Warfare in action comedy starring Henry Cavill and Carrie L.

He's been working a lot more lately.

He's been doing a lot more work.

Not big roles, but roles like this where he's got like 2016 lines or something.

Right.

And it's a.

I know it's a Jerry Brockheimer.

Yeah.

So there's going to be a lot of explosions in it.

But.

But I never thought I would see Carrie L.

With and moving.

That's really interesting.

Okay.

All right.

I think in part.

So this is about a Britain's first special forces mission to try to stop Hitler during World War II.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So there's going to be a lot of explosions in it.

Yeah.

Britain's first special forces mission to try to stop Hitler during World War II.

And you tend to see some of that sometimes with actors like him.

Hard Miles is an unlimited release.

Matthew Modine as the coach of a bicycling team at a medium security correctional facility.

Sean Aston is also in that one.

I like both those guys.

Yeah.

But it looks pretty good.

Yeah.

And Abigail.

It's a new horror where Giancarlo Esponito gathers a group of criminals.

The kidnap is a daughter.

And they find out the daughter.

She's a vampire.

Okay.

All of that you just said doesn't like my brain just broke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Giancarlo Esponito.

Yeah.

And then okay, Carrie on that vampire.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, Giancarlo Esponito.

He's so good.

He's so good.

He's so good.

Everything he does.

They got a great cast for this one.

There's a lot of really good actors in a Dan Stevens, Catherine Newton.

Melissa Barrera, a lot of good actors.

And I got a, like I'm not going to see this.

I'll be honest.

I'm probably not going to see it.

No, no.

But I will say if you're going to do a kidnapping movie or a vampire movie,

like at least they made it a little bit different.

They did.

I don't know if I've ever heard of a vampire or a kidnapping movie where the kid,

the kidnappers become the, you know, the haunted or any of that.

It's a nice twist.

It's a nice twist on it.

Maybe it is better than we think.

Anyway, we'll see.

You might see.

I don't know if I will.

Let's take a call before we go to break.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Hey, I heard you mentioned Kerry always.

That's the guy from the princess bride.

Am I correct?

You are correct.

Mm-hmm.

That's okay.

That's what I thought.

Yeah, great.

I figured I'd ask you guys because you know everything.

We guess that a lot.

But Seth, you are from the homeland.

And I got to ask you a question totally off topic.

Is it true?

And I think we're about the same age.

I mean, at one time in Minnesota,

there was only one pizza hut number to call for the entire state.

I want that to be true.

I do too.

I doubt it, highly.

But I never heard that before.

No.

Let's just go ahead.

I mean, nowadays facts don't matter.

Let's just go ahead.

Okay, it was.

It was true.

College, my mom worked at the pizza hut in Duluth.

So I wonder, I have to ask her.

See if she remembers anything like that.

It's not a crazy, like, wow, when a crazy connection,

that he would ask that question.

Did that happen?

Oh, that's crazy.

No, but like I was watching a lot of these retro commercials and stuff.

And there was it was any, any number anywhere in Minnesota,

but there was only one number.

It was like one eight eight nine eight or so.

Wow, maybe that maybe there was.

That's cool.

I love the idea of there's like one pizza hut working their tail off

and all of it.

So I just work it like crazy.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It's a call center in Minneapolis.

Yeah.

Your pizza will be there in six hours.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Actually six and a half, man.

Actually, yeah, probably six and a half.

It's winter.

Yeah.

Great call.

Thank you, man.

That was good.

Yeah.

Have a great weekend.

Great call.

Oh.

We got to get to break.

We'll come back and have some more fun talking longest commutes in the country.

Coming up.

Good morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you getting ready for the weekend.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Mm-hmm.

I'm convinced that song was hit just because of that.

Oh, yeah.

It's because of the shouting.

If you have a bunch of people shouting, it sounds good.

People love it.

People love it.

They sing along, yeah.

People love songs that they get to have the part where they get to sing along

and be a singer.

Yeah, exactly.

I think Sweet Caroline is probably a big, big song.

But because of the people being able to sing along with it, it becomes a legendary song.

Yeah.

You know, bizarrely becomes a legendary song.

Yeah.

There's no way Neil Simon saw that one coming.

Or no.

You need a one of them.

You need a one of them.

Nobody named Neil saw that coming.

Someone asked.

He says Neil Simon.

Yeah.

And about that song, we can't keep talking about.

You realize I didn't write that, right?

I've written a lot of good stuff.

But I didn't write that one.

