Tourism Season is upon us (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM WFHR.

Your host, James behind the mic, joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth

Habacker.

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners and radio.

And being here, everybody, we'll be having a great Monday out there.

We're going to kick off the week, the show, with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Good morning, Brittany.

How are you doing?

Good morning.

I survived camping at EAA.

So, you know, all that heat.

I want to hear more about that.

But that is the third time this morning on the air I have rhymed, and I am not trying to

do it.

Unintentional rhyming?

I don't know what's wrong with me right now.

I don't know what it is, but we're all, let's just sit back and enjoy it.

Maybe to disorder, we don't know about, yeah.

Yeah, the rhyming disorder, yeah.

The rhyming disorder, yeah.

Brittany, how did you enjoy the EAA event?

It was a blast.

It was very hot.

It was very sticky.

I lost a lot of water weight.

I took a lot of steps, a lot of walking.

I'll tell you, it was a workout that I wasn't planning for.

But when the storm hit Wednesday, it was for me.

It might have went flying across.

Oh no.

It's funny now.

It's not funny in the moment.

No, I feel for you.

Oh, that's rough.

Glad overall though, it was a good time to be out there and everything, and my brother

for years worked over there and helped, you know, sending this weekend up and everything

and how much pride they, him and they all took in those things.

It reminds me of a director kind of just sitting back and watching the show as it happens

and everything.

And then when there's all these, the precautions in the backup plans that they have for

weather and some of that, it's really cool.

It really isn't impressive.

And I hope everybody had a great time this weekend.

And not too many tents went flying like a poor Brittany.

I feel for you, Brett.

As long as she wasn't in and at the time, that's the important thing.

Yeah.

That is a good cat.

That nice.

A real quick Brittany, I don't want to keep you too long here, but I did notice something

in catching our local forecast over the weekend.

We're getting closer and closer to maybe hitting a record of a 90 degree temperature days.

Have you heard that or seen anything about that?

Yeah.

So, back to looking into this last week, the day my tent went flying, so before everything

went wild.

I was looking into how many 90 degree days that we actually have a year and how often

they are.

Do we get this in El Nino versus La Nino?

Are we increasing in intensity?

Are they longer?

What's going on here?

And I was noticing that these 90 degree days are sneaking in more and more often.

We expect them in El Nino warmer year, but they are spiking in La Nino years.

And that is what we're in right now, is a week La Nino and getting these wild spikes

of long stretches of 90s.

So yeah, we are pretty close to breaking that record.

See, this is why I bring it up.

I didn't know half of that.

Right.

You rock, Brittany.

Thank you for that.

I appreciate that.

Oh, thank you.

It's a bit of a nerd.

Are we going to?

You're not alone.

Are we going to hit another 90 today?

What is it going to look like for today?

Yes, we are.

Probably hit about 91 degrees, but that humidity is still very, very thick.

So it's going to be feeling more like 98 degrees or so today.

The winds are not going to be moving much either.

So not much relief with the breeze, unfortunately.

But we do have a system moving through tonight.

I think we'll get around our area maybe midnight, possibly with some spunders.

We could see some higher winds, gusty winds, possible power outages.

But I think it'll just be a steady rain kind of ongoing.

So maybe eight or so in the morning.

And then behind that, a little bit cooler tomorrow in the low 80s to mid 80s.

And then once all of the system in the front passes, the rest of the week is beautiful.

All right.

I mean, be a beautiful because high pressure, sunshine, upper 70s, just that perfect summer

weather.

And it's going to be extended.

So today's last 90 degree.

Get out there and enjoy that when it gets a little nicer, oh, we're trying today, everybody.

And we're that much more prepared.

Thanks to you, Bernie.

We appreciate you.

Have a good morning.

You too.

Thank you.

Best in the business right there.

I'm pretty much joining us every morning.

I'm good to talk to her again.

Yeah.

That's great.

See all the stuff I had waiting to talk to.

You did.

It's what happens.

We don't get it.

We don't get it for a couple of days.

I get all those questions back up there.

Get the talk to somebody.

No, sir.

Stuff, man.

Weather and everything.

We got fun stuff to talk about with you, everybody.

We got the LCAFE birthday anniversary club coming up right around the corner.

We'll also get into another fun topic I thought would be interesting, Seth.

Americans, like, oh, no, we may hear this.

The state overrun by the most tourists, which state is overrun by the most tourists.

I think it'll surprise some people out there, probably.

And why are inside jokes so important?

Seth and I will know when you won't.

Coming up.

No, we're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about that.

That's interesting.

Yes.

That's all.

It's a Monday.

