Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day, and thanks for kicking it off
with us at WFHR.
Your host, James J here with you. Thank you so much for joining us, everybody. We are joined
by our good friend, Katrina Hinder from Family Natural Foods. Good morning, cat.
Hey, hey, good morning. It's good to have the team together. We're going to have some fun
this morning. Let's kick things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany
Marlowe, talking to a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett. How are you doing? Good
morning. Bright and beautiful out there. I'm doing good. How about you? Oh, I am enjoying
this sun so much. I'm enjoying it a lot more than Katrina is enjoying the headphones. They
are just not working with you today. Are they there? We got to get different headphones
over there. So, Brittany, what are we looking at for? Because I know I saw some pretty high
temperatures this weekend. Are we kind of building up to that? Yeah, so we've got a couple
of different things going on that are of concern. So, bright and beautiful today, highs
in the low 80s. No big deal. But by tonight, we are looking at storm starting and they want
to just be filtering in out of the northwest, right? And some of these could turn really
strong and severe pretty rapidly. And this is going to be after 8 o'clock tonight, through
the overnight and even into tomorrow morning. So we've got to get through these storms first
and then behind that, once down front, let's north. All of the heat and humidity is going
to be spilling in. It will be dry for the weekend Saturday and Sunday. But it is going
to be dangerously hot with high temperatures hitting the mid 90s and dew points. Here's
the thing. They're going to be in the mid to upper 70s. We rarely get that high in humidity.
So with that heat and that humidity, it is going to be feeling like nearly 100 and 5 degrees.
They pair that together. So it's going to be really hard to keep your body cool. Make
sure you're hydrating now. Stay into AC shaded areas as you go through the weekend to just
take it easy because the heat illnesses, they sneak up on you. Personally, I've had it
happen to me and it wasn't in that kind of crazy heat. So, no leaving kids in cars, even
if the windows cracked, it extremely heats up so much faster than you think and all of
that. Plus, to even your pets, the paws on the cement that you can burn to pay attention
this weekend. It's a really great note about the animals. We don't think about that, especially
with dogs where they just keep moving. And it's hard to tell from their reactions sometimes
of, yeah, that could be really hurting them even though they're just being dogs. And
the heat stroke thing and being aware of the heat is such a good note, Brittany, appreciate
that. I, I cannot tell you how many injuries, cuts, bruises, bang ups I've had in my life.
I still remember getting heat stroke. I was like a 12 years old. I still remember it
was so one of the weirdest, freakyest feelings I can ever remember. So stay hydrated out
there, everybody. And keep listening to great local meteorologist Brittany Merlot. She'll
take, she'll stay the right way. We appreciate it for it. Have a good morning. You too.
Best in the business right there. Brittany Milo joining us every morning right in this
time slot. We appreciate her. We appreciate you hanging out with us. Everybody got the
L. Cafe birthday and anniversary club right around the corner. Get into that. It is Juneteenth.
Good Juneteenth to everybody. We're going to talk about that one in a little bit. Also
got a great story. Katrina about a doctor Z doctor Z and a really good doctor, really
good guy to his patients. Now his patients were really good to him. I'll get into that.
And the average parent says their kid does 1000 funny things every year. I think that's
a low number. We'll get into that. It's a Thursday. So in the 10 o'clock hour, we're going
to kick things off with a good friend Denise. And our pet in the week from the South of
County, you made society looking forward to that. That's going to be fun. Plenty of other
good stuff in the 10 o'clock hour lined up for you. But if you don't mind, I wanted to
kick things off talking a little bit about the shop and family natural foods. What do
you guys got going on over there? Well, you know, listening to Brittany talking with
you just now reminded me that yes, we do need to stay hydrated, but a good way to stay
hydrated. Family natural foods. We have electrolytes. These are great because they are going
to give your body the right nutrients you're going to need for this hot heat. Whether
it's all summer long and you're mowing your lawn or you're going for a walk or it's
these super hot days that are coming upon us. Electrolites are so good. It's different
like magnesium, potassium, sodium, the right combinations to get for you. And we have
a handful of different brands, some of which are on sale, but it's a really good time
to start using them now when we've got this hot weather coming up because like Brittany
was saying, it just pops up on you. You don't even know what's going to happen. And then
you're just like, why do I feel off? Why do I feel tired? Why do I feel dizzy? We all
feel a little more lethargic in summer. And this is a good way to just nourish ourselves
our base. Water is great, but sometimes we need a little extra in it. And electrolytes
are a great way to go with that. It's something that we, one of those things too, where you're
doing it, you're not necessarily going to, there's no downside to something like that.
And your body is going to be so much, you're going to enjoy your summer that much more.
