Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
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Your host, James J. Mailov here with you, joined by our Head of News, our co-host, Melissa
K. Good morning. Our head of production, our head of sound, Seth Habhacker. Good morning.
And of course the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. We hope you
have a good one out there. Let's kick things off the way we love to do around here with
our good friend, Bernie Merlowe. Good morning, Brad. Good morning. How are you? Doing good.
How you been? Pretty good. Trying to deal with wildfire, smoke, battling out strong, or
storms down south, which is right in the battleground. It's fun. I don't know if anybody else
got the image of just Brittany out there by herself. They're trying to do this. Battling
all of the elements. And I don't mean to make light of the situation by any means, but
I did have an image pop in my head of you just with a big fan. Because you would do that.
You care that deeply, Brittany. You do. You do. I've got a fan and I've got a shield.
One on each side. Trying my best to get them out of here. So I need weather goddess. It
has just been a summer of this. And I can speak for everybody else, but I know my eyes
feel like they're dry constantly. I cannot breathe through my nose. I've been getting headaches
because of the smoke. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a summer of it. It sure has. It's
either raining and hot and humid, or we've got blue skies that you can barely see because
all the hazes in the way. Kind of getting annoying. It's kind of getting old. We've got a
ton of wildfires out west up in Canada. I mean, Wisconsin DNR has just been deployed to
some of them to help. Now that our wildfire season is winding down here. We've got all
this rain, right? We've been having some rain. And we're just sitting here waiting patiently
for that dry spell that is right around the corner. Aren't we? Yeah. Just right around
the corner. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's almost here. So today we've just got to deal
with the wildfire smoke. It's pretty bad far up north. Hopefully that stays up there,
that is flirting with our area. And then, of course, temperature is much more comfortable.
Hines in the mid-70s today. I like that part. That's the positive hang on to that part.
Because, yes, still chances for showers, especially this morning. I'd say more likely
until about 11 o'clock this morning, but they are still possible until about four. A lot
of them are staying south right now. Plainfields got some light drizzle. It's much, much worse
for their south. And that's going to stay that way. So right on the edge there, like I said,
battling the two. But by tomorrow, we are looking at some of that wildfire smoke starting
to lessen probably in the afternoon, three or four or so. The sunshine dominating all
day long. And, of course, highs in the upper 70s to low 80s for the rest of the week
and even into the weekend. It is just going to be calm and beautiful finally.
Nice. Mm-hmm. Love it. Get out there and enjoy it, everybody. Make some plans.
We're going to be talking about the bunch of great things going on in their area
to do. So we'll be getting to that in just a little bit. Now we got a forecast to back
it up. All right. All right. Yeah. Shake it, Brittany. That's a good one. Finally,
after today, right? Yes. Yes. Always good talking with you. You have a great morning.
You two, thanks. Thanks, Brittany. Best in the business are for in Brittany Milo
joining us every morning, right in this time. So we appreciate her and appreciate all
you being here. We got good things on the way. The old cafe, Burton, anniversary club is right
around the corner. We're also going to talk aliens. Just going to leave that there.
Talk to the aliens. Yep. Yep. We have loving the alien. And guys, Europeans
don't really dislike us as much as TV and movies try to make us think they do.
Oh, good. Get it into that 10 o'clock hour. We'll kick off with
talk some entertainment. Happy Gilmore 2 setting new record. I want to talk about
that. Nintendo says Mario and Princess Peach are just friends. We will discuss
for all these years. Yeah. All these all that coming up. All those castles.
All those castles. What was Mario doing all this time then? You do a lot for
friends. You do a lot. Or a lot when you're trying to get out of the
friends zone. We'll get to do it later. We'll get to do it later. We got local
theater. I want to talk about as well. Had a great conversation with stuff and
a couple of the cast members from the brothers Grimm's Spectacular Thon last
night. Great. Or yesterday afternoon for Rapids Report. I encourage you to check that
out. And Seth and I after that got to have a great interview with some friends
of ours from see back from such a Wisconsin area community theater. Yes, we did.
Joe and of course Susan always always a treat ever with us. I'm talking about
Romeo and Juliet starting tomorrow. Everyone going through the weekend at the
Schmickley amphitheater. I love that word amphitheater. Yes. Oh yeah. Both are
outdoors. Yeah. Schmickley and amphitheater. We don't have enough chance to use
all that coming up. We're also going to get into some good news stories of the
day. And I got some other fun stuff for you lined up. But we begin with coffee
of course. And we as we should. Yes. A lot of solute. I don't have my coffee.
I broke my coffee cup yesterday. He did. He broke it. I'm the only one with coffee.
Oh my gosh. You're just slow. We just need a coffee sponsor. That's what we need.
And we never we'd always have coffee. Go out of our way to talk about that.
