Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day.
Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.
The future, the figure, the drama, and then, makes no difference what you've been in.
Let's get a go on time for a Friday edition of The Morning Show here at 97.5 FM.
13.20 AM, locally grown radio. Got your host James here, joined by our head producer over at WRI.
Our PD over there, Seth Havagger. Good morning.
And one of our rockstar salespeople, sales sales marketing or co-host Aliyah.
Hello.
And the best listeners and radio are here. We appreciate you joining us.
Everybody got a great show lined up for you today. We're going to get into a bunch of stuff.
We got the Elcafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner.
Looking forward to diving into that for Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
We'll take our new sports partner break after that.
We're going to make you a star of the day with our friends from callers.
Got a famous TV theme song to play. I'm not as confident as I was yesterday about it.
Not as famous, maybe. We'll see a little more obscure.
We're going to find out together. I do have a backup.
I do have a backup lined up. We'll get into that.
We, of course, got some other fun stuff. We'll be getting into throughout the hour.
One thing I want to touch on. And this was just it just popped up this morning.
And I thought it'd be a good one for the show.
Old person habits that everyone should adopt.
Okay.
I think that's good.
How old is our reach?
Right. We're all teetering on the edge of this old thing you speak of.
And I don't like it.
Yeah.
Don't beat either.
Especially as my birthday on Tuesday.
Time raging on is very imminent in my brain right now.
We've got some better tape news to kick off the 11 o'clock hour.
We'll be diving into that. What's new in your small screen?
Big screen and a bunch of plays going on in town.
I want to touch on all of those. Get to that.
And remind everybody about our recipes.
We're collecting recipes still.
Looking for that.
And before we wrap up, we've got the top five songs Jen X rocks out to in the cars.
But we'll never admit it.
Oh, yeah.
That's a key part of this.
Love it.
You can't. It's a song that you know you somebody pulled you pull up to the stoplight.
You're jamming. You're having a rock concert.
But somebody else pulls up and you immediately go from just your hands in the air
and all this to just two hands on tentative.
You just look at ahead.
You don't look over either.
Because you don't want to know if they don't want to make eye contact.
Yeah, never.
And you just look at straight ahead.
No, I'm eyes on the road.
That's what I'm a good driver.
We will talk about that.
Let's admit our guilty pleasures.
I'm willing to do it.
Good stories of the day as well.
And getting to where some good stuff as well with our schedule and some other things.
But we begin where we have to if we want to be relevant as a morning show.
All right.
We've got a great core audience out there.
We got great people out there.
But everything is about getting younger.
In skewing younger.
So six seven.
Six seven, six seven.
Did anybody please?
Can I just kill it?
Did I kill it?
I hope so.
I just did.
I've heard it plenty.
Dictionary.com's word of the year for 2025 is six seven.
A slang term kids cannot stop using.
The irony in its meaninglessness or not thereof is kind of the point of it.
And I think actually dictionary.com was having a little fun with this.
I think they actually were, you know, not only I was teasing about the skewing younger thing,
but that is obviously a big thing.
I know Alia coming from marketing and sales.
That's something that you always have to think of and wonder about.
Yeah.
Those kind of things.
Yeah.
You got to speak the language of the streets.
That's right.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
The mean streets of rapids.
Well, it's well played.
Your kid may be able to tell you about it and everything.
Or let you know that the kid would tell you it came from us.
The song dot dot six seven by rapper Skrilla.
But even he can't explain what it means.
Skrilla, the guy who actually wrote it and everything.
Dictionary.com defines it as a viral ambiguous slang term that largely not largely nonsensical.
Okay.
Largely nonsensical is a fun phrase.
That's a fun phrase.
It also feels like it could be on my tombstone.
Yeah.
Right.
It feels like the end of the end of things and stuff.
James, he was...
Well, you know, he...
Well, he was largely not...
He was actually...
That's...
Yeah.
That would like...
He died as he lived.
Largely nonsensical.
There we go.
There we go.
In general, they say it's just an example of kind of like different slang that doesn't necessarily
mean anything that we create in terms and stuff.
Meaning the term is intended to be playfully absurd.
Right.
Which is another fun phrase.
My kid started using it.
Both.
At both of them.
Yes.
Okay.
And they would be like, you know, they would hear the six or seven something like that.
And they'd be like, hey, six, seven.
And then we're like, Beth and I are like, what...
What does that mean?
What is that?
And they're like, what's a mean?
Well, yeah, I get that part.
What does it mean?
I don't know.
I'm trying to think...
It's fascinating to find out it doesn't mean anything really.
Yeah.
It's just a thing.
I'm trying to think of like...
Like, our generations...
Like, did we have something like this?
And the only thing that's coming to my mind right now?
Is Cowabunga.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
That's fair.
Cowabunga is a nonsense word.
Yeah.
Radical.
It has an actual dem scientific term to it and everything.
I think tubular is a little bit out there.
There's a little bit like that.
Those are all, like, most mostly surf terms.
Right.
Mostly.
Yeah.
They came from somewhere.
Yeah.
Right.
They weren't just originated.
Like, this is kind of a...
It's a thing.
It's a thing.
