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I'm gonna get into some entertainment news in a moment, a little bit later.

How many people will accept a thumbs up from dad as emotional stuff, like that counts?

You'll get into that.

You better believe it counts.

Yeah.

We'll get into that a little bit later.

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We jump into entertainment news and the 2025 Emmy nominations were announced yesterday.

All right.

And a bunch of people, as usual, people are usually more upset about the people that

weren't nominated or things that weren't.

That tends to be the thing, yeah, right?

But I don't know if I've ever seen this much outcry in anger about that before.

A lot of people are upset that Squid Game got, didn't get any nominations.

After six awards for its final season, and oh, wait.

So now it's Squid Game got, yeah, okay, so let's take a look at this.

The hand mains tail only got one nod for Sherry Jones' guest starring role.

A lot of people were upset about that.

It didn't go into its final season.

That's right.

And a pretty iconic show.

It has become that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yellow jackets got nod of this year for its third season, despite getting ten nominations

for its first two.

Wow.

And Patrick Schwarzenegger was not recognized for going the white lotus and doing his work

in that, and a lot of people thought he should have been.

As for the positives, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard received their first ever Emmy nominations

for acting.

Really?

They guest spotted on Seth Rogan's The Studio show.

Oh, okay.

At 83, the wonderful, the great Harrison Ford got his first Emmy nominee for Apple TV's

shrinking.

Okay.

And that's pretty cool to see.

Wow.

And Kathy Bates became the oldest nominee for the best drama actress from Matt Lack at

77.

Wow.

That's really cool.

That is really cool.

And you know what?

Couldn't go to a more deserving person.

Really?

She is just...

Her body of work, you know, it speaks for herself.

She has made such a great career, and she is just so darn good.

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show got four nominations, including Outstanding

Live Variety Special.

That's interesting.

Pretty interesting.

Okay.

But the most interesting thing I think to come out of it was the fact that Severance

led all nominations.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

It's 27 nominations.

Holy mackerel.

Holy.

Now, noteworthy for it being a streaming service that comes from Apple.

Noteworthy that I think it's a show that was a very grassroots built.

A lot of fans built that one.

They actually weren't even sure if they were going to bring it back for a second season.

Because streaming numbers are so hard to gauge.

The social media talking about the show and everything really led them to realize, oh,

that's a successful show.

So they used to happen back in the 90s when they would clog the facts machine, right?

Yes.

And they would not make them...

Making them unable to do business because they want a show back, right?

And I think of something...

And I haven't seen the show, but I'll admit Adam Scott and John Tutoro are on the show.

And they're two of my favorites.

I like those guys.

Very cool.

When I see something like that, I see a show that gets two more seasons.

I see two more years of paychecks for actors, for editors, for the best ball.

All the people that are on the set, yeah.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

That 27 was only followed by the penguin at 24.

Whoa.

Yeah.

I thought it was actually remarkable.

Yeah.

I didn't expect that.

Wow.

The studio and white lotus each have 23 apiece.

The last of us rounded it out.

The top five was 16.

But four of the top five are HBO shows.

Tell us you something.

The home box office, or as we used to call it in our house, the Hebrew box office,

just a joke, just a joke, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just like doing that.

We...

HBO is back.

HBO.

There.

There.

People were talking about a couple of years ago that they weren't going to bounce back

from the sopranos.

And then a couple of years after that, people were saying they wouldn't be able to bounce

back from Game of Thrones.

I don't know that you have a more stable network than HBO.

Right.

And wild to me to say that sentence out loud coming from where we did as kids when the

home box office was just a...

They were just going to give this a shot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, and they were just...

When we were kids, I mean, they were just a movie channel.

Yeah.

You know, they were the first, you know, of the cable movie channels, right?

Yeah.

And then HBO was synonymous with just, you know, showing movies all through them.

And then, you know, and then they took their foray, I believe it was Oz, correct?

Wasn't that the first one?

Yeah.

Actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And oh, there was, oh, there was another show, a comedy that was before that.

I can't think of it.

But yes, yeah.

Oz was the first one to start getting critical acclaim.

Exactly.

And it wasn't like a ratings gangbuster, you know, but like you said, it was very well

thought of as, you know, good drama and that kind of stuff, you know, and they could do

stuff on HBO.

They couldn't do on other TV shows, right?

Yeah.

That's just it.

You know, that's part of it, too.

I think we must lose that as well.

I think that it's, and this is part of why I feel like it's, it's never really been fair

to compare HBO, any streaming service, anybody who doesn't have to go by the rating system.

Right.

Exactly.

Right.

It's so much more difficult to write and do TV when you have boundaries than when you

don't.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

It is true.

Now, clever writers can do it.

Yes.

But and they have done it for many, many years, but at the same time, if you want to get

down deep into whatever it is you're working on, yeah, you kind of need to be able to do

that.

Nate Bargazzi is hosting.

