Super Bears (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

804 on the clock, got your host, James J. behind the mic.

I am joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habagger.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot,

talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you guys doing?

We're doing well.

Yeah, we're doing good here.

Got some nice blue skies out there.

Yeah.

Was wondering how you were.

How's it going over there?

It is going great.

You know, definitely need the ear plugs.

I'll say that with the fighter jets flying over and all of that.

So it has been a blast.

It has been beautiful, weather, which has just been fantastic.

The blue skies out there, high pressure system in control all day today and closing out

this week.

Finally, some warmer temperatures climbing into those upper 70s to low 80s today.

With some calm winds.

I really can't complain.

I'm very happy right now.

Very good.

Oh, really good to hear.

Nice.

Really good to appreciate the work you're doing out there.

I hope it's really good to hear that you're enjoying yourself.

Enjoy it.

We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow.

You have fun out there.

We'll talk soon.

Sounds good.

Thanks, guys.

Thanks, Brett.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Have a good one.

Best in the business right there from Brittany Merlot.

Join us every morning right in this time slot.

Yep.

Hanging out at the air show.

That's kind of cool.

Yeah.

I think we'll have a little bit of a little bit of an older one, or two.

I mean, these sounds like she's been having a really good time over there.

It's cool.

Seth and James here with you.

We're going to not only have the L-Cafe birthday anniversary club in a little bit.

We'll also talk about most of us, when you quit your job to become an influencer.

We've got some interesting stats on that regarding age of the people that would.

I think that one's interesting.

Yeah.

One in five people don't think they fit in their own generation.

Want to get into that one.

And does that offer the same benefits as an ice bath?

We've got that coming up a little bit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Neither of those sound really peeling to me this morning.

There we go.

They are rough.

And coming up, of course, in the kickoff at nine o'clock hour, it's a Thursday.

That means it's our pet of the week time with our friends at the South of County Main Society.

We want to send a big shout out to TJ's Auto and Collision Center sponsor in that segment.

We appreciate our friends over there more on them later.

Seth and I have dive into entertainment news after that.

Mel Brooks has got something in the works.

We have to talk about Seth.

I've actually been saving this for you.

Wow.

Yeah.

We got to talk about that.

97-year-old Mel Brooks.

Okay.

Wow.

I still have a chance to maybe work with him.

I still have a slight, it's a small window.

Very window.

We'll see.

We'll have good stories of the day.

We got a lot of local events.

We want to talk about Thursday's very big here in Rapids.

A lot of events going on.

But I didn't want to touch on something real quick before we get into our opening monologue

or opening stories.

Tomorrow, we'll be Melissa, Seth and I.

And we'll be hanging out.

We had a team building exercise the other day we did over at Edge VR.

We're going to send a shout out to them.

We're going to start off our show telling you how that went.

Yes.

It was an experience.

Boy, it wasn't.

It was a big, big shout out to Edge VR.

Great people over there.

Yeah.

Did a really nice job handling us.

Radio folk.

Absolutely.

But we got to go here, Seth.

And especially we've got plenty of people traveling and everything.

If you happen to be heading over to the Carolinas, I feel like it is our duty to let you know

that wildlife officials in North Carolina are warning residents to be aware of an unusual

potential household hazard bears walking up under the house.

That's the actual sentence.

Bears walking up under the house.

Justin McVey, a district wildlife biologist from North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission,

said officials have noticed an uptick in recent years of bears making their winter homes

under houses and decks.

Oh, dear.

Oh, dear.

No, no.

Quote, when people think of dens, they always think of capes.

Uh-huh.

That's not really the case.

He said that bear dens are also sometimes found in crawl spaces and backyard brush piles.

Quote, when I started out here 12 years ago, I may have gotten one or two calls about it.

Now we probably hear about 10 to 15 call those of those cases.

Wow.

Said wildlife officials might evict the unwanted squatters depending on the time of year.

He said officials are hesitant to relocate mother bears with very young cubs.

For obvious reasons.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Said bears usually vacate their winter dens voluntarily around late March and early April.

Okay.

Well, Cornia's Bear League shared a video of this if you want to check it out.

