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We got a lot of great things coming up throughout the week here.
We'll be getting into some of that a little bit later in the show.
But we will, of course, get into the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.
That's another place we're going to start today.
Get that coming up.
What is the proper etiquette when, if you win big money on a lottery off of a Christmas gift?
Ooh, a good question.
That is when we kind of got into a little bit last week and everything.
We'll see where that one goes.
We've got that coming up.
What trend died so fast they can hardly call it a trend.
Those are always fun.
That's trends, fads, these kind of things.
We'll get into a little bit of that.
We got some entertainment news for you to come up in the 9 o'clock hour, but kick off
the 9 o'clock hour.
We got the kitchens open.
We do.
Looking forward to that.
Beth Habhacker going to be joining us not only today, but should be a pitch hitting
a little bit this week.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
This week, so we'll be hearing from, uh, get our dose of Beth, get a good dose, good
dose.
Good dose of it.
I'll also be talking golden globes a little bit later.
Uh, I, I have a mashup Seth of something that I could not be more excited about.
Ooh.
I almost broke up, uh, I'm, I broke into the air, airwaves today and it broke up a couple
of shows that were programmed that were going on just in the middle of the day for no
reason.
Other than I just thought it was such an amazing cool story.
I think that's cool.
That's cool.
Well, we'll have, get into that one.
All right.
And a song of Spotify, on Spotify in 2024 as well.
That's always interesting.
Yeah.
That coming up.
Uh, we will get into and Rock Alms that turned 50.
Uh, oh, get ready to feel old, everybody.
Rock Alms turned 50 this year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, uh, let's get into an interesting one here.
The average American rates, uh, 2024.
What do you rate the last year?
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Our first Monday of the year, a good day to do this, I believe.
Uh, in our first Monday show, uh, you know, of the year.
Yep.
So, where would you rank last year, everybody?
Uh, 2024 is over, in America, you know, the drill.
Now that the ride is over, it's time to submit a review.
Of course.
Uh, a new, new survey, Americans were asked to rate the year in 2024
on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being incredible and 1 being, uh.
Yeah.
I'm glad it's over, right?
Overall, average came in at 6.1%.
Oh, better than average.
Okay.
Not bad, not bad.
17% gave 2024, a 5, uh, 17, uh, yeah, and 17% gave it a 7, uh, 16% gave it a 8, and 13% gave it a 6.
Okay.
14% gave it either a 9 or a 10, and 23% gave it less than a 5, okay.
Including the 5% who gave it a 1, the lowest possible score, only 5%, okay.
Uh, that was Drake.
That was, uh, no.
He was weighted.
Yeah.
We'll ask what made 2024 memorable.
The most popular answer was reconnecting with old friends and family members.
Hmm.
That was followed by creative and personal growth and getting a new pet, getting a new pet came in at third.
Wow.
It's pretty good.
Interesting.
That's amazing.
Wow.
Who knew?
In a previous poll, most people said that they expect life, uh, life in America to be a 5 throughout the next 10 years.
Although 41% are hopeful that their life, uh, will be better than this year.
Okay.
All right.
So, uh, so we, so they're, they're hoping for average.
Yeah.
But they're, but a, uh, a good chunk of people want it to be better.
Okay.
That's interesting.
You know, they, they tell you to shoot for the stars.
Yeah.
Um, sometimes you've got to have goals.
I guess.
Sometimes there's a low hanging stars, I guess.
Yeah.
The close ones.
They're really close stars.
Yeah.
They tend to fall.
Right.
You know, I, okay.
So there's a part of that that I, I kind of, I can empathize with.
To a degree of, you know, you don't want to build things up too much or anything like that.
Right.
Be let down, um, and the idea of wanting to still be hopeful, being realistic.
That is something I balance all the time.
Oh, exactly.
And a lot of this, it sounds like a lot of this is about personal, you know, stuff, personal growth.
Yeah.
Well, like you said, the top three things, you know, people saying they were, they felt they had some creative, uh, some creative opportunities
and some personal growth.
That's really important, uh, for obviously a lot of people come, it's a lot of days, any year.
There is a lot of, three 60 hours, it changed over back to 365 this year.
We are back.
Um, but there's a lot, so look, there are going to be good.
They're going to be bad with every year.
Of course, I don't know how anybody out there and, you know, could look at a year and say it was a perfect year or it was a horrible year.
Because I would feel like as soon as I was to say one of those things, the opposite would pop up in my head and counter what I'm already, what I'm saying and stuff.
So I, I think that having a five or a six or the fact that most, the average was, the average number was six out of 10.
Six is, that's not bad at all.
I would too.
I would take that absolutely to win nowadays.
You know, it's interesting, you know, when you look back at a year, it's, it's, of course, you know, everyone says and I'm just as guilty as everyone else.
You know, wow, that year went so fast because it felt like it really did.
Well, something we do at church every the first Sunday of, of the year is we have something called the memorabilia and we go back and look at the, what the church congregation did throughout the year.
And then you, you hear this, at least I did and I'm thinking, wow, that wasn't this last year.
That seemed like forever ago.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's so fascinating.
Where if you do like specific things that happened during the year, it seems like it was a while ago, but then you look at the year as a whole, it's like, oh, it's so fast.
So it's so interesting.
We behind the scenes here, everybody, just to your point, we've been putting collecting together our WPA nominations.
Right.
And we're going to be submitting those very soon.
I shout out to everybody that worked so hard on those.
