Pet of the Week! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got lost in the music for a second there. That's right. Got your host, James behind the mic. That voice over there is our good friend Seth Habhacker. Good morning.

And we got the best listeners and radio joining us. Thanks so much for being here everybody. Seth and I are getting some entertainment news in a little bit. We will also be touching on the worst movies that have made a lot of money.

And the cars with the fewest issues and the ones with the most. We kick off our Thursday the way we like to around here with our pet of the week from the South of County and Maine Society. We got Denise with us today. How you doing?

Good. How are you? Good morning. Good morning. So much for being here. We appreciate you. Before we get to our pet of the week and get a ramble about dogs and cats and all these things that we love. I wanted to get an update how things are going over at the shop. How is the construction coming along?

Fantastic. Our front new front area is almost complete. They're insulating. They're putting lights in. It's really come into life and it's exciting. We're close, very close to having a new reception area. Nice.

I mean this with a little bit of fun, but also a little bit of seriousness too, like anything I say almost. I don't know why I had to explain it. How are the animals doing with all of this?

It's been rough, especially for the dogs. We don't have a lot of cats and we're able to keep the cats more because the entryway is much closer to the dog running in his cats and the dogs are kind of suffering a bit. So we're trying to have more social time with them, more walks, more activities for them and take their minds off the stress.

Is there a way that we always look for this as well of ways we can help with that?

Volunteers can come and socialize cats anytime they want and it's well appreciated. The dogs are a little difficult. We have a collection of dogs right now that are a little afraid, more so than usual with the construction.

So we're not letting the general public socialize with dogs right now. We will very soon. That'll be coming, but if you're an approved volunteer, you might be able to walk a dog for us, but there's a training involved as opposed to the cat room. You can just come in and grab a cat and go in one of the meet and greet rooms.

I got an idea. Let's adopt all the dogs. We can just get them out of there. I like that. I'm on board with that.

Let's try to do that, everybody. In all seriousness, when we are able to help, we will let you guys know Denise will let us know when we can open it up a little bit more and everything.

We're really looking forward to that. I bring this up in part because of the, especially to other animal owners out there, of understanding that we don't always understand what an animal is going through.

And while it's kind of funny, this happens a lot with animals where we're trying to do something good for them. And yet they don't handle it very well because they don't understand that they don't.

It's not to their fault or anything like that. It's just kind of I think the more we understand that the better we can be with them.

Absolutely. We can react and act and be preventive of the things that they're going through if we can. We have a great kennel manager and she works with the dogs every day to make things easier on them.

We like to shout out the entire team over there and everybody doing such great work for our community. We greatly appreciate that.

I also wanted to mention that you guys got something else. So we were going to touch on two.

Yeah, our membership drive for 2025 was a little late this year, but it is up and running our Facebook and our web page. You can stop into $30.

You get a membership card, which has many discounts from area area businesses that support us. Stop in and pick one up or give us a call and we'll get one to you.

Please do that, everybody. Not only are you going to get all those benefits and those deals and everything, but you are also showing the main society how much you mean they mean to us and your support to them and investment in them.

Absolutely.

I know the word we tend to use is donation. I look at these as investments and in this day and age where you're looking, you want to get your money back on your investment, right?

I can guarantee you get your money back on this investment and tenfold if that. That's a pretty good deal right there.

And certainly one of the mention as well, our pet of the week.

Yes, we're going to go with Thomas this week. Thomas.

Yeah, Thomas is a black German shepherd. He's about seven years old. So he's, you know, he's getting up there in his age. He's got several years left.

He's very sweet, very calm, walks well on a leash. He just, you know, because he's black probably has been overlooked, not quite sure, but he's a lover.

If you are interested in Thomas, he's a big dog. He's a little bit bigger than your normal black or normal German shepherd, but he's a lover. He's a sweetheart.

This is one of the more confusing things to me when I, because I came late to animals and I came, you know, working in shelters and those things, which later like mid 20s and some of that.

And the idea, I remember hearing the stat that animals with a black fur tended to be adopted the least.

It wasn't just black cats, but black dogs as well. Absolutely. And I've never understood this. I think it's so weird.

I will say for one, I'll be admittedly. I think that I've never seen a bad or a non-beautiful black coat.

Like they always look just great. That color, everything. But it's also just kind of like I mean, it animals an animal.

There's not a human being that has ever been born that chose the color of their skin. Absolutely.

But none of us get to pick this. You think I'm gonna pick this color? Like come on. Even though what I am.

I don't know what I am. I don't know what I am. These animals are no different.