So in the 10 o'clock, I want to kick it off the way we like to with our kitchen's open

segment.

Pat will be joining us for that.

Very nice.

And I hope we can work this out budget-wise.

I asked Beth to stick around for the next segment.

Okay.

So we're working a little over time this time today.

She's going to stick around and go over with Seth and I.

The greatest Disney movie soundtracks of all time.

Oh, that's a tough one.

Yes.

Some great soundtracks in there.

Get your votes ready.

Everybody wants the greatest Disney soundtrack of all time.

Very nice.

I want to hear from you about that one.

After all of that, Seth and I will talk a little entertainment, a huge weekend with the

box office.

I want to get into that with you a little bit and Seth, along with an interesting one about

George Lucas.

I want to talk about it.

And some local theater.

I got all those things coming up.

Do you hear James Panic on air?

No, I'm scared.

Yes, yes.

You're so right.

There's a date there.

You're so right.

You're so right.

We'll share that with you a little bit later.

Along with our schedule, some good stories of the day.

Other baseball tickets to give away this hour.

That's right.

We're going to be doing that all week and leading you into on Friday when we give away

brewer tickets.

Yeah.

So baseball tickets all week long, we're giving away.

Man, the rafters, they're almost done.

They're almost done.

I can't.

It's this speaking of sneaking up on you.

This always sneaks up on me every year because it's like, wait, they're done in the second

week of August.

Oh, well, we get, you know, in working here for a handful of years now, you know what

it's like for Pam and I and Chuck and everything where we're so used to working with the rafters.

And the summers of it where you get, yeah, you get caught up in the month and you're like,

oh, wait a minute.

It's almost gone.

Jake assistant direct assistant GM over at the rafters.

Him and I were talking this weekend.

They'll be on for us.

At least one more time with me, your rafters with some of the players.

But throughout the whole year, we're going to be having the rafters joining us to meet

your rafters with news during the winter and everything.

Is there anything better than talking baseball in the winter?

Hot stove, man.

Yeah, fun.

Best talk around.

Look forward to it.

And plenty more coming up.

One of the store, it got a bit of a hodgepodge of topics for us to kick things off Seth.

A Canadian woman with a talent for riding a big wheeled bikes broke two speed records and

an Australian track while pedaling.

Oh my computer.

My computer.

What is it?

What is it doing?

It's like blanking its screen here.

It's really just messing with me.

It's like, hey, he's talking live on the air and he needs me right now.

And so I'm going to take a nap, yeah, this would be the perfect time for me to do something

like I've never seen this computer.

No.

There we go.

So this Canadian woman was broke two speed records and an Australian track while pedaling

a penny farting.

Oh no, farting.

Sorry, farting.

A penny farting.

Sorry, eight year old me had to do that joke.

That's fine.

That's okay.

Lizzie a Wilmot.

Climbed her Victorian style bicycle and broke the Guinness World Records with the fastest

speed on a penny farting for a female.

Okay.

The video of this is fantastic because it's now she's like a real bicyclist and she's

dressed as one.

She's racing like one.

But she's doing it.

What are those old-timey bikes?

Yeah, if you get in your mind's eye everyone, the bikes with the huge front wheel and

the tiny back wheel, the one you steer with, okay?

You've seen them in cartoons, like hundreds of times, right?

It's a basic one.

I don't actually paddle on them, yes, yes, that's the thing.

We've seen them in cartoons, like I feel like a credit to her, well done, and very impressive

and I hope she has that record for a very, very long time.

But I do have a little bit of a gripe with this because she's in modern cycling gear.

Yes.

She looks like a bicycle.

I feel like you kind of got to be an old-timey gear.

If you're truly going to break the record, you got to be in the gear and you have to

talk like that.

I am almost, I am almost thinking this doesn't count because she's not in the gear from

like 1910.

That's what you need to be dressed as.

I don't mean to take this from her.

I don't want to, you know, nitpick, but I feel like, wow, she's really in a cat's

pajamas.

Just seeing her, right?

It was wild.

Oh, man.

And we also should not be able to watch the footage of this in anything other than

C.P.

Atot.

Exactly.

With the film cracks in it and everything.

Yeah.

I'm totally with you on this.

I don't make the rules, man.

No.

I feel like it would be like watching like old-timey bodybuilders, you know?

Yes.

With the circle.

Yeah.

The sphere dumbbells in there.

Where all weights were just those big balls, like I don't know how, like they ever moved

weights around like that or how they ever knew how much.

And the old singlet.

You know, you got to wear the old singlet when you're doing that and have a musta handlebar

mustache.