Yeah, everybody did.
It was a team effort for sure.
A lot of great work by a lot of our team here and everything.
We're very excited about that, but that was all going on.
And honestly, every time I thought about the WBAs, it felt like it was three years ago.
It felt like it was a while ago, the way it was, it was like last, just last May, right?
Yeah, it wasn't even that long ago.
It wasn't.
I think certain moments in our lives also make that gap bigger.
Yes.
I feel like, and this is different for everybody and stuff, because we all grieve differently, but when you lose somebody, that almost takes up the year.
Like you could get married, you could have, you know,
2.5 kids, you could buy a new home, but if you lose somebody significant to you in that year,
that's probably what's going to take the headlines.
Yes, that's probably what you're going to remember that in your memory and your brain and everything.
That's going to take a lot of space.
Yeah, in other words, and I, I don't, I don't know that I think the two, that can also be a good thing.
Like when you, when it's fresh, like looking at last year and stuff, it could be kind of rough and everything.
But as the years go by, and I, I kind of let, you know, you like to remember these people,
you like to, it can actually kind of, you know, be attached to other good things or good things.
And so that negative thing, you give it enough time to breathe.
Yep, it still stings a little bit, of course, but it's not as rough.
And you don't remember just that about the year.
Right, exactly.
You know, the old saying, you know, time heals all wounds, kind of thing, and that's true.
It's not like it goes away, you know, everyone who's lost a significant person in their life knows
that there's always that gap, you know, that they're not there anymore.
And they can't fill that little gap that you have.
But as you go along, but I like the idea of like associating it with more positive stuff.
That's really interesting.
And looking at the year, kind of like a holistic way of looking at any specific period of time.
I'm curious of how human beings in memory works going forward.
Because we have, our brains since caveman days have romanticized the past.
It's actually something our brains do.
It's part of the reason why you can't remember what you had for breakfast yesterday.
But you can remember that one morning when you were eight years old, right?
Yeah, exactly.
And, you know, your dad made chocolate chip cake.
Whatever your friends or something like that.
Exactly, yeah.
But with our brains have always had to work that way because we didn't,
we never really had as much resources to collect information and to be able to be like,
well, actually, I looked on my phone and last year I was actually in a good mood on this day.
Yeah, right.
But now we've got these memory, you know, things that actually do our memory for us, right?
We're walking around with photo albums all day.
Exactly.
And we're only, well, for the most part,
we're putting good memories in them like we do a photo album.
Right.
So the way we remember things going forward,
I wonder how much more keen it's going to be,
how much more accurate it's going to be?
That's a good point.
Or not.
Well, I guess, you know.
We tend to remember the good stuff more than the bad stuff.
You know, in just in general, like you were referring to.
But now we have like, like you said, I mean, we have this.
And not only that, you have, you know, things on your phone,
you can set it up.
So what happened on this day?
If there were, you took a picture and you look at,
oh, look, I remember that kind of thing.
So, so has this completely destroyed tall tales?
Is this destroyed?
Like, you know, me and I, we were all fished.
And I caught this fish, man.
You wouldn't believe the size of a netty shows up.
But he's like, I got a picture of this here.
It was right here.
What are you talking about?
It was a perch.
What do you have?
It was not even that big of a, it wasn't even a big deal.
I don't know what it's come on, man.
What are you doing?
I just, I just don't, this just isn't epiphany.
I'm having right here all the time.
How about that?
We have destroyed tall tales.
We have destroyed tall tales.
That's not cool.
I like tall tales.
We'll see now.
Now, those of us, you know, who are before social media
and the fact that we take pictures all the time,
we can, we can keep our tall tales going.
Yes.
Man, the zoomers, the Gen Z, sorry, kids.
You got nothing.
Yeah, good luck selling that fish story.
Is that nobody's going to buy it?
No, it's going to believe you.
Why did you take a picture?
Why would you, if you took a, if you caught a fish that big,
why would you take a picture?
Where's the picture?
Come on.
Where's the proof?
Oh, that's lost in the cloud.
I don't know where, yeah, that's rough.
We'll take a time out.
We will come back with the L Cafe Birthday anniversary club
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Yeah. I was going to say it.
It carries a little extra weight to us.
It does.
Yeah.
Telling you.
It's a good idea especially.
I think that it's a really,
it's a romantic gesture too.
You're looking at the points.
Looking for points.
I thought about that.
You're right though.
I think it's a good idea.
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Okay.
So from going all the way back to January 4th, points.
Oh, a long time ago.
Oh, Saturday.
belated happy birthday to Julie Teig.
Happy birthday, Julie.
Enjoy your day, Julie.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And you are an instant qualify.
Instant qualify.
Yep.
And then today we have two possible qualifiers.
All right.
Seth, I need a one or a two.
All right, uh, two.
All right, gives us that qualifier.
Get right into it.
First up, we want to wish a happy birthday today
to Amy Sunday.
Happy birthday, Amy.
Enjoy your day, Amy.
Hope it's very fun.
Amy Sunday on a Monday.
Yes, that's it.
That seems fun.
I think that'd be fun.
Enjoy it, Amy.
Play and do it.
They have a good one.
And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier today.
Paddy urban.
Paddy.
Congratulations on being our qualifier
and happy birthday.
Bragg to friends, family,
animals, imaginary friends,
strangers, let everybody know that you are a qualifier
and it's your, well, and it's your birthday.
