You Still Can’t Take it With You (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wiz Gott.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off of us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Got your host, James J. I am joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habagger.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

It's a, it's a boys show.

I just realized that.

A rare Monday one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We have Melissa out today.

She's enjoying her day and our good friend, Brittany, Brittany was not able to join us

either this morning.

Yeah.

So just us, man.

Just us.

But it won't last that long, because Beth will be in this week.

Well, Terry and with us, Melissa will be back this week as well.

But we'll enjoy today.

Well, hopefully you're going to enjoy your Monday, because we've got good things lined

up for you, everybody.

El Café, birthday and anniversary club around the corner.

We'll also get into some lipid coverage.

Got some fun viral moments that would happen, we'll also get into a little bit of highlights

about the Olympics.

Of course.

And is it unhealthy to want to look like an Olympian?

We'll get into that.

That's coming up.

Depends on what they're doing, I guess.

Yeah.

Entertainment news kick off the 9 o'clock hour, because there will not be a kitchen's open

this morning.

Instead, it'll be James's snacks.

No.

We won't do that until the end.

What James ate over the weekend.

Yeah.

So I had cookies and more cookies and disclaimers.

Yes.

Do not eat like James unless you are six.

Yeah.

And then it's okay.

Your teeth are going to go anyway.

I do want to get into some entertainment news a big weekend for the box office.

First of all, I want to talk about Rod Stewart a little bit and I know Rod Stewart and

I'm in the news for a while.

Deadpool and Wolverine had a box office record.

As I said, we're not cleaning up on the box office in no surprise.

I got to help with that.

You did.

You did.

Deadpool and Wolverine.

Yes.

How about that?

Oh, less than 24 hours ago, I saw it.

Oh.

Still in my veins.

The Antimedium is still in my veins.

Oh, okay.

Because they'll feel it.

I want to talk about that.

Got all those things coming up for you in the 9 o'clock hour.

A little bit later, we'll get into some other fun.

Four things.

Four more things people do without realizing they're being rude.

Get into that.

Got some good stories at the day and some local stuff we want to touch on today.

But as you mentioned, we got to talk Olympics.

You said something in our pregame that I thought was really good, Seth.

That this time of year, you know, you get people talking about the almost everybody talking

about it, even not sports people.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Everyone is.

It's kind of cool, the fact that we have this all-consuming worldwide thing that everyone

wants to talk about and be part of.

And I think that's, you know, if we could box that up, you know, and have it all, you know,

more of the time, that'd be really nice, you know, the Goodwill, all that.

Yes.

Yes, yes.

It would be fantastic.

Maybe this will help send some, put some Goodwill out there.

Maybe get the tone started right for today, for the week, for us, for all of us.

The Olympics are in full swing and it's awesome watching intense ping pong matches and

fencing for hours all day.

But if you aren't into that, maybe you should look at two Dolly Parton for inspiration.

She posted a video on Instagram with a caption, feeling the Olympic spirit can't wait to cheer

everyone on.

You are all champions.

And then we get to see, well, and get to see and hear this right here.

And just Dolly from her latest album, Rock Covers, I'm playing The We Are The Champions.

And it's Dolly with a bunch of Olympic footage and everything.

Very inspiring.

And it's a great pair of spectrops, too.

Yeah.

And just something she did, like her and her team just put together and everything.

She's not a part of the Olympics.

She doesn't need it.

And then the Olympics don't need her to promote it or anything.

She's just really into the Olympics and really loves watching them and everything.

How cool is that?

How cool is that?

Yeah.

That way she holds that last note, man.

It's kind of cool, man.

So if that does not get you fired up for, for synchronized swimming, I don't know what

went.

Water polo.

Water polo.

Yeah.

It's been fun.

Have you gotten a chance to watch any Olympics?

No.

Okay.

I am not your big Olympics person.

I mean, I appreciate the Olympics.

I certainly do.

But I'm not one to sit down and watch competition.

I like hearing what happens and maybe catching a few highlights or something like that.

But no, no, I let other people.

I think Beth did some last night.

She did watch a little bit on things.

And I know my sister has got it on 24-7 right now.

But other than that, no, I'll let them have that fun.

But yeah.

Your sister and I have a lot of parallels.

This is one of them.

I've been taking it as much footage and much coverage as I can.

And I want to send a shout out to the coverage.

It's been very good.

So far, it sounds like it has been very strong, very solid.

And if you're curious about the metal count or what the latest updates are, go to olympics.com.

They are doing a fantastic job online and the app is amazing.

