Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR, where we are locally grown radio. Got your
hosts, James behind the mic. I am joined by our head up production, Mr. Seth Habhacker.
Good morning. We here to have some fun, everybody. We got good things lined up for you
getting ready on this Friday Eve for a good day. Good stuff coming up with the LKF
paper at the Anniversary Club. Look forward to that. Americans say time is money. How much
is it worth an hour? Let's find out. It's world password day. We got to dive into that,
talking about a little bit of the password thing. Got some of those things. How about the top
compliments we love to hear about our homes? That one coming up a little bit later. It's a Thursday.
That means we're going to be joined in the 9 o'clock hour to kick things off with our friends
on the South Wukani main society in our pet of the week. Very good. Look forward to that. We'll
have that coming up for you. Then some entertainment news. We got a number of things to get into,
Seth. We got an opportunity for people to be able to stay at some famous places as far as
like different houses you've seen in entertainment history. Famous houses. I've always wanted to
say at the Simpsons house. That would be fun. That would be interesting. The only problem I would
probably never leave. Probably not believe. You have to get out now. We also have some other stuff
there. Interesting one. We have to be mature about this one. I want to get into what is happening
with the movie industry and something very interesting regarding sex and covering it and all that.
I want to touch on that little bit. I have no pun intended. I want to touch on that a little
bit later. That was bad. That was really bad. We of course also have some other fun things to get
into and bad jokes to make. You're too there a week now. Yeah. Yeah. You're a week now. I'm
sure about it. What? What do you say? In the 9 o'clock hour, I also want to get into what is
homesteading? What is homesteading? Okay. This is a new one to me. I haven't heard about it. All right,
because I know what the historical homesteading man. I'm guessing it means something else now. Some
that ain't right stories. Good stories of the day. We'll also get into our schedule for today and
looking forward to all of that. Seth, I got an interesting place for us to start because it's
me and where else will we start? Of course. Believe it or not, emojis have only been commonly used
for around 10 years. It feels like a lot longer. It does. It really does. Especially when you're
texting with me. Why won't he stop and emojis? I'm telling you. I admit I could be I could be I
think good with them at first. But if I'm uncertain about the text I'm sending, I worry so much about
what gets lost in communication. And I'm such a sarcastic person that I've said this since we
started texting on a regular basis. I've been saying that we need if you are a sarcastic person
and you're worried about how you come across in text, send that sarcastic text, but with a little
s in parentheses. Yeah. S stands for sarcasm. Right. So everybody cannot take it a little easy.
Take it with a great assault. Is there is there a sarcasm emoji? There needs to be. If there
isn't, we really need one. Especially now because not only do they have a emoji for literally everything.
But now they're going to have audible emojis. Audible emojis. Audible emojis making noises.
Word has it Google has started rolling out audio emojis to Google phone apps users. I haven't
seen them yet myself. I have not. There are six to start clapping, laughing, party, crying, the
drum. And of course the poop emoji. I don't want to know what that was. I can guess. Yeah. So for
example, clapping plays a brief applause sound effect for both for both people to hear. Okay.
I have a sample of this. I'm going to go ahead and try to play this. But it's really, really
quiet. Okay. Oh, yeah. Couldn't even hear it. No, that was that was very, very light, very,
quiet, very, very quiet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can't even hear it. So the basic generic noises of
that of, you know, just the sounds of clapping and laughing and all that. There will be a cool
down period after an audible emoji is played. So you wouldn't be able to spam the other
person with rapid fire sounds. That's a good smart move to start. Yeah. Good idea. Yeah.
It's unclear when Google may formally announce this, when all Google users will get it,
or when it might come to Apple and other phones, Samsung and others, of course, will usually follow
suit for these. Yeah. If you're curious, you can go to 9 to 5 Google. They have some samples that
we're just trying to play for you that you might be able to hear better on your own tablet or
anything like that. Right. So this is interesting, but this isn't where this could end.
We've had action emoji, like you can put actions and parentheses upon things and stuff.
They're, I don't know what the step after this is, other than like virtue, like virtue,
like just popping out of the fully animated kind of, yeah. Like a little, like in the sci-fi
movies, whatever they, they clicked their watch or whatever. It's a little hologram. Yeah,
a hologram. Yeah. Star Trek had some of that. Star Wars does too. Yeah. Star Wars, of course.
There is no Star Wars without that Princess Leia. Exactly. Yeah. So I think the hologram thing
is next. It's got to be. I think that the portable hologram, where you pop it up in a little,
like I text you, hey, Seth, we need to be getting a nose. Yeah. And I pop up all the freaking out
and everything on your phone. I really do think that we're not that far from that.
Actually, I think, I mean, that's a good idea. If we get, you know, if we're able to do that,
I don't know if we have the quite the technology for that. Yeah. Yeah. I do think it's going to be
emojis that look like each person. You can customize them to you. Yeah. And doing the emojis.
