Good morning, Wisconsin.
Good morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off of us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
804 on the clock, got your host, James J. I am joined by your head of news, Melissa K.
Good morning.
Our head of production, Seth Habhacker.
Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
Hope you had a great weekend.
We're going to be kicking things off with a good friend, Brittany Merlot, talking a little
bit of Mother Nature.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
How are you guys?
Doing good.
How are you doing?
Good.
Good.
Is the fog still hanging out by you or what's the looking for?
It's not just outside, Brittany.
I think it's between my ears, too.
It's just slow start of the day here, it's me, too.
I hear it.
It's about day.
Right?
We're just going to shake it off.
We're just going to shake it off.
Exactly.
While we're definitely looking at some low visibility if you're traveling around this morning, drop
down to about a quarter of a mile at times.
And the closer you get, of course, to Lake Michigan, the worst it's going to be.
But all of this is riding along a warm front.
So we're going to warm things up today to the mid-60s.
And we're actually going to see some of these scattered showers just push out of here and
dry on out through the afternoon.
So it's going to be a decent afternoon.
We'll be stuck under mostly cloudy skies, though.
Winds at about 15 to 20 miles per hour.
And maybe a rumble of thunder this afternoon, but nothing will be severe.
And only a few of us will see that.
So nothing too crazy or widespread.
Like we had to endure this weekend, but soaking rain, yeah.
Just a soggy weekend.
It was.
It's a soggy weekend.
I have to admit, I loved it.
I like it.
You did?
You did.
Melissa and Worms.
Those are the list of...
Worms.
They're my buddies.
I'll enjoy the weekend.
Definitely enjoy the weekend.
Pretty wee.
Appreciate you.
See you tomorrow.
You too.
Bye-bye.
Best of the business right there.
I'm Brittany Merlot.
Join us every Monday, right in this time.
Every morning, right in this time slot.
We hope you're having a great, had a good weekend and you're having a good start to your
day.
Everybody.
Good things lined up for you throughout the whole day today.
We're going to kick things off in a little bit with the LKFA birthday and anniversary
club.
Looking forward to diving into that.
All right.
We'll also have how many of us have zero interest in squeezing cute things.
Um.
Because you see something.
But when you put it that way.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
It's Monday.
It's Monday.
I want to squeeze cute things.
Yes.
Bring them on.
That sounded like a threat.
Actually.
A little bit.
A little bit.
A little bit.
But it was great.
We got that.
Come on Monday.
What it takes to be rich in all 50 states.
We'll get into that one.
Money?
Yeah.
Right.
Yes.
We got to say, okay.
Does that one's over with?
All right.
We don't have to do that one.
We figured it out.
You're welcome.
The 9 o'clock hour will kick off as every Monday does with the kitchen's open segment.
Really nice one lined up for you today.
Shout out to Melissa for that.
I'm looking forward to it.
Afterwards, we'll get into a little bit of entertainment news.
I want to touch on a couple of fun things regarding it being a very special birthday today.
I want to touch on that.
Uh.
Jerry Seinfeld has a word for comics out there when it comes to the PCism.
Um.
That feed did a lot of comic.
The comedian's standard comedians are scared of nowadays.
Uh.
I've got that.
But I have one for us that I think would be a lot of fun.
Do these movies cure your childhood nostalgia?
And we've got different movies from different decades.
We're going to touch on those.
Want to hear from the audience about that.
Yeah.
Got some local.
Yeah.
That's an interesting word to use.
Yes.
You're all sick.
You're all sick with this nostalgia.
Report.
I'm going to cure it.
Reports today coming in with over half the country.
We're dozing a nostalgia.
More news at 11.
Um.
We've got all that coming up for you.
Of course.
And I want to touch on some local auditions going on in town here today.
Want to mention all that.
We've got a lot of special birthdays to get to with the L.K.F.A.
Burton anniversary club.
All these things coming up.
Uh.
Did everybody have a good weekend?
Melissa sounds like you definitely did.
Oh, I enjoyed the rain for sure.
Yeah.
Good.
Right on.
Good on you.
I'm with you by the way of that.
Um.
Like being in the rain.
Yeah.
Like walking around in the rain.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Listening to it.
Watching it.
Yeah.
Every single other thing about the rain I'm good with.
Yeah.
I always I feel like I could have on like five pairs of galoshes and still have wet socks.
And I can't stand wet socks.
It's the fear of wet socks.
It's something that's got to be it.
It's something that's got to be it.
It's something that's got to be it.
It's just sweat when he starts fearing wet socks.
What socks.
Oh, self-fulfilling prophecy.
Oh, I figured that.
Oh, it's all comfortable.
It's all comfortable.
It's all comfortable.
I could solve that for you, James.
Oh.
I had to tell you.
I had a really fun experience on Friday night that I'm actually going to get to talk about
on Peach Wabba show tonight.
I went to the DVD party for the film I worked on eight years ago.
I didn't know if you want to talk about this.
I didn't want to put you on the spot.
I only got it done.
Oh, that's so cool.
I'm so excited for you when I heard about this.
Did you have a good time?
Yeah, it was fun.
It was fun to see.
You know, not everybody could make it, obviously.
But some of the people who were integral to getting the film done in Tomah came.
Like the people who had donated period cars.
Like we had cars from the 70s.
Nice.
Like bicycles and, you know, different big prop pieces to make the film authentic.
So it was neat to see them.
