🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day! (Hour 1)

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 our head of the news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Head of production and co-host, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

We hear you out there.

We see you out there.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

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

Talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

All right.

How was your weekend?

It was pretty good.

Happy to be in Patrick's Day by the way.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

He said Patrick's Day.

Cream beer.

Yeah.

No.

No.

It's overrated.

Did anybody else forget to wear green?

I don't even know.

I don't even know.

I have like one green shirt.

And that's it.

I got to clean it.

I've got like two.

I forgot both of them.

How could you not do that Seth?

Clean your green shirt before safe Patrick's Day.

I always forget about it.

That's why.

You get an Irish tax.

Brittany, will we be lucky with weather today?

Oh, yes.

There's definitely a pot of gold at the end of this rain belt.

Nice.

We're warming things up.

We're going to finally be right back into those mid-50s.

Feeling fantastic.

But it is going to be breezy.

When's it going to be gusting around 30 to 45 miles per hour this afternoon?

Is this little change in weather happens?

So that's the only thing we have to deal with.

And of course, that means no burning.

I don't touch a cigarette butt out that car window for anything like that.

Because a wildfire can start fast in these conditions.

Otherwise, mild, comfortable, breezy.

Mid-50s.

Beautiful.

Nice.

So Seth, when you wash that green shirt today,

you can hang it on the wire.

It'll be dried before you go up for corn, beef, and cabbage.

Oh, perfect.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

We'll get people ready for the rest of the week tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Have a great day.

You too.

You too, Brittany.

Best in the business right there.

Brittany Merlot joining us.

Want to remind everybody to follow her on YouTube.

She's so fantastic.

A lot of fun videos and shorts.

She does over there.

Absolutely.

We get good things coming up for you, everybody.

They'll have a birthday anniversary club around the corner.

We will be talking about, say, Patrick's Day.

We got some fun stuff regarding that coming up.

I want to talk a little bit with everybody about some stuff happening to Arlington Cemetery.

I don't want to get into that.

I want to also talk about science telling us, yes, it really does hurt to think.

It really does.

It really does.

We were right all along.

It says.

After the weekend I had, I could have told you this.

We will kick off the 9 o'clock hour of the way.

We like to on Mondays with the kitchens open.

Beth Habagger will be joining us.

Looking forward to that.

Have a little bit of entertainment news.

We're going to talk about Dolly.

We're going to talk about Jim Morrison.

Wow.

It's just a weird, I could help you with that.

That's just a position there.

And I also want to do a good story of the day in our entertainment section

about a local theater group in California.

Oh.

And rising above the ashes.

All that coming up.

And in the 9 o'clock hour we will also get into another fun one.

How many episodes of a show you should watch before you give up?

Oh, that's good.

Do we have some science behind this?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Behind the never science.

All that coming up for you.

That was great.

In stereo.

We also will talk St. Patrick's Day plenty today and everything.

And again, the happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody out there.

But I do want to just a quick couple of local notes.

One, we want to send a big just everybody.

Just everybody, take your hockey stick and hit it on the ice.

That's what you do to honor the Wisconsin's Rapids River Kings

in the amazing season that they had.

We send a GM head coach, coach Paul in the team and all of you.

We appreciate so very much an economic level.

Think of what the River Kings bring to this community.

Just on an economic level.

If you don't care about hockey, don't care about sports, any of this stuff.

Think about how that impacts our community.

The amount of traffic, the amount of people coming to town,

staying in our hotels, using our restaurants, all of these things.

Just that alone is a gigantic impact on this Wisconsin Rapids community

and Central Wisconsin.

Then there's the entertainment factor and how much joy they bring to us

throughout the whole regular season, especially the home games.

Here's something.

How about the volunteering these fine young men do when they're in town here?

They do a lot of stuff on their off days in the community, which is really cool.

And we don't hear about it all that much, but they are there and that's really neat.

Any tragedies that have happened to this area, rafters, river kings,

some of the first individuals to show up.

And the way that they bring, decide to choose this town to come and play.

You know what, they and all those things.

There is no losing when it comes to our teams, our local teams.

And we greatly appreciate them.

I'll look forward to talking to Coach again real soon.

And certainly following the Kings throughout the off season and signings and different things

that they'll be doing.

We'll be talking with Coach quite a bit, but thank you to the Kings.

We'll talk more about this on playmakers a little bit later.

