Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic.
I'm joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habacker.
Good morning and the best listeners in radio.
Good things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Melo right now and
I have to be honest with you guys, my intro is a tribute to Rob Williams and Good Morning
Vietnam.
I think that's the first time I almost said Good Morning Vietnam.
Oh, I think I know.
It was really close.
It was really weird.
It was very, very weird.
Very weird.
Let's not tell anybody else about that.
Okay.
We'll keep on between us.
Yeah.
Brittany, how are you doing this morning?
Oh gosh.
I'm doing pretty good.
How are you guys?
You don't know.
All right.
We are feeling good about the weather.
It's going to be, we have an uptick coming here.
You ready for the heat?
You ready for the humidity?
Yeah.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Got to show it's on and everything.
I'm all set.
You're like, bring it somewhere.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What you got?
What are you going to say?
I'm just sitting with my arms open.
Yeah.
Just yelling at the sky.
Oh.
I'm not sure.
I'm quite ready for it.
I personally hate the humidity, which is why I live up north, but, you know, summer, we
got this.
We got the water to cool down in and we're going to have it hit us pretty high.
So, today, pretty much a lot more clouds than sunshine hanging around.
We do have a chance for some scattered showers and maybe a small storm sparking up this afternoon.
But it is a very small chance.
So, more of a likely, probably staying mainly dry today.
But then, tonight, the winds start to pick up out of the northwest.
They're going to start to pull in some wildfire smoke to the area.
That's going to really start to settle down to the surface by tomorrow morning.
So, if you have some breathing issues or health issues with that, keep in mind that tomorrow morning,
we'll probably be the worst for it.
And then, it's going to start to clear throughout the afternoon.
But the winds are going to keep pulling that in before they start to die out by tomorrow night.
So, we are looking at a hazy sky tomorrow.
It's supposed to be mostly sunny.
We'll see how much of that actually makes it through the smoke.
But the highs will hit 80 degrees.
So, we're already starting that warm-up.
Yeah.
A little bit of readiness.
Keep creeping.
Nothing too crazy.
Then we get a little blast of dry conditions.
Still bright and beautiful Saturday.
No more wildfire smoke in the upper 70s.
And Sunday, there's a humidity.
Heat starts to move back in.
80 degrees.
Get in humid.
Monday and next week, it's going to be oppressive.
Like you sticky dripping sweat kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
That means summer is here.
That's what I say.
Yeah.
I'm with you on the humidity thing.
But I just have a hard time complaining about the heat in this state.
I feel like we get so little of it and everything.
I can't.
You will never hear me complain about the heat.
Never.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But we'll take it.
We'll be happy about it either way.
We appreciate you, Brittany.
Thanks so much for the update.
We'll talk tomorrow.
We'll get people ready for the weekend.
So good.
Have a great day, guys.
You too.
Best in the business right there.
Brittany Merlot joining us every morning.
Seth and I got a great couple of hours lined up for you.
We have everybody in just a little bit.
We have the LCAP birthday anniversary club.
We have the end of an era at airports.
We have something interesting going on there.
Flying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
That's it.
We can only hope.
Yeah.
The end of an era.
Sanity.
Yeah.
Stake nuggets.
We got to talk about what that is because I did not pre-read that.
I did not.
I don't know what that is.
But we don't find out.
All right.
The 10 o'clock hour.
We're going to kick off the way we like it to on the Thursday with our friend Denise in
the Southwakani made society in our pet of the week.
Awesome.
Shout out to Milhtown Coffee Sponsor in that segment.
We also got some interesting entertainment news for you.
We have a connection between Steely Dan, Weird Al, and Hulk Hogan.
Nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's going to be interesting.
Let's do it.
Daryl Hall and Yacht Rock.
That is coming up.
And how did Peewee Herman get his name?
Ooh.
And it's all out of the way.
I do not know that.
That'll be curious.
We'll talk some rafter baseball as well.
We'll give you a chance to win some rafter tickets.
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Got a new addition in the newsletter coming up today.
Coming out today on Thursday.
All that lined up and plenty more.
It's live radio.
Who knows what can happen?
Who knows?
Got to start here.
We start local Seth in our opening monologue, Sheriff's Deputies in Wisconsin, engaged in
a quote, brief hoof pursuit with an escape pig that ended up with the porcelain proprietor
being lassoed and reeled in using heavy machinery.
Okay.
That last part you got me.
Huh?
That last part, all I was doing was trying to pronounce it.
Yes.
I did enjoy the article writer doing the alliteration there, but sometimes they can go a little overboard
with that.
Porcelain proprietor.
Porcelain, yes.
The porcelain proprietor.
Porcelain proprietor.
Yes.
Like porcelain.
Yeah.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said on social media, the deputies responded at 7.32
A.M. Saturday to call to a quote, quote, involving an animal at large in a subdivision in the town
of Wayne.
I got to admit, I don't know of the town of Wayne.
I'm not sure I know that one.
I'm not as familiar with that one.