Had a big triangle-sized weight that you picked up.

You know.

Hup, hup, hup.

A South Carolina woman whose husband forgot to buy her lottery tickets made her own trip

to the store and ended up winning over $500,000.

See, she should have done it all the time.

She should have gone.

It pays to have a forgetful husband, okay?

The upstate woman told South Carolina education lottery officials she made a trip to the

Mart in Linman because her husband had forgotten to buy the lottery tickets.

She requested.

Well.

There you go.

Should do yourself.

She says, quote, I was standing in line and these bright shiny glittery tickets caught

my eyes and I bought three of them, which would not have been bought if her husband went.

That's right.

He would have just gotten whatever he usually gets, right?

Right.

Right.

She, she, this is part of the reason I'm doing this story, everybody.

Quote, I felt like Jed Klamppett when he discovered that bubbling crude.

I love that line.

I love that.

You can hear her saying that, especially in Carolina accent.

Yes.

It's perfect.

Jed Klamppett.

We have a little fun, she's going to have a little fun, take some trips in retirement.

We'll soon, we'll come sooner rather than later for her.

Nice.

Congratulations to them.

Yeah.

Great story.

Great story.

Ever hearing the end of this.

No.

It's, and not even, I don't even mean like she's going to, if I'm her, I don't have to bring

it up.

I never have to bring this up.

It'll just be hanging there.

Yeah, right.

And especially like if she messes something up, you know, she, she burns the toast or something

like that.

Go, good luck, ma'am.

Yeah.

Go ahead and make a complaint.

Every argument you lose.

Yes.

Automatically from now on.

It's all done.

It's all done for you.

But hey, you got $500,000.

Exactly.

On the positive side.

You're rich.

That's a money now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think you could handle that for big rich.

I could not.

Yeah.

And finally, us being in Wisconsin here, Seth and everything, we may be transplants, but even

we get how important cheese is in this state.

Absolutely.

And we are at a news station.

So a collaborative cheese aged in a cave for 10 months received the top marks in a competition

in Spain and earned a Guinness World Record when it was auctioned for $42,232.

That's a cheese.

That's a cheese.

Yeah.

Wow.

It is the world's most expensive cheese.

It is now.

And it's not that big.

No, I bet you it's not.

It's about the size of a pizza.

Yeah.

The smaller the cheese wheel.

Yeah, right.

The cheese created by Angelette and Angel Diaz Herrero, a cheese factory, was sold by the

regular regulatory council in Spain and purchased by a restaurant near there.

All right.

See, now that's an investment for if it's a restaurant.

Now they can just like do a little hunks and say, would you like to try the award-winning

cheese that we have and spend $10 per like a little tiny slice, right?

I was just talking about this.

I got to go to a couple of nice restaurants in Chicago when I was a kid and one of them

was like a family connections and stuff.

And we wait, wait, wait.

Family connections are key.

Family connections.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I should have said that.

Well, we'll let it in.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We would go there and people would talk about in the back room.

It was one of those places that had the, you know, the fine meat back there.

Oh, yeah.

You take a slice off of it and this like aged pork or something from the old country

and everything.

I never had to go back there.

I never see it.

But that reminds me of that.

Like you get to go back there and have a little slice, a little slice of this cheese.

The pricey cheese weighed in at five pounds was made with cow's milk in age for 10 months

and it lost massos, a cave, which is nearly 5,000 feet above sea level.

If you wanted to recreate the recipe at home, first of all, you moved to Spain because

this is the only place the topology is like that.

Step one.

Yes.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back with the Elcafapert day anniversary club at Seth and James.

Take it through the morning.

I'd WFHR.

You heard the boys time to do some celebration here without you.

You missed your calling.

We're the good friends over at Elcafapert in the birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you tomorrow to treat yourself when they're back open at 2.21 Market Avenue

and beautiful port Edwards.

Keep in mind the gang is closed over there for today, but that gives you a day to get

your recipe or your meal in mind.

Everything prepped.

Get your look.

Check out their menu.

See what they got.

Go to Elcafapewi.com to do that.

Everybody be sure to throw their name into your search bar on Facebook and like what they're

doing over there.

Keep up to date and all the cool things that they're doing over there.

And get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrate with you.

You can email us info at WFHR.com.

You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages and set you can call on them.

Yes.

Everyone 5, 4, 2, 4.

26.

30, 600.

26, 100.

As this caller who just called up did right now.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

Hi.

I have a birthday.

I forgot about calling them before.

Is it for today?

Yeah.

All right.

Linda Nash.

Yeah.

We got Linda on here.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

We already had Linda.

