Mission Impossible (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.

Your host, James behind the mic, I am joined by our head up production, our co-host, Seth

Habhacker.

Good morning, everyone.

Thanks listeners and radio.

Happy Friday, everybody.

And just because you guys are so great, we bring you Brittany Merlot, the best in the

business, joining us.

Brittany, how are you doing?

Oh, I'm good.

I'm hanging in there on the upward trend, but again, that wildfire, smoke, a bug, allergies,

everything.

It took me down this week.

Ouch.

Oh, feel for you.

I appreciate you playing hurt.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We missed you this week.

It's been, it's fun to have you with us.

I don't want to keep you too long, certainly, with while you're feeling and everything.

So what are we looking at this weekend, Brittany?

I'm pretty unsettled whether, unfortunately, since body sprinkles are definitely possible

this morning, maybe some scattered showers and a rumble with thunder this afternoon, nothing

too strong.

If we get underneath it, it will be brief and pretty light.

But still, you want to keep that umbrella on hand all throughout the weekend.

Hi, today in the mid-70s, in fact, we'll hold the mid-70s tomorrow, too.

We slide a little cooler on Sunday to the low 70s, as the system kind of hangs over us.

So we'll see some spots of sunshine tomorrow morning, but then more scattered showers and

small storms pop up in the afternoon.

And then, by Sunday, especially early in the morning, we're looking at a line of storms

moving through, bringing some moderate rainfall.

It might dry out a little bit late morning, and then more scattered showers are expected

to pop up Sunday afternoon and linger into our Monday, too.

So kind of an icky, gross weekend, unfortunately, but we do have warmer weather and a lot of

sunshine moving in by the middle of next week, so things are looking better and brighter

after the weekend.

All right.

Good to hear for all of our allergies, along with, I'm going to be doing that whole dance

with Mother Nature this weekend about, I've got to get out there in mode.

Do I have enough time to mode?

Do I have that hour between the rain to mode, kind of thing?

I don't want to, you know, it's been a long week for you, Brittney.

I don't like to ask you difficult questions or anything like that.

But I do have to, before I let you leave, it is National Donut Day.

So I've got to ask, do you have a favorite donut?

Oh, this is not difficult at all.

I think I've got one now that you bring it up.

I am all about, it has to have the chocolate on top.

If I can get the Boston cream right with the cream in any inside, I'll go for it, but I

think I can't find those.

And you know what else I love?

Now I'm torn.

It's now you got me thinking, the chocolate cake donuts with the chocolate frappin' on

the floor.

So really good.

That was a really great choice, this great choice, and great to talk to you.

I hope you're feeling better soon.

Have a great weekend.

We'll talk next Monday.

Thanks.

You guys have a great weekend as well.

Two of us.

Yeah.

Best in the business right there, Brittney.

We're a little joking.

I'll appreciate you, Brittney.

We got some fun stuff lined up for you today, everybody.

Not only do we have the Elcaf A. Burton anniversary club around the corner, where we'll

be celebrating today, Saturday, and Sunday, birthdays.

That's right.

Got a great list for you.

Well, after our news, sports, and partner break, we are going to get into our star the

day with our friends from Calvars.

Got a really good one lined up for you today.

And it's easy.

Okay.

I'm just going to tell you right now.

We love easy ones around here.

But that means you've got to be set and ready to go.

That's right.

You got to, because a long time listeners will know, if you call ahead of time before I

play the music, I will call you out.

I will pull you up.

I don't take that.

You got to wait until at least a note of the theme song it plays.

That's right.

That's right.

So get ready.

I think that civic media app is going to come in real handy for that.

It will.

Keep that in mind.

Of course, with civic media, Scotty, some of text to win contest going up and down the

state.

We'll have to be talking about that a little bit later.

And after all of this, we will get into it being National Donut Day, Seth.

All right.

We are going to get into the very heavy discussion of what everybody's favorite donut is,

where your favorite place to get donuts.

I'm not asking this just specifically for me so I can go to these places.

I love, I know you and I have talked about this on and off air and stuff.

One of our favorite things of traveling and when we moved to a new area, finding that

mom and pop kind of diner or a coffee shop or whatever, yeah, I want more of that with

like donut shops.

I want more of that because the fun of the local bakeries, if I ever get kicked out of

this job or anything like that, I tell you, my next gig is going to be probably opening

one of those crazy donut shops like where they have all right, have the regulars, you

know, you have regular donuts, but I think you also have then all those crazy combination

donuts.

Here's my bacon cream donut, right?

Yeah.

Jimmy's donuts.

You got the title already, it's all right.

But all that coming up for you, 10 o'clock hour, we'll of course have some fun.

We've got a bunch of entertainment news, not only what's new in your small screen and

big screen, but we're going to talk about the WFHR newsletter and we've got some new

shows premiering all over the place around here.

Want to get into some of that and some new sponsors, get into our schedule and a little

bit later, Seth, would you go to a real life Jurassic Park?

Wow.

We will get into how many Americans, the percentages of Americans would do that and all of that.

Get all that coming up for you today.

We kicked our morning show off with bad mornings or are you into bad mornings or not.