That's right. A lot of coffee drinkers would admit that they're addicted to caffeine
but they're usually lighthearted about it. Even though it may have a death
grip on their mornings. In a new survey 81% of Americans say that drinking
caffeine and about they drink caffeine and about half of them say that
they're biggest source of caffeine is coffee. Okay. 20% are drinking
caffeinated soda. Seven percent are sipping a lot of tea and four percent are
guzzling energy drinks. Just to say note those numbers are way down for
energy drinks. That's good. That hit a peak and it has been dropping
ever since. I would if you got jig is up. Sell your stock. Sell sell sell.
It's not one of those. I find it remarkable that more people are drinking
tea specifically for caffeine than energy drinks. That's really interesting to me.
The energy drink thing. It took some time because it took time for to destroy
people's intestines and inner stomach lining and everything. But people are
starting to see that now and these companies don't care about your
body. They don't care about they just their bottom line. 30% of them say that
they have tried to quit. Six percent say that they haven't but probably
should. And 32% say that they have not tried to quit and quote wouldn't
even try. And I believe there was a bunch of laughter after that.
I'm not sure if it was before after. Get out of here with that.
Only quit coffee. You're hilarious. Did you hear this one?
Only 6% of people who have tried to quit caffeine have been successful.
Wow. That's a really big number. That's that's that's really kind of
this surprise. Growing up with a hall of fame addict and done a lot of
studies on this and addiction and the brain and the way that this all works.
I've never seen a stat like that. I've never seen a stat like that. I think that
that's something that in all seriousness something worth is some consideration
and some grace when it comes to addiction and comes to fighting addiction.
Sure. Also for a lot of people drinking caffeine is an
all or nothing habit. 29% of caffeine drinkers have it several times a day.
No, the third 2% enjoy it once a day. 12% say that they can get by with a few
times a week and 6% would be able to limit themselves to a few times a month
or maybe just once a week. Not now that's what they're saying.
None of these people have actually put this to work or are you sure?
Sure. Anything. I think that's not worthy. But only 1% of caffeine drinkers
say that they have have it less often than that.
People will also ask what it would take for them to make a serious
effort to eliminate caffeine. 34% would do it for health reasons.
22% would try to improve sleep. 19% for dietary reasons. 17% said that
they would like how caffeinated caffeine affected their mood or nerves.
And then another 17% said it would depend on feeling like they dependent on it.
I kind of fall into that category with these things.
I tend to not notice I'm doing something too much until I realize I'm dependent
on it and I hate the idea of being dependent on anything.
So it immediately like clicks in my brain.
Hey, you're becoming way too hooked on this thing. You need this too much.
And it's not usually for me at least in my history. It tends to be.
I'll be honest, like especially when I was spending a lot more time alone,
the Simpsons was kind of that for me. I knew it would make me smile.
I knew it would make me laugh. So I'm just going to binge watch that.
And this is this is a long time ago, but like when you could buy the box sets.
Yes. And so I would go through like a season of the Simpsons in like a day or two,
like 24 episodes or whatever and stuff.
Yeah, this is not short seasons either.
No, and I bring this up on comfort a little bit, but also because to bring the point
that we trigger certain things, oh, nicotine caffeine.
These are addictions that your hardcore drugs.
You can be addicted to anything.
Yeah.
It's true.
It's like we've found out with social media.
So whether it's caffeine or it's any of these other things,
moderation is always the key and remembering who is in control.
That doesn't mean that it's just a snap of the fingers and everything will be okay.
But we need to be reminded oftentimes that we are in control of these things
and that the more we are reassured of that, the more power we have to make these changes.
That said, I ain't giving up coffee.
I just like having it.
Yeah, it's, I mean, and to be fair here, caffeine is pretty low on the list of dangerous drugs.
Okay, yeah, it can affect things in your body.
Or if you're on some kind of medication that it interferes with.
Exactly.
Or if you have a specific medical condition or your allergic to it,
which some people might be who knows, you know.
But in the scheme of things, you would have to take like how much caffeine
to like literally hurt yourself, you know, to be honest.
Sugar is probably more harmful to your body.
It would probably get you quicker than caffeine would, right, in the end.
So yeah, it's really down in the list.
There's been times when I haven't had coffee.
And yeah, maybe I could get a headache or something.
But it's not like, I'm like, I need coffee kind of thing.
It's like, okay, it's fine, you know.
I could probably, if there was a reason, I could probably give it up and be okay with it, you know.
Let's skip it.
Yeah.
And I do skip it every now and then in the morning, not work day mornings,
but sometimes weekend mornings.
Is it just as much a part, the routine part of it?
Absolutely.
That is a part of that.
Some of that.
You know, just doing it.
And to be fair, that's what a lot of addiction is too.
Yeah.
Oh, it is the routine, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's, yeah, exactly.
You know, I did during these really hot days because I did not want to add more steam
and humidity to my apartment by boiling water.
So I did resort to microwave instant coffee.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
A couple days.
But to make it palatable, I put in a lot, number one.
And then I also added maple syrup and coconut milk.
Oh, wow.
Nice.
It was almost like an instant coffee latte.
Nice.
Those tend to taste a little flat to me.
