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Your host James Biden, the mic joined by Seth, morning and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

We've got a lot of fun things lined up in the next hour for you.

We're going to get into in just a little bit the false schedule for ABC and B.C. and Fox.

Talk about that in a little bit of the crossovers that are happening between streaming and cable,

trying to keep both afloat.

Want to get into some of that with Seth in just a little bit.

But we begin where we have to.

Singabai to a TV legend.

A theater legend, really.

And George Went.

Yes.

I for those that have not heard, George Went passed away yesterday.

No, it was the news or was released.

Born and raised in the Southside of Chicago, George Went famously dropped out of Notre

Dame with a 0.0 GPA.

It worked, George.

Boy, not many people could do that.

Nope.

No.

Impressive.

So, George, not only Chicago's home, but Wisconsin ties, graduated from a camp, a campion

high school, just with boarding school and prayer douching.

Yeah, that's cool.

I didn't know that.

Or his rock star Notre Dame career.

And also should be noted, the uncle of Jason Sedankus, another SNL alum.

And I vaguely knew about that.

Yes.

I didn't thought about that.

But yes, very cool.

George, there's a quick little story.

So, you know, it's not going well, obviously, school isn't for him these things.

Went in 75, went to Second City after he discovered it shortly after college.

A viewing had inspired him to join on his first day of him, right away.

So he gets there and he tell me, we're great.

We're happy to have you and everything.

And he's thinking he's going to be in a comedian or something like that.

He shows up promptly at 11.30 a.m. as he was instructed.

And the woman who worked in there handed him a broom and said, welcome to the theater,

kid.

Nice.

Haha.

Love it.

That was his first gig in theater, first job in entertainment, cleaning up.

And it's an, I know, I bring this up.

It's a fun story, but it's also about perseverance.

Because George went turn that into not only being one of the more recognizable characters

in TV history, right?

Period.

End of sentence.

George played Norm on cheers for 11 seasons.

Did you notice I went this long without mentioning his character's name or the TV show?

And everybody knew who I was talking about.

Yep.

Everybody did.

Everybody did.

That's just tells you what the impact of that character from 82 to 93 played that.

The role earned him more than a few drinks in real life, quote from Mr. Went himself, wherever

I go out, people are always sending over a beer or a round for me and my friends.

In addition to the free beer, George was also nominated for six Emmys.

It's also, he could have had a bigger, he could make an argument.

He also was an SNL cast member for many years in the Bears and the super fans.

Oh, that's true.

Yes.

I totally forgot about that.

Yes.

Doing that.

And as a side note, there's never noted the great acting performance of Chris Farley in

those bits, being a Wisconsinite and playing a bare fat Chris Farley, not that we don't

rank.

We don't mention that enough about Farley.

No, that's true.

That's very true.

He acted his tail off in those sketches, man.

I can't imagine what it must have been like for Chris Farley coming home with those things.

Other TV appearances, Mash, Seinfeld, hot and Cleveland, fresh off the boat, and of course

the Simpsons.

Many times.

His film work, Fletch, Spice World Dreamscape, he was in the horror movie house.

George was working right up to the end in 2023.

He competed on the mass singer in reunited with Cheers Cast Members to present an Emmy.

And several of his Cheers co-stars were right out the gate.

John Ratsonberg, of course, who hit Cliff, him and those two.

I played Norm's buddy Cliff, city was heartbroken.

I added that George was a true craftsman, humble, hilarious, and full of heart.

Fred Danson, quote, it is going to take a long time to get used to this.

I love you, Georgie.

Kelsey Grammer.

I like George a lot.

He was beloved by millions.

And of course, Rhea Perlman, the sweetest kindest man I ever met.

I was early in my teaching at Second City when my teacher, one of my bigger mentors, my

teacher Brian that I work with through this day, comes busting into our class.

And this isn't an unnormal thing at Second City.

This happens all the time with teachers bumping in to grab things.

Because you're talking about a school that doesn't have a ton of funding and is kind

of a modern marvel in some ways that it's running the way it is.

He comes to me and he's like, come on, come on.

He's not even really putting words together.

He's just like moving his arm and everything.

So I found out later, half of our students weren't sure if there was a fire drill or something.

So we're being rushed down a floor and we get down there and it's just these rooms could

maybe fit 30 to 40 people.

And there is at least 150 some people crammed in this room.

So we're all just standing on the outside watching George went talking to one student and

he would go to do that with another student and then another student.

He wasn't there to speak in front of the whole school or anything like that.

He was there on an individual just kind of helping out guys.

He was there, say, what can I do?

And apparently this was a normal thing for him.

He didn't know does anybody else know about this?

Was it getting paparazzi money from that?

Was he getting that?

No.

He was doing that because he loved the game.

He wanted to help young athletes, want to help young actors like young comedians, young

creatives and everything.

I don't, people like him that have entertained us so much that have given so much to entertainment.

I don't think it's asking a lot to take a moment and just appreciate him.

Just appreciate what they did.

And not only everything you hear about him as well, one of the sweeter, kinder human beings

in the industry, history of the industry.

Right.

And I wonder, you know, this is speculation on my part.

