Kitty Foreman FTW!

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 behind the mic.

I am joined by your head of production, our co-host, Seth Havager.

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for being with us, everybody.

We'll be all there having a great morning out there.

We appreciate you.

We're going to have some fun this week.

We got a lot of great things in store.

We're going to have some guests joining us.

Our great co-host will be here.

And of course, all of you.

And we got some good stuff going on today.

We do.

We have a couple of fun topics for you.

We're going to get into first the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.

We're going to talk popes and baseball.

We are going to love it.

Allergy Awareness Month, the 10 best and worst cities for allergies.

Oh, interesting.

Got that one.

A couple of other fun things.

It is a Monday.

So usually we have a kitchen zone.

Well, we have a kitchen zone open at the top of the 10 o'clock hour.

Well, the best stuff today.

Today, best of.

Yep.

And if you may have noticed, Brittany wasn't with us this morning.

She'll be back tomorrow, everybody.

This is not here.

Elcafe doesn't work.

What's going on?

Why are we still working, dude?

What's up?

I feel like with that.

I'm starting to feel like, OK, we definitely drew this short straw.

I don't know what happened.

How did that happen?

I'm not even sure when it happened, but it definitely happened.

So we're going to have some fun.

But one real quick programming thing.

We are moving our WFHR FM antenna to a new location today.

The new location is going to be a cool spot.

It's going to help us.

It's going to be in our range, for sure, yes.

Yeah.

Well, not taking away from any of the range we've already had,

which is pretty cool.

We're very excited about this.

But this will mean that our FM is shut down.

Now, you may know that by not being able to catch us on the FM right now.

Nope.

If you turn it on there, you will 97-5.

You'll hear nothing but static right now,

because they are actively working on that change right now.

So this is sort of, I've been thinking about it all weekend.

I did not get a chance to send this to Chuck,

but I feel like this is a bit of an old school Monday morning show.

Yeah, where we used to be, where we were just on AM 1320.

That's right.

So we're on AM.

We're also on streaming, of course, on the Civic Media app.

So we're in a couple of places, just no FM today.

So if you have someone who's like, where is our rate?

What happened?

I don't get the morning show.

Just let them know that they're still out there,

just not in the FM.

And hopefully that'll be wrapped up by this afternoon.

So yeah, that's the plan we should be back at in our regular,

regular things tomorrow.

Frequency, regular frequency.

Regular scheduled program is what I was going to say.

And I knew that didn't work, but darn you TV.

Oh, you wore my poor little brain.

Warped your brain.

And now, hoping all mothers had great mom's day yesterday.

Yes.

Hope you all did.

I hope I certainly hope Beth didn't.

Your mom did.

And every time.

And just a little bit of a mother's day stuff

left over from the weekend.

OK, that's all right.

And because we were all raised by great moms,

we don't waste.

We don't waste.

If you can serve, we don't waste stuff.

If we have content that is still able to be used,

you just dust that off.

There you use it.

There are kids without content in China.

So we need to make sure we use what we have.

We have each state's favorite fictional mom.

Oh, by state.

Yeah.

OK.

Interesting.

But this is a fun one here.

So yesterday was about real moms.

Today is a little bit more about the fictional moms.

So the fictional moms, yeah.

Fictional moms.

Now, I think fictional moms are great for a lot of reasons.

But I brought this up with my mom.

And she said, the first thing out of her mouth,

oh, I could relate to so and so, so well.

Oh, really?

I could relate.

And I hadn't really obviously thought

about that as somebody who's not a mom.

But understand and respect that I don't get.

It's one of those things that I can empathize with,

but not get.

And my mom really rambled about a lot of her favorite TV

moms.

And especially the idea of what it is as a parent.

Most good parents don't think they're good parents.

I'm not saying that's all good parents,

or it takes that to fun.

You think more, because you tend to focus on the things

you do wrong.

I mean, all parents make mistakes, of course.

And that's maybe what you're focusing on.

It's like, oh, man, I totally messed up

in this kind of thing.

But you're always, I think part of this,

you're always trying to get better, right?

And maybe that helps you be a better parent.

You can inspire to be Harriet from Ozzy and Harriet.

Sure.

Well, also realizing that you may be more like a modern mom

or something like that and try to avoid being Peggy Bundy.

You know, you try to walk all these lines.

And that's simply bad mom, right?

Yeah.

Peggy was a loyal mom.

She was a loyal mom.

She loved her kids and everything, but that much my cook.

How much of a mom, mom, mom?

Mom, mom.

That's the way the character, you know?

Let's see where these moms that we just mentioned

if they rank on here.

An online security review website used Google Trends data

over the past 12 months to figure out

who was the most searched mom from movies and TV shows

in every state?

Oh, wow.

Interesting.

It's a weird, first off, an online security review place.

Like, that seems like a weird place to read it.

Yeah.

I don't know.

So Mortisha Adams and the mother of dragons,

Daenerious Targaryen, tied as the most popular

in 12 states each.

