Cheers!

Good morning, Wizcats.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

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

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a great start to your Friday out there.

Let's kick it off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Brittany, what's the weather looking like this weekend?

Oh, my gosh.

It couldn't get any better.

Maybe a little warmer, but honestly, it's going to be perfect and sunny, bright and beautiful.

I mean, no complaints whatsoever.

You know, when Brittany has good weather news, she's got this extra like, umph in her voice.

You can hear it.

Absolutely.

I love it.

I love it.

Yeah, good weather.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's exactly what it's like.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's looking like a nice weekend, even going into Monday.

Yeah, it really is.

Honestly, today's high temperature is scraping about 60 degrees, a mix of sun and clouds.

Winds are calming down.

By tonight, we do have a chance for some patchy frost because our temperatures do fall to those mid-30s.

So if you've got those sensitive plants outside already, make sure you bring them in or cover them up.

Keep them warm.

And then of course, we'll warm things up as we go into Saturday and Sunday will be into those mid to upper 60s.

And I think by Memorial Day, we could be flirting with 70 degrees.

A lot more sunshine, too, as expected tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.

And the rain chances have now pushed out until Tuesday.

So we don't have to worry about any dreary weather until we go back to work.

Aw, that's great.

Gotta like that.

Gotta like that.

Oh, that's great.

Brittany, we appreciate you.

You have a great weekend.

You too, enjoy it.

You too.

Just let the audience know.

Brittany and all of us will be back on Tuesday.

That's right.

We'll be back here then.

We'll meet you then.

All right.

I appreciate Brittany joining us.

That's a lot of fun.

Always appreciate being able to be with us.

Brittany being able to be with us.

Always have a good time with us.

Certainly want to introduce our head of news, our co-host Melissa K, as well.

Good evening.

Good morning.

Hey.

Good to have you with us.

Thanks, Mel.

I'm here.

Yeah.

We got...

The three of us got a lot of fun things to get you ready for this extended weekend.

We're going to be getting into...

We're going to talk about Memorial Day quite a bit.

We got a couple of different topics there for you.

We're going to get into...

Have we forgotten what Memorial Day is about?

We'll get into that one.

That's a good one.

We got a health hack.

We'll be diving into as well.

And some travel coming up.

We're also in the 10 o'clock hour.

We're going to get into much entertainment news.

Let you know it's new on your small screen, big screen.

Maybe your email box.

Maybe I'll get into that.

And for Memorial Day, what Memorial Day meat each state loves to grill?

Oh, meat.

Always a good topic.

Got that one coming up.

And grilling and meat, yes.

They kind of go very perfectly.

They do.

A lot of local good things going on in their area.

I want to get to as well.

Plenty of fun coming up with that.

But first, let's talk travel during a Memorial Day.

Because that is certainly one of the bigger things that is going to be going on this weekend.

Correct.

If not already, there might be people out there traveling as we speak.

AAA released its Memorial Day travel report.

And they're predicting a record number of Americans will travel this year.

Wow.

The current record is stood for two decades.

Whoa.

Really?

That's incredible.

That may be the more surprising part.

Yeah.

Wow.

Okay.

They expect 45.1 million people to travel this year.

Up to, up.

That's up 3% from 2024.

Whoa.

The what?

The record is 44 million set in 2005.

Hmm.

Wow.

Now, they only count people traveling at least 50 miles from home.

So if you're, you know, over the bridge and through the woods, maybe not so much.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

But it's a decent distance to travel.

Correct.

39.4 million will drive this year.

3.6 million will fly.

And just over 2 million will use some other form of transportation like buses or trains.

Very good.

They're predicting an additional 1 million people on the roads compared to a year ago, up 3%.

So choose your departure time wisely.

Yes.

And be careful out there.

Please, please, please.

Yeah, look out for each other.

Nothing can ruin your vacation or your holiday more.

Now, it depends on where you're going.

But in general, there tends to be less traffic early in the morning if you leave around noon, expect delays.

And since nobody else is thinking of that, you'll be fine.

You'll be fine.

This used to drive my Papa crazy.

Of course, my Papa truck driver for almost 50 years.