Let's see if he can go five seconds without insulting some race, creed, or religion.

What?

I, I don't know.

I don't know that he's a great host.

I'm sorry.

Comedians like this, I have no problem with that style of comedy, a group on that style

of comedy.

But when that's your only thing, that's the only thing you can do.

You can't do any other style of comedy.

I, you're not a true comedian to me.

Yeah.

That's an incredible arc.

Anybody can be, you know what made Don Rickles amazing is that he wasn't just an insult

comic.

No, he could also reference and talk about other things and do other jokes and that kind

of thing.

The end is hosted the tiniest over cranking along.

Right.

The Emmys are there on Sunday, September 14 on CBS.

All right.

And taking a look at the actual nominations, just looking at a couple of categories, the

Best Drama series and or the Deplomat, the last of us, paradise, the Pitt, Severance,

and the White Lotus.

That Joe Paradise on Hula was a real game changer for them.

That did really well.

Cool.

A lot of people enjoy that.

The Pitt has seen some real cool success and interesting to see a medical drama that

focuses on more on, you know, kind of that style.

Right.

It's very different for me, right?

In a lot of way, which I give Noah Wiley a lot of credit for for jumping into that, jumping

into the pit.

If anybody, if you were a fan of spy and cloak and dagger type shows or anything like

that, I cannot recommend Slow Horses enough.

Gary Oldman stars in it, which I am obviously biased one of my top five actors, but he's

so good and the cast is so good.

Nice.

And BBC does stuff just different, they do it in the time that they put into these things.

You almost, even the, you almost hard press to find any BBC show where anybody who even

has one line is not a theater actor, like they just, they don't have bad actors over

there.

It really don't.

And I'm not saying that like we have, they have better actors than us or anything like

it.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

It's just the way that you're trained over there compared to here.

It's so very different.

Yeah.

I love that show.

And I'm so happy to see it nominated.

It will not win, but I'm happy to see it nominated.

Very cool though.

Best comedy series.

The wonderful Abbott Elementary, the Bear, Hacks, nobody wants this.

Many murders in the building, shrinking the studio and what we do in the shadows.

All right.

That's a good list.

Yeah.

And as far as best actor in a series, Sterling K. Brown for Paradise, Gary Oldman for

Slow Horses, Pedro Pascal for the last of us, Adam Scott for Severance and Noah Wiley

for the Pit.

Nice.

Best actress, as we mentioned before, Kathy Bates for Matlock, Sharon Hogan for Bed Sisters,

Britt Lauer for Severance, Bella Ramsey for the last of us, and Carrie Russell for the

Diplomat.

And Carrie Russell show up on there.

Once again, man, man, she's great, man.

What a career she's carved out.

Really?

She's done a great job.

Best actor in a comedy series, Adium Brody for nobody wants this, Seth Rogan for the studio,

Jason Siegel for shrinking Martin Short for only murders in the building, and Jeremy

Ellen White for the Bear.

Nice.

Best actress in a comedy series, Uza Abola for residents, Kristen Bell for nobody wants this,

Quintina Brunson for Abadale Elementary, Ayo Abadale for the Bear, and Jean Smart for

Hacks.

Nice.

Nice, man.

A big fan.

You can check the complete lead.

A lot of other great things.

There's a lot of stuff there.

Yeah, John DeTurro got nominated.

That's fantastic to see.

Again, and we mentioned before, Harris and Ford, a shout out to Bowen Yang, getting a nomination

for his work on SNL.

That's cool.

That's neat.

Catherine O'Hara also got a nomination, along with Catherine Hahn.

Yeah.

That's always cool to see.

Love them all.

So you can catch the complete nominations, and again, the awards will be soon.

Yes.

One of the take a moment for this.

Coming back from my classic rock days and growing up with my father and the big fan

of that style of rock and roll, for every band I loved and are nostalgic to me, there

are bands that I was like, I flip.

I can't do it.

I played this music for nine years.

It got old to me real quick.

Can't do it.

And one of those bands was ELO, just an interesting ELO guy as a younger person.

Going back to perspective again.

As I got older, I started to kind of dig a little bit of it.

And kind of enjoy some of it.

And I'm a big, big fan of layers to music.

And it never really gave them credit to that.

Oh, Jeff Lynn, will layer your music.

Once I start, I'm so late to this party, but I want to own that, and just give respect

to that.

Like, oh my God, they're a hunk of a lot better band than I realize, I've not given them

enough credit or anything like that.

In particular, who you mentioned there, Jeff Lynn.

Yeah.

Well, ELO singer, Jeff Lynn, was forced to cancel his final live show, event the other

day in London, because he's battling systematic infection.

It was supposed to be the final stop of on his over and out farewell tour.

Great name.

That's good.

His team says, quote, he's currently in the care of a team of doctors who have advised him

that performing is simply not possible at this time.

All right.

Nor will he be able to reschedule the legacy of the band in this longtime fans are foremost

in Jeff's mind today.