And it makes it just as much sense that the fur, you know, that's would not play into it whatsoever.

I hope that we could see, at least I keep hoping to see this trend of us pushing back on that.

My mother is a little superstitious. And I've always found this very fascinating because she's the smartest human being I've ever known.

And I find, well, that's so illogical. How could you be? But it just makes sense for her.

Let's push back on those stereotypes and those kind of traditions and stuff and adopt some of these animals. Thomas is a great start.

He is a beautiful German-chippered mix, 70 years old. And it looks like he has his shots, his microchip and everything.

Correct, yep, neutered, ready to go. He's ready for a family and he is good on other dogs too.

He just needs a meet and greet introduction.

Learn about Thomas and find out more of ways that you can impact your community and help our Humane Society by going to the website SWCHS.com and find out more there.

Denise, always good hanging out with you and talking to you. Thank you so much for the time.

Thank you, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Say hi to the team over there and all those amazing furry animals for us.

We'll give them a happy birthday.

Ah, thank you.

Ah, I got it there. Stop it. That was good. That was well done. Speak, that was good fight.

I heard it earlier. I was like, oh, nicely done.

Join our friends over at the Humane Society. Keep in mind you can email them office at SWCHS.com.

You can also give them a call. Civil one, five, four, two, three, zero, five, zero, five. That is four, two, three, zero, five, zero, five.

Be sure to find them on social media. Share their posts on your page.

You just never know who might see it otherwise.

And keep in mind they are located at 3621-64th Street North right here Wisconsin Rapids.

We'll be back with more fun coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR.

We hope you're having a great Friday. Eve out there on Thursday everybody.

Want to send a big shout out to Denise and Thomas and all of our friends over at the South of County Humane Society.

Absolutely.

Thomas are a pet of the week. Be sure to check him out and all the great pets over there. It's SWCHS.com.

SWCHS.com. Maybe you'll be able to celebrate National of your pet day.

Hey.

Get on over there.

Dude for the first time maybe.

Yeah.

Maybe yeah.

We take a look at some entertainment news now.

And boy, you know Sharon Osborne is one of the strongest women in entertainment history.

Out of necessity.

100%.

Exactly. Yes.

Yeah.

Her story alone is interesting little.

You tied in with her husband Ozzy Osborne.

They're fascinating interesting people. They really, really are.

And for everything that we have seen Ozzy do or get in trouble with or etc. etc.

There's hundreds of things that he was going to do that she stopped him from doing.

But those are usually bad negative things.

Right.

What is interesting is this one right here.

Sharon Osborne robbed the world of the possibility of witnessing Captain Ozzy.

Huh?

She says he was offered an audition for Pirates of the Caribbean.

But she said no.

Huh?

Quote.

She says it's the biggest mistake she's ever made with him.

Quote.

Now wouldn't he have been perfect.

Johnny wanted Keith to be a pirate remember.

Right.

Of course we all know Keith played Johnny's dad.

And very well by the way.

He did an excellent job.

Best.

Keith Richards hasn't done a ton of acting.

No.

Very little.

Yeah.

And Mick Jagger is a fine tester.

He's a fine actor.

He does a good job.

I would have no problem casting him or working with him or something like that.

I think he's a fine actor.

I didn't think the Keith Richards had a bone.

Including this past Saturday and live episode, the 50 year special.

Right.

Or Keith Richards showed up and he just kind of like.

Yeah.

And he said something.

He said his line.

But you know, you can tell it was Keith Richards.

Yeah.

He's just got to do this thing.

Yeah.

He wasn't folding it in.

This is just who he is.

Keith Richards.

Yeah.

And he's going to get 100% of him on most things.

He's even in interviews.

He seems uncomfortable.

Yeah.

You know, without the music of the guitar in his hand, yeah.

You may not see this and I didn't mean to do this.

But I went looking at all these interviews and stuff.

I was actually looking at interviewers and Dick Cabot of one of them.

Oh wow.

And I never relived that much and looking at his old interviews.

And his tone, his demeanor.

Yet the interview, the people he'd be interviewing.

Like, couldn't be more professional and all that.

But yet he's sitting there with Jimmy Hendrix sitting across from him.

Couldn't be more on, you know.

Not in a shot.

Just Jimmy was Jimmy.

Yeah.

Exactly.

He's interviewing him and he's interviewing Keith Richards.

And Keith Richards and Jimmy Hendrix almost identical in the answers and their demeanor

and the way they carried themselves.

And the way that they just would push back Dick Cabot said that Jimmy Hendrix.

How does it feel to be maybe the greatest guitar player in the world?

