Hour 2: Hey youse guys…

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, where we are locally grown radio.

Got your host, James J behind the mic. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. We got the team together. We're here to have some fun.

Melissa is in studio. We love it when that happens. We got entertainment to get to. We're going to also touch on a couple of other things.

I want to touch on the 12 of the pettiest dating red flags.

Pettie. Dating red flag.

That should be an interesting one. I did not get to pre-read that. I got to be honest. I did not just look that one over.

And this was a story we touched on over on a sunrise show that I want to do over here too, because I just think it's universal.

Are we smelling y'all right?

That should be fun. The eternal debate.

We'll get into that. We'll go over our schedule, some thinning right stuff. Good stories of the day all coming up for you.

But we kick off our hour with some entertainment news. And yes, John Stewart has returned to the daily show.

Last night, almost nine years since he stepped down and he says he's doing it because he needs to vent.

That is part of the reason if you've got to see the interviews with John as this has been building up.

Quote, I very much wanted to have some place to unload thoughts as we get into the election season.

His quote, does he think he'll make a difference? Not necessarily. Quote, I don't know about hoping to have an influence.

But I'm hoping to have a catharsis and a way to comment on things and a way to express them that hopefully people will enjoy.

But as far as influence and you guys know from doing this, just about everything I had I wanted to happen,

have happened over the last 16 years that I was at the daily show did not happen.

It's not as if he feels like he has some pull or something like that, like he has some sway or anything.

Sorry to show my lack of knowledge on things and entertainment, but what channel is this on?

Comedy Central. Okay. Comedy Central.

John will executive produce the show, but he's only hosting on Monday nights.

The rest of the week it'll be hosting by shows by correspondence and on a rotating basis.

This is a perfect marriage for him where he's still got the time with his family and his causes.

John and his wife for those that don't know, I believe in the New Jersey area, run an animal shelter for rare animals that don't have anywhere to go.

Elephants from circuses. Yeah, that kind of thing.

And just animals that nobody wants kind of stuff.

It's a huge cause to him and he's putting a lot of time and money into it and I don't think he wanted to take away from that,

but really had a calling to do this.

And with Trevor Noah kind of leaving the daily show little unexpectedly.

Was that what happened?

Yeah, they've been really having a hard time filling that spot.

And he's already was already a producer on the show still.

He never really stopped doing that.

One of those that don't know, he also executive produces CBS is the Colbert or the late show in Stephen Colbert.

He's one of the producers on there.

Well, and he does, he was doing his own kind of like interview or talks with.

He had an Apple plus show that was amazing, but Apple, he went after China, Apple didn't like that, so they killed the show.

Of course they did.

I want to state two things.

Pay attention to what they're doing.

That's please.

It's not just politicians I'm telling you to do that with its corporations.

Especially because corporations are oftentimes the ones that are king makers.

Yeah, who's putting the most plastic in the ocean?

Look at Coca-Cola, baby.

You don't got to look much farther than Coca-Cola as far as king makers go.

And they want to put that on us.

And this is the kind of knowledge, the kind of information that before the daily show, people weren't talking about.

But John changed that.

Yes.

John changed the game.

I will admit, right out the gate, I am biased.

I've been watching John Stewart my whole life.

He is one of my top five influences as an interviewer, as a host, as most anything.

I have been fortunate enough to be in the room and hear John Stewart speak.

And I think he's quite amazing and I think he's a good speaker.

And I enjoy his vulnerability while being professional.

And knowledgeable.

And we're Jews.

No, I'm Jewish.

I just thought of throwing that.

But above any of that, all that stuff is really, you know, means a lot to me.

But I champion him.

I stand by him.

I back him.

And I learned from him because John Stewart has been one of those few voices in this day and age

that does not have anybody in his pocket that is not biased.

He's not afraid to call out a spade.

He calls out both sides.

I've seen every episode he did in the daily show.

He took out Republicans as much as he took out Democrats.

You could say it like it is.

This is a guy who the last nine years and before that has spent most of his time at that animal

shelter and the rest of his time working to get rights for our veterans, working to make

the VFWs getting more funding for VFWs.

