Bat Dog (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thank you for kicking it off with us here at 975 FM, WFHR.

Hmm, Marvin sounded good today. Every day. We hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for kicking off your day with us here, everybody. Happy Friday Eve. Happy Thursday.

Got your host James J. Mailoff here, joined by our head up production, our co-host Seth Habhacker. Good morning. And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us every one. Let's get to Brittany Murlow and talk a little mother nature. Brittany, thank you so much for hanging out with us. How are you today?

I love hanging out with you guys. How are you guys? We're doing good. All right. Good. You're doing good over there. Pretty good. Pretty good. I wish the fun was out, but yeah, yeah, well, we got used to that. We got.

Yeah, it was nice. That whole sudden thing. That was.

Oh, goodness. Yes. It's going to be a much darker day today, mostly cloudy, pretty much all day. High temperatures, a little bit warmer. We're going to climb to the upper 70s, slightly muggy throughout the afternoon, because we've got a warm front passing with another cold front right behind it.

Well, this is going to be sparking up some showers and storms. We could see some isolated storms, potentially early this evening. Some of those could be on the stronger side of things, but those will be spotty. We may or may not get that one, but the entire state is going to be getting this line.

And I say the entire state because I know a lot of people are already on their Labor Day weekend. They decided to take off Friday, smart ones.

Yeah, yeah. Various. Indeed, they are, but they got to stay smart tonight because if you're going northwest, those storms could be strong to severe, and they're going to be pushing in around seven o'clock into the northwestern part of the state.

And then they'll be moving southeast through the entire state. Now, at first, strong winds, heavy downpours, it could see up to four inches of rain up north.

Wow. Isn't that wild? Yes, there's me some slash flooding, going to be a mess up there. Maybe some trees down from high winds as well, but as it comes towards us and central Wisconsin, it starts to weaken out a little bit.

So maybe we'll see some gusty winds and some heavy rain, probably about a half an inch to an inch or so into rapid areas expected.

And I think that that's going to kind of strike us kind of around midnight or so. I mean, it's a little iffy, but I'd prepare for around midnight. So thankfully, it's through the overnight hours. Well, no one's really out on the road, things like that. Yeah.

But it is going to be a heavy hitter of moving through, but on the other side, beautiful, beautiful weekend. Oh my gosh, this call feel really settling in by Labor Day.

Right. Mother Nature is getting us a little bit of everything, just giving us a little bit of everything right there. I'm going to be looking forward to that rain at midnight. I'll tell you that. That's I'll be I'll be up. I'll be looking forward to it.

Brittany, we're looking forward to hanging out with you to Mal getting everybody ready for the week and you every self a good Thursday.

You two, thanks guys.

Best in the business, our good friend, Brittany Merlot joins us every morning, right here, getting us caught up on Mother Nature. Yeah, Seth and I got a great show lined up for you.

Not only the L cafe, birthday anniversary club around the corner, but we'll also get into a couple of other fun ones.

The cooler, the those coolers yeti's. Oh, the yeti. Yeah, right. They're auctioning off something for Halloween. I want to get into with you. A Yeti.

Actually, no real life Sasquatch. Yes, yes. We finally found them and we're going to use it for business because of course we are. Of course, that is exactly what would happen.

Exactly what we have. For Sasquatch, it's like, I don't know what I mean. I didn't even know how this happened. I was in the woods hanging out.

All of a sudden, these guys promote you. Hey, you want to help us promote yeti? Well, I felt like I had to a topic.

I will also get into the nine o'clock hour, some fun as we welcome our friends from the South O'Connie Main Society and our pet of the week.

Looking forward to that. We're getting into a little bit of entertainment news and a little bit into the nine o'clock hour.

We had this subject brought up last week. I brought it up with Melissa. I want to bring it up with you, Seth.

Okay. TV workplaces you would like to work at. Oh, yes. Okay.

We're going to get into that one and I want audience participation. Yes. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred.

We want to hear from you. What TV workplace would you like to work at? I think if so many, I wouldn't want to work at it.

And that's the case. And the top things we Google about oldest, youngest and middle childs.

Children. Childs, children, children.

Whatever kids will figure that out and more during that topic a little bit later in the nine o'clock hour.

Looking forward to all of this. But right now we kick things off with our part of our National Day of Calendar because today is National Lemon Juice Day.

Lemon juice. Not to be confused with National Lemon Day or Lemon Month or any of the above.

A lemon related hack is making the rounds online. But is it a good hack or just some TikTok nonsense?

Tossing half a lemon in your dishwasher supposedly kills bacteria and prevents lime scale from building up.

