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Who Asked For This? (Hour 1)

Mornings with WFHR · Thu Jul 17, 2025

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at 975FMWFHR.

Your host, James here with you joined by our head up production, our co-hosts, Seth

Hatfagger.

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

We've got a bunch of fun things to kick things off, but really the best thing to kick

things off is talking a little mother nature with a good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Sunshine out there.

Woo!

Sunshine, Brett.

Well, finally, after a while, what a day yesterday.

You really do sound relieved.

You actually do sound a little relieved about that.

No, yes.

I'm so excited for a fall feel.

It feels like fall outside this morning, actually even yesterday, it started to feel

like it.

Temperature is not climbing too much whatsoever.

We're only going to hit the low to mid-70s.

It's going to be sunny.

It's going to be gorgeous.

It's going to be calm.

The wind's barely moving.

Nothing to worry about.

Finally.

That's it is wonderful.

It's nice to know.

And you were telling us about this.

You told us this was coming in here.

It is finally.

Yep.

You know, it's like, you see these things happening and you know it's going to happen,

but you still have that gut feeling or that hope that it doesn't.

It's a weird thing because I'm forecasting to try to be right, but I want to be wrong.

And then when you are right and that such devastation happens, I mean, seven tornadoes

possibly touched down yesterday, it's scary.

It's a little too exciting.

Yeah.

It gives a little bit of a chance for that recovery checking in on people.

We're certainly thinking for everybody affected by the weather.

Yeah.

There's to that because it's a lot when these storms hit and everything just changes right

afterwards.

I mean, even by us, we were seeing 40 to 50 mile power gusts, knocking trees down in

power outages, but there were 60 mile power gusts clocked.

I mean, we were seeing over an inch and a half of rain coming down in one hour.

And then almost different tornadoes too.

I mean, all at one time, it was a lot.

Yeah.

And appreciate the coverage from you, Brittany.

And being able to keep us informed on that so we can think about those, those out there.

And when we have family or friends, I know that there's, I think it was the last year

at some point, something similar this time of year.

And it was near in the Madison area where my sister is.

It was really helpful for people, you know, to just know that kind of stuff.

And like, you know, people with family down that way and everything.

Absolutely.

And the kind souls too that don't have anything going on this weekend.

You know, a lot of people go down and help clean up and do things that they can.

I love how Wisconsin and the communities just become one.

It is beautiful to see each other helping each other and stuff.

So we've got good weather today.

We've got good weather tomorrow.

It does look like some rain and showers and storms want to swing back overnight, Friday

night and into our Saturday.

None will be severe.

Good news, right?

Good news.

Anything bad.

You are good to go through the weekend.

It's really good to hear.

You know, Brittany, if I seem a little off, we had a little bit of an interaction here

while you were talking and it didn't run in a rut, especially with the important things

that you were touching on there.

Rain brings out spiders, doesn't it?

Is that stereotypical?

I don't know if it's true or not, because we had a spider.

Yeah.

Well, just as we were talking, when we just started and everything, one just came like

right directly down by self and I did dodge out of the way.

So I'm not afraid of spiders, but it's one of those things where you catch movement out

of the corner of your eye.

It's like, whoa.

It freaks out.

Yeah.

When you're busy trying to talk and we're all locked in what you're saying, Brittany.

I got to say that that's quite a repelling feat by that spider.

It landed on the floor and just kind of scurried away.

So it was like, wow, that's pretty impressive.

I think to me, I think that spiders have huge egos.

They don't care.

They don't care when else is going on.

They're doing their thing.

Like, you guys do a radio show?

That's nice.

I was here first.

Yeah.

Get out of here.

I would like to say something.

Yeah.

Well, I didn't even think about that.

I'd never seen that as the spider.

Interviewed a spider before now.

I never interviewed a spider.

That's a good one.

Why does everyone hate us?

Yeah.

Do you go through a lot of shoes?

Yeah.

I need to prep for that.

Oh, boy.

I need to prep for that.

Thank you, Brittany, for putting up with us.

We appreciate you.

We'd more importantly appreciate all the coverage.

Thank you.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Anytime.

Have a good morning.

You too.

That's in the business right now.

And we're going to be joining us every morning right in this time slot.

Seth and I got good things lined up for you.

Elcafe, birthday and anniversary club is right around the corner.

We're also going to get on to national tattoo day.

Talk about the huge back piece Seth has.

Yeah.

That's not that's right.

That's funny.

Anyone who knows me.

Yeah.

Big, uh, big mystery size theater, uh, back pieces.