He seemed to be one of those guys, James, you can attest to this better than anyone in

the industry, how much your looks dictate what happens in the industry.

And George seemed to be completely comfortable in his own skin.

He didn't care.

Yeah.

He didn't do what he was going to do.

And that's because, and a lot of the reasons you didn't hear a lot of him after cheers,

because theater, that was his thing.

He was, if you ever heard him sing, he had a tremendous singing voice.

He did a lot of song and dance.

He moved so gracefully as a dancer as well, very light on his feet.

And I think, I think theater was his first love.

And I think that's where he went back to, well, obviously he worked in other things.

He did projects just like any other act of working actor did.

But there's something, I don't know if it transcends, there was always a warmth to him

as norm or any of the roles he did.

There was this warmth that seemed genuine.

It's so hard to portray that, you know, on a screen when you're just, you know, doing

the motions in front of it.

But man, either he took that from the theater or that's just who he was.

He seemed like a very warm human being.

And it seems like what he's getting now from people seems like that was true.

That's what it hits who he was.

You know, we don't, I don't think we talk nearly enough about how great the acting was

on cheers.

There was no bad actors, no bad performances, not guest stars, not reoccurring characters.

And none of it.

Almost all of them had really good careers after the show was, and you don't see that.

It did come, especially.

They all had really good careers.

He's going to be missed very much so.

I don't know much about this next topic, everybody.

And I don't say that very often in the entertainment section of our show.

Big news dropped yesterday.

The TV show Good Morning Britain announced that Peppa Pig's sister was born.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, a major morning talk show, quote unquote, reported the news of the birth of a cartoon

character.

In case you're wondering, her name is Evie, and she was born at 534 yesterday.

I don't know what I'm talking about.

She'll make her debut in an hour long special called Peppa meets the baby, which will

play in theaters on May 30th.

And then she joins the Peppa the Pig cast right away, of course.

Part of the reason I'm bringing this up is I did not realize how popular the show still

was.

Oh, yeah.

I think that's kind of cool.

Kids show is coming.

They do.

It feels like for every show that's, you know, Blues Clues that has like multiple decade

run or whatever, they just come and go.

Yeah.

And obviously with my kids being in their 20s and stuff, I haven't thought of it.

You would be following this kind of thing.

That's kind of cool that it's still around a little weird that they, you know, the TV

show.

But I don't know.

I mean, here's the thing with that.

It's easy to make fun of that that a reputable news, you know, station, quote unquote,

reporting on this and everything.

And I get it.

I get the idea of making fun of that and all those things.

Right.

I'm also the person that is begging and I can't think of the last time I've said that

word, beg for anything in my life.

I am begging the media.

I am begging your everyday news stations.

Your local took national includes some good stories, includes some good stuff.

And don't just save it to the end of the episode when you spend a minute on or anything

like that.

There are good news stories out there.

And I don't care if it's easier to do the job and there isn't as much money in the

industry anymore.

Can anybody prove to me the newspaper, local advert, local reporting would have gone the

way of the dodo if we hadn't been giving in to the low hanging fruit of the 24 hour

news cycle.

If we'd been actually doing news the way Cronkite had, if we didn't just, oh, something

in your room could kill you.

Find out at 11.

Right.

That's, that's not news that if it is news, it's something that shouldn't be necessarily

you're leading with, right?

Every single news station from local to national, their opening story today will be something

negative.

And they'll end maybe on something positive, but usually as the credits are rolling

or something like that, it should be flipped.

It should not be that way.

You wonder why people get just made with the news, why people don't want to pay attention

to politics or any of these things.

Well, when you barrage them Monday through Friday with nothing but negativity, who wants

that?

Of course, they're going to go that route.

So if we got to have fake little birthdays to make people a little bit smile a little

bit or anything or just take a break, take a breath from all the heaviness, I'm good

with this.

I want more of this actually.

What is it?

Oh boy, I just about mentioned every single cartoon show that has been on the air for

20 years.

Yeah.

I'm going to be like, what is he talking about?

I want a new character.

I'm fragile.

James, what are you talking about?

Thundercats is over, man.

It's over.

Thundercats home.

G.I.

Joe.

That's the new way.

Like, dude, got G.I.

Joe.

Have a kid they never knew about.

Conan O'Brien shows up on our next story and I've been hanging on to this story.

I've had this news since three days ago.

Okay.

I wanted to save it to talk about it with you because I think this is fun.

Conan O'Brien is joining Toy Story 5 as the voice of a new character named Smarty Pants.

He announced news yesterday in a video and he joked that he asked for the role of

Woody.

But, you know, that Tom Hanks guy, quote, I was like, you didn't, you kind of been there

and done that, you know, you're in a bit of a rut, don't you think, as he said, the

Tom Hanks.

No, it's that Tom Hanks.

This is role.

I want guys.

You got to think outside the box.

I like the game this.

Nice.

Anyway, then they showed me this new character.

Smarty Pants.

It's the best character of them all.

I don't ever want to play Woody or Buzz anymore, even if they beg me.

I'm Smarty Pants.

I love this.

Ernie Hudson is also joining the cast.

