Life as a Video Game – Easy or Nightmare Mode? (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic?

I am joined by your head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habagger.

Good morning.

Thanks for listening.

There's a radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Let's kick things off the way we'd like to with a good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Talk a little about the nature.

How's your morning going, Britt?

Oh, pretty good.

Pretty good.

After I cried my eyes out yesterday, I found the snow melted away.

She takes it so seriously.

I watched a snowflake just melt, and I thought of Brittany.

And I thought, of course, I should shout out my co-host, Terry Jodz, as well.

Terry loves this weather as well.

I'm sure she's feeling it too.

Are we already saying goodbye to winter?

I don't feel like we can do that.

Am I wrong here?

In some point in April or late March or something, we're going to get bombarded by a bunch

of snow.

We know that's going to happen, right?

We don't let your guard down, everybody.

Yeah, I wouldn't let your guard down, that's for sure.

We're going to have more kids as a snow, but I don't think we're going to have that consistent

snow pack or that winter rep type of snow lingering around.

So we're definitely shifting seasons, and that comes with the winch remix, a little bit

of rain in the afternoon, snow at night, you know, the wet roads, re-freezing, slippery

sidewalks in the morning.

That's kind of what we're shifting into as we go through the next month or so.

So this afternoon, we're looking at spotty sprinkles throughout the day.

Nothing crazy, it's not going to be any downpours or stuff like that, but a cloudy,

a little bit dreary or day today.

But still mild, high temperatures will reach the mid-forties, and then tonight we do fall

below freezing.

So anything that melted, anything that's wet, your sidewalks, stairs is going to be ice

in the morning, and then we'll warm back up against tomorrow to about 40 degrees.

So that will be the trend as we go through this week, kind of in the forties, lows below

freezing, and then this weekend, the clear thing is out, the sun comes out, both

force, but we get colder.

We're going to be dropping to the upper 20s on Saturday and the mid-30s on Sunday before

we go into another wild warm-up next week.

So a roller coaster ride, but nothing major moving in.

All right.

All right.

So Wisconsin weather.

Another worth, right?

Yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Trademark that.

Yeah, really.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

Thanks so much for updating us.

We'll talk tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Have a great day.

Thank you, Brittany.

Thank you, Brittany.

Best in the business right there for Brittany.

Marlow joins us every morning.

Good to have that update for me for everybody.

We got some good stuff lined up for you.

The Elcaf Abert in an anniversary club is right around the corner, looking forward to

doing some celebrating.

We get to sing it by to a long time business, 82 years around, and they are closing their

doors.

Okay.

Touch on that.

What does America's perfect day look like?

We're going to get into that one.

Ooh, interesting.

Should be some fun.

And of course, it's a Wednesday.

So before the top of the hour, we're going to be joined by our good friends from Quality

Plus Printing with a week at Awesome World of Wednesday.

Yes.

Looking forward to that.

Last night I tried to get Phil to tell me he wouldn't, so it's going to be a surprise

with the word is today.

Nice.

That's good on you, though.

That's good reporting.

I was trying, man.

Good reporting by you.

We will kick off the 9 o'clock hour.

We're some entertainment news.

We're going to talk about the prices right.

We're also going to talk about Ozzy.

Ozzy Osborne.

I mean, who else was I talking?

Ozzy Smith?

Ozzy Smith, maybe.

I don't know.

Ozzy Kim.

Yes, Ozzy Kim.

Chris Pratt.

We've got a local theater to talk about, and we've got a newsletter to remind you about.

All that coming up.

And we're going to wrap up the 9 o'clock hour with I think one of the more fun topics we

have been able to have.

If life was a video game, what difficulty are you playing on?

Well, that's good.

I like that.

That's an interesting one.

But we have a couple of places we're going to start off with.

And first off, today is the 10th anniversary of the dress, quote, unquote, the dress.

This is the one people thought was white and gold, but it was really blue and black.

I sent a picture to Melissa and Seth earlier today in the morning about this, just as a refresher.

I think most of the audience, most of you out there probably remember this.

It wasn't that long ago.

It went viral back in Tumblr back in February 26, 2015.

Yes.

It was on this day back in 2015.

Tumblr.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's a flashback.

Yeah.

It broke the internet the night after Buzzfeed ran a poll on it.

