The Fastest Weinies in the (Mid)West

Good morning, Wizcats.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

I am joined by Heter Production, our co-host, Seth Tabhacker.

Good morning, and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being with us, everybody.

I'm Seth, and I got a bunch of great show to get to, but we want to kick things off

talking to our good friend, Brittany Merlot, a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

How are you doing today?

Good morning.

I'm sitting in front of my space heater right now.

Good place to be.

I was really taken back by the cold of yesterday, and you warned us, and I took that in consideration

and still wasn't ready for it.

Yes.

Yeah, those waves were just whipping, too.

I was trying to drive on the highway, and it was just blowing me around to the different

lanes.

It was pretty vicious.

Thankfully, the winds are much calmer today.

They're still feisty around 25 miles per hour, but that's a little bit more tolerable.

Less of a windshield on top of highs today that are only scraping the low fifties once

again.

So still crisp, cool, dark, damp, raw.

There's a good word I'm using because it just feels so cool and raw and gross, the

light rain continuing on and off throughout the day today.

Even it's tonight, it's still possible, all the good quarter of an inch is likely, and

then it stops overnight.

Clouds are clear, and we will wake up to some sunshine tomorrow and warmer temperatures

getting about 60, finally, with warmer, but 60 will feel better than about mid-40.

We'll take it.

Yeah, 100%.

We'll definitely take it, though.

It's as if we're a couple of months ago, and we were just looking for anything close

today's weather to cut it back to that a little, and it's looking like we should have

some ups and downs here.

That is Wisconsin weather.

We're ready for that.

Brittany, I have a natural transition to go from weather into our opening topic that Seth

and I are about to get into flying cars.

Now I don't think any of us ever would have thought those two worlds would combine, but

because I had this story lined up right away to talk about after we got done hanging

out with you, Brittany, it did get me thinking.

Because I kind of made my claim on this hill that I don't think we're ready for flying

cars.

That's a society.

I don't think we've earned them yet.

I don't think we're ready for that.

That's an opinion.

I don't have any, I'm just taking that as an opinion, but I've never thought about the

weather in flying cars, and that feels like a whole other factor to worry about.

Yeah, it does.

I don't know lightning.

There's a handful of things that I never thought about until just by chance these two subjects

kind of colliding here and everything.

Yes, but of a good, interesting topic.

Actually, I saw a flying car for sale that you could actually buy at Ashkash EAA Air

Adventure last year.

I was intrigued.

I was like, okay, wait, I can order this right now, but they definitely have their limits.

They can't go very high, there's definitely rules, and you do have to get practically almost

a meteorology degree.

You do need to learn some other forecasting in order to fly that in a private pilot's

license.

Wow.

I didn't even thought about that part of it, too.

It's not just that you would probably need a driver's license, but a pilot's license,

too, to be able to do that.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Think about all of that, my gosh, and you know what, if you're traveling by car or plane

or flying car, you still don't want to go anywhere in Newark.

You just want to stay away from Newark, just get out there.

And avoid the Dan Ryan in Chicago, really, really, I know what I'm talking about with

that one.

I do it.

I'll stay on the ground.

I will be one of those people like that person, you know, who was the last person to start

using the internet.

Oh, the last one with the cell phone, right?

Yeah.

That is, I love flying, but not in the car, no, right?

Pretty, we appreciate it.

It would be so cool to kick it in, though, and then just go right above all that stop

traffic on the day of Ryan and just go right above and hover right above and pass it.

That would be cool.

It would.

I'm immediately thinking of Star Wars when they jump to light speed and that'll cool

that.

I mean, that's hit me since I was a little kid.

So, yeah, you got me.

You got me.

I'll do it.

We have a good morning, pretty.

Thanks for joining us.

You too.

Best of the business right there, pretty low money.

Putting up with me and all of our fun stuff, we do all the silliness, let's silliness.

Seth and I are going to continue talking cars and not only flying cars in a moment, but

the Weenermobile is racing at the Indianapolis 500.

I didn't know this, yeah.

Getting to that a little bit later.

They've changed the aerodynamics a little bit, I guess.

It's going to, they're really, the ratings have been rough.

So they're trying to think they cut.

We've got the, how many barbecues the average American can expect to attend this summer?

Or host?

Okay.

Got all that coming up.

Got some great entertainment news for you and not only to kick off the 10 o'clock

hour, but after we dive into some interesting notes and news and stuff, I want to get into

with you Seth, ABC, NBC and Fox and they're upcoming schedule and some really interesting

stuff that's going on with that and cable and streaming.

We're going to dive into that a little bit before our news break.

I heard it is something interesting about Fox just recently about what they have for

programming on their network and it's really fascinating to me where the networks are

at at this point.

We'll be getting into all of that, but as I mentioned with you and Brittany, the first

mass produced flying car will go on sale earlier next year.

But even if you get a good deal on financing, it's got a hefty price tag.

