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Got your host, James J. behind the mic. I am joined by our head-up production, our
co-hosts at HabHacker. Good morning. The best listeners in radio. Happy Friday, everybody
thanks so much for joining us. We're going to have some fun this hour. Wrap up with some
good stories of the day, some local events going on. Touch on our schedule here at the
stations, us and our friends over at 105, 5WIRI. We'll let you know what's going on in
both stations before wrap up today. We're also got a little bit later going to get into
Dad Rock, who has on the Mount Rushmore of Dad Rock, who are the big four bands.
Hello, Cleveland. Yes, hello. Rock and roll. Are we in Cleveland? Hello, Cleveland. Yes,
yes, we get all that coming up for you. But speaking of music, we actually start off
talking a little music. All right. The final song, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, worked on
together, is being released. There is a bit of a catch. You have to buy Alex's upcoming
autobiography to hear it. What? Yeah. The book is called Brothers and it comes out
October 22nd. The song, which is just titled, Unfinished, will be on the audiobook version.
Alex has called the book, quote, my tribute to my brother, my way of saying goodbye. Ed,
I love you and I miss you. When I see you again, I'm going to beat you up. That is me paraphrasing.
I cannot say what he actually said. Right. That's actually that. Alex and Eddie, of course,
as close as brothers I can get. And if this helped him heal or get through or what have
you, that's fantastic. And actually, I can't wait to get this. I'm going to buy this book
for my dad. I know how big of a van Halen Fanny is. He loves biographies. He really
into biographies. I'd say the last four or five years, that's always been reading some
different, you know, baseball players and stuff. I think he'll really dig it. I do find
it a little cheesy, a little lame that you're going to only release it this way. Hopefully,
I'm going to try to get the benefit of the doubt that eventually they will release the
song or maybe maybe the reason they're releasing it this way is because it truly is an unfinished
song and it's not really fit for radio or whatever. That's what I was thinking. Because
that first, my first reaction was yours. It's like, come on, man, you know, I think.
But then I thought, wait a minute, maybe it's either not that great or like you said,
it's just kind of an outline of a song kind of thing. Then I would be like, no, then
you don't probably want to release it. Just it's just kind of a like for like hardcore,
you know, a van Halen fans kind of thing. They're going to want it. They're going to want
to hear it just because of, you know, their fandom. But yeah, maybe it's not such a bad
thing. It didn't hurt, but it didn't, you know, didn't hit me like as hard as some
celebrity deaths or anything. Right. But Eddie Van Halen's passing really has like had
a long effect on me in a weird way where I find myself every time I hear a riff of his
or something, I have to go and hear the whole song. Wow. And I, and I, and then it sends
me down a rabbit hole of Van Halen songs and I, I'm a huge Eddie Van Halen fan. I was
never a gigantic at Van Halen fan. You, you work in classic rock for nine years. You
get a little burnt out. Something really Nord to it. Yeah. But it kind of rejuvenated it
all for me. And now I'm listening to certain songs and unchained is one of the greater rock
songs of all time. You know, I think part of that for me is if, if I could have gotten,
you know, the great riffs and the great playing and stuff without David Lee Roth. Yeah. I
think I would have liked the band better. And it's not anything against him personally.
I just, I'm not a fan of his vocals. I just don't like the way he sings. And, and you're
right, though. I love man on beat it. That guitar riff on that that Eddie does. That's
amazing, man. That's a, that's like brilliant. And he's not just the best guitarist of his
generation, I think. If you, somebody wanted to make the argument, he is the best guitarist
they ever heard. I'm not going to fight him on it. He's not my pick. Right. But if somebody
makes him their pick, I'm not going to fight him on it like that. It'd be a good argument
to have a fun one. But yeah. There are a few people that changed that instrument for generations
like Eddie Van Halen did when Van Halen just happened to be coming around music videos started
getting bigger. That's right. And you didn't see, tell me anybody you saw in a music video
before that doing the finger tap. And you, you hear modern guitarists talk about what
that meant to them because it didn't, it wasn't just the finger tap. It was, oh, I can do
things differently. Whether it's the finger tap or it's Tom Morello holding his guitar
up in a weird place. So we get hit it chords differently. The way certain guitars bend
the chords where they wouldn't have done it otherwise until seeing Eddie Van Halen do
it. His influence on that instrument is unparalleled when it comes to certain musicians in the instruments
they played. It's an incredible artist. Yeah. I am curious to hear it. And I'll have to
bow her for my dad. When I'm looking for marriage advice, there are a lot of people that I will
go to. I would go to. I'm not married, but I would go to. Right. We just heard the other day
from Jamie Lee Curtis and her saying that, you know, her secrets to the 40-year marriage.
So Snoop Dogg is the logical next choice to go to for marriage. Of course. Snoop is making
the rounds, man. He's been around the last couple of years being everywhere. He must just be
having a lot of fun. That's all I can say. One of the things I think that gets lost in this
shuffle with him and a lot of artists and it's understandable. I actually don't hear most artists
complain about this. They get it. A lot of Snoop is real and what you see is what you get.