And while he is sorry, he cannot perform, he knows that he must focus on his health and

his rehabilitation.

Yes.

It's not clear if there will be a different final show or not.

Once Jeff is better, since he was the only original member in his version of ELO, maybe

it wouldn't be too complicated to put together a proper farewell.

Right.

And basically, ELO has been for basically since it's like first or second albums has been

Jeff Lynn, basically in a bunch of other people.

And I come back to Strange Magic.

That song is so much more complex and deeper.

I would flip it whenever I would hear it as a kid or in my classic rock days or anything

like that.

Now when I hear it, I feel like I'm hearing it for the first time every time I hear it.

That's really cool to be able to do that with stuff.

Yeah, their whole catalog has a lot of the songs in there that are like that.

It does reward some close listening, I'll say.

We did this way back in the day, Carl and I, and this is long before Guardians of the

Galaxy, you know, that stuff and everything, the kind of ELO and some bands like that got

a second life, they did it like the happiest song of all time, Mr. Blue Sky.

Mr. Blue Sky.

They consider that at least the Rolling Stone survey we really, yeah, which is cool though.

That is a very upbeat song.

I gotta give him credit for that.

Yeah.

I wish him good health.

Yes, he too.

Wherever he does.

And I would say, you know, I would move away from the whole last show thing.

Yeah, you know, they just, you know, he's getting up there anyway.

So yeah.

Well, and that's an artist like that, Jacqueline, who is at the tail end, who was accomplished

so much, he's done so much.

And then we look at somebody like Miley Cyrus, who I would say is probably in, not in the

beginning of their career by any means, but I wouldn't say she's anywhere close to the

end of her career by any means either, somewhere in that middle spot kind of.

Well, Miley Cyrus released her latest album, Something Beautiful Last Month, but she has

no desire to promote it with a tour.

Oh, she says she has the physical ability and opportunities, but she doesn't want to

risk her sobriety and mental health.

So with Jeff Lynn, it's much more of a body physical thing with her.

We're talking much more mental health.

Mental health thing.

Yeah.

Quote, it's really hard to maintain sobriety when you're on the road, which is really

important.

A pillar of stability in my life.

It's really hard to keep mental wellness.

You have so many thousands of people screaming at you.

So dopamine, so dopamine, you're feeling a lot of love and then you totally crash at

the end of the show.

You start thinking that one person loving you is, it is not enough.

It needs to be 10,000, needs to be 80,000.

Miley also added that her lack of desire has nothing to do with being afraid, quote, I like

to do things I'm afraid of.

I've jumped out of airplanes.

I've performed in front of 150,000 people.

I stood toe to toe with Beyonce.

I would never have, I would never, that's a stupid question.

I'm sorry.

That's a dumb question.

Good morning, America.

Did you do any homework on this person?

I don't even know.

I couldn't name you five songs from Miley Cyrus.

Couldn't name you three, but even I know that this young lady has proved since her what

Hannah Montana days, which is a teenager, seriously, and the reporting on her throat.

We just got done talking about that a couple of weeks ago.

She's got some like literal health things going on that's why her voice sounds the way

it sounds.

She's got those what nodes are whatever on her vocal cords.

We talk a good game about mental health.

We need to back it up now.

It's not enough to just say, and this is me as much as anybody else needing to do this.

Doing these kind of things, I think we may look back on as brave.

I will say in the current time I do, but I'm hoping that even with more perspective, we

are able to do even more.

Think what she's doing here.

A couple of things I want to mention on this.

Well, she's not canceling a tour.

She's not even starting one, which makes sense.

So she's making the bet, like it's not a bet, but she's making the decision, I should

say, is that you know what, I got a feeling that this may not go well, especially for where

I am right now.

And when anytime you're talking about sobriety, it's about ritual, reputation kind of thing,

and she knows going back on the road, she's going to fall back into those same things

again, and she doesn't want to do that, which is very cool, I'm glad she recognizes that.

She's turning down a lot of money, a lot of money, by not touring now and supporting

her music, right?

So I mean, that's that has to come into the equation as well.

So it doesn't seem like a lot.

She's already wealthy, you know, a big star, we know this kind of stuff.

But you have to take that into consideration when you're talking about making this very

big decision, because I'm also sure she doesn't want to let her fans down, which is another

thing, because she knows she wouldn't be there without her fans.

That's, you know, that all is in part of this decision that she made.

You know, especially when it comes to child stars, she's not still doing this for the money.

No, no, she's got that, and she didn't choose to have an adult singing career for fame

or any of those things.

She was already famous.

The fact that she kept on with this is a love of music, is a love of fans, performing,

and all of that.

And I think a really strong point you made there is something that we need to touch on whenever

we can.

Artists, they make pennies on Spotify, they make pennies on that stuff.

You make your money on the road.

You make money on the road.

To not do that is a killer for an artist.