No.
Deputies arrived to find a farmer attempting to corral a pig that fled from its home, quote,
after a brief hoof pursuit through the quiet subdivision, one deputies lassoed these
suspect like a county fair champion.
Nice.
The pig clearly unimpressed took a refreshing dip in it in a ditch while the next phase of
the operation was developing.
Okay.
The farmer and deputies used a construction vehicle with a large shovel to reel the pig into
ditch out of it and transport it to the pen.
How big was this pig?
Yeah.
That's what I want to know.
I want video.
Yeah.
I want to see some, like, oh, wait, here we go.
Here we go.
They have a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit.
Okay.
So I'm going to show Seth some of the video.
So they got a little backhoe.
Yeah.
I want it to haul it out.
Okay.
I always wanted to use one of those.
I've never gotten to use one.
Or a little bobcat.
Sorry, bobcat, as much as I should say.
Yeah.
That's not all those things.
I want to use one.
Like, no, what it's like.
So they're trying to figure this out here.
Right.
They're not just wheeling this thing over there.
I think the smile on the deputies face right there is like, oh, yeah, oh, this is going
to be fun.
Like, every, you know, incident has a number associated with it.
Right.
What is the number for that one?
Like, how do you even...
A pig has escaped, right?
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
They're getting ready.
Oh, there we go.
All right.
They're trying to...
They're getting the cord, the rope by the looks of it.
Yep.
Getting that ready.
Got a rope around the pig.
Yep.
They're kind of like, you know, that is a pig, man.
That's gigantic.
That is a large, porcine animal.
I've just seen like the back end of it and almost look like a bear.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
It is, it is thoroughly dirty.
It's hot.
Yeah.
It looks like a pig that's just rolled around the mud, which it had.
Yeah.
It just bucked.
And I didn't know pigs did that.
That thing...
I didn't know they did that, man.
Oh, wow.
But they got it in the front of the bobcat on the little loader on the front end and they
put the thing up to keep it from moving, basically.
Yeah.
So it doesn't run away again.
Because I don't think one guy can...
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Trying to get away.
Trying to get out.
Trying to get out.
And one officer could not hold that pig, man.
No.
Too big.
No.
They need many, they need many people to do that.
They want to Andre the giant with me on that one.
That is a big pig.
It's big.
The pig is...
They didn't...
That article didn't kind of get into that enough how big that pig was.
Eventually, after what we can only describe as strategic negotiations, the pig was returned
home and put in a more secure pet.
The post ended with a warning that some commenters took as a challenge.
And yes, to all the witty keyboard warriors, we've heard all the jokes.
Of course they have.
Yeah.
They made some of them themselves, I'm sure.
I can't even only imagine that.
Imagine the jokes.
Just the jokes that we're going on with that one.
That's a pretty good one.
That's pretty good.
I like that one.
And of course, as we're getting ready for more and more baseball this season, we got
some softball on our sister station 105-5 tonight and everything play off softball for
you.
We do.
Just a quick story of one of the...
And I love these.
We're going to have a lot of them.
It's early.
It wouldn't even have gotten really to summer yet.
Detroit Tigers game against San Francisco 40, San Francisco giants when he squirrel ran
out on the field.
Oh yeah.
When he started the baseball game.
I love it.
They draw through the attention of fan duels and network announcer Jason Benetti, the
best in the business.
I think Benetti's the best.
Yes.
Quote, we...
And now that Eukers gone, I think Benetti's the best.
He's got to be up there.
Quote, we...
You know, we like to stay on topic here, but squirrel, squirrel, and just lost it right
there.
Like Benetti does.
And kept everybody into the game.
Yeah.
He's good at his job.
So we've...
What animal would actually surprise you anymore?
We've had squirrels, cats, dogs, all kinds of birds.
We've had snakes.
They've had skunks, of course.
They've had swarms of bees.
Remember that in Arizona a couple years ago?
That big swarm of bees that they had there.
Yeah.
There was a possum some years back that was found in the outfield.
Yeah.
There's...
I don't know many...
Now it's got to be something big.
It's got to be a pig.
It's got to be a...
Whatever the pig is showing up in everything.
I want a pig running around the infield that can heal areas.
Oh my God.
I think it's pretty good, but I'm knocking players down.
You're pretty interesting.
As I've noted to the audience many times, my kids are in their mid to older 20s and stuff,
so I...
I don't know.
I'm not around this as much.
You'll have to maybe hit me up on this one with your boys.
Are they eating bananas upside down?
A random poll asked the internet, what end would you open a banana from?
72% said the end with the stem, which you might consider the normal way, quote, normal
way.
Right.
20% said the other end and eight% said they weren't sure.
My God.
They look at a banana and have no idea what to do.
What do I do?
Now, what do I do?
That's that indecisive, significant other that you ask.
And this can be a man or a woman, by the way, that you ask, you know, where do you want
to eat?
Oh, I don't care.
Well, how about here?
No.
No.
No.