And of course, the director Steve and Holloway and his brother Jeff.
I have a relationship with Jeff much like the relationship Seth and I have.
Oh, okay.
It was a good time.
And then watching the film was a lot of fun.
That's great.
Now, just a real little note on this, Melissa, this was a film that you did a while ago.
You've been waiting for it to be released.
Oh, yeah.
We did it and we filmed it in 2016.
We had the premiere of the film in 2019 in Tomah.
But he hasn't finished finished it until now.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
Because he's such a nitpicker.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Everything had to be perfect.
The music had to be perfect.
The lighting had to be perfect.
Other than that, he just wasn't happy with it and had to redo something.
Okay.
But it was fun because on the film, he included all of like a whole bunch of outtakes and back scenes stuff.
Oh, cool.
I love that stuff.
Nice.
That's very cool.
I'll share it with you guys at some point.
It's about a half an hour long, the actual film.
So it's not too bad.
Be and the look up for his next project with George R.R. Martin.
Yeah.
He just said he wants to do a feature-length film because this was the short of the full screenplay that he had written about this.
But I'll talk more about that on Pete's show tonight.
You'll have to tune in.
Be sure to do that, everybody.
Melissa, just be able to be at all these different shows.
I know.
Well done, Melissa.
Nicely done.
Everybody wants Melissa.
Yeah.
She's right.
She's always been the one that makes the rest of us look at this.
I'll be telling you what I'm ambassador to.
Just us here at WFHTruck.
That's all.
Just here.
You know, I talk about your stuff.
Your station.
Not bad.
None of it's bad except for what I say about Seth.
Yeah.
The art of acting and doing projects and giving of your work and putting so much into it.
And then you never see it.
Like it's something that I don't know a lot of actors that can relate to that aren't professional actors.
I always say if I find that really unique and I'm so excited for you that you get to kind of get a full circleness with that Melissa.
That's very, very cool.
Thank you.
Good on you.
Yeah.
A shout out to everybody apart of that film.
Yeah.
Everybody that works so hard on that and everything.
So we're good.
Congratulations to everybody of it.
Love it.
Very cool.
I was your weekend, Seth.
It was crazy.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
We, Beth and I were in just outside of Wautoma at Mount Morris Camp in Retreat Center.
Is that what it's called?
Okay.
Our church had one of its big meetings in it this weekend.
I was a delegate.
And of course, Beth being clergy has to be there as well as vote on, you know, legislation for that kind of thing.
I'd never done that before.
And it was, it was a really great experience.
I have to say it was, it was, it was a, it was a lot of worship involved, obviously.
And we did, we had, we had some fun songs.
We had a little Bee Gees.
It's a worship.
It's a stain line.
We had some Tom Petty.
We had some Katie Perry.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wanted to sing The Hills Are Alive in church and my mother said, no, we had this fabulous
young man from Milwaukee, Eli.
And he was, because we had a band set up, you know, the drum set.
He was a fabulous drummer.
He had a song that he had written.
It had a rap in it and everything.
And it was, I mean, during worship.
So that was really cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I got to see everyone, you know, from the Western District of the Brave Church.
And a lot of people, I haven't seen it in a long time.
Some from the other churches we've, that Beth and I have been at.
So that was kind of fun.
I'm really happy to hear that.
Yeah.
But the whole experience was really cool.
I got to meet some new people.
Yeah.
It was great.
So happy to hear that.
Yeah.
Good for both of you.
You and Beth, that's really good to hear.
I do have a, you make me think of something that I have a side note of.
And of all the wheelhouses, this is probably the lease of my wheelhouses.
It's anything involving church, you know.
Right.
That's just something that I haven't had a chance to experience much in life.
But I know that talking to some younger people and actually doing a sketch last year,
where we were doing hymns, like a typical kind of,
Oh, yeah.
From what I understand, I should say, a typical Sunday morning church service.
Right.
And the hymns that we were doing, but the hymns that we were doing weren't in the same language
as the people that were like, it was all in like a different language and all this.
And people couldn't keep up and stuff.
It was an interesting sketch.
It was kind of fun.
But one of the things that came of that that I found out was that they've,
I don't want to say they've modernized.
But a lot of churches around the world that will specifically here in America
have really tried to incorporate more modern music.
And I say modern in quotations, but a bit modern.
Is that the case?
Is that been happening more?
That is the case with a lot of different.
That's cool.
They usually call it like a contemporary service to differentiate it from the more traditional songs
than hymns that you would do for that kind of thing.
But a lot of churches are doing that.
For a lot of different reasons, because you know, some people want to participate more.
You know, they're more familiar with those kinds of songs and that sort of thing.
So I just, I admire anything that evolves.
Anything that is willing to change.
There's virtually very few things other than breathing.
There's not much that we're doing now that we were doing a hundred years ago,
200 years ago, that kind of thing.
The idea that we continue to do something just because we've always done it that way.
Yeah.
Like that frustrates me so much and I'm seeing it more and more in life.
Right.
And it just is so ridiculous.
There's so many things that we do that way that it's like,
why are we doing it this way?
Well, we've always done it that way.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, time to change the game, man.
Yeah.
That's cool to hear.
It can only be a positive, either.
Right.
And that was one of the main things that we were talking about at the Senate too,
was how do we change?
You know, how do we make church different?
How do we reach out to the community and that sort of thing?
Yeah.
Very cool.
Make it inclusive.
Exactly.
Well done.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Everybody out there.