That seems like it would kick it up a little bit.
Well, and also when you add a lot of the instant coffee grounds, you know.
I mean, when you take and you pour it back into your cup and it kind of looks like the clay that they put on their faces at spas.
Oh, man.
Not like the consistency, just the color.
Yes.
I'm having a coffee facial.
Maybe it doubles as that.
Oh, wait a minute.
I don't know.
I mean, they use coffee for a lot of things.
It's a very effective animal.
That's fair.
That's fair.
That's very true.
That's not something you want to think too much about.
Maybe it'll stimulate your skin.
So the wrinkles, you know, maybe it will keep wrinkles from on your face.
I don't know.
Maybe it will try this.
I don't know.
Am I the only one that the thing that prevents me from having a bigger coffee cup is carrying it?
Like in my car.
Like the coffee place.
It's got to fit in the cup holder, man.
I broke my coffee cups.
I had like five minutes and I was looking at coffee cups and I didn't find one.
But I was looking at like I was going big at first.
And then I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
That's never going to fit my Jeep.
I got this giant like slurpy kind of thing.
Yeah.
The only thing preventing me from being more of an addict is basically convenience.
It's just that.
That and the people who will judge you.
Oh, absolutely.
Yes.
Now, I used to work for a lady who would not drink out of like coffee anything besides her coffee cup.
Like her mom.
Oh, wow.
Like an actual China tea cup.
Kind of coffee cup.
All right.
And she would bring them in her car.
She'd bring them in her car to work.
But she'd show up with this cute little.
Wow.
That's cool.
Yeah.
I don't know.
That's just her thing.
Kind of fun.
Love you, Dar.
A weird way.
Yep.
What is the, uh, and I'm asking this for a good friend of mine.
What is the largest size coffee mug you can have that people will not judge you for?
16, 24.
Well, okay.
So I did, I did catch some plaque.
No, those are soda level cups.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, we're talking here.
Big gulps.
No, like I did catch some flat from Pat and Parker the other day when they saw my mermaid coffee cup.
I mean, it's, it's only actually like a two cup size.
But I only have one cup of my two cup size coffee a day.
So it's two cups, but it's two cups of one cup.
In one cup.
Yeah.
It is a large mug.
I don't know.
So they look larger than they probably are.
Mel drinking out of a beer stine.
Yeah.
I only have one cup of coffee a day.
One.
I like that.
Now I want to see that.
I actually think that that's a thing we should do.
We should have this beer stine.
Beer stines.
Beer stines.
It's coffee in it.
Oh, good lord.
Oh, my god.
They're big.
That's all I'm thinking about.
So I actually, that's where all this leads back to is what is the biggest size coffee mug I can have where I will not be judged.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back with some people that got great coffee right now for you.
El Café.
We will talk about that.
And our birthday and anniversary club coming up.
It is Melissa, Seth and James.
Take it you through your morning here at 975 FMWFHR.
You heard the boys time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café in the birthday and anniversary club.
What we're about to do is encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us.
Check out some of these great specials.
Say hi to the gang over there for us.
And of course, enjoy the atmosphere.
Yes.
You know, I know we touch on it from time to time.
But I really love that building.
I've been in there a number of times before it was El Café.
And even now with the new owners and all that,
it energy has just gotten stronger over there.
It's a great way to start off your day.
100%.
Oh, and it's great food.
And yes, well, it's not as dark as I usually like my coffee.
They're coffee is good.
Check it out everybody.
If I was in port Edwards, I would go try my hardest to start as many weekend mornings.
These days, my mornings are obviously a little covered.
Just a cup of coffee and a pie.
Like that thought.
That sounds really great way to start your day.
It's a great way to start your day.
Really, really good way.
Breakfast at Champions.
Yes.
Yes.
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Everybody we're looking forward to hearing your birthdays and anniversaries.
Oh, dang it.
I just looked at their specials.
I want blueberry pancakes.
Yeah.
Oh, that sounds really good.
I know blueberry pancakes are so long.
I know blueberry pancakes.
You just know that they use real good blueberries in there or something.
Oh, man.
And yeah.
Is Adele, do you like Duke deliveries?
That's a good question.
See, this is why she's ahead of news.
That's a great question right there.
That's awesome.
Also, the meat lover's Benedict.
I would totally eat that.
That sounds alright.
Yeah, that sounds really good.
All of these sauce, dude.
That sounds pretty good.
That sounds pretty good.
Melissa, I need a one or a two.
One.
Alright, because that's that qualifier.
We can get right into it.
First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Harold Engelbright.
Happy birthday, Harold.
Harold.
I like that name.
I like it.
Great, Harold.
Happy birthday.
Got some good nickname.
How?
It's always a good one.
I like how.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, sir.
Enjoy your day, hoping you have a good one.
And our qualifier, Pam Ross.
Happy birthday, Pam.
Happy birthday, Pam.
Happy birthday, Pam.
