Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Your host, James behind the mic. Join by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Hathhacker.
Good morning, everyone. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody.
We appreciate the company. We are going to kick things off the way we like to with our good friend,
Brittany Merlot, talking a little mother nature. How are you doing, Brett?
I am hanging in there. How are you doing?
Very same. That's very same. Same song over here, Brittany.
And we've got... Now it's looking a little bit more cloudy this morning than it has in every
ominous out there. Yeah, yeah. What are we looking at today?
Oh, it's the comb before the storm. It's for me, it's kind of eerie because it's going to be a big
event across the state, I think. Last night, to start it it off, kicked it off with that front
hanging over bar north, last Wisconsin. We saw flash flooding a quick two to five inches of
rainfall up there. And now that is working, it's way through the rest of the state today.
And still bringing the risk of high winds in a tornado, too. We had tornado warnings
up towards Park Falls last night as well. And that is going to be moving down towards us.
So what we've got today is these storms are going to be moving in probably around one
to two o'clock this afternoon, continuing from three to four to five. Probably the worst
of it should be over at five. The front should have passed at this point. A cold front will be
moving through sparking all of this alongside a low pressure system. So behind it, lingering
lighter showers and storms through the evening and overnight, but none of those should be the
scary ones. So we should be able to go to sleep, not worrying. But this afternoon we still need to
keep ourselves safe. Stay weather savvy from about one to five. Again, a tornado is possible
in these storms. We are looking at large hail that could happen. And the thing that I'm
pretty much guaranteeing is some heavy downpours. Probably going to create some flash flooding.
So a flood watch isn't a fact. It starts at one. It spires later tonight. And by tomorrow,
the front will pass. Things will be much calmer. The sun will shine. And highs will be refreshing
in the low seventies. There is a better day tomorrow. We got to get through today. So be careful
for flooding. And remember, turn around. Don't drown. Don't drive through any, any standing water
because you have no idea the roads underneath it. I've seen way too many times culverts washed
out the road gone wires underneath. It's just not worth the rest. Yeah. Yeah. And I've seen
small cars, big cars. It doesn't matter. They all get stuck. It doesn't matter how big of a pickup
or anything like that you've got. You're not getting through that. Nothing beats mother nature.
No, this is it needs to be said. Bertie, we appreciate all of that so much. Thank you for that,
Bertie. When it comes to the weather for today or anything being said, I think today is going
to be a good day. I think it's really a good one. I think we go. We start that day. I try to
start the day like that every day. And especially because we only have 252 of them.
Well, according to according to a new report, the average American has 252 good days per year.
Oh, okay. Let's let's make this one of them. All right. Let's do it. Doesn't that that seems
low? That also seems low. I feel like it should be higher. I feel like I know. I'm not more.
No, that would be surprising. Yeah. I love that perspective. That's awesome. We appreciate
you, Britain. You have a good morning. You too. Thank you. Best in the business right there.
Pretty Marlon joining us every morning right in this time. So let us know about that. Yeah. We'll
get into that with Seth and I will start off there in a second here with that that number there.
But I'm good days and everything. We have the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club around the
corner. That's always a good day. Always a good day. The percentage of Americans that
are self-conscious about their feet, about their feet. And yeah, because we're going to talk
a little feet, but as a palate cleanser, I've also got some random facts that I think people are
going to enjoy. We haven't gotten to do that in a while. No, it's been a while. I was this morning.
I was looking at a couple that were up here and I'm like, oh, those are too good. We got to share
those. We will wrap up the hour with five ways your health improves as you age. Okay. So
mother, maybe good thing of the day. Okay. Getting some entertainment news. We got the Emmys to talk
about Seth. Oh, the Emmy nominations for yesterday. I want to talk a little ELO and Jeff Linn
and Miley Cyrus. We will get an interesting talk some local theater, all those things coming up.
One in three people will accept a thumbs up from dad because he's not good at emotional stuff.
A couple of dads and a couple of others going to get into that. All right. Let's do it. Yeah.
Let's get all those things coming up. Yeah. Well, it's going to do our good stories to the day
schedule and some great events going on in the area. But as I mentioned with you and Brittany,
Seth and our great audience out there, according to a report, the average American has 252
good days per year. Oh, wow. That means 69% of days are good, which is equivalent to a five
days per week. Okay. Or 21 days per month, which does not seem too bad. No, that's all right.
That's a pretty good average. To Brittany's point, that's the kind of the first thought I had was,
well, at least it's not 150 or just 50 or whatever. Right. Right. The report also broke down the
results by state and some states had up to 50 more good days per year than others. Oh,
everyone makes fun of Florida, understandably. You know, they kind of and Florida didn't usually
embrace that. Yeah, for the most part. But people in Florida reported the most good days of any other
state at 276. That's 76% of the days. Wow. How about that? There are 11 states that aren't that high
but are still above average. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia,
South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Hawaii. What's an interesting mix? Okay. Very
all over the place. Right. Right. Won't have much weather plays into that. It's got to be
something to it. I'm wondering about that. Yeah. Then there is the states with the fewest good days.
