…Who Asked For This? (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Let's kick it off with WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

I am joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning.

And one of our newest team members and our sound engineer, producer, met where of many

hats and looks good in all hats.

Laura is with us.

Hi.

Hey, Laura.

Hey, Seth.

Hey, everybody.

Thanks for being here.

We got the best listeners in radio with us.

We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brent.

Good morning.

How are you guys doing?

We're doing good.

We're really, we like to talk to you, Brittany, to check up on weather, get the most informative

and fun weather you can get.

And that is from Brittany Merlot.

But we also wanted to check in on you with the snow going away and everything.

You doing all right, Brittany?

You're doing good.

How you doing?

Not really, honestly.

Thank you for checking in on me.

I'm a little sad.

I mean, all of my fun, my outdoor rag, you know, what kind of keeps me sane through it

all is gone.

Feel for you too.

Feel for you.

Feel for you.

But how about that sunshine, huh?

Hmm.

Where is it?

I mean, more of it.

Give me that vitamin D.

Give me that.

Seriously, well, we do have more on the weekend, but the weekend is going to be colder, more

Brittany temperature is below freezing on Saturday, and then flirting with the freezing

mark on Sunday.

So a beautiful weekend, just a little cooler.

But before we get to the weekend, we have to battle the wind.

The wind is going to become a problem.

It's going to start to whip today up to 30 miles per hour.

And then by tomorrow, we're going to see gusts pushing over 40 miles per hour, so it's

going to get very breezy.

We could see some hour outages out there.

Your hair is going to be messed up, ladies.

Don't even do it the next two days.

Only tailless.

Only tailless.

Yeah, the room we're at.

My hair.

I won't really have a hair.

Otherwise, though, we're just looking at some spotty sprinkles possible this afternoon.

We could see a few flurries late, and that becomes the case tomorrow, too.

That's when that cold front moves through.

It's why we're getting so windy, and then the big shift in temperature.

So highs today of about 40 degrees will flirt with 50 tomorrow, and then that cold front

moves through, and we could see some sprinkles out ahead of it, and some slight snow behind

it.

But nothing that's going to accumulate to really cause any problems.

So just a little pesky precipitation, and winds the next two days, and then a beautiful

calm, but cooler weekend ahead.

All right, bad, not bad.

Brittany Temperatures is great.

We need to use that more of all of that.

The Brittany scale.

I like that.

We have that.

I like that.

We're working with you, Brittany, and you joining us.

We'll hang out tomorrow and get people ready for the weekend.

Don't forget to have a great day.

You too.

You too.

Best in the business, our friend, Brittany, we're over there.

We got good things on the way.

The El Café, birthday, and anniversary club is right around the corner.

We're also going to get into cars with the fewest issues and the ones with the most.

We got that one coming up for you.

In the top 10 countries, we'd move to if we decided to live abroad.

All fun stuff.

We'll kick off the entertainment news with a news that you may have heard already in

CBS.

We're going to be talking about Gene Hackman and his career.

We'll get into that.

We have someone bought a piece of George Harrison's toast.

It is National Toast Day.

This just feels like it is perfect to talk about.

That toast must be so stale.

The sequels and franchise movies that are coming up this year that we'll be touching

on that.

All that coming up.

We got coming up in the 9 o'clock hour.

What was the biggest flop that was hyped as the next big thing?

Okay.

We love it.

It'd be a fun one.

I actually have been saving that one for you Seth.

That should be awesome.

Awesome.

Of course, it's a Thursday in the 9 o'clock hour.

We will kick things off with our good friends from the South O'Connie main society in our

pet of the week.

Very nice.

Looking forward to Denise joining us in a little bit.

We got a story from Melissa.

This is how much Melissa works.

Even what she ain't here for a show.

She said to be something great topic for a show.

We'll be getting into that in a moment.

But first, a New York Zoo offered a sneak preview of some of the artwork that will be

available at its upcoming gala auction.

Creations by...

I'm sorry.

I didn't do that right.

Creations by animals, including penguins, giraffes, sloths, capaperos, and all those.

The animal adventure park and preserve is in Harpsville.

They announced this dream big gala.

It's a night out on the town scheduled for March 15.

It'll feature a silent auction for works of art created by several of the species that

called the zoo home.

I love this so much.

Really?

Animal-created art.

Oh, interesting.

I never get tired of these stories.

Did all the animals paint brushes?

