Unfortunately, Everything is Political Now(Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning world, it's a new day.

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.

Time for the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20am WFHR.

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Our co-host Seth Habhacker.

Good morning and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks to being here everybody. We're going to have some fun this morning

This is very, very kind. Yes. What does it look like for today, buddy?

Well, I'm going to share the sunshine with you. It will be partly sunny this afternoon

and very comfortable and calm. Wins will barely be moving, highs at about 70 degrees

and we're starting just the best forecast for fall out there.

I'm just so excited for it.

I mean, it's going to be the best temperatures to really pop those fall colors,

mixed with the sunshine, dry conditions. It's really going to be setting the landscape beautiful.

So highs in the mid 70s by tomorrow. We're going to climb to the upper 70s for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

And then on Monday, maybe even Tuesday, we're going to hit 80 degrees.

Whoa. Wow. Wow.

I dropped. Yeah. No kid. Yeah, you're early-

You're early-

Early autumn warm temperatures. I'll take it.

Yeah. Very, very exciting and comfortable. I'm excited as well.

Yeah, because that's a thing. When we get this time of year and hit those temps,

it seems more comfortable. Seems more doable with everything.

It's not really a typical 80. It's not a June 80.

No, it's not that. It is a lot more comfortable. Oh, that's cool.

Very good to hear.

Today is the- and sundown will be the end of Rosh Hashan, the beginning of this new year and everything.

And not only do I say Shana Tovah to everybody out there.

It's curious what the weather is going to be like as-

What we do is go down to the river, my mother and I, and we grab some, you know,

Brad or something that we can take pieces off.

And with every piece, we go over memories of the year, the good, the bad, all of it.

And we start a new.

We are thankful for everything.

That is really what you're doing. He's giving thanks to the year that just had and all of those things.

And it's hard to do in the rain. So-

It's nice. It's not much nicer.

It's like when it's- it's sunny, yeah.

We've done it before in the rain. It's a little faster.

It's a little faster all in it, but-

You're honest.

Yeah, right, yeah.

And I want to think-

And I want to think-

Well, I don't know what time you're going, but no rain is in the forecast.

And I will say it's just going to be partly cloudy.

Overnight lows, 48 degrees.

Maybe some fog sneaking in there is a little eerie, but no rain.

You're good.

All right, excellent.

We appreciate it. Thanks so much, Brad. You have a great morning.

You too. Thank you.

Best in the business right there for you, everybody.

Bring him your load, joining us every morning. We appreciate her.

Appreciate all of you hanging out.

We got good stuff on the way for you, everybody.

We're talking flying cars.

Flying cars.

Yes.

Where's my flying car?

The first flying car crash ever is what we're talking about.

That's actually what we're going to get to.

That'll be a little bit later.

Give you an idea of where we're at.

Yeah. Yeah.

Pretty much. We've also got an interesting one here.

And this is kind of funny with what we were talking about in our pre-game set.

Finally, a good use for AI.

It'll answer your calls and blocks, Pam.

Hey, there you are.

Well, that sounds good.

Oh, no, we intrigued you.

Talking to other AI is my guess, because that's used to what they are now.

It's interesting.

What happens when AI talks to AI?

That's just never lasting loop.

Oh, it could be.

It could be.

We got some entertainment news for you lined up.

We're going to get into having some fun with that.

And we also have 10 franchises that Hollywood hasn't touched in over 20 years.

Talking IP.

Well, yeah.

And does that mean, I mean, is anything safe?

Yeah.

Maybe they'll all be coming up soon.

We don't know.

With some of these, we're going to cast them with current people.

If they were to be made.

See, no, that may.

That'd be fun.

Yeah.

I'll go along with that.

We're going to have fun with that.

All those things coming up for you.

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That's a word.

It didn't work.

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The more I'm saying, because you're like, you're not even trying that.

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There we go.

Exactly.

Another one right there.

Okay, more text.

I will stop then maybe.

Yes, hey, stop that.

Well, you know, I wonder, can we combine things?

Because today is national punctuation day set.

Oh, hey, well, that's a good thing.

And I want to dive into this a little bit with you.

Punctuations with a pirate accent.

It's okay.

Paranthacizer.

Oh, no.

I broke my bridge.

I don't even know pirate use punctuation.

No, I don't think that's anti-pi.

Actually, a pirate.

Would it you?

Yeah, that's right.

We don't use commas around here.

No, no, not at all.

That's for your Latin lovers.

In a recent poll, most Americans say that they very often use periods.

72%.

And capital letters, 64% in their writing.

