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We're going to get into mom's day a little bit.

We've got the top trending Mother's Day activities for you.

Okay, very cool.

We're going to do that.

We've got a little bit other stuff from Mother's Day as well.

Some good stories of the day, and we're also going to get into our schedule here at the

station.

Let's know what's up and coming.

Yes, indeed.

We kick off the 9 o'clock hour or 10 o'clock hour, sorry, with some entertainment news.

And speaking of entertainment, we want to send a big shout out to our great friend Tim

Holt.

It's a polka guy, Tim just seeing Tim stop by today and dropping off the latest edition

of the polka show.

Yeah, listen tomorrow at 7 and Sunday at 1 for the polka party.

Wait, let me get it right.

The sunshine polka party variety show.

There we go.

I got the whole thing in there.

Yes.

Yes.

Maybe the greatest radio show you'll ever hear.

Dawson, check it out.

Everybody out.

Appreciate you, Tim.

Good to see you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So maybe not directly from Mr. Fines, but an unnamed cleric who's involved in the process

says that some of them were watching the movie Conclave for pointers.

Yes, it's a movie about the selection of a new pope.

It's based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris.

The so-called insider says, quote, some have watched it in the cinema.

The majority of the Cardinals have been chosen to replace Pope Francis were appointed by

him so they've never experienced a Conclave before.

That's true because it's been since 2013 or whenever when Pope Francis first took out

when he was elected.

So that's kind of funny.

I didn't thought about that, but yeah, they're all new.

They haven't done it before.

It's a very good movie, by the way, everybody.

It's one of the greatest performances of Stanley Tucci's career.

Oh, I love me.

Some Stanley Tucci.

It's a really good one.

And we got to talk about Marvel a little bit here, Seth.

I know.

Thunderbolts last weekend and was blown away.

That's so cool.

It was so refreshing to see Marvel getting back into the swing of things, getting back

to its roots, what it does right, what Kevin Feige believes in, really.

And I think a lot of us that are fans of the superhero game movie and all this stuff,

we're in the same boat.

We were happy about this at first and then we're worried.

Yes.

Worried about oversaturation.

Right.

And then we're saturating the market because this is what, not just Hollywood or entertainment,

but all forms of things do, all forms of entertainment, art, music, photography, everything, you

know, if they, oh, this is working, sports, like everything, parody, everything is parody.

And you know, the superhero thing was something that you and I and many people out there

that grew up loving these characters, we're really excited to see, you know, get a chance

to really do more.

And in a good way, you know, in a thoughtful way, in a way that made sense, right?

And then it became too much.

To be fair, yes.

To be fair, yes.

Even for guys like us.

Even for us, yes.

You know, there's way too much out there and all that.

Well, everyone agrees that the Marvel Cinematic Universe kind of lost its way after Avengers

Endgame, but thanks to the critically and commercial success of Thunderbolts, they are

back on track.

Yes.

What Florence Poo and David Harbour, they're chemistry and them in that movie alone were

worth it to me.

Let alone a fantastic cast, the guy that plays Bob was really good.

There's a couple of other great performances in it as well.

Yeah.

Kurt Russell's son.

Yes.

Wyatt.

Sorry, forgot his name.

He's good.

He was really good in it.

That's great.

The way that they approach mental health in this movie is very different than normal.

And it does not blink.

It doesn't shy away from stuff.

I love the rawness of that.

They were not trying to make a commercial successful movie.

They were trying to make a good movie.

Right.

In fact, I saw a review that was named, the mental health Avengers.

That's actually what they called it.

You know, kind of perfect.

Kind of a joke, but it's also the same.

It's like, well, yeah, actually that is what they did with this movie.

So going forward, they're not going to saturate the market with mediocre product.

Disney Boss by Vaguer says, quote, we all know that it is in our cell to flood our streaming

platforms with more content that we turned to an all to all our, we turned out all of

our creative engines, including Marvel and had some, had them produce a lot more.

We've also learned that over time, the quality doesn't, does not necessarily be get quantity,

does not necessarily be get quality.

Right.

Consolidating a bit and having Marvel focus much more on their films, we believe that

the result is better quality.

And I think the best and first, the first and best example of that is Thunderbolts.

I feel very good about that.

And understandably so.

And he said this before the movie was released.

