Big Buford Indeed (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your own jeans behind the mic.

Join by Seth.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We hope we have a good one out there.

And I'm going to get in some entertainment news in a little bit.

Talk about some great local events going on in our area.

We got some Father's Day material we'll get into as well.

But we kick things off with our great friends from the South O'Connie Main Society.

Denise joining us with our pet of the week.

A big thank you to our friends at Milton Coffee Shop sponsoring this segment.

Appreciate them over there.

Denise, how you doing?

I'm really great.

Thanks.

How are you guys?

Doing good.

Thanks for being here today.

We were in our pregame talking a little bit and we were going to talk about some of

the things going on over at the shop and that you mentioned something about surgeries today

that was really caught in the Seth and I's ear.

Yeah.

Yeah.

With our grant that we got to make additions and improvements to our facility, we do

have a medical surgical suite now.

So our part time that our traveling vet that comes is going to be doing surgeries in house

today for the first time.

We're very excited about that.

What is amazing?

So I think off on the surface we can kind of gather what that means and what it certainly

means for the staff, for the animals.

But is this something where if there is something that is time sensitive, a surgery that needs

to be done sooner than later or something like that, that that can be done now, that

that can be or something within reason like that?

Something within reason yes.

If it's time sensitive, our vet is only there every other Thursday.

So we would still continue to use our partner facilities like Portage County, Clark

County, Adams County for those veterinary services.

But for the space and neuters and simple things like that, extractions, we can do it in

house now.

We're pretty excited to take that stuff.

And that seems like a real financially seems like a really helpful thing as well.

Absolutely.

Oh, is that cool?

That's really great to hear.

Very, very cool.

Thank you.

And a big thank you to them.

That's great.

We appreciate them being a part of things over there.

And of course, Denise, it is always kitten season.

Yes.

Yes.

But it feels like it is a lot of the time.

So with that, we want to remind everybody out there if you're looking for ways to impact

your community, help our remains society, could always use some certain kitten stuff.

Yep.

Absolutely.

We need kitten litter, or litter, general kitten food.

And then we're in need of distilled water this week because of the start of the surgeries.

A lot of that equipment requires distilled water.

Right.

So we're buying it by the gallon.

If you have extra, drop it off for us.

Not one of those ones we would have thought of right away.

Right.

Yeah.

That's a new one.

That's a good one though, too.

And I also want to remind everybody out there that as it gets nicer out, we know that dog

walking and things like that over at the remains society are very popular and people like

to be a part of and everything.

And by that I mean me.

Yeah.

But there's others out there too.

Right, of course.

When it comes to that, Denise, if somebody has not heard about that, or knows

much about that, would like to learn more or even be a part of it.

How can they do that?

Go on the website.

Under Get Involved, there's a volunteer application they can complete.

If there's any issues and you aren't able to access it, just give us a call.

We can walk you through it.

We can get you signed up through our volunteer coordinator and she will make sure that you

have the proper materials and orientation and get you in there walking dogs or cats.

My fur brother Sam, my parents got a nice backyard and he at night likes to go, you know,

just barking at things that are moving around back there.

And I have a feeling that Sam is trying to invite them in, deer squirrels, there's a bear

back there once.

I'm pretty sure Sam, if he could open the doors, just trying to invite them in with his friends

in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a good thing he can't pick, work the locks up.

But it got me thinking about something and this came up years ago and I just thought it

would be good to kind of bring up one more time about when when you come across wildlife

and, you know, where to go for assistance with those things because our Humane Society

is amazing.

They do a lot of great things over there, but that's not really your, your guys' wheelhouse.

That's not really your department.

Correct.

You can always call us and we will give you the appropriate rescues or people to contact

for that.

Depending on the wildlife, what it is, if you find something injured, give us a call.

Yeah.

Call a phone if it's after hours and we will guide you through it and give you the

appropriate person to contact.

Nice.

I appreciate that, Denise.

All right.

I have made the audience wait long enough.

Who is our pet of the week?

Buford.

He is a big boy.

He's got the body of a mastiff and he has the eyes of a husky.

So he's like, fun colored, but he has these ice blue eyes.

Wow.

He's just spectacular.

He's a big dog though.

He's young, maybe two years old, two to three.

He came in as a stray, so we don't have a lot of information on him other than that.

He's a very nice dog.

He's calm.

He doesn't bark.

He howls like a husky, but he's so far, so good, good run, other dogs.

