Classic Raccoon (Hour 1)

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

Let's start the show. Hope y'all are having a great Friday out there. Thanks for joining us.

You're hosting James behind the mic. Join by our head of production, our co-hosts at the Habacker.

Good morning, and the best listeners and radio. We see you. We hear you out there. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We're going to hear some fun today.

Yes. You got a Friday show lined up for you. That means nothing but fun.

Friday, fun day.

In the coming up, the Elcaf Abort Day anniversary club looking forward to diving into that for this Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

We'll take a break, and then when we come back, we're going to make you a star of the day with our friends from callvers.

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We have free callvers to get to you. All you got to do is name us one of the easier and one of the best theme songs for a TV show of all time.

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That's on the way.

10 o'clock, our features of entertainment will dive into some interesting stories there.

Getting to a couple of other things in the show today. Public bathrooms in China want to charge you for toilet paper stuff.

Oh.

And what they want to do to do that.

People are using their toilet paper privileges.

Going to get into that one.

A family is dealing with a porch pirate that is a very different type of porch pirate that we have covered before.

And a little bit later, the most played songs on classic rock radio stations this year.

Oh. Oh.

So the most classic rock songs play the classic classic rock songs, right?

Yeah.

So we're looking at.

I think that one's going to have an interesting tilt to it for some of us at a certain age.

Wait a minute. That's classic rock.

Yeah. I think so.

Getting into our national day of calendar today is National Video Games Day.

All right. Fantastic.

And according to a study published last year, kids who play video games earn more money as adults.

The difference is notable, but not gigantic.

So, of course, people jumped on this.

Of course they did.

They said immediately.

Radio games are good.

Yep.

Now, where we were waiting for this our whole childhoods.

And that was finally happening.

They found that adults who played video games as children now earned annual salaries that are averaging over 5,000 more, higher than non-gamers.

Wow.

People who played FIFA lead the pack earned nearly 71,000 compared to the median annual for most people.

Okay.

For example, wow.

And get this candy crush is second.

Okay.

So, they're counting like handheld games.

The new kind of video games.

Yeah. I suppose that makes sense.

Yeah.

So, I should say mobile games.

That's what they're your mobile games.

Yeah.

And so, and for councils, PlayStation games make more than those who played Nintendo Xbox or PC games.

So, see now you've got to use it.

We really have PlayStation.

Yeah.

That's the smart one.

Everyone.

Come on.

It's going to be a PC.

People who played video you would think.

You would think PC.

Yeah.

You would definitely think that.

That's what definitely was.

That's just because I do it.

Right.

Right. Right.

But no, it does seem traditionally like that is the case.

Right.

People who played video games as kids are 71% more likely to have received a promotion recently.

Where are they?

So, you know this better than most.

Okay.

You know, this is my wheelhouse.

Not the wheelhouse, but this is definitely something that I did as a kid.

Something from your past.

Yeah.

People believe the biggest benefits of video games are stress relief and relaxation.

Okay.

Entertainment and fun.

Strategic thinking.

Problem solving skills and hand-eye coordination.

Okay.

All the things we were shouting at our parents to get them to spend 50 bucks on a video game when we were kids.

My hand-eye coordination.

Every kid went to the hand-eye coordination.

Every one of us.

Yes.

So, we were actually right about this.

Okay. Well, in certain respects, I guess we'll go with it either way.

The study also claims 48% of children who play video games have excellent grades in school

and 58% have excellent social lives with other kids.

Okay.

And I imagine that some of that has to do with as far as the social environment part.

Yeah.

Nowadays where you can talk to each other online and all that.

Right.

And while you're playing games, right?

The online gaming.

Very big, right?

Not to mention you're sitting there at lunch at school.

What are you going to talk about?

Video games.

What you're playing, what your favorite stuff is, yeah.

That makes sense.

And overall, a whopping 95% of today's parents have let their kids play video games to some extent.

Wow.

Even if they monitor the games that they play or play them with them.

Right.

Which is, I think, only smart because these things are going anywhere.

No.

No.

It's another form of entertainment.

It really is.

And just like any other form of entertainment, you should probably put guardrails on what they're doing,

how long they'd do it.

Just like anything else.

Yeah.

Too much of anything, you know.

No, good thing.

Yeah.

I don't want that.

It should everything.

But I do like that we've got, like, when we're kids, there's no data.

You know, we're just sitting there saying, hey, I really do.

And maybe we're saying some of this because we feel it and we believe it.

And maybe we're saying some of it so we can play the games to persuade someone, right?

Yeah.

But the idea that now we've had 20, 30, 40 years of this and we have enough data.