As well, we'll be talking about our Lady Royals.

You heard of Melissa's news break there.

Yeah.

If you have not heard, for the first time in four years, these assumption girls

have reached the top of the mountain and bringing that gold ball

back where it belongs to Wisconsin Rapids.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Yes.

Yeah.

Shout out to all the local teams, to all the teams.

And certainly again, to all the sponsors that help us bring you these sports,

bring you these games you can't do without them.

I want to say a big shout out to all the volunteers,

all the parents getting these kids to practices.

It's a big job.

Yep.

Certainly the athletes and the amazing dedication and focus that they have to these sports,

to this sport in particular in the Lady Royals.

And do you want to say a shout out to all throughout the whole season?

All the high school sports that we have been able to cover,

thanks to our great board operators, and two, of course, our announcers.

Mm-hmm.

Randy and Mike have done a fantastic job.

I have been on the forefront of listening to, of course, Randy,

he's been doing it for years.

We all know how well.

But seeing the evolution of Mike Comer as an announcer has been really fun.

And he has learned so much and he's gotten so good over this last year.

So big kudos to him.

Yeah.

And I have said for years, my two favorite announcers are Kevin Harlin and Randy Paul.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't care if it sounds corny, I don't care if it's,

I don't have to brown nose Randy.

No.

We're practically brothers.

We know each other so well and everything.

But Michael is right there at number three.

Michael is moving in the number three spot on my announcer list.

He is right there.

Great work.

And the way those two work together, it's so much fun to listen to him.

As a side note, and I think that people know that no Randy know this very well.

One of the things I like and respect about Randy is how much we know that he loves this assumption team.

All assumption teams.

But you hear him call a game and he calls it down the line.

But when you hear that word of championship, like you heard that newsman,

that's where it comes out a little.

Yes, you can't help it.

And that's okay.

That's all right.

Awesome.

Yeah, yeah, we love it.

And we love St. Patrick's Day.

There's plenty of things to love about St. Patrick's Day.

We'll be talking more about this as we go along here throughout the early morning hour.

But I did want to touch on a couple of fun facts about St. Patrick.

Okay.

And ones that I think that might be common knowledge in some that aren't.

Like the fact that St. Patrick was an Irish.

He was born in Britain.

Wait, do the Irish know this?

I love the idea of somebody like in their 30s or 40s fighting this out.

I do love him.

What?

He's not Irish.

What the what?

What did that happen?

He was not canonized.

St. Patrick has never been officially canonized by the Catholic Church.

Oh, no, really.

I didn't know that.

To be fair, the practice of canonization didn't begin until centuries after his passing.

There is there.

There is that.

I think that the most famous, one of the most famous parts of St. Patrick is why is he famous?

Why?

Well, it was because he drove the snakes out of Ireland.

Right.

That's why there's no stakes in Ireland, right?

Right.

The legend of St. Patrick banishing stakes from Ireland is a myth as snakes have never existed in Ireland.

Of course, yes.

Could this do the climate?

Snakes literally can't survive in the climate.

In Ireland.

On everything.

That being said, I mean, how do we know he just didn't do this early?

I don't know.

History is funny.

Interesting.

And St. Patrick used the three leafed share box to explain the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity.

Oh, and this part is very factual and based on true.

That's interesting.

And everything.

And while green is now synonymous with St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick historically associated with the color blue,

which can be seen on ancient Irish flags and armbands.

Oh, how about that?

I also don't have any blue on.

I do.

I do.

Nice.

Nice.

I was like, green or blue should cover your bases.

Yeah, they're close.

You know, they're next to each other on the spectrum there.

So, yeah, he punched is not fun.

But it's not fun.

Let me do that.

Oh, yeah, that's what happens when you're not wearing green.

Wait, wait a go James.

It seems like everybody forgot.

I can new weekend coast.

Yeah, you're right.

No, that was going to be pitching yeah.

I'm telling my darn brain.

It's these random facts.

And the shortest St. Patrick's Day parade.

I thought this was kind of shortest, okay?

The Irish village of Dripsy, a host of the shortest St. Patrick's Day parade in the world,

spanning just 26 yards between two pubs.

Nice.

How perfect.

And there's some great pictures of it too out there and everything.

Dripsy.

Oh, what a name.

Oh, love it.

The name.

Come on, man.

That's too good.

That's too good of one.

So, there was one other thing that I certainly wanted to touch on here.

