Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us. Here at 97.5 FMWFHR. Your host, James behind the mic, joined by CEO of Yuri Nightaway
of Southwood, M's County's Terry John. Good morning. Got the band together. Friday.
It's gonna be fun. We're gonna have some fun today. We're gonna have the next couple of
hours. We're gonna kick it off the way we like to with our friend Brittany Merlot talking
a little mother nature. Hi, how are you doing, Brett?
I'm good. It's right. Yay.
Nice.
And it's beautiful outside. Yeah, it is clearing up a little bit and from what I'm hearing
Brittany, it's supposed to more and more throughout the weekend. Yeah, it should.
Fingers crossed. You know, the pressure system that brought it here is still going to be
here. So it's still going to be pushing a lot of the air from a pie down to the surface.
You know, it is still going to be a little smoky. I'm not going to lie throughout the
entire weekend. It won't be as bad as it was yesterday. It's already better. We're just
in the orange level now unhealthy for sensitive. And yes, it should stick between the orange
and the yellow. Hopefully as we go through the rest of the day today, maybe just yellow
tomorrow. And then everything should start to change as we move into early next week.
And those winds start to move out of the south. Which that means, you know, the trade
off is bringing in more humidity and muggy air. So it's like we're either getting the
dry comfortable conditions and wildfire smoke or muggy human storms and heat. So that's
what's behind all of this. Otherwise, no rain in the forecast until like Tuesday. That's
even a small chance. So staying pretty nice and dry. A lot of farmers are getting things
done with these conditions, but it is hard to breathe. So take it easy out there still
today. Tomorrow, we are looking at highs. Actually today, tomorrow and Sunday, flirting
with about 80 degrees. Nice, crisp, comfortable, perfect summer temperatures. Again, hopefully
more blue skies by tomorrow. It's still looking gray out there this morning. And patchy fog,
every single morning. So expect that throughout the weekend as well.
Not bad. Not bad. We could take it. Sounds like a, I don't know. We're kind of adjusting.
I would say the last two summers, we've been adjusting to this, getting used to these
wildfires and the winds and all that. Hopefully we're able to get out there, get some fun
in throughout the next couple of weekends. And as it clears up a little bit.
Yes. Yeah. Definitely take advantage of it. If you can tolerate the smoke, you enjoy
this weekend because next weekend, it's going to be probably feeling like triple digits
again and thunderstorms. So just a heads up. Yeah. Pretty before I let you go, Terry and
a little bit later, or we're going to get into a couple of things. If you, if you had the option
to hibernate for a season, would you do it? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to bug you with what season.
You could tell me if you want, but I don't want to put you on the spot. What wouldn't?
Definitely spring. I think it's spring season. A lot of people love it. I don't because it is
just muddy, rainy, snow, melty wildfire season. I just, there's nothing good about spring in my eyes.
I like all the others. I can see that. All right. Thank you. Thank you for playing a lot.
I appreciate that. Terry and I will get into more later. We'll get our, our listeners answers,
but I appreciate that. You have a great weekend, Brittany. We'll meet back on Monday.
You too. Thanks. Best in the business right there. Brittany and her low joining us every
morning. She'll be back with us next week. Be on the lookout for her, her, her updates throughout
the week here right here at WFHR. We got a couple of things we're going to get into. That is one
of them. Terry, we got some science news a little bit later. We got that in a couple of other fun
topics. We will kick off the 10 o'clock hour. Of course. Oh, I'm sorry. I've sped past a couple
of things. Elcafe birthday anniversary club. That's coming up in a little bit. And then after
our news and sports and entertainment break, we're going to be going to star the day with our
friends from callers. Got a fun one lined up for you today. Get ready to call it and win some
free callers. Then we'll get into the hibernating stuff and some of the science news I got.
10 o'clock hour will kick things off talking some entertainment. What's new on your small screen,
big screen, and your local theater stages. I also want to talk about craft coming out with a
pizza flavored mac and cheese. We will discuss. Yeah. Yeah. We got to discuss. But we kick off
getting an update from our United Way of Southwood and Amsterdam's County. Terry,
wanted to talk a little bit with you about what's going on over there because this is such a busy
time of year for you guys in next couple of weeks. Yeah. Things I really ramping up,
you know, getting ready for campaign and everything that we have, you know, that follow summer.
But in the meantime, of course, we have our stuff, the desk, and stuff, the bus events. So
today is the last day to register. I'm to receive school supplies. So if you haven't done that,
registration is open May 1st through August 1st. So today is it. It's weird that it's August,
isn't it? Yeah. I split the calendar and I couldn't get used to it still. Yeah, a little crazy.