You know, if I were to get one, we would totally be the silhouettes.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

100%.

Yes.

I was picturing it.

Yeah.

Uh, we got a couple of other fun ones we'll get into.

Uh, there is an interesting casino I want to talk about.

Uh, we were getting to that.

We got, uh, the 10 o'clock hour kicking off the way we like to on Thursdays.

With our pet of the week in the South of County Main Society.

Yes.

Really, uh, really happy about that.

We got to actually story to go along with that, uh, along with that segment.

Then I think people will find interesting.

Uh, we'll get into all that.

We got some entertainment news.

Um, Ozzy Osborne's final show.

We're going to touch on that one.

Um, some of the, uh, the information in the data that's coming from that event.

I think it's really interesting.

Oh, okay.

The second most, and we also have an separate story.

The second most expensive piece of movie memorabilia has sold.

It's the highest ever and we're going to get into what that was.

Wow.

Okay.

What item that specifically was.

That's such an interesting thing.

Yeah.

I want to talk some local theater.

Uh, we'll get into that.

And of course, it's a Thursday.

That means that at noon, you're going to have a new edition of the WFHR newsletter showing up in your email box.

Yeah.

And then before we wrap up, five, uh, the top five things, old school dads say, and versus modern dads.

We will discuss.

Okay.

All right.

We'll get into our schedule.

Some good stories of the day and are plenty of other great things going on in the area here.

Not only today, Thursday and Friday.

Well, we got a busy weekend in town.

Yeah.

So now you're going to tackle some of those events.

Yeah.

No kidding or as well.

But we begin where a lot of our listeners are in your car and vehicles.

Uh, if you are trying to drive your car into the ground, you're not alone.

A new poll found 48% of car owners are planning to keep their current car until it literally will, will not run any.

You can make that 49% because I'm on that.

Yep.

Me too.

I started the year getting excited about a new vehicle.

Okay.

Uh, I will tell you now it is about just, uh, you know, well, what, where's the band-aids?

Any more band-aids?

Uh, just hanging on, just hanging on.

I love my Jeep.

But yes.

Bailing wire and spit.

Yeah.

90% 90% people said that at least they have found a fondness for their car.

Oh, okay.

So only 10% of us don't like it.

It's just more so we know that we don't have much longer with these things.

40% said that they love their car.

Uh, as opposed to 10% that said they hate their car.

Okay.

Or hate driving their car.

I don't know the difference of hating your car and hating driving your car.

I don't know why there's a separation there.

That's a good question.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

What do you want to put that all about?

The poll also found the average car has seen 11 major life milestones.

Really?

Yeah.

And this is where I really wanted to get to.

Okay.

Uh, that includes things like epic road trips, first dates, teaching your kid to drive,

dropping them off at college, moving to a new city, and rushing to the hospital to give birth.

Mm-hmm.

There you go.

Uh, wow.

Those are all really, really wild.

Yeah.

And I hadn't thought about that, but that's very true.

Yeah.

And I do have a tie-in.

Oh, you do?

Okay.

More and more to me, importantly, I want to hear from you and I want to hear from the audience

about memories or great milestones or anything of the above that you remember with your car.

I do remember when my family moved out here and my mom and dad came, uh, finally came

up to live.

We went to a drive-in and it was the first time I'd ever been to a drive-in movie theater

and it was one of the do-that.

We saw Gremlins, too, I think.

Oh, wow.

Like, because I'm old, um, and yeah, yeah, remember that.

But I think my biggest memory about it, um, and I was in a lot of accidents as a kid.

I'm putting all that aside.

But really, when I think of good memories, one of my best memories about a car is not

having one.

Um, on this day, in 2000, my youngest daughter was born, isn't it?

That's right.

At the time, her mom, who is a warrior, uh, and shout out to my ex, um, and she's amazing.

Uh, so she decides she's going to go to the hospital.

It's over at Riverview right here in town.

And, you know, just, uh, she doesn't, uh, something doesn't feel the greatest, but she doesn't

think much of this.

She's just going to go over there.

She gets there.

Her water immediately breaks.

Oh, boy.

I'm back at the apartment with our one-year-old, my, my son, and, uh, JC and I are just hanging

out and everything.

And Mandy calls up, and as calm as a human being can be, uh, yeah, my water broke, uh,

it's happening.

Yep.

Uh, you're going to get over here.

Well, we don't have a car.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We have a car, but she has it with the car seat in it.

Oh.

Oh, I'm at the apartment with the, with the nice, uh, no, we don't know how to get the,

I got to get to the hospital.

My daughter's going to be bored of everything.

