BAM! (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin, good morning, world, it's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5FFWF HR.

Your host, James, joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker, good morning,

and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

Everyone has a fun this morning, and we're kicking things off the way we like to, with

our friend, Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brent.

Good morning.

How are you guys?

We're doing all right.

Yeah, doing better now.

How have you been?

I have been hanging in there.

I had some really bad back issues.

I think we got a bed for a good chunk of this week, finally got to the doctor, got some

relief, and now I'm back with bad news.

No, it can't be bad news because we got your back.

Yeah, that's great to hear.

We appreciate that, and God, can I relate to back pain?

My God, can I relate to that?

I empathize with you, and thanks a lot for being here, Brittany, so that bad news, what

are we looking at?

Uh, unfortunately, I'm going to kind of repeat what I said last week, Friday, where I'm

like, okay, we've got flooding potential, we've got some bad storms in the batter's box,

swinging into high heat and humidity, a front stalling over the state, well, all of that

is happening again.

We are looking at, yeah, I know, just a bad, bad setup again.

So highs today, it's grating about 90 degrees, two points in the mid-70s.

It's going to be feeling like mid to upper 90s today, so stay hydrated, keep cool with

all of that said first.

Then by this evening, the timing is off.

These model runs have been all over the place.

It's really hard to pinpoint how this front is going to set up, and when the low pressures

are going to be swinging through because they're going to be multiple of them.

So expect waves and rounds of thunderstorms starting tonight.

Tomorrow morning, we're going to see more.

Tomorrow afternoon, another good chance, which gets even heavier as we go into tomorrow

night and Sunday morning, and then the system still sits here over Monday and into Tuesday

to potentially giving even more heavy rainfall.

So, gosh, how many days is that for?

Yeah, about four or so, yeah.

Yep, and right now, the heaviest rain totals are all over the place.

I would say my target guest is along 94 from O'Clair to about Reevesburg, maybe Madison

area.

We'll see some of the heaviest rain totals throughout the weekends.

Should really prep for some flooding potential that I think everyone in the order of Wisconsin

should really just be ready for what could possibly happen this weekend because our

soil is already super saturated.

If we get some strong winds and some of these veer potentially storms, that could not

freeze down easier because it's not really gruted really good when you have all of that

water still in the soil, so power outage is possible, more rain, rivers rising, stuff

like that, unfortunately.

Yep.

Well, at least we are much more prepared for it.

We're ready for it.

And you know, this is kind of what we know.

Well, I mean, this is it.

We'll do what we can, right?

She being up to date on it, Brittany, and being able to talk with you about it as well.

And I want to encourage our audience to get to WFHR.com and not only sign up for that newsletter

and get that in your email box, but Brittany's not just great at meteorology.

She's great writer too.

Check out some of the work that she's got over there and our website.

We appreciate that input from you, Brett.

Thank you.

Of course.

Anytime you guys stay safe and stay dry this weekend.

Yes.

You as well.

Rest up and we'll talk again on Monday.

So good.

So a good one.

You too.

You too.

You guys, there we go.

Now it feels like a show.

Now it feels good.

We got great stuff on the way for everybody.

The El Caffe birthday and anniversary club is right around the corner celebrating Friday,

Saturday and Sunday.

Looking forward to that.

I am the most competitive person in this studio, in this building.

Yeah.

I believe that.

I will compete with anybody about that.

That is how competitive I am.

And we will talk about competition coming up.

No, okay.

And El reality.

How competitive are we?

Oh, we got a new poll to look into that one of our competitive we as people are in

all that.

That's coming up a little bit later.

I got some odd stories of the day to throw in there as well.

Getting some entertainment news to kick off the 10 o'clock hour.

Let you know what's new on your small screen, your big screen.

Let you look a little bit behind the curtain of a local theater production going on.

Oh, those are always fun.

I know a guy.

So I got a connection with the show.

I don't want to brag.

Yeah, right.

We'll talk about that a little bit later inside a little inside the studio right there.

And our before we wrap up and get to good stories of the day and everything in our final

segment before that.

I'm going to let Seth choose which topic we do.

All right.

Two different ones.

Okay.

We'll see which direction you go.

I have celebrities who left Hollywood at the height of their fame.

Okay.

Interesting.

Or 1090s TV shows that change the world.

That changed the world.

Okay.

All right.

I'll roll over these choices and I'll let you know a little bit later.

All right.

Hopefully you caught Melissa's news.

Great work by her.

As always.

In there she was mentioning our National Day of Counter and coming up we've got a thrift

store.

Yeah.