It's better than one of the better apps I've come across, really, as far as how it's

keeping you up to date with the time change and all of those things.

That's been pretty cool.

China is number one in the metal count right now.

Japan is number two.

Korea number three.

I don't remember the last time I saw three Asian countries.

Yeah, that's interesting.

And the one, two, three spots before.

Australia number four and you, number five.

Host country.

France is at number six in Great Britain at number seven.

Right.

And we have to note that I don't think any of the track and field stuff has happened yet.

No.

And that's usually where the U.S. dominates.

So I'm sure that'll change at some point here, but we've got a lot of games to be played.

A lot of a lot of the bigger events to come, but swimming, which is one that we're supposed

to do well and we have, and that's been great to see.

I am looking forward to seeing more or seeing more Katie Ladecki just any, because I believe

this is her last Olympics, much like a lot of our famous athletes this year.

It's interesting.

And we'll talk more about this in playmakers, five o'clock today, five to six.

So you get people to jump into the Olympics and then don't pay attention to any of these

sports all year long, years, years in the train, until they come around again.

And then for two weeks, they are, if not an expert, they do really bone up on this stuff

and really care.

And I thought of a parallel to that this weekend.

College basketball.

Oh, yeah.

College basketball, we, especially at this point in the game, name me the 10 best players

in college basketball.

I don't think I can name you one.

We could wait until playmakers is over later and nobody would have it.

Not really.

Not even on a team that they follow.

Would you be able to do that now a days?

But, but yet we, and we kind of complain about that, that we don't have an ability to

do that.

I'd like to get into it a little bit on playmakers and how I think both can be benefited

from it.

Okay.

It's, it's something that it's interesting this time of year that on sports fans, even

diving into the Olympics, there is something about, and it's not just in our country.

It's around the world.

It's like this, where there are countries who care less about sports and all of a sudden

they're, they're all all in.

Yep.

It's fun.

It's interesting.

And again, Olympics.com is where you can find that coverage if you'd like everybody.

It's a pretty darn good.

I encourage you to check that out.

We are going to go ahead and get to a quick commercial break.

All right.

So, what are the partners in a moment?

But first, before we do set this, we're getting ready to dive into food and, and talking

a little L cafe.

It's Wing Day.

Wing Day?

Yes.

National Chicken Wing Day, everybody.

The mayor of Buffalo in New York declared it.

It is a holiday back in 1977.

Really?

So, it's a 48th year.

So, the, the mayor of Buffalo can just declare days.

Apparently.

He does all of them.

He does all of them.

He did.

All of the national day of.

The power that the mayor of Buffalo has.

I had no idea.

I don't think a lot of people knew that.

I just found out.

No.

A group that tracks America's eating habits found that we've eaten 1.3 billion of wings in

the past 12 months.

Wow.

That's up 5% year over year.

If you want to help add to that total, a bunch of places have deals tonight.

All right.

Buffalo Wild Wings has free wings if you spend $10 using their code or something like that.

Using their cold cold go wings and get six free wings with your order as well.

Oh, okay.

Buffalo Wild Wings has a buy one get one deal if you order through the app and use their

code.

All these places with their apps and their codes and just.

And Hooters has a similar deal, but their wings are horrible.

Actually, that's not me saying that everybody.

That's USA Today's article like they really have the worst wings of any company.

Wow.

Which, if your company is just hanging on by a thread to begin with and I can't, I have

a hard time imagining how Hooters have stayed open.

And yes, I understand.

I've been in the Hooters before I understand how they're open and how they even got green

lit.

Let alone.

But I mean, in this day and age, like, no, just for one, I'm not even talking about

wokeism or anything like that.

Just the idea of like, oh, let's go see pretty girls like, okay, I can, I mean, anytime

you want to see that nowadays, do you have the internet?

I don't know.

I don't know.

You got to target.

You know, if you really, you know.

Look, please explain to me the guy that goes to that situation and like for, I don't get

it.

I don't get it either.

I do not understand how that business model ever works.

And again, I'm a grown man.

I understand, you know, certain things, but I think it's getting phased out.

It seems like because Hooters is not the place that it once was, you know, well, it was

always kind of a butt of a lot of jokes anyway.

I've never had a, like, I've had friends that, especially that drive semi and stuff and

that have stopped at Hooters when they're on the road or something like that.

Not a single one of them have ever complimented the food.

I don't, so obviously they go in there for one particular reason.

Right.

And that reason is even fading.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah.

But there are some deals out there.

If you're a wing fan, go ahead and get you some.

