I’m Your Huckleberry (Hour 2)

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A little bit later, Seth and I are talking cars.

The ones with the fewest issues and the ones with the most.

Okay.

Very nice.

Getting into that.

And speaking of vehicles, four ways you're supposed to pump your gas wrong.

Four ways you're supposedly pumping your gas.

Oh, okay.

Well, that's interesting.

I'd like to hear those.

We start off the hour on a melancholy note, saying goodbye to one of the better actors

of our generation, Seth and Val Kilmer.

Yes.

Morrison, Bruce Wayne, so many iconic characters, Val Kilmer played.

Many of us 80s kids saw top secret or, you know, not weird science.

It was the other one.

Real geniuses.

There you go.

Real geniuses.

That's one.

That's the one for me.

Now Willow is another good reference, I think.

One that's a sneaky one of his because he's not the lead actor and they're anything, but

it does have the greatest hair, maybe in film history.

There's something about real geniuses and his performance and his character that immediately

as a young kid, seven years old, wanted to be an actor, seeing him and I'm like, there's

something about that guy I just really like.

And I would follow his career and see every single role that man did.

And anytime I saw that he was a part of a movie, I've got to see it.

I think that when I think of actors that I admire, there are a few actors that I will

put ahead of Val Kilmer.

Val Kilmer, I will say, Kiscus Bang Bang is one of his favorite, my favorite performances

of his.

It's also the comeback performance of Robert Downey Jr., it's a great little movie if you're

looking for a movie of his you haven't seen.

But the thing about Val Kilmer that I think stands out again as a young actor and I would

be years away from being a screen actor, Gil member myself, the thing that stood out

to me is hearing this story about Val Kilmer and why we didn't hear from him for a while

and why he was blackballed in Hollywood.

And it was because him and Jerry Brookheimer had a kind of handshake agreement that after

the Batman film, he would do another Batman, at least one more.

They never signed a contract and it took them a long time to kind of work this out because

it just felt like we're Batman or we're Jerry Brook and we're bigger than this, we're

bigger than any other actor.

Well, Val Kilmer, during that time, his star rises and he has the opportunity to do three

movies instead of one.

Now, doing the one Batman movie, not only he would, he make all of that money, but two

times that money and essentially set himself on a path for being an action star and all

these other things.

But he has the opportunity to do the Ghosts in the Darkness with Michael Douglas, the island

of Dr. Monroe with Marlon Brando and Heat, which he should have won a Best Supporting

Actor role for.

Actually, he should have won it for Doc Holliday and Tombstone.

He should have won a Best Supporting Actor award for that.

It's a shame on the the Academy that he did not.

He chooses to do these movies instead of the Batman movie.

And he does this and he says, he said in many interviews, I had the chance to work with

the greats.

I get better when I work with the greats.

That's what this is about and right there Seth, you can put it on my Tombstone.

That is what this game is about to me.

When I say that I want to be the best, that's what I'm talking about.

It's not an ego thing.

It's not I want everybody in the world to be able to say I'm the greatest actor of all

time.

It's this chase to be great.

It's this chase that you...

It's the journey.

Yes.

You get to do something that a craft that you can get better at, that you could be carry

a grant in your 70s and still working and be great.

Jimmy Stewart and do this, Velkimer got that.

He got what this game is really about.

He got that it was about the fans and it was about that.

This is a guy that took a lot of heat in his career and he never every chance he got

would talk to fans would talk to people that enjoyed his movies.

There's many conversations where he's promoting one movie and he's talking about Willow or

top secret or something like that and how much he appreciated his place in this world.

And then, I don't say this very often, but I do tip my head to Tom Cruise for reaching

out to him and convincing him to do the role in Top Gun one more time because he couldn't

speak anymore.

His voice was basically, and I didn't know about this that he had throat cancer.

He had a couple of tracheautomies which basically destroyed his vocal cords and which is, I mean

for a guy, something else people don't understand.

Musician.

Yeah.

He was an avid musician.

He recorded lots of music, he released some of it, you know, that kind of thing.

When you lose your voice and you're a musician like that, that's got to be devastating.

That's got to be absolutely devastating.

I have no idea Velkimer what's a great person or not.

I don't know.

He seemed to come across as one and I know that what he did do for me and many other

actors and just entertaining us in so many wide variety of movies.