But this is becoming more and more of a thing.

Now, there is some environmental stuff that we can go into with this as far as why bears are doing this.

And crocheting on their habitat.

Yeah.

We've talked about this thanks to our work with the environment.

And I'm saying that sarcastically, because bears didn't do this humans did.

Exactly.

Well, we have polar bears and black bears mating now.

Yeah.

Everybody.

Now we've made super bears.

Perfect.

Wonderful.

And for every image you see in their heart breaking of a polar bear on an ice cap.

And it's thin.

And it's dying out and everything.

It breaks our hearts and it makes us hopefully more aware that their environmental issues are everybody's issues.

Science is proven by now.

There is no hoax going on here.

And those that believe that you're lost in time, you are way behind.

And I'm not saying that to pick on you.

I'm saying that to ask you to meet us here in modern time right now in 2024 at 809 AM.

Get to our space here because this is where we need you because it needs.

It's all hands on deck.

Yeah.

These animals are not for any animal that you think might go extinct.

And there are dangers of that.

There are animals like bears that are not going anywhere.

They're going to survive.

They're going to adapt.

They're going to adapt.

Yep.

They're going to find a way to adapt.

And as adaptive as human beings are, we are nothing compared to animals.

They have proven that to us over the centuries.

Centuries they have proven that.

Yes.

Every animal has adapted to us.

They're done doing that.

We took it.

We take their space away.

Yeah.

We think they're going to go.

Yeah.

Any place that's convenient and it basically has what they need.

So we're talking about bears finding places where they can dig underneath.

And they feel protected so they can hibernate and stuff.

That totally makes sense, right?

Yeah.

If they don't have any space to do that anymore, where are they going to go?

They're going to go where they're where they can.

Yeah.

That's what they got to do.

You don't need a lot of proof to tell you this.

We've all seen it.

Whether you walk over some sidewalk and you see some dirt or grass growing through it.

You see some old train tracks that have been grassed over and grown over.

Nature finds a way.

Nature keeps doing its thing.

Remember the early days of the pandemic.

Yeah.

When people went, everything stopped.

Everything started growing.

Alvesa, nature encroached again.

Yeah.

We're the ones that are in trouble here.

Not the rest of the mother nature will be fine.

Putting that, moving past that a little bit to the funny, because that's where we like to wrap up.

I am curious of how people would handle this if they saw this.

Oh my gosh.

I think a lot of Wisconsinites are much more in tune with animals than I am.

And would probably just leave the bear or tell wildlife people or something like that.

But I'm also, I'm curious of your first reactions to something like this.

Because there is nothing in your playbook.

No.

I don't care what you've experienced in life.

There is nothing in your playbook.

You walk out and you look under your deck and there's a bear.

Is it?

Huh.

Okay.

That's interesting.

Slowly walking away now.

Slowly walking away.

The thing I really like.

For some hamburger meat out there.

I don't know.

I really like the wildlife people are like, yeah, we can help you move the bears unless it's a mom with cubs.

Then we're not even dealing.

We're not even getting close to that.

No.

No.

Sorry.

You're on your own.

You might want to use the front door anymore.

Maybe we don't use the front door.

Moving.

Always an option.

Yes.

Yes.

We've got this wonderful house.

It's a tube bedroom.

It's got two bathrooms.

And a family of bears under the deck.

We're selling.

I love that.

I do.

We're selling it cheap.

Yeah.

It's not that bad.

Five bucks.

That's a pretty good, though.

It's an interesting story.

I'm curious to hear, not only from you out there, four, two, four, twenty six hundred, how you would handle this.

Yeah.

But of course, you know, what you think of this situation as always.

We like to wrap up the opening monologue on a sweet one, a good good story of the day.

A heartwarming reunion occurred in Las Vegas.

Vegas after a good Samaritan found a dog missing for nine years.

Oh, wow.

Gizmo, a Chihuahua mix, who escaped from a backyard in the southwest valley of Las Vegas as a young pup,

was recently discovered and identified through his microchip.

Wow.

Dog owners, Judith Morendez received an unexpected email informing her of the discovery.

