Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic.
I am joined by Katrina Hittner from Family Natural Foods.
Good morning, cat.
Good morning.
Good to have you back in studio with us.
It's going to be a fun show.
Well, yeah, you started up the sound right now, and dancing right now.
Although I was worried I blew your eardrum sound.
The volume on the headphones was a little loud, so I'm sorry about that, but nobody should
have to hear me that loud.
I'm here.
I'm here.
She's here.
Hopefully, eardrums intact.
We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our friend Britney and her low-good
morning, Brett.
Good morning.
How's it going?
Doing good.
Doing good over here.
I don't know if you two have had a chance to meet, but Britney, this is Katrina Hittner from
Family Natural Foods.
Family Natural Foods and WFHR have been partners and friends and family for decades, and
she joins us every once in a while on the morning show here.
Cat, this is Britney.
She's the best in weather.
She is.
I love her wit.
I love listening to you.
Yeah.
It's a nice, you officially meet you.
You too.
We need to make her a part of the band.
Yes.
What do you want to play?
Ooh.
Let's go.
Sex a phone a day.
Oh, nice.
I love that.
I love that.
That's fantastic.
What will we be playing music to today, Britney?
What's the weather looking like?
I think she's going to play the saxophone because we've got some rain coming in.
We've got the blues weather, right?
Yeah.
Active what week?
Go figure.
The week of the draft.
We've got all these visitors in the state and, of course, Mother Nature does not want
to calm down.
What we've got going on today, some scatter showers are just off to the last right now.
They're going to be rolling through shortly.
They should be gone by noon, and then we'll see some spots of sunshine to follow that.
High temperatures today will make it to the upper fifties, and, of course, we've got
a flood warning on the yellow river at Babcock.
So it's reaching 12 feet right now, minor flood stages.
It does look like it's starting to fall, but as that continues to fall and the water continues
to rush down, it's now going to be at Nacita through tomorrow and into Friday.
So keep an eye out for those rising rivers.
There's more rain continues to push through.
We've got another round moving in tomorrow late morning through the afternoon and into
the early evening.
And some of those could have some thunderstorms in there, bringing about a quarter of an inch
of rainfall.
And then the big system moves in on Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.
That was going to be a soaker and could bring us another inch of rainfall so those rivers
continue to rise.
And so just be careful with those flood warnings out there, and, of course, by the weekend,
we dry things out, finally, it's going to be comfortable and sunny for the weekend.
Not bad.
We can take it.
Yeah.
We're busy during the week anyway.
We're busy during the week.
We're going to keep our head down and keep going and playing some good music.
We appreciate you, Brittany.
We'll take, we'll hang out tomorrow.
You have a great day.
You too.
Best in a business, Brittany Merlot joining us every morning right in this time slot.
Now, we did work things out with Brittany and starting tomorrow with our new time shift,
we, Brittany, will be kicking off the show with us still.
Because for those of them not heard, our morning show is shifting just an hour down.
We're going to be 9 to 11 starting tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be our first official show in that time slot.
We're looking forward to kicking off the show with Melissa, Seth, and Brittany.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
And we encourage you to spread the word about the show, everybody.
With some of these movements, these shifts going on, we know that they're a little sudden.
And, you know, let's be honest, we're not getting a ton of advertising over here at WFHR,
and other stations and everything.
So, you know, we got to go ahead and advertise ourselves, and we count on the best listeners
and radio to spread the word and continue to join us in the mornings as we bring you
local radio, because local radio matters.
And we appreciate you sponsoring and being a part of things out there, all of you.
We're going to get in some fun things today, Kat and I.
We've got you joining us on Earth Day Katrina, which is too fitting.
I'm so glad we planned it this way.
We worked out.
It just kind of worked out this way.
We're going to get into Earth Day facts, got a bunch of them for you.
We're going to be diving into.
We'll also be getting into the foods that have the wildest swings between good and bad.
That could be interesting.
I feel like you're setting me up for, like, I have to actually really work for this show.
It is a devious thing that I do to you and Terry also, but you, especially, where I,
it's just like, hey, by the way, curveball, like, here you go, here's a topic.
You know, I'll take it.
Let's solve this.
Let's, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll flow with it, James.
What else do you have going on over here?
You're the best.
That's awesome.
We'll get into a little bit of entertainment news.
And of course, we have got other fun stuff in the 9 o'clock hour.
We will get into some other fun things.
We got lined up for you.
I want to get into Earth Day and a bunch of other stuff.
And I wanted to kick things off, catch you up with our friends over at Family Natural
Foods and some of the cool things that you guys have enough to.
Some great presentations in the last couple of months.
Those have been a lot of fun.
I know that the community is really appreciated.
Yeah.
We've been cranking out presentations and it's been fun, fun, fun, fun with that energy.
Speaking of which, presentation wise, we have one more.
And then probably on Thursday, when Steven and I are on the radio with you, we'll touch
base with you about what, what else we have going on.
So the next presentation is May 6th at 515.
And this one's really fitting for today to explain it to you a little bit more.
