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Thanks for being with us, everybody.

Hope you're having a great start to your day.

We're going to do our schedule in just a moment.

First, we're going to kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you doing?

I'm doing all right.

Enjoying this sunshine right now.

Wow, we can.

Yeah.

Yeah, because the sky up there looks like it's up to something.

It's up to something.

I can't tell what.

It's up to something.

Oh, she's brewing something pretty major.

We've got a big outbreak that looks to hit the state this afternoon.

So meteorologists are definitely, definitely busy tracking this.

What's going to look like it's going to happen is we're going to see some breezy winds

start to usher in the heat, the humidity, some sunshine out there.

All of these things are the perfect mixture and perfect fuel for supercells and supercells

are the ones that produce the damage, the strong storms, packing large hail, damaging

wind gusts, and even a tornado is possible this afternoon.

I hope my forecast is wrong, but it's looking more and more like the potential is there,

unfortunately.

So heads up this afternoon.

I think these things are going to spark right around three or four o'clock or so, maybe

just slightly less to bus, but it could be right over us either way from about four to

five.

We're going to be in the thick of it.

I think six o'clock will still be in the thick of it as well as the system finally clears

our area.

It should be done by seven.

So really, really, really know a place where you're going to take shelter in case you

aren't a tornado warning, or if large hail comes at you, I mean these could be the size

of ping pong balls are bigger, that could smash out windshields, right?

So four to five to six times frame, that's when usually people are driving home from work,

running errands, doing things.

I would stay put and really keep an eye on radar and stay tuned to the radio too.

All right.

This is the second day in a row.

My parents actually have plans right over the worst time of the day.

I can tell you what I'm doing.

They're commercial break like, hey, dad, dad, no, don't do the thing.

Don't do that thing.

Don't take a break.

Take it easy.

It's interesting, Brittany.

You mentioned you said something in this.

I think I've mentioned before, I'm a fan of the weather channel and I like a lot, pretty

much everybody they have on there and Jim Cantori, like a lot of people, big fan of his.

Yeah.

I like the way that he not only delivers the news and talks about it, but the way he doesn't

talk down to people, he's very empathetic and just, I think, fun.

I think he's got a fun personality, but he's, oh, yeah, I love him.

He mentioned once about hoping he was wrong about something.

I think he was in Florida reporting on something or whatever, and he got me thinking about

like, how many jobs are there where you report on something, like, I hope I'm wrong about

this, everybody, but there's not many gigs like that.

It's an interesting part of the job, I'd imagine.

Yeah.

It really, really isn't.

I think it gives you this icky gut feeling, too, what do you know?

Everything is there, and you have to communicate it and let people know, but just even talking

about it just gives you that, blah, feeling, because you know you're scaring people, nobody

wants this to happen, and a lot of people also don't think it could happen to them, so I've

got to try to get through to those people, too, like, this can happen in our towns, and

it's hard to really do that delicately, and we care, Jim Cantori and I both have been

on these devastating sites where tornadoes have just destroyed people's homes and memories,

and they're going to make me cry right now, and this has happened in Wisconsin, and I

just hope I pray this doesn't happen again tonight.

Right.

I don't think we think about it with our meteorologists very much, but I challenge anybody, go up

and down the line, whether we're talking about these names like the Jim Cantori or Brittany

here, or your local meteorologists and whatever your favorite local daily news is.

They all have heart.

They all have empathy.

I think that is a big part of not only why they might get into the industry, not speak

for a whole industry, but why we care about these individuals, why we like them, and why

you guys are so good at what you do.

Everything you're saying, Brittany, about not wanting to scare people, your tone and

tact really goes a long way with that.

Certainly, the way I would do the weather, oh my god, I don't know everybody, I don't

grab everything, grab everything, call your loved ones, have you filled out your, it's

not good, you shouldn't do it with them.

No, they got it, they got to be chill about it, you know, I've seen it very long in that

industry.

It's a juggling act, but no, you can't, you can't win for trying, being a meteorologist

stand, you can't win, we appreciate you, Brittany, thanks so much for hanging out.

Thank you.

We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow, you have a good, safe day out there.

Sounds good, you too, safe, safe everyone.

Best in the business right there, Brittany below Jordy, guess every morning and putting

up with my ramblings, she's the best, she's the best, Seth and I are going to get into

the LKF, April at the Anniversary Club and just a little bit, we'll have some fun with

that one.

Live nation is offering kind of a cool idea for concerts, goers, I want to talk about

that.

All right, okay.

And how not to tow a car, we'll discuss, we've got personal experience on that one, I can

give you a few pointers to what not to do, yes, oh, interesting, I didn't know that.

And we will also be getting into at some point in the next couple of hours, what's something

you tried once and knew it wasn't for you immediately.