It is finally Friday and if you need a little lift this morning, you're not the only one,

even when there's an end to the work week in sight.

In a new survey, 38% of Americans admit that they're, quote, bad at mornings.

Bad at morning.

Almost 40% of Americans own this, admit it.

Like, yep, a bad at mornings, not a morning person, that whole thing.

The average person gets out of bed later than they planned eight times per month, but for

10% of people, it's more like 20 times per month.

Oh, wow.

So when they're saying they're bad at mornings, I think they're looking specifically at

like just the routine, the morning routine, they're bad at that.

That's got to be, and that's why I think it's weird to say you're bad at mornings.

I know it's kind of a thing, but it's like, wait, well, against what?

Relative to what?

I guess it's my question.

Really good point.

Actually, yeah, that's interesting.

Of course, sleeping in late to late can make mornings even harder.

41% of people say that a late start means they might have to skip breakfast, 16% will

skip showering, and 11% will save time by not brushing their teeth.

Okay.

I hope you work alone.

Make time.

Make the time.

Yeah.

The brushing the teeth part, you know, shower, you can get away, you know, you can get away

with that, I think, a little bit.

I will tell you the teeth.

I will tell everybody this, any co-host that ever works with me, if you run in here late,

and you tell me why I had to brush my teeth or something, green light, you're perfectly

fine.

I had to shower.

Like, thank you.

So, every time I made my papa's oldest joke, I'm going to jump into shower.

Thank you.

That guy's oldest joke, man, every time, every time, you think it's so fun, I like that.

For the people in the survey, 43% say that they use an alarm to wake up in the morning

with the average time for the first alarm being 6.33am, 6.33, that's a very specific

wow.

That's sleeping in for me.

Well, yeah.

But that makes sense, though, at any time, I think I'm guessing more people wake up in

the six o'clock hour than any other hour in the morning.

I bet you that's part of that.

Do you think that having a late start to the day or having a, or being, quote, a bad at

morning's person also affects your mood to where you're also bad at mornings as far as

like being around people around?

They don't talk to me until I have my coffee, you know?

Right.

I don't think so.

I don't think there's a correlation.

I mean, you could.

You could be one of those people.

But I think it's more of, it's just like, I always drag in the morning, you know, and

I try to get on my stuff done and I never have enough time and all these kinds of things.

Not necessarily that you're a grouch, I think.

I was just talking with one of our guests the other day about this with, you know, really

the way that radio, the medium of radio, and where it has gone, and how it is very free

form and real conversation, a real talk, and all of that, and just not putting on airs

and everything.

All that being said, most mornings, I have to work to get myself in the right mood for

this show.

Nobody wants to hear Moody Emo morning show, you've got to, you've got to get yourself

in the right mindset.

Now, this was something years ago I dealt with.

I don't deal with it nearly as much anymore because I've just gotten into a routine.

Got used to it, right?

Yeah.

And where, so for me, if I get a late start to the day, or I'm a couple minutes behind

or something like that, I feel like I'm overdoing my mood.

I'm trying really hard to almost fix the day, fix the morning for me, and countering

it with, you know, not being overly happy or anything like that in a phony way, because

again, that just doesn't work the audience.

This is really right through it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's no different.

I don't think you can really get away with that anymore.

I think there's certain people that are really good at radio certainly, but I think most

people see right through it if you're trying to lie to them.

Right.

So you got to be real.

And to me, that involves, you know, just actually getting into character, putting on your

game face.

Yeah.

But I try, like if my day is going fine, the morning is going fine, everything's on routine

and stuff.

I am a little bit more edgy.

I don't know why.

I'm actually feeling like I'm less edgy when things are not going right because I'm so

used to that.

Right.

Well, and I think part of it, I mean, God, I'm weird.

If, well, no, I honestly think it's just because you're, you've been trained to say,

oh, what's going to happen now?

Why?

It hasn't something bad.

You know, is the other shoe going to drop now?

Exactly.

You get it put on edge because it's like, well, something has happened by now.

Why hasn't it happened?

Oh, it's going to happen later.

Oh, but when?

I don't know.

I am so, I'm full of anxiety.

I will say this.

I really do admire and strive to be and I do not do this every time, but I do strive

to be a lot like how, and I would not to speak or think for you, but how you tend to

be.

I think most people don't even know when you're in a rough mood.

You handle yourself with a certain character in a certain way you present, you carry yourself

that I think is helps a rising tide lifting all boats kind of thing.

I hope so.

That's kind of the, my hope is that that is what, what happens, yeah.

I've worked with a lot of people like that, especially actually in radio.

I remember a long time, Central Wisconsin listeners, I think we remember Ace who ran the Bob

and Tom thing for a long time and stuff.

I thought Ace was the perfect example of this.

Wow.

It's awesome.

This is one of those guys.

Nice.

I think that's a good temperament for radio, especially, well, really the guy who runs all

of this around here, Chuck, yeah, Chuck is the definition of this of cool, I mean, under

anything, I mean, he does nothing shakes that man, nothing rattles him, man, woo, I think

that all of this, as you were kind of touching on with the bad at mornings and stuff, here's

the other side of it, nobody's great at mornings, nobody's necessarily, even so-called morning

people aren't necessarily great at mornings, we're all trying to, it's almost scientifically

impossible.