And so many of the people that were playing video games when they were when they were little

kids are now CEOs, are now running things and not even just in the video game industry,

but in other places.

A lot of industries.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I don't begrudge our parents for worrying about it.

No more than their parents worried about them.

You can't sit in front of the TV all day.

Yeah.

Okay.

So close to the screen.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.

These are things we learn as we go here, obviously.

Now that we are here, though, I think that it's more important to kind of like, okay, well,

what about what kind of video games we're making?

And can we make these even better for kids or something?

We're always going to have just games for game's sake.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I'm not saying get rid of anything.

I mean, adding to the market of more, hey, here's, you know, this game that is not meant

to do this, but it actually does improve your hand-eye coordination.

Right.

And there's plenty of like puzzle games out there that make you, you know, use logic,

you know, logic puzzles kind of thing to work out, you know, I have to move this brick

over here.

So this thinking climb on here to do the, you know, the next kind of thing.

There's lots of games like that, which I think are those can be fun, a lot of fun.

And I think they also help with figuring out certain logical things.

It's kind of wild to think of the evolution of games too, where of course, you know, board

games and that.

But even those start all of a sudden having electronics involved with everybody's favorite

game to freak each other out operation or something like that.

Some of the battleships had, you know, some military up to that, but they're up, yeah,

you know, and all that and everything.

That's a precursor to pong.

That's a precursor to those, all the games you are right.

And then we are now where mobile games are bigger than most, than a lot of these games

that are on platforms and everything.

And the thing that really freaked me out when I got the new man, like a year, no, the

new NCAA football game, like a year or so ago, you know, do you want to order it as the

like hard copy or the digital and I'm like, well, what do you mean?

Of course, I want the hard copy, but that's not what a lot of people care about it.

No, they want to get it now, right?

It's more of a, yeah, instantaneous, well, it still takes while the download, but you

know what I mean.

Well, and the thing about that is, is that I've learned the hard way, like a lot of us

out there, that just because you don't load something doesn't mean you own it, and that's

a very valid point to my friend.

I wanted that hard copy.

I wanted that hard copy, bad.

Physical media is still a thing, everyone.

You might want to consider that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think we're coming back to that a lot.

I agree.

I think we are.

But all of this is really just a precursor for a morning show to bring up one of those

fun questions, your favorite video games of all time.

Oh, that's what this is really all about.

Yeah.

Uh, us to be able to talk nostalgic and talk about our favorite games, but it doesn't have

to be just video games.

Okay.

If you have a favorite board game out there, I would love to hear about it as well.

Board games are always a classic.

I played a board game with my children last night.

And this is, I don't know if a lot of people know this, there's kind of a, been a wave

of cooperative board games where instead of being competitive against each other, you try

to solve a puzzle or do something.

I think that's a lot of fun.

It is the game we played last night is a, a cooperative game, but it's based on universal

monsters and you're trying to save the villagers as well as, you know, defeat the monsters.

It's hard, man.

Yeah.

It sounds like it sounds like it's hard.

It's a lot of fun though.

It's called horror.

It's not horrified.

It's really cool.

So many of the games nowadays, they don't, if you don't have multiplayer where you can

play with multiple people, your friends or people from all over the world, they're just

dead in the water.

They don't even survive nowadays.

And I don't know about you, man, but I am, we are so much of the generation of the one

person playing on the thing.

And I'm so excited.

You head to the controller.

I'm stuck.

Yes.

Yes.

I'm stuck on that.

Yeah.

The playing multiplayer thing.

I'm just like, Matt, not interested.

Five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred, let us know your favorites.

I was going through some of the classic video games, some of the good ones out there,

of course.

You know, going way back from Donkey Kong, of course, to the evolution of that to Super Mario.

Mario Kart is one of the bigger, has had one of the longer shelf life.

I agree.

Yeah.

That one's still kicking.

Well, it's funny.

You mentioned Donkey Kong.

That's been the most recent to the Switch 2 was a new Donkey Kong game.

And it's amazing.

I mean, if you've seen videos of it or anything like that, I mean, just think about

the original arcade version of Donkey Kong to where we are now.

That was like what, 1982, 83 years old, or 81, I can't remember what it was.

It's only been that many and now look at what you're, I mean, it's amazing.

The evolution of video games.

That's what you're done.

That's awesome too.

That's awesome.

The new Switch is awesome.

Yeah.

Legend is Zelda.

Final, the gauntlet games, joust, you know, there's so many great ones.

There's a Space Invaders, the old coin op ones.

Space Invaders.

Yeah.

