Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us
right here at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic? I am joined by our head-up production, our co-host,
Mr. Seth Habagger. Good morning. We hope you're having a great one out there. Thanks for joining us
to the best listeners in radio. We're kicking things off the way we like to with our good friend,
Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett. Good morning. Have your teeth
stopped chattering yet? Just before we went on air. Yes, but my hands are still cold.
And I'm not even kidding. My hands are still cold from the side. Oh, I believe it. They really
are. It's a better one out there, Brittany. Oh, it really is. This has been those heated
steering wheels really come into play. You got them. You won't let me. Yeah, no kidding.
It's feeling like negative 25 right now. That's what the windshield is with our actual
temperatures in Wisconsin Rapids at eight below zero. It's way too early for this. It's
really for this. And there's just nothing you can say to that. My job is to talk for a living,
and I got nothing. I got nothing, everybody. No, no. I'm happy that I'm not in TV anymore because
this is when they'd send me out in the early morning cold. Oh, yeah. How brutal it is.
And so now I get to look at it from the window and all the data and stay nice and warm.
So go radio. Go radio. Yes, yes. We're very little blessings, right? We're very happy to have
you with radio. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. So as we go through our day today, those
winds are still a bit feisty this morning, run the back end of the wind show. So we will see
improvements through the afternoon. The sun is going to stay bright and beautiful,
nice, clear skies. I mean, it just it looks nice. It just doesn't feel that way. So we will
eventually warm up to highs at about five degrees, but with winds at about five to 10 miles
per hour this afternoon, it'll probably feel more like zero to about negative five. So still
a frigid day today. Temperatures fall back well below zero once again tonight, probably about
10 below. So right where we are right now. And then tomorrow we'll start the warm up.
Winds ship to out of the south will climb to the teens. It will still be bright and beautiful
and sunny, but this is all ahead of the next system that moves in on overnight Friday and into
Saturday. That one is a messy beast. Let me tell you that it is not going to be a good day to be
out on the road. Move your plans around if possible because we're looking at snow and freezing
rain and sleet creating some ice accumulations and then rain on top of it to melt it all away.
So at least there's no shoveling involved, but driving is going to be terrible. We'll continue
to track that for you, but it's going to give you a heads up Saturday, not the best day.
Appreciate the heads up, Brittany. And especially appreciate the professionalism and the distinct
words of a mess that just was a dirty mess. What was it? Filthy dirty mess. That's a good thing.
I want every like you every forecast include that now. When it would involve slush and it involves
a day like that, that is the perfect way to put it. That is perfect. That's great. Thank you,
Brittany. We appreciate you have a safe one out there. Stay warm and we'll get everybody ready
for the weekend tomorrow. Okay, stay warm. You guys fighting. Best in the business right there.
Brittany, we're all going to join us every morning. We are going to get into some fun stuff this
morning. Seth and I got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club right around the corner.
And how many of us have crashed a party and how many of us have crashed a holiday party?
That is coming up a little bit later. We've also got what is a profession that was once highly
respected, but now not as much. Not as much. And maybe it should be.
Well, maybe. Nine o'clock hours going to kick off with our pet of the week from the South
throat County of Maine Society. Very nice. Looking forward to that. We will get into better
team at news afterwards. Timothy Shalamey and the work that he did to become Bob Dylan.
Javier Bardam has got a new show coming and a couple of other things. Some local stuff we want
to get to as well. And before we wrap up, we've got a good one for you. What are you un reasonably
good at? What are you un reasonably good at? You know, maybe things that may seem average or whatever.
I think a good example is you're very good at changing the clocks. You know, one of those things.
Like, no matter where it's a good thing. You know how to change that clock. Yes, it's important.
These are good skills, man. I like to know. I like this. So I think these are things that we'll
get into. All right. I know there are things we're going to do all coming up for you in just a little
bit, but I got to start here. And this time of year, you've got a lot of a lot of gift giving,
a lot of people out there trying to find the perfect gift for somebody. Right. And one of the,
I think the blessings of this time of year is when you have to buy things for kids.
Kids are pretty easy to buy for the most part. You asked them what they want and they mark off
half the half of the whole entire section of the toy area. Yeah. I like all that the side. I'll
have all of this. I want that wall. Yeah. You did that kind of thing. And you just find what,
you know, whatever. Two. Right. Yeah. Pretty thick. But there are gifts that you might want to avoid.
And as an information station, we are here to try to help you with that. Yeah, we take that very
seriously. Truly, too. Truly, too. So, you know, not maybe as seriously as Candice Bergen did back in
SNL back in 1976. Just got to play this real quick, everyone. I'm fine. Well, we'd like to show
you another one of Mr. Mainway's products. It retails for 198. And it's called Bag of Glass.
Mr. Mainway, this is simply a bag of jagged, dangerous glass bits. Yeah. Right. It's, you know,
it's a glass. It's broken glass. You know, I mean, you know, it's good. It sells very well,
as a matter of fact. You know, this is just broken glass. I don't understand. I mean,
children could seriously cut themselves on any one of these pieces. Now, look, you know, I
kid the average kid. He picks up, you know, broken glass anywhere in a beach to street.