He is the one of the sole reasons that our 911 survivors were able to get any funding.

Like a comedian.

A comedian is the most trusted, in my opinion, the most trusted voice in news is John Stewart,

a period.

And that's a comedian.

And that should tell you something one about the National News News nowadays.

Well, look at who owns them.

Exactly.

But also, this is maybe what we need.

We probably should have more of this.

We've already got, like, look, Anderson Cooper I think is a good reporter and does a good job.

Anderson Cooper is also as it seems to me and many others interested in also being known as Anderson Cooper.

Not the news first.

Now Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings or Ted Brokaw or Tom Brokaw or any of these guys that were around back in the day and stuff.

That's just that not the game the way the game was.

The game has changed.

I have nothing against Anderson Cooper or any of these news journalists that are out there trying to make a buck

or get made, you know, big, a bigger name.

But, and there is a big butt here.

We have a bias then.

We, how do I, I don't know who's in his pocket.

I don't know who he's backing.

I don't know.

Even if he is reporting and saying something I agree with, it doesn't.

News question it.

Yes.

And the news shouldn't be like spoon fed to you.

Like the news isn't about, oh, I hope that I hope that my audience likes this news broadcast.

It's not about that.

No, it's not about you.

News is not entertainment.

News is facts and data.

News is just getting the story out there.

It's not trying to ritz it up and everything.

It's not trying to get clicks.

That's how we got in trouble.

That's how we got into this mess.

The 24 hour news cycle.

The need for, that we just made a groundbreaking change in nuclear fusion.

We, we are closer than we've ever been to getting to having this as an actual energy source.

The biggest game changer in energy history is nuclear fusion and cold fusion.

And we are so close.

And how many of you know that?

Yeah.

How many of you know that out there?

That story is not being covered.

Instead, news at 10 shooting today at, and that's what they lead with.

Or this politician.

We got to talk about Trump some more.

Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

We got to, you know, do that or something like that.

It makes them more money to keep people angry.

And that's on us.

That's us as consumers.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, I don't want to.

To some extent, I agree with that.

It goes both ways.

Everybody's guilty here.

Everybody's got a piece in this.

Yeah, we all do.

And it's known.

If you want something to work, you have to put into it.

You want good news.

You've got to, you've got to watch that news.

You've got to listen to that news.

You've got to pick up that paper.

You've got to purchase these things.

If you're tired of, when I pull up the Associated Press,

one of the first websites I look at,

I've got to wait a second because they've got this gigantic ad right there,

and I can't see anything.

Yep.

Well, if I don't like that, then I need to start putting money into journalism.

Yeah.

Or if you click on an ad from a local paper and you hit a paywall,

and then you complain about hitting a paywall,

well, how do you think that the reporters get paid at those papers?

And how many local reporters do we have at our papers?

How many local papers have been taken over by syndicated,

bigger conglomerates, and the reporter that's reporting on things

in Wisconsin Rapids lives in another state?

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you want a trusted news,

if you want to be able to rely on news in these things,

you have to put your energy into it.

You have to put some work into it.

Nothing is going to be handed to you in life,

and it shouldn't be.

It shouldn't be.

What are their moms always say?

Anything worth having is worth working for.

And if you made your bed, you can lie in it.

Oh, here we go.

This is going to be fun.

You can now sip on cans of gin and juice.

What?

And it's from Dr. Dre and Snoop.

Yeah.

Dr. Dre and Snoop have combined another new song, though.

You know, like they're from 1994?

No.

Which we all just sang when you said that.

Absolutely.

At least that one little line.

That's at least that part.

They're ready to drink alcoholic cocktails,

and they come in for flavors, citrus, melon,

passion fruit, and apricot.

They already started rolling out in stores.

Dre and Snoop have more stuff planned.

Last year, they filled several trademarks,

including one for vodka and juice.

So that's probably going to be coming up as well.

That Dre has already been doing this.

With the headphones, the one I'm wearing them right now.

It's crazy to me.

Dr. Dre has been a producer in hip hop.

Going way back, we're talking even before NWA.

Like in the late 80s, early 80s and stuff.

