heard a word of that. Oh, no, not a single thing. But so what we're talking
about here is this being the most deadliest day on the road. A dash cam
company called NextBase, crushed the numbers and found August 7th is the
deadliest day on American roadways. They didn't explain why a random Wednesday
in August was so dangerous. That would have been very helpful. But the dad
it's based on dad and national highway traffic safety administration put
together. They also found that the poll found 62% of drivers feel like roads are
more dangerous than they were five years ago. Right, right. I'm going to quick
jump on what you were saying before they everyone heard us about, you know,
the rural rural versus urban driving. And actually, that's a very well point,
you take a point well taken from you because I thought, I probably thought
similar along those lines that, you know, it's more dangerous to drive in like
large urban areas. And there's more thing. And then I moved to North Dakota.
And I lived in a very rural area and everything that you were saying before
about, you know, the side streets of people stopping to talk to each other and
stuff like that. Totally true. Yeah. And it's like because there's not as much
traffic out there. They think they could do like whatever they want on the road.
It's like, I mean, it was a bad man. Yeah. And they would pull out like right
in front. It's like, there's no other cars like miles around and they pull out
right frame. Like, what are you doing? Yeah. What's what the heck? You get the
more rural it gets, the more country it gets. They really, so many people treat
the roads like they're the only ones on them. Yeah. In the city, you know there
are other people on the roads with you. Yeah. So you, you do it. And again,
I'm not saying that city drivers are better drivers or more polite drivers by
any means. Right. But they are, they got somewhere to be, they got somewhere to
go. So they tend to be looking at everything on the road and being more polite.
Yep. Whereas a country rider or a rural driver, they just, the road is
theirs. And there's so much more of that. Oh, it's so true. The distracted driver
is certainly something that long before cell phones, we are worried about. I
remember when they had little TVs in cars. Oh my God. Yes. And I don't mean the
kind that's in the back of the seat that the kids can watch. I mean, like a
little portable TV that would be in the car with you. Like we've had distracted
driving forever. My papa used to was a semi driver for 50 years and talked
about how he loved his CB. But how that could be distracting. Oh, anything, man.
Anything. Can't be think when when when CDs were first put in your CD players
in cars. Oh, CD changing a CD while you were driving kind of thing. Oh my God.
Not just changing the CD, but going through your black CD case,
it's looking through the pages. Yeah. Where's that single soundtrack? Where is that?
Looking through all of your, just to try to find one CD, the proper wasn't even
in there. Exactly. Your friend-bowered it or something like that. So we've,
we've always had distracted driving for the most part, even like turning on the radio
or something. That can even cause distraction as well. So I mean, yeah, you're so
right. That's why we always recommend to our listeners out there. Just keep it
right here. Just keep it right. You don't have to worry about it. Don't be a, you
know, don't get distracted trying to flip other radio stations and all that noise.
Why would you do that? Right here. Why would you move on? One thing that I didn't
think Stan stood out about this was the idea that a lot of drivers, a lot of drivers
these 62% of drivers feel that the roads are more dangerous than they were five years
ago. I would have agreed with that if this was right after the pandemic, because it did
feel like a lot of people, I'll even throw myself in there to a degree, because I don't
want to sound like I'm perfect at driving or something. Right. Right. But we forgot
to drive. We forgot how to drive. We forgot how to treat each other and some of those
things. I do think that it happened that we saw an uptick in certain types of accidents
and everything. I don't necessarily feel like the roads are more dangerous, though, than
they were five, ten years ago, because I've never underestimated the roads. I've never
underestimated other drivers. Yeah. Maybe it's your outlook, people's
outlook on driving. And it's just that, or they notice something or like say you get
into like a small vendor or something like that, that usually makes people be more aware
of what's going on, you know, because they don't want it to happen again. So, I mean,
maybe that's something to do with it. Like again, we don't have the data here to find
out, you know, specifically why today is considered the most dangerous day, but or why people
are feeling this, you know, way is they elaborate on the surveys kind of thing. Well, why, you
know, but we don't have it. It's never whether it's August 7th or any other day. It's never
a bad idea to, before you turn that key, go ahead and think about being an engaged
driver and paying attention driver. It doesn't take much to be a distracted driver. And
just as a side note, the idea that the distracted driver is somebody 21 and younger or even
25 and younger or something like that, certainly there can be some distraction there.
