Live Music Wins Big (Hour 1)

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.

Time to start the show. Morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM locally grown radio.

Got your host James behind the mic. I almost said James host. Do you have your James host?

Yes, yes, you have your James host here. It's a Friday. It's already a Friday.

It's a Friday. Set over here with us. Good morning, everyone.

Hope you all are having a great start to your Friday. Thanks for joining us to the best listeners and radio.

We're going to take good care of you today. We got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club coming up.

We'll get into that. Looking forward to celebrating Friday, Saturday, Sunday, birthdays and anniversaries.

Of course. We're going to make you the star of the day with our friends from callvers coming up.

Got a fun TV theme song for everybody today. Good one.

And it kind of ties into our sister station a little bit too.

Oh, it does. Nice. All right. Cool.

And before we wrap up the first hour here, we got a poll that found the way we like to be entertained the most.

The way we like to be entertained. What kind of type of entertainment do we like the most?

Speaking of juggling, I don't know. Yes. Miming. Miming. We're all into minds.

We've got us. We'll continue the conversation of entertainment with a new movie from Miming Night Shyamalan in the works.

Wolfgang Van Halen fighting against AI.

And we got a great one here that I thought would be fun leaving into the weekend.

Facts you might not know about a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Oh, oh, oh, we can't wait for that one.

What's new on your small screen, your big screen and we got some local theater going on.

I want to touch on all of that coming up and before wrap up the show.

Where in North America are you most likely to spot Bigfoot?

This is important discussion, Seth, and we need to discuss. We need to get into it.

If anyone's ever heard you talk about Bigfoot before, I mean, you know where this is going.

Yeah, it's okay. We're definitely going there.

And we will do that in the 10 o'clock hour. Looking forward to it.

But we begin with one of the oldest games that all of us play that we know.

Rock, paper, scissors.

Rock, paper, scissors. Absolutely.

Science just figured out a new hack for winning rock, paper, scissors.

And it's easy to remember. The hack is remember to forget.

Fun, huh?

A team in Australia had people play 15,000 rounds of rock, paper, scissors.

They did this against a computer and scanned their brains to see how they made decisions.

Oh, okay. That's interesting.

Okay. Also, very interesting to me.

I love, I'm into, I like science. I think it's cool.

I really find a lot of these things very interesting.

There was nothing else.

There's nothing else these scientists could be doing.

We got a lot of problems in the world, man.

I'm going to say, you know, there are studies out there that do seem on the face to be a little ridiculous.

But if you dig a little deeper, you'll find out actually they're studying something very...

It's actually more important than you think.

Yeah, yeah.

This is about decision-making, which I think is really, that's really interesting.

Brain decision-making stuff is really cool.

My son works for a nonprofit in your old stomping grounds.

And they studied the brain and a lot of these things and do a lot of this kind of work.

Instead, I've talked with him about it because one of the early subjects Carl and I did on the morning show

was going into one of these studies that had been done.

An in-depth study that was spent a lot of money on the addictions of chocolate.

And we were like, well, chocolate is addictive. We know that. We move on.

But you're right. It had so much to do with what sectors it hit in the brain.

Exactly. And certain things like that.

It was a really, actually, really interesting.

Well, in general, they found we tend to choose rock the most than paper

and scissors is the least common choice.

Really?

A poll this summer also found rock is the most popular pick.

But scissors took second and that one paper was third and that one.

Yeah, I think we touched on that one because I remember I was talking about that.

But the actual hack only comes into play if you tie the first round.

Oh, they found that trying to be smart and base your next choice on what happened in the last round

actually makes you less likely to win.

That actually makes a little bit of sense.

So in other words, don't worry about what each of you threw out last time.

Just try to as random as possible.

That's good idea.

The rubb is they found that it's really hard for our brains to ignore that data

and to be truly random with it.

Boy, that man, that is confirming a lot of stuff we already know

about the brain with patterns and things like that.

The brain just needs patterns.

It's always constantly looking for them.

And this is a great example of that.

Yeah.

We, you and I, being comic book fans and things,

we've come across the story many times of Superman facing off against evil super bad.

And oh, their skill sets are matched.

They know each other's moves before they even make them kind of thing.

And then what does the hero usually do?

Well, I'm just going to be random.

I'm going to do things out of place or whatever.

And it throws everything off.

When I see those things happen in TV and stuff or movies or whatever,

it's one of the more mind-boggling things to me.

Because the idea of how do you do anything random?

The second you think of it, you've thought of it.

Exactly.

That's a great point.

Just fling your arms around.

Well, I just thought about flinging my arms around.

Right.

It's an interesting thing.