You know, I got to get there, uh, so we'll finally eventually, uh, a shout out to my

friend Spencer, uh, picks us up.

We get over there.

As I'm getting through the door, I hear her holler.

I hear her scream and it's music that I can still hear to this day, 25 years late, um,

and I, and I get in there, well, it turns out, is he wasn't breathing right away.

That was her first breath.

Oh, wow.

Uh, good timing.

Got to cut the cord.

Yeah.

And I've been trying to make up that 20, 30 seconds to her ever since, um, but it's

actually, that's the first thing I think of when I, when I saw this article, and I was

thinking of, and granted to answer birthday.

So that's part of it, um, but I, that's a milestone.

Yeah.

Without a car, without a car, kind of, but do you have any, do you remember specifically

from a vehicle or anything like that or anything you're looking forward to with the boys

or something like that?

No, I, I don't get sentimental over vehicles.

I have to say that because, yeah, right.

I, I'm not a person who names cars or anything.

And, and maybe it's because, and maybe it's a little weird on, uh, I'm a little weird

on my part, but, um, I, I, I think that's more, um, more than normal.

I, I have the feeling that at some point, your car will betray you.

Yeah.

Which is true.

I mean, at some point, it's going to break down or something.

Some battle happened.

And so that's why I try not to get close to my vehicles because it's like, oh, I know

what you're thinking.

I know you're planning something going to ruin my day.

Do you have a road trip that stands out or something like that?

Yeah.

You know, we did a couple of those when I was a kid.

Um, I think what probably the one that stands out the most is the one we went on the

West Coast.

We literally drove from, uh, Minnesota, you know, with Eastern part of Minnesota, uh,

where I'm from all the way out to the coast to Seattle, uh, where it was the, the, uh,

the, uh, the ultimate point where we got to man, am I jealous of that?

That's like a two week trip driving, you know, through the mountains, visiting friends

and my, my parents had when they lived out in Idaho kind of thing and, uh, and I still

have very vivid memories about so much of that trip.

It was like, I think in 1989, so I would have been like 11 years old, I think, um, but

that was, yeah, for sure that one stands out because that was, and I've never really been

out that way, you know, even when I lived in North Dakota, I haven't been out that way

since then.

That part of the country, that Western coast of the country, which I love to go back

because I've, you know, there's a lot of great stuff out there too.

But, uh, for me, that does absolutely is, is in my mind.

I want to hear from people about your favorite car memories or just a milestones that happen

in the vehicle, whether you intended it to or not.

Right.

Um, I, uh, I think that also another good, uh, one for this, uh, your, your favorite road

trips are a different place to road trip.

Yeah.

I think that would be a good one.

Uh, let's hear from the audience about that.

715-424-2600.

Of course, you're just a touch or two weight from this, with the Civic Media app.

Mm-hmm.

Go ahead and hit us up.

Just a quick look at a, a couple of things here, according to AAA, the most popular

place to road trip is anything off Route 66.

That makes sense.

The Pacific Coast Highway and Blue Ridge Parkway are some of the more popular areas to road

trip or road trip through at least.

Those are some pretty, yeah, some great scenery out there.

Um, those are great.

Mm-hmm.

And as far as what we're driving when we're doing it, uh, the, uh, the state of car sales

in America, the most popular cars because going back to where we kind of started with

this a little bit, um, there are not a lot of people buying new cars.

New vehicles right now.

No.

Uh, there are just, yeah.

Which makes sense.

Yeah.

And, and it's, and unless you think it's just, uh, those of us that work, uh, you know,

in like radio and blue collar or something like that, this is all over.

Mm-hmm.

Um, people are, are making their vehicles last even when they can afford it or something.

Right.

They're not doing that.

Uh, but looking at just the overall list here, of course, there's different data for

different things that Toyota RAV4 is the, uh, top one, uh, selling, selling SUV in

the US.

Okay.

Um, the track's, uh, it makes it stay view in the top five for the first time.

Okay.

Um, the Ford F-150, uh, once again, the top sold model in the US.

Okay.

Hawaii is the only state in the US preferring the Toyota Tacoma, really, but otherwise

Toyota sold the most vehicles in 2024, followed by Ford, Chevy, Honda, and Hyundai.

Okay.

And in, uh, Wisconsin, the Chevy Silverado is the number one vehicle that I could have told

you that.

That's, I could.

Well, I knew it was going to be a truck of some kind of pickup of some kind.

That makes sense.

You will not go.

I don't care where you're driving.

If you're getting in your car to drive to the mailbox, you will see a Chevy Silverado.