That's right.

Encourage people that had the thrift store.

Celebrate that and everything.

Let your local goodwill.

Your local thrift store.

A couple of places in town here.

Yeah.

Today is National Relaxation Day.

All right.

Relaxed everyone.

Ciao.

Take it easy man.

Relax.

Take back.

Relax.

But how much time do we really need to spend relaxing?

Ooh.

Okay.

A study found that 42% of your total day should go towards rest in relaxation.

Wow.

10 hours per day.

Wow.

Well, this is a benchmark.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Yeah.

This is not like.

This is not what people are actually doing.

Right.

So they should be doing.

Right.

Exactly.

If you sleep eight hours and they're, of course, you know, that's right.

Yeah.

Another laughing moment.

That leaves two hours of other forms of relaxation.

Like so they're including sleep into this.

Yes.

Which makes sense.

I like to talk with your friends or your partner or exercising or eating.

Your body and mind need at least that much time to help you recharge and to avoid burn

out.

Okay.

All right.

It doesn't necessarily need to be consistent every day.

If life gets crazy during the week, you can fit in more downtime during the weekend to

make up for it.

All right.

Now, that seems to be a little bit counter to some of the other studies we've done as

far as well.

I don't sleep during the week, but I can make it up during the weekend or the James model.

Which does not work.

I will tell you right now.

Well, you know, the whole never sleeping ever.

That's hard.

That's hard to keep up.

Yeah.

Just telling me.

If you think you, if you think you were deficient in a relaxation, in relaxation this week,

try to spend a few hours relaxing this weekend.

Yeah.

So I don't think it's like trying to get more sleep.

I think it's just trying to take it, you know, take it easy kind of thing.

Just try to, if you're feeling really, you know, our bodies are amazing in a lot of

ways.

The ability to recharge even after a short time is pretty remarkable.

You know, as you age, it gets less and less.

You can do that.

But still, wow.

That's amazing.

Just get, you know, sit back a little bit and all of a sudden you're feeling, wow, I'm

ready to go.

You know, that kind of thing.

We don't, we don't give, especially when we're young.

We really don't give credit to the ability to stay up until three in the morning, get

up at seven.

Yeah.

And be fine, right?

Yeah.

And of all the things I was told that my, you know, my mind would be a little bit touchy,

you know, here and there.

Take care of it as you get older or something in our family.

Your body is going to ache by the time you're 16, probably let alone to get more and

more.

It starts.

There are certain things.

I am having a hard time letting go of it by body, especially.

I am just not, I am a night owl who does morning shows.

Yeah, right.

It's not a great combination.

But, you know, I can't help it.

It's, it's what's going on right now.

Yeah.

And you start to feel it after a while.

You start to feel it, take a toll after a while.

You Britney's point about the back and everything.

That's, that's an important time to let your body recharge and not just mind.

Yeah.

I do not do that for my body.

I need to.

I need to do that.

It's one other thing that's, it's usually your body tells you if you go too far.

I mean, it really, for me, I know it does.

It, you know, there's like literally specific things my body does to tell me, all right.

No, we're done here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're going to, you're going to lay down right now because now you don't feel good

because you're going too much or whatever.

You're not taking enough breaks.

So, yep.

My body tried for so long to talk to me.

It would try so hard to get me to listen.

It, now, later in life, it just does what it wants.

It just, if I'm in the middle of going over some prep for the morning or I've got the

test in interview and I'm working on that and everything and I've got all this different

stuff going on and it's one in the morning and my body decides it's done.

Sleep.

I just fall asleep wherever I am.

The wall.

I'm just down.

I woke up.

I was, I woke up this morning.

Half on the floor and half on the couch with my fur brother, but say, I'm like, it buried

into my side.

Oh my gosh.

I don't know how I did this.

I know it didn't start that way.

What is explains the back, too?

Yes.

Who that does?

He was, the folks are out and I was, I'm keeping an eye on him this weekend and everything

is him and I.

It's a boy's weekend.

We're having some fun and we, um, he was, he's a wreck.

He doesn't do well when the folks are out.

He's like one, two in the morning.

He's still running around once, you know, yeah, yeah, oh, wait, wait, something's missing

here.

I'm not sure where he is.

I got going.

I got running late.

Next thing I know it's six in the morning.

You know, I'm, you know, uh, what happened before it's funny, it's something happened.

You know, this is weird to me because that never happens to me.

It's always a process for me to get to falls.

But the thing that happens to Beth, man, we kind of joke about it for a while there.

It's like, oh, you hit your wall.

Yeah.

