Now I Never Will Forget… (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

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

Got your host, James J. I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Head of production, co-host, Seth Habhagger.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're going to kick things off the way we like to.

We haven't gotten to in a while.

With our good friend, Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature.

Good morning, buddy.

Good morning.

How are you?

Doing good.

Happy to hear your voice.

Yeah.

More importantly, how are you doing?

Oh, good.

I'm happy to have my voice back.

Yeah.

We're going to the weather last week.

We're really happy to have you back with us, Brittany.

Glad that you're feeling a little bit stronger, a little better over there.

How is mother nature feeling?

She is feeling a little dark and dreary today.

We've got a lot of moisture here too.

I can relate.

No.

We're all at the Monday.

So she's on the same page as us.

Oh, goodness.

Yes.

Overcast, guys.

All throughout the day.

Don't expect much sunshine at all.

In fact, we're going to see some decent rain rolling through by this evening.

I think it'll be light and misty and just kind of annoying throughout our afternoon.

Nothing too heavy.

But as we go through this evening, I want to say from about 10 to midnight, I think is the heaviest

hit of rain we're going to see where we could get one to two inches.

That's creating some flesh flooding and some nasty puddles for us by tomorrow morning with

those rising rivers as well.

So a lot of rain on the way.

But after that, a pretty decent week ahead of us.

In fact, highs today only hitting 72 degrees.

So what we're feeling right now, it's going to be just a little bit warmer than that.

About five, six degrees or so for our highs.

And that's it.

We're stopping right there.

So I can mow my lawn tomorrow, you're saying?

Yeah, tomorrow afternoon.

The front of the out, it'll dry out and then you'll be fine.

Yep.

Well, I guess we should be happy.

My folks live in South Carolina.

I just got a text from them this morning.

This week they're expecting 12 to 18 inches of rain from the tropical storm.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That's a bucket, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Fortunate, fortunate.

Yeah.

Fortunate to have you back.

Thanks so much, Brandy, for joining us.

We'll hang out again tomorrow.

Don't good.

Have a good day.

Thanks, Brandy.

Yes, in the business right there, our friend, Pritny Murlow.

Good to have her back with us.

Hold you for sure.

Good to have you all back.

Welcome to the work week.

We are going to have some fun.

Take you right through the week.

We've got good things coming up.

We're going to get into our WFHR W-I-R-I parking lot party.

Woo hoo.

We got to talk about that.

Yeah.

Get the L-Caf vapor.

That was good, you guys.

I wasn't looking up, and I didn't know which one of you said that at first.

The L-Caf vapor at that anniversary club is right around the corner as well.

We got some Olympic highlights for you as well.

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Well, we've got an option for you over here in the AI Companion.

Oh boy.

We could go wrong.

And so many things.

The best and worst places in your home for an air freshener.

We'll get into all of that.

We will also have a bunch of stuff lined up for you in the 9 o'clock hour.

It's a Monday.

You know how we like to kick off the 9 o'clock hour with the kitchens open?

Yep, yep, yep.

Got a great one lined up for you today, Melissa.

I don't know, guys.

I still have to proofread this before we get to the 9 o'clock hour.

Oh, it's going to be fun.

It might have been finishing this at the final moment.

That's all right.

It's an adventure.

It always is.

Always.

And it's going to be a lot of fun looking forward to that one.

Afterwards, we're going to be joined by our good friend Tom Heiser

with a monthly veterans update.

Yeah.

Always love talking with Tom, looking forward to that.

A little bit of entertainment news for you.

Getting some other fun stuff in the 9 o'clock hour.

Like how many the percentage of us that are worried were becoming our parents?

That's coming up.

We will also get into the industry with the happiest employees.

Oh, into that one too.

Some good stories that the day touched on our local stuff and our schedule here and all of that.

But I got an interesting place for us to start here again.

And I don't know if we'll heartedly admit that I haven't had kids in school in, you know,

10 years or something like that.