And two thirds of people saw white and gold.

And if you're one of them, it's probably still what you see.

It's an optical illusion caused by weird lighting and an overexposed background.

Right.

That just happens all the time with full.

I'm sorry.

It used to happen all the time when we were doing just old photos.

Old fashioned photographs.

You know, the red eye effect and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Our brain makes assumptions based on the info it gets from our eyeballs.

Some people's brains immediately saw white and gold.

And once that happened, it was hard to see anything else.

Yes.

But it's definitely blue and black.

Yes.

People track down more photos online and prove the white was really navy blue.

And the gold people thought they saw was actually black.

So if you're a white and gold person, you're still wrong.

Which I am.

I will admit.

Really?

I don't even know.

I didn't even like, to me, it's white and gold.

It's blue and black, my friend.

That's all I see.

That's what you see in the picture.

So it's blue and black.

I see blue and black.

That's what I see.

Really?

You have wild fans.

That is wild.

Because I see white and gold too.

I have never looked at the picture when viral back then.

I remember hearing people talk about it.

But I was like, yeah, whatever.

You know, I wasn't interested.

Yeah.

So this is basically the first time I've seen this picture.

And I see blue and black.

Wow.

That is what I see.

It's interesting.

That's crazy.

Like, I want to look at it on your phone because I seriously.

It's on James' computer, actually, is laptop.

We're looking at the same picture right now.

James and I are.

Yeah.

And I swear that's what I'm seeing is white and gold.

Oh, I believe you.

I totally believe you.

It is crazy.

When this went in this, you know, we touched on this back in the day.

When this first happened and everything on the morning show.

And we were doing it in real time.

And back then I didn't have nearly the prep that I did or any of those things.

I was still learning how to do this jump.

And I saw white and gold.

It didn't understand what the fuss was about.

I'm like, big deal.

It's a dress.

It's not a bad looking dress.

But I know what I'm talking about.

Right, right.

It's like it's not on a woman.

It's just a dress hanging there, right?

Yeah.

I know the difference of a good and a bad dress.

So moving on from that.

I didn't see what the fuss was about.

But then I'm like, oh, people are saying it's actually black and blue.

Get out of here.

To this day, I don't understand how anybody like you or anybody you see that.

By the way, we totally hit the statistics on this one.

Two out of three.

Yeah.

Said it was gold and white and gold.

Yeah, there we go.

Weird.

Of course Seth would be the weird one.

Oh, well, you know.

I got my own drummer right here.

Perfect.

It's a funny one.

It's a funny memory too.

Yeah, it is.

It's weird to think that that was 10 years ago.

Well, and to think too of how different things were then.

And while you tell anybody 10 years previous, it's going to be there's going to be gigantic differences in certain things.

I don't think anybody could have expected some of the differences we've seen.

Some of the changes we've seen.

No, it's been quite a good change.

It's been quite a change.

The pandemic alone.

Yeah, exactly.

That was a big curveball.

The idea that that was one of the first things I remember going like super viral.

I mean, it went like everybody was talking about it.

It was only for like a week maybe.

But it went.

I mean, it was on the news.

It was it was everywhere.

And it feels like, again, it was only 10 years ago.

We're talking about the mid, the mid-ots.

Yeah, all that.

It feels like a more innocent time.

Doesn't it?

Doesn't it always?

It really does.

It kind of does.

Yeah.

I mean, that's just interesting.

Back when Tumblr was very popular.

Yes, yes.

Everybody, I don't know.

No, everybody at Tumblr page.

This is either amazing or the worst idea you're going to hear this morning.

That's great.

Well, maybe the second worst idea you're going to hear this morning.

Yeah.

The worst idea is allowing a sitting politician to choose who gets to ask him questions.

That's something Hitler did.

Yeah.

We're not going to do that.

No.

But we shouldn't do that, I should say.

Cinnamon Toe's Crunch teamed up with Tautino's pizza rolls for a new pizza-flavored pizza cereal.

Oh, wow.

What?

You.

I mean, I like pizza, but not with milk.

Half my body weight is probably pizza.

Sure.

Or pizza-related things.

Right.

Yeah.

And the other half is probably cereal or pasta.

It's maybe some tacos, though, isn't it?

But it's essentially my weight.

Sure.