In my experience, the distracted driver is our age group, right? That's the, the younger
generation has a handle on tech much better than we do. And we can't seem to put our phones
down more than they can't. And so it's just it's all ages. It really is. Pointing fingers
and everything, you know, be careful about that because there's a lot more, a lot more
there than I think we realize sometimes if we don't have some self realization. We got
one actually I got a kind of it's tying these stories together to wrap up our opening
monologue here. Mystery alligator was found wandering on a road in North Carolina's Rowan County
and was relocated to a zoo. Okay. I'm only doing this story for Seth's family. I just
wanted to make sure that they were aware of this of the Carolinas. Oh, yeah. The Rowan
County Sheriff's Office said on social media that a deputy traveling on Longfairy Road
about 5 a.m. Sunday spotted an alligator in the road and called the North Carolina Wildlife
Resource, Resources to Mission for Assistance. They're able to help get the alligator off
the road. This is not a common thing in the Carolinas. In Florida, yeah, they have
gators in the Carolinas for sure, but not nearly as common as they are in Florida.
Nobody knows where the gator came from. They cannot trace this gator. That's interesting.
It was it was taken to a zoo and for safe keeping for now, but they're trying to figure
out where they want to replace it, but you put it back where it was, but they don't
know where it was. They don't know where it's from. And this alligator is not saying a
dang thing. Nothing. He's keeping it closed, man. They're just trying to help. He won't
say a darn word. Firefighters in Wisconsin came to the rescue of a deer that fell into a
hole in the ground on a college campus and couldn't climb back out. Oh, no. Right up
north of us, Stevens Point and Fire Department said on social media, their crews were called
to the University of Stevens Point. Shout out to the pointers out there. Yeah. When a
woodland friend near Lot J got in over their head. Firefighters were able to restrain and
secure and free the deer from its predicament. The department shared a photo of the rescue
saying it was the only picture taken as the deer was more than excited to be out of
it than safely reunite it with its kind. Yeah. Just went book and right away. I'll bet
it did. It's a freedom. Took off. Not only that. Thank you. Just doing her one hurt, you
know, one quick thank you as you're running, as you're driving away. It not only gives
us a chance to shout out, you know, our local area and Stevens Point and everything.
And of course, a pointer, a university of Stevens Point. We got plenty of specific
media members here to appoint graduates. And that's what we send a shout out to them,
of course. But this also gives us an opportunity to thank our firefighters. Thank the firefighters
out there. If you have not been keeping up on this in the state of Wisconsin, we've got
a lot of fire departments and not enough people and not enough funding. That's right.
That's right. That is that is turning into a rather large issue. Yeah. And it's not
getting it. There is no light at the end of the tunnel right now. Though there is action
that is needed on that front. And until there is, we're just going to continue to lose
good people and see that being hurt. And of all the jobs that we can afford to lose,
this is one of the very important, very important job. And while we think of firefighters running
into burning buildings, there's these types of stories all the time that happened. They
do all sorts of things. Yep. Big shout out and thank you to all of our local fire departments
out there. We appreciate you stay safe out there. We do. I'm going to take a quick time
out, check it with our partners. Come back. We'll have the El Caffe birthday anniversary
club. It's Seth and James taking it through your morning at WFHR.
It's time for the El Caffe birthday anniversary club. One of our favorite parts of the day
we get to talk about El Caffe and get to talk about you and celebrate all of you out
there. Big thank you to our friends over at El Caffe who are on vacation right now.
They are. Their entire staff are taking a much need of vacation. They're going to reopen
on Tuesday, August 13th at 7 a.m. Meet us there. We hope you are going to be ready for it
because they are going to be gunning for it. Where are you going to go? Yeah, meet them
over there. And when you get to thank them for us, we appreciate our friends at El Caffe
Day by local support, local support, those that support us and get us those birthdays
and anniversaries. So we can celebrate with you info at WFHR.com, James.MailFet Civic
Media.US, direct messages on our Facebook pages as well, like the page and direct messages
with all those kind of feedback that we can get. And of course, call in 424, 2600, call
today, call now and as a matter of fact, yeah, phone lines wide open. We'd love to love
to hear a birthday wishes here on live on the air.
