Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James Byron, the mic I am joined by our head of production, our co-host,
Seth Habhacker.
Good morning, and the best listeners and radio.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your week out there.
We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.
Good morning, Brent.
Good morning.
Well, it looks like winter more than it did during the winter season.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it feels like the last 24, 48 hours.
We just got all whatever mother nature had that was going to expire for winter.
Like, I got to get it out.
We got to use this.
It's not going to be good next year.
Let's go ahead and get it out there.
Oh, that is so funny and it's so true.
It was a mess between the rain mixing in in certain places.
I see conditions.
I mean, that snow freezing over the flush piles and just froze over and they were mountains
and some intersections.
It was intense, but it has painted pretty now.
We've got a lot of snow out there that's going to gradually start to melt as we go into
this afternoon.
We're going to see some sunshine peak out.
We are going to go above freezing to about the low forties today, but it's going to stay
breezy.
So some blowing and drifting snow, especially in those rural areas, because when they're
still gusting up to about 30, 35 miles per hour.
So that means our temperatures right now in the upper 20s really feel like the mid-teams
of the windshield.
So high today, the low forties probably feel more like the mid-30s.
But otherwise, we've got a ton of sunshine for the rest of the week.
We are warming things up.
We will be in the mid-50s by the end of the week and then we do have rain rolling in
next weekend.
Hmm.
Okay.
It's crazy to think about the end of the day.
It's just going to...
Sorry.
Go ahead, Brittany.
Oh, no.
I was just going to say, like, it's crazy to think about because all the snow, all this
ice we have out there is going to slowly melt over this week plus the rain on top of it
by next weekend.
It's just going to be a muddy mess pretty soon.
Oh, boy.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
And I was trying to think, is slush the worst part of winter?
No.
I don't know.
I can handle almost everything else, but the slush.
Walking in it.
It's driving in it.
It's just...
There are a few things I hate more than wet socks.
It just feels like this, it's wet sock season, you know, it's a shoes wet and then
you're done.
You're done.
It's done.
Yep.
I agree.
And kicking those boulders off the side of your car.
Oh.
Yeah.
At least once a winter, I miss judge how strongly built one chunk is.
Yeah.
For every chunk I kick in my size 12s destroy, there's ones that are like, no, no, not
me.
No.
I'll be here.
I'll be here to the end of the time.
Right.
Me and cockroaches will be here.
We appreciate it.
Ready?
Have a good morning.
You two things.
Best in the business right there.
For a pretty reload joint, I guess, as she does every morning, right through Monday through
Friday.
Seth and I got some great stuff lined up for you to kick off the week.
We're going to get into the LKFA birthday anniversary club in a little bit.
Do you like wearing a suit?
How many of us fellow Americans do we will find that out?
The ten states with the highest likelihood of an alien abduction.
Okay.
I just had...
This is a random one.
I thought it'd be fun.
That'll be fun, yeah.
It is a Monday, so we'll kick off the 9 o'clock hour of the way we like to with Beth
Habagger and the kitchen's open.
Yes, indeed.
Beth's got a fun one lined up for today.
Yes, she does.
One that lines perfectly up with our National Day of Calendar.
It does, yeah.
Looking forward to that.
We'll also get into some entertainment news.
We've got to say goodbye to a boxing legend.
Denzel shows up in our entertainment news along with Elton John, Sir Elton John.
All right.
Want to talk about some local theater as well.
All that lined up and speaking of entertainment, how would you like to get paid to watch pet
movies?
Oui.
Mmm.
It's all coming up.
Think about that one.
There's a...
As long as we're touching on movies here and everything, Seth, I did want to mention
one thing here.
Oh, just kick off our opening monologue and stuff.
I thought this was an interesting one.
I've talked about this a little bit before, but I grew up with a mother who was a diehard,
could be an feminist and everything while at the same time, madly love John Wayne.
The two worlds don't necessarily like Bix, but for Pamela, they sure do.
That's just something.
So, growing up, one of the actors I've watched the most is John Wayne, one of the guys I
have the most respect for.
John Wayne, many people, whether I don't know if it's common knowledge or not at this point,
but he was the first guy on set last guy to leave.
One of these people who was adamant about helping out other actors, especially young actors
getting started in the business and trying to help guide them, hey, don't work with this
agency.
They want to take advantage of you.
Things that just weren't handed out, you got your SAG card.
Professional, true professional.
John Wayne also famously didn't really like people.
And when he drank too much, which was often, he would tell you about the people he didn't
like.
Yeah, there's quite a bit of that.
If this man, I find one of the most interesting actors of all time, not just one of the better
actors of all time, and the definition of a Western actor still is to this day.
Oh, absolutely.
But one of the greats, but also one of the things I thought was noteworthy here is how
John Wayne had causes, but he didn't like go about them.
