What is Your Favorite Denouement (Hour 1)

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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 production, our co-host, Zeth Habhacker.

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Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a good Wednesday out there.

Happy hump day.

Let's kick it off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Murlow.

Brittany, just a buffet, a gumbo of weather this morning.

More stored?

Yes.

Everything, popery, anything we can throw out there.

It is a wild one.

Have you checked everything on your weather bingo already today?

Pretty much.

The only thing that's wildfire is missing.

So that's good, right?

Very good.

Very good.

Very good.

Yes.

We're going to go on, Britt.

You know, we're almost through the thick event to be honest with you.

So we've got the rain out there this morning.

It'll start to ease up late morning.

We'll get a little break in the afternoon before some more showers and storms do want to

sling through again.

Right now, though, it's kind of gross because some spots are kind of freezing.

Our temperatures are sitting right at that freezing mark, though.

So be careful with some slick spots and some freezing up up that rain in areas.

But the temperatures are warming through the day.

So by the afternoon, that's not a concern anymore.

Highs will reach the upper 40s.

And then we have a chance, like I said, more storms in the afternoon.

If those swings throw, some of those could be on the strong to severe side with some hail,

maybe some gusty winds and stuff.

But after that moves through this afternoon, the clouds are going to start to clear.

We're going to see some calm, dry, actual spring-like weather with temperatures moderating

into those mid 40s by tomorrow.

And then low fifties as we move into the weekends.

And the best part is, is we stay dry.

There is nothing going on to ruin our weekend whatsoever.

So after today, let's do it.

Really?

Really?

No, you could be real with us, Brittany.

You can't.

You can't.

And to don't mess with us.

I'm sorry.

I'm thinking this is like, don't see any major storms, be honest with you for the next

few weeks.

Now, not saying we're not going to get a flurry or light rain here or there, but in terms

of the major storms that just shut down the day, I think they're kind of done.

All right.

Take that as a positive, and certainly, I would say that the temperatures being just high

enough to where we didn't have this all freeze on us overnight.

I expected to be taking ice skates to work this morning, and it wasn't really that bad

now.

It was a very surprise.

So we appreciate that.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

Have a great one.

We'll get people ready for the day tomorrow.

So good.

Stay dry, guys.

You too.

That's in the business right there, Brittany Malo, joining us every morning.

We appreciate her.

Yes.

Appreciate all of you.

We're going to be talking about plenty of things this morning, Seth and I.

One of the things we're going to get into is, of course, the LCAPA birthday and anniversary

club.

Do some celebrating in a little bit.

And we're going to talk about a hump day.

And if you're feeling burnt out, you are not alone.

Okay.

We will get into that.

We got a good charge for us today.

We have every Wednesday.

Our good friend Phil Hartley from Quality Post printing will be joining us with our wicked

awesome water Wednesday.

Yes, indeed.

And we're going to recap April Fools.

We've got the 10 best April Fools stunts brands pulled this year.

Okay.

Those are always fun.

Yeah.

And honestly, I love this second day, kind of like the recap of April Fools.

I think it's fun.

It's one of those ones where it isn't April Fools just to me.

I think the more I think about it, the more I enjoyed it, it's like it older because it

took some years off.

And I love these organic holidays.

This is really only still the thing because we make it one.

Sure.

The government doesn't, it isn't a faith-based holiday.

There isn't anything tying us to a tradition-wise, other than we just like doing it.

How cool is that?

We don't have enough fun.

We don't have stuff like that in life, even Arbor Day has quite a bit attached to it.

I'm using that as one of the lighter holidays, not that it's not important.

But it's just kind of a fun thing we just keep doing just to do.

And they haven't found out a way to monetize it yet.

Yes.

Like Halloween or any of those other major holidays that aren't necessarily, yeah.

So there's no, there's no like April Fools Day sales, anything like that.

It's very, it's probably one of the most organic, I think you're right, organic holidays

out there because it's just, you know, have a little bit of fun, right?

Yeah.

Have a little bit of fun.

And of course, we do recommend don't hurt anybody.

Yeah.

We don't want to do that.

We'll talk about that a little bit.

Oh.

But that'll be covered up a little bit later.

Nine o'clock hour going to feature entertainment news, a handful of things I want to dive into

Seth.

Of course, by now many have heard about the passing of Val Kilmer.

I want to touch on that.

Also want to get into this, I would say, and I thought a lot about this overnight before

I was going to say this, I think the most, I'm bit, no, I'm certain, the most ambitious

biopics anybody's ever heard of.