And then there is also the image and what sells albums, what helps your marketability in all
these things. And Snoop comes across, I imagine, to many people as a ladies man or some of these
things. This is a guy who could not be more shy around women and has been married for 27 years
to the same woman. I believe his first or second girlfriend. Wow. And has just no interest in
that whole part of the game or anything like that. He raps about it. He talks about it because
that is part of the image that is part of the music. I think that he doesn't have to, but he's chosen
to. And that's him as an artist, his decision. But this is actually somebody that if you've heard
him in interviews and when you hear him talk about his wife, just head over heels about that woman
and still he gets very much in love. You see a very difference here, a very different Snoop voice
when he's talking about his wife or his kids. It's a completely different guy. And for him to
actually talk about this, I don't know that you want to take the advice. I haven't read it yet.
But I do think that it will find out, I guess. He definitely means it from his heart when he's
saying. And according to Snoop, he says, quote, she understands me. She's a great mother,
a tremendous grandmother, an excellent wife and a great friend. She knows how to push all of my
buttons to make me act like a fool or to make me act cool. And I love it. He adds, quote,
you learn as time goes by, okay, you're in control, you run this, you run that because I make bad
decisions. The good to me to my bed is her. So what he what he goes on to talk about is finding
the end to your gang. And how it's important to certainly have certain things in common. It's
great. Oh, you like that band too. Oh, you like these kind of movies too. I think that one of
the sneaky important things for a relationship is having a similar sense of humor. I think that
helps a lot. It does. Especially the older you get. I feel like that becomes more and more
importantly, older you get. But it's also that opposite. I have no interest whatsoever in dating
myself. None. Nothing can sound more uninteresting to me. Right. Well, and you know, he makes a great
point. You know, find each other's strengths. And if someone is better at something than other ones,
yes, let them take the lead on it. It doesn't matter who it is. And the other thing is that if
even if you're lousy and that that whatever that is, the other person can help you get better at
it. Yeah. There's that too. There's the learning from each other, that kind of thing. That's that's
how for for me. And I totally agree with him. I think that is like, you know, other than, of course,
the obvious communication is the most important thing in a marriage. But this is one of those things.
Knowing each other's strengths, knowing each other's weaknesses, knowing how to help the other
one when they need it or letting them just do when they when they don't need your help, that kind
of thing, they can just go ahead and do it on their own. I've been very, very fortunate with certain,
just a couple of things, but some really key things in life. And one of them was growing up
with the parents I had. And my father was a greaser for an Italian greaser from the other Catholic
Italian greaser from the other side of the tracks. Right. My mother was a Jewish hippie from the other
side and couldn't have been more parallel opposite people fell in love when they were 14, 15,
been together ever since. And almost every day of my life, I've seen them bring out the better
in each other. I've seen them bigger plenty of times. I've seen them have opposite feelings about
certain things that they feel very passionate about. But never the big things. Never religion,
politics, anything like that. We're talking what for dinner or something like that. Or, you know,
how could you like that movie? What are you talking about? Music or something like that. And at
the same time, bringing out the best in each other. I genuinely believe this is the formula.
It's not the only formula, but one of the key formulas that can work for anybody out there as
far as looking for somebody or knowing if you have something. Right. That's why I push back
against the whole soulmate thing. I think you can make your own soulmate. I think it's, you know,
that there's people that are, you're compatible with and there's ones that you're not. But if you're
interested in keeping the relationship going, you need to work at it. And that's one of the,
but it, you know, but doing it in a way that bring, like you said, brings out the best in each other.
To be old man yelling at cloud for a second, one thing I do worry about, or I don't know if smart,
because on one hand, hey, if it ain't working, well, you might as well get this done now and wrap it
up and move on with each other's lives and everything. At the same time, I do worry that people
give up too easy on things. And I think that there's, it's a case-by-case basis. Of course.
And it's not fair to judge generations or any of these kind of things. But I do, and if I'm
honestly talking about this, I'm more worried about it with our generation than I am any others.
Especially the younger ones and everything. I feel like they get a better handle on these things.
It seems a little bit more like it's our generation that has been a little bit more. Some people
really hang in there, some people don't, some people maybe shouldn't hang in there and should,
whatever. And all this is case-by-case. And it's all, only those people know truly what they
should and shouldn't be done. And a lot of it is, is it, are you willing to fight for it?
That's the thing. If you're finding yourself like, it's like, no, it's not worth it.
That kind of thing. I think there's a balance to what you're saying. You do have to,
at some point, it's not going to work. And you do probably should call it quits. I'm totally
on board with that because those relationships can get toxic really fast and not good for anybody.
But I think if you really desire it, you want to be there, there are ways to work at it.
Not just give up. There are ways to make it work. And then there's people, you know,
getting up there in age like myself, or you're just like, do you, do you like me?
Oh, you're like, let's make this work, please.
That's still past you. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Friday, seven o'clock CBS. Let's make a deal. Prime time is on for you.
Looking at what's new on your small screen tonight. On the CW tonight, yes, that is still a thing.
Alison Hannigan is the guest star on whose line is it anyway? That's so mean.