Kids are open. Albuquerque, you're on the phone. Go ahead and call up and join the conversation.
It's always Albuquerque. It's always Albuquerque. Larry Kick was huge in Albuquerque.
It's for what that seems like it was. So we are still looking for Sam Anderson to reach
out to us. Oh, yeah. So we give him the July certificate. If we don't hear anything by
Friday, we are going to have to grab a new winner for the Monday, July. But do reach out
to us and let us know, call it, give our front desk a call 424 1300. Yes. Seth, I need
a one or a two today. Let's go with one today. All right. Yes. Is that qualified?
First up, he can't win, but did want to send a shout out to one of my best friends, Vincent
Giles. Okay. Vince is. So Vince, my last name is Egyptian. Yep. Vince is Italian. Vince
is African American. I am not. We have jokes on this for a long time. Yeah. And one of
my closest friends, Vince and I met during Killamockingbird. He played Tom. And it's one of the
more moving, greater performances I have seen. That's very good. It was really, really cool.
And just one of the better human beings I've met. Good guy. And wishing you a good one.
Enjoy your day, Vince. Talk soon. Yes. And we wish a very good birthday again to a great
friend of ours. Reach a white hair. Oh, Rachel. Her actual birthday. Oh, no. Yeah. That's
sure how it got on the list. That was on me. That was on me. That was, but Rachel used to
join us from UW Extension. That's right. She did. Doing her thing out west now and doing the
same work job over there. That she was doing here. Just a little bit bigger in some ways.
And doing great work. I learned a lot from Rachel over the years. Big thank you to her.
And it certainly is an extension to the UW Extension. That's right. We appreciate them.
Happy birthday. Both of you. Yeah. And our qualifier today. Christopher Bogden.
Christopher, happy birthday. Congratulations. Christopher, an actor over with
Central Wisconsin, uh, uh, since it counts an area community theater. Oh, okay. Very cool.
Christopher, enjoy your day. Yeah. Good one. And you're our qualifier today. Very nice. Very good.
Nice. We take a look at our fellow actors. Yeah. We're always rooting for those. We're always
pulling for them. We got two of them on the list today. Oh, very good. And we, of course,
went on to see who they, who are they sharing their birthday with. Yep. Well, uh,
Francesca Eastwood is 31. Clint Eastwood's daughter. Oh, uh, she was Molly on Heroes Reborn.
She was also did a Western, uh, Western called outlaws and angels. I've only seen a little bit
of her, um, but it's got some good skill to her. Very cool. Mike Trout is 33 today. Oh,
angels outfielder and one of the best all around players in baseball over the last 10 years.
Yes. Um, it's been rough going the last four. Yes. So so many injuries. We just found out
recently he's not going to play again this year. Oh, that's, you know, it's, it's so,
it's so sad because he's so good. He's such a nice guy. Yeah. And then you have all these things
happen to him. It just feels so, uh, frustrating. He's played one playoff series in his career.
His entire career. I would love to see him traded to a team that could actually do something.
He's an East Coast guy, maybe Philly, something like that. I would love to see something like that
happen for him and for baseball fans, uh, to be true. I mean, let's, let's put it out there. He's
very loved by most people. He's one of the better all around towns we've seen in baseball in the
last 30 years. Yeah. Like he's incredibly talented. He's going to walk into the Hall of Fame.
Absolutely. If he played his last game this season, he's still going into the whole
even his career. He, he's still going in. Yeah. It's not the same thing because Poo House,
it wasn't injuries. It was more just, I don't know, a change of scenery or what did, what did it
to him? I'm going. Yeah. Yeah. But going from St. Louis to Anaheim was such a change right there.
Yeah. And in his first 10 years where the cops are maize and Williams and they were doing a
similar thing with Mike Trout. And now it's kind of getting towards the end of his, at the end
tail end of his career where, um, this is what we're going to remember kind of thing. Well, we got,
can't, he was a great fielder. I love watching him in the outfield. Yep. Uh, great fielder.
And great fielder. Boss of speed could steal a bag. Yep. Man, everything. He was all around.
One of the better actresses out there today. Sheree's there on is 49. Wow. Uh, really.
So many performances. So many movies. Uh, it's only 30, 49. I thought she's older than that. Yeah.
