Are Those Mutually Exclusive Though(Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

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Got your host, James Bond, the mic.

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

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We hope you're having a great start to your day out there.

We're going to go ahead and kick things off.

The way we like to around here with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Talk a little Mother Nature.

And Brittany, I have this from Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Happy first day of spring to residents of the Earth's Northern Hemisphere.

And first day of autumn to residents of Earth's Southern Hemisphere.

Woohoo!

We did it, didn't we?

We did it.

We did it, everybody.

Yes, we did it.

We did indeed.

Yes, we did it, Tom.

And Mother Nature made it tough on us to get us to the finish line there.

She did.

She was like, don't you forget about winter.

She gave us the biggest storm of the season it felt like, didn't it?

Yes, it really did.

Especially this night, I shoveled last night.

I thought, oh, we'll be okay.

And then the plows come through.

So I had to do some more shoveling right before I came in this morning.

I have no back.

My elbows are dead.

But the snow is so heavy.

That's what it is.

It's got to be the heaviest snow of the year.

I don't know if that's the thing you can test.

But I feel like it has been for sure.

Absolutely.

It has been because those temperatures were right around the freezing mark when it started falling.

Those big, wet, fat flakes.

We had flush underneath.

And then lighter, fluffy, or snow fell on top.

And then with the wind last night, whipping that snow around, it was just a mess.

Especially on the roads.

A lot of accidents out there.

Seven inches piled up in supportage counties.

So quite a bit of a hefty, heavy, like you said, snowfall.

I hope you guys are taking breaks while you were clearing it.

I hope some of the kids made snowman or something.

Yes, yes.

Because it was finally packable.

We don't really get packable snowfall.

So it is fun for snowball fights as well.

Otherwise, that was just punch one.

We've got another punch trying to hit us on Sunday.

Another storm does want to move in kind of the same scenario.

Right now, it's staying a little bit north of us.

But again, just like this last system did.

What did it do?

It went south, further than the track.

So I just want everybody to be aware that Sunday it is one of those winch remixed, heavy snow type events.

Where someone is going to get piled on.

So that's Sunday.

Until Sunday, it's beautiful today.

Highs in the upper 30s, a little bit cooler because we have that snowpack on the ground.

So it does reflect that sunlight and warmth back out to the atmosphere.

So we stay colder than the rest of the state.

Tomorrow, we will hit highs and the upper 40s.

And we'll be melting and working on that snow.

We do have a chance of light rain in the afternoon, which could flip to a few flurries in the evening.

But after that, it's dry, sunny, beautiful on Saturday with highs at about 40.

Nice.

Not bad, not bad.

Nice break here.

If we do have to get more snow, let's get some rid of some of this here.

Absolutely.

Appreciate you, Brittany.

Have a great day.

We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Enjoy the snow.

You too.

You too.

We know you will.

Yeah, exactly.

Enjoy it.

We have some fun stuff lined up for you, everybody.

We got the LKF Apertine anniversary club right around the corner.

We're going to talk a little March Madness, our top bracket strategies and hunches for this one.

I keep going back and forth.

I've got with my winners because they do this thing where they allow you to, like, you know, you can reenter.

Or you can lock it in.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

I've got three hours and seven minutes to decide between Auburn and Duke and I cannot make the decision.

I decided that Auburn.

I already went with Auburn back and forth about it.

We'll get into that a little bit later.

We'll also get into another fun one here about a bundle that Samsung is offering.

I don't know about this one.

I want to get into tattoo anxiety.

You can now go under anesthesia if you want to get a tattoo.

That is.

Got to talk about it.

Oh, interesting.

Wow.

Of course, it's the Thursday.

That means we'll kick out the 9 o'clock hour with our friend Denise and the Pat Southwarkani

main society in our pet of the week.

Yeah.

Looking forward to that.

Got some entertainment news.

Samuel Jackson and Bruce Willis shared a moment.

I want to talk about that.

All the bands at Ozzie's final show that will be playing black Sabbath songs.

Oh, nice.

About that.

And our WFHR newsletter.

Got those all lined up for you.

And the best pairs of fictional best friends from TV and movies.

We will get into that one as well.

Buddy picks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good to know all those.

But for right now, we're kicking off our show, our opening monologue.

Are you someone who cherishes the experience of going out to your mailbox?

See what's out there.

Doesn't matter if it's junk mail or if it's mail like or anything like that.

Do you enjoy going to the mailbox?

I enjoy it so much I do it twice.

I do it here and I go over it.

My parents are not.

All right.

I really don't think much about this.

I can be honest.

I've never thought much about our mail people.

I think about our delivery drivers out there that we shout out, especially days like this.

We appreciate you.