Morendez immediately contacted the Animal Emergency Center at Las Vegas and Henderson,

where veterinary staff confirmed the identity of her pet.

The saga began when Gizmo and her two other dogs managed to slip away from the backyard.

A neighbor helped gather the other two and said that she saw someone pick up Gizmo.

Despite extensive searches and efforts to locate him,

including starting a Facebook group to help find him,

years passed no sign of the missing canine.

However, a breakthrough occurred last week when an emergency veterinarian scanned the dog's microchip

revealing crucial information that led to this long-awaited reunion.

Quote, they told me a lady, a good Samaritan.

It was a woman who dropped him off.

The woman said that they spent two months trying to catch him.

She wanted him back afterwards, but then they told her she couldn't have him,

because he had a microchip.

He was scanned, and we were looking for him, so it was kind of interesting.

Something I thought would have happened years ago.

It took some time, but Gizmo got back home.

Right.

Now, 11 years old, the resilient Gizmo is slowly recovering under the care of his owner

who said that the dog had several health issues.

Morendez started the GoFundMe to help Gizmo's vet bills.

Wow.

You can find that at GoFundMe.com.

Just a good story.

It is.

A cool story.

And there are some images of Gizmo with his true owner or everything.

That dog looks like one of the happiest things on the planet.

Like, Matt Dog's happiest things on the planet that dog looks so happy.

He's magic.

Finally back home.

We've been fending for yourself for nine years.

Yeah.

All the sites, somebody just put all your food out, take care of your stuff.

Wow.

Like, yeah.

Nice retirement, right?

Seems like, yeah.

That's a great retirement plan.

Yes.

I don't know if people know this, but like surrounding Las Vegas is a desert.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the thing that boggles my mind.

Oh my gosh.

How that dog survived.

Amazing.

I am all for.

I think we talk about the importance of microchips.

We'll probably talk about it a little bit later with Tim and our friends at the Humane Society.

Yeah.

I want a camera on these animals too, though.

We can make cameras the size of a pin nowadays.

Right.

Let's put a camera on these.

For every time this happens, we can actually see at least the dirty story to tell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The real legendary journey.

There you go.

I'm very curious.

Yeah.

I have to know.

It gets more story.

It'll probably show up on Disney.

I'm sure.

We'll be back with more.

Benji lives.

Yes.

Oh, there you go.

Benji too.

The journey.

Coming up on the morning show.

No, that's not coming up.

Okay.

Favorite day.

That anniversary comes coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

It's time for the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to celebrate you and get to talk about our great friends over at Elcafe.

Go visit them at 221 Market Avenue, beautiful poor deadwards.

Wish them a great day for us.

Got some great breakfast specials today.

You can find on their Facebook page.

Two scrambled eggs, hash browns, two sausage links, bacon, cakes.

What a combo.

Woo.

Man, that sounds great.

Wow.

That sounds good.

Complete breakfast.

Part of this complete breakfast.

Yes.

Today's soup is a chicken dumpling.

And they're lunch special.

My pop is favorite.

Well, one of his favorites.

Liver and onions.

Yeah.

Serve of mashed potatoes and gravy.

That's good stuff over there.

I like the fact that there's a place that still does that.

Even though I'm not going to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

But I like the fact.

I know there's people out there that like it.

So I thought it's cool.

Glad they still do it.

I encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries as well.

Everybody, get them to infoatwfhr.com,

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Love to get those birthdays and anniversaries live right on the end.

It's a lot of fun to be able to do that, everybody.

Go ahead and get them to us.

Let's go ahead and dive right into our birthday and anniversary list.

And Seth, we've got two possible qualifiers.

Give me a one or a two.

One.

All right.

Give us that qualifier.

First up, we want to wish you a happy birthday to Cally Collins.

Happy birthday, Cally.

Cally, enjoy your day.

We hope it's a good one for you.

It's Cally short for you.

Is Cally short for you?

I don't think any of you are short.

It's just Cally.

I think it's just Cally.

Yeah, that's a good name.

Good name.

And a very happy birthday to Sam Anderson.

Sam.

Anderson.

If that is your real name.

Yeah.

No, I'm kidding.

It does sound like that.