Yes.

And it's worked out.

I mean, I'm very curious to see how it does in the next month because the first week

is great.

How are you, your second, your third week?

That's where you really find out if you have a hit.

Yeah.

And by all means, they've already made their money back on this.

Yeah.

I think it's going to stick around for a little bit, especially because there's a lot

of, of course, good word of mouth and that's the best kind of advertising you can have.

So, yep.

I really enjoyed it.

It's been a long time since I watched one of these movies and I immediately wanted to

watch it again.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

It was, it was good.

Yeah.

Great tag endings as well.

If you're going to the theater to see it stick around through the credits, everybody,

it is worth it.

Yes.

Very cool.

And, you know, we're, we're getting leading up to Mother's Day.

So I thought this would be fun.

Have you ever, you know, you're the most inspirational moms in movies, the most inspirational.

So this isn't the best moms, the most inspirational moms.

People over at ranker.com are voting for the most inspirational moms in movies.

We've got 15 here.

So we're going to go through these a little fast.

But like, like, just, you know, get a couple in here like soon.

Susan Sarandon as Jackie Harrison in step mom from 1998, Diane Keaton as need of banks

and father of the bride from 91.

And Julia Robertson Aaron Brockovich from 2000.

Yeah.

All great ones.

Also, great performances too.

Yeah.

Um, Julia Roberts, by far and away, her best performance is Aaron Brockovich.

Right.

I think so.

And in her career.

And I think she'd probably agree.

I think she would probably agree with you.

Sneakily, I will say, uh, the Pelican brief is very good.

I think it's underrated.

I love it.

But I, I'm also the biggest Denzel fan there is.

Right.

So that's part of it.

But those two are really good in that one.

Uh, at number 12 and 11 and 10, Sigourney Weaver as Eleanor Ripley, Eleanor Ripley and

Alien.

Weird mom.

But yes, I guess she would be a mom.

Yeah.

Technically a mom.

Yeah.

At number 11, the great, the wonderful Angelica Houston is Morticia Adams and the Adams

family.

What?

One of the, the greatest moms of all time, man easily to deal with that crazy family.

I'm telling you not only not only do they're so cookie, not only dealing with the cookie

great nicely done.

Cookie, crazy family and everything and always, always dressed to the nine.

Yes, I was looking elegant, right?

Yeah.

But one of the things that I think gets lost in that character in the whole family really

but especially in the parents, how much they have their kids back.

They do.

They support love and encourage their kids like crazy.

Forget about the crazy stuff that, you know, Pugsley was doing.

You're right.

Or Wednesday was doing, right?

Yeah.

Think about just stripping away all that and just looking at the love and support of that

family.

I mean, they look like, like, if you, if you take out the cookie, then you're looking

at like, wow, that's a great family dynamic there.

As a kid who moved around so much and had no matter where I moved, my family stood out

and we were weird.

I loved that about the Adams family and I thought that was really noteworthy about it.

And Angelica Houston nailed that.

That's so good.

So good.

Paula Winslow as Bambi's mother and Bambi from 1942.

Oh, yes.

Another guy.

Sandra Bullock as Leah and Tui in the blind side from 2009.

That's one of the first ones that popped in my head when you mentioned what this was

about.

She does such a fabulous job in that movie of being a unconventional mom and man, she,

she again, earned, totally earned that Oscar from that movie.

She was so good in that.

I always felt that Sandra Bullock was going to win an Oscar.

I didn't know where I saw that.

I'm like, yep, this is the one.

Because she's going to win so fabulous in that.

Somebody who shows up on this list a number of times, the great, the legend Sally Field

as M. Lynn from Still Magnolias.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

From 1989.

More on her in a moment.

Somebody who shows up twice on the list, the only people who show up multiple times on

the list are Sally Field and Susan Sarandum.

Okay.

Susan Sarandum, Marmy March from 94 is a little women.

Yes.

Oh, I totally forgot she was in that movie.

Oh, my gosh.

Yes.

Linda Hamilton is Sarah Conner and the Terminator from 1984.

You want a protective mom?

Oh, my God.

How is she that number one?

She went through time.

She's in her fault time all that.

She did.

I mean, she, I'm telling you.

And then, and then she mothered the savior of humanity.

Yeah.

