Unlucky Doctor Stories with Todd and Peter (Hour 2)

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Welcome into a TGIF Friday edition October 24th.

October 17th, 2025.

Here, welcome into hour number two of the big broadcast, six minutes past the hour of three o'clock from the home studios at the intersection of State and Fairchild in downtown Madison.

Welcome in, everybody.

Glad to have you along.

Xamarin, let's take a quick look out there on the Sam Davidson street cam outside a beautiful fall afternoon.

Hey, these guys kind of overcastle a sudden poking through there, but warmer, warmer than I thought.

So, you know,

Ohio State, get it right yet, are in town.

And we don't have time, I have to do a segment on this today with the breaking news.

The only question for me with Ohio State, number one team in the country being in town to take on the Badgers, will Ohio State score 50?

5-0.

Will they score 50?

What's the over under?

Do you take the over or the under at 50?

I take over.

I take over too.

Uh, I'm not wishing it, but I'm just saying it's not, not going to be pretty.

I'm, I'm afraid here at Camp Randall, but we'll have the game for you on several of our stations across the Civic Media Radio Network on WRCE, WLAK, and Amory RCE, of course, which is on center FHR in Wisconsin Rapids and, uh, on WR, WRPN in Rippon.

Uh, kickoff time is right around 2.30 this afternoon on several of our Badger radio networks.

Of course, the Brewers

Hope still Springs eternal must win tonight crew down Oh to three Or three to always everyone look at it out at Chavez ravine Dodger is gonna try to get the wind and the sweep out there in California

So that one starts a little bit later on the seven o'clock ish.

Let me see.

Let me check my facts here on the Friday game 705 is the first pitch local time here Wisconsin pregame show at 738 on our Brewers radio network stations as well quickly top story this afternoon from our newsroom University was this comes from channel 3000.com the CBS affiliate in Madison University Wisconsin Plattville

will be ceasing operations at its Baraboo-Saw County campus effective May 22nd of next year.

The decision came after a quote-unquote careful consideration and that student staff and faculty are supported throughout this transition.

Again, UW-Platteville Baraboo closed.

After the end of next year, we'll continue to follow this into next week, of course.

But right now at nine minutes past the hour of three o'clock, lighten it up just a bit.

I got my, I did a uniform change, a costume change during the break.

I put my Green Bay Pabby as unlike, unlike the Badgers this weekend.

I feel good about the pack.

Joining us via his car.

Driving throughout Wisconsin, one of the stars and producers of the great new film, No Packers, No Life.

Once again, here is Ty Morse.

Ty, how are you?

Great, Todd.

Happy to be here again.

We are absolutely happy to be here Zomers and I last saw you at the world premiere of No Packers No Life at the Majestic Theater one of the great Marcus Theaters in Waukesha and not that our two cents means a whole lot But let me tell you I was blown away by it.

I loved it and I told Craig yesterday Craig Benzene the director that I think for me two things a

Whichever one of the Japanese cheer team was in the car at night driving by Lambo right after he'd gotten to Green Bay and he looks out

and says I

want to live here and I don't know why but it just I was like I do live here and I don't think that I look at it through the lens that it should and to hear him say that I just got to be

Yeah, it's beautiful.

I mean and there was so much of that as they came it was just like this wonder amazement magic for them and I think it helps us Through that lens, you know kind of rediscover, you know what yeah, how lucky we are where we live as Wisconsinites, you know

just remind people that have not heard this before what the heck's the matter with you but very quickly the synopsis that Tai goes to Japan meets these Packer fans his cheer team at an intersection and ends up discovering this whole new world in Japan and then you and your buddies bring what about 30 of these folks from Japan to Green Bay to the Mecca of football to Lambeau Field and

And it's just enormously moving.

One of the things that I haven't asked you yet, Tai, is were you there specifically that time for a separate business?

Or what's your connection with Japan beyond the film?

Yeah, I was there for business.

I'm there often for business.

We we manufacture there.

