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 News, our co-host, Melissa K.
Good morning. Head of production and co-host, Seth Haphacker.
Good morning, and let me double check. Yep, the best listeners to radio out there waiting.
Oh, thank you for being here. Everybody hope you had a great weekend. Let's kick things off
the way we like to with our friend, Bertney Merlot. Bertney, what the what?
No, no, no, no. We knew this was coming. You warned us about this, you warned us.
I was hoping my forecast was just going to be a complete bust and it was all raining.
Oh, no, but no. Oh, man, I said the worst. I did nothing this weekend because of it. How about you guys?
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty bad. Yeah, it was not a fun weekend. No, no, no.
No, and it looked like in Portage County, there's still about 2500 of you without power this morning.
So these are stretching these power outages. I mean, it was nearly 70,000 customers without power
yesterday afternoon. Wow. Yeah, I've seen videos of trees just snapping in half,
sounding like gunshots in the woods. I mean, coming crashing down on cars,
property, power lines over streets, it was a mess this weekend. And I just hope that everyone
is okay. And I hope that the power comes back on pretty, pretty quickly for a lot of us. But
they have no screws working out in this weather. Got to give them props. Yes. Shout out to all of our
city workers. Some are right in front of us right now. Working right now. Working, you're
part of us. Yeah, we hear you're pretty in a good shout out right there.
Yes, yes. I mean, you guys got, I'm seeing reports of at least two tenths of an inch of ice into
your area. You've also got the Wisconsin River flooding too. It's about two feet up from its
banks right now. So low lying areas and Stevens Point, Clover, you're seeing some flooding and
that things continuing to rise, of course, because we've got all that precipitation that we just
got still making its way into the river banks. So lots and lots of problems out there. The good
news is this is the sun is out finally. Yes. Yes. Goodness gracious. We have good
bite of that terrible storm. We're going to be mostly sunny today. Ties of about 40 degrees.
A little breezy though with winds out of the north. But hey, at least we're climbing above freezing.
It should start to melt. Whatever you guys have. Speaking up, how much snow did you get? I'm not seeing
reports from your area. Wasn't a ton. Let me double check too much. Yes. I'm seeing the reports
as too much, Brittany. In exact. But I'm not going to go out and shovel my sidewalk later.
Okay. There you go. It feels like sometimes Brittany, as human beings, we get too caught up and
we're not listening to the earth. We're not listening to nature. Then there are times where I
can't understand what she's saying. I have no idea what she's saying right now. I don't know what
but we're listening. We're listening. We're paying attention and we're that much more prepared
thanks to you, Brett. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. You guys enjoy the sunshine.
You too. Have a good day. The best in the business right there.
Brittany Merlot joining us all week long. Look forward to hanging out with her and keeping
you up to date on the ever-changingness that is Mother Nature. We're also going to be talking about
nature and politics. Boy, they got a lot in common. We'll be talking about the election tomorrow
certainly. I'm not only talking about that but having some fun with some campaign promises
we'll get into some of that as well. We've also got grandpa's and sneakers and things that
have gradually disappeared over the last decade without people really noticing.
Oh, okay. The old fade away. Yeah. It's a Monday. It's a Monday. Nine o'clock hour. We're
going to feature Beth Habhagger in the kitchen's open. Look forward to that. We'll have some
entertainment news for you including the top 20 TV houses Americans want to live in.
And as we wrap up the nine o'clock hour are these the best backyard games of all time?
Little behind the curtain look here when I when I came up with that I thought oh it's
going to be a spring. We're going to be having nicer weather. I apologize. Putting your back pocket
for when the weather is nice again. Yeah. Right now we could kind of build a snowman.
A very small snowman. Yeah. Or maybe a snow ant. There you go.
I like Brittany. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Hope you too.
Had a good weekend and everything. I know with the weather and all that it wasn't.
It couldn't have been the greatest maybe for some but hopefully you made the most of it.
You enjoyed it. There's a couple of things that came up over the weekend that I noticed.
I wanted to talk about. And one of them is yes, March Madness but a very different type of
March Madness. March Nappness. March Nappness. Now I'm not bringing this up just for an opportunity
to shoehorn that I am in third place in the civic media. March Madness. That is not why I'm doing
this. I'm not sure where that even came from. Who brought that up? Put that shoehorn down man.
Put that down. Yes. But as a side note, did anybody ever have to use shoe horns growing up?
I did. I had to use them all the time. And I thank you because I did. Yeah.
Like even my brother and sister would make fun of me before. I didn't know many people that did.
Like usually people just tried to shove their foot. Yeah. You do the stand up.
Yeah. The stand up. And you make me. Yeah. Yeah. Your own thumb becomes a shoe horn.
Yes. And it's very paint. It can be very painful actually. Yeah. Exactly. But you just keep pushing.
