Good Morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking off with us at WFHR.
Got your hopes changed mind the mic. Join by our head of production, our co-host Seth Habhacker.
Good morning, and the best listeners and radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. We're going to
have some fun this morning. Got good things lined up for you, like talking with Burtney Merlot and
kicking things off. Right, Brett. Good morning, and Mother Nature has good things lined up for us too.
Sure. Excellent. It really does look like it. It looks like, especially today is going to be a
really nice day. But Burtney, Seth and I are going to get into a bunch of stuff. We're going to
open up our top, our opening monologue today about this being the shortest day in history. That's
what a lot of people are saying. The shortest day in history. Yeah. We're going to get into it a
little bit more later at everything. But the rotation of the earth is sped up and slowed down
on this day in particular. Oh, interesting. Now that was interesting to me. But did you guys know
that this is only because they've been keeping track since the atomic clock. We're talking
early 70s, all that. Scientists believe that back, like billions of years ago, the days were only
like 19 hours long. Oh, that makes sense. Excellent. Can we go back to that? Can we at least
extend that, maybe? I don't know if we need shorter days or longer days, 26 hours, maybe?
I will not help you. Somebody smarter than we can figure that out.
While we're working that out, Burtney, let's go ahead and get into the forecast. It does seem
like it's going to be a nicer day today. Oh, it sure is plenty of sunshine and nice high pressure
system in place. Calm winds, comfortable conditions with a north wind. So this means really no
humidity. Oh, a picture. Perfect summer day. Highs in those low 80s. That's what we'll do tomorrow,
too. But a little bit more mugginess starts to seep in, especially by the afternoon.
And then as we go into the evening, we do have chances for some showers and thunderstorms
possibly. Of course, another system wants to move in. And it could bring some heavy rainfall
potentially on Friday. So we are going to be tracking that where it could one to two inches
as possible. Yes, more rain. That's what we need.
Gonna be on Friday or Saturday or Sunday, drenching us out on the weekend. So the weekend looks
still pretty nice. It will get warmer and more humid, more like the mid 80s and feeling pretty
sticky out there after this front. For the most part, it feels like Mother Nature has been giving us
some nice weekends. No matter what the weeks look like, our weekends have been pretty
nice going back a couple of weekends now. So I can't complain. That's right. We appreciate
you, Brittany. Thanks so much. We'll hang out again tomorrow. I'm good. Bye. Have a great one.
The best in the business right there, Brittany Merlot joining us every morning right in this
time slot. Have a lot of fun with our set. Then I can have a lot of fun with all of you today.
We got the LKF Apertine anniversary club right around the corner. We're also going to get into it
being the end of an era at TSA and our shoes. This has been a topic getting around. Oh, yay.
Travel in leisure has a new number one city in America for the first time in 12 years.
Oh, wow. Okay. Interesting. Got a bunch of entertainment news, including the new box office
champion, the new box office champion. The highest grossing actor of all time.
Oh, they recalculated. Okay. And I think it might surprise quite a few people.
All right. I think it might surprise us. Okay. I'm going to talk a little bit of a lead Zeppelin
and Live Aid and Ozzy Osborne and Black Sabbath's last concert. Talk about back to the beginning
a little bit that happened over the weekend. Very cool.
Some local theater happening. I want to get into as well and see what else we have time for.
Like how many cuts and scrapes and bruises will you get in your life?
No. Got an interesting one there. Along with some good stories of the day for you and
plenty more to get into. But as you and I were talking about with Brittany there,
this is interesting news. A bunch of websites are reporting that today could be the shortest day
in history. The rotation of the earth speeds up and slows down depending on a few things.
Okay. Bigs factors how far away the moon is. Okay.
The good news if you're having a rough one is today that will be 1.3 milliseconds shorter than normal.
That's just over 1 1,010th of a second. You won't have to experience. Right.
Bad news is you won't notice and it's not actually a record. DailyMail.com went full click
with headline calling it the shortest day in history. But according to calculations,
it won't even be the shortest day of 2025. We cannot trust the headlines of the Daily Mail.
Yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm stunned. I'm stunned. Don't know what to do anymore.
It's as if the New York Post was reported. Oh yeah. Oh wait. July 22nd will be 1.38 milliseconds shorter
than normal. And August 5th will be the shortest day of the year at 1.5 milliseconds shy
of just 24 hours. Right. We're not going to have 24 hours that thing. There's an outside
chance the earth spins slightly faster than expected today. But the shortest day ever recorded was
last year. July 5th, 2025, 1.66 milliseconds shorter than normal. You know, considering it was
the day right at the 4th of July, maybe that was the best. You can find this complete article
of life science or IFL science. If you'd like courage to do that, both great websites.
You can go down the rabbit holes with a lot of sugar. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Absolutely.