The great Ernie Hudson.

Oh.

He'll be taking over the voice of combat Carl since Carl Weathers passed away.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

That's a great, oh man.

That's really cool.

That's a good casting right there.

I love Ernie Hudson.

One of my faves.

I only really remember the first toy story.

I, again, my kids older all that and haven't seen the other ones in everything or some

of the fun or some of the controversy and some of those ones and stuff.

But one of the things that I will note over and over again is again, the Pixar casting

and how darn good they are at this.

Going back to Cheers with John Radsenberg and he, like, 100 voices he's done in every

movie.

Every movie.

He does at least one line.

Yep.

As Mr. Potato had, that is an amazing casting choice.

That's fantastic.

I mean, all of them.

They are.

They too are fine.

Fine.

And honestly, if Tom Hanks hadn't been attached to that first toy story, I don't think it

would have been.

Yeah, I don't know.

People would have given it, I mean, it's an excellent movie.

There's no question about that, but I don't think people would have given it the time that

he got because, wait, Tom Hanks is doing that.

Wow.

At the height of his, you know, right after Oscars and all this, and he's doing

a cartoon character.

Wow.

That's amazing.

How many people who really weren't doing a lot of, if any voice acting before that movie

and now it's one of their main go-tos?

Absolutely.

Including Tom Hanks, who kind of parlayed that into, and doing narrating with the America

and stuff.

There's not a lot known on the plot yet, but it does seem like, according to, you know,

some quotes from Tim Allen and some others that it's going to focus on Jesse and some of

the modern tech and some of those things.

Yes.

I'm going to be dealing with AI, apparently, when you get what it sounds like.

Toy Story 5 hits theaters June 19th.

All right.

And I imagine it'll be a hit.

I think that'll probably do well.

Probably.

We'll see.

We'll see.

I don't, I think that they learned a lot from whatever happened in the one that people

really didn't like, where you know it's bad when people are talking about a kids movie

and they're like, that ending was horrible, it's worth sending of all time or whatever.

They did not like that ending.

No, they made them, they, they show you how much they didn't like it.

They rehired all the actors because they're all done.

It was going to be the less toys they're moving.

Right.

It was.

They rehired them to new contracts for, I mean, I can't even begin to imagine the amount

of money they'll spend.

100%.

Just to try to make it right.

Yeah.

Just to try to, I mean, they come up a new script, all that stuff just because we'll take

a time.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and we're going to talk about the fall lineup on the way and some of

the interesting things coming up with that right here on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Cisco kid was a friend of mine.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, love you.

It's a fun show.

A few things are more nostalgic to me than the music of war.

I can't tell you why, bad, but they're, they're, they're, they're immediately brought

back to the south side.

We love it.

We love it.

We're going to talk about local TV.

Now we touched on this a little bit before last week, Seth talking about and some of the

networks and some of the new material that they'll have coming out this fall.

All the shows that we're talking about right now are currently either in filming or going

to be in the next month or so.

All right.

So it's one note to bring up here when it comes to the actors and the people involved

in these shows.

You probably won't be seeing them in anything coming up because this is what they're doing

right.

Right.

So ABC announced its fall schedule yesterday and it only includes one new show.

9-1-1 Nashville.

It'll be starring Chris O'Donnell and Lee and Rhymes is also going to be in it.

Whoa.

Oh, cool.

Interesting.

It'll take over the Thursday night spot, previously occupied by Dr. Odyssey that the

fate of that show is still up in the air, although having its time slot taken doesn't

isn't a good sign.

Never.

So real quick before we move on to some of the other subsidiaries of ABC, I, you know,

it's owned by Disney, right?

One show in our lifetimes in 40 some years, no network, no network, not only ABC or any

other have ever released only one scripted TV show that's never happened before.

Going into a fall schedule, the most key important time on any TV schedule, not to be fair, ABC's

been the big dog for a long time, right?

They've had the number one spot for a long time and with that, like we've talked about

last week, you can, you know, take chances a little bit more, you can lean into things

a little bit more.

And so the one network that could take more chances than anybody doing sitcom comedy

are not.

Nope.

And they're going to tell you that this is because of streaming and those things and stuff.

It is not, I know for a fact that it is not.

It is about the writer's strike and the actor's strike and the contracts that were there

and them trying to, like these were only two to three year contracts and every movie studio

right now in TV studio is just, just trying to stretch out time until those contracts

are wrapped up and that they can hopefully get a better deal because that's what's going

on here.

It is not that the ratings have plummeted.

It is not that everybody's moved to streaming or any of these things.

It is a power move done by ego maniacs who have no, have very little to any creative

bones in their bodies.

I want every one of these producers.

I want them to go ahead and write a hit show and act it out.

Go ahead and do it.

If you can do the job so well, if you can do the job without us, you go for it.

You go right ahead.

You told me the last time somebody watched a TV show because of a producer.

Great point.

I don't believe not even Norman Lear, the greatest TV producer of all time anybody

watched a show just because of Norman Lear and that's coming from Norman Lear.

That is his quote recently in the TV thing they did on CNN some years back and everything

with him.

