That is Too Soon. (Hour 1)

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Good morning and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here everybody.

Well, we're having a great day out there.

Happy Wednesday. Good things on the way for you.

LKFA Bertane Anniversary Club coming up.

Looking forward to that one.

Older and wiser has a ceiling.

We're going to get into that.

They finally reached the glass ceiling on that one.

All right.

Pretty interesting information about how much we, our brains get a corner quote wiser as

we get older and some of that and everything.

We get more wrinkly, you know, the brain's pretty wrinkly begin with, definitely gets

a little more gray.

Political bumpers, we'll talk about that a little bit along with that the best and

worst cities to drive and you might see a tie in on those.

We'll see.

Oh, okay.

Interesting.

We will kick off entertainment news with the 10 o'clock hour.

I've been waiting to talk about this one with you Seth and I wanted to do a little

homework on it.

The actors union going against this AI actress and some of the noise that we've been hearing

over the last week about that.

Interesting.

That one.

What scene did Leo and Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet not want in Titanic?

Okay.

I got that one for you in a new clue, a new competition series that's coming up I want

to talk about too.

And a couple of other topics for us.

We'll get into those and some good stories of the day touching our schedule as well.

We got some Willie and family tickets to give away.

Willie and family.

Be listening for that everybody.

But we begin with Christmas.

All right.

Wait, no.

Sorry.

We sort of, sure.

Why not?

Well, sort of.

We just entered October and yet you've probably seen a Christmas tree up somewhere maybe

even in your city's downtown or something like that.

I curious if anybody out there has actually seen anything Christmassy so far other than

in department stores or something like that.

Right.

We'll be expected by now for that.

Yeah.

Pittsburgh just put up their downtown Christmas tree more than two months before the holidays.

That usually triggers plenty of adults who like the holidays to remain within design time

frames.

But even some kids have beef with Pittsburgh.

Oh, hey.

Now if I was a kid in this happened to me and I lived in the Pittsburgh area, I'd be

very upset.

Those last two months before Christmas are dire if you're a knucklehead kid.

The only way to get on the good list is in those last two months and you're going to

take that.

You're going to take two months out of the year that I be telling you, I'm telling you,

the only time I got good gifts was those last two months and I, you know, do the good

deeds.

Best behavior, right?

There's a local news report about the Christmas tree which was put up in the plaza near their

ice rink.

But the ice rink doesn't even open till November 14th.

So they're, wow, they are just, maybe they, maybe the city department, they're just

so ahead of schedule on everything, they're like, what, what can we do?

Oh, let's, let's get the tree up.

Let's do it now.

We'll get it done and get it ready to go.

So they interviewed a young boy named Marcus Woodruff who said, I'm really excited because

we're going to skate, but I got to say they, they should have waited for after Halloween

for Halloween first.

So you, you brought up a really strong point there.

I'm a little disappointed in the journalism here.

Why didn't nobody ask why they did this?

Yeah.

Anybody?

I looked at two different reports in CBS Pittsburgh and I couldn't find like why they did this so

early.

Well, oh, man, did they, where they, did they need to make room?

Like, oh, right, we got to get this Christmas tree out of here.

We need room over here.

Wasn't, uh, to your, you know, what you're saying?

I know.

Well, was it the tree was going to go bad?

I don't know.

Like, I love the idea, man, we got this tree up before it goes bad.

Oh, what is it that would make them put this tree up so early?

I, there, there's a part of me that wonders did they do it just to get some like conversation

about Pittsburgh?

Oh, I don't know.

Possibly.

I mean, the Steelers aren't that good this year.

I mean, maybe is it that?

I don't know.

Uh, I just learned something about Pittsburgh, by the way.

I did not know this, uh, just as white trivia is funny because you learn things too that

you don't know.

So Pittsburgh is the city of bridges.

Yeah.

Because it has over 400 bridges.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I didn't know that, man.

Oh, yeah.

I was, I was, uh, but then I realized I was like, uh, I was like, oh, wait a minute.

They've got three rivers that go through Pittsburgh.

So now it makes a little bit more sense because of all the, I mean, that's a lot of causeway

there that you have to deal with.

So I, uh, I knew that, uh, because of the dark, uh, the dark night rises, um, and the,

the, they filmed a lot of it in Pittsburgh.

And I heard Christopher Nolan talking about one of the bridges and it got me curious because

uh, I, one of my favorite things about Chicago is the bridges.

Oh, yes.

And I was like, well, I was a little curious to be honest, a little competitive.

Well, I was like, well, what is, how's their bridges compared to ours?

Well, yeah, a lot more just because they've got more rivers, but that's it.

Yeah.

And they're pretty nice.

They're pretty nice.

But your river doesn't go backwards.

Huh?

Who can say that?

Who wants to say that?

Who wants to say it?

Who wants to say it?

Really?

What's the earliest you can put up a Christmas tree?

