Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at WFHR.
Got your host, James here, joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.
Good morning, and the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us all. I hope you all
are having a great day out there. Let's go ahead and kick things off the way we like to,
with our friend, Brittany Merlowe, talking a little Mother Nature. Good morning, Brett.
Good morning. How you doing? Doing all right over here. We got a little bit of everything
so far this morning. I've been here about two hours, and I've seen rain. I've seen sleet.
I've seen snow. Trying to think of the way the rest of those lyrics go.
The mail must get through. A little bit of everything, Brittany.
Oh, no, no, no. That sounds terrible. Oh, gross. It's calm down now, though.
It's not too bad right now. It seemed like it's calm down. What does it look like the rest of the day?
Yeah, I thought it looks like you could still see those flurry sleet chances here for about the next
30 minutes or so, and then it really just wants to switch over to some light drizzle,
patchy fog, overcast skies, you know, the definition of a dreary day. Pretty gross out there.
But hey, this is not downpouring or anything or a big ice storm. It's very light, very minimal.
It's not a lot of moisture out there. So it's going to actually dry up and ease up by late morning,
and then we're just going to be stuck with cloudy skies. Highs, though, will stay on the cooler
side of things, only making it to those mid to upper forties today, and then the clouds will clear
overnight tonight. This means we've got a beautiful day on tap tomorrow. Highs warmer in the mid-stift
ease. So a good way to close the week out, and it stays bright and beautiful as we roll into
Saturday too, and warmer. So plenty of sunshine. Highs will make it to those low to mid-60s,
to start the weekend off, but we do have a system that wants to roll in on Sunday,
so it's going to cut off our sunshine pretty quickly, and then chances for showers in the evening,
and that continues into Monday too. So little growth, but it'll stay mild. Highs will still be in
those 60s, even as we start off next week. I can handle that. Yeah, I can handle that. We got it.
We do have a choice. No, really. I do think this might be a good day if you can have a backdrop.
If you can have one of those digital backdrops, like Zoom calls and everything,
if you could just have focus on that, because I don't know if we want to check out the outdoors
so far today. We appreciate you, Brittany. We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow.
Sounds good. Have a great day. You too. Best in the business right there.
Brittany Malone joining us every morning. Yep. Seth and I got a bunch of fun stuff to do today.
We're going to get into a little bit later. Background music for employees and how that works.
Oh, okay. And what bad background music can do. We'll get into some of that.
We've got, of course, we're going to talk to our friends over at the South of County Main Society.
We have our pet of the week coming up and some theme music for that. Yes. We have a new intro for it.
Very nice. Great entertainment news for you a little bit later. Even after that,
Seth and I will get into any right story, some good stories of the day. We'll touch on our schedule.
And, of course, focus on a bunch of local events going on and some local things that we want to get to.
Plenty of great stuff. We thought this would be a good spot to start, Seth, as it is National Siblings Day.
Okay. Very nice. Shout out to all the Siblings out there. Certainly, you know, you and I have a
handful of, I mean, the two of us and everything. We do. A recent poll found 88% of us grew up with at
least one brother or sister. But what's the best number of Siblings to have?
People were asked how many they wish they had growing up. Can you guess what the top number was?
And we want audience participation as always on this one. 715-424-2600. Feel free to text in using
the Civic Media app we love here from y'all. That's right. I don't, I mean, I'm biased on this one.
I think too. I got to grow up perfectly. I'm the oldest and I have a brother and sister.
I got a little bit of this, a little bit of that. You do have a, like that. And boy, you know,
this is interesting because from the sibling point of view, it's got to be different from the parent
point of view, which, you know, so if you have, you know, four kids, it's like, wow, why did we have
so many kids or something like that, right? But Siblings, it's, I think it, I'm with, I kind of
like having the one, you know, I have a sister and older sister and that's it. And, you know,
I'm trying to think really hard about having another sibling. It's hard to do. Yeah. You know,
imagine having another sibling. Yes. Yes. It's very hard. So I don't know. Maybe I'm,
see, am I just stick with what I had too? Same thing as you. Does make me think of one of my favorite
stories when I was a kid. And I remember realizing that my brother and I are 10 years apart, my sister
and I are five years apart. We're all five year, Jill and Nick are five years apart. Right, right.
We're all five years apart. And my father being the human calculator that he is, I just figure,
well, this is something that they planned on. He must have done that on purpose. And I ask my father
why they decided to do it this way. And he fell down laughing. Jimmy, you don't play, kids.
They just happened. Yeah, it's, why is your words were never spent or never said right there.
26% Oh, we did get a message in the number of symptoms four. Oh, four. Wow. That's a lot.
It's a good number, though. That's all right. I didn't expect that. I didn't see. I say, I
remember, thank you for texting in everybody. Yep. 26% said two siblings is perfect. Okay. 19%
said one in 18% said three. And zero siblings got 14% of the vote. I was wondering.
I was wondering. They want to be that only child. And those are all only children, by the way,
that said that. I wonder, I think there are a few things you can understand, like, unless you
have done it as being an only child. Yeah. I don't have any idea what that's really like. No, no.
