Impressive Show!! (Hour 1)

Good morning, WizCats, morning world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Your host James Bond, the mic joined by our head of production or co-host Seth Havager.

Good morning all.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for being here everybody.

We're going to have some fun today.

We've got the next two hours to hang out with you.

We're going to have some fun getting to the LCAF Apertine anniversary club in a little

bit.

All right.

Looking forward to diving into that, doing some celebrating.

Got a couple of other fun ones here.

The, I don't know why, but I feel like these almost tie together.

But the top things we use AI for, talking about these as in a way of kind of like normalizing

some of this stuff while also I think taking some of the scare off of it, showing what it

really is.

Yeah.

We actually use it for, right?

Yeah.

And how often we've been using it.

That's a good point.

Yeah.

And the percentage of parents that say meal times are the only time they get to engage with

their kids.

I, and I've got one about Gen Zers answering the phone.

And do they say anything or not to get that one?

I got another one that I want to get into with you Seth too about this arcade that installed

the world's largest claw machine.

The world's largest claw machine.

Okay.

Looking forward to that.

That sounds interesting.

Yeah.

These are the stories we have.

We also will have at the top of the 10 o'clock hour.

Our pet of the week from the South of County, Maine Society, our good friend Denise going

to join us.

We'll see who is joining her with us.

We're pet of the week.

It's who our new furry friend is and who's the newest animal that I want to take home

is.

It's all every single week, every week.

Every week.

I fall in love with a new animal.

Like clockwork.

Got some entertainment news for you.

The tributes to the King of Hard Rock, Ozzy Osborne, keep coming in.

I want to touch on some of that a really fun one actually.

And something that Ozzy put into is that is so Ozzy that he put into his feudal role.

I thought it was interesting.

The final is interesting.

The final fast and the furious movie is coming out.

There's another interesting thing about that.

I want to touch on a lot with, of course, the final one.

They're not going to.

Wow.

I don't believe it.

I don't believe it.

I don't believe it.

Yeah.

Our newsletter will touch on.

As long as we're talking about summer and movies, the top grossing summer blockbusters

from 75 to today, we are going to talk about those.

It's very nice.

Let's do it.

Interesting thing at number one.

I also, I want audience participation on that one.

We're giving you the list as far as the top grossing movies.

What's your favorite summer blockbuster movie, or just favorite summer movie or movie that

was released in the summer?

I know what you did last summer.

No, it's not.

But it works.

It's a summer.

The title.

You get the game.

You get it.

Seven, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred, call up or text us through the civic

media app.

Then let me know you got the game.

We do.

Also, I have some good stories to the day for you.

We're going to get into our schedule a little bit.

Got some really fun stuff going on this weekend.

Not only are we going to be out there in the public, they're letting it in.

Yeah.

It mates loose the early, all out there, but it could be dangerous.

And do not feed us.

We will keep coming back.

Well, put up a sign.

Do not feed the DJs.

Just a side note.

Just a side note.

Otherwise, we'll talk about that.

And our weekend schedule.

We've got some fun shows lined up for you as well, want to get into all of that coming

up.

Now, a interesting trend, and as the world keeps growing and evolving, time only goes

one direction, everybody adjusts and adapts.

Every field is adjusting and adapting.

This one, though, took me by a little bit of a surprise.

A school district in Tennessee announced that doctors' notes would no longer excuse

a child's absence.

The Lawrence County school system said that the stricter policy is to improve the district's

attendance rate.

These will just be marked present or absent.

And there are punishments for absence, sick or not.

After three no-shows, schools will start an intervention.

If a kid misses eight or more days, they'll be referred to juvenile court for true

and see.

Oh my gosh.

If a child goes to school sick, can't make it, can't make it, though, and can't make

it, though, and the school nurse sends them home, that child will be marked as tardy.

The director of schools is Michael Atkins, and he's no nonsense.

