Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. We hope it's
treating you good. Melissa and James here with you. We hope you're having a great
start to your day. We got good stuff lined up for you this hour. I'm going to
get into a couple of interesting ones. Melissa sent over a topic that I could not
wait to get into 10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2023. Let me
get into that. We've also got a couple of other fun ones. We want to get into
words that need to be banished. We've got to talk on that. That is coming up.
And plenty more. We also have of course we'll wrap up the the show with some
that ain't right stuff. Good stories of the day, local news and all of that.
Right now we're kicking off with entertainment and if you haven't heard I
encourage you to look into this one everybody because this is a pretty I'm not
really big on celebrity celebrity fights or beefs or anything like that. This
one's entertaining to me though. I gotta admit it's possible that in the very near
future a judge will release a list of people that need to handle their
business finally. You know I like we're gonna have an actual court system say you
too. You've been bickering long enough. Let's get it on. Let's do it. Put them in a
ring or or put them in the same room. Make them debate. I don't know. But Aaron
Rogers has been given a pulp a pulpit with the Pat McAfee show. He goes on
there and he talks and Pat doesn't use follow up questions. Doesn't drill him.
Doesn't press him. Doesn't use any any facts or any basis to have a
conversation. He just hey it's Aaron right here. Pat McAfee reminds me of
that guy who always hung around the star quarterback or the most popular
kid in school and he was just basically a height man. Yeah yeah just riding
a coat tails. That's all I don't know why Pat McAfee chose to do this with
Aaron Rogers. He doesn't need him. I think you can make an argument that Pat
McAfee is just as famous or as popular as Aaron Rogers. His show is one of
the biggest if. Yeah yeah Pat McAfee shows huge. Everybody loves it. I shouldn't
say everybody but a lot of people love his show. ESPN sure does. They paid
him a lot of money. A lot of money to go on the to have the Pat McAfee show
and in part because he has this weekly segment with Aaron Rogers that goes on
there. Aaron doesn't do interviews. Doesn't talk to anybody else. Only Pat
McAfee pretty much. And part of the reason he does that and he only talks to
Pat McAfee is so he can go on there and and just spill. Say what he wants. Yeah
he was on the Pat McAfee show yesterday the other day and said he and he said
he'll quote be popping some sort of bottle when this Jeff list of Jeffrey
Epstein's contacts comes out or something. What this has to do with sports by
the way I have no idea. He also suggested that Jimmy Kimmel's name would be on
that list and Jimmy Kimmel does not take these kind of things lightly. I wouldn't
think so. Jimmy tweeted a deer blank. Words I can't two words I cannot say
odd deer. For the oh he didn't just write blank. Yeah yeah. For the record I've
not met flown with visited or any contact whatsoever with Epstein nor will
you find my name on any quote list other than the clearly phony nonsense that
soft-brained wackos like yourself can't seem to distinguish from reality. Your
reckless words put my family in danger keep it up and we will debate the facts
further in court. I would love to see that. I would love to see Jimmy Kimmel and
Aaron Rodgers in a courtroom having to go through like having to face this. I
would love to see Aaron Rodgers have to actually face his words. Like Aaron Rodgers
is one of these guys where he thinks he is always the smartest person in the
room no matter who's in the room with him. Being reckless. And it's not just
he thinks that he has to prove it. He has to try to prove it. He's one of these
people that he can't handle his name and people not talking about him. I cannot
imagine his head completely. This is him while he's playing. What is he gonna be
like when he retires? Like that has been. It's gonna be yeah it's gonna be
interesting all right. I don't know if everybody could feel that but as I was
talking about this story I heard a humongous sigh from the whole state of
Wisconsin. Just so glad to be done with this. So glad to be done with it.
We would never have to hear that name again. Oh yeah that would be
interesting. It's one thing I am a big believer in questioning everything. I
think that's important in life. I also believe that once what's two plus two? I
need to know what is two plus two? Four. Okay cool. Got a science says it's
four. All right cool. Let's move on. We got there's more things that we got a
lot of questions. I got a lot of things I want to know. Let's move on. You get
answers and you get facts you know move on. There's only so much you can do
from that. It makes sense that you've checked them from a couple sources. Okay you're
good. The certain section of society that gets these things and whether it is
Hillary's emails or the Jeffrey Epstein list or any of these things that they
cannot let go of. You got people that are still barking about the 2020 election
in these things. There is so much on our plate as a society. Democrat,
Republican, independent, anybody. A man, woman, dog cat, it doesn't matter. We've
got a lot on our plate. We got a big world to fix here and a lot going on. Let's
focus. Let's put our energy where it needs to be. These these things for one are
going to work themselves out to everything comes to light. Nothing is hidden
anymore. Do you really think in this day and age in 2024 that anybody can
keep anything hidden really? If you're worried about the Sepstein list, if you're
worried about this or that, it's going to come out. It's going to come forward.
