The Truth is Out There (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM, WFHR.

Your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

And we have our head of production, co-host, Seth Habhagger.

Good morning.

Let me double check.

Yep.

Best listeners of radio are here.

We're setting ready to go.

Bring you a Friday.

Get you ready for the weekend.

We're going to do that the way we like to around here.

Kicking the show off with our foreign Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brad.

Good morning.

How's everyone doing?

Better now.

How are you doing?

I'm, you know, bracing for the storm, I guess.

Yeah, yeah.

With all the, even with the warning yesterday, Brittany, I was out with the dog when it came

down.

When the rain came down.

Sam's looking at me like, this is your job.

Like, I don't watch it.

I don't listen to the radio.

I don't talk to a meteorologist every day.

He was very frustrated with me, Brittany.

I could just see the look.

He's looking back at you.

No way.

He's got to look.

He's got to look.

Who does?

I could feel it.

That's the spherical.

Well, be careful after about five or six o'clock today.

I think that's when we're going to start to see that move into our area.

I mean, these storms are going to be sparking early this afternoon in time.

And then what they're going to do is kind of track really hard towards southern parts of

the state.

And we're going to get clipped by the northern part.

So it should be just some light to moderate rain.

Well, the worst of it stays south of us.

But behind that, once that passes and starts to head towards the Chicago area, kind of

any overnight, we could see some more storm sparking up as well.

So some potentially heavy rainfall with those.

And then maybe in the morning, another round of storms as the cold front pushes through.

So we've got the next, what, 12 hours to maybe 24 of some rainfall here for us.

And in that time frame, we could pick up a couple of inches.

I know that sounds crazy.

But it is pushing, you know, three, four inches in a strip right now.

Pretty much from Wisconsin Rapids up through Wassa.

And it even goes up into northeast Wisconsin.

So I'm giving you guys a special heads up on recent data coming in on that.

Because if that comes true, that would need some flash flooding.

So careful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very careful.

Very good to know.

And really glad we have you, Brittany, to give us the warning.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Nobody more thankful than my dog Sam.

Yeah, that's really helpful, Brittany.

We appreciate it.

Appreciate you joining us all week long, of course.

Before I let you go real quick, Brittany, were you ever as a kid?

Did you ever go to Chuck E. Cheese?

Oh, heck yeah, I did.

I thought that'd be it.

Yeah, yeah.

Would you go to an adult version of that?

And I mean, just for adults.

Right.

As I said that, I didn't think that sounds like.

Not like X-rated.

Right.

No, thank you.

Thank you.

I would.

Yeah.

Right.

Those are so fun.

I know you've got some places where you can do rope indoor, rope climbing or different courses.

And it reminds me of the Chuck E. Cheese days.

Mm-hmm.

Any more arcades.

They need more of the games too.

Absolutely.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah.

You get it.

She's one of us.

Yeah, absolutely.

I guess the animatronic show.

I'm telling you right now.

We need to make an arcade right here in Rapids.

And it's going to be Charles R. Cheeseboro.

Yes, I like that.

That is perfect.

Brittany, we appreciate you.

You have a great week.

You too.

Thanks.

Thanks, Brittany.

Best in the business right there.

Brittany Brillow, Georgia.

I guess everybody.

We sure appreciate her.

Mm-hmm.

And we got good stuff for all of you that we appreciate coming up.

El Café, Bertane Anniversary Clubs, right around the corner.

Do some celebrating.

Not just for today, but Saturday and Sunday.

We will also, of course, after our news and sports and entertainment break, get you our

star of the day.

Mm-hmm.

Got a famous TV theme song that Melissa and Seth and I are going to play for you.

You get it right.

You don't want anything in 30 days.

You're going to win some free callvers.

Yeah.

All of that coming up.

And we've got a couple of fun ones here I want to get into.

Now obsolete skills that adults born before the 90s won't forget even though they're no

longer needed.

Oh, hey.

Those are always fun.

That's going to be fun.

Yeah, that's going to be fun.

Ten o'clock hour.

We're going to kick off with some entertainment news for you.

You're going to let you know it's new on your small screen, new on your big screen and

your local theater stage, maybe even your email box, all of that coming up for you.

And I want to get into a couple of other ones.

There's one in particular that I wanted to get.

Where is it here, darn it.

What's your I do this now, so Future Me doesn't suffer habit.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

If it doesn't seem clear, it will in the segment.

We'll get it.

A lot experiment there.

Yeah.

It's something that I've done for a while and I think a lot of people do this.