Less than 10% of people say that they rarely use periods or capitals.

So this is kind of interesting to think of.

Now, I don't know how many people out there, especially like,

I don't know the younger people that are listening and everything out there.

How many have read Jack Kerawak?

Okay.

But one of my favorite authors, one of my favorite authors when I was a kid and everything

of course, wanted to be a writer and all that.

And Jack Kerawak never stopped for punctuation.

Yeah, no.

He didn't.

Never did.

And as much as I enjoy and think some of his work is like legendary.

Like some of the better writing you will read, some of the things.

I'm not saying maybe whole books for people, but there are paragraphs,

there are quotes, there are lines that you've never heard an author write before.

It's incredible work that he used to have.

Very difficult to read, especially when you have dyslexia.

I'm sure it made it even worse.

Very difficult.

Reading him made me really want to be better at it.

I've never been good at punctuation.

I need an editor more than most people in this world.

I need an editor just when I'm talking.

Let alone when I'm writing and everything.

Exactly.

And I've tried to get better at it.

But I admit, this is something my brain has never really been able to really construct well.

Understand well is punctuation.

I don't think you're alone on that one.

I think that's one of the hardest things to teach in, right?

And for English anyway, it's getting the correct usage of punctuation.

English, first of all, very difficult language all the way around.

I think we can all agree on that one.

We can all agree on that one.

That's how anyone who is, you know, it has a second language kind of thing or event.

And speaking a language is one thing.

Writing it is completely different.

These are two different things we're talking about here.

I think that's a common issue with people.

It's just punctuation.

How and when do I use it correctly?

So how often we use these things?

Here's the rest of the breakdown.

Commas, 55% of people very often use them, 10% rarely do.

Contractions, 49% very often use them, 16% rarely do.

Really?

They don't use contractions?

That's weird.

That is a little weird.

Question marks, 39% very often use them, 21% rarely do.

Quotation marks, similar, 27% to 32%.

Explanation points, the one that I thought would be the highest.

Especially with emails and everything.

I don't know that I feel like I worry sometimes when you read Thank You

and it doesn't have the explanation point.

It's way better than saying thanks.

Is it more like that or are they saying thank you?

Every time I hear that, I just hear the interjection song from School House Rock.

Yes.

That is where I always think about the exclamation point.

Parentancies, 19% very often use them, 39% rarely do.

Hifons, 16% to 48% so a lot of big number there.

Wow.

Dashes, 15% to 50%.

Colons, 13% to 54%.

Oh, no.

I'm going to stop you right there.

There are so few people that know how to use a colon correctly.

These were the most interesting things.

These were the most interesting things.

Yeah, right.

And semi-colons.

Yes.

11% very often use them, 57% rarely do.

So people use colons more than semi-colons?

Yeah.

Really?

Wow.

I don't know.

You're keeping track of this.

When you're answering the survey, are you like, well, actually, the other day I used more commas than I normally do.

You think about it, right?

You're keeping track of this.

Right.

Not surprisingly, self-described quote, good writers are more likely to use the rare form of punctuation.

Right.

But how many people are good writers?

71% of Americans claim to be good writers.

And wow.

And that is incredibly high and not surprising.

Wow.

That's surprising at all.

I wonder, is there any direct correlation between the number of people who think they're good drivers?

Oh, yeah.

I bet you it's about the same.

I think that, you know, in that one of those charts where they have the circles and the crossover of things.

Yes.

That's right in there.

That's right in there.

A flow chart.

Yes.

So including 24% who say that they are very good.

18% said that they're not very good and 5% say that they are not good at all.

They're terrible.

I'm a terrible writer.

And the number one type of writing Americans do is text messages.

Yes.

Email is second followed by work documents, journal entries, nonfiction essays, poetry or songs, and fiction.

Including short stories and novels.

Right.

Yeah, that makes sense.

I mean, it's really, it's a length.

It's a, if you were to write this down, it's the, you know, how long it takes to write.

How long does it take to write a text message?

Well, a couple of seconds, right?

Novels can take years to write.

So it's really about, you know, how long do each of these things take?

I think one of the things that has not been talked about much in the last, I would say, going the 40, 50 years now,

the rise and the way we have almost taken over the writing game in the world.

One of our major exports is writing in our writers, in American writers.

Right.

When this country was first starting out, if you were an American writer, you were laughed at by European writers,

by the, you know, quote unquote, greats.

And you were not considered to be, well, how good can they be?

They come from America.

Right.

This wasn't that long ago.

In the scheme of things.