Thanks so much for making it and making it back to the show here.
We're going to phone with you all week.
Kick off our segment right here.
Some people have strong feelings about this.
So let's go ahead and hear from the audience as well.
715-424-2600.
Just a touch or two away for listening on the Civic Media app.
If you're ordering a breakfast sandwich like a bacon egg and cheese.
Mm-hmm, bacon egg and cheese.
Oh, what's the best possible bread option?
Ooh.
Hundreds of people voted and had these five options to choose from.
English muffin, bagel, croissant, roll, or toast.
Okay.
Around one in seven people said none of these,
because they don't like breakfast sandwiches,
so they don't count.
Well, that's good.
Why, get out of the way.
Yeah, at least get out of here.
We don't need you.
Oh, of the people who do like them, the winner is
English muffin with 26% of the vote.
Ooh, overcorded.
Is that runner up, croissant?
Nope, bagel came into a 23%.
Toast at 21, croissant at 20, and a roll at 10.
Okay.
That was close though.
Croissant is my choice.
Yeah, that was also good.
Croissant, your choice, Melissa?
Yeah.
Okay.
I will go bagel croissant.
Most places have it on a croissant,
so that's what I'm used to reading is that on a croissant.
Shut up to Quick Trip.
Drink one.
They got a great one over there.
That's always what I get.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I do love it on a bagel.
I am of sucker for anything on a bagel.
There's none of those I would turn down.
Oh, yeah.
I really don't, sometimes it's good to change it up,
because every now and then there's nothing like one on a bagel.
Yeah.
The English muffin is for me basically the standard,
that's what I grew up with in my dad,
would make like every Saturday or whatever it was.
But every now and then with a bagel,
makes it feel like more of a meal, you know?
Yes, yes, yes.
Exactly.
That's the bread at that.
That's what it is.
The bread.
It is absolutely.
The more bread means more sandwich.
It feels like.
That would be a good bagel.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I mean, I didn't.
You don't want a tough bagel.
The hard bagels are not a great breakfast sandwich.
They also need to be.
You got to get all of these things.
You got to get right the toasting.
You got to get a toast bread.
Very important, yeah.
You know, if it's not right, it just,
you'll eat it.
Yeah.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
You know, one of the things I have a problem with croissants
is something that James talks about a lot.
The soggy bottle.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
croissants don't hold very well.
No.
That's why the English muffin for me works better,
because it's just, it's better structurally.
Yeah.
You know, the croissant kind of falls apart, so.
I used to like taking, when I, when I worked at cops
a long time back and we get, you know,
usually the bakery stuff, if it's a day old,
it's a little cheaper and all that.
So being single and in my own apartment,
my first apartment, everything.
I had a lot of croissants, a lot of those things.
I would cut them in half and just put a couple of slices
of bacon in it and just eat it that way,
because that way it didn't get soggy on the bottom,
but just a little bit.
There you go.
And it was just a bacon croissant.
Like, that's it.
No cheese, no nothing.
That's all you need, man.
That's all you need.
Really?
That is all you need.
It's already got the grease.
That's right.
You're protein and you're bread.
You're good to go.
You're good to go.
I, uh, and eventually I just got rid of the croissant.
I did just say the straight up bacon.
Straight up bacon, man.
You need less carbs.
We are going to come back and talk a little more food
with our friends at LKFA, and we're talking birthdays
and anniversaries.
When we get back out of the morning show at WFHR
locally grown radio.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
It's time to do some celebrating
with our good friends over at LKFA.
We encourage you to treat yourself and head on over there,
which is a great day from all of us at WFHR.
The LKFA birthday and anniversary club
comes to you every Monday through Friday, right in this segment.
And the only thing we need to be able to do with the segment
is your birthdays and anniversaries.
We do.
Get it.
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And you can call up.
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Call up and join the conversation.
We'd love to hear from you, everybody.
You can call up any time during the day today.
Any time during the show, I should say.
I wouldn't be calling up around two.
We wouldn't have to answer the phone.
Just a programming note there.
I was trying to give Seth time to jump in.
Last week, I did a bit where it's like I was quiet.
I was like, oh wait, Melissa usually does this here.
Nicely done.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.
Everybody, love, celebrate with you.
And a big thank you again to LKFaceMonter and the segment.
We'd appreciate them.
Head on over to 221 Market Avenue.
Import Edwards.
Treat yourself.
Enjoy some great stuff that they have going on over there.
Always great meals.
Whatever time of day you went ahead, I know.
Be sure to join them from 7 to 2.
Over to 211 Market Avenue.
Let's go ahead and dive right into our birthdays and anniversaries for today.
And it's a special day today because we've got a couple of birthdays we're going to get to
and then we have three possible qualifiers.
So Melissa, give me a 1-2-3.
Let's go with two.
All right.
That gives us our qualifier.
All right.
We can get right into the celebrating.
And first up, I want to wish some happy birthdays out there.
First up, I want to wish my aunt Sandy a happy birthday.
Oh, happy birthday, Sandy.
My aunt Sandy is my mom's youngest sister of her four sisters.
And was the closest thing I had growing up on pretty much until, you know, like Terry and some people.
Until like an older sister.
My aunt Sandy always looked out for me.
And it was just a great, great asset.
She's the reason why I got to spend time in Cleveland and got to know Cleveland pretty well.
And enjoy Ohio and got to see the Super Bowl, not Super Bowl.