And we'll get into a little bit more of this a little bit later also.

But when it comes to St. Patrick's Day, what is the drink that people will celebrate the most?

Well, Guinness.

Guinness.

Yeah, Guinness is one of the more famous ones or certainly one of the more popular ones, especially today.

Well, the website has put out a map with the most popular beers in every state.

And here's a lot of the other stuff that's going to be popular.

Like Miller is number one in 29 states.

Really?

Plus Washington DC.

It's popular Northwest and Central Wisconsin or Central U.S.

Okay.

Central Wisconsin.

Otherwise known as the U.S.

No, I'm just kidding.

It literally says here it's popular in the Northwest and Central U.S.

But I just threw it there.

Central Wisconsin.

I just can't help myself.

It's just where we are.

We are the center of the world.

We are.

This is number one in eight states, mostly in the Southwest and Appalachian states that

didn't know.

Yeah, makes sense again.

Yeah.

Budweiser is number one in two states.

New Hampshire and Missouri.

Bud Light is preferred in two states, Ohio and North Carolina.

Bush is a top in Illinois and Indiana.

Heineken is in two states, New York and Florida.

Oh, interesting.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah, that is interesting.

Corona is preferred option, Connecticut.

And three states went with Guinness, Georgia, Southern Carolina, South Carolina and New

Jersey.

Blue Moon is the top pick in Colorado, where hoors is made.

That feels a little bit like if Bud Light was the biggest one in Wisconsin.

Like that feels a little like that.

Like that with that right.

It's owned by cores now.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

That's why I forgot about that.

And so to come up with the list, they used Google trend data along with online popularity ratings.

They did not use sales data or consumption metrics.

And so, wait a minute.

Yeah.

So this really wasn't accurate.

No, the purposes that was trying to be accurate for it.

That is cute.

How they made the map look like a mug of beer.

Yeah.

That's funny.

All the coloring.

That's cute.

Yeah.

So I'm set the map here.

For one of Wisconsin, but that is probably the most obvious thing I'll say of the year.

Yeah, right.

I mean I come off.

You know, what if you include landing Google, which is owned by Miller, that's still part

of it.

Yep.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back with the El Café birthday and adversary club.

And plenty more fun.

It's the morning Show here at WFHR.

It's time for the El Café.

El Café, birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and talk about our great friends

over at El Café.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

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

They'll be open again tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards.

But you can go ahead and start picking out what you want now.

Yes.

Getting what pie you want.

Yes, exactly.

That's the important thing.

Yep.

If you want to go over to their website, El CaféWi.com, otherwise encourage you to follow

them along on Facebook.

It's a great way to keep up the date and all the cool things they're doing over there.

Yes indeed.

And we of course encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries with everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

Send them to info at WFHR.com.

You can email us that way.

Direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call up.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

No, it's wrong with me this morning.

It's the same paddy day.

You got to sing some time today.

Sleep is so important, everybody.

It's so important.

Roll out to their own.

We love a barrel of fun.

You know that's who should be singing.

There we go.

There we go.

Of course, love your birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody, we will get to them in a second.

Actually, Seth, I need a one through four.

Oh.

Oh, three.

Panic there for a minute.

There we go.

There we go.

All right.

And Dakota LaVota.

We wish you happy birthday to Dakota.

Oh, happy birthday to Dakota.

One of the better names.

Happy birthday to Dakota.

Yeah, we're gonna hear today.

Dakota LaVota.

That is a beautiful day.

That is an amazing day.

It just rolls right off your tongue.

Really does.

And doing some great work here at Civic as well.

Both John and Dakota.

We appreciate the work that they're putting into their communities

and to our station and our family.

And we appreciate the guy that brought us all together.

Sage Wilde.

Yes.

The big boss man.

His birthday today.

And everybody associated with.

Why are we all here?

That's right.

We would not be here in this position

to weren't for Mr. Sage.

I cannot encourage our audience enough

to throw into their search bar Sage Wilde.

And to look into this amazingly interesting human being.

What are my favorite people to talk to?

I really do enjoy having conversations with him.

Not even about work.

Just about life in general or tech in general

or any of these things.

It's just done some incredible stuff.

And so many people in the tech industry and tech world

come out of it with maybe a good fortune.

And many of them will buy a sports team

or will live out their dreams of going,

quote, unquote, going to the space

when they're just really going to the outer atmosphere

and they're really not going.