So I mean, this stuff is certainly like they're saying, clickbait. It is summer. People are
looking for headlines. I get all of that. And I don't like it. But I understand it and everything.
I do think this stuff is interesting though. I know we're talking like we're talking about
something that nobody would even notice if we didn't say anything. Right. Well, and it's one of
those things where we're learning, you know, every day it seems like we learned a little bit more
about not only ourselves, but also the world around us and our in the universe that we live in.
That, you know, that some things we took for granted, you know, there's always 24 hours in a day.
Well, not technically, that's actually not true. The earth speeds up. It slows down and it has to
do with, you know, science stuff, you know, gravitational pull and all these kinds of things.
To me, that's the thing that's interesting about it is that, you know, it's everything that we
take for granted. We always have to, you know, reevaluate from time to time. You know, science,
you know, changes as they get more and for as we get more information, you know, theories change
and all that sort of thing. And we have to understand that as we're going along here.
As a writer, as an actor, to me, one of my biggest goals is to be able to do it all. And especially
when I was first starting out as a writer, I wanted to write a mystery, I wanted to write a romance
story, I wanted to write a western, all that. And I wanted to write a time movie. All right,
my travel is back in time and everything. Classic trope and all of literature and stuff.
Absolutely. I could not get past, like not even, I had a bit of a concept, but I couldn't get past
the idea of, well, if I go back and my character goes back in time and this was a person that lived
into city and they go back in time, well, how's the air going to be for him? And you know, how
is that going to be? How is the little things like that? And stuff that I have never seen them
really address in time travel movies. Right. Where you go back in time and they, wow, the air is
so much better. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It's better on here. Would you like breathe in and like have
all this oxygen to be like, whoa, I'm lightheaded. Yeah. There's so many little things like that
that I never so I never even got it off the ground. I was too obsessed with it. You were hung up
on my handle this and why, you know, and then I was trying to see if anybody ever covered the
HG Wells or anybody, you know, and didn't see anything there. I kind of though created a real love
affair for me about the past and about history and how much learning our history helps us understand
today. And the interesting part about all this to me is something that I don't think it's common
knowledge about what we were, I was saying to Brittany about billions years ago, experts think
the average day was only 19 hours long because the moon was closer to that. Right. So that is
another fascinating thing about that. Yes, that's the, just think if something had changed and
the earth only it was only 20 hour day. Of course, now we would adjust to this and it would just
be normal for us, right? You know, it would look weird from where we're sitting right now,
but we would say, you know, do you get your six hours of sleep last night or whatever, you know,
however, things would change because of that, right? 19 seven doesn't sound as good as 24 seven.
Yeah, yeah. 19 seven. But then again, we would know otherwise.
We would know otherwise. It's fascinating. It's quite interesting. And it's how we really,
we get a better handle on the future and today and the future by understanding more of that
and stuff. Interesting stuff. I think it's interesting. Good things going on in town here today,
this morning, I should say. All right. A couple of things. I wanted to note to anybody out there,
bobbin around Renaissance by Renaissance by René's assisted living apartment community is inviting
local seniors and their families to free senior panic, pancake breakfast this morning.
This is wrapping up at 10 o'clock. So I'd say you got about an hour, maybe a little less to
get over there to keep in mind that it's been going on since the 730 this morning. Yeah. We wish
them well. Hope that is going good. And mission is free pancake breakfast are awesome. Yeah, be
sure to check that out. We love them. And our great friends over at Crossview Church are hosting
American Heroes Cafe of Central Wisconsin today. That has got about a little less than a half an hour
left. Right. You can check that out if you like. All veterans, military police and firefighters
are welcome. Go ahead and refreshments. Check that out. Thank you to everybody that hosts that and
keeps that going. And our Grand Rapids Police Department, one of us let you know about a partial
lake closure over at Lake Wazicia and keeping into interest for the best for the public, welfare and
safety of the town of Grand Rapids. Ordinance 35 has been enacted for the following boundaries
of Lake Wazicia going on until it looks like the 20th. Okay. And this will, let me see here where
that is. The area of closure affects those waters cast off a line from 64 street south boat landing
extending north and the north shore of Lake Wazicia. Okay. Keep that in mind. You can find out more
where we're going to our parks and wrecks department's website. And there you will hear about our
Wisconsin State's water ski shows championship. That's coming up. Oh my gosh. That is just,
is it next week? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Um, you know, they, I'll be honest, and I've been honest with
the audience from day one about this one. They, you know, we don't get, they don't advertise with us.