I mean, just, just did that, right?

It's pretty hard to top that.

I'm telling you.

It's pretty hard to top.

It's a great one.

That's right.

I love Linda Hamilton.

Oh, I love that.

Oh, I love that.

Linda Hamilton, Terminator one, fantastic.

Linda Hamilton, Terminator two, steals the show.

Absolutely.

Those arms alone steal the show.

Yeah.

Forget you Arnold.

Yeah.

Forget Robert Patrick.

Forget you guys.

No, she's totally the great star of that movie.

The great performances by all of them.

I forget the, the male actor, the, the, the kid, the team.

Yeah.

Red and red.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Yeah, too.

Got the public.

Love it.

Nope.

No, no, no, no.

Linda Hamilton.

All right.

All day.

She was a radio actor that she played mom's all up and down the radio dial.

That's what she did.

And she does an amazing job as Dumbo's mom, yes.

At number four, and I am ashamed of myself.

I wouldn't have thought of this.

The legend, Julie Andrews, as a fraud line in the sound of music from 1965.

Right.

Mother figure for most of it.

She doesn't marry the, what's his face to end, but yeah.

But that's a great one.

I wouldn't have thought of that, but absolutely everything we've been talking about about

Mother's Day and what it means that perfect that role probably personifies almost all of

it.

I wish I liked that musical.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I obviously have some other reasons.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

It's a little difficult for me to watch.

Yeah.

But yeah.

At number three, Sally Field as Miss Gump in Forrest Gump.

And that was coming.

Yeah.

So Sally Hughes.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry.

Twice.

Twice.

The young mother goes all the way up to the, you know, when she's old and then she passes

away.

Oh, she is so good in that movie.

Your hard press to find a more beloved actor in human history than Sally Field, which

makes her, again, the greatest, or not just the greatest Oscar speech, the greatest

acceptance speech of all time is Sally Field's Oscar speech.

Yeah.

That we could have stopped doing it.

So honest.

It's so honest.

It's so real.

As somebody who we've seen act and act and act from a young age, we know her as an actress.

Right.

You know, she's not acting up there on that stage.

You know, she is the most surprised person on the planet that she just won in the Academy

Award.

And you like me.

You really like me.

We don't like you.

We love you, Sally.

Yeah.

We love you, Sally.

Julia Walters as Molly Wesley in the Harry Potter movies.

Oh, sneaky one in there.

But very good.

Very good.

I wouldn't put her ahead of some of these names, but I would put her on the list.

Yeah.

That definitely does belong to her.

And at number one of the most inspirational moms and TVs and movies, Holly Hunter as

elastic girl in the Incredibles.

Perfect.

It is.

She's like the perfect mom.

I would have never picked it, but I never only seen it a little bit of everything.

I watch what my nephew is, my godkids and stuff.

But that thing, yeah.

Yeah.

She holds that whole thing together.

You know, again, that whole, one of the best like voice castings was the Incredibles.

They did an incredible job with it because I mean, you got, not only got Craig T.

Nelson, you know, you've got Holly Hunter and that who's got such a very distinct voice

and delivery, you know, it's very distant.

You know when you hear her talk and even Sarah Vowel as the daughter, I mean, just so

good.

Sarah Vowel is one of my favorite authors, and I would have never thought of her as a voice

actor.

And I love she's so, especially if you listen to her books on tape and stuff, because

she reads her own stuff.

Yeah, it's really good.

That's the way she talks.

Just the way she talks.

Just the way she is.

Yeah, you ever get a chance to read, you live for a new author to get into Sarah Vowel

and I could not recommend her.

Oh, so good.

She's so funny.

But also, where is my super suit?

Have you seen my super suit?

Samuel Jackson can do the wrong.

I mean, he cannot.

Speaking of Susan Sarandon, she shows up on our small screen of new things to watch this

weekend.

Noonans starring Vince Vaughn as a guy who opens an Italian restaurant to honor his mother

after her passing.

You've got Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Abracco, all in this.

Really good.

Looks really good.

A couple of ladies I enjoy watching.

Yeah.

On Hulu, summer of 69, a comedy about an awkward high school senior, Chloe Feynman is in

that.

I like Chloe Feynman.

Yeah.

G, has that been done before?

Yeah.