It's and, and you know, and I, okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to mend that. So it's either
only children who mentioned that or ones that have like siblings, they absolutely hate. Yes,
I should have been an only child now. There's another one that's hard for me to get. The idea,
like, I'm not saying to my brother and sister, I haven't fought or anything like that. But the idea
that I, that I wouldn't, like, that we'd be at that kind of level where I wouldn't even want,
you know, siblings or so. I can't, I, that I can't write my mind around any more than I can
being as, you know, an individual single. I can't. Right. Exactly. 33% of people with siblings
think that their mom has a favorite child. Only 22% think their dad does. Interesting. What dad?
Wait a minute. So what? Dad's don't have favorite. I buy my, my, my little sister is my dad's
favorite and my brother is my mom's. My positive. I'm positive of that. I will, I will die on that
hill. Oh, and, and I don't disagree with those, those, those, the assessment. Yes. I feel like
they got that right. I feel like that's a pretty good way to do it. They're good. They have a very
good judge of care. Most of us don't think that we're the favorite. Only 30% said, yes. Okay.
Well, that was, I see there you go. Right. You were walked right in that one.
And that's kind of funny. You know, if they actually, if parents would actually, you know, say that
and some ingest would say, well, of course, you know, your, your sister in my favorite, your
brothers, my favorite, if they were to actually be honest about it. If, if, how, how would that,
what those statistics would be? I like the idea of responding with a secret family. Yeah.
It's excellent. My secret kids. Yeah. They're my favorite.
Did I say that I love to eat? Dang it. That's on me.
So, geez, cats out of the bag. 19% of us think we're completely different from our siblings.
Oh, completely different. Wow. Yeah. Wow. No. No, I can't say that. We have, we, my sister and I
are, are very different in many ways. I will, I will grant you that in temperament and a few other
things. But there are other things that we are very similar in. Yeah. And, and I'm, yeah,
we're not very, we're not that would you say? Because I, I feel like I would lean more towards my
brother and sister and I have more in common than not. Would you say that? Yes. Yeah. I would,
I would agree with that. Yeah. 10% would describe a sibling as a best friend. Hmm. I would say my
brother and sister are some of my best friends. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Always have been.
Yeah. When you grow up with them, I mean, it's hard not to. You're spending all that time with
them. Hopefully you have a good relationship. If not, it can be pretty rough. Well, and here's
something that you and I can have relatability in, but in different ways. I imagine for you not having
a whole lot of neighbors and other people around necessarily. So you guys, you know, that you're
each other's right. And all the people that were there were almost all relatives. You know, like
cousins and stuff. So I didn't have a lot of outside the families where I lived. Yeah, exactly.
We moved around so much that it wasn't just me, but my brother and sister would also have
to hard time making friends or at first or anything like that. So you end up becoming
each other's friends and stuff. And I think there's a power in that too that you carry with you.
Yeah. I wouldn't, you know, I thought the great times and the fun stuff that my sister and I
did, I wouldn't trade that because it was great. You know, and of course, like you said, we all had,
we have disagreements and that kind of thing. Since we've been adults, that's very rare.
You know, so we enjoy each other's company much more than not. So I've had a, I've had a
brought up to me recently, once in therapy, even about, you know, changing things and regrets
and some of this stuff. And, and, you know, you're saying that makes me think about that, especially
with that. I, you know, haven't had nothing close to a, to a, a normal or, or even positive in some
ways, a childhood or anything like that. I wouldn't change a single thing. Wouldn't change a thing.
To me, the question always becomes what would change with it? And, and, well, right, there's too
many things like you just mentioned there that I wouldn't want to change. Everything that happens
affects you in some way. Yeah. To where you are now. Now, it's good and bad. It's, we, we,
we understand that, you know, these are the, the things that we try to work on. But everything,
you know, there's always something before what happened. And this has an effect on what, what,
going forward. So. Yep. Seth and I have much more interest in getting a time machine and wasting it
by going back and watching, yeah, big concerts and everything. That shows. Like this esoteric stuff.
Wow, look at that. Eight percent of us have had a serious physical fight with a sibling before.
No, what's your definition of serious? Because my brother and sister and I used to rough house.
I mean, you know, right. Played this game where it was those two against me and we just had a
football. And I'd be running with it and then they tackled me and oh no, I fumble and I throw
the ball in the air. My, my sister and I know we never really did that as far as I know.
No, my sister was too manipulative for that. She wouldn't get into fights. Why would you get it?
No, my brother in law, David, he had some real knock down dragouts with his brothers. In fact,
once he, I don't know if it was a actual fight or not, he hit one of his brothers in the face
with an ironing board. Dang. Knocked out his front teeth. Whoa. That is a tough one to get over.
That is a tough one. Yes. That's rough. I don't got anything like that one.
No, I don't mean either. Whoa. Okay. That's pretty serious. Yeah.
38% of people who don't have brothers or sisters are fine with it.
That's, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. And would you rather be the oldest, youngest or middle child?
It's more or less a three-way tie, but slightly more people would rather be the oldest,
middle is next and youngest is third. Oldest 21%, middle 19%, youngest 18%, only, only child 11%,
and 30% said not sure. Now, I can't prove this, but you know, things that you feel are so true,
but you cannot prove in the name. Right. This is one of those times for me where I believe that
everybody that answered that is something different. Yeah. If you're the oldest, you think it's
the best to be the youngest. The youngest, right? If you're the youngest, you think it's the best
to be the oldest. Yeah. If you're the middle child, you know that it's just rough. You try to
either one, right? You pick either the oldest or the youngest and one of those two, right?