And this is one of the only times I think, and I didn't read the whole list, but looking

at the list right at the top of it is right where I am, I don't think it's going to happen

before.

It's a Thursday, that means we'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour with our great friends

over at the South of County and Maine Society in our pet of the week.

That's right.

Shout out to Milltown Coffee, sponsoring that, we thank them very much for buying local supporting

local and supporting our nonprofits, appreciate them, Seth and I afterwards are going to get

into some fun entertainment news, I think, because Netflix and HBO or HBO Max, whatever

they're calling themselves right now, we're going to talk about those, they're doing

some interesting things.

And then over the next couple of times you and I are doing the show together, I want

to get into some of the new network stuff that's coming out, okay?

There's so much, we're only going to be able to cover so much in each segment, but today

we'll get into Amazon Prime, they're going to be having some new shows, and ABC has

got some new shows along with the Fox schedule, later we'll get into CBS and BC, the new stuff

that they have come in.

In part because it's not just the shows we're talking about, but the every season there

is a new shift and a new change because everything is parody and you know, following what worked

last year for this group and they know that kind of thing.

And there's more to dissect there than just kind of what a new season of this or what

have you.

I want to get into that a little bit.

And I want to hear from the audience, I really would love to hear from the audience

about any of these shows or anything you're excited about.

Right.

And are you still watching cable television?

Yeah.

That's a good question right now.

One of the things, one of the side stories I've been paying a lot of attention to over

the last 10 years is this rise of streaming and then this slow kind of spin, the slow

stir of people going back to their like finding their balance.

You have very few households that are strictly cable or strictly streaming.

Correct.

And people finding that balance of what's going to work.

How am I not going to, you know, spend every penny I make, hard working, hard at work,

just unentertaining, right?

Just unstreaming services and cable and football and all this.

Right.

Where we make our choices now is very interesting to me.

And of course, we got to talk about the WFHR newsletter.

Yes.

Got a new edition showing up in your email box today at noon.

Be sure to sign up for that at WFHR.com, everybody.

Get into our schedule and plenty more.

But we begin our show, of course, talking about Brad's.

Where else would we start, Seth?

I mean, it's, you know, it seems pretty simple, it seems like a great place to start.

All right.

If your name is Brad and you live in New Zealand, which we are huge in, we are gigantic

in New Zealand.

Big New Zealand, buddy.

I, this is our core audience.

What about that?

I don't know.

McDonald's wants to give you a free quarter pounder.

And it's all because of Brad Pitt.

What?

Yeah.

What?

This is getting weirder and weirder, dude, as I don't, what's going on here?

This is our wheelhouse.

This is, this is what we do.

Nobody covers this, this central Wisconsin area like we do.

Nobody.

And weird stuff.

And weird stuff.

And worldwide, we're weird stuff.

That's hard to say.

Worldwide, weird.

It's our new segment name.

In world records and Dolly Parton news.

Okay.

These are our wheelhouses.

And, of course, certainly local, you know, Wisconsin Rapids and little stuff.

Yeah.

But Brad Pitt rolled up to a McDonald's drive through in Uckerland on Easter Sunday and

had a brief interaction with a young fan who posted the video on social media.

So now all Kiwi brands can get hooked up as long as they have the McDonald's app.

They were supposed to have had it by the 12th of this month, which was Monday and the

offer is only good until Sunday.

So not doing a big, big promotion here.

And this is only in New Zealand.

It's only in New Zealand.

In the video, the young girl asked Brad to say hello.

And I'm just going to go ahead and try my best to play this for everybody.

All right.

Yes, say hello to my dad.

No.

Oh, you're coming for it.

I'm sorry.

Hi, dad.

All right.

Moving on.

Happy Easter.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's just a quick interaction.

Yeah.

And I love the idea that first off, it's not like he looks great.

Yeah.

He looks like he's obviously trying to hide his appearance where the sunglasses and the floppy

hat and stuff.

And even that, he looks cool, man.

That's not right.

That's who he is, man.

But I, so he was taking a little heat on social media because he at first said no.

And then immediately like catches it and like, oh, no, no, hello, and all that stuff.

And there were some people saying he only did that to play nice.

And maybe he did.

But it's also Easter Sunday, like, and this guy's just going through the drive through.

Yeah.

It's one thing to kind of like, I have no issue with people wanting to say, oh, my

God, your Brad Pitt, hello, and say hello and you have a little interaction with

that person.

Yeah.

Why the need that, that's enough for me, to me, like, not too far from here over at what

is now Rams, but used to be West junior high.

They had an author there once, a Joy Hargrove, who is one of my favorite authors.

And as a young kid and a senior in high school wanted to be a writer, we get to go hear her

speak and she takes questions afterwards, we even got to go say hi to her afterwards.