That's Kentucky, Vermont, and Connecticut. Interesting. Again, no connections. Not really can,
no, I'm not seeing any patterns there. My brain, like all brains, but mine, specifically,
especially doing this job for as long as I have, I trained to look for patterns, to look for
segues, look for connectors. There are none there. I got nothing. There are 13 other states that
aren't that low, but of below average, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Colorado, and California. Interesting.
So I was going to go to weather, but that gets kind of nuts. Yeah, that does. Yep. That's a little
nixed out of there. Yeah. Okay. All other states are average. Most Americans know by 8.30 AM,
whether it'll be a good day, and the top contributor to a good day includes, now first,
oh, this is way to second by 8.30. That's awfully early. Wow. Yeah. But as a real quick note,
as somebody who, you know, has been starting my days quite early for quite some time now and
everything, I can think of plenty of times where my morning started off horrible. Horrible. Right.
And it was still a good day. Yes. Yeah. I really, I don't know. I mean, I think it's a great idea to
look at this as, you know, halves. And you know, the first half, maybe it doesn't go that well,
but that second half, you know, or vice versa. I even say by moment by moment. Yeah. And you know,
if something bad happens, it doesn't necessarily have to ruin the whole day. That's the kind of
the way I look at it, you know, you try to, you know, say, okay, this is a bad thing that happened,
but it doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the day is going to be like this.
So the top contributors to a good day include quote, a positive outlook, 51% said that
laughing at life's little things, 50% their quality time with friends, 50% their exercising at
38% eating healthy food at 36%. Okay. All right. So interesting. They're, yeah. I really do think
that you, you get what you put in with a lot of it. Yes, you're correct. So it, I mean, and as
I've mentioned many times, I mean, you walk around with your fist clenched all day, you're probably
going to get in the fight. You're probably not going to have that. You know, I recently had a day
that I would call bad. And that's very rare for me because I don't usually look at it, you know,
like the whole day just, you know, stank. It was terrible kind of thing. But there was a lot of
stuff that happened that day. So I would consider it bad. But that is very rare for me because of,
you know, I kind of have like a mindset I just described, you know, if something bad happens, well,
all right. Let's see if we can move along from here. And hopefully the rest of the day will not be
as bad. At least have that outlook. And I think that helps a lot. I don't, I don't know that you
can necessarily, you know, go by the numbers with this or anything. But I will say if I'm looking
at it that way, if I'm looking at this, I'm thinking, well, all right, if I have a bad morning and
I have a bad afternoon and a bad night, okay, I got one of those bad days out of the way. I got
252. Get your quota out of the way, right? There's different perspective is such a key part of
my goodness. Yes. The older you get, the more you realize that, I feel like. And having this idea of,
you know, I, I had a rough childhood. I had a lot of different things go on, all that. And then I
think about some people I grew up with, you know, and I'm like, oh, yeah, actually not that bad.
Not too bad. Yeah. I'm a pretty bad for Mr. Rogers for a father compared to some people that I
knew. Yeah, right. Yeah. Perspective goes a long way. It doesn't mean that you necessarily have to
compare yourself to somebody who, quote, has it all harder or anything like that. I think even
comparing, you know, well, today has been really rough. But man, it wasn't like that time in eighth
grade when, you know, or something along those lines. Chances are, even if it doesn't completely
change your forecast for the day, it can help a little bit. I did notice that there weren't many
Midwest in the upper or the lower parts, like the very even keel for the Midwest states.
To that point, Seth, looking at this list, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota, Michigan,
I did Michigan, I meant to mention, and Ohio, all 252. So all the right on the right on the nose,
right? Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, that's very fascinating. Wow. And do you believe that you can,
you can change your fortunes and to have a good day, no matter what life is throwing at you.
Because I've known a lot of people that believe in that. Okay. And I don't know if I do or not.
I'm not going to lie to anybody say I do. I want to. I would like to. Right. I am trying to rewire
the hardware up here in my mainframe, which is very old. We're talking like a Mac computer here.
We're talking like Apple to eat, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's not that great. I haven't updated the system
in a while, everybody. But that's what I'm working on. That's one of those things that I'm trying
to do. I feel like they go so much farther in life. And I don't know. None of us know how long we
have. I want to enjoy this time. I hope to be around another thousand years, but that's probably
not going to happen. So I'm going to make everyone these days count. You got to remember that a lot of
stuff is beyond our control. It really is. There's things that happen to us that we have no control over.
It's how do we respond? That's always what it is. How do we look at it? How do what is our perspective
on this bad thing that happened? And even getting out of the moment, okay? You feel that rush of
emotion anger, you know, sadness and frustration. But then that passes. And then what do you,
you know, how, then how are you looking at it? Right? Oh, maybe it's not. It's not as bad as you
initially thought. You know, you, you take a moment and you're like, now let's assess this and say,
oh, well, you know, if I do this, it'll be okay or it'll be not not so bad or whatever, you know,
that kind of thing. I've meled out a lot my older age, but I am still Italian. And I run hot.