If you're the middle child. When you're, it's only two. It's, it's a little different because,
you know, yeah, my sister was two years older than me, but we never had that, you know, whatever
that when you have more than two children kind of thing. So yeah. But, but definitely when you
have three or more, then that doesn't, that certainly comes into play. We, when I, one last part of
this study found that they, they really are, when it comes to middle children, they really are
quote, different in a good way. Middle kids tend to be more cooperative and honest in the way
that the study had found. We also got a note from one of our listeners about this. Guaranteed that
the middle child was not the one who voted to be the middle child. Yeah. Absolutely. 100%. 100%.
I believe that. I do too. Knowing nothing of what it's like to be a middle child. No, I still
will love it though. Very good. And I think today is a great day. I don't care if you talk to them
an hour ago, reach out to your brother, your sister. Yeah. If you don't have a brother or sister,
even if you do, I recommend big brothers, big sisters. It is an incredible program. We have one
right here in such a Wisconsin. We do. It's a great use of your time and you want to talk about
investments in the future and and putting and making an impact on our future. And there's,
there's few things that are more rewarding than that. Like I was saying earlier, you know, all
those things that happened that create who you are in the past. Think about the impact you could
have on someone by being that person. That could be huge. Encourage you to go to bigimpact.org,
bigimpact.org, big brothers, big sisters of Central Wisconsin website. Check that out,
everybody. Yep. Did that when I was out in California. It was amazing. It was amazing.
Also learned that I don't know anything about knots. This kid, man, knew every single style of not
every type of thing you could think of with a knot. It's really humbling when it's 11-year-old.
It's just like just walking all over you intelligence wise. That's awesome. Even as a boy scout,
and I knew plenty of knots because that's a big thing. I didn't know all of them. I'd say that much.
He didn't have a lot of books growing up and he had a, I think it was actually a boy scout book
of knots and stuff. Perfect. So the kid just really liked the book. We're really good at knots.
Yeah, he's really good at it. We'll take a time out. We'll come back. We're going to do some
celebrating with our good friends over at El Café in the birthday and anniversary club. It's
Seth and James taking it through the morning right here at 975 FM WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café. We encourage you to
treat yourself. Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. Buy local support,
local support those that support this community and this radio station. Appreciate our friends
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it the best. Incredible people over there. We appreciate our friends at El Café and
you know, not for nothing everybody. There ain't nobody doing a birthday and anniversary club around
here. And we have heard that from you out there. That's right. We've got all of our cover
reporters out there and I've been hearing for weeks just here and there. Hey, one let you know,
you guys only ones doing this or something like that. We don't say that to brag. We say that
because we're proud of that and we're able to do it thanks to our sponsors at El Café. Absolutely.
Some of the great work that they're helping us do out there. We appreciate them. And people
love to hear them. So we're going to keep doing them. How does chop steak and eggs sound for a
special? Wow. That sounds pretty darn good. Staking eggs in the morning now. Get you going.
All right. Maybe a little bit later today. Wisconsin-Berryburger. God, that sounds good.
That sounds good. You really got a sense from the rest. I know. I never thought about wrong with
us in the morning, man. It took me 20 years in radio to realize you shouldn't do radio hungry.
Maybe you send us food. El Café. You send us food every morning. Hey, good great. Let's take a call
real quick. Good morning. You're on the show. Morning, James. Good morning. How you doing, man?
Good. You smile, transport them, tapos. Okay. 22-30, James Court.
Creme Bay Court. How's two? Okay. All right. We appreciate you, man. You have a great morning.
Good morning. Yeah. Feel free to call up and give us those birthdays and
anniversaries, everybody. Yeah. You can do it just like our caller right there.
Call up. Get us that live birthday and anniversary. Love taking them live. You can also
text us through the Civic Media app. You're a little more comfortable doing that.
Yeah. Direct messages on our Facebook pages. However you got to do it. Morse code,
smoke signals. We want your birthdays and anniversaries. We do. We got three of them right here.
Seth, give me a one through three. Oh, let's do three today. I like three. All right. Give us
that qualifier and get right into the celebrate in the first up. I want to wish happy birthday to
Mike Schroeder. Happy birthday, Mike. Enjoy the day, Mike. We're wishing you a good one.
Have a great day. Very much so. Then we want to and you're going to have to help me with these two.
Oh, okay. We all want to wish a happy birthday to Sarah Blacquist. Okay. Let me see here.
Blacquist. Let's see. That would be a block. Yes, something like that block. Who is? Yeah,
a block. Who is something that Sarah give a very hard to pronounce last name, but you know that.
Yes, you do. Somebody with the last name may laugh or have anger. Yeah, I can speak to. We
understand. And, and Sarah, we would love if you want to call it and give us the bright
reproduciation. Yeah, right. Get this right. Happy birthday to you. Yeah, we want to highlight you.
We want to get it right. Just like we want to for our qualifier, Gloria Krakowski. Oh, Gloria,
congratulations. Happy birthday. You go to high school or you spend enough time in central
Wisconsin. You're going to get down Polish names. Oh, you're going to learn them. Yeah, you'll
learn them. They're around it. God, I don't, I love, I love Polish last name. There's so much fun to
say. Yes, yes. Italian last names. Those are the fun work, the last names to say. And, and,
Gloria, my goodness, what a name. Gloria Krakowski. I know. Beautiful name. Love it. That's a great name,
Gloria. Enjoy. No one anyone ever tell you. It's not a good name. Have a great day, Gloria. We
say, bragged all your friends, family, strangers, animals that you are qualified for today. Indeed.