Of our truck drivers out there that keep our whole entire industry moving.

Appreciate all of them.

But I don't think much about the physical act of getting mail.

It's, I don't think of it as a chore though.

Not really.

I know some people that look at, oh, I got to get the mail.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Well, our mailbox is like directly outside our back door.

So we just open the door, reach out and grab it.

So there's no, there's no trip.

Now, when I was growing up, we had a very long driveway.

I was wondering about this.

And we had to go all the way.

So a lot of times when I got dropped off by the bus, that was what I would do.

Or the bus would go by.

I would cross the street.

Grab the road.

I shouldn't say street.

It was in the country.

And then grab the mail and then walk back to the house.

So that was my job.

My Nana Papa's house in Rome was a little similar.

So it was always my job to grab the mail.

And I took it very seriously.

I took a very over the whole two minutes.

It took me to get from the mailbox to their house.

Right, right.

In a poll, 5% of people say that on average, they need or want all the physical mail they can receive.

Really?

13% say most of it is good.

And another 13% say that they usually want about half of it.

51% say that they care about less than half of the mail they get.

And 9% claim that they don't need any of it.

Whoa.

The demographic most likely to not want their mail is older Midwestern women.

Okay.

I think some people immediately were thinking of this.

Yeah.

Well, that's going to be young people.

It's the Zoomers, right?

Yeah.

It's the complete opposite.

Younger people have never, who don't get a lot of mail.

Don't.

Terry, who will be in with us tomorrow from the United Way, has mentioned this many times with the United Way,

with the, I'm sorry, the imagination.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

That so many advantages to that program and one of them being kids get mail.

Oh, man.

I mean, I don't care.

What era you grew up in when you were a kid and you get something specifically for you in the mail.

Man, that is just so exciting.

My mom and dad, because they were living in Illinois when I was first moved up here and everything,

they would send letters.

And I still have them.

Yeah, of course.

I still have them.

Absolutely.

They're about seven of them and I still have them.

Yes.

And you're so right, man.

As soon as you said that, that was my first thought that popped in my head was what it was like walking to my puppet.

Sightment.

Yes, as what it was.

Such an awesome feeling.

And even now getting, you know, birthday cards, you know, from various folks and stuff.

That's still, there's still something nice about that.

What a cool, like, you know, we love nostalgia.

We love doing throwback things with fashion and music and all this.

How cool would it be if we went back to like writing letters?

Like that was the next thing.

The ultimate.

Yeah.

How about you make that a big trend?

Sitting down.

Yeah.

Writing a letter.

Type writers come back.

What up y'all doing this cool new thing right now where I dip this cool thing.

It's called a pen.

I dip it into this ink like this.

They used to do this back and they're like, you know, wait a minute.

I love the idea of that.

Yeah.

Going all the way back.

Yes.

You have your own seal for the wax.

Yes.

The ceiling wax.

That was cool.

That was cool.

I don't care when anybody says your family having a crest and a sealed seal to make sure no one opened your mail.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And nobody knew if it was it was legit unless it had that seal.

That's right.

It's in this day and age where we're worried about fake things and all this.

Maybe we need to go back to the wax seals.

I think I'm actually out of something.

And everyone gets to make their own crest.

Yeah.

How cool would that be and register it, you know, with the, hey, that'd be awesome.

That'd be fun.

Imagine the whining and complaining that would exist with people.

It takes me forever to do this.

Oh, no.

It's worth it.

Totally.

On average, most people say that they get one to five pieces of mail per day with 8% saying that they get more than that

and 29% of people say that they have taken steps to reduce the physical mail they get 62% haven't bothered with that at all.

Wow.

And they get a lot of junk mail.

Yeah.

Speaking of, I did a survey recently because we of course have an election right around the corner.

We're going to be talking more about this leading up and of course next week we're going to be focusing on quite a bit.

One of the things that I wanted to ask a lot of like my parents neighbors and some other people in town,

guests that we've had in for Midday Magazine, hey, this, this junk mail.

How do you feel?

Ah, nobody likes junk mail.

How do you feel about attack ads coming directly to your house?

Wow.

That's a good question.

Every single person, and this is maybe 17, 18 people.

So it's not a huge line of people or anything like that.

Right.

17, 18 people I talk to, don't even read it.

No.

Don't even look at it.

They just throw it in the garbage or they could throw it in recycling.

Yep.

That's what I do.

Don't even look.

I don't even see who it's for or against.

I just see what it is.

And I'm like, nope.

I'm going to recycle it.

715-424-2600 or you can text in through the civic media app if you'd like.

Do these, uh, these attack ads that come and, you know, these little flyers to your house.

Mm-hmm.

Do you pay attention?