They know where they don't want to eat.
Why did you take the survey if you can't even answer yes or no?
So those percentages hold to, for most splits of the population, except age.
Younger adults are more likely to peel a banana from the bottom about one and four do compared
to one and six adults.
Okay.
It's just saying, the bottom's up approach is how most monkeys eat bananas.
That is true.
And maybe they're on to something, yeah.
When a banana is ripe, the top or what we think of as the bottom is actually much
easier to pull apart.
Right.
Try it.
Pinch the top where the seam is and peel away as usual.
Yes.
Speaking of deba-
So I got to try that.
I like bananas.
Yeah.
So I want to try that.
Just watch it.
Yeah, watch video of a monkey doing it.
And you'll get the idea very quickly.
Yes.
How to do it?
I love the idea of this too.
Like more of this is society where instead of like, we're evolving past these things
and we're learning from animals.
Yes.
I don't want to say we're devolving, but we're just like, oh, they had it right in
the whole time.
Try it.
So speaking of banana debates, are you cool with breaking apart bunches of bananas at
the grocery store or is it poor form to split one or two off?
Wow.
I've never thought about that.
I've seen people do this, but I've done this.
I guess I'm okay with it because you only need certain bunches.
You have an idea of how quickly they're going to be eaten in your house, however big
your household is, and however popular bananas are in your household, so you get an idea
of what you need.
I'm not, I don't have a problem with that because it doesn't do anything to the bananas.
Right?
And maybe the next person coming along, they'll be the exact amount they want.
Right?
They'll say, oh, hey, perfect.
This is, I need five bananas.
And here it is.
A bunch of five.
To that point, and correct me from wrong audience, 715-424-2600, or just call up using
the Civic Media app, I've never heard of this or thought about this until now.
But, and I am one of the world's biggest overthinkers, and I've never crossed your path,
I guess.
I've never really thought, I've seen people do this in grocery stores, and I worked in
a grocery store for a while and saw quite a bit there.
But I thought kind of what you were, ending up with there, you got a banana that the stock
is five.
Somebody pulls two off.
Somebody else is looking for the three.
Yeah, exactly.
It just works out, right?
Yeah.
It feels like this is this one of those things where we've been working this out in society
this whole time.
We didn't even realize it.
We need to take some credit for, hey, look at, hey, everybody, take a pat on the back
society.
Good for you.
Here's what we got right.
Yeah, we're doing this right.
We got this all figured out.
We didn't need any government overhead or a bunch of like, you know, people telling us
what to do or anything.
We just figured this out.
We figured out bananas.
So the only question I have about bananas, very, very seriously here is, will there be
a day when we no longer use bananas as a telephone?
Oh, that's a good question.
We don't have phones that are shaped like that, basically anymore.
We just have, and no one makes phone calls anymore, just texting.
Yeah.
Will the day come when the banana is no longer used as a telephone?
It's, it's, it's something that it would be a sad day for me.
It's very sad.
I don't know what you're saying about it.
We're already not using it for jokes anymore.
I mean, once the last time somebody slipped on a banana, I'm telling you, yeah, come
out.
Let's take a call.
Good morning.
You're on the air.
Yeah.
I'm single.
So one or eight or nine bananas are seven or eight.
I don't need that many.
I can't eat that many.
That's right.
It's always split apart.
And I always put that tape back on, but the next person has, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm
number two.
I don't see it.
There you go.
I don't think it's a problem.
No, again, I don't want to assume this or anything, but I, I agree with our caller here
and stuff.
I feel like it just kind of works out.
The next person gets the amount they want and you know, I don't feel like we're in a
banana like shortage or already tough situation, but I agree with you, man.
I think that that's the right way to handle it.
I agree too.
Uh, and, and you're getting your bananas.
That's good.
That's the important thing, right?
Get in your potassium.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have a good morning, man.
Yeah.
Good morning, sir.
57% say that they break them up.
So I think that that's a pretty good percentage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And finally, what color do you prefer?
Your bananas?
54% like them.
A solid yellow.
Another 21% like them a little before that with some green.
Another 15% like them, a little riper with brown spots.
Brown spots on them.
A little sweeter that way.
That's for sure.
Yep.
Four percent of people claim that they eat them mostly green and zero percent like them
mostly brown.
Zero percent.
Wow.
Wow.
I don't see many of that.
Wow.
I think that's the first.
I think that's the first.
Because when it gets to some point, it's like, well, now it's time for banana bread.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right enough to do the banana bread.
So yeah, you're good to go.
Now back there was a poll about eating fruit peels and just 1% of people said that they'll
eat banana skins.
Ooh.
I know you can eat them.
They're not going to hurt you, but oh, I've tasted it though.
No, I'm not on there.
I had a sketch once where I had to take the, I just a bite out of a banana.
My character didn't understand and know how to eat, but you know, food.
It wasn't just being in as the food in general.
I was also taking like, I think it was mashed potatoes or rice.
I can't remember.