Right.

You, you will not, that, you will see that in Packer gear, uh, uh, the Wisconsin, you will

see it.

Followed badgers by just a little bit behind that, but yeah, very close and, and, and a billboard

for something that isn't around anymore, uh, you, you see, you will see at least, oh,

I love those.

This is some of the, I love those.

Yes, I love those.

I love them.

Great time out.

We'll come back with the L Cafe birthday and anniversary club at a Seth and James.

Take it to three a morning here at WFHR.

It's time to do some celebration with the L Cafe birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and talk about our great

friends over at L Cafe.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

We're going to win one market.

I have a new and beautiful port, Edwards.

Wish them a great one.

Check out some of those great specials and of course the pie.

Oh, don't forget the pie.

Don't forget the pies.

They always have a large list of pies available.

Try a new one.

Try something new.

Don't go with the old one.

You got it.

You got to expand your pie palette.

I don't know for sure.

I need to ask Fidel this.

It's one of the, uh, you know, I'd love to interview him and let him talk with him a

little bit more.

Get to know him a little bit more, uh, and one of my major questions that I would ask

because I don't shy away from things.

Do you allow your customers to have pie first and then dinner?

This is something I'm only asking for a friend.

Just a few.

I know the answer to that one.

Pretty sure.

Find out at L Cafe.

Yeah.

Say hi to the gang over there.

Wish them a great day from all of us.

Keep in mind they get that Friday, Friday fish fry tomorrow.

Mm hmm.

Be looking for excellent plans for that everybody.

And of course get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Info at WFHR.com is where you can email us.

We can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well.

And call on up.

Please call 715-424-2600 or use a civic media app even better because you can also use

the text lying there.

Love to hear from you ever.

And we don't have to worry about spellings then, too, because if you spell it out for us,

I'm going to have to be, you know, very helpful for people like me.

Yes, yes, very, very helpful.

I can misspell bow.

I mean, just please help me please, please.

We love to hear from you.

Call and enjoy the conversation.

Uh, real quick, do you want to have a belated birthday?

They want to add in their Jade Johnson.

Oh, happy birthday, Jay.

Jade's an old high school friend.

Jade's amazing.

She's wonderful.

She's an old time listener as well and does, uh, been into some of our events and things.

And we appreciate you, Jay.

Thank you so much.

And I hope you enjoyed your day yesterday.

Yeah.

And we'll throw you into the qualifying.

Throwing in there.

Somebody that cannot qualify.

My daughter is a bel rain.

My youngest, is he?

Happy birthday, is he?

Just wanted to throw that in there one more time before I find another way to shoe

horned in next hour.

Uh, but yeah, you'll find a way.

She's the best.

Uh, she's awesome.

Uh, and I appreciate you.

I'll talk to you in a little bit on.

And then we'd look at our possible qualifiers, Seth.

Okay.

Two possible qualifiers.

Need a one or a two.

Two.

All right.

So first up, I want to wish a very happy birthday to Tammy Johnson.

Happy birthday, Tammy.

Another Johnson in there.

Yeah.

There we go.

Happy birthday, Tammy.

Enjoy your day.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Keith Campbell.

Happy birthday, Keith.

Congratulations to you, wishing you a good one, sir.

Enjoy your day.

Uh, and thank you so much to everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries.

Yes.

We love celebrating with you.

Can't remember the last time we didn't have any birthdays or anniversaries.

Like it has been like a couple of years since we have not had a birthday.

Yeah.

It's been a long time.

That's really something.

That's things to all of you guys out there.

Yeah.

We really do appreciate you.

Taking a look at who you share your birthdays with, Billy Lord is 33, Carrie Fisher's

daughter, Devin Reynolds, granddaughter, and Leah's communication officer, Lieutenant

Connicks in the newest Star Wars trilogy.

I was so excited when I saw her show up and interacting with her mom on screen.

That was amazing.

That was really cool.

She also played winter in American Horror Story and she was in screen.

She's a really good actor in the screen Queens too.

She was in.

I like her.

She's very good.

I'm very interested to see where she goes with her career because she is another one of

these ones that she seems to really like acting, love it.

Doesn't need it though.

Like her mom.

You know.

Luke Bryant is 49.

We were celebrating this on the Sunrise, played again, crashed my party and got a bunch

of hits.

Started out as a writer.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

As a songwriter too, for other people, which, that's not an uncommon thing in Nashville.

Actually, you see them get some successes a writer before they actually go out and

as a performer.

And interesting to think too, he kind of had to push to get that career.