There is no single earliest date to put up a Christmas tree, but according to some

surveys and some people out there, November is the earliest that some will say.

And Black Friday is the particular day that a lot of people do.

See now, just inadvertently people have figured out, you know, because I know why people

do that, I think, is because it's Thanksgiving, you know, after you're done, you're done

with Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving.

Makes sense.

Well, now we're in the holiday season, right?

It feels that way anyway.

But it's also that's actually the, when Advent begins is usually the day is the weekend

after Thanksgiving.

Right.

So inadvertently people are doing the right, the exact right thing, because if you want

to encompass all of Christmas, that includes Advent, so just put it up that first weekend,

you know, after Thanksgiving and that, and you'll, you'll probably be right on where you're

supposed to be.

So I think that's a great reason, which is what my family does if you didn't guess.

That's how we do it.

Right, right.

I like that, actually.

It makes sense in my brain.

I believe that's the way we've always done it.

I would say that's the earliest we ever do it is the Friday after Christmas, our Friday

after Thanksgiving.

Right.

I don't know the latest we ever have, because that's another question I had.

What is the latest?

What is the latest you can put up your Christmas tree?

If you want to go old school, Christmas Eve, that was the traditional time when Germans

put the tree up was on Christmas Eve.

And that's what I got here as an answer.

Christmas Eve, the first week of December, that is, and in fact, it is quite popular

in Europe to do it that way.

That's the traditional way to do it, European way.

But we do things here different because we need to celebrate it more, I guess.

I just immediately thought of my mom and how much energy and time she puts into putting

up that Christmas tree.

Again, my Jewish mother, how much time she puts into Christmas, that woman's going to

get a month out of it.

Like, there's even, okay, so say she put it up on Christmas Eve, that thing staying

up through January 20th, at the very least, that Christmas tree going nowhere.

There's no way my mom's putting in the work that she does for like a day, just not happening.

And for folks out there who may not know, so advent, of course, is, you know, four

Sundays before Christmas.

But when you hear about the 12 days of Christmas, now those are the 12 days after Christmas,

isn't the first day, 12 days before Christmas.

So the final day of Christmas is called Epiphany in the Christian Church, also known as

12th Night, which you may have heard from, you know, maybe a Shakespeare play or something

like that.

Usually that's the last day.

And that's when you're usually, I mean, not usually, but traditionally, I think it's

when they take down the Christmas trees after the final day of Christmas, that 12th day.

So I like the idea, and we've seen the numbers show, Black Friday isn't what it used to

be.

No.

For one, the sales are not as good as they used to be.

And we have so many different sale times of the year.

I mean, car companies every month is a different like sale.

They have an excuse, right?

Right.

To have a sale.

It's smart.

It's good marketing and everything.

But we kind of, there's so much sales, there's whatever the industry, they have a sale going

on all the time.

Right.

I don't think that the sales part of Black Friday is a big sell anymore, no pun intended

there.

I would love to see a tradition or a new thing really pick up of like a green Friday,

where it's just like kind of, it's just known, that's what we're doing on Friday, putting

up our Christmas trees.

We're too busy to go shopping.

See now that's a great idea to go crazy in a store fighting for a cabbage patch dollar

or something like, we're all putting up our Christmas trees and what we're doing.

Well, and now we, it's not just, we've got now what is it's, you've got Black Friday,

you've got small business Saturday, and then you jump to Monday, it's Cyber Monday,

and then it's giving, Tuesday or something, I can't remember, it's giving Tuesday or

whatever it is, you know, the charity one.

And it's all, you know, in a line there now that we've got all these days now.

I mean, all right.

It's, that's why that Black Friday isn't what it used to be because we've got all this

other stuff now and all the online shopping you can do.

And I think part of that is also a lot of those, those other days you mentioned,

people putting a lot more energy in and bluntly their money into those, into the,

whether it's cyber, or it is local.

Yeah, you know, there's shop mall or local, whatever on that Saturday.

I think that in the last few years has really jumped up as people started doing that.

Yeah, love to hear from you on this one.

One, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred.

What's the earliest and the latest you put up your Christmas tree?

And, and will you help us start this new thing of green Fridays?

I got an idea, I got an idea.

So if you, if you are really wanting to put your tree up, go ahead, put the tree up,

you know, if it's like mostly probably a fake tree,

decorate it for the holidays.

So put Halloween decorations on it till Halloween.

I love this.

And then, and you think I think it's giving, put Thanksgiving, and then after that,

you, the tree's already up, you just got to throw the Christmas stuff on there.

In summer, you put a bathing suit on it.

Exactly.

You know, for the July, maybe stuff on there, you have fun with it.

Holiday tree.

I like the idea of that.

Also, love the idea of I get to put the tree up and that's it.

Exactly.

I don't have to take it back out.

There are, I would rather, here's, here's another one.

I don't know if this is the case for a lot of people, but for me,

the, I've only had a couple of real trees in the home that places I've lived.