But one of them and just basically smashing them into my cheek.
I was a really rough sketch.
But we had to do it three times.
Like it was three different performances and we did it like in each time I'm taking
like a bigger bite out of the banana.
And my character has to talk and stuff.
So eventually just like, I didn't want to throw a spit it on the floor because people
got to clean up and everything afterwards, right?
Yeah.
And I popped it in my hand.
The pop.
And then I put it back.
Ooh.
Back.
It was funny.
People laugh.
That's committing to a bit.
That is committing to a bit.
I didn't, I was just thankful that I still like bananas.
I, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, look what it did.
Your mashed potatoes.
Just destroyed everything there.
The things we do for comment, man.
But they God they laugh.
They God.
We will come back with doing some celebrating the Elcafe birthday anniversary club is right
around the corner with Seth and James on the morning show at WFHR.
You heard the boys, time to do some celebrating.
One of our favorite segments of the day, we celebrate you with the Elcafe birthday and
anniversary club.
Encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port at WFHR, wish them a great day from
all of us.
Buy local support local and speaking of bananas, I want to try that banana bread french
toast.
Oh God.
That sounds good.
It sounds really good.
So I'm not, I'm not a big French toast guy.
You know, I'll eat it, you know, it's not terrible or anything like that.
Man, French toast made out of banana bread.
Oh, that sounds just, oh, amazing.
It's amazing.
Oh, I want to try.
That sounds really good.
All right.
Now, let's say it's not really bad, French really bad, it's the way it's cooked is not
because it's from France.
No, come on now.
Just about the cooking.
Yeah.
We appreciate our friends at Elcafe, celebrate with them over there everybody.
And we appreciate all of you getting us your birthdays and anniversaries, keep them
coming.
We'll take them throughout the whole show today.
You can go ahead and email us info at WFHR.com.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and certainly you can call on up.
Yes, 715-424-2600 is the number to call.
Do that right now, everyone.
You can also use the Civic Media app of course.
By the way, you're going to want that Civic Media app because coming up next week, we've
got another statewide text to win contest started.
Yeah.
You're going to want to have it ready.
We're excited about that.
We are.
We are.
We'll have to look out for that next week.
And of course, tomorrow we're going to be giving away brewer tickets.
Yes.
You're going to want it for that.
So keep that Civic Media app handy, everyone.
After baseball that you can take with you wherever you go, all kinds of great things on
that app.
Seth, I need a one through three.
Three today.
All right.
That gives us our qualifier.
We're going to get right into this celebration.
First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Diane Johnson.
Diane Johnson.
Happy birthday.
Wishing you the greatest day.
Diane, hope it's a good one for you.
Yes.
And we wish a very happy 20th anniversary to John Caves and Barbara Hunt Caves.
Oh, happy anniversary, you two.
Congratulations.
20 years.
Awesome.
That's great.
Now, we're in a little bit of a complex situation here now, because people that qualified
don't technically work here, but they do stay here a lot.
They almost live here in some ways, at least one of them.
Happy 32nd anniversary to fill in Anne Hartley.
Oh, happy anniversary, you two.
We just talked to Phil yesterday.
We did.
We could ask him word on the Sunday show.
Yeah.
If you haven't heard and if you're missing it, every Wednesday, be sure to catch that
at the top of the eight o'clock hour.
Phil Hartley joins us with quality plus printing with that wicked, awesome word.
Have a lot of fun with that one.
So I feel like they can qualify.
Phil doesn't tell you why not.
He doesn't work here.
That's fine.
Happy 32nd, Phil and Anne.
Yes.
That's wonderful.
As another Anne is amazing.
Yes.
Awesome.
Yes.
She's an amazing person.
Wishing you both a great anniversary and joy.
And it's Thursday.
I say go right ahead, celebrate right into the weekend, you two.
Celebrate right in.
No, Phil is working too hard.
He's always worked.
Probably.
Yeah.
But enjoy it.
Enjoy it.
Take some time to enjoy the day.
Yes.
You guys, you deserve it.
Taking a look at who you share the birthday or anniversary is with.
Lorley Linkletter is 31.
She has director Richard Linkletter's daughter.
Oh.
And she grew up on camera as Mason's sister Samantha in the Oscar nominee movie boyhood
that I know that we've talked about a number of times.
Oh.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
That one was filmed over many, many years.
I was going to say is that the one where he did that?
That very long period of time so that the wait for the actors to grow up and that sort
of thing.
Yeah.
It's a revolutionary movie.
Yeah.
The way the making of it.
Yes, for sure.
It's really impressive.
Carmelo Anthony is 41.
Recently retired NBA star.
They have him as the star of the Ellie Lakers.
He played there for like two minutes.
Played there for like two minutes.
Yeah.
He played for the nuggets.
Yeah.
That's why I would remember him being a nugget.
Yeah.
A little bit of a nick, but mostly the nuggets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And a great player.
The championship in college.
Yeah.
A number of gold medal teams.
Yes.
