Nailed It

by John Bauer

While on a recent golf trip to Wisconsin, three of my buddies and I were scheduled for Golfer's Foot Renewal Treatments at the Kohler Spa.  Didn't really know what that meant but it sure sounded like something we could use after playing 36 holes of golf in 90 degree heat.  Going to a 5-star spa isn't something I do on a regular basis.  As a matter of fact, I never do!

 After slipping into my plush white robe, I was asked to have a seat on the couch and my personal massage therapist would be right out.  Her name was Patty and she escorted me to a room filled with porcelain tiled thrones with soothing music filling the air.

The next hour was filled with hot bubbling water, foot rasps, toe nail cutters, sea weed, salt scrubs and muscular ..  yet soothing hands.  To make a long story short, at the end of the massage my golfing buddy Afton was offered a color swatch of potential nail colors to choose from.  I thought it a little strange that I wasn't offered the same opportunity.  I asked if I could choose a color for my toenails and a nervous laugh filled the air.  Although somewhat reluctant, Patty offered me the color pallet and I selected a sexy blue color for my toes.  Not only was it blue .. it was shiny blue.  The color you can't help but stare at.  As every single person in that spa did for the rest of my time there. You see, give or take, I probably have about 25 years left on this earth if I am lucky so why not get your nails done.  I'm glad I did and if our paths ever cross .. ask to see my nails and they will brighten your day.

     

What's For Breakfast on Friday Mornings

Every Friday morning about 7:45 John Bauer and Heidi Holtan talk with a KAXE member and ask them what's for breakfast.  Listeners have told us this is some of their favorite programming because it's real people talking about something as universal as oatmeal.  Or coffee and a cigarette. 

Last week on What's For Breakfast Cindy Hinkanen of Floodwood was their guest.  She spends her mornings with her mother and told John all about her morning routines.  At the end of the conversation she said that she and her mother would stop by KAXE.  John and Heidi didn't really believe it, but sure enough, Cindy and Janet walked through the doors!  Listen to the conversation here! 

Fivesome: Young Golfers Learning the Game at Pokegama

This feature gets up close and personal with 5 young golfers. Produced by John Bauer of Northern Community Radio for Culturology on 91.7 KAXE.

Fivesome: Young Golfers Learning the Game at Pokegama
"This golf documentary is basically a way for me to live my life through these 5 young golfers. They truly love the game of golf as I did when I was their age. Their summer vacation is spent golfing, eating french fries and competing for candy bars. Golf is a privilege and I hope these guys grow to learn that. Getting to know them better assures me that they will." - John Bauer, Producer.

"Fivesome" was made possible with support from the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Do you ever disconnect?

This week John Bauer and Heidi Holtan talk with author Susan Maushart about her new book, "The Winter of Our Disconnect - How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept With her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell The Tale".  She took a six month hiatus from technology and forced her kids to do the same. 

How tied are you to your technology?  Susan's kids found some things out about themselves - one found out that she had really been lacking in sleep (and had a different personality because of it) and another started seriously playing his saxophone again (during the times he used to play video games) and learned to love it and find new people to hang out with. 

Though most people aren't going to give up their wireless internet, dvds, tv or phones, Susan had some good advice on how to control the technology some. 
*make your bedroom as free of technology as you can
*make a point to NOT use technology at the dinner table
*have a media free day once a week or set up a curfew everynight
*if you are worried about your kids wifi use after you go to sleep, power down the modem every night

What do you think? 

What do your pets eat?

On the first Friday of the month Dr. Michael Fox joins Heidi Holtan and John Bauer for a call-in segment about pets. Whether it's questions about food, behavior or a sweet story, Dr. Fox ALWAYS has something interesting to say!

If you have a question for Dr. Fox you can call in starting at 8:15 on Friday morning, or join the Facebook discussion of pets on KAXE's page. You can also email us or post your quetions here!