And he felt that he had the blueprint for this.

Oh, OK.

And, you know, we got up at 5 in the morning no matter what.

If we were traveling to Rapids or we were traveling to Chicago, we were getting up at 5 in the morning.

OK.

And, you know, I was in charge of keeping my sister like either picking her up or just like making sure that she found her way into the back seat so she could fall back asleep.

And my nada would sit back there during a rosary while we were traveling.

And again, no matter the distance, that's what that woman did back there.

And I will never forget.

We're doing this and we're coming back from Chicago to come up here back from a long, long weekend.

And we hit the road and we weren't even on the highway yet and just locked.

And it's like 5.30 maybe in the morning.

It's all locked up and everything.

And just the frustration on my Papa like they had, like they cheated off his paper.

Like he was the only one that had thought of this or something.

How dare you?

How dare you?

He wasn't like that many things.

It's why I remember it so well.

Because yeah, that's funny.

And I know that there's many people out there thinking a similar thing.

So that's certainly one of the keys I think for travel.

And the biggest thing I think that one of the bigger things that people don't check on.

Triple A's got you covered with a lot of this information.

And there's certainly a lot of other things.

Snacks.

The right snacks.

Oh, very important.

So important.

And I think the biggest problem we make with snacks is we grab once a snack for everybody or multiple snacks for everybody or whatever.

It needs to be more specific.

Okay.

The driver needs certain snacks as the passenger and everybody else.

The driver needs something that they don't need to look at.

Yeah.

One hand.

One hand, whatever it is.

One hand.

And they don't need to yet reach down.

They can hold it.

Just there.

Okay.

Okay.

So soup is a bad idea.

Soup very bad idea.

Yes.

I found that one out the hard way.

Well, that one.

Yeah.

Let's you find soup on a stick.

You're good.

Then you can do it.

Cabobs.

Cabobs are perfectly well.

Perfect.

Yes.

Perfectly well.

You're in the frozen food aisle.

Hard to keep the grill steady in the car, though.

Keep that in mind, everyone.

This is leaning me up perfectly to Jimmy's cabobs shack.

This is a new restaurant.

I would go.

I would go.

I love cabobs.

I think you're right.

It's just drive through.

It's just drive through cabobs.

That's all it is.

That's all we serve.

We have one flavor.

That's it.

Everyone just comes in.

We hand you the thing and you're going your own way.

And we get your water.

We give you water and a cabob.

That's all you get.

I'm being told we already went out of business.

I'm being targeted.

It's been put a lot of great business.

Put a lot of money into that.

Oh, that is not good.

I think that's a fun part of this with snacks and everything.

I don't know.

I'd save travels to everybody out there.

Yes.

What's your favorite car snack?

Ooh, that's a good question.

For me, gummy worms and gummy things.

I don't know why.

I have no idea why.

But it's always been...

It's some sugar while you're driving.

It's not a bad thing.

Probably some nostalgia involved with it, too.

Probably.

It's a sugar thing.

Yeah.

What about you, Melissa?

Chex mix.

Oh, see.

Now, that's a good one.

It's right here.

I'm a board.

I don't really like it all that much any other time, but...

Oh, that's traveling.

I mean...

That's okay.

But I don't...

Yeah.

I would prefer gardenos.

Okay.

That's interesting.

Get that little anchovy flavor in there?

Yeah.

I think I brought this up before, but the certain...

Well, yeah, with winter and soup for me.

And certain things like that.

The idea that, you know, you've got to be in the car driving.

If you want to have...

That's interesting.

We all got stuff like that.

Yeah.

And just always find those kind of things interesting.

What about you, Seth?

What's your go-to?

I don't really have anything in particular.

I just eat, you know, whatever the kids have.

I'll have one of those.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Whatever the people eat.

Yeah.

Melissa.

That's not picky.

Melissa, if he said, you guys guessed.

Tell me that's not what we would have guessed.

That's insane.

Whatever the kids have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm not picky, but I'm really not.

Seth prefers jujubees.

Yeah.

I'll get stuff that no one else wants to eat.

Then I'll be good.

I'll have my black licorice, you know,

I'll have that and then my, you know,

no one else.