Yes.

Zookeepers said that they use various methods to encourage the animals to paint as a fun enrichment

activity.

Keeps the animal's minds occupied, keeps them happy.

They enjoy doing this.

The zoo offers some sneak peeks on social media, sharing photos of animals, including penguins,

capaperos, sloths, and giraffes, painting.

Now I have seen a penguin paint.

Wow.

I got to do this in Galveston.

No.

Somewhere outside of Galveston, there's a great aquatic zoo right there.

And I got to go there once and we got to go inside and it's this thing that they do at

the zoo where you can go in and see this penguin and meet it and pet the penguin.

And then at the end of it, the penguin they put paint on the bottom of its feet and it

just walks on a little piece of cardboard and whatever comes up with it, then they do

a little Q&A and they quiz you kind of about the things that they just taught you.

And if you get it right, you get the painting.

That's cool.

Wow.

I went into this as a birthday gift from somebody and they did not do any homework.

They just, we were happy to be in Texas and they were like, okay, this would be perfect

for you.

We go and do this and there's like, I, they're, I can't express.

There is nothing but parents and their kids in there.

And then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and, and, and I had a moment there where

they tell us all of this beforehand and then at the end, we're quizzed.

And okay, James, how are you going to handle this as a man?

Are you going to just set back and let these kids have this moment and maybe get this

painting?

Are you going to take advantage of one moment in your life that you're around a penguin?

And I am not ashamed to admit that I take, I took that painting home, I wish to God,

I still had it, but I took that painting home.

I am not ashamed of that whatsoever, but it was, it was so cool to first pet the penguin,

a little more oily than I expected, but much softer than I expected as well.

And I was so cool to see them do this and that's where I learned where not just them,

but the giraffes and everything.

They have tried a lot of different experiments as far as like literally like you were saying

Laura, putting a toothbrush or putting a toothbrush in like the giraffes mouth and that

kind of thing.

But most of this is done with the hubs as an expected stuff.

Right.

Yeah, elephants though.

Elephants use their trunk and paint all the time.

There are a lot of zoos that do that and there's a lot of places that like sell that art

art.

Oh, great stuff.

Yeah.

To that point, animal art aficionados are becoming a bigger thing, more and more.

And, you know, with, there's one little side story here and I know this isn't going

to save us much and everything.

But when you're fierce about AI and some of these things, I don't think AI can do this.

I don't think I'm going to worry about that part.

No.

And would you, because to me, if I, I wish I still had, I'm not kidding, I really wish

I still had that painting.

I'd have it up on my wall right now.

If you had some art like this, would you put it up?

Would you, would you, would you put it in your living room and everything?

Yeah.

Any art in my living room, the standards are strange.

Yes.

I would hang that art.

Great conversation piece too.

That's all I have.

The, the, the, the, the, the thing to me that stands out with this and, and I, I want

to make very clear here.

There are a few things in the artistic kingdom that I respect more than artists.

I, it's a, I can't draw a stick figure.

So I really do admire artists and the great painters and I have a couple of paintings that

I just really enjoy.

I look at all the time, um, but they're copies.

They're not actually right there, but, but, um, I, this is a whole new level to art for

me.

I actually really like it.

I admit, I think it's kind of cool.

Well, and, and I love the idea of it being a fundraiser to continue to take care of those

animals.

It's great.

I mean, those animals aren't going anywhere.

They can't be released, so they need to be cared for.

And you don't have to pay them.

Oh, wait.

That was very cynical.

I'm sorry.

There we go with the AI thing, too.

Like, is this, is this how we make that bridge, we replace human artists with animal artists

because you don't have to pay them, just pay them in treats.

That's right.

It is.

It is a lot cheaper.

It is a lot cheaper.

It's not.

Haring for an animal's expensive as heck.

I wonder if we could pitch this to our friends over at the zoo right now, you know, Stone

Strollway.

Oh, my gosh.

That would be so cool.

They did some kangaroo art.

Something like that.

Oh, man.

A bunch of great animals over there.

You never know.

I would frame some sedonc art.

I will say to anybody out there listening, and I think we have an incredibly smart audience,

but we have to be careful with these things.

If you are looking at your dog right now and thinking, hey, we could have, we could make

some money here.

Like, I'm going to, they are, they're a special paint.

There are certain paints that they use for these animals.

You can't just throw any paint out there.

They're to do your homework.