Your brain is waking up, if you've got good sleep or no sleep or whatever, your brain's

still waking up, you're literally in the process of, like, basically you've been in a coma

for six, seven or eight hours.

Right?

Yeah.

It takes a minute to get going again, to get that whole body turned, and when you're younger

it's easier, just for whatever reason, because of, you know, your body isn't as creaky as

people older people are, and you can just kind of jump out and get going, kind of thing.

But still, it takes time.

Give yourself a little time.

Interesting research.

You can find out more at talkerresearch.com if you want to find out more about that survey.

We get ready for break here just real quick.

I wanted to mention that the Buckley Baldwin VFW post 2534 here in Rapids this Saturday

tomorrow will be recovering the American flags from cemetery headstones will be, they'll

be starting at the Forest Hill, Mazaliam on Spring Street in Rapids at 10 a.m. and would

love to have some public support.

So as Terry was touching on yesterday and everything, this is something that is not a heavy

lift.

It's in its, you know, but it's one less thing that they have to just do by themselves.

One more way of us showing support, showing camaraderie.

And I think having some of the better conversations, you're going to a great way to start your

Saturday.

Great.

You're going to start your weekend.

Right.

Exactly.

And of course, you know, the old saying, you know, many hands make sure it work.

Right.

And that's absolutely true.

The more hands they have, the quicker they can get it all wrapped up.

Buckley Baldwin VFW post 2534 again, couldn't be collecting American flags from cemetery

headstones tomorrow at 10 a.m. over on the Spring Street right here in Rapids.

We'll mention that again before we wrap up today.

I'll be back with the Elcafe birthday anniversary club on the morning show.

You heard the boys.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends and Elcafe in the birthday and

anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to Elcafe today at 221 Market Avenue, beautiful ported towards which I'm

a good one from all of us.

If you're not able to make it there today, during the day or whatever, keep in mind, they're

going to be open tonight with that Friday fish fry going.

They do.

They have extended hours on Friday.

And if you were up to me, they'd be open 24 hours.

Right.

Right.

The poor staff.

But you had a good time over there the other day.

Yeah.

The day went for lunch.

They're actually Beth and I went there for lunch on our anniversary on Wednesday.

So we had a fine time, got to talk to Fidel a little bit while we were there.

Man, they're so awesome over there.

The whole staff is just fantastic, love it.

And you know, all of you out there, parents, guardians, anybody, make plans tomorrow to head

on over there from 10 to 1045, come one, come all for story time with the Teddy bear raffle

and Kathy McGrath.

Nice.

Join them for this week for story time and the Teddy bear raffle.

Only the kids that attend Miss Kathy's story time will be able to enter.

We are.

They're very excited to give this Teddy bear away.

Nice.

And in the meantime, they'll be hanging out with, he'll be hanging out at the cafe.

So you can go see him and everything for children, James, just for children, I was looking

for the fine print.

But yeah, you're probably right, you're probably right.

But do you want that Teddy?

No.

Yeah.

Check it out everybody.

Tomorrow from 10 to 1045, over at LKFA to 21 market, have a beautiful port Edwards.

Yeah.

Shout out to Miss Kathy, by the way.

For doing great.

She's awesome.

Let's take a look at our list and we can add to this list anytime, everybody.

Yep.

Winfo at wfature.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call on up.

Yes.

715.

Oh, I'm going to stick it there.

715424, 2600 call up right now, everyone.

Or of course, you can always use these civic media app to call up as well.

Seth, I need a one or two.

Okay.

One.

All right, goes with that one.

And another one or two.

One.

Okay.

And another one or two.

Oh my gosh, really?

Yeah.

Two this time.

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it.

Take it a look at our list for today.

We've got a great one, Kayla Anderson.

Happy birthday, Kayla.

Enjoy the day, Kayla.

It's a good one for you.

And our qualifier for today, this Friday, June 6th, Robert Edwin.

Robert, congratulations and happy birthday to you.

I don't know if Robert's a writer, but he sounds that's a writer name.

It should be Robert.

It should be.

Get on that.

Get on that.

End of your day, sir.

And you're a qualifier.

Taking a look at Saturday.

We wish a very happy birthday to Brenda Hanky.

Happy birthday, Brenda.

Enjoy the day, Brenda.

And our qualifier for a Saturday, Misty Firk.

Happy birthday, Misty.

That's a name.

That's a great name.

Misty Firk.

Enjoy your birthday.

Hope it's a great one for you.

And you're our qualifier for a Saturday.

Excellent.

We also want to send a special shout out on Saturday, the Civic Media Zone, Jim Schmidt.

Oh, happy birthday, Jim, on Saturday.

Yeah.

Enjoy the day, Jim.

And then on Sunday, we wish a very happy birthday to Joanna Cronholm.

Joanna?

Happy birthday on Sunday for you.

Happy birthday to the great names today.

We have excellent names.

We have excellent names.

We have great day, Joanna.

Hope it's a good one.