Oh, you know, Future You is going to be thankful.

Future Me is going to be thankful for this.

Right.

I think a lot of water now.

So I actually, you know, have we see it with a lot of younger people in that.

So we'll be talking about that a little bit later.

All right.

But as we are talking about with our good friend, Brittany, we get our first topic today.

Chuck E. Cheese announced a new spin-off chain specifically for adults.

It's called Chuck's Arcade.

Nice.

The first 10 open this week in malls across the US.

As he said, no, yes, there are still malls in the yard.

There are.

That's a few left.

It's basically just a normal arcade like you used to see in every mall.

But some of them will also serve food and alcohol.

Oh.

Each location has newer games like Halo, but also classics like Mortal Kombat and Asteroids.

This is not intentional or anything, but anybody's been listening and we appreciate you listening

all week long.

Those of you that do.

Melissa and I got into a similar conversation about this earlier this week.

And yesterday, Seth and I were talking arcade games.

Talking arcade games.

Yeah.

We were.

Welcome to, but they really tried to sell the adult angle to in the press release, calling

the new spin off a modern day love letter to the games and people who made Chuck E. Cheese

great.

Yeah.

The nostalgia grab and classic games kind of seem like the only parts that make an adult

arcade though.

Well, that in the alcohol, it really, it sounds like a bowling alley where they took out

the bowling.

Take out the bowling through video games in there, yeah.

Other than that, they're just scaled down versions of what you used to see at your normal

Chuck E. Cheese locations, each location will also have an original member of Chuck E. Cheese

animatronics band on display.

So you can take pictures and show your kid these wonderful and yet terrifying machines

that used to be coming out and everything.

Now, so they broke up the band?

Apparently, they did.

If you don't got the whole band at every location, then in just a minute.

They all went solo.

They did it Beatles.

Wow.

They beatle themselves.

Man, you know what?

I always kind of felt like Mr. Munch was going to do that, that he was the big purple guy.

Like he felt like a solo guy, like he felt like it was a little bit more about him than

Chuck.

Right.

Right.

And not for nothing.

I mean, they were also kind of racist, kind of racist.

Pesqually, the Italian chef was on drums.

Yeah.

Which is hilarious.

I remember that.

I think the only thing he was missing was dude to dude, but you know, all that.

Mom and me.

Yeah.

I'm not going to get into the rest.

I can talk out of that one, but they were also, as much as I'm saying that, I'm also,

I love the chucky cheese and the bomb, the nostalgic, I think this is great.

Now, we asked Brittany.

We got her vote on this one.

I'll ask you guys, Melissa, is this something you would do?

Oh, heck yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Of course.

Yeah.

Video games are fun.

And I don't get to play them often enough, especially like the old school ones.

I hope they have a lot of the platform games too.

Yes.

Bulls are my favorite, like, you know, Mario and even ones like Crash Bandicoot, that would

be cool.

Play in an arcade.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I do love the hunting games and some of those at okay, yeah, I think something like that

would be kind of cool.

And also, what's the one where you roll the balls and it jumps up?

It's like bowling, but not all.

Skieball.

Skieball.

Thank you Seth.

All morning, that would have driven me crazy, not people living in Skieball, especially

I just watched it always study in Philadelphia episode where they basically did this, where

they went to like an old Chuck E. Cheese to reminisce, and it wasn't what it used to

be.

Of course.

And I mentioned Skieball like 18 times.

Right.

I would have remembered.

Yeah.

That was probably my favorite then and the racing games are also, you know, a lot of fun.

But honestly, you know, you say you take pictures of the animatronics to scare kids, they

would love it.

Yeah.

I mean, come on.

Five nights at Freddy's.

I was going to say that is like twisted everyone's vision of what this was, right?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know a whole lot about that franchise other than I'm 48 years old and I know about

that franchise.

Right.

Exactly.

Yes, it everything.

Yeah.

I'm a little safe and most people know what it is.

Yeah.

I'm a little surprised.

They didn't open a theme restaurant for that.

I was probably coming.

You could have leaned right into it and everything.

Yeah.

You got the animatronics.

They're excited.

They're really scary.

Like, yeah.

They should have did a crossbreed crossover with this.

They can also have a haunted house attached to it.

Yeah.

See?

About yourself.

About yourself.

Oh, yeah.

I would do it.

I would definitely do it.

Because I like, I spoke yesterday about, you know, there's a couple of vintage arcades

down to Madison.

And I went to one in North Carolina when I was a couple years ago.

And it was mostly pinball machines, but they had a section of video, vintage video games

as well.

