Three’s Company (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day, and thanks for kicking it off

with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by your head of production, our co-host,

Matt Habhacker. Good morning, everybody.

And best listeners and radio are with us. I see y'all out there. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

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

Brittany, what's Mother Nature got in store for us this weekend?

A little bit of everything, my gosh.

It's a pulporee. It's a pulporee of whether it's...

That's for sure. So, already this morning, we had some thunderstorms roll through.

One of the neighbor kids outside. It was so cute. I had the window open because it's so nice this morning

and I hear him yelling, go thunder.

He's a big forfeit.

There you go, yeah.

Oh, gosh, we have a warm and windy day ahead of us. I mean, gusts are going to be whipping up to 30 miles per hour.

Out of the south, pulling in 76 degree high temperature today.

Wow.

Yeah, extreme warmth out there.

Now, you pair the warmth and the wind. That means a very high fire danger.

It has been elevated even more today. So, be careful with any sparks, no burning.

Don't carry your cigarette butt because everything's greened up yet, right?

So, these are all wildfire fuel just sitting there and then the wind's in the heat.

Put that on top. Bad mixture.

We also have another bad mixture headed our way tonight.

The cold front is going to slam into all of this beautiful weather that we're going to experience today.

And then it's going to fire up these strongest severe storms.

Now, what I think is going to happen is a tornado outbreak in Illinois.

Not into Wisconsin.

But I do think that some of those storms are going to be strong.

Maybe a few tornadoes could spin up into the southern parts of the state.

But I think it's going to weaken even more.

So, I don't think we have much of a tornado threat, which is good.

I do think so that we have a strong wind and hail threat.

So, we could see gusts around 60, 70 miles per hour moving through and some parts of this line.

And then, of course, some hail as well.

Because we've really cold air up high. It's still winter.

And then all of this warm air at the bottom really creates a rotating, crazy, unstable environment.

So, we're definitely going to see some strong storms.

About a quarter of an inch to a half an inch of rain.

Some of that could be rising the rivers as we go into the weekend.

And this line will push through. It'll take about an hour. And then it'll be gone.

Afterwards, tomorrow, we're looking at light rain from the system.

And then, winds gusting 40 to 50 miles per hour where we could see a high wind warning go out tomorrow.

Not good. And that wind is also taking our temperatures and crashing them.

So, we're going to be falling below freezing.

So, this rain is going to slip to a few flurries overnight and into Sunday morning.

We're not looking at any accumulations anymore.

I think that moisture is going to be gone. It's going to be pretty dry.

Pretty cold. Sunday's highs will be in the upper 30s.

But the next week, we've worn things up. We'll be at about 60 degrees or so already by Monday.

Storing on Tuesday. And you know that means another storm system.

And I have to give you guys a heads up because it could be some major snow hitting the state on Wednesday.

Oh, March. March.

I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for the dead air there. I was just filling out my weather bingo.

I got bingo. Bingo. I got it.

Just incredible. This is this March weather. I tell you.

I was just going to brag to Brittany the two days in a row.

I got to wear my Chuck tailors.

Nope. Nope. We've got to get the boots back out.

We appreciate you so much, Brittany. Thanks all for the great coverage all week long.

You have yourself a fun weekend. We will meet back here on Monday.

Sounds good. You guys have a great weekend too.

Thank you.

Best of a business right there. She has awesome.

A quick reminder again to follow Brittany on YouTube.

She's going to create YouTube page.

But it's a lot of fun as somebody who loves weather.

It loves people that love weather.

It's just it's contagious. It's a lot of fun.

We are going to have a lot of fun today.

We got tons of stuff to get to set tonight.

We got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club coming up for Friday, Saturday and Sunday beginning into that.

We've also got some holidays to celebrate.

Today.

It's Pi Day today.

Saint Patrick's Day is on Monday.

We got some stats on that.

And you told me about another holiday that we have to touch on as well.

Yes.

Yes indeed.

Looking forward to it.

Because I'm going to do so.

I don't know about this one.

So I'm going to learn from you on this.

Everyone's going to learn about it today.

Nine o'clock hour.

We're going to feature some entertainment news of course.

We're going to get into the Odyssey a little bit.

Christopher Nolan's humongous project coming up.

There's some footage that's been released or stills that's been released of it already.

I have I cannot tell you how excited I am about this movie.

So it seems that Christopher Nolan has decided.

He's like, there's only one thing I can do now.

And that's like the one of the bed rocks of Western literature, right?

Yeah.

It's like the Odyssey.

Go back to the beginning, right?

It's okay.

All right, Chris, go for it.

I cannot wait to see what that is.

We'll talk about that a little bit later.

It's probably.

We're also going to talk a little Drew Carey and the price is right.

A little bit of that.

I want to talk local theater and certainly what's new on your small screen,

you're on your big screen, all that coming up.

And we have hobbies that men enjoy, but might hide from their friends.

We've got that one coming up.

And I want to make time for the Florida man games.