And our qualifiers on Sunday celebrating their 57th anniversary, John and D. Anne Hillstead.

Oh, John and D. Anne, oh, 57 years.

Congratulations on that and for being qualifiers on Sunday.

Very cool.

Congrats.

To all of our qualifiers, we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers.

Let them know more.

Let them all know about Misty's menu of birthday and anniversary club.

Yes.

Okay.

So the Misty name was there.

That's what got you.

That's it.

It just stuck in my head.

Just right in your head, man.

That's so weird.

That's so weird.

That's so weird.

That's so weird.

They are.

Who do you share your birthdays and anniversaries with?

Well, for today, Paul Giamatti is 58.

Fine actor.

Fine actor.

Sideways.

Cinderella man, amazing spider man.

Straight out again.

Compton.

Billions.

I really, really strong actor.

Son of baseball commissioner, Bart Jamatti.

Yeah.

Just, I don't know if you want to bring that up with you.

If you ever, you know, having a beer with Paul Giamatti, he doesn't seem to really like

to talk about it much.

No.

No.

I don't know.

He might have had a fraught relationship with his father.

Well, he has a kid dealt with a lot of the Pete Rose backlash.

I'm sure he did.

And it really affected him.

It seems like.

Yeah.

And his father passing away.

So suddenly, too, at that time, I mean, yeah.

Great guitarist.

Steve Vias 65, played with White Snake, Frank Zappa, Johnny Rodden, Nasi Osborne, David Lee

Roth, famously.

Very good guitarist.

Incredible guitarist.

I love hearing his guitar.

Summer song.

I'm looking for an instrumental from him or some, listen to Summer song.

It's so, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's already in

my head.

It's already in my head.

The great Colin Quinn is 66.

Fantastic.

SNF former SNL writer and cast member, tough crowd with Colin Quinn, was the precursor

for us.

So many shows that it was also the perfect show to go along with that late night lineup

on Comedy Central for so long.

Yep.

Everything the Bill Martryts do, Colin Quinn does or did, essentially.

Because we got to get the show moving here.

That's fine.

No.

I get you.

Colin Quinn deserves everything.

Everything that people want to give Bill Marner is a positive as it, which isn't much

anymore.

But Colin Quinn actually did with style class and, and much funnier, much more, much funnier.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

We don't need to pile out Bill Marner.

No.

Yep.

Be our born.

A Borg.

Be our in Borg is 69.

Your in Borg.

Oh, it's such a tough name.

Yes.

Comfortably retired at the age of 26 as one of the all-time greats.

I mean, it's one of the amazing, you know, the pride of Sweden, man.

Oh, my gosh.

What a tennis player he was.

The wonderful voice of Harvey Firestein is 73.

Are you being ironic or not?

I can't tell.

I like his voice.

I like his voice.

It's the epitome of gravely, Mr. Fears Day.

And he is also extremely funny.

Oh, my God.

And an accomplished playwright.

I mean, he has had a fantastic career.

What an IMDB.

Yeah.

What a career he's had.

But one of those, I really like his, we're now, I am also biased about this.

But when him and Rob Williams would work together, it's, it's some, it's comedy gold.

It's chemistry gold.

Him and death is smoochy.

It's so good.

Um, the, the ground breaking play, Torch Song Trilogy, yeah, was co-written by Harvey

Fears fan.

They talk about the 70s about, about being homosexual.

It was, I mean, ground breaking, absolutely off Broadway.

I mean, it really changed a lot of things.

Thank you for noting.

And the great Robert England is 78 today.

Freddie Krueger, great character actor.

You know, that, that doesn't, you know, won't get the credit that I think he deserves.

No.

Working through that mask and being funny and charismatic and doing that with a horror

character.

Yes.

I wasn't into those movies.

No, I like his work.

I think he's good.

The nicest, sweetest person you have ever seen in your life and playing Freddie Krueger.

It's crazy.

Like, there was an interview like when Johnny Depp was really at his prime with the Pirates

movies and everything.

And he's talking about early experiences and where he learned to treat people.

And Robert England was one of the first people he talked, are you talking to him?

He brought up just out of nowhere, just like he was so nice and so great.

All those kids, all those teenagers on those sets and everything were very nervous and

hadn't done anything, I hadn't done a lot of work.

Well, you got this guy, this really horrific makeup, you know, and he was, he was a jokester.

He would be, you know, making, keeping things light and everything.

I admire those very much more than the overly serious me version of the factors.

Michael, see, looking at tomorrow, birthdays, Michael Sierra is 37.

He's only 37.

Wow.

I don't think he's been around for a while.

George Michael and George Michael Jr.

and the rest of the developments, super bad, Juno, Scott Pilgrim versus the world, great

stuff.

He's in a new movie with a Benizo D'Otero, the new Wes Anderson movie.

Oh, that's right.

But then so is everyone else.

Yeah, this is a huge cast to be fair.

One of my favorite SNL members of all time, Bill Hater is 47 today.

Wow.

Up the long time tradition of great impersonators at SNL Bill Hater was one of those that did

that.

Flip that into Barry, which was an incredible show on HBO, and I did the museum, super bad,

train wreck, voice of fear on inside out.

