Everyday People Olympics (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at 97.5 FM WFHR.

Got your host James Biden, the mic, joined by our head of production, our co-host Seth

Habacker.

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners in radio.

We're going to kick things off with a good friend, Bernie Murlow.

Bernie, how you doing?

Pretty good.

How are you guys?

I'm doing good.

All right.

Nice.

Sonny Skies out there.

A little bit of cloudiness, but we'll take it.

I was going to say, we've flipped roles.

Now I'm stuck under all of the clouds, not in the far north of you.

And you've got some sunshine.

You didn't tell us there.

Yeah.

You told us that yesterday.

That's true.

That's what was going to happen.

Yeah.

No, I jinxed myself.

There's that part.

Oopsie.

So yeah, we've got a really unsettled active weather pattern here.

Starting this afternoon and continuing through Saturday afternoon.

Make sure you have the mud boots, the rain boots, the umbrella, the coat, the rain coat.

You want all of that through the next few days.

And I hope you already cut the grass.

If you didn't squeeze it in right now because the next chance to really do that is going to be on Sunday.

We're going to see waves of rain.

And the atmosphere is going to get muggy.

It's going to get a little warm and sticky.

And that's a lot of juice for these storms to work with.

So they're going to have a lot of rain potential with them.

This is afternoon.

We could see a quick one, one and a half inches and underneath another thunderstorm.

So if you put that on repeat with waves and waves and waves, as we go into Friday and Saturday,

even more storms pushing through, yes, we definitely have that potential for flash flooding,

especially in urban areas.

The streets could flood.

We could also see those rivers and streams rising in different areas.

But these storms are going to be moving very slowly.

And that's the problem.

There's going to dump a lot into one area wherever they are.

So they're going to fire up this afternoon, probably around four or five or so.

We are definitely in that spot where it could happen here for us.

And they continue through the night.

They become a little bit heavier overnight.

We could get a little break in the morning and then more storms again for Friday evening.

And then the cold front hits us on Saturday, which sleeps across the entire state

with more showers and storms.

But again, the sunshine back by Sunday, continuing into Monday.

Honestly, early next week looks pretty nice.

Nice.

Yeah, we'll take it.

Yeah.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

Thanks so much for the update.

Have yourself a good one.

We'll get people ready for the weekend tomorrow.

So good.

Can't wait.

Have a good day, guys.

Thank you.

You too.

Best in the business right there.

Brittany, we're joining us every morning.

We got good stuff on the way for you.

The Elcafe Bertane anniversary club is coming up.

We're also going to get into the cities with the best and worst DMVs.

And poor DMVs.

I don't know if this actually connects or not.

But to me, I wanted to connect that with the US airports that force you to walk the miles

between those.

Oh, good lord.

The longest gates, the longest distance of gates.

That'll be interesting.

I have thoughts on that too.

Get into that one.

And we got a, what is it basically?

I don't want to say a nightmare.

But it is, it is whatever is right next to, right under a nightmare.

Of this, what this woman was going through with.

Slightly scary.

Dream?

I don't know.

Yeah, something like that.

Not a full-blown nightmare, but yeah.

It's, it's a Thursday.

So you know what that means in the 10 o'clock hour.

We're going to have our pet of the week with the South of County Main Society.

Denise is going to join us.

Big shout out and thank you to Mill Town Coffee for that.

We appreciate them sponsoring that.

Fabulous.

Seth and I will get into some entertainment news.

Got not one, but two Steven Spielberg stories.

A double shot of Spielberg.

Okay.

Interesting.

We used to do that a lot in the classic rock days.

Double shot of Spielberg.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get your jaws and close and come.

What band was he in?

Who got that coming up for you a little bit later?

We'll also get into a fun one.

The best classic arcade games.

We will discuss and we will see where the audience falls on this one.

Might lead to some arguments there.

I think so.

Especially, you know, we've got different generations out there listening.

So I think different generations are going to have.

Oh, this was the best.

Oh, this was the best.

But we're strictly looking at games that you played in the arcade.

Right there.

You put your quarters in.

You played them.

And try to impress your friends.

Yeah.

And try not to break your wrist.

Yeah.

Good Lord.

Yeah.

As you were playing, like, so crazy smash balls.

How often are you?

Yes.

Well, like, Pinball was a little bit different, but there wasn't a whole lot of strategy.

It was a lot of just smashing.

It's like reaction, right?

Yeah.

Today, we don't do our national day of counter really anymore around here.