Right.

And everything.

To see where American writers have gone with popularity as well as respect.

Mm-hmm.

Man.

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

I'm going to take that one.

I'll take that.

This isn't like an opinion or anything like that.

Look at book sales.

Look at the notoriety.

Look at some of the attention that is given.

Name me a lot of the foreign writers that you read nowadays.

Right.

They're just not as many.

The game hasn't been as attractive to as many minds as it used to be.

A lot of people are going into other industries, whereas many Americans still look at writing as a respectable industry.

Right.

Now, if you're a parent of a writer, you're scared and worried and want them to have a day job,

just to keep the lights out, of course, until they become the next Stephen King or something.

Right.

I'm thinking of my oldest.

I'm thinking of Bria.

But at the same time, you also feel more confident that I ever have in creatives.

Nowadays, yes, have something to keep the lights on.

But man, chase that dream because it has never been more accessible,

whether whatever you want to do creatively.

Well, it's interesting.

If you look at, say you're a fan of someone who writes a newsletter on Substack or something like that,

you can get by, depending on how much you get subscribers.

You know, basically, it's the old newspaper model.

You know, or a magazine, whatever you want to do, you see subscriptions, right?

That's how you do it.

And if you get, say you get like 5,000 subscribers that pay five bucks a month,

hey, that's pretty good.

That's only 5,000 people.

I mean, you could, I think you could live on that.

Right before the pandemic, we had a teacher leave.

And I remember they were making fun of him,

but they were kind of teasing him and everything.

Oh, you'll be back and all this.

Because he was hoping, it was the same, the story of opening an Etsy shop.

Yeah.

He's making more than we are.

Oh, I'm sure he is.

He's making more than we are.

Like he's doing great.

He got something that's in demand, you know.

And there you go.

And it's something creative that he loves to do.

He really gets into it.

He makes masks and stuff.

Yeah.

And he really gets into it.

Exactly.

You know, it's never been more accessible in that regard.

It's also never been more necessary to have that day job because of the way the economy.

Well, the economy is one thing.

The thing that we don't talk nearly enough is what we're paying people.

The economy would not be where it is if we are paying people what they should be paid.

Right.

That's the whole part of the price.

Yeah.

Now, anytime you want to bring up the economy,

fine, just be sure to bring up minimum wage as well.

It really depends on the things.

What part of the economy you're talking about because it's very complicated and large.

Well, yeah.

And feel a little more specific.

The only time, the only reason you hear politicians complain about it is because that's what they're told to say.

They don't care.

They don't care.

You tell me half of these, especially like Tiffany Van Wartner and these people,

what have they suffered?

You're telling me that they are struggling like their constituents.

But they just think the stock market is some kind of bellweather for the economy.

They just...

You don't even have to listen to them.

Just listen to what the guy in the top seat says.

And that's what they'll say.

Yeah.

When it comes to locals, when it comes to actual people and stuff on those things,

that's where I'm much more interested in what people are thinking and feeling than you can see.

And seeing creatives flourish in that market too.

Yeah, exactly.

And being able to in this day and age.

We got the El Caffe birthday anniversary club right around the corner.

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Two today.

All right, gives us that qualifier.

First up, we want to wish a happy birthday to Gerald Sanderson.

Happy birthday, Gerald.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a great one for you.

Have a great day, Gerald.

And we wish a very happy birthday anniversary.

I'm sorry, happy anniversary to Bob and Donna Panko.

Oh, Bob and Donna, congratulations.

Bob and Donna, you are our qualifiers.

Congratulations to you, wish you a great one and joy.

Hope it's a great day for you.

Yeah, absolutely.

And keep getting us those local birthdays and anniversaries, everybody we love, celebrating

with.

Taking a look at our celebrity list.

Who do you share your birthdays with?

Ben Platt is 32.

Evan and dear Evan Hansen.

Oh, was also in the pitch perfect movies.

Very good singer, obviously, obviously.

Stephanie McMahon is 49.

Former wrestler and has the daughter of Vince McMahon is one of the people in charge of things

over at WWE.

Now, I've always just found her really interesting and being growing up in that industry.

Right.

You know, I think her and her brother turning out the way that they did, given the industry

that they grew up in all these different factors and everything.

Pretty cool.

Kind of cool to see.

That's great.

You know, the WWE is not owned.

It's a publicly owned company now.

It's not going to be.

It's not a family run business anymore.

Right.

But to see those two still involved with it, especially her to a degree.

I think that's cool.