So the way to register is to visit our website at UWAC.org. We need information about each of your
children that will be attending school in the Southwood County area. And like I said, today,
today is the day. It's a big day. But you know, really, really where we're focusing, starting to,
you know, shift off of registration, certainly, is to school supplies. And so we need supplies. We
registrations are almost at 900. So that's a lot. So now imagine, you know, 900 backpacks and,
you know, they need four folders, four notebook, you know, so there's a lot that goes into these
backpacks. So we count on the community to support as much of that as possible. We also leverage on
some other grants. We accept monetary donations. So it is, you know, it's a really strong collaborative
effort, which I really like. You know, on our court committee, we've got all of the local school
districts represented. And there's a lot of thoughtful process into, you know, that goes into
all of it from from the day registration opens, or even before, all the way up through the last
backpack being handed out on August 16th. So if you are willing and able, we, we definitely
can use school supplies. We are looking for those to all be collected by August 7th, which is next
week, Thursday. We are one of the sponsors that lunch by the river that day. And that's where you
should bring your school supplies. We need them honor before August 7th, because whatever we don't
have at the end of the day, August 7th, we have to go by. And so, you know, it's, it's really hard
if you're sitting, you know, maybe you bought us 10 folders, make sure we have them in time so we
can get them in our account. Yeah, yeah. It really really goes a long way. If August 7th doesn't work
for you, they could be dropped off at the United Way office, 351 Oak Street anytime between now and
then, or there's a whole list of businesses on our website where, where they have said, hey,
we'll be a drop point WFHR or WRI included. And so if there's some other, you know, business that's
on your normal path, where you would like to drop those off, that inclusive list is on our website.
And maybe at the end of the show, we could just zip through that list and then people know exactly
where the drop points are. Most needed items right now are backpacks, folders, single subject notebooks.
Notebooks and folders should be just plain colored. No designs or cute puppies or kiddies because
we just want to, you know, try to keep some consistency. So we also have a great need for markers.
So like, you know, just, you don't have to overthink it. Just like your 10 pack of Crayola markers,
right? Like just, just the normal ones, colored pencils and then pencil boxes. They're, they're
like a little plastic box. Those are the things that right now we anticipate having the greatest
need for. Of course, we don't know for sure until all the supplies are in, but, but just looking at
the trend and what's been coming in so far, that's where we feel like we're going to have the
greatest needs. So backpacks, folders, notebooks, markers and pencil, pencil cases. So if you can,
you know, help out with that now, you say you don't want to shop, that's all cool, right? Like we,
I have, I have staff members that love to shop, but, but we will, we also do accept monetary donations.
And then we just, at the end of the day, on the seventh, we just get what we need. And so,
you know, and then it's by a, by precise count, obviously, if the, because the registration closes
today. So, you know, thankful, we are so thankful for all of the donations that have come in so far
and the monetary donations that have come in. But the reality is is we, we don't have enough yet.
So, you know, we want to, we want to get all these 900 kids off, you know, to a great start when
they, when they go to school early September. And, you know, this is a, it can be a,
a really, honestly, a light lift, right? If you can, yeah, folders, I think are on sale right now
for a quarter. So, even if you can do a dollar's worth, you know, or maybe you can do $10
worth, whatever it is that works. But, but we really, you know, we really appreciate the effort.
And the really cool thing is United Way has been coordinating this effort since 2009. And every
year, it just, I mean, it gets better. We learn from ourselves and what, you know, what, what we
can improve on. But it also is just remarkable that for, for this long, you know, the community
just continues to say, hey, yes, we want to do this. We want to make sure that it's happening.
So we appreciate you. I also appreciate your consideration for helping us, you know,
in the next week, you know, meet that mark. When it comes to talking to people in the community
about events, I, it's one of my favorite things to do. And part, I, I always admit with them.
And I, at least in the, having the past many times, I do it for content. I want to be able to
bring it up on the air and say, hey, I talked to so and so. And they like this event or whatever.
And I try to talk to multiple people about that. I've done this for years with the United Way
and different events. And I've heard a lot of what I'm sure you have heard about United Way
events and events in town in general with our nonprofits. This one is a more interesting one.
And I hadn't really had this perspective until I talked to a lady. I want to say last weekend
about this where I always express why this is important to me. And I was one of these kids. And
how much it could have benefited me and seen the opposite of that with my, my fellow students
that had all their supplies and so many of these things when I was talking to her. She got
giddy right away and immediately said it made her think of her, her kids when they were little
and buying them supplies. But when she, her kids are much, much older and she was much older. And
for her, the supplies were like four or five things when they were in school. And now what's
asked of parents and Jesus, she, my mind is boggled or something. She said along the lines of,
you know, how parent, any parent can do this nowadays. She wasn't saying just, you know,
a single mom and dad or or something like that. She means just any family is being able to do that.
And so much of it for her was, well, this is important. And I said, well, I just thought
that that's, you know, well, it sounds like your kids had it, you know, okay? And all that,
why was it, why is it important to you? Say, well, it just is. And I thought it was such a great
answer. I know it might seem simple to people. But you think about this when we talk about different
events going on with you, Terry or other nonprofits. One of the first things we do is address why
we're doing this. We don't have to do that with this. We don't have to spend 10 minutes telling
everybody why it's important. Kids have school supplies and everything. They get it. They know,
we've all been there. We've all been in school. And whether you are like me and you didn't have
the supplies or you're somebody out there that did, you know how important these things are. And so
when we can all get together as a community and help out with something that's so universal,
there's no, there, there is no, you know, controversy here or, or, oh, I don't know about this
or anything. There's, this is nothing but a good thing. And we can all be a part of it. Whether
it is just picking up a pack of pencils or it is, you know, you're a big monetary donation. Whatever
you are doing, it is greatly appreciated in your impact in the future. And I don't dramatize
things for on purpose. I think that we have enough of that in society nowadays. I can't stress
enough. You are impacting the future. You truly are. You're making a difference. And when you can do
that by buying, you know, a school supplies, how great is that feel? And it's not a heavy lift.