Anyone's really made of me. I'd be lucky to be else. Yeah.
Alison Hannigan from how I met your mother and mother and pie in those movies.
I bet she's good on there. I bet she does a good job on her. I would be curious to see how good she
does. Yeah. Also on ABC tonight, the one hour Robin Roberts special, the 76th Emmys, a night of
first and includes interviews with the great Carol Burnett in Lydia Gladstone and some others.
Wow. Cool. Robin Roberts is one of the best at that job. She's very good.
She's really good at what she does. She is. Let's see here. That civil war movie is streaming on max.
I have no interest in that. But if anybody is out there interested, if you have a max,
there you go. It's not available. They held on to that one for a lot longer than most do nowadays.
Before they let that released on streaming. I thought that was interesting.
The kids seem to like that studio, the A4 or whatever it's called.
The zoomers are really big on that. They have some interesting movies and they're very
hit or miss for me. But I do see what you're talking about. Some of them do really well.
And of course, there's Sunday night football. They used in Texas, host the Chicago Bears.
Which in years past would have been like, yawn. Not this year, man. Some exciting young players
on both teams. That should be a good game. It could be a shootout, too.
I would, as your resident Chicago fan, I will tell you, they have no chance.
But I am looking for a competitive game. I'm looking for a good game there and growth out of a young
team. Yes. And that's not just the Bears Houston. They're a young team, too. Yeah.
There are people out there. If you haven't been paying attention, y'all, there are people out there
that got Houston not only in the AFC championship game, but possibly beating Kansas City.
So that's a solid team up and down. If it weren't for the injuries to the Bears receiving core,
you would see two of the best receiving cores in football against each other with two young,
exciting quarterbacks. I'm telling you, it could be something. Sunday at 730 CBS is 57th
season, mayor of 60 minutes. Congratulations to them on that. Wow. Some reporting still on TV.
That's nice to see. I don't, I haven't watched 60 minutes that much over the years, but I still
do watch it from time to time. And there is still ace reporting being done on that show.
And we need more of that. That'd be nice. And I'm very excited about this. Even though I'll be
honest with everybody, I have a class and I probably won't be able to watch much of it. But I do,
I want to see the highlights from the 76th annual Emmy Awards. I don't usually care about these
things. But Dan Levy and Eugene Levy are Dan and Eugene Levy are hosting. And I am one of the
biggest Eugene Levy fans of all time. Right. And I like his son a lot. I love this combination.
Those two work so good together. I'm kind of curious. I just, I don't really care who wins awards.
I want to see how those two do. Yeah. Yeah. We are, we are in dire need of good MCs.
We have almost none. Where have they gone? And the good MCs. They don't even want to do it anymore.
No, I look, I don't want to bother him. He has earned his retirement and his relaxation. But I'm
getting ready to bring up the red phone and call up Billy Crystal. Just to see, maybe, would you,
would you just one more time? Please, please, because we've got time for us. Like nobody wants to
be a host anymore. Nobody wants this gig. Well, and I can see why. Because everyone piles on
every time. No, but just a matter who does it. They always pile on. And that thing, by the way,
how excited are you? Only murders in the building. Oh, Eugene Levy. Yes. Oh, it's so cool that
he's out there. Isn't that great? It's been great. It's scary. How much he looks like,
it is a little weird. I never would have thought I never would have either. My gosh.
There's a couple scenes where they have on the same sets of glasses. And it is eerie. How much
they do look alike. Oh, weird. This third season's been really good, by the way. The only murders
in the building. Very good. My review. Watch it. And, and my other review, go to wrctheter.org and
get your tickets for drinking habits. It premieres a little bit later this month on the 26th. Everybody,
you want to get those tickets now. You can pick your seat. You can go ahead and get all get all
set up and ready to help wrcth kick off. It's 50th season. Yes. Can't believe that. It's so
awesome. So many great shows coming up this year. We'll be talking about them as we lead into them.
And of course, they got other great things going on. Like they're spooky karaoke night,
October 18th. That's going to be fun. Yep. Keep an eye on that Lewis Canton studio, everybody too.
Because there's going to be some cool things going on. I just recently sent an email with some dates
to Gretchen. So we will be hearing very shortly about a certain thing.
Well, Seth and I are dying to talk about something with all of you. So we'll be able to look out for
that too. And find out more and support local support the arts. wrctheter.org. Get those tickets
everybody. Seth and I going to take a time out when we come back. What age does life start getting
real? Never. Just start getting real. I know fantasy. I love that answer. I really do. I like
lollipops. Lippercots. I'll come it up on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic day out there. Everybody
happy Friday. Mm hmm. Little Elton to play. Sir Elton to play us. That's right.
I feel like for those that watched the real world on MTV. I watched the first couple episodes
the first season never went back. Just wasn't my thing. No. I learned really early on. I was not
going to be a reality TV guy. No. I'm with you on that. I will admit I did watch the Osborne's a
little bit. I don't know why but I really like Ozzy and I really like that. That must have been
it. But I couldn't watch too much of it and everything. It's just not my thing and I wholeheartedly
admit that. That's not me judging that. If you like what you like don't let anybody tell you
different. Right. Enjoy your entertainment everybody. I don't like snobs of entertainment
or anything like that. But the opening line in the trailer or in the theme song was when things
start getting real. And I keep having that play over and over in my head and it won't get out.
