From the Civic Media Radio Network, moving Wisconsin forward one joke at a time, this is
as goes Wisconsin with Kristen Brott, now filling in for the new mom, here's Jane
Mattenair. Good morning and welcome to as goes, Wisconsin. So very happy to have you
along with us today. Greg Bachist with me in studio Calvin is on the board and you can
always join us at 844-967-2789-844-96 party. New backdrops behind us, if you're watching
on the live stream, they did some decorating over the weekend. So studios are looking,
studios are looking good. Fancy. Yeah, it's fancy. And just wanted to do quick Christmas
check. Everybody got what they wanted from Santa. Yeah, you were good. You weren't naughty.
Everybody on the naughty list, Calvin. It was good. It went by too fast. Only four days
often seem like. We're spoiled. Greg Bach. It was busy, busy, busy times running around
a lot, but it was just to see good people and family and friends got a day off yesterday,
which was sleeping in. So that was really nice. But family and friends were very generous
with gifts. And I'm very appreciative of all of them. Lovely. We hope you all had a lovely
holiday. We have another one coming up this weekend because New Year's will be on New
Year's Eve is Sunday. First though, and I want to remind you to Christians joining us at 1030
as she does every Wednesday. So stick around for the good, the bad and spirit airlines did what?
That's coming your way at 1033. What's shocking about anything they do? Well, and I think this
just seems like a very spirit airlines story. I am not a spirit like spirit airlines passenger.
Never been on spirit airlines, but I've heard other people have shared other stories about them.
So we'll we'll be kicking that around when Kristen joins us at 1033 to start though. This came
down Friday afternoon as newsdumps tend to happen, right? In Wisconsin. Yes.
Was that was about three o'clock? Every time we walk out of the studio, we're like, hello,
have a great weekend. See you later. Hope nothing big happens. Yeah. Good gravy. Wisconsin Supreme
Court on Friday struck down the legislative maps, meaning redrawn districts for the state assembly
and the state Senate. The justices said they will give the legislature the first shot at drawing
the new maps, but the court majority says they will start to draw up their own maps if lawmakers
are unable to do so. Or if governor Evers be those the lawmakers new maps.
I don't know why I'm laughing because we've been talking about this now. And it was the agreement,
not the agreement, but the thought was a very quick decision was going to come back sometime in
January. Right. And the fact that I mean, the question I have is such a fast opinion does this
open the grounds for appeals really quickly. Like, I mean, can they can someone on those I say,
guys didn't look at this. We how can you judge that? I just by a matter of time. I don't know. But
then again, I mean, I'm not going to try to put into the I'm not trying to jump at the brain of
anyone who is against fair maps. But my first thought is they want to jump right to this.
Well, they're going to try and fight it for sure. Yeah.
Some through some through some arm. Yeah. And it's just fighting to be the idea of like the
court saying, and if you can't do this right, we'll do it ourselves. We'll do it. We'll write
your term paper for you. Yes, exactly. Are the possible new maps have to be submitted by January
12th. Holy. Okay. So I will also say this. When the original maps were drawn up back in the day,
I worked in local government. And one of the jobs of the city administrator was to assist in
looking at recene, the greater area, drawing up maps. And he, I mean, he poured a lot of time into
this. And these were just suggestions from him. This was they didn't take the suggestions. And
he even said to me, they're not going to listen to what I have to say. They didn't do what they
want because they can. But they asked us for our help. And he had maps all over his office and
would spend so much time in the fact that they're giving them basically 15 days. And that's including
a holiday break. I'm going to have to work over the holiday. I'm sorry if that's inconvenient for
you. This is your job. But I once again, not defending them on a regular day. That's a tough
job to undertake. So to say, redraw it completely in 15 days, I will it will be good maps. That's
what I want to know. Well, we're going to find out. We will find out. And as you mentioned too,
the, the case may make it up to the US Supreme Court in the meantime while this is all going on.
So, but the liberal for just as majority writing the Wisconsin Constitution means what it says
in requiring that districts be contiguous. So they have to be in physical contact with some
other part of the district, which I don't find that unreasonable. No, no, little island,
why should you be able to do this? Yeah, that's, that's like if you asked a 12 year old to draw maps
and you're like, no, they have to be touching. Everything has to be, but I want this chunk over here.