He mentioned that.

The producer should never be bigger than any of this other stuff.

You got a job to do.

It's just making sure that the bills are paid.

That's your gig.

You get to have your name on everything.

What's going on here?

Nobody cares.

I don't care.

Nobody cares.

I'm going to keep talking about it because we're talking about blue collar workers.

Yeah, workers.

Just because they don't have a hammer in their hand does not make them blue collar work.

Right.

I come from a blue collar background, my whole entire family on both sides.

Blue collar, blue collar, blue collar, manual labor.

The same thing is going on in the entertainment industry with actors, with creatives, with

your best boy, your editors, all of these things are working their tails off for oftentimes

very, very low income work.

What accumulates to minimum wage or even less sometimes, yes, even less.

All this happening because of this power struggle and because of these companies who's in

control, right?

Between this and I will say there is one other factor.

They're scared.

They are scared.

They're always scared.

They're so afraid to take any chances or do anything that might not get the ratings or

might get them canceled or any of these kind of things that the creative creativity is

out of the game.

It's not there anymore.

And then you wonder why people don't want to watch TV because nothing to watch except

the stuff that isn't like that, you know, like sports.

And that's why so many sports.

There was an article I can't remember where it was.

It's like TV this fall sports is eating TV.

That's the headline.

And that's because it's safe.

It is so safe.

You don't have to worry about all these different things, right?

That's why.

There's so few events that bring people to the screen in real time.

Right.

Exactly.

Most everything.

Oh, I can catch that later.

Oh, I can watch it on my time.

That's not what's important to them.

What they want is you there in real time right now.

Sports, you know, sports is the thing that can guarantee that.

Not even award shows can guarantee that.

Not anymore.

No, not anymore.

Just live and you get that's prime advertising dollars right there.

That's the stuff you want to be able to offer clients is that time and that's where that's

why it's so valuable and that's where they keep throwing more and more sports on the

networks.

Again, ABC owned by Disney over on Disney plus Kristen Ritter will return as Jessica Jones

in season two of Daredevil born again.

I'm excited about that.

That's cool.

She's great.

She's great.

She's great.

Sorry.

And now it's the season four of the bear will hit Hulu and its entirety on June 25th.

One of those shows I if I had the time I'd be watching right.

I got friends that are extras and stuff on that show and that's cool.

I really I hear great things about it and never had a time.

And they also unveiled a trailer for Kim Kardashian's legal drama All's Fair which is coming to Hulu

sometime this fall.

I mean, I don't know.

Maybe she's great actor.

I don't know.

Who knows?

Might be who knows.

You never know.

Fox unveiled its fall schedule and it does not include the mass singer.

It's not canceled.

It's just on break.

It'll be back in January.

In the fall, it's time slide to be taken over by the floor, hosted by Rob Lowe.

They'll be followed by a new game show called 99 to beat hosted by Ken Jong and Aaron

Andrews.

Aaron Andrews.

Gonna be good at that.

I know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ken Jong's good at everything.

Yes.

Other new shows include Memory of a Killer, a dramatic thriller starring Patrick Dempsey

as a hitman.

Okay.

With onset on Alzheimer's.

Okay.

That's already been done.

Batista just did a movie about that.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, apparently they wanted to take it through a series.

Patrick Dempsey, Mick Dremey as a hitman.

All right.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Maybe he's good.

Maybe he'll be able to pull it off.

Well, I mean, they say dramatic killer on network TV.

I mean, you know, how much dramatic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And best medicine, a one hour comedy starring Josh Charles as a surgeon.

There's another one that you're going to be seeing a lot more of medical dramas and

stuff that the No Wiley show that did really well on HBO is kind of going to lead.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

That one.

And I think those two shows you just mentioned, the Patrick Dempsey one and then the medical

one.

I think those, if I heard again from another article that those are the only two hours

of scripted television that's going to be on Fox this season, two hours a week.

That's it.

You're going to hear a lot of noise about that and again, what I said earlier.

That's what it all comes down to.

It's totally, yeah.

You're right there.

Nothing to do with entertainment has nothing to do with doing their, the producers doing

their job and entertaining people.

It's about power.

It's about who has control of the, of the products.

Well, and, and this, this pettiness of, oh, we, we didn't get the deal.

We thought we would, you know, or any of that stuff.

What?

James, you tell me there's petty people at Hollywood.

What?

I am shocked.

Fox is also reviving two classic competition series Celebrities Weekest Link and Fear

Factor.

Two.

Yeah.

Right.

I don't care.

To me, also got to make an announcement since it's owned by Fox, the announcement was breaking

bear and adult animation series about bears, but it does have Brendan Frazier as one

of the voices.

Well, hey.

Well, that's not bad.

I like that part of it.

And finally, NBC, the number fourth, fourth spot in the race, where they have been most

years.

And in recent years, NBC universal shocky to think about when we were kids, man, NBC was

like the juggernaut.

Mm hmm.

That's amazing.

Anyway, I never would have guessed it.

Never would have guessed it.

NBC unveiled its, your, your universal unveiled its false schedule.

It means heavily on the NBA, which NBC hasn't had the right to since 2002.