I've been trying to get this in.

This ended in February.

I've been trying to get it in forever.

But I don't want to talk much going on.

And there is so much going on to your point, Seth.

Yeah.

Not only do we have all that, we have our Culver star, the day coming up in a little bit.

That'll be after our news break.

And we have so much fun playoff action going on here.

In town and with our local teams.

A shout out to all of our local teams out there in action.

And all the teams in the listening area, anywhere you're listening us,

that they happen to be in the playoffs.

We do want to send a shout out to our Wisconsin Rapids River Kings,

who I believe they've probably already made the trip,

but they may be going over this morning.

I'm not sure how early they get there,

but they're heading up the Minnesota to continue their reign.

Nice.

Nice, I mean.

And here's how we're pulling for our Kings.

Yes, yes, we are.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops over the next couple of days for the Kings.

I love this team.

I know when lose doesn't matter.

Very proud of this team and the great season that they have had.

Yeah, looking to go back to Nationals once again.

It's what it has all been about.

Yeah.

I got to the opportunity to interview all the players and coaches before the season started.

Right.

And every single one of them, they all had different things to say about different questions,

but the one thing that maintained,

hey, what are you looking forward to?

Naddies.

Naddies.

Naddies.

Every single one of them, Naddies.

Once in a while, the Nationals.

But otherwise it was Naddies.

This is what the focus has been.

So it all comes down to this weekend in winning this series against Minnesota.

Yeah.

Big shout out to our Kings.

Hey, rivalry too.

Wow.

What a fun season.

Yeah, it's been a great rivalry against these.

Yeah.

Follow your Kings up and down to the river as they build it.

River Kings Hockey.com.

And we'll be following along.

We'll talk about it on Playmakers a little bit later today.

And speaking of playoffs, our Assumption Lady Royals are going for two out of five.

Well, they won two out of five gold balls.

And it's been since 2021, which isn't a huge drive.

No, it's only a few years.

But don't tell that to the Assumption Royals players.

Right.

It might as well be 20 decades for them.

They are hungry.

They want this.

Got to see a little bit of the pep rally that they did last.

Yesterday and stuff.

And that was really cool.

Very cool.

I do want to shout out to Owen Witte because they've had a surprising season, a surprising

playoffs.

That's fantastic.

That ends here.

I'm sorry.

I'm biased.

There's no hiding the bias now.

Yeah.

But why not?

We barn all these kids to have fun.

Of course.

No one to get hurt, of course.

And as Phil Hartley was telling me, five of these girls are seniors.

They're done.

Yeah.

This is it for them.

So this is huge.

They just want to go out on the highest note that they can.

I feel like you can tell.

You can tell that they're seniors on that team.

You can tell what they're leaving and all out there and everything.

We are going to have this game for you on 105, 55WRI.

Laura is going to be covering this one on the board.

We'll have Randy and Mike.

They're already down there.

They're ready to go.

Ready to go.

This game will kick off at 8.50.

So you got a little while.

You hang out with us.

And you can flip back and forth.

If only there was an app.

Oh, yes, that's right.

There is an app where it is the simplest thing in the world.

The flip back between us and our sister station 105, 55WRI.

We'll give up updates too, I think, as the game goes on here and we're on the air.

So I don't expect we're going to get into radio in a moment here.

But as long as we're going to dive into radio and what we're talking about here coverage wise,

something that Seth and I have been talking about for quite a while.

And we really have been hammering home is kind of getting away from something that used to happen to radio all the time.

I was talking with our station manager, engineer,

solar this station chucked an arrow yesterday.

And Chuck and I were talking about how the growth of radio and how certain things have gotten so much better and healthier.

And back in the day, when I first started in radio, and I'll just be honest with the audience,

they used to kind of pair us against each other.

And I mean like stations that were owned under the same umbrella in the same building.

That we would fight for sponsors, advertisers, ratings, all these things.

Crap's in a barrel.

That doesn't work.

And it didn't work then.

And I don't really understand necessarily the logic of it to be honest with you.

But in this day and age, we're the opposite of that.

Not only do you hear us supporting and partnering with all of our civic media stations up and down the gamut, up down the state.

But certainly here in the building, across the hallway, I'm going to work with the station over there.

And we're going to be doing a lot more cross promotions and a lot more rising tide raises all boats kind of thing.

And part of that is encouraging you guys, hey, go ahead and check out that assumption game.

And if you miss a little of Seth and I, you got the podcast, you can re-catch it.

I always go back.

But I'm doing something you're not supposed to do in radio and encouraging you to go ahead and listen to the other station

because we want you to support these kids and support local high school sports.

It's a big part of what we do at both stations.

And certainly the sponsors that give us the opportunity to do all this.

Yes, big thank you to them for this. For all year long, they've been great.

If you are a local business and you are not advertising with us, I cannot stress enough getting more bang for your buck working with us.

Ask anybody. Ask anybody who has worked with us. Talk to me. I will let you know.