If you don't work from home and you have a morning commute, this might be more something

that you interest you until someone figures out teleporting and all that.

We're going to be stuck with this old transferring to get into work and all that.

Yeah.

US Department of Energy just released some new stats on the average commute time by state.

The report is new, but the data is from 2022.

Overall, the average one-way commute in America is 27 minutes.

Wow.

That's long.

Yeah.

The state where people are spending the most time commuting is New York.

Shocker.

People there spend 33 minutes getting to work.

Maryland is second, followed by New Jersey, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts.

High 95.

Yeah.

Yes.

High 95 corridor yet.

California is only six as at under 30 minutes, despite its notorious crammed freeways.

A sub-30 commute in LA is a perk.

Yeah.

I agree with that.

And that's just LA.

Let's be, you know.

Yeah.

California is a big state.

And I know LA is big, but come on.

Isn't the whole thing.

And this gives me a chance to be a nerd and talk about the main reason why this is.

And there is a lot of data and a lot of different things that will tell you.

But if you notice, the majority of these are in our oldest part of our country.

Yep.

Where we were first designing roads.

And again, thinking of things that nobody could predict.

Nobody could predict the population that we saw.

Nope.

And the quickness of that population, the advent of cars.

The fact that cars became the mode of transportation.

That was not a given.

So many, there are still roads in Boston and everything that we're designed for horses.

That are being used.

Narrow.

You have cobblestone.

You have cobblestone.

You add on all of those factors and onto the top of all the things you just said.

And yeah, it's not so surprising that you would see obviously New York,

but the Maryland District Columbia ones, New Jersey obviously,

and then you throw Massachusetts in there.

Yeah.

That's not too surprising.

I just hadn't thought about it before.

That makes sense.

If you want to move to a state with a short commute, consider both the Dakotas.

South and North Dakota have an average commute time of less than 18 minutes.

Here's irony.

That was probably my longest commute.

That's weird.

When I lived in North, because I worked in Fargo, but I lived outside of Fargo,

and I had to go downtown, which was as far as I could go and still be in the state.

So I had like a 45 minute commute when I worked in North Dakota.

So I don't know.

I'm a little off.

That's actually kind of interesting.

And let's see here.

Wyoming is the next.

Oh, yeah.

Wyoming is the next shortest followed by Montana, Nebraska, and Alaska.

Of course, not surprising.

Why do open spaces all over the place?

Yeah.

I bet you that commute is probably a little bit more.

You get to see a little more beauty to it.

That's true.

It's a little surprising that vast states like these would have shorter commutes than cities with public transportation.

But even if you're covering less distance, you have to factor in walking to and from mass transit,

along with the wall weight times.

That's right.

Makes sense.

And you can find out this complete article at energy.gov, energy.gov.

What about Wisconsin?

Where do they rank?

I'm seeing that Wisconsin, as far as average commute time, way down on the list.

I would say bottom 50.

It doesn't have this numbered.

Yeah.

But just eyeball in it.

I'd say bottom 15, bottom 10.

Not bad.

No.

You got the Dakota's Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Alaska.

Iowa, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, and then Wisconsin.

Hmm.

Okay.

So not too bad considering.

Yeah.

I got nothing to complain about.

Not really.

I've been working at this station for a long time.

And both stations were located.

That was pretty close.

And even now we don't even have to worry about trains anymore.

Yeah.

So it's like even better.

You know?

It does bring us back to the public transportation conversation.

And not only for us here in a rural area like this, but just in general, the importance of public

transportation.

And how, along with infrastructure, infrastructure, these are things that I want our next president,

I want our next governor, I want our next senator, et cetera, et cetera, to be talking about, to be thinking about.

I don't care if it's not a sexy topic.

I don't care.

We need to cover these things.

Yeah.

I feel like everybody's already forgotten about the bridge collapse that just happened.

And was that because of infrastructure not completely, not all completely?

And there's still data being collected and a lot of good work being done by people over there.

But we know for darn sure that it played a part.

It had a factor in it.

Yeah.

That is known.

That is there.

And it's not the only one.

It wasn't too long ago that we had a bridge collapse in Minnesota.

It wasn't about 15 years ago, yeah.

Yeah.

It was devastating and everything.

Why do we have to wait for natural disasters or for disasters to do something?

What is it, the society civil engineers, every year they come up with a grade and it's always D minus.

Yeah.

You know, I don't think we've gotten to F yet, but I mean, it's sad.

I mean, we, most still, so many of the big projects are from the 1930s.