Untie the laces for people to say. Oh, that's what it was. Oh, I am not proud to admit
that it was just this weekend that I just did this. Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, so it needed a shoehorn. An international animal welfare group announced the start of
March Nappness, a March Madness style bracket tournament tracking wind bears at sanctuaries
across Europe will make wake from their hibernation. Oh, I like this. It's awesome.
Four paws, which operates animal sanctuaries across the world kick off the annual tournament
with a bracket of 23 European brown bears living at six sanctuaries in Europe.
Quote, the sleepiest bear wins four plus bird person Claire La France told NPR.
The bear that remained sleeping the longest is crown king or queen for that year. Nice.
La France said a bear is kicked out of the bracket after waking from hibernation
and remaining active for at least five days. Oh, okay. All right. Now I was joking about
the civic media pool. Although I thank you to everybody playing a log. It's been a lot of fun.
But the real reason I want to bring this up is there was a couple of things in this article.
I didn't know. I, I think like a lot of us, you learn at a certain age bears hibernate
end of story. You don't really dive into it too much more or anything like that, but bears
hibernate, but they don't sleep consistently, you know, non-stop through the whole time.
Yeah. They wake up. Yeah. That was news to me. It also seemed like, yeah, of course.
James and a rollover, you know, once in a while. Did I mention I had on time,
my shoelaces to jam my foot though. This is much like when we wake up in the middle of the night
and you, you know, like barely open your eyes when you're going to the bathroom and then
try to get back in bed and keep your eyes closed as much as possible so you don't fully wake up.
Perfect analogy. Perfect. What the bears do. They do. The bears were all rescued from captivity
and are aren't able to return to the wild, La France said. Some of the bears are more reliant
than others than more reliant on humans than others. And it's part of the awareness they're
able to bring to this. They're able to raise funds and certainly thing stuff, but it's also just
a lot of fun. Love it. March Nappness. It's a great name too. If you go to fourpaususa.org,
you could see the entire list of entries like Masha and Rocco. Ita's a beautiful bear. I like
bears. I'll admit that. There are like they're kind of majestic animals, you know? Oh yeah.
I think they're they're really remarkably looking animals. If you go here and you see Jetta,
Jetta is is an Instagram like influencer. Oh my god. Just just right away. Like that's a
pose. Got the chin on the paw there. That's very very photogenic. Yeah, I'm out of everything.
It's a fun thing. You can go ahead and check out everybody. And also at the same time,
you were able to see like real-time videos of these bears waking and kind of literally stretching.
Like they stretch when they wake up and everything. Did they make old bear noises when they do it?
I'm gonna be honest. I wasn't sleeping last night anyway, but I was up half the night watching
some of these bears wake up. Yes. Yeah, that's what I did with my productive night.
Did you notice that it said that the March Nappness is aimed at teaching the public about two subjects,
bear conservation, and the importance of rest, James. Was that lost on him? No, I thought I covered
the conservation part. I did not see that latter part. Yeah, he was he was willfully blind on that
one. Yeah, self-care. And there's no harm in taking a little nap when you need it. I'm not doing
this for comedic purposes. I completely miss that part. You're the best, Melissa. The irony. I'm
watching these bear videos while I'm not sleeping. You know, I am completely red-faced right now or
whatever skin tone I turn. You got me on that one. I'm gonna be following this. I want to see
who wins this one. That would be interesting. It would be fun. I also wanted to touch on this one
real quick before we go to break. A lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas, is in the news for claiming you
could get a DUI from drinking too much coffee. Whoa, maybe should have warned you guys about this one
before you hit the road today. I apologize. He posted video about how DUI and DWI don't just
mean booze or illicit drugs. If they impair your ability to drive, legal drugs can also get you
in trouble. And he specifically mentioned caffeine. He said it's not something that actually
happens. It just could. But there are examples of people getting arrested for it. A guy in California
got pulled over in 2015 for driving erratically. Caffeine was the only thing in his system and
they charged him with the DUI for it. Okay. All right. I think that does make sense. It does make
sense. Yeah. I mean, we've all had that one time where we're like, whoa, I have had way too much
caffeine. I'm twitchy. Like, like, I can't sit still. So yeah, I could see that. Where everything's
shaking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They eventually dropped the charge after they couldn't prove that
what there was enough caffeine in this system to be intoxicated from it. But theory is, yes,
you could be pulled over and, you know, for an expresso. Many expresents. I thought this was
very interesting. Now, it is a funny, that a right story and everything. There were certainly
going leaning into the comedy of this fun at the same time. Like, if they were to try, I couldn't
imagine being the attorney trying to prove or what the barometer is. Now, we have an alcohol limit.
Right. You know, you blow into, you see that and everything. Sort of blood level. Yeah.
So, okay, I need to know if you can run around this cop car 20 times in five seconds.
And if you can, then it's probably you've had too much. Yeah.