I'm the mother.

That's great.

Oh, that's great.

That's very cool.

We appreciate it.

And we're 92 years old.

We're parents.

Oh.

Wow.

We've been married for 72 years.

Oh, that's weird.

Wonderful.

That's weird.

Thank you.

Oh, I haven't got them trained yet.

You hang in there.

I believe in you.

You hang in there.

You'll get it.

Thank you so much for this.

Oh, wonderful.

You made our morning.

We appreciate it.

Okay, then.

Thank you so much, you guys.

Thank you.

Thank you too.

That's wonderful.

Best listeners in radio.

Yes.

Love it.

Appreciate you.

Fantastic.

And I love that we added on here.

Yeah.

We already.

We're all safe.

We appreciate you.

We keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody.

Can you feel free to call in during the segment?

Just like that.

Yeah.

Even during a, you know, next hour or something like that,

we don't mind whenever you want to call and get them in to us.

Yeah.

And get, uh, doing some, get into the set.

We got three possible qualifiers.

Give me a one, two, three.

Uh, let's go with three today.

That gives us, uh, well, I think you guys can tell by my voice to qualify.

Yes.

And Seth cannot see the list.

I cannot see the list.

No.

First up, we want to say really happy birthday to Barb Moon.

Happy birthday, Barb.

Barb, you have the last name I want.

Yes.

Yeah.

I would love that name.

I mean, a great name.

We, we hope you enjoy your day, Barb.

Yeah.

It's a lot better than nightriders.

Yeah.

I mean, much better, much better.

Uh, enjoy your day, Barb.

We wish a great one.

Another great name here.

Happy birthday to Charlotte Blanchard.

Charlotte.

Happy birthday to you.

And enjoy your day.

Charlotte.

Hope it's a great time.

Not enough charlots in the world.

No.

No, love that.

And the only reason I say that is because char is one of my favorite nicknames.

Yeah.

Sure.

I love that nickname.

So that's what we need more charlots.

Yeah.

Enjoy your day.

Charlotte.

Hope it's a good one.

And our qualifier today.

Celebratin.

Fantastic.

How about that?

That's great.

I love it.

I couldn't have done that.

You guys would see right through me if I did it on purpose.

That's perfect.

That's awesome.

Happy birthday, Linda.

Happy birthday.

We hope it's a great one for you.

And thank you very much, everybody, who got us these birthdays in anniversary.

Yeah.

And you have fantastic parents, Linda, by the way.

Yeah.

They're, they're great.

Really amazing.

Yeah.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays with.

Soldier Boy is 35.

Uh, they did.

I don't know if he said any hits recently, but I know he was big for a little while.

Yep.

Really?

John David Washington is 41.

Okay.

Of course, a Denzel Washington son.

Uh, you might have seen him in ballers or tenet or black clansmen.

Um, any of those, you would see some incredible work.

Denzel Washington son is 41 years old.

Incredible.

How can he, I know he's older.

He just doesn't look at it.

I just never associate him with being older.

Yeah.

I just, he looks too good.

Yeah.

He looks way younger than that.

Yeah, he does.

And his star kind of got going a little bit late too.

He was really, he was a great football player.

Uh, he had, he had every intention of going into the NFL.

Um, he, I believe he still has a UCLA, the longest run in UCLA running like history.

Really?

I think it was 99 yards or something like that.

I followed his career really strong.

Um, he kind of, he acted in like acting, but he really loved football.

He really wanted to be an athlete.

You can kind of see it because he takes that preparation.

I know this because the only prep I have for acting is from my sports father.

Um, he takes a lot of that with him.

Sure.

Uh, he is, um, in black clansmen, it's some incredible, incredible performance.

Him and Adrian Brody are so good together.

Tenet I rambled about last week and I'm good.

He is in that.

It's, I've never seen this with a child, an actor though who is the son of somebody.

Um, maybe a little bit with Ben Stiller.

Yeah.

Actually, maybe a little bit with Ben Stiller and his parents.

But you watch Jan, David Washington, he could be standing next to his father on the red carpet.

And you see things like, oh, there's Denzel smile.

Sure.

Yeah.

Well, at the same time, he's so his own creature.

Right.

He is so much his own person.

And, and it's, it's, it's really cool to watch.

Like he's a great actor.

Yeah.

I put his, his father is in my top five.

So I'm not sure, but I can't put him in there, but he is way up there and only getting better.

Right.

Laurie Loughlin is 61.

Uh, Rebecca on full house.

Right.

Fuller house, of course.

Convicted felon.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I got to throw that in there.

Yeah.

