I’ll Tell Y’all a Story…(Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. Happy Friday. Welcome to WFHR's morning show.

We hope you're having a great start to your Friday out there, everybody.

Got your host, James Jave here with you. I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning. Our co-host and head of production, Seth Habhager. Good morning and the best listeners

in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We got good things lined up for you over the next

couple of hours. We're going to kick it off the way we like to with our friend Brittany Merlot,

talking a little more in the nature. Good morning, Brett. P-G-I-S. I'm just dancing in the sunshine.

Yeah. Oh, and there is plenty of sunshine to dance in Brittany. And it will be for at least a couple

more days it looks like. Yes, the entire weekend. We are spoiled and I'm so excited about it.

You know, it's our last little sling of summer, I think, who are going to have their

across the state. So statewide, no matter where you go, what you're doing, you are going to be

sitting beautifully under abundant sunshine today, tomorrow, Sunday, Monday. And

highs in the upper 70s to nearly 80 degrees. Wow. And no humidity. It's perfect. Yeah, it's very

nice. Got to like that. It just feels like this time of year, mother nature is looking at her

stock and she's like, well, I've got these days of summer. They're going to expire before next

you. We might as well use them. Let's use them. Let's use them before they expire. Let's just get

about there. It's been a good mood this year. Yeah, it's nice of her. It's very nice.

I think she's trying to pamper us before reality hit. Yeah. Yeah, you love me. Remember.

Lala sent to a Lala sent to a sense of security in everything. Yeah. Brittany, we appreciate you.

Have yourself a great weekend. We'll give everybody ready for the week ahead on Monday.

Don't go. Have a good day. You too. And a big thank you to Brittany for joining us this week.

She joined Seth and I in director's cut. Yep. That episode will be featured this Sunday more

on that a little bit later when we get into our schedule. But it was a great time, everybody.

I was a good interview. One of my favorite, I think I've done in a long time. That was a great one.

We got great things lined up. Free the LCAP, a birthday and anniversary club is right around the

corner. Then we'll of course get into our star the day after our news break. We're going to play a

famous TV theme song for you. Get it right. And just like that, you win a family pack of four from

our Wisconsin Rapids call verse. Yeah. All that coming up for you. We're going to get into our

national day of calendar a little bit as well. And not just for today, but also for Sunday because

Sunday is national coffee day. All right. With that is one of our main topics. We have to discuss that.

I love the coffee. That's coming up a little bit later. We've also got a couple of other good

ones for you here. Restaurants, are they doing smaller portions? We will get into that. Should they

do smaller portions? Yeah. Yeah. We've got some entertainment news for you. We'll get into the

list of the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performers. All right. We'll also have what's new on

your small screen, new on your big screen, and new on your local theater stage. Oh,

huh. That's right. All that coming up. But let's kick things off with our national day of calendar.

We don't get to do this anymore. Not really. No. And every once in a while, we like to. What it has to

do with us? When we are the focus. There is a couple of great ones for today and the next

couple of days for today, September 27th. It is Native American day. Very good. Very strong one

right there. National Crusher Canday. This is all about getting into recycling and doing more of

that. Hey, is there anything more satisfying than crushing an aluminum can? I'm telling,

as a matter of years, like a crusher, your foot, you know, whatever. There's nothing

satisfying. As long as it's not your forehead. Yeah. You're very yes. Exactly. You're both 100%

right on this one. Yes. You're both national chocolate milk day. That is a great one.

It will definitely be James favorite day. Yeah. One of anyway. I will definitely be having that.

And it is morning show host day. Well, how about that? It is all about us. Huh? It came right

down to it. This morning show host day. Now, I think that we can all think of if you've been

fortunate to listen to radio morning shows or, you know, even I would say, you know, when we were

kids, there was a lot of great morning shows around and everything. But, you know, today's

great day to shout out to your favorite morning show host and give them a big shout out and everything.

It's a fun one. Yeah. I mean, but like you have any other morning show host that you like, I mean,

where the only one outside of these three. I mean, of course, you're listening to us.

That's right. So, you know, there you go. I didn't really think about that part of it as I was

saying it. I really, really meant it as, you know, like morning show host of past of the through the

ages. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're listening to us, chances are, yeah, you're probably that's a very good

point. I didn't really. Oh, I need sleep. We will get into more of our national day a little bit later

with, I mentioned as coffee day. And there was a couple of other things I wanted to note about

Sunday as well. But for now, hey, to all the morning show hosts out there in our fellow morning

show hosts in the civic media umbrella, wish you all a great day. Enjoy your day. Oh, yeah. That's

right. Yeah. So, we greatly appreciate you. Enjoy your day. Oh, it's too bad. It wasn't coffee day

and morning show host and we could have referenced the coffee clutch, you know. Yes. You know,

we should anyway. Yeah. Well, we probably should. We're not here without a staple. Yeah, staple

of the mornings around here for many decades for a long, long before, you know, a lot of this recent

incarnation or the last couple of re incarnations of the morning show we're around. We had coffee

clutch. That's right. We wouldn't be here without it. You know, we're getting ready next month to

celebrate another great milestone for us in another big birthday. And, you know, it's been on my

mind that I've been doing a lot of research prepping for that day. And I came across some really

cool stuff about the coffee clutch. And I will be bringing you up during our holiday. Our holiday.