It's kind of original.
And I do like that it's undefinable.
Right.
I like that part of it.
Yeah.
I like that part of it.
I remember like a sixth grade maybe when I was in sixth grade.
And I think it was very local to where I lived.
But there was this thing going around where people would...
You'd say something and they'd be like, sure Steve.
Yep.
Yep.
And it didn't last that long.
It was like for a month, you know?
But I just...
Everyone was using it as like sure Steve.
Sure Steve.
Is it that different than talk to the hand?
Or you know some of those things that we did and stuff.
Right.
Or what was the one?
Not.
Yep.
Oh okay.
I'm going to go do it, do this.
Not.
Yeah right.
It's not that different than those things.
Yeah.
And you're right.
We're pretty non-consensual.
Yeah.
Non-sensical.
But I do think that it's kind of...
It says something about the generation too that it could be that funny to them.
Because it's hilarious to them.
It is.
Even with us doing it, it still hasn't lost its charm to them or anything.
Right.
That it is non-sensical.
It is.
It is.
It's like skimmy toy litter.
Whatever the...
Those are all dead now by the way.
Yeah.
They've been killed off.
But yeah.
It also...
Don't you dare say the dead sling in front of your Gen A Gen Z kids because you will be grilled.
Yeah.
Rilled.
If nothing else you'll get a really dramatic eye roll.
Kind of...
Yeah.
They're ain't much worse than a kid giving you that look.
Right.
There's not much worse than that.
And trying to teach younger kids is one of those things that I don't know how our teachers do it.
A shout out to them.
We appreciate you.
You people are rock stars.
You're amazing.
When I've tried to do it, I feel like almost every...
For every other kid that I'm talking, we're hitting things.
We're making eye contact.
There's the kid that just rolls his eyes at me.
We do not get each other.
We are not on the same page here.
My youngest has...
I don't know what else to call it, but like a withering look.
You do like a really bad dad joke or something like that.
He'll just turn to you.
And have this blank expression on his face.
And I do things specifically to see that face because I want to see that face.
Yes.
Every time I do it, I'm like...
Yeah.
Yeah, I got it.
There was a stretch there where I was able to get that out of my mom for a while.
And then it slowly turned into no.
I can't...
That's like almost like Medusa.
She looks at me.
I am stone.
I'm stuck right where I am.
And I'm 10 years old again no matter what age I am.
And the guilt is just all over me.
But what you're describing stuff is like when you get...
You know you've gotten to like...
I don't know, like the zenith of parenting when your kids are old enough
where you can do that.
Oh yeah.
Where it's not...
I've been waiting a long time to be able to do this.
Absolutely.
All right, you tortured me your whole childhood with all them diapers
and wanting to be fed and stuff.
And you're going to do my dad joke now.
Coving.
Yes, man.
Basic necessities.
They're all virtually nonsensical.
Lane comedy is one of the few ways we can combat you.
That's right.
Exactly.
Embarrass him.
That's the thing.
When they're embarrassment is that it's peak.
Use it.
I...
There's something fun about these things too.
It also reminds me of one of the toughest worst jobs I can think of.
Trying to create toys or games for kids.
Like, think about sitting there and you got your...
You got a room full of 10-year-olds or whatever and everything.
You're like, okay, here's the new toy that we're developing and everything.
And like, what are the chances they're going to like it?
Like, the things that they like, the things that they're into
just like when we were kids or our parents were kids or anything else.
Like, good luck figuring that out because they don't even know.
They don't know until they hear it or see it.
And it's like, oh, 6-7.
I get it.
I like this.
This is hilarious.
Like, no marketing.
You could have the greatest marketing team in the world put in the room for 10 months and they wouldn't come up with that.
But a bunch of kids just decided, you know what?
I like this.
6-7.
And they just start doing it.
That was the biggest thing in the world.
That happens very organically.
I mean, occasionally you'll get like a marketing campaign that works like that.
I'm thinking like, you'll care Otaku Bell or something.
Sure.
The Chihuahua or like the Budwais or Frogs or something like that.
It was up.
But other than that, this doesn't happen very much.
Oh, marketing to adults.
I'll do that all day.
I have no issue with that.
That is difficult.
I don't make light of it.
But you, marketing to kids to try to get a kid to, hey, here's the brand new toy.
Check this out.
Yeah.
Yeah, because you're saying, I'll say, this is cool and they're like, no, it's not.
But I did everything you said.
Everything that, look, it even says 6-7.
Like, oh, it's lame now.
No.
What?
We spent a lot of money on these kids.
No, we don't like that anymore.
Like, I good luck to every marketing, like every betel and Hasbro and all these toy companies,
man.
I don't know how you do it.
That seems like a very, very difficult job.
I can barely know what I like.
Well, kids are so sophisticated now.
Like, you know, they could probably program a computer from scratch.
And I'm still trying to figure out those baby bottles from when I was a kid.
That when you tempt them over, the juice doesn't appear.
How did they do that?
And I'm like, 35 years later.
And I'm like, how do they do it?
Where is the technology?
I had no idea that they had magic.
They literally had magic in that company.
That's pretty cool that they can do that.
That's magic.