I'm going to start playing the bumper music just to try to get a different earworm in my ear.
If there was ever a time when kids suddenly became an adult at 18 that's no longer the case.
So you know 18 oftentimes is still considered the legal age and everything. But how many people
do we know actually turn or actually acting like an adult age? The age of majority I believe.
Yes. Even most 18 year olds would agree that you know that that's you know it's it's maybe
you know when you are legally an adult but not everybody always feels like an adult at that age
or acts like or act like one. Yeah. So when does life get real? A study of four generations,
boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z found that in their experience adulthood actually starts at the age
of 27. Wow. That's a little bit later than I thought. Yeah. You're paying all your bill on bills,
you're financially independent and you're putting responsibilities over quote having fun. This
starts to happen in your late 20s for most people. Okay. All right. I'll get that. Or if you're
me 40s. No. So you're paying your own insurance. You're not on your parents family plan. You're
laying the groundwork to support yourself in your family into the future. Maybe even be starting a
family. Older folks sometimes poke fun at younger generations for struggling with quote adulting
but 42% of people across all these generations say that they found that being an adult is harder
than they expected it to be. 71% of American surveyed believe that being an adult is harder
today than it was even 10 years ago. And again, that is out of all of those generations. Wow.
So that is quite interesting to me and maybe the most probably the only really truly interesting
part of this. Like any survey, all of this stuff needs to be taken with the grain of salt.
Of course. And everything is a case by case basis in life. Of course. Remember that as you are
seeing a lot of numbers and a lot of things this election season. Oh yeah. That's good point.
Yeah. What might what might be a study that makes sense in one part of the country may not
in another part of the country. Big country. Everything not only should be taken with the grain of
salt, but it also should be double and triple and quadruple checked. And there are reputable sources
out there for you when it comes to that. We believe here at Civic that we are one of those. And I
stand by that. I'll put my name on that. When it comes to something like this, I always find that
it's that why they do the survey is one thing. But it's that kind of information that you find
that you weren't necessarily looking for. But this kind of comes up and rises to the top of these
things. And we we've just joking about this. It is it is one of the tropes of generations to
pick on the younger generation. Oh, it's whereas here you've got elder generations and almost all
the generations agreeing. Hey, it's tough when you're young getting into this and that it's
definitely tougher now than it was 10 years ago. And I like seeing that that acknowledgement.
It doesn't mean that you're this is something that happens all the time in our society where
somebody is saying that they have the the troubles that they have in life, the struggles that they
have in life. And then this group of people out there that immediately like, well, I had a tough
too. Oh, so you didn't have a tougher than me. I had a tougher than you. And this this need to
compare ourselves to each other when everything is a case by case basis. And just everybody is
entitled to their struggles and and and feeling those struggles. You can only see life through your
own perspective. Right. And comparing yourself to a third person in the third world country or
something like that is is ridiculous. It's also important to have perspective and very much
a little appreciation of, hey, it could be worse. Yeah. A little self awareness too. Yeah,
you can do both. You can. You can feel bad and feel I have a little pity. That's okay.
It's not wrong. But there's a line in the sand when it comes to that stuff and going too far with
it, I think. It's not only important for that and in your current life, but to have that for others
and to give others some grace when it comes to those things. Well, you know,
it's it and maybe things have changed a lot in 10 years. Every 10 years things change a lot
in terms of where we are as a country as a world. Okay. In some ways, is it harder now to make a
living than it was 20, 30 years ago? I think it is actually for younger people. There's not those
same kind of jobs that were there at the time. You know, there's been there's lots of reasons
for this. It's not just, you know, because the generation before you tore everything down. No,
I mean, that's not really what they did. But it's, you know, it's it is so amorphous. It is so,
you know, you can't you can't overgeneralize on these things because if you do, you end up doing
ended up with the politics that we have right now. Yeah, exactly. You know, over these
overgeneralizations. It drives me crazy when I hear somebody complaining about inflation and how
things are so much higher blah blah blah and all that and then somebody brings up, you know,
helping kids with student debt or something. Well, that's ridiculous. I made it just fine. I paid
off my debt. Yeah. It's a different world. You were just talking about it. You were just saying
how inflation and all these things. And just because you do something like that, say they do,
they pull off this bill and student debt is wiped clean. Right. You've got generations out there
of people saying, well, I had to pay for my student debt. That's not fair or what have you. That's
what this is all about. Yes. It ain't about you, man. Like this world, you're important. Your
feelings matter. We appreciate you. All of those things that being said, it's about the next
generation. And for that generation, it's about the next generation. That's what life is about
is making things better, not easier, better for others. Exactly. They will have their struggles and
trials and tribulations where one thing goes away. Another one pops up. And while you didn't,
you may have had to pay for your student debt, you also didn't have to deal with this, this, this,
this. And this, I can mention nine to 10 things that were not a thing 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 years ago.
