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and a
When we go to the Cubs Brewers game at Amfam Field with our winner, Linda.
Thank goodness, Amfam has a roof because it might be raining.
Yeah.
But that'll be a big game between the Cubs and the Brewers tonight.
And it should be a lot of fun.
Yeah, we have deep pockets.
We're going to buy a lot of stuff.
That's right.
Yes.
Thanks to Dondren's Distilling, by the way,
Cubs Brewers get away with Linda.
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And it is FCC chair, bread and cars.
threatening the view he's threatening major news networks really he's threatening everybody this is the wrong chairman for the FCC as you might know by now anyway and and of course a lot of people are celebrating the fact that Trump somehow negotiated a way to get
Stephen Colbert off the air because you know he's a cancer he's destroying America and he's criticizing Trump which you can't do you can't even do it in in in humor in good humor so they're you know obviously clearing cleaning house
yeah
cancel
This isn't taxpayer funded.
This is a decision that the viewers make on a daily basis, whether or not they're going to watch them and if they enjoy them.
And as much as it would be nice to think about like, oh, the view is going to go away.
Whew, that sounds nice.
We also have to consider, this isn't the only administration that's gonna be there forever.
A tool that can be used by this administration can very well be used by the next.
And if they were able to do away with the view, they could very well, the next administration that comes in that doesn't like Fox, could get the same.
Yep,
I think that
is a wise warning.
A
Yeah.
Yeah.
that Democrats should pick up on this.
They should go after this.
They should actually threaten that they could do the exact same thing.
Not that they will, but they could do the exact same thing Trump is doing against the right-wing media.
Why not?
I mean, they could do it.
They could do a lot of things
that
Right.
They could threaten to do that.
They have done none of this so far.
They haven't put on any kind of offensive that I have seen.
Now, they tried a few weeks, I think.
That was the energy level that they had,
right?
They
Then all of a sudden they just went silent.
That was it.
That was their effort.
That's how much energy they wanted to expend on something.
I'm sorry.
You just can't do that.
You've got to spend four damn years doing it folks.
Mm-hmm.
That's I mean, that's what I've been saying.
Yeah
Well, I just wanted to qualify.
That's
Okay.
Here we go.
Actually, from the EU's view, it looks a little different.
this deal between Trump and the EU.
He said, yes, the EU agreed to drop tariffs on US goods because that benefits Europe.
Cheaper American products, great idea, great for European consumers and businesses.
See, there's no tariffs.
Right.
From the US to them.
Yeah.
The person writes, we love a good deal.
Meanwhile, the US keeps a 15% tariff on European goods, which means American consumers now pay more for European cars, tools, wine, cheese, machinery.
That's not you're bending the knee.
That's you're getting a win-win and the US choosing to tax itself.
Oh my god, that says it really does say it all as for Canada They just didn't show up to celebrate the US paying more for their imports But but sure if calling it a victory helps you Helps the whole thing down a little bit easier and paying 15% more for whatever you buy at the store is
a
sure
Yeah, they're getting a great deal and we're
Although when you think about it though, you know, they're getting everything for nothing.
Yeah.
No tariff from the US.
All good.
And we have to pay 15% more as consumers in this country.
It's a bizarro world.
There's something wrong here.
Everything's upside down.
All right.
You know everybody loves Jeff Daniels.
Yes his performance on the show the series Newsroom was just fantastic.
I really just a tremendous thing I want to play a cut from that show just so you remember what Jeff Daniels said on that show This was a great thing.
He was being asked a question by a college student right about how great America is classic and he just he just leveled with this truth.
Let's listen to cut 171 here.
Okay 171
We might not have it here.
What?
I don't think it's
I'll look through it though.
Okay, do you have cut 169 at all?
We do, yes.
Okay, all right.
Okay, let's instead of remembering how great that first thing that we remember Jeff Daniels was saying, why don't we do this?
Critic he's giving a critique of Trump his second term.
Okay.
He was asked this on a news show It's almost like he was it was written for him for newsroom actually, right?
Okay.
This is a comet he made without music underneath so it's still great It's great thought.
It just doesn't have the dramatic music underneath, but let's listen to cut 169
We've lost decency.
We've lost civility.
We've lost respect for the rule of law.
Lost it.
We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet.
We've normalized bullying.
Much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that, it's back.
And along out the window goes character, integrity.
I mean, nobody has great things to say about politicians.
They never have.
Go back to Mark Twain.
But ideally, we're supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.
He's everything that's wrong with not just America, but with being a human being.
He's everything that's wrong with not just America, but with being a human being.
We've lost decency.
We've lost civility.
We've lost respect for the rule of law.