He was of his of his era of his generation.
He was one of the best players.
Mel B is 50 from her scary spice of the Spice Girls.
And I believe she has been on America's Got Talent through almost its whole rush.
She has been there for an extremely long time, yes.
As far as second acts go and what you do with your career afterwards, I don't know a thing
about her really or the Spice Girls for that matter.
But what I do know, like she seems to have done a pretty good job of what do I do next,
you know, as a pop star, where do you go next with it and everything.
And that's a pretty good gig.
Hey, I'll take it.
Let's see here.
Oh, Melissa, that's where it's just 64.
Oh, yes.
She's got amazing.
She's no one sounds like her.
Yeah.
She's got a very distinct style, a very distinct sound.
And I've always appreciated.
She's only had this nice edge to her too, that I really appreciate it as well.
The great, the wonderful Annette Benning is 67, tremendous actor.
Recently in Captain Marvel, it was kind of cool to see her in that role and everything
she did.
Great job, as always.
Just incredible presence in that Benning hat.
That stage presence, man, or screen, I should say screen.
She's really good.
Yes.
The legend, the great, the wonderful Danny Elfman is 72.
The Oingo Boingo Genius Turn Movie Composer and TV Composer, basically if you've watched
Ever Watch a Tim Burton movie, you've heard his music.
He is the score of Beetlejuice Batman Sleepy Hollow.
Also did the first mission in Possible Movie, Men in Black, Spy Kids, Spider-Man, Elves
Wonderland, and I haven't even mentioned what I should be here in this state with Oingo
Boingo.
Oh, I don't want to work.
That's Todd Runger.
That's Todd Runger.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
The Dead Man's Party is probably there, but the best known song.
Yes, yes.
And there was something else Danny Elfman did to his face for, I can't remember.
Oh, yes.
The greatest TV theme song of all time, The Simpsons.
Was that the thing?
Now, if I remember correctly, I believe like Matt Greening, the creative Simpsons, like
basically it wrote down what he wanted here.
I wanted to sound kind of like this, but you could also do this and do this, and because
Danny Elfman is amazing, he's like, okay, and he did it.
I mean, how do you do that?
Amazing.
I remember hearing this story from Danny Elfman and Matt Greening telling him they tell
it pretty much identical.
Yep.
And the first thing I thought it was as a copywriter when they would come in and tell
me, okay, I want something new, but traditional, I want something fresh, but you know, not
controversial.
What are you asking for here, and Danny Elfman did it, he did.
Also, some people that are no longer with us.
Like John F. Kennedy, born and staying in 1917, and our 35th president.
All right.
Incredible.
Yes.
Legacy.
Yeah.
And certainly, you know, another one of these, another one of these times for us to, you
know, be able to walk a balance in life, you know, nobody's perfect and being able to
look at a person as a whole and everything about them.
The good and the bad.
And I, it is on us, you know, in going into the future and all that, we have to get
better at this.
Yeah.
We all have to get better at this and be able to look at this and not necessarily judge
a person while also not, you know, just throwing things under the rug or under the bed and ignoring
them.
No, you can't do that either.
You can do both.
Yes, you can.
And, and we're seeing this more and more.
I think I was talking with Michael about this yesterday with Brett Farff and being able to
look at him.
It's, this new documentary and everything doesn't necessarily have a ton of new information,
but it's bringing a lot of stuff back into the line light and having to be able to, we,
we all have to have that.
We all have our own personal line in the sand.
We do.
And I think it's on us to not only figure those things out, but not to judge others on where
their line is.
Exactly.
And the greatest MC of all time born on this day, Bob Hope, born in 1903, passed away in
2003, the, the quintessential performer, there is nothing Bob Hope couldn't do.
I loved him as an actor.
The lemma drop kid is a movie.
I will go back and watch for the rest of my life.
I love that movie.
He was an incredible comedian, whether it was timing, writing, his voice, his tone, all
of those things, absolute 10 out of 10.
And then there's the MC work that, as somebody and you and I have done this work and, and we,
we will tell you that this is not, it's one of those things that on paper seems like
one of the more simple things to do in entertainment.
And yet to pull it off and to do it is so dang hard.
It is so difficult to the point where it wasn't until Billy Crystal that any, that there
was a consistent host in any award show.
Yeah.
Period.
Not just the Oscars.
Nobody had a consistent host because nobody was really great at it.
Until except for Bob.
Except for Bob Hope.
Yeah.
He was the best.
He hosted the Oscars for like decades.
He was the only guy that did it.
And because of, like you said, he was a good, you can, you can argue.
He wasn't the best comedian.
You can argue that people were funnier than him.
You didn't maybe you didn't like his style, his, his style was joke, joke, joke, joke.
If it didn't work, he would throw a little, you know, appendage on there.
He was really good at that.
Yeah.
As if the joke kind of fell flat and then he had something in his back pocket about that
joke.
And it usually worked.
He was very good at that.
People it's like, you know, ah, that's not my kind of comedy.