It wasn't as if he did a, you know, a big press release or anything and telling people
that he was going to stand on this hill or something like that.
He just did it.
Right.
The big things that John Wayne was adamant about is the idea of being able to swear in movies.
And this was a very, very important thing to him.
John Wayne, many times on the set would not film a scene if his character was not allowed
to swear.
His example of this was if a man gets his foot caught in a bear trap, the last thing
he's going to say is, well, darn it.
Well, would you look at what happened there?
Well, I don't, well, this is going to slow me down.
Yeah.
So growing up, I heard this story quite a bit.
And as an adult, got to research it and dive into it a little bit more.
There's actually some pretty cool history in it if you want to look into everything.
And so I think of him when I come across stories like this, think back to the last time
you stubbed your toe.
Did you drop any choice words when it happened?
Well, well, 74% of Americans did, 74% of Americans swear when they stub their toe or experience
a abrupt physical pain according to a new poll.
32% said that sometimes, and 24% said usually, and 18% said they always do.
Okay.
I will fall into that 18%.
I'll be honest about this.
Another 14% said rarely, so they've done it too.
Only 8% said that they never swear when they hurt themselves.
Wow.
It's still kind of a high number.
I think 8% is kind of high.
Do they use substitute swear words and aren't considered swear words?
That's my question.
I know for me when my children were young, and it was important to us not to swear around
them and everything, I thought the best way around this was using Italian swear words.
Spoiler alert, my kids learned Italian swear words.
They figured it out.
No matter what you say, they'll learn it.
Studies have found swearing can help with pain tolerance, but only a third of people
pulled think that that's true.
Now there is actual science behind this one, and where they've mapped our brains when
these things happen.
So there is actual science behind it, whether you believe it or not, the science backs
it up.
Last at, if you got hit by a car and dropped an F-bump, because it shattered your pelvis,
who would judge you for it?
Seriously.
I mean, who's standing there on the side like, would you mind other kids in the round here?
How dare you use such language?
One in six people say swearing in public is never acceptable, even if you're in pain.
That's interesting to me.
I think you need some allowances.
In general, I think that's true.
It's bad form to swear in mixed company, and maybe that's an old-fashioned thing for
me, but it bothers me a little bit, you know?
It really does.
So I'm of one mind of this one, really, when it comes to it, and I came from a family
that swore a lot and did not really hold back on that.
I come from an area that does that quite a bit, and growing up a lot of the comedians
I loved and everything really were into this.
Sure.
One of the things that I remember quite well is the debate of blue comedy and clean comedy
in some of that, and Eddie Murphy, I thought, really, really hit on this very well in talking
about it, and that the way he used swear words were like explanation points or something.
Certain, there are certain moments in time that are used for this.
Now, I'm bringing all this up in part, because for one, I think it's just a funny subject
to start our show on with everything, and two, it's something that even Mother Teresa
did.
Sure.
You know, we have these words, now I'm not saying she was a sailor, but at some point in
her life, she probably swore once, or at least.
It's something that, and so I feel like it's something that we can give each other each
and grace on, and some understanding, while also trying to get the younger generations
to realize that you don't swearing every five seconds, it loses all of its meaning.
Exactly.
That's where, when you're talking about comedians and using those words very specifically,
you're right.
They're using them to make a point, to do something like that.
So Drew Carey wrote a thing about that, and he said he did it for a couple of reasons.
He said he did it because he got bigger laughs when he swore at the right times, but also
because it works, using it at certain things to do that, and there's appropriate times
for it.
Yeah.
You stub your toe.
Yeah.
It's where.
You know, let it loose.
All right.
Go for it.
But I would say, add some style to it, you know, artistry, I got this from my dad, okay?
You do something to hurt yourself, and then you have a little wind up before you say
it.
It's like pause, and then it's son of a, you know, that's what I do.
Yes.
My favorite is the setup.
I like the setup more than the word.
Yes, absolutely.
The wind up so with the muscle.
Yes.
The other part of the reason I bring this up is because if we are going to, if we are
going to correct things and get things better in our society where we treat each other
like adults again, I think these are things we need to go over again.
Yeah.
If you swear all the time, if you're yelling all the time, if everything is the, if
everything is the sky is falling, how are we supposed to take you seriously when the
sky is actually falling?
Right.
The boy who cried wolf, right?
That's why they told us this story when we were kids.
Yeah.
So I cannot stress enough, I cannot encourage enough that we need to start, you know, acting
more like adults again and treating each other as such.
Especially as we are getting close to election and we, we have, you know, a lot of our
representatives out in the public and everything, don't give anybody excuses to hide.
Let's treat each other with some respect and use these words or use our anger when it's
necessary and not otherwise.
Exactly.
Let's take a call before we go to break.
Good.
Morning.
You're on the show.