This is based on a couple of videos that have made the rounds. Okay.

Food and wine looked into whether it really works. And the answer is in theory, yes.

Oh. The acidity the acidity might help with the lime build up. But overall it's probably not worth it.

And you can't just toss half a lemon in there either.

The seeds can clog or break the machine. So you have to remove them first.

And half a lemon won't do much anyway. You need to use multiple lemons.

Consumer reports looked into the same hack last year and found it's better to just use a clean solution designated for disgaling diswashers.

Right. Right.

I got to be real with everybody here Seth. There are a handful of topics in the universe that I don't know a single thing about.

Relationships. No. There's a couple of them. There's a couple of them.

Diswashers are one of them. Every house I've ever lived in, I'm the dishwasher.

You're the living breathing dishwasher.

Now I will, I will let you know that the hack will not work on me.

You can't throw me into a shower with a lemon and I'm going to come out.

It's not going to work. No, we're just both confused.

But this out of dishwasher, I don't know if it would, if it's a good idea or not, I don't know any of that.

I really don't know half of what I just said.

I just, I love life hacks and I like these things and I know a lot of our listeners out there use diswashers.

I thought this might be a good idea. Have you used a dishwasher? Do you guys have one?

Yes.

Yes. We do have a dishwasher and it's, I mean, there's a lot of reasons to have a dishwasher.

I mean, right now even, the studies have now are pretty much conclusive that use less water.

A dishwasher uses less water. It's more energy efficient.

It can be time saving and that's the reason like a lot of people do so they can quickly get stuff done.

You don't get those wrinkly fingers.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

Yeah, don't get dishpan hands.

Remember dishpan hands?

But I've heard a lot of these, these like, oh, clean your dishwasher.

Put a glass of vinegar in it and run it through a cycle and stuff.

Most of them turn out to be not quite right.

I think I've even tried the vinegar thing and I was not impressed with how it turned out.

So I don't know.

But they're right.

The one little lemon in a dishwasher, half a lemon. It's not even a full one.

Yeah.

And I don't know because yeah, I get it.

If it's got acid in it, like again, vinegar.

It's got acid in it and then that should, you know, descale clean vinegar and acid is a good cleaner.

We know this.

You know, we've been known this for like thousands of years.

But I don't know.

I think just stick with a cleaner.

I don't think you really need more than that.

I think that if you wanted to try something, whether it's this or something like this,

to me, again, don't know what I'm talking about, but try it without anything in there.

Right.

Run the dishwasher with just it in there and see what it does.

Maybe put one dirty dish in there.

I don't know.

Dishwashers, like to me, this is one of those coveted items.

This is one of those things that like if you have it in your house,

this is you treat this thing well, you keep it in good shape.

Like I can't imagine living with a dishwasher.

Like I think a lot about, you know, if I'm going to live,

if I would live alone or would I like to live with somebody else, some of those things,

I definitely would want to live with the dishwasher.

I would definitely like split the rent with a dishwasher.

That's how that works.

Yeah, especially if they're a new one, you know, quiet.

Yeah.

You know, not like the old noisy ones that used to be, you know,

like, hey, knock it off in there.

Were they noisy?

Yeah.

The old ones could be really noisy.

Oh, yeah.

But the new ones are pretty quiet these days.

So, you know, they are more efficient.

You're right about that.

It's very true.

Everything this science says that they are actually the way we're going.

Yes, the stuff and everything.

Yeah, because they actually save energy and water.

So.

Rapping up our opening monologue here, a minor league baseball team in Florida introduced

its new bat dog to the public.

This has been a fun idea.

We just saw Shohei Otani doing this with his dog last night.

His dog brought the ball to him on the mound and he pat him and all that.

Canines and baseball gone together for a long time.

But the canine ended up being less interested in the game than she was in doing her business.

Lucy May, a 10-month-old Labrador retriever who is just a beautiful dog,

was introduced by the Philadelphia family, single-A affiliate team,

the Clearwater thrusters during their game against the Bundan Blue Jays.

But her debut had a few hiccups as well as other bodily functions.

Uh-huh.

The Clearwater thrushers.

That's interesting.

That's an interesting, yeah.

The minor league team names are getting kind of.

Yeah, that is any of these.

Yeah, yeah.

They're trying a little harder.

A little too hard.

A little too hard.

Lucy, whose older sister, Leila, retired as the team's bat dog earlier this year,

ran out of the thrasher's dugout during the third inning

and instead of retrieving the dropped bat,

ran into the opposing team's dugout.