He says, we are going to take control of the attendance of our students.

You can bring all the doctors' notes you want, but it's still unexcused.

You can fail the grade, you can fail the course, you're going to be petitioned to court.

You are not going to participate in graduation, yet your license or permit.

There may be exemptions for verified chronic illnesses and severe injuries.

Well, he does have a heart.

Yeah.

He says, if you have these sniffles, that's fine.

You are going to have them when you have to go to work one day.

We have all gone to work sick and hurt and beat up.

District didn't just send notices out to all parents.

They also notified local medical providers and encouraged them to emphasize the importance

of regular school attendance while treating children.

Some parents are upset about the rule.

One said, ultimately, I'm going to do what is right for my kid regardless of this policy.

For now, the neighboring school districts in Tennessee say that they're accepting doctors

notes for excellence and they're doing what normally has been done in schools.

Real quickly for me, I will mention my kids are out of school and all that, so I don't

necessarily have so much to say about this because I don't know as much about the public

school systems as I probably should.

Even though I get the opportunity to interview our last couple of superintendents, every

principal we have in this school district, I have interviewed multiple times.

So wait a minute.

Maybe I do know a little bit of this.

Yeah.

I don't know a little something.

Throw something out there.

This guy is a punk.

This guy is somebody who is trying to control something that is uncontrollable, kids and

illness.

Like something that parents have tried to do forever now.

I want to hear other people's opinions and I'm not saying this like I know better than

anybody else or this is, you know, Hill, I'm going to die and I'm willing to hear people

on things.

Right.

And school attendance is important.

It is.

I know this as somebody who was in 10 different schools before I was 10 years old and moved

around a whole bunch.

I know this better than most.

But what we're doing as adults is a balance of not only getting kids ready.

We got to get the bird ready to fly out of the nest.

But not until the bird is fully developed and ready to jump out of the nest.

Like until then, I thought the whole thing was let them be kids as long as they can.

And part of being a kid is getting sick and you're building up your immune system literally

is what it does.

That's why you, that's what your body does.

It gets something's like, oh, let's catalog this for future reference.

And now I can protect the body from this, right?

So you're not only sending kids to school that are sick, they're going to get other kids

sick, impossible in teachers and all that and everything.

But you're bringing law enforcement into this, you're bringing our judicial system into

this where they've all, oh, well, that's okay because they don't have anything else to

do.

They're not overworked and overdone already.

Like if there was anything about this that would really actually do what he's talking

about, I might hear him out a little bit more, but I don't, like I don't see it.

I will admit to those that are just hearing this.

I've had a chance to do a little bit of homework on this and in this guy and some of this

and, you know, this is a punk.

He's a punk.

You can look into it yourself.

I'll die on that hill that he's a punk.

Yeah, well, as far as this working or not are being actually legitimate and like helpful

or not.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You actually have sick kids.

Do sick kids learn?

Yeah.

I mean, does this any, are they distracted by the fact that they're sick?

I mean, oh my God, there's so much wrong with this in so many levels.

And you know what?

We've been seeing more of this.

It's kind of the tenor of the times, I guess.

You could say we're hearing the, we see this in, again, isolated case.

It's nice that they said, you know, the surrounding schools.

They're not doing this because, you know, it's like, what is this guy?

What's going on with this?

Anyway, also nice because they aren't, because they don't have enough problems already,

are you mistrusting the medical doctors now too?

Because they're just, you know, willy-nilly throwing out notes that this kid is sick.

Oh, no, yeah.

I know you really want to go on that trip, Billy.

So I'm going to say you're sick for the next three days, you know, is that what doctors

are doing?

This is the frivolous notes.

This is the one person who watches Ferris Bueller's Day off.

It is like, it's completely, it's a horror movie.

It's a horror movie.

It's a horror movie and it's just gusted by it.

Like what do we do?

That's good.

What are we doing?