Like look at his IMDB page and there's such a vast, like, not a very versatile, very

versatile.

And again, I as a kid growing up loving Westerns, there were a couple characters I always

wanted to play.

I always wanted to play Jesse James.

You know, I always wanted to play Doc holiday these things and then I saw Velkimer

do it.

No.

That's done.

That character has been done.

Nobody's ever going to play Doc holiday the better.

Nobody.

To the point that the man put himself in a hospital because of it because he was trying

to look like a character with checker burculosis.

Oh my God, just an incredible, credible actor career and thankful for it.

One of my favorite roles at first sight and he also said that was the most challenging

role of his career.

Yeah.

He had to play a blind man.

Yeah.

And he's very good at that.

By the way, he got a lot of, like, you were, you kind of referred to it of being a

difficult actor on set.

Mirror Servino said he was perfectly professional and a gentleman on that movie.

There was nothing wrong with it.

So the, I believe, because you didn't hear anything until he got blackballed.

And I believe that a lot of that hype was from a lot of producers, a lot of people saying

that the directors were saying it too.

Yeah.

Great director.

Yes.

Yes.

Because you didn't hear actors saying that.

No.

And that's what I listened to.

That's the where I'm going with that.

I'm, you know, Huckleberry.

Like I, man, I heard that line and I drove everybody around me crazy for the next five

years.

Any chance I get on your Huckleberry.

That was the, that was the name of his memoir too.

Want to take a moment.

There is no segue.

So we're going to dive right into the Beatles biopics.

The cast was revealed the yesterday, but I think it's hard to say this, but even more

fascinating to me than the casting is the, the attempt that's going to happen here.

So Sam Mendez, one of the better directors out there.

He's very good.

One of the more ambitious directors out there.

The same continues to challenge himself like actors do or like a lot of people do.

They him along with the, the cast came out and announced this yesterday with a John Lennon

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo star.

They are going to be playing these characters.

So Paul Muskell, you just saw in Gladiator 2 and a couple of other movies.

He's going to be Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn, who I believe in another fantastic four

reference.

He is Johnny.

He's the full.

Johnny Storm.

He's going to be playing George Harrison, Barry Kagan, Cougan, who is going to be playing

Ringo star, almost typecasting.

Looks so wrinkle like it's, it's hilarious.

Also one of the bigger stars on the rise as it's been in the last four to two or three

years.

His stars just keeps the rising.

He's a very good actor, very good.

And Harrison Dickinson is going to be playing John Lennon.

Maybe not a very well known actor.

I've only seen him in a couple of things, but he was in the most recent Kingsman movie.

And he stood out to me.

And I didn't know his name at the time or anything, but now as soon as I saw his name

in this, I'm like, oh, I can see it.

I can see it.

And I actually really respect the choice.

Who knows how good they're going to be at these roles or anything like that.

We will see.

Now the thing that gets interesting about this is they're not doing one movie.

No.

Do you want to explain this?

I feel like I'm going to explain it and it's going to use the audience.

So when they first gave mention what they were going to do this, they said they're not

making one.

They're making four.

They're making four films, each one from the perspective of one of the members of

the band.

Now, we don't know if that's going to be all of the same time period.

If they're going to jump around, I mean, we have no idea what the structure of these

films are going to be.

But that is a fascinating way of going about this.

And it's a way of not just doing a biopic of the Beatles as a group, but as the Beatles

as individuals, because they all were individuals within the group context.

And they all had their own personality, isn't all these kinds of things.

And I find that to be, I mean, it gives you a lot of room to really delve into certain

things that I hope it gives them enough space.

Because I knew that someday they were going to do a Beatles thing, right?

I knew this was going to come.

I was worried about the fact that they weren't going to give them enough time to go through

everything that went on with this group.

Now, the Beatles themselves, you look at interviews at the time, you look at interviews

after, have been very honest about most of the stuff that went on about that.

One of the things I give them credit for is that they didn't hide stuff.

They just said, you know, this is what's going on.

This is, you know, and they got in trouble for it sometimes.

You know, look at John Lennon, you got in trouble a lot.

But I love the idea of stretching it out to incorporate all of them from their different

views and that kind of thing, which makes sense.

It's the Beatles.