I mean, it's been a while.

But this one snuck past me and I didn't even see it.

Have you heard the new, quote, new version of the alphabet song that's going viral?

No.

No, not brand new, but more and more schools have switched to it over the past decade.

But if you don't have kids in school, you might not know.

It's sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

But the pauses are in different spots because the old way was too confusing.

Saying Y and Z at the end and apparently left some kids thinking there was an N in there.

Oh, Y and Z.

Oh, in the alphabet had two Ns.

Some also got confused by the L-M-N-O-P.

And thought it was all one letter.

Yep.

The new way pauses after the letter N then goes O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z.

So there's pauses in there.

Okay.

So it's the same tune.

Yeah.

It's just got different breaks.

Different breaks in it.

It's all over social media after an elementary school teacher talked about it.

She said her school switched to the new version a couple years ago.

And just to really stick to it, stick to it, us old people, they also changed the end.

Oh, okay.

We used to button it up with, now I know my ABCs.

Next time won't you sing with me.

The new version is, now I never will forget how to say the alphabet.

Oh, I like that.

That's right.

That's pretty good.

You know, I'm okay with this change.

Yeah, me too.

It's not, it's not a huge departure.

No.

Oh, wait a second.

Why?

Why are we changing this?

We've always done it this way.

I mean, why would we change something?

Don't be a stick in the mud, James.

Don't be a stick in the mud.

Oh, wait.

I mean, we can evolve.

We can change this.

We can change this.

And make it better.

Yes.

Wow.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

What's on your mind?

Hey, it's Laura.

And I'm just not there yet.

But this is actually how I taught, had me and our win their alphabet winning.

I was first beginning to teach them 100%.

That was the way that I taught them to sing the alphabet.

Wow.

Once they got to school, they were taught the other way.

And they've since forgotten it.

Well, it's been like what, six years ago.

Yeah.

It's been a good minute.

Yeah.

So I just thought that would be a fun addition because this was what?

2012, 2013, 2013.

2014 that I was teaching them the alphabet.

So it's been around a bit.

Did you notice anything?

Because so these are, they learned right away this way.

You didn't try any other methods.

No, that was the first way of singing the alphabet that they were taught.

Oh, okay.

I was wondering if, because in comparison.

And obviously the big thing for me, the big reason for me was I was one of those kids who thought

LMNOP was one word, one letter.

So I didn't want my kids to have to deal with that humiliation, you know?

So since you did this six years ago, Laura, did you start this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good question.

No, because I read it on a blog.

Okay.

All right.

Well, good on you for being honest and not just taking credit for it.

Yeah, you were right there.

What's a blog?

What are you talking about?

The blog.

You know, it's National Blog Day, too.

Today is like National Blog Day.

That's what that's hilarious.

Good to work out better.

Nice.

I always appreciate you, Laura.

We'll see you soon.

Yep.

Bye.

I'd love to hear some more from the audience about this.

Did anybody else teach their children this way?

That's kind of cool.

I didn't know about this until I got the, they might be giants.

Here come the ABC's album.

Oh.

Their children's album.

They have a specific song that LMNOP is not one word.

That's literally the lyrics.

I don't know if it was not one word or one letter kind of thing.

See, every time I'm doing anything that requires alphabetizing,

I have to sing that.

And I specifically sing LMNOP to get my brain to like sequence the alphabet for me.

That's not bad.

I do that.

LMNOP.

Yeah.

Where and I, what I remember of learning the alphabet song,

I was in, you know, in a school with a lot of multicultural people.

And a lot of kids that English was not their first language.

So when it came to the LMNOP part, a lot of them thought that was the easiest part of the alphabet.

They would just, you know, use their accent with it or let it just slide through.

And it wasn't just one set of letters.

It was a word in its own.

And the menu, you know, it sounded like something that you was, you know,

they go, that sounds like something really good to eat.

It's like, is this new?

I miss something.

And the teacher was really great about, you know, embracing that.