There's no other explanation for it.
I didn't realize it was so easy to entertain Alia.
I have to be very easy.
Show her a snow globe and she's, wow.
How did you get weather in this glass ball?
How did they do it?
It's sunny outside, but it's snowing in the globe.
I don't know how that works.
That was a go.
It's crazy.
We'll come back with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club on the morning show here at WFHR.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at El Caffe and the birthday and anniversary club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to El Caffe, 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
Check out some of the great specials they got going on over there.
Maybe a cup of coffee and a slice of pie.
It's a nice way to start your day.
And of course, they got your fresh fries covered too.
Absolutely.
You should check that out.
One of the best in the area.
10, 30 to 8 tonight.
They'll be open.
Be sure to check it out.
Everybody head on over to El Caffe.
Buy local support.
Local support.
Our good friends over to El Caffe.
A 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
And get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can keep celebrating with you.
Info at WFHR.com.
You can direct me, email us there.
Direct messages on our Facebook pages.
And Seth, you can call on up.
715-424-2600.
Do it live on the air.
We love doing that too.
Yeah.
It's always fun.
Join the conversation, everybody.
Looking forward to talk with you.
Call up and get a good join us here.
Taking a look at our list.
We've got a solo.
We can just put the spotlight on for today for Saturday.
I need a one or a two Aliyah.
One.
There we go.
Boom, boom, boom.
And that'll do it for today.
So you're both off for this.
All right.
Take your go ahead and take a nap.
Take a nap.
For today, we put the spotlight and wish a very happy anniversary to Lauren and Paula Evelson.
Evenson.
All right.
Happy anniversary.
Yeah.
Wish you both a happy anniversary.
Enjoy it.
Congratulations.
I think you should go over to El Caffe with that.
That's a good fish fry.
Fish fry is a good anniversary dish, right?
Fish fry and pie.
Oh, even better.
Yes.
We got a call coming in.
Let's take it.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I would like to turn a birthday in for November 25th.
Amanda Fuller.
All right.
All right.
All right.
We have Amanda Fuller.
We have that added to the list.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Have a good morning.
Love it.
Appreciate that.
That's how easy it is.
Everybody, follow up.
Get it to us.
We'll add it to the list.
And we'll be talking about Amanda a little bit later.
But look at that.
Amanda got an extra shot out there.
She did.
Very nice.
You can look at Saturday birthdays.
First up, happy birthday to Mike Collins.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Mike.
Old high school friend of mine.
Mike, a good guy, great guy wishing to have him a happy birthday.
Enjoy your day, man.
Very nice.
And our qualifier on Saturday, Diane Smith.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Diane.
Diane, enjoy your day.
Hope it's a good one for you.
It's always such a big and a distinguished name to me, Diane.
Such a great name.
Enjoy your day, Diane.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And on Sunday, we wrap things up.
Wish you a happy birthday to Civic Media Zone.
Andrea Gorshik.
Oh, Andrea.
Happy birthday, Andrea.
She sales, right?
Yeah.
She sales department.
Yeah.
She was actually one of the people that interviewed me before I got hired.
Oh, really?
Oh, very cool.
She's lovely.
She's great.
Yeah, Andrea is awesome.
We appreciate the work she does.
And especially with the marketing angle of things and stuff.
She's very good at what she does.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, Andrea.
And you're sharing your birthday on Sunday with Avery Port Smith.
Happy birthday, Avery.
Avery, I had to ask, and I talked to Avery's wife.
And she was telling me that they are from somewhere in East.
Okay.
Because I had not heard the name Port Smith in a long time.
Okay.
I don't think since I was in Chicago, I heard the last name Port Smith and stuff.
So we welcomed them to the area.
Oh, they're new.
That's great.
Pretty cool.
Awesome.
New to the area, new listeners.
We like that.
We appreciate that.
I know word on their age.
So I don't know if we got that younger listener in or not.
Whatever your age, Avery, happy birthday to you.
Yes.
We look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.
First up on our list, a celebrating birthday today.
Lord is 29.
Oh, wow.
Only.
Yeah, I know.
She's been roughly a decade and it's already.
Wow.
She's got a really wonderful way, I think, of a pace to her singing.
One of the things that I think that benefits me as somebody who knows nothing about music but tries to.
Right.
And loves music like so much.
When it comes to singing to me, you can have a great voice.
You can have an original voice, all these things.
What's your pace?
How's your timing with the song?
I really enjoy singers like that.
It tends to be.
It seems to me a lot of English singers have perfect timing.
Look at Adele.
Look at Lord.
Look at some of those younger singers out there.
And I say young and relatively.
Relatively speaking.
But it's cool to me that part of it.
I don't know how you teach that part.
You can.
I know you can teach a lot about singing.
But as far as like listen to the difference of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
Two of the greatest timing singers you'll ever hear.
But very different.
But there was a feel to it.
She seems to have a lot of that.
Right.
A lot of just a pace to what she does.
Do you have to bring up a point?
She's not British.
She's from New Zealand.
Is she?
She is.
I just googled it.
All right.
I knew you were wrong.
But I had to beat you to it.
No, you make a great point though.