Then I'm like, wait, that doesn't make any sense.

It could be as, you're actually stopping and then it's more like the wall falls on you

is what it is.

That's, so that's what we call it.

Oh, the wall fell on you, huh?

I like that.

I like that.

Uh, we've got, uh, uh, you can go to national today or stylist.com, either one of those

websites.

If you'd like to hear this more, how do you relax out there?

What does your go to way to relax?

You need to unwind.

You need to settle down.

What is your favorite way to relax?

Let us know.

I'm not just asking, so I can take notes and steal your ideas.

Oh, you just, you just, you know what they are.

You just haven't done it.

No, yeah.

You're right.

Watching the mindless television, you know, read a book or do one of those, you know,

repetitive games on your phone or something.

Even those can be relaxing.

Absolutely.

Uh, you know, there's no wrong, there's no, that's what those things are really for.

Really?

Yeah.

Is that kind of stuff?

Mm-hmm.

Whatever it is.

Uh, certainly, you know, we've read and done plenty of reports about blue light and,

you know, using screen mates and stuff before it bad.

Uh, I think that what relaxes, some is works for others, you know, so you got to go with

what works for you.

Exactly.

Reading a book is a great one.

I think that's a good one.

Yeah.

I know that helps me a lot.

For sure.

And, uh, certainly, you know, the mindless TV, the mindless TV is a great one for me.

That's, I have, I have found an interesting one, um, podcast with me, and I feel bad saying

this because it's like, I fall asleep to your podcast, but it's, they have a certain

tamper to their voice or something like that.

I just said a timer, so it'll, you know, shut off after five, 10 minutes or something

like that.

And that seems to work pretty well for me.

Oh, it's a good one.

Yeah.

It's a good one to go to.

Uh, and there's plenty of soft music, maybe.

Yeah.

There's plenty of them that are built for that, right?

Not just like white noise, but like they're, they're giving you a story or something

like that.

And it's a, it's something.

A S M R, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

There's a lot of, that is a huge market too.

I feel like that be an industry that would be fun to work in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That kind of voice is.

Yeah.

It's kind of a monotone, but it's more, you know, it's just soft and, and, and, and very calming

kind of voice.

Yeah.

It's got to have some personality and a little bit of it, a little, not too much though.

We don't want to wake you.

We will, we'll, we'll, we'll, we're changing over to station.

We're turning that in.

And then we'll put you to sleep station, WFHR has become sleep station, sleep station,

sleep.

Sleep A.

Sleep A.

Sleep A.

Yeah.

那 connection, there we go.

We're leaning to the A apart.

We will lean into the L cafe birthday anniversary club.

That's right around the corner and keep in mind after our, sports and partner break.

We will have our star the day from our friends from callvers, Seth and I got a famous TV show

to play for you.

Yeah, theme song right.

We went some free callvers coming up right here on Morningset, WFHR.

You heard the boys, time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L Cafe and

the birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself get on over to L Cafe today, 221 Market Avenue in

beautiful Port Edwin's Moon.

Wish them a great day from all of us and keep in mind if you can't get there this morning

or anything.

Yeah, you got tonight.

You do.

It's Fish Fry Friday.

Fish Fry Friday.

Get on over there.

Everybody.

And enjoy that.

Check out some of those specials.

If you tried the churro pancakes, please tell me why.

Oh my goodness.

God.

That sounds amazing.

God.

That sounds amazing.

They come up with some really remarkable stuff over there.

I got to say.

My voice is here.

My body is at OK.

My heart is over there.

His soul is over there.

Yes.

I want to try those with everything I am.

That's amazing.

Head on over there today.

Everybody check them out.

And buy local support, local support those that support this community like L Cafe does.

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Appreciate our friends over there.

Hopefully they have a great weekend.

Enjoy themselves.

Yeah.

And get us the most birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call on up 715-424-2600 is the

number call.

Do it right now.

If you have a birthday you want to share or you want to just wish someone a happy birthday

or you want to invent a birthday for a fictional person.

We'll even do that.

We will take it.

They just can't qualify this.

No, they can't qualify but we'll take it.

That's fine.

We love made-up names.

We go ahead and get it to us.

Everybody we love celebrating with you.

Seth, I need a one through a one or two.

One or two.

One.

Gives us that one.

And we have an automatic qualifier on Saturday.

And then on Sunday I need a one through three.

Let's do three today.

All right.

Gives us that one.

Get right into this celebration.

And first up I got to wish a very happy birthday to my little sister, my backbeat Jillian

may love Zowski.

Oh, happy birthday Jill.

