Brilliant!

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking you off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of production, our co-hosts at Pat Hacker.

Good morning, our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning. I tried to give you a second. I saw that the last second I felt bad. I was like, oh, we've got to give her a minute here.

My headphones came unplugged. Yeah, Melissa said it came unplugged, so she can't hear Britney right now.

But we are joined by our good friend, Britney Merlowe, from with our weather. With our forecast, Britney, how you doing?

I'm pretty good. You guys think it's terrible. You make my morning so bright.

We have been laughing already. I mean.

Melissa's in studio today in part because we're going to have a team meeting about, should we script the show?

Should we start scripting? No, I think we're doing all right. Okay, so we don't have to have that meeting everybody. We're good.

We're good. Just keep doing it like that. I love it. Britney, what's it looking like today for us?

Britney, pretty, actually. Partly sunny. High temperatures will climb to about the low 80s once again.

We've got a light, southeast breeze, and we have a small teeny tiny chance of a shower or thunderstorm popping up

later on this afternoon. But nothing to worry about there.

Overnight lows fall to about the upper 50s. Maybe a few spotty sprinkles overnight. And then tomorrow, we are looking at a severe weather setup.

Pretty much from about four to six or so. It looks like some strong, severe storms are possible, especially in towards us.

Storm addiction center put us in an enhanced risk. And we're looking at very large hail. Could be up to the size of King Kong Ball's Pong Ball.

Some heavy downpours, of course, and some high winds are expected with that. And we cannot rule out potential for a tornado, too.

So just stay on alert tomorrow early evening, if that rolls through, and have your plan in place today, so you don't have to worry.

All right. I knew it. As soon as I picked all the sticks up in my yard, this would happen.

I'm sorry, everybody. It's my fault. More sticks are coming. Dang it.

If I got this right, my dad was planning on doing some mowing almost around the same time you were talking about yesterday.

Four to six. Should I warn him or should I just sit back and see what happens?

I'll figure that out. I'll figure that out.

That time because he knew that he wouldn't be able to do it.

See, he outsmarted you. This is the bad's good. He's good.

We appreciate you, Brittany. Have a great morning.

Thanks, you too. Thanks, Brittany.

Best in the business right there, Brittany. Reload joining us every morning right in this time slot.

Melissa said that I got a great show lined up for you. Everybody, Dale Café, birthday and anniversary club is right around the corner.

We're also going to talk about Nutella's first new flavor in 60 years.

Got that. Before we wrap up the hour, do you have one of the toughest jobs in America?

We have a good list on that of the toughest jobs in America.

We'll get into that. Got some entertainment news to kick off the 10 o'clock hour looking forward to diving into that.

A little bit later in the hour, things that improved people's quality of life so much they wish they did it sooner.

Interesting. Interesting. I have one to add to the list.

Oh, you do. Headphones. I really don't like these headphones. This is why I haven't been coming into the studio, you guys. I really hate these headphones.

No, you're not alone. Terry is in the same boat. Terry can't stand it, either.

Usually I flip those ones over there for you guys because set doesn't seem to mind.

I like these. I like these ones.

The tiny plug doesn't work.

Oh my gosh. There's a way that there's an adapter.

Okay, so you say.

We'll get into it. We'll get it right. We'll get it right.

Sorry, listeners.

Oh, no, we'll get it right.

We want to start, though, kicking off with baby names.

The Social Security Administration released its annual baby names list from Mother's Day this the other day.

So for a sixth straight year, Olivia and Liam were the top two baby names in 2024.

So big use to those names could for like what, six years now people have been.

Yeah, but they're such pretty names. I really like them still.

They are, but I'm just it's surprising that these names are holding on for so long.

Six years seems like a lot.

It doesn't, though, if you think if you look back at the history of names like that,

I think that there's been several that have had a really long top like James.

Yeah, that's true. That's usually around the top.

Ryan and Kevin and Susan.

I get used to seeing on like job applications and everything like over the neck in about 10, 15 years.

Like every, every one of them is going to be Liam or Olivia.

There's a very popular name.

And the only thing with those names is what are the, what are the nicknames for them?

So if everybody in your, in your name, your grade is named Liam, not everybody, but a large portion of them are named Liam.

What do you go by?

To Oli.

Yeah.

For Olivia.

To an almost fault, my brain asks questions of why, even when it's not really necessary, there's no reason to.

Nobody else is asking why did these things, but I can't help asking why these names and why they've been coming in for so long.

And honestly, Melissa, that was part of what I kept coming back to was, well, I don't know how you, what the go to make fun of name of this is.

You know, it's something that you do as a parent when you're coming up with names.

Yeah.

No, you do.

What do you think about it?

Oh, yeah.

Like, okay, I really like this name.

Yeah, but what about this?