Because I just listened to a Florence in the machines newest record just the other day.
And it's like, yeah, she's one of those singers too.
Yeah.
She's very similar in that way.
In original pace.
Yes, exactly.
Maybe it's even just a phrase.
It's called phrasing in music.
She has very interesting phrasing.
Yeah.
Look, we got great American singers that we create and born and bred in this country and everything.
But it's similar to me like with basketball where we have a way we've taught things that we've not really changed.
And with that, you have a lot of the same kind of thing happen decade after decade.
In New Zealand and England and some other places.
They kind of, okay, you're an alto.
Oh, you're a baritone.
Well, what do you want to do?
And they let you do what you want to do more.
So then just putting you in a box.
We kind of do that here.
We do it with athletes all the time.
Oh, you're six, ten.
You're playing this position.
Oh, but I want to play that one.
In other countries, well, wherever you want to play, they'll play.
You know, it's similar to the music.
I think that there's a freedom that comes with that and the timing of singing that goes with it too.
And that is now that you said that though, it's so obvious she's from New Zealand.
That's so obvious.
That's so obvious.
Taking a look at who they share their birthdays with.
Let me see here.
Oh, it's a small list today.
Oh, Joni Mitchell is 82.
Wow.
Big yellow taxi.
Help me.
Mm-hmm.
Integral singer songwriter of her era.
I, you know, artists like her, I always love seeing pop-up in history.
I come from the biggest Carol King fan in the world.
So I had to mention her, of course, but the folk movement, some of those artists,
where it came down to the songwriting so much.
Yeah.
Morgan Spurlock, would have been 55 today.
Born in 1970, passed just this last year.
Super sized me some other great documentaries that he did over his career.
It really hurts that 1970 was 55 years ago.
I was born in, and I'm not yet in my 50s, but it's, it's, it's made it now.
Yeah.
It's getting closer every day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really stinks.
Really stinks.
I hear you.
Taking a look at Saturday, birthdays.
Jack Osborne is 40.
Wow.
Aussie's son and traveling companion.
Wishing the Osborne's well, certainly at this time.
I imagine there's still some, it's got to be tough.
Yeah.
It's got to be tough.
But I always like Jack.
I like the way he carried himself and everything.
Both him and his old, the one that we, we see on TV and stuff, Kelly and everything.
I couldn't imagine what that's like to grow up.
I mean, you sure, what it's like to grow up in that family.
Honestly, the Osborne's look like an English version of my family.
Like they don't look that crazy to me.
They do not look that, like none of it looks insane to me at all.
I feel like they're more normal than we really.
Oh yeah.
I mean, I, I've read his autobiography.
I read one of Sharon's autobiographies and they're, they're, despite all of the, you know,
the craziness, the drugs and the rock and roll and all that stuff, he was just a chill guy at the end of the day.
Yeah.
I don't, I think one of the more interesting things about Aussie was so many of the things that he got famous for.
He didn't necessarily mean to do.
Right.
They were just kind of things.
Well, and it's also his, it was his act.
Yeah.
We have to remember that.
It's not exactly who he was.
It was part of the show, right?
His persona.
Yeah.
The tension mole is 53 on Saturday.
She was in an American Jig-a-Lo and Board of Wac-Empire, solid actor.
Parker Posey is 57.
I love her.
Boy actor.
The 90s Indie Queen.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Parker Posey.
Big fan of Parker Posey.
She was great.
Especially in the Christopher Guest movies.
That's right.
Yes.
Speaking of the 90s, Courtney Thorn Smith is 58 on Saturday.
She was in according to Jim Ali McBeale.
She was in a handful of things.
She had to have been in at least two other TV shows back then.
What, she had an Alrose place?
Thanks for sure she was.
That's where she got started.
I think so.
That's where she was going to be.
That's how it worked.
That's how it worked.
Gordon Ramsay is 59 on Saturday.
Wow.
Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmare Chef.
I think it's good to note as well that Gordon Ramsay was the creator of a lot of these shows.
He didn't just go to hosts.
He created a lot of these things and stuff.
And while he has made a name for being the barking chef and all of these things and stuff.
Go ahead and take a look at what Gordon Ramsay does when he's not on TV.
And you talk about a guy who has put a lot into the world.
Oh yeah.
And done a lot of good in the world.
And also helped a lot of chefs like get their breaks or with his connections helping people who he believes in.
And like, oh, this guy's got something I'm going to, like, I don't want to say it's an act all he does.
Because I think that's a part of his personality.
That's him in the kitchen, you know, basically.
But it is a bit of a leaning into it a little because, you know, I don't know if he wants me to say this or not.
He seems like a really good guy.
Oh yeah.
He actually seems like a really good guy.
Yeah.
I don't know if that hurts his brand or not.
He's fine.
I think he'll be.
I think he'll be alright.
You get that though.
When you watch MasterChef Junior, he is so good with the kids.
That's cool.
He understands that you can't do the same thing with him.
Well, true.
He has hard on them.
But he's so loving and, like, just nurturing with them.
And I love that about him.
On Saturday, the wonderful Alfred Woodward is 73.
Jason Momot's mom in C.
She was cookie on Empire.