Do you care?

Do you like them?

Anything.

There's no wrong answer here.

No.

Yes.

Because, uh, doing, it doesn't take a lot of digging to figure out why they do this.

These, these politicians, and it's on both sides of the aisle, everybody.

Again, they're campaign groups or whatever they are now.

I don't even know what they're called.

Those campaign groups, they get a lot of money.

They get done so much.

And there's a lot of people that they hire to do these things.

So they got to look busy.

They got to look like they're doing something.

They got to look like they're taking those donations of yours to make America, you know,

democracy great and all these things and show that they're doing something.

What are they doing with it?

Attack ads.

That's where the majority of this stuff goes.

Mm-hmm.

And nobody likes them.

Tell me one person, please, one person call in and tell me an attack ad has changed your vote.

Mm-hmm.

Tell me this.

I'm, I'm at the point.

I've been doing this for years, man.

I've not got one person in, in, I'd say at least since the pandemic.

So let's say the less five years.

I've been doing this job about nine, ten years.

Well, let's say less five.

One person, just one person, tell me.

Well, you know, I saw that attack ad and then actually it made me think about it.

I did a little more digging and it turns out I'm not going to vote for this person.

Tell me one person.

We all get it.

We all get what this is about.

In school, did anybody enjoy when two kids were just like they were just like picking on each other?

And it got, and like it may have started out okay, but towards the end they're like,

your shoes are funny.

Like, it's not even good anymore.

It's not even like great.

They're trying to find like really lame stuff that's that they're too salty.

Your big toes, your big toes too big.

Like, you know, that's what these attack ads are.

They're acting like children.

And, and they're tearing each other apart to the point where nobody knows who to vote for.

And it needs to be, there needs to be something done about it.

The, the idea of freedom of speech, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom isn't free.

It costs something.

It should cost accountability.

Yep, it should cost facts.

Right.

And truth.

Here's the way, here's the way I like to put it.

You're free to say whatever you want.

And this means that it's not consequence, free.

Because everyone else is, is able to say the other thing.

You know, that's the whole, that's the beauty of free speech, right?

Yeah.

Is that you can't just go out and say whatever you want.

People will respond.

And especially if you're saying things that, you know, is this true?

Or, you know, that kind of stuff.

That's, I mean, the concept.

And then half of them, half of the, the majority of these politicians, I will say, tend to be cowards.

And won't even take a call or take a public hearing or something like that.

I thought the other side was the snowflakes.

I thought that's how that worked.

How, how, how is that?

Turns out they're all snowflakes.

Yeah, turns out they all are.

Yeah, yeah.

They're not brave.

They get, um, imagine like your boss.

Your boss wants to have a meeting with you.

James, you need to come in here.

We need to talk right now.

No.

No, you might be mean to me.

No, you might say something to me.

I don't want to hear.

I'm not doing that.

But you have to.

I'm your boss.

No, I choose not to.

Derrick van Orton doesn't have to.

I'm his boss.

I, we're all his boss.

Yeah.

And he's not listening.

He's not exactly, and he's not the only one.

There's plenty.

Not at all.

Uh, and I swear to God on everything I am.

If Democrats were doing this, I'd be, I'd be dragging them over the calls for it.

Uh, nobody should get allowed to do that.

And anybody who's okay with that, you're okay with other people making decisions for you and your family.

You're okay with that.

That's what you've seen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're just doing whatever they're, the money in their pocket is telling them to do.

Because if you think that they know that money in their pocket from this person, and that person, and this group, and that group, go ahead and look, uh, look.

Yeah.

It's right there for you.

Yep.

These attack ads don't, don't solve anything.

Mm-hmm.

All they are is recycled paper.

That's it.

That's all it is is recycled paper.

Um, the other thing, too, that I wanted to touch on is we need to get back to, um, crazy ads.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, I miss the crazy car ads.

I miss the crate there.

I'm crazy at it.

Yeah, right.

Wild deals.

Where have they gone, Seth?

I don't know.

Those were fun ads, man.

I miss it.

Okay.

I miss it.

So you get like one of the ads that we completely forget right after the Super Bowl, right?

You know, they spend millions and millions of dollars on these things.

Yeah.

What are the ones you remember?

The local ads from when you were a kid.

Oh, yeah.

Where are these guys?

I mean, the horrible production values and that you barely can act in anything.

But they're memorable.

You remember them.

Rosas, fashions at large.

It's clear.

It's clear.

There are so many great ads telling you that.

It's all local stuff.

Good stuff, too.

Maybe that's the next star of the day bit we should do is local commercials.

Oh, God.

That might be rough.

That might be tough.

I don't know if a lot of people would remember a lot of that.

But you never know.