We do it over in the Sunrise show.

And one of the things, if you didn't hear, it's national Pina Colata day.

Pina Colata.

Of course, we celebrated that on 105.

Our country station on the Sunrise show playing Garth Brooks' The Dance.

No, I'm going to play.

Of course, I played two Pina Colata.

Oh, right.

I kicked off the show with it today.

And if we were a pop station, we'd be playing the Pina Colata song.

Exactly.

Exactly.

By Rupert Holmes, right?

Yeah.

Nice.

Nice you get it.

It's the cart shared another round of stats.

This time on America's top ice cream orders.

And this is kind of fitting on national Pina Colata day.

All right.

They say the top trending ice cream over the past two years is pineapple coconut.

Which is essentially Pina Colata.

Yeah, that's like that flavor, right?

That's a stink flavor.

But I didn't see that coming.

No.

Is a top ice cream flavor?

I think you have to think of the type of people.

And we're assuming here a bit and everything, of course.

But that are able to order from an instant cart or something.

And to me, it seems like people that have a little bit of money can do this.

And those tend to usually have different tastes or try different things or whatever.

It's true.

Just because they're able to, right?

Right.

It's more of a chance to.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know if that's part of it or not.

But I definitely was surprised by that.

Pina, pineapple seems to be having its day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot more stuff with pineapple.

You know, we're hearing more about it.

The Hawaiian pizza is becoming a bigger thing again.

And pineapple.

Yeah.

Yeah, boy.

Well, and I heard a new one from people younger than me too about that.

Brian and I, my teacher, the guy that worked with a lot.

We're doing a sketch and it's about pizza.

And I'm fighting him that deep dish pizza isn't a real pizza and all this.

And we're going back and forth.

And at some point or another, he remembers pineapple pizza or something.

We've done with the sketch and our students are like raising their hands and stuff.

And we're like, you don't raise your hand in our classes.

What are you doing?

But they literally were had their hands up in the air.

Because most of these kids are coming out of high school still.

Yeah.

That's what they're used to.

And they're like, Mr. Mala, that's not how it is anymore.

That nobody thinks pineapple and pizza is weird.

And it's not a big deal anymore and everything.

I'm used to TV movies, pop culture slang making me feel old.

Pizza?

Pizza made me feel old.

Pizza made you feel old.

I heard that statement and there was such a looking at each one of these students.

And they're all just not in their heads like, geez, did you didn't know this?

Pizza made me feel old stuff.

That's hilarious.

It's not fair.

That is hilarious.

That's a good point, man.

I think, yeah, that it's become much more of a kind of thing.

Yeah.

They say the top trending ice cream, of course, again, pineapple coconut.

Pineapple coconut ice cream saw a 37% boost in sales last year.

Whoa.

That's big.

Pistachio is next with 25% and then green tea at 24%.

Wow.

Times have changed.

You're overthinking this chocolate.

That's what I'm saying, man.

Why?

Things have changed.

They also looked at the most popular flavors overall.

And you can probably guess what number one is.

That I wouldn't know because I would have said chocolate.

And that is not it.

The number one flavor according to this is vanilla.

Yes.

That makes sense to me, actually.

The customizing you can do with it.

Vanilla is a great flavor enhancer in a way, you know, because you can, like you said,

you can add a lot to it and make it even better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm thinking, you know, most tracks and cookies and creane, all the different kinds of things.

I mean, you can add sprinkles and any kind of topping and it all goes well with vanilla.

All of it.

Not always with chocolate, but with vanilla does.

And it wasn't until I got older that I realized there is different flavors of vanilla.

Yeah.

I never understood.

Like they all tasted the same to me, but I will admit there's a difference between them.

The vanilla bean or the, yeah, more or the more imitation vanilla.

I wouldn't say I was going to say fake vanilla, but that's still vanilla.

Yeah.

French vanilla.

Yeah.

It comes in a number one and number two, chocolate.

Number three, cookies and creane, which is basically the combination of the first chocolate vanilla.

Strawberry comes in a number four.

Now that one, what you were saying about pineapple, I would have said about strawberry a couple of years ago,

and it seems like that has kind of kept going.

Both of my children would choose the strawberry over the other ones right now,

because that's their favorite flavor.

So I've gotten into strawberry favorite things more than I ever have before.

And I'm not alone.

And I think, now that I'm saying it out loud, I think it's because of my dad.

Because my dad has.

Oh, that's cool.

And my mom made him a cake for his birthday from the other day.