Yeah. 49. Yeah. That's how long she's been doing this. That's got to be. She must have started early.
I love, um, you know, her movie Monster is one of the greater acting performances I've ever seen.
Uh, it's, it's one of those ones where I agree with putting the makeup on the actor to make them
look a lot more like the character. Sure. She was incredible. She was disturbing. Uh, she did things
that I didn't think she could do in that. Mm-hmm. But she's got a movie and it's not a great, great
movie, but a movie The Devil's, uh, The Devil's Advocate, uh, with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. Yep.
And she, I had seen her act a little bit before that, but that was really her big break.
It was. Yes. And she plays like crazed better than most I've ever seen. And, and from that moment on,
I'm like, well, I'm watching the rest of this woman's career. Uh, what I really enjoyed is seeing like
a lot of actors once they get themselves like, okay, I've won the awards. I've, I've, I've earned
credibility among my peers. I've done all these things. I kind of want to do some action. I
want to be an action star. That's right. And I'm 40. I've been my 40s. Apparently that's the,
the prime for, uh, for action stars now. Anymore. Yeah. We're not making new ones.
Apparently, who's the youngest action star out there right now? I didn't even know. Um, so, uh,
she gets into these and there's a movie on Netflix called The Old Guard. And again, not a blowway
movie, not an Oscar, caliber movie or anything, but if you like a little bit of action, you like
good actors like her and the chemistry with the other actors. I don't mean in necessarily
the line delivery, but she, she is with a group of an old guard and her and like four other actors
are like a team. And there's these scenes in there where they're handing throwing weapons to
each other and doing all this stuff. And it's no side, you know, uh, special effects. They're doing
it. Right. And the chemistry that all of them had was incredible. Like just watching it for that,
I think is worth it. That's cool. She's that good of an actor though. She is. I think the biggest
compliment I can give her is she's there. And it's always been one of those actresses that makes
other actors better. And she's really good at that. And that's that's that's all you can ask for.
Really. Another fantastic one. Michael Shannon is 50. Oh, wow. Uh, Nelson and uh, Bordeaux
Empire, General Zod and Man of Steel. Good actor. Good actor. Uh, Harold Prelude is 61. Michael
unlost. Link in the Matrix. We loaded movies. He was the narrator and Oz. Another fantastic actor.
And not a household name, I know, but uh, very, very good. Uh, yes, indeed. Uh, how many people know
that there's another Esteves brother? Yeah. Ramon Esteves is 61 older brother of Charlie and younger
brother of Emilio. They starved the dead zone and uh, which he was a teenage boy with camera. Uh,
Ramon's dad Martin, of course, one of the greatest actors ever. I didn't, I didn't realize that.
He was kind of can't get lost. Ancillary into the, the, the sheen slash Esteve's family.
David a company is 64, Fox Mulder and X files, Hank in California, Cation. Uh, is that a very
solid career? He has. By the way, he is like, uh, very, he dropped out to become an actor, but he's
very close to having a PhD in literature. That's right. Yeah. He's a very smart guy. I forget about
that. Yeah. Newman Wayne night is 69 today. Jerry's arch enemy. Yeah. Newman on Seinfeld. Of
course, uh, the guy who falls like drop, falls drops the, uh, stuff in Jurassic Park or whatever.
Yeah. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the, the thief. Yeah. It steals the DNA, right? Uh,
fan of his, what is the reasons I'm a fan of his? I saw an interview with Wayne night once and he
was so happy to be being interviewed. Like he was like, you know, and actors, he's just talking
about like actors like me, don't get interviewed. You know, that's right. He just seemed like one of
those people that really appreciated what he had. The opportunity had no of those things. I,
I will always root for guys like that. And very funny, very funny actor. Uh, let's see, uh, Tobin Bell
81 jigsaw in the saw movies. Yeah. Um, but a very solid actor. Oh, absolutely very solid actor.
He had a lot of performances long before that. Yeah. There was a law in order. He showed up in and
some other things like that working actor. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very good character actor.
And I, even though I'm not a fan of the song, well, the first song movie was actually really
well done. That's pretty well done. It was really well done. Everything after that is just,
his performance and it was fantastic. But what I was happy for is to see an actor like that get a
break like that. And, you know, next six movies here, you got your paycheck. That's great for
for an actor like that. That's huge. Yeah. I guarantee you, Tobin Bell spent 40, 30, 40 years of his
life in his career, not knowing what the next gig would be. Yep. For to be in his late 60s to get
a, to get a job where you know the next four or five, you've got your covered. That's good for him.
