Meet Pennywise the Kitty! (Hour 2)

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We've got some fun stuff lined up for you in this hour.

We're going to get in some entertainment news a little bit.

A little later, Seth and I are going to debate our, that's the debate, but go over the top

five things, old school dad, savers, things modern dance.

Maybe it'll be a debate, I don't know.

Hey, my turn to do.

All of that is coming up for you in a little bit, but right now it's a Thursday in the

10 o'clock hour.

You know what that means.

It is time for our pet of the week with the South of County of Maine Society, a big shout

out to Denise and the gang over there.

How are you doing, Denise?

I'm great.

Thanks.

Good morning to you all.

How are you?

Good morning, thank you.

All right.

Don't go over here.

How are things going over at shop?

Very, very good.

We are getting fuller by the day.

We're almost full up on dogs completely, and the kittens keep rolling into it, but it's

good.

Very good.

Really good to hear.

Yes.

Really good to hear.

And I know that you guys have a big event coming up.

We do.

Yeah.

Walk one event will be September 20 and registration will be going live today on our

website.

You'll be able to register through one cause, but you can get that link on our website.

And you know Denise, for anybody that doesn't, hasn't been a part of this event before

anything, can we just touch on what it is event, what people can expect and everything.

It's a fun one.

It is, it's held it like with each other, the walk is around the lake so it's more than

of 5K.

I think they were going to add a plus to it because it's about 4.1.

One miles, but it's a really relaxed, non-timed event.

You can bring your pets, there's food and music and all kinds of good stuff fun to be

had.

It really is.

We have a number of events similar to this in the area and one of the cool things I think

about them are for every, you know, person that wants to get ready for a marathon or something

like that.

You got people that are going to just walk and take it at their own pace and everybody's

there for such a good cause.

Absolutely.

The shelter and it's, we have raffle prizes, there are sponsorships available so if

you're looking for that sort of thing, look at our website.

Can that encourage you enough to check that out, everybody?

And Denise also wanted to remind everybody about things that you guys can use over there.

We always like to help out and we know, you know, different times of the year there are

different things that rise up a little bit more than others.

In the summer we're certainly always in need of, you know, any kind of cat food or kitten

food, things like that.

Yep, cat food, kitten food is high on the list right now.

We have a lot of kittens rolling in.

We just took in two more litters this week that are both at foster.

So any kind of adult cat food, any kind of kitten food, whether it be moist or dry, we

are in need.

And if you can help out, we greatly appreciate that, everybody keep that in mind.

We'll give you information how you reach out to the main society before we're all done

here today.

I also wanted to remind everybody that when it comes to certainly items that you can drop

off or pick up for the main society that helps, but also, you know, there are things you

could do around the shop, around the building that can help out as well or with the animals.

Yep, absolutely.

We take volunteers every day of the week, all seven days, even when we're not open, we

have volunteers scheduled for interested.

There is a link on our website to fill out the application and we have a whole new revamped

volunteer system.

Yeah, and I would, I'm glad you brought that up.

I wanted to comment on that.

I think that looks great and it's really wonderful to see and I know I've heard positive

things about that.

Thank you.

We want to make sure people are, they know what they're in for us and we want to make

sure that they're fully trained before they come on site and that everybody's happy

and willing to, you know, come back a second time.

I was looking and I always like to have kind of a fun story to bring into the conversation

with us and everything.

And so, of course, animal related usually or who main society related or something.

I could not decide between a dolphin that was rescued from a shallow lagoon in South Carolina.

Nice.

Again, a dolphin in South Carolina.

Anybody else just learning the dolphins can be in South Carolina because I didn't know that.

And a peacock captured that was on the loose in Pennsylvania.

So I bring this up in part because I talk about animals that are being made society.

But in both of these cases, the local humane societies were some of the first people called

and to help out, to help these people like, hey, there's a python, a little help, a little

help.

And people don't always know where to call and oftentimes they will call our humane societies

first.

Now, it's not always that the humane society can help or has the ability to, but they usually

know where to direct you or at the very least to be able to call our, you know, police

or the sheriff's departments or something like that or our hearing Wisconsin, you know,

the DNR or something.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I always call if you have a question or you're not sure of who might be involved in that

type rescue.