I'll be the only one eating it.

I think another good snack in the car

or anywhere, especially at the ballpark,

is cracker jacks.

I mean, it's in the song.

It is.

It's right there.

And every Friday, all summer long,

us and our civic media of brethren

are going to be giving you a chance to win tickets

to see your brewers.

Yes.

Your chance to win a four pack of brewer tickets

is happening every Friday this summer.

All I got to do is listen to a four key word to text do

us through the civic media app in this statewide contest.

Big shout out to the Milwaukee brewers,

working with us and everything.

It's been a lot of fun.

Of course, keep in mind, everybody.

Not this station because we got

a raft of baseball to play and stuff,

but a lot of our civic media radio stations

carry brewer baseball for you.

Be sure to use that civic media app to find them

and check out your brewers all summer long.

All right.

What is your key word for this 23rd?

So you can go ahead and get tickets

possibly to see this Tuesday.

Make 27th brewers taken on Boston.

That's a good matchup.

Yeah.

That's a fun matchup.

You don't get that one every day.

No, you don't.

No, you don't.

Two teams playing each other.

What word should you text to us through the civic media app?

Well, base.

Base.

B-A-S-E.

Yes.

Not the instruments.

Not the fish.

No, not that.

The three of us have been working together.

That's fast.

Yeah.

We've been working together for a while.

Even I know that.

And I don't fish.

B-A-S-E.

Texted to us through the civic media app.

Everybody.

Not only are you going to get a chance to win those tickets

to see the brewer's next Tuesday.

Got one already.

Someone just popped it right in there.

Keep them coming, everybody.

Yeah.

And you do have to spell it correctly.

Yes, you do.

Otherwise, it won't register.

Yep.

I don't know about you guys,

but every time my phone vibrates from somebody texting in,

that's bragging rights to me.

That's right.

For sure.

Keep texting in, everybody.

B-A-S-E.

We'll get this word out there a number of times

throughout the next couple of hours.

So you can get as many chances as you can

to be able to win these tickets.

Or we can get as many people as many chances.

Yeah.

These are great tickets, by the way, everyone.

In fact, these tickets are so good,

I think that we should have a station base.

We should get tickets to one of the games

just to bring Melissa.

So she can see what really nice baseball seats are.

And how cool they are, OK?

Yeah.

I change your thoughts on going to baseball games, so.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I'd be willing to try.

Sure.

If you're going to go to a game,

that is a nice way to go.

Yeah, it is.

I've never had anything like that.

I've been to a probably five or six baseball games.

I've never been anywhere,

but in the bleacher seats.

The bleacher stuff like that.

I wouldn't even know what to do.

But do we have to wear a tie?

Do you have to wear a tie?

Do you have to wear a tie?

Only if it doubles as a napkin.

Yeah.

You're going to take your shoes off before you go into the system.

I don't know.

I'm sorry, sir.

I am really uncomfortable and bad

when it comes to some of those scenarios

where it comes out the fancier situations or whatever.

My grandmother was very adamant about us having manners

in which spoon to use and fork and some of those things.

So I'm OK with some of that stuff.

But everything else, I am,

I don't know, me and a church.

It's just nervous,

and I'm just waiting for the hammer to fall.

I don't know.

I don't know.

We got El Café,

Bertin and the Versailles Club coming up everybody

where we are not just going to celebrate,

like we usually do on Fridays,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

We got Monday to celebrate.

Oh, a whole bunch of days.

Yeah.

Nice.

All coming up with our great friends at El Café

right here on Mornings at WFHR.

My mother, I'm so happy.

I'm gonna join the way.

We were the fans who see this celebration.

We're the brothers of the year.

You heard the boys.

It's time to do some celebrating

with our great friends over at El Café

in the Bertin and the Versailles Club.

Go treat yourself.

Get down over to $2.21 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Thank the gang at El Café.

Get some great food in the restaurant.

Get some El Café, get some great food in you

and enjoy your weekend with them everybody.

They got some great stuff going on over there

and keep in mind that getting more and more

famous fish fry every Friday gets more famous.

Be sure to check that out over there

at our friends at El Café.