So I don't think she's doing this for any reason other than the ones she's giving us.

And I think there's a certain respect that deserves.

I agree.

Again, I'm not a fan of her and anything like that.

But I am a fan of that.

I'm a fan of the person she is and she's becoming more and more.

It seems like.

Right.

It'll be interesting to see where she goes from here, but she is growing as an artist.

You know, her music has changed over the years, and it's interesting to see where she'll

go.

Go from here.

Yeah.

We're going to take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

And we're talking dads, emotions, and the thumbs up symbol coming up on you.

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Little war and summertime to play Seth and I in.

It's true, yeah.

Song is so nostalgic to me.

Immediately think of me and my dad's Monte Carlo in a hot day going down, you know, an

old road or whatever.

Man, yeah, that immediately was brought back to that as soon as I clicked that bumper.

And speaking of dads, we all know that dads can be a little bit more emotional than others,

of course, and everything.

Well, in a new poll, more than one in three people said, a simple thumbs up from their

dad was a sign of both love and support.

Just the thumbs up.

Nice.

It says a lot.

It does.

I agree.

That their dad would describe himself as quote, not good at emotional stuff and say exactly

that way too.

Yes.

Exactly.

Exactly that way.

And women were more likely to receive and I love you from dad than men.

But many dads just have their own subtle heart felt way of expressing their feelings and

it's called and it's being called dad speak because we have to label and I was going

to say the exact same thing.

Yeah.

To demonstrate dad speak, here's a list of the top ways dads show affection.

Okay.

The top ways we do this in no particular order, being there when you need him even without

saying much.

There you go.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, trying to pay for things.

Certainly you can't money, can't buy love, can't buy happiness or anything, but sometimes

it can also buy a lot less stress.

Well, absolutely, you're so right there, but it's a gesture, it's the thought, right?

It's a kind of a gift and that's what it means to do that, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Fixing things.

Yeah.

That's that.

You know, that dance can take that overboard in terms of, I'm not talking about fixing

physical things.

Yeah, because even not being a handyman, I still do it, you know, I still do that kind

of stuff, but it's like trying to fix like emotional things and stuff that you can go

overboard.

So be careful with trying to fix things.

One of the better things you can learn as a human being for other human beings is that

more times than not when somebody is venting or talking to you, they just want you to

listen.

That's all they want.

They don't need you to try to fix things.

They would have asked for that.

Yeah.

How did it start?

Did it start with, I need help with this or, oh my God, you won't believe this.

Yeah.

You know, listen to a person and you really, I know it's hard.

It's hard not to do it.

I've had to learn that myself.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard because you just, you want, because you don't want them to feel bad.

You don't want them to, you know, have these emotions, not because you don't like emotions.

They said they're bad emotions, you know, you want to help them with that, but sometimes

you just can't do it.

You just got to be there to listen.

Driving you places.

Yeah.

Let's go.

Yes.

Ask my oldest son about that a week and since he can't drive, can't it's one of those.

It's one of those.

Yeah.

Offering to lend you tools or equipment.

That's a big one with my dad.

All right.

See?

See?

That's how they showed his affection that way.

My dad values his tools so much and so he powers something to my brother or I.

You better bring that thing back.

And if you don't, that's fine, but he ain't ever going to forget it.

Oh, and you're going to hear about it probably every time you see him, yeah.

There's literally nothing else with my dad.

A shirt, a baseball card, doesn't matter, but his tools, yeah, very important.

Helping with your kids or pets, being a grandpa.

Oh, or, hey, yeah, absolutely helping you move.

Grabbing you a drink if you need one or a food if you needed those things and forwarding

you useful links on or news or stuff like that, right, right, wraps up the list.

Now here's the thing about this list and I looked at one that was very similar about

moms.

Oh, okay.

But with moms and how they show affection, a lot of it is worded or physical touch, right,

a shoulder, a hand on the shoulder, some of those things.

There's also a lot of the notes in your lunch bag, you know, those kind of things.

There's a lot more of that involved, right?

Dads are giving you just as much emotion.

They are just showing it in a different way.

Yes, acts of service.

Almost everyone that we you said here was an act of service, which is an act of love.

That's what it is.

Most dads want to feel useful.

Most dads is what a lot of this comes down to in the way that they show love.

And this isn't obviously every man, every or anything like that, not at all, not at all.

But the majority of us, that's how we show love is, is by, let me be useful.

Let me do the dishes.

Let me do this.

Let me take the garbage out.

Let me do that.

That's, every time we're doing those things, every time we're giving a thumbs up, we're

screaming, I love you.

We're screaming.

It's true.

It's true.

There's just not, men were not built with this.

We are built in a society that has men and women looked at it as certain ways and treated

it as certain ways.

And whether that's right or wrong, you guys, smarter people can go ahead and figure that

stuff out.

I'm more focused on today and modern, modern dads, modern moms and a lot of that.