But also it's, it's four letters.

It's four letters.

Yeah.

And try to get us.

And that poor lady must have spent an hour on the alphabet song with us,

just trying to get us to understand that those letters were all separate.

Yeah.

So there's really good, you know, reason behind them making this change.

Exactly.

You need guys to do the new song, but it wasn't invented yet.

I did try to find the new song, the new version online.

And all I found were just one version that was really hard to hear and everything.

So should we try this?

No.

I haven't heard it before.

So I don't know how it goes.

Well, there's breaks.

Right.

It seemed like the only difference were the different breaks.

Got you.

So tell us again what they are.

So saying, okay, so the new pauses after the letter N,

then it's OPQ, RST, UVW, XYZ.

Oh, okay.

I don't know if I can do this without doing the old version.

Okay, well, let's try it.

We pause after the N, right?

That's the first pause.

Yes.

Okay.

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-N-O-P-Q-R-T-C-I.

I can't even do it.

You have to do no x, 1, no WB.

I can't even.

How does the alphabet go?

Two comes up next.

I think W, 2, x, y, z, purple.

What's the outro?

Purple.

No, no, no.

Oh, yeah.

Where did it go?

The new version.

Now I never will forget how to save the alphabet.

That was poor.

It was painful.

It was very rough.

Very rough.

We'd like to apologize.

So any school group out there that has this down pat, please call me.

I will come and record you doing this.

Please.

It's awesome.

For the benefit of all of us.

Exactly.

Especially us.

Please.

Please reach out to Melissa and do that.

And stick around, everybody.

Because we got the L Cafe birthday anniversary club on the way.

Let's try this again during the break.

Now, I guess.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L Cafe in the birthday

and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself when they open their doors tomorrow.

Thank you, Melissa.

Melissa, sorry, guys.

I had some breaking news on that.

I was going to share it with you and I totally forgot to do that.

Oh, breaking news.

I was at the shop at the store last week.

And they had a little sign up here.

And now I'm going to find my photos.

Where's my photos?

Okay.

How to phone?

What's that?

That makes me feel.

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They'll be back Tuesday, August 13th at 7am.

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And a quick reminder.

Sam Anderson, our winner for July.

We have not heard back from yet.

So if we don't hear anything by the end of the week,

we are going to have to announce a new winner.

Oh, no.

Somebody reach out to Sam.

Tell him to come and get it or her.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Tell them to come and get it.

Thank you, Melissa.

I was doing the same thing.

Do I?

No, I'm just going to go Sam.

Just going to go Sam.

Just say Sam.

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I need a one through four.

Seth, give me a one through four.

We'll always pick him.

Because I got you tomorrow.

And I'm going to have to make you put you, make you do it tomorrow.

I'm better.

That's why.

Whatever.

I got no comeback.

But I'm going to sound disgusted.

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She's out there working really hard in Idaho.

I believe.

Oh wow.

Oh wow.

Doing great work over there, really doing the same type of work.

She was doing here and over there.

Cool.

And appreciate you, Rachel.

Thanks for everything you did in this community.

Absolutely.

Enjoy your mountains.

Happy anniversary to Stephanie D. Rezo.

Happy anniversary.

What?

Birthday.

Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary to you.

Happy anniversary to yourself.

Yeah, on your birthday.

Technically it is an anniversary.

It is!

Really wrong?

No, it was wrong.

I was wrong.

Happy birthday, Stephanie.

Yes, happy birthday, Stephanie.

We say a very happy birthday to Laila.

Happy birthday, Laila.

Enjoy your day, sir.

It's a good one for you.

And our qualifier today.

Pastor Carlton Anderson.

Oh, happy birthday.

Happy birthday.

Pastor Carlton.

Pastor Carlton?

There you go.

And then I did do it.

Happy anniversary to you, sir.

We wish you a fantastic day in a joy.

And thank you to everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries.

We greatly appreciate them.

Good work, everyone.