When I went up and I shook hands with her, there were people that were, you know, wanting

to sign autographs and sign the book and all this.

And all I could think of was like, I don't want to waste that five, 10 seconds she's doing

that.

I'd much rather talk to her.

Sure.

And that's what I did.

And I had a really, really great interaction that I will remember the rest of my life.

Sure.

And I don't have a signature of her.

I don't have that.

But I don't need it.

I don't even know where that book is.

And if I had the signature, I probably still wouldn't.

Right.

Exactly.

And we're going to got lost in a move.

I mean, who knows, right?

What's the harm in doing something for you?

Why does it have to be for the Graham?

Why does it have to be for, you know, because I feel like that's where it comes in.

If she had just said, hi, and like, oh, God, I can't wait to tell my dad this or something

like that.

Right.

I don't, I don't feel like there's a right or wrong here necessarily.

I think some people take it too far and this far as fans.

And I think some celebrities might go too far as far as, had he been like, no, I'm not

doing that and put his hand in the camera.

Sean Pennet.

Yeah.

To this person, I think that'd be difficult.

I also don't, I have some empathy in this and understanding of how crazy the paparazzi

has gotten and how there are a million dollar industries out there built on other people's

fame, like nothing that they've done.

There's nothing that anybody working for TMZ has ever done of substantiality or true

entertainment.

Everything they've done is built on other people's fame and talent.

Right.

It's like nasty to me.

Like I don't know.

I get it.

I'm going to understand that, you know, this brings people in and everything.

But it's one of those things that feels incredibly tacky to me as society and that we're all

okay with.

We're all okay with the national choir chasing, you know, going through people's garbages

and all these things and stuff.

Like, come on, man.

Like, I don't care how famous you are.

I don't think anybody deserves that.

No, no.

And maybe, and look, I understand that I'm playing the world's smallest violin here.

We're talking about people that make millions of dollars to play pretend and stuff.

I know.

I know the industry very well and I get this, but I don't, I feel like you could do two things

at once.

Right.

Yes.

You can.

Yeah.

And just because they're, you know, the excuse is always well, they're public figures,

you know, that kind of thing.

It's like, well, yeah.

And they put up with a lot.

They get, I mean, Brad Pitt can't walk out to the grocery store, you know, if he's like

in some town because everyone knows who he is and everyone's going to stop him and everything

like that.

I mean, it literally restricts your movement.

If you're at a, at a level of fame like his and that's part of the, the, the, what's

comes with what, where he's at, right, with the money and the fame.

That's part of it.

And I'm sure he understands that.

But everyone's sticking, you know, like now that we have, they didn't have to do this

back in the day.

You know, maybe a camera picture.

Yeah.

But now it's like, I want a video on my phone, you know, everyone's got a video camera

with them kind of thing.

And that seems a little far.

To me.

Yeah.

And, you know, again, one of the, this is the second time this morning, I've said this

with you, one of the last naive moments I had when Princess Diana died.

I thought, okay, well, this is going to change the game.

It's only gotten worse.

It's only gotten worse.

As long as there's an incentive out there, people are going to do it.

And look, I understand the pushback to me on this.

A lot of people are probably saying this, oh, James, you're just saying this because you

can't walk around a Wisconsin rapids without getting how and did and everything.

Yeah.

That's true.

But that has nothing to do with this.

Why I'm saying this?

That's, I hope to God somebody laughed at that.

Please tell me somebody laughed at that.

I love that idea.

There's not a business I could walk into and wearing a WFHR shirt with a, with a name tag.

The people are like, I don't know who this is.

Who is this?

Yeah.

I don't know who this is.

This is Maloof, dude.

I don't know what's going on.

Doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter.

This is the other names and other people.

We're going to give those in the El Caffe birthday anniversary club coming up on mornings

here at WFHR.

You heard the boys.

It's time to do some celebration with our great friends at El Caffe in the birthday

anniversary club.

Encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to El Caffe today, 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Check out some of those great specials they have.

Maybe a cup of coffee and a slice of pie.

Well, you need, right?

Now, I hope you have your coffee worked out because it's going to take you a minute to

figure out what slice of pie you want, what flavor you want.

You may finish your cup before you figure it out.

Yeah.

I'm going to need a second cup.

You know, just leave the pot.

Yeah.

Because there's so much great stuff over there, everybody.

You cannot encourage you enough to check it out yourself.

You don't have to take our word for it.

You're going to go over there and just plan on coming back.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

Great people over there.

Absolutely.

Have a great Thursday.

All of our friends at El Caffe and treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

Mm-hmm.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We can celebrate with you.

You can email us info at WFHR.com.

You can, of course, direct messages on our Facebook pages as well and Seth.