They work with another radio station. So that's, that's true. So they don't really, you know,
but being civic minded here at civic media, we, we will still talk about it because it's a cool
event. Then we love to promote it here. Love the watersky tournament. Yeah. I love water skiing in
general. And this tournament, what it does for our community, the economy it brings in. That's
how much we love this tournament. We'll even still talk about it. Exactly. Before we go to break,
let's take a call. Good morning, you're on the show. Good morning, James. Hey, good morning,
bud. How you doing? Well, you know, maybe, maybe you just move it to whatever day you'd like.
I always thought, I always thought it'd be cool to have a birthday on Halloween. You know,
can we just move or get the same year? Your mom might have something to say about that. It's
a good point. Yeah, it's a good point. Be careful with that. Yeah, that's a good conversation,
buddy. We appreciate you. You have a good morning. Say hi to everybody over there for us.
Oh, thank you, don't appreciate you. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back with the
Elcafe birthday anniversary club on the morning show at WFHR. You heard the boys. It's time to
do some celebrating with our great friends over at Elcafe. We encourage you to treat yourself,
get on over the today, 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Great specials over there.
Got some really good menu items lined up for you and you can go over there, check it out and see
and then debate, okay, what do I want? What do I want? I imagine the wait staff is used to that by
you. I'm sure that's do you need more time? Do you need more time? Yeah, nice waiting room for the
wait staff. We should mention two. They're a great takeout place. Just call up in advance. They will
get it all ready for you and I've done it a few times and the food, of course, is just as fantastic
that way. They have it all ready and set to go. It's awesome. Lots of ways to enjoy Elcafe. Melissa
got in my head these ribeye nachos. They sound really good. They do sound really good. That sounds great.
ribeye anything. Check it out today, 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. By local support,
local support those that support this community. Great friends over there at Elcafe. Get there
today, everybody and get us your birthdays and anniversaries. We love celebrating with you. We do.
You can email us info at wfhr.com. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages and you can
call out up 715-424-2600 to get your birthday wishes out on these airwaves. Love to do it for you.
Love to hear from you, everybody. Go ahead, excuse me. I'm going to reach up. I just got choked up
about. I mean, just into these birthdays to get me. We need a what or a two set.
Two. All right, gives us that qualifier. Get right into it. First up, I want to wish a very happy
birthday to somebody. We're, we love talking about around here and we love having on the air with us.
Chase Quintess. Quintess. Chase Quintess. Yes. That last name, it's a tough one.
It gets me every 10. Now that just means I told him this last time he was here. Chase,
just got to stop by more and I'll get the name down. You'll get the name right. Yes, but he's great.
He's performed here a lot in town. Great voice. Really, really promising talent right there. Yes,
he's done a fantastic job. He's a lot of fun. I see promising and I always look forward to artists
like him and what they do with their their careers and where they go with it and everything. He's
going places and enjoy your day, man. And a very happy birthday to our qualifier today. Chuck
Corn. Chuck. Happy birthday. Such a, every year we get to say this. That's such a great name, sir.
That's such a great name. The things I could have accomplished with the name Chuck Corn, Seth.
Chuck, enjoy your day. Hope it's a good one for you. Yeah, I'm sure he hasn't heard any corn,
chuck, and jokes in his life. I can only imagine. Yeah. Enjoy the day. Hope it's a good one for you, Chuck.
And you're our qualifier. Yes. Let's see who you're sharing your birthdays with everybody.
Fred Savage is 49. He's 49 years old. Kevin from the wonder years. The grandson on the princess
bride is 49, everybody. He's older than us. Yes, he is. He could be a grandfather. I mean, now he
could play the grandfather in the princess bride. Now, there is nothing. No, I'm not even going to say
it. I'm not even going to say it, but it would be interesting to see him as the grandpa. It was
a test. We're just saying that. Also, the mold and Austin powers. I always liked his job in that.
And for those that don't know, he's gotten behind the camera more. And I don't know if he's the
one that's directed the most, but he's got to direct. I mean, it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
He was premiering this week again, come back for another season, a record breaking season,
I believe. And he's directed me. I think more episodes of that show than anybody. Wow.
And that's just, oh, that's always cool. Would not imagine that. But yeah, he's he's a good
director. Yes, yes. One of the best guitar players living. Jack White is 50. The white stripes,
the recounters, dead weather. Even if he don't like Jack White, I have a hard time believing you,
you can't respect his guitar playing. I like him a lot. I'm a big fan of Jack White.
Songwriter, a very talented songwriter as well. And there's very few people that I can think of
in American music that know the history of American music as well as he does. He knows it all.
