
There we go.
There we go.
Now we're live.
Now we are.
What is through me?
Through me a little bit.
Yeah, it's okay.
I know.
I've got these different transmitters and everything.
It's new.
It's all new, man.
Happy Friday, everybody.
You can tell it's a Friday show five seconds it.
You love that.
You gotta love that.
Live radio, baby.
Nothing like a James here behind the mic.
I am joined by a head of production.
Our co-host Seth Habagger.
Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio.
Let's get to Brittany.
We've been making her way to how you doing, Britt.
Oh, pretty good.
It's a little dreary out there.
How you doing?
What?
Doing okay.
Now we're getting this out of our system right now.
I should say Mother Nature's getting it out of our system right now.
Right?
Because we got a nice weekend ahead.
Right?
Oh, yes.
We sure do.
So she's got a lot of rain, right?
Of course, for spring seasons.
We have to deal with that.
I'll say, though, my grass turned green overnight.
You're telling us?
That's great.
That's fantastic.
I love it.
Yes.
I'm just imagining that.
I love it when that happens.
It really, really did.
So I imagine the fresh cut grass soon.
I can't wait for that.
And I think it's really, really going to start happening over this weekend.
Because we've got the rain rolling through right now.
It should start to rain down around noon to wonder so.
But we could still see some spotty sprinkles or light drizzled trying to linger
till about four o'clock the latest.
This system is taking its sweet time.
I'm telling you, of course, I think it's the draft fault.
Oh, that's what it comes.
I like that.
I like that.
People are from out of the state and they're bringing their state what states weather.
Right, exactly.
That's a great idea.
I just hope everyone is buying a Packer's Ponto because they could take that home with them.
That's right.
That's a good idea.
Good stuff.
But it's breezy out there.
It's just raw feeling.
High temperature is only reaching about 50 degrees today, which is really going to be feeling more like the low forties.
You're battling a windshield which is gross to say in April.
But we're almost out of it.
Like you said, the weekend is gorgeous.
A ton of sunshine by tomorrow all day long.
It's going to be about 60 degrees with calm winds, just really a perfect spring day.
Then Sunday, we start off beautiful, partly sunny.
A few more clouds are going to start to increase through the afternoon,
because up north some scattered showers want to push in by the afternoon.
A lot of the rain holds off till Sunday night,
and then we have an active Monday where we could potentially see some severe weather.
So heads up for that.
All right.
Very cool.
Brittany, before we let you go, if you get a chance for those that haven't maybe gotten to see it,
we're supposed to be in the next 24 hours or so,
be able to see a cosmic smiley face this morning,
and maybe even into later in the day and parts of the world.
The crescent moon is the smile and the Venus and Saturn are the eyes.
Oh, you're eating a bit of a check of that.
Everything's kind of cool.
That's cool.
That's cool.
Thank you so much for telling me.
I have no idea.
I'm definitely going to be up there tonight,
because the clouds are clearing overnight, so we're going to be able to see it.
Very nice.
I don't mean to brag or anything, but I just got to tell us.
Do you tell school?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's going to be fun.
Cool.
And Joy, enjoy the weekend.
Brittany, we appreciate you.
We'll hang out again Monday.
Sounds good.
You too.
Bye, guys.
Bye.
Best in business right there for below joining us every morning, right in this time slot.
A new time slot.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Yeah.
I took a couple calls this morning from people curious what was going on.
Explain that to them, and they just kind of, okay.
And that was it.
Yeah.
Actually, it's kind of funny.
Two very different calls, but both at the same way.
Okay.
Cool.
I know, 11.
That's all right.
Let's go.
We're here at 9 to 11.
Just make sure we're there.
Make sure we're there.
Get into the rest of our schedule a little bit later, along with the Ocafé birthday anniversary club.
We're going to make you a star today with our friends from Culvers.
I got a TV theme song, Seth and I are going to play for you.
You get to write.
You win some free Culvers.
That's right.
It is Arbor Day.
I want to get into some facts and history about that.
Oh my gosh.
I totally forgot.
It's Arbor Day today.
Oh man.
We'll dive into that one.
Nine o'clock hour.
We're going to feature some entertainment news.
We've got some good stuff there for you.
Not only about how much bands make concert tickets.
Thought that would be an interesting one.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
We're celebrating Willie Nelson a little bit talking about some new, other new music being released.
What's new on your small screen, big screen, and your local theater stage.
Yeah.
Some other things there.
I want to also get into with you, Seth, in the nine o'clock hour, a new segment.
And I will admit to the audience, it is a bit of what Carl and I used to do, our five random facts every day.
Oh yeah.
But I want to do a new segment.
I was this years old when I found out.
Oh yeah.
Nice.
That the same brain cycles that occur well when a sleep still happen when you're awake, but in smaller sections,
meaning parts of your brain are always falling asleep.
What?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just some radios.
Did not know that.
That's great.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah.
Something you did not know yesterday that you found out today.
Perfect.
This year's old that kind of little nugget you can keep for later.
We've also got some other fun ones.
Like the 20 strangest things found in unclean baggage over the past year.
We will see how many of those are radio friendly.
We'll get into it.
Got good stories to the day.
We'll tell you about our schedule.
All that coming up for you, everybody.
They're looking forward to it.
But I was telling Brittany about that cosmic smiley face.
Yeah.
And to kind of continue a little bit of science news.
First off, the Hubble telescope is celebrating its 35th birthday.
That's kind of cool.
I remember when that was launched, man.
That was something.
I mean, that was really cool.