Now you can enjoy the, we all understand the weather here at Wisconsin. We have no idea
how many of these days we're going to get. Take advantage of them and enjoy them through
your best abilities by, you know, being completely hydrated and all set and ready to go
and being able to be outdoors and enjoy some of this stuff. Absolutely. I cannot speak
for everybody, but I know that I'm going to get as every little bit of sun as I can this
summer. There you go. There you go. That's going to do it. Looking for excuses and reasons
to go outside. Just anything like that. And with that, I did also want to bring up with
you the sun care or skin care, I should say. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of sun care for
sun care. And yeah, I mean, of course, there's like lots of good bug sprays and sunscreens
that are going to be clean and your body can, you know, absorb them really well. So
we have a handful of those to check out. They're near our windows. They're getting suned
right now. But that is for sure a thing that we all have to be more mindful of our skin.
And just, you know, it's an important thing, like even if we're going out for a little
while we need the vitamin D, but if you're out in the sun for a longer period of time,
you don't need too much of that. And it can be too damaging for your skin. And then
it's irreversible. Like kids that run around with no sunscreen and later on, it's like,
oh, yeah, now we're paying for it, especially myself, which is like more fair skin. You
know, you got to be mindful of that. But I do want to highlight our event coming up, James.
So this is going to be a really fun event. It's next week Wednesday. So it's going to
be June 25th at 515. Steven and I talked about it last week, but we're going to just,
I'm going to highlight a couple of the main things. This is an event that's being put
on by the Terry natural team. His lead educator, Cheryl Myers, has been working with him for
over 25 years. Beside him, she's a product developer. So she comes up with a lot of those
awesome formulas. Yes, Terry is the impetus of a lot of it, but she is the one that's also
like, hey, we need to add this to it. Super knowledgeable. And we, a handful of the staff just
went to a training and she was, she was the lead trainer there. And they were like, I just
love how she explains things. It's, it's this way that you can absorb it. It's interesting.
She brings some humor to it. She's just a great presenter. And so she'll be at the event
is going to be held at our neighbor first Baptist Church, which is 910 McKinley Street.
That is right behind family natural. That's a beautiful church. So we're going to have the
presentation there. But then afterwards, we're going to walk back to the store. There'll
be our biggest sale ever at the store as well as some snacks from some of our local friends
and farmers around the area. And probably like a meet and greet with Cheryl. And she can
maybe answer a few more questions, whether you want to ask it as, like, as a group, like,
hey, this is my question. Or if it's more like, hey, I just have this question. I don't
really want to say it to everyone. Yeah. So she's fantastic. Definitely come. It's next
week Wednesday, June 25th at 515. You can park at family natural foods or near the church,
which is the first Baptist church. And the main subject matter that she's going to be
discussing is an important one. And it's a big one. So like, it's a big statement. And I love
it. But the event is called natural medicines that outperform drugs. So the concept is like,
what else can we do instead of going into the pharmaceutical area? What can we do that has more
side benefits than these side effects? And then you're down this trickling effect of like, now I have
to take 12 more drugs to counter this and to counter that. There's so many things naturally,
you can try first to see how that works for you, how it works for your body. So she'll be talking
about some bigger topics. Like just to name a few, let's see, like neuropathy, anxiety and stress,
inflammation and autoimmune issues. She'll be talking a lot of a lot of different things like
diabetes is usually in there. Blood pressure, cholesterol, kind of all of those are wrapped into
the conversation. Definitely worth listening to. We're really excited to have her. Fantastic
educator. With all that too, as you mentioned, any gray area or any questions that you might have
that are outside of that or kind of a round that subject matter, you'll be able to ask her,
because she'll be there and all that. That's wonderful. Cheryl's very approachable. She's very,
easy to talk to. So there's that's a gift as well with the presenter like her. You aren't
kidding about her hands and things too. I just did a little homework on her man. She has got a
quite a resume. She is something, not only intelligent, but just so good at explaining these things.
And especially that's so, it's important no matter what we're talking about, but with the subject
matter like this, where we are more and more in need of this subject being talked about.
I am not somebody who just takes every shot I can to take shots at the pharmaceutical industry
or the medical industry. There's plenty of need there, but I just like any industry and any
business and it is a business. They're looking at their bottom line a lot of the time and a lot of
these places are looking at, well, I can sell this and I can also sell these things because they're
going to need these things to counter the side effects of this and all of that. And that's profit.
What we're talking about with not only Terry naturally, but family natural foods.
We want to keep the lights on, of course, but you are more important and it shows in the product.
It shows in these kind of conversations. How many big name pharmaceutical industry types do you
see doing things like this? Answering just open questions or any of this. Terry is out there in the
public with his representatives, his people all the time talking about these things and answering
those questions or trying to help people out because it's about you. It's about making our society that
much healthier. And I think that it's certainly noted that the healthcare industry and we're seeing
cuts and cuts left and right on different things. We're also seeing people having a lot less
ability to get things because of their healthcare coverage and stuff. So you're looking for
alternative methods. You're looking for ways of helping these things that you were mentioning before.
Maybe not going to a doctor for something over the counter. Is there something else worth trying
and she's a great base to just learn and see what else is out there. Let me try something else.
And with having a sale on it, it's an easier way to, I'm going to try this. It's on sale right now.