Before we go to our break, I did want to mention two quick shout outs to our audience.

I want to say a big thank you to Matt and Hat.

Matt one last week's Culver star.

Yes, he did.

Yes, he did.

Stop by.

I brought up some football cards for me and my dad.

That was really cool.

Thank you for that, Matt.

I appreciate it.

And we got to send a shout out to our friend with the postcards.

Our friend from Minnesota, yes.

Yes.

And read this right from them.

Please pass along to Tim, the polka guy, to keep up the good fun.

A real joy listening last weekend's broadcast of the Kyle Bell polka through over the

back fence.

And fun stuff.

Play it again, Tim, and tell James, don't squeeze my shaman.

I don't get that.

Bye-bye from Egbert, Rodney's older brother.

I like that one.

I like that part.

That's good.

Egbert.

I think it's a comment on last week when we were talking about tag lines from commercials.

Oh, yeah.

Where's the beef?

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

Don't squeeze the shaman, of course.

Nice.

Best and smartest listeners in radio.

And funniest, really.

They're pretty funny.

You know, they're pretty good.

All right.

We'll take a break.

We'll come back after checking in with our partners and have some more fun on the morning

show here at WFHR.

It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at El Café.

And we encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over there right now.

Two 21 market avenue and beautiful ported words.

Well, not right now.

They're closed on Mondays.

Yeah, closed on Mondays.

One day, I will remember that.

I apologize to our friends at El Café.

That's right.

I just get excited talking about it.

It's true.

It's true.

Great people, great atmosphere.

When they opened their doors again tomorrow, head on over there to 21 market avenue, beautiful

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Send them to infoatwfhr.com, james.mail.fets, if you can meet you at .us, direct message

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Love to hear from you, everyone.

Yeah.

And there's got to be someone who's got a birthday that you know, somebody, somebody,

somebody out there.

We'll wait.

Well, I'll call up and join the conversation.

Set that need a one through three.

Oh, let's do three this morning.

All right.

Give us that qualifier.

We can get right into it.

First up, one of which, happy birthday to Nicole Andrews.

Happy birthday, Nicole.

Wishing you a good day, Nicole.

And we wish a very happy birthday to Susan Foley Samolerk.

Oh, Susan.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Susan.

Wishing you a good one.

And we want to wish a very happy 50-second anniversary.

All right.

Everybody with us now to Ron and Sandy Hatt.

Oh, Ron and Sandy, happy anniversary.

Congratulations.

Not only.

Many happy returns.

Yeah, not only that, but you're our qualifiers.

Awesome.

Happy 50-second to you too, and happy qualify.

That was great.

And we're just days away from pulling our winner for the month of July.

You are.

That'll be long lookout for that, everybody.

If you have not heard, what we do is at the beginning of every month, grab a name

from out of this list of ours, and send somebody over to LKFA with two gift certificates

for 20 bucks.

That's a meal and a half right there.

Pretty cool.

Go ahead and enjoy.

Let's dive into our celebrity birthdays.

Ashley McBride is 41 today, country singer who did never wanted to be that girl with

Carly Pierce.

Oh, okay.

Danger Mouse is 47.

Oh, wow.

Narls Barkley producer and a great, great producer.

One of these guys who made his name from doing his own album.

Like he mixed the white album and the black album or something like that, and it called

it the gray album.

Yeah.

And that put him on the mat.

Couldn't release it, though.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because of the rights issues, because you're putting the Beatles together with what Jay-Z,

right?

Yeah.

And yeah.

I mean, from what I've heard, it's just a mind-blowing album.

But if you're going to look for it, eh, you have to go someplace.

Good enough to look on live from that, but it is really good.

Yes.

It is really interesting.

It is a masterfully produced, wonderful producer.

It's a shame about Narls Barkley, because I was looking forward to seeing what would

happen with that, with the Sealo cancel and all that, then it ain't happening.

But he's an incredible producer.

Yes.

One of those guys that you go to if you're looking to get good music out of.

Josh Redd, Radnor is 50, Ted, on how I met your mother.

Oh, oh, okay.

Wayne Morris is 51 from Boys to Men.

hometown Philly.

It's so hard.

And the rose.

And the road.

Oh, yes.

And so many hits.

Will Wheaton is 52.

Oh, my gosh.

That's crazy.

Oh, Will Wheaton.

Wesley Star Trek played himself on the Big Bang Theory a number of times.

But I never saw Star Trek, but I do remember him as Gordy in Stand By Me.

Yes.

You know, it's, boy, he's had such a fascinating career, okay?

