Good morning, Wisconsin.
Good morning, world.
It's a new day, and thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown
radio, 804 on the clock.
Got your host, James J behind the mic.
I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa Kaye.
Good morning.
And we, our course, joined by the best listeners in radio.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Good things in store for the next two hours with Melissa and I.
We're not only going to get into the LCFA birthday anniversary club, catch you up on
all your Olympic news, anything you might miss overnight.
Some of that.
We got some other fun stuff to get to as well.
When I get into back to school shopping, how much that is costing parents, especially
today as our friends at the United Way are collecting school supplies.
That's right.
Eating vegan for two months, well, that can help your biological age and all that.
Get into that.
Nine o'clock hour to kick off the way we like to do around here on Thursdays with our
pet of the week from the South of County main society.
All right.
Sponsor by our great friends over at Jammer's Bar and Grill, a big shout out to them.
Thank you to them for sponsoring.
Mm-hmm.
Melissa and I are also going to get into some local theater conversation and some fun and
all that.
And then in the nine o'clock hour, we will also get into the top acronyms we have been
googling because we don't know what they mean.
So all of them for me?
What is QN5?
I don't get it.
The explain is to me, I'm old.
We will get into all of that.
All that coming up for you today, but we're looking forward to that.
But I want to kick things off.
Tomorrow we'll have Seth likes to note that James gang together.
Melissa, Seth and I will get together.
We're going to talk about some fun things to look forward to in August as far as holidays,
different events, entertainment-wise and sporting-wise.
But I thought there was a couple places to start today, Melissa.
And I just thought this would be a fun one since it was you and I today.
I want to get into some facts about August, we might not have known.
And the fact that we let the audience know, just in case you don't have it marked on
your calendars like we do.
Okay.
So August was once the sixth month of the year.
In the original ten-month Roman calendar, the month went by the name of, uh, Sex Tillis.
Okay.
After the sixth month, it's why it was called that.
Yes.
Latin for six.
Yes.
Yes.
No other weird reasons or anything that my mind would do.
It wasn't until around 700 BC that August was rudely as shoved back into order with
of months when January and February were added to the beginning of the year by King Numa
Pompilus.
Huh.
Yeah, the history of our calendars is just fascinating.
It really is.
I mean, there's none of us that don't know it just as the way it is.
August also has changed in days as far as that goes.
Mm-hmm.
Most of the...
Here we go.
August has multiple times.
In the ten-month Roman calendar, the months all had either 30 or 31 days, totaling 304 days
in the year.
Not only did Pompilus add January and February to the calendar, but he didn't stop there.
He also reduced the number of days in August down to 29.
It wasn't until Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar that it was the 31.
And that Julian calendar is what we follow now, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, and that kind of fast forwards us to that.
Uh, August is also a unique, uh, a little bit unique.
Most of the time, at least, in a standard year, there was no other month that begins on
the same day of the week as August.
In a leap year, however, August begins on the same day of the week as February.
Wow.
Just weird how our calendar plays out in the history of our calendar.
It's a coincidence.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
Um, there's some other interesting notes about August as far as kind of some of the
more, uh, bigger dates in August.
This first, it's traditionally known as Lamas day, you know, I had to go here.
Well, all of this is building up to this inside joke, by the way, everybody.
Uh, it was, there is an old festival to mark the annual, annual wheat and corn harvest.
It was a sort of Thanksgiving, uh, in Britain.
Alamas also marked the midpoint between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox.
We need to have a Lamas day.
We really do.
Um, August 11th marks the end of the dog days of summer, which began on July 3rd.
And August 17th is when catnites begin, harking back to a rather obscure Irish leg and concerning
witches.
Uh, this bit of folklore also led to the idea that a cat has nine lives.
Hmm.
Okay.
Pretty interesting.
Yeah.
And it gets a little bit deeper around here when, when you look at August 5th, that is
a civic holiday in many parts of Canada.
Celebrations and names for this holiday vary across the country.
For example, in Alberta, it's celebrated as Heritage Day in British Columbia.
It is known as British Columbia Day, but throughout other parts of Canada, it is known
as Civic Day.
Hmm.
Cool.
And that means something a little bit to us over here in the States, personally here at
WFHR.
As today marks the anniversary of when we were taken over by Civic Media.
Oh, yeah.
It's our anniversary.
That's right.
And just wrote this date down.
I should know this.
Yep.
Back.
It's been two years now that we have been with Civic Media.
And we've been, I just cannot express enough how much I'm appreciative to Sage and the
team here at Civic Media and what they have done for our radio station.
We are an 80 plus year old radio station.
And for those that don't know the radio business, I don't blame you.
But the way this usually works, and it worked, I would say, out of the seven changes I've
been through five out of the seven times, they come in, they change everything, they automate
everything.
And before you know it, you're hearing voices on this radio station that aren't even
in Central Wisconsin.
Yeah.
Or that aren't even in the state at all.