You know, I'm trying to do that too.
Just mention it.
Get a bolt in there.
Get a bolt in there.
Actually, it's a great way to, like,
if you don't want to, uh,
I'm a qualifier today.
Oh, what for?
Oh, you know, it's just my birthday.
No big deal or anything.
Just a great way to drop that in.
Just going to slide it into a conversation.
Let's take a phone call.
Good morning.
Got a birthday or anniversary for us.
Good morning, James.
Good morning, bud.
How are you?
Good.
What do you got for us today?
Do you know why the giraffe
and the turtle did not get married?
Hmm.
Huh.
They did not get married.
I don't know why.
They could have C-I-U-I.
Oh, I like it.
Excellent.
It's a good one.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you.
Have a great morning.
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That's fantastic.
Um, we have our celebrity list.
We're going to take a look at now,
take a look at this list.
We wish a very happy birthday to Alex Turner,
39 for lead singer and one of the main songwriters
for our tick monkeys.
Oh, oh, I like some of their stuff.
Pretty good, pretty good.
He is one of 30 members.
But that's a big band.
That's a huge band.
There, I knew a little bit about them.
They still don't know much about them,
but they were on SNL a couple of times.
Okay.
And Lauren's a big fan of them,
so they're going to be out a while.
That makes sense.
And I don't know how that they barely fit
on the 30 rock stage.
There was so many of those guys, that's a big band.
Speaking of 30 rock, uh,
Kate McKinnon is 41.
Oh, wow.
She was, uh, I guess weird Barbie
in the Barbie movie.
I don't know, um, but that was like a,
that was a role that Margaret Roby
specifically wanted to her for.
And they were even going to have the character
until Kate McKinnon.
Yes, um, I think she is just, I mean,
if not a gene, a borderline genius,
she is so talented.
I watched, uh, I mentioned, I watched the, uh,
SNL, uh, Christmas special with Steve Martin,
Martin Short.
Yep.
And, um, uh, Melissa McCarthy was on there.
Mm-hmm.
And I, I talked about it in a class yesterday,
and I am, I am prepared to say that I think
Melissa McCarthy is the most fearless actor
I've seen on the 30 rock stage.
I have a hard time saying that,
but I really, I really genuinely feel that way.
Um, it, and I, I mean that in a sense of,
I, I look, whether I look, uh,
handsome or pretty or cute or sad or whatever it is,
I'm going to do whatever it takes to make you laugh.
And it doesn't matter what happens to me
or my body or anything else.
There's, um, Chevy Chase falling down.
The stairs is forward or anything like that.
There's some guy, there's some actors
that have done some stuff.
Molly Shannon, through herself,
through all the time, Melissa McCarthy
in almost every sketch.
She's doing something like this,
but it's so organic.
And it's such a part of things.
Oh, even with the, with the opening,
when they did it,
I mean, they telegraphed the whole thing.
But it still works.
It still works.
Kate McKinnon is almost that to another degree,
uh, kind of with her facial expressions
and a lot of those things.
She's a tremendous actor.
Yeah.
I think we need to put that in there
because of some of the stuff outside of
SNL that she's done.
She's like, she's tremendous.
Speaking of tremendous actors,
Eddie Redmayne is 43 today.
Newt Scam and, uh, Scam and Ender,
uh, in the Fantastic Beast movies.
You also want to ask her is Stephen Hawking
in the theory of everything.
One of the greatest active performances
I've ever seen in my life.
I never will see.
Yeah.
How you play Stephen Hawking,
I don't know.
Eddie pulled it off.
Like that guy pulled it off, man.
Yeah.
Um, and is, uh, and, uh,
the Danish girl, of course,
he, uh, won an Oscar for that one as well.
Uh, man.
She was in, uh, Lee Miz, too.
I believe he was in that tremendous voice, too, yeah.
Uh, and he's got a, uh,
a big one called the Jackalout right now,
where he's, it's a little more of an action
rule than everything.
Cool. A lot of people have been very,
uh, talking really.
I didn't see it, but a lot of people have been
very, uh, big fans of.
Oh, let's see here.
Uh, uh, uh,
Christina Alonzo,
comedian,
Chris Dello,
or Alonzo,
as, uh,
cruiser mirrors and cars three.
Okay.
And, uh,
Chris Dello.
Nice.
Uh, Gabrielle Reese is, uh,
55 today.
All six, three ever.
Um,
two tremendous volleyball players.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great volleyball player.
Mm-hmm.
Uh,
Norman Reedus is 56,
Darrell on the walk in dead.
Wow.
56.
Might also remember him from Boondock Saints.
Yeah.
I am a big fan of his.
Wow, he doesn't look that old.
Actually,
I like, uh, no, he doesn't.
He looks, he's looking good for 56.
I like actors that are,
are in it for the right script and the right role.
Mm-hmm.
There are a few that are more picky than him.
There are a few, like, uh,
he, uh,
took a great role in we,
in, uh, uh,
a blade and he was Whistler and blade.
Uh,
all right, now Whistler,
he was Whistler's partner in blade.
Right. Uh,
and, and it was,
it was a small role.
And they were asking about it.
He's like, I,
I got to work with Wesley Snipes and Chris Christofferson.
Like, that's what he wanted to do before.
That's awesome.
Uh, uh, a lot of people expected him to have this huge
break after Boondock Saints.
Mm-hmm.
He didn't really want it.
Like, he, he works on cars and stuff like that.