I mean, this is a big deal.

This is a big deal for a lot of people.

One of the things I'm hopeful for is let's just take one moment, for instance, John and

Paul, when they, after they had broken up and they're getting together, having coffee

and watching, you know, watching Lauren Michaels talking on TV, how he's trying to get

the Beatles back together.

And they're talking about maybe doing it that moment and seeing it from both perspectives.

John and Paul's to say it's the same scene, but in each movie, it's from their different

perspectives.

Right.

The other, the other, there's so many fascinating things about this part of this, what

they're doing, attempting here, because it's also, you know, one of the most important

things about every, any movie you've ever seen in your life is release date.

And they're going to release it so much can depend on it.

What is it going up against?

What is, what time of year is it?

Is this a traditional time people go to the movies?

This is a big deal.

But then with this, are they going to release all four films at once?

Are they going to release one at a time?

Which one do you release first?

Well, that's a good question.

It's, that's so difficult to think of.

And on top of that, this is, without them saying it, this is the movie industry's attempt

to be, oh, you guys like streaming?

You like binging?

What about it?

The theater?

Because that's what they're trying to do here.

What it sounds like.

If Seth and I had told you, the new Netflix project, this wouldn't be surprising at all.

This is, this is something that they do.

Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, all of them do this where they'll release a big project

and they'll just, you know, dump it on your, your feed right away and everything.

This is the movie industry attempting to do that, attempting to do streaming and binging

and all that stuff.

I have no idea if it'll work.

But if you're going to attempt it, I mean, take a big swing.

Take a big swing.

Yes.

Yes.

Because we know how popular the Beatles continue to be and there's super fans all over

the world.

This is going to be one of those things where if you're going to attempt it, this is

how you do it, because there's a good chance.

It doesn't matter.

People are going to come see it.

No matter what.

Or them.

See them, I should say, because it's like, we said, multiple films.

I really cannot wait to see and hear more and more about how this develops and where

it goes.

And a shout out, I mean, right out the gate, I'm already impressed.

Just at the attempt and just to announce this and even attempt something like this.

Something just occurred to me that when these come out or whenever, you know, like the

next couple of years, maybe 20, 28 or something like that, that's the 100 year anniversary

of sound, of sync sound in films.

Yeah.

This is another like, quote unquote, revolution in film, maybe we don't know.

We'll see.

It's about that time.

Yeah.

They could probably use it.

Traditionally, when these things happen, you know, I mean, that's a really interesting.

I didn't think about that.

That's a fascinating point.

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Everybody.

It's my favorite cheap trick song by the way.

Go up.

Surrender.

Easily.

Yeah.

God, I love that.

That one that never gets old to me.

That's maybe one of the few classic rock songs I could say that about.

Yeah.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

A silver main coon cat from Minnesota was awarded a Guinness World Record after his tail

was measured at 18.5 inches long.

Wow.

That's a foot and a half.

That is incredible.

That is.

That's a long tail.

That is.

How often does that almost get stepped on?

Oh my.

That is.

Yeah.

Lauren said her family's two-year-old cat, Mr. Pugsley Adams.

Let that sit there for a little bit.

That's a great name.

Has always had a long tail.

That's a good name, but they missed the mark if you're going to go with an Adams character.

What?

Cousin it.

Cousin.

Oh.

Yeah.

That's true.

Man, that could have been Cousin it.

Oh.

Well.

They tried.

They said that Pugsley always had a long tail and the subject even came up during her

first visit to the vet.

Lauren said the veterinarian mentioned it again six months later, inspiring her to her

kids to research the Guinness World Records for the longest tail and domestic cat.

Wow.

Living cat.

Right.

Quote.

And what do you know to our shock, Pugsley beat it.

She said Pugsley is remarkably easy going in friendly feline.

Everybody always wants to meet him and falls in love with his calm demeanor.

He is pretty level-headed and even in new situations that might be scary for some cats.

He is also super soft.

And he is always purring.

Oh.

Wow.

We are probably going to bring a lot of people in.

That is.

It is cats.

It is friendly cats.

You know.

This is almost the opposite of everything you hear about cats, Pugsley.

Now we do, I think, a pretty darn good job around here covering Guinness World Records.

You know, that's something we like to share with our audience and we have fun with and

have heard from the audience for years how much you guys like hearing about these.