You know, don't mess with the college of them.

Don't.

Elizabeth Berkley is 53.

Aww.

Jesse on, say, by the bell.

And of course, Nomi and showgirls.

Yes.

Um, and let's see here along with all those names.

Sally Struthers is 78.

Wow.

I don't know why all the others connect a, just TV nostalgia right there.

Right there.

All three.

Right in a row.

Three different decades.

Yep.

Three different decades.

Wow.

That's cool.

And Sally Struthers, of course, did a lot of good work with her campaign and a lot of the commercials.

Yeah.

She did that in the day too.

Sure.

Jim Davis is 80.

The great, the genius, Jim Davis is 80.

Let me get that right.

Wow.

Genius who created Garfield.

Garfield, yes.

And on a Monday.

Yeah.

Just celebrate Garfield and Jim Davis.

Of course we are.

Um, still one of my favorite comics of all time.

I was a big Garfield kid when I was, when I was growing up.

Partially because he was Garfield appeared June 19th, 1978, exactly two months before I

was born.

Wow.

Like I had a connection with Garfield there.

And I, I remember collecting the book, I remember making books because we got the Sunday

paper.

Yeah.

So I would cut out the Garfield strips and like staple them together.

So I would have Garfield comic books that I could read.

So I throw this in there just for fun.

Uh, he cliff came five years before he did, I had to double check.

Uh, and I knew it was before I didn't know it was five years before Garfield.

And I've always thought that was kind of funny because a lot of people would come to think

that, you know, he cliff came was a, because the Garfield, yeah, I, I as a kid did not,

I don't think we saw a ton of like, uh, the anteater in the pink panther or our characters

like that with the darker kind of sense of humor and there's sarcastic sense of humor.

Garfield was that man.

I love that about Garfield.

Very sarcastic.

Yes.

And I like Garfield and all but Odie.

Odie's one of my favorite characters ever.

I love Odie.

Well done.

Happy birthday to Mr. Davis.

Yes.

Peter Cullen is 84, the voice of Optimus Prime and the transformer.

Oh.

Such a great voice.

Peter Cullen has one of those voices for the ages love that voice.

Oh.

And some people that would have been celebrating their birthday is like former first lady,

the definition of class, Jacqueline Kennedy O'Nassus born in the state in 1929, so many

moments of hers that I, I think that even in the moment, people were able to appreciate

I think, but only with time, if we really truly have been able to understand, I think

some of the magnitude of what was on her shoulders having to go through that.

Yeah.

And I'm not even talking like before the assassination, I mean, just being, being married

into the Kennedy family and some of the, honestly, I'm not, I'm not talking trash

here or anything.

My family ain't much better, you know, I mean, and neither is yours out there or anybody

else.

We're all of our families are like this.

But being, having it put on blast, having it put out there for everybody.

And there is no, she can go on her podcast and correct things or something like that.

Right.

And what was asked of our first ladies back then and how she changed some of that and

will also completely change the game when it came to like the first lady's style in

some of those things.

Being like a fashionable person, right?

Yeah.

Like a human being.

And especially the way she handled life afterwards.

Yes.

After the assassination.

Nothing but class.

Yeah.

The Beatrix Potter born in this day in 1866, wonderful child, children's author, brought

us Peter Rabbit and many others.

Wow.

That's some good ones right there.

And Rick Wright, born in 1943, Pink Floyd's famous keyboardist, original keyboardist.

So much of Pink Floyd is, is brought on to, of course, the two big names and then even

Sid Barrett, who really was barely in Pink Floyd.

Yeah.

He was, although he was one of the founders, but because of, certainly, not taking anything

from him.

Right.

But the time they became, quote unquote, Pink Floyd.

He was long gone by then, yeah.

You really can't talk about that band, though, without talking about every single band

of them.

No, they were all extremely talented.

And to this day, you can listen, I mean, they've all put out some, you know, solo material

and it's good.

I mean, they've, Dave Gilmore just recently put out some amazing music.

I was so surprised by that, yeah.

And one more time, we shouldn't have birthday and anniversary to everybody else, celebrating,

enjoy your day, everyone.

And make plans and head on over to LKFA tomorrow.

They'll be back open tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.

Yes, indeed.

And over there, and wish them a good day.

We'll be back with some more fun on the morning show at 975 FM, WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

I'm a quarter reason first.

I'm a quarter reason hall.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We're going to get into some fun in the next couple of hours.

We got Beth joining us at the top of the 10 o'clock with Kitchens open.

We'll be getting into that and going over our schedule, some good stories of the day.

Plenty more coming up for you, everybody.

