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We, every day, we are complaining about gas prices.
Ever, everybody is struggling with high gas prices, whether you are driving somewhere, whether you are a farmer trying to pay for diesel, if you are a truck driver dealing with that, everybody is.
Well, some experts have predicted that people will be rethinking their summer travel plans because of fuel costs, higher flights, airfares, all of that.
But early indicators tell him our hopeful story in the North Woods.
Visitor numbers to the area over Memorial Day weekend are giving business owners hope that summer season will be successful.
So we thought why not talk to a business owner in the North Woods?
That's how we have Lena Motola here.
She is the owner of Lena's Northern Pines Resort.
It is it is up in.
near
Butternut Lake.
Yes, and she's here to join us to talk about the hopes for the summer and the challenges of Northwood's business owners.
Lena, thanks for being here.
We do appreciate your time today.
So I guess I'll start with this because it was the focus of the story that brought us to you.
How was business at Northern Pines over Memorial Day?
And historically, has that been for you a good indicator of what the summer will be like?
Well, good morning, everybody.
My pleasure to be here with you, Brian and Jamie.
I appreciate everybody reaching out to me.
In answer to your question, Memorial Day was a very good day for us, our weekend, rather, up here at the Northern Pines.
It is an indicator of how we feel the summer will be for us.
So very exciting.
The turnout was very good.
That's
excellent.
We're glad to hear that for sure.
When it comes to summer tourism for the Northern Pines Resort, how important is it for businesses just like yours and to that local economy of the Butternut area, Lena?
It's important in many ways, not only for my business, but for those people that travel and want a vacation and they lodge with us.
They're also coming through the local town of Park Falls and Butternut.
They stop for gas, they stop for extra groceries.
I have 10 lodging units here at the Northern Pines and some of them have full kitchens.
So people are stopping within the local area to load up in order to reside with us and enjoy whether it's a three, four, five day stay down on beautiful Butternut Lake.
Now northern pines net is the website for if you want to check out Lena's northern pines resort and why wouldn't you?
But we're we're taught we were focusing on tourists and our people still going to come to that area But how have rising fuel costs affected you at the northern pines?
Fuel costs are always concerned for everybody.
I do not have gas on site my concern is
the dent in people's pocketbooks ahead of time in getting gas, being able to forward to travel.
A lot of people travel six, seven, eight hours to our resort and some of them are hauling boats and you got to take in that extra cost factor too of refueling your boats just to enjoy yourself out on the lake.
I do have three-pound tunes for rental that comes into play also.
Now, when you have guests coming in and out and you're doing the check-in, check-out process, are you hearing anything from them about, you know, are they talking about the gas prices, what it took for them to get there, or are they just happy to be on vacation, Lena?
It's a combination of both, Jamie.
Some people, you know, there's a little bit of grumblings when you...
When you sit and you talk with them, it was expensive to get here.
But other people are just absolutely delighted to get away from work, get away from the everyday bump and grind and come out and enjoy themselves out on the lake and have a nice little campfire.
And we've got a beautiful restaurant also.
It's like a supper club with great dining and a great view of the lake.
Lena Motale is our guest.
She's the owner of Lena's Northern Pines Resort in Butternut Lake.
Northernpines.net is the website to check it out.
Well, you mentioned a couple things, so tell it.
I am just now becoming familiar with your place through your website.
It looks gorgeous.
Tell people who may be thinking of coming up to the Northwoods.
Tell us about the Northern Pines Resort.
And it's an absolute gem on the lake.
My husband and I have owned it now for two years.
We're the proud new proprietors.
It's a supper club fashion on the inside.
We have the hot buffets.
We have breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
We have prime rib on Saturday nights.
Friday night is our seafood buffet.
We have buy one, get one free pizzas on Wednesdays, $10 Tuesdays with our burgers and fries and sandwiches.
and going back to breakfast buffet breakfast Saturday Sunday morning from 9 a.m.
till noon for those that are snowmobiling those that are 80 years the trails come right through our property there and we have 10 units for lodging that are available year-round
I've had an opportunity to visit Lena's resort when I've been up visiting our our
civic properties in
part
and it is absolutely beautiful.