They can call up.

715-424-2600.

Right now, the lines are open.

We want to hear your birthdays and anniversaries.

That was awkward.

Birthday and anniversary wishes.

There we go.

And aversary assesses.

Yes, we want all of those.

Whatever you call them.

We want them.

Bring them to us, everybody.

Nobody's doing this segment.

Nobody's doing this around you.

Not really.

Not at all.

And we appreciate those that got us names.

Seth, we got two possible qualifiers today.

Need a one or two?

How about one today?

All right.

That gives us that qualifier.

So first up, wishing a happy birthday to Layla Reynolds.

Layla.

Congratulations.

I mean, happy birthday.

Yes.

Yes.

Congratulations, Nate.

Congratulations.

Well, another year.

Yeah.

You made it another year.

How about that?

As we get older, should it switch?

Maybe to be congratulated.

Yeah.

Congratulations, man.

You made it another year.

50, right?

Right.

Right.

I actually think it might be.

We should do that.

It would make our birthdays a little more interesting the older we get.

Right.

You know, like, oh, hey, it's your 29th birthday.

Woo.

You know, but hey, under 29th birthday people are saying congratulations.

Congratulations.

I feel a little better.

I actually made it through your 20s.

We have to double into something here.

We need to start doing this as a side.

Let's try.

Let's try to make that happen.

Let's try to make it go.

Please, everybody.

Next February 20th.

I mean, that actually may be like.

I think I'd like that.

Congratulations, James.

Get close to the 50, man.

Yeah.

I'm sure you might need it.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier.

Taylor Scarring.

Taylor.

Oh, Taylor.

Oh, Taylor, excuse me.

Oh, sorry.

No, that's not me.

The way you said it.

Taylor.

Happy birthday.

Congratulations.

We're so focused on trying to say the last name.

Right.

I got messed up.

Yeah.

You're the qualifier.

You're the qualifier.

Enjoy your day, Taylor.

Yeah.

Everybody out there celebrating a birthday anniversary.

Keep getting us those to us, everybody.

And feel free to call up and join us with them.

Mm-hmm.

Who do you share your birthdays with?

Well, Andy Murray.

One of our last great American tennis stars.

Yes.

On the male side.

On the male side.

Right.

Oh, I'm sorry.

And not American.

British tennis stars.

Yeah.

Obviously, Britain, like America,

well, that's what we're talking about.

Yeah.

We're talking about America.

Yeah.

Obviously, Britain, like America, well,

longer than America, has had great tennis stars.

Mm-hmm.

Not as much in recent years.

No.

Same with the United States is the same thing.

Mm-hmm.

We haven't had one in a while.

The story's not covered as much.

But they have struggled just as much as we have, especially

on the men's side of things.

Mm-hmm.

The biggest stars, really, of tennis in the last handful of years,

Andy Murray is the only English one.

That's true.

Joker, Nadal, even Federer.

Federer, they're all from Europe.

Yep, mm-hmm.

Murray, I think was a cool moment.

I became the first Brit to win a Grand Slam title

in more than 40 years when he won the US Open in 2012.

He also beat Roger Federer for the Olympic gold medal

in London in 2012.

I remember that.

That is the one that stands out to me.

Yes.

And part because of beating, I think, the greatest tennis player

I've ever seen.

Mm-hmm.

And also, just, Andy, it was at home.

At home.

In London, yes.

You can't top that.

No, not at all.

I didn't never picked up a tennis rack at the rest of my life.

But like, I'd have dropped them.

I'd have dropped them.

Oh, a racket drop home.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's pretty cool.

It was a cool moment.

And it's just one of those Olympic moments, I'll always remember.

Jamie Lynn Seagler is 44.

You know her better as meadow soprano on the sopranos.

She played herself on Ahtaraj.

And kind of got away from acting.

You know, just me.

She got plenty of opportunities from what I understand.

And I've seen her talk about in interviews after the sopranos.

But she's just kind of like, you know, she's young.

She's 44.

And she was even younger, obviously, at the time of the sopranos ending.

Molly Shannon did a similar thing, too, of just kind of being like, I'm good.

And, you know, hopefully I can get back in someday.

Right.

And maybe she will.

I kind of hope she does, because I think she's a really good actor.

And that ensemble cast, she was an integral part of.

I thought she played that role just as well as anybody could of.

And I think one of the better compliments you can give an actor.

I can't imagine anybody else in that role.

I can't picture anybody.

I'm not saying she's the greatest actor or the greatest even in that role.

But for me, I can't picture anybody else playing meadow soprano.

I thought she was good.

Very cool.

A great actor.

I know we both are big fans of David Crumholz is 47.

He is the math guy on numbers.

Goldensteen and Harold and Kumar.