Wow.

I wouldn't have seen either one of those coming

from very, very different ways.

Reasy.

No.

I would have not thought of Daenerious as a mom.

Yeah, that's interesting as well.

They're now, I'm not saying that she is the mother of dragons

or whatever for people that didn't see a game of thrones.

Right.

They're talking actual dragons here.

This is a normal one.

No, this is not a metaphor.

This is like the actual things.

The actual fictional things.

So I wouldn't have thought of that.

And now I would have put Mortisha high on my list.

And I wouldn't have thought that a lot of,

I wouldn't have thought that, you know,

just culturally that that show in her

and all that was taken in as much as they are.

Right, right.

But man, that's so interesting.

Now, she was on that list that we did the other day too.

And she was pretty high on TV moms too.

They're followed by Laura Lai Gilmore.

I hope I'm saying that right.

I never saw Gilmore girls.

But Laura Lai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls and 10 states,

Marge Simpson in six, a last a girl from the Incredibles

in four, and Spider-Man's Aunt May in two.

Oh, hey.

Other mamas that made the list,

but in only one state, Sarah Connor from Terminator.

Sophia from the Golden Girls,

Queen Eleanor from Brave,

Lois Griffin from Family Guy,

and Renee Perry from Desperate Housewives.

Okay.

Wow, that's a flashback.

Well, that's from the past on that one.

Wow.

So that's really cool.

Any honorable mentions, any moms you want to mention

for that list that you can think of.

And anybody out there, please audience participation.

We want to hear from you.

You can call or text us.

No, June Cleaver anymore.

They think that if we had done this like 20 years ago,

I think June Cleaver would have appeared on the list.

So they said the last 20 months, right?

That they did the survey, the last 12 months of that.

Last 12 months, okay.

So I kind of thought,

I feel like that gives you a little bit of understanding

that we're not going to see the classics moms.

Right, yeah.

Mom, I think there's a number of classic moms, right?

The wonderful mom from Good Times.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, Florida, that was Florida, right?

Yeah, Florida, yeah.

There's a number of them.

The moms that I could think of and stuff.

But I, Florence Anderson, you know?

And the other thing I was surprised by is like the popularity

of some older things like Golden Girls.

And it's true, you know, Estelle Getty

still show up on this list or something like that.

She's having, it was having a weird moment.

Yeah.

Golden Girls, by the way, that's,

I never thought that wouldn't come in anyway.

Well, as far as locally, if you're wondering,

well, where do Wisconsin, what TV mom

do Wisconsin search the most?

Which one did they like the most?

You are just the same as Illinois, everybody.

Marge Simpson.

Oh, see, that totally makes sense.

You got it right, Wisconsin.

You got it right.

Mortish is a good one.

Mortish is a good one.

Mortish is a good one.

There's some other great ones on here.

I love the Sarah Connor thing like that.

You want to talk about great moms.

I mean, it's a pretty good mom.

That's pretty good, you know, the savior,

giving birth to the savior of humanity, you know,

that's not bad.

Not bad at all.

Pretty good, but I love the Marge Simpson one on here.

Who I, because of my Simpson's bias,

it doesn't come across right or anything,

but is by far in a way the greatest TV mom of all time.

Not only, not only the greatest wife

with the way that she, everything she has put up

with Homer Simpson.

Every single, like over 40 years,

the things that that woman has put up with,

but everything she's put up with with Bart,

and the things that Bart has done,

and still loves that kid.

It's still backs him and everything.

And anything, like everything that Lisa is,

it really, like nothing against Homer,

he's done certain things,

but more so, okay, Lisa's learned what not to do

from her dad, but her mom has been just a perfect emblem.

So yeah, I'm with you.

Marge is pretty universal because we don't know.

I got one for you, though, everyone.

This is a very specific fictional mother, okay?

The best fictional mother of a show that takes place

in Wisconsin, and there's no question who that is.

Of course, it is Kitty from that 70s show.

Oh, wow, wow.

I mean, it's a nice good call.

Seriously, she was great in there.

I know that show has an aged very well,

but man, she was a great Wisconsin mom to specifically.

She did a great job with that.

She called her, I could listen to her laugh on a loop

over and over and over.

I actually, I wasn't.

Deborah Rupp, man, she was amazing, actually.

I want a red grump, like her,

or whatever, followed by that.

I was, that's just over and over.

Awesome.

I actually enjoyed that the most on that show.

Those two characters.

Those two, yeah, more than the kids.

I'm totally with you on that.

I'm far in a way, yeah, yeah.

That's a great one.

I would like an honorable mention of the mom from the peanuts.

But they're all the same, all the adults are the same.

Yeah, it's hard to differentiate.

They gave a lot of trumpet players a lot of work.

They, it was nice of them.

That was very nice of them.

Well, who is your favorite fictional mom?

Let us know, everybody we'd love to hear from you.

You can text to us or call us up through the civic media app.

We would love to hear it.

Yes, we would.