It's perspective. And you should be proud. You can take pride in that when these things happen,
when the younger generations corner quote, have it easier. That was the gig that wasn't that
what we were supposed to be doing. We're supposed to be paving the way for the next generation so
that they have a better than us. That's the job of an adult. Right. And with doing it better for
them, then it raises all boats, including yours. Yeah. These it just being working towards that
better future where everyone can, can, you know, all be uplifted by it. That's something we
should be trying to do. What else are we here for then? This idea of romanticizing the past.
And the idea that things were, quote, certain things may have been, quote, unquote better.
Certain things were definitely worse. Yeah. This is all about that. What if we were the same exact
way we were in the 30s, 40s or 50s, our country would be like a third world country right now.
Yeah. America would not be what it is. You have to evolve. You have to adapt. That is the whole
point of all of this. And not for nothing, man, it's pretty cool. It's pretty darn amazing.
And we should all take some pride in that and what we have accomplished as generations and
paving the way where we should be all this and we should be thankful and grateful that we can do
this. This is one of the joys of getting older. It's taking pride in things. Like it's sticking
your chest out like, yeah, we had something to do with that. You can think our generation,
right? I mean, what do we, we missed the mark here? This is where we're supposed to open our
chest out. That's why the second, the next generation is there to poke, you know, holes in our,
in our, in our puffery, right? It's like, we did this and they're like, yeah, but you also did this.
And it's like, the true. That's very true. Yes.
Keep us from getting to full of ourselves. Yes. As we wrap up this segment, I did want to
mention and send a big shout out to our good friends over at the big brothers and big sisters
of Central Wisconsin. They sent us a thank you card. They were in the other day. And not just
the thank you card, a handwritten one. So those are some special about that. Some about that
just hits you differently. Shout out to Beth in the gang over there. Be sure to check out that
interview. Go to civic media. US under shows on the Monday magazine. You'll find all of our great
interviews there. I encourage you to spread them on social media as well. And most importantly,
go to the big brothers big sisters website. Check out more about them. They have a list,
a list of kids that are waiting for a big brother or big sister. You can make that impact. You can,
for like an hour or two, you can impact the future. Yeah. How often can you say that? That's really
cool. Yeah. And as somebody who has gotten a fortunate chance to do something like this,
it's a relationship that you'll never forget. Yeah. And I guarantee you, while you are doing this
for the child, for the kid, you are going to get as much out of it as anybody as that kid will.
I 100% guarantee it. Find out more big brothers big sisters of Central Wisconsin.com.
All right. We will get to our news break. We'll come back and have some more fun on the
morning show with WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody.
Gotta let the Godfather a soul play in, man. We gotta get to that line.
Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a great Friday out there.
Everybody have a Friday too. Thanks so much for hanging out with us this morning.
Serious comedy to start today on the morning show. And important discussions.
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adultly and be adultly. You could be each other. That's a word I just made up. I'm Dr.
Sussan, apparently. Gen X guys tend to think that their music is still the baddest, the most
all-cool and the awesomeest. And younger generations feel very similar. But to younger generations,
this is called dad rock. Yes, makes sense to me. Basically anything above them. And this keeps
changing as generations get older. Of course. They have different names for it though.
But an interesting conversation came up recently about what are the best Gen X dad rock bands.
Loudwire.com crunched the numbers to come up with the big four that they have here.
Right. Gen X, should we get into the generations here? We kind of touched on it earlier as well.
I believe Gen X is from, let's see, 65 to 1980, if I remember. That's generally what it is, if I'm
wrong. Oh, wow. I got it right. I got it right. You got it right. That is exactly it.
All right. The oldest Gen Xers in the youngest all in there. But that is what we're talking about here.
So anybody from the A born from the ages of 65 to 1980, we are considered Gen X. So we're at
the tail end of that. James and I are at the tail end. And so keep that in mind when they have
their big four being Aerosmith, AC DC, Van Halen and Guns and Roses. I don't agree with any of that.
In part because I feel like some of those bands are my dad's bands.
They started in the 70s and maybe that's why because they started in the 70s. And when
the older Gen Xers were getting into music like 10, 12, 13 years old and they started hitting,
I think that's kind of where it's skewing a little bit towards the older Gen Xers.
One of the things that we don't necessarily talk too much about, but everybody is going to know
exactly what I'm talking about when I bring this up is one of the rights of passage in life.
We all grow up with the music that our parents, our grandparents, the people that are around us,
the people that raise us, the music they listen to as the music re-inherit. And then there is
that age, it varies for all of us, where you get to pick out your music. Yes. You get to whether it's
in the car riding with your parent to school and you get to pick the music or you are going to
the store and buying a physical album or CD or tape for younger generations downloading the music.
And that, that right of passage of, oh, I get to pick. What do I like? And certainly those early
songs you pick and everything tend to be influenced by the music you grew up with. But then there is
almost every single one of us do this thing where you rebel. And well, your parents like this style
of music, I'm going this direction. I'm going to listen to this. And that is where some of
that were to me, if we're talking about your generation's music, that's the part I focus on.