He went from Stand By Me to, of course, Star Trek, where sadly, there was a lot of vitriol

directed at his character of Wesley Pressure.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, it spilled over into, against Will Wheaton, the person, which is very sad.

He has come back and he has done so many amazing things since then.

His career has been really interesting.

And he talks about it now how, you know, it was tough, but how it, you know, he got

through it and now he's doing everything he wants to do.

And he's, I mean, he's a fascinating interview.

If you ever heard him listening to what's like being a child star, it's really cool.

It's, it's always cool to me to see these, I don't want to say come back stories because

he didn't do anything that, you know, put him away.

It wasn't on him.

Yeah.

Exactly.

The what happened there.

Mind boggling to me, the people that will associate a human being with a role that

they put.

Seriously.

Like that's, that's, you don't do that, you wouldn't do that to a lot of different jobs

in society.

I don't know why we do it with acting.

Exactly.

But I, I will say it, I love seeing where there's these pockets of people in society and

that you can count on in some ways.

And if, if you are in the sci-fi community, you are brethren, you, you are going to get

looked out for in some ways.

And oftentimes it's, it's the same people that, that hurt your career that are also bringing

you back.

Exactly.

Because a lot of those same people that, you know, have, have championed him on and love

seeing him on the big bang theory and everything, maybe in some of the same people that were

commenting.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Oh, he's not perfect for Star Trek.

Yeah.

Right.

But now he's, he's a well-respected actor and, and producer and everything.

So yeah.

Timothy Olminson is 55.

Oh, gosh, yes.

Hilarious King Richard and Galavant.

Yes.

A lot of people like that show.

A lot of people really like Ferry.

That was hilarious.

That was hilarious.

A cult, Cape favorite show.

I thought he was fantastic as Cain on Supernatural.

He was very good in that show.

A wonderful charm, perfect timing with things.

But we knew that already.

If you were watching Psych.

Yep.

You knew it already.

He was so good in that show.

As great as those two lead actors were.

That show had so at a perfect, super supportive cast.

It was a great cast.

It was some of the best casting you've ever seen in a show in your life.

I would not change one person, I'll show.

No.

No, buddy.

Darn it, I always forget his name, but Sean's dad.

Oh, Corbin Bunsen.

Carbin Bunsen, wonderful ad on with him.

Getting to see him like you hadn't seen him before, and everything, too.

Sneaky good show, funny.

It was one of my first all-time favorites.

I always like recommending that one of people are looking for shows and looking for some

of the watcher in the summer or anything like that.

I like giving people not like, well, there's only one season of this.

That's, it seems like they gave him some with meat on it.

Timothy Orman said, he not only, and that show not only, I mean, he is the foil to the

main character.

He's always angry.

And he somehow was so charming when he pulls off this constant rage that he's dealing

with.

I also want to give a shout out to him.

He also suffered a stroke a couple years ago, and he's made a full recovery.

It's really amazing.

And he's acting again and doing his, it's really cool.

I've seen a lot of people suffer from that in condition.

I've never seen anybody come back like he did, and especially as an actor to do that.

I will say this may be a reach, but I think it actually, there's a parallel to Jim Ross

with WWE Wrestling, I think it was HCW now, a long time announcer there.

One of the best to ever do it, if not the best to ever do it when it comes to wrestling.

He deals with it.

He had a stroke, got a partial parallelization in his face, and continued to march on doing

his thing.

Wow.

And I admire that so much.

I think that so.

And he's still very good at what he does.

Martina McBride is 58 reckless for these times, ride in my daughter's eyes, and concrete

angels, so many good hits.

She is.

That's a great singer.

Yeah, great singer.

Of her.

Of the range she has.

I just had not heard this before, but I read it over on the Sunrise Show this morning.

By many in the community, in the country music community, she has considered the Celine

Dionne of the country music genre, because of her hits into the range she has.

Maybe the best place player of all time, Gettie Lee is 71.

Rush legend, rocker, roll, hall of fame, I don't know if everybody has the time for me

to go through all of Rush's hits.

No, there is a lot of that.

That's too much.

That's a long, too long.

A lot of them.

I will say, Ghost of a Chance is not on this list.

It should be.

It's really sneaky good song from Rush, late in their career, late 90s, early 90s I think

came out, but a good one, but obviously Tom Sawyer.

Yeah.

Listen to Tom Sawyer and tell me that one of the best, if not the best bass you've heard.

Like, just.

Telling you.

Telling you.

The great, the fabulous Tim Gunn is 71, a fabulous from Project Runway and Fashion Consultant.