We haven't exposed him to cats yet, but if you're looking for a big dog with a big heart,

he's your guy.

There you go.

I don't do this enough and it's a shame on me.

You are so good at describing these animals.

I've gone back and heard of previous interviews.

I cannot tell you how good you are at this.

Oh, thank you.

I hope so.

It takes me 20 hours to even get like half of that, and you describe you for perfectly.

That is exactly what you're doing.

He's got the body of a mast.

He does.

I don't know if I've ever seen that.

He's a handsome dog.

He's interesting looking.

Yeah.

Our candle manager puts these descriptions together, so I cannot take credit.

I have a lot of help.

Both of you.

Because you don't have any notes in front of you, so I mean, that's pretty good.

You guys do a great job of this.

The descriptions.

Thank you.

Buford seems like a very sweet dog, too.

He is.

He's big, but he's very sweet and calm, and he doesn't jump, but he doesn't really pull

on the leash.

He's pretty good.

The bigger they are, the harder you fall for them.

That's right.

The harder you fall for them, it always seems to be.

Now, also, I don't see an age on Buford.

I think he's young.

Around two, but they haven't posted that yet, but he's pretty young, according to his

teeth.

Yeah, right.

That's interesting.

Any other notes on Buford certainly has his shots, his chip.

He was just neutered this week, so he's ready to go.

All right.

Wonderful.

Wonderful.

And we want to encourage you to find out more about not only Buford, but all these amazing

animals over at the Maine Society.

Get them before I do.

Reach out to the Maine Society to find out more.

And keep in mind, everybody, if you are on the fence about something, and you have concerns

or questions or anything, maybe you're not sure if the animal would work with your other

animals or with your kids, or you're a little bit older, I've talked to a couple of neighbors

and my parents about this, and they, one of the neighbors, they have a great dog, but

they're thinking of maybe getting another one, because he's, you know, getting older.

And they're uncertain because they're not as mobile.

So, you know, talking about things like that, talk it out with the Maine Society.

Yeah, absolutely.

We have all the knowledge of all these dogs and how they will fit in the right questions

to ask to make sure they're right fit for your family.

So yeah, give us a call, stop in, we're happy to help.

Reach out to them anytime you can email them, office at SWCHS.com, give them a call at 715-420505-420505.

Be sure to reach out to them or at their location, 3621-64th Street North here in Wisconsin

Rapids, and bookmark their webpage, SWCHS.com, SWCHS.com, follow them on social media, it's

a great follow, great way to keep up to date and everything going on over there, and

to reach out to the Maine Society.

Denise, thanks so much for the time.

Thank you.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Do us a favor and give a view for a good one right between the years there, and say hi

to the team over there for us.

I will.

Thank you.

A big thank you to Milltown Coffee.

Yes.

Greatly appreciate our friends over at Milltown Coffee, 3821-80th Street South, right here

in Wisconsin Rapids, they're open, everybody.

They're open.

Ready to go.

Ready to serve you.

I'm going right now.

Yeah, go.

Good, right on.

Good.

Say hi to them for us and everything, and enjoy.

We will have another edition of the Pet of the Week next week, right here on WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

I hope you all are having a great Thursday morning out there.

Thank you so much for joining us.

A big thank you to Denise and Buford and all of our friends at the South of County Main

Society.

Of course, to good people over at Milltown Coffee.

Yes, indeed.

That was a fun segment.

Yes.

Appreciate them very much.

Yes, I did play a little beach boys to go into our entertainment section to kick off

talking about.

I'll give you this one.

Yeah, yeah.

I can't help a good side.

That's all right.

And certainly want to pay respect to a very, very influential human being, and say musician,

human being, and Brian Wilson.

I also, and this is going to shock the audience, I don't have a lot to say on this one.

I didn't grow up with the beach boys.

I didn't hear a lot of their music.

I certainly know who they are.

Respect Brian Wilson and understand that he was a musical genius.

And I don't throw that word around lightly.

Right.

So, but I wanted to just take, you know, clear the lane for you, man.

Because I know that this is, then this is more your will have.

Right, right.

The story of, boy, the story of the beach boys is fascinating twists and turns all through

it.

But it's mostly more of the story of Brian Wilson, because he had such an impact on the

band.

You know, that's funny.

There was an interview they were out, of course, many times on American bandstand and

Dick Clark asked them.

He's like, so who, you know, so who picks the music and who decides that?