This is something like a two o'clock in the morning idea that you have.

It's like, oh, man, I got the grade.

I got to write this down.

This is so good.

You know, when you read it like six or seven in the morning, you're like, what was it?

What was I thinking?

Cinnamon cereal.

What am I?

Or cinnamon pizza cereal?

Well, that's what we're talking about.

It's being very careful here.

If you had two o'clock in the morning and you're thinking of what food you want to eat, there's a good chance.

You know, you've been relaxing a little bit.

Yeah.

So that is exactly where that comes from.

Wow.

What if I mix this and this?

100%.

100%.

If you think pizza in milk sounds okay, you're not alone.

But here's where they might lose you.

It's also still coated in their synodust.

Oh, wow.

So it's pizza and cinnamon and sugar.

They're not selling them in stores because that's disgusting.

No, nothing.

You have to win a box by going to Cinnamon Toast Crunch online store next Tuesday.

And that is, yeah, that is starting today.

Oh, okay.

Starting next Tuesday.

Next Tuesday.

They do have a lot of a pair of clothes and stuff too, though.

They do.

Wow.

They've got a lot.

I do kind of like the Cinnamon Toast logo.

I don't know why, but I kind of do like a little weird.

It's a little weird.

Maybe that's why.

That speaks to you.

If this was the other way around, guys, I would actually be more inclined to try it.

If they had a pizza roll with cinnamon sugar topping on it, I think I would try that.

I would.

The cereal.

Because there's a lot that you can do with pizza.

We've talked about all these different options, having chocolate on your pizza.

There's so many things you can do that way.

The other way around, I would do it, but not pizza cereal.

I hadn't thought of that.

You know, I'd try it.

Cinnamon is okay.

It's the sugar part.

Yeah.

I don't like sweet.

If like, say a crust is too sweet on a pizza, I don't like it.

I'm more saved, much more.

Keep it savory for pizza.

If I'm going for the acidic, I only want the acidic.

That's it.

I don't need sugar.

I know that I'm going to get a pushback from James on this.

But every single, like, the tostito pizza rolls, I guarantee you there is sugar in there, Marinerah.

Oh, yeah.

Probably.

I'm not going to talk trash about certain companies or anything like that.

But there are quite a few Marinerah companies and pizza places that do this.

You're right.

And you can tell.

You can tell the difference.

And I do not like sugar in Marinerah.

It's a cheap trick.

It's a cheap trick.

You shouldn't need it.

If that sauce is good, it don't need sugar.

Yes.

That's the first meat.

When we're buying pasta sauce, that's what we look at.

How much sugar is in it, or added to it, and the less the better, because that's supposed to be acidic.

I will also admit, I've been trying to work out my sugar intake, so this is part of the reason why.

Oh, there you go.

I realized a couple of years ago that I am taking in way too much sugar.

I really need to come back on that.

This was like a doctor tell me or anything like that.

This is just again.

Realization.

I've had a light bulb moment.

All of the food I'm taking in contains sugar.

Oh, dear.

Yeah, almost literally at the time.

Almost everything I was digesting, whether it was a liquid or what have you.

I was taking in some kind of this like three or four years ago.

So I've been working on this for a while.

Don't ask me in my progress.

Oh, moving on.

Moving on.

Moving on.

Or his kidneys.

Don't ask them either.

Would you try this?

If you want one, they only make it about a thousand boxes of this pleats of flavor and cereal.

Yes.

And maybe they could bury them with the ET game and, you know, clear Pepsi.

There's like one landfill where all this stuff goes to.

Come on, clear Pepsi was great.

What, Crystal?

Pepsi?

What?

I loved it.

I thought it was cool.

Well, on SNL's 50th anniversary when they came out with the clear Pepsi thing was big.

They had clear gravy.

Oh, yes.

That's hilarious.

That sticks in my brain.

God, that's a fun one.

It was so weird looking.

I don't know how they did it, but it worked well, yeah.

Gelatin.

Yeah, it must have been.

Oh, yeah, maybe, yeah.

We'll take a time out.

We will come back with the El Café birthday anniversary club right here on the morning show.

You heard the boys, it's time for the celebrating time.

For the El Café birthday and anniversary club, we encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful poor Edwards.

Wish them a great day from all of us at WFHR.