Your wall acrylic is not going to work.

I might look into it for my rabbit, though.

I'm going to be total real with you.

That might be pretty good.

And, um, um, um, um, um, it doesn't have an amazing job with our news and, uh, having

fun with us here at the station.

And I want to count, uh, let me just make sure here the 25,000 other things she does around

here.

Um, but, uh, another thing she just sends me content every once in a while.

It's some good stories.

And, uh, there's, there's sometimes where it's something that I have seen.

And it's just kind of another side to that story.

And then every once in a while, she just like hits me over the head with something that

I did not see coming, but I should have.

It's my, it's either my wheelhouse or something I pay a lot of attention to it.

It just speaks to how much information and how busy we get, uh, cause this is one I

normally would know about, but now something over and thank you, Mel, appreciate you.

Uh, a very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies tomorrow evening, February 28th,

all seven of our planets in the solar system will appear in the night sky at the same time.

Oh, that's so cool.

Saturn, Mercury, talking Neptune, Venice, Uranus, where you at Jupiter, Mars, all the

lighting up in a neat row, just like we asked them to.

Yes.

A magnificence sky feast for your eyes known as the great planetary alignment.

Yes.

That's so cool.

Will we be able to see it with the naked eye or do we need telescopic devices from what

I could tell a telescope is probably going to be necessary, but the distance, the most

distant planets.

Yeah.

We'll probably still see Venus and Mars.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Uh, these alignments aren't the near, uh, neat planetary, uh, co cues, do you see in diagrams

and illustrations, of course, don't be expecting that, but that's, uh, but that's not something

that happens anyway.

No.

Um, yet the planets do appear to arrange themselves along in a imaginary line.

That's very cool.

So cool.

And that's, that's not just coincidence, of course, the, the, the atmosphere of these planets

and the way that they move everything.

We can't be too close to each other.

Um, the, yeah, it wouldn't work that way.

Nope.

They got it.

Um, you know, the school dance, you know, we got to keep a certain distance apart, gotta

keep a certain distance.

Well, there's a, there's a reason the planets are where they are.

Weird.

Yeah.

It's what they're made of.

And it's what they're.

The school dance.

It's the solar system dance.

It only happens once every, you know, a couple thousand years, I just have a weird

braid.

I don't know.

This occurs because the planets of the solar system all orbit the sun on a flat plane

called the ecliptic, uh, and some of the planets have orbits titled, uh, slight, still

tilted slightly above or below this plane, but they're all more or less on the same level

like grooves on a record, thanks to the way stars like our sun form.

Cool.

Yep.

And the way the planets bump into each other when they're, yeah, the materials that swirl

together.

Yep.

How to watch whether you will be able to see the alignments at what time the planets

rise and set in which order depends on where you are in the world you're viewing from.

There are tools that can access these, uh, time in sky locations, time and date, uh,

that has an interactive tool that allows you to set, uh, the date you want to view so

you can like view it online.

It's, uh, it is, it is literally time and date.com, time and date.com, very good.

That one tells you right there, uh, uh, uh, very well, uh, and, and really good description

of a very nice website.

Actually, I have to admit, I didn't know about this website, I hadn't seen that before.

Um, that one helps you out with that, uh, and can align, um, uh, Stellarium, Stellarium

has a similar website tool and sky tonight, sky tonight, which is again, all one word sky

tonight.com, uh, these are great ways to be able to find this because, yeah, you will

need some binoculars or a telescope to see the planets and all their glory.

So if you haven't already, start planning now, um, and, uh, there isn't, and again, as

far as the time you're going to have to look to where you are in the world, um, I, I do

want to say a good morning to some of our East Coast listeners.

I know you guys are listening because you wanted to hear us talk about something coming

up.

Um, but, uh, we do shout you out, we do appreciate you.

And, and thank you again, Melissa said in this one over, very cool.

I'll include those links in the show notes.

Thank you, Mel.

Uh, Laura.

And the science alert.com.

That's where you can go for all this, uh, science alert.com for this great article.

Fantastic.

Science alert.

Uh, I see a siren in a red light flashing science alert, science alert, science.

We will come back with the L cafe birthday and anniversary club.

We're doing some celebrating when we get back on the morning show at WFHR.

You heard, Mr. Laban, it's time for the birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day we celebrate you and our great friends over at L Cafe.

Something about to ran to ran in the morning.

I don't know.

Oh, man.