Not so much the music we grew up on, but the music we chose. That is where that is for me. And so
for me, that's a whole different list of bands. All four of those bands are amazing. All four of
those bands. Oh, yeah. Very successful. Yeah. And our big to Gen Xers, almost every Gen Xer has
at least one song from every one of those bands that you kind of dig you like, if not multiples.
Right. I'm not arguing with the list so much as I feel like it varies for different parts of
Gen Xers. Yes, because it's a 15 year gap we're talking about here. And so it styles change,
music changes so quickly. I mean, even more now, but I mean, even back then, it was, it was,
you know, things would become popular and the ebb and flow of all that kind of stuff.
I would say if I were making similar bands to these, okay, I'm not talking like new wave
bands or anything like that. I'm talking bands, you know, kind of like the crunchy guitars and
that kind of stuff. For the later, later Gen X, I would include probably Van Halen would also be
on that list because they were big and they really big in the early 80s in the mid-Sami. Van Halen.
Yeah, it was semi-Higar. Yeah, that's a good point to make. But I'm thinking more like Def Lepard.
I'm thinking more like Bon Jovi. And there was another one I can't remember the third one I was
going to have in my head. But anyway, but like that, you know, not these are not bands that I like
personally, but I think those ones I would associate with the older or the younger generation of
Gen Xers and maybe the early millennials would be more for bands like that. Yeah. They also did the
big four of Boomerock and the Beatles, Eagles, Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones were that for that.
Now that is a list, right? I would have to agree. It's pretty hard to argue. In terms of popularity,
those probably big four. Yeah. I think maybe the who on the end is the finish. I would take the
Eagles out and put the who in. Yeah. But otherwise, yeah, I think that's an interesting and good list.
Yep. Let's go ahead and find out from you. Good morning. You're on the air. Do we really have to be
adults? Not really. No, not really. At least for 10. I mean, we can pretend. But we'll just tell
everybody else that when we're hanging out and everything. No, we don't have to be. Especially on a
Friday. I mean, adulting sucks. It really does. We don't talk about this nearly enough. Too much
sweat involved. I'm telling you, a lot of you got to be here at this time. You got to do this.
A lot of that. A lot of that is adulting. What do you think of this list, man? I mean, I like the
list, but wouldn't you have to, I mean, you might be going to the younger Gen Xers, but what about
Nirvana? I was going to bring up Nirvana when Seth started talking about his list and everything.
I don't know how we can do this and not bring up Nirvana. In part, because not just that they
were the only band that was doing what they were doing, but they were the biggest band to do what
they do and put really put grunge on the map. You know, I just speak to you think of something
real quick, James. So, you know, we talked about the Boomer bands, you know, the Beatles and stuff.
The Beatles hit so hard. Okay. They couldn't have helped, but have a huge impact. I think the
bands are talking about the 80s, but I think Nirvana has the same thing for Gen Xers.
Because they hit so hard, they created a whole genre grunge or that kind of music, you know,
the mo-mo-proc of the early 90s, right? Mo-proc is a great name for that, by the way.
We should call it right now. That's really good. We got to get that trend. I get that hashtag started
up. What about another thing I think that is fun is one coming up with your own Mount Rushmore,
your four bands of your generation or when you grew up. But also, what are four bands that you
would be embarrassed if we're on this list? Like flock of seagulls or, I mean, almost any 80s,
our early 80s artist we could mention. Only one hit wonder in there. You know, the bands that,
like, were big pop culture wise, like Millie Vanilla or something like that. That's what I thought.
There's, there's, for every band that I can bring up that I'm proud of was, oh, that's my
generation. I grew up with that band. There's bands that I see them like, I don't know what you're
talking about. Who's this Millie Vanilla? I'd never heard of this band. What are you doing?
I'm just moving on, moving on. Well, yeah, you think about it, though, too. I mean,
I mean, I mean, back in the 80s, I mean, I'm not that much older than you and Seth. I mean,
I'm a 72 kid. You know, all the hair bands. I mean, you had all those hair bands. Got a
mention. Oh, yes. Got a mention. Yeah. You know, like, white snake and, um, darn it.
Red with disease. I think, I think the biggest one of all of them poison. I think you're right.
At least from what I remember. And maybe it was just, yeah, Miley, oh, wait a minute. No, Miley
crew. Miley crew is bigger than boys. And boy, what about twisted sister Cinderella? Cinderella,
Cinderella never gets white riots. Striper. They all have the names spelled wrong,
jackal with a Y. I mean, come on. I think the red hot chili peppers would be on my list.
I think that's far. Not only their longevity, but the different styles of music. They
really matched up a lot of stuff. They were really their own style. They were really their
own thing. Nirvana, uh, read a chili peppers around my list so far. I'm not sure where else I
go from that. But there's a couple is just talking about from my experience. I think the fun
thing about this is there's no wrong answer. Of course not. Like, you know, these are kind of
those things that you just have fun with and everything. Fun arguments. I do think it's a
fun list to come up with your shameful list. The way they're shaped off and everything. That's
also a fun way to flip that side. Well, if you want to if you want to go to that direction,
why don't we look at when they started kind of getting into the rap scene?