Deliciously also.

That's the only Spanish word I know.

When you get there and you do use

your broken Spanish with them.

Apologize.

Yeah, first.

Get some weird look.

And I also encourage you to thank them

for sponsoring this segment.

And supporting the work that we do here and everything.

Again, checking around hearing from listeners.

We're really the only people doing a segment

like this around here.

And there's so many people out there

that still love this stuff.

So we appreciate it.

I mean, it was the last time we were at

at El Café.

Fidel came out and he was just chatting with people.

You know, stopping by.

How's everything going?

That kind of thing, man.

That's so great about local businesses.

Yeah.

You get to have that kind of personal touch.

It's really nice.

Real genuine care for what he does and everything.

And it's really, really shows, really shows.

We appreciate our friends over there.

Did you see what they have on Fidel's

chicken alfredo?

No.

I missed that.

Well, chicken, bacon, and jalapenos on pasta.

Oh, man, that's so good.

Smothered in creamy alfredo sauce served with garlic bread.

Oh my gosh, that sounds delicious.

That is really good.

The bacon.

The bacon with the jalapenos.

Oh my god, that sounds amazing.

In my defense, I was a little distracted

by one of their memes they posted.

Great food brought to you by Knuckleheads.

That's really good.

That's really good.

Yes, and then their heads superimposed on their bodies.

Yeah, I love it.

But they did put Kim's head on, like, address that she,

like, she wears stuff like that all the time.

Yes, she does.

So cute.

That works out.

That worked out for her.

That's great.

Great to use that back in time with Kim.

That's great.

Great team over there.

Good morning to all of our friends at El Café.

We wish them a great holiday weekend.

Yeah.

And we encourage birthdays and anniversaries live

on the air, of course.

You can join us, everybody.

Now you can go ahead and email us if you'd like ahead of time.

Email us at infoetwfhr.com.

Direct message us on our Facebook pages,

WFHR or WiRI.

And you can use that civic media app

or you can just go ahead and call on up.

Yep.

That number is 715-424-2600.

Love to hear from you, everybody.

We're looking forward to you joining the conversation.

Let's go ahead and dive right into our local birthdays.

And again, we've got four days to do here, everybody.

Woo!

Lots of work.

Seth, I need a one or a two from you.

One.

I think this is that one right there.

Gonna, uh, uh, uh, there we go.

And Melissa, I need a one through three.

Woo.

Two.

Okay, guess this is that qualifier.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, there we go.

And I don't know what that is.

I'm so sorry.

I'm going to turn it on.

We're going to turn it on.

No, this is what he's writing.

It's one of the, like,

it's more of a sign that I'm getting older than anything else to me.

And I'm more and more turning into a poor man's version of my father.

Yeah.

You watch.

Pretty soon I'm going to start singing like random songs.

Just around here.

Just making everything into songs, like my father,

and my voice is going to slowly start turning into this.

Let's watch.

It's going to happen.

Uh, we first up want to wish a very happy birthday to Jerry Hafferman.

Happy birthday, Jerry.

Happy birthday, Jerry.

Jerry with a J.

Just so everybody knows, uh, Jerry.

Uh, I love calling that ox.

I love that spelling.

J.

R.R.I.

Is a great spelling of it.

Happy birthday, Jerry.

Enjoy the day.

And our qualifier,

Ariana Cleveen.

Oh, happy birthday, Jerry.

Yeah, Ariana.

Sorry.

Ariana.

Happy birthday, Ariana.

Great.

Have great name.

And I wish you a great birthday.

Ariana, you're our qualifier today.

Taking a look at Saturday,

birthdays first up.

Want to wish a very happy birthday to a couple of civic media, brethren.

Uh, Chris Simmons.

Uh, Kim Simmonsson.

Uh, from Richard Center.

Oh, Chris Simmons.

And yes, yes.

Happy birthday, Chris.

Uh, also Jacob Morgan, producer and recene.

Yeah.

New producer.

He's, he's brand new.

He just started recently.

Brand spunker.

Happy birthday.

And Robert Pilot, a host of Native Roots Radio.

Oh, yes.

I love Robert.