I also wanted to get to this mom and son, Seth.

Oh, okay.

That was pretty cool as we're kind of wrapping up

some of our mother's day conversation here.

And I just, I just had it.

So I got a new laptop, everybody.

And it's still learning.

It's nice.

I really appreciate it.

But I'm still getting used to it.

Here it is.

Mother and son to receive graduate degrees together

on the same day.

Oh, that's so cool.

They're celebrating here by walking across the stage

this past Friday to accept their master's degree

from Texas Christian University.

Oh, man.

School announced its first ever graduate only ceremony

on Friday will feature Kyle Fields accepting his master's

liberal arts degree and his mother, Brandy Fields,

receiving her executive master of business administration.

I agree.

Wow.

Oh, that is so cool.

Quote, sharing this moment with my son

is something I never imagined, she says.

We've supported each other throughout

through late nights and strict deadlines

to walk the stage together, especially on Mother's Day weekend

is an incredible and meaningful moment for our family.

Yeah.

That's really cool.

It's got to be a very different college experience.

Well, it's graduate school.

I mean, that's part of it too.

But that is just, I love the idea of, you know,

and it just shows, you know, there's any age.

You can go back to school, right?

At any age, as a matter of how old you are, what you're doing.

But I love the idea of them supporting each other

while they were going through it.

That's really cool.

Immediately, everybody to be on the Rodney Dangerfield movie.

Oh, good.

Oh, really?

Oh, man.

It did immediately.

It's a wrong with your brain, man.

And you know what's worse about my brain?

It wasn't called back to school.

It couldn't have been called back to school.

That's too simple.

It's called back to school.

It's called back to school.

Cannibal.

You invented the triple flippy or whatever.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

That's great for me.

I don't care what he makes us.

Love Rodney Dangerfield.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back with the Elcafe birthday anniversary club

on mornings at WFHR.

Celebrate good times, come on.

Celebrate good times, come on.

Celebrate good times, come on.

Celebrate good times, come on.

It's a celebration.

All right.

Get the bottom in that.

Yeah.

Gotta get down.

Gotta get really down for that one.

You heard those boys.

It is time to do some celebration with their great friends

at Elcafe.

We encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow.

When they open their doors, everybody,

they'll be back open tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue.

Beautiful, poor Edwards.

So you got the day to go ahead and think about what you

want to order over there tomorrow.

Get ready and get ready to go.

And then you'll see their special.

And then you'll change your mind.

Follow along with the great yes you will.

Yeah.

There's so many things you're going to want over there.

You go ahead and head on over there tomorrow, everybody,

and enjoy and keep in mind that their Facebook page

has a great job of keeping up to date

and their specials and all that.

Encourage you to follow along with their page.

If you don't have a Facebook page,

create one just so you can follow Elcafe

and keep up the date with those specials

and the fun posts that they make.

Support our good friends over there, everybody.

We'll meet you there.

Elcafe, you're going to be back open tomorrow at 221 Market

Avenue and beautiful, poor Edwards.

Indeed.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Email us at infoetwfhr.com, direct messages

through our Facebook pages and call out up.

715-424-2600.

I've been giving that number out a lot lately.

It's like Melissa hasn't been here.

Man, slacker.

We appreciate our friends at Elcafe.

Visit us today, everybody.

And we encourage you guys to get us those birthdays

and anniversaries more and more.

Thanks so much for doing that.

Seth, I need a one or a two.

Two.

All right, gives us that qualifier.

So you're right into it.

First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday

to Civic Media's own Henry Bray.

Oh, King Henry, yes.

Happy birthday to you.

He is one of the guys down at Richland Center.

He's been there for a very long time.

And he is a very good salesman.

Yeah, it does a great job.

We appreciate you, Henry.

Give up the great work and good morning

to all of our friends at Richland Center.

Yes, indeed.

Wishin' a happy birthday to Melanie Fisher.

Happy birthday, Melanie.

I almost didn't know.

I don't know if that she goes by that.

Melanie, yeah.

I'm gonna be fair.

Okay.

You have a great day, Melanie.

He does that, it's your fault.

You're making me do it.

It's true.

No, it is me.

It definitely should blame me.

And by me, you blame me, my father.

Okay, it's a runabout way.

Really, yes, it's 100%.

And our qualifier today, Alex Sanders.

Alex, congratulations and happy birthday to you.

Wishin' you a good one, sir.

Enjoy the day.

Hope it's a great day for you.

We take a look at who you're sharing your birthday

with everybody, celebrity wise.

Emily VanCamp is 39, Nicolette

on the Fox Medical Drama of the resident.

Sharon Carter, NEMCU, Emily Thorn on Revenge.

Yes.

That's a nice career going.

She is, and she is very good.

She is very good at playing different roles,

but she's got that core hardness.

You know, she can play a little tougher roles,

and I like that.

Yeah, the resident has done well.

That's cool.

That's cool.

From what I've seen, ratings wise and stuff.