And we've talked to you about it, but in a little bit more depth.
It's spring cleaning and low waste.
So right here we are on Earth Day and we're talking about how can we be more aware of our
usages of what we're doing.
This would be a great presentation to come to you.
So Rabina is out of process in Steven's point, downtown.
They have a really beautiful shop and is all focused on low waste.
So you're going to find things that, you're not going to find tons of plastics.
You're going to find things that are made really well, more purposes to it, reuse, etc.
But what I think makes the store so special is this, so in the shop, there's like all
sorts of different bulk bins that you can refill.
So you can take your mason jar and you can refill your hand soap.
And the concept is we have so much plastic we're putting out in the world.
And this plastic isn't just like reuse plastic.
It's just one purpose plastic and we think we send it to our recycling bin and we hope,
you know, oh, send it to the recycling bin and what something happens to it.
But that's not always the case.
And it's really confusing to know all those little numbers and letters on the back of
your plastic container and what does it mean?
Does it actually recycle?
But what you can do is bring your own glassware, your mason jars or anything you have at home
or buy it for the first time because they have wonderful, like, you know, spraying containers
that are made out of glass and so on, soap dispensers, but you can refill it.
So each month it's almost like, right, you go to the grocery store on a weekly basis.
You go to processor, famine, et cetera foods and you can refill your soap container.
You can refill your laundry.
You can bring in a big container.
We don't care what you bring it in.
We'll just weigh it.
It's just by the bulk weight, which also ends up being more economical because you're
not paying for all the extra stuff.
It's more economical because we buy with her so we're buying in a larger volume.
It's just a really, it's a great way if you're thinking, how can I be more conscious of
my purchases?
How can I have less plastic, less waste in this world?
That's a great way to think about it.
And so if anybody is interested, we do have that set up now.
So today on Earth Day, you can come in with your containers or we have some there for you
and you can start purchasing that way and really think about the Earth and, you know, everyday
not just today.
And the economic value to it is certainly noteworthy as well and it's surprising, I think, to
some out there, how often, you know, looking out from other Earth and also is economical.
Yes, right?
And it really is one of those things that is, they go hand in hand often times.
And this is another one of those cases.
It's also just one of those things where every little bit we can do goes so far.
And I think oftentimes when it comes to recycling or it comes to the planet, it can seem
like such a gigantic thing.
We all do our part and it really adds up.
And we've seen that in recent decades with the improvements that have happened to the
planet here and there while also taking, you know, step forward or two steps back or two
steps forward or a step back, however, you know, much smarter people than be configured
that part out.
But we are, you know, we are doing some things here.
We are actually accomplishing some things not only with these programs and something that
you mentioned there in this presentation, Katrina, but so many other ways.
And we have been for decades, the impact we've made.
We've gotten so good about recycling.
You see people I think that you would never think of recycling going very far out of their
way to recycle.
But for one, you brought up something I think that is an interesting point that I like to
bring up on this day.
How much do you really know about recycling?
Yeah.
I think diving into that and going down that rabbit hole is a really good idea today of
all days and just understanding a little bit and what actually can be recycled and how
much, how much we think that there is a set routine and process to this, where so much
of it involves your hope.
Yeah.
It's really it does.
I think it, you know, just gets thrown into there.
Yeah.
How is it sorted?
I mean, they figure that out.
Yeah.
I don't even worry about that.
Exactly.
That's one of those things where we, I think, you know, you want to do a little more digging
time.
And in part, because I don't know about anybody else.
But for me, the idea that I'm going through all this to recycle and it doesn't turn
in anything.
Right.
I want to know that it turns into something.
I don't mind doing the work and I don't mind recycling, but I want to make sure that they
are doing this the right way.
Looking into that, I think, is a good idea and it only leads into you realizing more and
more things like Katrina was just telling us about, I really feel like can become the
new norm.
Yeah.
And I mean, some states don't even have recycling programs.
Yeah.
Or they, you have to pay in order to recycle because, you know, it's a costly thing.
But I really, I think of vote with your dollar, vote how with your money, how you want
to spend your money, you know, support, support the small, support those that you're passionate
and appreciate and value because I think voting with our dollars, the biggest economical
impact you can have.
Yeah.
Really is.
It's how you get hurt.
It's something.
And I'll say this because I'd like to think that we're way past the days of it being
controversial to love the earth.
Yeah.
I don't understand.
You're a tree hunter, Jay.
I mean, oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
You're right.
You got me.
I love the planet.
Right.
I want to keep it around.
Not for me.
I don't know how long I got.
Kids, grandkids.
Yes.
I mean, like the generations of the mail-offs.
Come on.
Yes.
I mean, could you imagine or not?
No.
We're not waiting for it.
It's important.
It's one of those things, too, that imagine somebody who, you know, somebody, you think about
people that don't necessarily take care of their house, don't take care of their yard
or something like that.
And then they want to tell you that everything is fine.
You can see for yourself, this is not okay.
Your roof is falling through.
You've got this and this and this.
But that's the people that are against taking care of this planet for any real reason that
tells you right there where they stand.