You can't have the chunk chain. I've been over this eight four four nine six seven two seven eight
nine eight four four nine six seven 2789. If you would like to join us, David from San Francisco is
on the line. Good morning, David. I hope you have to have a new year. Thank you. You know, I
I've heard so much about, you know, these redistricting scams that try to get resolved.
And if I remember right, one of the fake electors in Wisconsin is on the elections board.
Yes. Yeah, elections board. Yep. And they still haven't gotten them off, right? Right.
They still haven't removed him. So I'm wondering, first of all, if these maps are under his
germane, and then or his domain, and then if the scam of, you know, trying to waste taxpayer's
dollars on bad maps, you know, there might be some fiscal conservatives out there that actually
want to have tax dollars going toward good projects instead of projects that are going to get caught
up in the courts for extra months and months and months and waste the taxpayers not only money,
but the waste the courts time on bad maps. So criminals are expensive to society, allowing the
criminal to continue to sit on the elections board is not only an insult to the state,
but it's also damaging to the taxpayers because when you think about, you know, a clean election,
brings in people who are going to honestly spend the taxpayers' money in a wise way, a calm and
wise way. A crook, on the other hand, wants the money to be spent toward their buddies,
and whether or not it's dirty lawyers that are going to take dirty cases to courts to waste their
time, or whether it's going to be just the normal potholes that need to be fixed that are going to
be fixed by or badly fixed by cronies that get the contract for filling potholes. And so the whole
point of elections is whether or not there are good, clean people in positions of power,
spending the taxpayers' money wisely, or whether or not there are crooks that are trying to spend
the money in the loose and sloppy ways. We appreciate your call, David. And thank you for listening
from San Francisco. The one thing that came to mind immediately was our Republican party doesn't
seem to have any problem wasting taxpayers dollars. You can just look at the investigation into the
into the 2020 election and the millions that got thrown away on Michael Gabelman, which produced
nothing. Yeah, much to the and Robin Voss admitted that. And also I don't, if I'm not mistaken,
I don't believe that the fake collector will have spend out Bob spend out. I don't think he'll
have anything to do with this because these are going to be withdrawn by the, I mean, he might have
some words. He'll be in the room, but he's not going to be the overseer of it. And at the end of
the day, if the court doesn't like it, they're going to have their words. And if governor Evers
doesn't like it, he has the veto. So not saying it's a guarantee, David, but it seems like we're
sort of insulating ourselves from a duover in the wrong direction. And thank you for calling from
San Francisco. Absolutely. 844-967-2789 talking about the news that dropped late Friday afternoon
that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that we do need to have their maps.
Karina from Milwaukee. Good morning, Karina. The cookie queen. The cookie queen. Good morning.
Good morning. I was wondering, actually, I mean, Wisconsin state doesn't exist for some time,
right? Do we ever had a fair map? And if we did, why wouldn't we go back to that?
That's a very good question, Karina. I mean, I'm assuming that the maps were different before
they did all of this. Yes, in 2011, right? Yes, yes, they were. I know that. So there are,
there are like you're saying, Karina, there are already existing samples.
They're going to have to go back not too far because that's when we had nine representatives versus
the seven we have now. So they have to work within the numbers. It's going to be easier to draw
those maps most likely. That's just me taking a shot in the dark, but I feel like they'll go back
maybe 15, 20 years and look at and see what they were. Yeah, look at those maps. But yeah,
you're right. You're absolutely right. There, there are going to be examples laying around the
office. They're going to be able to say, Hey, remember, we do this with district one here.
Let's do this again, or at least work with this. So yeah, I mean, they're going to have some
templates. They're going to have their work cut out for them over the next. What was that again?
It's January 12, 15 day, four, 16 days because the 34th, but still that's, it's a, I know it's,
it's a lot call for coffee. We're getting some pizza. You're going to just have another closed door
session. They're good at that. Yeah, I mean, why do we want to be a part of this? Why do I,
I don't want to see this close the doors? Yeah, just close the doors. Keep it all secret. Yeah.