The dog then seemed to get a case of the zoomies

and made her way to the infield where she earned cheers from the crowd

and then did her business near the pitcher's mouth.

So who cleans that up?

That's what I want to know.

That's a great question.

Is it the players are out there like, I'm not cleaning that up.

That's not my dog.

I got to say that, you know what?

I think the person's dog.

Whoever owns the dog.

They got to go out and do it.

They got to do it.

I don't care what your job is normally.

I don't care if you're pitching.

You're going to do it.

The bar was set high.

They had the sibling that just got just retired.

Just a little nervous getting it out there.

Just couldn't handle the stress.

All the...

Oh, what's the word I'm looking for?

The tension.

The weight put on or by...

You got to succeed in this job.

Look at what your sister you have.

It's a sibling thing, you know.

For those that don't know, this is not the first time

this has happened in baseball either.

I mean, there's a handful of play.

I want to say John Olorud.

This happened to back in the day.

I don't know.

Dominic Reaper, the team's promotions and game entertaining manager,

rushed into action to clean up Lucy's mess.

Oh, good for him.

Good job, buddy.

Good job with the manager.

He felt like he had to manage that too.

Quote, we kind of had a feeling

that something special would happen with her

and that it would be a fun event.

But I don't think we could have imagined

that it would have taken to that level.

Something special.

It's very diplomatic.

Yeah.

The Keynads' unusual debut went viral

on social media leading to the team to respond,

even though she doesn't have it quite right,

she is 1,000% keeping her job.

Oh, yes.

So, it's a good, that's a fun story.

Hey, you go to the ballpark to see something entertaining, right?

Yeah.

There you go.

You found very entertaining before the game even started.

Are you not entertained?

Yes.

Yes.

Now, please clean that up.

Yeah, please clean it up.

We will get to our time out at checking with our partners.

We'll come back and hang out with LKFA

in the birthday and anniversary club.

It's the morning show at WFHR.

It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends

over at LKFA in the birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to LKFA,

221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

We should be good Thursday from all of us.

Keep in mind, not only does LKFA have this cool deal they're doing right now.

I believe for this week, where for this week, they're offering free pie or beverage

with a purchase of $10 or more.

Oh, wow.

Really?

Free pie, Seth.

Oh, man.

I'm so excited.

Friends, very, very hungry.

Very hungry.

Oh, yeah.

And today, they've got a breakfast special of peaches and cream waffle.

Ooh.

Oh, that sounds good.

I've been in a real waffle mood lately.

Oh, I really want waffles.

No.

And lunch special, the Greek melt.

Dine in only.

Okay.

That comes with a couple of great things as well with fruit and fries or fruit.

And great meal.

That sounds really good.

Good stuff.

Find out for yourself at LKFA.

Head on over there.

Find out not only how great their unique menu is.

How wonderful the people are.

Check it out.

LKFA 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

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You can email any of our staff that way.

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Figure out how to spell it on your own.

Yeah, that's same thing with my last name.

I noticed that every time I give our email addresses, I'm like, uh...

Maloof.

Maloof.

Yeah, good luck.

Maybe you're a mattress name that.

You can also...

You can also...

There should be.

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Our direct messages on our Facebook pages might even be easier.

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Just like our pages.

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Yeah, we'd love to do it on live.

Yeah, direct.

On the air.

We've had a couple of those

and there are a lot of fun.

Get them to us everybody.

Seth, I need a one through three.

Uh...

One.

All right.

Gives us that.

Qualifier.

We can get right into this celebration.

And first up,

well, we got a special birthday around here.

We want to wish a very happy birthday to our very own

Ashley Buckingham.

Yes.

Happy birthday, Ashley.

Happy birthday, Ashley.

She is our head sales staff.

Yeah.

Market her around here at WFHR.

All of our commercial breaks that you're hearing are brought

to you by her in many ways.

That's right.

Um...

And really, as I've told Ashley,

and I've talked to a lot of our sales staff about something I learned

from Jeff Seagler, our old sales guy around here.

Our sales people are our mascots.

They are the people out there representing us.

Yeah.

They are the people going out there into businesses and talking about us

and hopefully bringing you on to our team.

And quite bluntly, keeping us alive.

Exactly.

You know, we're not here with us.

He is a float.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No radio station in the world survives without a sales marketing team.

Right.

We are always looking for good people in these at Civic Media.

We're always looking for good sales people out there like Ashley.

Join the team if you're thinking of getting into the career.

Join in us here.

And we've got somebody really good in place in Ashley.

She's really good at the job.