Happy birthday Beans.

Every year I remember, it gets a little faded I'll be honest, but I remember the first.

But you were what?

10 years old and you won, right?

I was five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Oh, five.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got some of that.

We're going to work on it.

We're going to share in my misdeeds.

And boy asked by Bob and Dad how that went.

Yeah.

Because that boy said, yeah, but into this day, still the best sister you could ask for.

Very cool.

Jillian, as I mentioned many times, we're city people and stuff.

And naturally, but Jillian, though, spent a lot of her childhood out here in Wisconsin.

She was a brownie in part of 4-H.

And not too surprising.

Her and her husband, Mac, got a place of Madison outside of Madison.

They've got some, you know, chickens and they got a cow and all this.

A little hobby farm, man.

Yeah.

My mom was there the last week and she couldn't find Jill.

She goes out there like six in the morning.

My sister is milking a goat.

Milking a goat?

I mean, I'm sorry.

A cow.

Oh, okay.

Well, either one.

Yeah, it's right.

You're the goat milker.

She was milking a cow.

I like it.

I've heard this about four or five times since then.

I still can't wrap my brain around.

It's awesome.

Hey, me, man.

I'm proud of it.

It's like she's enjoying it.

You know, that's the important thing.

She's never been happier.

She's loving it.

That's cool.

That's cool.

Enjoy your day, Beans.

Talk to you a little later.

We wish a very happy birthday to Doug Castan.

Happy birthday, Doug.

Doug, enjoy your day.

I love the name.

Last name, Castan.

Castan.

That sounds regal.

Yeah.

Enjoy the day, Doug.

Hope it's good one for you.

And our qualifier today for this Friday, August 15th, Amy Cyple.

Happy birthday, Amy.

Congratulations for qualifying.

Yeah.

You're our qualifier.

Enjoy the day, Amy.

Yeah.

Taking a look at Saturday.

We get to put the spotlight on Tracy Griffith.

Our qualifier.

Ooh, Tracy.

Congratulations.

Happy birthday on Saturday.

Automatic qualifier.

Yeah.

Put that right in there.

Yeah.

And then on August 17th, Sunday, we got a couple of local ones that we want to celebrate,

like a good friend of urine, UNI's, Mike Egren.

Mike Egren.

Happy birthday, Mike.

Coming up on Sunday.

Wow.

Definitely one of my favorite actors I've worked with, and certainly one of the best I've

worked with, and one of the best to touch WRCT stage, whether it's as a writer or as

an actor, Mike Egren has just done some incredible work in this community.

He's fun to be a co-cast member, a co-cast member with on shows, because he's a lot of fun

to work with.

Mike is a real giving actor, really works with other actors, and pretty much directed

me in the first time I worked with him on musical comedy murders, and I'm internally

thankful for it.

I saw Mike's brain, and I'm like, okay, I'm going to be an information vampire, and I'm just

going to take everything I know, which I can from him.

Appreciate to Mike and Joe your day, and thank you for sharing your wife with our cast,

so Susan can be a part of on Golden Pond, very cool.

Enjoy your day, Ben.

And a very happy birthday to a special lady here in town, Kim Shields.

Oh, Kim.

Happy birthday to you.

Kim joins us from encouraging all the time she has.

She has.

We've been talking to Kim for years.

And Kim actually a little bit longer than that, even being good friends with her brother

for a very long time.

How cool.

The impact that Kim and encourage having this community is unwardable.

I don't know how you would put it into words or in a sentence, but we appreciate you

for Kim.

And we encourage you to enjoy your day.

Get some relaxing in today, Kim.

Relax today.

Enjoy yourself.

Enjoy your day.

And he got it.

It's relaxation day.

You got it.

It's over itself right there.

I have a great birthday, Kim.

And on Sunday, our qualifier, Ramona Lubak.

Happy birthday Ramona on Sunday, and congratulations to you.

Another great name.

Enjoy the day.

Ramona.

Yeah.

It's an anniversary.

It's with, well, for today, Jennifer Lawrence is 35.

Really?

Only 35.

That's crazy.

She's been around for a good 15 years, I mean, and she was so young when she started.

Katniss and the Hunger Games, Mystique and the X-Men movies, Oscar winner for Silver

Lightning's Playbook.

Just, I mean, I can keep going.

And she's 35, and this is what she's done.

She's got a Meryl Streep type of career going.

Yes.

Like few actors do.

She's had a pretty remarkable career so far.

And she's picked some interesting roles throughout her career, too, that you would not have

pegged her for.

She is going to challenge herself.