We dive into our celebrity list right now and fitting that we would be celebrating Lolo Jones'

birthday, 42 for the Olympic runner and Bob Sletter.

Oh, yes.

That's an interesting two sport combination right there, wasn't it?

Yeah, so cool.

I think the Bob Sletter, she got into later in her career, I believe.

I remember that.

Terry Clark is 56, country singer.

Girl's lie too.

Dirty girl.

You're easy on the eyes and I just want to be mad.

If I didn't know she was a country singer, you would from those titles.

That's right.

She feels like it.

Yeah, she's from Canada.

One of the most sought after directors and the head of, well, the co-head of DC right now.

James Gunn is 58.

Wow.

Guardians of the Galaxy director.

And really, I feel like when you talk about James Gunn and you call him a director, it underplays

him.

He is a creative.

He is one of these guys that likes to be involved in almost everything, but wants everybody

to be involved in everything as well.

He is a big player's coach.

He's a guy who really likes to work with let actors have freedom on stage and screen.

He's also the guy that, I mean, has taken a couple careers and like helped them just launch

off.

Nobody more than Chris Pratt.

Marvel was not, did not believe Chris Pratt could be an action star.

James Gunn really got them to see him and like, hey, this guy, just let him get in shape

a little bit.

And he's got the charisma.

He's got the comedic timing.

All of that.

It seems like James Gunn got that one right and a couple of them.

Yeah.

I really admire too.

He left Marvel doing the last Guardians movie in this great area where he had taken

the DC job.

Yeah.

And Kevin Feige went out of his way to congratulate him and tell him how awesome this

was and how the two companies are going to compete, but they're also going to be working

together and looking at this, you know, going forward the movie industry and how do we

over not over saturate the market and all of these things that are almost unheard of in

this industry.

So I admire that.

I think that's very cool to see what they're going to be doing there.

And if you were a comic book fan, it is, it is not out of the realm of possibilities

that one day those two universes could come by.

Cross over.

Yeah.

Big old crossover.

Not that far apart.

Not really.

Not really.

No.

And we've already had crossovers happen loosely in some ways with actors doing these things.

That's true.

So I don't think that's too far fetched to see and money.

I got money.

Money.

The answer is all your questions, money.

Monday.

Once they run out of the multiverse ideas and all that and everything, that's the next

multiverse to conquer, you know.

One of my favorite character actors of all time, Mark Strong is 61, the bad guy in Shazam,

Nestro in the Green Lantern, Merlin in Kingsman movies.

If you see Mark Strong, I think you know him and just one of those great, great solid actors.

Oh, yeah.

He's always bald.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's really, I really liked him in the Kingsman movies.

He got to play a lighter role and stuff.

It was good.

It always seems to play the bad guy.

Yeah.

Like, a lot of villain roles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In a, in a, a couple of guy, Richie movies, he's a good guy and he, he really excels at

it.

He's very good at it.

Oh, he was in Cruella.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, gosh.

Out of Georgetown, the Hoya himself, Patrick Ewing is 62, NBA legend.

Yes.

Pat Smirror is 65, ex-fufu fighters and Nirvana guitars.

Mm-hmm.

Lixie, Dairinger is 77.

Another musician.

Roger.

Rock and roll.

Who?

The great, the wonderful Lonnie Anderson is 79.

Jennifer Marlow and WKRP.

No, that's right.

Lonnie Anderson was underrated.

Like, I know she was pretty.

I know she was a blonde and all these things.

That woman could hang with Bert Reynolds and all these other actors.

And she worked with a ton of great comedians and always held her own and never got the

credit for it.

I always thought she was way more than just a pretty face, like a very solid comedic

actor.

Yeah.

And, and played off, had no problem playing the role that she, whatever she was lined

up for and whatever, you know, movie or TV show she was in, I always thought she was

very talented.

Uh, Janet, you boys would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Lona and good times.

Just one of the greatest TV roles of all time.