I'm holding up a finger. How many do you see? Yeah. Right. Like, I don't know how you even test
for something. Like, that just seems interesting. Man, if you drink enough caffeine to make your
vision blurry, boy, you need to cut back. Do you feel like this is? Which did he have? Like,
not that you can do this, obviously, the legal court of law. But he feel like this is one of those
ones where you just know when you see it like anything. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is you have
had something. The suspect is vibrating right now. You have had way too much coffee. You have
been way, way, way too much or the monster drinks or whatever it is. Whatever it is you're drinking.
Yeah. I don't think I've ever, I don't, I can't imagine I've ever had this much caffeine
at the same time. I don't know. Like, maybe I have it. I just wasn't. You're just not trying hard
enough. Yeah, that's it. That's what it is. That's what it is. We're going to get to the birthday
anniversary club from Elcafe coming up. We'll have some more fun for you lined up coming up on
the morning show here in WFHR. It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at Elcafe
and the birthday anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow. When they open
their doors, everybody, they'll be back open tomorrow. Hopefully they had a great weekend and they have
a good Monday over there. You can go ahead and get ready for what you want to order.
You can go to Elcafewi.com, take a look at their menu, take a look at things and see what you like
and then completely throw it away when you see their specials. Exactly. Because you'll change,
you'll change your, your what you want. I swear. You might. I had pie this weekend for breakfast.
Pie for breakfast. Good. Blueberry crumble. It was so good. Yes, she's coming over to the dark side.
Come join us and pie. Well, you know, I almost went with the bread pudding because Lori was telling
you about it. Lori makes all the pies and all the desserts. Okay. And she, she outlined what she
put into her bread pudding for me because I needed to know about the dairy content. Right.
She put raisins in it instead of raisins. Yes, that's bad. I would, I would prefer that personally.
And it sounded absolutely delicious, but it had sweetened condensed milk and it was like,
eh, I better go with the berry today. Oh, that's too bad. Because the good bread pudding,
what a try it. Bread pudding is so good. Oh my gosh. Can you prefer cranberries?
They're for cranberries. For raisins. Yeah. I don't like raisins, but I do like a pruned,
I don't know, whatever you call it. No, yeah. Cranberries. I do like raisins.
Dried cranberries. Dried cranberries. My brother loves them too. Yeah. That's good.
It's good. Go ahead and make some room and tomorrow. That's good, but I think you do.
Sorry, James. No, no, please. We appreciate you over there at El Café.
Visit them tomorrow, everybody, when they open their doors. Big shout out to them. Be sure to
follow them on social media as well and keep them. Keep in mind, not only do they sponsor this segment,
but they give us the opportunity at the beginning of every month to give a couple of our recipients
$2.20 gift certificates for El Café. We do that tomorrow. It's tomorrow. You guys are lucky.
You get to choose the winner. Yeah. How are we done with March?
I'm... Well, this I've been thinking about all weekend. I swear, all weekend. It's been going
through my head. Good ridden, Steve March. It's what I say. The weather's been just long.
Yes, I know. Yes, I know. Just feels like the year has been going by really fast.
It's like months number four. But it's also been three years long. Yes, yes. It's another one.
We get another one of those years. They happen every now and then. We thank everybody
getting us those birthdays and anniversaries. Appreciate you all out there. Keep in coming.
We want more. You can email us info at wfhr.com. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and
you can call up. That's right. You can call 715-424-2600 and chat with us. Tell us your birthday
or anniversary. We want it for you. We do. Be sure to have that app handy because, of course,
up and down the state we got civic media is breaking a spring text win contest going on. We'll
have another keyword for you in the 11 o'clock hour. We'll talk more about the contest a little
bit later. Keep that app handy, everybody. And I need a one or a two. Seth, give it to me.
Two. All right. Give us that qualifier. We can get right to the celebrate in the first
up. We wish you happy birthday to Molly Sanderson. Happy birthday, Molly. Happy birthday, Molly. Enjoy
the day. Hope it's a good one. Molly calls in a number of our requests over on the Sunrise show.
Yeah. Yeah. One of her requests was to mention her on the birthday at a anniversary
month. Very good. Molly. Very good. Yeah. Yeah. Be your own advocate. Molly says my voice is different
on the Sunrise show than it is here. And I'm not trying to do that. I don't know if I got
a real chat. I think it's the difference between, like, music radio and then talk radio.
Because I'll bet you the same. I bet you that is the thing. I wouldn't be surprised.
I wouldn't be. I wouldn't, I guess, when I think about it, I wouldn't. She just told me like an
even hour ago. So I really had a chance to think about it. But as I am talking about it out loud
right now, right? Yeah. I imagined that the old, like, the, the guy, the DJ that grew up at
in classic rock, right? Still comes out of one. I'm sure it does. I'm surprised.
Have a great day, Molly. And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Tony Bailey. Happy birthday, Tony.
Happy birthday, Tony. Enjoy the day, Tony. Hope it's a good one for you. Well, let's go ahead and take
a look at our celebrity list. Jack Antonoff is 41 bleachers lead singer and songwriter frequent
music producer and songwriter with Taylor Swift. Oh, I didn't hear a lot of the bleachers for a
while. I heard a little of them while back. And now I listened to a bunch of it. Good stuff.