He was a, Tim Allen Bernard, the elf in Tim Allen Santa Claus movie.

That's right.

Yes.

I think my favorite part of those movies.

I really do.

He's very good performance of those.

But more to the point, I think, his greatest work.

He plays the physicist working on the Manhattan Project Nobunheimer.

And he has actually a pretty heavy role in it.

And he hangs.

It's such an ensemble movie.

And no matter what the actor and the caliber of talent,

he's right there with him.

Nice.

I mean, hanging right alongside with him.

The best example I could say possibly is think of the greatest sprinter you've ever seen.

And imagine somebody hanging with them.

That's what I'm talking about with a Robert Downey Jr. or some of the actors in that movie.

And how he, not a household name, not an Oscar winner,

but hangs talent-wise with every one of these actors.

Excellent.

Ray Lewis is 50.

Somewhere given a big speech.

I got to imagine, I mean.

Ray, one of the more fun linebackers we've gotten to see it on.

Yes.

And one of the great, like, not last great linebackers because there's always going to be good ones.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Good one.

Oh, man.

His Super Bowl.

Met Zappa.

Zappa is 51.

I'm having a real tough time, but last name.

Son of Frank, brother of Dweezle, was married to Selma Blair for a while.

And the screenwriter of the movie adaptation of Frago Rock.

Really?

Yep.

Okay.

Nobody had that one getting there.

The children of Frank Zappa have had some very interesting careers.

They've done all kinds of stuff, you know?

Kind of like Frank did.

He was kind of like that way, too, but.

You went right.

You met me right where I wanted to go.

Oh, okay.

Whether we're talking about Dweezle or Ahmet or any of these guys.

I believe that they've all, like, honored their dad and done a very similar thing to their dad

while being completely different and going in very different directions.

Oh, very different directions.

Somehow have done very similar careers to their dad while also doing nothing like their father.

It's wild, but I don't know, but that's the way it's worked out from all these guys.

It's very fascinating.

And get along, guys.

Get along, because I want to play Frank in a biopic.

And I got to start getting along so we can get that done.

Because there should be a Frank Zappa biopic.

There should be.

And it should be not factual at all.

No.

And knowing it Frank Zappa.

I think I could play it older Frank.

You could pull off Frank Zappa.

I'm not talking 20-year-olds.

No, no.

No.

Let's look at that little piece of beard that he had.

You know that little patch on his chin kind of thing.

Yeah.

There's no green screen that could turn me 20.

There's no special effects.

Like a D-A-J.

Like a D-A-J.

They could do that.

Skywalker, you know, Ranch.

Is it going to be able to do that?

Emmett Smith is 56 today.

Wow.

Well, Dallas Cowboy dancing with the stars winner.

Yes.

One to third season of that.

And I believe, yeah, it's still the all-time leading Russia, right?

I do.

I believe he's still that.

He's still that.

That may stand for a while unless one of that, like Derek Henry or Sichuan Barclay can

have, you know, a longer career.

We'll see.

But it would mean that my guy Walter Payton would go to third on the list.

But honestly, I would love to see Derek Henry break that.

Yes.

Just because I think it would be so fitting with what he's given to the game.

Yes.

Not just the NFL.

Not just college.

But do yourself a favor.

All you football fans out there, if you've never done this.

Look up Derek Henry's high school stats.

You've never seen anything like, you know, there's not a player.

And if in football history, you'll ever see stats like you do with Derek Henry in high school.

That, wow.

The amount of carries this man has done.

It is lifetime.

He's lifetime.

Like I imagine.

I'd love to see him as the all-time leading Russia.

I don't think it's going to happen.

Well, the game just gave something back to him.

And he got a nice extension.

But from the Ravens, whoo, he's making some money.

A second season in that offense.

Yeah.

That should be fun.

One of my favorites.

One of my bigger influences.

Dan Patrick is 69 today, former ESPN sports of a guy.

Really, one of the architects of what we all watch on sports center.

He was one of the original guys that made it what it was.

It wasn't just we're reading sports scores.

They did it with a certain kind of humor.

They did it with, you know, I kind of a little, sometimes with a little edge on it.

I always remember Dan Patrick, my favorite part of the sports centers with him was always the baseball ones.

He was really good at that.

And of course, his famous, you know, the whip.

Yeah.

I love that.

It's one of my favorite things.

I agree with everything you're saying.

Yeah.

The other thing that I look up to him for and everything is the idea of he got a little tired

and burnt out with ESPN.

Sure.

But he still loves sports.

And so he doesn't really get together with a couple of his friends and a couple people that he knows in the industry

and everything.

And he wants to start his own thing.

He has nowhere to really do this, but save money that go into his attic.

And they start this little show that has now been on like three or four different networks

have had like six or seven different contracts.