He's great.

Great character.

He's done a couple of voices for Star Wars, too, I believe.

I believe that is correct.

Yes.

He's played some aliens, too, I think.

Another one of my faves, man, Alan Iverson is 50 today.

AI is 50.

The answer is 50.

Man, that's the AI we can get behind, right there, right up.

I played at Georgetown, and I just like to me as a point guard, but I'm a big guy for

Georgetown players, and I was a big Alan.

Could anyone, has anyone been able to move like Alan Iverson?

No, Art.

No.

I know it's partly because he was a smaller guy, a little bit shorter than your normal,

super stars, but the way he could move and handle the ball, I mean, it was just remarkable.

Nobody could start and stop like I am.

No, nobody.

Especially in his prime.

Ask Michael Jordan.

Ask the greatest of all time.

Right.

Carl Urban is 53.

Again, a great actor.

Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek movies.

Billy Butcher on Amazon's To Boys, we're really happy for him to get that lead role.

Yes.

He was in the Lord of the Rings films as well.

I mean, he's been really interesting career.

You talk about interesting careers, an amazing just a tapestry of a wild career and everything.

It may not get any better when it's all said and done than Mick Foley.

The hardcore icon, the wrestling superstar of that Mick Foley was not only, it was so

good at wrestling, he did it with multiple characters and dude love and mankind and then

himself and everything.

Multiple, like we're talking in Japan, a legend and this in this wrestling outfit, a legend

and this wrestling outfit, a legend comes from the old school, like really the last days

of old school wrestling where you toured in all these things.

And a national, a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over.

Which is really cool.

And everything Seth was saying about Freddy Krueger is what people say about Mick Foley,

one of the sweetest human beings you will ever meet.

Really cool.

My sister loves Mick Foley.

Loves Mick Foley.

As much as I like Mick, nobody loves him like that.

That's great.

Liam Neeson is 73 tomorrow.

Man, we got the birthdays tomorrow.

Oh my gosh.

A great actor.

That's great actor.

They could gun actor.

Yeah.

I don't think I'm going to watch that move.

I never was into the originals as much as I enjoyed a Leslie Neeson.

But it's going to be interesting.

It's going to be interesting.

Fascinating idea.

I'm interested to see how they do.

Some great roles over the time, but he'll never top Oscar Schindler.

That's the role.

No, that's probably his iconic role.

I will, I probably will only be able to watch that movie once in my life, but I am thankful

to big names.

My Nana liked Frank Sinatra, but it was, he was so third or fourth down the line compared

to Dean Martin.

As it should be.

Oh.

And that's a wrap.

That's a mori, of course, in a tiny household.

Oh my gosh.

Some of my first words were singing that song and everything.

Man, I have to say a great actor, underrated actor, great singer, and in the, in the, the

showman.

He was the showman.

It wasn't, it wasn't Sinatra.

That was the great MC.

It was Dean Martin.

That was the great MC.

I, I say this with love and all the respect I have in me, I would have loved to have seen

what he could do clean, you know, without the alcohol in him, without some of that stuff

in him.

Because we never, we didn't see, Dean Martin was a bit nervous of a performer and the alcohol

helped with that.

Right.

Was it a crutch?

Was it an excuse?

Only he knows that.

Right.

And I'm not going to judge that stuff at all.

I don't want to come across that way.

But I, I do think about this with a lot of artists sometimes and like what we could see,

like, because he was so good with that, how could he have done maybe without it?

My favorite, one of my favorite showbiz stories of all time is Dean Martin being offered

a TV show by, I think CBS or whoever it was that did it, he did, he made the most outrageous

demands because he didn't want to do it, because he didn't want to be stuck on a TV

show.

You know, he wanted to be able to tour and do all this stuff that he usually did.

He made outrageous salary demands.

He said, I'm not going to look at the script, I'm just going to come in and they bought all

of them.

And that shows you how good of a performer he was.

Yeah.

A lot of time he did come in with barely reading.

He ad libbed most of his stuff.

Ain't that a kickin' ahead?

Oh man.

Jessica Tandy also would have been celebrating a birthday on Saturday, the beautiful, the

wonderful, just tremendous.

I'm going to try that.

I'm going to miss Daisy, but I love that.

He's not included.

I love that movie.

I love that movie.

One of the great Hollywood love stories, her and Hume Cronin, yeah.

And Prince would have been celebrating a birthday tomorrow.

I have rambled about him, one of my all time favorites, but I-

He's Roger Snellson.

Yeah.

20 years.

Yeah he is.

We claim him.

The idea too, I still love the fact that he never left Minnesota.

He had everyone come to him, because he knew he- he had to have been one of those guys

knew he was bound for greatness.

Yeah.

Because of just how easily he- not, I wouldn't say easily, but how he took everything

like it's like, yep, yep, this is right, because I know how good I am and I don't need

to brag about it or flaunt it, but if, you know, this is who I am and, man, I love the

idea that he passed when he did, which is still really a bummer for not just for Minnesotans,

but for everybody, considering the amount of, you know, the work he did, the amount of

stuff he recorded, there still could be releasing stuff.