Uh, grandma and the Wayne brothers, Ma Bell and I'm going to get you Saka.

She also wrote and sang, moving on up the theme song to the Jefferson's.

That's awesome.

And she played Janet Jackson's mom in the control video and Janet played her daughter Penny

on good time.

So it was kind of fitting.

Oh, nice.

Cross over.

We get across over.

Just an incredible actor.

Very nice.

And my god, some of the best TV acting you would ever see, especially in a dramedy, uh,

she, man, I just think it is the final scenes in that in good times.

And it just breaks my heart every day in time.

Man, it's just show.

It could have ended happy.

It could have ended happy.

The shows have good times.

Come on.

Just one episode with some good times.

Neil Armstrong born in this day in 1930, Pestoy in 2012, true American hero first man

on the moon.

Hmm.

Boy.

Boy.

Not enough could be said.

I was going to say it.

It's what it is.

Who else can, he's the guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The first man on the moon.

There's other things you can say about him and add to his resume.

But really, like, it's all you've got to say, like first, aeronautical engineer, navel

aviator, test pilot, university professor, he goes out, yeah, nice, nice, uh, yeah, just

a true American hero.

And the one thing I have a common with him, I, nice, I got to say to, uh, very self deprecating.

He did a, uh, a guest spot on 30 rock once and, uh, and he just, it's, it's, he's playing

a character in his character, he's playing Neal Armstrong, but as a character, and Neal

Armstrong, the character is kind of lost in a little bit.

Oh, okay.

And when Tina Fey finds him, him and Tina wrote this scene together and he's basically

yelling at the moon.

I own you, moon.

I own you, moon and him and Tina are just yelling at the moon.

We got you, moon.

It's hilarious.

Very funny.

Uh, uh, the legend Adam Yauch born in this day, uh, Beastie Boy's original, uh, one of

the kings of hip-hop, if you ask me, uh, Pete Burns born in this day.

From, uh, from the 1980s band, Dead or Alive, uh, you spend me around, oh my, oh my

goodness.

You spend me right around.

That's right.

To be alone.

To be alone.

The people's heads right now.

Yep.

Sorry.

Uh, we wish, uh, oh, I think just from me saying it.

I don't know.

I don't think just that.

Uh, one more time wishing a happy birthday, uh, to Rachel, to Stephanie, to Lyle, and certainly

a happy birthday to our qualifier, Pastor Carlton Anderson.

Yeah.

Happy birthday, everybody.

Happy birthday, everybody.

A reminder to get us these birthdays and anniversaries, everybody we want to celebrate

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We come back talking a little Olympics on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody, morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa, Seth

and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Get your USA chance ready because we're going to get into some Olympic conversation.

We won six medals on Friday, three silvers in shooting, a question and swimming plus three

bronze medals in sailing, archery, and track and field.

No goals that day.

Then we had a huge Saturday with 18 more medals, five of them gold.

Thank you, Simone Biles, who won the vault.

Thank you, Ryan Croser, one of the third, his third straight gold and men's shot put.

Wow.

Vincent Hancock won his fourth gold and men's skit and the swimming team set a world record

in the mixed, uh, mentally relay, uh, which was a fat, fun watch.

That was a fun watch if you're interested in swimming.

And of course, Katie Ledecki won her 800 meter race to score her.

The ninth gold of her career, it ties her for a second most all time and she's hoping

to compete again in 2028, which is what was brand new news to a lot of people.

Oh my gosh.

In swimming, she might as well be 55.

So the fact that she's looking to be an L.A. in, uh, 28, uh, that is impressive.

Michael Phelps is first, of course, on the list with an insane 23 gold medals in his

career.

I don't think anyone's going to beat him.

I don't.

I don't.

I don't think so.

Maybe ever.

Uh, there's a lot of, they, you know, they might add more categories to swimming and you

can maybe see another swimmer get close.

I don't think, I think I could see somebody getting close.