And we've always had the same thing for him and my birthday.

It's a chocolate cake, usually with chocolate frosting.

Right.

Every once in a while, like, ooh, dark chocolate instead.

You know, that's what we usually eat.

He picked it out himself, a strawberry cake with vanilla ice cream.

Or, you know, like buttercream or something like that.

Yeah.

That's good.

Unlike, like, I don't mind red velvet, but I can't eat a ton of it.

Yeah.

That's more chocolatey flavored anyway.

Yeah.

With this, I mean, I killed off half that thing myself.

Oh, my gosh.

Like, I destroyed that cake.

Strawberry cakes are good.

They had to put police tape up around it with what I did to the cake.

Crime scene.

They just say, they get out of here.

You don't want to see this.

Colombo came in for some reasons.

Yes.

Oh, excuse me.

One last thing.

Mint chip comes in at number five.

Cookie dough at number six.

Coffee at number seven.

Another one they just kind of have.

Wow.

Right.

A lot of coffee flavored things.

Yeah.

They've gotten so much better too now at that.

It actually started to taste like coffee now.

It is.

Yeah.

They had some issues back in the day.

Thanks to anger me so much.

Ooh.

Coffee flavored ice cream.

But it doesn't taste anything like that.

Wait a minute.

Butter pecan or pecan comes in at number eight.

At number nine, neopolitan.

You're cheating.

That's just a bunch of flavors.

Like three different flavors altogether.

Come on now.

And at number ten, peanut butter chocolate.

Hmm.

Peanut butter and ice cream really don't do it for me.

No.

Even with chocolate.

Because I knew peanut butter and chocolate are good together.

I agree with that.

But not with the ice cream.

Peanut butter in ice cream seems weird to me a little bit.

I want to avoid it.

Yeah.

No, I don't like the textures together.

No.

They say Dubai chocolate is also a hot flavor that is rising in the ranks.

Okay.

And in the Midwest, we kind of almost threw off this whole thing

because everybody was looking up mousse tracks.

They can't stress enough how much we Google or we search

or we'll look for mousse tracks.

That is the number one ice cream in the Midwest.

The other ice cream flavor that I've seen around, especially again,

my kids really like blue moon, which is different.

I don't even know what I'm like I've had it before.

So I don't know what the flavor is.

But they love it.

And they will just, I mean, let me describe the flavor of blue moon to yourself.

Okay.

Perfect.

It is perfect.

We'll see.

No, maybe we'll be seeing that rise up here soon.

I'm a big fan of like the bubble gum ice cream.

And it's probably as close as you can get to nowadays.

I can't even find bubble gum ice cream anymore.

No, you can't.

I can't find them anywhere.

I don't know if it was a marketing thing that people like.

I don't want bubble gum ice cream.

And they just kind of change it to blue moon.

That's basically the same flavor.

Broke my heart.

I would say for years.

I actually went to a cold stone because they had it.

And they told us that they didn't have anymore.

They just looked at me like I had three heads.

Do you remember when we were younger and even before us?

Tutti fruity.

Yeah.

Which I mean, I can understand why that one didn't make it.

Because it was late.

What a Tutti basically means everything.

Yeah.

It means all flavors.

Basically it's together.

Tutti fruity, which is why I don't know.

Did anyone, I don't ever remember anyone eating it.

Yeah, I don't know.

It was available, but no one had it.

I don't remember going like an ice cream shop and getting it.

I think so my sister really liked the strawberry chocolatey clairs.

Oh, yeah.

The strawberry clairs.

Yeah, chocolatey.

And I think she was always debating between those two.

She always ended up with the old clairs.

That was the one.

Do you remember the snow cones but they had a gumball at the bottom of them?

Oh my gosh.

Oh, did I have her?

I don't know if that was available to me.

I did not really like snow cones, but man, I wanted that gumball at the bottom.

There was nothing like a frozen gumball.

Frozen gumball.

I am not familiar with that at all.

That's so good.

Wow.

I don't know if the gum industry and the ice cream industry just like I had a falling out or whatever.

You know, I want them to make up though.

I want them to go.

I feel deprived now.

I didn't have that one out.

There's a lot of good ones out there.

There's a lot of good marketing opportunities out there.

Yeah, come on now.

There was an ice cream.

I don't remember what the gum was.

It was like a sticklets or something but it was a little more.

A chicklets.

Yeah, chicklets.

It was chicklets.

They were like chicklets but smaller.

Okay.

And they would sprinkle those on it.