I mean, he's got it all in his back pocket. And it's it's really interesting to see where he
pulls from when he does his music. It's really, really cool. I don't know if he has this same
thing or not, but much like you, LeBron James has one of those memories, one of those brains,
it just remembers things really well. And he's a true student of the basketball game. Like,
he knows stuff that like very, very few people even remember. And the way he can go back and tell
you like an announcer will, or an interview will ask a question about a play. And LeBron can go
back like three, four plays before that and tell you what set it up and all this. It's really
interesting to hear him talk about it. Jack White is like that with music. He's exact same way when
he, oh, I heard you covered this led belly song. Well, led belly didn't originate. It was actually
written by this guy. And he'll just go on a road. He's really good at that stuff. And just an
incredible guitar player. A big white stripes fan was a huge fan. And I don't care who knows it
of simple minds. Oh, it's one of my favorite bands as a kid loved him. And Jimmy Kerr is 66,
lead singer and songwriter for simple minds. One of the most talented, yet underrated bands
from the 1980s. There's a handful of them. And they were one of them. Of course, they're known for
their, their big hit from the breakfast club, you know, don't forget about me. Yeah. And the famous
ending and all that stuff. Yeah. Gotta put my fist shut Nelson. Got to. But no, they've fantastic
records. They put out some fantastic music well into the 90s. And no underrated band to be sure.
Don't you forget about me as a classic. It's, it's the song of the 80s. I don't know if you could
get me to die off that hill. It's up there. It's got to be in the, in the discussion. I will say,
though, a live and kicking is better. Yes. I think a live and kicking is a much better song. It's
a much better song. And I will listen to it later today. I've actually seen a lot of this guy lately
because I've been watching these dark side of the ring. I've been on a thing on watching them.
And Kevin Nash is 66 today. Pro wrestler turned actor played Tarzan and Magic Mike movies.
He's also in the John Wick movies, Rock of Ages, Longest Yard. He's been in a bunch of stuff.
Oh, he's super shredder in the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie back in 91. I didn't know
that. He was. I didn't know that. Wow. He's an interesting guy. I really, what a career he's had.
Wow. And he is such a good interview. He's just very, and comfortable in his own skin and where
he's been. And one of these guys, when he talks, he talks, it tells a story. It has a little more
credence to me with him. He's self-deprecating. He's, he's very funny. And for a man his size,
he actually seems very like kind in many ways. Yeah, just a good talker to one of the better
wrestlers on the mic. There's ever been. And in the die by and power bomb and everything.
Kevin Nash, man, Nash was awesome. That is a great wrestler. Tom Hanks is 69. Wow.
The greatest well-rounded actor, maybe we've seen. I don't, I have a hard time calling Tom Hanks
the greatest actor or his generation or any of these things. We all understand, but this is also
where he is in his career. It's almost a given. Like, that we all, like, it's kind of like that
gentleman's agreement or the thing that we all agree to that we don't talk about. It's like,
well, yeah, Tom Hanks is a legend. We just, we've normalized. Right. We've normalized his
career. It went back to back Oscars. And since then, it's just been, well, yeah, we kind of get it.
But think about where this man started. Think about where he started and how hard it is for an
actor who, especially if you're good at it, to break. And I'm not talking about dressing and drag
on a TV show back in the day or doing, you know, splash or the man with one red shoe or volunteers
or Joe versus the volcano or any of these movies that I grew up loving and everything.
I'm talking about going into a casting room and getting them to believe that you could be
a lawyer who catch who has HIV and get sick and et cetera, et cetera. Or getting into a casting
room with Robert Semeckis, one of our greatest directors and getting them to believe that you
can play one of the more serious characters while playing him lovingly, young forest gump.
I don't think that people understand how hard it is for an actor to work past type.
And the fact that even before he won those two Oscars, they hear before that, he was nominated for
a best leading role for big. Even before those movies, he was already being taken seriously
like that. Watch the movie punchline. It's his first and maybe only dark role he's played,
although road to perdition is another one. Yeah, that's a little bit darker. I'm just now saying
this out loud, realizing how big of a Tom Hanks fan I am. That's how much we've normalized him.
That even the guy that obsesses about acting more than anybody else in the world. I didn't even
realize. I don't want to, in any way, diminish what he did for Philadelphia. Back when actors
were, when homosexual characters were portrayed one way in movies, he played one, and I mean,
seriously, actors were afraid to take roles of that because they thought that that would hurt
their career. Again, typecast. Yes, exactly. He bravely, I would say, took that role. He knew it
was a good role, obviously, but he did that. And not only that, he followed up a couple years
after that, one of the things that I have the most respect for him. He appeared in the documentary
from 1995, The Celluloid Closet. He was the biggest name on that, and it talked about homosexual
people in Hollywood history and film history, which is one of my favorite documentaries of all time,
because it's just so well done. Tom Hanks appeared in this. Back when gay people were not treated
the same way. Right. It's a great note about that. The work that he has done for our soldiers,
much like Gary Sinese, and the band of brothers, movies, and so much of that. It's really been a big
part of his third act here and everything that he's done. And I should mention too, Kevin,
don't get mad at me. I remembered the Americas that he just narrated. It turns out, by the way,
Tom Hanks is an amazing narrator too. He takes the work seriously, and he works at it, and he
does a good job. Happy 16th, Mr. Hanks. Tell him one of the best working men. One of the handsome
est men is 70. Jimmy Smith is 70. Oh, wow. LA law NYPD Blue, the West Wing, Sons of Anarchy. He is
some Star Wars stuff as well. He's in that, yeah. And has not aged. Has not aged. He still looks great.