We're going to talk about that with the Beatles.

I'm telling you.

That is remarkable.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to dive into that a little bit later.

And plenty more for you.

Nine o'clock hour also going to feature some fun.

We'll get into a couple of good ones that we got lined up for you.

One of the, this car's one you and I have been sitting on.

The car's with the fewest issues and ones with the most.

Oh, yeah.

We'll get into that one.

We'll get into plenty more in the nine o'clock hour.

Okay.

We want to kick off right here as many of you out there are getting breakfast and let's

go right to what McDonald's breakfast is most celebrities are eating.

Okay.

McDonald's just dropped a new commercial highlighting the orders of different Oscar-nominated

actors and attendees for the Oscars this year.

Okay.

And it's still going, but they were looking at it, it's a, it's a, it's a reach of a tie

in.

It really is for a brand that doesn't need to do that.

Right.

I mean, McDonald's is McDonald's, right?

I will say this though, they've seen some quarterly drops over the last 10 years and

no smart business just sits back on their, you know, hunches and like, hey, if, if you

things are going well, push the gas, like it's, it's, it's, there is not the exact, the

time to take time off or anything like that.

So I, I could see that and I also see this as an opportunity for these individuals to

try to show how human they are because they are human beings and unfortunately, you know,

certain celebrities got to remind people of that sometimes.

Yeah, that's true.

Colin McDink-Domingo is an Egg McMuffin guy, gets the meal, the coffee, everything.

All right.

Very cool.

Strawberry jelly is his thing though.

That's a big one.

He mentions himself.

But he also has a, a strawberry banana smoothie with it.

I don't know why I don't think of smoothies as morning things.

I don't know why.

They didn't seem to make perfect sense.

A lot of people, I think, use it as their, as their breakfast as a matter of fact.

So, yeah.

Karen Culkin said a small Coke.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

I thought, okay.

Now, you know why Hollywood star Stasel Thin?

Yeah.

They don't need anything.

Yeah.

So, a Diet Coke.

Right.

Michael B. Jordan, two egg and cheese McMuffins and two hash browns with strawberry jelly.

That's a full breakfast.

And no surprise there.

He needs a lot of fuel for that body, man.

Yeah.

He does.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Kiki Palmer, fantastic actress, fruit and maple oatmeal with a hash brown on the side.

There you go.

That's good.

I forget that they serve oatmeal over there.

I totally forgot that.

Wow.

Jackie Chan, who does eat his own breakfast.

He does all of his own stunts, including his own breakfast.

Sausage and egg McGrittle with a coffee and apple pie.

Wow.

Nice.

Holy cow, Jackie.

Sugar, man.

Yeah.

I guess he needs fuel too, but I know he, he is not retired, but pretty much has stopped

acting, but I did see a trailer for the next like, karate kid legacies or something like

that.

Right.

And they brought him in for it.

And maybe the last time we get to see him in a movie or something like that, I don't

know if I'll see the movie to be honest with anybody.

But I did like that he's still, he did see, we did see him at least one more time and

all that.

I love that.

And, you know, and thinking of this, you know, thinking of Val Kilmer and everything, you

know, now we, we know what his last role was and all that sort of thing.

So, you know what, all these, these actors that we love, come on, yeah, and getting their

last, you know, so they had older because you never know, yeah, you know, it's great to

see him still doing stuff.

You look at what, what happened with Bruce Willis, where over the last five years, people

were wondering, why is Bruce Willis doing B movies, why is he doing these movies quickly

to video and all that?

It was try to get as much money as he could for his family because he knew what was coming.

Yeah.

This is the retirement plan for an actor.

If you're fortunate, you get to work into late age, yeah, yeah, there's no retiring as

an actor.

Not really.

Not if you want to at least, you know, keep the lights on.

Oh, yeah.

And thinking of the health problems that you can have and all that.

Yeah.

Eddie Menzel.

God.

Incredible.

Incredible, Eddie Menzel.

Agnick Muffin without Canadian bacon and a McAfee latte.

Okay.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

So she gets the, so it's just a, an egg and cheese Muffin, yeah, yeah, okay, I don't

know.

Can you not order that?

I was thinking you can't order that.

Yeah.

I thought, I don't know.

Now, what was funny is they, they showed like pictures of their, the name of their order

if they ordered it online for Eddie Menzel.

It was Adele Desium.

That's another segment we got to do.

Celebrities names getting messed up.

Yeah, right.

Oh, my God.

I can't even imagine.

That'd be a fun one.