Right.
And then all the local staff is gone.
Yeah.
And you flip around your radio station right now, everybody, and you're hearing stations.
You're hearing a lot of people that are not in this market and a lot of people that are
quite frankly voice tracked.
They're not even there live.
Civic Media came in and it was the could not be more of the opposite.
They believe in local, they invest in local, they invest in this community.
And it's not just us, it's up and down the whole state with the whole Civic Media family.
Mm-hmm.
It is.
And it's really awesome.
We are in a fortunate position.
I was having a good conversation about the direction of our station and how it is.
And I had somebody saying to me, do you feel like you come across this bias at all?
And I talked to them about how, well, even listening to this person has been listening
to WFHR their whole lives, which is over 30 some years.
And you know what WFHR used to be?
It was automated, 99% of the time.
And you had a lot of people on this network that had a agenda, had propaganda to give you.
What we are now could not be more different than that.
Our station has no party sites.
We are a democracy station.
We are a station for truth.
We are a station for facts.
And we are a station for you to count on us here at WFHR in particular.
We are going to keep you informed and hopefully keep you laughing.
We are going to cover local, like nobody else, nobody covers local like we do.
I will put my name on that.
And we have a, especially considering the team we have, we have a very small team.
And we're all producers, we're all hosts, we're all, we're multiple hats, and we all love
our job.
And part of what we love about our job and coming to work every day is not only the people
we get to work with, but the people we represent in this community.
Our community, because we wouldn't be here without all of you.
Yeah.
And I am incredibly proud that we're able to do all this.
And it's all, it all starts with civic.
The listeners, our advertisers are all equally important.
Wouldn't be here without you like Melissa said.
But we need a company that believes in us.
We need a company that invests in us and backs us.
And my God have they proven that.
Yes.
We would not be here without sage.
Thank you, sage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The tech side of our company.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The tech side of our, of what has happened behind the scenes for us.
It couldn't be different than the way things were before.
And a lot of this, it doesn't happen without Marcus and hard of Wisconsin media.
And I always like to shout them out.
Absolutely.
Our friends over in Adams, hoping they're having a good.
Marcus gave me a chance.
So I got to, I got to give a huge shout out to him and you two James.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, some Marcus.
Absolutely.
And this doesn't happen without him and him making us attractive if I'm quite blunt.
You know, so we certainly send a shout out to them and appreciation to them.
And in a pretty obviously too, not only to civic, but this amazing team that we have.
If I started naming names, we'd never end because we have a big, we have a big family.
We do.
We have, we have definitely grown in our, in our family.
And you know, Melissa, we love, you know, celebrating around here.
We love having a party and everything.
And I think it's a good idea that we start really hitting on this.
I know you and Seth and everybody are calling it a parking lot party.
I think it's, I think it's a house party.
I think it's like, I'm inviting kid in play.
I want, I want to get some good old 90s hip-hop playing.
I mean, but you know, I think you guys have a little bit of a better idea about this one.
It's a concrete dance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we are going to be having an open house.
No, do not do that, do not do that.
August 14th, market on your calendars, everybody.
Wednesday, August 14th.
It is not hard for me to remember because my cousin, Lisa's birthday is the 13th and my sister
says the 15th.
So I will not forget this day.
I want a lot of birthdays in August too, my best friend, my brother, my best friend's
husband.
That's cool.
That's a, it's a busy week.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's cool to hear.
I, I have to say, actually where I wanted to start and I got all caught up in the
facts like I always do, when, when you think of August, Melissa, is there anything that
pops in your mind?
Is that it?
The birthday?
The dog days of summer.
The heat.
Yeah, yeah.
You're experiencing right now.
I, I think of a, actually, one of the first thing, birthdays is the first thing I think
of, but outside of that, it's school starting and, and, you know, and if I'm being honest
with the audience, like the TV calendar kicking in and the Simpsons and a lot of my shows
coming back.
Definitely.
Yeah.
But before we move on from the party, we got to mention some of the facts because you'd
like to get into the facts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, August facts?
No, no.
The facts of our party.
That's what I was hoping you were saying.
Yeah, I did.
That's what all this is leading into is, is us talking about this awesome house party,
this open, how open part, open house party that we're going to be, parking lot party that
we're having.
And I'll start calling it that.
The parking lot party.
I hear it.
Whatever you want James, as long as you show up.
This is something we've been putting into the works for months.
You know, I love letting you guys look behind the curtain.
Listen, I work really hard on this.
Of course, the rest of our staff has been helpful too, but we kind of spearheaded this
one and really wanted to make sure that our audience knew how much we appreciate them
and how much we're looking forward to this.
Really, this is a customer or a listener appreciation party.
Yeah.
That's why we're doing this.
Yeah.
Well, we are going to have some really fun things going on down here.
We're going to have a food truck here for you to make sure all your are fed.
Taco, so show, we're going to have tacos.