You've seen him into commercials and different things.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know much.

I only, like, I'll be honest with you guys.

I was dating a girl that first, like, I think the first or second season Project Runway

was out.

So that meant I watched a little project runway.

And I had no interest in that show.

I did.

I think fashion is kind of cool, but if you see me for two seconds, you know, I have no

fashion sense.

I loved him gun.

That guy is awesome.

I don't know much about him, to be honest or anything.

But if he were to walk in this room right now and insult me, it'd be like Don Rickles.

I'd be fine.

Why are you dressing like a 13 year old?

I don't know, sir.

Why are you smiling at me?

I don't know.

I think you're awesome.

That's right.

I'd love to have him like.

He's very entertaining.

I don't, I dress comfortable, but I also try to dress with a little bit of class and

you know, with the interviews we do around here and everything.

If that man wanted to, like, this is your wardrobe for now on.

I'm good with it.

I'll go with it.

I'll go with it.

I'm going against him.

He's good.

We look at some people no longer with us, like Tony Siricadio.

He was Pauli Walnuts on the sopranos.

Oh.

For those who may not recognize either name, he was the guy with kind of the gray on the

sides.

It's one of Tony's main lieutenants.

Fantastic actor with a lot more range than I think you realize until you go back and

watch some of those and see where all over the place he can be.

Just a really crazy kind of actor, but did a great job on that show.

You know, there's nothing worse than playing a wise guy in a movie because then you are

so typecast.

That's probably one of the worst that's still around is the typecasting of, like, the

mobster guy.

I had my second agent told me to not tell any casting agents and never let it slip

that I'm Italian for that very reason.

Really?

He was so adamant about, well, you don't want to be type as an Italian actor, you will

be typed.

And he was adamant that it was going to happen to me in my career, whether I wanted

it to or not.

Right.

Like, you're so right about this.

Like, have all these, all the character, all the genres you can play.

It is the one, the major one, number one on the list.

If you do not want to be a typed actor, do not play this type of actor.

It's interesting.

It's interesting how that works.

But you're so right about that.

More right than I think you're really.

I think it still is.

It still is a thing.

Yes.

Yeah.

Peter Jennings, also born in this day in born in 1938, passed away in 2005.

One of the uncounted casualties of 9 and 11.

Peter had gone 20 years without a cigarette until the attacks of September 11th, 2001 caught

him the light up again.

Oh wow.

Later, he died of lung cancer.

I did not know that.

And I mentioned that just because of it's something that was important to him and his

family.

They mentioned that afterwards.

They mentioned that afterwards.

Wow, that's really interesting.

But first and foremost, one of our premier journalists for a long time, we didn't realize

it, but we were spoiled back in the day.

We had three major journalists that we could count on.

Many more than that.

But I mean, you're three big ones, you know, you're our era's cronkites and everything.

And we're really blown away by all of their coverage and all the amazing work that they

would do.

And Peter, Mr. Jennings was one of them.

Yes.

And he was Canadian.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

The one Canadian in the group.

Yeah.

One more time.

We should happy birthday to Nicole and Susan.

Happy birthday to you too.

And a happy 52nd anniversary to our qualifiers.

Ron and Sandy Hett.

Congratulations.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Wish you guys a fantastic one.

Absolutely.

Happy anniversary.

Hey.

Enjoy it with our friends at El Café when they open their doors tomorrow.

Yeah.

I remember that.

They'll be open tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port edwards.

We're going to get to a news break.

We'll come back and have some more fun talking a little Olympics.

Will we get back on the morning show at WFHR?

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for kicking off your Monday with us everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

I want to send a shout out to Seth in Laura with the nice production on the, uh, uh,

the parking lot parking lot party we're having.

Yeah.

I just have one tinker with that.

It's a, it's a house party and an open house party.

Oh, okay.

I, I, I got to get this out there.

I, I, I, you list, everybody keeps calling it an open house, but it's a house party too.

House party.

House party.

Okay.

This is like a, I may be, I may be the only one do I think you are.

I think of a little.

Welcome back to the show.

Ever what?

Uh, we're talking a little Olympics now.

Uh, there have already been a bunch of viral moments from the Olympics and just short amount

of time.

Um, we're going to go through a couple of these with you real quick.

Like, uh, and I encourage you to look these up, uh, of course, and check them out yourselves

and support us.

I, Celine Dion's comeback performance was a highlight of the Olympic opening ceremony.

It's, um, one of the main things people talked about.