I thought it'd be interesting to tie this into looking at what is America's favorite fast

food breakfast?

What do we go to?

What is our go to place?

And not surprisingly, it all McDonald's is way up there.

They are at number one on the list with McDonald's classic egg McMuffin.

That is the most popular one.

I have to say that they, when they figured that out, when they invented that thing, they

had something because it is, it has maintained.

So how many decades now that they've had it out there?

It is still, and it's still good stuff.

I mean, I am, I, I like McDonald's breakfast way better than like their regular food.

I always think it's way better.

I, I thought it was going to be controversial to say it.

I'm right with you.

No, no.

No, I could live without the rest of the menu.

Yeah.

And they're breakfast stuff.

I do, yeah.

Good stuff.

I do like it.

Yeah.

It's the muffin or the biscuit or just whatever it is, they do a really good job with it,

yeah.

Chick-fil-A's Chick-fil-A chicken biscuit is also highly up there, Burger King's croissant

witch.

Not bad.

Not bad either.

Yeah.

Taco Bell's breakfast crunch wrap.

I've never been a wrap guy, so I haven't tried that one.

Subway bacon, egg and cheese flatbread.

That did look good.

I haven't tried that before.

I haven't had those before, and those are pretty good, I'll give them that.

One honorable mention here, Dunkin's maple bacon, egg and cheese, those are pretty darn

good.

I have not had that before.

I don't think I've ever had like a breakfast sandwich at Dunkin before, I should probably

do that.

Hardies has got some great biscuits too.

Yeah, they're really good.

They're really good ones.

Yeah.

Really good ones.

And Wattaburger, breakfast to Keto's, a breakfast to Keto with meat, cheese and egg.

That sounds pretty good, actually.

I don't know.

Wattaburger's around here though.

No, I just had to throw it out there, so I could say Wattaburger, which is always fun.

It's such a great way.

I don't know if there's a fun or fast food place to say than Wattaburger.

Wattaburger.

You go there just so you could tell people when they ask where you're going.

Wattaburger?

Yeah, that's just still the reason.

There is also El Café that has got a bunch of great things on their menu for you.

They're good breakfasts.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're one of their specialties, I would say, it's breakfast over there.

And some great stuff.

And you don't have to take our word for it, our own daily tribute and put them in the

top 10.

Hey.

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We have a belated birthday to mention.

We got to mention this towards the end of the show yesterday, because we got it late,

but want to mention to her again, Cassandra and Crow celebrated a birthday on the first.

All right.

Happy birthday, Cassandra.

Happy birthday.

You're in the running, you're in the list, we threw you into the, you know, qualifiers

and everything, so we appreciate that and Seth, I need a one or a two.

One today.

All right, gives us the qualifier.

First up, wishing a very happy birthday to our own sports director, Jimmy Casca.

Oh, happy birthday, Jimmy.

Jimmy's awesome.

Yeah, he's fantastic.

He does, he does a great job, because he does, like, when we say sports, he does a

lot, all he does, like, the brewers, the radio stations that have the brewers, the stations

that have the packers, the box, I mean, we're talking, I mean, and then all the high school

stuff, he organizes the calendar for all of these stations.

What did he say yesterday?

We did 500 high school sports games last year.

Yeah.

And throughout the network, that is amazing.

And another thing he said in one of our meetings recently, and this is from the WIAA saying

this, not us, nobody covered more high school sports by far and away than civic media.

That's right.

Up and down the states, nobody was covering high school sports the way we did.

That's right.

We're local, everybody.

We're very proud of that.

We want to keep up that.

And a big thank you to all of our sponsors and all everybody that helps us do that are

borrowed operators, our announcers, and Jimmy Casca, who, or, you know, is the conductor

of all of this.

He's got a lot to do.

And does it well?

Yes.

And another thing, does it with a smile?

Yes.

He's always in a good spirits.

Yes.

He's always got a good sense of humor about things, and I really appreciate that his vibe

is energy.

And Jimmy's great.

Yeah.

Happy birthday, Jimmy.

And a happy birthday to Carrie Martinson.

Happy birthday, Carrie.

Enjoy the day, Carrie.

That's a good one.

And our qualifier today, Connie Shred.

Happy birthday, Connie.

Congratulations.

Connie.

Enjoy the day.

I hope it's a good one for you.

Enjoy.

We hope it's a good one.

And we say, bragged, everybody.

Bragged.

Bragged.

All over the place, Connie.

Yes.

Happy birthday, everybody.

Thank you.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Zach Bryant is 29 today.

