70 or so.
Few spotty sprinkles are still possible, but we are looking at chances of a storm or two after four o'clock.
I don't think that those will be severe. I think a lot of the stronger ones will stay well south of us.
And we're really not looking at trip within too crazy today. I think tomorrow afternoon and into Saturday is when we're going to get hit,
drenched, severe storms and maybe even up to three inches of rain possible.
So we've got to wet weekend ahead. Let's just enjoy today.
Yes.
And it's great to have you back with us, Brittany. We're looking forward to hanging out more tomorrow.
You have yourself a good one.
Thanks you too.
Best in the business right there for Brittany. We're low back joining us. We're always happy to have her back. That's fantastic.
Melissa and I got a great show lined up for you. We're going to get you ready for it. It's Friday Eve. We'll get you ready for the weekend.
We got some good things coming up.
Not only do we have the LCAP birthday anniversary club around the corner. We'll also get into a fun one, I think, Melissa.
Employees are being lowered back to work by desks.
So lowered.
Yeah, by desks.
Oh, okay.
We'll get into that.
It is a summer solstice, as Brittany was saying, the longest day of the year. I want to get into some random interesting stuff about that.
That'll be coming up for you.
And then of course, we've got the nine o'clock hour that'll be coming up.
And we're looking forward to that. It's a Thursday. That means that we will have our pet of the week in this week.
Oh, yeah.
We're looking forward to it.
It's going to be fun. A big thank you to Johnson and Sons Chrysler Dodge and Jeep dealership for sponsoring that segment.
We greatly appreciate them doing that.
Indeed.
We'll also get into some local entertainment. I want to talk a little rafters in that segment.
And we've got a lineup change starting next week. Everybody, we got to start talking more and more about.
Yes indeed. We do. We do.
That's all coming up for you in the nine o'clock hour.
Longest of that ain't right stories, good stories of the day.
Oh, and geez, I almost forgot. Since it's the first day of summer, we've got these chula vista resort gifts certificates.
We're giving them away today.
We are.
Yeah.
Awesome. We love giveaways.
Because Melissa, it is summertime.
I'm going to do this all day, all day of doing this.
Listen to this horn, though.
There's few, there's few people that can play an instrument.
And you know it. You know the artist as soon as you hear the sound.
You hear this. That's satchimo. That's Louis Armstrong.
And that's iconic as it is.
One of the more iconic notable voices and trumpet players musicians of all time.
It's only outdone by this right here.
Right here.
Summer time.
And the woven news.
Fish are jumping.
And the cotton is high support.
I genuinely think it's one of the greatest songs ever written, ever performed.
It's just beautiful. Elephant Cheryl, Louis Armstrong, summertime.
Every day on this year, I have to around this time.
I have to listen to that song. It's one of those classics.
Oh, yes indeed.
It holds up, it holds up for me at least.
Oh, sure.
Something about that.
And I think you make the argument.
Let's get this one started.
Let's start on a little bit of a controversial note here.
715-424-2600.
You got one pick, greatest voice of all time.
Most versatile, most beautiful, however you want to look at it, however you look at these things.
Because I've said before, my favorite.
For me, I can't decide between Billie Holiday and Patsy Klein.
I love both those voices.
Marvin Gaye is a close third for me.
But if you're asking me who I think the greatest singer of all time is,
and it's such a difficult thing to be able to try to figure out,
last time we talked about something like this, we went down to, well, we got to go by genres.
So if you want to do it that way, that's fine too, but for me.
Yeah, because you almost have to, but go ahead.
Yeah, for me, I've never heard anybody sing like Elefits Gerald.
Yeah.
They can make almost every syllable in a word, its own note, its own thing.
Her versatility, everything, just incredible voice.
For me, it'd be a toss up between Elefits Gerald and Judy Garland.
Oh, you know.
Okay, that's shame on me.
I should have mentioned, I should have thought of Judy Garland.
That's a good one.
Well, there's so many good ones, two James.
Yeah, that's the, it's hard to narrow it down.
That is the catch, isn't it?
Yeah, you know what I like about these things too is there's no wrong answers.
Right.
Because each of us individually have our own specific tastes and things we like.
Yeah, makes it fun, makes it fun.
I want to get to something Kroger is doing that's kind of fun in the second here.
But first, yesterday we had, I should say last night, we had our first,
first of many virtual town hall meetings here at WFHR.
It was great.
It was really a fun at time and a really good successful opportunity and experience for us
here at the station and for our listeners.
We thank everybody that was able to, you know, send out shout outs and get us feedback.
And we're looking, I do want to mention to anybody who was not able to attend.
We're looking to do more of these.
Yes.
And we don't have.
We don't have.