Hey, El Caffe, go ask El Caffe how much we talk about them. I just brought them up for no reason.

But we're going to do it. We're going to promote you guys because that's what we do here.

Support local and nobody supports local like we do.

That's right. Nobody is supporting this area like we do covering this area like we do.

When I don't say that egotistically, I say that with pride.

I say that because we're proud of what we do for all of you.

Yeah, and that's what because we want you to support us the same way.

We want it to be a reciprocal relationship with everybody in town here.

And in the, and anywhere in our listening area, let's put it there.

You know, we've got a pretty wide range here. So how many local morning shows are there?

Did a broadcasting right here from Wisconsin rap is right here from such a Wisconsin talking about

sensual Wisconsin things. That's a great question.

Yeah, shows like Bob and Tom that are out of Indiana and you got these other shows that 99% of them are all from out of state.

Yeah, not even just out of the city, out of the state.

You want local, you want the actual coverage, you want to support your town, your area.

Put your money where your mouth is and spread the word about our shows and be a part of the team here.

And speaking of radio and wondering what the power of radio, how's that doing?

Well, let's talk about that a little.

I'm not saying we deserve all the credit for this.

But maybe a little bit, maybe a little column A, a little column B.

A new poll found radio is still one of the America's top three favorite ways to hear music.

How about that?

Streaming services got 38% of the vote. No surprise there.

Live concerts, 15% kind of encouraging to see that actually after the pandemic and those numbers.

That's true. Yeah.

We've actually done this story once before and radio was in third place then too.

But it was actually, I think CDs that were number two.

Oh, wow.

Live concerts have moved up in this and everything.

And radio is in number three with 14% of the vote.

There is a lot of reasons behind that. We'll get to that in a moment.

CDs are at number four. 13% still love that.

Yeah, that's cool.

CDs are still that big.

They're still relevant people.

You know, eight tracks, albums, a lot of that stuff went away.

Some albums came back a little bit, vinyl came back a little.

But it's kind of impressive to see the longevity of CDs.

And how some of the younger generation find it like cool to have CDs.

Oh, you would get a cover.

Oh, there's stuff inside.

Liner notes, right?

Yeah, they're freaking out over it.

Yeah, that's kind of cool.

And that number five vinyl records, 12%.

People who like the sound really like it.

I find it so remarkable that now in 2025, vinyl is right behind CDs.

Like right behind.

Only 4% said MP3s on their iPhone or iPad, iPod.

Wow.

And just 1% said cassette tapes are their favorite way to listen to music in 2025.

cassette tapes, they're kind of becoming a thing again, though.

I noticed that artists are releasing new material on cassettes again.

And I just came across a, someone came up with a new Walkman.

A modern Walkman.

Wow.

It's like this size of a brick, but it's great though.

It looks cool.

I kind of want it.

I know.

I kind of want it real bad.

I kind of want it.

And it's got, you know, Bluetooth on there.

So you can put your modern headphones, but it plays cassette tapes.

I will not, I will own this.

I have every one of my cassettes still, almost all of my CDs.

I give away a lot of my CDs, but I have all of my cassettes.

It's in a bin.

Yep.

They're just in a bin into my parents' basement.

I never looked at it forever, but I want to pull it back on.

When you combine all those groups, the average person spends $274 on music a year,

$100 on concerts.

$100 on Ix.

So they went to what?

Half of a concert?

Yeah.

How does that work?

Okay.

There's a lot of people in this country that don't go to concerts.

Yeah.

It averages out.

$75 on streaming services.

$53 on CDs.

$46 on records.

And how much do you spend on radio?

Zero.

Zero.

And in a day and age where everybody is looking at prices of everything and seeing the rise of

some things and some stuff not really going down like we were told it was going to, radio

remains free.

Yes.

Over the air.

Yes.

It's turned it on and let it go.

It's pretty amazing.

It's pretty cool to think in 2025.

Never doubt radio.

I'm telling you right now.

There's been people who have been saying radio is dying since like the 1960s.

Yeah.

People have been saying that.

Still here.

Still here.

Still here.

And still supporting local.

Yep.

So you can take a quick time out.

We'll come back with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club on the morning show.

Yeah.

Welcome back everybody.

It's time to do some celebrating with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

I kind of want to cut off the like the weather cut off.

I kind of want to cut birthday.

I'm not sure what happened there.

Yeah.

Oh, quite good here in time.

Well, we are here to do some celebrating.

And we're going to do it with our good friends over at El Caffe.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

Two and one market avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Check out some of the great food that they have and keep in mind.

They are open from seven to two.

And of course, they have their fish fry going on today.

They do.

We're going to be opening a little later today.

They are.

Be sure to get out and check out that famous fish fry.

Only getting more famous.

Support our good friends over at El Caffe by local support local.

Get on over there today.

They do everything right.

And it is pie day.

So perfect way to celebrate.

Perfect day to wait.

To celebrate.