Cuevo from Migos is 34.

I just wanted to say those two names together.

Two very different artists.

Yes, two very different artists.

Very different artists.

Yes.

Let's see here.

Michael Hull, wow.

Top 10, top five actor in the world today.

Michael Fastbender is 48.

He's really, really good.

Really, really good.

I study him all the time in part because he's one of these actors that I get.

I'll watch him in a scene and I see something I like and I'll make a note of it or something

like that so I can go back to it or whatever.

And then as I'm doing that, the scene right before, I'm like, oh, I completely miss this.

Or I miss the scene after or something like that.

He is so remarkable to me.

His growth from film to film to film.

Now he does a movie like, you know, 12 years of slave and the goes and does like an aliens

movie or assassins creed or something like that.

And the thing is he doesn't take any like scenes off every scene.

He's growing as an actor whether the script is great or not that it's a great film or

not or anything.

He takes everything what I was saying before about not taking your foot off the gas.

Michael Fastbender has never done that in his career.

It's incredible to see him grow as an actor when he has accomplished so much and there's

nobody in the game that would say that he is one of the top five top 10 actors in the

world today.

Right.

Incredible career.

Wonderful actor.

Pedro Pascal is 50 today.

Another amazing actor.

He is the Mandalorian.

He's also Joel and the last of us.

He was in Game of Thrones and Narcos and he is currently Mr. Van Test.

He's Reed Richards.

Reed Richards.

He's going to be one of the iconic superheroes of all time.

He gets to do that.

Wow.

That character so hard to nail down is and fans had said John Krasinski was who they

wanted and it's that's a lovable face lovable guy.

It's really hard to go against the fans, especially when you put John Krasinski out there.

Right.

And you mentioned in the cat when when it was broke that Pedro Pascal was Mr. Reed

no complaints.

No.

Not at all.

Not at all.

Super hero fans.

Right.

Marvel fans had no problem.

And if they have an issue, they'll let you know.

Oh my God.

Before they even casting when it looks, they'll be they'll be winding a complaint about

it.

I heard no complaints about this cast.

I keep waiting for it.

I've heard no complaints.

I find that just almost more remarkable on actually making this work because I haven't

been able to make the fantastic for a work.

And I think fans want so desperately hope that it's a good one finally that that's one

of the reasons why.

Well, they they have not I think one of the things that's different about this than Sony

did.

Sony tried to do this cheap.

And you can't do these cheap whether you're talking about the script, the movie or anything

else anything.

The bar has been raised so high on these superhero movies.

You can make the argument that you can never go back.

You're not going to see an independent superhero movie, right?

You know, I mean, that it's impossible almost you put in the genie back in the bottle.

People have expectations now of these characters.

And you got to bring it.

You got to bring it.

Pedro Pascal is also one of my favorites because he got his break late in his career.

And has taken the ball and run with it.

He certainly has.

My god, this man has had known nothing and said yes to all the right things.

Yes, it's amazing.

It's like, well, it's apparently he learned something along the way because he has been

extremely smart with what casting decisions he's made.

Big fan of his really rooting for him and follow in his career.

Clark Greg, great character actor 63 for him.

Speaking of Marvel, Phil.

Yeah.

Bill Colson.

I know that Marvel's agents of shield.

One of the more love that character.

He is the the munch of the Marvel universe where he has showed up everywhere.

He does.

All my law and order fans out there might get the first iteration when they were just getting

this together.

He was the connective tissue sort of of the whole Marvel, the early Marvel universe and

they were first doing it.

So yeah, very good actor.

Very good actor.

Very good actor.

I'm happy for him because he got that Disney money.

He got it.

He's doing good.

Take it, Clark.

Not many character actors.

You can say probably doing all right.

Yeah.

And I did not, I swear to God, it did not see this coming as I just made that law and

order joke.

Christopher Maloney is 64 today.

Detective Stavler, I'll law an order.

And of course,

64.

Yeah.

There's no way.

Now I've seen that man is as close as you and I are right now, Seth.

I've seen that man.

I've heard him talk.

I've seen spit come out of his mouth when he's talked.

There's no way you can convince me.

64.

Yeah.

There's no way.

No way.

He is lying to us.

That is wrong, Mr. Maloney.

Much like I said, I rambled about any atoms as well.

It's my first time on a real movie, second time on a real movie, set and everything.

And I am just tongue tied and I have no idea how to handle myself.

I have no real people skills when it comes right down to everybody.

And he saw something there because he couldn't have like talked to my ear off more for

no reason.