Ooh.

That's a classic.

Space Invaders, the game that caused a shortage of coins in Japan, it's crazy because it

was so popular.

Yeah.

Pac-Man and of course, Miss Pac-Man.

Yes.

I say Miss Pac-Man's actually better than Pac-Man.

It's a better game.

I hear a lot of people say that.

I agree.

That's going.

And then of course, when the platform's got big, in the platform wars, and you had Mario

against Sonic and some of those, and so you had a big, this great competition for these

video games to be better and better and better.

That's right.

I don't know how much of that is still there, where the competition is.

It's got to be somewhat.

It did.

I think so.

I genuinely mean I don't know as I have a paid attention.

It wasn't there.

It wasn't there.

I didn't be there.

Although with the, how much some of these games are costing to make now, like what was

it?

Cyberpunk 2077 or whatever it was?

That took what, five years, and I can't imagine how much money it costs to get that game up

and running.

It's amazing.

The David Lynch of the coding world and all that, the guy who's making the death-standing

movies and stuff are games.

So I call them movies because you look at them and they look like, they look like movies.

They do.

They got storylines.

They got all that stuff.

The storylines, especially.

They're so complex and deep and everything, and then some of the open world stuff, when

they started doing that in games.

One of my all-time favorite games is Red Dead Redemption.

I love Westerns and I'm basically in a Western.

That's all it is.

That's it is.

You're absolutely right.

And you can follow the main storyline or you can go off and follow other things to do.

And you get on a horse and you just go and it's, yeah, I have to say it.

I'm still a fan of the Lego games.

Yeah, I love the Lego games.

They're fun.

They're a lot of fun.

We want to know your favorites.

Let us know everybody's 715-424-2600.

Sports games are huge.

One of the first games I bought was Frank Thomas baseball.

And going even before that, you had baseball simulator 3000, you had SNL All-Stars, you had

some great ones.

Baseball simulator was a great game.

I still like going back and playing that one.

King Griffey baseball was another one.

I played a lot on the Superness.

It was a big deal to me on the simulator one where you could change the names and do

things like that.

And that leads to, I think, one of the coolest inventions, or the two coolest possibly

inventions to happen to video games.

There's no better thing in video game history, nothing better than the save button.

When they brought out the save button, that changed thing because you had to leave your

game on or just try to remember, you know, hope that you can get back to that point.

Having a save thing is just one of the, if you had it beforehand, you know how big

it would be.

The gamers have no idea how nice they have it with that these days, man.

And the creator player thing, where you could make these players your own and you designed

them yourselves.

That is right there second, maybe a lot of one B where, and certainly in sports games,

where I first experienced and saw it, you can make a football player and all that.

And that was really cool.

But it was a little to all these other games that really completely changed and went

a little too crazy.

Like you can mess with cheekbones and, you know, all these different things.

It's insane.

You make some people looking really weird.

That's true.

It's pretty quiet.

They let us use facial hair.

But nothing beats the real thing and we want to send you to see your Milwaukee Brewers,

the best team in baseball, everybody.

We've been doing this Friday ticket giveaway thing for a while now.

Yeah, segue.

And we want to give you a keyword to send to us through the Civic Media app.

You do that and you have a possibility of winning four, a package of four tickets to

see your Milwaukee Brewers take on the Dodgers September 18th, Thursday, September 18th.

You know what?

No, I want to win these.

No, sorry.

You can't.

You can't do it, man.

I mean, Milwaukee's going to be an hour and a half to hours away.

No, no, you know what?

No.

I give enough.

I give enough, Seth.

I do enough around here.

Is this the point where I tell him that he could just get the tickets?

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, it's our company.

Never mind.

Okay.

Hey, want you to go too?

I'll meet you there.

I am not kidding.

I am serious about this right now.

If I did not have rehearsals that night, I would love to be there.

Thursday, September 18th, two of the best teams in baseball preview of the postseason possibly.

So, Shohei O'Tani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, come in the town to take on your Milwaukee

brewers.

And all you got to do is text us the keyword family to get a chance to win that family

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Text it to us through the Civic Media app.

Good luck to you.

We are pulling for all of our wood county listeners.

We are.

Yes.

We are biased as, I'll get out.

You better believe it, man.

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Text us the keyword family.

And if you have an extra ticket and you, you know, I don't know, you want to bring somebody

who's, I'm really thin.

I'm skinny.

I will fit in.

And you just wedge him in, you know, most packed, most compact cars.

Yeah, that's right.

I am strapping to the hood.

Strapping to the roof of the car, you know, he's, he's willing, man.