And that they're not in this with the rest of us.
This is a team effort.
Yeah.
And as I've talked about many times before, I own this.
I am a huge homer.
I love to root for my home teams and I love the Olympics because it is the one time every
four, two years, whatever that we are all on the same team, USA, USA, USA.
I can't think of a more homer thing to do and then root for the planet.
Yeah.
This is all of our home.
Yeah.
This is our home team right here.
I mean, you know, back in this root and doing the things that we can do to help this planet
because I mean, I, well, I should hold up for a second.
If anybody else knows of another planet that is accessible, that has all the things and
features and, you know, the things that we love about this one, all the pops and whistles
and all that stuff and everything, I guess, you know, I mean, maybe we can think about
it.
But I don't believe that exists.
And the last time I checked the moon is not inhabitable.
Not that I'm aware of.
Not a really cool telescope in Brazil right now that is trying to find planet nine and
some other planets.
So I mean, you know, maybe, maybe in a couple of years or something like that, we revisit
this.
You know, we can talk about it again.
I tell you what, if that happens, you can throw this in my face.
Haha, James.
I'd love to be wrong.
For now, let's take care of Mother Earth and let's do what we can to do that and the presentation
like this and telling us about things like this that I don't think are common knowledge
or really.
Yeah.
Like 15 spring cleaning and low waste, how to be more, you know, environmentally conscious.
And then another quick thing I want to say before we have to go to commercial is gardening,
right?
Gardening is such a great way to be like, you are growing the foods.
They're literally coming from your yard to your table.
It's the one of the best economical, you know, you're going to save money.
It's good for the environment.
You're not having trucks transporting things left and right.
So family nature foods has tons of garden seeds, ready seed potatoes, onions, onion plants,
you know, from acorn squash to zucchini, we got, we got all sorts of things.
So that's a great way to do it and it's only starting at 99 cents.
So like, you can't say you can't afford that.
That is so reasonable.
Yeah.
I mean, I was checking out your guys' Facebook page today and encourage everybody to go
there and subscribe.
The garden center is all stocked up and ready for you time to plan your garden.
Seat inflation with 99 cent garden seeds here.
I love that pond.
I love that.
That was Stephen.
You can give that all the ham.
He did well with that.
Shout out to Stephen.
Shout out to my brother.
Shout out, Stephen.
Nice work.
Nice work.
We encourage you to check out family nature foods when they open their doors in just about
an hour from now.
They'll be open from 96 if they are Monday to in Friday.
Check them out at 910 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin Rapids Bookwork.
They're web pagefamilynetrafood.com.
We'll wrap up reminding you about all the cool things they got going on over there.
We'll come back with the LKFA Birthday and Anniversary Club right here on Mornings with
WFHR.
You heard people.
It's time to do some celebrating.
They're great friends over at LKFA and the Birthday and Anniversary Club.
We encourage you to treat yourself.
Get on over to LKFA right now.
Their doors are open to 21 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
We hope they had a fantastic Easter, had a good Monday off.
They're ready to get going.
They're ready for you.
They want your items.
They want to know what you want to eat and make it for you and get you a good start
to your day.
Head on over to LKFA today to 21 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
Wish you a great day from all of us.
Everybody.
Greatly appreciate our friends.
They're networking with the Chamber last night.
I hope that went well.
We'll be having a promise in a little bit later to talk with the Chamber out of Picker
Brain.
Absolutely.
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Join the conversation.
Let's go ahead and dive right into our local list.
Katrina, again, I got to make you work.
I'm so sorry.
I need a one or two.
Two today.
All right.
All right.
Nicely done.
Let's get right into it.
First up, we want to wish Happy Birthday to Emily Logan.
Happy Birthday, Emily.
Hope it's a good one for you, Emily.
Enjoy your day.
And our qualifier today, Holly Johnson.
Happy Birthday, Holly.
Holly, enjoy the day.
We're wishing you a great one.
And thank you so much to everybody that got us these birthdays.
We appreciate it.
Get us more of them.
We love celebrating with you.
I have one today.
I want to add.
Oh, all right.
I'm so excited to be here because we're going to make this
a really fun and exciting event for him and Madison, his wife.
You used to work for us a long time ago.
They moved.
They were in the Wisconsin Rapids area.
For about five years.
He worked at the mill.
He was actually the environmentalist at the mill.
Oh, wow.
And then they moved back to the Green Bay area where they're both
there from.
And it's his birthday.
And I always remember it because it's Earth Day.
So I was remembering it's birthday.
It's your birthday.
It's your birthday.
And he focused on environmental science, so I thought
that was cool.
No, it's like he's shutters.
Yeah.
That's great.
And enjoy.
Have a great day, Tim.
Have a great birthday.
Who do these wonderful people share their birthday with?
Let's take a look at our world celebrities here.
Daniel Johns is 46.
Silver chair singer and lead songwriter.
Good, good singer and songwriter.
Silver chair was a good band.
Sherry Shepherd is 58.
She used to be on the view.
She was also Tracy Morgan's wife Angie.