Like, oh, yeah, we can't call them that.

And when you put it all together with the middle and the last name, what can it be turned into?

Right.

Yeah.

I wonder if that is a part of why these names are, I'm not saying it's the overall reason or anything, but you know, seldom is one reason of why you choose a name for your kid and stuff.

Another thing, I'm a little curious to see if there's going to be a lot more.

There was a stat there out there that would, this is pre-COVID.

So there's a lot that's changed since then.

But there was a rise of people changing their names.

Like, not just their last name, but their first name, all this and everything.

And I kept waiting to see that trend continue.

In part because none of us chose this.

Nobody got to choose their name.

Like, it's just given to you at birth and everything.

And given the amount of personal creativity we're doing and amount of, we're taking control of our own lives and these things.

And more and more and more.

I just thought that that would be a trend and it never really turned, never really panned out.

Well, but I think it is a, you know, I mean, the Pope can change their name.

Why can't anybody?

Really?

And also even just-

I'll be called Leo.

I like that name.

I think that's a cool name.

Even just asking people to call you by the name that you prefer.

Like, I do not like the nickname for my name that my family calls me.

I don't like it.

And they still call me that.

And even though I've asked them to call me Melissa, it doesn't matter.

And that hurts a little bit.

So I don't know why people wouldn't, you know, wouldn't want that for themselves.

You know, of course other people, you know, have, you know, taking issue with names

is like like very tip of the iceberg about how we identify ourselves.

People can have issues with that.

We continue to see that every day.

But it seems like such a simple thing, right?

It's a thing.

Like James, you know, he doesn't want to be called Jimmy.

So we don't call him James.

We don't call him James because that's what he wants to be called.

Except when we call him Night Writer.

And that's just because he deserves now.

Yeah.

And obviously it's not a thing that I'm going to go after my family about.

It's a family name that they've called me my whole life.

And for, especially the family that I see twice a year, they call me that.

I'm not going to chop their heads off.

But I kind of, you know, grimace a little bit.

Yeah.

It's one of those things, especially if you didn't like the name.

No.

It just keep this between the three of us.

My sister has been calling me Jimmy for so long when she calls me James.

I almost don't respond.

Yeah.

I almost know how it looks.

It seems weird.

I almost don't know if I had, if she came to me and said,

do you want me to start calling you James?

I don't know if I would tell her I would.

So it's that's the only person in the world like that.

I don't make my aunt dad.

But I think that's the only one I could think of.

Well, I think family are the ones that can get away with it.

Like if my niece is enough use, I'm not going to tell them to call me a different name.

The name they know me by, I embrace that because it starts with auntie.

Yes.

Oh, the qualifier.

I like that.

Yeah.

It's almost a title then.

It's true.

When I hearunk, anything that follows that, I'm agreeing to it and I'm doing it.

Yes, let's go.

We're all aboard.

Hey, hey, Uncle Greaseball.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sure.

What do you guys want?

What are we doing today?

So there are two of the four, these are the two of the four names that were dominating the rankings over the past decade.

Since 2014, either Olivia or Emma has been the number one name for girls.

And other than, other has been number two.

And the other has been number two.

Right.

Same applies for Liam and Noah for boys.

Wow.

The top 10 most popular girls names in 2024 going at the top, of course, Olivia.

It's been in the top five every year since 2008.

Wow.

Emma has been in the top five every year since 2002.

Holy mackerel.

And then Amelia, which is up one spot from number four from last year.

Charlotte at number four, the top 10 for 11 years running Charlotte.

Wow.

I feel like I'm talking about sports teams.

Mia, the top 10 since 2009.

Nice.

Sophia, top 10 since 2006.

And it was number one name for girls from 2011 to 2013.

Okay.

Isabella with an A at the end.

Yes.

Top 10 since 2004.

Evelyn, it's been eighth or ninth or tenth every year since 2017.

Eva, top 10 since 2005.

And finally, Sophia with an F instead of a pH.

Oh.

Okay.

It's the first time it's made the top 10 and knocked out Luna, which fell to number 13th place.

Oh, wow.

Knocked out Luna.

So there's two Sophia's, but spelled differently.

Yeah, spelled differently.

Interesting.

I wonder if it's a lot of that happens.

Yeah.

No, I'm seriously.

That's got to be odd.

Mm-hmm.

And the top 10 boys names don't matter.

No, I'm joking.

I'm kidding.

I'm joking.

Liam, as we said before, it's been in the top five for 12 straight years.

Noah, top five for 14 years.

Oliver, top six.

I like the name Oliver.

I did too.

Yeah.

The top six, 60 year in a row, it's held in number three spot.

That's interesting.

It's always at the number three spot.

That's interesting.

Theodore.

First time.

I like that name too.

I wouldn't have expected that one in there.