It was Celine's first performance and she announced her diagnosis with stiff person syndrome

in 2022.

And she was amazing.

She did great.

Awesome.

I, uh, Celine fan, I couldn't tell you one song I really like of hers, but man, do I

respect that voice and anybody that, um, I, I think it's not, and maybe not important

to know, but I think it's, it's a good reminder to people.

Celine Dion does not need money.

No, she does not need any, she's doing all right.

Uh, if she's doing this, it's because she loves to perform, wants to, uh, you know,

the pride of being able to do the Olympic opening ceremony.

I can't imagine as a singer.

Um, so that's, uh, credits are her for doing that because she does not need to do it.

I think it's cool that she did, uh, Snoop Dogg was a torchbearer and everybody was watching.

Uh, they, uh, they, um, there was an interesting, uh, interaction between Snoop and Hota, uh,

Koba.

Oh, oh, yes.

Okay.

A lot of people were talking about, and it, it seems like they were just talking, but

everybody, of course, had to turn it into, are they doing a show together or are they

going to, what this and that and everything?

I think they were just catching up.

Snoop.

Snoop is, uh, now he's the, the victim of his own success.

Because now everyone, oh, he's always, he's always going to do something with them.

One of the things I think is important to know, especially when the Olympics take place

in another country is Americans are just happy to see other Americans and vice versa.

If, oh, you're from Spain, I'm from Spain and it's not just celebrities, it's, it's people

in general.

Right.

So it, one of the things that I like about these moments is, or some Tom Cruise was at

the Olympics and he got swarmed by people and everything like that.

And then after that, you see him in the back and he's swarming Olympic athletes.

He's asking them for photos and pictures and everything like this.

There is almost, uh, I'm not saying this actually happens, but there is almost a balancing

that happens with celebrityism and popularity and everything.

And there certainly is with, and I've heard this from people that have, I've never been

out of the country, but I've heard this from people out of the country.

What it feels like when you're in Germany and you see another American or you see somebody

for Wisconsinites, you see somebody walking around in the packer chairs or you're something

like, oh, yeah, right.

It's a Spider-Man meme.

And so you're just pointing at each other.

Oh, you, you too.

Um, celebrities, the Olympics, same thing, same thing, you could have just been, oh my

gosh, another American.

Oh, hey, hey, you speak the same as I do.

Right, right.

It makes it better.

But think about this though, when you're a successful Olympic athlete, you're probably

one of the most famous people in the country, if not the world, in the world, think of

how, how many people know the name Simone Biles?

Or Michael Phelps or all these big stars that have done lots of records and all these

kinds of things, one lots of metals, they are some of the biggest celebrities in the

world.

I mean, you get one thing to be Tom Cruise, but some of these people, whoa, yeah, yeah,

because as big as Tom is, he's not as big as some of these athletes.

You're absolutely right, especially when you have the years to build up that fame and

that expectation, that hope, a lot of that, um, it's, it's really interesting to me

to see.

Still, it's, it's still happening too.

Yep.

Overall, the opening ceremony went off without a hitch, aside from the rain, this was the

first time it's rained during an Olympics opening ceremony since 1952.

Really?

That's crazy.

Man, it in London at one point.

It always rains.

Right, right.

Yeah.

And interesting to see on the, on the water, them doing an opening ceremony on the water,

haven't seen that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Uh, that was kind of interesting to see.

Leave it to Paris to do it a little bit different than everybody else.

Not bad.

Not bad.

Some viewers thought that there was an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction, but that did not actually

happen.

Uh, and, and, uh, there was a South Korea was announced as the Democratic People's Republic

of Korea, which is the full name of North Korea, oops, the South Korean sports ministry has

said it planned to submit a strong complaint with France on a government level.

The IOC has apologized as well.

There are mix-ups and there are mess-ups and then there are what are you doing?

Like, whoa.

Whoopsie.

Whoa.

Can you check on that before you start talking, you know, so I make sure you want to double-check

on that.

Accidents happen and all, but you can't let that accident happen.

That's a little bit.

Yeah.

Um, there was the unusual, already weirdness, of course, of, uh, uh, uh, some other things

too that happened and got some, you know, no, you know, got some attention and everything.

Sure.

All in all, pretty smooth.

Pretty smooth.

Pretty smooth.

Look at all the people that are there.

Look at all the athletes that are there.

I mean, there's going to be stuff that goes a little goofy sometimes.

There's, there's a lot of things like this in life, but this is another one of those

things that we have normalized that we can't normalize.

This went off without a hitch.

That's insanely amazing in this day and age.