In the 1930s, it's almost been 100 years.

So much of this is our own fault.

Oh, yep.

Because politicians want to get voted in.

And they don't want to talk about this because, well, it might, it'll involve raising taxes.

And people lose their minds at the idea of their taxes being raised.

Do you not understand the world you live in?

If you don't like this, there are maybe other countries you can go to that don't go, you know, operate the way we do here.

If you're here, play along, pay your dang taxes, quit complaining about paying your taxes.

Obviously, pay attention to it.

There are certain things like property taxes and all those things.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about like governmental taxes.

Those are your state taxes and these things that pay for our roads, that pay for our infrastructure, that pay for our schools.

All things that matter for the future.

Yep.

Quit looking at the universe and the world just from your perspective and how it affects you.

You got a lot of other people to share this with.

Because here's the thing.

Doing these things, this infrastructure and everything helps everyone.

Including you.

Yes.

And it has effects on things you don't even think about.

Okay?

You know, cost of living.

Things like that.

You know, having enough jobs in your area.

How can people go to jobs if they can't get to them?

How can they do jobs if they can't get to their jobs?

I mean, it seems pretty simple to me.

This is such basic knowledge.

Yeah.

I don't know how much more it could be broken down.

Really?

Maybe we can get a schoolhouse rock out of there.

Something like that.

Maybe we'll work on that.

Yeah.

We'll be working on that during the commercial break.

You guys stick around for state local news and entertainment in there for you as well.

We'll come back with some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Little dire straits to play Seth and Ion.

Those just memorable bands.

I love Mark Noffler.

Yeah, great guitarist.

I was just going to say, you know, there's a really, really good guitar player.

We're here to take it to the top of the hour.

We've got some good stuff coming up for you.

One more break as well.

But we'll get into this one.

Are these once loved movies cringey now?

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

It's an interesting talk.

Gringing already.

Yeah, yeah.

Because I immediately, I mean, I just even a glance at this list.

And there are no chronological order.

But certain jokes, plot details and movies.

Once we loved and laughed at as a kid now watching like with through like, you know,

embarrassed eyes and things like that.

So how have all of these held up?

Well, some of them better than others, I'd imagine.

Okay.

And we're just going to take a look at the list real quick here.

And again, they're in no particular order.

At number 11, the blind side from 2009.

Certainly with the information that we have gotten from both the family and Michael Orr,

you know, who knows what was true and what wasn't.

Well, and of course, and I mean, it was fictionalized of Count, of course,

from the book because, you know, the book itself was different from that.

All of Michael Lewis's books, you know, you have to change them in order to make up film out of it.

But still, I mean,

you can't not see it in a new light.

Yeah.

Now when you think about everything that Michael Orr said and everything that's consensed then.

So it does change it, you know, and which is kind of bad because, you know,

Sandra Bullock didn't have anything to do with that.

She just did a really good performance, you know.

It's the part of it that does, well, obviously, whatever it bad happened for either side,

Michael Orr, or the family or whatever, you'd feel bad for.

But it's, I don't know, I'm a big Sandra Bullock fan.

I, I don't think that there's going to be a lot of opportunities for her to win Oscars, to win awards like that.

To have your, your Oscar kind of tied to something like that.

I feel for her given that she's such a likable great, like performer.

Yeah.

And has been a good, like, you know, citizen and all these things.

Yeah, that's a shame.

Garden State comes up next.

Garden State from 2004.

I do not, I never saw this movie.

It's kind of remarkable how quickly the tide turned on Garden State a year after it was at Sundance,

at Sundance, Darling, a critical and commercial success, won a Grammy for the soundtrack,

Chock full of early 2000s pop hits and everything.

But to distill Garden State as the naval gazing pity party it actually is.

It's a depicting deputation of mental illness.

It's bizarre at best, dangerous at worst.

It's a coming of age movie for people who's coming of age has come and gone long ago.

And it's much too coddling.

So there's a lot of that to it, I guess.

Right.

And I haven't seen it either.

But one thing they mentioned in there are our views of mental health have changed so much over the years that

there's certain ways that they were depicted in the past that just aren't good.

It's very weird.

Zach Braff, he's got scrubs.

He's got a star rising and all these things.

He puts a lot into this movie rights.

I believe directs it.

As they say in the article here, he becomes a darling for a little bit.

He does.

Then he demolishes almost all that good when people start dissecting the movie.

And then he is trying to sell to literally every studio in the country, Garden State 2.

And nobody wants it.