The series premiere of Longway Home, you McGregor and his best friend, Charlie Bohrman,

a return for another motorcycle series where they travel from Ewan's home in Scotland to

Charlie's home in England by taking the long way around the passing through 15 other

countries.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

I saw the first couple episodes last season.

I enjoyed it.

Again, Ewan McGregor guy, so there's a little add that caveat to it, but yeah.

Ewan McGregor is just a remarkable human being.

I swear to God.

One of the best actors ever.

He is like absolutely fearless in everything he does.

I can't admit something else.

I may, I will die on this hill.

Ewan McGregor is one of the greatest actors of all time.

Right.

And it has been lost in a shuffle throughout his whole career.

That man is talent.

Yes.

And on peacock, the streaming premiere of Love Hurtz, starring Oscar winner key Hugh

Kwan, came out around Valentine's Day, did pretty well.

Okay.

Looks alright.

You've also got the first season finale of Hollywood Squares on CBS Tonight.

And on Saturday, this one looks really good.

The four-part documentary, The Judd Family, Truth Be Told, the final two parts air Sunday

night.

Oh, okay.

And I'm excited about this.

And at live, Walton Goggins is hosting.

Mr. Goggins is amazing.

I mean, even those, whatever those ads he's doing ever like going, whatever it is, God,

he's funny.

He is so funny.

He is so good.

An actor.

What an actor he is.

Arcade Fire is going to be on there as well.

Nice.

That should be a good one.

I don't know how they fit all the members of Arcade Fire on that stage.

It's a very small stage.

Yeah, it's a very large group.

30 people in that band.

That's a great band.

Not a lot new on the big screen.

Not a lot of new movies coming out in part because of the way that they're less.

One of the pre-4th of July weekend is almost the first real unofficial weekend of summer.

And that's where you'll see your thunderbolts in some of those movies coming out.

And next week, and you're going to have some bigger releases.

Bigger ones coming out.

Yeah.

But for this one, Fighter Flight, Josh Hartnet, Katie Sackoff, in action movie.

Ooh, I love Katie Sackoff.

Doesn't look bad.

And Josh Hartnet's having a great reward.

Renaissance for his career.

Shadow Force starring Kerry Washington is in limited release and Juliet and Romeo.

It looks like an Australian movie.

It's got a bunch of foreign actors in it.

Okay.

Looks all right.

But that is also written.

Retelling, obviously, I'm wonder of the Shakespeare play.

But it sounds like they have a little twist down there.

But really, what we encourage you to see this weekend is your local theater.

Yes.

And when I say get both of these in, everybody, and you will not be disappointed, premiering,

they had the premier yesterday.

Yes, they did.

And they are going until the 11th Don Quixote de la Center.

A wonderful play from our friends at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theatre, directed

by Susan Engren.

Love our friends over at Seawack.

And this is an important one, Seth.

Yeah.

You know, we were just talking about Thunderbolts, talking about mental health.

This is a specific thing about dementia and Alzheimer's.

It takes place in a memory center with obviously mostly older folks in there dealing with

this and the staff.

And they do a little twist of, of course, the famous story of Don Quixote, right?

And so we don't need to get into a lot of the plot or anything like that.

But we can say that when we talked to Susan about this, it was really important to her.

Because it's something she dealt with, with her father, had to deal with dementia.

And I mean, what family has not had to been touched by it in some way, right?

And so this is something, it's a universal thing, and they do it in a way that, like the

best art, I think I said during director's playhouse, is something that not only entertains,

it informs, but it gives us something about the human condition.

That's the best art.

And this is one of those shows that's like that.

They have a lot of fun with this while also touching on some poignant heartfelt things.

Is it the final performance that they're doing this with where they have kind of a Q&A

afterwards?

The Mattany on Sunday is at two o'clock afterwards.

They're going to bring in some memory care folks to talk if you have any questions about

it or more in-depth discussion about Alzheimer's and dementia and that sort of thing.

So it's a great way to reach out to the community in a different way, not just providing entertainment.

Get your tickets.

You got a number of chances to see this now through the 11th, seven o'clock shows.

The 11th will be a two o'clock matinee.

Get your tickets at cwack.org, cwack.org.

And if you'd like a preview, check out the director's playhouse episode we did with Susan

most recently.