Yeah, it's taco, taco Wednesday.
Oh, I'm so excited.
Looking forward to that.
We're going to have some face painting down here for the kids and some blue and animals
and some things like that as well.
And this is a crossover promotion, everybody.
This is with WFHR and WIRI.
We're going to be doing some fun things on both stations.
Here at WFHR, we'll be live and direct from five to seven, we'll be having different
four to six.
Oh, yeah, four to six.
We'll be having a bunch of different guests on with us and maybe even talking with some
of you and bringing some of you on the air live and direct right there in real time.
On WIRI, we're going to be playing your playlist.
Hey.
Get us your requests, everybody.
What you'd like to hear that day, we'll play it over on WIRI.
Let me just text that into our text line, right?
Yes.
On our WIRI app, if you don't have that already downloaded, you should because then you
can listen to us anywhere.
We're going to have, we just got a whole new order of T-shirts for WFHR and WIRI.
We'll give some of those away.
I didn't even get to see the, I saw the boxes and that's as far as I got.
Yeah, it's great to have new shirts to get out in your hands and everything.
We want everybody in the community to have one of these.
We are not going to rest until we make that happen.
And we've got even more things in store for this day.
We're really excited about it.
We're going to be talking about it and hyping it up as we get closer and closer to a
Be sure to mark your calendars.
August 14th, our parking lot party right here at WFHR, WIRI.
We're going to invite you all over and have you let you check out the studios, let you
check out the building, especially if you weren't here, speaking of Marcus, when Marcus
had an open house for us back then.
Right.
Over two years ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's crazy to think about two years.
It is crazy.
That is insane to think about it.
I'm excited about all the things we're going to have for the kids though and I think we'll
have to save some of those.
But I do think James, we've teased about this and joked about it.
But I do actually think that we should have a hula hoop challenge.
Okay.
I am challenging you to be able to do a hula hoop.
Okay.
Now I'm all in.
You're on.
You're on.
Okay.
I do believe that I should get a little bit of grace with it.
I was born without hips.
I see it.
Here's the thing.
I have these amazing hula hoops that were designed and created by a hula hoop artist in
the cities.
Whoa.
Yeah.
No, she's amazing.
I think her name is Hooperina.
Oh, that's all I love that.
I'm going to never business.
Yeah.
But she designed these hula hoops and they're like, there's fabric on the outside.
They're weighted.
So they actually, once you get them going around your non-existent hips, I almost guarantee
because, you know what, there's no guarantees in life.
I almost guarantee you're going to be able to do it, James.
We're going to find out.
We're going to find out and all of you will be able to watch and point and laugh at me.
Yes.
And it's going to be a lot of fun.
We're looking forward to it.
It is.
I can't wait.
We're so excited about this.
And spread the word about it, everybody, because we, the more the merrier we want you all
to come on by, we will see you here on August 15th.
And we should have some also community partners there.
I am still working with Wood County.
We're going to maybe have a table there with some information about things going on in
the community.
And so we're still figuring out some of those details, but however it turns out, we're
going to have fun.
And just between all of us, okay, and keep it between all of us, we're kind of hoping
to make this a tradition.
We're kind of, we kind of like to do this, you know, going forward and everything, but
yeah, we're going to, we got to make sure we have a good first one to be able to have
a second.
So be sure, again, to mark your counters.
August 14th, we will meet you right here at WFHR from noon to six.
Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.
We're looking forward to it.
And I'll be back with the LKFA birthday anniversary club on the morning show at WFHR.
It's time for the birthday anniversary club with our good friends at LKFA.
We encourage you to treat yourself, get on over to LKFA, 221 Market Avenue, beautiful
boardedwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us.
Check out that great menu that they have over there, looking at their Facebook page, which
we encourage you to check out, type in your search bar, LKFA, and like and subscribe
to what they do.
Got a breakfast special going on today, Philly, steak skillet.
Ooh, that sounds amazing.
I'm going to keep things in the city of brotherly love for their lunch special, a Philly
steak wrap, a lot of waiting for you for lunch.
Also yummy.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that both sound really good.
And if that doesn't do it for you, they got plenty of other great amazing, unique, fun
things on that menu.
The only thing that tops it is the great people over there.
Wish them a good one from all of us here at LKFA and by local support, local support,
those that support us, everybody.
We appreciate you.
Absolutely.
One of the things our good friends at LKFA do is give us an opportunity at the beginning
of every month to go into this big hat we have where we throw all of our qualifiers and
we drag a name out of there after Melissa gives me a number and that person or persons
are going to win $2, $20, give certificates to LKFA.
Awesome.
Just like that.
That's a lot of food.
That's a lot of food.
All you had to do was have a birthday or anniversary and get it to us.
That's it.
It's pretty simple.
And you can do that by emailing us info at wfhr.com or james.mailf at civicmedia.us.
You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages as well or call up.
That's right.