I wasn't just talking to me.

He was talking to the group of us in the corner there.

But he made eye contact and it might not seem like a big deal.

And it is in this industry.

It is.

Oh my gosh.

It's just in business in general.

Think about any job you started new and your first day on the job.

How much eye contact do people give you?

How much people even look at you.

You know, because it's me honest.

A lot of times in business, like I don't know how well I'm not going to get attached to

that guy.

I don't know how long he's going to be around.

Yeah.

He couldn't have been nicer to me.

Yeah.

Also found the oddest places to throw swear words in, like I don't, like almost an art

at it.

Like it was really weird and very nonchalant like it was nothing.

And they just said, wow, that's a weird place to put that out.

I love it.

Just to me, one of the good guys, one of the good guys out there, man, I will back him

to the end.

All right.

Emilou Harris is 78, wonderful singer and songwriter.

That voice.

Yeah.

That crystal clear, soprano voice, one of my favorite voices of all time.

Oh, I love to hear her sing.

Speaking of great character actors, Linda Hunt is 80 today.

80 for Linda Hunt.

Linda Hunt.

Wow.

Boy, talk about iconic now, Linda Hunt.

I mean, she has a very distinctive look, okay?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's that voice.

Yes.

That just amazingly distinctive voice.

I love that voice.

Oh my gosh.

The principal on kindergarten cop, I think is one of her more famous roles.

Yes.

You're so good in that role.

And the grandmother willow on polka harness.

Yes.

Yes.

Oh, and NCIS.

That's right.

She had a recurring, a regular role.

I believe on that.

Yeah.

I never watched an episode of that, but I was so happy to see her getting that recurring

role.

They are Harman.

Dan Harman.

A Mark Harman.

Yeah.

And actors like that.

I love seeing actors like those roles.

Yes.

Like, do you know that's a consistent page?

Yes, it is.

And it surprised you to be when an NCIS doesn't work out, like they're just seeming like

occasionally.

It's the modern law and order where, like, just keeps spinning off some of those.

Some people no longer with us.

My favorite male singer of all time, Marvin Gaye, born on the stage in 1939.

The legend of Marvin continues to grow with every generation.

And I think that's just amazing.

It is amazing.

It's one of those rare things where you can go back on this entire catalog of recorded

music and realize how amazing he was.

There's very few people that could do what he did.

I mean, he unfortunately for him, he had one of them right next to him in Stevie Wonder,

who could do basically the same thing.

But when you go back and you see now, people are starting to appreciate what he did to

with an extent of sometimes now when you have, you know, the best albums of all time,

unless you know, people constantly doing these lists.

Usually, you know, Sergeant Pepper is the top one there, but now you're starting to see

ones what's going on has jumped over that.

And man, there is an argument to be made.

That is an amazing record.

It's one of the greatest albums all over the year.

All time.

All of us will ever hear.

Yeah.

And Marvin doesn't get credit, I feel like, for his versatility.

No.

I think that's interesting because Marvin Gaye made just as big of a shift as the Beatles

did for me.

You want to hold your hand to Sergeant Pepper.

Marvin is known as the, maybe the greatest love singer there is.

And I mean, too much so with some of his stuff with Tammy and all that.

Tammy and him, I think, are the greatest duo and it's so hard to say this because there's

so many good ones.

But they're right there with Kenny and Dolly or so many other legends.

And then so does all that and could make a fine career the rest of his life just doing

that.

Just doing that, right?

But he sees stuff.

He feels stuff and he can't just sit there and tell you so he gets to his pen out.

He starts writing and writes some of the most important music we'll ever hear.

Yep.

Period.

And continues to do that.

Now, all of this and he died young.

He died young.

You think about the life that man lived and while it was cut short, I also think it's very

wild as we're going to get ready in the entertainment section to talk a little bio picks

and everything.

No, Marvin Gaye picks.

Nobody is one of the touch that one.

And that's not because they couldn't sell it.

No.

It's because nobody knows where to approach that.

How do you even begin to tell the story of Marvin Gaye?

Which because he had such a complicated life, I mean, of all of the personal stuff that

he went through and so and to be fair, a lot of it, he brought on himself, absolutely

brought on himself.

100%.

But it would be, boy, that would be a challenge.

You're right.

You're totally right.

That would be a challenge.

Since I was a little kid and I don't remember this, my parents just tell me this, Marvin Gaye

would come on the radio when I would turn it up.

Really?

Yeah.

I don't remember that voice.