We love hearing feedback from you and your thoughts and ideas.
We had so many great ones come out last night.
Yeah.
And what we'd like to do is going forward is kind of find out when would be a good time
for you for us to do the virtual town hall.
Yeah.
You know, what time of year, what time of day, what day of the week, all of the above.
If you want to call up and let us know, that's fine.
We can collect that information.
That one.
715-424-2600 or one button dialing with the Civic Media app.
And that's something I wanted to mention, James, that came out last night was one participant
talked about how great the app is.
It took him a while to get it downloaded.
But once they did, they found it so easy to use and so convenient.
Yeah.
I have to thank Civic so much for this app.
One, it's a great, it's got a nice alarm on it.
It's got a couple of other features that I really enjoy.
It's free.
It's free.
That is, but that is maybe it's best feature, second best feature, other than having all of our stations on it.
Right.
And that's something I like to do.
I like to flirt around with the other stations and listen and see how things are going and walk a show on other places.
All across the state because these are all stations right here in our state.
And Civic Media truly branches up and down the whole state to everybody.
I also love it for Raptor baseball because last night got to catch the last couple of innings
of one of the cooler baseball games we're going to hear this summer.
Raptors were down in that game, came back late in the game, nice home run to do it too.
And he heard the whole thing and he did an amazing job with the calls and everything.
I was able to catch it.
I was busy popping around and doing all these things, but I got my phone on me.
So I just pull up the app and I'm able to hear the call, the play by play and everything right as it happened.
Carry it in your pocket.
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
I mean, if you have pockets, James, being a man, all of your clothes have pockets.
But let's not go down that rabbit hole.
One of our bigger causes around here, get women pockets, everybody.
We got to come up with a name for that.
By the way, we have to come.
We should start a trend there.
We're looking forward to doing more of these virtual town halls.
Get us the information that we need from you as far as like when you would prefer to have these.
And you can share that right on our on our website to sign up for the newsletter WFHR.com slash newsletter.
There's a space there where you can enter your ideas for our newsletter.
You could enter times for when would be a good time for a virtual hall for you.
It's just a text box.
So put whatever you want in there.
Yeah, and share your email.
And appreciate the feedback so much from all of you.
We really, really do.
It adds to everything we do around here.
And what we do is so much fun because of all of you.
Yes, and you can help us make this better for you.
Reach out to us, everybody.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
This Thursday is, of course, some solstice, which means it will be the longest day of the year with 15 hours of sunlight.
Wow.
To celebrate the Kroger family of supermarkets is giving out 45,000 pints of free ice cream.
Well, good.
To get yours, you'll need to go to freekrogericecream.com and download a digital coupon.
Each voucher can only be downloaded on June on today.
So mark your count.
You know, be sure to get on there today.
The biggest catch is that the promotion is not happening in every state.
For some reason, it's not valid in California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi,
North Dakota, Nevada, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Yikes.
Yeah.
That's not like those states don't have a solstice.
But you're right.
I'm pretty sure they do.
Yeah.
You ask them in Louisiana today, how hot it's going to be.
I'm pretty sure of that.
But I don't know.
To be honest, I don't know Kroger that well.
I know that it's one of the more popular supermarket chains.
Well, it's one of the bigger supermarket chains.
Yeah.
And we only have a handful now because they keep buying each other out.
That's why grocery prices are so high, people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of people out there that are trying to tell you that this is inflation or this is something that a politician did or something like that.
No.
No, this is business.
This is CEOs buying up grocery stores, consolidating and taking away choices from the people.
So the game of monopoly, the very, very dark, horrible version.
Yes.
Dark and horrible version of monopoly that is no fun for anybody.
You are not getting free parking from this.
Did you know that monopoly was created by a quaker woman?
I don't think I did.
Whoa.
Really?
Yeah.
I think it's fascinating.
I'm literally putting that into my search bar right now so I can book market and read it later.
I'm reading up on that later.
Oh, that's awesome.
Because it's really neat.
We're looking forward to talk with you more, everybody.
And if you able to get this free ice cream, go for it.
There might be some deals nearby.
Go ahead and look into those.
And you don't actually, I mean, not all Kruger grocery stores are called Kruger's because they want you to think that we have a variety of grocery stores to choose from.
But a lot of them are owned by Kruger's.
Yeah.
Monopoly history.
Monopoly is derived from the landlord's game, a board game designed and patented by Lizzie G. Maggie in 1904.
She revised and renewed the patent on her game in 1924.
Interesting.
And this lady sounds like, oh, I'm book market this.
I'm going to be dead.
All right.
I got to check this out, everybody.
I'm going to go ahead and start on it and then I'll read up the rest later.
