Community for Community’s Sake FTW (Hour 1)

Good morning everybody, welcome to the morning show.

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning world. Hope y'all are having a great start to your Tuesday.

Out there, got your host James behind the mic. I'm joined by our head of news.

Our co-host Melissa Kay.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us everybody.

A little bit of a different intro to the show today.

We'll get into that a little bit more in just a bit.

But we kick off our show with our friend Bert and Merlot.

Joining us talk a little Mother Nature. Good morning, Brett.

Good morning. How are you doing?

Doing good over here. How are you?

Pretty good.

Waiting for the sunshine. It's on its way.

Got me patient.

Oh good.

That is good to hear.

That is very good to hear.

So what is it looking like for today, Bernie?

So bright and beautiful by this afternoon.

We're going to hit warmer temperatures.

We're going to make it to the mid 70s.

We'll have a last breeze out there.

Nice and refreshing.

Warming us up.

And again, that sunshine is becoming more and more abundant

as a high pressure system starts to work its way into the state.

Now, we've got a few things going on now as we go into the next few days.

First of all, we've got some areas of wildfire smoke moving back in

by tonight and through tomorrow afternoon.

We're also still looking at some sunshine to start the day tomorrow

with clouds increasing by the afternoon,

making it possibly to about 80 degrees tomorrow,

and then the showers and storms start to dampen the rest of our week.

So really today and through early tomorrow,

I want you to get outside and enjoy it because it's going to be pretty damp and dreary,

especially for Friday and cooler, too,

where highs go back down to the mid 60s.

Good to know.

Good to know.

We get a little ups and downs.

Yeah.

We can prepare that much better for it, thanks to you.

We appreciate you.

Brittany, are you a tea person?

Do you like tea?

I do.

Today is National Ice Tea Day, so I was sure.

We were kind of doing my own poll around here and seeing,

and so far I'm the only person that's a little eh about tea.

You try to like the peach flavor or something sweet to get you kind of like...

You can chew it and then you can go black and harder like that.

We add sugar to anything, James will eat it.

Yes, definitely.

Absolutely.

It's 100%.

I think that's where I messed up because I used to...

I know when I was my grandmother, mom, really liked tea,

and I would try like Earl Grey or the blacker teas or something,

I think that's what they said.

And yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Tea is James.

Fruit flavors.

Definitely.

I'm going to try that.

That sounds good.

And we appreciate you, Brittany.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

We will talk again tomorrow.

Sounds good.

Have a terrific Tuesday.

Thank you, too.

Thank you, Brittany.

Best in the business right there, joining us.

We're looking forward to hanging out and getting this more forecast news for you tomorrow.

For today, coming up, we got the LKFA birthday anniversary club in a little bit.

We're also going to get into foods that should never be reheated in the microwave.

I'm writing that one down, by the way.

I need to be reminded of that.

How most Americans think that they are above average and trustworthyness,

loyalty, and other things.

We'll get into that.

Some entertainment news.

We say goodbye to a legend as we kind of were doing right there with Slides and

Family Stones every day, people playing us in.

Also got an interesting one.

America's richest self-made female celebrities.

That is going to be on the way.

We'll get into bluegrass at the lake.

Talk about that a little bit.

Got our friends over at Wisconsin's Rebs Community Theatre.

The Silver Foxes have a great show coming up as well.

That's the sweet, isn't it?

Yes.

Also coming up, we have the most misspelled words across America.

I got to own something everybody.

We're doing this one in part because I am guilty for so many of them.

It's just right of me.

It's just trying to make things right, Melissa.

That's all.

We'll go over that.

It's good to face these things, James.

That's how you get better about them.

I want to get into ice tea day, but I have to pull it audible for a second.

I have to do something a little bit different I wasn't planning on.

We got some new chairs here in the studio.

Shout out to Chuck and Corey and everybody making that happen.

We've needed them for a little while, so appreciate it.

We've got about five or six of them in.

I've gotten to put two of them together so far.

I like work on my hands.

I've built a lot of things in my life and it's just something I enjoy doing.