I think that's what's coming up next. They have a little of that on the Apple phone, but I think
I get what you're meeting. Yeah. And I, it's, it's kind of, some of it is kind of fun. Some of it
is kind of like, well, isn't there something else we could be working on? I wonder that sometimes
with these things like there, there are security issues. There's some other stuff that we can be
doing on phones. And I feel like, you know, my, my should maybe come first. Although, um,
considering what we keep learning about Google, maybe it's better probably that they just work
on emojis instead of other, yeah, spying things. Stay, stay, stay out of my personal info. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. That seems like a good idea. It is one of those things too that, um,
where the trust that we give, we're going to get into the passwords a little bit later.
And in the trust that we give, not only to these sites, but to, uh, to, uh, trusting our own
phones, trusting our own devices and everything. Um, we, we're kind of in a standstill with it,
you have to. You, you, you really, it's pretty hard to do, uh, accomplish certain things nowadays
with how giving into that without doing some of that. I don't mean, I don't think that we're at the
place where everybody has to have a cell phone. I don't think that. But I do think that as far as
your personal information goes, you, you've had to come to grips with certain things. I know I
have. I've always been a very private person. I've always been somebody to like to keep my business
out of the streets. Um, nowadays you, you just have a hard time doing that, whether it's with your
personal life or your personal information. Yeah. Yeah. It, it is very difficult. If you want to
engage in a lot of this stuff, you really are, I mean, it's like, you, that little thing you
just said, you know, let's all the permissions that you have to click on and your phone and all
that stuff. Yeah, I guess what? That's, that's them taking your information and you end in selling it.
So I would be the worst person in the world to like be in charge of writing up one of those,
and you have to click this to, in order to agree to get the download or whatever. Right. I would
want to include in there like at the bottom, like just a small print, something really silly. Like
it, you, you have to give me free ice cream about Thursday. So you, something,
nothing. Oh, you don't read the fight. You just knock at anyone's door and say, we're
ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you need to read the frying print? Check it out.
No, go ahead and look. It's your turn. Get your turnie. Go ahead and look at it. You don't have
any ice cream. Give me five bucks. This is legit. You wanted that app. You wanted the download
that app. Where's my ice cream? Um, it's not the big just nothing like that. No, that's just
easy. Um, do you think that, cause we do this too in society where we have something it's really
big. It's the most popular thing in the world. Everybody wants a pet rock and then all the sudden
like every good, everybody's getting a pet rock because nobody wants theirs. Hey, you just
giving it away. Do you think we might get to a place with phones where we push back on it,
the cell phone thing? Cause I have not seen that yet. I've heard people say, put the phone down,
take a couple minutes off of the phone. We see, you know, even even phone networks trying to
encourage you to do that. But how many people are actually doing that? I don't know. I haven't seen
any stats or numbers on that one. I know that I think everybody, you know, you and I have even
talked about just taking a break off of the phone and off of technology and stuff. But I think
that if we keep, I mean, the security on phones right now isn't great to begin with. I only
think it's going to get worse. And I think it might hit a point where phones are so, you know,
full of buggy, you know, whatever. I mean, there's like no security at all. Then I think people will
really start thinking, wait a minute, is it worth it? Yeah. To have all this stuff here. Maybe
just get like to go back to the old, you know, self flip phones or something like that. Not a smart
phone. Just you still have a cell phone, but not the kind that we've been carrying around for
the last 10 years. I don't know. That could happen. You know, we do this with a fashion and culture
all the time. We go back and we bring bell bottoms back. We bring, you know, these things back at
aviator sunglasses, these kind of things. Yeah. I want that so bad for cell phones. I want
somebody to go back and get one of those little car phones. The the big clunky ones with the
huge antenna. The car gigantic things. My dad had a bank phone. Oh, nice. That was only for
emergency. It was in a bag, you know, it was only emergency. It's the only time you'd use it
because it cost a good trillion dollars. Did he actually ever use it? I don't think so. I
had a friend that had one never used to think. No, never used to. But he always had it. I'm
sure he had it. Yep. I like the idea of us going back to flip phones and they're just
simplifying this. Like, let's just get back to texting and calling each other. We'd have to
relearn how to text with the numbers though. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, I remember doing that when
when I first had because that was all that was I forgot all about that. That'd be relearning,
dude. Just to text somebody I'll be right there would take forever, which is why, of course,
we went to BRB. We went to the short. We did. Yes. And everybody learned short ham. Yeah,
and everything and everything ended up on crudy boards because it was easier to type, but yeah.
Here's Secretary. Are you a little little angry that everybody had that everybody learned
short ham now? You're you ready to go through all this to learn it? Oh, man. I do want to encourage
people. If you did not get a chance to check out the interview, go to civicmedie.us under shows
for midday magazine. We had Sheriff Sean Becker in yesterday. And and Sean's a good guy,
good friend. And whenever him and I get together, we always have a very open transparent conversation.
And one of the things I appreciate is he doesn't flinch. Sman doesn't flinch. And when it comes
to things now, we recently in this area had a scam going on with our wood kind of sheriff's
department. And I talk with them on air off air about this. And it tells you a lot of things here.
For for one, I'm hoping I'm guessing the 90 some percent, if not all of you out there are not
criminals. But I would gather that most of you would think that if you were going to commit a crime,
doing it a police department or a sheriff's department seems like a pretty bad idea.