Garbage cans, parking lots all over the place in a big city. We're just packaging what the kids want.
And that's not good. That's not good. Don't, don't, don't buy that. Don't go buy it. If you happen
to see anything from halfway industries, I would stay away from that. It's not good. They got
Johnny Switchblade. They got a couple of those, man, that are not good toys. Shout out to Dan
Acquired and Kendress Bergen. Oh, man. It's from season two, 1976 from Son and Life. That's a classic.
I love that one. It's one of my favorite sketches of all time. It's one of the ones I watch every
year, well, this time in part because Kendress Bergen does such a good job. She's so serious about
it and everything. And I love Dan Acquired. He's total, he goes to total Chicago and that one,
you know, for not bad for a Canadian. Not bad at all. Not bad at all.
I think when you look at the history of center at life, Dan Acquired is going to go down as
probably the most underrated, maybe Kenan Thompson or Tim Meadows or some of those guys, but I think
I think it's Acquired. I think it is. But that's a dangerous toy, okay? And that's not even the
most dangerous toy that we're talking about this morning. One of the most dangerous toys,
of all time, just sold it auctioned for over 13 grand. One. And a lesson you're in your 80s,
you may have not heard of it. Okay. In the 1950s, the guy behind erector sets came up with a new
science kit for kids called the Gilbert U238 Atomic Energy Lab. Oh, whoa. And it came with actual
uranium. Oh, so as far fetch as bag of glasses. Oh my gosh. It wasn't, I mean, is it really
that far fetch? Because we were doing things like this. We were getting kids radiation poisoning.
Many, many children in this country, started December 25th, opening this up and being excited
and immediately like affected their whole family. Oh my god. What the what, man? How did this get
greenlit? Like how did this get? I must have been. It's like the very early stages when they're
still like, oh, no, it's safe, right? It's safe, right? Right? Let's just wait. Wait, it did
to what to wear? What? Let's just be honest. Whoever was in charge of quote safety is just a guy
sitting there smoking cigarettes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The quality control is different
back then, right? Nothing. Every once in a while, taking a pause, look at that. It's something.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fine. Fine. That's a great phrase. These are just strange. These are just knives.
Some say it's the most dangerous toy ever sold. It had four glass jars each with a small
amount of radioactive material inside. So you can use a Geiger counter to test the radiation levels.
Is that clicking sound? People like that sound, you know, the Geiger, the Geiger counter sound.
I can't imagine how this made it out of the Border Room, man.
Like, whoever, like, I got an idea, everybody. You guys got to hear this one. Okay. And how that,
like, it made even like that person kept their jobs, Seth. That person may have got a promotion.
I love the guy that comes in to do that, to do that, you know, the presentation about this toy.
And he's wearing like a lead and lead outfit, you know, it's like, no, I got this new toy here.
I know the kids are going to love this one. See now that, that, that's something I was going to
bring up. They missed the mark here. It didn't come with that. It didn't come with the radio. Like a lead.
Yeah. Very come on. And lead pants along with it. What a great accessory. Hey, kids,
get your parents to buy the lead set too, you know. See, they didn't think they're kind of
marketing. I got a synergy back in the day. I'm telling you, it wasn't that dangerous as long
as you didn't open the jars. Oh, well, that's great because we know kids would definitely do that.
Absolutely. You can trust kids to never do things they're not supposed to do. But why is my hair falling
out? But play with it. We wonder why so many kids might be bullied. Oh, yeah. It was this. Yeah.
This is what was creating early, better boldness. Yeah. Some say it's the most dangerous toy ever.
Sold radar, radar magazine once named it the second most dangerous. They gave the top spot to
lawn darts. Yes. Oh, good old lawn darts. Let's do some point through the air. Now, let's just
speak just for a second. Okay. My history of lawn darts and everything is shout out to my
cousin Lisa. I'm still sorry. When it comes to lawn darts, we've made fun of these for a long time
being the most dangerous toy. They're more dangerous than uranium. Because it was more popular.
I'm sure they didn't sell like a whole bunch of those uranium sets. But lawn darts were like
everywhere, man. Again, would you think about it? Okay. So I've got these log metal pointy things.
And the object is to throw them in the air, stick into whatever they land on, you know, whatever
that happens. Just see what happens, everybody. And should you practice before? No, just throw it.
Just go out there and throw them. Just go out there. You ain't got to practice. You haven't
never threw anything before. Go for it. What could go wrong? Right. Less than 5,000 sets were sold
between 1950 and 51. It got pulled from the market. Thanks to government restrictions.
He's government. Man. Man. I don't know. They think you come from the way from the uranium.
Yeah. And it because it was too hard to get more uranium. So they couldn't even keep making
them because it's, yeah, it's, it's a rare element, man. It's really, yeah. Full, expensive set.
Full sets are tough to come by, especially in good condition and online auction for one and
did yesterday with a winning bid of $13,200. Wow. The winning bid was made by Doc Brown. Yeah.