Not bad. He did something that I didn't think could be pulled off. He, uh, and I'm not sure if
they're still touring. I think they wrapped it up. But he basically brought back a lot of like that
80s saxophone rock. But with just, you know, modern music, yeah, my instruments, I should say.
And like, it sold out arenas. Like, like, people, it's, it's, he sounds so much. And he makes
completely, like, he completely owns it. It's, he sounds a lot like Bruce brings in an
E Street band without sounding like Bruce, the vote, the vote. Right. Yeah. Um, but that vibe,
I guess you'd call it. Yeah. He also makes it a real clear. It's an, like, he's doing it out of
honor. He's doing it out of, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to, he's, he's a nice homage to.
Yes. Gotta bring those saxes out though. Okay. I just, I, I love listening to, uh,
interviews and just singing. Ryan Bringham is 44 picked up a best of original song,
Oscar for the theme to crazy heart, uh, some years back. Oh, um, uh, the weary kind was the name
of it. Jeff Bridges sang it in the movie, but that's Ryan singing it on the soundtrack.
Oh, um, he, uh, I think he was on Yellowstone. I want to say too. Um, and, uh, had some songs on
there. Mm-hmm. Southside of heaven. I heard that song and I'll be a fan of his for the rest of my
life, like that man could sing. He can play. Nice. Uh, really fun to watch his life stuff too. He's
one of those guys that works with the audience. Might be actually a little bit of Johnny Cash,
the way he talks with the audience so nonchalantly. Uh, good singer songwriter. Uh, let's see here. I,
I mean, one of the greatest actors of our generation, there's no questioning that, but I think he's
winning the top 100 of all time. You and McGregor is 54 today. Oh, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Star Wars
prequels Emmett, uh, in Ray in Fargo. Um, uh, was in the live action, Beauty and the Beast.
Mm-hmm. Um, so many, many great roles for him, McGregor, Mulan Rouge, um, train spotting.
Uh, my god. Train spotting. That's the movie that broke him, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Just, uh, one of the more powerful, stronger, gentle, uh, natural actors of ever seen.
And he doesn't use it a lot in his roles, but I love his natural Scottish accent.
Oh, my god. Yeah. His, his normal speaking voice is awesome. Got to love that.
Fantastic Scottish. Yes. Did a really cool thing a couple of years back with a buddy of his
that, uh, they took motorcycles and drove up and down like all these crazy locations and everything
to get to and just, uh, promoting like local businesses and a lot of that, the whole way they
were doing it. Oh, cool. It was really a, a cool, uh, thing. Yeah. Uh, one of the greater guitar
players of all time, Angus Young is 70. The, uh, duck walk, I believe is 45.
Original member of ACDC. You don't have ACDC without him. You can't tell the history of rock
without AC, with Angus Young without Angus Young. I mean, yeah. It's a memorial riffs, man.
I, I, I'm just incredible. Uh, like, yeah. Not only incredible guitar player, incredible,
like, almost front man. Mm-hmm. You know, uh, where it will work. If you can have, if you have
a band with co-front men like the singer and the guitarist, that would be ACDC.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Al Gore is 77, former vice president and, uh, uh, uh, many other things are
considered. I realize how young he was when he was vice president. Here's a weird one. And this
it happens to me almost every time we do the birthday and anniversary club, but I don't really
talk about it much and I don't know why I am right now. Um, but here we go. So Al Gore is 77.
Rea Perlman is also 77. Wow. And that just seems wild to me.
I don't know why. I just does. Carla on cheers, uh, in Barbie creator Ruth Handler in the Barbie movie.
Uh, um, of course, um, and that formerly, uh, with Danny DeVito, they're not together anymore,
but they're still very close, very for a good friends. Um, and, and, uh, cheers.
Yeah. Really. We mostly know, of course, you know, from mostly front, but I just, uh, so much
great work. She's done. Yes. Uh, the great Gabe Kaplan is 80, Mr. Katta, from Welcome Back
Kotter. Of course. It's also a finance whiz and an amazing poker player. He's won well over a
million dollars just playing poker. Really? Yeah. So take that, Mr. Woodman.
If you get that difference, boy, I can tell what it shows James Light to the kid. Boy, yeah.