You know, he had to kind of certainly let almost all artists had the fight for their

career, but to convince people that he could be a leading man, if you will.

That's right.

That seems very, very shocking to me right now.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

Alex Winter is 60.

Otherwise known as one half of one of the greatest tag teams in comedy history, Bill and

Ted.

Yes.

That's just my opinion.

They're not really in history, but it's a fun pairing, but I say history because they

went back in history and all that and everything.

That's what I'm talking about.

Bill S. Preston, S. Quire and Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, of course.

Went on to really, he was also Marco in the Lost Boys.

Forget that.

Yes.

He was in my Lost Boys there.

Alex Winter has had a really interesting career after that also, basically became a director

of a lot of different projects and indie stuff that he did on his own.

And so, yeah, I know he's had a very interesting career and stayed relevant.

I love that they brought back the Bill and Ted movie and stuff just for, it was a fan

thing.

And they got that kids involved and everything.

It was awesome.

And it's really cool to me that him and Countries are still close.

Yeah.

I don't know why, but I think that's interesting.

That's got to cool.

Mark Burnett is 65, one of these strongest producers in the game today.

I and I don't watch anything he does.

But he's good.

I mean, you can't argue with his, his body of work, the apprentice survivor.

Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

And he's also married to Roma Downey.

And from the time I didn't know that.

Wow.

He's also produced some things with her like the Bible in Son of God, so he's done some

of those things as well.

Oh, interesting.

I did not know that either.

Why'd range of production for him?

You don't see that all the time.

No, he's known mostly for game shows.

I think that's where his most success came from, but he does other things too.

Happy 71st to Angela Marko, the first female chancellor of Germany.

She retired back in 2021, and she's very well known for quite some time there.

Yes, she was.

David Hasselhoff is 73.

Boy, boy, what a career.

One of the guys of the 80s that you just see, I have to mention, if you're going to

talk about 80s, anything, any pop culture, he's music, because he was a musician, speaking

of Germany, huge in Germany, still to this day, David has all the name.

It's all the name.

I sort of got it, it's his name.

It's got to be a part of it.

You know, it's a German name.

Of course, Baywatch, you know, for a decade, too.

I mean, we got to throw that out there.

You know, regardless of what we might think or the credit we give, or as far as, you

know, is he a thuspian or any of these things, I always like, especially with TV stars.

I like to take a look at what they accomplish, and are they able to have that second hit?

You know, there's a lot of, a lot of famous stars that have a good TV show, they're on

a show for a while, and everything they do after that, it just never really succeeds.

I'm always impressed with, you know, Carol, from all on the family and the heat of the

night.

Oh, you know, I'm telling you, Carol O'Connor, Carol O'Connor, I think of him a lot.

And such like, when I'm a kid, he, I'm watching him in reruns of all on the family, and

they're all saying I'm seeing him in this, and two very different guys, and I admire

that when an actor can do that, and to his credit, he did that, you know, I write her and

then would Baywatch, and you know, it's hard to remember, Baywatch was like an international

hit.

It was like one of the biggest shows in the world when it was on in the 90s, we cannot

forget that.

Couldn't get away from it.

No, you could not.

Let's see, Terry Gieser-Butler is 76, original basis for Black Sabbath.

Oh, okay.

We'll be talking about that.

That little bit later.

His name is Gieser.

Yep.

Now he's actually a Gieser.

That's great.

No, that's great.

And let's see here.

Oh, and some people who are no longer with us, like the great Donald Sutherland would have

been 90 today.

President Snow in the Hunger Games, Keith or Sutherland's dad, and if you've ever watched

a movie, you've probably seen him.

Oh my gosh.

That's how many movies he's been.

His body of work, like the 70s, the movies he was in in the 70s, man.

He was in, he was just, he was an ever-present actor, you know, I mean, he was one of those

guys that just had one in a fantastic career that that man had.

Of course, the movie mash, right?

He was one of those guys that was so good at intense stuff, of course, one of my, like,

a lot of people out there, one of my earliest memories is invasion of the body snatchers,

I believe.

Yeah, from the late 70s.

Yeah.

And I just remembered him how tall he was and how expressive his face was before facial

hair.

He had facial hair and all that.

It's great to have seen him get to do comedies and get to do some other stuff.

I really enjoyed that.

I know it was nice to see him at the end of his, you know, his career and his life get

to do the hunger game.

You know, a bigger, a really big franchise where people got to say, who's this, you know,

and get to learn more about him?

Well, you know, you look at where he started and the movies he did early in his career

and come to come to the end of it to be one of the more respected actors in the game

at the end of his career.