If anybody laughed at that, I used it to complete his flux capacitor, right? Yeah.
I thought that was what I bet. I can't get over this. I say whatever I want to know what it cost.
I could not find what the original cost because like uranium, like it was rare and it was expensive.
I mean, it's not like it's something you could just dig out of the ground. I'm a man. I'm looking
to see. I really want to know what it costs. Yeah. How much are you talking? It's not like we're
talking like in the day and age where everybody had thousands of dollars to spend on toys. No,
I really not. No, it was quite the opposite. So if you got like one toy for Christmas,
you were lucky, right? Yeah. Yeah. In the 1980s, lawn darts racked up 6,700 entries and four deaths.
Four deaths. One of those, one of those entries was my cousin Lisa. Yeah, there you go.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Lisa. We will get out of the guilt. I mean, break air and we'll
back with more show coming up here. Morning show on WFH. It's time for the El Café,
birthday and anniversary club. One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you
and our great friends over at El Café. Visit them today by local support local and support them
over to 21 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Treat yourself. Get on over there. Seth,
I see in front of me, they're wonderful posts where we encourage you to follow them on Facebook
especially. There's all the social media, really. Yep. And on there, you will see their home made
pies. Yes, right. Their list of cranberry nut, blueberry crumb, banana cream, cranberry rhubarb,
deathby chocolate, coconut cream, cherry bala. Oh, cherry crumb. Peach rhubarb, cherry berry,
strawberry rhubarb, Dutch apple. Oh, man. You know, Brian's back, because he's making pies like
you wouldn't believe, just like crazy. I need to try that deathby chocolate. That sounds good. I
need to. I have to. Also, the blueberry crumb sounds really good. Anything crumb related, I'm in
that. The cranberry rhubarb, I think. And I don't know if it would, last time I was there,
that was on the list. That's when I really want to try. Should we go? Yeah, let's just go. They're
all things got this, right? You guys got this. All right, cool. Cool. You guys take care of the list.
I got it right here for you. We'll be right back. Nothing but here comes Santa Claus for the next
hour. Yes. Yes. And join our friends over at El Café today, everybody. And wish them a good
morning from all of us. Appreciate the gang over there. We also appreciate you getting us
these birthdays and anniversaries. Thanks so much for celebrating this. And to the listeners that
have reached out over the weekend and early this week here, thanking us for doing this segment.
There's not anybody really doing this kind of stuff anymore. No one is really doing it anymore.
I don't know. So we love doing it. Yeah, we do. It's fun. I think people are missing out.
They agree. But we'll take it. We'll take all your birthdays and anniversaries. Get them to us.
You can email us info at WFHR.com. Of course, you can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.
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We'll be happy to hear from you. Please feel free to call up. We love live birthdays and
anniversaries. Get them to us. Everybody. We just have one possible qualifier on the list today.
That's okay. Take it easy. But before that, we want to wish our very own Greg Bach a very happy
birthday. Happy birthday. Greg, you were talking a little bit about it on Pat's show before we
came on the air. And I'm sure they'll be talking about it a lot more on man air on air today.
I did get to hear. I usually don't get to hear a ton of Pat's show, but very busy in the morning,
setting up our two other morning shows. But I do get to hear it every once in a while when
Melissa's on there. And I got to hear the tail end of most of their shows and heard the tail end
today. It sounds like it's going to be an adventure either way, whether it's on the couch or it is
picking up a new vehicle. Exactly. Greg not only has one of the best beards at Civic Media.
Oh my gosh. He does. And one of them. Luke Madder's another one. Luke's is perfect. Luke's is nice.
It's good. It's good. Dan Schaefer has a pretty good one too. Yes. Yeah. But in all reality,
Greg is just one of my favorite people to hear on the air here. We got the chance to talk to him
during directors. Cut had such a blast, such a fun time talk with him. I've got to work with
him more. He's great. And Greg's also a great stand-up comedian. If you happen to be in the
Madison area, check out his work down there. And his club actually on comedy on tap in Milwaukee too.
So it's very cool. That's a great way to spend the night. I had an over there checking that out.
Wishing you a good one, sir. Have a great birthday, Greg. And our qualifier today, Betty Klaus.
Happy birthday, Betty. Congratulations. Betty has a wonderful name and we're wishing you a
wonderful birthday, Betty. Absolutely. Enjoy your day, Betty. Bragg to all your friends,
family, strangers, neighbors, that you are our qualifier today for the LKFA birthday
anniversary club. Indeed. We take a look at our celebrity list. My ambiolic is 49. Okay. Dr. Amy
Farah Fowler, Dr. Big Bang Theory. And of course, she was blossom before that. My sister would be
very mad at me if I did not mention that. Man, Jill love that show. Also a scientist. Yes,
she has a PhD in neuroscience. She does. And it was hosting Jeopardy for a little bit,
that too. Regina Hall is 54. Girls trip. A wonderful director, actor. I really enjoy her work.