Let me see how that works for me. Yeah, I want to come back to that because you said a pretty big
statement there. Your biggest sale. That is saying something specifically to tearing out your
products, too. I should clarify that because I didn't, I didn't necessarily clarify that before.
It's still a big statement. Yeah, it's the biggest sale. And it's so big we're not supposed to say it
because, you know, it's more than 20% and that's what we typically would do on his products. So,
you know, for the people that know that they love Kira Madder, they love some of his anxio calms,
some of his highlighted products. That's great to be like, okay, how many do I use per month,
her day, you know, buy up a little bit more. It's a better sale for it. So definitely worth coming to,
if you've come to it to listen to Terry in the past, he is fantastic and we love having him,
but it'll be really, really special and fun to have somebody else from his team
educating in a different way because we all educate differently. You're going to want to meet her.
She's great. She's got great information. So please come. It's going to be next Wednesday, June 25th,
515 at 910 McKinley Street. That's right behind family natural foods. Definitely worth coming to.
Yeah, it's going to be a blast. We're looking forward to it. We'll meet you there, everybody.
RSVPing is great if you can. But, you know, we still want you to stop by even if you're not
eight and two. Yep, absolutely. And I'm saying that mainly for my mother. She's been really looking
forward to this stuff. She's excited. And we'll meet you there, everybody. We'll be talking more
about this, of course, as we're leading up to it next week. I did want to remind everybody as well
that we are kicking off cranberry blossom fest here in Rapids. It is kicking off today going
on till the 22nd, the heart of cranberry country right here. The festival is filled with very fun
events. Fun to include live music, parade, arts, crafts, carnival, quilt show, food, and of course,
course culinary treats, darn it. Man, I was working on that one. Of course, culinary treats,
featuring Wisconsin's stuff would through crop, the cranberry much more. We got a complete list
of events going on at blossomfest.com. Go check that out over there. Things will be kicking off
in just a little bit. A couple of blocks away from us with the forest whale exhibit going on over there.
Yes, I heard about that. That tone's so funny. It might even stretch out to your property over here.
I'm really hoping it will. I'm hoping it will. It's just showcase how big an actual whale is.
It's such a cool idea. It's so close. I don't know about you. One of my dreams is seeing a
whale in person. I think that just be amazing. Granted, I don't want to be one of those people
at a raft. Then I see the whale because I'm really tiny and you're really big.
Yeah, I have no interest in that whole figure boat. I don't want to live Moby Dick. I read
the book. Good book. Don't need to live it. Check this out and plenty of other things. And of course,
this weekend, we're going to be live and direct out in the public, everybody.
WFHR, WRI, going to be the Arts and Crafts Vendor Fair coming up this Saturday. Now, from
10 to noon, you're going to have Melissa and Pam down there representing WFHR. It's going to be great.
And then from noon to two, Dottie and Laura will be down there representing 105, WRI.
Nice. We'll be having a good time. Come on, bye. Stop over. Pick up some of these WRIR.
Sunglasses we have and some other fun stuff lined up for you. It's going to be a blast.
Find out more and take in all of these great events as many as you can.
Blossomfest.com find out more information there. Come on over to Rapids, all of you out of
towners. We're looking forward to seeing you here. It's going to be fun.
Katrina and I will take a quick break. We'll come back with the LKF,
birthday and anniversary club on the morning show at WFHR.
Time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKF in the birthday and anniversary club.
We love celebrating you out there and we encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to
211 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. Wish our friends at LKF a wonderful day.
I've got some great specials over there, Katrina. Go check those out and the pie, of course,
amazing pie. Oh my goodness. All the food. It's always so good. I happened to swing through
there the other day and it was just smelt delicious. Oh, that's a great point. We don't talk
about that. We don't talk about the smell. I mean, you got to go there to taste it,
but I mean, just even smell it. Yeah. Yeah. All your senses will be appreciating.
You, if you go to LKF, visit them today, everybody. Wish them a good morning from us at WFHR.
And get us your birthdays and anniversaries. We love celebrating with you. You can email us
info at wfhr.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages. And of course, you can call on up 715-424-2600.
Just to touch or two away on the Civic Media app. Look forward to talking with you. Katrina,
I need a one or two. Oh, let's go to today. All right. Gives us that qualify.
First up, though, we want to wish a happy birthday to Civic Media's own. John Peck,
he is in marketing over in the rip-in of Atoma area. John's very good at what he does. We appreciate
John and we birthday, John. All the people in our marketing and department will appreciate
good stuff. And we want to wish a happy birthday to Amy Watson. Happy birthday, Amy.
Enjoy the day, Amy. Hope it's a good one for you. And wishing a happy birthday to our
qualifier, Bridget Peters. Happy birthday, Bridget. You have qualifier. Woo-hoo. Yeah, brag to
everybody. You know, we brag that people you don't even know, Bridget. Just let them know.
Let me yell it down the street on the qualifier. It's definitely should do that, definitely.
And have a great day, both of you. And again, thanks a lot for getting us these birthdays and
anniversaries. I appreciate you. Taking a look at who you share your birthdays with.