And boy, when it comes to like being willing to do anything for the bit and throw yourself

out there and the things that she took and some of the negativity that she experienced in her life and everything,

I admire a lot of that stuff.

It's not easy.

Not everybody can do it.

Nia Varabalos is 63.

You know her from my big crack Greek redding.

Oh, yeah.

Good stand-up comic, too, I believe, as well.

But she's good.

She did a great job.

Very cool.

Yeah, she's good.

One of the better nicknames in sports.

Mean Joe Green is 79.

Pittsburgh steal a legend.

Oh, man.

Hey, Curtin.

I'm telling you, it's got to be.

It's got to be one of the most iconic commercials of all time.

The Coca-Cola ad with Mean Joe.

Hey, kid.

Throw them the jersey.

I mean, come on.

It's so good.

It's awesome.

You know, we talked about these quite a bit a while ago with the less-filling commercials.

The Uker commercials.

There's so many great sports commercials over the years.

There's been some current good ones and everything.

That's the go.

I'm telling you.

That's the, as far as sports commercials go, that's the highest there's ever been.

It's the Mean Joe Green one.

It's at the stage for all of them.

Yeah.

And I don't know that people, like, they weren't using athletes like this beforehand.

They weren't letting them talk.

That's for sure.

But they were using them mainly in magazine ads and newspaper ads.

Oh, we can't let the big dumb jock talk.

Mean Joe Green did fine with it.

I believe it was one take.

It took.

Wow.

Great job with it.

Great job.

Yeah.

And then you see, of course, a lot of football players go to be actors, go into that realm and everything.

Right, and be a sports announcer and all that.

Yep.

I'm not trying to oversell it.

I'm not saying that all is because of that commercial.

But it certainly helped in push things a lot faster to that degree.

Very popular.

That helped a lot.

And some people no longer with us.

And we need to beat on these because there's just three amazing ones.

Okay.

First Phil Hartman born in this day in 1948, passed away way too dang young in 1998.

Senate Live alum news radio genius.

A lot of movies that he was in over the years and everything.

Great voices.

Over the years, the Simpsons.

If you ask who is the most talented person in Senate Live history, you have to bring up Phil Hartman.

I'm not saying it has to be him.

This is an opinion thing.

Everybody's got a different answer.

Right.

But in the conversation, in the conversation has to be Phil Hartman.

When it comes to impersonations, name me one person who was better to this day at impersonations than Phil Hartman.

Or had more range than Phil Hartman.

Right.

When you saw Phil Hartman show up in a sketch, tell me you didn't get excited.

Tell me you weren't smiling.

Tell me you didn't know that you were going to laugh.

Just incredible career.

I'm thinking of one right now.

Incredible career.

Incredible thing.

Some of my favorite stuff that he did.

So he would just like, it's one line or something and he would jump in.

He took a silly bit like caveman lawyer and made it entertaining and funny.

He was just one of the greatest I've ever seen, greatest entertainers I've ever seen.

Along with that, we've talked about his work with Paul Rubens and P.B. Herman and the creation of that.

And in recent months, I got to learn something about Phil Hartman.

There are few people who have dissected Phil Hartman's career more than I have.

Right.

I look up to this man like few others.

And I did not know something except that you told me the other day that literally blew my mind.

Blue your blue your mind before he got into acting or maybe as a sideline when he was trying to get into the business.

He was a graphic designer.

And he designed several very famous album covers for several different bands.

I think probably the one that I think Blue James away the most is the Asia cover for Steely Dan's.

My favorite Steely Dan's album.

Which is one of them.

It's a fantastic minimalist cover.

But it is so well designed.

And yeah, that's what he did.

He could have made a name for himself as a graphic designer.

But he wanted to get into and aren't we lucky that he got into show business?

A quick Googler search and you can see all of the album covers he did.

And one of the things I think so cool about it is every one of them is different.

Yes.

He doesn't do the same thing.

There's not a mode or anything like that.

He took each individual band and said what would work for this album.

And he did a fantastic job.

He was a very good graphic designer.

Which is incredibly fitting because he was one of the most versatile actors we've ever seen.

Right. And special shout out, CB4.

Nice.

Nice good one.

Good around front.

Very good.

And he also born in this day in 1941.

Wow.

You could ask Paul and he would tell you that there might not be wings without her.

Right.

And she was not even going to be in part wings.

She didn't want any part of the public eye.

She really didn't.

No.

She was a sort of well-known before that for being the daughter of the Kodak family, the Eastman family.

But she was a photographer.

And that's how she met Paul in the first place.

She was a famous, somewhat famous photographer.