Got to give the organizers a lot of credit.

All these different countries, all of these athletes, all of these spectators, literally,

literally all around the world coming to Paris.

And do you understand how big Paris is, everybody?

It ain't that big.

It's not that big of a, it's city, uh, everything.

So all of that considered, and it went out without a hitch.

That's impressive.

That's good.

Um, it's also another thing to note is something that we're talking about about fame and everything.

Um, we are so close to this here in America that we don't see it as often, but fame is

in every day thing.

There are thousands and thousands of famous people that you're going to see on your social

media, on your, on your, on your radio, all on your TV, all of that, every day, we

are bounded by fame, fame, fame.

It's very, very true.

And what that is to be famous.

In every day, there is new artists and new people, the pop up and all of this and some

people with 15 seconds and some people with 15 years, but it's a lot of that.

Other countries around the world don't have this.

They're not, and that's saying there's no other country like it, but there's no other

country like it.

Uh, there really isn't.

And when you're talking about, well, who's going to be famous in America?

Well, it's probably going to be, you know, your musicians, your creative, some of those

things, uh, maybe some politicians here and there and some of that in other countries.

They don't have as much of these other factors.

And they're not as obsessed with some of these things like we are.

Yeah.

So they promote their, their local athletes more.

Hey, so and so from our town is going to be in the Olympics and that's the big celebrity

in that country.

Right.

So to your point about Tom Cruise, maybe not as big where he helped his fame here or

maybe in, in parts of Europe is nothing compared to Latin American countries.

Oh, yeah.

There's a lot of things where, uh, you know, messy or some of these soccer stars or some

of these Olympic athletes worldwide to war with Tom Cruise, who is, that's a little shot

of Tom Cruise.

No, it's just a perfect example of a guy who's built up 40 some years of fame, one of the

biggest celebrities in the world, and even people like him are unknown to some.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Kind of interesting.

Uh, just some other notes about the Olympics and quick hits here, uh, seven, uh, so more

than 80 medals were handed out in the opening weekend of the Olympics.

Wow.

In team USA, 112 of those who's worth going to drum around seven came and swimming, including

a goal for Tory Husk in the women's 100 meter butterfly.

If you get a chance to watch that watch that everybody was amazing race.

And the men's team took gold in the 100 meter freestyle relay.

Um, American, that was a lot of fun to watch too.

American fence or Lee Kuifer also won gold in women's foil.

Oh, that is three early gold.

And that is saying something because if you have not, uh, public, Tory has a fantastic

show and he doesn't really deep dives and he's a great reporter.

Um, he did a dive on a fencing and the most, um, the most, like tainted sport in the Olympics

is fencing.

It's specifically laser fencing, like the, uh, you look at, you don't have to do a deep

dive into that to see the, the, uh, the, uh, the Russian ties and the oligarchs and all

the money and different things that is put in the fencing fence.

So to see an American win fencing is actually saying something.

Well, additionally, the United States isn't big in fencing either.

It's more of an old country kind of thing.

Yeah.

Shout out to them.

The US also snagged six silvers in swimming, diving, fencing and mountain biking.

The men's basketball team crushed, there will be a hundred and ten to eighty four.

US surfers dominated, uh, dominated the opening rounds and the women's gymnastics team crushed

through their qualifier, um, that shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.

Uh, and, and, and I think that, uh, a lot of people felt it when Simone Biles tweaked

her calf, I even grabbed mine, uh, when I saw it, um, this, uh, I, I'm sure that some

other countries, some other gymnasts and everything may have seen this and thought there's

blood in the water.

Make no mistake about this.

Make no mistake about this.

Simone Biles may be the hungriest athlete at the Olympics.

And this is saying something considering not only is her legacy set, the goat.

Yeah.

She is the goat.

If Simone Biles is one of these athletes, if you don't care about gymnastics and you're

just curious, well, what do they mean?

She's the greatest of all time.

Pull up any routine in her career and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Let alone this last one where she blew my mind doing two different moves that I've never

seen a gymnast do before and I've been watching gymnastics my whole life with my family

very tied to it and everything.

Um, this is the worst thing that could happen to any other gymnast in any other country

because she's already been motivated.

She already had the last Olympics where she was not able to perform.

She's coming into this knowing this is her last run, knowing this is her last Olympics

and wanting to believe it all out there.

And if she's all been doing it, if she's a little tweaked, if she's a little hurt, what

does that do to some add to a motivated athlete?

What does that do to it?

It just pushes them even farther.

Uh, I just hope it doesn't end up like some major injury though.