Our celebration. Yeah. When that comes up, but you're so right, man, great, great reference right

there. And as I mentioned, it's National Coffee Day. And I thought this would be a great place

to start off. What is too much caffeine? There's such a thing as to each. Just going to say that.

I think it's an almost insulting question this early in the morning. Yeah. It's not fair.

How much you got? How about that? Who's to judge? What? This American Heart Association,

the US Food and Drug Administration. What do they know? Political professionals. They don't

realize how busy of a day I have. We do have this from the American Heart Association,

US Food and Drug Administration, who we do appreciate. Yes. They say the point is the point is around

three to four cups of coffee per day for most people. Okay. And not all at once. That's per day.

Like stretched across the day, James. Thank you, Melissa. As he takes a drink of coffee.

Yeah. No, I got to go pour some out. Oh, yeah.

Just get out for you, bro. I appreciate it. Much, much appreciated. This, of course, is different.

If you have a heart condition, please keep that in mind. Depending on strength of your caffeine,

three to four cups is somewhat between 300 to 400 milligrams of caffeine. Okay. To hit the level

with other drinks, you'd need to drink one to three energy drinks, four to five cans of coke,

or 10 to 15 cups of green tea. Whoa. Whoa. That's a lot of green tea. There's a lot of green tea.

I don't think in my whole lifetime I've drank that much green tea. And some of the signs we've had

too much caffeine include insomnia, jitterness, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea,

headaches, getting less names wrong. No, I don't know. You just threw that one.

I may have, yeah, that may have been a little self-realistic. You know, individual symptoms may vary.

So that could be a sign of too much caffeine. You know, I'm cased by case. That's right.

That's right. That's right. I know, I know exactly when I've had too much because I get the jitters

definitely. And then, yeah, and I get a little like, why am I sweating? Oh, too much coffee.

I get an upset stomach. No, okay. I think I get the nausea. I think that's the one that I can tell.

Otherwise, I don't really feel like I know this much of it. And I don't feel like caffeine hits me

like a lot like some people. That's another thing about that. I know a lot of people that can have

a cup of coffee at six o'clock and be asleep by nine. Yep. There's a lot of that. I don't know

necessarily what the rhyme or reason is behind it though. And I would like to know more about that.

But we're still researching it. Every time I look into it, there is, well, that is still to be found.

Or, you know, scientists still working on this and everything. So for me, my cut off is noon.

Wow. Good. I have to have to cut off coffee by noon. I can have a soda in the end. Yep.

A lot less caffeine there. Yep. Yep. Yep. But no, if I have coffee afternoon, I am awake until like

midnight. Well, it is Friday. It is Friday. No, it's dumb. It's not like not being able to sleep.

I know. I don't think a lot of people appreciate that. Yeah.

Do you feel a different caffeine or do you feel a different buzz or have everyone to put it

from caffeine from soda to coffee? I feel like I do. I feel like I do. It's very

big. There's a lot more caffeine than soda as you've indicated earlier. So let's

you drink the old jolt jolt cold. Oh my god. Yeah. Surge. Surge. That's when I remember

from high school. Some of the soda like I can't even find that anywhere. No, no, limited. There's

limited patches where it is, but in general, they don't make it. And I guarantee you it's not the

way they made the way they make it the way that they used to. Oh, probably a lot. I feel like

there were so many sodas that we just mentioned and more that we could like this that like the

only reason they got out there was because you know, we'll just see how long we can get away with

this. Yeah, right. We're just going to put this out there and sell the 90s. I'm telling you.

And hopefully, yes, regulation has come knocking because now they're talking about all of the

they're talking in Congress about the difference in the products from the exact same company. Yeah,

and how they're produced here in the United States for us and how they make them for other

countries. That's right. Get on that. Stop giving us poison in our food. Could we please?

Yes, I will take the bacon double cheeseburger. Could you hold the poison? Could you just maybe a

little less? Not my taste. Yeah, it really. It throws off the taste. It really does.

We how much coffee is too much coffee for you out there? We'd love to hear from you.

So one five four two four twenty six hundred. Keep that phone number handy. Not only because we

want to hear from you during the birthday and anniversary club coming up, but we also want you

to be able to win one more time. We've got one more day to do this. It's the last day of the

contest. Yes, the statewide civic media go for the green or gold text to win contest is going

on for one more day. You'd be listening at the top of the 11 a.m. one o'clock and four o'clock hours.

Not only here, but on our sister station, 105, 5WYRIP. And we will give you a key word to text

to us. Do so through the civic media app. You can win some green or some gold. Yeah. And you can

also win an opportunity to win a pair of indoor tickets to see the green and golden green bay

Monday, December 23rd against Nolens. Nolens. Got to say no. No. No. I got to do it that way. All

one word today is the last day of the contest that means they're going to draw that winner very soon.