This is one of the things I frustrates me the most about myself is I will get so furiously angry.
And not under, you know, just no, no consoling. Nothing like that. 10 minutes go by. And I'm like,
what was I so angry? Yeah, right. And I don't, I used to be the opposite of that. I used to
just hang on to stuff. Now I find myself a lot more getting out of that quicker and realizing,
oh, you're a knucklehead. And it's the perspective of age, you know, as you get, and you're like,
just what you said, man, do I want to waste my time feeling like that? Yeah. I've only got a
limited amount of time on this planet. Let's not, you know, kind of thing. And I, you know, I make
it sound like it's like easy. It's like turning us, which it's not. No, it has, you know, for some
people, it's just harder for them to get out of that. And I understand, you know, that's,
that's perfectly who you are. If it is, you know, and that's, that it is what it is. So
it does tell us a little bit though. Also, whether it doesn't change everything, I think a lot of
the, a lot of the people would think that it's happier and warmer climates or whatever. Sure.
We see all over the place where it is. Yeah, it isn't so much in some of these states. And again,
here in the Midwest where we've got everything Mother Nature has to offer. You can fill out the
weather bingo card every day here in the Midwest. It really would seem that way. We seem to be doing
pretty good. Yeah. You seem to pretty good about it. And, you know, knowing that we can do those
things. Yeah. We can control these things. I think it's one of the things that you're reminded of.
And on the end, in the, in the scheme of things, two thirds of your days being, you know,
considered good days, I think that's pretty good average. I think that's all right. Yeah, I'll take
that. I would. Definitely. I'll go to the bank with that. Yeah. We will take a quick time out,
come back doing some celebrating with our friends at El Caffe in the birthday and anniversary club
on the morning show at WFHR.
Celebration. You're a little bit better and ready for some celebration.
Sometimes you get louder and not by yourself. You heard the boys. Time to do some celebrating
with our great friends over at El Caffe and the birthday and anniversary club. One of our
favorite parts of the day we get to celebrate you and our good friends over at El Caffe.
Visit them today. Treat yourself to 21 market avenue in beautiful poor Edwards. Wish them a
great day from all of us. Check out some of these amazing specials. Seth, I see an El Caffe muffin
breakfast sandwich. What? A muffin breakfast sandwich. A muffin breakfast sandwich. Two breakfast
sandwiches on English muffins. Oh, oh, man. Oh, for a minute, I was like blueberry muffins. Oh,
my God. So that sounds very good. That sounds very good. They get an everything omelet, ham and cheese
club and plenty more great things over there. And of course, Seth, we would be remiss if we did
not mention pie pie pie. Lots of pie. Pies. Good anytime of year. Go down and eat pie now.
So many different varieties and universities. I'm glad you brought this up the other day.
They got takeout as well. They do. Just as good. Just as good and takeout. I'm telling you.
Get that El Caffe in your system, everybody. And support those that support our community.
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fashion. So we're watching something with my son last night with a rotary phone in it.
He goes an old movie kind of thing and he's like, I still don't understand how those worked.
But you know how it works, right? You can use your rotary phone to call up or you can use the
civic media app, right? You can call us up that way or text us on the text line. Either way,
we will mention whatever birthdays you want us to. I love him just staring at a rotary phone.
It's like, what do I do? Where's the on-off switch? My plug it in, plug it in.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries. Everybody loves celebrating with you.
We take a look at our list, Seth. I need a one or a two. Two. All right,
gives us that one. So we can get right into the celebrate. First up, we want to wish civic
media's own Timothy Tied. Happy birthday. Tied? I don't know how to pronounce his last name,
either. But happy birthday, Tim. My ex-wife, I believe her, yeah, it was one of her
maiden names, was Tied. So I don't know if there's any relation there. No, okay. That's the only
reason that at least the way she pronounced it was Tied. Well, I will defer to you on that one,
because I have no idea. Don't know, don't know, but I know Tim's great. Yes, Tim's great. It does
so much around here. Yeah, we really do appreciate him. Have a great birthday, man. And we wish a
very happy 70th anniversary, a belated one to Vic and Barb Moon celebrating their 70th on July
9th. We just got the word a little late from one of our longtime listeners, but we wanted to
shout them out. They are all instant qualifiers. Yes. Anybody overs like 60 anniversary dates?
Seriously. Seriously. I'm going to tell you. Seventy years. That is amazing. I'm remarkable.
I will okay this with the boss by that. I mean, Pam, but I feel confident Pam's going to go with
this. We'll throw that in there. Yeah, there we get them in the list. I'm not worried about it.