We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet.
We've normalized bullying, much as the woke generation tried to, you know,
Change that, it's back, and along out the window goes character, integrity.
We're supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.
thinking
seem
Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
Well, it's not
the
greatest country in the world professor That's my answer and with a straight face you're gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom
Canada has freedom.
Japan has freedom.
The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom.
So 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
All right.
And yet you, there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world.
We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports.
We lead the world in only three
Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are, without a doubt, a member of the worst period generation period ever.
Period.
Period.
Period.
When
you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what you're talking about.
You sure used to be.
We stood up for what was right.
We fought for moral reasons.
We passed...
Laws struck down laws for moral reasons.
We waged wars on poverty, not poor people.
We sacrificed.
We cared about our neighbors.
We put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chests.
We built great big things made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy.
We reached for the stars, acted like men.
We aspired to intelligence.
We didn't belittle it.
It didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't we didn't scare so easy We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed by great men men who were revered First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one yeah America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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the low?
No,
Well, you got one more day, unfortunately.
Looks like your heat index is gonna be feeling about 95 degrees this afternoon.
Oh, no.
One more.
What?
I know.
88 degrees will be the high temperature, that humidity is still sticking around.
You could feel it right now.
Yeah.
Clouds will start to clear.
You'll see some more sunshine by this afternoon.
Maybe a spotty shower or thunderstorm this evening, maybe six or seven or so.
It'll be pretty brief.
But other than that, staying dry until tomorrow, tomorrow looks a little dark and damp, rain throughout most of the day.
Wow.
But that rain's going to cool us down.
We want that.
We want to welcome that front right there.
Yes, definitely.
Yeah.
So about a half an inch to a quarter inch of rain is possible tomorrow.
We're not looking at severe storms, nothing like that.
Just a steady kind of rain.
It could ramp up a little bit more in the evening, but then the high pressure system builds and it dominates Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, holidays.
Yes, mid 70s, upper 70s, refreshing, no humidity.
Gorgeous.
yeah, there's always a cost.
There's always a price.
know, people are going to
I know.
They're going to find out.
Once they can handle the snow, they're going to come in waves.
I know,
And the ticks.
And the ticks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ramp up on the tick, dog.
soon.
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Yeah, have a great day.
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All right.
So, you know, just one up.
Was that the only time that's happened where you guys got along?
Well, I think for some reason we get along.
It's not, I know more than you, this massive, angry debate that normally goes on.
We just have a discussion.
And that's it.
That's the way we want it here in the program, right, Gordon?
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Well, that's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
you got?
Well, you know, the CJ in that situation, I'm hearing that more and more about, uh, Trump supporters right now, because I tend to believe that they haven't got their marching orders yet.
As to what to believe with the Epstein situation.
So that happens.
I don't, I think they're all going to go kind of radio silent.
about politics because they don't know which way to go on that yet till they've been told of course.
But you know, one of the real quick things,
tragedy in New York, just been watching the mayor, Adams, going on and on about the diversity of the police department.
And here's a guy whose buddy would probably throw half of that police department out of the country.
So Eric Adams is going to get the beat down them because that's all he talked about.
Oh yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
tells Sazes that Irish sent you.
Probably won't get a free beer.
You might.
That's the voice of Patrick McBride, who's joining us here this morning.
Patrick, good to see you again.
Good to see you.
Yeah.
So the Brewers are in first place, at least temporarily.
They won last night, I take it.
Yes, they did.
Yeah.
Cubs in second place, one game behind.
So this series is pretty important this week.
Start to and you know get into the stretch run here at the end.
Yeah big money is not
winning
market team
Yeah.
Brewers
season.
It's phenomenal.
Yeah.
We got
Pat Murphy, the Irishman.
Leading
I'd
lucky than good.
He wrote this a few years ago with your brother.
And for people that you've been on the show a couple of times here, but just to recap when you were younger, give us a little bit of your history of how you became involved with the Brewers and the Bucks and the Packers.
Well, Bud Selig was trying to get a baseball team to Milwaukee.
And of course he did
first place.
But I won an essay contest to be the first bad boy for the Brewers.
And that meant in those days they were
I also have in Packer games in Milwaukee County Stadium.
So I got to work for the Packers because I hustled and helped out.
And then I thought, well, why not just call the box and see if they have a job opening.
And they were interviewing the next day.
And I got a job with the box set on the bench for the first year.
1969, actually, when they were playing the White Sox in exhibition games because Bud was trying to get a team and.
I am responsible for those cubs losing in 1969
was the bat boy for the first cubs game that year and I put the curse on
you?