What it is.

I'm hungry like the wool for some Rio.

I'm going to be playing in my head all morning.

There you go.

We appreciate our great friends over at L Cafe.

Visit them today at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

They wish everyone a happy Thursday.

Got some great specials over there.

Uh, if your bellies are hungry or you just want chili with a hot cup of coffee, L Cafe

is the place to be.

They're open seven to two today.

And, uh, if that sounded really good to you, not only does it sound good, tastes really

good.

Get on over to L Cafe and check out their Facebook page because I just read it.

I read that right from their Facebook page.

You did?

Yep.

They have all the info you need right there.

It's all there for you.

Also, great way to keep up the date and the cool things they are doing and like they're

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You just never know who might see them otherwise.

Support our good friends over at L Cafe and get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody we love.

Celebrate with you.

We do.

You can email us info at wfhr.com.

Feel free to do that.

Of course, you can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

We'd love to hear from you that way.

And you can call up seven one five.

Four two four twenty six hundred, the number to call.

Lisa, your time-life operator is standing by now.

That was good.

That was good.

That was good.

Boy, you think it's still you, somebody like that, that, that, that, that, that, they might

have something there.

Did they have just the one, this Lisa?

Yes.

Yes.

She was so overworked.

Yeah.

I hope she's retired now.

I hope she's just right.

Yeah.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries and thank you to everybody who already has because

we got two on the list today.

Laura, give me a one or two.

All right.

Give us that qualifier and get right into it.

And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Julie Spice.

Happy birthday, Julie.

Happy birthday, Julie.

Enjoy your day, Julie.

Hope it's a great one.

That's a new name for us.

We haven't, I don't believe we've had Julie on the list.

That's cool.

That's fantastic.

We appreciate that.

Thank you.

Do you ever got us that name?

Julie, you have an awesome name.

Julie Spice.

That's a great name.

That's pretty cool, man.

That's a good one.

And our qualifiers celebrating their silver anniversary, their 25th anniversary, Joshua

and Shana Kreitzner.

Oh, congratulations.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Have many happy returns.

Joshua and Shana wishing you a great one in Julia anniversary and hope it's extra

better because you are qualifiers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bragged to as many people as you can that you are qualifiers.

Go around doing it.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Kate Marra is 42 today.

Wow, she's 42.

Wow.

Zoe Barnes on House of Cards.

She was Sue Storm in the Fantastic Four reboot.

She and her sister, Rooney, are the NFL royalty, their dads is the Marra's who found

it and found it and still own the New York Giants and their mom's family is the Rooney's

who found it and still own the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Right.

Sorry.

They are there.

They're careers doing much better than the New York Giants.

Let's put it that way.

We're better than the Giants.

Rooney Marra is amazing.

Kate's very good, but Rooney, who, that woman can act.

But I didn't realize they were in their 30s, like 30s, 40s and stuff.

Yeah.

Enough there, apparently.

Josh Groban is 44.

Happy birthday, Josh Groban.

Man.

That voice.

Mm-hmm.

I'm a huge fan.

I love him.

I don't want to use this as an opportunity to like take a shot at Michael Booblie or any of

some of the modern cruners or anything like that.

But when I hear people put Josh Groban in that category, I get a little like twinge because

Josh Groban is a whole other category.

Yeah.

I don't know you can really even categorize him, especially at this point in his career.

Michael Booblie is trying to be one thing, and Josh Groban is a musical theater like legend

at this point.

He is a Broadway professional.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He could do opera.

I mean, he's got the kind of trained voice.

Yeah.

Michael Booblie could do lots of things.

He can't do opera.

He can't do opera.

Josh Groban could do opera if he wanted to.

I do want to say I like both these singers.

I don't have, I'll be honest.

I don't have any other music in my playlist, shuffle or anything like that.

But I think they're both incredible singers, and I heard them sing just different, yeah.

One of the only things I can say about like this fringe of kind of musician or this music

and everything.

If it's on, I'm not going to get upset.

I'm not going to change the channel right away.

If I'm alone, I will, I'll be honest.

But if somebody else wants to play it, I'm like, okay, this is fine.

At least these are talented people.

It's different than, you know, something.

But I just think that it's okay.

We don't have to categorize people.

Like this guy is a completely different, like, versatile talent that can do it all.

And incredibly self-deprecating.

Very self-deprecating.

It seems to be that you can't be a great male singer unless you are.