Happy 70th anniversary, Vic and Barb Moon. Yes, you too. Wow, amazing, amazing. You also have
my favorite last name, like if I could have a last name. Moon, yeah, you're the moon. Yeah, yeah,
hundred percent. Happy 70th, you too. And we also want to wish a very happy birthday to
Roswell Peats. Happy birthday. Roswell is such a good name. It is. Wow. Enjoy your day and enjoy that
name. Very distinctive. Yeah. And he's not only going to enjoy it because of his birthday,
but I guarantee you that he's enjoying even more that it's Pam's skibbos birthday who is his
daughter. Oh, my goodness. How about that? So they share a birthday. Yeah. That's really,
I love that when that happens. It's very cool. Pam is our qualifier, too. How about that? Yeah,
so that's awesome. Pam, make sure to give your dad a little bit of a hard time for that,
but also Ross, be sure to throw, you know, I gave that up for you. You know, you got the qualifying
over it. And if Pam wins, you should bring Ross over to Miss Elcafe, I get that over there.
Thank you to the family there, the Deets and skibbos family. Give us those names. Yes. Fun
to celebrate with you. Enjoy. Taking a look at our celebrity list who you share your birthday
in anniversaries with. Carly Lloyd is 43 wonderful soccer Olympian 2015 a World Cup winner. Nice.
Great player. Great player. A lot of fun to watch. Yep. Jamie Mays is 46.
Tim and guidance counselor Emma Angeley. She was also in heroes and NBC's trial and air in a
couple of others. Okay. Corey Feldman is 54. Oh, good Lord. Oh, no. Oh, no, no. Oh, man.
One of the more successful child actors of all time. I don't think that gets talked about
enough. The goonies stand by me, the lost boys. Like, if that's all he did, hit, hit, hit. That
is a run for any actor. And yeah, he was just, yeah, like there's, there's a grown actors to your
point. I never have that kind of run and everything. Those are like not just good movies or anything.
They're cult classics. They're in every 80s kids, like every 80s kids saw those pretty much.
Almost every. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yeah. I there. That's an interesting
career and just I think for a lot of people, there's, there's almost a, oh, what could have been
kind of thing or whatever. We're lucky. He's a lot. And I'm not trying to be, you know, funny.
Not glib, right? Yeah. With, you know, young, with child actors of that era and everything,
it didn't always end well. So, you know, it could be a lot worse. Yep. And a great career.
And he's got such a distinctive voice. Yeah. Which never changed, by the way.
No, it's wild, which is wild. Yeah. Very wild that it never did.
The great, the wonderful Will Farrell is 58. Wow. I don't, it kind of throws me a little bit,
but Will Farrell is it either that you like him or you don't kind of guy. Yeah.
To me, it's, it's odd that you see somebody this kind of popular that is that way. I feel like
when it comes to comedic actors and stuff. Right. I honestly, I like Will Farrell when he's
not being Will Farrell. Yeah. When he's doing like a little bit different stuff. When he's doing
like his voice acting, I really like like the Lego movie mega mind. Yeah. He's does a fantastic
job. And I really like it. Maybe because I'm not thinking it's Will Farrell. Yeah. I mean, I have
a lot of respect for what he's done in his career. I mean, you have to very successful in all that
stuff. But the stick he does, it's not a fan. But otherwise, I'm all on board. I may, I'm a sucker.
I just, I get pulled in anything Will Farrell does. I really like it. And in part because I still see
even to this day, the guy that came onto the SNL stage and took it by storm. Right. He really did.
That cast needed leadership. That cast needed somebody that was willing to be the butt of the joke
as well as the straight man, as well as the guy that would do put on the costume that nobody
else would. Right. Every cast needs somebody like that. And Will Farrell stepped up immediately coming
off the groundling stage right to it. Yeah. He's the clown. He's the clown of the group. Right.
Yeah. He's so darn versatile. Right. And while he can be the, the, the, just, but of the jokes,
he's also so good at setting up the jokes or being the, the guy given the punch line. That's right.
I think he's a lot more stronger of an actor than some people may realize too stranger than fiction.
I think is a good example of that. Yeah. There's been a couple of times where he's done a little
bit more serious. And he's actually done quite a good job with that. And, and somebody who misses
Chris Farley every day, you may not think it, but there are so many parallels between their
styles of comedy. It really, yeah. There's, there's a, there's a, it's not, it's more of a feeling.
You know, it's more of a vibe, I guess. Yeah. And I'm using a word. I'm not really that fond of.
But it's one of those things where, yeah, there's, there seems to be like a progression, you know,
like there was always someone to take over afterwards kind of thing that role. Yeah. And he kind of
did that. It's one of our opening exercises in acting classes is often, especially at second
city, is kind of taking your exercise. It's a lesson, I should say, taking your emotions from
one to 10. And I'm happy at a one compared to a 10. And part of this is to so that you're not,
oh, I'm really happy with this muffin. Well, you're, you're, you're happy is that a 10?
Why would you be at a 10 for a muffin at the, you're at the same happy as you would be when
you just found the love of your life that doesn't make sense. You know, engaging that for actors
and helping the spricks that. There are very, very few actors that can go from zero to 100.
Very few. Yeah. And make it believable. Right. Chris Farley was a master at this. He does not
get the credit he deserves for being a comedic genius in that way. Will Farrell can do pretty much
the same thing. And it's, that's one of the things I mean by a lot of the things I'm talking about
with his career, especially at SNL. Yeah. Acting wise here and there. I think it's been up and down.