Five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred or one button dialing, that's actually two
or three, but that's semantics.
With the civic media app, which is just a handy app to have on your phone.
It really is.
It really is.
You can catch us anywhere.
I've really enjoyed having it on there.
It encouraged you to do so and thank you to everybody who has already downloaded the app.
Melissa, before we get to today's birthdays and anniversaries, it is time to pull our
winner for July.
I have a question for you, James.
So this big giant hat you have with all the names in it and I pick a number.
How do you find the number in the hat?
Swim.
I swim.
I swim.
It's impressive.
To be fair, I have been watching Katie Ladecki her whole career.
So that's what's helped me a little bit with this.
You know, I don't know how others might have done it in the past.
You know, I believe if I have this right Bob did a, just a big dive into the tank.
Just like a cannonball and he just jumped right into the hat like that.
I think Kara was a little more like kind of dipping his foot in and like this ease into
the hat.
I like to dive in a straight dive like a Katie Ladecki kind of dive.
Yeah.
So I'm in the hat.
Melissa go ahead and pick a number.
We got, we got to pick a number one through 31.
We had over 31 qualifiers out of the month of July.
That is awesome.
Thank you so much listeners.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, let's choose number three.
Oh, number three.
That gives us a qualifier of Sam Anderson.
Hey, Sam.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Congratulations, Sam.
Congratulations to Sam.
I hope you enjoy Sam.
You can take Melissa.
No.
Yeah.
We appreciate it.
You think whoever got us your birthday.
Yes.
Sam had a birthday actually late in the month of July.
So kind of a late entry winner.
And that just reminds you that whether at the beginning, the end, the middle of the month,
you never know who was going to win these two $20 gift certificates, two L cafe.
Big thank you to them for sponsoring the hour and giving us the opportunity to do this.
Sam Anderson.
You can come by and pick these up here at our WFHR radio stations anytime and give us
a call if you need any help in assisting with that.
But we're located right at the roundabout there by the DMV and the National Guard Building.
Can't miss us.
Can't miss us, everybody.
Looking forward to seeing you here and get used to the address because we're going to
of course be having you over here for our parking lot party.
Yeah, party on the roundabout.
Now we have to start collecting names for August Melissa and we have a one or a two I need
right now.
About a two.
All right, gives us the qualifier.
First up, of course, once again, a reminder that today is the anniversary of WFHR and
WRI becoming a part of the civic media family.
Happy birthday to us.
Happy birthday to us.
Happy birthday to us.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
We will.
I will stop.
We also got another honorable mention we want to get in.
Actually, two of them.
First, Judy Paul, Randy's wife.
Hey, happy birthday, Judy.
Judy's awesome.
She's amazing.
And those two are great pair.
Wishing you a wonderful day, Judy and Julie.
We hope it's a good one for you.
And we want to wish Pam's sister-in-law a happy birthday.
Marie Kazuba.
Marie, happy birthday.
One time resident in the Wisconsin Rabbits, her first name is Mary, like a Mary Osmond.
Marie Osmond.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's a great name.
It's a great name.
We also want to wish a happy birthday to Felix Edmonds.
Happy birthday Felix.
Enjoy your day, sir.
Hope it's a good one for you.
I love the name Felix.
Love that name.
It's a good name.
Yeah.
And we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier, Dianne Collins.
Happy birthday, Dianne.
Hope you have a good one, Dianne.
And no matter what happens in the month of August, you are our first qualifier.
That's bragging rights.
Go ahead.
Absolutely.
Go ahead and brag about that one.
And thank you everybody that got us those birthdays and anniversaries.
We take a look at our celebrity birthdays.
And at the top of the list, it is Aquaman, Jason Mamoa.
Ooh.
Hey.
Everybody that shares that man's birthday?
Yeah.
That's got to be awesome.
Yeah.
45 years old for Jason Mamoa does not look it.
Looks younger than me.
That hair.
That hair helps a lot.
He is one handsome man.
That he is.
I saw back when his career first kind of broke from a game of thrones.
He had some security around him and he was popping around.
And these poor security guards, just like he dwarfed them.
I don't know what they were going to do.
Like just getting the way.
Probably.
I mean, just run an interference.
And not for nothing, he is one of the better guys out there.
This is a guy who has taken his name and done a lot for his, you know, Hawaii and a lot
of the ocean.
A lot of the work that he does is to preserve the ocean and take care of it, get plastic
out of it.
He's done a number of different things about it.
It's interesting.
He's always been this way and just happened to get the role of Aquaman.
It kind of tied in together with that.
And not for nothing, nobody has ever made that character cool before.
People have been trying for literally decades to make Aquaman cool.
Jason Mamboa did it with one scene.
Yeah.
He's something.
He's a good actor to me.
I didn't realize he was in Stargate Atlantis.
Now I'm a huge Stargate SG1 fan, but I haven't watched all of Atlantis and now I have
to.
Yeah.
Yeah, you do.