Yeah, are very exciting next week. We'll probably hear about it. It's going to be one of our listeners,

you guys. I can feel it. I feel it. I feel it. And yes, I'm with you, Melissa. We want one of you guys

to win today. Yeah. One of our listeners. All right. Yeah. That's a 100%. Get in on this one,

everybody. And thank you so much to everybody who has downloaded the app, who has been playing

along. We greatly appreciate you. Big shout out to civic media as well. Giving us a chance to

really, really give literally make our listeners richer. Like it's what we're doing here. We're

giving away gold. Not not only do we make your life richer with our, you know, with our broadcasting

everything, literally make you a hundred dollars richer. Yes. Yeah. I mean, 20 some years in radio,

I've never given away gold. That's that's a new one to me. That's pretty cool. That is very cool.

We appreciate all of you listening and listening through the civic media app. We will take a quick

time out. We'll come back and have the LCAP birthday anniversary club. It's the morning show here on

WFHR.

You heard the fab four. You know what time it is. Yeah. Time for the LCAP A birthday anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day. We get to celebrate all of you. And of course,

talk about our great friends over at LCAPA. Got some amazing weekend specials, everybody.

Yummy. For today, they got a shrimp skillet going on. Whoa. Let's continue.

Their Friday lunch at dinner is a shrimp Alfredo or steak and shrimp.

Ooh. Wow. Surfer turf. Haven't had shrimp Alfredo since I was a kid. Wow.

And of course, they got their great, you know, fish fry going on tonight. Be sure to check that out.

Saturday, you know, the weekends are really good time to head on over to LCAPA.

Got some great specials there for you as well. Be sure to check it out. And again,

Friday, they are open until eight tonight with their fish fry going on a little bit later.

Go visit our friends at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Wish them a great day

from us. And thank them for supporting local, you guys support local out there.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Want to celebrate? Yeah. Yeah. Get them to us. Info at WFHR.

You could sound a little less. I don't know what I don't know why I didn't beat you.

It just came very off. Why are you sending us your thing?

Reset. Yeah.

Say nicely. Use your nice voice.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries everybody. We'd love to hear from you.

Celebrate with us.

Go. Info at WFHR.com. Go ahead and direct messages on our Facebook pages.

We'd love to hear from you there.

And if you're not too scared, you can call up 715-424-2600.

I promise I'll make James be nice.

Yep. Yep. She's very good at it. She's very good.

Oh, this is such a Friday show.

We really is. It really is.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries. We'd love celebrating with you.

And please feel free to call up as Melissa said.

We really would love to hear from you guys.

And it's just one button dialing with the Civic Media app,

which you have and you want to have so you can participate in the last day of our

fantastic contest. That's right. Yeah.

Come on. We want you guys to win. Get in on the win and everybody.

So I need a one through three from you, Melissa.

I choose three.

Okay. Gives us that qualifier. So we can get right into that.

And then of course, I need a one or two from you, Seth.

Two. Okay. Gives us that qualifier.

And one or two, Melissa.

One. All right.

Gives us one. Three, two, one.

Contact.

That's, thank you so much. That's going to be in my head all day.

Three, two, one. Contact.

Yep. It's a man.

That in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Yep. That's going to be in my head.

That's a classic.

All songs about numbers.

Yes, that won't be the feature of Suspacities.

No, I've done that one already.

That one pretty much.

Although I stopped at 25, I could keep going at 26 and up.

So we're going to keep going.

We're going to keep going with the segment here.

And we get right into the birthdays.

We've got all birthdays this weekend, you guys.

No one of us really, wow, it's going to win.

Nobody gets married at the end of September, man.

I'm in a way.

I'm in a way.

First up, we wish happy birthday to my,

my ex-wife, Willow.

Happy birthday.

I want to wish her a happy birthday.

Mandy and I were just talking this morning a little bit.

She's got a fun day ahead.

Wonderful human being, wonderful mom, wonderful heart

honor, and wishing her the best of days.

Enjoy a day, Willow.

Enjoy your day.

Happy birthday.

We wish happy birthday to Katie Johnson.

Happy birthday, Katie.

Happy birthday, Katie.

Enjoy your day, Katie.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We wish a happy birthday to Cheryl Fight.

Happy birthday, Cheryl.

Happy birthday, Cheryl.

It's a great name, Cheryl.

Enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Keri Fuller.

Happy birthday, Keri.

Happy birthday, Keri.

We should need them.

Congratulations.

Yeah, congrats, Keri.

Enjoy your day.

We take a look at Saturday, birthday.

Isn't wish happy birthday to Tony Kuruoto?

No, Tony.

Happy birthday, Tony.

Tony, how did you say that?

Oh, let me see here.

Kratto or Kratto or something like that.

Yeah, we were close.

I think that's good.

I was, I'm probably wrong too, but.

Tony, feel free to call him.

He's 70's in, yeah.

70 and the phonetic spelling.

Oh god, yes.

I don't care if it's Smith.

You might want to do that just to play it safe.

No, James, it's Mike.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's exactly what I would do.

And our qualifier.

The H is silent.

And our qualifier for Saturday.

Shirley Plowman Wagner.

Oh, happy birthday, Shirley.

Happy birthday, Shirley.

Congratulations.

And joy your day.

We take a look at Sunday, where we wish a very happy birthday to my mom.

Oh, happy birthday, Pam.

Happy birthday, Pam.

Pamela Jean Stern may love.

Happy birthday to you.

My mother has her name hyphenated because my grandfather had four daughters.