So then he goes to a GoFundMe page and starts telling people that they have to make the movie and fund it for him.

And when you're a million dollar, you know, who knows what Zach Braff is?

Who knows?

But the audience is seeing a Hollywood actor asking for money.

That kid is lucky to do commercials now.

Like that's how bad these things, these events happen.

And that's how quickly, like literally almost overnight, his star goes from up top to now I'm begging to get commercials.

And the only reason I do is because I'm friends with Donna Faeson.

It's crazy.

Yeah, it's crazy to think of.

And he hasn't helped himself any in interviews and some other stuff too.

But it's just really weird to see.

Donna Faeson is awesome.

Donna Faeson is underrated.

He's underrated.

He's underrated.

He's awesome.

Love actually shows up on this list from 2003.

A lot of me two stuff in this one.

A lot of the whole, hey, you know, a lot of people romanticized some of the movie.

And now looking back on the kind of like, well, that doesn't seem real.

Yeah, that doesn't seem right.

It's a heart balance of what is romantic or what is it?

A movie that I love, but I will wholeheartedly admit does not hold up very well.

The Boondock Saints from 1999.

But I also think that there's something to consider with a movie like that too,

is did you watch that movie before it's historical accuracy or that it would hold up or anything?

Are you watching it because you want to see some, you know, guns go off.

Right, right, right.

Right, right.

There's a little bit of that, I think we're both.

Also, American Pie.

Obviously that movie has a lot of knowledge.

Oh, God.

Now keep this in mind.

It was pretty when it came out.

I'm sorry.

American Beauty as well as an age level for a number of reasons.

Yeah.

It never made sense to me in the first place.

Why that movie was so celebrated?

I have no idea other than a bunch of middle-aged white guys imagining themselves in Kevin Spacey's role

and propelling the movie up top.

Which is just icky.

On a lot of levels.

Yeah.

Creepy.

No.

No, we're not.

The Kevin Spacey part of too.

Yeah, yeah.

That's more than cringey.

I want to know.

That's like, I got to take a shower, you know, kind of thing.

When it comes to when they talk about overrated movies, it's one of the first movies to pop

of my head.

I didn't understand it at the time and it didn't just not age well.

It didn't age at the time.

I see now we need to come up with one of these lists.

Most overrated Oscar best pictures.

Absolutely.

We're doing that.

Yeah.

We need to do that.

Mark that one down.

Maybe we can do that in director's cut.

Yeah.

That's a director's cut.

So I'm looking forward to that.

And so American Pie and American Beauty.

Interesting.

Both of them with American.

That's interesting.

So those are from 1999.

I think when we think of these movies, we're thinking of the 80s, the 70s, the 80s.

Braveheart from 1995.

Historically, horribly inaccurate.

Yeah.

There are kids.

There are kids that grew up having this movie in history class that they would watch it and stuff.

And look, it's not to say it's not a, it's a bad movie.

That's not necessarily the case.

Right.

And obviously the Mel Gibson angle on it does give a little bit of, you know,

the off the screen stuff will color this movie.

Yes.

But it's just there's so many historical inaccuracies.

And while here in the States, we may love that movie.

How do you think they feel in Scotland about that movie?

I'd be curious to find a Scottish person and ask them that question.

Yeah.

How do you feel about a non-Scottish person doing that?

Courgiously filmed movie.

What's great.

The movies was, we're underserving at the time Robert, the Bruce's Rebellion kills didn't exist yet.

Blue, Wode, a face paint went out of style centuries earlier.

William Wallace's love, interest, princess, and labella would have been 10 years old.

Oh.

When that happened, you know, historically and everything.

Ooh.

He did not do.

He did not do.

He did the French, you know, McQueen or whatever, any of these things.

Like all of this stuff, like none of it happened.

And it's just kind of celebrated that's this great historical movie.

Ah, you know.

Doesn't, I mean, and it's, I've met her degree.

Can you say like Oppenheimer's probably more historically accurate?

Yeah.

But they still took license because it's a movie.

That's why you got to do.

And that's something to keep in mind with this too.

While there are some movies that, yeah, I would not recommend watching anymore

or letting anybody see you watching that movie.

There's other ones where, hey, if you like Braveheart, that's fine.

Enjoy the movie.

Just understand that it's not historically accurate.

Just taking that into consideration.

I think that there's plenty of space for both.

You can do both.

It's all you.

Yep.

And I'm, I never like, you know, one of the things I can't stand.

I'm a huge Mike Patton fan.