So he's been doing music for a long time.

The headphones over triple what he ever made in music.

These headphones.

When he sold beats headphones.

I was going to say aren't they beats?

Yeah.

When he sold those, like it was like a quarter,

like a quarter million, like over a hundred million dollars

or something, like it was some insane.

Like it was triple what he ever made in music.

He made from these headphones.

So I'm pretty sure Dre has realized,

oh, branding is a bit,

maybe this is another way to make some money.

Everybody sipping on gin and juice.

Lay it back.

Yeah.

Let's wrap up our entertainment with some less kind of comments

about the Super Bowl.

Like the Taylor effect.

Super Bowl 58 average,

123.4 million viewers,

making it the most watch Super Bowl ever.

The most watch thing ever in television history.

Really?

Yeah.

Last year's Chiefs Eagle game also set the previous record

with 115 and spoiler alert Super Bowl 59 next year.

Well, also break this record.

Yeah.

Every year it'll keep breaking it.

It's just getting bigger.

And the game is not only getting bigger,

but it's getting TVs in more places.

And not even, what am I saying, TVs?

Because I'm old.

It's actually streaming everywhere.

Because watch it on your phone.

I can't imagine watching a football game on my phone.

Yeah, it's not fun.

I don't enjoy it.

I've done it before.

I do not.

Have you?

Yeah.

Not, and I don't even like watching football.

That sounds like torture.

Yeah.

It's rough, but I do it.

Yeah.

Here's one of those tweets that didn't age well in 2019.

Someone pointed out the Patrick Mahomes had thrown 36%

of Troy Ackman's career touchdowns

and roughly 8% of games played.

Ackman replied,

Talk to me when he has 33% of my Super Bowl titles.

Well, as of last night,

Mahomes has three Super Bowl wins,

which is 100% of Troy's,

because Troy also has three.

And the Kansas City Chiefs hosted a rager

after the Super Bowl Sunday night.

And everybody was there.

Taylor, Patrick, Kelsey, everybody.

Drake, who is known for not only Mutant.

And now I think Drake's actually getting known more

for betting than he is for in gambling.

And being on the sidelines of every team

that is doing good,

and then his music now.

Oh.

Drake bet 1.5 million on the Chiefs to win

and walked away with a payout of over 200 million,

or over 2 million.

Usher wasted one of his long-time friend Justin Bieber

to join him for the Super Bowl halftime show,

but sources say he just wasn't feeling it.

And speaking of halftime,

Alisa Key's voice cracked when she started singing.

Well, it's been corrected on the official version on YouTube.

Interesting.

And...

Can't have that mistake out there.

Can't be, you know, show yourself as humans.

Yeah, I mean, what's the harm with that?

Well, except for the backlash of the awful people on Facebook

and YouTube comments.

And you want to just be ugly, because they can.

And piggybacking off that Melissa,

people are trashing Alissa Milano

for posting a picture of her son at the Super Bowl.

She recently posted a GoFundMe link

to raise $10,000 for a trip for kids,

or the kids basketball team.

But one person online claimed that Alissa

had won the tickets in a fundraising raffle

for the American Cancer Society,

and part of the reason she was there was her son

was to promote the American Cancer Society.

So it's possible she didn't pay thousands of dollars

for the dollars for the game.

Oh, and that's why people are shooting back at her.

Yeah.

They got to learn, like, learn from Zach Braff.

Like, no celebrity should be doing the GoFundMe thing.

Well, yeah.

It just doesn't ever go well.

No matter what the thing is.

No matter what the thing is.

Yeah.

Just don't do it.

It's just cringy.

It doesn't go well.

It doesn't go well.

No matter what the cause are.

When you're in that big of a spotlight,

it just, you can't do it.

Yeah.

And Melissa sent me over a great one.

And actually, when you sent this,

like 20 minutes later,

we were talking to a listener about this subject.

Oh, really?

And it could have been timed more better out by you.

We got this from Reddit.

The amount of time that CBS allocated

to showing Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl.

So let's take a look at this, Melissa.

And OK, so looking at this list,

Taylor Swift was on TV 0.36% of the time,

compared to 99.64% of the time

when she was not on the screen.