And I know they have a new, the web's telescope is out there.
And it kind of puts the Hubble to shame, you know,
with what it can take pictures of and all that.
But hey, we got so much from the Hubble.
I mean, it's great.
For me, and I will say I was this year's old when I learned
whatever this color and this color make this color.
Oh, yeah.
I've never been good at that.
But I've always admired that.
The people that just happen to know that knowledge.
They just have it at the drop of a hat or whatever.
I think that's kind of cool.
And certainly great in the artistic world.
Or if you are a 10-year-old and you only have so many paints.
Yeah.
It comes in handy.
I got to make this color.
And this is how I do it, right?
Yeah.
And anybody who is, my parents and I are talking about
doing some painting in the house.
And I was looking at paint shades.
I've never really done much of that.
And the billions and billions of the, you know,
there's eggshell white, but it's different than, you know,
pastel white.
Yeah.
Or accrual or whatever, right?
Yeah.
Which, what?
There's a job.
Getting the name colors.
Like that feels like a good kid.
How do they come up with some of them?
There's kind of weird.
It feels like a good kid.
accrual is such a weird word.
Why?
How does that an off white color?
I just, I can't, I know this isn't actually how this works.
But I love the idea of somebody just in a room.
And on one side, they're being handled Yankee Candles.
And you got to name those.
If I'm on the other side, your big day, your head of these pastel,
you got to name these colors on the other side.
Right.
That's all that person does for like eight hours a day.
I love that job, actually.
Not bad, not bad.
But I bring this up because a team at Berkeley discovered a brand new color
that you can only see if they blast your eyes with lasers.
Oh my God.
Hello.
It's not as actually like this.
Right.
You see it's that sounds or anything,
but that's the only way that they can get it across right now.
They say it's a green blue, like a super saturated teal.
Researchers name the new color Olo.
And there is a great kind of explanation on this.
ZmScience.com, if you want to check it out.
Cool.
They're basically calling it the color wizard of Oz,
the emerald city.
This is what, you know, scientists have nicknamed it and everything.
Okay.
I'm just showing it to set the little bit here.
Yeah, okay.
It's got a very, so this is from what I understand
of the image that they're showing to us.
It's an AI created, so it's the best of that.
You know, we can be looked at.
We can't blast everybody with lasers in your eyes, right?
Yeah.
It starts as almost a pinkish, a dark pink kind of thing.
Yeah.
Turns into that emerald.
It does, which is really interesting.
Wow.
It's wild.
It's a nice color.
I mean, I like it.
It's, you know, green is more of a calming color.
And that's a very calming, actually.
You know, if there weren't blasting lasers in your eyes,
then it probably is not as calming.
Probably not.
Probably not.
It reminds me, though, of the whole, like, laser surgery,
or the eye laser surgery.
Oh, yeah.
LASIC.
LASIC, thank you.
First became a big thing.
And I feel like, like, now it's, I don't know.
It is what it is.
I think plenty of people get it, plenty of people might not.
Right.
But at the time, it felt like 50% of people were like,
all in on it.
The other 50% were like, yeah, wait five years.
And your eyeballs apply out.
Turn into a loony tunes character.
Run, run, run, run.
Right.
I don't know.
I don't know.
See, it seems okay, still.
Right.
I just don't have a lot of interest in it.
Okay.
All right.
I don't know.
This is really interesting to be the color of the thing, though.
But more interesting, what you are thinking,
good morning, you're on the show.
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So the cosmic smiley face, this brand-new color,
the Hubble Telescope.
Feeling a little bit smarter to start your day and everything.
That's a good thing, I think.
Yeah.
And, well, we can't end that way, of course.
A new study found that apparently chimpanzees enjoy
getting drunk together.
The researchers worked very hard on this.
Apparently, you know, like Jane, you know,
the grill is in the mist.
Oh, oh, oh.
Jane.
Diane Fossy.
Diane Fossy.
The great wonderful work that she did and everything.
In a piggybacking of that almost.
A footage of apes consuming fermented bread fruit
leads the researchers to ask if they may shed light
on origins of human feast festing.
What?
Yeah.
Really?
Oh, that's cool, man.
They've been doing this, obviously, for long, long, long time.
But we've never really, like, looked at the way
that they were doing this.
And all of a sudden, some recent data and some recent footage
has shown that they're literally, like,
they're partying, man.
Hold my beer.
Hold my fermented bread fruit, right?
Yeah.
And what they did, part of the reason they found it.
And this is actual true story, everybody.
Right.
There was a couple of these apes that were on chimpanzees
that were just, like, kind of passed out.
Just kind of passed out.
Yeah.
Just hang it out and everything.
I'm done, man.
It's too much bread fruit.
It is Friday.
I mean, to be fair, it is Friday.
It's like a dry martini.
And I'll say this, they're not driving anywhere.
That's true.
I mean, I mean, they have to be careful.
No climbing.
Probably swinging.
No, you don't want to do that somewhere.
Yeah, yeah.
I'd be careful.
Just walk.
Someone tells me swinging as high as they do
and everything is about as dangerous as driving out that much.
That seems like not a good idea.
Right, right, great idea.
We will take a time out.
That is a good idea.
Good.
Go ahead and take care of our partners here.
We'll come back with the El Café Bird Day anniversary
club here on the morning show at WFHR.
You heard the boys?
It's time for the El Café Bird Day anniversary club.
One of our favorite parts of the day.
We celebrate our friends over at El Café.
Treat yourself.
Get on over there.