Thank you for calling Karina really appreciated eight, four, four, nine, six, seven, two, seven,
eight, nine. If you want to chime in a comment on the, uh,
sorry, the live stream. Yeah. Are you looking at the live stream comments too? I'm confused.
Uh, 10 cent bottle redemption for Connecticut, one, one, 24, first change in 40 years.
This is coming from getting Mike nice, uh, inflation adjusted, point zero, five dollar is point
when exemplifies you a power gained by corporate lobbies. Okay, Mike. Okay. All right. Appreciate
that. I am not smart enough to understand that. I am also slightly baffled. Anyway, eight,
four, four, nine, six, seven, two, seven, eight, nine, when we return poor Robin,
poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, pooritchen,
seems like no one likes him. He might as well go eat worms. Well, we'll kick, we'll kick that
around and take your comments. And then Kristen Brie will be here at 10 30. So make sureorrow for
that you are listening to As goes Wisconsin. This is the civic media radio network.
Now Robin, he's paying the price for his lies.
Good morning. And welcome to As goes Wisconsin, Jane McNair in for Kristen Brieg. Greg
Bach is with me on this in the studio. Calvin's on the board. What was that? Was it a
somewhat Robin boss? It was specifically for him. Yes. It was. I don't really know what it was.
I just looked up poor Robin and searched through some songs. And that one seemed the most
appropriate. So fitting. Yeah. I like that a lot. Uh, Robin boss. Of course, the assembly speaker
popcorn king. Big article in the guardian, which is, uh, it's an English publication. Yeah. Oh,
no. Yeah. Big, big, big, big article in the guardian. And it says Wisconsin right wingers fall
from conservative grace, quote, the maggot crowd despises him unquote. So big article in the
guardian about Robin boss. And he's kind of, he's kind of stuck. He is. He is kind of stuck.
And you had mentioned off the air that your liberal friends are very confused. My
liberal friends are doing very confused because he, you know, he, he's because not to,
I'm not insulting any of them, but they don't understand the nuance, especially with the,
the whole, uh, justice Janet, uh, uh, attempted impeachment. Now he can't do it. He can do it.
But it will not help him. Right. It's not going to work in this. It's not going to work in
so that it's, it's best to walk away from that. Right. Uh, the fact that he's kind of just said,
like, yeah, the 2020 election wasn't stolen. And now he says there will be a mayor, a medical
marijuana bill on, on the, on the floor in January, which makes me wonder what 10 things will
he demand? We get rid of that are good. In exchange. Yeah. Well, he just like, you know what,
we're getting rid of all the teachers. And then you can have medical marijuana. Um,
but he's, he's flailing. And dare I say, I feel a smidge of sympathy for him,
just a smidge, just a smidge because when you spend the last 20 years in elected office,
and that's not counting the years before that as just a party guy who people feared,
now he can't please anyone. Yes. And he can't be mega enough. They'll, I mean, it's like Kevin
McCarthy. He'll never be trusted by those people. He's not a trumper period. And people know it.
He's not. We all know who Michael Lindell is. Exactly. That my pillow guy. Yeah. Uh, he nominated
Robin Voss earlier this month for a dubious award. Uh, the prize goes to the person who
exemplifies leadership in being an obstacle to stopping election crime. Robin Voss.
And again, we spent millions in taxpayer money. So Robin Voss could pay Michael Gabelman to
travel all around the country. And I mean, I think he even went to one of the Lindell's where
you have all the evidence of all the election fraud. And we're going to unveil it. And yeah,
there wasn't any speaking of taxpayer money. We also spent a lot of money for him to go to places
around the world for five star treatments. Well, do we, we don't know yet if that's taxpayer money.
I'm going to, I'm betting dollars of knowledge that is simply because it is most likely a group
that is paid for by the tax dollars. Like I said, there are groups that that elected officials
belong to. And if it's an elected official, if it's a, if it's a taxpayer group, I bet you he,
he, he somehow, he spent our money on it. I'm, I'm, I'm not going to be super. I'll be more
surprised if it isn't. I would highly recommend and we'll put a link to these show notes. Yes.