And it's not going to come forward because of knuckleheads like Aaron Rodgers. It's
going to it's going to come forward because of people that you don't even know
the names of. People that are actually doing real work, real journalism or real
or real whistleblowers. People who are actually going to come forward and share
true information. Not some want to be celebrity who can't handle not being in
the public eye every 15 seconds. Who of us more to focus on the things that
actually affect us on a day-to-day basis like housing crisis, child poverty, our
health care issues. Those are real real problems that affect us every day.
Did we figure out cancer yet? Have we solved cancer? No? Okay. Then we got
other things to do. We got more important things to do. And I'm not taking
these other things lightly. I'm not saying that they aren't important. But they
certainly, yeah. But they, I mean, the point of talking about them and spending
as much time as is people do on them and everything. It just, it doesn't make a
lot of sense to me. But the distraction tactic, James. Yeah. Yes. Yes. That's
a big, that's distracting us from what the actual issues in the actual
problems that our politicians should be taking care of and aren't because
they're too busy throwing up these smoke screens of, oh, but where about this?
Where about this? This is far more important. Ah, no, no. We need to fix kids
getting meals, getting a good education, being able to go to the doctor when they
need to. Those are the problems that we need to fix. Very well said. I agree with
every word. I also, I need more of you doing fake yelling. I really like that.
That's really good. That's really good. The hands were up in the air. I can see it.
I can picture it. It was great. Let's dive into this one. Let's talk. I need a
palliaclids are out ready after that story. Snoop Dogg will assist NBC in
covering this summer's Olympics in Paris as part of the prime time coverage.
Really? I love this. Snoop will explore city landmarks, attend
competitions and events and visit with the athletes and their friends and
families. He says, quote, we're going to have some amazing
competitions. And of course, I will be bringing the Snoop style to the mix.
Let's elevate, celebrate and make these games unforgettable. Let's smoke the
competition. And, and made the best shine with like gold. Peace and Olympic
love, Yadig. The summer, summer Olympics kick off July 26th. You can catch
them on NBC and peacock. I certainly will be watching. I hope he brings friends.
Oh, yeah, that'd be great. That'd be great. I don't know. Some of the matchups
are just hilarious. Snoop and Martha Stewart. I'm glad you bring that up
because I was going to say X, you know, I think that if you don't know a lot
about him, you just know Snoop and, you know, the kind of public persona of
him and everything. You may not see this, this fitting. But if you've seen him
with Martha Stewart, if you've seen him doing a sideline reporting before,
he's actually really good at this. He's, he's very well spoken. He really does a
nice job of giving the, the person he's interviewing the time. Like he, he takes
a step back and lets them have the moment. That's what a good interviewer is
supposed to do. And, and he's, he's engaging. He's very like easy to talk to. Yeah,
people have a very easy time to talk. And he's very tall. So he's going to be
able to, he's going to be able to get to a lot of people that not all reporters
will be able to. So that there's that. He doesn't have to climb into the stance.
He could just lean over in all seriousness. The Olympics, it's, it's the weirdest
thing since we were kids, Melissa, people have fought over. We want the Olympics
on our station. We want the Olympics on our station. And then they get the
Olympics. And every year we hear ratings going down or ratings not being
what they should be. But advertisers continue to put tons of money into the
commercial breaks and into the Olympics. So there's this back. And there's
this kind of like a tug of war thing that goes on where NBC, who's had the
Olympics for quite a while, are trying to get viewers. And at the same time,
they, they, they are doing fine with advertisers. It's a weird balance. So they
can take chances and they can do some things while also trying to kind of
bring in new people. The summer Olympics are going to be one of the biggest
Olympics of our lifetime. The, at least for us as Americans, and I'm saying
this is a complete home. We, we've got so many great American athletes going
over there. We have so many great opportunities to just come back with tons of
gold and silver. It's going to be a really, really fun Olympics, I think.
Simone Biles alone is going to be the exciting part of the Olympics to me.