They spent a lot of money on that.

They did.

Well, we'll see what happens.

Yeah.

They did hire Michael Jordan to contribute.

I, I may judge, obviously a gigantic Michael Jordan fan, and I'm very interested in this.

And it could, it could be just blow up in everybody's face.

Yes.

But hey, that's, it's, it's, give it a shot.

I'm most famous people on the planet.

I guess, you know, why not?

You know, it should be on paper.

Oh, you have the greatest of all time doing this and talking about this.

This is going to be great.

And then we see Tom Brady.

And then we see, and not just even, not even to pick on him, you know, others like

Damarino and others that were, they tried.

Yep.

Paid Manning is great scripted.

Yes.

Paid Manning is really good in those regards.

Yes.

You got to put him with his brother, who was a little bit better at this, actually, to

really turn that show into something and everything.

Otherwise, it's not, there's no, the charisma is not there.

Right.

I don't know.

I will see how he does.

People will be watching.

That's for sure.

Tuesday nights will be devoted to basketball.

And Sunday nights will be added in 2026 once NBC's deal with the NFL is over.

That is going to be very interesting.

Yes.

NBC losing the rights of Sunday night football.

Yeah.

That's huge.

Yeah.

That's huge.

NBC also hyped up its new comedy, the fall and rise of Reggie Dinkins starring Tracy Morgan.

That, I am excited about that.

And Daniel Radcliffe also stars in Tina Fey's among the producers.

So Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe at a TV in a comedy together.

A couple.

Yeah.

So I think I'm not a couple.

I, that one, that's probably the show I'm new shows.

That's probably the one I'm most excited about.

There's also a subtle, a mockumentary about junior college cheerleaders.

And it's an untitled comedy about a staff of native community center in Oakland, California.

Oh.

NBC is bringing back St. Dennis Medical, Happy Place, Brilliant Minds and Hunting Party.

All did very way better than expected, especially that St. Dennis Medical, which I think is really cool.

Again, I haven't seen it, but a lot of actors I like on their David Allen Greer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The lady from Reno 9-1-1 in the Goldbergs, the mom on the Goldbergs.

I can't remember that.

I can not remember that.

A lot of good actors on that one.

Oh.

Anyway, Jimmy Fallon has new, uh, Reality series, I don't care, um, but maybe you do, maybe

you do.

Uh, if you do, uh, on Brandwood, Jimmy Fallon will be coming out and they're bringing

back the voice in Chicago and Law and Order shows.

All those are coming back.

Also, uh, the, uh, preview of the paper, which is the office spin-off, which will feature

Oscar Nunez.

It's coming to peacock in September.

Okay.

Wow.

Wow.

It's the only one of all of these that we've gone over that is actually doing a number of

scripted.

Well, some stuff like this.

Absolutely.

Way more than the other ones.

I mean, like new ones, too.

They're actually unveiling some things, which again, when you're last in the, in the ratings,

man, why not?

Yeah.

Why not give it a shot?

Uh, I, uh, 100%.

I also find it, uh, uh, borderline sad that the one network that can afford to take the

chances, the least is the most willing to do it.

Certainly to your point there that is noteworthy, but also what, uh, what a sad state of entertainment

where they are taking the personality out of sports and now they're doing it to entertainment.

Right.

They have done it to entertainment.

And really, you know, not to make this go too long.

But I'm wondering if it's really, have we reached the point of expansion?

So when baseball, I'll use baseball as an example, right?

So baseball expands, they add two new teams, usually it's how it works, right?

To keep the balance of the leagues.

What happens is all of a sudden you get a, uh, a dearth of pitching.

You're calling up pictures who probably shouldn't be in the major leagues, right?

Which means every time there's an expansion, the bats go crazy because the pitching has been

watered down.

I wonder if that's what's happening in entertainment.

We have all of these streaming services that are all throwing out tons and tons of content

and product and all this stuff.

Are they, is it being watered down or are we, is it being spread, is the talent being

spread too thin?

So that's one of the other reasons.

I mean, totally what you're saying about the power struggle, that obviously is going on

too in a lot of cases.

But I wonder if that is part of it too.

Are we getting subpar stuff because there's just, we got to fill time and we got all these

places that need to fill time.

Most things, uh, in life don't have just one answer.

I think you're on to something there.

I think there's a number of those kind of things going on.

Um, because when we were kids, you wouldn't see a guy not even betting 200 in the majors.

Oh, and now it is watered down.

Yeah.

There's too many teams.

Yeah.

And there's probably too many, uh, shows, uh, too many things.

Yep.

And I don't have time to watch any of them.

I know.

Nope.

Who does?

Yeah.

Seriously.

We don't have time to watch anything.

Well, I'm, I'm pretty certain and I can't prove this.

This is just one of those things you say that you can't prove half of these things aren't

even real.

Like, I see commercials for stuff all the time on YouTube, but I'm like, that ain't

real.

It's not a real thing.

It's trying to fill time.

Yeah.

It's actually advertising, though.

We will get to our news.

Sports and partner break will be back with more show coming up on Mornings at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We're going to get into our schedule and some good stories of the day, some great local

events going on today and just a little bit.