I was putting these together.

Nowadays, they give you an L wrench with everything, a lot of that stuff.

I think that's really cool.

Melissa, I've never seen this before.

In front of me, there is a white glove, just a white glove.

It's kind of following apart as I'm putting it on right now.

I did not put it on to do this.

I see this glove and I could not figure it.

Did I open a Michael Jackson at home kit?

What is going on here?

I've never seen this before.

It took me 20 seconds way too long to figure out.

Oh, it's so that when I'm using the L wrench, they want to let you...

It doesn't mess with your hands as much and everything.

You mentioned this being a safe place, Melissa.

I'm taking you on your word on that and the audience on their word on this.

I don't do this.

The way I was raised, I'm not one of these guys.

It feels like I have to prove my manhood every five seconds.

I'm confident in what I am.

But there was a part of me that was offended.

I don't need that glove.

I've put together things my whole life.

My hands are perfectly fine.

Who are they to think I need this glove?

I've never had a moment...

As far as I can tell, I've never had a moment like this in my life

where I'm sitting there with this cardboard box and this glove.

And I'm like, I don't need you.

I'm tough enough.

I can handle this.

I'm not proud of this, Melissa.

I'm not proud of it.

I'm glad that that's the realization you had.

I had a moment there.

I'm still confused about the glove.

Me too.

Is it like a plastic glove?

Nope, it's a white cotton glove.

It almost reminds me of a gardening glove.

It's a little like that.

As far as I could think of,

I did not see anything in the instructions about the glove.

And I've put two of these together and both of them had the glove in there.

And I've never seen this before.

I've put together a lot of stuff in my life.

And I've never seen it come with just one glove.

One little white glove.

Sure comes with white gloves.

Yeah, one white glove.

Not even a pair.

Well, you have a pair now because you have two chairs.

Does it fit your hand?

No, my hands are...

And for the audience out there, my hands are gigantic.

I have very, very big hands.

Yeah, but...

It is not what size fits all.

That's for sure.

It's not...

Just even trying to put it on.

It's shredded.

It's already ripped the shreds.

That's really weird.

Yeah, I don't know.

I guess it's not a bad idea for those that might need it, I suppose.

But it's not like it's got extra grip on it or anything?

No, no.

Yeah, that is a good point.

I'm not even seeing anything that necessarily helps it other than just literally being cotton over your hands.

But...

But not that I needed it, Melissa.

Thanks for showing your toughness.

Yeah, I can't. I just had to do that right now.

It is National Ice Tea Day.

And do you think it's the best summer beverage?

Here is a big question for our audience today.

And I hate to hit you up with 9 in the morning with this guys.

But call us up.

There are four.

715-424-2600.

You can also text us through the Civic Media app.

And of course you want to keep that app handy for the 11, 2 and 4 clock hours today.

For that Civic Media Scotty summer text-to-win contest word.

Awesome.

What is the best summer beverage?

I will say adult beverages are included.

But, you know, what is to everybody out there?

You're perfect summer beverage.

I am so boring with this because I like juices.

I like fruit punches and all that.

But honestly, ice cold water.

Just some ice water.

Not just water, but I want ice water.

That's as picky as I can get with it.

To me, that's the perfect summer drink.

It would be lemonade.

Oh, good one.

How is that not the item?

It's got to be, you're right.

Summer drink.

Although when I was a kid,

my absolute favorite thing to have in the summertime was blue-cooled.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yes, yes.

It was perfect.

I loved cooling so much.

I could drink a gallon of that.

My mother wouldn't let me.

Well, we ran into that a lot of that too as kids.

And my cousin Nicole and I,

I only have two cousins that are older than me.

My cousin Nicole and my cousin Debbie.

Nicole and I, we get along great now and everything.

But we didn't always.

And we are very competitive with each other.

And we're, she used to beat me in things all the times.

This time we're tied up.

And my aunt Sandy made us cool-aid.

And so we get these big,

cool-aid glasses and we're going to see who can drink it the fastest.

Oh, no.

And we both go in and we start drinking.

And I'm drinking, but something don't taste right about it.