Seems like in the long run does not seem like the greatest idea.
Right. Certainly. I think we can all agree on that. Talking to him about this, how is it a
sign of desperation or a false barvado to do something like this to come to do a scam that
involves specifically your what the sheriff's department. And it speaks to the desperation.
It speaks to like it's not to say that you need to take your eye off the ball here or anything.
Keep an eye out for scams whenever you come across something that seems fishy. Let the sheriff's
department know this, you know, that's how we bring these cowards down. But it does speak to
there is certain things in the tech world that are getting better that are that are improving.
Unfortunately, whenever that happens, you also have a bunch of other people that are going to
try to defeat that and stuff and repeat that. But I think that we need signs of improvement from
time to time. All you hear is doom and gloom. I'm not this show. Not the two hours we have with
you on this show. I think the majority of civic media is like that. But I can't speak for the four
to six hours here for right now for right now. Yeah, for right now for the moment. That's changing.
That's going to change. But I will say that when we're on the air here, whether it's a sunrise
show or this show or midday magazine or anything like that, we're always we're going to do some
real original honesty and positivity, serious comedy. That's what we call it. We're not always
great at it, but we're going to keep trying. We keep working at it. Well, one of these days,
the sun don't shine on the same. Yeah, anyway.
So I do think that there is some encouragement when it comes to some of the things going on there
in that world. I encourage you to listen to that interview. Sheriff Becker covers it very well
and gives you some insight on it. Absolutely. But man, maybe how much of a knucklehead do you
got to be? Oh, I got a great idea. I got to scam. All right. It was thought up to a certain point
and then stopped. It's like, you know what? People really trust the sheriff's department. Let's use
them. And then they didn't think any further than that. Wait a minute. Just go ahead and drive
yourself right to the precinct. Just go right ahead. They're like, do not pass. Do not collect
you under dollars. Just go right to jail. You just drive in there. I'm saving you guys some time
here. I'm just going to turn myself in now. I didn't even do it yet. But I just say I don't see
any point. No, really. We both know how this is going to end. We are going to get back. Come back
with the LCAP birthday anniversary club on the morning show. It's Seth and James. Take it
you through right here at WFHR. It's time for the birthday anniversary club featuring L Cafe.
We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to L Cafe. They're waiting for you over at
221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Head on over there. Wish them a good morning from
all of us. They got some great specials going on today. I'm looking right at their Facebook page.
They get a country skillet and Greek pasta salad. That sounds pretty good. A lot of other great
things there for you. A wonderful menu. Very unique menu. I love how inventive they get with
certain things. Mixing different ethnic foods with the Greek and the text mixes. It's really cool.
They've got all the originals that you love as well as some new and interesting things over there.
Go visit our friends at L Cafe. 221 Market Avenue. Treat yourself. Get on over there right now.
Yes, indeed. Seth, I need one or two. Before I get to that though, I do want to remind the audience.
We love to get your birthdays and anniversaries. Get them to us, everybody. Info at WFHR.com.
James.mailup at civicmedia.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook page as well.
Just hit us up DM us on those and call up and join the conversation.
Mm-hmm. 424 or 2600. Love to hear from you, everybody. Now, Seth, give me a one or two.
One. All right. It gives us that qualifier when you're right into the Celebratin.
All right. We want to wish a very, oh, keep in mind, everybody. We just got done announcing our
winner for April. Yes, we did. Yesterday. Mm-hmm. So we are beginning May, of course.
And we're collecting names in the beginning of next month. We'll announce our winner for the
L Cafe Birthday Anniversary Club. They'll get $220 gift certificates. All right. Very cool.
So first up, we want to wish you happy birthday to Dan Johnson. Happy birthday, Dan. Dan,
enjoy your day. I hope it's a good one for you. I wonder if anybody, anybody call you Don Johnson.
Anybody ever do that, Dan? All right. I got to ask. Got to ask. It's just a letter different.
Yeah, that's right. We also wish a very happy birthday to Katie Folk.
Happy birthday, Katie. Katie's our qualifier.
Congratulations. Congrats, Katie. Thanks so much to whoever got us these birthdays and
anniversaries. Keep getting them to us. Everybody would love to hear from you.
Yes, indeed. Let's dive into our celebrity list right now.
Okay. Singer songwriter Lily Allen is 39 today. She's 39. Wow. Yeah. Didn't
for some reason. It seems like that fits, but I thought she was a little bit younger for some
random but she's a great. She's a very distinctive singing voice. Yes. Her accent is very
thick and I love it. Me too. Me too. I do like the way she sings. I like her voice.
Ellie Kemper is 44. Erin on the office and the star of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
She got to be really good and say good friends necessarily, but got the chance to really work with
Tina Fey and some others. Annie Polar and a couple of others and they really enjoyed her.
Really helped her get her off the ground and her career off the ground.
Yes. She's very good. She's very good. Let's see. Oh, Jenny Von Ouy is 47. She was six on
Blossom. Oh, wow. Oh, man. Whoa. Blossom from the past. My sister loved that show. I don't
remember one thing about that show, but then she had crazy outfits. Blossom in the hats.