Go get up some pie.

Oh, my goodness.

There is no wrong flavor.

But if you do try the death by chocolate, you have to tell me about it.

Yeah.

You have to tell my God.

He's going to one of these days.

We're going to buy him.

I'm going to just get a piece and make him eat it here.

I got an idea.

On the air.

Since I am so work obsessed and that is where the 90% of my life goes,

let's just combine the worlds.

Let's go ahead and do a live remote from here.

Yeah.

It will happen.

It will happen.

It is going to happen, people.

We encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries send it to us.

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And then just hit the button a couple of times and you're through to us.

Want to thank everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries.

And we want to kick off with a couple of important ones first.

We received note a while ago that our great friend of this station here, Gary Munch,

who's called in many times.

Gary's been a long time listener.

Yeah.

Today would have been his Marlene's 30th anniversary.

Marlene passed away recently.

I did not know that, Gary.

And that news hit me hard this morning.

I feel for you and yours.

I'm thinking of you and yours sending you all very strong positive vibes.

And thank you for sharing that with us, Gary.

Thanks, Gary.

Looking forward to talk with you again real soon, sir.

We want to wish a very happy birthday today to the soul of this station, Mr. Chuck Genaro.

Yes, indeed.

Chuck's birthday today, everybody.

Oh, my goodness.

I was fortunate to get a break in radio from Jim Ross, Panama Jack.

And get back in the radio from Bob Look.

But the reason I'm here today is Chuck.

Before Marcus took over during, you know, really early days of the pandemic,

but really right before that, I had an opportunity to would have taken me over to the East Coast.

That's right.

I was really bound and determined to do that.

I felt like my life was at a standstill, and I needed something.

And I didn't think my radio career was going to go anywhere.

Where things were at the time.

I don't think anyone would have blamed you, either.

Chuck had a, he was in late at night.

I got to say it was like 11 at night or something like that.

I was in the old studio.

And I didn't even know Chuck was in the building.

He came in and he was doing something else.

And he's like, hey, you got a minute.

And we had one of the better conversations I've ever had in my life.

And I have had very few people believe in me.

And even fewer that I believe what they're saying.

But there's no, when Chuck tells you some, you know, he ain't putting on airs.

He doesn't use any more words than he needs to.

And he's so good at that.

And I can't stress how cool and how that applies to radio so well.

It does.

Surprisingly enough, that is true.

There is a calm that is so appreciated about that man.

And it is also has an intensity to it.

It has a direction to it, a focus to it.

Yeah.

You know, he had mentioned, I talked about something.

He started here when he was 14 years old in radio.

And he has been with it ever since.

That's remarkable.

We appreciate you, Chuck.

We do.

And we'll be talking again real soon, sir.

And I'm not saying that because I'm getting my e-vail today.

Yeah.

Not saying that because of that, Chuck.

Not at all.

See, and I already had my...

So I'm already good.

I didn't have to say any of that.

Did I?

Dang it.

I don't know.

We have a good birthday, Chuck.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier today, Nicole K.

Happy birthday, Nicole.

Enjoy your day, Nicole.

Yeah.

One for you.

We wish happy birthday on Saturday, the Iads of March.

Oh, Seth, I'm sorry.

I need a one or two from you.

Oh, okay.

Two.

All right, there we go.

Got all focused on these birthday.

I don't want to know the names first.

Yeah.

I might choose the wrong one.

When I wish happy birthday tomorrow to an old good friend of mine, Eden Kinniple.

Eden, I go way back.

Great guy.

Wonderful, wonderful human being.

Enjoy your day, man.

Hope it's a good one for you, Eden.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier on Saturday.

Patrick Murominski.

Pat Murominski.

All right, Pat.

Enjoy your day.

Congratulations, and happy birthday tomorrow.

And on Sunday, just one birthday.

And Andy Anderson, we wish happy birthday to him.

Happy birthday, Andy.

Got to catch you with my throat.

Yeah, what happened?

I don't know.

Got to choke up about Andy's birthday.

I'm sorry.

I haven't...

Have a great day.

So birthday for you, Andy.

Have a great day, sir.

Enjoy your day, Andy.

Everybody's celebrating out there.

Yeah.

Enjoy your days.

Take a quick look at our birthdays and anniversaries.

The greatest gymnast, maybe, of all time.

Yeah, she's the most decorated gymnast in history.

Simone Biles is 28.

Yes.

I think you, you know, sometimes there's no question about who the greatest is.

And I think we have that now.

So we can say that pretty comfortably about Simone Biles.

I think so.

Steph Curry is 37.

Once again, I feel pretty comfortable saying the greatest shooter in NBA history.

Yes.

I think you, you have to say that.

And that's, I mean, and let's, let's not downplay this.

There have been some tremendous shooters, Ray Allen, you know, Larry Bird.

I mean, going back to, you know, I'm trying to think of like some of the old guys

that were really good shooters.