Oh my god.

Come in an ice cream.

I wouldn't think it would work, but it does.

It really does.

I'll take your work for it.

I don't ever remember doing that.

And yeah, again, going back to the blue moon.

It's kind of like the only thing we have kind of close to that anymore.

To the old bubble gum flavor.

Yeah, I love it.

It's good stuff.

Wow.

We'll take a quick time.

I'll come back with the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club and have some fun.

But we want to hear from you, everybody.

What is your favorite ice cream?

Your go-to ice cream?

Yeah.

Or did you find a new flavor?

Weird combinations, maybe.

Yeah.

It was those, too.

We'd love to hear that.

Love to hear them right here at 97-5 FM WFHR.

Let's get in the mood.

A real groovy mood.

Let's have a party.

Let's get in the mood.

A real moody mood.

Let's have a party.

Let's get into it, everybody.

It's time for some celebrating with our good friends at Elcafe in the birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We can celebrate you and our great friends over at Elcafe.

Treat yourself.

Get out over there today.

221 Market Avenue in beautiful port.

Edwards.

We wish them a great one.

Got some great specials going on this week.

Everybody check them out.

Awesome.

Fantastic.

A wonderful menu that you can find at elcafewi.com.

And of course, encourage you to check out their Facebook page.

Always having fun on there.

It's a great one to have a show up in your timeline and everything.

Yeah.

Just doing it.

My local support local.

And get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Yeah.

Info at WFHR.com is where you can reach us through email or you can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

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Call up now.

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And celebrate someone's birthday or anniversary on the air live.

We also want to do that with you.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

Yeah.

Call up and join the show.

Seth, I need a one or a two.

Wow.

I feel like I'm a procuring a one.

Try to film.

You're right.

Well, we've only got two choices.

I mean, come on.

Yep, there we go.

There we go.

There we go.

We got our qualifier.

All right.

So we can first up wish a very happy birthday to civic media's own Sarah Keish of Ripon,

Wautoma office, where she handles traffic logs and more.

She is their Pam.

And she is also new.

Those are two new stations, by the way.

And Wautoma and Ripon, everyone that are part of civic media family now.

So welcome to them.

And happy birthday to her.

Our staffs are getting so big.

We can have like a birthday every day for like a civic media people.

Yeah.

It's starting to remind me of the old radio days.

Right.

That's awesome.

And she's awesome.

Sarah, wish you a great birthday.

We also want to wish a very happy birthday to Laura's brother Andrew.

Happy birthday, Andrew.

Happy birthday, Drew.

Happy birthday, Drew.

Happy birthday.

He's always Drew.

That's his brother Andrew.

That's his brother Andrew.

No, yeah, Drew.

Yeah.

Happy birthday, Drew.

Enjoy your day, man.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We also want to wish a very happy birthday to Elle Carsey of right-way cleaning.

Our former office cleaners around here.

Oh, happy birthday.

Did great work over here.

We really appreciated them.

Yeah, we did.

And really good people.

Yes.

Happy birthday, Elle.

Enjoy your day.

And joy.

And our qualifier today, John Caves.

John, happy birthday to you and congratulations.

And you a great day, sir.

Enjoy.

Hope it's a good one.

Hope in all of you.

Enjoy your birthdays today.

Caves.

What a great last name.

Really good.

Sounds like you should be like a punk rock singer or something.

Caves.

Yeah.

The punk rock or a superhero.

Yeah.

One of the other.

I mean, pick one.

Just Caves.

Just go by Caves.

They call me Caves.

You got it.

Yes.

It's really good.

That's good.

It was Batman's alternate name.

It's right.

He was trying it out.

He was trying to see what would work.

Yeah.

Caves doesn't work, Alfred.

I'm thinking Batman.

So I don't think Batman's really going to work.

It'll work.

It'll work.

Trust me.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays with.

Why Russell is 39?

Unlikely MCU star, John Walker in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Thunderbolts.

And he's going to be, of course, in all the MCU stuff.

I really enjoyed him in Thunderbolts.

I think he did a really good job.

I, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, his character was very odd.

And I didn't quite like or get him right away until I realized, oh, I'm not supposed to like or get him right away.

He's a complicated person.

And he's doing a great job.

And he's got this impeccable jaw.

And it looks a little familiar.

But the little?

I didn't think much of it or anything.

Right.

I was really actually really with that one, that series in particular, I really thought we're going to get a real spy cloak and dagger kind of like.

And I love that stuff.