After the show is over, I would highly recommend that you read this article because it just
reminds a lot of things that he has done over the course of his career. In 2015, Robin Voss tried
to bring it out about, about a law that would shield state lawmakers entirely from public records
requests entirely. I mean, what a, what a, that's not good for anybody. That's not transparency.
That's not democracy. That is just, it's, it's secrecy and, and doing everything behind closed
doors. Yeah. And somehow people still think that he is a man who should hold office.
Well, it's a good gig if you can get it. Oh, yeah. It's, it's a good gig if you can get it.
I just want to find his quote about Michael Gabelman where he essentially says, Gabelman was
much wackier than I thought he would be. You didn't know this already, bro? Seriously.
You didn't know this already. You didn't sit down and talk to the man. You never had a drink with
them before or, or any conversations or I find that really, really hard to believe.
But remember, it's Robin Voss calling him wacky. Robin Voss also has no sense of humor whatsoever.
He has no idea of irony, sarcasm, any of those things. So Gabelman probably is a little
whacked out, but on our level of probably, oh, he's just a weirdo. Robin Voss just can't handle
him because he's like, like I said before we got in the air, he's, right now Robin Voss is like
a keyboard that you spilled water on. It's slowly just powering down like I don't know what to do.
A little getting a little glitch. How do I make people like me?
I think he's setting up because I think he's going to face a challenge. Yeah.
The next go around. And I think this is certainly the most vulnerable he's probably ever been.
And I think he's going to step down because he can't lose. He can't lose. He loses.
That's the plan. He steps down. It's an elder statesman of the party and Wisconsin politics.
And in five years time, they'll say they'll speak about him and the GOP, like they do about Tommy
Thompson because he tried to make America and Wisconsin better with various terrible ideas.
Well, he was very successful for a very long time. Absolutely. And you know what's funny is
that he'll, he'll step down. He'll go run his company. He'll have his properties and he gets
to be a consultant. He gets to go on talk show. So probably write a dumb book. He gets to travel.
Exactly. And he has the money in his bank account to afford that stuff too. And he'll probably be
richer than he ever was after he leaves office anyways, because that's what happens to most of
these people. Well, if they don't become lobbyists, exactly. You know, and I thought that that was
a revolving door that we're supposed to have ended under the previous administration.
Well, that's, that's federal. I think in state, I don't know if that's the same thing. We'll see
though. Okay. Yeah. Just talking about Robin was big article in the Guardian on all of his
troubles that he is facing in Wisconsin. You want to get a drink, Robin? We can talk. We can
sit down and, and yes, and comfort. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll have a chat. One of my biggest
regrets here, it is my biggest regrets was hiring Gabelman. According to Voss, he was way
wackier than I thought he was disappointing. He was inept. He was way worse for the system.
So you're, was your, your biggest regret hiring him or doing it at all.
Because I can think of a bunch of other regrets you should have. Oh, I think he just regrets hiring
him because again, they're, the, the, the office was a complete mess. The whole thing was just
was smelled bad and Lindell is too expensive. You can't afford Lindell. Oh, Mike needs your money.
Mike needs your money. All right, stay with us when we return. Kristen Bryan will be here for
the good, the bad and spirit airlines did what you're listening to as goes Wisconsin across the civic
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Good, good morning. Welcome to as goes Wisconsin, Jane Matt there.
In for Kristen Brie, Greg Bach with me in the studio, Kelvin is on the board.
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Good morning, my friend.
How is how is Frankie lose first Christmas?
It was great.
It was the perfect blend of fun and chaotic.
But you know, I feel like holidays with family is always like that.
But she actually she did.
It's funny because my brother.
Historically every Christmas when he was a kid got sick.
And he was a kid.
A kid.
A kid.
A kid.
A kid.
And she indeed did have a really stuffy nose.
And so a lot of Christmas was.
The combo of spring sailing up there.
And her going.
Yeah, like this.
You're doing this.
You're supposed to attack me.
And then having a booger sucker, which she really didn't like, which I don't think any kid likes.
But overall, she was it was very fun.
She got lots of gifts.
That she has no idea.