And Brian's like, well, since I write and produce most of the music, I guess it's me.

You know, also somewhat subdeprecating in that sense.

But the way he put music together was, I mean, fantastic.

His ear for the layers, you know, James, you talk a lot about layers of music kind of thing.

And man, did he pioneer a lot of that of putting stuff together, these like, they're like

more classical pieces in a small form, like the song form, right?

You listen to, he always said his first, his first real creation, as he called it, was

surfer girl.

So you know, before that, you hear, you know, all the surf and safari, you know, all the

kind of the beginning of the, the surf culture, the surf music, the surf sound.

But if you listen to surfer girl and you listen to the harmonies on that, and I think what

he said on that one, he said, he said, if you listen to the complexity of the harmonies

on that, it goes by without you even noticing.

So if you actually listen to it, though, and you realize, those harmonies are not like

normal harmonies.

These are things that he really thought out.

And you know, and yeah, Brian had his flaws, he was a perfectionist, you know, even when

things were good, he still didn't think they were good enough, you know, he was constantly

like that.

He had issues with some drug stuff that happened, you know, and which caused him some

permanent damage throughout his life.

But there's no question the man was a spoke through music that was, that was his voice.

And what he, what he did for popular music, I mean, maybe a couple of people, you can say

did more, you know, but not many, not many.

He, his struggles with mental health and what he shared about that, I always thought was

really early doing that before a lot of people were.

You mentioned a self-deprecating thing and I think that that was part of that too with

that.

I remember being a kid and hearing good, I was, I was a little older, probably 13, 14

or whatever when I first, I might have heard of before them, but I first heard good vibrations.

And an amazing song.

Good song.

And then it, there's just this weird pheromone like at the end and like whatever it is.

The pheromone, yeah.

Pheromone, yeah.

And it just throws you to me.

It did.

Yeah.

As a kid.

And I, what is this sound, right?

Yeah.

And it just was such a weird layering of song and of a sound, you know, and to me it was

my first impression of, oh, this is a little different.

Oh, this isn't, you know, this is, I think there's nobody else is going to say this and

I don't believe nobody should say this.

But it reminded me of when I was a kid and I first heard Pink Floyd and I'd never heard

anything of that.

That's fair.

The layers, the different sounds out of nowhere that you wouldn't expect in a song.

Yep.

That was what it reminded me of.

Right.

Right.

And you can go back and see what one of the greatest songs ever recorded in my opinion

is God only knows, which is a, I mean, it's, it's, that's a good song.

It's, it's so fantastic on so many levels.

Beach boys were not known for their lyrics because they kind of stuck to the, you know,

the, the, the beach culture, you know, that kind of thing.

As they moved along, of course, they, oh, they spread out and they started singing about

other things.

But for me, that one is such, it's a gorgeous song.

And what you hear what he says, you know, the lyrics to it go so well with it.

I mean, it's just, I mean, you can't, it doesn't get any better than that.

For pop music, it doesn't get any better than that.

Wilson is survived by his daughter, Karney and Wendy, who found success in the group Wilson

Phillips.

That's right.

And five adopted children from his second marriage.

Wow.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

The beach boys issued a statement on the website saying in part, Brian Wilson wasn't just

the heart of the beach boys.

He was the soul of our sound.

Mm-hmm.

It's a really well set.

Yes, he was.

The melodies he dreamed up and the emotions he poured into every note changed the course

of music forever.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Really good.

That is absolutely true.

Ryan Wood from the Rolling Stones summed up what a lot of people probably feel right now,

quote, oh, no, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone in one week, my world is mourning.

Yes.

Brian's daughter, Karney posted a wonderful Instagram post about this too.

And it was very sweet.

And I don't know how to say this without saying it probably crass or uncomfortably.

You don't hear this very often for an 82 year old man.

That's true.

You know, a lot of the stuff that you're hearing and being said, you would think he was

in his 30s or 40s or something.

Right.

It just shows you how much this guy meant that he could be around another 30, 40 years

and they probably would still be saying the same thing.

Right.

This is the equivalent when Prince died.

This is the equivalent when David Bowie died.

You know, his impact is immeasurable to pop music.

And for people you would even think, you know, Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones sold at nothing

like the Beach Boys.

But they did take inspiration from Brian Wilson.

So definitely a life old lived a life well set.

Netflix has an animated stranger things spin off in the works and they drop some details

yesterday.

It's called Stranger Things Tales from 85.