But I'm not going to let her beat me.

So I'm going to finish it.

Now she stops right away.

And I think, oh, this is great.

I'm going to win.

And I finish it.

And my aunt Sandy comes into the room with this horrified look on her face.

Yeah.

I won.

You won with your flavored water.

Oh, I could still taste it.

I could still taste it.

The ice tea brand Milo's pulled 1,000 Americans.

Half said, drinking iced tea reminds them of summer or spending time outdoors

and think it is the ideal summer drink.

53% think iced tea is the ideal drink for sipping on the porch,

deck or on the pontoon or something like that.

I just added that last part.

A separate poll recently found 8% of American adults have never tried iced tea.

8%. Wow.

Even I've tried iced tea.

I mean, I've never tried Milo's iced tea.

No, I haven't tried that either.

Yeah.

I'm guessing I've seen the label.

I just don't because I'm not an iced tea person.

I haven't recognized it.

Social media has lots of thoughts on what the, quote, best summer drink is.

Other contenders include lemonade.

Nicely done, Melissa.

Soda beer, Arnold Palmer.

Arnold Palmer's mojitos, slushies, soda water, gatorade,

watermelon juice, cold brew, coconut, coconut water,

or regular water if you want to just be boring about it.

Wait a minute.

Hey, that's not fair.

It's like, okay, yes, it is a little more.

You at least added iced teas.

Yeah, yeah.

I forgot about slushies.

Slushies is a good one.

Those are good.

Arnold Palmer, which is really hard to say.

I didn't realize it until I tried.

Yeah.

It's lemonade and iced tea.

Yeah, yeah.

So I guess you're just combining those two things.

I know I've had an Arnold Palmer.

I just don't know, like, I don't remember what it tastes like.

I don't remember if I liked it or not.

I got to try one again.

Yeah, it's really lemonade tea.

We want to hear from you, everybody.

What do you think is the ideal summer beverage?

Zero, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred.

Or Texas through the Civic Media.

You can hit us up throughout the whole next two hours here.

Or really into any time throughout the whole summer here.

It's not going to be bad.

We'd love to hear from you.

Hear your feedback on that one.

Especially if you've got any that weren't mentioned.

I don't know if I'm being far-fetched here,

but I would imagine maybe a brandy sour, an old-fashioned,

or a bloody Mary might pop up in the mix here a little bit.

There's some other stuff that might come up.

Data Raid was another good one I thought.

That one.

When you think of summer drinks,

you think of it being hot,

and you want something to replenish your electrolytes

and your fluid levels.

Alcohol isn't the best option for that.

In fact, it's the worst option for that.

Yeah, it really is.

But if you're looking for something to sit on the porch

the mojito is a nice one,

because it's got mint in it.

I think of a margarita too.

It's kind of summery.

Those are all good ones.

I think the data raid thing for me,

when I first moved out here,

the summers were sports.

We played basketball in the morning,

football at night,

or baseball in the morning, football at night,

so yeah, the data raid was just not stopped.

Or the, to be honest,

generic versions of that stuff,

I hope for the most part.

Good stuff.

We want to hear from you.

Let us know everybody.

When we come back,

we're going to do some celebrating

with the El Café Birthday and Anniversary Club.

It is Melissa and James taking you through your morning

right here at WFHR.

You heard pitful.

It's time to do some celebrating everybody

with our great friends over at El Café

and the Birthday and Anniversary Club.

One of our favorite parts of the day,

we get to celebrate you.

Talk about our great friends at El Café.

Visit them today. They're open for the week, everybody.

That's right. Open for the week.

Got some great specials over there.

Be sure to check those out at their Facebook page

or by going to lcafewi.com.

Enjoy some great food, great atmosphere,

and even better people.

Wish them a good morning from all of us, everybody.

And get us those birthdays and adversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

You can email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages,

WFHR or WIRIs.

And of course, you can call on up.

That's right. 715-424-2600.

Or just a touch or two away on that civic media app.

We love hearing from you guys, everybody.

There are a few things we get more excited about

live birthdays and adversaries.