For her.
Yeah.
But it was very fun.
What.
I'm just curious.
I mean, what kind of.
Was it lots of toys or lots of clothes or.
What did.
Not a lot of clothes.
It was a lot of Debbie Brie, the former occupational therapist, who.
Is very into the developmental toys.
So the.
The cute thing.
That I think she likes the most right now is.
Because there's still their vision still.
You know,
Well, she's only what she's three months old.
Three months old now.
But.
So they really like high contrast colorful things because they can see it more easily.
So there's like little wrist bands.
And socks.
That have.
Like the rattles.
And she can see them because they're like high contrast.
Oh, so as she starts to move her feet.
She knows she can start to correlate like, oh, I'm making that sound.
Those are my.
And we've been putting those on her and she just stares at them like, oh, my gosh.
He must.
It's got to be so wild.
Just to think what is going on in there?
What is right?
You know, what is she all absorbing?
And what is she all.
It's just got to be fascinating to watch her progress.
Absolutely.
It's been.
And she's the every day.
I feel like we get more smiles.
We haven't quite got a laugh yet.
But she is.
And she's like 13 pounds.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is wild.
Because once again, we reminded that my dad out as a newborn was 13 pounds.
So as I hold her, I'm like, I can't imagine birthing this by four grandmother.
But he was here.
But I spent your father.
That was a long 13 pounds.
That was.
I think you.
I think he was two feet.
I think he was 20.
I think he was 13 pounds and 24 inches.
My grandmother said at Christmas as a reminded me.
And so that is basically how big she is right now.
It's crazy.
But a newborn.
It's wild.
And then she had four more kids.
Wow.
Being a tall gent myself.
They're very few men who when I meet them, I have to like look up at them.
Mr. Brian is one of them.
When he's when I met him, she's like, I'm Kristen's father.
I'm like, I know, sir.
You should have seen my husband standing next to him.
My husband is shorter than me.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like, he was like, I need a step stool to talk to even talk to this guy.
Anyway, I'm glad she's doing well.
I'm going to see the baby on Friday.
I know.
Because there's this unspoken competition among some ethnic media on how long they get to hold
Francis.
And it comes up in meetings now.
Yeah.
Oh.
Oh, and by the way, I saw the baby and I held her for 40 minutes.
Oh, by the way, I saw the baby and I held her for an hour and a half.
Me, me, me, me.
Well, because I got to go to Madison last week.
And Luke.
I think we talked about it.
We talked about it last Wednesday.
And so yes, the Madison office finally got to meet.
Baby.
Baby Frankie Lou.
I'm just okay.
Jane.
Are you willing to put in the work to get one hour and 31 minutes?
Sure.
Okay.
Sure.
Sure.
All right.
I can.
I can.
Just a bit.
All right.
Coco.
Coco.
Coco.
As long as Chris is right there and I can give her back to her in case anything goes wrong.
Yeah.
And we'll be fine.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
We're moving on to the good, the bad and the spirit airlines did what?
I'm not sure if you heard about this.
But the good news is, and this is from an article in WPR.
The total number of unemployment is down.
Wisconsin's labor force continues growing.
This is from the latest from the US bureau of labor statistics.
The total number of non-farm jobs across Wisconsin had a record high of more than three
million in the month of March.
That's more than 32,000 additional jobs compared to the same time last year.
And even an increase of 1700 compared to October.
So that's good.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate 3.3% last month.
That is up a tenth of a percent from October.
But still that's lower in the national average is 3.7%.
So Wisconsin is still in pretty good shape.
Yeah.
That's, I mean, it's so interesting.
I feel like we've talked about it in this show.
I think money shows are talked about at this just disconnect between.
More traditional indicators of a good economy.
All saying it's a strong economy.
And yet people feeling like it's not so more expensive.
And I saw a tick tock the other day because let's be honest.
That's where I still get a lot of my information for better for worse.
And someone did the math on.
I think that's the point of the change between an increase in mortgage rates
because of the interest rates and stuff like that.
And just the increased cost of everything that.
You know, making 70 grand.
What was a competitive, you know, like solid salary.
This does not go that far anymore.