And then of course she married one of the most famous people on the planet.

And what do you do with that?

Well, she did the best she could for sure.

I know that she took a lot of heat for it.

I enjoyed her singing her playing.

I enjoyed her.

I thought I created a person.

Yeah.

I thought it was a perfect mix when you have literally one of the greatest musicians any of us have ever heard

with an artist like that.

I feel like it rose not only her up but it brought made him more relatable, more real, more like his music more

than something that the Beatles could not do.

Right.

The Beatles, you got four geniuses basically in that room.

They don't know how to be anything other than geniuses and nothing wrong with that.

No, but it can make Lisa some brought out something different in him.

Yeah, she did.

No, 100%.

Maybe I'm amazed in all these different songs that I know I listen to all the time.

It will don't happen without her.

Right.

Like literally don't happen without her.

And there's no question that she was the love of his life.

I mean, there's no question about it.

Yep.

And then sadly, we lost her way too young to breast cancer.

One of the greatest, if not the greatest cameo in Simpson's history is her and Paul McGurney.

It was so good.

It was one of the few things they kept.

Like Lisa becomes a vegetarian until this day.

She still is.

She still is.

And I know for you and I, one of our greatest influences, Jim Henson born in this day in 1936.

Yeah.

Again, we don't get to say this word very often but we get to say it about Ray Charles the other day, genius.

The creative genius.

Yeah.

Looking at puppeteering, looking at puppets the way he did.

And yes, the Muppet Show and Sesame Street and all these things are incredibly noteworthy.

Yeah.

None of our childhoods are the same without them.

Support public broadcasting everybody.

Please, please, please support public broadcasting.

But it's also the other stuff that he did and the game changing things that he did.

Go back and just watch the making of Emmett Otter's Christmas special.

And the things that they did to make that happen.

Like so movies that are coming out in that same film than that same set.

They're doing the things that Henson was doing.

Right.

They're taking the camera on different angles.

Like he did things that like ripple effect in the entertainment industry.

And especially when it comes to camera work and cinematography and the genius he made there.

The puppeteering and giving respect to a whole industry that was kind of just pushed to the side.

It was considered kids.

It was kids fair.

That's all that puppets were.

It was just you can put your hand in a thing, you know, do like a little kitty show kind of thing like that.

No, he gave it respectability.

He gave it, I mean, and it's in his devotion to this one art for it's not like he didn't have talent in other fields.

He did.

Yeah.

But he was devoted to making this puppet an actual mature type of, and I don't mean mature like adult.

I'm just saying, you know, like it's not for kids, it's for everybody kind of thing.

And he did it better than anybody.

And he changed the game.

He completely changed the game for puppeteering.

It is at a level now that it never went back from.

That's right.

It never went down from.

And I don't believe that I am the creative person I am without him.

I don't think that happens.

I also encourage you to check out what the Muppet wonderful podcast that Briya and I do.

They did.

That's great.

It was great.

It was a lot of fun.

But just bringing that up in jest, but also in a sense of like that's how much this guy meant to me.

Like me and Briya community of Muppet folks out there doing stuff like that.

Yeah, no idea.

And a wonderful community at that.

Great people.

Very cool.

Very cool.

We remember you, Mr. Henson.

We will take a quick time up.

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Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

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What?

Watch out for flying cars.

If you're something you will not really hear most other places.

No, no.

And here you will.

For a good reason.

Because there's no real reason to worry about flying cars.

Ah, no.

But fender benders in morning rush hours are very common unfortunately.

But too, this is a little different one.

Two flying cars collided in mid air on Tuesday while rehearsing for an air show in China.

Both pilots are okay.

One of them sustained some minor injuries but they were all right.

That's good.

If you know this show we probably would not be covering this if something terrible.

No, no, we would not be.

Officials say that they were performing stunts in formation and got a little too close.

They're quadcopper flying cars not airplane kind.

Oh, one of them was able to land safely the other flying car burst in flames when landing.

Yikes.

Several news outlets are calling it the first flying car crash never.

Or at least the first where two of them crashed into each other.

Into each other.

Yeah.

So I wanted to just show this to set just to get an idea of the vehicles themselves.

Okay.

All right.

What we're talking about here.

So picture a helicopter basically with airplane wings.

Right.

Yeah.

Do you think I'm describing that right?

Yeah.

It's close there.

So I'm not getting a good look at it.

Oh, there we go.

Yeah.

It is big enough for a one person to fit in.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe two.

It looks like actually maybe two people can fit.

Yeah.

And kind of it's got it.