Two twenty one to mark an avenue in beautiful poor Edwards.
Let's get into it, everybody.
And we're able to.
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We love these birthdays being brought to us any time of the two hours we're on the air with you.
That's right.
So you want to call up at the end of the show?
You just got it in at the last second?
That counts.
That counts.
That's all right.
So that's got some work to do right here.
I need a one or a two.
All right.
One.
All right.
And I need a one through four.
Oh, let's go with four.
All right.
And let's see here.
And a...
Well, I actually don't have that last one.
Don't need to do that one.
All right.
That's cool.
So we look at our list here.
And we, of course, do this for the whole weekend.
And starting with today, April 25th.
It is KC Islands birthday.
KC?
Happy birthday.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, KC.
Took me a second, too.
I'll do better.
I'll do better.
KC is not the hard name to say.
I know.
Let's go on with the two.
KC, enjoy your day.
Yes.
Oh, goodness.
Oh, it's a good one for you.
We also wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Nate Williams.
Nate's.
Congratulations, and happy birthday to you.
Enjoy the day, Nate.
Oh, it's a good one for you.
As a special shout out, we want to say hello in a happy birthday to Pam's nephew, Kristia...
Kristia for Louick.
All right.
Happy birthday, Krist.
Enjoy the day, Kristia.
It's a good one for you.
And congratulations to Nate, our qualifier.
Yes.
And on Saturday, we wish a very happy 56th anniversary to Ron and Marge Gauss.
Happy anniversary, Ron and Marge.
Enjoy the day.
Hope it's a good one.
56th, that's beautiful.
That's a good one.
Happy birthday to Ken Porter.
Happy birthday, Ken.
Enjoy the day, Ken.
And a very happy birthday to Jen McNally.
Happy birthday, Jen.
Hope you have a great one, both of you.
Yep.
And our qualifier on Saturday.
Happy birthday to Father John Swing.
Nice.
Happy birthday to John.
Happy birthday to you and congratulations.
Enjoy the day, sir.
Hope it's a great one for you.
And thank you to whoever got us that name and I.
Yes, thank you.
I apologize if I laughed a little bit, but Seth can't see these names.
The fact that you picked a father.
It was just hilarious to me.
I'm sorry.
That's true.
And Father John, I mean, that's great.
That's great.
Are you sleeping, Father?
Oh, that's Father John, sorry.
It works.
It works either way, I feel like.
Sunday, we've got just one qualifier, but we do have two to celebrate.
And I want to send a very, very special in meaningful happy birthday to James.
Kevin Mayloff on Sunday.
Sounds familiar.
Yeah, that is the fifth James.
That is my boy.
Happy birthday, Kevin.
Hope it's a great one for you.
Nice.
I cannot talk about let alone get to Sunday and not think about not only when his mother told
me that he would become, but his birth.
That's right.
And it's just what it means.
And it's still one of those things that hits you man in the soul.
That's right.
Any time that I think about what pride is, I think about certain aspects of it and everything.
And it's odd because I take pride in him, but not necessarily because of anything to do with me.
Right.
It's all on him and the things he has accomplished and done.
And while he is a neurologist, you know, which is not bad, not bad.
He's working for a strong nonprofit right now.
I'm very proud of him for these things.
And he has the handsome and fashion of my little brother.
And so you expect your kid to one day be able to beat you in basketball.
You know, I came to terms with that.
I didn't expect him to be like a more handsome and more fashionable.
Like, like, way better.
It's not like I thought that I was, you know, like, you know, George Clooney.
I got a cooler job.
But no, the kid just completely has laughed at me at a very young age.
That's, that's all right.
You know what?
Then you don't have to, hey, a couple of things.
Don't have to worry about him.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, you know, he, and then when you're old, you know.
Right.
Right.
Son.
There's a comfort in it.
That's right.
He's the best.
I'm wishing you the best.
We will talk soon, bro.
I'll talk to you in just a little bit, buddy.
You have a great birthday, James.
And we wish a very happy birthday on Sunday to our qualifier, Kim Simmons.
Happy birthday, Kim.
And congratulations to you.
Yeah.
You're a qualifier, Kim.
Nice job.
I think you're getting us that birthday.
And we appreciate y'all for doing that.
Let's go ahead and take a look at our weekend celebrity birthdays here.
Okay.
Taking a look for, at today, Jonathan Bailey is 37.
Lord Anthony Bridgerton on Bridgerton.
Okay.
It's a good gig.
Show about him, I guess.
He's a good actor.
He's a good actor.
I've seen him in a couple of things.
Nice.
He does a good work.
Tim Duncan is 49.
Retired MBA superstar from San Antonio Spurs.
Obviously, one of the best power forwards in MBA history.
Hall of Famer.
Gotta be.
Gotta put him up there.
Tim Duncan's also got an end to coaching a lot since he's retired.
Really?
And one of the reasons I know that is because he is almost unrecognizable now.
And that's a pretty impressive considering.
He's like seven foot and everything.
But he's got long dreads now.
Really?
And Tim Duncan, for those of us who remember him, very straight cut, straight laced.
And he had a very close cut haircut with his entire career.
Yeah.
Pretty serious.
And everything.
Not a big talker.
He's always smiling now.
He's always happy.
He's always smiling.
He's just completely different person.
I'm glad.
I hope he's happy.
That's all I'm saying.
He's doing all right.
Few MBA players, I feel like, are enjoying retirement.
Or athletes are enjoying retirement more than Tim Duncan.
Good for him.
Yeah, man.
