HARRY O RADIO SHOW 9.4.26
10:15-WEATHER AND STUFF
Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 89F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Road construction will take place on College Drive at NIACC between 12th Street NE and Highway 122 starting Tuesday, September 8 for utility improvements. Also, City offices will be closed on Monday, September 7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday.
The World Aerobatic Competition has commenced and Team France and Florent Odden was the winner. A 3X Champion.
Things going on this weekend
*Celebrate the 79th Annual Kanawha Labor Day Weekend
*Rudd, Iowa at the End of Summer Bash! 🎊Join us on Saturday, September 5
*Pilot Knob State Park for breakfast on Saturday, September 5th! Enjoy a morning at the campground gazebo from 8:00–9:30 AM
*Crusade for a Cure Golf Tournament on Saturday, September 5, at Sunny Brae Golf Course in Osage
*The 34th annual “Antiques in the Square” in City Park downtown Clear Lake will be held Sunday, September 6th, 2026, from 9:00am to 4:30pm.
1045a-LIQUID BODY SOAP BECAME KING OF THE SHOWER 20 YEARS AGO
Here’s a strange anniversary celebration: 20 years ago September body wash overtook bar soap as the king of the shower (in the U.S.). For generations, bar soap was the standard way we washed in the shower, but that began changing rapidly in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Body wash grew so quickly that it overtook bar soap in U.S. retail sales around September 2006, marking a major shift in personal-care habits. By 2025, liquid body wash generated about $5.44 billion in U.S. sales, compared with roughly $2.10 billion for the major bar-soap categories combined.
1115a-AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
- It moves 361 million pieces of mail a day.
- For the price of a first class stamp — 82 cents — it’ll take a letter to an island two and a half miles from Russia.
- There are 38,451 postal facilities.
- There are 42,924 ZIP codes.
- There are about 140,000 blue collection boxes around the country.
- There are 56 regional processing centers.
- When a piece of mail lands at a regional processing center the first sorting machine it encounters flips envelopes to face the same direction.
- Little Diomede — an inhabited island of Alaska — is the only place in America where mail is delivered by helicopter.
1145a-ANCIENT EGYPTIANS USED HAIR GEL
Did You Know?! British researchers who studied 18 mummies found ancient Egyptians used fat-based products as hair-styling gel. The researchers (University of Manchester) said hair samples collected from the mummies were examined under a microscope and the team found the hair had been treated with a substance made from plant and animal fatty acids. The researchers said they believe the substance was used as hair-styling gel by the ancient Egyptians and the embalmers sought to retain the hairstyles the mummies wore in life.
115p-SIGN UP FOR MY SELF-IMPROVEMENT COURSES
I’m getting into the self-improvement business. You can now sign up for these free courses on my web site:
- How to Relax and Let your Lawn Grow
- Inexpensive Lawn Care Through Cement
- Rollerblade Yourself to Regularity
- Build Wealth by Canceling Everyone’s Birthday Gifts
- Meditation Through Ignoring Important Emails
- Early Retirement Through Simply Giving Up
- Improve Your Credit Score by Never Looking at It
145p-DIRTY OFFICE TRICK
Climbing the corporate ladder can be a battle. To succeed you’ve got to arm yourself with passive-aggressiveness. For instance, is a new guy eyeing your turf? Reintroduce yourself the next three times you run into him after you first meet. It’ll make him question the impression he makes on people. Source: Men’s Health, 8/20/26
215p-AFTER SEX SILENCE
If your man is mute after sex, blame biology. After a sex session, the verbal centers of a man’s brain tend to shut down, which is why guys don’t like to talk afterwards.
Source: What Could He Be Thinking?, by Michael Gurian
245p-DON’T BE A BLOWHARD
Do you sound like a goose in heat when you blow your nose? Don’t be such a blowhard. Strenuous nose blowing can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss by rupturing the delicate structures inside the eardrum. To relieve nasal congestion, gently blow one nostril at a time.
Source: AARP, 8/20/26
315p-UNHAPPIEST CITIES
Which are the saddest, unhappiest cities in America? Using a variety of hard data, Knoxville, Tennessee takes the unwanted crown, followed by St. Louis. Jackson, Mississippi places third. Charleston, West Virginia in fourth, and Gulfport, Mississippi at number five.
Source: World History Encyclopedia
345p-MESSY GROUPS
Some groups are messier than others. A nationwide survey reveals that we think men are messier than women; dog lovers are messier than cat lovers; football fans are messier than baseball fans; and Southerners are messier than Northerners.
Source: USA Today
415p-SEX WORKOUT?
Is sex good cardio? Not really. Vigorous sex burns about as many calories as a short, slow walk. Since you’re lying down or sitting most of the time, you’re not using many muscles. To maximize your coital calorie burn, you could do it standing up, which uses your legs and butt more.
Source: Self, 8/20/26
445P- 3 QUICK THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW BEFORE I GO
1-Pizza is a $50 billion industry in the U.S. with 3 billion pizzas sold per year (restaurant and frozen).
2-Some land snails can remain dormant for several years during extreme drought.
3-A person may produce several thousand gallons of saliva over a lifetime—potentially around 10,000 gallons.”
DON’T FORGET TO LOVE, CARE, AND SERVE OTHERS, PUT SOME JOY IN YOUR LIFE AND DON’T BE ANXIOUS FOR ANYTHING. HAVE A GREAT NIGHT AND WE WILL ROCK AGAIN HERE SOON ON THE FOX.