Right.

There's a reason we keep doing it.

But I will say, I don't know how many of these, it feels like everyone we do, it comes

up later and this guy has 20 world records and he was spending months and months doing this

working at it and everything and I don't have anything against that.

But I, I don't know, those don't mean as much to me as stuff like this where it just

happens.

You know, it's just organic.

It just kind of happens.

It was like, huh.

I wonder what the record for the longest tale, you know, that kind of thing and hey,

we found out.

It's your cat.

And I feel very confident that it's never happened because kids pushed it.

Like the mom wasn't, the adults weren't really like, oh, that's a nice little story.

Oh, that's interesting.

They didn't really think much about this.

The kids would not let this go and just as similar as, are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

They were badgering mom about this and fight and look what happens, you know, it's kind

of cool.

It's an interesting story and fantastic and right up north of us here in Minnesota, we see

that.

Hello to our friends up there.

They don't own any rocking chairs.

I'm just going to put that on.

You look nice.

Yes.

No rocking chairs in that house.

Definitely right about that.

That's one of those ones where the cat leaves the room and you still got to give it a minute.

Like wait, wait, you ever, you ever followed somebody with long coattails or a long dress?

Like it's like that where you're just waiting five minutes until they go.

And there they go.

Yes.

Man, you don't want to be the one to step on that.

You do not want to be that one.

April Fool's Day means it is once again time for brands to get in on the fun with cheeky

corporate capers, including hot sauce, sunscreen, ranch flavored soda, and a $19 fruit snack.

As we kind of wrap this story up, there's one more one to get to.

Some of this year's most notable corporate jargon was crunchy Nestle Crunch Bar, Dr.

Pepper flavored tic tacs.

And of course the grass covered keyboard we talked about with Yahoo, we did.

But the silent crunch bar, we did not get to mention the silent crunch bar.

Nestle, one of the masters of chocolate, introduced a new silent crunch bar, which uses cooked

rice for 75% less noise than the standard crispy rice and chocolate treat.

Because not all heroes wear capes.

Some just cook their rice first.

That is a tagline for the next Marvel movie.

Oh no, I'm telling you, the idea of cooked rice and chocolate is not appetizing at all.

Oh man, when it comes to companies doing almost too good at this, maybe no better example

than Dr. Pepper flavored tic tacs.

No, I got an issue with this one, okay.

That one is not that far.

Do you remember James, my friend, back in maybe middle school or high school age, that kind

of thing?

Dr. Pepper lip smacker, that is not far from Dr. Pepper tic tacs, I am telling you.

Well, and I mean, I imagine that that's something people would actually, I think people

would buy that.

Yeah.

I mean, that was not so far on an limb for tic tacs on that one.

Hot sauce company, Tabanero, Harold did the arrival of the Caspian, Caspian can infused

sunscreen to keep you safe from sunburn while also giving your skin plenty of heat to

complain about.

I like that was just right in the thing there.

That's a pretty good one.

Oh, it's so hot.

Why are you in the sun?

No.

There's sunscreen.

It's hot.

There's been some other thing.

I grabbed the wrong leg.

Let's take a call.

Good morning around the show.

I had Dr. Pepper flavored lip smackers.

Nice.

Yes.

Yes, see?

Yeah.

No, exactly what we're talking about.

Would you do the tic tacs?

I will check through what you're talking about.

Yes, I would absolutely do the tic tacs.

See?

Dr. Pepper flavored tic tacs, absolutely.

There's something about the Dr. Pepper flavor in these things and it's also really unique.

That's true.

It's this particular soda.

I don't know if you can do it with every soda, but it's like an amaretto flavor.

It's like an amaretto flavor.

A little cherry maybe.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's hard to say what it is.

Yeah.

A Korean almond.

So for those of us over 21, that can drink.

If you want a Dr. Pepper, smack in your mouth, order a Dr. Pepper amaretto the next time

you're at the bar.

There you go.

There's a preview of our new segment of, no, no, no.

Good morning, boys.

I'm on my way back to Wisconsin Rapids.

This is Melissa K.

Safe travels, Mel.

Yeah.

An amazing work last night.

Yes.

Really, really good work last night.

We know what you had to go through.

Well, I was just looking through our stations here on my drive back.