And we do have resources to give out.

And if we don't have resources for exotic rescue or wildlife rescue, we have the dispatched

number for woodconey and we recommend that they call them, but don't be afraid to call

us first.

We can help.

Appreciate that.

And again, we'll get to that information before we wrap up and escape sheep and organ.

Like, I mean, just that there's so many animals are on the loose, man.

We want to fight you, your new best friend, everybody, and that's where we bring in a pet

of the week every week.

Denise, who's our pet of the week?

A little kitty called Pennywise.

He was rescued from the storm drain a couple of weeks ago.

It made the new, the, uh, community news.

I get the name now.

Yep.

Storm drain.

Yes.

Well done.

Yes.

Very well done.

Our office coordinator happened to be on site when that happened and called, you know,

firing rescue.

They had to lift the grade up and what rescued this two-month-old little male cat.

He's a little afraid.

Um, I was going to bring him today, but he was not, not quite ready.

A little skittish.

But he's beautiful.

He's like a light orange gray color and just a little petite thing, but he's so friendly.

Once he breaks out of his shell a little bit.

Really appreciate the work done there and bringing this little guy home and stuff and

it's saving him.

I appreciate the work being done there.

And just as much of the creativity.

Absolutely.

The Billy.

Everything floats down.

Yeah.

There's so many lights we can go with.

A little guy.

A small one.

Very small.

But only two months old, still young.

So there is certainly, you know, a potty training and some of that that might still be in

the works.

Yes.

But also, that's also really good thing because he ain't going to get him this young and

he'll be able to train them.

Yes.

Exactly.

And cats are easier to potty train as most people know, you know, they're born with that

innate.

I have to go in the litter box like mom does.

Right.

But yeah, he's responding well.

He's doing really good.

He's been neutered.

Um, he's ready to go.

Um, at that age, are they able to be chipped yet?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

So in a certain age that where you have to wait till with an animal, I've been curious

about that.

And I keep forgetting that.

I think we wait until they're eight or 10 weeks, um, cats and dogs both.

Just want to make sure that they have enough skin back there to hold it and when they grow

it won't, you know, grow out.

Yeah.

But I'm not sure about that.

I will find out and let everybody know.

I know we wait for puppies and and kiddies till they make sense to get vaccinations and

then.

Appreciate it.

I appreciate you bringing us Pennywise.

Very, very.

Very acute face.

I guess that's a, that's a, a very cute cat.

It's a sweet little baby.

That's great coat too.

A classic orange is coat.

That's a great one.

A good, a good bra.

I haven't gotten one to bring to us.

And all kinds of other great animals over there.

Your new best friend is waiting for you over at the South of County Mane Society.

You can email them office at SWHS dot com.

Give them a call.

Seven one five four two three zero five zero five that is four two three zero five zero

five.

Reach out to them on their social media, Facebook page, um, share their posts in your

page.

So other people can see them.

And of course you can stop by at 3621 64 street north right here in Rapids, bookmarked

their web page SWCHS dot com.

Reach out to them find out more about Pennywise and other great ways and the great event coming

up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, you can register through the website like you said.

Nice.

So head on over there to do that.

We'll meet you over there for that great event coming up.

We'll be talking about it here on the morning show and stuff too and making sure you guys

get a good turn off for that one.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot for joining us.

We appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

Again, next Thursday.

We'll have another pet of the week for you then.

Everybody be listening for that right here at 975FMWFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you and diving

into some entertainment news before we do a big thank you to Denise, Pennywise for joining

us with Pet of the Week.

That's very cool.

That's a lot of fun.

Yep.

A quicker reminder to everybody out there when it comes to segments like that.

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It is a great thing and if you are looking to spend advertising dollars attaching yourself

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Reach out to Pam at our front desk.

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Go ahead and reach out to us and we'd love to have you a part of the team.

I thought this story segues perfectly from our pet of the week to talking about entertainment

and we're getting into the new Superman.

There is actors that steal the show all the time when it comes to these big budget movies.

It happens usually with side characters or a character that always has a funny line

or something like that.

Beck Bennett, a guy I really enjoy.

He had a good career at SNL and actually had a really nice commercial career going before

that.

He was doing those commercials with the little kids and stuff.

He's in the new Superman.