You can find it at civicmedia.us.

You can.

And of course, you heard me gushing and rambling earlier about the final play of our main

stage to 50th season over.

It was Council Ravis Community Theater, noises off.

Indeed.

What an amazing show and the show I saw yesterday, everybody, was flawless, it was fantastic,

and it'll be completely different today.

Yeah, it will be.

That's theater, baby.

One thing we can tell you, it'll be very funny.

Oh my God, yes.

Absolutely hilarious show.

One of the beauties of doing a show like this is the audience has no idea if things are

going right or wrong anyway.

If you're an actor on that stage and you drop a line or something like that, nobody's

going to know.

No, you know, and they're going to be laughing the whole time, so it doesn't matter.

This is one of those shows too, everybody, where you're not only taking in the show, but

the show behind the show, the show inside the show, I really do feel like you're getting

almost three shows with just this one place.

This tells you how complicated it was to put together.

You can go to this show and focus on nothing but the set and enjoy yourself.

That's like you're not going to be able to.

There's too many good actors on that stage, but that's how good this show is.

That's how well done it has been done, not only by Melissa Kay, the director, but this

whole team putting in this one on, talking crew, talking the actors, of course, and all

the people that put time and effort into this.

Everyone of these actors, Monday through Friday, taking three, four hours out of their

day, coming down to the theater to rehearse, to practice, to get the timing to get this

down right just for you.

Exactly right.

Yeah.

For you out there.

Support that.

Let's let them know that we appreciate them.

Get to that set.

Get there and enjoy yourself.

It's a Friday.

Get that fish fry in.

Have fun.

Enjoy yourself.

Get ready to laugh.

Yep.

We'll meet you at the WRCT theater for noises off.

Be sure to support them.

Tonight you've got a seven o'clock show.

It all wraps up tomorrow with a two o'clock matinee.

You will not be disappointed.

I almost want to guarantee your tickets, everybody, because I just cannot imagine a single

person out there not enjoying themselves in this show.

Yes, absolutely.

100%.

Enjoy and take it in, everybody.

WRCT theater.org by local support local.

That includes the arts.

Seth and I will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and get to an interesting one here, an interesting study, I think Seth,

and I want to talk about coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

We're at the James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Just got a couple of minutes, a short segment here before we get to our news, sports break

and take care of our partners.

And I felt like this was a bit of a tie into Mother's Day and just a parenting and kind

of the theme we've been having throughout the show here.

This is a classic move a lot of parents make when their kid turns 16, but maybe we shouldn't.

A study found giving your teenager your car, your old car, isn't the smartest move.

And not just because they can't drive a stick.

They should learn though.

They should learn.

This is a case.

Like that's something we need to teach every kid.

Learn how to drive both.

Teens in cars that are more than five years old are 19% more likely to have a fatal car

crash.

Oh really?

For cars over 15 years old, it jumps to 31%.

Whoa, okay.

It's because new drivers suck at it for a while.

And that's just life.

You got to practice.

It reps.

That has nothing to do with age.

It has to do with reps.

Yeah, exactly.

By being older, therefore, you have more opportunity for more rice.

It has nothing to do with, well, I'm older so I know better.

No.

Just been here longer.

Exactly.

And that's something we all got to acknowledge and own.

Let's do that.

Let's do that.

There's nothing wrong with that.

That's how life works, man.

So it's because new drivers, not only are difficult with it, but also some of the older

cars don't have side airbags and emergency braking or a lot of those features.

That's true.

They're not as safe in general.

Giving your kid your old car is a popular move for parents because it usually means you

get a new car, but more so the right of passage and what it means, a handing it down, right?

Yeah.

A parent and literally handing over the keys and what that means and all that.

Sure.

I have no idea what I'm talking about.

My parents, this was never a thing in my family.

No, but you've seen it.

You know what it means.

I know I did.

I've seen enough TV shows and movies.

Of course.

I've seen the Wonder Years.

You know what I'm going to come up with.

Plus you don't care as much if they're in a fender better or anything or what happens to

the vehicle because it's already old and it's already been beat up and everything.

But according to the study, it's a safer call to give your kid the new car or maybe just

trade the old one in for something that didn't roll off the production back in 1940.

It's something a little newer.

Actually, the 1940 car had a steal in it.