And I like the name Theodore too.

Theodore, the first time it's made the top five up from number seven.

But the first time it's ever made the top five.

Wow.

You know, since they've been collecting this, like, James makes the top five.

Surprise, surprise.

A mainstay in the top 20 for 125 years running probably longer.

The Social Security stats only go back to the 1900s, of course.

Wow.

Man, that is some staying power.

Oh, kidding.

It's interesting.

I don't know how people feel about their names on a case-by-case thing.

But with something like this, I've always wanted a unique name.

And a name nobody else has in all these things.

So when I do see my name show up on this list, it's more like deflating.

It is more like, oh, all right.

No, no, this is that old standard.

Old standard, yeah.

Henry comes in at number six.

Oh, my gosh.

Top 10 for five years in a row.

Wow.

Mateo, M-A-T-E-O.

It cracked the top 10 for the first time last year when it was number six.

Mateo is nice.

I like that name.

Spanish from Matthew.

Yeah, that makes sense, yeah.

I love the name Elijah.

Top 10 for nine straight years.

That's a great name.

Love that name.

Lucas.

It's always been eighth or ninth since 2018.

And then finally, William.

Like James, it's made the top 20 every year since 1900.

It's forever, right?

Well, there's lots of Williams out there.

Yeah.

James and William seem to be the two of the oldest.

The old standard.

The old standard.

Yeah.

It's surprising how many cousins I have with those names.

Like the list you went through, I have a lot of cousins on that list.

Right.

The baby names that saw the biggest gains last year were truce for boys.

And Eleni.

Eleni.

Eleni for girls.

A-I-L-A-N-Y.

A-I-L-A-N-Y.

I can't see it.

I can't see it.

I don't know how I would say that.

Oh, no.

I don't either.

They've got a name now that people can't pronounce and it's becoming popular.

Oh, that worked.

Those kids.

Those kids.

Eleni.

Eleni.

Eleni.

Eleni.

Eleni jumped from 855th place to 101st.

Wow.

That's a big jump.

Wow.

Get used to that name.

Our name's coming up with our El Cafe birthday anniversary club.

It is right around the corner, everybody.

On the morning show here at WFHR.

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

You heard the boys.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Cafe and the birthday anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to celebrate you and our great friends over at El Cafe.

Treat yourself.

Head on over to the 221 Market Avenue today.

Let them know how much we appreciate them.

Wish them a good morning, everybody.

Check out some of those great homemade pies or their specials they got going on over there.

That is the also.

I'm seeing a Hawaiian omelet for breakfast, possibly.

That might interest you.

Maybe a chicken quesadilla for lunch.

Always a classic.

Yeah.

Such good stuff over there.

Yep.

And you can go over there and have a nice cup of coffee and a pie and your day is set.

I want to buy it all good.

Yes.

Oh, do it now.

Let us live vicariously through you, everybody.

Head on over to El Cafe today.

Wish them a good one from all of us.

Should make me less hungry.

Yeah.

If you could do that.

That'd be nice.

And we appreciate all of you sending us your birthdays and anniversaries.

Keep coming, everybody.

We love to celebrate with you.

I got one here, James, if I might do a belated birthday because I was not on the show yesterday.

My father's birthday was yesterday.

Happy birthday, dad.

Happy birthday, dad.

78th birthday, so.

Yep.

Happy number 78, sir.

Yes.

I hope you had a good one.

I hope you had a great day, right?

I'd celebrate today, too.

Yeah.

Since we weren't able to get it in, I say, you're grandfathered.

You go ahead and celebrate today, too.

And keep in mind, everybody, we want you to get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

You can email us info at www.patre.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages.

And you can always call out.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

We look forward to talk with you, everybody.

Call up and join the conversation.

Indeed.

Taking a look at our local list here.

I need a one through three from...

Ooh.

Wow.

Set.

The suspense was penalty.

I don't know what that was.

Three.

We'll go three today.

That sounds good.

They mean it.

I don't know what that was.

That was favoritism.

That's what that was.

That was a little place.

I'd be favored towards you.

Yeah.

I think there's no question about that.

Yeah.

We first up, one of which, some people right here in our civic media family.

In our...

In the building, Happy Birthday.

First up, Happy Birthday to Pam Sister who grew up right here in Rapids, Sharon Face.

She's in a little shoot now.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

Enjoy your day, Sharon.

Yeah.

And we wish you a very...

I believe that's what...

She's up, too.

Yeah, that's right.

Keep that in...

Celebrate today.

Yep.

Yeah, she's there celebrating with her sister.

We'll bring this up a couple more times, too, but keep in mind, everybody.

Our...

Our office is here.

We won't be open to our traditional hours and some of that.

So, you know, come by when you can.

And we appreciate that.