Pet food comes up quite often, and Dr. Fox has studied the pet food industry exclusively and usually mentions that you should be making homemade food for your animals. Why? Here's his reason:

Home-prepared foods for our animal companions, ideally with organic ingredients that were locally produced, are important because you then know what your animal is being fed if a food-related health problem such as an allergy to a particular ingredient or digestive upset were to arise. With most processed commercial pet foods containing all kinds of human food-industry by-products and ingredients considered unfit/unsafe for human consumption, many of questionable nutritional value after repeated processing, you just don’t know. Aside from coloring agents that may cause problems other than saliva-staining of animals’ faces, and paws, most commercial pet foods contain artificial preservatives like BHA that is linked with cancer of the bladder and stomach; BHT that may cause cancer of the bladder and thyroid gland; and Ethoxyquin, one of Monsanto’s many allegedly harmful products that renderers (meat and poultry processors) add to the fat/tallow that is put into pet foods to prevent rancidity. Ethoxyquin is a recognized hazardous chemical, a highly toxic pesticide. Most pet food manufacturers have recently phased out using BHA and BHT and now use ‘mixed tocopherols’ (a claimed source or form of vitamin E), citric acid, beta-carotene and Rosemary extract as preservatives.

Have you ever tried it? Here is his recipe for dog food. Click here for the cat food recipe!

Dr. Michael Fox's Homemade 'Natural'
Food for Dogs

2 cups uncooked whole grain rice (or barley, rolled oats, or pasta noodles)
Pinch of salt
1 T. vegetable oil (flax seed oil* or safflower oil) and 1T organic butter
1 T. wheat germ
1 T. cider vinegar
1 t. brewer's yeast
1 T calcium carbonate/citrate/ or lactate, or oyster shell or 3 Tums tablets
1 t. dried kelp
1 lb. lean hamburger, or ground lamb, mutton, or one whole chicken or half of a small turkey.
Combine all above ingredients. Add water to cover ingredients, simmer, stir, and add more water as needed until cooked. De-bone chicken parts and do not feed cooked bones since they can splinter and cause internal injury. The recipe should be thick to be molded into patties (add oat bran or rice or buckwheat flour to help thicken).Mix well into the stew while it is still very hot, a cup full of raw, grated carrots, sweet potato or yam. Serve 1 cup full of this recipe for a 30 lb. dog with the rest of his/her rations, and freeze the rest into patties and store in the freezer. Serve thawed, or frozen to gnaw on outdoors in hot weather.

For variation, you can use cottage cheese, plus well-cooked lentils, chick peas (garbanzo beans), lima beans or other pulses, or a dozen organic eggs as meat alternatives. Don’t forget, lightly cooked, or if organically certified, raw calf and beef liver, heart and kidneys are good sources of animal protein and other essential nutrients. All pet food ingredients, ideally, should be organically certified. (Note: some dogs are allergic or hypersensitive to some foods, especially soy, beef, eggs, wheat and dairy products.).

* Add flax seed oil after the cooked food has cooled down to room temperature.

*** Also give the dog a daily multi-vitamin and muti-mineral supplement, such as Pfizer’s Pet Tabs, or a good quality human ‘one –a day’ supplement equivalent, crushed up in the food, calculating one half of the human daily dose for a 50 lb dog.

For dogs under 30 lb, and for over-weight and less active dogs, use 1 cup of uncooked rice in the recipe.

--TRANSITION YOUR DOG GRADUALLY ONTO THIS NEW DIET---MIX INCREASING AMOUNTS OF YOUR DOG’S NEW FOOD WITH DECREASING AMOUNTS OF THE OLD FOOD OVER A 7-DAY PERIOD TO ENABLE ADAPTATION AND AVOID POSSIBLE DIGESTIVE UPSET.
IT IS ADVISABLE TO VARY THE BASIC INGREDIENTS TO PROVIDE VARIETY AND TO AVOID POSSIBLE NUTRITIONAL IMBALANCES, AND TO MONITOR THE ANIMAL'S BODY CONDITION SO AS TO AVOID EITHER OVER-FEEDING OR UNDER-FEEDING, BASED ON THE AVERAGE DOG CONSUMING ONE CUPFUL OF THE FOOD TWICE DAILY PER 30 POUNDS BODY WEIGHT.

--NOTE: DIFFERENT ANIMALS HAVE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT NUTRITIONAL NEEDS ACCORDING TO AGE, TEMPERAMENT, AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH STATUS.