That was one where you, like, just paid a fee and then all the games were on free play.

You just wander around to do it.

Dad, I really like that.

That place was packed.

Not bad.

The day we did it.

I don't even know if it was a weekend, but people, I mean, it was so popular.

I see this.

I mean, this makes sense to me because I think people really still like arcades.

Yeah.

And they're going to do it.

Well, we have a little proof of this here in Rapids.

Not only, you know, certainly, the gold mine arcade that used to be in the Old Rapids,

mall was very successful for a very long time and missed it all the time.

But edge VR.

Arcade.

Right.

We've been there.

We've had some fun there ourselves and where the things that they're doing over there,

I think are really exciting, especially as they just get a chance to get more and more

comfortable in the gigs, in the building and all those things.

So we have proof that this stuff could work.

And I know it's not exactly what we may want, but it does get people out of the house,

does get people doing things.

And I like the arcade thing about the Britney touch on something actually set me up perfectly

on this because I like this a lot better than some of the stuff that I've seen for adults

that are geared towards adults where on paper, it seems like a cool idea, hey, come here

for dinner, have a beer, and also you can go on the rope swing or climb a wall or whatever

they have.

And I don't know about you guys, man, but I don't feel like eating and then doing a rope

swing.

I don't want to do that.

Like I'll play an arcade game.

No David Busters for you, so yeah, I don't feel like alcohol and any kind of physical

activity outside of maybe bowling and golf are a great idea.

Sitting is good.

Yeah.

Just sitting at the bar, right?

That's all you need to do.

I, I also think that, you know, I mean, we, we got into, you know, some, I don't want

to say fights or anything, but it could get a little hectic in our Cades at times.

Yeah.

And that was without alcohol.

Yeah.

That was just with hormones.

Um, I can't, I can't, I can't.

Teenagers, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But again, all this I think is a, is a really good idea and just opening 10 locations.

If you did this right business wise, you know, you're not going to, the ones that work

will stick around, the ones that don't, don't.

And if it is good, successful, then you just start expanding that's business one or

one.

So it's a smart idea of not just jumping, I, I think that one of the reasons you're seeing

a lot of like the Apple bees and some of these places going down is they tried to get

too big, too quick.

And there was so much other, the market got saturated so quickly with Ruby, you know, Ruby

Tuesdays and all these different restaurants and everything that, you know, it was a matter,

it was just a matter of time that that was going to happen.

If you want this to be successful, you got to kind of like slowly build it up.

You got to be patient with it.

Yeah.

Okay.

I've got a game that I think they have to absolutely have is pitfall.

Oh, God, I love really.

Yes.

Pitfall.

One of the more difficult games that game was, at least for me, it was tough.

Unless you set me up perfectly, you totally, you have no idea.

You set me up perfectly.

I was going to do this anyway.

Fun fact, Chuck E. Cheese was founded by a man named Nolan Bushnell who was also the founder

of Atari.

Oh, wow.

Yes.

Holy cow.

Mine blown.

You got kicked out of Atari and that was his next venture was to create Chuck E. Cheese

is yet.

Wow.

That's hilarious.

Yeah.

Pitfall was on Atari first.

Yes, it was.

An arcade game and one year, family camp out, we went to this one camp's ground and the

only things I remember about it because I was pretty young was that there was a pitfall

game.

I sucked at it, but I loved it.

Somebody pooped in the pool and we couldn't swim all weekend.

And there was a big dance party that me and my cousin lurked around the edges of.

We couldn't go in because it was like, you know, adults only were really interested.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just to wrap the band, the original members of Munch's Make Believe Band were Helen Henny,

the chicken, Mr. Munch, the weird purple monster, Jasper T. Jowls, the dog, and Piscuali,

the Italian chef on drums and Charles entertainment cheese on lead vocals.

Oh, his middle name is entertainment.

His middle name.

I did not know that.

I immediately feel bad that I should have, I mean, I got three kids.

I should have at least one of them had the middle name be entertainment.

I wanted them.

I should have.

I really, I dropped the ball there.

First name vats.

I apologize to my children for the first time today.

Free ticket Friday is something we're doing with our friends over at the Milwaukee Brewers.

Yeah.

We got all of our talk stations.

We got a four pack of brewer tickets and we're going to be giving away every Friday throughout

the summer.

Everybody.

And let me just double.

All right.

Nice.

Good.

It is July 11th.

And that means you got an opportunity all day throughout the day today when you hear one

of our talk stations mentioned this keyword texted to us through the civic media app and

get a chance to go to the game for free Sunday July 13th.