Bob Coussey, maybe, you know, even some guys who were just really good in the clutch

like Robert Oury or something like that.

Yeah.

The NBA has been littered with great shooters throughout its inception.

And while, you know, Creme was always going to be my favorite player.

Magic and AI.

And there's some great ones that I love.

I saw Steph Curry at Davidson and I saw something that I liked.

I saw a guy who wasn't necessarily built like he was six, like Michael.

Right.

But played like the attitude of Michael Jordan, the energy of Michael Jordan,

the determination of Michael Jordan, all of those things.

And what?

And somehow being more likeable.

Yeah.

Well, that's just it too.

So everybody calls LeBron the face of the league and I get that.

But to me, it's been Steph for a long time.

Yeah.

And as a side note to add to all this Steph Curry just last night,

we hit 4,000 three pointers in his career.

Wow.

Like triple or double what anybody eleven has ever done or ever will do.

That's a record that may never be even approached.

I'm not kidding.

One of my things I'll do as a palate cleanser at night is just look up Steph Curry highlights.

And it's just him like shooting from the logo, shooting from the art practice shots.

It's just he's incredible matter.

It's amazing.

And to obsess point two from everything we've been able to see.

Really good guy.

Yeah.

That's a good guy.

He did that.

He's got tremendous PR people.

Well, and even from what you see on the court and when he treats other players.

That's true.

He treats the game.

He's not going to be putting up, you know, putting on errors when he's on the court.

That's who's basically you find out who players are when they're playing.

I loved Michael and everything.

But I like that there's this attitude of these players nowadays where oh,

I don't have to hate everybody to be the best.

Right.

I don't have to win off of hate.

I don't have to win off of anger.

I can win smiling.

I can do a magic did.

I can do what these other, you know, that is sports.

Sports doesn't have to be all like a war all the time.

Right.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

Chris Klein is 46 in the American Pie movies.

I've not been facing much from now.

And let's see here.

Rick D's is 75.

We can't be doing this.

Speaking of radio.

We'll talk about Rick D's.

The man who almost dethroned Casey Kasim.

That's an impressive feat.

Then had a horrible late night show.

Yeah.

Didn't work for you, Rick.

Billy Crystal is 77.

One of the greats.

One of the greats.

He seems like he should be older than that.

I don't know why.

But it's, I mean, no, no, no.

No, a front to you, Mr. Crystal.

Great to see him working still and everything.

Yeah.

I love Billy Crystal.

Michael Cain is 92.

One of the greatest actors you will ever see.

Yes.

One of the most versatile actors you will ever see.

He could do everything.

And I don't know if he's basically retired.

I mean, he's 92.

I mean, he doesn't have to anything.

He doesn't have to do anything anymore.

He did have a movie come out last year.

It looked really good.

I haven't seen it yet.

But it looked really good.

He let it too.

He was a lead actor.

Some of his great interviews.

I mean, he was also a great interviewer.

I mean, these stories are awesome.

I love Michael Cain.

Should be, by the way, Sir Michael Cain.

Like, what are we doing?

How is Michael Cain?

And he's not benited.

I don't even get, like, I never get care about that stuff.

I'm genuinely angry that Michael Cain is not Sir Michael Cain.

He may not even care about it.

But who knows?

No, I almost cared to you.

He's a south, he's a nolly boy.

Yeah.

Michael Cain grew up on those other sides, man.

I don't think he cares too much.

Maybe he doesn't.

Quincy Jones would have been celebrating a birthday today.

The greatest producer of all time.

I mean, I've been hearing people walk around this and everything.

If nobody else is going to say it, I'll say it.

The greatest producer of all time.

If you want to look at record sales.

I mean, even bear, yeah, there's no question about it.

But in terms of talent, I mean, still, he's right there.

If you took one decade of Quincy's career, I could sit there and make an argument that he's the greatest producer of all time.

This 60, 70s, 80s, 90s, whatever you want to do.

But if you put it all together, you've got a guy who was nominated for 80 Grammys, 128 of them, incredible stuff.

And just so many great stories too.

Also a composer of a very talented composer.

Remember everyone, the the theme to Austin Powers?

Yeah.

That's a Quincy Jones composition.

Nice.

I love how he got his start too.

He first got it, became a producer for Leslie Gore.

In the early 1960s, you know, it's my party and songs like that.

That was Quincy Jones.

And Kirby Puckett would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Should be celebrating a birthday tomorrow.

Oh, my favorite player.

Growing up, for sure.

Kirby was my guy.

Loved, loved, loved Kirby Puckett.

I was a huge fan of his.

And just I don't know.

I'll be watching highlights of his today.

That's especially outfield highlights.

We don't talk enough about his hops.

See how he was five foot eight.

And you see how high he jumped up to catch those balls over the fence.

It's amazing.

It is amazing.

There's certain things in sports that don't seem like they should be a thing.

That it don't seem possible.

I hope this isn't coming across like a shot at him or anything.

No.