I've heard years ago that the state is, again, an intelligent person doesn't need profanity
to express himself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
I also understand that these words exist for a reason and I heard Einstein swear.
So I'm not going to call it an intelligent person.
But that's, it's such a strong point that he makes that because it's, and I think we've,
uh, I don't know how many other people heard that, but I remember my non-assaying that
now.
So I remember my non-asswery quite a bit, uh, it's, it's, we say this and I don't think
that it's the baramader that you, it is the say, oh, no, and please, 715, 424, 2600,
or text and if you feel more comfortable, if you've never swore, go right ahead.
Wow.
Please tell me that would be amazing.
I would love to hear from one individual out there who has never swore once in their
life.
Yes.
So one of the things where I was telling each other that we got to give each other grace
about this to the caller, what he's saying and, and to my overall point here, giving
yourself some grace with this too, because guess what?
Oftentimes when you swear, you don't mean to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just kind of trying to, you know, I think that these are, are things that we, we look
to strive for and try to be, we try not to be that person that drops that word, these
words every five seconds or anything like that.
We'll also understanding that we are going to do this sometimes.
And there are times for it.
There are avenues for it.
Absolutely.
You'll be able to get this out of your system and everything.
Town halls, these kind of things are not those situations.
The only way to get things done is to act like adults.
If we act like children, nothing's going to get accomplished.
Right.
We got to start treating each other better.
We got to start handling this better.
And I want everybody to call up your favorite swear, no, no, I can't do that, I can't
do that.
But if you hit your thumb with a hammer, that's cool.
Yeah.
I don't think anyone is going to fault you for that.
Here's the other part of this that I wanted to wrap up with.
So as growing up the way I did was so many swear words and so much of that and everything.
I have found that as an adult, I find it more fun to just like do the doctor's sucess
thing and make up swear words and just kind of say something.
Or when you're taking normal word, but you say it in anger, you know, so it sounds
like it could be a swear word, dumbbell, yeah, oh, oh, tennis racket, you know, tennis
racket.
The idea that that makes it actually kind of funny, as much as if someone was listening
to you.
It's like tennis racket.
What, what is he talking about?
As somebody who has been in a lot of paid in life, it has a high paid tolerance.
So when I feel paid, I often, I, you know, it's okay.
It's going to be pretty bad.
I, I find what I was saying before what they're saying here about the swearing and it being
a post, a bit of a, whether it's a placebo or not, it does seem to scientifically help
with pain.
Mm-hmm.
Same thing with laughter.
That's true.
Why not combine them?
It's hard to laugh and cry at the exact same time.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That was, that was a lot of my dating life.
We will take a break.
Come back.
Have some more fun with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club on the morning show.
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It will be.
We got our spring and text to win contest going on.
This is a fun contest.
We got going on more on that a little bit later.
For right now, Seth, I need a winner or two.
All right.
Let's see two this morning.
All right.
It gives us that qualifier.
First up, we want to wish Happy Birthday to Jenny Bailey.
Happy Birthday, Jenny.
Enjoy the day, Jen.
It's a good one for you.
And our qualifier, friend of the station, friend of the community, friend of music, Ben
Chatech.
Congratulations, Ben.
Happy Birthday to you.
Ben, Happy Birthday to you.
Yeah.
You know Ben for years.
Great guy.
Great guy.
Like, we talk a lot about Ben.
You've heard Ben, not only here at WFHR and WIRI, but on our shows and directors playhouse
and these things.
You've heard Ben in town as a part of, well, you have to have heard Ben in town.
Part of 600 bands, I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
The odds of you missing him are just, it's got less than exactly.
And you've heard us talk about how, at least I know that I have said many times, he has
some of the smartest fingers I've seen.
Ben is just really like, if you watch him play and watch his hands, they're incredibly
smart, incredibly well done.
All that being said, it pales comparison to the kind of person he is.
Yeah.
Ben's just a good guy.
A nice guy.
It's a good guy, man.
Happy Birthday, Ben.
You're a qualifier today.
Excellent.
Bragg to one of the 20,000 bands you were in, I mean, how does Ben keep track?
I don't know.
He's like, what band am I in today?
Oh, that's okay.
He's giving me a key and I'll play.
And one of these days, I'm going to get him to sign that contract of being our house band.
One day.
One day I'm going to trick him into it.
You won't do it willingly.
No, no, no.
Yeah, well, well, I have to force him to do it.
I'll figure it out.
We see who Ben and Gang have, or they're sharing their birthday with, what celebrities
they are.
Wonderful voice actor, Lake Bell is 46 today, Poison Ivy and the HBO Max animated series
Harley Quinn.
It's done quite a few other things too.
I believe she's done a lot of cartoon network stuff.
Yes.
All kinds of cartoon stuff for her.
She got a great voice.
And she does.
I don't know.
Something against Uma Thurman, but I don't feel like they've ever gotten the Poison Ivy
character right.