White Sox in Milwaukee County Stadium
was, you know, bat boy for Ernie Banks and Ron Sano and Conley.
Yeah.
All the
great,
you know,
all the great Cubs, Glenn Beckert.
Yeah.
It was a great, great team.
Fergie Jenkins, Leo, the lip, DeRosha.
Sure.
But I'll tell you what, what's the difference between these Brewers and those Cubs?
Well, I think the Brewers could go all the way.
It's obvious they're beating the Dodgers, they're beating the Cubs.
So the Cubs didn't have a strong bullpen and a strong of pitching staff.
I mean, if you look at that Cubs team in 69 compared to these Brewers,
The Brewers have an outstanding pitching staff, really deep.
I mean, they don't even know who to keep up and who to send down.
And they've got a great bullpen.
And they can go deep.
You know, they really can bring in a lot of people.
And Murphy's managing it really well.
I mean, he's managing pitch counts.
And I mean, my God, they bring in Miz.
Miz kind of...
Struggled a little bit, but it had some really good innings last night.
He pitched three really good innings.
This is a really great baseball team.
Midwest,
feel bad for these coasts.
yeah.
The savanna.
you guys going to do any of those things when you're down there?
100% I mean people love that.
Yeah, you know at least bring a bat.
Wait a minute.
I don't want to replace the bat boy
That's right.
true
the bat
You know, that kind of stuff
I think fans just completely love that
in
Yeah, yeah, and flipping them
everything.
People should watch YouTube's of the Savannah bananas.
It's just fabulous.
They have a broadcast of it, live broadcast.
It's just...
fun to watch, but I keep thinking, why not bring a little bit of that, right?
Like, what is the batter thing that they do?
They bring in, you know, it's like, you can pick somebody out of the lineup to go out and bat for somebody.
A pinch hitter, but they call it something else.
And it's just a fantastic way of doing it.
Well, you know, the reason the...
Brewers had so much there were lapses obviously in the brewer's successes for
time, but they always had Bob Uker.
because people love the joy of going
game and listening
get up.
Well, you know, I had so many stories.
I still have a lot of stories I'm thinking about doing book two.
But when you get inside a locker room, there's a lot going on in there, especially in baseball.
There's
40 guys, there's 35 players and five coaches, and the coaches are full stories.
But I mean, I met coaches like Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio
Mickey Mantle and all kinds of guys.
And the annex that they did were crazy.
I mean, they put hot stuff in people's jocks and cut the bottoms out of their dress
pants and, you know, tied their
ties up or stuck their suits in the whirlpool.
I remember one time guys went fishing in Lake Michigan, caught some salmon and a guy named Cesar Tovar in the Minnesota Twins was very superstitious.
He was in the whirlpool and they slipped.
two of the salmon into the whirlpool.
I've never seen a guy
I mean, there's always something going
anybody was ever in a locker room before like high school
Kramer's hot stuff
would put that in your jockstrap.
Yeah.
So that's why
Yeah, and basketball is completely different.
These guys had college educations then.
You
four years,
Yes,
so they were very studious and stuff.
They were listening to jazz and playing chess
reading books and talking about books.
I'm not kidding you.
Wow.
It was quiet.
It was completely different.
I
it was completely different.
Even in, so all the visitors, you know, Bill Russell was in the other locker room, all these characters.
It was unbelievable.
Dave DeBusher, the guy memorized the New York City phone book.
and you could go in there and you could say, you know, who's on page 450 and he'd start listing, you know, all these people.
You're like, what the hell?
still know Karim.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you know, and he's so scholarly.
He's written over 30 books.
Yeah, and the books are spectacular.
History of civil rights in America, the history of jazz.
You
there's spectacular books.
I mean, people should really look at his books.
You know, he wrote a fantastic book on his...
work with John Wooden and what John Wooden meant to his life.
And, you know, it's just the book covers are worth looking at, to be honest.
You know, Kareem's brilliant scholar.
movies.
Yeah, airplane.
you can go toe to toe with Liam Neeson.
Yeah.
time
the Packers.
happen?
So the Packers played five games in Milwaukee County Stadium.
Well, you know, in those days,
because Vince Lombardi was afraid that the NFL was going to put a team in Milwaukee and
it was the thing.
But it was when you really look at when
read Vince David Marinus is
somebody, you
it was a small market team owned by a small city.
And.
They were afraid.
But so here we had the Packers and that's why we still have Milwaukee games and Green Bay games, you know,
in those tickets.
And so we had football played on this stupid baseball field.
It was really
ridiculous.
And it led to a lot of
injuries.
I mean, the infield was never covered up.
It was rock hard.
It was as hard as this table.