Just looking at Kirby Puckett, the hitter,

he wouldn't think that he had that.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, he did.

He was called the fire plug.

And that's exactly what it looked like.

Twin Mount Rushmore.

Would you put him on a 22?

Oh, 100%.

He's got to be up there with Rod Kuru and Harming Killabru.

Absolutely.

And Albert Einstein would have celebrated a birthday today, born in 1879.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the ink of tax.

It's a actual Einstein quote.

He was an actual Einstein quote.

He had a sneaky good wit.

He'd come up with some really good little quick saying.

It's very funny, very funny.

And we still haven't really done a true bio on Albert Einstein.

And we need to.

Incredibly up and down all over the place.

He had just a remarkable life.

Just all around.

It's amazing.

And you cannot talk about the history.

You can't tell the story of history of human beings.

And not mention Albert Einstein.

You have to.

He changed the world.

Every human being.

If we're going from the beginning to now.

And talking about the human of history of human beings.

You have to mention Albert Einstein.

It's incredible.

Looking at quick look at Saturday, Bertie,

some people who were no longer with us.

Phil Lash from Grateful Dad who just passed away.

Yeah.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Yeah.

Big fan of film.

A Ruth Gator Bader Ginsburg.

Big fan of hers.

A Supreme Court justice.

And Andrew Jackson, former president.

Yes.

Old degree.

Old degree.

And then looking at a Sunday.

We wish at Bertie on Sunday to Wolfgang Van Halen,

Eddie Van Halen and Valor Bertinelli's kid.

And a great guitar player.

As a surprise you're doing.

As one of our guys,

Alan Tudyk, 54 on Sunday.

Alan Tudyk is so awesome.

One of the greatest most versatile actors in the world.

I agree with you, man.

If there's something I'm like,

I don't know if I want to see this.

And then I see his name.

Oh, I'll watch that.

I mean, seriously, he's in tons of movies.

You know, he does a lot of voice work for movies and TV shows.

And he's the star of a really good show called Resident Alien.

It's great.

I mean, it's a good show.

It almost feels like typecasting.

He's so good at that.

I really like that.

Yep.

Nancy Wilson from Heart is 71 on Sunday.

Love Nancy.

And people no longer with us.

Chuck Woolery would have been celebrating a birthday.

One of the greatest.

The back and two and two.

Nice.

Jerry Lewis, born in 1926.

I'm not going to subject you to my Jerry Lewis impression.

So you're safe, everybody.

Henny Youngman, born in 1906.

King of the White Lives.

And Henny Youngman had the same birthday.

Isn't that amazing?

That's amazing.

And my wife, please.

Oh, that was any young man.

My best friend ran away with my wife.

And let me tell you, I miss him.

That's so good.

That is so good.

It's one line of the great.

And by the way, my Nana used to tell those jokes in reverse.

In reverse.

So my Nana would have said my best friend ran away with my husband.

And let me tell you, I miss her.

You know, that kind of thing.

Perfect.

But hey, you've heard Henny Youngman jokes because they've been turned into ones that everyone tells.

And then James Madison would have been celebrating birthday on Sunday.

Father of the Constitution, fourth president of our United States.

Yes.

Very short, by the way, as well.

Maybe our littlest president.

We appreciate our friends at El Café and all of you out there helping us celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.

Keep in common, everybody.

We want more next week.

We'll be back with more show in our star of the day from Culver's coming up.

Lights.

Camera.

No, no.

Action.

That should act.

That should mess with the weather.

It's time.

Everybody to play our star of the day with our friends from Wisconsin Rapids Culver's.

We do this every Friday, right after our news break.

We give you guys a famous TV theme song to guess.

If you get it right and you haven't won anything in 30 days, boom.

Just like that.

You get a kid and family meal free from our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids Culver's.

Yum.

We appreciate Culver's.

Get some Culver's in your life, everybody.

And wherever you got a Culver's, you got a Culver's that is supporting your community and putting into your community.

A lot of great jobs for young folks as well.

And remember that too.

Good point, man.

And here it is.

Your TV theme song to guess for our star.

The day you're ready to call up 715-424-2600.

It's a touch or two away in the Civic Media app.

Come and knock on our door.

We've been waiting for you.

Let's see if we got ourselves in winter.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

You got it.

Yes, indeed.

You got it.

Yes, indeed.

Nicely done.

We, of course, have to make it official.

There we go.

All right.

Did you get that one right away, sir?

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like a tar at the beginning.

It gets you every time.

Every time.

It gets you every time.

Did you know the show?

Did you watch the show?

I certainly did.

All right.

Right on.

Right on.

It's a great show.

So I was putting that together yesterday when Terry Johns was in.

And Terry is like, oh, that's going to be the fastest winner you ever had.

She was pretty close.

Pretty close.

Yeah.

This is pretty quick.

Sir, what's your first name?

My name is Rick.

Rick.

Where are you calling us from?

I am calling from Wisconsin Rapids.

All right.

I know.