Michael Booblie, him, what's the big singer with the long hair?

He's like 18 feet tall, how is he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he

or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's

he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's he or, how's

he or he had all these bits they weren't able to do where they were making fun of him.

And and he like came up with some of the, like, help some of the lines of it.

They were cut for time.

Well but he's another one.

Like, apparently you can't be this good of a singer and be a male good singer without

having some self-deprecating.

Which is great.

That's all you're secure in your talents.

Yes.

They don't need to be.

They're like, I don't need to prove anything to anybody.

I love that.

I love them.

I love them.

You want to make fun of me for being 666?

Yes, Hozher, I would.

I would very much like to do that.

I'm sure it's not where it stops them.

Can I touch your hair?

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

I was waiting for it.

Chelsea Clinton is 45 today.

Wow.

Wow.

For my first daughter, I don't know how you would say that, but yeah, that's, I believe that

is the correct terminology.

I just realized she's a year younger than me.

Yeah.

No, wow.

Yeah.

Because we grew up, you know, basically at the same time, you know, you remember in the

90s, would you?

And we all, those of us that grew up then are just growing up in general, remember how

tough it is.

Oh my God.

It's difficult.

I mean, pimples, puberty, you know, trying to talk to the other sex or whatever or any of

these things.

It's all difficult.

It's all difficult.

Presidents, kid.

Then being the president's kid.

Like, there's few people that can relate to that.

Nope.

There's few people other than obviously, you know, the other presence, it's, it's, yeah,

right.

There's nobody that can relate to that.

And a lot of them tended to be a little bit older, you know, like they were usually

teenage.

Yeah.

Al Gore's daughters, you had, you know, like the, the Bush girls, they were a little bit

older when they were in office.

So yeah, she had it, she had it even tougher, I think.

Um, you know, Obama, the Obama's daughters, they were quite younger when they were in

the hood.

Well, and he was, he was the youngest president, wasn't he?

I think that might be a part of it.

Something of that.

Like that.

I just have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton just in general on that level and certainly

the fact that it seems like she has done a lot to try to do good and where she is and

try to put into things and do some good and not do politics, at least not, yes.

I mean, she invited the future, but yes, she seems to have been, stay away from that.

I really don't.

I think she's gone.

Uh, Tony Gonzalez is 49, one of the greatest, if not the greatest tight end in history.

He holds every NFL record for tight ends.

He retired in back in 2013 and inducted into Hall of Fame in 2019.

Yeah.

Uh, not bad.

And like, I didn't need to work at it.

But he's getting better and better at the whole commentating thing.

Uh, Rosanda, Chile, Thomas from TLC is 54.

Yeah.

No scrubs, waterfalls, creep.

So many.

I love creep.

I still hear that.

I really like TLC.

It's one of those bands that just can't, I can't shake them.

Uh, one of the better character actors, I think, Donald Lose, uh, Lose is 59 today.

Harvey Bullock, Jim Gordon's partner and Gotham TV show.

He's king of Denmark and Vikings and the star of the Tau of Steve.

Um, one of those actors, I think you see you know, uh, just a good, solid actor.

Yes.

Does a good job wherever you see him.

Uh, I enjoy his work.

I still don't know how to pronounce his last name.

I still don't know.

I went both ways just to cover my bases with you.

Uh, he was, wait, real quick, he was on a show in the late 90s called, I think grounded

for life.

Yeah.

That was actually a pretty good, uh, like, uh, a, a single camera, uh, kind of sitcom, you

know, filmed.

It wasn't on a stage.

And that was actually a pretty fun show.

That was.

Yeah.

Uh, James Worthy is 64, his goggles, 39, uh, great, great LA Laker.

Yeah.

One of the, one of the all-time great Lakers.

One of the greats.

And I never looked like an athlete to me until you saw him, like, actually an action

and like, okay, yeah, that's, that's why.

Yeah.

I believe it was on one of those North Carolina teams with Jordan as well.

One of the greater NCAA basketball teams of all time.

Yes.

I, you are correct.

Uh, let's see here, uh, oh, um, Ralph Nader turns 91 today.

Oh my goodness.

Spent his life warning people about things like hazardous, uh, things to your health.

Yeah.

Um, car safety.

That was how he made his, uh, first, uh, um, uh, uh, fame, I guess you would say.

Uh, and also, uh, you certainly ran for president.