Fobie Cates is 62 Linda and Fast Times at Richmont High, Kate and Gremlins.
I always forget about that. I mean, that's, which is too bad because she's really good in that movie.
She's, I was going to say, I think she's, she's actually the lead to me in that movie. I think
she really act the way she acts in the her strong performance. Yeah. And of course, she is married
to Kevin Klein. And I love that. I think that's, I'm a gigantic Kevin Klein. Yeah. Me too.
I'm too big. Like one of my all-time favorites. Yeah. I always forget that those two are married.
The Lord of the Dance is 67. Michael Flatterley. Oh, God. I haven't heard of that in a long time.
That is, that is a blast from the past. Do you remember? Do you remember everybody when that was a
thing? Yeah. Those dancing, Edward, the Irish comic, Edward Burns had a thing about that.
Should we move the hands? No, we're not going to move the hands. Let's leave them right there.
Anybody can move their hands. We keep them right here. One of the better coaches, any of us have
seen Jimmy Johnson's 82 former coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins with the
rock solid hair. Yes. Co hosted the pregame show on Fox for a long time. Yeah. And that is wrapping
up though. It seems like that is going to eventually or not eventually. I mean, very soon it looks
like it's going to. Yeah. Just the last time we saw him on the show, it seemed like it was going to
be, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he is 82 years old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of the few guys who
was won a national championship in college and won a Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Yeah. It's a very
handful of guys who've done that. And the, I mean, really the architect behind a lot of those
the cowboy early, those cowboy teams that turned everything around. Yeah. Which is odd. If you take
away that waiting stretch of Dallas, going from when they were losing, I mean, like one and 11
kind of time. Yeah. To the last 20 years, it's, it's really rough for that team. When you think
about that, everything except for that one blip with Jimmy Johnson, everything post Tom Landry has
been not great. Yeah. Yeah. And some people no longer with us, like Oliver Orville Reddenbacher,
more of this day, 1907. That was a real person. He was a real person. I loved the, the commercials
with him, especially when he was older, playing up the geekiness of that. I just, he was,
he was great with doing that. It was awesome. I love those commercials. They were great commercials.
I like when his son came on. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. And I don't, again, it's one of those things
where we have so many, you know, late, uh, creature characters that, uh, for the brand names or whatever,
that we find out, oh, that's not a real person. That's just a made-up name. Right. Right.
It seems much more rare than it's an actual person. I loved it when, when the, uh, the founders were
the ones that were like the face. Yeah. Like Dave Thomas with Wendy's. Yeah. You know, always that,
but Orville, I mean, with a name like Orville Reddenbacher. I'm, come on. Yeah. But it's synonymous
with popcorn. Yeah. That's all that's what you think when you're the name. And, uh, you know,
who, uh, was a better dancer than Fred Astaire. And that's a pretty darn sure list. Yeah.
Well, according to Fred Astaire, a better dancer than him was his dance partner Ginger Rogers. Nice.
She was born on this day in 1911, passed away in 1995. The latest feat you may ever see.
Mm-hmm. Uh, God, I love watching her dance. I could act her too. She was very good. Actually,
she had some very good dramatic roles as well. But of course, she's all don't for dancing. Yeah.
Yeah. But I always enjoyed that Fred Astaire was so quick to point out. She's better than I,
yes. God, I just lead. But saying something from one of the greatest dancers. Absolutely.
Absolutely. We will take a quick time out, uh, come back after the break, but we wish a happy birthday
and anniversary to everybody. Can't think of a better way to celebrate than over at L Cafe,
get there today to 21 market avenue and beautiful port Edward. Yes.
Oh, I hear the sound of a gentleman on the way back to the circuit through the air.
I'm taking a good impression. She's welcome back, everybody. Summer bumper time. Yeah.
Summer's half over. Finally got it in there. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. We got it in
then counts. It counts. We got it in August. It still counts. Yeah, there you go.
Uh, that's, that fair man. Is that a fair man? Yes, you have. I've never understood that in that song.
I've, it just throws me off completely every time I heard that song since I was a kid.
It always throws me off. Mm, it's great though. It's one of the rare, um, good uses of
there. Oh, it's a hard instrument to figure out how to use, but yeah, good stuff.
Good stuff right there. We're going to have some more summer bumpers for you, everybody.
We have the lookout for those. Uh, nice work by you, Seth. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Uh, it's going to get a little awkward, uh, but we're going to talk feet. Okay. Um,
if you've been hitting up the pool or the beach this summer, chances are your feet have gotten
some sun, um, and a new survey, 44% of Americans say that they are self-conscious about that though.
Oh, they're self-conscious about their feet. 44%. That seems awfully high. Uh, I actually,
I thought it was kind of low. Oh, really? Oh, you thought more people would be. Have you ever met
anybody who is confident about their feet? Oh, wow. I have not met one person, I believe,
that has ever complimented or said, I have nice toes. Look at my feet. Yeah. Aren't they great?