We love working with her and wishing her a great day.

Enjoy your day.

Absolutely.

Happy birthday, Ashley.

Have a great birthday.

Ask.

And we wish happy birthday to Mystique Smithson.

Happy birthday, Mystique.

Mystique is a popular personality in this town.

She's been a cook for a long time.

She's done a lot of good in this area.

And if you meet Mystique, you know exactly who she is.

You will never forget her.

She is an amazing person.

Happy birthday, Mystique.

We wish happy birthday to Myron Lubek.

Happy birthday, Myron.

It's a great name, Myron.

It's a solid name.

Myron, yeah.

Myron.

Enjoy your day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Lynn Montag.

Happy birthday, Lynn.

And congratulations.

Yes, congrats.

Bragg to all your friends and strangers and everything, Lynn.

And congratulations.

You know that?

I qualified.

You don't even have to tell them what you qualified for.

No, this time you qualified.

I have happy birthday, Lynn.

And congratulations.

We take a look at our celebrity list where Liam Payne is 31,

one of the one-direction guys.

One of the one-direction guys.

I love that.

Really, I don't know.

That's all they need to know.

I barely know who one-direction is.

Let's see here.

Oh, oh.

Dante Bosco is 49, better known as Rufio.

Rufio.

The leader of the lost boys in hook.

Oh my god.

Oh, wow.

Lucky, lucky.

I got hooky.

He was great in that.

He was very good in that movie.

It's for sure, yeah.

I think you could put the kids, the cast of hook, those kids,

as some of the best, like, child castings ever in a movie.

Right.

Ever.

And there was, like, the goonies.

Yes.

Something like that.

Like goonies, I think, maybe number one.

It's gotta be close.

It's one or two.

Considering where those guys went.

I mean, almost all of them had really pretty darn good careers.

I will put hook in the top five for sure.

Like, him alone was amazing.

But the little girl in it, I lost my models.

Oh, god.

There's so many great scenes in hook.

Such a good movie.

Michelle and DeGay Ocello is 56.

Wonderful bass player.

One of the best bass players I've ever seen.

She had a big hit with John Mellacamp doing Van Morrison's Wild Night.

A while ago.

It's an incredible solo career.

Oh my gosh.

A soul jazz.

She does it all.

She is a very versatile.

And she just released an album, like the last year or two.

Yeah, that's right.

Still going strong.

She is so good.

Great voice, too.

If I was starting a band that she made me my first call for a bass player.

Yeah.

Like, she's amazing.

Rebecca Demmourne is 65.

Wow.

From Risky Business to the hand that rocks the cradle.

Rebecca's had a very strong career.

Her dad was a Wally George, the old TV talk show host.

I just found that out.

Really?

Wow.

I didn't know.

The great, the wonderful, the underrated, the under appreciated, the legend.

Elliot Gould is 86 today.

Oh, so glad he's still around.

Many younger people out there will know him as Ross Amanaka's dad on Friends.

A lot of others know him as Trapper in the original movie version of Mash.

That's right.

Other younger people may know him from Ocean's 11.

That's the main guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love Elliot Gould.

What a career that man has had.

Two performances of his that I got to point out really quick.

One was he played a kind of a dumb gangster dude in Bugsie.

Yeah.

He was good.

He was really good in that.

It was really dumb guy.

It was excellent.

But my favorite one of my favorite performances is Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye.

Nice.

Which is, it's a deconstruction of like a Philip Marlow.

He plays Philip Marlow, basically.

Yeah.

And it's such a good movie and he does just an amazing job in that.

He plays it just so perfectly.

It's great.

That's that's such a good reference.

That's such a good reference.

If you haven't seen that movie everybody in your fan of Mr. Goulds, go ahead and check that out.

Brooklyn's own LA Goulds Celebrate the Birthday today.

That's a good one.

A big fan.

Yeah.

Isabel Sanford was born in this day in 1917.

Weezy on the Jefferson's.

Weezy!

Oh, so good.

Such a good show.

We just celebrated another birthday of a Jefferson the other day.

I remember that.

Joel Schumacher, Director of Cinema's Fire.

The Lost Boys.

Flatliners.

Batman and Robin.

I mean, forever.

I'm so sorry.

St. Elmo's Fire.

The Lost Boys.

They just go with the good ones.

We'll just stick with those.

We'll just stick with those.

Joel Schumacher, really like to be fair, a bold director.

Yes.

And really like, unlike Michael Bay and James Cameron and some guys like that, who I have respect for,

but I don't necessarily really love and dive into their movies.