Washington Nationals coming to town brewers are on a streak right now.

Yeah.

They're going.

They're going hot.

Getting ready for the all-star break here.

Strong.

And that first half on a high note.

Be there for it.

Everybody.

Get us the keyword score.

SCORE text that to us through the civic media app.

Get yourself a chance at this four pack of brewer tickets and wishing everybody luck out

there.

Yes indeed.

Again, text us the keyword score and we'll mention that as much as we can throughout

the next two hours.

All right.

That's indeed great.

Take your time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun with the L.K.F.A. birthday anniversary club on

the morning show at WFHR.

You heard the boys time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at L.K.F.A.

in the birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to L.K.F.A. today, 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Of course, keep in mind if you can't make it during the day or afternoon, they're going

to be open tonight.

Yeah.

That's right.

Fish fry.

Fish fry.

Check it out.

Fish fry fry.

I get it in.

Enjoy it.

And of course, wish them a good one from us wherever time of day you're heading over there.

That's right.

And we encourage you to get us your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

You can email us at info at WFHR.com.

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715-424-2600.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Call up and join the conversation.

Let's take a look at our list of qualifiers for today.

So Melissa, I need a one through three.

One.

All right.

Because it's the one.

And Seth, I need a one or a two.

Dang it.

One or two again.

Two.

I'll get any more.

That's true.

Actually, yeah.

It's going to drip.

All right.

We got our qualifiers so we can go ahead and dive right into it.

And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Carol, one row Brody.

Oh, happy birthday, Carol.

Happy birthday.

That name sounds familiar.

It's because you know one row's greenhouse, Carol, from over there, Carol's amazing years

ago.

I think it might have been the first time I met Carol.

She helped me pick out flowers from my mom and sister and God did she save me because

I didn't know what to do.

It was very confused.

Really great.

And above and beyond, they appreciate our friends over at one row's greenhouse and a big

birthday.

Happy birthday to Carol, one row.

Mm-hmm.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday to Doug Berg.

Happy birthday, Doug.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Doug.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifiers for this Friday, celebrating their 66th anniversary.

Dean and Jan Langoff.

Dean and Jan.

Oh, my gosh.

That's awesome.

66.

Wow.

That's fantastic, you too.

Congratulations.

And if they switch their names around, they'd be a surf group from the 60s.

Jan and Dean.

Yeah, yeah.

That's great.

We wish on Saturday a very happy birthday to Valeria Johnston.

Valeria.

Valeria.

That's a pretty name.

That's a great name.

And enjoy your day, Valeria.

And a qualifiers on Saturday celebrating their 50th golden anniversary, Jim and Patsy

St. Martin.

Oh.

Jim and Patsy.

Jim and Patsy.

Happy 50th golden.

Happy golden anniversary.

That's awesome.

That's great one.

That's good.

Always an exciting one.

Yeah.

And on Sunday, we put the spotlight on Dale Callow.

Happy birthday, Dale.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Dale.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And thanks so much to everybody who got us these birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

We do.

Again, feel free to call up anytime in the next two hours, even if it's outside of the

segment.

We'll get it in there somewhere.

Taking a look at who you share your birthdays with, Alisa Cara is 29.

Best new artist winner at the 2018 Grammys here stage.

She's had a couple of hits.

She did the Moana theme for how far I'll go as well.

Oh, okay.

That's cool.

All right.

Let's see.

Lil' Kim is 51, rapper, a little marmalade.

She was on that song with Pink and Maya and Christiana Aguilar and all that.

Excon.

I think that's the only song I know.

Yeah.

There's a lot of people.

Let's see.

It is a thin list today.

I'll make some money.

Susanne Vega is 66.

Love her.

She's awesome.

She is really good.

Yeah.

I've had a couple of times when I'm doing my 90s show and I'm like, oh, I forgot about

no, nope.

That's an 80s song.

Yeah.

Tarnet.

But yeah.

Luka, Tom Steiner.

Yeah.

My name is Luka.

Great songwriter.

Yes.

Her body of work is really amazing.

She's done a lot of experimentation with sound in general and yeah.

She's amazing.

There was a big rise of a 90s solo female artist and it kind of got started by people like

Susanne Vega and artists like that and that.

I believe she's married to Michael Tilsen Thomas who at least was the music director of

the San Francisco Orchestra.

Wow.

I believe.

I don't know if he still is, but at one point he was.

So fantastic.

Yeah.

Paul Mills.

Oh.

Mm-hmm.