She is not going to take a role unless it challenges her, and I really admire that.

It would be so easy to do rom-coms and certain things with her style, her ability, her talent

level, her looks, all of those things.

She does the exact opposite, man.

She does.

She reminds me a lot of what Reese Witherspoon wanted to do with her career.

Reese Witherspoon wasn't planning on doing rom-coms and a lot of those things.

She really wanted to be taken seriously as an actor, i.e., you know, the winning in Oscar

as Rose and Cash and everything.

But Jennifer Lawrence has been able to really stick to her guns on that.

She has.

She's played a variety of roles.

X-Men, Hunger Games.

She's a big blockbusters in everything.

I'm not saying that she doesn't do that style of movie, but you don't see her in a lot

of traditional boy meets girl movies and a lot of those kinds of things.

Nothing against those, just it's not her thing.

Let's see here.

Natasha Hendrich is 51, a great actor.

The whole nine yards, I really liked her in that.

She was in species and she spies Eli Stone, a couple of years ago.

She's had a good career.

Yeah.

Ben Affleck is 53.

Oh my gosh.

We talked about him the other day a little bit.

He said he's had a strong career in a better-

He's better than any career.

He is not a world-class actor.

I don't think he is an Oscar-Calibur actor, but he is so much better than he gets credit

for, and I encourage people, especially if you're an action junkie like I am.

Watch the accountant.

It's his best work.

It's a silly action movie, but he plays an autistic guy, and he plays it better than

I've seen most people ever play autistic people.

As somebody who's been a part of that world a lot in the last ten years, for 20 years

almost, I paid a lot of attention to a lot of mannerisms, a lot of things.

Not as much as he did, like he really went in on the, and it's interesting.

There's two of these movies, and in between that, there's been a long stretch.

Well whenever they would ask him, as he's winning an Oscar for directing Argo or some of

these things, say, what's one of your favorite roles right away, the accountant?

That's the one I'm proud of.

That's when I had to watch that movie.

I was like, what is this?

Him and John Bethroll make it believable as brothers.

He is so good at it.

It's easily, I think, his best work.

And you get a lot of action.

Right.

You get a lot of action.

I think I would say to Ben Affleck, he's actually quite a good director too.

We got to throw that in there.

I've directed some fabulous movies.

Oscar winner.

Stop doing commercials.

Ben?

Yes.

Stop it.

They're not.

No, just stop it.

Just keep, stick to the movies and directing and stuff.

You do very fine work there.

Stay, stick with that.

Anthony Anderson is 55, a blackish and a barber shop and some of the other great ones.

Island Big Anthony Anderson fan.

He was a, he guest spotted on the TV show I was doing out in California and could not

have been cooler.

That's really cool.

I did bring a, we thought he brought his own wardrobe.

Like he was dressed so good, we're like, well, he goes, we all show up and sweat pants

and things like that.

Because we just got to change anyway.

Right.

He comes in.

He's dressed so good.

Like, wow, Anthony Anderson brought his own clothes, like we didn't know we could do

that.

Nope.

He comes in completely different suit.

Yeah.

Completely different.

Wow.

Very good.

Really professional.

Real perfect.

But just as funny as you would imagine.

Right.

Whatever you're thinking, he's just as funny.

And so I'm on the match game too.

Oh.

Very funny on that as well.

Yes.

Debra Messing is 57.

Grace.

Wow.

We got a lot of really good TV.

Yeah.

Who made the, they're not just TV actors, but a lot of them that made their biggest roles

on television.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Big, big fan of Debra Messing.

I really like that.

She's quite good.

And speaking to TV Seth.

Okay.

This day born in 1932, passed away in 2014, Jim Lang from the dating game.

Oh my gosh.

Great host.

Great host.

He was good.

Wow.

That game.

That game, man.

That's, that's, that's show.

I'm telling you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's yeah.

Quick look at Saturday and Sunday birthdays on Saturday, happy 63rd birthday.

The second city's own Steve Carell.

Oh.

Wow.

One of the more versatile actors in the game today.

Yep.

Don't look like he's 60 either.

No.

He's looking nice.

Looking good.

Looking younger.

Like Scott in the office grew and despicable me.

Of course.

And some of the other great ones.

And you get a chance to see some of his serious work.

He is phenomenal.

I mean, his, I mean, it's, yeah, almost, I would say almost better than his comment.

How many work?

Yeah.

And that's saying something.

Madonna is 67.

Wow.

One of the greatest pop stars of all time.

You can't tell the history of music without talking about Madonna.

One of the most successful and for as well.