Mike Patton leads singer Faith No More, Mojo, you know, a couple of bands.

Mr. Bungle, all that.

But I heard him in an interview recently kind of trashing another band.

And that bothers me because it comes from a sense of, you know, a music snobbery.

You know, like, look, if you don't like the band, that's one thing.

But when you start telling other people you shouldn't listen to this

or you shouldn't do this or whatever, that bothers me with entertainment.

To use their own.

You know, you like something?

I don't have a Taylor Swift song on my playlist.

If you do, more power to you.

It's not for me.

She's doing fine without me.

I don't like when people get that way.

It's one thing to have your own opinion about something.

I don't like this or whatever.

When you start judging other people for their taste, that's for one, look in the mirror.

It's all subjective.

Yeah, we've all got something that we don't, you know, we wouldn't be necessarily proud of.

That's why they're called guilty pleasures.

Yeah, that's right.

Which, another good show idea.

Another good show idea.

Guilty pleasures.

Yeah, top guilty pleasures.

Oh, I like that.

And somebody writing these down to some forest gump shows up on this list.

Yeah.

No, I have completely turned around my thinking about that movie.

Again, that's tough.

The movie itself is not, the performances are good.

Yes.

Tom Hanks, Gary Sinese, you know, Robin Wright.

They all do marvelous in that movie.

There's some really great acting in that.

Really great.

When I found out that Winston groomed the writer of the novel, it was a satire.

Yeah.

And Robert Zemeckis turned it into sincere.

Yeah.

It's problematic because of the way that it's presented.

Yeah.

It really is problematic.

So I'm not, I don't, if I never see forest gump again, I'm fine.

I'm willing to celebrate the actors that were in it.

Right.

Because they did a good job, but that's it.

That's where I'm done.

You know, all the actors you mentioned, I just will, you mentioned Tom Hanks, of course,

Tom Hanks and Sally Field are integral to me to why I watched that movie, why I liked

that movie so much.

So good.

But again, I, so even though Zemeckis didn't intend for it to be, I went into it and approached

it like a satire and felt that way above it.

There was, it was almost too silly, not too, in many ways.

In a lot of ways, you're right.

When it started getting all the notoriety and all the awards and all that, that's when

I was a little like, whoa, like people were taking it sincerely.

Yeah.

Didn't we not realize what was going on here?

And apparently, Robert Zemeckis didn't either.

If you watched that movie for the, take this with a grain of salt, the fun of it.

You know, for certain aspects of it.

The silliness of it.

Yeah.

Certain aspects of the silliness.

But when you talk about Lieutenant Dan and his story, you talk about Robert Wright's

character and her story.

Like, they are really badly done.

Like, they are really, really badly done.

The way that they cover, basically, just with like one line HIV, you know, or something like that.

The way that they cover, you know, PTSD or, or our, our Vietnam, that trends and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Disabled people.

Yeah.

And when they're basically making fun of him in many ways and stuff like that.

I know for one thing, I know Gary Sunniste didn't feel that great about that part of it,

but really did appreciate, of course, the awareness that it's something brought.

It's one of these mixed bags.

And then there's movies like 16 candles.

Oh.

And basically anything that came out from, like, 1988 and earlier, like anything from 80 to 88.

I don't want to reimagine the nerds.

Like, I've been just, you know, so many of them.

I don't want to cast this version on John Hughes.

Yeah.

He made movies that were popular.

I love John.

And people really like those movies they're well made, but they just don't hold up.

They just don't.

They can't.

It just doesn't work anymore.

I watched the Breakfast Club maybe a couple of years ago.

And I love, if you asked me before I watched it.

Oh, that's one of my all-time favorite movies.

That movie influenced me.

I love that movie.

Were there some parts of it that I still enjoyed?

Yeah, definitely.

But overall, oh, wow.

Oh, that's got some problems in it, man.

That's got some tough stuff in it.

And this isn't, it's not revisionist history.

It's not canceling history.

It's not any of that.

It is taking things with a grain of salt.

It is having some context with this stuff.

100%, man.

Beth and I, like I said earlier, we went on Monday to watch the Philadelphia story.

There's problems with that movie.

Okay.

It's made in 1940.

Yeah.

Okay.

There are problems with that movie, but you understand that going into it.

Okay.

So I'm not, we're not, yeah, let's be clear.

We're not saying, you know, don't watch 16 candles ever.

But just go into it, understanding what you're going to see.

Yeah.

And then it was a different time and everything.

We do not have to say, whatever.