Pam has not only done some incredible, impactful, some of the most impactful work in this community,
working at ODC and being one of the really first people at that there and working and helping
our community.
The way ODC has grown, she has been an integral part of as well.
And then it's, of course, her as a musician.
And when it's the Antoinettes or her just playing herself and with others, she's entertained
in this area so much, she's done a number of different things on those levels.
Yeah.
Pam, I've told her this many times, she has an honorary mail-off as well.
When my family first moved here and we're living in Rome, my aunt, my aunt Paddo, is one
of my favorite people to ever exist, suffered from brain trauma and was pretty much what we
expected and what we were told, I should say, is a homebound and that she would not really
do much else.
And I was her best friend and we played games and did a lot of things.
You didn't get out of the house and this is a woman in her early 20s.
And just kind of more frustrated than we realized, Pam came to the house to work with her and
did this for months.
And to the point where they finally got my Aunt Pam, a job at Shopgo and she started working
there through the ODC and the rest is history.
Like my aunt has been married since, she is off traveling the States.
I'm pretty sure she's in Florida right now.
And just living her life every time I see her, she's smiling and my aunt Paddo is one
of the best smiles you'll ever see and it doesn't happen without Pam.
That's right.
That's so cool.
And I bring that story up and I know I've repeated it many times and I will continue to
and part because it is a perfect example of what this ODC does for our community.
That's one person, one family.
Think of all in the 20, 30 years they have been around doing this, how many families
they've been.
Many businesses have been much stronger because ODC employees are working there and they're
some of the most reliable, countable people you can think of, Pam is an integral part
of all of that.
It makes our communities better.
Absolutely.
And for that she gets to qualify for LCAPI.
That's no small feat.
That's right.
It is.
We appreciate you, Pam.
I mean, she did have a 50-50 chance, but yeah, exactly.
That's why we need more birthdays.
Yes, more of them get them to us, everybody.
Well, let's see who you're sharing your birthdays with.
Like Phineas O'Connell is 28.
He is Billy Eilish's older brother, producer, co-songwriter.
Yes.
Now, the two, I watch a really good piece on Billy Eilish the other day actually.
The two have not split up.
They've just kind of gone their separate ways for right now.
Just this recent tour, it's the first time that she's touring without her family.
She is always toured with her mom and sometimes her dad, but obviously with her brother.
He's just kind of like, needs a break and kind of like, you know what?
She, they've been kind of a big thing for a long time.
She's got to fly into her own thing and it's really cool for all of the parties.
There's no artistic differences or anything like that.
They're going to work together again for me.
I'm sure they are.
They're their next album, they will.
But I think that's really cool.
You don't see that all the time and everything.
I cannot, as a overprotective proud older brother, I can't imagine what he must feel
like for her and all those things.
He's incredible, man.
I hope he starts doing soundtracks because his production, I would leave to you to be
able to touch on it much more, but he does some things that I have not heard a lot of
people do make seamless and make really work.
Part of what she's very talented has a wonderful voice and all that.
What I got brought into was his production, what I got into was his sound.
He's a remarkable all-around talent, a musician and producer, he's got a tremendous ear.
It would be interesting to see if he decided to go on his own a little bit and see what
he could do because I would be very interested as well.
Hope Solo is 44, Olympic and World Cup Hero, who is one of the greatest female gold tenders
in world history.
And as one of the most fantastic names ever, I mean, hope Solo come on now.
Seriously.
She's 46th birthday to Deva Zappa, Frank's youngest daughter, Sister of Moon Unit, Dweezel
and Ahmed.
I wonder how they, what they think about their names.
Well, they seem to have got used to them.
Well, how could you not?
I mean, it's your name.
Curl up with the dad like that.
Yeah, yeah.
It's probably as normal as John, it probably is.
Jamie Presley is 48 underrated, underappreciated actress.
You might have seen her on mom or my name is Earl.
I, Joe Dirt, she's in that too, underrated scene in Joe Dirt too.
She was, she started her career interestingly enough.
She was a starlet in a lot of, you know, kind of, be movies, kind of thing.
She kind of cut her teeth on those.
I love the fact that later in her career, she's got some really good roles and she's really
good at it too.
It's incredibly funny.
Yes, incredibly funny.
Her timing is great.
Hillary Swink is 51.
Oh, wow.
Yes.
She won the best actor.
Sockers for a million dollar baby and boys don't cry.
I may remember her as well from the next cry to kid, didn't get an Oscar for that one.
She has, I don't know if it's still around or not, but she had a little lastkin show or
something on Hulu that my mom and dad were just drawn to this love debt and everything.
She's got a nice fantastic career.
The core from 2003.
Yeah, I remember that one.
I forgot about that one.
Good reference.
Tom Green is 54, writer, director, of course, Tom Green show and many other things.
Tom Green later in life and after that has been very open about his cancer struggles and
some of those things and bringing more attention to that and has not changed really too much.
It's pretty much still, Tom Green retired from the business there for basically for a while.