She was in Luke Cage.
She's just an incredible, credible actor.
She's fantastic.
Her and Angela Bassett, I don't feel like we'll ever get the credit they deserve.
Like maybe, you know, unfortunately, after they pass and maybe some, you know, they'll finally realize, oh my God, we never appreciated Alfred Woodward.
But she's so darn good.
Yeah.
And makes you feel everything she says, like you're in the room with her.
Just a real quick moment.
She has just a small scene in Captain America Civil War with Robert Downey, Jr.
And in that small scene, I mean, she, it's amazing.
The emotion that she puts into it.
It's just, I mean, wow, what a pro.
I love actors that they don't have an off switch.
Like, it doesn't matter if it's a superhero movie or a Shakespeare.
They're giving you everything they've got.
She sold that.
Bonnie Rape does it too.
She's 76.
Yeah.
Wow.
Great singer songwriter.
Oh, fantastic.
I think for our generation, we're familiar with her.
She had her biggest hit probably during our time in high school and everything.
Yeah.
But I didn't know until a little bit later in life that she had a long career before that.
She didn't.
Yeah.
And she basically, she didn't know what to do with her because she played the blues.
And there's so few blues women out there, especially at that time.
Yeah.
They're like, what do we, and finally, I mean, you know, she, she made it, but no.
Yeah.
And the music community, she was well known before that.
Yeah.
Especially as a guitar player.
Yes.
Exactly.
People no longer with us celebrating on Saturday, the legend Escher Roll.
Born in 1920, Florida, Evans on Good Times.
One of the greatest moms in TV history.
Top five mom in TV history.
Go back and look at Good Times and see what that will would handle.
That's right.
L.J.J. alone.
L.J.J. alone.
I mean, she's a good, great mom.
And Maurice Safer, born in 1931.
I would celebrate, would have been celebrating Bertie on Saturday.
112 Emmys on 60 minutes.
Wow.
Wow.
We all grew up on that reporting.
And it's a quick look at Sunday, Bertie's interesting list.
Cisco is 47 on Sunday.
Oh, Lord.
He shares his birthday with Nicholas Shay, who is 52 on Sunday.
Oh, my goodness.
Stop.
That's just interesting.
Let's see.
Chris Jericho is 55.
A Lufarigno is 74 on Sunday.
Yay.
Lufarigno.
Love me some Lufarigno.
Yeah.
And, yeah.
And then, as far as people no longer with us, would have been celebrating birthdays on Sunday,
Tom Fogarty, born in 1941.
Creens Clearwater Revival.
Yep.
You cannot tell the history of Classic Rock without, you know, CCR and so much of his work.
Very good guitarist, yeah.
And Carl Sagan, born on Sunday in 1934.
Billions and billions and billions.
Astrophysicists is extraordinary.
I think for a lot of people, they really got their first taste of space from Carl Sagan.
One of the great science communicators of all time.
He was able to break it down for everybody about these really complex things.
He was very good.
Even though he had that weird speaking style, but it didn't matter because he's...
I mean, the series cosmos that he did in the early 80s, I mean, was groundbreaking.
Yeah.
Like what you were just saying, so many people were introduced to that through that show.
And because of the way he was able to do it.
It was amazing.
One of my favorite qualities in a person.
It all started with Carl Sagan.
And it's something that I've strived for and worked towards as a teacher,
as somebody who just tries to educate anything, anytime.
How can you take these complex, crazy things and break them down to even I can understand them?
Right.
Carl Sagan was the beginning of that.
I think, yes.
You know, very much Bill Nye has picked up that mantle very much and is able to do it.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is probably good at it.
I admire that so much.
And I'm focusing on science, but I know good friends of mine who have been able to do that with me with an engine.
You know, and be able to explain to me.
I don't know that much about cars, you know, 20 years going on first learning and stuff.
And they break it down and like, oh, now I get it.
Like just good teachers.
People that can break it down and make it make sense.
Carl Sagan, for me, I'm sure there were people before him, but he was the first one that I remember.
He was very influential.
I thought space was cool, but I didn't understand a darn bit of it.
Like, wait a minute.
OK, I understand what a galaxy is.
Now you're telling me there's a universe.
Oh, wait.
Hold up here.
Black hole.
What is that?
That just sounds like a cool band name.
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Um...
Some old John Johnson came to mind right away.
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It's subliminal.
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I didn't remember the name of the show up.
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Yeah.
So I am catching up a little bit on stuff.
Okay.
It was back in September 16th, 1984, the Miami Vice First aired.
The two-hour pilot episode, we all remember Brothers Keeper.
No, nobody remembers.
But it's one of those shows that is a benchmark in TV.
Like it is.
The theme song was an actual hit.
Yes.
Jan Hammer.
That's right.
What are the parts and everything?
I just learned something really interesting about Michael Mann, who was the producer of
the show, the executive producer and creator of it, is that he's got...
For those people who know, Michael Mann, he knows his films, you know, last of the
Americans, he eats and all those things.
He's one of those, like, perfectionist guys as a director.
Apparently, he had to approve every single costume on that show.
Wow.
Wow.
And like every episode, can you imagine that?