No, no, no, no. And vanilla ice and some of those. Yeah, you're absolutely right. This is
actually a really good one. James. Yeah, snow. Yeah. Yeah, I always get some with that one. I
always get them with that. I can handle vanilla ice. I can't handle snow. I didn't like vanilla ice,
but I get why he was popular. I get why he was a big deal and everything. The snow one blows
my mind. How was a Canadian kid from the upper club? What was he? That's not even really a rap.
What record company thought? This is a good idea. I'm going to pay this kid $1,000 to record a
saw. Informer was a huge hit. I mean, that was the only one. But I'm telling you, I don't know.
God, they thought of something. I will never forget the look at Ed Lever's face when they played
that on the old TV raps. I will never forget the look at his face. What are we doing? What are we doing?
Kev, as long as we got you here, we can embarrass you. I mean, compliment and highlight you for a second.
Happy birthday to Sunday, bro. Yeah. Oh, thank you, guys. Have a great year. Have a great year.
Have some fun. Save that voice if you could join us for Playmakers later. We'd love it. Otherwise,
we will talk to you really soon. But enjoy your day, man. We have to talk about on Playmakers.
All right, all right. Look at Ford. Yeah, yeah. Look at Ford to it. Yeah.
Have a great birthday, brother. Sorry, thank you, guys. Thank you. Best listeners in the radio.
We will take a quick time out. Come back, wrap up the show. Morning Show on WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning Show at WFHR.
I'm coming home, baby. I'm coming home now right away.
Little of the Velvet Fog, birthday man. Play us in here a little bit.
I want to do the parallel universe where Melter maybe comes a rock and roll star.
Yes. That would be wacky and weird and wonderful, you know?
Oh, I love that idea. I love that idea. I want to get to a quick good story of the day.
Seven goats on the loose in Kansas City, Missouri. They were on the loose actually since early
August. What? Really? We're finally wrangled by animal service officers and taken to a shelter.
This, what do you call a gang of goats? What do you call a group of goats? What is a group of
goats called? We need to find that out. I appreciate that. The goats were initially believed to be
part of a port KC grazing project to clear brush when they appeared along the riverfront in early
August. The KC pet project investigators and investigators were surprised to discover all of the
project goats were accounted for leaving the loose animals origin a mystery. Where did these
goats come from? It is truly a mystery, Ryan Johnson Chief of Animal Services at the KC pet project
said. We're not sure where these goats came from, why they're loose and we haven't been able to
make connection to an owner or anybody that's reported them missing. The mystery goats originally
numbered 10 but three were captured in the ensuing weeks. The goats were taken to KC pet projects
swoop apart campus while the officials look to find their owners if they have owners. Wow,
okay. By the way, it is boring. It's a herd. A herd of goats. It is a herd. It's normal.
We have more fun with these. That group of goats is a murderer. Murderer or something like that.
Yeah, a giggle of geese. We should name change the name of that. What a group of goats is called.
A goat gang. A gang of goats. A gang of goats would be cool. A gang of goats is not a gang of
goats. I feel like a good name for that. We have some good things going on in their community
and certainly here at the radio station. We got good stuff lined up for you. Join us today from
four to five for Midday magazine. In part one, we're going to be we're happy to be being joined by
Jacob Wagner, public health strategist with our Wood County Health Department. Very nice. We're
going to talk about the Wood County Community Opinion Survey and take back day along with some
other things. And we always appreciate our friends at the Wood County Health Department. Big
shout out to them. Yes. And in part two, we wrap up the week with Tom Anderson, Wisconsin State
Fire and EMS Memorial. We're going to talk about with Tom looking forward to that. They have
upcoming final alarm and roll call ceremony coming up on the 28th. Make sure to mark them in
your calendars, everybody. That's always so cool when they do that. We'll be here with another
playmakers for you from five to six. Join us as our friends from quality plus printing,
getting a chance to talk with you for the hour. And we are going to be your tailgate as we lead
you up to the game. Oh, the great rivalry game. Rivalry game. 6.50 tonight. Our pregame kicks off
at 105 W.I.R.I. Lincoln High School hosting Stevens Point. The battle for the old River jogging.
Love it. We're going to talk a little bit about this on playmakers from five to six today. And we're
getting ready for a great game over on W.I.R.I. Join Randy Michael Seth for that one. You know
it's going to be a good one. You know on Wednesday, Mike made a great point about some of these
rivalry games where you just throw the records out the window because it's something special about
these. So you're going to you're going to go up to another level. I don't know if the players
would admit it, but I think they did have a different gear for these rivalry games. Our coverage of
the Badgers hosting Alabama begins at 9 a.m. tomorrow right here at WFHR, which means of course some
programming changes. I will talk about that game as well on playmakers tonight. But again,
remember every Badger football game is right here at WFHR. All season long, 9 a.m. Saturday. Our
pregame coverage will start. Yes. Of course, we've got a great lineup of shows for you. This
Sunshine Poke Show will be still beyond tomorrow at 7 a.m. It will be. Join our man Tim Humble
for that one. And Terry Doc's nutrition afterwards. 8 to 9. Great show right there. Sponsored by
a good friends over at family natural foods. And then over the back fence, usually on Saturdays,
except for usually during Badger season. We have to preempt a couple of them. Yeah.