I can't, you know, all the other competitors, it's going to be a really fun
one. Yeah. And having Snoop Dogg there is it should draw some extra attention,
I would think. Yeah, you know, if I'm NBC, if this brings me 50,
a hundred new eyeballs, I'm good. That, that, that, that's good. That seems good
to me. You'll probably open for like 50 million new eyeballs, but sure.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a very good point, very good point. I wanted to also wrap up
our entertainment, talking a little bit about the glass menagerie.
Yeah. That's coming up. The additions are tonight again.
Melissa, you said you went to auditions last night. Now, you went to just as
a friend to support Seth as a fan or no, I went to audition. I didn't want to,
okay, I didn't want to fight. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was really hoping that was the
case. Awesome. That's awesome. Oh, good on you. Good on you for doing that.
There were a lot of great people there. And so I'm excited to see what happens
tonight. And hopefully we get more people come out and try to their, you know,
to audition. And it's a fun show. Yeah. This is going to be a very different
experience for theater heads and for people out there that have wanted to do
something. Maybe, maybe you, you're a part of your audition for every show.
Maybe you're able to be a part of certain times of the year.
I know a lot of people are able to try out for the Christmas show or for this
show or something. But you've never been a part of a show like this.
This is a completely different experience. And most any of us, even somebody
like me who has done over a thousand shows and everything, I've never done
anything like this. What you, what Seth and his team are going to do with the
Glassman Ashery. It's a really cool. He's going a different direction as far as
how the staging is going to go. Simple set, but because it's a dream play,
which is how Tennessee Williams describes this show. Seth is going to
incorporate some multimedia angles into this.
This is an ambitious and exciting project and encourage people to check it out.
If you don't feel like auditioning and being on stage, they could always use
people behind the scenes. You can go ahead and put through your hat and your
name in the ring for that and reach out to Seth and the team at WRCT for that and show
up tonight. Audition. Yeah, auditions are at 6.30 over at the WRCT auditorium.
Be sure to stop on by over there. Say hi to the team and break a leg, everybody.
Have a great audition. Have a lot of fun and good luck to you, Seth.
You're going to have a good one here.
His directorial debut at WRCT.
Yeah. The glass man, as you're in much more, you can find out about WRCT.
Go over to their website, WRCT theater dot org.
Be sure to follow them on social media as well. It's great follow and be on the
look out for some new commercials from our friends at WRCT. That's going to be
fun. Yeah, coming up. Right now, we're going to go ahead and take a quick time
out. We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WF HR locally
growing radio. Welcome back to the morning show here at WF HR locally growing
radio. Got Melissa and James here with you. We hope you're having a great one out
there. Everybody. Thanks for joining us. Let's dive into another topic, another
fun one here, Melissa. I want to get into a little bit after our after our
news break. We'll get into 10 things we learned about our ancestors.
Want to be able to take some time with that one. So we'll get into that in a
little bit. For right now, let's talk about words that need to be banished.
It's a new year. Maybe it's a good time to reboot our vocabs. Maybe our
Lexi cons could use a little refresher.
Want everybody to get real agog about this. Oh,
cheaper. Because it's exciting. It's fun.
So like Superior State University in Michigan released its annual list of
words and phrases that need to be banished in the new year. And of course they say
that in a fun way. They don't mean that in an incredibly serious way.
Actually cancelling these words. Right. Right. I feel like now it is. We have to be a
little careful with that. We need to stop this. Bark bark bark. Be careful with your
words about words. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So let's go ahead and dive into these. Melissa,
there's no, not in any particular order. Just. Yeah. Yeah. Just like hack is the number
one on here. Hack like life hack or this hack, you know, we've been hearing that a lot.
I would say over the last couple of years, especially with the life hacks. Yeah.
I don't see that one going away, but I could see people looking for a new new term,
new way to, you know, yeah. Impact, especially as a verb instead of effect,
makes a big impact. This is going to impact your life. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, is it though? Yeah.
It's a great, that's the perfect way to put it, Melissa. Yes. Yes. Yes. I do like the idea too
of like using these and when these words come up in like titles and movies, like sudden,
sudden impact as a, you know, as a movie title, that's pretty good. Sudden effect. We need a new
movie title. Yeah. Sudden effect. It doesn't hit the same, doesn't it? No. That, that meteorite hitting
the earth. Yeah. That's not an effect. That is literally an impact.