I don't know if it's getting a second season or not,

but I know that it did well in part of it

was the people liked her performance.

Yes.

Dom Hell Gleason, it's 42.

Great character actor.

General Hux in the Star Wars movies.

Oh yeah.

The older brother Bill Wesley in the Harry Potter movies.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Caleb in the X Machia, who is probably his biggest,

I would say probably his role that he

had the most lines for anything like that.

He's good.

He is very good.

Yes.

One of my favorites in the game, Rami Malek,

is 44 today.

Most people know him as Freddie Mercury

in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, which

is one best Oscar for best act leading actor for.

He was the Pharaoh in the Night of the Museum movies.

Yep.

He's been in the handful of stuff since.

He's had a couple of releases.

But I, like a lot of people out there,

got to know him from the TV show Mr. Robot,

one of the greatest TV shows I've ever seen.

And easily one of the greatest shows ever

to deal with mental health.

But like right as we're getting in the cusp

of talking about mental health, Mr. Robot comes out.

That's true.

And him and Christian Slater started that show.

And it's the best acting of everything Christian Slater do.

And his acting is just phenomenal.

It's some of the best TV acting you'll ever see,

especially on basic cable, where they don't have the ratings

that they can get away with the things they can on an HBO

or some of the streaming services.

Just an important show and a very, very good show.

And no other actor could have done that role than him.

Great actor.

Jason Biggs is 47, Mr. American Pie himself.

He hasn't really done much since though.

No, he's been here and there kind of thing.

So I haven't really seen him since.

No, I don't know.

Kim Fields is 56, Tudy from Facts of Life.

Oh, yeah.

She was also in living single and a couple of other stuff.

Very good.

Great actor.

I like him, she's a good actor.

Tony Hawk is 57.

Tony Hawk, man, how many bones is that man broken?

Yeah, that's what I want to know.

One of the most natural interviewers you'll ever see.

Like he just is so, he is so not putting on heirs.

This is who he is.

And from those first interviews, you see of him in a pool

with a bunch of his buddies like Jason Lee and all that

getting interviewed by a local news station

asking what these guys were doing to now,

where he just has always been the same guy.

Tony Hawk has also been able to do all this

without really quote selling out.

Like he's got his name on a video game,

all these different things.

And you've never heard anything like that about him.

No.

You can make a big argument that we have no ex-games

or we have so much of this stuff without where Tony Hawk

and obviously other skateboarders would have but.

Tony Hawk was the face of all this.

That's exactly what I was going to say.

You need it for something like that.

You kind of need a face.

Someone who can kind of be shorthand for that industry.

And like what you were just saying,

I think the reason he became that is because he was such

a good interview because he was comfortable

in front of the camera.

And that you can't, I mean,

I can't stress how important that is

for certain things to be popular like that

because you're right, he was right there in the forefront

of any kind of skateboarding culture and all that kind of stuff.

And he became almost a household name just because of that.

You know, the likability, it didn't hurt.

You know, all that Anthony Frank Hawk.

So that is his real name, Tony.

His real name, Tony.

It's cool to have a nice name of Hawk.

I mean, that's not fair, first of all.

They say here in the article when he was nine,

his older brother gave him a used skateboard by the age 11.

He was competing at a high level.

I thought he was younger than that when he got this first skateboard.

But nine is still really young for skateboarding, yeah.

I thought he was even younger.

Yeah, like that tells you a lot right there.

And it's very similar to when we're talking about Eddie and Alex van Halen

and getting that young and getting a drum and a guitar or something like that.

Yeah.

Just impressive.

Like what he is and how much money that man has made and everything.

He's been very smart too with how he's done it.

And off of an industry and off of a device that most people didn't give the time a day.

Most people didn't think much of other than a kid's story.

Or an annoyance, right?

Yeah.

Like, oh, the skateboarding on the sidewalk.

The skateboard was lower than roller skates at one point.

And way behind ice skating in some of these things,

it certainly wasn't almost ever kid.

It's not just, it's not enough that every kid in America had a skateboard.

That's not what I'm talking about.

Every kid knew what a skateboard was.

Right.

So that's, that he is a big part of that.

He was absolutely.

Yes.

Stephen Baldwin is 59.

Baldwin brother, who's, yeah, his daughter is married to Justin Bieber.

But Stephen Baldwin, not bad.

Emilio Estevez.

I, one of my favorite actors growing up, loved Emilio Estevez.

Breakfast Club, Son of Martin, machine, of course, brother, Charlie.

A lot of good performances from him.

Yes.

It is, it is lost in the shuffle.

But his work as Billy the Kid, he's acting his tail off in those movies.

I don't think people are noticing and paying enough attention.

He's acting his tail off.

You can make the argument it's his best acting.

He worked hard on that role and was darn good at it.

He's basically retired now, isn't he?

Yeah.

I think he got kind of tired of the whole thing.

He came back and did another Mighty Ducks movie because of him.

And a lot of the people that were part of it didn't like the way that the last one had

ended previously.