A company in Slovakia called Klein Vision says its new air car will cost a very reasonable

$800,000.

Very reasonable.

Up to a million if you add upgrades like seat belts.

No, no.

No cup holders.

See, see those cup holders.

Seat belts, one million.

That's a million bucks for a seat belt.

Even if you can afford it, you might not want one.

It's technically a flying car, but not the hover car we were promised back to the future

and all that.

As Brittany was just touching on, it's really cool that she saw that and everything in person

and everything.

It's basically just a sports car with retractable wings and a propeller in the back.

So you can't lift off in traffic, you still need a runway in a pilot's license.

Of course.

It transforms into an aeroplane in under two minutes, has a range of 621 miles and

the top cruising speed of 155 miles an hour at about 18,000 feet.

So before I just completely be sarcastic and all that with this and everything, I do

want to note the advancement of that.

It's very cool.

The human brain and what we accomplished and the things that we do.

We've normalized it since we landed on the moon.

Ever since then, everything has been kind of normalized.

And I don't like that we do that so much.

I think this stuff is amazing.

It's really cool that we've created a flying car as cool as it was we created planes.

It's as cool as we've made flying so darn normalized.

It's not a big deal for most of the people in the audience here if either flown or at least

know somebody who's flown.

All these things are not normal.

It's amazing what we've accomplished as human beings.

It's also noteworthy that the technology has lapped us and you don't need much more

proof of that than the fact that you just take a look at society and whatever angle you

want to look at it.

Kids looking at screens too much.

Kids not looking at this too much enough are AI or any of these other conversations that

we have.

We're fixing the boat on the water.

We're in the middle of that right now.

And I think you can do both things at once.

You can marvel at man.

We have a conversation really, really cool things and that is awesome for sure and go

humans.

All right.

Way to go humans.

Team humans raw raw.

At the same time.

Well, then, yeah, that's the thing, right?

We get unfettered, you know, anything, we need to take a step back on a lot of these things.

Because we don't know all the applications, right?

I mean, we see that this, well, I mean, we're not going to get into the mass AI delusion

that's going on right now.

But something like, you know, even the self-driving cars, I mean, we're so far away with those

two kind of things and we've hit kind of a weird cycle now where we're getting a lot

more hype than anything that's actually being produced.

Yeah.

It used to follow the other way, right?

Apple comes out with the iPhone, you know, they're like, yeah, this is going to, you

know, maybe change the world, you know, something like that and it sort of did and that kind

of thing is really cool.

But they didn't do it beforehand.

Yeah.

They didn't say, make all these gigantic claims about it, like it's where we're at with

especially AI now.

I mean, just insane.

I would like the idea, too, of us being able to really get these things hammered down

before releasing 100%.

100%.

Let's take a phone call.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Good morning, game.

Hey, good morning.

What are you doing?

What's the big deal about buying cars to Justin's head no problem?

Extremely good point by you.

That is a really strong point.

You got it.

You got me there.

You're right.

Yeah.

You know, Jetsons made it work.

They were all right.

I'm on board.

I'm on board with the Jetsons.

As long as it makes that sound.

That's what I want.

I want that sound.

You got to have what was the dog's name again?

Astro.

Astro.

Yes.

Yes.

You got to have a great dog with you like Astro.

That makes it help a lot.

Appreciate the fact.

Great.

Yes.

Good stuff.

It's always good to talk to you.

But have a great morning.

Big shout out to all of our friends over there.

Yeah.

That was great.

A good point.

A fair point.

You got the Jetsons.

The flying cars will hit the sky at early 2026, at least in Europe.

They're hoping to get them approved in the US this fall.

It depends on who they put money in the pocket of.

Yeah, right.

I don't know.

Well, they come with bags of cash to the right people.

Oh, there'll be no problem getting it in here.

Here's the other part of this.

This company's client vision is not one

of the big manufacturers.

They're going to want their piece of the pie.

I would imagine if they're smart about this, at least.

I mean, that's just innovation.

That's just business.

I would imagine that all the big car companies that

are left, whatever's left, with those are certainly

going to want their piece of the pie.

Because this is going to be cutting into that.

This is definitely going to come into that.

Once this is established and everything,

and if it even gets legalized here in the States.

Who knows?

Who knows?

It's odd when you look at certain things

that Europe or other countries are,

you could say for lack of a better word, harder on than we are,

and then things that we are that they aren't.

And the way that works, it's just interesting.

It's weird how that works sometimes.

I don't know.

I have, you guys go right ahead, though.

If you guys, I will be the last guy on the ground.

If you're interested, go right ahead, yeah.

I got all the parking spots back.

I get all the great parking spots that way.

You guys can have the skies.

I'll take all the good parking spots down here.

Instead of a car, let's work on a really useful jet pack.

Let's do that instead.

I'm curious about, actually, none of this stuff

is going to work without, what till we figure out the any,

a theory of gravity.

Anyone, anyone theory of gravity?