I'm 30 rocks.
Funny actor.
Oh, let's see here.
Oh, Cheryl Lee is 58.
She was Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks.
Oh, man.
Wow.
Nice.
That's a blast from the dancing.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 59.
Negan on the walking dead.
Been in a bunch of stuff, really.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is one of those guys that I really root for.
So a while, years ago, back when Grayson Adamy and the TV show Supernatural were both first
starting up.
Yeah.
A key role on both shows.
And then within a week, both characters got killed off.
Oh, man.
And this was just coincidence.
This wasn't anything that he did.
It had nothing to do with anything other than the writers just kind of writing him out of these
shows.
Right.
And happening on one show can be a death nail for an actor's career.
Yeah, yeah.
Happening on two shows within a week of each other, let alone the success of those shows, especially
in their first seasons.
Yes, definitely.
Really, it should have been the last we heard of him.
But his will and his skill pushed him and got him to not only get more roles where there's a
very underrated movie called The Losers that he stars in.
And he carries the show carries the movie.
And there's a lot of other good actors in it.
Nice.
But he's gotten obviously the break with the walking dead and some other great roles.
And he's just consistently working now.
He's got a new movie coming out next month.
There are a few people I'm happier for in the industry than for him.
Just not only that, but he's just a good guy.
Yeah.
Does a really, if he's not acting, he's with his family.
It's with his wife, madly in love with his wife.
Like I follow him with social media.
And it's all just basically romantic stuff about her and things.
Yeah, just one of those guys you root for.
Yeah, absolutely.
You got to have those.
And it's rare to see what he's been able to pull off.
What do you mean?
Being able to do that.
The great, the wonderful Ryan Styles is 66, all six foot six of them.
Many people remember him from the Drew Kerry show.
But of course, I think he's made even more of a name for himself on whose line is it anyway.
Yep.
I had the humble chance to talk with Colin Machery, his whose line is it anyway partner.
And I told Colin that I would say if I ever had the fortune of meeting Ryan Styles too.
It depends on whom talking to of who is better.
Because they're both so darn good at that job at improv.
I teach it.
I've seen, if somebody told me I've seen over a thousand improv students or artists, I would not be surprised.
And those two still shine.
They're still two the greatest.
Wayne Brady's right there with them.
But Ryan Styles, Colin Machery are literally the greatest I've ever seen in improving.
I put Rob Williams in a completely different category because he's in a completely different category.
Absolutely.
But those two are so good.
So it depends on who I'm talking to as far as who I'm going to say is the best.
Right.
Now, what if they're in the same room at the same time?
I plead the fifth.
I plead the fifth.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
They run away.
They run the other way.
Yes, yes.
Peter Frampton is 75, 70s rock legend.
And not the first guy to do it, but really the first guy to make it kind of famous of singing in the guitar.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe you'll feel like it.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe you'll know that.
And I'm pretty sure that for a good couple of decades, if you bought a home in the suburbs,
it came with a card table and Frampton comes alive.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure that every suburban home had those two things with it.
Because nobody knows where they got their card table.
Everybody has a card table in their house.
There's no idea where it came from.
I'm pretty sure it came.
It was just with the house.
I'm pretty sure.
The great, the wonderful, the groundbreaking John Waters is 79.
Incredible writer and filmmaker, Pink Flamingo's hairspray is probably his most famous work.
John Waters also incredibly ahead of his time on a lot of different things.
But as much as I followed him and as much as I enjoy his career and his writing,
I think the thing that is stood with me the longest about him is one of the last,
the last time John Stewart was doing the daily show before he came back.
One of his last interviews was with John Waters.
He was talking about John Waters about, I don't know how it came up,
but basically dealing with fans in the public.
At the time, I think there was a pushback of fans like bothering people
and asking for selfies and some of these things.
John kind of led him that direction, like, hey, you know,
fans bugging this stuff, and John Waters went the complete other direction.
He said he brought up a story about how he had a book out,
and that's part of why he was on the show.
And he's talking about how he's at this really nice diner dinner in Beverly Hills.
And he's sitting there eating and a fan comes up and like,
oh, Mr. Waters, I'm so sorry to bother you, but I'm a huge fan.
He stops the guy right away. He's like, no, no, please, come right over.
You want to sit down? You paid for this meal.
You're my fan. I wouldn't be here without you.
I think I can afford this fancy restaurant without my fans,
without people buying my book and all that with the complete other direction with it.
And I do think there's a line there where, you know,
to me, if I see a celebrity with their family, I ain't bugging them.
I'm not bothering them. They're getting coffee, maybe.
But for the most part, I'm in a little bit of a different area here
because I also look at these people as peers.
But I would say a musician or anybody famous I'd run across.
I would like to think that you just, you know, treat them like regular human beings
because they're regularly human beings.
Yeah, for sure.
But I love his spin on it.
Yeah, that's a fun spin.
He's like appreciative of it in a different way and not bothered by it.
That's pretty cool.
And one of the greatest actors of all time for multiple generations,
Jack Nicholson is 88 today.