That's very good for him. Yeah. Uh, let's see here. BJ Thomas was born in this day in 1942,
passed away in 2021. Rain drops keep all in. That was pretty good. That was not a bit. That was
that we did that organically, everybody. I wasn't even looking at you. No, that was funny. That was
funny. Um, yeah, that's it. I have no problem with this song. I respect Mr. Thomas' legacy and
everything. I love, love, love, butch Cassidy and the Sundance kit. It's one of my favorite movies,
top 20 favorite movies of all time. That scene makes no sense. No sense. I do. You're where you're
going with this. It just doesn't make any sense. It's weirdly just kind of plopped in the middle of
that. It's you're right, man. That's such a weird scene. It feels so, it feels like the director
owed BJ of like a like he lost a bet or a odum or something. I'm guessing there had to have been
like a contract contractual thing. We got to put the song in the movie somewhere. Here do this.
Okay. That's it. Yeah. I didn't really talk much about it that way, but you're right. I think
you're right. It seems that way really. Really. It really, really. Yes. Great movie, though. Yes.
And Billy Burke, born in the state in 1884, passed away in 1970. Glinda, the good witch,
in the Wizard of Oz. Oh, man. Did she have a career, though, man? Uh, she was famous. She was on
the London stage for most of her career, uh, doing like what dance hall, which was basically the
the English version of vaudeville. She was sing. She would dance. She was in a ton of movies.
She heard her, especially in the 30s and the 40s all over radio. She did a lot of radio as well.
So, um, but she was, she was, I mean, everyone knows her because of being in Wizard of Oz, but
she was actually had her in her prime. She was a very popular entertainer. She was, it's funny.
You say popular because, uh, I think of, uh, right away, I don't think anybody can play that role,
but her, uh, in the Wizard of Oz, she was that good in the day. Yes. I will say, though,
Kristen Chenoweth as the good witch in wicked. Oh, God. Is, is unparalleled. There is no,
her in Edie Menzel in the original wicked. Yeah. There is no parallel to them. No, no, no. They're
there. Two of the greatest fabulous theater actors you see and their performance was amazing.
Their chemistry was through the roof. Yeah. Uh, and I, and I, I think of her because she complimented
her so much about her before, Kristen Chenoweth, so much about her work that she pulled from and
everything and really got inspired. That's really cool. And to think of an, I always admire to see
actors with so much talent and so much grace and everything and yet they're learning from others.
Oh, absolutely. It shows you something. Uh, the smartest people in the, the most talented and,
uh, people I've ever known know that they're not the most tart smartest and they're not the most
talented in the, you know, that they are always trying to get better. That's right. One more time
wishing a happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating. Yes. Enjoy your day
and are, remember that our friends over at LKFA will be closed until the 12th. They're open
to them back up Tuesday, August 13th, 7 a.m. Meet them there when they open those doors at 221
market avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Yeah. Seth and I are going to take a sports and news
break. We'll come back and have some more fun. Talk a little Olympics when we get back on the
morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Good things on the way we're going to get into. We got a couple of fun topics. If you need a new
fragrance, we got pretzels for you. We're talking about that. And would you let a robot dentist
work on your teeth? We will get into that one. But first, we continue our Olympic coverage for
just a couple of more days. Oh, that's right. Ceremonies are almost wrapping up with less than a
week left of the summer Olympics. Team USA finally passed China for the sole lead in the golds
yesterday. All right. Everybody with me. One, two, three, you. You told you would run a game over
there. Yeah. Women's wrestler Amit Elor, a dominated in her gold medal match and we snagged
two more golds in track and field. Underdog Cole Hocker won the men's 1500 meter race and the
wonderful Gabby Tavis won the women's 200 meter. We also grabbed a silver and women's hammer throw,
a bronze in men's boxing way to be and two more bronze medals in track and field. We entered
yesterday tied with China at 21 gold, but they only tracked, uh, tacked on one more. So here's how
things are shaken up right now. Team USA entered the day leading with 24 golds, China 22,
Australia 14. Nice representation by them. That's interesting. Yeah. France, the host country always
does well in these events. 13 for them and great Britain at number 12. We also moved further ahead
in the overall medal count with 86 China at 59. Wow. Incredible. I didn't know we'd do this good.