A lot of the time, bikes and everything.
He's got a couple of other shows that he does now, um,
that, uh, are pretty good,
but I admire his acting choices.
Right. Uh, a lot.
I think he's a good actor.
I think he's an underrated actor.
Yes.
Underrated defense of player,
how he long is 65 today?
Raiders legend.
So Hall of Rock or Super Bowl Hall of Fame.
You know, he is one of the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl Hall of Fame.
Football.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was at a Super Bowl or two, as well,
but he did, uh,
win a couple of the Raiders.
But he is one of those guys that you forget
because he's so good at like the TV thing.
You forget, man,
he was a trim,
oh, go back and watch him, man.
He was good.
It's one of my favorites.
One of the best of his, of his era.
To be on the defensive line, man.
He was amazing.
Yeah.
True Hall of Famer.
And it does not look other than, you know,
gotten smaller and everything.
Does not look like he's aged.
I know.
What's up with that?
Yeah.
Seriously.
Oh, the great Rowan Atkinson is 70 today.
Oh, Mr. Bean.
Mr. Bean is 70.
Wow.
Saw a great picture celebrating his birthday.
A Princess Diana freaking out when she met Rowan Atkinson.
And I'm looking at it.
And I'm looking really close and he's so young
and I'm like, wait a minute.
This is before Mr. Bean.
She's freaking out because of Black Adler.
Black Adler?
I was totally going to mention that.
I was going to say, yes, he's most famous for Mr. Bean.
But if you get a chance, watch the Black Adler Series.
It is so funny.
Oh my gosh.
Forget how big that show was.
Yeah.
You've got Princess Diana.
Like I think even newly crowned Princess Diana or whatever.
And she's in all these famous English people
are standing there greeting her.
And she's greeting.
Oh, yes, thank you.
Thank you.
And she sees Mr. Bean or, you know, him at the time, right?
And flips out.
Just flips out.
Oh my god.
It was cool.
That is so cool.
That's pretty cool.
And I can't imagine what.
Because he's got this most, the most humble look on his face.
Yes, yes.
Oh my gosh.
For all of his great characters and great work and everything,
quite a humble guy.
Quite a theory.
And private guy too.
Some people no longer with us.
The great director, John Singleton,
born in this day in 1968, passed away way too young in 2019.
Director of Boys in the Hood, one of the writers of it too.
And did a lot of other good movies too.
There's a movie I believe Rosewood is it,
with Ving Rames starring.
I have seen that.
It's an excellent film.
Yeah, it's not easy.
It's not necessarily an easy watch,
but it's a very important one.
And it's really good.
Boy, you know, it's someone who, I mean,
he exploded on the scene with Boys in the Hood.
I mean, that's a hard first act to follow up on.
But he had a very good career after that.
And sadly, I mean, it would have been interesting
to see what he did later on in his career.
But he's not around anymore.
Malcolm Young, born in this day in 53, passed away in 2017,
former ACDC guitarist.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Bonnie Franklin, born in 1944, passed away in 13.
The mom and the original one day at a time.
Oh, my gosh, yeah, that's right.
Oh, and Earl Scruggs, born in this day in 1524,
Country Music Hall of Famer, part of legend Scruggs.
The Battle of Jed Clamper, of course, they sang together.
Please don't make that the only thing you know about him.
He's an amazing artist.
Absolutely, musician and artist.
Really awesome.
And of course, one more time we put a call out to all of you.
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Happy birthday, Julie.
And a happy birthday to Amy Sunday.
Happy birthday, Amy.
And a very happy birthday to our qualifier today,
Patty Urban.
Patty, happy birthday and congratulations to you.
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I feel like this should be the start of a cop show.
Yeah, it's like we're coming back to commercial break in the
seventies.
McCormick.
Mike, Mike Postus.
That's all he listened to when he was a kid was this.
That's what I love the idea too.
Of this is this.
We just walking in and do it.
You know, you've got to have the upset police chief.
The police chief was always like, I got a bottle of Tom's right there.
Right. He's a gravely voice.
And it's always McGurk or McGurk.
It's the Irish like cloud.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
You wrote it.
You're a loose cannon.
Yeah.
You're a loose cannon.
Hooker was a good cop.
Oh, that's just so it's right there, man.
It's right there.
That's something that means a good temptation.
I love it.
Good stuff.
Good stuff right here for us, especially if you are in an interesting situation.
I'm going to share something with the audience here real quick.
Okay.
A little behind not really behind the curtain.
Just a look into the day and the life of just I have had a very weird
odd life, Seth.
Yes.
Not a lot of normal days.
Yeah, it's just it just I learned at a young age.
Just got a role with it.
Okay.
You know what?
They tell you if you're falling out of a building or out of a car,
something like that loose.
Don't get stuck.
Don't get tense.
Yeah, you don't want to hurt yourself more.
So I've just taken it as I'm falling through life.
I am just being loose.
Trying to be loose.
Trying to be.
I'm standing in and I'm in a hurry and I'm in the gas station the other day
and I'm looking around and oftentimes in the gas stations they have up there.
You know, congratulations to a lottery winners.
Yep.
And up there it says, uh, congratulations winner James M.
of Wisconsin Rapids.
Whoa.
And I'm looking at it and then it takes me a good 30 seconds before I'm like,
oh, wait a minute.
Did I did I win something?
Didn't even know what?
And I'm racking my brain.
Like, I've never bought a lottery ticket.