Joey Lawrence. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. That's all I remember. That's it.
David Beckham is 49. Whoa. Beautiful. Handsome man. Handsome soccer player.
Bend it like back up. One of the best that was like, he's up there. Maybe not the best ever, but
I will say if I needed somebody, a penalty kick for my life, he'd be one of the guys I think of.
That's right. His like the whole bend it like Beckham. It could be came a big thing and stuff.
If you've never actually watched him do this, it's incredible. Like how smart his feet are,
is incredible. Just a really good footwork guy. Also, I have to give him a bit of credit. What
are these guys where he has been in the public eye for a lot. You could tell that image mattered
to him early on in his career. Doesn't seem to matter as much anymore. Seems to be a little bit
more of the business end of things and just kind of like people are one of, I'm going to be me
and I want my wife to be that too. And if she's not, I'm going to call her out even on a
documentary audit and everything. It's an interesting path that he has taken his career. They seem to
have a really great relationship. I got to say they do. They do. Very good married relationship.
He currently is one of the owners of the Miami team and part of the reason why Messy is here in
this country and playing here. As we are getting more and more ready for the World Cup and North
America hosting the World Cup, this is exciting. This is kind of exciting. I mean, if you don't
give a dang about soccer, that's fine. Do you like a party? Do you like a good time? Because this
country, big man, Canada, Mexico, US, we are going to have a party going on in our three continents
as soon as the World Cup hits North America, baby. And guys like David Beckham, guys like Messy,
they have really been trying really hard to incorporate soccer more and more in this country.
I feel like people get this wrong, though. People, people, you know, they've been talking about
this since Paley, when soccer going to be big in America, when soccer going to be in a big in
America, have you ever been to a rural community? Soccer is huge. Yeah. Soccer is huge in this country.
It's just not on the pro level it might be. Right. Exactly. We only have so much bandwidth. You're
not, I mean, and not anytime soon, you're going to get us a stopwatch in football. A preseason
football game between Jacksonville and Atlanta is going to outscore, you know, the World Cup in some
ways. So that's just never going to happen. But if you're caring about people playing the sport
and enjoying the sport, I think you're pretty good. Soccer is pretty dang popular. It is.
We in our little town here in Wisconsin, rapids, we're considered a medium sized town in comparison
to other areas. How many soccer fields do you drive past on a daily basis? I think it's kind of
cool. But I think that they've been waiting for MLS to be as big as MLB or something like that.
No. I don't think that's going to happen. No. And part of it is because the product isn't quite as
good as like the Premier League in Europe. I think that will always be like the top even for
American soccer fans. They're going to be following what's happening at the big leagues kind of thing.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with with MLS, but because most countries have their own in-country
league anyway. And they're not always huge, but they have them. Soccer can be a bit confusing to
about the different cups that they have. We like it a little simplified here. Okay. Give me a
couple of rounds of playoffs and then just one winner takes all kind of thing. They have it a
little more different. They have a little bit different. I actually kind of like their way a little
bit. But anyway, it's kind of fun. But either way, this is not only is it obviously the huge sport
in the world. But it's it's influence is happening to our our sports as well. Don't be surprised
if one day there is an in season tournament in football. I wouldn't be surprised. They're already
going to have an 18th game. They're already going to do that. They forget, miss me with the caring
about people's safety. Forget about that. Okay. So that I wouldn't be surprised about that. If
Major League baseball has something like that, they already have the kind of world champ world
championship stuff. Yeah, I'm going to see more of that. Dwayne, the rock Johnson is 52. Okay.
Yeah, you know, we could you could just CC our conversation yesterday. Yes, I suppose.
With everything we said yesterday, added to this conversation. And if you weren't listening,
I understand. But the rock is notoriously late for things. Has a very busy schedule. I heard
somebody talking yesterday, a good friend of his to went to college with him and was saying how,
well, he was going to do an interview with him. This is like two, three years ago. But he was
booked till 2024. Like the rock is a very busy person. Yeah. And that was his that was by design.
When he was leaving. So he bus he's going to play football. He's he's a star DT star D and
at Miami University blows out his knee. Goes to Canada to play a little bit injuries get worse and
he's not good enough. He's just not a good enough football player to make it in Canadian football league.
So he's driving home with no money in his pocket. Wondering what he is going to do when he
starts putting a plan together. He obviously has the my family ties to wrestling. So there's a job.
I can go into that. And he starts dedicating his life to wrestling and everything. But he always
has a bigger a bigger thing in mind. And what Hulk Hogan did, what Rowdy Piper did, what some of
the bigger names of our youth with wrestling, what they did. It only it only paved the way for
what the rock would do. Which is something we've never seen before. The Hogan was big. There was
a point in the eighties where you can make the argument. Hogan was the biggest pop culture thing
there was. He was in a couple of movies here and there and everything. Then there's the rock
who not only as a WWE star went from a heel to a to the biggest, you know, people's champion
and all those things took his versatile skills on the microphone into auditions and showing Hollywood
odd. I don't need Vince McMahon. I don't need WWE. I'm here on my own. They hire me and getting
role after role after role and just continuing to relentlessly work at the craft to the point
where you could make the argument. He's the biggest action star in the world. And he went
to he went from the wrestling stage to that. Yeah. We've never seen that before. He is a darling.