And it was very important to him.

And it meant a lot to her to carry on the last name.

And part for a lot of reasons.

But one of them was really taught to me at a young age.

Because when we had to fill out these sheets with our parents' names,

and I've got like three hyphens with my mother's name,

and I'm frustrated, she explained to me why.

It was one of the early lessons she taught me,

which would be a lifetime of learning I would do from her.

The smartest human being I know,

probably the strongest and bravest that I've ever known.

And literally not only wouldn't be here without her,

but wouldn't be in this chair without her.

My mom was the one that suggested me to, you know, throw my head

and see if I could get a job in radio.

You never know.

I wouldn't have done otherwise.

And I guarantee you I wouldn't have done otherwise.

Big thank you to you.

She is off right now.

Take care of my father.

So big mom, big, big, big, big, a wife and a caregiver.

Just all around caregiver.

It really is, really is.

I appreciate your mom.

I'll talk to you in a little bit.

We wish you a very happy birthday.

Also two are good for a station's friend as well.

Mozel Stoiber.

Oh, happy birthday, Mozel.

Dr. Mozel, of course, over at Stoiber Healthcare,

visit them when you get a chance,

especially before winter kicks in.

You might want to get on over there and everything.

Yeah, before you start shoveling, yeah.

A wonderful human being.

We wish a very happy birthday to our friend,

Mozel Stoiber, enjoy your day, Mo.

And our qualifier for today, Pam Dene.

Happy birthday, Pam.

Happy birthday.

Great name.

Another Pam, wow.

Yeah.

Perfect.

It must have been the day.

Yep.

Pam, we appreciate you.

Now, I believe that Pam's have to share this with other

Pam's if they win.

So I know.

Enjoy your day, Pam.

And we have congratulations on the qualifying.

Yeah.

Taking a quick look at our celebrity list of birthdays.

For today, Jenny Ortega is 22.

Wednesday, Adams, of course,

in the newest version of Wednesday.

She was in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as well.

She was in scream six.

And as I got a couple of movies coming out, actually,

22 in one of the busiest actors out there right now.

Right.

Right.

She's already kind of got the

a certain type of movie or project

that she's been involved in already.

So I hope that doesn't limit her in the future.

Yeah.

Definitely.

And at her age, hopefully,

that won't be tight cast at this younger bandage.

Exactly.

Mark Marin is 61 today.

A good actor.

And certainly a good interviewer,

podcaster.

Yeah.

I don't know if his show is as popular as it was,

but I know for at one point,

he had probably the most popular podcast.

He was one of them, yeah.

Barack Obama on there.

I mean, President Obama,

he had on there.

I mean, yeah, he's quite a few people.

Let's see in some,

oh, Randy Bachman is 81 today,

of course, of the Guess Who

and Bachman Turner overdrive.

Oh, yes.

Taking care of business.

Taking care of business.

Would have been celebrating birthdays today.

Got quite a list here.

Meatloaf born in 1947,

just passed away in 2022.

Wonderful singer, songwriter,

and pretty good actor.

Wilford Brimley.

Incredible actor.

Born in 1934,

passed away in 2020.

Brewbacker, the electric horseman,

cocoon, the thing,

the firm, a lot of great roles over the years.

But man, if you haven't seen,

I think the greatest baseball movie of all time,

the natural,

his work in that is flawless.

It's as good as,

as good as a record, isn't it, man?

He is just as good.

He is just as good.

Yeah, and he trope me.

Yes, and a whole by don't be all commercial.

A whole by don't be all commercial.

When he was older, yeah.

Maybe I've done as many old male commercials

as he did movies, I don't know.

The great, the wonderful,

the soulful Don Cornelius

would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Creator and former host of Soul Train.

Thank you very much, Clarissa.

Oh, one of the greatest voices of all time.

I know he and you is great.

God love that Don Cornelius.

And Soul Train, I genuinely believe

that you may not even have MTV,

let alone all the spin-offs on MTV,

like YomTV wraps,

in 120 minutes and headbangers ball,

all that stuff,

without Soul Train.

Soul Train proved something could be done

with music and live

and incorporating dance and all that.

It was also the,

before we had obviously just these super computers on us,

if you wanted to know what the fashion was

when the new dance moves were,

you watched Soul Train.

I remember with my friends watching Soul Train

and practicing dancing,

and we're watching repeats basically.

That's awesome.

How big that show was, everything.

Also, James Dole, born in this day,

in 1887, can Pineapple King?

Oh.

The man behind the Dole name.

Yeah, yeah.

And some really good pineapples.

And if you go to Disney World,

or Disneyland, you get a Dole Whip.

Oh, really?

It's a fabulous drink.

Yes, I made up of pineapples.

Pineapple is very good, yeah.

I love anything pineapple related, so.

On Saturday, celebrating birthdays.

Naomi Watts is 56.

Fun, oh, a fun, wonderful actor.

She's really good.

Yeah, like her lot.

Mira Sorvino is also 57 on Sunday.

I said, great actor as well.

Great one.

Want to ask her, in mighty or effort-iting?

Yes, she did.

The very funny, the very wonderful,

Ginny Graffalo is 60 on Saturday, man.

Man, look at these ladies.

They're all very good.