We sell products into the Japanese market I have a joint venture there Suzuki who's in the film is actually one of my business partners So we do a lot in the health and beauty space and that's why I was there and but it was actually a day off for us It was

what we call the Hanami where you go and look at the cherry blossoms.

You have some drinks, I brought a guitar, we're playing music, we're drinking some whiskey and soda and we wander.

down the street to go do some karaoke, go sing some Bon Jovi, and that's where I found these guys.

So it was a business trip, but day off, and the day off rolled into seven years of making this documentary.

Is that how life happens sometimes?

The least expected moments, right?

Look, the film is fantastic.

It's beautiful to look at.

It's so meaningful to be able to look at something that we love here in Wisconsin, the Green Bay Packers, and look at it through this lens of this jet.

and his cheer team and these folks coming here the first time.

I know you had an event last night in Mequon with Mason Crosby, who's in the film incidentally.

That's a great, I'm not gonna spoil that, but there's a great moment with Mason in there as well that I really liked.

But you have an event.

I cried last night again too, Todd.

I cried and I saw it again.

It's so cool.

It's so cool.

It's so cool.

Mason's such a great dude in that moment.

I mean, that's why people have to get to the theater to see it.

They're gonna cry when they see

that.

I agree with that.

But you know, last night in Mequon,

You're going to an event tonight in Green Bay and an event tomorrow in Madison here.

Tell us about these events and how people can participate.

Yeah, there's special screening tonight in Green Bay.

Only a few tickets left for that and only a few tickets tomorrow night in Madison.

It will feature the film and then Q&A at the end with myself and the director, Craig Benzine.

It's going to be a good time.

It just, you know, people should draw on their packer gear.

I grab a beer and just come sit and enjoy the ride.

Absolutely.

Now, those few tickets that are left, you can go to nopackersnolife.com.

N-O-packersnolife.com.

Had a couple of people like, is it K-N-O?

N-O, nopackersnolife.com.

And it could also, and then the show opens up today, right across many theaters in Southeast Wisconsin, Green Bay, Madison La Crosse.

statewide.

statewide today, yeah.

statewide.

And also, I love this.

trolling bears fans in gurney illinois and those tickets can be found at marcus theaters theaters belt th e a t r e s dot com marcus theaters dot com uh like you said ty it's the it's experiencing this with other people that i think really makes it special

i yeah i think that's what's about it's about getting into the theater i mean as wisconsinites

celebrating our heritage, who we are, but also just seeing the passion of these people that have come all the way from the other side of the world to experience our world.

And sitting in the theater with other Wisconsinites experiencing, I mean, it's one of the best times I've ever had in my life.

There's like, it's so much laughing, some crying, but it's just, it's such a blast.

So I just recommend the best way to see this is to get to a Marcus Theater and just hang out.

Yeah, I totally agree.

We saw for those out there that saw last year that uh, just a bit outside the Brewer's movie, you know what we mean?

Because when people are cheering together, yelling together, you cannot get that when you're sitting at home alone, you know, which is most of Todd's life, but get out and

enjoy it

with people.

Get out to Zomers.

Yeah, there's so much camaraderie.

I mean, everybody's laughing in the theater.

We just did it last night.

Right.

Zomers.

Yeah, especially because it's a movie about community and it portrays it so well and watching it with everybody really brings you into that and reminds us that we are all, you know, wearing green and gold.

We're all Wisconsin.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's a unifying film.

And the other part of it was just unexpected for me, Ty, and to hear folks speaking in their native language with the subtitles,

I don't know why I thought there would be more English in that part of it, maybe because I'm Americanized, but really what it reminded me of a lot was the first time I saw Dances at Wolves.

And whatever people think about Kevin Costner, he was very deliberate in making sure that the native language was on spoken and English subtitles.

And to hear that authenticity on the Japanese side, that meant something to me.

Yeah, I think it's their native language and they're the best way that they can passionately speak about it is in their native language.

But it's wonderful hearing them speak in Japanese but then seeing the subtitles and there's so many great moments that I think the subtitles work so well because they're so eloquently talking about things and you get to see it right there on screen.