Be sure to check out their Facebook page, everybody.

They go above and beyond with this page.

They're doing a great job.

They encourage you to check that out, check that out.

Yes, and follow them along with all the great things they're doing.

Got some wonderful specials over there.

Want to check out as well?

Every day.

Every day, got something new.

And their pies.

I mean, how did you not mention their pies, Seth?

I know, that was bad.

So the fundraiser we had on Sunday, one of the silent auction items was pies from El Café.

And we raised a good amount from that one, not surprisingly.

Lori's pies are amazing.

And I like that they highlighted their craniple nut.

Yeah, that sounds good.

Yeah, that sounds really good.

Craniple nut.

I like that.

I like that.

That's great.

Very nice.

Find out more about that amazing menu and the wonderful people over at El Café by local support, local support.

Those that support our community.

Head down over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful poor Edwards.

Wish them a good one from us.

And 16 kinds of pie.

New one.

I didn't realize that.

That's awesome.

Well, I counted quickly.

I could be off by, you know, one or five.

One or two, yeah.

That's all right.

I've never had any of these, uh, death by chocolate things.

I like them.

Not like a muffin, a pie, anything like that.

I'm dying to try that.

I'm dying to try.

I literally dying to try to die by chocolate.

To die by chocolate.

I wish.

I wish I did that on purpose.

I wish I could say.

Comedically, I mentioned it.

No, didn't mean to do that.

Uh, we, and, uh, we are very excited too, because we are in the works of, uh,

doing, uh, a live broadcast from there.

Yes.

Uh, we are working on that.

Ashley and, uh, the rest of us are working really hard on that one.

Um, there, it's just a matter of scheduling.

Like, there's, there's no necessarily hold up, because we even got space over there for us

and everything, which is really nice.

Carl and I did a remote.

I think it was the last remote we did together from Quick Trip.

And they, and we love the people in Quick Trip.

Great, great people over there.

Uh, treated us really good.

However, they didn't know where to put us.

Yes.

We really had a table right next to the front door.

Oh, my.

So every time the door opened, it hit.

And while I'm like, like, imagine, we're trying to do the birthday anniversary club,

and we've got people coming up to us wanting, like, shirts.

I like to, like, no care whatsoever that we're on.

Yeah.

Not, I had never.

Probably they didn't know.

I, I've done, uh, at least, if somebody told me I've done two, five hundred remotes

or something like that, it wouldn't be surprised.

Never had that happen before.

Yeah.

Like, it was, it was, it was.

That's crazy.

We have to go with it.

Uh, our audience dead.

And we love our audience.

And we love when you guys participate in the birthday and anniversary club.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

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Yep.

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Join the conversation, everybody.

We'd love to hear from you.

Um, Melissa, you are done for the week with us here on the morning show at least.

Uh, wait, you can have the rest of the week off.

All right.

I wish I could say that to her.

I really wish I could.

They have a great rest of your week, Melissa.

But, uh, wait, I saw it going to make you work this morning a little bit.

Uh, one or two.

Let's see, uh, one.

All right.

There we go.

Got our qualifier and we write, right away, we'll wish happy birthday to Joshua Warner.

Happy birthday, Joshua.

Happy birthday, Josh.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's good one for you.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Molly Hettner.

Happy birthday, Molly.

Happy birthday, Molly.

Enjoy the day, Molly.

Wishing you a good one.

Uh, enjoy.

And thank you to whoever got us these birthdays and anniversaries.

We appreciate you doing that, everybody.

Indeed.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Karina, uh, Karina Bailey Ray is 46 today.

Uh, British singer, songwriter.

Uh, biggest hit.

Put your records on.

Great song.

Remember that one.

I have to let's do it again.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Great Saturday morning song.

Yeah.

Great.

Like, unless you have to work like a lot of them.

Yeah.

It's just the off song.

There you go.

It's a very good day off song.

Yes.

Yes.

Um, one of the, uh, better singer songwriters of our era of our generation, Erica Badu is 54 today.

Hmm.

What a voice.

Oh, my God.

Uh, her, uh, MTV unplugged is one of my favorites.

Like her up there, a couple of jazz artists, like, you know, just really, really powerful singer.

Really, really good lyricist, too.

Yes, she is.

Uh, did some great work with the roots also.