I find them a lot easier to take care of than a plastic one.

Putting it in place, you're right.

Yeah, putting a plastic tree together and taking it apart is, is, is just maddening,

maddening.

It is a puzzle without a picture.

It is just no instructions because you lost those a long time ago.

Sure you did it a year ago.

That doesn't matter.

It might have forgotten everything.

Might as well be 30 years ago.

Yeah, it's all gone.

All that knowledge is completely gone.

Let's take a call before we're going to break.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Good morning.

As a kid growing up, we always put our Christmas Eve up on Christmas Eve.

And that thing you've never came down before Valentine's Day.

Right on.

That's all that is awesome.

That's awesome.

Did you enjoy that tradition?

Did you like doing that that way?

Yeah, most of the kids were in bed by that time and mom and dad were in bed.

Oh, sure, sure.

Oh, wow.

They just, they put it so it was just there when you woke up in the morning.

That's cool.

That is really cool.

That's cool.

That's pretty cool.

Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, thanks for sharing that, sir.

You have a good morning.

How are you, too?

Yeah, that's interesting.

That's a good one.

I like that.

He's the first person I've talked to that's done that and that really sold me out of

actually.

I kind of wish now that I might have done that with my kid.

I can't imagine their eyes when they got up.

Can you imagine?

And to see the, that is kind of a cool reality.

The tree all lit up.

All the presents underneath there.

That's kind of cool.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Something else cool going on right now.

Our good friends over at American Heroes Cafe are open.

They got at least another 15 some minutes or anything.

I just wanted to wish them a good morning and remind everybody that every

second and fourth Wednesday of the month over across for your church from 730 to 930.

All veterans, military, police and firefighters are welcome.

Have a cup of coffee, some conversation and enjoy yourself at American Heroes Cafe.

Shout out to them.

Hope this morning went well for them.

Yes, indeed.

And just an office note here that we wanted to let everybody know that tomorrow our office

may have a previous hours due to pan being out of the office.

If someone needs to come, it might be the best thing for them to come call first.

This is 715-424-1300.

Also keeping in mind that that's probably a good rule of thumb in general.

Outside of our guests, the join us for our shows and those sorts of things.

If you're looking to stop by, it might not be a bad idea to call ahead anyway.

Yeah.

Just in case.

Never know.

Never know.

We're a small staff.

Yes, we are.

We're going to come in and out a lot.

That's true.

We are a small staff, but we do a lot of heavy lifting and we are able to do a lot of that

with you guys out there.

We are needing you, though.

We need you to do some work right now.

If you are a nonprofit group and you're hosting a Halloween activity or this month, we

want to know about it.

Let us know.

We'd like to share it with our listeners.

Please reach out to us at infoatwfature.com.

You can email us that way or call our front desk at 715-424-1300.

We'll have trick-or-treat times from our local communities coming up towards the end of

the month as we get closer to all Hallows Eve.

Yes.

We'll take it quickly.

Take a time out.

We'll come back with the okay, favorite day of our anniversary club on the morning show.

Hey everybody, let's have some fun, y'all alone, but watch, and when you're dead, you're

done.

So did the good time roll.

Welcome back, everyone.

Hi, everybody.

Time for the El Café birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate you and our birthdays and

anniversaries and a shout out to Seth and the great bumper work.

Oh, I haven't heard that song in a long time, man.

I haven't heard that song in a long time, man.

I haven't heard that song in a long time, man.

I haven't heard that song in a long time, man.

I haven't heard that song in a long time, man.

But I think we'll feel it.

Ah, that's awesome.

We think our friends over at El Café are awesome.

Visit them today, everybody.

They've got some amazing homemade pies over there for you.

Dutch apple, steam, rocky road, blueberry cheesecake, peanut butter, fudg, lemon meringue,

rocky road pie.

Yeah.

That sounded interesting.

I want to know how they do that.

Wow.

That's interesting.

Yes, I've been intrigued.

No.

Of course, some amazing specials over there, including a Mediterranean Benedict chicken

breast croissant.

Oh man.

They come up with some great stuff over there.

It's good.

All great stuff going on and keep in mind that our great friends at El Café also have

their El Café haunted house going on.

The Port Edwards trunk or treat.

Oh, cool.

And it's going to be happening October 26th.

They're going to have a best costume contest for ages one through five and five through

ten.

It'll go to from three to five, again, over in Port Edwards right over there at their trunk

or treat available.

Oh, that's cool.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

That's going to be fun, yeah.

That's going to be going.

Check that out and support our good friends at El Café by local support local.

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Seth, I need a one through three, uh, two today because it's that qualified boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom.

All right.

And first up, want to wish a very happy birthday to my son-in-law, Matt Hoyt.

Happy birthday, Matt.

Matt is awesome.

Matt is amazing.

I am so darn lucky.

I have two daughters and both of them have amazing husband.

That's awesome.