And that equates out to how many seconds?

54.

54 seconds.

She was on TV for 54 total seconds,

compared to the four hours and eight minutes

she was not on TV.

And people are losing their minds.

Like that.

Now, in a comparison,

B-roll footage of Caesar's Palace 27 seconds.

The spear, 23 seconds.

Post Malone drinking Bud Light in the stands.

22 seconds on that had to make sure

you've seen a great job making sure you saw that Bud Light can.

He's doing a nice job with the marketing stuff, man.

DJ Cascade, 13 seconds on him.

The Purdy family, 12 seconds on them.

I actually thought they showed the Purdy dad more than Taylor.

Like a lot more.

See, this stuff is important.

Not to poke holes in people's arguments

that are sick of the Taylor Swift thing

or whatever and all that stuff.

To me, this is more about...

This is like in this 2024, why this is so important,

why we're covering a subject like this.

The difference of theory and fact.

I think I'm seeing tons and tons of Taylor Swift and all that and everything.

But in actuality and actual fact,

I'm not even seeing literally a minute of her within four hours.

Right.

That is so dang important in this year.

In this and going forward.

Not just the year of in 25, 26 and going forward.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

To keep that in the forefront of your mind.

But also then, how much are you focusing on that?

Yeah.

Because if you're focusing on it more,

it's going to seem like it's happening more to you,

just like we talked about focusing on negative news.

If we only focus on police shootings and fires

and all the bad things that happen,

we think it's all bad.

Yeah.

We lose perspective when we do that.

Especially if we're looking outside of where we are.

We know we can do both.

We know we can cover those stories

while also covering the positive stories

or the stories that advance our lives,

that advance humanity.

We can do both.

We've proven it because news was doing that a long time.

And that doesn't mean we need to ignore reality.

No.

Yes, obviously crime still happens.

Of course, we need to be proactive and protect ourselves.

It goes back to forever.

If you look at human history.

But keeping things in perspective,

trying to choose to focus on the positive

can really make a difference.

Yeah.

Anybody can walk around with their fist clenched.

It takes a real soul to be able to handle these things positively

and chew gum and walk at the same time.

Some days are worse than others.

That's what's just going to happen.

But we can always try to find the silver lining.

We are having one of those kind of boardings.

I have things to keep going.

New old headphones on.

Yeah.

But we're rolling.

We're just going to keep rolling and having some fun.

Rolling, rolling, rolling.

Nice.

The 12 of the pettiest or dating red flags coming up right here

on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning.

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But yeah, it is a sad one.

And it's a little bit of a love song.

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So right here we have people online are talking about their

pettiest dating red flags.

I think we can have some fun with this.

But I also think there could be some accountability.

A little bit of that ain't right?

Yes.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Because while there isn't going to be ones that we

poke fun at and laugh at, like how could you get better

to shape about that?

We've all got things that we've also made decisions.

I once dated a girl because I'm making toast.

I'm on the phone with her.

I'm making toast.

And I just comment, ah, somebody left crumbs in the butter.

I hate when that happens.

Me too.

Oh, she does too.

We have the stars of the line.

The stars of the line.

The stars of the line.

Angels have come out to sing.

And we broke up like a week later.

Just, you know, we all do things sometimes that are just like,

it's called high school.

It's, you know, it's, so let's look at this list from people

that had their pettiest red flags.

Number one, their ideal home temperature is lower than 70 degrees.

Wow.

Wow.

So that deal breaker for this person.

More than 70 degrees.

That's rough.

That's put on a sweater.

Yeah, come on.

Yeah, put on a sweater.

Yeah.

Anyone with just a plain mustache without any other facial hair.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, all right.

Well, you know, okay, so we all have a type, right?

Yes.

Inevitably, we end up having a type of sorts.

It might look different on each person, but there is a type.

And if you really don't like moustache as well, you know what to avoid.

I think that went with the top gun coming out.

And there was a lot of people that went back to just a moustache

because of Miles Teller and Tom Cruise, some of the people in that.

Enter the 1970s.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know.

To me, I see very few guys that can pull off the single moustache.