We're right now talking about new parents.

All right.

A new poll found the average new parent in 2025 will take around a thousand photos of their

kid in the first year or about three a day.

Woo.

That's a lot.

That is a lot.

That's a lot of pictures.

Man.

They'll also celebrate almost 50 milestones in their child's first year.

The top three parents look forward to our, the top things parents look forward to.

Of course, first steps, first word and first laugh.

The milk brand Horizon Organic did the poll, which also found 56% of new parents are already

worried about their kid being a picky eater.

Oh.

Okay.

My mom just looks at that and then just tells me about it.

Yeah.

Right.

Laughs.

Chop.

You have no idea.

I don't, I don't, I'm trying to think if I'm having, you know, the odds and the ums and

everything everybody, it's because I'm trying to think of my head and trying to do math.

I'm trying to think if this is a lot or actually it's less than I would have expected.

Oh.

Okay.

Now, every day you can, when, when, especially a newborn or a child from one to three,

I would say, if not longer, you can go, but just for now, one to three.

Every day, I could see a parent wanting to take a picture of their kid because they do

this or they do that.

Right.

Whatever.

They could just be laying there and you want to take a picture because they're sleeping

so sweet or something like that.

Right.

Um, I don't, I, and I have zero issue with any of this.

Yeah.

Uh, it's part of the love of being a parent, loving your kid and wanting multiple, multiple

pictures.

Right.

Um, I, I've heard people like kind of, um, you know, miss the idea of photo albums.

We still have photo albums.

We just carry them around with us now.

Yeah.

No, it's, photo albums were a lot of work.

You had to remember that too.

That's the thing.

Getting your film developed.

I think more pictures are being taken just because it's easier and we have the immediate,

you know, the, the satisfaction of having that picture right here with you now.

I think that's why you're going to take a ton of pictures, you know?

So I'm, I think, honestly, it's better now, uh, for, for, uh, documenting your child's

first, whatever, than it ever was, uh, before when we didn't have camera, camera phones.

I, um, and, and while I think that, uh, you know, there's, it, it feels like there's

such a quick response to anything involving tech, it's negative or it's hurting or anything

like that.

Right.

Um, I, I am certain that there are people out there smarter than me that can probably

find holes in this and positives in this on both sides of things.

Sure.

Sometimes things are just a thing though.

That's true.

Maybe to, to says point, we just, we were walking around with, uh, not just cameras anymore.

We're walking around with movie theater, uh, movie studios, movie studios.

You can do it.

People have done this.

They've shot an entire movie from their camera.

So you can do it.

Some of the mission impossible movie that's coming out was shot on an iPhone.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, yeah.

How remarkable is that?

It's crazy.

So it's, of course, we're going to be using the technology and maybe this, maybe this

will even out.

Yeah.

Maybe I know that there are parents out there, even long before this study was done, um,

that were nervous about this and don't want a lot of pictures of their kids.

There's a lot of, a lot of parents I know that, um, are holding back and pushing against

their, uh, you know, parenting nature to, hey, look at my kid.

Look at my kid.

Which we all do.

Yeah.

And I recommend to every parent.

Yeah.

But there's this pushback, not pushback, but there's this concern now of doing any of that

on social media.

And I completely understand that I have no idea what I would be like.

As a modern day parent when it comes to that, I was one of those parents that couldn't

wait to show my kids and, and people's faces and everything and any, any, any opportunity

I have, I mentioned my kids, um, I, I get some of that stuff.

It's interesting to see where all these things are going.

Yeah.

100%.

And as a modern parent, Seth, yeah, more modern, more modern than me, you know, kids are

definitely on.

Right.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I empathize with the modern parent when it comes to this and again, trying to fix the

boat on the water and trying to, you know, technology has lapped us and trying to keep

up with all those things.

Right.

Right.

And, uh, and, you know, we go a lot of directions.

I'm not going to belabor the point, but it is, it's nice to be the thing that's fun

about it.

It's not necessarily taking the pictures, posting them on social media or anything like

that, which obviously I don't do because I don't do social media, but it's just having

that there with you, you know, sometimes your phone will put up like this day, look, look

what happened on this day five years ago and you got some pictures of you.

And it's like, wow, that's cool.

You know, I can have some memories just right there every day if I wanted to.

My, um, my phone is my palette cleanser in many ways.

Mm-hmm.

I think most people look at their phone and it's, oh, I got to put it away.

I got to do these things when I need a smile and I'm needed a lot of them lately.

I pull up pictures of my kids.

Yep.

You know, there you go.

It's one of those things that doesn't work.

It can be very therapeutic, yeah.

Or Sammy, my parents dog, I pull them up too.

Um, no, I, I, I, I, I will, I'm sorry to do this to the audience, but I did bring this

topic up as a segue to a much heavier topic.

Okay.

And again, we don't shy away from things around here.

We, we face them as a community, as friends, as, as all of those things.

So I get ready to call up, get ready to email me all that James.

That mail of it's if it media.us, uh, I, I, I, I welcome it.

I want to hear from you guys.