I think about where I grew up, like physically where I grew up and the people that I grew up

around.

And there's not a lot, even with a lot of the women, there's not a lot of physical contact

in that culture.

It doesn't mean they don't love people as, you know, any less than anyone else does.

It's just not as common, you know?

So as I have become a father and wanting to show more affection, you know, it's almost

like you're allowing yourself to just, you know, allow yourself to, you know, hug your

kid a little bit more or, you know, or praise them a little bit or whatever it is, right?

That's something I've had to learn because I grew up in a very, in a culture where it just

didn't happen as much.

It just, that was just part of how, where we were and how we grew up.

When it comes to a lot of, I think the grace that we should have as kids with our dads

and moms and everything, as we are growing into this, think about your great-grandparents

or some of them, they, there was no class.

Okay, today we're going to teach you how to hug, right?

Today we're going to teach you how to care about your kid.

Yeah, right.

There's no blueprint on this.

We're all just trying to figure it out as we go along.

Absolutely.

Two older generations that little, like my, my mom's dad, my grandfather, I'm not sure

he really knew how to hug.

This man was a, one of the greatest attorneys in Chicago.

He fought in two wars.

Sure.

Uh, was an incredible father, uh, for four daughters and I don't believe he would, if you

asked him to hug you, I don't know if he, he would have, put my arms here, where do I

put my arms?

I can't be more literal about this.

Like, uh, whereas a man is saying age, my papa, my dad's dad, uh, was very affectionate.

He wanted to push back on that because he didn't come from a family of that.

Right.

But still didn't know how to do it.

Like, there was no blueprint.

Sure.

So we're teaching each other generation by generation and trying to get better about this.

And to any pushback that this makes generations softer, I question your definition of hardness

of strength, of what real true, you want to use this terminology, manliness is.

Sure.

Because I will tell you, I grew up again, uh, around veterans, I grew up around athletes,

I grew up against all the definitions, it's a cleanliness, right?

Yeah.

Construction workers, blue collar to the core, uh, and every one of these people I'm talking

about, even my great-grandfather that I'm talking about, we're able to tell their kids

they love them.

Right.

We're able to at least express some kind of things for the most part, at least we're trying

to.

Yeah.

Um, and I will, I will put my toughness up against anybody.

Uh, I, they're, they're, that's such a silly argument to me.

This idea that were men aren't the men that they weren't used to or not.

Well, for one side note, who raised those men?

That's a great point.

Right.

Yeah.

Like anybody complaining about the younger generations and they're not tough enough, they're

not strong enough.

Who the heck raised them?

It was.

They didn't raise themselves.

Like, you look in the mirror, yeah.

You have a problem with this.

Exactly.

Exactly.

It's ridiculous.

Uh, you're, you're basically blaming yourself before.

Yeah.

Obviously, no self-awareness.

Uh, they're at all.

And uh, I, I don't know what, what I see a lot of the younger generations handling,

what the way I see them adapting, they seem pretty strong to me.

Hmm.

Pretty tough to me.

All right.

Um, and I, I encouraged people to be more graceful to each other with this stuff as

far as emotions and all that because it's messy.

It's, it's muddy and there is no blueprint for any of this.

No, no, emotions can get, uh, can get emotional.

Yeah.

We will.

Yeah.

I really wanted to go to ready to break out of that.

I didn't want to laugh.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to laugh.

That's great.

That's a great line.

We'll be back after our new sports and partner break.

We got some more fun coming up for you, everybody.

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Yeah.

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That sounds about right.

No word on if that means, you know, your average, your, your, your boy, your grade school

swear words or your shirt, adult swear words, not the kids in grade school swear.

Right.

Of course not.

Of course not.

They were.

No, they're angels.

No, I know I was.

I know.

Nobody believes that.

Nobody.

Nobody who just turned our station off for the first time or the first time they're

hearing me doesn't believe that.

That includes 25% who swear every day and 12% or one in eight Americans claim they never

swear.

Oh, that's okay, man, okay.

The poll looked at the settings and scenarios where people think swearing is acceptable

or not and which words we find the most offensive.

And the top five, the top five times it's okay to swear are when you're alone, okay,

when you've hurt yourself, yeah, when you're hanging out with friends, okay, when you're

at a sporting event and swearing on social media is fifth.

Those last two are they're just making excuses for themselves.

They just, well, they're just, they just needed to fill out five things on a list that more

so than the top three.

I am totally behind.

Yeah, I'm totally.

The other two, not really, no, those are public spaces, you know, even, you know, even

with friends sometimes it feels a little cringey to me.

Yeah.

It's a lot.

It's, I don't know.

Maybe that's just me.

I understand.

That's just who I am, you know.

And this was a man who was raised by a sailor who knows how to, who knows how to do it really

well.

So literally raised by a sailor, you know, literally if you know the phrase, you know

what we're talking about.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I think that comes from a good place.

Yes, it's a fair place.