No, I'm kidding.

The nice vehicles from those arrows here.

I'm teasing.

So, this is just kind of trying to correct something here, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let me get a little bit safer.

There is nothing.

And I feel like this automatically pulls out a defense mechanism in people.

This is something that we're trying to do more and more in life, at least I am.

Just if you did this back in the day, doesn't mean you were wrong.

No.

I mean, it worked then, might not work now.

Right.

That's a great point to bring up.

And I think that's something it's because it's like, no, we're not saying that you've always

done it wrong, okay?

This is the norms were different back then, safety standards were different, all kinds

of stuff were different.

When you had, when you did this, you were at the same age kind of thing.

We're not discounting what you did or went through.

It's just maybe now we know a little bit more and maybe now we can do something a little

different to make it better.

You are, your brain is capable of having two truths in there at the same time.

Yes.

It is capable of doing two things at once.

You can chew gum and walk at the same time.

We can acknowledge that there's some things in the past that we didn't do right.

Yeah.

We can also acknowledge that there was no other playbook.

Yep.

Just like right now, there's no playbook for so much or going forward another 20 years

or another 30 years or whatever.

You're the best we can, man.

That's all we can do by giving each other grace.

And I only create more empathy and more understanding, but I think a lot more, a better world.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Absolutely above.

And no matter what we're talking about.

Absolutely.

So, yeah, that's an interesting one right there.

It is.

We get to our news, sports and partner break, set the now, come back, talk it's a Mother's

Day.

We got some interesting ones, the top training Mother's Day activities and Mother's Day.

What half of us are thinking about Mother's Day?

Got that?

Come on up for you.

On mornings at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

To me, the perfect song for Summer.

Hmm.

It's up there.

The beginning of this, all I think of is the streets and summer and the warm weather and

everything.

Nice.

Hope you all are having a great Friday out there.

Thanks so much for joining Seth and I.

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Right now, I'm going to get into Mother's Day a little bit more.

Okay.

If you're still looking for a gift from Mom on Sunday, this might help.

Google Trends data was you as to come up with the list of the top Mother's Day quote

things to do this year based on the search terms with the highest traffic spikes leading

up to Mother's Day.

Okay.

And here are the top 10.

So, going to at number 10, start there, paint and sip classes.

That is where if I have it right where you have like a glass of wine with a little glass

of wine painting and there's an instructor and they, you know, here's a flower vase.

Yes.

And, you know, you go ahead and they show you how to do this specific painting.

Yep.

And then you get to see how good of an artist you actually are.

If you could do this in a safe environment, making sure everybody got home safe, I also

like the idea of you, you know, seeing like if you could paint drunk and what you come

up with.

Come up with a little bit over the top on the wine there and see what happens.

Not one of my better ideas.

Not.

Don't listen to it.

Don't listen to it.

Don't listen to James.

Craft classes at number nine.

Very cool.

That is all.

That is what I was going on.

Yeah.

Any kind of crafting is fun.

Yeah.

Wine tasting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just feel ready.

Just feel like it.

Just feel like it.

But mom really wants a drink.

That's where mom wants right now.

And what I think is good about these and what a good approach to these is, you know, hey,

mom, I've got these options.

Which one of these sound good to you?

Right.

Exactly.

That's good idea.

Movies.

Taking her to the movies.

Hey, nothing wrong with going to the movies.

Is it still fun?

You know, we always talk about, you know, how much it costs and all that stuff.

It's still fun.

To go to the movies.

It's always an invent experience.

No matter how old I get, I always have that little thrill when you go into the theater.

I love going to the movies.

Yeah.

I really do.

My mom and I are very similar with the types of movies we love and the being quiet during

them.

I love my father.

You guys are going to be talking about my dad.

I love my dad.

I do anything with my father.

I do not like going to the movies.

Except going to the movies.

That's the one thing.

Yeah.

He talks.

He talks to the movie all the time.

Perfume making classes.

I haven't heard of it before.

I didn't know that was a thing.

Okay.

Perfume making classes.

All right.

Now, they say on here, Broadway shows.

I say local theater shows.

Yes.

Are equivalent or a local equivalent, let's say.

And I think you're right.

100%.

Of course, we talk about all the time, but again, there's nothing like the thrill of walking

into a theater.