Lena, what are the bookings looking like for the rest of the summer?
Is everything full?
Do you guys have some capacity for anybody who might be interested in checking you out?
Oh, Jamie, July and August are pretty packed, but there is a little wiggle room in there during the week.
The weekends are pretty well taken right now.
We're proud to say we have six wedding receptions happening between July and September.
Holy buckets.
and there's a 60-year Marine Corps reunion going on where they've rented the whole place for five days in late August.
You do not have to reside with us in order to rent a pontoon.
A pontoon cell, you can come to the site, they have to stay on Butternut Lake, but if you want to take your family out for a day out on the lake, that is no problem, just get a hold of me.
That sounds terrific.
with the concerns and I'm glad to hear that you guys did well over Memorial Day weekend and the numbers seem to prove out that other businesses in the area have done that.
Our local businesses or the chambers of commerce looking at different ways it doesn't sound like you need to worry but were there were there contingency plans to try to draw more visitors in if things did not go or start to not go as
well?
So much on the chambers, what their game plan was, but mine was for discounted pricing if things were to have gone south.
A nice thing about Park Falls, who's just two minutes down the road from me, they passed new regulations on the streets where with the ATVs, UTVs, they can ride on more, they have more street access now in the town of Park Falls that leads out to my place of business, which was exciting when they passed that last year.
Yeah, because then you could drive the ATV to dinner.
Yes.
Yes.
Get that seafood buffet and then zip home.
All right, when you talk with other businesses in the area, maybe other resort owners, bait shop owners, I know that's always big in that area because of the fishing.
Any of those small business owners, are you hearing, is there any uncertainty from them over what's happening with the gas prices this summer?
Well, we have several gas stations in the town of Park Falls There are some some talks about the uncertainty with what's going on overseas and that the blockade as everybody knows it's going on Everybody's hoping for the you know the blockade to stop get everything moving and going again
Um, and I think that'll take a lot of pressure off, uh, people's mindsets.
I know that that does weigh heavily on people's minds right now.
Um, what is going on overseas without getting really detailed.
Yeah.
Well, we are glad to hear that things not only at Lena's Northern Pines Resort in Butternut Lake, but all across the North woods by all indicators, people are still, people want to get away.
As you said, Lena, it's the time of year where you're thinking, I got to get away from everything and.
looking at Butternut Lake and the whole Northwoods area.
That's the place to do it.
So continued success.
Northernpines.net is the website.
If you're thinking about going up there, check it out.
Maybe go during the week.
That'd be a great excuse to take some days off in the middle of the week.
Then you're home by the weekend.
You have those days off.
Oh, it's great.
Lena Motola is the owner of Lena's Northern Pines Resort.
Again, northernpines.net.
Lena, thanks for being with us
this morning.
Have
a great weekend.
Thank you so much.
You guys have a great weekend everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank
you so much, Lena.
There you go.
It does the pictures.
I it's gorgeous.
It looks exactly like where I'd want to be.
Yeah, you know, it's absolutely beautiful.
The cabins look great and she had me at we rent pontoon boats.
Yes, dude.
I am on the lake nonstop.
I will tell you that having had the chance to on our own travel up in the Northwoods and then also because obviously civic media now has properties in the Northwoods.
It is a, if you really want to get away and you just want to relax and you just want a slower pace of life, but you really love outdoors and you want the kids to be able to just run around.
There are so many great resorts just like North Pines for you, Northern Pines for you.
to get up there and just live in much easier few days, right?
Jamie, since you're a suit, let me ask you this.
How would a proposal to say go up and community outreach to our properties in the Northwoods, maybe we do a week from Hayward and I have access to a pontoon boat and a cabin and Parker can push me around the lake?
I think if I make enough phone calls to the right people, we could probably get a couple of days in the Northwoods.