Like whether animated or movies or anything like that.
It's such an awesome character and they always seem to mess it up.
That's the best version I've seen of it, her voice and the version on that show.
Yeah.
I really do like that version.
Exactly.
And it's such a cool character.
It is.
And you could do some really good stuff.
It's, they seem torn.
So she's supposed to be a brilliant, you know, a plant.
Why can't I remember a botanist, a brilliant botanist.
And then they tart her up, you know, and like she's like all sexy and stuff.
It's like, come on.
Yeah.
The pic lane here.
Exactly.
Exactly.
One of the best out there, Jessica Shastine is 48 Oscar nominated Redhead from Zookeeper's
wife, the help, zero dark 30, the Martian, zero dark 30 is probably my favorite and I think
her best work.
So that's a really good movie.
She's 48.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's just not even fair, man.
I would.
Hold on those looks, Jessica.
Good for you.
Early 20s.
Or early 30s.
Yeah.
I know.
Wow.
I know.
I guess early 30s.
Some people have overworked.
Yeah.
Also one of my favorite, yeah, one of my favorite interviewers.
I never saw that coming, but years ago I saw her an interview and you talk about people
who are not putting on airs are just like really letting it all out to the point where
her publicist like has to be right behind the interviewer almost, so she doesn't give
away stuff and everything.
Yeah.
Funny thing happened with Jason Mahmoa this weekend with that.
He was trying to show pictures of Lobo and his publicist actually got like, so him and
Jack Black are being interviewed and they're sitting next to each other and Jack Black of
course is just encouraging him.
Oh, of course.
Not even helping or anything like Jason Mahmoa's publicist actually jumped into the interview
to stop him.
That's funny.
But Jessica Chastine, I just really appreciate her as an individual and as an interviewer.
I really do value that kind of stuff.
She's fun.
One of the best quarterbacks of all time, Peyton Manning is 49, the conductor.
Well, he's thought of him as the conductor.
Oh, okay.
Never got that nickname.
I always thought it was like, boy, that's a great name and I thought did I miss something?
Did he get this name?
Wait, I've never heard that before.
That's a great nickname.
I am literally the only person.
Oh, you're the only person to tell them that, but to me, he is that guy that came up
to the line and conducted like he read.
There's a lot of quarterbacks like I loved watching Dan Marino, just glance at the defense
and be able to do that.
Read the defense, right?
Peyton Manning would look Ray Lewis right in the eyes while he was reading it and everything
and take and be so not shalot about it and so casual and smooth.
Also one of the greatest like after football careers will ever see, he's been so smart
with it too.
Yeah.
He has really been very intelligent.
I have to say, there's some quarterbacks that are known as game managers, guys that they
follow the plan.
They're really good at it.
That kind of thing.
And then there's the slingers, the hero ball guys that will just go around and make their
thing.
He's one of the few that could do both.
He could be a playmaker, but he could also be a really good game manager.
There's a lot of fun to watch him play.
Elson Hannigan is 51 today, Lily on How I Met Your Mother, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
American Pie.
She's been around for, I just realized how long she's been around for.
Oh my gosh.
No way I would have guessed she's older than Peyton Manning.
No.
Who had that under bingo card?
No way I would guess that.
No.
She's good.
I like her.
She's very good.
The very talent to Jim Parsons is 52.
Excelsior.
I said that for my dad.
No, okay.
I barely watched bits and pieces of the Bing-Bing theory.
I haven't seen, I've seen actually more of him theater wise and I've seen on movies and
TV shows, but he is so darn talented.
He's incredibly talented.
And happy for him with the breaks that he's got because he's earned it.
Yep.
If you ever hear him sing, man, he's got a marvelous role.
Yeah, he really does.
Let's see.
I think when it's all said and done, when you talk about wrestlers in the wrestling game
and guys who were the greatest of all time and everything, I don't know that his name
comes up enough, but you have to talk about the undertaker.
You have to mark Halloween.
It's not just that he had a 30-some-year career in everything.
In wrestling, you oftentimes can have a long career, but you have to change it up.
You have to completely rework your character, your gimmick or anything like that.
Even Hulk Hogan had to do that.
The undertaker has basically done one, two little things different for a little while.
He was the dead man and rode in on a bike and stuff, but it's basically been the same
bit the whole time.
He's the AC-DC of wrestling and I say that with every bit of respect I have in me, I cannot
say that with enough respect.
I look at wrestling and I know how a lot of people do, but I look at it from two different
worlds, coming from an athletic family, a sports family, and also as an actor.
It's a mashing of both worlds.
It's the male soap opera, but the injuries are real.
Oh, I mean.
Being on the road.
Physicality is real, absolutely.
The traveling like a stand-up comedian or a musician is real, so when it comes to these
guys and these guys that love this business that much and stay in it as much as they do,
and can do the same character for that long.