But as an MC, amazing, absolutely one of the best.
To piggyback on your point there, part of the reason I say that greatest MC of all time
is nobody could read an audience like him.
Yes.
What do I say all the time?
No, your audience.
Yeah.
Didn't, wherever he was, he could do that.
He could be able to do it in front of troops, doing it in front of TV camera.
It didn't matter.
He could do it all.
And bringing people, doing what comedy is meant to do, putting everybody on the same
level.
Whether you were a president or you were just the bus boy, Bob treated you the same way
on and off the stage.
There was never a better one.
There's nobody ever better.
And, and thank you for mentioning it because that's where I wanted to wrap with all this
being said.
You, I don't think it's a tough argument to make.
The greatest work he did was do us all shows.
Right.
And the legacy he made.
Right.
And the impact he made with those.
Right.
And it's funny because he, that started during World War II.
He was the best.
I mean, of those groups.
King Crosby, how he said, he loved doing shows for the guy, for the troops because they
were the best laughers.
He said they had those big belly laughs and, and Bob just loved hearing that.
I, I'd tell you, this weekend, I'm at least watching some clips from Lemme Drophead.
I'm just a little nice.
Well, one of the best profiles ever.
That knows.
Oh my God.
I love it.
Yeah, man.
That's great.
That was the best TV show.
We're going to get to a break here.
Take care of our news, sports and entertainment and partners.
When Seth and I get back, the end of an era at the airports, we're going to talk about
that coming up on Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning Show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you, thank you so much for joining us.
And also joining us in studio right now is Pam Hilke.
Pam.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good to have you with us, Pam.
How you doing?
Thank you.
I'm doing good.
Appreciate being able to pull you away from the desk for a moment and everything because
yesterday you attended a concert and we wanted to ask how I went.
Yes, I had the opportunity to attend the LHS Orchestra Spring Pops Concert.
Very nice.
So it featured the combined orchestras, all grades of 1912 and with also the wind players.
There was different songs that were part of the concert was the string players only.
And then for, I believe it was three of the songs that they performed the band.
The wind players, band, percussion, and the whole orchestra, right?
They just do an amazing job.
I'm just so impressed with the songs that they play and, you know, it's just wonderful.
Yeah.
Great performance.
Very good.
Really good job.
It sounds like.
In fact, one of the songs that they did with the combined, they were, it was journeys
greatest hits.
Oh my God.
I mean, I mean, this is a very interesting to see these youngsters playing music that
go back 40, 45 years, you know, to the band.
It's pretty interesting.
Yeah.
It was really, really great.
That's cool.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Awesomeness.
Yes.
Yeah.
It was very good.
Good to hear.
Big shout out to them.
There was a few young players that were featured, did some solo parts and some of the songs
and very, very well.
It's very impressive.
This orchestra takes up the full stage there at the P.A.C.
Really?
Wow.
And they wear black attire, but then they've got their wood instruments, and it's just
so impressive.
I mean, the colors of the cellos and the violins and, you know, those stringed instruments.
It's just, you know, it's just great.
Oh, yeah.
Very, very nice.
And the band director, Ginger Martin, she does a fantastic job.
Definitely went to shout her out.
Yes, yes.
And she also has help with Gene Olson, who is the wind director.
Gene.
Gene was not on stage per se directing, but, you know, behind the scenes, you know, that's
what happens.
That's very, yep.
And the seniors always do a real nice thank you to the orchestra director near the end
of the concert.
And usually the last of song, they've got a slide show of the seniors that are graduating
very nice.
Oh, very nice.
And there are some of their high school memories with orchestra and what's in their future.
Very cool.
I love that.
Yeah, it was very, very nice.
Very nice.
You really get a real great performance with all of that.
And one that I think that is really relatable and also brings a lot of people in it.
And it's so happy that they went as successful and stuff.
You were an orchestra.
Yes, I was.
Right.
Right.
I played violin for many years.
I, you know, Seth, you were an insta, you played band, yeah, I played Cornet and French
Horn.
By the time I finished, I was playing French Horn.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's the same here.
Cornet, trumpet, and they didn't, they didn't have French Horn players.
Yeah.
They usually draft people into those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But so there's something I think, even if you're not in band, of course, but when you've
done it, played an instrument like that, it just does something too when you're watching
those kids.
Of course.
Yeah.
And it really does put you, like in that moment and everything and brings you back.
Right.
Yeah.
There's something really fun about that part of it, too, and a style of it.
And the pack.
Oh, man.
Just anything you see in that building and that's in that theater.
The acoustics in there are pretty, are pretty amazing.
So there's some of the best in town.
Yeah.
Easily.
Like they did a really good job on that building.
That's nice.
And so good to hear, Pam.
Yes.
That's really good to hear.
But the choir concert is this evening.
Tonight.
Yes, it is.
That wraps it up this year.
Yeah.
It's pretty much the last public school concert, I believe.