And I caught you guys talking about lip smackers.

And I had to call in and tell you about my collection that I had in high school.

Oh, you had a collection.

Oh, my goodness, yes.

And you know, I got my purse stolen in my early 20s.

And the thing I was the most upset about was losing my chapstick collection.

I probably had like 15 of them in my purse.

Oh, my gosh.

Did you still collect them?

Do you still?

No, I mean, it's a reduced collection now.

Yeah.

I have my purse chapstick.

I have my knitting kit bag chapstick.

I have my work desk chapstick.

You know, there's specific chapsticks for specific places.

But you've definitely slowed down.

You've definitely slowed down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the obsession.

I've gotten my obsession under control.

I come across a Dr. Pepper chapstick.

I'm absolutely buying it.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

They got to sell it.

They've got to do it now.

They're not going to be on the lookout, Mel.

But you guys, when I go to my dentist, this is actually, this is where I get my chapstick fixed now.

When I go to my dentist, as part of dental, they always give me a chapstick.

And there's choices.

And I think I got like a pineapple mango this last time.

Ooh, I like that.

It had me have anything pineapple.

They source them locally.

And so they're like locally made chapsticks.

And they have a variety of options, usually what I'm there.

And they're always different.

It's so awesome.

I love going to my dentist.

I don't know if I've ever heard that sentence before.

I got this as awesome.

I love going to my dentist.

That's great, Melissa.

That's really great to hear.

I think I get to go this week.

Have fun.

Yes, you'll let us know what new flavor we got going on.

I hope I get Melissa for the White Elephant next year.

You know what you're getting?

Yep, yep.

We appreciate you, Melissa.

And great work again last night.

You too.

You too.

Incredible work by Melissa K.

Our head of news around here.

And we appreciate her.

We are going to take a quick time out and get to our news partner.

And we'll get to Melissa.

And sports in our partner break.

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Have a warm day, everybody.

Yeah.

Let's talk cars.

All right.

Talk some cars, man.

Let's talk some cars.

Yeah.

JD Power has released its 2025 US vehicle dependent dependability study.

Okay.

Which analyzed the durability of three-year-old cars from the model year of 2022.

Okay.

Interesting parameter there.

Yes.

Yes.

The basics.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lexus has the top ranking brand for a third consecutive year.

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

Okay.

Of all 30 brands, Volkswagen ranked last.

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

What's going on with the Germans, man?

What is?

They used to be like the standard of car engineering and now they're all on the bottom.

Not sure what that means, but.

Interesting note.

Tesla wasn't included in the rankings because they wouldn't cooperate, but they would have been below the industry average.

Of course they would have been.

What a silly thing to fight against.

One of the greatest phrases I've ever heard in my life and that I live by is choose your battles wisely.

And then there's the opposite of that of what anything this guy does.

Choose every battle.

This guy has such a...

It lives in such a bubble and has so many yes men around him that he doesn't realize that if he did nothing it would actually be better.

Absolutely.

And that's not far fetch.

I'm saying that with all honesty.

It's just remarkable to me.

I don't...

You know, he just gets his actual career of being a sad clown.

That's what he really needs to do.

He needs to be a sad clown.

Oh, I cannot see it.

Oh, every time I see him that's the first thing I'm going to think of now is a sad clown without the makeup.

Oh, that's good.

Oh, there you go.

That's not even trying to be mean.

I'm just being honest.

I've never been at the place of what it is about his face.

That's it.

It looks like a sad clown.

Not the makeup.

That's hilarious.

I'm curious too.

If anybody pays attention to these things, when you're buying a vehicle, do you look this stuff up?

I'm generally asking that's not me like trying to set something up here or anything like that.

I really do wonder.

I've bought in about five or six vehicles in my life and I've never really looked at new vehicles.

It's always been used vehicles or calling somebody up or as you do like Craigslist or these kind of things.

I'll tell you this.

My next car coming from a dealership.

Tell you that right now.

I don't know.

That's probably wise.

I don't know what my next vehicle is going to be, but it'll definitely be coming from a dealership.

I learned my lesson.

But I'm curious if people do look at these things a little bit.

I'm curious or not.

Let's talk to our audience.

Craigslist.

Be connected to a Google.

Oh.

I now see.