Let's be honest. If you need those locations, be listening. As Terry said at the end of the show,
we'll name them for you. But I would say even just reaching out to me in general. And I will make
sure that those supplies get to the United Way. Just reach out anytime and keep in mind that you
can find out all this information at uwac.org. Head on over there and be sure to bookmark that
page, keep up the day and all things they are doing. Even when this all ends with our, this
couple of months, it seems like it goes on for months. Oh, it does go on for months, but it wraps
up so quickly is what I mean. It feels like once that does, there will be another thing we'll be
talking about and looking forward to that with you, Terry. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come
back with the L Cafe birthday and anniversary club on the morning show at WFHR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L Cafe in the birthday and
anniversary club. We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to L Cafe,
221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
We love our friends over there. Got some great specials going on. And of course,
they had their Friday night fish fries happening over there. Head on over, check that out.
And keep in mind that they are going to be closed next week, August 4th through the 11th for
vacation. And Storytime Academy Graph is this Saturday. So take that in as well and say hi to
Kathy for us while you're at it. Head on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards
and enjoy yourself with our friends at L Cafe. We appreciate them not only sponsoring the
birthday and anniversary club, but giving us an opportunity at the beginning of every month
to announce a winner. That winner or winners get $2.20 gift certificates to take on over to L Cafe.
That's why we encourage you to get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody.
You can email us info at wfhr.com, direct messages on our Facebook pages, or you can call
on up through the Civic Media app, text us through there, or call up at 715-424-2600.
Pam is joining Terry and I for this segment. Good to have you here, Pam.
Thank you. Good morning. Oh, so appreciate the time. We'll get to you in just a moment. But
first, we got to make Terry work in part because this is her one show this month. So I'm going to
make her work the next two hours like crazy, everybody. I'll get that tear. I need you to we have
35 possible qualifiers last month. I need a one through 35. Wow. Yeah. Um, 19. Oh, 19. Okay, 19.
There we go. All right. We got our qualifier and that is Jim and Patsy St. Martin.
Congratulations. There we go. Now it's official parts on Jim and Patsy.
Congratulations. Hope you all have a great. They celebrated their anniversary a little bit
in the middle of the month. I look like I think I think they did. So we wish them a good one.
Enjoy celebrate all over again. And now you got a free lunch or dinner or whatever you use it for.
$2.20 gift certificates going to Jim and Patsy St. Martin. That could be you.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. We'll announce that again before we wrap up
the show. We do have a number of different birthdays and anniversaries to go on for Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Terry, I need a one or a two. Two. All right. This is that one. Need another
one or a two. One. All right. And one more. One right. Nice. That's it. Just keep going. All right.
So there we go. We got ourselves our qualifiers. We get right into the celebrating. And Pam,
we had a special one. We wanted to highlight first. Yes. It's my sister-in-law's birthday today.
Marie Kazuba. She lives here in Wisconsin Rapids. And we'll be celebrating her birthday
starting today. Yeah. She's like the head of our household, the Hilke family, and
or my just adorable sweet sister-in-law. She has a beautiful name too. Yes. Marie Rose.
And it's very cool. And we appreciate you sharing that with us. Marie, wish you a great day.
Enjoy your day. We appreciate all you do. Happy birthday. And we also want to wish a very
happy birthday to Judy Paul. Randy's wife. Happy birthday, Judy. Happy birthday. Oh, Randy,
you better be rolling out the stops today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why Randy's not an
on playmaker today. He's got busy. Nice. He's perfect. He's taking care of that. But we wish
Judy a great one. Judy's awesome. Have a great birthday, Judy. Enjoy your day. And as a side note,
we do have an anniversary to celebrate Pam. Another reason why I wanted you in here.
Today, it's marks the three years. Three years. We have been with civic media.
Civic media bought over us from a hard Wisconsin media. Three years ago on this day, it became
a official. That is pretty cool. Want to know that. Yes, very, very nice. Thank you, Sage.
And now we look at our local birthdays here. And first up, we want to wish a very happy
birthday to Jill's Dale show them in happy birthday. Dale have a great one. Enjoy your day.
Hope it's a good one, sir. And we wish a very happy birthday to Diane Collins, our qualifier for
today. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Enjoy the day, Diane. Hope it's a good one for you. I always
like names like that. Diane. That's a great name. Yeah. Enjoy your day. And we take a look at Saturday
where we wish a happy birthday to Deb Bone. Happy birthday, Deb. Enjoy the day, Deb. Hope it's a
great one for you. And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier on Saturday. Dave Shotsman
celebrating 81 years young. Happy birthday. We're right on the same page here. We're going to start singing.
Got harmonies going. Dave's our neighbor. Yes. Yeah. Our neighbor. Right.