And Jimmy Hendrix, I don't know about that.

Maybe just in this room.

You know, just about the greatest guitar player in this chair.

And then wanted to move on.

Right, right, right.

Richards is very much the same way.

Right.

But he's also a great job as Jack.

Jack's real dad, yeah.

So Sharon didn't say if that was the role Ozzy could have played or if it was a different character.

It was a different character.

Yeah, right.

It was a completely different character that they'd actually got rid of once they knew that they couldn't get Ozzy in on it.

Oh man.

He would have been, I think even it was a small part.

It would have been a great cameo.

I mean, just him doing the mumble thing.

You know, it'd be hilarious.

Oh gosh.

I don't know this for a fact.

I only know a couple of details from people that I've looked out, reached out to and everything.

And one of the details was that it was in the final Caribbean movie that Keith Richards was in.

And so this part I can't prove.

But I love the idea of Keith being Jack's dad.

And Ozzy was like his uncle.

Yeah, exactly.

Like something like that.

I would be funny.

But I actually find this kind of interesting because we famously many people, especially now have heard that Will Smith was off of the role of Neo.

That was their first choice.

And he turned it down.

I find it interesting when actors own up to these things.

There's only one way we ever find out about this is they share it.

Exactly because we don't, or in someone writes a book later about it, you know, like,

Hey, guess who was up for the role for what?

And it happens all the time.

Just about every movie out there, big, you know, the bigger movies.

It's got at one point is attached to this actor and this director.

And then it changes and there's turnover.

And then you know, all this stuff happens and finally you end up with what you got.

Yeah, it's interesting.

It's fascinating.

82-year-old Harrison Ford is quite the natural and horseback riding.

You could see him in action on Yellowstone spin off 1923 when it returns Sunday on season two on Paramount Plus.

He says the demands of being on the show aren't as daunting as they look.

Quote, maybe from a contemporary point of view, the horses represent something.

Some special skill or danger, but they're really not.

Quote, I spent half an hour on a horse and from a contemporary point of view.

You look at that and say, whoa, people used to do that.

But it really is not that difficult.

Helen Mirren, who places on screen wife, disagrees and says he's a great rider.

Quote, I was incredibly impressed.

I have to say, with watching him gallop across the mountain, the Montana hillside.

I still haven't gotten to see this show.

I don't have an interest in the Yellowstone stuff.

I watched a little bit of it and I'm like, oh my god.

This is some of the horror.

I don't understand how it got so popular.

I'm just be honest.

The writing on it feels like writers who couldn't make it doing soap operas.

It really does feel the...

I'm not trying to be a jerk like what you like, who cares what I think.

But I did give it a shot because of the rise of how popular that show was.

And then I'm like, okay, the actors don't even believe this.

They didn't feel like one of the actors were even trying.

Supposedly it's the one dude who writes everything and that might be the problem.

Because I mean, you can only do so much.

But I do really want to give this a shot.

I mean, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.

And two.

Oh man, I mean, Helen Mirren speaks...

Both of them basically speak for themselves.

I have found it interesting that more recently, Harrison Ford's been more open and talking more with stuff.

Because he was basically a guarded guy.

You know, through most of his career, he's private.

You know, he kept his private life pretty private.

And that sort of thing.

But now he's getting older and he's starting to talk more.

And he's got some really interesting things to say.

He's a very thoughtful person.

You know, and of course, you know, him deflecting the...

You know, like, oh, you're a good writer.

Well, you know, that can...

That's very much in his wheel.

He's never been a guy.

He doesn't take a compliment very well.

No, neither.

He's really...

He struggles with that.

Chicago's owned, by the way.

Yes, Ford.

A ripened zone, I should say.

He was just a ripened for a while.

Yeah, yeah.

And this is one of those situations, too, where I think that they're both right.

What Harrison's saying, if you are comfortable, if you trust the horse,

if you build a...

Just even it doesn't take a lot of time sometimes.

But if you just make a connection with that horse, you're petting it,

you're making eye contact with it.

Riding that horse, it is...

There's literally nothing like it on the planet.

You can...

I love riding by train.

I think like a lot of people out there, like a Sunday drive.

I don't have to be there that fast so I can take my time.

Yeah.

You know, I like flying.

I think flying's fun.

There's so many great ways to travel.

There is nothing in the universe.

Like when a horse trusts you, and you have that trust, and you can go.

The feeling of it is indescribable.

There's nothing like it.

It's just amazing.

I'll take your words for it.

I love horses.

I love riding on horses, man.

Well, and to your point, Harrison Ford has been doing it now.