But which state is being overrun by tourists?

They're everywhere.

Yeah.

Let me make it sound like there's like a locus swarm or something like that.

You got to put the windshield wipers, get them going and everything and the tours hanging

on in the cars and something like that, you like the idea that a tourist just fallen

around everywhere.

Where's the nearest map, bro?

Where is this happening?

Look at me, show me where the where's a good place to eat.

Yeah, where's a good place to eat?

If your ideal vacation includes whitewater rafting, coal mining, pepperoni rolls, maybe

some of these kind of things, well, we might have a place for you.

According to a new report, the US state that's the most overrun by tourists is, do you want

to take a guess?

Well, I don't know if those, what you just read off were hints at that.

So maybe there, but uh, West Virginia?

My goodness.

My goodness, Seth.

There is.

It was the mining that gave it away, coal mining, yeah.

Nicely done, man.

West Virginia.

Wow.

At least compared to the number of locals.

Right.

Researchers determined the visitors to local ratio for each state by dividing the annual

tourist population by the annual residential population.

Okay.

So it's not the most popular tourist destination.

It's just the most tourism traffic above the people who actually live there.

Per capita, right?

That makes sense.

Yeah.

West Virginia has the highest visitor to local ratio with 42.4 to one.

Whoa.

That is a lot.

That's a lot.

Wow.

North Dakota is next, followed by Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, Tennessee, New Mexico,

Idaho, and Wisconsin.

Oh, okay.

So now Wisconsin's got a little higher population than a lot of those states.

So that's interesting.

Texas says the lowest visitor to local ratio state with two to one.

Um, that's kind of wild to think of.

Yeah.

Right.

I don't know about anybody else, but right away in my head, it's just a really, like,

just another sign of how massive Texas is.

Yeah.

Man.

That's why.

Big state.

Arizona is next, followed by Alaska, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama,

Oklahoma, and Florida.

Okay.

When expanded the countries, Vatican City has the highest visitor to local ratio, of course,

of everything because it's tiny.

It's always the outlier.

It is.

It is.

It's not to say that it shouldn't be included.

I feel like though, it is a nation.

Yeah.

Give us the other names, though.

Like what came in, quote, unquote, second, third and all that in comparison.

It's hard to do.

Yeah.

Others include the Bahamas, Monaco, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Again, that'll make sense.

Hong Kong is a little, yeah.

Although Hong Kong is pretty big.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

At least to me, it seems big.

I guess I don't really know.

It's a big city.

Yeah.

But that's all it is.

It's a, I mean, it's very small island, so Vatican City has what has fewer than 900 permanent

residents, including the Pope, of course, but millions of people visit every year, of

course.

Mm-hmm.

But it is.

It does make it a lot easier to do, you know, who's going to do the shoveling?

Who's taking the garbage out this week?

It's a lot easier there.

You know what, though, I wonder if Italy is irritated by that, because I think a lot

of it is like people are, you know, visiting Italy, you know, they're in Rome and checking

you know, like, hey, we're in Rome, you know, I think, hey, there's Vatican City, you want

to check it out while we're here?

Oh, sure, let's do it, because it's in Rome, I mean, yes, it's like fully encapsulated

in the city of Rome, so I have.

Have I done any research on this topic?

No, but yes, Seth.

Yes, they are.

It just seems that way, right?

It seems like that would be logical.

I'm Italian, therefore, as a rule of being Italian, you have to be proud of being Italian.

You've never been to Italy, right?

Yes, yes.

And I love my people at all that, but yes, a hundred percent, if we could get bent out

of shape about something, if we could do it.

They'll find a way.

Yes, yes, definitely, definitely a lot about that.

Thought this one was interesting, too.

Humans, and there's kind of a tie into these, I feel, okay?

You know, humans need at least seven hours of sleep, according to science, and the many,

many studies we've gone through, right?

Restore, recover, restore, reprive, you know, kind of just going to reset.

Reset, yeah.

Well, according to a new poll, Americans spend nearly half of their entire day online

between work, jobs, and tasks, entertainment, and socials.

And here's how that breaks down.

The average American spends more than 10 hours a day online, 5.4 of those hours are spent

on working, regarding emails, paying bills, browsing, gaming, and looking at social media.

Sure.

And they spend another five hours streaming entertainment, while whether it's watching

movies, TV shows, videos, sports, whatever.

Whatever.

55% of them use their TV to stream content, followed by 25% who mostly use computers and tablets,

and 20% who use their phone.

So this is, I feel like a lot of the times, especially with topics like this.

As a person doing a morning show, or just talk radio, I'm supposed to blah, blah, blah.