And that's one of those things that they have also, you know,

some studies have shown that we actually do the thing before we think of it.

Yeah.

Which, I mean, it goes in a lot of, you know, free will and all this kind of stuff,

this, all this.

Anything that we do that the kind of maps or, you know,

tries to understand the brain just a little bit more, I think is actually good.

And it's really interesting.

Because that's something we all share in common, you know?

Our brain is basically, it's, you know, the same kind of tissue and all that.

But we're all different.

I mean, what are the differences?

What are the, I mean, that's why it's so interesting to me.

I will encourage everybody because we don't want to get in trouble with copyright laws

and everything.

The Simpsons did a great rock paper scissors thing with Holbert Woods.

It's really good.

Oh, it's Holmer.

Yeah, it's a great one.

I'm thinking of the one that Lisa and Bart did.

That's the one I was thinking of.

That's what I was thinking of.

Good all rock, nothing beats rock.

Poor Bart.

Poor Stu.

It's a boy who chooses rock.

It's so good.

So this got me thinking, of course, what about world records with rock paper scissors?

Ooh, okay, interesting.

Anytime I'm seeing an option and opening for us to maybe get a world record,

I'm going to try to look for it right through that.

Well, of course, there are a bunch of these.

The world record for the largest rock paper scissors tournament is held.

This isn't just one time thing.

It's held in a Tijon Joy City in China.

Oh, wow.

It has about an average of 10, the last one back in 2019 or at least one of the last ones

had 10,000, 33 people with it.

Wow.

For most pairs playing simultaneously, the record is 594 achieved in Germany back in 2024.

So 594, that's pretty good.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

And the largest game train, 857 participants formed a rock paper scissors train in Japan back in 2025.

So April, I'm sorry.

April of this year.

Oh, wow.

Because I had to say, it's very big in Asia.

Rock Paper Scissors is huge there.

I mean, you think it's big.

You know, we kind of consider it more of a kids game kind of thing.

But in Japan, there's like competitive leagues and stuff that they do with us.

It's really interesting.

The most people online, the record for simultaneously online playing is 364 people set back in 2020 again in Japan.

And to says point, it doesn't take a lot of big Googler search to find this rock paper scissors tournament that I just found out about yesterday.

I didn't even know that.

It's really remarkable.

Yeah.

It's kind of interesting.

It also brings me to, I think, one of the cooler things about this.

Because we have, I would gather to say 100% of people out there listening have played rock paper scissors.

Yes.

Even once, right?

Yes.

I don't know if I've ever been able to say that about anything on the air.

I don't really don't know, other than maybe breathing.

I don't know if there's something that I could, I feel very, very confident saying we've all done this.

Call up if you've never played a rock paper scissors.

That would be fascinating.

And why are you like anti rock paper?

Maybe you are.

Maybe you're just a hill you're going to die on.

So another thing that you probably have picked up on that I like to do, if you've listened to this show last nine years or whatever,

is find these things that bring us closer together, that take away divisiveness and tie us together.

And whether you grew up in the projects, or you grew up in the country, wherever you grew up,

you played rock paper scissors.

Yeah.

We've all done this.

It's one of the great ways to decide things.

Well, you all do this.

Of course, this is the other thing that I think everyone's done.

You'd say, okay, this is the restaurant we're going to go to.

We'll decide by doing rock paper scissors.

You do the thing.

The loser always say best two out of three.

Yes.

Always.

You have to.

You have to do it.

I think it's part of, I think it's in the law actually.

I pretty much have to say that.

It is.

It's somewhere at the end of the Bill of Rights, I believe.

You can go and double check your money.

But it's also, it's also like, some reason Benjamin Franklin was really adamant about it.

He was very, he was not going to keep that in there.

He lost the turkey thing.

So he was not going to lose out on this.

No.

When it comes to this as well, those that don't know.

And I think it was a little bit of a learning thing for me too over the last 24 hours.

I figured, okay, people might play this in some other countries.

Everything I could find literally every continent celebrates or has that.

Right.

It does rock paper scissors.

Something like it.

Yes.

And it's the same game.

It's the same game all around the world.

We all play this game.

There might be some little differences here and there.

But for the most part of this, it just shows us how much we are all connected.

How much we all have in common.

We have more common than not.

If you were to go to some place, you know, you don't know the language or anything like that.

You started doing that.

People would probably know what you're doing.

Yeah.

Which is really the idea of having something that's that universal is so cool.

That is just really neat.

And I'm hard pressed to think of anything like that.

Like anything.

Especially when it comes to games.

Yeah.

Game, which are not universal usually.

No.

They're very specific to where the culture they came up in.

Right.

And just how cool is that?