Whatever has been said about him in the last 48 hours or whatever has not changed his audition
process. No, man. It's still just sitting there. Yeah, just tell me what who wants me? Who wants me?
He can he can sit there for weeks and just listen to the opportunities that are being sent to him.
Right. Um, it's remarkable. It's remarkable what he has pulled off. There's some spot. There's
some things about him that seem a little dicey. I don't know. I don't know. But maybe a little
too thin. Spread himself a little too thin. I do think that you you you have to almost
whether you like him or not, you have to marvel at what he has accomplished. Yeah. Yeah,
real quick. I just wanted to say because it's not just because he was a wrestler. Otherwise,
a whole bunch of wrestlers would be movie stars now. They're not one or two hidden like John Cena.
You know, it's like those are the two teeth stuff. Yeah. Oh, David. He's so good on the microphone.
He was just as good with the technical side of wrestling as he was on the microphone. And as
as good as I think Stone Cold was and, you know, Undertaker, some of those guys, nobody was like him.
No, triple H as well. But nobody was as good as he was. And what he turned it into. And now
you mentioned John Cena. I said, Dave Batista, there's going to be more. There's going to be more
guys doing this. Uh, and it's it's kind of like kind of interesting. He's going to do this. Uh,
Ty Herndon is 62 country singer. Um, Lou Graham is 74 lead singer of foreigner.
Our good friend here at WFHR Larry Gatlin is 76.
I love it. Larry, of course, joined us. Uh, uh, for a midday magazine. That's all. Yeah.
Well, we had Sally Kissner on the show to Sally Kissner and, uh, say for the arts.
God, be sure to get your tickets and check out their new season. Sally was just in with us.
Talking about the new season, that's good stuff coming up. Man, uh, I, I spoiled in this job
sometimes getting to talk to these individuals. Uh, what a guy. What a guy. Great talk or great
stories. Uh, and, and could not be nicer. Could not be more giving with this time. Uh, happy 78,
76 to Mr. Larry Gatlin. All right. Uh, and some people no longer with us, like Leslie Gore born
in the state in 1946. 60 singer. It's my party. You don't own me. Uh, out here on my own. Um,
yeah. So quite a few. She was the, uh, the first big star, um, helped along by the great
Quincy Jones. Yeah. That's right. That's right. He was, uh, he, he was the one who orchestrated
her stuff and did songwriting. Yep. It's my party is one of those songs that drives me crazy. Uh,
I hear it. And it's, it's like, you're, it's just like nails on a chalkboard. You don't own me.
It's one of the better songs I've heard. Yes. That's so weird to fabulous song. Yeah.
One song I can't, I just can't listen to it. I can't get into it or anything. The other one,
you can play it nine times in a row and I'm fine with it. Yeah. That's quite a career.
Quite an interesting. Yes. And Lorenzo Music, born in the state in 1937, passed away in oh,
one, the voice, the voice of Garfield, the cat and Carlton, the door man on Rota. Uh, he voiced
Garfield in the TV cartoons. Not the movies. That was Bill Murray. But uh, he is.
Lorenzo had passed by then. Yeah. By now, I think most people know how I feel about Mr. Bill
Murray. I'm a big fan. Right. Uh, but Lorenzo Music is the voice of Garfield. Yes.
Always will be. Always will be. Uh, very weird name too. Uh, by the way, no, actually,
music is his actual last name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did change his first,
I first real name is Gary. Oh, I didn't know that. But he was, he was unlike a, uh, he was part of
a spiritual group and you choose new names and that's where he ended up with Lorenzo. Great.
Uh, first of all, two things. I gotta say this real quick. One of my all-time favorites.
I love him. He's from Duluth. Yes. He's from Minnesota. So I used, yeah. So that's part of
that's the connection there. Second of all, as part of that spiritual group he was with,
they would, um, uh, volunteer at Suicide Hotlines. That was one of the things they would do.
But he, oh my, oh, they made him stop. Yeah. Because people kept calling up and they,
why am I talking to Garfield the cat? That was very disconcerting. It's gotta be very disoriented.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Lorenzo, you can't do that part anymore. Yeah. Oh, that had been
disappointing for me. I will say though, if I, I feel for anybody in that situation,
I've never been in that situation. If I was hearing Garfield's voice,
maybe help. You never know. You never know. But good on them for doing that. That's really good work.
That's cool. One more time we want to wish a happy birthday to Dan Johnson. Happy birthday Dan.
Happy birthday, sir. Have a great day. We also wish a happy birthday to our qualified or
Katie folk. Happy birthday, Katie. Enjoy your day, Katie. Keep getting us those birthdays and
anniversaries. Everybody we love celebrating with you. We'll take a news break. We'll come back
and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR. But it's not a Monday. Why did I play with it?