Like she actually lands wrong and it's like, no, it looked like an injury like, like,

you know, ask a football player in week 14, yeah, what their injuries are, you know,

it's like that and they'll still go right there and play.

Right.

Well, and to, you know, just a tweak, I'm going to be coverage a little bit.

Now this is the, this is the motivator now.

Now she's the underdog, right?

Right.

Like they love to do.

They love the underdog story.

Like, yeah, she's the greatest ever.

But oh, oh, she's got a little tweaks, you might as well have a little wrong there

with her muscle.

Oh, no.

She's going to be the underdog now.

There are a lot of great, uh, gymnasts around the world and there are a lot of great gymnasts

on our own team in this country.

Uh, there is only one lion in that in the gym to end gymnasts and gymnastics and she does

not need motivating.

She does not.

He pushed.

She's, she's going to find out like she's not competitive.

I mean, she got here because of all competitive.

She is.

Uh, Paris is six hours ahead of the East Coast.

So a lot of events are happening in the early morning as we speak, uh, don't want to ruin

anything.

We're watching them in prime time.

So coming into today, the US led with 12 medals, followed by France and, uh, eight, and

Japan was seven Australia and Japan had the early lead in the golds with four apiece.

So those were the numbers I was giving you earlier.

Uh, it's fun.

It's interesting.

And we will continue to watch and keep you up to date.

Yes.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you.

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

I'm going to take it to the top of the hour in the nine o'clock hour and a kick off talking

little entertainment news, looking forward to that.

Get into some rafters talk.

Let you know about that as well.

Uh, rafters, I've got a lot of, uh, been important game, they're all important games

coming up.

Mm hmm.

Everything's a playoff.

Absolutely.

It is.

Uh, and there's also a lot of great promos going on with the rafters we want to talk

about as well.

And a little bit later in the nine o'clock hour, we got four things, uh, people do without

realizing they're being rude.

How rude.

I'll rude of them to put that list together.

Uh, we will get into all that, but we're just talking to lipics and a lot of people are

watching the Olympics, even people who don't really care about sports very much, right?

Right.

You watch them.

But if you're watching the Olympics and wishing your body looked like that, give yourself

a break.

Uh, yes, please.

Have some grace.

Give yourself some grace.

Yeah.

To fitness and body image experts to, uh, who say it's just not realistic for most people.

And thinking like that can actually be unhealthy.

Olympic athletes are in the best shape they'll ever be in because they're in the prime

of their life and it's all their focus on it.

Exactly.

It's their job, basically.

One expert put it like this, you never expect someone to be as good as you at your job

if they only did it three hours a week.

Exactly.

Uh, I likely, I just got done saying, Simone Biles is the best gymnast I've ever seen.

She's the goat and she's even really good on the mic at a good interview.

Mm hmm.

She couldn't do this.

You can do this.

No, not exactly.

Not given her time and everything like that.

Maybe she could and everything, but, uh, she also couldn't walk in in a mechanic shop right

now and fix a carburetor.

Yeah.

Exactly.

We've all got our skills.

Hey, something I haven't common with her.

They, they, uh, they say if you find yourself feeling self-conscious while watching the Olympics,

just look around your home and consider what you have, your hobbies, family, friends,

and pets.

If you spent as much time working out as Olympians do, you might not have any of those things.

So that's the trade-off.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So it, it's like anything else, you know, this is kind of a, uh, oh, we're talking about

it once again, you know, kind of thing.

It's like, yeah, they work at it a lot.

In fact, that's all they do.

So yeah, that's why they're going to look like that.

And remember, too, it's like a specific set of, like, muscles and stuff they work on

for each specific, you know, event.

So you're not going to look like, like, say, look at an archery person.

Well, they're going to want to have good shoulders, you know, strong shoulders and strong

wrists and arms, you know, maybe, uh, some, a little bit of legwork, but that's the main

thing for them is the stuff that they need.

So yeah.

I, um, and I think it's a, and not only important to note, uh, it's a, it's a good thing

for us to be reminded of, even if even if you're not feeling this way, you may, it may

be a self-conscious thing that you're not even realizing you're, you're comparing yourself

to these adonises and everything, which it's not fair.

This happens a lot with acting, um, like, uh, using a, I think Jake Gyllenhaal is one

of the best actors in the world.

I've mentioned before, if we had the Olympics for acting, I'd want him for the US.

I put him out there.

I'd feel confident putting him out there for the US.

He just recently did, uh, the Roadhouse movie and gotten shaped like I didn't even know