Not to brag, but I am house trained and I don't eat a lot.

Yeah, I love to go and spend a lot of money on food, which is there, you know.

No, I'll be quiet, too.

I talk enough.

Family, F-A-M-I-L-Y, pull up that Civic Media app, text it to us, gigantic thank you

to our good friends and the walkie brewers.

Yes.

Of course, our sales team and everybody working so hard on this one, everybody at Civic

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We'll be mentioning that word family as much as we can throughout the show and make sure

to text it to us everybody.

Yep.

Take a quick time out.

We'll come back with the LKF-A birthday anniversary club on the morning show.

Celebration, you're a little bit better and ready for some celebration, some time to get

louder and not buy yourself.

Time for the birthday anniversary club.

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

friends over at LKF-A, treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port, Edwards.

Have a great breakfast, enjoy yourself, maybe you want to brunch, get on over there before

noon or something like that, but make sure to make plans to head on over there tonight

everybody.

Yes, Fish Fry Night.

Fish Fry Night and a special one, because they are hosting a Fish Fry fundraiser for

the Port Edwards Elementary School tonight.

From four to eight, they will be donating proceeds to the school.

Not only do you get a chance to get some of the best food you're going to get, one of

the most up and coming fish fries there is, getting more and more famous every Friday.

But all of it is going to taste that much better because you are investing in the future.

You are helping our Port Edwards School District to shut out to the Port Edwards School District.

Of course, our friends over at LKF-A love that they do things like this.

Absolutely.

They are so community focused over there.

It's an amazing, remarkable story.

Get on over there everybody and enjoy some LKF-A today.

And of course, get us your birthdays and anniversaries info at WFHR.com.

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The phone lines are open everyone.

We want to hear birthdays for all weekend.

If you have someone coming up today or tomorrow or on a Sunday, we want to hear it.

Looking forward to talking with you everybody.

Seth, let me see here.

I need a one or two.

Two.

All right.

And I need a one or three.

One.

All right.

All right, gives us our qualifiers.

So we can get right into it and first up, we want to wish very happy birthday to one of

our favorite people in the world, our very own Tim, the polka guy, Hubble.

Oh, happy birthday, Tim.

Have a polka happy day.

Have a polka-rific day.

Polka-rific.

There you go.

That's what I was talking about.

I just saw Tim yesterday.

Yeah.

I was helping him put some speakers in the back.

Nice.

Car and everything.

It was good to see him, always good to see him and wishing him a great one.

Tim's one of the best.

He's been doing this a long time.

Yes.

And as long as he wants to do that polka show, we'll be on the air.

Yes, it will be right here on WFHR.

You know it.

Be sure to check it out this weekend everybody.

We'll be talking more about our weekend schedule a little bit later, but be sure to check

out the sunshine polka show.

Yes.

7 a.m.

Saturday mornings.

Yep.

And then one o'clock on Sunday, too.

Yeah, that was what I was trying to think.

That's the other one I was trying to think about.

I couldn't pull it out, but thank you.

Nice.

I'd happy birthday, Tim, until your day.

Really one of the better people we have met in this industry.

Me, sir.

He's a lot of, he's a super fun guy.

Happy birthday to our qualifier, Laura Force.

Happy birthday, Laura.

Congratulations.

I feel like I didn't say that right.

You're a Force.

Laura Force.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You've got to say Laura Force 5.

That's a great name.

That's a great name.

It is.

Are you a superhero, Laura?

It sounds like a superhero name.

Enjoy your day, Laura.

You're a qualifier.

Taking a look at Saturday birthdays, we wish a very happy birthday to Dolores Farrell.

Happy birthday Dolores.

Enjoy your day Dolores.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Yeah.

Love the name Dolores.

And our qualifier, you can date Seth for this one.

One of my favorite people, Linda Garski.

Oh, Linda.

Congratulations.

Happy birthday.

Oh.

Not just one of the best laughs you'll ever hear, but one of the best people you'll ever

meet.

And she is my score.

Say Z.

She is the person who has directed me most of my life and gets me as an actor better than

most.

And I don't think Linda would feel bad or upset with me for saying she is a honest person.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

She'll tell you.

She will tell you.

You're going to get the honest truth from her.

You will get the honest truth from her.

We wish you a great day, Linda.

We've got so much in this community.

We appreciate her for that.

And so much more.

100%.

Taking a look at Sunday, we wish happy birthday to Deb Hoyer.

Happy birthday, Deb.

Deb, enjoy your day.

It's a great one for you.

And we wish happy 23rd anniversary to our great friends, Randy and Terry Johns.