It's beautiful.

The other part about it was some of your closest friends and family and

was your wife, your buddy's wife, who was like, okay, I'm bringing three people over and then it kind of grew.

And it's just

like-

That was my buddy's wife.

Yeah.

And it's just like- That was hilarious.

Okay, we're gonna roll with this.

I

mean, that was great.

Yeah, it started as three, then it was almost 30.

And they all rolled with it.

And, you know, I heard somebody else describe it as like, it sounded like a foreign exchange program, putting them in homes and homestays and- Right?

Right?

Yeah, but I also think, like, as Wisconsinites, we're really proud, but I also think that the movie, whether or not you even like football, there's just a really beautiful human element of it.

It's people connecting around, you know, any type of passion and then building these deep relationships.

And I think that's why the film can speak to more than just Packer fans or people from Wisconsin.

And that's why I'm hoping more people come out and see it.

That's

a great point because...

There's there's not a lot of quote unquote football footage in this.

It really is focused more on the human element of the movie and these relationships to how they grow.

And, you know, people come from another country is like, what are we getting into here?

And the amount of trust, right?

The trust from the Japanese cheer team and the trust from your friends and family to welcome them in.

And it's all bound together by just happens to be this team of green and gold.

Yeah, and you know for them that trust that was a huge leap from a Japanese perspective the details were so vague I mean they say that in the movie they plan so much if you if you send details a week before

you're getting together with people, that is like last minute for them.

So the fact that we didn't have an itinerary for them and they were getting on an airplane and just arriving, they really had to just offer themselves up to fate.

But as they've all said at this point, it was the best decision they've ever made.

So.

I think it's great.

I really hope people get out and see it again.

If you want to join Ty and Craig at Green Bay tonight, go to nopackersnolife.com.

A handful of tickets left for the event tonight to meet the director and producer and star of the film.

And then also here in Madison tomorrow at the High Point Cinema where the great Marcus Theaters also at nopackersnolife.com.

And you can buy your tickets for the statewide release and also in Gurney, Illinois at Marcus Theaters.

Again, MarcusTheaters.com.

Ty Morse, thank you very much.

Safe travels up to Green Bay tonight.

Thank you very much for all of your association with us and allowing us to be there at that world premiere.

I hope the film does smash it.

Everybody should see it.

It is quintessential Wisconsin.

Thanks, Todd.

You guys have

been so awesome.

Really appreciate your support.

It's meant a lot to us.

Well, the honor has been ours.

And safe travels up to Green Bay.

And as they say,

Go, Pat, go.

Go, Pat,

go.

Take care, guys.

See you later.

Bye-bye.

Welcome back to the title of the show of the Civic Media ready to work 22 now past the hour of three o'clock on a Friday, October 17th 2025.

I believe I just this just hit me by the way.

I believe it's our friend and ongoing contributor Jeff Perry, Jerry Perry's birthday today.

Really?

I forgot.

I kept thinking the 17th of October.

What is the 17th of October?

and I believe it's Jeff Perry's birthday today.

Well, big if true.

Big if true.

Happy birthday, Jeffrey.

Over there on WVMO.

WVMO.

Thank you.

There's something wrong with me, I'll describe it later.

All right, very quickly, let's go to the phone lines, talk a little bit more about this great new film, No Packers, No Life.

Still a few tickets for the screening tonight in Green Bay.

Your chance to see the, listen to the filmmakers, Craig Benzing, director and Time Morris, producer Star.

You can find those tickets at nopackersnolife.com.

Also screening tomorrow at High Point Cinema here in Madison, nopackersnolife.com.

Anna, in La Crosse, listen in.

Or Rita in La Crosse, you mixed the two.

Oh, I do that, I do that frequently.

Sorry about Rita in La Crosse, I apologize.

Anna's next, Rita in La Crosse, tuning in at our great station up there.

Rita, you saw the film?