Is listed as husband.

Oh, okay.

But Michael from was.

She was married to him from 90 to 98.

Maybe that's what I was thinking.

Never mind.

Fantastic.

A guitar player and hair.

Richie Sambor is 66.

Over and Bon Jovi songwriter, guitarist, fantastic guitarist.

I kind of feel like, I don't want to say he was held back by Bon Jovi or anything quite

he means.

I know the name Richie Sambor without the band Bon Jovi, but I always felt like when

you see a lot of their, a lot of their live stuff, you know, when he's really being able

to go out and he can really wail on that thing.

I don't know you ever really heard that in a Bon Jovi song.

That's a bunch.

I don't know if he's ever gotten credit for being the lead and really only songwriter

of that band, but I'll want a dead or alive or some other one, they have good songs.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

Mindy Sterling is 72.

Fran Brower in the Austin Power movies, amazing character actor.

I guarantee if you look her up, you've seen her face in many different companies.

Many things.

She's been in a lot of comedies over the years.

Oh, yeah.

I know her now.

Yeah.

I really love character actors like her and I love, you know, just mentioning them.

Now Georgia or Armani is 91 fashion mogul, I cannot imagine, oh, you know, with obviously

it's fashion, somebody else might have stepped up and it'd been the, the name when we're

talking about, if you want, if you're making a comedy sketch or you're making a, you know,

you want to reference a fancy suit or something.

What do you say?

You say Armani?

Armani.

That's what you say.

I don't know that anybody could be on that level that he was and all that and, and

it's smart with his company as he's been.

Yeah.

And he's living long.

Wow.

91.

91 for him.

And people no longer with us.

Like the great, I again, mentioning great character actors, you'll Brenner, born in the

state in 1920, making beautiful, bald, beautiful for a long time, whether it was a ten commandments

or the king and I, but I will mention because my father would make me the magnificent seven,

one of the greatest westerns ever of all time.

I like the remake, but the original will never be topped.

It is that kind of good.

It's almost a perfect western and you'll, as a big part of it, I'll mention the movie

Westworld.

Yeah.

A little bit later in his career.

Yeah.

A little bit later on, but still the same old Brenner working his tail off in that movie

and an odd movie, but boy was in an important one.

It really like broke open a lot for sci-fi and sci-fi science fiction movies and of course

would lead to the HBO show, which the first two seasons, man, are they bangers?

Oh, are they good?

They lost their way in the rest of it.

They only had a couple more seasons and they were still worth watching.

But the first two seasons of Westworld, I'm not a sci-fi guy.

And yet those first two seasons made me think about AI and what is, what is birth and

all these, like question, what is life?

Yeah.

What I never would have thought of without that show.

Interesting.

That first original movie really set that up.

By the way, you, Brenner, from what I've heard from other actors, the way he acted was

exactly the same way as he was in real life.

Yeah.

He could be a little difficult.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Also, E.B.

White born in this day in 1899, wonderful children's author, Charlotte's Web Stewart Little.

Mm-hmm.

Classics.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great writer.

Great writer.

Taking a look at Saturday birthdays.

Malaya Yosufes.

Yosufes.

Yosufes.

Yosufes.

Yosufes.

Malaya is 28.

Okay.

heroic Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban on her school bus for standing

up for education and women's rights.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Okay.

And continues to this day to do great work over there.

Yes.

Very, very.

She was 29.

Wow.

That's amazing.

It's crazy to think of that.

Yeah.

Long ago, that was so young when that happened.

Tofer Grace is 47.

Eric.

70s show and Venom and Spider-Man 3 and some others.

I don't know if he wants to be mentioning that.

That was.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

And people of celebrated birthdays tomorrow, Richard Simmons, born in 1948, fitness guru,

one of the faces of the 80s.

That's right.

That's right.

The great, the legend, Christine McVee, born in 1942, passed between 2022.

One of the more hidden parts of Fleetwood Mac, but not to anybody that knew Fleetwood.

Fantastic songwriter.

Fleetwood Mac would not have been what they were.

Without her.

Yeah.

I love, love, love, Christine McVee.

And Charlie Murphy, born in 1959, passed away in 2017, way too young.

Eddie's older brother, a wonderful stand-up comedian, they got a kind of second life on

the Chappelle show, but he didn't need it.

I mean, anybody that knew the industry knew how important Eddie, Charlie was to, not only

Eddie, but he was a co-writer on many of Eddie's jokes and movies and everything.

Yeah.

Great career.

All I'm going to say is CB4.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Seth.