Yeah. The great actor. I love it. I like Jimmy Smith. Me too. The great John Teshes 73.
John Teshes was a nice host for a couple of shows. He's had some moments there and everything.
It is the NBA and NBC theme song. It's classic. It'll make him eternal. It's awesome. It's also
something that he is so self-deprecating about. John Teshes is very aware of how people see
John Teshes. Oh, yes, he does. And just plays with it. Just fun with it. Much like Kenji and stuff.
It's a very successful musician. I mean, it's not like his, yeah. And this is what I would hope.
When you're that successful, that kind of money, that kind of fame, I don't know how you can't
be Larry Hagman. You can't be JR from Dallas. You know what? They could put JR on my tombstone.
I get paid to do what I love for a living. I admire that in people, even though I would almost
hope for it in somebody that they would be that. That was like the first thing people were asking
when NBC got the NBA again. That's like that first thing. Are you bringing back the theme?
Yep. Yep. I know it was my first time. Yeah.
Some people no longer with us. The great Richard Roundtree would have been 83 today.
The original shaft. Yeah. One of the greatest. Great. Like, like, exploitation actors. Love
Richard Roundtree. One of the better actors of any generation. But especially of our younger
generation, Brian Denny. He born in the state in 1938. Cacoon. He was Chris Farley's dad and Tommy
boy, the perfect father, son, compared, maybe in comedy history. Sebastian Lone in first blood.
Of course, he was in that effect. So many roles over the years and an incredible theater actor.
Incredible theater actor. And I encourage you. We cannot play it on the air. But I would encourage
everyone to listen to Patton Oswald's bit about meeting Brian Denny. He it is a hilarious story.
It is so funny.
The punchline is Brian Denny. He delivers the punchline in it, which is awesome.
I got to listen to that. Yeah, listen to it. It's been too long.
Happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody out there celebrating. Can't think of a better way
to celebrate than with our friends at L Cafe. Get over there today to 21 market avenue in beautiful
Port Edwards. Seth and I will be back after the break with more morning show on WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio. Seth and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for being with us. Interesting, interesting times. That's one way to put it.
Yeah, that's all I got. That's all I got. End of the segment. We're moving on.
Yeah, moving on. I was just thinking about how, so I don't know how many people in our audience
out there have experienced life before 9-11 and flying. I know that I did. I got to fly
once before 9-11. So I have a little bit of idea of what it was like beforehand.
Now I'm a person that when my first flight after 9-11, I remember
clear as day and I remember walking into it thinking, okay, well, I don't want to get in any
trouble here. I don't think I've ever worried more in my life. Not any job interview, not any
acting interview, nothing more than, okay, look normal. Don't look like you always look. Don't
be you, James. Just don't be you. I wore slip-off shoes because I had heard about that point.
The way to take our shoes off all these things. And I go there and I'm not in line for more than a
minute and I get pulled out of line. And every, I've flown at least 15 to 20 times since then maybe
and every time I've gotten pulled out of line. And not a dang time if I complained. I will never
complain. I have a, I have a Middle Eastern last name. I look like I look and above all of those
things, I just want everybody to feel safe and I understand that flying is not about me.
There's a lot of other people involved in this. It's, you know, so it's never, I'm not like trying
to sound like nice here or anything. I could not be more genuine about this. It really does not,
but and this is, I say some of this too because I am also, if you've listened to me enough,
the person that can't wait to jump on his soap box and and and and park about this,
park about that. But I'm not barking about this. I get it. Right. And to be clear and I do
what this understand clear, this is purely, this is profiling is what it is. Yeah. Because like
you said, your last name and the way you look, that's why they do it. Exactly. Especially in those
days right after 9-11, I mean, you can hear, you hear stories from so many different people about
that. Yeah. And and I don't know how anybody that saw those towers fall can complain. I'm just
going to say it. I don't, I don't get it. And for me, again, somebody who was experienced it,
probably more than most out there in our audience and everything. Yeah. I would think that I
have ever right to and I'm not. I don't, I don't think I actually do have a right to. And now they
get rid of it. Now they're not even doing it. Word has it that the Transportation Security
Administration is now allowing all passengers to keep their shoes on while passing through
checkpoints. There hasn't been an official announcement yet, but multiple sources, including
the Wall Street Journal, say that they quietly made the change yesterday. When asked the TSA
said, we are always exploring new and innovative ways to enhance the passenger experience in our
strong security posture. Any potential updates to our security process will be issued through
official channels, awfully vague. And you know, and I'm so, I get so sick and tired of these PR
people that sit there in a room for 20 hours to write this five second thing when they could just
just be honest with people, just be blunt and honest. This is just confusing. That doesn't make
anybody else stood a word I just said. It was very confusing. If there has been a change,
it sounds like it hasn't been made at the, at all airports yet because plenty of people on
social media say that they were still told to remove their shoes yesterday. Right. Believe it or
not, it has been 20 years since we were first asked to move, move our shoes, take our shoes off.