We just we just left the theater we brought our grandson with us Steve and I did and I loved it I loved it I heard about it on your radio station because we listen all the time.

Well, thank you It was so good.

It was good.

Yeah, did your heart good to see that yeah the camaraderie between the Japanese people

They all love the Packers.

It was just it was a great one and everybody loved it in the yeah, where we were all we need is love boy

that's amazing and and tomorrow we're going we're going to go to the no kings parade or oh great uh mark

yeah okay

whatever it is we're going

to be

marching yeah good

for you

guys i really enjoy

i

enjoy your station and thanks for telling us about that

I think we're probably going to go back and see it again.

That's how much we liked it.

Well, thank you for your leadership, Rita.

It means the world to us up there and beautiful lacrosse.

And you guys have a great weekend.

I think you're right.

I mean, Zommer's and I saw just a bit outside several times.

And you see something new every time, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, we went to see that too after you guys told us about it.

Well, we try to pass along good information.

Well, you guys have a great weekend.

All right.

Thank you very much for listening to us up there at WLCX.

The Eagle up on the cross on 1490 AM WLCX.

Now let's go to Anna here on WMDX in Madison.

Anna, thanks for calling you saw the movie as

well.

You just saw it this afternoon at the palace in Sun Prairie and loved it.

There were several times where I got teary eyed and especially when one of them met Mason Crosby in person.

Yeah.

That's amazing, isn't it?

Teared up and when they were with their Super Bowl rings getting pictures.

Yeah.

It's really cool.

And when they first, yeah, when they first got to Green Bay and at night, they took them to see, you know, Lambeau Field and how they got so excited.

Yeah, it's a special film, Anna.

I'm so glad you saw it.

Thank you for going and seeing it.

And thank you for taking the time to call in and tell us about it.

And thanks for listening to us on WMDX.

It really means a lot.

I appreciate your listenership, Anna.

I've been listening to you for a long time.

You have a great show.

Well, thank you.

It's very kind of you and you have a great weekend out there in sub prairie.

All right.

Okay, you too.

All right.

Thank you.

That's Anna on WMDX.

Well, there you go, Zomers.

Two, I hope that Ty was still listening.

Two unsolicited viewers.

Three, actually, I guess total.

And there you go.

People going out and seeing the film in the wild and the reviews are in.

And they're right.

That's just what it's like.

It's such pure Wisconsin sports joy from all around the world.

It's a beautiful movie.

Yeah.

It really, really is.

All right.

It's 27 minutes now past the hour of three o'clock.

So what do we do?

We don't really have time for what's worse.

Yeah.

How about just the fun fact?

All right.

Very time once again for our new segment, Wisconsin Fun Fact.

Well, dive once again for another Wisconsin Fun Fact.

That's the official state ballot, by the way.

Dive for another Wisconsin Fun Fact.

It's a brand new segment.

We're still working on it, you understand.

And it probably shouldn't have been at the top of the hour, but we had a lot of other things we had to do.

So here now, we're gonna give you one of these every day.

Wisconsin Fun Fact for October 17th.

On October 17th in 1908,

the catastrophic Pestigal Fire reignited again, which reminds me of a 2016 presidential political plays that reignited again this year because Democrats couldn't put a campfire out right now.

You see the correlation, the Pestigal Fire reignited, and now you got Trump reigniting, and the Democrats couldn't put him out, couldn't put the campfire out.

What a time.

You

can't buy loyalty like that.

Sorry, I was trying to find a good spot in the song to bring in

All right, this might be a short-lived segment, I don't know we'll see we'll see anyway That needs to be workshopped a little bit, but that was another edition of Wisconsin fun fact.

All right, we're gonna come back

It's been much too long since we've talked to our friend Peter Rapun from Epom's world, but a heavy news week lots going on gonna be a heavy weekend Lots going on we need to just we need to feel need to laugh a little bit folks need to laugh nothing wrong with that So we're gonna come back and I will tell you the quick version.

I went to the doctor right before the show

I'm because my glands were swollen.