So they wanted to do kind of a good version or whatever.

Yeah.

But yeah, you're right.

He doesn't really work much.

No.

Ving Rames is 66.

Oh, great character actor.

Oh, man.

That massive, that great voice.

And now, man, loving Rames.

Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, of course, is where we all came to know in the love of him.

But Luther in the Mission Impossible movies, I think, is where you get to see him really

and do like in a very, very different light.

I admire them for casting him in that role and for giving him the opportunity he's had.

Because everything I've ever seen Ving Rames in, he's got a shotgun or something.

And in that, he's a tech guy and it's all about his brain and his voice and all his voice.

Yes.

Such a great person.

The only thing my kids know him for is Arby's commercials.

That's, hey, if nothing else, he's got that.

It's a great paycheck.

Yeah.

It's one half of the most popular duo in all of country music history, at least the most successful.

Kick Brooks is 70 today of Brooks and Dunn.

Nobody's won more awards as a duo than those two.

No.

No, they've had an amazing career and Kick Brooks, by the way, is that his real name?

Yeah.

Or is that a nickname?

I don't know.

It's cool.

It's cool.

Kick cereal.

I got to know.

I got to know.

He just liked it so much.

They called him that.

Award winning an amazing actor.

Gabriel Bern is 75.

Wow.

Wow.

A treatment, usual suspects.

A lot of great performances over there.

He's jumped.

He's popped up in all kinds of different things and he is a fabulous actor, yes.

Steve Winwood is 77 today.

Oh.

Man, he went from a prodigy to, I mean, that man's career.

I mean, absolutely amazing.

We're talking.

Markable career that he had.

Wow.

Mult instrumentalist.

He can play basically any instrument, you know, in the rock music, you know, thing.

And he had big hits in the 80s.

Man, he's so good.

What was he, um, 14 or 16 when he was 16 this, this came out.

Spencer Davis group.

He was 16.

I think 16.

When they formed, he was 15.

When this came out, he was like 16.

Wow.

That voice.

Yeah.

When you're 16 years old.

Yeah.

The soul in his voice, my dad said that they, they, uh, nobody could place like him.

They couldn't tell what he looked like or anything, just hearing him or anything like

that.

Not at all.

Not at all.

And, uh, certainly all of that.

I love traffic.

One of my favorite bands of all time.

I love traffic.

And then the solo career, he has an amazing solo career, yeah, higher love back in the

high life again, all that.

Just what a career.

What a career.

An arc that was amazing.

Like a true like lifetime career from such a young age and all that.

Uh, and then some people no longer with us.

Like Bert Baccarec born in this day in 1928, uh, amazing composer where he's written

70, uh, top 40 hits.

I mean, I, the man was, was remarkable.

Hey, what the world needs now, man.

Yeah.

Love.

He was right.

Right, Bert.

Uh, that's what friends are for.

Another good one.

Uh, and, uh, the look of love is the one that I love that there's, that's one of those

songs and whenever I don't, I don't know what my fate, maybe Isaac Hayes is my favorite

version.

Right.

You see that song covered?

I got to hear it.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

The greatest quote machine in all of sports history.

Period.

I, I believe this.

I will die on this hill.

Yogi Berra born in the state of 1925 baseball is 90 percent mental.

Other half is physical.

Yeah.

He does.

One of my, one of my all time favorite quotes from, from Mr. Berra, it's Tony Stangle

used to call him is, uh, and when people asked him about that, you know, being a quip

machine kind of thing and he was kind of poo pooing and says, you know, I've not

really said half the things I've said.

That's awesome.

That's so good.

Such a good life.

Such a good.

Oh, Yogi.

And the reason I say this so much is that, um, I don't believe that Yogi Berra ever tried

to do any of this.

It's just how he was.

Just who he was.

Just how he talked.

He, this is how we, you know, he got his nickname Yogi is because people said he just

walked like a Yogi.

That's how he got it.

So I mean, he was a fascinating human being.

He was.

Uh, and unfortunately, kind of gets lost in the shuffle, but I, I feel like my dad is screaming

in the back of my head to mention that he's also one of the greatest catchers of all

time.

Yes.

There is no question about it.

Yeah.

He was, he was a tremendous baseball player.

Um, I, uh, he's always going to be tied for me in the greatest comed, standard comedians

of all time.

Uh, George Carlin, but in the state in 1937, him and Richard prior are always going

to be tied for me.

Uh, Carlin, I changed the face comedy.

Those two guys.

Yeah.

They were the, uh, rebels and the punk rock of comedy at their time.

And in every single comedian that you're, you and I are generation and any generation

following, uh, that we enjoy have to thank them because of what they did and how the

influence that they've had on all of these comedians in from our generation and so

forth.

They both started out as normal straight, you know, straight-laced comedians, like they

did the normal thing and they said, no, this is not fulfilling.

I want to do what I want to do and by doing just stepping out in, in taking that risk

because it was a big risk for both of them.