Basically a, like a, like a proto podcast, basically is what it was.

Yeah.

It's the architect of that.

Yeah.

Well, look at where we are now with podcasts.

And almost any personality, Dan Levitard, Stephen A Smith, all these guys.

The biggest names.

Yeah.

Are branching off and doing the Dan Patrick model.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Do what he did and everything.

He bet on himself, man.

And it worked out.

And not for nothing.

Just a great interviewer.

The pace of Dan Patrick has always been impressive to me.

I really enjoy his pace and his timing.

I don't really learn a lot.

Yeah.

I don't agree with everything he says or does or anything like that.

I don't think he's the world's greatest by any means.

But I really look up to people that do this and make it work and figure out a way to make that.

Like you hear some of the early stories of some of the things that they had to do to make,

you know, put these wires together to get on the air or something like that.

It's really cool.

And he didn't have to do any of this.

No.

He could have just stayed at the SPN.

His whole lifetime.

Or he could have gotten a job at probably one of the networks at some point.

Yeah.

He did it the hard way.

Similar to George Brett, who is 72 today as well.

Everybody had the same image pop up in their head as soon as I said George Brett.

Him running out of that dog out like a mad man.

Just God.

By the way, George Brett is still so happy that he is remembered for that.

Yeah.

Because before that, he was remembered for one thing from the 1980 World Series with the Philadelphia

Phillies because he had missed some games because his hemorrhoids were so bad.

He was known as like the hemorrhoid guy.

And he has gone on record saying that pintar thing, best thing that ever happened to me is that everyone

stopped talking about the hemorrhoids.

I would love, I would love if it came out that that was the only reason he even used pintar.

Yeah.

Just to try to get like, he never even used it before that.

But he just like caked it on.

Just like, okay, this has got to stand out.

He is a fabulous, he's fun to listen to.

An honest guy, a real guy, you know, everything.

He was such a great baseball player.

But man, I love it.

It shouldn't be lost in the shuffle.

No, not at all.

Great hitter.

Great hitter.

Hall of Famer, you know, a Kansas City Royal Institution.

Yeah.

One of my favorite actors of all time, Chas Pelamanthari is 73.

Detective Dave and the usual suspects.

De Niro's mob rival in analyze this.

Work with De Niro as well in a Bronx tale.

Work with De Niro as well.

Chas has been a little bit typed in his career.

A little bit.

He's got the, he's that, you know, that swore the type, you know.

Man, he's played every character a little different than the other.

And his work, these characters differently than other character actors.

Where you see that he puts a little bit into each one of these guys.

Yeah, he's playing a mob boss.

You look at his IMDB page and it's like 20 mob bosses in a row.

But he plays them a little different each one of them.

And I give him credit for continuing to work.

He's got that look, you know, he's, he looks kind of, I don't say threatening,

but he, you know, he looks formidable, you know, he's a big guy too.

That part of the thing.

Yeah.

But he has so much charisma on the screen.

It just jumps out at you.

He's fun to watch.

I love him as an actor.

Brian Eno is 77.

Genius producer.

Producer, musician, started with Roxy Music.

Then started making what became known as minimalism.

Here come the warm jets.

If you want to hear an interesting album, boy, that was one of the most impressive,

biggest musical out of nowhere albums that came out.

And it actually had a lot of influence on music.

Are we not men?

Are we Devo?

Or we are Devo, certainly a legendary job producer.

Yeah.

But the minimalist thing you bring up is interesting going from that to the Joshua Tree with you too.

And the stripped downing of you too a little bit there,

where they went completely the other direction they went back to,

you know, after that.

The big sound, yeah.

But that was their big album.

And it's with him.

Yep.

And that.

I think in part because of what you're talking about there,

but I had never thought of that.

That's interesting.

No, absolutely amazing musician and producer.

Wavy Gravy is 89.

Woodstock Counter-Cultural icon also inspired Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

Real name, Hugh Romney.

Wavy Gravy is better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But much better one to go by.

Yes.

And as people no longer with us, the great Madeleine Albright,

board of the state in 1937, former Secretary of State.

Happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody out there celebrating.

We can't think of a better way to celebrate than with our friends at El Café.

Get there today.

Everybody to 21 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Be back after a news, sports, and a partner break here on The Mornings at WFHR.

The Mornings at A Mornings.

The Mornings.

There's something like that.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings here at WFHR.

Waiting for the harmonica.

That's got to be a harmonica, this one.

Seth's got us some new bumpers.

It's fun.

I like that.

Yeah.

You just noticed that, too.

I think that was funny.

I just noticed it.

I've been so busy this morning.

That's the one thing I did not get to see.

My dad was a gigantic Huey Lewis fan.

Huey Lewis in the news.