I mean, independent, I always did her own thing and it worked.

It paid off.

Uh, name me an artist.

It has been relevant.

That has had hit songs in the 80s, 90s, early, uh, 2010s, yeah.

Four decades of, of being relevant, of being as a female artist.

Not a band.

Not a pop band.

Not, not like that.

Just and do all that and do it your way, doing your style, never sowing out, completely

doing your thing the whole time.

Right.

There, like, there are a couple of people that you can mention that are a little like that

here and there and everything.

But I don't believe there's, uh, outside of maybe Dolly Parton, there's one woman you can

mention.

Who's done that?

No.

I don't think so.

And, and maybe Beyonce.

Maybe.

Yeah.

It's incredible what she has done and, and, uh, while I'm not a, I'm not even a big

giant.

I'm not a fan or anything.

I'm such a fan of greatness.

I am such a fan of longevity of being able to do what she has done.

That's, it's just impressive.

Oh, man.

Something else to think about talent scout with her label Maverick.

Yes.

She, she discovered several big acts as well.

I mean, yeah.

She's had a remarkable career.

Uh, Angel, a bastard is 67 tomorrow.

Um, uh, you know, her from Black Panther.

She's been on the, uh, 911 TV show.

She was commissioned and possible.

Uh, sure, should have won an Oscar for playing, uh, Betty Shabbaz and Malcolm X.

Should have won an Oscar, uh, last year for this role, for this role, for this role.

Yes.

Yes.

It's, it's a crying.

Uh, it is a, a, a black eye on all of us in the screen actors guild that she has not

won an Oscar.

Yes.

She is one of the greatest performers I'll ever see.

Yeah.

She's, uh, easily, easily.

Uh, and, uh, let's see here taking, oh, Julie Numer, 92 tomorrow, the original Catwoman

from the show.

Yes.

Good for you.

You are as a little kid watching those reruns.

I didn't know Julie.

It was, you know, I didn't, you know, together that they were reruns.

Yeah.

So I kind of thought of Julie Numer as being like, you know, that time and looking like

that at that time and everything and, oh, man, she was something.

Uh, uh, on Sunday, happy birthday to Sean Penn, 65 incredible actor, very off the field

issue.

Yeah.

Good, good director as well.

But yeah, weird, weirdo.

He's weirdo.

Let's go throw it out there.

And Robert De Niro is 82 on Sunday.

Wow.

One of the most accomplished actors of all time.

Yep.

One of the, and what everything I was saying about Madonna, you can say about him in many

ways as an actor and staying as relevant as he is.

And one, while he has played some, you know, character, a caricature roles in, you know,

in, uh, meet the fuckers and all those kind of things and stuff, um, he will not let you

forget how good he is.

Robert De Niro is 82 for his 80th birthday.

He took on playing twin roles of, of actual people and playing a, a period piece.

Yep.

And some of the most, uh, hardcore acting he's done in his career.

This is a guy who changed the game of acting more than Brando ever did.

Marla Brando gets all this credit that De Niro should be getting.

And hopefully I hope as his career wanes down, I don't see what happens.

Yeah.

But De Niro should, they could do some cl, master classes on De Niro and the things that

he did that nobody was doing before him.

You got a 10 minute scene that he's going to do for raging bull puts on 60 pounds for

it.

Sheds that wake.

It's in great shape to do the rest of the moving.

They don't tell you how they did that.

How they messed it up.

Like they did it.

Like nowadays they would do it.

The opposite.

Right.

Back then they didn't have a lot of the ability that they did.

The movies that he, the pairing of him and Martin Scorsese, you can make the argument

as the greatest pairing of a director and actor, period.

Yeah.

I will.

I will take, I can fight anybody as far as the amount of movies they've done together.

I mean, not just one off or anything.

Right.

Um, it's incredible.

It is incredible.

What Bobby has done.

Yeah.

I wish him a great birthday.

It would have been celebrating a birthday on Sunday, Davey Crockett born in 1786.

Davey.

Davey Crockett.

It's a good one.

It's a good one.

It's a good one.

And we're wishing you a good one out there, everybody.

Enjoy your day.

Enjoy your birthdays and anniversaries.

Enjoy the news.

Sports and entertainment break.

We'll come back and make you a star of the day with our friends from Calvars on the

morning show.

I love that sound.

Lights, camera, action.

It is time to make somebody a star of the day with our friends from the Wisconsin Rapids

Calvars.

What Seth and I are about to do is play the theme music from a famous TV show.

If you know it, you have a one anything in 30 days.

Boom.

Just like that.