Very cool.

Do I keep them in check?

Yes.

Um, but I don't think they really care.

I'm sure.

Matt is such a, uh, a good, uh, hearted soul and a, and a, and a kind guy and, and also funny

as all get out of the hilarious guy.

Very fun.

And, uh, a new dad, uh, got to, got to see her carrying, figure around the other day at

the wedding.

Very cool.

And, and I, uh, I love the kid.

He's a great guy.

Great guy.

And, you know, as a, as a father, you can't ask for much more than, uh, you know, somebody

like Matt to be with your oldest.

Uh, he's a good guy.

Good guy.

Enjoy your day, but no, your day.

Talk to you later.

And hopefully beat you in hockey later, uh, next week or so.

I think I'm playing him next week in our fantasy hockey like a mentor.

Gosh, that just started too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I gotta keep remembering that.

Yeah.

Um, we also want to wish a very happy birthday to Liz Bowen.

Happy birthday, Liz.

Enjoy the day, Liz.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We wish happy birthday to Lida Linda Ham.

Happy birthday, Linda.

Enjoy your day.

Linda.

And our qualifiers celebrate in their 37th anniversary.

All right.

Herb and John, uh, uh, uh, Jonah, uh, Jonah Cronholm.

Okay.

Herb and Jonah Cronholm.

Herb and John Pat.

Happy anniversary, you two.

Wishing you both a very good one.

Yeah.

Enjoy your day.

Herb and Jonah.

That's a great day for you.

Jonah is a beautiful name by the way.

That's a great name.

Let's see who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with, uh, August T. Jones is

32, the, uh, half of the two and a half men.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

I remember him.

He left the show in a real like fuss and then kind of came back for the finale.

But he, it, it, it kind of, um, I don't know how much he wanted to act after that.

A lot of child actors, you know, they, they get burned out.

Great.

Not, they, they really experienced some not so great stuff when they do that.

It seems that way.

And it didn't really, uh, even if he wanted to keep working, I don't know how much he

can when you leave a show like that, especially at a young age.

It doesn't go.

It doesn't bode well for you as an actor, uh, Bruno Mars is 40.

Wow.

Uh, Bruno, just the way you are uptown funk.

He's got so many good heads.

Uh, grenade is a great song.

Yeah.

Very well written song.

Also, I, like, it feels like a challenge.

Like somebody went to Bruno Mars and like, all right, I love song with grenade in it.

Like, you know, like, I'm just, I like that.

It, it, it, it, it, you did it.

I'll do it.

Nailed it, man.

I love that song.

Nick Cannon is 45 host of the mass singer.

Um, state of comedian actor, he was on, uh, uh, uh, he did the show, uh, show on MTV

for a while and stuff.

He's got a couple of things.

Oh, that's right.

Oh my gosh.

Um, uh, Nick Cannon, uh, very good host, very good at the hosting gig.

I haven't watched a lot of the mass singer or anything like that.

But I've seen bits and pieces and I've seen him host other things.

And he does a fantastic job hosting the dying art.

It is a dying art.

Yeah.

He's found a niche with that.

I don't know if he was a musician or something.

I know he had some other stuff that he was doing that this wasn't necessarily where he

was seeing, he was going to go with his career.

Right.

But it's worked out for him really well.

Exactly.

Um, you know, I, I, I've heard you carry talk about this a little bit, you know, he misses

stand up.

Doesn't miss the road.

That price is right.

Tick, not paycheck is awfully nice when you don't have to be on the road.

Exactly.

300 days a year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nick Cannon a little bit and that's some kind of same element.

It's a good gig if you can get it.

Yeah.

Uh, let's see here.

Uh, oh, Matt Damon is 55.

Wow.

I think Matt Damon is actually becoming more likable and more, and I, and I mean like,

uh, by, uh, audiences, um, his movies have always done well.

Sure.

But the older Matt Damon and everything has been much more, and I think what audiences

are looking for.

Gotcha.

Young Matt Damon was kind of stuck in, in no man's land as a leading man where he, he

gets some roles here and there and everything.

But his work didn't necessarily stand out.

I feel like him as an older actor has been, had been doing more standout work.

Right.

Right.

And it's, there's something about seeing an actor who's talented and good and get to

a place in their career where I'm, I'm a, I got nothing to prove.

Right.

I got nothing to prove here.

Right.

So you're, you're finding them find not only fun work and sometimes take chances, like

he's done a bunch of stuff with Jimmy Kimmel and gotten in the little more comedy here

and there and everything while also just kind of pushing themselves.

Right.

Right.

And we go, when it, what's all said and done, we go back and look at his career.

We're going to be like, wow, that was a really interesting career arc.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's, he's very good.

I still don't know that he's done anything that tops good while hunting.

I mean, his first film, yeah, first big movie, yeah.

His scenes with Rob Williams and that are impeccable.

Yeah.

Very good.