I will never look at rock paper scissors the same.

No.

It's this thing that could bring us all together.

Also would not be surprised if it showed up in the Olympics.

It would not be surprised.

I have watched some Japanese competitions.

I was like, I was talking before in tens.

Yes.

Yeah.

In tens, man.

The suspense right before they start doing it is like, and they do it really quick.

You know, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Check it out.

Like, look up a video.

It's really interesting.

I mean, we made table tennis in Olympic sport.

I mean, I don't know that, you know, they tried break dancing.

I mean, go ahead and give it a try.

I don't know.

I'm getting inching closer to Tiddly Wayne's though.

Yes.

But very afraid.

I love the idea of an Olympic sport that literally anybody can play.

And you could have people that you would never think of as a quote athlete.

Right.

Competing for a goal title for so on board with that.

We've got a lot of Olympic athletes that look like Adonis isn't everything.

Yeah.

I want more bowl or Olympic athletes.

Yeah, we want more curling.

Yeah.

Curling athletes for Olympics.

Yes.

Yes, definitely.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back with the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.

It's Seth and James.

Take it through your morning at WFHR.

Yeah.

But my little baby isn't a kind of fool.

Come on, baby.

Let the good times roll.

You heard, Jimmy.

Time to let them good times roll into the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to celebrate.

You would talk about our great friends at Elcafe.

Treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 to market Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards.

Buy local support, local support those that support our community.

That's right.

And I'm over there and enjoy keeping mine.

Of course, they got there.

I'm getting more and more famous Friday fish fry going on tonight.

Be sure to make plans for that.

It's just called the famous Friday fish fry.

Really sure.

Wow, it's famous.

Oh, I should go check it out.

Yeah.

I've got some great stuff just waiting for you over at Elcafe.

Head on over there and wish them a good morning from all of us.

Yeah, exactly.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We can celebrate with you.

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Direct messages on our Facebook pages and call on up.

715-424-2600 to wish someone a happy birthday.

Live on the air or give us other birthdays.

We like that too.

Looking forward to talking with you everybody.

Seth, I need a one or two.

One.

And give me another one or two.

One.

All right.

There we go.

Be a randomness.

Yeah.

And one more.

One or two.

One.

Nice.

A trifecta.

I had to do it.

We dive right into the celebration.

First up, one of which a very happy birthday to Marissa Lund.

Happy birthday, Marissa.

Marissa is one of my oldest and closest friends.

Oh, very nice.

I don't have a whole lot of those, but she is definitely one of them.

No one of her very long time.

One of the more intelligent people I've ever met.

Funny people I've ever met.

And does a lot of good.

She just got back a little while ago about a year or two ago from being in Alabama for a long time doing sports medicine.

Yeah, that's very cool.

She got quite the brain on her.

But don't tell her I told her that.

No.

Said that.

Because they never let me hear the end of it.

Enjoy your day, Marissa.

It's a good one for you.

Yes, absolutely.

And we wish a very happy birthday to Kathy O'Reilly.

Kathy, happy birthday.

Kathy's our qualifier for you.

Very nice.

Kathy, enjoy your day.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We don't get a lot of O'Reilly's.

We don't get a lot of those.

I like that.

Not around here.

A lot of them.

O'Reilly's.

For an Italian, I love saying Irish names.

I mean, something about it.

Something about it.

Or a Scottish accent gets me every time.

Every time.

I don't know what it is.

I don't know what it is.

Irish is close.

But it's a Scottish Irish for me.

A little more flowing.

The Irish.

The Scottish little more.

It's to Cotto.

Yeah, amazing.

Amazing accents.

We take a look at Saturday Birthdays, where we wish a very happy birthday to Travis Plowman.

Happy birthday, Travis.

Travis used to record video here at Wisconsin's Rebs Community Media.

Wow.

Wow.

Okay.

Good guy.

We wish him a good birthday.

And our qualifier for a Saturday.

Nancy Cook.

Nancy.

Happy birthday.

Congratulations.

You wish.

And you're the best of days, Nancy.

Now we do want to put in the spotlight on Saturday.

Nancy, along with some of our civic media family.

Tammy Easterling is celebrating about the...

Oh, happy birthday, Tammy.

Lou Rogney is celebrating the birthday.

Oh, Lou.

If you...

Yeah, listen on Sunday mornings.

He listened to Mr. Lou, yep.

Our good friend, Rocker.

He's celebrating the birthday.

Rocker from Maxing Radio.

Yeah.

That's great stuff over there.

And of course, the legend.

And I'm not saying that jokingly.

I mean it.

The legend, Randy Paul.

Randy Paul.

Happy birthday to you, Randy.