Maybe we can do anti-grab?

No.

Then things so.

The idea of jet packs has always been one of the most

science-fiction things in the world to be absent.

You are so right, man.

Just watch anything back in the, that old cereal

back in the 30s, Commando Cody or whatever

is the Commander Cody or whatever.

And then even like the rocket tier, you know,

in that movie.

Yes.

Their legs should be fried off.

They're losing like jet fluid.

There's just no way.

There's no way.

You'd have to be like a very short human being

with a very long jet pack.

Exactly.

And even then, I'm not sure how you land.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Sorry.

I think that jet packs may be the last of all the science

fiction things that we get to, we may be time traveling

before they're a jet pack.

By the time we get to jet packs, we'll have like

perfected like transporter, you know, you know, like

transporting people, you know, from place to place.

And we won't even need them anymore.

They'll be like a hobby thing.

That's how it's going to work.

The flying cars, the jet packs, all that stuff's going to

happen like we're not even going to care.

Yeah, it's like, yeah, who cares?

I can transport myself to France right now.

Right?

It's like the alien thing.

Like the UFO, like a couple years ago, like pretty much

admitted and not pretty much they did.

And in fact, yeah, these what I did, I'm not

identified flying objects.

Yeah.

Practically, you were supposed, nobody cared.

Nobody said a darn thing.

It's, you know, one of those things.

You A.I.'s, by the way, it's unidentified aerial phenomena

now.

Yes.

Get it right.

I don't want to get in trouble.

I don't want to get in trouble.

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Guess us that one.

We can get right into it.

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I'm very nice, happy birthday.

Waukeshaw.

Or we may have?

Waukeshaw.

It's Waukeshaw.

It's Waukeshaw.

Yeah.

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Enjoy your day, sir.

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59 years.

That's amazing.

Wishing you guys the best of days and enjoy your anniversary.

It's a Wednesday, you're halfway through the weekend.

Just right into the weekend.

Yeah.

Just keep it going, man.

Keep it going.

And take time off.

Don't you know if you tell your bosses?

No.

We have your permission.

That's all you need to do.

Yeah.

Anybody says anything like look, the DJs on the radio told us

that we could do it.

We told you you could do it.

And celebrating their 31st anniversary,

Jeffrey and Judy Neiman.

Oh, another anniversary.

Congratulations, you guys.

Wishing you guys a fantastic anniversary in your own

qualifiers today.

Yeah.

Let's go ahead and take a quick phone call.

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Happy anniversary to Jeffrey and Judy.

Our qualifiers have been 31st years.

Yes, absolutely.

Let's see who you're sharing your birthday with you guys.

Taking a look at our celebrity list.

You know, this is one of those times

where I did not get a chance to pre-read this.

Oh, OK.

Cody Johnson is 38.

I just almost walked into one man.

Cody Johnson is 38, country singer.

I saw him on American Idol Finale

and dirt cheap, one of those songs.

Yes, he's got.

Let's see here.

Josh Hamilton is 44 former Cincinnati Reds Outfielder.

A lot of possibilities with him early in his career.

Boy, go check out a story.

Yeah.

He has an amazing story.

He was a prospect.

I believe for the raise, he was a highly touted prospect.

He unfortunately has a lot of issues with drugs

and was out of baseball for a while

and then made his way back.

Yeah, he came back since an anti,

but then he really had a run there with the Texas Rangers

in the late 2000, early 20 teens

when there are two World Series appearances.

Yeah, yeah, what a story.

There's few athletes that I was rooting more for than him,

just in him turning it around and doing something positive

with the way things were for him.

Yes.

Goit.

A goit?

I can't remember how it's so.

45 for him, somebody that I used to know the big hit

that he had a couple of summers back and by that,

I mean, like 10 summers ago.

Yeah, that was a long time.

You don't.

It's always further away than you think, right?

It's always weird to me when sad songs like that,

because I don't know, maybe to some it isn't a sad song,

but to me, sad songs like that are hits.

Yeah, it's always interesting.

You're hot summer day, the radio, the pop stations playing

music and then that one comes out.

Yep.

I don't know.

The vibes down at the barbecue now.

Good singer and a very good song, still holds up, I think.

I don't think a lot of people might say this,

but I'm going to.

One of the stars of the 80s, Judd Reinhold is 68 today.

Judd Reinhold.

Man, he was a really good actor.

He was a very good actor.

Beverly Hills Cop, Fast Times at Richmont High.

I mean, he had a run there at the 80s.

I mean, a level of certain actors certainly.

No, but consistent one.

He was a go-to guy.

I mean, he maybe not like a star.

He wasn't a leading man, but he was like second banana,

like that second person.

He played like a villain or he played like a foil

or something like that.

But no, I always thought he was a really good actor.

He was the perfect contrast to Eddie Murphy

and I can't think of it the other actor

and Beverly Hills Cop.

Yeah.

Those three really made those movies for me.

