Those Poor Roadrunners (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM, WFHR.

Your host, James Bond, the Mike join by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Halfagor.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here.

Have a great start to your Thursday.

Happy Friday, Eve.

Let's kick it off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Milo, talking with a little

mother nature.

How are you doing, Brett?

Pretty good.

How are you guys doing?

Doing all right.

Doing all right.

Yeah.

Doing pretty well over here.

I feel like, am I alone?

Yesterday, I was in the studio for about seven straight hours, maybe eight.

Yep.

I go out to talk to Todd.

Todd.

I go out to talk to Todd.

Second, I get outside.

My eyes like dried up.

And I got to go, and I forget, and I'm like, oh, well, it's just radio.

And then I remember, oh, yeah, these guys, everybody else except for us, is on webcam.

So I'm on webcam with my eyes, just like, I don't know how they looked.

It just hit me.

How funny.

It's, I don't know if anybody, if that's been happening to a lot of other people, my eyes

have been just drying out like crazy with the weather.

It seems like it's getting a little bit better, Brittany.

Is it?

Because I can't tell.

And you know, I'm not sure if it's allergies, too, because I think it's easing a lot.

It's the eyes.

I don't even know, but this weather is drying out.

We are switching air masses, not today, but it is going to happen tomorrow evening.

And of course, with that, chances for rain, that's what always happens.

If we trade off air masses, we get a little bit of precipitation.

So it may not be the prettiest start to the day today, overkiss, and cloudy at the moment.

But as we go through the afternoon, it is going to be brighter.

More sunshine will pop out.

We will still feel summery today, highs flirting with about 80 degrees, very calm winds out

of the southeast.

And then a repeat, right, more patchy fog building in overnight, tonight, lingering through

tomorrow morning.

But then that cold scent pushes through.

It looks like showers and maybe a rumble of thunder is possible in the afternoon.

And then behind that, it's going to turn breezy and very, very fall-like.

So Saturday's highs in the low 70s drop to highs in the upper 60s on Sunday, which

dropped to highs in the mid 60s on Monday, though it's wild weather.

So we know when fall is coming, we don't drop right on top of us, yeah.

Mother Nature is in the football.

It just wanted to give everybody a good football weather.

Right, right, right.

Before we let you go, great to see you yesterday, Brittany, those who didn't know, she tried

to make it down here.

She got here like right when we were wrapping up.

And she was very nice.

She helped us clean up a little bit.

I felt bad, though, because you didn't get to see any of the other stuff.

I know I was sad, but hey, the food was delicious.

I was happy that I was with people.

I wanted to meet everyone and see everyone, but I was hoping to be the grand finale after

a fun forecasting come in with fireworks and a little rain, but nothing happened.

No, bummer.

Next year, next year, we're definitely inviting you next year, looking forward to it.

We, uh, we like team building around here and we're joking yesterday about a road trip.

And if Seth Melissa and I went on a road trip and what art, you can pick one artist you

can listen to for 12 hours, you got a 12 hour road trip, you can pick one artist, one

singer to listen to.

Does anybody come to mind, Brittany?

Anybody that you could, you would pick that you could listen to that long, that much.

First Brooks.

Nice.

That's a good one.

Nice.

Right.

Right.

That's good.

That's good.

That was right.

Yeah, but I was like, all right.

I could just listen to Thunder Rolls on repeat, honestly, for 12 hours, but that's an amazing

song.

No, no.

That makes perfect sense.

That is a song with, with, with the, the rain in it.

Yeah.

I mean, that, that's Brittany.

That's just too much.

She's just a weather nut.

Yeah.

All the way through.

All the way through.

We love you.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

You too.

Best in the business, right there.

Brittany, we're low.

Do it a bit.

That was perfect.

Perfect.

We appreciate her.

We're going to have some fun this morning, everybody.

Coming up, we're going to get into the, what is the national average?

Well, actually, there is a new record low of American drinkers.

We are going to get into that.

All right.

We will get into a man who spent all of 2025, repeatedly buying and returning 100 pound

anvils.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour with our great friend Denise and our pet of the

week from South America.

Yeah.

A big shout out to her.

Thank you for her.

Doing a double here, back to back day.

Back to back day.

She they were here yesterday as well.

Yeah.

That was very cool.

We have entertainment news and it'll start with William Shatner.

Wow.

It's bad a Shatner impression.

Yeah.

That's a bad one.

Everyone has a bad Shatner impression.

It's all right.

He's saying that great.

It's great.

It is.