I know he's Canadian too, so not that we should hold that against him, but he said the reason
he did that is because he was starting to feel not that he wasn't being true to his authentic
self.
Yeah, wow.
Something like I can't word it right, but if something he said in the interview that
I saw about being a caricature of himself or something like that, that would be a weird
thing.
I would think.
That would feel very weird.
I just heard an interview with parts of an interview with Jim Carey who was talking about
that.
He's like, everything is a character, everything I am is a character.
It's one of those dicey things that you were learning more and more how to handle and
how to adapt to with, we've never known more about our stars.
We've never known more about people with social media and all this.
We're getting more and more than we've ever gotten.
People knew like five things about Carey Grant, his whole life, his whole career or whatever.
Now we know that within a text or I mean with a post and everything.
People are definitely being more open about themselves, but we have those other magazines
that we don't want to talk about.
Right.
About do nothing but dig through garbage and try to find dirt.
Christy Taylor is 54.
A couple of underused, underappreciated people here, Sally, sit well at a lesson development.
She was also in Zoolander movies, Dodge Ball, the Brady Bunch movies.
She played Martian, the Brady Bunch movies.
She was married with Ben Stiller for a while there, thus a lot of the movies she did with
him.
She's very good.
Yes, very pretty.
I don't know why she doesn't work more, other than just not, maybe she doesn't want
to.
I don't know.
Top five directors I want to work with, Christopher Nolan is 55 today.
Director of the Dark Knight Trilogy, Dunkirk, Memento, Inception, Tenant.
If you want to be Oppenheimer, if you want to be Interstellar, if you want to be pushed
as a viewer, if you want to be entertained as a viewer, it is almost the best to do it
right now.
I also directed one of the Harry Potter movies, I believe, too.
Man, he is one of those guys that, that you, that, that's so rare.
Not only does he make interesting films and he experiments and he takes chances, but
he's also a huge box office success.
Yeah.
You not see that very often.
No.
Well, I don't know how he does it, but he's, he is phenomenal.
He may, if somebody told me he's the best in the game right now, I wouldn't fight him
on it.
Yeah, I believe it.
Terry Cruz is 57, better known as Hal in the expendable movies or of course the old
spice commercials where you really got a big break.
Brooklyn 99 is another one that you can see him on and a me too silence breaker.
He got blackballed for a while there because he came out and talked about how, yes, you
know, producers were trying to make moves on him and things like that.
And at the time and, you know, still really one of the few men that have come forward
about that stuff.
And I thank him for that.
I appreciate him.
It was brave.
Yes.
Great actor.
Very funny, very likable and everything.
But honestly, for me, that's the biggest thing he's done with his career right now.
Yeah.
Don't have enough people.
It's happened in the plenty of men.
It's happened.
He heard from a few, but not a lot.
Yeah.
And just don't, you know, don't hear about it.
The great, the legend Lawrence Fishburne is 64.
He is more fierce.
And of course, pops on blackish and a million great things over the years, furious styles
and boys in the hood.
And I mean, you brought legitimacy to that movie.
I know who this is.
Oh, yeah.
I once, it's a lot of times I don't know their real names.
That's true.
He was in the matrix.
Yeah, the matrix movie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kate Bush is 67th.
Love Kate Bush.
Oh, lover.
Love Kate Bush.
Love, love, love, love.
That woman who did not compromise, even when she started in the music business, she's
like, I'm going to do what I'm going to do.
And people will like it.
And they did.
She had a lot of success with her music, but it was not conventional.
I will tell you that.
No.
I'll say her voice.
And we're certainly pushing boundaries with a lot of the production, a lot of the things
they were trying to do with her songs back in the day, running up that hill.
Of course, got a second life with Stranger Things, and that was kind of cool to see for
her.
Which is it?
She started writing at 11.
I don't know.
She's writing songs.
And running up that hill is one of the most fantastic songs ever written.
Yeah.
Such a good song.
And a very happy, happy, where's it here?
It's a happy 69th birthday to the very brave Anita Hill.
I tried to refer to her in that way going forward because we did such a poor job as society.
Now I was a kid.
We were all kids when Anita Hill was going up there and, you know, talking about, testifying
about Clarence Thomas.
And it didn't stop things from happening.
He's still got the position he did and all those things, of course, and he is currently
on there.
And we have plenty of evidence to show that he has been swayed.
He can be bought.
Clarence Thomas is for sale and we know that in part because of Anita Hill.
She tried to tell us this early on with how creepy he was and all those things.
And I'm not saying anything out of turn here.
This is all documented.
It was on television.
And he's apparently not ashamed of any of this either.
So he doesn't, he's not going to mind me saying any of this either.
We, the way she was treated by media, the way she was treated by comedians and all those
things is disgusting.
And we just got done talking about this with Malik and Lewinsky the other week.
I, I hope that we can be better about these things going forward.
I don't know if we will.
Yep.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 78.
Woo.
Get in the chopper.
Get in the chopper.
I'll be back.
Yes.
I'll be back.