For decades.

Randy has been on these airwaves bringing you high school sports.

Some of your favorite high school moments.

Randy has done the call.

I have mentioned to him...

It was actually one of our early conversations

when we started working together more and everything.

Like, hey, man, you're my favorite voice to listen to.

It's like you and Kevin Harlan.

I just really enjoy Randy.

And I think, you know, Randy might think sometimes that I'm just being nice.

I don't...

Especially when it comes to this business.

I only say things I could back up.

And he genuinely is.

And I say that because not only is Randy...

We know Randy teaches that assumption.

We know Randy loves assumption sports.

But when I'm listening to Randy call a game,

he has the perfect balance of, yes, he's the home announcer.

But he's calling it just as straight up for the other T.S.

And just as excited for the other kids and stuff.

And I've seen him do this in person.

And know how much he...

These games mean to him.

I know how much this business, this station, means to him.

And everything he's done.

For those that may not know the details of these things,

we're not able to pay our announcers much.

Not really.

And when they're doing this stuff, they're doing it for the love of the game.

They are.

100%.

Randy's been doing that for like two decades.

Yes.

At least.

At least.

And he's dang good at it.

He's really good at it.

He's so fantastic.

And someone who's gotten to listen to him a lot over the last couple of years,

you know, helping broadcast games and everything.

You're so right.

I want to point out though, that Randy is one of the genuinely nicest people on this planet.

Yeah.

You will never walk away from a conversation with Randy Paul and not feel good.

Yeah.

And it's a terrible thing to say about your nice person.

But it's so true.

It's so natural sincere from him.

It's just who he is.

And it's great.

Anytime you're talking to Randy, you know, you're talking to a good guy.

Some of the best people you really say that about,

you really can generally back it up.

I really feel it.

I appreciate you, Randy.

I enjoy your day, sir.

Enjoy your day.

And Sunday, we wrap up with one wish happy birthday to Kate Nordstrom.

Happy birthday.

Kate.

Kate, actually, one of my new her at Washington and that piece and that Lincoln.

Kate and I back at Washington were two of the people that like really were into entertaining.

You know, me with my craziness about actually and all that.

And Kate was a ballerina and really into dance.

That's cool.

Just became kind of friends because of that and just a really interesting great person.

Very enjoying your enjoy your day, Kate.

Yes.

And on Sunday, we are qualifier Jim Henry.

Happy birthday, Jim.

That is one of the better names I have said on the airwaves.

Jim Henry.

Two first names.

Two first names, James Henry or Jim Henry.

It feels like there should be an old folk song after.

It's just off a little bit.

Jim Henry came down.

It's just a good name.

Good name, sir.

He can change the lyrics to John Henry.

You can do that.

Just make put Jim in there.

You're good.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with on our list for today.

Josh Dummel is 53.

Oh.

Colonel William in Transformers movies.

He was in Call of Duty.

Jupiter's legacy.

Good actor.

Proud at New North Dakota.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's got a ranch up near my knot if I remember correctly.

And so when we lived out there, he was part of a big tourism campaign that they were doing.

He was in all their ads and stuff, which was kind of cool.

I like that.

I feel bad because early in their careers, I would mix him and Timothy Olympiad up.

And they don't know why.

They have little alike, but not that enough to be like them.

Maybe it's the way they carry themselves.

Yeah, I don't know.

Travis Barker is 50 and very happy to be that playing crash.

What was that?

15, 17 years ago?

Yes.

That he almost is lucky.

Good drummer.

Good drummer.

Oh, wait.

I got a really shout out before he was the blink 182 drummer.

He was in a little fun little band called The Aqua Bats.

Yeah.

And he was the drummer for them.

So shout out to The Aqua Bats.

Yeah.

Good shout out.

Revan Run from Run DMC, a 61.

Wow.

Not a lot of hip-hop artists going, you know, or artists in general going to ministry.

Right.

And do that.

And then are also able to keep their street cred or their cred with their audience or anything.

He's done it his whole career.

He has.

It's really interesting.

And it's funny that some of those early rappers did.

Like MC Hammer.

He's a, he's a, or a, or a, or Dane pastor now, too.

No.

No, dude.

No.

It's lost.

And a lot of the, the, the legacy of Run DMC is the beats.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Who, at the, who else was grabbing a run, a, a, Aerosmith guitar lick and putting it into, you

know, deftifying beats.

There was not a lot of people doing the things that Revan Run was doing.

He is such a gay, like a architect of so much of DJing.

And where would go?

Right.

If you want to call like, um, um, Grandmaster Flash.

Mm-hmm.