What do you call it?

Underneath your chin here, you're, you know, there's a word for it.

I'll find it.

I'll explain what happened and why this could only happen to me on the other side.

And we'll talk, we can review a humorous edition with Peter Rapun.

Don't go anywhere.

It's the all ball edition for a Friday.

Thank goodness on the Civic Media.

Welcome back to the Tunnelball Show on the Civic Media Network.

35 minutes now past the hour of three o'clock.

Little gypsy music.

I will tell you why that's important.

But first, we welcome in our friend, our ongoing contributor, the one, the only international man of mystery and comedy, Peter Rapine.

How are you, Peter?

I'm doing great, Todd.

It's

been a while.

It's been much too long.

I missed you too.

He is the managing editor of E-Bombs World, and we're going to get into a humorous look at the Week in Review in just a moment.

But Peter, it turns out we haven't told each other these stories, but apparently we both have doctor stories.

So I told at the top that we had some serious news we had to take care of.

I am feeling the best this week.

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are the,

what

are the, what are the, what are

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a

salivary

gland stone.

I have a, Peter, I already have kidney stones.

Now I have salivary gland stones.

I have

stones in my

kidneys

and stones in my neck and my salivary glands.

I don't even have time to get stoned.

I mean, please.

And I certainly don't have gold stones.

So I said to him, I said, what causes salivary gland stones?

And he looks at me quizzically and he says,

Boy bad luck And a full bird MD tells me the cause of my salivary stones are bad luck And I said what can I eat for medication?

No, he goes you know I recommend he goes get some lemon heads and suck on those So this is my medication lemon head ropes from CVS

Have

you had those be happy I had these before I'm not a big no,

but

as far as treatments go just suck on some candy is right.

Oh This is

real.

This is real.

He was he goes I'm gonna take a culture.

Just make sure you don't like strep throat or something Two big q-tips push them out.

He takes them out.

He goes

Wow, that's really impressive.

You don't have much of a gag reflex.

Oh my gosh.

I wanted to say, well, I guess practice makes perfect, but you know.

So Peter,

how have you been feeling?

I've been good.

Honestly, I walked by a city MD the other day and I saw a sign for the, you know, flu shots.

Oh yeah.

So I'm feeling good, but I think I'm going to get ahead of the cold season, get my flu shot, maybe get a booster and make sure I don't get sick this winter.

Because I never get one.

I always get sick for like two weeks and it sucks.

So I've lived this year.

I get ahead.

Well, that's good.

So did you go to the doctor then or what?

No, I haven't done it yet.

It was just a thought I had.

So

you haven't gotten the flu shot?

Yeah, I

haven't gotten the flu shot yet, but it's on my list.

So you

anticipate that you will get a flu shot?

Yeah.

But that's half of this battle, Peter,

is just saying, OK, I'm going to do it this year.

Exactly.

Yeah, last year I didn't do it, and I was sick all of Halloween.

Halloween's one of my favorite holidays, so I don't want to miss

out.

Really?

Are you a part of your Halloween, or do you?

Yeah, I love to put on a good costume.

I love to go out and dance, and Halloween's kind of the best.

It's the best party holiday there is, I think.

Yeah, it's a good time to have by all.

But funny that you have a doctor's tour, because I also have a really good doctor headline for

us.

All right, here we go.

Here's why he's here every other week.

You can find all these at ebombsworld.com.

Real headlines of real people, Peter.

Yes.

Uh, headline reads, brain surgeon arrested after letting her 12 year old daughter drill into a patient's skull.

A brain surgeon arrested after letting her daughter drill into a patient's skull.

Do tell!

Which, this doctor is clearly winning as a parent, but they are not winning as a medical practitioner.

The accusation is that a neurosurgeon in Austria allowed their daughter to man the drill during surgery on a patient, which I guess you're not supposed to do.

If that breaks all the medical codes, all the medical do's and don'ts.

But imagine how much fun that 12-year-old had going into work with her mom and then

getting to man your mom.

Take your daughter to work then.