And I mean, he's been in so many movies where he's ridden horses.

But I think above and beyond that, he's just...

He's been a writer his whole life since he's been able to.

Just for...

He enjoys it kind of thing.

So, yeah.

And now an interesting one.

Just because a movie makes money at the box office doesn't mean it's good.

People are voting on rancor.com for the worst movies that made at least $1 billion.

Okay.

The audience couldn't see me putting my finger away.

Yeah.

The Dr. Evil thing.

Dr. Evil.

It doesn't really work at audio.

The polling isn't open to all billion dollar movies.

Just the ones that bat with bad rotten tomato score.

Okay.

So we do have some guidelines.

All right.

And I think there's two side stories here there.

One, just...

I'm seeing someone here that I didn't know had bad rotten tomato scores.

Oh, okay.

That's interesting, yeah.

And of course, this is all subjective.

There is no such thing as a good or a bad movie.

It is all opinion.

It is.

It is all opinion.

And your opinion is valid.

Whatever it is.

Man, some of the worst made films are also the most entertaining out there.

You got to...

I mean, there is no, like, real benchmark, seriously.

I don't care what anybody says.

I will love the original Popeye movie my whole life.

Exactly.

Is it a good movie?

No.

Is the movie Toys with Rob Williams Good?

No.

But I love that movie.

Yes.

I mean, you can even admit like you're doing right now.

It's not necessarily a good movie, but man, do I love it.

It's fun.

It's entertaining.

Can't get enough of it.

Yep.

The Lion King is number one on this lift.

The live action lion.

Oh, okay.

It grossed 1.7 billion, but has a rotten tomato score of 51%.

Wow.

And I think to be considered fresh, it's got to be like what?

70 or something like that.

Something like that.

Star Wars Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker.

I believe the final one in that most recent three-parter.

Yes.

Correct.

It grossed 1.1 billion.

Oh, yeah.

But had a rotten tomato score also of 51%.

Okay.

Which is actually a little bit higher than I thought it would be.

Me too.

I thought it was really panned when it came out.

Well, this is the thing about any of these movies.

Whether you're talking Star Wars or any of these gigantic things.

You're at this point in time, people are over.

Oh, something new.

Now they just want to tear it down.

They just want to tear it down.

It doesn't stop them from seeing it, though.

No, that's the point.

So if you really want action with your words,

the quickest way to make that happen is with your wallet.

The famous quote that Tony Carter and Heiser quotes all the time.

All your answers end with money.

Yeah.

Follow where the money is, right?

I talk about this with sports all the time.

If you're frustrated with the Milwaukee Brewers not opening up their paycheck,

you got to stop going to games.

You got to stop giving them money.

I don't like it any more than you guys do out there,

but this is the way you get heard.

You could sign petitions.

You can go ahead and protest all you want.

But at the end of the day, these millionaires,

the only thing they hear is money.

It's a reason they're billionaires, yeah.

So when the new Star Wars movie comes out

and all those people out there want to shred it,

they're all also going to go see it.

So they're not hearing you.

Hence $1.7 billion or whatever, yeah.

They generally couldn't care less if you like or don't like it.

It's the same thing with owners.

They don't care if you show up or not,

if you show up and you don't like the game,

or if the team is bad, it doesn't matter.

As long as people are coming, they're going to be like,

who cares, right?

Did they get your money?

Yeah.

That's the important thing.

The conversation for them.

They could care.

I don't like the team blah, blah, blah.

I shine the petition with thousands of names.

Did you pay for your ticket to come in here?

Thank you.

Well, there you go.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You really want to be heard.

That's how you get heard.

If you're not, you got really nobody to complain about.

Like you're still giving them money.

Like that's kind of, you know,

but it seems self-explanatory.

Jurassic World Dominion grossed $1 billion,

rotten tomato score 29%.

Oh, wow.

Didn't see that.

Aladdin, the live action one, grossed $1.1 billion,

had a rotten tomato score 51.

See you better.

And you're going to see a real one coming up.

So we'll just go through some of these transformers,

age of extinction, Jurassic World fallen kingdom,

and transformers, dark of the moon.

All $1.101.3 billion grosses.

And none of them had a higher score than 40%.

Wow.

This is just, again, we're seeing remakes.

We're seeing sequels.

sequels, one and a lot.

IP.

IP is what it is, right?

Intellectual property.

That's the important thing here.

Yes.

Alice in Wonderland grossed $1 billion,

had a rotten tomato score 59%.

Okay.

That's a little bit higher, but yeah.

Minions 1.2 billion 55% rotten tomato.