Or the Sugar Hill gang is like the, the very first, you know, hip-hop had been around for

a while.

But they were the first, you know, uh, commercial releases.

Yeah.

Then you got to call Run DMC as the first time it, it hit the, like the national consciousness

where it went kind of pop, right?

This is where hip-hop went pop.

And they deserve so much of the credit for that.

Yeah.

Way before Hammer or any of those.

That's right.

They probably say this every year for his birthday.

You were right.

That was one of the funniest, weirdest shows they ever put on network television in like

the late 90s or really 2000s.

It was.

It didn't last very long.

But man, was it funny?

That's good.

Uh, Condoleez Rice is 71, former secretary of state, uh, and also a very talented musician,

a concert pianist.

Yes.

And she's amazing.

Not a bad actor.

Not a bad actor.

Not a bad actor.

That's bottom 30 rock.

Uh, that was really good.

She did a great job.

Yeah.

She impressed me.

She was very good.

Very nice.

Yani is 71.

Oh, wow.

Uh, just big time artist, big time hair.

Yani.

Big time art.

Big time mustache.

Big time mustache.

Yeah.

That's an impressive stage.

Very talented artist.

Yes.

Very talented.

James Young is 76, guitarist and sticks.

Um, one of the lead writers for sticks as well.

Okay.

Uh, and let's see here.

King Charles, the third is 77.

Okay.

Wow.

Taking a look at Saturday birthdays.

Just a quick rundown of Saturday and Sunday birthdays.

On Saturday, Chad Kroger is 51.

Nickelback lead singer.

He does that a lot.

He does that a lot.

He does.

Uh, Kevin U-Banks is 68.

Jay Leno's former band leader on the tonight show.

He was good.

He did a good job.

Very good guitarist.

Oh, some of his jazz stuff is really good.

Another one of my favorite voices.

Beverly DeAngelo is 74.

Tomorrow.

Yes.

I'm going to have you chase this wife, Ellen in the Griswold.

Ellen Griswold.

The vacation movie.

Yes.

But so many other great roles over the years.

Yep.

Fantastic singer too.

Wow.

She's good.

There have been a lot of great attorneys in TV history.

And we all have our favorites out there.

And there are no wrong answers.

Mine happens to be Jack McCoy.

Sam Waterston is 85 a Sunday.

Saturday.

Uh, Jack McCoy, I law an order.

I literally, if I have to go to court,

I'm trying to get 85 year old Sam Waterston.

To be my attorney.

He's like, what are you doing, man?

I'm an actor.

I'm not an actual attorney.

I'm not an actual attorney.

I don't care.

I don't care.

I still want it.

Like, I'm going to lose anyway, man.

I love Sam Waterston.

I'm going to have to say that he's my favorite TV prosecutor.

Mmm.

My favorite TV defense attorney has got to be Raymond Burr.

I like it.

Perry Mason.

Yeah.

Oh, no, Perry.

I grew up on Perry.

Well, I'm watching it with my none.

Right.

Yeah.

It was good.

Good show.

Yeah.

Uh, lost ones.

You know, like, the people for the best episodes of TV ever, nobody saw it coming.

I lost to Hamilton Berger.

Yeah.

I'm watching reruns of this show, like 20 years later or whatever, and still sitting there,

just shocked as a little kid watching it and everything.

I'll never forget that episode.

Probably called it, like, uh, uh, uh, Mason loses the case or something like that.

Yeah.

It's like in the title.

It's still surprised.

Yeah.

Uh, some people no longer with us.

I would have celebrated Birthday Sun Saturday.

Uh, one of my favorite actors of all time.

I'm Ed Asner, born in 1929.

Of course, the Mayor of the Child of Moore show in Lou Grant, um, but 600 credits.

I mean, that man wasn't so much TV shows, movies, you, you name it.

He was in it.

I love when we can mention an actor and every generation is going to have a different

image pop-up of them.

Yep.

For certain people out there, certainly the Mayor of Child of Moore show is the first thing

that pops up.

Probably him angry, yelling, something like that.

Then to a whole other generation, it's, uh, you know, uh, Elf, uh, say up to, in Elf,

yeah.

Kind, you know, almost a little bit of a, um, a, a little bit of a rougher edge

Santa, but still Santa, as we've come to know and love him or how about even a

generation after that, knowing him as the voice of Carl and up.

I mean, uh, how many actors I'm guessing it's maybe literally a handful of

actors that have almost five generations worth of like reference of people who

know, I mean, he had a truly remarkable career.

He did everything.

He did comedy drama.

I mean, you name it.

You never heard a bad thing about him.

Nope.

You never heard a nice guy, too.

People loved working with that guy.

I love that.