They've got at least have the go-t or full beard.

Most guys.

One of those guys.

My father is the opposite.

My father doesn't look the same with the beard, but a moustache.

Oh, he could rock.

He could rock a moustache like Tom Selling.

Maybe the people who responded that have just some memories

from their childhood of people.

They're dad's age with moustaches.

They're just a little bit scary.

I don't know.

That's what pops into my mind.

Maybe part of it.

Dad and the lamb chops.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Those the mutton chops, I can't.

No.

Here's the one that I don't get.

The guy with just the go-t.

The guy with just the go-t part, just the part on his chin.

I think he didn't only pull that off if he's bald.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Otherwise, I don't see that ever working.

Like go-t, sure.

But just the go-t, no moustache with the go-t.

I don't get that.

I don't get it.

Someone said, I got the ick from a man I was dating

because I watched him run to catch a coin that had fallen

and started rolling away.

The ick from a guy.

Sorry about that, everybody.

That's all right.

Yeah.

So basically, this guy was chasing a quarter there ran away.

And she may, I don't know if she thought he was a penny-pinter

or something?

I don't know.

I don't know what the problem was with that one.

Someone said, I don't think I-

I thought she caught something.

Oh, right, right, right.

Okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I know what you're saying.

I didn't think of that.

I thought she just didn't like him because maybe he looked cheap

or something.

Well, that's what I think she meant.

I initially thought, like maybe you know.

She got sick from him because he was picking up dirty coins

or things on the ground.

I don't know.

Although, I'll say cleanliness is definitely something

that could be one of those red flags.

Yeah, but if you drop money, you pick it up.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

But like, everybody, like there's some people,

they're not going to care if you wash your hands that much.

And then there's other people where, if you don't wash your hands enough,

that's a deal breaker.

Like, you know, I think that that's something else on a red flag

to add to this list.

Sure.

Yeah, I could be.

Someone said, I don't think I could date someone with a peanut allergy.

I love peanut butter.

That's fair.

You know what?

That's probably fair.

Because that's actually looking out for the safety of the other person.

Yeah, yeah.

Actually, I think that's kind of like a self-aware.

That's pretty good.

I don't date anyone who's new to my city.

I'm not interested in becoming someone's personal tour guide.

Wow.

Wow.

Well, good luck.

Okay.

You could discover new places together.

How many of us have visited every place in our city that we've lived in?

I'm going to say something.

And I know I can get in trouble for this.

But I have context with it.

I believe we're at number six on this list of 12.

We're going to go through the complete list.

But I believe that this list is mainly comprised of people that are young

and that have not been single for very long.

Because the longer you become single, I'm not saying that you settle,

but the more that you realize, oh, maybe some of these things that I held so.

Heading things.

Yeah, or maybe not as important as I thought they were.

Perhaps.

Like the idea of not dating somebody.

New to your city.

You're perfect for me.

Everything works.

I'm attracted.

We get along.

But you've only lived here two weeks.

Sorry.

Can't date you.

Like, oh, like getting your 30s and 40s.

You'll be happy.

You found that person.

You'll be thankful you found that person.

Number six on this list.

If your ex isn't what I consider to be good looking.

If their ex isn't what they.

So they're judging somebody on their ex.

Wow.

That's weird.

That is weird.

That is really weird to me.

I don't.

I've never understood that too much of worrying about like who the person dated before you

or anything like that.

Unless it was somebody in your friend pool.

Yeah.

Another weird thing.

Like this has never happened to me.

Knock on wood.

Thank God.

But I don't think I could date somebody the date of my brother.

Like that.

I don't know if I could do.

I'll be honest with you, everybody.

I don't know if I could do that.

No, I don't think that scenario would have ever happened or is ever going to happen.

I would say the same thing.

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Yeah.

I just sleep down.

Someone said I seriously dated the three guys named Dave.

A man named Dave would have to be 11 out of 10 for me to go out with this with another

Dave.

Okay, I have to admit when I was online dating, there was a lot of Brian's and Kevin's and

I was having a rough time.

Yeah.

Keeping them straight.

Who was who?