Seth and James here with you. Hope you're having a good one out there everybody. Happy Thursday. Happy
Friday. Yeah. We hope you're having a great day. Thanks for joining us. Good stuff coming up for
you everybody. Got a couple of great things going on in the 9 o'clock hour. We're going to have our
friends in Southville County Humane Society joining us with our pet of the week. And a big thank you
to TJ's Auto and Collision Center for that. Yes, indeed. We appreciate them putting back into
the community sponsor in the segment. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It is world password day. We're
supposed to update our passwords and make sure that they are secure. Okay. The most common in the
US last year was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 password admin 1, 2, 3, 4 and unknown. And none of those are
secure. If you need me to tell you that, I, uh, how long have we been dealing with with this
password since like 1995? Yeah. So while fashion may come back. So it's not a horrible idea to hang
on to those bell bottoms. Passwords. No. No. Do not bring passwords back. No. A company called
a hive system puts out a graphic each year that shows how long it would take hackers to crack your
password, depending how long the complex it is. That's actually kind of cool that they do that.
Basic passwords that are just numbers can be cracked instantly now. Even a nine digit number
would only take them six minutes. Yeah. But things get a lot more secure as soon as you mix in
upper and lowercase letters. And special symbols like explanation points help a lot.
If you add all of those things along with numbers, a nine character password would take at least
479 years to crack. Wow. Nice. Or if you really want to be safe, make it 18 characters,
and they'd have to keep it to, they'd have 19 quattrillion years before they could
figure it out. Bigger the better. Now, I think the, you know, there's some pushback on this.
Well, wait a minute. What password is our government using or Apple or Amazon or any of these
when we hear these hacks? That's a little different on that level. Yeah. Some of these, like a
lot of your, your average scams and everything. All of these people have come in groups.
They're, they're little groups of hackers that do this. Gone. I mean, there are, I guess,
some individual cases. But for the most part, gone are the days of the 80s hacker, the 90s hacker
that you saw movies. The long wolf kind of 20 screens off. Yeah. That never happened. Everybody
that was never a thing. Now, the, the kid in his basement, thinking that I want to get some
cred on social media. So I'm going to go ahead and try to mess with the FBI or something like that.
That's happened plenty. Yeah. It happens a lot more than we might realize just those people get caught
and there's no story. Yeah. There's no story. Right. It's, um, but I mean, it, it, it, I, I know people
who have been beginning to use phrases. I know people who use lyrics from songs. Like just a couple
of words. Yeah. You know, like, uh, uh, uh, uh, love is all you need. You know, yeah, something like
that and to just all in one word or maybe they change an ode to a zero or something. But people
have gotten, but smarter with this, but so of hackers. And then I don't mean, I, I think you can do,
you can, you can take in that information and not be afraid. Just be aware. Yep. There's a difference.
There's a lot of fear mongering going on these days. There has been for a long time. Oh yeah. Oh
yeah. There's money and fear. There's money and fear. There's a lot of a lot of, and it's,
it's something obviously in a political year that we deal with quite a bit. Yes. Nobody wants
to stand on their issues. No, and none of these politicians just come out there. I mean,
there are some, there, there's just not enough of them. Right. Um, that's not fair to say that.
There are some that do stand on their issues and don't need to bash the other candidate or
something like that. But then there are these whiny cowards out there running for office that
all they can do is whine about the other guy or complain or, or, or talk about how better things
would be if they did something or how you should be led to your other point. How scared you
should be of that person because of whatever reason. Like, oh, they're going to do this and
they're going to do this to you and they're going to do this. They, they are putting their,
their money, their stock in fear and they are counting on you, living your life in fear.
That's not the American way. That's not our country. That's not who we are. What did we learn
after 911? What do we do? Did we cover? Did we hide? No. We, we, we let the whole world know. We
are still here. We are not going anywhere and we are not afraid. We are brave. We are Americans.
We believe in democracy. We believe in what this country is. We didn't just fold after Pearl
Harbor. Oh, well, I guess we should give up on democracy. No, that's not how we handle fear.
Don't let them win. Don't let them do this to you. Whether it is your, you know,
being scared, you know, keeping yourself up at night about if your password is safe or not,
or if you vote for the wrong person, the country is going to end. I, I got a spoiler alert for
you, everybody. No matter who is elected in November, come, 20, 28 will still be here. Nothing
is going to change that. Nothing is bigger than America. No, no person, no individual, no,
no candidate. No president is bigger than the country because our country is more than soil.
It's more than democracy. It's an idea and you can't kill an idea. You can't not with fear,
not with any of this stuff. Don't let them win and change your passwords. Don't use one,
two, three. Actually, no, please don't do that. One of the more safer ones I've heard about is
like four random words and they have generators that I mean, they don't generate the password.
They just generate the words for you and then you put it in there. Now that sounds bulky,
you know, I got a typon for random words every time. That's why you get a password manager.
Yeah. Yeah. Password managers are the best vet to everybody. Supercalifragilisticexpialidosis.
Is that how it goes? Supercalifragilisticexpialidosis. Yes.
You type that in it. I mean, it should be fine. I think they probably figured that out.
Yeah, probably. Probably. Take a quick time. I will come back and have some more fun on the
morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one.
I have to remind myself that Melissa's not on the show today. I keep potting her up.