And, uh, and she's got, her own music is very eclectic.

Yeah.

She pulls.

This is her style.

Yes.

She pulls from all styles.

It's really cool.

Um, I, I think she's got a lot of good, a lot of great songs, uh, that I really, really love and listen to a lot in high school.

But Ananon is probably more famous.

And maybe her, uh, her best musically as far as like if we're trying to give people an example of what we're talking about here.

Uh, great hair, too.

Great.

Amazing hair.

Fantastic.

Uh, and I bring that up in part, uh, because we do, we got four or five great singers in a row here.

Whoa.

Uh, starting with Karina and Erica and, uh, also great hair and a good singer.

Michael Bolton is 72.

72.

Wow.

I'll admit, I'll admit, I was never a Michael Bolton guy and, uh, I was one of these kids that used to watch award shows a lot.

And I watched the Grammys when he won for man, when a man loves a woman and he went up there.

And he was very gracious and had a nice speech and did, uh, I've never heard if he forgot or he knew he was just nervous or what it was.

But he did not think Percy Sledge did not make all the man who made the song famous, right?

The man who made the song famous never even came like, he was up there for like five minutes.

See, I'm sure it's on YouTube or whatever nowadays.

He was going, look it up.

He thanked everybody.

Like, that's just an agent and a manager, but like his third grade teacher, like he was naming everybody and didn't think the guy who made the song famous.

And I'm sorry, sing it way better way better.

Michael Bolton's version is nice if you're singing an elevator.

Um, if you actually want to hear when a man loves a woman, that's the way it's Percy Sledge.

That's the way.

In fact, I've heard other versions other than Michael and other people did a really good singer singers I like.

No, no, it's Percy Sledge and that's it.

That's the one.

If you're going to spend three minutes on that song, spend it the right way.

Right.

But the thing to me about Michael Bolton, they really won me over about him as a person.

I'm still not listening to his music. I'll be honest, teach their own.

Um, but with him, his self-deprecation and him kind of making fun of himself.

Right.

And doing a lot of, he's done like two songs with Andy Sandberg and the lonely island guys.

Right.

I admire that.

Anybody that can take a joke.

Anybody, if you can't take it, make fun of yourself, then you aren't getting the joke.

Then you're missing the punchline.

We all can be made fun of.

Yeah.

And I admire that about him.

And there's no denying his, his pipes.

I mean, he's got an amazingly, um, um, emotive voice.

I just wish his materially better.

Yeah.

Not a fan of that.

Yeah.

Completely understand, uh, in respect to his town.

Yeah.

Very powerful singer, as far as, as far as that genre and that style of singing.

Yeah.

Um, and then some people no longer with us.

And we got a couple of more singers to mention, uh, Johnny Cash.

Born in the state in 1932, passed away in 2003.

We celebrated him on the sunrise show.

I did something I've never done before over there.

Went back to my classic rock days and we did a double shot.

Yes.

Um, perfect.

I couldn't decide.

I've been, since this week and I've been trying to figure out, okay, which song was I going to play?

Man in black or ring of fire.

Um, and I couldn't decide.

So I played them both.

Perfect.

Perfect.

I did it back to back.

I did, I didn't grow up with country music.

I didn't know a lot of it or any of it in any, to be honest or anything like that.

I knew of country artists because of like urban cowboy and movies like that and stuff.

But growing up where I did didn't hear a lot of it.

Yeah.

But, uh, I can tell you how many times I made the trip between Illinois and Wisconsin.

Like, I literally can't tell you.

I have no idea how many times we did that.

But my papa, who was an old semi-driver,

would listen to the CB most of the time.

And then on the way back, he'd play a couple of tapes.

Because I'm old.

And he had a Sinatra's greatest hits and Dino's greatest hits.

And he had a Patsy Klein tape of greatest hits.

A Johnny Cash greatest hits tape.

Okay.

Um, that a truck friend of his had given him and he loved, he liked.

And I didn't know Johnny Cash was country or anything like that.

I just knew that as soon as I heard that man sing,

I was going to listen to him the rest of my life.

Wow.

And then when I heard his lyrics, and I'm like eight, seven, eight years old or whatever,

I heard somebody who, honestly, it felt like,

well, this is, um, this is what I love about hip hop.

This is what I love about rap.