The idea of working on things that don't need to be worked on, like there's plenty of

other stuff to work on.

There's plenty of other things.

How about your teachers having enough supplies, how about school lunches?

Teachers being paid a living wage, you know?

There's some silly and other things.

And not for nothing, parents don't need schools as much as they used to.

Home schooling is much more common than it used to be.

It is.

And rolled in another school is much more easier than it used to be.

I don't know that this has a good...

Will this have the opposite effect?

Yeah.

I forget this guy.

Absolutely well.

I'm going to go to this school over here, right?

Yeah.

Man, I don't bet on nothing and I'll bet that this ain't going to work out.

Yeah.

I don't feel like a bad guy.

But I'm going to be looking forward to seeing how it ends.

And I would actually, there's one thing I would like to actually watch Ferris Bueller's

Day off with him.

I would like to actually just see what he's like.

I wouldn't be able to help it.

I'd like to.

That would be funny.

I can't wait any longer.

I want to talk about this.

The Philippines, Philippines Arcade has installed the world's largest claw machine.

Let's do it.

I actually knew about this beforehand because they used my hand as a model.

Ah, they used my dollars.

And Arcade and the Philippines earned a Guinness World Record by installing the world's

largest claw machine, which encompasses an area of 1,761 cubic feet.

Oh, the Play Fair Arcade at the top slandmark in Subu City, an unveiled claw king, a massive

claw machine that was officially the best name, like the best advertising name ever.

Because it's true.

It was measured by a construction firm for Guinness World Record consideration.

They'd bring in big guns for this.

Yeah, they did.

I'd loved that my dad used to work out so many different crews like that.

And I worked out a handful of them with him.

And I loved the idea of seeing my dad trying to measure this thing.

It was a claw.

It was a claw.

It was a claw king.

It was measured at 17.16 feet long, 8.12 feet wide, and 12 feet tall.

The measurements were enough to take the record from Santa Claw, a defunct claw machine

installed in Florida that measured 16 feet long.

Okay.

So they beat it by a footer, so.

I want to apologize to the audience as somebody as, you know, I consider myself a loose

reporter.

I try to be a journalist.

I want to be.

And I try to cover stories for the audience and keep everybody up to date on local issues

and all these things.

I am just now learning about Santa Claw.

Yeah.

I did not know about this.

You missed that one.

But that's okay.

I apologize, everybody.

Now I'm seeing movies called Santa Claws with a bunch of kittens that's not what I'm looking

for.

Now what I'm looking for.

This is what I'm looking for.

Oh, thanks, Google.

It's pretty big.

Okay.

So it's just a big machine.

The claw itself is not big.

The machine is big.

The machine is huge.

So that, yeah, but it's not like oversized, like toys or anything like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a big machine.

Yeah.

Hmm.

That's a little disappointing.

That's a little disappointing.

I got it.

I got it.

I'm very, very disappointed right now.

I am extremely disappointed.

I wanted an eight-foot claw with giant stuffed bears or something, right?

Yeah.

Like that are too big for any human being to be able to carry on the road.

Like I'm showing Seth the actual Guinness one now, the claw king, and it's the same thing.

It's just the actual machine is huge, yeah.

But the inside, it's just normal stuff.

The claw is not that big.

Oh, man.

That's all right.

That is a disappointment.

Well, disappointing.

I want one that can pick me up.

That's what I want.

Yes.

I want to be able to actually, yes, I want that like human-sized stuffed animals in there.

Come on, man.

I want to be able to pick up a microwave.

You know, that would be fun.

Yeah.

Like appliances?

I mean, seriously.

For adults, man, yeah.

All right.

Our last day on air.

I think we just found our billion-dollar ID.

We can't, finally.

I don't claw machines.

Yes.

I don't.

Machines.

I'm thinking, how do I put them for kids?

Yeah.

Right next to them have one for adults.

The kid can play right next to it.

You can, it's a bonding experience.

It is.