It will take place between seasons two and three of the original series.

It'll feature original characters plus a new one.

It'll be out next year.

The fifth and final season of the live action Stranger Things is being released in three

parts this year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.

So years back HBO got the wild idea in part because out of forced creativity, if you will,

James Gandalfini and Edie Falcos, their names were getting bigger and bigger so they are

being pulled away from the set.

Other projects.

Do other projects and stuff.

So okay, the sopranos is going to be back any year.

That's how TV shows worked.

It'll be back in the fall.

It'll be back whatever.

Well, then I'll say no, you've got to wait two years.

You're waiting two years for this show and everything and just back in the day when

that was happening and everything.

It's wild to think about now.

I don't know many shows that could do that where the fan base is going to stay there.

But they did and the ratings were the same if not better and all that.

It was wild.

Game of Thrones, same thing.

Yeah, kind of thing.

But HBO realized through that that, oh, we can drag this stuff out and we can make

even more money and more advertising dollars and all of this.

So you know what?

The final season of the sopranos, we're going to release it in two parts and now everybody

wants to do it with their big hit, their signature show, whether you're Fox, NBC, ABC or

streaming service like Hulu or Netflix or anybody else.

And this is what Netflix has.

Name me the other hit show Netflix has.

Name me the last three hit shows that Netflix has.

I'll wait.

Yep.

Got me there.

Okay, even one of them, Squid Game, I never watched the second of it, but I know it was

very popular.

Even that's wrapping up.

Right.

And that was kind of not Netflix.

They were just kind of broadcast it, right?

That was made it from a Supreme company.

So yeah, that's a good point actually.

So when it comes to that, it is the old adage of stretch.

We need you to stretch.

And that is what they're going to do with all of, not just with the original, the last

season of the show as they're breaking up at three parts, man.

Three parts.

That's excessive.

Yeah.

I like the show of watched every episode.

Yeah.

That made me cringe.

I'm like, I don't know, man, I don't, I, I, if I wasn't OCD and had to have things finish,

I don't know how much I'd be that, you know, watching it, to be honest, because it's

a great show.

But I mean, I love when I'm a writer, but I mean, come on, let's put this a perspective,

right?

And then the spin-off show and there'll probably be another spin-off show and then

look at what Game of Thrones or the Walking Dead or any of these.

It goes back to your conversation about IP and how that is taken over creativity.

Absolutely.

Like, there's, there's instead of trying to come up with new concepts, new shows or anything

like that, it's just, well, what do we own the IP of?

Well, and it's funny because you go back and these things at one time were new.

Yeah.

And interesting, that's why people wanted to see it when the Walking Dead appeared, you

know, for those people even who had no knowledge of the comic at all, I'll say, whoa, what

is this?

Yeah.

They're doing things on this show they never did before.

Same thing with Game of Thrones, even if you hadn't read the books, people were like, wow,

this is amazing.

They're doing things here.

But that's because it was all new and different.

And what has it been 10 years, 10, 15 years since all of that?

And that was just how can we rework everything?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's all, yeah.

And the creative bar has been lowered way too far.

It does feel that way.

Father's Day prepped for you.

A little bit, Seth and I are going to get into the, we had the best TV dads the other

day.

We did.

How about the best movie dads?

We'll get into that in a little bit, but for right now, what's the great movie to watch

with your dad?

That's a good one.

I did a little research and homework on this one, as I like to do with all of our heavy

topics.

Right.

And I talked to my dad.

Heavy research.

Heavy research.

Heavy research.

Very, very heavy.

I saw him at my parents.

Yeah.

He and I have a big debate going on about what movie we have watched the most together.

Because there's nobody I've watched more movies with than my father.

Okay.

I haven't WGN on watching the Italian spaghetti westerns and all that.

And certainly comedies like Airplane and Caddyshack and the Blues Brothers, which was what

I immediately thought, okay, Blues Brothers.

For sure, there's no movie we've watched more than the Blues Brothers.

And he almost got like angry about it and he's like, Jimmy, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Well, a fistful of dollars.

He's like, he's bringing up all these movies.

I don't know if that you're right, man.

But this is our debate we're having right now.

Sure.

We've got a lot of movies we like to watch together.

I want to hear from you out there.

Do you have a movie that you watch with your dad?

Do you have a movie you remember watching with your dad?

Not my father, but I remember watching the Cowboys with my mom a lot.

Okay.

There's certain movies that are tied to these individuals and I think that maybe others

might have that.