Who was a few times part of him and everything, yeah, yeah, um, and, and, and a little

surprise, you know, at 91, he's still young enough to do it, apparently, apparently, apparently,

you know, that's not too old to run for president anymore, uh, I guess he may do it to him.

Yeah, yeah.

He's still, and he's still writing, and he's still, I mean, he's still saying very busy.

Yeah.

I'm going to be real with you.

I'd consider it.

Mm.

The great, the legend, the wonderful Joanne Woodward is 95 today.

Oh.

And that tell you how happy I am to say that.

Yes.

The three faces of Eve, uh, there are a few actor or students I have had that I have

not encouraged to watch certain movies.

This is one of them.

Um, and whether you worry, uh, I, I, I recommended this to a friend, um, who, who's a friend

now, but started out as a student and, uh, he was struggling with the darker role, and

I told him you watch this movie, watch Joanne Woodward.

He's like, but why should I watch a female actress?

Because you're an actor.

Yep.

Uh, and we had a long conversation after that.

Uh, you can learn quite a bit if you just go ahead and take that off and just watch.

And this is to male and female actors, but yeah, it is something that was kind of odd

to me.

I, I've never, for me, uh, I'm going to, uh, if you're good at this, I'm studying you

and I'm learning, and I'm a vampire trying to suck out all the information and knowledge

I can to get me great, um, uh, Joanne Woodward's one of those actors, just one of those actors

you watch their work and you learn from and you grow and you enjoy, uh, obviously Paul

Newman's widow as well and, uh, and, and, and just a, one of the better Hollywood couples

of all time.

Yep.

Uh, they just love those two.

They figured it out somehow with all the fame and all the, yep, they figured it out.

Howard Hesseman born in this day 1940, passed away not too long ago in 2022.

Johnny Fever, uh, WKRP and Simpson, yes, yes.

And of course, head of the class.

Yep.

Good, very good actor.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's some great roles of the writer.

Character stuff and throughout.

Yep.

And the legend Elizabeth Taylor born in this day in 1932, passed away in 2011.

It's unfortunate that so many, like even our generation kind of knew her as white diamonds.

Yep.

Yeah.

She had the amount of the, all the divorces and the marriages and all these things.

You go back, you watch one scene, just go ahead, go ahead and throw into your search

engine.

Let's matter what will be actress and just whatever pops up and watch it and you're

going to see one of the greatest of all time.

Yep.

I don't care what you're watching.

I don't even have to bring up a, you know, what of her great roles or anything like

that early in her career, late in her career, it doesn't matter.

Whatever, whatever goes on on the sidelines.

When the gate, when the cameras were on, Elizabeth Taylor brought you everything she had

and she's part of the reason why the phrase leave it all on the stage exists.

Yeah.

No, the movie might suck and she's still rocked.

Yeah.

Like, that's just what it is.

Yeah.

Just incredible actress.

And it's unfortunate to me that she kind of remembered for some of these other things.

And I don't know that she's really remembered for being one of the greats like she should

be.

Yeah.

Incredible.

It was incredible actress.

Again, happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody out there celebrating.

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We got our sports news and partner break.

We'll be back with more.

It's Laura Seth and James on The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Laura Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

In a little bit, we're going to get into the top 10 countries we'd move to if we decided

to live abroad.

Oh, yeah.

That one's coming up.

Cool.

Cool.

Right now, Alexa might be getting a little bit smarter, everybody.

Oh.

Amazon announced that they're rolling out a new version called Alexa Plus to a handful

of users in March.

And everyone else over the next few months, it's supposed to be more like an actual assistant.

Then they say she can do things like make dinner reservations, order groceries, book and

Uber, text people, buy stuff on Amazon, of course, and a snag concert tickets when they

hit ticket master.

She can also browse the internet and complete tasks.

One example they gave was getting an appliance fixed.

She can find a repair place, set up an appointment, and add it to her calendar all on her own.

She also remembers things like you could you could tell her your family is going coming

over for dinner and she might say, don't forget your nephew is gluten free.

She's protective in other ways too, like telling you to leave early because traffic is bad.

Amazon says it feels less like interacting with tech and more like engaging with an insightful

friend.

No.

I hate it.

No.

Prime members will get it free.

Friend.

I don't want it.

I also have to pay $20 a month.

Basically it means everyone is about to get their own virtual assistant that can do

a lot more than just turn lights off.

People with new or echo show devices will get it first.