He had only a couple of lines here and there.

I actually don't know why they even went to the Daily Planet half the time.

They're like big name actors, like Wendell Pierce, who had like three lines, but it's

also maybe they're going to bring him back or so I don't know.

We don't know.

But if there is one universal thing coming out of the Superman movie, it did very well

and it's probably going to do pretty good in this second weekend and in part because

of crypto, this dog that is taking a lot that people are saying stole the show for a

lot of them.

And I will say I don't know if he stole the show for me, but I could not take my eyes off

of this dog.

Wow.

I have really enjoyed where animated movies, Pixar, Disney, where they've gone with a lot

of this stuff where they've kept some traditional animation that I love and you love.

Well also being able to use modern tech and just the amazement of it.

I think the movie was open season.

I can't remember which one of this.

There was a bear as one of the main characters and they're zooming in on the bear and he's

like lounging or something and you can see his fur moving with the wind.

Right.

It's incredible.

I don't know what was going on in that scene, but I had to rewind it just to watch

that again.

So I pay a lot of attention to these things and I was extremely curious of how this dog

was going to do in this movie in part because it's a digital dog.

It's not a real dog or anything.

It's just incredible.

Wow.

I have no words.

I've never seen an animal look more life like or more real life or more personality in

my life.

I've studied this for a while and I've never seen anything like it.

I would, if James Gunn was here, I would, I'd have to, I'd never like asking these questions.

I'd have to know how much you spent on that dog.

How much of that would be interesting to know?

How much of the budget was put into that dog and whatever it was, you got your money's

worth.

You got your money's worth, man, because it is incredible.

And not only that, but as James Gunn, a big part of why he won a crypto in the series and

all that is he is a big believer in fostering animals, one of his main causes.

He himself has a foster dog that he loves very much and he kind of mapped crypto by a

little bit.

When it came to the real life of animations of this dog, because it's one thing to make

the dogs fur look real.

It's his facial expressions and everything that make it look like it's a real dog.

It's incredible.

And I think one of the cool, as cool as all that is, as a movie nerd and all those things

to me, the coolest thing about all this and the coolest thing about the new Superman movie

is we have seen a 513 increase in dog adoptions.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because of the movie.

Wow.

I mean, you could say that maybe it's a coincidence that this happens right at the same

time, but because there's no direct data necessarily.

Of course not, right?

But I'm not a person that believes in coincidence.

Well, it's one of those things.

It's very telling, one way or the other that it just seems right.

It feels like it could be.

And they're seeing, obviously, this is a huge increase in Google searches and adoptions.

There was also 163% increase in rescue dog adoptions near me and the good people looking

for that.

Wow.

And 290% increase in adopting a shouser.

Shouser.

Crypto is a mut.

But they share some residents to a schnauzer.

Okay.

There you go.

He was created by CGI, but was model after director James Gunn's own dog, Uzo.

Gunn heard about the surge in dog adoption, interested and said, quote, the film has been

a barrage of blessings for me.

This one may be the greatest.

Uzo has no idea how this is happening, but he is very proud.

Like I put that down.

He's got, he's a dog.

He doesn't care.

He has no idea.

He really doesn't.

He came for me.

O-Z-U.

Okay.

James Gunn is such a film nerd.

That's the famous Japanese director, Ozo.

Yes.

Oh, I love it.

I love the fact that he named his dog that.

It's so inside.

It's so inside.

It's so inside.

I wasn't going to ramble about it if anybody didn't know out there, but I appreciate

you getting bring it up because I couldn't have put it in the like the cliff notes like

you just did.

Yeah, right.

I'd be rambling about it.

I just love the story.

I think it's very cool.

It's very cool.

Man, sometimes that's all you need.

That little push.

Wow, it's amazing.

You know, there is certainly the other side of this.

We don't want the reason I am proud of this story.

You could look at it as, well, we don't want people just adopting an animal when they're

not thinking it through.

All right.

And they're just, you know, I never liked the idea of buying a, you know, a significant

other or your love interest in animal, like you got to talk these things through.

Right.

You got to figure this out.

So, hey, they've been wanting a cat for 10 years.

Okay, you know, you feel pretty confident that this person is ready to have an animal

or you've talked it out with them.