And we also want to wish a very happy birthday to civic media's own Gary Gundersen.

Oh.

Happy Birthday, Gray.

Yes, Mr. Gundersen.

Gray Gundersen.

Gray Gundersen.

Gray Gundersen.

Yes.

That's okay.

Gray's awesome.

We should have a good one.

And bow, bow, too.

It's both birthday.

Yep.

Bow Hendrix.

Over in the Richland Center.

In the Richland Center, yes.

Wishing both of them a great one.

Bow, I look forward to seeing your next backdrop.

Yes.

Every Zoom meeting we have, he has some kind of backdrop.

My favorite was probably the Star Wars one.

Absolutely.

That was pretty cool.

100%.

100%.

Yep.

We wish you a good one, guys.

Enjoy your day.

And then taking a look at our local celebrities here.

First up, we want to wish happy birthday to Bella Force.

Happy Birthday, Bella.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

That's my niece's name.

Such a great name, Bella Force.

Such a great name.

Bella.

It means beautiful.

It does.

That's a great one.

That's a great name.

And we wish a very happy anniversary to Ross and Rachel Provost.

Ross and Rachel, happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary to you too.

Many of our playmakers listeners out there will know the name Ross.

He joins us Randy and I from Burnin' Aits.

Yes he does.

Do yourself a favor everybody.

If you are even a little bit interested in hunting or the outdoors

or anything like that, go to YouTube.

Type in your search bar, Burnin' Aits.

Eight is the number eight.

And Ross has been joining God.

I think it's about seven or eight years.

Ross has been joining us.

Talking fishing with us and giving us a chance to talk with our anglers

and some of the other fun things that are going on in this state.

Fishing wise and everything.

Nobody's been covering it like we have with and thanks to Ross.

Yes.

Good stuff.

Even if you're not even in the fishing, watch those drone videos of theirs, man.

I can't get enough of them.

I guarantee half of their views are from me.

Because they're just beautiful.

They're really cool.

They do a great job because you've got a great team.

And the only thing that tops that is Rachel.

She's awesome.

You can have a shout out to Rachel.

And Ross, who I believe are enjoying being early parents here and stuff too.

So that's pretty cool.

So I think like a month ago was or something like that.

So then the anniversary comes up right after.

That's kind of nice.

Well planned you guys.

Yes.

Very smart.

We plan kids, of course.

Because we do.

Did you know that?

And to our qualifiers, happy 48th anniversary to David and Jerry Haferman.

Happy birthday.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Congratulations.

You're our qualifiers, happy 48th, you two, enjoying your day.

We take a look at who they're sharing their birthday with here.

Let's look at these names.

First up, Miranda Cosgrove is 32.

Margot on Margot on Despicable Me movies.

Oh, okay.

She was also one of Jack Black students in school of rock.

And in the star of I Carly.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

And my dad likes her as a voice actor.

Yeah.

He loves those darn despicable me movies, man.

This is incredible.

One of the greatest tight ends in history.

Rob Gronkowski is 36.

The old Gronk.

Gronk Monster.

We're to think of him at 36, you know.

It feels like he could.

No, he would just behave like he's 36.

Yeah.

That'd be nice.

I genuinely believe that Rob Gronkowski is a lot smarter than we realize.

I'm not talking genius level, but I think he's a lot smarter than he plays.

He kind of plays dumb.

Yeah, he does.

That's true.

Uh, you don't survive Bill Bella check and not having a some brains.

I don't think so.

Uh, let's see.

Your Dustin Lynch is 40.

Country singer.

Uh, small town boy.

Uh, Cowboys and Angels.

A couple of other hits he's had.

Yes indeed.

Amber Tambolin is 42.

Uh, Charlie's long lost daughter on two and a half men.

Uh, she was also in Joan of Arcadia.

Sisterhood of the traveling pants.

Wow.

I liked that book.

Longer.

Movie was good too.

She had a good spot on house as well.

Um, and, uh, she is married to David Cross.

Oh, really?

Oh, I didn't know that.

I think that'd be an awesome couple to have coffee with.

She's also an author.

Uh, oh, I didn't know that.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

Wow.

Uh, one of my favorite directors out there.

Sophia Coppola is 54.

Uh, lost in translation to virgin suicides.

Um, obviously, uh, the daughter of Francis for Coppola and cousin of Nicholas Cage.

More on him a little later.

Um, but I think she is just an incredible talent.

Uh, she is a real like, uh, director's coach too.

Like, uh, actors really like to work with her.

That's always good.

Uh, uh, and, and one of those actors, I believe, uh, is, uh, one of my favorites.

And I believe one of yours two set, uh, Kate Blanchett.

Yes.

She's fantastic.

Yeah.

Mine too.

Uh, 56.

Uh, Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit movies.