You never know.

Uh, and one last note that I wanted to touch on here.

And I've had the opportunity, like most of you out there is a parent to play with kids.

And, you know, hang out with your kids and stuff and create games and see how their imaginations were.

I was with Laura's daughter Quinn and we were playing and I was watching her and everything.

And so about two hours go by.

And we played 25,000 games in between that time.

Right.

And it starts out just as every game is something she creates.

Every game is an invention of hers in her head.

And there are no rules.

There is no, everything changes every five seconds at all that.

It's a kelvin ball, right?

Yeah.

It's just wild.

It's just insane.

And I'm trying to keep up.

And at the end of this, I realize, oh, this is how Japanese game shows are created.

We have been poaching like a game show ideas and TV show ideas from Japan and England and all this and everything.

And people like one of the, for those that don't know, it's kind of an old joke and entertainment of Japanese game shows.

Yes.

And how wild and crazy.

Yeah.

SNL did a great bit on this back in the day with Chris Farley and Mike Myers.

It's one of the few bits that they did together that they wrote together, but it's a great one.

Farley's just losing his mind.

He's like, what's going on?

Nobody will tell me.

It's really good.

But I finally know how they do this.

They don't have adults who are just more creative than us or anything like that.

No.

They put about three or four kids in the room and just take notes and just take notes.

That's how Japanese game shows are created.

I believe that.

That's it.

I believe that.

I'm very confident about that.

Awesome.

So kids, you need to get some like a screen after guild rights.

Yeah.

Let's get those in there.

Copyright laws on that stuff.

Yep, yep.

Work on that.

We will be back with more.

We've got the L.K.A. birthday anniversary clip coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.

You heard the fat four.

It's time for the birthday and anniversary club with our great friends at L.K.A.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to L.K.A.

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Get on over there.

Check out some of the great food, great menus, great specials they have.

The only thing that tops that is the people.

Amazing people over there.

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Go ahead and check that out.

And as Seth noted here, make sure to try one of their pies.

Absolutely.

And every time you go there, try a different one.

Try a different one.

They've got so many to choose from.

As much as I want that death by chocolate, they got a pumpkin one.

I'm looking at it.

Wait a minute.

They have an espresso coffee.

A pie?

How about that?

I got to go.

I got to go.

She's got to get to try this coffee pie.

You guys have yourselves a great day.

That sounds amazing.

That sounds really good.

That does sound good.

I'd be curious to try that.

It's an espresso pie.

Oh my god, that sounds good.

What was I supposed to do today in the second year?

What were we doing again?

Oh, birthdays.

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And we have two possible qualifiers today, Seth.

I need a one or a two.

One.

Oh, all right.

Gives us that one.

And we wish first a very happy birthday to Jan.

Jan Langeff.

Happy birthday, Jan.

Jan, enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Thanks a lot.

We're getting us that birthday.

And who are qualifiers, happy 49th anniversary.

Nice.

Jan and Cheryl cling forth.

Oh, John and Cheryl.

Congratulations.

49.

Great year because, you know, I know you wrote one off from the big 50.

But still, that's impressive stuff.

Yeah, very, very good.

Very good.

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And of course, our great friends over at L Cafe.

We take a look at the people that you are sharing your birthday with

on our celebrity list.

Mikey Day is 45.

Current Senate Live cast member.

Also a voice actor and writer on robot chicken.

A couple of other things.

He's got, he is one of the more, he's got an odd look and an odd face to him

in some ways.

And I'm only saying that because he has said that.

Right.

And he has leaned into that comedically.

And he is one of the more fearless cast members on SNL right now.

Right.

He is always willing to be the butt of the joke.

He is the Chris Parnell of this class.

Gotcha.

Chris Parnell will never get the do he has deserved.

Almost every bit that you remember other than maybe the cowbell sketch.

Chris Parnell was usually the butt of the joke or something like that in movies.

He is in TV shows he tends to be.

And he just does it.

And does it like better than most ever have.

I actually think Chris Parnell is incredibly underrated.

Especially as a voice actor.

Mikey Day is very similar to that to me.

You've got to have certain things in a improv group.

You've got to have the people that are willing to look foolish.

Every sketch.

If that's what called on.

An impersonator.

Somebody that can do those things.

Right.

Senate Live.

I think the problem for a lot of people with new cast is it takes a while for this to get flushed out.

Right.

Yeah, absolutely.

They've kind of built that now in the last two seasons where they've got their key players.

How you're the QB?

You're the running back.

Some of these things.

And I think that's only made the show that much stronger.

Unfortunately though they only get a couple of years of this.

If that to really build that and everything.

And then they can split up.

So it's interesting to me because his name is probably Michael Day.