They, they're acting 101.

They're just incredible.

They're so good that there was a, there's a scene where Robin makes him laugh.

He's talking about a moment with his wife, his former wife.

And it's so good and Matt Damon's reactions are so good and the camera shakes because

the cameraman is laughing at Rob Williams.

I never noticed that.

That's great.

And they kept it in the seat.

Gus Van Sant, one of the most articulate directors there's ever been and he's like,

no, that's too good.

We got to keep it.

That's really cool.

Right.

It's a good actor.

Good actor.

Teddy Riley is 58, super producer of Black Street, rex and effect.

So many great bands.

Oh my gosh.

Yes, he did.

I don't think I've played rex and effects on a label.

I've played that one.

I don't think.

Keeping up the tradition of great impersonators on Center at Live at 30 Rock History, Darryl

Hammond is 70 today.

Wow.

SNL master impressionist.

If you wanted to say that he was the best impersonator they've ever had, I would not

fight you on it.

Even though I'm a humongous Phil Hartman fashion, Darryl Hammond's in person was very

good though.

So good.

I mentioned Phil Hartman, that was one of his best friends growing up.

And one of his best friends in the industry, when Phil Hartman died, Darryl Hammond started

wearing black and he still does to this day.

Oh wow.

Anytime you see him in interviews or anything like that, he's wearing black as a memory of

Phil Hartman.

Wow.

I have no doubt that picking up the impersonation bit is in part because of that.

Yeah.

I'm guessing.

And he has taken over as an answer to it, he's for Center at Live, you know, for Don

Pardo.

You may hear, you may recognize his voice when he's introducing musical guests and all

that.

Yeah.

That's cool though.

That's really.

I mean, when you're stepping into those shoes, I mean, that's it legendary shoes right

there.

It's not only smart because if you notice this one thing that Lauren Michaels has never

gotten credit for is wanting to give people that leave SNL jobs, continuing to help them

get work and all those things, a lot of that stuff is behind the scenes.

You don't ever hear about it.

Sure.

And then there's stuff like this where, hey, Darryl Hammond's not working that much.

He's got a great voice.

Let's put him on here.

Yeah.

And you're continuing to keep the legacy going and also keeping that, that these actors

working.

Robert Cool Bell is 75 today from Cool and the Gang.

Is he the Cool and Cool and the Gang?

Is that apparently he is?

Yeah.

I'm going to be 100% honest here.

If I was in Cool and the Gang, that's how I'd introduce myself.

Hi.

I'm James.

I'm the Cool and Cool and the Gang.

Come on.

I love that idea.

That's pretty good.

Who knows if he's even the leader or not.

Yeah.

What about the rest of the guys?

They're just the gang.

Please.

Come on.

Hey, man.

I'm getting the thing.

You get the fare.

You pull up a picture.

You go right ahead.

Not in against them.

I'm just saying.

No, not at all.

A lot of hits celebration.

Ladies night.

Get down with it.

Get down with it.

It is one of the most funky songs you will ever hear in your life.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

The legend.

Sigourney Weaver is 76 today.

Wow.

Ellen Ripley in the Alien movies, Dana in the Ghostbusters movies, Dr. Grace Augustine

in the Avatar movies.

And of course, a famously played Jane Goodall.

That's, oh, wow.

I'd forgotten about that.

Her greatest acting performance.

And that is saying something about Sigourney.

Right.

So she, a lot of people really love her performance in Galaxy Quest as well, which

is a role.

I don't really want to repeat it on the air.

It's a little thing, but her demands for being in that movie were hilarious.

I just think, look it up everyone.

I'm not going to say it over.

I saw that movie and came out of it like, okay.

So Sigourney Weaver changed the game for actors when, female actresses when it came

to action roles.

Her role is Ellen Ripley completely different after that.

Linda Hamilton and Terminator a bit, but very similar, very similar, very near times

and of each other and everything.

Both deserve huge credit for where we are now, where Angelina Jolie and Catherine C.

I mean, I can keep going with actresses who have played action leading action roles.

That changed everything.

But her doing comedy, I came out of that movie Galaxy Quest and I'm like, why is she not

doing more comedy?

Seriously.

She's so good.

She's very funny.

Just complete actor.

Complete actor.

Chevy Chase is 82.

One of the most complicated, probably the most complicated character, a person never

come out of Senate life.

Chevy Chase show his history, maybe, maybe, wow, one of the more talented, funny people

to ever grace the Senate life stage, one of the best writers.

The early days, the not ready for prime time players, doesn't happen without Chevy Chase.

All that needs to be said, you can tell the history of SNL without it.

So many fun movies in the 80s that I just loved.

I could not get enough of Chevy Chase when I was a kid.

And then I learned what a jerky is and found out why he left SNL and all that and how big

his ego is.

And Chevy Chase's ego could probably not fit in the state of Montana.

And not for nothing, didn't age well.