Michael Bay, maybe a little bit, but if I, that's if, you know,

Michael Bay doesn't really like dialogue.

I was going to say diving into a Michael Bay movie is pretty shallow there.

Yeah.

It's all for me.

It's really, yeah.

Joel Schumacher always felt like was that good-want version of those things.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, he liked explosion as well.

It was just practical, yeah.

But he knew that context mattered, story mattered.

And I thought he did a good job with that for the most part.

Actually, to be fair, Batman Forever is not a terrible movie.

Batman and Robin is awful, but Batman Forever is not a great movie.

But it's not bad.

I like Batman Forever.

That Vell Kilmer does a pretty good job.

I love Batman.

That Kilmer is my favorite part of it.

You've said that.

That's my favorite.

Let's go ahead and take a call real quick.

All right.

Good morning.

You're on the morning show.

You got a birthday or anniversary for us?

No, but I have a joke for you.

Okay.

Why was that mom feasting that day?

Why?

Because you and me weren't there.

Thank you so much.

That was good.

That was good.

That was a good one.

We weren't there to help.

That's why.

That's a good one.

Nicely done.

We continue on with some people no longer with us born in this day.

Robin Leach, born in this day from 1941.

Robin Leach.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous.

It's like he was shouting all the time.

It really was.

Richard Attenborough, born in this day in 1923.

The Richmond guy from Jurassic Park movies and everything.

Yes.

Oh, sorry.

He directed Gandhi.

I was going to say, I wanted you to, I didn't want to, sorry, I didn't want to interrupt you.

Very good director.

Yes.

Ingrid Bergman, born in this day in 1915, at least in Casablanca.

She was also Isabella Rosalini's mom.

Yes, she was.

Because she was with Roberto Rosalini, the Italian film director.

They were an item for a while.

Man, she is underrated.

In her, in her day, I hate saying that, but in her day, she was one of the top female stars.

I mean, she would, she would draw people that, you know, she was the top bill, all that kind of stuff.

But she retired early.

She didn't do a lot of stuff when she's in her older years.

And I think that's why she gets a little bit forgotten.

She, I will say that my not as favorite actor as Humphrey, was Humphrey Bogart.

And I watched Bogey's movies endlessly.

You know, I still think that the Key Largo is in my top 10, top 20 favorite movies of all time.

It's a classic.

You talk about a perfect cast and perfect acting.

Everybody in that movie.

Oh my, I get goosebumps thinking about it, man.

Key Largo, to me, is the one that should be talked about as much as Casablanca.

But Casablanca, I saw quite a few times.

And as great as Humphrey Bogart was as an actor and he was so perfect for that role, I cannot picture anybody else in that role.

But Bogey, she steals that movie for me.

She steals that movie completely for me.

She is that movie to me.

In a movie with every role is so important and so well done.

So well done.

Down to the bad guys, man.

Yeah, yeah.

She is, she's luminous.

I mean, it's the flashback scenes that they have with her and Bogey are some of my favorite parts of that movie.

Oh, yeah, I agree.

I agree.

Good, good reference about that too.

That's some good stuff.

I got to go back and watch Casablanca because for me, the memories of it still hold up for the most part.

Like, it's still one of the best movies you'll see.

Absolutely.

It's one of the greatest of all time.

Charlie Parker, the jazz legend, Birdman, born in 1920, passed away in 1955.

There it is.

Jazz, music in this country is not what it is without Charlie Parker.

Like, he really did.

Yeah, he really did.

He brought jazz to the forefront so many ways.

He made it in movies and TV shows more.

There are so many things that Charlie Parker did.

He and Dizzy Gillespie literally changed the face of American music and brought a technical brilliance that was not there before.

Which, I mean, you can't say enough about it.

My Charlie Parker story is when your spring break, I went down to Kansas City.

And in Kansas City, they have this really cool side by side museum, the Negro League Hall of Fame.

And the jazz museum.

That's right next to it.

You walk in to at least when I was there was many years ago, 20 or some years ago.

You walk into the jazz part of it and sitting right there front and center was the white saxophone that Charlie Parker used for like his strings, the one he did with strings.

And it was like, whoa, that is so cool.

Sorry, Seth.

I was listening.

I was just getting tickets to Kansas City.

Yeah, that's what you see.

Oh, it's in Kansas City now.

Just to go to those two museums.

Oh my gosh.

Wow.

That's all where I sat next to Buck O'Neill.

Nice.

Was that the same place?

Right.

John McCain would have been celebrating a birthday today, born in 1936, passed away in 2018, respected Arizona Senator War Hero.