And he goes by Mikey Day.

And I think if people don't know out there, actors choose their own name.

How they want to be represented.

I'm guessing because there's a lot of Mike Days out there.

He went with Mikey even though it's, you know, it's like a little kid kind of thing.

But it makes sense though.

And it's something you'd remember for having a very somewhat common name.

While I've had out of the 10 agents, I've had seven or eight of them have asked me to change my last name.

All of them love my first name.

They almost always start out.

We love James.

Love James.

I don't go by Jim or Jimmy.

Then they would ask me to change it to James.

But the last name, yeah, they always ask me to change it.

Actually, the only two agents I have in my first and my most recent agent have not asked me to change my last name.

Right.

It's interesting.

Michael Rappaport is 55.

He was in prison break.

He's been in a bunch of stuff, friends.

He was on friends a little bit.

He has a recurring guest character on The Simpsons.

And somebody who, you talk about people who just are going to speak their mind.

Well, I'm going to say he's an interesting person when he's not active.

He's, yeah, he's kind of an odd duck, but yeah.

Kathy Ireland is 62.

Oh, for many of us, one of our first crushes.

Yeah.

Just a beautiful one.

Sorry.

I got to do a shout out right here.

One of my favorite episodes of Street Science Theatre 3000.

Alien from LA.

I think it was one of her first starring roles.

Oh, it was her first acting job.

It was her first acting job.

And, you know, she gives it a try.

I got it, you know, I'm going to give her credit, but she wasn't very good.

But the movie, I love it.

It's, it's awesome.

It's probably the worst acting I've ever seen in LA.

And I'm not saying that is to be mean to Kathy Ireland.

No.

I want to say with low budget films, almost every film you've ever seen, most of the actors,

not just the big name actors, most of the actors have an acting coach.

Yes.

Or a dialect coach or somebody like that.

Yeah.

Famously, there are movies where they decided not to do this.

Like in The Devil's Own with Harrison Ford.

And he tries to do an Irish accent.

And it's just gone on.

And it failed.

Yeah.

There was no acting coach on the set of this movie.

It was a Golden Globus movie for crying out loud.

You look up even just a scene from that movie.

And you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

Miss Ireland is probably good.

It is very good at certain things, just not acting.

Yeah.

And it's funny because you got the other people in the film are like overacting.

Yes.

Like to an insane level.

And then you just got in her.

And it's, oh, but it's so good.

It's so much fun.

Well, the movie is horrible.

And it's the worst acting you've ever seen.

It is a top 20, Mr. Science Leader.

It's a great episode.

It's a top 24.

Holly Hunter is 67.

Now she can act.

She can act.

Rings are on most people.

God, I love her acting.

She is the piano.

She wanted to ask her for the piano.

Grace and TNT Saving Grace.

The mom and the Incredibles.

Yeah.

But I think my favorite role of hers is Penny and the O'Brother.

We're out now.

I'm a seller for that movie.

I can't explain why I just love that movie.

And her performance is small.

But she's, she's so good with Clooney in it.

Those two are so good together.

And I really like her performance on that.

She's, I don't, there's no Holly Hunter performance I don't like.

She's always, she always delivers.

Yep.

She did a great movie with Delroy Lindo and you and McGregor and Cameron Diaz.

Where she plays like an angel.

She was incredible in that.

Why is that name not coming to me?

A lifeless ordinary.

There you go.

It's such an underrated movie.

And it's too cheap.

It's really weird.

But it's, that's probably why it's underrated.

It is fantastically 90s weird.

That movie would never get made nowadays.

No.

But Holly Hunter is one of the best parts of it.

One of the best directors of our generation Seth Spike Lee is 68.

One of the Oscar winner to the right thing, Malcolm X.

She's got to have it.

The original King's a comedy.

Spike Lee is also one of the most respected directors in the industry.

Take away any of the off the field stuff.

You don't like him as Nick's fan.

You don't like this about him or whatever.

This guy has done one of the few things that, for everything I could say about great directors,

very few directors do something that other directors,

everybody stops and takes notice.

Spike Lee in his first film, School Days, amazing film.

Lawrence Fishburn.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

There's a scene at the end where Lawrence is screaming and just hollering out of frustration.

And Spike had the idea, how do I really explain this?

How do I really do this?

And Spike Lee, for a lot of people that don't know, likes to do a lot of his own cinematography.

So he'll actually be in the camera behind the camera directing this.

It's truly his vision.

Wow.

He decided to put his actor in that chair and film that and literally flip the camera around.

This may not seem like reinventing the wheel to you or anybody, but nobody had done this before.

No.

And Spike did this and now every director took note.

And from that first film he did, there's like three directors you can talk about with this.