And I would, I would, it's, it's, I love going up there.
The people are so incredible.
So I'm glad to
hear, so I'm glad to hear that gas prices are not deterring people
from taking their vacations up there.
I am so
excited because the people are awesome.
The communities are fantastic.
The scenery is beautiful.
So I'm glad that people are still going up there, but it, it.
Raises another question for me, right?
Are people going to look, families especially, people looking for a vacation, because of the gas prices and because it's so expensive to travel right now, are places like Butternut going to become more mainstream while we're dealing with these economic issues because it is slower, even though you do have to pay the gas to get there?
It's a little bit more inclusive, right?
You're not paying for all of these other things.
It's not big resorts that are super expensive.
You're not doing the airfare.
I wonder if places like Northern Pines do become more mainstream over the next few months, why we deal with the economic issues.
Well, that's the gamble that they're taking based on the story that we saw on WPR and the...
the chamber of commerce up there that yes they're they're counting on people saying okay instead of going on you know a coast-to-coast road trip or taking a flight somewhere with the whole family we're gonna stay a little closer to home and there's plenty to do and you know does a kid want to see
Mount Rushmore, sure.
Does a kid want to go to Disney, sure.
But if a kid's out on the lake on a boat, or fishing, or hiking through the woods, or just, you know, I saw a bear, I saw a deer, we made s'mores.
That's a great vacation for a kid.
It's a great vacation for an old man, too.
Now that I'm saying it, I'm like, man, painting a pretty good picture.
And I'm telling you, my husband is a hammock person.
My husband
is the type of guy who loves to put a hammock up somewhere between two trees.
And he's just going to nap there all day in the breeze.
And I am telling you right now that if you want a slower vacation, and you're really thinking about it this year, the Northwoods, no matter where you go up there, perfect hammock weather, perfect hammock atmosphere is what you're going to find.
Yeah, that all sounds terrific.
Sitting out on the water all day, that's it.
Well, listen, enough dreaming about beautiful scenery and enough talking about fun vacations, we have to turn our attention back to what's going on here.
No more fun.
No.
The Wisconsin Senate is trying to kill our fun.
They're still hoping to vote for this 1.8 billion surplus bill approval.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think I could speak for all of us.
Let it go.
But what's your opinion
on this?
What do you think about the Senate trying to get us to revote for that or them to revote for that proposed bill?
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Now back to Brian and Jamie.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for joining us today on the Civic Media Network.
It is 22 minutes after 8.
We're glad that you decided to join us today.
I'm Jamie Martenson.
And good morning.
Welcome.
I'm Brian Noonan.
This is once again, and here's our question for you.
Should the Wisconsin Senate
Just let the spending bill go.
You voted on it, you said no, then the fiscal bureau came out and said, well, guess what?
It's gonna actually cost us a ton of money.
Should they just drop it eight five five seven five seven eight five five seven five two four eight four two Well the Wisconsin Senate Republicans much like our current administration will not let things go They said they could bring back the 1.8 billion tax and spending package if two more Republican senators change their votes and support the proposal we were this
close don't you
remember just a few days ago though when uh minority leaders and diane's uh senate minority leader diane hesselbein basically said that there was no plans
for a second vote plans we're not coming back there's not going to be a special session put a coordinate it's done well the bill narrowly failed in the senate last month after three republican senators voted against it uh so now a marquette poll found that 80 percent of wisconsin voters support the proposal but that is misleading right jamie yes
It is very misleading.
Simply because I...
I think, I'm gonna say that when this poll was actually done, 80% approved it.
And then a few
days
later, we found out through a budget analysis, what it would do to the state deficit, which was put the deficit into the red by more than this $2 billion surplus by about a billion more.
So about three and a half billion into debt is where the state would go because of this particular bill.
Then when Marquette re-did that poll, the number of people who supported it went down to 69%.
But at face value, it seems like a really good deal, right?
There
were gonna be
rebate checks that were gonna go out to Wisconsin residents, maybe a couple hundred bucks here or there.