Great character actor Paul Dano is 41 today. Recently, the the riddler and the Batman movies
was in Love and Mercy. Actually played Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy. And he was the older brother
and little Miss Sunshine. That's really his breakout role. Little Miss Sunshine. That movie,
I went back and watched it about a year or two ago. And it's so much better than it was the first
time I watched it. I love when that happens with the movie. When you come back and you're like,
wow, I didn't realize. I watched it the first time. And there's a couple of performances that I
really, really enjoyed. Ellen Arkins, one of my favorite actors of all time. So I was really stuck
on those and Abigail Brenson, the little girl and of course, the steals the show. But it's
performances like his and some others that really stand out in the second watch. Greg Keneer was
really good. And it's a perfect cast. They've got a really good cast for them.
Mack Lamore is 42, Thrift Shop, his biggest hit. That was on the radio as I was pulling in today.
I don't really listen to a lot of radio in the morning. And I was just checking stations.
Yeah, yeah. What do you know? What are you doing at everything? But his that song was out of
that. I'm like, oh, wow, I haven't heard that in a while. I'm guessing that's why it was on because
it's his birthday. That makes sense. Zoe Zelladana is 47. Incredible actress. One of my dad's favorite
actors. He really likes her. She is a Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. She's an
Avatar and Star Trek movies. One of the greatest big men in NBA history, Dirk Noewinsky is 47.
Yes. Big time baller. And a guy that changed how we looked at European basketball players in
a lot of ways. Guys like him usually in the paint close to the basket. That's where you find them.
But Dirk, incredible three point shooter and steps away from there and kind of changes where
that's kind of gone since then. Now the game is all about three pointers. Let's see. Robin
Tunney is 53. She was on the mentalist for a little while, but I think a lot of people in our
age ranges are going to remember her from the craft. She was in the movie The Craft a long time ago.
Very good. I don't know. That was a good movie. Oh, there is a blast. Paula Abdul is 63. Whoa.
Yeah. 63. That threw me for a second. She's a continual like 40. Yeah. Something like that.
30s, 40s. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Forever your girl cold hearted straight up opposites attract.
I forget how long she had of a run of hits there. I forget about that too.
Especially because of the like she was on American Idol and some other things.
Yeah, I was going to say that's what she did more recently was that.
Yeah. And no worthy too. One of those people who really like, you know, homegrown,
made it, made it on her own bones and everything. Start it out as a dancer, as a choreographer and
everything. And just kind of, I don't know how you go from dancing to singing, but she like a lot
of people do that. I'm a dancer. No, I'm a singer now. I'm like, wow, you're just talented.
You can do it all, I guess. Jennifer Lopez is a good example of that too. It happens a lot.
I was surprised by that. The great, the wonderful and one of the greatest voices you will ever hear.
Kathleen Turner is 71. Joan in The Romance in the Stone movie and her and Michael Douglas were so
good together. She was of course Jessica Rabbit, the voice of Jessica Rabbit and who frame Roger
Rabbit. And a handful of other great roles over the years. This is a good one. She's good.
And Wilson is speaking great voices. And Wilson from Heart is 75 today.
75. Barracuda, Crazy On You, Magic Man. These dreams. That's one my mom really loves.
Heart, one of those classic bands. For many of us that love the Seattle sound, grunge and all
those bands that came out of there. It all starts with heart. That's the really the first big
Seattle band and really, you know, all the sudden record producers. People start looking in that area
a little bit more. Let's see here. Felicia Rashad is 77. Claire Huxedible on The Cosby Show.
And so many other good performances by her over the years. But even she hasn't had a lot of
acting roles. But that one pinnacle role of playing the mom on The Cosby Show and Claire Huxedible.
Really, I mean, if you're only going to have one or two roles in your career, that's a pretty good
one to have right now. That's for sure. Really set the bar to a team mom. I mean, like, why would you
need anything else? You've got that one. She was really good on that show. And taking a look at
some people no longer with us. Lou Garrick born in this day in 1903, baseball legend held the record
for most consecutive games played 2,130. Wow. Yeah. Wow. And then that was beaten by Cal Ripkin,
Jr. who just destroyed that record, which is insane. One of sports, sports heads like me,
one of our favorite things to do is having, you know, sports debates. And there's no wrong or
right answer usually in these things. But the one whenever it comes up of like, unbreakable records,
records that no matter what will never be broken in sports, Brett Farves consecutive game streak,
I think is one of them in football. Yep. And in baseball, it's that. It's the consecutive
game streak. It's just there's so many get more games nowadays. The injuries pile up so much more.
I don't, I don't know who is even close, like even in the hundreds right now for ball players
or anything. And that goes with football too. The idea of starting that many games consecutively,
I don't think those I think is incredible as far as records go that will never be broken. And
you got to say, well, that's the one that will never be in my book. At the top right there. Yeah,
I don't think anybody will touch those. And Mo Howard born in the state in 1897, past 75,
three stooges icon. Of course, Mo and the three stooges. It'd be funny if Mo Howard celebrating
birthday. He was curly in the three stooages. Yeah, that was really funny. He was he was the guy
kind of the leader though. Yes, there. I mean, I watched a handful of that. He's a kid.