God, I loved Welcome Back Kotter. It was the only show in history. And even to this day that had
like a mixed Jew on the show, I mean, of course, I would love to. Yeah. Uh, and Gabe Kaplan was
fantastic. The mustache, even better. Uh, the great, the legend Christopher Walken is 82 brilliant
actor. 82 years old. Yeah. Wow. Uh, what a career. I love not only Christopher Walken's
tree of IMDB movie roles, but look at all the branches to pop off of that with his classic runs
on SNL on some of the sketches that he did there. Um, some of the interviews that he's done, I mean,
just incredible work. And I know that like a lot of actresses age, she's come, become a bit of a
caricature and doesn't, you know, quote unquote, act as much anymore. Uh, I don't, I don't do this
very often. It's not for everybody. I think it might even be rated R. So certainly for adults,
but there's a movie. This, the title is going to throw you seven psycho pass, but it's not,
it's a dark comedy. It's a dark comedy. Sam Rockwell and him are in it. Oh, it's, it's maybe
the last time I saw Walken really acting. And man, there's a difference. He's got a monologue
at the end there that when Walken acts, God, it's good. Uh, another great sneaky role of his
pool hall junkies. Uh, there's a monologue from that that I've been doing in auditions for over 10
years. Wow. Uh, and I can't tell you how many roles it's maybe helped me land. It's an incredible
monologue. One of my favorite of all time. And it's one of my favorite walk and performance.
Well, he's a good monologue. I said it in real life. So of course, the famous pulp fiction one,
right? You know, watch. Yeah, watch. But then also all the roles that he played, you know, like
in kids movies. Yes. Yes. In Mouse Hunt, Kangaroo Jack. I don't know if that's really a kids movie,
but jungle book. And of course, I have to mention the 1985 James Bond of you to kill.
Oh, my God. He's so good. One of the best bond villains of all time, man. Um, um, uh, yeah,
there's a couple of people in that one too that were really good. That's such a sneaky good James Bond
movie. Oh, here one honorable mention the video for a weapon of choice from fat, fat boy slim.
When I was talking about that tree in the brain, yes. That's an awesome video. Uh,
more cowbell. I mean, that just he's great. He's great. What a career. I know. It's amazing.
Incredible. Uh, William Daniels is 98, Mr. Fini in Boy Meets world. Mm hmm. And the voice of
kids voice of kids. Yes. Um, Dustin Hoffman's dad and the graduate forgot about that one. That's
right. I forgot about that. William Daniels is great. I love him. He's got a great voice that
what a voice. Yes. That New England accident that he's got in everything. Yeah. Michael. Uh, so
good. And some people no longer with us, uh, like, uh, the legend of hockey, Gordy Howell,
one of the thing in 1928, 2016, uh, Wayne Gretzky has never called himself the greatest or ever
said he was the greatest hockey player majorly because of Gordy Howell. Right. Like that's that you
will never hear Wayne Gretzky call himself that or or grave about himself being the greatest,
even though we all call him that because of Gordy Howell. Before Gretzky, there was only Gordy Howell.
He was considered the greatest player before Gretzky. So I don't know what there is for us after
this journey, after this adventure, but I know that wherever it is, Gordy Howell is playing hockey
without a helmet, whatever is happening. And it doesn't hurt anymore. I cannot guarantee you
of anything in this universe or anything after, but I can promise you the Gordy Howell is playing
hockey somewhere without a helmet. He played in his 50s. I think I was crazy. He literally is the
oldest play. Chris Chalios would be the player that played the longest in the NHL at like 48,
like, or something. But no, Gordy Howell had to do it like in his 50s. He was still in literally
playing professional hockey. Yes, it's incredible. 26 seasons. Yes, insanity.
They're Melissa. I know you could care less, but I think you would know. No, no, you don't.
But there is something in hockey called a triple, a hat trick. You score three goals in hockey
in the game. Yeah. There's also something called the Gordy Howell had trick where you score a goal
and assist and get in a fight. Gordy Howell had trick. That was Gordy Howell.
And civil rights leader and legend, Cesar Chavez, born in the state of 1927,
passed away in 93. Not a perfect man, but my God, some of the quotes, some of the things that he
accomplished in his life. If you are, if you love this country, if you love the ag industry,
if you love farmers, there are so many things that Cesar Chavez did in his lifetime. You need to hear
his story because it is, it is so important. And one, we do not talk about nearly. Not enough,
not enough, not enough. Nothing against some of these civil rights leaders we've had. No,
but I feel like out of all of them, he is the one they get brought up the least. And he is the
most current. Yes. That's what I was going to say. It's, he's the most relevant right now. He's
very relevant. Yes. Worked for three decades to achieve dignity, respect, fair wages, medical
coverage, pension benefits, and humane living conditions for farm workers.
Yeah, for migrant workers and farm workers. Yeah. We will take a time out. We will come back and
have some fun with a couple of topics we got lined up for you coming up on the morning show
at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa,
Seth and James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Hope you have a great Monday
out there. Be safe. Look out for each other every one. Careful driving. We're going to talk about
election and election promises right now. Name a campaign promise that would secure your every
electoral vote. Now we're doing this in fun. We're also doing this. I will be completely honest with
the audience as a segue to mention that I think it's pretty wrong to be able to buy a vote.
Don't think you should be able to do it. No. I can't believe that that has a chance to be
controversial. I can't believe the world that I'm in sometimes. That's something that's okay.
And as a side note, if you were in school and some kid came up to you and said, hey,
I'm going to give you all these cupcakes or I'm going to give you 20 bucks if you vote for me.
Does that instill confidence in that person? Does that make you think that's a great point.