I think there's some of her better ones.

Um, uh, what was the movie?

She did a movie of Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis.

I really enjoyed her in two.

It's really good.

Bruce Willis is really good.

But, uh, Helena, hella in Thor, Ragnarok.

Like, she's so darn good in that man.

Like, I, I, I, she's one of my favorite villains ever because of her performance.

Right.

I did not know she had that in her.

And that's hard for me to say because I think she's one of the most well-rounded actors I've seen.

Right.

And, and she blew me away with that performance.

I really enjoyed it.

The curious case of Benjamin Button.

Oh my god.

Just her while.

And her Oscar nominee.

I don't know.

I can't remember.

I don't think she won for Elizabeth back in the 90s.

But that kind of was her breakout role.

Lady, yeah.

Her, her best work probably.

Yeah.

Although I love her work in the Lord of the Rings movies and everything.

But, um, don't look up.

Is that the one you were thinking of?

No.

No, the whole, no.

That's the anime came with it.

Yeah.

There was a different one.

A matchstick man or, no, no, that's a different movie.

Anyway.

Anyway, she's great.

There's a ton of them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She's, yeah.

She's got such a great career.

Uh, let's see here.

I mean, one third of Tony Tony tone.

He's good.

Wait, his name was a Tony.

Oh, my god.

None of their names were.

Raw.

What's there?

Uh, CC Deville is 63, Poison Guitarist.

Um, gosh.

And, and songwriter for Poison too.

Oh, I didn't know that.

I didn't know that.

Okay.

Underrated guitar player.

Like the hair, middle band guitar players.

Outside of maybe Motley crew a little bit.

We don't know how good a lot of those guys were.

No.

Because they were pretty much just sticking with certain chords and certain melodies.

And rhythms and everything.

But I, I, I've seen live footage of CC Deville and he can wail like great guitar player.

Uh, Ian Aspie is 63.

Uh, the cult's lead singer and songwriter.

Oh, firewoman.

Uh, sweet soul sister.

It's a blast from the past.

She sells sanctuary, man.

Uh, that song, the rest of my life.

I will love that song.

Don't care what anybody says.

One of my favorite actors of all time, Tim Roth is 64.

Uh, basically if you've seen a Quentin Tarantino movie, you have seen Tim Roth.

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Planet of the Apes, the Incredible Hall, Cateful Eight.

Uh, just incredible actor.

Incredible.

Classically trained Shakespearean actor, who's had quite a, quite a career.

Oh, my career, but he's not one that, you know, like you say the name and you don't know the face.

But when you see him, you're like, oh, yeah, yeah.

He is.

Yeah.

A lot of movies.

The movie he did with Gary Oldman, the club Shakespeare classic.

Oh, my gosh.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Oh, he's so good in that.

It's, uh, top 20 favorite movies of all time.

Yeah.

Him and Gary Oldman are fantastic in that movie.

And that is a top five pairing for me.

Uh, those are two of my all time favorites.

And those two at that age, uh, just so good together if you're going to see a movie.

Also, uh, 1990.

Yes.

So Gary Oldman classically trained actor like Tim Roth and all that grew up in a very similar neighborhood, I believe, too.

Um, Tim Roth flawless working with him.

Uh, and then you look at a couple of years later and he does a movie gridlocked with Tupac Shakur.

Yes.

And they have flawless chemistry.

Mm-hmm.

It's the talent.

It's to me what a great actor is.

It's not how talent you are and what you can do and all that.

Mm-hmm.

Can you bring up other actors?

Yeah.

Can you bring other actors to your level or get to their level?

Right.

Um, and how much better you are with other actor?

That's Tim Roth.

Right.

He's the, he's almost one of the best complement actors ever.

Uh, he's so good.

Tom Cochran 72.

Life is a highway.

That's it.

That's all we got.

Tom Cochran's bio.

Uh, David Burns got a much longer one.

Oh, talking heads lead singer, songwriter and big suit wearer.

And the best dancer on stage.

Oh my God.

Cute David Burns.

He leans into his horrible dancing and I love the fact that he does.

I love it too.

Yeah.

So awkward.

And she was.

I think that's probably that that's probably the one for me.

Um, the whole talking heads, uh, all their albums have, they're all amazing.

I mean, he's, his solo career has been really cool too.

He's done some really remarkable things.

He's written a few books.

He is a, he's a Renaissance man.

Mm hmm.

One of the first bands that I actually got my dad to like that he didn't debt first.

Really?

Uh, was the talking heads.

Wow.

I liked some of their songs.

They're weird.

They're different, you know?

Oh, but my dad didn't like them and then I'll send a catch of listening to them on the radio and everything.

One of our better directors we have produced here in the States.

Robert's a mechus is 73.

Wow.

Well, I mean, you guys can judge that.