Let's take a look at our celebrity. Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, I did have one more. I knew it.
I knew it. I knew it. Okay. Oh, go. You caught it. Yes. We had a caller get it to us yesterday.
And, and my, you know, it gets sleep, everybody. It's important to get sleep. One,
rest your brain. Want to add to our list, barbabcock. Happy birthday, barb.
Barb. Happy birthday, barb. Happy birthday to you. Barb's awesome. She's great. We appreciate
people like barb out there working front desk at many of our facilities out there and doing great
work. We appreciate barb. Enjoy your day. And happy birthday. Yes. Happy birthday.
Who do you share your birthday with, barb? What celebrities do you share with?
Well, one of them I know that sets the fan of Daisy Ridley is 33. She is great.
Ray in the new Star Wars movies. She's got an action movie coming out that looks like
Lee and Neeson could have. It was her early of Neeson. She's, of course, you know, she works.
What would you call it? The people that clean windows on skyscrapers and stuff. I think it
has a name, but it probably does. I just call them window cleaners, but yeah, we'll say cleaner.
Yeah, she does this and her brother gets kid held hostage. So she has to break in there and
oh, spoiler alert. She's a former military vet. What? So no, it always happens. It always happens.
Any more action stars. Go Daisy. Oh, it looks real. It looks fun. It looks fun. And she,
she has got another Star Wars movie coming up that they're hard at work on. That's true.
That's true. They're continuing her storyline and everything. I really felt like she handled
a lot of the bad press that she was getting really well. And by, I mean, not bad press. I mean,
bad comments and stuff. The press didn't really have anything. It was more just Star Wars fans being
jerks, which many of them are for some reason. As a Star Wars fan, but, you know, it takes me off
some. Yeah. Like, I, whatever happened to keeping thoughts to yourself. Just, you know,
it's because you think it doesn't mean you have to say it. Yeah. Yeah. Marine Morris is 35
country singer. Her 2017 charity single, Dear Hate is a response to the Las Vegas shooting.
And that was a, I don't remember that. No, it did well. She's quite good. She's quite good.
Haley Joel Osmond is 37. Wow. Wow. You grew up with him like we did. Wow. Man, he's a great story.
He's so often child actors, especially ones that are pushing into spotlight like he was with
the six cents and his and force gump. And I mean, he was in a lot of big movies when he was a kid.
And that doesn't AI. I almost forgot about it. Yeah. That's right. AI. I let the whole thing.
He was the lead actor in that and everything. The one thing that I don't like is I've heard some
people say, wow, he had a better career as a kid than as an adult. For one, that's on casting
director. That's not on him because this talent hasn't gone anywhere. He's still just as talented.
And if anything, I give him credit for taking a lot of roles that you wouldn't think maybe
somebody like that with the cal with the resume that he has would do. But he puts himself in all kinds
of silly weird situations as an actor and all this stuff. And you could tell that he loves to do
this for a living and he's very good at it. Yes. Especially child act as far as child actors go,
he's in the top 10 of all time. Yes. Like look at the resume. Six cents paid forward AI.
Elijah Wood, McCauley-Colton, Shirley Temple. There's a handful of child actors.
The whole cast of Harry Potter. Yeah. That are in that top five, that top 10. Haley Joel is
way in the top five. I would put him up there. Let's see here. Mandy Morris, 41.
Rebecca Pearson. And this is us. She's also the voice of Rapunzel and Disney's talent.
Very good singer, too. She had kind of a pop career. Oh, he was really young. Yeah, I was
forget that. Yeah. One of my favorite actors out there. Chelly Hunnam is 45. Most people know him as
Jacks on Suns of Anarchy or maybe you saw him in Pacific Rim. He played a, he was in the Guy
Richie Sword and the Stone movie. Oh, the Arthur set whatever that was called. Yeah. And I'm not
saying that was a great movie, but I love it. I love it. It's a, it's, it's Guy Richie doing
basically like the, the, all the, the Camelot stuff. Right. I love it.
Guy Richie can be an acquired taste. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. But I'm a big fan of
his. I think he's really good. He's, he's, he's found a niche with some of the work that he's
done. Very similar to a guy he shares a birthday with David Harborough, who is 50. Yes. Most people
know him as Jim Hopper on Stranger Things. Natasha Super Soldier, Dad Red Guardian and Black Widow
and upcoming Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts. Yeah. And he looks like one of the most delightful parts of
that movie actually. Yeah. He's such a fun actor. Oh my gosh. He's so much fun. And he reminds me a
lot of Samuel Jackson, where guys who got their break late in their career and you can tell that
they're, they got the ball they're running with it and they're, they're having fun. Yes. They're
going to enjoy this. Yes. To me, I wonder if I'd be able to do that. I wonder if getting that break,
if I wouldn't be so adamant about like, I've got to work, I've got to work, I've got to work,
I've got to work, you know, and keep that break hold on to that. Sure. These guys seem like,
man, I'm good. Like, what happens? Happens. I'm just going to keep acting. I'm guessing
they're paying me to do this. Exactly. Exactly. It's one of those things where I was like, well,
you know, I put in a lot of work and I finally got that break, you know, and they, they took
it a strike and maybe it's because they were older. Yeah. And they can take it more, you know,
in perspective, that kind of thing. I admire it. Yep. Brian Setser is 66. Wow. Stray cats. Brian
Setser orchestra. Man, did he have nine lives for a straight hold? Oh, oh, oh, just golf clap.