Yes.
Yes.
So I think last year I told about my mom had a little connection with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
She graduated with her master's degree from UW Superior and he was getting an honorary degree
at that same thing.
So he was at there.
He actually came to the commencement, gave a speech and everything, which was kind of
fun, you know, because he went there briefly when he was first, you know, when he first
came to the country and was going to, you know, going to school, he went to UW Superior
for a little while, which I didn't know until it's like, well, well, here he is.
And so it was, that's kind of cool.
But other than that, my other connection is I have a friend that asked me once.
He's like, so I need, I'm writing a story and I need a name that sounds like Schwarzenegger,
but I don't want to use that name.
Can I use yours instead?
To be the governor.
I was like, sure, go ahead, you know, so my name is, there's, there's, there's, there's
a close to Schwarzenegger.
It's, I mean, the ending.
It is.
It's very close.
Yeah.
It's close.
It's close.
I like it.
That's fantastic.
Also, Henry Ford would have, was born on this day in 1863, passed away in 47.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back with more fun for you.
Everybody will talk in aliens when we get back.
Or are we?
Are we?
The question is, I'm going to have more caffeine.
I think we're going to find out.
Coming up.
Boarding show.
Oh, yeah, time to get into the segment.
It doesn't sound as good, does it?
I still I like it, though.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning, show here at 9755FMWFHR, Melissa, Seth and James Hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us, especially if you can hear us.
So, so we had a little issue last night, our computer that we used to stream on the app
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It just did broke down.
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So, we're still working on that, getting it fixed.
But we are streaming.
It's just not where it's supposed to be at the moment.
It's like Freaky Friday, okay, but it's a Wednesday, because we like things weird.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaking of.
Yeah.
Speaking of weird.
We got to, we got to talk about this story with this lady in the ring camera.
So, a mysterious ring camera footage sparks some alien speculation.
Seriously.
A California woman's doorbell camera captured a video of a mysterious figure that has some
residents speculating about alien activity.
Jessica Ortiz shared footage on social media showing that the ring camera foot picked
up outside her comp, uh, Compton home after dark of, uh, the video appears to show.
Oh, well, I'm just going to show the video to you.
Yeah, I was going to say, did you see it yet?
So, what's that?
Did you see it yet?
Did I see the video?
I did not watch the video.
Okay.
So.
Okay.
Well, you're going to have to watch it like multiple times because, yeah, so there's this
quick.
There's this video right here.
Okay.
You got to look in the bottom right corner.
You're right over here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
See?
See?
Right there.
No, sir, there's that.
It's like a little cone-headed three-year-old.
Right.
Right.
Then there's, there's this footage here, too, of this one.
I don't know.
And I don't know why that one has it like, um, it almost looks like it's like there's a cloud
over that part of the.
Yeah.
Is that their way of drawing attention to the right part of the video?
Because then they will move it.
Yes, it is.
Okay.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
So, you see right there.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you only really see it from the waist up.
Yes.
Yes.
Because it's, yeah, but the head is like, uh, I don't know what would you call that hammer
headed?
Uh, yeah.
It's, it's a macrocephalic, like, syphilic head.
I would say.
Oddly varied.
Please explain first what that means, big brain.
It's a big head.
He's got a big head.
That's what it is.
It's a big head.
Oh, so that's what I should call you, macrocephalic for now.
Yeah.
There you go.
That's cool.
Everybody's naked.
That'll roll right up the top.
Let's take a call real quick.
A good morning.
You're on the morning show.
Morning game.
Hey, bud.
How you doing?
Well, tonight, I had a bad night.
I dropped up on a muffler and I woke up exhausted.
No.
No.
That's rough.
That's rough.
Oh.
I am.
Oh, that's good.
That was good.
That was good.
That was good.
Well, you hope you're happy.
You're just as good of a morning, bud.
Thanks so much for calling to make it as laugh.
You have a good one.
You take care.
Oh, that's great.
Best listeners in radio.
Appreciate you.
With this lady, I, one thing I wanted to note that I thought was, uh, no, fun about,
oh, not fun, but not worthy about the interview.
She was kind of panicking and someone, anyone please explain to me what my ring camera
is caught up.
A caught here.
I don't want to call anybody.
And, and to that point, she doesn't want to call the police.
And I appreciate that.
I appreciate that she did not call law enforcement for something like this.
Right.
Now, to most of us, I think we kind of assume that you, why would you do that, Benson?
But nowadays, man, we, you know, we are, uh, I think they're too quickly to, uh, bug
law enforcement for things with they are not to have, you know, it's not really under
their jurisdiction.
Right.
I mean, let me, sorry, ma'am, uh, we, we, we, they are aliens, but you can do if you're
law enforcement.
Like our officers are very well prepared.
We don't have jurisdiction about diplomatic immunity or something.
Yeah.
Will Smith didn't even know what to do with, uh, Independence Day, like, oh, these guys
are supposed to, I mean, uh, I, I, I, you know, serious, I, uh, I don't want to take
this too seriously.