Another one here at the end of the day. So this one is a phrase. You know, at the end of the day,
what's wrong with that? I don't, I like that one. I'm not stopping that. I don't care what anybody
says. And I say that every once in a while. I'm not stopping that one. I don't think I've ever
like heard it overused. Who was who's overusing that? Personally, I think at the end of the day,
it makes sense to use at the end of the day. And often. What are we doing at the end of the day
today? Yeah. Yeah. It's part of normal speech. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, everybody,
424, 2600, 715, 424, 2600. Anytime we are the mics are on, you guys are welcome to call
them up and join the conversation. Yes, please. And I want to, I bring that up in part because of
this next one, because this is the one to me. I personally don't really have a feeling about,
but everybody I see, especially a lot of the younger students that I have, they want this word done.
Riz. Even though it was recently named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press,
it's basically a shortened word for charisma. Oh, I see. I forgot that already. Me too. Yeah. I
literally had to read it to remind myself. I haven't even heard that word used. Besides us
talking about it on the radio, I've never even heard it. The only time I've heard it is when
people are complaining about the word. Yeah. That's the only time I've ever heard anybody use the word
is to complain about the word Riz. I've never heard anybody actually use it in a real sentence
already ago. So it was, it was gone before it was even popular, apparently. It seems like, yeah.
Slay. Slay is another one. A lot of people have been using that. She's really slaying in that.
Yeah. That's what I thought. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I thought that too, but I wasn't going
to say it. Yeah, that's an older one I thought. That was like around in the 80s.
So these next two I think are the same or the in the same breath is that. Slay and iconic.
I think iconic's been used for a long time too. Yeah, I guess maybe not to the pot. I mean,
it's a useful word. Yeah. I guess is it being just misused to the point of losing its meaning?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. cringe worthy. Another one that's a player that the casual use.
That one can go away. Yeah. That can definitely go away. Yeah. Yeah.
Especially because most of the things that are this, you don't need the words cringe worthy.
The image or the video already makes it, you know, you already are cringing. You don't.
Cringing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is the label of this is cringe worthy. Oh, let me watch that
then so I can cringe. What? It reminds me of one of my favorite lines in a comedy. Allow myself to
introduce myself. Allow myself. It's interesting. One of the things you don't need to it's
overdoing. It's overdoing it. Yeah. Yeah. It's redundant. Obsessed. The casual use of obsessed
to describe routine interests. But I am so obsessed with this chocolate milk. It is so amazing.
I love this chocolate milk. Yeah. It does kind of seem like that. Yeah. But I guess
because of the connotations of that word where, you know, we have, I would say that kind of
infringes on actual mental disability or mental situations where people have like obsessive
compulsive disorder. So I would think that that is misusing the term in a way that hurts
that group of people. Do you know what I mean? Yes. Absolutely. To me, I think that it's one of
those things that it goes back to using words by their definition and sticking to that as a
society. We need to do more of that. It's important. It's like calling people a rock star when
they're not really a rock star or and I was guilty of this too. I said, you know, like, well,
I'm OCD about this, which I'm not. I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. Do I sometimes
focus on things a little more than I need to? Yes. But I'm not, you know, I don't have the
clinical definition of OCD. You know, none of these things happen overnight. And I think we're all
guilty of some of this. I certainly am. I know plenty of people in my life that are. It takes time
to, you know, kind of rewire our brains, to rewire our society, to kind of get back to this.
Especially we've spent the last six, seven years with words, not really meaning what they're
supposed to mean or or or different. And both political parties do this. I'm not picking on either
side of political parties, taking a word and well, okay, you know, you're going to take snowflake.
Well, we're going to take it and make it mean this. You have woke. We're going to take it and
mean this. And we've gotten so muddied with all of this. And notice, I didn't bring up anything
like that would that are actual like topics that we hire politicians to do the job of like
there's so much of politics nowadays that are they're doing things and they're talking about
things that have nothing to do with what they're supposed to be doing. Yeah, they don't matter.