And then of course, it looked like there was gonna be some short-term funding for the schools.
I know for some people, it did not go deep enough because it really affected special education.
And let's be clear, this would have been a band-aid on a long-going problem.
Of course.
But at face value, it looked like there was maybe something.
until budget analysis dug much deeper.
And then it turns out that it was the governor, Tony Evers, speaker of the house, Robin Voss, and then majority leader, Devin Lemahue, who basically put this bill together.
on their own with no support from any of the members of either party, which is why Democrats then were
not
accepting of this
bill.
They didn't like it, and it didn't fix the problem in total.
No, it doesn't.
Nothing was getting done.
No.
Nothing was going to get done.
And again, I'm a big enough guy to admit
When it first came out, I was all for it.
It looks like a good deal.
I was like, this is how you negotiate.
And yes, I know all the problems.
We got all these big problems, but let's short term.
And then when presented with new evidence, I'm unlike a mega voter.
I am able to look at new evidence and say, oh, let me analyze this.
And I've changed my mind.
And so now, no, you don't.
This is not going to work.
No, it's not.
And what I think is fascinating about this is even though minority leader Hesselbein is saying, no, there's a no go on this bill.
It's a non-starter.
Now we know that if these two senators change their votes, the Senate could reconvene and then potentially send this vote to
the governor for consideration, because if two more Republicans decide to change their vote, they have enough to pass it.
Now, Hesselbein this week said that Democrats are open to future compromise discussions.
They want more certainty as a group about the state's projected budget surplus before they approve any sort of major tax cut and spending commitments.
Governor Evers actually responded to Diane Hessell by not directly through an interview, and here's what he had to say.
I have not, in any time recently, I have not.
And I doubt if their leader is saying no way, my guess is it's going to be no way because she controls what people get to do.
Who's going to be head of the joint finance committee on the Senate side, and I'm sure she's giving promises there.
She gives promises just like other leaders do.
I haven't spent a lot of time doing that, but that's what happens.
First
of all, somebody should tell the governor not to play in traffic.
I'm very worried about his safety.
It sounded like trucks were zipping by.
He was near a road.
Oh my gosh.
I was like, Tony, watch out.
Somebody get the governor off the
street.
He was near a road under a grassy on a grassy knoll under a tree, but near a road.
So that's why you're here.
He knows either stuff.
No, no, political figures should be on a grassy.
No, no, they should
not.
This is probably about the equivalent of Tony Evers ever shots fired kind of saying, right?
That that's essentially all you're going to get from him.
But for Tony, that was a pretty bold statement.
He doesn't usually criticize.
members of his party.
And in this particular case, we've talked about this on the show.
I don't know why this particular bill.
I still don't understand why this governor is choosing, who has been very measured in his responses and done a very good job of being a steward of Wisconsin and trying to fix the finances.
I don't know why this is the bill he has his flag on the hill kind of thing.
I don't understand it.
And they're fighting for it.
in a crazy way.
And none of them, and by them, Evers, Voss, and Lemahue have addressed the fiscal report that
came out
after.
It hasn't come up, which doesn't make any sense, because prior to that, boy, they were hammering on the surplus, and they
were
hammering on how much it's going to save,
how much
money we have, and they haven't said one word about this report, either to confirm it,
and address it or deny it.
They haven't done anything, which is very Parker Suss.
I'm using that correctly.
Yes.
And it's Suss.
Thank you.
So it's very, very Suss.
When we come back, speaking of Suss, the president is backing college sports.
Why?
We'll figure it out in Frank and Parker.
Parker's a big sports guy.
We'll get their perspectives on it after this.
I'm Brian Noonan.
This is Daybreak.
I'm Jamie Martinson.
It's 829 right now.
Thank you
for listening to the Civic Media Network.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for joining us on this Friday.
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Thank you so much for having us on.
We do appreciate it.
I am Jamie Martinson.
And my name's Brian Noonan.
And I always wonder why I say my name.
Not my name, but...
Anyway, hi.
Welcome.