Well, kind of a dronish look to it as well.

Yes.

It's kind of across there as well.

So yeah.

But would you call it a car?

Yeah.

Is that we're familiar with?

I don't know.

It has a body that is semi like a car.

A little bit like if you're stretching here.

It still looks more like a helicopter.

It looks over a lot.

I don't see where the car park comes at.

It does even have wheels.

It does it.

You know, right?

Exactly.

Can we agree that if it has to have wheels in order to be a car?

Can we?

I feel like that's the very least definition.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Man, I guess you could stretch it and call it that.

But it makes a headline.

Yeah, sure.

It makes a headline.

The legs of this thing that it stands on look like bad ladders.

Like step ladder, little step ladders, right?

I like the idea of creating the legs and making them something

that you step on.

Literally stepping into.

Yeah.

That's smart.

Right.

The look of them does not give me confidence.

That thing does not give me confidence.

No, no.

I think we're still a ways away from the flying cars, yes we are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Doesn't seem like that's happened at any time soon.

No.

I don't see those being mass produced.

I wonder too if there's a drive or a pun intended.

If there is a want for this, like for flying cars.

Do people want flying cars?

Yeah.

I mean, I'm really, I have never, I don't know in my lifetime, ever heard anybody say they wanted one.

We make jokes about them all the time.

But I don't know I've ever heard somebody say, man, where are these flying cars?

Yeah.

When are we going to get some flying cars around here?

Well, I mean, especially in recent, you know, couple of years or less, you know, this first half of this year.

And we, you know, hear all the issues we got with planes.

And it's like, yeah, do we want to do cars?

I don't know.

It doesn't sound great.

Interesting you bring that up, Seth.

Oh, a 2025 AP Nork poll found that 64% of US adults believe flying is very safe or somewhat safe.

A drop from 71% just the year before.

That's a huge drop.

Yeah.

Wow.

I was curious about this.

Yeah.

You know, you and I had a similar thought there about this.

Yeah.

Well, because I'm thinking about the, you know, nobody asking about flying cars and I'm thinking we'll do people even still want to fly.

And what the confidence in right.

Obviously, there's still plenty of people that not maybe they, whether they do or they don't want to for their job they have to or for other reasons.

Right.

But what the confidence is in that and how many people are doing it say for vacation or because they don't have to.

I wonder how much if, if the airline industry keeps this up, the majority of people that are going to be using their services are doing it because they have to.

Not for me.

Right.

And that is a gigantic dip in an economic economic impact and what they bring it.

Right.

Exactly.

And we have all these other options that we can choose from.

I mean, we've got of course, you know, cars, you know, the general car.

But we've got, especially now where it seems like we're heading towards a push of more kinds of long distance public transit kind of thing, more train stuff.

I mean, I hear a lot of people now, you know, wanting to do that sort of thing.

And if let's get, let's work on that first before we work on the flying car, right?

That makes more sense.

It's, you know, and I think it's safer.

I think it's, you know, more cost effective.

It just makes more sense to me.

Yeah.

And it can be cleaner too, depending on how you build it.

And I don't think there's a problem with, you know, there is on every toy you've ever seen.

An age thing there.

Right.

That tells you, hey, this is too, this toy is not going to work for my nephew or this one will or something like that age wise.

It gives you a barometer there.

Yeah.

Maybe one of the more unpopular things I will ever say on these airwaves.

I'm wondering if we need that for things in life, like tech, like certain stuff.

And I'm not saying necessarily an age requirement, but just certain things like, you know what?

We just haven't earned this yet.

We're not ready for this yet.

We're going to put this on the side.

And we're not going to bring it out until we're ready as a society for it.

Because I don't, I feel like we got to get driving down before we're flying, taking driving to the sky.

I mean, tell me the last, give me the numbers of drunk driving, give me the numbers of impaired driving.

How many car people dying?

Car crashes every year, right?

Even with around 40,000, something like that, yeah.

Even without those things, even when people do all the right things car accidents happen.

Still happen.

Yeah.

We ain't figured this out yet.

I don't think we've earned going to the skies.

I really, and I don't think, and I'm not saying that, like I'm pointing a finger in, you know, how dare you already think.

I'm saying this as, that's just, that's just human beings.

That's where we are right now.

That's okay.

It's all right.

Guess what?

We're not ready to take over Mars.

We're not.

We're not.

Not only scientifically.

Not only scientifically.

Like, society, yeah.

Society, yeah.

Society, yeah.

Like, there's no, yeah.

We haven't been able to work out things with our neighbors here.