I thought that was going to be something good.

I really did.

That's a bum.

Hey, Google thing or whatever you are.

Google learning argument.

We don't need you.

And again, further evidence.

Do we have nothing to worry about with AI or anything that we get evidence every day

or paying attention?

It's true.

That's what AI just did.

They called a boarding radio show to try to sell Google something.

Whatever it was.

Way to go AI.

Speaking of that though.

One of the industries that I do think could be helped by AI is the car industry.

And a lot of the way.

I don't mean like making our vehicles all tech.

Right.

I know what you mean.

But the idea of so much opinion goes into building.

So much thought goes into building.

For every great thing that involves a human creativity.

The no machine could ever match.

There is stuff that we kind of need less emotions with.

And just straight up, hey, this is working.

This isn't.

Right.

AI is very good at that.

That would be an interesting application.

And you know, I've never really heard, not heard a lot about that side of it.

Which would, what's that be interesting to see?

By the way, so Lexus is number one, right?

Toyota owns Lexus.

Which I think is really interesting seeing how Toyota is actually lower on the list.

Yes.

Yeah.

Unless they, because it's a more of a luxury car, I guess.

They put more into it, maybe.

I don't know.

But I also was a little surprised by some of the rankings of these.

The thing that stood up to me, you hit on right away about Volkswagen

and the German industry.

The German building.

Right.

It's owned by a German company, yeah.

That's wild to think of that industry getting them getting passed by.

No pun intended.

That's just crazy.

I don't know.

When I was a kid, I would have thought that.

No.

No.

I mean, you think of the BMWs and Mercedes and Volkswagen, yeah?

Which were considered the standard boy.

How the mighty have fallen.

I don't know if I saw it in a James Bond movie or what.

Because there's no way where I grew up and how I grew up.

I ever saw one in real life.

But when I was a kid, you know, I think a lot of people have their dream car.

It usually comes from your matchbox collection.

Absolutely.

And I had like most of you out there.

I had a great matchbox car collection.

The general lead car collection.

Yes, there we go.

Because it was orange.

No, you don't have to worry about opening the doors.

Yeah, it's a fair smoother.

That's much.

I didn't go in through the windows.

In and out.

Why would you do that?

Anyway, sorry.

But Jaguars.

I had a little matchbox car Jaguars.

And I thought it was amazing.

And part of it was my grandfather telling me about how German design,

Italian or no Italian design German engine.

And how important that German engine part was.

And you know, just hearing the rest of my life from that point on

about how great the Germans were at the industry making vehicles.

Engineering and that sort of thing.

Yeah.

Really wild to think of them getting lapped.

Yeah, that's wild to me to think of.

I wouldn't have thought of that.

It's crazy.

Interesting list.

What's more interesting to me, or at least to me about this,

is does anybody pay attention to these lists?

Does anybody other than the people in the industries, of course.

Right, right.

Well, and you know, I would think you would want to, you know,

if you were looking for dependent, boy, you know,

because of how expensive cars are nowadays.

Or if like you said, you know, you're looking for a used car.

Well, which one is going to be more durable?

Which one's going to last longer for me,

even though it's been on the road already for a while.

And that's another way you're going to choose, you know,

why you want, because I can't think of people

who wouldn't want a durable vehicle.

That would be very weird.

Something that I've heard, and this isn't from people

in the sell in the vehicle industry.

It's some of my friends in sales and marketing.

And people I talk to in media in that regard.

And I'll admit, these people are stationed out in west.

So that varies.

That may change it a little bit.

Sure.

One of the things that I've found interesting talking to them

is how much the car industry is still hanging on by your thread.

In many ways.

Going back to when they were bought out decade ago.

Still on that.

And the idea of what do you do next?

We've made the joke for years.

And the new 2026 Mazda's coming out.

And it looks just like the 2026 Chrysler.

And the 2026 Lexa.

I mean, they all look the same now.

Every vehicle looks alike.

And because they're so afraid of trying something different.

They're so afraid of making something and it bombing.

So instead of taking any, any even slight chance.

They're going to do the status quo.

And that has a shelf life.

And we're seeing it.

Yeah.

And we're seeing it right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right now.

If you want to look worldwide.

Okay.

Especially with electric vehicles.

Everyone else is being slaughtered by the Chinese right now.