This is bad, evil technology and all that.

I don't know that that's what this is necessarily should necessarily be about though.

I mean, can it just be data?

Yeah.

There's everything have to be good or bad, or the moralized about everything.

This is the villain, and this is the hero of the story or whatever.

Very binary, yeah.

Have we not realized by now that most of life is gray?

And this is just stuff that I do think that if you feel like, well, I've been one,

I've been feeling like I spend too much time on streaming or tablets or whatever.

Maybe this is a nice way of you looking at this data and comparison to your own life

and saying, well, this is where I can improve or maybe this is where I can take an hour

of screen time away and get outside.

Or maybe you're feeling pretty good and you're like, wait a minute, I don't do half of

that.

Right, exactly.

Yeah.

You and I, you yourself are not on social media.

So for you, you're not spending any time on such exactly that that takes a whole chunk

right off there.

There's a little win in the win column.

There's a little thing where you feel good about yourself, maybe or whatever you take

from this.

It's your own case by case basis, right?

This data is cool and important.

And I think it's that's that's part of the purpose of life is getting information like

this and surveys like this, right, we're able to do that.

But not everything has to be life or death, no, not everything has to be so darn dramatic.

Right.

And that's coming from me.

In the universe.

Right.

Well, and let's, let's, again, perspective is always, you know, important on all of these

things.

Look at history.

Remember when the TV came out and everyone was like, everyone's melting their brains.

They're watching six hours of TV.

Children will never be the same.

Children are going to be born with their eyeballs just gigantic.

Which of course, you know, yeah, I'm sure there's there's detrimental for people watching

too much TV back in the day.

I'm sure there was part of that too.

But also education, right?

People were educated by TV.

You know, we got to see some amazing sports things and all these other things.

Right now, I mean, and also I'm curious about definitions here because does, so if you

listen, say you listen to a podcast, okay, yes, you are using a device.

You're online, technically, you are online when you're listening to a podcast.

But that's, you're not necessarily looking at a screen because you're listening to it,

right?

Now, maybe you're reading while you're doing it or maybe you're washing the dishes or

maybe you're taking a walk.

But you're still technically online because you're listening to something that is streaming,

either music or a podcast.

Books.

Yes, technically you're looking at a screen, but you're reading.

What does that mean?

You know, so we have to take that into consideration as well.

What does all that mean?

Just kind of lumping it all together as, you know, quote, unquote, screen time.

Yeah, I guess in some ways that's true, but in a lot of other ways, it's different.

It's not the same thing.

It's apples and oranges.

From politicians to content creators and stuff, some people are invested in negativity,

are invested in scaring you, are invested in separating us.

Sure.

I feel like more and more of this kind of data is also a nice reminder of how much we're

alike, how we're all dealing with these different things.

And we're all trying to, you know, get the water out of the boat on the water here and

everything.

It's understandable, however you feel about this, it's okay because it's a case-by-case

kind of base.

Absolutely.

I think.

And I mean, I feel like it goes without saying, too.

There's certain forms of entertainment that you should always have on playing in the

background, maybe on your home radio or something like that.

The end of us, please.

Why?

Just play us all the time.

Of course, you can also listen to us online.

Yes.

Yes.

As well.

So I mean, maybe we're part of the problem.

Yes.

I don't know.

That's completely okay.

I checked with doctors and 9 out of 10 doctors.

I'm pretty sure.

Jimmy Radio is okay.

Feel like the wrong way.

You might want to check with your local consultant, but might want to not listen to me or other

radio announcers or people like that for that matter.

Not qualified.

For that sort of thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Real quick.

You brought up reading.

I just want to throw this out to you.

The audience, quick poll question and everything.

Does reading, can you call it reading if you listen to an audio book that came up with

us some students last night and a very heavy debate came up to the point where one student

was like, this, this is my cause now.

And I'm like, hold up.

Hold up.

That's a big old settle down.

Settle down.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

I wish that was the biggest problem in my life.

I wish.

Okay.

Well, do you, okay.

Here.

Here's the question.

If someone reading to a group of children is that considered reading to the children,

good question.

If that's the, then if you consider that reading, then yes, because you're being read

too by someone else, then it would be considered.

If you do not consider that reading, then no.

So there you go.

I've solved it.

Another problem solved.

I like it.

On the morning show here.

You're welcome, everybody.

You go and take that with you now.

I want to hear from you guys out there.

What do you think?

Does it consider, is it considered reading if you listen to an audio book?

To be honest, I fall on the side of yes.

I do consider that reading.

Yeah.

I do in the sense that you take it in the information and I want authors to survive.