Yeah.
That's impressive.
I'm telling you, even the rock goes back.
He doesn't have to.
John Cena just does.
John Cena.
I mean, they, they, it's in their blood.
I swear to God, that's something that you never really get out of there.
When we look at what LeBron James is doing right now at 40-some years old and averaging
a double-double, it's similar to me, the undertaker has done.
When you look at, it's the idea if Sean Connery had played James Bond for 40 years and pulled
it off and like mid-good at it and everything.
It's an incredible thing.
Whether you like wrestling or not, you got to, and I don't even watch wrestling anymore,
but I just still have a respect for these guys and they end up with what they do.
Robert Carradine is 71, revenge of the nerds and some other movies he was in.
Let's see here.
Oh, and some people no longer with us.
Louis Anderson, born in 1953, passed away in 2022.
Used to host a family feud.
Was on a great FX show, Baskets, was that Galafanakis?
I loved Louis Anderson.
Everyone hates Louis.
The cartoon show that he voiced, himself as a kid.
And boy, well, I got to claim him as one of my own because he's from Duluth.
He's from Minnesota.
That's great.
He's not a lot of comedians for some reason.
I mean, it's thought I'm like a handful.
Excuse me, Louis Anderson, Maria Bamford.
I can't think of any other ones.
Art Lee Emory is born in this day in 1944.
The drill sergeant of Full Metal Jacket and in Toy Story and so many commercials and TV shows.
That was his one note.
That's, but boy, did he turn that into a career?
There is nobody, you can make the argument, nobody who did it better.
And in part, because he was an actual drill sergeant.
I was going to say, I should say second career.
Because he had a first career in the military as a drill sergeant, yes.
Loved him as an actor.
Appreciate him as a human being as an American.
And one of the greatest action stars of all time.
And still, the guy behind the wheel of the greatest car chase I've ever seen.
Steve McQueen born on this day in 1930.
The King of Cool.
Also, bullet.
Go back and watch bullet.
It's still the best car chase scene you'll ever see to this day.
To this day, still is the greatest.
Also, the star of the blob.
Yeah.
Where he got his start, I think it was his first star, you're all.
And I'd say one of my first early influences, Harry Houdini, born on this day in 1874,
passed away in 1926.
Wisconsin's own.
Just an incredible, incredible human being on and off the stage.
And one of those people that I have, I've actually wanted to play before.
I was actually in the works of trying to put something together once and playing Harry
Houdini.
There are just one or two people that I would go out of my way to try to play.
He is one of them.
Just an incredible human being who set the stage literally for not only immigrants, but
Jewish to be on stage, to be able to walk through the front door.
At a time, right now, it's not surprising to think of LeBron James being world famous.
To think of George Clooney being world famous.
Harry Houdini was literally world famous at a time that there was no way to get this
across to other continents and everything.
At least not in a speedy fashion.
It was very slow.
Communication was extremely slow back then.
And you're right.
He was one of the most famous people on the planet.
And he changed the game in terms of magic and being an escape artist.
He changed the game.
Nothing was the same after Harry Houdini.
Everything was different.
It's not just that he changed it and where you get your pen and tellers and in some
of these other great comedians, magicians, magicians, it was entertainers in general that
he changed the way that the presentation and stage, having somebody announce you before
you went out on stage.
Little things like this that Harry Houdini really incorporated into Vaudeville into theater,
that we still do to this day.
He made it more theatrical instead of just, you know, it was always, you know, stage magic
and stuff like that, but he made it more than that.
It's so many interesting things that can ramble for hours on that man.
We will take a time out, but one more time, happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody
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Got a fun one, I think here.
So how many people out there, how many enjoy wearing a suit?
How many people like wearing a suit?
A poll found just 25% of Americans like wearing a suit, including 8% who love it.
Men like wearing them more, 29% compared to 20% of women who like wearing suits, and they
definitely get old after a while though.
Most people who like wearing them skew younger, 31% of people under the age of 30 like
suiting up.
Wow.
I didn't see that coming.
No.
People were asked why they like wearing them, and the top five answers were they make me
look professional.
That's true.
I look good in a suit.
That's true.
They're stylish.
They boost my confidence and they're just timeless.
That's a good point.
I don't hear the word timeless use much anymore.
That's really interesting.
And I'm not actually, now that I think about it, the first when you said people under 30,
that number of liking to wear it, it's a cycle, I think, because we've gone for so long
now without wearing the suit for like an everyday thing like they did back in the 20s and 30s
and 40s, and it was really the 60s when people stopped doing that.
So I'm not surprised that younger people are finding out about this, you know, and
saying, hey, these are kind of cool, you know, and it is, it's a style that never goes
out of style.
It's something that always looks nice on, especially on men, I think.
28% of men said that they never wear a suit, but two thirds own at least one.