Man, we miss John McCain right now.

In a lot of ways.

In a lot of ways, a lot of ways.

Because I'll tell you, whether I agreed with him politically or not, I respected John McCain.

I appreciated John McCain.

One of the biggest things I respected about John McCain is he would come on the daily show in the prime and the heart of the daily show where it's at its prime and everything.

Come on there with John Stewart and he knew he was going to be getting into a lyrical fist fight with this guy.

And they would get into it on the air.

They would get into it back and forth and they would wrap up every interview laughing.

And you notice any time I'm talking with a politician on the air, how it's handled.

Yeah.

But that interview is going to end with us laughing.

If it takes everything I've got, I will do that.

Like we need more of that.

Yeah.

And we need more people from opposite sides having conversations, being able to debate and then being adults afterwards.

John McCain never had to insult anybody.

He didn't have to try to lower people to get to some level or anything like that.

He wasn't a child.

He didn't take it personally.

Yes.

Which is what you have to do in politics.

You can disagree about policy and all these other things.

But you don't have to be like, you know, you disagree with me then.

I hate you.

It's like, huh?

What?

That doesn't make any sense.

If you were a fan of Mr. McCain's, even if you weren't, I encourage you to look up on YouTube.

He took, when he was running for president the last time.

Like anybody running for president.

You show up on Senate, right?

Right.

And he showed up on there and he was so funny.

At the time, it was, the Democrats hadn't made a decision between Hillary and Barack.

Right.

And the Republicans had John McCain was going to be the nominee.

And he's on there talking about, you know, Democrats, take your time.

It's okay.

You can wait right up until November if you want.

Like there's no rush.

Yeah.

It's handled it perfectly, deadpan, like everything.

Him and Bob Dole were very impressive to be outside of life.

Like because they weren't trying to be like put on air, they, they, the, the, the writers did a good job with them.

And they played along with the bit because they got the joke because they could take a joke.

Yeah.

They could laugh at themselves.

They could take a joke.

I don't believe you can be a leader without being able to be able to take a joke, without being able to make a, uh, a joke.

Any more than you could be a leader.

If you can't admit you've ever done anything wrong.

Like there's certain people that, uh, and I could end it.

An interview would end with them.

And immediately because the first question I'd have is, hey, have you ever done anything wrong?

And watch how they handle that.

John McCain wouldn't handle it like a pro.

Yeah.

You would.

And, and we thank him for his service.

Yeah.

And I appreciate him.

Also born on this day, Michael Jackson.

Um, one of the most, uh, gosh, uh, like controversial and great area artists of all time.

One of the top selling artists of all time.

Yeah.

You have to put that in their butts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, there's stuff.

There's no way you could talk about the history of music without Michael Jackson.

Mm-hmm.

There's no way you can, um, you know, get into, go, go through your life and not hear a Michael Jackson song.

And more than likely, maybe even have a Michael Jackson song that you like.

Uh, I mentioned before some of the first thing entertaining I ever did was break dancing.

And I learned a lot of it from Michael Jackson.

Moonwalking, right?

I, I worked for hours to get the moon walk down.

Can still do it, by the way.

I believe you.

And yes, to what you note, Seth, uh, obviously a lot of gray area with late in his life and a lot of the things that were, um,

that he did or didn't do, uh, whatever the case might be.

Right.

We don't, we don't know all that.

We don't know the whole story.

Um, I mean, we do have to note that he was never convicted.

Yes.

That he was, he was proven, uh, uh, not guilty when he was went to trial.

So we do have to acknowledge that.

But I mean, there's still, there's lots of stories out there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And those stories hit close to home for some.

Yeah.

Uh, I'm one of those people.

So for me, I have not really been able to listen to him since I do, I do respect what he did for music and what he did in music.

Right.

And fans of his, uh, sorry.

He wasn't collaborating, man.

He went Quincy.

Quincy Jones.

Yeah.

Quincy Jones.

What do you know, Quincy Jones?

You're smart.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah.

Uh, one more time.

Happy birthdays and adversaries to everybody out there listening.

Yeah.

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Thanks so much for joining us.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

We got some good things going on to the top of the hour.

And it's not very often, Seth, that we have a good story of the day

and a then a right story combined.

Wow, that's rare.

That is rare.

I have to give you that.

But we definitely have one here.

A guy in Israel went to a museum known for its collection of rare

ancient artifacts.

Okay.

And his four-year-old son broke a jug that was 3,500 years old.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Want to get away?

Yeah, I was going to say any parents nightmare right there.

Oh, my gosh.