Yep.

Super Mario.

That's all my son that.

You love that movie.

Yeah.

Exactly.

My grandchildren.

I'm not grandchildren.

My nephews.

Yes.

I have one grandchild.

How old are you again?

Get my age of my son here.

On the day that I'm age.

Yes.

Pirates of the Caribbean on stranger tides.

1 billion for that.

32 rotten tomato score.

And Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Menace.

1 billion rotten tomato score 53.

Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest.

1.1 billion rotten tomato score 53.

And the Hobbit, an unexpected journey grossed 1 billion,

and it was a rotten tomato score 64%.

Yes.

Man, so it's fascinating.

These are like you said.

I mean, granted, there's a reason these movies

made a billion dollars.

These are well-known properties, right?

No.

Now, some of them, you know, might have taken

a little while to get there.

Transformers, you know, it was a toy.

You know, back in the 80s.

I mean, cartoon show, right?

So I guess that none of that makes sense.

Also, I want to push back a little bit on aggregator sites

like rotten tomatoes.

To me, those are, they don't tell you anything.

Yeah.

They really don't do well for your own, you know,

what should I be seeing, you know?

What does everyone else like, you know?

Well, you could, and I mean, you can even see, you know,

there's critic scores, but then there's audience scores, right?

And sometimes those are wildly different from each other.

The best advice I ever heard was find a film critic

that has the closest taste to your taste.

And that's a good, I mean, it's not always going to be the same,

but it's a good bellweather of whether or not

you're going to like the movie or not.

Just find one or two that's like, well, I agree with most of,

you know, I saw the movie and that yep, I agree.

Those are probably your best bets when it comes to film criticism.

I did that when I was a kid, I felt that way about Cisco and Ebert.

It would depend on the movie, but one of them

would have the same feeling or thought that I had.

It just depended on which movie one of them had the, you know,

right?

Exactly.

I really enjoyed those guys.

But I think that to just piggybacking on what's saying there,

that critic might not be a paid movie critic.

It might be somebody close to you, a friend, a fan.

Absolutely.

Somebody that you just share a lot in common with athletes.

Exactly.

I think that that's a great, well, notes.

That's your best bet, usually.

I thought it would be fun to look at the biggest box office flops of all time.

I love it, it's on my favorite stuff.

Waterworld, of course, is way up there along with Battleship.

More recent movies, Joker, the sequel to Joker, is up there as well.

Sinbad, legend of the Seven Seas from 2003.

I don't even remember that.

Now, this one's interesting to me because it was only about a $60 million budget.

But Worldwide grossed 80 mil.

And total to 125 mil.

So a $207 million loss given an adjustment for inflation.

Cutthroat Island from 1995.

One of the more famous box office flops of all time.

Wow, I remember that one.

This is part of the reason why you didn't see pirate movies until Pirates of the Caribbean.

Exactly.

It was, they were freaked out.

They're like, nope, can't do pirate movies anymore.

Yep.

It's so weird to think this and everything.

But Gina Davis had such a strong career in this like set her back in notch.

Matthew Modine, it killed his career.

It killed his career.

Totally stopped it, like dead stop, boom.

Yeah.

That one lost about 210 mil.

Mortal engines, which I actually really liked.

I thought it was actually not a bad movie, I thought it was all right.

The 13th Warrior, I never did see that from 1999 to Antonio Benzerius.

Benzerius, I remember when it came across, I've never seen it either, but yes.

I did mean to though, I just never got a chance to.

And then second most recent movie, The Marvels from 2023.

It had a production of 270 mil, only grossed 206 mil.

So that one lost quite a lot.

That actually lost quite a bit.

And real quick, for people who don't know, usually when they give you the budget of what it costs,

that's just the production cost.

They don't give the marketing, and it's usually double.

So it's like this, you take the same amount.

So like it's a hundred fifty million dollar film to make.

Add on another hundred fifty million for marketing stuff.

And then after you go past that number, then you're starting to look at profits.

Otherwise, or even break even.

Otherwise, it's a loss.

And you're not getting a lot of the context with some of these either.

It's true.

Cutthroat Island was marketed horribly.

They did a poor job with that.

Really bad job.

Because it was made by a really fly by night production company that didn't really know what they were doing.

I remember reading something about it.

The script for every one of these movies, I know for a fact in some and others,

I can just promise you I can guarantee I'll put my name on it.

It changed 18 times while they were on set.

How many writers, you know, 12 writers had to rework it?

Yeah.

And here's the thing.

They fire some writers, bring on new ones.

So they're trying to reimagine it and do it differently.