Because they're the only ones that have invested in it.

Yeah.

And now they're selling them like hot cakes in Europe.

This is the reason why people.

This is why.

Because there's no innovation.

Like you just said, man, there's nothing new under the sun.

Hey.

If you want to go for it, you know, I mean, you know, for every failure, there's a success.

Yeah.

It's not as if, you know, any any famous car I can mention right now.

A Mustang or any of these came out the gate and best sellers.

It took time.

It took them to build and everything.

Right.

And one of the interesting things coming out of the marketing industry that I'm hearing

though is people trying to add parity, of course, as we always see, and seeing the business

model of Amazon and return policies and the idea that industries you would have never

thought would have this are going to have this.

And I, um, the talk that came up of this, the first industry was the car industry.

Right.

And the idea that you could buy a car and if you don't like it a week later, return it.

Right.

Like, that's wild to me.

But they're really, that we're on the cusp of that.

I don't know if it's going to happen, but we're on the cusp of it because these industries

are scrambling, trying to figure out what they have to do.

To do it.

Yeah.

Right.

Some guy on TikTok went viral with a list of four ways you might be pumping your gas

wrong.

And, and you know, take this with a grain of salt, of course, but for everything that might

be seen a little silly, there might be something that might help be a tip for you or whatever.

And for so many of us that have been doing this since we were kids, because I don't know

if anybody out there, but man, any chance my dad had to send me out to the Chicago winter

to fill up the tank.

I was doing it.

Soon.

I don't want to get out.

Because I learned.

This is how you learn.

It was always disguised by that.

Yeah.

So you learned.

You know, if you hear that from your parents, be something is suspect.

Yes.

So, fill up in the morning or at night, he says, gas expands when it's warm.

So you get a little more for your, for your money when it's cold out, okay?

You won't save enough to retire, but it won't hurt.

Now, in theory, yes, but don't worry about it.

Consumer reports tested it out, and it only saves you a few cents at best.

Yeah.

Gas stations store fuel underground where the temperature doesn't fluctuate much.

Right.

So there's not really a huge difference.

No.

Because the gas itself wouldn't have changed.

Yeah, that's right.

I will say this as working at gas stations for a couple of years.

One thing I will say that they get right is get your gas in the morning.

Because prices tend to go up.

They don't tend to go down.

And when they do, it happens in the mid afternoon or early, late morning, early,

mid afternoon.

It's during the day, yeah.

So, you know, getting it done in the morning usually can save you a little bit.

And for me, the other day, I went and got gas at $2.99 when I'm driving home after the

shows here.

$3.30.

Yeah.

So $0.30 a gallon, I mean, you know, that's the stuff that adds up.

Put the nozzle clip on the lowest setting.

He says it's worth the wait because the faster you pump, the more it turns to vapor.

The gas pumps have, quote, vapor return lines that suck it back in so it doesn't end up

in your tank.

And again, maybe, but we're talking pennies, your time is worth, might be worth more.

So, you know, the hurry part might be more.

Yeah, exactly.

What's the trade off, right?

Don't wait until your tank is empty.

Now this one, any, any Papa, grandfather, dad has been telling us this for a very long

time.

We're actually here in the Midwest where we know that our cars may not start if it's

too low.

Right.

Exactly.

You're tanking freeze.

Always, you hear it every year before winter.

It's like, make sure you have at least a half a tank, you know, when it gets really cold.

This gentleman claims a gas evaporates faster when there's more air in there.

But again, it doesn't make a huge difference.

The real reason to follow the advice of gas tanks have sediment at the bottom.

And when your tank is low, more of it can clog up your filters.

Oh, that makes sense.

Okay.

You always ride with at least half a tank, just not for the reason this guy says.

Right.

Okay.

So this guy isn't coming at this from a bad angle, necessarily.

No, just feel like it's something.

It's nothing really that groundbreaking.

It's no earth shattery stuff here.

And don't gas up when a tank or truck is there.

Huh?

Again, it's not a big deal.

But those underground tanks have sediment too.

And it gets stirred up each time they filled their filled.

It could mean more gunk gets in your system, but your car has a fuel filter and gas stations

have filters too.

If you want to be extra careful, hit a different station, but it may not make that big of a difference.