Great voice actor too. She does voice to the boys and the boondocks. And it's one I love the
cartoon. One of my favorites. And she is perfect. Perfect on it. The great Jennifer Connelly is 54
today. Wow. Hulk, blood diamond, Noah. She was in that. Of course, most of us know her from 1986's
movie Labyrinth. Yes. Or a beautiful mind. Yes. Yes. She's had a very, very cool career. And
married to Vision himself, Paul Bettany. Yeah. That is definitely one of those couples. I will
have a cup of coffee with that. Just sit back and listen to them talk. They look, they seem like
very not only very auction very good at what they do, but they seem very fun and intelligent as
well. I would be fun to have a conversation with them. Jennifer Connelly, I know because I've
seen and I've seen the work behind the scenes a bit from her, you know, behind the making of things
and stuff. But she makes it look so effortless. And she is, she's working her tail off. But it
doesn't seem like it. Really, I think a great actor when it comes to especially that ease into
whatever it is you're doing, whether you have a character who starts out nice and becomes evil
or any of these kind of things, she has such a good demeanor and pace to her work. Very good actor.
Sheila E is 67. Prince Protégé. And one of his favorite people he worked with.
He started very highly, if I remember correctly. Very good drummer, yeah.
If I got it right, Prince didn't know she could sing and he heard her singing and then pushed
her to sing. And she was incredibly, of course, thankful. Everybody that knew Prince had a
complicated relationship with him, but a good relationship with him. Yeah, exactly. 67 for her.
The great, the legend of Bill 90 is 75. David Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean Victor in the
underworld movies. Sean Stepfather and Sean of the Dead. He's hilarious though as Bill Mack
in Love Actually. He's so good in that role. And that movie, to each their own, a lot of people
love, love, love that movie. It's okay to me. I like movies that have multiple plot, plot points
and multiple cats, you know, big cats and all that. So I'm okay with it and everything. I just,
it didn't hit me like it hits a lot of people. Sure. But what did, where a couple of performances,
one, this guy who's holding the postcards and everything, he, I've never seen a before, but he
seems amazing. And then years later, I see him in the walking dead in Andrew Lincoln. I think
Andrew Lincoln's incredible actor, incredible actor, but not as good as Bill 90. And we've seen
Bill play all these darker characters through his whole career. And this one, he's just playing
a has been kind of in a very likable charming character, I thought. It's nice. It's cool to see him
for that. Yeah, it's cool to see him get the place. He usually does play the heavy. And he has
been in like 6,000 things. I mean, at least 6,000 days. Busy guy. Busy guy. If you want to look at
his IMDB page, start in the morning, because you're going to spend all day doing it. It's going to
take a while. Incredible actor. Is he, is he knighted? Because if he is, he should be. He should be
if not now soon. Yeah. I'm not kidding. Like he really should be knighted, especially when you
think of some people that have been in the fact that he hasn't. Come on. That's one. Get on that.
Plus, come on. England. Come on. Come on. What do you do? Don't treat this like it's, it's like
it used to be. Okay. Like you're going to add like you night build ID and everything. You're like,
okay, sir. Here's your sword. Get ready for battle. Like, what? You can do it in the 70s. He's fine.
Come on. Just hand these things out. What are you doing? Making such a big deal out of it.
Diane Warwick is 84. Singer and psychic friend and Whitney Houston's cousin.
That I did. I think I remember hearing that at one point. Boy, what a voice. Oh, man.
One of the greater voices, I'm sorry, one of the greater names in all of, especially classic rock,
Dickie Betts is, would have been 81 today. Born in 43, passed away just this year, former
Almond Brothers guitarist who wrote hits like Jessica at Rambling Man. As much as I talk about
and love the Almond Brothers, you don't have the Almond Brothers without Dickie. You know, it's so
fascinating when you had such a, almost an embarrassment of riches with the Almond Brothers man,
when you had Dwayne Almond and Dickie Betts in the same band. Too amazing guitarist and sadly,
both who left us way, way too early, unfortunately, but. My dad tells the story about when they first
came out, most people, especially back then, they had big bands. Bands had like five, six members
and everything and people couldn't get past that there was only three guys doing all of that.
Right. That's, it's a good note on their career. Bob Barker born in this day in 23,
prices, right? Icon, maybe the greatest to ever do it. As far as game show host.
Game show host boy. He certainly was the longest. Yeah. But he was good. I mean, he kept it up so
long. Man, there's not sure how he did it. Yeah. There's a handful of them, but he's definitely
with the total list. Yeah. And Ed Koch born in this day in 1924, just a year after Bob Barker.
Okay. New York City mayor and of course, the people's court judge. Yes, that's right. He was also,
he ended up acting in several things too. He was kind of a fun side guy and a couple of movies
and shows and stuff. Some Christmas movie I think he showed up in a, like, was it a home alone or
something like that? He showed up there was something like that. Yeah. And what he, if he were to
see daytime TV today, where there are 19 different judge shows on TV, including one with three judges,
I don't get, I don't know. That one's weird. Yeah. Yeah. What we need is that like the appeals course.