Get ready for the L Cafe Birthday and Anniversary Club.
It's coming up right here with Melissa and James on WFHR's Morning Show.
Oh, your daddy's rich.
And your mom is going to look in.
So high, little baby.
Tell him, oh, you cry.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at L Cafe and the Birthday and Anniversary Club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to L Cafe at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported upwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
And we encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
To info at WFHR.com, James.mail of at CivicMedia.us.
You're going to course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well and of course call up.
Yeah, 715-424-2600 or one button dialing with the Civic Media app.
Looking forward to hearing your birthdays and anniversaries, everybody get them to us.
We dive into our list for today and Melissa, I need a one through three.
Let's go with two.
All right.
It says that qualifiers.
We get right into the celebration.
We want to wish happy birthday to Whitney Jones.
Happy birthday, Whitney.
Enjoy your day, Whitney.
Hope it's a good one for you.
Have a great one.
And we wish happy birthday to Tommy Collins.
Happy birthday, Tommy.
Tommy is as irish as his name sounds.
That was, I don't know, he laughed at that so I just go ahead and went with it.
But we appreciate the birthday and Tommy got that into us this morning.
So keep that in mind, everybody.
You can get them into us at the last.
The day of, even right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Please feel free to.
We just want to have more and more of your birthdays to celebrate.
And if you don't want to talk on air, just message us.
Yep.
We do it through our Facebook pages or our email.
Yeah, he's a good point, Melissa.
And our qualifier today, Mark Ferris.
Happy birthday, Mark.
Enjoy, Mark.
Hope it's a good one for you and brag about being our qualifier.
I say brag about these things.
Absolutely.
We're getting close to the end of the month here.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, we really are.
It's kind of crazy.
It's kind of snuck up on me.
I like literally.
I look over my shoulder at the calendar.
Like, oh.
Spies.
Oh, dude.
It's summer today, James.
Yes.
Oh, summer.
We take a look at our celebrity list.
First up, Christopher Mint's plaz.
He is 35.
Many know him out there from the kick ass movies and neighbors.
But I think most people would remember him as Mick Lovin from Superbat.
Oh.
Yeah.
I wouldn't.
I haven't seen it.
He's one of those guys.
That role is so iconic of the Mick Lovin role that he has a lot of people like fans and everybody
call him that.
They see him walking down the street and they'll call him that.
And in a recent interview I saw with him.
He was talking about how he likes that.
He's good with that.
You know, that's fans.
He's appreciate.
He appreciates that he has a career.
You know, that they remember him.
Oh, yeah.
He was also on the set of a celebrities in Mars or something like that.
The show last year on Fox.
I don't remember.
But he was talking about it.
And the producer of the show and the director of the show were calling him Mick Lovin.
And that was a little different.
That was a little unprofessional.
That was a little kind of, you know, I mean, that there's being typed.
And then there's being typed by the industry.
And I think that's a whole different ball game.
Grace Potter is 41.
One of the sweeter, stronger voices you're going to hear.
Indie Band, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Her song, I'll never go back, is one of my favorites.
I love that song.
Every once in a while, I pull that one out and listen to it.
But she has a version of White Rabbit that is really powerful.
It's good.
I don't know that I'm familiar with her.
I'll have to look around.
Oh, let me know what you think.
Because she's something.
She's something.
One of my favorite directors of all time, Robert Rodriguez is 56.
Directed Sin City from Dustill Dawn, Desperado.
The Spy Kid movies.
Just a ton of great work.
Robert Rodriguez is one of my favorites and one of my biggest influences.
And part because he's such a visionary director.
He is so incredibly detailed and smooth with his editing.
He, like others of his genre, like to do their own editing and films.
And that's just such an insane process, everybody.
And if you don't know anything about it, I understand that you don't.
But it's hard.
And it's not easy.
And most directors will give this to somebody else.
Somebody that's their job.
All right, I filmed it all.
No, here.
Make it work.
Yeah, yeah.
Guys like Martin Scorsese really were the first to start doing this.
And many other directors kind of picked up the mantle.
Well, imagine they have a lot more control over the final product
if they do their own editing.
Yeah, yeah.
Quentin Tarantino came out around the same time as Robert Rodriguez.
And he's always kind of gotten the credit.
I actually think Rodriguez is a more generational director
and generational game changer than Quentin Tarantino.
As Tarantino is kind of a one hit wonder if you asked me.
Not just on pulp fiction.
I mean, just his go-tos in every single film.
Robert Rodriguez is such a vast, different way of directing and versatility.
And he's also a composer.
He scores a lot of his own films.
Yeah, yeah.
And not for nothing, Robert Rodriguez, like myself and many people out there,
from a very young age, knew what he wanted to do.