Such bright colors.
Oh my God.
But he had to approve every single one of them.
That's crazy.
Wow.
Also not surprised.
He had the time, I remember.
One of my all-time favorite directors, Michael Mann.
Oh, easily.
Easily.
And just one of my all-time favorite theme songs, that's a good one.
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A big here.
Good morning, you're on the show.
Hi.
Happy day.
Happy.
Oh, we're calling for a star of the day.
We already, we just got done playing star of the day.
We were just doing some, that's all right.
But you got some practice in.
Now, next Friday, I got a chance, I got a feeling you might win next Friday.
Right.
You've got a good chance on this.
Thank you so much for listening, though.
Next time.
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Excellent.
Please do.
And she was right, by the way.
Yes.
That was used as the theme of, at least for a couple of seasons, rock round the clock
was used as a theme until they got the new one written by Barry Manell, by the way,
the other theme that they used later, yes.
I really want to give her something, like that was all right.
She just nailed that.
You know what?
You feel free to call back.
I'm going to find something around here, like that.
You are awesome.
We have the best.
I'm sure we've got a t-shirts.
Yeah.
We've got t-shirts.
We'll give you something.
You call back this.
You have to put something.
Yeah.
For now, diving into this one that I think is not only a fun topic, but actually kind of
insightful.
Old people, older people, do have secret life hacks.
People online are listing the quote, elderly habits and strategies that everyone should adopt
no matter what age you are.
And there are some really good ones here, and some of the highlights.
Saying nice things to strangers.
Sure.
There are sometimes, there are some things in some people where that could go sideways
or whatever, you know, welcome to the world.
That's always been the case.
But generally speaking, older people are more likely to engage with you in this, and this
tends to be something that they only do, but we could all adapt, we could all be better
about.
Yes, my grandfather.
I always think of him when we talk about stuff like this.
I mean, for him, you know, a stranger to his friend, he hasn't met yet, and he would
find any, the amazing thing is how we get people to talk to him about just about anything.
It was really interesting, really cool.
My Nana was so comfortable in her own skin, and wanted you to be that way.
And so much to the point where I kept so many memories of just going through a grocery
store with her and her saying to somebody, your hair looks great, or, oh, you were looking
good today, woman, like something like that, I don't know where, and half the time I think
she knows him and she doesn't, like, and it's a big reason, like, you got to be careful.
You got to know your audience here a little bit, especially in 2025.
But it is one of the reasons why I will always do those things.
Yeah.
I inherited it from her, and I think it goes a long way.
How many people out there don't like hearing, hey, you look nice today, you know?
Well, seriously, right.
One grandma said, don't wash the dishes if you are cooking.
Make the eaters wash them.
You are not my maid.
See, I do that.
I do that in my house.
I'm like the self-appointed dishwasher because my husband does most of the cooking, but
he is like, he likes to do all of the cooking and clean up after himself as well.
I don't know if that's a military thing because he's ex-military, and it's just like we
take care of everything.
But I'm like, no, the dishes are mine to do.
Well, it's interesting.
Oh, I just, I just do it when I cook anyway.
I just see it as a thing to make, just make it easier in the end, whoever is doing the
dishes afterwards.
I'm just, we'll make it easy for you.
Both my grandfather's military men, same thing with that, but growing up, we talked about
this yesterday with the men in the kitchen thing and stuff.
In my house, whoever cooked the others cleaned or clean the dishes, it was just always that
way.
I had not heard this before.
My mom made French toast the other day, and you know, there's a lot of stuff I want to
help with it.
No, Jimmy.
I got it.
Okay.
I'm just going to do it.
And you know, I've done this before and stuff, but it's been a while since I just went
ahead and did it.
And I started doing some of them, and I immediately feel her eyes on me because, sure, I'm helping.
I'm trying to help, but I don't clean them the way she does.
Oh, yeah.
So that's a whole other topic.
That can be a thing.
Yeah.
That can do that.
I would push back against that is if you have guests over.
And I am, for me, I'm very old fashioned with the guest host relationship.
Agreed.
I don't feel comfortable having anyone.
You know, they would offer you.
Can I help clean up?
Actually, no.
You were my guest.
You go sit over there.
Now, I do expect that when I met someone else's house as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I expect them to be the host and me to be the guest.
So I'm going to throw that one out there.
Yeah.
You invite Seth over.
He's relaxing.
That's right.
So that's what we invite you over for Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's putting his shoes.
Shall I take your plate for you, sir?
I will read it to you back.
I will read it to you back.
I love the idea, though.
This guy, like, what are the kindest people you know?
And like, this is his thing, though.
Like, yes.
Yeah.
I like snapping my fingers.
Your song, please.
I didn't know he had that in him.
I do.
Right.
Sleep as much as you need.
There's no shame in self care.
And that's a good one.
It's a very good one.
It's a very good one.
Feels like it's taunting me a little bit.
Of course.
We can't.
I mean, if you're tired, you can do that a little bit easier than if you've got like
writing stuff.
Right.
Right.
I hear what they're saying, though.
I do love the last part of that.
There's no shame in self care.
Right.
That part is excellent.
Yeah.