And so I get the fact that like we do look at the unemployment rate.
It's like it's good.
So much are the jobs paying?
Can people still feel like they're doing well or and continue to do well?
And one of the things I, we had this conversation last week.
I was talking to a friend of mine and he just sort of blurted out.
And you know, the economy is terrible.
I said, no, it really isn't.
And I gave him some numbers.
I said, the economy is doing really well.
It might not be doing good for you or for me or for individuals.
But we're so conditioned to just say the economy sucks.
And just accept that as truth.
And we say it because it's hard to break it down.
I mean, I only say things like job numbers, inflation numbers,
and the fact that, you know, the job creation has gone up.
But to getting deeper into it, it's eyes glazed.
But when I said to him all those numbers and I said,
it's traditional to say the economy sucks.
But it's not as bad as people think.
He goes, oh, okay.
That was it.
That was it.
That's all it took.
Like three numbers I memorized.
And he was like, I'm on board.
Cool.
I buy that.
Yeah.
Again, I think Kristen, it's people's lived experience.
And it's the fact that prices are still high.
Groceries are still high.
But your former professor, Robert Reich, who does, he doesn't,
I didn't ever see him on TikTok, but I see him do videos on Twitter.
You know, he talks about corporate greed all the time.
Yeah.
And that's why things are still so expensive.
And corporate profits have gone through the,
I mean, they're doing a just fine.
Would you say Jay?
And there's also, like the wealth disparity in general in this country is as bad as it's
ever been.
And you feel that it's continuing a group of people who continue to do very well.
And a lot of people, the majority of people who continue to struggle read a dollar thinner
and thinner.
We also don't live in a time where credit is more available.
And quote, unquote, finer things are available that the people who are living that
gilded at life can convince us who are in the middle class and the lower middle class.
You can have your own version too.
And we have our own version, but we just can't afford it.
But we somehow put it on the cards.
We put it, you know, I mean, we, we, it's, it's, and that's a big problem is that people
are living a life that they can't truly afford.
And that's the one thing I want to push back on when we say like,
because what were the crazy numbers after Black Friday and cyber Monday of like how much people
spent over it was like a record year despite everything being more expensive.
Despite people saying conflation is still high.
Despite the dollar not going as far.
The amount, it doesn't, it didn't show up in what people spend on sales, right?
And like, there's still some discretionary, there's a lot of discretionary income out there that people,
either that or there's really making bad financial decisions.
Well, I do think I do think that the, the, the credit debt that were that Americans are carrying
out is just.
And the interest rates on credit cards now are just as a, as a base level between 14 and 29%.
Which blows my mind.
Kristen, you just made, made, made mention of this year's Black Friday.
This year's Black Friday was $9.8 billion, which was up 7.5 from 2022 cyber Monday was 20,
I'm sorry, 12.4 billion, a 9.6 increase in 2022.
And I'm wondering of that increase, like for me, I'll be honest.
When I go in Christmas shop, 98% of it's on Amazon and I put it on a private label card from Amazon.
I get credit back and then I pay it off.
But how much of that money being spent, those increases are being spent on credit.
Because people were like, well, just.
And now is that like the highest interest rate that it's been in.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
So we can afford to live that fancy life that they've sold us.
We can't afford 15 cars and, you know, two houses, but we.
You can, you can aspire to.
I got that Stanley, Stanley mug.
Okay.
I don't know why everyone wanted that.
Everyone wanted that this year.
People were going crazy for.
I don't even know what that is.
It's a mug.
It's just a mug.
It's nothing more than, it looks like a mug.
But it has the name Stanley on it.
People were like, freaking out.
I saw a girl get one for Christmas on an Instagram reel and she was crying.
Because it's all she wanted for Christmas was a mug.
It's a sip water.
Is there a famous Stanley that this is named Stanley from Marvel's in there.
Every cup.
I don't know.
I'm just kidding.
I don't know.
I don't understand those trends.
Like to me.
They bottled his ethos.
Yeah.
You drink one drink.
You're like, excelsior.
Stanley fans get that.
But yeah.
I mean, I can't even imagine what.
I mean, I'll look it up.