Got a great lineup for you this weekend on Sunday night. Spread the word about our Sunday night
lineup. It all kicks off at 5 o'clock with Directors Cut. The show that Zeth and I tag team,
we bring on different guests and talk to different creatives. This week we have our own Terry
Bar on with us. You have heard Terry Bar, which I talk about in the interview from the very beginning
when we were first purchased by Civic Media August 1st, 2022. And one of the first voices you heard
on the new liners was Terry Bar. She's been here ever since. And man, what a lady. She has had
some kind of career, I gotta say. Just a wonderful, wonderful interview. God, I love talking. I can
talk to her all day. It was a great time. We got to know a lot about her and encourage you to
check that out, everybody. And if you are creative out there, reach out to us. We'd love to
you on the show. 6 to 8. Zeth faces the music. Yes. Brand new show this week. We're going home,
everyone. We're going home. It's one of those shows. So I've gotten to the point now with Zeth
faces the music that I cannot just say, you know, I'm going to do this theme. I have to check now
because I don't know if I've done it before or not. That is how far I've gotten. Including
everyone is what are mind that we are getting close to my 100th show on set faces of the music.
So that's coming up very quickly. I'm on tape 10 of unlabeled. My 10th episode. I had
a head start on mine, but yes. Be sure to spread the word about set face the music from 6 to 8. It's
an amazing show you guys. And one of your biggest fans, my dad just talks more about that show
than anything else. That's it. Well, that's that's good. I'll take it. 8 to 9. Join us for unlabeled.
Your 90s mixtape. If it is released from 1990 to 1999, I will play it. Get me your requests,
everybody. We have had a lot of fun with the show over the last couple of months and just looking
to grow the show even more. I want more requests from everybody. I want to play your music. Everyone
reach out to us and get us your requests and be listening for unlabeled. 8 to 9 every Sunday
right here at WFHR. That's right. Got a blood drive happening in town. It kicks off in just a
couple of minutes from 10 to 3 over to Southville County YMCA. 6 of 1 West Grand Avenue right here
in Rapids. Be sure to get over there all you heroes and donate if you can. Keep in mind next Tuesday,
September 17th from 10 to 3. Another blood drive opportunity over at the former Eastern
or high school music room. All right. It sets you at a couple things. One touch. Yes. You're running
out of time, everyone. If you've not done so yet, get your books over to the Moravian Church.
Sunday is the final day. We're bringing the book bin in after Sunday. I want to do a big
shout out to our own Pam Hilke. Brought some books over yesterday. Thank you for that, Pam.
Appreciate it. And anyone else out there, you got a few more days left to get us the books for
the book sale and the book sale itself will be happening October 10th and 11th from 830 to 6.
And then on the bag sale on Saturday the 12th from 831, $2 a bag. Remember 100% of the profits go
to mid-state technical college scholarships. And of course, because it's a church, there also
will be free baked goods and coffee. Got some great stuff coming up next week. We're going to give
you a chance to win Colin Ray tickets. Colin coming to town next Thursday, the 26th to the
Performing Arts Center. Get your tickets right now at savorthearts.com or be listening next week
for a chance to win some tickets. Not just here, but on WRIs. And mark your calendars for Wednesday
September 25th. That is the 52nd annual United Way Day at our local McDonald's. The United Way
at McDonald's will be teaming up for 52 years to better our community and create lasting change
in our community. Find out more at uwac.org and get some Mickey D's next Wednesday
over at McDonald's and help out the United Way. Do the great work that they are doing in our community.
On Monday, we've got a big contest coming up to a statewide green and gold contest.
So make sure you tune in for that as well on all the stations on Civic Media.
Of all the companies I've worked for, nobody does contest like Civic Media. I have never been a part
of anything. Lou, you guys, what we got on next week. Great prizes. Oh man. You are going to lose
your minds over these prizes. And if you think you know me well enough, you know, I don't overexaggerate
these things. It is really cool. We're doing with this contest. It'll kick off Monday, everyone.
A fire department in Washington state just got its own therapy dog. All right. A Bernie Doodle
named Amani. That's a Bernie's poodle mix. They say he's already brought a sense of calm to
the station. Nice. And they feel he's going to have a very positive, positive influence. Boy,
that's a reach. That was a really big reach. That was a reach, guys. Sorry. That was rough.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution is kind of like England's Coast Guard. And one of their crews
got to call the other day about someone in the water who needed rescuing. But thankfully,
everyone's okay. It was a training dummy that had gotten lost in the water. But they're on it.
They were on it, man. They got that. Good for you, guys. That well played by that. And a well done
show by you, Seth. Well, thank you, sir. You too. Have a great weekend. Everybody, we will talk to you
soon and then later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids.
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