The shoe rule has been ablamed on Richard Reed and the shoe bomber who unsuccessfully, thankfully,
tried to detonate explosives with his hidden shoes. One last thing too with this, you probably will
be asked to remove your shoes if you're flagged or for extra screening, including if you don't have
a real ID. That's certainly a case there too. So with this, part of what I was hopeful in this,
and I still have to do more homework on this one. And this story's been around for about 24 hours
now and I still haven't seen the reporting on. Are we getting rid of this because our security
measures have, well, we got, we got that X-ray machine you go in. Can it check the shoes finally?
And that's why we don't have to take our shoes off. Because I don't think there's any other reason
that I can hear that's going to make me feel okay about this. Well, the fact that there's never,
ever, ever, ever been a copycat of this. I think it's part of it because it was a very novel when
it first came out kind of thing. It's been 20 years. Honestly, I think it's just because that's,
you know, they're, and I hate to bring this up, but we really do have to put it up. There are
so many other ways now you can easily still sneak something onto a plane. So it's like,
yeah, does anybody else feel great, you know, I mean, not being sarcastic here, but
we've had nothing but the last time we talked about flying and airplanes, it was negative stories.
And it's all we've really had in recent, in the recent years, in on season, especially in the
last couple of months, is we've seen funding, we've seen money and support and all that being
taken away from that from like safety things, right? Air traffic control, very important, right?
In my lifetime, I've never known more people that don't want to fly. I agree. I've never,
I've maybe a couple of people here and they're growing up. In the last couple of months, and especially
with summer coming around, spring break coming around, and I'm used to my students telling me,
I'm going to this, I'm going to this, I'm going to, if they can't drive to it, they ain't going.
Like, period out of the many classes and the many students I have, not a single one of them,
at first time I've ever heard of this, going back to when I was in school, where nobody was
traveling any farther than a car couldn't take them. Like, nobody was flying. The way that we,
people have become about flying. And this, I love flying. I enjoyed, I just got done telling you how
much I enjoy flying. I put up with being profiled in everything just like I'm actually, and I really
enjoy flying. I think it's fun. I think it's cool. But, you know, I don't pretend to be any different
than anybody else. If you're telling me, James, what will get you to fly right now? Well,
in acting role, obviously, because I'm crazy. But outside of that, you're going to second, you're
going to second thoughts. It's the first time in my life, since I was a little kid growing up,
near all hair and all these things, like, I love flight. I think flying is cool. And remarkable and
amazing, right? That we were able to do it, right? Talk about things we've normalized, flying,
flying period, end of sentence. We fly people. Like, that's pretty darn cool. And this just doesn't,
I don't know. I don't know how you get people to, if this was cars, you know, how comfortable would
you be driving a car every day? Right. I mean, it's one of those things that we have to keep
our eye on. We have to have a counter. There has to be accountability for these things. And there
needs to be clear answers. You can't ask this of every single person that has flown for over 20
years. And then, and then just quietly quietly do a Friday news drop and be kind of like it wasn't
a Friday. But you know, old people know what I mean by that. Old people like us don't. Yeah,
they're right. There's no more news drops. But, you know, it's the idea of you could just sneak
this under the radar. And nobody's going to know why would you say anything. And yes, why would
you do that? Especially again, with all the complaints there has been about this over the years.
Right. I think a majority of people would be happy not have to take their shoes off anymore.
And why don't you just come out and say, because, you know, we've studied this up and down,
or whatever, you know, just like you said, clearly say, because it's been 20 years. And we've
seen no evidence and all this kind of stuff. We're allowing people to just keep their shoes on,
except for these exceptions, right? They never really went too into detail. They just assumed
people understood why they were asked to take their shoes off. Right. And now they're doing the same
thing with the keep, you know, the rule going away. Reversing it. Right. Yeah. This is a huge problem
with companies in talking to people. For one, most of the people making the decisions live in bubbles
and don't know what it's like to live on the ground level, like the rest of us are anything.
But it's also this idea that things have got to be a certain way in the blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. And they forget what it's like to talk to real people. Just talk to us like a real person.