I don't even know how to do the math. You got to live in a great, it gets a good
living experience. It starts better than I got. I was a, I grew up my, my Papa, we watched a little
three stooges. We are big marks brothers guys. So watch a lot more of that. But that was a
pretty good. I know you had that idea. I didn't know I had any idea. We will take a quick time out,
get to our news, sports and entertainment break. When we come back, we're going to talk a little
bit about Juneteenth. And I had this doctor. I want to tell you guys about that had something really
cool happened with his patients. That'll be coming up in just a little bit on the morning show
at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR. Look, I like your own radio. Captain James
with you. Hope you're having a good one out there. I'm going to get in some fun stuff. Before
wrap up the hour, I've got the average parent says kids do a thousand funny things a year. We're
going to discuss. Get into that one. But it is Juneteenth. And I wanted to address that a little bit.
Talk about it. One of 11 federal holidays we have. But a surprising number of people are still
haven't heard of it. Now, I think it's really easy for people to go one direction or the other on
this one. The either badgering people that they don't know what Juneteenth is or the other side of
this of, you know, just everybody thinking that everybody knows it and everything. And I feel like
more and more in life and in society, we've got to get a lot better at just giving grace and
understanding. If you want people to understand or learn almost anything, and I've learned this
the hard way in my life, you don't do it by badgering. Nobody learns from that. Nobody, nobody
really engages with that. If you want people to be, you know, understanding or empathetic or any
of these things, you're not going to get it by gilting them or badgering them or any of these
things. I think you most of the time, the way you get something across is by talking, is by
just conversating. And the greatest thing that any conversation can have is listening, you know,
and just listening, taking it in, having an open mind and all of that. And a new poll found 13%
one in eight Americans have not heard of Juneteenth, which is a lot, but better than three years ago,
when one in four had never heard of it, over a third of us still, you know, don't know exactly
what it is about. So instead of, you know, gilting people, how dare you not know what it's about
or something like that. I think it's important to just talk about it so that more people do.
And it's a, it's a newer thing for a lot of people. I feel like I've only, like I kind of knew about
it, but not really knew all the information about it. I feel like in the last like few years,
it's more been highlighted. So I mean, I'm even guilty of that. I feel like maybe the last like
three to four years, it's been more highlighted than it was before. And I, I hope in just speaking for
myself on this one, there's certainly this date is important to certain members of our society,
of our country and all that. But I would hope that it's important to every American.
We should also proud of it. Very proud. And this is American history. And it's a big,
an integral part of a tapestry of our story. You can't tell our story without it. And you shouldn't.
It's something that we can take a lot from. So here are quick few stats from the poll about Juneteenth.
Only 62% of people know that Juneteenth is celebrating. Congress made it a federal holiday in 2021
to celebrate the end of slavery in the US. President Lincoln signed the emancipation
proclamation on January 1st in 1863. But the last slaves in Galveston, Texas weren't freed
until two and a half years later on June 19th, 1865. So 160 years ago today.
It speaks to, there's so many layers to something like that.
Having some perspective and some appreciation of where we are in society now,
where something breaks and we're all badgered over the head with it.
The way we're able to share information nowadays is not only noteworthy,
but also I think it's just some perspective to that. And I think putting yourself in the shoes
of those Galveston slaves and what that must have been like and everything. Juneteenth isn't a
new word. It's a mashup of June and 19th that was first coined way back in 1890s. So while some
of this is new to a lot of us and everything, the terminology is not new at all. It's been around
for a while. It's kind of cool to think about. We've been mashing it. We think that this whole mashup
thing is something new. It's been around for a while. Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
29% of Americans say that they have celebrated Juneteenth before.
Around one in six said that they were planning to do something to celebrate it this year.
When it comes to, well, how do you celebrate something along those lines?
I think one of the bigger things that I have heard, not just from a lot of my,
you know, African-American friends or anything, but just in general, is again researching,
learning, finding out more about this and certainly celebrating our culture and in the cultures
that have been brought to this country and again, a big part of the tapestry of this country.
Think about this is certainly noteworthy with African-American culture, but any culture.
Try to imagine our country if you take this out or this away. It's not only very different
and kind of weird to think of, but economically or culturally or anything, the lack thereof,
those creeds and what they bring to this world, to this country. It's not only a different
America. It's sure ain't as strong as the one. There's no way our country is as strong as it is.
If you take one piece out, even one little piece, I don't care how big the numbers say that this
creed or this culture is in this country or whatever, you take one of them out, we ain't the same,
and we're not as strong or we're not the beacon that we are to the rest of the world without it.
It's what makes us America with all that diversity. Most history.
Yeah, most Americans are on board with it now. There's a very small percentage of people that
don't believe it deserves to be a federal holiday, so that part is encouraging, I think, as well.