I don't care what 90% of what a politician thinks about this, this, this, or this. I don't care
about any of those things. How about the stuff that we actually hired them to do? Like that I care
about that I want to know them caring about what their constituents. Yeah, yeah, caring about the
things we hired them to do the job we did they do they they it's not about their thoughts. It's not
about what they there are in many ways they are a puppet. They are they are supposed to do what
we're telling them to do. Yes, end of discussion. And while we're on the topic of words, we you know,
we could be disgruntled about this. Right? Realistically, but did you know that the word gruntled
is actually a word? Oh, no, I didn't know. Oh, I didn't. It was just it was a meme I saw the other day
is like gruntled is a word and and it's something you're excited about something as opposed to
upset about something as you were disgruntled. But I've never used the word gruntled. I know,
yeah, right? I've never used that. That's interesting. That's very, very interesting. Well, I love
that. I also love when I learn things from memes. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. The other two names
the other two things they have on this list side hustle. I don't know. I think that one's still
accurate because we all still need to do that to make a living way. I know I'm not stopping using
that that to me that that's I have a I can't see any point in my life where I'm not going to have
to have a side hustle. So I'm certainly not going to stop using it. And whether it's for need or
for enjoyment. Right, right. You know, my side hustle is making bread to sell at the farmer's market.
It's not. Some people's would be, but you know, like something like that that you enjoy that brings
enrichment to your life, but also to your pocketbook. And wait for it. Yep, wait for it. That's the
words. That's the last one on the last way. If you're watching a video, then we're already waiting
for it. Right. Plus overhyping something undercuts the payoff. Yep. This is one. Until the end.
Yeah. This is one of those ones that I'm not horrible at, but I can even be better about.
What I get to the it's a two minute video. And you're really just waiting for the last 20 seconds.
But you, but it doesn't make sense. And the payoff's not going to be there without that two other
minute 30 or whatever. So you just got to be patient. You just got to zip your mouth and be patient
and let it play out. I think that one of the things that helps being an empath actually in this
situation, when it comes to that, I want them to have the same experience I just had. And nobody
was talking when I had the experience. So you know, shutting your mouth for a little bit and
let the video play out. It's only a minute. Let it play. But and I agree to a point, but make sure
that it's worth it. Yeah. You're going to use those words. Make it worthwhile. Yeah. Yeah.
You wait for it. That's a good point. We will get to our local and state news. When we come back,
10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2023. It's coming up on the morning show with
Melissa and James here at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Hot town somewhere in the city. Back on my neck getting dirty bread and
bent down. Isn't it a pettit? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city. All around people looking
half dead or walking on the sidewalk harder than a mattress. Melissa and James here with you,
it's not hot and it's not the city that we're broadcasting from, but yeah, it works.
I know those are true. It's okay. It's a good song. It's a good song. We're diving into a fun one
right now and I always appreciate when Melissa, Seth, even Pam sends us stories and different topics
for our segments for our show here. We can never have enough content as I have found in the last
two weeks of every year that I've ever done this show. You can always use more to do.
And this one's a fun one, Melissa. I had not come across anything like this and I dove into this
one head first. I enjoyed this whole entire article when I encourage people to check out the
article love. LiveScience.com. LiveScience.com is where we got this from. And Laura Gagel,
Gagel, I think it is. Sure. Yeah, Gagel. Yeah, I think Gagel. I like Gagel. Yeah, Gagel. However,
it is, Laura, nice work and thank you for the article, for the great writing that you did on
this one. Humans are everywhere nowadays, but homo sapiens in our close relatives weren't so widespread
in the past. In fact, the ancestors of modern humans nearly went extinct just under one million
years ago. Lucky to be here. Here is a look back at 10 major findings about humans and our close
active relatives from 2023 that's what we learned about evolution. This is a fun rabbit hole to dive
down. And let's start right with their ancestors of modern humans nearly went extinct. I don't think
this is common knowledge by any means. Yeah. Nearly go ahead, Melissa. Well, for more than
100,000 years, our numbers hovered around 1300 individuals. That's not very many compared to
our current population of 8.1 billion people. That's crazy. Scientists uncovered humans brush with
extinction by looking at the genomes of more than 3,150 modern day humans from both Africa and
non-African populations. An analytic tool helped them investigate the diversity of today's
genetic sequences. Work backwards from there. Hmm. Yeah. They they lost 98.7% of their breeding
population. Like Hushie ends it. Talk about a small dating pool. You can't complain about the
dating pool wherever you are now. It's a lot better than it was in 1300 people.
That is fascinating. I didn't know that. I didn't know the wheel. I didn't either.
I think of I think many of us have heard many times about where our planet is in the solar system
and how it's in the perfect spot for all of this to work. You know, an inch here, an inch there,
and this planet's dormant. Nothing's growing on it. Right. That's amazing to me. That that alone,
that never get that I've never been able to know since I learned that. I don't know when I did. It
was years and years ago. It has never been normalized in my brain. That always just stays there.