They succeeded and the rest is history.

George Carlin was, uh, set out and did something with comedy that not a lot of people were

trying to do and nobody really thought about doing smart comedy.

Yep.

I'm going to do stuff that is going to make sense and be funny and make a point, but

then be exaggerant on the other end of it.

So I'm going to hit you with facts and then I'm going to hit you with exaggerant.

Yep.

And it's all going to make sense because that's life, right?

And that's what makes it funny.

That's what makes it funny.

And you want to talk about an arc of a person's life going from, uh, you know, getting, um,

banned by radio stations and TV networks and all these things to being on PBS as, as,

as the train guy or whatever.

He would narrate the train stories, right?

The, uh, the, the, the music person.

The bits of acting he did, whether it was in the Bill and Ted movies or in dogma or something

like that, like a complete performer.

Yeah.

And it never really given credit for it.

Um, wrote some of the better bits, uh, comedy, uh, bits in all of, of all time, um, just

God, do I love George Carlin?

I miss him.

Uh, and very fortunate.

One of the greatest things I'll ever see live is with my sister getting to see him and

point.

That's absolutely amazing.

It was really cool.

I'm jealous.

I'm so jealous.

One of the greatest actors of all time, uh, Katherine Hepburn born in the same 1907

past away in 2003.

She was?

She was one of the all time greats.

Yeah.

There's no question about it.

Uh, there is, um, you know, you're good when, uh, both Seth and I right now are scrambling

in our brain.

What movie do we mention?

I know.

There's so many.

There's so many movies we can mention and we only, we had, we, we've already gone too

long in the segment.

With a career, we went 50 years.

I mean, like another movie we mentioned recently, Murder on the Arnie Express, God, she's

good in that.

I mean, Philadelphia story, but, um, honestly, uh, African queen.

My Nana was a big, big, big Humphrey Bogart fan.

She didn't do much.

That just the pairing of those two for that one movie, it's just the pairing and they, they

have their chemistry.

Even though I don't think they liked each other very much, they did a fantastic job in

that film.

It's not my, it's by far away, not her great, greatest performance.

No.

Uh, in, in fact, uh, it's hard as this is the say I think she might have saved her best

performance for last, um, on Golden Pond.

Yeah.

Two, as an actor, as someone, as somebody who started out so young and, and she was in

the industry and how much emphasis was put on looks and appearance and the second you

get a wrinkle, you're done.

Get out of here.

And then she comes out and you don't see her for all those years and she's in there

in Golden Pond and she is, there isn't the makeup.

She's not, they're not editing it so you don't see her shaking as much or any of this.

This is her and she gives you the performance of a, I get emotional thinking about it, of

a lifetime.

I mean, it was like the culmination of her, her whole career.

And, and we also have to remember how, uh, uh, spunky, I, that's a terrible word to use,

but how in, she didn't take, she didn't take crap from nobody.

Nope.

No, it studios producers.

She was her own person and she plowed her own way, which is just remarkable considering

she was a woman and when she started, it's just amazing.

Along with her sister and Carol Burnett, uh, or, I'm sorry, Aleusio Ball, um, and a number

of actresses, but only a couple really paved the way for where we are now with where we're

starting to get equal pay.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Some of those things.

Incredible talent.

Uh, and everybody celebrating the birthday anniversary out there, we wish you a great

one and a joy and I can't think of a better way to enjoy than, uh, making plans to

marred her head to Elcafe.

Woo.

We'll be back after a break.

Talking about Isaac Hayes earlier, got me, can I throw some on there?

Yeah.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a good, good Monday out there, everybody.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Appreciate everybody who normally listens to us on the FM streaming us right now or something

like that.

Thank you so much for doing that.

I'm glad they would appreciate it.

We'll be back up and running, uh, hopefully tomorrow, well, things should be good.

Everything should be all right.

We, uh, we got an interesting one here, Seth.

Um, so a baseball sign by the late Pope Francis is going up for auction where it's expected

to command up to 15 G's, uh, whoa.

He signed it and he signed it Francisco.

And, uh, I love that.

I love that.

That's great.

Yeah.

There's the ball.

Oh, look at that.

It's very simple.

How do you write so small?

That's tiny writing.

Wow.

He wrote that really small.

Have you ever written on a baseball?

Yeah.

Or anything like that.

It's really hard.

It is.

I have tried before.

Yes.

Yeah.

I, uh, I was fortunate some years back to throw out a first pitch for the rafters.

And, and I think some listeners were just having some fun asking me to sign like a couple

of baseball.

Sure.

I don't think they actually met it.

I'm pretty sure those balls were used immediately after to just play catch or something.

Uh, but I'd never done anything like that.

And I was, I was blown away by how difficult of a time I was happening.

It's a skill that you have to learn how to do.

Also, uh, I'm horrible at that.

Like, not just because my signature is bad.

But, yeah.

Everybody in history, it's ever done that.

Oh, you want another riff?

Boom, boom.

There it is.