Animals are not objects.

They're not, they're not closed and that seat, you know, music or anything like that.

Don't have flowers to hand over.

Here's our living breathing things that deserve that respect.

And there are responsibility, you know, big responsibility, yeah, a lot of time and resources.

What I'm proud of about this story is not only that that this is happening and all that

is that I feel very confident that a humane society, wherever people are getting them

or their animals, most can be humane societies, if not all of them, are not going to adopt

an animal to a family that cannot handle it, that is not ready for it or is not right

to the right fit.

I don't know what, you know, if you've never been to a humane society or worked at one

like I have or anything like that, how much people know, how much is common knowledge.

But for as long as I know and we're talking 20 some years, that's always been the case.

They're not just, hey, anybody want an animal?

No, no, no, no, it's got to be the right fit and the right animal for the right home.

Right.

So that knowledge along with this makes me feel pretty darn good for our humane societies

and shelters.

Yep.

And well done, Mr. Gunn.

Mm-hmm.

And who's though?

And who's though?

Ozzy Osborne and Black Sabbath had their final show back to the beginning.

We touched on this a little bit the other day.

It's set a new record for the highest grossing charity concert of all time.

Seriously?

That's some pretty big catalysts.

Really?

We got the list here.

It raised over 190 million, 140 million British pounds.

The funds will be distributed to evenly to three charities, bringing Birmingham's children's

hospital, eight corn children's hospital, and cure Parkinson's, which Ozzy is of course

struggling with right now, yeah.

So here's the list, but just stepping up like just that alone right there because Ozzy,

I don't know if we talked about it enough.

I don't know if enough people know about this.

This wasn't an ego that wanted to be adored by fans one last time.

The only reason Ozzy agreed to this, and from many members of Black Sabbath agreed

to it, is if everything 100% goes to charity.

Gotcha.

Which I was not aware of.

I was not aware, and I guess that maybe they didn't publicize that enough, or I just missed

it.

Yeah, that's not his, he doesn't, I mean, for those that don't know, Ozzy Osborne's

done a ton of things for charity throughout his life.

I mean, we're talking even crazy, Ozzy, back in the day, Ozzy, he's always done this.

He's done a lot of work with a lot of, usually things that involve helping kids, you know,

hungry kids, a lot of those things, like he was when he was little, like Sharon was when

she was little, right?

So, but this guy, this is not the first time he's done this, he's done this this whole

career.

He's done a lot about animals and raising funds for animals, especially after the bad

incident where he immediately was trying to be like, hey, I love animals and trying

to get out of the other side of that.

The supposed incident that never really happened.

Yeah, they never happened, of course.

But so I think that's not worthy, too.

But here is the list of the high-scrocing charity concerts of all time.

Again, back to the beginning, $2,590 million.

Then the very next one, America, Tripite Heroes from 2129 million.

Okay, right, yep.

So you're going, I mean, that's, that's a pretty big difference.

That's a big job, still.

It's 27 years, yeah.

My raid in 2025 raised $100 million, live aid, of course, back in 85.

We're talking a lot about that right now, raised just about approximately $100 million.

Yes.

Farming.

No, I just agree with what I'm going to do.

Is this adjusted for, is this adjusted for inflation or not?

I don't know.

Yeah, yeah.

They don't always are clear about that on this, but anyway.

You could find the article at billboard.com to be fair, I read the article, but I didn't

read it twice.

And I usually type to read things twice because I have dyslexia and I don't have a very

good brain.

But live aid was, you know, certainly noteworthy.

One of the more famous ones in 1985, yeah, it's remarkable.

Yeah.

And I believe they just had the anniversary of the documentary on it and everything.

Farming.

That's been going on since 1985, that's raised over 80 million.

Yes.

Or it's long career.

That's still impressive.

Yeah.

Always, always like to shout out Farming every year when they do that.

Yeah.

A big thank you to that.

Hope for Haiti back in 2010, raised 57 million.

I remember that.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was a good one.

Yeah.

It was a concert for Bangladesh in 1971, George Harrison.

Famously.

George Famously.

Yeah, George Harrison did that one.

12 million.

Yeah.

12 million.

1971, man.

That's a pretty decent amount of money.

Yeah.