I don't remember knowing it, but apparently I did.

Also didn't just mention to tap this off.

I think for me, the greatest national anthem I'll ever hear.

Easily.

Easily the good time, man.

I love our national anthem.

I love it when it's done right and I've never heard it better than Marvin Gaye.

Never.

Don Sutton board in this day, hall of fame, pitcher.

Oh, yeah.

Braves broadcaster.

Mm-hmm.

Past away in 2021.

Yep.

Let's see here.

Great broadcaster.

Very funny.

Very, very fun guy.

And a great pitcher, too.

I actually knew he was a broadcaster before.

He was a pitcher.

My dad actually was the one that showed me a baseball card at his.

Yeah.

Some great hair.

Yeah, great hair.

And you're right.

Very, very good announcer.

Very self-deprecated.

Yeah.

Very funny guy.

He always felt like he took, he was serious and he did the job great, but always took

it a little bit of fun.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, absolutely.

Sir Alex Guinness board in this day in 1914.

Obi-Wan Kenobi.

You know, as much as I love you and McGregor, and I think you and McGregor is one of the

best.

It's him.

And look at this.

Just check out how many movies that man was in.

Well, I mean.

Thank you for mentioning that because so many movies.

It's hard for me to say what my favorite war movie is, but I think bridge over the medicine

quite.

River quiet.

River quiet, thank you.

It's maybe my favorite.

And part, it's a little nostalgic to me.

I remember watching one my papa and everything, but also his performance.

It's such a good movie.

Oh my God.

I get goosebumps thinking about his feelings.

Him and William Holden and, oh my God.

It's an amazing film.

We don't mention William Holden and that.

No, we don't.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

Yeah, Sir Alex Guinness, man.

Yeah.

And didn't even want to do Obi.

No.

Didn't even want to do Obi-Wan.

But he was a pro.

He did it.

He was not only a pro.

You hear Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher talk about how great he was

with them and how he kept telling, oddly enough, was telling them, hey, this is a jump

off.

You're going to be able to do other stuff because of this.

You're going to be able to do more things because of this.

Not at all.

Nobody on that set realizing what it was going to turn into.

That there was going to be a sequel, but a franchise or anything like that.

They thought this would be an opportunity to get them actually bigger roles and better

paying roles because these didn't pay that well.

That's funny to think about that.

That's right.

Hans Christian Anderson born in this day in 1805.

Hans Christian Anderson.

Dennis Schumacher who also wrote a little, wrote a few stories.

Just a couple things.

A little more.

Job gripping, a little more.

Doctling, Thumbelina, the Princess and the Pea, the Emperors, new clothes.

Man.

Where would I childhoods be without Hans Christian Anderson?

I'm telling you these stories have been around for, I mean, quite a legend.

Yep.

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We hope you're having a good one.

We're looking forward to being joined by Phil Hartley and our quality plus printing.

We could also wear the Wednesday coming up.

Yeah.

That should be fun.

It's a pump day and if you're just working for the weekend, you are not alone.

God, I hate that I just run burgundy that.

That's not going to have that dang lover boy song.

God, I hate lover boy.

Oh, I'm so angry.

You haven't talked about your hatred of lover boy recently.

Have I mentioned that recently?

No.

You should.

Another new poll found burn out is on the rise.

33% of workers say that they're even more burned out than a year ago.

The top things that cause it are heavy workloads in long hours, a lack of support or recognition

from your manager or ownership and the feeling like there's no room for growth.

The top five tips for managers who want to avoid burnout are encourage people to take

the verification days, manage projects better, foster open communication and let workers

know they're appreciated and hire more people to help.

Ah, so I mean, just incredible, incredible stuff right there that nobody would have ever

thought of.

Ever.

Or we haven't been talking about for years.

Nothing there, right?

There's nothing new here.

It's not new for me to say that if you treat your employees better, they work harder and

work better and that means for better bottom lines and finishing in the black and all

the business terms.

What a shocking thing that you're saying there, James.

I just can't imagine.

You know, none of this is new and neither is it us being burnt out.

I think that, now there's, I think that people are being a little more honest about it

maybe.

But yeah, they're not trying to hide it as much perhaps, yeah.

But you're telling me that they weren't overworked in the 20s or the 30s or the 40s, you

know.

I mean, so it is, I don't think this is anything new.

We've been working ourselves to the grave for a long time in this country.

And I think we're just talking about it now, which is being honest about it.

And there's nothing soft about talking about these things.

No.

It's one of the bravest, strongest things you can do is owning what's in your head and in

your heart.