I shouldn't say that and everything.

He only did four scump back to the future, back to the future trilogy,

romancing the stone who frame Roger Abbott cast away the polar express.

Pinocchio.

Welcome to Marwin.

I can keep going.

Yeah.

You know, but you guys decide if he's one of our greats or not.

He's a, uh, a, a true American, American actor.

You know, in the future.

Yes.

He did all three of those.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm a fan.

To tell you how good Robert's a mechus is, Steven Spielberg chose him to direct a lot of his productions.

Yes.

He's from Amelena Entertainment.

If that tells you anything right there, I'll do it.

Oh, and he directed the, um, the Tom Hanks and Robin Wright movie here, which I really want to see.

Oh, that's right.

He did.

That's right.

They did like the four scum per union film.

Yeah.

I want to see that just because of the attempt if anything.

Yes.

The idea of doing something like that is so cool and so brave, I think, uh, I brave, I don't know, but create incredibly brave.

It's very creative.

Yeah.

Experimental.

Yeah.

Like that.

And Robert's mechus and George Lucas get to celebrate their birthday together.

Uh, 81 years old for the Star Wars legend.

Indiana Jones legend too, I should say.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

Um, um, um, all of the technology, uh, that his companies came up with ILM, THX, uh, in a roundabout way, Pixar came from that.

Um, and so yeah, you got to give him credit for all that stuff.

Uh, also should get mentioned American graffiti.

Oh, yeah.

Another very good movie.

Yes.

I mentioned a lot in his bio and, uh, a guy that actors love.

Like people, like, people really like George Lucas.

You don't hear a lot of people talking, like negatively about him that have worked with him.

No, that's good.

I just saw a, a great behind the scenes thing of ILM, a Gregor and, uh, and George Lucas and George Lucas talking about during the filming of that.

Especially you knew hope the first one.

You and the oldest guy on set basically for most of the stuff.

You know, Liam Neeson is there for a little bit and everything.

But, um, George Lucas is talking about you and McGregor.

And it, you would think it would be reverse.

The way he's gushing and, and complimenting him and everything.

You would think it would be the other way or something.

And it's just, uh, a guy that really appreciates actors and really does a good job working with them, right?

Land before time, land before time and willow.

Yes.

Willow is the one that's got to get mentioned too.

Thank you, Melissa.

Thank you.

Oh, I love it.

It's so mad.

I want to watch that.

The director who hated directing.

Yeah.

He was not a fan.

He was much better.

I think he enjoyed it much more as a producer, I think, actually.

But, yes.

Yeah.

Willow, I still believe Vel Kilmer has the greatest hair in movie history because of Willow.

Yes.

I had him already.

We will take a time out.

But again, happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.

And thank you for celebrating with us and our great friends over at LKFA.

Visit them today, everybody.

We encourage you to head on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

We'll be back after our news, sports and entertainment break.

I can help myself.

If you don't like it, why did you play it?

I didn't do it.

I'm over here doing all the push of the buttons.

I'm not tricking anybody.

It's a good thing we're not your producer.

We're messing with y'all day long.

All day long.

That's an idea.

There you go.

Yeah.

We'll change you.

We'll do musical chairs.

Every segment will have a different producer.

Yeah, that's great.

I love it.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a great Wednesday morning out there.

Happy hump day, everybody.

In the age of pumpkin spice spam and mustard flavored ice cream, this could be actually a little

bit kind of like lame maybe.

Natellite just announced its first new US flavor in 61 years.

So they've had more than six decades to chew on this one.

They've had a little time to think about it.

And everybody, I hope you're sitting down because the new flavor is peanut.

What?

Peanut is the new, yeah.

Normal Nutella is chocolate and hazelnut.

Right.

So I guess it's for people who like to mix a little peanut butter in.

Okay.

They announced it, but it doesn't hit stores for another year.

Oh my god.

And your world won't actually be rocked until spring of 2026.

Oh my goodness.

Wow.

But, you know, if you're Nutella, I think I haven't had a little Nutella.

I tried it when I was into kelp.

I didn't mind it, but I haven't really had it since.

And not because I haven't tried to.

I just hadn't been really around it.

I don't get it myself or anything.

So I have no idea what I'm talking about here.

But from what I can tell, people love Nutella.

People that like it, yeah.

Yeah.

And I imagine that their sales are not doing bad.

So I don't know that they necessarily have to do it.

You know, the reason you see 80,000 different Doritos and 80,000 different lays and mountain

dew and all that is because they got a war going on.

Not a war, but a battle.

They are fighting other culprits.

Competition, right?

Competition.

Yeah.

Have a competition.

Nutella has no competition.

There's not a lot of other Nutella's out there.

So, you know, they don't have to really come up with new flavors or any of this.