Nice. Terry, I believe you were working that day that Dave came in with the sign. Yeah, like all
of a sudden you get that out of your peripheral. You know, it's like, what's behind me?
Appreciate you, Dave. I wish you do a good day, sir. And you're a qualifier. You think Terry
for that. You're a qualifier. And also, we'll wish Civic Media's own Lewis Collins a happy birthday.
Yes. Happy birthday. Enjoy the day, Lewis. Enjoy the day. Oh, I've got another one for the
on the second. It's my cousin and her husband, Mark and Judy Bachan. They live in Appleton.
And I believe it's their 51st wedding anniversary. Nice. Judy grew up here in Wisconsin,
rapids and went to grade school and high school here. You guys going to be eating a lot of cake
this week. There's nothing wrong with cakes. No, no, no, that's fantastic. Just invite me over.
I'll help you with it. I've been known to help with cake. We take a look at Sunday, August 3rd,
birthdays. First up, Civic Media's own Kevin Kallag. Kevin Kallag, we want to wish happy birthday.
They enjoyed the day, Kath. Happy birthday. And we wish happy birthday to Deb Telexon. Deb's
awesome. Happy birthday, Deb. Happy birthday. Have a good one. Enjoy your day. And our qualifiers
on Sunday, Jim and Valeria. Valeria Johnson. Valeria, I think Valeria. Thank you. Thank you.
Another reason why Pam is here today. Jim and Valeria. Happy anniversary. Happy 62nd anniversary,
YouTube. Yes. Happy anniversary. Wow. That's a good one. Happy 62nd. You guys enjoy. And wow,
two beautiful names right there. Really good names. And we see who you share your birthdays
and anniversaries with for today in this weekend. Run through a handful of these for today.
Jason Momoa is 46. Aquaman and the Justice League and Game of Thrones, a couple of other things.
One of the funnier pictures you will see is Jason Momoa walking with his security team,
who are just two guys that are just like way lower and smaller and shorter than him. He's a big guy.
I'm not sure he really needs them, but I think it's nice to give them jobs. I think it's for sure.
Yeah, absolutely. Carry his water. Let's see here. Sam Mendez is 60,
wrote and directed the World War I movie 1917. He's also great director, directed American beauty,
road to perdition, skyfall spectrum, couple of James Bond movies. Road to perdition is one of the
more underrated, like I think sneaky good movies that came out in recent years,
less 20 years. A beautiful movie, the cinematography, Tom Hanks, like you've never seen them before,
really good movie. Let's see here. Chuck D is 65, lyricist and rapper for public enemy,
one of the greatest lyricists of all time. He shares a birthday with Joe Elliott, who is 66,
Def Leopard's lead singer. Their lonely singer. Def Leopard's always had the same guy, Joe Elliott.
They had a run there, Def Leopard for a while there. Michael Penn is 67, wonderful singer and actor,
and I say anger and writer. Let's see here. And then some people no longer with us, like Jerry Garcia,
Born and Stay in 1942, Pestway in 1995. Of course, leading lead songwriter and member of the
Grateful Dead. Tom Deloise, Born and Stay in 1933, Comedy Legend. Tom Deloise had a lot of good
movie roles and a lot of cameos, Cannibal Ron and movies like that. But I think my ever-lasting
memory of Tom Deloise is always on the tonight show, in him and Bert Reynolds and Johnny Carson,
and basically like the cameras were on, but it didn't matter. They were just up there talking and
laughing. Tom Deloise, hearing him in interviews years and years later, he would go into those and
he was determined, who can I make laugh more, Johnny or Bert Reynolds? And he would just sit there
trying to make them laugh. And just, you know, what it didn't matter, like nowadays you go on a
talk show, you have an agenda. You know, back then, you just showed up and like, hey, you know,
you guys want to talk? Let's talk. It's night time. Let's have a drink and we're going to talk.
And it's, I don't know, there's some, it's comedy gold watching any of those. Tom Deloise was hilarious.
Ziggy Cartoon is Tom Wilson, Born and Stay in 1931. I kind of forgot about Ziggy.
That's a good one, yeah. A Herman Melville, Born and Stay in 1819.
Of course, author of Moby Dick and many other greats. And Francis Scott Key, born in 1779,
I passed away in 1843, of course, wrote the Star Spangled Banner in 1814. One of the greater
stories of a song is the story of how the Star Spangled Banner was written. It's amazing.
It's a fantastic story. Taking a look at Saturday, birthdays. Kevin Smith, wonderful director,
55, Mary Lewis Parker, 61. She was a couple of good hits here and never. She was on the West Wing
and I think that's where most people remember her. And then Carol O'Connor would have been
celebrating a birthday on Saturday. Archie. Archie. Archie. Archie, bunker on the family.
Sheriff Gillespie in the heat of the night. A couple of really great roles for him over the years.
And let's see here, just wrapping up. We have Sunday birthdays. Tom Brady is 48 on Sunday.
And he consider him the goat. Terry and I don't. Joe Montana. No, I'm not trying to speak for you there.