It's great.

Coming up along with the most popular song at weddings is the most popular songs at

weddings.

Oh.

Oh.

Get into that.

I'm curious if that's changed much over the years.

Got some good stories of the day for you.

All of that coming up.

But I did want to start here with a the dropping of the phone dropping of the cell phone.

Okay.

If you have a cell phone, whatever age you are, however long you've had them, you have

dropped your phone multiple times.

Not just once, multiple times.

You hopefully have also had that wonderful moment of going to you're dropping your phone

which catch it.

Oh.

That's a feeling.

Oh, that feeling.

Especially back in the day when the phones weren't as, you know, they're a little better

I think now than they were back then, but of course you're not, you're alone so knowing

us to see your amazing catch, right?

That's that that is the catch of it is that nobody in the world sees it and your first

reaction is to look around.

Look around.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Please see that.

Anyway, sports center.

Get that sports started.

They never get my highlight.

I'm telling you.

We drop our phones a lot, even though they've become our most prized possession to some.

The average American will drop their phone at least 10 times this year, 60% said 10 times

or more.

And if it breaks, we're devastated.

Just under a third of people say that they've cried because their phone broke.

What?

Oh, all right.

I.

Yeah.

That's a little much, but okay.

All right.

Teach their own.

Yes, exactly.

38% would rather lose their wallet.

If 5% said breaking their phone would be more upsetting than crashing their car.

And 25% also said it would be more upsetting than losing a child in a supermarket.

They were joking.

I'm hoping.

I really hope so.

I really, really, really hope.

Let's just assume.

Let's just go ahead and assume.

Let's do that.

Just for our own well-being, right?

Just so we can sleep tonight.

Exactly.

Yeah.

They also ask people if they'd be willing to do five uncomfortable things to rescue their

phone from disaster.

So would you dive into a pool fully clothed at a wedding to save your phone?

I can see people doing that.

59% of people said they would.

Yep.

59.

Wow.

Okay.

I would, but only if the phone is in the air.

If it's already in the water, I'm reaching for it.

I got long arms.

I'm reaching for it, everything.

Yeah.

But if I have the opportunity in a suit to dive into a pool, like doing like a hell of a

kind of catch, what do you think I'm going to do?

I was going to say.

What do you think anybody that stole me for five seconds?

What do you think I'm going to do?

I'm going to take that moment and hope somebody takes a picture at the moment that it

happens.

Oh my God.

And I will put that on my wall.

I don't like pictures of myself.

Right.

I can handle.

Is anybody else like this?

My ex-wife made a beautiful drawing of me at the studio here.

I really appreciate it.

Shout out to her.

She's a fantastic artist.

I had it in my room and it felt so egotistical.

I couldn't do it.

Like I just, I can't, I don't know.

I can't have a picture of me and I can look at myself on the wall.

Baby pictures I can do, young pictures of me I can do.

I can have pictures, thousands of pictures of my kids or anything like that.

I can't have a picture of me if I'm with somebody else.

Okay.

But it's just like me.

Yeah.

Man, it feels, like nobody's in my room.

I'm the only person in my room that's like I guess coming over or anything.

And still, I can't handle a picture of me up.

It feels so egotistical.

I couldn't do it.

I can't even look at yourself.

Now that picture though, me in a suit diving into a pool, catching a phone and then going

into a pool.

A big old poster of that.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Would you climb into a dumpster?

56% of people said yes.

Okay.

You can always clean yourself off.

I mean, it's just a dumpster.

And would you reach down it?

Okay.

I got to say this.

So in the city, my Nana Papi used to tell this story about them strolling into the projects

and Nana as a former nurse being very upset seeing the kids not have anywhere to play.

And especially the place they played was the garbage, was the dumpsters.

We played King of the Hill on those.

And Nana was very upset about this until she saw who was very at the very top of the hill

pushing other kids down her grandson.

But I was at the top.

I was at the top.

Mixed messages from your elders.

That's what we had the story of my life, man.

That's how it was.

We didn't have anywhere to play.

Right.

Exactly.

You always find a place to do it.

Yeah.

I have no problem jumping in there.

Would you reach down it to a porta potty?

Nope.

Nope.

You can stop right there.

The sentence keeps going.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

I'm not, and I am not joking, man.

I have never seen porta potty's like theirs.

Yeah.

In all my years, fantastically clean and wonderful.

Even that.

No, sorry.

No, I'm not doing it.

An unused porta potty that just came off the assembly line.

I don't know if I'm doing it.