When it was already built by another writer and another writer's vision.

Exactly.

So you're mashing visions that never works out.

I don't know what they're thinking.

I just would stop production.

Just cut your losses.

But with the marvels, there was the superhero hangover by the time that one came around.

Right.

And there was also the issue with basing too much of it on the TV show.

Yeah.

Which a lot of people hadn't seen and they were very confused.

Which again, that was a mistake.

Yep.

I kind of enjoyed it though.

I didn't mind it.

I liked it.

TV shows.

I kind of knew what was going on.

And then you're top two, the lone ranger from 2013.

Oh boy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That had a lot of problems with it.

A lot of problems with that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That bound really bad.

And then of course, probably the most famous bomb.

I think Waterworld is probably the biggest, most famous bomb in history.

It got a lot of press.

For kids of our generation, maybe Ishtar, maybe you might remember that one.

That's a pretty deep cut.

Yeah.

It's very deep.

And nearly the budget that any of these other movies did.

It was mostly a flop because nobody felt those actors could fail.

Right.

And it didn't.

It just didn't work out.

Although the film has been reassessed.

And there's some, not too bad stuff in there.

Oh yeah.

Those people who say it's not really that bad.

Yeah.

I would not put it in the top ten of my worst movies ever seen.

But it wasn't great.

No, no, no.

John Carter from 2012.

The movie that completely changed Disney.

I was just going to say that.

That caused the pivot to buying Marvel, buying Star Wars.

They did not.

They're like, we can't start our own IP anymore.

Which is what they were trying to do with John Carter.

Yeah.

Which, how do you mess up John Carter?

How do you mess this up?

It's been like one of the most popular franchises since the 20s

when Edgar Rice Bros was writing the novels.

The one thing that we mentioned with all of these movies that this one has that didn't

is a built-in fan base.

Now, the Marvels did to a degree certainly.

And the Joker does to a degree as well.

But they also, to your point, went in different directions.

They did.

That your diehard fans are your typical, or your everyday fans.

Yeah, casual fans, yeah.

Didn't catch up with.

Yeah.

But again, to your point, John Carter has been around for decades.

Yeah.

Almost 100, over 100 years now.

Yeah.

I remember the build up to that movie and seeing people talk about how they

waited their whole lives for this.

Yes.

And I don't know if it's the expectation or some of those factors.

But they spent 263 million on that movie.

Wow.

And it barely grossed 112.

I mean, that's a mega bomb right there.

A $265 million box office bomb.

And now you're thinking out there, even before Marvel and ESPN

and some of these other properties that Disney has bought,

oh, they got the money.

This can't.

This isn't going to hurt Disney.

They could just keep rolling.

They may be the only company that could have taken $265 million

hit and keep rolling like you didn't feel it.

Like just like a bug hitting your windshield.

But they don't have this happen.

This doesn't happen to Disney.

Nope.

And man, it had his role.

Yes.

They brought Iger back.

I mean, it was just.

They brought a bag.

It was a fiasco, yeah.

And again, everything set laid out perfectly.

I would only add ESPN to that.

Yeah.

True, yes.

They realized right away, if I can't make it myself, I'm a buy it.

I'm just going to buy it.

Exactly.

We have the funds.

Why not, right?

I can't make my own content.

The Disney Vault is not going to work anymore.

We're going to try this live action thing and see how that works.

But then Disney's got how many of these big box office flops

in their top 10.

Like they have at least four or five of them,

including the number one of all time.

And have you noticed it affect them at all?

Just to speak to how big that company is.

Yeah, no kidding.

Every time you think Amazon or Nike or Sony or some of these companies

are gigantic.

Think about Disney for just a minute.

Just a minute.

Yeah.

We're going to get to our new sports and partner break.

We'll come back and have some fun.

We're talking vehicles when we come back.

We're going to talk about the cars with the fewest and most issues.

All right.

Coming up on the morning show.

Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Hope you all are having a great Thursday out there.

Happy Friday Eve, everybody.

James and Seth hanging out with you.

Yeah.

Whatever you're doing, maybe popping around in your vehicle.

Maybe a good vehicle.

Maybe your favorite vehicle.

Who knows?

You've named and you know, one of those weird things.

God, it's so weird.

I know a lot of people do it.

It's just weird to me.

Yeah.

No, I get it.

I used to think it was weird too when I started doing it.

I can't.

No, I'm just embracing the weird now.

JD Power has released its 2025 US vehicle Dependability Study,

which analyzed the durability of three-year-old cars

from the Model Year 2022.

Oh, okay.