And again, as Pam was telling us, that is tonight at 630, the choir concert will be at
the performing arts center.
In place.
And at times, in place.
And then over there, support these kids.
Not only going to get a great show and everything, but man, the feeling you get, Pam's
in a float in all morning, just from, just from that, I imagine, the nostalgia and some
of the fun of that, but just getting, how good it feels to support these kids.
Yeah.
Great to hear that.
Very impressed.
Thank you, Pam.
We appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I do want to remind our audience, too, when you take in these shows or maybe something with
a saver of the arts or the arts council or anything like that.
We love to hear from you.
Yes, please.
Let us know.
Feedback is always great.
Yeah.
We love to hear that stuff, guys.
Yes.
For now, Seth and I will take a quick time out.
We'll come back.
We're going to talk about the end of an era.
Moving walkways at airports.
The way to use this one.
Love this song.
Maybe if somebody made me choose what my favorite song is, I may choose this one.
Wow.
This is the only song I've ever done confidently in karaoke.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
That's interesting.
I don't do a bad job with this one.
It's in part me.
It's not because I have anything of talent, singing vise or anything.
It's the pace that I can keep up with.
Gotcha.
Can you make sense?
Yeah.
I can't sing at all.
But I can keep up the pace and I can do that singing, talking thing a little bit with this.
There you go.
You can.
It works.
It's good for that.
It's classic.
You and William Shatner.
I mean, right?
Yep.
He was my singing influence.
Yeah, really.
It was really good.
It's your gold throw to himself.
Definitely not my acting influence.
Definitely not my acting influence.
It's a shadow to William Shatner.
A big fan.
So the end of an era is happening at airports.
It sounds like everybody.
You know those moving walkways and airports, they seem a little unnecessary for some.
And they actually work out really good for others.
And until you try one and then you're like, okay, this is a great way to throw a walk twice as fast.
These are awesome.
Right.
Especially when you're gay.
Everybody's gay.
Everybody that is ever gone to an airport.
Your gate is at the opposite end of where you want.
Wherever you landed.
Yeah.
You're the unit completely other to get a section of the airport.
I don't care if we're talking about the airport in Mozini or we're talking about LAX or O'Hare.
It happens every single time.
Except unless you have like a three hour layover.
Then it's the one right next.
Which happened to be by the way once.
Oh really?
It was literally the gate over.
And I had like a three hour.
I'm like, come on.
Really?
That I write.
Seriously.
Well, according to a new report, moving walkways may be on the way out at airports.
Because the kiosks they pass by are losing business.
What?
This is, yeah, this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Airports make money in two ways.
The fees related to airplanes and other revenue opportunities, primarily retail and concessions.
Right.
The goal of an airport operator is not to get you to your gate as quickly as possible.
It's to monetize your journey as much as possible.
Moving walkways are bad for business because they don't have many exit points.
And it reduces foot traffic for businesses.
You'll never see a moving walkway at a grocery store or at a Walmart or something like that.
Because what is waiting for you when you're in your aisle at Walmart is a billion little things for you to buy.
Exactly.
That's what they want you to do, right?
That's where the real sale is.
It's not getting you to, with your list and you're getting all things on your list.
Yeah, getting your milk and your bread or the stuff, the normal stuff.
It's the extras.
It's that lighter you need to buy even though you haven't need a lighter in 20 years.
Impulse items, yeah.
Impulse items is where almost every business is made.
And it's not surprising, although I never really thought about it with airports.
All my focus about, especially growing up around O'Hare and everything,
all my thoughts of airports are usually just about the logistics.
Right.
Getting from point A to point B, what do you need to do to do that and to do a whole bunch of people?
Right.
Actually, I make the joke because it's low hanging fruit.
But LAX wasn't really that bad.
It's just weird the way they built it.
Now, I hear RFK in New York is the worst one built.
Like that one.
Oh, JFK?
Yes, JFK.
So JFK.
It's so oddly built and everything.
I got that wrong on the man's birthday.
I am a horrible person.
Well, to be fair, they named it after he died.
They named it after him, so he didn't even know him, right?
I apologize.
But that one I hear is very confusing.
Yeah, that's all over the place.
So not only that, but the walkways are also a divider separating the people walking on one side
from getting to the shops on the other side.
Then there's also the cost of maintenance.
And the design also makes them insufficient to use.
With them not being very wide while trying to accommodate walkers and standards, baggage,
as well as possible, the people with mobility issues who cannot use them at all.
I have never had the issue of it being awkward, you know, like there's too many people on it or anything like that.
That has never come up when I've been in an airport and used to them.
I've never had that problem.
You may know this better than...
So I've only been like twice the Minneapolis airport.
Beautiful airport.
That is a very nice airport, yes.
A lot of big windows, look out at everything.
That is a nice tram there.
I had a layover in Denver once.
And that airport out there in Denver is amazing.
I don't think I've ever been there, but I've heard it's pretty good.
It's really nice.
They designed that one really good.
I remember being on the walkways in those and I like had them to myself.