You want to jump in?
I'm having an internal struggle and I shouldn't do it with
you.
It's okay.
That's all with me.
But Frank, our executive producer and Parker, our technical producer, are joining us for this because it involves sports.
And Frank is a former sports station programmer, huge sports fan.
Parker hosts a show on the weekends that runs about 187 times during the week called Hot Takes With Parker or the beardless prognosticator.
What's your, what's the name of your show?
We are gonna
have to rename the show much different now.
So we're glad you guys are joining us because President Trump
has endorsed the Protect College Sports Act of 2026.
Now, I didn't know college sports was in danger, but it's a bipartisan bill.
It's aimed at creating nationwide rules for college athletics as schools, athletes and conferences navigate the rapidly changing NIL landscape.
The legislation would limit athletes to one penalty-free transfer
cap college eligibility at five years prohibit former professional athletes from competing in college sports and establish a rule preventing schools from hiring another team's head coach before that coaches season is complete now i thought some of those rules were already in place it will also provide additional antitrust protections for the ncaa address conference realignment issues and create new guidelines for how conferences negotiate and sell media agreements
The president said college sports have become increasingly difficult to manage because of lawsuits, NIL deals, transfer or portal movement, and rising costs, warning that schools could face financial strain without clear national standards.
We know that's been a big conversation at UW-Madison.
It's been a big conversation all over, trying to get money brought in so that schools can navigate this NIL stuff.
A lot of it I don't understand.
I understand that the transfer portal I don't get, but so we'll turn to the host of make the call and our own curmudgeonly sports expert, Frank.
Guy, can you boil this down?
What's the deal?
What are we doing?
Parker, go
ahead.
While civility.
While we were off in the break, you guys were saying that you guys are kind of suspicious a little bit of this and what's the motivation.
Yeah, what's the motivation?
I honest to God, I think that this is exactly why Donald Trump wanted to be president.
to fix college sports.
Yes,
I honestly
do because I think that it matters to him so much that he gets to host the World Cup this year, that he gets to host the Olympics in a couple of years.
I think that that stuff is so important to him.
He's at all of these different sporting events all the time.
I think he genuinely really cares about college sports.
and that's what he's doing this for.
Is it
partly because it endears him to that fan base?
Especially in the southern states because obviously this is going to involve some of those really big colleges who have some of the top athletes, right?
And so those are the ones who get picked up in a lot of the times in the portals that they're transferring because they want more opportunities.
And I think to Parker's point,
the president a little bit to that particular fan base a little bit more, you know, and I think that's what it is.
We've seen him actually go to some of these events where he gets booed, right?
But if you're trying to fix college sports, you know, to what Parker's saying, does it make you a more likable character for those fans that booed you?
See, I knew there was something cooking and you guys bring up a good point.
I don't think it will.
I think the college sports fans are looking at this and...
you know, if their school is benefiting from the transfer portal, or if they have boosters and alumni who are given a lot of money that they don't have to deal with NIL, they don't need the president to fix it.
And they don't need a bipartisan commission.
But, you know, it is, I think it's not a government issue.
I don't I don't believe I think it's up to the NCAA to work on it and figure it out and they better figure it out fast because it's not going anywhere and I don't know I think I think having pro athletes not playing college makes sense I think limiting college you know the eligibility requirement of five years that makes sense I don't know how you again I can't I don't know how to fix the transfer portal because
I don't understand it.
I do think kids make sense.
I do think athletes should be able to make some money.
I'm a fan of NIL just because the universities make so much money off of especially the primary sports, but it does help lesser sports down the aisle.
So I'm good with all that.
But so what's going to change?
Frank, what is this?
What does this proposed act do that isn't already being done?
Basically puts everybody on a level playing field in theory.
because right now with NIL and.
Did Frank freeze?
That's an
untimely introduction.
My
God, this is
going to become the Wild Wild West because can you hear me?
You
froze for a minute.
Of course.
The this is we knew this was going to become the Wild Wild West when this was proposed because there's every.