Tom Brady, one of the greatest of all time. Very curious to see if he gets, so one of the things that
made Tom Brady what he is is him growing and getting better as an athlete. And I'm curious to see if
he takes that same approach as an announcer because there's a lot of room for growing and getting
better. Lot of room. Lot of room. There is no way in the world Tom Brady would have that job if
he wasn't Tom Brady. But you know, but okay, I'll give him a little credit on the athlete side,
though. That is true. I mean, he did really grow and get better. And you know, I mean, like he,
as much as I, he's no, he's not my top. But I mean, you have to give him credit.
You gotta, you gotta a guy that was drafted and like the seventh round wasn't given much of a
chance or anything like that and got where he did because he believed in himself kept working
and it kept working on the craft and no pun intended with their owner, no robber craft. But really
being it, but it's also something to be said to for an organization believing in a guy and sticking
with him and everything. There were a couple of times there where early on in his career, they felt
like, well, this is, this is the offense that's doing this. It's not Tom. We could throw almost
anybody in there. There were, there were times that might have thrown Jimmy Garoppolo in there
and some of those things. It's really interesting. And then just to top it all off, he goes and
proves that it's not just Bella check that he can win and he goes and wins a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.
I did an incredible career. I'm not a fan at all. But to your point, Terry, I don't know how if you,
if you like sports, how you can't sit back now, he can't hurt us anymore. He's not playing. You
know, I mean, there's no harm in looking at it and be like, wow, that was pretty amazing what
that man accomplished. James Hetfield is 62 lead singer and songwriter from Metallica. Martha
Stewart is 84 on Sunday. I didn't really, I mean, I guess it makes sense that she's up to 80,
or 80s, but I didn't think about that. Wow. John Landis is 75 on Sunday, director of Animal House
to Blues Brothers, American Werewolf in London, trading places coming to America, directed Michael
Jackson's thriller, one of the greatest directors and certainly one of the greatest comedic directors
of all time, animal house, trading places, the Blues Brothers. Yeah. Is it that crazy? You had
those on your resume, man. Like I retire. I'm good. Like I'm done. I'm never going to top those.
The incredible works. The net thriller. Yes, right. Yeah. Yeah. And then adding that on top of it.
Yeah. Martin Sheen is 85 on Sunday. Well, one of the greats. The West Wing, Bad Blans, Apocalypse
Now, Gandhi Wall Street, Gettysburg, so many great roles in his career. And the legend Tony
Bennett would have been celebrating a birthday on Sunday, born in 1926, passed away in 2023.
Most TV shows, movies, they show in Italian household and they got Sinatra playing or something
like that. My Nana didn't mind Sinatra, but it was always Dean Martin and Tony Bennett.
That's what I grew up on. Those two and my papa would play Johnny Cash or Patsy Klein or something
like that. And those were the musicians that I really remember hearing really early, early on from
them. Tony Bennett's voice, unlike those other musicians I mentioned, I don't know that his
voice really changed that much as he got older, which is really weird. It's just interesting.
He took such a good care of it and was such an amazing artist. We are going to wrap it up there.
We wish everybody celebrating out there. Happy birthdays in Anniversary. Celebrate with
our friends at El Café. Get on over there. When Terry and I get back, we'll have, we'll be
giving away some free callvers with the Culver star of the day. Pam, thanks a lot for sitting in.
Oh, you're welcome. That was fun. Thanks. We'll be back with more show coming up right here.
I'm Morning's at WFHR.
Lights, camera, action. It is time to make somebody a star of the day with our friends from
the Wisconsin Rapids callvers. What Terry and I are about to do is play a famous TV theme song.
You call up and get the answer right at 715-424-2600 or, of course, you can just call up through
the Civic Media app. You can't text us, though. That doesn't work. You got to call it with whether
the app or just calling up the old school, however you need to. We want to hear your voice.
We got to hear from you. We got to hear your answer and you can win this not only kids meal and
adult meal from callvers. I'm going to throw in five Raptor tickets. I'm throwing in five
Raptor tickets, everybody. I'm doing that. I do want to, as a side note, remind everybody that we
have our free ticket Fridays going on with our brewers as well. We'll be getting into that more
next hour. Be listening for that, everybody. But for now, we're giving away free callvers. We got
Raptor tickets to go along with it. We want you to call up and get this answer to our TV theme
song, everyone. Can you guess which TV theme song this is? Call up if you can at 424-2600. Let us know.
Oh, okay, okay. Let's see. Let's see if we got an answer here. Good morning. What's your answer?
That would be the Flintstone. Yay. Nice job. I think you was trying to throw people with the
instrumental version. Yes, I was. I was. Yeah. Look at the video. I know I'm calling. Yeah,
well, you got it. I really wanted to do Saturday morning cartoons as we're getting ready, you know,
closer to the school year and everything. And the Flintstone's famous theme song, of course,
starts up with that, you know, well, I'm on all that. And there's too many, there was too many
clues. So I wanted to try the instrumental. I had a backup if nobody called it, but thankfully,
you did. Thank you so much. Who we talking to? Michelle. Michelle, thank you so much for listening
and playing along. What time you calling us from? What's going to happen? Right. I got ourselves a
rapids winner growing up with your fan of other Flintstones. Oh, yeah, they came on right after
the Smurf's and the gummy bears. Yes, it did. Oh, Michelle, you're my people. Yes. Yeah, they're
sitting there with my sister watching all three of those. And I think, oh, what was the other one?