And there was one, oh yeah, Moon Units Apple.

Celebrate the birthday as well.

Let's see, on Sunday, Ed Sullivan would have been

celebrating a birthday.

Thank you very much.

Yes.

And a really wonderful show.

One of the most weird television stars of all time.

Yes, yes.

How did he get on television?

I don't know, but it worked.

And really, I mean, changed the game.

He was host.

He really did.

One way or another, however he looked at it,

like they were never host changed after that.

They didn't all look the same.

They didn't all sound the same.

Ed Sullivan, the Ed Sullivan show,

you almost could say that you wouldn't have late night.

There is no tonight show.

There is no so many late night TV shows

without the Ed Sullivan show.

It's amazing.

That's a really iconic show.

It's the format because they were very similar.

The format, yeah.

Maybe not the time of day,

but the format was very well.

Very similar, yeah.

And Max Schmelling, born on Saturday,

in 1905, Highway Champ,

who of course got beat up by Joe Lewis.

But I think it's important to note that Schmelling

personally saved two German Jews during the Holocaust

behind them in his hotel room.

He was not what a lot of the media

and the papers had him be.

That is correct.

It's part of why I mentioned him.

And I think it's an important note in sports history.

That was one of the things that he never bought

into the whole master race thing

that he was put up as,

as the look at the German boxer.

He's the greatest blah, blah, blah.

He never bought into any of that stuff.

He lived to be 99.

Wow.

I mean, that's amazing.

Athletes didn't have any power, any control.

And the only time they put a mic in front of their face

was to get a sound bite that they could use against them.

And this is not just in boxing.

It's in baseball.

Look at Ty Cobb.

Look at so many different stories of where

nobody wants to hear a story about an average guy.

You know, just because he's great at sports,

if they're average.

So we got to sensationalize.

We got to do something like that.

When people wonder why athletes deserve a microphone,

deserve a chance to speak for themselves and everything.

Look up Max Schmelling.

But look into some of those stories

and why it's so important for players to have unions

and for some of these things.

Yeah.

And on Sunday, looking at birthdays,

Halice is 30.

Oh, wonderful singer and songwriter.

She is amazing.

Yeah, she's great.

She's amazing.

Kevin Durand is 36.

A great basketball player, one of the best.

Less Claypool is 61.

Arguably the best bass player alive.

I will give him fastest.

A player alive.

I don't know if I'll give him the fastest.

I'll give him the fastest.

He's up there.

He's up there, but he's definitely one of the fastest.

Yes.

And Ian McChain is 82 on Sunday.

One of the great, oh, one of the great

characters of all time.

My huge fan.

He is so amazing.

I love him.

If you don't know him from Deadwood

or the Pirates of the Caribbean movies,

maybe you might know him from the John Wick movie.

See his, he's in those as well.

And does an amazing job.

And in the 90s, if you were a fan of A&E,

he was Killjoy.

Yeah.

Or no, Lovejoy.

Lovejoy, Killjoy, Killjoy.

Lovejoy.

Lovejoy.

Killjoy was another.

Yeah.

Lovejoy is a good one.

Yes.

It's a really good one.

On Sunday, we wish happy birthday.

It would have been a celebrating birthday

is to a couple of pioneers.

Jerry Lee Lewis born in 1935.

Wow.

The whole lot of shaking going on.

A whole lot of shaking going on.

Ray Ball is fine.

And Gene Autry born in 1907 on Sunday.

Singing Cowboy.

Singing Cowboy.

Gene Autry's got five stars on the Hollywood walk of fame.

Five stars.

I'm telling you, the guy, he did everything.

And then, not only that, he was super smart.

He invested his money like in electronics,

became a millionaire,

and then founded the California Angels.

Yeah.

Incredible.

Incredible.

He was his whole life an amazing man.

And Madeline Khan born in 1942,

passed away in 1999,

ablasing saddles, high anxiety.

But many of us remember, of course,

young Frankenstein.

Yes.

Oh, I'm rolling.

Oh, one of the greatest voices ever,

ever in anything, anything.

I got to love her voice.

Love her voice so much.

If you want to watch a movie from the 70s

that's similar to the Mel Brooks ones,

a little bit different, watch the cheap detective.

Oh, good one.

She's funny in that.

Peter Fault, by the way, is the star of that.

Yeah.

And it's a hilarious movie.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, happy birthday to her and happy birthday

in the anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.

Stick around after our news break.

We're going to get into the Culver's star of the day.

We got that coming up for you right here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM WFHR.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Lights, camera, action.

It is time to make somebody a star the day

with our friends from the Wisconsin Rapids Culvers.

What we like to do every Friday is play a famous TV theme song

for you.

You get it right and you have one anything in 30 days.

You call up 715-424-2600.

Yeah.

Just a touch or two away on the civic media app.

That's right.

And just like that, you win a family pick of four

from our Wisconsin Rapids Culvers.

Yay.

Awesome.

That is a free Culver's right there for everybody.

Get ready to call in and let us know

what TV theme song this is from everyone

and you will win yourself.

Not only two adult meals, but two kids meals

from our great friends over at the Wisconsin Rapids Culvers.

We say a big shout out to them.

Mm-hmm.

I wish them a great good morning.