But what credit card debt is right now.
It's pretty average interest rate.
And they're selling it to us.
And we just kind of go, well, I got to buy presents.
There's nothing I can do about it.
Yeah.
All right.
Moving on to the bad.
This felt like the bad.
I know.
Well, it kind of ended the bad.
We need snow.
And there are definitely businesses that are built around this.
So ski hills.
There have been a whole bunch of ski hills that I don't think
have even opened yet this year.
And it's very expensive to make snow.
Yeah.
And conditions have to be.
I heard a guy yesterday.
It's got to be like 27.5 degrees in order for perfect snowmaking
conditions.
And so we haven't even gotten close to that.
Maybe last night.
Because the car was frosted when I got up this morning.
But it's been pretty darn mild up to this point.
And then I think about all the snowplow drivers.
And there are a lot of people who do that on the side.
I have a buddy who owns a business.
That's his business.
Like his.
He has a main job.
But it's a lucrative side gig.
Absolutely.
He's grown up in the past few years.
And he's like, I won't start working in probably till mid-January.
If that.
Yeah.
And I'm going to lose any this year.
We didn't have.
I mean, remember, I feel like on the show in January last year,
we covered the fact that they're the lake head and frozen over.
Like Michigan was like there were the freezing.
How frozen like Michigan was was all the environmental like ecosystem.
Issues that was causing because it just wasn't that cold yet.
Yeah.
I mean, then it got cold.
I feel like February.
We got snow and March.
We got snow.
So at least in my time since moving back.
It's felt like December and January are really mild.
And we still get a winter.
But it's just comes later.
And that's not to say that it doesn't screw with people's jobs.
Yeah.
Right.
With the environment.
Right.
Absolutely.
And we talk about that a lot.
And I made mention last week and I mentioned it during Christmas with family too.
It's like, if you're a kid of a certain age, if you are in high school or younger,
you don't know what our Christmases were like or our winters were like just even 10, 15 years ago.
You're, this is what you're used to.
Snowy December is weird to you because you're just not used to that anymore.
It's January and all of February.
Oh, I mean, we were talking about that on Christmas too about you youngsters don't know what it was
like back in the day when we had entire mountains of snow in the parking lot next to us.
And but I mean, we would build forts.
Yeah.
We would build forts.
Yeah.
There was, there was just that much.
When I was younger, you, you get school, be canceled for a couple days.
A amount of snow.
Now it's canceled for cold cold.
Yeah.
All right.
When we return, it's the good, the bad and spirit airlines did what?
You're listening to Asgos, Wisconsin on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it was on a flight to head to his grandmother's in Southwestern Florida was put on the wrong plane.
Any anyone 160 miles away in Orlando.
Home alone too.
Pretty much.
I think at this point, it's home alone six.
Yeah.
When his grandmother showed up Thursday at Southwest Florida International Infort Myers to pick him up,
who was flying for the first time from Philadelphia.
She was told, yeah, he's not here.
We didn't have any kids.
Sweet.
Where did he end up?
He ended up in, uh, he was supposed to go to Fort Myers party and he ended up in Orlando.
So the rights got to the right state.
He was in the right state.
Yes.
But not the right city.
Small victories, everyone.
Small victories.
Almost 200 miles away.
So she said, uh, grandma says, I ran inside the plane and I said, where's my grandson?
Someone should have handed him over to you at Philadelphia.
And she was like, nope, I don't have any kids.
So she later got, he's six.
Oh gosh.
She got a call from her grandson from the airport in Orlando telling her that he had landed.
And then spirit says he was under care and the supervision of airline employees the entire time.
Even though he incorrectly boarded the flight to Orlando.
Oh, he did.
It's his fault.
That makes no sense.
If I want to go anywhere in an airport, I need my ID and my plane ticket.
And they are none too happy at TSA to tell you when you are wrong.
It's there.
Also.
It's his fault.
But also, I just the technology of when you scan, you know, because again, for home alone too, right?
The scene we watched because I just watched down Christmas.
And Kevin McAllister is trying, he's chasing his dad.
But it's the wrong guy.
It's just the guy who has the same code as his dad.