There was another one that came under thunder. Oh, there's something else. But yeah,
the undercats. It was undercats. It was right on with us. Yeah. You know, James, I hate to have
burst your bowl of it. I don't think Saturday morning cartoons are a thing anymore. No, I'm heartbroken
that they're not. I wake up Saturday morning said there's nothing but news in this, you know,
that I get all the time now. Yeah, kids are spoiled. They are. They are. Oh, you grabbed a box
to dry cereal and set for on the TV. Yeah, because you might miss something. Yeah, you couldn't miss
a thing either. No, no. Ghostbusters. That was another one that was a great one. Weird one,
but a good one. So many great ones and so great talk with you. Michelle, thank you so much for
listening and playing along. You're our newest star of the day. Hang on the phone. Just a little
bit. Want to get a little information from you off air. Thanks so much for listening, Michelle.
Thank you. I appreciate that. That's awesome. Yes. That was fun. That was a good one. We will
keep doing those. We'll see if we can get some more Saturday cartoons. Be on the lookout for
those, everybody. And of course, I like to remind the audience. I don't do this often enough,
though. If you guys have suggestions for the star of the day, I don't mind those. That's fine.
And get you can go ahead and send me those. We've been doing this for a long time with our
friends from callvers. I have gone through a lot of material. We've been doing this for almost 10
years. So we appreciate callvers so much. And I bring that up at Joe and Jess, but also to give
callvers a shout out. I don't, I think you guys all understand. They don't, they don't have to
advertise like period. Like callvers is good. They're going to be all right. If they didn't advertise
for a year, they would not affect their sales one bit. But callvers does this because they put
into their communities. They believe in their communities. And we believe in them and we love
their food. Get on over and get some callvers for you today. Michelle certainly will be.
We're going to talk to her and we'll come back with some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Get that 80s, 90s feel today as Terry and I hang out together on Friday. I hope you're all
having a good one out there. Thank you so much for joining us and a big thank you to Michelle
playing along and being our newest star the day where they're friends from callvers. Get on over
to callvers this weekend, everybody and enjoy yourself and we'll be listening. We'll be,
have another edition of star of the day for you next Friday. We're looking forward to it.
It's not very nice of you to tease the beach. No, no. You're absolutely right. It's
wrong to do to you and me. I need to get to a beach. I need to get swimming. We did a story the
other day about the how the number of adults that don't go swimming every summer that regret it.
And it was just really, there was a part of it that was comforting to be had to be honest
because I, oh, I'm not alone. I'm not the only person that does this. And at the same time,
it was kind of like, why do we do this to ourselves? We're the adults. We could, we could go swimming
if we want to go out there and swim. I don't care about swimming. No, I didn't know that.
I mean, I have nothing against it. I don't like perfect sense when you said it. But I don't
like need to go swimming, you know, I'm fine being by the water. I feel the beach. That kind of thing.
I feel a need, a need for the water. It doesn't rhyme. It doesn't sound just like that.
A study, this is an interesting study I came across Terry wanted to talk about. A study found
humans might have the genes needed to hibernate. We just have to tweak them to do it. Experts say it
could unlock all sorts of new treatments for things like diabetes and obesity. Animals that hibernate
can lose weight quickly without affecting their health. Now granted, this is all stuff that
whatever is going to come of this story isn't going to happen today. It isn't going to happen
in the next hour. This is going to take some time. The science, you know, scientists are looking at
this, working on it. And I don't believe necessarily that we're going to get to a day and age
where humans are actually hibernating. But I run a morning show and we like to have fun content
to talk about. And I think this is a fun topic. If you could hibernate, would you, and what season
would you hibernate from? Like we asked Brittany earlier. Brittany, for those that didn't hear,
chose spring. She had a number of different reasons. And I think also beating a meteorologist
in spring seems difficult. So yeah, I don't blame her. You know, that's a good one. If you could,
would you Terry, and do you have a see? Really? You're asking. I'm asking for the audience. I know
the answers. And we're doing a game here. I know what I'm holding up. I know the season I'm holding
up instantly right now. We're kind of in it. Yeah. I mean, for sure, summer, if I had to pick one,
but accept, you know, then I have to my brain go like I have to live all in all these things.
If it was just just me that I have to consider, I mean, I probably wouldn't pick summer because
that's when my kids are around. So, you know, you know, I mean, but just in general, if I had to
pick one to get rid of, it would for sure be summer than spring. I like that. I want to hear
from the audience, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty six hundred. Call up, join the
conversation. You could do so through the civic media app as well. And now you can text us. You
can text us your answers as well. If you want to through the app, what season would you
hibernate? Would you hibernate? And if you did, were to what one would you hibernate during?
It seems so easy to say winter. And so I don't want to say winter for me. It does feel like it.
Don't say fall. You'll break my heart. No, falls my favorite season. So I'm certainly not doing
that. Say, falls the best. I think I'm with Brittany on this one. I think I'm going to say spring.
I think in part because spring, I think we romanticize it a little bit. We get like a couple of
good days of spring. Most of it is rain and slush. It'll allow that. I think you have to have a
frame of shine for spring. Like, you know, the new life and rejuvenation and all of that.