I love Robert's voice, his delivery.

He's so good at that show.

I love that show.

They've been doing that for decades.

Yeah.

You get a chance, everybody.

Make sure to check out Native Roots.

Native Roots.

Yeah.

Really good show.

Very proud that we have that show here at the civic media stations.

And, uh, we take a look at Sunday, birthdays.

Uh, first up, want to wish happy birthday to Lewis Rodney.

Happy birthday, Lewis.

Happy birthday, Lewis.

Happy birthday, Lewis.

Enjoy the day, Lewis.

Thank you for working today.

And we wish a happy birthday to Cindy Nielson.

Happy birthday, Cindy.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Cindy.

And our qualifier on Sunday,

celebrating her 90-second birthday, Rose Nash.

Oh.

Oh, happy birthday, Rose.

Happy birthday, Rose.

We're wishing you the best of days, Rose.

We appreciate you.

We hope you have a fantastic day.

Enjoy your day.

And if you see Melissa, you can thank her.

She got your name.

She got the answer.

She's very nice.

Very nice.

Nicely done.

Uh, and then Monday for Memorial Day.

We want to celebrate civic media's own Megan Simp,

uh, office services.

Oh, that's a birthday Megan?

Yeah.

Traffic in Madison, working in our Madtown office.

Yeah.

Pam's colleagues.

Yeah, that's right.

Happy birthday, Megan.

Yeah, Megan's awesome.

Uh, and, uh, our qualifier for Memorial Day,

Garrett Olson.

Happy birthday, Garrett.

Happy birthday, Garrett.

Happy birthday, Garrett.

Enjoy the day, Garrett.

Uh, I don't know if that's a popular name, first name or not.

Uh, but I've always liked that day, Garrett.

It pops up, not every now and then, yeah.

I dated a Garrett.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Uh, I don't know if I've ever met a Garrett.

I don't know.

So that's, uh, gets me thinking of it when I see those names.

Let's take a look at who everybody is, uh,

sharing their birthday with first up on our list for today.

Uh, one of the most, uh, powerful and sought after directors

in the game, Ryan Kugler's 39.

Ooh.

Black.

39.

Wow.

Really hit the mark a while back, but once you start to work with Marvel

is when his name really blew up with the black panther, of course.

Films, yep.

Uh, a lot of people consider one of the greatest, uh, superhero movies of all time.

Uh, uh, and, and a lot of that came down to a lot of his, uh, acting,

his casting choices, not with just with Chadwick Boseman,

but with Michael B. Jordan, um, and it's hard for me to say that, um,

you know, Heath Ledger's performance, uh,

anything that competes with that until I seen black panther.

And then I was like, okay, there's, there's the second one right there.

Um, a Killmonger, Michael B. Jordan's performance as Killmonger

is one of the greatest I've ever seen.

Period.

Not just in superhero movies or anything.

There you go.

It's incredible.

He's one of the best villains of all time.

Uh, and, and the perfect played it will bill it.

And then, right, it starts with Ryan Kugler.

Uh, sinners as well, uh, creed movies that he's done right now.

Sinners has just been a gang, gangbusters in the box office.

Man, it's a staying power.

Alaska's own jewel is 51.

Oh, singer, songwriter that a lot of us, uh, listen to in high school.

Will it save your soul?

Yes, they did.

Will it save your soul?

No, listen to now.

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, who will save your soul?

I've listened to in the past year, I would say.

That's probably the one that I go back to the most with her.

But that first album of hers was incredible.

Yes.

I don't believe there was a bad song on that.

Ken Jennings is also 51.

Oh.

Oh, Jeopardy host to once won 74 straight episodes for more than 2.5 million.

Yes.

The Jeopardy guy.

Wow.

You know, they should have just made him the host.

I mean, we had, we had to, I know Alex Trebek was still the host at that point.

But as soon as Alex had to leave and everything, they should have just made Ken Jennings the host.

Yeah.

They should have done in hindsight.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It actually does a pretty good job.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think he's done a great job.

Uh, let's take a quick phone call.

A good morning or on the show?

Hi.

This is Rose Nash.

The old lady that's going to have a birthday on 1992.