I had a had a, you know, a nice person buy me some once.
Uh, when I worked at a gas station, but I've never bought one myself.
Right.
So I'm feeling pretty confident that it's not me.
No, no.
But I share a name with another James, uh, my father and everything.
And I don't know if my dad buys lottery tickets or not.
Oh, and, and I'm both equally like,
father, like, that there's something I don't know about my dad.
Also kind of find that kind of cool that I'm like, well, wait a minute.
There's still stuff I don't know about.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
And then I'm like, well, wait a minute.
Did he win and you doesn't know?
Because that is something I know about my father that he would do.
Oh, no, he can be a little impulsive sometimes, you know,
and buy the ticket, but wouldn't follow up on if he won or they're not just a thrill.
Oh, I don't know.
I just bought the ticket.
I, uh, so that kind of stuff does happen all the time.
And we have plenty of times where there are lottery tickets that are not claimed and everything.
Where we're going right now is kind of a little bit of the other end of this,
a not only claim, but etiquette of when you do claim a lot of yes, when you do win.
Very important.
Very important.
Lottery tickets are a pretty lazy but harmless Christmas gift
until someone hits a jackpot.
Then things get interesting and things get weird.
Someone asked the internet, what's the proper etiquette?
If you win $5,000 on a lottery ticket, Christmas gift.
Here are the best responses.
All right.
And we want your 715-424-22.
What would you do if this was you, right?
100%.
I need to decide if it would do.
You buy the ticket or did you receive it?
We'll give our answers as well.
We'll play along as well.
But pretend nothing happens.
Say, oh darn, I lost while folding it up and putting it in your pocket.
Oh, that's just no.
No.
Okay, so when you do show up with the water ski,
you know, when you have that.
Where'd you get that?
Yeah, I fell off a truck.
I go, what are you going to do there?
I go, what are you going to do there?
Any time in life, especially the older you get,
and I mean, if there happens to be any 13 or 14-year-olds
out there listening, this is an early lesson you can learn.
Yeah.
The only thing that can happen are worse things
when you lie in life the older you get.
Oh, God.
There is literally no situation.
That lying can really,
it might make it better in the moment.
Right.
But in the long term, nothing that comes up.
Almost always.
We'll make it worse, yes.
In the moment, you may feel like you got away with one,
but these chickens come home to roost.
Boy, sure seems that way.
There's going to be a moment where like,
somebody's going to need that like a thousand bucks
or something like that for a heart surgery or something.
And you show up with the money and they're like,
well, how'd you come up with that money?
And I, I won five thousand dollars off of a lottery ticket.
Did you give me two Christmases ago?
Yeah, right.
It's going to come up.
The truth always comes from watch one CSI episode
and realize that we can't get away with anything anymore.
That's funny.
And everything comes up, everything.
Every, you can't get away with that.
No, invest on, insist on privacy.
Resist the urge to scratch it off in front of everyone.
Even if you have to say,
you're going to wait to use your lucky penny or something.
Oh, it's here.
I'm telling you the idea of having a lucky penny.
I was talking about this last week with the gift giving thing.
It's kind of weird how we do gift giving.
I mean, except maybe in this situation.
Okay, yeah, I want to know.
Well, you scratch it right now in front of me.
I want to see.
I don't know, I don't know.
Yeah, well, come on now.
I've never done this.
And unless somebody specifically,
I know there are huge fans of this.
I wouldn't really do something like this.
So this is kind of, I just find this subject kind of fun.
It is funny, actually.
There are people out there.
I do wonder if you do think about this
when you buy lottery tickets.
Is this something that goes through your head
when you're buying a,
or you're just doing it for fun?
I really do want to know.
So there are very few things that I have no data on.
I got nothing on this one.
Neither of us.
I mean, I don't think I've ever bought a lot of a lottery ticket
in my life.
I don't remember ever having done it.
So yeah, this is all new to me.
This one's interesting.
Use it as a test.
If your friend, family member or coworker
is anything but happy for you to win, that's not cool.
Why would the gift be conditional
on the ticket being a losing one?
That's a good point.
That's a great point.
That's an excellent point.
I mean, why are you giving lottery tickets?
I mean, I guess that's the big question.
Yeah.
Why are you giving lottery tickets?
Because like they said, is it late?
You're just lazy?
And you just, on the way to the party.
Oh god, I don't know.
Get some lottery tickets or what does it mean?
Yeah.
I am positive that I'm wrong here.
But I wonder if this is just done
by lottery commission commercials?
That, because I've actually never seen this.
I've never seen somebody actually get,
I know that it exists.
That's why I'm saying I'm confident I'm wrong.
But it does feel a little bit like this.
We got the idea from like lottery commercials.
Right.
Commercials trying to promote selling more lottery tickets.
Right.
I think this is like almost, every time I've seen it,
which is only a few times,
it has absolutely like white elephant stuff.
That's all it is.
It's kind of like a fun, you know, like,
I got you some lotto tickets kind of thing.
And that's it.
That's what it's for.
Is that why lottery tickets were invented?
So we had more ideas for white elephant gifts and stuff.
Is that, is that what it was all about?
It was all about the whole time.
It was all, it was the butler, the whole time.
It's the calls coming from inside now.
Offer a kickback.
If it's a significant amount of money in the thousands,
you could take the giver out for dinner or drinks
or something, or maybe something a little less
if you win, your win was modest or something like that.
Right, yeah.