It does.

Sam.

Happy birthday, Sam.

Sam, enjoy your day.

We hope it's a good one for you.

I have a great one out there.

You want to get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

And you just, oh, no, I forgot.

And you're hearing this call up.

Join us.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

Yeah.

Feel free to join us right now.

Let's go ahead and take a look at our celebrity birthdays.

And Matt LaBloch is 57.

Joey from Friends.

He was on Showtime's episodes as well.

And Adam Burns on Man with a Plan.

Matt LaBloch has been on TV for a very long time.

While a lot of people got their first taste of him with friends.

If you were married with Children Fan,

you remember Mr. LaBloch from back in the day.

He was one of Kelly's boyfriends.

That's right.

One of Elle's only friends was Matt LaBloch's dad's character

out there and stuff.

He was great on that show.

He was really good on TV.

I'm married with Children.

I liked him.

It's not easy to play stupid.

And I know we're not used that word very often anymore.

But in this context, that's the character.

He has played a number of times.

For quite a few of them, he's playing the dumb character, right?

Yeah.

And Woody Harrelson is a good example of this from Cheers and everything.

You see him in Cheers and you don't necessarily see a Thespian.

And here we have come to find out Woody Harrelson is a true Thespian.

You can actually act and do it all.

I don't know if Matt LaBloch has that in him.

But I think he has a lot more range than he's gotten a chance to.

He's definitely been Typecast throughout his career.

The showtime episodes was very acclaimed.

Not a very acclaimed, but a lot of people liked it.

It was critics seemed to like it.

It's called kind of a cult hit.

Yep.

He did a really good job on that show.

So nice to see.

It'll be nice to see him get some more opportunities.

Roger Clinton is 68.

Oh my gosh.

Brother of Bill and the star of Biodome, spy hard and pumpkin head too.

Yeah.

I didn't realize he had an empty crate.

I forgot.

I completely forgot.

Oh, the presidential and their somewhat embarrassing siblings.

There's a bit of view through there.

There is some crazy interesting history when it comes to the present.

The presidential siblings.

Yes.

And the idea that this is one of those things that's just been so common in our history.

Yeah.

Right.

You don't get to pick it for relatives.

That's true.

You know, Billy Carter.

Yeah.

Billy Bear.

Billy Bear.

Yes.

That's a good example.

Perfect example.

You don't see that as much though.

We haven't had that as much with recent presidents.

No.

They may not have any siblings.

No.

And some of them are so old that some of them might have been lost for their argument.

Past away.

Yeah.

Iman is 69.

David Bowie's widow.

A lot of people remember her from Martia in Star Trek.

Six, I want to say, the uncovered, undiscovered country.

Yes.

Oh, she was actually quite good in that.

Yeah.

It's a small part.

But she plays a really cool alien.

So yeah.

I mostly known as a model for the most part.

Incredible.

Very good at what she did.

And very beautiful.

And the love of David Bowie's life.

Yeah.

Which, that's why I was a little sad because it makes me remember David Bowie.

Yeah.

Same.

Same.

It's always been gone for eight years.

I've been eight years.

That's insane to think about.

I was thinking about that with another artist the other day.

It's just crazy to think of that.

How long?

How quickly did we get used to them being gone?

Yeah.

Him and her had such an interesting relationship, too.

They did.

See some interviews with them and just look so happy and candid together.

All the time.

All the time.

All the time.

Yeah.

That's a good point, too.

Once they got together, they seem to be always be together.

Yeah.

They're inseparable.

Yeah.

Verden White is 73.

Earth, wind, and fire, superstar.

Oh, yeah.

You're a shining star.

No matter who you are.

Boogie Wonderland is underrated.

I love September.

September is a great song.

And you cannot hear that song enough.

I just don't get tired of that song.

Me neither.

I love it.

Another musician, Mani Charleton from Nazareth, would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Born in 1941.

Just passed away a couple of years ago in 2022.

Be wonderful, the amazing, the legend, Estelle Getty, would have been celebrating a birthday

today.

Born in 1923, passed away in 2008.

Be Arthur's mom, of course, Sophia and the Golden Girls.