Yeah, somebody that definitely like if you're good at this, you don't need to pay for it.
Yeah. You don't need to do that. Like that seems pretty like on any side of the aisle in any form
of gut er voting. Yeah, I'm talking about like class president on up. Like that just don't seem
right to me. I mean, please tell me I'm wrong. Please tell me 715 424 2600 text me. Tell me
like what the defense of something like this is because if it's the defense of getting people
out to vote, I thought that's what your job was was to get people out to vote. Are you not good at
your job because you should not even be here then? Like that's crazy to me. It's not surprising.
It's coming from somebody who's not from this country. He didn't grow up with American values
with America with the way we do things around here. You're not supposed to be able to do that in
democracy. But that's what happens when you have somebody who did not grow up in this country is not
from this country trying to run this country. Like that doesn't make any sense. Yeah. What
like again, please correct me if I'm wrong and tell me how that I'm wrong and you need to do
this and this and this. I'd love to hear. I'd love to hear the defense of this one because I
start Starbucks would like a word. Yeah. Remember when they got in trouble for offering a
free cup of coffee if you had came in with a I voted sticker. People lost their minds at that.
Yep, but but it's okay to offer checks. That was the other side, Melissa. That's why it was bad.
It was the other side that did it. See, you know, when my side does it, it's okay. Can we just
can we just get people to start owning that? That you're okay being hypocritical when it's your
side? I would actually have a little more respect for that. It just quit lying to me. Just own it.
Just own that you're hypocritical at this moment. Yeah. I admit I'm hypocritical on things all
the time. I'm very biased about the Simpsons. I'm incredibly biased, you guys. There was a new
episode for the first time in months yesterday and all I want to do is talk about it because it was
really good, but I'm not going to do that. We're going to talk about funny campaign promises.
All right. It's just a silly meme that's out there, you know, saying things that, you know,
would actually do this. Like I'm promising to make all fast food places serve breakfast all day.
No more. No more. Do you get to the place and like you try to order your breakfast, but it's
10 or one. Yeah, it's 10 or one. I'm sorry. We don't serve breakfast anymore. Our long national
nightmare of this would be over pledging to bring back original movie ideas, not just remakes and
sequels. Oh, that might that might get you something there. As your next president, I will personally
make sure that Hollywood listens. Listen, listen to me. As we have this prequel that we'd like,
no, no, no, no. Dude, I love your Hollywood executive voice there. I love that. Oh, you need
that more. Yes. Beheading your items, just shipped alerts when it's just really label created.
I, isn't that such a, it's a bait to switch. It is a little bit. Yeah.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, bending those super bright LED headlights that blind you at night.
I'm, I'm totally with you. What are ones that are like different colors, like the blue
ones? Oh, I don't know. So distracting. Yeah. Not, not cool. Yeah, that's a good one. I didn't
thought that one. Yeah. Uh, shoes staying out of all TSA checkpoints. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Totally. Yeah. I think we're over that now. Please 20 years or whenever long it's been. Yeah.
Well, the, the thing that I've had TSA agents, um, mention and, and not to me, but I've heard them
talking about, I think it was the last time I went flying. So it was a while ago. Uh, but those
machines that you walk into and they spin around. Yep. Those are supposed to be able to figure out
the shoe thing too. Everything. Um, yeah. I don't know that for fact. That is not fact. I'm just,
uh, that is what I overheard. Okay. Um, I don't know for sure. So I don't know. There might be to
me what you're saying, you know, what are we doing it twice for? At the same time, that's,
that's probably the one that I'm least like agitated by. I don't like, I'm fine. It's an
inconvenience mostly. So, yeah. Um, I, I don't know. Uh, I think that there's a number of these that,
you know, uh, can be a lot of fun. Can be kind of interesting. I'd love to hear from you guys.
Yeah. PG show. Have fun with it. Uh, and most of that, we have to warn that. Yeah. Just a case,
just a case. Yeah. And a bigger reminder, go to my vote dot w i dot gov. Make sure that you are
registered. You are all set and ready to go tomorrow and get out there and help democracy ring,
help democracy, uh, keep going. Make sure you have your ID with you because that is the law now.
That you, that you need an ID to vote. I don't know if you knew that, uh, out there. But you
already need an ID to vote. Um, already need an ID to vote. Yeah. Melissa's reported on it many
times. Uh, she's, she's the polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. Make sure to get out and,
and cast your, make your voice heard. There you go. Yeah. And yeah, bring your ID because it's a
requirement. Yes. My vote dot w i dot gov before we go to break. I wanted to get to this one right
here. G Q says grandpa shoes are in fashion now. They'll cross back. What are grandpa shoes?
Uh, they just did a big write up on new balances latest offering called, uh, uh, uh,
alertal alertals. What? Uh, I'm going to try to find these because I cannot find them before,
but that's curious. I just saw this, uh, this morning. Okay. Yeah. Uh, uh, uh,
alertal shoes. Okay. Cause it's apparently a place. Okay. Uh, and, and they are, uh,
essentially the, what you would expect from like old. Okay. Kind of like old, uh,
a man old brown leather shoes. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of the old. Yeah. With the black
soles, the old buster brown kind of shoes. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Buster brown. Yeah. That's it.