Oh, Randy and Terry, congratulations.

Just of course, had Terry in yesterday and got to hang out with her and everything.

She actually mentioned Randy a little bit during the show, 23 years of wedding bliss,

right?

Yeah.

And then as a couple, you know, don't tell her, I said this or anything, but I borderline

jealous of that.

They're the high school couple kind of thing and stuff, although the foolish things in

my romantic are likes and everything.

And that's cool.

Great pairing.

Great couple.

We wish you a fantastic anniversary to happy 23rd, Randy and Terry.

And a happy 29th anniversary to Tim and Lisa Anderson, our qualifiers.

Tim and Lisa, congratulations to you on Sunday.

On the anniversary and the qualifying, we encourage you to brag to all your friends

and family and strangers and everybody that you know, September weddings, anniversaries,

September is a good month for weddings, I think.

Yeah, I got a lot of them coming up from my family.

I'm telling you.

Yeah.

We look at who you share your birthdays with.

Sydney Swini is 28 today, you four white lotus.

Yeah, only.

Yeah.

And a lot of other things you just don't guess.

She's very active.

She is also Sarah and her birthday with Kelsey Belminerious, 32.

We celebrate her on the sunrise.

Yeah.

We wish her a good one.

And another amazing singer, Jennifer Hudson is 44.

Wow.

Yeah.

One best supporting actress for Inter for Dream Girls, an incredible performance, really

one of the better, like best supporting actress performances I've ever seen.

Absolutely.

She's good.

Jennifer Huddles.

Just all around, man, she's got into her voice.

Amazing.

And Jennifer Nettles is 51 today.

She's been in good voices.

Yeah.

Just a bunch of them.

And just to throw one more in there, Ben Folds is 59.

A lot of fun songs.

Yes.

I remember from high school at least, but currently we just wrote a bunch of new music for the

peanuts.

Yes.

Special.

He has had such an interesting career.

I remember him.

Like you said, back in the 90s, man, when he first broke out and he would come on, you

know, like Conan's show and then like wreck his piano kind of thing, which is always a lot

of a throw stool at the campus, which it was great.

But he's done so many interesting things since then.

He's really a remarkable performer and writer.

And they share a birthday with some people no longer with us, like Paul Walker, born in

the state in 1973, passed away way too.

So yeah, strong actor, a strong actor, it seemed to do a lot of good stuff too.

And on the side, man, and those, those eyes, man, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Neil Perth, born in the state in 1952, a lot of people will tell you the greatest drummer

they've ever heard or seen.

That's Jared, period.

And they are very passionate about it.

And it should be noted, he was the main lyricist for Rush as well.

So he wasn't just a drummer.

Yeah, I didn't know that.

He was a full musician.

He was older.

Yeah.

Sir Ian Holm, born in the state.

He is Bilbo Baggins in two of the three movies of the hobbits.

It was in Garden State.

So many great movies over the years.

Sir Ian Holm, he, by the way, if you want a local film that he narrated, Wisconsin death

trip.

Yeah.

He's a documentary, sort of, it's kind of a docu-drama kind of thing, but it is, he narrated,

he did a fantastic job.

Oh, he's so good.

Also, a couple of other singers, Barry White, born in the state in 1944, the one of the

greatest deep voices of all time.

I love it.

Can't do it justice, but yeah.

Such a great voice.

Yeah.

Velvet could sing, you know, and George Jones, a born in the state in 1931, country legend

of course, that we talked a bit about on the sunrise.

We did.

Yes, we did.

We did at home on his home field 뿌�ste.

Right.

Man, you are so lucky that Jesse Ohens was a humble human being because if that had been

me, man, I'd been just hold a dough.

I don't care if I get out of Germany.

I'm going to make that moment count.

It would have been better if the American officials had allowed Jesse to get that from,

go face to face with, Yes.

Yes, with Mr. Hitler, yeah, but they wouldn't because they were cowards, which people like

that usually are.

Those are cowards and so many of his followers are Jesse Ohens.

I think not only the most important track and track and field athlete of all time, easily

for me, for me, just my opinion as long as he had a huge influence on me.

As you can tell, I love to get a Saturday and Sunday birthdays real quick, feel on

an apple 48 tomorrow.

Oh, man, have a singer.

Man, have you, if you want a singer, have them be born in September?

Man, oh, love her voice.

Man, their songwriting is amazing.

Anyway.

I love feel on an apple.

The Rosemaster General, Jeffrey Ross is 60 tomorrow.

He's good.

I like him.

I like Jeff Ross.

Peter Satterra is 81.

Wow.