Hey, Rose.

I've been a loyal listener of WSjar.

I remember Arnie Stroke.

I remember Jarge for a shot.

There was a, I think he was a manager.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

I remember Greg Gack.

Oh, Greg.

Carl Hilke.

All these good announces that you've had over the years.

We've enjoyed WSjar for so many years.

It means the world to us, Rose.

And we'll keep on listening and have a good day and a happy Memorial Day.

Oh, thank you.

Enjoy your birthday, Rose.

Yeah.

Thank you, absolutely.

Bye.

Bye.

Uh-huh.

Best listeners in radio.

Oh, man.

Best listeners in radio.

Well, listeners in radio.

Yeah, I'm telling you.

Taking a look at people who are celebrating birthdays today.

Uh, my favorite voice actor of all time by far and away, H. John Benjamin is 59.

The voice of Sterling Archer, Bob on Bob's Burgers, um, home movies, uh, Arby's commercials.

I mean, just, he, to me, he is the Al Pacino voice actor.

I, I will stay, die on that hill.

I, I just, I think he's not a bad choice.

Not a bad choice.

I think he's great.

Drew Carey is great too.

He's 67 today.

Oh, wow.

Who's lying?

Is it any way?

Price is right.

Of course, uh, the Drew Carey show.

Mm-hmm.

Good morning.

Hello, Cleveland.

Mm-hmm.

Well, really interesting career he's had.

He has.

He has all starts with stand-up.

Stand-up comedian.

Yep.

That's right.

And he was very good, stand-up comedian too.

Yeah.

I, he was lying.

He's my favorite, uh, host on Who's Line.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Be sure.

I really, I, I love, um, you know, uh, to be fair, some of the other hosts I've seen the

job.

He seems so like, I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this in that moment.

Right.

Where he's just laughing along with the audience and all that.

And he just seems like he, like, oh, yeah, I got a job to do.

Yeah, right.

You know, I just kind of know.

A lot of fun.

Name's out of the hat.

You know what all that?

Everything.

I'm 100% with you, Melissa.

Uh, Mitch Elboom is 67.

Oh, famous Detroit sports writer.

Of course, uh, the, uh, Tuesdays with Mori, the five people you meet in heaven.

Mm-hmm.

The next person you meet in heaven.

Uh, son of heaven.

No, I'm definitely not.

Um, yeah, but he's made a good living off of those books.

Off of those books.

Yes, he's, uh, but he did start out as a sports writer for Detroit.

Yes.

And, uh, some people no longer with us.

Like, Skatman Crothers born on the stay in 1910.

Uh, of course, the shining.

Uh, he was in Chico and the man and did the voice of Hong Kong Fui.

He did.

Uh, he was also a singer, which is where he got the name Skatman from.

But, uh, he's more remembered a later in his career for his acting, for sure.

Mm-hmm.

Benjamin Sherman Crothers is his real name.

Yeah, Skatman is cooler.

Thank you, Melissa.

I was wondering what his real name was.

That's very good.

Yeah.

Uh, looking at Saturday birthdays and Sunday birthdays real quick.

Daisy Egger Jones is 27 tomorrow.

Twister's star.

I, uh, didn't I know her much before that?

I'll follow her.

I really liked her Twisters.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, she did great.

I was all locked in on Glenn Powell because I wanted to see what everybody was talking about.

I hadn't really gotten to see him act, let alone being a leading man.

Did a great job.

He was really good.

He carries a movie very well.

But part of what I feel like helped him was her great performance because I thought she stepped up.

She was good.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and Will Sassos was 50 on Saturday.

Famous Mad TV player, but also on the young, um, one of the Sheldon spin-offs or whatever.

He's been on that show, too.

Yes, yes.

He just continues to find work.

Yeah.

I like him.

I think he plays a lot of different kinds of characters, too.

Interesting.

The first big names that I got to meet doing interning on Conan's show was John C. Riley,

who was 60 tomorrow.

Wow.

A comedic superstar.

Everything, you know, the partner within Crime with Will Farrell for many years.

Tell a day and night, step brothers.

The voice of Wreckett Ralph.