Uh, just a modern look with them. You know, the new balance. I think they look cool. Yeah. They look
nice looking shoes. Cause you're old. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're not wrong.
Older than you. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Uh, it's actually the second article that they've
done on them. Uh, they, they did one on the brown version a few weeks ago. And now there's a white
version out. They just brought them as downright orthopedic. Does, um, GQ need topics? Yeah.
Sounds like they do. What do you do? GQ? Come on. We, we, uh, we joke about this all the time.
Fashion comes and goes. What was cool 20 years ago comes back and all this. We're in the fashion
industry is constantly looking at what's the new thing. Cause they can't predict this.
Windsor last time, um, Milan or, or Rome or Paris gave us a fashion that everybody was wearing.
That doesn't happen. We create the fashions. The people society does it. Um, so they're constantly
trying to figure out what the next big thing is or any of that. Uh, maybe this is it. We all
dress like seniors. We all just everybody. Everybody starts trying to, I'm like, it's a great idea.
Like, no, but we haven't done that one. We haven't done that.
Man, we're comfortable close polyester. Yeah.
Everybody in slacks get your chinos. You know, you know, get those on there.
Dan Lads, a writer for GQ declared that the brand has sidestepped the dad shoe trend and
described it as the grandpa dad shoe into the mainstream. Grandpa dad shoe. Uh, the grand dad shoe.
Grand dad shoe. Grandpa, what the? He says the grand dad shoes move. Oh, there you go.
Is only just arriving. It might stay a while. Okay. Well, now we know. And these shoes are
selling very well. Like, yeah, they're doing really well. Maybe it's because they're comfortable
and durable. That's what I wanted to say, man. So I have, I'm a, like, there's a few things that
I'm brand loyal to or anything like that when it comes to, you know, commerce. Um, but I've
mentioned before, Adidas Chuck Taylor. So it's a pretty much the only shoes I've ever worn.
Right. Are those brands? I was talking to a friend of mine and a commercial came up for new balance.
And I see Shohei Otani on it. I'm like, my God, the new balance got Shohei Otani. How do they
do that? Like Nike, Adidas, even Reebok. Nobody else was able to land the biggest name
in the planet in sports. Right. But new balance was able to as soon as I mentioned it, like,
this is a good friend of mine, known him for a while. He's not a salesman. Uh, immediately
went into sales pitch mode. Like, I thought he had stock in new balance. Oh, bro, you've got to
try these. They're so comfortable. And that's all he talked about is how comfortable they are.
I now have said like, have I been walking around and uncomfortable shoes for like 20, 30 years?
Yeah. We owe it all to Shohei, just like all things. Yeah. Yes. We owe all things to Shohei.
I think that what you're saying about like comfort being the new fashion. Maybe it is. I don't know.
Well, we did a story last week talking about how, uh, most of the younger generation, they're
done with jeans. Yes. And not wearing jeans anymore. Both of my children are our case in point.
My gosh. Like, I feel a little bit silly about this because I know that we're not, like, I know
our generation wasn't huge about jeans either. Didn't, you know, and all that. But we just kept
doing it. Yeah. This is the first generation. It's like, well, no, we're why we're going to
put the end of the tyranny of the blue gene. You can't do that. You can't know. You have to suffer
like the rest of us. It's not, it's not enough that you don't have to deal with commercial
breaks. It's really, really, like, that's not enough. Then we got this darn kids.
We will go to commercial break. We will go. We're going to subject you.
Yes. He must listen to our commercials now. That's right. Well, they are pretty awesome.
They are. They are. They are really awesome. You enjoy those. We'll be back in more show,
morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a great Monday out there.
Stay safe. Everybody take it easy on those roads. There's a list online of things that have
gradually disappeared over the past decade without people really noticing.
Okay. And certainly there's certain things we've joked about before about where we were 10
years ago and what we're Google learning and all that stuff and everything. Well, here are some
of the things people say have slowly disappeared since then. Now, off the top of your head,
you might not be able to think in much, but I think as we go through this list, things will pop
through your head, pop up in your head. Feel free to reach out to us and let us know what you think.
715-424-2600 is a touch or two way on that civic media app and you can always text in if you like.
Yes, please. That good old $800 beater car that would actually run and drive.
Those are sadly a thing of the past, sadly a thing of the past. Now they all need computer chips.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't make some of yourself. You cannot keep this between the three of us.
Okay. I don't want Blue to hear this. I am actually in the process of looking for a new vehicle.
And I've noticed this. I've noticed that I'm looking for an $800 beater,
but that you see them in the used cars and stuff like that. I'm just saying it. I don't see
those anymore. Yeah, I don't see that kind of thing. You do not. Fairly priced streaming services.