So the Rapids winner.

Rick, thanks so much for listening.

Thank you.

Thank you, man.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And why am I doing this?

Well, one.

It's a great theme song.

And I want to do it.

I love it.

But it, uh, threes company, uh, premiered on ABC on March 15th in 1977.

So we're a day ahead.

But, you know, wow, 77.

I always associated with the 80s.

Same.

But it started in the late 70s, wow.

Uh, ran till 84, uh, one of the, uh, more recognizable theme songs.

Certainly, but even recognizable shows.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and, and gave us all, uh, a chance to enjoy Don Nott's a little bit more.

Yes.

I always thought that was great casting.

That was tremendous casting in that.

Suzanne Summers, uh, was fantastic.

I was a big fan of hers.

Norman Fell is one of the most underrated TV actors of all time.

Norman Fell.

Any chance to mention Norman Fell, we need to take the moment.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, but I love that man.

He was great.

Um, and of course, uh, Joyce DeWitt, who I had a huge crush on.

Yep.

Well, everybody else was into Suzanne Summers.

I like Joyce DeWitt.

I thought she was amazing.

And the great John Ritter, who made us all the time.

Great John Ritter.

Yes.

Uh, John Ritter, the one of the most perfect TV actors of all time.

You know, he was, I totally agree with you that he was one of the great TV actors of all time.

But man, he was a good actor.

Yeah.

If you see some of his movie roles that he did, and there was, you know, throughout the years, there were some.

But my goodness, he was just a tremendous all-around actor.

Unfortunately for him, like if he was around now, I think that he'd have a chance to show all of his versatility, all the things he could do.

That's right.

Back then, if you did TV, it was so hard to get into movies.

It was so, yeah, I mean, it was so hard to get back into TV, even after that famous show ended, which he ended up doing later on, you know, 10, 10 rules, you know, and that kind of thing.

Yeah.

Um, but, uh, no, he was just tremendous.

But you look at the typecasting they would do back then, and look at the stretch between Threes Company and that.

Not that he didn't work in between there, but he didn't have consistent work because he got typecasts.

And you can't look at the talent of John Ritter and say that he shouldn't have been acting every time he wanted to.

Nice little tie-in to our show that we're going to be doing.

And at the main stage in WRCT, of course, his noise is off.

They made a movie of that.

Mr. John Ritter is in the movie, and he is hilarious.

Oh, my God, is he good in that?

Yeah, he really is.

He's fabulous.

Uh, we're going to talk to Rick.

Uh, you be listening every Friday for another edition of the Star of the Day.

We'll have some more fun with this next week.

A big thank you to our Wisconsin Rapids callers.

Seth and I got more fun coming up right here.

We're going to get the full weather forecast for you.

Someday.

Someday we'll get it.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We want to send a shout out to Rick, uh, for, uh, being our newest star of the day.

Yeah.

We're going to be listening along with that.

That was a lot of fun.

Uh, want to talk a little holidays with everybody.

We've got, of course, have St. Patrick's Day on Monday.

Right.

It's Pi Day today.

But Seth, you were telling me about a different holiday.

And I have to be honest with the audience, I feel, I feel a little silly for not have heard of this one before.

Well, it's not surprising.

It's a very specific holiday.

Um, it's, you know, so there's two holidays on my calendar that I find the most fun.

Uh, the fact that there are fake holidays doesn't mean anything to me.

Of course, one is September 19th, which is talk like a pirate day, right, which has become a very big thing.

Well, here's one coming up.

So St. Patrick's Day is on Monday, on Sunday, on the 16th of March.

It is St. Erho's Day, everybody.

So if you are a, uh, person of, uh, Finland descent, and I know, you know, and it comes from Minnesota.

And that's right.

There's a lot of Finnish folks, especially up north or in Minnesota.

But there's plenty in Wisconsin too.

We know there's some Finnish people.

And, of course, actual Finns that listen to our station.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I hope you do shout out to them.

Yeah.

You know, if they're listening, they will have no idea what this is.

No.

No.

No.

This is, because this was formed in, uh, northern Minnesota.

Uh, by, let's see, a, a man named, I gotta get his name here, Richard Matson, which is,

Matson is a name you'll see all over Minnesota.

Oh, yeah.

By the way, um, up in Virginia, Minnesota, he got tired of people celebrating Pink Patrick's Day.

He's like, we need a day for Finnish people.

So he invented St. Erho, not a real saint, just so you know, I'm not sure.

Oh, you Catholics don't go rushing towards your catalog of saints there.

But not real.

All right.

I don't remember.

But it's become kind of a, a bigger thing, especially in Minnesota.

At first, when my parents first told me about this, I thought it was real.

Oh, I was, I was nodding on the joke.

But I mean, they've written an ode to St. Erho.

Um, they actually have a pretty big celebration in Chippewa Falls.

By the way, everyone.

So there is Wisconsin connection here.