Yeah, I have to.
Yeah.
I believe that's where he got his break.
Yeah.
It really came out to prominence with Game of Thrones, but that's the role.
That's the one.
Not interested at all.
Sam Mendez is 59.
He wrote and directed World War I movie, 1917, one of the greatest World War I movies
ever.
He made his directorial debut with American Beauty, also directed Jar Head and James Bond
movie Skyfall Inspector, both really good movies.
But he has a movie called Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks and Jude Law.
And it is, it is beautiful to watch.
Like I don't, I don't know if you like the movie, you don't like the movie that's here
or there.
It's a great acting performance.
It's, I mean, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, that enough said.
It's the cinematography for me.
It's such a beautifully filmed movie.
It is so nice to watch.
I think I, there's another actor in there I'm forgetting that I'm going to kick myself.
But it's a, it's a really, I think it's a movie, one of those movies you've got to watch
at least once.
If anything for the beauty of it and the way that Sam directed it, it's really well-directed.
Paul Newman, Daniel Craig.
Paul Newman, my god, I, I apologize to every single member of this
screen actor's guild for forgetting the great, the legend, Paul Newman.
I knew Paul Newman was in it, but I was afraid to say it and I should have just said it.
Stanley Tucci.
Gosh, yeah, another good one.
It's just a great cast, great cast.
Yeah, great.
2002, that movie came out.
It's a really good movie, really good one.
I think the, the greatest rapper, all around rapper I ever heard and still to this day, Chuck
D is 64, public enemy number one, one of the more important writers in music history
as well.
Nobody writes like Chuck D.
He wrote, especially at the time when hip hop was first starting and you had a lot of people
talking about, you know, chains and, and, and girls and, and different things like that.
Chuck D was talking about what was happening on the street and giving you poetry and a,
and a, actually, a news update on what it was like before a lot of, I think, a lot more
of the world understood what it was like.
I didn't know Chuck was a nickname for Carlton.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't either.
I didn't either until here.
Yeah, yeah.
Carlton Douglas.
Such a Chuck too.
If you see him, Mr. Chuck, interesting couple of birthdays we have here in a row, Melissa.
Can we go from public enemy in Chuck D from hip hop to Joe Elliott is 65 lead singer for
deaf leopard.
Yeah.
Rock of Ages, love, love bites, pour some sugar on me.
I, my favorite deaf leopard song is photograph though.
I believe that was their first single and that's a good one.
I like that.
Okay.
And then Michael Penn is 66.
Sean Penn's younger brother.
Fantastic writer and singer.
No myth is one of my favorite songs of the 90s.
Good, good singer songwriter right there.
66 years old.
And then we have some people no longer with us like Kulio would have been celebrating his
61st birthday today.
Wow.
And Jerry Garcia was born in this day, Grateful Dead founder, amazing writer, guitar player.
I don't think you have to like the Grateful Dead to kind of just appreciate what they
are and how long they're longevity.
Yeah.
Great.
And the great, one of the comedy legends of my youth at least, Dom Delewee is born
in this day in 1933.
Dom Delewee.
Oh, there was no other like Dom.
There was, is great of an actor as he was and he was a very funny guy and everything.
My favorite thing about Dom Delewee was him and Bert Reynolds being on the tonight show.
If you go back and you watch interviews with those two, you will only hear like one or
two words out of Johnny Carson, he's laughing his tail off the rest of the time.
He can't keep it straight.
I don't know if there were any set of guests that rocked him the way those two did.
Just a wonderful pairing in Bert Reynolds and Dom Delewee's and great, great guest on
the shows.
And he voiced the tiger in an American tale.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He did a lot of voiceover work.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Really, I mean, comedy legend really truly was Ziggy cartoon is Tom Wilson born in this
day in 1931.
I remember Ziggy and a couple important writers that we wrap up with like Herman Melville born
in the 1819, Moby Dick, one of the more like stories that I think we all read in school.
But one of those ones I look back on and I'm like, I'm glad we read that.
You know, that is an interesting book.
That is when I did not have to read in school and it is on my list.
I think it's one of those ones that's it's like watching a classic movie or listening
to an old classic song like everybody should at least once kind of thing.
Yeah.
And Francis Scott Key, born in this day in 1779, of course, wrote the star spangled band
and the star spangled banner in 1814 after seeing the British bombing Fort McHenry during
the battle of Baltimore.
It became the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.
That's kind of interesting.
Also, distant relative would later on be F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote the great Gatsby.
Yeah.
He died.
Francis Scott Key was only 44 when he died.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A shame that he was not able to live or or wait.
No, sorry.
That Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, I'm looking at to his.
Ah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Sorry.
But he died at age 44.
That's really young.
Yeah.
We were certainly appreciative of Mr. Francis Scott Key and our amazing star spangled
banner that we have that we get to enjoy our anthem.
One more time, wishing a happy birthday.