It was made during the bronze age between 1500 and 22,000 B.C.

Somehow survived all those years until a four-year-old got a hold of it.

Experts say it was an especially impressive piece because it was in such great condition.

It was on a stand near the entrance.

It wasn't behind glass.

Curators of the museum say that they think there's a, quote, special charm

to being able to get up close to the artifacts, quote, without obstructions.

Right, right.

The dad says his son was curious what was in the jug.

So he pulled on it slightly to look, which caused the jug to fall off its pedestal and shatter.

It's the type of thing that's considered to be priceless.

But the good news is the kids' parents are not on the hook for it.

Oh, thank goodness.

The museum said when someone damages something on purpose, they get the cops involved.

But since it's a kid and he didn't mean to do it.

Obviously it was an accident, right?

Yeah, that's obviously not going to happen.

They actually invited him and his family to come back to the museum once the jug is restored.

Oh, wow.

They're gluing it back together and say it should be done by this weekend.

Oh, cool.

That's not, that is impressive.

They could do that.

Yeah.

They also said they're not charging, changing their policy and plan to keep allowing people to get up close and personal with their exhibits.

Well, how about that?

So that is a, then a right story that turns into one of the better good stories we've done all week.

That's really remarkable.

That is really cool.

Right. And to be, I mean, it's, to be fair.

Yeah, it's not like it's a, you know, they're not, it's not there for the value like it's because it's a priceless thing.

Yeah, but literally priceless.

It's because of the history.

That's why you want to go see these things and find out about them.

So yeah, I'm fortunate, of course, but it's not the end of the world.

And I'm glad that they didn't change anything.

So many businesses in this country, especially here in America, are so happy.

And immediately that we got to get the police involved.

We got to, you know, we got to do something like that.

And what good PR do you get out of that?

What good business has ever looked good, suing in a customer or something like that or getting the police involved.

It doesn't really help.

It doesn't bring a good eye to your business or anything like that.

Right.

And this story, maybe they, if they handled it that way, I don't even know if we'd be talking about it.

Right.

But this, this wonderful museum in Israel we're talking about because of this story, the way they handled it.

The PR that they're going to get from this.

Good stuff.

Well, triple whatever they spend on marketing.

Exactly.

By the end of today.

Right.

It's just a really cool story.

And you don't hear of places handling things like this.

Leave it to a museum to really figure out how to handle this.

Exactly.

That is pretty good.

Yep.

I want people's reactions if you're the parent though.

Oh, God.

715-424-2600.

What is your reaction with this is your kid mortified?

Absolutely mortified.

I don't know.

Outside of like apologizing to my own mother.

I don't know if I have like a layer that can compare to the apologizing I would be doing.

Oh my gosh.

I'm constant.

I'm not a guy that gets on his knees.

But man.

This would be close.

I might be done.

They're like, please, please.

Forgive us.

Yes, we are so sorry.

I don't think I get mad at my kid though.

I don't think I could.

Maybe like immediately it would be like, oh no, what have I told you?

Don't touch anything.

Yes.

I mean, after that it would be like the kid.

It was an accident.

You know, yeah.

And it was bad.

That happened.

No.

You're right.

It wasn't accident.

But it wasn't just an accident.

Like the kid was curious and touched it or poked it or something.

Yeah.

He was trying to figure something out.

Exactly.

He was trying to find, you know, he was trying to discover.

And if that's why he broke it.

Not only the museum, but if I was his parent.

I'd feel a little bit better about it.

Yeah.

Well, that's just my kid.

He's his parent.

So yeah, the first things that would be, that would press probably through my mind is like,

oh my god.

It's like, what did you do?

And then how much is this going to cost?

Yes.

Like the third thing.

Oh no.

I mean, like, you're working here now.

Yeah.

I know you're seven, but you work here.

For the rest of your life, you're going to stay here.

I'm staying here.

Yeah.

I'm paying that off.

Just kidding.

I love that story.

Yeah.

You can go to bbc.com to find out more if you'd like to read the full article.

And again, a big tip of the hat to that museum.

Yes.

100%.

Did that.

That does a really cool story, actually.

We will get to our first, our second time out of the hour.

We'll come back and we'll get you to the top of the hour after checking in with our partners here on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a great day out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Got some good stuff to get to right now.

And an interesting one is, yes, it is the end of August.

But plenty of people are getting ready for Halloween, thinking about Halloween.

We just seem to do this sooner and sooner.

The spooky season.

And August 1st, apparently, is when it started.

I found out recently.

Yeah.