I want authors to thrive.

So I therefore, if you read the books for that matter, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Get those people out there.

We like them too.

I think it's important.

Yeah.

We will take a quick time out when we come back on an interesting one here about inside jokes.

Now Seth and I are only going to keep all of the information between each other.

But we do encourage you to listen.

Very confusing to you, but it would be hilarious for us.

I'm going to be filled with a billion inside.

I don't actually don't think we have too many that we've got a lot.

But that's the thing about inside jokes.

I don't think you really know them until they're happening.

That's right.

We'll talk about that.

We come back on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

We're just playing music this morning now.

Nothing but hundreds.

Data break.

Yep.

I cannot play some Hendrix and not want to finish it, man.

This one in particular.

It's a good one, nice.

Yes.

I don't know how popular it is.

I don't know.

I think it's a client.

I think so too.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Welcome back, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody.

We want you to know that the 10 o'clock hour is going to kick off the way you like it

to with the kitchen's open.

Beth is going to join us or we're looking forward to it.

And Beth is going to work some overtime with us.

She's extra innings with us.

There you go.

Nice.

She's going to stick around as we get into some fun with the top Disney soundtracks of

all time.

Very cool.

Very cool.

We have to get into that and you have to say time that way.

Yes.

You cannot.

We also will get into some entertainment news in the 10 o'clock hour.

Have a bunch of local things we want to talk about in our schedule.

Some of that.

We want to get into it with you, Seth.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Look forward to it.

For right now, let's go ahead and dive into inside jokes.

All right.

Let's do it.

I think that one of the best telltale signs of a good friendship is an inside joke.

Right.

I think it's where whether we're talking about office friends or office buddies or somebody

that you've known since grade school, cousin, brother or sister, whatever it might be,

inside jokes.

They mean so much when it comes to having those inside jokes with family members, especially

siblings or cousins.

It could be a bonding thing for parents and kids that that moment that only you guys were

around for.

And then, of course, it's one of the bigger bonding things for friendships, especially when

you're first getting to know each other and it's exactly.

And it's not something that anybody ever set out to do.

It isn't something that was ever built into our society to make us better as human beings.

It wasn't something we just evolved to.

I genuinely believe that inside jokes have been a thing as long as we've been able to communicate.

Probably.

Even before language, I believe that there were probably inside jokes.

I don't have any proof of this.

Of course.

Just being a student of history and all that stuff and everything.

I really think this is something to it.

And while we continue to, you know, life only goes one direction and all that and like

everybody else, I'm here for the ride.

I don't know that we do this enough where we kind of sit back and marvel at humanity and

admire certain things.

And while we came up with that, that's not something that was handed to us or even the

earth gave to us or something like that.

We just thought, hey, we're going to do this thing and we're going to give it a name

and it's called inside jokes.

Right.

Right.

And honestly, you know, I've always maintained that the greatest invention that humanity has

ever done is language, which is something that had to be developed.

Yeah.

Good luck talking to that one.

I'm sure.

I mean, if it were said, you know, if it weren't a big deal that babies would be born being

able to speak.

Right.

Well, they're not.

We have to teach them.

This was a learned thing.

This was an invented thing.

And we didn't just do it once.

No, we did it.

Thousands and thousands of times.

Right.

Isn't that amazing?

Oh, man.

And this is just one of the small little things about, you know, language that makes it such

a fantastic, the idea that language changes and evolves over time.

I mean, it's one of the most versatile things, too.

It's amazing.

I think it's, I don't know that it's important is that much of a, it's a little bit too

heavy of a word, maybe, but I think it's great and not, it doesn't do.

It's not a bad thing.

There's no downside.

Every once in a while, kind of just take it some, like a step back approach looking at

the things we've accomplished.

Right.

Sure, there's walking on the moon.

That's pretty high up there.

There's also things like this that we're talking about here, language inside jokes, anything

like that.

Also, deserve kind of a, a pretty big tip of the hat.

Yeah.

And now I, I've obviously thought about this a bit before, but I've never really thought

too deeply about this, like these psychologists have.

They say that actually, that psychologists say they actually promote our brains belonging

response inside jokes totally makes sense.

Hmm.

Turns out they are a very healthy and good thing for our brain.

Cool.

Our belonging response is quite important to our brains.

It's our brains way of saying you're safe here, so the more the merrier, hmm, that's

really cool.

Now, our brains and we, so much of our data, so much of our time, so much of a neurology

is spent on not only mapping the brain, studying the brain, but also why are we afraid

of this?

Why are we afraid of that?

Why do I get anxious?