Please, you don't, it's not that hard. No, it would take five seconds. Hey, we did it because of this.
Boom. There you go. You're not all this, well, the tea is in. The comic Paul of Tompkins. And I
think I might agree with him. Has this, this, this bit about he think people don't do so many things
since they're just afraid of being yelled at. And I think that's true. I just don't think they
want to be yelled at. That's really good. That's it. I think you might be on to something.
I think you also just described part of my childhood. Yeah. Where, uh, yeah, part,
part, not going to yell that part. I probably probably didn't buy it. Yeah, maybe there was something
in there. I don't know. We will get to a quick time out last of the hour when we come back. Travel
in leisure as a new number one city in America. We're going to talk about it when we come back on the
morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show on WFHR, locally grown radio,
Seth and James hanging out with you. I hope you all are having a great Wednesday morning out there.
I'll be a hump day, everybody. Yeah. I hope you're ever going to go once. Only Wednesday. I know,
it feels like it's been long. It really feels like it's been a long week. If somebody told me this
was Friday, it wouldn't feel soon enough. No. Travel in leisure. Put out its annual list of the top
US cities to visit. And for the first time since 2012, Charleston, South Carolina is not number one.
Wow. For 12 years running, the good people of Charleston have been able to brag about it being
number one, but 180,000 readers voted. And the new best city in America is Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Really. It's a shocker. Wow. Santa Fe scored the highest thanks to its 300 days of sunshine,
excellent food options and natural beauty. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Charleston fell to number three.
Oh, wow. I'm going to get up. You're getting big. Yeah. What's going on there?
Got to sign some free agents. Yeah. Got to get some new free agents over there. Maybe, maybe
a new offensive coordinator. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I'm in a little bit of a sports mode. Yeah,
a little bit. Just the top US cities to visit in 2025 are Santa Fe, New Orleans, Charleston,
Savannah, Georgia, Alexandria, Virginia, Honolulu, Greensville, South Carolina, New York City,
Asheville, North Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois. Santa Fe ranked 19th worldwide.
The world's number one went to Central Mexico's San Miguel de Alonja.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Alalanday. Alalanday. All right.
Mexico City also made the top 10 at number seven. Wow. So an interesting list.
It is. Certainly. You know, I mean, this is all a personal thing. This is all case by case.
Really? I agree. Although, to be fair, I mean, you and I have both been to Charleston,
right? You've been to Charleston. Yes. It's one of my favorite cities.
Absolutely. I mean, there's just so much great stuff in Charleston. I love to visit there.
I was a teenager when I went there. I want to go there as an adult. I feel like I really,
you know, just, I love it just the same, but I think I'd experience it a little bit just walking
around the, the, the, it's such an old, you know, it's got so much history because it's such an old
city. You get to see all kinds of great stuff. I mean, they've got the, the big market downtown
there right near the waterfront. It's an open market where all the, the artisans come every day
and you can check out all these cool stuff that they have there. They've got, you know,
if you're a history buff, you know, some revolutionary war stuff is there, you know, old Charleston
and that sort of thing. I mean, you can go to Fort Sumter, which is a great visit, you know,
that's a fantastic historical thing there too. So, man, Charleston is a just fantastic city to visit.
I agree with everything you said there and I got to see a handful of sites while I was there
and everything. I'd spent a good couple of months out there. But the thing that, oh, we'll,
oh, we'll always stay with me. One, the people were amazing. I didn't run into one bad person
when I was there. Some of the nicest people in Charleston, yeah. It's the, the, the,
wild, like the agriculture, they, they just did the plant life and everything. I'd never seen,
it was long before I'd been in the California. I didn't run there yet and I'd never seen anything
like it and I couldn't get over it. It's a really beautiful area. Like even, you know,
even a little tucked away areas that you wouldn't think would have, have beauty to them and stuff.
And the food is amazing in Charleston. Yes. Oh, man. Some of the best barbecue you're going to have.
Yep. Yeah. And of course, tons of seafood. I mean, it's all good stuff. Yeah.
And you know, it's cool to see, and I know, I know the audience, I'm talking to you here and
everything. It is cool to see, even if it is Chicago to all of you out there, it is cool to see
a Midwest city make the top 10 of this. I think that says a lot. Now, if you don't get, you know,
obviously you can, you know, bark about me mentioning Chicago or whatever that's fine. But that's,
that's money. You don't have to hear the word Chicago there. All you have to do, if you're a
Wisconsin, all you have to hear is money. Yeah. That means more money for Wisconsin. It does.
We are connected. Yes. And if, if you don't like that, if you're not okay with that,
I don't know what to tell you because going forward, it's only going to get more connected.
We're talking from St. Paul to Detroit to, you know, Columbus to hear anything Midwest located.
It's no different than how it is out West with Portland and Oakland and LA and all these things.