This recipe is safe for all puppies as well as for adult dogs unless they have a genetic predisposition for nutrient-related disease, or have a pre-existing medical condition such as pancreatic of kidney disease. In which case, consult with your veterinarian, and always remember to transition on to any new food gradually. Giving probiotics daily during such transition can be helpful. Normally, when healthy animals are fed a wholesome, balanced diet, they absorb what nutrients they need. An unbalanced, high-cereal content diet leads to unbalanced physiology, nutrient excesses and deficiencies leading to obesity and a host of health problems as documented in the book NOT FIT FOR A DOG; THE TRUTH ABOUT MANUFACTURED DOG & CAT FOOD.

Have you ever had one of those days? Called Monday?

by Heidi Holtan, KAXE's Outreach Producer

Maybe you showed up to work with two different shoes (Dan Houg). Maybe you forgot to shave or forgot your lunch or thought it was Wednesday when it was really Tuesday.

John Bauer started his week off a little shaky yesterday. Or so he came to learn. He threw on clothes, came to work, stopped in to see his wife at her workplace where he found out something that practically shut his Monday down.

She said to him, "Why are you wearing my jeans?"

Turns out he WAS indeed wearing his wife's jeans.

"That's why I'm chafing!" he said.

Later in the day he had to address a community group. Due to the tightness, John had changed to some gym shorts in his car. Gym shorts with paint splotches on them.

He got up to speak at the event and everyone's head went up and down, eyeballing and trying desperately to understand why someone would not just go out in public, but address a community group wearing gym shorts.

"Have I got a story for you..." John started off with. Within a matter of moments he had them eating out his hand. Overheard between a husband and wife at the meeting was "I'm NEVER getting into your pants!"

Ahh, Mondays. Beautiful Mondays. How was yours?

Secret Talents of The Bauer

by Heidi Holtan

John Bauer is known for many things. Feeding neighborhood dogs on his way home. Getting people on the horn lickety-split. Mispronouncing "cereal" again. And again. Seeing UFOs. Opening up fire hydrants because "I own this town".... the list goes on and on.

What most people don't know is that John Bauer is the inventor of a highly technical figure skating move called THE BAUER.

John Bauer has been a secret figure skater all his life. When other young boys were practicing their free throws on the weekends, John Bauer was on the ice, whirling and whirling with all his might.

So what exactly is THE BAUER? According to a reputable source (about.com) a Bauer is a beautiful figure skating move. The skater skates with the blades parallel and the toes pointing in opposite directions. The trailing leg is on an inside edge and is straight. The leading leg is bent and is either on an inside or outside edge, or flat. Some skaters bend almost completely backward when they do this move.

So why did John Bauer not go on to fulfill his figure skating dreams? He won't say, but I have a feeling there's a story there. When I asked him, he raised his hand over his face and shouted "no comment!"

What secret talents do you have? You don't have to bend over backward to become a member of KAXE... it's easy to do, just call us at 800-662-5799.

Who's Best Dressed?

By Jennifer Poenix

John Bauer has been feeling the heat lately when it comes to who is best dressed at the KAXE studios. That's because he now has some stiff competition in the form of Steve Downing, aka Guido.

Guido used to appear periodically at KAXE dressed to the nines: crisp shirt, jacket, Garcia tie. He's toned it down quite a bit since he started working here, as you can see by the shirt/sweater combo in this photo.

John Bauer has a similar shirt today, but loses points for no sweater. He gains in the belt department, however. Also, what the picture doesn't show you is the pair of black suede mukluks he's been sporting lately.

They both have expertly styled hair, and they both are sporting a look that says, "Look at me. I'm the best dressed in this office. Way better than Scott Hall, who is wearing a hockey jersey!"

What do YOU think?

Bauer in the Morning

by Doug MacRostie

"Why is John Bauer wearing a skull cap?" I asked myself when I arrived at KAXE this morning. "Did his wife shave his head?" "Maybe he was just excited to find one big enough to fit...". I was wrong. Between debates about turning the lights on in the morning and proper healthy living on The Morning Show, Bauer was battling a bad hair day. No wonder he's so grumpy!