Oh, man.
How's that possible?
Now, with him not acting as much, I've almost, I wouldn't say I've been waiting for this,
but I've been, I took some classes at UCLA and one of them was studying actor's role choices
and how they did with that.
And you were supposed to take an older actor and a young actor.
And I took Jack Nicholson at the time as one of those guys that I did.
We did a couple of these, but one of the ones I took was Jack Nicholson.
And you really, you got to look through his IMDB page and look at the role choices that he's made
and what he has done with each one of those.
It is easily one of the top 10 most remarkable acting careers ever.
It's just an incredible body of work where every scene, every movie, everything he's done.
I'm not saying they're all hits, but Jack was a hit.
Yeah.
He did his job.
Can't say if the writing was there, the directing was there, the other actors were even there.
Every single time Jack Nicholson was giving you a thousand percent what he had.
Yeah.
Just an incredible performer.
A throwback to John Wayne, where the first guy on the set, the last guy to leave,
also partied quite a bit, also had his day at his time, but one of my all-time favorites
and I think one of the greatest to easily ever do it.
And for what it's worth, especially in this day and age, you've not heard one bad thing about Jack Nicholson.
You really have it.
Yeah, there's been some stuff where you know, back in the 80s with dating or whatever and stuff
and some of those things, but who knows, you know, with some of the paparazzi and TMZ and some of those things work?
You've never, you haven't heard him cancel, you haven't heard any of these things about him.
He's one of these guys that everybody that does ever worked with him.
All they want to do is work with him again.
Yeah.
It's just a great, great performer, great guy.
I love, if you get a chance, there are some, like behind the scenes footage of the shining.
And you think, okay, this is one of his darkest, if not his darkest role, it's a horror movie, all of that.
But in these scenes that you see, Jack is in the back brushing his teeth.
And he's trying to make the kid, and I can't think of her name, make his co-stars laugh.
He was one of these guys who really tried to keep on the set the tension light.
Sure.
He understood there was a job to do, the time is money and all that, but really tried to keep things light.
Sure.
And another quick thing about him brushing his teeth.
Every scene you've ever seen Jack Nicholson do, he had clean teeth.
He had a clean, fresh breath.
Because he brushes teeth before every scene.
He wanted his co-star, he didn't want to bug his co-stars, he didn't want to give him bad breath.
Right.
The grungiest, nastiest characters he's played, and with fresh breath.
Nice.
Just a constant pro.
That's his thing, I like it.
Some people no longer with us.
Like Glenn Campbell born in the state in 1936, Pestway in 2017, the original Ryan Stone Cowboy, an legend of country music.
And Jay Robert Oppenheimer, born in the state in 1904, Pestway in 1967.
A very complex person, human being, and life, and never detailed better than in the movie Oppenheimer.
I think that movie is a must watch.
I only got about 10, 20 movies that I think are must watch.
I think that every single human being should watch, that is easily wonderful.
Whether you like it or not, that's a whole different thing.
But the attention to detail, the work in that one, it's when we say, when it's done right, that cinema can be art.
That movie is it.
And it tells a true American story.
It tells a true part of our American history.
It's a really good movie.
Let's go ahead and get to time out.
We'll come back.
We'll have some fun.
We've got plenty of other great things coming up for you right here.
I'm Mornings with WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Captain James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Happy Earth Day everybody.
Happy Earth Day.
Let's go into this one, Katrina.
We've got 25 Earth Day facts.
We're going to get probably to get through all of them.
But we're going to go ahead and touch on some of these.
I thought it would be kind of fun for our audience.
Some might be, you know, I knew that one.
Some might be quite interesting.
And all of them will be great for trivia.
Perfect.
Get us ready.
I think a more common one to get us started here.
There's more water on Earth than land.
Mm-hmm.
I like that one.
Roughly 71% of Earth's surface is covered in water.
That's wild.
Yes.
I wonder how much of it is actually pure now.
What's the actual percentage that would be the pure clean water?
That's a great question.
I've always have follow up questions James.
I love that though.
This is a problem.
That makes you a great co-host.
And you actually would probably make you a really good interviewer.
And some of them always talk about that.
Oh great.
I'll give you more work.
Yeah.
So a majority of the Earth's water comes from the oceans.
Of course, the rest can be found in the form of rivers, lakes, glaciers, icebergs, vapor,
and cores beer.
No.
Joking.
Joking.
Although I do this 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
That reminds me of one of my favorite baseball lines ever.
Former center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, Lorenzo Cain.
71% of the Earth's worth.
Earth is covered by water.
The rest is covered by Lorenzo Cain.
Oh, I mean, it's just incredible outfielder.
Dennis Hayes was instrumental in establishing Earth Day.
While most people associate Senator Gailor Nelson with the creation of Earth Day, it's important to acknowledge Dennis Hayes, a young activist.
Nelson recruited to help spread the word and organize their very first Earth Day.
Well, the great barrier reef is the only living structure visible from space.
I know that's wild to think about.
So I think that the Great Wall of China gets touched on it.