You win some free Calvars by calling up at 715-424-2600 or just a touch or two away on the

civic media.

Yeah.

That's right.

You do that.

You get in the kids, kids meal and adult meal from our friends at Calvars.

A big shout out to them wherever you got a Calvars, got a business that's put back

into your community.

That's right.

That's right, local, support, local.

That includes your local Calvars.

And oh no, I guess you got to get Calvars.

Oh, what a bummer.

Oh, I'm telling you.

Well, I guess if I have to eat cheese curds, I will.

Why not?

We want you to have those cheese curds in much more.

My dad used to say, I'll choke them down.

I guess.

I love cheese curds so much.

I shouldn't have said that.

Now it's all going to be sick of them.

We encourage you to get ready to call up and let us know what to, well, well, well,

okay.

No, no, no.

Don't jump the gun now.

Don't jump the gun.

I'll pull you in.

I'll put you on.

I guess.

Get ready to call it and let us know what TV theme song this is from.

There we go.

Let's see if we have ourselves a winner.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

That's Batman.

That is Batman.

That's nice.

Batman.

I was a little nervous because of the, you know, instrumental part, but nope.

We got it.

We got ourselves a winner.

Who do we have on the phone with us?

This is Nancy.

Nancy, thank you so much for listening and playing along, Nancy, where are you calling

us from?

We're right here and with good old Wisconsin rap.

All right.

I got ourselves a rap.

It's a winner.

That's awesome.

Nancy, were you, did you catch the old Batman TV show at all?

Did you ever see it?

Oh, yeah.

I grew up watching it.

Broken white.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, perfect.

Oh, my God.

That's awesome.

That's awesome.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I thought it might be a little bit of a curve because I couldn't use the original.

I had to use an instrumental because, of course, in the original, they're the shout out

the thing.

Yeah.

I couldn't make it that easy.

I couldn't do that.

Nancy, you'd have gotten it either way.

Yeah.

She would have.

I think so.

Yeah.

I'd have hummed it.

She would have gotten it.

She would have.

That's fantastic.

Thanks so much.

Did you have a favorite character on the show or anything, Nancy?

Did you?

Oh, I liked it all.

You know, they all had their places in the show.

So.

Kelly Villains.

I love them.

Some of the greatest cameos with some of the most established, great actors you've ever

seen.

I mean, just some of the characters and they-

These are Romero refusing to shave his mustache.

That's what nobody does.

That's what everybody does.

Vincent Price's Eggman or whatever.

Yes.

Yeah.

And of course, Julie Newmar as Catwoman and you just got done celebrating a bird days and

anniversaries.

I thought, well, we got to celebrate Julie.

No, Marlots, play that band.

They were good.

And it worked out for Nancy.

That worked out.

That's pretty good.

I think I'm going to get a little information from you off air, but you're our newest star

of the day.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That was awesome.

Yeah.

And of course, I'm going to go back and watch some of those scenes with Julie Newmar.

I'm going to have to.

I know I am.

I know I am.

But we're going to talk to Nancy first.

We'll get her information.

Be listening every Friday in this time slot for your opportunity to be our next star of

the day.

Big thank you to our Wisconsin Rapids Colvers and all of you for listening and playing

along.

Seth and I will be back with more show coming up right here.

The Morning Show at WFHR.

Oh, I thought you were going to do it that time.

No.

I don't do that.

I would pay money.

I literally give you money out of my paycheck to see you do it.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

Seth and Jane's hanging out with you.

Thank you for hanging out with us.

I hope you're having a good summer Friday out there.

Summer too.

I mean, yeah.

Hope you're having a good summer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got this interesting survey or poll that I want to get to about how competitive we are

as people.

Okay.

We'll get into that in a little bit.

For right now, I did want to bring up a couple of things going on here in town.

One of them wanted to mention that today is the final day of the Summer Free Meals program

for kids.

Spread the word about this one and make sure that everybody is attending that needs to.

Free meals are provided to all children, all children, 18 years of age and under.

Again, today is the final day to go up.

Lincoln Rappers up at 8.30.

Just wanted to shout them up.

Thank them.

Now, they do serve lunch from 11 to 12.30 over at Lincoln High School.

So you can still get lunch today from 11 to 12.30 over at Meade Park near the Splash

Pad on the 14th Ave.

You have 11.30 to 12.30 today, plus they are providing breakfast for tomorrow.

Same thing at Winter Park right outside the Aquatic Center on Chestnut Street.

You can hang on over there from 11 to 12.30 and pick up lunch and they will provide breakfast

for the next day.