Basis for Chicago.

And of course, had a solo career too.

Yeah.

He was pretty big in the 80s there for a leather.

And we want to wish a course, a guy who helps us with our theme music some time to time,

Mel Tormey, the true sound of velvet.

There you go.

The velvet fog.

And of course, as I had a lot of people came to know him from night court over the years,

he was actually a decent actor.

He didn't do a lot.

But every time he did, he was pretty good.

I enjoyed his roles.

Sunday, Andrew Lincoln is 52, of course, love actually, and the walking dead, some of the

other good things.

He is such an incredible actor.

Yes.

He is good.

Is he like, is he British or Australian or something?

He's British.

British.

But then blew me away.

I didn't know that until I had found out.

And some people no longer with us, celebrating birthdays on Sunday, Amy Winehouse would have

been 42.

They certainly should have been around.

Very influential.

My goodness.

And Clayton, the lone ranger, more, the lone, original, lone ranger.

Yes, he was.

He later became, he went by the name Bud and he became a game show host back of the 1950s.

Right.

But he was the original lone ranger from Detroit, wishing everybody out there a happy birthday

anniversary.

Enjoy yours.

Yeah.

What else are you going to do?

Yeah.

You already done your packer fans.

You already done for them.

I mean, come on.

Yeah.

You got your win.

Go enjoy it.

Yeah.

And then help out our local schools while you're at it.

Yeah.

And stick around because we're going to get you some free callers coming up with our star

of the day right here at WFHR.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well came back everyone.

It's time to…

Oh that's not what I want.

There we go.

That's what I want.

There we go.

Oh there's that sound.

Lights, camera, action.

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

callers.

What Seth and I are about to do is have some fun.

We're going to play a famous and I mean famous TV theme song for you.

Okay.

And you have a one anything in 30 days then you use that wonderful phone of yours and

call 715-242600 or of course you can use the Civic Media app.

That same one that you used to text family to us to get…

That's right.

Get a chance to win those brewer tickets.

So they just left it open.

Yeah.

Family that you were texting to us.

Yeah.

I go ahead and text that to us everybody.

And of course you can't text necessarily the answer for this but you can call in through

the Civic Media app or 715-242600 and let us know what TV show this is from.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right away.

Come on.

So iconic.

What's your answer?

I'm going to try.

Welcome back, Otter.

Yeah.

So right.

Absolutely.

Nicely done.

Nicely done.

So it doesn't sound like you were…

Let me…

All right.

There we go.

That's official.

We didn't sound too confident about that one, sir.

Did you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right away.

Come on.

So iconic.

What's your answer?

I'm going to try.

Welcome back, Otter.

We didn't sound too confident about that one, sir.

Did you watch the show?

Well, I'm 78 years old.

I forget a lot.

No.

No.

That is fair.

That is a very fair answer.

That is a very fair answer.

I got it.

And I got lucky.

All right.

Right on, man.

That's all that matters, man.

That's all that matters.

Wonderful.

Appreciate your colleague listening.

Can I get your first name, sir?

Ron.

Ron.

It's good to talk to you, Ron.

Thanks so much for listening and playing along.

So did you see the show when it was on it all?

Oh, yeah.

I didn't particularly tune in to watch it.

Yeah.

You know, caught it as I was flicking through the channels

or something like that.

Right.

Well, now when you think about it, you can think, well, at least

that show gave you some free call-vers.

There you go.

There you got that out of it.

That's for sure.

And we'll see.

Thanks, call-vers for doing that.

All right.

We love our friends and call-vers.

Ron, hang on the line a little bit.

Get some information from you off air.

But you're our newest star of the day.

Thanks for listening and playing along.

Thanks much for doing that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So I wanted to play not only one of my favorite TV shows

of all time.

Right.

I was, but there's reason for this on September 9th on ABC

in 1975.

A welcome back.

Carter premiered.

Well, it was in 1975 that it premiered.

Wow.

I didn't realize it was that early.

I thought it was later in the 70s, actually.

Right.

Yeah.

As a kid, I didn't realize I was watching mainly reruns

on that show.

That's true.

I was just happy to see some kind of representation

on the air of a Jewish Puerto Rican.

You know, and things like that.

Well, you know, it's funny.

I remember hearing an interview with John Sebastian who wrote and

sang, you know, the theme song.

He was approached to do it.

And they're like, well, the only thing is you have to have the name of the show

in the thing.

And he's like, how am I going to rhyme anything with Carter?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which is why he went with just welcome back.

That's the theme he shows with.

Because he never says the name.

How great is that?

In the theme.

But it's enough that you know it's for the show.