Yeah. I don't think I've ever been around that. If I have, I apologize because I don't remember
that, but yeah, it seems like there's people who like just don't care. It's like, yep, my feet,
they do the job that they're there for and that's fine. And then there are people I'm getting,
you know, like any part of your body, you could be self-conscious about, I suppose, but yeah.
I dated the ballerina once and she was, it was almost like a deal, like not a dealburger for me,
but for her, the idea of just even going swimming, like it and stuff, it wears her feet would be bare.
She was so self-conscious about it. Yes. I think you'd be surprised like some, like,
Shakilo Neal is one of the more confident human beings that is walking the planet.
The man gives himself nicknames and we roll with it. We're like, all right, sure. You want to be the
big Aristotle, sure. Yeah, whatever. He is incredibly shy about his feet. Incredibly shy.
Most athletes, LeBron, James, most especially basketball players, you know, they're just very,
so it's not, I think that this has an opportunity to find some connection and they're,
oh, I have this in common with somebody or they're not that different than me kind of thing.
It's also a chance for us to kind of get over this in some ways. Yeah, I'm not saying it's again
quick as flipping a switch, but hopefully, you know, I don't like the idea of people being self-conscious
about anything. I don't think anybody should be. That's right. I don't care who you are out there.
You are handsome or beautiful the way you are. Yeah. 66% have seen, have even avoided wearing
open-toed shoes because of the self-consciousness. Wow. The biggest concerns are smells and toenails.
Others, other reasons people don't want to show off their feet include toe hair or toe shape.
Toe shape. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Gen X was the most embarrassed by their feet,
followed by millennials and Gen Z. Boomers just didn't really care. Don't know if you think about
their feet at all. Don't even think about it. So that's a little saddening to me that the younger
do you would think I would hope, I should say, that it would be the opposite. Right. That we got
better as society went along about this and we're more open about it and more like,
that's your feet. Everybody got weird feet. Everybody's feet looked like they came from a
prehistoric era. They're much more function over form because we need them in normal to walk.
The way our feet are shaped, this makes us bipedal, right? That's what we need.
We've also never been more open to open-toed shoes or different. Right. Yeah. We didn't have
crocs back. Boomers didn't have crocs, you know, those things or all that. All that was like flip flops.
Yeah. You know, but now we got sandals and all kinds of stuff. I really would think that
going into this, I would really think that it would be the opposite. Yeah. Instead it's the very
different. Interesting. There's plenty you can do to improve your foot health in hygiene,
but 30% of people say that they'd be willing to give up booze to magically have perfect feet. What?
20% would give up coffee. Okay. That's insane. Okay. Okay. First of all, let's take this
and let's again, perspective, everyone. Which part of your body do you use the most? I mean,
I'm not talking, you know, internal organs, which are running all the time, obviously,
yes, your heart, yes, I get that, your lungs and your brain. Yeah. But think about it. If you are,
you know, unless you are unable to walk, you use your feet a ton. Oh my gosh. And yeah,
they're going to get beat up over the years. That's what's just going to happen because you use
them so much. On the flip side, some people are in the flip side flip side flip side. Some people
are extremely confident in their feet. 29% of Americans say that they'd sell pictures of
good luck. Wow. Here, there's a market for it. There is a market. There is a market for
everything. There is for sure. Route 34. I actually like I never I've never thought about this before,
but I think that when it comes to things about my body, that's one of the few things I'm okay
with is my feet. Yeah. I make fun of my feet. Yeah. But I have, I've had size 12 shoes since I was
born pretty much. I've always had these feet. And I just kind of, I think I've just gotten used to
them. And I do try to take care of my feet. I do try to, I don't go, I don't have any techniques
or, you know, crazy things I do or anything, but I know what you said before. I know how often I
use my feet. I know how valuable they are. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Take care of your feet. I try to take
care of them. And I'm terrible about doing that too. Although I love going barefoot. You know,
the first chance I get when I get home, you know, the shoes and socks come off. It feels better,
nicer that way. So 100%. Yeah. This is the part of what I love about this time of year is the
ability to just go without shoes or just run outside if I need to to check the mail or grab the
dog or something. I've had to put on 15 things to go out or anything like the shoes are a big part
of this. Yes. Especially when you're tall, bending down to put shoes on. You're very far away
from your feet. There's a little bit added like, oh, to it. There's a little. And that's probably
why I don't take as good care as I should because it's so far away. There's all the way down there.
They're in the bottom. Hey, how about you guys take care of yourselves. I don't got time to get
down there. You know, it's all the way down there. Six feet away. I realize that having bigger
feet, though, is can be an issue because I do. There are times when I, you know, because I've
big feet too. And if it feels clumsier because you know, you don't always know where the end of
your foot is and you like kick something or you step on someone else's toes or something like,
oh, and you're not because you don't mean to. You just don't realize where the end is all the time.