They have been connected for a long time. Out east, everybody's connected. You think Boston
in New York that the rivalry is just that. It's also built on something. It is built on.
I don't know what that is. You're fine.
Everything's connected in the Midwest. The way the Midwest survives is by leaning on each other
and connecting each other. We could still have our rivalries. We could still, you know,
hate our sports teams and all that. But those tax dollars, those, those visitor dollars and all
of those things, they add to a healthier economy and a stronger state. Yes. And incredibly needed
right now. Right. Every state in the union needs this. Yes. Take a look if you're, if you ever,
especially if you ever want to feel better about your economy, look at what the Dakotas and why
Yoming are going through right now and some of the what they are and how they have to do that and
how they are not good with that. Especially the Dakotas. And I don't know anything about it.
But I've read enough about it where they're not even doing it well. No. And they've got to.
Otherwise, you're not going to have any Dakotas left. No, it's partially because they're so rural.
That's part of the problem is all of that kind of thing. There's one city on that list that
made me scratch my head. Now I got to do more research. Alexandria, Virginia. Yeah. Why?
Yeah. I know. That's a good quote. I want to find out why Alexandria of Virginia is on the top
10. That's interesting. And not not anything necessarily against it. No, not at all. It's more
than I feel like anything we bring up. Well, but this city has it or one of the other cities on
the list has that or something. I don't know what they necessarily have that stands out. And
Alexandria is right next to DC. Yeah. Which, you know, I mean, forget about the politics. Just,
I mean, all the Smithsonian stuff is in DC, which is amazing. You know, you get to see all that great,
the museums and all that. It's amazing in DC. And apparently, it is not cheap to live there.
No, it is about 24% higher than the national average to live there in Alexandria. That's the first
thing I see when I pop I pull up Alexandria on the Google or on the Google. That's crazy.
No, like usually you pull up a city or something like that. That's not the first thing you see.
There's so many people that work in DC that live in Alexandria. I think it's part of it. Yeah.
That's one of those things like I, it's funny. I've studied the states and especially the
history of the states. And at the same time, there's parts of this country that I'm, I feel like
I'm still learning the DMV is probably the biggest one. That whole area there, DC and all this
Virginia and all that stuff. I hear a lot of sports people talk about it. And Laura was from,
it spends some time in that area. And she's talked about it. And I still don't understand any of it.
No, I don't know. I just, I got to go over there. My daughter, Izzy, was there for a little bit.
And I was going to go there and then the pandemic happened, of course, and was enabled to. But
that's another part of the country. I want to check out. I don't know. It's an interesting
one. And I guess it makes sense that most of the cities are southern cities because the weather
is is better for the most part. What is your favorite city to visit, everybody?
Or maybe if that's not the answer, or if that's not the question you like, then how about this one?
What is one that you would like to visit that you haven't?
Yes. That's an excellent question.
For me, it's the number two city on this list, New Orleans. I've never been there.
And I've always wanted to. There's something about like that just calls to me and I've got to
go check that out. I would say New York is another one. And like we were just talking about
there's cities. I want to go to that I've been to, but I haven't been to as this is an older,
yeah, stuff like that. Do you have any that popped in your mind?
Well, I've been, you know, I've been to most of them. New Orleans is one of, I've never
been to Alexandria. There's no reason to go there. I'm just curious about why it's such a great
place to visit. But I mean, New York always a fabulous thing just for the sheer being in New York.
Yeah. Yeah. Just walking around. There's something really cool about that. Just, you know,
seeing all the landmark, you know, because like every square inch of Manhattan has been filmed,
right? In some movie or or other, just seeing, you know, the library or seeing, of course,
you know, the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty, all these kinds of things.
Just to see that stuff is fun. So if anyone is ever, you know, like this, you know, don't worry about,
you can walk the streets in New York. There's nothing wrong. It's just like Chicago. Please stop
with the stuff. Get out of here with that. Well, I mean, to that point, Chicago doesn't end up
on this list. If it's dangerous, yeah, it is fine. It is the way that a lot of the media makes it.
Yeah, right. Exactly. I mentioned that whenever I have a chance and I don't tell anybody to walk
around there with a sign or anything, you know, but I would not I would not want anybody out there
to hesitate to go to that city. No, not at all. Kind of news reporters. Yeah, right. That's ridiculous.
That's an interesting list. I do need to get to California at some point, because I still have not
been to California for some reason. And there's a number of cities I'd like to visit in. I mean,
the Bay Area got to check that out just to, you know, to check it out. I've never been there before.
And of course, Southern California too, you know, maybe catch a Dodgers game.
Oh, man. That'd be fun to go to Dodgers stadium because I'm here. It's a fun place to watch a game.
It's as well as we're being got plenty of stars. Yeah, so there's those nice with that.
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