Stallone's mom and stop her.

My mom will shoot.

Great theater actor, too.

Yes.

Like a lot of actors of her age made her bones in theater.

And really, really solid actress.

Yep.

And I know that we love the Golden Girls all for a perfectly cast show.

Somebody will ever say anything bad about Betty White and nobody should.

No.

Be Arthur, to this day, I believe, is still underrated.

She was funny.

She was funny, funny, funny.

She was just very good.

Just a legend.

Her sarcastic takes were some of the best ever.

Yeah, her comedic looks were so good.

The looks she would give Rose would make you laugh even before she said anything.

And that voice.

There are so many.

And that voice.

Yeah, that wonderful voice.

There were so many scenes on that show where if you're paying attention,

you can see Be Arthur breaking.

But they kept it in because that was the closest they would get to a good take.

Betty White would have them rolling almost every time they filmed.

And if it wasn't Betty White, it was the Stell Getty.

That's right.

Stell Getty was a little bit of a prankster, a little bit of a jokester on the set and everything.

And you could kind of see that as.

Totally.

Loved her.

Loved her work.

Born to this day in 1954, passed away in 1999.

Chicago Bears legend, Walter Peyton.

Oh, sweetness.

In my opinion, the greatest athlete I've ever seen play the game.

Play any game.

And do anything.

Walter Peyton to me was the most complete football player I've ever seen.

I don't believe that there was anybody that I've ever seen, especially at least,

even if we just narrowed down to the running back position.

There are guys like Jim Brown that could run through you.

And guys like Barry Sanders that could make you miss and then miss again and then miss again.

And some of these things.

There was no more complete back than bear than Walter Peyton.

You realize Walter Peyton never ran out of bounds in a play.

He was knocked out of bounds.

But Walter never ran out of bounds.

Walter would look for contact.

Would be able to stay and you would cut.

You think you had him, but you didn't.

And after every single game from his rookie season on,

athletes on the other side would come up to him and talk to him and shake his hand.

Walter would pray with athletes afterwards and everything.

As much as I loved watching him play and seeing him in the Super Bowl and everything,

I was actually just talking about this with the friend the other night.

My favorite moment of Walter Peyton's career, and maybe my favorite football moment of all time,

is the week he passed, the Bears and Packers just happened to be playing that Sunday in Lambo.

And I go and watch that game with my friends that are all Packer fans.

And I'm sitting there in a room in my Walter jersey with nothing but Packer fans.

And I know how this goes, how it's gone since sixth grade for me.

I've had my jersey spit on.

I've been treated like trash by Packer fans.

And I'm not saying that does not, like some people in this market,

I don't judge all on one.

I don't think that every Packer fans that way or anything like that.

Not just being honest with my experience.

I'm sure Packer fans have had some rough experience with bear fans too.

Sure, yeah.

But I'm expecting to walk into this and just expecting hell, basically.

The first thing I see in the stands at Lambo are people holding up signs.

Thank you, sweetness.

We remember you sweetness.

Like people in Packer jerseys holding up those signs.

It just speaks to not only one that this rivalry is not only the greatest rivalry in sports,

but we also see more than that in each other.

And the respect that was there from the Green Bay fans was something I expected it from Chicago fans.

I expected it from other things.

I didn't expect it there.

And I was blown away by that.

And I get chills when I think about it.

Because it's still one of the coolest things I've ever seen in sports.

Bears won that game by a blind PhD.

Of all things.

Of all things.

Of all things.

I'll never forget everybody immediately that happening in every Packer fan in that room

that I'm expecting to get teet from and everything.

That was yours.

You get that one.

But you can have that one.

That one you can get.

Like Walter did that for you.

There's a quote I want to say.

It kind of fits with the whole Packer Bears rivalry kind of things.

Stephen Jay Gould was an academic.

He was a famous Yankee fan.

And he would talk about how much when he was growing up, how much he hated the Dodgers.

Because they were the rival in city team that they hated.

But he said it in a way.

He's like, because I hated the Dodgers with the kind of hate that only love can understand.

Yeah.

Which is exactly what it is.

You guys, the two teams hate each other.

But it's because of the rivalry.