It's still there's something about it, right?

Something there.

Yeah.

And finally, would you miss an international flight?

51% of people said that they would catch another flight.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

If you don't, that has, you know,

ancillary things to it though.

You don't have your phone, you know, over this.

That might be a problem.

If you're overseas and you don't have like a phone,

because there's a lot of important things on there.

So, I don't know, that one I can see.

We don't have photo albums anymore.

So for a lot of people that don't have the cloud

or things like that.

We haven't backed it up, right?

These are the only, you know, collection of these photos.

There's so much of a privacy nowadays too.

Not just your bank, your social security number

and everything, but just personal things.

Everything, yeah, right.

We've really turned our phones into our photo albums,

our journals, our, you know, our most,

it's not, I don't know for some people sure

they're most prized possession.

I think they're their most protected possession

because of all that information

and that one little sensitive data.

I can, I can see where, you know,

the action of doing certain things.

But there's a line in the sand, man.

There's a line in the sand on this one.

Well, I do know my sisters dropped two phones in a toilet.

They were clean, you know, there's nothing there,

but two, twice, it's happened to her.

That's nice.

There should be a rule like only once.

It can happen once, sure, but it can't ever happen again.

I'm like our parking lot party,

which will be going on every year as long as we can keep doing it.

Yeah, that's right.

As long as we're here, we'll keep doing it.

We're already planning for next year,

but as far as this past one yesterday,

a rousing success to all of the staff

and crew around here appreciate you.

Yes.

Really appreciate everybody in the community showing up.

We had a bigger turnout than last year.

I thought we did from my perspective.

I was basically in the studio most of the time.

Everybody around here was working their tails off,

running around doing all this stuff

and taking care of you guys out there.

We really appreciate all the people that joined us on air.

Thanks to the ADRC's KC over there.

Sean at the VFW, love talking to Sean.

Katie from Grace, ODC and from ODC.

Denise, of course, from South of County,

Maine Society, joining us.

A very special thank you to Todd.

All about just walking right in

and jumping on the air with me.

Todd and I had said two words to each other

and at the time we were talking to each other.

I know, and it was fantastic

because I knew that we were, you know,

you didn't have anyone.

We were getting ready to start the hour.

So I just ran out and I said,

Todd, do you want to be on the air with James?

He's like, right now?

And I said, sure.

And he's like, oh, sure, okay.

We normalize that stuff.

People, if you haven't done that kind of thing

or if you don't know, it can be very difficult.

And you don't know what you're walking into.

No, he's never been in the studio.

He didn't know what he was doing.

He didn't know what he was doing.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, that was awesome.

And thank you for having me on your show.

A special shout out to Pat as well.

Having me on his show.

That was really fun to talk to him.

Get to know him too.

Pat and I had known each other for two minutes

before he jumped on the air.

Sometimes it's better that way.

Sometimes it works well.

Yeah, it was great.

Yeah, it was really good.

A special shout out to Milton Steele joining us.

It was so great to have one of the voices of the past

on with us to talk to a little shop with him.

Miss Milt, it was great being able to hang out with him

in a very big thank you to Milt

with the work he did.

And we put him to work around here.

We did.

He wasn't getting off.

No, no, no.

We made him do the staff suite off.

And yeah, yeah, he did a great job.

It took him very seriously.

He also felt incredibly guilty.

But he really did.

It was great.

It's like, oh, this a man of my people.

For those who wanted to know,

Milt chose the cinnamon French toast cheesecake

cups as first place.

I had some of that.

It was really good.

It was very, very good.

Actually made those, yep.

Oh, she did a great job.

Yeah, bottoms.

I really enjoyed the bottom part,

the crumbly part, the crumb kind of all was so good.

And he chose the rhubarb juice second place.

Yes, yes.

I loved that.

That was good.

I've never had rhubarb of any kind before.

I had it for the first time in the juice on the air.

Oh, wow.

And I was, I really, I'll be honest with everybody.

I thought it might be a funny bit

if I didn't like it or whatever.

But I ruined the bit.

I liked it.

It was really good.

It was really good.

I made the mistake of telling Melissa that specifically.

And I'm never going to hear the end of it.

Oh, did she make it?

Yes, that was Melissa's.

Oh, that's right.

She said the Rhubarb, I am an idiot.

Yeah, yeah, she said, I'm a fool.

She got fresh, she got fresh rhubarb

from the farmer's market.

And she made the juice and it was good.

It was really good.

Nice work, mouth.

That was really good.