Rocking this town Stray cats struts. I was a huge Stray cats. They were good. That was a good
name like the Stray cats as a kid. There was nothing like that. No. And what a like 30 years later,
to spin that into the Brian Setser orchestra. Yeah. And basically, I mean, he was one of the,
that started the swing craze in the late 90s. He was part of the, he wasn't just jumping on the
bandwagon. He helped start it. So, yeah, I think almost every single scab band can thank the Brian
Setser orchestra for helping really set a tone in the late 90s. Yeah, right. We all put up with
work about a month. If your scab music was gigantic for about a month, the 90s. Brian Setser
very talented in the way too. Really good composer. Yep, but you're very good guitarist too.
Let's see here. Steven Seagull is 73. Moving on. You know, you know, there was a time.
Steven Seagull put out some great dumb action films, you know. I never got that. I'm not, I
remember watching a few and they were great movies, but they were entertaining. I feel like
between him and Jean-Claude Van Dam, you had to pick. You couldn't do both. I pick Jean-Claude.
I could handle his dumb action movies. I couldn't handle both of them.
Seagulls were so weird. Seagulls were weird movies. Like, Jean-Claude Van Dam is not a great actor.
No, but he does a decent job with the things that he does. And especially when he plays a villain,
he's very good at playing a villain. Steven Seagull is, like, nails on a chalkboard for me
watching him act. And then to see him in like the older he got doing quote unquote martial arts,
where I mean, like, so it's famously known for at least by some people and everything that
Bruce Lee was so fast, they had to slow down the footage for him. Right.
Enter the drag in part of the reason some of the scenes are the way they do it. It's slow.
Oh, right. Yeah. The cameras back then could not catch what Bruce was doing. I believe the
opposite is true for Steven Seagull when they had to literally like, like, speed things up
just so it looked like it was some people no longer with us. Like, you cannot tell the story of
football without John Madden 1936, passed away in 2021. Football is forecasting legend. Of course,
the Madden video franchise, which is huge. I love. And he had like three massive things that he
was attached to. First, all the success he had as the Raiders head coach. By the way, look at his
stats as a code. My goodness, impressive. I believe he still has the all-time winning percentage.
I believe he does. Yes. He made like the playoffs every year. He coached except for like one
or something like that. And then of course, his long career as a broadcaster. And then the whole
Madden franchise, which became like the biggest video game series ever ever. Turkey legs,
Turkey turdunkins, the bus, you know, what everyone knows about me. How much language did he
invented that we still do to this day? In every kid in our generation, if you see somebody
working on a teleprompter, you end up thinking of Madden eventually. I heard someone just recently
used the word sloberknocker in a different context. And I was like, John Madden, he's the one.
I don't know if he came up with it, but he popularized that word. I will say I think of J.R.
from WWE as well as Sloberknocker. Madden also, we don't get that enough time here, but
also helped invent a lot of the things in broadcasting that you've seen like the teleprompers.
He was so good with the pen, the, the, the, the, the, the, the illustrator. And he was the one that
really kind of had fun with that. So also Don Meredith would have been celebrating a birthday today.
Original Monday night football sportscaster. Yes. Very near. And a very good quarterback too.
Yeah. For the early Dallas Cowboys. Dandy Don. Dandy Don Meredith.
And then a couple of great actors to wrap up with Max von Sydem, Born in the state of 1929.
The three-eyed Raven for many Game of Thrones fans. A minority report. The extra-sistered
course. And but most importantly, got to mention Ming the Mercy List in 1980's Flash Gordon.
Polarious. Flash. How about the seventh seal? One of the greatest films of all time from
Big Mark Bergman. He was a great Swedish actor of Van Sydem was, yes.
Yeah, no, but that's a great one. I, I, I, I was shaved to myself and I made the burst of
the list. I had to mention Flash Gordon. It's great. Great, man. And Omar Sharif, born in the state
of 1932. Dr. Shia, go funny girl. Lawrence of Arabia. My God. Good, good actor.
While he was good. You, um, one of the things I like looking at with actors is seeing like how
many of that like wear like back to back to back to back like hits or great roles and everything.
He's one of my favorites to look at. Um, man, very few actors have a window of like three to
four years or three to four films that are as incredible as an impressive as his work. And
that's in the sixties. Yeah, he made some, some amazing films. Yeah. Happy birthdays and
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Why do they? It's not the one I meant. I meant cheap trick. I meant dream police.
Oh, this song is an airworn for me. Oh, is it? Oh, I didn't know that.
My brother and sister used to tease me with this song, whatever they could. Of course they did,
right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, darn it. Welcome back. Just a little, little trauma here. Yeah,
you'll be here in this all day to say it now. We appreciate you guys hanging out with us.
Thanks so much for joining us. Hope you're having a good Friday Eve out there.