At some point when you're young, I feel like we all hear.
You can see the Great Wall of China from space.
It just kind of blows your mind a little bit.
You're too young to be able to really wrap your mind around it while also blowing your mind up.
This one has always been fascinating and much more interesting to me.
Not that I don't think that the Great Wall of China is interesting.
Just this, you know, I don't know when it comes to the Earth making it and thus making it, there's no real competition.
I was going to say the same.
That somebody manually made it, right?
This is like Mother Nature made this beauty.
Spanning more than 100 to 1,200 miles and encompassing thousands of individual reefs.
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is one of the Earth's greatest wonders.
There's a lot to see in Australia that I think would be amazing.
I would love to see anything performed in the Opera House.
Oh, wow.
Wouldn't that be neat?
I've heard that the acoustics there are the greatest you can hear.
I just would love to hear.
I don't care what it is.
If somebody up there just, you know, reading a phone book, I want to hear it.
But that is the thing I think that I think pulls me, that makes me want to check out Australia.
The most is the Great Barrier Reef.
You have to do some scuba.
I wouldn't turn down scuba diving.
I don't have a great pull to it.
But if I'm near the Great Barrier Reef, I'm taking classes.
I'm learning what I got to do.
How long can I be under there to check this thing out?
Yeah.
I can't imagine.
I think the Doomsday only of this is that, right?
Like more plastics and so on and the world has been causing that living coral.
Yeah.
To die off.
So there's way less of it than there was 10, 20, 50 years ago.
One of the things that I think can be such a win with this day and talking about what we are.
And kind of what we're doing organically between the two of us here is,
if you've never looked into the Great Barrier Reef, it's fascinating.
Look into it.
Yeah.
And while you're looking into it and you're seeing that there's thousands of life on those things
that we never knew about until, you know, doing some homework or in the recent decades we've learned about,
you're also going to learn about, hey, what we're doing that's hurting the brief.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Because it's both.
How can you prevent those things as well as what can we learn about it?
What can it teach us?
And I understand that our brains prefer simple.
Our brains prefer black and white, making things simple.
But I think if you are over the age of 10, you understand that that is not life.
That's not how it works.
Life is a majority gray area.
It is not black or white.
And when we're talking about the planet or Earth Day or the Great Barrier Reef or a lot of things in life,
you got to be able to chew gum and walk at the same time.
Yeah.
You got to be able to hold two truths in your head.
And I understand that that can be a little difficult sometimes, awkward sometimes,
or maybe just more work than you want to put into it.
But that's life.
Yeah.
That's the game, man.
I mean, most things in life worth having take a little work.
Sure.
And whether you're researching and finding out good things or negative things,
it's all data.
And it all helps us make this planet better and better together.
Only seven countries met WHO air quality standards in 2024.
I think similar to what we've been talking about here.
Yeah.
They were Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Estonia, Granada, Iceland and New Zealand.
The same report that states that among major US cities,
Los Angeles has the most polluted air quality and Seattle has the least.
Wow.
Which is interesting.
They're not that far away from each other.
It's really interesting.
I mean, still plenty of miles away, but they're not.
It's not like we're talking East Coast, West Coast.
Traditionally, Seattle gets so much more rain.
And I wonder how much that might play in the world or not.
Yeah, that's a great point.
That's a great point.
The tiny bit of homework I've done on that I'm pulling from.
Today is kind of the unofficial birthday for a planet Earth.
It really is.
I woke up my children and I said, well, it's the Earth's birthday today.
I don't know who, and boy, God, I feel really guilty for this.
This is very, very last second of me.
Who is supposed to get the cake?
Oh, yeah.
Who's covering that?
Who's getting the cake?
And who's putting the candles?
Yeah, yeah, that's a lot.
Because the Earth is billions of the years old.
So first off, I don't know who's getting that cake.
But how we're going to get one big enough for all those candles?
Can we just all agree?
Like one candle.
Like you get to a certain age.
After a certain point, it's like just one candle.
And this is complete side story.
Should we be doing this with birthdays?
Like you get to a certain age and it's just one candle?
I mean, after a while, I can feel a little dull.
Yeah, but then think about it.
When you become like 87, yes, that's a lot of candles.
But like also, you deserve to have 87 candles.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Is there a point where you start getting back to more candles?
I love this.
This is another side conversation for a different day.
But I like where we're going.
You hit like 30s, mid 30s or something like that.
Don't get me anymore.
But you hit like you're 60s.
You're like, I'll put them on there.
Bring on more.
This is exactly what we got.
That's it.
That's the way to do it.
That's the way.
Yeah.
Because I'm with you.
Because if I'm fortunate enough to live anywhere past 60 or something,
I want all those candles out there.
Yeah.
But I'm with you.
I heard those candles.
Yeah.
So write about that.
Let's see here.
There have been 377 climate disasters since 1980.
It's very noteworthy.
And so many of them.
And the millions and not only lives that have been lost or hurt or displaced,
but certainly a money.
Yeah.
There are 400 trees for every person on Earth.
400 trees for every person.
Wow.
That's cool.