The US synchronized swimmers today, Michael Jackson routine that included an upside down moonwalk.
Oh, my goodness. As a kid, I practiced the moonwalk for at least a month before I like did it
in front of anybody. That was a move you had to have down. If you were going to do it, you had,
you couldn't just, you know, you wing it. Yeah, right. You really have it down back in the day.
I've never seen that what they did. That was impressive. That was impressive. I got to think
even Michael Jackson would be like, that's pretty good. Yeah. It'd be pretty impressive by that
what I would think. The International Olympic Committee continues to put athletes' health
in danger by continuing to insist that it's safe to swim in the serene scene. Oh,
water. Oh, gosh. Oh, the send. Yeah, the send. I'm sorry. Yeah, River. Right. Right.
Keep mispronouncing at the send. Yeah. It's a real shame that that's that's the way that I
well, we could talk about the IOC, but we don't have the time or inclination right now. Well,
but we will have the time on playmaker sets. Oh, okay. And join us today for playmakers. Of course,
from five to six. We're looking forward to talking sports with you. It's a live sports
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Very cool. Doing good. Yeah, I think in busy. We got a really good month last month. And
August slows down a little bit, but then it gets back up, especially at school. Oh, yeah.
We started a lot of different orders from the school systems and then people preparing for that.
So we will do our best to make you guys insanely busy over there. So we give you know,
make sure you get your buddies more Phil. That's right. We appreciate the time. What is our
wicked awesome word for today? So doing the international thing here on a roll here with the
Olympics happening. So we're going to ask the word of today. Eekie guy. What? See that again.
Eekie guy. Eekie guy. Okay. Okay. What is that one Phil? I-G-A-I-E-E-G-I.
I got it. It did. It says Eekie guy. Okay. That means it means you defined your purpose
with, you know, while you're here. Yes. Okay. Very cool. I just threw it into the search engine
and found it pretty quick. Yeah. That's a voice. That's a cool word. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't want to say the little extra meeting to it. Like, you know, find your purpose and kick butt
in space. Yeah. Yeah. Find what you're good at, what you love, you know, and go at it, you know.
And that gives you obviously calm, you know, calm in the work. If you can find that. So, yeah.
Here we are. Eekie guy every day. That's very nice. That's a really good one Phil. Yeah.
That is a really good one. I like that one. They're not going to be using that throughout the day.
Eekie guy. Phil, curious. What kind of projects you guys are doing over there today?
Yeah. Going right now. So, we're doing stuff in the coosa football right now.
Erko, friends of Erko is a great local company, right? It's having a huge outage this month
where they do some maintenance and some additions. And so, we've done a lot of cleaning for them,
especially on safety documents and tags that they put on things out there. Because obviously,
they work with chemicals and have to be really safe. So, we do a lot of cleaning for them,
as far as safety things and we're proud to work for them and do some stuff from Mariani today
for the last week or after, right? Yeah. We print their programs to them every home game
and do a lot of other prank form too. But so, we're depending on some more programs today because
they get a game tonight, you know? We've added some things on a lot that just got some time out.
We do now have the ability to print like blue prints from bigger documents like that.
That's cool. Look at people like when they add on car washes all over the town.
Yeah, yeah. I think a couple of car washes are popping up. And so, what's fun is you can see that
because a lot of times the contractors come here with their plans and need them to be printed out
or things like that. We just started doing that a couple of months ago where I get the ability to have
a printed it does a little bit wider and longer things. So, we can print those kind of things
bigger posters and stuff like that now. So, it's kind of a new addition to what we've always done.
But yeah, I might be alone on this one, but is anybody else thinking the same thing I am?
Can you guys print big checks? I can't do that because you know, it might come up. You never know.
Yeah, so big checks as in like a lot of money and all.
Yeah, like the publishers clearing house ones and those to have like those big old checks.
Those big ones. I was wondering if they could bring that into the bank, you know.
Every time those commercials came on, my dad asked that. Every single time.
And every time he thought it was the first time he thought this, like, hey, I wonder.