That's Amazon smart speaker with a built-in screen echo.

I think that first off, just real quick, naming devices or naming things going forward.

I want doctors to be in charge of this.

I'm tired of everything having a regular name echo Alexa like it's just it's too much.

It's too much.

Just make up names.

The flippantly flap.

Yeah.

It's fun.

Yeah.

Have some fun with this.

Yeah.

Like some creativity.

Again, I keep on coming back to this, everybody.

The individuality and creativity that has been taken out of so many aspects of our society.

Whether we're talking sports or politics or whatever.

Even in the car game, anything, like there's no creativity anymore and these companies are

so afraid to take a chance.

You know what?

Echo sounds safe.

We'll just name it echo.

It's so lazy and uncreative and confusing, very confusing, very, very, I'm very concerned

about this.

I do not like the amount of access this Alexa seems to have to a person's things.

Like to know that your nephew is gluten, I'm sorry, what, I'm what?

I would be angry if Alexa knew what my nephew was allergic to.

I like, I don't want Alexa to buy tickets for me because what if my money is not there

right now, Alexa?

What if I was going to get it in a month, but she knows that too.

I hope not.

Like that's horrifying.

I know this is something that bugs you too, Seth.

This is something that I know.

Well, yeah, that's actually the new trend right now in AI.

It's called agents.

You know, that's the next thing they're trying to work on.

And I say trying to work on because so far, most of them don't work very well.

And I'm guessing that's going to happen with this too.

People are going to get it and are going to try to use it like they described, you know,

just like that.

And then what, right?

You know, so I don't know.

It's, it's not something I would personally do.

I don't think I would do that either because basically what Laura was touching on is that

they're using all that information you give them to sell your advertisers.

We're going to sell it to advertisers.

That's how all tech companies make their money, including Amazon.

Amazon is not necessarily, it's not a retailer.

They're a tech company and they do that.

And that's what they do.

That's what Google does.

That's what Apple does.

They all do it.

And they're all kind of looking at your information to retailers.

They are literally buying those retailers merchandise.

That's what she's doing.

Like that's what this 2.0 upgrade is saying it's doing.

What if I, what, if I wanted to switch laundry detergent brands and you just bought me a

palette of gain, Alexa.

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry.

I was buying a palette of gain.

I love that.

I mean, I'm buying palette of gain for kids.

What's the rabbit?

Come on.

I was trying my hardest to find the name of the robot from the Jetsons, Rosie.

Rosie.

Rosie the robot.

Yeah, so that's what we can find that.

Rosie, at least that's what we want.

We want a robot made.

We do not want a virtual assistant.

These are different.

Hey, remember like the original virtual assistant, Clippy?

Yeah.

Oh God.

Microsoft Word.

Clippy was great.

I would take Clippy over Alexa any day.

And very helpful.

Only when you needed it, though.

You know, you know, Clippy would pop.

Hey, you need help with this?

And you say, yes or no, you know, it's perfect.

It's interesting.

There's two things that stand out to me about this one.

I do like the idea of people having an assistant.

I do like the idea of, and not necessarily being a human being.

It being something that we're using our technology.

We have this tech.

We can use it.

Let's find smart ways to use it.

If it makes people's lives a little bit easier, a little less on their plate, that sounds

great, especially with how much is put on every individual's plate.

I like that part of it.

And I don't see a need for that, but I also see something happening here, and it's been

going up for a while.

And it's very confusing to me in some ways.

It's not on an adult level, but on a, I'm just on a basic level it is.

In society, we ask for it, we get it.

That's how business works.

The public demands it, or the, you know, we want this or something like that.

How do you raise your hands or call in 715-424-2600?

If you've been asking for a AI virtual assistant, nobody's been asking for this.

Who wanted this?

Every one of these companies, Apple, Amazon, they all got these, Gemini, CNI, Alexa, they

all have these things, and they're pushing it on us, and nobody's asking for it.

I'm not saying nobody's using it, but just because you're using it doesn't mean you

wanted it.

Or you asked for it.

It just appeared, right?

It's like, cool stuff.

It's just all of a sudden we had it.

It's like, what?

That right there, and maybe it's just my silly rebellious brain, but that right there

tells me, I don't know about that.

Right.

I don't know if I want that.

It's fair.

I come from an area where pushers, like literal pushers.