And you really show your hate. I go back to this one all the time when I was a kid,
and there was two states in the union that didn't think we should be celebrating Martin Luther
King Jr.'s birthday, that we should not have the day off of work. How much do you hate something
that I'd take the day off of work? Right. It's not like you got to go around with an MLK
shirt or something like that. No, right. Just don't go to work that day. That's all you got to do,
and that really, it's just a different level of hate right there. That's the only difference.
Pretty messed up. In 90% of Americans agree racism is still a problem in 2025.
55% said a major problem, 35% said a minor issue, and 10% said not a problem at all.
That 10%, boy, you live in a great world, man. That must be nice. That must be nice.
It's one of my earliest memories is dealing with anti-Semitism or racism or some of these things.
The only way that we kill hate is not just with love. It would be great. It makes a good poster
and everything, and a good shirt and a bumper sticker and everything that the only thing
kill that kills hate is love. It's not just love. It's understanding. It's education. It's listening
and empathy and understanding that I don't understand what it's like to be you, and that's enough
right there. Absolutely. You don't have to go above and beyond with this stuff or anything. It's
the simple understanding of that I don't understand what it's like. I can empathize with women.
I can empathize with what it is to be a woman. I got no clue what it's like to be a woman,
and understanding that. Just like you have no idea what it's like to have this hair.
Katrina, yeah, but this hair I'm telling you. I don't. Just be thankful. Yes, it's some good hair.
I don't know how to go that far, but it's definitely there. It's definitely there.
I encourage you to learn more about this one, everybody. Especially if you can take a step back
and just look at the history of it. Fascinating. It's really interesting.
Lots of history there. Especially what was going on in Galveston
those couple of years or how that information got there that eventually on this day,
160 years ago. It's really something. It's really 60 years ago.
Got a story to take us to our break here from the Good News Network, and it involves Dr. Z.
Michael Zoli Kofur. He is known to his patients as Dr. Z. He spent the last four decades serving the
residents of Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods, and the family physician never turned anyone away,
even if they couldn't afford to pay, which many, many, many over the past four decades,
were unable to do. And this doctor would make house calls, would go and do these things,
and we're talking as recent as like last year. He was doing this stuff.
Yeah, it's not just like, oh, this was like 60 years ago. No, this is last couple.
Many of his patients would say his catchphrase was, forget the bill. The 66-year-old told us
CBS News, I'm going to see you no matter what. You walk in that door, you will be seen. You
bring your grandma with you, and I'll see her too. Oh, I love that. Dr. Zoli Kofur built goodwill
in his Maryland community instead of a massive bank account, a practice that may have looked
misguided a few months ago when suddenly the doctor became the patient. Dog knows with a double dose
of cancers, one rectal and one retinal. Wow. To make matters worse, he discovered that his
own insurance had lapsed due to a policy complication with Medicare. His treatments suddenly
cost just an incredible amount of money. Yeah. And as the news trickled out to all of his patients,
Dr. Z had helped, oh, that he had helped over the years. One of his high school friends,
Michael Haynes, started a GoFundMe campaign online to help out the doctor. Yeah.
And before long, all of the gratitude and all the goodwill Dr. Z had nurtured over four decades
became a groundswell of support. More than 3,400 people came to his rescue donating over well
over the amount of money that he was going to need for his care. Zola first story also caught the
attention of Maryland Congressman Quizzett Mufai, who rose to the front of the house floor to insert
a written statement about Zola's legacy into the Congressional record, preserving a testimony
of Dr. Z's grace within U.S. history. Wow. Very cool. It's a trickle-down effect. You do good
and do good to others. It'll come back. Kind of how cool he did that. You get what you put into
this world. Absolutely. And four decades of doing this. And it looks like even longer than that,
really. It's using the four decades. It's just kind of giving you a ballpark because the
sky was doing this for so long. Right. The kids and kids of patients. I'm sure. We're adding to that
GoFundMe.com. It's doing it a little different. He wasn't the typical clinic that you come into
is doing more calls. And I love that. It makes it small and more intimate. He knew his
patients well. And then when he needed help, they came back to help him. And that's so cool.
And similar to what we were touching on earlier about health care and how so many,
this is a doctor and he was having a hard time. This was a doctor and he was having a hard time
keeping up on his policy. So many of these things. It makes it understandable. The rest of us
weren't even in the industry can have troubles with this stuff. To see people stepping up for
people. That story never gets old. And as much as my darn brain loves facts and numbers and
reality and all this stuff, more and more evidence to longer I'm alive that karma is a real thing.
That karma you really do get what you put into this world. That's just a beautiful story.
Again, you can find the complete article because there's a bunch of great interview with the doctor
and stuff that you can find out more about going to goodnewsnetwork.org.
Encourage you to go there for all your palate cleansers, everybody. It's a good one.