I love it.
Jason Lee is 55.
If you remember him, his stillwater singer, Jeff Betty, and Elmo's famous.
Earl Hickey.
And my name is Earl.
Dave in the Alvin and Chipmunks movies.
You might, of course, remember him from working with Kevin Smith.
And literally every Kevin Smith movie.
Yeah, basically.
All right.
Jason Gray, me all that.
Yep.
A long time.
The skateboarders out there will know that Jason Lee was one of the godfathers of skateboarding.
And Vincent a move.
I believe the 120 or something like that.
That's what he was doing long before acting.
Oh, interesting.
And now he's a passionate and very, very talented photographer.
Right.
He's just basically retired from acting.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
He got his Alvin and the Chipmunks moving money.
And hey, like if Kevin Smith calls, he shows up.
But otherwise, I don't see him doing anything.
Nope.
I think he's just saying, all right.
I'm going to do the thing I want to do.
Yeah.
Cool.
He's good for him.
Yeah.
He's really good at photography.
That's cool.
Just to what an interesting life.
Skateboarding, to acting, to photography.
Yeah.
In that almost famous movie, he's one of the greatest parts of that movie that doesn't get talked about.
And he learned to sing for that role.
Cool.
He's good.
Renee Zellweiger is good.
She's 56.
Bridget Jones, of course.
Of course.
Judy Garland in the movie, Judy, that she got so much good to claim for.
Of course, Dorothy and Jerry McGuire, Roxy and Chicago.
That's to me, her fabulous role.
Her critical performance and everything.
She was so good in that.
She is on fire in that movie.
Yeah.
Everybody is.
Everybody.
I actually think that it might be the best acting Richard Geard did.
Wow.
Mr. Officer in the gentlemen, all that stuff and everything.
Wow.
I've seen all of his work and I think that might be his best.
He's very good in that, yes.
Joe Buck is 56.
All right.
Wow.
For something that is so can be so, you know, some either people don't care about
of the announcer or they love or they hate them.
I don't know if there's a better example of it than Joe Buck.
And I say that with 100 bit, all respect.
One thing about being hated, I don't think enough people really note.
People don't hate people that aren't talented.
People don't hate people that aren't good already.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I understand that a lot of people watching the draft yesterday thought it really hilarious
what Clay Matthews did and everything.
I did too.
In part because, I mean, that's the kind of hate that Packer fans can have for bear fans.
We're living in your head, man.
Yeah.
Right.
When the draft was taken, I didn't see that.
No.
That, you know, not for one.
You shouldn't really.
I don't get it.
I would be doing that to Detroit.
They're actually good.
Yeah.
Why would you be growing shade on the bears?
It's a rivalry and it's what we love about sports and it's the greatest rivalry in sports.
And it's my example here of Joe Buck where he is this.
Yes.
You love or you hate.
It seems like.
I don't know anybody who's like Joe Buck.
Well, you know, it's funny because he's become this kind of generations like Pat Summerall
because he does the important football games, you know.
Of course, I will always think of him as a baseball guy because that's where he came up in all the World Series.
He did on Fox and all of that stuff.
And of course, you know, that he comes from a great lineage of the great Jack Buck, his father.
He was one of the all-time great baseball announcers and football, by the way.
He did money and I football on the radio for many, many years.
So he wasn't just a baseball guy either.
I've seen a couple of articles recently and heard some people talking about asking the question.
Is Hank Azzer, the greatest voice actor of all time?
He's 61 today.
Is the voice of a billion voices on the Simpsons from Chief Wiggum to Pood, if so many others.
Moe is the one.
They mentioned Chief Wiggum before Moe.
What are you doing?
Moe is an iconic voice.
Absolutely, yes.
Right, yes.
God, I love Moe.
It's one of my favorite characters.
But obviously, he's also done a huff and a smurf.
He was a bunch of voices in that.
Aguilar, Aguilar Spartacus in the Bird Cage.
A wonderful actor.
And yes, one of the top voice actors of all time.
I don't know about the greatest one.
That would melt the length.
No, you can't.
That's too hard.
He's also had more of an on-screen career too.
It's been hit and missed for him, but he's done everything.
He's really good in heat.
He's got a very small role in heat, but he's wonderful.
Yes, and he's been in other things like that.
But stiff competition, man.
Some of the great voice actors are still around.
I mean, Frank Wilker is still working.
I should mention Brock Meier, too.
It's another one of his big roles.
Oh, and success stories.
But I think that he's a student of the game.
I would think that he'd be the first one to tell you that,
no, I don't even know if I'm the top 20 voice actors.
Just the way he is.
He is fabulous.
No question about it.
One of the top 20 actors of all time,
I feel comfortable saying Al Pacino is 85.
I want to ask her for a cent of the woman and that's it.
How is that happened?
How is that possible?
That's not any of the weight.
Like, they gave him that.
Like, he earned it.
Don't get me wrong.
But it was a lifetime achievement award.
It's not his best role.
No.
Not even close.
Oh, no.
He was the Godfather of Robys for crying out loud.
Michael Corleone.
No.
Come on.
Michael Corleone.
For those who only know Al Pacino for his over the top roles,
look at his restraint as Michael.
I mean, that is some of the best acting you will ever see.
That's the perfect way to put that.
Especially like he's a theater kid.
He's the theater actor.
He comes from the last era of they scouted theaters for talent.
And Francis Ford Coppola is looking at all these theaters
and his look is for Michael, look for his Michael.
And the studio wants him to take James Conn.
Yes.