Oscar nominee for Chicago, which I think is his best work, Mr. He's the best.

To me, outside of Queen Latifa, he's the best part of Chicago for me.

Catherine C. Jones was really good.

Tell a thing.

By far in a way, I did not know he had that in him.

And it's still, I go back and watch it.

I'm still blown away.

Does my breath when he's singing?

Does anyone cross between comedy and drama better than John C. Riley?

Mm-hmm.

Because he does both just so well.

And I know it gets said a lot about a lot of famous people and everything.

And including, you know, Conan and stuff.

But I can't explain how sweet of a human being he is.

He's got huge hands.

And that's saying something when I'm shaking her hand and it's huge to me.

And it was not a forceful handshake.

It was a nice handshake.

It was just there.

And it goes along with some of the kindest eyes you can see.

And he does this with everybody.

He goes out of his way to just make sure he makes eye contact and say hello to people.

He was so nervous to go out there and talk to Conan.

And he's done it all at this point.

Right.

And he's been on every big show and everything like that.

But Conan actually, like, we got late in filming.

Like, the guy that opens up, they have a guy open up, do a little bit of stand-up and everything

before we, you know, they bring all the crew in.

The guy that warms up the audience.

Max Weinberg's out there getting tuned up and everything.

Well, this guy's out there doing stand-up.

They actually asked him to stretch because Riley was in the green room stuff just kind of nervous.

Even, it's kind of funny, you know, but a great human being.

Wonderful human being.

I remember him best from the River Wild in 1994.

Wow.

Wow.

That's a movie.

That's a good movie.

That's a good movie.

Yeah.

That's a good movie.

Rosanne Cash is 70 tomorrow.

And that feels good to say.

Yes.

Country singer and Johnny's daughter.

Pretty darn good performer herself.

Yes, she is.

Interesting here.

So Rosanne Cash celebrating her 70th birthday and also celebrating her 80th birthday tomorrow

in Brazil.

Oh.

LVCCXY for Lisa Marie's mother.

Oh, man.

And Patty LaBelle is 81 tomorrow.

Nice.

That's it.

Love Patty.

Oh, yeah.

Wonderful.

Great soul singer.

A new attitude.

I can imagine my mom dancing and singing that that song.

Lady Marmalade, man.

I love that song.

That's a classic.

Yep.

And Minnesota's own.

I say that for you.

Bob Dylan is 84 on Saturday.

He's 84.

Yes, yes.

We must still claim.

We must still claim Bob Dylan is.

Whoever he is these days, it doesn't matter.

He went to Hibbing High School in Northern Minnesota.

He knows who he is.

Tommy Chong is also 87 on Saturday.

That's pretty good.

That's pretty good list.

And it is.

Just a quick look at Sunday birthdays.

Silly and Murphy.

Oscar winner is 49 on Sunday.

Octavia Spencer is 55.

Nice.

That guy's good.

Mike Myers is 62.

Oh.

Nice.

Mike Myers did a sketch recently on SNL season finale,

where it was him and an elevator and Kanye shows up.

And it was in as funny as I would have liked it to be,

but just doing that sketch.

I have such a respect for Mike Myers.

He didn't have to do that sketch.

Right.

There was no reasoning for it.

It was just hilarious.

And well done by him.

I'm hoping for a comeback from Mike Myers.

I'm hoping for this version of him and everything.

He gets another shot at this.

And to do what he does best.

And out there and everything.

Frank Oz is 81 on Sunday.

The genius Frank Oz.

The amazing Frank Oz.

If somebody wanted to tell me,

that's the greatest voice actor of all time.

Not fighting him.

No.

Not fighting him.

Puppeteer.

I mean, tremendous director.

How many good movies is he directed?

I mean, yeah.

He's amazing.

He's amazing.

He's an old dark crystal.

Yes.

I mean, amazing.

No, he's in it.

For sure.

No, he directed it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A little shoppers during rotten scoundrels.

What about Bob?

I remember Frank Oz.

Anything about Frank Oz, you want to know I almost know it.

I believe you.

I totally believe the following this guy my whole life.

Great cameo at the beginning of the Blues Brothers.

Yes.