His, him as an actor, as a comedian, he didn't grow with the skill, he didn't get better.

He got very comfortable in his skill set in the stick and he never got any better.

He did win me over a little bit on the TV show community for a while, but then it turned

out that he just was even a bigger jerk as an older man.

And it's such a shame because Chevy Chase that talent, just incredible, wonderful comedic

timing.

Yeah, wonderful comedic timing, wonderful writer.

His sketch with Richard Pryor is maybe the greatest sketch in Senate life history.

It's probably the most important, it's probably the most important sketch in Senate life history.

Jim and Richard Pryor going back and forth.

And Chevy was the only one that was willing to do it and Chevy was the only one that could

do it.

A lot of great people, people, you listen to me know how I feel about Balushi, but nobody

could have done that sketch other than him and Richard Pryor and it's an important one.

All that said, it all gets lost in the shuffle because he's such a jerk.

It's hard, it's a shame because he should be noted for all these other things instead.

So just a lesson, you know, treat people right.

Yes.

This Stein is 82, all you goose bumps fans out there, I know my sister, that was a little

bit past our past our time of doing that, but man, if I know that if we would have been

in that age group, I would have been all in on those books.

I, same, same, I, I remember always seeing my sister with those books and getting a lot

of young kids to read.

Yeah.

100% young kids to read.

Man, those were popular.

Holy cow.

Jesse Jackson's 84, noteworthy right there.

Paul Hogan is 86 Crocodile done be himself.

Ah, that an annoyed, this is a noise, such a great line, such a delivers it so good.

He's so good.

Happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating, celebrate with our

good friends over at L Cafe, we'll be back with more show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio got the spooky bumpers for you for

October.

That's right.

Love it.

Nice work, man.

Love these.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us, everybody.

Got some good stuff lined up for you for the end of the hour.

We're going to get into the best and worst cities to drive in.

Got that one for you coming up.

It's the classic.

Every year we do that one.

Yeah.

It's one of those ones.

It's one of those ones whenever they release that list.

There's a new study in the journal Intelligence about a metric called Conjunctive Personal

Personality Functioning Index, Conjunctive Personality Functioning Index.

It's a, quote, measure of how intelligence, judgment and other key traits evolve over

an average lifespan.

Okay.

So we're talking about, is it getting older and wiser, okay?

The actual phrase and how much truth there is in that.

Sure.

And this isn't just a random theory.

It is based on decades of psychological research.

We're talking going almost back to the 1900s type of research.

And it shows a pattern.

The overall functioning of the human brain reaches its peak between the ages of 55 and

60.

Okay.

But not everything follows the same trajectory.

So this is broken down in a bunch of different categories for one, fluid intelligence.

That includes reasoning, memory, span and processing speed.

That tends to peak in your early 20s and then fades steadily.

Okay.

Makes sense.

Crystallized intelligence, which is the accumulation of knowledge and experience.

That continues to build over the decades.

Okay.

So there, that one thing.

Oh, that explains a lot.

Right.

You're just building on that.

Like, think of this, I think I, I don't know for me, this works a little bit better.

Maybe for others, use whatever metaphor or whatever you want.

But for me, I look at my brain like a house.

Right.

And a lot of this stuff, you're building the basement and you've got the upstairs and

all that.

You're just going forward.

With crystallized intelligence, you're building a mansion.

You're just building on top of, on top of, on top.

That's right.

Personality traits, also mature and increased through early adulthood before leaving,

leaving, leveling off later in life, like consciousness, the diligence to see things

through and emotional stability, the ability to keep calm, under stress.

Okay.

Those are things that you can mature and grow at over time.

Okay.

That's cool.

Moral reasoning.

Really competing principles, deeper, deepens with experience, producing sounder judgments

about fairness and duty.

Okay.

So moral reasoning also is something that grows as you grow.

Okay.

Financial literacy.

Also builds in the person, a person's late 60s.

Okay.

Reflecting a lifetime of dealing with bills, people also get better at avoiding the sunk

cost fallacy.

Falsy.

Falsy, yes.

Falsy.

Thank you.

We grow good money after bad.

Oh God, are we bad at that?

We get a little better at it.

We get older at it.

That's interesting.

Wow.

Of course, in theory.

In theory.

Well, actually, you know, not so much in theory, because even with, even you might say,

well, I know a guy in his 50s that still does this, he's better than he was in his 20s.

Right.

So it may not be great compared to you, but compared to him, because we all have to start

at a different point.

But we all started at different points, right?

Yeah.

And then finally, cognitive flexibility.

The ability to shift smoothly between tasks and strategies with, with it, when circumstances

change and cognitive empathy, the ability to get what others are thinking both fades

with age.

Oh.

And these are very important to think about.

Yeah, they are, actually.

Your ability to shift between tasks and strategies and, and basically thinking on your

feet.

Right.

And being able to handle things under pressure, right?