I don't know.

I mean, it's insane, but just a one of a kind individual, a true original.

Taking a look, a quick look at Sunday, birthdays, Nancy Sinatra is 85 on Sunday speaking

of the Sinatra.

Yeah.

These boots are made for walking.

And then Jerry Stiller, Barbara, former first lady, Barbara Bush, and Joan Rivers, all

would have been celebrating birthdays on Sunday.

It's a pretty funny people on there.

Really, really great list.

Not Barbara Bush, but I mean-

Actually, I clipped Barbara really.

Oh, really?

She did have a good sense of humor.

I can't remember who was interviewing her, but when they tried to put her on the spot

about her pearls being fake, and she said something like, oh, they liking her pearls,

and kind of it was a shot at her older style, and she's like, oh, I've had these forever

they're fake.

Or something like that.

Yeah.

I love that woman for that, along with many other things that she did as first lady that

I think were very stand.

I thought she was a very, very interesting person.

And Joan Rivers changed comedy.

She did?

Yeah.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back with the Culver's Star of the Day.

Can't wait to give that some free Culver's to you, everybody, and have some fun with

Belle Cafe this weekend.

Lights, camera, action.

It is time to make somebody a star the day with our friends in the Wisconsin Rapids Culvers.

What we're about to do is play a famous TV theme song.

If you haven't won anything in 30 days, you get to call up 715-424-2600, or just a toucher

to away on the Civic Media app, and you go ahead and call in, see if you can get this

one right.

Yeah.

And maybe win some free Culvers.

You go in an adult meal, a kid meal, from our friends from the Wisconsin Rapids Culver's

big shout out to them.

We've been doing this for almost a long time.

A long time.

I mean, over 10 years, this has been going on.

We're working with Culver's amazing, really.

And I imagine an extent seem longer than that when it comes to WFJ.

I'm sure it does.

Appreciate our friends at Culver's.

You got to Culver's in your area.

You got one that puts back into its community.

Get ready to call up, or use the Civic Media app, and let us know what TV theme song this

is.

Let's go ahead and take ourselves a winner.

What's your answer?

Oh, wait.

Hello.

They're gone.

Oh, no, they're gone.

Yeah.

Okay.

Because it doesn't make sense to call that early.

Don't do it.

We didn't play it yet.

I make these so easy.

You don't have to cheat.

That's it.

Oh, that's how easy I make these.

Call up and let us know what TV theme song this is.

I can hear you humming along out there.

Yeah.

I can hear you there.

There you are.

There we go.

Let's see if we got ourselves a winner.

What TV show is that from?

The Classic Commission Impossible.

It was.

The Classic.

Oh, I'm glad he added that on there.

Yes, he did.

The Classic.

That's a good, that's a smart listener.

Well done.

Well done.

Who do we have on the phone with us?

This is Timothy.

Ah, Timothy.

Thank you so much for listening and playing along.

Were you a fan of the show?

Oh, yeah.

I remember being a little kid.

I had to get home to watch that.

I, you know, I got to see a lot of the reruns.

But I used to watch with my dad all the time.

And there, there was no show like it to me.

And then like a little while after that, he showed me get smart.

Okay.

And it was just so much fun to watch those shows.

A little parody of Mission Impossible.

Yeah.

It's a classic show.

Yeah.

That's a classic one.

And Timothy, you are one of our classic winners around here.

We love talking with you.

Thanks so much for listening and playing along, sir.

You're welcome.

Hang on a line.

We'll get some information from you.

Yeah.

Here.

I can't think of why I would play a Mission Impossible theme song right now, Seth, with the box office

being the way it is.

Yeah, right, right.

I couldn't help myself.

Yeah.

You know, one of the great instrumental theme songs of all time without, you know, any layer.

I mean, it's just so iconic.

Seriously, that opening bit, you know, especially with the lighting, the fuse on the, you know, on the title sequence, man.

I mean, it's a top 20, top 30, you know, theme song.

If one of the, if somebody wanted to make that argument, I would listen to it.

It's so iconic.

And not only all of that, I believe it was a hit song at one point.

It was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was a hit single as well, because it was so good.

It's been good talking with you and doing this segment.

Big thank you to our friends at Culver's for sponsoring this segment.

Right.

It's always a lot of fun.

By the way, Peter Graves, also from Minnesota.

Ah, that's right.

You know, I don't need to do that, so yeah.

Yeah.

That's right.

I throw that out there.

A really good cast.

It was an excellent cast, yes.

And I want to send a shout out to the great Stephen Hill long time watchers of Law and Order.

Remember, he was the original Disney district attorney.

Yes, he was.

He was so good.

He was so, he was perfect.

He was perfect at it.

Yeah.

Big time for him.

And he was very good and mission possible too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll have another opportunity for you next Friday to win some free Culver's with our great

friends from the Wisconsin Rebots Culver's right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Lady Madonna, children at your feet, wonder how you managed to make against me.

Seth and James hanging out with you, thanks so much for joining us on a Friday edition

of the morning show.

I hope your day is treating you good out there.