Mm-hmm.
Makes sense.
Yeah.
I was told a while back that every man, every person should have a good, one good suit.
At least one good suit.
One good suit.
That's it.
Yeah.
I took it to heart, so I've always tried to have at least one.
I got one that I actually, you know what, I'm going to do a little bit of a throwback
to over the back fence here a little bit.
Oh.
I've got a suit that I love, it's a plaid one and everything, and it's new, I haven't
worn it yet, because it doesn't fit me.
Oh, no.
I need it size.
Oh.
And I don't know where in 2025 to find a tailor.
A tailor?
Yeah, tailor.
Someone to tailor it for you, yes.
Help me out here, everybody.
Reach out to me.
I've got to be a tailor.
A seamstress out there, right?
Right.
And no, not somebody named Taylor.
All right.
I've already tried that.
They don't like it.
They're very upset.
Yeah.
Which is because I'm called a tailor.
You think I'm a tailor?
What are you doing?
Oh, man.
I think I've said it before out of the air and everything.
It's the only time I really feel confident it isn't a suit.
It's interesting how that works and the idea and the fact that it's so old, okay?
So now the neckwear changes, okay?
So we go, you know, right now it's the tie, you know, the neck tie.
But before that, it was like the more they asked God or that band in the 1850s they would
wear.
But there was always something around the neck.
Yeah.
Right.
So, but the jacket and the pants have been around since like the 1700s.
And that hasn't, I mean, they've changed a little bit here and there.
But for the most part, it's been like 300, 400 years that the same dress, nice clothes
for men has been that, so I don't have to wear a suit that often so I don't really run
into this product that much.
So I don't know as far as like getting old or anything like that, maybe it would for
me if I did.
I've never even had a job where I had to wear one around a good system basis other than
acting gigs.
And that's me when I'm playing a character, if my character likes the suit, I'm going
to like the suit.
So that's just where that falls.
The last time I really had to do that, the TV show I did, my character loved his suits.
So I look forward to it because he did.
But I will say too, I have, I actually, I don't know if you'll ever hear me say this
about anything else in anything in life, everybody.
I mean, I am very confident when it comes to acting.
That's about it.
But a suit, I can make even a bad suit look all right.
And it's not, it's in part because of something that I've actually like struggle with my
whole life.
I'm just put together weird.
I am, I am six one, I've got long, my arms are, are the arms of a six three person.
Right.
I've got the unstretched, you know, I've got the right, I've got big shoulders, all this
stuff.
And in a t-shirt and shorts, I just, I'm, I'm a funky looking human being.
There's no getting around it.
Yep.
In a suit, I am perfectly made for a suit.
Yeah.
I have the perfect body for a suit.
I really do.
I, I could have made money as a mannequin.
Had they hired human beings.
It was actually, let's just stand still and wear the suit here.
Why these, these, these plastic things get all the jobs.
Yes.
I would make, I would make a very good mannequin.
They don't charge anything, that's the, that's the big thing.
It's a good guy.
I have to say the, the one downside and they didn't talk about it or one of the downsides
is, not very comfortable.
That's the reason that people don't like to wear them all the time is because the way
they make suits, not very comfortable.
So.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
I, there's, suits, haven't really, you were talking about the style and everything.
They haven't changed too much.
I was thinking of suit suits right away.
Oh wow.
And I kind of like the suit, suit look and all that.
That never really came back.
That's a very exaggerated.
Yeah.
On, on jackets, ever once in a while you'll see the jacket with the two pockets on the
side.
That's about the latest addition we've done to the suit to the typical, you know, classic
suit and everything.
Right.
Yeah.
And so there's little variations on it, but for the most part, they're pretty the same.
They're pretty the same.
Never really changed it that much.
I don't even think the materials they use is different, mostly wool still.
They still make suits out of wool.
So.
Well, a while back, the comfort thing came up with a bunch of students of mine as Brian
and I were talking about this, we did a bit on like how much we hate jeans.
They started talking about this and how the younger generations have kind of changed
what is office wear, what is business casual, what is a lot of that.
And I don't know how gene companies are going to survive because so many of the younger
like men, women, doesn't matter what and what field they're in.
They're going for comfort.
They're going to look good.
They're going to look, you know, respectable.
But comfort comes first almost if you just like, and I'm talking about something obviously
that I'm two generations removed from.
So I'm just old man here.
I'm like, they got these new things that they wear.
The zoomers, and I've heard this from other sources too, from my own children.
I have a zoomer in my life and he hates jeans.
He does not want to wear jeans and I've heard from other sources, their kids, no jeans
anymore.
And I'm like, wow, wow, when that was when we were kids, jeans were like derigger.
That was like the only thing you could wear.
You wear sweatpants, they're going to make fun of you.
Yeah.
You wear dress pants?
They're going to make fun of you.
Yeah.