I mean, by the most technical of technicalities

they're going to space.

That's what a lot of these tech millionaires will do.

Sage decided to go back to his home state

and do something that he saw was missing.

Up and down the state he was seeing something

that us in radio had been feeling a long time.

A lot of conglomerates had been buying up

local mom and pop radio stations

and putting on propaganda,

putting on whatever they wanted

or what they felt was just

or pushing people into different direction

or a lot of different things.

Or even if they thought would be profitable, right?

Yeah.

Sage decided, well, there's nobody representing democracy.

There's nobody talking about that.

There's nobody talking about the other side.

We need both sides need to be shown.

I would think as somebody who walks the line here

that both sides would want that.

And if you don't, then that says something about the other side.

If they're afraid of you hearing about things,

if they're afraid of information,

who's afraid of information?

That's something right there.

This guy took his fortune

and decided to invest it in his whole state

and the future of its state

and the democracy of its state,

all of these things,

and put the power in the people's hands

and support local.

These stations that I'm talking about, Sage,

bought, where as many of these other companies

that I'm talking about, I dealt with this twice.

I was working at a radio station

that was bought up by one of these conglomerates

and they fired down near everybody.

Sage came and bought our station

and not only kept everybody,

but the first thing they did was give us insurance papers.

That's true investment.

That's not just a saying it.

That's not just walking it out and talking it out

and everything in interviews or something like that.

That is true investment in your people.

That is true investment in democracy.

When I say all of us wouldn't be here without him,

it's not just something cute I'm saying or anything like that.

I'm talking about not just us working here,

but democracy in Wisconsin.

And it being represented

at the very least up and down the dial

on civic media radio stations.

It starts with him.

And the importance of all the local coverage

for every single station,

something that is so missing right now

in the media landscape.

And it is something that they're putting in a lot of effort

to invest in.

That is right.

Yep, we're a little short-handed,

but we're doing the best we can.

That's right.

And not for nothing as well.

Great style.

I like it style.

I like it style.

You got a good style.

We have some local bird.

You could tell you grew up in California.

Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

We want to talk about some local bird days.

Here we wish a very happy birthday right off the gate to

one of my favorite actors.

Ever.

Amanda Mitle.

Happy birthday, Amanda.

Mm-hmm.

Mandy, up in point now, her and her family

and working at the university over there.

For a long time local,

worked at the WRCT stage grew up on that stage pretty much.

Okay.

I don't know how many shows she did over there.

I know I was fortunate to be a part of many of them.

And an amazing actor.

Just a wonderful, giving, fantastic actor.

Very cool.

And a great, pretty darn good human being at it too.

That was a nice set.

Happy birthday, Amanda.

Happy birthday to D.N.

Mick Miller.

Her late mother was also a head of birthday on this day.

They shared a birthday.

Oh, okay.

Sweet.

D.N.A.

Have a great birthday.

Happy birthday.

Wish an happy birthday to Donna Johnson.

Happy birthday, Donna.

Happy birthday, Donna.

Enjoy the day, Donna.

Oh, that's a good one.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Jennifer Radke.

Happy birthday, Jennifer.

Happy birthday, Jennifer.

Enjoy the day.

All of you.

Yes.

We are St. Petty Day people.

Yes.

Enjoy.

Who are you sharing your birthdays with?

What celebrities are you sharing your birthdays with?

Well, it's a pretty good list.

I got John Boydegg.

They're right at the top of it, 33 for him.

Finn in the Star Wars movies.

My mom and dad did not really get into the Star Wars movies.

But they watched a movie on Netflix.

They cloned Tyrone or something.

Few times in my life, I have heard my parents from upstairs

laughing so hard.

He shouted at their TV so loud that they were like,

I had headphones on.

I'm still here, though.

They love that moment.

Nice.

It apparently he was really good at it.

There you go.

Hozier is 35.

All six foot 19 of him.

Man is a giant.

Man is a giant.

Looks for days, hair for days.

Oh, and that voice.

And he writes his own stuff.

None of that is fair.

One thing.

You can have one of those.

You can't have all of them.

No, he's amazing.

He's amazing.

He really is.

I wasn't a huge fan, didn't know much about him.

He showed up on SNL.

Was very self-deprecating, hilariously self-deprecating.

And then he goes out there and performs.

And to me, that is one of the true tales of how good of an artist you are.