I mean, a great one.

And the macho man would have been celebrating a birthday.

Randy Randy.

I'm a macho man.

Savage judge.

Judge Wapner also would have been celebrating birthday.

Wow.

A lot of birthdays.

Nice.

And a quick rundown of Sunday birthdays, Pete Davidson is 32, um, I, I like Pete

Davidson.

I'm a fan.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is 48.

Wow.

Great actor.

Great one.

I mean, eight.

She's almost, she's, she's our age.

She didn't realize that.

Wow.

Yeah.

Dwight Gooden is 61.

Yeah.

Dr.K.

Oh, man.

Funny time.

In his prime man, he was the no one could touch him.

I don't care.

Roger Clemens was around the same time, but at his best, I think Gooden was a little bit

better.

Yeah.

I agree.

A hundred percent.

I've gotten into that debate with many people.

Especially when I was a kid.

Those first couple of years he was in the league were just amazing.

In his prime, at his best, I'd take Dwight over any eighties pitcher.

Almost any.

Oh, I should say.

Close.

Yeah.

I'm a huge Nolan Ryan guy.

I'm a big Nolan Ryan guy.

It's a debate.

It's a debate.

Yeah.

I said, I got very, very way too bold about what I'm like.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Oh, Nolan.

And Burgess Meredith would have been selling a birthday on Sunday, Mickey in the Rocky movies,

of course, The Penguin and Batman.

But many, many people, of course, remember him as Grandpa and Grumpy Old Batman.

Where?

That was his most recent famous role.

Yeah.

Of, of, I mean, he was in a, my son, man, in 1939.

He's probably his greatest work.

Probably his greatest work.

But again, he's like Ed Asner, generational.

He was in the business for so long and he was so busy.

Yeah.

He was on TV shows.

He was in some great episodes of The Twilight Zone for Crying Out Loud.

I mean, he was just everywhere.

Forgot about The Twilight Zone.

Yes.

Um, uh, there are, like, smoking the bandit, uh, there's a lot of great outtakes in human

history.

There may not be any better outtakes than the outtakes from Grumpy Oldman.

I mean, all him just doing his things.

Just him.

Just riffing.

Yes.

I mean, for him, he's just riffing out there and poor Walter Mathau, Jack Levin, cannot

keep it together.

Two of the greatest actors you've ever seen.

A birch is married at this.

It's like, take, next take, next take because of this guy.

Awesome.

Great stuff.

We'll come back and we'll get you some free culverts with our star of the day coming

up.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Lights.

Camera.

Action.

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

culverts.

The set that I are about to do is play a very famous TV theme song.

If you know it, you have a one anything in 30 days, boom, just like that call up, 715-424-2600.

You can also call us through the Civic Media app and win yourself a kids meal and adult

meal from our friends at culverts and set them calling and audible.

I'm throwing two river king tickets in there.

Hey, I'm throwing some river king tickets.

That's awesomeness.

Got to do it because you, you, you, we need to go to see the river kings when they're

back in town because they are having an amazing season so far.

Dinner in a show.

Dinner in a show.

Dinner in a show.

Yeah.

That's great.

They're going to get nice.

That's not a many better shows than some hockey.

Very cool.

Yeah.

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All right, I have dragged it out long enough.

Let's do it.

Get ready to call up 715-424-2600.

Tell us what TV theme song this is.

There we go.

All right.

This is my favorite part of the minute.

Let's see if we have ourselves a winner.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

The Dixon Hazard.

Yeah.

You know it.

You know it.

Yes.

Good old Whalen Jennings right there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I watched it all the time.

Yes.

One of my favorite shows when I was a kid.

I remember that.

Absolutely.

Loved it as a kid.

Loved it as a car.

It was a car.

I loved seeing the car jump.

That was about it.

I didn't understand the rest of it.

I don't know.

I don't remember anything outside of the car.

Right.

That was it.

I did remember watching the train, the, you know, intro a little bit this morning.

There were a couple of things that I remembered a little bit here and there.

It's actually a lot.

I remember it being a lot funnier.

I didn't remember how funny it was.

Yeah.

It's a funny show.

It's a good humor to it.

It's a good one.

Yeah.

Thanks so much for listening and playing along.

Sir, what's your first name?

Paul.

Paul?

Yeah.

All right.

Paul.

All right.

Thanks a lot for listening and playing along.

Paul, what town are you calling us from?

Steven's Point.

All right.

Got ourselves a point winner.

All right.

I'm not a point winner in a while.

Very good one.

Cool.

Well, Paul, hang on the line.

Gonna get a little information from me off air.

But you're our newest star of the day.

Thanks.