There's a undercurrent of love there because of that.

One thing, go back and watch Walter Peyton run.

Because he did something no one ever did.

He kept the ball like, by the way, don't run like this.

No.

He kept the ball in his hand, like, gripped with one hand.

And I didn't know what that was until someone explained it or I read it somewhere.

He did that just in case he found someone open and could throw the ball down the field.

I'm like, what?

Yeah.

Who does this?

Yeah, we didn't even talk about his career.

All-time leading rusher at one point.

It had multiple thrown touches.

Touchdowns as well.

Yeah.

So you could do the option play on the fly if he found someone open.

Yeah.

That's crazy to me.

That's how insanely good he was.

Just wrapping up a quote for quote here.

All right.

Walter, never die easy.

Why run out of bounds and die easy?

Make that linebacker pay.

It carries into all effects of life.

It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

I'll tell you what, he drive coaches crazy these days.

Yeah, I would.

Yeah, I would.

Imagine what they would do with Walter Peyton in this off.

Oh my god, I didn't thought of that before.

I'm so glad he's gone.

That is an amazing thought.

That would be awful.

We appreciate you all hanging out with us.

And certainly appreciate our friends at El Café.

Yeah.

Go visit them right now at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwin.

Wish them a great day from us.

And happy birthdays to Cali and to our qualifiers Sam Anderson.

Happy birthday, guys.

Get us more and more birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you, everybody.

We'll be back after our news break on the morning show here at WFHR.

We're back.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We are.

Couldn't resist going from the Beatles Happy Birthday to another Beatles.

Yeah.

Good to help it.

It's the old music.

Really pressed it.

Ah, nicely done.

Love this guitar.

Hope you guys are having a great Thursday out there.

Happy Friday, Eve, everybody.

Yeah.

We're here to have some fun.

We'll take you to the top of the hour.

Some great topics.

Some serious comedy to start your day.

Would you be surprised if your doctor abruptly quit and launched a new gig as an influencer,

hawking sunglasses on social media?

Be a little shocking.

That would be.

In the middle of the checkup or something like that.

He says, all right, all right.

And you know what?

Nah, I'm good, man.

Like what?

Yeah, I think I'm good.

I don't want to do this anymore.

I mean, doctor anymore.

Didn't you go to school for like nine years to do this?

Yeah, but you know, I got these sunglasses.

I think they're really cool.

You should check out these Raybaths.

What?

According to a new study, 54% of people would quit their current job to become a full-time influencer.

And we're not talking about kids working retail.

It involved a wide range of people between the ages of 18 and 60.

Oh, wow.

And this is where I think this gets interesting.

It might seem like the term influencer is a little, you know, charged.

But according to this study, 26% of social media users already considered themselves influencers,

even if they're not getting anything out of it.

Oh, wow.

And 64% of social media users would gladly accept payments from brands to promote their products

on social media feeds.

Why should celebrities be the only ones who get to do this?

Hey, you know, you know, paid, right?

I actually, like, as easy as it is and it's low-hanging fruit to pick on influencers and all that,

I don't begrudge that from corporations.

Corporations that makes perfect sense to me.

Right.

You want the, not just the American public, but the world has changed in what we want and what we like from our media.

Whether it's advertising or it's TV shows, commercials, radio, whatever, whatever.

We got this, we got on this early.

We started doing real radio a while back.

And it really since I've been in this chair.

And it's something that has helped us.

It's helped us evolve this at 80 plus year old radio station, as well as our listeners evolve.

And it's been a lot more fun.

I cannot tell you how many times, in the last six, seven years, I have heard from people how much fun they have listening to us and how much they enjoy.

And that means the world to us because that's part of our job.

That's absolutely.

Keep informed and hopefully you have a good time and a positive good time out of that while it's at it.

That doesn't happen if we're all talking like this.

Yes, yeah.

And we're two announcer voice.

Old radio.

Yes.

And old radio had its place.

I have nothing against old radio grew up on it much like you did.

Yes, that's right.

But the times have changed.

Yes.

And whether it's that or it's,

it's that or it's glider rock.

One, two, three, three.

No.

No.