This guy's singing about stuff that I can relate to.

This guy's singing about that.

I had no idea he was singing what he was singing about necessarily.

I just knew that some of this, the words he was singing was very relatable to me as a poor kid.

And I had no idea that I would go where he would do with his career and all these things.

But I, I have been very influenced by Mr. Cash.

And, uh, him, the kind of person he was.

And I, uh, I think of him.

I know that he's considered outlawed country, that he's got some of these other things and everything.

To me, that's an American musician.

Yeah.

And you can't tell the story of American music without Johnny Cash.

Yeah.

And trying to pigeonhole him to any one thing you can't.

I know he was with the outlaw guys, but he had his own style.

He had his own thing.

It was a singular Johnny Cash.

That's what it was.

All this bro country stuff and all these artists that think they're tough or throwing chairs or, or, or any of these kind of things.

This man did a live album from Folsom Prison.

Yeah.

Who's doing that?

Snoop Dogg ain't even doing that.

He also did it from San, San Quentin too.

I mean, to like the roughest prisons in the, the country.

You will never, never see another artist like Johnny Cash.

No, unfortunately.

And maybe fortunately in some ways.

His, his, all of this.

And then he had a whole second act.

He like second, third, fourth acts.

I'm telling you.

Yeah.

That's really amazing career.

At the end of his career, doing the covers and the way he did hurt and everything.

We're Trent Rezner, who wrote the song, said, that's his song now.

Like that's his.

I believe he doesn't even perform hurt anymore because of that.

Wow.

And all this being said too, one quick note.

Johnny Cash is the only person I know of at least that is in the rock and roll hall of fame,

the country music hall of fame and the gospel hall of fame.

I believe he's also in the songwriter's hall of fame.

Yes, that's right.

He is.

Yeah.

Like man.

He had a decent movie career too.

Yeah.

He had a TV show in the late 60s.

His writing show.

He had a variety show.

Yeah.

Him and Dylan playing together on a variety show, which brought a lot of the country together and stuff.

Like man, we could use more Johnny Cash.

And Fats Domino, born on this day, 1928, Pesto in 2017.

Of course, Blueberry Hill, his most famous song, but a lot of good song for Fats.

And underrated, underappreciated piano player.

One of the originators of rock and roll.

It's this.

He's the one of the big three that helped create the genre of music.

Him, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard.

Those were the three that created rock and roll.

Well said.

And another one of my favorite people in favorite biggest influences.

Jackie Gleason, born on this day in 1916.

Ralph Cramden, from the Honeymooners.

Sheriff Buferti, Justice Smoky in the Bandit movies.

Was in the toy with Richard Pryor in that.

These are all great performances.

These are all things that I loved.

And a big reason why I watched Johnny.

And for everything I could catch up to Jackie Gleason, I would take.

I would take him.

As a young kid.

And my Papa's showing me the Jackie Gleason show.

Where it was a live show.

That they decided for some reason to start the opening sketch.

Was an ice skating sketch.

And it's the first episode.

And it's live TV.

And there's tons of money and expectations on this show.

And Jackie Gleason breaks his leg in the opening sketch.

And did the whole show.

And literally nobody knew until the end of the show.

When he's falling, he's down on his back in his dressing room with a drink.

That's it.

He's a terrible pain, yes.

An incredible performer that is, I think, one of the shining examples of.

Oh, here's a guy that never got enough opportunities to do some real work.

Watch the hustler.

No, that's where I was going, man.

That's the movie.

All this stuff is great.

I loved him as Ralph Cramden.

I still watch some Honeymooners episodes.

I'm not every once in a while.

I still watch an old episode.

There's certain things of his career I love.

And I look back at it and I look at very finally the movie did with Tom Hanks.

Nothing in common.

Another great example of his great acting ability.

And part of the reason Tom Hanks will tell you he got to the caliber he did was working with Jackie Gleason.

But it's the hustler for me.

That's the movie.

That's the performance.

Yeah, Minnesota Fats.

In fact, the actual trick shot artist, Minnesota Fats, took his name from Jackie Gleason's character.

From that movie.

It is amazing.

I mean, you're not expecting it.

I mean, yeah, Paul Newman.

You're expecting greatness from Paul Newman, right?

But you are not expecting the nuanced performance that Jackie Gleason gives in that.