Appreciate you, Paul.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I had to do this one because the theme song for Duke's of Hazard, title theme from the

Duke's of Hazard, good old boys.

Yeah.

Hit number one on the Billboard Hot Country singles charts on November 1st, 1980.

So I had to get that one in celebrating November and celebrating one of the more classic TV

theme songs there is.

And again, remember, like James said, William Jennings did the theme.

He was also the narrator of the show, which was really cool.

My dad believes that that's part of why I'm a big whaling fan.

That could be, hey, nothing wrong with that.

How do you find these guys, right?

One of my favorite artists of all time, and I never really thought much about it until

he said that because I was like, oh, maybe.

I don't know.

I don't know.

The Duke's of Hazard first air January 26th, 1979 on CBS.

It ran till February of 1985 at a good run.

That's not a bad run.

Six year run.

Very good.

We were watching the opening there when you were playing the theme song.

It's Tom Wolpat sliding across the hood.

That was him doing it.

Yeah.

I wonder how many takes to do it without looking like he was like falling over or something

like that.

Like, contrary to, but he was very adamant about this.

They didn't put anything special on the hood or nothing like that.

They just did it.

This was, he looks very natural doing it.

He could slide it.

He could slide the magazine.

Slide across the hood.

We'll come back.

A couple of good old boys that come on back and wrap things up with the hour up with what

is the way we live, live entertainment?

What do we, what kind of entertainment most coming up and be listening next Friday for

another edition of Star of the Day?

Gotta let that guitar play a little.

Seth and James hanging out with you on the morning show.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Want to send a big shout out to Paul and point, winning our Star of the Day and a great

reference by Paul.

A shame on me.

Kooter.

Didn't mention Kooter.

Oh, my Lord.

Oh, my gosh.

I can't believe I didn't mention Kooter.

Thank you for that, Paul.

Let's go.

Pete Coltrane.

It's a great name.

James Best.

He was good at that.

Great show.

Yeah.

I'm a little surprised and I'm afraid to put this into the universe.

They haven't remade it.

I know.

I know.

I'm a little surprised by that, actually, when I think about it.

So much of its time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they tried the movie.

Didn't really work that well.

Yeah.

So I never saw the movie.

No, I never saw that.

And that's fine.

I don't think that's one that, you know, pure, it can exist when it existed.

You don't need to remake that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a fun show though.

Fun show.

It was.

Very silly, but fun.

And a way we like to be entertained.

TV, of course.

Of course, we love our TV.

It is.

It's there for us.

And there's other ways of entertainment, of course.

Our phones ringing off the hook whenever we get free, you know, different notifications

about different live events.

Right.

Sure.

And free concert tickets can be one of those things.

Well, this is why live nation released the results of a big poll this week.

It found that live music is the world's favorite way to be entertained from it from live

nation.

Right.

Right.

Exactly.

Keep that, you know, right between the lines a little bit.

But I do think it's an interesting poll when you consider it's a world poll.

Right.

It's not just in the States or in one other country.

It's around the world.

And that part is kind of interesting.

Right.

People were asked why they choose what they, what they choose if they could only experience

one type of entertainment the rest of their lives.

Choices included movies, live sports, live music, and they could only pick one.

39% chose live music.

It got twice as many votes as movies in second place.

Wow.

70% even said that they'd rather go see their favorite artists than, you know, have the

night of their life, if you will.

Oh, wow.

93% of music fans prefer live experiences over virtual ones.

So that's a really nice number to see still.

And 80% would rather spend their money on experiences than on other stuff, any other

stuff.

We've seen that a lot.

Way more.

A lot more that, yeah.

I actually think that's low considering the people that we talk to and most of the

surveys we do and everything nowadays, almost everything comes back to, is it a experience

where I create memories doing it, right?

Right.

And that's, I mean, I haven't been to a ton of live concerts with the ones I have been

to.

It's always an experience.

Yeah.

Because I mean, every performance is different from the artist.

You know, you get to see little things that you wouldn't otherwise.

And being in the crowd, there's just something about that energy.

It's a whole different experience.

Absolutely.

I've been to so many shows and I've been to festivals.

I've been to one-off shows.

I've been to shows where there's only two acts, all of this.

And you're so right about that, man.

I think of just even state fairs, you know, and I'm seeing and seeing cheap trick or something

like that.

How much that was a it's own event and its own thing.

Right.

I saw Radiohead in California and it was, I got there a little late and I don't know who

the opening act was or anything like that.

But it was a, it was like a literal circus.

It really was.

And it was just the guys up there with their instruments, but it felt like a circus.

It's literally the only comp I have to it.

I have no other like musical experience to reference it to other than it being a circus.