That's a good idea.
And it really speaks to really, I don't know that if enough credit is given to older
generations with certain things.
We are at a place we are now with mental health where we talk about it in a raised voice.
We're not shy about these things anymore.
We're doing some really important, really good work there.
I don't think that there's enough said about the people of those generations that were
also trying to do that work, but didn't have the resources or the dad or some of the things
we did.
We didn't know what HDAD was or some of these things 40, 50 years ago, but yet you had
people who saw something was going on there, something was different there.
My kid doesn't learn the same as other kids or whatever, and we're fighting and working
to try to make things better.
They were really on the cusp of self care and mental health before they even knew it
many of them.
I know my grandmother, my mom's mom was one of these people.
I know that there's a lot of individuals that they didn't have the words and didn't have
that, you know, some of the science to back it up and everything, but they like, my
kid doesn't learn the same thing.
They knew something was up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not surprising to hear a sentence like that.
Yeah.
Plus, you know, you come from the Great Depression or some other eras and stuff.
You know what real survival is like, you know what real difficulties can be like.
And I think one of the most important things you learn, if you're fortunate and you, as
you get older, you gain one of the best friends you will ever have perspective and just
a bit, an ability to be able to take a, you know, hey, things are really rough right now.
But they ain't as bad as they were 20 years ago or they ain't as bad as they could be or
what have you and everything.
Quote an elderly, sorry, an elderly person said, quote, I always opt for flying on the
first flight of the day at 5.45 a.m. departure.
Heck yes.
Typically, the plane has been at the gate overnight and there are shorter lines.
That's true.
No life hack there.
Well, the shorter lines, I guess it depends on what airport you're going to.
Right.
Sometimes everyone's doing the early flight and then it takes longer to get through security
and that kind of thing.
So.
However, however, let's just throw this one out there.
The pilots have just potentially woken up and have they had enough coffee yet or maybe
not have had enough sleep.
I want a nice flight that lands around 10 o'clock when I know my pilots caffeinated like
the idea.
That's a good one.
People on the flight just bringing coffees for the, for the flight, the attempt to fly
through the pilot.
Yeah.
Here you go.
Just take it.
Quote an hour and, an early hour in pajamas for myself for crossword puzzles, reading
a book, looking through the news, enjoying coffee, it gives me my own privately and privately
enjoyable time before the day begins.
My kids do this.
My mother is doing this right now in the room with us to keep at it.
You keep at it.
Someone get this woman a coffee.
That sounds really nice.
That sounds really nice way to start your day.
Honestly, that sounds like one of the ways to, you know, certainly many of us that are
working can't maybe do that, but you probably have a day off here or there or whatever.
Maybe, you know, whatever the day is starting it that way.
It's a nice way to even when you have a busy day in front of you doing your best to start
your day with some calm, some, you know, a pace, a good, you know, I think that goes
a long way.
I get up a little bit earlier to do that and by that, I mean, I don't go to sleep.
Quote, if you're not going out for the rest of the night, change into your pajamas.
Be completely comfortable.
Yeah.
Yes.
Again, my kids, they've got this clocked, man.
They know what they're doing.
Again, another one of those things that comes with age, when you know that you're in for
the day by, you know, by this, for me, it's like I throw my adidas on.
I put my adidas, I'm done.
I'm not even, I'm not doing anything.
I might do stuff in the house.
Sure.
If I'm putting on comfortable clothes, I'm, that's where I am the rest of like the night.
Mm-hmm.
That makes sense.
There's certain things about that that there's, there's something you look forward to
about that that is, it comes with a comfort with it and everything.
Quote, if, oh, get rid of social media apps.
At best, they're just a way to kill time with the occasional interesting post.
At worst, they'll poison your head.
I, very to the point, succinct, I like that.
I heard my grandmother saying that.
I heard, I heard a very old Yiddish voice saying that Jimmy get rid of social media apps
and best at just trying to kill you with occasional interesting posts.
Yeah.
You know, need it?
At what?
The poison your head?
Yeah.
The poison your head, Jimmy.
They're immediately plaguing my head right now.
Mm-hmm.
The poison your headlight met as such a grandmother-like poison your head.
I cannot prove it, but I believe a grandmother said that.
That and television.
You shouldn't watch television.
It's a rotten brain.
It's a rotten brain.
It's a rotten brain.
Radio was good enough for us.
Easier said than done, but it is, it is a strong point about social media.
Yeah.
I think.
I agree 100%.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know this is something you abide to, everything.
Right.
But I also think it's, I, one thing that I would push back on with anything, social media apps
or really anything in life.
You never do yourself a favor by lumping everything into one group.
There is positives and negatives to almost everything or life.
Of course.
Yeah.
Social media apps have their positives.
Overall, though, I completely agree.
Quote.
I begin every morning with a stretching routine to loosen up my joints.
I'm constantly moving through the day, either taking a walk or listening to oldies, but
goodies, which always makes me move and groove.
Hey, that's a great idea.
Not bad.
Yeah.
Stretching is one of the best ways to start.
But I try to start every morning that way.
I don't know.
I'm always good at it, but I try.
I just thought of something.