Yeah.

It's one, and to be doing that and in day and age doing that, that's a fantastic thing.

But the catch of that is, okay, we talk about it.

Now what are we going to do about it?

Right.

And that's where this step two, right?

That's where management comes in.

That's where any type of management and all the way up from the assistant manager to

the ownership, that doesn't mean that employees don't take some responsibility and don't

have to pick themselves up sometimes.

We've all got to light a fire under our own self sometimes.

Sometimes a time, yes.

But it really does start an end with this with management, with ownership.

If you think it, if you are in ownership or in a type of management and you think it

doesn't, I don't think you're good at your job.

You're good at it.

End of sentence.

Yeah.

There's no, there's no, you know, romancing this or using kid gloves with this topic.

We're talking business here.

There's no feelings.

There's no emotion with this.

This is about being smart about the job and being good about the job.

And it's just good business to encourage, to support and to be there for your employees.

And pay.

Yeah.

Yes.

How about that too?

You know, I can't, I can't imagine that your, your workers will work less if you're

paying them a, a wage that allows them to, you know, live, to be blunt about it, right?

Makes sense to me.

Why wouldn't they be happy?

Just wanted to make sure that I was correct.

And yes, I, I don't have to do that.

I've been doing this bit for over seven years on the air, man.

I Google, hey, minimum, what is minimum wage in Wisconsin?

And then I Google it just so that I'm sure.

And yes, $7.25.

Still there.

Still there.

It has not changed since 2009, 2009.

On one side of things, you hear people complaining about the rise of this, the rise of that.

And on the other side of things, you hear people say that $7.25 an hour, you can live a good

life on that.

And I want to see them do that.

For every politician that tells me that we don't need to, we don't need to talk about minimum

wage.

I want to see you live on $7.25.

Right.

Hey, we'll even make it easy for you.

Like you don't have a family, like you're a single person, okay?

You don't have anyone else to support.

Right?

Like that.

Just like that.

And still, yeah.

Good luck.

There is no calculator in the world that's going to help you make that work.

No.

And please correct me if I'm wrong.

Please tell me there's somebody out there listening right now that's living a great life.

Got a full take of gas.

Got all these different things going for him on $7.25.

Right.

But again, there is a positive to all this, everybody.

There is, I don't, you know, we don't just do negative.

If we're going to bring something negative up, you know, we're going to bring it up with

the positive here.

There's this flip side to everything, right?

Mentioning the things that we could do to help with this, to make this better in everything.

But I also know that this is something that's in our hands.

We the people.

This is something where the people that you vote in, are they, how are they approaching

this subject?

How are they treating it?

Or if you are in management, what are you doing for your employees?

How are you fighting for your employees?

Right.

I have never worked with a better company.

I have never worked with ownership that literally I could text right now, the head of the

class, right at the top of the food chain.

And he's going to answer, like every time he does this, like I've never worked with that.

And not even talking about Chuck, who's one of my favorite people in the world, who happens

to also be our station manager, right, all that.

And that being said, I can say on a lie detector to me right now, almost every day I'm fighting

for my team.

And that's not because I'm fighting against something, I'm fighting for something.

Exactly.

That's the job.

That's what you sign up for.

If you don't like it, don't do it.

You know, there's, I don't believe there's anybody out there being forced to do a job.

You know, this is the job you sign up for.

And it's fixable.

That's the thing about this.

This is stuff we can work on.

Yeah.

We, you speak into things we need to work on and something that we do around here that

I'd like to hear more of is when you hear whether it is people in their comments or their

posts or it is the news in general, coming out with doom and gloom, okay, well, how do we

make it better?

Mm-hmm.

You know, why don't you do a wrap up to the story, a part two of the story or something

like that because 99% if not everything we're talking about has a positive or has something

that we can do to make it better.

And information, there is information out there, James, like, you know, I was thinking

about, you know, the old, the thing we kind of, we kind of joke about, but we're kind

of serious, you know, the four day work week, we've, we talk about that periodically

on this show.

And I thought, oh, Wednesday is perfect, you know, cut out Wednesdays, four day work week,

you know, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, okay?

And then we'll just do that kind of thing.

But there's studies, they've studied all of this stuff, you know?

What shift, what, how many hours in a shift you should work that you're at your peak

of productivity, you know, whether four day work weeks are better, you know, do people

feel better with things, do they, do they, does that increase their productivity?

We're all talking about stuff that can do, that can make them better employees.

Yeah.

That's what we're talking about, you know, paying a living wage and all these things.