That's correct.
And either Conn or Danero is where they're going,
but they're leaning towards James Conn.
And Coppola loves Conn.
He wants to cast him, but not as Michael.
And he sees this play and sees this young Italian actor up there
and Al Pacino gets his break from theater.
From his theater work.
Right.
And the reserve, you're talking about the patience.
The restraints.
And the lion waiting in the jungle for its moment to spouts.
That is Michael Corleone.
And especially when you compare to everything else like heat,
where he's at a 10 every seconds and things like that.
And he has been typed in almost cartooned in his career.
But I will actually, Al Pacino is so good.
He almost got an Oscar for Dick Tracy.
That's how good Al Pacino is.
By the way, his, I have to say,
that's probably one of his best over the top roles.
Because it's supposed to be over the top.
Yeah.
And he nailed it.
Yeah.
And the prosthetics and everything.
He was great at it through it.
Yes.
Yeah.
He was amazing.
And one of my favorite voices.
One of the greatest singers of all time.
Celebrating the birthday today.
Ella Fitzgerald, born in this day in 1917.
Yes.
One of the godfathers of music.
So, so wonderful.
She could sing anything.
Anything you gave her.
She could sing it.
And head hits late in her career.
Yes.
She could sing one of the first divas or feet.
You love popularly.
Right.
Singers before share or Madonna or any of these.
Any of the ones from the 60s.
Yeah.
You have a 30, 40 year career where she was having hits late into her life.
And everything working with pop artists and stuff.
That's that's she started a lot of that.
Tomorrow's birthday is Channing Tatum is 45.
Magic Mike 21 Jump Street.
Good actor.
What I like about Channing Tatum is does not say no to roles necessarily.
They put him in a bad light or make him look weird.
He's not worried about being looking cool.
Yeah.
And he's one of these people that people love to work with.
And to see him get to play the role gambit in the dead pullable
free movie after everything he put into it.
And what can how studios just chill up and spit out these productions
and actors and everything.
It was really cool.
It was really full circle.
And it's a good cool thing to happen to a good guy in the business.
And he's going to get a whole movie from it now.
Yeah, sure.
I'm positive for that.
I haven't heard anything, but I'm almost positive.
I'm also looking at birthdays on Saturday.
Oh boy.
Kevin James is 60.
Doug Halferman on King of Queens.
Kevin on Kevin can wait.
And of course Paul Blart.
And a bunch of Adam Sandler movies.
Kevin James, great.
And a pretty good stand-up comedian too.
Yeah.
Although he doesn't do much anymore.
Yeah, but he's good.
Yeah.
Gently is 62.
Top five favorite action stars of all time.
Awesome.
Yin Yang in the expendable movies.
Cradle to grave.
Romeo must die.
The mummy.
Tomb of the Dragon and Pearl.
But unleashed.
It is my favorite role of his.
He's so good in him.
Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman are so good in that movie.
Roger Taylor from Durandoran a 65 today.
All right.
The reflex of you to kill Rio.
Hungry like the wolf.
The wild boys.
New moon on Monday.
Come on done.
Ordinary world.
Yeah.
I'm telling you.
He was the drummer if I remember.
There's there's three tailors on Durandoran.
And they're all not related to each other.
Roger Taylor was the drummer.
John Taylor was the bassist.
And Andy Taylor was the guitarist.
So yeah.
Amazing character.
It's so weird.
That's so weird.
I know.
Amazing character actor who has really actually gotten
his his Hugh Jackman moment in all that now.
Giancarlo Espadizo Espadito is 67.
Moff Gideon and the Mandalorian stand in the Amazon's The Boy.
Is Gus in Breaking Bad and better call Saul.
He's bugging out and Spike Lee's do the right thing.
That's what he'll always be to me.
Cheese.
I mean, the usual suspects.
I mean, he has had an amazing career.
That man is just oh man.
I love him.
He's great.
And it's and it's also the the world's the university's been able to
be with Marvel DC, the boys, all this stuff.
He's done it all.
And even in extension of that, the Breaking Bad and better call
Saul universe and some of that and stuff like it's it's so it's such a thing to get a
role, but then to get consistent work and and to a consistent character in
the stuff like he's good.
He is amazing.
He's good.
And I'm sure he would admit that he is still not no near where and nobody is
Carol Burnett.
Carol Burnett is 92 tomorrow.
One of the ghosts.
Amazing.
One of the ghosts.
One of the greatest to ever do it.
One of my earliest and greatest and most wonderful influences is watching
the Carol Burnett show.
No, it could do live stuff like Carol Burnett, man.
Talk about theater actors.
She was amazing.
One of the most perfect casts you will ever see is that Carol Burnett show.
Yep.
They're not only are no weak links.
All four of them are legends.
All four of them are the only reason one doesn't shine more than the other is because you've
got Carol Burnett and Horvery Communist.
You got these huge gigantic legends there.
So where the other names maybe aren't as big.
Right.
So I mean, and you had to have a straight man.
That was Lyle Wagner.
But I mean all the other.
Lyle Wagner is awesome.
Yeah.
He was always the straight man though.
God, I love Carol Burnett.
I love Carol Burnett.
It's a great show.
No, it's so good.
Lizzo is 37 on Sunday.
Okay.
Should we celebrate in that?
Patrick Stump from Fallout Boy is 41 on Sunday.
Okay.
A couple of singers there.
Yeah.
Interesting kind of.
Shina Easton is 66 on Sunday as well.
Oh, she is.
Another singer.
My goodness.