It's a bonding.

And because it's like more expensive, we can charge like five bucks.

Yeah.

Like for that, you know?

You know, little Timmy got a stuffed animal.

You got some aftershade.

It's sweet.

I got an air conditioner.

Yeah.

Yes.

I finally got oil.

I got some oil.

It's an everyday stuff.

I love it.

We will be back with some everyday things.

Birthdays and anniversaries coming up on the morning show

at WFHR.

My, my, my, my, I'm so happy.

I'm going to join the way.

We will dance and see this celebration.

We're on the promised side.

You heard the boys time to do some celebrating

with the L Cafe Birthday and Anniversary Club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We can celebrate you.

Talk about L Cafe.

Treat yourself.

Get on over to L Cafe today.

221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Check out some of those great specials.

And of course, Seth, they have the pies.

They have pie.

Check it out.

Hi, glorious pie.

I should write a song about that.

Yeah.

Actually, you should.

Have you done a set face of the music?

Come on, pie.

There's not enough song.

Come on, pie.

I guess it would take, no, no.

Too bad, too bad.

But maybe, maybe desserts or something.

I don't know.

Oh, maybe.

Get all your song ideas from our great friends in L Cafe.

It would just be Ward's cherry pie over.

Over and over.

Oh, God, I would hate that.

No, no, no.

They got so many cool things over there.

Check it out, everybody.

And say hi to the gang.

Wish them a good morning from all of us.

Appreciate our friends over there.

Bye, local support, local.

Absolutely.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Email us info at wfatre.com.

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Text us those birthdays.

We have had people do that.

Oh, yeah.

We appreciate it.

Yeah, feel free.

We love when you call in or text us during the segment.

And feel free, you know, through the whole show.

So we love to hear from you.

Seth, I need a one or a two.

One today.

I guess that's that call if I don't get into it here.

And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Lisa

Anderson.

Lisa, happy birthday to you.

Enjoy your day, Lisa.

Hope it's a good one for you.

I'm starting to call you Lisa.

I call my cousin that.

Happy birthday, Lisa.

It's like, I've never been called that in my life.

International Day of Calendar today is Cousins Day.

Oh, there you go.

I'll be thinking about my cousins, my cousin Lisa.

Shout out to Lisa.

But because you have to even shorten a four letter name like Lisa

to Lisa.

I'm the worst.

And I blame my father, I blame.

Happy birthday, Lisa.

Enjoy your day.

And we wish happy anniversary to our qualifiers, Tom and Colleen

Johnson.

Tom and Colleen, congratulations to you.

Many happy returns on your anniversary.

Enjoy the day, you too.

It's my romantic heart every time we

get to do these anniversaries.

They love to qualify.

They love to qualify.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, strangers,

animals.

Let everybody know that you're our qualifier today.

And about the Elcafe birthday anniversary club.

We, of course, do this because at the beginning of every month,

we're able to grab one of these qualifiers out of a big hat

that we have.

We have a bigger hat than those claw machines.

That's stupid claw machines.

And we need to get a claw, though, to pull things out.

That'd be fun.

I just jump in there.

We never know if I'm going to make it out.

But I usually, my big, weird arm in hand.

You could pop popping out with a name.

And that person or person.

We're always in music plays.

Just like in a movie.

And then I get to announce that we have our new winner

for the month.

And they win two gift certificates to Elcafe.

It's worth it to get us those birdfaces and anniversaries,

everybody.

We take a look at who you're sharing your birthday

anniversary with.

Brandy Irwin is 27 today.

That's incredible.

27.

Of course, Steve, the Crocodile Hunters daughter.

And I didn't know this.

Winner of season 21 of Dancing with the Stars.

Really?

Yeah, I didn't know that.

I didn't know that too.

Beth is shouting at her radio right now.

Well, it's one thing for me not to know it.

For you not to know it.

I think I would have paid 10.