And one love Manchester from 2017, 12 million for that one, and I apologize, I do not

remember that one.

Yeah.

I don't either.

It was, it was in response to something, but I can't remember what it was off the top

of my head.

Yeah.

So it was a benefit constant organized by Aaron Agrande in response to the Manchester Arena

bombing.

Now, okay, now that they just ring about, yeah.

Now I get it.

No, interesting.

Yeah.

Interesting and great work again by Ozzy and the boys for that one.

That's very cool.

I'm glad you brought that up because I didn't know that's really nice.

And here is another one going on the other side of people spending their money in positive

ways.

Here's the other side of that.

People just wasting their money.

Okay.

To me, my opinion, it's your money you do what you want with it.

Right.

The most expensive piece of movie, movie memorabilia just sold for 14.75 million.

Good Lord.

I don't even know if I want to know what it is, but I do.

So it's, it's one of the original wooden Rosebud sleds from Orson Wells 1941 masterpiece

Citizen Kane.

Okay.

Wow.

And I guess that kind of makes sense.

Although it's hard to say that sentence when I just said 14.75 million for a sled.

It wasn't even a real sled.

Yeah.

It was a prop.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it wasn't even the only one.

Yeah.

There was several, right?

Yeah.

Like in every movie.

Yeah.

Like if I'm spending that kind of money, not only does it have to be the only one, I want

to be able to sled on it.

I want to be able to do things with it.

I've got to have more uses.

You know what I want?

I want Orson Wells to be alive so he can comment on it.

Yeah.

That's what I want.

I would love to hear what he would have said to say about that.

I'm going to need a lot more bang for my buck on this one.

Mr. Joe Dante has had it since 1984 and it was given to him when he was making explorers

because the Paramount lot was being cleared out and he was he was a vented fan.

He was a fan of vented stuff.

They were just going to get rid of it.

I like home.

I like Joe Dante a lot.

Yeah.

He's good.

He says quote, I've had the honor of protecting this piece of cinematic history for decades

to see Rosebud find a new home and make history in the process is both surreal and deeply

gratifying.

And make me 14.

Yeah.

It's a testament to the enduring power of storytelling.

Dante had it.

He stuck it next to it.

Gremlins II and the Burbs memorabilia that he had.

Oh gosh.

Wow.

The Burbs is an underrated Spielberg movement.

That is not bad.

Yeah.

I like that one.

Also Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks was in that.

Yes.

Also, he also owns one of the, oh no, Steven Spielberg also owns one of the sleds.

Oh, okay.

He bought it in 1982 for 60 grand.

Morgan.

Yes.

Yes.

Morgan Steven.

Nice.

The most expensive piece of movie memorabilia is a pair of Ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland

and Wizard of Oz.

Right.

32.5 million.

Sanity.

Insanity.

I mean.

Yeah.

I don't know.

We can make fun of people who buy that.

I don't care what you say.

We're going to make fun of you.

Yeah.

I just, again, you know, you're, you're, you're listening to two people that are love,

love movies.

Love movies.

Okay.

If you gave us, look at what happens to you to give us a little bit of a window to talk

movie.

Yeah.

We just slip it right in there.

Yeah.

We jump into this stuff.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That's ridiculous.

Yeah.

I think your money would much better.

We spent at local theater.

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Got an interesting one here, Seth.

All right.

Wanting to get into.

This actually came about around Father's Day around that time.

They're kind of been hanging on to it.

And we had a chance to really kind of have some fun with this one.

So is your dad old school or new school?

Is he hip or modern?

Is he any of these things?

We have the top five things.

Old school dads say, verse, things modern dads say.

And I think that this could be an interesting list.

I did not pre-read this.

Oh, okay.

And I do think journalistically we should mention that we are both dads.

Yes.

So we are confirmed experts then in this.

You can trust what we have to say, right?

And if there is any opportunity to make a pun, we will make it.

Probably.

You better believe it.

Old school dads.

I'm not your chauffeur.

Modern dads.

I'm not your Uber.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

I mean, you could use both.

They both are fair.

But I think more kids would understand what an Uber is at this point.

I just want to hear my father say Uber.

Uber.

Uber.

What?

How come it was never, I'm not your cabbie.

Yeah.

You're taxi driver.