They were interacting and all that, the different personalities.

And I think it was really good back then.

He also had a great guest spot of the rest development.

I agree.

Nice.

He played a judge.

Judge Judd Reinhold.

Oh, my God.

It was so good.

Seriously.

It was great.

A little too on the nose there, rest development.

He leaned right into it.

I'm sure he did.

He did.

I'm sure he did.

And everything didn't really good.

I pitted a fool that doesn't know Mr. T's birthday is today.

Woo!

73 for Mr. B.A. Barakas.

Oh, man.

Clepper Lang and Brocky Three.

Yeah.

He had a moment, you know?

He really did.

He had a decade.

He had a decade.

It's been in the 80s.

He was.

Boy, he might have been one of the biggest stars of the 80s.

He appeared everywhere.

He appeared everywhere, man.

He was like, he was in, yeah, wrestling for a while, you know.

He was like, what, like, Hulk Hogan's managers, something like that.

I can't remember what it was.

But yeah.

And of course, the A team, he was on, you know, they had a cartoon show where he was

like the lead.

Yeah.

I mean, he seized the moment and dies.

I love the fact that he's kind of hung around too.

It's great.

If you were, if you were sitting there and you were going to try to have the career that

Mr. T had, there's no way you could map that out.

No.

There's no way you could say, well, I'm going to do this, this, and this, and it's going

to lead to this, this, and this.

Everything he did and everything he was able to accomplish is really noteworthy in

this considering like, well, what was he, a stand-up comedian and actor?

And what exactly was he necessarily?

He really didn't have anything you could label.

He had a GI Joe guy, he was huge.

I'm telling you, man, you need right now, while not right now, but when the show is done,

everyone, you need to go out and look up the single he released, his anti-drug song,

oh my god, it is awesomeness plus, it's hilarious, oh man.

You may never do another bad thing again, after listening to it.

I also almost forgot Taxi, where he's really starting everything, the TV show Taxi.

He was in a movie, a car wash.

He was in car wash.

It was car wash.

It was car wash.

There you go.

That's a good movie.

A great movie.

Yeah.

A great movie, I don't care anybody says.

A great movie on that movie.

Richard Pryor.

Oh, man.

A lot of great actors in that one.

A lot of great cameos in that one.

Yeah, just, you know, and I do, if I have this right, I do believe a cancer survivor as

well, Mr. T.

In 73, still going strong, still going strong, and he does still have the mohawk and everything.

I still got the jeans, man.

And another 80 star, Al Franken is 74 today.

Former lead SNL writer, cast member, of course, former Minnesota Senator.

Yep, that's right.

Very, very interesting flip in his career, but actually kind of what we're seeing a lot

more now with entertainers, going really arcs, we're seeing it a lot, yeah.

I was a big Al Franken fan.

I didn't, he was the guy that I found, oh, you can be a writer and an actor on the show.

And one of my favorite all-time top five weekend update things is Al Franken's roving reporter

thing where he had all the technology on his back and all this stuff and the satellite.

He's, well, I'm trying to, if I stand right here, I gotta love those bits.

He picked his spots for acting.

I know he wasn't, he was featured on a few things.

And of course, a lot of people were remembering those two were small and his other, some

of his other characters.

But yeah, gosh darn it.

I'm good enough.

I'm smart enough.

And people like me.

Exactly.

See?

Such a good character.

Yep.

Ron of the Isle is 84 today, lead singer of the Isle of Brothers.

Oh.

No, one of those.

One of the great underrated bands, man, they had such a long career too.

Oh, love the Isle of some of my favorite stuff.

Even now we're talking about Harmony's earlier, and there's another one right there with

some other.

And people no longer with us, like Christopher Wallace born in this day in 1972.

Most people will remember him as an notorious B.I.G.

Oh, yes.

Very, very talented rapper.

Right.

Yep.

I don't think that anybody will ever, nobody ever got to see the real artist that he could

be.

No.

He got, he got associated with Sean Combs and that's what I'm going to call.

I'm not going to call him Puffy or PDD or whatever he wants to call.

He's a monster.

I was going to say, I'll be hopefully, soonly convicted.

How about that?

Yeah.

I get so tired, especially in sports, but I get tired of people needing a pad on the back

all the time.

This is the one time I will be a hypocrite, and I had this one from the very get-go.

I had no idea how evil he was, but I had no idea, yeah.

Right from the get-go could see a pander and see everything I say about country music

game, but these guys that are just pandering, they're not real, they're not really what

they are singing about.

Puffy is, Sean was the same thing.

And he got latched on to real talent in notorious B.I.J. and to Sean because for Wallace, who

was a really talented, great young rapper who got caught up in a lot of stuff that I don't

think he really wanted to be involved with.

No.

If you listen, he's one of the more, if you can kind of get past some of the, you know,

the lyrics that he did and kind of in that whole genre, that gangster thing, he had

very thoughtful lyrics.