Oh, somebody had to mention it.

And Milton Burle.

Oh, my gosh.

Legend to comedian.

Mr. Television.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Fantastic one to mention.

Yeah.

You got to mention Milton Burle.

And a quick look at Sunday, birthdays.

Ken Jong is 56 on Sunday.

Wonderful.

You see him as a judge on the mass singer, but community or the hangover middle piece.

Dr. Ken.

Yeah.

Love Ken Jong.

Love Tom Kenny, 63 for SpongeBob SquarePants.

Yep.

I don't remember him from Mr. Showbomb, Dave, and so many things like that, but he is the

voice of SpongeBob and Patrick.

And he's been on so many cartoon shows.

You have no idea.

He's done voices for every show out there.

Yeah.

A wonderful, valued voice actor.

Camera Crow is 68 on Sunday, writer, director, Jerry McGuire, almost famous, say anything vanilla

sky, fast times at Ridgemont High, one of our greater directors.

And Tony Cornheiser is 77 on Sunday.

Oh.

I don't take Tony.

So many people might care about this, but Tony Cornheiser is a very big influence of

mine.

Of course, host ESPN writer and pardon the interruption with Michael Wilbond for many, many years, co-hosted

him on a football for a little while, but I actually was more influenced by him as a writer

early on in life.

Right.

He was a fantastic sports writer before the TV thing kind of became his main gig before

that though.

I mean, he was in the trenches.

He wrote some absolutely wonderful pieces throughout his career.

I actually can go back and read articles of his, and while they are not timely, they're

still just as incredible writers.

And one of my favorite people, I like Tony Cornheiser, Richard, Richard, Cheach, Marin is

79.

Cheach and Chong legend, also has done a lot of voice acting himself and worked in a lot

of movies and TV shows.

A couple of those with Don Johnson and stuff.

Yes.

That's bridges.

He was on that show for many years.

There's a lot of people out there that didn't even know about Cheach and Chong, but knew

about him.

That's really impressive, actually, when you think about it.

He shaved off the mustache and you could even recognize him.

And in the early James Maylove entertainment days, I got to do the voice of Cheach with

my dad.

We would do Cheach and Chong impressions, and I had no idea what I was doing.

So, so inappropriate.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Very, very.

Harrison Ford is 83 on Sunday, Han Solo, Indiana Jones.

The Red Hulk.

Yeah.

The most recent.

The Red Hulk.

I love that.

That on his resume.

That on your tombstone, Harrison.

I love Harrison Ford so much.

Yep.

And Wisconsin's own.

I went to Ripon.

Which Ripon is from Illinois.

He's from Illinois.

I like to throw out the Ripon thing.

But I, in doing the show Wisconsin, I tried to do this many more than I have to be guys.

What a bike.

And Sir Patrick Stewart is 85 on Sunday.

Wow.

Professor Xavier.

Captain John Luke Picard.

I mean, lots of Shakespeare.

Swini Todd.

I think he's, you know, Johnny Depp did a nice job and everything, but there's nobody

who's done that role like him.

Like a incredible work.

Patrick Stewart.

One of those, he's one of those actors, you know, got his break later.

You know, he was like in his early 40s, I think, when he was cast as Picard, or maybe

in his late 30s.

But he looked older, you know, because they'll ball the paint and the white hair and stuff.

But, name me a better actor than Patrick Stewart.

Yeah.

He sees fantastic.

I love the work that he's, I love seeing him working now and having.

That status and something that, you know, wasn't written in the cards for him a lot of

people.

No, no, but that role really changes it for him.

It changes, right?

Yeah.

It's fantastic.

I love him.

We appreciate all your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.

Thanks so much for getting them to us.

I will be doing this again next week and we encourage you to head on over to Elle Cafe and

joy yourself.

Woo.

Be back after this.

It's a fish today.

Yeah, get some fish.

And stick around because after our news and sports break and entertainment break, we

will be bringing you our star of the day.

Woo.

Friends from callers.

Coming up right here on 975 FM.

Lights, camera, action.

It is time to make somebody a star of the day with our friends from the Wisconsin Rabbids

callers.

What Melissa Seth and I are about to do is play a famous TV theme song.

You haven't won anything in 30 days.

You will get it right or you think you got it right?

Call up.

Let us know and take a shot at this one and me just may win some free callers.

What I have in front of me right now is a kid's and adults meal for over at callers

and the Wisconsin Rabbids callers.

Big shout out to them.

We appreciate them wherever you have a callers, you got one putting back into your community

everybody.