That's tough.

Bad music taste because when they give me compliments, I think, but their taste is terrible.

Okay, but your taste in music is not the same as what you like to eat or what you like

to look at.

They're very, very different.

Very, very different.

But I don't blame the logic.

I also feel like that's something a kid would do.

Like that's a child logic kind of, you know, I mean, that doesn't really add up, but it is funny.

You don't like my song.

I don't think you would, you know, you have bad taste.

Yeah.

If they have a best friend of the opposite sex, well, I don't agree with that one.

No.

In fact, I think we need to get away from that kind of thing.

We absolutely need to get away from that thing.

And it is a something that is perpetuated by social media, by movies, by television.

There is nothing wrong with having a best friend of the opposite gender.

The only people I've ever heard that have an issue with this are people that can't divvy the line.

That are insecure, too, about themselves or their relationship.

I've had a dozen women as friends.

And they and I have never had any kind of attraction or anything like that.

It is extremely possible.

I know I've done it.

Melissa's done it.

We are doing it together.

We do that.

We're friends.

There's all kinds of examples out there.

We need more examples of that and more understanding.

More positivity around it.

We need more TV shows and things like that built around that, too.

And even books.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

How many of us are tired of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.

How about we see boy and girl meet in our friends.

And they work together as colleagues and our parks and wrecks is a perfect example of this.

Yeah.

And they have other relationships with other people, but they're still friends.

They need more of it.

Need more of it.

And it must be nice.

Here is another one.

Being the youngest sibling is a red flag out.

Well, baby of the family.

Yeah.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

That's tough.

But I think that's, you know, it depends on family as well.

Here's one that just for accountability, sake and everything.

Here's one that I've been close to as a red flag that I need to call myself out on, too.

I won't date someone who likes reality TV.

Watching it on occasion because your multitasking is fine.

But if you know everyone's backstory and timelines, it's not for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I...

Yeah, I've been...

No, I have never said no to dating somebody because I found out of something they like.

But I'm not going to watch it with them.

Yeah.

I'm not...

Yeah.

I came all the way so far with that one.

We got one more good one for you.

But let's take a phone call before we go to break.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Hello.

Hello.

Oh, darn it.

Uh, call I'm back.

Call back.

424, 2600.

We'd love to hear from you.

Uh, the last one on this list, socks with sandals are my pettiest for most strictly enforcing

deal breaker.

Seeing somebody with socks and sandals.

Yeah.

Yeah, that...

I don't know if it'd be a deal breaker, but it's a rough one to get past.

Cool, that's bad.

That's bad.

Let's take that call.

Good morning, what's on your mind?

Hello.

Oh, we do not have a clear connection.

Yeah.

Hello.

Can you hear us?

Hello.

Hello.

I think we're on somebody's car phone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know what happened there, but...

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Interesting.

He didn't stay with either one of them because he's...

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How about that?

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That's the question.

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They were identical.

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I don't know if I can do that.

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I don't want any 60 months, Chuck.

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How do you spell it?

Y'all.

How do you spell y'all?

Every y'all?

How do you spell y'all?

We'll be back, y'all.

Right here at WFHR.

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God, I love this theme song.

Cowboy bebop theme song.

Interesting.

It's great.

We got to talk about this, y'all.

Y'all.

Y'all is an awesome word.

But how do you spell it?

The correct answer is with the apostrophe before the A.

Also, some replacements.

So we'll get into all of that.

But just get that out of the way right out of the gate.

I also should mention growing up, my best friend was from New Orleans.

And him and his father spoke very southern.

And y'all was just something, everything was y'all.

Everything was y'all.

Every sentence started with y'all.

And I just have always kind of had that in my lexicon.

I've always kind of used the term y'all.

I'm a big fan of it.

But it's also got some really, I think, some modern things to it.

That I think it's interesting.

A word that's been around so long or a phrase that's been around so long.

Intraction.

Technically.

Thank you.

Yes.

And I want to get that right.

I think it's important with the rest of the article.

So it actually has a really great modern use.

Okay.

We'll get to that.

So you have to admit, y'all is a fun word to say.