Yeah.

And borehole and some more guy skull.

Wow.

Yeah.

So the doctor was fired.

I'm not sure.

So the doctor was fired.

Yeah.

And arrested.

And arrested.

So luckily your doctor, you know, wasn't that bad.

No, no, no, the doctor was not drilling into my skull.

He was very, very nice.

Very nice.

He introduced, he took a lot of time, asked me questions.

So, you know, all that's, all that's really good.

That's just that.

Yeah, I have I have stones in my salivary glands.

All right, Peter.

All right, Peter Rapine.

Next

headline.

This comes to us from the world of politics.

All right.

headline reads New York.

Count New York County is trying to elect a candidate who disappeared at sea.

Trying to find a candidate disappeared at sea.

Do you tell?

No.

New York County, they're trying to elect.

I

don't know what's happening because I don't have the headlines in front of me this week.

So I'm just going off of what you said, which is fine, but go ahead.

It's fine.

It's fine.

I just I thought I was trying to do it by memory.

They have been sent to you.

It's armor sent to me.

I've got kidney stones.

I've got salivary stones.

It's totally.

So yeah, 29 year old named Petros.

I think I'm saying this right.

Right.

comedas went out for a swim in the ocean in the springtime and sadly never returned.

The only thing is is that this guy is on the ballot for a upcoming election.

However, since he is still technically missing and not deceased, he can't be taken off the ballot.

So the New York County is hoping that as the Democrat running under

on their ticket that people still vote for him, which allows them to hold a special election afterwards.

That's fascinating.

So a dead guy

could actually get elected.

Yeah, technically not dead yet, but missing.

But you'd

assume

that if he's been, you know, lost in sea for months now, the likelihood that he is live is.

It

could be like that Tom Hanks film, Wilson, the cast boy.

But when he comes back and he's like

elected.

Yeah, he's like, I won.

Great.

I've also been out in the Atlantic for months.

All right.

Now I have I have for some reason now my email is working and I have the headline.

So please, Peter, again, all these headlines at epombsworld.com.

Peter Rapine next headline.

So this next one is an investigation into raising canes.

Yeah, the chicken restaurant, the chicken place.

It's

big with the kids.

Yeah, I seem their ads everywhere.

The chicken supposed to be pretty good.

I've never had it, but I assume it's good.

I'm a fan.

But a a so some context, a photo of a bucket of chicken went viral on Twitter this week.

And the

claim is that raising canes has throw away chicken tenders that if you ask politely, they will just give you.

And these chicken tenders are ones that might have been ugly, might have been, you know, not.

up to their standard to serve customers.

So we did a little investigation and the headline reads, does raising canes have a weird chicken bucket?

Does raising

canes have weird chicken

buckets?

Have a weird chicken bucket.

This is great.

This is one of the best headlines you've ever brought to us because it's news you can use.

Please, dear God, tell me it's correct.

Tell me this is

correct.

Yes, so they do.

They do have a weird bucket of chicken that they keep under their counter or somewhere in their kitchen with discarded chicken tenders.

However, from people who have worked your raising canes, you do not want to eat these chicken tenders.

Yeah,

because garbage gets in there.

It's not very sanitary.

It's just a big plastic three gallon, four gallon bucket filled with the throwaways.

So why do

they

keep

me?

Why do they put them in the garbage though?

I think they probably wait until the end of the day to do it.

It seems like it's just

a line

moving to keep things going.

Yeah, there's a photo on E-POM's world.

Oh, look at this.

I just scroll down.

I'm sorry, Peter.

I'm trying to get over salvatary gland stones right now.

I apologize.

It might be better for this segment if I was stone, but sadly, no.

I see the photo now.

And it does look kind of nasty.

Yeah.

Well, sadly, if you've ever worked in a kitchen, you know, there are like food safety standards and food that's been sitting out at room temperature for more than, I think, four hours needs to be discarded.

Can't be served to anybody because bacteria can grow on it.