Or the typical morning show,

tons of sound effects and wacky sound effects and stuff.

Yeah.

And we moved on past those things.

We don't really do that anymore.

No, wait, wait, wait.

That timing.

Bad timing.

Nice.

We do one sound effect.

We have one.

That's all I need.

But with that, of course, advertising is going to see that and adjust to that.

And they want to do more real advertising now.

Right.

And that's going to take a long time to get to.

We were joking about this with Terry yesterday and everything about what a burger looks

like in a commercial and what it looks like when you order it.

Right.

Big difference.

Big difference.

And we all kind of just accept that.

But people are starting to push back on that.

You're seeing more and more, hey, subway, it's not actually a seven inch sub or whatever.

Yeah, right.

And some of these things, people are much more paying in tune with that.

No.

So with that, if I'm an advertiser, I would rather have a real everyday person selling my

product than celebrity B, you know, because you're not going to get A celebrity oftentimes.

You're getting the B celebrity.

Right.

So even in that regard, you're not necessarily getting something that's going to help your product.

Right.

And as we know, as we know, the best sales is still word of mouth.

Yeah.

That's the best kind of advertising.

And this is probably the closest you're going to get to like, like, word of mouth over

a large area.

If you have an influencer that has lots of followers, because people tend, especially the bigger names

and influencing, people tend to trust them with a lot of different things.

So if they're going to say, hey, try this product or do this service or whatever it is, they're

going to pay attention to it.

Yeah.

And it just ties into what you were saying, too.

That's kind of what they're going for right now.

And honestly, I think, you know, when they get the big celebrities to do their ads, I think

that's purely for their stock price.

I don't think it's because they think they're going to sell anymore mobs or something like

that.

Yeah.

I think it has something to do with it.

Hey, look, we've got, you know, so and so on our big commercial.

We've had a millions of dollars.

Look at us kind of thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Our stock should go up.

Well, and it's, look, the, there are things in life that we can put a stop to or we can

do certain things about and everything.

But the idea of, well, I saw something from a, and I hate even mentioning his name, but

from Jason Aldin the other day, him talking about, we need to get rid of all social media.

And like, first off, first off, it's a little hypocritical considering his wife lives on

social media.

I don't know if they talk, but you might want to talk to her about first, but he's very

adamant about this.

And, and like a lot of things with him, this is not his idea, just like he doesn't write

his own songs.

Right.

Well, he's a panderer.

I'm sorry.

If you're a fan of his, that's fine.

I enjoy his work, but just understand that that guy is pandering.

He is writing these songs and doing, if not him writing these songs, he's doing this from

his private jet.

This guy, not a guy who's got dirt under his nails or anything, but he pretends that he

is.

Yeah.

And this is the type of guy that's telling you that there shouldn't be social media.

Yeah.

Like, you're not getting rid of social media.

And while it does have its downsides, obviously, like every single thing in life, you're, you're

not getting rid of it.

You need to, the smarter way we can handle this is how do we adapt to it?

And how do we keep, we keep our young people understanding how big it is to hit send and

some of these things?

It's a time of taking, taking use of the positives we have from it.

The last conversation I had when my papa was on Facebook Messenger, man, like I wouldn't

have been able to have that.

Right.

We get out of phone call, but you could barely breathe and talk, but I could see him through

the visual.

And there are certain things that are positive.

How many people talk to their relatives from states and states away through, actually,

countries away?

Yeah.

And I haven't even gotten into the world changing things that have happened because of

social media runs and, and groups that get together and stuff like that causes that people

get behind and everything and they get spread around.

There is, even as something as simple as lost dogs and Wisconsin, a Facebook group that

help people find dogs that are missing in the state and everything, there's a positive.

There's way too many positives to, look, nobody's getting rid of guns, apparently.

And we got more problems with that, but let's put the focus where we really should.

Right.

And obviously we don't get rid of them.

We have a second amendment for a reason, but what do we need to do?

We need to be smarter about how these things are getting out there.

How smarter who has them and some of these things.

We don't just get rid of them, we adapt and get smarter.

It's easy to say get rid of something.

Somebody can say that.

Anybody can write that for you and then you can say it in the interview.