He was actually a very deep, you know, he was a very deep person and you, you can see

that in his lyrics.

I would have been fascinated to see where he would have gone had he survived because-

I think Ghostbump's thing.

I think he would have been something really remarkable.

I was such a two-pot guy.

I did not listen to a lot of his stuff, but I did later on after his passing and warning

skies, the limit, those are two stories.

He was a storyteller when he was allowed to be, when he wasn't by, you know, Sean.

You have to do this.

You have to do glitz and glam or all that stuff and everything.

I don't think that's what he was really about.

And it's a shame.

It's a darn shame.

Now, I say all this and if you, if we're doing this show in New York, that's the greatest

rapper of all time.

That they will not, they will not budge on that one.

That's fine.

And it's funny to me because New Yorkers can be like that about their own and I get it.

With that one, it's different.

It's not an ego thing.

It's a pride thing.

They're proud of him being from there and that.

It's one of those interesting things that I think for all the, you know, stuff that is

in media is talked about and this is coming up very right now with the New York Knicks

and them being on the rise and them being good for the first time in 20 some years.

The, the, you know, New York, the New Yorker and the New York fan and how you look at

those and some people, you know, they've got no time for it or anything like that.

And I think some of us are also, it's romanticized in some way in certain generations.

It is.

And it goes to him too.

You know what?

I kind of hope the Knicks do do something this year because then they'll finally stop

talking about.

Yeah.

Well, maybe they won't freak out after everyone just winning a playoff game.

No, maybe they just, they have some wins here and everything.

They won't make such a big deal out of them.

New Yorkers had big old settle down just, just settle down everybody.

And Richard Hatch in born in 1945, Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Oh my gosh.

The show that was, that never would have been canceled.

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in.

My beloved Al Stewart.

Got it.

It's been a while since you put some out in there.

I know it has.

I was happy to restrain myself.

It was good of you.

Nice of you to do it.

Earlier, Seth and I were talking a little bit about flying cars and stuff, but that craziness.

Well, I don't know if that, this story is crazier or than, or than that one.

Okay.

You guys decide you let us know through the Civic Media app or feel free to call them.

The Wiener Mobile is known for delivering on our, you don't need for hot dogs in terms

of this and everything.

Yeah.

But now it's also going to try to satisfy our need for speed.

The Indian, this is bad, that's bad.

How is terrible.

Indianapolis 500 is this Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

And this year, as part of the festivities, there will be a Wieny 500 featuring all six

of the Wiener mobiles.

There's six of them.

Oh, I sort of remember vaguely recalling that to show where I went with this in my brain

immediately.

I wanted the same thing, but with all the Batmobiles.

Every version of the Batmobiles, I want to race with all of them.

Maybe they'll do that next year.

Yeah.

And the 100 is the first competitive race for the entire Wiener Mobile fleet.

And the first time all six vehicles have gathered in one place in over a decade.

Wow.

That's kind of cool, actually.

Did they steal this idea from the Sausage races?

You know, you and I are totally on the same page on this.

Not only should the Wiener mobiles be doing the Wieny 500 or whatever it is, the Sausages

need to drive the Wienes.

Yes.

That's what we need to do.

Yes.

We need to see a merging of the Wienes.

Yes, we do.

We need to do that.

I mean, then it would be perfect.

I love that crossover.

I love that.

I love that.

I don't pay attention to as much racing as I used to when I was a kid.

My uncle was really into it, so I watched some now and watched some racing.

And the Wieny 500 is my favorite one, I just, in part of the brick, there's something

about it.

Yeah, I wasn't talking about that.

You were talking to me about that, yeah.

I love that that's the finish line.

I love the history of that.

That's so much cool.

That looks unique and cool to me and everything.

I don't, I could see one and to be a part of this one because one of the bigger things

that's been going on in sports that we don't hear a lot of people talking about is the

ratings that have just been plummeting for NASCAR and with what's interesting to me about

it is, well, the ratings for that is really plummet and I'm talking about here in the States.

The ratings for here in the States for F1 and some of these others, I've shot up.

Yes.

And I didn't see that coming.

I didn't.

It is a bit surprising.

Yeah.

I'm with you on that.

So if you're wondering why you're going to be seeing this and other things like the

Wiener Mobil and crossover promotions and a lot of this, NASCAR is trying to survive

right now.

NASCAR is in that kind of a tough situation where it's not just that they have some bad ratings

or they've been having a bad run.

This is an American institution that is being really hurt right now by its own industry.

They keep messing with rules.

They keep messing with these drivers.

They're not treating the game right.

I'm telling you right now, because a lot of people don't know this.

They are in a lawsuit right now and NASCAR is an anti-monopoly lawsuit brought to them

by Michael Jordan.

Yep.

Yes.

By the way, did you know that you could privately bring an anti-trust suit against an industry?

Is it that cool?

It's just being honest with everybody.

I don't even know that.

But the fact that it's Michael Jordan.