You're going to see a live performance.

Every show is different.

There are no reruns in theater.

And we were talking before so much of the theme of not just people, but moms want nowadays.

They want moments.

They want memories.

That's theater.

Yes.

You may have a memory from going to see the movie, you know, go into the movies or something

like that.

But more times than not, you are, you know, you look at this, this way, I don't know many

people that go to a theater, go to a play and get done and like, oh, that wasn't as good

as I hoped it be or something like that or anything.

Whereas with the movies, it's such a 50, 50 thing.

Yeah.

You have no idea, right?

Yeah.

At the very least, when you go to see a play, especially a local theater play, whether

you, whatever fun you have, you know that you just supported local theater, you just put

back into your community.

You're just, you know, you're really, you're helping out locals.

You're helping out people that are neighbors and people that go to your kids, their kids

go to the same school as yours and things.

You know, you can go to a bad performance.

They happen.

Oh, yeah.

Performance does do happen out there.

But even if you do, you have a story that you can share later.

And that's if nothing else, you've got that the experience.

Support your local theater, everybody.

You got a couple of opportunities to this weekend.

A brunch.

Yeah.

That's always classic.

It's a little cliche.

I would say to do the mom's brunch thing, but still, yeah, I get it.

You want to talk about cliche.

Look at the top two here.

Cooking classes and pottery classes.

Oh, come on.

I would.

And, and, and if I told you this list was from 1964, you would, you, you still believe

it.

Yeah.

You would.

Yeah.

We really got to update this stuff.

We really got here.

Here's what we're going to do with Beth for Mother's Day, because she already said what

she would like.

And by the way, ask, ask what your parents, your mom might want.

That's always a good way to go, you know?

Yes.

You're going to say that, oh, I don't want anything or something like that, but asking

is such a great way.

Yes.

Yes.

So because our great local miniature golf, I'm Newman's golf, you know, many years.

They're opening on Mother's Day weekend.

That's what, that's what Beth wants to do with our boys.

So, that's, that's, that's kind of a thing.

So yeah, that's a great experience to do.

It's a really good idea and a shout out to our friends at Newman's.

Yes.

Have great season.

Love our friends over there.

We love them.

Been there so many times.

We love them.

I'm sorry.

You can find this complete article at google trends.com or mental floss.com if you'd like

everybody.

Good luck.

Everyone out there with us.

Yes.

Just one more Mother's Day thing to wrap up the topic a little bit.

Every family dynamic is unique, of course, but if you have a mother, you'd like to celebrate

this weekend, put some thought into it and thought how you'd like to do it.

Okay.

And a new poll, people were asked about their family life growing up and among people

who had a mother and a father at home, 52% said that their mother was the most involved

in their daily activities, 32% said both parents equally and 7% said it was mainly their

father.

Okay.

So traditionally, a lot of the time, but not overwhelmingly.

No, just over half.

Yeah.

That's true.

77% said that their mother was more involved in housework, 14% said both parents equally

and 3% said it was mainly other father.

So you do better on that.

44% said that they were closer to their mother, 36% said that they were equally close

to both parents and 14% said that they were a tighter with their father.

Dads, what are we doing?

No, I'm just kidding.

That's fine.

You're getting where I'm going.

42% said mother helped them more with their homework.

Oh.

20% said both parents equally and 13% said mainly dad.

Okay.

And 38% said that they turned to their mother more for advice.

30% said both and 16% said dads.

So randomly, the poll asked people if they've ever argued with their mother-in-law, and

68% said no.

Only 28% said that they have battled with their mother-in-law.

Speaking of cliches, right, the whole cliché of the mother-in-law, right?

That tradition does not seem to hold weight.

No, it doesn't.

It really does.

Might be good for movies and TV shows.

For jokes, comedians, right?

Yeah.

Not really, yeah.

Yeah.

Good one.

Yeah.

More so stand up comedians, you're really wrong.

They're the ones that kind of perpetrated that one.

Most people in the poll 57% plan to do something to celebrate Mother's Day while 27% don't plan

on it.

15% aren't sure.

Wait.

Not sure.

You're just going to wing this.

You're just going to go play it well.

Maybe or not.

Yeah.

I don't get mad anyway.