That singer, but guitarist for Kiss Ace Freely is 74 on Sunday.
Wow.
That's kind of interesting.
Still wearing weird makeup.
And people who would have been celebrating birthdays on Sunday, Casey Kasim born in 1932.
We can't be doing this job.
Not mention Casey Kasim.
That's the great Casey Kasim.
Yes.
Legend and voice of, of course, Shaggy and Scooby Doo.
Rob and the boy wonder on Super Friends.
Yes, that's right.
I forgot about that one.
Yes.
It was in a few movies too.
Yeah.
Not good ones, but he was in a couple of movies.
Yeah, it was a moment.
Yeah.
And a Coretta Scott King born on Sunday in 1927, Pestway in 06.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, but so much more than that.
She kind of picked up the legacy after he was assassinated.
She really picked a lot.
She did a lot.
Yeah.
She did a lot.
And she did not get the press for all the stuff that she did like her husband did.
But man, she do a lot.
As great as Malcolm and Martin were.
And their ways and in their moments.
And for the whole world, not just their people, but for the whole world.
It is under, it is criminally underrated what her and Betty Shabaz did after their husbands died.
100%.
And worth looking into people.
I don't think those men would be half the men they were without the women they had.
Malcolm, what are you told?
Yeah.
Malcolm X was being a fool for Betty Shabaz.
Yeah.
Anybody, any chance he got to talk about her, he could be in the most serious, watch his interviews.
Most serious, dead conversations where he is just locked in and they bring up his wife and he likes right on.
Like just, yeah.
Yeah, you're so right about that.
Absolutely.
We will take a time out, but we want more birthdays and anniversaries next week.
Everybody get them to us so we can celebrate with you and our great friends at El Café get on over there tonight.
Remember they got their fish fry going on tonight and plenty more to get on over to 221 Market Avenue.
A beautiful part, Edwards.
Wish them a good morning from all of us at WFHR.
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What Seth and I are about to do is give you an opportunity to win some free callvers everybody.
Free.
We do that every Friday.
Seth, I am adding something to the pot.
Oh, wow.
I'm going to do it right now.
You never run in.
I'm going to run in a two.
I got three.
I got four tickets to Percy Jackson's The Lightning Thane, being put on by Lincoln High School this weekend.
They got a bunch of different shows.
Oh, next weekend.
Next week.
Next, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
These are for Thursday.
I got Thursday shows here.
Yep, they're all for Thursday.
So I got four tickets to the Thursday show for Lincoln High School's Percy Jackson's The Lightning Thane.
I have an include these dinner in a show.
Dinner in a show.
Perfect.
Who's giving that away?
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Space.
A final frontier.
Hey, there we go.
Come on, you people out there.
Well, let's see here if we got an answer.
Good morning.
What's your answer?
Star Trek.
Star Trek.
Yes.
Strongly.
I love it.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Everything.
Nicely done.
I knew it was in that first little, first little theme.
Yes, you did.
I don't care what the TV show is.
If there's something about it that just feels good.
Would you nail something like that for a couple of seconds?
Absolutely.
I don't know.
I don't know how many of us ever watched, named that tune or anything.
But there's something about it being able to nail that.
Can I get your first name, sir?
Yes, it's Casey.
We'll see.
Hey, Casey.
Thanks so much for listening and playing along, man.
Where you calling us from?
Well, it's got the rapids.
All right.
I never saw those rapids when they were very cool.
Casey, did you know the TV show at all?
Because you said you knew it right away.
Well, I mean, so when I grew up, we might step that out of the huge Star Trek fan.
You know, he kind of got me into sci-fi.
He got me into Star Wars and you know, it's all the good stuff back then.
So I didn't watch it religiously, but it was definitely on.
Nice.
Yeah.
Really cool.
Yeah.
I know a couple of people in the same boat with that show.
A brother or a dad or somebody watched the show and that's what got them into it and everything.
It's one of the more iconic ones.
I don't know it as well.
I actually had to ask Seth this morning to make sure, like, hey, which theme song should we use?
Because there's so many Star Trek fans.
Let's go to the original one, right?
Yeah.
I think you picked a good one.
Casey certainly agrees.
Yes.
We picked a good one.
Appreciate you, man.
Thanks so much for listening, playing along.
I'm going to get a little information from you off air, but you are our newest star of the day.
All right.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
Thank you, man.
That was fun.
That was fun.
Yeah.
And, of course, part of the reason I had to do this is because it was, let's see here us.
And yesterday, in 1964, Gene Roddenberry registered his Star Trek series with the Writers Guild
of America kicking off the whole process.
It came two years later in 66s when they had the first season.
So yeah.
He certainly had a great imagination.
Mm-hmm.
I would imagine there's no way that he could imagine what it all turned into.
No.
Absolutely not.
No, no.
He was a TV writer.
He was a former cop, actually, an LAPD officer.
He was in the kind of in their PR department for many, many years.
And then he started writing, he was during that time, he's writing scripts for other TV shows.
You know, like Westerns and that kind of stuff.
And then this was his idea for a show that he wanted to do.
Very interesting.
One of the very few shows that had two pilots made.
Mm-hmm.
The first one was rejected, the second one was accepted.
Wow.
That's the only reason why I ended up getting made at all.
So.
I had no idea of that.
Yeah.
So that's very rare.
And even today in the TV business.
So yeah.
And really, as groundbreaking of a show as it was for sci-fi and something that Casey touched on there
and everything, groundbreaking and just TV on many levels.
In general, yeah.