He wanted to be a director.
He was like 10 and telling his parents he wanted to do this.
And so much so that his first directing job was directing high school football games.
Really?
And he got fired after the first game.
Yeah.
Because for most people watching sports,
what you want to see is the plays on the field, of course.
What Robert did was the quarterback dips back,
Cox's arm is about to throw it,
and then Robert immediately like edits to the kid's parents,
and the looks on their faces,
and the looks of the fans and all these things.
And then he flips back to the touch.
He filmed it like a movie.
And that's not what they were looking for.
But my real quick, my favorite story of Robert Rodriguez.
Like I said, this is what he wanted his whole life was to be a director in the director's guild.
It meant more to him than anything.
He also is a big fan of creativity and of the arts.
And what he wanted to do with the Sin City movies was,
look, the only way I could do this right
is to have Frank Miller on set with me and to co-direct it with me.
Frank Miller is the writer of the graphic novels of Sin City
and one of the greater comic book writers of all time.
People have been trying to make that Sin City movies for years,
in decades, or years at least.
Rodriguez got him to because they took it from the page
and put it right on the screen,
and had Frank Miller co-direct it with him.
The director's guild said you can't do this,
to which Robert Rodriguez said,
okay, and ripped up his director's card.
Instead of giving in,
instead of doing what he thought creatively
was not the right thing to do,
he did what the arts demand.
And I can't imagine what that must be like.
I couldn't even think about doing that to my sad card.
That thought can't even cross my mind.
I admire that so much of what he did.
The art came first, and I admire that.
A heck of a director.
Well, and what about his 100 years?
The film that none of us will ever see,
because it's not going to be released until November 18th, 2115.
It's so weird.
It's such an interesting thing.
It is an interesting thing.
It's a short, it's a sci-fi film starring John Malkovich
and several others.
It's an international cast.
He filmed a film that nobody's going to see.
It's insane.
That's a live right now.
I mean, within reason.
I mean, maybe a couple babies.
Right, right.
That's such an amazing feat.
God, I'd love to know what that is.
I don't care if it's good or not.
I just want to see that.
Nicole Kidman is 57 today.
Fantastic actress.
Very good actress.
I enjoy her films.
She is very versatile.
Very good at what she does.
Mulan Rouge.
Oh, yeah.
That's the one.
That's the performance for me.
Yeah, nice one.
Let's see here.
A couple of bass players celebrating the birthday.
John Taylor, 64, Durand Durand bassist.
And Michael Anthony is 70, Van Halen's bassist.
Wow.
One of my favorite actors of all time.
John Goodman is 72 today.
Walter and the Big Lebowski.
I mean, I'm not going to waste the audience this time
and ramble through all of John Goodman's great movies.
You know them all.
You know he's Dan Conner.
I'm Roseanne.
You really know who he is.
God, I love John Goodman.
But I do have to mention his voiceovers
on Monsters and Corporate.
Oh, good one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
His voiceover work is great.
Yeah.
That's good one.
And the Emperor's New Groove.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
I forgot.
I just seen that one recently.
I had never seen it before.
I finally saw it.
It was good.
It was fun.
It was a good movie.
The llama.
Yeah.
David Spade doing the voice of a llama is perfect.
That's perfect.
He does it so well too.
Bob Vila is 78 today.
Really.
Cuban American Home Improvement TV host.
He is best known of course for this old house
that ran from 1979 to 1989.
God, I love that show.
I watched.
We watched that a little bit when I was a kid.
Yep.
We watched it too.
My papa and Nana and I would watch it
and just enjoyed that show.
His pace of that show of his, you know, being a host.
It is still some of the best you'll ever see.
Yeah.
That's a fun show too.
And Murray.
He's a great teacher.
Oh yeah, good point.
Yeah.
He really is.
Yeah.
And Murray is 79 today.
Her song, Songbird, made her the first Canadian woman
to have a track hit number one in the US.
And Murray doesn't say this in the notes.
But Ann Murray is also the first woman and Canadian
to win album of the year.
Just a couple of notes.
A couple of big things that Ann Murray's career
that really stand out.
It's a heck of a singer, heck of an artist.
Speaking of which, Brian Wilson is 82.
Mastermind.
Beach Boys Mastermind.
Good vibrations.
I get around.
If you like a Beach Boys song, it's in major part
because of Brian Wilson.
Yeah.
An interesting note about him too.
He's been deaf in his right ear his whole life.
And it's been, I think that's always an interesting note
with musicians.
Yeah.
That you seem to have a, I don't want to say disability,
but something that you normally would think a musician
would have good hearing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's always an interesting note like Beethoven or things
like that.
Yeah.