That was fantastic.

The banana chocolate chip craze and cookies,

the mint dirt cake and the chocolate covered fruit

were all incredibly good too.

I really liked that mint dirt cake.

I'm a sucker for dirt cake.

The mint dirt cake won the People's Choice award.

By the way, throw that out there.

And that was, of course, our own Pam.

He'll keep me, though.

Nice, nice.

That's really good.

Pam makes the most amazing sweets.

That's really good.

I thank you to everybody to work on that one.

Appreciate you.

As a warning next year, I will be coming.

I will be coming for the crown next year.

Oh, you got to figure out what you're going to make.

I got to make something.

Oh, you got to make something.

All right.

I just, I need a fryer.

OK, well, and we'll work on the acer.

And a baker.

I'm going to pull it up.

I'm going to pull it up.

I'm going to have my mom make it.

And let's say I did that.

I'm joking.

I'm joking.

I would never do that.

Cheater.

But that's the only way I'd would.

Shout out to our businesses that came by and hung out with us, our mayor that stopped

by so many of our representatives being here and everything.

And of course, our nonprofits.

And most importantly, of course, all of you.

You guys showed up in droves here.

We really appreciate you doing that.

We, of course, have our actual anniversary in November.

We'll be on the lookout for that.

And as we're getting closer and closer to that, get us your recipes.

We are making a cookbook.

Speaking of milk, the reason we picked milk to be our celebrity judges, he appeared on

the cover of the 50th anniversary cookbook.

And that's kind of what gave us the idea to do another one.

It's been 35 years.

35 years.

So it's like, about time that we did another cookbook and we want recipes from everyone in

the community.

And that's what that's what we're looking for.

Welcome to us, everybody.

You can Facebook messages.

You can email us info at wfhr.com and drop them off if you'd like.

We will also encourage you to follow along on our Facebook pages.

We'll have a link soon for you to be able to go to and sign up there and check out the

website.

And immortalize your recipe in a NWFHRWI cookbook we're looking forward to putting them together

for you.

Yes.

Looking forward to the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

It's right around the corner.

Here on WFHR.

Celebration.

You're a little bit better and ready for some celebration.

Some time to get louder and not by yourself.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA in the birthday

and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over there.

Everybody, 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.

Wish them a great day from all of us.

They got great stuff going on over there.

Seven to two.

They're open.

Go check out some of those amazing things that they have and stop in and check out their

pie case or indulge in one of their specials.

Check it out.

Yep.

Got a cool pie case over there.

I like that.

Absolutely.

It's a very old school.

I love those things.

I love LKFA.

Everybody.

Wish them a good one for us over here and get us those birthdays and anniversaries so

we can celebrate with you.

Yes.

You can email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can call on up.

715-424-2600.

Call up now.

Wish someone a happy birthday over these airwaves or give us some other ones that we put

on the list.

Either way, we want to hear from you.

Look forward to you joining us, everybody.

And taking a look at our list, we need a one through three set.

Let's do two today.

Alright.

Yeah.

I like that.

Alright.

Get ourselves our anniversaries up.

Qualifier, man.

So first up, we want to wish a very, very happy birthday to Greg Johnson.

Happy birthday, Greg.

Enjoy your day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We also want to wish a very happy 33rd anniversary to Harvey and Brenda Henke.

Oh, Harvey and Brenda.

Congratulations.

Happy anniversary to you.

I love when I hear names together that I would never put together, but they sound good.

They sound great.

Yeah.

I'm with you.

Harvey and Brenda, that sounds good together.

Yeah.

And our qualifiers, celebrating their diamond anniversary, their 60th anniversary, Gary and

Carol Gilbert.

Oh, Gary and Carol, congratulations to you.

Wow.

60 years.

Wishing you the best of days you guys.

Best of the best, yeah.

Enjoy.

Enjoy.

It's Thursday.

I say celebrate right through the weekend.

Enjoy.

Enjoy and be listening.

Sounds like their whole life has been a celebration.

That's what I'd love.

And when you've been married that long, yeah, I think you should treat it that way.

I would.

I don't know.

But there are a few things that I admire or adore more than these long anniversaries.

Happy congratulations, you too.

Enjoy.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.

Hayden Pettiteri is 36.

Julietta Nashville, she was a big star, her big break was heroes, haven't really seen

much of her since.

No.

Before that, I think she did some Disney stuff too, if I remember when she was a youngster.

But yeah, she's only 36.

Hmm.

Yeah, she started young.