And then I've seen a lot of like stripped down shows where it's just them and the acoustic

guitar up there and everything.

And even that is an experience, it's own kind of like exactly different event of different

stuff going on, let alone festivals and all that.

If you just ask me off the top of my head, I could only have one of these experiences.

I'm probably going to say movies.

Like I'm an actor.

That's my wheelhouse.

That's what I do.

But I think I'd be wrong.

I think I'd be mad at myself for saying that.

How dare you say that self?

Because I think I think this, the overall what they're saying here, I think I might agree

with it.

Live music is kind of that it's so rare to each event.

You can have an artist that's been around six decades doing this one particular song,

every decade, every show they've ever done, and every version's different.

Exactly.

And that, I love the non-repeatability of that.

Right, right.

In the moment.

And then predictability.

Right, right.

And that's like theater, I mean, being theater people, it's very similar to that.

The fact that a movie is only one-sided, you're still with a crowd and you can have moments

with the crowd where you're sharing certain emotions and that kind of thing.

But when the crowd and the performer is live, that's just some special.

That's a really good point.

That's a really good point.

So where would you land on this one, everybody?

You got to choose.

Only one entertainment experience, the rest of your life.

You pick in live music, you pick in live sports, movies, what are you going to pick?

They didn't give you a ton of options either.

No, they really didn't.

I really wanted to make sure that that live music came on top.

I say this and I mentioned the movies part of it and everything, but everything I said

about music, I feel like you can make almost the same argument about sports.

And the idea now with music, if I'm only going to get to experience live music, it can't

just be one style of music or one band.

That's one of the intriguing parts of it.

I want to be able to experience all music, all different types, whatever I'm in the mood

for.

I want to hear some Chris Stapleton.

I want to hear this, whatever it is.

The same thing when it comes to live sports.

I want to watch football, I want to watch basketball, I want to watch whatever it is.

The sports are a little different in my opinion, even though because it's a live thing, that

sort of thing.

And the crowd, being part of the crowd is always an interesting experience.

But in a lot of sports, you're so far away from the action.

And you're on, if you do a stadium show, yeah, I get it, if you're going to see George

Straits and you're at a huge stadium, then yeah, you're pretty far away.

But go to a club, see a band that's just on stage, you got, you know, a couple hundred

people there.

And there's, I mean, it's amazing, it's an amazing, it's another good point, man.

It feels like you've thought about this.

I haven't really known.

I'm just saying, it's not good now, but yeah, we want to know what you think, everybody

feel free to reach out to us, call 715-424-200 or Texas through the City of Media app, like

Laura did.

Laura, obviously agree with the popular choice here, live music hands down.

Sure.

I would never pretend to speak or for Laura or anything like that.

If I had to, that is exactly where I would have put her vote.

Yeah, me too.

No, I would have been, I probably would have done this.

Think you get around Laura a little bit, you hear her, how much she loves music, how much

she loves live music.

And again, experience, right, you know, when you hear her talk about different moments

or anything, it's usually tied to an experience such as where do your best stories come

from?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you get some of your best stories.

I was at this concert, you know what happened, you know, this crazy, yeah, it was, or whatever,

you know, it's one of those things.

Yes.

It's interesting because I remember just as much crazy things happening as I do, oh,

this band played this song and I didn't think they would or something like that.

And so much of those moments, even if the band is doing an amazing job and it's a song,

I never thought they'd play or something like that.

It's also about the atmosphere.

Everyone around you.

That's right.

Everyone around you.

That's right.

Yeah.

And I don't, you know, while you hit on a really good point about movies and everything,

I think another part of that that stands out to me too is, it's, music is so personal.

Yes.

Movies, there's almost no matter how good it's done, the greatest movie you've ever

seen in the movie that's pulled you in more than any other movie in history.

You still know it's a movie, right?

You're still in the back of your mind.

There's still that buffer, which is part of the reason why I talk so highly of good acting

and directing and writing because they're that good that they can break through that to

where you can get you as close as humanly possible.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's so difficult to do.

Yeah.

And I think with music, it's almost a, you're almost playing with an ace up your sleeve

when it comes to that.

Because music, you may not like, you may like only one song by this artist, but when they

play that one song, you're there.

You're totally in it.

Yeah.

You're absolutely right.

And I, I think that where, you know, movies, we've talked about this before too, we're

losing more and more opportunities for strangers sitting next to strangers and having a good

time.

You know, I enjoy that in society, I enjoy that about life.

Movies do bring that to us, but less and less people are going to the movies.

Right.

Right.

And people still love going to shows.

And I'm not just talking about like, you know, you're drinking alcohol or you're having