Cool.

And Lexus was the top ranked brand for a third consecutive year.

Wow.

It was followed by Buick, Mazda, Toyota, and Cadillac.

Okay.

All right.

Of all 30 brands, Volkswagen ranked last.

Chrysler was next worst, followed by Jeep, Audi, and Land Rover.

Interesting.

German makes, which used to be like the gold standard.

Right.

We're in there at one time.

All those German cars that were supposed to be the best.

I wonder what's going on over there, huh?

Yeah.

And interesting.

This study reports the highest level of vehicle problems since 09.

But the pandemic plays part of that too to keep in mind.

Right.

We all remember that.

Right.

You can go to driver CA if you'd like to find the complete list, driver CA.

And, you know, I don't know that necessarily.

I don't know how much this necessarily changes anybody's thoughts or anything like that.

Right.

When it comes to going and buying a vehicle, how often do you look at these reports?

How often do you, I feel like for a lot of products in life, you're going to look up, hey, what's the best of this?

Right.

Hey, what's the downside of this?

Exactly.

With something that's such a expensive purchase, such a big purchase and, you know, for the 99% of us,

a purchase that you're hoping to make once every couple of years, if that longer.

Hopefully.

Yeah.

Hopefully.

Yeah.

I find it interesting that the people that don't put that much time and thought into it, like, hey, what color is it?

You know, I mean, even myself who over thinks everything, my main goal is, does it have four-wheel drive?

Right.

Exactly.

Right.

Can I find me up?

Yeah.

Can I put it on the road?

Yeah.

Can you give me a point A to point B?

I want to be able to drive on every surface, even ones that aren't real.

I want to drive on rainbows, right?

Yeah.

If I need to drive on the moon, can I?

Yeah, right.

In case Mario Kart breaks out somewhere.

You never know.

A tortoise shell just in the middle of the road.

I want to be able to know I can get around, then I want to.

Among the issues cited, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connectivity were one of the top problems for the second consecutive year.

While built-in Bluetooth systems and Wi-Fi were also among the top software defects.

So that's noteworthy if you care about those things.

Right.

I think even more noteworthy if you don't, this may not affect your list at all.

Mm-hmm.

I thought that was quite interesting.

And I'll be honest with everybody.

I mentioned that Jeep was one of the lower ranked ones on this list.

I'm a big Jeep guy, and then I'm probably going to have to buy a new vehicle in the next year here.

Right.

And it'll be a Jeep.

I'll tell you that right now.

It will be.

I love the best personal preference, right?

Yeah.

Exactly. It works for me, and it has all the things that I'm looking for.

Right.

You know, it's funny.

Usually when I haven't had to buy a car in a while, I'm very happy about that actually, because I hate buying cars.

But I do know that when I do have to go out and get the next one.

This is something I never thought I would have to do.

I've actually been looking at lists of cars with the least amount of technology in them.

Because we have seen more and more issues with them.

And your cars, by the way, are becoming with all of this.

You know, we just, what James has talked about, this connects stuff.

They're recording this.

Everything, I mean, everything you say and do this stuff, they make money off of that.

Yeah.

Because they can sell it to advertisers, okay?

They're doing it.

They're lists, it's really, it sounds kind of weird, but it's true.

They can pick up all this stuff.

You know, they know what you're listening to.

They know the music or podcasts or anything like this.

They know all that information when you're doing it in your car,

and they package it and sell it to advertisers.

So I'm trying to find something when I do buy it.

I don't want any of that stuff in there, but I don't know if I can't even do it anymore.

Can you even buy a car without that?

I don't know.

It's a good question.

Yeah.

The gold diamonds money, they're all worth a lot.

Nothing's worth more in this day and age and going forward than data.

Data.

100% correct, my friend.

You're so right about this and they're finding more and more ways to collect that data.

Yeah.

That freaks me out too.

I'm not comfortable with it either.

I am trying to embrace this as best as I can.

Because I also understand, well, I'm not going to go buy a cave in the mountains.

Any time.

Well, absolutely.

Yeah.

You know, I'm not going to be able to.

I can bark about it.

I can go completely off the grid, right?

Yeah.

There's certain parts of it too.

Yeah.

But I'll say this as well when it comes to, because you touched on something that you said

something there that I didn't thought about much at everything, my personal preference.

And it has been since I was probably 15 or 16, jeeps and all that.

Sure.

I've always worn, I wore Chuck Taylor's as a kid, Adidas.

Those are my shoes.

And I've always worn those brands because growing up, I just knew if you bought a pair of shoes,

you had to make them last for a couple of years.