Yes.

Has Jake seen out of prison?

So real quick.

You know, obviously for those, not obvious.

Cookie Monster, Bert, Grover, Animal, Miss Piggy, Yoda.

And Fuzzy Bear.

What are my favorites?

Fuzzy.

A Fuzzy, very interesting thing.

If you notice, Fuzzy is the only Muppet that's ever driving.

And it's in part because of the hands.

And I believe if I had this right, it was Frank and Jim.

But I'm pretty sure it was more so Frank that had the idea to put his own hands in there

to mimic Fuzzy driving the car.

Which doesn't seem like maybe a big deal, but nobody was doing this stuff, man.

The stuff that Frank Oz was able to do with his voice.

You would never guess that was him.

Miss Piggy.

Yeah.

He was supposed to be Miss Piggy.

We focus on the voice so much, but the puppeteering that you brought up.

Yes.

So key to the amazing puppeteer.

It's like his legacy.

Actually, I believe Fuzzy, because you also have to manipulate the head, is almost a two person.

Yes.

Muppet, especially when you're doing driving, because you need someone to.

And I know, at least early on, both Jim and Frank did it together.

And I can only imagine what that was like.

Have those two guys together that close?

Well, they loved each other.

You know, that was quite a pairing.

And one more for you.

Sir Ian McKellum is 86 on Monday.

Sunday.

A Gandalf, of course, in the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings movies.

Magneto in the X-Men movies.

Amazing.

Shakespearean career.

Yeah.

Dimensionale.

Incredible.

Incredible actor.

And again, celebrate with our friends at El Café, everybody.

All of you celebrating out there.

Can not think of a better place to celebrate than with our friends at El Café.

Absolutely.

Have some.

Bye.

Birthday pie.

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A good morning and a happy long extended weekend to them.

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Let's go ahead and get ready to call up.

Everybody, 715-424-2600.

Tell us what TV show this is from.

Taking your way in the world today takes everything you've got.

Taking a break from all your life.

Wow.

There we are.

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Just taking a while to get to the phone.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

Would it be cured?

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Nicely done.

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Let me get this official.

There we go.

Say, who do we have on the phone with us?

Larry.

Larry, thanks so much for listening and playing along.

Larry, you a cheers fan?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

With the passing of George Went recently, I felt there was only one thing that we could do this morning.

Absolutely.

We had to do it.

Is it an easy one?

Sure.

But that's all right.

We don't care.

We're not trying to stump anybody around here.

No, we want to get some free call-vers to you, Larry.

That's fantastic.

Larry, thank you so much for listening and playing along.

We appreciate you.

Go ahead and, you know, hang on the lines.

We want to get a little information off-air from you.

But thank you so much for listening and playing along, Larry.

Great.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, this was an easy choice for me this week.

I had a couple other things lined up and then when the passing of Mr. Went and everything,

I thought, well, we got on our him.

We do.

It's a good one.

And it's just two.

I don't know.

I think in the first year we did this, we did cheers.

But I think we've really done this.

It's been a long time.

I mean, other than the promo that we did, but yes.

Right, right.

But it's also, it's, man, it's hard to say what the most iconic theme song is of all time.

There's different generations are going to say different things.

For our generation, I don't know if there's even a, I don't know who's in second place.

It's my far and away, cheers for me.

For me, I think it's between cheers and mash.

You hear the first couple of notes and you know what it is.

You're right.

That's a good one.

It's close.

It's really close.

For me, it's the, I love Lucy theme.

Oh, that's it.

That's a classic one.

It's a good one, Melissa.

I don't know.

If old school ones Dick Van Dyke for me.

Yeah.

I love that one.

Well, we're talking like, because I was just talking about what TV shows that came out

and are during our era.

Yeah.

But if we're talking, watch those.

We're talking all time.

Yeah.

I mean, all you guys mentioned, good ones.

But there is no greater theme song of all time than Sanford and sung.

You'll never get me to move on this one.

This is fabulous.

The theme song is so good.

It never gets.

Oh, God.

I love it.

We're going to talk to Larry here in a second.

He is our newest star of the day.

Thanks so much for listening.

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