Yeah.

I'm sitting there like, okay, this has got to look good.

People are going to keep this.

I got to make my signature look good here on a big jane.

Oh, God.

I messed up.

Do they?

No, don't look, don't look like, don't look like you messed it up.

Just keep going.

Just keep going.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

You messed up your own name.

Just keep smiling.

Just hand them at them.

They don't know.

They don't know.

Uh, yeah.

There's a reason.

I just would be bad.

Apparently, a collector in New York spent years trying to get Pope Francis to sign a baseball.

And somehow it happened.

Wow.

He's, he's, and now he's willing to part with it though.

Okay.

Maybe, maybe it'll fetch more than 15.

Okay.

Who knows?

Um, uh, Pope's, uh, Pope's don't usually go around signing autographs, especially on baseballs.

This is a, uh, this is probably one of the rare, rarest pieces of memorabilia.

That's true.

You're gonna find.

Yeah.

Uh, but it might not be in the future.

The new American Pope, Pope Leo, is from Chicago.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know if anybody's heard that yet or not.

I don't know if I go.

Uh, yeah.

Do we mention he's from Chicago?

And he's a big white socks fan.

That's right.

He's one of ours, everybody.

He's not just a Midwesterner, but he's a Southseater.

That's, that's, that's really cool.

I'm glad that was corrected, by the way.

Yes.

Right away.

Right away by his brother, yeah.

And, and anybody that was surprised by that has never spent five minutes in Chicago.

Because immediately, I, I can't prove that it was him.

But as soon as he, he, he might have overheard somebody say him a cub fan.

Like, no, you, you get out there and correct that.

And before he could do that, his brother, his family was out there making darn sure.

Don't you dare say that, right?

Everybody knows what team I room for.

Yeah, that's right.

And it wasn't because anybody asked me.

I just volunteer that information.

It's, it goes back to my oldest joke.

And I can say this one.

But you, you want to know how you can tell somebody's Italian?

Wait a minute.

We'll tell you.

It won't take us long.

It'll come up in the conversation.

We can't help ourselves.

Yeah, families from Italy, you know.

So I got to, I was just asking what time it is.

Yeah.

I don't care.

Yeah, that's, that's us.

Speaking of the new Pope, the Portillo's chain is paying tribute to Pope Leo with a limited time sandwich.

Italian beef dipped in gravy and topped with the choice of sweet peppers, our Jordania, and our both.

Oh, that sounds pretty good.

This much like us, the Cubs or White Sox thing is a big divider in Illinois.

Notice I said Illinois, not Chicago.

Not just Chicago.

Bleeds into the whole state.

Portillo is very similar.

Colvers here for those that don't know.

It is a lifetime chain.

I love Portillo.

Portillo is my favorite fat food place ever.

And it's because of their Italian beef, which is amazing.

Very famous for that.

Yeah.

And my family, and I thought it was just my family, but this is throughout the whole state, as I said.

There is, there are people that it has to be dipped in neo-Jew, and people were not.

I am in a knot.

I've had a dip in the neo-Jew, but I prefer, I like to taste the meat more and all that.

More the clean taste, yeah.

I don't think it's bad that way, but it's the wrong.

But this is such a divider.

So, apparently, this Pope likes to dip in, and that's why in Portillo's found that out, and that's why they weren't with it.

Makes sense.

And everything, but I think that's kind of interesting.

And a great idea, well done by Portillo's, a way to take the moment on this and everything.

Good stuff, yeah.

It's smart marketing in there.

As a side note, everybody, that is the true Italian...

It's quintessential Chicago meal, Italian beef.

Not deep dish pizza, which is soup, trying to pretend it's pizza.

Right.

I mean, I guess you could say that the Chicago style hot dog, maybe, was a second on that one.

Yeah.

But I think you're right.

The Italian beef is quintessential Chicago, yeah.

If somebody tells you that the meal of Chicago is deep dish pizza, they are not from Chicago.

They are probably from a suburb outside of Chicago, maybe, maybe, but I don't even know if they're from Illinois.

Yeah.

Maybe they're from Indiana.

They're across the border there.

Harry Styles was reportedly seen in Rome for the new Pope announcement the previous week.

And that was making the rounds.

So all of this is just interesting conversation and all that, I think.

But there is one kind of thing that I have heard a little bit of rumblings about.

And I actually got into a deep conversation about religion with my dad about this.

Interesting.

Now usually my whole life, it's my mother or my grandmother or somebody like that.

My father and I have talked about faith, but not that much.

Yeah.

We're too busy talking baseball and everything.

We were talking about all of this with the white sock cup things because his family and him is a cup fan and all that.

Right.

And we were having some jokes about, ah, dad, I got one, you know, and all this.

And back and forth about that.

Yeah.

And him immediately telling me, you know, Jimmy, it's not going to help him at all.

You know, like deadpan.

You know, I can, I can make, there's no way to measure this.

But I can almost guarantee that no fan has prayed more than Cubs fans.