Kubrick Spielberg Lee.

That's the list that Wachowski's did this a little bit with the bullet time and everything.

But we're talking about something that every director could do, not every director could do bullet time.

Any director could do this.

So immediately after this, you see this rise of independent films with scenes like...

Yes.

Spike Lee is one of the best to ever do it.

He has one of those rare directors that has a total vision.

Yeah.

Meaning every aspect of the film is his kind of thing, even if he didn't write it or anything like that.

But because he's an actor, he's acted in several of his films as well.

So it's something to...

It's a remarkable career, really.

One of the greatest coaches of all time, Pat Riley is 80.

Notice I didn't say basketball.

I just said coaches.

Yep.

And one of the greatest careers is ARC.

You had this question the other day that...

I did.

I was going to say, is he a better GM though?

Yeah.

Then a coach because of all the success he's had in Miami.

That's a great question.

It's a good argument.

It's a good argument.

It's a good argument.

Some people no longer with us like comedic genius Karl Reiner, born in the state in 1922.

Directed my favorite comedy, The Jerk.

It might be my favorite comedy.

Love all the work he did with Steve Martin, of course.

He started out with Sid Caesar, your show of shows.

Later on, of course, working with Mel Brooks, because they both were on that show together.

And all the other stuff he did.

The Dick Van Dyke show.

Yes.

One of the best sitcoms of all time.

And Fred Rogers, born in this day in 1928, passed away in 2003.

You cannot tell the history of entertainment without Mr. Rogers.

Nope.

He's a television icon.

One of the greats, so glad I got to watch him.

Me too.

We'll be back with more show coming up on The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown police.

Oh my god, that was awesome.

That was so awesome.

I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Oh, I don't know what that was.

That was good, Ben.

So I didn't see that you had a dream police in the mumpers.

Yeah, right.

You just saw it just now.

And I'm like, oh, that'll be a throwback.

You know what?

I'll go ahead and play that.

It takes me back to my classic rock dance.

Of course.

I did.

I don't know.

I had a medium.

I was trying.

Because I didn't expect that I might say the old call letters.

Also, I was trying not to do that.

And somehow I made our show.

The morning.

Welcome back to the morning police, I guess.

Sheriff Beck will be joining us any minute now.

I don't know what that was.

That was good.

That was excellent.

I did want to get this noted from somebody who can talk.

Pam.

Pam sent in getting lots of mail around your birthday too.

Yeah.

Oh, absolutely.

Things that we like about the mail and everything.

Yeah.

There's a lot of good things about that.

Let's take a look at this one.

Brackets and March Madness.

I brought this up earlier.

I've got my whole bracket put together.

I just.

These last hours have got me debating about who I go way too long, man.

Probably going to stick with Auburn.

Okay.

You know, in part because, and I was talking about this on Playmakers last night,

I have a hard time choosing teams I don't like.

And I've just got this, like I have no rational reason not to like Duke.

I just don't like them.

I'm with you, man.

I'm with you.

And it's so it's difficult for me to choose them even though I could see them winning at all.

And this is one of the, this I bring this up all because of when we're filling out these brackets,

we all have our way of doing this.

It's a little like how every family has their own rules for monopoly.

Sure.

You got the main rules and then everybody's got things a little bit different.

You landed on Go in our house.

You got 500 bucks.

You landed on this.

You got 400.

Like we, we were poor, so we handed out money like crazy in that game.

I love that idea.

It's great.

Everybody's got their own way of doing this and approaching this.

And one of the things that I think about this is kind of fun.

It does this, not does not make this a little snippet of Playmakers or anything.

Is that there are so many people to fill out these brackets to my point.

Go ahead and replay this next week, everybody.

When every one of us knows what we're going to hear,

there's somebody who's got a perfect bracket who has never watched a basketball being dribbled before,

little on a basketball game.

Yeah.

Every year this happens.

There's somebody out there who they chose the reason they chose theirs was because of mascots

or because they like the colors.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

And there's no wrong answer to this.

No.

However you do this is fun.

It's fun, yeah.

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that's fun about this.

Yeah.

How many things like this do we have anymore?

Where strangers and strangers are hanging out and sharing information or getting in on the same thing,

it's very similar to going to a movie and experiencing that.

It's true, it's true.

Yeah.

When there is a upset next week, which there will be, you know, spoiler alert, there's going to be an upset.

Always.

Always.

All of us are going to look at our brackets and all of us are going to be like,

oh, our brackets.

Oh, my bad.

Oh, no, yeah.

Yeah, right.

Why did I change that?

Right, yeah.

It's a pretty universal thing.

I'm not saying everybody does this, but a lot of people do.