Some people no longer with us.
Like the amazing Olympia Duke Caucus born in this day in 1931.
Pesto in 21.
One best supporting actress Oscar for playing shares mom
and moon struck was also with the late Danny Ayello
and John Mahoney.
Just an amazing actress.
Wonderful actress.
And speaking of John Mahoney,
would have been celebrating a birthday today born in 1940.
Pesto in 2018.
Many people know him as Frazier's dad
on the TV show Frazier.
And I don't blame anybody for that.
I don't expect people to know Chicago theater
or anything like that.
But John Mahoney, along with John Malkovich
and Mesha Taylor and George Went from Cheers,
were the originators and the beginners
of Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
When the theater first started,
these guys had to like steal toilet paper
from nearby gas stations just to put it there and stop.
Today, most people that didn't know anything consider
Steppenwolf Theater the broad way of the Midwest.
That theater is,
I would turn down a movie overall
in a major picture to be on that stage.
There's very few things that would mean more to me
than working with Steppenwolf or anything
I've auditioned for them before.
It's an incredible company.
And John Mahoney is one of the more collected,
celebrated actors in Chicago.
Go ahead and watch Frazier.
Watch a scene or two of his from Frazier.
And then go watch some from like a season or two later.
That limp that he has in there was not,
he does not have a limp in real,
did not have a limp in real life.
But I guarantee you that every time you see him,
that limp is the same.
Just an incredible actor, really good.
Also, another one, Danny Ayello,
another incredible actor.
Famous for his godfather to part two performance,
but so many great ones.
There's a line in there where he says,
Michael Corleone says hello.
It was one of the more iconic lines from the godfather.
He ad-libbed that.
That was his.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Chad Atkins born in this day in 1924,
country legend.
Country legend, yes.
And that reminds me, be sure to check out TrailTunes
tonight at 7th.
That's a wonderful show.
Might have some Chad Atkins.
Check that out.
Every Thursday at 7 on WIRI, TrailTunes.
Yeah, 105.5 FM.
And we wrap up with Martin Landau,
who would have been celebrating in birthday today, born in 1828.
A mission impossible, the original mission impossible.
One of the better actors that we've had.
In 1995, he won the best supporting actor,
Oscar, for playing Bell, LaGosi, and Ed Wood.
He won an Emmy in 07 for Entourage.
But both of these awards were kind of given late.
And a lot of people collectively kind of said,
well, Martin Landau deserves an Oscar,
so we're going to give him one.
And I don't disagree with that.
Martin Landau deserved an Oscar for other performances earlier
in his career.
The problem with it is for me that also nominated that year
with Samuel Jackson for Pulp Fiction.
And I think that's not only one of the greatest performances
of the year, it's maybe single-handedly the greatest
like supporting performance I've ever seen.
And I thought, no way, he should not win.
But they gave it to Martin Landau.
And they just, they do this as well.
Samuel Jackson will have another opportunity.
Yeah.
His has been nominated since.
And just because the-
It's just crazy.
It is.
It is.
And it bothers me, too, because it hurts both
of their careers and legacies in many ways.
And it shouldn't.
It's just a way that the Academy tries to correct things
all the time that they got wrong.
And if you got it wrong, just owned it.
You got it wrong and keep moving.
You know, maybe give Martin Landau a Lifetime Achievement
Oscar or something like that.
I think that that would have been a better job.
Again, it's not saying-
Martin Landau was amazing in Edward.
He's played Bell Legosi, like as good as Bell Legosi would have.
But it just wasn't as strong a performance.
And I don't think that you should-
I wouldn't, if somebody, if I'd never got anything in my life
and somebody said, James, we're giving you a Lifetime Achievement
Award for this, that I would be honored by.
But hey, we're going to give you this award because we never have.
No, keep it.
Keep it, man.
That's not how these things are supposed to work.
And it's silly.
They're awards.
We'll put too much stock in some of these things anyway.
One more time, wishing a happy birthday to Whitney Jones.
Happy birthday, Whitney.
Tommy Collins.
Happy birthday, Tommy.
To our qualifier, Mark Ferris.
Congratulations, Mark.
Encourage you to treat yourself and head on over to LKFA.
Wish you a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us on this Thursday morning.
Happy Friday, Eve, everybody.
Yeah, that's right.
And happy solstice.
Yes, happy solstice.
And that is where we're going with the conversation.
For those that haven't heard already at this early start of the day,
it is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
What does solstice mean?
Solstice means the sun has gotten as high in the sky as it's going to get for this year.
It approximately, actually around 451 Eastern time, that will happen.
Wow.
It's kind of cool that they got it right down to the dot.
Yeah, to the second.
It is pretty interesting.