I don't think anybody's going to beat him.

Sunday was another big day with 10 more medals, five of them gold, sprinter, no alliles.

One is 100 meter race by 5, 1000, 1000s of a second, which is, it was so cool to see.

It was so photo finish.

Christina Faulkner took gold and women cycling after making the team as a sub.

How amazing is that?

Yeah.

That was the most interesting story to me.

Those are good.

Yeah.

Yeah, you barely made it.

Now you win.

Holy cow.

That's awesome.

Icewater in her veins.

No kidding.

Uh, swimmer Bobby Fink won the men's 1500 meter freestyle race and the women swimming team

won their medley relay, setting a new world record along the way.

Nice.

Chef, there are one nine under par in his final round of winning by a stroke.

Oh, add it up and team USA ended the weekend, sitting pretty with 71 total medals.

Then China, 45, France at 44, Great Britain at 37 and Australia at 31.

And we came into the day tied with China with 18 golds each, France and France and Australia

have 12.

Great Britain have 10.

At this point in the proceedings, of course, we got a nice lead ahead in the total

medal count here.

Uh, that is nice to see told we are going to run game in Paris.

Uh, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart took in some horse play at the Olympics over the weekend

and looked awfully dang good doing it too.

Oh, they got the, they got the helmets on black coats and white pants like the knee pants.

I mean, I don't know what you call them, knickerbockers.

I, uh, I say this with a lot of, uh, I'm a big fan of snoops.

A very big fan had been since the, you know, he came out and everything.

Um, he looks older than Martha, like, like, wow, he does that really surprised you,

James.

Not really when I say it out loud.

Now that I say it out loud.

I mean, what, I'm on, how many, what, last year that she was in swimsuit illustrator.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Healthy living.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you cook your own food, this is what you can achieve.

Snoop Monster traveled to Paris to present Martha with a cake for 83rd birthday and Snoop,

uh, uh, seemed genuinely like sight.

They did a little video together for Sesame Street and everything.

Oh.

And I gotta give him, if you get a chance to watch it, check it out.

Um, it's just basic, you know, the basic old bit cookie monster eaten a cookie and Snoop

eats one with him.

But Snoop, uh, as he, he crunches it in his hand as he's chewing and dropping it all

down like cookie monster does.

Yeah.

And it's so well done.

Like it's, it's perfectly done.

I've never seen, I've seen a lot of bits with cookie monster.

Oh, yes.

I've never seen anybody do it smoother than that.

It was, it was incredibly well, it gets all into it and everything.

Uh, it was fun.

Taylor Swift recorded a promo, uh, for, uh, female athletes, like Simone Biles and

Jacari Richards and Katie Ladecki.

Wow.

Um, Adele actually paused her Munich concert to watch the women's 100 meter final on the

big screen.

Ah, cool.

That's awesome.

You get a chance to see that video.

That is pretty cool because great.

You would think with the money that it costs and how much time is put into these concerts

and everything that maybe there'd be a, like I'm not saying the whole audience, but even

some of the audience might, there'd be a little pushback or some.

It's silent.

Yeah.

It's silent in that place, man.

It's, it's, I don't know that you could push back against Adele.

No, pretty cool.

It's going to save.

It's, you know, she can get away with just one anything, I think.

And, um, and yeah, it's, it's, it's been a, a very fun set of games so far and there's

more to come.

Uh, and, and now that we have a new world's fastest man, Noel Isles, uh, went into 100 meter,

uh, did it really, uh, not only was it an amazing finish to see, but, uh, he, he lost

a coach recently and held up the numbers and, and towards heaven.

And it was a really cool moment.

It's the stuff that the Olympics are made of.

For every cool thing it is, for every photo finish and all those, um, there's so many great

stories that have already happened in these Olympics that have nothing to do with anybody

placing.

Nobody want a gold or a medal or anything like that.

We're seeing countries that, uh, some people are still are just learning our, a country

win medals for the first time for their country.

It's got to me.