The Football Hall of Fame and all these different things.
And she was so supportive to me as a young person, where I didn't have a lot of that.
My aunt Sandy always had my back.
I wish her a happy birthday.
I wish you a great one, Anson.
I hope you're good. We'll talk to you later.
And we all here at the station.
I want to wish a very special happy birthday to Quinn Nora.
Yes.
Happy birthday, Quinn.
Happy birthday, Quinn.
She's five today.
It's fun.
That's awesome.
Quinn is the daughter of Laura, our newest team member around here.
You don't remember?
Yeah, we sent a shout out to Laura and everything.
You've heard Laura.
Yeah, Laura, you've heard Laura over the years a little bit doing over-the-back fence commercials and that.
You're going to be hearing a bit more from her.
She's doing more on WIRI and some of those things.
Quinn is as fast as Chase.
She is as sweet as Gabby and Blue.
And she is as special as the last Dodo.
Incredible human being back here.
Yeah.
I wish you a happy birthday.
And she does a great Gina impression.
Yeah, she does.
Yes, she does.
We wish you a great birthday, Quinn.
Enjoy your day.
Getting into our local celebrity birthdays.
I want to wish a happy birthday to Alice Hampton.
Happy birthday, Alice.
Happy birthday, Alice.
Enjoy your day, Alice.
Hope it's a great one for you.
We also wish a very happy birthday to our good friend around here at WFHR.
Doesn't have a name with us in a long time.
But we still wish a happy birthday to Nikki Latola.
Oh, happy birthday, Nikki.
Long time listeners.
Remember, Nikki used to join us from the Weather Eye Weather Center.
Have a good time with Carl and I.
We had a couple of bits going over the years.
Her Carl and I had a fantasy hockey thing we did.
We had a lot of fun with Nikki and our friends at the Weather Eye over the years.
Great team players.
And nobody better than Nikki.
Thank you.
Incredible, incredible wife, mom, all those things.
And we wish you a great birthday.
We do.
And to our qualifier, Tony Schmidt.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Tony.
Happy birthday, Tony.
Hey, Tony, happy birthday.
Hey, Tony.
You're a good one.
It's a good birthday for you.
Hey, Tony.
Why do I want to do that?
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
You can't be helped.
You can't be helped.
I wish you a good end, by the way.
I think Tony's a woman.
I think you think that's the story.
It still works.
It still works.
It still works.
We wish you a great birthday.
Tony and Tony.
Yes, we do.
Taking a look at our celebrity list here for today.
Let's see here.
Umat Thurman is 54.
All right.
54.
That's crazy.
That is.
I did not expect that.
Huh.
Yeah.
Happy birthday to a versatile, incredibly versatile actor.
Very good, very talented, very versatile.
She's been in anything recently.
I was just going to say, I don't think I've seen her in a while.
And I'm not sure my retirement maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She really got her fill of the move of the entertainment
industry.
And certainly left like if she doesn't work again,
she'll be her legacy sets.
Like she has done some incredible work.
Very, very good actor.
Andre Agassi is 54.
Retired tennis.
Great.
Andre Agassi unfairly in the 80s and 90s made that long blonde hair cool and beautiful
and all that.
Man starts losing his hair, shaves his head and makes that look cool.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
Just incredible athlete.
Him and Stephanie Graf, I believe he's married to.
I believe he's married to his famous tennis player.
Yeah.
I think you're right.
That sounds right.
I can't imagine those kids.
Yeah.
You know what?
It's what's going to happen.
The kids have no interest in tennis.
Not at all.
No, it's not.
Whatever.
Whatever guys.
But I think you can safely say, Andre Agassi, one of the stars of the 80s and 90s.
Him and Pete Samperous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're rivalry going on.
That was always fun.
Man.
And Mary to Stephanie Graf since 2001.
Yeah.
There you go.
That seems like a really cool like before that Brook Shields.
That yeah.
Yeah.
I forgot about that.
I forgot him and Brook Shields are married.
Oh, wow.
That's right.
Sorry.
Little, little.
That was great.
That was a nice trip.
It was so big.
It was.
He was huge.
We forget how big American tennis was for a while there.
Yeah.
We've lost so much of that.
But do we have any American tennis?
No.
I'm kidding.
But it's like, wow.
It's Williams.
Yeah.
Who's?
Yeah.
And we're just begging the Williams sisters to stay in there a little bit longer.
Like I hope.
Karney Wilson is 56 of Wilson Phillips.
Oh, yes.
Hold on.
Release me.
Speaking of, you know, stars of the 80s and 90s.
Yes.
Eve Plum is 66.
Jan on the Brady Bunch.
Oh.
Michelle Pfeiffer is 66.
One of the better actors of the 80s or 90s.
Oh, man.
We're just stuck in that.
Oh, wow.
She's so good.
I, you know, nothing.
I loved Eartha Kitt.
And I thought Eartha Kitt was fantastic.
And nobody's going to say a bad word about her performance as Catwoman or anything like that.
I don't know.
Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, man.
I don't know if you're going to top that.
That was because Catwoman is usually can, you know,
viewed in a certain way.
Yeah.
You know, the Eartha Kitt was fun.
You know, it was right.
It was campy.
Michelle Pfeiffer's was dangerous.
Yes.
Yes.
You could feel the danger coming from her.
It's dangerous.
It's very dark.
And you never got to really see her like that.
There's a couple of roles where you see her, you know,
at her wits end or things like that.