Yeah.

So many careers got launched from that show.

Oh my gosh.

Everything, of course, famously, John Travolta.

And it blowing up like he did and where he is still to this day.

That's right.

And everything.

But Gabe Kaplan, who was Carter.

And I loved his work.

I liked him and stuff.

You see him and some stuff here and there.

But he actually kind of retired from acting and got into professional poker play.

And probably wild things, right?

Yeah.

And apparently he's incredibly good at it.

Like he's one of the top 20 players in the world.

Wow.

Like he's really good at it.

So you never know what the second act is going to be, right?

You never know.

And you never know what's going to be our next theme, our next song.

Or what have you for the day with our friends and callers.

Be on the lookout for that next Friday.

And of course get callers in your life, everybody.

Wherever you got a callers, you got one that's putting back into its community.

We greatly appreciate that.

And certainly appreciate our local Wisconsin Rapids callers.

We do.

Ron appreciates him.

He does now.

We'll talk to Ron.

We'll come back and have some more fun when we get back on the morning show.

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

Local Negro and Radio, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Appreciate you all, appreciate Ron being our newest winner of the day.

That was fun.

Be listening for that next Friday for another opportunity to win some free callers.

Big thank you to callers.

And all of you for calling in and playing along.

Of course, you can still win some stuff possibly.

We got that four pack of bird tickets that you could possibly win by texting us the keyword family

through the Civic Media app.

Text that to us.

Get a chance to see the Dodgers coming to town.

Yeah.

It's going to be a great series.

That's turning into quite the rivalry between the Dodgers.

I like that though.

Yeah.

Even in spring training, you're hearing of that when they're on California playing.

Right.

It's been fun.

This, not so much fun, Seth.

Oh, okay.

We haven't gotten to do many, then, eight right stories lately.

I've been trying to do a lot more positive stories, good stories of the day.

But every once in a while, something just ain't right.

It's just too good to pass up.

If you walk into a public bathroom in China, there's a chance you'll have to watch an ad to get toilet paper.

This is a real story.

There's a video going viral that shows how it works.

You scan a QR code that plays an ad on your phone.

Then the machine spits out a modest amount, like six squares.

If you need more, you got to watch another ad.

It's not actually a brand new thing either.

Someone on Reddit shared a shot of a similar dispenser in China back in 2021, but most people

didn't know what they existed.

If you don't want to watch the ad, there's an option to pay a few cents for toilet paper instead.

But it looks like you have to pay with your phone, so you have to have it on you.

If you don't, you're out of luck.

You got to watch it now.

I can't skip the ads.

Real quick pause side story here, side quest.

Call up and let us know if you agree with this or not, or Texas may be easier.

Is one of the most universal things in the world.

Everybody has been there where you need toilet paper and it's out and you're alone.

You're alone.

There's nobody.

Maybe there's somebody in another room or something like that, but you are alone and you feel

like the most lonely person in the world.

There is very so silent.

And it's such a universal feeling.

I don't know if I've ever met somebody that has not experienced this where you're in there.

I'd be like, uh, what?

No, and immediately you become one of the most creative human beings on the planet.

Immediately.

You're like MacGyver all of a sudden, right?

Yes.

You are MacGyver.

You are Jim Henson.

You are one of these people.

You are immediately thinking, okay, what could I do?

What could I do?

Any found objects?

How can I maneuver from here to where the toilet paper is?

All these different things.

You are a parkour artist.

All of a sudden you are learning parkour.

You're able to move like you've never moved before.

You twist yourself in different angles.

You've never been more flexible when you have to go get toilet paper.

Never.

And it's a most universal feeling.

This has never happened to you.

I actually want to hear.

I just go in the toilet.

Really?

That would be a shocking to me that someone who's not experienced that in this country anyway.

I think it's right up there.

We don't have bidets.

Maybe we should just have bidets and then we'd be fine.

We should definitely just have bidets.

We should definitely have bidets.

Yeah, and so if you...

I don't know.

This is wrong.

This is messed up.

I mean, it would be because if you only have to watch a short commercial or just pay a couple of cents,

that seems a little...

Well, little nickel and dimey.

What do you think this would be like in the States if they tried to do this in the States?

The outrage.

The way that we would like...

You can't revolt like you can here.

You can't do it in China like you can here.

That's right.

I cannot imagine the pitch meeting to try to sell this to Americans that this would be an okay thing.

But be on the lookout.

Yeah, well, I mean...

We have ads on our guest pumps now.

Yep.

And by the way, the mute button.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Not want to hear ads when I'm pumping my gas.

No.