Big thank you to Tim and so many of our listeners out there trying to win some free Culvers

and getting us those El Caffe birthday anniversary club names.

We appreciate it.

It's been a fun hour.

Very cool.

You guys keep that up, everybody.

We loved the opportunity of that.

We want you to also keep on listening because in the 10 o'clock hour, not only are we going

to get in some entertainment news, we've got some other fun stuff we're going to get

into.

Like, would you go to a real life Jurassic Park?

I want to get you out.

What I have to think about that.

I want audience participation on that one, everybody.

I want to hear from you guys.

I saw an informational film about that.

It didn't look like it ended well.

It did not.

You saw the same.

You saw the same.

I saw that.

Yes.

I don't know what they're talking about.

That is not a good idea.

But we'll get into that more in the 10 o'clock.

And also be listening because we're going to talk bluegrass at the lake.

Yes, we are.

You know, this is just between Seth and I and you out there, okay?

Right.

We may have tickets to give away.

We may.

We may have some tickets to give away.

We do have tickets.

Yes, we do have tickets.

Be listening for that, everybody.

But as we kick off our final segment of the nine o'clock hour for this week, got to

get into this.

Mmm.

Good nuts.

Yes, it is Happy National Dota Day, everybody.

Yes, indeed.

I love donuts.

Yes.

I love them.

I think everyone should love them.

I think everyone should love them though.

That's not true.

I didn't like donuts when I was a kid, but I have since.

I just think when they come back to you, that's interesting though, but that's, that's

it.

Of all things.

Just a little history on this, and I wanted to, they got great friends from up north

news.

Big shout out to them.

Be sure to sign up for their newsletter.

They put together a really nice history of the donut.

Very cool.

1809 Dutch settlers bring donuts to New York.

1918 volunteer cooks find donuts are easy to make and even easier for World War One soldiers

to enjoy.

They used war helmets as a utensil to fry up seven at a time.

That's amazing.

That's amazing.

Of course, the Salvation Army, there's a lot of great history here with this one.

In 1948, the first Dunkin' Opens and Quincy Massachusetts, Super Blossom.

Wow.

1948.

Of course.

Today, the company sells nearly three billion donuts every year around the world.

Wow.

Man.

And there's a great list at thrillist.com.

If you want to know who in Wisconsin makes the best donut.

Man.

Boy, I bet you that's a knockdown drag out fight every year.

It turns out that the so far right now, at least manfreeds in manfreeds home bakery in

Appleton.

Has the honor right now.

Very cool.

I got to check that out, man.

How do you become a judge in that job?

That's what I want to know.

I want that job so bad.

Around the stadiuming donuts.

Yes.

Sign me up, please.

There's a while 11 Wisconsin's 11 craziest donuts.

I got to look at that.

Oh, we got to look that up, man.

Let's go make some time for that a little bit later.

Maybe on Monday, if we don't have time today with all the busyness, but I didn't want

to touch on a couple of other things.

Krispy Kreme is giving everyone a free donut, any kind, no purchase necessary, just walk

in and snag one.

No questions asked.

That's a perfect promotion.

Yes.

And they do that every year and I love it.

Huge credit to Krispy Kreme for doing it right, man.

That's the way that gets you.

That gets people.

Duncan will give you a free donut if you buy a coffee or any beverage.

It's the 15th donut day in a row they've run this deal.

That's a good deal too.

Yeah, it's okay.

I mean, you just don't want coffee with their donuts anyway.

By the way, the reason they're called Duncan Donuts is you'd dunk them in your coffee.

That's the whole reason you do it.

And as I mentioned, the Salvation Army started national donut day in 1938 to honor the

donut glasses or glasses who handed out donuts to soldiers in World War I.

I think you're right with glasses.

Yes.

You know that one little tidbit you had about frying them in the helmets because I realized

those helmets were made out of steel.

So you could use them as a frying pot.

That's pretty cool.

It's pretty cool.

And just in ingenuity.

I mean, just desperation.

Yeah.

It's the fun of an invention.

They're hosting the annual World Donut Eating Championship today in DC.

I got to go.

Oh, James, oh, he's late.

Come on.

He's late.

I'm built for this.

I'm made for this.

Like this.

They got, you know why they didn't, why I'm just finding out about this now, don't you?

Like they don't, they know they know you would just like crush it, man.

There's no reason for anybody else to show up.

Like I got first, second, third place like you might as well just go ahead and stay home.

I built for that.

You know, right.

I should be there.

Actually, you know, donut eating, um, contests on, yeah, it's, I mean, any kind of eating

contests kind of weird.

But other than that, but I don't want to overdo the donuts.

You know what I mean?

Like having like one or two really good donuts, you kind of savor it, but that's all you

need, right?

I want everybody collectively to get ready to either grow or roll their eyes.

And I completely understand it and I, oh, I deserve it.

Oh, boy.

I don't think I could do an eating contest because of the way I feel about hunger and, and

so many people struggling around the world for food and everything.

Yes, I know.

Roll your eyes.

He had to do it.

He had to do it.

I'm, and this isn't even me.

It's my mother.

It's, it's, it's my mom and my head.

I don't, even a donut eating contest.

It's the, uh, yeah.