And the summer solstice is the earliest it's been since 1796.
Wow, like earliest in the year.
Yeah, yeah.
Usually it's a decent rule of thumb that season starts on the 21st of the appropriate month.
But that's not always the case.
This year's precise moment of the solstice is particularly early.
The simplest reason why is that in 2024, it's a leap year.
Okay.
During leap years, such as this, the equinox occur about 18 hours and 11 minutes earlier than the previous year.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
Yeah.
No one, these are just some random facts that I thought were interesting about the solstice.
Everybody, I figure most people are going to be talking about this,
but we're going to talk about a different angle of it, of course, because that's what we do around here.
That's what we do.
When most people zigg laugh, we go up.
We go up.
Man, I was going down.
Oh, there you go.
Well, we got both covered.
We got both covered.
Good.
No one knows who discovered the solstice.
No one knows.
Yeah.
Isn't that fascinating?
The question of who first figured out that the longest day of the year corresponds to the sun's highest point in the sky is
a speckletary, unanswerable, according to Owen Gingrich of the Professor of Emorties and Astrology and History of Science at Harvard University.
Well, if you think about it, observations of the stars and the movement of the planets goes back so, so, so, so far,
it would be hard to pinpoint who identified it.
Yeah.
But the Egyptian Stonehenge is the earliest indication people knew about summer solstice.
So everybody remembers this about 6,500 to 6,500 years ago around there.
Yeah.
You know, when we were just young pups?
Oh, tough.
It would be young again.
But no medicatel herders in southern Egypt are thought to have arranged stones that lined up with the path of the solstice sun
and toward it to be able to figure this out.
That's so cool.
It is.
The solstice is a boom for solar energy, certainly.
Yeah.
So, although it's fairly cloudy today, but yes, lots of sunlight on this day, typically.
There is going to be a lot of people, in fact, more than any time of year, people doing golfing and going bird watching and doing yoga.
This is the most popular time of year for that.
Yeah.
They do a lot of special yoga classes on this day in parks, and I'm sure inside, you know, yoga studios as well.
But the solstice or the salutation to the sun is a very popular yoga pose.
Oh, yeah, that's right, yeah.
In this year, the summer solstice corresponds with a record heat wave in many parts of the US.
But it is not considered the hottest day of the year.
The hottest temperature of the year usually takes place in July or late August.
July or August.
Yeah.
So, that part might be a blessing right there with the weather day.
The day is going to be.
It's an interesting one.
There's a lot of interesting stuff from that one.
I don't know.
So, when does summer start for you?
We have the calendar version.
We have the version that we kind of talk about medial-wise.
But when is your official start to summer, everybody?
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Yeah.
Is it a festival?
Is it a, like, when it's warm enough to stay outside for an extended period of time into the evenings?
When does that happen for you?
Is there a certain time for you, Melissa, that stands out or is it just kind of, you know, when it happens, it happens?
Well, when I can sit outside as the sun is going down and not, you know, be super cold.
I think it's pretty much then it's summer.
Great answer.
Great answer.
Yeah.
I think I'm similar to that.
It's when I have to go out and cut the lawn.
But in seriousness, it's the smells that run, tell me it's summer.
A freshly cut lawn.
Or some of the other, you smell the river a little bit more from the heat or from the wind.
Yeah.
When that, the ozone smell, when it's going to rain, that, that screams summer to me.
And, and I got to say personally, my, my favorite thing, when it, when it is finally summer or nice enough out,
it's putting on shorts.
It's putting on shorts in my gym shoes.
My Adidas, I like it.
What are you talking about, James?
You wear shorts like year round.
The audience doesn't know that.
While they do now.
No, yeah.
I would.
I definitely would.
If I had the legs for it, I would.
I don't think I got the legs for weather, weather.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back.
Have some more fun.
When we get back, we're talking about how employers are luring workers back to the office.
It does.
Yes.
Talking about this revolutionary idea, desks coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.
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I hope you're having a good one out there, everybody.
We'll take you to the top of the hour with some fun conversation.
One will keep in mind, everyone, that not only in the 9 o'clock hour,
we're going to have our pet of the week from the South Ohio County of Maine Society.
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We'll have some entertainment news, some other fun stories we want to get into.
Definitely want to touch on this one, Melissa.
Got a good one here.
Five old, tiny slang terms we should bring back.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Melissa and I, off air, have talked a little bit about slang here and there.
We've got some other ones topics like this we're going to get to eventually too.
But this one I really wanted to hit out with you.
I think it'll be fun.
We'll have that in the 9 o'clock hour.
And oh, yeah, we're giving stuff away today.
We've got two.
I got two of them right here, Melissa.
Chula Vista Resort gift certificates.