We can't even get along with Canada and Mexico or Europe or any of these other things.

And they're saying the same thing about us.

We can't get along with this country or this country.

Like, we're going to take over another planet.

What are you talking about?

Like, and again, none of this is a judgment.

It's just understanding age limits.

It's being realistic about where we are.

Yeah.

This kid is very smart.

This kid is really intelligent and knows not to put things in its mouth.

But it's not old enough yet for that board game.

It's not old enough for that video game.

Right.

That's what I'm talking about here.

I know it's not popular.

I'm not expecting to win people over with this.

But I do think that you're a green with me.

I think a lot of you out there are not your head.

I think you're right.

It's you are correct, sir.

We got to earn these things.

You are correct, sir.

We're going to feel heartbroken.

Nicely done.

Well done.

We're taking a break on that.

We were actually going to go another minute.

But we're taking a break on that.

We're coming back with more morning show here at 97-55-FM 1320-A.M.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Got a lot of fun things lined up for you in the 10 o'clock hour, everybody.

We're going to dive in some entertainment news.

We've got some stuff to talk about there.

Fox is bringing back an old show.

We're going to talk about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can just replay that.

Just snip that for me for over previews and everything.

We also got to talk about some of the guests that have been booked for our Senate lives.

Fifty first season.

I'll be getting into that.

Is it interesting to anybody else that was concerted at its community theater and SNL are both celebrating 51 years?

That's kind of wild, actually.

I like that.

I think about it.

They all started at the same time.

Yeah.

We will be talking about WRCT as well.

Oh, yes.

Getting into that.

Of course, our newsletter.

All that coming up for you.

And we also got an interesting one.

Ten franchises that Hollywood has not touched in 20 years.

I think you're going to find some of those really interesting too.

Absolutely.

Oh, I remember that.

That's something.

All that coming up for you.

We got some good stories of the day.

We came to our schedule in plenty more where that came from.

But I got to get into this one with you, Seth.

In your view, I admit to you the audience.

When it comes to the topic of AI,

you are one of the people that I go to on this topic.

I know you've done a lot of reading on it.

A lot of research on it.

And honestly, most of the people I have talked to about it are in the entertainment industry.

And they're almost scared of it.

I shouldn't say almost scared of it.

They're not just scared of it.

They're almost scared to research it or read articles about it.

That's where a lot of creatives have gotten with this.

And those are the most people I talk to.

So with you and the way your brain works,

I appreciate your approach to AI.

I feel like you have a very...

You are skeptical.

But not to the point where you don't see its benefits.

Or don't see that, okay, well, it can be useful here.

How can it be more useful to humans instead of replacing them?

That's what we're looking at.

And I feel like one of the ways getting through this scare

or whatever it is.

And keep in mind the people that are trying to scare you, everybody.

Keep in mind the people that are always pounding their fist on the table.

You've never seen them smile.

They're always trying to act tough.

Man, there is no quicker way to tell me you are weak than how tough you try to act all the time.

And I think that the same group of people will take AI.

And for one, they don't have a straight-up opinion on it.

Whoever is in their pocket will tell them how to think and what to say.

So that's where you know where they don't have a real standing on this.

Sometimes they're against it, sometimes they're forward, blah, blah, blah.

When it comes to people actually doing their own homework on it is what I'm encouraging of.

I'm seeing more of that out of people when I'm reading these books and articles about it.

We've all gotten to a place where we can understand there's some things to keep our eye on.

And there's some stuff that AI is probably going to be useful for.

Right, exactly.

And I think that's a good place to be as a civilization.

Because it ain't going anywhere.

Right, exactly.

AT&T is currently testing an AI receptionist which can answer your calls and block spam.

Ooh.

The main element is a screening process to determine if a call is legitimate or spam.

This could be huge for those of us who can't just ignore calls from unknown numbers.

Right.

And it won't just give you information on the number.

It can actually answer as questions to figure out if the caller is human or a bot.

And how urgent the call is based on criteria you provide.

That sounds interesting.

The AI receptionist will say, quote, who may I say is calling or what is this regarding?

If the caller checks the right boxes, then the call is passed through to you.

If it fails, the system will hang up or take a message.

One downside is that you may be forced to interact with the AI receptionist.

But is that really that different than interacting with your answering machine?

Okay.

Yeah, I see what they mean there.

Okay.

I mean, your answering machine is old AI.

Yeah.

In a sense.

You are correct.

Yeah.

It's doing all the things I just described.

Right.

That's true.

It's blocking screening calls for you and, man, if they leave a message, they leave a message, right?