Casey Musgraves is 37.

Mary Goround, follow your arrow.

Got a couple of hits.

Yes.

And the fastest human being I have ever seen, Usain Bolt is 39.

Yes.

Demakin Sprinter, who there were a couple of Olympics in a row or was a headline and

Dominating.

Must watch television for me.

I say Usain Bolt is the fastest human being I've ever saw.

I've watched track and field since I was a little kid.

It's one of my, if not top five favorite sports favorite things to watch, especially the

Olympics.

I've never missed track and field in the Olympics.

I've never seen a worse, a worse starter who won than Usain Bolt.

You talk to people that know track and field much better than I do or anything.

And his starts were rough.

They were not that great.

And yet this man dominated this sport top finisher of all times.

Some of his best finishes are him leaning over and smiling and stuff and not necessarily

at his competitor, but at the camera.

That's how fast he was.

That's how good he was.

He could have imagined how good he was.

He would have fast he would have been if he was a good starter.

I mean, that's like record breaking, never to be broken kind of stuff, right?

Yeah.

I very rarely win the Olympics.

I'll be honest here.

I very rarely root for other countries.

I'm just a homer.

You know, USA, USA, all that.

When ever in track and field and he was in it, I couldn't help myself rooting for him.

I always wanted to see the Americans win.

All right.

I didn't feel bad when he whooped him because he's that kind of athlete.

What are you going to do?

Yeah.

It was great.

Brody Jenner, 42, another Olympic legend.

Mm-hmm.

I'm happy.

Gosh.

Didn't get to see Brody Jenner, but my dad would talk all about him.

Yeah.

I've never heard of that name in a long time.

It was incredible.

Incredible.

What he did about it.

Colise is 46.

Singer.

I had the big hit milkshake.

Okay.

Let's see.

Here.

Oh.

And Moss is 58 under appreciated underrated actor, Trinity in the Matrix movies, of course.

She was in Daredevil, the Defenders and all of those, just strong actors.

All around.

Fantastic.

Her performance in Memento.

It's amazing.

I really like Nike's character.

I think Nike Pierce is an incredible, credible actor and his, that's my favorite performance

of his.

That's his greatest work.

Very, and Moss is working that, though.

They're, them together is just an amazing, I mean, fireworks.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Surge Tankin is 58.

Incredible singer, songwriter, for a system of a down.

One day I will play him for Halloween.

I actually look a little like.

Okay.

There you go.

Yeah.

We are both from this, our people are both from the same area, of course, but yeah, yeah.

I got to see a system of a down at Osfest one year.

Still one of the most impressive performances I've seen.

Everything you hear from him on audio, he can do live.

It's amazing.

The whole band, really.

Yeah.

But he is incredible.

I got some really good.

Their version of Snowblind is one of the best covers I've ever heard, too.

Then, in Nativity and Black CDs, when they came out, the covers of Black Sabbath songs.

Okay.

A bunch of famous artists doing Sabbath and their version of Snowblind is one of the best

songs on there.

That's cool.

It's a non-stop incredible.

My main man, Jim McMahon is 66 NFL veteran who's obviously as a bear guy.

I love Jim McMahon and I appreciated him as a quarterback.

I also understood that he was never the best player on the field or anything like that.

I think that makes his career even more impressive.

Two Packer fans out there, Jim was the guy who kneeled down at the end of the Bret Farve

Super Bowl, I believe, and got a Super Bowl ring as a bear.

And a Packer.

I can't imagine there's many, maybe, no, Steve McMichael, I don't think McMichael did.

No.

I think he's the only one might be able to say that.

That's an interesting trivia question.

That's something to look that one off, yeah.

And all that said, and yeah, a big mouth and all those things, but he could back it up.

And Jim McMahon has been on the forefront of talking about dementia, an early onset

to mention, talking and being honest about it.

A guy who image was such a big deal has been the exact opposite as an adult and with his

second act.

I'm so appreciative of him and the way he has been so blunt and honest about these things.

Incredible guy.

Yeah.

All around, I think.

I am so much more impressed with what he's done with that than anything he ever did on

the football.

100%.

100%.

And the guy gave me a ring.

And he gave all of you one too out there.

That's right.

Helped you.

Helped you one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Kim Catrellas 69, Samantha Ansecs in the city.

Also, let's not forget she was in the police academy, movies.

Yes.

mannequin.

mannequin.

Yes.

mannequin.

Yeah.

Kim Catrellas.