They had to last.

So I learned real quickly.

These are the ones that are durable.

These are the ones that last.

Sure makes sense.

But I was talking to my buddy CJ.

I was talking to him in a new balance commercial came on.

And I'm like, man, they got Shohei O'Connie for a new balance.

Wow.

That is a get.

How did they beat out Nike?

And you know, under armor in all these companies.

And he's like, well, man, if you ever tried their shoes, they're so comfortable.

Oh, what are you talking about?

He's like, oh, they're incredibly comfortable.

He's like, I wore Nike's my whole life.

And I didn't realize how uncomfortable they are.

And it got me thinking about it.

I don't know if I'm going to go out now.

I'm going to at least try a pair on.

Why not?

And maybe it's a similar thing with, you know, our vehicles, where it's what we're so used to.

And what used to be comfortable or cool or whatever it might be when it turns out, you know,

hey, actually, there's something you were paying for something.

Maybe you didn't realize you were paying for.

Maybe it was more of the brand name.

Maybe it was more of that sort of thing, right?

JD Power noted that while software defects are only 9% of the total problems reported,

quote, as vehicles become more software of a lion.

Yep.

This risk becomes more prominent.

Yep.

And hybrid vehicles experience the fewest problems of any vehicles that are all recorded.

Now that's interesting.

A little note there to keep in your book.

They also reported that they had the fewest tech problems, the fewest engine problems, hybrid vehicles.

And that's very interesting to me.

Yes.

And that's the good side of the technology that we can see.

That yeah, we're getting to the point now where that sort of thing is going to be more and more common

and probably be the default at some point.

Well, unlike certain fads and certain things in life, vehicles are different.

There's so many of these that you see this happen all the time.

We see it every day.

You'll see it today.

A vehicle that was popular 5, 10, 20 years ago is still out there.

You're going to see a bug today, probably.

You're going to see this today, this style vehicle, an old Monte Carlo maybe or something like that.

So while these trends may come and go, those vehicles aren't going anywhere.

And when it comes to hybrid vehicles, whether however we go as a society, those aren't going anywhere.

And if you need to prove that the hummer industry has gone completely green.

Remember that back in the day, the gas guzzling hummers.

Look at that.

How about that?

Even they grow on this one.

That says something man.

I'm telling you.

I would like to think that we can get to certain places where we just break through out a certain subject.

And I'm really hopeful that as a society, we break through on the subject of, you know, we all live on this rock.

And it isn't being a Democrat or a Republican to care about the planet.

It isn't being a tree hugger or not.

Any of these terms, any of these things.

It's about survival.

It's about having a future.

Yeah, you don't plant trees for you to see them grow.

You plant them for your kids to see them grow.

Getting back to that.

Right.

Of all the divisiveness in this world, I got to think that this is one of those ones that brings us together.

There is no fake news when it comes to the planet.

You are a human being.

And as you get older, you age.

And as you get older, you get closer to the end.

That's how time works.

Why would you think the planet is any different?

This is just basic science.

This is just the way things work.

There's nothing PC about that.

There's nothing woke about that.

There's nothing tree-huggy about that.

That's life.

That is the basic fact of all basic facts.

How can you not think of that?

Please, 715-424-2600 to please throw it in my face of how I'm wrong.

Please, I would love to be corrected on this one.

James, James, the world is flat.

Oh, that's right.

So, you know, to ignore whatever he just said.

Yeah.

And why can't I just drive from here to Asia?

Just straight line.

I'm just straight line.

You haven't made any sense.

You haven't wanted it.

That's it.

That's it. That's it.

I got to want it.

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I know I've rambled about this for twenty years on the air.

But I was born very early on a white couch in the middle of a snow storm.

And my parents were not able to get me to the hospital.

So some policemen, firefighters, EMT showed up and delivered me.

None of these individuals had ever delivered a baby before.

And I've got a story now.

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But I have it with pride.

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They kept my mom around.

They did a lot of great work.

And it's why every opportunity I get the rest of my life,

I am going to shout out these individuals and these jobs and try to remind everybody

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So appreciate everybody out there for the notes.

Thank you so much.

Now we don't have to worry about it again for another year.

You're done.

You don't have to anymore.

We'll look at our schedule though.

We got a good one lined up for you.

Matt and air on air coming up.

Sounds like it's just Greg.

Greg's flying solo again.

Yep.

Be sure to check that out.

He's fine.

He's good.

He's good.

Tendon noon today.

Let us know if you need us though, Greg.

I'd love to do it.

Jump on there.

Yeah.

That would be fun.

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