Yeti teamed up the company Yeti teamed up with the bottled water brand liquid death for an ice cooler that looks like a casket.

It's life sized and bright white.

Whoa, life sized.

Yeah, this went a different direction.

Other than two small logos on the front, it looks like the real thing.

But it's insulated and lined with the triple foam cold cell technology.

Without ice, they say it's big enough to hold 378 beers.

So just enough to get you through Labor Day weekend.

The bad news is you'll have to pony up a lot of cash if you want one, because there's only one.

They're auctioning it off on liquid death's website.

The sale ends tomorrow, so there's still time.

But last we checked, the bid was over, and I just looked at this, over $30,000.

Wow.

Over $30 grand.

Wow.

I'm showing a picture of Seth.

And this is definitely used for a cooler.

Yes.

This is not 100% of it.

Well, I needed a cough in anyway.

No, no, no.

No, you're not going to be able to use it for that.

No.

It's a fun idea.

Yeah.

It's a macabre idea, but it's a fun idea.

It's been wrong with a little dark humor, right?

Yeah.

I'm just a little surprised that Yeti would be doing this.

They tend to kind of lean towards more of a pop kind of kind of like a more friendly family-friendly kind of thing.

This was a little more on the other end of things.

But hey, you know, macabre people buy coolers too.

They do.

Oh, there's plenty of emojis.

I'm sure the monsters needed a cooler at one point.

Yeah, look to see the monsters.

There's a good marketing idea.

There's a good one.

I like to see more of these kind of things.

Not so much coolers that are coffins, but like more of these kind of fun ideas and everything.

I think we will.

I think we will.

I think we will be seeing that soon.

Now, while summer is wrapping up, and most people they think of travel time usually during summer,

we of course have the marathon of holidays coming up with Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's,

all of that coming up.

It's right around the corner.

So I've been looking at a lot of, been getting a lot of stories about the TSA and airports,

and everyone has a take on the most annoying things about social media influencers.

But this trend catches on.

But if this trend catches on, we all will have the same answer for the worst of the worst.

There's apparently a trend among influencers to take staged artistic photos of your TSA trace,

while going through the airport security.

What?

That's taking the time to carefully and neatly arrange all their belongings in grade tubes,

tubs, and then taking a photo from above and posting it online.

Seeing these photos in your feed is not the problem.

It's adding in another distraction and inefficiency to an already combustion, you know,

combustion a situation.

Yeah.

Someone asked the TSA about it, and they implied that it hasn't become a problem yet.

Quote as long as the staged glamour photos are not causing delays,

and other passengers in the checkpoint, there's no issues.

Right.

But it will happen.

How many people will start doing it now?

It explodes, goes viral, and yeah, there you go.

And this is something that, look, especially with trends like this,

whether we're talking about planking or we're talking about this,

it's never enough to do it, they got to try to top each other.

Exactly.

I can't just plank on this table here.

I got to plank on the edge of a skyscraper.

I got to do these things.

Right.

And so it is definitely going to happen.

I will put money on.

It is going to happen that this is going to become a problem,

because they're not just going to be able to leave well enough alone.

They're going to have to try to top, oh, I got a top zone, so it's tick-tock.

I got to top this one.

And it's going to become a problem.

And even if it isn't, I don't know if I like it.

In honesty, we don't need this.

We don't need it.

But flying is a privilege.

And our airlines, what they do, what they go through.

I know that it is some of the most low-hanging fruit to rip on airlines.

And I'm not talking about the owners.

I'm talking about the board of members and those things,

and the people making those decisions.

I'm talking about the actual flight attendants.

Yeah, the people on the ground.

The people on the ground.

Which is ironic, because they're flying.

Anyway, sorry.

It's a very ironic sense.

It really is.

But those people are doing everything they can to just do their job

and to keep the airwaves, to keep the air safe.

Yeah.

This is important.

And I know it's been a while since 9-11.

I know it's been a clear sailing for a lot of people and everything.

I'm not taking my foot off the gas.

I'm not comfortable doing that.

No.

I don't think you can take these things lightly.

I don't think that these things should be meant to be used for fun and everything.

Look, you have a job to do in that moment.

Right.

Make sure that everybody knows that's on that plane with you, that everybody's all right.

That's your job.

Again, this is a privilege.

This is not a birthright flying.

Right.

I think it's silly.

There's so much you could do before and after that part of the process.

You can take pictures of whatever when you're waiting for your plane to arrive

or getting ready to board or anything like that.

You don't have to do it at this moment when everyone is already on, you know,

harried and some people are in a rush.

Like, I got to get guy.