Yeah, dad, for 10 years, man, you've been saying this. I don't think they take that thing.
No, it's ceremonial, right? Yeah.
We do have the ability of that. We could print a big check. Yes, we try.
Oh, cool. I figure. You know, there's no curveballs for these guys.
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getting your words out right here in Wisconsin Rapids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope
you're having a good one out there. I journalistically like to mention to the audience, you know,
let them look behind the curtain and make sure that I am always being upfront about things. Yes.
And I should mention that it has been quite a while since I've actually gone to the dentist.
I like a lot of people. I didn't have dental care. I didn't have a paycheck that I could do that
right for a long time, didn't dental insurance. Thank you. And recently have that got dental insurance
and have a decent paycheck now. Yep. So I finally went to the dentist yesterday and I want to send
a big shout out to dental suites, Dr. Doolittle in the gang over there. I was very surprised that
the Doolittle family stopped working with animals. I, she found that funny. She found, she smiled.
She laughed a little bit. Like she said, hadn't heard that before. Oh, I cannot imagine. I actually
said that to her right away. I am so sorry. I can't imagine. Please make fun of my last name.
Couldn't be a nicer lady. And like a lot of people out there, I have had horrible experiences with
the dentist my whole life. Hold different ballgame nowadays. It is really. It really, really is. You
have so many, you have at least three to four generations that were have the same story I do
about a lot of bad dental experiences. And those same people have gone on to go into the dentist
industry and now have some real bedside manners. Yes. And not just that, but the technology that they
have now. Oh, yeah. I had 20 x-rays done on my mouth yesterday. And my jaw is still a little sore,
but back in the day when they would do that kind of thing. And the way they just, you know,
I'm, they're practically putting their foot on your bottom jaw. And just like, just keep it open.
I'm almost got it almost. I got it locked in there. All right. It takes a jaw someplace to get
it out and everything. It's a very different game. And dental care is vitally important.
It is. I personally think that if I understand, I'm an adult, I understand a problem never
happen with health care. We should have universal dental care. There is no reason you
convince me otherwise. The dental industry will survive. They would be just fine. And the teeth
are too darn important. Right. People need to be able to eat. People need to be able to present
themselves for a job interview or if they're working in customer service or any of these things
and feel good about themselves. Teeth are too darn important. Plus the connections they've made
between heart health and your teeth. Surprising as it may seem, it's actually more and more evidence
that says good teeth means better heart, which is really remarkable. I'm not going to be the person
get out there and take care of your teeth. Chances are you would be if you could. And that's
that is one of the biggest crimes there is in our country. It's very sad because it's very
preventable. Very preventable. You know, kind of on a site, no real quick. We were talking about
technology. Beth has to get a tooth put in like an implant kind of thing. And you know, they used
to have to take a mold of your mouth to do that, like literally take a mold. Now they just scan it.
They just scan it, get a 3D scan and then they can find exactly where to fit. They can pick the
color. Yeah. To make sure it matches the rest of your teeth. That's crazy. It's really cool.
It's so cool where it's gone. And as far as it has advanced, maybe we need to slow down just
a tiny bit when it comes to this. There's nothing unsettling about a robot using sharp tools to
drill into your face. Nothing. Not at all. Is it safe? Is it safe? Is it? Okay. Who had the robot saying
is it safe? That's not cool. That's not fair. Not cool. Don't do that. Man, I am not just an
offman. It is not. Robot, if anybody remembers Marathon, that was a great reference. I loved it.
Robot dentists are about to become a thing after an AI company called Perspective. Huh?
Interesting name. Pulled off the first fully automated dental procedure. A robotic
arm controlled by AI shaved down a guy's tooth for a crown. It works by 3D mapping the inside of
your mouth. Not into what you're just saying. Yep. Then it clamps onto your jaw and a drill moves
in circles to grind your tooth down. The claimant offers enhanced precision and efficiency
compared to human dentists and also an improved patient experience. Getting a crown normally
requires two visits, one hour each. But they say it'll be able to be done a full-crown
procedure in about 15 minutes. Wow. It's not ready for prime time yet. So you won't see one
at your next checkup. They say there's all still about five years away from FDA approval.