My dad loves judge Judy. And all he does is just sit there and laugh at every time she shreds people.
That's all he's watching it for. Like, Dad, what's happening here? Oh, this guy messed up.
That's the appeal. Yeah. Yeah. I got to be barricaded. So, but he watches the Steve Harvey one
sometimes too. And God, do I love that we live in a world where Steve Harvey, who is nothing
even close to a judge? No, it's been on the other side of it to be fair. Yeah. It's just up there
and just breaking just like laying down law. It's hilarious. Daytime TV is a wild. It's crazy.
It is insane. You can take, you can take chances with it, man. It may be the last place they
are taking chance. I think you might be right. I hadn't thought of that before, but actually,
because usually they're not that expensive and you can get away with it. Hey, you want to talk
show? Here you go. Yeah. You had five seconds of fame. Here you go. Here you go. And we wrap up with
old blue eyes Frank Sinatra, the chairman of the board, born in 1915, passed away in 1998. Frank Sinatra,
I mean, when you talk about artists in human history, Sinatra's 30, 40, 50 years from now will be
brought up. Yeah. That's true. Not just because of his singing or his acting, which I think he was
both very good at, but certainly at the rat pack at the time of that type of fame that we just
didn't know before then, really. It was it was the beginning of so many things that we would see.
I think actually you might make the argument. It's the beginning of people seeing boy bands
and seeing the appeal to that. And not obviously that they were that, but the rat pack were a team.
Like if you were going, you got there early. So I've had people that saw these shows talking
describe this to me. You got there hours early to get a seat and you wanted to see Joey Bishop.
You wanted to see Sammy. You wanted to see Dean and you stuck around until midnight so that you
could see Frank hit the stage. Right. The way that people talk about this that saw it, they get
goose bumps talking about it. Imagine seeing every single one like Joey Bishop don't get the credit
he deserves. Of course he does. Like, you know, Sammy doesn't even let alone. It's just an incredible
like again, I'd ruin a time machine and go back to Vegas back in, you know, from 52 or three or
somewhere. Right. And just watch one of those shows. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's real quick. People
forget that he started out. Frank Sinatra as like a superstar heartthrob singer. He was with
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's bands, big bands and the Bobby Soxers, if you've heard that phrase before,
that's where it came from where women were fainting in the aisles and girls, teenage girls were
fainting in the aisles for Frank Sinatra. And he was almost, his career was almost dead at the end
of the 40s because he was kind of a, you know, one of those disposable singers kind of thing.
And he has to thank for appearing in the movie from here to eternity, you saved his career.
Which is, I think if I got it right and for what I've studied is really the beginning of singers
going into acting. And then a lot of way for that kind of thing. Yeah, it became at least a lot more
popular and a lot more easier to do, especially a serious role. Yeah, because that's what it was
before. You might see me comedies and stuff like that, but no, that was, in fact, he got an Oscar
for it. So not you got to say an Oscar for that role. So there is a wonderful remake. And I
don't say that very often in my life of the Manchurian candidate starting to dance at Washington,
where he's amazing in it. Frank's is good. Angel of Landsbury in the man. Oh my God. She's amazing.
One of the darkest characters in human history. And she just nails it. God, she's good. So good.
Happy birthday to old blue eyes. Yep. And happy birthday to our good friend Greg Bach.
And to our qualifier today, Betty Klaus. Happy birthday all.
Courage you to treat yourself and head on over to LKFA and join them for a great meal today.
We'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Seven James here with you. Top five Christmas august of all time.
Christmas and Hollis from Run DMC, baby.
People don't know how much it meant to have not just hip-hop on the radio,
but this on the radio. And actual hip-hop. People actually rhyming, not just, you know,
whatever it is going on after the music. Whatever it was, that thing blondie did.
I am an old man yelling at music right now and I don't care.
People online are talking about professions that were once highly respected, but now not
considered as a respected or has as much respect to them. In some cases, it's a little sad and
not more highly regarded, like certain ones. But in others, it's just a decline in the
sign of times. I think that one of the things about this list is going to give us a chance to show
some appreciation maybe going forward to some of these industries. They're not in any particular
order, so we're just going to go right from the top. But right at the top, you have retail,
retail. People working in retail. Primarily for wage reasons, this doesn't have the respect it
deserves. That's true. But I mean, just take somebody that works at a gas station and think about
if all they were in charge of was the cigarettes or the lottery tickets or, you know, one of these
things where there are 19,000 of these things. And not only do you have to know where everything is,
but you better do it quick. Oh, you better do it quick. Yeah. Because God help you if you take too
long. We'll take our convenience. Very serious. Yes. Yes. Yes. Again, where to me, I think a
lot of the time people, oh, it's not rocket science. Oh, it's not this. They want to compare to
other jobs. I'm asking you to just think of the job on its own, just as it's own terms. And as
it is, and as somebody who's done very little retail, but done some retail, man, I have a lot
respect for the people in retail industry. Yeah. Bank teller. Someone said it used to be a foot
in the door to the finance industry. Now it's basically a 20 something credit card salesperson.