I mean, wow, because I think people know he owns some NASCARs and stuff.

He's a big racing fan.

A Carolina bull.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So, I mean, and that is all part and parcel of what's going on with NASCAR and man, I don't

know if people understand how big F1 is in the world.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, the world over.

It is insanely popular.

I'm not surprised because their drivers are amazing.

The stuff that they do, it's amazing.

I didn't watch it, but they had a Netflix show about F1 that really helped with that

launching it more here in the States.

It's had a popularity in the States obviously for a long time, but it's just really grown

with the way they have learned to grow that sport.

Right.

We're in NASCAR.

Brings some races to the US, yeah.

Everything I've been talking about with sports with them taking the personalities out

of sports.

And they're like, you can't play a down in football or taking a bat in Major League Baseball

without taking a public relations class.

And okay, this is how you answer this question.

I answer this question.

Right.

And now there's no personalities in sports anymore and they killed it in NASCAR.

They destroyed it in NASCAR where they, all the Richard Petty's or any, even your

people that didn't watch NASCAR knew who Dale Earnhardt was.

Exactly.

I remember, you know, like in the early 2000s, I don't follow NASCAR at all, but I knew

a whole bunch of drivers because, you know, like ads and stuff like that.

I knew Matt Kenseth.

He's from Wisconsin, you know, so I knew that and, you know, Tony Stewart.

I knew these names.

I don't know anyone except for the old guys, you know, that are still racing.

I don't know any of them anymore.

I'm going to be honest with you, Seth.

Just keep this between us.

I didn't even know there was multiple Wiener mobiles.

I did.

So the, the, the representations here are the Chai Dog representing the Midwest and New York

Dog representing the East Coast, the Slaw Dog representing the Southeast, the Sonar,

Sonar and, uh, representing the Southwest, okay.

The Chili Dog representing the South and the Seattle Dog representing the Northwest.

Wait, Seattle Dog.

Yeah.

What is a Seattle Dog?

See, I don't even know what that is.

They just gave up at the end there.

They're like, we got a Seattle Dog.

We got to represent the Northwest somehow, making the Seattle Dog, but they just constant

rain over him and drinking coffee, the whole ride, the whole trip.

It's a very moist hot dog.

They say it'll, it'll also include custom hot dog or racing suits.

Nice.

A finish line celebration is in the Wiener Circle.

There will be condom and spray and a hot dog for the champion, which sounds interesting.

The race will happen on Friday to a clock, uh, Eastern time and it'll stream live on Fox

Sports app and on the Indie, uh, Indie car on Fox, uh, social media apps.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

I love it.

It's a great idea though.

I think it'll be a lot of fun.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Um, now I, I don't know, I don't, I, I don't even like saying this out loud necessarily,

but I don't know if or not the hot dog races are planned, like the winners of those on

that right.

I don't know if that's a little bit of a, or a little K-Fab, a little wrestling or not

there or not.

Uh, with this, I almost think you, I know.

I know that they probably are designed.

I know we're, you know, as a grown adult, I'm, I'm guessing that they're going to have

the winner of this picked out, but I don't think that's the way to play this.

Okay.

I think if you really want to do this, let them actually race.

Okay.

And see which one is actually interesting, which on that side, I'm curious of who's driving

these things.

Now, I love your idea.

I think that that's where you go with this.

You have the saw.

But if you sausage is right.

Yeah.

If you can have that, um, boy, dear God, would that be a disaster, bro?

Like, there's no way those cars are going five feet without running into each other.

No.

How can those, they can't even run without running into each other?

Every, every saw, uh, hot dog race, I feel so bad because it's that rate.

Everybody knew that kid that ran with his arms straight down.

And that's what I think it was with the saw strizes that kid that I, every school I went

to, there was one kid who ran with his arms straight down.

Yeah.

That's, I don't know.

I don't know how they're going to work.

Um, I think there's actually a, a speed governor on the, uh, the winter mobiles, uh, they

can't, unless, and I don't think they're going to take those on.

So it's not going to be like a fast race.

I'm guessing it's going to be pretty pedestrian, but it'll still be fun.

Yeah.

It seems like it seems like it will be.

I, I'm definitely going to have to see the highlights of that or something.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning's at WFHR, Seth and James hanging out with you.

We're going to take you to the top of the hour.

Nothing of fun.

Got a lot of good things lined up in the 10 o'clock.

Not only going to get in some entertainment news, I'm going to say goodbye to a TV legend.

Uh, we're also going to talk about a couple of other fun topics.

And, uh, we're also going to get into the ABC Fox and NBC's fall schedules.

All right.

What to expect there?

A little bit of that with that kind of segue into cable and streaming and what's happening

there.

Yeah.

It's fascinating time right now.

I can, I can make a sneak peek on that one.

How about lots of sports on the networks, lots of sports, lots of safe, lots of safe coming

up with every network that is a theme you're going to be seeing a lot of, a lot of safe

bets.