But you don't get to see her play mean or dark or mischievous or any of those things.
And I really was on the fence about her as Catwoman.
And then you see her and it's like, oh my God.
That she stole scenes from DeVito and Keaton and that and everything.
Her character was one of the more empathetic ones I thought in the history of like Batman and everything.
And that character doesn't usually, they usually just wrap it up as a sex symbol.
They did a bit of that with that character, of course.
Of course.
But I thought that they gave you a little bit more of her loneliness and her sadness and so many of these things.
And it all came through and Michelle's performance before she becomes Catwoman.
Her before she comes Catwoman, there's a change.
And you see that and a good actor can pull that off.
And I think she gets a lot of credit for that or anything.
But that performance alone was really good.
Of course Al Pacino's wife in Scarface.
That's the famous four roles as well.
Great actor.
Did she also play kind of the, it wasn't necessarily the evil queen, but the queen in Maleficent?
Was that?
No, that was Angelina Jolie, I thought.
No, no, no, Angelina Jolie was Melissa.
Yeah, sorry, sorry.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
I actually don't remember.
I'm looking at it.
I'm looking at the cast.
She's got that.
I just don't remember if the character of the queen was evil per se or just, you know, intelligent.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's sure.
One of the greatest actors of all time, Daniel Day Lewis is 67 today.
Six-time Oscar nominee, three-time Oscar winners.
Been acting in movies and on TV since 1971.
But he has less than 30 credits to his name.
In the last 15 years, he's only been in about four movies.
Right.
He doesn't work very often.
Daniel Day Lewis, I make fun of at times because of the levels that he takes method acting.
The whole method thing, yeah.
He is the guy that during the filming of Lincoln was, wouldn't sit next to anybody and would sit there in costume,
trying to eat through a beard and all these things and stuff, and a lot of that.
And I don't think that, I think that he takes a lot.
He hurts the game in many ways when it comes to other method actors or young actors growing up
and thinking that that's the only way to be good.
What works for him is probably not going to work for 99% of actors out there.
Right.
But my God does it work for him.
It sure does.
And anything bad, anything negative I could say about him.
I stand on and while at the same time marveling at the man as an actor because he is incredibly good.
The product that he produces is undeniable, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think he's one of the greatest actors I've ever seen.
I don't think that he is, if I looked at his career and I saw these things and then he told me he was a six-time Oscar nominee,
I'd be genuinely surprised.
I can think of at least 50 actors that are better than him of his era.
But one thing that Hollywood loves, and especially the Academy loves, is an accent.
And if you have an accent, boy, you're going to get looked at.
And then if you're any good, oh, then even more.
And he was around at a time where I don't think a lot of actors were standing out.
There's a reason why Tom Hanks was nominated for Best Actor a couple times in a row.
Now, he earned it and he did good work.
But there also wasn't the competition that I think that there is in other eras.
Right.
Yes, just give him credit for picking good roles.
Yeah.
And that's also something to talk about when you're talking about these things.
It helps when you come from a bit more wealth and you can take your choices on acting.
Yeah.
You know, most actors work because they got to.
Yeah.
And he didn't really have to do that.
And again, to a credit to a great performer, great actor.
Yeah.
The gang's a New York.
Like his performance in that is just incredible, incredible.
The great Jerry Seinfeld is 70 today.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
And Jerry, Jerry's going to show up a little bit later in our entertainment notes and everything.
But yeah, one of the greats.
He's 70.
He doesn't look at it.
He doesn't look at it.
He really doesn't.
We don't talk about game changers and comedy very often.
But he was a game changer in comedy.
And then the observational humor thing had been a bit for a long time.
Nobody had ever tried to make a career off of it.
And nobody had ever really kind of done the kind of thing.
They not just observational humor, but really going up there and not putting on any heirs.
Where you got like guys like Eddie Murphy and some guys that it's a rock concert you're walking up to and everything.
Some of those things.
Jerry Seinfeld literally just kind of get out up there and no introduction, no nothing.
Just immediately.
So these are these airplane peanuts.
Let me tell you just going right into the bit and just going right into it and everything.
Obviously the TV show Seinfeld comedians and cars, a lot of these things and he's done.
He's one of the greats.
Yeah.
One of the greats.
I would say if you want to see Jerry at his, I think at his most personal.
Check out his HBO specials in the like the 80s and the 90s or like right before he's the show Seinfeld came out.
Very different from Seinfeld.
If you're used to the Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld, it's kind of a bizarro humor.
That's very, I mean, it's funny, but it's very different from what I thought when I went back and actually watched it.
I was like, whoa, this is different.
I don't know if that Jerry Seinfeld becomes a household name.
Probably not.
Probably not.
But it's such a cool thing that comedians do that again doesn't get talked about or seen a lot.
And that's understood, but working with and being around a lot of comedians for 20 some years.
It's so cool to see where they start and where they end and how they work and manipulate these bits and do what they can.
Okay.
This was working.
This isn't working.
What am I going to do?
It's such a, and it's all on them.
There's no producer.
There's no other.
Sometimes they have other comedians that they work with.
Writing with.
Yeah.
But all this on just you and most of them don't have agents.
So they're doing, they're also doing all the booking for themselves and everything.
It's really remarkable to see any stand of comedian get to where Jerry Seinfeld's career did and where he went to.
Absolutely.
Let alone all the comedians we see do this all the time.
And he was super smart about his career as well.
Yeah.