Yes.

The top five times it's not okay are at church, but in front of children, in front of

a client at work, swearing in an employee in a store.

Oh, that would be, that's very bad.

That's what it is.

Yeah, don't do that.

And swearing in front of your boss.

That's just dumb.

Yeah.

Don't do that.

I, um, I kind of like that we all agree to this.

That all, I'm a good one with all of these and I really like that as a society.

We all agree that those are, you know, how we feel about that.

Right.

Right.

Um, they looked at 40 different swear words to see which one's worst, uh, 40 swear words.

We're not going to be able to get into those.

But no, not really, uh, but, but you, I think can gather which are the worst, um, and

I will say that the word, like in my family, again, I grew up in an Italian household.

Right.

Uh, that, that we are inclined to swear, are you, are you telling me that Italians like

to, like to curse?

Yes.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

I'm shocked.

It is one of the things we're known for.

Um, and it doesn't matter what language it is either, man.

And that being said, um, we didn't swear in front of my mom, but it's a disday.

We don't really do it that much.

Now my sister's a little more vocal about this stuff that I am, um, but my brother and

I, uh, we, we will even apologize sometimes when we do and we're in our, uh, my nix and

it's 30s.

I'm in my 40s.

Yeah.

Right.

We still, but this is more of a respect thing to my mom and dad, um, who we didn't feel

got enough respect growing up, um, not so much from us as kids, but it means a family

or even society, uh, seeing the way my mom and dad were treated sometimes.

I think it was more of a thing where we wanted to show them respect in the house.

Sure.

And of all this, we can, you know, it's not like we're going to get a bar or soap in

our mouth.

Although I did, that did happen to me as a kid once, uh, I have never been able to look

at what's the green soap again, the Irish, Irish spring can't look at it and look at

it.

Wow.

I can.

But it's one of those, I look at it immediately.

Like, oh, you're transported back.

Yeah.

Um, but, uh, even with all that, there's only one word that you, nobody has ever said

in the house.

Nobody.

I'm sure we can all guess what that is.

Everybody can guess where that is.

Fill in the blanks.

My mother is the same way.

My mother, and I have to give my father credit, really, again, I'm, and I'm not kidding, man.

He is a traditional sailor.

And if you've ever been around sailor, especially when they're together, yeah, they come fast

and thick, um, that he would not say that one word.

He policed himself and he did a fantastic job because I don't remember him ever saying

it until I was, like, like almost in my 20s kind of thing like in my late teens.

So credit to him for policing himself on that before my dad retired one of his last jobs.

He worked at Del Monte for a long time and, uh, he was a picker and would be in the machines

and, and they go really slow.

And he worked night shift a lot of the times.

So when I was working, I would oftentimes play a slow ride for him and the guys listening.

And I, and, and I was like to catch him the next day or whenever I could and catch up.

Hey, do you hear me throw that out there for you, whatever, um, I was about three years

in the radio, maybe even longer than that.

And my dad, again, going back to Fathers and Emotions, I knew he was proud of me.

I was working classic rock and radio and, sort of, that wasn't in my car.

That wasn't in the cards for me.

So I knew he was proud of me for that, but he never said anything like that.

The first time he ever complimented me about radio, uh, I asked him about this and he's

like, I, I, I'm still floored.

You don't swear.

I, I'm floored by that, like, uh, floored by, like, that, that just, just being doing

that, that, that just being able to be, go through a segment on air and not swear my

father was blown away by just to give you, there are rules, you know, and just, just to

be, to be clear.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the rules about this.

You can tell those rules, Seth and I are dancing on them right now.

We are.

We're just dancing along.

We don't like heck.

I had to get that out.

Yeah.

That's nice.

Very good.

Uh, the least offensive swear word is gosh, gosh.

That's it.

So there's, there's a parameter.

Now, that's what I was looking for.

Are we talking traditional swear words?

Yeah.

George Carlin, seven words, all that kind of stuff.

Or are we talking about gosh and, and dang it and, and, you know, that stuff?

Because this is another thing.

I get old, the older I'm getting swear words, they just, they don't hit like they used

to.

No, you know, even in the most angry or most excited situation, right, right, to be very,

very clear.

Okay.

Miss me with the people say, well, back in the day, people didn't swear.

Oh, come on.

Oh, get old.

People swore.

They knew all the words.

Yeah.

They just, it wasn't uncertain.

It wasn't on popular, you know, in the mass culture, it wasn't on radio.

It wasn't in the movies and it wasn't on television.

So yeah, when we go back and look, they didn't swear there because they didn't swear

there.

That's, that's what it was.

People still swore.

My mom, I didn't get my, my mom got me on that one because she was like, yeah, because

they didn't swear.

Mom, no, stop that.

Stop it right now.

People swore all the time.