A 2015 study estimated that there are roughly three trillion trees on Earth.
Give or take a few million.
So we're such a weird sense.
Yeah.
Give or take a few mill.
Yeah.
Do you have a tail?
Since there are around 8 billion people currently living on the planet,
the match boils down to roughly 400 trees per person.
That's really cool.
Which is incredibly necessary.
Yes, we need that.
And close to 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean annually.
Hmm.
Sad.
8 million metric tons.
This would be a good goal for this next year.
We can all try to reduce our plastic intake.
We can just try with as simple as bringing your water bottle with you that's reusable
and refilling it.
I mean, this is a really good goal.
Let's like reduce that number next year when we're talking about this that it's way less.
I think that there's also one other part of this too where we look at these things
and such, let's all do this together kind of thing.
You can do that and I think that that's great.
Also, take it on yourself.
Be your own revolution.
Yeah.
Your house, you can control that.
And you can do these things in your own home.
And once again, if you do it and your neighbor does it and your neighbor does it
and that neighbor does it, that's a whole block that's doing.
And then there's a whole town that's doing it and so on and so on.
So I couldn't agree with you more.
I think that having these goals as a society along with just personally
are how we make this place better.
Because if you had told me that we produce eight million metric tons of plastic
and just stopped right there, I'd have been blown away.
Right.
Let alone what we're doing with it.
Right.
What are you doing with it?
What rational brain out there can tell me that this is okay.
It doesn't make any scientific or realistic sense.
And anybody that is trying to tell you different doesn't have any sense.
Yeah.
Period.
But there's no getting around facts and science.
You can go ahead and double down all you want.
You can go ahead and try to say that this or this or this.
There are way too many to much data from way too many sources
that have nobody in their pocket that are doing nothing but their job
to get you this information out there to tell us this is an issue.
Absolutely.
I have an eight-year-old who since she was six years old decided she doesn't want to use any straws
because they get caught in turtles noses and get injured and she loves turtles.
So since she was six years old she's been like I refuse to use a straw.
And I think that's great.
Out of the mouths of babes.
Yeah.
Good on her.
That's awesome.
That's a good kid.
The earth is round.
The earth is round people.
It is round.
Yes.
Just getting on my soapbox for a second here.
I'm sorry.
It's the one thing that gets me.
I can listen to you talk about almost any kind of thing out there everybody.
But do not come at me with the flat earth stuff.
I can't handle it.
The earth is round.
I'm going to prove it to everybody right now.
I encourage everybody to pick up a pencil or pen.
Drop it.
Gravity.
There you go.
The earth is round.
We just proved it.
Let's move on as a society.
Actually, it's kind of cool here.
The planet bulges around the equator by an extra 0.03% as a result of the fact that it rotates about its axis.
According to NASA and some of the data that we get.
It's one of the ways we know the earth is round is the way that, well, to be blunt, we wouldn't be here.
The earth is in the exact perfect place it needs to be for all of this stuff to be happening.
If it was 20 meters this way, 30 meters that way, none of this is here.
None of us are here.
It's incredible to think about.
It stays in that same space place.
It's one of the more beautiful facts I think I'll ever hear in my life.
The randomness and the idea of that.
And with that, appreciating what we have.
And that it's round.
I mean, let's move on.
Earth Day was almost called environmental teaching.
That is environmental teaching?
Yeah.
Doesn't have to say break to it doesn't.
No, I'm glad they went with this one.
The Earth Day.
Senator Nelson, who we mentioned earlier, helped lead the charge to set aside a day to raise awareness for environmental issues.
But it was a Julian Cohen, a New York advertising writer, who came up with the holidays name.
Cohen reached out to Nelson and offered a few name suggestions.
One of the early suggestions was environmental teaching.
It's still another ring.
Happy environmental teaching day.
No, no, it's not right there.
I think you lose people two years into that.
Yeah.
That was a good well played.
Earth Day much better.
Much nicer.
Much nicer.
We will take a time out, but we never time out from caring about Mother Earth.
We encourage you to too.
We'll be right back with more show coming up.
A morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Katrina and James hanging out with you.
I want to thank the staff and all the great people over at Family Natural Foods for letting us power Katrina for an hour too.
We appreciate them doing that.
I encourage you to head on over there and be listening next hour.
We're going to get an update and things are going on over there.
Talk a little gardening and seeds and some other things about going on over at Family Natural Foods.
Looking forward to it.
And for long time listeners that have heard you and I hang out in these mornings from quite a few years.
Yeah, it has.
One of the things they may remember is that you and your family, you guys do a thing.
You probably did a couple of months ago, I'd imagine.
They jump in the water.
Cool plunging.
Cool plunging, thank you.
I couldn't think of it.
I had it like two seconds ago and then I couldn't think of it.
That's okay. I'm here for you James.
I appreciate you.
That's why you don't have to radio yourself.
Thank you.
That's better for everybody.
So I had this story I was hanging on to with that in mind.
A total of 2,461 bathers braved the frigid waters of the Czech Republic's second largest lake
to break a world record for the largest polar bear dip.