It is much more difficult to actually work through these things, to actually be an actual

community, an actual society, and have each other's back and try to get, find the positive

in this and try to find what we can do, how we can tinker with things to make them better.

Right.

Because it's not going that direction and it's, it's childlike to think that that's a possibility.

I think as far as the influencer thing goes, the thing that surprised me the most was

how many older people, and I mean like 50 plus, that want to be influencers, that want

to do that.

That's a demographic that they haven't really touched on that much, so maybe they should

give it a shot.

No for it.

No for it.

Yeah, give it a try.

We'll get to a time out.

We'll come back and we'll get into one, an interesting one, Seth and I have for you.

One in five people don't think they fit in their own generation.

We'll come back and talk about that on the morning.

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Let's go ahead and dive into this one Seth and I play an older generational song for

a reason.

Lobabi Darren for you.

Yeah.

Yes, yes.

Great bobby Darren.

Because this is an interesting topic to me and I think there's the whole old soul kind

of thing that comes into play here a little bit.

A lot of us might have heard that a lot growing up.

Oh, you're an old soul.

You're an old soul.

You're two serious.

Oh, no.

All this.

Were you born in the wrong decade?

A new poll found one in five Americans don't think they fit in their own generation.

19% of us think that we have little or nothing in common with people of our own age and

fit in better with people who are younger or older than us.

Okay.

And here's a bit of a breakdown and I want to hear from the audience audience participation

is encouraged on this one.

Call up and join the conversation.

Mandatory.

No, yes.

I almost said mandatory almost.

You must call.

Oh, geez.

I'm a little.

A little real dedicated listeners out there.

We appreciate it.

But please feel free to call up.

We'd love to hear from you on this one.

Because I know that there's just even statistically as we see here, there are people out there listening

to this that feel this way.

So this breaks down.

Here's a kind of a breakdown of this.

Gen Z.

70% of people under 30 think that they fit in best with people over 60.

That includes 6% who feel like boomers at heart.

4% who said the silent generation or people born in their 30s to early 40s.

And 7% said the greatest generation, the people who won World War II for us.

So the Gen Z, those are the people they feel more like.

Millennials.

Again, 17% said one of those three older generations fits them best.

Another 21% feel like they're really more Gen X.

And Gen X, you're more likely than Millennials or Gen Zers to think you do fit in your generation.

Oh, care, man.

See, exactly.

Still 6% think that they're more like Millennials and 3% said Gen Z.

And then of course, baby boomers.

The least likely to think they belong in another generation.

If anything, you might feel like you fit in better with your parents' friends.

That said, 1% of people over 65 think that they're running with the wrong crowd and would

fit in better with Gen Z.

All right.

More power to you guys.

And we're seeing, actually, a lot of these crossovers, where we're seeing a lot of young people

or Gen Zs hanging out with baby boomers, a lot more and a lot more of vice versa, that

we've had some good stories involving those kind of things.

This to me, one of the overwhelming things about this to me, Seth, is something we're actually

joking about in our pre-game a little bit about how the average generation picks on the

next generation.

Yeah, I always hate them for whatever reason, right?

When I push back on that as much as I can, I really find that to be low-hanging fruit

really silly and very generalizing.

Very generalizing.

Because I'll tell you, you want to go ahead and pick on the youngest generation.

I can point to off the top of my head 10 to 15 different examples that push back on

the whole of their this or their that.

And I think that every single generation has many, many people examples of, hey, they're

not this.

No.

There are plenty of baby boomers out there that did not fight in World War II.

Absolutely.

They did not do a whole lot to move this country or anything like that.

Just like there are plenty of Gen X and millennials and Gen Zers who are advancing society and

are doing things when they are being picked on and saying that they're lazy or they don't

care or any of this.

I would like to think that anybody out there with two brain cells gets this.

It seems like anything in life, generalizing is something that people do when they only

have two or three brain cells.

It's just, I could not be more blunt about this.

And I'm sorry if I'm not being wording this properly or something, but it's kind of silly

to me where we have these separations of each other for what reasons.

Yeah.

Seriously, the reasoning just doesn't make any sense to me.