Someone did a poll on Reddit about how many chuggas come before Chuchu?

It's a heavy one, Seth.

But look, I apologize for his business, I did not, I, we usually try to send prep to

our co-hosts.

Yeah.

Everything.

I did not prep you for this.

I apologize.

But makes it sometimes hard to do.

We just got to run into these topics and just face them.

How many chuggas before a Chuchu?

The choices are two, four, six, eight, or 12.

What?

Whoa.

Whoa.

Whoa.

Over a thousand people voted and the winner is two chuggas.

Yeah.

Because those are parents with multiple kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they got all the things to do.

Uh, 33% said two, 25% said four, 15% six, 18% at eight, and eight% said 12.

That's a lot of chuggas.

Notice no odd numbers none in that we got to keep the symmetry.

Yeah.

You got to keep the even number there.

The rhythm going in everything.

So chugga, chugga, chuchu, that's, I vote for two because that's the way I'm right there.

Try it like this.

How weird is this sound?

Chugga, chugga, chugga, chuchu.

Mmm.

Mmm.

Mmm.

Three?

That's weird, man.

No, don't make sense.

Four.

Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chuchu.

Yeah, that works.

Yeah, I can go with that.

Yeah.

Wrinkled my brain.

I'm telling you.

You can't do an odd number.

It sounds weird.

Maybe you run into this too and other parents that have kids very close in age.

My son, like two.

My daughter.

Keep going.

Keep going.

As long as you keep going.

Just.

Is he was like that with every game I kid you not for 45 minutes straight.

We played London Bridges falling down for 45 minutes just so she could do the whole falling

down part.

Yes.

Yes.

But the last 20 of them were just speeding up the falling down.

Yeah.

Gotta get to the fun part, right?

The falling down.

Set the night on a break earlier.

We're talking about what I was just telling them like my knee is killing me and I don't

know why.

There we go.

That's why.

Thank you, Ismael.

That's all because of London Bridge.

Oh my gosh.

I think that's a fun one.

You can find a complete poll if you want on reddit.com.

I like that.

Oh my god.

That's a fun one.

How many chuggos?

That's a good one.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and wrap the show.

Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning Show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James here to wrap up the show.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world.

Bit of fun show, Seth.

Yeah.

We had a lot of fun today.

Good Wednesday show.

My least favorite day of the week.

We tried to make it through it.

Yeah, exactly.

We tried to make it through it for you and everybody out there.

We're halfway through the week.

Everybody's hanging there.

We're getting done.

We're going to get into some good stories

at the day in a moment.

But I don't want to talk about our schedule

and some great things happening in our area first.

And a quicker reminder to everybody

that we are less than a week away from Raptor baseball.

We are.

Oh my gosh.

Wonderful.

Opening day happened on Memorial Day right here at WFHR

where it belongs at 620, a Raptor's hosting green bay.

Austin Thomas is going to be calling that one for you.

A new guy, yeah.

If you didn't get to hear Austin on playmakers the other day

encourage you to go check the podcast and listen to that.

And hear that golden voice of that kid.

A good voice.

He does.

Absolutely.

He is excited.

And we're going to have so much fun with our renouncers this year.

The talent they are bringing to Winterfield and your coach.

Yeah.

Man, it's going to be a blast.

This Friday on playmakers, Coach Ziggy's going to be joining us.

We'll talk to the Raptor's new head coach in our manager.

Well, no, actually no playmakers because of the softball game.

But you will be recording an interview with Coach Ziggy, yes.

For probably the next Wednesday playmakers or something.

Yeah, right.

We'll be playing it and maybe make it available on the podcast.

Yeah, we'll see.

We'll see.

We can do lots of stuff with it.

We're definitely looking forward to talking to Coach.

Yeah.

And we want you to come on down to the studios here.

Pick up one of these Raptor pocket schedules and make your plans for Winterfield this

summer.

They've got so many great promotions and great things going on.

I'll wait.

I'll wait.

And soon we'll be giving some trick or some words.

Yes, yes.

All we can wait to burn in the hole in my pocket.

I want to get him away right now.

And a little bit later this afternoon, four to five, join us on 1055WRI for playmakers.

We speak sport.

Yes.

Yes.

Michael Comer going to be joining us today.

We'll be having some fun.

We're going to give him the NFL schedule a little bit, talk about some other great things

there.

Maybe some spring playoffs for high school sports as well.

I'm sure Mike's on the, he's got the skinny on all that.

We'll be talking about that.

And speaking of local sports, the WIA just made some new rules and some changes.

I'll get into that with Michael as well.

Today, I'm playmakers from four to five brought to by quality plus printing and family

natural foods.

Nice.

Seth got some great things going on in their area.

The kids are wrapping up their concerts.

Yep.

For the year, Lincoln High School or Rams concerts wrapped up yesterday, hope they went

well.

Congratulations to them.

Port Edwards wrapped up a little while ago.

And so did assumption.

I hope they all had a great time.

Yep.

Still got time for some shows like today at six o'clock over in Nicosah at Alexander

Middle School in Nicosah High School.

They'll have their band concerts.

Nice.