I shouldn't mention that.

I should get that in there.

And speaking of music, well, that's where we go right now.

Okay.

Live Nation is selling $30 tickets to more than 1,000 concerts this summer.

Oh.

Wow, okay.

They include Billy Idol, Halicy, and Weird Al Yankovic.

So this is an interesting idea.

Over 1,000 concerts will be available to choose from.

Some of the artists, Avril Lavigne, Cindy Lopper,

the offspring, Rod Stewart, Stix, Toto,

along with the bands that I mentioned.

Wow.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, the 21st.

If you have T-Mobile or something called Rakuten,

I don't know what it is.

You can sign up to have early access the day before.

Gotcha.

I just want to spread the word about this because if you like,

even if you kind of like one of those bands,

going to see a concert for $30.

These days, that's good.

I would say this is a good marketing on Live Nation's part.

Recently, Ticketmaster and Live Nation, same company, by the way.

Just want to make sure we mention that.

Any chance we can.

Black eye.

Of all the shenanigans they've been up to, investigations.

I mean, just really sleazy stuff.

Seriously, they've been doing, yeah, they needed to do something like this.

In order to at least raise their stock up with the public again

in order to do it.

And the outcry, this is what caused it everybody, okay?

People were like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

Stop doing that.

We're not, we're not, we're not, that dog don't hunt.

Gotta think so.

I love that phrase.

So it's, yeah, they have to do stuff like this in order to get people

to come back to them.

This is the way, the most to work, you know,

when stuff bad stuff happens, right?

It's one of the most unkept secrets in music in the music industry

is how horribly musicians are treated, how little they actually get

for the product that they have, even though none of this is here without them.

Exactly.

I'm not saying that like venue owners shouldn't get paid.

Right.

Obviously they should.

But in what world does it make sense that no matter how big the artist,

we're talking Taylor Swift level.

Right.

They're not making even a smidgen of what these people are making.

Exactly.

How does that make sense?

How does it make sense that a record company is making more than the actual artist is?

Right.

That's never made sense.

And it makes even littler sense when you consider the venue, the concert going experience.

Right.

Exactly.

Where again, even no matter how big the artist is, most of the money they make is off of merch,

selling their items, their, you know, the stuff that they have direct control over.

Right.

And that's the stuff they have control over.

I'm not, I'm not saying that it should be, you know,

that they should be paid more than they worth or any of these things.

I'm saying it should be equal.

I'm saying it should be.

It should be the value.

The value they create, they should get a lion's share of that value, right?

Don't.

It makes sense if you need help, you know, coordinating a concert tour, you know,

you need help with all this stuff, right?

You need venues.

You need people in the back end to help you out.

You know, your roadies and your other folks and the people that are giving you food and all this.

Yeah, I get that, right?

Right.

But they shouldn't be getting the most of the money.

It should be you, the one who's creating the value, right?

I feel like it's, it should be one of the most uncontroversial things we do.

Yeah.

Like here is, is talking about this and talking about artists, especially musicians.

Yeah.

Making more off or owning their own material or anything.

Even something as simple as that, right?

Yeah.

Well, that is pretty, I feel like a pretty uncontroversial take.

We may be getting into a more controversial area here.

Oh, okay.

And, and I don't like to do that this early in the morning, everybody.

But we don't shy away from certain topics around here.

That's right.

And we will always face them as WFHR has done for 80 plus years.

We're going to talk about towing right now.

And some people, some people think that they got the perfect idea of the way to tow.

There are thousands of videos on YouTube of people who have, I got this.

Yeah.

They did not have this everybody.

Spoiler alert.

And we got one of them before you're here.

We don't get to do that in right stories this early, very often.

No, let's do it.

Some guys old sob broke down on a highway in Houston on Monday.

And instead of calling a tow truck, he hooked a big chain to it.

And it had his girlfriend tow him in her SUV.

Oh dear.

Towing with the chain isn't the safest option.

No.

Or legal.

In any state.

I don't believe it's even legal in like sci-fi novels.

Right.

Like a pretty sure even like a dystopian, like in the Mad Max dystopian future.

You could still get arrested for towing with a chain.

I'm pretty sure.

But it's something people do in a pinch.

Someone just has to sit in the car being towed a steer and ride the brakes.

Right.

The couple in Houston made one big mistake though that a lot of people do of course.

They hooked the chain up to the back of his car and towed it backwards.

No.

His car was all over the road.

Oh my god.

The video of this is pretty, yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty dope.

Oh no.

Oh no.

It's highway camera too.

Oh man.

Oh man.

That's just freaking me out.

Just looking at that.

Oh my god.

I will say one thing.

They were smart enough to go into the most far.

Because they're in a 10 lane highway.

Yeah.