Gone with the wind right there. Remember when they were so happy you signed up for $4.99?
Yeah, I mean, I mean, any service like anything. Yeah, yeah. You're right.
Small independent hardware stores. Yes, sadly. It's one of those businesses we really have.
I love the idea of people being able to try to do home improvement projects. I think that it feels
good. There's something you could take pride in about it. And there's certain things you should
be hiring an expert for or going to the hardware store and asking for a, you know, right?
Right. Yeah, absolutely. That was one of the best parts of it being able to ask for that
advice there. Yeah. Everything has become planned. Obstalessence. Absolescence. Yes,
the lessons. Why? I almost broke my tongue with that. Being built to last is gone. Technology and
the price wars have ruined quality as an option. In a lot of ways, that is very correct.
Build stuff to last. They build stuff to break so you buy more. Buy more. We waste more. If you were
a kid like me and you were fortunate to have a papa like I did, you might have watched the great
Drift Bridges movie Tucker, all about the Tucker vehicles and the Tucker cars and these cars.
And this is, this is not science fiction. This is based on the true story. Yep.
Back in the early days of car creating, when the Tucker car company, then there are still,
I believe, a handful of these Tucker's that are still out there. They were built too good.
And the industry didn't like it. And the industry didn't like that. You could buy one vehicle
for 20 years. Maybe even your lifetime. Yep. So they boxed them out of the industry and made it.
So that because they don't care. They don't care about us. Like going back to what money
does to people and as far as buying your vote or any of these other things, when is money ever
revolved like involved with caring? Outside of giving it yourself. You know, right? Anytime
anybody's asking for it, it's going to lead to something like this. Yeah.
Yeah. The fact that they're attempting to dismantle the consumer protection agency that was
enacted by Congress says everything you need to know. Right. Coins on the sidewalk
or in the couch cushion. How about that? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Let's, let's cash going around
right now. A real live person answering a business telephone. Oh gosh. Yeah. Yes.
Especially for the big corporations. Oh god. I'm I'm I'm sorry to do this. We tried to do
serious comedy. Okay. I know that sometimes we have to talk about serious stuff. We always
try to end things on a light note or what have you. I apologize. I lose my mind. Toys in serial
boxes. What the what? Why are we not doing this? Oh, that was one of the great things, man. Oh,
dare you. Yeah. Whoever you are. The collecting you. Yeah. You had to collect so many like
UPCs. Yeah. Or send them in. Yes. All those are fun too. Get it in the mail. That's what I
remember. Yes. Yes. Those were great. Toys in any kind of boxwork cracker jacks.
Get your ring. Little ring there. A teacher said critical thinking and self-reflection.
Hey, that's something they should teach in schools. Yeah. Yeah. It's one that one
the parents should be helping with that. Yes. Critical thinking is important. Physical checks
as payment. Yeah. Wow. Occasionally. I still occasionally write a check every now and then,
but boys it rare. It does seem more rare. Yeah. More rare. And I get with all the talk of getting
rid of the penny or whatever. I wonder if that is going to go checks. Yeah. Yeah. That could be
in the future. Maybe, but not not anytime too soon. No. No. They'll have be a small area where
you probably still need to use them. So ownership. Everything is rented least or subscription
subscription base now. Yes. Yes. So there's a reason for that. Inadvertently just nailed one of the
issues that we have right now. It's a big one. Everybody. This is bigger than you think.
I can't own music anymore, really. Like even when you literally pay for it and quote,
download it. Yep. It can be taken away. It can be taken away. Yeah. All that can be taken away
from you unless you have physical media, which is why the reason that one of the reasons that
physical media is on the rise again is because people are realizing, wait a minute, this is the only
way I can own the music is if I have the CD or the tape, the cassette tape or the record, you know,
that's the only way if you own the physical object. Someone said glaciers. Yeah. Yeah. That's dark.
It's dark. It's true. But it's true. Another person said my hair, which is also dark, but true.
Or maybe light. I was hoping somebody dies. Nicely done. Nice.
And semicolids. Hey. I like semicolids. I like to use. They are useful, but people don't know
how to use them. Okay. No. Okay. This is the big. This is the big thing that no one is acknowledging.
No one knows how to use punctuation. Any punctuation. And I would, you know what? I'm going to say
that this has actually been a running thing for many decades. Yeah. Think about it. When someone
pointed out, okay, you're writing a paper in high school. Okay. Someone pointed out, oh, you
know, there should be a comma here. And then suddenly everything needs a comma. You know, it's like,
oh, I got to put a comma here and come. People still, it's, it's always been an issue. It's
worse now, I think, but it's always been an issue. It's one of those things that, you know,
I hope that corrects itself like a lot of these things. Oh, it's good. It's important.
The easy way to correct it is do more reading. That is a good point. You can take it in. Yes,
that's true. You take it in by, by visual. It's like a, it's almost like a smosis. Yeah.
Nice. Well done. We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour with the kitchen's open.
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