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from the
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cam And then studios this is the kids
morning
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news network
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Good morning friends.
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It's July 15th, 2024 and I'm Alex,
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back in the Camden studio in New York.
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Yes, I was sick most of last week.
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Sorry to miss a couple of days.
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Hopefully you'll listen to the shows
I reposted last week,
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which were two interviews
with amazing kids.
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If you didn't catch those, go back
and listen to last week's shows.
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It's National Gummy Worm Day.
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Supposedly,
gummy worms were invented on this day
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in 1981 by famous gummy bear
candy company Haribo.
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Now, this is going to surprise you,
but gummy worms are made
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from the exact same stuff as gummy bears.
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The same is not true for real worms
and real bears.
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However, a 1,000 pound bear
made from the same stuff
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as a worm would be yucky. Ill.
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The Summer
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Olympics begin next Friday in Paris,
France.
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Officially,
these are the games of the 33rd Olympiad.
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Only you have to write 33.
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In Roman numerals x, x, x I.
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Paris is the host city, but events
will take place in different locations
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around France, and one event, surfing
will be on the other side of the world.
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In Tahiti,
which is part of French Polynesia.
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So it's partially governed by France.
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The games in this year's Summer Olympics
include track and field events.
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Some outdoor sports like archery,
rugby, triathlon,
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water events like swimming, diving,
sailing and rowing.
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Some martial arts
including boxing, judo and taekwondo.
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Soccer, golf, horse events
And some newer events
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like skateboarding,
sport climbing and breakdancing.
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I think they're calling it breaking.
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I hope nobody breaks.
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There are actually 329
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events in 32 different sports.
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206 nations will be sending
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at least one
athlete to the games for a total of.
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Get this 10,672 athletes. Wow.
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That is a lot of talent in one place.
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And then after the games are finished in
mid-August, all of the Olympic facilities
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will be spruced up for the Paralympic
Games, which begin August 28th.
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So it's a sporty summer in France.
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How do you say
stinky sweat socks and French?
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If you check out the show notes,
you can shoot me a text.
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Let me know if what you're looking forward
to in this year's Summer Olympics.
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While we're talking about the Olympics,
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it was on this day at the Stockholm
Olympics in 1912, that one of the greatest
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American athletes ever, Jim Thorpe, won
the gold medal in the decathlon.
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The decathlon is ten track
and field events that are put together.
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The 100 meter sprint.
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The long jump Shotput high jump
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400 meter sprint, discus
which is like a very heavy frisbee,
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110 meter hurdles, pole vault, javelin,
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and the 1500 meter run.
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So what makes the victory even more
amazing is that this was the first time
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decathlon was held in the modern Olympics,
so no one really had a way
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to train for it.
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And Jim Thorpe hadn't done any track
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and field training
for the two years before 1912.
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He was too focused on other stuff.
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The event was held over a weekend
from Saturday to Monday.
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Just like this year in 1912, the last day,
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which was Monday, was July 15th.
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Jim Thorpe didn't win each of the ten
events, but he did come close.
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He never finished further back
than fourth place,
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and his overall score
really trounced the competition.
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He set a world record that stood
for the next 36 years.
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Jim Thorpe was born in 1887
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or maybe 1888, in what is now Oklahoma.
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But back then
it was called Indian Territory.
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It wasn't a state yet.
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He was a member of the second Fox tribe.
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Even as a kid, he was an athlete,
and one of his coaches was Pop Warner,
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who we know today
as a historic football coach
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and the namesake of the Pop Warner
Football League.
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Now, Jim Thorpe was not just a great track
and field athlete.
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He was a standout in football and baseball
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and basketball
and lacrosse and ballroom dancing.
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Yes, ballroom dancing, which,
if you've never tried it, it's not easy.
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And Jim Thorpe was a champion dancer,
but football was his favorite.
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After the Olympics were over,
he went home to a ticker
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tape parade down
Broadway in New York City.
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And he said,
I heard people yelling my name,
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and I couldn't realize how one fellow
could have so many friends.
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Well, I guess you get that many friends
when you inspire the entire country.
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And Jim Thorpe is still an inspiration.
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All right.
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It's riddle time.
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The riddle last Monday was.
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I have a neck, but no head.
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I have two arms, but no hands.
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What am I?
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The answer.
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A shirt.
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Today's riddle is.
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What kind of tree
can you carry in your hand?
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What kind of tree
can you carry in your hand?
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Give you the answer on Wednesday.
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I hope I missed a couple of shows
last week.
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I had a really bad cold.
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Sometimes people say that summer colds
are worse than winter colds.
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There may actually be some truth to that.
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Colds in the winter
time are usually caused by rhinovirus.
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While summer colds are often caused
by an enterovirus and can in rare cases
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actually lead to more severe symptoms
than rhinovirus usually does.
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In the summertime, you may also be dealing
with more allergies
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than you do in the winter,
which can make your symptoms worse.
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one symptom we all deal with
when you have a cold is congestion.
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I certainly went through that last week.
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Your nose is runny all the time.
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You're sniffing, you're sneezing,
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Your nose is
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actually the front lines of your body's
defenses against infection.
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All the hairs and things inside your nose
are there to trap germs.
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And then when you sneeze
or blow your nose, it's like
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hitting the ejection seat.
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You blow them right out.
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But if germs get past the defenses,
then the special tissues
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inside your nose not like the tissue
you blow your nose into.
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That's the tissue
that's part of your body.
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Those tissues swell up, and that makes it
harder to breathe through your nose.
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And your body says
flush out the intruders,
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that's when it tries
to kind of wash out the germs with, well,
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there's no really nice way to put this,
but it's with snot.
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Grow.
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So between the swelling and the flood,
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there can be very little room for air
to get through.
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And voila, you have a stuffy nose.
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By the way, do you know what a runny nose
is officially called?
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Rhino. Ria.
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Rhino is something that has to do
with your nose.
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And Ria is a flow of something
or a discharge.
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So if you have a rhino ria
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or a runny nose,
it's important that you drink enough water
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because your body is doing the right thing
and trying to flush out that infection.
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So give it a hand.
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And the
weather today, it's going to be hot
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in the middle of the country
and along the Mid-Atlantic coast.
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Looks like a lot of rain
around the country today too.
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Some of those storms
could get pretty energetic this afternoon.
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All right, that's the show.
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Thank you very much for listening.
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And remember. Check out the show notes.
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Send me a text about what you want to see
in this year's Summer Olympics.
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I'll be back Wednesday
and I hope you are too.
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From the came in the newsroom.
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This is Alex signing off.