Nothing here is like this is like little dinky stuff.

There's nothing here that's, yeah, yeah, and this is why this is why when you see something

on social media, you know, verify, verify, verify, I'm hopeful that maybe some of this

might be a helpful tip or might be interesting to some, but it is really hitting on what

you're talking about there too, like pennies on the dollar stuff, yeah.

And this guy's gone incredibly viral with this.

Yeah.

It's like, you know, I just don't take everything you hear, do a little bit of homework.

And it's probably other ways you can save a few bucks, not by trying to game the gas pump,

right?

Now that we would love to hear from you.

We would love to hear from our audience about that one, and different tips you got

for that.

Everybody.

The phone lines are always open.

715-424-2600.

Mm-hmm.

Otherwise, Seth and I are going to take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the show Morning Show at WFHR.

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looking like.

I wanted that ain't right story in a while, Seth.

This is a doozy.

This may go down as one of the more classic ones.

Imagine you're flying overseas.

You got to the airport early.

Made your flight.

Everything is rolling for you.

You are doing this.

You are killing this.

You are nailing it.

And you're on a United Airlines flight from LA to Shanghai and it had to turn around.

Oh no.

Over the Pacific.

Oh no.

And why?

Because a pilot forgot his passport.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Want to get away?

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

What I'm trying to do.

No.

No.

It was already set to be a 14 hour flight.

Then they turned around about an hour and 45 minutes in.

Then landed in San Francisco to swap out the crew.

They got the San Fran about three hours after taking off from LA.

Passengers were told they'd been a crew, quote, crew-related issue.

But they didn't hear about the passport until later.

They waited around for five hours before finally taking off again.

They ended up landing in Shanghai about six hours late.

Wow.

United reportedly gave each passenger a $15 meal voucher for their trouble.

I'm sure that made it all okay.

So my dad ate right story is certainly the pilot for forgetting the one thing you're not

supposed to forget as a pilot.

You're the pilot.

You're the pilot.

You're the pilot.

But it actually is a bigger than a right story about United Airlines.

Man.

It's, I would almost rather than if this happened to me, don't do anything.

If this is what you're going to do, don't even do anything.

That would be better than the slap in the face of a $15 meal, not even a free meal, a $15

free meal voucher.

Talk about how can you show your lesson touch with your consumers.

Yeah.

So a lot of touch.

I mean, these companies are killing the airline industry.

Yeah.

They're killing it.

This is my argument about like people that only franchise, a sports franchise.

If you're not in the black, you're doing it wrong.

You're bad at business.

Yeah.

We've reached the point now with the airline industry.

Well, I'm going to talk specifically in the United States here.

We need to just, we need to rip the bandaid off.

We need to nationalize the whole thing.

Yeah.

And maybe later, after we've organized and gotten this thing back to where it should

be, maybe we can, you know, get rid of it and send a private interest again.

But it is so bad right now.

It has gotten to the point where it's, it's, I don't want to fly anymore.

I do not want to fly anymore because we've got the issues with the Boeing planes.

We've got, you know, experience, you know, I've heard horror stories from everybody about

traveling on, on a plane these days, you know, on delays and cancellations and stuff.

I've experienced it myself recently.

It's, it's, it's horrible.

It's awful.

I've heard a little bit of rumblings about this over the last couple of years, but I have

to say one that really stood out to me.

I've mentioned my friend Will.

He's the standard comedian out west.

He has a thing where every other month, he heads to Vegas and does a weekend stay there.

He's looking at trains, buses, he's thinking about driving from Oakland to Vegas instead

of taking a plane.

And that was a real, because Will has been flying literally his whole life, right, either

out of aliex or wherever he's coming from.

And in flying is nothing to him, a flown with him.

And it's nothing to him.

He couldn't just sleep through the whole flight, all that.

For him and people like him that really rely on the airline industry so much, for them

to be taking a step back, just really stood out to him.

He can't rely on it anymore.

You can't do it.

And, and I, this is, as my own personal note on this one, I, this, like it just hurts

in a wake.

I love flying.

Right.

I really do enjoy the like transportation in general element, taking a train, riding horse

back.

I love these things.

Sure.

I'm flown probably 10, 15 times, but I still don't feel like I've done it enough.

Now I don't know if I'll ever do it again.