No, I don't pay 10.

No, no.

I admire that family a lot of what they have done since his

passing.

And even during his life, of course, everything.

A really impressive young lady.

And I didn't know she was that good of a dancer.

And that's awesome.

Not as young as we thought, either.

No, I read that 27 and that through.

Oh, yeah.

You think that's something.

How about this, what everybody?

Mara Wilson is 38.

Oh, no.

Is that adorable little girl in Mrs. Delphire and Matilda?

Just graduated from NYU back in 2009.

Yes, yes.

She is amazing.

She is now an author.

She's like kind of a journalist as well.

She does blogging and things.

I've seen her on something.

I can't remember what it was.

But she's, I mean, she's really pretty much out of acting.

Although I do know occasionally people send stuff her way.

She may get into it again, she said.

But no, she's doing some really cool stuff.

So congratulations to her and happy birthday.

She's good actress.

Yeah.

Check out the female actors and creators

that we have on this list today.

First, Elizabeth Moss is 43.

Wow.

Offered in the handsmaidens tale.

She is Peggy and Mad Men.

Zoe in the West Wing.

Great actor.

Wow.

Wonderful acting.

What a career there.

I love, love, love Anna Pakwin.

Anna Pakwin is 43 today.

The only person who should be playing rogue

in the X-Men movies.

That's right.

Sookie and True Blood, of course.

And oh, yeah, the youngest person

to ever win an Oscar, 10 years old,

won an Oscar for the piano.

And still, her greatest work.

And she's going to, I think she's even at 43.

I think she can only get better.

She grows as an actor.

You've seen it throughout her career.

Yep.

Wow.

I only watched for a season of True Blood,

but I watched it mainly because of her.

And she just, I think, is one of those actors

that just gets better.

I don't believe that she, it's last time

she'll be giving an Oscar speech.

No, I think she will do it again.

But again, the piano, incredible movie and her job in it.

You don't believe, you can't,

you would almost think they're using special effects.

That person can't be 10.

That there's no way with that performance.

And then Rose Byrne is 46 today.

Oh, my.

Rennie and the insidious movies, Seth Rogan's wife

and neighbors, Kristen Wiggs, Nemesis and Bridesmaids.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful character actor.

Wonderful character actor, really talented.

Yep, very good.

Patty Jenkins is 54, maybe one of the,

well, is one of the most sought-after directors

in all of the game right now.

Yeah, she is absolutely.

Directed a number of different gray ones.

She's got a couple of wonder,

a couple of wonder-winner woman movies.

Yeah, I seem to recall.

Yeah.

Jennifer Lopez is 56, still Jenny from the block.

Having a hard time selling music nowadays,

but I will say, not many people go from being a fly girl,

being a choreographer, a dancer, a choreographer,

on in living color to what Jennifer Lopez

is her international superstar.

International, man.

Yeah, took just a little bit thing,

being it right before a commercial break,

dancing into what she has accomplished,

acting and singing, and yeah, really remarkable.

And I think one of the unfortunate things with her

is what's got lost in the shuffle is,

oh yeah, and extremely talented.

Yes, very talented, extremely good actor.

Vera, watch a movie.

I'm not talking of Selena, incredible work.

She does honor to that person and to that role.

She's got some other great performances.

But you watch a movie like Money Train

with her Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson,

who had at that point done three movies together

and had chemistry, some of the best chemistry you've ever seen.

And she's in it and she rolls with all three of them so well.

Like I've worked together so well.

She is a strong actor, when given good material.

You know, I would, yeah, she's been some notable flops too.

But I would have been curious to see

if she would have focused one or the other more.

Yeah, because both of those careers,

the singing, the music career, and the acting career

are both full-time jobs.

I mean, the amount of work you have to put in both of those,

it would have been nice to, you know,

like your two sport athletes, you know,

what would have happened if she would have just done one,

you know, that kind of thing?