Just don't have much of this anymore. No. And someone who's worked that I've been a bank teller
before. And I did end up being, you know, more of a service rep, you know, a person who opens
accounts and that kind of thing, which is, but I mean, you, I guess there is still sort of a path
to become like a loan officer or something like that in the financial industry, but a lot of it's
not. You're not learning to that. You're just, like they said, you're becoming basically a salesman,
you know, for like different services that the financial institution offers.
I cannot take any job lightly that may involve robbery. But I don't mean to be blunt or hard
here, but I'm going to be blunt and harsh. Like there's, I don't know what we're doing. How are we
taking that job lightly? I get that it's not as, I get that it may not be as used as much. Or,
or, you know, we don't have as much need for it, maybe as we use to and everything. But the idea
of taking it lightly and not respecting it, that seems far fetched to me. Ridiculous to me.
Let's take a phone call. Good morning. You're on the air.
Hello, James. Hey, how's it going, man?
Good. What do you think that can't wear this itself?
Hmm. I don't know. Do you have a big day or a chop?
Okay. Okay. That's good. That's funny. That's funny. That's a good one. Thank you,
bud. Have a great morning. You too.
Appreciate our nice over there. Yeah. We say a very big good morning to our friends over at the
ODC. Be sure to find out, especially this time of year. Head on on a McLean market. Check out
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Be sure to follow them there. Or, of course, you can go to odciinc.com. Be sure to follow them there
as well and go to their website and check that out. Yeah. Say good morning, our friends at the ODC.
Taxi driver comes in next. There's a big reason for that one. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, Uber, Lyft, some of these things. Yeah. Yeah. That's part of the reason why those
journey are much so. But, man, when you run into a good taxi driver, you were awesome.
They're awesome. Yeah. Absolutely. You can tell stories about them. Yeah. Coming from the city,
I've been in millions of caps. Yeah. Honestly, I can think of maybe one or two where I didn't have
a good experience. Yeah. But I like people and I like people's stories. Yeah. And you get them
with the tax driver. There's some great talkers, some great talkers out there. And they're never
the same. No, like our callers. Let's go ahead and take a call. Good morning. You're on the air.
Yes. I'm one of the guys that did play with Jards.
We didn't have no access with the Jards. But I also had darts. Regular darts. These were
wooden bodies, but they still had real brothers for them. I have my friends over here. His name
was Gunther. I think it was probably German. And he tried to stick my dart up into the ceiling,
and he'd come down and stuck in his head. Oh,
I'm so glad it wasn't serious, but that is one of those situations. Every one of us was
immediately six or seven years old. And we all were in your shoes for a second. They're like,
oh my god, what do we do? Run the other way. We were probably kidding. Oh, that's great.
That's great, but that's great story. That's a good story. Thank you for sharing that, man.
Have a great morning. Appreciate you. Best listeners in radio. We're one of you. I appreciate
you guys. Scary dangerous toys. Love them. Astrologer came in next. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, okay.
If you want to go to where an astrologer was respected, you got to go way back. Okay. Yeah.
And this is, I'm sorry, this is an industry that did it to themselves.
Kind of, yeah. They'd be, they cheapened it, I think, to the point where now it's just like silly,
right? Yeah. The people that really do take it quite serious and are doing good work in it,
I certainly respect, but I completely understand why they're on this list. Yeah.
I don't understand why, and I never will understand why, teachers or journalists are on this list.
The complete lack of respect by government's parents and the kids is astonishing when it comes to
teachers. That's from a teacher. So I could see that part of that. I see what they mean by, oh,
it's, they don't get the respect that they deserve in any ways. I think that there's plenty of
people that would like to, whenever these things come up, they want to take the counter argument.
Well, this person or that person, right? I had some bad teachers too. Sure.
And, and you know, that that's going to happen with any industry. If you have, yeah.
If you have 10 plumbers in front of you, some of them are not going to be good.
Yep. Some of them are not going to be great. I think that the overwhelming majority of teachers
that I have had, and I think many of you out there have had not only deserve our respect,
or deserve a lot more respect from the government, and plenty of other fountains. And we don't
need to talk about the state of journalism. Journalism, yeah. It's been discussed all right to,
to, to death ad nauseam right now. It, it, it wasn't long ago where, yeah, Carl and I were talking
about what will happen and how the news would look if we got rid of journalism. We have it happening
now. It's, it's, it's happening. It's happening. We're pretty much right now.
Now, it's not completely like that. In part because of some great, I think, local journalists
around the country that are doing good work. I think important stuff too.
Think you have a handful of people in the national media that are doing good work as well as
impopulars that might be to say they actually are. And if you're being very, you know,
fair about this, I think you can say that. But I am dang proud of our local news team. Yeah.
Here at Civic Media. Yeah. And certainly here at WF HR. Our, our own Melissa K has taken up
the mantle and, and done it very proudly and strongly. I think that there is great journalism
being done. You've got to hunt for it sometimes. Yes, you do. Or sometimes it shows up in your
email box with a newsletter. Ah, nice plug. Sign up for the newsletter, everybody, wphr.com.