Yeah.

So, but there would be a way for the friend.

Oh, so you might have to interact with the AI receptionist while just trying to call a friend or something like that.

There's little thing, gray areas there that I'm sure.

I'm worried about that.

Right.

And the system does rely on your AI being able to outsmart their AI to a great joke the Seth was making earlier.

And I cannot get the sketch out of my head now.

I want you and I to play AI bots that are trying to outlive with the other ones.

Yes.

The feature.

The feature will roll out this year as a test for select AT&T customers.

They haven't said what it might be available to all customers.

They don't know young.

Right.

It is a little funny to me that of all the phone companies to do this AT&T.

One of the ones that...

Of course.

Is notorious for like dropping calls and so-

Just being a all around bad company.

Yeah, exactly.

And so I said something on playmakers the other day about the Wisconsin Badgers football team.

And you're going to know how much money they have by what happens with Coach Luke Fickle.

He has a $25 million buyout.

It would be the second highest buyout in college football history.

Right.

If they got money, they'll be able to get rid of them.

If they're willing to...

If they...

We know the L universities have money.

If they're willing to spend it or not.

Yes.

You're going to see.

You're also going to see if they're actually going to put money into NIL and all that.

Right.

You're going to know.

We're going to know where politicians fall on this one.

Because I don't know about anybody else.

But the first thing I thought of was election season.

And the way that politicians use that to call people on the rail lines and all this and everything.

And texting us.

Because where's the AI for texting blocking text calls?

That's got to be coming right around the corner actually.

Because let me be very, very clear here.

And please call up and correct me if I am wrong, 715-424-2600.

None of us have ever wanted to got a text from you.

No.

We're not called from you.

There is now one politician that we have ever wanted to call or a text from.

If we want to talk to you, we'll reach out to you.

That's right.

There is not one bit of the same thing with the attack ads.

Not one person out there is ever wanted to see an attack ad.

Not one of us see an attack ad and don't look at you as weak.

You look weak.

Whether you're responding to attack ad, whether you are starting the fight,

y'all look weak to me.

Right.

Every single one of you.

Anybody that's doing it.

I don't care who you are.

I don't care if you come in this room and talk to me.

Right.

I will say it to your face.

Using attack ads or using these calls, you're not willing to do it.

Be on the boots on the ground.

Like we ask of our representatives.

Like we ask of our politicians.

Right.

Talk to me face to face.

Right.

Meet us in person.

What are you scared of?

That's a great point.

That really is.

I honestly, I do not have a problem with a politician coming out and in a speech debate or anything pointing out flaws in their opponents.

They could contrast how they're different from them.

I really don't think that's a bad thing.

But doing it with attack ads when you're not, you can keep a distance from yourself saying,

oh, this was a pack that didn't, it wasn't me.

It was just a group of people.

They support me, sure.

But I don't, you know, whatever.

There's a deniability there, right?

There's a cushion between them.

It's lame.

It's lame.

It's very lame.

Come on, say it yourself, man.

Yeah.

Own it.

Have some accountability.

Yeah.

A responsibility.

We just have a little bit of courage.

Politicians cannot wait to demand responsibility and accountability out of us.

Why do they get away with so dang much?

Yeah, exactly.

And when it comes to that and when it comes to AI and some of these things,

there's no way that you're not going to see this play itself out in the political scheme.

Like, I'm not stretching here or anything.

We all knew, as soon as I mentioned that, every one of us remembered the election season

and what that's been like the last couple of elections.

Yeah.

And how much our phones are blowing up because of them trying to get our vote.

And they're not even doing it, and they're not even trying.

Like, they're just the most low-hanging way of trying to get a vote with these robocalls

or with these spam texts or anything like that.

And you ain't getting my vote.

Any single one of you ain't getting my vote.

You got to actually talk to me.

Talk to your constituents.

Yeah.

Show me you are not a coward.

Show me you actually can do what we need of you.

Or because a real politician, that's a tough gig.

That's not an easy job.

No, no one said it.

What does it mean?

Or should it be?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want tough individuals that can do these jobs.

I want people that can stand up for themselves, stand up to others,

and fight for us, fight for the people.

You show me when you do that, you're weak, man.

Yeah.

You're not willing to put the work in.

You're not willing to grind.

Also, you're not listening.

Yes.

To the people you should be listening to.

That you are literally representing.

Yeah.

If you have representative in your title, you should be listening to what the people you're

representing want.

What is it to them?

If this program that AT&T is trying to, you know, is kicking out and everything,