Every conference does something differently, right?
We saw this during COVID, where the commissioner wouldn't come in or the president of the NCAA didn't say, here's how the schedules are going to look.
The SEC had a different number of games than the Big 10.
Everything, no, there is not one unifying factor for this.
And
now.
From what I understand to your point, that's the problem the Big Ten and SEC are having with this bill is because it isn't addressing all of the differences from state to state.
And they're saying that it could create all of these new legal disputes and may not actually provide the flexibility for college athletes so that they can adapt to any of these changes.
They're also concerned because this particular bill includes provisions that would prevent the Big 10 and SEC from expanding.
That's their actual problem, Jamie.
Yes.
This is their issue.
The Big 10 and the SEC view themselves as better than.
every other conference.
In division one football, there are multiple divisions.
They wouldn't be able
to come a super league is essentially what they want to do, correct?
If I understand this correctly.
And now they're starting to mess with how TV deals are set up, which is what the root of everything is.
If you follow the money, it's the TV deal.
That's what it really all comes down to.
It's not about the players getting paid.
I think this will be good.
because like what I was going to say about NIL is we've, we've passed name, image and likeness.
NIL deal can now mean endorsement from a car dealership
to
bring in a five star recruit that's going to transfer out.
Now, when that's first started happening, we, everybody in the sports world said, this is really bad.
This needs to be fixed.
And you even have Nick Saban.
speaking up on it, who was infamously had multiple bag men that would come and drop off illegal money to recruits allegedly.
Allegedly,
Frank.
Yeah,
he just testified.
Part of the bipartisan effort with this is Senator Ted Cruz.
They held hearings in Washington just this earlier this week on this particular bill.
Nick Saban was one of the main
uh individuals who is testifying in front of the senate committee um and uh there were there were several people at that particular table but nick sabin got a majority of the questions as somebody who has been involved as a college as a coach um for not only college level but also professional level so obviously the senators had a lot of questions directed specifically for for nick sabin
What's keeping the NCAA from actually, you know, they love to pretend they're in charge with all different other kind of minor situations?
Why?
Why are they so hesitant to sit everybody down and go, this is how it's going to be?
We're going to, even if they gerrymander the maps a little to go, okay, the conferences can't be, you can't keep, you can't make the Big Ten into 14 teams.
It just doesn't make sense.
And I know that's an old argument, but it's still the same thing.
It's like, how do these, and is Missouri really in the Southeast?
I don't think so.
So, you know, yeah, the SEC is a powerhouse division, the Big Ten's a powerhouse division, but there, why can't the,
Why can't the NCAA do something?
Why won't they
here?
Here's something that I uncovered a couple of years ago when this
investigative reporting.
Yes.
Well,
it's it's not
even investigative.
I don't think many people think about it.
The NCAA and we've we've found out the the NCAA really doesn't have any control over college football.
Yeah.
Go look
at the national championship.
That is not an NCAA sanctioned event.
No, it's true.
It's ESPN.
It's the TV deals.
They crown the national champion.
The NCAA doesn't do it.
They have no say in anything.
If the big 10 wants to do something or the SEC wants to do something, they're going to do it because they can make a ton of money off of it.
And the NCAA can just take a step back and go, oh, OK.
They have no power.
They may over college hockey.
They may have over college soccer, even basketball.
That's an NCAA sanctioned event.
They all get the
same
rectangular trophy at the end.
College football playoff trophy.
Go look at it drastically different.
NCAA has no power in this and they've watched it slip every single year.
Can I ask you a question?
You know, we're talking about some of the big schools.
And so I look at Wisconsin in general.
Obviously, we're talking about UW and Madison.
Is there any potential for this affecting some of the smaller colleges as well?
If there's more guardrails up, in theory, it could protect a school like Madison who's drastically been hit
by
the NIL Wild West because there's not a...
There aren't enough people ponying up the money that let's say, let's take Indiana, for example, when you have alumni like Mark Cuban, who's just going to pump FU money into the program just because he can, because why not?