That fades the closer you get to your late 50s and 60s, along with empathy, slowly declining

as you get older, as you get more set in your ways, is how you would say it, right?

Yes.

Yeah, you get more set in your ways.

Throughout middle age, the gain, the gains more than offset the losses.

The late 50s emerge as the sweet spot.

The point when hard, hard, one win wisdom compensates for a downwindling speed.

But it's downhill from there.

Of course.

This is one of the more important parts of one of the note here.

The report notes that this up and down, this up and down mental prowness has the most

obvious implications for the worlds of business and politics.

Oh.

You can go to the times.com to see the complete article.

Okay.

So going by this, we have an age for when you can become president.

You cannot become president at 30.

You can't do it at 33.

You can't do it at 34.

But you're 35 and all of a sudden everything changes.

Something about going from 34 to 35 makes you mature enough and ready to be able to handle

the most powerful job in the world.

According to our constitution.

Yes.

According to our constitution, why do we not have a topper on this?

Ooh.

I understand what ageism is and I am very against ageism.

I believe that our seniors out there have a world to offer us younger people.

Yes.

One of the only times when we're going to get to say younger people wouldn't include

myself.

It's cool yourself at this point.

That's dwindling.

Yes.

I am so thankful for the seniors in my life and those that I have lost, I miss them

every day.

I think that this is just as much for them as it is for the rest of us, that there should

be an age limit and when you can be involved in politics.

Yeah.

And in not saying this about ageism, this is science.

I just broke down for you.

The literal way our brain breaks down.

Right.

So you're telling me an 80-year-old president can handle things the same as a 50-year-old

president.

You're telling me that makes sense.

That it makes sense to have a person who could literally die at any minute and that's

not being morbid.

That's science.

Yeah.

The older you get, you're right.

That makes sense.

A man who was recently seen on the White House roof and it goes the same way for our former

president Biden.

Yeah.

Who had issues his own self.

Well documented.

Well documented issues.

Yeah.

Very well documented.

I'm sorry and you can go ahead and get mad at me all you want about this one.

But and I mean but I see this with all the love I have, not only for our fellow Americans

out there before this country.

This don't make sense and I'll expand this into the business world.

We have CEOs.

We have a people in charge right now that are in their late 70s and 80s and they have

nobody to take over.

There is no plan for the next people.

This age range and the egotism of okay, I can still do the job.

It doesn't matter how old I get.

It's selfish.

It's incredibly selfish and we need to be better than that.

We need to think the part of politics is it ain't about you.

It's about the people.

It's about your constituents.

It's about doing that.

If you are running for office and you are not, you know, minded enough to do this.

If you don't see this stuff, you're being selfish and you should get out of politics.

Well, and think about this, okay?

We shouldn't be investing this much influence and power in one person, period, no matter

what their age is.

There should be, isn't that why we became a country?

So the king couldn't tell us what to do.

The one dude who by the way went crazy when he got old, that was the whole reason we

did.

That's what I thought, right?

The country so we could make our own decisions.

That's what it was.

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

So we shouldn't, I mean, first of all, it should be more democratic all the way around.

In politics, obviously, it should be.

In business, yeah, it should be.

We shouldn't invest all of this power in influence in one dude, you know, and it usually

is a dude, right?

Yeah, at this point.

And they're usually old.

So I mean, let's pull back and take another look at this and say, maybe, maybe,

maybe there's ways we can circumvent this, you know, maybe if we made things a little

more democratic, maybe then we wouldn't have these issues.

This is also, I think, and again, I'm throwing this stuff out there and completely understanding

that I could be canceled at any second now.

But that's how much I love this country.

That's how much I love what I'm talking about here and how much I back it and I mean

it.

And I've done my homework on this subject.

I'm not just throwing this stuff out there.

And it comes to hitting a certain age, you deserve to be retired.

You've earned the retirement.

You deserve that.

It's a little bit like, hey, coach, I can still play.

Know your legs falling off.

Sit down.

Yeah, right.

Like, I know you want to play.

I know you might want to still be a part of things.

Volunteer.

Go ahead and volunteer.

There's a billion places for you to volunteer at that age.

Oh my gosh.

There's so much to do.

There's a lot of ways to put back in your country and to do good by your country without

I don't know, running for office and an age you shouldn't be, right?

And I, making the rest of us have to face the consequences for it.

Are we so afraid of getting canceled or ageism or some of these things that we just are

not, we don't talk about this stuff enough?

I don't understand.

It's a good question.

It's a good question.

Because that fear cannot keep us from doing things.

I thought that was the opposite of being American.

You know, we don't let fear keep us from doing things.

We're better than that.

Be better than that and pay attention to this stuff.

I think at least it's again science.

You can find the complete article at intelligence.com if you'd like or go to the Times and just

let me make double sure here that I got the right website.

All right.

There we go.

The Times.com.

Find the complete article there.

And come on.