Do you know they're starving people in China?

They all think your parents are playing and repeating my head.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, a professional eater named James Webb, that's such a weird sense.

What?

Professional eater.

Stop, stop being bad.

That should be a thing.

Anyway, James Webb said a record 70 glazed donuts and eight minutes.

Okay.

Great job.

That's a great job.

Sure.

You don't want a donut eating contest, but you have to enjoy the donuts.

It's not about speed.

Yes.

It's about how many like you can eat, all enjoying it and everything.

That contest would last five days, sipping coffee, you know, just sitting around.

The lowest contest.

This is horrible.

I do.

The slowest donut eating contest.

That's what I want to be a part of.

Ah, again.

I mean, don't stay.

Nobody says a chance.

Just get, get, get your speech for second place because I got this 56% of us have

don't, uh, brought donuts to work before and 51% think more highly of people who

do it.

Oh, wow.

That's very cool.

That is a quick way to get points.

Right.

Right.

That is a go-to way to get points.

I mean, seriously, there's, there's like, there's like two, two kinds of people in the world,

right?

There's people who love to eat donuts and there's a people that really want to but can't because

it's like, no, I can't because I'm on a diet or something like that, but they really

want to eat one.

And then there is only one percent of Americans hate donuts, one percent.

So here you go.

Wow.

You know, just, just be on the lookout for the next presidential election where one of

the political parties is going to grab a donut.

Like it is this good.

Pro, pro doughnut.

That's a good platform.

They just got to be careful what color it is.

Oh, I'm joking.

Ah, recent poll found our favorite types are glazed Boston cream, chocolate frosted jelly

and chocolate cake.

Oh, Britney said, wow, she was right on the money on that one, not bad.

Seth, do you have a favorite donut or in this, when I asked for favorite donuts from Seth

and all of you out there, keep in mind, I don't expect you to give me one.

You can go ahead and give me multiple.

It's a tough one.

It's like me and pie.

You know, what is your favorite?

I'm like saying that I have a favorite one, are you talking, wait, no, I got a chart.

That's a chart of pie.

Okay.

No, here we go.

Here we go.

For donuts, I actually, I am more inclined towards fruit flavored type of donuts.

I'm not a big chocolate donut guy.

I like either, you know, your normal plain cake donut, you know, unadorned, just a regular

old one.

I love fritters.

Oh, blueberry fritters.

Are my go-to fantastic, you know, if you find a place, so when we lived in North Dakota

in West Fargo, there's a place called Sandy's Donuts, famous all throughout that, you

know, that part of North Dakota.

And they would deliver everywhere.

And they had these blueberry fritters, the size of your head.

And I couldn't get enough, man, I love those fritters.

Oh, my God.

Man, that sounds horrible after you.

But man, they were good.

Fritters are good.

Yeah.

I almost feel like the heavier, the better.

Oh, man.

Fantastic.

I have fallen back in love with cinnamon twists.

Oh, I like it.

Cool.

I love pulling those apart, eating those, taking my time with them.

Something about the way you eat a donut.

Yes.

All the different shapes.

How do you eat a donut?

You know, like, I like the ones like, yeah, you pull them apart, you know, we're not

even talking about cinnamon rolls because they're not donuts, but they're, you know, adjacent

to donuts.

But I'm, yeah, ones that you can just grab, bunks of and pull off.

Oh, love it.

We got a lot of great places to get donuts here in town.

We encourage them to advertise with us.

I will send a shout out to IGA.

You know that their donuts are great because you, it doesn't matter how early you get there,

they're gone.

It doesn't matter.

They can just open their doors.

Seriously.

They're already gone.

They're incredible.

They have, though, they have one of those newer combinations of putting Oreo bits on

the donut.

Oh, really good.

You got a little cookie with the donut.

That's a great one.

But I will say that my, if I have to choose my favorite donut, it is a classic cimpsor,

calmer cimpson donut with the pink frosty ass wrinkles.

It's so good.

I eat so much chocolate stuff.

This is one of those few things where no, I don't need any chocolate, I could eat multiple

of those.

I'm with you on that one, actually.

You don't need chocolate on donuts.

What is your favorite donut, everybody?

Let us know.

And if you're going to take advantage of any of these donut deals, or if you know of any

out there that we don't know about, please let us know.

Here's one, my son, my youngest son.

He likes anything from Quick Trip because their stuff is made without peanuts.

It's a lot of donuts he can't have because he's got the peanut allergy.

So there you go.

Yeah, that's it.

That would be, I can have those, so they're my favorite.

I have a feeling Melissa is going to like this topic.

We're going to save this for Monday, the 11 of the craziest donuts you can order in Wisconsin.

I think that's a great idea.

That'll give people the weekend too.

Anything local, anything here in Central Wisconsin, let us know.

We'd love to be able to shout them out.

Little donut shops somewhere around here, I'd love to find out.

Well, your donuts, everybody, there's a lot of good ones out there and joy.

Seth, you know why, you know why bakers make donuts, don't you?

Because they need the dough.

Get out.

Go.

Sorry.

I love that.

I love that.

Dead joke.

It was fantastic.

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