I had to let the audience know I keep potting up Melissa's microphone.
Why did she say anything like that? I don't understand why she's standing off it today.
It's been really quiet. We, uh, you can argue this all you want,
then get back to binge watching another six hours or whatever show you're into right now.
So we've always heard time is money. Money is, you know, all this.
We've got a song we're playing right here. I want to be rich. I want to know all that.
You see a tie in here, hopefully. So they say time is money.
So how much is your free time worth? The average American says $240 an hour.
Wow. Yeah. That's, that's pretty high. Let's see. That's a lot more than what the average
person makes. At 40 hours a week, it would be a 490,000 a year. The average salary for the US
is just 59,000. A third of people in the poll said less than $50 an hour, which is still a lot,
especially when you consider how much time you, uh, you willingly waste in a day.
240 was just the average. Baby moomers said 137 an hour. Gen X 215 Gen Z 267.
And millennials think that their time is worth the most at $329 an hour. Wow. That's over 680, uh,
cheesy year. Wow. Not bad. By that standard, sleeping eight hours a night is costing you around
$75,000, which is why I don't sleep. Oh, you've finally got something you can hang your hat on.
You fool. I'm becoming rich over here by not sleeping. I, uh, I make bless the most of you out there.
Your theoretical money will be, will be shipped to you soon. Just a matter of time. I got this all
figured out. Uh, no, sleep everybody. Um, I, I think that I think that I, I can't help myself.
I do have to say that minimum wage should be higher throughout the whole country, especially
here in Wisconsin. I, I, I am not voting for anybody that is not, doesn't believe in raising
a minimum wage period. Um, I, I personally think that it's ridiculous that we are still at that
point that we're still even having this conversation. Uh, I have talked to enough representatives,
talked to enough congressman, talked to enough people about this, to where they don't got a
good answer. Not a dang one of them. Uh, the idea that, uh, that, uh, businesses will take care
of this themselves. Yeah, that's great. Let businesses be manned, be in charge of how much their
employees should make. Yeah. Uh, not saying the government should get involved, but government should
get involved. I, I, who sets the minimum wage? I will say it. I'll say it. Yeah. And I think we
should change what it's called. I don't think we should call it minimum wage. We should call
living wage. How about that? Perfect. Let's, let's, let's figure out what that is and then start,
what, let's start from there, I say, uh, Warren Buffett himself doesn't think that it makes any
sense. Yeah. I, I, I, I, there, there are some great minds out there that, that know econ, the
economics, um, better than I will ever know them. And I'm listening. I'm hearing them and they know
what they're talking about. Here's, here's a fun little thing, uh, that, uh, I've learned recently,
capital, capitalists hate capitalism. Yeah. They don't want to make items to sell to make profits
off that. What they want to do is make you pay rents for everything. Yeah. Cause then they can
do it in perpetuity. They can charge you rents and fees for everything they can't tech companies do
this all the time. We see it all the time. So yeah, they don't want competition. They want all the,
they want all the marbles so they can dictate how much you have to pay. That's not capitalism.
Capitalism is creating your products or creating services that people use. And then making a
profit off of it and taking care. And you know, if you take care of your workers, guess what? They've
got money. They can actually buy the thing you're making. Yeah. Shocking. It can actually purchase
things other things or they're working and create more revenue for other bit. Yeah.
It, it, it, it also shows what we have had to settle with too as a society. Because we think
our time is worth this much. And I don't disagree with that. I don't. We can't, we walk around
every day talking about how important time is and you can't get more time. And what's the one
thing you can't buy time. And then what do we do? We don't, we don't pay people the worth for
their time. Because you've got a lot of corporations and businesses that are the profit comes first.
Yep. That is the, that is economics. I get the literal bottom line. Yeah. I get some of that.
But we can't have boat. You can't do both things. You can't talk at a both sides of your mouth here.
You can't say that business is important. We're going to support that. We want a, you know,
a capitalist society, all these things and then not pay your people the right wages. That's not
how this works. That doesn't make sense. That's, that's, you might as well have a different type
of society. Yeah. Because this one is not only not working, but we are getting closer and closer
to a day where this is going to blow up in our faces. Yeah. Actually, we have, we have scenes.
It would be exactly the same. But we have seen this before. It's called feudalism. Yeah. Yeah.
And it didn't work out well for most people. No. It really didn't. Didn't didn't end well.
Didn't have a spoiler alert, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Quick cliff notes on that one.
Didn't work. So I, it's an interesting one, Seth, about compliments. Okay.
I like a lot of people out there and horrible at taking compliments. You, you can tell when somebody
says something nice to me because I say something sarcastic back or, or, or I, I, I, I brush it off.
Usually like it, if I've said somebody tell me that, oh, you look good today. That's all
special effects. Yeah. It's all green screen. It's all green screen. This is a green screen. I
have a great hair and makeup team because I can't handle compliments. I don't, I don't deal with
that very well. I think there's a lot of people that are like, there's the person that just kind
of gets red faced. There is the, the person that I am trying to get more and more to be like.
And just saying, thank you. Thank you. Like, that's it. And just move on. Change the subject.