One more time to our July winner, Sam Anderson.
Congratulations, Sam.
Yeah.
Congrats, Sam.
Enjoy those $2.20 gift certificates.
They're all yours.
And our newest member to the club is Deanne Collins.
Congratulations to Deanne and a certainly happy birthday to Felix and Judy and the Pam
sister Marie.
Mm-hmm.
Sister in law, I should say.
Yeah.
But again, congratulations to Deanne Collins, our qualifier, first qualifier for the month of
ours.
One.
Awesome.
Yeah.
We'll be back.
We're talking a little Olympics.
When we get back and more, it's Melissa and James.
Take it a three-year morning at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James here with you.
We hope you're having a great start to your Thursday.
Happy Friday, Eve, everybody.
Getting into some Olympic coverage right now.
Oh, yeah.
And for those of you who missed it, Team USA snagged four more medals in the Olympics yesterday,
including another gold.
An important, a very integral gold medal too.
Swimmer Katie Ledecki broke her own Olympic record in the 1,500 meter freestyle.
It's the 12th medal of her career in eighth gold, both tie all time records, not only for
American female swimmers, but for women in general in the Olympics.
Wow.
We also snagged silver in the women's 100 meter freestyle courtesy of Tori Husk plus a
silver in women's BMX and a bronze in women's canoeing.
So American women accounted for all of Team USA's medals yesterday.
Wow.
I didn't know there was Olympic canoeing.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
I think that's so funny.
I don't know why it's funny.
Business.
No, no, it's great.
So shout out for any of you women out there, my age, who read the American girls collection,
Molly and her adventures, like she could not canoe.
Oh, okay.
And it was part, it was a big part of the story and all I thought of when you, when you
said, the US Olympic canoeing was poor Molly trying to zigzag her canoe back to the island
to help save the other girls.
Maybe Molly was an inspiration, maybe she was at the end of the day.
The US lead with 30 medals, then France with 26 China 19 Great Britain 17 Australia 16.
But the US ended the day still trailing in gold medals.
China leads that with nine France and Japan have eight Australia have seven.
Great Britain and South Korea have six and the US sat in seventh place with five, which
is part of the reason why Katie's gold medal, which at the time was our third gold medal
and only our second that we won with individual competition means so much.
This happens a lot in the Olympics where, and not just for the US, but for a lot of teams,
where you know, a team that is, you know, traditionally supposed to do well at the Olympics
and they're struggling early on and then one athlete does something and it sparks the
whole team.
You know, some countries that are a little bit smaller, it's a, it's a bit different
and a little more personal, but with, especially look with our US team, they all talk, they
all communicate and they share different information throughout the whole Olympics.
This is a true team competition in the sense that we have the whole team together, the
whole country together.
So what Katie does, LeBron James is seeing or somebody else is seeing and they're being
inspired and it's said, winning is contagious.
There is no getting around that.
Yeah.
Totally.
So it's pretty impressive to see.
It's pretty cool.
And obviously, for those that don't know too, this wasn't always an event that women were
in or that they even had for women.
They brought this event around because Katie Ledecki is so good at this and improved
that women could do a longer race.
Not for nothing as well.
The top 20 times, best times in 1500 history, all Katie Ledeckis.
Wow.
All of them.
She's got all impressive.
Just incredible.
The, the time that we have lived in where for some of us that have gotten to see Michael
Phelps and then see her.
It's just in, it is a legendary time in swimming, especially in American swimming.
Mm-hmm.
Now I have not paid that much attention to the Olympics, but I do feel like it's worth
mentioning turkeys taking their first medal in shooting with the guy that just like walks
up with regular glasses on hand in his pocket and scores a silver medal.
They found the, like everybody's dad and that's who's representing turkeys and it just
goes out there and does this thing.
No.
I swad her under his name.
Yusuf Dykik.
Oh, that's, I believe that's how I heard it pronounced.
That seems pretty, if it ain't there, it's pretty close to me.
That, that was pretty good.
Melissa, nice.
Yeah, you got to see that video, everybody.
It's great.
There's, there's one other video that I almost demand that everybody looks up.
So Katie Ledecki gets done with her race and she comes out of the water and I've watched
everyone of her races and it's the first time that she really shows some energy.
She's like, oh, she's really excited.
You can tell this one meant a lot to her as she's getting out of the water and walking
over to the, to where they stand afterwards and everything.
She's saying hi to fans and there's this little girl who is standing kind of in the stairway
so you can kind of see her in the middle there and she couldn't be more than four or five
years old, maybe six.
She's got all her USA gear on and everything and she's looking right at Katie Ledecki
and Ledecki sees her and waves to her and smiles and this little girl freaks out like
it's the Beatles.
She faints.
What?
What?
It's so sweet.
It is so genuine Melissa.
This little girl just flips out, she's like, she saw me, she's my hero saw me and then
it starts, you can see the look on her face as it's starting to dawn on her when just
happened and she kind of falls back a little bit in faith.