Oh, I, I, I realize what I'm about to say and I, I, I don't make any apologies for it.
That's not fair.
That's not fair.
We did done that if we could have, we would have, we would have been doing that, but they
would make fun of us.
We want to do it.
That's just a 50's if they could have.
Like, I don't know many people, please, again, call up 714-242600, do you find a suit
comfortable?
Because I don't know anybody who's ever found it comfortable.
I know plenty of people who like wearing them or people that wear them a lot.
I've never heard somebody say, man, I can't wait to put my suit up.
I suppose you get used to it if you do it every day, you know, if you wear suit every
single day, and then, and then you get used to it.
I don't know if, but again, it's not, doesn't, that's certainly mean it's comfortable
just that you're used to it, right?
Yeah.
Um, do you like the suit look with the vest?
Do you like the three-piece suit?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a stylus.
That's going away old school.
Yeah.
I like that because then when you can, you take the jacket off and you got the vest off
and stuff, right?
And there's something that's, um, that is eternal about, as much as the suit look is eternal,
the look of, you know that the person has a jacket, but they're not wearing it.
I think that there's that look.
Sure it sleeves and, and vest always is a good look too, yes.
Also, I think one of the few times the suspenders look cool.
Yeah.
Like, suspenders on a nice suit or whenever you take the suit jacket off, it's, it can
look really good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And, uh, yeah.
We'll keep this one going, everybody.
Let's go ahead and take a call before we go to break.
Good morning, you're on the show.
Yes, I don't even own a suit for a sports jacket at all.
I never, ever wore one.
I'm not even get buried in the suit.
I'm a good, uh, they teach his own.
I'll climb out of that castle.
I'm not getting buried in the suit.
How dare you?
How dare you put me in a suit?
We're not going to be able to top that.
No.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
Oh, that was awesome.
You're the best.
Great call, great call.
Appreciate you, sir.
Yeah.
Good morning.
Take a time out.
We'll be back aboard.
Welcome back, everybody.
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Ticking into the top of the hour.
Keep in mind the 9 o'clock hour will kick off with Beth Habagger in the kitchen's open.
Yeah, looking forward to that afterwards.
We'll have some entertainment news for you.
We'll get into some other fun topics.
I want to see if we have time for this one.
The cars with the fused issues and the ones with the most.
Oh, that's a good one.
I wouldn't like to know that.
And you can get paid to watch pet movies.
We'll talk about all that.
I don't know about that one.
But, uh, this one is interesting.
And it's funny to me that this topic comes up.
And I'll admit that it's, um, I oftentimes, uh, with this show.
And I've been doing this for almost 10 years now.
I try to find topics that are universal.
That, uh, people here in rapids are in Madison or across the country can get into.
But, uh, start local.
We always start local.
Yep.
And, uh, topics that are not divisive or that divisive or unpolitical or any of these kind of things.
Yeah.
So it's, I guess it's not too surprising that we come across the alien thing very often.
Alien abduction.
Do you believe in aliens?
Sure.
All these things.
It's where we're going right now.
Because the other day was actually alien abduction day in the national day of count.
I didn't know that was a thing.
Okay.
Don't think a lot of people.
I'm guessing that unless you actually were, quote, unquote, abducted, you don't know that there's a natural, natural day of it.
Yeah.
Uh, so, um, so a website put out a list of the states with the highest likelihood of an alien abduction.
And to do it, they analyzed data from the national UFO reporting center and other digital media reports.
Okay.
They didn't actually consult any, uh, with any aliens directly.
Well, you know, they're kind of hard to track down those guys.
Okay.
I agree.
I agree.
But if you're going to do this, I mean, I feel like you got to go all out.
You got to go all in.
Yeah.
And we reported 101, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I need the other.
At least throw out a feeler to Saturn and see, hey, you know, what do you guys think of this one?
I mean, they may have nothing but feelers.
You know, so we got, you know, maybe that's the best way to talk to them, right?
In the end, they found that California is the state with the highest likelihood of being abducted by aliens,
with one UFO sighting for every 1075 people.
Really?
That's a lot higher.
I wasn't surprised by California, but that's pretty high for me.
Right.
Now, wait a minute.
It's like they're mixing their things here a little bit.
They said sightings there, not abduction.
Those are two very different things.
Very, very different things.
Yeah.
So here are the rest of the top 10.
California, Washington, Florida, Oregon, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Colorado,
and of course, Nevada.
Okay.
But Nevada came in 10th.
Surprisingly enough, you know, the whole area 51, you know, thing like that.
That's in Nevada.
So yeah.
Maybe they've already, the aliens have already mapped that area.
They're done with that.
Yeah.
We're moving on.
We're not really into gambling.
Yeah.
We're going to move on from Nevada.
We're going to move on.