And with losing, you know, a Malcolm Jamal Warner recently,

which just, it wore a sad, sad news.

Very sad story, yes.

It's all the more noteworthy.

Kadeem Harteson is, Harteson is 60 today.

Dwayne Wayne on a different world,

another child actor, a very, you know,

different world right on after the Cosby show.

Yeah, yeah, it was spin off, yeah.

Remember watching those back-to-back as a kid

and loving, Kadeem Harteson was one of the coolest people on TV

to me.

He had the glasses, man, he had the glasses.

That's right, that was awesome.

Yes.

Also Zendaya's dad on the Disney show Casey Undercover.

Oh, and I've done a couple of other things.

I didn't know that, wow, that's cool.

Barry Bonds is 61.

Oh my gosh, man.

Barry Bonds, I have, James,

I've had this running thing with James recently

about watching 1987 baseball games.

And of course Barry was there in the Pirates in 1987.

One thing that struck me, his batting stance did not change.

And I, Oda, from early in his career,

it never changed any a bit.

It was always the same, no matter how puffed up he got

in the end, the batting stance was always there

and the bat was always quick.

So, you know, it would have been a hall of famer,

even without the, the, the, a legend.

You know, I gotta say that.

It's never been, it's never been proven.

Yeah, it's, I gotta say it.

I gotta cover our bases here, you know, but it's, yeah.

And, and I will say this too.

It's interesting, you know, where I think 90 per,

I don't know about 90, but maybe 80% of the audience

we ask who's the home run king, Hank Aaron.

Yeah, right, you know, and it's just, it's interesting.

I honestly, if I'm being real, I know that what the numbers

say and everything, but my first reaction

if somebody asked me, if a person, if an alien lands

on this planet and asks me who the home run king,

my first reaction is gonna be Hank Aaron, just being honest.

Yeah.

I don't know if I'm right for that or not.

I don't know if any of us are, if not, yeah.

And as we see all the time, we get things wrong in society.

My best friend always had a great line

during the, the heart of these steroids issues

in these things and around the time that we're really up

and front and talking about these things.

We're sitting there, we're watching, you know,

the mouse network and they're complaining about it

and everything and Chris just kind of sits back

and he's like, you know, the, he wasn't the only one.

Pictures are using it too.

So the guys that he was hitting off of

were also using steroids.

Right.

Allegedly.

Yeah.

And that's the word.

And not to say that that makes it right,

but it was an angle on it that I had not heard

anybody else really talking about

and it made me think a little bit differently about it.

Again, doesn't make me look at him any different.

And I don't, I don't think Cheating's ever been good in sports.

But I think that goes farther than that.

I also don't think he should be spitting on a ball.

I don't think you should need to cheat to win.

Right.

If you do get out the game, like to me,

but he was always a complicated person, you know,

his entire career.

And so, yeah.

Thanks for joining us for this quick preview

of playmaker, everybody.

We appreciate you putting up for us.

Pam Tillis is 68 today, country singer,

Mel Tillis's daughter, worse.

Fantastic.

I love Pam Tillis.

Shake the sugar tree.

That's a good one.

I like Mel.

Shake the sugar tree.

That's a good one.

She's got a great voice.

Linda Carter is 74.

Oh, speaking of Wonder Woman.

Interesting that Patty Jenkins

who directed Wonder Woman.

Yeah, same birthday.

That's so cool.

I love Linda Carter.

Yeah, she's great.

She was also, I like that they brought her back

for the Supergirl show.

Yeah.

She was on that and everything.

But I don't know.

Dieter fans might have caught her in super troopers.

What, I love those movies.

Oh, my gosh, I didn't even know that.

She's in just a bit part of it.

It does a great job.

She's, it was cool to see her get to do comedy.

Yeah, it was fun to see her do that.

She looks great.

She's great.

I loved Wonder Woman as a kid.

I love that.

It was a silly fun show.