I will tell you anybody out there listening
and you can replay this because everything is podcasted
and there is, you know, again,
you can't even be out there.
It will be out there.
I didn't say that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And listen, of course, you're,
some people are comparably kind though.
Yeah.
So for me, if you buy me a lottery ticket
and it is a $5 winner or $5,000 winner,
you are definitely getting something out of it.
That's right.
I have too much guilt to be able to, like,
I don't care if it's millions, man.
You're getting something out of that.
Because for one, I wouldn't be able to live with it.
Oh, this person did this for me, you know,
even though it was a gift and all that,
I wouldn't be able to live with that part of it.
I also don't want that hanging over my head.
Well, you know, yeah, I'm with you.
I don't want this person for the next 20, 30 years
of my life being able to, any time something good happens
or like, hey, you know, you know about that ticket for you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember, man, that was 10 years ago, right?
Like I appreciate it, but you don't have to bring it up.
No, no, here, what James, what we need to do right now
is we need to set guidelines, okay?
The two guys who've never bought a lottery ticket
are allowed.
Yes, yes.
So here we go.
I've got it just a rough draft, all right?
Real quick.
So if it's like under $1,000 and you win it,
you buy them dinner or something, okay?
That's something, you know, a nice one.
Not just big donals, okay?
We're talking, yeah.
Buy them a nice dinner.
If it's over 1,000, you got to give them a finder's fee.
You got them 10%.
Okay?
I say, I give you 10%.
We need it.
We need a hard and fast rule here.
Sure.
Over $1,000, you give them 10%.
There you go.
I like those.
I like those rules.
Yeah, let's find out from all of you.
Good morning, you're on the air.
Well, first and foremost, I just got a day
I can hear a little bit of sprang in James's stuff
this morning or in his day's toys.
Let me just a little, just a little.
You know, I know where you come from, I guess,
because back in the 80s, when the packers shocked it,
and all we want to do is defeat the bears.
I get it, whether you guys are coming from doing all this all.
I shouldn't feel, I shouldn't feel this way as a fan,
but I saw NIU beat Notre Dame and I saw that game yesterday
and I'm good.
I'm good.
He's good for next slide.
Yeah, I'm good.
That's how low the bar is for a bear fan.
That is how low.
And nobody wanted to win that game yesterday.
It seemed like nobody there's a potato of the wind
as it was back and forth.
But in a lottery situation, what would you do
with something like this?
Or do you have you been in this situation before?
You know, I kind of agree with you a little bit, James,
if it's five bucks from a safe vacuum,
and it's not one five bucks, then
I bought a hamburger McDonald's or something.
Yeah.
And if it's a gift, you know what I mean?
I think like that you said, if it's over $1,000,
maybe 10% or 50%, you know?
I mean, yeah, they gave it gift.
They're taking a risk, you know?
But what happens if they, you know, they pay five bucks
on lottery tickets and you win nothing?
Yeah, that was kind of a bad gift.
Yeah, right, right.
I just got to enjoy a scratch in a lottery ticket.
Yeah, thanks for getting my hopes up.
That's a wonderful Christmas gift.
Yeah, that's, that's, that's, yeah, I almost feel like
it's one of the, I wasn't going to go this way,
but I do think this is another part of it.
Yeah, that you could buy somebody like 10 lottery tickets.
Hope, nothing, hope, nothing, hope, nothing.
So you got them like a bunch of like hopeless hope
for Christmas.
Like, wow, where'd it go?
Great gift.
I don't know if, so the ceiling and the floor
on things.
Maybe it's just the way my brain works
or maybe it's fantasy sports.
Ooh, maybe that's a row, it's warped you.
I do that so much in life now.
Like, okay, what is the, what is the,
the best scenario that could happen from this
and what's the worst?
It's the very bottom there.
Yeah, I don't know if it's worth it.
I don't know, I think it is fun.
I think for those that enjoy it, it can be fun.
I don't know.
Can we appreciate your safe travels out there, man?
All right, guys, you have a great day.
You too. You too.
Appreciate you.
Paying it forward, you can buy them a lot or take it.
Is another option on here.
Oh, I hadn't thought about that.
Although, again, that's,
I like the idea.
That seems like a little cheap on the,
in the least scheme of things, right?
Yeah.
You win five grand and you buy them like
another $5 lottery ticket or something like that.
Like, what?
Hey, it's equal, right?
We have the same chance of winning.
Very similar to what you were saying there, Seth.
Split it with the giver.
Several people say that they'd give the gift giver a cut
anywhere from 10% to half.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
But again, I think we also have to realize
that the giver gave these to you as a gift.
So you're not obligated to do it if you don't want to.
I just think it's a courtesy.
And I think you should.
Whatever the amount is, you know, that's up to you.
But yeah.
Depends on the relationship.
If it's someone you like,
share some of the winnings with them.
If it's someone you aren't that close with,
keep it as a gift.
Now, who's getting people gifts that they don't like?
Unless it's like what we said, you know,
like a white elephant, office thing, Santa,
a secret Santa thing where it's like that guy from accounting.
So I got it from, I don't like this.
I gave you lottery tickets.
But now I won.
So I'm not on him, I guess.
I guess that's, that's yeah.
That'd be like the only scenario though.
Spoiled around here.
Like everybody I work with, I really,
it's not gonna happen.
So many of them won the lottery.
I'm probably one of the most died.
But I might be in just as excited about more than that, man.