So I get them to us. We look forward to hearing them.

Melissa, I need a one through three.

Ooh, a pick three.

All right. I guess that's that one right there.

So we can get right into this.

And first up, we want to wish Happy Birthday to civic media's own.

We got Happy Birthdays to Jesse Strong and Conrad Krieger.

Krieger, yes.

Conrad and Jesse Strong.

Happy Birthday to both of them.

Yeah, the producer for Pete Schwabba Show.

Yes, yes. I've met Conrad and Conrad Krieger.

Very patient.

I will tell you that. He's very patient.

He's also just a really good producer, a really good guy

and everything. And I apologize to him because my,

my, my, my, Brea, Brea's mom, their name was Krieger.

They pronounce, spelled the same way,

but they pronounce a Krieger. Okay.

Conrad's awesome though. Wishing you a good birthday Conrad.

And Jesse's awesome.

I could also be wrong.

Anyway, just, he's awesome too.

Happy Birthday to Jesse Strong.

And we're also wishing a very happy birthday to Tom Lux.

Happy Birthday, Tom.

Tom and his wife for a very long time did a lot in this area.

And it worked over at the United Way.

And Tom was with our Wisconsin's rabbits community media.

They're, I believe in, I want to see Marshfield now.

I apologize if I'm getting that wrong. Maybe Warsaw.

But I just do that all the time.

I'm sorry, everybody.

Great. I will wish you a new time.

A very happy birthday.

And a happy birthday to Brandon Thompson.

Happy birthday Brandon.

Enjoy the day, sir. Hope it's a good one for you.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Jane Collins.

Jane, happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Jane. Hope it's a good one for you.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family,

strangers, and neighbors, pets that you are our,

our qualifier for today.

Mm-hmm. And I'm sorry.

Go back. Tom, what was Tom's last name again?

Lux, hello, UCK.

Yes, season, Marshfield.

Marshfield, it is Marshfield.

Yes. I knew, I knew, as you were saying it.

And I was trying to look up the specials on Alkafe's web.

Or their Facebook page.

And I was like, wait a minute. I know that name.

What? Marshfield.

I hope the audience ever went to the wild.

Just takes a moment to appreciate the running around.

Melissa must have to do. We're not working with me.

The sad part is I do try to prep too.

And I still do this to her every day.

Yeah, but you also, you know, we're juggling

and spinning how many plates at the same time.

And we're human.

Yeah. Yeah.

We're real people here.

Yeah, very true.

But I did want to mention the avocado BLT omelette.

Mm-hmm.

Oh yeah, I'm glad you did. That does sound really good.

That sounds fantastic. And also a test tostata.

A steak tostata for breakfast.

I think that sounds fabulous.

I'm looking at it right now.

Yeah, a six inch crispy tostata shells

topped with grilled asada, which is steak.

Two eggs, your style.

Pico de gallo.

Avocado and queso fresco.

Includes potato or fruit.

Did you see this Greek chicken breast?

That sounds really interesting too.

What is Greek gravy?

Yeah, I need to know.

Yeah, me too, yeah.

I grew up around a bunch of Greek families

and I don't think I've ever heard of that.

I got to check that out. I got to ask about it.

I served over rice. That sounds really good.

I went over to El Café today, everybody.

Let's take...

No, no.

Taking a look at our list of people

the celebrities that you all of our recent

list are locals having common with

and who they share their day with.

Sasha Obama is 24.

24.

Few birthdays have made me feel older than saying that now.

Oh really? Yeah, I don't know why,

but just I just seem to remember them being kids.

That's awesome.

Happy birthday, don't you?

Sports Illustrated Model,

married to Justin Verlander,

one of my favorite pictures of all time.

She's done a little bit of acting here and there.

She seems cool, seems I like to.

Lee Bryce is 46th country singer.

I don't dance, hard to love.

I've got a couple of them.

One of her character actor, DJ Qualls, is 47.

The new guy, he was in a road trip.

He was in a bunch of movies.

One of those...

You've seen him.

Yeah, once you see his face, you know who he is.