Chris Sarandon is 83.

Oh, my gosh.

Prince Humbertink is 83.

Not only Prince Humbertink,

but one of my favorite characters

in all of entertainment history,

Jack Skellington and a nightmare before Christmas.

He is the voice of Jack.

Yes.

Not the same voice.

That's Danny Elfman.

That is the great Danny Elfman.

But he is the speaking voice of Jack Skellington.

Yeah, correct.

He was also like all you 80s kids out there.

Right night.

Yes.

Good actor, you know,

and of course, and of course,

Susan Stranding's husband,

which is where she got her name.

That she used after that.

They were married for a while.

So, yep.

Great actor.

I love Chris Sarandon.

I cannot imagine anybody else

in the role of Humbertink.

No, perfect.

He's so good.

He was so good.

Yeah.

It gets me.

My favorite scenes are him,

but carry always.

That scene at the end,

where he's the greatest bluff ever.

Yes, right.

It's so good.

They play it so well.

Gallagher would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Born in the state in 1946,

passed away in 2022 and not that long ago.

You know, the definition of,

you know, bit comic or gimmick comic.

gimmick comic, yep.

Also really successful.

He was.

Yeah, no, there's no question about that.

I don't know that you could tell a documentary

on the 80s and not include Gallagher.

Mm-hmm.

You remember that?

Oh, those watermelons.

Yeah, yeah, a poor watermelons.

And also Amelia Earhart,

born in the state in 1897, passed away in 1937.

The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

disappeared mysteriously on July 2nd, 1937

during her attempt to fly around the world.

I did a book report on her when I was a kid.

Oh, really?

There's so much more to that person than just the absolutely.

And she was a really interesting fan.

Yeah, very, very talented, interesting person.

When we talk about trailblazers,

we often talk about them in certain industries

or certain ways.

Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer end of sentence,

like not in just one industry or anything like that,

but just in general, just a trailblazer.

Happy birthdays and anniversaries

to everybody out there,

so right now wishing you a good one.

We'll be back after our news break here

on the morning show at WFHR.

Geronus Lee.

Yeah.

Go.

Aw, yeah.

Gotta do it.

Had to.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR in the summertime.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

We appreciate the company.

Speaking of, we're gonna bring some people in with us today.

Yes, we are.

Our next segment, a Pam Hilke,

the heart and soul of this station.

It's gonna join us for a little bit.

Talk a little.

She was at the kids from Wisconsin event last night.

Yeah, that's always cool.

Wanna pick her brain about that?

Hear how it went.

We also got a fun segment to go along with that

about parents and their time with their kids.

And when they get this time.

We'll get into all of them.

There you go.

And then, of course, at the top of the 10 o'clock,

we'll have Denise join us for a pet of the week

from the South of County Mates Society.

Yeah.

Very good.

But we are living in a day and age

where AI is brought up all the time.

It is one of those buzz words,

one of those words that we get tired of pretty quick.

Yeah, much like COVID or certain other words

that we just kind of got tired of really quick.

Yeah, crypto.

Yes, crypto.

That's the one I was looking for in crypto.

Ah, anybody with the crypto thing,

I got a bridge in San Francisco to say,

Hey, I got a wonderful place on the moon

that you would love.

I've got a picture of the bridge in San Francisco.

It's just the picture.

AI has been a part of the culture for a while now.

I think it's just gotten a little bit more,

a little more in the mainstream in some ways.

And because of so many more and more people having tech,

they're understanding

and more and more people are getting it.

Right.

But there's also the, one of the few times in business,

I'm sure that there are other examples of this,

but it's one of the few times in business

where companies bought in on something,

and I mean a lot of companies and a lot of different industries.

And like, hey, this is a new big thing.

We want in on it.

Right.

We want to get ahead of this.

We don't want to miss the bubble

like we have in other times.

So let's get in on this AI now.

And you know what?

I bet people are going to love this

and they did something that they don't normally do.