So, uh, if you're tired of St. Patrick's Day on Sunday,

celebrate St. Erho with all your Finnish friends.

And if you're wondering how to celebrate, well, just to let tell you a little of the story,

uh, St. Erho who chased grasshoppers away to save the grape crop,

it is celebrated with parades, music, and community festivals, uh,

and, uh, a shout-out to all of our Finnish friends out there.

Right.

And certainly our Finnish listeners out there.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

I love this.

It's great.

I love the idea of doing that.

Uh, I, I'm a big believer in, uh, so I, and I'll admit, I grew up, uh,

seeing like every, every nationality have a parade.

Puerto Rican day.

Absolutely.

Italian day, like all these different things growing up,

and I'm a big fan of that.

I, I think it's one of the coolest things.

I actually think that it shows how much we have in common

when we celebrate our own unique nationalities and things.

I think so.

And all of these things.

Um, because guess what, everybody?

Now, one person out there is pure of anything.

No.

Not a one.

At this point in 2025 in the human population,

there is nobody who's going to take, uh, any of those, uh,

23 and me's or any of those things.

And you're going to come back with even 90% of anything.

No.

Um, we're all impossible.

Yeah.

Growing up, I thought me, my brother and sister were, uh,

and I'm saying this with love, uh, that we were muts.

Right.

And, and, and makes it all kinds of stuff.

Well, it turns out, guess what we all are.

Uh, and I love that.

I love that.

I think that's fantastic.

There's nothing, and, and it's great to be able to look back

at Heritage, you know, and see where things came from.

And, well, why do we do this?

Well, it's because, you know, our ancestors did this kind of thing.

It's fun.

It doesn't have to be anything more than just, wow,

that's really interesting.

Hey, let's share this with everyone else.

Why not?

Uh, and I'm a big believer in, uh, believing in yourself.

And, and having some pride in yourself and self-worth and everything.

I think some of that can come from your creed and your ancestors

and some of that.

And some silly stories as well.

If you've said your genealogy, you're going to have some,

some ancestors, it's a pretty dumb thing, too.

So, hey, that's also connects us.

It's a mix back.

It's much like ourselves.

In current times.

Absolutely.

Uh, thank you for sharing that, Ben.

I did.

I've never heard of that.

I thought that was awesome.

That's a great one.

Uh, it is Pi Day.

We got to talk a little about that.

Oh, let's do that.

Uh, and I, and not just because of it being Pi Day,

and we would be timely at everything with this.

Right.

But I do have one of the heads of the Pi Council with me here

in Seth Havagger.

So, it feels kind of necessary.

So, it's kind of a gray area because technically,

this is, you know, the Pi PI, you know, the, the mathematical formulae.

Is that right?

I don't know if that's correct.

But anyway, close enough.

That thing, uh, I'm just glad I don't have either of my children here

because they would be singing a song with the first hundred digits of Pi.

We don't need to hear that today.

We don't know.

Yeah.

So, where, I don't want to eat a bunch of Pi today.

Um, you should.

But you don't have to.

We're going to have to finish this.

Um, so today is Pi Day because, well, you know, it's fun.

Um, the first three digits of the number Pi are three, one, four.

Right.

So, three, fourteen.

Yeah.

The date we're on.

Yes.

Uh, it also, uh, I, I don't know how much this ties to.

I've heard, uh, mixed bags of this one that it's Einstein's birthday.

Would have been Einstein's birthday today too.

So, that is part of the reason being, being celebrated.

Uh, yes.

Um, but I don't know.

Although Pi was just, was figured out long before Einstein.

So, I'm not sure.

Anyway, I feel like that's, that's just tying them together.

They're really tenuous.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a loose thread.

But it's a, uh, like a lot of science sometimes.

That's true.

I mean, theories.

Yeah.

Uh, Instacart just revealed its most ordered pies on the platform.

Ooh.

And not surprisingly, Apple is number one twenty nine, twenty nine percent of all Pi deliveries are Apple pies.

Wow.

That's really high.

My goodness.

And this is a Instacart list.

So this isn't a great mess necessarily.

Not the best.

Yeah.

Still, it's interesting.

And nowadays it's one of the only ways we can really do this kind of thing, interestingly.

But, uh, I am going to throw into the search engine here and see, and I want to compare most popular.

Okay.

Pies.

Let's, let's see here what we got here.

So we'll see where the...

Well, cross reference here.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I like doing that.

And, uh, well, so we'll see.

So according to this list, uh, yes, Apple is number one.

Pumpkin Pi at number two with twenty three percent.

Yes.

Okay.

It's a lot further down than I thought.

Wow.

Interesting.

Anyway.

Pecan Pi is at nine percent.

Mmm.

So in my face.

Big drop.

Cherry Pi at number four.

Mmm.

Eight percent.

Lemon meringue Pi at number five was six percent.

Lemon meringue.

Making the top five.

Make top five.

That's a little surprising.

Blueberry Pi at five percent.

Yeah.

Chocolate Pi...

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