These are good for a one night stay in the junior suites.
Nice.
Also includes Chula Vista Resort water park passes for four.
Hey, cool.
What better way to kick off summer than to give away some great things
from our friends over at Chula Vista and want to thank Pam Hilke for the idea.
Pam thought of this and we thought that was pretty good idea.
Part of our station.
Yeah.
Some workers love being in the office.
And for some jobs, it's basically a necessity.
For some jobs, they can be done from anywhere.
Employers are, for many where.
And employers are having a tough time coming up with incentives
that make the office more appealing than the convenience of your home.
And a report in Bloomberg says that employers have added perks like fancy coffee.
Yoga classes, DJ parties.
And now they have something new to Dangle giving an employee their own desk.
What would they have to share desks?
I don't know.
They were on the floor.
They were over.
You have no desk.
You must just work right here.
We give you table.
Here's a mat.
Here's a mat to sit up.
Over the past five years, some companies have transitioned to hot desking and setups.
Where workers grab a workspace when they show up.
And then they can move around throughout the day.
It's not really an organized spot.
You know a little bit about this Melissa.
Around here and stuff a little bit.
Now you've got your office and everything.
But for a while there, that's what you're doing.
I know Chuck RGM and engineer around here was also doing something similar for a while.
It was supposed to be a more modern communal, adaptable working environment.
But nobody likes it.
Oh, because you don't have any place to put your stuff.
Yeah, people need places like that.
Yeah.
Let me tell you, carrying your office with you everywhere you go is a pain in the tukus.
I can't imagine.
For now, the idea or now the idea is that people are sick of bouncing around their home
and using various surfaces as workspaces and giving them their own dedicated desk
is a way to win them over at the office again.
Yeah.
So this is a confusing perk.
Should have already been a perk.
Yeah, yeah.
Now they're bringing it back.
I'm not a big believer in somebody deserves credit, like a pat on the back
for doing what you're supposed to do.
I don't know where that happened in society where we started doing that.
But it gets a little old to me.
I get a little frustrated with this one.
I agree.
This is not difficult to figure out perks to get people into the office.
I don't think it's that difficult.
If it is, then it tells you something.
It tells you something about the job, about the workspace, or just maybe about the employee
or the job itself.
Yeah.
I mean, and if they can be as productive or more productive from home, then why not?
What is the point of your business?
Is it to make more business, to be bigger, better, more powerful?
Is it to make more money?
Is it to have good employees that create good work?
Now, this is what you've got to ask yourself and how you're looking at this.
If you're a business that doesn't mind having a revolving door of employees,
then these kind of things I doubt are even going to matter to you.
And certainly a desk seems like a very low-hanging fruit-simple solution.
I would, if I was an owner or running a company or anything like that.
I genuinely, and I mean this wholeheartedly, I'm not brown-nosing.
That's just the color of my nose.
I look at the way Sage has run a lot of things here.
And how when he knows something is passionate and strong about it.
When he doesn't, he leans on the people to do.
And looking to surround yourself with smart people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think that that's not rocket science.
But not a lot of business and not a lot of CEOs.
Not a lot of people run their companies that way.
Well, no.
They just want to be surrounded by yesmen.
And let's see what's number one on the board?
Childcare.
Oh, look at that.
Childcare.
Number one on the board.
You want people to leave the home, maybe have somebody to watch their kids.
Yeah.
That'd be a big one.
Seems like it.
Seems like a right, Melissa.
Now, I'm no genius.
And I imagine that's surprising to some of the audience.
No, it's not.
It's not.
But I came up with that in five seconds.
This is not rocket science people.
You reached real hard for that one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I really had to dig deep for that one.
Not certainly.
Childcare is not going to be the thing to fix all of this.
No, it's not the end all be all, but it's a huge part of the puzzle.
Gonna fix a lot.
Gonna fix a lot of it.
A lot of different things.
Again, it's a domino effect.
The person is able to leave the house, is able to work, is able to work more.
That business makes more.
Our economy does better.
Our taxes go lower, et cetera, et cetera.
And that child is in a safe environment, depending on age.
Also, an enriching environment that's helping them prepare for the next step in their, you know, schooling.
Or being able to start school.
Those are important things too for the child.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
This is, this idea that parents can, I don't care if you got one kid, let alone if you got multiple kids.
And I don't care if you haven't a significant other in the home or not.
Most, what we're talking about here is a lot of single parents.
Go ahead.
And I want somebody, you know, working from home to, if you don't have kids or don't have a pet or anything like that.
I want you to find whatever you can think of as an equivalent of something that every five seconds is going to be trying to talk to you, trying to ask you questions or need you.
Um, pets, and do this a little bit.