It was a busy, busy time.
And I still had a lot of time out of everything.
I'm with you.
I don't think I've run into that problem myself.
Although I could see it being a problem.
And I do remember seeing people in wheelchairs, you know,
and I'm moving faster than them and that didn't feel right.
Yeah, obviously you can't use a wheelchair on those.
It doesn't work.
But yeah, supposedly all these factors have led to new terminals not installing moving walkways
in some existing facilities ripping them out.
Wow.
It sounds like more and more we're getting away from these.
Which is sad, but it does leave room for what I think would be the good alternative to these.
And I'm working on this, all right?
This is just stuff that I'm working on here and everything, but I am not going to copyright this
because I believe inventions should be for everybody.
Yeah.
So I'm not even going to try to make money off of this or anything, but slip in slides.
What?
That's a great idea.
What do you do with your luggage?
You figure it out.
You figure it out.
Oh, you write on top of it.
You throw the suitcase and you jump on top and then you put the luggage on your back.
Put the luggage on your back.
I mean, let's not be crazy here.
Just put it on your back.
And it's slip.
It's like, how much more fun would airports be if everyone was sopping wet?
Yes.
Yes, yes.
This is suits.
Doesn't matter.
I mean, just what could go wrong?
I can't even think of anything.
You know, to me, this seems like they're misdiagnosing the issue here.
I think it has more to do with less people flying for a number of reasons.
Can we go through some few things that we've heard in the recent couple of years?
How so many of our planes that are built by Boeing?
Guess what?
Aren't very safe because they cut corners.
Okay, that's great.
And not a lot of people are going to like that.
You know, when you hear a story about a door coming off in flight, not cool.
Yeah.
People not liking that at all.
But then how about now all those air traffic controller stuff?
Yeah.
People are not wanting to fly because they're hearing this stuff.
It's not being addressed.
In fact, we've, it's been made worse because of policies that are being handed down.
So why don't we make flying a better experience?
Let's make it safer.
Let's make it so people actually want to do it because less and less people are wanting to do it right now.
And that means less people to buy your stuff.
Agree with all of that.
I will only add on that accountability.
Oh, yes.
And competition.
True competition.
True competition.
Nobody, they have gotten fat.
They've got big and the airline industry like a lot of industries are not the only one.
Have gotten big and fat because they have not had true competition.
No.
There's been no accountability when they mess up.
No.
They figure, hey, you got to, people got to fly.
And so we could just keep doing what we're doing.
There are a lot of businesses, a lot of it.
And the movie theater industry is similar to this.
You look in small town, you look in a movie theater, there's no competition.
What incentive do they have to put into the community or to advertise?
They can charge whatever they want.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is why monopolies are so part of why they're so dangerous and why we need more and more competition.
Competition is big.
And more of these conglomerates where one airline buys open another one.
We can't have that.
We need more, more airline industries out there.
We need the competition, we need, I'm going to use the R word everyone, we need more regulation.
Yeah.
Sorry, we're talking about people's lives here.
It's a safety issue.
Yeah, I know we've normalized it, but you realize we're doing this in tin cans.
Have you ever looked into the science of what is involved with a, just even a big ol' plane, a 757, even something like that?
We're talking like your walls in your home are built better.
We, it's a miracle of science, it's incredible, we're able to do, but we've also normalized it way too much.
And we become too numb to all these issues we've had, whether it is the horribleness of a flight being lost.
Oh, we got the black box.
Oh, we've seen this story before.
One time is too many.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And this is where I go with the flying cars thing, man.
We have not earned that as a society.
No.
We can't even fly planes well.
No.
And the idea that we put so much into the airline, you know, into the airplanes to do all of our travel.
No.
We need other things.
We need, like you said, competition doesn't necessarily have to come from other airlines.
It can come from trains.
How about we make train travel better?
How about we do that?
You know, that's another way to move a whole bunch of people, right?
I love riding a train.
Plus, it's way cooler.
Yeah.
The flying plane.
I'm sorry, trains are awesome.
Talking a great friend of mine, the other day we're talking about travel and I love flying.
But I have little to no interest in being in a helicopter.
I know.
I'm with you on that one.
I just, I feel like the only time I hear about helicopters is when something bad happens.
Yeah.
And even in the movies, the movies tell us all the time.
The only time you see a helicopter in the movies is something's going to happen to them.
The horrible is going to happen.
Yeah.
There's somebody's going to, there's an action scene.
Chekhov's helicopter, yes.
I don't care if it's a Shakespeare play.
If a helicopter shows up something bad, it's going to crash.
It's going to crash.
It will crash.
That was it.
What if Shakespeare's rare, where, where, where plays?
Oh, helium copter.
Oh, oh to, oh to copter.
Oh to copters.
That one is popular ones.
That one is better.
No, no, no.
And that's something that they will be talking about on masters of mystery.
Nice.
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Now, keep in mind as well, a while, a master's of mystery wouldn't be affected or anything.
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