It's one of those things where you're almost too good at your job kind of thing, where

they kind of don't have to really update stuff.

When's the last Nutella commercial you saw?

They were around Casey.

I can just see the boardroom, right?

When they were doing this thing.

Oh, gentlemen, 60 years at Nutella, we have cornered the market on hazelnut and chocolate.

We need something new.

We need something new for the public.

Sir, how about we do peanuts?

Are you telling me you want to do something like peanut butter?

That sounds revolutionary.

Bryant!

Bryant!

Oh, seriously.

Yeah, it's like, wait a minute.

We invented peanut.

Wait, you did not invent a peanut butter.

Stop it.

I do love the idea of that.

We've got this revolutionary idea of butter peanut.

Butter with peanuts in it.

There you go.

Brilliant.

Now, maybe this one's a little more up your alley, maybe a little more creative.

There's a new secret menu item at McDonald's.

But before you get too excited, it's not for, it isn't for everyone.

It's a cotton candy sprite.

You might not be able to order it by name, but it's easy to order a sprite and ask them to add three pumps of French vanilla syrup.

Pretty much everyone who tries it does say it tastes like cotton candy.

Oh.

It would be so sugary.

I know.

Oh.

My teeth hurt.

The sprite is already sweet.

It is.

It is.

It is, that's true.

The quote, hack has been floating around TikTok for social media for a little while.

It has some sugary soda with some extra pumps of sugar.

Or sugar.

But now some big websites are covering it, so of course it's going viral.

Of course.

And a lot of customers, like a lot of customers, it's custom stuff like this.

You'll have to order it in person because there is an option on the online or through the app to do it.

McDonald's has a comment on this, but the secret and menu item thing is getting more and more popular.

But you can't advertise it.

That's not something because then it's not secret anymore.

It's one of those things where you should only be word of mouth.

Don't put it on the internet.

Because I've heard, because I've never been to one, but I've heard like in and out burger has a bunch of these that you can do.

You know, someone says, hey, you know, if you go to in and out burger, if you order this thing, they'll totally make it for you.

You know, that kind of thing.

But yeah, but that's what it's supposed to be.

It's just people saying, you know, hey, have you ever tried this kind of thing, right?

Next time I go, okay, no, it won't be next time.

I will have to purposely go to Taco Bell.

And I'm going to go inside.

And I'm going to just order a seven layer burrito.

Okay.

And they're just going to look at me and go, what?

What?

No, but I say, you know, secret item that way.

No, the secret item.

This is seven layer burrito.

Just keep pushing it.

Just do it.

Just stop there every day.

I wouldn't even say leave.

Like, until they actually make it for you.

I like the idea of you, like, and you do it every single time.

Like you're like, it's like you creep in and you're like looking both ways.

And you're like, hey, you have a seven layer burrito.

I'm sorry, man.

We don't make that anymore.

Yes, it's a secret item.

It's a secret item.

It's a secret item.

You know, this is a secret menu item.

Unfortunately, it would unhorably don't ever do this anybody.

But I do love the idea of you just writing it down to the piece of paper and sliding it over.

Oh, no.

Well, it's not a bank.

You're fine.

Yeah, right?

Yeah.

You never know.

You never know.

You never know.

Trying to get me arrested.

James.

I am.

It's a plastic.

Yeah, that might be true.

That might be.

I'm the middle guy.

I'm going to put it.

So this one's interesting too.

If you've ever felt a little weird about tossing something in a microwave with a ziplock bag,

maybe you were on to something.

Oh.

A class action lawsuit is accusing Ziplock's parent company of misleading customers by labeling its plastic bags

as, quote, microwavable safe and freezer friendly.

The bags may shed microplastics when exposed to, quote, extreme temperatures, which can

pose health risks.

The idea is that will, that will, these bags can be put into a freezer or into a microwave.

They're not safe under those circumstances.

So they can be, but they are not safe to do so with, which talk about gray area.

Oh, my gosh.

And the risks were not conveyed to customers, the cases ongoing.

So it's unclear if or how it will be settled.

Generally speaking, microplastics are everywhere and a lot of food spends a lot of time in contact

with plastics.

It's true.

Yeah, but when you subject it to those extreme temperatures, they shed them worse and, yeah.

Yeah.

Just because they may be there, what have you and everything doesn't mean that I'm going

to go out and buy a new, you know, have you guys heard of the new software, software

drink?

Microplastics.

It's just a drink of microplastics.

Yeah, that's not cool.

And I'd be honest, I've never put a zip lock bag on.

No, microwave.

I've never done that.

I've never put it in the microwave, but I put a lot of them in the freezer.

Oh, yeah.

Not bad.

Very true.

Yes.

Yes, 100%.

I mean, they have freezer bags.

Right.

Are the freezer bags safe?