Let us know you can text us or call in through the Civic Media app.

Right.

715-424-2600.

Do you have any?

You know, I was just trying to think of that.

My parents are not big movie people as a matter of fact.

We went to movies, you know, the bigger ones, you know, when we were kids or the kids movies

that Disney ones and all those kinds of things.

And we would rent movies occasionally, but honestly, because I didn't watch a ton of movies

with them, I still say my parents were with TV shows because of the number of shows we

watch together.

And that's what it is, you know, like my mom with unsolved mysteries.

For some reason, that was the show we watch, I don't know why, but it's kind of thing.

But not movies.

I don't really associate many movies with them.

I used to watch unsolved mysteries with my not a pop-up.

That's good enough.

Let's take a call.

Good morning around the show.

Hey, so I didn't really watch a lot of movies with my dad, but what I did watch with my

dad was documentaries.

We watched a whole lot of stuff on, you know, back when the history channel had history

on it.

That was what I watched with my dad growing up.

Very nice.

I like that.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

That's very cool.

That's very cool.

You want to shout out your dad?

Hi dad, I love you.

There we go.

There we go.

Nice.

It's all you need to do.

Thank you, Laura.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Yeah.

That's good.

That's a good one.

I hadn't thought of that.

I watch more docs with my mom probably, but my dad really does like documentaries.

That's cool.

That's cool.

So this list that we have here is an interesting one.

Goodhousekeeping.com put out a list of the 45 best movies to watch with pops.

Okay.

That's a random number.

But okay.

We're not going to go through all 45.

No.

In fact, I'm only going to touch on a handful of these.

Okay.

But there are a lot of the movies that you would think of.

Like cheaper by the dozen or even big daddy.

Right.

I love that movie.

Films that are literally about being fathers, right?

Yeah.

And then there's the shining.

And like what?

Whoa.

Wait a minute.

No.

No.

That being an example of a bad father.

Yeah.

Murderous father.

And as much as you and I are fans of like the Empire Strikes Back, I don't know that

that's a good dad movie.

Those are like daddy issue movies, but let's go with that instead, right?

Um, Indiana Jones and Alaska are saying now that one, yeah.

That one I'll give you.

Although I was thinking about the dog indeed, his father is actually kind of a jerk in

that movie.

Yeah.

They have that conversation.

I left you alone.

So you'd be self-reliant.

Yeah.

What?

Get out of here with that.

Yeah.

That's terrible parenting.

Um, Willow.

Oh.

Okay.

Like the adopted father.

Because a little girl, Laura.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

I know that game.

I was sad.

I've never ending story mode right there.

He just made that through the name out there.

That's great.

Um, I feel the dreams.

Yeah.

Oh, that makes sense, right?

And it involves baseball too.

A lot of fathers and children have a baseball connection, right?

Yeah.

At number three, the godfather.

Whoa.

Nick.

Nick, in mind.

Because of what kind of family you're talking about.

Yeah.

I mean, in my family, that makes sense.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

100% that makes sense in my family.

But I didn't know anybody else would have thought that one.

To be fair, to be fair to Don Vito, um, he was trying to get Michael not to be joined

the right.

He wanted him.

He wanted him to have a legit job, not be part of the whole family, right?

Yep.

Sonny was the, to be fair, the not so bright one, yeah, he really couldn't do anything

else.

So he was going to be the one to take over the family business.

But he wanted Michael to do something better.

I mean, it didn't work out like that, but, you know, Al Pacino's performance is Michael

Coley on that.

It just, it stops me.

It is every time.

Every time.

Every time.

Pity me of restraint.

It is the, it is, it is so good, which later Al Pacino is like, people will be like,

wait, the same actor.

Right, right.

Uh, finding Nemo at number two.

Yes.

Yeah.

That one's good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's, he's very much.

And, and you know, it has the, the, his father, whose name escapes me at the moment.

Um, I remember a Laura, but not the, Albert Brooks, yes.

That was what I was going to say.

Albert Brooks, his performance, it's fantastic.

I mean, he's so good at, uh, at those voices.

I say this, obviously, as a Simpsons fan, and he's worked on the Simpsons since the very

first season and everything, but Albert Brooks is an underappreciated voice actor.

Yes.

He's done.

He's done, he's done a really, really appreciated actor.

Like, like, how about, like, all around talent underappreciated, yeah, and underused, very

much so.