There you go. And, and, and, and hey, if you don't believe me, go ahead and find out for yourself.
Yeah. Sign up for it. Try not to get in there. But, um, at, at, at some point or another, I,
I really do hope. I used to say, I believe now I'm just hoping that people are going to take a
look at this and say, well, what happened to real reporting? Because regardless of what set of
the aisle you're on, regardless if you believe that all news is fake news or anything like that,
don't you want real, don't we all agree that we want journalism? Don't we all agree? Some of us
look at it differently. Some of us are coming from different sides of the aisle. Right. But we all
want journalism. I would believe we would we should if we're not. Yeah. And here's the thing.
If you see people and all they do is take shots at journalism and these things and they
that tells you everything you need to know about that person and that they have something to hide
or they have an agenda. Yep. Um, Mark Twain said it perfectly. If you tell the truth, you don't
have to remember anything. Yep. Uh, that is journalism 101 in many ways. Uh, wedding photographers
are another one on this list. Well, with the proliferation of, you know, digital cameras on
phones. It takes it's great pictures now. Yeah. It's kind of become something that that's not
what it was. I will say you really do know the difference when you compare your pictures to an
actual photographer's picture 100%. Um, you know, we've had a Gretchen come by recently doing some
pictures and things like that. And I'm always, uh, it's one of the few times I don't mind taking
photos because I know she's going to make she's very good. She can make any she can make me look
good. She can make anybody look good. She's good, man. Um, politicians, including the president.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, something they've done to themselves in a lot of ways. Uh, yeah.
Uh, they, the job was never meant to be what it has been turned into. Yeah. Uh, they did that
all the pandering. Yeah. Just sick. Well, now, um, this is two sides to because I think that,
yes, I 100% a thousand percent agree with you. Um, that politicians have done this to themselves.
I do think, um, part of this also is the way we treat politicians and how low hanging fruit and
how easy it is to say that every politician is this and every politician is that and all right. Um,
we need to be better about that because if that's all we put out there and if that's all we're
yelling at the TV and that's all kids here, that's all we're going to get garbage in garbage out,
right? Yeah. Yeah. So if you want good politics, if you want good politicians, first off, maybe
be one, maybe get off the couch and be one, uh, or, or at the very least have a grain of salt with
every one of these individuals and remember their human beings. Um, now there are plenty of them
that may not act like it sometimes, but that's not on you. No, that's not that you don't get,
you know, that they don't choose how you feel. You feel how you feel. Uh, and how we treat these
people. Okay. That, um, again, if you walk around with your fist clenched all day, you're going
to get in a fight. If all we do is think every politician is, is, is, you know, low whatever. Yeah.
Then that's all we're going to get. Yeah. Working at an airline showed up on this list, along with
travel agents and real estate agents. Oh, again, that's, that's internet stuff, um, especially with
travel agents, since now there's all these travel sites and things. You don't, but there's still
out there still doing good work. So I think they'll always be in need for them. Yeah. And, and,
and I think another thing that's fun to do with the list like this, uh, especially because
think that chiropractors and truck drivers and male carriers on here. See everybody. All jobs that
I think most of us, you respect, um, but maybe could do a little bit better job. Yeah. Or more
could. But the last thing on here was the, um, are there professions left that people respect? Okay.
And that is there anything to have points? Yeah. To your point. Um, I, I think that, um, overall
firefighters, uh, EMT workers, I, I tend to be up there. Yeah. Um, I would like to think, uh,
but we, we don't have that there with, uh, some things that I think we should, some that we've
already mentioned. And of course, radio DJs. Uh, uh, yeah. Come on. Respects us. Everybody. We're
the most respectable getting. I'm being told in my ear. I, uh, my producer's just laughing.
That's just laughing. Okay. We will take a time up. We'll come back and we're going to get into
these crash and parties. Uh, how many of us have crashed a party? How many of us have crashed a
holiday party? All that coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR. Locally grown radio. I had forgotten about
this one. Um, this is actually kind of fitting because, uh, to me, this is one of the more sad
Christmas songs. And it is. I have never quite, like, I, I certainly have, um, uh, feeling and
respect for anybody feeling, you know, this time of year and missing loved ones. I can relate to
and I like many, many, many people can out there. Um, but I, I, I did these, the sad Christmas stuff
has never really hit me too much. Um, there's, um, I think the saddest Christmas song of all time
is, is blue Christmas. It's the self of the blue crazy. You can hear it in the voice. There's
something there. Um, I don't know, but there's something there. But I came across a story and I,
I sent out the email a little while ago to you and, uh, the gang here, the, the little match girl.