Y'all is fun to say.

But how do you spell it?

It's very collaborative.

Very true.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Some put the apostrophe after the A as in y'all.

Y'all.

Well, it turns out it's according to Southern Living and every dictionary in the world that's

incorrect.

And the only way to spell it is with the apostrophe before the A.

Just like don't become, do not becomes don't and cannot becomes can't.

You all becomes y'all.

And even though y'all is typically associated with the South, its usage is gained and

pop culture because it solves an English language problem.

I would actually disagree with that last sentence.

Do not becomes don't do D-O-N apostrophe T.

Mm-hmm.

It's in the middle of the second word.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So why wouldn't you all be in the middle of the second word?

Because English.

And this is the point where I will freely admit I've always spelt it.

Why a apostrophe LL?

Yeah.

I guess I haven't spelled it out very often.

But I'm pretty sure that's how I spelled it.

To be honest.

But you say it, y'all.

Yeah.

You say it the same way.

I like many people out there typing text how I talk and I write how I talk and I don't spell

well.

Like you know that better than most Melissa.

I am not a good spell.

James, what did you just send me?

Please, please interpret.

Translate.

Google translate.

No.

Fail.

Got it.

Just call me.

So.

So.

This actually is gaining in pop culture because it can actually solve an English language problem.

Unlike most European languages, English does not have a designed second person plural pronoun.

A lot of people say you guys.

I'm one of them.

I'm very guilty of that.

But y'all makes it gender neutral so it could apply to everyone.

And here are some y'all substitutes depending on where in the world you're from.

If you say use guys, use guys over there.

Forget about you guys.

What do you think over there?

What are you doing over there?

Use guys with the thing over there?

Get out of here.

Forget about it.

Northeast.

You are more likely from the Northeast.

My grandpa always said that.

And he's from here.

That's funny.

He's from here.

Use guys.

Yints.

I've also heard that.

They're spelling it Y-I-N-Z.

But I've heard it pronounce Yis as well Yins as well with more of an S.

I don't think I've heard that one.

That's more of the Ozarks, Appalachians, and Western Pennsylvania.

Okay.

Places I haven't spent any time.

I think once I went to West Virginia.

And you're a lot over there.

If you're from the UK or Australia, that tends to be pretty bad.

You're a lot.

You crazy lot of you.

You've got quite a lot over there.

Those are fun.

But not as fun as y'all.

Not as fun as y'all.

It just rolls off the tongue.

So not only can this be a great way of being gender-friendly and gender-neutral.

But it's also more fun.

You guys, it's easy.

It's just kind of on the tip of our tongue.

It's easy to go to.

The habit.

But it's not fun to say.

Even if you're talking to a group of guys, it's not fun to say.

And if you say you people, that takes a different connotation.

It really does.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a great point.

Kind of some pitchforks come out there.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's take a call.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Okay.

Let's talk about y'all.

But in general, let's talk about gender-neutral plurals, right?

Okay.

First thing I get that you guys is a Northeastern American thing.

But in the translated gender-neutral group addressing term in Anishinabamo and the Ojibwe language,

it would be youth.

Youth.

And so the idea of youth being the plural, both in the Northeastern US and along the Great Lakes region, makes a lot of fun.

Yeah, and maybe that's where my grandpa got it from.

Huh.

That's cool.

That's actually really cool.

Y'all, as someone who has lived in a southernish area and picked up that colloquialism while I lived there,

it's absolutely spelled Y apostrophe all.

No one spells it differently.

No one.

Not in Baltimore, not in Virginia, not in Tennessee.

It's Y apostrophe all.

Very interesting data.

Thank you so much.

Good call.

I'm not changing how I spell it.

You don't have to.

I just won't recognize it.

Thank you.

Thank you for the call.

Thanks for the call.

Yeah, appreciate you.

Best listeners in the radio right there.

Appreciate you all.

Thank you.

So one thing I think we need to do with this subject and just in general is give each other some grace on these things.

Yeah.

Well, look at English as a whole.

Yeah.

Like, it's such a mess.

It's messy.

And does it really matter?

There are English teachers out there struggling and working trying to figure out how to make this work and everything.