And one person said,
my uncle gave us all lottery tickets,
but filled his info in on the back in case it was a winner.
Which was a joke, apparently.
It was just a joke that was doing it.
That is actually pretty funny.
Why does it might be a little bit, you know,
might be covering a piece?
It's a joke when no one wins.
Yes, man.
It's sad.
Oh, you won 5,000.
Oh, give me that ticket.
Give me that.
Let me see that.
Oh, my address on the back to the way,
you know, making sure it's real,
it's biting it in the white lottery ticket.
Like old gold.
Is it an old prospector for free?
Yes, you know,
look at that golden email.
What's a Monday show?
What's a Monday show?
What up the rails real quick?
Oh, there is a woman in the news that just $150,000 from a scratch
off that her mother gave her.
She says the money will go towards paying off her college debt
and buying a home.
Oh, see now there we go.
That's win-win.
Now there's another idea,
do with the winnings what your parent would do,
or the person they gave it to.
I feel like that's what her mom would do.
Now if you win,
make sure,
yeah, invest, invest, invest,
invest it, pay off your mortgage.
Yeah, we'll be doing that.
And we'll be coming back out in the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Little 90s to play us in.
You're gonna have a new episode of unlabeled for you this week.
Everybody first one of the new year.
Excellent.
All written, wrote, not written.
Actually, I wouldn't do a thing this weekend.
I've got the next four or five.
Oh, wow.
I'm using the zone, man.
There's something with this show.
What happens is I get a theme
and I want to put it together,
but then I come across other songs,
don't fit the theme.
So I put them in later episodes.
And that starts a new one, right?
Yep.
Now you know what?
You got like seven of the 10 songs you need.
Is this happened with you with Seth?
Yes, it does.
It happens quite a bit, yep.
It's so cool to me because in 20 some years,
this is a very new way of programming an hour to me,
of doing it this way.
There you go.
My time in radio, it was picked for music.
It was picked for me.
It's picking out 10 songs or whatever a week
and having the specifics of it.
It's a fun thing to do.
It is a very fun thing to do.
So, yeah.
Whether it's Seth Faces of Music on Sundays
or it is unlabeled or director's cut,
which is, can I got some changes in my mind?
Getting a facelift's coming up here, yeah.
We're gonna talk about that this week
because we've got some exciting news with that show.
But more and more, we encourage you to check out
our Sunday lineup, everybody.
We just got a great one.
And thank you, everybody, that does check it out
because those three, four hours are popular right here.
Yes, yeah.
This is a, that ain't right story, I'm gonna,
but I do a gotta appellate cleanser right after everybody.
It might be a good day to arrive home with flowers.
The first working Monday of 2025 is Divorce Day.
The day of the year, you're more likely to get dumped.
Oh my goodness.
It's not clear if it's really true or not,
but stats show January probably does deserve
the title of Divorce Month.
A study in 2020 found Google searches
for things like Quicky Divorce
more than doubled every January.
Oh geez Louise.
Experts think it's because people tend to avoid breakups
in November and December to just get through the holidays.
Or sometimes all the holiday stress can be the final straw.
And love the idea of somebody's out there right now.
And they just, like, they thought that they were gonna,
like, they're being smooth, like, not getting,
not breaking up in the holiday.
Yeah.
We'll do it afterwards.
Like, like, you know, what are you doing?
What is wrong with you?
No, no, no.
The first working Monday gets the Divorce Day title
because the added stress of getting back to work
can push people over the edge.
Goodness gracious.
In other words, it's a good day to toss out
a random compliment or something for your partner.
Keep things copacetic.
Yeah.
You're anything like me?
You're the last to know.
No, this also comes up this week.
Dating Sunday is coming up.
Okay.
Apparently this Sunday is considered Dating Sunday.
Okay.
Because everyone broke up.
Right.
Right.
So your Divorce, like a week later,
you're going, not even a week later.
See?
Oh goodness.
Some people just keep moving.
Yeah, they get to move on.
Now, the problem I have with this is in part,
they didn't really, it seems like almost every one
of these studies.
If it's got any, if it's 2020 and up,
that they will include that big old word
that all of us are tired of even after all the years,
years, pandemic or COVID or something like that.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Well, that's, that was gigantic at that time.
And that's going to skew these numbers
and they're going back to 2020.
What about before that?
What about luck, you know?
Right.
And can we just like, if you guys want to talk
about Divorce, stay fine.
But what I want to talk about more so is,
this need to turn day, like something into everything
into like a thing, literally a thing, yeah.
Everything's got to be a thing.
Yep, everything.
If everything's a thing, then nothing stands out.
Exactly.
I don't know that we need to make every day a thing.
And we don't.
No.
And it used to be we did this to celebrate things.
Now, like we're doing it as almost like a warning.
Like as a, like as if, you know,
like if your relationship is headed for a divorce
on January 6th, you can magically fix it
or something like that on the 5th or the 4th, okay?
We've run out of good things.
Now we have to do the bad stuff.
I know.
That's what we're doing.
Um, everything has a, every good thing has a day now.
Yeah.
So now I guess we have to start creating things
for, you know, bad stuff, you know, stub your toe day,
you know, or slip on the ice day or something.
I don't know.
Well, granted, I do think that, you know,
you don't want to make quick decisions
when it comes to marriage, of course.
And, you know, I, or divorce for that matter, yeah?
I'm old school on this one.