No, you don't.
You should, because the alien, you know, you know, if it's at, you know, the shape,
it looks like Roger from American dad is what it looks like.
It does.
That's all it is.
Seriously.
So I thought it's straight looks strangely like, uh, the aliens from aliens.
Yeah.
Right.
Like a little too much like that.
Hmm.
The, the, the, where is the Gourney Weaver when you need her?
Oh, that alien would be trouble.
Um, uh, so the thing that got me on this one is this is from UPI, the story.
Mm hmm.
It's not from like, you know, BigfootIsReal.com kind of thing, you know, so.
It's from a legit, generous, it kind of bugs me, though, that that's what they put in
the headline.
It's like people's regulated aliens.
That's, it's so click, baby.
Come on.
UPI.
Come on.
Well, what else were they supposed to put Seth?
Well, it was a strange mysterious thing on the ring camera.
Mysterious intruder on ring camera, or not even a true, they didn't intrude anything.
They just walked past.
Mysterious Walker on ring camera.
There you go.
See?
Yes.
I, uh, this is an interesting.
I like that.
I like just very white, very blank and very just, uh, since the dawn of newspapers, uh,
there have been headline reporters, uh, reporters that are, uh, that were strong writers.
Yeah.
That's their job.
You gotta come up with the crazy headlines and everything.
New York Post is still doing it.
Um, and some other, and, and we've kind of seen a, uh, that come back in, in many ways.
It's true.
Uh, but mostly in the clickbait thing, like you're talking about the, you know what they're
using.
Right.
Oh, fair.
Fair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, when you, when you lean on AI that much, uh, it's, what's going to happen?
There's been multiple stories recently that have been, uh, reported on and everything
and they've had to go back and take them out because it turned out that they a, the
dad that they had, uh, wasn't correct.
Uh, there was a sports illustrated article on Lucodontic that wasn't correct, uh-huh,
because they Google the answers and got AI and it was wrong.
Shack your sources.
Yeah.
AI can be wrong.
A lot.
Uh-huh.
And substantially wrong.
Yes.
And that, um, it, God, you guys are great, uh, your team me up so well today because what
I wanted to touch on with this is I, if I am an alien, now is the perfect time to vacation
on earth.
Yep.
Even if we get like a non-stop footage, 24 hour footage of an alien, nobody would be like,
oh, that's fake.
That's fake.
That's fake.
That's what it's going to believe that.
It's just generated.
Like, this is the perfect time to be able to walk around and, uh, and just rock that
line.
Yep.
I mean, I would, I mean, earth, this time of year, perfect time to vacation.
So I don't know.
I mean, away from the wildfire or smoke, maybe, but, you know, we're probably safe for
now.
Yeah.
Um, I, I do have to say though that writing for the web is a different animal than any
other kind of like journalism writing or essay writing that you have to do because you
have to hit all these, these different things to make it show up in, yeah, to make it
show up in searches.
So I think that it's not necessarily all the writers fault or that, you know, headlight
writers faults because we're, we're constrained by some of these things.
It's something that, um, like sometimes there's no bad guy.
Sometimes there's no hero.
It's just people.
And this is something that we have created as a society.
The internet is the Wild West.
Yeah.
And, and this is one of those things we're going to have to adapt to.
We're going to have to figure out the right ways to do this and handle this.
And as people I, and again, it might be my last naive bone in my body, but I believe
we are smart enough and we are, we can work together enough to really figure these things
out and to get to a better place with this where we do have, oh, this is a reputable
source.
We all know that it didn't start out that way.
It's not as if they came out the box this way.
It earned, they earned our respect.
They earned our trust.
Those three broadcasters we've talked about many times when we, when we watched when
we were kids, they didn't just come out the gate that way.
One guy didn't come out the gate that way.
They earned it over time.
And if we have more sources doing that, we'll be okay.
We will be able to get through this.
I understand that it can be really scary.
It can be a little freaky right now, but I don't know.
I feel like, well, we've done this before.
Go back and look at what Orson Wells did with War of the Worlds and Radio.
We've been scared before by fake stories and we've been all right.
We come out the other end and we're better for it.
If you ever want a real trip, go read about the story from 1830s of the New York
Sun and the Batman on the Moon.
It's a great story about just what we're talking about right now.
It's a classic Batman on the Moon.
Batman on the Moon.
Batman on the Moon.
Here I thought this was like a new story.
No, not Batman.
No, Batman.
I thought it was all right.
I guess I'll look into it still.
And I still, again, aliens out there.
This is the time to come here.
This is it.
This is the good time.
You've been invited now.
We will be back from our show coming up, Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Feeling those good vibes on a Wednesday.
Hope you all are having a great hump day out there.
Europeans don't hate us.
That's bad light.
You want to say we're talking catchy headlines, right?
That's what we're going to be.
They don't hate us here in this room, you know,
because they've not had any contact.
I have no idea how they feel about you out there.
I just know we just know us.