Katrina and I'll be back with more show coming up on The Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Little 80s to play us in. Get you ready for that. We're going to have some fun in the next hour
everybody. We're going to kick things off with our great friend Denise from the South
Folk County and Main Society and our pet of the week can't wait. Can't wait. Find out which animal
I wish I could steal and take home with me. You get pretty distracted when she brings
those things. Extremely. Do you have a dog chewing on your sock and you're licking your legs
or anything? I'm going to be honest between you and I. It's usually the other way around.
Me messing with the dog. Maybe trying to get the dog's attention.
Yes, we know the dog. I'm going to get it. It's really over it.
Maybe it's better. It's a much better example of it.
We're looking forward to that. A big shout out to Milltown Coffee Shop,
sponsoring that segment for us. We appreciate the gang over there.
Can't have had this one for us. I saw this couple weeks ago and I was like, oh,
Katrina's going to be in. I think this would be a good one for us. Perfect. Hit me with it.
If you're looking for some new social media content or if you're just looking for more fun with
things, have children. Kids are fun. Kids are great.
What a word of advice. Have kids. They'll make you laugh.
Yes, yes. That's the truth. That is true.
There's a lot of other reasons and certainly a lot of things that you should be keeping in mind
before you have a kid. Yes, 100 percent, but they will make you laugh. I agree with that one.
It's honestly, I was joking earlier. I said earlier about palate cleansers. One of my go-to
palate cleansers, I have a folder on my phone of just kids. Just my kids. Young,
to old, all that and just literally looking at them, immediately sparks a memory.
One of my favorite ones was my son and daughter. They're like four and three respectively.
They're in their stroller and we're going to the park. We're just singing a song and I like doing
like their mom had different tastes in music. I would do different stuff than she would do.
We're doing a hip-hop song and in the song they go and wave your hands in the air and wave them
like you just don't care and my kids go waving. They literally wave like Princess Dye
waving like they're like just tiny little waves not like throwing your hands in the air and
get crazy with it. They're a literal wave like a president would. I love it. I will be if I'm
fortunate to live to 100, I'll still be laughing just as hard as with that. Good, you should.
Kids are great for a lot of things and this is one of them. Well, check out these stats to go
along with that. In a new survey, the average parent says that they find their kid doing something
funny more than a thousand times each year, which is about three times per day. I would say that
might be low. I think they might be rounding down on that. Well, and I think it also depends on the
age. I think when they're younger and they're figuring out the world, they're almost like flumsy
and the awkwardness of how they walk or how they pick things up. It's more exponential and as they
get older, they're more... There's a little bit less, but they still do it. They still do silly
things and yes. There's a couple of go-tos for this that I think are universal. The baby's first
birthday and you give them the piece of cake, watching them trying so hard to get that cake in their mouth.
It's everywhere. Yeah, it just doesn't matter. And I don't know what it is. Every kid, I've been around a
lot of babies, my own, my brother and sister, all of this. Every baby tries to get the foot in a mouth.
Oh, yeah. Certainly the hand and different objects they pick up that you have to be careful,
of course. I don't know what it is. The foot in the mouth. It's fun. It's so cool. I can stretch,
look at me, but I'll just say I was holding my niece the other day and I was putting her foot
in my mouth, gobbling it up. I was like, I'm going to take your foot and I'm going to nibble on it.
So, like, I even want to do it. Maybe we taught them that. That's made a problem. Oh, I didn't think of
that. Oh, mind blown. Didn't even think about that. We started. The foot in the mouth thing. I
started that. That's what I get it from. I'm glad adults don't do that. This is one of the things
that you just wish. There's a lot of things you wish you could teach your kid right away.
One of them is, oh, appreciate this because the older you get, the less you're going to be able to
get away with this stuff. There are certain things that you could do as a child. You never can do
as an adult. Yes, we've had those conversations before. Enjoy it while you get kids.
Yeah. So, the average parent experiences seven chaotic moments every day and 82% of them say
that they, quote, find humor in the imperfect moments, like trying to get their kids to new foods,
trying new foods or something. Oh, yeah. If you, most parents, I think, let their kids,
you know, I don't want to say dress themselves, but, you know, pick out their clothes that day
or something like that and that's always an adventure. Always fun. It's winter and they want to
wear, you know, shorts or it's the opposite of that or something like that. My winter boots
today and I'm fine. I think I did that as a kid a lot. That could be frustrating. And also,
at the same time, I think just one of those things where you just, you choose your battles.
You know, you're like, you know what? Yeah, you want to be a princess today? That's fine.
Yeah, we're going to do that. We're going to do that. We're just going to go ahead.
You can go for it again. Yep. Same dress, dirty. Got it. Okay.
Because you know, whether they may not know this, but as a parent, you know, okay, I need to choose
my battles. I need, I need to convince them on this subject. So I'm going to go ahead and let them
have this one. And I think honestly, it's so much fun to watch the outfits. Oh, the outfits are
fun. One of my children didn't care to pick out clothes. It didn't really matter to her, whatever.
And the other child at like age two was like, I'm picking my clothes out. And still to this day,
we'll be like, no, no, I got it. I got it. And her outfits were great. And I mean, it's so fun.