Yeah.

Uh, it's a safe bet that you're going to tend to barbecue this summer for you in American.

American.

American.

American.

I, I definitely will be.

Oh, yeah.

And Lee, I, I've already, I'm pretty much attempted to, I have two barbecues now.

I've got some grilling.

I've got a little grilling already.

Yeah.

Summer is around the corner.

And if you're making a checklist, the average American says summer isn't a complete without

four cookouts, three getaways, two concerts and two festivals.

I don't know if I've ever done summer right according to this.

I've done some of those things in a summer.

I don't know if I've done all of that in one show.

Wow.

That's, that's it seems like a lot.

What, what bank account do you have to be able to do that?

Well, we, we need some definitions to, of course, cookouts.

I mean, what is that necessarily mean?

Is that with like, just your, you know, immediate family?

Is it bigger ones when you invite more people over?

I mean, I get away.

That's not like a vacation.

It's like a, like a weekend kind of thing, I guess.

I don't know the definition of that.

So.

I don't know.

So here are a few other stats to go, to win along with the survey.

On average, the perfect cookout has 11 guests with everyone contributing something to share.

All right.

In fact, 64% of people say that it's a sin to show up without bringing anything.

Really?

No, I, I don't agree with that at all.

No, no, not at all, no.

Unless, unless specifically stated by the host saying, you know, please bring a dish to pass

or if you ask them, can I bring anything?

And they say, sure, bring a salad or whatever.

Then that's, that's cool.

I'm totally on board with that.

You should not be expected to bring anything.

You are a guest.

And when it's done right, there shouldn't be multiples of things.

Yeah, like everybody knows that Aunt Joni's potato salad is the greatest or, you know,

kind of thing.

Like everybody's got their thing that they do, it should be done right, you know, just set

up.

Quote, we, we plan to attend five barbecues this summer and host four.

Wow.

Wow.

That is a lot.

Holy cow.

Um, but I, do I even know that many people?

I don't think I do.

I know I don't.

I don't.

I think we're just making people up now just so I can say that I would do a, I would

to Ted's barbecue.

Yeah.

Boy, it was great.

Old Teddy, you've heard me mention him before, right?

Who's Ted?

I don't know if I've ever known somebody there.

Um, yeah, that's, that's, these are averages.

I know.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

I'm still even high for that, I would say.

It seems that way to me anyway.

But the most popular grilling staples from most to least common are burgers, hot dogs,

chicken, steak, ribs, bratwurst, kebabs, pork chops, and fish.

Yes.

That seems right.

All of those I've done most of those on the grill, uh, kebabs are fun.

I should do some more of those because kebabs can be really a lot of fun.

Yeah.

Uh, Steve and Katrina were talking about that.

They've got some really cool stuff over at family.

Nice for those things.

Nice.

Um, I think in the Midwest here, uh, that, uh, bratwurst would be ahead of chicken.

Yeah.

Well, especially in Wisconsin.

Yeah.

No, I think you're right.

And that's just average out through the whole country.

Yeah, bratwursts are not nearly as big elsewhere.

I want to apologize.

Journalistically, I should have mentioned before saying that I had brats last night.

Oh, so I should have mentioned that.

Well, hey, I mean, you know, my opinion may have been skewed.

I apologize.

Older folks say their favorite barbecue side dish is potato salad, but younger generations

prefer mac and cheese.

You can go wrong with either of those.

Yeah.

You can have both.

There's nothing wrong with having some mac and cheese and some potato salad.

Do not.

Post law for me.

Yeah.

Okay.

The cold dish that you're like is coleslaw is my favorite.

I love that.

Yeah.

Anything that's got barbecue on it, didn't mean that makes it that that's all that I care

about that.

All these other side dish things.

I got in the room for that.

I meet them.

We didn't meet.

Yes.

I got a brother need a hot dog.

I did.

I got a brother need a burger.

I did.

Yes.

Yes.

Give me more of that.

I.

Hmm.

So when it comes to the side dish thing too and that that's also interesting when you

get more down south and there are there are picnics where the mac and cheese is a big

part of the main.

It is.

It's a vegetable.

And I'm not kidding.

Yeah.

In the south.

It's called a vegetable.

Yep.

It is.

Which I find endlessly amusing.

I love that.

I love it.

The most popular beverage is soda and soft drinks iced tea and water are next followed by

lemonade, beer, fruit, punch, fruit juice, wine and cocktails.

Wow.

Little hack here that everybody already knows but just to bring it up just in case anybody

doesn't.

During a barbecue I will like or anytime I'm actually you know just dinner in general.

I can't think of many meals I will not have just water with.

Anything like soda or beer or any of these other things take it up room in my stomach.

I want room for that food.

I like it.

Plus.

I love that.

It's a great if I want to just focus on the meal.

Now if I'm just eating to eat like which is 90% of my existence.

Sure.

I'm leveling it in my mouth and I'm not really paying that much attention.