They've always sworn a lot to the point when it comes to the reason that we are where

we are as far as the FCC and, and what swear words we can and can't say in all of that,

the majority of all of these stories start with John Wayne, John Wayne, everybody's

definition of cowboy, everybody's definition of toughness, strength, including myself.

John Wayne would not do a scene because in a, when his foot got caught in a bear trap,

he didn't think his character should say, gosh darn it, right?

That's not what happens when a person gets their foot on a bear trap.

The reason swear words were invented was for that situation.

Yeah, exactly.

And if you're supposed to, your job as an actor is to be believable, that's not believable.

John Wayne was steadfast on this and stood on this hill and would not, would, would die

on that hill.

Right.

Right.

Right.

And that's a big part of why we're where we are today with those things.

No media.

And not just in movies, but in media and TV shows, music, everything.

It really starts right there.

The, again, gosh is the least defensive swear word followed by heck and then darn, darn.

But they're all substitutes for other words.

Right.

We have to remember that too.

They're just the kinder, gentler versions.

But this is why I love going to, what are, you know, fun words that aren't really curse

words, but we say them and they feel like they feel, yeah, yeah.

I love words like that.

I think as I'm getting older, I'm enjoying using those words more than your traditional

swear word.

Well, and, you know, it's funny because it's, when you look at the words that would be

at the top of this list, I think the most defensive, they, they, they contain the hard

K sound.

Yeah.

Which is not only one of the funnier sounds, it also is because it's so, you know, short

and, and it's, it's explosive.

That's part of what it is.

And that's why it works so well as a swear word as, you know, as part of a swear word

is that it's so abrupt and like, bam, you know, that kind of thing.

I find saying the word like you would say a traditional swear word also helps.

Yes.

Sort of a monkey.

Yeah.

You know, that kind of thing.

Yeah.

It's, it's a great.

Sugar plum fairy.

Yeah.

Right.

I'll go to, to be fair, if you use some of these, you get weird like, you might as well

just swear.

Yeah.

I mean, if you use some of the alternatives, it's just, wait, wait a minute, stop that.

What are you doing?

That's weird.

Stop being weird.

I can't.

I just physically can't.

God, I wish I could.

We will take a quick talk about, come back in a more morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown rating.

Thanks for joining us.

We're going to have some fun tomorrow.

We'll be back at this then.

Join us for the morning show tomorrow.

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Start your day.

Yeah.

For now, taking a look at some good things going on in our area and our schedule, when

I remind you that we got the rapid support for you daily, be sure to join us for that

at WFHR.com.

Mm-hmm.

Today, we're going to be joined by our great friends over at this torque point bus.

All right.

We're going to talk a little civil war days.

That's coming up on July 26th over there.

Very cool.

Very cool.

We're talking about that with the gang.

God, I love talking to those guys.

Yeah, I mean, I don't tell sage, but he didn't have to pay me for those.

Oh, my God.

I just love talking with them.

Nice.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We'll be doing that a little bit later.

We'll be looking forward to it.

And I'll be in action with Playmakers.

We speak sport.

Playmakers from 4 to 5 on 105, WIRI.

Join us for our live call in sports show that we're able to do thanks to quality plus

printing and family natural foods.

Very nice.

Director here in the studio's Michael Comer will be joining me today.

Nice.

Looking forward to that talk a little all-star game.

Some local sports rafters plenty more.

All right.

Speaking of the rafters, they are still in their all-star break.

They'll be back in action this Friday, just like MLB.

Mm-hmm.

We'll have more baseball then for you.

I know.

It's so weird not having any baseball right now, not rafters, not pageally baseball.

Oh, it's weird.

It's a middle of summer.

Where's the baseball?

To be old man yelling at cloud and give you a little preview of Playmakers a little bit

later.

Quick calling this a dead time in sports.

That happened.

That was 20 years ago.

Yeah.

That was 30 years ago.

Get out of here with that.

There is no dead time in sports anymore.

Every sport football, basketball, all of them, their transactions, all that.

It's going on 24 and seven.

There is no off time anymore.

We'll talk about that on Playmakers a little later.

That's right.

Nice.

Very good.

We'll get into that in plenty more.

Did want to remind everybody that motorists will encounter detour enclosures on Wisconsin

73 near Pitzville in Wood County from July 16th through July 17th at 4 o'clock from the

Wisconsin DOT.

All right.

Keep that in mind.

Everybody drive slow over there.

Look out for each other.

Look out for our workers over there.

Absolutely.

It is a Wednesday.

We all know what that means.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo at the outslod.

Everyone.

Yeah.

Door's open at five.

Bingo starts at 6.30.

Always fun time to support our elks and win some fun prizes as well.

Keep that one in mind, everyone.

Of course, at 4.30 West Jackson Street, the outslod number 6.93 support them in all

the support they do for our community.

Big shout out to them.

Big shout out to the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

They got the rendezvous in the park going on tonight.

Yeah.

Nekusa.

Shout out one of the most beautiful parks you'll ever see Riverside Park at 9.16 prospect

Avenue in Nekusa.