So yeah. I was looking for a palate cleanser to get a, you know, going from feet to just fun,
weird random facts, different things that you can throw at people throughout the day. Just
sure. I find I do this sometimes if things get awkward in a conversation or the conversation is
it is a stalemate. You just throw out there. Did you know puppies are drawn to squeaky toys because
they trigger their dogs natural hunting instincts? Oh, the sounds mimic the distressed call of prey
animals. Oh, that's never thought of that. This makes sense. My brother Sam, that's what part of
what he loves at night. He likes that. So why do babies like squeaky toys? Oh, that's a much,
no, that's a more interesting question. Anyway, the American flag Neil Armstrong planted on
the moon in 1969 was knocked over by the engine blast as soon as they lifted off the leave.
I didn't know that. I thought it was still standing there in the on the moon. Five more US flags
have been planted on the moon since then and NASA believes all of them are still standing.
There's no wind. So that the problem is the flags are not now completely white from being
bleached by the sun. Right. The the hearts of the sun. Now it just looks like the flat, the moon is
giving up. It's just waving the way. Look, I mean, come on on the moon. I got nothing here.
As of 2009, the uh, uh, oh, wait a minute. No, uh, here, the Wi-Fi isn't short for wireless
fidelity. No. It's actually not short for anything. The people who created it just like the name
because it rhymed with hi-fi. Oh my gosh, seriously. Well, I never thought that fidelity made sense
with the internet. That's a sound thing. And it's like, that has nothing to do with with, you know,
internet connections. How wacky. That's kind of disappointed. It's a little bit like as somebody who
looks up these things and loves to see the answer at the end of it, at the riddle. Sometimes it's
disappointing. It doesn't mean what you think it does. It's just, you know, just there.
Um, uh, the, let's see, uh, oh, the only place where the Venus flytrap grows natively is within
60 miles of Wilmington, North Carolina. Really? If they're growing anywhere else, it's because
they've been transplanted there. Really? I did not know that. It's wild. That is wild. And it's just
a very small area. Yeah. Now there, the etymology of the, of how the Venus flytrap, now I'm going
to figure that out. I'm going to look into that one. So this is one very small area and they came
to why? Yeah. That's fascinating. Oh my gosh. Well, and they have, they have, I think if I have
this right, they have a very, they're old, old, like history. Like I'm sure they do. Yeah.
History. Yeah. Wow. No one knows the origin of the name seven up. It was first created in 1920.
And nobody has any idea where. Okay. So this is one of the theories. This is, um, the, the seven
part. My dad has told me, no, then I don't know if this is true or not, is because it was seven
ounces. Normal pop was eight ounces. You know, like your normal pop bottle was eight. So now,
I don't know if that's, that's true or not. The up, I am, I think that's the big part. They don't
know where the up comes from. That's really wild though. The one you said there. It actually makes
perfect sense. We've, you know, you taste seven up. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. In the 1930s, a
brand of toilet paper called northern bath tissue marketed itself with the slogan 100 percent
splinter free. Because that was not always a guarantee with toilet paper back then.
Again. Oh my lord. Perspective. Yes. Just, just perspective. I, I buddy. That is a great slogan
actually. When you think about it, that is excellent. Splinter free. Hey, there's an old joke. I
mean, and this is like really old, you know, the old, when people had, I was outhouses and may not
have had toilet paper. The, can I take, I'm taking the Sears robot catalog with me to the outhouse
and not just for reading material. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. It's with that. It kind of, maybe that
makes a lot more sense of why they brought the newspaper. They, at least you knew that didn't have
it. That's true. That ain't right. That just ain't right. That should not have made it to market.
That should not have gotten out there. That does seem like, oh goodness. That's,
oh, that's messed up. Yeah. Like you would have thought that was about that. You would talk
about the, the bidet would have been brought in with that. Yeah. Exactly. That's one person with
a splitter and we're bringing, we're done. We're done. We're done with this. We're done with
the other paper. Man. And finally, as we go to break, many old school Wisconsinites might know
this one. The area of Wisconsin, the area of Wisconsin was spelled O U I S C O N S I N from when
it was discovered in the 1600s through the 1820s. Really? So Wisconsin used to be known as O,
O WISKIN. O WISKIN. O WISKIN. O WISKIN. O WISKIN. Oh wow. When the US government started spelling
it Wisconsin in official documents. So literally, they just changed it. And by, by making it in
official documents, oh, this one's going to be called now. There we go. Why they changed it. There
isn't necessarily any, why they added the WISKAN WISKAN? WISKAN, you know, WISKAN. Yeah, right.
W I see it. Yeah. Nobody really knows. Or are there at least there's not a real line?
Wow. How does that theory to it? Who knows? I mean, that might be lost to history, but wow,
that's fascinating. I did not know that one either. I'd love to hear. Wisconsinites out there,
would you rather be an O WISKINite? O WISKINite? That's harder to say. It is. It is. I think Wisconsin
a little bit better. But anyway, there's a lot more interesting history there if you go to
WisconsinHistory.org. WisconsinHistory.org. I encourage you to check that out. I know I will be
doing a deep dive much later into that. A fun website. Check that out, everybody. And we'll have
more fun stuff for you coming up as we have five ways your health improves as you age.