The only thing I'm going to hold you to is there there and there.

Yes.

Yes.

That's a tough one.

That's a tough one to let go of.

That's a tough one when you see it and you're like, it makes you cringe.

That is my dating red flag pet peeve.

When I was dating online because you communicate when you're dating online,

you're mostly through text.

If they couldn't spell there, there and there correctly.

That was a, that was a...

No, you know, I could see that.

I could see that.

In this day and age, I could see that.

I actually don't think that's that bad of that one.

I mean, I would maybe...

As I say, that's that bad.

I didn't see that spell though.

I would have probably gone on a date with somebody if, you know, all the other benchmarks were met or whatever,

you know, stars aligned or what have you, what you want to matrix that.

But that's kind of a, like, all right, I'm going to remember this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to take a time out.

We're going to come back.

We got some great stuff, Melissa.

We got a then a write story about an interesting one that's going to be the most turbulent

airline route in North America.

That should be fun.

And some good stories of the day will get to along with some local good stuff and local events.

All coming up for you right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

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She lights.

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Good stuff.

We got a then a write story to get to.

Got some good stuff to get to as well.

We'll touch on all of that.

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Mm-hmm.

So go ahead and get us those stories over there.

If you just heard some red flags that were maybe on your list.

Yeah.

There you go.

And these aren't going to be shared.

No.

No.

We are, they're all going to be kept in in-house and everything.

Yeah.

And they're just randomly drawn, too.

We're not picking the best ones.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

Are you kidding?

James?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pick the best love story.

Come on.

Have you guys heard him talk about love?

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Yeah.

So if you're really bothered by turbulence when flying, you might want to pay attention

to where that ain't right story of the day.

And I'm seeing snowflakes outside Melissa.

Oh.

It's snowing.

It's the pretty snow.

No, it is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Don't worry.

It's not sticking around for those of you.

There's snow haters out there.

Well, yep.

Seth.

This will not affect turbulence.

Today here in the Rapids, essential Wisconsin.

It's not on the ground.

Yeah.

A turbulence forecasting company called Turboli just released a list of the most turbulent

airline routes in the world.

And the area with the most inflite potholes is between Chile and Bolivia.

No U.S. route made the top 10.

Hey.

That's pretty nice.

Yeah.

The most turbulent route in North America is the 442 mile flight between Nashville and

Raleigh Durham, North Carolina.

Mm-hmm.

And in second is Charlotte, North Carolina to Pittsburgh.

Okay.

Mountain area.

A lot of that.

I could see that.

That makes sense.

I'd never would have thought.

I wouldn't be able to guess that on jeopardy.

But seeing it like, oh, it makes sense.

Great.

It's flying over mountains.

For four of the top 10 bumpiest routes involved North Carolina.

But none of their airports were named the roughest.

The most turbulent airport is in Portland, Oregon.

Denver is second followed by Las Vegas.

A lot of people just coming out of Vegas.

And I only spent an hour layover in Vegas.

But that airport is a nightmare.

That is an insane airport.

Oh, hair and LAX over in LA.

Those are the two biggest airports I've been to.

And both of them have their chaos.

But nothing like Vegas.

Vegas is a airport with a circus with another circus.

And then like a family union going on.

Like all that wants to say.

Wow.

The jet stream isn't always the same place.

It's usually a little farther north.

But over the past year, El Nino has pushed itself.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry here.

I missed a key step.

So when you're flying between Nashville and North Carolina.

You're going over the highest peaks of the Appalachian Mountains.

And there's a bigger issue.

You're also crossing the jet stream, which is like a river of fast moving air.

And that's why the jet stream is not always in the same place.

And El Nino has moved it.

And it's a little different.

And that does make a difference.

In 2022, no North Carolina routes were among the top 10 bumpiest.

So they have gotten worse.

Yeah.

The roughest flight in North America was between Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia,

and Cannon back in 2022.

That's way more north.

Just a couple of years different.

How that changes.

That jet stream changes everything.

It's pretty interesting.

Yeah.

And I wonder, you know, how that's going to progress as we go forward.

Yeah.