That's a great question.

Yeah.

I don't know.

They said freezer friendly on there.

Yeah.

Because if they're not.

Very nice.

Yeah, freezer.

I don't know.

That seems like that should be a class action lawsuit that all of us should be getting

in on.

Right.

Right.

Right.

This is not the last one that's going to be happening.

Well, it would never put a zip lock bag in the microwave, though.

Even if it says, it says something like, well, what would you put in it in that microwave?

Yeah.

Why?

I mean, we should be not putting plastic in the microwave period.

Yeah.

Period.

Don't put it in the microwave.

Even when it says it's microwave safe, just don't do it.

I got a lot of trouble for that when I was a kid.

I'll never forget.

I remember.

I learned that the hard way.

Well, and also just microwaving plastic seems like a bad idea.

It does.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Even if it's supposedly safe.

It's really low.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

I mean, silicone, if it's actual silicone, you know, like, because there are variations we

talked about this on the kitchen's open ages ago, but you know, you got to make sure that

it is actually 100% silicone, but that's much safer.

And metal.

Oh, wait, wait.

No, you don't want to put metal in the microwave.

You're going to be another one I found out the hard way.

Not letting either of you into my kitchen.

No, it's good.

Glass.

Glass also works well.

It's probably the most safe, but you then also have to be very careful taking it out.

Because it gets very hot, yes.

It gets very hot.

It's weird.

Most people won't let me into their kitchen unless I'm in a street jacket.

That's the only way I am allowed in a lot of the kitchen.

Well, you finally got to use for your street jacket, though, I mean, you can't just wear

that around.

You can't do dishes with your street jacket, it makes it hard.

It makes it hard.

You know, when the UC trends come around, you know, the leather jacket, the gene jacket,

I'm thinking, hey, you know, nobody's doing the whole street jacket thing.

Yeah.

This is a market.

Nobody's covering.

It's all over well.

No.

Because as you walk down eighth street in the street jacket, people are calling me.

Even what?

I put a button on it.

I thought they'd give it a little personality.

They didn't do anything.

They didn't do anything.

And they think that I'm crazy is what it says, yeah.

I didn't get a lot of looks, though.

I don't want to brag, but I didn't get a lot of looks.

I did.

Take it a time out.

We'll come back.

When we get back, do you have one of the toughest jobs in America?

We're going to talk about that.

Let me get back on the morning show here at WFHR.

Oh, the 90s are in B.

Oh, yeah.

Makes me happy.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings here at WFHR.

So you knew it was going to beat drop.

I know.

The beat dropped.

Tell me.

Yeah.

You know, it's even better than 90s R&B music videos.

Yes.

Even better.

Yes.

They're weird.

And one, you know every single 90s R&B video.

You're right.

You only need to see one, and you know how every single one went.

After Belbiv DeVo, you're done.

That's all you need.

You're good.

Yeah.

If you got a new addition in, you're good.

You're good.

One of the top, we're talking of tough jobs right now, everybody.

And the top 10 all involve at least two of these four things.

They're physically demanding, have long hours, involve high stakes decisions, or there's

an element of danger.

All right.

So, do you have one of the toughest jobs in America?

According to the votes here, the top 10.

Should we start at 10 or start at one here?

Where did it go?

10.

At number 10.

Oil worker.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, no.

I don't care how much they get paid.

I'm not doing that.

I know very little about that job and everything I know about it is hard, everything that

I do know about.

Yeah.

Air traffic controller.

Oh.

Yes.

Hearing a lot about them lately.

Well, yeah.

Yes.

There's not enough of them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Farmer.

At number eight.

Yes.

Talk about long hours.

Long hours.

Yeah.

High accident ratio.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

I mean, I know so many farmers that have lost part of a limb or all of a limb.

Finger and arm.

Yeah.

A foot.

Yeah.

I had a landlord that was killed in a farm accident.

Very, yes.

Very dangerous.

Yes.

On top of all that, you've got a lot of these companies out there that are, you know,

hitting farmers against each other, along with putting them in impossible situations of,

hey, here are these seeds, but we own what you grow.

Yep.

You can have the seeds, but we own the grow or you guys can rent out our machines, but

we own what you plant or some of these crazy, just contracts they make them.

Or some of these things blew into to a nearby field.

Now, well, now that's ours, because those are our seeds or the fact that they're deleting,

you know, information that helps farmers on the internet.

That right now, they're just stupid.

In a day and age where we're begging and hoping for people to stay, keep these family farms

alive and stay in the farming and agriculture industry and everything, we have never made

it harder for farmers and yet we've never needed them more.

And by we, we don't mean we, there's a method to what they're trying to do here and they're

trying to put farmers out of business so that they can buy that land for pennies on the

dollar and then destroy all of our land.