Get ready to call up everybody.

715-424-2600.

What TV theme song is this?

Come and listen to the story about a man named Chad

a poor mountaineer barely kept his family shit.

Oh, nicely done.

Like a media.

Nicely done.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

Oh, Beverly Hillbilly.

No, yes.

Indeed.

Nicely done.

Well done.

Let's make it official.

There we go.

All right.

Now it's official.

Whoo.

You a fan of the show, sir?

Oh, yeah.

I enjoyed it.

It was quite a show back in the city.

There was a, you know, back in there

was a stretch there where they did these

a fish on a water shows.

And it's kind of a TV staple.

It even, you know, going to the Jefferson's

and going uptown and things like that and everything.

But this was really one of the first really hits

to do that.

And I forget sometimes how long the show was on too.

Right.

For a long time.

Yeah, it was.

Part of the Hooderville Trilogy along with the green acres

and Petticoat Junction.

So they were all by this created by the same guy.

So yeah, yeah.

All really good ones.

Sir, can I get your first name?

Mike.

Thank you so much, Mike, for listening and playing along.

Where you calling us from?

All rapids.

All right.

Got ourselves a rapids winner.

Mike, hang on the line.

I'm going to get a little information from you.

But you are a new star of the day.

Okay, thanks.

Thank you for listening and playing along.

Yeah, we appreciate that.

Yeah.

And I chose this one in part because it was on September 26th

in 1962, the Beverly Hills premier.

That's right.

Just a couple days ago.

Wow.

Or yesterday, I should say.

Yeah, yeah.

In 1960s, I was pulling this up when Terry was in studio

yesterday, and I was dumbfounded.

I didn't realize it was a 60s show.

I really thought it was like a late 70s, early 70s mid 70s show.

I really did.

It was all the reruns.

Yeah, yeah.

It's so interesting how we were, I think we were the last generation

to do this where we grew up a lot on our parent shows

and a lot of reruns.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I think you're right.

By the time our siblings, our younger siblings came around,

you had Nickelodeon, and you had all these other things

right there to take in, and actual kids, like kind of things.

We grew up on a lot of adult stuff, some of us,

you know, did and everything.

And you don't see, you just didn't see that much anymore.

So I thought that was quite interesting.

It was limited to what you kind of entertained with that we had.

So we're going to talk to Mike, and we'll come back with some more fun.

But be listening every Friday, right in this time slot,

and you could be our next star of the day and win some free culverts.

And a big, big shout out to our friends over at the,

on A Street at Culver's here in Wisconsin Rattles.

Stop by there this weekend, get some Culver's in your life,

and thank them for us.

We're going to talk to Mike, and we'll be back

with more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFH arc, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic Friday.

Happy Friday, everybody.

We got some fun stuff to take you right to the top of the hour.

But I do, we have a melancholy way to kind of start this segment.

I was going to wait until the entertainment segment,

but it's breaking news, and I want to get to it right away,

because that's one of the reasons we're here live,

is to be able to cover things like this.

And Melissa being the ace reporter, she is,

got us this note that Dame Maggie Smith has passed away.

One of the greatest actors, any of us have ever seen,

is far, in my opinion, just my opinion.

But certainly one of the greats of her era,

one of the greats, even currently.

And just a wonderful, wonderful human being as well.

One of my favorite people to learn from when it came to acting.

And not so much always when she was on screen,

but hearing her talk about acting and other actors.

I learned a lot from her in that way.

I think there's a lot of great references out there,

right now, the Harry Potter series is going to be brought up.

Downtown Abby is going to be brought up in all her great ones.

She was perfect in Harry Potter.

She, I actually think you can make the argument.

She was the most perfectly cast person in that whole series.

I think you're probably right.

Like even more than Daniel Radcliffe or any of those others.

Maybe Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid though.

That's the only other one, but yeah.

But I would love to encourage you to,

if you are a fan of hers, to watch Evil Under the Sun.

That was the first movie I remember seeing her in.

And I think that a lot, we know her so much as Dame Maggie Smith.

Get to know Maggie Smith.

Yes.

Get to know the younger actors.

And see how she was always this good.

Hollywood does this thing.

And especially specifically to female actors,

where you could be great.

But we're only going to use you in certain roles

back in the 50s and 60s and 70s when Maggie is really doing a lot of her work.

And it's only worse over across the pond.

You think it's bad here.

It was even worse there.

And still is pretty bad over there.

And all of a sudden, hey, you get to be grandma age.

Then we'll use you.

Maggie Smith was always this good.

And should have had a bigger IMDB page.

Right.

It deserved it.

And wonderful actress.

I mean, she was named a Dame for all.

Like come on.

That's an honor to be sure.

You know, you're so right, you know,

because I remember, I think the first time I remember seeing her was in sister act.

If I remember correctly, like from the early 90s.

And by then, she was already, you know, a little bit older.

But if you want to see, I almost made a bad pun here.

If you want to see some of her best younger work,

James gave you a great example there.

I know what you're going to say.

It's the prime of Miss Jean Brody.

Yep.

The prime of Miss Jean Brody.

I almost said prime.

But if you want to see her prime,

Interprime, those are like, oh, that's not too much.