Very smart for me.
The red headed stranger, Willie Nelson, 91 today.
Oh.
One of America's greatest songwriters.
Keep going, Willie.
National Treasure.
Yeah.
National Treasure.
A celebrated actor, writer, activist.
Few people have done more for our ag industry and for our farmers and Willie Nelson's farm aid and what he has done there.
And so many other things.
Also, a good actor.
A good actor.
Very solid actor, Willie Nelson.
Now, keep in mind, we're getting to his birthday a little late in the segment here and everything.
So if you don't get a chance to celebrate Willie's birthday today, that's okay.
You can celebrate it tomorrow too.
Willie's birthday, actually, he has a quote about this.
He was born around like 1130 midnight around that time.
Oh.
And the courthouse, they weren't able to, you know, put his birthday until the next day.
So he was technically born today.
But the paperwork wasn't filed until after midnight.
The birthday gets says the next day.
The person says, wow.
You can celebrate either.
What do you like, everybody?
Well, go ahead, Willie.
He can celebrate as much as he wants.
424-2600, please call up right now if you don't like Willie Nelson.
Because I believe that there is nobody out there.
Anybody out there listening, anybody out there in the ether that is like,
there's people out there that I guarantee you Willie Nelson wronged.
And even they probably don't mind Willie Nelson.
Like, he's got ex-wives.
I bet you they talk okay about it.
I'm sure they do.
Someone pitch it and get him a new guitar.
Yeah.
I mean, I know he'll never drop that guitar.
But still, go on, Willie.
He's got a song that I played on the sunrise show today called Just Breathe that he does with his son Lucas.
That I think came out in the last four or five years.
It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life.
Just to the note of he is still doing this and still incredibly talented and incredibly good.
Love it.
One of our greatest songwriters.
Yep.
Very easily.
Happy birthday.
Happy 91st Willie Nelson.
We want to mention people no longer with us.
Dale Earnhardt, born on this day in 1951, passed away in 2001.
You cannot talk about sports.
You're a timidator.
Not mentioned NASCAR.
And I mentioned a guy like Dale Earnhardt.
One of the greatest nicknames of all time too.
Yeah.
The interpreter ever come out.
Although it didn't seem to fit.
He seemed like a nice guy.
He seemed like a really nice guy.
I mean, he's driving, I guess.
Yeah.
More intimidating.
Good interview.
I love seeing like few guys I like seeing happy more than Dale Earnhardt when he won a race.
He had a great smile too.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah.
Great, great smile.
Great mustache too.
Yeah.
Great racer.
Great racer.
Indeed.
Dale Earnhardt born on this day in 1951.
One more time.
We want to wish everybody out there a great happy birthday.
Happy special happy birthdays to my aunt Sandy and of course to Quinn.
Happy birthday, guys.
Happy birthday to our qualified Tony Schmidt.
Tony.
Happy birthday, Tony.
Happy birthday.
Have a great one.
Enjoy.
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A new study found.
Elevators might be destroying our lives.
Maybe not that it.
Maybe it makes a little intense.
It seems a little aggressive.
It seems a little aggressive.
Especially for a Monday before 9 o'clock.
Researchers looked at the health records of almost half a million people.
So pretty good data.
Oh wow.
And the ones who regularly opted to take the stairs instead of an elevator were far less likely to die young.
Really?
It wasn't a small difference either.
They were 39% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.
And 24% less likely to die from any cause.
Quote, our study suggested that the more stairs climbed the greater the benefits.
Whether at work, home or elsewhere take the stairs.
Okay.
Move to New York and go to a fifth floor walk-up.
You'll live forever.
Yes.
That's all you've got to do in your immortal.
That's it.
That's all.
I don't know.
So first off, anybody who has ever lived in like poorer apartments realized that they're going
to live a lot longer because elevators never work in them.
True.
True.
I don't know my whole upbringing.
I swear I didn't know what an elevator was for like until it was like 20.
First time he walks to do an elevator.
What is it?
What are they doing?
What's this magic box?
Why are we moving?
Oh, the magic box copy.
The magic box copy.
Oh, it's letting me out.
Oh, I don't shut it again.
No, I'm out of it.
I don't know.
I think that there's a little bit of some notes to this that we can take from this, of course,
of exercising, of being active.
I hope this is also because something that isn't talked about in this and you can find the complete article
at studyfinds.com, studyfinds.com.
The idea that we get exercise in all the time and don't give ourselves the credit for
getting exercise in all the time.
That's an excellent point.
Yes.
Many of us beat ourselves up for not getting in, you know, any cardio or any of this or something
like that.
Oh, man, another week by and I only got to work out in or I didn't get any workouts in
or God, I should start working out or something like that.
You do.
Most of us do, especially if you're incorporating things like this.
Any chance you have to, yeah, I know it's three floors.
But if you take those stairs, that's a workout and there you've got your workout in for
the day while getting paid, you know, to do your job or something like that.
I used to do this at Second City all the time because there's three floors and I never took
the elevator.
I liked walking on the stairs.
For one, there is this beautiful mural of all the like Balushi and Gilderrad and Chris
Farley and all these people and so I got to walk past that every time.
But it was a great workout.
I was seen as a crazy person, but go ahead and check my calves.
Just for that, James.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, good point.
Very, very fair note there, Melissa.
But yeah, I think there's something to that.
I grew up, my papa drove semi for 40 plus years and he didn't get the chance obviously
being in a rig most of time to work out.