Wow, that's cool.
That's pretty interesting.
Yeah.
Check free driver, free diver, sorry, David Ventil organized the March 1st attempt at most lake
where the water was measured at a below 50 degrees.
Wow.
Guinness World Records confirmed the bathers took the record from 1,799 cold weather swimmers
who took the plunge at the Ice Swimmers Convention back in 2015 in Poland.
Okay.
Men sell previously held the record for the longest swim under ice.
Breath held with no fins or diving equipment which was set in 2021 but lost in March of this year.
So they lost one but now they took one.
Yeah, yeah, good for them.
And I believe I've got a little bit of video of this one that I'm going to show Katrina everybody.
Well, so they're doing it all at one time.
Okay, I was thinking initially it was like everybody did it but they took turns.
It's everybody's going all at one time maybe.
Yeah.
And they're actually swimming versus just kind of, I mean some are probably hanging but.
Some people just are waiting into the water which just seems like the worst idea to me.
Just waiting.
Yeah, like just going for it.
Oh, my ankles are frozen.
Oh, my calves are frozen.
Oh, my knees are for good.
I can't feel anything.
I would just rather die.
The one time that I did do this, I dove in.
I just jumped right in.
Now, this is much different than what we talked about with you and your family doing stuff.
But it was too...
When we say family, this is not like really any of my other siblings or anything.
This is like me Katrina and my husband and friends.
Not like my dad and mom are coming out of the whole plunge.
I do love you but you love me.
I mean, I love that too but it's not what happened.
That's what happened.
But when you guys do this, you break up some ice and...
Oh, yeah.
It's like a whole thing.
It's been really fun.
Actually, we've been getting like old, like wiggly sauce and like cutting holes and getting
the tongs.
Oh, that's awesome.
We did that this year a few times but in the past it has been just like chainsaw.
A lot of our neighbors do it so they keep the ice open enough because enough people have
been doing it.
I will say I haven't done as much cold plunge in this year as I did previous years because
I've been doing it for a few years.
But I love it.
I was just thinking, oh, it's spring.
I love cold plunge in this spring because it's not as frigid.
It's better time to get into it.
Maybe this would be the...
This is a really good time to get into it because it's spring.
It's cold but it's not like, oh my gosh, it's negative.
And I don't do it when it's negative.
I did that maybe once or twice and that wasn't like really enjoyable.
Yeah.
There's a lot of benefits, health benefits, too cold plunge in.
That's one of the touch-up.
Yeah.
So there's like some, for some, it can be more circulation but it gets you into your parasympathetic
nervous system where you get a regulate into that and that is more of a calmer state even
though your body is under like fight or flight in a way.
But it helps your body react to just to adapt to stress naturally.
Like the stress of our body is stress of stress literally.
So it helps that there's a metabolism boosting aspect to it as well.
And there's, honestly, I did it because we started doing this out of like 2022 maybe.
It was like out of COVID time where like you lost community and you just felt so isolated.
And it's funny, we started doing it and it was, we just like built community within like friends
and everybody had come over and it was such a cool thing.
To me, everything about it seems awesome.
Besides getting in there.
Besides getting in the water, like I'm all in on everything up to that point.
And that point I would do but a ban.
I don't know.
I think for me what I liked is it was really a mental challenge that was so rewarding.
And I was known for like, I would go in for maybe a minute or two and then I'd be like,
I'd come out and then I go, hmm, I think I need to do that again.
Like I think I could do some more.
And they had this like athletic challenge to it, but in a totally different way.
So I tapped into my athletic spirit, but not like, not like, I'm going to time myself.
Like I really didn't time myself. I didn't like that.
I liked it more for like the mental challenge, but I don't know.
There was something about it.
I think it was community and it also can help you like naturally have quite a bit of energy.
Not like I need that.
I'm pretty energetic person.
You do, you do have quite a bit of it.
But it was a very, I don't know.
I just, I kind of loved the experience.
So I guess I, this is a reminder that I need to go cold plunge this week.
James, thank you.
Maybe, maybe we try to break a record.
Maybe we see how many people we can get here.
We go, James, maybe you should just come and do that.
Well, we're going to break a record.
Yeah, yeah.
There we go.
Yeah.
No, I can't get the mic wet.
I'm going to be reporting on it.
One of the first things I did in radio, we're back in my classic rock days.
I was running the board and Travis was doing the plunge.
And him and I had never had any experience with any of this.
Yeah.
And he's like, okay, so I'm going to jump in and I'll come right back about a minute or two later.
Maybe five minutes later after our song and we'll get done.
And like five minutes goes by and another five minutes, another five minutes.
Like, what the heck happened to Travis?
He did a hot tub.
Is he alive?
Yeah.
It's hilarious.
I was, yeah, he was alive.
He was a spoiler alert.
He's doing morning show still.
Yeah.
It was shout out to Travis.
Good guy.
We are going to get into some fun stuff next hour.
We got a bunch of things lined up for you.
Before we do, though, especially I couldn't help the segway Katrina.
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