So the bucket probably, while contains a bunch of free chicken, also contains a bunch of deadly bacteria that you shouldn't eat.

Please.

But it's fantastic that you found out a nice work that it does exist.

It does exist.

Yeah, like like you kind of like low key could be like if you know somebody Hey, did you just put one of those ugly chicken things?

Still warm like I'm good

Yeah, can I have the one on the top?

All right

next headline from ebombs world are humorous we can review

The next headline comes to us from the airline industry

airline

reads

airline industry now saying that fixing its planes would cost too much money airline industry

now saying that fixing its planes could cost too much money as if people aren't anxious enough about flying

yeah seriously uh the yeah the federal aviation administration um

Basically ruled that it would cost them too much to go through their entire fleet of Boeing 737s and other planes and fix all the little minor dings and dents that they Accumulate over their lifespan Which isn't really something that you want to hear as a traveler.

I

don't think I do

No,

like you don't want to know yeah, this 737 I mean it was in for a bad latch or that rear door about three times last month.

I don't want to know that

Yeah, I guess the airlines they can I just spend their money on those cheap little cookies that they give us But

I love

those

cheap cookies the biscuits or the hell you call

yeah,

yeah,

here's

the

thing I'd

rather have the pretzels

Yeah, those are good to them if they're dying a plane crash.

You can't have the cookies or the pretzels,

but I'll be happy going down I'll be happy

Maybe you can get some lemon heads.

That's exactly what I need right now.

Some lemon heads.

All right, so the moral is don't ask, don't tell.

Just get on the plane, have an extra gin and tonic, and enjoy the flight.

Yeah, get on the plane, say a prayer, and just hope you land.

I always do.

Actually, I do say a quick prayer before we take off.

I when I was younger, I wasn't really afraid of flying.

And,

you

know, I've been flying more recently.

Yes.

And I don't mind the being in the air, but I really hate the takeoff.

The takeoff is, I think, the scariest part for me, because it's a little like back and forth.

You turn flying, being up there, landing totally fine.

But I'd rather not be awake for.

You ever

been one of those like the turbulence is just I mean, you're you're just like going really bad.

Yeah, those are particularly fun.

No.

All right.

Next.

Oh, it's only got a minute left here.

We got a minute.

Let's let's hold on.

Let's hold on.

We'll come back and do more headlines of Peter Ray Pine.

Very quickly.

Relationships going OK.

Everything

fine?

Yeah.

I'm picking up from the airport tomorrow morning.

I've seen, this is lovely that Peter is happy.

It makes me happy.

All right, come on back.

More wacky and weird headlines for real people doing weird things.

We'll wrap things up for

a Friday on the Todd Omel show, the seven media.

could listen to this all night.

I drink in my hand, a Manhattan bar sitting next to Peter Rapine, and his lovely and talented girlfriend, just watching Love and Blossom right there.

That sounds like a night, Peter, right

there.

It does.

Right?

Yeah.

All right, we'll make that happen at some point.

Peter Rapine is our guest this half hour.

He is the managing editor of E-Palm's World, news of the weird, wacky, wild, and at times spicy.

There's a new spicy section.

Uh, as well.

So check it out at EPOM's world.

He comes to us every other week with news, the weird, wild, the wacky.

All right, Peter, uh, Ray Pine headline.

Next one.

All right.

Headline reads, there's actually a scientific reason for why cows love jazz.

There's actually a scientific reason of why cows love jazz.

Do tell.

Uh,

So I don't know if you or your zomers have ever seen it, but there are countless videos of people playing jazz for cows on the internet.

I saw a recent report in the BBC this week that there's a farm in the UK that regularly brings small jazz quintet to their farm to play for their cows.

And it turns out that the National Institute of Health actually did a study on what the music

leanings or preferences of livestock are, and they found that cows, chickens, and pigs prefer jazz music over rock and roll, heavy metal, pop, and all comes down to the fact that cows specifically have pretty stressful lives.

Think about it, you know, they're caged up, things are loud, also, you know, the whole being raised for food kind of thing probably isn't, you know, very fun.