They're in a huge highway.

They're in Houston.

And there's nothing but five lane highways in Houston.

And they're in the most, you know, carbon.

Yeah.

But we're talking.

This guy's flying across lanes because it's backwards.

You're not used to driving like that.

His girlfriend was going too fast.

And so then the axle broke and he couldn't steer at all.

Yep.

And he was inside the car as all this was going on hanging up for dear life.

And I witnessed that.

He saw the girlfriend laughing.

So she maybe didn't realize the situation.

Time to get a new girlfriend.

Now they did not get.

I wonder.

Or boy.

Yeah.

For that matter.

Who's ideal?

No.

Neither one needs to maybe or they need a conversation here.

Or maybe this is just one of those situations where we're like, you know what?

We just cut our losses.

We end this.

You know what?

This isn't going anywhere.

I think we could both think that as adults.

We have found out that through this situation.

Yeah.

Because this couple has shown us nothing but rationality.

So of course they would sit down and have that conversation.

I don't know what I was doing.

His name is Dante Brown.

He's 32.

It turned out he had an outstanding warrant.

And Georgia.

And yep, he's going to jail.

Oh.

Well, that relates to probably done anyway.

Okay.

Yeah.

He and his girlfriend told police they didn't call a tow truck because they couldn't afford

one.

But now his car is all banged up and he's got a lot more to pay for.

Which, again, see?

It just made it worse.

The media don't.

Now he's got court costs.

He's got a deal with too.

That is a, that is a doozy of a that ain't right story.

Oh my gosh.

If I saw that in a comedy sketch.

I'd be like, well, that was a little too far.

That's a little too far.

They went too far with it.

A little too much there.

We'll go.

We'll come back and we'll have some more fun with you on the morning show here at WFHR.

I don't know what bumper I want to choose, man.

I got all kinds of good ones, right?

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

Some billy ocean.

Yeah.

Now we're going.

Well, that gave me my second, my second win right now.

Win for you.

Yeah.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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All I'm going to do is bumpers.

All the new bumpers.

Yeah.

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Friday Eve, everybody.

Interesting study here.

There's a new study out which says that 15% of people would rather be trash talked behind

their back than not mention it all.

Oh, I didn't know what that was.

It was going there.

Oh, interesting.

The idea that any news is good news or something like that.

They used to be the MO of like, you know, celebrityism or some of these things.

No, no such thing as bad publicity, right?

Yeah.

I don't know how a lot of people feel about this.

For me, that changed a while ago.

I don't think that's the case anymore.

No.

I think you can find outliers, but I think overall for the most part, that can really like

derail whatever it is you have of a career or whatever you industry you're in.

And I don't even mean just on a celebrity level.

But because we are all branded now, we all have the majority of us have a social media

account or have at least at the very least even you set have a social media footprint.

Right.

And you know, whether because of the station here.

Exactly.

That's true and everything.

So with that, we're all brands.

Whether we, I'm not saying I like this or anything.

No, it is kind of the world we're in right now.

And I don't know.

I don't think that the whole bad press thing is good for anybody anymore.

I think there's ever once a while an outlier, a quote unquote, rebel or bad boy or something like that

that makes it off of being, you know, wrecking this or doing something like that.

And even those things, you can only go so far to where immediately we're like, well,

you're not a rebel anymore.

You're just a jerk, you know.

I don't agree with that.

I don't think that it's necessarily the case.

And I find it interesting that you'd rather have somebody talk trash about you behind your back

than not talk about you at all.

At all.

Wow.

And I know I'm sort of repeating myself here a little bit, but I really want that to head home and think about that.

Put yourself in those shoes.

Right.

That seems really weird.

The researchers conducted five experiments with more than 2,000 participants.

And in the end, they found that a solid 64% of people want to be gossiped about behind their back when it's something positive.

Okay.

Roughly 25% want to be talked about when it's ambitious or ambiguous.

Ambiguous, right?

Whether it's about something good or bad and 15% of people.

So one in seven would want people to gossip about them about something negative or anything at all.

You know, we're regardless.

Wow.

If the alternative is that people don't talk about them at all.

That's so they would rather that is remarkable.

That is remarkable.

Not be spoke of at all.

But per se.

And it's to me, it's not just one in seven.

It's what that one represents and who that one is.

And not only do you probably know somebody like that in your own personal life.

Yeah.

But I feel like our politics and our society are filled with the right way.

Boy.

Man.

Especially politics.

Especially politics.

That's true.

Yeah.

I think it's and this is not a survey.

This is just me throwing this out there wildly.

Please cannot stress that enough.

Yeah.

But I wouldn't be shocked if I was also doing the same survey and it was one in seven politicians.

This is the case.

Right.

In fact.

Might be even higher than that.