I think that will now too. That that extinction line. Human relatives crafted wood 4,476,000 years ago.
We've been doing this a long time, wood crafters. And not only that, it was notched like a Lincoln
log. Oh really interesting. Yeah. Oh wow. The found of wooden construction crafted by one of our
ancient human relatives that they notched together. Wow. Side note, Lincoln logs one of the most
underrated toys ever. Awesome toys. I love playing. Yeah, I'm with you. Yes. But there's never
enough roof pieces. Thank you. Thank you. You never got enough roof piece. I was just going to
the little plastic roof. The rafters on there, but there's never enough slats to cover the whole
roof. My GI Joe guys had so many log cabins that had no roof, no roof. What did they do in the winter?
They didn't get in and out of it. Yeah, that's true. It's true. It is funny. There was never doors.
I never made a door on any of the things I made. I just put them in there. Because there's no way
to do that. That's true. It's really can log sats don't come with like hinges.
Human beings are intelligent and creative and smart. And we have figured out ways to use the
products around us, the things around us for many years. They in Zambabway found the oldest
known wooden construction crafted by an ancient human relative, a 4760 year old structure.
That's amazing. The problem is is that wood typically doesn't survive, you know, 400,000 years,
unless it's in the perfect, perfect conditions. It's really has to be. So the fact that they found
that is that's just fascinating. A 300,000 year old jawbone comes from an unknown lineage.
Yeah, this is very interesting to me. This jawbone may come from an unknown human lineage,
according to a study in the Journal of Human Evolution. The jawbone found in East
Central China belonged to a young teenager who had an unusual moesick of ancient and modern
characteristics. Yeah, so it had a modern human like face, but their skull looked like that of
the early homo sapiens. It's really, really interesting. So there could have been another lineage
of humans developing that didle completely. Now, there's a topic that seems really,
really interesting to dive down of this gray area that's there. We've all seen that, you know,
that Neanderthal man evolving to the human being of today. And we understand, I think most of us,
that there's a gray area in there. I think that that part is where I'd like to see a lot more,
not that there isn't already being done, but I'm looking forward to seeing the results
of the science that worked as being done on that topic. Two distinct African groups gave rise
to modern humans. Okay. That's an interesting one too. Another talk about lineage.
Before modern humans came onto the scene, at least 300,000 years ago, our ancestors
consisted of two distinct but closely related groups that lived in Africa, a study found in the
journal, a nature that they were known as the Hatfields and McCoy's. No, no, that's not true.
People within them continue to mate with it with the other group over time.
So it's like, I don't know why they did this, but it feels pretty safe to say, and you know,
it's assuming I admit, but that they even understood back then, hey, this isn't going to work if we
keep the gene pool the same gene and the same gene pool here. We need to have some mixers. Let's
all get together. And thus the first mixer was born. Icebreakers. You got a whole new meaning.
You're very different. Modern humans migrated to Europe in three waves.
One of my favorite rabbit holes to go down since I was a little kid is Pangaea.
How the earth formed. Yeah. Yeah. And the idea that so the world is all these continents are
connected at one point. And as that's going on, human beings are going to move. Hey, we ran out of
food here. Hey, it's too cold here. Hey, it's too hot here. Let's move. And it's a lot easier
because of course we don't have boats, cars, you know, all these things that help us travel.
No planes, trains, and automobiles. Right. So thank goodness that the continents are connected
and people can spread out. But as they spread out, those continents begin to move and they,
you know, it is where it is now. And I just find this as maybe the most interesting point in
all of the earth's history is this moment in time, that right there and how that all formed and
happened, it's just so interesting going down that rabbit hole and looking into that.
And then what they said here is that, you know, for years, we always thought that 42,000 years ago
was when humans arrived in Europe, but they have found now evidence that there was another wave
45,000 years ago and 54,000 years ago. Man, that's incredible.
There's a lot of time. This next one, not to skate past it, but just to keep this moving.
Tiny fossil is from 40,000 year old mystery lineage. Another one of these kind of like,
Europe's first permanent residence settled in Crimea. Crimea.
The first modern human set up shop in Europe settling in Crimea around 37,000 years ago,
a study from natural ecology and evolution found.
Interesting. Unknown hunter gatherer lineage discovered as well in the last year.