My, my youngest Isabel, she really, really liked dresses. And it didn't matter what the weather
was or anything like that. That was kind of one of the things she wanted to wear. So
finding a way to like, okay, what kind of pants can go with this to where we could convince her
or something like that? And nearly half of parents say that they're looking to portray themselves to
end their kids in a more realistic light, sharing those relatable, relatable everyday ups and downs.
And I think they're talking a little bit about on social media, but also, you know,
it's just an everyday life. You're taking your kids to the park or, you know, daycare or something
like that. To me, one thing that I think that I've seen is a positive with parenting. And
and this is even going back to, you know, 20 years ago or something. It's been a build-up to where
we are now and I think where we're going. The idea of, okay, I have to put on airs. I have to
come across as the greatest, smartest, most wonderful parent of all time. And anything short of that,
I'm a horrible parent. Like that getting away from that in our own heads. That's the biggest
challenge. Parents, parent on parent crime is very, is very tense to me. The idea of parents not
being supportive to other parents, you should know better. You know, thinking what you want in your
head or what you say to your significant other at, you know, at 10 o'clock at night or whatever,
that's a whole other story. That's between you guys. But when you're out in public, when you're
around other parents, giving each other grace, I think is one of the greatest things we can do for
each other. And we see more and more of it going on, I think. And the other side of that of, oh,
my kids hair has to be perfect. And they have to have the perfect outfit. We have to come across
like Ozzy and Harriet or something. We're getting away from that more and more.
I think so. We're having more flexibility within it. And I think it's good to be conscious of,
yeah, like how you react or others react to you. But also that what we play in our brain,
because we can be our worst nightmare of like, I should have, I should have like, you might hold
it in. But let yourself have that, that grace, because we're all just learning this together.
I don't, I don't think I ever word this right. And I'm certainly not going to right now. But I
think one of the greatest signs of a good parent is they think they're a bad parent. Because every
good parent I've never known and I'm known amazing parents. Think that they always, I'm not saying
that overall they think they're a horrible parent, but there's things that have come up where they
think they're a horrible parent and they're not. Yes. Like it's, it's a, it's not fair. I wish it
wasn't this way already. They got to want that on anybody. But I will say that most of the time
to your point, we are our own worst enemy in life more times than not, especially with parenting.
Yeah. My mother, I'm certain, is not the only one like this where you, you almost can't
compliment the woman. Because all I, I can't, my whole life, I'll compliment her and she'll
immediately come back with, oh, I'm just no. Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm, no, I'm horrible. No, no, no, no, no.
Take a compliment. It's okay. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I think the better we can give each other grace,
hopefully the more we start to do it in our own heads. Absolutely. And, and be better about it.
Be better to each other, which by the way, also will be better for the kids.
I'm gonna say you are that example for those kids. So if we're beating ourselves up all the time
in our brains, in our minds, or how we're saying it, something to them, or to ourselves,
they are mirrors, they will see that. So it's important to how we treat ourselves and others.
It has a, again, this has a karma. It has an effect. It has a round of out effect too. And,
I did a little bit more research this morning, just double checking and everything. Because,
you know, you got 24 hours, seven breaking news and all that. Kids are still the future. They are.
Still the future, everybody. So, I mean, this seems like a good thing for everybody. You know,
parents, young, old, and of course, to kids. Surround yourself for kids because, you know,
they do these funny things, but they make us young. We all need a little bit more of that playful
spirit in a world that can be heavy sometimes. So surround yourself by that playful nature that
kids often give and encourage them to be playful. We shouldn't have kids that are eight years old or
four years old and they are having to live an intense life and world and have to make these big
decisions and do all these things. It's like let kids be kids and play me. Yeah. As long as they can,
yeah, hang on and live bi-careously through them as you guys. Yes. There's nothing like, oh, I
have to play with these toys. I'm, I'm, you know, with my kid here and stuff. I got to do it. I
guess I have to if I have to play with Lego. Okay, give me that. You're doing it wrong.
cranberry blossom pesto is going on. Everybody, it really is kicked, it kicks off today, but we
got a couple of signature events that really kicked things in the gear. Dive into the world of
whales and ocean adventures happening from 1030 to 430 over at the Wisconsin Rhapsody Municipal Zoo.
So cool. Still looking to see if I can, I still haven't seen it. Is that whale come through on the,
like, on the, you know, the big truck yet or anything? Katrina, what if our pet of the week is a whale?
That'd be so fun. Oh my god. That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. We're going to talk to Denise
at our pet of the week in just a little bit so we'll find that out. I can't have with a little whale
suit on it or something. Oh, yes, that'd be perfect. Yes. And of course, lunch by the river going on
1130 to 1 today over at Vincent's Memorial Park. Check that out, everybody. Katrina, thanks so
much for hanging out with us today. Yeah, this is fun. Again, everybody, we'll be talking more next
week about the presentation that they have looking forward to that and looking forward to hanging
out with you and Steven real soon. Thanks for the time. Yeah, thank you. We'll be back with another
hour coming up on the morning show. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 HL W