Get ready to call up 715-424-2600 or you can use the civic media app.

You're just a touch or two away with that.

Go ahead and get ready to call up and let us know what TV theme song this is from.

This could be a tougher one.

Come on now.

There we go.

There we go.

There is going to be fans in a show.

All right.

Actually, no.

That is awesome.

Let us see if our listener does.

What is your answer?

What if I give you David to accompany with that work?

Oh, of course it does.

It is even nicer.

Yes.

That is a deep con right there.

Yeah, it does.

I drew a blank and it was like, he knew the start one of the stars though.

That works.

That counts.

That is an official win.

That is a win, sir.

Who do I have on the phone with us?

What's your first name?

Ed.

Ed.

Congratulations Ed.

Yeah, X-Files.

X-Files.

I knew it.

Oh my god.

I just called.

I was saying for Ed just in case we finished the segment and he's left at the end of

it.

Darn it.

What was it?

It's so frustrating.

It's even more frustrating when you had the answer and then you're like, you forgot

it.

Where is it?

Where is it?

Ed, you got it.

Thank you so much.

Where are you calling us from Ed?

Right on.

Got ourselves another rapids winner.

We appreciate it.

Ed.

You've called it before.

We appreciate you there.

Where are your fans of the show?

Yes, I was.

Very much so.

It was different.

You know, it was the one that was the one that always got to me was.

You remember that one with the ladies that had the mother underneath the.

Yes.

And the boys are grazing.

Oh my god.

That was so weird.

That was an infamous show.

That was almost not aired because of that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Almost got in trouble because of that.

And there was a couple of times they almost got in trouble.

Yeah.

It was one of those shows where I thought it was worth watching every episode.

But I always I do remember and I bring this up with a lot of my writer friends and people

that I talked to because it's kind of like an old joke.

But if you don't know how to they would they would write such good episodes and then

there were ones where you could tell they didn't know how to end it.

Yeah.

And the whole episode aliens are brought up and then at the very end.

I don't know.

Aliens were involved in this.

How does that work?

Let's just go get some coffee scully.

Let's just go get up.

It's a great show.

Great show.

It's a great listener.

You call it up Ed.

We appreciate you.

Hang on the line and get some information off.

Okay.

But you're our newest star of the day.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ed.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Fun show.

And not for nothing.

I wanted to do.

We haven't actually done ex files.

I think since maybe season one of this.

Have we done it though?

I don't know.

I don't know.

We may not have.

If we did it was early on.

Yeah.

And I don't have like the first like six months maybe year of this.

I don't have any data.

Right.

So there was so much going on back then.

Yeah.

But we did lose Mark Snow on July 4th.

That's right.

The creator of that famous theme song.

That composer.

In fact, he did.

If I remember correctly, he did all the music for the show.

Yes.

For at least for several seasons, not maybe the entire run.

And for many of us 90s kids, the ex file soundtrack.

He was a chart.

He was like the executive producer on that.

Yes.

Great stuff on that song.

Oh, that was a fun soundtrack.

Yeah.

There's a great filter song on there.

Yeah.

And some other good stuff.

Soul coughing.

Soul coughing.

Black helicopters.

That's classic.

Also did music for born to be wild and disturbing behavior.

And some other 90s stuff and everything.

Mark Snow was a great composer.

Very good composer.

He got it.

He got the gist of things and stuff.

And so did Ed.

Thank you.

I would.

Behind the curtain look here and everything.

I wasn't 100% about doing this sense.

I was like, no, people will get it.

People will get this one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They know it's so distinctive.

I mean, I knew it.

I even Melissa knew it.

I was going to say it's so awesome.

But I didn't watch it when it was airing.

I binge watched it like in the last five years.

I was telling James this morning that I couldn't watch it because up in Duluth, we did not

have a Fox affiliate until like 1998.

So we couldn't watch any of the Fox shows.

It was crazy.

It's awesome.

It's wild that you two have that in common.

Yeah.

I love it.

But we both like the show.

I like the show for sure.

So yeah.

It's pretty cool.

Be listening next Friday for another opportunity to be like Ed and be our newest star of the day.

A big shout out to our Wisconsin rapist, Culver's We Appreciate.

You get some Culver's in your life this weekend, everybody.

And be listening next Friday for another opportunity to be our star of the day.

Forget the name Skinner.

Jeez.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Melissa, Seth, and James hanging out with you.

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

Say a big shout out to Ed and our most recent star of the day.

Winner?

Yep.

Appreciate that.

Big thank you to our friends at Culver's.