And they're
winning
national champions.
A place like Wisconsin, you know, it's already tough enough with the cold weather that you have trying to get these five star recruits to go somewhere cold.
Yeah.
And if you can't pay them, you have no shot.
Yeah,
so if there are more guardrails up, Wisconsin could benefit from that.
So then with all that being said, are you for this legislation or no?
Or will it matter?
I think most of it I'm on board with.
I think the five year cap on eligibility, I think that gets a little dicey when you start looking at medical red shirts.
My
roommate in college his senior year tore his ACL in spring practice and missed his senior year wasn't able to go to the combine and possibly go to the NFL because he was at a mid major school and didn't have tape for his senior year and people weren't going to
take a
gamble on him and
the
NCAA denied him a medical red shirt.
Oh.
So
I think
that's where it gets really dicey and I wouldn't agree with that portion.
I think the TV deal thing's not gonna go through.
I
think the
transfer stuff, yes, really good.
I think coaches shouldn't be able to just go to a school once bull season starts.
If you're in the playoff, Lane Kiffin shouldn't have to go to LSU before he finishes his season.
Right, right.
Yeah.
Parker, what's your take?
Are you for this bill against this bill?
What do you
think?
Largely for it.
I think that'll
This would stabilize the sport a lot.
And I think that college sports fans, frankly, are just exhausted from trying to follow it all.
It's so hard
to
follow
all the trends and
everything.
And the eligibility has gotten ridiculous with some of it.
Some people are playing for like eight years.
Yeah, that's no good.
College is a four year, maybe five year deal.
That's yeah.
But all right.
Hey, guess what?
It's Friday.
Guess what else?
We're almost done, which means it's time to leave you on a high note.
Dairyland Diaries is coming up next.
I'm Brian
Noonan.
This is Daybreak.
I'm Jamie Martins and 848, you're listening to the Civic Media Network.
It's 8.52 right now.
I hope I'm supposed to talk.
I don't have audio.
When music
plays over
streaming.
Okay, all right.
I was like, I think I'm supposed to talk
right now.
Yeah, we're jumping around.
We are jumping around.
I wouldn't know that because it's dead silence on my end.
I don't know for some reason when I'm remote, my music, I can't hear music.
It's a thing, but here we are.
It is time for Dairyland Diaries.
This is where we focus on some of the non-political but really great stuff happening all throughout the state of Wisconsin.
It's one of our
very favorite segments.
We love this one.
Yeah, because it does.
It does leave us in a good mood to end the week.
And also, I got to say, please, if you don't watch the stream every once in a while for the show within the show, Parker Parker will on air.
Let's be honest.
He's OK.
But
when we're in the show with it, a show, sometimes he lands them and I about literally fell out of my chair.
That's all I'm gonna say.
You gotta come in
and join.
That's all.
All right,
let's get to some Dairyland diaries.
This, for a certain section of Wisconsin and the populace, this is gonna be a huge deal.
The world pinball championship is coming to Depear this weekend, 80.
of the top ranked competitive pinball players on the planet.
A sentence I never thought I'd have to fit on my business card.
They represent about more than 20 countries will keep their eye on the ball as they battle it out this weekend at district 82 pinball for the 21st annual flipper pinball associations world pinball championship.
Wow.
Here we go.
They are they all have supple wrists.
We know that
Jamie.
Yes.
For
District 82, the arcade that opened in 2018, hosting the most prestigious event in competitive pinball is a bonanza of all bonus points.
I've got it.
This story is filled with things I never thought a competitive pinball world.
I did not know.
It's like being chosen
as the
host city for the Super Bowl, they say.
The tournament bounces back and forth between cities in Europe and the United States, Austria.
hosted the last one.
With the host site selected a couple of years in advance, it's likely a once in a lifetime honor for District 82, which is home to one of the largest tournament quality pinball collections in the country.
Now you may be saying, how do people get invited?
Well, they earn an invitation to compete in the championship based on their ranking from tournaments throughout the year.