Who doesn't want to sit on the porch, you know, in the rock and chair and dispense homespun

wisdom?

That's what you should be doing, right?

That's what I want it.

That's what I want to do.

You still got plenty to give to society.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Especially when it comes.

It can be in a different way.

That's all.

Exactly.

Back.

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A new study found political bumper stickers make you a road rage magnet.

You are significantly more likely to be honked at or to have issues on the roads with those

bumpers.

Really?

They find that it is not, you know, a party thing, both sides get equal amount here.

900 volunteers watch simulated driving videos that showed people cutting them off or driving

like fools and they had to rate how likely they'd be to honk at them.

Some cars had bumper stickers supporting one party or the other and some had no bumper

stickers at all.

The study found that seeing a bumper sticker you agree with has almost no effect.

Oh.

So even seeing the bumper sticker of seeing like somebody you just voted for or something

along those lines doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter.

Wow.

You're still honking.

You're still honking machine.

So, but if the fool didn't use a blinker and has views that don't align with yours,

you're much more likely to honk, again, regardless, but you also might add a little bit

more.

Mm-hmm.

So you're barking either way, but you bark a little bit more maybe if it's one you don't

want.

And maybe I'm guessing it just you get that sense that you are allowed to do more.

If it's someone you don't agree with politically, so that do caucus 88 bumper stickers that

you have.

You still have one.

You still have.

Might be a rough people the wrong way.

I just might.

Just might.

I can 88.

One of the oldest memories I'll ever have.

I'll be on my deathbed and I will still be able to remember my do caucus in that tank

with that up.

The worst photo shoot ever.

It's man.

It's got to be the worst.

I mean, I don't remember that well, but if I remember right, the race was pretty close

at that time and then that happened and it was all over.

Like I'd never had a chance after that.

So let's be honest here as we get into one of our annual traditions around here, the

best and worst cities to drive.

I love it.

We all know that the worst cities to drive in are the ones right next to yours.

Yep.

Yep.

That is how it always goes.

We've well established this.

Yes, we have.

And let's also admit we could all be better drivers.

All of us.

Yes.

An annual study ranked 100 US cities to determine the best and worst cities to drive in.

They considered 30 different factors like traffic, weather, accidents, gas prices, parking

and how much it costs to maintain your car.

The 10 best cities, the 10 best cities include five cities in Texas.

Corpus Christi, Texas was number one, followed by Greensboro, North Carolina, Boise, Idaho,

Scottsdale, Arizona, Laredo, Texas, Lubac, Texas, Birmingham, Alabama, Plano, Texas, Austin,

Texas and Winston, Salem, North Carolina and another North Carolina city, Raleigh ranked

in the 11th.

So Raleigh was just outside of the top 10.

Wow.

That's insane Raleigh.

Raleigh loves him.

Good name.

The 10 worst included four cities in California.

Philadelphia is number one, followed by Oakland, Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, San

Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Jose, California and Baltimore.

Okay.

Interesting list.

That is.

Always.

It's always fascinating.

Yeah.

And not a real surprise.

No, no.

It's not.

I think one thing to keep in mind with this too, Mark, when you see this a lot of the time,

it is East Coast cities and states that are tend to be the worst.

They also have the oldest roads in the country.

And the most narrow.

Yeah.

For that matter.

Yeah.

Some of the people that bought this and everything.

But then that gets thrown out the window when the top like California has five in the

top 10.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And they got nothing but space out there.

Like they should at least.

Right.

They also have something.

If you haven't driven in California, 10 lane highways.

And when you create a 10 lane highway, you got to like the construction workers as they're

putting the brick to mortar and all that.

All right.

Well, this is going to be a nightmare.

This is going to be.

There's going to be some rage on this road.

Yeah.

Like road rage may have even been invented because of this.

Like as they were building it like, you know what?

We should have road rage.

We first did.

First came out.

Yeah.

What do you expect to have happen when you have a 10 lane highway?

I've told the story before.

Yeah.

The worst driver, the most road rage I've seen is in California highways.

But they're so comic collected outside of the vehicle.

But in the vehicle, you get a, you know, so-called hippie in a VW bug and they're screaming

at you.

The words you've never heard before.

It's that little rage machine that they get into and drive around and I don't know.

It makes you want to rethink about our transportation system.

Yeah.

It does.

You know, man, does everyone need a car?

Do we all need cars?

I don't know.

I don't.

Maybe not.

Do we only need two cars?

And I'm just as guilty as everyone else, you know.

I shouldn't be.

I shouldn't be.

Getting a license be a little tough.

I don't know.

I mean, maybe that 20, you know, 20 minute test once in your life isn't enough, you know?

I certainly think that some of the laws out there might be a little better.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Well, Minnesota 41st, where did Milwaukee end up?

And Milwaukee was a little bit lower on the St. Louis's at 57, Minneapolis at 59.

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

How come St. Paul and Minneapolis are so different from each other?

They're right next to each other.