Because it's not just being, it's one thing to be able to do it live.

That's the first thing for me.

If you can pull it off live, then I'm in.

I'm all in on you.

No matter what genre music you do or anything.

But the SNL stage is just not built for music.

The acoustics are not very good.

It's small.

It's really impressive to me.

Even if it's like Lady Gaga was on recently.

I'm not a big Lady Gaga fan.

I admire, respect her forever in everything.

And things she's awesome.

But I'm not going to lie and say I got a ton of her music in my playlist.

But her performance during the two things she did,

she did things I'd never seen on that stage.

And one of the things she did didn't even have to do at the stage.

She was filming and doing her show, singing, dancing in the back area.

Like in spots that I didn't even know.

Like existed.

That's interesting.

It's just cool to see the way that they do these things artistically.

What Hozier did when going up there was very stripped down

and really showed you the power of that voice.

Like just like even through all those bad acoustics and everything sounded amazing.

Cool.

And take me to church.

He's good.

He's good.

Let's see here.

Justin Hawks is 50 lead singer of the darkness.

That's the one I was looking for a second.

Mia Hamm is 53, retired women's soccer star.

Yeah, one of the best of all time.

No more still married, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's hard for me to say, but she may be my favorite soccer player of all time.

She might be.

Yeah, I really enjoyed watching her.

She was good.

Mia Hamm, where so many people are known for their goal scoring.

She was known for a lot more to me, I think.

There's no soccer, you know, Savant, but to me.

Right.

Right.

Seeing the whole field and being able to set up her outfit.

Yeah.

Constant.

I don't know how many World Cups we won, thanks to Mia Hamm.

Yeah.

She had a big part of it for sure.

Oh, let's see.

Your Matthew St. Patrick is 57.

A great character actor, great actor.

Keith on 6 feet under.

And his name is Matthew St. Patrick.

And that's his God given name.

And he was born to say Patrick's Day.

Oh, my God.

Love it.

That's great.

I love it.

Billy Corgan is 58.

Wow.

Singer, songwriter of Smashing Pumpkins.

Still bald.

Oh, I love Smashing Pumpkins.

Yeah.

Billy Corgan, him and I forget his name.

But they were used to show up like in like the South Side of Chicago.

And like sending, like handing out mixed tapes and stuff.

Like just trying to get people to buy or sell them or hand them out or retap them or anything like that.

Just get their names out there.

But I mean, like it was one thing to see that where I was from.

And it's another where like it wasn't the type of music that you would normally associate with it.

Right.

But like it completely treated like with like everybody had a problem with them.

Like everybody was fine with them and everything.

And it's always looked the way he looks right now.

Right.

Like always looked the way.

Although a little younger, but always looked that way.

If you see him like real early when he still had hair, that's very jarring.

Yeah.

Because he's absolutely used to him with those shaved heads.

So a couple more for you.

A couple of actors for you here.

Rob Lowe is 61.

Wow.

A cat actor.

More lives than you can shake a stick at.

My goodness.

To that point.

Or Shalali.

Yeah, I guess we're on St. Patrick's.

Rob Lowe wouldn't have nicely done.

Rob Lowe would never do this because it's just kind of a...

It's not really his style of comedy or the kind of person he is.

But if I was Rob Lowe, I'd be going to Rob Lowe.

You know, I'm the godfather of sex tapes.

You realize that, right?

Like when that happened to Rob Lowe for those that don't know or don't remember whatever.

Rob Lowe had a career that was going for the sun.

And a sex tape gets leaked.

And his career is supposed to be dead.

Like we're never going to hear from him again.

That's it.

It's over.

And of course he rebounds.

And is it where he is now and everything?

And it's a credit to him and his will and his agent.

Always, you know, for getting a career back.

Yeah.

Because that wasn't supposed to happen.

I would also be if I was him like, OK, so now it's fine.

Now it does.

Now it's actually a possible half the people look at it as a positive in the reality.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I loved him in the West Wing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, he has appeared.

He just, I don't know where.

I'm telling you, this man, he's like a bad penny.

I really liked him in parks and wrecks.

I think Melissa, I think that's his best work.

Probably his West Wing.

I think I think you're right about that.

One of the best actors I'll ever see.

Gary Seneesa 70 today.

Oh, wow.

Lieutenant Dan and Forest Gump Chicago's own.

One of the founders of Steppable Theater.