A lot of people do, yeah.

And around one in six Americans are planning to this year fill out a bracket.

So a very high number.

That's very high, yeah.

And it's a lot easier when you know nothing about basketball.

A poll found our top strategies for filling out brackets include

hunches, vibes, and whatever our friends think.

You notice none of that had to do with talking heads or Stephen A Smith or anything like that.

Nothing.

That kind of fun.

No ESPN, no nothing.

Yeah.

No J billis on here.

Nothing like that.

Forget it.

18% of Americans think that they follow basketball closely enough to make good picks.

And another 16% have, quote, limited knowledge.

So together, that's about a third.

Okay.

Everyone else is just winging it.

20.

23% said their top strategy is asking friends or family for help.

14% choose winners based on hunches.

22% said that just whatever vibes they're feeling.

So again, to the colors.

Yeah, I love the vibes.

I love the idea of just, I got that good vibes.

We'll go with this one.

And like everything else, vibes, coin flip.

Around one in 10 said that they sometimes make picks based on the team's mascot.

Hey, hey, if you're having fun, I like the idea of doing it that way.

Because there's, I mean, yes.

And heaven forbid you like bet money on this.

Oh, for both don't, please.

Yeah, I pour you.

Please do not.

Do not bet on these.

I wholeheartedly admit, I've never understood gambling of any sense.

But on this, oh, yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Yeah.

Let's go ahead and take a call.

Good morning, you're on the show.

You know, it takes, it takes an expert to get a perfect thing.

And you just got to, you know, what it is, you just close your eyes and point.

That's all you do.

No, this is, this is a really scientific way of it.

It is.

I like this.

I like it because it at least, at the very least, takes the overthinking out of my hands.

Yeah.

Like, because I do that with almost every round.

I'm in the second round and I'm sitting there debating, well, I don't know, man.

Maybe they could do this.

Maybe, oh, this team if they get hot.

And by the end of it, it's already, it doesn't matter because that team didn't even make it to the second round or whatever.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

The most frustrating about all this to be is, is next week, when I'm looking at my bracket,

and I think about all the time I spent thinking about this and how it's all shot in the first weekend.

What a waste, right?

It's like, oh, man.

But that's also part of the fun of this thing.

That's true, too.

In part, I will say this, and I'm always been curious about this.

If there are other people like me out there that don't gamble, but love opportunities like this,

where it's, it's that type of gambling where if I lose, oh, no, people don't think I know basketball.

Oh, no.

It was shocker, everybody.

I'm a guy who runs a sports show that doesn't know everything about sports.

Get, guess what?

That's every sports host.

That's everybody.

You, you think the talking, yeah, you think the talking heads on ESPN don't have a mouth earpiece in that tells them.

Yeah, exactly.

And the stats and things that they give.

They have stats, guys.

That's what they do.

It's one of the things that give Tony Cornheye's a credit about all the time.

He always credits the producer that does that.

It gives him the, yep, yep.

It's all just for fun, you know?

I mean, you put money on it.

That's on you.

But to me, I think this is all the braggie rights that haven't fun.

I agree.

Is that the way you approach a kef?

Well, I did it.

I mean, I used to get really serious about it a few years ago and got after a bunch of fools.

I tried to, you know, get into as much as I can.

But, you know, obviously $5, $10, $0, $0, $0, $0, $0, $0, it doesn't get mad at expensive.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're doing it.

You know, just have fun doing it myself.

You know, a couple of us, you know, talk about it.

Would they like to drive, you know?

And I hope we did last night a little bit.

All right.

It does get to be fun when you can do it that way.

But when you start doing the money thing and, you know, I really, you know,

up to about a few years ago, I really didn't have a lot of time to sit down and watch all the games.

And now it's getting hard to watch because, I mean, I love college sports.

I mean, but this NIL stuff is getting hard to really get into the college stuff now because, you know,

you get these kids that come in there and, well, you're not going to give me enough money.

So I'm going to go somewhere else that's going to give me.

You know, you only see them.

They're like a one and done in the schools.

And I thought they can fix that.

I think college, I mean, they might start losing, you know, they said they think about it.

They might start losing viewerships, you know.

Yeah.

This is two years now I've been here in this and the ratings were strong last year.

We'll see what they are this year.

I think in college sports, more than not, people go to teams than players or coaches than players.

Right.

And I think that long before NIL, they got to figure out how to keep these kids in college.

I'm not even worried about them staying with one university.

I just wanted to stay in college longer so they get better ball skills.

So when they come into the NBA, they're not a bust and fail immediately, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Wait, you've got 19, 18 year, the Cooper flag's not ready for the NBA.

That kid is one of the most, he's one of the most naturally talented athletes I've seen in a very long time.