And at number one, raising Arizona from 1987, what am I, uh, just go to movies when I was

a kid.

Um, I, I don't know how that happened, but the cage is a father.

There you go.

And to be fair, he goes through a lot to, to try to provide for his kid and everything

and to help his kid out, um, and movie is just so over the top.

It's, it's fantastic.

Even if you don't watch the movie, do yourself a favor and just watch the breaking out of jail

scene with him and John Goodman, it's, uh, it is, it is comedic gold.

It is one of the funniest things I promise you you'll ever see.

If you watch that scene and you don't laugh, I, I will, I will eat a hat.

I will.

You go and brother said, that's right.

It's raining.

He said, pull it about.

Oh, God, it's so good.

I love that movie.

Uh, well, it got some great actors in that movie, too.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I mentioned John Goodman and Nick Keech all the time, but, uh, is Holly Hunter?

Holly Hunter is in that.

Yes.

Yeah.

She's so good at that.

That's a great movie.

What does your list look like?

What movies, TV shows, documentaries, anything like that that you, uh, like to watch

with your dad?

Yeah.

Uh, we'd love to hear from you.

Everybody.

We'll, uh, get some more, uh, dad talk in when we come back.

All right.

We got, are these the best dads in movie history coming up on the morning show at WFHR?

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thank you so much for keeping us company.

We hope you're having a great day out there.

Uh, we continue some father's day conversation, right?

And, uh, appreciation to all of you out there.

Um, uh, always listen.

We appreciate you.

You best listen.

There's no radio out there.

Um, I do want to say, um, to anybody that, you know, I understand the mother's day, father's

day, um, uh, it can be wonderful, it can be great, it can also be triggering.

Yes, they can.

Uh, and just know that we are thinking of him.

We appreciate you hanging with us through this and, um, the day and what the day is me

up to you.

That's right.

And in a little bit also, uh, with mother's day and father's day mentioning those,

also be remiss to not mention the United Way's diaper drive that they are doing.

Yes.

Wrap it up this weekend.

I did it.

I did it.

James.

I pull the James.

He's influencing me.

Yes.

Yes.

Um, sad.

I encourage you to do that.

Find out more about going to UWSWAC.org and thank you to everybody who's already doing it.

Yes.

And helped out the future, really, or impact in the future doing stuff like that.

So father's day is this Sunday.

So let's take a look at some of our favorite dads from movies.

Okay.

I didn't see, um, you don't, okay, uh, Yard Barker dot com is where you can find this

list.

Uh, I don't know much about Yard Barker, uh, no, don't know if I've ever mentioned that

website before.

No, probably not.

But, uh, you know, that's where they got this list and I don't know what the criteria

was.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

That would be something interesting to look at.

And I bring that up in part because of the number one name.

And I guess I don't know for first, for sure that this isn't, uh, kind of, you know, order

of, you know, the best to worse or whatever.

But it seems to be, uh, at number 15 Darth Vader and Star Wars.

He did save Luke and he, you know, he did save, uh, at the end, at the end, he turned

back to the good side, you know, he did save him in the end.

Yeah.

Um, uh, I don't know if I call him a bad dad.

So I guess I could see that, yeah, yeah.

Well, yeah, no, you know, he didn't raise him, of course, um, maybe, maybe Obi-Wan was

actually a better father figure or even his uncle Owen, you know, so yeah, uh, this

next one should be higher on the list.

If this is in some order, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, Indicilla Mockingbird from 1962.

Yes.

He was actually quite a good father.

A really, really good father.

Single father too.

I remember Crickly, you know, dad in the South and raising, uh, not only, uh, you know, kids,

but, um, obviously with the, being an attorney and stuff and so many, I don't know, there's

so many things about that character that if you do it right, uh, are so organic and natural

and yet, uh, like, like things, life lessons kind of stuff and everything.

Exactly.

I love that play.

Uh, Cameron Poe, Nicholas Cage and Conair in 1997, I don't remember him being a, oh yeah,

he had a little girl.

That's why I think I thought it was the wife because of the love song.

I was thinking of the wife and that's right.

He did have a kid.

Yeah.

Oh goodness.

I'm going to be honest.

All I remember for that movie is Steve Bussevy.

It's like the main thing.

John Melvich was fantastic and I love John Cusack, one of my all-time favorite actors.

He's in it, but no, Steve Bussevy is what I remember from that movie.

Uh, Jason Furious Styles, Lawrence Fishburn and Boys in the Hood from 1991.