Yeah, we're good.
We're good.
That's the way we celebrate it.
The travel strike upgraded points pulled over 2,000 a pole.
It sounded like I said pulled over like they just pulled you
over to have this pole.
Answer these questions.
Take two, pulled over 2,000 people in Europe to find out
how they really feel about tourists from the US.
And turns out, yes, we can be annoying, but not all tourists.
Around 1,000 Americans were also pulled.
And 40% of us think that we're a little more annoying
than people from other countries.
And 36% of people in Europe agree with that.
But not really that high of a number.
No, it's not really as high as I think a lot of us would
think.
I agree.
About 19% of Europeans said Americans are actually
better behaved than tourists from other places.
63% said we're usually friendly.
42% said curious.
And 32% said fun.
All of those are higher ratings than Americans give themselves.
Oh, that's interesting.
OK.
Just over.
Go figure.
Americans are harder on themselves than most are.
And we're more fun, apparently, than we thought.
Just over half of us also think Americans come across
as arrogant, but only 27% of Europeans said that's actually true.
So taking a really low number there in comparison.
40% of us also think that we seem rude,
but just 12% of Europeans think that we actually are rude.
That's because they've met people from France.
Yeah.
Oh, one thing everyone does agree on is Americans are loud.
69% of people in the US think we could dial down the volume
a bit and 70% of Europeans agree.
We're just loud.
That's all the countries that find us the most annoying
are Portugal, Belgium and Ireland.
People in Poland, Spain and the UK think we're pretty cool.
Oh, wait, that's hilarious.
So the people in Portugal don't like, but Spain is fine.
Yeah.
And Ireland has that opinion because there's so many Americans
like, I have a little Irish.
Oh, that's got to be annoying.
More than any other European country.
Yeah, Ireland gets that actually if the actual number of people
that had Irish in it, like there'd be like Ireland would have
like like 50 million people.
There were a lot of immigrants that flood Ireland
during the potato famine to be fair to the US.
So yes, there is there's some Irish blood over here.
Yeah, but it's been, it's been mixed quite a bit.
Quite a bit.
Yeah, it might depend on which state
you're from.
People from Texas were rated the most annoying
overall Florida and California were next.
By the way, we agree.
Hey, you know, there's lots of people from Texas.
A lot of people I like from Texas, but there's this weird
thing about Texans.
They cannot get over the fact that they're from Texas.
Oh, everything's bigger in Texas.
Well, and it's and they're apparently this is like taught.
I don't know if it's in the schools,
but they even mentioned it.
Some of the more self-aware ones.
They're like, yeah, that's what you hear all the time
when you're growing up.
Texas is different.
Texas is ascent is exceptional.
Texas is this.
Texas is that.
So I guess it's kind of bred into them.
Well, to that, I think that when you look at the history
of Texas and how it used to be its own country
and then that changed and all those things,
I think you talk about old school Texans
that didn't understood that and knew that
and that all they got out of it was,
well, our capital is as tall as the capital in D.C.
That's where we could also talk about their power grid,
but there's an exception issue.
But there's a chip on the shoulder of a lot of Texans.
That has been inherited in many ways now.
I know this as a Chicagoan.
Chicagoans, most of them won't admit it,
but there's a huge chip on Chicagoans' shoulders.
In the idea of where we rank in as far as second city,
and all that, in most people thinking that
is a slate where it's actually more of a phoenix thing
and a rebirth kind of thing.
Sure.
And I know this because of my oldest joke I've ever told.
I used to make my not a laugh all the time.
You wanna know how you can tell somebody's Italian?
Wait a minute.
We'll tell you.
We'll tell you.
We'll let you know.
Texans are very similar.
They are very similar.
People were proud of where we're from.
Now, is that where the loud part comes in?
Because that part I thought was interesting.
I've never thought of us as loud,
but I also come from an Italian family.
Where we are.
Every part of the course, yeah.
We sleep loud.
We do everything loud.
Well, and also our accent is loud.
So when you're listening to crowds of people
with speaking their own language,
and I think it was that people speaking British English
sound more like a herd of sheep.
Yeah, I was gonna say sheep.
And then French sound more like a gaggle of ducks.
And Americans sound just loud.
They sound like a herd of water buffalo.
It's probably what they sound like.
Yeah.
No, a flock of crows.
Nice.
I've never been out of country.
Sorry, murder of crows.
I was gonna say it right.
You know what I was gonna say.
I've never been out of the country
so I don't know too much of how I would handle myself
or anything, but I guess I would tone it down a little bit.
I don't know.
Maybe lower than that track and sucks a lot.
Be less loud.
All I can say is that I love the idea.
The one time I was in New York, I was in England.
So technically you're up, I guess.
But they knew my name.
They pronounced it correctly
and they knew exactly where it was from.
Which was a revelation to me.
It's something that's never happened before.
I go to this, you know, the conference I'm going to.
I go to pick up my thing and my thing.
And they're like, oh, nice, nice Swiss name.