You know what it feels like when people are pushing something out, it feels like the guy

on the side of 111th that's got all the watches trying to sell to a bunch of kids.

I'm a kid.

I don't need a role.

Right.

What are you doing?

Right.

Okay.

And maybe it's just the people I hang out with, and I maybe just hang out with weird people,

but I honestly don't know anybody who's really gung ho about AI the way that they keep trying

to sell it to us.

Yeah.

I really don't.

I don't think I know anybody.

They're trying to create a market where none exists right now.

Exactly.

There isn't one for it.

You know, yeah.

Chat GPT.

It's kind of interesting.

You know, you can do something, but it doesn't do a whole lot.

No.

It really isn't.

My old Google search back and not have to go to page seven to find good stuff.

Oh, no.

That's getting into thick of it.

We don't need to get into that right now.

By the way, where's the anti-pronown crowd calling it she?

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

You can't get farther from any kind of living being than what Alexa or all these others

are.

Very true.

Why are we using like gendered pronouns for them?

That doesn't make any sense.

AI.

It's AI.

They're not even.

They don't even have a body.

Respect AI's pronouns.

You can respect my friends' pronouns.

We will take a quick commercial break.

We'll come back and we're talking about travel.

We're talking about the countries you'd move to if you decided to live abroad coming

up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Laura, Seth and James here with you.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

I hope your Thursday is going good.

Your Friday Eve is treating you well.

So I want to talk about this one, but I do want to rip a band-aid off real quick just

because we are still kind of close to the conversation of those that may have not been

happy with the current presidential election and this threat that was coming around or this

idea.

I shouldn't say threat, but this idea of, well, I'm going to take my ball and go home or

I'm going to leave and I'm going to move to another country, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

That's not what this is.

That is not what this is at all.

This has nothing to do with that.

And I think we've talked about that part of things already enough.

But what I do want is to have some fun with this one and I want to hear from you guys

out there.

You guys have been really quiet this week.

You know, you got some work?

You guys know that you're part of this show too.

Come on.

You got to interact with us.

We love you.

We love you.

We love to hear from you.

Why don't we?

Why don't we?

Any chance to do that?

I will take the rest of my life to do the one above thing.

We want to hear where you'd go, where you'd travel, where you'd live.

If you could, I cannot fathom.

I want to travel to every continent.

I would love to visit see the Seven Wonders, all these things.

There's only one place I want my home address and it's right here in the US.

All right.

I love this country.

I love being here.

I also say all this knowing there's a lot of countries out there.

I wouldn't last.

I got too big of a mouth.

There's no way I would last over though.

But I do think it's kind of a fun, you know, exercise and kind of fun.

What if question of, hey, you could live somewhere else abroad.

Where would you go?

And where do other people?

Where would they go?

So would you ever move to another country for a while?

And you know, that's another part of this for a while, they're saying 17% of Americans say

yes, 2% claim that they already have plans to move in the next five years.

Oh, cool.

Wow.

So which country would you pick?

Two thousand people were pulled and the number one answer isn't very far away.

One of them.

What?

No, that's fair.

19% said it would be their top choice.

Really?

Canada.

Do you all because it's close enough?

It's, you know, you're still by family.

You've still got stuff that you're used to having.

There's the language there and everything.

I suppose.

But wow.

I think the weirdness is this the weirdness that you have a chance to pick anywhere and

you like, oh, we'll just go up North, you know, we'll go up North, North, there,

you know, we'll see what's going on up in Canada, you know.

Yep.

People like familiarity.

I think.

I think for some people, especially if you don't know that much about Canada, all you

know is like from TV and movies and everything, you might think it's like a parallel universe

earth.

America.

America.

America.

You know, where it's just a, they're not that different than us and all these things.

In a lot of ways, that, that is true.

But there are differences and there's, you know, it's not, and look at how do you?

And if you're only looking at like the good stuff of Canada, it's like, look at their

problems too.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, so yeah, let's, let's put that out there.

When it comes to those problems, Seth, I always think about what my papa used to say when

my nano, there was, there was some kind of like snowstorm coming to Rome or whatever.

And she was like, oh, I, but there's got to be somewhere where we can move where there

is some problems.

And he's like, Anna, there's problems everywhere.

Hawaii has got tornado or, you know, her, yeah, yeah, yeah, everywhere's got something.

Every country has something as well.

Absolutely.

And the grass is always greener.

Always.

It always seems that way.

Italy came in at number two with 11%.