Nobody is asking for these things because they want to be the Beverly Hillbillies.

Like, they're asking for these things because they want to actually be able to keep their

head above water.

Right.

They want to enjoy their life.

And maybe they, maybe they do enjoy that what they're doing, yeah, make it better

for them.

And then they could be even better for you.

It's a give and take, you know, it is the definition of win-win.

Yeah.

It really is.

Right.

I'm going to be following along on this story and see more about this as it develops.

Let's go ahead and take our call here because we got Phil Hartley joining us with our

Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday Phil.

How you doing?

Good.

On the run.

Sorry, James.

That's all right.

We won't keep it too long because we got to get to break here in a couple of minutes

too.

Phil, what is our Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday?

Okay.

I'm going to have Vicky from Google analysis here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, Mark.

That's a good one, Phil.

That's a really good one.

That's a really good one.

That's a fun one.

It's a great one.

I imagine that you're running around because you are busy over there.

We know how busy you guys get a quality post printing.

Getting your words out here in Wisconsin Rapids.

How about next week?

Let's talk a little bit more.

We talk a little shop.

Maybe even have you stop by here soon, huh?

Oh, yeah.

That'd be great.

And again, yeah.

I apologize for running.

How dare you.

No, Phil.

Maybe you got all the grace of the word.

Yes.

What's that?

What's your dinner?

It's like a combo episode, right?

Where it tells everything at the end.

Yes.

That's right.

You got it.

Just one more thing.

It's just wonderful.

It's just wonderful.

It's horrible, beautiful.

But I will do it to the end of time.

I love that, man.

I love that.

We appreciate you, Phil.

Thanks so much for making the time.

We know how busy it gets over there.

We'll hang out more next Wednesday.

You have yourself a great one.

Say hi to the staff for us, all right?

Well, you got to get care.

You too, Phil.

Thank you.

Phil's awesome.

He's great.

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That's a fill-on talk in tennis when tennis gets close to toe.

Oh, yeah.

We're going to do that.

We'll be doing that for sure on the show.

We'll be back on more show coming up right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR, locally growing radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Big thank you to Phil Hartley and our friends over at Quality Post Printing

with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

That was awesome.

That was awesome.

I'm going to have that in my head all day, too, though.

I didn't know worms could ...

Words could be ear worms.

Words could be ear worms.

Words could be ear worms.

And they sure can be if you can talk.

Words help with talking, you know.

We're going to wrap up a little bit, April 4th,

we're going to wrap up a little bit, April 4th.

I kind of recap that a little bit.

Very nice, very nice.

In a minute, we'll get into businesses

that won April 4th, essentially.

I always love this.

It's a quote-unquote.

Yeah, it's a quote-unquote.

It's a personal hand it out.

Yeah, right.

And stuff.

But two notes before we get into that.

One, I don't know if anybody saw this.

I like to shout out NPR whenever we can,

because they're very similar to what we do around here.

Right.

And do great work.

Great reporting.

And they have a series there called

The Tiny Dust Concert that they've been doing forever.

Yeah, they've been doing that for decades now, I think.

Yes.

Even when it's an artist, I don't know

or I don't like necessarily.

I like catching a little of it.

Because I love that they do this.

I love that we still have something like this.

And I think it reminds me very much of MTV's unplugged.

And I think that there's something nostalgic about that.

And I just like acoustic music.

I like stripped down music.

And I think it's really well done.

Then there's what Kevin Hart did yesterday,

where it broke yesterday that Kevin Hart's persona,

his rap persona, chocolate droppa,

did a tiny dust concert.

And he goes out there,

and he has a real band behind him.

And he goes out there.

It starts doing this like,

man, I don't want to drop this for a long time.

I want to tell you all about this.

I've been doing this acting thing.

No, no, I'm going to do music now.

This is what I'm doing.

And he gets like two minutes into a song and stops.

No, you're not ready.

You're not ready for this.

Did it like five times.

And it was funnier every time.

Oh, that's a good April Fool's joke.

I'm going to bother some people with this one.

It's the funniest thing I've ever seen Kevin Hart do.

By far in a way.

It's live.

There's a real audience there.

And he's actually rapping.

And he's not great, but he's not bad.

He's way better than most people would.

And it's like original lyrics.

And then you can tell he gets to a spot

where he doesn't know where to go next.

He's like, no, you're not ready.

It was so well done.

It was hilarious.

That's committing to a bit right there.

Yeah.

And I love it.

And I love when these bits happen that we don't see coming.