So what he did was he would work out in the vehicle with his legs and to his dying day,
my papa had rock hard calves, like just rocks.
I don't know.
I think that you can get these workouts and you can get that stuff in even through things
like this.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Totally agree.
And it's kind of funny that you know, there's all these little kinds of things you can do.
Like say you're going to a big department store, you know, and you have to have a big parking
lot, park at the back end.
Yeah.
Give yourself a few more steps.
Yeah.
Exactly.
An easy way to get some more steps in.
Yeah.
Park core has become pretty common and a pretty popularized thing and everything.
And even the determinology, most people know, but it started from nothing.
It started with not having any workout equipment and wanted to get a good workout and figuring
out different ways to do that in an urban setting, growing up.
We did this all the time.
We didn't have a playground.
So we made our own.
We figured out ways to play.
I think that as adults, we need to do that with exercise.
Maybe you don't have time to go to the gym or can afford a gym membership or any of these
kind of things.
Right.
You know, finding different ways to get work out in.
Yep.
100%.
The people that love you will appreciate it, you know, if you don't vote for yourself.
Yeah.
Rapping up this segment right here, if you're one of those people who can't resist the
urge to interact with cute stuff, oh, I got a squeeze in.
I got, oh, I got it.
A nook.
Yes, cheeks.
Yes.
A new poll asked people, when you encounter cute things like animals or babies, how often
do you feel an urge to squeeze them affectionately?
19% of people said always, 21% said usually, 31% said sometimes, and 15% said rarely.
Of course, 10% of people said that they never get this urge.
The demographic of people least likely to retain them, to restrain themselves from squeezing
cute things is Gen Z women, living out west.
The demographic who doesn't want anything to do with cute babies in animals is men age
45 and older, living in the Midwest.
Oh, wow.
They pinned me right on.
Wow, that's amazing.
And they didn't even talk to me.
Wow.
Specifically named Seth.
Wow.
That's really cool.
That's really accurate.
This is not that many sets in the Midwest.
It's kind of.
I am in the 10%.
I don't think I even remember ever feeling the need to squeeze anything, because it's
good.
I will see, you know, like a cute animal, I will see a cute baby or something, you'll smile,
you know, I'll smile and say, oh, how cute kind of thing.
But I have no desire to go up and squeeze them.
Yeah.
It's not an orange.
Is it ripe?
Is this it?
Yeah.
I want to hug them and squeeze them.
They might do it.
I just need to catch this.
Check and see, your baby's ripe.
Oh, man.
It's not a thing you need to do.
Wait, when did that happen?
When will we stop doing that?
Oh, geez.
Yeah, I don't know about this.
I would say that I certainly, I think this is a Midwest thing.
You may have an urge to do this, but not actually doing it, like thinking it, but not
doing it.
Yeah, that's true.
You don't know this person.
You're not going to go up and pet their dog or something like that.
As soon as it is presented to you that you can pet the dog or hold the kid or something,
then yes.
Yes.
I can't see just willing, like just outright doing that nowadays.
No, no.
I think you have to permission as much is very, very needed.
I feel like they're not saying this in the article, but I feel like the whole can't resist
thing.
It's staying in my brain as far as I can.
Oh, I see what you mean.
Yeah.
The wanting to do it and everything.
Yeah.
That's different.
I got to tease Beth a little bit here, because if she sees a baby, like say, like we're
facing each other and she sees like a baby over my shoulder behind me, you know.
It's a very specific look.
She gets on her face and now my kids know it too.
So they start putting it on.
Oh, she just saw baby.
I know she did.
Mom saw baby.
Yep.
My ex-wife was the same way.
I swear we could walk into any building and she would immediately, like, no, if there
was a baby, like just immediately, like, how did you know?
Maybe a radar.
Right on her.
Yeah.
It, it, it, it, Gaga.
Goose.
That's the radar.
That's the bad.
That's the official name.
That's the bad.
That's how they measure it.
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Take it to the top of the hour.
Keep in mind we'll kick off the nine o'clock hour with the kitchens open.
Wonderful segment that we have lined up for you.
I brought to us by our own Melissa K be on the lookout for that and I have to tell
you we're going to be talking about the bird flu and the milk.
Looking forward to it.
Since we didn't get to, you know, put a commercial out there.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Another cheery topic on the agenda.
Well, you know, there are some, there's some silver lining.
Oh, I know, I know.
And it's a really good one to be able to dive into really take our time with Melissa.
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Getting into this one real quick, a new report looked at how much you need to be quote
unquote, rich in all 50 states.
They defined it as being in the top 5% of earnings in your state.
The lowest threshold is in West Virginia where you need about 329,000 a year to be rich.
Mississippi is next with 334,000.
Okay.
The most expensive state to be rich in is anyone you guys want to take a guess?
I got to say it's either California, your New York.
I'm going to go to New York on this one.
All right.
And I'll go with California.
All right.
Connecticut.
Cool.
Immediately like, yep.
Okay.
Yep.
That's good.
They work in New York, but they all live in Connecticut.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
That's tricky.
Sixth, over 656,000.
So almost double the earnings required in West Virginia.
After that, it's New York moving to West Virginia just to say that you're the richest person
in the state.
I.
I.
That'd be hilarious.
I wish I hope somebody does that and totally something rich person would do.
Yeah.
There.
Thanks to a lot of other, a lot of factors.
You need to earn a lot more to be rich than you used to.