So I thought we were getting that with superheroes and everything.

And it was okay.

It wasn't bad.

I was so focused on that, those things.

And really trying to see if these two guys that, at the time, and Sebastian Bach, Sebastian Stan has proven

since this that he can carry a movie, a film, and all that.

But at the time, I was really curious to see if those two could lead a show.

They can carry a show.

So I'm so focused on these things.

They completely miss.

That why Russell is the son of Kurt and Goldie Holland.

I know.

I had no idea.

I had no idea.

And he's 39.

He's older than I thought.

I was like, wow.

He doesn't look that old.

So yeah.

I don't know.

It doesn't seem like he got in the acting as young as his dad did.

No.

But he's good.

He's good.

He's doing a really good job with that.

And I kind of like that.

He doesn't seem like he's leaning into that.

His parents already.

No.

So you think if he would have been doing that, he would have gotten more notoriety earlier

in his career.

Jessica Simpson is 45.

Wow.

I'm still in the public eye, I believe.

I think she's still doing stuff on social media and things.

Just another one of those.

It's weird when I think of these singers that they were so big at one point.

And it's, you know, was singing.

Well, you know, you keep making music.

You would think.

But so many of these artists, whether it's her or Christina Aguilera,

some of these are tired and you stop.

Thomas Ian Nichols is 45.

Henry and Rookie of the Year, the 13 year old kid who broke his arm

and got a spot in the cubs.

Yeah, right.

That ended up, you know, growing up and playing Kevin on American Pie.

But I just wanted to reference Rookie of the Year.

I just, I just want to reference that movie.

That's it.

I wish him a happy birthday.

That's a good movie.

Good.

Good.

I don't want to.

Yeah.

Chowelt.

Chowelt Hill, LG4.

I cannot pronounce his name, but you know him if you see him.

Yeah.

Carl Morban and Dr. Strange movies, scar in the live action,

Lion King, Solomon Northup in 12 years of slave, which is the...

Man.

That's what a performance there, yeah.

His performance in that.

Yeah.

Everybody's performance in that movie.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch it again,

but I watched it twice and I don't know.

It's such a hard movie, but such a rewarding movie

with the performances and the story and everything.

He was, I just saw him in the old guard, Netflix show.

Oh.

That the first one was incredible.

And the second one was a...

I just...

I hate it.

I did not like it at all.

They better be making the third one because they got to make that right.

But he was good in it.

He was good in it.

I like seeing actors like him that have such a good name

and they could just be holding out for big work or whatever.

When they do bit parts like he did in that,

it shows that, you know, one, you know, working actor.

But also, oh, I like this.

I like this one.

Yeah.

Sophia Vagara is 53.

Wow.

God, she's aging beautifully.

She's fun.

I like her.

She has such a great take on celebrity.

I love what she's done with her career.

It's really cool.

She's really been able to kind of starting to, at least.

And this happens for Latin actors a little bit more sometimes than others.

But being able to break out from that modern family role.

Yeah, right.

And kind of show that she has more range and everything.

And if I remember correctly, her earlier career,

she was on like Telenevella kind of thing like soap operas, right?

She was huge.

But she was big.

And then, but that is so uncommon.

For them, actors to break into like mainstream American stuff.

That's really a feather in her cap.

One thing you don't see very often either is people leave Telenevella.

Even for American TV or European TV or anything.

They're just, yeah, they're so popular.

It's another one of these things.

Taylor Swift, all the respect in the world tour,

one of the biggest, if not the biggest star in North America.

But you want to look at the biggest star in music.

It's bad bunny by far and away.

Just with the Latin American audience.

You know, audience, yeah.

Telenevella is the very same thing.

Where you think that, oh, American TV star.

He's probably pretty huge.

He's probably pretty big.

And then you think of like the Sofia Vagara in that realm.

And she just dwarfs it.

Yes.

It's crazy.

A couple of singers for celebrating birthdays here.

Gary LaVox is 55, Rascal Flat Singer.

Oh.

Didn't him.

Did the cars theme song?

Oh, life is a highway.

It was a cars theme song.

That's why we did that.

Is that where that came from?

I didn't know that.

I should have known that, but I didn't.

I didn't know that.

Okay.

Well, that's all right.

That makes a little more sense.

Yeah, there you go.

And the great Neil Tennant is 71.

Pet Shop Boy's Singer.

Oh.

Weston Girls.

How do you still sound like that?

Yeah.

He still sounds like he's in his 20s.