And he is not ready for the NBA.

There are at least six or seven, 18 year olds in the NBA right now.

I could tell you belong in college.

Like, figure that out.

Figure out ways to keep kids in school.

Maybe it is NIL.

Maybe that's the dirty secret here, everybody, because these, as much as I want to get upset about this,

I'm more upset about these universities that are making more money in most states than any other business.

Think of that.

The university was constant.

The highest paid person in Wisconsin is state paid person in Wisconsin is the head football coach.

Yeah.

But I didn't mention players.

The people that are actually winning these games.

Like, good coaching gets you a long ways.

You can't, coaching never won a championship.

Players win championships.

Players are the reason people come to games.

As much as we may love our teams and everything, you don't care.

When I say this, I'm not talking about specific players.

People need players out there are the way the games don't happen is what I'm talking about.

They come to the games because they love you, W.

They love their, their, their, their, their on Wisconsin.

They like jumping in the fourth quarter, all these things.

Regardless if there's a winning team out there or not, they fill that stadium.

That's money.

That's a lot of money.

Think of having a business model like that.

Think of any other business out there having a business like that.

It doesn't matter if we win or lose, we're filling our stadium.

We're getting a return on our investment.

There's no business like that.

Except college sports.

And the only people for decades that weren't making a penny off of this are the athletes.

And, and miss me with the whole education aspect of this.

Because if that was true, then you wouldn't be able to go to the next level without a, without a degree.

You want to go play in the NBA?

You want to play in the NFL?

Get your degree.

Mm-hmm.

That's, or never been talked about.

Or do like baseball.

Choose.

Either go to college or start in the minors.

Yeah.

And then we have D leagues.

We got stuff there that's there.

You know, there's some infrastructure.

So yeah.

Yeah.

I respect everybody's opinion, man.

And I, especially years, Kev.

But honestly, to me, if NIL gets you or anybody else to not watch college basketball, somebody's

going to take your place, man.

Well, I get it.

That's the way it goes.

Now, we saw this with football too.

People lost their minds when the NFL started caring about racism and things like that.

And we were told that thousands of people were going to stop watching.

What happened there?

Yeah, right.

People, everybody came back.

I, I can remember when I, when I was at my old classic rock days, again, we started playing

90s rock.

And we had, we had people telling us that they were never listened to the station again.

Like two months later, I met a remote and I'm seeing these people as giving them t-shirts.

Well, yeah, because they're free.

And they show.

And they were there.

They kept listening.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, if you, to anybody out there, okay, do what you're going to do, but do it.

Like actually do it if you're going to do it.

And to the NFL thing, to the NCAA, all this stuff, it's the Wild West.

They got to get it figured out.

Yeah.

I don't like the way things are right now either.

I don't like kids being able to just, oh, I don't like it.

It's tough here.

I got to, I'm going to leave.

I don't like that either.

I'm not a fan of that.

But I, I am a fan of these kids actually getting what they're due.

I mean, I, I get that.

And they should get some type of type.

I, you know, from people playing and everything.

Yeah.

There's been many stories back in the day.

About what it does.

You want power and all that.

It was made in the paper.

Yeah.

You're, you're, you're.

We can't hear you, but we can't hear you.

But we really got to go to break.

That's my fault.

We got playmakers on Friday.

We should continue this on Friday.

On Playmakers Plus.

Yes.

Because it's a good conversation.

And I want to continue to have it.

We'll take our break.

We'll come back with more show.

I can't believe you put this in the bumper.

It's hilarious.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Doing the dinosaur.

I didn't even remember how to do the dinosaur.

They really thought this was good.

Watch the video.

All you have to do is watch that nutty video they made on that video.

And it's the great Don was.

We are talking March Madness.

And with March Madness coming up here.

They've got something lined up for you over at Samsung.

They're offering a buzzer beater bundle, which includes eight TVs for just $10,307.42.

The eight screens are a 98 inch 4K TV is 65.

Another 65 and a 55.

You can arrange them on different walls like a sports bar.

Or put them together on one very intense accent wall.

Samsung is promoting the bundle to extreme sports fans who can't miss a game.

$10,300 are you're getting the TVs at nearly 30% discount and saving around $6K.

Hey, well, the package does not include the wall mounts and installation,

which could cost you over $200 a piece per TV.

Yeah, something to consider.

And the offer ends in two days.

Why don't they throw that in there?

Yeah, Siri, why don't they just throw the wall mounts in there with that?

I can't imagine they're getting a ton of sales from this to begin with.

Of course.

Yeah, I think you're right.

But then think of how many people that were on the fence and then that $200 is going to keep me going.

To your point, man, that's a good point.