And there's no way I would hibernate for spring because then I'd wake up and it'd be a hundred
degrees. Yeah, that's a good point. There's no easing into it. That's fair point right there.
Go to sleep when it's minus 10. Wake up when it's 100. I'm, you know, but it makes better content
if I fight against it, just the silliness of doing a morning show. But I generally, I noticed
this last winter. And maybe it's, uh, winters are feeling a little more tame or a little shorter
or whatever it is. I don't know. I like having winter. I don't mind it. I don't like slush.
I don't like being cold. But I kind of enjoy winter now. I kind of enjoy what it does. There's
so many moments of it that I'm enjoying more and more as I'm getting older that I didn't expect.
That was, that's a, that's a twist for me in the end here. Younger me would easily said winter
and wouldn't have thought twice about it and just would get moving. I kind of enjoy winter now.
I kind of, there's, there's aspects of it. I really, I value. There's a part that I like about
in the Midwest that I don't know if enough of us really were so close to it. We can see it.
But I really experienced this a lot when I was out west. There, everybody, there's no reason not
to be outside. There's no reason not to be doing things and a lot of that. And that's awesome. That's
great. It has plenty of advantages here. We have so many, we have a couple of months where there's
just not much getting out. And so you're kind of stuck inside. But you're not stuck. You're with
people. You're with friends. You're with family. You're doing things indoors together. It's not like
we just stop and just sit there and do nothing. You know, we, we do things. We actually keep pretty
active in the winter. It's just not really outdoors stuff we're doing. Not to say we don't do outdoor
activities. But we do much more indoors and we're talking to each other. We're interacting with each
other. We're being more human in the winter together. But I think there are a fair number of
people that are, you know, a little more isolated and, you know, with the extended darkness. And,
you know, just just all of those things that that winter does. I think negatively or adversely
affect other people. And in the lack of sunshine affects everybody. Some just don't, some more
than others and some people don't even pick up on that it does. But it affects everybody. That's
just science. The lack of vitamin D, the lack of that old, lucky old son definitely has an effect.
So there's no getting around that. But this is an interesting story. The fact that we, that we,
even it doesn't, the tweaking it takes isn't that crazy. Isn't a, you know, a wild thing now.
It's going to take forever, forever for a long time for them to figure it out. But just that we
even have the capability of being able to hibernate. Hibernating is not just falling asleep.
It's being able to store food and energy for long amounts of time. That's a pretty cool thing
to think of that we can do it. Hopefully you never have to use it. Right. You know, but it's kind
of cool to think that humans have that in them as well. I wouldn't mind using some of my stored.
I don't know if anybody saw this. I did not get the chance to see it. Netflix and NASA joined
forces yesterday to broadcast the launch of SpaceX crew 11 mission to the space station was called off.
The launch was called off just one minute before the lift off was due to, due to bad weather. But
they will eventually show the broadcast. And this is one of the, I think, positives of streaming.
Network television doesn't do this kind of thing really anymore. They used to whom we were kids. We
don't really get to see space launches anymore. I, for one, still find that stuff awesome and very
cool to see. So I think it's kind of cool that they're doing that. I encourage people to keep
it look out for it if you're interested in it too. And of course, we cover vegetable news around
here. It's a big part of what we do. We have our vegetable segment, veggie time. I don't know,
I don't, I'm making all the vegetables. I wanted to make it. I remember that show. No, I didn't grow
up on veggie tails. Me either, but I just remember it. But my, my kids didn't like your kids'
era, I feel like. Yeah, but I mean, you think about it at a Jewish household. I mean, probably
not going to be playing. So what you're watching, tell us how many of you spend? No, no, no, no.
My ex-wife and I had two things that were two shows that we agreed on instantly. And back then,
there wasn't much we agreed on. We still joke about this to this day. Teletubbies and Barney,
our kids were not watching it. They just weren't watching that. My kids and they have no idea what
Barney is. No, they do. No, they do. Yeah, they do. Vegetables, vegetable news. A study found
potatoes and tomatoes are related. This is going to make very interesting. Did the toast give it away?
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it was perfect. It was great. The, I'm curious to know what the
family unions are going to be like for both of them. That's going to be very interesting. I like both.
I'm good with both. A while, a while tomato got, got, got it on with a breed of a potato.
Oh, come on. Nine million years ago. Nine million years ago, that happened. So this has been,
how do we not know this until now? I thought that was quite interesting. So that's where modern
day potatoes came from though. Is, is the, actually, they originated from tomatoes. That's really
interesting. And no worthy considering where we are. Have you fact checked nine million years ago?