I know his singing voice has not changed at all,

which is really amazing.

And then Arlo Guthrie is 78.

Oh, wow.

I didn't know he was still alive.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think you're allowed on that one.

Three very different singers.

But all, you know, impact.

You know what?

If you ever catch trail tunes on WIRI,

you will hear some Arlo Guthrie.

He's done several cowboy songs over the years.

So probably not Alice's restaurant.

Probably not just that on the 25 minutes of it.

I don't know if there's a radio edit of that.

I don't know if there's, I think there is but still.

I think there is, but still.

They do radio edits like 10 minutes.

Like 10 minutes.

Like 10 minutes.

Like you lose the 25.

If you don't listen to the whole 25 minutes,

you lose something.

Yeah.

I don't know if there's no way.

So people no longer with us.

But long before my dad loved Muhammad Ali,

Jake Lamada was his guy.

G. Yeah, yeah.

That's shocker.

Jake Lamada born in the state of 1922.

Petsway in 2017, boxing legend.

Made more of a legend because of the movie Raging Bull

that Robert De Niro did arguably his greatest work in.

I still don't, I mean, Robert De Niro has done almost nothing,

but great work outside of Robert De Niro.

Bullwinkle and a couple things here and there.

Sure.

But as good as he is in Goodfellas or Kristino

or so many of these movies, those are mob movies.

I don't see him using his acting muscles like stretching

as much, you know, with that role.

And Taxi Driver is a close second for me.

Taxi Driver is very, very good.

It's got Judy Foster in it and stuff.

But Raging Bull, like the work he did,

I don't, it happens so often now, it's just common.

The man put on 60 pounds for a five minute scene

and then lost the win to do the next role.

Right.

What he was doing back then, the Thessianism he was doing back then

was bringing the stage to the screen,

maybe better than anybody had it.

Everybody that wants to talk about Marlon Brando,

look, I respect Marlon Brando as an actor, as an actor.

But they should have been, they should have just waited

because you could have said all that about De Niro.

Because the things that Brando did, they would hurt other actors.

It was about Brando.

It wasn't about the team.

It was about Brando doing his thing

and he envisioned as an actor, especially in his live working on stage.

Whereas De Niro is so, yes, he was obsessed with the job,

but it meant nothing if everybody wasn't on the same page.

Right.

And it's still the same way to this day.

This man is one of the greats of all time

and he's still working as far as he knows.

He's still going, yeah.

And he's doing stuff, yeah.

And he was able to give, I don't know how much Jake Lamatta

would have been talked about without that movie.

Oh, no, really.

He was, he was more of a blip on the boxing.

I mean, people knew who he was, especially because of that.

Some world heavyweight, middleweight champ.

Middleweight champ.

Exactly.

And he did his nightclub act after that, like they show in the movie.

He did that for a while.

So people kind of knew who he was.

But yeah, no, his legacy was like really up a notch or two

because of that movie.

Fred Gwynn, born in this day in 1926, Herman Munster.

Some of the exact opposite of Jake Lamatta.

Great character actor, great actor, love to miss Herman Munster.

And he was great in my cousin, Vity.

I mean, he was such a, again, you know, I've spoken of this before.

One of those actors that portrayed no matter what he was doing

had a warmth to him.

Yeah.

That he could project through the screen.

That even though, yeah, he's a silly Herman Munster.

But, you know, I'd like to hang out with him.

You know, I just spent some time with him, right?

Yeah.

The great Ron Glassborn in this day in 1945, shepherd on Firefly.

I remember him though, I remember him on Firefly,

but I remember Moore's detective Ron on Barney Miller.

He was out of the parade on Barney Miller.

Oh, talk about a great cast, Barney Miller.

Barney Miller was an amazing cast.

Wow.

David Brinkley born in this day.

One of the, one third of the three great reporters

that we had growing up and everything.

Former NBC and ABC News Course Fund.

News anchor and correspondent Hunt Lee and Brinkley.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Just you saying that brought me back.

And the great Arthur Ashborn in this day in 1943.

The first African-American inducted into international tennis hall of fame.

Of course, passed away from AIDS.

And brought a lot of notoriety, a lot of attention to that.

He did.

And an amazing tennis player.

Yeah.

And Don Herbert born in this day in 1917.

Mr. Wizard.

Mr. Wizard.

God, I love Mr. Wizard.

Love that show.

Awesome.

He was great.

He was very good with those kids.

And he was just a, I don't know.