I hate doing this stuff, but let me name drop

just for a second Melissa because

he guest spotted on our TV show

that we did when I was in California

for the show I filmed on.

He was one of the guest actors we had.

We had about three different guest actors

and he was one of them.

the way you think he might be,

he's even better.

Just a really good guy.

One of those people I really root for in the industry.

I had a great recurring role on Supernatural too

that we was really good at.

Faith Evans is for 52.

A wonderful R&B singer.

A few comedians are having a better run right now

than Bill Burr, who was 57 today.

I think one of the smartest comedians in the game today.

If not the smartest.

I think him and Chris Rock are pretty close

to pretty neck and neck.

Dave Chappelle's pretty far up there too.

Burr is also one of the most important voices we have right now.

There's a lot of people that say that

oh, I'm not taking sides.

I just give this side or I just talk about this.

We all know that we can see.

We have eyes.

We see that they're taking sides.

Or people who are out there and they're just,

they're not that funny.

So they say stuff that they think is controversial

to try to get clicks and all that.

See where they are in two or three years

if you don't, you know,

they're here and everything.

And then there's guys like Bill Burr,

who have never changed.

They've only gotten stronger and fine-tuned what they've done.

Bill Burr has been doing this style of comedy his whole career.

It's just taken a while for I think the masses

and I think current audiences to kind of get a guy

who really does call it like it is

and really doesn't take sides.

And if he sees insanity, he's going to call it out.

Because going back to gestures and kings and queens,

this is the job of comedy.

It is the great equalizer.

It makes it takes the king and the pauper

and makes them equal.

And in this day and age where our comedians

are often being our best reporters.

And the only people we can count on

to truly tell it like it is.

Like Bill Burr ain't got anybody in his pocket.

John Stewart doesn't have anybody in his pocket.

These individuals are that much more important.

All they should have to do is worry about making people funny

and making people laugh.

But their jobs have become that much more important

and they've taken it on and run with it.

He's also a really good actor.

He's on Broadway right now doing Glenn Geary, Glenn Ross.

One of my dreams.

He's kind of in a few things.

He's good. He's just really good.

Let's see here. Jane Triple Horn is 62,

wonderful character actor, big love,

basic instinct, water world she was in.

And then some people no longer with us.

Like the legend, Judy Garland,

born on this day in 1922.

Yes.

Are there, if somebody had never seen acting,

singing, writing, anything like that

and you have to give a good example of it,

isn't she maybe the best example?

Here's Judy Garland.

There you go.

You get a full lesson on all of those things right there.

Incredible.

And such a young age that, yeah, I mean,

what she had to go through is just incredible.

And that's another part of I think what,

to me, when I think of her,

makes her story so important.

It's certainly incredible, incredible talent.

Wonderful, natural, just organic natural talent.

And then what she went through as a child actor

and really, I mean,

all the things that she went through

and how it changed the game,

how it made her being honest about those things

and sharing those things as an adult

is part of the reason why

child actor since has had it a little bit better.

It's gotten, now it has gotten,

it's still rough.

There's still some difficulties with it and everything

because it's an imperfect art.

You're trying to get kids to do a job.

And any parent, any person who has ever watched a kid,

anything like that, understands what that's like.

But the way the kids are treated, the conditions,

the hours, so many of these things that Judy Garland,

the whole Wizard of Oz cast went through.

Just a nightmare of a filming process,

the way that went.

And all of them, especially Judy Garland,

really paved the way for those things.

So her career is integral for many reasons.

Marie Sendek also celebrated a birthday on this day,

born in 1928.

He created where the wild things are.

Oh, yes.

My mother, she loved to read to us

and she loved that we wanted to read.

But I will never forget,

really Jimmy, this one again,

like just every time.

We didn't have many books growing up,

but that one was the one, man.

I just loved her reading that book to me.

And the type of illustration in that book was just so fun.

Wasn't it just completely different?

There might have been stuff,

but I don't remember as a kid,

anything like those illustrations.

That's such a good note.

Part of that book also, for me,

it was one of the first books,

it may have been the first book I read to my brother and sister.