Mm hmm. I'd never heard this story before, man. Mm hmm. This weekend, I'm down a rabbit hole doing
research for a midday magazine article and, and boom, I run into this story. I run into the
saddest Christmas story of all time. If you would like to be happy, this Christmas, don't read
the little match girl because I did it. And what the what, man? Well, he said, what the, why
even make that? And it's from an amazing author. Right. It's from a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
a, a, a, a, a, a, one of the greater authors of all time. Yeah. Right. Now, a lot of his stories
didn't end that well though. You gotta remember that. Yes. Nobody warned me. That is not a,
that man that was sad. That is. Yeah. I'd immediately watch a Simpsons episode after that.
I'm like, I need a pali cleanser. That's a rough story. Uh, it is that time of year for holiday
parties. Many of us have a holiday party on their calendar and that we'd like to get out of
or go to. Um, and on the flip side, maybe there's a party we'd like to sneak into.
In a new poll, 14% of people say that they have successfully crashed a party or event without
the host's permission. Another 4% tried to do it, but got stopped. Um, no, no word on the
percentage of, um, funeral crashes there aren't. And that is a shout out not only to our, one of
our listeners out there, uh, they'd chime that in when they brought it up earlier. Yeah. Uh,
but the movie wedding crashers. Right. And one of the greater cameos of all time and Will Farrell
just showing up. It's, I gave God it's hilarious. If you don't watch anything else from that
movie, that scene alone, you should see that's hilarious. Um, 9% of people say that they have
successfully crashed a holiday party or event without the host's permission. Another 4% tried to,
but we're caught. And, um, yeah, I can see that. So is what happens then, though? Yeah. It's like,
sorry, you, you must leave. You are not on the guest list, sir. You know, it's like, why do you do
that? I wonder. I, you know, I don't know. Or do you say, ah, come on in once one more, you know?
I've never had that happen, but I have been at a wedding where the police showed up. No,
I have been there. That, that is, that's kind of funny. That is awkward. That is the definition
of awkward. If you're just looking up in the dictionary, what's awkward? It's police showing up
at the wedding. Yeah. That's, that's a rough one. There wasn't for me. I feel like I probably should
probably add that. But, you know, with my past, I probably showed what I was going to say. It was
like, James, what did you do? What did you do, man? I was being good. I was just one of the few
times I'm sitting back and just watching all that happened. It actually, it hears the funny thing.
It was a mail-off wedding and nobody in the mail-off party. It wasn't for the mail-offs.
Shocking. There you go. That's all good. I'd be dead serious. I'm actually a little proud of that.
So is this a serious faux pas or not? Or something that's not really a big deal. It probably depends
on the party or event that you're crashing. But 77% of people think it's generally unacceptable
to show up without a host's permission. Really? Well, that's, that's, that's high number. Wow,
we never get those kind of numbers. No, not really. Well, another 10% said it's usually fine
and 14% weren't sure, of course. Just take it, make an answer, just say it is. This is
makes up the map. Just pleased. I would never have guessed that that was that big of a deal.
Really? I really wouldn't have. Well, okay, so it, I mean, it depends on if you have like a certain
number of people that you wanted to invite and you only have, you know, like everyone has their
own place at the table, that kind of thing. It can be awkward if someone brings someone who was
an invited because it's like, now you have to shuffle everything. Yeah. Right. And that seems
like not a great thing for the host. You know, it's not a nice way to treat your host, right? Yeah.
But at the same time, it's like a bigger party, you know, just people coming in and out kind of
think, who cares? Yeah. Who cares? It's not a big deal. I, um, yeah, especially like a wedding,
I guess I get it a little bit with weddings. But outside of that, like just parties,
especially birthday parties and things like that. Yeah. I don't know. I haven't had a whole
lot of birthday parties in my life. But to me, if I'm having a birthday party, come one, come
all. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. What's the big deal? Those are the best kind of things. I mean,
I just don't, you don't get a piece of cake, though. That's, you don't get a piece of cake. That's
the one. Oh, no, I don't know. I don't know. I gotta be a good host, you know, you gotta do that. Yeah.
We are excited about something new and fun we are trying next week. Yeah. And it kind of
goes hand in hand with something new and fun we've been doing. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
we community stories of Melissa K going back to that journalism stuff I was talking about before.
Some of the better interviewing you are going to hear next week. We're doing something pretty cool
though, Seth. On next Tuesday and Thursday from five to six, we are here to take your calls.
Kids get ready to call in to talk to Santa's elves next Tuesday and Thursday from five to six.
It's awesome. Santa himself, of course. Quite busy this time of year. Yeah. So he can spare a
couple of elves to take your calls so you can give, they can relay what you want for Christmas
back to Santa. Okay. We have it all set up for you. It's very easy. You just got to call in.
We're looking forward to this. Melissa will be here to host for the show on the hour. Yep.
It's going to be a lot of fun. We want you to spread the word about this one. Make sure all the
kids know about it. Yeah. Now I know some of you have already handed in your list, but did you
get handed in the updated list? I'm sure there's something new. Yeah. There's always something
you saw something. You got to add to the list. Come on. We have to throw it out there.
Get ready to call up next Tuesday and Thursday from five to six right here. Just like you call
up with our other events and other things. Seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six,
hundred. We're looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of fun.