Seth and James here with you. And this is kind of a part two of a conversation we had last week,
Seth. Oh, okay. All right. And I got together. We were talking about men in suits and how
most men can feel a little bit more, feel better in a suit. And we talked about it. Yeah, you know,
it feels like at least when we were kids, maybe we're the last generation of this because I don't
I'm not putting this on any generation at all, but past or forward. But I do feel like up until us,
it was kind of a thing where every man should have one good suit. Right. Yeah, it was that thing.
I think it was handed down to us a lot of weddings in funerals, right? That's what you need it for.
Yeah. I know. I have one. I've got one. Actually, I need fitted, which by the way,
audience could use some help with because it's pretty hard to find a seamstor. Right?
A tailor or a seamstress. Yeah. Any of the other. I got a suit. I'm dying to wear for my
daughter's wedding. Right. But it is so big on me. Yeah, you do need to get that tailored a little bit.
I really, I really thought I got the sizes right. I did not. I did not. Man, it looks good on me.
Yeah, I'm sure it does. At least I think it will. Yeah, I think it will look nice. If it looks
it's tailored, it'll look really good on you. And I just said that live on the air. And I am
a person that never says I look good. I am not a confident human being. Yeah, there you go.
I have a quiet confidence to do the things I love to do like radio or acting or anything like that.
But as far as like anything outside of that. No, no, I'm very honest about that. I'm working on
that kind of thing. But this might help. And not just me, but anybody else out there, of course.
According to new research, the average man feels 67% more confident when sporting their best suit or
tuxedo. Okay, wow. And that doesn't mean they just feel like James Bond. It means that they're
confident about dressing themselves partially. About 20% of men admit that they're not confident
about their ability to tie a neck tie. And 24% admit that their partner ties a better one than
they do. And those are very similar percentages to as far as like, hey, honey, what should I wear
tonight? Or hey, what do you think of this? Right. The difference of that question and everything.
And it sounds like many men aren't getting the reps they used to get because around 10% say that
they have to go to video. They watch when it comes to doing a tie. Okay. And another 10% said
that they only purchase clip on ties. Wow. I'm not great at tying a tie. Okay.
I'll admit it takes me a time or two. But I refuse to do the clip on tie. Like if it's a part,
if it's acting complete opposite, right? In fact, especially if you sometimes you have to take it off
quickly, right? Quick costume changes and everything they come really in handy. But in my personal
life, you will never see me in a clip on tie. Right. I never. I can't do it. I am actually quite
confident in my tie ability. And I don't use it very much, but it's one of those things that you
never lose. If you know, when I do have to put a tie on, it comes back really quick. You know,
it's not something I'm too worried about. Now, bow ties on the other hand. I have never been able
to master. Beth has learned and blessed her to do it because every time I wear bow ties too,
not a lot, but occasionally wear bow ties. And she is the one that has to tie them before me. So
and there's nothing wrong with clip on bow ties, by the way. There's nothing wrong with that.
One other thing about this one was standing out to me too. So how many people do this show of
hands and everybody be honest, you have a tie and you just loosen it. Yeah. And then you just
keep it hung by your suits. You can do that. I've got three ties that are still tied.
Well, if you know, it's a good knot. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, right.
I also, real quickly, other thing here. I don't know. Maybe I'm so away from this world. I don't
know, but I miss kind of when ties were a thing. And we know they were because for a while there,
there were the really long ties. There were the really wide ties. And there were the tis.
The tis. Skinny ties. Yeah. We're kind of in a skinny tie era again right now kind of thing. It's
a fashion thing. It goes comes and goes. But I will say one thing that is never worked is the
super long time that I've never understood that. What is that? Do you listen for like really tall
people? That would be the thing who have like long torsos because then it looks weird if you don't
have it. You and I are really tall. And we know it doesn't look right though. I don't get it.
And it's how you tie it and everything. But yeah, I feel like if you want a tail,
you know, just didn't have a tail. It just feels like a tail for your neck tail.
The most common tie related thing men Google is how long should they tie beef? Yeah,
see? Makes sense. Makes sense. Even fewer people can handle a bow tie. I don't know what you
were talking about. Bow ties are harder to tie definitely than neck ties. Yeah. 47% of men say that
they have had they have no idea where to start with a bow tie. Those are hard. That's right, man.
What is your thoughts on ties? Everybody said 154 to 426 hundred. Oh, you know what I wonder.
If you look back at pictures of like what the 1830s and 40s, men had neckwear. But it was just like
like a piece of cloth that they wrapped around the neck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You've seen old, you know,
pictures or old paintings of guys. And that was the that was the neckwear that they wore. It's
just like a like a big strap or like a cumber bun for your neck. I guess I don't know how else
to describe it. I know it has a name, but I can't remember. It's not an ascot, which is a little bit
different. But I'm going to why those have never come back. Ascot or Bolo tie. They're I don't
have anything against them, but you got to be able to pull them off. Yeah. Certain people can do
it. Some people Tony, Tony, not Tony Bennett. Some like it hot. Jack lemon and Tony Curtis.
Thank you. Tony Curtis could pull that off. Yeah. He could do an ascot. I'm pretty sure
Tony Curtis at the second he was offset. He had a his ascot. Bolo ties. You see a lot of like
Western people be able to pull that off. Yeah. Well, you need that's a whole look, man. Yeah.
You need the right shirt on. You need the right, you know, a kutramon. Yeah. Otherwise,
Bolo tie would look very weird if it didn't have that extra stuff on there. I played a deputy.