And I was where I started doing voices

and everything to where when I, you know,

had kids and stuff that I would start doing that.

That book is a big one to me.

That one, Good Night Moon, you know,

those are, you got a half, got a half.

And had he McDaniel, born in the state in 1893.

She was the first African-American to receive an Oscar.

She won Best Supporting Actress for Gone

with the Wind in 1940.

And another integral person in the game.

And, you know, making conditions equal and stuff.

Not just for African-Americans, but for women.

And a really interesting person too.

That is going to do it for our Birthday and Anniversary Club.

We wish Happy Birthday and Anniversary

to everybody out there celebrating.

Melissa, I can't think of a better way to celebrate them

with our friends at LCAPE.

Yeah, because, you know, the one thing that we didn't mention

this morning, that we should always make sure to mention,

is their fabulous array of pies.

Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah.

Don't let Seth know that we didn't mention the pies

until this late in the segment.

We did.

We got to eventually.

We did.

Nice.

Don't come down on a set.

Go on over there today.

Wish them a good morning from all of us.

We will take our news, sports, and entertainment break.

We'll come back and have some more fun.

I got a great one about Wisconsin Girl Scout

who broke a record.

I want to get into that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Ha!

Welcome back, everybody.

A little James Brown to play Melissa and I

and on the morning show here at WFHR.

Good soul, funk.

Gets me going, Melissa.

Oh, yeah.

Hope y'all are having a great start to your Tuesday out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

I got to, you know, I usually try to get these good stories

wrap up our show with or end a hour with them.

But I just go on to get to this one right away, Melissa.

Shout out to Sophia Feele over at WMTV in Madison.

And I also like saying that.

WMTV, that's some great call letters right there.

Shout out to our friends in Madison.

Wisconsin, it Wisconsin Girl Scout is officially sold

more Girl Scout cookies than any other person in state history.

Wow.

Molly Lenius has sold over 35,000 total boxes of cookies

over 13 years.

The Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Badgerland set.

Wow, that's a lot of cookies.

That's incredible.

Yeah.

Quote, as a child, I was very shy.

Lenius said, selling cookies helped me get out of my comfort zone

and taught me how to talk to strangers.

Hmm.

The cookie sales also funded her participation in Girl Scout

destinations, which has given the team the opportunity to travel

to places like Costa Rica, Italy, Hawaii.

That's pretty cool.

That's incredible.

And she is the only one with a patch of her selenies in her family.

The family has sold a combined total of 64,646 boxes.

Oh.

Molly's oldest sibling, Victoria, contributed 29,000 of those.

So there's some bragging rights involved in this right here.

Some sibling rivalry there.

Yeah, no kidding.

She plans to attend Iowa State University in major

and mechanical engineering with a minor in mathematics.

Wow.

That is pretty cool.

She's obviously got the math down.

How many more boxes do I have to sell to beat my older sister?

Yes, exactly.

Congratulations to her to the Girl Scouts, to their whole family.

You're not in that family.

That's awesome.

Think about every person that they made happy buying one of those boxes.

Like over the years, that's pretty impressive.

And just one more reason why we live supporting our Girl Scouts organization.

Yeah.

What was it, the largest entrepreneurial organization for Girl Scouts?

Yeah.

It's a pretty cool story.

And I had another one that I wanted to touch on too real quick.

And this is another one of those ones where I encourage you to go to goodnewsnetwork.org.

Everybody check out the website.

It is the perfect palate cleanser if you need them.

If you're not like me and doesn't don't want to watch old wrestling biopics

or animals, funny animal combinations.

The good news network is a really good palate cleanser.

It's much, much better for you.

And you learn things too.

Yes.

And this one is, so I think that the longer I do this job

and the older I get, the more these stories hit my heart hardest

when people take tragedy and turn it into something beautiful.

We're going to be talking about bluegrass at the lake a little bit later.

I think it's locally one of our better examples of this.

Doves Nest is another example.

There is nothing stronger in the universe than the human spirit.

I genuinely believe that.