That's so cool to see.

It is very cool.

It's really cool.

He deserved that.

And Phyllis Diller would have been celebrating the birthday today, born in 1917, pressed

away in 2012.

Phyllis Diller is awesome.

She was awesome.

Yes.

She was awesome.

One of the first very successful women comedians.

I mean, she plays Subtrails because she was doing it when no women were doing stand-up

comedy, almost a hard way.

Yeah.

And even less were doing slapstick.

Yeah.

And the kind of stuff that she was doing.

Yeah.

The kind of comedy she would do that style and everything.

She was a game changer.

She was.

Also Vincent Guiardi, born in this day, 1928, famous jazz pianist, did a lot of great work

in his career, a lot of music, but most well known for the peanuts.

Doing all the music for those peanut specials for all those years.

Look at his catalog, though.

Oh my God.

He wrote some fantastic music and recorded some good stuff.

So he's a fun one to dive into.

Is it my favorite piece of music that he did?

Yes.

And Lucy would be eternal to me.

But you're so right, man.

A lot of green stuff he did over the years.

And one of my favorites, one of the first influences I can remember having, Mr. James

Cagney, born in the state in 1899, Pestwie in 1986.

Good old Jimmy.

The definition of, to me, before I, I mean, I'd fall in love with Robert Williams and

partially because of his versatility.

But moving up here, watching the classic movies with my papa, I got to see that, oh, wait,

they were all like that back in the day.

And there were very few that could break type, though.

Could they do all kinds of different acted, yes, but very few had the opportunity for one.

It wasn't just a matter of talent.

It's just a matter of the casting directors giving you the chance.

It wasn't like they weren't auditioning for different roles.

But James Cagney broke molds.

James Cagney was one of the few actors that could go from Yankee Doodle Dandy to Angels

with dirty faces.

And didn't you believe at all?

Right.

Or Scarface.

I'm not what I was in Scarface.

But this early gangster roles where he played a tough guy, you know, and then yeah, but

he could also play a white heat, which where he plays, yeah, where he's insane, literally

plays an insane person to, I can't remember the name of the thing, but he plays a boxer

where who goes blind.

And he does it a fantastic job with him and it's something with a city.

What's it called?

I can't remember what it is.

I know that you're talking about.

Oh, city for conquest.

That's what it is.

It's a great movie.

Oh my gosh.

Loves that movie.

Yeah, we get so far removed from these actors.

We forget more and more about them.

There is no Hollywood without guys like Cagney.

No, not at all.

Not at all.

A huge like the way he embraced so much of that and everything.

And very similar to Top Crews, like 5'6", 5'5", or something like that.

He was not a big guy.

He was really short, but he even played all those roles.

And he had Charm.

He was charming.

No matter what he did, he could charm the pants off anybody.

Yeah.

He is the deaf.

He is the beginning of the charming bad guy.

That starts right there.

It wasn't written in the characters.

He created that.

Even when he's mashing a grapefruit into a lady's face.

Yeah.

Cagney, man.

If it was improvised by the way.

Hands, Cagney, man.

Yeah.

Happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.

Go celebrate it.

That'll cafe.

We'll be back after this.

Welcome back, everybody.

Show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Good stuff, man.

Nicely done with the pumpers.

Little Jimmy to play us in.

As James and Seth here with you, thank you so much for joining us.

Talking about National Tattoo Day.

Today is National Tattoo Day, and there is a new Google Trends map of the most searched

tattoo designs in every state over the past 12 months.

Interesting.

Okay.

It's limited to just five basics, like names, hearts, crosses, flowers, and roses.

But it's still kind of interesting here.

So names was number one in 13 states, people googling names, and I guess different ways

to write them on your body forever.

And fons and that sort of thing, right?

Names are number one.

So Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,

South Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware, and Wisconsin.

Oh, okay.

Hearts, hearts are number one in 10 states.

Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Minnesota, Alabama, Georgia, Connecticut,

and New Hampshire.

Well, how many of them also have mom on them?

Yeah.

Where's the mom tattoos anymore?

The heart with the mom?

I mean, come on.

That was like the joke forever, right?

Um, the one tattoo everyone had was the mom tattoo.

Exactly.

Because I didn't want to do the same heart thing and everything.

I just got to start David.

I just stood there.

Mom, there you go.

Yeah.

And just speaking of this stuff, crosses were next on the list.

Oh, that makes sense.

They were number one in four states, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Ohio.

Yes.

To which I also have a cross on me.

That's right.

When I started.

Cover all your bases.

Yes.

Exactly.