Some of them spend years traveling internationally and competing in hundreds of events in hopes of making it to the championship this weekend.
group is made up of men and women of all ages and includes Appleton's own Neil Graff.
He's our odds-on favorite.
Parker, you should cover this on What's My Line, your big sports show.
Make sure you're doing that.
Play by play.
District 82 has more than 100 paintball machines ranging from 70s classics to new introductions, themes like KISS and Godzilla, the Flintstones and Dolly Parton, tournament directors selected 66 machines that will be played 22 from three different eras ensuring that the champ will have to be good at every area to win.
This sounds like.
super awesome I've never I don't know anything about it I'm not good at pinball I've played excessively over the years but I would like to see what competitive pinball looks like
I think this would be super, super fun to check out.
Again, just in Depeer, so not even that far if you're
in
Wisconsin.
And then this story, this one's just creepy, but kind of cool at the same time.
Giant bugs are taking over Milwaukee County Zoo in a new exhibit.
Powerful pollinators have taken over the zoo for the summer and early fall.
As part of this exhibit, when you visit, you can expect to see more than 20 enlarged animatronic models of the tiny critters that run our...
ecosystems.
There is going to be a climbable structure and photo ops with larger than life bees, beetles and other bugs, at least according to a statement from the zoo.
Now, if you visit, you can also collect limited pollinator trading cards.
Ooh, this is like garbage pail kid cards
way back in the
day
so that
you can lock rewards with return visits and return returns throughout the summer.
Now featured pollinators include the only be protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.
the rusty patched bumblebee,
as
well as the golden rod crab spider, the red band leaf hopper and the hummingbird clear wing moth.
Oh, those things are really neat to see when you see them floating around.
I have not heard of any of these, but they all by their name alone.
I'm like.
I got to find out what a red-banded leave hopper is.
Like I need to check these out.
Now, if you want more information and a little bit more fun on these bugs, the zoo is also going to hold activity series days from 10 until two.
That's Wednesday, every Wednesday until Labor Day.
These days feature expanded interactive content, which is really great for kids between the ages of three to nine.
Zoos, when you are a parent and you have young kids, it is what you do.
You hang out and the kids have a great time.
hours,
hours and two.
Were your kids ever into bugs?
No,
Dexter was into frogs.
That's what
Dexter was into.
Dexter was my frog kid.
We had a window well where critters hopped in all the time and every morning he'd come in all gloved up with this new critter to show me and shove in my face at 6 a.m.
because he'd find it in the window well.
Here, Mom, look at this.
Oh, honey,
that's a rat.
You should probably take that outside.
Wow, that actually happened.
Your son was Robert F. Kennedy back in the day, just grabbing snakes and rats and toads.
We called
him Steve Irwin.
We were like, what are you?
Like, seriously, what are you right now?
I like that he had no fear, though.
That's pretty cool.
He did not.
He would glove
up even, and he'd go out there with his little hat, his jabbies, and bring me in a critter at 6 AM.
It was something, because it
was a
deep window well.
So every night, there was something
new in there.
Oh, something was in there.
Oh,
yeah.
And would he climb into the window well?
Yeah, cause he could just step right down into it.
Oh my God.
Yeah, no, he'd step right in.
He'd pick it up with his little gloves and then he'd bring it inside to show his, his mommy, which was very lovely.
And I'm glad I taught him to share.
Some things your kids should not share.
No, and I know dinosaur kids.
I haven't met a bug kid, but we've got some bugs.
Real quick, Onalaskia is a grand opening of their expansion at Dash Park.
It includes a splash park.
So if you're in Onalaska today, they're having a big ribbon cutting.
That's Dairyland Diaries.
Ending the week on an uplifting positive note, whether it's giant bugs or pinball wizards, we bring it all to you here on Daybreak.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Thank you for listening this week.
I'm Brian Noonan.
This is Daybreak.
I'm Jamie Bartonson.
Thank you again for another week.
We will be back on Monday on the Civic Media Network.
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