The report found that people in the, in that 5% are making around 30% more than they
did back in 2017.
This, this gives us a couple of insights that a bit of the difference with, well, there
is no more middle class.
They, they, we've lost the middle class.
It's basically that top 5% and the rest of us.
And everyone else.
Yeah.
It shows a lot of that, the gap in that I think it shows some of the gap between our states.
I think the dislike will important too about those things.
But I, for, um, this one, I had a little bit of a hedge on, I kind of knew this one going
into it.
I have to say, um, I don't know if I really talked too in depth about this or let people
know how close this became, but I, I was really a phone call away from being in Connecticut
and working at the, uh, the NPR up there.
I remember that.
Um, that was a long time ago, but it was, it was two ownerships ago, but I was all gun
hull about it.
I was really looking forward to it.
I think, oh, one of my dream jobs would be to work for NPR.
I, I really like the work that they do and I think that, uh, they do important work.
Are they going to be kind of cool to work there, um, but alone in the whole completely
different state out east, I'd never been anywhere like that.
So I was pretty gun hull about this.
Uh, I would have been living with, uh, my, my station manager, uh, for at least a year,
probably.
And to be able to get my own place, yeah, not just because of how much, how it would
have taken me, how much it affords to live out there and everything, which higher standard
of living.
Yeah.
They don't have a whole lot of living space out there.
Yeah.
Housing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is, uh, I'd never heard that before until I was actually looking for places out
there.
It's amazing.
Um, it's not just the, the, some of the stuff that Seth, you noted there about working
in New York and, and transformed to Connecticut and all that.
A lot of these states, East Coast states do that.
Yes.
The lack of, um, housing out there is really noteworthy as well.
Absolutely.
Uh, and it's one of those things where it's kind of been a, a shot in the foot kind of
thing where richer people have been moving the Connecticut over the decades and not,
they're not making a lot of new houses, a lot of new apartments.
Um, and therefore that the cost of living only rises because you have no lower income,
you know, families, you know, something that just, uh, it kind of occurred to, I'm sure
most people have maybe thought about this when you get a whole bunch of rich people moving
into one area, um, the, uh, standard, the quality of life seems to go down for everyone
else.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something to ponder out there.
Ponder that.
Yeah.
So we're all moving to West Virginia.
All moving.
That's what I'm hearing.
All moving.
Get, get, get, get packing up everybody.
Here you go.
By the end of the week.
We're all, we're all going to be, uh, rooting for them.
Yeah.
So, uh, so one thing I did want to note, uh, before we wrap up the hour here and everything.
And this is just a silly little note.
I don't think I know how cool it is to anybody else, but I think it's kind of unique and interesting.
We don't get to see this happen very often.
Um, we have a, a couple of, uh, we read the proclamations from the office of the mayor whenever we get these.
Um, there's something you usually get about six of these a year or something like that.
And, uh, we have fun reading these and letting the audience know about them.
But we don't have this happen very often.
First off, uh, outgoing Mayor Shane Blazer.
We send a shout out to Mayor Blazer.
Uh, and wish him well and retirement and everything.
Absolutely.
He had his last proclamation come out.
And his last one was about the city adopting resolutions, designating no mome.
That's right.
Uh, keep that in mind everybody that no mome is going on.
Uh, in the month of May, we'll talk more about that.
Start Wednesday.
Wow.
Yeah.
We'll start.
We'll talk about this more on Wednesday and get into all the details of this more.
But, uh, did think that was no worthy.
And then, uh, a week later, uh, our new mayor, Mayor Matt Zacker, who we say a good morning to, uh, had his proclamation.
Uh, and last April 26th, uh, last week, uh, he, uh, proclaimed Arbor Day as our April 26th.
Very nice.
We didn't have a chance to really celebrate too much or anything like that.
But we do, uh, get, get it on the news for the afternoon.
Yes, you did.
Yeah, I, I, I'm sorry.
I just met our show didn't Melissa covered it great.
Uh, and did a nice job with that.
Very cool.
But I do think it's kind of cool to see these two mayors, uh, one leaving one out, uh, one out going, one coming in and seeing how this happens.
And, uh, it's, it's not something that we get to note very often.
Um, that, uh, not only democracy and effect and working and being able to experience that in real time, but house.
Look, I know how easy it is to take shots at our government.
I know how easy it, I do it every day.
Uh, I know how easy it is to, to take, uh, you know, um, shots at voting and some of these things.
But this stuff continues to happen all around our country day in and day out.
And it is, it is just, I never want to let go of how awesome and unique it is.
Yes.
That we live in a country that does this all the time and to a point where we've normalized it.
To a point where we have people who will not even get out there and vote.
And, and I just want to reach out to those people.
I'm not trying to shame them.
I'm not trying to, you know, talk bad about them or anything.
Everybody's already done that.
Mm-hmm.
I'm asking those people to get informed, to do some homework and give this a chance, give democracy a chance.
I like that, that, give it, looking at it in a new way.
You know, like, like it's something that's new.
Yes.
Wow, it's how remarkable it is.
That's, that's a, that's a really cool idea.
It is a, you know, really fortunate thing that we get the chance to do.
We encourage it to be a part of it, especially in this vital year in 2024.
Indeed.
And it's awesome to see something like that happen between these two mayors who were, you know,
it's a peaceful transition of power and they're helping each other.
Yeah, it's very cool.
That's, that's what we should see.
Absolutely.
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