The largest study to date on prehistoric European hunter gatherer Genomes has revealed a
previously unknown lineage of European hunter gatherers from the last ice age.
Wow. You know, and I wonder as, and sadly, this is, you know, as the more ice melts up there,
I know that they are finding more things that they just, you know, are being unearthed because of the
ice melting. So I wonder what's what's to come because that ice is continuing to melt.
And, you know, there's a there's a fascinating part of that and there's a frustrating part of that,
right? A little bit scary part of that, too. Right. Yes. Yes. Very much. Let's see. And the
first Americans, let's talk about some of the first humans to venture into the Americas during
the last ice age hailed from China, a DNA study in the Journal of Cell Reports found.
Wow. Yeah. Parts of the St. John group appear to have migrated to Japan too. Fascinating. Fascinating.
Clearing up the mystery of why there's similarities in the artifacts of Chinese indigenous
Americans and indigenous Japanese people. I long, not alone in this, but a long wonder
about that. And in here, we're finally starting to get some answers. Why that is.
Very, very interesting. Are way, way, way, way, back, great, great, great, great, grand parents.
It's almost as if we're all alike and we're all the same that our differences only bring us closer
and make us more alike. And we wrap up with Siberian population vanishes.
Hmm. A previously unknown group of hunter-gatherers that trekked through Siberia more than 10,000
years ago aren't with us anymore. They vanished a study in the journal Current Biology found.
Really interesting. Yeah. And the fact that at a whole group of you, I mean, you think about how
big the earth is. And there weren't as many, you know, obviously we were hugely populated now,
but there are still vast areas, a space of land where you can just go missing. It happens all
the time to lose a whole group at the same time. That's crazy. I think we've any history nerd out there
like myself is going to tell you about the fall of Greece, the fall of Rome, the Mayan civilization,
some of those things. I think on another level there's the Roanoke in Virginia, the famous
story of that that I think is like many people out there myself as well has fascinated many of us
from many, many years what happened here. Why did this whole entire town just go missing?
You know, it's a fascinating tale. But this is a little, this one I don't know if the story is
as fascinating to people, but it's just as noteworthy. It's just as interesting.
And I think it's just because we don't know as much about it and the more and more we uncover
with these discoveries and learning more about what happened than I find it fascinating.
Yeah. Yeah. It really, it adds to this whole tapestry of life and understanding ourselves more.
It's also just really interesting and cool, I think.
Mm-hmm. People traveled around the earth even where it was frozen.
Big shout out to you, Melissa. Thank you so much for sending that article to us.
That is a good one. That was a good one.
That was a good one. Take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun.
On the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa and James hanging out
with you. Little Dave Matthews blazing.
We're good guitar bumpers today. Yeah, I noticed that too. It's been nice.
Been nice. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to tomorrow's show. We're going to have a good one.
We'll have the gang together. Melissa and Seth will be hanging out with us.
So we're going to have some fun. Get your morning started.
Serious comedy to start your day. Going to be a good one. Yeah, Seth's back.
Looking forward to diving into that. We haven't had a that ate right story in a while.
Let's go ahead and get into one here. Last week United Airlines got on social media and hyped
big time hyped a flight from Guam to Hawaii that offered people two New Year celebrations.
It was supposed to take off from Guam at 735 on New Year's Day across the international
Dateline and Land in Honolulu at 6.50 pm on New Year's Eve so they'd get a second countdown.
It's kind of cool. It sounds cool. I would have done something like this. I also would have known
how flights work. Sadly, it got delayed more than six hours and didn't land in Honolulu until 12.30
pm. So they missed the second countdown by 35 minutes. Some of the passengers had only bought
tickets for the double New Year. United even promoted it on December 28th saying you only live once
but you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice. So ended up being a big waste of money.
People on a few other flights had more luck. A Catholic Pacific airway flight from Hong Kong
to San Francisco landed in time for a second New Year. So did an all nippin airways flight from Tokyo to
LA. Okay. If you have never flown before, I could see how you might have been duped by this.
If you have flown even once in your lifetime, I don't know how you didn't go into this thinking,
okay, this could be, there could be delays. This might not happen.
Yeah. Yeah. At the same time. But I'll bet you that airline didn't refund anybody.