And I think it was in Rainmaker. I got to wear Bolo tie. I didn't. It wasn't all right.
Not bad. All right. Fit the role. Yeah. A new study has found that bad background music at work
can destroy employees moods and productivity. Oh my gosh. Of course, of course, bad music is
subjective. But even if it's upbeat and customer friendly, it can be mentally draining to workers
if it's not what they like to listen to. Oh, I totally get that. Yeah. Think about the holidays.
Employees who enjoy Christmas music can seem can seem much more engaged and pleasant than
the ones who are who are one all I want for Christmas away from, you know, a psychotic breakdown.
Big corporate places probably won't change anything but small businesses can benefit by
allowing the staff to pick their own music within reason or by creating quiet zones where they're
able to escape the madness. Okay. And this is this is interesting to me on that level as much as
it is in what we do in radio. Because radio is not one size fits all. Right. And one of the
powers of radio is things that we're doing right now, local radio. Nobody can do what we're doing
right now. Broadcasting right here from Central Wisconsin and broadcasting. Yes, like that.
Yeah. Yeah. We're the ones. That's one of those things that's an acquired thing. And while we
may be really big here, we have and we shout out to our listeners in Florida and out east and west
and everything. It's really amazing. Listeners too, by the way. Yes, we do. To them as well.
Milwaukee. I know we've got some people in LaCrosse. Yeah, we appreciate all y'all but one of the things
that it is, it is like baseball. It's regional. It is. And I think there's a power in that.
It's no different than if you, you know, microscope that down to businesses. And hey, what are
your customers like? Because employees are important, but you got to go customer first. Right.
If you're putting out putting the customers first no matter what your business is, I don't think
you're good at business. Not going to work. Yeah. And that always got to come first. And to me,
you got to start there. And then you check with the employees. Right. But if the employees
can't handle it, you know, there are worse things. Yeah. Now I do think that as far as motivation goes,
that's something that you're a self-starter. I think every single human being is a self-starter.
Just whether or not you choose to pull the cord or not and rev that engine. Music can help,
though. Yes. So finding that balance I think is important. Right. Right. I would like to think how
many, how many people would like music though? Music. Because that's the one that's always stood
up to me. I had a good friend of mine that worked at a classic rock station out in California.
And he enjoyed that work very much. But right next to him in that building, and I remember this
building, it's not there anymore, but I worked in it a little bit. They had, you know, sound proofing.
And that's it. So while you couldn't hear the other music, the second-the-door cracked,
bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Just music of every song you wanted to hear. You didn't want to hear
in music. Right. Right. Exactly. You can't hint to this day. You can't handle that stuff, man.
If you get to an elevator and it's playing music, I believe he would get out of it. I'm taking the
stairs. Take the stairs. I'm taking the stairs. I think this is one of those great examples and great
opportunities for employers and owners and managers to, you know, hey, I wonder if this is an
issue with my employees. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it isn't. If it is, even if you could increase,
you know, things by a little bit, I think it's, you know, worth it. Right. Right. Well, and you know
what? It's what is it going to hurt talking to your employees about what they want? Yeah. You know,
they understand things, you know, just as well. To me, it's if I don't care what business it is,
if you're running it like, you know, like, well, I'm the boss and what I say goes, no matter what
kind of thing. It's like, no, that yeah, I guess it'll work, but are you going to have happy
employees? Are you going to have, are you using your employees to the best of their ability?
I mean, if you don't know that and you're just going to say, well, no, you've got to do this
in this and this. Well, what's the, what's the point? You know, one of the things to come out of
the pandemic and that is stuck from the pandemic is this great migration of people going from jobs
to careers and employees realizing, wait a minute, I have power and that you're not putting the
genie back in the bottle. Oh, no, no, you cannot. And if you're good at business, if you're a good
manager, you lean into that and you find ways to make that work for everybody. Yeah. And if you
don't, those people go on to other businesses or other jobs. Right. Well, and that's the, even if
you take care of it, you know, if you pay them a good wage and everything like that, yeah, that's
great, but they can find other jobs that pay a good wage. And and if you're not, if they don't
feel like they're being appreciated or anything like that, well, guess what? Maybe they'll find
something else. In this day and age, there's a lot of jobs out there. There are a lot of jobs out
there. So it's not surprising to see that. Yeah. One of the things that I really want to know what
the music is that is driving people crazy. That's I got to come back. We got to come back to that.
You know, you know, it's fine working there, but the thrash metal they play all the time is a
little distracting. I have to say it's the retro jazz that's driving. Take a break. We'll come back
and have some more fun on the morning show. There's the teacher. Welcome back to the show.
Everybody morning show here at WFHR. Seth and James hanging out with you at 975551320 AM.
Got another one here for you. And I think this is a good one, especially in modern times.
Six things you shouldn't tell chat GPT. Oh, good. That's very good. Only six. Only six.
That we know of now, I guess, what the way to see. Yeah, that's a great point. AI experts are
cautioning people to be careful with with what they share with AI chatbots AI and chatbots because
all that data got could get hacked someday and hear a few things you shouldn't tell chat GPT.
Makes sense. Makes sense. And I you know, I would I would say that this is a kind of probably
going to be a really good rule of thumb for a lot of things when it comes to online. Oh my goodness.