What did the, I have to say, for those, I mean, if you're not a MST3K fan, she had a fun

relationship because they did one of her films, you know, in that period between like when

she was kind of a star with mannequin and then, when section of the city came out, where

she, she, you know, they did, they did a song about her and everything.

Kim Catrell and all these kind of things.

Love it.

It's one of the better bits.

She caught the show like she was on location or something in a hotel room.

She caught the show and she sent flowers to Crow T. robot.

That's so beautiful.

That's so awesome.

And then she later came to their, they had a couple of conventions in Minneapolis.

She came to one of the later ones in person just to talk about the movie.

She's a fantastic human being.

She's so cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anybody that can get the joke.

Yes.

I respect and appreciate it.

I feel the same way about Halle Berry.

Yes.

She's got her similar things about her and stuff.

I really good.

I appreciate it.

Yep.

And a good actor.

She's good.

And a legend to Kenny Rogers, born in the state in 1938, Seth and I were celebrating him

over on the sunrise show in 191055, the gambler coward of the country.

We've got tonight islands in the stream through the years.

She believes me.

I could keep going.

I didn't say lady.

Lady.

Jeez.

Lucille.

There's another one.

How about first edition?

I just checked in to see what condition my condition was in.

One of the weirdest, funnest songs from like the late 60s.

I love that song.

It's all time.

All time.

Absolutely.

I was in my classic rock days before I knew that was him.

I didn't even know that was him.

I just didn't really sound like him.

Yeah, that's a thing.

No, I had no idea.

I love that song.

Yep.

And speaking of my classic rock days, one of my first favorite singers and bands, Joe

Strummer, born in this day in 1952, passed away in 02, the clashes lead singer songwriter.

Oh, yeah.

I loved the clash.

Still love the clash.

Do you have to learn how to play guitar if your last name is Strummer?

I think you can.

I think you can, too.

Don't you?

Yeah.

No, you got it.

You got it.

You got it.

A big fan of the clash.

Yeah.

Me, too.

And Wilk Chamberlain born on this day.

Still.

Some people tell you the greatest center of all time.

Plenty of things about Wilk, according also his claims.

Of course.

We don't know.

But we can say one thing.

No one dominated the league like he did when he was playing.

I mean, he just was literally ahead above everyone else.

Ever once in a while with modern day centers from Shaquille O'Neill to David Robinson to Tim

Duncan.

Duncan was more of a forward, but when you hear people talk about stats or they did this

in their career or something like that, it's always compared to Wilk Chamberlain.

Whenever you are in this, you hear how many sports people say, whenever you're in the

same breath as Wilk, that means something like that's the bar he is at, where he is the

standard of this position, incredible, incredible career and athlete.

We are going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to celebrate out there like it's your birthday.

And especially if it is.

We will come back after this break and we'll have some more fun coming up on the morning

show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Waiting for that guitar.

I timed that out wrong.

Set the James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Hope you're having a great Thursday out there.

Happy Friday.

Got an interesting one here Seth and there are a handful of things that I don't like

predictions and I get really, really tired of people to predict things and when they're

right and they got to tell you how much they're right about their predictions.

Even though they were wrong like nine times out of ten, right?

Yeah.

Literally every sports person out there, whether you're paid for it or not, I mean, it

just cannot help but have to mention that everything.

If you're good at something, let other people brag.

Just saying.

Don't notice.

But there are certain things like for me, I never would have dreamed that you'd walk

into a gas station, you know, 80s kid me, you'd walk into a gas station and there are no

menthol cigarettes.

There are very few things.

Right.

Yeah.

I understand where vaping is and all those things but things like that I never would have

saw coming.

Right.

How common we have gotten made recycling with my mom when I was a kid and she was first

getting us to start doing that and everything.

I never would have dreamed that we get to that place.

I don't think in the amount of things that I've been surprised by the amount of surveys

we've done.

I don't know if there's been many.

This is a top five biggest surprises to me at this stat.

Ask someone if they want to go grab a drink and there's a good chance they'll say, well,

you mean a soda?

You mean coffee?

Yeah.

Like it's really changed.

The culture when it comes to this in many ways.

The number of Americans who drink alcohol has just hit a new all time low.

That's amazing.

New Gallup poll released yesterday found just 54% of us sometimes have a drink or two.

That is the lowest since the Gallup poll started tracking it back in 1939.

Wow.

Amazing.

Amazing.

That's incredible.

That is incredible.

Back then 58% said that they drank at least occasionally until now the lowest was 55%

in 1958.

It has only increased since then until it's course it started to decrease.