I don't remember him as being like Bill Nye or some of these guys or anything.

But I felt like he always just carried that show very well.

Everything about it.

Hey, it was a living.

You're right.

Nice.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun with some more stuff coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

Ha!

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Good things coming up for you.

And a couple of tops you can touch on in this segment right here.

A website analyzed the expertise experiences of people at 140 DMV locations across 30 major US cities.

To figure out which ones are the most frustrating and the biggest waste of time.

And the ones that are, you know, not so bad.

So they crunched the numbers and the cities with the best DMV locations are.

Okay.

Indianapolis.

Phoenix.

Seattle.

Jacksonville, Florida.

Philadelphia.

Chicago.

Baltimore.

Detroit.

New York City.

And San Antonio.

Okay.

Not a lot of connection there.

Not a lot of pattern there.

No, not really.

Not at all.

All over the place.

All over the map.

Literally.

Yeah.

And then here are the cities with the worst DMV locations.

Okay.

Charlotte, North Carolina.

Number one.

When it comes to the most negative reviews.

Three Charlotte locations were in the top five among the 140 locations they looked at.

Oh, dear.

Wow.

That's not good.

Portland, Oregon.

Austin.

Boston.

New.

Austin and Boston.

Yeah.

That's a little rhyme there.

That's good.

San Fran.

Memphis, Denver.

Oklahoma City.

Los Angeles.

And Fort Worth, Texas.

Okay.

For what it's worth.

The report says Oklahoma City DMVs are the most improved over the past couple of years.

Okay.

The least improved locations in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Washington, DC.

Okay.

And Phoenix, Jacksonville, and Philadelphia have the three most pleasant DMVs.

But what's the criteria for that?

I like whatever it is.

I'm curious now.

I like everybody else out there have been frustrated that a DMV before in my life.

And I don't know how many people out there have been to multiple DMVs.

But I've been to quite a few, just moving and living in the different places I have.

And I will say something as a people observer.

And somebody who...

I don't know.

I think maybe one time I went to a DMV with my dad.

Otherwise, you'd just pretty much always gone by myself.

So you people watch a little bit.

And I'm going to say something.

You can get mad at me for this one if you want everybody.

Sometimes it's you.

Like, sometimes it's not the DMV.

It's true.

Look, I will hold.

I don't think there's a lot of people that worked in DMVs or are working in DMVs

and won't tell you, hey, we are short-funded.

There is not a lot of funding going into DMVs.

You know, this isn't a business.

You know, this isn't something where they're making money on the side here or something.

Yeah, like charging overcharging for your license so they can pocket the money.

If you want there to be more people working there,

you might have to pay a little bit more in taxes or something.

You might actually have to put your money where your mouth is.

If you don't want it, if you don't do that,

it's pretty hard to complain about the DMV having two people for a city the size of ours

or something along those lines.

You are totally on the track.

I was thinking right now when you started talking about that.

It's tired, first of all, the whole DMV thing.

It's a joke from our childhood.

Seriously, this was something they were doing back in the 80s, you know, the kind of thing.

And I think part of it is because LA has bad ones and all the writers are in LA.

So they know.

I mean, that's what they know.

But I've never had a horrible experience at a DMV in all the different places I've lived.

It's been, you know, maybe you had to wait a little bit.

That's fine.

Most of the time I haven't even to wait that long.

And most of the people are professional that work there.

They do want to get it moving, but they need to make sure all the boxes are checked.

And it goes back to what you were saying.

It all comes back to money.

They need funds in order to hire people to do these jobs.

That's why it's...

And if their money comes from the state or the city or whatever,

it's the state because it's a state organization, right?

So if we don't fund them, they're stuck.

They can't make...

Like you said, they can't make more money on the side.

It's just they're stuck with what funding they get.

That's it.

You know, you got people that are a bark and bark and bark about the roads.

But they'll also bark about paying taxes.

And you can't have it both ways.

No.

I mean, this is the world, this is the system we have.

Yeah.

And aren't we happy for those roads?

Well, seriously.

And we're saying all this now.

I mean, what are we going to be saying in the year two or so with a lot of the cuts that are happening?

Yep, that's right.

Almost every government funding or every government program.

And this isn't about like nobody wants overspending.

You've never heard a citizen or a politician say, you know what, we should overspend.

We want to be...

We should waste money.

Let's do that.

Nobody's trying that before.

Let's try that.

You see when that happens, that means someone stealing something is usually what happens.

The majority of these things that we're...