Very cool.

We appreciate a great summer of this from them that they are able to do this at all is

a great feat.

We appreciate it.

Imagine all the different kids that have some energy, some food in them.

They wouldn't have otherwise.

They wouldn't have otherwise.

That's important.

Greatly appreciate the one that they do there.

And speaking of food, Seth, we had a lot of fun out at lunch at the river yesterday.

Yeah.

I know you guys were talking about how this went and a big shout out to the chamber was

a successful one.

It's always a fun time down by them.

We couldn't have asked for better weather either.

I mean, it was fantastic.

Sun was shining.

There was a breeze blowing.

Wow.

And we had a manic on Tuesday.

The band was playing.

They were a lot of fun too.

They played some songs.

I was a little surprised.

But they actually play a large variety of tunes.

So you look them up on the inner webs and you'll find out more about them because I think

they got a show coming up on the 23rd of August, I believe they said.

But also great food trucks there.

In fact, one of the food trucks that's going to be at our party next Wednesday was there.

And that is where I got my food because their tacos are amazing.

Oh my goodness.

I got chorizo ones and I paid for it later.

But I don't care.

It was amazing.

Oh my gosh.

So excited to see them there.

But always a fun time.

Thanks to everybody who came out, said hi because Pam was out busy handing out invitations

to our open house and we want to, of course, we want to see people coming up on Wednesday

as well.

But another successful lunch by the river for us.

It's always a fun time.

Thanks so much again to the Chamber for having us down there and everything we're looking

forward to.

We want to be a part of next year's as well and looking forward to it.

And we've got a couple of more lunch by the river.

So I've got two more.

Two more.

And so it wraps up on the 28th.

Yep.

We'll be talking about that next week.

All right.

We love being out and about in the public.

We're almost competitive about it with other states.

I mean, you might say that we are.

Actually, in all honesty, I think I'm one of the more sneaking competitive people because

I don't talk about it in my head.

In my heart, I can be very, very competitive.

But I don't talk about it usually.

I don't really mention it.

I don't need to prove myself to people in that regard.

Right.

I don't have that in me.

But I do, I was raised by an athlete and a couple of athletes, actually, and just have

a very competitive nature about me in my own head.

Now when it comes to this industry and this job, if you're not competitive, I don't know

how long you'll last.

Now, I consider, I have friends in this market that I like to compete with.

That I consider, you know, rising of the rising tide kind of thing.

I don't think competition necessarily is a bad thing in its essence.

Yeah.

I think competition brings out the best in people oftentimes.

And I do think that it has a place in society, especially when you look at what happens

when a monopoly happens in business.

Right.

Well, there's zero competition.

That's a bad thing.

It's a very bad thing.

You can take just about any industry.

Look at wrestling, for instance, where wrestling was kind of just getting away with stuff

for a long time and just kind of doing what, throwing out their gimmicks.

Oh, here's, you know, this guy, you know, and all that.

We're going to take this and just give it an item to a guy and make him build a character

around it.

Here's X-ray man, you know, and things like that.

WCW comes around, pushes WWE and makes them actually compete.

You get the greatest wrestling and some of the greatest creations of all time and all

that.

But then WCW can hang with it, WWE buys them out, and now they're begging people to continue

to watch.

Right.

This happens in tons of industries all the time.

I don't want to be the only radio station.

No, not at all.

No, not at all.

That doesn't, that's not good for our listeners, that's not good for us.

Right.

It isn't great.

I want to compete with other radio stations.

I want more, I want good radio.

That's what I want.

Yeah.

And I want us to bring out the best in each other.

Exactly.

I want the same thing with our civic media team.

Now with that, I believe in a rising tide though.

I don't want to push others down.

I want us to be all risen up.

Right.

I think that when you let the audience decide, you let people decide for those things.

Right.

If we're all trying to do our best, that's the thing.

Right.

If we're all putting out the best thing product we can possibly do, then yeah, then we

should get some people will be like, wow, that's really good, but they're good over

here too.

And maybe they listen at a certain time of day there, and they listen at certain time

of day here, whatever it is.

Absolutely.

It doesn't mean that we have to exclude that competition can, like you said, be good

for everybody.

Yeah.

The only, because monopolies are only good for the business owners, they don't benefit

anybody.

Absolutely.

They're the only people that have benefits.

People, employees, they're the only ones that do.

We've got some monopolies in here in Wisconsin that need to be eyeballed a little bit more

than everything.

It does not help consumers.

It does not help.

No, it's going to make come.

If they have the ability to set the price, whatever they want, guess where they're going