It's so good.
It is the, for me it is the moment of the Olympics already and I don't know, it's going to be
hard to top that one.
It was such a cool moment.
And possibly the most fun thing to come out of the Olympics so far is the, sadly I
did not make the team videos where people are sharing clips of their own or athletic fails
to show that they are not competing in Paris and I think that's been a lot of fun.
And Irish rugby star Aaron King went a complete she-hulk to save a teammate Emily Lane from
what could have been a very nasty fall.
That was a great one to watch as well as seeing rugby has been a lot of fun to watch in
recent years and this has been pretty cool.
And athletes are going insane over the chocolate muffins at Olympic Village.
It seems that ground zero for the succession is Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christensen who
basically made them his entire personality.
They're apparently way beyond good.
They're quite amazing and stuff.
Which is nice to see considering a lot of these, oftentimes at the Olympics, these athletes
are sleeping on cardboard, among other things.
And I don't know who announced this, who made this the thing.
But according to Michael Phelps, who I believe is well is almost decorated Olympian, he has
made Snoop Dogg the official mascot of the Olympics.
He did get to carry the torch this year.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not the way he, it'd be one thing if Snoop was just showing up and
being Snoop double G and all that and just being the personality that he is.
This guy is locked into these sports.
He'll tell you all about water polo.
He is informatively, too, while being Snoop, I mean, he's still Snoop.
He's still going to talk to you the way he always does.
He's not going to put on heirs.
He knows his stuff and he's actually doing a really good job of commentating and carrying
these games.
His interviews with the athletes are really personable and doing a really good job over
there.
Nice.
It's kind of cool to see.
I think that people just expected him to show up and just kind of be Snoop and he is
being Snoop.
Right.
Because how could he be anything else?
But like he's taken this job seriously, like it means a lot to him and whether it is
that or it is seen like an athlete like Kevin Durant who has nothing left to really prove
in his career, going all out at the Olympics or seeing what Katie Ledecki is doing, and
not just our country.
I'm obviously biased about our own country, but seeing the way that so many athletes are
carrying their flag and representing their country was such pride in 2024, when not
any of our countries don't have a black eye.
And any of our countries can you say that, well, they're perfect or something like that.
But we still love them because that's, that is the act of love.
It is easy to love things when things are good.
True love is when you love something, no matter what is happening, you, you, you stand
by it.
You stick with it.
And that is what happens at the Olympics.
And it is cool to see in 2024 that still exists.
Another way that you show the love of your area, especially if you are a love fortune and
enough to be in a democratic country, is by voting, that's correct.
I was able to tie Olympics into voting, Melissa, that's not surprising.
I, I feel like it, there's an easy natural position transition there, Wisconsin's fall
primaries, August 13th, right around the corner, make a plan to be a voter in every election.
From local to state matters, be sure to make a plan to be a voter between now and Tuesday,
August 13th, there is a lot on the docket.
It is not just November that we're looking at.
This election is very important as well.
There's a couple of deadlines to keep in mind, August 8th, five o'clock is the deadline
to request an absentee ballot.
Yes.
August 9th will be the deadline to request an absentee ballot indefinitely confined in
military.
So those, you know, homebound or military members out of state, that August 9th will also
be the deadline to register in your municipal clerk's office.
Mm-hmm.
In person.
In clerk's office.
Yes.
Sure.
You know, it's not even a bad idea to go to myvote.wi.gov and my register, I should check.
Yeah.
Just check.
You can just easily check your registration there.
Yeah.
Get ready to vote.
Be informed.
Get out there and vote.
Help democracy ring.
And of course, as always, treat our election volunteers and our people out there working
the polls with respect, treat each other with respect.
We have live in the, just my opinion, live in the greatest country in the world.
Let's show the rest of the world how democracy is done.
How we can treat each other.
It's going to be an important big couple of months here and we can handle this with respect.
We can handle this with dignity and we're looking forward to it.
We're looking forward to our next segment.
We'll be back with more fun on the morning show 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, everybody.
Hope you're having a good one.
We had your leaving.
That's okay.
We got to get up to the top of the hour here to get to not only CBS news and our local
and statewide news, but we got to get to the pet of the week.
Our friends at the South of County main society are going to help us kick off the 9 o'clock
hour.
Looking forward to that.
Absolutely.
Big thank you to Jammer's bar and grill for sponsoring that segment, big, big thank you
to them.
But I want to get into this one with you, Melissa first.
I thought this was an interesting topic when I came across it.
If you eat, drink, and breathe cheese, this isn't for you, but maybe everybody else.
A new study found eating vegan for just two months could turn back the clock when it comes
to your biological age.
Okay.
Do we need to get into what your biological age is?
Do you think everybody's got a pretty good idea of what that is?
It's like the age of yourself.
Yeah, the science of your body, basically.
You have your age, and certainly there is your body's age.