I don't think that you should stay with anybody.
It doesn't work when you know it doesn't work.
But I do think it does take work.
And I do think you should, you need to, I, I know for me
and, and Mandy, my ex-wife, we can both look in the mirror
and say we did everything we could.
And it's part of the reason why we're friends now.
Right.
Exactly.
Which is better for our kids and all these things.
That took 20 years, but we got there.
We got there.
It takes a while for that.
I think that, you know, if you can say that,
that's, that's the thing.
But if, if you're, I don't know,
if you're looking at this as this is,
like getting through the holidays thing.
Like, to me, I feel like, well,
the one happens when you're looking back
on those memories of that time.
Right.
Like, or anything.
I feel like if it's over, it's over.
Yeah.
If it happens to be Christmas Eve and it's over,
that's just how it would be.
Sadly, that's probably how it's going to end.
Yeah.
To me, I don't know, I guess to, to me,
that's the way that I would have reached this,
which, you know, also may answer some other questions
about me.
I consider the source.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
No, I guess it's hard to know if you're a divorced lawyer.
Today is like your super.
Oh, yeah.
This is like the day, man.
Let's get the, let's get the people in here.
I, all relationship stuff is skewed.
It's all all over the place.
Like, well, every relationship is different, James.
It's like, you know what, candy sales in October
and in February, huge, huge.
We have no idea why.
No idea.
We can't look it up.
No way we can look it up.
I feel like there's also something about that where people,
you know, at the beginning of a new year and just wanting
to clean slate.
In a lot of that.
Yeah, that's true.
So that, I think, too, can also, I don't want to say,
push you over the edge, but give you almost some incentive
that you need to do something, because that's,
that was wild to me.
And I ran into this with a lot more younger people
than the last couple of weeks than anything.
The idea that, oh, it's January 1st,
I got to make a change.
Oh, that's cool and more power to you
if you want to make change,
because we could all improve our lives, of course.
Of course, yeah.
But I don't think that it necessarily needs you have to.
No.
And it certainly doesn't mean that if you started today
and you, well, I didn't start on January 1st,
or no, that it won't work, right?
Yeah.
No, no, I think part of it is just because it's an easy time
to do it, right?
You turn the page of the year, and it's like,
well, this is a good time as any, right?
Let's focus on that, so we have resolutions
and all that thing.
I don't think you're kind of trending towards here
is that it doesn't matter when you start anything
if you want to change.
It's a convenient way of doing it.
And the cool part of that is, too,
it doesn't take Valentine's Day or your anniversary
or something like that.
Any day, you can try to improve your relationship.
That's right.
Exactly.
In fact, you should be.
Probably.
Probably should be.
Look into that a little bit, yeah.
Definitely don't want, one of the most failed shows
that I ever tried to do here at WFHR was James's,
or dating advice.
It was canceled before he forgot it.
He went up the ground.
We probably wise decision in the end, yeah.
I was working on the bumper, and Chuck was like,
James, this is not, no, no, what are you doing?
Like, we need content right now, and we're still not doing this.
We're desperate, but we can't.
We can't have this, man.
We cannot do it.
Hey, nobody that desperate.
I did want to wrap the hour up on a good story.
We tried to do that as much as we can,
and I think that this is such a darn cool story,
but what I love about this is the work of the headline
on this one.
Oh, okay.
And it comes to us from thegoodnewsnetwork.org,
goodnewsnetwork.org, and the headline is,
Minnesota Summer Camp for HIV positive kids closes down.
Because there aren't any more.
Wow.
Like, for me, I read that and held my breath for all great.
Another one of these horror stories.
And then you just keep reading.
And that's an excellent headline.
You're right.
That is an excellent headline.
Such a well written headline.
It is.
Such a well written headline.
The idea that this particular camp cannot stay open
because they're air not enough HIV kids for it.
Wow.
Think of what that means, everybody.
As a couple of 80s kids.
I'm sorry, that's mind blowing.
That is mind blowing.
That's awesome.
That is so awesome.
Well, anyone who lived through that time,
we know what it was like.
This is one of the whole HIV AIDS story
as it has progressed over the decades.
It's actually one of the best stories.
I think we've had in our lifetimes.
The result of all the education that we've had.
And I mean, it is remarkable.
Absolutely remarkable.
Parental transmission of HIV occurring
when children contact the virus while in the womb
or breastfeeding has fallen below 1% in HIV positive mothers
in the United States.
Thanks to a lot of what Seth was just talking about there.
This is what happens when we work together.
Yes.
When we trust science, when we trust facts,
and have something to hang our hat on
when it comes to those things.
So remarkable.
The good we can do, and when we work together.
Yes.
It never would have happened without all of the groups
that were working towards us for decades,
for all of the science being worked on this.
The medication now that is where it's at, I mean,
it's really a great story all-round.
It's a really good headlight.
It is an excellent headlight.
Whoever the headlight writer is, man.
Good job.
Good job.
Well done.
We've got a great one coming up for you.
We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour
the way we like to on Mondays with.
Of course, the kitchen's open,
but have that you're going to be joining us.
Look forward to that.
After that, Seth and I will get into a little bit
of Golden Globe talk.
We had the Golden Globes yesterday.
Oh, that's right.
To me, more shows up in there.
That's going to be kind of cool.
Also, this mashup that I got to tell Seth about
about two creative teams working together
that I did not see coming up.
Oh, wow, okay.
All of that coming up for you right here at...
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