So following the tragic drownings of 15 school children in his hometown

in Indian man has started a swimming club that has seen over 10,000 people

learn how to handle themselves in the water.

Oh wow.

This man has essentially taught over 10,000 people how to learn to swim from this tragedy.

Oh my goodness.

He's narrowed down the introductory course which focuses entirely on swimming for safety

rather than for sport to just 16 lessons that begin by removing the fear of water

and rivers current.

It's called the Valessial River Swimming Club.

And it now boasts thousands of members among the communities living

along the Perian River in the southwestern Indian state of Keral.

It was started and it was created by Saji Valarassari, a humble furniture shop owner

who, according to the better, according to the Better India website,

was overwhelmed with grief following the overturning of a boat carrying a school class

and its teacher.

I started by teaching his children to swim, then his friend, then his friend's children,

and then some people in the neighborhood.

And soon the noon spread that free swimming classes were being available

and they just trickled down throughout the country.

That's really awesome.

And he's not done.

I mean, he's still going.

He's still doing this.

This story is an ongoing story.

And there's so much more depth to it and everything.

And I don't want to sit here and just read to our audience.

I want you guys to find this story.

I want you to read it out.

I do want to read one quote from him, quote,

all kinds of people come together young and old men and women from diverse professions,

backgrounds, and belief systems.

We don't see any of those differences.

No one is looking down or looking up.

There's only teaching.

That's incredible.

It hits you.

It's hard, man.

It's beautiful.

That's a beautiful story right there.

And a big appreciation to him.

And he's empowering people to, you know,

save their own lives by learning to swim.

And it's not as common, you know, as here.

And rivers are different, obviously,

than swimming in a pool or a lake.

Because you do have to deal with currents.

The phrase of teaching man to fish

and just taking a little different teacher made to swim.

A little different, a little different,

but it's still the same essence.

You know, we have a great partnership

and a shout out to our friends at the South of County YMCA.

This is a topic that around this time of year.

If not earlier, we really hit on in this area.

And how many lakes and rivers we have

and how important it is at a very young age

to get kids comfortable with water,

not just comfortable with water, but swimming.

Confident.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you remember how you learned to swim, Melissa?

I feel like most kids I ask around here don't remember that.

They just learn so well.

Yeah.

Well, I do remember taking swimming lessons

at the Sparta pool,

because I had somebody make fun of me

when I was on the diving board.

So that kind of stuck with me.

But I don't know.

I don't remember not knowing how to swim.

Sure.

See, that's a great way to...

Yeah, because I think we're going with that.

And I'm sorry to hear that though, by the way.

Yeah.

But you...

It's one of those things from childhood

that you just kind of carry with you.

Yeah.

I didn't where I was growing up in Chicago.

We had Michigan and everything,

but I didn't really have a lot of experience swimming.

It was really my papa that taught me how to swim.

I waited in a pool or anything like that.

I didn't really know how the actual swimming.

So we're on Lake Camelot.

My papa looks at me and he's like,

oh, you got your vest on?

Yeah, yeah.

He goes, make sure it's tightened.

I look down to tighten it and he pushes me in.

My papa never did anything like that before.

It was always easing me into things.

But for years, I used to get frustrated about that

until I realized I'm one of those people

that for everything that I do need to take time

and go through and all that stuff,

ever once in a while, you just got to throw me in.

You just got to jump in.

You just got to jump in.

There's things like that in life.

You knew what he was doing.

Yeah, I think my parents took us to, like,

the Millbluff and Robinson Creek a lot,

which are two very small little lakes,

and they look very similar,

which is why I used to get them confused as a child.

They're kind of long and skinny,

but they're not very deep.

And I just remember I have pictures of us

in our little orange, like, floaty thing.

I don't know, we just spend a lot of time,

not a lot of time, but enough time at the beach

that I don't remember ever not knowing how to swim.

It's interesting.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show

at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.

Thanks for joining us.

Let's get into this one.

How trustworthy are you, huh?

Rating yourself.

Look in the mirror.

Be honest.

Well, could you grade your trustworthiness?