Flowers are number one in 16 states, California, Utah, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky,

Michigan, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts,

Vermont, and Maine.

I like flowers, tattoos, because they look really neat.

I think they look really cool.

The ink and the way that they're able to do this now with the new technology, new ink

and all that.

It is night and day to when I first got my first tattoo now.

It's really remarkable.

Yeah.

Not only the pain not being nearly there, like it used to be or some of that, but the way

that the, um, these tattoos last the dies that they use, yeah, the dies are much healthier

now.

And, uh, just the detail that they can put into these things and the work that they

can.

It's remarkable.

And roses are number one in seven states.

Okay.

That makes sense.

We just did flowers.

Aren't roses flowers?

I don't know.

I feel like, all right.

I guess.

I don't know.

They needed the fifth thing.

They did.

They always got around up to five.

They always got into five or some five or 10 kind of thing.

Why don't, why don't they just go with what they got in the almost 10 years I've been

doing this show.

It always comes down to, it's, it's three, five or 10.

It's always got to be that they can't have four, they can't have eight.

It's always got, they, they will do what they have to do to make it to 10 just because

we have 10 fingers, you know, but there's no rhyme or reason for this.

Nobody knows where this started.

Nobody knows why, like 50 or 100, why these numbers, why do we use a base 10 for our

number system?

And I honestly, I think it's because we've got 10 fingers.

Yeah.

I honestly think that's why.

I got to look into that more and see if there actually is some rhyme and reason behind

that.

That's interesting.

The internet also has a raking of the worst tattoo trend ever.

And those are super long quotes.

It was a dark and stormy, yeah, that would be, this is big, big quad tattoo.

Oh my god.

I, yeah, I've seen some of those and it usually doesn't go well.

What, okay.

Why would you do that?

Well, if, so, usually when you print something like that, do you want people to read it?

Okay.

But now you have to, so you want people following you to try to read your long quote back

tattoo, you know, you know, maybe, you're just, you want people to, people need to read

more.

So I got a book, I got a book right here for you.

There you go.

So there's something classy, like Shakespeare or something, right?

Yeah.

A little Shakespeare quote on it.

Long quotes are usually never like, they're either way too wordy or they are like the complete

opposite of that.

Right.

Song lyrics, I imagine too.

Yeah.

That would be on there.

Yeah.

But every, every person I've seen that has gotten like song lyrics and you usually get

it on the inside of the forearm or something like that.

After a while, it's just, not to say that the ink goes or anything like that, but with

wear and tear and wrinkles to the skin and stuff, I don't know, but there's certain places

I just don't know if they really last though as well.

Bows on your calves or thighs, yeah, that's got done along.

That's silly.

Yeah.

Um, the, uh, Chinese characters.

So, you know, that, that is one.

I learned the hard way on that one, um, unless, unless your tattoo artist is a native speaker

or writer of like, whichever language you're, you're talking about, I mean, that alphabet

is used by, you know, Japan, Japanese, Korean, all of those, they use the same alphabet.

Different meanings for all the words though.

So mine, um, mine meant what it, I thought it meant, but it was very bad.

It was very badly done and, and I got it done on my leg and it was during summer.

So I had the sun hitting it a bunch and it just didn't go well.

Learn your lessons.

Uh, but I have seen more, I am not, actually, I've only seen a couple of times where they've

actually been accurate, uh, like more times than not.

It's, it's not, it's not unless you know your stuff.

Yeah.

I really feel like you just stay away from that one.

Let's say writing in general on this is like one or two words, just, let's, let's,

let's keep it simple.

Paul Prince, uh, and anchors, um, and we're also big anchors.

Anchors are still the classic anchors.

Come on, man, no big sailors.

What are the sailors going to get if they don't get an anchor tattoo?

Got to have it.

Uh, and, uh, there were also, uh, one word statements like breathe or lover or,

or something like that.

I saw one from a basketball player who's got it on the inside of his, uh, arm.

And it says loser, but, but the S is crossed out with a V.

So it's lover, but you can still see the S.

It's one of the worst things I've ever seen.

Again, it's, it's, it's your body, true, but, but you don't want to put some

thought into it before you get the, the permanent ink put in your body.

You know, just saying as, as I've said, I'm a fan of tattoos.

I support them.

I think it's a great form of expression and personal confidence building and a lot

of those things.

That said, uh, I know it's your body, but we do have to look at it.

We do have to look at it.

He must be fair here.

If it does, you know, two ways straight here, come on.

I got to look at that every time you're shooting a free throw.

And then it's confusing throws me off.

Yeah.