But anyway, no, that's when she, I believe she was nominated for an Oscar for this.

I remember correctly.

So yeah, it's a great reference.

It's a good one.

And we'll be missed.

They'll be one Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role for that show, that movie.

Well, she did win it.

Yes, she did.

Oh, that's right.

Yep.

Very good.

Very good.

1969.

I knew she had won one.

And I was pretty certain that was the one.

Thank you for that both of your nice coverage on that.

And thank you, Melissa.

Let us know.

I did want to take a look at Sunday's National Day of Counter as referenced earlier.

In part, because there's a couple of big ones on Sunday,

we will get to National Coffee Day in a moment.

But I do want to note right away that Sunday is VFW Day.

Very good.

Join us as we celebrate our beloved heroes of America.

Some of our most cherished citizens.

And we thank them for their service, certainly.

We thank them especially for their continued service,

because I guarantee that you don't know probably anybody involved

at a VFW that is not putting into their community and not continuing to serve.

Yep.

We greatly appreciate everything that you have done,

everything that your families have done.

We see you.

We think of you.

We feel for you.

We appreciate you.

Yep.

And I think one of the greatest ways to show our appreciation

is to be active not only with VFWs,

but to find out ways that we can make our VFWs better

as citizens and the people we vote for,

and the people, the politicians that are thinking of our VFWs,

not just on holidays,

not just when they are in front of VFWs,

and they can get a photo op.

I mean, the ones that actually care.

And you can tell.

You can tell the ones that care.

And spoiler alert, everybody.

It's some of the worst politicians.

Towards VFWs are former soldiers.

That's one of the worst parts of this.

And go ahead.

And if you don't believe me,

look into their history,

look into who they vote for,

or what they do while they're in office,

and how much they do for our soldiers.

Yep.

They keep an eye on that stuff.

And it's one of the ways we can help our VFW members.

It is also on Sunday National Silent Movie Day.

And not to be Jimmy Sirius all the time here and everything,

but I do think that these are one of the things we are losing.

Silent movies have a place.

Absolutely.

They have a part in our pop culture,

in our culture in general.

Oh my gosh.

And encourage people of all ages

to really take them at, especially younger people.

I think you'll be blown away

by how creative and how amazing they are.

Oh yes.

If I can recommend at least one silent movie

to see, it's the gold rush.

I think it's one of the,

I saw that movie when I was about six, seven years old,

and it's still one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.

It still holds up.

I watched it about a month or two ago.

My dad, and it still holds up

as one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.

It's a beautiful movie.

And funny.

It's funny.

I would recommend either a couple of Buster Keaton movies,

actually, either the general or Sherlock Jr.

Those are both really good movies.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good.

And Sunday is National Coffee Day.

Excellent.

Coffee, coffee, coffee.

We thank you, coffee.

We appreciate you.

Some of us have been without coffee

a lot this past couple of weeks.

And so I really appreciate coffee.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, completely, completely.

Take care of your teeth, everybody.

That's right.

If you need a pick me up

before the early NFL games, Sunday is National Coffee Day.

And here are a few ways to score a free cup.

Krispy Kreme has a free coffee on Sunday with a purchase.

Duncan Rewards members can get a free

medium coffee with any purchase.

Nice.

And Kirk has 20% off all coffee pods on their website.

If you use the coffee day in all caps,

just use that code, coffee day.

Not bad, not bad.

That's a good one right there, actually.

And you have to sign up for their app.

Just go online and use the code.

All right, it's one of the funny things

when I was telling people about the civic media

contest that we have going on with everything.

And they're like, hey, do you have the app?

Like, yeah, okay, what else do I need to do?

That's it.

You got the app.

Just wait for the word.

Text the word in.

Yeah, but that's super easy.

Yeah, you don't need to scan a QR code

or, you know, be a rewards member

or something like that or anything.

Right.

And since we're live radio,

the ads are already built in.

Yeah, there you go.

Wallet hub.

Great point.

Yeah, yeah, really good point.

Wallet hub did its annual ranking

of the best coffee cities in America

based on 12 factors, like coffee shops

per capita wallet hub.

They do a lot of these.

It's very weird, but yes.

Not 100% sure why.

Why?

Because everybody loves coffee.

Maybe.

Just like who put wallet hub in charge?

You know, and that's what I buy.

Don't you wallet hub?

What's going on?

All the people to be doing these.

I just wouldn't have, I guess,

what was nerd wallet busy, I guess.

Coffee wallet was.

Oh, there's no coffee wallets.

They went bankrupt.

So Portland, Oregon took the top spot.

This year, knocking out San Francisco

for a second place in a second place.

Ooh, them's fighting words.

Seattle came in third,

which has got to be a little.

What's wrong with you, Seattle?

Yeah, it's got to be a big.

The coffee capital, I thought.

You know?

See, next, Honolulu.

There you go.

They're calling a coffee is amazing.

Yes, they have some very coffee in Hawaii, it's true.

Oh, it's so good.

Orlando, where you get a little more about,

you know, your Cuban coffee and stuff.

Tampa Long Beach, California.

Makes sense.

New Orleans.

Austin and Miami.

Austin.

Austin's a little surprising.

That is kind of an outlier there.

I mean, I know that Austin is like, you know,

like a more of a hip town.