I mean, come on. No. So I, I do a lot of digging into these and I find it really curious. And I
think that a great example is cutting open a tree. Digging potatoes. It's great. You got to
call me out on that one. Yes. Yes. I didn't see that. It's a little similar to that, you know,
where we find out the age of a tree by cutting it open and all that. So much of this is basically
taking a potato and cutting it open and digging deeper and deeper and deeper until you really
into the molecules into the just, you know, the, every little aspect of it where you go down
this rabbit hole. It remains skeptical. It's really interesting. And all that being said, Terry,
I completely understand that. I completely understand it. I, I think that we,
those of us that love science, those of us that really enjoy these things and think these
stories are cool. Have to also be understanding of not everybody, not everybody thinks it's
interesting or cool. And for some people, it's just kind of like, ah, you know, there's,
there's, I believe that one of the more important things you learn as you get older is,
choosing your battles, choosing your battles wisely. And this is not one that I am to,
I'm like, oh, you're not going to, Terry, you need to understand. You're not going to die on
this hill. No, no, no, no, I mean, believe whatever you believe. And I mean, go with whatever
you're going to go with on this stuff. I don't know. There's too many other important things,
I feel like that much more important than our potatoes and tomatoes related. Or they,
they just sound alike. Yeah, I said it. They sound alike. I know that's controversial.
Craft mac and cheese is unleashing a new pizza flavor for a limited time. They say it's bold
and savory notes of garlic and classic Italian spices capture the essence of a classic slice
in every bite. It's mac and cheese, man. But you know, people eat it. I think people will eat it.
Oh, young people. You know, after I frowned on it, when you first said it, I was thinking about it
that there's way worse flavors they could introduce. Like way, way. So take the pizza mac and cheese.
And I'm sure if you went into some sort of gourmet mac and cheese kind of restaurant gourmet,
I used lightly, of course. But you don't I mean, like, I'm sure there's pizza flavor. It's just
craft hasn't done it. So and it's limited time. So yeah, puts a little urgency on it. But then we
also know it's going to go away. It's you know, one of the things that I at least I won't speak
for others. I forget about when I was young because I wasn't too much like this when I was younger.
But my brother and sister really were like most kids out there. The you you you're discovering
tastes. You're discovering your taste buds. And therefore you want to challenge them. So
you're taking the sour map, you know, all the candies that we ate when we were growing heads. Yeah,
all the crazy stuff that would blow up in our heads. You know, I'm out or whatever. And
the sparkling, you know, mouth or whatever, the pop rocks. That's it. Pop rocks. All these wild
things that we try to do that are designed for kids because they like to try weird, tasty things.
And you know, either it's really, really hot or it's really sour or whatever it is.
I think that that's where they're going with this in a lot of ways as younger people that like
to do that. Mac and cheese is like, I mean, I feel like it's always been a staple, right? Like,
didn't you? I mean, we grew up on Mac and cheese. Everybody did. But but it's even more so more
elevated now with kids. Like it's it's just a total go to and you find it on kids meal,
you know, restaurant meals all over the place. So I just yeah, so I just feel like we don't question
it when chips or Doritos come out with all of these different flavors. So why wouldn't Mac and
cheese do it? Right? Like no, yeah, no more work for us. You still just add the milk and butter.
Agreed. So their unleashing this craft says the pizza flavor is now available for purchase.
That retailers across the US and remain available throughout the back to school season.
Plus if you live in New York, New York City, Chicago or Detroit, you may be able to order
this Mac and cheese for delivery through a gopuff or whatever that is. Grocery delivery service.
There's a new another another grocery service. You know, not to not to get off a craft because
I actually like craft Mac and cheese. But think about like a homemade Mac and cheese now that had
some little benign pepperoni in it and a little marinara and then a it would still be like
cheddar mac and cheese. But then it would have a mozzarella like top. Oh, oh, I'm eating that.
Oh, yeah, I'm eating that. That sounds amazing. Now you I will admit half if you cut me open,
my blood is marinara. I'm basically I'm just basically marinara. That's that's what I have.
So you had me there, but that sounds really good. You know, you could do. You just come
off there with the top of your head. Yeah, I was amazing. The options will be available
starting this Friday. So today, a craft says it'll be delivered as in as little as 15 minutes
in a custom craft Mac and cheese of delivery box. If you're ordering through in one of those
major cities or whatever. Otherwise, it's got a kind of a pizza box, the typical craft box,
but a little more pizza flavored or pizza looking and stuff. They're they're going to keep trying
different things like this. I'm just I'm happy to talk back and cheese. Like you said, I'm happy
that Mac and cheese has become such a big staple for things because it's a good one. It's it's one
of the more reliable. I mean, it's filling too. It's filling. I laugh when you know, like kids are
like, Oh, yeah, Mac and cheese or whatever. And I'm like, dude, we had this one. We were kids too.
I've been trying something a little new, but I've done this in years past. I just haven't kept up
on it. I want to start doing it more and more. I want to end our each hour of our show with a
good story of the day. We always do this, of course, with the end of the show, but even our end
of our first hour. And a mailman in Texas named Ion Burke adopted a dog here, remembered from his
old postal route. The owner was a Vietnam bed who recently passed away and his dog Floyd ended
up at a shelter. Ian found out, but had to wait to make sure no one related to the guy named
claimed Floyd. He stood outside the shelter waiting for it to open the first day Floyd went for
adoption. A woman who runs the shelter said it was great to see that the old myth about mailman
and dogs isn't true. Oh, cute. And you know, it's awesome for that puppy. He's got to recognize him.
You know, in some little, how cool. How cool is that story? We'll be back with more show, everybody.