Thank you. You're totally right. No, thank you. Well, thank you. What took you so long? Yeah.
Just go completely off. Yeah, that's it. That's it. That is the other thing I do sometimes.
Oh, too. Yeah, exaggerate on the other way. Yes. Uh, exaggeration comedy is one of my favorites.
So I do lead into that. That's most comedy. I think. Yeah. Yeah. When you're a guest at someone's
home, you might want to compliment them on how it smells, assuming it's a good smell.
So the way we are about taking compliments about ourselves is one thing. But how we are about our
things, our car, our home, our apartment. That's a little different. That gets a little more
personal to us. We can almost take somebody not liking our clothes, but our house. Oh,
that's a little different. It gets a little more dicey. And in no poll, people were asked about the
best home compliments that they receive. And most people said that it was about their smell of
their home. Wow. And that that was the most important to that. Interesting. It was even more
important than the look of the home. How about that? 43% said that they love to hear that their home
smells good. 39% of people said that they consider smells while they're preparing their home for
a guest. 57% of them say that they use air fresheners. 48% like candles and some use diffusers.
Most people are looking for a common fragrance like fresh laundry, ocean breeze, lavender,
vanilla, etc. Don't use lavender when I'm coming though. Yeah. I'm allergic to it. Oh, yeah.
That's not a good idea. No. No. Others want to have a signature smell for their home,
like fresh flowers, strawberries, bananas, after reigns. I'm telling you, man, I love this job.
I love acting. But if you told me I could get paid the same amount to just name candles all day,
I'd be tempted. I'd be tempted. After reign. After reign. Bread baking. Yeah. These are just so
fun. 12% want to smell that is unique to their home. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. A unique smell.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, light. That's that's kind of interesting. I will say it. It is pretty cool
nowadays. How they can take like I've got this smell. I like make it a perfume and they can do that.
I think they can. Yeah. So when it comes to like some of these how it smells in your home and
everything, some people are doing a little bit more of that. Oh, I like citrus and berries.
And I'm going to put them together. Right. Boom. Exactly. I've never done anything like this as
you can tell for my example. I don't even know where I'd begin. I don't even know what smells like
put together. Pomegranate and vinyl sighting. Yeah. There's a smell for you.
Smoke and apple juice. I don't know. Smokey apple juice. Yeah. I don't feel like that's good.
I know. No, no. I do like a smoky kind of like.
Yeah. I don't I do think that it's it's kind of fun. What were you able to do with some of
this stuff? It is kind of unique unique. What we're doing. I've never had a great sniffer. I've
never been a great smelling. I don't smell that when you neither. Yeah. I had my adenoids and
tonsils taken out when I was a kid and I don't feel like ever since then I've really smelled that
smell great. Yeah. And I think there's a lot of us dealing with the you know, still the effects
of COVID in that way. I know people. A couple of my friends out west that still can't taste that
well. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So smell can be a little bit like that. A little bit like that. Yeah.
Or if you like smoked in the past that doesn't have to be. Yep. That'll do it too.
I don't know too. A couple of quick notes here. City wise here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Notes that we got from our mayor and our previous mayor. Remind everybody that our city has
adopted no moment. Keep that in mind. Yesterday we were talking about this and we're very much
encouraging people. You know, if you do side not to mo don't you know, don't you know, give a
hard time to people that don't. Yeah. And vice versa. And vice versa. I don't know if I
included the vice versa part. We can sometimes get a little bit on our high horse. I find that you
you're missing the point and the message gets lost. Yeah. If it's about you. It should be about
the pollinators. It should be about that thing. And if you believe in something you don't really
you're not bothered by what your neighbor's doing. No. You know, you can still wave to them,
support them and what they're doing. But if you guys are doing two different things,
that's okay. That's America. You know, here's a great example of living in America and
dealing with being an American. It's not about you. It's not just your. Shockingly. Yeah.
I'm so sorry if that's a reminder or that's you know news to some people out there. I hope you
were sitting down. But yeah, just, you know, come here and say, let me tell you something here.
This country, not just about you. Got a lot of other people in this country. And you got to share
it. Figure out how to live together. That's right. All those parts of spinning no more may enjoy.
Yeah. Did all want to remind or let everybody know about this. This was a proclamation brought
to us from our new mayor, mayor, Zacker, mental health awareness month. Mental health is essential
to everyone's overall health and well-being and estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older
suffer from a diagnosed mental disorder in a given year. And all Americans face challenges in
life and can impact their mental health and prevention is an effective way to reduce the burden
of mental health conditions. So now, therefore, I'm at Zacker mayor of Wisconsin Rapids.
In the state of Wisconsin, in the state of Wisconsin, do hereby proclaim the month of May,
2024 as mental health awareness month in the city of Wisconsin Rapids. Very nice.
Call upon the citizens, government agencies, public and private institutions, businesses,
and schools to recommit our community to increasing awareness and understanding of mental health.
Be an ally, everybody. Yep, be an ally. And thank you, mayor, Zacker for that.
We'll take a time out. We'll come back with our friends from the South of County,
Amain Society, and our pet of the week coming up right here at...