Yes.

That's a good one.

It's a sneaky good one.

Yes.

Oh, man, is he good in that movie?

It, it, it may be his best performance.

Yeah.

And in a career of like tremendous performance.

Yes.

Yes.

It's such an important role to an important movie.

That's a good one.

Uh, we just were talking about this, Professor Henry Jones, senior Sean Connery and Indiana

Jones in the last crusade from 1989.

Ah, I don't know if he was such a good father, you know, I'm, I'm at the jury's out in

that indie turned out all right.

But again, you know, I, I, I mean, you mentioned, you know, he left him alone and stuff.

I mean, there's things there.

That first, that first scene, you know, the River Phoenix scene at the beginning of the

booby and he's like, he's like, dad, I just did this thing, you should count to 10 in

Greek.

I mean, come on, come on, Henry.

Yeah.

Come on.

I got the chemistry between those two.

But they were fantastic.

It was so good.

It was so good.

That movie could have been horrible and I'd watch it to the end of the time.

I just love their chemistry.

We get movies I've watched a lot.

I just realized I watched that movie a lot when I was younger.

Yeah.

I think that's the one I watched the most.

It is for me for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's definitely the one for me.

Mr.

Levin Sting, Eugene Levy in the American pie series.

Oh, she's not a bad one.

Not a good one.

No, I guess Eugene Levy.

He's awesome.

He's awesome.

He's a fantastic.

He's always okay with that.

Yeah.

Uh, sneaky good one.

Here, John Quincy Archibald, Denzel Washington, and John Cue from 2002.

Oh, wow.

Such a good movie.

That movie.

I had forgotten about.

I saw that one in the theaters and it's a tremendous movie.

And of course, Denzel always, I mean, always 100% with him.

He always gives us all.

But yes.

And he's the measure, the drastic measures he goes to to save his child is pretty remarkable

in that movie.

Jack Burns, Robert DeNiro, and meet the parents from 2000.

Can you milk me?

Can you?

It's such a, it's such a great performance by him.

That was the role.

I know he had done analyze this, you know, but he played it kind of straight in that

one.

Yes.

Um, but it was the, uh, meet the parents series that really showed how good of a, of

a comedic actor he could be.

It gave a whole third act to his career.

It did.

I did say.

He ended up in a bunch of movies.

Yeah.

Two acts before that.

That's it.

Uh, uh, Gil Buckman, uh, Steve Martin from Parenthood in 1989, again, hmm, no, wait a

minute.

Think about that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, uh, sneaky good movie though.

It is.

It is.

What a cast.

Yes.

Back at that cast.

Huge cast for that one.

That was, uh, that was Ron Howard's big breakout movie as a director if I remember correctly.

Yeah.

So, uh, that one or father of the bride should Martin be nominated for as far as dads.

Yeah.

He was better in father of the bride.

I think it was, I would have thought father of the bride.

I would have thought that would be true.

I like parenthood, but I would have thought father of the bride.

At number six, Chris Gardner will submit in the pursuit of happiness from 2006.

Oh, I've never seen that one.

Yeah.

Just, you know, get ready to be emotional.

Oh, okay.

It's an emotion, especially as a father.

Oh, my God.

Oh, okay.

Um, uh, easily one of his best performances and incredible work, uh, and based on the story.

It's a cool story.

Oh, really?

A very important true story.

Did not know that.

Uh, Howard Langston, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jingle all the way from 1996.

Uh, very tongue in cheek there.

I don't know.

No, no.

Uh, I will say in real life, uh, from his kids and everything else, Schwarzenegger seems

like a really good dad.

Yeah, he did.

He does.

I'm like he was.

His kids really love him.

I mean, they talk about him a lot and everything.

Uh, at number four, Harry Stamper, Bruce Willis from Armageddon in 1998.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Absolutely.

I still don't get that movie and why so many people like it so much.

I just don't get it.

I'm not a, I'm not necessarily a fan of the movie.

Right.

Uh, I'm, I'm just such a big Bruce Willis guy.

Right.

Um, that that's it.

I don't, I didn't, I can't say that I liked the movie.

Yeah.

I seen it once.

So cheesy.

But even I remember all the things that sacrifice to see made as a debt like you sacrifice

for his daughter, the sacrifice that he's daughter's husband and all this stuff.

All the alert.

Uh, oh, yeah.

It's 1998.

No spoilers left.

It's over.

Might get out of here.