And you want to talk about somebody buying local supporting local.

Gary Seneesa has done that to an extent with not just his communities.

And where he has lived in his life.

But obviously, the work he has done for our veterans.

Yes.

One of the greatest actors I will ever see.

And it pales in comparison to the work this man does for our veterans day in and day out.

Him, John Stewart, certain people like this.

We need to be holding up and thanking and appreciating and emulating.

Yeah.

Very different than some people out there.

Especially, I don't know, people who actually fought for this country who are now serving as a senator

or congressman or representative and could not be slapping our veterans in the face more.

And acting more like a punk.

A way to forget your service.

A way to forget what you did.

Gary Seneesa has.

Gary Seneesa continues.

And in your fellow service.

Yeah.

People.

And you're old to the Constitution.

Oh, yeah.

You're old to the Constitution.

Well said, Melissa.

Kurt Russell is 74.

Why are you up in Tombstone?

Oh, my gosh.

Love Kurt Russell.

Kurt Russell is why are you up in Tombstone?

Oh, my God.

That's a wild movie.

Oh, yeah.

I know it's not historically accurate.

I don't care.

I don't care.

Oh, I don't care.

But there's something about that movie, boy.

If you ever want to have fun, listen to or find a way to read about the making of Tombstone,

that's just as wild as the actual movie.

Yes.

It was crazy.

Yeah.

The cast.

The cast they had for Tombstones, insane.

Yeah.

Just insane.

And Kurt Russell, one of the best parts of it.

Also, Santa and the Christmas Chronicles.

Overboard.

Overboard.

Overboard.

Someone was going to bring that up.

I love, no, I'm with you.

I love overboard.

Captain Ron.

Captain Ron.

Yeah.

I'm Martin Schwartz.

That one was the best part.

That's terrible.

I'm sorry.

I love Kurt Russell.

That's terrible movie.

Anyway, I love the movie.

I don't care how terrible it is.

It's so good.

Patrick Duffy is 76.

Dallas and step by step.

Oh, great TV actor.

John Sebastian is 81, lead singer of The Love and Spoon.

Oh, my goodness.

And of course, the theme song for Welcome Back Cod?

Yes, that's right.

One of the greatest, if not the greatest theme song ever.

And people no longer with us, the Legend Net King Cole.

Oh, wow.

One of the great voices of all time.

One of the greatest voices, one of the most associated voices

with Christmas celebrates his birthday and say Patrick's Day.

That's pretty great.

That's pretty great.

That's pretty great.

That's pretty great.

And everybody celebrating a birthday or anniversary out there,

we wish you a great one.

Cannot think of a better way to celebrate than tomorrow,

getting on over to El Café.

That's right.

You go celebrate with them.

Everybody, there are 221 Market Avenue,

import Edwards.

Visit them tomorrow when they open their doors.

Get your pie.

Yeah, give them a hug.

We're going to go ahead and get to a news and sports

and partner break.

We'll come back.

We'll have some more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR,

locally grown radio, Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Want to send a shout out to the best listeners in radio.

We had this one at the win that shakes the Barnley.

Barley is a great movie.

A movie about the struggle for Irish independence.

Oh, yeah.

Silly and Murphy.

That came out early in the early odds.

It is a very good movie.

Okay.

And Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a good Irish movie.

My Nana loved that movie.

That's right.

I remember seeing that.

It's a weird movie.

It's very, it starts out, you know, general.

It gets kind of weird in the second half,

but that's good.

Yeah.

It's a good kind of weird.

Yeah.

It is.

And that's good because we're a good kind of weird.

Yeah.

It's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of,

it's kind of our regular house right there.

Walking Ned Devine also mentioned as well.

Another good one.

Yeah.

It's a good Irish movie.

Absolutely.

So one thing that I try to, I like to do,

if I have the time on St. Patrick's Day is watching movies

that may, whether they do have anything to do with St. Patrick's Day

or Irish people is one thing.

If they are filmed in Ireland,

it's got to be filmed in Ireland because, like I brought this up on Friday,

I think far and away, the movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Yes.

Not the greatest movie, but one of the best,

like as good as those two are as actors,

the scenery in that movie, the sort of photography is just worth seeing.

I mean, it's one of those, the landscape of Ireland is just so gorgeous.

Yeah.

Why would you not want to film there now?

I would like to give a shout out for Valley Kiss Angel.

Good one.