We can still say, no, that's problematic.

Yeah.

We can do that.

And you can still watch it.

We can use these as examples of opportunities to bring these things up to be able to talk

about these things.

It's important.

Yeah.

You can, you can do two things at once.

We, we got to get back to that as a society of almighty people.

You know, you can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Although I love the idea of like just a line of people just standing there chewing gum.

And just waiting to be able to walk again.

Okay.

I'm done chewing now.

Let's go.

This is an average thing we see in American society.

Oh, there's a bunch of gumptures.

I love that.

Oh, dark gumptures.

I'm just standing there.

I love that idea, man.

We will take a time.

We'll come back.

More fun on the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

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Thank you so much, everybody.

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Oh.

I was just thinking about that sunrise show has been making fun of the morning show because it has a sponsor.

It has a sponsor.

And it has a sponsor.

As the host of both of these shows, let me tell you, I'm really tired of them bickering back and forth.

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They're siblings.

You know, it's a sibling ride.

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Yeah, we don't do that.

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We're not going to just do read the pull.

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That ain't right story time.

Tim Hortons will have to sell a lot of coffee to pay for this.

If it happens, a guy in Canada named Darren Stewart Jones got an email from Tim Hortons on Wednesday telling him he'd won $40,000 fishing boat.

It was the grand prize in a contest.

They've been running called a roll up to win.

And as you'd imagine, be very excited until an hour later when a buddy called him and said he'd also want a boat.

The same boat.

Uh-oh.

Turns out it was a mistake.

Tim Hortons apparently told everyone they won the boat.

So thousands of people, if not more, got the alert.

Oh, no.

They sent up a follow-up email telling people to disregard the both thing, but now a ton of angry Canadians are threatening them with a class action lawsuit.

And how many times in your life have you heard angry Canadians?

I think that is quite possibly the most terrifying thing I've ever heard.

Yeah, yeah.

You got to get them.

Do you get Canadians that angry, man?

You got to do something wrong.

You really, really?

No.

Oh, you're like, think about that.

And these are people too who have been like pent up.

Like they've been holding onto a lot of anger over things and stuff.

So now they've got an opportunity to get it out on you.

Someone started a Facebook group called Tim Hortons.

You want a boat group?

Nearly 2,000 people have joined it already just as of last night.

Wow.

They probably won't.

Oh, and they're all demanding boats.

Like that.

Okay, now you lost.

You lost me a little bit there.

They grow up, okay?

Yeah.

That probably won't happen because the fine prince says Tim Hortons says

to write to cancel a mend or suspense.

Of course.

Boy, is there attorneys like taking a high five right now?

Yeah.

Yeah, you see why you have us?

You see why you hire us?

We just say Tim Hortons going bankrupt if that didn't happen.

Yeah, right.

But they might get something because this has happened before.

Two Tim Hortons last year.

What does this happen?

They didn't fix it.

In March of 23, they told a bunch of people that they had one $10,000 catch.

Each customer ended up getting a $50 gift card for their trouble.

To be fair, that's a lot of Tim Hortons.

$50 is worth because there's stuff not that expensive.

But at the same time, dude, why did you fix it in the intro?

Come on, guys.

What's going on over it?

Up there.

Up there in Canada.

Yeah, I don't know.

But boy, in Canadians, I love the idea of that.

Take off, eh?

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey.

We're coming before you.

Coming for to have boat there, eh?

Yeah.

And what about my boat?

Our midday magazine is where we start our pellet cleanser for today.

And we're going to have fun.

Because in part one, we're going to have Wisconsin State Senator Patrick Teston joining us via the phone.

Always a good conversation with Senator Teston.

Got a couple of bills that have been passed recently.

And a couple that haven't that we're going to get into with these senators.

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And in part two, we were supposed to be joined by our friends in Wood County Health Department.

They are unable to join us.

That is okay.

We understand their day job comes first.

And we appreciate everybody over at the Wood County Health Department.

We will have a best of episode for you in part two.

Yes.

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And then next week a little bit.

Yeah.

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And then we will not have our Sunday night lineup for you tonight.

This Sunday because we got bucks playoff basketball.

Yep.

Yep.

Pregame starts at five thirty.

The tip off is at six.

So let's.

It's the first game.

Wow.

Let's see how it's going to be an interesting.

It is.

It is going to be interesting.

Yeah.

They do something.

I want to.

I want to box timber wolves final.

I love that.

Would that be awesome?

That'd be pretty darn cool.

I like to see that.