Right. I was just going to say at the same time, you was an airline and what happened,
the false advertising and getting, we need to get back to that again. It's very similar to
our conversation about words, meaning what they're supposed to mean. Holding a company's accountable
for these things is very important. You shouldn't always have to include small print. You know,
like you shouldn't always have to like, okay, here's, here's our offer. And then find a way to
pause your television, although you can do that now. Yours back you couldn't. Pause your television
and read the block of small print text at the bottom of the screen. Wait, I'll wait until you get
your magnifying glass. Right. I understand that companies and businesses, I understand how
business works. I know the world. I'm an adult. But I don't understand why you can't let your
product just stand for what it is. Like if your product's good enough, you don't need to,
companies seem to always be looking for ways to kind of shortcut their people, their consumers,
their customers. That seems the opposite. And that's the opposite of good business. Look at the
companies that actually survive and do well. Like I'm not saying that they don't cut corners
here and there. And they're perfect, you know, institutions or anything like that. But most of
them treat their customers right. That's how they stay in business. Those are the corporations
and the companies that we need to keep supporting. Right. Yeah. It goes a long way. And it's really,
I mean, the future of consumerism is so much more about this. There's only more and more information
accessible to people. There's only more and more people. I mean, when's the last time you saw
somebody pick something up and not look at the ingredients? You know, it's only becoming more and
more that way. People have a right to be informed and they want to be informed. We need a
palette cleanser. Let's take a look at our good stories of the day. And first up is our lineup
for the midday magazine. Today, be sure to join us from three to four. Sheriff Sean Becker will be
in. He's bringing his Jordan, his daughter Jordan with us. I was just going to say he's bringing his
daughter, his Jordan daughter with. He's going to kick all of that. We're going to have a fun
conversation. Sean and I got a couple of things I want to ask Sean. And I'm sure he has plenty of
things to bring to the table. And we'll get to talk to Jordan a little bit as well. Oh great.
We'll also have our friends from Wisconsin Rapids Community Media and encourage you to support them.
Go to YouTube subscribe to their page. Keep up with the date and all the great work they're doing.
It's a ball night. Melissa tonight. We got men's basketball. Big 10 match up with the Badger
Men's team taking off against Iowa. It's going to be a good one. Five o'clock our pregame will
kick off for that. Mm hmm. Maybe a good one. That's good ball. Usually on Wednesdays, this is where
we do our bingo bit where we know it's bingo and all that. But there's no bingo today. Yep.
There will be no bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slatch today. They will also keep in mind. If
school is ever canceled, then bingo is also canceled. That's something else to keep in mind to
all of our bingo friends out there. We do say a shout out to our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids
Elk Slatch number 693 doing amazing work in our community. And they'll be back on the 10th or
bingo on Wednesday. You got an opportunity to be a superhero. You can give blood on January 5th
from 9 to 1 at the VFW post 2534 and Wisconsin Rapids. You can schedule an appointment to be a
priority donor by calling 877-232-4376-877-232-4376. And encourage you to go diversity.org.
If you go there and you scan their QR code, you're going to get in on a chance to win an SUV.
I was going to say isn't there a sign up for some you can win something an SUV. Yeah. Donate
blood and be entered. Yeah. Yeah. Donate blood and be entered to chance to win an SUV. How'd you
like to be able to say I went donated blood and I got a car. I got a car. It's pretty cool.
Best hour of my life. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And you can feel good about giving back.
Save the lives of up to three people by just one donation. We encourage you to give back and
volunteer whenever you have an opportunity. And our friends at the United Way of Southwood and
the Ames counties have plenty of great opportunities including one coming up. They're looking for
people to help with their homeless point in time count. Yes. The PIT count will begin at 11 p.m.
at night on Wednesday, January 24th and wrap up early in the early hours of Thursday.
Volunteers will meet at North Central Community Action. There will be other people with you.
You will not be alone in this. I don't want to get some training to know what you're doing.
Yeah. If you are interested, encourage you to contact our good friend Ben Eberlein at the
United Way by calling 715-421-0390-421-0390. You can also email Ben at www.ac.org and find out
more at their website, www.ac.org. Great show today, Melissa. Thank you so much for a fun show.
There's a lot of fun, James. Looking forward to hanging out with all of you. Again,
tomorrow everybody. Be sure to join us tomorrow. We'll be in the morning sunrise show from 7-8
over on WIRI and then we'll be back here on WFHR from 8-10. Looking forward to hanging out
with you then. Have a good day, Melissa. You too. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you
soon later right here at Opam, you doing. WFHR, Wisconsin Rapids, 13-20 AM and W-248-DE Broadcasting Net,
97.5 FM.