Which is a 1996 TV series.

Yes.

There are six seasons and it was set in Ireland and it's so good.

It's about a minister who goes to Ireland, right?

It's a British priest and he's adjusting to rural Irish community.

It's funny.

Everybody's up in everybody's business and it's hilarious.

It's a very cute show, I agree.

I've seen a few episodes.

I wanted to touch on this and then we can get back

to some St. Patrick's Day stuff.

I got that and I got science telling us that it actually does hurt

to think a little bit.

But I do want you guys to keep getting us all those,

you know, St. Patrick's Day movies are Ireland movies.

Other stuff.

You can text them in everybody.

But we got to talk about this because this is important

and it ties into something we are just kind of getting at.

So this one, Melissa, I'm sorry, I saw some articles about this,

but Melissa also sent over a article about it.

About Arlington Cemetery being scrubbed info on famous black,

Hispanic and female veterans to comply with the president's order.

As we have heard from Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth,

declaration that DEI is dead as they are working to scrub our government

and much of our country from our history of our identity,

the American identity.

They are working to do something that you is literally impossible to do.

And they should know this better than anybody

because it is a very similar group of people

and most of the same like-minded people that were talking about this

when people were talking about tearing down,

you know, the Custer Lee's statue or certain statues

and South and everything.

And, you know, well, you can take those down.

It's okay that history is not going anywhere.

History is, you know, especially in this point

where we have all the information we do and everything.

Now we're doing this again on the other side of things.

Where Arlington's National Cemetery has been purged

of dozens of pages of information about famous black,

Hispanic, and female veterans from its website to comply

with the president's diversity, equity, and inclusion executive order.

The purge follows defense secretaries declaration about this.

Okay.

How is-

Good to know.

How is this helping our VFWs?

Yeah.

Like the time spent on this,

how is this major lives better out there?

715-424-2600, please.

I'm asking, this isn't me like trying to start something.

I generally want to know.

I'm generally asking, how is this major lives better?

How are your lives better?

Just overall, how are they better?

With all of these things going on.

These are literally Americans that fought for our country,

that did the one thing we asked for them to do.

How many of you have done that out there?

I sure as hell haven't.

Yeah, fair question.

But they did, and they deserve one of the few things

that you will hear like soldier go out of their way to talk about

the Washington cemetery.

Being a soldier is one of the most selfless things you can do in life.

And there is very few people that understand this.

If you were not raised in a military family,

you don't have military people in your lives, and I get that.

But one thing that I'm asking here is to tell me how this makes things better.

Please, tell me how this makes it better.

Tell me how the effort and time being put by government employees

into doing this wouldn't be better served in VFWs

in helping our VFW, our veterans, or VAs, or any of the above.

Yeah.

How does this make the world better?

Because from what I can see and what I can read,

the only thing it's doing is a talking point,

is just a pushback, is just pettiness,

is a bunch of punks, a bunch of punks, a bunch of cowards.

And at the top of all this is an individual who bragged about dodging the war.

Quote, President Trump acknowledged to advisors that he made up a fake injury

to avoid military service because, quote, I wasn't going to Vietnam.

This is according to President Trump's one of his many former lawyers.

You can find this at militarytimes.com.

There's an article right there for you right away.

Militarytimes.com through it in your search engine.

You will also find for business insider,

how President Trump avoided military draft five times.

Five times he avoided the draft.

So I'm going to have him tell me that my grandfather

who fought in two wars, or my papa who fought in two wars,

or my cousin who is overseas right now working for our people.

I'm going to listen to that guy over them who told me my grandfather did

that everybody that puts on that uniform,

no matter if they are here in the land in the States

or they're overseas fighting for it, they matter.

They are the reason democracy rings.

And we're going to scrub that we're going to try to get rid of their names.

I want to do the opposite of this.

Every name that they take off of there,

I want every individual out there to post on their social media.

I want every individual to learn their names.

Yeah, it's a great way to draw attention to that too, by the way.

I don't know if they realize that real quick James two things.

I remember a time, let's see, was it the 1990s?

A man by the name of Bill Clinton was running for President.

And I remember a lot of people being very upset that he did not serve in Vietnam.

A lot of people that maybe are Trump supporters now,

I don't know, you know, you tell me.

People were very upset about that.

And two, so if this is something you're enjoying,

like you say, this is something that makes you feel good,

that they're getting scrubbing these names and this history and stuff.