People are what we're talking about in children.
And, and, and yeah, yeah, in a perfect world.
You know, this, the, this romanticized idea of the forties and fifties and everything where, so and so goes to work and so and so stays home and watches the kids.
Um, that's part of the reason we're in the mess we are.
Uh, and, and, and spoiler alert, everybody.
Things were a lot different in the fifties and 99% of what you remember about that or you have heard about that is romanticized.
Well, they could live on a, on, on one income.
I mean, how's this cost less than a thousand dollars then?
It's, it's, it's the, the idea that this can be done without childcare, without better childcare is, is I'm sorry.
But the only time I'm hearing this from people are people that are not in this situation.
Yeah, because stay at home parents stay at home.
That's a full time job because they're, they're interacting with the children.
They're taking care of the home.
I mean, we've lost the, the, I don't know, we keep adding things to the plate, James.
Like, like, okay, so yeah, you can, you can work from home and take care of the kids and take care of the home.
And, like, how many full time jobs can one person handle?
Yeah.
Maybe in your 20s, you could handle two or three, but I'm sorry in my 40s, I just would like one.
Yeah.
Just one, please.
Well, yeah, you know, we, and I'd like it to be able to pay my bills.
We, um, we, we talk a lot about mental health.
We talk a lot about people not, uh, nobody on their deathbed said, God, I'm glad I worked that over time.
Uh, nobody, but, but we say these things, but we don't do anything about them.
We don't put anything behind them.
We don't actually work to make them better.
And, and I, and I looked this up, Melissa, we can though.
We have the power to, we do have the power, James.
We got this thing called our voting power and our ability to vote and our ability to, uh, get people into office
that are thinking about these things that are caring about these things that are listening to constituents
and that are trying to do right by the American people, not by their party, not by their party by the American people.
Right.
And who maybe have life experience that lends to understanding those of us who are living this situation now.
How many of those people, uh, making the decisions right now have children at home,
are worried about child care, are single parents who are trying to raise a family by themselves.
I think the population in our government is pretty small.
Yeah, yeah.
And, and most of these people that even are in those situations have a care, have somebody watching their kit,
have a caregiver or something like that or health care, their health care is paid for.
They don't have to deal with what we have to deal with.
We, uh, we like to wrap up our hours on a, on a palli cleanser.
And I got it, got an interesting one here.
San Francisco's new tourism pitch.
Uh, the big heat dome is cooking a lot of America here.
250 million people.
Could you see temps over 90 this week?
Uffta.
Um, so San Francisco's new pitch to tourists is basically, hey, it's not as hot here.
That's it.
That's, uh, you know, I mean, that's, that's kind of a luring.
I expected highs in San Fran, uh, throughout most of next week, around 65.
Oh, the Wall Street Journal did a pretty good.
Yeah, the Wall Street Journal did a big right up on a billboard that just went up near Fisherman's Wharf that says it's cooler than the bay.
And hotels are using the same tactic.
Uh, beat the heat in San Fran.
Um, mild summers in San Francisco are not new, uh, even though, um, they probably didn't say this.
He didn't say this.
Uh, there's an old quote attributed to Mark Twain.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Uh, that's a cake.
Actually, really good quote to Mark Twain.
God, a great quote, man.
Um, so, but, uh, they're, they're just kind of interesting.
I think this, uh, we can get into climate change and all that, but we only got a minute left to show or the hour.
Let's, let's look at the positives.
Yeah, yeah.
And I, I, I love the basicness of this.
You know, they, they didn't do the like, uh, uh, spend a million dollars in marketing or anything like that to come up with this.
Uh, you know, they didn't, they didn't bring in a, you know, uh, um, a support or a group of people, you know, consulting teams, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anything like that?
It's just, hey, yeah, it's not as hot here as it is in the rest of the state or country.
I think we should just go with that.
Is that good with everybody?
All right.
Let's go home.
Let's go.
I think that's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like this.
I like that idea.
Uh, I like the idea of y'all stopping by and picking up one of these pamphlets for the cranberry blossom festival that kicks off today.
Woohoo!
Uh, lunch by the river is where everything kicks off, everyone.
And, uh, this is a fun, there is literally a billion things to do during cranberry blossom fest.
There's so much fun.
Uh, we'll talk a little bit more about this later and how you can even see some of our staff at the cranberry blossom fest.
Oh, yeah.
We'll be getting into that in the nine o'clock hour.
But you come by, pick up one of these pamphlets, pick up a rafter schedule while you're at it as well and say hi to Pam.
Help me say hi to Pam, yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, pick one up and map out your plans for this amazing signature event in our area.
Mm-hmm.
Come on down to Rapids and have a good time, everybody.
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