And when asked if society does enough to adequately reward mothers for the work they

do, 64% said that it doesn't, 20% said it does, and 16% aren't sure, of course.

Right.

I can get that one a little bit better.

But that's interesting, almost two thirds of people saying that mothers aren't rewarded

enough.

I would say I'm in that camp of, especially the expectations of certain kinds of work.

That needs to change.

It has changed, I think, over the decades, but still we're not there yet, not quite.

And you know, one of the things that I know a lot about Mother's Day is actually my dad.

My dad has always been really big about like celebrating my mom and what she does for

the family.

At every step of my, a stage of my life, she's been that way, and it's not just with

Mother's Day.

I actually think that there's been times my dad may forget about Mother's Day, but he's

already done something that week to show her how much you had her, so it doesn't really

have that.

It doesn't matter.

And this stems from his mom and my Nana and everything, and the being the matriarch

of our family and stuff when it comes to this.

I don't think that when you look at these stats, when you hear these stats, I don't think

that there's one thing or the other you should take from it and mind you, but I do think

that you can always learn from these things.

Yes.

And something that you've noted, I think, is important that dads could step up more, do

more.

And that's not a thing of like me pointing the finger and doing a decimbe, wagging my finger

at dads.

I don't believe there's a father out there that heard that, that didn't agree.

Because we could always do more in life.

And if you're a dad, if you want to do more, you want to find ways you can.

And we need to understand where people are at, okay?

This is not denigrating the quote-unquote housework that needs to be done.

That's very important.

All of that is very important work.

It just doesn't mean that one person has to do it all.

It means that we take a greater share of being part of the family kind of thing.

And especially now when how many households to both parents work because they have to

to survive, you got to do it.

Otherwise, it's not going to work out.

As a relationship, it's not going to work out in a family setting.

So it's one of those things where this very important work still needs to be done.

But who's going to do it?

And that's what we need to all step up on.

And I don't know that there's necessarily a bad Mother's Day gift.

We've talked a lot about that.

And you know, experience, this moment, flowers, spa day, all of these things.

I think one of the greatest ways of showing appreciation to somebody is paying attention

to what they're doing.

Paying attention to what they're doing, acknowledging what they do.

And yes, getting thank-us in there any time you can, not just Mother's Day.

But just acknowledging it, even if it's in your own head, to get there and really taking

a step back and realizing every single thing this individual does on a day-to-day basis

and how amazing they are.

Yes.

100%.

Because this survey, that's the biggest thing that stood out to me about it is, I like

to think I'm a pretty good son.

And I pay quite a bit of attention to my mother has done over the years.

And I read something like this and I got no clue.

I mean, I do and I don't, you know?

Yeah.

And just one of those things, I immediately want to call my mom and tell her, I don't

appreciate you enough.

And that's not just her Jewish guilt working on it.

No, it's not.

Although she does have a black belt in Jewish care.

She's very good at that.

But also, something else to consider, taking the lessons you learned from your mom and

your dad, you know, from, and passing them on, boy, is that a better way of saying

how much you appreciate them is by saying, hey, you taught me this.

I want to pass on this great advice to my kids and keep the progression going.

You know, and I think when you, when we think about our parents, not expecting perfection

from them.

I hope you don't.

You know, and I don't think, I don't think there's a lot of people out there that

do.

No, no, they shouldn't.

But I do think that you have expectations for your parents.

I do think that you have a bar set for your parents and there's nothing wrong with

that.

I have no doubt that every parent out there wants that.

But, you know, I think having some grace with that, the older you get in understanding

is a little bit important too.

My parents will go out of their way to beat themselves up about their parenting.

And I wouldn't train for anything in the world.

And I feel for them so much because they carry so much of that weight and everything.

And it's like, oh, man, you guys did the best you could and did the best you could.

Did Tom good?

Got three good kids.

Well, two.

Two good kids.

Got one radio.

What a radio.

Yeah, yeah.

That one.

Yeah.

Well, you know it's the first one.

You know, you're going to get all the mistakes out and then after that's fine.

By the time Jill and Nick come around, those are two very well-rounded human beings that have

contributed to society in a positive way.

Oh, boy.

But there's me.

But you know, okay.

Nobody's three for three.

Nobody knows.

I'm the very few times in life where you're three.

We appreciate your moms out there.

Yes.

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