Honesty, empathy, creativity, patience,

artistic ability, dancing ability,

or your ability to cook without a microwave?

There are all things that,

if you were rating yourself,

how would you rate yourself in these categories?

It's a comprehensive new poll.

More than, and in a comprehensive new poll,

more than 70% of Americans believe

that they are above average or far above average

in trustworthiness, loyalty, and honesty.

Okay.

And real quick, even if that isn't accurate,

like, you know, people aren't being honest

or something like that.

I find that encouraging.

I think that's pretty good.

I'd love those numbers to be higher,

but I, even if people are just hoping

to be that way or trying to be that way,

or trying to present that,

I think that's encouraging.

And it's a very low bar, I admit.

But I'm, you know, I mean, today,

I'm thankful for that kind of.

And also, you know, respect for the 30%

who admitted that they're not trustworthy.

Right.

Yes, 100%.

Yes, yes.

More than 60% believe they're above average

in ethics, reading ability, empathy,

open-mindedness, attention to detail,

and sense of humor.

Okay.

Women were, oh, sorry, do you have some?

Nope.

Keep going.

Women are more likely to believe they're better

than average at all of these,

except sense of humor.

67% of guys think that they're above average

compared to 53% of women.

Yeah, guys have a tendency to think they're funny.

Yeah.

Yes, exactly.

Yes.

Except for James.

He says he doesn't have a funny bone.

No, well, that's a medical condition.

You know, that's...

I'm sorry, I'm not wearing a medical condition.

The biggest swig in the other direction

was empathy, which may not be surprising.

69% of women think that they are more empathetic

than the average person compared to 56% of men.

So real, again, real quick.

For forever, women have been fighting

to be represented in comedy.

I mean, we're talking like since the first joke

was told everybody.

So that has been a thing in almost every medium

for a very long time.

It's not that surprising to me

that women would come out the gate

not necessarily thinking they are more funny,

even though I think if I had to think about it,

I'm pretty sure I'm more known,

more funny women than I have men in my life.

And the empathy part,

I bet you that men and women

are a lot more equal in empathy.

Just men are not quick to admit it.

Again, going back to,

well, I don't feel sorry for anybody.

You know, that says we're doing our own thing,

rub some dirt on it, you're all right.

This way that we are,

now I think those things are changing in society.

And that does not make our society softer,

it makes it stronger.

Yeah.

And just, you know, more current

with the day and age and everything.

On the flip side, only 15% of Americans

say that they are above average in running

and 16% say that they are above average in dancing ability.

Those numbers seem pretty accurate.

Technically, to be above average,

you don't have to be great,

you just have to be better than half the population.

Interesting way to look at it.

Yeah.

Less than 30% of Americans believe that they are above average

in music ability and singing,

athletic ability, physical strength,

artistic ability, sexual ability,

attractiveness, and sense of style.

A few other stats from the survey.

Three quarters of Americans say that they have

high expectations of themselves.

Women are more likely than men

to say that they find it difficult to accept compliments.

And adults under 45 are more likely

than older Americans to say their parents praise them often.

And Americans who were praised often as children

find it easier to accept compliments as an adult.

Huh.

That's very noteworthy.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, I am the opposite of,

you know, everybody deserves a participation trophy.

I'm not necessarily, I don't believe in that necessarily.

I am a big, big, big, big, big believer in

encouragement support costs nothing can mean everything.

You don't need a trophy to do that.

You can do, you know,

not that I have anything against a trophy thing and stuff.

But I do think that there's a balance there

because you also don't want to, you know,

kids to feel entitled or to feel like, you know,

coming out the gate, hey, I'm the smartest, most beautiful thing

in the world.

And then they get to, you know, high school and realize,

oh, no, I'm not, you know, whatever.

There's a balance there.

There is.

There's a difference between giving empty praise

and giving, you know,

the accolades when they're due.

Yeah.

And I think there was an entire,

while I don't know that,

my parents specifically,

I can speak to my own upbringing,

they didn't necessarily praise us

because they didn't want us to be prideful,

because being prideful was considered sinful.