Oh, nice. On the morning show at WFHR.
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next hour. All right. So you know, when it comes to getting healthier as you get older, that's
something that we feel like we have to work at quite a bit. But there are some sides of it that are
just kind of natural. Okay. National Geographic of all places. Shout out to them. I love
National Geographic. Yeah. They posted a list of some ways your health actually improves as
you age. Oh, okay. Cool. One of our good stories of the day. Yeah. You get better at handling stress.
Like boy, when we're just talking about that. That's wild. I did not pre-read this. It's really
cool. Yeah. This came about this morning and everything. It's true. Yeah. You do. Yeah. As I've
learned, I think we've all learned as we get older. Yeah. That's true. A study, and now we have
some data to back it up. A study in 2023 found seniors produce less cortisol. And you also just
get used to stress. Quote, older people have a lot more ability to understand stressful or difficult
circumstances. You know, perspective, which interestingly leads to less stress, which is a good
thing. Less stress is always better. Also, you become more emotionally resilient. When stressful
stuff does happen, you're better equipped to bounce back from it. Absolutely. Absolutely. I've
noticed that in myself. Yes. You also, you stop caring about what everyone else thinks.
As we age, we tend to stop comparing ourselves to other people so much. Yeah. It lets you focus
on the things that actually make you happy. Right. Right. And I know this varies per person. I mean,
all of this stuff, of course, it varies per each individual, of course. But again, I've noticed
that myself and myself just not caring as much. It's like, what's really important? You know,
when you get to a certain age, it's like, well, yeah, it's not as important to me anymore.
There's so many things too that I think we can look back and be like, God, why did I let that
bother me? Or why did I let this? You know, and that's one of those things that I feel for
all young people of every generation now and going forward with because we all go through it.
Yeah. We do. And we have to to get to where we are now. It's not something like, sure,
we've all had those thoughts. If I only knew then, would I know now? Well, you would never know
then what you know now. It just doesn't work that way. Things get better in the bedroom.
People in relationships often report that their sex life gets better in their 50s, especially
women. All right. A very under-reported thing, but going by this, and especially the National Geographic
article, which you can find at NationalGeorgraphic.com, is it .com or .org? Let me double check.
I go to this site a lot. It's that geo. Whatever it is, that geo, .com. You go there and see the
complete article. This has been happening since really the dawn of human beings, they believe.
Yeah. That we've always been more inclined to do that. Right. And it makes sense to the
follow. You learn things, right? You know, you get more experience about these things, and you
get better at it. I mean, that's just part of it. Yeah. Exactly. You just get better. And to
looking at the other previous ones, you don't care as much. So I mean, yeah, exactly.
It goes a long ways with that. Do you think about it? Yeah. And finally, happiness peaks again.
How happy we are tends to follow a U-shaped curve. We're happy in our early 20s, a little less
happy in our 30s and 40s. And that rebounds studies show you might not hit peak happiness
until your 50s, 60s or 70s. How about that? Yeah. Yeah. And if that isn't good news, doesn't that
make that makes that should make people feel a little bit better? You know about that because we
we are so focused on youth. You know, and it's not and I don't want to just, you know, say,
oh, America is just about you. It's not just America. It's everywhere. It's a human thing. But we
have to remember, boy, you know, every stage of life, there's something. There's something there
that you can take away from. You can learn from. You can enjoy. We always have to keep that.
You know, maybe this hour is just all about perspective because that's, you know,
something you perspective is earned. It really is as you go along life, you know.
I find it really interesting too because this tends to be the case even if you are, you know,
in your 30s and 40s, very successful. Whatever that is. Whatever that is. Right. Yeah. It
still tends to be that way where even the most successful people in the 30s and the 40s,
and we see this a lot of time with celebrities and very accomplished people. Sure. And
well, I'm not that happy or I'm, we see them changing going from this style of music or this
style of art or this style of acting to another completely different thing. You see that a lot
in the 30s and 40s. Right. You're, you're, you're usually coming to grips or understanding
mortality better than ever than in those ages. Right. And then you have time go by and you
have a little more perspective of understanding and that's where the older ages come in. And
that is it. Which just means that your whole life, there's, there's always something there,
right? And, and it's something that I think we should really, you know, the unexamined life is
not worth living, you know, that old Aristotle phrase and boys, if that's not true, especially when
you get to the older ages, you know, just take a look back, you know, there's wins, there's losses,
it's just, it's just, the whole experience, just take it in, you know, just take the whole thing in.
The, what they mention about the 10 that are happy are happiness tends to go in a use shape.
I think that's something to keep in mind with that. It's a good one. And that's almost a daily
thing too. Oh, absolutely. So yeah, yeah, all of those things being said, we're going to make sure
that you have a good next hour. Yeah. Guarantee that. I got no idea. No, that wasn't coming back.
And we're going to have some more fun here on the morning show at WFHR.