They got a lot.

They have plenty of coffee houses in Austin.

So, yeah.

In the whole time in Austin,

I felt like I wasn't cool enough to be there.

You're like, yeah, I was, it was great.

Weren't, man.

No, I wasn't cool.

No, there's spoiler alert.

I was not.

Minneapolis, Minnesota comes in at number 15

when we look at Midwest cities.

Not bad, not bad.

Chicago comes in at number 19.

That's pretty good.

And let's see here.

Where's Madison should be on this?

Yeah, I'm already wrong.

I'm already mad at this list,

because I think Madison should be at the top 20.

It is not going to be.

I'm not actually seeing, I'm not seeing Madison or Milwaukee.

There's a failure somewhere here.

Yeah, I'm wondering.

I'm just looking through the list of one more.

While the pub's fired.

Yeah, yeah.

And, oh, we forgot about Madison.

Oh, geez.

Yep, everybody's fired.

Everybody.

Well, especially nobody asked you what would help.

Nobody, I mean, I'm really confused by this.

So they've got 50 cities here,

but not one of them are in Wisconsin.

That seems weird.

Yeah, and.

We got left out again.

And very wrong.

Okay, so here we go.

They only pay attention to us during the horror films

and election season.

They're not, right?

They're not in the top 50.

What happened?

Madison is at 73 and Milwaukee's at 83.

Okay, so the top 100, but not the top 50.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right, fine.

You keep your jobs well.

As far as rural cities go,

I would put Wisconsin rapids pretty high up there.

We've got a lot of coffee shops.

Considering the size of the city,

we have a decent number of coffee shops.

That's true.

You know, the funny thing is,

in the towns that I've lived in over the last decade,

for some reason, coffee shops are really a thing.

Everybody and their brother wants to open a coffee shop

in all these little towns.

Half of them don't make it, but keep opening them up.

Yeah, keep trying, keep making the shot.

I got to say to Steven's point,

like it's insane how many coffee shops are.

And I say this lovingly and jokingly a little bit,

because 90% of them are doing well.

Like, you know, there's so many of them,

and yet they seem to survive pretty well.

Even in rapids, it helps with the college students.

You know, when you have a college town,

there's certain establishments that do well.

Coffee shops is one, we know what the other one is.

Yeah, right on, right on, yeah.

And Joey Coffee all weekend long,

especially on Sunday.

According to a new report, portion sizes in the US

shot up in the 1980s and never came down.

Ooh, but there's a good chance

that is changing as we are speak.

For one, restaurants are dealing with rising food costs,

and there's also food waste.

A recent study found that as much as 40% of food

that served at restaurants never gets eaten.

40% that's a lot.

I just, unless the meal is like absolutely terrible,

I will either eat it or take it home with me.

This is one of those things.

Yeah, I will take it home and see if somebody else wants it.

I've never, I can honestly say,

I'm not going to spend $25 on a meal.

Yeah.

That you're not going to eat, right?

I can honestly say I've never done that, yeah.

There are also people taking a GLP-1 diabetes

and weight loss drugs who are eating less,

and trends where people are using tech

to monitor their portion sizes

to control their calorie intake.

And finally, there's so-called snackification,

which is gaining popularity among younger people.

That's where traditional meals are replaced with snacks

and smaller platters of food that take the place of meals.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Oh, that's actually been a thing for quite a while.

I was going to say.

Yeah, the small meal thing, you know.

Yeah.

We keep hearing about six, type of take on a bread.

Yeah, great, like younger meals a day kind of thing.

Yeah.

Younger generation, Terry and I have been doing this

our whole lives.

It's called grazing.

Yeah.

You're just giving it a different day, right?

But there's one thing that will determine if this will work.

Are people going to get the same value

or is that another squeeze?

Is it just another indication of strengthlation?

Yeah.

According to the 2024 National Restaurant Association report,

more than 75% of customers say that they want smaller portions

for less money.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

The money has to come out.

I was going to say the less money is the sticking point,

I think, here.

Yeah.

If you're going to shrink the portion sizes

and try to get away with serving less of the same food,

then there will be backlash as as McDonald's.

You know, they had some low quarterly rates

before this article, before any of this really came up

in major part because of this.

And consumers, you're not putting the genie back in the bottle.

Consumers have seen their power.

Consumers have seen that they can do things.

They can get things done.

I'm not saying that we can get as much done as we'd like to.

Then maybe you can get a menu item back on,

but as far as getting that company

to stop putting plastic in the water,

that's a little more difficult.

Yeah.

But even with something like that, don't be daunted.

That is something we can do work on too.

Yeah.

We've shown this.

This has been shown.

Companies, companies are no different than us.

We are nowhere without our listeners.

We have nothing.

It's just the three of us talking

and I have a feeling you two would have left a log time

on your own.

We are no different than any business out there.

We are beholden to our true stockholders, you out there.

You have power, not just in your vote,

but in your voice, in your words, in your comments,

in your ways, you handle things.

And especially with boycotting.

Yep.

And what you choose to spend your dollars on.

Right.

Yeah.

When Beth and I lived in North Dakota,

there was this really great Hibachi sushi place

in town in Fargo.

And they have this really interesting rule.