And we've got a couple of things here in the States with that too that we've seen where

we've, uh, placed, where we've never placed in a category before and we've placed in

that one.

And that's pretty cool.

Then imagine your country's never won a medal and you win gold and women sprinting.

Like, you know, are there any of these like legendary races that have been around for hundreds

of years and everything and you win the first medal for your country and that, um, like

I'm amazing.

I'm a homer as it gets when it comes to the USA, but it's pretty cool to see these other

countries have some not only representation, but, um, to be able to like leave their mark

like that.

Uh, it's, it's quite amazing.

You know, it's one of the, in my opinion, the one of the biggest ways that it brings

the world together because, like you said, some of these countries, we don't even know

and, and sadly, as an American and I'm speaking for myself, I am terrible at geography.

Like, I don't know all the countries in the world.

There's a lot of them.

There's a lot of them.

There's a lot of them.

There's a lot of them.

You ain't alone.

But, you know, to learn about and, and see these athletes competing from these little

tiny places all the way across the world, it's such a cool thing, not that I have had

the opportunity to watch anything but clips.

Of course.

At least you called clips.

At least you're right.

That's cool.

But yeah, no, it is a neat thing that brings us all together and I hope, I hope it continues.

I mentioned this the other weekend after seeing Deadpool and Wolverine, um, that Jim

Rash had a comment about how there's just so, there's less and less opportunities for

strangers to get together in a room, watch a movie and laugh together and then everybody

leaves and does their own thing.

Like, we don't do that much anymore in society.

We have no opportunities like this that bring the, truly do bring the world together like

this does, um, like the Olympics do, like, like sports do, uh, it's, it's, it's pretty

darn cool.

Uh, in 2024, to still see these moments and it's not lost on me and I hope not others,

these genuine moments, uh, that we just don't get much of anymore where they're just kind

of cool moments.

Does she, Simone Biles and, and, and I apologize, the young Brazilian lady who was, uh, the

Jim that's going up against her and really pushing Simone and these two rooting for each

other and these two, you know, being like, we've been, we've been going against each other

for a decade, uh, we're friends, you know, and to see those kind of things happening and

everything.

It's been beautiful.

It's been awesome.

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Furious.

Wow.

I'm like, yeah, that's a strong emotion.

I don't use that word very often, but it's very hard to say that with this very smooth

yacht rock play.

That's okay.

All right.

It's okay.

It was still a calm down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How do you get rid of mozzarella?

No.

Sorry.

Sorry.

That's the greatest cheese of all time.

All right.

Um, maybe I need a friend.

Maybe that's what it is.

Maybe I need a friend.

And, you know, I got, I got something that can help me out here.

A promo video for a new product called Friend, very creative, blew up on social media

this weekend.

It's a virtual companion you wear like a necklace.

The pendant has a built-in microphone that listens in response to whatever you say.

People are mostly mocking it for being dystopian and weird.

Like, this is not at all creepy.

What?

But some people like the idea.

One person said it's like a Tamagotchi or Tamagotchi.

Oh, yeah.

Those little pets that we used to have on the 90s.

Yeah.

I had one.

It was a monkey.

I kept it alive for a week.

Mm-hmm.

Nice.

That was it.

Well, it seems longer than most.

Longer than my sister did with hers.

It was dark.

What do you mean?

It really was.

It really was.

It's always listening and tosses out comments when it wants to, but it can't totally replace

real friends yet because it doesn't talk.

It only responds via text.

The ad shows a woman eating and watching a show on her phone when a message pops up saying

the show is completely underrated.

Then it asks if her falafel is any good.

One way it is like a Tamagotchi is it can die.

Their website says your friend and their memories are attached to the physical device.

If you lose or damage your friend, there is no recovery plan.

You can pre-order them now for just $99 at friend.com.

Yep.

Just for $100.

Okay.

But they don't ship out until next year.

So you have to wait another year for your friend.

Did you pay $100?