Sure twice and down it goes.

Yeah.

But if I'm sitting down to eat with you know my folks or a barbecue or something like

that it's water because it also just cleans my palate and I can really taste the food.

And I don't know it's been about I got it's been quite a few years now that I've gotten

my taste buds back and everything and I'm still enjoying that process.

There's so many things that I don't feel like I was really tasting for many years.

Right.

Oh my gosh.

We did you know mentioning about you know the drinks and how important those are.

So last year I had a big party for Beth for 50th birthday party and and so I I was like

okay I'm going through my list of what do I need here.

I need this this and this you know to keep the food warm and I need this.

And I was like okay beverages and I realized I don't have the big metal tub that you put

all of the drinks in and then you fill it with ice right.

So I literally went out and bought one just I could have my big metal tub that I could

put all the drinks in but I have it now so I'm I'm set now you're set if I have a large

group of people coming over I know I just throw the beer and the soda into the big tub

throw a bunch of ice on there and you're good to go.

You take care of that thing is going to last you a long time.

I'm telling you take good care of that.

I don't know what else you actually use those for right for me it was always drinks.

For me and my dad and I get this from my father with items like that has to find another

use for it has to it's not enough that it does one thing he's got to find another use

for it and he will whether it's practical whether it's smart it's a whole other time

matter.

It will it'll probably evolve duct tape to probably as for activities at a cookout people

rank their favorites like this playing cards cornhole swimming horseshoes frisbee bad

mitten basketball football in beer pong again here in the Midwest there's no way that

a cornhole and horseshoes would not be at the more spots on that list cards cards because

I could see but I don't know that I've ever played a card game I know a barbecue I associate

that with outside and playing cards outside can be a a tricky especially depending on

the wind and all that I mean playing any kind of card game can be kind of tricky I'm thinking

more about yeah the outside games right you know moving around yeah right cornhole is big

you know horseshoes bachie ball always good at a party like that if you have a big enough

lawn I mean you get to say bachie ball yeah I mean it's it's the awesome thing fun

free how about ladder golf for those in the no out there ladder golf is fun we have a ladder

golf set at our house and the people especially because it's not as well known as some of

the other lawn games that people oh wow this is cool you know kind of thing where you

have like a PVC pipe created stand with a couple of bars going across on the way down and then

you have two golf balls strung together with like rope in between and you try to wrap the golf balls

around one of the poles and you get a certain amount of points for which pole you wrap it around

I would play underhand it's fun yeah actually it is kind of fun so it's interesting I just learned

this in the last couple of seconds and I already know more about that than I do croquet

I can teach you about that too I played that all the time when I was a kid so you are lying you're

there's no no nobody actually knows how to play croquet I do I do it's croquet and I do know I do

know crochet and croquet should combine though I want that as a soul to me sir I know I want how to

play croquet actually I know it's I bring it up because that's one of those ones it's not on

the list that I would have thought would have been on there because that's still popular it's

still got it is my grandparents had a set and that's how I learned they actually taught us how to

play the actual croquet game so it can be fun it can be really boring too well especially with

while we do with kids there's going to be one time when they let's wind up and like whack it like

into the next yard or something I think games like that are once you're playing them you realize

how much fun they get exactly you got to play it's just watching it's like what's what's the big deal

I mean what is this got to get out there I don't know about like curling actually well curling

is where I went too right away with croquet because that's one where I wouldn't have thought it was

as a kid I wouldn't have thought it was fun until I actually did a little bit of everything like

oh this is actually fun yeah it's a great time I shut out to our curling club here yeah

it reminds us all the time I I basketball is misleading horse or 21 yes oh absolutely

playing a full bat of four basketball games just shooting games yeah that's it that you are

absolutely right but these all those games are fun because they're get us moving and everything

in the exercise which gets a little like you know maybe you eat a little bit much you get some

of that audio you know it's great and for for me growing up we were able to do a couple of like

softball games because we live we had a big yard so we could make a baseball a diamond so if we

had enough people we would actually play a game of softball that's pretty cool head one of my cousins

running to me once plowed it I was at home plate and he was he was playing a little Steve playing

a little hard and he ran he plowed into me he totally just took me out he broke my glasses

I mean come on Steve he rose but it was too you were blocking the plate come on man oh bad

I'd we got to get into a conversation sometime on playmakers about that about what they've done

with that and if it's good or bad for bad right right another one that I don't see on the list

that was gigantic in our family we would get together for a long time and God do I miss this

we would get together as a family reunion of course you know in the summer like a lot of families

right we have stopped doing like 20 years ago and I miss my family so much when it comes to that

we always played uh um volleyball volleyball that's a good one I'm not see that on the list

get out the badminton rackets a little bad men it's fun too badminton's great yeah that's a good one too

yeah all good ones and another good one uh to celebrate all spring long here as we are doing

this up until the 15th of next month our good friends at the night away of south wind and