And he's runs into the flight attendant and all the tickets, the paper tickets because it's the 90s.
Go flying in the air and they're late and they got a board.
So he's like, my ticket's somewhere in there.
So she doesn't, she can't check the ticket.
And that's how he gets on the plane to New York, right?
Now with technology, I'm pretty sure spirit airlines works in the same way as far as you scan the barcode on your ticket.
Yep.
Before you get on the plane.
Yeah.
So how did they just not scan his ticket for the little air message?
And be like, this is the wrong flight.
Well, was he just so short that he just walked out?
He just walked through it.
And it's like, I nobody saw him.
I don't know.
I'm just speculating.
I don't know how they can say that he was under the care and supervision of an employee the entire time and yet ended up on the wrong flight.
Well, a couple of things.
First Brian Kelly, civic media is very civic media is very own Brian Kelly said something about a child chauffeur.
Usually there's a someone at the airport to help children get to the right place.
Or they allow their parents to go beyond TSA check in because they're with a child.
But also remember it's spirit.
If you want to get on the right flight, it's going to cost you more.
And then it's an up charge to actually get you to the right city.
So really he was working within the spirit meal you of flying.
So the fact that he even made to Florida.
I mean, that's basically like getting like peanuts for free on that plane.
Oh, well, considering his spirit.
And that's the point.
Kristen, as a new mom, would you let your, would you let a six year old Frank?
You lose get on a plane by yourself.
That blows my mind that parents.
I could see maybe nine or 10.
And even that was the difference of maturity there.
It's between six and 10.
Yeah.
I think there's a lot.
There's a lot.
I'm curious.
That's what I want to know.
I have neither a six nor a 10 year old.
I mean, I don't have a six or a 10 year old.
Exactly.
Don't judge me.
Arnie's who six.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure that they when she flies because her dad lives in Arizona and her mom lives here.
Like someone's always flying with her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like one of the parents.
And it's not just.
And.
But I always thought the same thing when living in either New York.
Especially in New York, right?
When you see kids on the subway.
Yeah.
And there's just.
There's a.
Now it feels like.
Whoa.
That is that you look in and they're like you're young to be on here by yourself.
But I don't think in times past that you have a lot more responsibility, especially city kids.
More real kids and other maybe responsibilities in other ways.
But.
I don't know six seals really young.
I mean, when you see a kid on a subway, it's almost like they're lost in New York.
But they're usually not like that's just.
Right.
I make a home alone to reference and you don't get that.
Thanks.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm just going to be the weather guy.
It's cold outside.
There you go.
All right.
It's fine.
Um, no, I just, it just stuck out to me that it's common though.
I mean, I go.
Kids fly up.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
Yeah.
I've seen kids flying alone.
But like I said, they usually have some sort of chaperone, whether it be the parent, grandparent,
or someone from the airline that'll help out.
Yeah.
But yeah, Kristen, the point you bring it up is very clear as far as like whether you're an
adult or a child, if you have the ticket, they scan it.
It should be like a big buzzer noise or something.
We're like, oh, you're on the wrong flight.
How do you need to go over to this gate?
The fact that he got on and the fact that he said he got on the wrong flight.
No, you let him on the wrong flight.
Somebody wasn't watching him and yeah, he's going to Disney.
That was not a good thing.
Kristen says that there's a movie.
A Christmas movie called unaccompanied minors all about kids flying on their own.
Boy, that sounds awful.
Is it a horror movie Kelvin?
No, it's like a comedy and the kids like take over the airport and deliver presents or something.
I don't know exactly.
Good Lord.
Put that on your next Christmas list.
Let me, let me pitch this to you.
A hijacking butt with presents and kids and kids.
Kristen, Brian, what are you doing with the rest of your day?
What's words?
Oh, Frankie, Lucy, the nanny, isn't she?
Frankie, Lucy, the nanny.
I'm going to go work out now.
I signed up for this month long yoga pass.
And I did, I was really good that first week.
And the last two weeks, I have not gone at all.
So I am going to go stretch and feel a little bit better after the holidays.
And then, yeah, so that's kind of what I have on the store.
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Great to talk to you.
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