How come it was never that?

Yeah, yeah.

That's what I want to know.

I'm guessing most of the dads that said I'm not your chauffeur.

Sure.

I never would have had a chauffeur.

No, no, they wouldn't.

Yeah.

Old school dads.

Ready to rock and roll.

Modern dads.

Ready to K-pop.

Oh, come on now.

No one says that.

No one says that.

They say that.

Nobody is saying that.

Pop it on here.

Hi.

I'm hungry.

Oh, hi, hungry.

I'm dad.

Yep.

Yeah.

Modern dads.

Hi.

I'm dad.

Yeah.

They just did not even do it on the job.

They're not even doing it.

No, my dad.

Famous.

Famous for that.

You say, I'm thirsty.

You know.

But he would shorten it.

So he would say, hi, thirst.

I'm Dean.

Kind of thing.

Nice.

My dad would say if I said I was or me or my brother's sister and say I'm hungry.

He'd say, no, you're Italian.

That's a nice variation on that.

I like that.

I like that one.

Yeah.

That was a bad.

Here's an interesting one.

Don't use that tone with me.

Modern.

Oh, you know, old school dad.

Yeah, old school dad.

I use that tone with me.

Modern dads.

Have you eaten?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Little hangry are you.

I don't know.

I like that.

I like that.

Actually, I might start using that one.

Because I think that's.

That would come in handy in my house.

I think that would be a very good one.

Old school dads.

If someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

Modern dads.

If you saw someone on TikTok doing that, would you do this?

Yeah.

Jumping off a cliff on TikTok.

I just hope there isn't that actually now that I think about it.

Don't know, no TikTok people jumping off cliffs, all right?

I called it.

Old school dads.

Ask your mom.

Modern dads.

Ask your mom.

That would never change.

Are you kidding me?

No.

Never, ever.

My dad, you know, I joke a lot about him often times and everything.

But he actually, I always thought he was very smart guy and insightful guy.

And one of the things that I didn't realize as a kid that he was so masterful at, he knew

if we were asking him for anything, Dad, can we go to the park?

Dad, can we do this or whatever?

We had already asked my mom and she had said no.

Because we always went to her first.

So if we were coming to him, it was the last ditch effort.

And he was never, ever going to go against her.

No.

Is that what your mother's saying?

It's always the first question, yeah.

Always his response.

And as you sheepishly shuffle away, right?

And I think most kids, let's all give ourselves a little bit of credit as a kid to have the

smarts to realize that, okay, if we lie here, they're going to connect pretty quick on this.

So they're going to catch me in the lie pretty quick.

So at least not lie about that.

No, usually, usually.

The triangulation is something you learn early as a child to try to, it never works.

I mean, so you can try it though.

My poor mom and dad had to learn real quick that they had to be awfully literal with me.

Because if there was any sliver of wiggle room, I was going to find them.

You've heard this show.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

He's very good at that.

Yeah.

My mom and dad deserve a day.

Like just a day after, like named after them.

There you go.

Some of them are st-hoods in their future.

Yes, yes.

Right, old-school dads, rub some dirt on it.

Monodeds, take some atty-roll.

Oh, come on.

No, not I'm not even that much of a kid.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Low hanging fruit.

I do actually think that that's one that probably hasn't changed.

No.

It's better like the original was to rub some tobacco juice on it.

It's just gross.

No, no, no, no.

We're not going to do that one.

We'll just say dirt instead.

So old-school dads, I'm not sleeping.

I'm just resting my eyes.

That's me.

Modern dads.

Oh, I'm not sleeping.

I'm just resting my eyes.

Yeah, certain things don't change.

Although, no, actually, I don't use any of those anymore.

When I'm napping, it's just, no, I'm taking a nap here.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And old-school dads.

What do you call that?

You call that racquet music?

Modern dads.

You call that racquet music?

That is never going to change.

No.

Never, ever going to change.

And I think a big part of this article that is here,

you can find that Google has it on their website and stuff.

As much as things change, they stay the same.

They stay the same.

You can change like updated a little bit, you know,

to something a little more modern or more hip or whatever

that they would understand.

But it's basically the same thing.

There's not a big change on that.

That and we haven't gotten around to updating the handbook.

You know, we're just still kind of leading in.