I'm just going to turn that off.

I tend to watch a bit of stuff on YouTube.

And they have the worst of timing of their ads on YouTube.

It's one of the worst.

Yeah.

But the ads that are on there, they're not even like...

They generally seem like info-mercial ads that would be on it two in the morning.

There's never been one of those ads that looks like a real company to me.

Yeah.

They cannot fake.

They all look horrible.

The voice...

The dubbing's bad.

It's usually AI.

It's probably AI.

Yeah.

And like...

I cannot imagine how they're trying to sell something through this.

And none of them do I know what they're selling.

No.

They're all horrible.

I've never seen a good YouTube comer.

I'm not talking about name brand companies.

Right.

I mean, like the ones we all know if you've watched YouTube for five seconds.

You've seen them.

You've seen them.

Yeah.

They're a joke to me.

Like, I laugh at them.

They're not...

I don't take them seriously.

They certainly are trying to buy their stuff.

If you don't mention the product in like the first 10 seconds, there's something wrong here.

Yeah.

Man.

That ain't right.

Charge people for toilet paper.

That ain't right.

That is...

I went over to a girl's house once and her father told me that they did this.

That they charged guests for toilet paper.

And he said it with a stray face.

Now, this guy beforehand had given me quite a hard time.

So, I was not taking any sarcasm.

I thought he was being very serious.

You were, like, you were tempted to...

Yeah, right.

And I'm in the bathroom, like, frustrated that I don't have any change on me.

Like, that guy got me bad.

He got me.

Oh, it's got to be a bit...

Oh, he got me.

Yeah.

I wanted to mention another story here.

Get to it.

This is another interesting one.

A bit of a different, that a right story.

Okay.

We've covered a lot of these porch pirates.

And for those who don't know, we're getting a lot more packages than we've ever gotten.

And there are some knuckleheads out there that will take people's packages some time to time.

Yeah.

There's been a real decrease in that over the last year, especially with the rise of door cams and a lot of that.

Right.

And people also, I think a lot of this too, is people realizing, oh, I'm going to steal this box.

Where did I get soap?

Yeah, yeah.

Nothing.

Yeah, it's not like we're getting, you know, all expensive electronics all the time.

This was a bit...

And not at all saying that it doesn't still exist or making light of anybody that deals with this.

Because I feel for you.

It's one of the cowardly things a person could do is stealing somebody's mail.

Right.

When it comes to the act of it though, it was a much bigger thing when everything we were getting was expensive.

Anything delivered was expensive.

It was a big deal, right?

Yeah.

But now...

Now, I mean, we're right.

It's soap or shampoo or something, right?

Yeah.

So it's not as...

The numbers have gone down on it, not to say that it's gone completely.

Of course not.

And while this is big in the human world, we have to also consider that we share this planet with the animal kingdom.

And a family in a Plattsburg found that out the hard way.

Plattsburg, New York is where we go.

Where they were dealing with a raccoon porch pirate.

He stole a large package from the front stoop and ate the first time.

Oh no!

The box was a return, which was going to be picked up by FedEx.

It wasn't an easy theft either.

The box was left inside a bin.

They had a sign...

Alerting FedEx.

FedEx.

Love it.

Saying to the hiding place, if you will.

The raccoon hit the jackpot.

The box was being sent back to Chewy.com.

Oh no!

With $93 worth of pet food.

Oh my.

Well, yes.

Yep.

He scored on that one.

No human pirate would care about that.

You're like, what?

I'm getting dog food?

No.

The theft was caught on doorbell security camera.

And the camera showed the raccoon coming back over and over again.

Looking in the bin to see if there were any more packages.

Chewy was cool about it and still issued a refund.

Good for them.

Very smart on their mark.

Yeah.

The PR stuff that you get from these.

I'm telling you.

You get a bump from that stuff.

We see the numbers.

It does.

I say this all the time.

Whatever money they could, that $93 they could have got back.

It pales a comparison to the PR money they'll make.

Look at that.

The positive.

And I've show except the video of this.

I've watched this three times.

Raccoons are just so darn clever.

Yeah.

I mean, they are just, I'm telling you.

The men, when you're an animal and you have thumbs.

I don't care where you are on the food.

Dangerous, man.

Like, you are, you are definitely.

You're doing better.

Yeah.

If I am this raccoon, all of my friends are going to hate me within a week.

Because this is all I'm talking about.

If I'm a raccoon in the raccoon kingdom.

I'm bragging about this for days.

I mean, they see him coming.

You know, his raccoon pals are like, oh, he's going to Jerry.

He's going to talk about it.