And you also brought to my attention that I didn't see that episode.

Oh, you haven't seen that one, huh?

No, because it wasn't on whatever streaming platform I was watching.

It is.

You can find it somewhere now.

I knew the show was good and I'd seen a couple episodes, even though I couldn't watch it.

I was one of those people that they had like box sets of VHS tapes of some of the best episodes.

And I bought a couple of those just so I could watch the stupid show.

That's awesome.

And that was how I first got into it.

It's still lost on me either whenever we're talking about a show that was a hit and it was on Fox.

I was told in Seth and rambling and probably pouring hell out of this morning.

But I seen that the beginnings of cable TV and where the three networks were and how Fox was able to slip in there.

Where if they had been doing their job really, it wouldn't ever happen.

Fox would have never worked.

But you've got a couple of shows that get you know some notoriety and married with children and stuff.

And then you have this real dip for them and then the war happens.

Right.

And the first golf war happens.

And all three of the major networks decide they have this agreement.

We're not going to do a scripted television for the stretch of the war.

And nobody knows how long the war is going to last of course.

We're all going to agree to do that.

So we're just doing 24-7.

You know, it's the first war that is on cable that is 24-7.

Right.

And able to be, I should say able to be covered that way.

And the first time that we're in color seeing war happening on our TVs.

Right.

Which for one, that's happening while people are sitting around eating dinner.

And that, which completely changes things.

And when people complain about what's on TV and how can they put this on TV and this on TV and stuff.

And well, we've got you know war, literal war happening as people are sitting down eating their mashed potatoes.

Right.

Well, on Fox, they can't, they, Fox doesn't have a news station.

Doesn't have news division.

Doesn't have news division.

Right.

So they got nothing else to play but scripted television.

So, made with children, Beverly Hills 9-0-2-1-0.

These shows start building and start building an audience.

People are looking for an alternative to all the war coverage, right?

Yeah.

So, and this is not a sentence a week later after the war is over, which is wild to think of.

But yeah, weekly, when they are ready to come back with scripted TV and stuff.

The Fox is already there with a build-it audience, a build-up audience.

And they're, and they're all just remarkable.

Now you have a Fox and you, now you have in today in 2025,

you have people pulling away from the Fox channel because of their news network.

Like that's just crazy to be.

And that's, this is all just, you know, information.

I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong or any of that.

That's all your personal.

I just think it's kind of cool to look at the history of these things.

And also, reminisce, you know, one of the most nostalgic things to me in the world

is back when we kind of watch stuff together, you know.

And we would, are you guys going to watch the season finale if X-Files?

Or something like that?

Yeah, yeah.

And the idea that we did that is kind of a country almost.

And that's kind of interesting.

I don't know.

And side note, Fox still doesn't have a news department.

They are entertainment.

That's right.

That is true.

It's just a channel, but they don't have a news department.

Well, and that's the way Rupert Mertek wants us to say it.

Otherwise, he'll get sued.

And that's nothing.

That's not even, I know I actually have to say this because I'm not trying to be sarcastic

there, but I am sarcastic so often.

It's hard to tell the difference.

That's that we're just covering his basis right there.

So I almost didn't say basis.

Moving on.

Now obsolete skills that adults born before the 90s won't forget even though they're no longer needed.

All right.

The important topic that is not covered nearly enough, not really.

I don't know, but if you were born in the 90s or if you were around in the 90s,

do you remember trying to understand what an app was?

Because there was a little stretch there in the beginning of us all having phones

that a lot of restaurants would try to instead of saying appetizers say apps.

And this actually confused some people.

I might have been one of those people not really thinking about it.

People online are talking about the now obsolete skills that adults of a certain age

will never forget even though they're no longer needed.

I really can't stand these people that cannot wait to brag about themselves

and egomaniacs and everything, but I do have to brag a little bit here.

I was the go-to guy for programming a VCR.

Hey, that was my thing.

I was a man.

If there were people, my not a pop actually called me to roam once,

just to help him put out of the view of this.

So this is first on the list programming a VCR.

Someone who was once the manager of a blockbuster says,

they'll never forget how to repair VCR tapes with a splicer or using a little bit of tape to fix it.

Literally a, like you were editing tape, like a film.

You would have to be having an exacto knife and splicing it together.

Yeah.

So Piggy backing off of that, setting up two VCR so you could copy a movie

not that anybody did this.

Nobody did this, but just in theory.

In theory, of course.

You needed a special core.

What were more copies for the home videos, right?

That's right.

Home videos is what we did this with.

Yes.