This drinking rate has been plummeting since the pandemic in 2022.

67% said that they were drinking then.

So we have gone from 67% in 2022 to now 55% or I'm sorry, 54% now, which may not seem

like a lot, but in surveys and all of that, that's a big jump.

That's that we're talking millions of people in that that just that one percentage point.

One reason for the decline is more people see it as a health risk now and young people

are a huge part of that trend.

Absolutely.

The overwhelming like as far as like, you know, the curve knocking off the curve or anything,

it is the majority of 21 and it to 30 that is bringing that number way down, 53% of

Americans now think even moderate drinking is bad for your health up from 28% a decade

ago.

And you can find this at is it gallopold.com or dot org is it's dot com.

Yeah, it is.

Gallopold.com.

You can find the complete article.

Everybody.

And that's and that's I mean, we're talking the the granddaddy of of polling like so they

have like their reputation is as good as anything.

Yeah.

I saw this in my generation, but not right away.

I saw my generation do what most do at 21 and you're going to hit the bars a lot and

you're doing to that 22 and 23 a little bit, but I even saw at 24 25 some of those age

ranges where you started seeing a lot less of that.

And I think a lot of it had to do for at least the people that I talked to.

I was around and people I've talked to about it since it got old.

It got boring.

You know, it was the same thing every time and and I'm not just talking about going out

and and what you did that night.

But the morning after like got old that kind of thing and and I don't know I think that

some of it has to do in mostly mostly in cities and everything, but even in rural communities

I could go and I could spend 50 bucks at the bar and and have a you know, decent time

or I could spend 50 bucks and drink at home with my buddies and watch the game or something

like that.

Right.

And so I think that as that started to happen more and more, there were other things

that people found to do at home right instead of just drink and didn't drink as much at

home.

Right.

Right.

Right.

So I think that does actually make a little bit of sense, but you know, it's it's very

because okay, going to a place is always going to be popular, right?

Going to a gathering place, human interaction, okay.

And that's what bars and taverns have historically provided as that kind of thing.

Now, whether you drink there or not, as obviously something that fluctuates and it's really

interesting to see that you know, so I don't know does that mean that more people are going

are still going to like bars and stuff, but they're only drinking, you know, water or

ginger ale or something like that or more moderation or just one drink and that's it, one

beer or something, whatever.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe it's the rise of, you know, more sports, you know, almost so back in the

day, you know, and they're still around, but they're just places you just go and drink,

you know, like just that's it.

But literal watering home.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But all I see now is like bar and grill they almost they always have when they're getting

more and more food involved as well to the training to like more restaurant stuff, more

family friendly places and I'm guessing there's just not as much drinking this going on

too.

Because if you have your family with you, I think that you're less likely to do excessive

drinking anyway.

The rise and the awareness of CBD, the legalization of marijuana, medical marijuana and a lot

of that.

I think that is also a cut in too.

I think so.

I think so.

I think a little bit.

And granted, in some cases, you're trading one health risk for another.

So you know, you're certainly something to note worthy and everything.

I'm not going to say one is healthier than the other.

That's a body by body case.

That's everybody is different.

Right.

But I do think that that is definitely cut into this a little bit.

Right.

I absolutely believe it.

And you can hear a lot more young kids saying, you know, yeah, I was at home and I was,

you know, doing an edible, you know, or something like that.

They talk.

It's very, you know, very casually like, you know, when I got a drink or something like

that.

But that seems to be more of the case using that now that it's becoming more legal

and more places and that sort of thing and more available as well.

That's part of it as well.

Whether talking to relatives or friends or talking to Sheriff Becker or representative

Krueger, one of the bigger things that Wisconsin has to make a decision on and you've got

to make this decision now, like now it has to happen is marijuana and the legalization

of it.

Yeah.

And I'm not saying that, you know, 16 year olds are walking around with it or anything

like that.

No.

But the idea that the idea of some of this stereotype and some of the things that are

around this drug are foolish and some of them are outright false.

Some of them were false that we were fed when we were kids and un-American.

Yeah.

Un-American.

I'll say it because the whole idea of this being the image of this and everything comes

from bad business, comes from, hey, I run the rope industry.

Hemp is better than rope.

I don't like that.

So I have power.

I have connection.

So I'm going to make Hemp seem like this dirty, ugly thing that only immigrants use and

all these things and stuff.

And then we get to this point where we are in 2025, where we finally kind of tried to

correct that a little bit.

Yeah.

Hey, guess what?