It's amazing.

Paul Newman is by far and away one of the greatest artists I'll ever see.

There's not a line I ever saw Paul Newman do that was bad.

I love Paul Newman's work.

Jackie Gleason runs circles around him in that movie at certain points.

There are certain scenes that Newman does too.

But there's other scenes where Newman steps back and Jackie just does his thing.

It's such a good movie.

It is.

If you were only going to watch one thing of Jackie Gleason's, I would recommend that.

And the great Tony Randall born in this day too in 1920.

Felix Unger, the original odd couple.

It's such a delicate but strong performer.

Yes.

So good at what he did.

He was so good at what he did.

I love him.

He was in the 50s with, or the 60s with Rock Hudson and Dorstay.

He ended up in all of those movies.

He was on radio too early in his career as well.

Good actor.

Dr. John Kellogg born in this day in 1852.

A man who invented court flakes.

Yep.

And some other stuff.

And some other weird things.

He had some ideas.

There's some ideas.

There's a biopic I'll wait to see, babe.

And another one.

Levi Strauss born in this day in 1829.

Two great inventors born in this year.

Along with all these great singers.

A couple of great actors.

So they say it's the February everybody.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To Molly and Joshua.

Happy birthdays to you guys.

Happy birthday guys.

Happy birthday.

Get inventing.

Get inventing.

Apparently, we're singing.

We're singing.

Yeah, it's a high bar for them.

We encourage you to celebrate.

As long as it's not pizza cereal.

Yes.

Nice.

We encourage you to celebrate with our friends over at El Café.

They're at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

We will be back after our news.

Sports and partner break here on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa Seth and James here with you.

Thanks for joining us everybody.

Hope your Wednesday is treating you good.

Happy hump day everybody.

Yes.

We're going to be joined by our friends for a quality plus printing

with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday in any moment now.

Looking forward to that.

We'll get into it.

We're also going to get into a couple of things we'll fill too.

We're going to have some decisions made on the air here.

We're going to figure some things out together.

Big stuff.

We did want to touch on this story though.

America is no longer in her Joanne Fabrics era.

Oh no.

Joanne has been struggling in a major way recently and now they're throwing in the towel.

Joanne described it's a second bankruptcy earlier this year.

And they tried to find a buyer to keep some of the 800 locations open.

But it didn't work out so they've launched a nationwide going out of business liquidation.

It's unclear how long the remaining stores will be open.

Joanne Fabrics started 82 years ago in 1943 in Cleveland Fabric Shop.

It was the Cleveland Fabric Shop in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wow.

Company expanded to became Joanne Fabrics back in 1963.

Company was started by three families of German immigrants.

And Joanne was created by a combination of the names of the daughters from two of the families.

Joanne and Jacqueline Ann.

Oh wow.

I did not know that.

That's interesting.

It's noteworthy and this happens all the time in business.

Businesses come and go and things evolve and everything.

But I think there's a couple of strong notes from this.

One amount of time this store was around.

And the part of the immigrants, this being started by German immigrants.

A lot of stories of like that.

Those three German immigrants came to this country along with their families.

And they started a business that lasted 82 years.

Anybody want to take a guess how many American jobs that created?

800 stores.

800 stores.

That's a lot of jobs.

That's a lot of jobs.

And how many of those jobs were, how many of those paid taxes and put it into their communities, into their states, into this country?

And made it better.

Made it better.

And we're a huge part of the economy.

That is a story right there.

Yes.

And that is noteworthy.

And I feel for all the fans of Joanne Faber isn't everything.

Shocked the audience here.

I never was in the Joanne Faber's audience.

Not much to make in your own clothes.

Okay.

It's the betterment of society.

Like society doesn't need it.

Boys, James could make his own clothes.

I wonder what that would look like.

Wow.

A lot of patchwork.

A lot of stuff.

And like some weird like street like hippie kind of thing.

Oh, I'm sure it would be one of a kind.

I guarantee you this, whatever I would do, it would be out of fashion the moment I put it off.

It would be out of date like by ten.

And you're no longer cool.

We know who is cool.

We have them join us every Wednesday with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

Our cool friends over quality plus printing.

Fill in the game joining us right now.

How you doing, man?

Hey, drop me on.

Make me some slap pants in the sweatshirts.