Why would we do that?

I don't think the father's handbook hasn't been updated since 51-52,

so about that.

Yeah, 15-51, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I should've been more accurate about that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have dads always been this way?

I don't know.

It seems that way.

I don't know.

We like to save towards the end of this show, good stories of the day.

And of course, before that, give you a that ain't right story.

You can decide yourselves if this is one of those.

Usually when people talk about Vegas card sharks,

it's to a reference to gambling on hardcore games like poker.

But some people are also really sneaking good at Uno.

What?

Palms Casino Resort just opened the first ever Uno Social Club in Vegas.

It sounds like it's a temporary thing for select groups of Uno enthusiasts,

featuring tons of Uno gaming, food, and drinks,

as well as game-inspired decor, and a lot of that.

According to Mattel, which owns Uno,

more of these temporary suites are expected to open across the US later this year.

And it sounds like it's mostly a stunt made for social media hype,

so they're not bringing full-on Uno gaming tables to actual casino floors yet.

This is a test market thing.

They're going to see if they want to do that.

Yeah, absolutely.

And you know, I don't like the idea of cigarettes selling to kids.

That's a horrible thing.

And we corrected that a long time ago,

long before you and I were even born Seth.

But if I am the tobacco industry right now, I'm like,

Hey!

Hey!

What's, wait a minute!

What are you doing?

If Uno turns into a successful gambling game,

and you have little kids growing up playing weight-drog,

it's like the definition of it.

And this isn't me making some big leaps and bounds or anything like that.

This is 1A to 1B here.

You're right.

That's pretty nasty to me.

I'm sorry.

That is a little...

You know, I love the Uno game.

I love playing Uno growing up.

Oh, it's still.

Am I kids?

It's one of those games that has passed down from family.

Yeah, I don't want to necessarily get twisted.

I love the game moves.

Yeah, right.

I just don't like what they're doing with the game.

No, and I, first of all, how would you...

I don't know how the mechanics of gambling have talked to you about that offer.

How would they even figure that out?

I don't know how that would look.

Yeah, and they don't give you anything in the article here.

It doesn't look like from their social media.

They're telling you anything either.

I will say if you're an Uno fan, I mean, it looks like a fun place,

but Uno, look, adults play it all you want.

This is a kids game.

It is, yeah.

Yeah, sure.

This social club, quote-a-quote social club, is not for kids.

It's not.

It's for people who still like the game.

So here's a kind of a tangentially related question, James.

Which one is worse?

Which game has the worst fights involved?

Is it Uno or is it Monopoly?

I will say for me and my family, it's not even close Monopoly.

Oh, really?

That's the one I was always curious about, because I know in my family,

Uno can raise more arguments than Monopoly does.

I think for my cousin would say that about her family,

that Uno was the one and their family didn't that.

And that's wild to me, though, because I feel like Uno is such a,

you know, there's not a lot of wiggle room in that game.

Right.

You know, Monopoly, you're bartering with, you know,

my dad's bartering with me, Jim, you don't charge me rent on this one,

just because I landed on your property.

Like, Dan, I got it.

That's how the game is.

It's part of the rules, man.

Come on, let me, I'll get you back on the next set.

As soon as I pass, go, I got 204.

You're right here.

More people need to play it like that.

Or we need a version of just your dad's version.

That's what we need.

Bro, I thought that that's how you played Monopoly.

Until I'm at a girl, I'm at a girl's house playing with her family.

And I'm sitting there trying to do these things.

And they're just thinking, what are you doing?

Yeah.

What are you, you can't trade it.

There's no, there's a bartering.

What?

Really? You can't?

That's why I've always played it.

What?

I'm actually turning red cheek just thinking about it.

That's how bears they still have for that.

My father, my father.

Oh, how serious.

How serious.

How serious.

Yeah.

I learned that the hard way, man.

Oh, boy.

Hey, I'm going to kind of follow this story.

I want to see where this goes.

Yes.

I'll see.

Uno.

We will take a quick commercial break.

Come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

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We hope you're having a great, great Thursday out there.

Happy Friday Eve, everyone.

Yeah.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We're going to get to the top of the hour.

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We got a couple of great guests joining us.

You can catch over there at WFHR.com.