Be sure to check that out, everybody.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And Lincoln still has a couple more coming up next week.

We'll get into those then.

Yes.

Be sure to be on the lookout, make plans for them, everybody.

Yes, indeed.

And Seth, it is Wednesday.

We know what that means around here.

Bingo.

Over at the Elk Slodge, number 693, 430 West Jackson Street, doors open at five.

Bingo starts at 630 p.m. go have some fun and support.

Our friends at the Elk Slodge, all the great stuff they do for our community.

Appreciate the gang over there.

Great people over there.

Yes, it does.

And one other thing, one of the make sure that we mention here, Seth.

So coming up next Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day, because they got smart and realized

we want to have steak too.

Yes.

The VFW post of 2534 is having their annual steak feed next Tuesday from 430 to 7 o'clock.

This is open to the public at, of course, the Donald J. Canuth Memorial Hall, 2711 Red

and Road.

Now here is what you get, everyone, this fabulous meal, it's $30.

And it includes a 12 ounce, you heard that right, a 12 ounce New York strip steak with

sauteed mushrooms, sauteed onions, you've got baked potato or some rice pilaf, you've

got corn or green beans, dinner rolls, all kinds of desserts, of course, all the fixings

along with that.

There is some limited takeout available.

And you can figure that, you can get that set on the day on Tuesday.

And there's also going to be an open bar, our cash bar with sodas beer and wine that will

be available on the premises.

And of course, all the proceeds support VFW post 2534.

And it's ongoing mission to support veterans and their families here in Central Wisconsin.

So you get a great steak dinner and you support our vets at the same time.

Big thank you to them for doing this and all the great people that volunteer and help

out with that event.

We'll be talking about it more and more as we get closer to it.

We will indeed.

Like we will be with Clean Sweep, Wood County Agriculture and Household Hazardous Waste

Disposal Clean Sweep coming up in multiple areas.

Saturday, May 31st, from 8th to noon to be at the Marshfield Ag Research Station over

in Marshfield.

And then on Saturday, September 13th at Saratoga Town Hall here in Rapids.

Yes.

Encourage you to find out more by going to the Wood County Health Department's website

to find out things that can go, things that can't.

Can't do it.

Yeah, I was good.

And making plans for this.

And again, big thank you to all the volunteers to make these things happen.

100%.

A lot of people getting together to make sure that that is a successful event.

A very important event.

A very important event, yes.

And we really appreciate that.

And Sally Kissner from the Arts Council was in the other day, Seth.

And they got this great thing they'd started doing last year, a pre-season show.

Yes.

And this year, it's Yacht Rock.

I love it.

Enjoy the greatest songs in Yacht Rock history through this event.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Being joined for this event is Elliot Lurie, lead singer of Looking Glass with the Brandy

and that song and everything.

Yes.

Awesome.

Yacht Rock, the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, I'm not saying it solely did this, but

it really helped this whole thing.

It's James Gunn.

We have to give him credit for bringing back some of these bands.

I love that music.

It's awesome.

Get ready to enjoy the smooth sounds of Yacht Rock.

The fun begins at four on Sunday, August 10th.

We'll be held at the Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin Rapids.

Get your tickets and support the arts and support this community through savortheearts.com.

Save it there at SACOM.

We've got a whole full season of great acts coming up.

All kinds of great stuff.

Go to their website and check it out.

It's got some really good stuff this year.

You can listen to the interview of Sally and I going over the whole season at the Rapids

Report.

It's readyofature.com.

I encourage you to check that out and a big thank you to Sally, Eric, all the people

apart of this that really work so hard on this event.

Yes.

And we actually have a couple that we are going to be sponsoring this year as well.

We'll be talking about those when they're coming up.

Yeah.

We're, I don't know.

Anytime we get to be a part of these things, I just find it a little humbling.

Yes, great.

We've got a live remote, live remotes coming up over at 105 next week and everything.

It feels good to be out in the community again doing these things we can.

We're really looking to do more and more of this coming up in the next year, everybody.

WFHR November has a big birthday to celebrate.

We'll be doing something along with that.

We've got a lot of things lined up.

A lot of things coming up.

And 87 year old guy in Montreal was out for a walk last Thursday when he had a heart attack

and a random stranger saved his life.

Awesome.

WFHR for 20 minutes until paramedics got there and then vanished and no one knows their

name.

Oh, wow.

He ended up having a second heart attack at the hospital.

But his family says he's turned corner and he's now doing all right.

He's on the mend.

Nice.

They're trying to track the person down that saved him and helped him.

But what a rare story in today's day and age of somebody helping somebody.

And we didn't find about it because of the Facebook post or something like that.

Right.

It's fascinating.

I mean, I don't know who this person is, which is amazing, by the way, doing that.

I mean, that's a remarkable feat.

But I can understand.

Some people don't want that kind of publicity, even if it's for something good.

They're just not comfortable with it.

So who doesn't see you?

Yeah.

The Philadelphia flyers just said of the new member to their squad, a puppy named Stanley.

They're taking care of him and training him to be good around people.

He'll eventually be a service dog for a veteran or first responder.

They're working with a group, an amazing group.

America's vet dogs.