Going on today brought to us by Erko Worldwide and Dom Tower.

Shout out to them.

Shout out to chatterbox catering.

They're going to be down there.

Got a lot of chatterbox.

They're great.

And the entertainment for tonight, the shanty towners.

You know, I had to look them up because I was just so curious about them.

And they, they are like old tiny bluegrass kind of music acoustic good stuff.

It's a big group too.

They got a lot of folks and they're all really good.

So that sounds like a lot of fun.

Check it out, everybody.

That would have been great.

Yeah.

We'll take a quick look at Thursday events and this Thursday, it's so good to say this again.

Yes.

Yes, indeed.

Talking about the farmer's market, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry.

I didn't set you up well on that.

I just wanted to be sure.

I'd be sure.

Having the farmer's market.

It's always a classic.

I mean, go ahead and down there, everyone.

If you haven't been there in a long time, it's, it's, it's great.

There's so many vendors there.

There's so many people that I've seen there so far this year.

It is awesome there.

Of course, they're every Thursday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. through October 11th.

Just down there on First Avenue South, just along the beautiful Wisconsin River.

I can't tell you it's a, you know, a nice day.

Nothing better than getting down to the farmer's market in downtown Wisconsin.

Rapids.

Yeah.

Check that out, everybody.

We have a blood drive happening tomorrow.

They want to let you know about that.

I'll be going from 10 to three.

I'm sorry, on Friday.

That'll be on Friday.

Friday, okay?

Friday over at Mcmillan Library from 10 to three.

You can donate at Mcmillan at 490 East Grand Avenue right here in Rapids.

Nice.

Also lunch by the river going on tomorrow over at Vetsons Memorial Park.

Be sure to check that out.

I'm going to have Mac, Mac's, Ben's, Ben's, Ben, it's with, Ben's, yes.

And it's just sponsored by Tri-City Services.

This is going to have some great food down there.

Check out lunch by the river.

We'll talk more about that tomorrow.

Amazing.

Seth, one more thing we wanted to touch on.

Yes.

Coming up a week from today, everyone down at Crossview Church right after Heroes Cafe.

The Wood County Veterans Expo will be happening from 9 a.m. to noon.

Join the Toma VA Medical Center in the Wood County Veterans Service Office as they have

a whole bunch of groups there that offer services and benefits to veterans and their families.

It's a great way to catch up on all the stuff that's going on right now.

There's lots of changes everywhere and this is a good place to go to find out more about

that and find out all of these services and benefits that you deserve as veterans and

as family members who have helped them as they have served our country.

Also one of them mentioned, especially who talk about the Grand Rapids Lions Club, they're

going to be hosting the Wisconsin Robots Family Center's Touch of Truck event.

They're a fifth annual, it'll be going on July 26th, 11 to 3.

This is a free event for a family, bring everybody on down.

Not only is this really one of the bigger, if not the biggest fundraiser for the Wisconsin

Rapids Family Center, helping us do some vital work in this community, some of the most

vital work.

You come to this event, bring the kids, they're going to check out some of the, all the

big hitters are going to be down there.

We're going to have the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department, the Sheriff's Department, well

the fire department down there, all these cool trucks for the kids to check out.

Not just me, but the kids as well.

Not just you, James.

Not just you.

It's a very fun event.

I love this event.

Make plans to join us for the fifth annual, fifth annual Touch of Truck event, vehicles,

vault types, kids, games, food, raffle, and so much fun.

Free event for the family on July 26th, from 11 to 3, over to Grand Rapids Lions Club.

Nice.

And I do want to send a shout out to our Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo, and Helen's

Zoo House, it's a part of it, over at 1911 Gainer Avenue.

Just make plans next Wednesday, everybody, zoo's or coming to town.

They're back, every year.

They come around this time.

Yeah.

11 and at one, they will be over at Helen's Zoo House next week, on this week from today.

So just remind everybody about that.

Free event.

Make plans and head on over there and check that out, and head on over to WFHR.com and sign

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Yes.

A Delta employee gave a frequent flyer, one of her kidneys.

Wow.

Yeah.

The surgery happened in December, and they're both doing great.

Delta recently gave her an award for providing outstanding customer service.

Fair.

That's how you like to be the person that wins it after her.

Seriously.

I mean, that's not fair, man.

Like, give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Give it.

Once they got her off the cliff, a guy carried her down a path on his back.

An animal rescue place took her in, and she is in good health, nice, and it turned out

she was pregnant.

Oh, dear.

Of course.

They're accepting donations to help pay for everything.

You can go to Goat Fun Me campaign.

I love it.

I love that.

Oh, goodness.

The video and the people who went through this, them telling of the story is so moving,

man.

It's so, yeah.

Really?

You wouldn't think I went into it.

I'm sure.

I like goats.

That's right.

You get it.

You really get pulled into it.

It's really interesting.