And having people that you didn't get to see on screen very often, especially in different roles,
like with Sulu and Lieutenant O'Hare and all that.
It was a very different show at the time.
Most of the time you saw Asian or African American characters at that time.
They were robbing somebody or doing something.
Or they were servings.
Yeah.
Something like that.
The kiss.
So many different things that they were able to do on that show through the lens of science fiction.
That's right.
Which audiences, I think, could handle a little bit.
It was almost in ease into these things.
Right.
Which is just great creative writing.
It's very creative.
Or everything.
I'm not even really, I'm nowhere near a trekky guy or anything.
But that's the legacy of the show for a lot of it, really it is.
And I am a sicker of history.
And I love television history and some of that stuff.
It's really one of those shows.
We've talked about, I was just talking about Martin Luther King before and everything in with his wife.
He's one of the reasons the show even stayed on the air.
That's how Michelle Nichol stayed.
She was going to leave the show and he convinced her not to.
Which is amazing because he thought it was that important.
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Welcome back.
Welcome back everybody.
A little bit of a...
I like on Fridays having that 80s, 90s feel.
That early 90s feel.
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Got to love my Midwesterners.
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One of the things that I thought was really noteworthy that I want to get into you is
there was a very common theme in the NFL draft with most of these kids drafted.
That I thought was really interesting and I don't know if anybody noticed.
And I'm sure that Shephard didn't report on or anything.
But darn near every single one of these kids, you look it up.
Everybody came from either a blue collar or a military background.
Or something along those lines.
Really?
I did not know that.
I'm sure that out of 32 kids there were one or two.
Maybe they were.
But I will put my name on 27 to 30 of those kids came from like a farm background
or a blue collar background or their parents were military kids.
I thought it was kind of cool.
In other words, they had to work really hard to get to where they're at.
They came into this with a work ethic.
Yes.
And that is the same thing our staff has and our team has.
And I know our listeners out there too because I feel like that's a midwestern quality right there.
I agree.
I was really proud of that.
I thought that was really cool.
No one drafted us though.
I don't know what's wrong with them.
There's a lot of rounds left.
I'm still hopeful.
I'm still hopeful.
Could be the last one, right?
And it's significant.
It worked out for Brock Perth.
It sure did.
It sure did.
It's Arbor Day, everybody.
Yeah.
And I thought it'd be fun to get into some Arbor Day notes and facts.
Let's go ahead and touch on some of those.
And first off, kind of some facts about it.
Now, I do want to send a big shout out to Anna Mitchell who joined us from UW Extension Natural
Resource Educator over there.
And it is amazing.
And I always learn when I talked to her.
And we focused on Earth Day and Arbor Day the last time she was in.
You can find that interview with Rapids Report at civicmedie.us or wfhtr.com.
Wherever you get your podcasts, be listening for our new episodes all week long.
Being downloadable at four.
Yes.
Streaming at four.
I'll be saying that.
I like streaming at four.
I like that.
But we talked a lot about some of these things.
So I'm just going to kind of find some other notes in everything that may not be his common knowledge.
Like, one tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year.
Whoa.
The average person consumes about 675 pounds of oxygen a year.
So, trees important.
Very, very.
Trees equal breathing.
That's a good way to just go from that, you know.
Yes, exactly.
Yes, yes.
On a local level, one acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
I don't think we focus on that a lot.
We focus on trees giving us oxygen.
But what do they take in?
They take in carbon dioxide, right?
They are filters.
They are.
They are filters.
They are the greatest filter of this planet for carbon dioxide.
Trees are.
Yes.
It's pretty cool.
And we talk a lot about where, you know, rural areas.
And when you think of trees, or you think of Arbor Dave, and I'm planting a tree and stuff.
But just giving a note to some of our cities.
Trees remove air pollution in different types of sizes of cities, like Los Angeles.
2,000 tons of air pollution removed each year from the trees that they plant there.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
That's cool.
Chicago.
18,000 tons of air pollution removed each year.
Tons.
Tons.
18,000 tons.
Kansas City outdoing everybody with 26 tons of air pollution removed each year.
Green, man.
Yeah.
Really?
Where's green spaces?
Not only do they look great.
And they're nice to be in.
Parks, you know, that's why everyone likes parks.
But they do so much for us.
For us for humans.
Trees are awesome.
Yes, they are.
The first US Arbor Day, of course, was celebrated in Nebraska on April 10th in 1872.
After being proposed by the Secretary of Nebraska Territory, J. Sterling Morton.
Okay.
By 1920, over 45 states were observing Arbor Day.
The Arbor Day Foundation was founded back in 1972.
Okay.
And I know one of my favorite presidents to read up on and learn about President Theodore Roosevelt
issued the Arbor Day Proclamation to the school children of the United States, emphasizing
the importance of trees and forestry.
All of this is interesting, but just to have a little bit of a light moment here and everything.
All right.
You know, all this stuff has to start with a little bit of marketing, a little campaigning,
a little bit of sales and a some pizzazz and what are we going to do with this and everything.
And Arbor Day was almost called Sylvan Day, coming from the Latin word Sylva, meaning of the forest,
or woodland.
J. Sterling Morton decided against the name because he wanted to include all types of trees, not just forest trees.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
I think that Arbor Day is certainly well known.
I think there's a difference of being known and popular.
And I can't necessarily put my finger on the difference, but I feel like you know what I'm talking about.
Right.
And so I feel like it's known, but not necessarily popular.
Would it be more popular with a different name?
I don't know if it would be or not.