You know, I don't want to get into the psychology of, you know, things, but it's not a surprise
that the top three out of four are Washington, Oregon, and California on the West Coast.
Because that is also where, you know, that's where the big Sasquatch stuff is also in the
Pacific Northwest.
And that's sort of things.
So I mean, I don't know what that means.
Yeah.
But it's notable.
I think it's notable.
I can't prove one way or the other that this is real or not.
Right.
And when it comes to subjects like that, I don't pretend that I can.
I get a little tired of people that want to die on a hill that they can't prove.
Right.
Or something like that.
So I'm not going to judge one way or the other of these things.
But I will say that one of the things that stands out with that when you're talking about
this is the idea of going back to like the war of the worlds.
And how while we knew that, you know, when that we knew.
But while you weren't seeing aliens coming down and what, what Orson was talking about
over the radio, you weren't actually seeing it.
Enough people felt it and thought it that they created mass panic.
Right.
And that same thing can be true for seeing things.
And the idea of something that my, maybe my significant others saw something, my wife
saw it.
So I feel like I saw it or a friend saw it.
So I feel like I did.
Or because they mentioned they saw something the other night.
Now I'm that much more, I'm, I'm trying so hard to see something.
What does your brain want to have happen?
Is, is often something else they can play in?
And then we also have to keep in mind too.
I, I really feel that it's, it's easy to denigrate people who've had experiences like
this.
Now I, I can't say, you know, one way or the other, what, what happened a lot of times
they can't say, but they have certain things that happen.
And for some people, this is a very traumatic experience.
Yeah.
And I don't think making fun of them makes it any better.
Take a call.
Good morning.
You're on the show.
Yeah.
Why hasn't the national media picked up on them?
Games, you are the best.
They, they do not.
Why do they not cover things like this?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
This is crazy.
But you know, you got to think about the people on the west coast.
Yeah.
They're off in their own little world anyway.
It feels like that.
It feels like two, two, and I'm not going to help anything with this here.
The bottom 10 of, of states that have seen the least, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Tennessee, Illinois, North Carolina, North Dakota.
So all away from the west coast pretty much, pretty far, and Florida was in the top,
but Florida is the top of all those kinds of things.
So yeah.
What if aliens just don't like cold weather?
Maybe that's what it is.
Maybe that's what it is.
I'm not going to the Midwest in January.
Are you crazy?
Are you crazy?
It's not worth it.
Have you seen my skin?
No hair at all.
I'm going to freeze.
Probing in winter.
It's not good.
All right.
It's not good.
These are high morphs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have no idea with this topic.
Yeah.
Right?
I just, I just find it interesting.
I'll say that.
Yeah.
But I also don't know necessarily how I would handle this.
I mean, like, situations.
Who knows?
Well, whether you believe it or not, have you ever actually asked yourself, like, well,
how you would handle these situations?
Because I got to tell you, I don't think it ends well.
Like for me or the aliens, I might start the next world war with this one.
I don't, I'm not going to handle this all smooth and collective and everything.
I'd love to be able to say it while I'd be calm and cool and collected.
Anaw, man.
No.
You have no idea what you'd be like.
Oh, man.
Buck Wild in that airplane or that spaceship.
Whatever it is, right?
I mean, rabbits, flippers, and they're pushing buttons and things, and yeah, you let
me down.
Yeah.
You stay away from me.
I don't, I don't know, I will say one thing we do have to say that this makes for great
movies.
Yeah.
Sure does.
It makes some great movies.
Greatest alien movies or alien invasion movies, I still maintain the day the Earth stood
still.
That's classic.
That's classic.
The original, the original.
Yeah.
From 51, right?
Yeah.
I never saw the remake.
I never saw it.
I mean, either.
It's the only count of Reeves movie I've never seen.
It's the only one I never saw.
Yeah.
Are there any favorites out there, a cab, like alien invasion movies or anything like
that?
I'm not really.
I mean, obviously, you know, like, I guess I really never really got a big topic for
me in movies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This means something.
He and maybe independent states.
I mean, that's a lot of the ones I really, you know, yeah, closing counters of the third kind
is just a really well-made movie.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
So I think that one is a pretty good one.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's good talk radio.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Save some of that energy for save some energy for playmakers later, man.
And we'll talk soon.
All right.
Sounds good.
You too.
You too.
You too.
Best listeners in radio.
Appreciate you guys to call it in this morning.
Overall, the chances of an alien abduction might be higher than you think.
According to this report, the odds of being abducted by aliens in America are approximately
1 and 1,834, which is about 0.05%.
That's pretty low.
So I don't think you have to worry too much, James, to have the test here.
No.
Have to find out what happens if that happens to you.
I'm going to be honest with you, man.
I feel like even if they did, they might, this might be like one of those pickup and drop
situations where they pick me up and they realize they're going to get rid of him.
Like you guys are right now.
We'll be back next hour.
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