In part one, UW Extension's Matt Lipper.

We're going to join us our ag agent over there.

Always an interesting conversation with Matt.

He's got some good stuff.

Yeah.

Always love talking with Matt.

That's going to be a fun conversation.

We'll have a little bit later.

And after that, we're going to talk to the gang over at Visit Rome.

Jillian's going to join us.

Oh, right.

That was fun.

Yes.

We love hanging out with our friends in Rome and talking about things.

How are it going on over there?

I usually pick Jillian's brain like I did before in the interview.

And catching up on things we talked about last month and stuff.

Right.

I want to find out how the 4th of July went.

Oh, yeah.

Everything over there.

We'll talk with Jill a little bit later.

We also, of course, have our rafters.

It's still in their all-star breaks and a rafter baseball for you tonight.

But they're back in action tomorrow.

Yes, they're back.

And here, I believe they're in town too, right?

They're home this weekend, yeah.

Yeah.

We will be your tailgate for that on Playmakers tomorrow.

Join us from 4 to 5.

We'll be here.

I'll either have Michael or Seth make them do the show with me.

Now, they draw straws.

And whoever draws the shortest straw, they're going to do the show with me.

No, I'm Michael as a sports director.

I think he should do it now.

We look forward to hanging out.

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Yeah.

Join us tomorrow from 4 to 5 for that.

And then rafter baseball right here in 97-5 FM 620 rafters hosting Madison.

Nice.

Also, some other things going on.

Like, of course, the biggest water ski show tournament in the world.

Right now.

Yes.

Just started today.

It's so exciting.

The community.

You know, we're going to have a lot of people come into town, treat them good.

Make them want to come back next year into for other events.

This, of course, is the biggest water ski show tournament, the 59th annual water ski show tournament.

Wow.

Check it out.

It's doing it for so long.

That's great.

Yeah.

It's a really fun one, too.

So many memories being a kid going over and checking that out and everything.

This is going on today through the 20th over at RedSans Beach in Lake Wazeecho.

Check out this great event and you can find out more, of course, online about it.

We only talk about it so much because they don't use us as an advertise.

That's right.

That's just the way this works, everybody.

You guys, you grow all the adults out there.

You know how this happens.

It's a big community event.

So that's why we talk about it.

And it's very important to the area.

Yeah.

That's why we do it.

Also want to remind you about partial closures over at Lake Wazeecho.

Keep that in mind.

That is effective at 6 o'clock this morning going until 9 o'clock on July 20th.

So be smart out there where you're boating, swimming, waiting, fishing, any of the above.

They have all the areas posted that you, that you, that are restricted.

So make sure you look, be on the lookout for those signs.

Yeah.

No excuses.

No, really.

No, you can't.

We have some other things going on in the area, Seth.

Why?

We do.

In fact, today coming up in about a half an hour or so.

Yeah.

We've got lunch by the river starting down at Veterans Park in downtown Wisconsin Rapids.

It's every Thursday from 11.30 to 1 p.m.

Put on by our good friends at the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

Today they have, of course, a fantastic food truck.

You never know who's going to be there to spring your appetite and a few bucks.

And you'll have a fantastic lunch.

And tonight, or today, the entertainment is Max Bennett's will be there.

So check out Max and enjoy his, what he has to offer.

The exclusive, I love this because one of the exclusive sponsors is one of our good sponsors here.

Try City Services, of course.

They do a lot of work with us.

In fact, we're going to be there next week doing a remote from WIRI.

Ooh, we'll talk about that more next week though.

Yes.

Of course, another good friend of ours, another sponsor of ours, the Royal Flush sponsor, Crock Acceptic,

proud sponsors of the Rapids report as well.

So we love to support them.

If you're going to be in the lacrosse area this weekend or if you just like trains,

they've got a fantastic, this is the annual 4,000 foundation rail fare.

This is a 33rd annual.

It's from a 10 to 4 tomorrow, excuse me on Saturday at Copeland Park on Rose and Clinton streets in lacrosse.

They've been doing this since 1991.

There's going to be over 250 tables of railroad-related merchandise.

Wow.

250.

That's a, you know, we talk about this usually every year when they do this.

Yeah.

And that seems like a real upswing event.

Yeah.

Like they got more this year.