No, it's a bummer.

You pay me $0.99.

People.

$0.99.

And I'll do this.

I'll do this.

You'll be there friend.

Text them.

That's right.

Weirdly.

The current version only works with iPhones.

They say they'll expand to Android if there's enough demand.

Don't hold your breath.

People are making fun of it, but a recent study at Stanford found virtual friends could

be helpful for people who live alone or just don't have a lot of friends to turn to

for advice.

Or have issues with codependency.

Yeah.

Social anxiety disorders, maybe.

The guy behind it is a 21 year old.

At 17, he won an award for creating the end COVID 2019.live website.

Everyone was using back then to track COVID numbers.

So certainly an intelligent young man.

And I do think that that Stanford study is important when it comes to people living

isolated.

We talk about this a lot with meals on wheels and in different ways of that.

Now, if there was nothing else we could do, I would be looking a lot more closely at

this.

Right.

But we do have things we can do and we can be human beings to other human beings.

And we do have virtual, not virtual reality.

We have so many different things like messenger and a lot of those things out there.

How it days where we can interact with people and don't even have to be in the same room.

Right.

There are options.

And there are animals.

There are animals out there.

Yeah.

For people who can have them.

Right.

Right.

Exactly.

There's other options.

But if you strip all those options away and there is still somebody standing there.

And I don't care if it's one person standing there that doesn't have someone or anything.

And I'm thinking certainly of seniors.

But this could go for anybody from a young teenager in their 20s or any of these things.

Any person that is in that situation, then I mean, you know, I'm willing to listen.

I'm willing to hear these things out.

But it just, it doesn't, there's something, I don't know, I don't get like this with

many things.

But this did get me a little dystopian thinking this did get a little bit like that.

Well, the fact that it's listening all the time, number one, is a little weird.

For those who have that a thing, I don't want to say the name because it'll set them all off or something.

And then they'll be listening to us.

But just the fact that somebody's always watching you, doesn't that, that just seems weird.

Yeah.

Well, and I don't think we've gotten to the point.

And this is one of the issues that I think we're all facing right now with what they keep calling AI.

It's, first of all, it's a specific kind of AI.

It's generative.

And so we have to keep that in mind.

And that's exactly what this is.

This is a generative, it's just like chat, GPT kind of thing.

This is generative AI.

It's not really artificial intelligence.

No.

It's a large language model.

We have to input into it.

Exactly.

For those of us who don't know what generative it is.

To you.

Myself right here.

Yeah, right.

But it's, it's, we're not there to the point where I think it might be useful.

But I think we're, we're, we're, we're, we're jumping the gun a little bit here.

I'm a lot of this stuff.

And it's because people want to, people have a lot of, especially with new tech stuff.

They have a lot of FOMO about it because it's like, oh, I want to get in on there.

I got to get in on it.

Okay, that.

But then there's also people like me who have a lot of paranoia about it.

Like, I don't want something listening to me all the time.

Now, if this friend, friend, AI friend, if it doesn't go anywhere.

I mean, if it's just in that little device, nobody's collecting it.

Nobody's doing anything with it.

Then great.

I think that's perfect.

And, and he made it affordable.

$99 for something like that.

Tech-wise is something that quite a few people could afford.

You know, I mean, it's not out of the realm of, yeah, maybe you'd have to save for a while and pinch some pennies.

But you could get there.

It's not like it's $1,000 like an iPhone.

That's the only other caveat, though, because you have to have an iPhone to make it work, so.

I mean, there's that too.

For something like this, I would say, like, you should do with any new company like this.

See who's funding it?

Who is the venture capitalist?

Because they're always behind these kinds of things.

Right.

What is their looking for?

Well, yeah, but he's getting these money for the person.

Right.

He's 21.

He doesn't have anything.

So he's like, he's got to go to the venture capitalist and say, here's what I got.

And they're going to say, great.

Can we get a database of what everyone's saying so we can sell this information to advertisers?