They gave us something we didn't ask for.

They are cramming something down our throats

that we are not seeking out.

Not heard of anyone.

This doesn't talk about it.

Please, 715-424-2600 call,

text through the Civic Media app.

Are you, were you raising your hand?

Hey, I need more AI in my life.

Hey, help me because.

That would be interesting to hear.

Even the AI that exists already has a website,

you know, chat GPT or any of these things.

You can seek this out.

It takes one, two clicks on the old searcher

to be able to do this.

So even if you want these things, you can have them.

I don't need them in all of my email

when I'm trying to write you

or one of our teammates around here.

Do we need a summary of our emails?

Gemini, I tried to tell me what to say.

Get out of here.

I don't need you.

And I don't believe I'm alone on this.

I don't think I'm the only one.

I'm not Shakespeare, but I can write an email.

Yeah.

And I think all of you can.

And I think one of the things that is missing

in the conversation about this is genuineness.

The genuineness that comes across through an email

or through text or any of these things.

For better or worse, this is who we are as human beings

and this is how we communicate.

And without it, we lose a lot of our humanity.

Right.

And that said, I'm not scared of AI.

No, I'm not worried about it.

I'm a lot more worried about human beings

than I am about AI.

And AI is no good on its own.

There is no, as much as I think that science fiction

could make an interesting movie,

it's not real, really realistic.

No.

The idea that an AI system is going to take over

anything right now.

The way it is right now, dude.

Worrying about an AI system taking over a drive-thru

is insane.

It's crazy.

Let alone anything else that you can throw at me

as far as in our government or anything like that.

And I'm not throwing this stuff out there.

I've done my homework on this subject.

I've researched it.

I don't like people being afraid of things.

And I like to, when they are,

I'm a big believer in facing fears, in facing things,

and being like, hey, you're afraid of the monster

under the bed, let's look under the bed.

Yeah.

Shine light on there.

And man, all you have to do right now,

like literally the last couple of days,

find out how the robo-taxes of Tesla

are going in Austin, Texas right now.

There's a lot of stories about it.

Not going too well.

That bridge we were talking about at San Francisco.

I feel like a lot of Tesla orders and it's not so good.

They might be interested in that bridge.

They might be able to sell it to them.

So all this said, a new poll looked at the top ways

Americans use AI.

And I think this is another thing that kind of brings us

to light a little bit more.

And I am not saying at all that we shouldn't keep an eye

on these things, that we should be, you know,

which is quick to turn our back on it.

But you also don't just live in fear.

Right.

There are plenty of things to be concerned about in life.

I think we have to choose our battles.

Why is it?

And I don't know that this is one of them

that we, again, keep our eye on,

but don't know necessarily have to be.

But don't have to be.

Let's sell down.

I don't think we'll be waking you up at night too.

In the middle of the night, especially as hard

as it is to fall asleep out of it.

A new poll looked at the ways we're using this

and a third of us still haven't given it a whirl.

Only while 14% say they use AI daily,

14%.

That's it.

Here are the top ways we're using it.

This evil thing that's hiding under the better

in the closet or whatever,

to look up the answer to a question.

Who won the World Series in 1985?

Yep.

That's right.

That's what we're looking up, man.

It's a bunch of guys around asking sports questions

and trying to prove each other wrong.

No, it wasn't them.

It was so and so.

And we go back.

No, I love that.

Yes.

We did this topic the other day.

When we misspell a word or how to pronounce a word.

Yeah.

Yeah, sure.

Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, these are all the,

these are the main things we're using so far.

Yeah, the main things we're using in Ford.

Yeah.

24% clutch their,

consider, wouldn't consider looking up the answer

to a question.

So using AI, right.

There is still a good portion of people out there

that are pushing back on it and going against it and everything.

And to be fair to them,

we have seen how much AI is wrong,

how many mistakes it makes.

So that's fair.