Yes, it has things that we're not at all saying that everybody should use it or everybody

should have it or anything like that.

But we start to realize, oh, it's not as bad as it could be.

And I will say being in California at the time when a lot of this stuff started to come

about and legalization and everything, my buddy Will took me to a shop and we went there

for fun reasons.

I'm the, Will and I both have medical issues, but we, I'm not going to lie and say it was

just that.

But we go there and the first people I see in the line are 60, seven-year-old ladies who

are going through cancer treatment and everything and have no appetite whatsoever, but this gives

them an appetite, which gives them fuel, which helps them go to chemotherapy and all of

this.

Exactly.

If that's all we're talking about, cool, do it, just do it already.

You had me, it helps people with cancer, like get off of your, your, your, your moral

compasses.

Whatever that is.

So I'm getting really sick and tired of people putting their moral compass on others.

Your morals are yours and I respect them and more power to you.

Don't want to use it.

Don't use it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

But the idea, and we, we have long since gotten away from the whole gateway drug thing.

That was one of the falsities that I was talking about.

Guess what?

People don't need an excuse for.

People don't need a quote gateway for.

There is no dealer in human history that has ever stood on a corner, been like, I got

all this stuff.

I don't know what to do with.

Yeah.

I don't know what I'm to do with all this stuff.

And you don't have to market it.

You know, people find you.

They don't need a gateway and they, you don't need surveys for that or anything, right?

But we need to make this decision and need to make it now.

You have every state around you that is making money off of this while our ag industry,

our farmers are suffering and they're not able to.

That is a resource right there.

And over your stuff, and if I, if anything else, look at the economic boom it gives.

Ask Colorado how that's going.

Yeah.

A state that was in debt before they started doing this.

And then they were one of the first ones to legalize it for recreational purposes and

look at it.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And just as importantly, look at Colorado's crime rates.

Look at Colorado's, you know, drunk and driving numbers and all of those things.

I really do encourage you to look at that people.

It's incredible.

The change that has meant happened there with that state.

I'm not at all saying that this is something that, you know, can be just normalized.

It still needs to be taken with somewhat serious.

Exactly.

Anything that alters the mind does.

Yes.

But the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Yeah.

And it has too many medical purposes and 100% too much economic impact and too much help

to our ag industry to just turn a blind eye to.

Yeah.

Wisconsin should have been at the forefront of this.

Should have been ahead of everybody on this one.

Instead, they are last in line and are barely going to make a buck off it if they don't

get on there.

They don't get on it now.

Right.

Right.

Right.

So this is coming from somebody who cares about people struggling with cancer and our

farmers.

What?

That sounds like a good place.

How controversial is that?

Wow.

Well, look at James standing up.

Supporting cancer people.

Oh, my God.

I don't know what it is.

Support our farmers.

But we're all.

Where's everybody else on that?

How's it going?

It's a great point.

Where are you on that?

It makes questions.

Makes no sense.

And to see these numbers where they are, I find shocking.

Yeah.

You know, with the drink.

I do also believe that everything goes in ebbs and flows.

Yeah.

I wonder if it will rise.

We'll see what happens.

Who knows?

Yeah.

We'll see.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun.

We're talking about this guy and anvils.

And the idea, everybody during the commercial break, try to think of how you would return an

anvil.

Yeah.

Right.

A hundred pound one.

Yeah.

You got to return an anvil to the store.

How's that go?

We'll be back.

We'll show.

Welcome back, everyone.

This is a little one early one, I think, from him, from his first album, if I remember.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Cool.

That's a good one.

I like it.

I ended up listening to the whole thing after hearing the covers.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

Enjoying these summer bumpers while we have them nice work, by the way, brother, nice work.

Yeah.

Summer's over now.

We had a parking lot party.

No more summer.

And I would be, maybe empathetic about it and feel a little bad about it, but up to

busy feeling for this guy.

In our, that ain't right, category.

Maybe, and this one might go down as one of our best ones.

A lot of companies have been making returns and exchanges more cumbersome.

You know, a lot of the places nowadays they have found that it's cheaper to just let

you keep the item and all of that.

Yeah.

Well, a few weeks ago, a man named John Stockwell on TikTok claimed he's been repeatedly

ordering 110 pound cast iron anvils on Amazon for the past six months, only to immediately

return them.

The anvils cost more than $225.

But with his prime account, John has them shipped and to him and shipped back for free.

So they covered the costs, right?

He shows his Amazon order page and scrolls down to show 10 anvil orders.