And, you know, we were carrying guys off on stretchers that were injured on that field.
But Milwaukee loved it.
And so I got to work these games.
And then we crammed 80 football players and 20 coaches into a locker room for 40 people.
And it was mass chaos, you know,
as a
bunch of guys grunting and slamming each other.
You know looking at themselves in a jogger trap in a mirror if you can picture it, you know before games and posing Yeah before that was a thing Now
yeah now it is and I thought God this is craziness, you know Yeah, so I much preferred baseball, but football was it's really I mean I was watching her batter Lee and Ray Nitschke and Bart Starr and all those characters right there on the field right after they'd won the first two's football You know the Super Bowl
I mean, the sunglasses are cool, but
you.
The neck off is good
I think
Yeah, so and you see today on don't streak at the game
Well, you know, I'm writing
I'm consulting with some health systems, and I'm helping young students supplied in nursing school, medical school, pharmacy, helping frame their applications and look at it right.
Yes, I became a physician.
And, you know, when I was in the locker rooms, I was thinking about a long-term career in sports.
And one of the trainers said, you're not going to spend your life in a locker room.
And he convinced me to go to medical school and I eventually became dean of students and then dean of faculty.
work
with us.
So, to the left and deep, hey!
Get up!
Get out of here!
Gone
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Along with Patrick McBride, as the voice of Bob Uker.
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Okay, now we're back with Patrick McBride, who's written this great book, The Luckiest Boy in the World.
He's been telling us all kinds of stories and you met all kinds of great baseball stars and basketball stars and Packers, but tell us a little bit more about your time with Bob Uker and getting to know him pretty well.
Bob Uker, his whole career.
I mean, I proceeded him by year, but it's 1970.
I was 16 years old and I ended up getting my tonsils taken out and I was in.
St.
Mary's Hospital, and I'm listening to the Brewer's Game.
And all of a sudden, Bob Buker's talking to the great Merle Harmon, and he says, hey, Merle, you know our Bat Boys in the hospital just had his tonsils taken out, and I hope that he doesn't bring them back to the stadium, but I'd like to give a shout out to Pat McBride, and wish him well with his tonsils.
Get well Pat and come on back to the stadium and hustle like you always do now.
Let's bring up
know
guy was always like that,
know, he's always local, you
figure national television
Johnny
Number one guest of all time.
he always, and I just ran into the head of U-Singers at a Get Together, John U-Singer.
And the guy said, always mentioned U-Singers, even though the sponsor was Johnsonville
always slip in U-Singers because he was the friend of U-Singers Browns.
And the guy just always cared about everybody in Milwaukee.
He'd always be like,
Well, Mabel up in Ambro
won the Bratwurst special for, you know what
outside of the press box and go sneak up and sit next to a couple from Annego.
And they'd be sitting there, you know, excited about the game.
And I'll say, oh, my God, it's Bob Uker.
And he was just he was a Milwaukee kid.
Yeah,
Yeah.
I'm already got it sketched out.
I'm going to be about the imposter syndrome.
And
to
talk
about kids that just don't
believe that they can really make something out of themselves because you know a lot of us grew up in tough circumstances or Never really believed that we can get to where we want to get I never believed that I could Get out of school.
I never believed that I could go to college I never believed I could go to medical school, but people mentors people kept propping me up pushing me up
we
all stand on the shoulders of giants and Actually, I think cream wrote a book called the shoulders of on the shoulders of giants and
I remember a mentor saying that to me, we stand on the shoulders of giants.
And I'm sure that's true in the broadcasting
as well.
I
mean, you had people that said, do it.
And who gets behind the microphone?
It's a scary place to be.
But I did it and then I'd say, I don't think I could do that.
And then somebody said, let's do it together.
And then we do it together.
And that's true of all these sports teams.
I'm telling you, when you get
five people together on a court.
You get nine people on a field.
There's somebody standing right there with you.
You strike out, I'm telling you, these guys pull together.
You watch tonight.
I'll tell you what, nine people.
Murphy, watch what he says to these people in the locker room on these YouTube.
It's really, you do it as a team.
So I want to write about imposter syndrome.
I want to write about a lot of the stories where I watch people do that.
When you watch Oscar Robertson get in somebody's rookie's face and tell him he can do it.
That rookie did it out of fear,
them in local bookstores here in Madison
on Amazon.
know what, it's great for baseball.
beer there.
Yeah, I know.
Oh yeah, that's right.
profits.
it all
did not have bratwurst anywhere in any stadium except Milwaukee, and they say, go get me one of those white sausages.
That's what
say.
the
trade baseballs for bratwurst.
bratwurst.
Yes.
Bye-bye.
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