They can be the same thing or sometimes they can be a little bit off, a little bit more,
you know, one way or the other.
That's how hard you are on your body.
Yeah.
And Melissa put it perfectly.
That's how old the cells in your body look, regardless of what age or what actual your
age is.
So you might be 40, but your biological age could be 36 or 48, depending on how healthy you
are.
Great.
Researchers had identical twins follow two different diets, one eight vegan for two months,
and the other eight a more typical diet with meat, eggs, and dairy.
And by the end, the ones who ate vegan saw that their biological age dropped slightly
while the ones who didn't eat vegan saw no change.
The vegan twins also lost about two pounds more per month because they consumed fewer
calories.
Ah, yes.
So you know, it's certainly a case-by-case basis.
Every system is different, everybody is different, but there are certain things that everybody
haven't common, and the way that we were, you know, we all eat.
Yeah.
And you know, it's quite interesting, I think, to me.
And I think that for some people, too, when they're thinking about trying these new diets
or doing something like this, that only does all the data that you can get help, I think.
But it also, from what I know from people who have done these kind of wings, it's something,
well, I'll give it a shot.
And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, or if it isn't something I can do, I, you
know, don't have to do.
I don't feel like there is a big side effect to something like this.
Mm-hmm.
Well, and even just cutting back on the amount of meat and dairy and eggs that you eat, obviously
can help a little bit, because you're cutting back on those calories a little bit, those,
those particular calories.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah.
It goes a lot farther.
You know, and anytime you're putting work into your body, you know, there's no, I don't
know.
But you're the boss.
You make the rules.
You want to have accountability.
You want to hold yourself to a standard, sure.
But I think also it's important to give yourself some grace with these things, and if you
want to give them a shot, give them a shot, you know.
Sure.
And there's only so many hours in the day, too, you know, you got to, like, James said,
give yourself some grace.
Well, I do.
I do.
Yes, yes, Melissa.
Give yourself some grace.
And I do think also it's interesting to look into just your biological age and finding
out more about that.
I think more people.
Fascinating.
And the research that they're doing into cells and how to, like, because that's what happens
as we age and our bodies start to break down.
It's our cells that are breaking down or not functioning as well.
The research they're doing in, like, cell regeneration is so cool.
Yeah.
That is, yes, that's a topic.
God, I could spend hours on that topic talking with you, talking with the audience about
that.
Look into that if you get a chance, people, because it is some really groundbreaking
work that is being done with that.
Speaking of groundbreaking work, our friends at the United Way of Southwood and Ames County
have continued to do that for our communities.
We're saying a big shout out to them.
And as I look outside and I see a bit of rain coming down, I want to remind the audience
that Terry is going to let me know if they have to move their event for stuff, stuff
the desk bust this today.
Yeah, because they're supposed to be at lunch by the river.
But yes, if it's raining, they have a rain backup.
Yeah.
And we'll let you know how that goes.
It's going to be a great time.
You're going to have some wonderful food down there.
Some great entertainment.
And a lot of other great things going on.
And of course, keep in mind that it is stuff the desk down there.
So we're going to be having some volunteers and collecting these supplies and separating
them.
And it is one more opportunity to drop off school supplies.
Mm-hmm.
Stuff the bust.
Bring all the school supplies that you knew have to donate.
And I know they definitely backpacks is one thing that is a bigger purchase item, I'm
sure.
Mm-hmm.
Every kid needs.
Yeah.
Every bit helps.
Every bit is an investment in our future.
And every bit is a one more item for a kid to have.
And a kid can just focus on having fun and learning.
Mm-hmm.
It's important.
There are not many better investments you can make than this event.
It's important.
There are not many better investments you can make than this event and adding to this event.
I talk about this all the time.
But what I didn't expect in the years that I talk about this and how I was one of these
kids is hearing from so many in our audience of how not only they were a kid like this,
but they have kids that are in these situations.
And how it can affect a kid.
How it can...
And kids, man.
Squirrel?
Like, it doesn't take much to distract a child.
And understandably so.
When they don't have the same supplies as the kid right next to them, that's a distraction.
That throws them off.
That does not give them the tools that they need to a succeed and become better and smarter
and be able to take over for us so we can relax one day.
Because that's what this is really all about.
No, no, it's about that.
My kids are our future as you like to say, James.
Indeed.
And this is true.
I came up with that, by the way.
No, no.
That's an original.
No, no, no.
I shouldn't have.
I shouldn't have.
I shouldn't.
Join our friends at the United Way of Southwood and Ames counties for lunch by the River today.
1131.
The beautiful Veterans Memorial Park.
Shout out to the Wisconsin Rabbits Chamber of Commerce.
Doing a great job of lunch by the River all summer long.
I am such a blast.
Head on down there.
Everybody, bring some school supplies with you.
We'll meet you there.
Melissa and I will be back with not only South of County needs society, but more fun.
Coming up on WFHR's morning show.
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