I have no doubt of the practice, but I think it's an interesting question.
That is an interesting question.
I hear Sylvan Day and I don't know what that is for.
Right.
I don't think, especially considering Latin is a language very few people speak.
Right.
If Eddie does it.
Well, and the only time I've heard it, the word Sylvan used is like in a Sylvan Glen, you know, in a forest,
within a forest, and it's because it's a wooded Glen, basically, is what it means.
And Sylvan Glen was constantly there.
Exactly.
So that's how I know that from.
But I have to say for the, it's like you mentioned there in Theodore Roosevelt that it for kids, for schools, right.
And that's where you learn most of it.
I mean, do you remember as a child during Arbor Day, people you'd get a tree, you know, maybe you could plant it in your yard,
or you would go out as a class and plant a tree somewhere.
And I remember, I did that once.
I remember there was a tree that I planted and we've talked about this a couple weeks ago in our yard at home.
And it, and it survived, you know, they don't always survive.
And it was forever Seth's tree.
After that, because that was the one I planted and brought probably from Arbor Day.
I don't remember exactly, but that's I'm guessing it was from an Arbor Day thing and brought it home.
And it worked in the tree grew and it was, it was awesome.
And it was named after me.
That's awesome.
That's a great story, man.
I can remember the first time ever really getting a chance to celebrate this or anything when it was in sixth grade,
Washington School out here.
We planted a tree for Arbor Day.
And I was the only kid who was into this.
Everybody else was just kind of like, yes, it's a tree.
We're born and raised.
But for me, this is, oh my god, we're planting a tree.
And I'm raising my hand right away.
I didn't like, this is about a couple months into the school year and everything.
So I'm not really that known to anybody yet.
I'm kind of keeping it myself.
It's standing on like a sore thumb, looking the way I do it, you know, in the middle of a, you know,
these constant rapids.
So this was a little bit, I think some people found out I was in that class right there because I shot my arm up.
I'll plant the tree.
I'm digging a hole in everything.
I go past Washington School whenever I'm at mid state or I get a chance to and I go past and look for that tree.
I still have a hole in everything.
I'm telling you, man.
It was something about it.
I will never forget that moment.
It's an awesome feeling.
And of course, one of the greatest ways you can celebrate Arbor Day is to plant a tree.
I encourage you to do that, everybody.
Or tend to a tree.
Make sure, you know, your trees are doing all right.
That's always something to check on.
It's a good note, man.
Today at least 44 countries worldwide celebrate Arbor Day each year.
Trees are awesome.
Keep celebrating.
Trees are awesome.
I don't know.
This is that a right one, man.
We ever wrap up on a funny note.
A funny, that a right story.
I think, unless you're this guy.
Oh, okay.
A 36 year old man in the UK named Ewan Valentine.
Woke up a, now that sounds made up.
Ewan Valentine?
That's not a name.
Ewan Valentine.
Get out of here.
It sounds real.
Ewan woke up a couple months ago and realized that his car had been stolen out of his driveway.
It was a black Honda Civic.
And he was gutted because he really liked the car.
He reported it and did all the insurance paperwork.
But the car was never found.
So he went out to buy similar replacement.
He found a perfect match at a used car dealer about an hour away and bought it for about 26 G's.
That's when things started to feel a little strange, though.
The car wasn't detailed and there was, there was stuff inside like a piece from a tent.
A Christmas tree pine needles in some candy bar wrappers.
They, they, the debris didn't seem like trash.
It felt familiar.
Oh, no.
But maybe everyone has built up like that in their cars and you didn't really think much.
I've had or anything.
Right.
But then get this.
Ewan was messing around with the car's navigation and saw that his address was in it.
And his parents were in the system's quote history.
He said, I nearly crashed to be honest because I was in shock.
My hands were shaking.
My hair, my heart was pounding.
He took it to the dealership and they confirmed that this it was his car.
The Venn number, the mileage, the plates all there.
Oh, my.
Ewan called the police and they couldn't believe it either.
It sounds like the thieves did all the cloning work to change the car and then sold it to a used car place.
Which was also duped.
Oh, no.
As far as we know, there haven't been any arrests and Ewan is still in a process of trying to get his money
and deposit back for the vehicle, buying his own vehicle back.
Yeah, he shouldn't have to buy his own vehicle back that was stolen.
No, he should just get it back.
It sounds like it could be a happy ending assuming he's able to get the money
situation sorted out.
Still, he says it doesn't feel triumphant.
It still feels like he's done something a bit silly.
Yes.
I mean, it's not his fault, though.
I mean, he had no clue.
I mean, he didn't know what happened.
How many times in life were you do the right thing but you end up looking silly?
Like, you know, let alone this.
It happens.
It happens, man.
And it's, you know, I mean, I feel bad for the guy.
I mean, he's, and it's a Honda Civic.
It's just a Honda Civic.
It's not like it's a, you know, a nice, you know, too high performance car or something like that.
I have heard of a lot of stolen vehicles and the other side of that.
And I've never heard of somebody stealing a vehicle and selling it to a dealership.
Like, what kind of, like, they must have done a really good job because don't,
as far as I know, don't they have, like, a way to tell?
Like, they have a, they should have, like, a list of stolen vehicles.
It also should be a really easy way to catch these people.
Exactly.
Like, it feels like, what are the double things you could do?
What are you doing, UK?
Yeah.
What's up with that, man?
I don't know.
Scott Ledyard, can I get on that one, Sherlock?
Oh, what's going on there?
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No, that's the weird part.
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