Well, I was looking for a segue into making my own clothes and combining you guys.

At least I can make my own t-shirts.

Yes, that's right.

There you go.

Yeah, whatever you make, we could put something in a decal on or something to make it a little,

even more or less cool, I guess.

I don't know.

You guys do an amazing job with the custom, customizing of things.

And I do want to touch on that because I last week was able to down my awesome shirt from Phil and the team over there.

WAM incorporated with my what the what on the back.

I've now got my mother saying that.

It's just fun.

I was just reading the back of your shirt.

Yeah, it's hilarious.

But Phil, how are things going with WAM incorporated with quality plus printing?

Oh, both doing well.

Yeah, no, having a really busy week.

So the orders have been really checking up again, which I anticipated coming in.

Yeah, I know it's been going good.

We get some orders in today from Wood County Health Department.

We do a lot of work with them and brochures and madniks and stickers and stuff that they put out to remind people.

You know, on certain dates, they have coming up with people's health out.

So we've been working with that.

Wisconsin State cranberry.

Oh, we do a lot of work with cranberry board here in Wisconsin doing prep materials for them too.

So yeah, same busy after sure.

Right on.

Right on.

Very good to hear.

Very cool.

Well, what about as far as WAM incorporated when I was mentioning there with these?

You know, we don't want to say swear shirts, but say you're on national TV and you stub your toe.

What do you got to say?

What is your favorite kind of go-to word there?

Things like that.

Keep that in mind with our friends over WAM corporate and the course quality plus printing.

They can have some fun with that.

We know that as we're getting closer to spring here, we got a lot of family unions and things like that.

Graduations, all those kind of things.

It's never too early to plan for that stuff and to get ahead of it and to reach out to quality plus printing for all your printing needs.

Yes.

It's cool part is that we can, I mean, we can do up hundreds of shirts really, but it's fun.

We get a lot of orders from one to two or ten, like you're talking about with a family reunion or where we can personalize.

Sure.

So we just had one of our favorite people over here, Colton Kissinger, going like on a hunting trip and they put some shirts together for the guys.

That were, you know, I had a little inside joke and I'm sure.

I love it.

But we can do shirts like that too, you know?

Yeah.

It's hard to find unique clothing these days.

Yeah, exactly.

Good that Phil can provide that.

It's kind of a unique thing, but UWSP cheerleading team is traveling into a competition later in March and they're going to an area that's probably a little warmer in here.

So they needed towels and doing towels with a big UWSP cheerleading logo on them.

Wow.

Very cool.

I didn't know you did towels, Phil.

Yeah.

That's cool.

I got to talk to you about that monoram.

Well, because I was just going to say how soft the t-shirt was.

I couldn't get over that stuff.

That t-shirt was the material you guys are using is great.

I imagine the towels are just as soft like that's awesome.

Absolutely.

We made kind of a personal thing, but we can also do blankets with pictures on them, you know?

Wow.

I couldn't believe how soft they are.

And my brother passed away right before Christmas.

I mean, we've all blessed you Jim.

But I was able to put together a blanket with pictures of his family before it passed away that I brought out to him.

And you know that he had with him, you know?

Very cool.

Very nice.

Very nice.

And it's beautiful.

And I had her, of course, worked with William a lot of doing a lot of the putting together of those things that she did.

So the tremendous drop putting together these blankets, which are amazing.

And they look great.

That's really cool.

Thank you for sharing that for one Phil.

Yeah.

I feel for you and your family.

And I think it's a beautiful thing that you guys did.

That's really cool.

It's had to feel even, I'm just extra good being able to create it yourself and work on it yourself at your own business and everything.

That's really cool.

That's a really cool, that's a powerful story, man.

Thank you for sharing that.

Oh no.

And also giving me the idea for Christmas of what I'm getting Seth in Melissa.

Oh no.

Oh, here we go.

Just a blanket of my face.

Just a big blanket.

Oh no.

With my old hair.

With my old hair, just a big hair.

Just half the blanket is just my hair.

It's just the man's face and the paint.

And when I hang that on my wall, James, you're going to really, really wonder about that decision.

When did Melissa get in the darts?

When did she even know she played darts?

I didn't even know.

Phil, what is our Wicked Aussie Word of Wednesday?

Look it off the word.