The overwhelming majority of the things that we're seeing cut only affect the people like us on the ground level.

They don't affect anybody at the top because that people at the top have not suffered one bit.

They don't use the roads that much.

Ask, ask your, you know, if you got a CEO of a company or something like that.

Ask them.

Ask your politicians.

Ask your representatives.

How have you suffered?

What have you had to sacrifice in the last year or at all?

Yeah.

Even go back to the pandemic.

Seriously.

What are you giving up?

Anytime you do this, they just turn into babies and get a whiny defensive in everything.

Because they haven't died to do anything like that.

Do you think that they got to go to a DMV and wait in line for 20 hours?

No.

No.

It's on us to care about these things.

It's on us to do something.

It always is and like it always has been.

We the people.

Right.

If you want better roads, you want more people working at the DMV and these things.

You can't just snap your fingers and hope.

Right.

You got to make it happen.

You know, hoping going to get a lot done in this day and age.

I'm sorry, but it's not.

You got to put some action to these things.

Right.

You can hope.

You can pray all you want.

I encourage you to do so.

Just put a little action behind it.

Yeah.

It's because that speaks louder than words for sure.

And it's not just voting.

Although that's of course very important, like we talk about here all the time.

Right.

Voting is good.

But also talk to your representatives.

They're literally representing you.

Yeah.

That's their job.

So let them know what you're thinking.

And just speaking for the ones that I talk to once a month every month,

for the last seven, eight years, whatever it's been, nine years.

It's been.

They want you to call them.

They want to hear from you.

I can easily, I can confidently say that.

Reach out to them, find out more.

And then there's this story set.

So that's the DMV that we're there.

Now we're going to the airport where it's even more scary.

Oh boy.

A little bit.

Yeah.

A little discussion yesterday about that.

I admit that I am a overprotective of my siblings, my brother and sister.

They mean a lot to me.

And I've protected them my whole life and everything.

I don't know that I've ever been.

My brother's flying today.

I believe he's flying today.

And I've never been more freaked out for him.

I don't think I ever have been more freaked out for him.

Wow.

And that's, I think that's saying something considering my background and his background and everything.

And just a nervous about those things about anybody flying right now, especially family and that.

If there was an everyday people Olympics, I think that this would be one of the better things to add to it.

Being able to run from gate to gate at an airport.

Right.

There are some new data which shows the airports with the longest walks and some of them really force you to get your steps in.

Here's the top five.

So this is the top five US airports that make you walk the miles between gates and the longest gate and you know that.

And number one, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

Longest distance by far at 2.16 miles.

Whoa.

Whoa.

I haven't been in the, I've been in the Houston airport.

I think maybe I was at the, no, I was at the Dallas one.

I was at the, I don't know if they have one in Houston.

I have never been in the Dallas airport surprisingly long.

I literally like came in one and like just like a couple of feet over felt like I had to go.

I did a lucky.

Yeah.

I didn't experience any of that.

I think it was actually one of the shorter gates I've ever been.

Probably, yeah.

And it's always when you have like a huge layover when it's like right next to it and of course it's always the short layovers when you have to go six miles, right?

Yeah.

And I never get lucky.

I've never get lucky like this.

No.

Wow.

That's, huh.

That's weird to me that I actually worked out that way.

At number two, Washington Dulley's international airport long as distance 1.62.

I've heard a lot of things about that airport.

George Bush International Airport in Houston.

That's right.

There you go.

There is one in Houston.

Longest distance 1.52 miles.

Good grief.

That's incredible.

I mean these, these are huge.

Oh my god.

It's really something.

It is.

I'm telling you.

Denver International Airport at 1.45 miles.

Okay.

I've been there, but it's been a while.

And in JFK International Airport in New York, longest distance.

1.38 miles.

So I mean, all of these, just a hefty distance.

Yeah.

That's true.

And it's always at the other end of the airport.

Well, you know, that's just if you're flying out of any of these.

Yeah, seriously.

You know, where your track shoots.

Yeah, right now.

So you get your stretching in beforehand and everything.

And you got good casters on your rollerbags.

Yeah.

You know, and to me, for me, because I travel so much by myself.

You know, I'm used, okay, I got my carry on.

And I'm literally ready to book.

Not run so much, but book.

I got my headphones on.

So I'm not being distracted by anybody.

You know, and I just go.

Just go.

And even with all of that, I am still sometimes late.

Or at the very least like worn out.

And I've been to like one of these airports.

I think I might have been to the Denver airport,