It's from 90.

Man.

I didn't think about that in 1998.

Oh, my God.

Man.

So, uh, that's a good one right there.

Um, I'm putting all of my bias out there.

Um, my number one is their number three, Daniel Hillard Robin Williams in Missed Outfire

from 1993.

That is, I mean, that's a touchy one.

That's it.

I get better examples of him as a dad.

I, I think so.

He's, he played a dad quite a bit of a quite a few times than I, I don't know, they think

about it.

I think that's the most popular one.

Oh, for sure.

That's not his best performance as a father.

It, I mean, it, it goes, again, goes to the lengths that he wants to be with his kids,

right?

So he has to do it in a certain way.

And of course, it's a ridiculous premise, but movies like that are always ridiculous.

Yeah.

It's just to get Robin Williams to be an old lady.

That's basically what you're doing.

So, uh, it shows you how darn good and how believable, how much people liked him, the

combination of all that that's such a silly plot is this, this well loved, and this

well, you know, take it in and everything.

Yeah.

And that we just suspend belief in those moments when he's dressed as Miss Dalfire, everything

and believing that Sally Field doesn't see it.

It's by the way, him and Sally Field were so good together.

Yes.

Yes they were.

Noticing a lot of that.

A lot of good chemistry between these actors and this.

At number two, Clark Graswald, Chevy Chase and the vacation series.

Seriously.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

Ah, again, that's like, wait, it wasn't, again, we have to question.

So, he wasn't a very good husband, for sure, you know, maybe a better father, as, as,

you know, because I'm looking at this list and I think of like Atticus Finch and there's

really, I mean, what, what are you going to say bad about that?

Right.

So, what critique do you have of that one?

To be fair.

But almost every other one, there's some kind of thing that we could say about, right?

There's some flaws, right?

Right.

Is dad.

Of course.

That's dad.

We're flawed.

We're not perfect.

That's parents.

In general.

Yes.

And so, we're really hitting on something here.

That's true.

And Brian Mills, Liam Neeson, from the Taken movies.

Wow.

I mean, to be fair, maybe the band was through a lot of risk and dreams.

He did a lot for his kid.

He really did.

I mean, he can't take that from him.

He made three movies out of them.

Oh, you know what?

I'm so, I've seen zero of the Taken movies and you know what?

But I don't care.

I'm just so happy that Liam Neeson got to do things like that.

Yes.

It makes me happy that he was, had some fun.

I do think that there is a serious problem for Hollywood with their action stars because

they cannot let any of them retire because they're not making new ones.

I know.

What the heck, man?

They're all too old.

Every action star is above 50 now.

Yeah.

The rock just turned 50.

Like every one of them is above 50.

And we're not talking, we're not talking like, probably that by the way.

It has a lot, it has a shelf life.

It's like, what's going to happen next is that they, and we're not talking like the

superhero movies.

So that's kind of, that's a different thing.

Yeah.

And then the action movies you're talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a great, it's an interesting good list.

What is your list, everybody?

Who do you think it was your number one example, or do you know not to just choose one?

I'm glad Jack Torrance did not appear on this list.

Do you have one that wasn't on the list, or one that you can think of?

Because any of the ones I would have thought of, I'll be honest, were on the list.

Oh, really?

Okay.

I can't think of any off the top of my head, necessarily.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I was thinking, the movie, like, you know, I feel the dreams, right?

It's considered one of those movies, you know, you watch with your dad and all these things.

But again, not great fathers.

Yeah.

There's especially his dad, who basically, you know, I guess he didn't, but he died.

But, you know, still, there is the dad in Juneau.

He was really good.

Tarnet, the, oh, God, they're good.

Simmons.

Yeah, John C. Simmons.

J.K.

Simmons.

J.K.

Simmons.

Yeah.

That's a good one right there.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Oh, Ted Kramer.

And Kramer versus Kramer.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

There's one for you.

Yeah.

Wow.

I have that movie.

Him and Meryl Streep in that movie.

Yeah.

And we want to hear yours, everybody.

And, of course, we'll keep this going today and tomorrow.

You know, we're going to get us your TV dads, or movie dads, or TV dads, or whatever.

Whatever.

We'll take him.

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Yes, we are.

We have the next playoff game, the assumption girl soccer team taking on Aquinas.

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And Seth, you had a couple things.

Well, you know what happened today?

As I drove out from my house, I saw that the farmers market had started again, everyone.

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