And so why jazz is so popular is because it's smooth and it relaxes them.

If you're going to play music for your cows or your pigs or your chickens, you want to choose something with a nice slow tempo.

You don't want to make sure you don't play it too loudly.

Because if you do all that, the cows will love it.

And it's pretty proven.

So like Miles Davis in the barn.

That's what

you're looking

for.

Yeah, Miles Davis in the barn.

Exactly.

Maybe not the fast bebop tunes like I was playing earlier, but some something chill.

Yeah.

Well, I think we need to get the farm director Pam Yonkey on this.

And I love everything about this, Peter.

And the fact that they actually did this and found out what they like.

And you're right, cows do have kind of a stress.

They have four stomachs.

Did you

know that?

I did know

that.

Is

that crazy?

I think it helps them digest all the grass that they eat.

But actually, I do have a personal anecdote.

I had a friend in college who did a study for a class of his where he played music for animals.

And the control group where he played heavy metal to mice, they all sadly passed away.

They played heavy metal for mice and they all passed away.

Yeah.

They started like losing their hair and kind of going crazy.

So yeah.

This is very quickly we have a caller.

Mike and Spring Green listening to the RCE.

Quickly, Mike.

Tell us this.

This is fantastic.

Go ahead, Mike.

video proof of cows liking bluegrass music because I went out in the field and played my banjo and they all came up and checked it

out.

Really?

You've

done this

in the wild.

It's on what you call it YouTube.

So I have proof.

That's fantastic.

I appreciate that, Mike.

We'll talk about it at Greater Lakes later.

Have a great weekend out there in Spring Green.

There you go, Peter.

Live reporting of just solidifying your great reporting that that was that ranks up there one of the better headlines ever all right next

headline Next one is fast food Arby's is being sued for false advertising because their sandwiches look nothing like the pictures If you've ever been to Arby's and if you've ever seen Arby's ad you know there is a

a giant gap between what you advertise and what you get.

And a judge this week actually ruled that a class action lawsuit against the brand can go forward because the, you know, what you're going to advertise and what you get is so far apart.

Part of the lawsuit even notes that Arby's in their photos depicts like medium rare or like rare roast beef when in reality it's fully cooked.

It's

always like this brownish meat.

You know, it's never like the pink, you know, fluffy layers and everything like that.

It's pretty sad.

Some of my mom loved Arby's growing up.

I've had nothing against Arby's, but I'm just saying you're 100% right.

The real thing never matches the picture.

And wasn't there a Sesame Street bit back in the day of like, you know, that waiter Muppet, you know, and the guy going, that doesn't look like the soup I ordered.

I'm not familiar with it.

That's pretty good.

All right, go

ahead.

Next headline.

Next headline reads, this might be one of my favorites.

There could be a billion people unaccounted for on earth.

There could be a billion people

unaccounted

for on

earth.

Where the heck are they hiding?

I know that's what I'm saying.

So estimates say currently there's like 8.2 billion people on earth but a recent study published in Nature Communications estimates that rural populations get undercounted in censuses.

One of the examples they cite is that in 2012 Peregrine had a census that completely missed a quarter of the population.

So if you extrapolate this for around the globe, because roughly 40% of the world's population lives in rural areas, and they

estimate that these areas are undercounted by 54 to 84 percent, that there might just be an extra billion people out there that aren't on the record books.

No wonder traffic was so bad coming into work

today.

It really was.

All right, you have another quick one, or should we end it there?

Quick one.

One third of Gen Z singles say they only date for the free meals.

Gen Z only dating for the free meals.

They don't care about the hooky afterwards.

They just want

the free

meals.

Times are tough.

Time's are tough.

Peter Ray, find your fantastic and find all these stories at E-bombs World.

Zommer's Craig Benzine, Ty Morris and everybody else.

Thanks for a great week.

Relax, stay safe out there this weekend.

Peter, we'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, do not give up.

Keep banging that drum.

We'll see you Monday.

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