But the plan is to eventually have them at dental offices all over the country. They recently
raised 30 million in funding. One of the investors, Dr. Edward Zuckerberg, is a dentist and also
Mark Zuckerberg's dad. So that just made a lot of this feel differently, didn't it, didn't it?
It's turned into me. Oh boy. Now, I think that certainly there is the Steve Martin and, you know,
it's made me seem a little shopper. A little shopper. A little shopper. A little shopper.
The Bill Murray. Yeah. Bill Murray. Yeah, right. That and everything. Then I immediately think of
with a robotic dentist. Now, what I didn't see in this article and I read two different articles
on this one. So the family didn't and there's still, of course, in the the beginning stages and
everything. But I want to see, okay, is now you tell me the crown's faster. Is it cheaper?
That's what I that's what and I don't want it to be about that. Right. And I don't think there's
anybody out there that wants it to be about that. But it's about that. It's going to it has to
play a part. Yeah. Absolutely. I'll go to a robotic dentist if it's cheaper, even though I'm
more worried and more nervous than I would ever be with a human being. Right. But if it was cheaper,
I'm not alone. Many of us would not would not only do it would do it because we have to. Exactly.
Does this mean we'd have more rural dentists? We'd have more dentists in rural areas, which we vastly
need. We've asked. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yeah. This is the stuff. Like, I don't care about things being
faster. I'm not worried about that anymore. It's not the 1980s where everything's got to be that
way or anything. And I understand that a lot of the audience out there and the people out there
are concerned about that. That is not my concern. My concern is cost. My concern is how do we make it
more accessible to every person on the planet? Oh, let's just stick to America. Every person in America
being able to, I got a bad tooth. I'm going in and getting it checked. Yeah. Not what almost every
single one of us do. I got a bad tooth. Well, that's going to cost a lot of money. I'm going to
have to wait this one out. Yeah. I'm going to have to see how long I can go with this.
The United Way releases the out support every year. And in this, we've really been able to
just figure out a lot of people. It's because it's come home so much more now that there is almost
every one of us, especially those of us listening right now, are just one thing away from being in
turmoil financially. Right. One emergency. One emergency away. We live that way with our mouths
where we put up with stuff in our mouth that we shouldn't have to. Right. But we do because of
cost or because we don't have dental insurance or something like that. Right. And we're just
kicking the can, kicking the can until finally, okay, this pains too much. I'm going to the
ER. I can't even get in to see the dentist because the dentist oftentimes is not taking new patients.
Or at least won't have an opening for like months, right? Yeah. Yeah. So this is all going on.
And we all just kind of just roll with it. And not a darn thing gets done about it. We have seen,
I will say Senator Teston, worked very hard to propose a bill about getting more dentists in rural
areas. That's good. There has been some action done on that front. But not on the front of pay,
not on the front of how much this costs. Right. I think of a very similar thing with veterinary
vets and how much it costs to take a dog or an animal and stuff. Like these are things that we
just let kind of just coast by. And for everybody that wants to freak out about gas going up five
cents and can't wait to say inflation. It's their favorite word inflation, inflation. They have
never taken a look at the economy and actually figured out economics or anything. They just want to
throw around a buzz word. How about looking at this, the dental industry and what can we do to fix
it? How can we make it better? Right. I'm not saying dentists, I think, should be paid very well.
Not a lot of people want to do that job. The tough job. Yeah. That's not how we fix things by
lowering, you know, the pay to dentists or anything. No. We need to have better insurance.
We need to have an overall insurance. You're telling me Canada could do something we can't.
Is that what we're facing America? Canada does something better than we do. Canada can have
universal health care, but we can't. Yeah. What's up with that? What's up with that? Is that the
road I got to go where I got to egg on? I've failed my fellow Americans just to get them to do
something here because this has been going on longer than we've been alive, Seth. It's true.
It's true. But hey, all I can say is Canada be different from the US. Nicely done. Nicely done.
Speaking of obscure reference. And I'm a little disappointed. It's just a robotic arm.
I wanted the dentists to come in and does the corny jokes. I wanted all. I want the full
dentists to experience. The robot that still wears the mask. Yes. Yes. It doesn't need to,
but still just to make you feel more comfortable. Does the robotic arm as it's working in my mouth
ask me questions? Because that's what it does. So you're going to have a vacation this year.
Oh, that's great. That's great. I've been there before. We'll be right back. We'll be more
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