Yeah, yeah.

They have prayed more than any other fans in the world.

Well said.

Now, but I, one of the things that came up was, well, you know, is, is some of this, not pandering,

but is some of this to try to recruit the quote unquote recruit and to get people to the Catholic church,

which has lost members in recent, since we were kids, we've been hearing about the Catholic church

losing members and everything.

That's correct.

And since we were kids, we've seen much more of Pope interviews and some of these things where the Pope has become

much more accessible.

Right.

And is this a good or a bad thing and stuff?

And my dad and I came to the conversation about this because we are, of course, the

deciders on this.

No, we just, in the conversation, you know, just having to talk about it and everything of,

well, you know, certainly the positives of it and everything and that, and bringing a,

almost a face to the Catholic church, the mascot of the Catholic church, if you will, in some ways,

to put it lightly, obviously, with no disrespect, but just kind of trying to give the conversation

moving here.

There, there's no, to me, I don't see a downside to that, of making something seem more human,

of making something seem more, not, not, you have to be of this certain standard to be able to be in

this or whatever, like the, the, the, the humanizing of a faith, it's an interesting conversation to me.

Yeah, I don't think any one of us, I don't care if you're a scholar of letters and everything

and you've studied religion for 20, 30 years.

I don't think any of us have a, have a chance, have the ability to be able to say this is the,

for fact, or this can't, this is for sure.

Faith is a, a personal case by case basis.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

But I, to me, as somebody who comes to this, could not be more of a third person on this stuff.

A group of faith, you know, the world's religion is better than most.

But I don't have a certain faith, right?

You know, being a Jew is a creed.

It's not something I chose.

It's something that's in my DNA.

When I see this stuff and I see these things, it brings me to this.

It makes me want to not, not learn more about Catholicism.

I already know quite a bit about Catholicism.

It makes me have more empathy and understanding for it, where my brain doesn't work that way.

My brain doesn't understand faith that well.

Right.

It's, there's no logic behind it.

So how can I get to it and everything?

The Pope Francis, this Pope Leo, some of these things, bring me to that a little bit more.

I don't think this is, you know, when they bring the Conclave together and they bring you, they bring out,

they roll out the first Latin American Pope, the first Jesuit Pope.

The next, very next one is the first American Pope or some of these things.

Some of this can seem pandering.

Some of this can seem certain ways to people, I think.

I think the exact opposite.

I think that this is this Conclave, hopefully realizing we've got a whole group of people we have not been addressing.

We've got a whole, like this has been going on this long and this is the first time we're having first.

You know, you would think by this point, this isn't the first time for anything with this role or anything.

I don't see a downside to any of this.

Whether it's pandering or it is just out of, you know, hey, this was the right guy for the job.

It's such an interesting position, the pontiff.

You know, you're the head, but you're also the public relations.

I mean, you have so many hats, speaking of which, even though it's a really one hat.

Really, it's really cool though.

I like the Pope hat, yes.

Magnificent hat.

But it's, I honestly, I don't think.

I'm sure some of that came into it, you know, kind of thinking, well, where we headed as a organization,

that sort of thing.

What are we looking for?

I honestly believe that most of the carnels when they're making this vote, they would try to, you know, consider, you know, prayerfully because of, you know, it's a religion to figure out who is the best person for the job.

And all the different things, you know, who is the faithful, who is the one that we believe is the wise, you know, do they have the wisdom to do this?

Do they have, yeah, do they have people's skills?

Can they, can they talk on camera?

Can they, can they reach people?

That's another important part of it.

But I don't think they, they do it just for one thing or another, you know, that's pretty cynical.

I don't think these are cynical people.

I think these are, they're trying to be faithful.

They're trying to find the best person for the job and all of the very, very varied roles that they have to fill as the Pope.

I do like the idea of, of, of expanding this, this position in some ways and bringing in different voices and different people from different walks of life.

And I, I wish this Pope a good hundred year run, whoever the next one is after him.

I hope they can keep that going. I hope that they are able to do that.

And I think it's very, for, for a day and age where it's so easy, every one of us live in a bubble.

And, and I talk a lot about that. And it's in, in breaking out of that bubble the best we can, whenever we can.

Right.

It feels like that to me. Like, like, they weren't living in a bubble on this and they, they saw that.

And it's nice to see that they're willing to at least embrace some sort of change too, because they realize that they have to.

And that's something that's very important as well.

Taking the time out, we'll come back, wrap up the first hour of Morning's at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone. Morning's at WFHR, Seth and James here with you.

We'll take you to the top of the hour, kick off the 10 o'clock hour the way we like to on Mondays.

We got a kitchen's open segment. Best of. Yeah, that's coming up. It's gonna be fun.

Looking forward to listening to that a little bit later.

Well, there's some other great stuff for you in the 10 o'clock hour as well.

Got some entertainment news and talk Jackie Chan, Yacht Rock, and the new additions to the video game Hall of Fame.

Oh, very excited. Very excited about that.