This is a great way because, you know, you, you, you listen to music that, you know, like
you grew up with and that kind of stuff because, you know, there's the nostalgia value.
But I didn't realize that's also when you like danced and did, you know, moved around
to that music.
I wonder if there's something there that if you listen to that, you feel younger and you
want to move more that kind of, I don't know.
Maybe there's something there.
I don't know.
Dick Van Dyke prescribes his long life to the fact that he dances every single day.
I remember him saying that.
Yeah.
And a couple of times I think and that totally makes sense.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
There you go.
Definitely.
Of course he said that.
Well, I drink a glass of whiskey every day.
And you would never believe it.
I said, 17 Dr. Peppas.
He's like, I kind of wish he did say something like that because none of us would see
you coming.
Yeah.
Actually, that's pretty dark.
He's a recovered alcohol.
I don't know if you can tell that route.
Dick Van Dyke.
He's famous for his recovery.
That's true.
Much respect to him.
Right.
And his honesty in all that.
Yeah.
And finally, hard candies.
Here this was coming.
Quote, hard candy.
I didn't get it before, but now that I'm middle aged and taking meds for physical problems,
my mouth goes dry, suck candy goes a long way.
That's fair.
That is fair.
Yep.
Okay.
Now, when we started this list, you said old people hacks and I was anticipating like people
in their 80s and 90s and you just used the term middle age, which is where we all firmly
land.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I don't want to.
I don't want to.
You got to face it.
I'm with you.
It's right there in front of you.
I'm living a life in a veil of childlike wonder.
No, no, no.
I mean, you can still do that, but you can't deny what's happening to the rest of your
body.
No, sorry.
You could try to regress.
It doesn't really work that well.
I've got some good friends doing that.
It's got a lot.
Promptly at noon.
Time to regress.
Yeah.
I like these.
I think these are fun.
At all.
There are others.
Any ones that you want to add to the list, everybody.
I think one of the ones I would add that my grandmother and grandfather's both sides were
all very good at the waving distrangers, the smiling at people, holding doors open for
people.
Some of those things go a long way.
Just being goofy and being fun.
Life is too darn short and we're only here for a site.
You don't know how long you're here for, so just enjoy it.
Right.
My Nana, while she worried about her hair a little bit and everything, that was important
to her.
Otherwise, what she wore, she was going to be comfortable.
That was it.
I'd say the older you get lean into that, be comfortable.
Putting on airs or any of that, I don't think you need.
And I think being grateful goes a long way.
I think that's one of the greatest life hacks you can hear, you can have, being appreciative,
taking the winds where you get them.
We're all here.
We woke up this morning.
That's a win.
It may not seem like the biggest win at times, but that's a win.
So that reminds me of my grandpa used to say they'd say, how are you doing, Bill?
He'd say, well, I woke up this morning and I wasn't dead, so that's good.
My papa, I'd be walking around, I'll mopey and everything like that, Jimmy.
What's wrong?
Having a bad day.
So you think you have it a bad day?
Try not to have a one.
That's a bad day, Jimmy.
That's the mentality.
That's the perspective that I think is kind of missed in many ways.
This idea of we can always push forward, comes back to that.
And being appreciative and being kind goes a lot farther than I think.
Absolutely.
And you really realize until you do want it.
Speaking of being kind, I want to send a shout out to the best listeners in radio, sending
us a birthday card.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
I didn't know they made 85th birthday cards.
That's pretty cool.
I mean, I figured they did.
I just had to make sense.
It really does say it on there.
Yeah.
So one of our listeners, it looks like in Milwaukee, sent us a 85th birthday, birthday
card.
It was signed.
I'm sorry.
From Rudolph.
Oh, hey, even better.
Thank you, Rudolph.
We shout out our great friends over in the Rudolph area because not only this beautiful card,
which that's a Pam level card right there.
That's good.
That's very good.
Yep.
But some laughter.
Some laughter stories from the newspaper and everything.
We love these.
It's adorable.
Going to be looking through these when I have a chance we'll find one or two that we
can read on the air.
Any crazy animal stories in there?
Probably.
There's got to be.
There has to be.
I mean, that's a big part of our story.
We're still waiting.
We need the listeners to decide what animal Wisconsin is going to dub the fattest animal.
Yes.
These listeners be thinking about that.
Oh, wow.
I missed that.
Wait.
The fattest animal in Wisconsin or just in general.
So we discussed the fattest squirrel on Wednesday.
Oh, okay.
Tunkasaurus Rex.
Cannot say that enough.
Yes.
So we've decided, James and I, that we need a Wisconsin equivalent.
So fatt.
I see.
Fatt.
Gotcha.
That badger, you came up with a good one, I thought.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't, I think deer would be better though, actually, considering it's tough to find
a bigger deer.
It's tough.
Yeah, that's a good one.
A good one.
I've never, I don't even know.
I don't even know how big badgers can get.
So I don't even know what I'm looking for.
That's true.
That's true.
That's everything.
I just know I want to, I want to, you know, stay on the other side of the street.
Don't tangle with them.
Don't tangle with them.
Cow.
Oh, cow.
Cow.
Cow.
Cow.
Cow.