Yes. Your passwords. Don't tell it to remember your password is 1, 2, 3, 4 or it might end up
on the dark web someday. Why would you? I feel like I'm missing something here. Why would you tell
chat GPT to remember your passwords? I guess I didn't even realize it could do that. I didn't.
I suppose, but why? No, I don't want to do that. This is probably a really good opportunity
for me to mention. I have literally never used any chat GPT. No, even pulled it up or anything
like that. Me neither. I am not. And I'm not doing not saying that like I'm taking some gigantic
stand against it. No, I just have no use for it. So I haven't had to look at it. I've done my
homework as far as other people in the use of it in my industry as far as acting and writing go
and stuff. But I don't know what that one stuff that could be used to steal your identity like
passport info or social security number. Even your full name and address might be risky.
So don't make address labels with chat BT. We're only two things in and I'm wondering what can
you tell chat GPT? Man, I'm afraid to tell chat GPT chat GPT. Yeah, I don't even know if I
want to say it's so name. Maybe it's listening right now. Oh my God. Financial information.
Don't share things like bank account numbers or crypto keys. Of course not. What?
You should do anything like that online. Period. Look, this is not going to be popular.
But sometimes we got seatbelt laws and helmet laws for a reason. We do. And it's not for the people
that remember to use them. It's all I'm going to say. It's a George Carly bit. I'd love to quote.
Oh, yes. Sharing financial information with chat GPT. Hey, chat GPT. Here's my bank account
number. What do you think? Why? Is it a weird number? I think it's a weird number. Well,
I mean, seriously, for what reason? I don't know. I don't know. He's in behind this. Please let us
know. Are you a champion? Oh, my God. Get a hold of us. Oh, good Lord. Illegal activity. Even if
you're just joking, open a open AI does track chats. Their privacy policy says that they can use
your data to detect or prevent illegal activity. And they can share it with authorities if required
by law. Wow. Now, I think that's great. I think that's awesome. And again, especially if you
were a criminal, imagine being like, okay, so you're you're you're you're you're planning your
oceans 11 type like, you know, bank robbery of a Las Vegas casino or something. Right, right,
right. And you decide, well, I want to make sure that I got this right.
Tell me how to rob a bay or a Las Vegas casino, right? Yeah. That actually is the plot for
oceans 14. It's 20 minutes long. It's it's 20 minutes long. And you're caught. It's just
Clooney Pitt and Damon sitting there in front of a computer talking to chat GPT while the FBI
breaks in five minutes later hilarious. It's actually longer than any actual bank robbery in Las Vegas
history. That's true. They got that good. Who's doing this? Oh, my God. Embarrassing secrets. Yeah,
don't share that with anybody. Let a little chat GPT. You share that with, you know, maybe for
fortunate, you get a really good best friend or your significant other and you're bonding and
you're sharing, you know, stories or you are drunk at two in the morning. That is the only time
embarrassing secrets are you're supposed to come out. Not chat GPT. Man, if you are drunk at two
in the morning, don't go near your computer or your phone. No, no, just stay away. They're
away. That's one of those app things where they got they got to make it like a safe on your phone.
You can't like drunk like drunk the drunk driving test with your phone. Yeah, you breathalyzer on
there. Yes, you cannot use your phone except for emergency. That's all you need. I probably
shouldn't have said that out loud. Somebody's going to take that and run with it. Somebody's got to
and corporate info. If you use chat GPT for work, be careful. You don't disclose any sensitive
information your company would want out in the world. Chat GPT has an option that lets you
manage its memory and there's a big list of everything it knows about you. So maybe check that
before you. Remember to everybody, I mean, everything you put into chat GPT goes into the learning
of the quote unquote AI, whatever you want to call it. The large language model. Let's put it that way.
You know, you think about it before you say it. Just like anything, you know, so think about
before you send that text or that email. Same thing. As her med words warned us, think before you
hit send. Yes. And I think that a lot of this stuff is good to talk about for one because some people
out there are not coming into this with a lot of, you know, technology. Right. Exactly. I can see,
I can see make mistakes happening and that's not just seniors, but that's anybody. And I think the
more we talk about these things, the more we get away some of the fear and unknown of chat GPT
and some of this stuff. Well, also hopefully getting people to understand why there is some fear
with it. Yeah. Well, I don't think some industries need to worry about it. There's a real concern
in the writing community with this stuff. There's other levels to this. Right. Exactly. So yeah, we
be careful. Use caution with these kinds of things, everyone. So yeah. And while I'm I'll admit,
I'm having a hard time giving coming up with examples. They always have the in comedy, the rule of
three. You don't bring up examples unless you only have three, you only stick with three to three.
No more, no less. I got zero right now. But I'm sure the chat GPT has positives and has, you know,
I'm sure. Yeah. That's another thing, too. Yeah. Well, it's so easy to kind of like make fun of
or pick on this stuff. I'm sure that it has some good use. Just having, you know, come across myself.
I don't think it's as life-changing as some people are telling us. It seems like a pretty simple thing.
But yeah, we can have its applications. I'm sure. I'm a big believer in bandwidth.
A human brain only is so much bandwidth. What are you going to fill it with in everything? I
fill it with sports course and Simpson's information. You know, what you do with it is your choice.
But I really, you know, I recommend I encourage you to, you know, there's some stuff doesn't
deserve your fear. Yeah. Exactly. Especially when there's other things out there that really,
you know, need our focus. Are much, are much more dangerous. We're coming back with our
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