That doesn't make sense.

We will take a quick time up.

Uh, if you want to share your tattoos or your favorite tattoo or, or maybe, uh,

a non tattoo, uh, yeah, we'll talk about whatever it is.

Yeah, it is national tattoo day.

So feel free to reach out to us and jump into the conversation.

Yeah.

When we get back, um, got an interesting casino club I want to talk about.

I was the same.

All right, coming up on the morning show at WF Hock.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WF HR, 975 FM locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Appreciate the company.

Uh, I'm going to pull a little bit of an audible here, Seth.

All right.

Let's do it.

Uh, AI is all over the place.

So we have to, of course, talk about it as a morning show.

Um, we do, uh, just don't warn people.

People are tired of AI already.

Uh, the majority of business, uh, business world, um, you know, uh, hey,

consumers need something.

We bring it to that.

That's what that's the basic idea, right?

Yeah.

Every once in a blue moon, uh, you have business decide, hey, you need this,

even though we're not asking for it.

That's a good way of putting it.

Please raise your hand or call it if you were asking for AI anything, anything in

any realm in any part of business or your daily life, right?

Nobody was asking for this.

But whether it is, uh, Google and Gemini and just shoving that down our

throws or, uh, half of these things, that's what's going on with AI, there is a

real, because businesses are going to get their monies at worth out of it.

They spent the money on it and they took a chance and it is blowing up on a

lot of their face.

Yes.

They are spending so much money on this.

So instead of just eating it, they're making us deal with it.

Yeah.

And that's the way it's going to be here for a little bit, I think.

And it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

It's not, but at the same time, I don't see it getting any bigger.

No, because of what you're saying.

Yeah.

People are just like, no, thanks.

Not interested, right?

They're going to keep, uh, like a, like a, like a person, uh, especially, you

know, as somebody who hangs on the fashion trends long after they're dead, but

well, not refuses to let it go.

Um, real life disco stew, right?

Yes.

Uh, they are going to just go stew is going to hang on to AI.

Um, if you're sick of dealing with AI everywhere, um, there is a little bit of, I

think a little bit of interesting things happening here with this.

And it's, it's not really a national thing necessarily, but in pockets, you're

seeing this, uh, that we, the people pushing back on AI and in different ways,

it's happening in some are, are more very serious.

And others are just kind of funny.

Yeah, it's true.

Um, so bad, uh, battling artificial intelligence with actual stupidity.

Someone is going viral on TikTok for their life hack to get a real person

instead of AI to take your order at Taco Bell drive through.

Oh, okay.

They just ask for a thousand waters and that's apparently flagged.

The automated system said, let me get a new member to help you.

Then a worker said, let me know when you're ready and the guy went ahead and ordered

his drink, um, and he tried this number of times at a number of different Taco

bells and apparently this worked at every single one of them.

Interesting, interesting.

Uh, of course, you could probably just say you want to talk with a human or something,

but this also works apparently.

If, um, and, and a little more amusing, too, it is.

Um, I do kind of also like the idea of whenever people kind of step up to

things and do something, um, it didn't involve a, uh, bracelet, it didn't involve

a hashtag, you know, who's just people doing this, right?

Um, and, and I, I think those stories are always interesting.

I can tell you right now what would have happened if this was me.

I'd be asking everybody in the studio here if they want a water.

Hey, you need a water, can you water?

Cause I definitely got the thousand waters.

The idea that the, the, the Taco Bell that you happen to be at just does have a

thousand waters for you.

Here you go, sir.

That's absolutely what would happen.

That'll be five hundred dollars.

Yeah.

Oh no.

James, how'd you go broke?

Yeah.

Trying to fight the AI.

Oh, just didn't, didn't work.

Uh, and, and it does, it should be known too.

I mean, you can ask for a human being, apparently, and that's, I've never done

this. No, I haven't either.

Uh, I haven't been to drive through a drive through in a little while.

Um, but even when I had been, I, I've never dealt with AI had a drive through.

I think this is much more of a bigger city thing, but it is something that anything

that starts there will make its way eventually, it will, and you know,

this is also another great point because, um, one of the reasons that we're seeing

so much AI and everything that this stuff is because I'll, so many of these

large companies believe that they can replace workers with AI.

And this just goes to prove that you can't, yeah, you literally have to have

someone there to monitor the AI.

I mean, so you're not doing anything.

So at, um, you know, at most self checkout lanes, those are obviously there to

try to keep people in and out a little bit faster and all of that.

Um, but they have like people monitoring.

Yes, they're there to make people put arch speed stealing and all the